[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.3 + compiz = no window border
On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Xi Shen wrote: hi, when i replace the kde windows manager with compiz, all windows lost their window border, and i cannot move the window. how can i fix this? Maybe kwin crashed. what happens if you open a terminal and launch kwin? Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.32-gentoo-r1, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 31 19:05:16 CET 2009 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.90 Bogomips Total aemaeth
Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.3 + compiz = no window border
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Ngoc Nguyen Bao baongoc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: hi, when i replace the kde windows manager with compiz, all windows lost their window border, and i cannot move the window. how can i fix this? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/ Well, maybe you're not turn on Window Decoration and Move Window plugins. Run ccsm and enable them. And remember to put emerald --replace in command field of Window Decoration plugin. -- Nguyễn Bảo Ngọc http://www.facebook.com/pymaster cool, add emerald --replace in compiz decorator, and the problem solved. thanks. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.3 + compiz = no window border
On Wednesday 06 January 2010 12:35:36 Francesco Talamona wrote: On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Xi Shen wrote: hi, when i replace the kde windows manager with compiz, all windows lost their window border, and i cannot move the window. how can i fix this? Maybe kwin crashed. what happens if you open a terminal and launch kwin? That makes no sense. He's using compiz, kwin cannot run together with compiz -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] eselect data - how to update?
Hi I've unmerged sun-jdk-1.5 but eselect java-vm list still shows it. qfile /usr/share/eselect/modules/java-vm.eselect shows, that it is installed by dev-java/java-config So, I re-emerged dev-java/java-config and app-admin/eselect but it's still there. How to update eselect's data? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
[gentoo-user] firefox addons system wide installation?
Hi, how can I install addons for firefox 3.5.6 system wide i.e., such that these are available to all users? (AFAIK, the standard method installs them local to each user) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
[gentoo-user] Services order/hierarchy
Is it there a tool or command in gentoo to see a la emerge --tree the inter-dependencies and boot order of services? I know about cinit [1] but I never used it, because I'm looking for a way to see at a glance without rebooting. Imagine a tool for confronting two different servers without downtime. TIA Francesco [1] http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cinit/ -- Linux Version 2.6.32-gentoo-r1, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 31 19:05:16 CET 2009 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.90 Bogomips Total aemaeth
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox addons system wide installation?
On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, how can I install addons for firefox 3.5.6 system wide i.e., such that these are available to all users? (AFAIK, the standard method installs them local to each user) http://kb.mozillazine.org/Installing_extensions#Global_installation
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox addons system wide installation?
Le 06/01/2010 13:38, Etaoin Shrdlu a écrit : On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, how can I install addons for firefox 3.5.6 system wide i.e., such that these are available to all users? (AFAIK, the standard method installs them local to each user) http://kb.mozillazine.org/Installing_extensions#Global_installation equery files mozilla-firefox | grep extensions gives me /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/extensions/
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox addons system wide installation?
I think you are confusing add-ons with extensions. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Brahim LARCHET brahim.larc...@gmail.comwrote: Le 06/01/2010 13:38, Etaoin Shrdlu a écrit : On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, how can I install addons for firefox 3.5.6 system wide i.e., such that these are available to all users? (AFAIK, the standard method installs them local to each user) http://kb.mozillazine.org/Installing_extensions#Global_installation equery files mozilla-firefox | grep extensions gives me /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/extensions/ -- Hazen Valliant-Saunders IT/IS Consultant (613) 355-5977
[gentoo-user] sys-power/powermgmt-base blocks sys-power/pm-utils, but it's not installed yet
I was hoping that this was a dev boo-boo and would work itself out in
time, but it's been several days and it hasn't, so the problem must be
on my end. See the following listing:
Calculating dependencies .. . ... done!
