Re: [gentoo-user] Baselayout2/OpenRC migration question - dispatch-conf vs etc-update
On 05/29/11 02:07, Bill Longman wrote: Yes, absolutely. I use cfgupdate too. -- Bill Longman Sent from my Galaxy S There was an announcement on the gentoo-announce mailing list that listed a few different docs for reference. Among other things, the part of interest in this discussion was: After these packages are emerged, it is absolutely critical that you immediately update your configuration files with dispatch-conf, etc-update or a similar tool [2] then follow the steps in the OpenRC Migration Guide [3]. 2. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=3chap=4 3. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml Like Dale, I used etc-update, and on two different laptops (one x86 and one amd64), which worked without hitch on both. Jake Moe
[gentoo-user] FVWM Desktop scrolling not working with KDE open dialog box
I'm having a weird issue I'm hoping someone here can help with. I've asked on the FVWM mailing list, but they can't reproduce with my config, so I'm hoping someone here with experience with the KDE/QT side of things might be able to offer a suggestion. I've configured FVWM with a single 3x3 desktop, and I've left off edge resistance so I can flip between them easily. This works fine most of the time, but recently, I believe with updating KDE to 4.6.2, I've noticed this problem. When I have a KDE app (or possibly any QT app, I'm not sure where exactly the distinction lies; it happens with SMplayer as well, which I don't believe is strictly a KDE app, but a QT app) open and try to open a file (or save a new file), when the dialog box its up, the mouse (and focus) is on that dialog box, and I try to move my mouse up to the upper page, it flicks to the new page for a split second and then puts me back on the page with the KDE/QT app. If, while the dialog box is open, I let the mouse rest for a moment on the application, the app gets focus for a split second, and then the dialog seems to take it back. Then when I move the mouse off the top of the page, it works fine. It seems to only be limited to QT/KDE, but I have no idea if it's a bug in FVWM, or a feature in KDE that needs disabling. Hope this description makes sense. Does anyone have any ideas? FVWM version is fvwm 2.6.1 compiled on May 23 2011 at 18:40:17 with support for: ReadLine, XPM, PNG, SVG, Shape, XShm, SM, XRender, XCursor, XFT, NLS, and my config is attached. Any thoughts? Jake Moe fvwmconf.bz2 Description: BZip2 compressed data
Re: [gentoo-user] FVWM Desktop scrolling not working with KDE open dialog box
On 05/27/11 00:22, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2011/5/26 Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com: I'm having a weird issue I'm hoping someone here can help with. I've asked on the FVWM mailing list, but they can't reproduce with my config, so I'm hoping someone here with experience with the KDE/QT side of things might be able to offer a suggestion. I saw your question in the fvwm mailing list. If Thomas Adam couldn't help there I don't think anyone here will be able to. But stay tuned, just in case... I, like him, couldn't reproduce this. I've occasionally used lots of kde applications with fvwm without this problem. It seems to only be limited to QT/KDE, but I have no idea if it's a bug in FVWM, or a feature in KDE that needs disabling. Hope this description makes sense. Does anyone have any ideas? Well, in my book, a kde app is an application that links against the kde foundations (kdelibs), a qt-only app is an application that links against any or many of the qt parts, but not against kdelibs. smplayer seems to fall into the later category. It could help if you were able to reproduce this with a minimal single config file and try some more qt and kde programs. I've tried it with SMplayer, Kdevelop, Kate, KMyMoney, and KolourPaint and they all exhibit the same behaviour. Gnome and other X apps don't exhibit the same behaviour, it seems limited to KDE apps. I'll try to strip down a config and see if I can't find what option does it. I think I might also move my .kde4 folder temporarily and see if it still happens. Thanks for the reply. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs
I haven't followed this entire thread, but is there any chance this isn't really a Cisco device as you know it, but a rebranded Linksys? After seeing a picture of the device, and reading that it's a Small Business router, I'd suspect it's a device that came out of their acquisition of Linksys. That'd explain the different config style you're seeing. On 04/26/11 04:44, Mick wrote: On Monday 25 April 2011 18:37:31 Harry Putnam wrote: I'm probably jumping the gun, but this RVS4000 is looking more and more like some pretty sorry junk to me. I can but sympathise with your frustration. They seem to have offered a dumbed down version of something here which is not readily recognisable as a Cisco machine. Perhaps all this additional functionality is only available for their professional grade platforms
Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions
On 04/05/11 18:14, KH wrote: Am 04.04.2011 21:30, schrieb Peter Humphrey: On Monday 04 April 2011 19:12:03 William Kenworthy wrote: I dont think http-replicator can manage a directory structure - are you trying to do something fancier than just serving out tarballs? Yes; I want it to mirror my portage tree and serve it to other boxes on the LAN. It used to do this well enough; I just want to get the permissions right. Hi, why not using the handbook-way? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml#doc_chap2 I am doing it that way. Regards KH +1 I've got four boxes in my home network, and I have one pull down the updates, the other three sync with that one. I've also set up proftpd to allow anonymous read-only access to my /usr/portage/distfiles folder, so the other three can try to pull their packages from locally first as well, and if that box hasn't downloaded it yet, only then will they try to retrieve it from the Internet. See http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Setup_local_Portage_and_Package_Mirror for info. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator permissions
On 04/05/11 19:53, KH wrote: Am 05.04.2011 11:46, schrieb Jake Moe: On 04/05/11 18:14, KH wrote: Am 04.04.2011 21:30, schrieb Peter Humphrey: On Monday 04 April 2011 19:12:03 William Kenworthy wrote: I dont think http-replicator can manage a directory structure - are you trying to do something fancier than just serving out tarballs? Yes; I want it to mirror my portage tree and serve it to other boxes on the LAN. It used to do this well enough; I just want to get the permissions right. Hi, why not using the handbook-way? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml#doc_chap2 I am doing it that way. Regards KH +1 I've got four boxes in my home network, and I have one pull down the updates, the other three sync with that one. I've also set up proftpd to allow anonymous read-only access to my /usr/portage/distfiles folder, so the other three can try to pull their packages from locally first as well, and if that box hasn't downloaded it yet, only then will they try to retrieve it from the Internet. See http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Setup_local_Portage_and_Package_Mirror for info. Jake Moe Hi Jake Moe, for the distfiles http-replicator is great. Example: Box one has the tarball. Box 2, 3 and 4 can download it as well. Box one does not have the tarball. Box 2 may search for it, box one will download it and give it to box 2. Then box 3 and 4 can download it from box one as well. Regards KH Well, I suppose I'll have to look into that then, won't I? Thanks for the info. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?
On 04/03/11 20:04, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:09:56 -0500, Dale wrote: I wonder if we could put Linux on a old Vic-20? I think I got one out in the old shed somewhere. It's been done on a C-64, but I think a 3.5KB box with no mass storage might be a little too challenging. I had the little cassette thing to store my stuff on. I think the OS in on a ROM which would be hard to get around unless the ROM was changed. Then it may not really be a Vic-20 anymore. I'm not sure about the C64 since I got me a 20Mhz oscilloscope to work on TVs and stuff. I still got the scope tho. My biggest use for my old Vic-20 was a alarm clock. Worked fine unless the power went out. Well, that sounds like todays alarm clock. lol I guess some things never change. Dale :-) :-) The ol' Vic-20 was my first computer as well. I remember you had two choices; boot from a cartridge (usually a game, Radar Rat Race was one of my favourites), or boot from the internal O/S. if you chose the latter, you could (IIRC) issue a load program_name and it would go to the cassette tape drive and start reading, so very very slowly, the tape from the beginning and try to find a program with the name you specified. I had a subscription to Compute magazine, and entered the programs from there in either Basic or binary, and was amazed at what it could do. I even tried to do some of my own programs in Basic, but at about 6-8 years old, it was a bit beyond me. :-P Jake
[gentoo-user] Writing Gentoo initscript question
I'm currently trying to write a simple initscript to run
minecraft-server on one of my boxes. I've looked at the ebuild provided
via java-overlay, but it turns out it uses baselayout 2, and I'm not
ready to go down that upgrade path on this particular box just yet.
So far, I've managed to get a simple start() function written, which
kinda-sorta works; it will start the server, but there are two problems:
1) The server was written to stay interactive on a console, so you can
manage it from there. As such, the process never exits, so the
initscript gets stuck on starting
2) There is nowhere in the server config file to specify where it writes
it's data files. So when I run this from my initscript, it seems to
default to the root directory, and I can't figure out how to tell it to
use something else as a working directory.
So far, I've got this:
depend() {
need bootmisc localmount net
}
start() {
einfo Starting Minecraft Server
cd /usr/local/games/minecraft-server
start-stop-daemon --start --make-pidfile --pidfile
/var/run/minecraft-server.pid \
--exec /usr/bin/java -- -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar
/usr/local/games/minecraft-server/minecraft_server.jar nogui
eend $?
}
Do any of the experts here know a way out of my dilemma?
Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Writing Gentoo initscript question
On 03/06/11 09:31, Florian Philipp wrote:
Am 05.03.2011 23:47, schrieb Jake Moe:
I'm currently trying to write a simple initscript to run
minecraft-server on one of my boxes. I've looked at the ebuild provided
via java-overlay, but it turns out it uses baselayout 2, and I'm not
ready to go down that upgrade path on this particular box just yet.
So far, I've managed to get a simple start() function written, which
kinda-sorta works; it will start the server, but there are two problems:
1) The server was written to stay interactive on a console, so you can
manage it from there. As such, the process never exits, so the
initscript gets stuck on starting
2) There is nowhere in the server config file to specify where it writes
it's data files. So when I run this from my initscript, it seems to
default to the root directory, and I can't figure out how to tell it to
use something else as a working directory.
So far, I've got this:
depend() {
need bootmisc localmount net
}
start() {
einfo Starting Minecraft Server
cd /usr/local/games/minecraft-server
start-stop-daemon --start --make-pidfile --pidfile
/var/run/minecraft-server.pid \
--exec /usr/bin/java -- -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar
/usr/local/games/minecraft-server/minecraft_server.jar nogui
eend $?
}
Do any of the experts here know a way out of my dilemma?
Jake Moe
You already know start-stop-daemon, good. Parameter --background will
force the program to detach. That solves your first problem.
--chdir should solve your second problem. You should also consider
--user and --group to drop root privileges. It also sets $HOME in case
the server does not write to the working directory but the home directory.
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
I've tried --background, but then it just fails. Adding --verbose
as well gives the following:
jmoe@aus8617 /etc/init.d $ sudo /etc/init.d/minecraft-server start
* Starting Minecraft Server
Starting /usr/bin/java...
Detaching to start /usr/bin/java...done. [ !! ]
Not the most helpful of messages.
For the second, of what is --chdir an argument? If I read the man
page for start-stop-daemon, it had --chroot and --chuid, but no
--chdir. I assume that --chuid can be used for changing the
user:group of the resulting process, but did you mean chroot instead of
chdir, or does that go with another command?
Also, when I say the root directory, I don't mean root's home
directory (/root), I mean the root (/) directory. So I wind up with
config files in the root of my filesystem. Not good.
Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Writing Gentoo initscript question
On 03/06/11 16:48, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
On Sunday 06 March 2011 11:25:47 Jake Moe wrote:
On 03/06/11 09:31, Florian Philipp wrote:
Am 05.03.2011 23:47, schrieb Jake Moe:
I'm currently trying to write a simple initscript to run
minecraft-server on one of my boxes. I've looked at the ebuild
provided
via java-overlay, but it turns out it uses baselayout 2, and I'm not
ready to go down that upgrade path on this particular box just yet.
So far, I've managed to get a simple start() function written, which
kinda-sorta works; it will start the server, but there are two
problems:
1) The server was written to stay interactive on a console, so you
can
manage it from there. As such, the process never exits, so the
initscript gets stuck on starting
2) There is nowhere in the server config file to specify where it
writes
it's data files. So when I run this from my initscript, it seems to
default to the root directory, and I can't figure out how to tell it
to
use something else as a working directory.
So far, I've got this:
depend() {
need bootmisc localmount net
}
start() {
einfo Starting Minecraft Server
cd /usr/local/games/minecraft-server
start-stop-daemon --start --make-pidfile --pidfile
/var/run/minecraft-server.pid \
--exec /usr/bin/java --
-Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar
/usr/local/games/minecraft-server/minecraft_server.jar nogui
eend $?
}
Do any of the experts here know a way out of my dilemma?
Jake Moe
You already know start-stop-daemon, good. Parameter --background will
force the program to detach. That solves your first problem.
--chdir should solve your second problem. You should also consider
--user and --group to drop root privileges. It also sets $HOME in case
the server does not write to the working directory but the home
directory.
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
I've tried --background, but then it just fails. Adding --verbose
as well gives the following:
jmoe@aus8617 /etc/init.d $ sudo /etc/init.d/minecraft-server start
* Starting Minecraft Server
Starting /usr/bin/java...
Detaching to start /usr/bin/java...done. [ !! ]
Not the most helpful of messages.
For the second, of what is --chdir an argument? If I read the man
page for start-stop-daemon, it had --chroot and --chuid, but no
--chdir. I assume that --chuid can be used for changing the
user:group of the resulting process, but did you mean chroot instead of
chdir, or does that go with another command?
Also, when I say the root directory, I don't mean root's home
directory (/root), I mean the root (/) directory. So I wind up with
config files in the root of my filesystem. Not good.
Jake Moe
Not sure if it's the recommended way, but how about using nohup?
Eg:
start-stop-daemon --start --make-pidfile --pidfile
/var/run/minecraft-server.pid \
--exec nohup /usr/bin/java -- -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar
Might be that it fails because it looses the stdout/stderr?
--
Joost
Tried both
--background --exec /usr/bin/nohup /usr/bin/java -- -Xmx1024M...
and
--background --exec /usr/bin/nohup -- /usr/bin/java -Xmx1024M ...
Both output:
jmoe@aus8617 /etc/init.d $ sudo ./minecraft-server start
* Caching service dependencies
...
[ ok ]
* Starting Minecraft Server
Starting /usr/bin/nohup...
Detaching to start
/usr/bin/nohup...done.
[ !! ]
If I leave off the --background, it starts, but never goes back to the
console:
jmoe@aus8617 /etc/init.d $ sudo ./minecraft-server start
* Caching service dependencies
...
[ ok ]
* Starting Minecraft Server
Starting /usr/bin/nohup...
/usr/bin/nohup: ignoring input and appending output to `nohup.out'
It's running, because I can connect to it via my client, but I don't get
control back.
The java-overlay way was to run it using tmux, then connect back to it
when you wanted to use the server console. The problem was that it used
ewaitfile in the initscript, and that's not in BL1. Maybe I need to
investigate tmux further and see if I can accomplish the same thing in BL1.
Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] k3b: Drive not found ...
