Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6)
didn't you separate your boot partition from / ? -- root (hd1,5) this indicates your BOOT partition (/boot) is located at /dev/hdb6 -- kernel /boot/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda6 this indicates your ROOT partition ( your / ) locates at /dev/hda6, is is possible? On 12/26/06, Bruce Burden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi gang, I have a laptop, originally with Windows. I partitioned the windows space, and installed Gentoo. Fine and well. Then I replaced the original hard drive with a new one, and moved the windoze/Gentoo drive to a USB enclosure. I changed the drive specs from hda0,x to hda1,x, and attempted to boot Gentoo in single user mode, by appending a 1 to the GRUB string. That seemed to work, but eventually the process fails with the: VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6) message above. Googling about tells me that perhaps the SCSI or the USB subsystems may not be loaded, and that is why the boot process fails. One recommendation was the change the /dev/hdaX notation for the device numerical notation, ie root=0x802. Now, I have not (quickly) found the numerical notation, although I did encounter it once upon a time previously. Does this seem like the correct approach? If so, what would be the correct notation for the second drive? As I recall, 0x800 was a SCSI notation? My GRUB is: default 0 timeout 8 splashimage=(hd1,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Gentoo Linux 2.6.15 root (hd1,5) kernel /boot/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda6 title Windows root (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 title Failsafe -- Gentoo Linux 2.6.12 kernel (hd1,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=nor mal noresume selinux=0 barrier=off nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd1,5)/boot/initrd and all I have really done is change hd1,X, where originally I had hda0,X... I would also like to be able to boot into windoze, and currently all it does is return to the GRUB menu, so clearly something isn't right... Thank you, Bruce -- I like bad! Bruce BurdenAustin, TX. - Thuganlitha The Power and the Prophet Robert Don Hughes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6)
Hi, If it's in a USB enclosure, you need your /boot to be in a partition on your main disk (the one inside of the laptop), if I'm not mistaking, Fei seams to think so too. The hda* is now an sda* (or sdb*, sdc*, etc) because usb storage stuff emulates scsi. Gabriel Bruce Burden wrote: Hi gang, I have a laptop, originally with Windows. I partitioned the windows space, and installed Gentoo. Fine and well. Then I replaced the original hard drive with a new one, and moved the windoze/Gentoo drive to a USB enclosure. I changed the drive specs from hda0,x to hda1,x, and attempted to boot Gentoo in single user mode, by appending a 1 to the GRUB string. That seemed to work, but eventually the process fails with the: VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6) message above. Googling about tells me that perhaps the SCSI or the USB subsystems may not be loaded, and that is why the boot process fails. One recommendation was the change the /dev/hdaX notation for the device numerical notation, ie root=0x802. Now, I have not (quickly) found the numerical notation, although I did encounter it once upon a time previously. Does this seem like the correct approach? If so, what would be the correct notation for the second drive? As I recall, 0x800 was a SCSI notation? My GRUB is: default 0 timeout 8 splashimage=(hd1,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Gentoo Linux 2.6.15 root (hd1,5) kernel /boot/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda6 title Windows root (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 title Failsafe -- Gentoo Linux 2.6.12 kernel (hd1,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=nor mal noresume selinux=0 barrier=off nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd1,5)/boot/initrd and all I have really done is change hd1,X, where originally I had hda0,X... I would also like to be able to boot into windoze, and currently all it does is return to the GRUB menu, so clearly something isn't right... Thank you, Bruce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gentoo and proxy variable
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 25 December 2006 21:18, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Monday 25 December 2006 19:19, Uwe Thiem wrote: So make the cronjob itself a shell script and set the variable in that script! Yes, that's what I said two posts above :-) Only, I sent mine 4 hours before you. At times, it takes quite a while until my message show up. ;-) Uwe Yep. Just as I suspected. This explains why your and Etaoin's replies mostly cover each other. From my point of view your messages came after Etaoin's. It happens. ;-) -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emacs shell color question
On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 21:54:01 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:00:31 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: G'day, I habitually run emacs shell sessions. When I forget the --color options, for example for the ls and emerge commands, the shell session displays the ascii escape sequences which is pretty ugly. Is there an option for telling emacs to handle escape sequences? Does the problem persist if you use `eshell' instead of shell? (M-x eshell RET) There is an ansi mode that is made to hand escape sequences but that should not be necessary. All recent emacs just work. That makes me think it is something in your environment. To get expert help I suggest you post on gnu.emacs.help Or on gmane.emacs.help (same list). Eureka! A search for ansi at gmane suggested using ansi-term instead of shell. That gave me color but previous line editing and such were different, which I'm not sure I like :- So I looked in /usr/share/emacs/... for ansi-term and found ansi-color.el. Comments at the beginning tell how to turn on color within a shell. This looks like what I want! Thank you muchly. David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?
