[gentoo-user] Re: bridge configuration problem
Normally, the bridge works well. But everytime I execute /etc/init.d/net.br0 restart, the following error occurs: * network interface br0 does not exist * Please verify hardware or kernel module (driver) [ !! ] Then I execute such command one more time, it works well. Does anyone know what's wrong with it? So you have bridge-utits installed and there's also kernel-support for bridging? Can you create the bridge manually? BTW: i would add a RC_NEED_xenbr0=net.eth0 to your /etc/conf.d/net Regards, Sven
[gentoo-user] Re: new timezone data requires setting a symlink by hand
So do we keep TIMEZONE in conf.d/clock or delete it? There is no /etc/conf.d/clock anymore in openrc/baselayout 2.0. The openrc file is called /etc/conf.d/hwclock, and there's no TIMEZONE variable in that file.
[gentoo-user] new sys-apps/hal-0.5.11: changing keyboard layout
Hi, have you noticed the hal update? It just informed me about some trouble concerning my keyboard-layout. Keyboards as well as mice are now added automatically to xorg (and the evdev driver is used - hooray! always wanted to use evdev). Yet, they are always added with us keyboard layout. So hal's ebuild suggested, that i use gnome's keyboard settings or that i use setxkbmap to override the us-setting. So my first thought was: how to hell do i tell gdm to use de keyboard layout? So what's the answer? How do i do it properly? How do i tell xorg-x11 to use de layout for all hot-plugged keyboards? Because gdm offers no keyboard-settings, as far as i know. And since my keyboard is qwertz, i see a y when typing a z in gdm. gnome settings kick in AFTER logging in - so that's pretty useless for gdm. Regards, Sven
[gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness
To avoid automounting and autoinstalling with /boot,
just export the DONT_MOUNT_BOOT variable.
Which /boot partition? I don't have any ...
If there's a setup-command in your grub.conf, it is indeed executed.
So if that command is outdated (something you won't notice, since that
command is not used by grub in any situation i know), the ebuild will
execute that setup-command and write to some device's boot sector. How
evil, again!
Regards,
Sven
P.S.: here's the code from grub-0.97-r5.ebuild:
if [[ -e ${dir}/grub.conf ]] ; then
egrep \
-v
'^[[:space:]]*(#|$|default|fallback|initrd|password|splashimage|timeout|title)'
\
${dir}/grub.conf | \
/sbin/grub --batch \
--device-map=${dir}/device.map \
/dev/null
fi
And following the code of the functions which does the job:
found in ebuild: /usr/portage/sys-boot/grub/grub-0.97-r5.ebuild
setup_boot_dir() {
local boot_dir=$1
local dir=${boot_dir}
[[ ! -e ${dir} ]] die ${dir} does not exist!
[[ ! -L ${dir}/boot ]] ln -s . ${dir}/boot
dir=${dir}/grub
if [[ ! -e ${dir} ]] ; then
mkdir ${dir} || die ${dir} does not exist!
fi
# change menu.lst to grub.conf
if [[ ! -e ${dir}/grub.conf ]] [[ -e ${dir}/menu.lst ]] ; then
mv -f ${dir}/menu.lst ${dir}/grub.conf
ewarn
ewarn *** IMPORTANT NOTE: menu.lst has been renamed to grub.conf
ewarn
fi
if [[ -e ${dir}/stage2 ]] ; then
mv ${dir}/stage2{,.old}
ewarn *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install
ewarn the new version's stage1 to your MBR. Until you do,
ewarn stage1 and stage2 will still be the old version, but
ewarn later stages will be the new version, which could
ewarn cause problems such as an unbootable system.
ebeep
fi
einfo Copying files from /lib/grub and /usr/lib/grub to ${dir}
for x in ${ROOT}/lib*/grub/*/* ${ROOT}/usr/lib*/grub/*/* ; do
[[ -f ${x} ]] cp -p ${x} ${dir}/
done
if [[ -e ${dir}/grub.conf ]] ; then
egrep \
-v
'^[[:space:]]*(#|$|default|fallback|initrd|password|splashimage|timeout|title)'
\
${dir}/grub.conf | \
/sbin/grub --batch \
--device-map=${dir}/device.map \
/dev/null
fi
# the grub default commands silently piss themselves if
# the default file does not exist ahead of time
if [[ ! -e ${dir}/default ]] ; then
grub-set-default --root-directory=${boot_dir} default
fi
}
How you can see isn't the message piped to /dev/null, only
the command /sbin/grub -batch -device-map
Why should i worry about the message being piped to /dev/null?
I worry about a message saying you have to do it by hand although some
harmful magic is going on behind the scenes (the egrep+grub command)
although we are not informed about it (command is piped to /dev/null,
not message about it, etc.).
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[gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness
When you emerged grub-0.97-r5, this was displayed on your console:
WARN: postinst
*** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install
the new version's stage1 to your MBR. Until you do,
stage1 and stage2 will still be the old version, but
later stages will be the new version, which could
cause problems such as an unbootable system.
Yes, the ebuild writes that to the screen.
But silently, in the background (because every output is piped to
/dev/null - how evil!), the ebuild calls grub with some commands inside
your grub.conf.
If there's a setup-command in your grub.conf, it is indeed executed. So
if that command is outdated (something you won't notice, since that
command is not used by grub in any situation i know), the ebuild will
execute that setup-command and write to some device's boot sector. How
evil, again!
Regards,
Sven
P.S.: here's the code from grub-0.97-r5.ebuild:
if [[ -e ${dir}/grub.conf ]] ; then
egrep \
-v
'^[[:space:]]*(#|$|default|fallback|initrd|password|splashimage|timeout|title)'
\
${dir}/grub.conf | \
/sbin/grub --batch \
--device-map=${dir}/device.map \
/dev/null
fi
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[gentoo-user] Re: Rootkit Hunter release 1.3.2
(Portage is a little dated at 1.2.9) http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkhunter/ Thanks for the info but this doesn't belong here. The proper thing to do would be to open a bug on http://bugs.gentoo.org and request a version bump. Like this one: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194832 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: somebody using x11-drm?
is somebody using the package x11-base/x11-drm for intel's integrated graphics? I'd like to see the output of dmesg |grep -i drm to see, of i actually have some advanatge of using it. With the kernel's own 2.6.25, my dmesg|grep -i drm says: Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0 Yep, I'm using it (and the kernel module) and I get the same output of dmesg | grep drm If I remember correctly, only =x11-base/x11-drm-20071019 worked for me (at least there was a reason for me to put it in /etc/portage/package.keywords) Looking at the sources of that exact version (20071019), i think the output should be Initialized i915 1.11.0 20071019. At least the date should match. Are you sure, that you use the modules from the gentoo-package and not the ones from the kernel? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: somebody using x11-drm?
With the kernel's own 2.6.25, my dmesg|grep -i drm says: Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0 Yep, I'm using it (and the kernel module) and I get the same output of dmesg | grep drm If I remember correctly, only =x11-base/x11-drm-20071019 worked for me (at least there was a reason for me to put it in /etc/portage/package.keywords) Looking at the sources of that exact version (20071019), i think the output should be Initialized i915 1.11.0 20071019. At least the date should match. So now, after downgrading to 2.6.24.5 and installing x11-drm, i get the following output: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [drm] Initialized i915 1.11.0 20070209 on minor 0 So indeed, the version is higher than the kernel's driver. But unfortunatly, i couldn't find any things that are actually fixed now. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] somebody using x11-drm?