[ebuild N] sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22
[ebuild U ] media-libs/libmikmod-3.2.0_beta2-r1 [3.1.11-r5]
[ebuild N] sys-apps/apmd-3.2.2_p5 USE=X nls
[ebuild N] sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5 USE=alsa -debug
-networkmanager -ntp VIDEO_CARDS=-intel -radeon
[blocks B ] sys-power/powermgmt-base (sys-power/powermgmt-base is
blocking sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5)
* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
* installed at the same time on the same system.
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22', 'merge') pulled in by
=sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22 required by ('ebuild', '/',
'sys-apps/apmd-3.2.2_p5', 'merge')
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5', 'merge') pulled in by
sys-power/pm-utils required by ('installed', '/',
'kde-base/powerdevil-4.3.3', 'nomerge')
As you can see powermgmt-base is on the emerge list, as is pm-utils. I
installed kde-meta because my mother-in-law is visiting and she likes
kpatience and it didn't work anymore with kde-3.5. Now, how do I
resolve this block?
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked
On 5 Jan 2010, at 23:33, Dale wrote: ... Gentoo wasn't at fault here. KDE was the one that dropped the ball. Gentoo had to follow the knuckle heads at KDE tho. Dale Between KDE Gentoo, aren't most contributors volunteers? In volunteer development it's normal necessary to focus on the features that one needs most. I can really understand KDE's position that downstream distros - Red Hat Canonical both have paid developers - can continue maintenance on a codebase that is no longer receiving their primary attention. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox addons system wide installation?
On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: I think you are confusing add-ons with extensions. I might be wrong, but in my understanding add-on is a generic term that includes at least themes and extensions (if not even plugins). So I suppose the OP meant extensions rather than add-ons.
Re: [gentoo-user] sys-power/powermgmt-base blocks sys-power/pm-utils, but it's not installed yet
On Wednesday 06 January 2010 15:49:05 Michael Sullivan wrote:
I was hoping that this was a dev boo-boo and would work itself out in
time, but it's been several days and it hasn't, so the problem must be
on my end. See the following listing:
Calculating dependencies .. . ... done!
[ebuild N] sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22
[ebuild U ] media-libs/libmikmod-3.2.0_beta2-r1 [3.1.11-r5]
[ebuild N] sys-apps/apmd-3.2.2_p5 USE=X nls
[ebuild N] sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5 USE=alsa -debug
-networkmanager -ntp VIDEO_CARDS=-intel -radeon
[blocks B ] sys-power/powermgmt-base (sys-power/powermgmt-base is
blocking sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5)
* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
* installed at the same time on the same system.
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22', 'merge') pulled in by
=sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22 required by ('ebuild', '/',
'sys-apps/apmd-3.2.2_p5', 'merge')
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5', 'merge') pulled in by
sys-power/pm-utils required by ('installed', '/',
'kde-base/powerdevil-4.3.3', 'nomerge')
As you can see powermgmt-base is on the emerge list, as is pm-utils. I
installed kde-meta because my mother-in-law is visiting and she likes
kpatience and it didn't work anymore with kde-3.5. Now, how do I
resolve this block?
You cannot have both those packages at the same time.
From the pm-utils ebuild:
$ cat pm-utils/pm-utils-1.2.5.ebuild
[snip]
RDEPEND==sys-apps/hal-0.5.10
=sys-apps/dbus-1.0.0
!sys-power/powermgmt-base
You need to get rid of powermgmt-base somehow or not use pm-utils. The depends
list for pm-utils is:
$ equery depends pm-utils
* Searching for pm-utils ...
kde-base/powerdevil-4.3.4 (pm-utils ? sys-power/pm-utils)
net-misc/wicd-1.6.2.2 (pm-utils ? =sys-power/pm-utils-1.1.1)
sys-apps/hal-0.5.14 (laptop ? =sys-power/pm-utils-0.99.3)
a...@nazgul ~/downloads/iso/gentoo $ eix powermgmt-base
So I assume you have KDE4 installed.
