[gentoo-user] repair damaged pdf?
Dear all
What is your experience with corrupted PDF files? Do you know any tool
that can attempt to repair damaged PDF files? Does it make any sense
to edit a PDF file in hex mode?
I have a damaged PDF that cannot be opened with any of the about 10
tools that I've just tried.
liv@liv-laptop:/tmp$ pdf2ps Class\ 1.pdf
Warning: File has a corrupted %%EOF marker, or garbage after %%EOF.
Warning: An error occurred while reading an XREF table.
The file has been damaged. This may have been caused
by a problem while converting or transfering the file.
Ghostscript will attempt to recover the data.
Error: /typecheck in --run--
Operand stack:
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- 1
Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval--
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1878
1 3 %oparray_pop 1877 1 3 %oparray_pop 1861 1 3
%oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval--
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
--dict:1155/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:1/20(G)-- --dict:75/200(L)--
--dict:75/200(L)-- --dict:108/127(ro)(G)-- --dict:288/300(ro)(G)--
--dict:20/25(L)-- --dict:1/10(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
GPL Ghostscript 8.71: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
liv@liv-laptop:/tmp$ pdftops Class\ 1.pdf
Error: PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table...
Error: Top-level pages object is wrong type (null)
Error: Couldn't read page catalog
Any ideas how I could try to repair it? (It's not sensitive and it's
small, so I could post it.) I tried pdftk, but it also fails.
liv@liv-laptop:/tmp$ pdftk Class\ 1.pdf output Class\ 11.pdf
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader$PageRefs.iteratePages(itext-2.1.7.jar.so)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader$PageRefs.readPages(itext-2.1.7.jar.so)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader$PageRefs.init(itext-2.1.7.jar.so)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader$PageRefs.init(itext-2.1.7.jar.so)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader.readPages(itext-2.1.7.jar.so)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader.readPdf(itext-2.1.7.jar.so)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader.init(itext-2.1.7.jar.so)
at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader.init(itext-2.1.7.jar.so)
Error: Unexpected Exception in open_reader()
Error: Failed to open PDF file:
Class 1.pdf
Errors encountered. No output created.
Done. Input errors, so no output created.
Regards
Liviu
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Re: [gentoo-user] repair damaged pdf?
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: You can also try pdfclean in case it reads it, from the package pap-text/mupdf It does seem to input it, since it outputed a non-null file, but it also seems corrupted: /usr/local/build/mupdf-0.8.15-linux-amd64/pdfclean /tmp/Class 1.pdf (1173) + mupdf/pdf_xref.c:63: pdf_readstartxref(): cannot find startxref | mupdf/pdf_xref.c:493: pdf_loadxref(): cannot read startxref \ mupdf/pdf_xref.c:549: pdf_openxrefwithstream(): trying to repair warning: object missing 'endobj' token /usr/local/build/mupdf-0.8. ... /pdfclean /tmp/Class 1.pdf (1173) returned '0' liv@liv-laptop:/tmp$ pdftops out.pdf Error: Top-level pages object is wrong type (null) Error: Couldn't read page catalog Regards Liviu
[gentoo-user] which file is currently being written to disk?
Dear all Is there some utility (console or otherwise) that could indicate me NOT the output/input read/write and miscellanea, but simply which files are currently being written to the disk. Sometimes my browser (Opera) downloads some big temporary files, and usually I have a difficult time locating them. I've tried lsof | grep opera but the output is messy and not really helpful. Any other ideas? Regards Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for pdftk
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote: Any suggestions for a good command line tool to manage PDFs like pdftk (split (burst) a PDF, combine two or more PDFs, Rotate PDFs and so on)? http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/26/pdf-linux Liviu
[gentoo-user] Re: xfce: unable to perform shutdown
On 1/4/10, José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote: When shutting down my ~amd64 gentoo system running XFCE, the system does not shut down and I receive the following error message, and then the XFCE session is closed. Unable to perform shutdown error: org.freedesktop.Hal.Error: Could not determine whether caller is privileged org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Error Any clues? Yes. Something similar is happening on amd64 Debian systems (see [1][2]). The only workaround that I'm aware of sofar is to make sure no root programs are running when hitting the shutdown/restart button. Liviu [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-xfce-devel/2009-April/008492.html [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-u...@lists.debian.org/msg553778.html
[gentoo-user] generic command monitor
Dear all, I'm looking for a command-line alternative to xfce4-genmon [1]. The latter takes a command (executable), executes it every specified period and displays the output in Xfce's panel. I'm looking for a small utility (script) that can do this in the console: take a command, re-run it regularly, print the output. Any suggestions? Thank you, Liviu [1] http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-genmon-plugin -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: [gentoo-user] generic command monitor
On 6/8/09, Mike Kazantsev mk.frag...@gmail.com wrote: watch(1) (part of sys-process/procps) Perfect. Thank you Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: [gentoo-user] corrupted start-up services (and file-system)
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: This is almost certainly disk corruption. Boot from a CD and do an fsck on all disk volumes And maybe do a backup first, in case fsck messes up things worse than before. Luckily this wasn't needed. I did the checks using Gparted (on its own LivecD), and it corrected a handful of errors. Now the system seems to boot fine. Thanks all, Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Vasya Volkov my.pipes.b...@gmail.com wrote: Here: 01.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, MPEG Layer 3, stereo 48000 Hz An idea: try to convert it with soundcoverter (or sox, or whatever) to .wav, and try to load the new .wav in audacity. Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
[gentoo-user] boot gentoo in 5 seconds?
Dear all, Today I stumbled on several posts [1] [2] concerning start-up speed of Linux. Compared with the 5-17 secs posted in the posts, my (slightly old) Gentoo needs around two minutes from power button to DE idle. Are there any developments in Gentoo concerning this? Thanks, Liviu [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/ [2] http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ubuntu-904-boots-in-175-seconds/
Re: [gentoo-user] boot gentoo in 5 seconds?