Hi, is somebody using the package x11-base/x11-drm for intel's integrated graphics? I'd like to see the output of dmesg |grep -i drm to see, of i actually have some advanatge of using it. With the kernel's own 2.6.25, my dmesg|grep -i drm says: Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 Apr 23 17:43:08 bert kernel: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Suddenly emerging unstable packages = why?
Suddenly I noticed I'm on the bleeding edge. I don't know why. The latest: emerge -aDvu world is emerging unstable k3b-1.0.4. At least if I'm reading the output of eix correctly, it's unstable. I don't have anything in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS (it's not defined). In all of /etc/portage there are 4 references to x86, and they're in package.keywords for particular package releases whose features I needed. So why am I emerging these things? Take a look here: http://www.gentoo-portage.com/app-cdr/k3b Or here: http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-cdr/k3b k3b-1.0.4 is marked stable. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: New samba-3.0.25c broken?
Hi. I just tried to update to the new stable samba 3.025c and noticed two problems: - the init script does not work (known bug #191647) - after fixing the init script, the Windows box (XP SP2) can no longer connect to shared directories despite the new server being visible and browseable. Strangely enough, connecting to the server via smbclient (on the server itself) works fine. Restarting the Windows box does not help and should not be necessary either. Same problem here with samba 3.0.27a In addition, the mount.cifs binary is missing. So i cannot mount via CIFS anymore. Samba ebuild is VERY broken :-( signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: New samba-3.0.25c broken?
In addition, the mount.cifs binary is missing. So i cannot mount via CIFS anymore. Samba ebuild is VERY broken :-( The ebuild is not broken, you just didn't read what it told you The mount/umount.cifs helper applications are not included anymore. Please install net-fs/mount-cifs instead. Yes, sorry for the noise. Yet, mount-cifs is not stable yet :-( Anyway: the other problem still remains. For some reason, i cannot access my samba shares :-( Samba 3.0.24 works like charm. Just switched back to it. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: New samba-3.0.25c broken?
Samba 3.0.24 works like charm. Just switched back to it. But watch out, it has a huge security problem: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-29.xml Yeah, but i've got no time right now, to analyse the problems with 3.0.27a. I've run it in debug mode and so on - but i found nothing suspicious. Actually two of my shares work - and another one (the important one) does not. Very strange! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Problem using the pppoe plugin
Hi. I am having a very frustrating prroblem when I use the pppoe plugin like so: config_ppp0=(ppp) link_ppp0=eth2 plugins_ppp0=(rp-pppoe) username_ppp0='vzeqmmst' pppd_ppp0=( updetach noauth ipcp-accept-remote ipcp-accept-local holdoff 3 lcp-echo-interval 15 lcp-echo-failure 3 ) What happens is that when I use this a computer on my local network has intermittent connection problems -- it connects to google just fine, but not to Microsoft sites and other places. Use this: iptables -t filter -A FORWARD -p tcp --syn -j TCPMSS --clamp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] postfix+cyrus+postgre?
Hi, any tipps on setting up a mailserver with postfix, cyrus-imapd and postgresql? Actually, a web-frontend would be nice.It seems, that the web-cyradm projects stopped living some years ago :-( Does anybody run a complete and easy to configure sollution for SMTP+IMAP based on Gentoo? Thanks, Sven -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-wiki.com not responding
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[gentoo-user] Re: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool
emerge gnome fails. Does anyone recognize what portage is complaining about here? I'm not really sure, but I solved it by reemerging dev-perl/XML-Parser. expat has been updated. Some Apps are now broken. They have to recompiled to link against the new libexpat. For me, it was gettext and XML-Parser that had to be re-emerged. Without it, emerging gnome failed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] which syslog?
Hi, so until recently, i have been using sysklogd. So i had my auth.log, mail.log, syslog, messages, etc. in /var/log. Now i switched to syslog-ng. Now, only /var/log/messages gets filled with all, that i would expect in auth.log or mail.log. Maybe syslog-ng can be configured to behave like sysklogd. But i would rather like a default-config that behaves like sysklogd. So the next thing i could try is metalog. Does it have a nice default config? Regards, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?
I am curious, though: If you like the sysklogd layout to the point that you want to replicate it exactly in other log daemons, why do you want to switch log daemons? Last sysklogd version if from 2001. And portage contains 1.4.2_pre2007* versions. This was curious to me. And on the other hand, other distributions don't use sysklogd anymore. Instead they use syslog-ng, for example. But i guess, they have a more suitable default setting. Everything going to /var/log/messes is just to simple, i think. Actually i don't want the layout to be like sysklogd. But i would like a little more complicated default setting. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] no-multilib killed /lib link
Hi, i switched to the no-mutilib profile. Then, i emerged glibc and gcc. After that whole thing, i tried to reboot: But the link at /lib pointing to /lib64 was missing. I don't which step exactly removed it. But it's not good! Without the link, the system won't boot :-( Just wanted to let you know. Regards, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: glib-1.2.10-r5 broken for lame
trying to update my system , glib is broken here is the output Seems like a libtool problem. Please try to update libtool, and then try to update glib again. Maybe that works. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Monitor SATA with smart?
is it possible to monitor SATA disks with smart? sys-apps/smartmontools can not read smart on that disks. You have to tell smartmontools, that it's actually an ATA disk. SATA devices show up as SCSI devices, but the protocol is still ATA. So this can be done with the -d ata switch - also see /etc/smartd.conf. BUT: recent versions of smartmontools can recognize SATA disks. No need for -d ata anymore! smartmontools-5.37 (which is still ~x86 and ~amd64) correctly SATA disks in all my computers. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: WLAN daemon?
As I understand it a good WLAN device driver will associate and re-associate with the next available device when it comes into range. Some drivers are not that good at re-associating. Right, but just imagine you close the laptop in the university and open it at home again. There is no such thing as re-associating. The interface is still configured for the university net which simply isn't there anymore. Some application needs to scan for available nets and it should then realize, that it should reconfigure the interface for my home net. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: WLAN daemon?
