Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Did I just get hacked???
Grant, Maybe going forward (if you're not doing so already), one tool I've found to be useful in the past was AIDE. While it certainly won't prevent a break-in, it can certainly be useful when trying to find out what changed on your system. Later, Shawn On 2/12/07, Paul Sebastian Ziegler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Grant, personally (but this is by far only ONE possible setup for your task) I'd advise you to connect eth0 to wan through a box set up as a bridge (try brctl). If that box has a good wireless card and good drivers (this mostly means if that box isn't running Windows) you can also put that wireless-card into promiscuous mode lock it to your chanel and ssid and feed wireshark your WEP-Key or WPA-PSK for decryption. If not, then you'll have to use a second box for the wireless sniffing. BTW. current rootkits won't just replace ps or some other tools. Good rootkits do not run in userspace; they run in kernelspace. They directly intercept the function-calls. Just another thing to keep in mind while trying to scan for them. hth Paul Grant schrieb: A good rootkit will install a ps that won't show the 'bot processes. The one time a machine of mine got hacked, netstat still worked, but I don't know why a hacked netstat couldn't be installed as well. Looking through /proc/≤pid is probably still reliable. Hello Grant, I keep an old portable around, running wireshark and a flat hub. You can set your ethernet address to 0.0.0.0 and fire up wireshark. You can then sniff any (ethernet) segment of your network for nefarious traffic or male-configured network applictions. Ok, it sounds like the key to figuring this out is watching the outgoing network traffic for weird stuff. eth0 is on the WAN and wireless ath0 is on the local subnet. How would you monitor the outgoing traffic considering my setup? - Grant │ИМ╒▀╛z╦ ·з(╒╦j)b·bst== -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. Larry Wall
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Did I just get hacked???
Grant, I figured I should add this note. I'm recommending AIDE as something if you get to the point where you feel like you've been hacked, you've done your post-mortem, and are ready to rebuild, upon your rebuild AIDE might prove to be handy in the future. It'd probably be useless on a system that has already been compromised. Later, Shawn On 2/12/07, Shawn Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant, Maybe going forward (if you're not doing so already), one tool I've found to be useful in the past was AIDE. While it certainly won't prevent a break-in, it can certainly be useful when trying to find out what changed on your system. Later, Shawn On 2/12/07, Paul Sebastian Ziegler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Grant, personally (but this is by far only ONE possible setup for your task) I'd advise you to connect eth0 to wan through a box set up as a bridge (try brctl). If that box has a good wireless card and good drivers (this mostly means if that box isn't running Windows) you can also put that wireless-card into promiscuous mode lock it to your chanel and ssid and feed wireshark your WEP-Key or WPA-PSK for decryption. If not, then you'll have to use a second box for the wireless sniffing. BTW. current rootkits won't just replace ps or some other tools. Good rootkits do not run in userspace; they run in kernelspace. They directly intercept the function-calls. Just another thing to keep in mind while trying to scan for them. hth Paul Grant schrieb: A good rootkit will install a ps that won't show the 'bot processes. The one time a machine of mine got hacked, netstat still worked, but I don't know why a hacked netstat couldn't be installed as well. Looking through /proc/≤pid is probably still reliable. Hello Grant, I keep an old portable around, running wireshark and a flat hub. You can set your ethernet address to 0.0.0.0 and fire up wireshark. You can then sniff any (ethernet) segment of your network for nefarious traffic or male-configured network applictions. Ok, it sounds like the key to figuring this out is watching the outgoing network traffic for weird stuff. eth0 is on the WAN and wireless ath0 is on the local subnet. How would you monitor the outgoing traffic considering my setup? - Grant │ИМ╒▀╛z╦ ·з(╒╦j)b·bst== -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. Larry Wall -- Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. Larry Wall
[gentoo-user] System Crash
Hello list, This morning I noticed that my machine was frozen (would not respond to keyboard or mouse, so couldn't ctrl+alt+func_key to a terminal or anything, I couldn't ping it either). I reset it and started chugging along... or so I thought. This machine is my firewall. Everytime a client attempts to connect to eth1, the machine crashes. Prior to the most recent crash I switched to a console session so I could see messages coming to the screen and I saw something to the tune of: BUG: soft lockup detected on cpu#0! ... dump trace 0x69/ox1af show_trace_log lvl +0x18/0x2... show_trace+0xf/0x11 dump_stack 0x15/ 0x12 softlockup_tick 0xad/0xc4 ... smp_apic_timer_interrupt 0x9f/0xbb apic_timer_interrupt 0x2a/0x30 _do_softirq_0x68/0xeb do_softirq ox4a/0xc3 === I can induce the crash at will by: 1. booting the firewall 2. booting the client that is connected to eth1 or (if the client is booted) 1. boot the firewall 2. disconnect the cable that is plugged into eth1 and plug it into eth2 (if the client is booted) 1. boot the firewall 2. change the ip parameters on the client and ping the firewall I'm running 2.6.19-r1. I've been using that kernel for probably 1 month or so. The most recent change I made to the machine was installing Shorewall and recompiling the kernel to add the ip masq stuff. The machine ran all weekend with no hitches. Last night my wife's laptop was connected to eth1 and she was surfing the net just fine, I disconnected her laptop and connected my laptop and I surfed the net just fine. I woke up this morning and noticed this trouble? Have any of yous guys seen anything like this before? Thanks, Shawn Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. Larry Wall
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about /etc/conf.d/net entry
Dan, The cable checked out. I used it to hookup my work laptop with the other laptop I was using as my client, and was able to ping each host. The fact that I had no link made me curious ... and I realized it made user error ... I was SURE that I verified the NIC I was plugging into was eth1, as I've got 3 NICs in the machine ... the one with no link is really eth2 ... not eth1 ... I plugged into the correct interface, and (perhaps) needless to say, my client is now seeing the gateway and the gateway sees the client. Thanks for the pointers on my config. They helped me ensure that I had my machine setup properly! Thanks, Shawn On 2/2/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:51:37 -0500 Shawn Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan, Thanks for the reply. The client is a laptop running Windows XP Home EditionI'. Server is a tower running Gentoo 2006.1, shorewall 3.0.8. The client is setup as follows: IP address: 192.168.1.2 Netmask:255.255.255.0 Gateway:192.168.1.1 DNS: 192.168.1.1 I've changed my /etc/conf.d/net to: # Interface Handler modules=( ifconfig ) # eth0 (WAN) config config_eth0=( dhcp ) # eth1 (LAN) config config_eth1=( 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ) for what it's worth, netmask and broadcast will also default to those settings in ifconfig if you set the ip to 192.168.1.x I have all that I need compiled into my kernel (2.6.19-r1). I agree. let's see what happens -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. Larry Wall
[gentoo-user] Question about /etc/conf.d/net entry
Hello list, I've got my /etc/conf.d/net setup as follows: # Interface Handler modules=( ifconfig ) # eth0 (WAN) config config_eth0=( dhcp ) # eth1 (LAN) config config_eth1=( 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ) routes_eth1=( 192.168.1.0 via 192.168.1.1 ) # the idea here is that I wish to have all traffic intended for hosts on 192.168.1.0 pass through 192.168.1.1. Here's the output from ifconfig eth1: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:B5:0E:D6:E9 inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6c00 This is my routing table: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 c-71-203-144-0. * 255.255.252.0 U 0 00 eth0 loopback* 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo default c-71-203-144-1. 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 One odd thing is, if I run mii-tool eth1, I get: eth1: no link eth1 is connected to my client machine via crossover cable (the wire scheme A end is plugged into eth1, and the wire scheme b end is plugged into the client machine) I'm experiencing difficulty where my client can't get to the Internet (the pages just time out), and I can't ping the gateway (192.168.1.1) from the client. Also, from the firewall, I can't ping the client machine ( 192.168.1.2). Pings from the firewall to the client result in Destination Unreachable, and if I remember correctly, pings from the client to the firewall just time out. I'm running shorewall (v 3.0.8), so I've tried shutting it down (shorewall clear) to eliminate that as an option, but still not getting anywhere. .config has the following entries in it, please let me know if there are others that you need to see. CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y CONFIG_NETFILTER=y CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT=y Thanks, Shawn Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. --Larry Wall
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about /etc/conf.d/net entry
Dan, Thanks for the reply. The client is a laptop running Windows XP Home EditionI'. Server is a tower running Gentoo 2006.1, shorewall 3.0.8. The client is setup as follows: IP address: 192.168.1.2 Netmask:255.255.255.0 Gateway:192.168.1.1 DNS: 192.168.1.1 I've changed my /etc/conf.d/net to: # Interface Handler modules=( ifconfig ) # eth0 (WAN) config config_eth0=( dhcp ) # eth1 (LAN) config config_eth1=( 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ) Amongst many other things, shorewall dump shows: Shorewall has detected the following iptables/netfilter capabilities: NAT: Available Packet Mangling: Available Multi-port Match: Available Extended Multi-port Match: Available Connection Tracking Match: Available Packet Type Match: Available Policy Match: Available Physdev Match: Not available IP range Match: Available Recent Match: Available Owner Match: Available Ipset Match: Not available CONNMARK Target: Not available Connmark Match: Available Raw Table: Available CLASSIFY Target: Available FORWARD Mangle Chain: Available So, I think I have all that I need compiled into my kernel (2.6.19-r1). I'll be home in a bit, and I'll get on the Windows computer and run ipconfig and route to find out what the IP info and routing table looks like on the client and post that. Thanks again for your help. Shawn On 2/2/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:07:59 -0500 Shawn Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I've got my /etc/conf.d/net setup as follows: # Interface Handler modules=( ifconfig ) # eth0 (WAN) config config_eth0=( dhcp ) # eth1 (LAN) config config_eth1=( 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ) routes_eth1=( 192.168.1.0 via 192.168.1.1 ) # the idea here is that I wish to have all traffic intended for hosts on 192.168.1.0 pass through 192.168.1.1. all on the 'server' right? The 'server' doesn't need a route to 