On Monday 25 December 2006 22:41, Mike Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?': On 12/25/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 25 December 2006 14:09, Mike Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?': Anyways, all I'm essentially asking for is a way to separate minor updates from major updates. With some of the advanced atom operators (particularly '*' and '~'), you should be able to specify exactly what level of masking you want. You could also make your own profile that does cap packges at a certain version and have it's parent be an established profile, although I'm not sure that bit of portage hackery is supported. I know these things could be done, but I don't really think it's worth it. The problem is that these kinds of solutions don't scale very well.. they don't really scale at all really. If I have to reinstall for whatever reason, then I have to redo all this hackery, as you put it, heh. You can easily replicate the contents of a profile or /etc/portage across multiple system with something like rsync; you should also have the entirety of /etc backed up in case you need to reinstall -- it holds all your services' configurations anyway. In any case, this is still a bit of a reactive approach, since I have to be aware that there may be a problem with a particular update before I know to mask it. No, you can mask packages before they exist, so you can choose to be reactive or active. For example, to prevent emerge -u from updating a package add category/package-version to package.mask, even if there's not an upgrade waiting. Again, proper use of the package atoms should enable you to only enable -rX upgrades (which are ebuild changes; not upstream) or -rX and last version number upgrades (which should be ABI compatible if upstream is sane) etc. etc. It's certainly possible to build a system of scripts around emerge to do all this masking for you, and the PYE (pick-your-emerge) script that is (used to be?) popular on the forums could be a good starting point. One thing that would make it a *lot* easier is if /var/lib/portage/world supported the full atom syntax instead of just atom bases and doing something like 'emerge category/mysql-5' would add the atom from the command line to the world file instead of the atom base. [Then, most of the time, you wouldn't have to mask anything at all.] I really like the idea of the tree version thing though. I'll see if there's anything I can do to support that. Yeah, I certainly would *mind* tree versioning. Although... I'm not quite sure how it would mesh with the accepted ~ARCH keywording. I see how they could work together, but they also seem to overlap uncomfortably. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh pgpm6xdDY08a5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] emerge --resume
On Sunday 24 December 2006 22:03, Daniel Iliev wrote: Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 19:59, Daniel Iliev wrote: Well, I tried emerge mc and I hit ctrl-c in the middle of the process. Then emerge --resume emerged mc. Now emerge --resume gives the same strange message again. ;-) emerge --resume reads the list of packages to emerge from a binary file located at /var/cache/edb/mtimedb. In your case, that file is probably stale and is likely to contain package names or versions which are not available anymore (I don't know why it's there even after a succesful emerge though). I think that deleting or renaming it will cause emerge to believe that there's nothing to resume. Thank you! Removing that file did the trick. The mtimedb contains a lot more than the resume list. The following command will show you it's contents: # python -c 'import portage;print portage.mtimedb' Removing it seems rather pointless IMO. The resume list gets overwritten if you emerge a list of packages rather than just one package. Either way it's contents is irrelevant when you don't need to resume a list of packages. -- Bo Andresen pgpN9pyF54lNl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] emerge --resume
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 22:03, Daniel Iliev wrote: Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 19:59, Daniel Iliev wrote: Well, I tried emerge mc and I hit ctrl-c in the middle of the process. Then emerge --resume emerged mc. Now emerge --resume gives the same strange message again. ;-) emerge --resume reads the list of packages to emerge from a binary file located at /var/cache/edb/mtimedb. In your case, that file is probably stale and is likely to contain package names or versions which are not available anymore (I don't know why it's there even after a succesful emerge though). I think that deleting or renaming it will cause emerge to believe that there's nothing to resume. Thank you! Removing that file did the trick. The mtimedb contains a lot more than the resume list. The following command will show you it's contents: # python -c 'import portage;print portage.mtimedb' Removing it seems rather pointless IMO. The resume list gets overwritten if you emerge a list of packages rather than just one package. Either way it's contents is irrelevant when you don't need to resume a list of packages. Bo, as I said, I tried with only one package. So, you may be right about the list, but for sure removing /var/cache/edb/mtimedb fixed the problem: emerge --resume now gives It seems we have nothing to resume and the strange message disappeared. So, I'm happy. :) I just hope I haven't erased some important info, but I doubt that - if something is in the cache it should be possible to be regenerated. ;-))) -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: emacs shell color question
David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A search for ansi at gmane suggested using ansi-term instead of shell. That gave me color but previous line editing and such were different, which I'm not sure I like :- So I looked in /usr/share/emacs/... for ansi-term and found ansi-color.el. Comments at the beginning tell how to turn on color within a shell. This looks like what I want! Good, however you should not really need to use ansi-mode. I do not, and don't have the trouble you mentioned. In normal shell-mode (M-x shell) I do see the escape sequences you mention but not in eshell (M-x eshell). I think, if you post on gmane.emacs.help with what you are experiencing someone will be able to help you identify, what in your OS setup is causing the problem. I did notice one thread where the user ended up discovering somekind of alias to ls that was causing his problem. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/39496/focus=39505 Typing `alias' in an xterm might reveal something. Here I see: alias ls='ls --color=auto' as the only reference to ls. Posting there with your exact problem would probably be best. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?