is there any WLAN daemon that scans for wireless LANs and loggs into them, if he finds one, that i prefer? Maybe wifi-radar fits your needs! I think, it's just an application - a frontend. What i would prefer, is really a daemon running as root in background, scanning for networks, loggin into them, etc. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] cyrus-imapd not working after recompile against db4.3
Hi, any ideas, why my cyrus-imapd isn't working anymore? In /var/log/imapd.log is says: Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25000]: process started Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25004]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet ctl_cyrusdb[25004]: DBERROR àÓ^F^H: db4 Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet ctl_cyrusdb[25004]: recovering cyrus databases Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet ctl_cyrusdb[25004]: skiplist: recovered /var/imap/mailboxes.db (72 records, 12920 bytes) in 0 seconds Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet ctl_cyrusdb[25004]: skiplist: recovered /var/imap/annotations.db (0 records, 144 bytes) in 0 seconds Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet ctl_cyrusdb[25004]: DBERROR àÓ^F^H: db4 Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet ctl_cyrusdb[25004]: DBERROR àÓ^F^H: db4 Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet ctl_cyrusdb[25004]: DBERROR: critical database situation Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25000]: process 25004 exited, status 75 Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25009]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/idled Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet idled[25009]: DBERROR pÕ^F^H: db4 Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet idled[25009]: DBERROR: critical database situation Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25000]: process 25009 exited, status 75 Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25000]: ready for work Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25022]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/tls_prune Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet tls_prune[25022]: DBERROR : db4 Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet tls_prune[25022]: DBERROR: critical database situation Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25023]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/ctl_deliver Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet cyr_expire[25023]: DBERROR àÚ^F^H: db4 Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet cyr_expire[25023]: DBERROR: critical database situation Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25024]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25000]: process 25022 exited, status 75 Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25000]: process 25023 exited, status 75 Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet ctl_cyrusdb[25024]: DBERROR àÓ^F^H: db4 Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet ctl_cyrusdb[25024]: DBERROR: critical database situation Apr 1 19:21:27 gwinet master[25000]: process 25024 exited, status 75 Apr 1 19:29:22 gwinet master[25000]: exiting on SIGTERM/SIGINT So as you can see, one database must be broken or in wrong format. But i have NO idea, which one it is. Before the upgrade to sys-libs/db-4.3* and a recompile of cyrus-imapd, the same version of cyrus imapd worked fine with db4.2. Any ideas? Thanks, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: cyrus-imapd not working after recompile against db4.3
So as you can see, one database must be broken or in wrong format. But i have NO idea, which one it is. OK, it was the database in /var/imap/db. Deleted all files in that directory, and now everything's fine again. I wonder, what i broke by doing this. Anyway: all my mails are still there. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: how do I remove evolution from gnome?
I put evolution in /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. Then portage assumes, that it is installed ba hand and therefor it's not installed installed automatically. Unfortunatly, you still have to install eveolution-data-server and evolution-webcal, because it's a hard-dependency of some other gnome-package. I thought an -eds USE flag will keep evolution-data-server from being installed? There is a gnome-package, that doesn't compile without evolution-data-server (I forgot the name, unfortunatly). So evolution-data-server must to be installed. Anyway: with the eds-useflag, you can ONLY disable the build of evolution-data-server-related features of certain packages. Even if you disable it, there may be packages, that don't recognize the use-flag and have a hard dependency on evolution-data-server. These packages need evolution-data-server for being compiled. There is no way around this! The gentoo-guys can do nothing about it. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: how do I remove evolution from gnome?
Any suggestions? I put evolution in /etc/portage/profile/package.provided. Then portage assumes, that it is installed ba hand and therefor it's not installed installed automatically. Unfortunatly, you still have to install eveolution-data-server and evolution-webcal, because it's a hard-dependency of some other gnome-package. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] vmware broken?
Hi, my vmware doesn't work anymore :-( I have no clue about the cause - maybe my update to 2.6.20 or perhaps bus? # vmware /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin/vmware: /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2) process 12397: Attempt to remove filter function 0xb6b46c20 user data 0x8802b90, but no such filter has been added D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin/vmware: /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2) /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin/vmware: /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2) process 12408: Attempt to remove filter function 0xb6effc20 user data 0x88041f0, but no such filter has been added D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace So what might be wrong here? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: [Xen] How to set or bring up vif interfaces?
I would like to have Xen to run unmodified OS (Windows, and some other Linuces). I know Linux may be ran Xen-aware, but the goal is to experiment some kernel packaging, so that I need to use the distribution kernel. I got the FC5 isos. I made a file /etc/xen/fc5-guest.cfg (see attached) But the problem is about vifX interfaces. Neither http://fr.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XEN#Windows_XP nor http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xen_and_Gentoo tells how to bring up such interface. In fact I dont see anywhere any documentation on how to setup networking for the need of Xen. Actually, you just have to start xend, and it will setup xenbr0. But i prefer, to setup xenbr0 manually, by myself. And that's the way i do it, in /etc/conf.d/net: bridge_xenbr0=eth0 config_xenbr0=( a.b.c.d/24 ) routes_xenbr0=( default via a.b.c.d ) brctl_xenbr0=( setfd 0 sethello 0 stp off ) When I run Xen, I have: asus ~ # xm create fc5-guest.cfg Using config file /etc/xen/fc5-guest.cfg. VNC= 3 Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working. bridge-utils is already emerged. vnc is also emerged with USE=server What didi I do wrong? Do you have the necessary backend-driver in your dom0 kernel? Please check CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND. kernel = /usr/lib64/xen/boot/hvmloader builder='hvm' memory = 512 name = fc5-guest vcpus=1 vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0' ] disk = ['phy:/dev/sda5,ioemu:hda,w','file:/home/mihamina/downloads/isos/FC-5-i386-disc1.iso,hdc:cdrom,r'] device_model ='/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm' boot='d' vnc=1 vncviewer=1 serial='pty' ne2000=0 In my config, it reads: vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0' ] So yes, your config should work. Greetings, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: [Xen] How to set or bring up vif interfaces?
I would like to have Xen to run unmodified OS (Windows, and some other Linuces). I know Linux may be ran Xen-aware, but the goal is to experiment some kernel packaging, so that I need to use the distribution kernel. I got the FC5 isos. I made a file /etc/xen/fc5-guest.cfg (see attached) But the problem is about vifX interfaces. Neither http://fr.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XEN#Windows_XP nor http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xen_and_Gentoo tells how to bring up such interface. In fact I dont see anywhere any documentation on how to setup networking for the need of Xen. Actually, you just have to start xend, and it will setup xenbr0. But i prefer, to setup xenbr0 manually, by myself. And that's the way i do it, in /etc/conf.d/net: bridge_xenbr0=eth0 config_xenbr0=( a.b.c.d/24 ) routes_xenbr0=( default via a.b.c.d ) brctl_xenbr0=( setfd 0 sethello 0 stp off ) When I run Xen, I have: asus ~ # xm create fc5-guest.cfg Using config file /etc/xen/fc5-guest.cfg. VNC= 3 Error: Device 0 (vif) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working. bridge-utils is already emerged. vnc is also emerged with USE=server What didi I do wrong? Do you have the necessary backend-driver in your dom0 kernel? Please check CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND. kernel = /usr/lib64/xen/boot/hvmloader builder='hvm' memory = 512 name = fc5-guest vcpus=1 vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0' ] disk = ['phy:/dev/sda5,ioemu:hda,w','file:/home/mihamina/downloads/isos/FC-5-i386-disc1.iso,hdc:cdrom,r'] device_model ='/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm' boot='d' vnc=1 vncviewer=1 serial='pty' ne2000=0 In my config, it reads: vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0' ] So yes, your config should work. Greetings, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: avoiding java
If it is a hard-requirement, you'll get blah depends on java which is hardmasked and your emerge will die. I think, that what's Q wants. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions
I recently set up a Core 2 duo system. Following the AMD64 howto, the system now works. Kernel compilation took 1:40 minutes passing -j6 to make. Then I tried to bunzip a large file and found out that the machine was about 40 % in idle which is clear because bzip2 is only one process. So is there any way to build those utilities like bzip2 or gzip in a thread-using way? It's not that nice to see the machine in idle at all^^ Maybe there's any hidden use flag I haven't heard of or so :) I think, that is a misconception within bzip2. The alternative would be: - decompress one chunk, and write it to the stdout while the next block is already being decompressed. - compress a chunk, while reading the next one from stdin That would eat up at least twice the memory as it does now. And after i searched portage, i found pbzip2 - what about that? It may solve your problems ;-) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: avoiding java
»Q« schrieb: Is there a simple way to make sure java never gets installed on a gentoo machine? The only thing I've thought of is using /etc/portage/package.mask to mask everything in the dev-java category, but I'm hoping for something simpler. disable java use-flag. mask virtual/jdk, virtual/jre and maybe also dev-java/sun-jdk, etc. BTW: what's so frightening about java? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?