192.168.1.0 through 192.168.1.1. That's going to be automatic on the server's end because of the line 192.168.1.0 *255.255.255.0 U 00 0 eth1 in route. A route through eth1 to the subnet eth1 is on will automatically be added. But does the 'client' computer have such a default route through 192.168.1.1? The command to set up such a route (again, on the client) would be route add default gw 192.168.1.1; Here's the output from ifconfig eth1: looks fine. This is my routing table: looks fine, as long as it's from the server and not the client. One odd thing is, if I run mii-tool eth1, I get: eth1: no link eth1 is connected to my client machine via crossover cable (the wire scheme A end is plugged into eth1, and the wire scheme b end is plugged into the client machine) You clearly know the difference between a patch and a crossover, but i don't see why the interfaces arent' registering a conection. I'm experiencing difficulty where my client can't get to the Internet (the pages just time out) you need ip forwarding enabled to pull that off. I can't ping the gateway (192.168.1.1) from the client. Also, from the firewall, I can't ping the client machine ( 192.168.1.2). This should be working right now, though. Can you post the ipconfig and route output from the 'client' ? Pings from the firewall to the client result in Destination Unreachable, and if I remember correctly, pings from the client to the firewall just time out. sounds like the client is not actually 'connected'. Although, clearly the physical connection is there. I'm running shorewall (v 3.0.8), so I've tried shutting it down (shorewall clear) to eliminate that as an option, but still not getting anywhere. oh oh. shorewall can really confuse things. Stop shorewall and have it save your iptables output, then I would suggest flushing .config has the following entries in it, please let me know if there are others that you need to see. CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y you don't need this. CONFIG_NETFILTER=y CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT=y you will need this. But only oce you get connected to 192.168.1.1 ! remember, the client needs a default route set. The server _isn't_ going to need a route to 192.168.1/24 explicitly set in conf.d/net Thanks, Shawn I'm on comcast too: 20: c-71-xxx-144-1.hsd1.fl.comcast.net (71.203.144.1)asymm 21 167.516ms reached Resume: pmtu 1500 hops 20 back 21 only 1 country's width and 20/21 hops away from you! I mangled your ip address even though you provide it yourself, to allow you to be the one invading your privacy and not me . ps, if you have a switch around, i bet it would work if you plugged in both to switch (/ hub) via patch cable. I bet your crossover is bad. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. Larry Wall
Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router
Daniel, Would it be ok for me to email you off list to get some help with a new setup of Shorewall that I did? Thanks, Shawn On 1/23/07, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, i solved my problem by the help of the shorewall mailing list. The shorewall maintainer Tom Eastep helped me with a quick answer. It has nothing to do with shorewall so there is no file of shorewall causing this troubles. When i set up internet connection with pppoe-setup i have activated the FIREWALL=STANDALONE setting in /etc/pppoe.conf. This loads a iptables rule set which overwrites my custom iptables, this may have also caused my problems with shorewall. Nevertheless thank you all for trying to help me so much. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Most problems go away if you just wait long enough. It might look like I'm standing motionless but I'm actively waiting for our problems to go away. I don't know why this works but it does. Scott Adams, Dilbert comic
Re: [gentoo-user] Good arguments to use Gentoo Linux?
Currently everybody uses its own Linux/Unix system, but soon we could be forced to uses for everybody only one system. Sounds like a cool organization. :) As far as considering FreeBSD, it's a great OS; however, I'd describe it as more as an alternative to using Linux. This is certainly evident in their philosophy. I'd narrow it to Linux / FreeBSD, and if you went Linux, I'd go with Gentoo. Please see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/linux-comparison/ As far as Redhat or Gentoo are concerned, they are both great distros; however, I can't think of an advantage that Redhat has over Gentoo. In a company where the users are Linux savvy, I'd go with Gentoo for flexibility and configurability. I'm not sure how RH is handling dependency hell these days, but I can say that the team that deals with software that is available to Portage, does an unbelievable job of providing Portage with what it will need to make software maintenance trivial. At this point, I'm not sure if RH has a LiveCd. I see that FC released on a little over 1 mo ago, but I've not tried it. The Gentoo LiveCd is a stable solution that you can boot up, try out, and if you like, install. The packages that are available for Gentoo, while they may not necessarily be the, bleeding edge, while the animal is still twitching on the ground version will be a stable version. I'd get into the strengths / merits of Portage, but I think using it is worthwhile to see Portage at work, but I will say that Portage is a complete package management solution, and for the developer, one can appreciate really the versioning that one can do using Portage. Later, Shawn On 1/19/07, Andrey Gerasimenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:37:27 +0300, qfpvajdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to convince my boss and my collegues to use Gentoo GNU/Linux at the company office for the desktop system (and maybe one day also for servers). Currently everybody uses its own Linux/Unix system, but soon we could be forced to uses for everybody only one system. Any anticipated forced action indicates that there is a problem. Identify the problem and show how Gentoo helps to solve it. Since you do not write about the problem, you should not expect much from the answers, all being based on some guess and/or assumption. For example, since Gentoo is a meta distribution, it may allow everybody to continue to use Linux their own way and still keep the management happy thinking that all are using the same thing. I must probably convince the people to use Gentoo Linux against RedHat Scientific Linux and FreeBSD. If the choice is between Red Hat Scientific and FreeBSD, you (as an organization) clearly do not know what you need. Thus, Gentoo may be the least risky option since if you ever find out that you need a BSD or even a Solaris kernel, then you can switch to it easier from Gentoo than from Red Hat. Does somebody has some good key arguments? The mines are: - newests packages with newests security updates, encryption support and full integreated KDE desktop to be used in office without problems - high performance desktop These arguments proof that Gentoo may be used, not that is should be used. -- Andrei Gerasimenko -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Most problems go away if you just wait long enough. It might look like I'm standing motionless but I'm actively waiting for our problems to go away. I don't know why this works but it does. Scott Adams, Dilbert comic
Re: [gentoo-user] Build Error with Emerging (2 of 16) dev-cpp/gconfmm-2.12.0
unfortunately, I've not used that resource before, so thanks for pointing it out to me. On 1/17/07, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 18 January 2007 03:34, Shawn Singh wrote: When running emerge -u -a -D world, one of the apps that gets installed is: dev-cpp/gconfmm-2.12.0 the error looks like its in the configure script ... checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no [SNIP] Is it really that hard to search bugs.gentoo.org instead? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159987 -- Bo Andresen -- Most problems go away if you just wait long enough. It might look like I'm standing motionless but I'm actively waiting for our problems to go away. I don't know why this works but it does. Scott Adams, Dilbert comic
[gentoo-user] Build Error with Emerging (2 of 16) dev-cpp/gconfmm-2.12.0
When running emerge -u -a -D world, one of the apps that gets installed is: dev-cpp/gconfmm-2.12.0 the error looks like its in the configure script ... checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no ./configure: line 2501: syntax error near unexpected token `scripts' ./configure: line 2501: `AL_ACLOCAL_INCLUDE(scripts)' !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org : !!! /var/tmp/portage/gconfmm-2.12.0/work/gconfmm-2.12.0/config.log !!! ERROR: dev-cpp/gconfmm-2.12.0 failed. is something about my setup incorrect, or is there an error with the configure script? Thanks, Shawn Most problems go away if you just wait long enough. It might look like I'm standing motionless but I'm actively waiting for our problems to go away. I don't know why this works but it does. -- Scott Adams, Dilbert comic
Re: [gentoo-user] Error when trying to emerge --update --deep --newuse world
gotcha. Thanks for the info. Shawn On 1/5/07, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/5/07, Shawn Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] [blocks B ] sys-apps/coldplug (is blocking sys-fs/udev-103) I can't emerge: sys-fs/udev-103 or udev-103 b/c that's not a valid package atom ... The correct way to specify a particular version is =sys-fs/udev-103 (or = or = or ~, etc). sys-fs/udev is also fine, but putting the version in the command requires one of those operators. That's what portage means when it complains about an invalid atom. -- Ryan W Sims -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Most problems go away if you just wait long enough. It might look like I'm standing motionless but I'm actively waiting for our problems to go away. I don't know why this works but it does. Scott Adams, Dilbert comic
[gentoo-user] Error when trying to emerge --update --deep --newuse world
Hey all, I installed Gentoo 2006.1. I ran either: emerge-webrsync // because I can't rsync through my company's firewall or emerge --update --deep world ... it revealed that I need portage needed updating ... so I: emerge portage ... I also installed mysql, php, apache and mediawiki. Mediawiki required me to set pcre mysql and session in my USE ... I only need to add mysql the other 2 were already there. After installing that software I wanted to update my system, so I ran emerge --update --deep --newuse world ... here's the info ... Error: the sys-apps/coldplug package conflicts with another package; the two packages cannot be installed on the same system together. ... I then did ... emerge --pretend --update --deep --newuse world output_file followed by: grep blocks output_file [blocks B ] sys-apps/coldplug (is blocking sys-fs/udev-103) I can't emerge: sys-fs/udev-103 or udev-103 b/c that's not a valid package atom ... What do I need to do to resolve this? This installation is for a VM that I'm preparing for use at work. Currently I've got a standalone machine that this will be replacing ... that machine is running 2006.0. I've not tried to update it yet, and wanted to wait until I've migrated my mediawiki install from that 2006.0 machine to the new machine. Thanks, Shawn Most problems go away if you just wait long enough. It might look like I'm standing motionless but I'm actively waiting for our problems to go away. I don't know why this works but it does. Scott Adams, Dilbert comic
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which Laptop is recommended for Gentoo GNU/Linux?
