[gentoo-user] emerge problems
I seem to find lots of bad repository servers when running emerge.emerge mozilla-firefox failed for quite some time (at least a day), emerge kuroo has failed for two days, just like emerge crafty.Does anyone know if there are any general problems with servers? Regards,Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] OT friendly cellphone w/ Gentoo?
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:30:44 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: KDEbluetooth finds the Razr without any problems, just select Find device in the Razr's menu and click the bluetooth icon in the panel. yeah, it finds it. But it does not 'find' any services, like obex file transfer and others. It does here, I've used it to transfer pictures, video and audio. -- Neil Bothwick Ralph's Observation - It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize that you are in a hurry. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:53:31 +0100, Mick wrote: carcharias rjf # emerge --info | grep CONFIG_PROTECT CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo Thanks. I do not have init.d scripts masked, so it should be updated accordingly when I upgrade udev. I'll keep an eye out for it. It's the other way round, the mask is for CONFIG_PROTECT, so if the directory is not masked, the files will be protected from updates. You'll have to run dispatch-conf or similar to update them. -- Neil Bothwick Where do forest rangers go to get away from it all? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] File replication
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:49:23 +0800 (CST), Stephen Liu wrote: I'm searching a tool/method whenever I save a file on /home/user a duplicate copy will be saved automatically on /mnt/point/of/usb_enclosure/home/user simultaneously, similar to replication/mirroring. Thus the USB enclosure can be used as a mobile storage device and can be plugged in on any Linux PC. You could set up a RAID-1 array on the two devices. Auto-detect RAID information is saved at the end of the device, so it can still be used as a standalone drive/partition when connected to something else. One advantage of RAID is that if you run with the device disconnected and then connect it, the RAID will be updated in the background. I've not tried this, so don't blame me if you lose data or your cat catches fire :( -- Neil Bothwick BUFFERS=20 FILES=15 2nd down, 4th quarter, 5 yards to go! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev
A note for everybody who uses gensplash and splashutils. After i deleted the device files and rebooted the silent mode refused to work. So i decided to reemerge splashutils. But this is not necessary. After installing, the ebuild checks for missing devices, which was in my case /dev/tty1. Here is the output from emerge which solved my problem! It appears that the /dev/tty1 character device doesn't exist on the root filesystem. This will prevent the silent mode from working properly. You can fix the problem by doing: mount --bind / /lib/splash/tmp mknod /lib/splash/tmp/dev/tty1 c 4 1 umount /lib/splash/tmp I hope this helps to avoid confusion! Daniel So doing a rm -rf /dev/* would be a bad idea? Can I just move them and then copy them back? Or is what I have normal number wise? Full of questions ain't I? Dale :-) :-) I have filed a bug [1] to gentoo documentation for adding a hint to splashutils users. Until now i just get a: WORKSFORME, i must have missconfigured something!. But what? Is it possible that /dev/tty1 is not in place at these early moments of booting when it is needed by splashutils? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145118 Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:55:31 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: But what? Is it possible that /dev/tty1 is not in place at these early moments of booting when it is needed by splashutils? Yes, because the splash stuff runs before udevstart, so you need a static device node for anything required by splash. -- Neil Bothwick I used to live in the real world, but I got evicted. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:55:31 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: But what? Is it possible that /dev/tty1 is not in place at these early moments of booting when it is needed by splashutils? Yes, because the splash stuff runs before udevstart, so you need a static device node for anything required by splash. Yes i think so too, the splash-screen appears immediately after choosing the grub entry. This is much ealier then the dev Filesystem is populated, so i think i am right in filing a bug concerning this. Everybody who does not re-emerge splashutils will not get the hint about the missing device. So just adding this to the guide will avoid problems concerning this! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] openldap: taking too much of time to authenticate