I do not understand/know how the choice of mirrors work either. I noticed that when I rsync from home I always hit the same mirror (first time). When I rsync from work (using the same laptop) I always hit a different specific mirror (again first time). it's not portage! it's rsync!!! execute rsync rsync.gentoo.org:: for a few times. I always see the banner message of owl.gentoo.org, and no other. That is STRANGE! i think it's not strange at all. i'm sure rsync uses mechanisms to find the closest server, and it's no surprise that this would be the same all the time, and different from the point of view of different networks. Then, rsync behaves kind of stupid, because if rsync always uses the same server, and the server doesn't work, then the sync will not work. But rsync could chose a different server, well, the second-best server, if the best server has failed. But it didn't do that :-( Well, but any discussion about that would be off-topic. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?
I do not understand/know how the choice of mirrors work either. I noticed that when I rsync from home I always hit the same mirror (first time). When I rsync from work (using the same laptop) I always hit a different specific mirror (again first time). it's not portage! it's rsync!!! execute rsync rsync.gentoo.org:: for a few times. I always see the banner message of owl.gentoo.org, and no other. That is STRANGE! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?
Hi, emerge --sync should sync with rsync.gentoo.org, to which many IP adresses (5 at the moment). Here's what host says: # host rsync.gentoo.org rsync.gentoo.org has address 129.79.6.73 rsync.gentoo.org has address 134.68.220.73 rsync.gentoo.org has address 134.68.220.74 rsync.gentoo.org has address 140.211.166.165 rsync.gentoo.org has address 64.127.121.98 The order of the adresses is random, when i rerun the command above. So i _would_ expect, that emerge --sync randomly choses on the the mirrors. But that is not true, and actually, on all my machines, emerge --sync uses always the 64.x.x.x mirror, and on the machine of a friend, it used always 129.x.x.x mirror - well, always is not true, but i run emerge --sync over and over again, and it did never try to use another one. So the thing is, that from my friend's DSL-connection, the server 129.x.x.x was unreachable, while the others were reachable. So we had to change the server manually in /etc/make.conf - but i don't understand, why emerge --sync used the one it was using, and why it didn't switch to one of the other ones. Thanks, Sven BTW: Merry Christmas! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] patch against sandbox violation with 2.6.19 kernels
Hi, i attached a patch. See comments #70 and #72 of this bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149307 from where i got it, and so on ... It fixes the sandbox violations with vanilla 2.6.19 kernel. It will be included in 2.6.20 kernel, as it seems. But it's not in 2.6.19.1 :-( I thought, that you could find that patch quite handy. Greetings, Sven astest.patch.bz2 Description: Binary data signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: patch against sandbox violation with 2.6.19 kernels
It will be included in 2.6.20 kernel, as it seems. But it's not in 2.6.19.1 :-( But it will be in 2.6.19.2 - hooray! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: udev 103, alsa dual soundcard problem
Hmm - I don't have this issue - what version of alsa-utils are you running? I'm running 1.0.13. I don't even have a /etc/init.d/coldplug init script on my system - maybe you need to do an emerge -C coldplug? Maybe if the coldplug script doesn't exist then alsasound won't complain about it... Just a theory. ;) /etc/init.d/coldplug has to be removed by hand, unfortunatly :-( signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: SCSI/libata based PATA support
do you know, what's going on at present in kernel development? We had libata based SATA drivers for a few kernel-versions now. Since 2.6.19, we seem to be offered libata based PATA drivers too! Why are they doing it? Does this make any sense to you? The new drivers don't replace the old ones, at present time. But are they planned to? Or do they just exist for the fun of it ? yes, they will replace the old drivers at some point in the future. And they don't exist just for the fun of it. ide is in a horrible state for many, many years. And every attempt to 'fix' it, went very wrong. libpata is the latest attempt to clean up the mess. What do we get? Hopefully better drivers, better error handling, better powermanagment support. I see! very nice ... But with the new drivers, you can't enable/disable DMA (yet) etc. Well, but they work nice, as far as i can tell. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] SCSI/libata based PATA support
Hi, do you know, what's going on at present in kernel development? We had libata based SATA drivers for a few kernel-versions now. Since 2.6.19, we seem to be offered libata based PATA drivers too! Why are they doing it? Does this make any sense to you? The new drivers don't replace the old ones, at present time. But are they planned to? Or do they just exist for the fun of it ? Greetings, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] switched from SiS to VIA chipset - vesa framebuffer broken
Hi, this is a really strange issue i'm having: i changed the motherboard, nothing else. I know have a K8T800Pro based motherboard. The old one was SiS-chipset based. So i was already running the vesa frambuffer at 1280x1024, 16-bit. And actually it worked perfect! No, after the switch to the VIA-chipset based Motherboard, i don't see the text that's printed to the screen. The resulition is switched, but the upper half of the screen stays black. When the text reaches the lower half, then i see the text, and then we come to the point, where the consolefont is set. And guess what: then suddenly everything works. I can see the text on the whole screen and so on. So something is wrong here. Any clue, how i might fix it? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: switched from SiS to VIA chipset - vesa framebuffer broken
this is a really strange issue i'm having: i changed the motherboard, nothing else. I know have a K8T800Pro based motherboard. The old one was SiS-chipset based. So i was already running the vesa frambuffer at 1280x1024, 16-bit. And actually it worked perfect! No, after the switch to the VIA-chipset based Motherboard, i don't see the text that's printed to the screen. The resulition is switched, but the upper half of the screen stays black. When the text reaches the lower half, then i see the text, and then we come to the point, where the consolefont is set. And guess what: then suddenly everything works. I can see the text on the whole screen and so on. So something is wrong here. Any clue, how i might fix it? So my theory is, that the System-BIOS (which uses graphics mode too, IMHO) does some strange initialization of the graphics card, and the linux-kernel doesn't reset it. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Revdep-rebuild reports kde breakage and then says its all okay; what's up with that
When I run revdep-rebuild, it reports a bunch (around 100) breakages involving early kde *.la files, but then it reports that Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done. Old *.la files are broken. They have not been unmerged. That's a known bug, because some gentoo-tools have modified the files, and so they were not unmerged. Just delete them. You can verify, that they don't belong to any installed package by using equery b filename signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] hald doesn't allow my cdrom to spin down
Hi, do you have the same problems? When hald is running, it seems to access the dvd-drive on a regular basis. That means, that the drive doesn't spin down :-( signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: What does future video mode mean for the i810 xorg driver?
