Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious
I'll be 56 next month. I first used Caldera in 1997, then Redhat, Mandrake, Suse, LFS (Linux From Scratch). I discovered Gentoo in 2004. Sergio -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Completely lost regarding wifi
Sigfrido V. Ortiz C.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] My school has some Windows/Mac setup instructions here (scroll down a bit): http://rorschach.concordia.ca/neg/remote_access/wireless/ They mention Xsupplicant in relation to Linux, but once again I find myself way out of my depth. . . [...] [...] About Gentoo Networking please look at here for x86 processor: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap= 3 and http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4 Here are some other examples toubles: http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2005-December.txt HTH Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT Add something to boo-up that's not in /etc/init.d
Michael Sullivan: Is there a way to add something to the boot-up process that's not in /etc/init.d? I thought I remembered something from Red Hat like /etc/rc.local, but I can't remember... Look at /etc/conf.d/local.start. Which is run by /etc/init.d/local. Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: wlan0 is sssloooow [100% SOLVED]
Mick: On Monday 11 December 2006 20:56, Sergio Polini wrote: Yes, it was OT and very few of you are interested ;-) However, somebody would like to know who the killer was. The original subject was wlan0 is ssslw [99% SOLVED] because pinging the Belkin F5D7230-4 wireless router worked from Windows but not from Linux. The answer is: because Windows sends ICMP messages with 32 bytes of data, Linux sends them with 56 bytes of data. Moreover, Linux IP datagrams have the DF (don't fragment) bit set, Windows ones have not. On Linux, ping -s 15 192.168.2.2 works. How did you ever find this out?! I used two tools: Douglas Comer, Internetworking with TCP/IP, and Wireshark (former ethereal). I'm still installing my new laptop, f.i., I've not yet setup a firewall. My former firewall was based on the Iptables Tutorial by Oskar Andreasson, but I didn't understand all the details. So I've started studying, i.e. reading Comer and looking at frames, datagrams, etc. by Wireshark. I needed that. For example, I had used nmap to look for an echo port on the Belkin router, but ping, i.e. ICMP, doesn't know anything about ports! As to the ping problem, I started a Windows virtual machine by VMware Player, then Wireshark both in the Linux real machine and in the virtual one, then pinged the Belkin router. Looking at the output produced by the Linux Wireshark and by the virtual Windows one, there were just two differences: the DF bit, and the data field length in the ICMP messages. I'll know that's another thing to test when an access point is playing up. I wonder why belkin is set up this way. I think that a router should send ICMP messages such as fragmentation needed and DF set (Type 3, , Code 4) and time to live exceeded in transit (Type 11, , Code 0), but Belkin does not (traceroute, and tracert, 192.168.2.1 print stars). The Belkin 54G wireless router, F5D7130, had serious security holes: http://www.governmentsecurity.org/archive/t15618.html My model, F5D7230, is more secure. Eventually too much ;-) Thanks for sharing. :-) Alan McKinnon: I'm very glad you did post this update as here in the office we had this very problem three weeks ago. One morning every non-Windows host in our building suddenly could not see past the gateway, could not ping it and was essentially off-air. We eventually tracked it down to one of these Belkin wireless routers, but never figured out why it was doing what it did. Now we do know, so thanks for the heads-up! I must thank all of you. Gentoo would not be such an attractive system without the continuous support by all of you. Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: wlan0 is sssloooow [100% SOLVED]
Yes, it was OT and very few of you are interested ;-) However, somebody would like to know who the killer was. The original subject was wlan0 is ssslw [99% SOLVED] because pinging the Belkin F5D7230-4 wireless router worked from Windows but not from Linux. The answer is: because Windows sends ICMP messages with 32 bytes of data, Linux sends them with 56 bytes of data. Moreover, Linux IP datagrams have the DF (don't fragment) bit set, Windows ones have not. On Linux, ping -s 15 192.168.2.2 works. Cheers Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: wlan0 is sssloooow [99% SOLVED]
Richard Fish: Ok, two things to try. First, remove the 192.168.2.1 nameserver from resolve.conf. That nameserver may be broken and unable to resolve names on the internet. This should help the ping www.google.com case. Yes, I've already said that, but you are great! ;-) I read your message this morning quickly, when I was going to work, and didn'understand it. Then I've spoken to a colleague of mine, a true network guru, a very capable ethical hacker, and I've understood! (I suppose) My wireless router: a) runs a (WAN) DHCP client to get its IP address and the IP addresses of my provider's nameservers; b) it get those IP addresses to send them to me when I run a DHCP client; my wireless router runs a (LAN) DHCP server too, but it is *not* a nameserver; c) my DHCP client was configured as usual, i.e. replace my /etc/resolv.conf; I've added dhcpcd_toynet=-R -h sergio ^^ to /etc/conf.d/wireless and restarted /etc/init.d/net.wlan0. Now... there is no line nameserver 192.168.2.1 in my /etc/resolv.conf and ping www.google.com is fast ;-) BTW: This evening I've started running Windows at first. ipconfig /all showed three nameservers, and 192.168.2.1 was the first one. However, when I ran nslookup, the message was clear: 192.168.2.1 is not a nameserver. Why the difference between fast (Windows) and slow (my previous Gentoo box) Internet pings? Perhaps because the Windows timeout is short: 2 seconds. I do not know how to eventually set such a timeout in Linux Second, does ping -I wlan0 192.168.2.1 work better? Nope. ping -I wlan0 or -n 192.168.2.1 is still blocked. Well, it's just a nuisance, but I'll keep looking for a solution. Any hints would be greately appreciated ;-) That's not strange, because: sergio ~ # nmap -sS -O -PI -PT 192.168.2.1 Starting Nmap 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2006-11-28 22:21 CET Interesting ports on 192.168.2.1: Not shown: 1678 closed ports PORT STATESERVICE 80/tcp open http 4662/tcp filtered edonkey MAC Address: 00:17:3F:0C:19:12 (Belkin) Device type: broadband router Running: Netgear embedded OS details: Netgear Wireless router or Netgear FM114P/REPOTEC IP515H Router Print Server Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 4.834 seconds i.e., port 7 (Echo) looks closed. Does Windows' ping (which works) speak eDonkey? (very OT question ;-) Oh, one last thingyou don't have any firewall rules enabled, right? (iptables --list) Right. I wish to configure my real (wire and wireless connection to my ISP) and virtual (VMWare) networks, and then enable iptables. Thanks a lot, as usual ;-) Sergio PS: I wish to thank Thomas Sjolshagen (private message) and Hans de Hartog too. If one doesn't feel lonely when he tries to solve a problem, well that helps a lot! My English is poor, but I hope that you understand what I mean ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wlan0/ndiswrapper failing after gcc-4 upgrade (and dual Windows boot)
Mark Knecht: Following along in the spirit of your response I don't even see version 1.23 so I've tried installing the newest masked version, even though I expect this failed on your machine: Sector9 ~ # eix -I ndiswrapper * net-wireless/ndiswrapper Available versions: 1.2-r1 1.25 1.26 1.28 1.29 Installed: 1.29 Homepage:http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ Description: Wrapper for using Windows drivers for some wireless cards This is why I now keep two Gentoo root partitions, stable and testing: in stable there is a fully working system, in testing I update and look at what happens ;-) From the command line it appears that the newest version of ndiswrapper is suggesting I can now use a Linux driver. I have no idea how to actually do that though. Sector9 ~ # ndiswrapper -l installed drivers: neta3ab driver installed, hardware (168C:001A) present (alternate driver: ath_pci) Sector9 ~ # [] Since I cannot get ndiswrapper working how would I go about getting ath_pci to work? I'd check Stroller's advice ;-) You could also look at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Wireless http://gentoo-wiki.com/Index:Hardware#Wireless http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: wlan0 is sssloooow
Scenario: - I have a HAG (Home Access Gateway, which embodies an ADSL modem) installed by my provider; - the HAG has three RJ45 ports; when a PC is connected to one of theese ports, it gets an IP address via DHCP; - I have connected a Belkin wireless rooter to one of theese ports; - I connect my PC to another port, and/or to the wireless router (by running modprobe ndiswrapper; then /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 is ran by ifplugs - at least, this is what I can guess ;-). When I run Windows, my wireless connection is normal, but when I run Gentoo there are strange delays. For example, a simple ping is fast under Windows, very slow under Gentoo. I have to stop net.wlan0 to get normal pings again. As far as I can understand, it is a matter of metric. When I only connect my PC to the wireless router, I can see: a) under Windows (the output is in Italian, but I'm sure you can read it - using a fixed font may help ;-): route PRINT Elenco interfacce 0x1 ... MS TCP Loopback interface 0x2 ...00 16 d3 09 2d 17 .. NVIDIA nForce Networking 0x3 ...00 14 a5 e1 d2 b9 .. WLAN Broadcom 802.11a/b/g Route attive: Indirizzo rete Mask Gateway Interfac. Metric 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1 192.168.2.2 25 127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1 192.168.2.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.2.2 192.168.2.2 25 192.168.2.2 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 25 192.168.2.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.2.2 192.168.2.2 25 224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 192.168.2.2 192.168.2.2 25 255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.2.2 2 1 255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.2.2 192.168.2.2 1 Gateway predefinito: 192.168.2.1 Route permanenti: Nessuno b) under Gentoo: b.1) fast: sergio ~ # route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 2000 0 0 wlan0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG2000 0 0 wlan0 b.1) very slow: sergio ~ # route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 2000 0 0 wlan0 loopback* 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG2000 0 0 wlan0 I can just notice an astonishing difference between metrics: 25 under Windows, 2000 (!) under Linux. I've tried route del default and then route add default gw 192.168.2.1 metric 0, but the wireless connection was still slow. Slow means, for example, that if I use my browser and go to www.google.com, Looking for www.google.com lasts too mach. Any hints? Thanks Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: wlan0 is sssloooow
