Re: [gentoo-user] File permissions and such
Sorry about that going to the list. It was meant to be a direct reply. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST
Oops, forgot to paste the link: http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/blog/entry/1112117933.9,14473 -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: encfs forgot passwd following update world
See also bug #168750 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168750 -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Python IDE
How could I have left out this one?: IDLE -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mythtv Segmentation fault
Possibly http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272691
Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to 2008.0 live-install CD
I usually use RIPLinux on a stick. http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM Recovery....
vgreduce --removemissing However there's no gaurantee you'll be able to recover your data (LVM is not redundancy). -a
Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...
You could try sshguard or denyhosts.
Re: [gentoo-user] glib-2.20.5 failed
I was not able to reproduce this but you may be able to get around it by removing test from your FEATURES list. -a
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up...
You're right... completely OT... -a
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Drive Question
On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 20:56 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: I already tried rebuilding the kernel to ensure that DMA was compiled into it. It doesn't have any affect on the DVD drive - with or without DMA compiled into the kernel, there is still no sound when trying to play an audio CD. Are you sure that the CD track is unmuted (look in alsamixer or similar)? -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 15:26 -0700, Grant wrote: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? I pretty much back up everything that's not ubiquitous on the Internet on a on an external drive. Disk space is so cheap these days so I figure why not. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] horrible gedit dependencies
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 12:34 -0800, James Ausmus wrote: You could try gvim, if you're already familiar enough with vim (and gvim only has optional dependancies on gnome et al.) ... and I'm a HUGE fan of [g]vim, but I question whether it would fit the OPs requirement of easy-to-use. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 15:53 +, Grant Edwards wrote: Yup, that was evidently the problem. Perhaps step #2 should be documented in the Handbook and/or the Quickinstall Perhaps the constant nagging from the timezone-data package when it's emerged as well as the system when it's booted isn't enough? -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KVM plans?
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 11:47 -0800, Christopher Granade wrote: Are there plans to support KVM (http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki) in Gentoo with an ebuild for the userspace tools? I was gonna ask if you had checked bugzilla, but I went ahead and did that for you: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157987 -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, Linux and bank websites.
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 09:59 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: How about your bank ? ; ) Agreed. My (major U.S.) bank's web site works fine in Epiphany. In fact as late as 2003 I went to a (physical) branch and I was surprised to find that they still used Netscape as a browser. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome does not 'see' DVD RW drive
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 07:45 +1200, Jamie wrote: [...] for some reason Gnome does not appear to be able to 'see' my DVD burner. I cannot right click in Nautilus and burn to disc, nor does a DVD drive show up in Place - Computer. /etc/make.conf: Is the hal service running? -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: memory(gray matter) needs jog
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 20:21 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: It's only if you force a fsck (e.g. with -f or /forcefsck) that it will run fsck on a clean filesystem. I stand corrected, it also forces a fsck after the user-tunable maximum time between fscks. -a
Re: [gentoo-user] sudo in kernel config ?
On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 05:46 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: In a perfect, tidy world we'd all do that. This world, however does not exist. Even portage, by default does configure and make as root (albeit in a sandbox so it is safe(r). I suppose one could compile the kernel sources as root but inside sandbox, though I've never tried that.
Re: [gentoo-user] qemu-kvm black screen and infinite loop on startup
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 12:00 +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote: Hi Albert, Can you paste your USE flags for qemu? Thanks, Kfir USE=aio sdl vde -alsa -bluetooth -brltty -curl -esd -fdt -hardened -jpeg -ncurses -png -pulseaudio -qemu-ifup -sasl -ssl -static
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
On Monday, June 27 at 18:47 (-0500), James Wall said: Albert, Thanks for sharing the guest image. I have gotten it installed on my virtualbox to allow me to experiment with it. Thanks again for sharing your work. Cool, now I at least know it works with vmware and virtualbox. I will probably be uploading updated images every few days or so. -a
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
On Tuesday, June 28 at 09:32 (-0500), James Wall said: Albert, it uses the AHCI driver for the sata controller. You know it's odd, I was just talking with someone yesterday about why don't the hypervisors default to AHCI since it's somewhat universal by now. Anyway, I will rebuild an image with AHCI support and upload it shortly. -a
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
On Tuesday, June 28 at 10:57 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said: Anyway, I will rebuild an image with AHCI support and upload it shortly. Done, uploaded to the same place: http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/base-dist.vmdk.bz2 I also made the image bigger (10GB). Oddly enough, it compresses smaller than the other by a couple of megs. -a
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
On Friday, July 1 at 11:55 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said: Oh, I'm referring to the 4GB version. The 10GB version demands a password so couldn't even start on it. That should not be the case with it requiring a password, or else I uploaded the wrong image. Nevertheless, I'll upload another one shortly. Now uploaded.