I looked at this tool. It allows me to patch the bios table w/ resolution and bpp value - but not with the rest of the mode line timings. How can I change that? It seems, that you can't. All the Linux-stuff is using the BIOS to switch modes. Also see this page: http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html Question: Is the BIOS still used for mode setting? Answer Yes, the direct mode setting work isn't finished yet, and therefore the released driver still uses the system BIOS to select and set the graphics mode. There is an experimental version of the direct mode setting driver available via git: You're free to give it a try; it's published on the mode setting branch in the xf86-video-intel git repository. The mode setting branch supports the i810 through i945 hardware. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server update causes horizontal line in movies
After I updated to the latest xorg-server this weekend, I started noticing that movie playback has a horizontal line across the middle of the screen that kind of looks like the image is broken. It always shows up when there is a lot of on-screen movement. A flash makes it very visible. It looks like one half of the screen is moving a litle slower than the other half of the screen. It happens in totem, mplayer, and vlc and mplayer terminal output confirms that I am using xv. I'm using nvidia-drivers and I've tried the masked version with no luck. Has anyone else seen this? That's due to the lack of vertical synchronisation. The graphicscard sends the picture to your monitor. While that happends, in the middle of the movie-picture, the movieplayer switches to the next frame of the movie. The result: you see the upper half of frame N and the lower half of frame N+1 Greetings, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Help! Xorg broken!
I am running gentoo kernel 2.6.15-r1 I recently updated xorg, and installed the new nvidia-drivers package. Xorg now appears to be horribly broken. The nvidia splash screen appears, then it faults out back to the command line. Can you tell us, which nvidia related ebuild you have installed? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] verify, that noexec/nx-bit is effectively enabled
Hi, do you guys know any possibility to detect, whether the nx-bit is effectively enabled and being used? I'm passing noexec=on and even noexec32=on to the kernel. But i want to check whether it really changes something. Any ideas? Thanks, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: how to create bridge without interfaces!?
bridge_xenbr1= config_xenbr1=( 192.168.0.1/24 ) brctl_xenbr1=( setfd 0 sethello 0 stp off ) Hmm, forget about my question. Exactly the configuration above works fine now. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] how to create bridge without interfaces!?
Hi, i'm trying to create a bridge, but without interfaces! The interfaces will be added by xend. When i put the following in /etc/conf.d/net, baselayout just complains xenbr1 does not exist. bridge_xenbr1= config_xenbr1=( 192.168.0.1/24 brd 192.168.0.255 ) brctl_xenbr1=( setfd 0 sethello 0 stp off ) I also tried bridge_xenbr1=null and so on. So am i supposed to do? Is this a missing feature in baselayout? Thanks, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: new openssl ebuild causes openssh to segfault
i already has openssl 0.9.8c installed. OpenSSH worked fine. Then, there was a new ebuild with had an sse2 useflag. So i installed it, but i didn't recompile openssh. Now, ssh and sshd do segfault! Do you have the same issue? I already had this issue on 2 PCs. I have to recompile OpenSSH. Then it's working again. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147758 There is a problem: i never had the sse2 use-flag turned on - and have several machines, where i upgraded openssl from 0.9.8c to 0.9.8c-r1 - and everytime, openssh segfaulted. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: new openssl ebuild causes openssh to segfault
i already has openssl 0.9.8c installed. OpenSSH worked fine. Then, there was a new ebuild with had an sse2 useflag. So i installed it, but i didn't recompile openssh. Now, ssh and sshd do segfault! Do you have the same issue? I already had this issue on 2 PCs. I have to recompile OpenSSH. Then it's working again. Confirm Do you have any clue, what caused this? Is there some new patch to openssl, that causes this? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] new openssl ebuild causes openssh to segfault
Hi, i already has openssl 0.9.8c installed. OpenSSH worked fine. Then, there was a new ebuild with had an sse2 useflag. So i installed it, but i didn't recompile openssh. Now, ssh and sshd do segfault! Do you have the same issue? I already had this issue on 2 PCs. I have to recompile OpenSSH. Then it's working again. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Corrupt xD card with photos
I was handed what seems to be a corrupt xD flash card to extract the last photo from it. When the WinXP system at work coughed and died on it (couldn't read it) I thought that my Linux would do better. Anyhow, I've inserted it into my Fuji camera and this is what dmesg shows: === usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4 usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 4 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: FUJIFILM Model: USB-DRIVEUNIT Rev: 1.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 07 00 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 07 00 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: unknown partition table sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete First thing that i see is: where the hell is /dev/sda1? Yes, there should be a FAT partition on that xD card, but it's not there. So first step: Re-create a primary FAT partition without formatting it (for example use cfdisk) Mount fails: $ mount /dev/sda mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so and dmesg then shows: FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda. FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda. This is what fdisk shows: # fdisk /dev/sda Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable. Warning: invalid flag 0x of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 131 MB, 131072000 bytes 5 heads, 50 sectors/track, 1024 cylinders Units = cylinders of 250 * 512 = 128000 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System Command (m for help): Is there a Linux (or even M$Windoze?) way of me recovering the last photo, that doesn't involve reconstructing raw data with a hexeditor? Maybe your are abled to mount the FAT partition after you fixed the partition table. Well, fixing it basically means: delete it, and create a new one. Typically, the FAT partition simply comsumes the whole disk. There should be a fair chance, that (c)fdisk chooses the same start/end-sectors for the partition like any other tool (including the camera). Good luck! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: 2006.1 installation fails on intels 965 chipset based moderboard
I got a core duo machine with an intel motherboard with the 965 chip set. There is a sata HD and ide DVD. The installation disk fails to boot since the jernel does not recognize the dvd. I tried the following bios configurations: * switch between ahci and ide * switch between legacy and advanced (native) mode * boot with gentoo apic=off Nothing worked. If I understood right, only 2.6.18 kernel would fully support ICH8, and that the 965 chipset douse not support AC'97 sound. Is there a way to do a functional installation of gentoo on this system? More details please. Which motherboard, what kind of harddisk, does Knoppix boot? What's the output of lspci and so on ... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: AMD64 Stability?
Can anybody on this list indicate what kind of stability they have seen with AMD64 systems using Gentoo (the AMD 64-bit binaries)? How about the majority of ports in the portage tree? I realize this question will solicit relatively subjective responses, but I am interested in them all. Maybe you should ask on gentoo's amd64 mailinglist? Anyway: so the basic system was always quite stable. I never had problem with console applications and i would use amd64 without any doubt for server-systems. My gnome-system was kind of unstable in the beginning. But now, after some years, it's also very stable. But there are some problems concerning browser-plugins. All the precompiled plugins like Java, Flash etc. are not available for amd64-system. I don't know why, but i find that quite ignorant. Greetings, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] glibc 2.4 nptlonly?
