Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?
2011/12/3 walt w41...@gmail.com: On 12/01/2011 07:44 PM, victor romanchuk wrote: Can anyone confirm or deny? i confirm. apart of these 'painting' issues in localc, observed both lowriter and localc crash during arbitrary pointer movements over menu items. it seems all that misbehavior is related to x11-libs/gtk+:3 I have also rolled back to 3.4.4 due to repaint problems in all apps. Initially I blamed this on nouveau but I don't know how to check if this is the case. Best regards, Maciej Grela
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] laptop desktop serial connection don't work on one direction
2011/11/5 bill.long...@gmail.com: Pardon my top post please. You'll have too ensure that you have only three wires. Line 2 to 3, line 3 to 2 and line 5 straight through. I don't think you'll be able to get bi directional serial links if you have the other hardware lines connected. When you have a simple cable like that make sure to disable hardware flow control on *both* sides. This is a mistake I was always making in the past. Best regards, Maciej Grela
Re: [gentoo-user] rfkill
2011/6/26 Ignas Anikevicius anikevic...@gmail.com: Hi guys, I wanted to ask how to check what scripts/events are started when I press a key? I have some automagical stuff happening when I press Fn+F5 (I have a Thinkpad x200s). To be more precise, my Wifi card is switched off and on and I want to know what is causing this and turn it off. You don't need a script for this. If you have the rfkill-input kernel module or the thinkpad-acpi module they hook into the hotkeys and drive rfkill to enable/disable radios. Best regards, Maciej Grela
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Tether a Google Nexus One?
2011/5/3 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com: Does anyone know if a Google Nexus One cell phone can be USB tethered to a Gentoo system? I use wvdial to accomplish this with other cell phones but I've read that the Nexus One doesn't work that way because it doesn't appear on the host system as a tty: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?23,146509,147989 There is a tethering option in the Nexus One settings but I can't figure out how to get my Gentoo laptop to use the tethered cell phone's internet connection. What kind of device appears in the system when you plug in the phone ? The last few lines of dmesg would give the best information. Best regards, Maciej Grela
Re: [gentoo-user] *** URGENT *** xdg-open respawns itself until crash
2011/3/31 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: Hi, I have a big problem on a very import machine here. Although it's a bit copy of a running machine, it somehow respawns xdg-open until the system is out of memory and therefore unresponsive or it crashes. How can I find out which process tries to start xdg-open? It assume it's connected to some settings the user's home directory. Use pstree to see what is executing it when this is happening. Br, Maciej Grela
Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to improve interactivity with heavy disk activity?
2010/11/26 Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk: Hi there, As per subject, what's the best way to improve interactivity with heavy disk activity, please? Or perhaps a better question would be: what approaches are available? Presently my main Linux system is basically just a storage server with a *really slow* disk controller. I do all my web-browsing and email (and most other things) on my Mac laptop (because my Mac desktop has recently died ☹), but I occasionally do some bash or perl scripting, searches and other stuff on this Linux box. Normally this isn't a problem - the machine is an old Pentium 4 but plenty powerful enough for this simple command-line stuff. However I have recently bought a new STB which plays DVD .iso files across the network, so I started ripping DVDs on storage server, using dvdbackup mkisofs. When I do so, interactivity becomes *dire* - it takes maybe 15 seconds for *any* command to execute. My immediate reaction was to consider the recent 200-line patch to kernel = superkernel thread: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/221770 But I have also heard of `ionice` in the past: http://linux.die.net/man/1/ionice I've never used that - in fact, I can't recall ever having to use the regular `nice` - but I think maybe I should consider it. Does anyone have any thoughts, please? I use ionice nice when running paludis in the background and it does the job pretty well: alias paludis='ionice -c 3 nice -n 19 paludis' Just remember that for ionice to work properly you need to have the CFQ I/O scheduler enabled. Best regards, Maciej Grela
Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.ext4 -j /dev/sdb1
2010/11/27 James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com: Hello, I just added a new drive to an existing system using an ext4 (journaled) file system. I was not sure about using the -j option so I did it anyway. Correct assumption? Irrelevant? no examples to ponder. comments or observations on the -j option with ext4? Irrelevant for running mkfs.ext4. The journal is always created in this case. This option has been used for mke2fs. Best regards, Maciej Grela
Re: [gentoo-user] Suspect fs, or suspect disk, or something else?