Re: [gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 08:48 +0530, Vishnupradeep wrote: Albert W. Hopkins, is that 64bit or 32bit ? It si 64-bit. Though conceivably the build process could build 32-bit appliances, I haven't yet tried it.
Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 09:48 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:01 -0400, Denis wrote: I'm curious to know your approach to keeping your Gentoo box current without it becoming a full-time job. I'm not talking about maintaining servers - just your daily driver, so to say. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by daily server. ... and I'm even less certain how I read that as daily server. I apologize for having responded before taking my medication. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Evdev keyboard no longer works [SOLVED]
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 06:09 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 19:03 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Have you completely powered down the machine and replugged the keyboard? Sometimes hardware gets stuck in an unknown state. Just an idea. It's a laptop, so plugging out the keyboard may be a challenge for me :P But yeah, the machine has been completely powered down several times. I might try pulling the battery though. Well, I don't believe it but plugging out the battery for a few secs and plugging it back in fixed it (with the system shut down). Thanks for the tip Mark. :) -a Hey - glad it worked Albert! Cheers, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] dvd playback decryption trouble
On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 16:09 +0200, b.n. wrote: where could I look to understand what's different between the two systems? The DVD drive? -a -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop
Well, I tried downgrading to version 0.5.4 of wpa_supplicant but it didn't help with the situation. The error logs show a time-out communicating with the AP. -a -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] packages.gentoo.org down?
On Friday 10 August 2007 03:43:37 Albert W. Hopkins wrote: [an explanation] Thanks for that! We (I) do appreciate the work you do! -- Naga -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Boot via floppy from cdrom
Why wast your time with floppies? Boot from a USB stick that has plenty of storage on it for kernels and drivers.
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --prune: should it work?
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 21:02 +0200, KH wrote: Hi, are you saying, that --prune is broken? No. That was the OP's assertion.
Re: [gentoo-user] Non-case sensitive alphabetical sorting
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 12:26 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: [...] great! what's the correct place to set this globally so that both terminal and gnome will see it? /etc/env.d
Re: [gentoo-user] broken python howto [SOLVED]
You didn't do something crazy like put -static in your CFLAGS did you? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
Ok, just to prove it could be done (and because I was bored). I compiled openoffice entirely in /tmp which is tmpfs in about 5:07. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-intel-2.8 and compiz - hard locks
I forgot to mention. This seems to be compiz-specific. If I run metacity, even with metacity's compositing manager enabled, I don't experience this issue. -a
Re: [gentoo-user] netkit-rsh ./configure problem
I should also mention that I also can't, for example, press CTRL-C at the shell prompt to exit a program (such as emerge). So somehow (some) signals are not being sent/received. -a
Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 16:25 -0400, Nick Khamis wrote: I got gnome to fire with some problems: [...] Question: Is the dbus service running? -a
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone have experience with Acer netbooks ?
If anyone plans to try running Gentoo on the Nokia Desklet 3G I'd be interested in talking with you. -a
Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.7 support
Albert Hopkins wrote: If it were buggy the Gentoo devs would have masked it for you ;-) -a And they devs have done so. Python 3 is masked and even keyworded. It is a hint at least. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] NoSQL?
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 09:07 -0800, walt wrote: I've also not heard of the NoSQL movement before The NoSQL movement is long-lasting and continuous. It just changes names every few years :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant
There is a simple solution for this: * Enter a bug report at bugs.gentoo.org (It is a web site and AFAIK has no usenet gateway). * Follow the bug there. * End the noise here. Thank you.
Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.
Funny, though, on my (very) old Debian system I don't seem to have a wheel. http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/su-invocation.html Bottom section.
Re: [gentoo-user] Public Apology to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore
Perhaps a bit too public. Anyway, hope all is forgiven :D -a
Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 --depclean
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 07:37 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Then you missed the point of the thread. Quite possibly.
RE: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
On Thursday, June 23 at 08:16 (+0700), Pandu Poluan said: Any such program to build XenServer appliances (.xva) ? I haven't any. I have no experience with XenServer appliances.
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox
On Monday, June 27 at 19:52 (-0400), Daniel D Jones said: Can anyone explain why it takes so long for Firefox-bin to be unmasked? [etc.] Have you gone to bugs.gentoo.org and submitted a stabilization request?
[gentoo-user] Re: Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload
Albert W. Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: This is just a minimal Gentoo install, I have specialized appliances as well. where?
[gentoo-user] Re: For those who complain
On 01/20/2012 10:51 PM, Dale wrote: Albert W. Hopkins wrote: [...] And sometimes those people are finding problems. Please don't feed the troll.
Re: [gentoo-user] Can I clean contacts with isopropyl alcohol?
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 21:21 -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Hi. I have instability in my PC and I highly suspect it is caused by hardware problems in my TV card. I would like to clean its contacts and see if it, by a miracle, solves the problem. But I don't want to make it worse. So: is it safe to clean the contacts of a PCI card with isopropyl alcohol and a cotton swab? Use a pencil eraser instead. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 20:32 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: I almost know the reply to this one, but it won't hurt: LC_ALL=C chage -l marduk Yeah, I've already tried that. It didn't make a difference. I've also tried compiling shadow/pam with/without NLS support and shadow without PAM support. I think i'm going to have to use gdb (yeck) and step through the program. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd [SOLVED]
Quoting Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:56 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: Well, I hate to sound like a ricer, but apparently it's my CFLAGS :| CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -msse3 -ggdb -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer I have an Athlon 64 X2, Hmmm... I have one of those. Try: CFLAGS=-march=athlon64 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd [SOLVED]
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 22:08 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: Hmmm... I have one of those. Try: CFLAGS=-march=athlon64 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe No, doesn't work. I'm going to try downgrading GCC (w/o any optimizations), re-compiling shadow with my original CFLAGS and see what happens. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CHOST
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 03:43 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Changing CHOST is valid when you have e.g. an i386 CHOST and want to change it to i686. It is not an option for going from 32 bit to 64 bit. You need to reinstall. Below is what I did a few years ago. YMMV. There may be a better guide on the Wiki or somewhere. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 21:24 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: Hello Don Jerman, So / and /boot will be smallish physical partitions - I use the minimum size for /boot and around 10G for root, When did 10GB become small for a root partition? I have a 400MB root partition, 35% full, no /boot and everything else on LVM. Agreed. My GNOME desktop system us using only about 140MB on root, but I usually make the root filesystem at ~2GB for historical reasons. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pam limits
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 00:02 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: I'm wondering what's the advantage of using a special group for each user. Doesn't it just make user administration more complicated? It's explained here http://tinyurl.com/4bn9h Basically it aids in the sharing of files/directories between groups. AFAIK the same thing can (and should) be done using ACLs but, unfortunately, this isn't enabled by default on most Linux distros, thus the Red Hat hack. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Got myself in a bind unmerging portage
On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 22:23 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: It kind of makes me chuckle a bit that emerge -vC portage doesn't at least warn you that this will make a mess of your system (Are you sure?) # emerge -Ca portage These are the packages that would be unmerged: !!! 'sys-apps/portage' is part of your system profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. I'd say that's fair enough. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] compiz and mesa
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 14:18 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 20:31 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: compiz wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb] (even 0.8.2), and mesa 7.4_rc1 wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb=] (it's for current ~amd64). Does [xcb=] means without the flag? Tree bug? From the Gentoo Development guide: There are also shortcuts for conditional situations: ... Wow, that pasted fugly. See http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/index.html
Re: [gentoo-user] finding current X mode
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 18:13 +, Jorge Almeida wrote: Is there some utility to find which mode (in X) is the current one? It would be usefull to find out which mode looks better, when switching with Ctrl-Alt-KeypadPlus... In the days of LCD monitors do people still use that? Anyway xdpyinfo (or perhaps even xwininfo) should work. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nfs.confd.old on manifest not found
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 18:05 -0400, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: Hello, I anyone else bumping into this message after a recent emerge --sync followed by system and world update? !!! A file listed in the Manifest could not be found: /usr/portage/net-fs/nfs-utils/files/nfs.confd.old emerge system will complete but not emerge world. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172133 -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] lib w/o a package?