I've got an IBM Thinkpad Z60m and Thinkpad A21p on which Linux works great (The A21p is running Gentoo 2006.0, and the Z60m is running Gentoo 2006.1). On 1/5/07, Cliff Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James wrote: qfpvajdy qfpvajdy at trashmail.net writes: Does somebody know a model of a laptop on which all works fine with Linux? Before I purchased my HP pavilion (amd64) I took a liveCD to the store and just booted it up and got everything working, right in the store. If you cannot find all of the device drivers, take a usb flash and copy the results of lscpi, lshw, etc onto the flash device. Copy any other files/data information about the hardware, so you can research the linux compatibility options, remotely. Several trips might be necessary to get everything working That sounds like a good suggestion. I've got a Toshiba Tecra that I love. I'd recommend against ATI video (Nvidia and Intel seem to work much more reliably [read: at all] with the new XGL stuff, if you care about that). Regards, Cliff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Most problems go away if you just wait long enough. It might look like I'm standing motionless but I'm actively waiting for our problems to go away. I don't know why this works but it does. Scott Adams, Dilbert comic
Re: [gentoo-user] Error when trying to emerge --update --deep --newuse world
But not this time, eh? :) lol ;) , thx, Ken and Neil. On 1/5/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 13:50:42 -0500, Shawn Singh wrote: emerge --update --deep --newuse world ... here's the info ... Error: the sys-apps/coldplug package conflicts with another package; the two packages cannot be installed on the same system together. ... Unmerge coldplug, it's no longer used. emerge --pretend --update --deep --newuse world output_file followed by: grep blocks output_file [blocks B ] sys-apps/coldplug (is blocking sys-fs/udev-103) I can't emerge: sys-fs/udev-103 or udev-103 b/c that's not a valid package atom ... No, but it is a valid package version. The problem is that you have coldplug installed and coldplug's functionality is now provided by udev in version 103. What do I need to do to resolve this? emerge -C coldplug emerge uavDN world Most problems go away if you just wait long enough. It might look like I'm standing motionless but I'm actively waiting for our problems to go away. I don't know why this works but it does. Scott Adams, Dilbert comic But not this time, eh? :) -- Neil Bothwick Pentium instruction of the day: FLI: Flash Lights Impressively -- Most problems go away if you just wait long enough. It might look like I'm standing motionless but I'm actively waiting for our problems to go away. I don't know why this works but it does. Scott Adams, Dilbert comic
Re: [gentoo-user] NTFS vs ext3
In ( what seems like ) similar situatoins, I've just let the partition that I want to share b/w OSes just be a NTFS partition if say, I were dual-booting my machine ( Linux Windows ). IMHO, Linux support for NTFS is fine, meaning that I've not experienced any trouble related to doing that. Shawn On 11/16/06, Ghaith Hachem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey, i was wondering what would be the best solution for a shared data partition, it's a 100GB partition, and FAT is not an option, so should i use ext2 (or ext3) with one of the tools on windows? and which tool would you recommend I'm currently using ext2fsd to read my ext2 backup harddrive i think it has ext3 write support.. Or should i go the other way around and put my data on an NTFS partition, and if i do that is the NTFS write support stable by now.. it's been a long time since i dual booted so back then NTFS support was not really a good idea.. thank you in advance -- Ghaith Hachem TristMoon Staff TristMoon.com -- ...the return which is executed immediately after the call to aretu actually returns from the last routine which did the savu. You are not expected to understand this. Unix Sixth Edition
[gentoo-user] Help Configuring MoinMoin Wiki
Has anyone configured moinmon? I'm emerged it but when I try to access the site I'm getting the following error:Not FoundThe requested URL /moinmoin/moin.cgi was not found on this server.Apache Server at localhost Port 80 I can see the default page for apache at http://locahost, so I'm sure the web server is running.I followed directions provided at ( which may not have been what I needed ... ): http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/HelpMiscellaneousHere is a configuration for virtual hosting with special permissions on Gentoo Linux. The following configuration is for Apache2 config files. Just put it all in httpd.conf for Apache 1. Add this to /etc/apache2/conf/vhosts/vhosts.conf NameVirtualHost *VirtualHost * ServerName www.domain.org ServerAlias domain.org DocumentRoot /var/www/domain.org/htdocs/VirtualHost VirtualHost * ServerName wiki.domain.org Alias /wiki/ /usr/share/moin/htdocs/ Alias /favicon.ico /var/www/htdocs/favicon.ico ScriptAlias / /usr/share/moin/mywiki/moin.cgi//VirtualHost Add this to /etc/apache2/conf/commonapache2.conf Directory /usr/share/moin/htdocs/ Order deny,allow Allow from all/DirectoryDirectory /usr/share/moin/domain.org/ Order deny,allow Allow from all/DirectoryI'm still getting the same error. I've also changed the /moinmoin directory to be owned by apache instead of root, but that has not had any affect either. Any ideas?Thanks,Shawn-- ...to raise a signal means to turn the light on; ... Responding to a signal means turning the light off (and, under System V, hoping thebulb won't blow when it's next turned on)...--- Dan Bernstein
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage complaining when trying to install PHPMyAdmin
thanks Richard. I added unicode to USE, re-emerged PHP and Apache, then was able to emerge PHPMyAdmin and MediaWiki.On 9/8/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On 9/8/06, Shawn Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I was trying to install PHP and a couple other packages when I got the following error: * Checking for required PHP feature(s) ... * Discovered missing USE flag: unicode * * dev-lang/php-5.1.4-r6 needs to be re-installed with all of the following * USE flags enabled: * * pcre session unicode * * as well as any of the following USE flags enabled: * * mysql or mysqli if using dev-lang/php-5 * mysql if using dev-lang/php-4 *[snip]I checked /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc and see that unicode is listed, and the other flags ( pcre session mysql and mysqli ), what's causing this?Well use.desc is just a description of USE flags, not the flags thatyou actually have turned on.You should read: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=2But basically what you need to do is either:- update /etc/make.conf to add unicode to USE- add dev-lang/php unicode to /etc/portage/package.use I actuall recommend the first, as unicode seems to be one of thosethings that should be enabled globally.If you have further trouble with this, post the outputs of emerge--info and emerge -pv dev-lang/php. -Richard--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- ...to raise a signal means to turn the light on; ... Responding to a signal means turning the light off (and, under System V, hoping thebulb won't blow when it's next turned on)...--- Dan Bernstein
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't Emerge PHP or Apache
