[gentoo-user] Grub2, uefi, gpt etc etc
Howdy, Installing on a nice shiny new Dell laptop which has these new-fangled UEFI and 4K-sector disks. Never having worked on these things before, I'm somewhat wary especially as we've had huge threads before on what to do and not do. I don't want to rehash all of that all over again (and the info is somewhat scattered) so I have one simple question: Is this wiki page accurate and worth following: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2 -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf - missing fonts
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 04:42:43PM -0700, Penguin Lover Joseph squawked: On 01/04/12 00:20, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 03.01.2012 23:15, schrieb Joseph: xpdf it complains about missing fonts xpdf hl5370d_ukeng_usr.pdf Error: No display font for 'Courier' Error: No display font for 'Courier-Bold' Error: No display font for 'Courier-BoldOblique' Error: No display font for 'Courier-Oblique' Error: No display font for 'Helvetica' Error: No display font for 'Helvetica-Bold' Error: No display font for 'Helvetica-BoldOblique' Error: No display font for 'Helvetica-Oblique' Error: No display font for 'Symbol' Error: No display font for 'Times-Bold' Error: No display font for 'Times-BoldItalic' Error: No display font for 'Times-Italic' Error: No display font for 'Times-Roman' Error: No display font for 'ZapfDingbats' Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Anybody knows how to install them? Xpdf is looking for fonts in places that are strange: open(/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022004l.pfb, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022004l.pfb, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n022004l.pfb, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n022004l.pfb, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n022004l.pfb, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(2, Error: , 7Error: ) = 7 write(2, No display font for 'Courier-Bol..., 34No display font for 'Courier-Bold') = 34 whereas the above font is actually in /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/ (I've been sort of just ignoring this warning, since no pdfs I've used have had problem displaying, despite those errors.) W -- Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
Re: [gentoo-user] Init Scripts Not Starting
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 08:31:08PM -0800, Dan Cowsill wrote: Hey list, A little while after I compiled Gnome and got things running, I lost the ability to add scripts to the default runlevel. I can run rc-update add xdm default, for example, and the xdm symlink will appear in /etc/runlevels/default, and that symlink will indeed point to /etc/init.d/xdm, but xdm will not start. Further to that, there's no evidence to indicate that RC is even trying to start it. No errors, no logs, no nothing. Same goes for virtualbox-guest-additions and sysklogd. I tried logging rc and got absolutely nowhere. There's nothing overt in dmesg either. The really fun part is these scripts function perfectly if I run them after boot. Since there's no evidence of this problem in any logs or during the startup process, I assume there is no problem and I am doing it wrong. Is it possible that you are booting into a different runlevel that default ? (there's a softlevel=... kernel cmdline parameter) What happens if (after boot) you just run rc (should start all service in the current runlevel, that are not started yet) or rc default (should swithc to 'default' runlevel and start all services) ? Could you post the output of rc-status -a ? And maybe also grep rc /etc/inittab ? For xdm there is one additional thing to check: xdm can be disabled through a 'nox' kernel cmdline option or an /etc/.noxdm file... But in that case the initscript itself should start and just print a message, that it is not starting the DM. yoyo
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior
On Jan 3, 2012 7:08 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:49:45 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: Neil, is the use of sets fully documented somewhere? I don't recall reading about them in the Handbook, but its been a while since I read it (and don't remember if I ever did cover to cover)... I can't recall where I found the documentation, but you can create a set in /etc/portage/sets/ with one atom per line. Then emerge @setname to install the packages. I find them really useful. For example I have a @base set listing all the packages I want on a new install (tmux, gentoolkit, portage-utils etc) so I can copy it to a new install and emerge @base to make sure I have all the tools I normally use. Now *that's* useful. Thanks for the idea! Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3
On Jan 4, 2012 6:19 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:31:20 +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: I know. It's the I want to get the rid of initramfs thing that looks crazy to me. No one is saying they want to get rid of the initramfs, because they are not using one. What people object to is being forced to start using one. You got that right. I have not used one since I started using Gentoo. Now, I may very well have to start. I hope mdev gets to a point where it works really well on desktop systems. You were there in the thread linked by Walt, udev is just one of several packages maintained by RH people that *demands* /usr to be mounted during boot. And the RH devels insistence to deprecate /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin... I'm getting depressed. One battle might be won (mdev vs udev), but there's still a war against the RH braindeadness... Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] problems, with, 'hibernate, to, disk', two, nvidia, cards, installed
On Wednesday 04 Jan 2012 06:31:45 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org [12-01-04 06:25]:
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 03:03:49AM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote
...I tried linux kernel 3.1.7 and it does not fix the problem.
The situation remains the samesigh
What can I addtionaly check ?
An excerpt from the hibernate.conf man page...
===
Verbosity N
Determines how verbose the output from the suspend script
should be: 0: silent except for errors 1: print steps 2:
print steps in detail 3: print steps in lots of detail 4:
print out every command executed (uses -x)
LogFile filename
If specified, output from the suspend script will also be
redirected to this file - useful for debugging purposes.
===
Add the 2 lines...
Verbosity 4
LogFile /root/hibernate.log
It is
LogVerbosity 4
and the configuration file is
/etc/hibernate/common.conf
(just for those reading this thread later)
...to /etc/hibernate.conf and attempt to suspend. If it doesn't power
off, do *NOT* use the power switch. Either reboot with {CTRL}{ALT}{DEL}
or else use the Magic SysReq Key, if you have it enabled. Once you
restart, take a look at the logfile to see where it dies. If you can't
figure it out, gzip the logfile and attach it to a posting here, and
we'll try to figure it out.
CTRL-ALT-DEL does not work here.
Sysrq does not work either.
May be this is because the usb-module gets unloaded before (just a
shot in the dark)?
I had to power off again.
I dont know, whether the log entries are valid under this conditions,
but here they are:
Starting suspend at Wed Jan 4 06:35:36 CET 2012
Jan 4 06:35:36.67 hibernate: [01] Executing CheckLastResume ...
Jan 4 06:35:36.68 hibernate: [01] Executing CheckRunlevel ...
Jan 4 06:35:36.69 hibernate: [01] Executing LockFileGet ...
Jan 4 06:35:36.70 hibernate: [01] Executing NewKernelFileCheck ...
Jan 4 06:35:36.71 hibernate: [10] Executing EnsureSysfsPowerStateCapable
... Jan 4 06:35:36.72 hibernate: [11] Executing XHacksSuspendHook1 ... Jan
4 06:35:36.73 hibernate: [19] Executing DevicesFree ...
Jan 4 06:35:43.53 hibernate: [30] Executing ServicesStop ...
Jan 4 06:35:43.54 Executing /etc/init.d/alsasound stop
* Storing ALSA Mixer Levels ... [ ok ]
Jan 4 06:35:43.64 hibernate: [45] Executing FSTypesUnmount ...
Jan 4 06:35:43.66 hibernate: [59] Executing RemountXFSBootRO ...
Jan 4 06:35:43.67 hibernate: [89] Executing SaveKernelModprobe ...
Jan 4 06:35:43.68 Saved /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe is /sbin/modprobe
Jan 4 06:35:43.69 hibernate: [90] Executing ModulesUnload ...
Jan 4 06:35:43.70 -n Unloading module snd_via82cxxx...
Jan 4 06:35:43.70 not loaded.
Jan 4 06:35:43.71 -n Unloading module usb-ohci...
Jan 4 06:35:43.71 not loaded.
Jan 4 06:35:43.72 -n Unloading module snd_via82cxxx...
Jan 4 06:35:43.72 not loaded.
Jan 4 06:35:43.73 -n Unloading module usb-ohci...
Jan 4 06:35:43.74 not loaded.
Jan 4 06:35:43.74 hibernate: [91] Executing ModulesUnloadBlacklist ...
Jan 4 06:35:43.75 Unloading blacklisted modules listed
/etc/hibernate/blacklisted-modules Jan 4 06:35:43.89 Module version for
ipw2100 is
Jan 4 06:35:43.91 Module version for ipw2200 is
Jan 4 06:35:44.08 Module version for snd_bt_sco is
Jan 4 06:35:44.21 Module version for ndiswrapper is
Jan 4 06:35:44.33 hibernate: [91] Executing ModulesUnloadBlacklist ...
Jan 4 06:35:44.34 Unloading blacklisted modules listed
/etc/hibernate/blacklisted-modules Jan 4 06:35:44.45 Module version for
ipw2100 is
Jan 4 06:35:44.47 Module version for ipw2200 is
Jan 4 06:35:44.64 Module version for snd_bt_sco is
Jan 4 06:35:44.77 Module version for ndiswrapper is
Jan 4 06:35:44.90 hibernate: [95] Executing XHacksSuspendHook2 ...
Jan 4 06:35:44.92 xhacks: changing console from 7 to 15
Jan 4 06:35:46.65 hibernate: [98] Executing CheckRunlevel ...
Jan 4 06:35:46.66 hibernate: [98] Executing FullSpeedCPUSuspend ...
Jan 4 06:35:46.69 Switched to performance, with min freq at 360
Jan 4 06:35:46.71 Switched to performance, with min freq at 360
Jan 4 06:35:46.73 Switched to performance, with min freq at 360
Jan 4 06:35:46.74 Switched to performance, with min freq at 360
Jan 4 06:35:46.75 Switched to performance, with min freq at 360
Jan 4 06:35:46.76 Switched to performance, with min freq at 360
Jan 4 06:35:46.76 hibernate: [99] Executing DoSysfsPowerStateSuspend ...
Jan 4 06:35:46.76 hibernate: Activating sysfs power state disk ...
I haven't yet tried anything else, but diff'ing the 3.0.6 and 3.1.6 gentoo
kernels .config files, these are the modules that stand out in the new kernel:
CONFIG_ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA=y
CONFIG_HAVE_PCSPKR_PLATFORM=y
Re: [gentoo-user] problems, with, 'hibernate, to, disk', two, nvidia, cards, installed
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [12-01-04 14:22]:
On Wednesday 04 Jan 2012 06:31:45 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org [12-01-04 06:25]:
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 03:03:49AM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote
...I tried linux kernel 3.1.7 and it does not fix the problem.
The situation remains the samesigh
What can I addtionaly check ?
An excerpt from the hibernate.conf man page...
===
Verbosity N
Determines how verbose the output from the suspend script
should be: 0: silent except for errors 1: print steps 2:
print steps in detail 3: print steps in lots of detail 4:
print out every command executed (uses -x)
LogFile filename
If specified, output from the suspend script will also be
redirected to this file - useful for debugging purposes.
===
Add the 2 lines...
