Re: [gentoo-user] which file is currently being written to disk?
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all Is there some utility (console or otherwise) that could indicate me NOT the output/input read/write and miscellanea, but simply which files are currently being written to the disk. Sometimes my browser (Opera) downloads some big temporary files, and usually I have a difficult time locating them. I've tried lsof | grep opera but the output is messy and not really helpful. Any other ideas? Regards Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail Hi, I like sys-process/iotop it is quite handy. Best regards Petri Rosenström
Re: [gentoo-user] When mounting windows (ntfs) shares
On 7/3/2011, at 11:46pm, Harry Putnam wrote: ... //harvey/ImagesMusic /mnt/ImagesMusic cifs noauto,username=harry,credentials=/\ etc/samba/CifsCredentials Where the UNC above is on windows XP, and mounted as shows above. Blah, blah, blah. You've written paragraphs here (snipped) about what email client you have, but you haven't posted the output of: $ mount /mnt/ImagesMusic $ ls -ld /mnt/ImagesMusic $ ls -l /mnt/ImagesMusic $ umount /mnt/ImagesMusic $ ls -ld /mnt/ImagesMusic $ mount -v -t cifs //harvey/ImagesMusic /mnt/ImagesMusic -o username=harry,user=harry,uid=bob You may find `man mount.cifs` as useful as I just have. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting CD's etc
You will need to set up pollution aka policykit. I use udisks to get automounting taken care of instead of Hal. See an earlier thread for details. I am working on a full policykit setup to document with examples for reboot and shutdown in lxde. Regards, James wall On Mar 8, 2011 1:05 AM, Bill Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: Typing id on a terminal on my gnome desktop gives the following - but when I insert a dvd I get not authorised to mount ... in a popup. What more do I need to do? BillK uid=1000(wdk) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),6(disk),10(wheel),18(audio),19(cdrom),80(cdrw),85(usb),411(plugdev),413(wdk),446(vmware),1000(vboxusers),1005(davfs2)
Re: [gentoo-user] which file is currently being written to disk?
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all Is there some utility (console or otherwise) that could indicate me NOT the output/input read/write and miscellanea, but simply which files are currently being written to the disk. Sometimes my browser (Opera) downloads some big temporary files, and usually I have a difficult time locating them. I've tried lsof | grep opera but the output is messy and not really helpful. Any other ideas? Hi Liviu, I think your best solution is to use inotify-tools. It'll let you set up watchers on files or directories (optionally recursively) to see any file activity that happens there in realtime.
[gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk
Hello, I have a large DVD(movie) collection, that I want copied to hard drive(s) and a database set up about the movies. Since disc is cheap ($75/2TB) I'm not even going to fool around with conversion or compression, i.e. MPEG-2 is fine for now, unless the process can be automated (see schema below). Naturally being able to store video in different formats would be a big plus. I'm very flexible on the DB so any software package that already exists in a (gui) tool form, so that I can set it up with simple instructions for an adolescent to: load the dvd execute the script or simple procedure wait until dvd movie is stored on disk then swap out for another DVD... rinse and repeat 500+ times What software exists, or what software would be easy to script up such an endeavor? Tagging movies by rating, genre, year, etc would be a bonus. Hopefully, playing movies after this will be a gui experience; so I can turn the kids and less astute friends loose in a multimedia room where the computer is hooked to a large screen LED device. Later on audio (music) tracks will be added to the menu or system, which hopefully supports a wide range of audio files. Lots of pieces exist in software, but, I'm looking for recommendations on a complete system, that is rather straight forward to install new movies (and audio) and then play them via an easy to use interface, seemlessly. Any comments or suggestions are most welcome. James
Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk
James, It sounds like you want a complete solution for your multimedia, might I suggest something like xbmc or boxee? They're both solid platforms, unfortunately I cannot suggest a script for automating the disk ripping/conversion process. -Fernando On Mar 8, 2011 11:04 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, I have a large DVD(movie) collection, that I want copied to hard drive(s) and a database set up about the movies. Since disc is cheap ($75/2TB) I'm not even going to fool around with conversion or compression, i.e. MPEG-2 is fine for now, unless the process can be automated (see schema below). Naturally being able to store video in different formats would be a big plus. I'm very flexible on the DB so any software package that already exists in a (gui) tool form, so that I can set it up with simple instructions for an adolescent to: load the dvd execute the script or simple procedure wait until dvd movie is stored on disk then swap out for another DVD... rinse and repeat 500+ times What software exists, or what software would be easy to script up such an endeavor? Tagging movies by rating, genre, year, etc would be a bonus. Hopefully, playing movies after this will be a gui experience; so I can turn the kids and less astute friends loose in a multimedia room where the computer is hooked to a large screen LED device. Later on audio (music) tracks will be added to the menu or system, which hopefully supports a wide range of audio files. Lots of pieces exist in software, but, I'm looking for recommendations on a complete system, that is rather straight forward to install new movies (and audio) and then play them via an easy to use interface, seemlessly. Any comments or suggestions are most welcome. James
Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:09 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, I have a large DVD(movie) collection, that I want copied to hard drive(s) and a database set up about the movies. Since disc is cheap ($75/2TB) I'm not even going to fool around with conversion or compression, i.e. MPEG-2 is fine for now, unless the process can be automated (see schema below). Naturally being able to store video in different formats would be a big plus. I'm very flexible on the DB so any software package that already exists in a (gui) tool form, so that I can set it up with simple instructions for an adolescent to: load the dvd execute the script or simple procedure wait until dvd movie is stored on disk then swap out for another DVD... rinse and repeat 500+ times What software exists, or what software would be easy to script up such an endeavor? Basically all of the GUI DVD-ripping/recoding software are just shells to run the commandline tools like transcode, ffmpeg, mencoder etc. If you find a GUI tool to do as you wish, it should be trivial to look in its logs and see exactly which commands it ran and then put that into a shell script for repeated usage. Ripping the original DVD contents is the easy part (just use vobcopy), converting it to any other format can be more tricky because you get problems like audio and video being out of sync that sometimes can't be fixed without manual tuning.
Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk
From what I understand, you want to automate a ripping process. Ripping is the easy part since you don't want to bother with encoding. In my opinion, you should had a udev line that fire up a mencoder/transcode/vlc/vobcopy/your favourite encoder/copier session, clean the swap and then eject the CD. The udev manpage is quite clear on the subject, examples are all around the net. Cheers. -- Vincent-Xavier JUMEL GPG Id: 0x2E14CE70 http://thetys-retz.net Rejoignez les 5336 adhérents de l'April http://www.april.org/adherer Parinux, logiciel libre à Paris : http://www.parinux.org
[gentoo-user] Re: When mounting windows (ntfs) shares
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: $ mount -v -t cifs //harvey/ImagesMusic /mnt/ImagesMusic -o username=harry,user=harry,uid=bob The example helped immensely... thanks. (Although I think it may have been responsible for a fellow named `bob' hacking my windows machines .. hehe) You may find `man mount.cifs` as useful as I just have. I suspect then, that you already had a good idea what you were looking for. I found no such enlightenment as you, but then I did not read it word for word. Possibly I am a much lesser man... maybe even a mental wimp..
Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 11:25:33 -0800, Fernando Freire wrote: It sounds like you want a complete solution for your multimedia, might I suggest something like xbmc or boxee? They're both solid platforms, unfortunately I cannot suggest a script for automating the disk ripping/conversion process. MythTV has a plugin to rip DVDs to disk, and MythVideo can look up information on IMDB and add it to the film's metadata. -- Neil Bothwick Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Error on gtk thmem: gtk-engines-flat
On 03/07/2011 11:29 PM, du yang wrote: On Tuesday 03/08/11 11:31:42 CST, Adam Carter wrote: I got a gtk library error when trying to run a python script. # ./st.py /usr/bin/python2.7: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/ libflat.so: undefined symbol: gtk_rc_style_get_type Have you run revdep-rebuild and/or python-updater? Still no effect ;-( And I found opera has the same problem as well under the flat thmem, but no problem under aurora thmem. # opera /usr/lib/opera/opera: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libflat.so: undefined symbol: gtk_rc_style_get_type I don't have libflat.so, so I can't tell you which package installed it, but that package needs to be re-emerged. Try equery b libflat.so to find the broken package.
[gentoo-user] Re: Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk
Vincent-Xavier JUMEL endymion+gentoo at thetys-retz.net writes: OK Thanks to all the posters. I'm going to try a few of these suggestions and see what I like. If I get stuck, I'll post back on the automation portion of the task. thanks again to all, for all of the suggestions. James
[gentoo-user] Re: Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: MythTV has a plugin to rip DVDs to disk Is that part of media-tv/mythtv or another package? (emerging mythtv and xbmc right now...) MythVideo can look up information on IMDB and add it to the film's metadata. I found this wiki: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythVideo is this what you refer to? If not do you have a wiki, url or example somewhere on the net? James
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error on gtk thmem: gtk-engines-flat
On Wednesday 03/09/11 07:04:07 CST, walt wrote: On 03/07/2011 11:29 PM, du yang wrote: On Tuesday 03/08/11 11:31:42 CST, Adam Carter wrote: I got a gtk library error when trying to run a python script. # ./st.py /usr/bin/python2.7: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/ libflat.so: undefined symbol: gtk_rc_style_get_type Have you run revdep-rebuild and/or python-updater? Still no effect ;-( And I found opera has the same problem as well under the flat thmem, but no problem under aurora thmem. # opera /usr/lib/opera/opera: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libflat.so: undefined symbol: gtk_rc_style_get_type I don't have libflat.so, so I can't tell you which package installed it, but that package needs to be re-emerged. Try equery b libflat.so to find the broken package. It just belongs to itself, and I checked its dependence graph, and tried to re-emerge all the related packages. At last, the problem is still there. so I suspect it may be a problem for gtk-engines-flat itself. Maybe I would try to fire a bug to gentoo, but now I have to change to use the Aurora theme to workaround the problem. Thanks you for your hints anyway! # equery b /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libflat.so * Searching for /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libflat.so ... x11-themes/gtk-engines-flat-2.0-r2 (/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libflat.so) # equery d x11-themes/gtk-engines-flat * These packages depend on x11-themes/gtk-engines-flat: # equery g x11-themes/gtk-engines-flat * Searching for gtk-engines-flat in x11-themes ... * dependency graph for x11-themes/gtk-engines-flat-2.0-r2 `-- x11-themes/gtk-engines-flat-2.0-r2 x86 `-- x11-libs/gtk+-2.22.1-r1 (x11-libs/gtk+) x86 `-- dev-util/pkgconfig-0.25-r2 (dev-util/pkgconfig) x86 [ x11-themes/gtk-engines-flat-2.0-r2 stats: packages (3), max depth (0) ] -- oooO: (..): :\.(:::Oooo:: ::\_)::(..):: :::)./::: ::(_/
