Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Jorge Martín wrote: Is Gentoo 2006.0 going to be released anytime soon? I want to install Gentoo on my home computer but I'm too lazy to insall 2005.1.r1 and upgrade all packages so I'm waiting for 2006.0. The answer to your question can be found here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/index.xml Release Roadmap for 2006 Note: These are estimated dates. Actual release dates may vary. Date Version Feb 2006 2006.0 Running gentoo without internet (or slow internet) is simple: just sync and fetch distfiles on your laptop anywhere else (i.e. at your office) and take them home to your desktop. Sascha. -- Air conditioned environment - do not open windows! \|/ \|/ @'/ .. \`@ /_| \__/ |_\ \__U_/
Re: [gentoo-user] ufs
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Arnau Bria Ramírez wrote: I have a Solaris disk with Solari's ufs FS. I found ufs support in my kernel, but I'm not sure if it's the same as Solari's one (I'm not sure if solaris uses standards ufs fs). does anyone mounted a solaris ufs disk using ufs kernel's support? No not solaris but freebsd. Enable Solaris (x86) partition and Sun partition tables support + ufs filesystem. Read MOUNT(8) about ufs options (ufstype=sun or sunx86). Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt about ufs-write support. It should work. Sascha.
[gentoo-user] OT: linux filesystem + transparent compression (rw)
Hi list, what is the status of transparent compression in a linux filesystem (read/write)? wikipedia[1] says jfs has one. Is this true? I don't think so. Hans Reiser proclaimed to have a reiser4 compression plugin before 2.6.1[4-5]. Where is it? Has someone tried extz[2]? chattr(1) tells me to set the (c) attribute. But this seems not to work: writing 100MB /dev/zero to a c ./test file on a 100MB partion results in disk full. There is a true gap in the linux market. Isn't it? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems [2] http://www.geocities.com/maxcompress/ Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia vs. 2.6.15r1
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: is it possible that these two are not compatible? I am running 2.6.15-r1 and nvidia-kernel-1.0-6629-r5. If I start X the kernel oopses and I have to reboot. Is there a bug open for this? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120103 Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?
Hi, I also couldn't resist to answer :-) the choice of the right FS tends to be some kind of religion... ??? But we use gentoo and we decide on facts. Didn't we? :-) The gentoo-father Daniel Robbins gives us a brief introduction to the differnt FSs. See http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/articles.xml - Advanced filesystem implementer's guide. There you can learn that ext3 is the only one with true data-journaling. That it was not reiser's fault that causes problems (data lose) in kernel 2.4.x-2.4.1y. And hopefully many more... Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - HA cluster failover problem
Hi Patrick, I'm not familiar with hearbeat so I can't help you. But if you want HA-connectivity and you have 2 or more switches it can be interesting for you to read about the bonding-driver (linux-kernel i.e. /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r6/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt). With that you can build active-backup and/or channel-bonding. Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 1000Mbps NIC Getting 100Mbps speeds
Right, everything except mii-tool (which apparently can't understand 1000Mbps) says 1000Mbps. ok. what I want to say is that mii-tool is knowen to report the wrong speed for all/some Gbit cards (just for the case of missunderstanding). Your setup seems to be fine. It's worth to try ping (floodping with increasing packet size): $ ping -f -s $SIZE target SIZE is default 56. SIZE=1480 comes close to MTU and 65507 is the biggest possible size. You can messure the bandwidth with iptraf/iftop on the linux-side. With a small SIZE you get your max. packets/sec (iptraf) but with increasing SIZE bits/sec should also increase. ping -f should have no (increasing) packet lose (see man ping). Right. I'm familiar with speeds too. When it was connected an FTP session would get about 9MB/s then slow to 8 or so, then stay there. This is exactly the behavior i'm seeing now. The bandwidth depends on the networkcard you are using and the CPU you have. Take a look on both sides CPUs. Both (NIC+CPU) reflects in CPU load. In linux use top/vmstat (be aware of user/system load when testing FTP). FTP-Performance depends heavily on the FTP-Server you use (vsftpd is a good one used by kernel.org). Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get script to execute on kde logout
BTW - is there somewhere that these scripts could be put so that the execute for ALL kde users? $KDEDIR/env/startup-scripts.sh and $KDEDIR/shutdown/shutdown-scripts.sh KDEDIR is normaliy something like /usr/kde/3.3. You may put multiple scripts in this dirs. Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo
Hi, I'm thinking of a small footprint gentoo produced in this way: 1) install everything you need 2) note current system time 3) reboot and do all operations you need in this small gentoo 4) remount with noatime 5) find all files in the FS that have an atime before the system time you note in 2) 6) delete all files found in 5); they were not accessed, so we don't need them? What do you think about this? Does it have a chance to work? THX, Sascha. -- Air conditioned environment - do not open windows! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo
Hi Iain, thanks a lot for your post (for the tips etc.). I did much of the initial work to prove the concept and handed it over to someone else to turn into a reproducible system. As far as I know, we've had 3 or 4 running continuously for quite a few months now. Do you have a website were you publish your concept? Our particular requirement was to make a running system for a 64 Mb sandisk, with enough space left over for about 10-12 Mb of our own software. This is an embedded control system (no X), and we wanted a very similar installation on our HMI (X, gnome, and other such boggy apps :) running the same kernel so we could copy programs between them if need be. (The HMI runs a complete installation.) A System with X is also my intension. If you're planning on doing it in a short amount of time, think again! It won't be trivial, but the concept is at least possible. I'm very lucky that you have no unresolvable problems (yet), so I'm looking forward. In the next few month I will start to work on this. Currently I'm thinking (thinking only, nothing is done) of using qemu for the identification boot/run. It would be amazingly if a mechanism can be found, to dynamicaly bring in a file into an intial emtpy system. THX, Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo
Hi Ian Do you have a website were you publish your concept? That would be nice wouldn't it? Unfortunately, no, I never had time to do that. yes it would :-). I sucessfully have now an minimalistic system. Solving problems with files not identified while root-FS mounted ro (currently 3) and some misc from baselayout (awk functions for depscan and env-update). I plan to write some text in gentoo-wiki, if I find some time... A System with X is also my intension. then you'll probably have more problems than I did. I ran a very simple installation. Hopefully not :-)... let's see in a few days/weeks. THX, Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo
Hi Neil, You could use find to copy all symlinks, then use the symlinks -d -r / to remove all those that point nowhere. Or you could start with an empty partition and use find to copy newer files instead of deleting the older ones. One way would be to direct the output of find -newer /reference/file to a file and use this as the --files-from argument to rsync. I just want to say thank you for your tips. This 2 are realy usefull. I now have an minimalistic system. Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: help on rpm fake/virtual spec file
Hi, I want an fake/vitual rpm spec to satisfy dependencies of some commercial software with an ugly install script. My spec looks like this: Summary: Use to generate virtual package to fake /bin/sh. Vendor: bla Name:fake-bin-sh Version: 0.0.0 Release: r1 Group: foo License: GPL2 buildarch: noarch %description Create virtual package specifying /bin/sh as a virtual package. provides: /bin/sh %prep %build %install %clean %files But this does not what I want. Can some help me to fix this? $ rpm -q --provides --specfile fake-rpm.spec (none) # rpmbuild -bb fake-rpm.spec $ rpm -qp --provides /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/fake-bin-sh-0.0.0-r1.noarch.rpm fake-bin-sh = 0.0.0-r1 Thanks, Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] My Continuing ALSA Woes
I've added it to my /etc/make.conf: camille linux # cat /etc/make.conf | grep 'ALSA_CARDS' ALSA_CARDS=intel8x0 You must chose to use in kernel driver or the external provided by sound/alsa-driver. See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml. ALSA_CARDS=intel8x0 indicates you want sound/alsa-driver. But your grep in kernel .config indicates the kernel driver. Read the URL above and skip the part about Using the ALSA Driver package in section 2. Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] My Continuing ALSA Woes