Mike Myers fluffymikey at gmail.com writes: Hi! I know I don't post here much but I read it a lot and have been using Gentoo for several years now. I keep seeing users mention about how they do an update and then everything goes to crap. I've experienced this myself quite a bit too. I believe the reason this happens is the drawback one of Gentoo's nicest features; constantly being up to date. Hello MIke, Folks probably will not like my suggestions, but it works in lieu of a better schema, so aplogies to all I offend, in advance Gentoo servers (firewall, dns, mail, web ...) rarely suffer from these issues, in fact, I believe one of gentoo's largest unexplored niches should be Large Installation System Administration (via cfengine). So, in my opinion, where Gentoo is really challenged, is the workstation (laptop, desktop). You know the X11 + kde/gnome software boxen. What I do is keep one (workstation) system on the bleeding edge (very frequent upgrades) so as to discern where breakage or unecessary updates are looming. Since I admin an ever expanding hoarde of gentoo based servers and workstations, development of some tools to compile, distribute and manage the various x86 and amd64 machines we have, is way past due. As soon as I have a scheme I'm happy with, we'll be deploying lots of embedded gentoo based systems. So I update the test workstation on fridays, use it over the weekend a nd then update the other systems. Granted, if the devs release something (broken) over the weekend, I get screwed with this scheme sometimes. I should update the test system daily (in the mornings) and then update the other systems on the same day after that. Problems with that scenario is the various methods of proxying the downloads and syncs are problematic in and of themselvs, not very often, but still bad enough to make those current schemes, less than desirable. Futhermore, DistCC is still a 'work in progress' and I've experience just enough hassle that it has been disabled (also due in part to so many different variants of x86). Long story short: Gentoo is the best distro for our work, as one only has to installed debian, suse, or redhat for a week or two, to realize just how spoiled you get with Gentoo. That said, I've learned to be cautious and patient with key software upgrades on Gentoo. However this approach burns lots of extra time. My hope is Gentoo will continue to improve and become more of a 'production' distro, as the other Linux distros all seem to have unacceptable flaws, for our needs. Future: What is really needed is a group of users, with similar needs, to define commonality of core applications that are essential to the needs: What this means is a list of software, for example openoffice, kde-meta, apache, java, perl, python, C, etc. that forms a core of what we all need (not what we want). Then set up cfengine to push binaries, via a trusted mechanisms, to each of the arch categories) Maybe on a weekly basis. Each network, business or usergroup, would use their test system for 24 hours as a quarrantined update, before pushing to the rest of their machines. Or maybe push sources that are know good, to the test server at each participating location. If fact what the one (initially) master server environment sets up uses, could be duplicated at any remote location with a group of systems. Individuals could feed (download binaries) from those locations, with the proper security mechanisms agreed to. If a group of locations with multiple systems use a common update semantic, then it would be a lot less work, as opposed to each cleaver admin, rolling their own solution. If something actually worked reasonable well, talented admins could offer this service to commercial clients, thus generating excitement about gentoo, and funding for many needy geeks. If you only have one or 2 gentoo sytems, something like this is not worth the effort. For those of us looking to manage dozens to hundreds of gentoo based systems, the need for some management scheme, is long overdue. JFFNMS goes a LONG way to solving the problem, but, it is not centric to the needs of gentoo systems. A companion project that addresses all of those gentoo_centric issues could compliment JFFNMS and simultaneously created that quintessential opportunity for Gentoo to really shine, compared to it's competition. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Kaffeine e Wma
HI, i'm alessandro. I'm a newbie of gentoo. I've installed the system from stage 1 on a Asus Laptop. I've a problem: i don't know how i can play wma songs with kaffeine. The output error is: xine: found input plugin : file input plugin xine: couldn't find demux for /home/alex/audio/songs.wma xine: found input plugin : file input plugin Thx Alessandro pgpaFpi6XJ8XY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] IMAP4 behaviour
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 15:28, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:30:19 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have noticed that the bandwidth consumed by an IMAP4 account of
mine is rather high and I believe this because of the following type
of behaviour:
I click to send the message. The message is uploaded to the server.