Hi, is there any of the big distributions like SuSE, Fedora or Debian who use glibc 2.4 too? And if they do, do they also only include a nptlonly-glibc? Just wondering. Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Adding Gentoo to Win-XP/NTSF machine
2) Do I put grub on the Gentoo boot partition and then do the standard chain load to Win XP? If this is the case then which partitions should be marked as bootable? AFAIK, grub can only be put into the MBR of a disk. anything like grub-install /dev/hda1 just will not work. Only something like grub-install /dev/hda will do. LILO could be installed into some partition's boot-sector. I loved it - but GRUB doesn't like that idea. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Is the best solution still NIS+NFS?
few years later I setup a environment which shares the /home using NFS for the users and the authentication method was NIS. Is this still the best solution? My current environment is based on LDAP where all services use it. I configured PAM+NSSwitch, Postfix, and so on. Now, I want linux client workstations be authenticated remotely on my LDAP server and mount the users home. What do you recommend? My university uses LDAP + AFS. AFS seems quite complicated though ... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading to gcc 4.1 , question on recompiling
The problem is the gcc package not only delivers the gcc compiler package, but also some libraries. Further, gcc 4.1.x compiled programs are not quite compatible with gcc 3.x compiled programs - when you compile a lib with 4.x and still have 3.x compiled pgms around. You really should recompile everything when you update to gcc 4.1.x from 3.x. I upgraded to 4.1.1 a couple of weeks ago haven't done a mass recompile I have yet to run into any problem: yes, there's always tomorrow (grin). same here! Well, but the problem that people see is, that actually the libstc++ of gcc 4.1 _should_ be compatible with the libstdc++ of gcc 3.x - well, but the gentoo-people are usually pessimistic about it :-) And actually some incompatibilities are already known, i think (but they didn't affect me *eg*) (actually there was an ABI-switch within th gcc3.x series, before gcc 3.4 i think) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] linux' IO performance sucks
Hi, sorry for the silly subject, but did you ever experience the following?: i have a fileserver, i copy a file to it - let's say 600MB. So about every 200MB (i guess the linux box writes the data into the cache in the RAM first) linux writes the harddisk. But during that time - during the time it writes that 200MB to disk, there is no chance for any other IO. I'm playing an mp3 from the very same fileserver. It stops playing, because the machine does answer the read-requests. So what's going on here? Why does Linux write so huge amounts of data to the disk? Why does Linux not stop writing for a while to fullfil the read-requests? And so on ... Any idea, on how to imrpove that? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] can't compile kernel
Hi!,
my gentoo just suprised me with the following:
gwinet linux # pwd
/usr/src/linux
gwinet linux # make all
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: `set -e; echo ' CHK include/linux/version.h';
mkdir -p include/linux/;if [ `echo -n 2.6.17.3 .file null
.ident GCC:(GNU)4.1.1(Gentoo4.1.1) .section .note.GNU-stack,,@progbits
| wc -c ` -gt 64 ]; then echo '2.6.17.3 .file null .ident
GCC:(GNU)4.1.1(Gentoo4.1.1) .section .note.GNU-stack,,@progbits exceeds
64 characters' 2; exit 1; fi; (echo \#define UTS_RELEASE \2.6.17.3
.file null .ident GCC:(GNU)4.1.1(Gentoo4.1.1) .section
.note.GNU-stack,,@progbits\; echo \#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE `expr 2
\\* 65536 + 6 \\* 256 + 17`; echo '#define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a)
16) + ((b) 8) + (c))'; ) /usr/src/linux-2.6.17.3/Makefile
include/linux/version.h.tmp; if [ -r include/linux/version.h ] cmp -s
include/linux/version.h include/linux/version.h.tmp; then rm -f
include/linux/version.h.tmp; else echo ' UPD
include/linux/version.h'; mv -f include/linux/version.h.tmp
include/linux/version.h; fi'
make: *** [include/linux/version.h] Error 2
Hooray!
So what could i have changed, that there is that unexpected token (
now? I compiled that kernel pretty often. And now none of the kernels
compiles - but they used to!
Any clue what might have changed?
My guess is, that this (GNU)4.1.1(Gentoo4.1.1) causes troubles.
I'm helpless :-(
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[gentoo-user] Re: can't compile kernel
my gentoo just suprised me with the following: gwinet linux # pwd /usr/src/linux gwinet linux # make all [...] some strange error Hooray! Hmmm, did a make clean and then a make all - and now it works without problems. Strange ... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild madness.
Thanks... and I'm probably mis-understanding something here but I don't see `java' as a USE flag that gcc knows anything about: emerge -vp gcc These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1 USE=fortran gcj gtk nls objc \ -bootstrap -build -doc -hardened -ip28 -ip32r10k -mudflap -multislot -nocxx -objc++ -objc-gc -vanilla 0 kB try USE=-gcj signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --update: utempter/pam-login is blocking...
emerge --pretend --update --deep --newuse world [blocks B ] sys-apps/utempter (is blocking sys-libs/libutempter-1.1.2.1) [blocks B ] sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2) [ebuild N ] sys-libs/libutempter-1.1.2.1 [ebuild U ] x11-terms/xterm-212-r3 [207] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2 [4.0.14-r1] What is the proper way of dealing with it? Should I simply unmerge (-C) utempter and pam-login? Is it not dangerous? I do not know what utempter is good for, but if I unmerge pam-login and then from some reason I will not succeed in updating shadow, I will not be able to log in at all... Unmerge pam-login, and emmediatly do a emerge -1 shadow after that. shadow now provides the things necessary to login. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: adsl rp-pppoe - new baselayout problem
The old rp-pppoe init script works without problems on my up-to-date gentoo router. I prefer this way, too. Nobody needs the old init.d-script anymore. Perhaps we don´t need it, but we like to use it. The OP said he wanted to use the script. If he wants to use that, it´s his decision, isn´t it? Well, it his decision, but AFAIK the script is not maintained anymore and is replaced by ... Here are the advantages of using baselayout: - you can unmerge rp-pppoe I do not see any advantage in that. And: The net.example tells to emerge rp-pppoe [...] #- # ADSL # For ADSL support, emerge net-dialup/rp-pppoe # You should make the following settings and also put your [...] ... baselayout's rp-pppoe support that you just found. BTW: the way to use it, is simply: config_eth1=( adsl ) /etc/init.d/net.eth1 will then also start and stop rp-pppoe But you can also use baselayout's new PPP support that just needs the pppoe-plugin which comes with pppd itself. - the pppoe-plugin provided by pppd uses the kernel PPPoE-implementation which is much faster (but experimental though) Faster in what way? It surely does not speed up your adsl-connection and i don´t give a damn on that 2,5 seconds at 5 o´clock in the morning, that it takes to reconnect. Hmmm, well, it might give you - let's say - 1ms of ping-time or something like that. Anyway, IMHO it's the future way of using PPPoE if you use the kernel's PPPoE-Implemenation. No need for an additional user-mode rp-pppoe process. And no need for the IPC-overhead between the pppd-process and the rp-pppoe process. Some freaks may have used the async-mode instead of the sync-mode for the IPC between pppd and rp-pppoe. Well, the async-mode was also called faster but it also had the bug, that it might lock up. So the pppd's pppoe-plugin is the perfect way to get something fast and working. - ... more? This is the wrong word, i think something would be nice. But that is my point of view, others may have seen some advantages in that. Well, i'm not going to argue about what is an advantage, and what is not. It depends on the reader and i just tried to explain, what _might_ be seen as an advantage (actually i see advantages in those things i mentioned - though i don't care about the 1ms ping-improvement). Greetings, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: adsl rp-pppoe - new baselayout problem
The old rp-pppoe init script works without problems on my up-to-date gentoo router. I prefer this way, too. Nobody needs the old init.d-script anymore. Here are the advantages of using baselayout: - you can unmerge rp-pppoe - the pppoe-plugin provided by pppd uses the kernel PPPoE-implementation which is much faster (but experimental though) - /etc/init.d/net.pppX is part of net, /etc/init.d/rp-pppoe is not (which is an advantage because of scripts that depends on net) - ... more? Well, look at the configuration i posted. It's very simple (once you found out and understood what's going on). signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: adsl rp-pppoe - new baselayout problem
I was using the (nowadays) old /etc/init.d/rp-pppoe script to
start/stop my adsl connection, but I did an emerge world without
looking at the messages that now the net script should handle all
possible types of connection, so now I don't know how to configure it.
config_ppp0=( ppp )
plugins_ppp0=( pppoe )
link_ppp0=eth1
username_ppp0=...
pppd_ppp0=(
noauth
defaultroute
holdoff 0
)
depend_ppp0() {
need net.eth1
}
/etc/init.d/net.ppp0 must be a link to net.lo
replace eth1 by whatever you're using.