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote: Can this be done with genkernel? I've always used genkernel in the past. All attempts at building and installing kernels manually have yes you can use genkenel. I also use it. And it's wrong that genkernel is only for wimps :-). It's also for the lazy (saves you typing some commands). You may run following commands, just a try: # mv /etc/kernels/* /tmp # genkernel --menuconfig kernel In the menuconfig enable your sound-card as module if not allready: Symbol: SND_HDA_INTEL [=m] Location: - Device Drivers - Sound - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (SND [=m]) - PCI devices after this you have a fresh kernel in /boot. Make shure you have a line in your grub.conf like this: title=GNU/Linux (2.6.13-gentoo-r3) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/hda2 please adopt the root () statment, the root= paramter and the kernel version to your needs. If not allready merge the gentoolkit: # emerge gentoolkit then look for alsa packages: # equery list alsa* It's ok to have installed media-libs/alsa-lib media-sound/alsa-utils and media-sound/alsa-headers. Make shure to remove sound/alsa-driver. # emerge -C sound/alsa-driver Configure /etc/modules.d/alsa. You just have to edit one line in this file. To get the orginal version type: # cp /usr/portage/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsa-modules.conf-rc /etc/modules.d/alsa Then set the line to look like this: alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel Finaly run: # modules-update Thats all. Cross your fingers and reboot. Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] My Continuing ALSA Woes
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote: kernel it gave me a kernel panic. It said something about not being able to find the root fs. Should there be an initrd line? Also, I you only need an initrd if you have some special hardware. Do you? I.E. sata controler (intel ICH6), SCSI, or some special things with your root filesystem like lvm, md... saved the output of the genkernel script. I mv'd the files from /etc/kernel to /tmp, but I still saw this line in the genkernel output: * Linux Kernel 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 for x86... * kernel: Running mrproper... * config: Using config from /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.6 * Previous config backed up to .config.bak * Running oldconfig... Should this be happening? thats fine. this lines told you, that a generic kernel-config (like on livecd) is used. The first thing is to make your kernel booting. This is not a hard thing, if you have no special setup. The siplest case is that your root=/dev/hdxx in grub.conf is wrong. Type mount and see what device is mounted for /boot. If you have none for /boot look for /. Then use this device in the root= parameter. Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] My Continuing ALSA Woes
If you have none for /boot look for /. Then use this device in the root= parameter. sorry pleas only look for / not for /boot S. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] My Continuing ALSA Woes
Then why does Linux not continue to boot when I specify a kernel in grub.conf without an initrd? The answer is: you have a sata controler. Output from your lsmmod: ata_piix6196 2 Make a kernel with this controler enabled: Symbol: SCSI_ATA_PIIX [=n] Prompt: Intel PIIX/ICH SATA support Defined at drivers/scsi/Kconfig:452 Depends on: SCSI!=n SCSI_SATA PCI Location: - Device Drivers - SCSI device support - SCSI device support (SCSI [=y]) - SCSI low-level drivers - Serial ATA (SATA) support (SCSI_SATA [=n]) Compile this into kernel not as module. Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS setting for Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08
Hi Richard, I've just got a new laptop I'm installing Gentoo on and was wondering if anyone could advise on the CFLAG setting I'm using. The CPU is a Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHZ stepping 08. Currently I've set CFLAGS=-02 -mcpu=pentium -pipe You may look at http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags#Pentium-M_.2F_Centrino_.28Intel.29 If you use x86 (not ~x86) then you have a gcc 3.4.3. The page above proposes to use: CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe. A friend of mine with a Pentium M uses CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer, which is dangerous if you believe the wiki-page. If you plan to use gentoo on many x86 systems with different CPU's and you want to share binarys. I recommend to use: CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe (runs on any Intel/AMD/... starting from Pentium2-class CPU). Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Odd portage permission problems
Hi Wes What do you make of this? Do I need to run fsck? I don't know whats wrong with your portage-tree, but you can try to get a new one. Just move the olde tree away and sync: # mv /usr/portage /usr/portage.old # mkdir /usr/portage # emerge sync Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] More 2.6.14 badness: iptables no longer logging
More 2.6.14 badness: just realised my gateway iptables rules under 2.6.14 no longer log events. rebuilt iptables with no changes so Ive gone back to 2.6.13. Is anyone else seeing this? sorry I can't see this on my desktop. -j LOG works as expected. Do you use ULOG? BTW: I use net-firewall/iptables-1.3.4 (~x86). Not 1.3.2 from x86-keyword. Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Server Mirroring...