Richard Fish: On 11/26/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can just notice an astonishing difference between metrics: 25 under Windows, 2000 (!) under Linux. The absolute value of an interface metric is meaningless, they only matter in relation to other interface metrics active at the time. They are used to decide between interfaces when a host can be reached through more than one interface. So for example, if you have a dialup connection as well as broadband, you would want the broadband connection to have a lower metric than the dialup so that it is the 'preferred' interface. Thanks for your answer. My pings (perhaps all DNS lookups) are slow even if connect my PC to both the wireless router and the cable, i.e. when there are both a fast (metric 0) and a slow (metric 2000) interface. What do ifconfig wlan and iwconfig wlan report for the fast and slow states? Fast (i.e. normal ;-) state happens only when net.wlan0 is stopped. When I start net.wlan0: sergio ~ # ifconfig wlan0 wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:A5:E1:D2:B9 inet addr:192.168.2.2 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:93 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2742 (2.6 Kb) TX bytes:10200 (9.9 Kb) Interrupt:20 Memory:c300-c3004000 sergio ~ # iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:mynet Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:17:3F:0C:19:12 Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:------XX Security mode:restricted Power Management:off Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-48 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:1 Invalid misc:168 Missed beacon:0 And the host that you are pinging, is a remote internet host or something local (like 192.168.2.1)? Remote internet hosts (f.i., google) and local. BTW, I can't ping 192.168.2.1, i.e. the wireless router. But I can under Windows! Thanks Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wlan0/ndiswrapper failing after gcc-4 upgrade (and dual Windows boot)
Mark Knecht: Unless I'm mistaken, that module is ndiswrapper which was emerged again after the kernel was rebuilt. Was ndiswrapper emerged *and updated*? My card name is Broadcom BCM4310 UART, my gcc is 4.1.1, my udev is 087-r1. I have to use ndiswrapper 1.23 because more recent versions do not work. HTH Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] undoing emerge --sync
Neil Bothwick: On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:00:09 +0200, Sergio Polini wrote: May I undo an emerge --sync? Only be restoring from a previously made backup or another computer that you haven't synced yet. I apologize for my delay. What have I to backup to be able to restore a previous sync? Are /usr/portage and /etc/conf.d enough? Thanks Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] undoing emerge --sync
Michael Sullivan: On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 19:57 +0100, Sergio Polini wrote: Neil Bothwick: On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:00:09 +0200, Sergio Polini wrote: May I undo an emerge --sync? Only be restoring from a previously made backup or another computer that you haven't synced yet. I apologize for my delay. What have I to backup to be able to restore a previous sync? Are /usr/portage and /etc/conf.d enough? Thanks Sergio Theoretically, couldn't you just go to a Gentoo mirror and download a portage snapshot from before you ran emerge --sync? Yes, but I'ld like to return to a tested sync. Perhaps I've been too concise ;) I have two Gentoo systems, stable and testing. I'ld like to test a new sync in the testing system, and: a) if it does not work well to me, restore the previous working sync from the stable system, and wait for a new sync; b) if it works well, copy the working sync to the stable system. This is why I'm wondering if copying /usr/portage and /etc/conf.d would be enough. Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound
Richard Fish: Unfortunately, even though I can get all the right libraries to load, I cannot get sound to work reliably on amd64. Neither aoss nor vmdsp seem to work for me, either as a user or root. That's very strange, because... However, I think I know how to make aoss work as a normal user on your system. You should just need to: # chmod 4755 /emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0 # ln -s /emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so /usr/lib32/libaoss.so The first command is just to make sure the library is setuid. YOU ARE GREAT!!! I have too Gentoos, stable and testing. I had only vmplayer installed in stable (the virtual machine is in another partition). So I have: a) emerged alsa-oss b) emerged emul-linux-x86-soundlibs c) chmoded and ln -sed as you have advised and sound is working now both as root and as normal user! Thanks! If you have some spare time, I'ld like to understand why the symbolic link in /usr/lib32 is needed (and why your solution works on my system and not on yours). But don't bother. I can imagine that you have something better to do ;-) Tanks again Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound
Dear Bo, Hans-Werner, and Richard, I wish at first to thank you for your help. Then, I think that a small recap could be useful. Please, select a fixed font ;-) a) vmwarearts (in vmware-dsp): userlibvmdsp.so result -- --- --- normal chmod -s no preload rootchmod -s no /dev/dsp normal chmod +s no preload rootchmod +s no /dev/dsp b) aoss32 (in alsa-oss): useremul/.../libaoss.so.0.0.0 result -- - -- normal chmod -s no preload rootchmod -s no preload normal chmod +s no preload rootchmod +s no preload c) aoss (in alsa-oss): userlibaoss.so.0.0.0 result -- -- normal chmod -s no preload rootchmod -s sound works normal chmod +s no preload rootchmod +s sound works As to: Richard: Sergio, try doing chmod +s on /emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so There is no such file! Now: i) I can't understand why root can't open /dev/dsp when running vmwarearts. I can only guess that aoss works better ;-) ii) suid and sgid bits look insignificant (!) Hans-Werner Hilse: You answered my last question about why you are mocking with chmod +s with something along the lines of I felt like I had to. What makes you think you have to? Why should those libraries be set with setuid? Sorry, my answer was evasive because I've googled a lot and can't remember where I've read that I had to ;-) However, I also tried installing vmwaredsp-1.3 manually, and in the install script, runme.sh, there is the line: install -c -m 64/libvmdsp.so $LIB64/libvmdsp.so (but even the vmwarearts in this package does not work). Richard's answer: This is necessary because vmware is a setuid executable, and you cannot use LD_PRELOAD with setuid executables unless those libraries are *also* setuid. look very interesting, because, as far as I can understand testing ~ # cd /opt/vmware/workstation/bin testing bin # l total 1872 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root12292 Nov 1 00:20 vm-support* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6160 Nov 1 00:20 vmnet-bridge* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 110872 Nov 1 00:20 vmnet-dhcpd* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 118884 Nov 1 00:20 vmnet-natd* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5192 Nov 1 00:20 vmnet-netifup* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8140 Nov 1 00:20 vmnet-sniffer* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4574 Nov 1 00:20 vmplayer* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4946 Nov 1 00:20 vmrun* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4570 Nov 1 00:20 vmware* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 268975 Nov 1 00:20 vmware-config.pl* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 486368 Nov 1 00:20 vmware-loop* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root25488 Nov 1 00:20 vmware-mount.pl* -rws--x--- 1 root vmware 10852 Nov 1 00:20 vmware-ping* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root90467 Nov 1 00:20 vmware-uninstall.pl* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 694312 Nov 1 00:20 vmware-vdiskmanager* testing bin # my vmware *is not* setuid! However, nothing changes if I do chmod +s on libaoss *and* vmware: sound only works when I am root, otherwise libaoss is not preloaded. BTW, I've installed Ubunto 6.10 and looked at what happened. Well vmwareesd... works!!! Linux kernel: 2.6.17 i686 glibc: 2.4 libvmdsp.so: setuid (!) I am in the dark. Also because googling around I can see that a similar preload problem occurs rather often in several different cases, but there is seldom a solution Eventually I'll run vmware as root when I'll need sound ;-) Thanks again Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound
Me: As to: Richard: Sergio, try doing chmod +s on /emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so There is no such file! Sorry, Richard. I was looking in /emul/linux/x86/lib ;-)) However the results are those reported in my previous message. Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound
Richard Fish:
On 11/8/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sergio, try doing chmod +s on
/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so
There is no such file!