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[gentoo-user] Re: dangerous to emerge --depclean
I just can't understand why emerge -- depclean such a dangerous command can exist or i do it in a wrong way(although i think i am right). Have you seen the big fat warning that says emerge --depclean may damage your system ? --depclean is a nice service for advanced users. It's nothing for beginners. You should know, why it does - and how it does what it does. Well, --depclean start with all the packages in your world-file (/var/lib/portage/world) and then it visits all the dependencies and the dependencies of the dependencies of the packages. All the packages, that are installed but that are not in the world file or not a dependency, these packages are removed. --depclean _may_ remove packages that are still in use, because of use-flags were changed, faulty ebuilds, ... So use it with care. Does this ever happened to you? No, i'm using it with much much care. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: GCC 4.1.1 unable to compile kdelibs due to missing libstdc++
And still I get this. Any ideas? Upgrade to gentoolkit 0.2.2 and run revdep-revbuild. It now also analyses *.la files and will discover the broken ones. (But i have to tell you, that even if you recompiled all the packages, some *.la files will remain. They don't get unmerged due to some bugs. Just rerun revdep-rebuild to discover them, and remove them my hand.) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: GCC 4.1.1 unable to compile kdelibs due to missing libstdc++
(But i have to tell you, that even if you recompiled all the packages, some *.la files will remain. They don't get unmerged due to some bugs. Just rerun revdep-rebuild to discover them, and remove them my hand.) It is usually because you have run fix_libtool_files.sh at some point, which modified the files. Since they no longer match the digest information from when the package was merged, portage doesn't remove them when it unmerges the package. I know, and that is not normal - it is a bug. The *.la files have to be fixed - that's the normal part - but that they don't get unmerged? That's not normal and the tool that fixes the *.la files has to be fixed. But i already talked about that on gentoo-devel. And it seems, they are about to fix that. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: sys-apps/pam-login
Calculating world dependencies . ... done! [blocks B ] sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2) Do I need to remove sys-apps/shadow? I thought that was part of system? unmerge pam-login and update shadow signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: How can I get java compiler without x11?
Thanks Remy. That's exactly what I need. No need for x11 on a server only system! If you don't want X, then disable all X-related use-flags. The java use-flag is _not_ X related, since all JRE/JDK ebuilds (at least those, that i now) won't install X if the right use-flags are disabled. javac will also start and work without any X installed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: samba mount on fstab
//192.168.0.2/Temp /mnt/temp smbfs user,uid=smash,gid=users,password= 0 0 smbfs? No, that's not clever. Better use cifs ;-) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Portage 2.1-rc1-r2
So, thank you, Portage Devs. You've made my Gentoo experience nearly 100% enjoyable. But but rsync still makes my harddisk glow, too many small files signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Portage 2.1-rc1-r2
But but rsync still makes my harddisk glow, too many small files Use the right filesystem: Reiserfs. I already used reiserfs and now i'm using ext3. There was not much difference. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: -unicode USE flag
Sorry - I thought it was clear from my description. Everyone is using the word 'unicode' in the definition of 'unicode', or so it is seeming to me. I've managed to get far enough to understand it's a different way of expressing font usage, I guess, but I don't understand when someone would want it or when they would not need it. do you know utf8, do you know latin1, ISO-8859-15 or other things like these? Anyway: unicode ist an approach to assign one number to each letter or sign that is out there in the world. That's all. Well, in latin1/ISO-8859-1 you only have a basic rule: 1 byte per character You see? Only 1 byte, only 256 numbers and so only space for 256 characters - but there are 3000 chinesese symbols. So latin1 is a european charset and it contains most of the character/signs europeans need. But the trouble is: if an application internally works with latin1 only, how should it reprensent the chinese symbols? Think of your webbrowser: you can use it, to view european pages and also chinese pages. Yes, your browser uses unicode internally and that's very practical, because in unicode, he can represent every character/sign that's out there. Greetings, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: -unicode USE flag
I wonder if anyone could explain the USE flag 'unicode' better than the Gentoo description located here: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml unicode Adds support for Unicode I think the person who wrote this knows too much. ;-) What is unicode and why might an end user want it or need it? What the unicode-use-flag does, depends on the package you emerge. For example while emergeing baselayout, it turns on a switch in /etc/rc.conf - nothing more. On the other hand, while emerge mc, it turns on the support of mc (Midnight Command) for a unicode/utf8-console. And if you emerge wxGTK, the unicode-use-flag triggers the build of the unicode-aware version of wxGTK. So in general, i prefer my console- and my X11-apps to have unicode support. So i have the use-flag turned on, but i disabled it for baselayout since i use a non-utf8 locale. Greetings Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Clue to enable DRI/GLX support on PCI Express card
I was wondering if someone could show me where to look information to enable DRI/GLX on a ATI X300 PCI Express video board. I was wanting to test some 3d games, but without enableing DRi is just impossible. What's the problem? emergeing ati-drivers doesn't work? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Portage tree hosed?
From doing a google, it looks like i need to run emerge sync in order to fix this. However, if I could sync then I wouldn't be doing this. Everytime I try to sync it times out and I never finish. I'm on dial-up, so it's a bit slow. I am trying to install emerge-delta-webrsync and try from there, but of course, I can't emerge anything . . . The timeout-things - that's a stupid rsync problem. Update rsync to the latest release. Perhaps it helps. There used to be some webrsync-mechanism by running: emerge-webrsync Greetings Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?