2010/11/9 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: Hi All, I've had at least 3 fs corruptions on a Reiser4 fs, in as many months. I understand that the fs type is experimental, but am wondering if it is the fs at fault here or Dell's hard drive: Check your RAM using memtest86. -- Maciej Grela
Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...
2010/11/9 meino.cra...@gmx.de:
Hi,
it is possible to run a 32-bit binary executable on a 64-bit system
(AMD64).
But: Is it possible to compile source code on a 64-bit system and get
an 32-bit executable a the result ??? And if 'yes'...how???
gr...@kraken ~ $ cat test.c
void main() {}
gr...@kraken ~ $ gcc -o a.out.64 test.c
gr...@kraken ~ $ gcc -m32 -o a.out.32 test.c
gr...@kraken ~ $ file a.out.*
a.out.32: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
(GNU/Linux), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux
2.6.9, not stripped
a.out.64: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux),
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, not
stripped
gr...@kraken ~ $
Br,
Maciej Grela
Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration
2010/11/9 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com: Hi, I have a laptop running Gentoo (with dual-boot to Windows XP). It was manufactured in 2004 and battery life have been consistent for all those years. However, it sat dormant for almost a year, after which I did a few days worth of updating to bring it up to current kernel and ~amd64 package levels. There are two issues that have arisen: 1) The smart battery is not so smart anymore. It only charges about halfway, then the charging light turns green and it stops. Effective battery capacity is about one-third of what it used to be. From what I understand, while Li-ion don't have memory like old Ni-Cd batteries, the smart circuitry cannot account for power drain that happens when the battery is not in use. Say the battery lost half of its power while it was in storage, so the chip thinks charge is at one level when it is really much lower. When recharging, it stops when it is full even though it's only halfway there. The inbuilt battery circuit can account for the self-discharge, the charge on a lithium cell is proportional to it's voltage IIRC. The problem is, that li-ion cells don't like being totaly discharged (for example lying unused for a year). It's advised to charge them and only then put them into storage (and recharge every once in a while). So your battery may simply have 3 cells, 2 of which have been damaged by self-discharge, therefore you are seeing only 30 % of the previous capacity. Br, Maciej Grela
Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-detecting network I'm connected to
2010/10/21 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: Hi all, One gentoo notebook running wicd, three general classes of network logon used frequently (dhpc always): work - mostly wired, occasionally wireless. There's a plethora of APs to pick from, some official, some rogue. And not all end up being served by the same dhcp server, or even be in sync with each other. home - Easy one. Usually wireless, sometimes wired. I control the router. everything else - friend's houses, other companies, wifi hotspots. Thanks to our IT division I get lots of practice in finding interesting ways into the corporate network. Depending on how I'm connected I start up all manner of tunnels, socks proxies and various other bits. Doing this manually is getting tedious. So I'm looking for a reasonably reliable way of detecting what served my current IP address so the post-start script in wicd can detect this and launch all the correct things correctly. The actual address range and domain is not the way to go - too many networks dish out 10.0.0.0/8 and example.com for that to work well. I have some ideas of my own, but figured I'd ask here as well. Odds are excellent someone will have much better ideas than I. There are a few metrics you can use to identify a network you are on: 1. ESSID and AP MAC in case of wireless 2. MAC address of DHCP server that served you the address (can be also used to alarm you when DHCP-spoofing is detected). 3. MAC addresses of hosts provided by DHCP (gateway and DNS usually). 4. CDP or LLDP traffic on your interface (usually present in corporate LANs). There was once a feature in gentoo, which involved loading different network profiles from /etc/conf.d/net depending on the IP address of the gateway offered by DHCP. It worked pretty well in the days before networkmanager and wicd. -- Maciej Grela
Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend-to-disk stopped by xhci-module...