Verbosity 4
LogFile /root/hibernate.log
It is
LogVerbosity 4
and the configuration file is
/etc/hibernate/common.conf
(just for those reading this thread later)
...to /etc/hibernate.conf and attempt to suspend. If it doesn't power
off, do *NOT* use the power switch. Either reboot with {CTRL}{ALT}{DEL}
or else use the Magic SysReq Key, if you have it enabled. Once you
restart, take a look at the logfile to see where it dies. If you can't
figure it out, gzip the logfile and attach it to a posting here, and
we'll try to figure it out.
CTRL-ALT-DEL does not work here.
Sysrq does not work either.
May be this is because the usb-module gets unloaded before (just a
shot in the dark)?
I had to power off again.
I dont know, whether the log entries are valid under this conditions,
but here they are:
Starting suspend at Wed Jan 4 06:35:36 CET 2012
Jan 4 06:35:36.67 hibernate: [01] Executing CheckLastResume ...
Jan 4 06:35:36.68 hibernate: [01] Executing CheckRunlevel ...
Jan 4 06:35:36.69 hibernate: [01] Executing LockFileGet ...
Jan 4 06:35:36.70 hibernate: [01] Executing NewKernelFileCheck ...
Jan 4 06:35:36.71 hibernate: [10] Executing EnsureSysfsPowerStateCapable
... Jan 4 06:35:36.72 hibernate: [11] Executing XHacksSuspendHook1 ... Jan
4 06:35:36.73 hibernate: [19] Executing DevicesFree ...
Jan 4 06:35:43.53 hibernate: [30] Executing ServicesStop ...
Jan 4 06:35:43.54 Executing /etc/init.d/alsasound stop
* Storing ALSA Mixer Levels ... [ ok ]
Jan 4 06:35:43.64 hibernate: [45] Executing FSTypesUnmount ...
Jan 4 06:35:43.66 hibernate: [59] Executing RemountXFSBootRO ...
Jan 4 06:35:43.67 hibernate: [89] Executing SaveKernelModprobe ...
Jan 4 06:35:43.68 Saved /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe is /sbin/modprobe
Jan 4 06:35:43.69 hibernate: [90] Executing ModulesUnload ...
Jan 4 06:35:43.70 -n Unloading module snd_via82cxxx...
Jan 4 06:35:43.70 not loaded.
Jan 4 06:35:43.71 -n Unloading module usb-ohci...
Jan 4 06:35:43.71 not loaded.
Jan 4 06:35:43.72 -n Unloading module snd_via82cxxx...
Jan 4 06:35:43.72 not loaded.
Jan 4 06:35:43.73 -n Unloading module usb-ohci...
Jan 4 06:35:43.74 not loaded.
Jan 4 06:35:43.74 hibernate: [91] Executing ModulesUnloadBlacklist ...
Jan 4 06:35:43.75 Unloading blacklisted modules listed
/etc/hibernate/blacklisted-modules Jan 4 06:35:43.89 Module version for
ipw2100 is
Jan 4 06:35:43.91 Module version for ipw2200 is
Jan 4 06:35:44.08 Module version for snd_bt_sco is
Jan 4 06:35:44.21 Module version for ndiswrapper is
Jan 4 06:35:44.33 hibernate: [91] Executing ModulesUnloadBlacklist ...
Jan 4 06:35:44.34 Unloading blacklisted modules listed
/etc/hibernate/blacklisted-modules Jan 4 06:35:44.45 Module version for
ipw2100 is
Jan 4 06:35:44.47 Module version for ipw2200 is
Jan 4 06:35:44.64 Module version for snd_bt_sco is
Jan 4 06:35:44.77 Module version for ndiswrapper is
Jan 4 06:35:44.90 hibernate: [95] Executing XHacksSuspendHook2 ...
Jan 4 06:35:44.92 xhacks: changing console from 7 to 15
Jan 4 06:35:46.65 hibernate: [98] Executing CheckRunlevel ...
Jan 4 06:35:46.66 hibernate: [98] Executing FullSpeedCPUSuspend ...
Jan 4 06:35:46.69 Switched to performance, with min freq at 360
Jan 4 06:35:46.71 Switched to performance, with min freq at 360
Jan 4 06:35:46.73 Switched to performance, with min freq at 360
Jan 4 06:35:46.74 Switched to performance, with min freq at 360
Jan 4 06:35:46.75 Switched to performance, with min freq at 360
Jan 4 06:35:46.76 Switched to performance, with min freq at 360
Jan 4 06:35:46.76 hibernate: [99] Executing DoSysfsPowerStateSuspend ...
Jan 4 06:35:46.76 hibernate: Activating sysfs power state disk ...
I haven't yet tried anything else, but diff'ing the 3.0.6
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid
On Wednesday 04 January 2012 11:57:18 Jeff Cranmer wrote: Hi all, I have recently built a new system, running Gentoo on a Sabertooth 990FX motherboard. The board has a raid controller on which I'm running a 120GB solid state drive for the OS (Raid 0) and a set of three 1.5TB drives which were previously running as a RAID5 array. I can see the sda 120GB drive and have installed the operating system on that. I can't see one device for the three disk RAID5 array, even though the RAID BIOS reports it as a healthy 3TB disk. Instead I see three separate devices, sdb, sdc and sdd What do I need to do to mount the 3TB RAID disk? I'm running genkernel, and compiled it with genkernel --dmraid all. It should already have data on it, if I can only get gentoo to recognise it. I can see the RAID controller when I use lspci 00:11.0 RAID bus controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0,SB8x0,SB9x0 SATA Controller [RAID5 mode] (rev 40) One possible clue may be in dmesg, where I get the error device-mapper: table: 253:0: raid45: unknown target type The first question is: What type of raid are you using? a) Software-Raid created with mdadm co b) Hardware-Controller based raid. While in the first case you see all individual disks with their partitions and a /dev/mdX entry that actually contains the raid failsystem, the second one shows only a /dev/sdX holding the final raid drive. Additionally, for the hardware based raid, you'll need a driver for the controller that supports the raid5. I think this is the configuration you're trying to run, since you mentioned that you created your raid in the RAID BIOS. I'm not sure (I've never tried this) whether there is a driver for Linux supporting raid modes on board-embedded HW raid controllers. Alex
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid
Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012, 21:57:18 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: Hi all, I have recently built a new system, running Gentoo on a Sabertooth 990FX motherboard. The board has a raid controller on which I'm running a 120GB solid state drive for the OS (Raid 0) and a set of three 1.5TB drives which were previously running as a RAID5 array. no, it does not have a raid controller. It is bios raid. AKA fake raid. You will have less trouble if you stop using it. google for mdadm. There are some very nice howto's.
[gentoo-user] Automatic picking up the patches from /etc/portage/patches
Hello! I have noticed that with portage version changes its behaviour regarding the automatic patch catching (from /etc/portage/patches, for example) also changes. Some previous versions of portage did apply the patches from that directory while the most recent one does not. I consider this auto-patching feature quite useful and would like to use it, but currently I don't know how to do that. And also, is portage supposed to pick the patches up automatically or not in general? Thank you. Vladimir - v...@ukr.net
Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf - missing fonts
Am 04.01.2012 11:52, schrieb Willie WY Wong: On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 04:42:43PM -0700, Penguin Lover Joseph squawked: On 01/04/12 00:20, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 03.01.2012 23:15, schrieb Joseph: xpdf it complains about missing fonts xpdf hl5370d_ukeng_usr.pdf Error: No display font for 'Courier' Error: No display font for 'Courier-Bold' Error: No display font for 'Courier-BoldOblique' Error: No display font for 'Courier-Oblique' Error: No display font for 'Helvetica' Error: No display font for 'Helvetica-Bold' Error: No display font for 'Helvetica-BoldOblique' Error: No display font for 'Helvetica-Oblique' Error: No display font for 'Symbol' Error: No display font for 'Times-Bold' Error: No display font for 'Times-BoldItalic' Error: No display font for 'Times-Italic' Error: No display font for 'Times-Roman' Error: No display font for 'ZapfDingbats' Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Anybody knows how to install them? Xpdf is looking for fonts in places that are strange: open(/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022004l.pfb, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022004l.pfb, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n022004l.pfb, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n022004l.pfb, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n022004l.pfb, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(2, Error: , 7Error: ) = 7 write(2, No display font for 'Courier-Bol..., 34No display font for 'Courier-Bold') = 34 whereas the above font is actually in /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/ (I've been sort of just ignoring this warning, since no pdfs I've used have had problem displaying, despite those errors.) W Not sure what causes these errors or if they are related to the current issue at all. However, I guess the reason why it doesn't prevent most PDFs from working is that since PDF-1.5, all fonts have to be included in the PDF itself. Previously, some standard fonts could be assumed to be present on the PC. By the way: Does the issue happen with other readers as well? Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic picking up the patches from /etc/portage/patches
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04.01.2012 14:47, v...@ukr.net wrote: Hello! I have noticed that with portage version changes its behaviour regarding the automatic patch catching (from /etc/portage/patches, for example) also changes. Some previous versions of portage did apply the patches from that directory while the most recent one does not. I consider this auto-patching feature quite useful and would like to use it, but currently I don't know how to do that. And also, is portage supposed to pick the patches up automatically or not in general? Thank you. Vladimir - v...@ukr.net According to [1] epatch_user from eutils.eclass needs to be called by the ebuild for it to work. [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/docs/previews/hb-portage-advanced.xml -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPBFwPAAoJEJwwOFaNFkYc01UH/1GP8nFbp/NXZQ6OYaNhI4a7 rUeyJwiaCkPZs6Hoo3UFeEnKJqcZqHdASzdTZgplOSEbFNBaVAYS88HgRevSM8Kc 0M8pyRjlrs3d+kaP9zJZ0BsQhAaR0Uj0s6oz7bmTpTvUTNBucUeZDnRVHH2aKxCz bV1+Ii8Rr7TY4vQxcNVuSwM1iX/G/DLaTnxUN/pGlKxyzS4gng6y6GErDIBTiNYh 2/TwZdc6x7HwGxiCgn1WPv2Hdv12AE8RrVzT6hxowOCPMhj27rve2PkAwZQGl8u3 n3J2vBFbrwAjEGu7n6OS2ulsP/n4Gce0NhdtizHiyoL3QNPhG8noWmNIAWK0zE0= =LAKV -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic picking up the patches from /etc/portage/patches
On 01/04/2012 07:47 AM, v...@ukr.net wrote:
Hello!
I have noticed that with portage version changes its behaviour
regarding the automatic patch catching (from /etc/portage/patches, for
example) also changes. Some previous versions of portage did apply the
patches from that directory while the most recent one does not.