On 01/31/11 06:11, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 09:01 on Sunday 30 January 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de did opine thusly: Hi, My setup is ASUS Crosshair IV formula. Attached to the box is a USB-IDE converted. Attached to this converter there is my old DVD burner. Blind shot in the dark here: What's your USE for k3b? I recently got an update with a USE flag change for k3B: hal Maybe your's is off? From what I remember, K3B uses either D-Bus or, I believe, HAL to detect drives. So if HAL (or D-Bus) is not working properly, K3B won't detect the drive. Also, I have a vague memory (warning! this may be totally wrong!) that you may need the plugdev group as well, for the detection to work properly? Maybe? However, my K3B (stable on 2.0.1-r1) doesn't have a hal use flag, but it appears the latest (unstable on 2.0.2-r1) does. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs
On 01/13/11 22:32, Joerg Schilling wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday 13 January 2011 12:07:02 Joerg Schilling wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Can you actually play that wav-file? Or is it just a collection of garbage? As far as I know, CD-Paranoia access the cd-drive a bit more directly then other tools. Eg. it approaches it like a CD-ROM, rather then CD-Audio. You are mistaken, cdparanoia is a patch on a really outdated cdda2wav (from 1997) and it is limited to the DAE quality of the kernel drivers. Ok, I stand corrected. I did, however, always have more succes ripping music from audio-cds with cdparanoia then with other tools I tried. Then you did probably not recently try cdda2wav. After the development for cdparanoia stopped in year 2000, cdda2wav integrated the important code parts from cdparanoia into cdda2wav by creating a portable library libparanoia in April 2002. Since then, cdda2wav combines the best features from both commands. If you like to tell cdda2wav to use the paranoia code, just call cdda2wav -paranoia. Cdda2wav is able to read many CDs that cannot be read by cdparanoia at all. Jörg Why do they give me this info, then? jmoe@aus8617 ~ $ cdda2wav --version cdda2wav 3.00 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1993-2004 Heiko Eià jmoe@aus8617 ~ $ cdparanoia --version cdparanoia III release 10.2 (September 11, 2008) From that, it appears that cdparanoia is newer. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs
On 01/13/11 20:48, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 13 January 2011 11:33:09 Jake Moe wrote: On 01/13/11 18:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 13 January 2011 07:12:48 Jake Moe wrote: If you're talking about proper Audio-CD as one that's audio-only, no mixed data in there as well, then yes, I'm sure. And I have over 500 CDs; I can't test them all. :-P But yeah, a selection of CDs have all had the same result. And only on Linux; the same CDs have read fine from Windows. 500, that's a bit more then I have :) Heh, yeah, well I've been collecting them for around 20 years now. Since shortly after they were introduced. I stopped counting at 500. The mp3 error screenshot was trying to copy the MP3 files from the CD through Konqueror's audiocd:\ location to my hard drive. I assume Konqueror tries to auto-convert the CD tracks to MP3s on the fly. The log file I had attached should have been called messages.bz2; it's the kernel log file. Yes, I noticed similar behaviour last time I used MS Windows to play audio- CDs. I believe MS Windows 98 (yes, that long ago) used to present them as *.WAV-files, Don't know if you've ever used Konqueror, but if you go to the address audiocd:/, it gives you a load of folders like MP3 and OGG and FLAC, along with a wav file for each track. So you can either copy the files as WAV, or go into one of the folders and copy out MP3, OGG, etc. It's just that Konqueror does the extraction/conversion for you. As far as I know, that requires the multimedia kioslaves to work. I wonder if it's possible to have that use a different CDDA-tool? Which, from memory, is different that Win98. IIRC, Win98 used to present CDs as 1KB cda files. I could be wrong, though... Last time I used MS Windows at home for anything other then games was around 1998 and that's quite a while ago... Oh, and I only own a few CDs that have DRM on them. And no, they weren't the ones that I've tested. Ok, it was the first thing that came to mind. How far does cdparanoia get? That's the tool I generally use and it has always worked for me. Even with DRM'd CDs. -- Joost How very odd. As soon as I put the CD into the drive, I get the same raft of error messages in /var/log/messages. But when I run 'cdparanoia 1', it starts outputting to cdda.wav as normal. Now why would cdparanoia work, even though the kernel doesn't seem to like the CD? Does this tell us anything that might help me play the CDs? Jake Moe Can you actually play that wav-file? Or is it just a collection of garbage? As far as I know, CD-Paranoia access the cd-drive a bit more directly then other tools. Eg. it approaches it like a CD-ROM, rather then CD-Audio. The error messages appear as soon as you put the CD into the drive? Am wondering if some auto-mounting tool is trying to access it and is causing problems here. Do you also get those messages when you disable all KDE/Gnome/X/... and related stuff? Personally, I tend to use cdparanoia and other tools to generate OGG or MP3 files and store them on a fileserver and play them from there. -- Joost Yeah, the wav file played fine. At least, it started out fine; I only listened to the first 15 - 30 seconds to make sure it sounded ok, and then assumed the rest was fine, since nothing else had even gotten that far. And yeah, the errors start as soon as I put the CD in the drive. What automounting tool might I have in FVWM? I use a pretty basic config (which is why I like FVWM, not many frills to muck things up :-P). What KDE/Gnome/X stuff are you talking about? Unless they're auto-started by a service, I don't know of anything that'd be running like that, especially from a console. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs
On 01/14/11 21:30, Joerg Schilling wrote: Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com wrote: Since then, cdda2wav combines the best features from both commands. If you like to tell cdda2wav to use the paranoia code, just call cdda2wav -paranoia. Cdda2wav is able to read many CDs that cannot be read by cdparanoia at all. Jörg Why do they give me this info, then? Because cdda2wav is the better choice jmoe@aus8617 ~ $ cdda2wav --version cdda2wav 3.00 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1993-2004 Heiko Eià jmoe@aus8617 ~ $ cdparanoia --version cdparanoia III release 10.2 (September 11, 2008) From that, it appears that cdparanoia is newer. The latest cdparanoia is from 2001. There seem to appear later versions but they do not increase functionality, they just fix some C syntax problems that prevent compilation with newer GCC versions. But all cdparanoia versions are based on a cdda2wav from 1997 and thus use outdated read functions. The interesting question seems to be: Why do you try to confuse people regarding to cdda2wav by modifiying it's output? cdda2wav-3.0 is from June 2010 and there is even a 3.01a02 from December 2010. Jörg Ok, thanks for the info. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs
On 01/13/11 18:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 13 January 2011 07:12:48 Jake Moe wrote: If you're talking about proper Audio-CD as one that's audio-only, no mixed data in there as well, then yes, I'm sure. And I have over 500 CDs; I can't test them all. :-P But yeah, a selection of CDs have all had the same result. And only on Linux; the same CDs have read fine from Windows. 500, that's a bit more then I have :) Heh, yeah, well I've been collecting them for around 20 years now. Since shortly after they were introduced. I stopped counting at 500. The mp3 error screenshot was trying to copy the MP3 files from the CD through Konqueror's audiocd:\ location to my hard drive. I assume Konqueror tries to auto-convert the CD tracks to MP3s on the fly. The log file I had attached should have been called messages.bz2; it's the kernel log file. Yes, I noticed similar behaviour last time I used MS Windows to play audio- CDs. I believe MS Windows 98 (yes, that long ago) used to present them as *.WAV-files, Don't know if you've ever used Konqueror, but if you go to the address audiocd:/, it gives you a load of folders like MP3 and OGG and FLAC, along with a wav file for each track. So you can either copy the files as WAV, or go into one of the folders and copy out MP3, OGG, etc. It's just that Konqueror does the extraction/conversion for you. Which, from memory, is different that Win98. IIRC, Win98 used to present CDs as 1KB cda files. I could be wrong, though... Oh, and I only own a few CDs that have DRM on them. And no, they weren't the ones that I've tested. Ok, it was the first thing that came to mind. How far does cdparanoia get? That's the tool I generally use and it has always worked for me. Even with DRM'd CDs. -- Joost How very odd. As soon as I put the CD into the drive, I get the same raft of error messages in /var/log/messages. But when I run 'cdparanoia 1', it starts outputting to cdda.wav as normal. Now why would cdparanoia work, even though the kernel doesn't seem to like the CD? Does this tell us anything that might help me play the CDs? Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Strange problem with audio CDs
On 01/12/11 04:52, Jörg Schaible wrote: Jake Moe wrote: On 01/11/11 04:38, Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi Jake, Jake Moe wrote: I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive. Data CDs work fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them. Data and Video DVDs seem to work fine as well. But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I get the attached errors in log.bz2. I've tried using things from KsCD to cdplay; everything gives the same errors. Googling seems to indicate that there might be a problem with udev somehow, but most of those that I find have the fix as update to the latest udev using apt/rpm/other binary distro package tool, which obviously won't work for Gentoo. Other solutions seem to be update to libATA, but I'm already using that. I've gone through and tried to check anything obvious in my kernel config, but I can't see anything that'd affect it like this. Also, if I reboot into Windows (this laptop is a work computer as well), it plays and rips the same CDs just fine. Hardware is an HP EliteBook nc6930p laptop. CD/DVD drive is /dev/sr0. Controller is: 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30dc Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46 I/O ports at 8118 [size=8] I/O ports at 813c [size=4] I/O ports at 8110 [size=8] I/O ports at 8138 [size=4] I/O ports at 8000 [size=32] Memory at d8426000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA ? Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features Kernel driver in use: ahci Oddly, if I open Konqueror and type in audiocd:/, it lists the tracks, and has the FLAC, MP3, Ogg, etc folders. But it won't play or copy the files; it gives the error in error.gif. Any other info you need, please let me know. This is driving me nuts. Same for me: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6372251#6372251 I still have my old box around just because of this problem :-/ 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0198 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 64 I/O ports at c880 [size=8] I/O ports at c800 [size=4] I/O ports at c480 [size=8] I/O ports at c400 [size=4] I/O ports at c080 [size=32] Memory at fbcfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA ? Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features Kernel driver in use: ahci When I rip a CD it typically starts to read it slow permanently down and after ~ the 6th song the process is not profgressing anymore ... You're also running 64-bit ? - Jörg Well, mine is a bit different. Not convinced ;-) I typically run FVWM from a SLIM logon, so there's no KDE or Gnome auto-anything running. I only used Konqueror as an example of another way of accessing the CDs that might have worked, but didn't. I can even stop XDM, log in from a console prompt with no X running, and try to play a CD with cdplay or dcd, and I'll get the same results. And with me, it doesn't start to work and then slow down; it never works. It can only read track listings, but not any of the music. As I said in the forum, I have these log entries running from a pure console (no X started at all) even with a stopped hal. It's enough to put an audio CD into the drive. Happens also with vanilla kernel. Since 2.6.35 I have the message only once though, in the previous two kernels (34+35) they are repeated permanently. Ah, I missed that part. Thought you were only talking about using apps through KDE. And no, I'm on 32-bit stable Gentoo, with only unstable packages being ones that don't have stable ebuilds. Same for me, just using 64-bit. Thanks for trying, though. :-) Anyone else have any ideas? Me, no - unfortunately. - Jörg Well, I'll soldier on. Maybe one of these other posts will tell me somthing... Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Strange problem with audio CDs
On 01/12/11 14:53, James Wall wrote: On 01/11/11 12:52, Jörg Schaible wrote: Jake Moe wrote: On 01/11/11 04:38, Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi Jake, Jake Moe wrote: I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive. Data CDs work fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them. Data and Video DVDs seem to work fine as well. But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I get the attached errors in log.bz2. I've tried using things from KsCD to cdplay; everything gives the same errors. Googling seems to indicate that there might be a problem with udev somehow, but most of those that I find have the fix as update to the latest udev using apt/rpm/other binary distro package tool, which obviously won't work for Gentoo. Other solutions seem to be update to libATA, but I'm already using that. I've gone through and tried to check anything obvious in my kernel config, but I can't see anything that'd affect it like this. Also, if I reboot into Windows (this laptop is a work computer as well), it plays and rips the same CDs just fine. Hardware is an HP EliteBook nc6930p laptop. CD/DVD drive is /dev/sr0. Controller is: 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30dc Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46 I/O ports at 8118 [size=8] I/O ports at 813c [size=4] I/O ports at 8110 [size=8] I/O ports at 8138 [size=4] I/O ports at 8000 [size=32] Memory at d8426000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA ? Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features Kernel driver in use: ahci Oddly, if I open Konqueror and type in audiocd:/, it lists the tracks, and has the FLAC, MP3, Ogg, etc folders. But it won't play or copy the files; it gives the error in error.gif. Any other info you need, please let me know. This is driving me nuts. Same for me: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6372251#6372251 I still have my old box around just because of this problem :-/ 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0198 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 64 I/O ports at c880 [size=8] I/O ports at c800 [size=4] I/O ports at c480 [size=8] I/O ports at c400 [size=4] I/O ports at c080 [size=32] Memory at fbcfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA ? Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features Kernel driver in use: ahci When I rip a CD it typically starts to read it slow permanently down and after ~ the 6th song the process is not profgressing anymore ... You're also running 64-bit ? - Jörg Well, mine is a bit different. Not convinced ;-) I typically run FVWM from a SLIM logon, so there's no KDE or Gnome auto-anything running. I only used Konqueror as an example of another way of accessing the CDs that might have worked, but didn't. I can even stop XDM, log in from a console prompt with no X running, and try to play a CD with cdplay or dcd, and I'll get the same results. And with me, it doesn't start to work and then slow down; it never works. It can only read track listings, but not any of the music. As I said in the forum, I have these log entries running from a pure console (no X started at all) even with a stopped hal. It's enough to put an audio CD into the drive. Happens also with vanilla kernel. Since 2.6.35 I have the message only once though, in the previous two kernels (34+35) they are repeated permanently. And no, I'm on 32-bit stable Gentoo, with only unstable packages being ones that don't have stable ebuilds. Same for me, just using 64-bit. Thanks for trying, though. :-) Anyone else have any ideas? Me, no - unfortunately. - Jörg Jake, Are you a member of the audio and/or plugdev group? James Wall Yep, as well as the cdrom group. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs
On 01/12/11 20:29, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Monday 10 January 2011 10:48:56 Jake Moe wrote: I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive. Data CDs work fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them. Data and Video DVDs seem to work fine as well. But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I get the attached errors in log.bz2. I've tried using things from KsCD to cdplay; everything gives the same errors. Googling seems to indicate that there might be a problem with udev somehow, but most of those that I find have the fix as update to the latest udev using apt/rpm/other binary distro package tool, which obviously won't work for Gentoo. Other solutions seem to be update to libATA, but I'm already using that. I've gone through and tried to check anything obvious in my kernel config, but I can't see anything that'd affect it like this. Also, if I reboot into Windows (this laptop is a work computer as well), it plays and rips the same CDs just fine. Hardware is an HP EliteBook nc6930p laptop. CD/DVD drive is /dev/sr0. Controller is: 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30dc Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46 I/O ports at 8118 [size=8] I/O ports at 813c [size=4] I/O ports at 8110 [size=8] I/O ports at 8138 [size=4] I/O ports at 8000 [size=32] Memory at d8426000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA ? Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features Kernel driver in use: ahci Oddly, if I open Konqueror and type in audiocd:/, it lists the tracks, and has the FLAC, MP3, Ogg, etc folders. But it won't play or copy the files; it gives the error in error.gif. Any other info you need, please let me know. This is driving me nuts. Jake Moe Are you sure it is a proper audio-cd? The error message talks about a mp3-file. Do you have this issue with all Audio-CDs? (including older ones from before record companies thought it was a good idea to add copy-protection schemes?) -- Joost If you're talking about proper Audio-CD as one that's audio-only, no mixed data in there as well, then yes, I'm sure. And I have over 500 CDs; I can't test them all. :-P But yeah, a selection of CDs have all had the same result. And only on Linux; the same CDs have read fine from Windows. The mp3 error screenshot was trying to copy the MP3 files from the CD through Konqueror's audiocd:\ location to my hard drive. I assume Konqueror tries to auto-convert the CD tracks to MP3s on the fly. The log file I had attached should have been called messages.bz2; it's the kernel log file. Oh, and I only own a few CDs that have DRM on them. And no, they weren't the ones that I've tested. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs
On 01/13/11 01:37, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com wrote:
I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive. Data CDs work
fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them. Data and Video DVDs
seem to work fine as well. But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I
get the attached errors in log.bz2. I've tried using things from KsCD
to cdplay; everything gives the same errors. Googling seems to indicate
that there might be a problem with udev somehow, but most of those that
I find have the fix as update to the latest udev using apt/rpm/other
binary distro package tool, which obviously won't work for Gentoo.