In my recent experience the frequent changes to the xorg7 versions in portage are getting pretty hairy. I have been constantly adding things to package.keywords and package.unmask every time I do a world upgrade. And then it got 1000 times worse... xorg 7.0 is ~x86 - no need to unmask things anymore. The problem is, that you still habe packages unmasked and therefor, you now get xorg 7.1 stuff. Please clean your portage.unmask of any xorg-stuff. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale
Yesterday I updated from glibc-2.4-r1 to glibc-2.4-r2. Since then, I've got problems with my UTF-8 locale. I suppose, that is because the UTF-8 denomination seems to have changed from .UTF-8 to .utf8: .UTF-8 changed from .utf8? That's not true. My glibc 2.3.6 (with userlocales turned off) never creates such locales. # equery f glibc|grep -i utf |grep CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/aa_DJ.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/af_ZA.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/an_ES.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/ar_AE.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/ar_BH.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/ar_DZ.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/ar_EG.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/ar_IQ.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/ar_JO.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/ar_KW.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/ar_LB.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/ar_LY.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/ar_MA.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/ar_OM.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/ar_QA.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/ar_SA.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/ar_SD.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/ar_SY.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/ar_TN.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/ar_YE.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/az_AZ.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/be_BY.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/bg_BG.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/br_FR.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/bs_BA.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/ca_ES.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/cs_CZ.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/cy_GB.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/da_DK.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/de_AT.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/de_BE.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/de_CH.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/de_DE.utf8/LC_CTYPE /usr/lib/locale/de_LU.utf8/LC_CTYPE ... I also looked it up on a Redhat-System: no .UTF-8 locales. What might have been the last glibc-version with UTF-8 locales? (i don't remember to have seen that over the last few years) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card
I have a new sony lappy with a ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card. Should I be using the in kernel (2.6.16-r3) drivers or the builds in portage? Is the a configuration guide for this setup on gentoo? I would use the ebuilds. You're much more flexible that way in the case, that you experience bugs. (I'm using the ~x86 version at the moment) I don't know, which version has been integrated into the kernel. There were definitely some bugs conncerning hwcrypto and other things in older versions of ipw2200 which might be the one in kernel right now. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl
Ummm, could you please explain those settings? Or could you please point me the appropriate documentation where they're explained? which settings? well, man pppd should show you all the funny pppd options. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl
Anyway, so a related query.. My internet connection has a habit of getting disconnected every six hours. Does the kernel mode PPPoE automatically reconnect properly? Well, if it doesn't, how do I start and stop the connection at will? Restart the init script? config_ppp9=( ppp ) plugins_ppp9=( pppoe ) link_ppp9=eth1 username_ppp9=XXX pppd_ppp9=( noauth defaultroute holdoff 0 ) That works perfectly for me. It reconnects automatically. To start/stop the connection at will: yes, you have to start/stop the init.d-script. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl
Gentoo does use rp-pppoe to connect. It just does it when bringing up eth0 directly. No, since baselayout-1.12*, gentoo uses ppp and ppp's pppoe-plugin. rp-pppoe is not needed anymore! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: pppd and adsl
(1) Why rp-pppoe is deprecated? ppp included the pppoe-plugin known from rp-pppoe. the pppoe-plugin uses the kernel-mode PPPoE. There is no need for rp-pppoe anymore, because ppp offers everything needed. (2) Every time I call /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 there is a warning saying that net.ppp0 is started but is inactive This is my /etc/conf.d/net modules=( iproute2) config_eth0=( 192.168.0.2/24 ) config_ppp0=( ppp ) link_ppp0=eth0 plugins_ppp0=( pppoe ) username_ppp0='xxx' password_ppp0='xxx' pppd_ppp0=( updetach defaultroute usepeerdns) Any suggestion? I have no clue what's wrong here. But i have to tell you, that my net.ppp0 was provided by net-dialup/ppp instead of baselayout. So i symlinked net.lo to net.ppp9 and used net.ppp9 instead. (I'm using ~x86 baselayout with x86 ppp) Greetings Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.0.99.901 and ati-drivers error
after xorg-server update fglrx driver wont work, even after (re)emerge, should i file a bug? any suggesions? now i see option to downgrade where i was before, yes and X just crashed with xorg ati drivers. from Xorg.0.log: (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI (II) LoadModule: fglrx (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (II) Module fglrx: vendor=FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc. compiled for 6.8.99.8, module version = 8.23.7 Module class: X.Org Video Driver ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7 (EE) module ABI major version (0) doesn't match the server's version (1) (II) UnloadModule: fglrx (II) Unloading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so (EE) Failed to load module fglrx (module requirement mismatch, 0) compiled for 6.8.99.8 ? perhaps you should recompile the ati-driver. Well, besides that: i assume, that you don't want the latest alpha/beta/rc-version of xorg, but there are more and more masked xorg-related packages of that kind in portage. xorg 7.0 is already marked as ~x86, so you can safely remove all xorg-packages from /etc/portage/package.unmask. Greetings Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server-1.0.99.901 and ati-drivers error
that is the point, i recompiled after xorg-server update, and before too if that matters ;) I see! So perhaps the ATI-driver is only for xorg up to version 7.0? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] disable IPv6 for one interface?
Hi, how can i disable IPv6 for my eth1-interface? In my /etc/conf.d/net, i only specify the IPv4 address, but the kernel or baselayout adds that local-link address to the interface. But i don't want an IPv6 address for that interface. /etc/conf.d/net.example doesn't tell anything about it, just that config_eth1 may include IPv6 addresses - but what i want is simple: eth1 with only an IPv4 address and no IPv6 address. Any suggestions? Also read some of the HOWTOs, but no hints there :-( Thanks. Sven -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] dialup + IPv6?
Hi, i have a normal DSL-connection. My provider only supplies a IPv4 address - and so my ppp0 does not have a IPv6 address. The IPv4 of ppp0 address changes every 24 hours. So i'd like to be abled to use IPv6 from my LAN which sits behind my Gentoo-based DSL router. I think, that 6to4 would be right for me. If i do a traceroute to the 192.88.99.1 (the host, that all the 6to4 packets goto), i get contact after really few hops. Great! I'm facing many many questions. My friend is telling me, that in theory, i would be abled to use IPv6 addresses based on the 6to4-address of the IPv4 address of my ppp0 - but that changes every 24 hours. A MASQ-target seems not to be available for IPv6 - so if my router disconnects/reconnets, all the computers in my LAN will have to change their IPv6 address. Has anyone ever tried to supply his homenetwork with IPv6 through a normal IPv6 connection? If so, did it work? And what did you do? Thanks. Sven -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs-ext3
Do you know tools, that can convert reiserfs to ext3 or the other way round? I have forgotten the name of the tool that i once read about :-( mkfs, but make sure you have a backup. *SCNR* No risk, no fun! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] reiserfs-ext3
Hi, i once read about a tool to convert a reiserfs to ext3 - but without using to much additional space. Instead, that tool claimed to use a sparse-file within the original filesystem to create the new filesystem by moving the files to new FS contained in the sparse file. Do you know tools, that can convert reiserfs to ext3 or the other way round? I have forgotten the name of the tool that i once read about :-( Thanks Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs-ext3
Do you know tools, that can convert reiserfs to ext3 or the other way round? I have forgotten the name of the tool that i once read about :-( http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/ And i'm running it right now ... oh oh ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs-ext3
Do you know tools, that can convert reiserfs to ext3 or the other way round? I have forgotten the name of the tool that i once read about :-( http://tzukanov.narod.ru/convertfs/ And i'm running it right now ... oh oh ... Yes! my Gentoo had just gone to hell! Don't use convertfs ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: microcode already at revision 0x1d
My laptop Compaq Evo N600c (PIII) won't play with microcode (unlike a desktop box also PIII, which happily updates its microcode). This is the error during boot: == microcode: CPU0 already at revision 0x1d (current=0x1d) == Any ideas? That means, that the microcode in your CPU is already up2date. There is no need to update it! That's all! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: problems with ifplugd
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. The net.eth* scripts will detect ifplugd and use it. Put net.eth0 in the default runlevel. there is no configuration to do, it just works [tm]. I have my laptop set up like this, even though it usually starts up with no network cable connected net.eth0 detects ifplugd? Are you sure? Do i need to set anything special in /etc/conf.d/net? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: problems with ifplugd
net.eth0 detects ifplugd? Are you sure? Yes. As I said, I've been using it. Do i need to set anything special in /etc/conf.d/net? Yes, read the example config file I mentioned. Which version baselayout do you have installed? My version is 1.11.14-r6, and that does not include that support yet - IMHO. Also my /etc/conf.d/net.example does not contain any hint about ifplugd :-( signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