2009/4/20 Sebastián Magrí sebasma...@gmail.com: There are a few tweaks one can do to speed up things... Such as.. -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: [gentoo-user] pdf thumbnailer
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: You can use convert from imagemagick to resize to thumbnail size and save as a different file format. I knew about convert, but I was looking for smth batch, and it's imagemagick's mogrify [1]. For personal use, I defined in emelFM2's custom menu the following: Convert *.pdf graphs to %p/*.png||false|false|mogrify|-format png -path %p *.pdf Now each time I need the PNGs, while in the source folder (with *.pdf) I select the destination folder (for future *.png) and run the custom command. Now I can easily browse the images with any image viewer. Thanks all for the suggestions, Liviu [1] http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#mogrify -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Vasya Volkov my.pipes.b...@gmail.com wrote: Audacity doesn't support .wav file format. I mean it doesn't convert .wav to mp3, ogg, etc... Soundconverter strange programm. I tried to convert my wav files to mp3 with it and size of files that I get was 20 Mb and more (same with wav files). Cannot confirm all this here. Soundconverter inputs: Item: /tmp/temp/Brigada-orig.mp3 Type: Audio file with ID3 version 24.0 tag, MP3 encoding Mime: audio/mpeg Size: 3,313,924 bytes converted to Item: /tmp/temp/Brigada.wav Type: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 32 bit, stereo 44100 Hz Mime: audio/x-wav Size: 73,036,844 bytes Then Item: /tmp/temp/Brigada.wav Type: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 32 bit, stereo 44100 Hz Mime: audio/x-wav Size: 73,036,844 bytes converted to Item: /tmp/temp/Brigada.mp3 Type: Audio file with ID3 version 24.0 tag, MP3 encoding Mime: audio/mpeg Size: 3,381,240 bytes I suggest that you check your quality options. Audacity opens: Item: /tmp/temp/Brigada.wav Type: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 32 bit, stereo 44100 Hz Mime: audio/x-wav Size: 73,036,844 bytes then *exports* (do not use save project as) Item: /tmp/temp/Brigada.ogg Type: Ogg data, Vorbis audio, stereo, 44100 Hz, ~192000 bps, created by: Xiph.Org libVorbis I Mime: application/ogg Size: 4,600,477 bytes Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Vasya Volkov my.pipes.b...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. But audacity writes to me that it doesn't recognize my wav format. Maybe I have really different form of this format? How can I get informatin about format of my files? `file music.wav' -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
[gentoo-user] corrupted start-up services (and file-system)
Hello all, I have a (nasty) issue with the system start-up, and probably with corrupted file-system. On start-up, I get several error messages (see below). I suspect I started having these messages after Gentoo crashed once, but I couldn't recall the actual circumstances. The problem is that, for example, MPD will not remember it's last state before shutdown, and will be unable to recover the it's last state. I have no idea where to start correcting the issue; any ideas welcome. Thanks, Liviu Start-up messags: ln: accessing `/var/lib/init.d/started/rmnologin': Permission denied ln: accessing `/var/lib/init.d/started/udev-postmount': Permission denied * Initializing random number generator ... [ ok ] ln: accessing `/var/lib/init.d/started/urandom': Permission denied [ ok ] * Starting laptop_mode ... touch: cannot touch `/var/run/laptop-mode-enabled': Permission denied [ ok ] ln: accessing `/var/lib/init.d/started/laptop_mode': Permission denied ln: accessing `/var/lib/init.d/started/rmnologin': Permission denied * Initializing random number generator ... [ ok ] ln: accessing `/var/lib/init.d/started/urandom': Permission denied * Starting Webmin ... [ ok ] * Starting local ... [ ok ] ln: accessing `/var/lib/init.d/started/local': Permission denied Trying to see what's about these files, I get this: localhost liviu # ls /var/lib/init.d/started/ -la ls: cannot access /var/lib/init.d/started/mpd: Permission denied ls: cannot access /var/lib/init.d/started/local: Permission denied ls: cannot access /var/lib/init.d/started/laptop_mode: Permission denied ls: cannot access /var/lib/init.d/started/urandom: Permission denied ls: cannot access /var/lib/init.d/started/rmnologin: Permission denied ls: cannot access /var/lib/init.d/started/udev-postmount: Permission denied total 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 832 2009-04-19 17:33 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 488 2009-04-19 17:33 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2009-04-19 17:32 acpid - /etc/init.d/acpid lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2009-04-19 17:32 alsasound - /etc/init.d/alsasound lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2009-04-19 17:33 apache2 - /etc/init.d/apache2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2009-04-19 17:32 bootmisc - /etc/init.d/bootmisc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2009-04-19 17:32 checkfs - /etc/init.d/checkfs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2009-04-19 17:32 checkroot - /etc/init.d/checkroot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2009-04-19 17:32 clock - /etc/init.d/clock lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2009-04-19 17:32 consolefont - /etc/init.d/consolefont lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2009-04-19 17:33 cupsd - /etc/init.d/cupsd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2009-04-19 17:32 dbus - /etc/init.d/dbus lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2009-04-19 17:33 dictd - /etc/init.d/dictd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2009-04-19 17:32 gpm - /etc/init.d/gpm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2009-04-19 17:32 hald - /etc/init.d/hald lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2009-04-19 17:32 hostname - /etc/init.d/hostname lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2009-04-19 17:32 keymaps - /etc/init.d/keymaps ?? ? ?? ?? laptop_mode ?? ? ?? ?? local lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2009-04-19 17:32 localmount - /etc/init.d/localmount lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2009-04-19 17:32 modules - /etc/init.d/modules ?? ? ?? ?? mpd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2009-04-19 17:32 net.eth0 - /etc/init.d/net.eth0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2009-04-19 17:32 net.eth1 - /etc/init.d/net.eth1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2009-04-19 17:32 net.lo - /etc/init.d/net.lo ?? ? ?? ?? rmnologin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2009-04-19 17:32 syslog-ng - /etc/init.d/syslog-ng ?? ? ?? ?? udev-postmount ?? ? ?? ?? urandom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2009-04-19 17:33 webmin - /etc/init.d/webmin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2009-04-19 17:32 wicd - /etc/init.d/wicd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2009-04-19 17:32 xdm - /etc/init.d/xdm
[gentoo-user] pdf thumbnailer
Guys, Does anyone know a .pdf thumbnailer? I work in R, and I save my graphs in PDF format (quality, compatibility, etc.). However one culprit is that it is cumbersome to navigate .pdf files; it ain't similar to opening all images in an image viewer (say, mirage), and switching from one image to another. To work around, I'm currently using Thunar in Icon view with max zoom-in, but I'd still prefer a less hack-ish solution. If you know of any, please post it here. Best, Liviu
Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Vasya Volkov my.pipes.b...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. Can you suggest some simple program which can make these functions: 1).ape,.cue splitting 2)converting flac/ape/wav to ogg mp3 etc. 3)cutting parts of audio files? Please with overlay if one there is. There are: media-sound/soundconverter media-sound/audacity Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
[gentoo-user] SLiM fails to load Fluxbox
Dear all, I'm using x11-misc/slim as a login manager, and I have troubles with loading any DE other than Xfce. I've followed the wiki entry [1], but I must still be doing something wrong: it fails to load Fluxbox whether I select Fluxbox or Xfce with F1. It's actually quite funny: selecting Fluxbox I get Xfce loaded on top of Fluxbox; in this case, when I log out of Xfce I fall back onto Fluxbox. I suspect that an xfce entry is left in some init script, but i cannot figure out where it would be. Thanks, Liviu [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/SLiM [I] x11-misc/slim Installed versions: 1.3.1-r5(16:01:49 08/04/09)(branding pam screenshot) [I] x11-wm/fluxbox Installed versions: 1.0.0-r2(15:08:30 12/10/08)(gnome imlib nls slit toolbar truetype -kde -vim-syntax -xinerama) li...@localhost ~ $ rc-status default | grep -i xdm xdm[ started ] li...@localhost ~ $ cat /etc/conf.d/xdm | grep -i slim DISPLAYMANAGER=slim li...@localhost ~ $ cat .xinitrc #SLiM session call DEFAULT_SESSION=dbus-launch startxfce4 case $1 in fluxbox) exec startfluxbox ;; *) exec $DEFAULT_SESSION ;; esac # load local modmap test -r $HOME/.Xmodmap xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap li...@localhost ~ $ cat /etc/slim.conf | grep -i login_cmd login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session li...@localhost ~ $ cat /etc/slim.conf | grep -i sessions sessionsxfce,fluxbox li...@localhost ~ $ cat /etc/slim.conf | grep -i sessionst #sessionstart_cmd /usr/bin/sessreg -a -l :0.0 %user #sessionstop_cmd /usr/bin/sessreg -d -l :0.0 %user
Re: [gentoo-user] SLiM fails to load Fluxbox
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: li...@localhost ~ $ cat .xinitrc #SLiM session call DEFAULT_SESSION=dbus-launch startxfce4 ^^ This sets DEFAULT_SESSION to dbus-launch and then executes startxfce4. That would explain why you have fluxbox and xfce both started simultaneously. You need to put the whole thing in quotes, like so: DEFAULT_SESSION=dbus-launch startxfce4 That's news to me. Now it works fine. I also put the info in the wiki article. Thanks. Liviu
[gentoo-user] on-line info on masked packages
Dear all, Where can I find on-line information about masked packages, basically the current /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask? It seems no such info is either here [1], here [2] or here [3]. I'd like to know why the package is masked prior to syncing Portage. Thanks, Liviu [1] http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-libs/webkit-gtk [2] http://gentoo-portage.com/net-libs/webkit-gtk [3] http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/net-libs/webkit-gtk/?hideattic=0
Re: [gentoo-user] on-line info on masked packages
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: No need to look online, the comments in the file seem to contain the information you want: I am asking for the case where my tree is *not* yet synced with the most current available official tree. How can one find this file/information without syncing? # Markus Ullmann jo...@gentoo.org (5 Apr 2009) # mask until gnome 2.26 is in-tree (needs libsoup 2.26) =www-client/midori-0.1.5 =net-libs/webkit-gtk-0_p42000 Thanks. I was looking for this info. Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: [gentoo-user] simple firewall
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:24 AM, gigli gi...@swipnet.se wrote: kmyfirewall and others, didn't really like them. Something like ufw would be nice. The other day I filed a bug report for gufw [1], but there's no ebuild sofar. Liviu [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264912 -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations?