On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 05:02 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: It appears I have a lib (gdbm.so) left behind by some removed package. Could somebody, please, tell me which package does this file belong to? A slightly educated guess would be the gdbm package, though you'd think it would be named libgdbm.so as opposed to gdbm.so. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 19:53 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Are there (still) people who have /usr on a separate partition? And if so, why? Because if you've got a lab full of similarly-configured workstations or a forward-facing cluster of load-balancing servers, it may be more convenient to have them all mount /usr, /home, etc. from a centrally-managed file server. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] why PDEPEND ?
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 15:18 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks I've seen perl has some PDEPEND's, which means that these packages (PodParser and Test-Harness) are emerged right after perl. Why is that necessary ? Because depends are resolved prior to a given package and so my guess is the above would fail if perl were not installed/updated first, therefore they are P[OST]DEPENDs -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to use another x server for opengl apps
On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 20:30 +, b.n. wrote: I add the output of xinit/xorg below. The bad line seems: (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. but why? Probably because you have an Radeon, and it's probably for the same reason DRI doesn't work with Xinerama on Radeons. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Python IDE
On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 14:28 +, b.n. wrote: By the way: I am looking for a good, general Python IDE on Linux. Most people advice Eclipse+PyDev. I tried it and it looks good, but it's damn too memory intensive (I need to use it on an office machine with 512 K ram, and it eats almost half of it). Vim, of course. Also: * Anjuta * SPE * Komodo/Komodo Lite * Eric3 * Boa Constructor -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /boot without space.
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 00:41 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: it is using per default 32mb for its journal. The missing mb (32+1540) comes from two facts: du lies and tail packing. Actually I think he misread the output of du. It should be ~7283 for /boot at the root level. Don't add the individual subdirectories/files coz you're just counting everything twice. Add 8193*4096 bytes for the reiserfs journal and you've got 40055 (~40G). -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why is /etc/init.d/xdm in the xinit package ?!
On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 16:10 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, why is the xdm startup script (/etc/init.d/xdm) and config stuff (/etc/conf.d/xdm) in the xinit package, not in xdm ? The xdm init and config file are also used to run gdm, kdm, entrance, probably other display managers and not just the standard xdm. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors: dependency problem...
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 15:05 +0100, Stroller wrote: On 23 Aug 2009, at 14:02, Albert Hopkins wrote: ... So if you believe there is a bug with the ebuild, you can submit a bug report to bugs.gentoo.org. As always, patches are welcomed. I assume that the RDEPEND was added because decode-edid.pl was supplied by upstream (at least this is how I choose the interpret TFC). Therefore it is better to address with a bug or patch upstream, not on b.g.o Yeah I originally suggested working with upstream. Gentoo would also be involved if it were to be an optional (i.e. USE-flag kind of thing). -a
Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound
Am 18.08.2010 01:44, schrieb Albert Hopkins: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:41 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: Here is my edit of his Python script. ... which I actually forgot to attach :| funny stuff. Unfortunately I get # ./keypress.py Traceback (most recent call last): File ./keypress.py, line 11, in module from Xlib.display import Display ImportError: No module named Xlib.display What should I emerge?? ;-) thx, s
Re: [gentoo-user] failed reiserfs partition - help!
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 10:44 -0400, James wrote: Albert, Thanks for the response. dd for the lazy -- takes 2 seconds to wipe the top of the drive instead of getting rid of numerous partitions that the manufacturer put on the drive. But what I'm saying is... you wipe the partition table and then you use fdisk (or whatever) to create partitions. The very act using fdisk and writing to the partition table wipes out the previous one. The sending $25 to namesys part was a joke. Namesys isn't around anymore.