here's the output from emerge --info: obiwan ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gen too-r5 i686) = System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.12-r6 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 AUTOCLEAN=yes CBUILD=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=i686 -O2 -pipe CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/sh utdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo CXXFLAGS=-march=i686 -O2 -pipe DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles FEATURES=autoconfig distlocks loadpolicy metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms str ict GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux /distributions/gentoo MAKEOPTS= PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=' /distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages' PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage USE=X alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli cr ypt ctype cups dba dlloader dri eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam fastbuild foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile idn imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kernel_linux lcms libg++ libwww mad memlimit mikmod mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png posix pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session simplexml slang soap so ckets spell spl ssl tcltk tcpd tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fon ts udev userland_GNU vorbis x86 xml xml2 xmms xorg xsl xv zlib input_devices_ke yboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ati video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus video_cards_cyrix video_ca rds_dummy video_cards_fbdev video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i740 video_cards_i810 video_cards_imstt video_cards_mga video_cards_neomagic video_ cards_nsc video_cards_nv video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3vir ge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis video_cards_sis usb video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng vide o_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LING UAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY obiwan ~ # On 9/8/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/8/06, Shawn Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got portage updated, but when I went to run emerge -uD world I got the following output: emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy sys-kernel/livecd-kernel.(dependency required by media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.11-r1 [ebuild])Looks like your virtual/alsa setting is screwed up.I don't see how this is possible, unless you have a /etc/portage/profile/virtuals filethat defines virtual/alsa to be satisfied by sys-kernel/livecd-kernel. The normal virtual for alsa depends on your profile:carcharias ~ # cd /usr/portage/profiles ; find . -name virtuals | xargs grep alsa./selinux/2005.1/amd64/virtuals:virtual/alsasys-kernel/gentoo-sources./selinux/2005.1/alpha/virtuals:virtual/alsa sys-kernel/vanilla-sources./selinux/2004.1/amd64/virtuals:virtual/alsa sys-kernel/gentoo-sources./base/virtuals:virtual/alsasys-kernel/gentoo-sources./hardened/amd64/virtuals:virtual/alsasys-kernel/hardened-sources./hardened/ppc/virtuals:virtual/alsasys-kernel/hardened-sources ./default-linux/virtuals:virtual/alsasys-kernel/gentoo-sources./default-linux/sh/virtuals:virtual/alsa sys-kernel/sh-sources./default-linux/mips/virtuals:virtual/alsasys-kernel/mips-sources./default-linux/alpha/no-nptl/2.4/virtuals:virtual/alsa media-sound/alsa-driver./default-linux/alpha/virtuals:virtual/alsa sys-kernel/vanilla-sources./default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4/virtuals:virtual/alsa media-sound/alsa-driver./default-linux/hppa/virtuals:virtual/alsa sys-kernel/hppa-sources./embedded/virtuals:virtual/alsamedia-sound/alsa-driverPosting your emerge --info might help us here.-Richard-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- ...to raise a signal means to turn the light on; ... Responding to asignal means turning the light off (and, under System V, hoping the bulb won't blow when it's next turned
Re: [gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo
[user] Portage Streamlined installation -- U nstall what U want, exactly what U want ... Did I mention Portage :). ShawnOn 9/8/06, Mikko Ruuska [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 08 Sep 2006, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 21:40 -0400, Statux wrote: [snip]All responses off list please.Thanks. [snip] Just pointing that one out as 2 people have missed it already :) what about everyone else who might be interested in the answer?I should assume that Chris intends to collect the data and publish it.Although in my opinion he should have mentioned what he will dowith it.Mikko--Mikko Ruuska, R DSolid Information Technology -- http://www.solidtech.com --gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- ...to raise a signal means to turn the light on; ... Responding to a signal means turning the light off (and, under System V, hoping thebulb won't blow when it's next turned on)...--- Dan Bernstein
[gentoo-user] Portage complaining when trying to install PHPMyAdmin
Hey All, I was trying to install PHP and a couple other packages when I got the following error: * Checking for required PHP feature(s) ... * Discovered missing USE flag: unicode * * dev-lang/php-5.1.4-r6 needs to be re-installed with all of the following * USE flags enabled: * * pcre session unicode * * as well as any of the following USE flags enabled: * * mysql or mysqli if using dev-lang/php-5 * mysql if using dev-lang/php-4 * !!! ERROR: dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.8.2 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1555: Called dyn_setup ebuild.sh, line 668: Called pkg_setup phpmyadmin-2.8.2.ebuild, line 37: Called die !!! Re-install dev-lang/php-5.1.4-r6 !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. I checked /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc and see that unicode is listed, and the other flags ( pcre session mysql and mysqli ), what's causing this? Thanks, Shawn-- ...to raise a signal means to turn the light on; ... Responding to asignal means turning the light off (and, under System V, hoping thebulb won't blow when it's next turned on)... --- Dan Bernstein
[gentoo-user] Can't Emerge PHP or Apache
Hey all,I've been trying to install Apache and PHP. With the installation of apache, the install has been failing when the system tries to download net-www/apache-2.0.55-r1. After trying in vain to connect to several servers the system finally does succeed when connecting to: get-software.techbuyer.com ... 208.254.3.166The download begins, but very little of the software is downloaded before I get the message: !!! Couldn't download httpd-2.0.55.tar.bz2. Aborting.For PHP, the system connects to us2.php.net:80, downloads the package, then reports:!!! Couldn't download php-4.4.0.tar.bz2 . Aborting.I tried to install these pieces of software yesterday and today with the same result. I've installed several other packages including ctypes, wxPython, emacs, and a few others, so I don't think there's anything wrong with portage. Has anyone else run into this problem? Thanks,Shawn-- ...to raise a signal means to turn the light on; ... Responding to asignal means turning the light off (and, under System V, hoping thebulb won't blow when it's next turned on)... --- Dan Bernstein
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't Emerge PHP or Apache
Running emerge --search portage tells me that the latest version of portage is 2.0.54 and the version I've got installed is 2.0.54. Is there something else that needs to be updated?Thanks,Shawn On 9/7/06, kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Singh wrote: Hey all, I've been trying to install Apache and PHP. With the installation of apache, the install has been failing when the system tries to download net-www/apache- 2.0.55-r1. After trying in vain to connect to several servers the system finally does succeed when connecting to: get-software.techbuyer.com http://get-software.techbuyer.com ... 208.254.3.166 http://208.254.3.166 The download begins, but very little of the software is downloaded before I get the message: !!! Couldn't download httpd-2.0.55.tar.bz2. Aborting. For PHP, the system connects to us2.php.net:80 http://us2.php.net:80, downloads the package, then reports: !!! Couldn't download php-4.4.0.tar.bz2 . Aborting. I tried to install these pieces of software yesterday and today with the same result. I've installed several other packages including ctypes, wxPython, emacs, and a few others, so I don't think there's anything wrong with portage. Has anyone else run into this problem? Those versions no longer exist in portage. You need to update and theninstall in which case you'll get 2.0.58 and 4.4.3 respectively.kashani--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- ...to raise a signal means to turn the light on; ... Responding to asignal means turning the light off (and, under System V, hoping the bulb won't blow when it's next turned on)...--- Dan Bernstein
[gentoo-user] Sound not playing...
Hey all, When I try to play music using XMMS a variety of things happen: if XMMS is set to use OSS, it complains it can't open the oss driver the same thing happens if I attempt to use ALSA. if I configure XMMS to use ARTS the song appears to play, but I don't hear any sound. I've got the cable plugged in, ;) ... I'm running kernel version 2.6.15. I've got alsa compiled in... I've checked that libALSA.so and libarts.so etc are on the system in /usr/bin/XMMS... Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be happening... Oh and I have compiled in support for my SoundBlaster soundcard. Thank you, Shawn Singh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?