I consider this auto-patching feature quite useful and would like to
use it, but currently I don't know how to do that.
And also, is portage supposed to pick the patches up automatically or
not in general?
They are only picked up if the ebuild specifically calls epatch_user
function.
However, you can define this in your /etc/portage/bashrc to have
appended to all ebuilds (who don't already define this function):
post_src_prepare() {
epatch_user
}
then it will call it after it does its normal patching...
For example, I dropped a patch from BGO for xloadimage to make it build
against new libtiff into
/etc/portage/patches/media-gfx/xloadimage-4.1-r11 and emerge, I see this
in emerge output:
Preparing source in
/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/xloadimage-4.1-r11/work/xloadimage.4.1 ...
* Applying xloadimage-4.1-gentoo-r1.diff ... [ ok ]
* Applying xloadimage-4.1-zio-shell-meta-char.diff ... [ ok ]
* Applying xloadimage-4.1-endif.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying xloadimage-4.1-include-errno_h.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying xloadimage-gentoo.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying xloadimage-4.1-unaligned-access.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying xloadimage-4.1-ldflags_and_exit.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying xloadimage-4.1-libpng15.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying xloadimage-4.1-bracket.patch ... [ ok ]
* Running eautoreconf in
'/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/xloadimage-4.1-r11/work/xloadimage.4.1' ...
* Running aclocal ... [ ok ]
* Running autoconf ... [ ok ]
* Running autoheader ... [ ok ]
Source prepared.
* Applying user patches from
/etc/portage/patches//media-gfx/xloadimage-4.1-r11 ...
* xloadimage-4.1-tiff.patch ... [ ok ]
* Done with patching
Configuring source in
/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/xloadimage-4.1-r11/work/xloadimage.4.1 ...
Re: [gentoo-user] Init Scripts Not Starting
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:17 AM, YoYo Siska y...@gl.ksp.sk wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 08:31:08PM -0800, Dan Cowsill wrote: Hey list, A little while after I compiled Gnome and got things running, I lost the ability to add scripts to the default runlevel. I can run rc-update add xdm default, for example, and the xdm symlink will appear in /etc/runlevels/default, and that symlink will indeed point to /etc/init.d/xdm, but xdm will not start. Further to that, there's no evidence to indicate that RC is even trying to start it. No errors, no logs, no nothing. Same goes for virtualbox-guest-additions and sysklogd. I tried logging rc and got absolutely nowhere. There's nothing overt in dmesg either. The really fun part is these scripts function perfectly if I run them after boot. Since there's no evidence of this problem in any logs or during the startup process, I assume there is no problem and I am doing it wrong. Is it possible that you are booting into a different runlevel that default ? (there's a softlevel=... kernel cmdline parameter) What happens if (after boot) you just run rc (should start all service in the current runlevel, that are not started yet) or rc default (should swithc to 'default' runlevel and start all services) ? Could you post the output of rc-status -a ? And maybe also grep rc /etc/inittab ? For xdm there is one additional thing to check: xdm can be disabled through a 'nox' kernel cmdline option or an /etc/.noxdm file... But in that case the initscript itself should start and just print a message, that it is not starting the DM. yoyo Hey, thanks for the reply. Running rc or rc default returns immediately. I am sure I am starting into the default runlevel because ntp-client runs on default and it starts no problem. Output from grep rc /etc/inittab: si::sysinit:/sbin/rc sysinit rc::bootwait:/sbin/rc boot l0:0:wait:/sbin/rc shutdown l1:1:wait:/sbin/rc single l2:2:wait:/sbin/rc nonetwork l3:3:wait:/sbin/rc default l4:4:wait:/sbin/rc default l5:5:wait:/sbin/rc default l6:6:wait:/sbin/rc reboot su0:S:wait:/sbin/rc single Output from rc-status -a: Runlevel: default net.eth1 [ started ] dbus [ started ] net.eth0 [ started ] netmount [ started ] ntp-client[ started ] sshd [ started ] udev-postmount[ started ] local [ started ] Runlevel: sysinit dmesg [ started ] udev [ started ] devfs [ started ] Runlevel: boot hwclock [ started ] modules [ started ] fsck [ started ] root [ started ] mtab [ started ] localmount[ started ] sysctl[ started ] bootmisc [ started ] urandom [ started ] net.lo[ started ] termencoding [ started ] swap [ started ] keymaps [ started ] hostname [ started ] procfs[ started ] Runlevel: shutdown killprocs [ stopped ] savecache [ stopped ] mount-ro [ stopped ] Dynamic Runlevel: hotplugged Dynamic Runlevel: needed sysfs [ started ] Dynamic Runlevel: manual Output from rc-update show: bootmisc | boot dbus | default devfs | sysinit dmesg | sysinit fsck | boot
Re: [gentoo-user] xpdf - missing fonts
On 01/04/12 14:52, Florian Philipp wrote: [snip] open(/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022004l.pfb, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n022004l.pfb, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n022004l.pfb, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n022004l.pfb, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n022004l.pfb, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(2, Error: , 7Error: ) = 7 write(2, No display font for 'Courier-Bol..., 34No display font for 'Courier-Bold') = 34 whereas the above font is actually in /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/ (I've been sort of just ignoring this warning, since no pdfs I've used have had problem displaying, despite those errors.) W Not sure what causes these errors or if they are related to the current issue at all. However, I guess the reason why it doesn't prevent most PDFs from working is that since PDF-1.5, all fonts have to be included in the PDF itself. Previously, some standard fonts could be assumed to be present on the PC. By the way: Does the issue happen with other readers as well? Regards, Florian Philipp adding to /etc/xpdfrc: displayFontT1 Times-Roman /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n021003l.pfb displayFontT1 Times-Italic /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n021023l.pfb displayFontT1 Times-Bold/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n021004l.pfb displayFontT1 Times-BoldItalic /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n021024l.pfb displayFontT1 Helvetica /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n019003l.pfb displayFontT1 Helvetica-Oblique /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n019023l.pfb displayFontT1 Helvetica-Bold/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n019004l.pfb displayFontT1 Helvetica-BoldOblique /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n019024l.pfb displayFontT1 Courier /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n022003l.pfb displayFontT1 Courier-Oblique /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n022023l.pfb displayFontT1 Courier-Bold /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n022004l.pfb displayFontT1 Courier-BoldOblique /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/n022024l.pfb displayFontT1 Symbol/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/s05l.pfb displayFontT1 ZapfDingbats /usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts/d05l.pfb solves the problem with missing fonts but I still get a message: Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Some pdf documents have on side panel index, does anybody knows what options control the fonts in that index. On my display they are very small (hard to read) and choppy fonts. -- Joseph
[gentoo-user] ARP-Caching of non-link-local adresses
Hi list, I'm kind of despair. The history: We recently brought up a new firewall with Gentoo. There are (for my finding) some big nets behind this firewall (1x public /24, 2x public /27, 1x public /26, at least 2 private /24). Filtering is done via iptables and snort should jump as IPS on software-bridge br0. If it helps: There is also ip rule involved for source-based routing. The new firewall replaces an older Gentoo-system which did not show this behavior. We therefore copied several configfiles from the old to the new one. After getting it live, it runs well for a few hours and then becomes unreachable (also for hosts behind the bridge). Dmesg / kern.log stated at this time a neighbor table overflow and indeed, arp -n | wc -l showed a lot of entry's. As Google suggested, We then adjusted /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/default/ to: gc_thershold1 - 8192 gc_thershold2 - 16384 gc_thershold3 - 32768 Fireing an arp -d $bogus-ip-adress is failing with SIOCDARP(dontpub): Network is unreachable, adding -i br0 doesn't fail, but does not remove the line in the arp-table (it only says incomplete after greping arp -n again).. Therefore we are currently killing the arp-cache with ip link set arp off dev br0 ip link set arp on dev br0 by a cronjob. The combination of these workarounds are keeping the firewall reachable and alive. After stabilizing, we looked at the output of arp -n and noticed, that about 99(.999)% of the roundabout 11.000 (and rising) arp-cache-entry's contained public addresses for which the bridge of the firewall should not feel responsible (e.g. the public Google-dns-resolver and a load of more). The MAC-entry for these public addresses is always the one of our router, which is for sure the correct next hop. But from my understanding, it should arp-cache only our net's directly at the cable and not those public ones. It looks like a configuration-issue, but I don't know, where to start looking. I've already checked the default-gateway, netmasks, broadcast-addresses and to me, they are looking fine, so any poke where to start looking is greatly appreciated. In case it will help, I attached the /etc/conf.d/net, ifconfig -a and route -n. If something else is needed, feel free to ask. Hope, anyone can help. Thanks in advance, Ralf host ~ # route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 0.0.0.0 89.XXX.XXX.30.0.0.0 UG0 00 br0 10.23.42.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp1 87.186.224.50 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 89.XXX.XXX.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 br0 127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 UG0 00 lo 134.XX.X.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 lan 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 lan 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 mgm 192.168.7.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 tun0 192.168.9.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 tun0 192.168.20.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 tun1 192.168.42.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 tun1 192.168.254.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 wlan 213.XXX.140.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.224 U 0 00 br0 213.XXX.141.96 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.224 U 0 00 br0 213.XXX.143.128 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.192 U 0 00 br0 modules=( iproute2 ) config_dsl=null config_lan=192.168.1.110 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.1.255 134.XX.X.102 netmask 255.255.255.240 brd 134.XX.X.111 134.XX.X.103 netmask 255.255.255.240 brd 134.XX.X.111 134.XX.X.104 netmask 255.255.255.240 brd 134.XX.X.111 134.XX.X.105 netmask 255.255.255.240 brd 134.XX.X.111 134.XX.X.106 netmask 255.255.255.240 brd 134.XX.X.111 134.XX.X.107 netmask 255.255.255.240 brd 134.XX.X.111 134.XX.X.108 netmask 255.255.255.240 brd 134.XX.X.111 134.XX.X.109 netmask 255.255.255.240 brd 134.XX.X.111 134.XX.X.110 netmask 255.255.255.240 brd 134.XX.X.111 config_mgm=192.168.2.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.2.255 config_dmz=null config_isp=null config_wlan=192.168.254.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.254.255 dns_domain_lan=herp.derp.local dns_servers_lan=192.168.1.XXX 192.168.1.XXY dns_search_lan=herp.derp.local #- # Bridging (802.1d) bridge_br0=dmz isp config_br0=89.XXX.XXX.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 89.XXX.XXX.255 89.XXX.XXX.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 89.XXX.XXX.255 89.XXX.XXX.12 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 89.XXX.XXX.255 89.XXX.XXX.13
Re: [gentoo-user] problems, with, 'hibernate, to, disk', two, nvidia, cards, installed
On Wednesday 04 Jan 2012 13:23:20 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [12-01-04 14:22]:
On Wednesday 04 Jan 2012 06:31:45 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org [12-01-04 06:25]:
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 03:03:49AM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote
...I tried linux kernel 3.1.7 and it does not fix the problem.