Hi Mal, I run a Apache2 webserver and Postfix as per the virtual mailhost guide... For resilience I would like to have two gentoo boxes doing these tasks for load balancing / redundancy - how can this be achieved? Is there a tool that will allow replication of the config files / mysql stuff to allow the boxes to basically be a cluster ? Thats not so easy to answer. Different solutions exists, each with pros and cons. It also depends heavily on the professional grad your solution should be. You can solve this at different Levels: Hardware, OS, application. Hardware is expensive. OS far from perfect (i.e. openssi, openmosix). Applications must be cluster aware, moast aren't. Do you mean http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml? If so you have to manage a bunch of apps: postfix, mysql, cyrus, apache. Just some keywords: easy with postfix: DNS round robin (solution inside DNS Server, nearly all MTAs are aware of this) mysql: not multi master ready, just redundancy master-slave, try postgres apache: behaves in sens of read only - LVS cyrus: moast difficult part (shared storage/CFS,???) - NAS|SAN+CFS+LVS+?dono? Cluster/HA is a complex area. Perhaps you want a simple not so perfect solotion? Try periodicaly rsynced standby with manual switch over. Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Server Mirroring...
easy with postfix: DNS round robin (solution inside DNS Server, nearly all MTAs are aware of this) So DNS round robins between the two mail servers. A new mail comes into server1, how does this mail make it to server2. Yes this is definitely the difficultest part. It must be solved somewhere in the LDA (cyrus). The MTA just pass mails to the LDA. So round robin should work. I don't see that Postgres supports multiple masters either. Circular I'm not an expert but what about this? http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.289 The storage has to reside somewhere. If that site goes down, both servers go down. You either need both servers in the same site with shared storage or figure out how to do a shared nothing backend. It depends on how both sites are connected. Just like redundancy in Servers/Network you can have redundant storage. I.E. with (a)synchronous replication over IP or FC-networks. BTW: I don't know a cluster-solution with cyrus. We use a cluster aware commercial one. Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting local host firewall
Is there a way to detect programmatically whether the local host has a firewall enabled? as root: iptables -vnL as user you may look at some files. They are indicators... interpret them. I don't know how to get the rule set. $ test -d /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter get info from /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/* and /proc/net/ip_* look for logs $ dmesg | grep 'IN=.*OUT=.*SRC=.*DST=.*' gentoo: specific $ /etc/init.d/iptables status $ test -s /var/lib/iptables/rules-save Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] can't boot 2.6.14
Hi List, I upgraded my laptop from kernel 2.6.13 to 2.6.14 (gentoo-r2). 2.6.14 stops at early boot: PCI: Bus 1, cardbus bridge: :00:08.0 IO window: 2000-2fff IO window: 4000-4fff PREFETCH window: 0c00-0dff MEM window: 0e00-0fff PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device :00:08.0 Simple Boot Flag at 0x37 set to 0x1 After this line the systems hangs. Can someone instruct me how to figure out what the problem is? On my other Desktops/Laptops 2.6.14 works without any problems. THX, Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can't boot 2.6.14
send following info outputs... #emerge info #lspci # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686) = System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 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/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 AUTOCLEAN=yes CBUILD=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles FEATURES=autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict GENTOO_MIRRORS=ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo; LINGUAS=de MAKEOPTS=-j2 PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage SYNC=rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage USE=x86 X alsa apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr clamav crypt cups curl directfb dvd emboss encode ethereal exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint glut gmp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 irda java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal lcms libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline real samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svg tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vorbis win32codecs wmf xine xinerama xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib video_cards_mach64 linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS # lspci :00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82440MX Host Bridge (rev 01) :00:00.1 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82440MX AC'97 Audio Controller :00:00.2 Modem: Intel Corp. 82440MX AC'97 Modem Controller :00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82440MX ISA Bridge (rev 01) :00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82440MX EIDE Controller :00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82440MX USB Universal Host Controller :00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82440MX Power Management Controller :00:08.