What package do you have that wants powermgmt-base? (emerge -t helps find
this)
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] sys-power/powermgmt-base blocks sys-power/pm-utils, but it's not installed yet
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:49:05 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: Calculating dependencies .. . ... done! [ebuild N] sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22 [ebuild U ] media-libs/libmikmod-3.2.0_beta2-r1 [3.1.11-r5] [ebuild N] sys-apps/apmd-3.2.2_p5 USE=X nls [ebuild N] sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5 USE=alsa -debug -networkmanager -ntp VIDEO_CARDS=-intel -radeon [blocks B ] sys-power/powermgmt-base (sys-power/powermgmt-base is blocking sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. Add --tree to the emerge command to see what is pulling in each of these packages. -- Neil Bothwick What Aussies lack in Humour they make up for in Beer! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] firefox mouse gestures
HiHow can I install mouse gestures for firefox under gentoo.I cannot find any package that seems to be proper for that.great thanks for helpBiałe szaleństwo trwa!Dokąd w tym roku? Sprawdź trasy, wyciągi, oferty: http://klik.wp.pl/?adr=http://corto.www.wp.pl/as/narty2009-10.html=943
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox mouse gestures
Get what you need from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ HTH Davide 2010/1/6 fajfu...@wp.pl Hi How can I install mouse gestures for firefox under gentoo. I cannot find any package that seems to be proper for that. great thanks for help Białe szaleństwo trwa! Dokąd w tym roku? Sprawdź trasy, wyciągi, oferty: http://klik.wp.pl/?adr=http://corto.www.wp.pl/as/narty2009-10.htmlsid=943
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless...
- Original Message From: BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com From: Mike Edenfield On 12/2/2009 9:17 PM, BRM wrote: I have wireless working (b43legacy driver for the Dell Wireless Broadcom) through a static configuration in /etc/conf.d/net - basically: essid_wlan0=myWLAN key_MYWLAN=somekey config_MYWLAN=( dhcp ) preferred_APS= ( myWLAN ) I would like to use a tool like WPA Supplicant instead so I can have a more dynamic configuration. I've tried to setup WPA supplicant but haven't been able to get it to work. Probably not what you wanted to hear, but I had the exact same problem with the Dell bcm-based adapter in my Inspiron laptop. It would work fine for open wireless and WEP-secured wireless, but wouldn't associated with a WPA-secured access point. Eventually I spent about $30 to purchase an iwl3945 replacement from Dell, which worked fine, and never looked back. Thanks for the heads up. At this point, I'll be happy if I can just get WEP working using WPA Supplicant/WiCD/etc. instead of a root user centric configuration file. Well, it seems to be something with my home network; not sure what. Over the holidays I did some traveling and took my laptop with me. I was able to connect to other WEP networks just fine using WPA Supplicant; however, when I got home I couldn't get WPA Supplicant to work with my home network and had to revert back to setting it up via /etc/conf.d/net. My home wireless network is a Linksys WRT54G version 3 hardware, with slightly outdated software (by 1 or 2 releases). SSID is visible. It seems to find it, but then loses it pretty quickly and I have to restart wlan0 before I can try again. Works fine when using a static WEP configuration though (e.g. no WPA Supplicant/WiCD/etc.). Not sure what to look at next, but this is going to drive me a bit crazy. Ben
[gentoo-user] About gnash and swfdec
Hi guys and girls, Have you tried gnash or swfdec as alternatives to adobe flash player? I tried both of them. The high consumption of cpu resource and the lack of support to SWF version 8-10 are the main disadvantages in my opinion. And it seems that swfdec hasn't published a new version for more than a year. Perhaps gnash is our only hope currently? Regards, Wen -- Xianwen Chen Scientific Assistant Norwegian College of Fishery Science University of Tromsø N-9037 Tromsø, Norway Office phone: +44 77 64 61 12 Skype: xianwen.chen
[gentoo-user] Limit emerge's wget bandwidth usage
Is there any way I can configure (pass arguments to) emerge's wget (used for fetching) to limit it's rate to a certain amount of KB/s? I don't want to make a global/system-wide change, just for portage. I did find a way to limit the bandwidth while syncing. All I had to do was to put this on my /etc/make.conf: PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS=--partial --progress --delete-after --human-readable --bwlimit=50 (for instance). I do know there is parameter for wget, which is --limitrate. Any way I could set this inside portage? Regards, Saffi -- Ricardo Saffi Marques http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/~saffi/ == Laboratory of System Administration and Security - LAS Institute of Computing - IC P.O. Box: 6176 University of Campinas - UNICAMP 13083-852, Campinas, SP, Brazil ==
[gentoo-user] emerging gentoo-sources failing due to file collisions