The situation remains the samesigh
What can I addtionaly check ?
An excerpt from the hibernate.conf man page...
===
Verbosity N
Determines how verbose the output from the suspend
script should be: 0: silent except for errors 1: print
steps 2: print steps in detail 3: print steps in lots
of detail 4: print out every command executed (uses -x)
LogFile filename
If specified, output from the suspend script will also
be redirected to this file - useful for debugging
purposes.
===
Add the 2 lines...
Verbosity 4
LogFile /root/hibernate.log
It is
LogVerbosity 4
and the configuration file is
/etc/hibernate/common.conf
(just for those reading this thread later)
...to /etc/hibernate.conf and attempt to suspend. If it doesn't
power off, do *NOT* use the power switch. Either reboot with
{CTRL}{ALT}{DEL} or else use the Magic SysReq Key, if you have it
enabled. Once you restart, take a look at the logfile to see where
it dies. If you can't figure it out, gzip the logfile and attach it
to a posting here, and we'll try to figure it out.
CTRL-ALT-DEL does not work here.
Sysrq does not work either.
May be this is because the usb-module gets unloaded before (just a
shot in the dark)?
I had to power off again.
I dont know, whether the log entries are valid under this conditions,
but here they are:
Starting suspend at Wed Jan 4 06:35:36 CET 2012
Jan 4 06:35:36.67 hibernate: [01] Executing CheckLastResume ...
Jan 4 06:35:36.68 hibernate: [01] Executing CheckRunlevel ...
Jan 4 06:35:36.69 hibernate: [01] Executing LockFileGet ...
Jan 4 06:35:36.70 hibernate: [01] Executing NewKernelFileCheck ...
Jan 4 06:35:36.71 hibernate: [10] Executing
EnsureSysfsPowerStateCapable ... Jan 4 06:35:36.72 hibernate: [11]
Executing XHacksSuspendHook1 ... Jan 4 06:35:36.73 hibernate: [19]
Executing DevicesFree ...
Jan 4 06:35:43.53 hibernate: [30] Executing ServicesStop ...
Jan 4 06:35:43.54 Executing /etc/init.d/alsasound stop
* Storing ALSA Mixer Levels ... [ ok ]
Jan 4 06:35:43.64 hibernate: [45] Executing FSTypesUnmount ...
Jan 4 06:35:43.66 hibernate: [59] Executing RemountXFSBootRO ...
Jan 4 06:35:43.67 hibernate: [89] Executing SaveKernelModprobe ...
Jan 4 06:35:43.68 Saved /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe is /sbin/modprobe
Jan 4 06:35:43.69 hibernate: [90] Executing ModulesUnload ...
Jan 4 06:35:43.70 -n Unloading module snd_via82cxxx...
Jan 4 06:35:43.70 not loaded.
Jan 4 06:35:43.71 -n Unloading module usb-ohci...
Jan 4 06:35:43.71 not loaded.
Jan 4 06:35:43.72 -n Unloading module snd_via82cxxx...
Jan 4 06:35:43.72 not loaded.
Jan 4 06:35:43.73 -n Unloading module usb-ohci...
Jan 4 06:35:43.74 not loaded.
Jan 4 06:35:43.74 hibernate: [91] Executing ModulesUnloadBlacklist ...
Jan 4 06:35:43.75 Unloading blacklisted modules listed
/etc/hibernate/blacklisted-modules Jan 4 06:35:43.89 Module version for
ipw2100 is
Jan 4 06:35:43.91 Module version for ipw2200 is
Jan 4 06:35:44.08 Module version for snd_bt_sco is
Jan 4 06:35:44.21 Module version for ndiswrapper is
Jan 4 06:35:44.33 hibernate: [91] Executing ModulesUnloadBlacklist ...
Jan 4 06:35:44.34 Unloading blacklisted modules listed
/etc/hibernate/blacklisted-modules Jan 4 06:35:44.45 Module version for
ipw2100 is
Jan 4 06:35:44.47 Module version for ipw2200 is
Jan 4 06:35:44.64 Module version for snd_bt_sco is
Jan 4 06:35:44.77 Module version for ndiswrapper is
Jan 4 06:35:44.90 hibernate: [95] Executing XHacksSuspendHook2 ...
Jan 4 06:35:44.92 xhacks: changing console from 7 to 15
Jan 4 06:35:46.65 hibernate: [98] Executing CheckRunlevel ...
Jan 4 06:35:46.66 hibernate: [98] Executing FullSpeedCPUSuspend ...
Jan 4 06:35:46.69 Switched to performance, with min freq at 360
Jan 4 06:35:46.71 Switched to performance, with min freq at 360
Jan 4 06:35:46.73 Switched to performance, with min freq at 360
Jan 4 06:35:46.74 Switched to performance, with min freq at 360
Jan 4 06:35:46.75 Switched to performance, with min freq at 360
Jan 4 06:35:46.76 Switched to performance, with min freq at 360
Jan 4 06:35:46.76
Re: [gentoo-user] Init Scripts Not Starting
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 06:53:18 -0800, Dan Cowsill wrote: Running rc or rc default returns immediately. I am sure I am starting into the default runlevel because ntp-client runs on default and it starts no problem. Have you enabled logging in rc.conf? What does /var/log/rc.log show? -- Neil Bothwick Eat shit - 50 million flies can't be wrong Use Microsoft . . . . . signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] KDE won't start up....
Hi all, I had a running KDE 4 setup and this afternoon did an: emerge -NuD world There were no errors reported, the kernel source had been updated, so I compiled the new kernel, and copied it into place, recompiled my nvidia driver and also evdev drivers and then rebooted the machine. Now, the machine boots up, I get all the usual booting messages, starting ntp, mounting drives, getting IP addresses, exporting nfs and so on, the screen goes black, the hour glass of the KDE log in screen briefly appears then the screen is blanked and I'm back at a text login. I've logged into the machine from the text login and recompiled the kernel, copied it into place, recompiled nvidia and evdev and still the problem persists. I've looked at the xorg kdm logs and there are a few errors there that google searches seem to say are OK. The thing that is confusing is that when at the text prompt, I can start up bog standard X via startx and the mouse and keyboard work but I can't get KDE to start. Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing this problem? Any thoughts on where, besides the two obvious logs, that I can try and track down what's going wrong here, or steps I can take to debug the KDE startup? Any thoughts greatly appreciated, Andrew
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE won't start up....
Andrew Lowe wrote:
Hi all,
I had a running KDE 4 setup and this afternoon did an:
emerge -NuD world
There were no errors reported, the kernel source had been updated, so I
compiled the new kernel, and copied it into place, recompiled my nvidia
driver and also evdev drivers and then rebooted the machine. Now, the
machine boots up, I get all the usual booting messages, starting ntp,
mounting drives, getting IP addresses, exporting nfs and so on, the
screen goes black, the hour glass of the KDE log in screen briefly
appears then the screen is blanked and I'm back at a text login.
I've logged into the machine from the text login and recompiled the
kernel, copied it into place, recompiled nvidia and evdev and still the
problem persists. I've looked at the xorg kdm logs and there are a
few errors there that google searches seem to say are OK. The thing that
is confusing is that when at the text prompt, I can start up bog
standard X via startx and the mouse and keyboard work but I can't get
KDE to start. Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing
this problem? Any thoughts on where, besides the two obvious logs, that
I can try and track down what's going wrong here, or steps I can take to
debug the KDE startup?
Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
Andrew
Anything in ~/.xsession-errors?
I wonder if KDE's {window manager|session manager} is failing out. I
don't know KDE very well, but that's what it sounds like.
Re: [gentoo-user] ARP-Caching of non-link-local adresses
On Jan 4, 2012 11:20 PM, Peter Pan os...@gmx.net wrote: Hi list, I’m kind of despair. The history: We recently brought up a new firewall with Gentoo. There are (for my finding) some big nets behind this firewall (1x public /24, 2x public /27, 1x public /26, at least 2 private /24). Filtering is done via iptables and snort should jump as IPS on software-bridge br0. If it helps: There is also ip rule involved for source-based routing. The new firewall replaces an older Gentoo-system which did not show this behavior. We therefore copied several configfiles from the old to the new one. After getting it live, it runs well for a few hours and then becomes unreachable (also for hosts behind the bridge). Dmesg / kern.log stated at this time a neighbor table overflow and indeed, arp –n | wc –l showed a lot of entry’s. As Google suggested, We then adjusted /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/default/ to: gc_thershold1 - 8192 gc_thershold2 - 16384 gc_thershold3 - 32768 Fireing an “arp –d $bogus-ip-adress” is failing with „SIOCDARP(dontpub): Network is unreachable”, adding –i br0 doesn’t fail, but does not remove the line in the arp-table (it only says “incomplete” after greping arp -n again).. Therefore we are currently killing the arp-cache with “ip link set arp off dev br0 ip link set arp on dev br0” by a cronjob. The combination of these workarounds are keeping the firewall reachable and “alive”. After stabilizing, we looked at the output of arp –n and noticed, that about 99(.999)% of the roundabout 11.000 (and rising) arp-cache-entry’s contained public addresses for which the bridge of the firewall should not feel responsible (e.g. the public Google-dns-resolver and a load of more). The MAC-entry for these public addresses is always the one of our router, which is for sure the correct next hop. But from my understanding, it should arp-cache only “our” net’s directly at the cable and not those public ones. It looks like a configuration-issue, but I don’t know, where to start looking. I’ve already checked the default-gateway, netmasks, broadcast-addresses and to me, they are looking fine, so any poke where to start looking is greatly appreciated. In case it will help, I attached the /etc/conf.d/net, ifconfig –a and route -n. If something else is needed, feel free to ask. Hope, anyone can help. Try turning off proxy ARP on the internal and/or external interfaces. Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] ARP-Caching of non-link-local adresses
On Jan 5, 2012 12:28 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 4, 2012 11:20 PM, Peter Pan os...@gmx.net wrote: Hi list, I’m kind of despair. The history: We recently brought up a new firewall with Gentoo. There are (for my finding) some big nets behind this firewall (1x public /24, 2x public /27, 1x public /26, at least 2 private /24). Filtering is done via iptables and snort should jump as IPS on software-bridge br0. If it helps: There is also ip rule involved for source-based routing. The new firewall replaces an older Gentoo-system which did not show this behavior. We therefore copied several configfiles from the old to the new one. After getting it live, it runs well for a few hours and then becomes unreachable (also for hosts behind the bridge). Dmesg / kern.log stated at this time a neighbor table overflow and indeed, arp –n | wc –l showed a lot of entry’s. As Google suggested, We then adjusted /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/default/ to: gc_thershold1 - 8192 gc_thershold2 - 16384 gc_thershold3 - 32768 Fireing an “arp –d $bogus-ip-adress” is failing with „SIOCDARP(dontpub): Network is unreachable”, adding –i br0 doesn’t fail, but does not remove the line in the arp-table (it only says “incomplete” after greping arp -n again).. Therefore we are currently killing the arp-cache with “ip link set arp off dev br0 ip link set arp on dev br0” by a cronjob. The combination of these workarounds are keeping the firewall reachable and “alive”. After stabilizing, we looked at the output of arp –n and noticed, that about 99(.999)% of the roundabout 11.000 (and rising) arp-cache-entry’s contained public addresses for which the bridge of the firewall should not feel responsible (e.g. the public Google-dns-resolver and a load of more). The MAC-entry for these public addresses is always the one of our router, which is for sure the correct next hop. But from my understanding, it should arp-cache only “our” net’s directly at the cable and not those public ones. It looks like a configuration-issue, but I don’t know, where to start looking. I’ve already checked the default-gateway, netmasks, broadcast-addresses and to me, they are looking fine, so any poke where to start looking is greatly appreciated. In case it will help, I attached the /etc/conf.d/net, ifconfig –a and route -n. If something else is needed, feel free to ask. Hope, anyone can help. Try turning off proxy ARP on the internal and/or external interfaces. Bah, tapped Send accidentally. Here's a reference on turning ON Proxy ARP: http://www.sjdjweis.com/linux/proxyarp/ Use echo 0 to turn off. If it works, make the concomitant changes in /etc/sysctl.conf Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE won't start up....
Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012, 01:04:53 schrieb Andrew Lowe: Hi all, I had a running KDE 4 setup and this afternoon did an: emerge -NuD world There were no errors reported, the kernel source had been updated, so I compiled the new kernel, and copied it into place, recompiled my nvidia driver and also evdev drivers and then rebooted the machine. Now, the machine boots up, I get all the usual booting messages, starting ntp, mounting drives, getting IP addresses, exporting nfs and so on, the screen goes black, the hour glass of the KDE log in screen briefly appears then the screen is blanked and I'm back at a text login. I've logged into the machine from the text login and recompiled the kernel, copied it into place, recompiled nvidia and evdev and still the problem persists. I've looked at the xorg kdm logs and there are a few errors there that google searches seem to say are OK. The thing that is confusing is that when at the text prompt, I can start up bog standard X via startx and the mouse and keyboard work but I can't get KDE to start. Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing this problem? Any thoughts on where, besides the two obvious logs, that I can try and track down what's going wrong here, or steps I can take to debug the KDE startup? Any thoughts greatly appreciated, Andrew .xsession-errors Xorg.0.log please. If both are huge, upload them somewhere. Also make sure that the permissions of /tmp and /var/tmp are ok. Had it in the past that some update did some very scary things to both places. -- #163933
Re: [gentoo-user] ARP-Caching of non-link-local adresses
On Jan 4, 2012 11:20 PM, Peter Pan os...@gmx.net wrote: Hi list, - 8 snip Can you post the output of ip rule sh? And for every table listed in the above, post the output of ip route sh table $TABLENAME? Rgds,
AW: [gentoo-user] ARP-Caching of non-link-local adresses
Hi Pandu, thanks for your reply. As far as I can see, proxy_arp is not enabled on any interfaces: host conf # pwd /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf Host conf # for f in $(find | grep -i proxy_arp | grep -v pvlan ); do echo $f cat $f ;done ./all/proxy_arp 0 ./default/proxy_arp 0 ./lo/proxy_arp 0 ./sit0/proxy_arp 0 ./lan/proxy_arp 0 ./dmz/proxy_arp 0 ./isp/proxy_arp 0 ./dsl/proxy_arp 0 ./wlan/proxy_arp 0 ./mgm/proxy_arp 0 ./br0/proxy_arp 0 ./ppp0/proxy_arp 0 ./tun1/proxy_arp 0 ./tun0/proxy_arp 0 Regards, Ralf Von: Pandu Poluan [mailto:pa...@poluan.info] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2012 18:29 An: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Betreff: Re: [gentoo-user] ARP-Caching of non-link-local adresses On Jan 4, 2012 11:20 PM, Peter Pan os...@gmx.net wrote: Hi list, I’m kind of despair. The history: We recently brought up a new firewall with Gentoo. There are (for my finding) some big nets behind this firewall (1x public /24, 2x public /27, 1x public /26, at least 2 private /24). Filtering is done via iptables and snort should jump as IPS on software-bridge br0. If it helps: There is also ip rule involved for source-based routing. The new firewall replaces an older Gentoo-system which did not show this behavior. We therefore copied several configfiles from the old to the new one. After getting it live, it runs well for a few hours and then becomes unreachable (also for hosts behind the bridge). Dmesg / kern.log stated at this time a neighbor table overflow and indeed, arp –n | wc –l showed a lot of entry’s. As Google suggested, We then adjusted /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/default/ to: gc_thershold1 - 8192 gc_thershold2 - 16384 gc_thershold3 - 32768 Fireing an “arp –d $bogus-ip-adress” is failing with „SIOCDARP(dontpub): Network is unreachable”, adding –i br0 doesn’t fail, but does not remove the line in the arp-table (it only says “incomplete” after greping arp -n again).. Therefore we are currently killing the arp-cache with “ip link set arp off dev br0 ip link set arp on dev br0” by a cronjob. The combination of these workarounds are keeping the firewall reachable and “alive”. After stabilizing, we looked at the output of arp –n and noticed, that about 99(.999)% of the roundabout 11.000 (and rising) arp-cache-entry’s contained public addresses for which the bridge of the firewall should not feel responsible (e.g. the public Google-dns-resolver and a load of more). The MAC-entry for these public addresses is always the one of our router, which is for sure the correct next hop. But from my understanding, it should arp-cache only “our” net’s directly at the cable and not those public ones. It looks like a configuration-issue, but I don’t know, where to start looking. I’ve already checked the default-gateway, netmasks, broadcast-addresses and to me, they are looking fine, so any poke where to start looking is greatly appreciated. In case it will help, I attached the /etc/conf.d/net, ifconfig –a and route -n. If something else is needed, feel free to ask. Hope, anyone can help. Try turning off proxy ARP on the internal and/or external interfaces. Rgds,
[gentoo-user] requirements for a gentoo wlan accesspoint
Hi people! I want to make my linux machine being a wlan access point for my other components like Notebook, Cell phone etc... Now the big question, what do I need to accomplish this?! like a wlan router where I would get a WPA2 key, I want the linux machine to act as a wlan router who offers WPA2 encrpytion. for any response I would thank you. Tamer
Re: [gentoo-user] requirements for a gentoo wlan accesspoint
Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people! I want to make my linux machine being a wlan access point for my other components like Notebook, Cell phone etc... Now the big question, what do I need to accomplish this?! like a wlan router where I would get a WPA2 key, I want the linux machine to act as a wlan router who offers WPA2 encrpytion. for any response I would thank you. I don't really know much about running a wifi interface in AP mode on Linux. I have an ASUS WL-330gE plugged into an interface on my Linux router, where it serves as a simple AP. My router handles routing and firewalling from there. I *do* know that some wifi chipsets support running in AP mode, and some don't. I don't know which.
Re: [gentoo-user] Init Scripts Not Starting
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 06:53:18AM -0800, Dan Cowsill wrote: On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:17 AM, YoYo Siska y...@gl.ksp.sk wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 08:31:08PM -0800, Dan Cowsill wrote: Hey list, A little while after I compiled Gnome and got things running, I lost the ability to add scripts to the default runlevel. I can run rc-update add xdm default, for example, and the xdm symlink will appear in /etc/runlevels/default, and that symlink will indeed point to /etc/init.d/xdm, but xdm will not start. Further to that, there's no evidence to indicate that RC is even trying to start it. No errors, no logs, no nothing. Same goes for virtualbox-guest-additions and sysklogd. I tried logging rc and got absolutely nowhere. There's nothing overt in dmesg either. The really fun part is these scripts function perfectly if I run them after boot. Since there's no evidence of this problem in any logs or during the startup process, I assume there is no problem and I am doing it wrong. Is it possible that you are booting into a different runlevel that default ? (there's a softlevel=... kernel cmdline parameter) What happens if (after boot) you just run rc (should start all service in the current runlevel, that are not started yet) or rc default (should swithc to 'default' runlevel and start all services) ? Could you post the output of rc-status -a ? And maybe also grep rc /etc/inittab ? For xdm there is one additional thing to check: xdm can be disabled through a 'nox' kernel cmdline option or an /etc/.noxdm file... But in that case the initscript itself should start and just print a message, that it is not starting the DM. yoyo Hey, thanks for the reply. Running rc or rc default returns immediately. I am sure I am starting into the default runlevel because ntp-client runs on default and it starts no problem. Hmm, the weird thing is that 'rc-status -a' and 'rc-update show' show different things (no xdm and virtualbox-... in the first one) but I have no idea what might be causing that... Few random thoughts: Did you check the file permissions on those scripts? Any pending etc-update stuff (esp. in /etc/init.d) ? (not that it should affect this in any way...) If anything else, you can try running 'strace -e trace=file' on rc-status and rc-update show and might notice something there that would explain while those two tools come up with different sets of scripts... You can also look around the dirs/files in /lib/rc/init.d/ to se a more complete state of the rc system... (/lib/rc/init.d/softlevel should show the current runlevel) yoyo Output from grep rc /etc/inittab: si::sysinit:/sbin/rc sysinit rc::bootwait:/sbin/rc boot l0:0:wait:/sbin/rc shutdown l1:1:wait:/sbin/rc single l2:2:wait:/sbin/rc nonetwork l3:3:wait:/sbin/rc default l4:4:wait:/sbin/rc default l5:5:wait:/sbin/rc default l6:6:wait:/sbin/rc reboot su0:S:wait:/sbin/rc single Output from rc-status -a: Runlevel: default net.eth1 [ started ] dbus [ started ] net.eth0 [ started ] netmount [ started ] ntp-client[ started ] sshd [ started ] udev-postmount[ started ] local [ started ] Runlevel: sysinit dmesg [ started ] udev [ started ] devfs [ started ] Runlevel: boot hwclock [ started ] modules [ started ] fsck [ started ] root [ started ] mtab [ started ] localmount[ started ] sysctl[ started ] bootmisc [ started ] urandom [ started ] net.lo[ started ] termencoding [ started ] swap [
[gentoo-user] Re: KDE won't start up....