My wife and I use KDE. I, mainly because I don't see the point in having multiple GUIs (they're not that facinating to me (other than to get into the source code), but for my wife, I find that for someone coming from using Windows, it seems that out of the box, KDE seems to have a stronger appeal to her than Gnome. Although, the environment she really took to was XFCE (though it's not a choice in this discussion). In looking at Holly's post, I'm inclined to agree. Being that most of the stuff I do (besides surf the net), but things like programming, moving files, your general admin stuff, configuration changes, etc I (like most of us here --probably) do from a command-line. My selling point for the command-line is I don't have to learn any new menus to use it ;), but to each his own. ShawnOn 1/20/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Bothwick schreef: On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:10:13 +0800, Linux Java wrote: I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. Why? Use whatever suits you.I hope that you all appreciate my extreme restraint in not posting to this thread until now, given how very much I dislike KDE.But for the record, just so that all you KDE-heads don't skew theresults com*plete*ly:I always (from my first attempts at Linux some 3 years ago) preferred GNOME to KDE. Never liked Nautilus, though (it's tied for second on mylist of most hated file managers), and since I've never been fond ofdesktop icons and all that cr... junk... I still found it too heavy. So I switched to Openbox 3 (with a GTK backend), and now I use fvwm-crystal(with a GTK backend). Gnome-light is (always) installed, but I don'tuse it as a desktop.I have only two KDE-specific applications that I would not do without (both compiled -kde and -arts to the greatest extent possible): Krusader(though this needs Konq and some other KDE utils for best usage, as itrecognizes KDE apps much much better than GTK apps for viewing files and the like), and K3b. These apps require kdebase, so I've got that, butthe day you see me logging into KDE, you can rest assured that either:1) my system is so seriously broke that it's the only DE/WM I can get into (which is pretty unlikely. I mean, I've got iceWM and *afterstep*on the system, for Pete's sake; the day that doesn't work but KDE doeswill be... The day);or2) I have been replaced by an alien clone (shoot first, ask questions later).I prefer to use GTK-based applications wherever possible because I findthem more attractive in general, and I'm more used to them (as a GNOMEuser originally), unless they're junk, like Totem, in which case I use non-affiliated programs like Xine or mPlayer. Yes, I know Totem can beconfigured to use a Xine backend. Imo, there's no point; if that's theonly way Totem works, I might as well just use Xine. Plus I want to see when gStreamer gets its act together. However I have no objection toQT-based apps (as opposed to KDE apps) when necessary. It does need tobe necessary, though (meaning, if I need it, I'll install qdvdauthor, because there's no GTK alternative that I know of, but I can just aswell use the CLI original, unless the GUI version has some additionalfeature or makes it easier to understand than the CLI version's man page). So anyway, Neil is of course right: use what you want; it's *your*desktop (finally!). I don't need a whole lot of GUI features (in fact Idislike a whole lot of GUI features), so KDE is not for me, the one who never liked Windows(-like) desktops, even when I was using Windows; Iused an alternative shell from my Win98 days on. But for those who feelmore comfortable with a more Windows-like environment, and Windows-like assumptions about what a user wants/needs from their desktop, KDE may bejust the thing; that is, after all, what it's designed to do to a greatextent.You can have it, though. I'll be elsewhere. Holly--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Shawn Singh
Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness with KDE 3.4
ok, theres an update...the users where hidden because the option to hide them was enabled. I disabled that and see my users in a list.My users were not selected, so I selected them, and turned off the option that say invert selection. ...still no good. I read in the source that nobody is used when building the list of users, so I checked to ensure that nobody is there (smile) an it sure enough is. It had a UID 65000, so I changed it to 400, and GID to 400, but that didn't help... I'll keep playing with it to see what happens...I suspect that struct passwd ps; (i forget if it is a ptr to the struct or what) is not getting filled with the list of users (unless I'm reading the src wrong, which would be the cause since only looked at it for a few minutes)... I wonder if that is the case, and if so, why that would be the case. ShawnOn 1/15/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 01:18:44 +0100, Rafael Fernández López wrote: That's the same solution I proposed... He said users were on range.Except they weren't, because the Inverse selection box was ticked :( --Neil BothwickTop Oxymorons Number 32: Living dead-- Shawn Singh
Re: [gentoo-user] kde new user login icons missing
I note that on my system the range for UIDs that won't show up is UID 1000 and UID 65000. If your users had a UID inside of that range it might show up... I'm not sure b/c on my system they are w/i that range and I don't see an icon for them, but they can key in their credentials to authenticate. On 1/13/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:05:55 -0700, Joseph wrote: I've added two new users in the system with group ID 500 and 501 However, I don't see them at login prompt.This came up yesterday. Go into KDE Control Centre/System Admin/Login Manager/Users and either set it to show all UIDs above 500(the defaultis 1000) or select the users you want displayed.--Neil BothwickSet phasers to extreme itching! -- Shawn Singh
Re: [gentoo-user] kde new user login icons missing
OOPS, I didn't read my post carefully... I note that on my system the range for UIDs that won't show up is UID 1000 and UID 65000. If your users had a UID inside of that range it might show up.. SHOULD have read I note that on my system the range for UIDs that wILL show up is UID 1000 and UID 65000. If your users had a UID inside of that range it might show up.. On 1/13/06, Shawn Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I note that on my system the range for UIDs that won't show up is UID 1000 and UID 65000. If your users had a UID inside of that range it might show up... I'm not sure b/c on my system they are w/i that range and I don't see an icon for them, but they can key in their credentials to authenticate. On 1/13/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:05:55 -0700, Joseph wrote: I've added two new users in the system with group ID 500 and 501 However, I don't see them at login prompt.This came up yesterday. Go into KDE Control Centre/System Admin/Login Manager/Users and either set it to show all UIDs above 500(the defaultis 1000) or select the users you want displayed.--Neil BothwickSet phasers to extreme itching! -- Shawn Singh -- Shawn Singh
Re: [gentoo-user] kde new user login icons missing
Holly, Thanks for the input. The interesting part is there are no users listed. It's almost as though KDE cannot see my users (hidden or otherwise). I'll continue looking. ShawnOn 1/13/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Singh schreef: I note that on my system the range for UIDs that won't show up is UID 1000 and UID 65000. If your users had a UID inside of that range it might show up... I'm not sure b/c on my system they are w/i that range and I don't see an icon for them, but they can key in their credentials to authenticate.They aren't by any chance explicitly hidden? In the KDE Control Center, System Administration, Login Manager, Administrator Mode, Users tab,there is a big list with checkboxes for all the users.What is kinda counter-intuitive is that this is not the list of users*shown* in KDM, but the users who will be hidden if their checkbox is checked.So if you perhaps checked these users in an attempt to unhide them, youhave in fact hidden them from the KDM screen, afaik, not being a KDMuser under any circumstances, but I do have a minimal KDE installed, and I've looked at the Control Center a number of times (I did try KDM onceor twice).I'd also suggest checking whether icons and the like are properly set(on the same tab).Anyway, hth,Holly --gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Shawn Singh
Re: [gentoo-user] kde new user login icons missing
In my case my UIDs are 1001 and 1002, so I'm not passing the condition where my user should be getting prevented from being displayed solely based on UID.On 1/13/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:21:46 -0500, Shawn Singh wrote: Thanks for the input. The interesting part is there are no users listed. It's almost as though KDE cannot see my users (hidden or otherwise). I'll continue looking. No users listed in the login window or in the Control Centre? They won'tbe listed in the login windows if the UIDs are 1000 unless you havechange from the defaults in the Control Centre.-- Neil BothwickI cna ytpe 300 wrods pre mniuet!!!-- Shawn Singh
Re: [gentoo-user] kde new user login icons missing
Thanks Neil. Maybe that's it. I'll take a look at it when I get home and see if that's it.On 1/13/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:23:53 -0500, Shawn Singh wrote: In my case my UIDs are 1001 and 1002, so I'm not passing the condition where my user should be getting prevented from being displayed solely based on UID.Maybe you have Inverse Selection set, but you haven't told us what your setting in the Control Centre are.I prefer not to use the UID setting and manually select the users I wantdisplayed.--Neil BothwickWhen puns are outlawed only outlaws will have puns. -- Shawn Singh
Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness with KDE 3.4