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 3: GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE is too small.
Am 30.11.2011 12:57, schrieb Albert W. Hopkins: On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 10:11 +0100, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: (2) Mesa is built with gallium and it is enables using eselect. AFAIK intel drivers didn't work (well) with gallium, at least I checked[1]. Anyway you might want to try the classic. Works for me. [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=ODE0OQ Wow, it's working. Thanks a lot, Albert! Kind regards, Max
Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd [SOLVED]
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:56 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: [...] I think i'm going to have to use gdb (yeck) and step through the program. Well, I hate to sound like a ricer, but apparently it's my CFLAGS :| CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -msse3 -ggdb -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer I have an Athlon 64 X2, and according to the Gentoo Wiki my CFLAGS are safe. My CPU supports SSE3 (according to /proc/cpuinfo). Oddly enough, I tried taking out -msse3 but no-go. I've tried a few permutations of those flags, but the only way I was able to get it to work is to take out -O2 (even *just* having CFLAGS=-O2 doesn't work). So now the question is: GCC bug?[1] CPU bug?[2] Wiki bug?[3] Anyway I just wanted to thank everyone who collectively scratched their heads with me :-) 1. GCC 4.2.0 2. AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 3. http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags#Athlon_64_X2_.28AMD.29 -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd [SOLVED]
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 20:16 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: No, doesn't work. I'm going to try downgrading GCC (w/o any optimizations), re-compiling shadow with my original CFLAGS and see what happens. # grep ^CFLAGS /etc/make.conf CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -msse3 -ggdb -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer # gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.2.0 # source /etc/profile # chage -l marduk chage: can't open password file # gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2 # source /etc/profile # emerge -1 shadow /dev/null # chage -l marduk Last password change: Sep 18, 2007 Password expires: Nov 17, 2007 Password inactive : never Account expires : never Minimum number of days between password change : 0 Maximum number of days between password change : 60 Number of days of warning before password expires : 14 Seems to be a problem with GCC. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] set xdm to start after agetty
On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 19:43 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: # rc-upate del xdm # echo '/etc/init.d/xdm start' /etc/conf.d/local.start I don't think you'd need to add anything to local.stop but you may wanna verify that. -- Albert W. Hopkins You might want to stop XDM gracefully rather than pulling the rug out from under its feet with the TERM signal. I don't know why it would matter, but I bet you'll end up with artifacts in /tmp, ~/, or something otherwise. What I meant is that I think the shutdown/reboot process will automagically runs a '/etc/init.d/xdm stop' even if you start it via local.start. I know it does so if you start it manually. Anyway nothing in my /tmp survives a reboot. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] horrible gedit dependencies
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 20:07 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I just wanted to install gedit on an system already runing Xorg, but I'm horrified about the dependencies. All useflags are disabled, but still 38 packages required. Is it possible to trim this down somehow ? Well, gedit is a GNOME app (included in GNOME's standard Desktop release) and, as such, depends on quite a few gnome libraries. Looking at the ebuild, I see nothing particularly outstanding about it's dependencies relative to other GNOME apps, apart from gtksourceview. Most GNOME setups will already have these installed. There's an optional python use flag that, if enabled, adds some python utilities and plugins. There's also a spell use flag for the optional spell checking capability. If you are not already running GNOME and don't want to pull in all the GNOME dependencies, might you want to use some other editor? -- Albert W. Hopkins -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] horrible gedit dependencies
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 21:02 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Looking at the ebuild, I see nothing particularly outstanding about it's dependencies relative to other GNOME apps, apart from gtksourceview. there's lots of documentation stuff pulled in, although I've switched off the docs useflag. Generally the doc use flag is for developer documentation. That's probably what it's referring to. ./configure tells me some optional things, ie. scrollkeeper. I wonder if gtksourceview and the printing stuff could be made optional (./configure doesnt tell anything about it). Without gtksourceview you have no gedit. It's the text widget used by gedit. Scrollkeeper is pretty much used by all GNOME apps for help docs, etc. Most GNOME setups will already have these installed. I don't have any GNOME setup. I just want an easy-to-use editor, nothing else. You probably don't want gedit then. gedit is the text editor for the GNOME desktop, so it's pretty much integrated with GNOME itself. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] umask and sticky bit
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 14:44 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: You should probably use ACLs. They may also obviate the need to set directory sticky bits to begin with. I know, but learning ACL will not be a minor task (I think). POSIX ACLs are simple, and a logical extension of traditional permissions. Anyone who has ever messed with Windows or VMS ACLs would be comforted to know that POSIX ACLs are much simpler. You did not explain why you want to do this, but you also want to investigate whether g+s'ing the directory gives the effect you want. It doesn't, but it would be the same problem, as to umask or similar. You still haven't specified what exactly you are trying to accomplish which makes it difficult to suggest a solution. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Something changed with nice?
