Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?
On Saturday 19 September 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
cleaner shutdown. This is taken from a email that was sent to me during
that horrible xorg-server and hal upgrade.
Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The
usual full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B Reboot Even If System Utterly
Broken By ${DEITY} - this tagline picker is spooky at times :-O
-- Neil Bothwick
I tried this once when I was unable to get my keyboard to respond to
anything else. I made it through the first three or four and was
returned to a console with a working keyboard. Since you are shutting
down, you may want to go through them all to be safe. I think the last
one does a reboot.
Hope that helps.
Dale
:-) :-)
Hi Dale,
thanks a lot for your help!!! :)
This will help to bring donw the machine in an more
cleaner way as simply pressing the power switch ;-)
But:
How can I figure out, what hangs the shutdown process itsself?
Last time I came across a problem like this I had forgotten to select the
right chipset under Graphics support/AGP Support/ in the kernel. So I
suggest you revisit your kernel and xorg drivers setups for your card.
--
Regards,
Mick
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[gentoo-user] hald failed to start
Bummer. I upgraded X and followed all the steps, it did come up, but hald won't start, so I have to ssh in and kill X to get my screen back even as a tty. Seems a shame to go thru all that X upgrade stuff and have something else fail. Here are the versions: sys-apps/hal-0.5.13-r2 x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2 This is the only error message in /var/log/messages: Sep 19 02:32:36 crowfix /etc/init.d/hald[4485]: ERROR: hald failed to start Nothing I can see in dmesg. The X log is pretty unhelpful: (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: unknown error (null) This is a ~amd64 system. It fails the same on both 2.6.30-r6 and 2.6.31. I guess what I would really like is some way to get more info on why hald won't start. I ran it manually with --verbose=yes --use-syslog and got 8699 lines of syslog, only 9 of which had error in them. 7 of those were for lid, battery, etc -- laptop stuff. Only 2 looked like real errors: Sep 19 02:46:45 crowfix hald[5888]: 02:46:45.936 [E] hald_runner.c:671: Error running 'hald-addon-storage': org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected: Connection was disconnected before a reply was received Sep 19 02:46:45 crowfix hald[5888]: 02:46:45.944 [E] hald_runner.c:671: Error running 'hald-addon-hid-ups': org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected: Connection is closed Does this mean anything to somebody? Is there a better way to get more useful info from hald? Did I forget to read some update notice? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?
2009/9/19 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com:
On Saturday 19 September 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
cleaner shutdown. This is taken from a email that was sent to me during
that horrible xorg-server and hal upgrade.
Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The
usual full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B Reboot Even If System Utterly
Broken By ${DEITY} - this tagline picker is spooky at times :-O
-- Neil Bothwick
I tried this once when I was unable to get my keyboard to respond to
anything else. I made it through the first three or four and was
returned to a console with a working keyboard. Since you are shutting
down, you may want to go through them all to be safe. I think the last
one does a reboot.
Hope that helps.
Dale
:-) :-)
Hi Dale,
thanks a lot for your help!!! :)
This will help to bring donw the machine in an more
cleaner way as simply pressing the power switch ;-)
But:
How can I figure out, what hangs the shutdown process itsself?
Last time I came across a problem like this I had forgotten to select the
right chipset under Graphics support/AGP Support/ in the kernel. So I
suggest you revisit your kernel and xorg drivers setups for your card.
--
Regards,
Mick
Hi,
I got a similar problem too once... and what was making the system
hang wasn't the last shutting down thing listed, but the one just
after (so i don't think it's net.lo fault in your case). So i suggest
to have a look at which services are started at boot, but aren't
shutted down. Turning off parallel boot could help you find out the
responsible service.
In my case it was a misconfiguration of the alsa module, which
shouldn't be unloaded at shotdown time...
HTH
Davide
Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?
Hi, I got a similar problem too once... and what was making the system hang wasn't the last shutting down thing listed, but the one just after (so i don't think it's net.lo fault in your case). So i suggest to have a look at which services are started at boot, but aren't shutted down. Turning off parallel boot could help you find out the responsible service. In my case it was a misconfiguration of the alsa module, which shouldn't be unloaded at shotdown time... HTH Davide Hi Davide, Is there any way to figure out, in which sequence what is shut down *without* actually shutting down ther system? Have a nice weekend! :) Best regards, 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] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is there any way to figure out, in which sequence what is shut down *without* actually shutting down ther system? I'm sure there's a simple way of finding that out but I was wondering if this might be your problem?: http://bugs.gentoo.org/253535 MfG Peter K
Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?
Am Samstag, 19. September 2009 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, I am updateing my Gentoo on a dialy basis. Since two days the shutdown process of the systems hangs around Bringing down net.lo. Booting the PC is not a problem -- except the replaying transactions (resierfs). [...] How can I proceed? What is suspicous for hanging the shutdown process? Every help is very welcome ! :) I also thought of the alsa problem pk mentioned. But it might also be another kernel module. Search your /var/log/messages or dmesg for kernel oopses. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?