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01) :00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M (rev 64) :00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) :00:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): NEC Corporation IEEE 1394 [OrangeLink] Host Controller (rev 02) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can't boot 2.6.14
sorry I forget one line after the boot stops. Right is: PCI: Bus 1, cardbus bridge: :00:08.0 IO window: 2000-2fff IO window: 4000-4fff PREFETCH window: 0c00-0dff MEM window: 0e00-0fff PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device :00:08.0 Simple Boot Flag at 0x37 set to 0x1 Machine check exception polling timer started. After Machine check exception polling timer started. Nothing happens any more. Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can't boot 2.6.14
After Machine check exception polling timer started. Nothing happens any more. I'd start with acpi=off, and try to isolate the problem from there. sorry this doesn't help. BTW: my chipset is on the acpi blacklist, it was allways disabled by default. Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] laptop brocken since kernel 2.6.14
Hi list, my little PIII-M 600MHz Laptop doesn't boot with kernel =2.6.14. I have several systems from PII to Dual-Xeon all fine with 2.6.14. I don't know how to trouble-shoot this problem. since 2.6.14 the kernel stops early before vesafb. The last lines look like this (taken from dmesg of 2.6.13): Boot video device is :00:09.0 PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7198] at :00:07.0 PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device :00:0b.0 PCI: BIOS reporting unknown device 00:01 PCI: BIOS reporting unknown device 00:02 PCI: Bus 1, cardbus bridge: :00:08.0 IO window: 2000-2fff IO window: 4000-4fff PREFETCH window: 0c00-0dff MEM window: 0e00-0fff PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device :00:08.0 Simple Boot Flag at 0x37 set to 0x1 Machine check exception polling timer started. output from dmesg (2.6.13-gentoo-r3) https://po2.uni-stuttgart.de/~ruslucas/laptop/dmesg-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 output of lspci -v https://po2.uni-stuttgart.de/~ruslucas/laptop/lspci config of gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3 https://po2.uni-stuttgart.de/~ruslucas/laptop/config-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 config of gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r2 https://po2.uni-stuttgart.de/~ruslucas/laptop/config-2.6.14-gentoo-r2 config of vanilla-sources-2.6.15-rc4 https://po2.uni-stuttgart.de/~ruslucas/laptop/config-2.6.15-rc4 Can someone help me? Thanks, Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] laptop brocken since kernel 2.6.14
since 2.6.14 the kernel stops early before vesafb. The last lines look like this (taken from dmesg of 2.6.13): have you tried booting of a kernel without vesafb? yes and no. I didn't remove the VESA VGA graphics support from the kernel. But I booted without any vga= parameter. Otherwise I'll see just a blank screen. Are there good reasons to remove VESA from kernel? The next view lines I expect from 2.6.14 are: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac) JFS: nTxBlock = 1485, nTxLock = 11882 SGI XFS with ACLs, large block numbers, no debug enabled Initializing Cryptographic API Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 Non-volatile memory driver v1.2 vesafb: framebuffer at 0xc000, mapped to 0xcc90, using 3072k, total 4096k THX, Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] remote rsync
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Paul Stear wrote: In KDE I can copy files using Konqueror to lan://pc2/ which shows my device.homenet.com. If I then click on the device I get 3 icons NFS SMB HTTP If I click on SMB the location changes to smb://device.homenet.com and I can copy any files I want - even links seem to work you can use network filesystems NFS or SMB. Make sure you compiled support into your kernel. then try: mount -t smbfs //netbios_name_of_server_or_ip/name_of_share /local_dir or mount -t nfs dns_server_name_or_ip:/remote_dir /local_dir rsync -Cav --delete --progress /test lkd5f:/test after mount run: rsync -Cav --delete --progress /test /local_dir to use advantages of rsync, or just use cp etc. Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting
Hi list,
I want the awk analogon for cut -f2-, which prints fields #2 to #n. Is
this possible?
awk '{print $2???}'
TIA,
Sascha.