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 15:59 +0100, Mick wrote: On Friday 13 April 2007 15:30, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 14:07 +0100, Mick wrote: I am getting these errors in /root/dead.letter: === /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis: line 5: /bin/nice: No such file or directory /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis: line 5: exec: /bin/nice: cannot execute: No such file or directory === I don't have a /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis, but my /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis says exec nice makewhatis -u Hold on, I do not have a /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis either! My daily is just like yours. Perhaps this is something to do with vixie-cron updated yesterday. Do I need to do anything about it? Your email says /etc/cron.weekly so it must have existed at the time it was generated. I've never seen a makewhatis in /etc/cron.weekly -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] netkit-rsh ./configure problem
On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 15:50 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 21:38 +0200, pk wrote: Albert Hopkins wrote: I can't get netkit-rsh (not that I want it but it's an (indirect) runtime dependency of xinit). This is a brand new machine that I'm building. Basically the error is: Checking for BSD signal semantics... no This package needs BSD signal semantics to run. sed: can't read MCONFIG: No such file or directory Hm. I may be way off here but do you have CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y in your kernel .config? Cheers. That was it. For some reason I glossed over that thinking it only had to do with sar but I guess not. Maybe I spoke too soon... Either I was on the wrong system when I tested or there's some inconsistency. Nevertheless the problem doesn't appear fixed :(
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenVPN setup
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 12:03 -0800, Grant wrote: Good points Albert. Is a daily 'emerge --sync emerge -avDuN world' generally enough as far as tracking security vulnerabilities? - Grant That's not really for me to say. But I can tell you that although the Gentoo developers take matters of security seriously, there is no full-time security tracker. Sometimes things don't get patched in portage until someone (else) creates a bug report. And even if that were not the case, there are 0-day exploits that have yet to be patched. So it really depends on how informed/paranoid you are about what you have accepting requests from the Internet. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo
Albert Hopkins marduk at gentoo.org writes: I've been using RIPLinux for 3 years and haven't had any issues with it. Ok Albert, I'm convinced. I'm going to give your suggestions a whirl. One cautious step I'm adding as suggested, is to back up the virgin drive with DD. I'm looking for a cable so that I can copy the sony drive onto a gentoo partition of another system via a usb 2.0 to ata/eide cable. It was suggested this cable: ttp://tinyurl.com/ynhszy But being in Florida and only being able to use the company credit card over the phone, does anyone know of another cable I can purchase to back up the laptop's drive? HOwfully a vendor that takes visa over the phone brain dead company policy James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Thanks to the user community
While we're on the subject... I'd like to the free software user community. Free software would be meaningless without you. I especially appreciate the users who have * Used free software. * Submitted bug reports, ideas, corrections, artwork, documentation, translations, etc. * Helped your fellow user and guided new users * Provided free marketing for free software (i.e. spread the word) * Challenged free software to do better * Assured free software developers that they were not doing it for naught And remember: every free software developer is also a free software user. Thank you all for making the free software community the strongest, most dynamic and exciting virtual community to be a part of. But seriously, shouldn't we be waiting until November to say this? ;-) -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from Beryl to Compiz-fusion