pk pete...@coolmail.se [09-09-19 13:49]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is there any way to figure out, in which sequence what is shut down *without* actually shutting down ther system? I'm sure there's a simple way of finding that out but I was wondering if this might be your problem?: http://bugs.gentoo.org/253535 MfG Peter K Hi Peter, I scanned the bugzilla entry...as far as I understood unloading of snd_hda_intel hangs due to an unclear dependency. I am running my Gentoo on an Asus AV8 board with Via chipset and AMD CPU, so no intel. My modules are: Module Size Used by usb_storage62088 0 snd_pcm_oss37536 0 snd_usb_audio 81280 0 snd_usb_lib15132 1 snd_usb_audio snd_hwdep 6880 1 snd_usb_audio gspca_ov534 7740 0 gspca_main 21916 1 gspca_ov534 dvb_bt8xx 12384 0 mt352 5984 1 dvb_bt8xx dst_ca 12348 1 dvb_bt8xx dst26020 2 dvb_bt8xx,dst_ca dvb_core 83108 3 dvb_bt8xx,dst_ca,dst bt878 9320 2 dvb_bt8xx,dst nvidia 9580516 36 bttv 119252 2 dvb_bt8xx,bt878 ir_common 42464 1 bttv i2c_algo_bit5376 1 bttv v4l2_common15132 1 bttv videodev 37824 3 gspca_main,bttv,v4l2_common v4l1_compat13344 1 videodev videobuf_dma_sg10976 1 bttv videobuf_core 15584 2 bttv,videobuf_dma_sg uhci_hcd 30220 0 i2c_viapro 7344 0 k8temp 4188 0 hwmon 2392 1 k8temp btcx_risc 4132 1 bttv pcspkr 2300 0 ehci_hcd 48496 0 tveeprom 11744 1 bttv Nonetheless I added the UNLOAD_ON_STOP=no to /etc/conf.d/alsasound and we will see what happens. All this works for a long long time...and it bits me about three days ago. I did not update alsa*, since I use the kernels alsa-stuff and the according lib/utils/etc. of the portage tree. Fingers crossed... Thanks for your help !:) Have a nice weekend! Best regards, 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] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?
I also thought of the alsa problem pk mentioned. But it might also be another kernel module. Search your /var/log/messages or dmesg for kernel oopses. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. I scanned dmesg output and the log files before and found nothing. May those parts were victim of the replay transaction while rebooting the system afterwards... -- 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] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday 19 September 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
cleaner shutdown. This is taken from a email that was sent to me during
that horrible xorg-server and hal upgrade.
Hold down Atl, hold down SysRq, press each of the keys in turn. The
usual full sequence is R-E-I-S-U-B Reboot Even If System Utterly
Broken By ${DEITY} - this tagline picker is spooky at times :-O
-- Neil Bothwick
I tried this once when I was unable to get my keyboard to respond to
anything else. I made it through the first three or four and was
returned to a console with a working keyboard. Since you are shutting
down, you may want to go through them all to be safe. I think the last
one does a reboot.
Hope that helps.
Dale
:-) :-)
Hi Dale,
thanks a lot for your help!!! :)
This will help to bring donw the machine in an more
cleaner way as simply pressing the power switch ;-)
But:
How can I figure out, what hangs the shutdown process itsself?
Last time I came across a problem like this I had forgotten to select the
right chipset under Graphics support/AGP Support/ in the kernel. So I
suggest you revisit your kernel and xorg drivers setups for your card.
--
Hi. I have a somewhat similar problem, when I shutdown it goes all the
way to the end, but instead of shutting down, it says
init: nomore processes left in this runlevel. This is fine if I am
here, but from a remote location it would not work, so how can I figure
out why this is happening? I think this started when I went to
baselayout 2, but not certain of that.
--
Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
How do
you spend it?
John Covici
cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?
2009/9/19 meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, I got a similar problem too once... and what was making the system hang wasn't the last shutting down thing listed, but the one just after (so i don't think it's net.lo fault in your case). So i suggest to have a look at which services are started at boot, but aren't shutted down. Turning off parallel boot could help you find out the responsible service. In my case it was a misconfiguration of the alsa module, which shouldn't be unloaded at shotdown time... HTH Davide Hi Davide, Is there any way to figure out, in which sequence what is shut down *without* actually shutting down ther system? I'm not really sure about this but i think it's just the booting sequence reversed... Davide
[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer troubles since update world
Kelly Hirai ke...@met.fsu.edu writes: Harry Putnam wrote: I didn't notice that mplayer wasn't working in firefox right away but I think it may have started with a recent update. (All updated packages are listed at the bottom) [...] i had trouble with console mplayer after the last update as mplayer was built against another version of /usr/lib/libx264.so revdep-rebuild fixed that. Thanks... revdep-rebuild here, turns up several pkgs needing rebuild but all are related to a jpeg library. And, no mplayer package came up on the list of pkgs to rebuild. I'll see in a while if it helped any. But it seems unlikely since mplayer didn't turn up on the list. Still, if its using the wrong jpeg library... maybe.
[gentoo-user] Re: hald failed to start
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: Bummer. I upgraded X and followed all the steps, it did come up, but hald won't start, so I have to ssh in and kill X to get my screen back even as a tty. Seems a shame to go thru all that X upgrade stuff and have something else fail. Here are the versions: sys-apps/hal-0.5.13-r2 x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2 This is the only error message in /var/log/messages: Sep 19 02:32:36 crowfix /etc/init.d/hald[4485]: ERROR: hald failed to start Nothing I can see in dmesg. The X log is pretty unhelpful: (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: unknown error (null) This is a ~amd64 system. It fails the same on both 2.6.30-r6 and 2.6.31. I guess what I would really like is some way to get more info on why hald won't start. I ran it manually with --verbose=yes --use-syslog and got 8699 lines of syslog, only 9 of which had error in them. 7 of those were for lid, battery, etc -- laptop stuff. Only 2 looked like real errors: Sep 19 02:46:45 crowfix hald[5888]: 02:46:45.936 [E] hald_runner.c:671: Error running 'hald-addon-storage': org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected: Connection was disconnected before a reply was received Sep 19 02:46:45 crowfix hald[5888]: 02:46:45.944 [E] hald_runner.c:671: Error running 'hald-addon-hid-ups': org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected: Connection is closed Does this mean anything to somebody? Is there a better way to get more useful info from hald? Did I forget to read some update notice? While I don't have quite enough information to be sure, it looks like a problem with dbus. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to determine if this is the case, or what should be done if that *is* the case. - -- Jonathan Callen (ABCD) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkq09QcACgkQOypDUo0oQOr4mgCgkOZGlBg4x3G0tXcnpt7LwVcy g1sAnRqykMcPTyxvnUyohjn3mPzBL2po =MCaV -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Iscan