Hold up. Previously you posted:
[cut]
If this file doesn't exist,
That file esists. I was looking in /emul/linux/x86/lib. ;-)
If instead you have emul/.../libaoss.so.0.0.0, then change
the LD_PRELOAD in aoss32 to:
LD_PRELOAD=${exec_prefix}/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0${LD_PRELOAD:+:$LD_PR
ELOAD}
I would also add an echo for debugging after that:
echo running with LD_PRELOAD=$LD_PRELOAD
If I write:
LD_PRELOAD=${exec_prefix}/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0${LD_PRELOAD:+:
$LD_PRELOAD} exec $@
echo running with LD_PRELOAD=$LD_PRELOAD
I get:
[sp ~]$ aoss32 vmware
ERROR: ld.so: object '/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0' from
LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
(five times)
and the echo statement is not executed.
If I write:
LD_PRELOAD=${exec_prefix}/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0${LD_PRELOAD:+:
$LD_PRELOAD} echo running with LD_PRELOAD=$LD_PRELOAD exec $@
I get:
[sp ~]$ aoss32 vmware
running with LD_PRELOAD=
?
However: no preloading error message, but sound does not work.
BTW: are you sure sure that one can still set LD_PRELOAD to an
*absolute* path?
Are you actually logged into KDE as root, or as your normal user?
Always as a normal user. I open a new root shell in Konsole when I
wish to be root.
What happens when you run artsplay
/usr/kde/3.5/share/sounds/KDE_Startup_1.ogg as root? under your
user account?
I can hear the sound.
This is a shell script (your clue is the size). The actual binary
that executes the virtual machine (and this needs to produce sound)
is in /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin, and is named vmware-vmx. It
is almost certainly setuid.
Right. I apologize for my foolishness/laziness. Let me say that I was
a bit tired yesterday evening ;-)
I really don't understand why aoss would only work as root. I
suspect a path or environment issue here, possibly a different
library is actually being loaded. I suspect this has more to do
with the actual path to the library being loaded as root versus
your user account.
On Marc 27th, 2005 you wrote in a VMWare Forum:
Ok, I got it figured out. It seems that in response to GLSA
200408-16, Gentoo made a patch that in addition to fixing the
LD_DEBUG vulnerability, moved the cleansing of the environment
to before the values were saved. This part of the change is not in
the official glibc CVS source, and the patch is not applied for
glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1 (currently marked for testing...).
So Gentoo users will need to upgrade their glibc to at least
2.3.4.20050125 to use LD_PRELOAD with setuid binaries.
Are you sure that that has not been reverted in glibc 2.4-r3?
I'm going to try installing workstation on my amd64 desktop and see
what I get.
Thanks!!!
Sergio
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Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound
Richard Fish: Sorry for the late reply...I've been away for a couple of days. That's very kind of you :-) Hmm, looks like building this is broken on AMD64 arches...too bad. I'll check the patch submitted by Bo. testing ~ # ldd /usr/lib/libvmdsp.so ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for `/usr/lib/libvmdsp.so' libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x2b944790f000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x2b9447a25000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x2b9447b29000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x4000) Ah, libvmdsp.so is a 64-bit library. I am pretty sure that vmware is still distributed as a 32-bit application, so yeah, preloading 64-bit libraries won't work. Sorry, but... are you sure that a 32-vs-64 bit compatibility problem can vanish when I run aoss vmware as root? Sound works when I am root... Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound
Bo Ørsted Andresen: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150495 I've attached a patch for the ebuild on the bug that although not excactly optimal it works for me. Thanks! Now I've just to understand how to emerge an ebuild with a new patch ;-))) Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound
Sergio Polini: Bo Ørsted Andresen: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150495 I've attached a patch for the ebuild on the bug that although not excactly optimal it works for me. Thanks! Now I've just to understand how to emerge an ebuild with a new patch ;-))) Well, it was easy, but: a) when I run vmwarearts as a normal user, I get: vmwarearts ERROR: ld.so: object 'libvmdsp.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. and sound doesn't work; b) when I run vmwarearts as root, I get a vmware messate Failed to open sound device /dev/dsp: No such device Virtual device sound will start disconnected.; c) when I run aoss vmware as a normal user, I get: ERROR: ld.so: object 'libaoss.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. d) when I run aoss vmware as root sound works!!! I still think that there is something about permissions somewhere. Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound
Richard Fish:
Ah, libvmdsp.so is a 64-bit library. I am pretty sure that vmware
is still distributed as a 32-bit application, so yeah, preloading
64-bit libraries won't work.
Try changing the vmwarearts script to preload the library from
/usr/lib32 instead of /usr/lib.
I've tried aoss32, i.e.:
#!/bin/sh
# A simple script to facilitate the use of the OSS compatibility
library.