Other solutions seem to be update to libATA, but I'm already using that.
I've gone through and tried to check anything obvious in my kernel
config, but I can't see anything that'd affect it like this. Also, if I
reboot into Windows (this laptop is a work computer as well), it plays
and rips the same CDs just fine.
I wonder if udev is creating the correct device nodes for the cdrom?
What are the programs looking for? Do you have /dev/cdrom in your
system?
Check /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules to ensure it looks
right (in case you had a big change in your system config, like IDE -
SATA or something)
This command might give you some clue what's happening when those
errors occur if udev is involved:
udevadm test /class/block/sr0
Yeah, /dev/{cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw} all exist, and point to /dev/sr0:
jmoe@aus8617 ~ $ ls -l /dev/{cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw}
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan 14 2011 /dev/cdrom - sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan 14 2011 /dev/cdrw - sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan 14 2011 /dev/dvd - sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan 14 2011 /dev/dvdrw - sr0
jmoe@aus8617 ~ $
And if I try to mount a data CD or DVD, or watch a DVD, I have no
problems. It's only audio CDs that give me issues.
Jake Moe
[gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs
I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive. Data CDs work fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them. Data and Video DVDs seem to work fine as well. But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I get the attached errors in log.bz2. I've tried using things from KsCD to cdplay; everything gives the same errors. Googling seems to indicate that there might be a problem with udev somehow, but most of those that I find have the fix as update to the latest udev using apt/rpm/other binary distro package tool, which obviously won't work for Gentoo. Other solutions seem to be update to libATA, but I'm already using that. I've gone through and tried to check anything obvious in my kernel config, but I can't see anything that'd affect it like this. Also, if I reboot into Windows (this laptop is a work computer as well), it plays and rips the same CDs just fine. Hardware is an HP EliteBook nc6930p laptop. CD/DVD drive is /dev/sr0. Controller is: 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30dc Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46 I/O ports at 8118 [size=8] I/O ports at 813c [size=4] I/O ports at 8110 [size=8] I/O ports at 8138 [size=4] I/O ports at 8000 [size=32] Memory at d8426000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA ? Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features Kernel driver in use: ahci Oddly, if I open Konqueror and type in audiocd:/, it lists the tracks, and has the FLAC, MP3, Ogg, etc folders. But it won't play or copy the files; it gives the error in error.gif. Any other info you need, please let me know. This is driving me nuts. Jake Moe log.bz2 Description: BZip2 compressed data attachment: error.gif
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs
On 01/10/11 20:21, Mick wrote:
On 10 January 2011 09:48, Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com wrote:
I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive. Data CDs work
fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them. Data and Video DVDs
seem to work fine as well. But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I
get the attached errors in log.bz2. I've tried using things from KsCD
to cdplay; everything gives the same errors. Googling seems to indicate
that there might be a problem with udev somehow, but most of those that
I find have the fix as update to the latest udev using apt/rpm/other
binary distro package tool, which obviously won't work for Gentoo.
Other solutions seem to be update to libATA, but I'm already using that.
I've gone through and tried to check anything obvious in my kernel
config, but I can't see anything that'd affect it like this. Also, if I
reboot into Windows (this laptop is a work computer as well), it plays
and rips the same CDs just fine.
Hardware is an HP EliteBook nc6930p laptop. CD/DVD drive is /dev/sr0.
Controller is:
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI
Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30dc
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46
I/O ports at 8118 [size=8]
I/O ports at 813c [size=4]
I/O ports at 8110 [size=8]
I/O ports at 8138 [size=4]
I/O ports at 8000 [size=32]
Memory at d8426000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA ?
Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features
Kernel driver in use: ahci
Oddly, if I open Konqueror and type in audiocd:/, it lists the tracks,
and has the FLAC, MP3, Ogg, etc folders. But it won't play or copy the
files; it gives the error in error.gif.
Any other info you need, please let me know. This is driving me nuts.
Jake Moe
Do you have this installed?
[I] kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves
Available versions:
(4.4)
4.4.5!t amd64 ppc ~ppc64 x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux
[aqua debug
encode flac +handbook kdeenablefinal kdeprefix vorbis]
(4.5)
~ 4.5.3!t ~amd64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux
~x86-linux [aqua
debug encode flac +handbook kdeenablefinal kdeprefix vorbis]
~ 4.5.4!t ~amd64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux
~x86-linux [aqua
debug encode flac +handbook kdeenablefinal kdeprefix vorbis]
Installed versions: 4.4.5(4.4)!t(15:15:46 18/12/10)(encode flac
handbook vorbis -aqua -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdeprefix)
Homepage:http://www.kde.org/
Description: KDE kioslaves from the kdemultimedia package
Yep.
j...@aus8617 ~ $ emerge -pv kdemultimedia-kioslaves
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves-4.4.5 USE=encode flac
handbook vorbis (-aqua) -debug (-kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix) 0 kB
Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
j...@aus8617 ~ $ eix kdemultimedia-kioslaves
[I] kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves
Available versions:
(4.4) 4.4.5!t
(4.5) ~4.5.3!t ~4.5.4!t
{aqua debug encode flac +handbook kdeenablefinal kdeprefix vorbis}
Installed versions: 4.4.5(4.4)!t(13:15:06 01/09/11)(encode flac
handbook vorbis -aqua -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdeprefix)
Homepage:http://www.kde.org/
Description: KDE kioslaves from the kdemultimedia package
j...@aus8617 ~ $
And anyway, that wouldn't account for the error with cdplay and dcd
(command-line cd-player utils) that throw the same errors.
Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange problem with audio CDs
On 01/11/11 04:38, Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi Jake, Jake Moe wrote: I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive. Data CDs work fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them. Data and Video DVDs seem to work fine as well. But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I get the attached errors in log.bz2. I've tried using things from KsCD to cdplay; everything gives the same errors. Googling seems to indicate that there might be a problem with udev somehow, but most of those that I find have the fix as update to the latest udev using apt/rpm/other binary distro package tool, which obviously won't work for Gentoo. Other solutions seem to be update to libATA, but I'm already using that. I've gone through and tried to check anything obvious in my kernel config, but I can't see anything that'd affect it like this. Also, if I reboot into Windows (this laptop is a work computer as well), it plays and rips the same CDs just fine. Hardware is an HP EliteBook nc6930p laptop. CD/DVD drive is /dev/sr0. Controller is: 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30dc Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46 I/O ports at 8118 [size=8] I/O ports at 813c [size=4] I/O ports at 8110 [size=8] I/O ports at 8138 [size=4] I/O ports at 8000 [size=32] Memory at d8426000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA ? Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features Kernel driver in use: ahci Oddly, if I open Konqueror and type in audiocd:/, it lists the tracks, and has the FLAC, MP3, Ogg, etc folders. But it won't play or copy the files; it gives the error in error.gif. Any other info you need, please let me know. This is driving me nuts. Same for me: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6372251#6372251 I still have my old box around just because of this problem :-/ 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0198 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 64 I/O ports at c880 [size=8] I/O ports at c800 [size=4] I/O ports at c480 [size=8] I/O ports at c400 [size=4] I/O ports at c080 [size=32] Memory at fbcfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA ? Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features Kernel driver in use: ahci When I rip a CD it typically starts to read it slow permanently down and after ~ the 6th song the process is not profgressing anymore ... You're also running 64-bit ? - Jörg Well, mine is a bit different. I typically run FVWM from a SLIM logon, so there's no KDE or Gnome auto-anything running. I only used Konqueror as an example of another way of accessing the CDs that might have worked, but didn't. I can even stop XDM, log in from a console prompt with no X running, and try to play a CD with cdplay or dcd, and I'll get the same results. And with me, it doesn't start to work and then slow down; it never works. It can only read track listings, but not any of the music. And no, I'm on 32-bit stable Gentoo, with only unstable packages being ones that don't have stable ebuilds. Thanks for trying, though. :-) Anyone else have any ideas? Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Install Problems with X
On 01/07/11 09:51, KIM WHALEN wrote: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Thursday 06 January 2011 20:10:15 KIM WHALEN wrote: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:02 PM, walt wrote: On 01/06/2011 10:43 AM, KIM WHALEN wrote: Sorry, I did # echo =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.0.0 /etc/portage/package.mask first Good, you're now trying to install the correct version. then tried it again and got the following error. Your kernel was configured to include nvidiafb support! The nvidiafb driver conflicts with the NVIDIA driver, please reconfigure your kernel and *disable* nvidiafb support, then try installing the NVIDIA kernel module again. Looks like you haven't done that yet, right? Haven't got it installed yet. Should I just buy a new nVidia card? I really wouldn't mind, I just don't want to get a new one if I'm going to have the same problems. Thanks. could you please use an email client that does not butcher threading? And a new card does not help you if you don't set up your kernel correctly. I made the kernel with the nvidia driver as a module and the emerge x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers worked. However, running Xorg -configure still fails. . . . and I would love to use and email client that doesn't butcher threading, but I can't until I get this problem fixed. I have to do a remote login from a machine at work and use optonline's webbased client. Sorry. But the warning message specifically says to *disable* that support, not just make it a module. From what I remember, you can't have *any* support for framebuffer in your kernel config. Also, if you're getting to a new step, can you include the output from Xorg -configure? Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] About interpreting output of df -h
On 12/03/10 08:24, Indexer wrote: On 03/12/2010, at 08:23, Harry Putnam wrote: Can anyone tell me how determine what these kind of useless names really mean? From df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs1.9G 283M 1.6G 15% / /dev/root 1.9G 283M 1.6G 15% / How are you supposed to tell what actual device these things are on. rootfs is a symlink to the device will...@xerxes / $ ls -al /dev/root lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 31 18:26 /dev/root - sda3 will...@xerxes / $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs829G 803G 27G 97% / /dev/root 829G 803G 27G 97% / rc-svcdir 1.0M 132K 892K 13% /lib64/rc/init.d udev 10M 304K 9.8M 3% /dev shm 3.0G 24K 3.0G 1% /dev/shm /dev/sdb2 250G 234G 17G 94% /mnt/larry.1 /dev/sdb3 682G 614G 68G 91% /mnt/larry.2 /dev/sda1 31M 26M 3.3M 89% /boot will...@xerxes / $ for example, when using UUID devices, the same is true will...@xerxes / $ ls -al /dev/disk/by-uuid/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 160 Nov 27 10:35 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 120 Nov 5 00:10 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 31 18:26 42f0c22c-dde5-4fbb-9d79-158b14d1faf8 - ../../sdb2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 31 18:26 7ca26cca-04aa-4fe7-8b1b-5d9b059648a0 - ../../sda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 31 18:26 8a444308-a234-4c97-bd91-6e4ead0c5273 - ../../sda3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 31 18:26 b5af92b2-0e55-4b08-9c7f-ff2124c53921 - ../../sdb1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 31 18:26 cc02ce4e-3761-4084-ba82-d78b0c2cb636 - ../../sda2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 31 18:26 edf30a91-be1a-47ce-9c4a-d6ad89f94ee9 - ../../sdb3 will...@xerxes / $ They are all just symlinks that are generated by udev. I know I can look in fstab... but that is something of a crap shoot since it is user configured. So? It should not be touchable by human hands unless they have root. The only way this would change is if someone changed it, and you can easily track who with sudo and modification times etc. So what commands will show real devices not makebelieve baloney, and allow me to see the usage devices are put to? Next time ask nicely. What is so hard about saying Im a bit lost, how do i find the device that this points to. Why do we use these kind of names anyway? It allows for dynamic configurations of things, and some other voodoo that can be done. For example, you can if using UUID's move all your disks in their sata ports, and not affect your system's mounts because root will point at the device as listed in the UUID section. fdisk yes, but you can't tell what usage the devices are put to with that. William Brown pgp.mit.edu Out of curiousity, why don't I have a rootfs entry? I just have the actual device name. You guys seem to be assuming that having rootfs in the list is a normal thing, but it's not in my list? j...@aus8617 ~ $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 76G 59G 14G 82% / udev 10M 216K 9.8M 3% /dev /dev/sda3 33M 2.9M 28M 10% /boot /dev/sda1 78G 30G 49G 39% /mnt/winxp shm 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda2 78G 60G 18G 78% /mnt/win7 Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About interpreting output of df -h
On 12/03/10 12:38, Harry Putnam wrote: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com writes: Jake, I am soo sorry for seeming to aim my joking post at you when it was Mr. Indexer who seemed to be needing a little ribbing. Not a problem, I got what you were aiming for... Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Command-line wicd?