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I use Kbackup and then k3b to burn them. Works well so far. Just On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: DAR - http://dar.linux.free.fr/. There is also a gui, kdar. Are there GUIs not depending on KDE? -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge R
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: draws charts, graphs, applies coloration, interesting stuff. I may end up using RapidMiner - also Open Source but I think it's not in portage - as it's more of a GUI environment vs R which is sort of command line driven. Although clearly under-developed, there are various GUIs for R. Couple of links below: http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/ http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=guides:stats-with-r:01intro-to-r#gui_--_or_lack_thereof http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:using-gui:find_gui Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: [gentoo-user] perfect IDE
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:51 AM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: ide for c/c++ code writing. I've been through vim/vim + plugins/emacs + different modes/anjuta/kdevelop/codeblocks/eclipse/netbeans ... I've heard some good things about komodo, though it's not open source and I've not used it. Komodo IDE is indeed closesource, but Komodo Edit seems LGPLed. There's an ebuild on bugzilla [1]. Another package missing your list is Geany [2]. It's less fancy, but you might appreciate its being simple. Liviu [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171944 [2] http://www.geany.org/ -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} xfce4 network management?
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf editing while traveling. Does There's also wpa_gui. Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: [gentoo-user] mp3/ogg editing
There is media-sound/mp3splt-gtk [1], but it's for splitting only: a GTK+ based utility to split mp3 and ogg files without decoding. Never managed to get it working, though. I would suggest that you raise the question on a more specialised ML, for example the Audacity ML. Perhaps they'd suggest an alternative, or even be willing to implement this.. Liviu [1] http://gentoo-portage.com/media-sound/mp3splt-gtk On 11/29/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Fred, no problem...I am also no native english speaker...so, well, may be it is my english not yours what screws up things a little... :) MP3/OGG are audio codecs, which are lossy. Means: If you encode a wav-file to mp3, than decode this one again back to wav there is some sound loss. Audacity is -- as far as I understood -- only able to edit wav files. Therefore it has to decode the mp3 to wav before editing. If one wants a mp3 again from this wav file, the above has to be aplied and you will loose sound quality. There are ways to edit/cut/append mp3 files directly whitout deocding them (dont ask me for details here) therefore these editors, which are specialized in mp3/ogg editing, are able to edit/cut/apped mp3 files as often as you wish without loosing sound quality. Audacity is one to edit wav files directly but not mp3/ogg files -- as far as I know HTH Keep hacking! :) mcc -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting of USB drives
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about the gnome-volume-manager? (If you use Gnome)... Or thunar-volman? (If you use Xfce)... -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Busted
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Beau Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As of late ( past couple of weeks ), I've been having trouble with flash. Nothing seems to work. Youtube, google video, lastfm doesn't have the little What version of flash are you using? Here net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36-r1 (in Opera and SeaMonkey) black-outs everything. Didn't yet do so, but I'd suggest downgrading to 9.0.151.0. I'm currently on Gnash, but it is still well alpha. Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
[gentoo-user] howto downgrade to opera 9.52 ?
Dear all, I'm currently experiencing problems with Opera 9.6x. Although per all the builds are blistering fasts, they consistently cause temporary lock-ups on sites like Gmail or Reuters (probably flash related, but i'm not sure of this). I would like to downgrade to 9.52, but I no longer have the ebuilds accessible in Portage; renaming current ebuilds was of little help. Is there a way to retrieve old ebuilds, after removal from Portage? Thank you, Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: [gentoo-user] howto downgrade to opera 9.52 ?
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/www-client/opera/?hideattic=0 Thanks. Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-intel-2.5.0 emerge error
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Markos Chandras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could try upgrade xorg-server too . If this doesnt fix your problem, i would suggest filling a bug on gentoo bugzilla :) Even better would be to opt for emerge -DNu package (unless you already did so). Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: [gentoo-user] gimp-9999 failed to compile
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Nickolay Hodyunya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but it seems 0.0.21 is not even released, because there is no files to fetch from ftp.gimp.org for this version. Dunno, perhaps they rely on SVN version. I would try to compile the code manually, and see if the GIMP ./configure complains. Liviu
Re: [gentoo-user] gimp-9999 failed to compile
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Nickolay Hodyunya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to compile latest gimp from svn, but it fail because gegl version in ports is 0.0.20 but gimp- requires =0.0.21. Have I any chance to see this version in ports tree? Did you try renaming the gegl ebuild to smth like 0.0.21, in /usr/local overlay, and emerging it? Liviu
Re: [gentoo-user] New intel xorg-server USE flag
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see there is a new intel USE flag for xorg-server. I also see (-i810%*) which may be due to my hardened profile? Should I change VIDEO_CARDS=i810 to intel? I have this in the laptop's lspci: Intel Corporation 82801H. Please search recent posts. Liviu
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-wiki.com - Needs your help!
On 10/24/08, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please read the latest news @ www.gentoo-wiki.com We can't. It's down. Here it opens. Perhaps try this: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ Liviu
Re: [gentoo-user] What heppined with intel driver in xorg?
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Alexander Kuprijanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi After my last emerge --sync I see -intel% (-i810%) in VIDEO_CARDS What happined if I'll reinstall mesa and xorg-server? Does my onboard intel vodeocard will work after this update? The i810 driver was recently renamed to intel. After the upgrade, if you have problems starting X, put intel in xorg.conf. Please search the archives; there was a recent thread on this. Liviu
Re: [gentoo-user] AbiWord 2.6.4 build failure
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Fabrice Delliaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please try again with the following new patch (replace the older one with it) : Worked like a charm. Please see the relevant bug report [1]. Liviu [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243448
Re: [gentoo-user] Another Abiword build failure
Hello Erik, First two questions that come to me: - did you already emerge -DNu abiword and - did you try with the -gnome USE flag? Liviu On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Erik Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm unsuccesfully trying to compile app-office/abiword-2.6.4. The error is a different one than in the other thread, though. I hope somebody of you has a clue what's wrong and how I can fix it.
