Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki.com down?
Xianwen Chen a écrit : Hello all, I've been unable to access gentoo-wiki.com for days. Does anyone know what the problem is? The same from here, i had access to the localized sites until yesterday ([1],[2]), but theses seems to be down too this morning... Sincerely, Wen [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com [2] http://fr.gentoo-wiki.com -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :DC81 6FEE 6EBE FCE4 1C18 202F E575 4A5D 036D 1408 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki.com down?
Xavier Parizet x...@gentooist.com [09-07-26 09:36]: Xianwen Chen a écrit : Hello all, I've been unable to access gentoo-wiki.com for days. Does anyone know what the problem is? The same from here, i had access to the localized sites until yesterday ([1],[2]), but theses seems to be down too this morning... Sincerely, Wen [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com [2] http://fr.gentoo-wiki.com -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :DC81 6FEE 6EBE FCE4 1C18 202F E575 4A5D 036D 1408 Same here for de.gentoo-wiki.com. I recognized it yesterday... Keep hacking! mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where to start with this kind of X problem
On Saturday 25 July 2009 21:31:22 Harry Putnam wrote: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: How can I have all these module problems but have no trouble booting as my regular user? It must be something else causing the error? I'm not understanding why one user can startx but not another on the same hardware and same .initrc file. Whooops ... I mislead any prespective readers. It turns out even my regular user cannot startx. Its been a while since I left X or rebooted so I just assumbed the regular user could still startx. NOT SO... I see several x11 related items were installed recently in updates. reader qlop --list|grep ' Jul '|grep x11 Sat Jul 4 08:22:29 2009 x11-misc/util-macros-1.2.2 Sat Jul 4 08:23:25 2009 x11-proto/inputproto-1.5.1 Sat Jul 4 08:23:37 2009 x11-proto/dri2proto-2.1 Sat Jul 4 08:24:04 2009 x11-apps/xfs-1.1.0-r1 Sat Jul 4 08:24:25 2009 x11-libs/libXinerama-1.0.3 Sat Jul 4 08:29:53 2009 x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-1.6 Sat Jul 4 08:41:05 2009 x11-proto/glproto-1.4.10 Sat Jul 4 08:50:49 2009 x11-libs/cairo-1.8.8 Sat Jul 4 08:54:21 2009 x11-libs/pango-1.24.3 Sat Jul 4 09:40:38 2009 x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.1.902 Sat Jul 4 09:42:44 2009 x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.2.2 Tue Jul 14 08:22:54 2009 x11-libs/pango-1.24.4 Tue Jul 14 11:19:40 2009 x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.2-r1 Some of them matching the things I got errors about.. kbd input and 2 versions of the full server itself. I don't see that you rebuilt the kdb, nv and mouse X drivers -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File synchronisation utility (searching for/about to program it)
On Saturday 25 July 2009 16:56:57 walt wrote: On 07/24/2009 07:43 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: ...I am using a flash drive as a cache, so to speak... I recently learned that flash drives wear out after about 10,000 write operations, which came as an unpleasant surprise. That's a gross over-simplification of reality. Individual elements of a flash drive will eventually wear out - they are not infinitely over-writable. The ultra-super-duper-cheapie crap ones average out at about 10,000 writes per cell, meaning that's the point where the manufacturer won't guarantee much. You may well get more on such a device in practice. Decent drives go up to 100,000 writes before cell failures become statistically significant Just be aware that you are drastically shortening the life of a flash drive by writing to it frequently. (or so I've read) Which is why you should use wear-levelling -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] File merge tool
On 25 Jul 2009, at 16:00, Harry Putnam wrote: Roy Wright r...@wright.org writes: kdiff3 is my favorite graphical merge tool (hey, even have it running on my macbook). Thanks.. I'm pretty sure that would involve installing some part of kde which I'm not interested in doing. Just too much grind time when updating and not that much in return. Have you actually tried --pretend emerging it? Correct package name is kde-misc/kdiff3 Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: WebCam? Second Edition
On 26 Jul 2009, at 05:35, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Current status: WebCam... I cannot get above 10...15fps with reasonable resolutions like 640x480 or 800x600. Even 320x240 gives me only 10...15fps. And the stream get really jurky when recorded. Before I buy again a camera, which is _/said/_ to work with linux with 25 fps at at least 640x480 and fails to do so: I need a WebCam with good image quality to watch/record birds. Since theese are fast animals :) framerates of 10...15fps are no option. Is there anyone out there, who owns a WebCam, which definetly _works_ with a resolution of at least 640x480 and 25fps or above and which has a good image quality under a recent linux? What else do you have on the USB bus? AIUI the Playstation Eye camera is pretty good quality - certainly looks that way to me - and is known for pretty much maxing out the bus it's on. I believe it will suffer if it's plugged into a USB hub, or if anything else is plugged into the same USB bus - AIUI this may even include the adjacent USB port on the back of the PC. That camera appears to be about the same sort of resolution as the one you're talking about, so you may find the same issues affect you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playstation_Eye You also need to be sure your USB ports are of the current generation, and not the older slower type. It is rather a shame that firewire was less successful - I appreciate the cheapness ubiquity of USB, but AIUI firewire does not suffer from quite the same bandwidth issues. You can pick up these Playstation Eye cameras for about £20 or £25, although you may find the angle of view a little wide for birdwatching. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: WebCam? Second Edition