Hi, I have installed openldap on my gentoo-linux . My purpose is to use LDAP server for login authentication using PAM. slapd is running fine. ldapsearch command is also running fine. But the problem is, it takes too much time to authenticate the user. My local system is server as well as the client. Please help me. I followed step by step http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ldap-howto.xml#doc_chap2My /etc/openldap/slapd.conf :-include /etc/openldap/schema/core.schemainclude /etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schemainclude /etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schemainclude /etc/openldap/schema/nis.schemapidfile
/var/run/openldap/slapd.pidargsfile /var/run/openldap/slapd.argsdatabase ldbmsuffix "dc=kavach,dc=blr"checkpoint 32 30rootdn "cn=Manager,dc=kavach,dc=blr"rootpw {MD5}Xr4ilOzQ4PCOq3aQ0qbuaQ==directory /var/lib/openldap-dataindex uid,cn,gidNumber,uidNumber,memberUid eqindex uniqueMember presindex objectClass pres,eqaccess to *by dn="uid=root,ou=people,dc=kavach,dc=blr" writeby users readby anonymous authaccess to attrs=userPassword,gecos,description,loginShellby self writeMy
/etc/openldap/ldap.confHOST 127.0.0.1 198.168.99.183 bijayant.kavach.blrBASE dc=kavach,dc=blrURI ldap://127.0.0.1:389/TIMELIMIT 15SIZELIMIT 12DEREF nevernss_reconnect_tries 0nss_reconnect_sleeptime 1nss_reconnect_maxconntries 4My /etc/nsswitch.conf file :--passwd: files ldapshadow: files ldapgroup: files ldaphosts: files dnsMy /etc/pam.d/system-auth :--auth required /lib/security/pam_env.soauth sufficient
/lib/security/pam_unix.so likeauth nullokauth sufficient /lib/security/pam_ldap.so use_first_passauth required /lib/security/pam_deny.soaccount required /lib/security/pam_unix.soaccount sufficient /lib/security/pam_ldap.sopassword required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=4 dcredit=0 ucredit=0password sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so nullok use_authtok md5 shadowpassword sufficient /lib/security/pam_ldap.so use_authtokpassword required /lib/security/pam_deny.sosession
required /lib/security/pam_limits.sosession required /lib/security/pam_unix.sosession optional /lib/security/pam_ldap.soMy /etc/ldap.conf :--host 127.0.0.1base dc=kavach,dc=blrrootbinddn cn=Manager,dc=kavach,dc=blrport 389bind_policy harduri ldap://127.0.0.1:389/pam_password cryptldap_version 3pam_filter objectclass=posixAccountpam_login_attribute uidpam_member_attribute gidnss_base_passwd ou=People,dc=kavach,dc=blr?onenss_base_shadow ou=People,dc=kavach,dc=blr?onenss_base_group ou=Group,dc=kavach,dc=blr?onenss_base_hosts ou=Hosts,dc=kavach,dc=blr?onescope onenss_initgroups_ignoreusers root,ldapnss_reconnect_tries 3nss_reconnect_sleeptime 1nss_reconnect_maxconntries 4Since my local system is also acting as a LDAP
server, thats why every users who are in LDAP directory, they are in my system also. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
Re: [gentoo-user] File replication
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:49:23 +0800 (CST), Stephen Liu wrote: I'm searching a tool/method whenever I save a file on /home/user a duplicate copy will be saved automatically on /mnt/point/of/usb_enclosure/home/user simultaneously, similar to replication/mirroring. Thus the USB enclosure can be used as a mobile storage device and can be plugged in on any Linux PC. You could set up a RAID-1 array on the two devices. Auto-detect RAID information is saved at the end of the device, so it can still be used as a standalone drive/partition when connected to something else. One advantage of RAID is that if you run with the device disconnected and then connect it, the RAID will be updated in the background. Yes, but syncing takes a lot time and should be observeved not to interrupt while in progress. You will need a script to notify you that syncing is done othewise you have a corrupt device. What about a perl script that just copies all files in /home/user to the device once it is plugged in? Robert -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gensplash