I've never experienced this phenomenon prior to gentoo-sources-2.6.31.-r6. I've always emerged gentoo-sources and they peacefully sat there and waited until I built the corresponding kernel later when I felt like it - if ever. With 2.6.31-r6, however, the emerge fails and consequently screws up 'emerge world' attempts. PITA. Any recommended workarounds or fixes? ;;; I've pieced the following together from the console and elogv: ERROR: preinst This package will overwrite one or more files that may belong to other packages (see list below). You can use a command such as `portageq owners / filename` to identify the installed package that owns a file. If portageq reports that only one package owns a file then do NOT file a bug report. A bug report is only useful if it identifies at least two or more packages that are known to install the same file(s). If a collision occurs and you can not explain where the file came from then you should simply ignore the collision since there is not enough information to determine if a real problem exists. Please do NOT file a bug report at http://bugs.gentoo.org unless you report exactly which two packages install the same file(s). Once again, please do NOT file a bug report unless you have completely understood the above message. package sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6 NOT merged Detected file collision(s): * /usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6/Makefile * /usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6/Kbuild gazillion similar ellided * /usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6/include/asm-generic/bitops/lock.h * /usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6/include/asm-generic/bitops/hweight.h * /usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6/include/asm-generic/bitops/non-atomic.h * * Searching all installed packages for file collisions... * * Press Ctrl-C to Stop * * None of the installed packages claim the file(s). * * Package 'sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6' NOT merged due to file * collisions. If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole * content of the above message. Failed to install sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6, Log file: WALRUS ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30-gentoo-r4 x86_64) = System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r4-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_4200+-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:45:02 + app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.9-r2 dev-lang/python: 2.4.6, 2.5.4-r3, 2.6.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox:1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64 CBUILD=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -msse3 CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d CXXFLAGS=-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -msse3 DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles FEATURES=ccache collision-protect distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://mirrors.acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo/ http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo ftp://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo ftp://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/gentoo/ LANG=en_US.utf8 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 LINGUAS=en en_US MAKEOPTS=-j3 PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT=/ PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage/layman/java-binary /usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage/layman/lisp SYNC=rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage USE=X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 berkdb blas bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cjk cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emacs emboss encode evo fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 jpeg kde lapack ldap libnotify mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl openmp oss pam
Re: [gentoo-user] Limit emerge's wget bandwidth usage
The answer to supplying custom arguments to portage's download command is exactly where it should be - in a man page. equery files portage will list them, it's in section 5 On 06 Jan 2010 8:38 PM, Ricardo Saffi Marques sa...@las.ic.unicamp.br wrote: Is there any way I can configure (pass arguments to) emerge's wget (used for fetching) to limit it's rate to a certain amount of KB/s? I don't want to make a global/system-wide change, just for portage. I did find a way to limit the bandwidth while syncing. All I had to do was to put this on my /etc/make.conf: PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS=--partial --progress --delete-after --human-readable --bwlimit=50 (for instance). I do know there is parameter for wget, which is --limitrate. Any way I could set this inside portage? Regards, Saffi -- Ricardo Saffi Marques http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/~saffi/ == Laboratory of System Administration and Security - LAS Institute of Computing - IC P.O. Box: 6176 University of Campinas - UNICAMP 13083-852, Campinas, SP, Brazil ==
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked
Stroller wrote: On 5 Jan 2010, at 23:33, Dale wrote: ... Gentoo wasn't at fault here. KDE was the one that dropped the ball. Gentoo had to follow the knuckle heads at KDE tho. Dale Between KDE Gentoo, aren't most contributors volunteers? In volunteer development it's normal necessary to focus on the features that one needs most. I can really understand KDE's position that downstream distros - Red Hat Canonical both have paid developers - can continue maintenance on a codebase that is no longer receiving their primary attention. Stroller. So, KDE is maintaining KDE 3.5? If KDE is/was maintaining KDE 3.5 then Gentoo would still have it in the tree. If KDE is not supporting KDE 3.5 then Gentoo has to drop it, as things break and develop security issues. Again, this is not Gentoo's fault for not developing KDE 3.5, it is KDE that dropped it. What Redhat does most likely won't affect what Gentoo does. I don't use Redhat but I do use Gentoo. I'm also pretty sure that Gentoo doesn't do development work on Gnome, Fluxbox, Apache, MySql and other packages. They just make ebuilds and put them in the tree so people can use them. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gentoo-sources failing due to file collisions
On 6 Jan, Walt Rarus wrote: I've never experienced this phenomenon prior to gentoo-sources-2.6.31.-r6. I've always emerged gentoo-sources and they peacefully sat there and waited until I built the corresponding kernel later when I felt like it - if ever. With 2.6.31-r6, however, the emerge fails and consequently screws up 'emerge world' attempts. PITA. Any recommended workarounds or fixes? ;;; I've pieced the following together from the console and elogv: ERROR: preinst This package will overwrite one or more files that may belong to other packages (see list below). You can use a command such as `portageq owners / filename` to identify the installed package that owns a file. If portageq reports that only one package owns a file then do NOT file a bug report. A bug report is only useful if it identifies at least two or more packages that are known to install the same file(s). If a collision occurs and you can not explain where the file came from then you should simply ignore the collision since there is not enough information to determine if a real problem exists. Please do NOT file a bug report at http://bugs.gentoo.org unless you report exactly which two packages install the same file(s). Once again, please do NOT file a bug report unless you have completely understood the above message. package sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6 NOT merged Detected file collision(s): * /usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6/Makefile * /usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6/Kbuild gazillion similar ellided *** SNIP *** So, please check where these files came from by qfile /usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6/Makefile Have you installed this kernel 'by hand' i.e. outside of portage? Check by uname -a if you are not currently running linux-2.6.31-r6 If not, it's safe to rm -rf /usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6 and emerge it again. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gentoo-sources failing due to file collisions
So, please check where these files came from by qfile /usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6/Makefile WALRUS ~ # qfile /usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6/Makefile sys-kernel/-MERGING-gentoo-sources (/usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6/Makefile) Whatever that means. Have you installed this kernel 'by hand' i.e. outside of portage? No. I've not built nor installed *any* 2.6.31 kernel. I've never succeeded in emerging the sources. Helmut, thanks for your rapid attention!
Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] emerging gentoo-sources failing due to file collisions
per Helmut Jarausch: rm -rf /usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6 followed by re-emerge of gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6 worked! Thanks, Helmut P.S. The mystery remains how those conflicting files got there in the first place. Certainly not by any conscious act on my part. But, at this point I don't really care because things are back in balance again.
Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gentoo-sources failing due to file collisions
An earlier attempt to merge those sources failed and the install is left incomplete. Do a --depclean to be safe, delete the source tree, merge it again On 06 Jan 2010 9:33 PM, Walt Rarus geeked...@gmail.com wrote: So, please check where these files came from by qfile /usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6/Makefile... WALRUS ~ # qfile /usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6/Makefile sys-kernel/-MERGING-gentoo-sources (/usr/src/linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6/Makefile) Whatever that means. Have you installed this kernel 'by hand' i.e. outside of portage? No. I've not built nor installed *any* 2.6.31 kernel. I've never succeeded in emerging the sources. Helmut, thanks for your rapid attention!