On 05/11/10 04:44, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 04 November 2010 17:22:28 Neil Bothwick wrote: Wicd also has an X use flag. I've just tried emerge -p wicd on a headless (and Xless) box and it didn't try to pull in any X related packages. You'll have to try USE=-X -gtk -qt4 emerge -pvt wicd see what is pulling in X, add USE flags to the command, rinse and repeat. That it can be done is not in doubt, whether it is worth the effort is. Personally, I USE=eth0 when installing Gentoo on a laptop. I see what you mean. I'll do that. Thanks all. j...@aus10224 ~ $ equery hasuse eth0 * Searching for USE flag eth0 ... j...@aus10224 ~ $ Am I missing something here? I never heard of that use flag before. Jake Moe
[gentoo-user] [OT] Best way to restrict home web browsing
A bit off topic, but this group seems to know a lot about this sort of subject. I've caught the 11 year old at home browsing sites he really shouldn't be. I'd like to implement some sort of filter so that he can only access approved sites, but myself and my o/h can browse whatever we want. What is the best way to implement this? A firewall? Some sort of web proxy? Something else? I've got a few Gentoo computers, one that tri-boots between Windows XP (for work), Windows 7 (for games) and Gentoo (for everything else), and one Windows laptop (my o/h won't give it up) connecting to one wireless AP/router. I'm thinking maybe a single firewall would be the way to go, but I suppose it'd have to something that we could log into to let it know who's who; I've never heard of a firewall that does that. Otherwise, maybe a software firewall on each PC, but it'd be a bit cumbersome across all the PCs, unless it had some sort of central management server. A web search seems to show a Squid proxy may be the way to go, as well. but I'm not familiar enough with that to know if it'll really do what I want. Any help/suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to configure Radeon card
On 13/10/10 09:41, Jeff Cranmer wrote: Hi, I have a Sapphire Radeon HD5750 graphics card installed on my Gentoo box, and I'm having some difficulty configuring it. When I run fglrxinfo, I get the OpenGL messages for a basic Mesa driver. I've attached the xorg.conf file, the Xorg.0.log file, and the results of the lspci command. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I tried auto-generating an xorg.conf file, but that would result in a totally blank screen. Thanks in advance. Jeff Did you run eselect opengl after installing the nVidia driver? Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Sniffing / analysis of application / wifi packets on my LAN
On 10/07/10 19:37, Stroller wrote: Hi there, I'm interested in the activity of an application which is running on my LAN, and was wondering if anyone could offer some quick pointers on the best tools for this these days. I've played with this some years ago, but only very superficially - I think I used wireshark back then. Ideally what I want to do is capture a big dump of the traffic over a couple of minutes (so it shouldn't be that much, right?) into a file and then analyse it afterwards based on destination IP, content c. A couple of minutes should allow completion of at least 2 or 3 separate interactions with the server. The network is mine, as is the device from which I'm capturing the data. I have a Belkin F5D7010 wifi card, which I think is based on a RaLink rt2x00 (rt2400 / rt2500) chipset, and I have my network's WPA key, so I think I can just set the wifi card in passive mode for sniffing. I'm pretty sure I experimented with this card in passive mode before, some years ago. Alternatively, I think I can plug the wifi access-point into my PC, bridge it to a second wired NIC and sniff what's going across the bridge (but I don't think this should be necessary). What I'm expecting to see is some image, audio html files /or xml data transferred, and ideally I'd like to be able to extract it all and view it in its original format. There's likely to be some inevitable other activity on the wLAN whilst this is happening - I'll try to minimise this, but I think the tools should be able filter out any crap I'm not interested in, right? I'd prefer as much as possible to use CLI tools for capturing / analysing the data. Thanks in advance for any quick pointers you can offer, Stroller. As far as I'm aware, Wireshark is the standard for packet capture and analysis. It supports both capture and display filters, so you can limit it to just what you're interested in. If the client and server are both on your LAN, then you should probably go ahead and capture everything, and then use a display filter to limit it to just the hosts you need. That way, if for some reason you find you need to see what else is going on on the network at a given time, the captured data is still there, you just broaden the display filter. As far as CLI tools go, sorry, I'm not sure what's available. Never had a need to look into those. But Wireshark uses libpcap, and digging a bit shows tcpdump, which is a CLI tool that uses libpcap to capture data, so it may give you the same functionality. I've never used it though, so I can't help further. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem couldn't be fixed
On 10/06/10 17:57, Maciej Grela wrote: 2010/10/6 Gaston shuo...@gmail.com: hello everyone,I have installed Gentoo,but,when I reboot it,the filesystem is readonly, Filesystem couldn't be fixed how can I solve it,thanks very much Did you have a power failure ? Have you tried to run fsck on the filesystem after booting from some livecd linux (I'd suggest System Rescue CD) ? Have you checked your RAM (with memtest86) and HDD (with badblocks) ? Best regards, Maciej Grela Can you give the full error text? Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick
On 09/22/10 17:02, Al wrote: And for future reference, while looking into various things for this, I found these in the Gentoo Wiki: USB Portable Install - http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/USB_Portable_Install Portable USB Gentoo - http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portable_USB_Gentoo Unfortunately, both use genkernel instead of manually configured Fortunately you have improved that, now that you know how how it all works. :-) Al Well, I've written a few Gentoo Wikis before (very basic things), but as those two articles each say they're up for merging with each other. I'm not sure how to do that, and I'm not sure what the proper way of editing a wiki that someone else wrote in the first place. Plus, I'm not done yet. I'm still running into problems. :-P Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick
On 09/22/10 17:16, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 22 September 2010 06:36:50 Jake Moe wrote: snipped Well, now that I've managed to get it booting, the only problem is that I can't seem to get the disk label working right. In GRUB's menu.lst, if I use root=LABEL=UsbRoot, it doesn't work (kernel panic, label not found, but sda1 is listed as available), but if I use root=/dev/sda1, it works. However, later in the boot process, it mounts / using LABEL=UsbRoot in fstab just fine. Is that a problem with GRUB? Or the kernel? Or am I doing something else wrong? I think someone mentioned earlier in this thread that label support for boot requires an initrd (ramdisk) to work. This could be what you're running into? Quite possibly. I seem to be reading the same thing, but I thought I had heard from the list previously that it was possible. Actually, I've just found the e-mail I was thinking of before: Alan McKinnon's reply on 08/31/10 02:32 with the subject Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers in which he said that he's always used labels and never needed an initramfs to make it work. So I might have to fiddle with it some more and see if I can't get it working. And for future reference, while looking into various things for this, I found these in the Gentoo Wiki: USB Portable Install - http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/USB_Portable_Install Portable USB Gentoo - http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portable_USB_Gentoo Unfortunately, both use genkernel instead of manually configured kernels, so that part doesn't help, but one mentions the option scandelay=2 to add to the kernel boot line in GRUB to introduce the delay genkernel needed to see the USB device; would have been good to know that last week when I was trying genkernel. :-P That is something I noticed for a few Howto's, genkernel is used quite often, but I actually haven't seen the need for it myself yet. But I am glad to hear you managed to get it working. Did you try trimming down your kernel a bit more to see what the minimum required is? :) -- Joost No, I'm still trying to get a basic system up and running. After I booted into it, I tried to install v86d so I could try to get a framebuffer working and have more lines on my screen while I try to trim things down. However, I quickly ran into an out of space issue, which I found out was because of inodes, not size. So I had to copy the contents off, re-make the partition with more inodes, and then copy the data back on. Since then, I haven't had a chance to boot it and see how it's going. Hope to tomorrow. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick
On 21/09/10 17:26, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday 21 September 2010 07:35:13 Jake Moe wrote: On 16/09/10 21:30, J. Roeleveld wrote: snipped old stuff Please bear in mind, I have not actually used nor needed a ramdisk to boot from ever since I started using Gentoo. Not even when I played with booting from USB-sticks myself. I simply build the kernel with all the necessary drivers compiled-in and used that to boot from. This might also be an idea for you? -- Joost Eg. if you do the mknod-commands to build the /dev/sda, /dev/sda1, device nodes, then it should be able to continue. Well, I've finally gotten this to work with a manually config'ed kernel. Before, I was only getting kernel panics. Now, after your comment all compiled-in, I took the old config I tried, did a sed to change all =m to =y, and recompiled, and it worked. So obviously, there was some option that I wasn't building into the kernel (only as a module) that was needed to start from USB. That's generally a good way to start, stick everything in the kernel :) I had previously started from a working config I had previously used for the same model PC that I was doing my testing on, and just changed the USB drivers from modules to built-in, but apparently that's not enough. Any ideas what else is needed for a USB-stick boot that's not needed in a SATA boot? I'd like to a) find out what I missed, and b) be able to cull the kernel back down again, so I can build up lots of SATA, graphics and audio modules to make this able to boot (and work properly) on other systems. Ok, doing this from memory here. To be able to boot from USB, you need (additionally to what you normally have): 1) USB Host drivers (OHCI,UHCI,EHCI,...) 2) USB Mass Storage 3) file system on the USB-stick 4) SCSI-disk (USB Mass storage depends on this) If others can also have a quick look on this list to check that I didn't miss anything? -- Joost Well, now that I've managed to get it booting, the only problem is that I can't seem to get the disk label working right. In GRUB's menu.lst, if I use root=LABEL=UsbRoot, it doesn't work (kernel panic, label not found, but sda1 is listed as available), but if I use root=/dev/sda1, it works. However, later in the boot process, it mounts / using LABEL=UsbRoot in fstab just fine. Is that a problem with GRUB? Or the kernel? Or am I doing something else wrong? And for future reference, while looking into various things for this, I found these in the Gentoo Wiki: USB Portable Install - http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/USB_Portable_Install Portable USB Gentoo - http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portable_USB_Gentoo Unfortunately, both use genkernel instead of manually configured kernels, so that part doesn't help, but one mentions the option scandelay=2 to add to the kernel boot line in GRUB to introduce the delay genkernel needed to see the USB device; would have been good to know that last week when I was trying genkernel. :-P Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick
On 16/09/10 21:30, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 16 September 2010 12:01:43 Jake Moe wrote: On 09/16/10 16:22, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 16 September 2010 00:34:39 Jake Moe wrote: On 16/09/10 08:26, Dale wrote: Jake Moe wrote: Thanks for that, I'll rebuild the genkernel with blkid support. As to the second suggestion, there is *no* /dev/sda1 (the partition in question). It just doesn't exist for some reason. However, fstab shows that it's mounted, and /sys/block has entries for the disk, so I'm not sure why it's dropped out. I'm guessing it has something to do with udevd, or uevents? Because shortly before that, I tell it to find the root partition at /dev/sda1, and it starts to boot, but then it loses it. Jake Moe The file fstab doesn't show what is mounted. Either use the command mount with no options or cat /etc/mtab to see what is actually mounted. Dale :-) :-) Gah, it's too early. That's what I meant to say (and previously said in my original post): when I run mount, it shows /dev/sda1 is mounted on /. Jake Moe I wonder if it looses the /dev tree when it mounts the root-partition read only prior to running the fsck. That could explain why it's not there. Try building a dummy /dev-tree on your root partition with the correct device- nodes hardcoded for /dev/sdxx and see how far you get then? -- Joost Erm, you've gone a bit beyond my knowledge there. Are you saying I should go into the maintenance console, create a dummy /devdir, and try to mknod the hard drive? I assume I'd use something like 'mknod /dev/sda c 8 0'? If not, what do you mean, cause you've lost me. Jake Moe Ok, what I mean is that I think the following might happen: 1) root-dir from ramdisk is mounted under / 2) dev-tree is mounted under /dev 3) /dev/sda1 is mounted under / 4) at this point, /dev might no longer be accessible. Now, if you make sure that on the USB-root (/dev/sda1) the folder /dev is actually populated, then it might continue through the boot-process. Or, as you mentioned, issue mknod ... commands while in that maintenance console, then it might be able to find the /dev/sda, /dev/sda1,... devices and continue. Please bear in mind, I have not actually used nor needed a ramdisk to boot from ever since I started using Gentoo. Not even when I played with booting from USB-sticks myself. I simply build the kernel with all the necessary drivers compiled-in and used that to boot from. This might also be an idea for you? -- Joost Eg. if you do the mknod-commands to build the /dev/sda, /dev/sda1, device nodes, then it should be able to continue. Well, I've finally gotten this to work with a manually config'ed kernel. Before, I was only getting kernel panics. Now, after your comment all compiled-in, I took the old config I tried, did a sed to change all =m to =y, and recompiled, and it worked. So obviously, there was some option that I wasn't building into the kernel (only as a module) that was needed to start from USB. I had previously started from a working config I had previously used for the same model PC that I was doing my testing on, and just changed the USB drivers from modules to built-in, but apparently that's not enough. Any ideas what else is needed for a USB-stick boot that's not needed in a SATA boot? I'd like to a) find out what I missed, and b) be able to cull the kernel back down again, so I can build up lots of SATA, graphics and audio modules to make this able to boot (and work properly) on other systems. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick
On 09/16/10 16:22, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 16 September 2010 00:34:39 Jake Moe wrote: On 16/09/10 08:26, Dale wrote: Jake Moe wrote: Thanks for that, I'll rebuild the genkernel with blkid support. As to the second suggestion, there is *no* /dev/sda1 (the partition in question). It just doesn't exist for some reason. However, fstab shows that it's mounted, and /sys/block has entries for the disk, so I'm not sure why it's dropped out. I'm guessing it has something to do with udevd, or uevents? Because shortly before that, I tell it to find the root partition at /dev/sda1, and it starts to boot, but then it loses it. Jake Moe The file fstab doesn't show what is mounted. Either use the command mount with no options or cat /etc/mtab to see what is actually mounted. Dale :-) :-) Gah, it's too early. That's what I meant to say (and previously said in my original post): when I run mount, it shows /dev/sda1 is mounted on /. Jake Moe I wonder if it looses the /dev tree when it mounts the root-partition read only prior to running the fsck. That could explain why it's not there. Try building a dummy /dev-tree on your root partition with the correct device- nodes hardcoded for /dev/sdxx and see how far you get then? -- Joost Erm, you've gone a bit beyond my knowledge there. Are you saying I should go into the maintenance console, create a dummy /devdir, and try to mknod the hard drive? I assume I'd use something like 'mknod /dev/sda c 8 0'? If not, what do you mean, cause you've lost me. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] no keyboard
): RADEONRestoreMemMapRegisters() : (II) RADEON(0): MC_FB_LOCATION : 0x00d700c0 0x00d700c0 (II) RADEON(0): MC_AGP_LOCATION : 0x (II) RADEON(0): avivo_restore ! Enable CRTC 0 success Enable CRTC memreq 0 success Unblank CRTC 0 success (II) Power Button: Close (II) UnloadModule: evdev (II) Power Button: Close (II) UnloadModule: evdev (II) C-Media USB Headphone Set: Close (II) UnloadModule: evdev (II) Logitech USB Gaming Mouse: Close (II) UnloadModule: evdev (II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Close (II) UnloadModule: evdev (II) RADEON(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel (II) RADEON(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0x2b7ff000 at 0x7f7370b01000 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Closed DRM master. -- Sourcegarden GmbH HR: B-104357 Steuernummer: 37/167/21214 USt-ID: DE814784953 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Mario Scheliga, Rene Otto Bank: Deutsche Bank, BLZ: 10070024, KTO: 0810929 Schoenhauser Allee 55, 10437 Berlin I've run into a similar situation in with my installs. The problem comes from the fact that in the kernel configuration, HID support options come *before* USB support options. If USB is originally off, then when you first go through the HID options, the USB Keyboard option isn't there. So you need: CONFIG_USB one or more of the following (as appropriate for your system) CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD CONFIG_HID_USB to make your USB keyboard work. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] no keyboard
On 17/09/10 04:33, a...@sourcegarden.de wrote: On 09/16/10 19:46, Jake Moe wrote: On 09/17/10 02:00, a...@sourcegarden.de wrote: On 09/16/10 17:55, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:47:50 +0200, a...@sourcegarden.de wrote: So i try out, startx was successfully but also, no keyboard. i got now a xorg.conf, so i will try to deal with this hope it will better ;/No both So it's only X? What's the result of grepping the log file? No both got no keyboard, tty and X. Here the Xorg.0.log: X.Org X Server 1.7.7 Release Date: 2010-05-04 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.34-gentoo-r6 x86_64 Current Operating System: Linux akendo 2.6.34-gentoo-r6 #1 SMP Wed Sep 15 15:25:29 CEST 2010 x86_64 Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=4098 real_root=/dev/sda5 vga=0x346 Build Date: 15 September 2010 07:52:34PM Current version of pixman: 0.18.2 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Thu Sep 16 15:44:42 2010 (++) Using config file: /root/xorg.conf.new (==) ServerLayout X.org Configured (**) |--Screen Screen0 (0) (**) | |--Monitor Monitor0 (**) | |--Device Card0 (**) |--Input Device Mouse0 (**) |--Input Device Keyboard0 (==) Automatically adding devices (==) Automatically enabling devices (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/OTF does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/. Entry deleted from font path. (Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/). (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/. Entry deleted from font path. (Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/). (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/OTF does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/. Entry deleted from font path. (Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/). (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/. Entry deleted from font path. (Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/). (**) FontPath set to: /usr/share/fonts/misc/, /usr/share/fonts/misc/ (**) ModulePath set to /usr/lib64/xorg/modules (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled. (WW) Disabling Mouse0 (WW) Disabling Keyboard0 (II) Loader magic: 0x7bc800 (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4 X.Org Video Driver: 6.0 X.Org XInput driver : 7.0 X.Org Server Extension : 2.0 (--) using VT number 7 (--) PCI:*(0:1:5:0) 1002:9614:1849:9614 ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 3300 Graphics rev 0, Mem @ 0xd000/268435456, 0xfe9f/65536, 0xfe80/1048576, I/O @ 0xc000/256 (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) (II) extmod will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) dbe will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) glx will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) record will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) dri will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) dri2 will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file. (II) LoadModule: dri (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so (II) Module dri: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0 (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI (II) LoadModule: dri2 (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri2.so (II) Module dri2: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.1.0 ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0 (II) Loading extension DRI2 (II) LoadModule: extmod (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so (II) Module extmod: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0 (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA (II) Loading extension DPMS (II) Loading extension XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation (II) Loading extension X