Thanks Willie. As I think of it, I probably should have submitted this as 2 posts, but figured that it's probably just something not right with KDE, so I rolled it into 1 message.On 1/11/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't help with all your problems, but I do what I can:On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:49:34PM -0500, Penguin Lover Shawn Singh squawked: Hey all, I recently rebuilt my Gentoo box, but have had a few problems that I've not been able to figure out: 1. The sound doesn't work i.e. I can't play any music files (mp3s, wavs etc) -- in xmms I get an error telling me that it failedto load the oss 1.2.10 driver (or some such)Look under Preferences in XMMS (hit Ctrl-p)change the output plugin from OSS driver to ALSA 1.2.?? outputpluginHTH,W-- Proof that Suki is good:according to spaceballs: [now we know evil willalways triumph, because] good is dumbaccording to S: ok, now I feel really dumbthe proof follows. ~~~(on W's attempt to prove the phrase suki is good by syllogism)S: it's okay, you don't need to proove [sic] it: it's a definitionW: niceS: i spelled prove wrongS: geezW: don't worry W: that doesn't make you evil.Sortir en Pantoufles: up 60 days, 20:47--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Shawn Singh
Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness with KDE 3.4
Thanks Holly. The user can login from the console. The user's icon doesn't show in the list of users. Come to think of it, neither does my user show in the list. I can key in my username and password to authenticate, so I suspect (that since the other user can login from the console) she'll be able to do likewise I guess the correct question to have asked is why won't my user's show up in the list of users? Thanks for the input. ShawnOn 1/12/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Singh schreef: Hey all, I recently rebuilt my Gentoo box, but have had a few problems that I've not been able to figure out: 2. Only 1 user shows up in KDE, even though I have 2 users for the system.What does this mean? Are you saying that one of your users doesn't showup in the KDM click my little image to set me as the user about to login screen (but the other one does)? Or something else? Is the user valid? Can the user log in via either typing their name inthe Username box in KDM, or by using the button to go to a console loginand logging in from there?If so, then the issue is likely with KDM just not having settings for that user, or the user id is out of the range that KDM shows by default,or that that user is hidden in KDM, the way root is by default. I'dcheck out the KDE Control Center= System Administration= Login Manager= Administrator Mode= Users tab and see if something rings abell there.If the user is in fact not valid (can't log in at all) then of coursethe problem is likely not with KDE-- and if you mean something else by only one user shows up, even though I have two users for the system,then you'd have to tell me/us what precisely that is, as I at leastcannot even guess :-) .HTH,Holly-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Shawn Singh
Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness with KDE 3.4
with regard to the problem with sound... Not only does xmms not play music (and throws an error), but mplayer doesn't play any sound. It will open a movie file and play it, but no sound is playing. It seems as though their is some global setting that isn't right, or that something is going on with the driver.On 1/12/06, Shawn Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Thanks Holly. The user can login from the console. The user's icon doesn't show in the list of users. Come to think of it, neither does my user show in the list. I can key in my username and password to authenticate, so I suspect (that since the other user can login from the console) she'll be able to do likewise I guess the correct question to have asked is why won't my user's show up in the list of users? Thanks for the input. ShawnOn 1/12/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Singh schreef: Hey all, I recently rebuilt my Gentoo box, but have had a few problems that I've not been able to figure out: 2. Only 1 user shows up in KDE, even though I have 2 users for the system.What does this mean? Are you saying that one of your users doesn't showup in the KDM click my little image to set me as the user about to login screen (but the other one does)? Or something else? Is the user valid? Can the user log in via either typing their name inthe Username box in KDM, or by using the button to go to a console loginand logging in from there?If so, then the issue is likely with KDM just not having settings for that user, or the user id is out of the range that KDM shows by default,or that that user is hidden in KDM, the way root is by default. I'dcheck out the KDE Control Center= System Administration= Login Manager= Administrator Mode= Users tab and see if something rings abell there.If the user is in fact not valid (can't log in at all) then of coursethe problem is likely not with KDE-- and if you mean something else by only one user shows up, even though I have two users for the system,then you'd have to tell me/us what precisely that is, as I at leastcannot even guess :-) .HTH,Holly-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Shawn Singh -- Shawn Singh
Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness with KDE 3.4
No I haven't. I'll be sure to do that when I get home.On 1/12/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn Singh schreef: Thanks Holly. The user can login from the console. The user's icon doesn't show in the list of users. Come to think of it, neither does my user show in the list. I can key in my username and password to authenticate, so I suspect (that since the other user can login from the console) she'll be able to do likewise I guess the correct question to have asked is why won't my user's show up in the list of users?Have you looked in On 1/12/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the KDE Control Center= System Administration= LoginManager= Administrator Mode= Users tab?-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Shawn Singh
[gentoo-user] Re: Strangeness with KDE 3.4
Rafael, Thank you for the suggestion. The UID falls w/i the range for both users. Come to think of it, this started happening when I removed kde-base and installed kde-meta. I wonder if something got corrupted. Shawn On 1/12/06, Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holly Bostick wrote: Shawn Singh schreef: Thanks Holly. The user can login from the console. The user's icon doesn't show in the list of users. Come to think of it, neither does my user show in the list. I can key in my username and password to authenticate, so I suspect (that since the other user can login from the console) she'll be able to do likewise I guess the correct question to have asked is why won't my user's show up in the list of users? Have you looked in On 1/12/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the KDE Control Center= System Administration= Login Manager= Administrator Mode= Users tab ? Run `kuser` and look what UID has the user that is not getting visible into logging window. Typically when you create another user it will get a lower UID. (You'll later understand). Go to `kcontrol`, `System admin` (or something similar, I've got it in Spanish), and `Access admin`. Go to tab `Users`. See in `System UIDs` if your user UID is UNDER or GREATER that those numbers, it won't be shown on login window. Just change those numbers and you're set. Bye, Rafael Fernández López. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDxurl9RRlaicc3IERAi7kAJ9/8BkJnS5vDYMzrrpGR6G4CHTQIgCfQhLH 5OYc+0QAiQTeAK/4LfBeCA0= =IIxg -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Shawn Singh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to do account management across multiple Unix boxes?
NIS comes to mind and some recommended docs are: http://www.linux-nis.org/nis-howto/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO.html http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_NISOn 1/11/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Wednesday 11 January 2006 13:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a term for the situation where you have one computer as the user account master and every other machine recognizes all user accounts that are specified on the master? I'm sure there's plenty of packages and documentation on how to do this, but I don't know what it's called, so I don't know where to start looking. Basically, I have one OpenBSD box and three gentoo boxes.I'd like to have the same user accounts on all of them, but not have to manually create them each time.Especially for dealing with Samba and NFS, it's nice to have consistent accounts. Given the name of a couple key packages and/or web links, I think I could figure the rest out.openldap is one waykerberos is another (don't pick this one)nis or YP is anotherI prefer openldap, but be warned, all of these methods are fairly non-trivialdepending on your experience level. maybe there's a way to do it with sama as well? Thanks! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email --John JoletYour On-Demand IT Department512-762-0729www.jolet.net[EMAIL PROTECTED]-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Shawn Singh
[gentoo-user] Strangeness with KDE 3.4
Hey all, I recently rebuilt my Gentoo box, but have had a few problems that I've not been able to figure out: 1. The sound doesn't work i.e. I can't play any music files (mp3s, wavs etc) -- in xmms I get an error telling me that it failed to load the oss 1.2.10 driver (or some such) I can't play a sound from the sound notification center to test the sound. I've compiled in support for ALSA and have included a snippet of my .config for everyone to see. 2. Only 1 user shows up in KDE, even though I have 2 users for the system. -- # Advanced Linux Sound Architecture # CONFIG_SND=y CONFIG_SND_TIMER=y CONFIG_SND_PCM=y CONFIG_SND_HWDEP=y CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=y CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=y CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY=y CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=y CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK=y CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y CONFIG_SND_DEBUG_MEMORY=y CONFIG_SND_DEBUG_DETECT=y CONFIG_SND_EMU10K1=y in /proc/devices I see the following listed: 14 sound 116 alsa From a list of procs I see: rsingh6721 0.0 0.9 12456 7704 ?S16:24 0:00 /usr/kde/3.4/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -n -s 60 -m artsmessage -c drkonqi -l 3 -f rsingh6734 0.0 0.9 12456 7704 ?S16:24 0:00 /usr/kde/3.4/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -n -s 60 -m artsmessage -c drkonqi -l 3 -f I've got version 2.6.12 r6 of gentoo sources. Shawn Singh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way