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 04:09:03PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: For example, if I wanted a forgotten password laying in a text file but encfs encrypted and on the remote. When for one or another reason I cannot get it from the home machine. I hate saying something when I don't know the full circumstances, but here is how I do mine, and how I have recovered data from the backup. I mount the plaintext with this command (actual details have been changed because I do it in a shell script which does other things): encfs ~/.encrypted ~/.plaintext ~/.encrypted is the encrypted dir, ~/.plaintest is what I lok at when I want to see the plaintext. I have various symlinks elsewhere which point into ~/.plaintext. When I backup this data, I only backup ~/.encrypted. In fact, since backup is done as a part of root's nightly backup, and root cannot look into ~/.plaintext, ~/.encrypted is all that can be backupped (did I just invent a new verb? :-). Now once I lost a file which I knew existed in the backup. All I had to do was 1. As root, mount the backup, in this case as /mnt/backup. 2. As myself, mount as usual but change the names: encfs /mnt/backup/home/felix/.encrypted ~/tmp/plaintext 3. Copy the file as plaintext: cp -p ~/tmp/plaintext/path/to/file ~/.plaintext/path/to/file Of course, if you backup as yourself, the root step is easily adjusted to yourself. It's been so long since I set this up that I do not remember the details. There's a kernel module, maybe dm-crypt. You probably have to enable something in the kernel config. But once done, it's easy as pi and just as tasty, and I really like the fact that root cannot get access to the plaintext. For some reason, that just tinkles me pink. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. 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] sys-power/powermgmt-base blocks sys-power/pm-utils, but it's not installed yet
Hi!
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:49:05 -0600
Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote:
* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
* installed at the same time on the same system.
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22', 'merge') pulled in
by
=sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22 required by ('ebuild', '/',
'sys-apps/apmd-3.2.2_p5', 'merge')
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5', 'merge') pulled in by
sys-power/pm-utils required by ('installed', '/',
'kde-base/powerdevil-4.3.3', 'nomerge')
According to the error message sys-power/powermgmt-base is getting
pulled by sys-apps/apmd and sys-power/pm-utils by kde-base/powerdevil.
If you use ACPI then there is probably no need in having APM daemon
installed. Add -t to your emerge command and check what package depends
on apmd.
Cheers,
Renat
--
Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen,
durch die sie entstanden sind.
(Einstein)
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[gentoo-user] Re: [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:09:03 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Why not just tar up the underlying encfs partition? The data is already encrypted, what's the point of decrypting it to encrypt it again? That way you don't need to rely on any encryption software on the remote computer. I wanted the option of decrypting on the remote if need be... that is if my home machine is not accessible for whatever reason. For example, if I wanted a forgotten password laying in a text file but encfs encrypted and on the remote. When for one or another reason I cannot get it from the home machine. In your scenario, I'd need access to both home machine and remote at the same time to first get the blob of encrypted data off the remote and then to decrypt it on home. Then use rsync instead of tar, then you can mount the remote filesystem using sshfs and encfs to read individual files. It's a little slow as you are layering two FUSE filesystems, but quicker than downloading a complete tarball just to get at one file. I've used this method with an online backup service and it works. Neil seems to be thinking the remote has encfs on board... it does not. Hence my original quest for a different encryption process, (mcrypt) And both Felix' and Neils solutions seem to require access to the home computer or root on the remote. Or a least access to a machine with encfs on board. Also, understand that the encrypted data is quite small... Not talking a huge tarball at all. du -sh ~/myencrypteddata 7.4Mmyencrypteddata That is uncompressed So is it still a bad idea to unencrypt from encfs, recrypt in mcrypt and ssh or rsync the result to the remote? With something this size all of that should happen in a few seconds right? And this way, I'd be able to decrypt the thing on the remote; find what I need and delete the unencrypted data leaving only the encrypted. It does sound like a lot of huffing and puffing so am interested to hear other ways. I haven't tried it yet at all. I guess another part of my question is will an mcrypted file setting on an internet