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
awk '{$1=;print $0}'
(awk recalculates $0 when $n is modified)
This still leaves you with one OFS starting the line (between $1 and
$2), you can get rid of this using
awk '{$1=;print substr($0,lenght(OFS))}'
thanks. the function lenght seems not defined. but substr($0,2) works.
Sascha.
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:15:09 +0100 (CET) Sascha Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks. the function lenght seems not defined. but substr($0,2) works. That was a typo. Should of course be length. sorry. I was in a hurry and didn't noticed the that it's just a typo. Thanks again, Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: bash scripting: implement uninterruptable sleep
Hi List, I have a shell script and want a uninterruptable sleep. /usr/bin/sleep itself seems to have its own signal handlers. How is it possible to sleep uninterruptable? #!/bin/bash trap echo 'Ctrl+C should not work' INT for foo in 1 2 3; do echo $foo sleep 10 done ## end of script TIA, Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: bash scripting: implement uninterruptable sleep
Hi, On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Richard Fish wrote: On 3/28/06, Sascha Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a shell script and want a uninterruptable sleep. /usr/bin/sleep itself seems to have its own signal handlers. How is it possible to sleep uninterruptable? trap echo 'Ctrl+C should not work' INT now=`date +%s` expires=$(( $now + 10 )) while test $now -lt $expires; do sleep $(( $expires - $now )) now=`date +%s` done excellent! take system time and loop sleep until time is over. Thanks, Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Completness of AVR toolset in dev-embedded?
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Petr Kocmid wrote: Well, now I found one: one needs to be a clearvoyant to detect that dev-embedded/avr-libc is probably supposed to be used with sys-devel/crossdev toolset generator. right. # crossdev -t avr builds avr-libc / avr-gcc-3.4.6 / avr-bin-utils-2.16.1-r2 very easy... Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ReiserFS extended attributes?
Hi, I'd like to use extended attributes on ReiserFS. I thought the only one is to enable it in the kernel: # zgrep -i reiser.*attr /proc/config.gz CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR=y and then mount it with user_xattr: # mount -o remount,user_xattr /mnt/reiserfs_mountpoint but it seems not to work? # lsattr /mnt/reiserfs_mountpoint lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on /mnt/reiserfs_mountpoint/a kernel is 2.6.16. any hints? THX, Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ReiserFS extended attributes?
On Mon, 15 May 2006, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: On Mon, 15 May 2006 20:18:26 +0200 (CEST) Sascha Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and then mount it with user_xattr: # mount -o remount,user_xattr /mnt/reiserfs_mountpoint but it seems not to work? I can't be of much further help, but my immediate question after reading this was: what does /proc/mounts contain after doing this? something different then mount shows: # mount | grep home /dev/hda3 on /home type reiserfs (rw,noatime,user_xattr) # grep home /proc/mounts /dev/hda3 /home reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0 any glue? Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ReiserFS extended attributes?
On Mon, 15 May 2006, Sascha Lucas wrote: This tools from SGI are a little bit different, then I expected, but they seem to work: # setfattr -n user.test -v foo bla # getfattr -d bla # file: bla user.test=foo I forget to mention, they work even without user_xattr mounted. curiosity! Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] eix-cache doesn't exist?