On 01/04/2012 09:04 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: I can start up bog standard X via startx and the mouse and keyboard work but I can't get KDE to start. Does startx give you the twm session with some xterms and an xclock? If so, try running 'startkde' from an xterm. (Or whatever may have replaced startkde since I looked last.) Running revdep-rebuild is a good idea after every update, too.
AW: [gentoo-user] ARP-Caching of non-link-local adresses
Hi, This is quite a large list with lots of hosts, but even grep –v the larger /24-ones leaves the arp-table up to 10.000… I’ve also heared (but never understood), that the lo-interface should be up and running. This is true in this case, but I noticed, the routes for 127.0.0.1 are missing in some tables. I slightly doubt, that this is the root-cause for the exploding arp-cache, but I though it’s worth mentioning. Thanks for your help, and regards, here is the output: host ~ # ip rule sh 0: from all lookup local 32717: from 192.168.254.0/24 lookup wlan 32718: from 192.168.1.30 lookup dmz 32719: from 192.168.1.129 lookup dmz 32720: from 192.168.1.118 lookup dmz 32721: from 192.168.1.117 lookup dmz 32722: from 192.168.1.106 lookup owa 32723: from 192.168.1.105 lookup dmz 32724: from 192.168.1.103 lookup dmz 32725: from 192.168.1.100 lookup dmz 32726: from 192.168.1.99 lookup dmz 32727: from 192.168.1.76 lookup dmz 32728: from 192.168.1.56 lookup dmz 32729: from 192.168.1.48 lookup dmz 32730: from 192.168.1.39 lookup dmz 32731: from 192.168.1.25 lookup dmz 32732: from 192.168.1.24 lookup dmz 32733: from 192.168.1.23 lookup dmz 32734: from 213.XXX.143.128/26 lookup dmz 32735: from 213.XXX.141.96/27 lookup dmz 32736: from 213.XXX.140.0/27 lookup dmz 32737: from 89.XXX.XXX.0/24 lookup dmz 32738: from 10.23.47.0/24 lookup voip 32739: from 10.23.42.0/24 lookup vpn2 32741: from 192.168.1.0/24 lookup lan 32742: from 192.168.1.30 lookup dmz 32743: from 192.168.1.129 lookup dmz 32744: from 192.168.1.118 lookup dmz 32745: from 192.168.1.117 lookup dmz 32746: from 192.168.1.106 lookup owa 32747: from 192.168.1.105 lookup dmz 32748: from 192.168.1.103 lookup dmz 32749: from 192.168.1.100 lookup dmz 32750: from 192.168.1.99 lookup dmz 32751: from 192.168.1.76 lookup dmz 32752: from 192.168.1.56 lookup dmz 32753: from 192.168.1.48 lookup dmz 32754: from 192.168.1.39 lookup dmz 32755: from 192.168.1.25 lookup dmz 32756: from 192.168.1.24 lookup dmz 32757: from 192.168.1.23 lookup dmz 32758: from 213.XXX.XXX.128/26 lookup dmz 32759: from 213.XXX.XXX.96/27 lookup dmz 32760: from 213.XXX.XXX.0/27 lookup dmz 32761: from 89.XXX.XXX.0/24 lookup dmz 32762: from 10.23.47.0/24 lookup voip 32763: from 10.23.42.0/24 lookup vpn2 32765: from 192.168.1.0/24 lookup lan 32766: from all lookup main 32767: from all lookup default table wlan host ~ # ip route show table wlan default dev ppp0 scope link 89.XXX.XXX.0/24 dev br0 scope link 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo scope link 192.168.1.0/24 dev lan scope link 192.168.51.0/24 via 89.XXX.XXX.82 dev br0 192.168.52.0/24 via 89.XXX.XXX.82 dev br0 192.168.53.0/24 via 89.XXX.XXX.82 dev br0 192.168.113.0/24 via 192.168.1.113 dev lan 192.168.254.0/24 dev wlan scope link 213.XXX.140.0/27 dev br0 scope link 213.XXX.141.96/27 dev br0 scope link 213.XXX.143.128/26 dev br0 scope link table dmz host ~ # ip route show table dmz default dev br0 scope link 89.XXX.XXX.0/24 dev br0 scope link 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo scope link 192.168.1.0/24 dev lan scope link 192.168.7.0/24 dev tun0 scope link 192.168.9.0/24 dev tun0 scope link 192.168.20.0/24 dev tun1 scope link 192.168.42.0/24 dev tun1 scope link 192.168.51.0/24 via 89.XXX.XXX.82 dev br0 192.168.52.0/24 via 89.XXX.XXX.82 dev br0 192.168.53.0/24 via 89.XXX.XXX.82 dev br0 192.168.113.0/24 via 192.168.1.113 dev lan 192.168.254.0/24 dev wlan scope link 213.XXX.140.0/27 dev br0 scope link 213.XXX.141.96/27 dev br0 scope link 213.XXX.143.128/26 dev br0 scope link table owa host ~ # ip route show table owa default dev br0 scope link 89.XXX.XXX.0/24 dev br0 scope link 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo scope link 192.168.1.0/24 dev lan scope link 192.168.7.0/24 dev tun0 scope link 192.168.9.0/24 dev tun0 scope link 192.168.20.0/24 dev tun1 scope link 192.168.42.0/24 dev tun1 scope link 192.168.51.0/24 via 89.XXX.XXX.82 dev br0 192.168.52.0/24 via 89.XXX.XXX.82 dev br0 192.168.53.0/24 via 89.XXX.XXX.82 dev br0 192.168.113.0/24 via 192.168.1.113 dev lan 213.XXX.140.0/27 dev br0 scope link 213.XXX.141.96/27 dev br0 scope link 213.XXX.143.128/26 dev br0 scope link table voip host ~ # ip route show table voip default dev lan scope link 192.168.1.0/24 dev lan scope link table vpn2 host ~ # ip route show table vpn2 192.168.1.0/24 dev lan scope link 213.XXX.140.0/27 dev br0 scope link 213.XXX.141.96/27 dev br0 scope link 213.XXX.143.128/28 dev br0 scope link table lan host ~ # ip route show table lan default dev ppp0 scope link 46.137.XXX.148 dev br0 scope link 46.137.XXX.212 dev br0 scope link 62.52.XX.252 dev br0 scope link 62.XXX.14.0/24 dev br0 scope link 62.XXX.192.204 dev br0 scope link 78.46.XXX.24/29 dev br0 scope link 80.153.XX.139 dev br0 scope link 81.137.XX.94 dev br0 scope link 83.104.XXX.105 dev br0 scope link 89.XXX.XXX.0/24 dev
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE won't start up....
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 06:36:59PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012, 01:04:53 schrieb Andrew Lowe: Hi all, I had a running KDE 4 setup and this afternoon did an: emerge -NuD world There were no errors reported, the kernel source had been updated, so I compiled the new kernel, and copied it into place, recompiled my nvidia driver and also evdev drivers and then rebooted the machine. Now, the machine boots up, I get all the usual booting messages, starting ntp, mounting drives, getting IP addresses, exporting nfs and so on, the screen goes black, the hour glass of the KDE log in screen briefly appears then the screen is blanked and I'm back at a text login. I've logged into the machine from the text login and recompiled the kernel, copied it into place, recompiled nvidia and evdev and still the problem persists. I've looked at the xorg kdm logs and there are a few errors there that google searches seem to say are OK. The thing that is confusing is that when at the text prompt, I can start up bog standard X via startx and the mouse and keyboard work but I can't get KDE to start. Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing this problem? Any thoughts on where, besides the two obvious logs, that I can try and track down what's going wrong here, or steps I can take to debug the KDE startup? Any thoughts greatly appreciated, Andrew .xsession-errors Xorg.0.log please. If both are huge, upload them somewhere. Also make sure that the permissions of /tmp and /var/tmp are ok. Had it in the past that some update did some very scary things to both places. Also /var/log/kdm.log would be of use (if you are (well, want to ;) using KDM as the login manager)... because it seems that the problem might be with KDM greeter or something similar. I had it segfaulting once, the symptoms were very similar, KDM did bring up X and start kdmgreet which crashed, X went down immediately, because they had no clients, KDM noticed that X was running only for a very short time and interpreted that (correctly) as a sign that something went wrong and didn't restart the X and insted just stopped... that would also explain why running startx works ... btw, does startx /usr/bin/startkde start a KDE session? yoyo
[gentoo-user] No mysql_install_db in dev-db/mysql-5.5.19?
I know, mysql = 5.5 is masked even on ~amd64, but I need mysql 5.5 for the improved InnoDB support it has. When I run emerge --config =dev-db/mysql-5.5.19, it doesn't complete and I see this in mysql_install_db.log: //usr/bin/mysql_install_db: No such file or directory The command doesn't exist, tried that on the shell. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
Re: [gentoo-user] requirements for a gentoo wlan accesspoint
Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com writes: Hi people! I want to make my linux machine being a wlan access point for my other components like Notebook, Cell phone etc... Now the big question, what do I need to accomplish this?! like a wlan router where I would get a WPA2 key, I want the linux machine to act as a wlan router who offers WPA2 encrpytion. for any response I would thank you. Tamer http://sylv1.tuxfamily.org/projects/tutorial-wpa2-access-point.html That should get you started. Configuring hostapd and dhcp are the main things you need to do as well as having a card that supports master mode. Hope that helps. -- t: https://www.twitter.com/mikankun b: http://mikankun.wordpress.com
AW: [gentoo-user] requirements for a gentoo wlan accesspoint
Hi, you might want to have a look here for choosing the hardware: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers an in column AP set it to yes. Once you have the driver, you can search for compatible hardware. Usually, Atheros-chips should be a good way to go, although there are different versions of them (and some of them wont go to AP-mode). I tried to accomplish the same with several USB-devices and hostap. I managed getting up an Software-802.11n access-point, but the throughput was kinda bad so I got back to the WLAN provided by the DSL-Router. Hope this helps at least a bit. Regards, Ralf -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Tamer Higazi [mailto:th9...@googlemail.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2012 19:19 An: gentoo-user Betreff: [gentoo-user] requirements for a gentoo wlan accesspoint Hi people! I want to make my linux machine being a wlan access point for my other components like Notebook, Cell phone etc... Now the big question, what do I need to accomplish this?! like a wlan router where I would get a WPA2 key, I want the linux machine to act as a wlan router who offers WPA2 encrpytion. for any response I would thank you. Tamer
[gentoo-user] Strange flashplayer behavior recently
I'm always getting email with links to youtube and various other flash-intensive websites, and just a few days ago the flash content stopped loading in firefox when I click on the URL in thunderbird. For example, the youtube web page opens normally and all the various icons come up, but the video window just stays black instead of playing the video. If I then use the same firefox session to visit other websites, their flash content doesn't load either. Here is the really weird part: if a firefox window is *already* open when I click the URL in thunderbird, all the flash stuff comes up normally in the existing firefox window :-/ Using ps to examine the firefox process shows the URL to be exactly the same as if I start firefox from a command prompt, so thunderbird isn't corrupting the URL that it passes to firefox. As I said, this problem started just recently, after working correctly for years. I'm stumped. Any thoughts?
[gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles
Here's the rig: AMD Phenom II X3 720 (unlocked to 4 cores and OC'd to 3 Ghz, however taking it back to stock doesn't affect the problem) 4 Gigs DDR3-1600 at 7-7-7-16 ASUS ASUS M4A78T-E AM3 Mobo MSI N9800GT GeForce 9800 GT 512MB other less important things would be two 320GB SATA drives, an IDE dvd writer, internal card reader, blah blah There are two things I can get this system to consistently lock up while doing: a large compilation such as Chromium, open office, or GCC, or playing Age of Conan in my separate Windows 7 partition. For normal everyday tasks, I can't lock the thing up. The system even plays WoW on maximum settings, Skyrim on max, Counter-Strike Source on max, 1080p youtube or local videos / movies. Watching the processor temp stays relatively low, the GPU temp stays normal, north bridge temp is good. The kernel panics I get are usually recoverable, I can just F7 back into my desktop and the compile may or may not still be going. If it is, it's usually dead by the third or fourth panic. Memtest86+ ran for 24 hours and found no issues with memory on 18 passes. So, pretty much where I'm at is either processor or RAM. Unless anybody here has a better idea. And how could I test whether it was the processor or RAM without any current replacement parts? What tests usually show one over the other? -- Jason Weisberger jbdu...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 4, 2012 6:19 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:31:20 +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: I know. It's the I want to get the rid of initramfs thing that looks crazy to me. No one is saying they want to get rid of the initramfs, because they are not using one. What people object to is being forced to start using one. You got that right. I have not used one since I started using Gentoo. Now, I may very well have to start. I hope mdev gets to a point where it works really well on desktop systems. You were there in the thread linked by Walt, udev is just one of several packages maintained by RH people that *demands* /usr to be mounted during boot. And the RH devels insistence to deprecate /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin... I'm getting depressed. One battle might be won (mdev vs udev), but there's still a war against the RH braindeadness... I'm sorry to tell you this, but (as admirable as it could be), the mdev hack to use it instead of udev is not a victory. We are not at war, in the first place; and in the second place, the mdev hack would be used by a handful of guys bent on refusing a change that, like it or not, would in the end come. Like Gentoo on FreeBSD, it would be a nice hack, maybe even worthy of applause, but in the end irrelevant: a toy. A cute, entertaining (and, in a few cases, useful) toy. But a toy nonetheless. The heavy development will continue to happen in udev, and the devices that will dominate in the future (touchscreens, bluetooth input and audio devices, hardware that has a highly dynamic change rate) will only be supported by udev. The mdev hack will be useful maybe to only some guys, and even then udev would be able to do the same (and more). The use of an initramfs (or, alternatively, having /usr in the same partition as /), and maybe the move of /bin to /usr/bin and /lib to /usr/lib will be made, and in the future most of the interesting software will simply assume that this is how a system works. Maybe we will even stop to use the ridiculous short directory names from the stone age, and we will start using sensible names: /usr - /System /etc - /Config /var - /Variable I feel a deep respect for the people working on making mdev a replacement of udev; it is not an easy task (even if it only works for a really small subset of the use cases udev covers), and something that I certainly would never do. But their hack (as beautiful as it may be) will never be used by the majority of Linux users, and probably not even by the majority of Gentoo users (if my interpretation of the discussion on gentoo-dev is correct). And with the pass of time it will be harder and harder to keep the hack working with new hardware, new software, and new use cases. But, hey, this is FOSS; you guys go nuts hacking in whatever feature (or anti-feature) you like. As in the case of this mdev hack, it may even be included in the Gentoo ebuilds. Just don't expect it to be supported forever, don't expect it to support general-purpose setups, and certainly don't call it a victory. It's just the same history as always: the people writing the code are the ones calling the shots. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles
Jason Weisberger wrote: Here's the rig: AMD Phenom II X3 720 (unlocked to 4 cores and OC'd to 3 Ghz, however taking it back to stock doesn't affect the problem) 4 Gigs DDR3-1600 at 7-7-7-16 ASUS ASUS M4A78T-E AM3 Mobo MSI N9800GT GeForce 9800 GT 512MB other less important things would be two 320GB SATA drives, an IDE dvd writer, internal card reader, blah blah There are two things I can get this system to consistently lock up while doing: a large compilation such as Chromium, open office, or GCC, or playing Age of Conan in my separate Windows 7 partition. For normal everyday tasks, I can't lock the thing up. The system even plays WoW on maximum settings, Skyrim on max, Counter-Strike Source on max, 1080p youtube or local videos / movies. Watching the processor temp stays relatively low, the GPU temp stays normal, north bridge temp is good. The kernel panics I get are usually recoverable, I can just F7 back into my desktop and the compile may or may not still be going. If it is, it's usually dead by the third or fourth panic. Memtest86+ ran for 24 hours and found no issues with memory on 18 passes. So, pretty much where I'm at is either processor or RAM. Unless anybody here has a better idea. And how could I test whether it was the processor or RAM without any current replacement parts? What tests usually show one over the other? Chromium, at least, is going to force you to start swapping if you've only got 4GB of RAM in the machine, so I'd check smartctl and see if the drive you swap partition on is having any trouble. I'd also suggest removing the NVidia card, going without X for a little while[1], and see if you can reproduce the issue[2]. I'd guess that it's the unlocked core that's the source of your woes, though. Not all X3s are so labeled just for market segmentation. [1] Only because your onboard video is ATI, and flipping between ATI and NVidia configurations for something like this would strike me as too much a hassle. [2] Only because limiting the number of active components helps when troubleshooting hardware issues. I once found a sporadic kernel panic was related to a failing NIC. Another time I found it was related to an old Hauppauge PVR150 that worked fine with my old motherboard, but was incompatible with my new motherboard.
[gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles
I would instantly agree, but backing off the unlock and oc doesn't improve the situation. I can try text console with the onboard graphics and see what happens.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Jason Weisberger jbdu...@gmail.com wrote: I would instantly agree, but backing off the unlock and oc doesn't improve the situation. I can try text console with the onboard graphics and see what happens. I would second Michael's suggestion that you completely remove the NVidia board from the box, at least for testing. Remove any other cards that you can. Additionally boot using gentoo=nox to do some testing. If you get the cards out and boot only to a text console then you can eliminate those cards as contributing to the problem. Just a suggestion. Good lick, Mark
[gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles
Yeah, it never occurred to me that even when i was in console compiling stuff that i was using a 1280x1024 vesa or nouveau framebuffer each time. That will be first thing when i get home. On Jan 4, 2012 3:52 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Jason Weisberger jbdu...@gmail.com wrote: I would instantly agree, but backing off the unlock and oc doesn't improve the situation. I can try text console with the onboard graphics and see what happens. I would second Michael's suggestion that you completely remove the NVidia board from the box, at least for testing. Remove any other cards that you can. Additionally boot using gentoo=nox to do some testing. If you get the cards out and boot only to a text console then you can eliminate those cards as contributing to the problem. Just a suggestion. Good lick, Mark
[gentoo-user] Spacenav use test
Hello, 3Dconnexion corp sells some 3D mouse devices. There are 4 different 3Dconnexion devices : http://www.3dconnexion.com/buy/shop.html Those devices use a proprietary driver but an free alternative is available on : http://spacenav.sourceforge.net/ The problems with proprietary driver are that it proprietary, it GNU/Linux/32bits (Redhat, Suse) only and it only works through the X window system with motif for presenting a configuration GUI (and cannot be made to start without it). I write on this list and hope someone can test these devices on Gentoo. My overlay : http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=user/aluco.git;a=summary contains a blender ebuild with useflag 3dmouse. This useflag depends on libspnav and spacenavd daemon that provides free alternative of the proprietary driver. The ideal would be to test each product. Please, feel free to send me reports on my personal mail, I reply quickly. Regards, Anthoine
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Jason Weisberger jbdu...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, it never occurred to me that even when i was in console compiling stuff that i was using a 1280x1024 vesa or nouveau framebuffer each time. That will be first thing when i get home. Good luck with that. Also, remove any other old cards ala Michael's comment about an old NIC. I've had the same thing happen here when some old card that worked in every old machine I'd ever owned suddenly caused problems in a new box. Hope things improve. Cheers, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Pandu Poluanpa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 4, 2012 6:19 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:31:20 +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: I know. It's the I want to get the rid of initramfs thing that looks crazy to me. No one is saying they want to get rid of the initramfs, because they are not using one. What people object to is being forced to start using one. You got that right. I have not used one since I started using Gentoo. Now, I may very well have to start. I hope mdev gets to a point where it works really well on desktop systems. You were there in the thread linked by Walt, udev is just one of several packages maintained by RH people that *demands* /usr to be mounted during boot. And the RH devels insistence to deprecate /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin... I'm getting depressed. One battle might be won (mdev vs udev), but there's still a war against the RH braindeadness... I'm sorry to tell you this, but (as admirable as it could be), the mdev hack to use it instead of udev is not a victory. We are not at war, in the first place; and in the second place, the mdev hack would be used by a handful of guys bent on refusing a change that, like it or not, would in the end come. Like Gentoo on FreeBSD, it would be a nice hack, maybe even worthy of applause, but in the end irrelevant: a toy. A cute, entertaining (and, in a few cases, useful) toy. But a toy nonetheless. The heavy development will continue to happen in udev, and the devices that will dominate in the future (touchscreens, bluetooth input and audio devices, hardware that has a highly dynamic change rate) will only be supported by udev. The mdev hack will be useful maybe to only some guys, and even then udev would be able to do the same (and more). The use of an initramfs (or, alternatively, having /usr in the same partition as /), and maybe the move of /bin to /usr/bin and /lib to /usr/lib will be made, and in the future most of the interesting software will simply assume that this is how a system works. Maybe we will even stop to use the ridiculous short directory names from the stone age, and we will start using sensible names: /usr - /System /etc - /Config /var - /Variable I feel a deep respect for the people working on making mdev a replacement of udev; it is not an easy task (even if it only works for a really small subset of the use cases udev covers), and something that I certainly would never do. But their hack (as beautiful as it may be) will never be used by the majority of Linux users, and probably not even by the majority of Gentoo users (if my interpretation of the discussion on gentoo-dev is correct). And with the pass of time it will be harder and harder to keep the hack working with new hardware, new software, and new use cases. But, hey, this is FOSS; you guys go nuts hacking in whatever feature (or anti-feature) you like. As in the case of this mdev hack, it may even be included in the Gentoo ebuilds. Just don't expect it to be supported forever, don't expect it to support general-purpose setups, and certainly don't call it a victory. It's just the same history as always: the people writing the code are the ones calling the shots. Regards. I wonder how many times this has been said about other software that is now in wide spread use. Keep in mind, some people think Gentoo is dying and has been dying for YEARS. That's not just one package but a whole distro. Will mdev replace udev, I dunno. Thing is, you don't know that it won't either. Someone could come along and help Walter and make it better than udev ever dreamed of being. I just have to mention hal too. Lots of people thought that was the new sliced bread and frozen pizza. It sure did fall hard tho. As I said about my ex once, time tells. Sometimes, time is the only thing that does tell too. Reminds me of wine although I don't drink it. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--quiet-build=n