...by your client. Noone said that you need to put sent messages also
onto an IMAP, i.e. mail storage server. MTA would be enough in order to
send the mail. But you certainly know...
I was quite wrong in this statement. At this stage the message is sent using
SMTP and saved on Kmail, but it does not yet get uploaded/stored on the IMAP
server. If I logon using webmail I cannot find the sent message on the
sent-mail folder.
I click to sync/receive messages. The message is uploaded again(!)
to the server this time in the sent-mail IMAP folder.
Uploaded? I would expect it to get downloaded -- at least, if you're
using cached IMAP. Without cached IMAP, I would expect it to download
headers only.
Wrong again in my statement I'm afraid. If I sync now I get a message saying:
Mails on the server in folder [EMAIL PROTECTED]/inbox/sent-mail were
deleted. Do you want to delete them locally?
UIDs: XXX
Looking at the webmail gui now reveals that my sent message is listed on the
IMAP server. Selecting 'Yes' deletes the message from the Kmail folder.
Sync'ing once more downloads the message from the IMAP server back into Kmail.
I rather guess it's cached IMAP, i.e. a client side configuration issue.
I haven't changed my Kmail configuration, only upgraded to the latest stable
Kmail 1.9.5 and this behaviour started.
For further inspection, I'd recommend installing tcpflow (better suited
for this than tcpdump) and logging communication with the server. You
could even quote from that communication here.
I've run tcpflow but the output is garbled (as if I am looking at binary
content):
==
# tcpflow -c -i eth0 host 192.168.0.5
tcpflow[9478]: listening on eth0
216.066.069.090.08090-192.168.000.005.50197: qE..DT..ru..AA
%j.CL...r..5..jR..H...X...0]..e*..C...n..-H).IE[..h3.=...O.K...m4...s)X.1+..3...
$Gl..Bg.Z[..x+.v[..h...'e..I..VkU*.M!l..U5.#._.cA.h.GU.N..3
{53..._.
|.i.p.E!i...3...L..pO.i..c.W..BI7.m.W3B:.W.i..x..S.~g.
Mk^...eX.R...D...S[...z].Z.=.J.1...{..b...2593D%.
{..4..k..u.C.ie.Oh.1SH...VS...N..3...%E.}.c.e;..,..^0.Nf
==
you get the picture. What shall I use to look at it and make sense of it?
--
Regards,
Mick
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Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6)
Hi Fei, On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 05:35:59PM +0800, fei huang wrote: didn't you separate your boot partition from / ? -- root (hd1,5) this indicates your BOOT partition (/boot) is located at /dev/hdb6 Originally, this would have been: root(hd0,5) -- kernel /boot/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda6 this indicates your ROOT partition ( your / ) locates at /dev/hda6, is is possible? while I have not changed this line. /boot is part of the / heirarchy, which is on /dev/hda6 assuming the disk is an IDE disk in the laptop. What I have is: IDE: FreeBSD, with FreeBSD MBR USB enclosure: first 2 partitions Windows hda5 - SWAP hda6 - / hda7 - /var hda8 - /usr hda9 - /tmp hda10 - /usr/src hda11 - /usr/portage hda12 - /home GRUB is instaled in MBR. Now, on boot, the FreeBSD bootloader gets me to the GRUB loader on the USB drive. What I believe I need to know is how to remap the partitions on the original IDE drive to SCSI partitions, because that drive is now in the USB enclosure. Also, I need to know how to change the Windows partition so that Windows believe it is the first disk, otherwise it will not boot. Bruce -- I like bad! Bruce BurdenAustin, TX. - Thuganlitha The Power and the Prophet Robert Don Hughes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] how to choose the embedded movie plugin in firefox
hello, I have to prepare a little website running for now locally on my machine to show some video footage. I have compiled several movie players with the nsplugin USE flag, but I would like to able to choose which one is actually used. So far, I have vlc and totem installed (I prefer Totem as it shows the video controls unlike vlc). Thanks for any advice, karsten
Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device hda6 or unknown-block(3,6)