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk [09-07-26 10:46]: On 26 Jul 2009, at 05:35, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Current status: WebCam... I cannot get above 10...15fps with reasonable resolutions like 640x480 or 800x600. Even 320x240 gives me only 10...15fps. And the stream get really jurky when recorded. Before I buy again a camera, which is _/said/_ to work with linux with 25 fps at at least 640x480 and fails to do so: I need a WebCam with good image quality to watch/record birds. Since theese are fast animals :) framerates of 10...15fps are no option. Is there anyone out there, who owns a WebCam, which definetly _works_ with a resolution of at least 640x480 and 25fps or above and which has a good image quality under a recent linux? What else do you have on the USB bus? AIUI the Playstation Eye camera is pretty good quality - certainly looks that way to me - and is known for pretty much maxing out the bus it's on. I believe it will suffer if it's plugged into a USB hub, or if anything else is plugged into the same USB bus - AIUI this may even include the adjacent USB port on the back of the PC. That camera appears to be about the same sort of resolution as the one you're talking about, so you may find the same issues affect you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playstation_Eye You also need to be sure your USB ports are of the current generation, and not the older slower type. It is rather a shame that firewire was less successful - I appreciate the cheapness ubiquity of USB, but AIUI firewire does not suffer from quite the same bandwidth issues. You can pick up these Playstation Eye cameras for about £20 or £25, although you may find the angle of view a little wide for birdwatching. Stroller. Thank you for your reply, Scroller! I used usbview to check for the kind of connection to the camera: 480 MBit/s (HighSpeed). The bus the cam is using is not used by anything else... Sometimes it completly locks up an gstreamer, which is used by cheese, sends its test-picture... There NO technical specifications in the booklet of the cam. I wonder why... What's about the pictire quality of the Playstation Eye Cam, Scroller? Ok? Good? Better? Best??? ;))) Meino -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
[gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1?
I have two local systems that need to be reliable and also have a large storage capacity. The thing is, the data storage doesn't need to be reliable, I just need the systems to keep running. The data on the systems is backed up and losing it wouldn't be the end of the world because of the backups. However, I really need each of the systems to keep running. I've read that an SSD drive should be much more reliable than an HD drive. What if I bought a low-price/low-capacity SSD drive for each of these systems, installed the system essentials on them, and used my existing high-capacity HD drives for data storage? Would each system keep running if the HDs died? If so, I think that would offer as good or better system reliability than RAID1. What do you think? - Grant
[gentoo-user] Firefox 3.0.12 emerge dies
I've been unsuccessfully trying to build the latest security patch
version of Firefox 3.0. I keep getting the same error message after
3 days of re-syncing and retrying. The build dies early on in the
patch-appliaction stage, so log.txt is small. The error message also
mentioned to include the contents of the patch .out file, which I have
done as log2.txt. Any ideas?
--
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
[32;01m*[0m You are enabling official branding. You may not redistribute
this build
[32;01m*[0m to any users on your network or the internet. Doing so puts
yourself into
[32;01m*[0m a legal problem with Mozilla Foundation
[32;01m*[0m You can disable it by emerging mozilla-firefox _with_ the
bindist USE-flag
Unpacking source...
Unpacking xulrunner-1.9.0.12.tar.bz2 to
/var/tmp/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.12/work
Unpacking mozilla-firefox-3.0.12.tar.bz2 to
/var/tmp/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.12/work
Unpacking mozilla-firefox-3.0.12-patches-0.1.tar.bz2 to
/var/tmp/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.12/work
Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.12/work
Preparing source in
/var/tmp/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.12/work/mozilla ...
[32;01m*[0m Applying various patches (bugfixes/updates) ...
[32;01m*[0m 000_flex-configure-LANG.patch ...
[A[72C [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m
[32;01m*[0m 001-firefox_gentoo_install_dirs.patch ...
[A[72C [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m
[32;01m*[0m 003-bz386904_config_rules_install_dist_files.patch ...
[A[72C [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m
[32;01m*[0m 005-installer_shouldnt_copy_xulrunner.patch ...
[A[72C [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m
[32;01m*[0m 020_noxul-mips-asm.patch ...
[A[72C [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m
[32;01m*[0m 021_noxul-mips-fpic.patch ...
[A[72C [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m
[32;01m*[0m 030-firefox_encode_spaces.patch ...
[A[72C [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m
[32;01m*[0m 055_firefox-2.0_gfbsd-pthreads.patch ...
[A[72C [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m
[32;01m*[0m 063_firefox-rpath-3.patch ...