# Usage:
# aoss command command options and arguments
if [ -d /proc/asound ]; then
prefix=/emul/linux/x86/usr
exec_prefix=${prefix}
LD_PRELOAD=${exec_prefix}/lib/libaoss.so${LD_PRELOAD:+:$LD_PRELOAD}
exec $@
else
exec $@
fi
exit 1
But I've got (the same as root):
[sp ~]$ ERROR: ld.so: object '/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so' from
LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so' from
LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so' from
LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so' from
LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so' from
LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
Sergio
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Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound
Richard Fish: [sp ~]$ ERROR: ld.so: object '/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. What are the permissions on this? a) ls -l /emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0 - -rwxr-xr-x [sp ~]$ aoss32 vmware [1] 5409 [sp ~]$ ERROR: ld.so: object '/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. (five times) testing ~ # aoss32 vmware [1] 5439 testing lib # ERROR: ld.so: object '/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. (five times) b) chmod +s libaoss.so.0.0.0 ls -l /emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0 - -rwsr-sr-x [sp ~]$ aoss32 vmware [1] 5462 [sp ~]$ ERROR: ld.so: object '/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. (five times) testing lib # aoss32 vmware [1] 5480 testing ~ # ERROR: ld.so: object '/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libaoss.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. (five times) But: testing ~ # aoss vmware [1] 5515 (sound works) [sp ~]$ aoss vmware [2] 5598 [sp ~]$ ERROR: ld.so: object 'libaoss.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound
Hans-Werner Hilse: On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 12:55:58 +0100 Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since vmware-dsp (which is ~amd64) doesn't compile, I have: - emerged alsa-oss - chmod +s /usr/lib/libaoss.so.* ^^^ Why did you do that? I did that because, as far as I have understood, I had to ;-) Try setting it back and then use LD_PRELOAD. Done. Sound still not working, unless I run aoss vmware (or aoss wmplayer) as root. Your normal user account can't possibly change to another user (probably root in this case for /usr/lib/libaoss.*...). I suspect that there is a glibc problem: http://www.vmware.com/community/message.jspa?messageID=26228 Look at the posts by... Richard Fish ;-) Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Determine kernel release of non-running kernel
Tim Garton: Anyone know how to determine the kernel release of a non-running kernel? Like 'uname -r' but point it at a kernel file? $ strings kernel file | head -20 ;-) ... but I don't know how to automate that. HTH Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound
Richard Fish: The workaround to this is to use a wrapper such as aoss or vmware-dsp that fakes out the application when it tries to open /dev/dsp and uses another audio API instead (alsa for aoss, esd or artsd for vmware-dsp). Since vmware-dsp (which is ~amd64) doesn't compile, I have: - emerged alsa-oss - chmod +s /usr/lib/libaoss.so.* - created a script: #!/bin/bash LD_PRELOAD=libaoss.so exec /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware Now: i) if I run the script as myself, sound doesn't work and I get ERROR: ld.so: object 'libaoss.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. I get the same result if I run aoss vmware. As to ldd /usr/lib/libaoss.so.0.0.0: libalsatoss.so.0 = /usr/lib/libalsatoss.so.0 (0x2b09ff97f000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x2b09ffa89000) libasound.so.2 = /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 (0x2b09ffcb4000) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x2b09ffe8b000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x2b09fffe) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x2b0a000e4000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x4000) ii) if I run the script as root, sound works! So, it looks like a matter of permissions, but I can't guess what I should change. I hope that you can ;-) Cheers Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound
I'm experimenting with VMWare. I've installed VMWare Workstation (5.5.1.19175-r7 ebuild) and created a Windows Virtual Machine. Then I've installed VMWare Player (in another Gentoo partition), so I can play the VM I've created. It works fine. Running Internet Explorer under Linux is rather amusing ;-) Well, I've installed VMWare because I _must_ run a few Windows apps (not IE ;-)) and don't like to shutdown my Gentoo box to do that. But that is another matter... Now I have what I needed, but I can't help experimenting Sound does not work. Sometimes (not always) I get a message like cannot connect to /dev/dsp. Even if I do not get that message, even if the sound card looks connected (no red x) sound is not working. I've found a VMWare document about a wrapper: http://kb.vmware.com/vmtnkb/search.do?cmd=displayKCdocType=kcexternalId=1611sliceId=SAL_Public but it looks suited for versions 3.x, 4.x, and 5.0.x. Moreover, I've installed it and got: [sp ~]$ vmwarearts [1] 5669 [sp ~]$ ERROR: ld.so: object 'libvmdsp.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. And no sound, of course Any hints? Thanks Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound
Richard Fish: On 11/4/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sound does not work. Sometimes (not always) I get a message like cannot connect to /dev/dsp. Even if I do not get that message, even if the sound card looks connected (no red x) sound is not working. I've found a VMWare document about a wrapper: The problem is that /dev/dsp is the legacy OSS api, and does not support dmix (software mixing of audio). Thus only one application can access /dev/dsp at a time unless your card supports hardware mixing. So most likely, /dev/dsp is already in use by some app. alsasound? kde? even if I have auto-suspend enabled? The workaround to this is to use a wrapper such as aoss or vmware-dsp that fakes out the application when it tries to open /dev/dsp and uses another audio API instead (alsa for aoss, esd or artsd for vmware-dsp). http://kb.vmware.com/vmtnkb/search.do?cmd=displayKCdocType=kcexte rnalId=1611sliceId=SAL_Public but it looks suited for versions 3.x, 4.x, and 5.0.x. Moreover, I've installed it and got: FYI, there is an ebuild available for this...emerge vmare-dsp. Oops! ;-) It emerged app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs-2.3 too (Im running Gentoo AMD64), but then: 01:56:32 (200.82 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/vmwaredsp-1.3.tar.gz' saved [52412/52412] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking vmwaredsp-1.3.tar.gz ;-) ... [ ok ] Unpacking source... Unpacking vmwaredsp-1.3.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/vmware-dsp-1.3/work Source unpacked. Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/vmware-dsp-1.3/work/vmwaredsp-1.3 ... * Building aRts support only. make -C 32 default make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/vmware-dsp-1.3/work/vmwaredsp-1.3/src/32' cc -c -W -Wall -O2 -fPIC -o vmdsp.o ../vmdsp.c cc -shared -Wl,-version-script=../vmdsp.map -o libvmdsp.so vmdsp.o -lpthread -ldl -lc /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: libvmdsp.so: undefined versioned symbol name [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [libvmdsp.so] Error 1 rm vmdsp.o make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/vmware-dsp-1.3/work/vmwaredsp-1.3/src/32' make: *** [default] Error 2 !!! ERROR: app-emulation/vmware-dsp-1.3 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 937: Called src_compile vmware-dsp-1.3.ebuild, line 58: Called die !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. :-( [sp ~]$ ERROR: ld.so: object 'libvmdsp.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. What does ldd /usr/lib/libvmdsp* report? (or whatever directory libvmdsp got installed to..) From my former install (1611_fvmwaredsp-1.3.tgz): testing ~ # ldd /usr/lib/libvmdsp.so ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for `/usr/lib/libvmdsp.so' libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x2b944790f000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x2b9447a25000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x2b9447b29000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x4000) PS:The real fix for this is for VMWare to *stop* using the deprecated OSS API for sound, and implement real ALSA compatibility. I highly recommend sending this request to them! Sure, but first I'ld like to get sound working ;-) Thanks Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Grub causing kernel panic? - ThinkPad T40 - new install
Greg Morin:
Device Boot Size System Filesystem Mount point
= = =
/dev/hda1 * 32MLinux ext2 /boot
/dev/hda2 3GLinux swap none none
/dev/hda3 ~71GLinuxext3 /
My layout is similar:
/dev/sda5 : /boot
/dev/sda6: /
grub.conf
[cut]
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.17-r8
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda3
My grub.conf:
title=Gentoo 2.6.17-r8 Stable (sda6)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/sda6 doscsi
Any ideas?
Delete /boot from the kernel line.
HTH
Sergio
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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg can't work with hotplugged mice?