On Tuesday 26 December 2006 18:26, Bruce Burden wrote: Hi Fei, On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 05:35:59PM +0800, fei huang wrote: didn't you separate your boot partition from / ? -- root (hd1,5) this indicates your BOOT partition (/boot) is located at /dev/hdb6 Originally, this would have been: root(hd0,5) -- kernel /boot/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda6 this indicates your ROOT partition ( your / ) locates at /dev/hda6, is is possible? while I have not changed this line. /boot is part of the / heirarchy, which is on /dev/hda6 assuming the disk is an IDE disk in the laptop. What I have is: IDE: FreeBSD, with FreeBSD MBR USB enclosure: first 2 partitions Windows hda5 - SWAP hda6 - / hda7 - /var hda8 - /usr hda9 - /tmp hda10 - /usr/src hda11 - /usr/portage hda12 - /home GRUB is instaled in MBR. Now, on boot, the FreeBSD bootloader gets me to the GRUB loader on the USB drive. What I believe I need to know is how to remap the partitions on the original IDE drive to SCSI partitions, because that drive is now in the USB enclosure. You can use tab auto-completion in grub to see what drives and partitions are identified as. Also, I need to know how to change the Windows partition so that Windows believe it is the first disk, otherwise it will not boot. That's right, it won't. You need the map command in your grub.conf: map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) WinXP will now think that it is on the first disk and it will boot happily. -- Regards, Mick pgprxLrJlgKvi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kaffeine e Wma
On 26 December 2006 18:03, Alessandro Cipriani wrote: HI, i'm alessandro. I'm a newbie of gentoo. I've installed the system from stage 1 on a Asus Laptop. I've a problem: i don't know how i can play wma songs with kaffeine. The output error is: xine: found input plugin : file input plugin xine: couldn't find demux for /home/alex/audio/songs.wma xine: found input plugin : file input plugin Emerge the win32codecs and make win32codecs part of your USE flags. See /etc/make.conf and /etc/make.conf.example. Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?
On 26 December 2006 17:56, James wrote: So I update the test workstation on fridays, use it over the weekend a nd then update the other systems. Granted, if the devs release something (broken) over the weekend, I get screwed with this scheme sometimes. I should update the test system daily (in the mornings) and then update the other systems on the same day after that. From my experience, another approach is easier and safer. If your test workstation and your productions workstation are basically equivalent (as far as their world files are concerned, *not* their hardware) you can just NFS mount your test box's portage tree on your production box and update it from there. I will not download new packages but use the ones on your test box tested over the weekend. Problems with that scenario is the various methods of proxying the downloads and syncs are problematic in and of themselvs, not very often, but still bad enough to make those current schemes, less than desirable. Futhermore, DistCC is still a 'work in progress' and I've experience just enough hassle that it has been disabled I disagree here. I have used distcc without any major problem for at least one year by now. (also due in part to so many different variants of x86). This doesn't affect distcc. The slave compiles a a C or C++ according to the specs of the master. The master runs the source file through its preprocessor and sends the result with all necessary commandline options over to the slave. Those options contain the desired architecture/CPU of your master. The slave compiles the preprocessor output, runs that result through its assembler and transfers the resulting object file back to the master which, eventually, links it. So don't worry about different CPUs within the x86 domain or different libraries. Just have the same compiler version installed on all participating boxes. It's a bit more difficult if a slave has a completely different architecture. In that case, you need to install cross compilations system for the master on that particular slave. Long story short: Gentoo is the best distro for our work, as one only has to installed debian, suse, or redhat for a week or two, to realize just how spoiled you get with Gentoo. That said, I've learned to be cautious and patient with key software upgrades on Gentoo. However this approach burns lots of extra time. My hope is Gentoo will continue to improve and become more of a 'production' distro, as the other Linux distros all seem to have unacceptable flaws, for our needs. I full-heartedly agree here. Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Xorg and KDE on Gentoo going crazy with my laptop display.