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 20:33 -0400, James Colby wrote: Thanks, I used the above procedure and it compiled and runs well. The only complaint that I have is that I have no windows decorations unless I open up a shell and manually execute emerald . Any ideas on how to get emerald to run on login? It seems to me like it should be started automatically. In CompizConfig go to /Effects/Window Decoration. Make sure it's enabled and, if necessary, enter emerald for the command (mine is actually blank which seems to indicate it's not necessary). -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd [SOLVED]
Norberto Bensa skrev: Quoting Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:56 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: Well, I hate to sound like a ricer, but apparently it's my CFLAGS :| CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8 -msse3 -ggdb -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer I have an Athlon 64 X2, Hmmm... I have one of those. Try: CFLAGS=-march=athlon64 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe athlon64 is an alias for k8, it makes no difference if you put one or the other. If you check gcc's code you will see there is many march flags, but only a handful is actually unique at the code level. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd [SOLVED]
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 23:01 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: Or with your CFLAGS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ^model\ name | head -n 1 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep CFLAG /etc/make.conf CFLAGS=-march=athlon64 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe Possibly, but it still breaks with your CFLAGS. Even with CFLAGS=-O2 it breaks. According to the Wiki all the optimization flags I'm using should be ok on my arch, and indeed they do work with GCC 4.1. The only thing that's changed relatively recently was the upgrade to GCC 4.2 (and other software). The hardware and CFLAGS have been constant. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] installation assistance
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 12:31 +0200, Pol wrote: I would pay for _in place_ assistance to install gentoo / kde on my laptop I am living in northern italy Since i have never compiled everything from scratch (as the gentoo user should do), assistance would save my time and offer the opportunity to learn something. Moreover i would like to fine tune my kde desktop, that is disappointing me, as heavy kubuntu desktop user. Any suggestions about available professionals or companies? thank you Pol I would be happy to do it. Do you cover travel expenses? -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Strange apache2 access_log entries
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:51 -0700, Grant wrote: I'm not doing any sort of monitoring like that. What is that 470? I noticed the log entries always include that, at least for the last 10 days. 470 is the size of the HTTP response (read http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/logs.html). The client is coming from the loopback device, i.e. the same machine as the server. So it's something running on that machine talking to the server. Are you sure you know what's running on your machine? As another poster said, change your logging format and you should get more information. See the above link and check your config. -a -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] set xdm to start after agetty
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 22:41 +0300, Thanasis wrote: How can we set the xdm/gdm not to start before the agetty processes (during the boot phase)? I actually run /etc/init.d/xdm manually after a boot because, chances are, if I've rebooted my machine there's stuff I'm gonna want to do from the command line before I start a desktop. Or as a previous poster said. # rc-upate del xdm # echo '/etc/init.d/xdm start' /etc/conf.d/local.start I don't think you'd need to add anything to local.stop but you may wanna verify that. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] OT: how do I kick a MAC address off my hostapd WiFi network?
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 16:50 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: -Original Message- I was wondering what would happen if someone downloaded some music illegally or some child porn? How would you prove it was them and not you? Being a good neighbor is nice but you need to be careful for sure. Search Google for if someone uses your property to commit a crime and, somewhat surprisingly, the first hit you get is this: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060320/1636238.shtml -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where is the unifont?