host (that can be hacked and has been at least once since I've been involved (5yrs)), be of interest and easy enough to crack (not the host but the file itself) that it would be likely a hacker would try? Once again this is not super secretive stuff, like murder or such... and even banking info could only lead to a matter of mid 4 digit amounts at most. Nasty but not life threatening or bankruptcy material and its unlikely at best that all accounts would be drained before I caught a sniff of it. But still, once my trove of passwords and certain banking info was lost, it would be a real pita to clean up. ---- ---=--- - | A side note to forestall answers involving the owner of the host | machine being asked to do whatever: | | That fellow is quite security conscious and far as I know has had | only the one hack on some 8-9 or so online machines over at least | 10 yrs. (Not a bad record... since he was at one time a target | to unprincipled hackers in linux community, who also had accounts | on his hosts... so the attack was from inside so to speak) | | So there won't be much I can suggest that he either doesn't now | about or hasn't already tried.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:27:32 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Then use rsync instead of tar, then you can mount the remote filesystem using sshfs and encfs to read individual files. It's a little slow as you are layering two FUSE filesystems, but quicker than downloading a complete tarball just to get at one file. I've used this method with an online backup service and it works. Neil seems to be thinking the remote has encfs on board... it does not. Hence my original quest for a different encryption process, (mcrypt) I wasn't thinking that at all. You use sshfs to mount the remote directory locally, then mount that with encfs. All the remote host needs is ssh. -- Neil Bothwick At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] gst-plugins
When do I need gstreamer? When I run the emerge --search @media-plugins/gst-plugins command I get a lot of results and I have no idea what I need to install for what I want to do. Right now I want to listen to a radio show at http://www.legendsradio.net/ and it says I need a plugin. Anyone know how I find out which one I need? I pretty sure I need a gst-plugin, but not sure. Thanks, dhk
Re: [gentoo-user] Limit emerge's wget bandwidth usage
Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: I do know there is parameter for wget, which is --limitrate. Any way I could set this inside portage? it is in the make.conf manpage. try this website http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Gentoo_for_dialup_users#Bandwidth_Limiting
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked
I'm also pretty sure that Gentoo doesn't do development work on Gnome, Fluxbox, Apache, MySql and other packages. They just make ebuilds and put them in the tree so people can use them. if there is something unconvenient with used on the software ,gentoo will talk to the authors still , right ? like ibus last time (i just heard it from my friend) ^^ 2010/1/6 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Stroller wrote: On 5 Jan 2010, at 23:33, Dale wrote: ... Gentoo wasn't at fault here. KDE was the one that dropped the ball. Gentoo had to follow the knuckle heads at KDE tho. Dale Between KDE Gentoo, aren't most contributors volunteers? In volunteer development it's normal necessary to focus on the features that one needs most. I can really understand KDE's position that downstream distros - Red Hat Canonical both have paid developers - can continue maintenance on a codebase that is no longer receiving their primary attention. Stroller. So, KDE is maintaining KDE 3.5? If KDE is/was maintaining KDE 3.5 then Gentoo would still have it in the tree. If KDE is not supporting KDE 3.5 then Gentoo has to drop it, as things break and develop security issues. Again, this is not Gentoo's fault for not developing KDE 3.5, it is KDE that dropped it. What Redhat does most likely won't affect what Gentoo does. I don't use Redhat but I do use Gentoo. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] sys-power/powermgmt-base blocks sys-power/pm-utils, but it's not installed yet
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 22:23 +0100, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
Hi!
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:49:05 -0600
Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote:
* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
* installed at the same time on the same system.
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22', 'merge') pulled in
by
=sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22 required by ('ebuild', '/',
'sys-apps/apmd-3.2.2_p5', 'merge')
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5', 'merge') pulled in by
sys-power/pm-utils required by ('installed', '/',
'kde-base/powerdevil-4.3.3', 'nomerge')
According to the error message sys-power/powermgmt-base is getting
pulled by sys-apps/apmd and sys-power/pm-utils by kde-base/powerdevil.