Re: [gentoo-user] no keyboard
On 17/09/10 07:38, a...@sourcegarden.de wrote: This make me crazy, no keyboard and i need the system :( , why the same keyboard work on my laptop without a problem? -- Sourcegarden GmbH HR: B-104357 Steuernummer: 37/167/21214 USt-ID: DE814784953 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Mario Scheliga, Rene Otto Bank: Deutsche Bank, BLZ: 10070024, KTO: 0810929 Schoenhauser Allee 55, 10437 Berlin Maybe you already have USB HID support in your laptop kernel? Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick
On 15/09/10 20:10, YoYo Siska wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 08:34:33AM +1000, Jake Moe wrote: On 15/09/10 04:28, YoYo Siska wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 07:29:01AM -0400, David Relson wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:05:12 +0200 J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 10 September 2010 10:43:30 Jake Moe wrote: On 10/09/2010 5:27 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: 2010/9/10 Jake Moejakesaddr...@gmail.com: Hello all, I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install and rescue purposes (and, of course, just to see if I could). I've mostly followed the Gentoo handbook (I used a single 4GB partition for the whole system, and no swap). I've used genkernel for the kernel (so I can have a multi-system capable kernel). I've gotten GRUB installed and working. My problem comes in after what I believe is the init process: * Checking root filesystem ... fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193device * Filesystem couldn't be fixed :( [ !! ] Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue): If I give the root password, I can find no /dev/sda1. However, mount shows /dev/sda1 on /, and there *is* a /sys/block/sda folders, with a sda1 folder in that as well. It's almost like it had /dev/sda1, but then lost it somehow. Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? Any help would be appreciated. Have you seen http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page ? It's based on Gentoo, you could check what they did to boot from a usb stick. Br, Maciej Grela Excellent, thanks for that, I hadn't found it in my previous searches. I'll have a look there. Jake Moe Had a similar issue a while ago when I was playing around with this myself. Take a look at the linux boot parameters. The 'theoretical' part is: You need to let the kernel initialize the USB-stick before trying to access it. (This can take some time) There is a delay-option, just can't remember the proper name off-hand. -- Joost I've got USB booting working in a syslinux environment. A delay of 12 seconds is working for me. The syslinux.cfg stanza I use is: LABEL usb KERNEL linux APPEND rootdelay=12 root=/dev/sda2 The usual way for linux on removable usb sticks / disks is to use LABEL or UUID to identify the disks and not the device names, because they will be different in different computers ;) The downside is that you need an initrd to mount the root partition... I think that the usual initrd generated by genkernel works... If you created the rootfs with: mkfs.ext2 -j -LUSBGentoo /dev/sdXY then you can change the kernel parameter to root=LABEL=USBGentoo and your fstab to: LABEL=USBGentoo / ext3 ... You can also use the uuid of the filesystem, find it out with dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdb2 | grep UUID and then use UUID=XXX instead of LABEL=XXX I never really played around with grub and USB booting, so I use syslinux. I create a small FAT partition with syslinux, kernel and initrd image (it gets also pretty handy when you sometimes need to copy something from a windows machine ;) and a second regular ext3 partition for the rootfs. Basically you would do: - partition the stick, mark the FAT partition as bootable/active - format the partitions: - mkfs.vfat -nUSBData /dev/sdX1 - mkfs.ext2 -j -LUSBGentoo /dev/sdX2 - install syslinux (on the FAT partition): - syslinux /dev/sdX1 - mount /dev/sdX2, install gentoo in the usual way - compile the kernel and initrd, make sure required USB stuff is in the kernel (theoretically it could be as modules in initrd... but in-kernel is safer :) if you are in a hurry, or don't know how to create them, get them from a gentoo livecd ;) don't forget to also copy the modules (/lib/modules-XXX/...) from the livecd to the rootfs. - put the kernel and initrd on the FAT partition (I name them vmlinuz.img and initrd.img) - edit syslinux.cfg (on the FAT partition), see http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX#How_do_I_Configure_SYSLINUX.3F a very simple one from my USB disk: DEFAULT linux LABEL linux SAY Now booting USBGentoo KERNEL vmlinuz.img APPEND root=LABEL=USBGentoo initrd=initrd.img you might also add rootdelay=10 to the options if the usb stick/disk isn't detected quick enough umount, reboot, set the computer to boot from usb, enjoy... ;) Xorg without a config seems to work pretty well on most computers these days, IIRC the alsa modules for soundcards are also autoloaded, so you don't need any fancy hw detection to have a desktop running from USB stick ;) yoyo BTW there is also a manual way to boot
Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick
On 16/09/10 08:26, Dale wrote: Jake Moe wrote: Thanks for that, I'll rebuild the genkernel with blkid support. As to the second suggestion, there is *no* /dev/sda1 (the partition in question). It just doesn't exist for some reason. However, fstab shows that it's mounted, and /sys/block has entries for the disk, so I'm not sure why it's dropped out. I'm guessing it has something to do with udevd, or uevents? Because shortly before that, I tell it to find the root partition at /dev/sda1, and it starts to boot, but then it loses it. Jake Moe The file fstab doesn't show what is mounted. Either use the command mount with no options or cat /etc/mtab to see what is actually mounted. Dale :-) :-) Gah, it's too early. That's what I meant to say (and previously said in my original post): when I run mount, it shows /dev/sda1 is mounted on /. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick
On 16/09/10 08:18, Al wrote: As to the second suggestion, there is *no* /dev/sda1 (the partition in question). It just doesn't exist for some reason. However, fstab shows that it's mounted, and /sys/block has entries for the disk, so I'm not sure why it's dropped out. I'm guessing it has something to do with udevd, or uevents? Because shortly before that, I tell it to find the root partition at /dev/sda1, and it starts to boot, but then it loses it. What is that in concrete, it starts? What do you see, hear, smell? Al I'm not sure what you're asking. Can you elaborate as to what you're asking? As I'm in an office, there is no concrete nearby for anything to be in. I see my monitor, I hear my mp3's playing, and I smell my peppermint tea. But I'm pretty sure that's not what you're asking me. :-P If you're asking what, specifically, I mean by it starts, my previous posts show how far into the boot process it gets. If I specify by /dev/sda1, eventually it gets to checking that partition for errors, but fails to find the partition. If I specify by LABEL, then it tells me it can't find the label a bit earlier in the boot process, and asks where it can find the root partition. When I tell it /dev/sda1, it continues to boot, only to stop again at fsck'ing the partition. If I put in the root password for maintenance and have a look, there is no /dev/sda or /dev/sda1 in /dev (nor /dev/hd?, nor /dev/sr?). But a mount command shows /dev/sda1 mounted at /. And /sys/block has sda and under that, sda1. So it's like it sees it, but then it doesn't. Following the sugegstion from YoYo Siska, I've had a look at the various options I can pass to genkernel (I had followed the handbook previously, and hadn't realized there were options I could pass), and am currently rebuilding it with the following command: genkernel --install --slowusb --disklabel all. YoYo pointed out that there was a --disklabel option to pass that'd add disk label support to the kernel, and I noticed the --slowusb option that, from my research, sounds like it may have something to do with my problem. Will let you know after I try that what the results are. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick
On 16/09/10 09:04, Al wrote: As I'm in an office, there is no concrete nearby for anything to be in. Lol. Well, there are some other meanings in the latin word concretus. The didn't even have that bleak modern material. We have a different name for it in german and use concretus more in the original sense. If you're asking what, specifically, I mean by it starts, my previous posts show how far into the boot process it gets. If I specify by /dev/sda1, eventually it gets to checking that partition for errors, but fails to find the partition. If I specify by LABEL, then it tells me it I am still asking myself, if it is the USB stick at all that you see starting. Couldn't it be a kernel from the inbuild hard disk? ... wich you would *hear* in that case ... maybe even smell or feel ... Hence I ask you if there linux kernel on the first or second partition of your disk. Al Ah, I see. For this test, I have a second PC that I've unplugged the hard drive from. And it's hard drive currently has a work Windows image on it, anyway, so it's definitely not booting from that. :-) I also have finished my new kernel. It now recognizes the root device by label, but still hangs on the fsck. Any more bright ideas? Surely someone has done this already; I can't be the first to try it. Hasn't someone else put a Gentoo install on a USB stick? If I'm correct in my assumptions, it sounds as though GRUB and the kernel are seeing it right, but something in the Gentoo init scripts is breaking it. Can anyone even comment if that assumption is correct? I'm not entirely clear on genkernel and the initramfs it provides, and at what step each of these takes effect. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick
On 15/09/10 04:28, YoYo Siska wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 07:29:01AM -0400, David Relson wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:05:12 +0200 J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 10 September 2010 10:43:30 Jake Moe wrote: On 10/09/2010 5:27 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: 2010/9/10 Jake Moejakesaddr...@gmail.com: Hello all, I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install and rescue purposes (and, of course, just to see if I could). I've mostly followed the Gentoo handbook (I used a single 4GB partition for the whole system, and no swap). I've used genkernel for the kernel (so I can have a multi-system capable kernel). I've gotten GRUB installed and working. My problem comes in after what I believe is the init process: Gentoo Linux; http://www.gentoo.org Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPLv2 Press I to enter interactive boot mode * Mounting proc at /proc ... [ ok ] * Mounting sysfs at /sys ... [ ok ] * Mounting /dev ... [ ok ] * Starting udevd ... [ ok ] * Populating /dev with existing devices through uevents ... [ ok ] * Waiting for uevents to be processed ... [ ok ] * Mounting devpts at /dev/pts ... [ ok ] * Checking root filesystem ... fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193device * Filesystem couldn't be fixed :( [ !! ] Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue): If I give the root password, I can find no /dev/sda1. However, mount shows /dev/sda1 on /, and there *is* a /sys/block/sda folders, with a sda1 folder in that as well. It's almost like it had /dev/sda1, but then lost it somehow. Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? Any help would be appreciated. Have you seen http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page ? It's based on Gentoo, you could check what they did to boot from a usb stick. Br, Maciej Grela Excellent, thanks for that, I hadn't found it in my previous searches. I'll have a look there. Jake Moe Had a similar issue a while ago when I was playing around with this myself. Take a look at the linux boot parameters. The 'theoretical' part is: You need to let the kernel initialize the USB-stick before trying to access it. (This can take some time) There is a delay-option, just can't remember the proper name off-hand. -- Joost I've got USB booting working in a syslinux environment. A delay of 12 seconds is working for me. The syslinux.cfg stanza I use is: LABEL usb KERNEL linux APPEND rootdelay=12 root=/dev/sda2 The usual way for linux on removable usb sticks / disks is to use LABEL or UUID to identify the disks and not the device names, because they will be different in different computers ;) The downside is that you need an initrd to mount the root partition... I think that the usual initrd generated by genkernel works... If you created the rootfs with: mkfs.ext2 -j -LUSBGentoo /dev/sdXY then you can change the kernel parameter to root=LABEL=USBGentoo and your fstab to: LABEL=USBGentoo / ext3 ... You can also use the uuid of the filesystem, find it out with dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdb2 | grep UUID and then use UUID=XXX instead of LABEL=XXX I never really played around with grub and USB booting, so I use syslinux. I create a small FAT partition with syslinux, kernel and initrd image (it gets also pretty handy when you sometimes need to copy something from a windows machine ;) and a second regular ext3 partition for the rootfs. Basically you would do: - partition the stick, mark the FAT partition as bootable/active - format the partitions: - mkfs.vfat -nUSBData /dev/sdX1 - mkfs.ext2 -j -LUSBGentoo /dev/sdX2 - install syslinux (on the FAT partition): - syslinux /dev/sdX1 - mount /dev/sdX2, install gentoo in the usual way - compile the kernel and initrd, make sure required USB stuff is in the kernel (theoretically it could be as modules in initrd... but in-kernel is safer :) if you are in a hurry, or don't know how to create them, get them from a gentoo livecd ;) don't forget to also copy the modules (/lib/modules-XXX/...) from the livecd to the rootfs. - put the kernel and initrd on the FAT partition (I name them vmlinuz.img and initrd.img) - edit syslinux.cfg (on the FAT partition), see http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/SYSLINUX#How_do_I_Configure_SYSLINUX.3F a very simple one from my USB disk: DEFAULT linux LABEL linux SAY Now booting USBGentoo KERNEL vmlinuz.img APPEND root=LABEL=USBGentoo initrd=initrd.img you might also add rootdelay=10 to the options if the usb stick/disk isn't detected quick enough umount, reboot, set the computer to boot from usb
Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick
On 10/09/2010 5:27 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: 2010/9/10 Jake Moejakesaddr...@gmail.com: Hello all, I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install and rescue purposes (and, of course, just to see if I could). I've mostly followed the Gentoo handbook (I used a single 4GB partition for the whole system, and no swap). I've used genkernel for the kernel (so I can have a multi-system capable kernel). I've gotten GRUB installed and working. My problem comes in after what I believe is the init process: Gentoo Linux; http://www.gentoo.org Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPLv2 Press I to enter interactive boot mode * Mounting proc at /proc ... [ ok ] * Mounting sysfs at /sys ... [ ok ] * Mounting /dev ... [ ok ] * Starting udevd ... [ ok ] * Populating /dev with existing devices through uevents ... [ ok ] * Waiting for uevents to be processed ...[ ok ] * Mounting devpts at /dev/pts ...[ ok ] * Checking root filesystem ... fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193device * Filesystem couldn't be fixed :([ !! ] Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue): If I give the root password, I can find no /dev/sda1. However, mount shows /dev/sda1 on /, and there *is* a /sys/block/sda folders, with a sda1 folder in that as well. It's almost like it had /dev/sda1, but then lost it somehow. Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? Any help would be appreciated. Have you seen http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page ? It's based on Gentoo, you could check what they did to boot from a usb stick. Br, Maciej Grela Excellent, thanks for that, I hadn't found it in my previous searches. I'll have a look there. Jake Moe
[gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick
Hello all, I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install and rescue purposes (and, of course, just to see if I could). I've mostly followed the Gentoo handbook (I used a single 4GB partition for the whole system, and no swap). I've used genkernel for the kernel (so I can have a multi-system capable kernel). I've gotten GRUB installed and working. My problem comes in after what I believe is the init process: Gentoo Linux; http://www.gentoo.org Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPLv2 Press I to enter interactive boot mode * Mounting proc at /proc ... [ ok ] * Mounting sysfs at /sys ... [ ok ] * Mounting /dev ... [ ok ] * Starting udevd ... [ ok ] * Populating /dev with existing devices through uevents ... [ ok ] * Waiting for uevents to be processed ...[ ok ] * Mounting devpts at /dev/pts ...[ ok ] * Checking root filesystem ... fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 device * Filesystem couldn't be fixed :([ !! ] Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue): If I give the root password, I can find no /dev/sda1. However, mount shows /dev/sda1 on /, and there *is* a /sys/block/sda folders, with a sda1 folder in that as well. It's almost like it had /dev/sda1, but then lost it somehow. Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? Any help would be appreciated. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ProFTPd problem with anonymous access
On 09/09/10 11:35, Adam Carter wrote: Looking further, I found that when I try to log into the laptop as anonymous, I get a 530-Unable to set anonymous privileges error, and in /var/log/messages, I see: ftp: Directory /usr/portage/ is not accessible. Have you tried su'ing to the ftp user to make sure you can still get to /usr/portage via a shell? Tried running strace against the ftpd? BTW - http replicator works well for distfiles. It might just be easier to use that. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BpP7JqMShS0J:www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Download_Cache_for_LAN-Http-Replicator+http+replicator+gentoocd=4hl=enct=clnkgl=au 1) I thought of that, but what password does Portage give it (if any)? If I change it, will it affect the use of my system at all? 2) Never used strace. I was under the impression that it was a debugger, and I don't know enough about programming to be able to understand that. But looking into it now, it appears it may be used more simply to give a better idea of what's going on. I'll give it a try. 3) I'll have a look at http replicator, thanks. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo
On 07/09/10 23:11, Eray Aslan wrote: On 07.09.2010 15:29, Alan McKinnon wrote: I figure that just like a top-grade mechanic should be looking at SnapOns or similar in his toolbox, this here sysadmin also needs high quality tools. My chief tool is my notebook. It's the weight not the price that is the deciding factor us. I guess depends on how much traveling you do. There is no one final ultimate answer. It depends. Labeling low res solutions as cheap crap was uncalled for. He didn't say low res = cheap crap. He said student and budget ranges were cheap crap. Our execs like smaller laptops (not netbooks) that are easier to use on airplanes that, because of the smaller screen size, have lower resolutions. That's not to say they're cheap crap; just because they're small doesn't mean they're no good. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] undetected DVD r/w device
On 09/06/10 18:55, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote:
For some unknown reason, my DVD r/w device is not detected as such by udev:
I can mount /dev/hda and read a data CD, but /dev/cdrom is not created at boot
time and k3b returns
No optical drive found.