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 19:35 +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote: Thanks, that was it. I relied on the usual etc-update to do such things. I mean, if I install a font, I sure want it in the xconfig? That's not what etc-update does. etc-update is just a tool that helps you manage files that a package installs that were CONFIG_PROTECTed. Since font packages don't supply xorg.conf there's nothing to CONFIG_PROTECT and therefore etc-update is futile. Actually the package that actually uses xorg.conf, xorg-server, doesn't even supply xorg.conf. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pygtk blocking pygobject
On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 11:01 -0800, Grant wrote: app-office/gnumeric-1.6.3 (python? =dev-python/pygtk-2) gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.18.3-r1 (python? dev-python/pygtk) gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.3 (python? =dev-python/pygtk-2.8) media-gfx/gimp-2.2.17 (python? =dev-python/pygtk-2) x11-libs/vte-0.16.8 (python? =dev-python/pygtk-2.4) xfce-extra/exo-0.3.2 (python? dev-python/pygtk) Perhaps you can mask pygtk-2.9 and see what's trying to pull it in. You could also post the exact command you're typing and error message to give us a better idea of what's going on. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]
[...] Just think about this horror: gcc/libstdc++ update and your package manager stops working Hehehehe. Guess what python is linked against (It doesn't have to be linked against libstdc++, but it usually is)? =P CPython is written in C and has no C++ dependencies: $ ldd `which python` linux-gate.so.1 = (0xb7ffd000) libpython2.5.so.1.0 = /usr/lib/libpython2.5.so.1.0 (0x455b) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x421c9000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x421af000) libutil.so.1 = /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x42feb000) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x42189000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x42052000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4100) -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 questions
On 6/4/09, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote: You'll know if LVM has detected your PVs by running pvdisplay. Check! Thanks Albert Another please, from the doc: Note: As Terje Kvernes commented, it is easier to increase the size of a partition then to shrink it. You might therefore want to start with smaller partitions and increase their size as needed. Code Listing 2.5: Creating and extending logical volumes Then why give the logical volumes any size at all? If they can be expanded at will, why not just the let the files fill them up as much as they need? This point has me stymied. Maxim
Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate ca certs
On Sunday 17 August 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 10:39 +0100, Mick wrote: I am getting mixed up with update-ca-certificates. It reports that I have duplicates: = # update-ca-certificates . . . = When you updated the ca-certificates, you should have gotten a postinst message about broken symlinks that you need to remove. Oops! I had missed that. Looks good now: # update-ca-certificates Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certsdone. Thank you Albert. :) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper)
Hello Albert, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A good solution would be a tool that actually indexes files in the background, and perhaps automatically when a file is changed/added/removed. And not just text in files but also other kinds of metadata. And when I click that file/data/whatever it would be cool if it automagically opened the appropriate viewer and took me to the exact location of what I am searching for. Pretty much a one-stop shop for searching my stuff. pinot (http://directory.fsf.org/pinot.html) may do what you want. It is not in portage but most of its dependencies are. Roger -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DST didn't happen: quickinstall doc is wrong...
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 15:07 +, Grant Edwards wrote Shouldn't you symlink /etc/localtime to the the appropriate file in /usr/share/zoneinfo? That way when the zoneinfo files get udpated (as they all did), you'll use the new file? That was the old way of doing it. For a number of reasons a new method is devised. The new method is: 1. copy file from /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime 2. set your timezone in /etc/conf.d/clock. The timezone-data package is supposed to automagically update /etc/localtime when the TIMEZONE is set in /etc/conf.d/clock. It's been observed that a lot of people who had problems with the timezone change had not done #2. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] non-existing/masked ebuilds during upgrade from 2005.1 to 2006.1
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 17:56 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: emerge -e world upgrades too, because it considers that you have nothing installed, so it tries to install the latest version. However, emerge -uDN world is sufficient as it will cover all updates and USE flag changes. Agreed, and I should also tell the OP that 'emaint --check world' will also help point out any stale packages and other things in your world file. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] umask and sticky bit
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 08:17 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: I would like the default permissions for directories created by a particular user to be 1775. Is there some way to achieve this? I think umask doesn't deal with the sticky bit. You should probably use ACLs. They may also obviate the need to set directory sticky bits to begin with. You did not explain why you want to do this, but you also want to investigate whether g+s'ing the directory gives the effect you want. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Something changed with nice?
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 14:07 +0100, Mick wrote: Hi All, I am getting these errors in /root/dead.letter: === /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis: line 5: /bin/nice: No such file or directory /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis: line 5: exec: /bin/nice: cannot execute: No such file or directory === Of course, I can only find /usr/bin/nice so that may make sense. Is A quick look at the ChangeLog for coreutils reveals the following: *coreutils-6.7-r1 (02 Jan 2007) 02 Jan 2007; Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] +coreutils-6.7-r1.ebuild: Move binaries not really needed into /usr. I don't have a /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis, but my /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis says exec nice makewhatis -u -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] File permissions and such
Don't know if you're aware of this, but the emails you are sending have Date headers which are WAY into the future. For example, the email you sent that I'm applying to (which I think was sent today) is dated. June 03. Another one you sent a few days ago was dated 31 May. The relevant headers: From: Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] File permissions and such Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 14:36:07 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