Re: [gentoo-user] AbiWord 2.6.4 build failure
Hello, On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Fabrice Delliaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you please upload this Makefile somewhere and give us a link for download ? Something in your build environment is probably interfering with some variables defined in this Makefile. And also : somewhere in /var/tmp/portage/app-office/abiword you should have a file called *environment* or *environment.bz2* I've just uploaded the two files: Makefile: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=02299843822915416335 Environment: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=05207412456599355087 I also added emerge --info output below. Liviu localhost liviu # emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22-gentoo-r5-0.2 i686) = System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r5-0.2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz Timestamp of tree: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:45:04 + ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 CBUILD=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles FEATURES=ccache collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo; LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 MAKEOPTS=-j1 PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage USE=X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aiglx alsa amr audiofile bash-completion bitmap-fonts bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus ddloader directfb dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode fam flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv imagemagick ipv6 isdnlog javascript jpeg kerberos kpathsea lame ldap libcaca libnotify lyx mad matroska midi mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection scanner sdl seamonkey session slang spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd texlive threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vcd vidix vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf x264 x86 xfce xml xorg xv xvid zlib ALSA_CARDS=ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS=adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol APACHE2_MODULES=actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias ELIBC=glibc INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse synaptics evdev KERNEL=linux LCD_DEVICES=bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text LIRC_DEVICES=all USERLAND=GNU VIDEO_CARDS=i810 vesa fbdev v4l Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail (http://s000.tinyupload.com/?del_id=96046955341935787829 http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?del_id=08873273853539429570)
Re: [gentoo-user] AbiWord 2.6.4 build failure
Hello Fabrice, Thanks for taking a look, and for the patch. On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Fabrice Delliaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Makefile: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=02299843822915416335 You probably upload the wrong file. This can't be this one. I also have a GNUmakefile [3] file. Perhaps this is the one. If it fix the problem, you should open a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org, with your emerge --info, the build log when it fails, and the patch. Unfortunately it did not, and failed at the exact same spot: GNUmakefile:964: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop.. Here are the tweaked ebuild [2] that I used, and the GNUmakefile [3]. The funny thing about the error message, concerning [3], I suppose, is that the file has no 964 line. It ends at 886. [2] http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=69162862283435311671 [3] http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=65647828039080848641 Is there other information that could be of help? Liviu ## localhost dwn # emerge -va =abiword-2.6.4 [..] [ebuild U ] app-office/abiword-2.6.4 [2.4.6] USE=spell xml -debug -gnome 0 kB [0=1] ### It's well taking the local overlay ebuild [..] Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage [1] /usr/local/portage [..] Unpacking abiword-2.6.4.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/app-office/abiword-2.6.4/work * Applying fix-build.patch ... [ ok ]###second confirmation Source unpacked. Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/app-office/abiword-2.6.4/work/abiword-2.6.4 ... ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --disable-debug --disable-symbols --disable-gnomeui --disable-gucharmap --disable-gnomevfs --enable-spellcheck --with-libxml2 --without-expat --disable-libabiword --enable-printing --enable-threads --disable-scripting --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu ## -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: [gentoo-user] AbiWord 2.6.4 build failure
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MAKEOPTS=-j1 I tried both MAKEOPTS=-j1 and #MAKEOPTS=-j1, with +gnome and -gnome, to no avail; it errors at the same spot: GNUmakefile:964: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop. I will post below the configuration options reported by Portage; perhaps it contains clues. Liviu ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --disable-debug --disable-symbols --disable-gnomeui --disable-gucharmap --disable-gnomevfs --enable-spellcheck --with-libxml2 --without-expat --disable-libabiword --enable-printing --enable-threads --disable-scripting --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu 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 for i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++... i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ accepts -g... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++... gcc3 checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking dependency style of i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc3 checking for library containing strerror... none required checking how to run the C preprocessor... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -E checking CFLAGS... -O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer checking CXXFLAGS... -O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether ln -s works... yes checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -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 long int... yes checking size of long int... 4 checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-pkg-config... no checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for printing support... true checking for GLIB... yes checking for GMODULE... yes checking for GTHREAD... yes checking for GTK... yes checking for PANGOFT2... yes checking for X... libraries , headers checking for gethostbyname... yes checking for connect... yes checking for remove... yes checking for shmat... yes checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes checking for GNOMEPRINT... yes checking for FREETYPE... yes checking whether binary relocation support should be enabled... no checking iconv.h usability... yes checking iconv.h presence... yes checking for iconv.h... yes checking for XFT... yes checking for GSF... yes checking for GSF_HTTP... yes checking for GOFFICE... yes checking for SPELL... yes checking for FRIBIDI... yes checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes checking limits.h usability... yes checking limits.h presence... yes checking for limits.h... yes checking for strings.h... (cached) yes checking sys/time.h usability... yes checking sys/time.h presence... yes checking for sys/time.h... yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking malloc.h usability... yes checking malloc.h presence... yes checking for malloc.h... yes checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for size_t... yes checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no checking for xml2-config... /usr/bin/xml2-config checking for WV... yes checking zlib.h usability... yes checking zlib.h presence... yes checking for zlib.h... yes checking for LIBPNG... yes checking popt.h usability... yes checking popt.h presence... yes checking for popt.h... yes checking for libjpeg checking for jpeg_start_decompress in -ljpeg... yes checking jpeglib.h usability... yes checking jpeglib.h presence... yes checking for jpeglib.h... yes checking for working alloca.h... yes checking for alloca... yes checking return type of signal handlers... void checking whether scandir select requires const struct dirent... yes checking for valgrind... valgrind checking valgrind/memcheck.h usability... yes checking valgrind/memcheck.h
Re: [gentoo-user] AbiWord 2.6.4 build failure
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Arttu V. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/18/08, Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/portage PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage I don't really know an answer, but I'm curious about what has been attempted with these two lines. Would it work better without overlays, i.e., by commenting these two out? Well, doing so (#PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage) I did get a different error message. Same spot, but now Portage tells me: ## Build debug ## * * ERROR: app-office/abiword-2.6.4 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 3299: Called gnome2_src_compile * environment, line 2312: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die compile failure * The die message: * compile failure * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-office/abiword-2.6.4/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-office/abiword-2.6.4/temp/environment'. * This ebuild used the following eclasses from overlays: * /usr/portage/eclass/alternatives.eclass * /usr/portage/eclass/eutils.eclass * /usr/portage/eclass/multilib.eclass * /usr/portage/eclass/toolchain-funcs.eclass * /usr/portage/eclass/portability.eclass * /usr/portage/eclass/gnome2.eclass * /usr/portage/eclass/fdo-mime.eclass * /usr/portage/eclass/libtool.eclass * /usr/portage/eclass/gnome.org.eclass * /usr/portage/eclass/gnome2-utils.eclass * /usr/portage/eclass/versionator.eclass * ## End of build debug ## Ideas, anyone? Liviu
Re: [gentoo-user] AbiWord 2.6.4 build failure
On 10/19/08, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is your portage tree stored? In /usr/portage I guess, so remove this PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/portage or replace it with PORTDIR=/usr/portage but this is not needed as it is default. Regarding PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage if you have overlays there you should remove the # comment. I suggest you to read this [1] and the portage man pages again carefully. Thank you for the hints. Liviu -- --- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: [gentoo-user] AbiWord 2.6.4 build failure
On 10/19/08, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. ^^^ You did not do this. You posted the bottommost error. Well, the error message essentially didn't change from my first posting, so the second time I posted only the diff. Below is the topmost error; if not, please tell me how you would expect it to be. Thank you, Liviu make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-office/abiword-2.6.4/work/abiword-2.6.4/src/af/xap/xp' Making all in unix make[4]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-office/abiword-2.6.4/work/abiword-2.6.4/src/af/xap/unix' GNUmakefile:964: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop. make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-office/abiword-2.6.4/work/abiword-2.6.4/src/af/xap/unix' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-office/abiword-2.6.4/work/abiword-2.6.4/src/af/xap' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-office/abiword-2.6.4/work/abiword-2.6.4/src/af' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-office/abiword-2.6.4/work/abiword-2.6.4/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 * * ERROR: app-office/abiword-2.6.4 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 3298: Called gnome2_src_compile * environment, line 2311: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die compile failure * The die message: * compile failure #
[gentoo-user] AbiWord 2.6.4 build failure
Dear Gentoo users, The latest Portage-stable AbiWord refuses to compile on my system, with either + or -gnome. (Currently I have the old 2.4.6 fully functional.) I am in the process of an emerge world, so all the dependencies of AbiWord are already up-to-date, plus several were rebuilt recently (like goffice). Not sure whether necessary, but ./.configure complained, so I installed dev-util/valgrind. I also tried this suggestion by CJoeB, to re-emerge XML-Parser, but to no avail. Below you will find the messages towards the error. Could anyone suggest a work around? Thank you, Liviu x11-libs/goffice 0.4.3(0.4)(17:42:58 18/10/08)(-debug -doc -gnome) 0.6.4(0.6)(20:33:23 19/08/08)(-debug -doc -gnome) ## Build debug ## mv -f .deps/xap_Dlg_ListDocuments.Tpo .deps/xap_Dlg_ListDocuments.Po mv -f .deps/xap_Dlg_History.Tpo .deps/xap_Dlg_History.Po mv -f .deps/xap_Dlg_DocComparison.Tpo .deps/xap_Dlg_DocComparison.Po rm -f libXap_xp.a ar cru libXap_xp.a xap_Dlg_Print.o xap_Dlg_PrintPreview.o xad_Document.o xap_App.o xap_AppImpl.o xap_Args.o xap_Clipboard.o xap_Dialog.o xap_DialogFactory.o xap_Dictionary.o xap_Dlg_About.o xap_Dlg_ClipArt.o xap_Dlg_FileOpenSaveAs.o xap_Dlg_FontChooser.o xap_Dlg_HTMLOptions.o xap_Dlg_Language.o xap_Dlg_Image.o xap_Dlg_MessageBox.o xap_Dlg_Password.o xap_Dlg_PluginManager.o xap_Dlg_WindowMore.o xap_Dlg_Zoom.o xap_Dlg_Insert_Symbol.o xap_Dlg_Encoding.o xap_FakeClipboard.o xap_FontPreview.o xap_Frame.o xap_FrameImpl.o xap_InputModes.o xap_LoadBindings.o xap_Log.o xap_Module.o xap_ModuleManager.o xap_Prefs.o xap_Preview.o xap_Preview_Zoom.o xap_Draw_Symbol.o xap_Scrollbar_ViewListener.o xap_Strings.o xap_StatusBar.o xap_Toolbar_ControlFactory.o xap_ViewListener.o xav_View.o xap_EncodingManager.o xap_Dlg_ListDocuments.o xap_Dlg_History.o xap_Dlg_DocComparison.o i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib libXap_xp.a make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-office/abiword-2.6.4/work/abiword-2.6.4/src/af/xap/xp' Making all in unix make[4]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-office/abiword-2.6.4/work/abiword-2.6.4/src/af/xap/unix' GNUmakefile:964: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop. make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-office/abiword-2.6.4/work/abiword-2.6.4/src/af/xap/unix' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-office/abiword-2.6.4/work/abiword-2.6.4/src/af/xap' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-office/abiword-2.6.4/work/abiword-2.6.4/src/af' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-office/abiword-2.6.4/work/abiword-2.6.4/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 * * ERROR: app-office/abiword-2.6.4 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 3299: Called gnome2_src_compile * environment, line 2312: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die compile failure * The die message: * compile failure * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-office/abiword-2.6.4/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-office/abiword-2.6.4/temp/environment'. * ## End of build debug ## On Sat, Feb 9, 2008 at 2:59 PM, CJoeB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why all of a sudden can't I compile goffice without gnome? Thanks, not necessary. I think I solved it. I just re-emerged XML-Parser. and things seem to be okay.