I have a laptop (Dell INSPIRON | 8600) with a LCD. It has worked before, but since a few months it is going haywire. There are some really strange interactions between the power cable and the display. It could be caused by Linux, udev, acpid, xorg, KDE or something else. I have no Idea. I just want the display to be off after 1 minute of inactivity and when the lid is closed and then stay off until I touch the keyboard or pointing device. But that seems to be really difficult to achieve in Gentoo. For example if the display is off and I connect or disconnect the power cable, (only) the backlight of the display is turned on. This behaviour is completely useless and will obviously make the laptop shut down sooner in the case of a power outage. The backlight must never be on when the display itself is off. Sometimes when the display should have been off, it even dares to show some kind of idle animation. It is a strange looking X at random position and size, on black background. I have certainly never configured it to do that. Why is it shown? How do I remove it? Sometimes the display just stays on forever as if it has completely forgotten that it should shut off after 1 minute. I always have kcontrol-Peripherals-Display-Power Control open, because changing a setting, changing it back and pressing Apply fixes the problem, but only for a little while. I really need to put an end to all this craziness now! System information == Package settings: [ebuild R ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.18-r5 USE=-build -symlink (-ultra1) 0 kB [ebuild R ] sys-fs/udev-103 USE=(-selinux) 0 kB [ebuild R ] sys-power/acpid-1.0.4-r3 USE=doc -logrotate 0 kB [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.1-r3 USE=dri ipv6 nptl sdl xorg -3dfx -aiglx -debug -dmx -kdrive -minimal -xprint INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse -acecad -aiptek -calcomp -citron -digitaledge -dmc -dynapro -elo2300 -elographics -evdev -fpit -hyperpen -jamstudio -joystick -magellan -microtouch -mutouch -palmax -penmount -spaceorb -summa -synaptics -tek4957 -ur98 -vmmouse -void -wacom VIDEO_CARDS=radeon -apm -ark -chips -cirrus -cyrix -dummy -epson -fbdev -fglrx -glint -i128 -i740 -i810 (-impact) -imstt -mach64 -mga -neomagic (-newport) -nsc -nv -nvidia -r128 -rendition -s3 -s3virge -savage -siliconmotion -sis -sisusb (-sunbw2) (-suncg14) (-suncg3) (-suncg6) (-sunffb) (-sunleo) (-suntcx) -tdfx -tga -trident -tseng -v4l -vesa -vga -via -vmware -voodoo 0 kB [ebuild R ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.5-r7 USE=acl alsa arts cups doc fam jpeg2k kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kerberos openexr spell ssl tiff xinerama zeroconf -avahi -debug -legacyssl -lua -utempter LINGUAS=-he 0 kB [ebuild R ] kde-base/kcontrol-3.5.5 USE=arts kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility opengl ssl xinerama -debug -ieee1394 -logitech-mouse 0 kB /usr/src/linux points to linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r8. acpid is in runlevel default. Log output after disconnecting the power cable: Oct 4 22:08:20 localhost logger: ACPI group ac_adapter / action ac_adapter is not defined Oct 4 22:08:20 localhost logger: ACPI group battery / action battery is not defined Oct 4 22:08:20 localhost logger: ACPI group processor / action processor is not defined Oct 4 22:08:23 localhost logger: ACPI group battery / action battery is not defined Oct 4 22:08:23 localhost logger: ACPI group battery / action battery is not defined Log output after connecting the power cable: Oct 4 22:08:36 localhost logger: ACPI group processor / action processor is not defined Oct 4 22:08:36 localhost logger: ACPI group ac_adapter / action ac_adapter is not defined Oct 4 22:08:36 localhost logger: ACPI group battery / action battery is not defined Oct 4 22:08:40 localhost logger: ACPI group battery / action battery is not defined Oct 4 22:08:40 localhost logger: ACPI group battery / action battery is not defined When I press the lid button I get the following in /var/log/acpid: [Tue Dec 19 01:20:53 2006] received event button/lid LID 0080 000e [Tue Dec 19 01:20:53 2006] notifying client 6176[0:0] [Tue Dec 19 01:20:53 2006] executing action /etc/acpi/default.sh button/lid LID 0080 000e [Tue Dec 19 01:20:53 2006] BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES [Tue Dec 19 01:20:53 2006] END HANDLER MESSAGES [Tue Dec 19 01:20:53 2006] action exited with status 0 [Tue Dec 19 01:20:53 2006] executing action /etc/acpi/actions/lm_lid.sh button/lid LID 0080 000e [Tue Dec 19 01:20:53 2006] BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES Laptop mode disabled, not active [unchanged]. [Tue Dec 19 01:20:54 2006] END HANDLER MESSAGES [Tue Dec 19 01:20:54 2006] action exited with status 0 [Tue Dec 19 01:20:54 2006] completed event button/lid LID 0080 000e When I release it again I get this: [Tue Dec 19 01:20:56 2006] received event button/lid LID 0080 000f [Tue Dec 19 01:20:56 2006] notifying client 6176[0:0] [Tue Dec 19 01:20:56 2006] executing action /etc/acpi/default.sh button/lid LID
[gentoo-user] Re: which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?
I do not understand/know how the choice of mirrors work either. I noticed that when I rsync from home I always hit the same mirror (first time). When I rsync from work (using the same laptop) I always hit a different specific mirror (again first time). it's not portage! it's rsync!!! execute rsync rsync.gentoo.org:: for a few times. I always see the banner message of owl.gentoo.org, and no other. That is STRANGE! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] ati-drivers ebuild for 9200 and 2.6.18?