Mick: My touchpad does not seem to have a problem: = Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver synaptics Option Protocol SynPS/2 Option InputFashion Mouse Option Device /dev/input/mice Option Name SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad Option SHMConfig on Option Vendor 0002 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Option Emulate3Buttons True Option Buttons 3 EndSection = On the other hand I have not tried (yet) a USB mouse to see if/how it will be picked up. No problem with PS/2 mice though. They are detected as soon as I plug them in. No problem with my touchpad (HP Pavilion dv200z) and my Logitech USB mouse (even if I plug and unplug it). $ cat /proc/bus/input/devices ... I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version= N: Name=SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad P: Phys=isa0060/serio4/input0 S: Sysfs=/class/input/input3 H: Handlers=mouse0 event2 B: EV=b B: KEY=6420 7 0 0 0 0 B: ABS=1103 I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c016 Version=0340 N: Name=Logitech Optical USB Mouse P: Phys=usb-:00:0b.0-6/input0 S: Sysfs=/class/input/input5 H: Handlers=mouse1 event3 B: EV=7 B: KEY=7 0 0 0 0 B: REL=103 $ less /etc/X11/xorg.conf .. Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocolauto Option Device /dev/input/mice Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier TouchPad Driver synaptics Option Device/dev/input/mouse0 Option Protocol auto-dev Option LeftEdge 1700 Option RightEdge 5300 Option TopEdge 1700 Option BottomEdge4200 Option FingerLow 25 Option FingerHigh30 Option MaxTapTime180 Option MaxTapMove220 Option VertScrollDelta 100 Option MinSpeed 0.09 Option MaxSpeed 0.18 Option AccelFactor 0.0015 Option SHMConfig on EndSection Cheers, Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] undoing emerge --sync
May I undo an emerge --sync? Thanks Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] undoing emerge --sync
Mick: On Sunday 15 October 2006 13:00, Sergio Polini wrote: May I undo an emerge --sync? Thanks Sergio No, but wait for a while for the mirrors to refresh themselves and resync later. Hopefully, what ever package/version you couldn't download would be updated for synch-ing by then. Of course, I'm only liberally interpreting your question to deduce what the problem might be, because you didn't tell us. You are right ;-) My problems are: a) my goal is a reasonably updated working system, not one in the latest fashion; b) I had got to two RUWSs, an old Athlon xp (with riva TNT 2) and an HP dv5000z (Turion, ATI Radeon Xpress 200M); -- updating my Athlon system was a mess *before* the new nvidia-legacy-drivers package, so it was worth updating the portage tree, but after the last emerge --sync many packages are blocked becasue they want a non-existent media-video/nvidia-glx (?) required (?) by an already installed and working qt-3.3.6-r1; -- my laptop was perfect before modular X, then I ran into inadeguate support (by ATI and Xorg) of my video card. I'm thinking about a solution: a) a stable root partition, including all directories used by portage (/etc, /usr, /var, and..? eventually all but home); b) a testing root partition; c) updating the portage tree in the testing partion, always emerging with the --buildpkg option; d) updating the portage tree in the stable partition, and emerging the tbz2files created on the testing partition. only when the testing partition looks stable. Any comments? Thanks Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] DRI lost... solved ;-)
I wish to thank Benno, Jerry and Richard for their help. However, I've found another solution ;-) I have presented my daughter with my HP dv5000z, and so I've got rid of that irksome and ill-supported ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M. I'm going to purchase a new HP dv2000 (Turion X2, Geforce 6150). ;-) Thanks a lot! Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DRI lost after modular X and gcc-4.1.1
Jerry: Which kernel? 2.6.12-r10 (2.6.18 is masked ;-) Here, running 2.6.18, I compile the kernel drm, agpgart and ati-agp. I then emerge x11-drm. In /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 I add; agpgart, ati-agp, drm then radeon. In that specific order. Also, run eselect opengl and be sure xorg-x11 is selected. I can't comile agpgart as a module, nor get ati-agp compiled. When I make menuconfig: --- /dev/agpgart (AGP Support) [I can't select it] M Intel 440LX/BX/GX, I8xx and E7x05 chipset support M Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) M ATI Radeon after make, in /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/drm: [root] ls -l ati* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14061 25 feb 2006 ati-agp.c [root] ls -l *.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49283 25 set 08:36 agpgart.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15728 25 set 08:36 amd64-agp.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12039 25 set 08:36 backend.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62203 25 set 08:36 built-in.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10944 25 set 08:36 frontend.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26452 25 set 08:36 generic.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7816 25 set 08:42 intel-agp.mod.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39056 25 set 08:36 intel-agp.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5704 25 set 08:36 isoch.o How did you compile ati-agp? Thanks Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DRI lost after modular X and gcc-4.1.1
Sorry, I can't understand... Richard Fish: If you want DRI, you have two choices: 1. the open source radeon driver, with the in-kernel DRM driver. For this you need to turn on CONFIG_DRM and CONFIG_DRM_RADEON in your kernel configuration. This doesn't work for all chips yet AFAIK. 2. the proprietary ATI drivers. For this you don't change the kernel configuration, but add fglrx to VIDEO_CARDS, and change your xorg.conf driver from radeon to fglrx. But: i) as to http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers there is a third choise: CONFIG_DRM=n and emerge x11-drm; ii) in http://www.ati.com/products/catalyst/linux.html: Q7: What X-Windows versions are supported in this driver? A7: Driver packages are available for XFree86 versions 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3, as well as X.Org 6.8. So they shouldn't work with Xorg 7.* (actually I had DRI working with Xorg 6.8) Jerry McBride: I compile the kernel drm, agpgart and ati-agp. I then emerge x11-drm. But the kernel drm and x11-drm look as they are not to work together. me: How did you compile ati-agp? I selected it and then compiled them with make modules. But I just can select ATI radeon if I select kernel drm: M Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) M ATI Radeon I do net get ati-agp compiled, and ... make modules should not be needed for kernels 2.6.* ;-) I'm a bit confused. Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] DRI lost after modular X and gcc-4.1.1
I need your help ;-) I've switched to modular X and gcc-4.1.1, and I've lost DRI :-( My configuration: HP dv5078EA (laptop) Gentoo AMD64 Kernel 2.6.12-r10 in /usr/src/linux/.config: CONFIG_MTRR=y CONFIG_AGP=y CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m # CONFIG_DRM is not set output of lspci | grep VGA: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) output of lspci | grep AGP: none sys-apps/portage 2.1.1 media-libs/mesa 6.4.2-r2 x11-base/xorg-x11 7.0-r1 x11-base/x11--drm 20060608 in /etc/make.conf: VIDEO_CARDS=vga radeon in /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section Module Load dri Load dbe SubSection extmod Option omit xfree86-dga EndSubSection Load type1 Load freetype Load synaptics Load glx EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI Graphics Adapter Driver radeon Option AGPFastWrite 1 EndSection output of eselect opengl show: xorg-x11 output of glxinfo | grep direct: direct rendering: No OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect in /var/log/Xorg.0.log: (II) LoadModule: dri (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so ... (II) Loading sub module drm (II) LoadModule: drm (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/linux/libdrm.so ... (II) Loading sub module radeon (II) LoadModule: radeon (II) Reloading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so ... (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) ChipID = 0x5955) (--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xc000 (II) RADEON(0): PCI card detected drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device or address) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci::01:05.0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns -1023 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card1 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed ... drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card14 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM [dri] Disabling DRI. output of lsmod, first three lines; Module Size Used by radeon123808 0 drm 101544 1 radeon output of ls -al /dev/dri: total 0 Docs checked: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DRI_with_ATi_Open-Source_Drivers Any hints? Thanks Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.1 weirdness