I googled for isane and found nothing, so I'm wondering if that's just a typo for 'iscan'. I dunno, but it's easy to check if you have libusb installed. Yes, I have libusb-0.1.12-r5 and my scanner is recognized: lsusb Bus 008 Device 004: ID 04b8:0116 Seiko Epson Corp. Thank you for your help. Roger
Re: [gentoo-user] Iscan-2
It appears that you are not running a English version. However, google did return this: http://www.google.com/search?hl=ensource=hpq=make%5B2%5D%3A+***+%5Blibimage_stream_la-imgstream.lo%5D+Erreur+1aq=foq=aqi= See if one of those links helps any. Most of those are in your native language so you may be better to read the links than me. ;-) Thank you Dale for your help. I'll try to google what you showed me cheers Roger
Re: [gentoo-user] trying to track down broken dependency
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:49:39 -0700 kashani kashani-l...@badapple.net wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 5:40 PM, kashani kashani-l...@badapple.net wrote: kash...@www01 ~ $ emerge -pvt bugzilla These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ~dev-lang/perl-5.10.1. (dependency required by perl-core/Module-Build-0.35 [ebuild]) (dependency required by dev-perl/DateTime-TimeZone-0.98 [ebuild]) (dependency required by www-apps/bugzilla-3.4.1-r1 [ebuild]) (dependency required by bugzilla [argument]) I don't see anything in man emerge that would help me track down the missing dependency. Is there any easy way to do this or do I have to track it down the Modeule-Build dependency tree which looks to be the culprit. kashani What version of bugzilla are you trying to emerge? That perl is newer than any I see in my portage. Are you using an overlay? www-apps/bugzilla-3.4.1-r1 seems to emerge fine and works with perl 5.8 here. Perl 5.8 is at end-of-life. Gentoo volunteers are *very* (PAINFULLY) slow in getting 5.10 into the official tree. They unfortunately need all the help they can get, since this is a major failure of Gentoo to keep up with the upstream developers and (FWIW) other distros. This isn't news, BTW... Please report the error on b.g.o., so the perl herd (or whoever is really doing the work now) can fix the problem. Also, #gentoo-perl is the only place to get any real help on these gentoo-perl issues... (devolution to IRC chat being yet another systemic failure, IMO, but that's the place the folks making these mistakes may communicate with users). Better yet, take the plunge and go on to install 5.10.1 from the perl-experimental overlay (good luck with *that*) and report how you fixed any issues you come across. It's only going to get to be a worse mess unless everyone who is able picks up the slack for these guys. And you will have to upgrade eventually anyway... so why not now? My $.02, not terribly helpful though, I suppose. :( Cheers, -- Michael Higgins
Re: [gentoo-user] trying to track down broken dependency
On Samstag 19 September 2009, Michael Higgins wrote: Please report the error on b.g.o., so the perl herd (or whoever is really doing the work now) can fix the problem. Also, #gentoo-perl is the only place to get any real help on these gentoo-perl issues... (devolution to IRC chat being yet another systemic failure, IMO, but that's the place the folks making these mistakes may communicate with users). the devolution are the forums - with irc and mailing lists being the original forms to find help.
[gentoo-user] audacious 2.1.0 - CD Play plugin excruciatingly slow
Fellow Penguins, I must say I'm not exactly crazy about Audacious version 2 upgrade... My gripes are about the CD Audio plugin only, but this is what I use all the time, so it is somewhat of a nuisance. 1) The CD Audio plugin (cdda flag) takes a very long time to load and would hang Audacious for something like 30 seconds before it finally opens. 2) I have a problem unloading a CD from the playlist and then loading a new CD. Basically, the tracks and timing information from the previous CD would remain and get re-loaded when I add a new CD, which has completely different tracks and timing... 3) If you use the Play CD option, it's more consistent in clearing the previous CD information and loading new one, but then I can't intermingle it with the play list I already have made up, as that makes a new playlist. 4) If you use the Add CD option, you can use that in your existing play list, but the CD info just will not refresh when I want to unload the CD and load in a new one! Anyone experience these similar problems? I don't remember experiencing any of these problems with Audacious version 1 - that is very robust, and I am thinking about downgrading to it. Any way of fixing this, or is downgrading the only option? Thanks, Denis P.S. System completely up to date with all latest portage updates, running kernel 2.6.27-gentoo-r8, alsa-plugins-1.0.20, alsa-utils-1.0.20-r5, alsa-lib-1.0.20-r1, audacious-2.1, audacious-plugins-2.1-r1.
[gentoo-user] Re: trying to track down broken dependency
* Michael Higgins li...@evolone.org: Please report the error on b.g.o., so the perl herd (or whoever is really doing the work now) can fix the problem. Also, #gentoo-perl is the only place to get any real help on these gentoo-perl issues... (devolution to IRC chat being yet another systemic failure, IMO, but that's the place the folks making these mistakes may communicate with users). This is nonsense, Michael. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280726 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219889#c24 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283795 I needed to add the perl-core packages for Module-Build and Test-Harness, as well as the virtuals [to package.keywords] (#219889) My $.02, not terribly helpful though, I suppose. :( No, it was not helpful :(
Re: [gentoo-user] trying to track down broken dependency
Michael Higgins wrote:
Perl 5.8 is at end-of-life.
Gentoo volunteers are *very* (PAINFULLY) slow in getting 5.10 into the
official tree. They unfortunately need all the help they can get, since
this is a major failure of Gentoo to keep up with the upstream
developers and (FWIW) other distros. This isn't news, BTW...
Please report the error on b.g.o., so the perl herd (or whoever is
really doing the work now) can fix the problem. Also, #gentoo-perl is
the only place to get any real help on these gentoo-perl issues...
(devolution to IRC chat being yet another systemic failure, IMO, but
that's the place the folks making these mistakes may communicate with
users).
Better yet, take the plunge and go on to install 5.10.1 from the
perl-experimental overlay (good luck with *that*) and report how you
fixed any issues you come across. It's only going to get to be a worse
mess unless everyone who is able picks up the slack for these guys. And
you will have to upgrade eventually anyway... so why not now?