Re: [gentoo-user] AbiWord 2.6.4 build failure
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Fabrice Delliaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's the content of your make.conf please ?
# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically
built this stage
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example
CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu
MAKEOPTS=-j3
FEATURES=sandbox ccache userfetch parallel-fetch collision-protect
PORTAGE_NICENESS=15
#PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/tmp
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/portage
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage
#Xorg specific
INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse synaptics evdev
VIDEO_CARDS=i810 vesa fbdev v4l
#lirc specific
#LIRC_DEVICES=-devinput -inputlirc -parallel -serial sir
LIRC_DEVICES=all
USE=-arts -berkdb -emboss -kde -mikmod audiofile -motif slang flac \
-theora vcd a52 aac xvid mmx imagemagick vidix tiff bzip2 \
bash-completion wmf sse sse2 -esd cdda cddb dvd -speex -physfs \
bitmap-fonts truetype-fonts type1-fonts svg aiglx wifi lame \
threads x264 matroska vorbis -xinerama nsplugin -xosd amr javascript \
dri hal ddloader scanner libnotify libcaca aalib pdf sqlite texlive \
lyx kpathsea directfb seamonkey -firefox -eds xfce -evo cdparanoia
#SANE_BACKENDS=the_name_of_your_backend_goes_here
#source /usr/local/portage/layman/make.conf
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=save save_summary echo
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES=warn error info log
Liviu
Re: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console
Hello, On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The login manager slim, which is started in daemon mode, get killed when X is left by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (zapping X) -- there is a fallback to the login of the root console instead of getting a new login screen of slim. How can I prevent this? I use x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim % /dev/null in /etc/inittab, instead of /etc/init.d/xdm. This seems to solve the issue. SLiM 1.3.1 seems a bit buggy, however, on Gentoo (although didn't try on other distributions). Version 1.3.0 was more stable. Regards, Liviu
Re: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console
On 10/15/08, Erik Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this actually a bug or intended behaviour? If it's a bug, is there a version that works properly? The bug would relate more to /etc/init.d/xdm than to SLiM. Liviu
[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Продажа квартир.Скидки становятся меньше...
On 10/9/08, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:31:32 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: How do you say wtf? in Russian? As in WTF are you reposting this entire spam to the list? Well, one way to express the wtf feeling would be: С какой херовой стати?. (There might, just might be a misspelling there; never got to truly grasping Russian grammar.) Liviu
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't play audio cds!
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: checked the log file, but I couldn't find anything. I couldn't mount my CD (in the past this wasn't necessary for audio CDs, but I thought I'd As far as I know, the Linux kernel cannot mount Audio CDs. The one programme that on my system works with Audio CDs is Gnome-mplayer. You might also try VLC. Another option is to rip them with Grip. Regards, Liviu
[gentoo-user] Password strength checker
Dear everyone, I'm looking for a Linux password strength checker, and so far I found this GPLed Java-Script-based solution [1]. Could you please suggest other utilities to test the strength of passwords? Regards, Liviu PS I'm curious whether such a JS password strength checker can be ebuilt and included in Portage. [1] http://www.passwordmeter.com/ -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: [gentoo-user] Tool for monitoring what's using the hard drive
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a tool similar to `top` that will tell me what's using my hard drive? My hard drive clicks a lot when I don't think it should, and I'd really like to know what program is using it. Sometimes it's so bad that I have to manually power down the machine and restart it... # emerge app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools # lm-profiler Liviu
[gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5 and xf86-video-i810 [SOLVED]
Dear all, === Short version: If you upgrade to xorg-x11-7.4, xorg-server-1.5 and xf86-video-i810-2.4.2-r1, and X does not start, change Section Device Driver i810 to intel in your xorg.conf. Would have been nice if Portage had informed us of this. If nothing else works, revert to vesa (or vga) and start searching the Net. === Long version: Yesterday I upgraded (--deep) my Xorg to xorg-x11-7.4, hence xorg-server-1.5. Upon reboot X would not start. First it complained of missing drivers, and to get rid of these errors I simply commented these lines in xorg.conf: # Load xtrap # Load record # Load type1 However, X still refuses to start. I figured, at least I think that the problem was in the Device driver: i810. =x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810-2.4.2-r1 refuses to detect about anything (also checked with dmesg). I used vesa as a joker, and to my surprise X started. But I'd much like to switch to the i810 one. I tried rebuilding xf86-video-i810, but it brought nothing new. I tried downgrading to stable versions (1.6.5, 1.7.4 and 2.1.1), or unstable (2.2.1), but the driver would simply not compile. I did manage to compile 2.3.2, but I see the same behaviour as with 2.4.2-r1. (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): unexpected signal 2. When loading X with vesa, I still get some non-fatal errors: error setting MTRR (base = 0xf000, size = 0x01fd, type = 1) Invalid argument (22) (EE) TouchPad no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device (EE) TouchPad Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware. (EE) PreInit failed for input device TouchPad expected keysym, got circumflex: line 257 of fr (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed xinit: Resource temporarily unavailable (errno 11): Cannot register with ConsoleKit: org.freedesktop.CkConnector.Error: Unable to open session: The name o$ Liviu Xorg.0.log-i810 Description: Binary data
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5 and xf86-video-i810 [SOLVED]
On 9/14/08, Sascha Hlusiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the driver was renamed from i810 to intel in upstream, I vote for Gentoo to rename the package as well, from xf86-video-i810 to xf86-video-intel. Second this. Liviu
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5 and xf86-video-i810 [SOLVED]
On 9/14/08, Michal 'vorner' Vaner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: glxgears won't start for me any longer (Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual). Not that I would really need that one, nor any [..] Have you seen this error too? Not this particular one, but I still get an error with the newest driver: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ glxgears Failed to initialize TTM buffer manager. Falling back to classic. 2951 frames in 5.0 seconds = 590.196 FPS 3148 frames in 5.0 seconds = 629.438 FPS 3168 frames in 5.0 seconds = 633.496 FPS 3165 frames in 5.0 seconds = 632.845 FPS glxgears loads, though. The FPS are still in regression compared to what I had around a year ago, 1200+ FPS. Regards, Liviu
Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for FPM
Dear all, On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:02 AM, Xavier-Francois Roblot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone point me to a viable replacement for it? I need something that can: 1) store passwords (obviously); 2) generate passwords; 3) have launchers as FPM does. The possibility to import FPM passwords would be a nice feature to have to :) I am answering to my own email: it looks like revelation http://oss.codepoet.no/revelation/ which is available in some overlays (like break-my-gentoo-main) meets most of the requirements. Probably no longer of interest to the initial poster, but I've also been on the look-out for something similar, so.. There is a port of fpm to GTK+2: FPM2 is GTK2 port from Figaro's Password Manager originally developed by John Conneely, with some new features. [1] It seems actively maintained, as of July 2008. I've also found an ebuild [2] for the latter. The port is a pure GTK+2 application, i.e. there are no Gnome dependencies. Revelation is in Portage, but Gnome dependent and no longer maintained since 2007. If anyone knows other candidates, please post here. Regards, Liviu [1] http://als.regnet.cz/fpm2/ [2] http://code.google.com/p/gdbabar/source/browse/branches/overlay/x11-misc/fpm2/?r=827