K3b did not find any optical device in your system.
Solution : Make sure HAL daemon is running, it is used by K3b for finding
devices.
Well, hald IS running on my hardened amd64 system and /etc/udev/rules.d
contains
70-persistent-cd.rules. Where should I look now to fix the problem ?
--
~adj~
What's the contents of 70-persistent-cd.rules? I recently had the same
problem on a HP laptop; the DVD drive worked in most things, but not in
K3B, and I tracked the root down to the fact that while I could see
/dev/sr0, the symlinks for /dev/[cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw] weren't there. I
could mount /dev/sr0 and the drive worked, but K3B never found the
drive. I believe I fixed it by editing that rules file somehow. I
can't remember while laptop it was on, but here's the two
70-persistent-cd.rules files I have:
(I think this one was the one that worked)
# This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_cd_rules
# program, run by the cd-aliases-generator.rules rules file.
#
# You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single
# line, and set the $GENERATED variable.
# CDDVDW_TS-L633N (pci-:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:0:0)
SUBSYSTEM==block, ENV{ID_CDROM}==?*,
ENV{ID_PATH}==pci-:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:0:0, SYMLINK+=cdrom,
ENV{GENERATED}=1
SUBSYSTEM==block, ENV{ID_CDROM}==?*,
ENV{ID_PATH}==pci-:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:0:0, SYMLINK+=cdrw,
ENV{GENERATED}=1
SUBSYSTEM==block, ENV{ID_CDROM}==?*,
ENV{ID_PATH}==pci-:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:0:0, SYMLINK+=dvd,
ENV{GENERATED}=1
SUBSYSTEM==block, ENV{ID_CDROM}==?*,
ENV{ID_PATH}==pci-:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:0:0, SYMLINK+=dvdrw,
ENV{GENERATED}=1
(I think this one was the one that I had to rewrite myself)
SUBSYSTEM==block, KERNEL==hdb, SYMLINK+=cdrom, GROUP=cdrom
SUBSYSTEM==block, KERNEL==hdb, SYMLINK+=cdrw, GROUP=cdrom
SUBSYSTEM==block, KERNEL==hdb, SYMLINK+=dvd, GROUP=cdrom
SUBSYSTEM==block, KERNEL==hdb, SYMLINK+=dvdrw, GROUP=cdrom
HTH,
Jake Moe
[gentoo-user] [OT] ProFTPd problem with anonymous access
Hello all, I'm hoping someone on the list can help me out with a problem I'm having (or at least point me in the direction of a RTFM). I've got my laptop set up as a local rsync and source mirror for a PC at work and another laptop at home. The laptop has /usr/portage shared anonymously, so whatever distfile it's already downloaded, the other computers don't need to go out to the Internet to retrieve. This has been working for a little while now. However, recently I noticed that one of the local computers were going out to the Internet to retrieve the newest gentoo-sources, which I knew had already been downloaded on the mirror laptop. Looking further, I found that when I try to log into the laptop as anonymous, I get a 530-Unable to set anonymous privileges error, and in /var/log/messages, I see: ftp: Directory /usr/portage/ is not accessible. This setup used to work for a while, but looking back through /var/log/messages, it appears this started on 1 Sept. Going back through my emerge.log shows that the previous day, Portage had updated wine, and installed bar. Then later that day, I must have changed a USE flag for hal, because then I see policykit being installed, then hal being rebuilt. Then I was trying to help a friend get data off a disk their kids had wiped, so I installed testdisk, gpart and gparted. The next day sees iputils, apache-tools, apache, docbook-xml-dtd-4.2, and deskbar-applet being updated. I was having troubles with the upgrade-then-downgrade of dhcpcd and upgrade of gentoo-sources-2.6.35, so later that day saw me unmasking dhcpcd-5.2.7 and re-upgrading that. As far as I can tell, ProFTPd should be trying to access that folder with the ftp account that Portage set up for me. And permissions on both /usr and /usr/portage give r-x to other. So if I understand correctly, it *should* be able to access that folder, at least read-only. Changing it to rwx for other doesn't fix it, either. Attached is my proftpd.conf, as configured according to http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Setup_local_Portage_and_Package_Mirror (and which had been worked previously). Any help would be appreciated. Jake Moe ServerName aus10224 ServerType standalone DefaultServer on RequireValidShell off AuthPAM off AuthPAMConfig ftp Port21 Umask 022 MaxInstances30 Userftp Group ftp # These need to be changed to use the standard ftp user and group. Anonymous /usr/portage Userftp Group ftp UserAlias anonymous ftp Limit WRITE DenyAll /Limit /Anonymous
Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to configure alsa for INTEL HDA (ATI)
On 07/09/10 01:44, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com [10-09-06 17:10]: Apparently, though unproven, at 14:33 on Monday 06 September 2010, Nils Larsson did opine thusly: I did an alsaconf- and update-modules-reboot-cycle, but the only thing I get with alsamixer are four bars: master,pcm,capture,digital Seems a little too less for high definit audio, or ? But what is you're missing? S/DPIF? Headphone? Front? We have a. a mail loop b. a clueless user w.r.t. vacation settings -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com The so called user has bought a brand new mobo. This mobo is the first mobo with HD sound. So -- how should this poor guy know what is missing, when it is a) not visible and b) unknown to the user? Best regards, the cluekless user He wasn't talking to you. He was talking to the guy that posted the same response 4 times to the list to your original e-mail. :-P Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant
On 07/09/10 06:19, Al wrote: Hi, being comparingly new to Gentoo I still wounder why the classical heart of every open source community is missing, a public news server. At least a news server is not offically announced on http://www.gentoo.org/ like forums, IRC and mailinglists. (I can read some, not all of the lists via infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de.) Well, there are mailinglists. But mailinglists send each message to everybody producing a lot of traffic overhead. As as result people are socially driven to reduce the amount of messages. The lists are dead early while IRC still is active. By this a lot of interesting solutions are lost to effective web search. The buzz in IRC doesn't result in a web searchable documentation. It is rubbish the moment after it was written. Also it is not everybodies taste only to send small messages and to paste elsewhere when the stuff exceeds 2 lines of code. Then there are some Gentoo web forums out there. Now that is really slow, moving tons of HTML for every single posting. Valuable information is scattered all around. Do we think intelligent people to limited to install a Thunderbird to read news, so that people are to driven to web forums like housewifes, that only know the web as webpages? When comparing Gentoo with other communities it has very good documentation but communication could be better. I am missing the heart of it. Al Why say that lists are dead early? This list I find takes a certain amount of maintenance to keep up-to-date, otherwise it grows to an unmanageable number of e-mails in my Inbox. If anything, it's too alive with too much communication, it's nowhere near dead. That's not to say I'm complaining about the amount of mail this list generates; I'm just saying that it's certainly not dead. Everyone's got their preference; some like mailing lists and come here. Others like forums and go there. Still others prefer IRC. Also, a quick Google search of gentoo newsgroup showed me alt.os.linux.gentoo, and that it's been posted to as recently as less than a month ago. What's wrong with that newsgroup? And I, for one at least, use Thunderbird to read my e-mail; the interface is pretty much the same for mail and news. A little configuration change and I'd be using news. But I like the mailing list, not newsgroups. (shrug) Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant
in the world of windows and google. Best they are fully synchronized and it is the same database. Well, I haven't used it, but others are telling you you can use gmane if you want to use it as a newsgroup. I can't add anything more to that. Al Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] hotplugging usb devices no longer working
On 31/08/10 06:49, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have a sansa MP3 player and a Flip Video. Each plugs in as a usb device and presents as a fat file system. Both used to work, but don't today (it is has been a while--few months--since I last plugged them in. Now the device screen shows that it is connected, but I see nothing on the computer df shows no new file system mount shows no new file system I checked and FAT/VFAT are in the kernel # DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems CONFIG_FAT_FS=y CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437 CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET=iso8859-1 Both hal and udev are running 8045 ?Ssl0:00 /usr/sbin/hald --use-syslog --verbose=no 8046 ?S 0:00 hald-runner 8075 ?S 0:00 hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event8 /dev/input/event7 /dev/input/event2 /dev/input/event1 /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event3 /dev/input/event0 /dev/input/event5 8084 ?S 0:00 /usr/libexec/hald-addon-generic-backlight 8086 ?S 0:00 /usr/libexec/hald-addon-cpufreq 8087 ?S 0:00 /usr/libexec/hald-addon-acpi 8095 ?S 0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr0 (every 2 sec) 8785 ?Ss 0:00 /bin/bash -c ps ax | grep hal 8787 ?S 0:00 grep hal 8131 ?Ss0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon 8794 ?Ss 0:00 /bin/bash -c ps ax | grep udev 8796 ?S 0:00 grep udev Any help would be appreciated thanks, allan What device screen do you mean? And where are you looking on the computer? When I insert a usb stick, there's a lot of output in /var/log/messages about the stick and the partition on it. Then I use mount /media/usbstick to mount it according to the appropriate entry in my /etc/fstab. Speaking of which, what's your /etc/fstab look like? If you use tail -f /var/log/messages and then plug the device in, does it see that it's connected? I suspect you're talking about auto mounting, such as KDE or Gnome does; can you manually mount them? If not, then I doubt auto mounting will either. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] ignore previous msg (Hotplugging not working)
On 31/08/10 06:57, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I plugged into the desktop and looked on the laptop. Sorry for the noise, allan Whups, only looked at the previous thread, didn't see this. Probably best if you reply to the thread with stuff like this, so we can keep track of it. And like Remy, this put a smile on my face. :-P Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless
On 18/08/10 12:56, CJoeB wrote:
On 08/18/10 01:12, Jake Moe wrote:
On 18/08/10 09:04, CJoeB wrote:
On 08/17/10 10:55, Jake Moe wrote:
On 08/17/10 11:55, Adam Carter wrote:
Hi,
I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted
before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my
previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and
the wikis - ad nauseum. I'm still having problems with wireless.
I use wpa_supplicant to provide the wifi crypto.
So, I'm left with trying to use the iwl3945 driver in the kernel. I
followed the wiki for setting this up and thought I had succeeded. I
got to the point where I was told to type the following:
ifconfig wlan0 up (this does activate the wireless led on my computer)
iwlist wlan0 scan
iwconfig wlan0 essid network name (where the network name is the
essid that has been set)
When I got this to work, I thought I was home free despite the kludgy
way of getting wireless working. However, I rebooted and now, when I
type iwlist wlan0 scan I get told that scanning is not supported. Yes,
I have iwl3945-ucode installed and yes, it was recompiled after the
kernel was rebuilt.
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.
Forgetting to post up your configs :) eg /etc/conf.d/net etc
I've used the iwl3945 on a few HP laptops without much problem. The few
problems I had were related to switching the wireless on and off; I'd
have to rmmod and modprobe kernel modules to get it working again.
Does ifconfig list the interface? If not, what does ifconfig wlan0
up do? What about the output of iwconfig? And going for the obvious
here, any chance that the wireless is turned off?
Jake Moe
iwconfig lists the interface as wlan0
I discovered last night after sending my original message that my
symlink was wrong - I used to have net.eth0 and net.eth1 pointing to
net.lo. However, last night I removed the net.eth1 symlink and created
the net.wlan0 symlink to net.lo. Now when I boot the computer, my
wireless comes up and the LED comes on, but then it times out because (I
assume) it can't establish a connection.
This is my /etc/conf.d/net file. Note that the any used to work when
I used the ipw3945 driver. I would scan for available networks. I
tried last night to change the any to the essid printed on my Bell
router, but that didn't work.
# This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.*
# scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration,
# please review /etc/conf.d/net.example and save your configuration
# in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!).
#preup() {
# if [[ ${IFACE} = wlan0 ]]; then
# sleep 3
# fi
# return 0
#}
modules=( iwconfig )
iwconfig_wlan0=mode managed
config_eth0=(dhcp)
config_wlan0=(dhcp)
wpa_timeout_wlan0=15
essid_wlan0=any
Regards,
Colleen
This is the wireless part of mine:
modules=( iwconfig )
config_wlan0=( noop dhcp )
dhcpcd_wlan0=( -d -t 15 )
associate_order=( forcepreferredonly )
associate_timeout=( 5 )
preferred_aps=( firstessid secondessid )
key_firstessid=( THIS-ISMY-KEY1-1234-5678-90AB-CD )
key_secondessid=( THIS-ISMY-KEY2-ABCD-EFGH-IJKL-MN )
I've removed anything not having to do with the wireless for clarity.
From memory, the only lines needed are modules, config_wlan0, and
preferred_aps (I have two because I also use wireless at my g/f's
mum's house). Oh, and I use forcepreferredonly so it'll try to
connect even though it can't find my essid by scanning (because I've
told my router to stop broadcasting the essid of my wireless network),
and it'll only try to connect to networks I specifically tell it to, no
others. If your essid is hidden as well, you'll probably need to add
either forcepreferredonly or forceany if you want it to auto-connect
to any it finds if it can't connect to yours.
Reading through the wireless.example file, I came across this:
##
# SETTINGS
##
# Hard code an ESSID to an interface - leave this unset if you wish
the driver
# to scan for available Access Points
# Set to any to connect to any ESSID - the driver picks an Access
Point
# This needs to be done when the driver doesn't support scanning
# This may work for drivers that don't support scanning but you need
automatic
# AP association
# I would only set this as a last resort really - use the preferred_aps
# setting at the bottom of this file
Which is why I used perferred_aps instead of essid_wlan0. Give that a
try, perhaps?
Jake Moe
Haven't tried this yet - just got the e-mail and it's almost 11:00 p.m.
and time for me to hit the sack. However, I wanted to point this
out. This test was copied from dmesg. Unless, I
[gentoo-user] [OT] MonoDevelop + Moonlight
Hello all Can anyone help me with this combo? I've unmasked MonoDevelop from Portage and installed it, and it runs, but when I tell it to make a test Moonlight app and try to build/run it, it errors with Framework 'Moonlight / Silverlight 2.0' not installed, and if I expand all the References in the Solution section, I get a bunch of Assembly not available for Moonlight / Silverlight 2.0 (in Mono 2.6.4) messages, one under each reference. Any ideas how to fix this? I have the Moonlight plug-in installed from http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/ (the one in Portage is still on v1, while v2.3 is out), and it works on a Silverlight app I wrote using Visual Studio Silverlight in Windows. Do I need the Moonlight Portage package as well? I would have thought that whatever it did, the plugin I downloaded and installed would have done the same; but maybe it's not in a system-wide location, and needs to be? Or maybe I need to install a Moonlight SDK? I tried to find one of these, but from what I gathered, this should have been bundled together with the MonoDevelop sources, and I assume would have gotten built along with it? The availability of the choice Moonlight application in MonoDevelop leads me to believe that it's built whatever it needs, but I'm missing something. I've also tried loading the VS 2008 solution I wrote (and successfully built, and can successfully run on Gentoo/Firefox) into MonoDevelop, and then I get the same errors I got before. Documentation on the Mono, Moonlight and MonoDevelop pages is pretty sparse when it comes to this combo; I'm getting the impression what I'd like to do is very much under development, and perhaps just not ready yet? Or am I missing something? Any help would be appreciated. Jake Moe PS: I've signed up on the Moonlight mailing list as well, but before I posted there, I thought I'd check to see if maybe this was a Gentoo-specific thing. If not, I'll ask there.