My $.02, not terribly helpful though, I suppose. :(
FWIW I'm also running RT and it's 200 odd Perl module dependencies on
the same machine. I can assure you that I have no interest in updating
the whole stack to perl-5.10 and the QA nightmare that will require.
I solved this the old fashioned way after a bit of coffee this morning.
Still seems like Portage should be smart enough to tell about the
missing dep if I asked it correctly.
1. created fake perl-5.10 ebuild which was really just renaming
perl-5.8.8-r2 and commenting out any {$PN} patches so I didn't need to
make a bunch of fake patch files in files/. This allowed portage to tell
me what was requiring perl-5.10 instead of bombing out.
2. Figured out that while the virtual/perl packages weren't specifying
perl 5.10 the actual perl-core were which is why it didn't make sense
earlier.
3. Doctored up portage.mask to mask the errant virtuals
=virtual/perl-Digest-SHA-5.47
=virtual/perl-Test-Harness-3.17
Thought grumpy thoughts at developers who let packages into ~x86 with
completely broken deps. Hard mask that crap next time.
4. Add the needed packages in portage.keywords and make it pretty and
organized.
# bugzilla and deps for bugzilla-3.4.1-r1, added 20090919
www-apps/bugzilla
dev-perl/Daemon-Generic
dev-perl/DateTime-TimeZone
dev-perl/Data-ObjectDriver
dev-perl/File-Flock
dev-perl/TheSchwartz
perl-core/Module-Build
perl-core/Test-Harness
virtual/perl-Module-Build
virtual/perl-Test-Harness
And now I've got a fancy new bugzilla.
kashani
[gentoo-user] can't connect to shoutcast
Hi group, My connection times out whenever I try to get to shoutcast after entering in the browser: http://localhost:8000 I configured it accrording to the gentoo-wiki. I notice when I run #/etc/init.d/shoutcast start, I get 'SHOUTCAST starting' but that's it, no banner. the log: ... 09/19/0...@13:23:38 [SHOUTcast] DNAS/Linux v1.9.8 (Feb 28 2007) starting up... 09/19/0...@13:23:38 [main] pid: 4614 09/19/0...@13:23:38 [main] loaded config from /etc/shoutcast/sc_serv.conf 09/19/0...@13:23:38 [main] initializing (usermax:10 portbase:8000)... 09/19/0...@13:23:38 [main] No ban file found (sc_serv.ban) 09/19/0...@13:23:38 [main] No rip file found (sc_serv.rip) 09/19/0...@13:23:38 [main] opening source socket 09/19/0...@13:23:38 [main] source thread starting 09/19/0...@13:23:38 [source] listening for connection on port 8001 09/19/0...@13:23:38 [main] opening client socket 09/19/0...@13:23:38 [main] Client Stream thread [0] starting 09/19/0...@13:23:38 [main] client main thread starting 09/19/0...@13:27:51 [main] SIGTERM; exiting! 09/19/0...@13:27:51 [SHOUTcast] DNAS/Linux v1.9.8 (Feb 28 2007) starting up... 09/19/0...@13:27:51 [main] pid: 4690 09/19/0...@13:27:51 [main] loaded config from /etc/shoutcast/sc_serv.conf 09/19/0...@13:27:51 [main] initializing (usermax:10 portbase:8000)... 09/19/0...@13:27:51 [main] No ban file found (sc_serv.ban) 09/19/0...@13:27:51 [main] No rip file found (sc_serv.rip) 09/19/0...@13:27:51 [main] opening source socket 09/19/0...@13:27:51 [main] source thread starting 09/19/0...@13:27:51 [source] listening for connection on port 8001 09/19/0...@13:27:51 [main] opening client socket 09/19/0...@13:27:51 [main] Client Stream thread [0] starting 09/19/0...@13:27:51 [main] client main thread starting I fetched sc_trans_posix_040.tgz but haven't emerged it yet. I don't really need it just to listen on my own unit do I? Maxim
[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer troubles since update world
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: i had trouble with console mplayer after the last update as mplayer was built against another version of /usr/lib/libx264.so revdep-rebuild fixed that. Thanks... revdep-rebuild here, turns up several pkgs needing rebuild but all are related to a jpeg library. And, no mplayer package came up on the list of pkgs to rebuild. I'll see in a while if it helped any. But it seems unlikely since mplayer didn't turn up on the list. Still, if its using the wrong jpeg library... maybe. revdep-rebuild helped not at all in my case. Now trying a rebuid of mplayer itself... emerge -vup mplayer YIKES... this is going to pull in a lot of stuff (wrapped for mail)(Maybe I'll see improvement after this mess is emerged): [ebuild U ] media-plugins/live-2009.09.04 [2009.07.28] 439 kB [ebuild U ] x11-proto/xextproto-7.0.5 [7.0.4] 79 kB [ebuild U ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.21a [1.0.21] USE=python -alisp -debug -doc ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS=adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol 790 kB [ebuild N ] media-libs/libvorbis-1.2.3 USE=-doc 1,440 kB [ebuild N ] dev-lang/nasm-2.07 USE=-doc 762 kB [ebuild U ] x11-proto/xproto-7.0.15 [7.0.14] 156 kB [ebuild N ] media-libs/x264-0.0.20090908 USE=threads -debug 2,664 kB [ebuild N ] media-sound/lame-3.98.2-r2 USE=-debug -mmx -mp3rtp -sndfile 1,297 kB [ebuild U ] x11-proto/videoproto-2.3.0 [2.2.2] 54 kB [ebuild U ] media-libs/fontconfig-2.7.3 [2.7.2] USE=-doc 1,507 kB [ebuild U ] x11-proto/xcb-proto-1.5 [1.2] 88 kB [ebuild N ] media-libs/libmp4v2-1.9.1 USE=-utils 423 kB [ebuild N ] media-libs/faac-1.28-r1 663 kB [ebuild N ] media-libs/xvid-1.2.2-r1 USE=-examples -pic 629 kB [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libxcb-1.4-r1 [1.1.90.1] USE=-debug -doc (-selinux) 299 kB [ebuild N ] media-libs/flac-1.2.1-r3 USE=cxx -3dnow (-altivec) -debug -doc -ogg -sse 1,971 kB [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libX11-1.2.2 [1.1.5] USE=xcb* -debug -ipv6 1,833 kB [ebuild N ] media-libs/libsndfile-1.0.20 USE=alsa -jack -minimal -sqlite 906 kB [ebuild N] media-sound/twolame-0.3.12 472 kB [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libXext-1.0.5 [1.0.4] USE=-debug 265 kB [ebuild U ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090919-r1 [1.0_rc2_p20090731-r1] USE=X a52 aac alsa ass cddb cdio dirac dts dv dvd* dvdnav enca encode* faac faad gif iconv jpeg* live mmx mp2 mp3* network opengl* osdmenu png* quicktime rar real rtc samba schroedinger shm speex theora tremor truetype unicode vorbis* x264 xv xvid -3dnow -3dnowext -aalib (-altivec) -bidi -bindist -bl -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cpuopts -debug -dga -directfb -doc -dvb -dxr3 -esd -fbcon -ftp -ggi -gmplayer -ipv6 -jack -joystick -ladspa -libcaca -lirc -lzo -mad -md5sum -mmxext -mng -nas -nut -openal -opencore-amr -oss -pnm -pulseaudio -pvr -radio -sdl -sse -sse2 -ssse3 -svga -teletext -tga -v4l -v4l2 -vdpau -vidix -win32codecs* -xanim -xinerama -xscreensaver -xvmc -zoran (-custom-cflags%) VIDEO_CARDS=mga tdfx -nvidia -s3virge (-vesa%*) 14,779 kB
Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?