Re: [gentoo-user] hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues
Thank you a lot, Sascha. On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Sascha Hlusiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put the following line in Section ServerFlags in the xorg.conf: Option AutoAddDevices false This worked like a charm. Would another solution be to re-compile xorg-server with -hal? Liviu
Re: [gentoo-user] hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Sascha Hlusiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This worked like a charm. Would another solution be to re-compile xorg-server with -hal? It would, but I find runtime-tuning much easier and transparent. input-hotplugging really is a fine thing, if you get a little time to configure it. If readily available, could you please point to some example fdi files (or appropriate documentation)? Thank you, Liviu
[gentoo-user] hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues
Dear Gentoo users, I have installed the latest stable hal-0.5.11-r1 and hal-info-20080508 yesterday, and I give up: i cannot configure the keyboard layout as it was previously in xorg.conf, and i cannot use the left-hand shift (the latter is the annoying part). Here's what i have: /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver keyboard Option CoreKeyboard Option XkbRules xorg Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout gb,fr,ru,ro Option XkbOptions grp:alt_shift_toggle Option XkbVariant ,,winkeys,std EndSection Trying Driver evdev would make X not start any more. I tried playing with /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi to no avail. It seems to me that X uses evdev, no matter what I try. Also, I have only en_US as layout and left shift launches xfce's help, although as a shortcut key F1 is disabled here. I also disabled my .Xmodmap. Can anyone suggest how to revert to my xorg.conf configuration, and to make left shift a proper modifier key, again? Thank you, Liviu On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the symptom I see when I try evdev driver and am using a MS Natural Pro keyboard. Briefly the keyboard is handled as two USB devices. The keys that work are on the first device, the ones that don't on the second device. Following gentoo-wiki howtos it looks like you have to hack the kernel. At that point I simply reverted to using the kbd driver. Maybe some year evdev will mature... Quick check, look in your xorg.conf ServerLayout section, identify which keyboard InputDevice, then check to see which driver it is using.
[gentoo-user] Re: hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues
Oh, I forgot to post the errors X generates at startup: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: Warning: Multiple names for keycode 211 Using I211, ignoring AB11 expected keysym, got XF86AudioEject: line 2232 of inet Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server Liviu On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Gentoo users, I have installed the latest stable hal-0.5.11-r1 and hal-info-20080508 yesterday, and I give up: i cannot configure the keyboard layout as it was previously in xorg.conf, and i cannot use the left-hand shift (the latter is the annoying part). Here's what i have: /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver keyboard Option CoreKeyboard Option XkbRules xorg Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout gb,fr,ru,ro Option XkbOptions grp:alt_shift_toggle Option XkbVariant ,,winkeys,std EndSection Trying Driver evdev would make X not start any more. I tried playing with /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi to no avail. It seems to me that X uses evdev, no matter what I try. Also, I have only en_US as layout and left shift launches xfce's help, although as a shortcut key F1 is disabled here. I also disabled my .Xmodmap. Can anyone suggest how to revert to my xorg.conf configuration, and to make left shift a proper modifier key, again? Thank you, Liviu On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the symptom I see when I try evdev driver and am using a MS Natural Pro keyboard. Briefly the keyboard is handled as two USB devices. The keys that work are on the first device, the ones that don't on the second device. Following gentoo-wiki howtos it looks like you have to hack the kernel. At that point I simply reverted to using the kbd driver. Maybe some year evdev will mature... Quick check, look in your xorg.conf ServerLayout section, identify which keyboard InputDevice, then check to see which driver it is using.
Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?
On 5/8/08, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, Opera-9.50_beta2 seems to have problems playing flash (e.g. on bbc iplayer). I haven't tried yet 9.50_beta2_p1951. -- It should work OK if you set the paths correctly. Here I have this, in Plugin options: /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins:/opt/Adobe/Reader8/Browser/intellinux:/usr/share/amsn/plugins Regards, Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] to which package scrbook.cls belongs?
On 5/7/08, Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian Hilt wrote: On Tue, 6 May 2008, Zhang Weiwu wrote: I need to install a package containing this file. to which package this file belongs to? I googled around without luck equery b scrbook.cls returns dev-texlive/texlive-latexrecommended-2007 (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/koma-script/scrbook.cls) There is also dev-tex/texmfind [1]. Liviu [1] http://gentoo-portage.com/dev-tex/texmfind -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?
On 5/5/08, Robin Atwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with embedded flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something got broken wrt konqueror and my amd64 system is using netscape-flash-9.0.48.0-r1; however, that version now seems to have been removed. So what version are people using? Oh, I think you're in trouble here, and on the verge to switch to Opera. From one of Opera's developers: with 9.2x only Flash version 9.0.48.0 will work, because in the subsequent releases Flash depended on being in a Gtk browser on linux/unix (this also broke Flash in Konqueror). This Gtk environment was created in the pluginwrapper in 9.5, but since 9.2x is stable this was too big a change for it. This has, however, been in 9.5 snapshots for a while now - please check out the Beta2 and see if that resolves your issues: http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/next/; Regards, Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gentoo-wiki.com
On 4/26/08, Dan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is it only me or does someone else have problems with gentoo-wiki.com today? On 4/15/08, ionut cucu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a fine page to bookmark: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Batch audio converter?
On 4/27/08, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got about 200GB of OGG and FLAC files on my local machine. My son bought an iPod and wants me to do a batch conversion to mp3. Can anyone recommend something in portage that can do this in more or less a single step? Directory hierarchy is basically band/album/audio_files. ogg2mp3 can do a nice job (tags and everything). For the rest try sox. Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad mistaken(?) for Logitech Wheel Mouse
Hello Johan, On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Johan Blåbäck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what I suggest could be the problem is that I got my kernel wrong, since it seem to emulate Logitech instead of synaptics. But I don't know if that is the problem, or how I fix it. (I have all the kernel options that the gentoo-wiki synaptics-how-to recommends.) After running all the tests suggested in this thread (including kernel configuration, make.conf, tpconfig, /proc/bus/input/devices), I find myself in pretty much the same situations as you are. Today, when re-compiling the kernel, I found this link [1] to the synaptics project, suggesting troubleshooting methods. Looking at their Changelog [2], synaptics [3] looks kinda dropped out of maintainance; the latest version Made the driver work with xorg 7.1. If you're on 7.3, like I am, who knows whether it works. A last suggestion, try upgrading synaptics to the last unstable version, update the config files and cross your fingers. Regards, Liviu [1] http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/trouble-shooting.txt [2] http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/files/changes.txt [3] http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html
[gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?