Re: [gentoo-user] regarding Participation in Gentoo Linux
On 08/17/10 19:27, arjun.sha...@wipro.com wrote: Hi, I would like to participate in the Gentoo Linux.Please help and suggest how can I become a member for Gentoo Linux.I have gone through the website of gentoo following the link :http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contact.xml#intro .Please help and reply with some suggestions.I am really interested to participate and want to enhance my skills as a developer in Linux. Appreciate your help for rest of my life. Thamks, Arjun. Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. WARNING: Computer viruses can be transmitted via email. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. www.wipro.com I would suggest starting with the Become a Developer link on the main Gentoo site: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild
On 08/16/10 19:47, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: Some new people think it knows where things come from even if it is not installed. It can't do that so I posted that in case the person didn't know. Well, I'm not very expert about gentoo... I though it would query some kind of database to ask what package contains a certain file Now I know it works differently... It would be neat if it could do that tho. Just have no idea how it could. ;-) I think querying an online database could be a nice solution. Thanks! On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 16 August 2010 09:13:29 Dale wrote: Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: # equery belongs /usr/lib/libxfce4util.lahttp://libxfce4util.la [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la http://libxfce4util.la in *... ] # Equery doesn't give any results because it is not installed. If it weren't installed it wouldn't be able to announce what it was searching for and where :-) Some new people think it knows where things come from even if it is not installed. It can't do that so I posted that in case the person didn't know. Then I posted a way to find out even if a package is not installed. I didn't know about that website until someone pointed it out to me many ages ago. It would be neat if it could do that tho. Just have no idea how it could. ;-) Dale :-) :-) Yeah, sorry, I only included that equery belongs bit last time to show that it was installed on my system, and that the libxfce4util package installed it. I didn't mean to say you should look for it there; it's not going to find it, as has been pointed out before. My only point was that emerging libxfce4util *should* have installed that file; since it didn't, I would assume you need to look at that emerge process to find out why; either it's not building it for some reason, or not installing it after it's been built. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless
On 08/17/10 11:55, Adam Carter wrote: Hi, I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and the wikis - ad nauseum. I'm still having problems with wireless. Things were so much easier when I could just use the ipw3945 driver. However, I can't build that because it requires TKIP and CCMP, neither of which I can find settings for in my active kernel, 2.6.34-gentoo-r1. In one of the responses to my previous posts someone told me about the / trick while in the kernel configuration to bring up a search menu. I did this and the only reference I could find for TKIP was one related to debugging. I use wpa_supplicant to provide the wifi crypto. So, I'm left with trying to use the iwl3945 driver in the kernel. I followed the wiki for setting this up and thought I had succeeded. I got to the point where I was told to type the following: ifconfig wlan0 up (this does activate the wireless led on my computer) iwlist wlan0 scan iwconfig wlan0 essid network name (where the network name is the essid that has been set) When I got this to work, I thought I was home free despite the kludgy way of getting wireless working. However, I rebooted and now, when I type iwlist wlan0 scan I get told that scanning is not supported. Yes, I have iwl3945-ucode installed and yes, it was recompiled after the kernel was rebuilt. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Forgetting to post up your configs :) eg /etc/conf.d/net etc I've used the iwl3945 on a few HP laptops without much problem. The few problems I had were related to switching the wireless on and off; I'd have to rmmod and modprobe kernel modules to get it working again. Does ifconfig list the interface? If not, what does ifconfig wlan0 up do? What about the output of iwconfig? And going for the obvious here, any chance that the wireless is turned off? Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.
On 08/17/10 20:23, Dale wrote: Adam Carter wrote: Is this easy to do? I have no idea where to start except that wireshark is installed. Yep, start the capture with Capture - Interfaces and click on the start button next to the correct interface, then right click on one of the packets that is to the yahoo box and choose Decode As set the port and protocol then apply. You'll need to understand the semantics of HTTP for it to be of much use tho. You had me until the last part. No semantics here. lol May see if I can post a little and see if anyone can figure out what the heck it is doing. I'm thinking some crazy bug or something. Maybe checking for updates not realizing it's Kopete instead of a Yahoo program. Thanks. Post back what I find when it does it again. Dale :-) :-) If you do try to send it back to us, you might want to limit what it's capturing; Wireshark can get a *lot* of data quickly. For instance, if you know it's only communicating with a few servers, after you click on Capture -- Interfaces, click on the Options button, and in the Capture Filter, put host 98.136.48.110 or host 98.136.42.25, which are the two servers you listed at the beginning of this thread (cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com and rdis.msg.vip.sp1.yahoo.com). Or you could assume that Yahoo are using the 98.136.0.0 network only for this sort of thing, and use a filter of net 98.136.0.0/16, which would grab all traffic to or from any host with an IP starting with 98.136.x.x. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless
On 18/08/10 09:04, CJoeB wrote:
On 08/17/10 10:55, Jake Moe wrote:
On 08/17/10 11:55, Adam Carter wrote:
Hi,
I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted
before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my
previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and
the wikis - ad nauseum. I'm still having problems with wireless.
I use wpa_supplicant to provide the wifi crypto.
So, I'm left with trying to use the iwl3945 driver in the kernel. I
followed the wiki for setting this up and thought I had succeeded. I
got to the point where I was told to type the following:
ifconfig wlan0 up (this does activate the wireless led on my computer)
iwlist wlan0 scan
iwconfig wlan0 essid network name (where the network name is the
essid that has been set)
When I got this to work, I thought I was home free despite the kludgy
way of getting wireless working. However, I rebooted and now, when I
type iwlist wlan0 scan I get told that scanning is not supported. Yes,
I have iwl3945-ucode installed and yes, it was recompiled after the
kernel was rebuilt.
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.
Forgetting to post up your configs :) eg /etc/conf.d/net etc
I've used the iwl3945 on a few HP laptops without much problem. The few
problems I had were related to switching the wireless on and off; I'd
have to rmmod and modprobe kernel modules to get it working again.
Does ifconfig list the interface? If not, what does ifconfig wlan0
up do? What about the output of iwconfig? And going for the obvious
here, any chance that the wireless is turned off?
Jake Moe
iwconfig lists the interface as wlan0
I discovered last night after sending my original message that my
symlink was wrong - I used to have net.eth0 and net.eth1 pointing to
net.lo. However, last night I removed the net.eth1 symlink and created
the net.wlan0 symlink to net.lo. Now when I boot the computer, my
wireless comes up and the LED comes on, but then it times out because (I
assume) it can't establish a connection.
This is my /etc/conf.d/net file. Note that the any used to work when
I used the ipw3945 driver. I would scan for available networks. I
tried last night to change the any to the essid printed on my Bell
router, but that didn't work.
# This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.*
# scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration,
# please review /etc/conf.d/net.example and save your configuration
# in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!).
#preup() {
# if [[ ${IFACE} = wlan0 ]]; then
# sleep 3
# fi
# return 0
#}
modules=( iwconfig )
iwconfig_wlan0=mode managed
config_eth0=(dhcp)
config_wlan0=(dhcp)
wpa_timeout_wlan0=15
essid_wlan0=any
Regards,
Colleen
This is the wireless part of mine:
modules=( iwconfig )
config_wlan0=( noop dhcp )
dhcpcd_wlan0=( -d -t 15 )
associate_order=( forcepreferredonly )
associate_timeout=( 5 )
preferred_aps=( firstessid secondessid )
key_firstessid=( THIS-ISMY-KEY1-1234-5678-90AB-CD )
key_secondessid=( THIS-ISMY-KEY2-ABCD-EFGH-IJKL-MN )
I've removed anything not having to do with the wireless for clarity.
From memory, the only lines needed are modules, config_wlan0, and
preferred_aps (I have two because I also use wireless at my g/f's
mum's house). Oh, and I use forcepreferredonly so it'll try to
connect even though it can't find my essid by scanning (because I've
told my router to stop broadcasting the essid of my wireless network),
and it'll only try to connect to networks I specifically tell it to, no
others. If your essid is hidden as well, you'll probably need to add
either forcepreferredonly or forceany if you want it to auto-connect
to any it finds if it can't connect to yours.
Reading through the wireless.example file, I came across this:
##
# SETTINGS
##
# Hard code an ESSID to an interface - leave this unset if you wish
the driver
# to scan for available Access Points
# Set to any to connect to any ESSID - the driver picks an Access
Point
# This needs to be done when the driver doesn't support scanning
# This may work for drivers that don't support scanning but you need
automatic
# AP association
# I would only set this as a last resort really - use the preferred_aps
# setting at the bottom of this file
Which is why I used perferred_aps instead of essid_wlan0. Give that a
try, perhaps?
Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild
On 08/13/10 23:50, Alex Schuster wrote: Massimiliano Ziccardi writes: I'm trying to update my gentoo after a long time. That tends to be more problematic than regular updates. I tried the update (emerge -uD world) but I got some problem about conflicting and missing libraries, so I've uninstalled some software. portage 2.2 may ease these things, it does some automatic blocker resolution (does not work always for me, but most of the times). It is still masked, but people use it for far over a year now, and I did not read about big problems. When it tries to emerge xfce4-panel it always gives this error during the build process: /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la: No such file or directory I tried to re-emerge the libxfce4util package, but with no luck : that file do not exists!!! Any idea? Maybe give 'lafilefixer --justfixit' a try? Emerge lafilefixer if you do not have it already. Have you read all he elog messages? They sometimes tell about additional manual steps that have to be done. Wonko Well, on my system, that file does belong to libxfce4util: j...@aus8617 ~ $ equery belongs /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la in *... ] xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.6.2 (/usr/lib/libxfce4util.la) What does the screen say when it gets to the install phase of emerge? Any errors there, especially with that file? Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: Update of mozilla products (firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey) gone bad...
authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid 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 CAMERAS=canon ELIBC=glibc INPUT_DEVICES=evdev keyboard mouse magellan KERNEL=linux LCD_DEVICES=bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text LINGUAS=en sv en_GB sv_SE sv-SE en_US RUBY_TARGETS=ruby18 SANE_BACKENDS=plustek USERLAND=GNU VIDEO_CARDS=radeon fglrx vesa radeonhd XTABLES_ADDONS=quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Best regards Peter K I had a similar issue the other day with Thunderbird (I've been trying Chromium lately, so I can't comment on Firefox). I ended up changing drivers from fglrx to radeon, and the issue went away. I also was seeing a slow redraw of xterm windows when I switched desktops in FVWM; I could see the window being drawn from top to bottom. That too improved with the radeon driver. However, this is a new build (got a new work laptop the other day), so I can't comment on whether older versions of Thunderbird had similar issues. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge is not switching mirror when one is down
On 15/07/10 02:16, Xi Shen wrote: hi, i have multiple mirrors configured in GENTOO_MIRRORS, /etc/make.conf. i noticed that if the 1st mirror is down, emerge will continuously try the 1st mirror. i remember it should switch to the 2nd server after the try failed 3 times. how can i configure it to switch mirrors automatically? What does emerge --info | grep GENTOO_MIRRORS tell you? Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - UVESAFB setup not working
On 07/07/10 15:50, Mick wrote: On Monday 05 July 2010 23:46:54 Jake Moe wrote: I've recently installed a new system, and can't seem to get UVESAFB working properly. I've set up everything in the kernel, and modified GRUB's menu.lst to use the framebuffer. However, even though there doesn't seem to be any errors, I can't seem to get anything other than default resolution with far too large fonts. I've compared dmesg info, GRUB configs and kernel configs between this laptop, and another laptop that has UVESAFB running fine, and am at a loss to find what's wrong. Stating the obvious, have you emerged fbcondecor, ran /etc/init.d/fbcondecor start and then added it to your boot runlevel? Thanks for the reply. But... j...@aus10373 ~ $ eix fbcondecor No matches found. j...@aus10373 ~ $ eix fb -a con No matches found. j...@aus10373 ~ $ eix fb -a decor No matches found. Erm, wossat then? Are you thinking of bootsplash? Besides, this is something that happens long before the initscripts run; the screen should go from GRUB to standard console for a moment, then it should change to the framebuffer console. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - UVESAFB setup not working
On 07/07/10 22:20, Mick wrote:
On 7 July 2010 12:50, Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com wrote:
On 07/07/10 15:50, Mick wrote:
On Monday 05 July 2010 23:46:54 Jake Moe wrote:
I've recently installed a new system, and can't seem to get UVESAFB
working properly. I've set up everything in the kernel, and modified
GRUB's menu.lst to use the framebuffer. However, even though there
doesn't seem to be any errors, I can't seem to get anything other than
default resolution with far too large fonts.
I've compared dmesg info, GRUB configs and kernel configs between this
laptop, and another laptop that has UVESAFB running fine, and am at a
loss to find what's wrong.
Stating the obvious, have you emerged fbcondecor, ran /etc/init.d/fbcondecor
start and then added it to your boot runlevel?
Thanks for the reply. But...
j...@aus10373 ~ $ eix fbcondecor
No matches found.
j...@aus10373 ~ $ eix fb -a con
No matches found.
j...@aus10373 ~ $ eix fb -a decor
No matches found.
Erm, wossat then? Are you thinking of bootsplash? Besides, this is
something that happens long before the initscripts run; the screen
should go from GRUB to standard console for a moment, then it should
change to the framebuffer console.
I'm sorry, I meant v86d (looked at an old machine of mine which also
has a framebuffer splash for more eyecandy in an initird).