On Mon, 15 May 2006, Mick wrote: What's this cache message? Do I need to do anything to fix it? == # eix-sync -v * eix-cache doesn't exist or uses obsolete format. Running update-eix! Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/var/cache/eix) from scratch .. [0] /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata) Reading 100% [1] /usr/local/portage (cache: none) Reading 100% Applying masks .. Database contains 11037 packages in 147 categories. * Running emerge --sync == every thing is fine. you need nothing to fix. this tells you only that eix-cache doesn't exist or uses obsolete format. doesn't exist: can be if you use eix-sync the 1st time obsolete format: means you upgraded eix which now uses a neu db-format Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, at 15:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: all, and none so far use that flag directly). I'll even predict money that the new binaries are identical to the old ones. yes, they are identical. Forgive my saying this, but that is a stupendous waste of my cpu cycles and time. A better solution must exist - if this moves to arch unchanged the gentoo user base will go ballistic from portage pkg_postinst: -- In portage-2.1.1, emerge --newuse is now sensitive to changes in IUSE. Immediately after upgrade from 2.1, users may notice a significantly larger number of packages pulled in by --newuse, but that behavior is normal. For additional information regarding this change, please see bugs #116955, #144333, #144661, and #146060. -- I recommend to burdening @ #116955, or helping @ #144333 :-) -- emerge: (7 of 9) star-trek/species-8.4.7.2 Compile \|/ \|/ @'/ .. \`@ /_| \__/ |_\ \__U_/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] issue on binary merge
Hi List, can some explain this? Machine A+B have identical make.conf (expect in 3 USE-falgs), /etc/portage/*, /usr/portage, profile. Machine A: - FEATURES=buildpkg - added USE-flag samba - emerge -uD --newuse world * builds new samba package * rebuilds some packages (kdebase, cups, mplayer etc.) Machine B: - mount PGKDIR of machine A via nfs to PGKDIR on machine B - added USE-flag samba - emerge -uD --newuse --usepkg world * merges binary samba * does not merge anything else (no binary, no ebuild ) It would be nice if I understand why emerge won't remerge binary packages with changed use-flags. THX, Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] issue on binary merge
Machine B: - mount PGKDIR of machine A via nfs to PGKDIR on machine B - added USE-flag samba - emerge -uD --newuse --usepkg world * merges binary samba * does not merge anything else (no binary, no ebuild ) It would be nice if I understand why emerge won't remerge binary packages with changed use-flags. It doesn't know that kdebase, cups etc need rebuilding unless you use the --newuse option well on Machine B I did emerge -uD --newuse --usepkg world. Isn't it what you ment? Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is binary emerge equivalent to source emerge?
Hi Ian,
1) Does this seem like a sensible idea? Will it generally work?
2) Will --usepkg --getbinpkg use binary packages for dependencies?
3) Is the resultant Portage database equivalent to source emerges, especially
in respect of future --updates, --newuse, etc?
4) Am I right to use a Portage snapshot from the current machine?
5) Is this idea so close to the Catalyst idea that I should use its methods
to achieve my aims?
I'm answering to your thread, because I'm also playing with binary merges.
At the moment I'm not realy happy with it. I've played with catalyst/GRP,
PORTAGE_BINHOST (aka --getbinpkg), PKGDIR via nfs (aka --usepkg).
Perhaps there is someone out there who can point me to some docs etc. Or
correct my following statments:
to 1)
- yes it will work
- you have 3 choices how to build your binarys
* GRP with catalyst (usefull if your USE-/CFLAGS-Falgs etc. on the
build system and target system differ)
* quickpkg from allready installed ebuilds
* FEATURES=buildpkg in make.conf (creates bin's on merge)
- the last 2 are usefull if your USE-/CFLAGS-Flags are identical or do
not differ much
- what you need is:
* portage-snapshot (can be done with catalyst)
* stage3 from internet or actual build with catalyst
* binarys build with USE-/CFLAGS-Flags you want on the target
to 2)
- yes binarys are used for deps
- --usepkg looks for binarys in PKGDIR=${PORTDIR}/packages
- --getbinpkg looks for binarys on PORTAGE_BINHOST (I tried ftp)
- both have a only variant which should use only binarys
- the only-variants doesn't make me happy, because they seem to ignore
different USE-Flags
to 3)
- if you mean /var/db/pkg then yes it's the same
- updates seem to work (-kuD world)
- -uD --newuse world (ebuild only) works
- -uD --newuse --usepkg world (binary if possible, else ebuild) does not
work very well
to 4 and 5) may be something in my comments to 1-3.