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, Two different boxen. One has splash added to the boot runlevel - it shows up the framebuffer image on the console, towards the end of the boot sequence. If I rc-update -d splash boot, there is no framebuffer background image shown. This all makes sense. However, the second box does *not* have splash added to either boot or default level. Nevertheless, it boots up hapilly with a glorious background fb image! Not only that, but it also comes up really upfront in the boot up process (as soon as I press F2 it's visible). Can you please explain to me what's happening? - -- Regards, Mick -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE8GAJ5Fp0QerLYPcRAo93AKDHRSlyp1wkYE51q3Ag0zhdUC9sZgCcDuAg xR0qtaFZDPqO3ERR4Z/vK6c= =JA1U -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] baselayout-1.12.* trouble
Is anyone else having trouble with the new baselayout-1.12.* ? It's causing all kinds of strange problems on my systems. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-1.12.* trouble
Grant wrote: Is anyone else having trouble with the new baselayout-1.12.* ? It's causing all kinds of strange problems on my systems. You'll have to be a lot more specific on the list, so tell us specifics :) Definately make sure you have done an etc-update or dispatch-conf though. There have been so many changes that if yo moved from 1.11.*, you may as well start lots of those configs over, by looking at the examples and comments. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] File replication
Hi Robert, Tks for your advice. What about a perl script that just copies all files in /home/user to the device once it is plugged in? I'm not a programmer nor very acknowledgeable on perl. Could you please shed me some guide how to start. What I need is on saving a new file or edited file on /home/user a duplicate copy would be saved simultaneously on the USB enclosure to the pre-selected directory. TIA B.R. SL -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] KDE Screensaver Crashes with SCIM Input
Hello, I'm having issues with the login dialog of KDE's screensaver and SCIM. The dialog crashes every single time. I've compiled everything with -O3 CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, but have compiled scim, skim, scim-qtimm, and kdesktop with -O2. This only happens when I enable the password-protected screen locking. Where could the problem lie? - Neil == Console Output == $ kdesktop_lock X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 10 Major opcode: 2 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x280008c WARNING: DCOPReply: cast to 'QStringList' error WARNING: DCOPReply: cast to 'QString' error ScimInputContextPlugin() *** glibc detected *** kdesktop_lock: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0815ee28 *** === Backtrace: = /lib/libc.so.6[0xb673ddb0] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x84)[0xb673f3f4] /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libstdc++.so.6(_ZdlPv+0x21)[0xb68daef1] /usr/lib/libscim-1.0.so.8[0xb106a8ed] /usr/lib/libscim-1.0.so.8(_ZN4scim20scim_get_module_listERSt6vectorISsSaISsEERKSs+0x37)[0xb106b9a7] /usr/lib/libscim-1.0.so.8(_ZN4scim29scim_get_imengine_module_listERSt6vectorISsSaISsEE+0x45)[0xb1066345] /usr/qt/3/plugins/inputmethods/libqscim.so(_ZN4scim23QScimInputContextGlobal10initializeEv+0x241)[0xb1120d61] /usr/qt/3/plugins/inputmethods/libqscim.so(_ZN4scim17QScimInputContextC1Ev+0x31e)[0xb1122afe] /usr/qt/3/plugins/inputmethods/libqscim.so(_ZN22ScimInputContextPlugin6createERK7QString+0x7e)[0xb111bc8e] /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN26QInputContextPluginPrivate6createERK7QString+0x1b)[0xb724b8db] /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN20QInputContextFactory6createERK7QStringP7QWidget+0x66)[0xb724b416] /usr/qt/3/plugins/inputmethods/libqimsw-multi.so(_ZN18QMultiInputContext17changeInputMethodE7QString+0xc3)[0xb1170939] /usr/qt/3/plugins/inputmethods/libqimsw-multi.so(_ZN18QMultiInputContext5slaveEv+0x43)[0xb1170b43] /usr/qt/3/plugins/inputmethods/libqimsw-multi.so(_ZN18QMultiInputContext15setHolderWidgetEP7QWidget+0x26)[0xb1170db2] /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN20QInputContextFactory6createERK7QStringP7QWidget+0x7a)[0xb724b42a] /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QWidget18createInputContextEv+0x6a)[0xb6fa6f2a] /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QWidget17resetInputContextEv+0x22)[0xb6fa71a2] /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN9QLineEdit7setTextERK7QString+0x22)[0xb712b772] /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdeui.so.4(_ZN13KPasswordEdit12focusInEventEP11QFocusEvent+0x72)[0xb7a939c2] /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QWidget5eventEP6QEvent+0x