On Saturday 19 September 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nonetheless I added the UNLOAD_ON_STOP=no to /etc/conf.d/alsasound and we will see what happens. All this works for a long long time...and it bits me about three days ago. I did not update alsa*, since I use the kernels alsa-stuff and the according lib/utils/etc. of the portage tree. Fingers crossed... If that doesn't work, then exit your X session and Ctl+Alt+F1 will drop you to a console. Run '/etc/init.d/xdm stop' (or gdm if you are running gnome) and then zap. Then '/sbin/shutdown -h now' from the console. If it hangs again the problem is not related to your video card kernel settings. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Icons on the xfce4 Desktop
I recently started using the xfce4 desktop with Gentoo and something happened where the icons disappeared. When I go to the Desktop folder I can still see them there, the problem is I can get them to display again or they are displayed but off the screen. Any ideas? Thanks, dhk
[gentoo-user] Re: hald failed to start
On 09/19/2009 03:03 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: Bummer. I upgraded X and followed all the steps, it did come up, but hald won't start, so I have to ssh in and kill X to get my screen back even as a tty. Seems a shame to go thru all that X upgrade stuff and have something else fail. Here are the versions: sys-apps/hal-0.5.13-r2 x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2 This is the only error message in /var/log/messages: Sep 19 02:32:36 crowfix /etc/init.d/hald[4485]: ERROR: hald failed to start The hald initscript says it needs dbus. Is dbus running? Is dbus in your 'default' runlevel?
[gentoo-user] Where is mplayer?
The newest version of mplayer offered in todays sync is: media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090919-r1 It cannot be found in any of around a dozen repos that emerge tries with emerge -vu mplayer Anyone know where it can be found. By the way I did try downloading the sources from: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html Renaming the downloaded tarball to file to /usr/portage/distfiles/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090919-r1 emerge appears to ignore it completely but It must be running a md5 or something. ... Anyway emerge just goes on and tries to find it quite a few places. Anyone know where this file can be had currently?
[gentoo-user] Address Label and Envelop Printing
Hello, I need a program to print Address labels that come in on an 8 1/2 x 11 (letter) blank. The are pre-arrange 3 to a row. Googling just turned up this sunrise solution for labelnation: http://bugs.gentoo.org/176639 anybody else know of anything in portage? some other way to effect label printing? print of envelop through the HP laser print would be an additional plus. all suggestions are welcome. James
[gentoo-user] Re: Where is mplayer?
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: The newest version of mplayer offered in todays sync is: media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090919-r1 It cannot be found in any of around a dozen repos that emerge tries with emerge -vu mplayer Anyone know where it can be found. By the way I did try downloading the sources from: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html Renaming the downloaded tarball to file to /usr/portage/distfiles/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090919-r1 Sorry that rename above should have read: `Renaming the downloaded tarball to /usr/portage/distfiles/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090919.tar.bz2' Which is the exact name emerge output shows but it is just ignored
[gentoo-user] Re: Icons on the xfce4 Desktop
dhk dhk...@optonline.net writes: I recently started using the xfce4 desktop with Gentoo and something happened where the icons disappeared. When I go to the Desktop folder I can still see them there, the problem is I can get them to display again or they are displayed but off the screen. Any ideas? Thanks, dhk I know Xfce4 has some problems with a new jpeg-7 library. Not sure what or how. But check and see if jpeg-7 has been installed recently.
[gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?
On 09/19/2009 05:31 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nonetheless I added the UNLOAD_ON_STOP=no to /etc/conf.d/alsasound and we will see what happens. Did you try stopping the alsa service manually? #/etc/init.d/alsasound stop
[gentoo-user] Re: Where is mplayer?
On 09/20/2009 12:48 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: The newest version of mplayer offered in todays sync is: media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20090919-r1 It cannot be found in any of around a dozen repos that emerge tries with emerge -vu mplayer Anyone know where it can be found. You will have to wait for the maintainer to upload it. If you download a different tarball, you will have to re-digest the ebuild in your local overlay first.