If you use ACPI then there is probably no need in having APM daemon
installed. Add -t to your emerge command and check what package depends
on apmd.
Cheers,
Renat
These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[nomerge ] gnome-base/gnome-2.26.3 USE=cdr cups dvdr
-accessibility -esd -ldap -mono
[nomerge ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.26.3 USE=acpi apm gnome
gstreamer hal ipv6 -debug -doc -policykit
[ebuild N] sys-apps/apmd-3.2.2_p5 USE=X nls 0 kB
[nomerge ] games-emulation/dosbox-0.73 USE=alsa opengl -debug
-hardened
[nomerge ] media-libs/sdl-sound-1.0.3 USE=flac mikmod mp3 mpeg
vorbis -physfs -speex
[ebuild U ] media-libs/libmikmod-3.2.0_beta2-r1 [3.1.11-r5]
USE=oss (-alsa%*) (-esd%) 744 kB
[nomerge ] kde-base/kde-meta-4.3.3 USE=nls -accessibility
(-kdeprefix)
[nomerge ] kde-base/kdebase-meta-4.3.3 USE=semantic-desktop
(-kdeprefix) -policykit
[nomerge ] kde-base/powerdevil-4.3.3 USE=pm-utils (-aqua)
-debug (-kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix)
[ebuild N]sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5 USE=alsa -debug
-networkmanager -ntp VIDEO_CARDS=-intel -radeon 0 kB
[nomerge ] sys-apps/apmd-3.2.2_p5 USE=X nls
[ebuild N] sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22 0 kB
[blocks B ] sys-power/powermgmt-base (sys-power/powermgmt-base is
blocking sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5)
Total: 4 packages (1 upgrade, 3 new), Size of downloads: 744 kB
Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)
* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
* installed at the same time on the same system.
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22', 'merge') pulled in by
=sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22 required by ('ebuild', '/',
'sys-apps/apmd-3.2.2_p5', 'merge')
('ebuild', '/', 'sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5', 'merge') pulled in by
sys-power/pm-utils required by ('installed', '/',
'kde-base/powerdevil-4.3.3', 'nomerge')
For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the
following
section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant):
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked
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[gentoo-user] does the aqua use flag still valid in gentoo 2008?
hi, i want to try to enable the aqua flag with my kde. but it is displayed as (-aqua) when i try to emerge kde. i searched the network, and people say it is disabled by my profile. i am using the default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop profile. which profile should i use to enable this use flag? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/
Re: [gentoo-user] does the aqua use flag still valid in gentoo 2008?
hi, if you have enabled aqua flag in make.conf, then it won't matter how it is set in desktop profile. regards, wen On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: hi, i want to try to enable the aqua flag with my kde. but it is displayed as (-aqua) when i try to emerge kde. i searched the network, and people say it is disabled by my profile. i am using the default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop profile. which profile should i use to enable this use flag? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/ -- Xianwen Chen Scientific Assistant Norwegian College of Fishery Science University of Tromsø N-9037 Tromsø, Norway Office phone: +44 77 64 61 12 Skype: xianwen.chen
Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins
On Thursday 07 January 2010 02:33:14 dhk wrote: When do I need gstreamer? When I run the emerge --search @media-plugins/gst-plugins command I get a lot of results and I have no idea what I need to install for what I want to do. Right now I want to listen to a radio show at http://www.legendsradio.net/ and it says I need a plugin. Anyone know how I find out which one I need? I pretty sure I need a gst-plugin, but not sure. It's better to say what error you get rather than ask how you fix the problem you assume you might be having. You need gstreamer and it's plugins when you use an app that uses gstreamer to play media. The thing you use might not use gstreamer. Having said that, the site you mention does not appear to work. I get server down errors on just about every play link. Maybe the station is barfed? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