Perhaps I'm doing something wrong then please tell me the better way.
THX,
Sascha.
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Re: [gentoo-user] issue on binary merge
If you do --pretend --verbose, does it show the changed USE flags for the packages? Not sure if 'world' does this, but you could try the individual packages that you expect to be rebuilt. IIRC, it appears in green (on a colour screen...) with a + and * next to the USE flag. emerge -uD --pretend --verbose --usepkg --newuse world does not show the change in USE-Flags. However it installes some software cased by the new USE-Flag (in my example samba). I run equery hasuse my_new_flag and the merged this pkgs with: emerge -1 --usepkg --pretend --verbose pkg_spec_from_equery then the change in USE-Flags are showen and my _correct_ binarys are used. Not a solution, but hopefully it'll add insight. it seems we are actually 2 who worked at the same time with binarys :-) Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is binary emerge equivalent to source emerge?
I've also had problems with --usepkg. When it gives me problems, as a workaround, I force emerge to do what I want with emerge --usepkgonly --nodeps --oneshot for each and every binpkg that I want merged. If I think that this may have broken something then afterwards I use revdep-rebuild -p to check linking integrity. thats nearly the same like I do: emerge --usepkg --oneshot binpkgs. So I assume, I'm not alone with this problem (--newuse --usepkg -uD). The question is, is there a missunderstanding or a bug? Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] issue on binary merge
emerge -1 --usepkg --pretend --verbose pkg_spec_from_equery then the change in USE-Flags are showen and my _correct_ binarys are used. There's probably a good reason for it being the way it is, but it doesn't sound as transparent as we might like. yes may be... if so, I would like to know the reason :-) A further interesting scenario might be to have a binary package available built with different USE flags to those on the target machine, and seeing if it gets installed or not. I guess it shouldn't. But then there's the CFLAGS issue as well, and I'm even more unsure how that's supposed to be handled. If you build a binary with different USE flags then on the target it would be merged as ebuild and not as binary. But this seems only to work with --usepkg not with --getbinpkg. ?? CFLAGS handling is done in the same way like USE flags. You can use the tbz2tool to split your binary into data (tar) and info (text). In this info-text is every thing stored like USe, CFALGS, I'm still pretty new to Gentoo, but is this perhaps related to the feature I've read about (and maybe misremembered) regarding only packages that you explicity emerge going into world (dependencies don't)? I wonder if you'd see different results if you explicitly emerged cups rather than it having been implicity emerged due to a dependency. By doing the emerge you described you've 'promoted' those packages from implicit to explicit emerge. Hm... yes every time you type emege it will be recorded in the world-file, expect emerge --oneshot (-1)... so my explicit merge will not be recorded in world it stays what it was before (world or dependency). So I understand --usepkg in this way to use binary if all USE/C flags etc match. If not fallback to ebuilds. So I know I have the right binary pkgs, why does: emerge -uDpv --newuse world and emerge -uDpv --newuse --usepkg world show different results? Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] booting with an lvm2 root. How do I make a working initrd?
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Javier Ubillos wrote: I don't want to use genkernel, but I still want it to work. you realy should use genkernel it's much easier. mkinitrd --preload md_mod --with=md_mod initrd-2.6.16-gentoo-r9 well you should not use mkinitrd, if you refuse genkernel :-). btw: md-mod is RAID (multiple devs), LVM is dm-mod (dev mapper). In conclusion: how do I get/make a working initrd so I can boot with my lvm2 root? that's much work to do it your self start building ext2 images or cpio's with static busybox lvm2 and write your own linuxrc (here you may cheat by looking into linuxrc from genkernel :-)). Don't forget to create dev-files and to include some modules. Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