2ed)[0xb7086bad] /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN9QLineEdit5eventEP6QEvent+0x3b)[0xb712a43b] /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdeui.so.4(_ZN13KPasswordEdit5eventEP6QEvent+0x4c)[0xb7a9365c] /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN12QApplication14internalNotifyEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0x97)[0xb6fdfb97] /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN12QApplication6notifyEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0xa9)[0xb6fe0b89] /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdecore.so.4(_ZN12KApplication6notifyEP7QObjectP6QEvent+0x19e)[0xb77d500e] /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QDialog4showEv+0x16e)[0xb71f060e] kdesktop_lock(_ZN12KApplication9saveStateER15QSessionManager+0x8f1)[0x80537c1] /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN7QDialog4execEv+0x62)[0xb71ef0c2] kdesktop_lock[0x8055d32] kdesktop_lock[0x805de09] kdesktop_lock[0x805e205] /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdecore.so.4(_ZN12KApplication14x11EventFilterEP7_XEvent+0x7b)[0xb77dd93b] kdesktop_lock[0x8056b0b] /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN12QApplication15x11ProcessEventEP7_XEvent+0xc7)[0xb6f6dd57] /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN10QEventLoop13processEventsEj+0x6d5)[0xb6f83835] /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN10QEventLoop9enterLoopEv+0x51)[0xb6ff9481] /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN10QEventLoop4execEv+0x26)[0xb6ff9306] /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3(_ZN12QApplication4execEv+0x1f)[0xb6fdf74f] kdesktop_lock[0x8060be7] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd8)[0xb66f0878] kdesktop_lock(_ZN7QWidget22windowActivationChangeEb+0x51)[0x80531b1] === Memory map: 08048000-08075000 r-xp 03:04 5225768 /usr/kde/3.5/bin/kdesktop_lock 08075000-08076000 rw-p 0002d000 03:04 5225768 /usr/kde/3.5/bin/kdesktop_lock 08076000-081c rw-p 08076000 00:00 0 [heap] b0f0-b0f21000 rw-p b0f0 00:00 0 b0f21000-b100 ---p b0f21000 00:00 0 b1002000-b10d8000 r-xp 03:04 5785567 /usr/lib/libscim-1.0.so.8.1.0 b10d8000-b10e6000 rw-p 000d6000 03:04 5785567 /usr/lib/libscim-1.0.so.8.1.0 b10e7000-b110c000 r-xp 03:04 4437104 /usr/qt/3/plugins/inputmethods/libqsimple.so b110c000-b110d000 rw-p 00024000 03:04 4437104 /usr/qt/3/plugins/inputmethods/libqsimple.so b110d000-b112b000 r-xp 03:04 5782765
[gentoo-user] Adding Gentoo to Win-XP/NTSF machine
Hi, A friend asked about trying out Linux. After doing a bit of reading and looking at the Gentoo site he wanted to try Gentoo so I said I'd help install it o his Windows box. The situation that I've not faced in a long time, if ever, is that he has an existing Windows installation on the first half of the drive. The partition is standard Win-XP NTSF. I do not know how to load grub on this machine. 1) Do I load grub on /dev/hda1 - the NTSF partition? This seems wrong to me as grub most likely doesn't like NTSF. 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? 3) Put grub in the MBR and point it at the Gentoo boot partition to find grub.conf? This seems possible. If I do this and it gets messed up, what do I need from Windows to put M$'s boot loader back in the MBR and let it boot normally? 4) Something else? I looked around for a Gentoo Wiki but they seem to all be written as if Windows is on a second drive. I couldn't find this case. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Adding Gentoo to Win-XP/NTSF machine
On Saturday 26 August 2006 21:16, Mark Knecht wrote: 1) Do I load grub on /dev/hda1 - the NTSF partition? This seems wrong to me as grub most likely doesn't like NTSF. Please don't! It'll wipe out the Windoze partition boot sector and he won't be able to boot WinXP again (not without running the fixboot command from a WinXP installation CD). 2) Do I put grub on the Gentoo boot partition and then do the standard chain load to Win XP? If this is the case then which partitions should be marked as bootable? I would put Grub in the Gentoo boot partition and chainload it using WinXP's NTLD - google for it and if you can't find it write back and I'll have a look. If at any moment he decides that Gentoo is not for him, he can remove/delete the Gentoo partitions without any ill effect on his WinXP. 3) Put grub in the MBR and point it at the Gentoo boot partition to find grub.conf? This seems possible. If I do this and it gets messed up, what do I need from Windows to put M$'s boot loader back in the MBR and let it boot normally? You could that and install Grub on /dev/hda (my preferred way because I like Grub). However, to restore things to the M$Windoze way, you will need to run the fixmbr command from a WinXP installation CD. That'll rewrite the MBR with the Windoze boot code. 4) Something else? I looked around for a Gentoo Wiki but they seem to all be written as if Windows is on a second drive. I couldn't find this case. If Google does not come up with something post back and I'll have a look -- Regards, Mick pgpRWdBfZWrcB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Adding Gentoo to Win-XP/NTSF machine