[gentoo-user] USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)
Hi, I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to get it to wake up or at least show me what's working and what isn't? The drive shows under fdisk /dev/sda. I can see the large partition, and it seems to be the right size, according to fdisk anyway, but I cannot mount it using mount, and so far I cannot get e2fsck to do anything. Both of these fail: mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /video mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /video I have power cycled the drive and I've rebooted the MacMini. Nothing changed. Thanks in advance, Mark MacMini ~ # fdisk /dev/sda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 19929. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xa9b5c6b5 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 19929 160079661 83 Linux Command (m for help): MacMini ~ # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda4 75890040 37169416 34865560 52% / udev 10240 156 10084 2% /dev shm 257396 0257396 0% /dev/shm MacMini ~ # fsck -t ext3 /dev/sda fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) fsck.ext3: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks... fsck.ext3: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 device MacMini ~ # e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 device MacMini ~ # fsck -t ext3 /dev/sda1 fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/sda1 Could this be a zero-length partition? MacMini ~ # e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda1 e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda1 The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 device MacMini ~ # e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 device MacMini ~ #
[gentoo-user] Re: Iscan
On 09/18/2009 12:34 PM, Roger Cahn wrote: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] media-gfx/iscan-2.11.0 * Now you can remove -p (or --pretend) from arguments and re-run revdep-rebuild. Of course, revdep-rebuild iscan failes again! Isn't anything to do about libsane-epkowa.so.1.0.15 ? Sorry, I was being dense last night -- too much wine :o) You haven't told us *how* building iscan fails. I just tried building it and got this error: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy media-gfx/iscan have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - media-gfx/iscan-2.11.0 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) Is that what you're seeing? The Changelog is unclear about why the older (presumably functioning) version was removed before the new version is marked stable, but that's the way it is. Add the line 'media-gfx/iscan ~x86' to your /etc/portage/package.keywords file. (If you don't have that file just make a new one.) I don't have your scanner so I can't test that it will work, of course.
[gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to get it to wake up or at least show me what's working and what isn't? The drive shows under fdisk /dev/sda. I can see the large partition, and it seems to be the right size, according to fdisk anyway, but I cannot mount it using mount, and so far I cannot get e2fsck to do anything. Both of these fail: mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /video mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /video I have power cycled the drive and I've rebooted the MacMini. Nothing changed. Thanks in advance, Mark MacMini ~ # fdisk /dev/sda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 19929. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xa9b5c6b5 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 19929 160079661 83 Linux Command (m for help): MacMini ~ # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda4 75890040 37169416 34865560 52% / udev 10240 156 10084 2% /dev shm 257396 0 257396 0% /dev/shm MacMini ~ # fsck -t ext3 /dev/sda fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) fsck.ext3: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks... fsck.ext3: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 device MacMini ~ # e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 device MacMini ~ # fsck -t ext3 /dev/sda1 fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while tr ying to open /dev/sda1 Could this be a zero-length partition? MacMini ~ # e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda1 e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda1 The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 device MacMini ~ # e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 device MacMini ~ # A little more info: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 12 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : 0x3 [current] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] ASC=0x4b ASCQ=0x0 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 96 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 12 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : 0x3 [current] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] ASC=0x4b ASCQ=0x0 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 96 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 12 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : 0x3 [current] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] ASC=0x4b ASCQ=0x0 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 96 MacMini ~ # fsck -t ext3 /dev/sda1 fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/sda1 Could this be a zero-length partition? MacMini ~ # end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 95 __ratelimit: 58 callbacks suppressed Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 16 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 17 Buffer I/O error on device sda1,
Re: [gentoo-user] Address Label and Envelop Printing
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 09:51:33PM +, Penguin Lover James squawked: I need a program to print Address labels that come in on an 8 1/2 x 11 (letter) blank. The are pre-arrange 3 to a row. Googling just turned up this sunrise solution for labelnation: http://bugs.gentoo.org/176639 anybody else know of anything in portage? some other way to effect label printing? Commercial address labels mostly have templates in OpenOffice. The downside, of course, is that it may seem like an overkill. (You can also make templates yourself in OO.) HTH W -- A plateau is a high form of flattery. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1016 days, 21:28
[gentoo-user] Re: Iscan
On 09/19/2009 03:34 PM, walt wrote: Add the line 'media-gfx/iscan ~x86' to your /etc/portage/package.keywords file. (If you don't have that file just make a new one.) Well, don't bother. iscan doesn't build, period. But you should really try xsane in the meantime. You need to make sure your scanner is recognized by scanimage -L (scanimage is part of the sane-backends package, which you already have.) If that doesn't work, try sane-find-scanner.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)
On Sonntag 20 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to get it to wake up or at least show me what's working and what isn't? The drive shows under fdisk /dev/sda. I can see the large partition, and it seems to be the right size, according to fdisk anyway, but I cannot mount it using mount, and so far I cannot get e2fsck to do anything. Both of these fail: mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /video mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /video I have power cycled the drive and I've rebooted the MacMini. Nothing changed. Thanks in advance, Mark MacMini ~ # fdisk /dev/sda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 19929. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xa9b5c6b5 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 19929 160079661 83 Linux Command (m for help): MacMini ~ # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda4 75890040 37169416 34865560 52% / udev 10240 156 10084 2% /dev shm 257396 0257396 0% /dev/shm MacMini ~ # fsck -t ext3 /dev/sda fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) fsck.ext3: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks... fsck.ext3: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 device MacMini ~ # e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 device MacMini ~ # fsck -t ext3 /dev/sda1 fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/sda1 Could this be a zero-length partition? MacMini ~ # e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda1 e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda1 The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 device MacMini ~ # e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 device MacMini ~ # A little more info: Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 12 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : 0x3 [current] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] ASC=0x4b ASCQ=0x0 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 96 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 12 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : 0x3 [current] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] ASC=0x4b ASCQ=0x0 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 96 Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 12 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : 0x3 [current] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] ASC=0x4b ASCQ=0x0 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 96 MacMini ~ # fsck -t ext3 /dev/sda1 fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/sda1 Could this be a zero-length partition? MacMini ~ # end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 95 __ratelimit:
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sonntag 20 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to get it to wake up or at least show me what's working and what isn't? The drive shows under fdisk /dev/sda. I can see the large partition, and it seems to be the right size, according to fdisk anyway, but I cannot mount it using mount, and so far I cannot get e2fsck to do anything. Both of these fail: mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /video mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /video I have power cycled the drive and I've rebooted the MacMini. Nothing changed. Thanks in advance, Mark SNIP I could try reinstalling the file system but I had a few backups on this drive for other systems. (non-critical, but possibly useful) I'd like to be sure I cannot recover them before I blow everything away. Thanks, Mark you might be lucky and able to use smartctl on that device. Sadly most usb converters don't support smart even when the drive does. That could tell you some more, but a quick glance says: your drive is hosed. Block errors... ugh... maybe the heads had a bit of platter contact. You can try using magicrescue - or even better photorec. they won't repair your filesystems - but they might be able to get the data off you are after. Glück Auf Volker Thanks. I'll check these apps out. So far the only life I've found is with e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/sda1. This starts finding some things that make sense name-wise but then starts complaining about other things. Again, it's just mythtv video files so those can probably just be rerecorded at some point. The backups were for my Windows machines which are working right now so as long as I make some new backups elsewhere I should be reasonably safe unless I find one day that something I need then isn't on my machine right now. Sad when your backup strategy goes against you... Again, thanks for the pointers. - Mark
[gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)
On 09/19/2009 03:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to get it to wake up or at least show me what's working and what isn't? The drive shows under fdisk /dev/sda... I hate to be the party poop, but I suspect disk hardware failure. Can you use dd to read the raw disk? e.g. # dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/ddout bs=512 count=1024(or whatever)
[gentoo-user] Re: trying to track down broken dependency
* kashani kashani-l...@badapple.net: 3. Doctored up portage.mask to mask the errant virtuals =virtual/perl-Digest-SHA-5.47 =virtual/perl-Test-Harness-3.17 Thought grumpy thoughts at developers who let packages into ~x86 with completely broken deps. Hard mask that crap next time. There are no broken deps and there is no crap that should be masked.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hald failed to start
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 02:36:40PM -0700, walt wrote: On 09/19/2009 03:03 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: Bummer. I upgraded X and followed all the steps, it did come up, but hald won't start, so I have to ssh in and kill X to get my screen back even as a tty. Seems a shame to go thru all that X upgrade stuff and have something else fail. Here are the versions: sys-apps/hal-0.5.13-r2 x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2 This is the only error message in /var/log/messages: Sep 19 02:32:36 crowfix /etc/init.d/hald[4485]: ERROR: hald failed to start The hald initscript says it needs dbus. Is dbus running? Is dbus in your 'default' runlevel? Hmmm ... yes, hald and dbus are in the default runlevel. dbus is running and periodically reloads its configuration. There are quite a few of these messages: Sep 19 02:46:45 crowfix process: 5918: arguments to dbus_move_error() were incorrect, assertion (dest) == NULL || !dbus_error_is_set ((dest)) failed in file dbus-errors.c line 278. Sep 19 02:46:45 crowfix This: is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library. Sep 19 02:46:45 crowfix D-Bus: not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace Sep 19 02:46:45 crowfix libhal.c: 4494 : Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. I will have to look into this, and I have never liked lynx ... time to fire up an old mac laptop, I think at least I have more sleep now than I had at o-dark-thirty when I got back from a trip ... -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)
On Sonntag 20 September 2009, walt wrote: On 09/19/2009 03:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to get it to wake up or at least show me what's working and what isn't? The drive shows under fdisk /dev/sda... I hate to be the party poop, but I suspect disk hardware failure. Can you use dd to read the raw disk? e.g. # dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/ddout bs=512 count=1024(or whatever) he has block errors - dd won't help him much. ddrescue is a better choice in such circumstances.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:12 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/19/2009 03:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to get it to wake up or at least show me what's working and what isn't? The drive shows under fdisk /dev/sda... I hate to be the party poop, but I suspect disk hardware failure. Can you use dd to read the raw disk? e.g. # dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/ddout bs=512 count=1024(or whatever) Hi Walt, Don't worry about it. If it's dead it's dead. I've actually managed to make some headway. After fiddling around with e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/sda1 the drive is now mountable but running e2fsck after a reboot says the drive still has errors: MacMini ~ # e2fsck /dev/sda1 e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) /dev/sda1 contains a file system with errors, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes ^C/dev/sda1: e2fsck canceled. /dev/sda1: ** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors ** MacMini ~ # If I mount the drive I can actually see all the MythTV files and amazingly they still seem to play so I don't think the drive is dead. I got a few messages about my backup directory being hosed so I attempted to delete it. Now the drive mounts but the sizes and things are messed up: MacMini ~ # mount /dev/hda4 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,size=10240k,mode=755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,gid=5,mode=620) shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85) /dev/sda1 on /video type ext3 (rw) MacMini ~ # df /video Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1157566568 -1551528 151114116 - /video MacMini ~ # MacMini ~ # ls /video/ 1003_20090531163000.mpg.png 1042_2009061119.mpg.png 1189_20090617183000.mpg.png 1003_20090603173000.mpg.png 1042_2009091121.mpg 1189_20090619183000.mpg 1003_20090621163000.mpg.png 1042_2009091121.mpg.png SNIP 1017_20090817193000.mpg.png 1189_20090617183000.mpg lost+found 1042_2009061117.mpg.png 1189_20090617183000.mpg.100x75.png MacMini ~ # Now, my question is how can I use the file system tools to fix all the tables on this drive? I see Volker is suggesting ddrescue. As it seems I've already lost the Windows backup files but have good MYthTV files is there a way to repair the disk tables and only end up with the existing Myth files and clean tables? I don't have another disk to copy all this stuff to and the MacMini is headless and PPC-based so it's difficult to use gparted or anything like that. I think the existing Myth files are possibly small enough that I could store them temporarily on the Mac while I rebuild the USB drive. Thanks, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)