Bo Ørsted Andresen: Look at the first section at the GWN from the 16. of January [1]. Also this (autouse) has recently been added to the release notes of portage 2.1 [2] (they forgot until now). Thanks! I didn't subscribe to the GWN. My fault ;-) Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.1 weirdness
Mick: As I understand it (I'm sure this has been covered in GWN, forums, etc.) USE flags which had been set automatically by certain packages are no longer valid universally. Therefore, either add those USE flags missing (e.g. ldap mozilla for OOo) in your /etc/make.conf, or if you only want them for a particular package add them in /etc/portage/package.use. I'm sure (I'ld like to be sure) that this change is documented somewhere, but I can't find where. I need documentation because I'm an advanced user of some packages (f.i., tetex), but a naive user of other ones (f.i., xine). So I can't understand why and how I should re-emerge xine because of: [ebuild R ] media-video/xine-ui-0.99.4-r5 USE=X ncurses nls readline -aalib -curl* -libcaca -lirc -vdr -xinerama 0 kB Any hints? Thanks Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive mounting
dirk dil: I'm having trouble mounting a jetflash 110 onto usb. Please, check http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/usb-guide.xml and your flash drive will work well ;-) Sergio ___ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Sierra Wireless AirCard 850
I'ld like to know how to get the card working ;-) That is: -- minimal kernel version; -- kernel config options; -- auxiliary packages (pcmcia-cs, pcpcia-cs-cis, pcmciautils, etc.). Thanks Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I'm going crazy ;-)
Qian Qiao: That's exactly the reason we still use mysql 4.0 in our production environment. The mysql charset thingy is basically a whole load of mess. A brief search on mysql's bug database shows some of the encoding bugs and unicode key length not correctly calculated are still not properly fixed yet they pushed their production version to 5.0. Thanks. I've unmerged mysql 4.1.14, and emerged 4.0.25. Now I'm revdep-rebuilding. This is why I love Gentoo ;-) Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] I'm going crazy ;-)
What's happening about locales/languages? I've tried to install PHP-Nuke and Xoops, but one of them (I don't remember which one, now ;-)) doesn't like utf8 encoding, because it creates too long primary keys for MySQL. So I remerged MySQL and replaced utf8 with latin1 in /etc/mysql/my.conf. I've emerged Mediawiki (thanks Ric!) with the math USE flag, but when I try to save a page containing a formula I get the error message: 1267: Illegal mix of collations (latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '=' (localhost) Yes! My wikidb database was created with latin1_swedish_ci collation!!! And phpmyadmin says to me that MySQL charset is utf8!!! Who has set those collation values??? I didn't... Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mediawiki
Ric de France: Hi Sergio, On 4/22/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then I got the error Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and cannot contact the database server. As far I can understand, this happens because of the new password algorithm in mysql 4.1+, so I've remerged dev-lang/php with the mysqli flag, but I still get the same error. From what I remember, I think I got something similar to you... what I think I did was: a) Start up mysql - something like: /etc/init.d/mysql start b) Check to see if the encryption level you're using is correct - Mediawiki was written in an older version of PHP, and does not use the same authentication as the latest and greatest of mysql. In /etc/mysql/my.cnf add the line old_passwords to the file in the [mysqld] section... it seemed to make it work... c) Check: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Running_MediaWiki_on_Gentoo_Lin ux - this page is a little out of date. If you use PHP5, you don't need mod_php (well I didn't)... Thanks! As soon as possibile, I'll give Mediawiki another try ;-) Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Mediawiki
I can't install Mediawiki 1.4.15. I've installed: a) apache 2.0.55-r1 b) dev-lang/php 5.1.2 (current flags in /etc/portage/package.use: dba gd -gd-external pcre mysql mysqli session) c) mysql 4.1.14-r1 I got the error Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes when creating the categorylinks table, so I've esecuted ALTER DATABASE wikidb DEFAULT CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE latin1_general_ci. Then I got the error Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and cannot contact the database server. As far I can understand, this happens because of the new password algorithm in mysql 4.1+, so I've remerged dev-lang/php with the mysqli flag, but I still get the same error. Does anybody know how to get mediawiki installed? Thanks Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency info is missing! Run /sbin/depscan.sh
Daevid Vincent: * Dependancy info is missing! Please run * #/sbin/depscan.sh * to fix this. Well, of course I do run that script and it does absolutely nothing. No output. No anything. I'ld try remerging baselayout. HTH Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency info is missing! Run /sbin/depscan.sh
Daevid Vincent: How can I do that when I don't have networking?! :( -Original Message- From: Sergio Polini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 12:32 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency info is missing! Run /sbin/depscan.sh Daevid Vincent: * Dependancy info is missing! Please run * #/sbin/depscan.sh * to fix this. Well, of course I do run that script and it does absolutely nothing. No output. No anything. I'ld try remerging baselayout. Chek Richard Fish's advice. However, you surely can remerge what you have alreary emerged once ;-) You do not clean /usr/portage/distfiles. Do you? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problems with ifplugd
Neil Bothwick: On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:47:18 +0200, Sven Köhler wrote: I would rather like, if ifplugd would automatically do the ifconfig up so that no configuration tweaks are needed. Of course, i also got to put the interface in the up state on boot, because i don't want to put net.eth0 in the default-runlevel for the case where there is no cable plugged in ... That's what you're doing wrong. Well... what is wrong? I think that putting the interface in the up state on boot is wrong, but perhaps removing net.eth0 from the default runlevel is not, even if there is a cable plugged in. I mean that net.eth0 is executed by /etc/iflugd/ifplugd.action. At least, this is how my laptop is working ;-) Is there anything wrong with this setting? Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE desktop icons
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am using KDE 3.4.3 Gentoo amd64. Almost every time I login the icons of the desktop moved and mixed. I tried checking every possible options (KDE Comtrol Center), with no results. Any hints. Try checking right-button-mouse-click / Icons / Align to grid. Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Init sequence
Ryan Tandy: Try calling your favorite rc-script with 'help' as the argument (for example, /etc/init.d/net.eth0 help). This gives a fairly detailed description of what you're asking. Neil Bothwick: Run any init script with help instead of start/stop and you'll see a fairly comprehensive explanation. Yes, at least I can understand what net means. Thanks! Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Init sequence
I'ld like to know how the sequence of init scripts is set up. There are such functions as after() and before() (f.i., in net.lo), and commands like before, need, after in depend() functions (f.i., in cupsd). I'ld like to understand: - what's the difference between after/before commands and functions; - where/how the commands' arguments (f.i., net in use net, nfs in before nfs, etc.) are defined. Moreover, I'd like to know if it's possible to verify the actual sequence of the init scripts. I can look at the commands that a make command would execute but do not execute them, or at the problems reported by fsck avoiding to repair them, by the -n option. Could I check an init sequence in a similar way? Thanks Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Init sequence