Thanks Mick, I've never done the NTLDR method. That looks fairly interesting and somewhat benign in the sense that (it appears...) I add an entry to boot.ini to make Linux visible and then remove it if he doesn't end up using Linux at all. I'll check it out. I found this page: http://jaeger.morpheus.net/linux/ntldr.php and others like it. This pages recommend building a file for NT to boot into Linux using this sort of command: dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 Presumably I'd do this on the Gentoo boot sector after loading grub? Last thing for now - does the Gentoo boot partition need to be marked as bootable in fdisk? I'm not clear about that at all. Cheers, Mark On 8/26/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 26 August 2006 21:16, Mark Knecht wrote: 1) Do I load grub on /dev/hda1 - the NTSF partition? This seems wrong to me as grub most likely doesn't like NTSF. Please don't! It'll wipe out the Windoze partition boot sector and he won't be able to boot WinXP again (not without running the fixboot command from a WinXP installation CD). 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? I would put Grub in the Gentoo boot partition and chainload it using WinXP's NTLD - google for it and if you can't find it write back and I'll have a look. If at any moment he decides that Gentoo is not for him, he can remove/delete the Gentoo partitions without any ill effect on his WinXP. 3) Put grub in the MBR and point it at the Gentoo boot partition to find grub.conf? This seems possible. If I do this and it gets messed up, what do I need from Windows to put M$'s boot loader back in the MBR and let it boot normally? You could that and install Grub on /dev/hda (my preferred way because I like Grub). However, to restore things to the M$Windoze way, you will need to run the fixmbr command from a WinXP installation CD. That'll rewrite the MBR with the Windoze boot code. 4) Something else? I looked around for a Gentoo Wiki but they seem to all be written as if Windows is on a second drive. I couldn't find this case. If Google does not come up with something post back and I'll have a look -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cdk: BUILD ERROR
Keith Kastorff wrote: On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 10:37 +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: I tried this before...it does not help. gcc 3.4.4 is still referenced by the cdk build process (or what else...) Try emerge --oneshot libtool. Hi, I'm not the opener, but I had the same problem with gcc 3.4.5 to 3.4.6, and emerge --oneshot libtool fixed it. BTW I did this gcc upgrade in June. So why it is a problem now? I rebooted some times since then. Everything should inherit the new version number, or not? Why this problem occurs after 2 months the gcc upgrade? It isn't offense, I simply don't understand it. TIA Tamas Sarga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Adding Gentoo to Win-XP/NTSF machine
On Saturday 26 August 2006 22:10, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Mick, I've never done the NTLDR method. That looks fairly interesting and somewhat benign in the sense that (it appears...) I add an entry to boot.ini to make Linux visible and then remove it if he doesn't end up using Linux at all. Yes. You may also remove the linux boot image file C:\bootsect.lnx. The only drawback is that if he keeps Gentoo and ends up using it regularly, then every time you/he compile a new kernel you will need to repeat the exercise. Presumably I'd do this on the Gentoo boot sector after loading grub? Yes. Otherwise the dd command will not find the Grub boot code in the partition boot sector to copy into bootsect.lnx. Last thing for now - does the Gentoo boot partition need to be marked as bootable in fdisk? I'm not clear about that at all. No, not at all. Grub and Linux does not need this flag. WinXP on the other hand may well need it - if there are other Windoze OS' on the same machine, if the NTLDR.exe is on a any other than the first partition on the first disk, etc. So, just in case, I suggest that you flag as bootable the WinXP partition. Good luck. -- Regards, Mick pgpwdgsURixwN.pgp Description: PGP 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] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs
I can't get mplayer to play DVDs on my laptop. I have 4 DVDs here and it played one of them once, but that's it. Sometimes a message will pop up saying failed to play DVD but sometimes not. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot mplayer for something like this? I'm emerging gxine now. I know that worked at one time. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adding Gentoo to Win-XP/NTSF machine
On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 02:10 +0200, Sven Köhler wrote: 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. The other day I installed grub on /dev/hdc3 on my wife's computer. It's worked great so far... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs
quoth the Grant: I can't get mplayer to play DVDs on my laptop. I have 4 DVDs here and it played one of them once, but that's it. Sometimes a message will pop up saying failed to play DVD but sometimes not. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot mplayer for something like this? I'm emerging gxine now. I know that worked at one time. Start mplayer from an xterm, and it will print more useful debug info (hopefully). - Grant -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 pgpw9KBlPaFRC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adding Gentoo to Win-XP/NTSF machine
On 8/26/06, Sven Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Hi Sven, No, it does work. I hgave one machine with Fedora's grub in the MBR. One choice it had was to jump to grub in a partition so you got a second set of boot options based on what hot-plug drive was installed. It worked fine. I did my first test of trying to use the NTLDR. It did attempt to load the grub menu but then the grub boot fails, probably because I have built a bad kernel or something. I think that this Windows NTLDR method may end up being sort of difficult to get the machine working the first time, but very reasonable later.. We'll see. Thanks, Mark Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs
I can't get mplayer to play DVDs on my laptop. I have 4 DVDs here and it played one of them once, but that's it. Sometimes a message will pop up saying failed to play DVD but sometimes not. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot mplayer for something like this? I'm emerging gxine now. I know that worked at one time. Start mplayer from an xterm, and it will print more useful debug info (hopefully). gxine plays 2 out of 4 of the DVDs every time. mplayer doesn't output anything when started from a terminal except the following which pops up right away, before a DVD is put in: Failed to open /dev/rtc: No such file or directory (it should be readable by the user.) - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs
On 8/26/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't get mplayer to play DVDs on my laptop. I have 4 DVDs here and it played one of them once, but that's it. Sometimes a message will pop up saying failed to play DVD but sometimes not. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot mplayer for something like this? I'm emerging gxine now. I know that worked at one time. Start mplayer from an xterm, and it will print more useful debug info (hopefully). gxine plays 2 out of 4 of the DVDs every time. mplayer doesn't output anything when started from a terminal except the following which pops up right away, before a DVD is put in: Failed to open /dev/rtc: No such file or directory (it should be readable by the user.) Does your kernel have the real time clock feature turned on? There are several ...RTC... settings in my kernel. -- Collins Richey If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: baselayout-1.12.* trouble
Randy Barlow wrote: Something funny that happened on my laptop with this was that somehow net.eth0 (wired network) tries to start at the boot run level every time and will just sit and wait for an IP. This never happened before I upgraded, and doesn't happen on my other machine. It's probably that something has changed to depend on net.eth0, but I'm not sure what it was that changed. So for now I just ctrl-c it every time to get it to move on... Try: RC_PLUG_SERVICES=!net.* in /etc/conf.d/rc. Your net.eth0 is probably started as a result of a hotplug event, and the line above will prevent this. -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