Hello everyone, Although perfectly aware that this is a much subjective business, I am looking for best fonts, and would much appreciate your sharing of personal choices. This Wiki article [1] has some insight, but not sufficient to satisfy my quest. For best printed output I have settled for either Computer Modern or Palatino, through LyX (LaTeX). For Terminal I am quite happy with Terminus. But I am not very satisfied with the User Interface font. I am currently using Verdana size 8, under Xfce, with anti-aliasing enabled. However, I would much like to use a high-quality LCD display font, that would look good with anti-aliasing disabled (I already have -bindist for media-libs/freetype). So, what font do you use for the User Interface? Thank you in advance, Liviu [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts#Emerging_the_necessary_packages -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend a program for line art and text
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 1:26 AM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should I use something else to author my diagrams? You might try Dia or grace. Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X (i810) won't start with undefined symbol
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry to bother everybody again but this is really crucial for me. Does anyone have any ideas whatsoever? Do I have a permanently Xorgless installation? Might be worth to try the following: emerge -tva -D x11-base/xorg-x11 x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810 revdep-rebuild -i -tva -X Also, beware of the 2* series of xf86-video-i810. Personally, I've noticed regressions. Might be reasonable to try a pre-2 version, say 1.7.4. Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way the safest and recommended command, although a bit longish should be ALT+SysRq(or print)+S(ync)+U(mount)+B(Reboot). Since I wanted to shutdown instead of reboot, it would be ALT + SysRq + S + U + O then correct? Are there any potential harms to the hardware / system in case one tends to abuse (i.e. use more often than necessary) of this command? It's so often so tempting to shut down your system fast. Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log in there fine. Can I recover the root password? If you could passwords were useless. ;-) But you can boot from a LiveCD, mount your harddrive, chroot and then give root another password. But then, conventional passwords are as useless. One needs no more than physical access to the computer, a LiveCD and a couple minutes in order to become the super user of your system. Basically, the password seems useful only to know whether anyone has changed it behind your back. I am starting to wonder why am I so attached to my root password being strong.. :) Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or disable booting from the optical drive (or remove it completely) and set a password in the BIOS. This is one of the few areas in which a laptop has an advantage, you can't just pope the side off the case and flip a jumper to reset the BIOS. I'd say the BIOS is not much of a security enforcer. Even with the BIOS password protected, one can plug out the hardrive, connect to another system and get access to all the data. It might need more time than a LiveCD approach, it would be as efficient. As Alan and Wael suggested, the approaches that can work in protecting your data are a physical key to a locked door or a root encrypted system. Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Slim DM and shutdown
Hello Gal', On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Galevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running the display manager slim and I would like to know if it is possible to get a reboot/shutdown button instead of typing 'halt' as the login and the root password. Perhaps with a custom theme ? I would doubt that this is possible. I once feature-requested on the slim-dev mailing list [1] for the root password to be removed [2], but dunno if the devels took this into account. Since recently SLiM got back to active development, it might be worth asking there again. Regards, Liviu [1] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2] https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/slim-dev/2007-October/76.html -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:18 PM, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - I'm going to buy ne disk and to make dd of the corrupted one Maybe sys-fs/ddrescue is suited for this job (?). Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Slim DM and shutdown
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Galevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for you reply Liviu. I am going to ask to the dev team :) I myself much hope that they react. :) Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad mistaken(?) for Logitech Wheel Mouse
Hello Iain and Johan, On 3/12/08, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok. Are you sure it's a synaptics touchpad? Otherwise I'm out of ideas, sorry... I didn't want to hijack the thread, so I waited till this moment. I can report a similar problem on my laptop. The symptoms are pretty much the same as those described by Johan. However, in my case the Touchpad worked fine (for example, sliding the finger on the far-right side correctly translated into scrolling). It was (more or less) after I used a couple of times my Logitech USB Mouse that the Touchpad defaulted to basic mouse functionality (two buttons and mouse pointer movement). At that time I was convinced it was a coldplugging problem. When I found some more free time, and after having survived an emerge world, I switched to a (completely) dynamic udev. Still, this did not solve the problem. Then I was blocked. Following the Wiki Howtos for configuring the Touchpad did not help much, either. How do you think that I could verify that this is a coldplug/udev problem? Could this be the problem, at all? What information that would help you help me pin-point the problem could I post? Thanks, Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] (OT) Freezing: does encryption become useless?
Dear Gentoo users, http://iht.com/articles/2008/02/22/technology/chip.php I'm curious if anyone has any ideas/comments on this (e.g. is this data recovery method realistic, can it be worked around, etc). Regards, Liviu PS And this is for the curious (way OT): http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/07/america/legal.php -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)
On 2/8/08, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sometimes forget that some people actually use XP as an alternate OS (for me it's just there in case I forget how bored with games I am) Well, other than games, Windows can at times prove a useful companion. What's good about it is that after a reboot it often functions exactly as it did after a previous reboot. On Gentoo, you make a system update, your apache glitches: no printing; you mess up with the libraries versions (updating some, others leaving as they are), vlc refuses to start: no DVD menus. I have also not yet managed to configure my HP PSC machine to scan on Gentoo. Once I was playing with the config files, emerging, re-merging to get it working, but I subsequently decided that it was easier to switch to Windows in the rare cases that I need scanning. [All these, of course, were personal examples.] The idea: Windows feels lame, offering however certain functionality out-of-the-box; Gentoo (in combination with Xfce) feels sweet, breaking however too often too easy without much contribution from my side. Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] ext3 for Windows XP/Vista?
On 2/3/08, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With an eye toward sharing some directories on my Gentoo machines with either Windows machines across my network or just making ext3 partitions available when I'm forced to dual boot and find I want something for my trip to the dark side I'm wondering if there are any 'better' ext2/3 drivers for Windows XP and Vista? This will not give you information much different to that already presented, but could still take a look here [1]. Liviu [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Lightweight_package_selection_(using_Xfce_and_suitable_for_office_usage)#Choosing_the_filesystem -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)
Dear Gentoo Community, I was wondering if anyone knew how (whether) it is possible to set temporary options to grub. I am on a dual-boot setup with Gentoo Linux being the first choice in grub's config file. When I perform a restart, most of the times it is in order to subsequently boot Windows. With the current setup, however, I need to press the restart button (in Xfce), wait patiently till the computer restarts, wait for the grub screen and change the option before the 5 seconds time-out expires. I find annoying when I miss out the time-out, because of my going away from the computer screen. Basically, I would like to issue a command (restart with a certain grub temporary setup change), go make myself a cup of tee and come back and see the Windows login screen. Could anyone suggest a way to do something similar? Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)
Thanks all for their respective input. From the information provided, I've assembled a short Gentoo Wiki Tip [1]. Regards, Liviu [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Reboot_to_Windows_(using_grub) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator
You might be interseted in rezound; it is graphical, however. Liviu On 1/24/08, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, Anybody know of a gentoo/linux tone generator that will output test tones, sine waves, triangle waves and the like. Prefer command line/ncurses. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox mplayerplug-in problem
On 12/7/07, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions? You could always try emerge gecko-mediaplayer gnome-mplayer Apparently, the gnome-mplayer and mplayerplug-in share the same author, and he works actively on the former. Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting system stats
On 11/7/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thoughts? I'm no expert in the field, but since dmstat was mentioned, this might be useful: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Detecting_your_Hardware#dstat_.2F_vmstat_.2F_free Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Video encoder
On 11/4/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a article that may help you make video's quickly: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9005 On the articles note, check this Wiki entry [1]. [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DVD_to_Matroska Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Video encoder
On 11/3/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for an easy way to encode the video files I acquire into a single format and level of quality. It would also be nice to be able to easily burn a DVD of the resultant file that will play on a home DVD player. I'm sure there are at least several choices in portage and probably sunrise, but does anyone use one they are happy with and would heartily recommend? Try OGMRip. I used it successfully to encode video to X264, audio to Ogg Vorbis, and put everything into a Matroska container. It offers a much wider encodings and containers choice (like XviD and MP4). The interface is clean and HIG-compliant. Not sure if it fits your needs, though. Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A week of struggle
On 10/30/07, econti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2 (this is really incredible) fonts disappeared on the Realplayer window! Instead of chars . . . boxes. i.e. file = 4 boxes, settings = 7 boxes, etc ?? Realplayer works fine but it is the only one app with this problem. This may not be entirely relevant to your problem, but it's worth a check. The fonts provided by the corefonts package are _badly_ corrupted, and largely out-dated (it would even be worth to file a bug). For example, if you make any GTK+ application use them (like any Xfce module or emelFM2), it will display boxes instead of text. So, check to make sure that Realplayer doesn't use Arial or something similar. If it does, get your hands on the MS fonts from an existing Windows installation, install them manually, remove corefonts and check that the paths conform in xorg.conf and the xfs config file (if you use the latter). Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Adding fonts in LaTeX (app-text/tetex-3.0_p1-r4)
On 10/30/07, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll get on the case with this this evening, but in the meantime, any idea how to add fonts to TeXLive, in case I need to? I could only suggest to look at the installation instructions found in cm-super, or some other well maintained font. Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Adding fonts in LaTeX (app-text/tetex-3.0_p1-r4)
Hello, On 10/29/07, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me the correct place to add fonts to TeTeX so that they'll be accessible for all users, please? I think that the way I have done this in the past may be unofficial - I think I've added my local fonts to the master list of fonts shipped with TeTeX as a distro, and that's why they've been over-written - but it has been the only way in the past that I've got this to work. And now I can't find that list at all. :( Any comments or assistance will b VERY GRATEFULLY received. This is not a solution in itself, but you might try this. Download the TexLive-2007 DVD [1]. This is a recent TeX distribution, compared to the ancient TeTeX one. Check to see if it provides the fonts you need. If it does, you might attempt to remove TeTeX by following the correspondent removal guide [2], sync Portage, tweak the USE flags so as to suit your needs and emerge =texlive-2007. This week I have successfully switched from TeTeX to TeXLive, following the guide mentioned earlier. TeXLive contains more recent fonts (also, consider to check the CTAN for what it provides before downloading the .iso image), like the cm-super (that I needed for the bold small caps), and is probably more or less up to date and complete if you enable the needed USE flags. [1] http://www.tug.org/texlive/ [2] http://gentoo-wiki.com/TeX_Live_2007#External_links Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?