Bo Andresen: On Wednesday 22 March 2006 20:26, Sergio Polini wrote: I'ld like to know how the sequence of init scripts is set up. Did you look in the Gentoo handbook? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap= 4 If after reading that you still have unanswered questions then ask again. I had read that page (perhaps I should have said that I had ;-), but: - before() and after() functions are not mentioned (I can guess that they are normal functions defined only in net.*); - the arguments to after and before seem service names (f.i., but want your service to be started before (or after) another service), but... what kind of service is net? Is it net.lo, net.eth?, netmount? There is no net service... I'm using a notebook (HP dv5078) and an all-in-one printer (HP PSC 1510). The hplip service has not worked until I removed it from the default runlevel and executed it in local.start. I've found that hplip worked if started after iptables, didn't work if started before iptables. I've contacted HP, and their answer was: HPLIP requires the loopback interface for TCP/IP socket communication. I would expect the following order at boot time for proper operation. iptables loopback interface hplip cups My default init sequence [was] is different: - domainname - net.lo - syslog-ng - anacron - net.eth0 [- hplip, when it didn't work] - cupsd - gpm - iptables - netmount - local - hplip I'ld like to try the sequence suggested by HP, but I can't understand what could I do. For example, how could I execute iptables (which is executed before net, but after net.*) before net.lo? Moreover, I'd like to know if it's possible to verify the actual sequence of the init scripts. I can look at the commands that a make command would execute but do not execute them, or at the problems reported by fsck avoiding to repair them, by the -n option. Could I check an init sequence in a similar way? I don't think so. But it will check syntax of the entire script if you run any command on it. Only syntax though. Yes, I could try: - replacing before net with before net.lo in iptables; - adding after iptables to cupsd; and so on, but even if some editing worked, eventually after a few booting failures, that would be a blind workaround ;-) Cheers Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: synaptics touchpad stop working after starting a gtk app
Mauro Faccenda: If I use the synaptics driver, my touchpad stop working after starting a GTK app (tried vmware, grkellm2, firefox). It doesn't occours when I'm using a mouse driver for it. But I want to use some advantages in synaptics driver. Is there InputDevice TouckPad AlwaysCore in your xorg.conf? HTH Sergio ___ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: synaptics touchpad stop working after starting a gtk app
Mauro Faccenda: On Tuesday 21 March 2006 13:34, Sergio Polini wrote: Is there InputDevice TouckPad AlwaysCore in your xorg.conf? hi Sergio, thanks for your help. but there is a weird thing: adding this parameter in xorg.conf [etc.] That line should have been in xorg.conf ;-) Have you read http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Synaptics_Touchpad ? made the touchpad work in fluxbox with any kind of app (gtk, qt, etc...). but in kde it stop working when kde splash says its starting the window manager. any other clue? My mouse and my touchpah (HP Pavilion dv5078ea) work well. Perhaps you should look again at your xorg.conf. In my xorg.conf there are two InputDevice sections: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol ImPS/2 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 Option Device /dev/input/mice EndSection Section InputDevice Driver synaptics Identifier TouchPad Option Device/dev/input/mouse0 Option Protocol auto-dev Option LeftEdge 1700 Option RightEdge 5300 Option TopEdge 1700 Option BottomEdge4200 Option FingerLow 25 Option FingerHigh30 Option MaxTapTime180 Option MaxTapMove220 Option VertScrollDelta 100 Option MinSpeed0.09 Option MaxSpeed0.18 Option AccelFactor 0.0015 Option SHMConfig on EndSection In the second section, your Option Device should be: Option Device/dev/input/mouse1 because of your /proc/bus/input/devices. Ciao Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr
Mark Knecht: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=121164 I'll proceed in this manner unless I hear back that there is some problem with doing it this way. There are several hints in that topic. I did move my /usr to a new partition, so I'ld say: 1. create and format your new partition; 2. mount your new partition in /mnt/whatever; 3. copy the content of your /usr into this partition by: cp -a /usr/* /mnt/whatever (the -a option is important; look at man cp); 4. reboot frome a livecd; 5. mount your root filesystem and edit /etc/fstab: /dev/hdXY /usr etc. 6. reboot from the hard disk to be sure that your new partition is well mounted and works; run mount to check that /usr is on your new partition; test this in other ways to be really sure ;-) 7. reboot again from a live cd; 8. mount your root filesystem in /mnt/something; 9. delete the old /usr directory to free the unused space: cd /mnt/something/usr rm -rf * NB: do not delete /usr itself, just its contents, as /usr is the mount point for the new partition; 10. cross your fingers and reboot from the hard disk ;-) HTH Sergio ___ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr
Mark Knecht: Well...I did my best, but it wasn't good enough. The machine no longer boots to any level that a user could use. I'm told there are lots of messages on the screen about being unable to find files. (/usr/bin, /usr/sbin sort of things...) That happened to me too ;-) But the reason was quickly clear: I had deleted /usr instead of /usr/*! Remember: 9. delete the old /usr directory to free the unused space: cd /mnt/something/usr rm -rf * NB: do not delete /usr itself, just its contents, as /usr is the mount point for the new partition; Let us suppose that your /etc/fstab looks like: /dev/hda1 /boot type opts dump/pass /dev/hda2 / type opts dump/pass /dev/hda3 /usr type opts dump/pass The first and simplest try: reboot from a livecd, then: mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/something ls /mnt/something/usr If /mnt/something/usr doesn't exist, then: mkdir /mnt/something/usr reboot You could check that the new /usr partition is there, before rebooting: mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/something_else ls /mnt/something_else The old /usr contents should be there. Why not? So, if your reboot doesn't work, reboot again from a livecd and check /etc/fstab. Let me/us know! Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] find list of files and then copy them
Marco Calviani wrote:
I need to search and copy a list of files that end with a particular
extension and belong to a certain user: i've managed this part with
find -name *.C -user username
now i would like only these files copied to a certain directory.
You could try:
find -name '*.C' -user username -exec cp '{}' destdir ';'
HTH
Sergio
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Acer Aspire 5002
Felipe Ribeiro: I'm thinking about buying the Acer Aspire 5002. Does any of you have one? Did you have problems to set things up? (video, wlan, etc) You should look at: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ which sends you to: http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/acer.html and then to: http://roguestar.dynu.com:/acer.html Or: http://tuxmobil.org/mylaptops.html HTH Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ls date was: Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem
Holly Bostick:
[...]
Sorry, couldn't help with the rest of your problem, but I think
it is assumed that ls will display the year only for files older
than a year old. Quite clever, in my opinion.
OK, I see what you mean-- or maybe I don't:
[...]
I see that many files that are more than a year old then are
followed by the year, but some are not, and some which are less
than a year old are followed by a year.
Why bother?
Untar coreutils and look at src/ls.c:
static char const *long_time_format[2] =
{
/* strftime format for non-recent files (older than 6 months), in
-l output when --time-style=locale is specified. This should
contain the year, month and day (at least), in an order that is
understood by people in your locale's territory.
Please try to keep the number of used screen columns small,
because many people work in windows with only 80 columns. But
make this as wide as the other string below, for recent files.*/
N_(%b %e %Y),
/* strftime format for recent files (younger than 6 months), in
-l output when --time-style=locale is specified. This should
contain the month, day and time (at least), in an order that is
understood by people in your locale's territory.
Please try to keep the number of used screen columns small,
because many people work in windows with only 80 columns. But
make this as wide as the other string above, for non-recent
files. */
N_(%b %e %H:%M)
};
But even leaving aside the inconsistencies (only for the purposes of
this discussion), this is not the behaviour I expect or in fact
desire. I normally expect the year to be displayed whenever the
current calendar year is different from that associated with the
file-- thus, if the file was created in 2006, I would not expect the
year to be shown, but if it was created in 2005, I would expect the
year to be shown, whether or not the current date was one year or
more from the month and day that the file was created.
The code you should change is here:
static void print_long_format (const struct fileinfo *f) {
char modebuf[12];
if ((when_local = localtime (when)))
{
time_t six_months_ago;
int recent;
char const *fmt;
/* If the file appears to be in the future, update the current
time, in case the file happens to have been modified since
the last time we checked the clock. */
if (current_time when
|| (current_time == when current_time_ns when_ns))
{
/* Note that get_current_time calls gettimeofday which, on some non-
compliant systems, clobbers the buffer used for localtime's result.