On Sonntag 20 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:12 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/19/2009 03:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I seem to have lost an external USB drive I've been using on my MythTV backend server for video storage. What commands can I try to get it to wake up or at least show me what's working and what isn't? The drive shows under fdisk /dev/sda... I hate to be the party poop, but I suspect disk hardware failure. Can you use dd to read the raw disk? e.g. # dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/ddout bs=512 count=1024(or whatever) Hi Walt, Don't worry about it. If it's dead it's dead. I've actually managed to make some headway. After fiddling around with e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/sda1 the drive is now mountable but running e2fsck after a reboot says the drive still has errors: MacMini ~ # e2fsck /dev/sda1 e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) /dev/sda1 contains a file system with errors, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes ^C/dev/sda1: e2fsck canceled. /dev/sda1: ** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors ** MacMini ~ # If I mount the drive I can actually see all the MythTV files and amazingly they still seem to play so I don't think the drive is dead. I got a few messages about my backup directory being hosed so I attempted to delete it. Now the drive mounts but the sizes and things are messed up: MacMini ~ # mount /dev/hda4 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,size=10240k,mode=755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,gid=5,mode=620) shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85) /dev/sda1 on /video type ext3 (rw) MacMini ~ # df /video Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1157566568 -1551528 151114116 - /video MacMini ~ # MacMini ~ # ls /video/ 1003_20090531163000.mpg.png 1042_2009061119.mpg.png 1189_20090617183000.mpg.png 1003_20090603173000.mpg.png 1042_2009091121.mpg 1189_20090619183000.mpg 1003_20090621163000.mpg.png 1042_2009091121.mpg.png SNIP 1017_20090817193000.mpg.png 1189_20090617183000.mpg lost+found 1042_2009061117.mpg.png 1189_20090617183000.mpg.100x75.png MacMini ~ # Now, my question is how can I use the file system tools to fix all the tables on this drive? I see Volker is suggesting ddrescue. As it seems I've already lost the Windows backup files but have good MYthTV files is there a way to repair the disk tables and only end up with the existing Myth files and clean tables? I don't have another disk to copy all this stuff to and the MacMini is headless and PPC-based so it's difficult to use gparted or anything like that. I think the existing Myth files are possibly small enough that I could store them temporarily on the Mac while I rebuild the USB drive. Thanks, Mark seriously, I think you should try to get off everything you want to keep - and then replace the disk with a new one. If a disk starts throwing block errors it will only become worse. Don't worry about 'repairing' the file system as long as there is hardware damage. Try to get off the disk as much as possible - and then scrap it.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?)
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: SNIP seriously, I think you should try to get off everything you want to keep - and then replace the disk with a new one. If a disk starts throwing block errors it will only become worse. Don't worry about 'repairing' the file system as long as there is hardware damage. Try to get off the disk as much as possible - and then scrap it. I suspect you're right. It's just another $100 to go buy a new one Anyway, I'll see what I can set up to save the files that are still there. Cheers, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?
walt w41...@gmail.com [09-09-20 02:03]: On 09/19/2009 05:31 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nonetheless I added the UNLOAD_ON_STOP=no to /etc/conf.d/alsasound and we will see what happens. Did you try stopping the alsa service manually? #/etc/init.d/alsasound stop This gave me errors, since my Webcam's audio part isn't implemented as full audio device, but it does not hang: solfire:/home/mccramersudo /etc/init.d/alsasound stop * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service. * Storing ALSA Mixer Levels ... alsactl: get_control:249: Cannot read control '2,0,0,Mic Capture Volume,0': Invalid argument * Error saving levels. [ !! ] solfire:/home/mccramer -- 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] Re: hald failed to start
On 09/19/2009 04:20 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: at least I have more sleep now than I had at o-dark-thirty when I got back from a trip ... Ah, that explains everything. Never fire up your machine when you've just come home from a trip! (I think Nostradamus said that -- but I could be wrong.)
[gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?
On 09/19/2009 05:07 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: waltw41...@gmail.com [09-09-20 02:03]: On 09/19/2009 05:31 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nonetheless I added the UNLOAD_ON_STOP=no to /etc/conf.d/alsasound and we will see what happens. Did you try stopping the alsa service manually? #/etc/init.d/alsasound stop This gave me errors, since my Webcam's audio part isn't implemented as full audio device, but it does not hang: solfire:/home/mccramersudo /etc/init.d/alsasound stop * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service. * Storing ALSA Mixer Levels ... alsactl: get_control:249: Cannot read control '2,0,0,Mic Capture Volume,0': Invalid argument * Error saving levels. [ !! ] solfire:/home/mccramer Ah! I've seen that same error when I neurotically switch back and forth between different kernel versions (cf. autoflagellation). Try (as root) 'alsactl store' and see if that makes any difference.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?
walt w41...@gmail.com [09-09-20 04:13]: On 09/19/2009 05:07 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: waltw41...@gmail.com [09-09-20 02:03]: On 09/19/2009 05:31 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nonetheless I added the UNLOAD_ON_STOP=no to /etc/conf.d/alsasound and we will see what happens. Did you try stopping the alsa service manually? #/etc/init.d/alsasound stop This gave me errors, since my Webcam's audio part isn't implemented as full audio device, but it does not hang: solfire:/home/mccramersudo /etc/init.d/alsasound stop * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service. * Storing ALSA Mixer Levels ... alsactl: get_control:249: Cannot read control '2,0,0,Mic Capture Volume,0': Invalid argument * Error saving levels. [ !! ] solfire:/home/mccramer Ah! I've seen that same error when I neurotically switch back and forth between different kernel versions (cf. autoflagellation). Try (as root) 'alsactl store' and see if that makes any difference. It produces a comparable error, since it does a comparable thing...: alsactl: get_control:249: Cannot read control '2,0,0,Mic Capture Volume,0': Invalid argument ...but this problem was there long before the system cannot be shutdown anymore and I think it is not clean but the root of all evil -- 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.