Is there an ati-drivers ebuild that will install a Radeon 9200/9250 compatible driver under 2.6.18? The most recent ATI driver that works with the 9200 series is 8.28.8, but it (and older versions) won't compile out-of-the-box under 2.6.18. I downloaded the ATI 8.28.8 installer and installed it by applying one of the patches that are floating around (from Fedora and/or SuSe, IIRC), but an ebuild that works would be better. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! BARBARA STANWYCK at makes me nervous!! visi.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] problem emerging evolution
Hi All, I've been trying to upgrade gnome...but i keep stumbling on evolution failing to compile I've re-emerged evolution-data-server etc...it does not help...What am I missing ? This is the bit of the failing compilation : bORBit-2.so -lm /usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/lib64/libgthread-2.0.so /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/lib64/evolution/2.8 /usr/lib64/libedataserver-1.2.so: undefined reference to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Thanks Kumar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emacs shell color question
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 09:51:22 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...[snip]... Good, however you should not really need to use ansi-mode. I do not, and don't have the trouble you mentioned. In normal shell-mode (M-x shell) I do see the escape sequences you mention but not in eshell (M-x eshell). I think, if you post on gmane.emacs.help with what you are experiencing someone will be able to help you identify, what in your OS setup is causing the problem. I did notice one thread where the user ended up discovering somekind of alias to ls that was causing his problem. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/39496/focus=39505 Typing `alias' in an xterm might reveal something. Here I see: alias ls='ls --color=auto' as the only reference to ls. Posting there with your exact problem would probably be best. I generally have ls aliased to 'ls --color=none' and that works fine. In my post I used ls as a simple example of a program that can/does use escape sequences. Other programs that use escape sequences are emerge and runscript (used in starting services). Alias 'emerge --color' suppresses ansi color sequences for direct invocations of emerge (because the alias is used for that). I also use 'eix-sync' which runs emerge. In _this_ instance, ansi escape sequences are _not_ suppressed and I do find them annoying. Now that I'm home from work, I have the time to experiment :- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] USE flags information resource
After about a year of using Gentoo, I am very pleased. Not being a programmer, I do tend to spend alot of time on that learning curve. It has become more and more apparent in the past couple of months that USE flags really *are* as fantastic as they are cracked up to be, in at least one way---they enable the tuning of each package within whatever parameters are available for that package. Nothing even close to that is available on other distros I have used (well, slackware had at least emacs-nox, I guess). Like my 4 year old son, I learn about the system by pounding on keys. I have always tended to tank up on caffeine before an install session, and install everything I can get my hands on. Some of them wouldn't work, but that was just, as I understood, the law of probability in action. I have been getting wiser and wiser at fixing broken merges, and often it has required to take some time, read the output, and reinstall some dependency with a USE flag enabled or disabled. I have been learning to take it slow in installing packages, check out the situation before doing the actual merge itself. This is just as important as the docs said, despite my hurly burly approach. I have had it in mind to post about this, but now I think I have a suggestion that may be useful: I wiki about USE flags would be extremely useful. Am I the only one, or are newbies the only ones who encounter USE flags with cryptic significance? The descriptions from euse, profuse, etc., are a bit of a help alot of the time; however, some use flags would bear some serious explanation! Is something now available that would provide this functionality? I am not wise to the world of wikis (my sole attempt to edit wikipedia was a dismal failture, even though I am pretty literate in LaTeX); however I would be willing to put something simple together with some help. Alan -- Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-256-2043 I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Richard Stallman
[gentoo-user] gecko error with firefox and nvidia driver
Hello list! I get the following error whenever I try to use the 'nvidia' driver (the proprietary one) with X and firefox, say, when entering site that use java or flash etc.. Using the open source driver solves the problem, but I can not get direct rendering to work properly then. I also tried several versions of hte driver, plus re-compiled gecko.. no joy. The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'. (Details: serial 84 error_code 8 request_code 149 minor_code 3) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) firefox-bin exited with non-zero status (1) would anyone know what causes this to happen? thanks, KArsten
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags information resource
On December 26 at 20:38 EST, Alan E. Davis hastily scribbled: I wiki about USE flags would be extremely useful. Am I the only one, or are newbies the only ones who encounter USE flags with cryptic significance? The descriptions from euse, profuse, etc., are a bit of a help alot of the time; however, some use flags would bear some serious explanation! Is something now available that would provide this functionality? http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/ has some good articles (not a specific index of USE flags, but good tutorials and stuff) and might be a good place to put the article(s) you'd like to write. I am not wise to the world of wikis (my sole attempt to edit wikipedia was a dismal failture, even though I am pretty literate in LaTeX); however I would be willing to put something simple together with some help. Er, Wikipedia doesn't use LaTeX except in math articles. This sounds like a good idea. You should start an article on Gentoo-Wiki.com if nobody else has. --Thomas Tuttle pgp8NrsGOvBGJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Documentation annoyance... the moving target.