But it's ok here, because we use a gettimeofday wrapper that
saves and restores the buffer around the gettimeofday call. */
get_current_time ();
}
/* Consider a time to be recent if it is within the past six
months. A Gregorian year has 365.2425 * 24 * 60 * 60 ==
31556952 seconds on the average. Write this value as an
integer constant to avoid floating point hassles. */
six_months_ago = current_time - 31556952 / 2;
recent = (six_months_ago = when
(when current_time
|| (when == current_time when_ns = current_time_ns)));
fmt = long_time_format[recent];
}
May be, you could add a command-line option ;-)
HTH
Sergio
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Asking dhcp for a static address
Peter: iface_eth0=192.168.2.100 broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 #iface_eth0=dhcp #dhcpcd_eth0=-N gateway=eth0/192.168.2.1 This last part is important. Your PC has to find the gateway. Done. But it doesn't work :-( You might also have to add the gateway address to /etc/resolv.conf as the nameserver otherwise you might lose internet and network connections. Yes, I can't get names resolved. Do you mean that I should add nameserver 192.168.2.1 (i.e., my gateway address, which is different ;-) to /etc/resolv.conf? My resolv.conf after a dhcp connession is: domain fastwebnet.it nameserver 213.156.54.80 nameserver 213.156.54.81 (Fastweb is my provider). What should my resolv.conf look like? Thanks. Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Asking dhcp for a static address
I can't understand how to ask dhcp for a static address. I've read /etc/conf.d/net.example, but using config_eth0=( IPaddress netmask netmask brd broadcast) in /etc/conf.d/net configures my network interface _instead of_ asking dhcp (the files in /var/lib/dhcpc are not updated). If I use dhcpcd_eth0=-s IPaddress dhcpcd hangs. Any hints? Thanks Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel doesn't work
Holly Bostick: 3) Could the vmware-tools sample be sufficient to build one (xorg.conf)? Why would you bother? There is a configuration utility, you know. I don't know what it's called though, as I've never used it (just renamed my XF86Config to xorg.cfg and went on from there). Oh, scratch that, it's called xorgcfg. Very logically found with a guess and a 'which'. You could also try Xorg -configure. From man Xorg: -configure When this option is specified, the Xorg server loads all video driver modules, probes for available hardware, and writes out an initial xorg.conf(5x) file based on what was detected. This option currently has some problems on some platforms, but in most cases it is a good way to bootstrap the configuration process. This option is only available when the server is run as root (i.e, with real-uid 0). HTH Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting direct rendering (DRI) to work with ATI 9550 video card
Holly Bostick: John Lange schreef: And does that file name libglx.so.1.0.7174 seem right? Now that you mention it, no. Isn't that an nVidia file (I'm not sure, having never had an nVidia card, but that number looks like an nVidia driver revision number to me). Here's mine: [cut] Here's mine: [root ~]# l /usr/lib/modules/extensions/ total 3332 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 2451366 Aug 6 20:39 libGLcore.a -r--r--r-- 1 root root 16640 Aug 6 20:39 libdbe.a -r--r--r-- 1 root root 32530 Aug 6 20:39 libdri.a -r--r--r-- 1 root root 167796 Aug 6 20:39 libextmod.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Aug 21 17:14 libglx.so - /usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/extensions/libglx.so* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 651460 May 23 22:31 libglx.so.1.0.7174* -r--r--r-- 1 root root 25748 Aug 6 20:39 librecord.a -r--r--r-- 1 root root 39406 Aug 6 20:39 libxtrap.a [root ~]# [root ~]# l /usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/extensions/ total 644 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 651460 Aug 21 17:13 libglx.so* [root ~]# nvidia card: RIVA TNT2 nvidia-kernel-1.0.7174 nvidia-glx-1.0.7174-r4 HTH Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting direct rendering (DRI) to work with ATI 9550 video card
John Lange: Note the dates in: /usr/lib/modules/extensions/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 16580 Apr 10 17:38 libdbe.a -r--r--r-- 1 root root 32470 Apr 10 17:38 libdri.a -r--r--r-- 1 root root 167396 Apr 10 17:38 libextmod.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 651460 Apr 10 18:20 libglx.so.1.0.7174 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 25688 Apr 10 17:38 librecord.a -r--r--r-- 1 root root 39306 Apr 10 17:38 libxtrap.a nothing new in a while Does Xorg need to be re-emerged to get this working? I think so. My dates (as you can see in my previuos message) are Aug 6. Looking for Aug 06 in /var/log/emerge.log, I've found: - nvidia-kernel: not emerged on Aug 6 - nvidia-glx: not emerged on Aug 6 - opengl-update: not emerged on Aug 6 - xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2: emerged on Aug 6 HTH Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd 2.0.0 - Boot process hangs
Christoph Daldrup: I've recently done an emerge -tuvD world and dhcpcd was updated from version dhcpcd-1.3.22_p4-r11 to version 2.0.0. The emerge went fine, no error message, no note to update config-files, everything seemed to be fine. But at the next reboot, I wasn't able to get an IP adress, [etc.] I emerged -uvDN world on Sunday and dhcpcd 2.0.0 is masked. HTH Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Does GAIM 1.5 need evolution-data-server?
Hareesh Nagarajan: Hi All: Does GAIM 1.5 now need evolution-data-server? I don't know ;-) But I can notice: emerge ... [ebuild U ] net-im/gaim-1.5.0 [1.3.1] -cjk -debug +eds* -gnutls ^ | Perhaps you coud try -eds. HTH Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/*
Michael Kintzios: There's nothing wrong with dd, but I see no reason to create my own script to extend the basic dd functionality. I would rather use shred which does everything I want it to do - if only I can avoid the deletion if the device node itself. Why -u? From the man page: Delete FILE(s) if --remove (-u) is specified. The default is not to remove the files because it is common to operate on device files like /dev/hda, and those files usually should not be removed. BTW, which is your filesystem? From the man page again: CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important assumption: that the filesystem overwrites data in place. This is the traditional way to do things, but many modern filesystem designs do not satisfy this assumption. The following are examples of filesystems on which shred is not effective: * log-structured or journaled filesystems, such as those supplied with AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3, etc.) HTH Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo?
William Kenworthy:
Is there a link that states how many packages are available in
gentoo? Stable, ~x86 etc?
Do you speak perl? Sorry, I don't speak python any more ;-)
begin gentoo_packages.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use File::Find;
use vars qw/*name/;
*name = *File::Find::name;
# Your architecture
my $arch = 'x86';
# $uniq == 1 - nss_ldap-207.ebuild and
# nss_ldap-215-r1.ebuild are the same package
my $uniq = 1;
# $categ == 1 - package names like 'sys-auth/nss_ldsp'
# $categ == 0 - package names like 'nss_ldap'
my $categ = 1;
# Output:
my $sfile = 'stable';
my $tfile = 'testing';
my %stable;
my %testing;
my @stable;
my @testing;
find(\wanted, '/usr/portage');
@stable = sort keys %stable;
@testing = sort keys %testing;
$=\n;
open OUT, ''.$sfile or die Errore opening $sfile: $!\n;
print OUT @stable\n;
close OUT;
open OUT, ''.$tfile or die Errore opening $tfile: $!\n;
print OUT @testing\n;
close OUT;
print Done.\n;
sub wanted {
/^.*\.ebuild\z/s
storename($name);
}
sub storename {
my $fname = $_[0];
my $shortname;
my $line;
my @temp = split('/', $fname);
print $fname\n;
if ($uniq) {
$temp[5] =~ /(.*)-\d.*ebuild/;
$temp[5] = $1;
}
$shortname = $categ ? $temp[3] . '/' : '';
$shortname .= $temp[5];
open EBLD, $fname or die Error opening $fname: $!\n;
while ($line=EBLD) {
if ($line =~ /^KEYWORDS/) {
if ($line =~ /~$arch/) {
++$testing{$shortname};
} elsif ($line =~ /$arch/) {
++$stable{$shortname};
}
last;
}
}
close EBLD;
}
end gentoo_packages.pl
Then:
[root ~]# wc stable
7702 7702 152968 stable
[root ~]# wc testing
4929 4929 98613 testing
HTH
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Re: [gentoo-user] xine cannot find /dev/hdc
Ed Jabbour: After a recent emerge -uDv system, which upgraded xine-lib, I cannot use xine to watch dvds anymore. It cannot find /dev/hdc. The output from running xine from the console is at http://rafb.net/paste/results/ac0MJP75.html. I've tried downgrading and re-emerging to no avail. I'm wondering if this is related somehow to udev, but I don't know where to look for that. Any advice appreciated. Thanks. Ehm, I got the same error messages a few days ago... but... the error was on my side: I put my DVD into /dev/hdd instead of /dev/hdc ;-) Sergio, a bit ashamed ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