2010/10/11 meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, For my ASUS Crosshair IV Formula motherboard I use the (experimental) USB 3.0 driver xhci. When this driver is loaded as module I cannot send the PC to suspend-mode. After unloading that module, it works. Is it possible to rmmod this module and maybe sync and unmount any related USB-device automagically before entering any suspend mode? (Or is there any other nice trick to circumvent that problem?) What appears in dmesg when you try to suspend with the module loaded ? -- Maciej Grela
Re: [gentoo-user] HAL? ACPID?
2010/10/9 meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, in search of informations about acpi/acpid on the internet I found the statement, that acpid is now obsoleted by hal. When I give acpi in the gentoo wiki I found installation instructions for acpid and HAL is not mentioned. I am confused now... I am using an ASUS Crosshair IV Formula wuth an AMD Phenom II X6 CPU. Suspend-to-Swap works fine (as a sign of a working ACPI implemention...) What should I use ? Acpid? Hal? Both? What do you want to do with acpi ? -- Maciej Grela
Re: [gentoo-user] What network configuration should I use with vbox
2010/10/8 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: I want to install MSWindows in a VM. I want to be able to use the guest MSWindows OS to connect to a website run on apache on the Gentoo host OS on the same machine. What is the recommended network configuration for the VM? NAT or bridge? Anything I should pay particular attention to? I haven't configured a network machine before. I would suggest bridge mode in this case. -- Maciej Grela
Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem couldn't be fixed
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
Re: [gentoo-user] Where should i ask Gentoo/Xen/hardware questions?
2010/10/6 Olaf Krause gentoo...@okit.de: Hello, first: where should I ask the following question? We successfully operate some HP Proliant DL380 G3, using Gentoo Xen-kernels as Dom0 and DomU. Now i tried to upgrade to Generation 4 and 6: * HP Proliant DL380 G4 * HP Proliant DL380 G6 Grub works fine. After selecting a kernel to boot, it is loaded and starts operating and fails some lines later with a kernel panic. The kernel seems not to find the HP SCSI controller (/dev/cciss/...). I made sure, that the kernel has build in the needed drivers as described here: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/HP_ProLiant_DL380_G5 Funny is, that the Gentoo boot images do work, for example install-x86-minimal-20100216.iso. I use the iso images to boot the system initially, initialize the SCSI disks with fdsik and mkfs... and then mount the SCSI drives (/dev/cciss/...), copy a working tarball-image, populate the filsystem and then use the grub shell make it bootable. Attached is a screen shot with the error message. Is this screenshot from a domU or dom0 ? If it's from a domU then I think that in Xen you have a different driver than cciss for the disks. If it's from a dom0, are you sure that you have the cciss driver built-in instead of a module ? From the screenshot it seems that it's not present at the point the kernel is booting. -- Maciej Grela
Re: [gentoo-user] Where should i ask Gentoo/Xen/hardware questions?
2010/10/6 Olaf Krause gentoo...@okit.de: Hello, first: where should I ask the following question? We successfully operate some HP Proliant DL380 G3, using Gentoo Xen-kernels as Dom0 and DomU. Now i tried to upgrade to Generation 4 and 6: * HP Proliant DL380 G4 * HP Proliant DL380 G6 Grub works fine. After selecting a kernel to boot, it is loaded and starts operating and fails some lines later with a kernel panic. The kernel seems not to find the HP SCSI controller (/dev/cciss/...). I made sure, that the kernel has build in the needed drivers as described here: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/HP_ProLiant_DL380_G5 Funny is, that the Gentoo boot images do work, for example install-x86-minimal-20100216.iso. I use the iso images to boot the system initially, initialize the SCSI disks with fdsik and mkfs... and then mount the SCSI drives (/dev/cciss/...), copy a working tarball-image, populate the filsystem and then use the grub shell make it bootable. Attached is a screen shot with the error message. Is this screenshot from a domU or dom0 ? If it's from a domU then I think that in Xen you have a different driver than cciss for the disks. If it's from a dom0, are you sure that you have the cciss driver built-in instead of a module ? From the screenshot it seems that it's not present at the point the kernel is booting. It is the screenshot of the Dom0. And yes - also for me the driver seems not to be available during boot time. But i am sure to have it build in. And on older hardware (G3 - generation 3 HP hardware) the same kernel seems to work, mounting the cciss devices. Here is what mount says in the same kernel on a G3 hardware (sorry for the linebreaks): orion ~ # mount /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,size=10240k,mode=755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/cciss/c0d1p1 on /mnt/xen2 type ext3 (rw,noatime) shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85) --- Maybe the cciss driver doesn't have your controller on the PCI devices list. This is unlikely but would give the symptoms you are describing. Please post the output of 'lspci -k' and 'lspci -n' commands. Which kernel version are you trying to run ? -- Maciej Grela
Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick
2010/9/10 Jake Moe jakesaddr...@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 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. 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
[gentoo-user] Properly handling missing files when downloading files from ftp:// via ISA proxy (emerge/wget)
Hi, Is there any way to make emerge (wget) correctly behave when it tries to download a non-existing file from FTP in a network using ISA as ftp_proxy ? I have one of these at work and it's really annoying because of situations like below: pazuzu ~ # LC_ALL=C wget -T 30 -t 1 --continue -O /var/cache/src/cvsps-2.1.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/distfiles/cvsps-2.1.tar.gz --2010-09-10 16:31:25-- ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/distfiles/cvsps-2.1.tar.gz Connecting to 10.144.1.10:8080... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] Saving to: `/var/cache/src/cvsps-2.1.tar.gz' [ = ] 318 --.-K/s in 0s 2010-09-10 16:31:25 (14.9 MB/s) - `/var/cache/src/cvsps-2.1.tar.gz' saved [318] Wget thinks, that this file was downloaded when really it contains some crap produced by ISA: pazuzu ~ # cat /var/cache/src/cvsps-2.1.tar.gz HTML meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text-html; charset=UTF-8 HEAD TITLEServer error message /TITLE /HEAD BODYH1ISA Server: extended error message : /H1 PRE200 Switching to Binary mode. 227 Entering Passive Mode (213,203,218,123,116,42) 550 Failed to open file. /PRE /BODY /HTML pazuzu ~ # Is there any way to work around this problem ? Is it neccessary to change ISA configuration to properly respond to an ftp client when the file is missing ? If yes, how ? Best regards, Maciej Grela
Re: [gentoo-user] Properly handling missing files when downloading files from ftp:// via ISA proxy (emerge/wget)
2010/9/10 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Maciej Grela maciej.gr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there any way to make emerge (wget) correctly behave when it tries to download a non-existing file from FTP in a network using ISA as ftp_proxy ? I have one of these at work and it's really annoying because of situations If you are allowed to bypass the proxy, try --use-proxy=off in your wget command line. Unfortunately proxy is the only way to access the Internet. It seems your FTP is proxied over HTTP and your client needs to support this. I'm not sure if wget supports HTTP proxies for FTP. Here is a document from Microsoft about configuring ISA and various clients: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb794745.aspx I'll read that, thanks. Br, Maciej Grela
Re: [gentoo-user] strange network problem
2010/9/7 路 xaoru2...@163.com: Hi ,everybody I've met a strang network problem.My gentoo Netbook can't access google and some other web sites after lying idle about more than half an hour's. But it can acesses other sites normally ,And can pinging ervery sites including google very well! The Only thing i can do is rebooting the system,and Network resume aftre that. I've googled a lot,and found nothing to solve this problem. :-( It borthered me a lot.Please help me! You should run wireshark and see what is happening when you are trying to access google. Best regards, Maciej Grela
Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?
2010/8/25 Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org: On Wednesday 25 August 2010 15:44:58 Mick wrote: Fair enough, but anything other than the native resolution on an LCD monitor will end looking distorted or blurred. Why? Granted, LCD panels are made up of discreet pixels, but so are CRTs: the dots are deposited in trios, each illuminated through a hole in the shadow mask. Right, but nature does a better job at upsampling an image than DSPs. Br, Maciej Grela
Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?
2010/8/25 Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org: On Wednesday 25 August 2010 15:44:58 Mick wrote: Fair enough, but anything other than the native resolution on an LCD monitor will end looking distorted or blurred. Why? Granted, LCD panels are made up of discreet pixels, but so are CRTs: the dots are deposited in trios, each illuminated through a hole in the shadow mask. Right, but nature does a better job at upsampling an image than DSPs. Br, Maciej Grela