Ah, that makes more sense. :-) Yeah, got it:
j...@aus10373 ~ $ eix v86d
[I] sys-apps/v86d
Available versions: 0.1.3-r1 0.1.9 {debug x86emu}
Installed versions: 0.1.9(07:07:03 24/06/10)(-debug -x86emu)
Homepage:http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/
Description: A daemon to run x86 code in an emulated
environment.
j...@aus10373 ~ $ grep INITRAMFS /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=/usr/share/v86d/initramfs
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_ROOT_UID=0
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_ROOT_GID=0
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_NONE=y
# CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_GZIP is not set
# CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_BZIP2 is not set
# CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_LZMA is not set
Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - UVESAFB setup not working
On 07/07/10 23:19, Andy Wilkinson wrote: On 07/05/10 15:46, Jake Moe wrote: I've recently installed a new system, and can't seem to get UVESAFB working properly. I've set up everything in the kernel, and modified GRUB's menu.lst to use the framebuffer. However, even though there doesn't seem to be any errors, I can't seem to get anything other than default resolution with far too large fonts. I've compared dmesg info, GRUB configs and kernel configs between this laptop, and another laptop that has UVESAFB running fine, and am at a loss to find what's wrong. The laptop in question is a HP EliteBook 8440p with an nVidia graphics chip. Relevant info that I can think of: -* lspci *- snip -* dmesg | grep uvesafb *- Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda4 video=uvesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap,1600x900 uvesafb: NVIDIA Corporation, NVIDIA Quadro NVS 170M uvesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:c2d0 uvesafb: pmi: set display start = c00cc333, set palette = c00cc38e uvesafb: pmi: ports = 3b4 3b5 3ba 3c0 3c1 3c4 3c5 3c6 3c7 3c8 3c9 3cc 3ce 3cf 3d0 3d1 3d2 3d3 3d4 3d5 3da uvesafb: VBIOS/hardware doesn't support DDC transfers uvesafb: no monitor limits have been set, default refresh rate will be used uvesafb: scrolling: ywrap using protected mode interface, yres_virtual=7200 uvesafb: framebuffer at 0xd100, mapped to 0xf808, using 11250k, total 14336k -* /sys/devices/platform/uvesafb.0/graphics/fb0/modes *- U:1600x900p-59 snip U:1600x900p-59 snip I've also attached my kernel .config file for reference. If you need anything further, please let me know. I'm sure I've overlooked something obvious here; usually getting the framebuffer set up isn't this hard; but for some reason, I can't figure this one out. While this isn't a big deal, since usually the first thing I do after login is startx, it's an annoyance that I'd like cleared up; it *should* work, dammit! :-P Jake Moe This may be a bit of a long shot, but: according to the modes file you included, your monitor only actually supports 1600x900 at 59 Hz. Since you aren't specifying a refresh, uvesafb says in dmesg that it is using a default refresh. My guess is that means 60, rather than some smart value. Does anything different happen if you specify the full mode, e.g. 1600x900...@59? I'm afraid if that doesn't help I'm not likely to be much good myself. But I thought seeing that 59 there was odd, and figure it might be worth a look. -Andy Thanks for the thought. I had tried it before, but seeing how you specified it, I think I had done it wrong (1600x900-59; I was leaving the computer to try and figure out the colour depth it liked). I tried it your way as well (1600x900...@59), but that didn't work either. And just to be thorough, I tried 1600x...@59, but still no go. :-( Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stable users: libpng-1.4
On 05/07/10 17:45, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 05 July 2010 09:39:50 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:12:44 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave up on graphical logins about 15 years ago. You must have a lot of X problems to make it worth the hassle of the extra steps each you boot up. What's wrong with dropping back to a text login on the odd occasions that X or the DE fails to start? And what about this security risk: 1. lock screen 2. go away somewhere 3. ivan the russian spammer walks by, presses ctrl-alt-f1 4. ivan the russian spammer presses ctrl-c 5. ivan the russian spammer is now *you* 6. god help you if you ran sudo in the last 5 minutes Holy crap, thanks for that info, Alan. I never heard of that before when looking into console vs. GUI login. I'll have to re-think my reasons for sticking with a console login now... Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo with X
On 01/07/10 00:52, Crístian Viana wrote: What do you mean by reducing to one source tree? inside /usr/src, there may be more than one subdirectory, one for each kernel version you've ever had. you can purge the older kernel directories, just rm -rf on them. do not delete your current kernel directory: use eselect kernel list (or uname -r) to find out what's your current version. I'd use eselect to make sure you're using the latest kernel, and then use emerge --depclean to get rid of any others that are there. depclean would probably be a good idea anyway, depending on how long the system has been around, to get rid of anything that's not needed anymore. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error
On 17/06/10 20:38, Roger Mason wrote: Jake, Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com writes: I've just completed a fresh Gentoo installation on a new laptop, and strangely, after I choose the entry from the Grub screen, all I get is: Booting `Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r7` root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /kernel-2.6.32-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/sda4 [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3000, size=0x1ab020] It then sits there. No error, no other messages. The hard drive light stops, and the Num Lock and Caps Lock keys don't respond. If I press the power button, it immediately turns off. The laptop is a HP 8440p and I've installed amd64. I've followed the install guide, and the hard drive has Windows, EXT2 /boot, swap, EXT3 / on it. I've compiled EXT2, EXT3 and SATA AHCI into the kernel. Does anyone have any idea what I've forgotten or missed? If you need more info, let me know. Thanks for any help you can give. I had a similar problem about 6 weeks or so ago. It turned out that the hardware (a Dell Optiplex 320) and Grub were incompatible in some way. I installed Lilo instead, and everything now works fine. So, try searching on your specific hardware to see if this is a known problem. Roger I had tried to see if there was anything special about the hardware, but couldn't find anything. I'm still of the opinion that it's something to do with the kernel, but I've given up on amd64 (I'm not sure if I've had an amd64 Gentoo PC before) and switched back to x86, and other than forgetting SCSI disk support in the kernel for my SATA disk (which I *always* do, why can't they make SCSI disk support a requirement for SATA AHCI support?), the install went smoothly. The only other thing of note is that I seem to need to use the unstable ndivia-drivers (195.36.24), as the latest stable one (190.42-r3) produced flickering garbage on my screen when I went into X. Thanks for trying to those that did. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error
On 18/06/10 14:05, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 13:54 +1000, Jake Moe wrote: I had tried to see if there was anything special about the hardware, but couldn't find anything. I'm still of the opinion that it's something to do with the kernel, but I've given up on amd64 (I'm not sure if I've had an amd64 Gentoo PC before) and switched back to x86, and other than forgetting SCSI disk support in the kernel for my SATA disk (which I *always* do, why can't they make SCSI disk support a requirement for SATA AHCI support?), the install went smoothly. The only other thing of note is that I seem to need to use the unstable ndivia-drivers (195.36.24), as the latest stable one (190.42-r3) produced flickering garbage on my screen when I went into X. Thanks for trying to those that did. Jake Moe Did you compile your own kernel or use genkernel? Did you try using the same kernel config as the live cd (assuming that the livecd boots fine)? -a No, I was tempted to try genkernel, but again, OCD got the best of me; I like Gentoo because I tell it what I want and need, and it does that and nothing else. Genkernel, in my understand, does everything (and apparently does it pretty well), but it means that it's bigger than it needs to be. Plus, I hadn't gotten a reply back in a while, and I'm limited on time with this laptop, so I went back to that which I know better. And I thought the Live CD used genkernel; I thought that was where genkernel came from in the first place? Is it different? Jake Moe
[gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error
I've just completed a fresh Gentoo installation on a new laptop, and strangely, after I choose the entry from the Grub screen, all I get is: Booting `Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r7` root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /kernel-2.6.32-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/sda4 [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3000, size=0x1ab020] It then sits there. No error, no other messages. The hard drive light stops, and the Num Lock and Caps Lock keys don't respond. If I press the power button, it immediately turns off. The laptop is a HP 8440p and I've installed amd64. I've followed the install guide, and the hard drive has Windows, EXT2 /boot, swap, EXT3 / on it. I've compiled EXT2, EXT3 and SATA AHCI into the kernel. Does anyone have any idea what I've forgotten or missed? If you need more info, let me know. Thanks for any help you can give. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot hangs after install, no error
On 17/06/10 11:02, Alex Schuster wrote: walt writes: On 06/16/2010 04:05 PM, Jake Moe wrote: I've just completed a fresh Gentoo installation on a new laptop, and strangely, after I choose the entry from the Grub screen, all I get is: Booting `Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r7` root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /kernel-2.6.32-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/sda4 [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3000, size=0x1ab020] The only thing that looks a bit unusual is that your kernel-2.6.xxx appears to be in the root directory instead of in /boot where it usually lives. No, that's okay, I have it the same way. The root (hd0,1) statement tells grub where the boot partition is, and all other paths are relative to that. Wonko Yeah, the original e-mail I mentioned that the second partition was an EXT2 partition for /boot, and yes, as per the install instructions. I never liked the way the Gentoo install put a symlink in /boot, pointing to /boot, in case you didn't do it that way, so the Grub menu would still work as it's provided (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-xxx-etc., so I take the /boot out of the Grub menu.lst file,and delete the symlink. OCD on my part, I imagine, but it works fine on my other Gentoo installs. My first thought is that it's something in the kernel config I'm doing wrong, but I can't see anything that looks obviously wrong, and the lack of error message doesn't help things.
Re: [gentoo-user] Remotely working on Gentoo systems
On 08/06/10 16:48, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday 08 June 2010 02:14:55 Jake Moe wrote: I've got two Gentoo boxes, and would like to run X apps from both on one display. From reading up on it, it appears that while this is possible, it's also not recommended from a security standpoint, and the few HOWTOs I've found for it seem to be 4-6 years old. Can anyone tell me: Security: Yes, it is not recommended, however, if you trust everyone who can connect to your network, then it is safe enough. a) if this is a good idea in the first place, Depends on what you want to achieve. If you have only one screen and/or one machine with a decent graphics card then it does make sense. However, X is a very inefficient protocol. Eg. it can clog the network. b) should I be looking at VNC instead of remote X, Maybe, but VNC puts the remote screen in a window. c) is there another option I should be looking at, and Yes :) d) if there is a good HOWTO on setting up whichever is the best to use on a recent Gentoo system? I use X-tunneling with ssh. To get this to work, start with trying the following: (machineA has screen, machineB is screenless) on machineA # ssh -Y machineB then, on machineB, start the program you want displaying on machineA, for instance firefox. This is both easier to implement and also removes the security issues as ssh is encrypted. HTH, Joost Roeleveld j...@aus10224 ~ $ ssh -Y jhb5970 Password: Last login: Wed Jun 9 08:05:09 EST 2010 from 192.168.0.114 on pts/0 j...@jhb5970 ~ $ firefox Error: no display specified j...@jhb5970 ~ $ konqueror konqueror: cannot connect to X server j...@jhb5970 ~ $ Did I not do it right? jhb5970 is not screenless, it's a laptop, but it's easier to use only one pane of glass. I'll probably only want to do this when machineA is, say, emerging updates, but I want to do something CPU-intensive on that computer, so I can utilize the idle machineB. Make sense? Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Remotely working on Gentoo systems
On 09/06/10 09:58, Alex Schuster wrote: Jake Moe writes: j...@aus10224 ~ $ ssh -Y jhb5970 Password: Last login: Wed Jun 9 08:05:09 EST 2010 from 192.168.0.114 on pts/0 j...@jhb5970 ~ $ firefox Error: no display specified j...@jhb5970 ~ $ konqueror konqueror: cannot connect to X server j...@jhb5970 ~ $ Try echo $DISPLAY, this should give something like localhost:10.0. If it is empty, the forwarding did not work. I guess you have to set X11Forwarding to yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on jhb5970, and restart ssh with /etc/init.d/sshd restart. /etc/init.d/sshd reload should also work. Wonko Excellent, thanks for that. I had read about that config option, but it sounded like it only needed to be set if you wanted all ssh connections globally to have X11Forwarding turned on, or you use ssh -Y for a single connection. Jake Moe
[gentoo-user] Remotely working on Gentoo systems
I've got two Gentoo boxes, and would like to run X apps from both on one display. From reading up on it, it appears that while this is possible, it's also not recommended from a security standpoint, and the few HOWTOs I've found for it seem to be 4-6 years old. Can anyone tell me: a) if this is a good idea in the first place, b) should I be looking at VNC instead of remote X, c) is there another option I should be looking at, and d) if there is a good HOWTO on setting up whichever is the best to use on a recent Gentoo system? John Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge media-gfx/eog-2.30.1 fails with configure: error: conditional HAVE_LIBJPEG_80 was never defined.
On 07/06/10 07:44, Nikolay Hodyunya wrote: Hello, I'm trying to emerge gnome on my gentoo box, but It fails. Here is log. [32;01m*[0m CPV: media-gfx/eog-2.30.1 [32;01m*[0m REPO: gnome [32;01m*[0m USE: amd64 dbus elibc_glibc jpeg kernel_linux multilib python userland_GNU Unpacking source... Unpacking eog-2.30.1.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/eog-2.30.1/work Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/eog-2.30.1/work Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/eog-2.30.1/work/eog-2.30.1 ... [32;01m*[0m Fixing OMF Makefiles ... [A[161C [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m [32;01m*[0m Running elibtoolize in: eog-2.30.1 [32;01m*[0m Applying portage-2.2.patch ... [32;01m*[0m Applying sed-1.5.6.patch ... [32;01m*[0m Applying as-needed-2.2.6.patch ... Source prepared. Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/eog-2.30.1/work/eog-2.30.1 ... * econf: updating eog-2.30.1/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating eog-2.30.1/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/usr/lib64 --without-libjpeg --without-libexif --with-dbus --without-cms --enable-python --without-xmp --disable-scrollkeeper --disable-schemas-install --disable-gtk-doc checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking dependency style of x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc3 checking what warning flags to pass to the C compiler... -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes checking what language compliance flags to pass to the C compiler... checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F checking for ld used by x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm checking whether ln -s works... yes checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864 checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes checking whether the shell understands +=... yes checking for /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-objdump... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-objdump checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-strip... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-strip checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc object... ok checking how to run the C preprocessor... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for objdir... .libs checking if x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC checking if x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes checking if x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc linker (/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic
[gentoo-user] How to verify stable system after fsck corrections
The other night, my laptop decided it didn't want to start Gentoo anymore. Long story short, I ended up using fsck to fix the disk, after which it booted ok. However, the fsck was a bit destructive; at the very least, a few files from my torrents had gone corrupt. That's not a big deal; Vuze lets me re-check all my torrents to make sure they're ok, and I've re-downloaded the bits that weren't. More worrysome is what other files may be corrupt from the exercise. My question is: is there a way that Portage can compare what's currently on the hard disk with what it installed, and do some sort of checksum verification on it? I'm going to assume not, unless I had already generated my own checksums. In that case, is the safest bet to do an emerge -e world, and let it rebuild everything? Or is there an easier (i.e., shorter) way of doing it? Thanks for your help. Jake Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] How to verify stable system after fsck corrections
On 01/06/10 21:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:46:33 +1000, Jake Moe wrote: My question is: is there a way that Portage can compare what's currently on the hard disk with what it installed, and do some sort of checksum verification on it? Portage records a checksum for each file it installs, that's how it known not to delete files that were not installed by the ebuild it is unmerging. equery has an option to check packages against these equery check --only-failures '*' Note that it will show failures on any files that have been modified since installation, such as configuration and data files, so you'll have to check these manually, but if a library or executable shows up you almost certainly have a problem. Thanks for that Neil. Sounds like just what I need. However, when I run it, I get: j...@jhb5970 ~ $ equery check --only-failures '*' !!! unknown local option --only-failures, ignoring !!! Invalid Atom: '' j...@jhb5970 ~ $ equery check '*' !!! Invalid Atom: '' j...@jhb5970 ~ $ Is the '*' atom spec a new Portage feature? I haven't switched to the new Portage yet, I'm still using stable. Maybe it's time I bite the bullet and upgrade... John Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Issue
On 05/20/10 01:06, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 07:14:35AM -0400, CJoeB wrote: Hi, I had wireless working just fine back when I was using the 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 kernel. Since upgrading to the 2.6.30 series of kernels, I haven't been able to get it working. I was using the ipw3945 driver, but this driver needs TKIP and something else (don't remember what) set in the cryptographic section of the kernel source. I can't seem to find where that is located, if it is in the kernel that I am currently running - 2.6.31-gentoo-r10. I've tried using the corresponding driver within the kernel, but I still get told that my wireless connection does not exist and that I should verify the hardware or kernel module driver. I have also always used wireless-tools. I know wpa_supplicant is supposed to be better because you can enable WEP encryption, but I tried to set that up too and I still get told that my wireless connection does not exist and that I should verify the hardware or kernel module driver. I'd be happy just using wireless-tools if I could get the ipw3945 driver to build, but can't without TKIP. Does anyone know if this setting has been taken out of the kernel source or if it is just located in some obsure place that I can't find? Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org I'm sorry if I'm mistaken, or if this comes across as awfully rude but didn't you ask the same question back in March? Did you have a look at the replies from then to see if that could help with this issue? Also you can search within the kernel by entering '/' a search field will come up, and if you know part of the name (past thread of same title should reveal that), you should be able to locate it. Hope it helps After you built your new kernel, did you re-emerge iwl3945-ucode? I usually forgot that step when upgrading my kernel (along with nvidia-drivers). I believe if you look in /var/log/messages, you'll see a message about missing microcode if this is the case. Also, I use wireless-tools just fine with mine, and it's running 2.6.31-r10 (I keep meaning to upgrade my kernel to the latest stable). John Moe