[A[72C [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m
[32;01m*[0m 064_noxul-nsplugins-v3.patch ...
[A[72C [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m
[32;01m*[0m 068_noxul-nss-gentoo-fix.patch ...
[A[72C [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m
[32;01m*[0m 085-arm-gcc42.patch ...
[A[72C [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m
[32;01m*[0m 090-unaligned.patch ...
[A[72C [34;01m[ [32;01mok[34;01m ][0m
[32;01m*[0m 097_noxul_glibc-maxpathlen.patch ...
[31;01m*[0m Failed Patch: 097_noxul_glibc-maxpathlen.patch !
[31;01m*[0m (
/var/tmp/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.12/work/patch/097_noxul_glibc-maxpathlen.patch
)
[31;01m*[0m
[31;01m*[0m Include in your bugreport the contents of:
[31;01m*[0m
[31;01m*[0m
/var/tmp/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.12/temp/097_noxul_glibc-maxpathlen.patch-6570.out
[31;01m*[0m
[31;01m*[0m ERROR: www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.12 failed.
[31;01m*[0m Call stack:
[31;01m*[0m ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_prepare
[31;01m*[0m environment, line 3291: Called epatch
'/var/tmp/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.12/work/patch'
[31;01m*[0m environment, line 1747: Called die
[31;01m*[0m The specific snippet of code:
[31;01m*[0m die Failed Patch: ${patchname}!;
[31;01m*[0m The die message:
[31;01m*[0m Failed Patch: 097_noxul_glibc-maxpathlen.patch!
[31;01m*[0m
[31;01m*[0m If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call
stack if relevant.
[31;01m*[0m A complete build log is located at
'/var/log/portage/www-client:mozilla-firefox-3.0.12:20090726-200847.log'.
[31;01m*[0m The ebuild environment file is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.12/temp/environment'.
[31;01m*[0m
* 097_noxul_glibc-maxpathlen.patch *
PATCH COMMAND: patch -p0 -g0 -E --no-backup-if-mismatch
/var/tmp/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.12/work/patch/097_noxul_glibc-maxpathlen.patch
patching file xpcom/build/nsXPCOMPrivate.h
Hunk #1 FAILED at 231.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file
xpcom/build/nsXPCOMPrivate.h.rej
PATCH COMMAND: patch -p1 -g0 -E --no-backup-if-mismatch
/var/tmp/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.12/work/patch/097_noxul_glibc-maxpathlen.patch
can't find file to patch at input line 3
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--
|--- xpcom/build/nsXPCOMPrivate.h.old Tue Oct 21 16:36:29 2008 +1300
|+++ xpcom/build/nsXPCOMPrivate.h Mon Oct 20 22:55:57 2008 -0500
--
No file
[gentoo-user] ebuild to fix bug in XFCE window manager xfwm4 4.6.1
xfwm 4.6 introduced a rather nasty feature for users of certain window manager configurations: new windows are created at the bottom of the stack (underneath existing windows). This is pretty annoying for several reasons: * Everytime you start a new app, you have to go digging through the windows to find it. * Pop-up dialogs are hidden, so when an error occurs, many applications appear to freeze, then you have to go digging to see if there are any buried error dialogs. Previous versions of xfwm4 created new windows on the top of the stack. Here's an ebuild (in the form of an overlay tarball containing a single package) with a patch that reverts xfwm4 4.6.1 to the previous behavior of placing new windows on the top of the stack. ftp://ftp.visi.com/users/grante/xfwm4/xfwm4-overlay.tar.bz2 I'm told there is an upstream fix in the works that will address at least partially address this issue.
[gentoo-user] [nfs] nfs mount settings
I'm not that familiar with nfs usage ... only used lightly a few times. I have an opensolaris nfs server serving a share to my gentoo box. The mount point is set as owner:group of my user (reader). Also has the set-gid bit set. ls -ld /projects drwxr-sr-x 2 reader wheel 48 Jun 24 07:08 /projects And the mount settings in /etc/fstab (zfs is the hostname of the opensolaris server) zfs:/projects /projectsnfs noauto,users,exec,dev 0 0 With those settings my user or root can mount it. When its mounted the permissions change to this: ls -ld /projects drwxr-sr-x+ 13 reader man 14 Jul 25 09:47 /projects Whats with the `man' group? Also, when mounted I find when I try to copy somethihng with the -a option, which tries to maintain any permission settings. It causes an error warning... (although the copy is done). cp -a file file1 cp: preserving permissions for `file1': Operation not supported And the files permissions end up: ls -l file* -rw-r--r--+ 1 reader man223962 Jul 26 15:56 file -rw-r--r--+ 1 reader reader 223962 Jul 26 15:56 file1 Is there some way to set it up so that permissions can be copied? Also to alow the set-gid setting to work?
Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki.com down?
Hi friends, It ([1]) is now up again, at least for now. Cheers, Wen [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/ -- Xianwen Chen Mobile: +86 13774 228909 Email: cxi...@post.uit.no; xianwen.c...@gmail.com