Hello and thanks for answering, On 10/18/07, Wayn0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would imagine that this is IP based :-( Is there a way to make my computer identify on the net with a different, tweaked IP address? Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?
Hello, On 10/18/07, Novensiles divi Flamen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I doubt anything about their verification happens from the browser, it would all be IP based. So bounce through a proxy in the UK. I am already required to connect to the Internet through a transparent proxy (educational environment). Is there any way to connect to BBC through an anonymous UK proxy on top? Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?
Hello Renat, On 10/18/07, Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's determined based on your IP address. You can try it yourself at http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_my_ip I used the service, and the service determines my location with the utmost precision. I tried the following trick: an anonymizer. Basically, I accessed web-based proxy services and in the dialog I inserted http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_my_ip. The list: http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Proxying_and_Filtering/Hosted_Proxy_Services/Free/CGI_Proxy// The results: http://www.daveproxy.co.uk/ is identified TX (Texas), United States. http://anonymouse.org/ is identified as an anonymous proxy. http://www.kproxy.com/ is identified B8 (Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur), France. http://www.cooltunnel.com/ is identified GA (Georgia), United States. http://www.iphide.com/ is identified TX (Texas), United States. and finally what I wanted: http://www.phproxy.org/ is identified H9 (London), United Kingdom. Do you think on the day of the GP BBC will consider my location as London? Does anyone know by any chance some other web-based proxy services that would identify as from the UK? If you want to have an IP address in UK you will have to use a proxy in UK. You can find a list of proxies at http://tools.rosinstrument.com/proxy/ Here I have a problem. I already connect to the Internet through a transparent proxy managed by my University. I tried to use this proxy planet2.manchester.ac.uk:3128, and that after having established connection. However, any web page fails to download. Do you know if it is at all possible to use the above UK proxy address on top of the mandatory proxy address that I have to use to simply have an Internet connection? You could also find another TV channel with live video and audio stream. There is a list of TV stations at http://wwitv.com/ Again, my proxy problems: all content coming from the above site tries to access some funny port, and both mplayerplug-in and gecko-mediaplayer fail (when using either Opera or Firefox). Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Depclean question
On 10/16/07, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just used depclean for the first time (I was afraid of it) after several years of Gentoo. It has cleaned up my system a good bit but now it wants to remove some packages that I'm concerned about: gcc-3.4.6-r2 (I'm using 4.1.2) libstdc++-v3-3.3.4 and virtual/libstdc++ virtual/jdk and virual/jre (it leaves the later versions in both cases) qt-4.1.4-r2 (leaving qt-3.3.8-r4) several early versions of db leaving db-4.5.20_p2 and a few others How much danger is there if I remove these? Well, you might find yourself in an un-usable GUI system upon reboot. To add packages, that you care about, to your world file use: emerge --noreplace atom. Do this with all the packages you want to keep / you feel are essential to your system. I'd like, however, that someone more experienced confirm my comments. Also, look at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Maintain_Gentoo_-_%22Best_Practices%22#depclean Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?
On 10/9/07, Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: according to the speaker, most of the RAM may even survives for as long as 30 seconds after powering off! At least on a ThinkPad T30 notebook (stated [..] Another thing is Firewire, or hot-pluggable PCI cards (and everything else which accesses RAM via DMA). This allows to read the RAM of the running system by simply plugging in a firewire device. So, resetting the system and booting another one, or plugging in a firewire device, allows to get a memory dump. Scary, huh? On the scary note, I've recently stumbled on this paper by Peter Gutmann, from the IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, published in 2001 at a Usenix conference: Data Remanence in Semiconductor Devices [1]. Not much reassuring either ~_-. [1] http://www.usenix.org/events/sec01/gutmann.html Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is this normal?
On 10/11/07, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * man page to learn how to update config files. The http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Maintain_Gentoo_-_%22Best_Practices%22#dispatch-conf suggests the use of dispatch-conf over etc-update. Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Audio/Mpeg
On 10/11/07, sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firefox is complaining that a plugin is not available for audio/mpeg support. Any recommendations on getting support? Not sure if it helps: emerge mplayerplug-in and recently (by the same author(s)) emerge gnome-mplayer gecko-mediaplayer Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE automounting pendrive
On 10/8/07, Alfredo Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, I have another question, when I plug the pendrive does not XFCE should make an icon on my desktop? Desktop settings Behaviour Desktop Icons Choose File/launcher icons -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?
On 10/5/07, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, my eternal question, is it realistic for the lost RAM data to be recovered? That is, after system shutdown, does the data still physically reside on the RAM and can someone with a decent technology and know-how recover it? In other words, is this a serious breach in any encrypted system? No, it isn't. Well, I didn't had the full circuit design of today's DRAMs in mind, and yes, since there's the resistor, the capacitor will lose its load (very) soon (/me scratches his head, wasn't there something asymptotically in that graph? But in any way, it would be a difference of very few electrons on the sides of the capacitor) -- that's not a security breach. But: We are talking about _powering_ _off_ the DRAM. You are talking about shutting down. That might be two different things and completely depend on hardware design. Make shure that RAM's gonna get powered off and you're save. So pulling the plug should give you a warm good feeling in that regard. Doing a sudo halt, however, _might_ have other consequences and we cannot make a general assumption on that. Even pulling the plug might have problems: There's such thing as battery-buffered RAM (although I think they've used it mainly in the pre-Flash era). The thing is: You never can guarantee security, that's absolutely impossible (well, of course you can, but you would automatically be wrong). You can do all your best, but that's about it. Having security is a thing you can falsify, but never verify, since theorys can't be verified without dogmas (and there are no accepted dogmas that would help here). Thank you for your answer, Hans. This is more or less the information that I was looking for. So, on a laptop, after halt-ing the system, one should make sure to remove the battery and also pull the plug from the outlet. As far as I understand, this should more or less take care of the data stored in the RAM, _or_ give you the feeling that you did your best. If one enjoys being paranoid, one may also run smem on system shutdown. All this, of course, needs to be in combination with _at least_ an encrypted swap and tmpfs mounted on /tmp. One last reserve that I have towards this scheme is the information in the man page of smem (part of the secure-delete package, suite of utilities written by van Hauser from THC [ http://freeworld.thc.org/releases.php ]): smem is designed to delete data which may lie still in your memory (RAM) in a secure manner which can not be recovered by thiefs, law enforcement or other threats. Note that with the new SDRAMs, data will not wither away but will be kept static - it is easy to extract the necessary information! The wipe algorythm is based on the paper Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory presented at the 6th Usenix Security Symposium by Peter Gutmann, one of the leading civilian cryptographers. This is either a very efficient advertising campaign for his utility, or he actually knows what he is talking about. For one part, the paper [ http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html ] dedicates two chapters to the data kept in the RAM. However, considering that the paper is dated 1996, and the secure-delete man page was last updated in 2003, there is also the possibility that this information is outdated. Again, thanks all for their input. Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?
Hello, On 10/5/07, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an option in baselayout's rc file to erase the swap at shutdown. Take a look at /etc/conf.d/rc under RC_SWAP_ERASE. As far as I understand, this is far from secure. You want at least some degree of security, you need cryptography. See: http://gentoo-wiki.com/SWAP_ERASE_on_halt . Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