seems like the wrong place for such a pitch, proposal, proposition :-P, but seriously what r these people thinking?On 1/10/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:31:57 -0500, Darryl Wagoner wrote: It looks interesting concept similar to something I can up with but haven't had the time to do anything with.What is the profit sharing model?What makes this different than other distro? It it totally bug-free!--Neil BothwickBother, said Pooh, as he connected at 300 bps.-- Shawn Singh
Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way
Since they haven't produces any code (that any of us can see) it is inherently bug-free. :-), yeah and when they write some, there will ONLY be OPPORTUNITIES that are in need of realization :)On 1/10/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 10 January 2006 10:03, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wroteabout 'Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way': On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:31:57 -0500, Darryl Wagoner wrote: It looks interesting concept similar to something I can up with but haven't had the time to do anything with.What is the profit sharing model?What makes this different than other distro? It it totally bug-free!For the sarcasm impaired, this is a joke.Since they haven't produces anycode (that any of us can see) it is inherently bug-free.--Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Shawn Singh
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] URLS for linux based handhelds
This site mentions some devices, although I'm sure you've probably run across it already:http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT9423084269.htmlI'm trying find a wireless provider that sells devices that run Linux and am having the darnest time. I've spoken with Verizon, T-mobile and Nextel and so far the best answer I've gotten is that the phone needs to speak CDMA (I think) and they need to have the ESN in their DB. I'm just not sure how to verify that info w/o wasting time / money experimenting. Do u have any suggestions?Thank you,ShawnOn 1/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Anyone here using or know about linux based handheld tools?Especialy like a smartphone running a linux os?I have googled up a few and even a supplier that was selling surplusfrom some other project to the public but the pages were a bit old.I'm hoping some progress has been made and something is available. --gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Shawn Singh
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Vi
Thanks for the info. Before I could emerge --sync I had to update portage. Once I did that, I was able to do the emerge --sync and then emerge vim. Again, thank you all for your help. ShawnOn 1/4/06, Catalin Neagoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, issue an emerge sync first. The explanation is that you still havete ebuild-6.5.068 but the package itself don't exist anymore.Shawn Singh wrote: thank's all ... I'll see what solution works the best. On 1/3/06, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Ernie Schroder wrote:John Jolet wrote: On Jan 3, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Shawn Singh wrote:Hey all,When trying to emerge vi, emerge fails on step 1 of 3 because it cannot find vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Here is a snippet from thelast bit of the run of emerge:09:55:37 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Aborting.try an emerge --sync. I've been getting the same results for the past week and a half.Any suggestions?Thanks,Shawn Singh From time to time, I find packages that I can't d'load from the sitenamed in the ebuild. What I do in that case, is to google the package and dload it from another source. I then move it to/usr/portage/distfiles. Then a normal emerge PACKAGE_NAME will run.here is a source for it: http://cvsup.de.openbsd.org/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2 --gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Shawn Singh-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Shawn Singh
[gentoo-user] Can't get Vi
Hey all,When trying to emerge vi, emerge fails on step 1 of 3 because it cannot find vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Here is a snippet from the last bit of the run of emerge:09:55:37 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Aborting.I've been getting the same results for the past week and a half. Any suggestions?Thanks,Shawn Singh
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Vi
thank's all ... I'll see what solution works the best.On 1/3/06, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ernie Schroder wrote: John Jolet wrote: On Jan 3, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Shawn Singh wrote: Hey all, When trying to emerge vi, emerge fails on step 1 of 3 because it cannot find vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Here is a snippet from the last bit of the run of emerge: 09:55:37 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Aborting. try an emerge --sync. I've been getting the same results for the past week and a half. Any suggestions? Thanks, Shawn Singh From time to time, I find packages that I can't d'load from the site named in the ebuild. What I do in that case, is to google the package and dload it from another source. I then move it to /usr/portage/distfiles. Then a normal emerge PACKAGE_NAME will run. here is a source for it: http://cvsup.de.openbsd.org/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2 --gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Shawn Singh
[gentoo-user] Re: Can't get Vi
The emerge --sync fixed the problem. The previous emerge was looking for a slightly older version (6.3 instead of 6.4). Thanks all! On 1/3/06, Shawn Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thank's all ... I'll see what solution works the best. On 1/3/06, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ernie Schroder wrote: John Jolet wrote: On Jan 3, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Shawn Singh wrote: Hey all, When trying to emerge vi, emerge fails on step 1 of 3 because it cannot find vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Here is a snippet from the last bit of the run of emerge: 09:55:37 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Aborting. try an emerge --sync. I've been getting the same results for the past week and a half. Any suggestions? Thanks, Shawn Singh From time to time, I find packages that I can't d'load from the site named in the ebuild. What I do in that case, is to google the package and dload it from another source. I then move it to /usr/portage/distfiles. Then a normal emerge PACKAGE_NAME will run. here is a source for it: http://cvsup.de.openbsd.org/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Shawn Singh -- Shawn Singh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Error when trying to bootstrap compiler
Hmmm...in that case I may not bother to do the stage 1 install. Thanks for the input. I'll be sure to holler if I have other questions. Shawn On 12/21/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/21/05, Shawn Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, A couple days ago my main box died so I'm trying to restore it. I've only got a old Gentoo Live-CD (2004.2) so I'm using that. I'm doing a Stage 1 installation. When I get to the step of Bootstrapping the compiler I get the following error: * Error: ' ' does not exist. Exiting In looking at scripts/bootstrap.sh I see that the error will be displayed if /etc/make.profile is not a valid file. (at least that'swhat Ithink I read). I am guessing here, because it has been a long time since I did astage1 install.But I suspect that you need to update to the currentprofile before running bootstrap.shln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1 /etc/make.profile I am assuming that you have done the emerge --sync step already.Otherwise you can continue to try and bootstrap the 2004.2 profile,but YMMV. My 2 questions are: 1.Whyam I getting that error? 2.Why is /etc/make.profile not getting created?# I'm assuming it should be getting created when I unpack portage.No, unpacking portage only makes /usr/portage (since there is a -C/usr option for the tar command in the handbook).If it is anywhere, it would have to be in the stage1 tarball if it exists.However, keep in mind that stage1 is really not supported now, and thecurrent handbook only covers stage3 installs.There is nooptimization to be had by going the stage1 route, only more difficulty.-Richard--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Shawn Singh
Re: [gentoo-user] Shouldn't grub setup overwrite lilo in MBR
Heinz, Thanks for that link. ShawnOn 12/21/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:22:26 +0100, Heinz Sporn wrote: That will zero the whole disk. Even adding count=1 will still wipe the partition table. I think the command you want is dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/dha bs=466 count=1 bs=466 will make your disk unusable as well. It should be 446 and not 466.Good catch. I knew it was 446, that was a typo, the most insidious ofweapons of mass destruction :( --Neil BothwickThe facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.-- Shawn Singh
[gentoo-user] Error when trying to bootstrap compiler
Hey all, A couple days ago my main box died so I'm trying to restore it. I've only got a old Gentoo Live-CD (2004.2) so I'm using that. I'm doing a Stage 1 installation. When I get to the step of Bootstrapping the compiler I get the following error: * Error: ' ' does not exist. Exiting In looking at scripts/bootstrap.sh I see that the error will be displayed if /etc/make.profile is not avalid file. (at least that's what I think I read). My 2 questions are: 1.Why am I getting that error? 2. Why is /etc/make.profile not getting created? # I'm assuming it should be getting created when I unpack portage.-- Shawn Singh
Re: [gentoo-user] i'm new of list
Welcome to the list. You'll certainly find a wealth of knowledge here.
Re: [gentoo-user] Two boots?