Portage keeps packages up to date. This is nice, but it makes things painful when trying to bookmark local documentation on my hard drive. E.g. it goes from /usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6.2.9.5/html/blahblahblah to /usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6.3.0.5/html/blahblahblah ImageMagick is just one example. Gimp is another. Is there a way to set up stable bookmarks for local docs? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://techsec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging evolution
Kumar Golap написа: Hi All, I've been trying to upgrade gnome...but i keep stumbling on evolution failing to compile I've re-emerged evolution-data-server etc...it does not help...What am I missing ? This is the bit of the failing compilation : bORBit-2.so -lm /usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/lib64/libgthread-2.0.so /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/lib64/evolution/2.8 /usr/lib64/libedataserver-1.2.so: undefined reference to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Thanks Kumar Hi, Try rebuilding sys-libs/db-4.3.X. Be aware - it's slotted (4.3). Then try again with evo. HTH. Rumen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers ebuild for 9200 and 2.6.18?
Grant Edwards написа: Is there an ati-drivers ebuild that will install a Radeon 9200/9250 compatible driver under 2.6.18? The most recent ATI driver that works with the 9200 series is 8.28.8, but it (and older versions) won't compile out-of-the-box under 2.6.18. I downloaded the ATI 8.28.8 installer and installed it by applying one of the patches that are floating around (from Fedora and/or SuSe, IIRC), but an ebuild that works would be better. Hi, Read the official gentoo-doc about ATI drivers. Could use the Xorg free ATI-drivers. HTH. Rumen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kaffeine e Wma
Uwe Thiem написа: On 26 December 2006 18:03, Alessandro Cipriani wrote: HI, i'm alessandro. I'm a newbie of gentoo. I've installed the system from stage 1 on a Asus Laptop. I've a problem: i don't know how i can play wma songs with kaffeine. The output error is: xine: found input plugin : file input plugin xine: couldn't find demux for /home/alex/audio/songs.wma xine: found input plugin : file input plugin Emerge the win32codecs and make win32codecs part of your USE flags. See /etc/make.conf and /etc/make.conf.example. Uwe Hi, Check also about 'wma' local USE-flag. HTH. Rumen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume
On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 17:55 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: During this my cron did emerge --sync. I would recommend not having cron sync your tree for this very reason... Randy Barlow http://www.electronsweatshop.com Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging evolution
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 07:37 +0200, Rumen Yotov wrote: Kumar Golap написа: Hi All, I've been trying to upgrade gnome...but i keep stumbling on evolution failing to compile I've re-emerged evolution-data-server etc...it does not help...What am I missing ? This is the bit of the failing compilation : bORBit-2.so -lm /usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/lib64/libgthread-2.0.so /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/lib64/evolution/2.8 /usr/lib64/libedataserver-1.2.so: undefined reference to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Thanks Kumar Hi, Try rebuilding sys-libs/db-4.3.X. Be aware - it's slotted (4.3). Then try again with evo. HTH. Rumen Yes, your problem here does not appear to be evolution, but db4... re-install that, and then try evolution and it should work fine. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 01:26 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 17:55 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: During this my cron did emerge --sync. I would recommend not having cron sync your tree for this very reason... Randy Barlow http://www.electronsweatshop.com Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file. i agree, i think automagicly syncing the tree is a bad idea. look at it this way Do you have your windows machines set to automgicly chack, and install updates ? In an age where system administration is almost unrequired, there are still some things you should od by hand like syncing the tree, and while updating the system, keep an eye out for messages to indicate potential problems yes it's not fun, but it's the key to a stable system. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:50:14 +0100 Sven Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not understand/know how the choice of mirrors work either. I noticed that when I rsync from home I always hit the same mirror (first time). When I rsync from work (using the same laptop) I always hit a different specific mirror (again first time). it's not portage! it's rsync!!! execute rsync rsync.gentoo.org:: for a few times. I always see the banner message of owl.gentoo.org, and no other. That is STRANGE! i think it's not strange at all. i'm sure rsync uses mechanisms to find the closest server, and it's no surprise that this would be the same all the time, and different from the point of view of different networks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