I'm sorry, but what do you mean when you say that it goes through two boot cycles? Are you saying that when you need to reboot the machine it will come up, then reboot itself or that it will start the boot process, but not complete successfully, which would require you to boot again? ShawnOn 12/16/05, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My dual opteron box runs gentoo nicely.However, it ALWAYS takes twoboot cycles to boot up.Is there some issue I might need to knowabout?Is this one boot per cpu?Thanks for any ideas,Alan --gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Shawn Singh
Re: [gentoo-user] Let's make a map of Gentoo users
another Gentoo user in Florida. (Jacksonville)On 12/8/05, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob Lytle wrote:On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:59:21 +0900pclouds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:If you are stillinterested in frappr.com, please give one more pointto http://www.frappr.com/linuxusers :)--Bi Cờ Lao-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listThere may be a bug in the message listing.Or perhaps I have no ideawhat I am doing- it wouldn't be the first time.My message shows up twice in the same box.Rob LytleMine did too.I can't figure out how to edit it either.That makes mea double Linux nut and a double windoze hater.That last part is OK though.:-)Dale:-)--To err is human, I'm most certainly human.I have four rigs:1:Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2:Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive.3:Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive.4:Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive.All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers.--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Shawn Singh
Re: [gentoo-user] creating local copies of web pages
I guess I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do, but when I want to get a local copy of a website I do this: nohup wget -m http://www.someUrL.org ShawnOn 12/2/05, Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying all afternoon to make local copies of web pages from anetscape bookmark file. I have been wrestling with httrack (throughkhttrack), pavuk and wget, but none of them work. httrack and pavuk seem to claim they can do the job, but they can't, or at least not in any way anordinary mortal could be expected to work out. They do things like pretendingto download hundreds of files without actually saving them to disk, crashing suddenly and frequently, and popping up messages saying that I haven'tcontributed enough code to their project to expect the thing to workproperly. I don't want to do anything hideously complicated. I just want to make local copies of some bookmarked pages. What tools should I be using?I would be happy to use a windows tool in wine if it worked. I would be happyto reboot into Windows if I could get this job done. One option would be to feed wget a list of urls. The trouble is I don't knowhow to turn an html bookmark file into a simple list of urls. I imagine Icould do it in sed if I spent enough time to learn sed, but my afternoon has gone now and I don't have the time.Many thanksRobert--Robert PerssonDon't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults.(US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997)-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Shawn Singh
Re: [gentoo-user] unkillable processes
Do you and your wife have separate logons and if so, does this only happen when she is logged into her account using Gnome? In the past I've seen problems on my sisters' computer that sound similiar to what you've described and I've blown way the files that are created with Gnome is setup (this is on a box running Mandrake 9.2) the next time one of them logs in the files get recreated and this usually resolves the issue, and in times when it didn't work (because I just didn't seem to be hitting the nail on the head), I backed up their stuff (docs and so forth) created a new login for them, put their stuff into their new home and let them use it and if the problem went away, I'd just let them use this new login, or blow away their home dir and recover it with the copy. While it's certainly not elegant, it usually resolves their issues pretty quickly. Hope this helps, Shawn On 11/29/05, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/28/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,My wife ran into a problem this evening that required I do a reboot. She runs Gnome. Sometimes something about her setup goes haywire and she loses all her desktop icons and her wallpaper. In the past I've found that if we log her out and then in the console kill all processes left running with her account as the owner that she can then log back in and use Gnome correctly.This evening one of these processes was unkillable. I tried kill -15 PID kill -9 PID killall -9 process_name but none worked. To make forward progress I just rebooted.Is there some other way I could have tried killing this process? Thanks, MarkThe times this has happened to my I used htop to send a SIGSEGV to make the program think it segfaulted and that caused the program todie. Its probably a horribly sloppy hack but it has worked for me inthe past.-Mike--Michael E. Crute Software DeveloperSoftGroup Development CorporationLinux takes junk and turns it into something useful.Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk.-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Shawn Singh
[gentoo-user] System Locking Up
Hello all, Over the course of the past 2 weeks I've come home to a zombie machinetwo times.Here are the symptoms: 1. Can't get the mouse to move on the screen 2. See the time is several hours back (thetime that is displayed in the panel) 3. Can't ssh into the box to find out what might be causing the system to be unresponsive. 4. Can't ping the box. When looking in /var/log in the critical and kernel sections I don't see anywarning messages. I've also looked in the Xorg and sshd logs to see if there is anything in there to indicate what might be happening, butI don't see anything. I've got a Pentium4 (1300 Mhz), 768Mb RAM. I've had Gentoo on this box for several months now (at least 9) and have not seen this problem before (at least that I can remember). What log files mightthere be that might give some indications as to the problem that might be causing the system to become unresponsive?Thank you, Shawn Singh
Re: [gentoo-user] System Locking Up
Ihope it's not the mobo. Did you see any logs that indicated hw failureor anything like that? On 11/8/05, Burak Serdar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. It turned out to be a dyingmotherboard. Yours might be something else, but it is likely to be a hardware problem.On 11/8/05, Shawn Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Over the course of the past 2 weeks I've come home to azombie machine two times. Here are thesymptoms: 1.Can't get the mouse to move on the screen 2.Seethe time is several hours back (the time that is displayed in the panel) 3.Can't ssh into the box to find out what might be causing the system to be unresponsive. 4.Can'tpingthe box. When looking in /var/log in the critical and kernel sections I don't see any warning messages. I've also looked in the Xorg and sshd logs to see if there is anything in there to indicate what might be happening, but I don't see anything. I've got a Pentium 4 (1300 Mhz), 768Mb RAM. I've had Gentoo on this box for several months now (at least 9) and have not seen this problem before (at leastthat I can remember). What log files might there be that might give some indications as to the problem that might be causing the system to become unresponsive? Thank you, Shawn Singh--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Shawn Singh
[gentoo-user] Having trouble installing VMWare
I emerged vmware; however, when trying to configure it, I'm seeing the following... Extracting the sources of the vmmon module. Building the vmmon module. Building for VMware Workstation 4.5.2 or VMware GSX Server 3.1.0. Using 2.6.x kernel build system. make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only' make -C /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4' CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/hash.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/memtrack.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/phystrack.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/task.o cc1plus: warning: -ffreestanding is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++ CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/common/vmx86.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/vmcore/compat.o CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/vmcore/moduleloop.o LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/vmmon.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST CC /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/vmmon.mod.o LD [M] /tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only/vmmon.ko make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4' cp -f vmmon.ko ./../vmmon.o make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon-only' Unable to make a vmmon module that can be loaded in the running kernel: insmod: error inserting '/tmp/vmware-config4/vmmon.o': -1 Unknown symbol in module There is probably a slight difference in the kernel configuration between the set of C header files you specified and your running kernel. You may want to rebuild a kernel based on that directory, or specify another directory. For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please visit our Web site at http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html; and http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html;. I've seen that some people (who are using Suse) are saying one needs to cd into /usr/src/linux then run make cloneconfig and one other command; however, when I try to run make cloneconfig I get errors indicating that cloneconfig is not a valid option to build... Has anyone out there run into this? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] VMWare Question
Hey all, Has anyone tried to emerge vmware??? When doing so using the following command: emerge app-emulation/vmware-workstation I get this error: !!! Couldn't download vmware-any-any-update89.tar.gz. Aborting. Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you, Shawn -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer
Mplayer seemed to get install when I installed Limewire. On 6/7/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK what ebuild is it in? On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 10:44 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: I am Refering to MPlayer a front end aplication. On 6/7/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 21:04 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: I recently emerged mplayer but it got all blue... I don't know if this is right but it is almost impossible to see the buttons on it may I done something wrong ??? can I do something now ??? PS. Any skin is blue too . mplayer does not have a skin. It is a command line program. you type mplayer moviefile.avi and it plays. Are you referring to gmplayer that is a gtk front end? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] CFS Howto
Hey all, I was attempting to encrypt my home directory using the CFS Howto as my guide, but I am not getting far at all... When trying to emerge cfs, I'm getting the following message: convert usr # emerge app-crypt/cfs-1.4.1.14 Calculating dependencies !!! Problem in app-crypt/cfs-1.4.1.14 dependencies. !!! Specific key requires an operator (app-crypt/cfs-1.4.1.14) (try adding an '=') exceptions So, I changed my command to: emerge -pv =app-crypt/cfs-1.4.1.14 and I'm getting the following message: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =app-crypt/cfs-1.4.1.14 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - app-crypt/cfs-1.4.1.14 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or section 2.2 Software Availability in the Gentoo Handbook. The computer that I'm trying to install this on has a Pentium 4 processor. Support for NFS has been compiled into the Kernel (satisfying part of step 3). Any suggestions? Thank you, Shawn -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to keep a networkcard into 100mbit full duplex
I think mii-tool can be used to set the speed duplex on a card. Hope this helps, Shawn On 5/24/05, mudrii [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Qian Qiao wrote: On 24/05/05, Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Whats the best way to keep my networkcards in 100mbit full duplex, now i have put the commands in the /etc/conf.d/local.start. Shouldn't most network cards/hubs/switches be able to auto-sense? -- Joe You can check network conection with mii-tool -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no reboot netfinity 3500
Have you already solved this problem? If not, please re-state what is happening. I'm curious as to whether or not your box needs certain kernel modules to be loaded so that the system will have all that it needs to boot the system. Shawn On 5/23/05, Walter Willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: netfinity 3500 ultraFast scsi ( two disc ) the problem is when reboot: #reboot and startup process the reboot, down , but not start ; no init the server is configured the kernel ? any module no load that drive the hardware? my kernel is genkernel 2.6.11-r7 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory
Oh yeah!!! That does sound like something I'd like to learn how to do. On 5/4/05, rob3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, If there is sufficient interest, I can write up detailed instructions for setting up an encrypted home directory. Unlike Windoze, since all personal information is contained wholly in the home directory in *nix, it is very advantagious to encrypt it. I can show how to migrate your home directory to CFS. The only missing part so far is a shutdown/unmount script for the NFS based system. And since CFS uses NFS, you want to do a good firewalling job to make certain all the NFS ports are blocked in and out of your internet connection. Sincerely, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