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Pandu Poluanpa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 4, 2012 6:19 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:31:20 +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: I know. It's the I want to get the rid of initramfs thing that looks crazy to me. No one is saying they want to get rid of the initramfs, because they are not using one. What people object to is being forced to start using one. You got that right. I have not used one since I started using Gentoo. Now, I may very well have to start. I hope mdev gets to a point where it works really well on desktop systems. You were there in the thread linked by Walt, udev is just one of several packages maintained by RH people that *demands* /usr to be mounted during boot. And the RH devels insistence to deprecate /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin... I'm getting depressed. One battle might be won (mdev vs udev), but there's still a war against the RH braindeadness... I'm sorry to tell you this, but (as admirable as it could be), the mdev hack to use it instead of udev is not a victory. We are not at war, in the first place; and in the second place, the mdev hack would be used by a handful of guys bent on refusing a change that, like it or not, would in the end come. Like Gentoo on FreeBSD, it would be a nice hack, maybe even worthy of applause, but in the end irrelevant: a toy. A cute, entertaining (and, in a few cases, useful) toy. But a toy nonetheless. The heavy development will continue to happen in udev, and the devices that will dominate in the future (touchscreens, bluetooth input and audio devices, hardware that has a highly dynamic change rate) will only be supported by udev. The mdev hack will be useful maybe to only some guys, and even then udev would be able to do the same (and more). The use of an initramfs (or, alternatively, having /usr in the same partition as /), and maybe the move of /bin to /usr/bin and /lib to /usr/lib will be made, and in the future most of the interesting software will simply assume that this is how a system works. Maybe we will even stop to use the ridiculous short directory names from the stone age, and we will start using sensible names: /usr - /System /etc - /Config /var - /Variable I feel a deep respect for the people working on making mdev a replacement of udev; it is not an easy task (even if it only works for a really small subset of the use cases udev covers), and something that I certainly would never do. But their hack (as beautiful as it may be) will never be used by the majority of Linux users, and probably not even by the majority of Gentoo users (if my interpretation of the discussion on gentoo-dev is correct). And with the pass of time it will be harder and harder to keep the hack working with new hardware, new software, and new use cases. But, hey, this is FOSS; you guys go nuts hacking in whatever feature (or anti-feature) you like. As in the case of this mdev hack, it may even be included in the Gentoo ebuilds. Just don't expect it to be supported forever, don't expect it to support general-purpose setups, and certainly don't call it a victory. It's just the same history as always: the people writing the code are the ones calling the shots. Regards. I wonder how many times this has been said about other software that is now in wide spread use. Keep in mind, some people think Gentoo is dying and has been dying for YEARS. That's not just one package but a whole distro. Netcraft confirms it? Will mdev replace udev, I dunno. Thing is, you don't know that it won't either. Someone could come along and help Walter and make it better than udev ever dreamed of being. It's not that mdev will be better than udev, or udev better than mdev, it's that they'll be able to service different roles very effectively. I just have to mention hal too. Lots of people thought that was the new sliced bread and frozen pizza. It sure did fall hard tho. For a fair number of use cases, udev works pretty well. It's been around for far longer, too. As I said about my ex once, time tells. Sometimes, time is the only thing that does tell too. Reminds me of wine although I don't drink it. I think it's absolutely ridiculous to look at udev and mdev as winner or loser. I'm not trying to be even-handed or fair in this; I just think they service different needs. Currently, the only advantage I see for udev in a server is the ability to give network interfaces meaningful names... -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:49:29 -0500 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: As I said about my ex once, time tells. Sometimes, time is the only thing that does tell too. Reminds me of wine although I don't drink it. I think it's absolutely ridiculous to look at udev and mdev as winner or loser. I'm not trying to be even-handed or fair in this; I just think they service different needs. Currently, the only advantage I see for udev in a server is the ability to give network interfaces meaningful names... Even that isn't all that useful for me. For my servers I know exactly which interface is which (turns out that when Dell give you 4 on-board nics they always come up in the same order. Pretty useful.) We do the proper thing and document every bit of hardware in a central repo (ocsng makes this automagic) and the way it is when the box is racked is the way it stays till it's switched off 5 years later. Aside from disks and RAM I've only had 2 hardware failures in 4 years (both were Adaptec RAID cards) so changing hardware is an unusual event (and rather major at that when it does happen). For me, udev is more of a hindrance in the data centre than a help. I simply do not need it at all, so mdev interests me a lot. On my notebooks and test/development VMs, that's different. Those need udev. On something as complex as a node manager, I do not believe there is such a thing as one-size fits all or a universal design. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE won't start up....
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 19:59:13 +0100, YoYo Siska wrote: .xsession-errors Xorg.0.log please. If both are huge, upload them somewhere. Also make sure that the permissions of /tmp and /var/tmp are ok. Had it in the past that some update did some very scary things to both places. Also /var/log/kdm.log would be of use (if you are (well, want to ;) using KDM as the login manager)... because it seems that the problem might be with KDM greeter or something similar. Also the output from genlop -l --date yesterday so we know what you emerged. -- Neil Bothwick Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.Richard Feynman signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles
Sorry for the delayed response on the result, but i decided to do a makeopts -j1 while i was at it. Compile has been going on for two hours. Shoot me :)
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid
On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 22:21 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: On 01/03/2012 08:57 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: device-mapper: table: 253:0: raid45: unknown target type Maybe a dumb question, but is the raid45 module enabled in your kernel config? genkernel --dmraid all Not sure how to check those details in genkernel.
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid
I was using a hardware-based 'fakeRAID'. It used to work on my old OpenSuse install, but that broke and I installed gentoo instead. I wasn't able to get that to work, and then the motherboard died, so I built a new system and reused the 3-drive RAID5 array. While in the first case you see all individual disks with their partitions and a /dev/mdX entry that actually contains the raid failsystem, the second one shows only a /dev/sdX holding the final raid drive. Additionally, for the hardware based raid, you'll need a driver for the controller that supports the raid5. I think this is the configuration you're trying to run, since you mentioned that you created your raid in the RAID BIOS. I'm not sure (I've never tried this) whether there is a driver for Linux supporting raid modes on board-embedded HW raid controllers. Alex
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles
Jason Weisberger wrote: Sorry for the delayed response on the result, but i decided to do a makeopts -j1 while i was at it. Compile has been going on for two hours. Shoot me :) I doubt this is the issue but I ran into a weird one a while back. I have a data drive, it's mounted on /data and stores all sorts of stuff including movies. Anyway, when the drive was being wrote to and reached a certain point, it would cause a hard lock up most of the time. Sometimes I could use SysReq keys to get it back. My point is, somewhere in the back of your mind, ask yourself if something, swap maybe, could be hitting a certain spot on a drive or file system. In the end, I moved all my data off that drive, redone the file system, moved all the data back and it has worked fine ever since. It's weird I know. Just keep that in mind in case something comes up and this is what is going on. Puters do weird things just to throw use a curve ball and make us scratch our heads until we are bald. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--quiet-build=n
[gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles
Oh yeah, I hear you on the head scratching, believe me. Well so far on the built in card I have managed to compile chromium -j5, which i couldn't do for the two weeks prior. Same build, so i know it wasn't an upstream or ebuild problem. Damn. Next step is to get X running again and do it one more time. Last thing i want to do is go from a 9800gt to an integrated 3300, but i suppose it's better than nothing. At least i had something to test on.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles
Jason Weisberger wrote: Oh yeah, I hear you on the head scratching, believe me. Well so far on the built in card I have managed to compile chromium -j5, which i couldn't do for the two weeks prior. Same build, so i know it wasn't an upstream or ebuild problem. Damn. Next step is to get X running again and do it one more time. Last thing i want to do is go from a 9800gt to an integrated 3300, but i suppose it's better than nothing. At least i had something to test on. Try a different version of the driver. Maybe that specific version has a bug in it. If you run stable, try a unstable version. If you run unstable, try a stable one. Worth a shot. While at it, blow some air on it too. Check all the contacts or as I do, use a pencil eraser and rub on it a couple times. Makes it shiney then try again. Wouldn't hurt to blow down in the connector on the mobo either. Spec of dust in the wrong place can cause weird things. When falling off cliff, grab all the straws you can. ;-) Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--quiet-build=n
[gentoo-user] Several KDE packages don't compile.
Howdy, I can't get folding to work and I need heat. I resorted to doing a emerge -e world. Thing is, this has uncovered a issue or two. These are the packages that fail: * The following 4 packages have failed to build or install: * * (kde-base/kdeplasma-addons-4.7.4::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge), Log file: * '/var/log/portage/kde-base:kdeplasma-addons-4.7.4:20120105-012846.log' * (kde-base/kdeartwork-styles-4.7.4::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge), Log file: * '/var/log/portage/kde-base:kdeartwork-styles-4.7.4:20120105-012935.log' * (kde-base/ktux-4.7.4::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge), Log file: * '/var/log/portage/kde-base:ktux-4.7.4:20120105-013002.log' * (kde-base/kdeartwork-kscreensaver-4.7.4::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge), Log file: * '/var/log/portage/kde-base:kdeartwork-kscreensaver-4.7.4:20120105-013012.log' * This is one of the errors: [ 51%] Building CXX object kscreensaver/kdesavers/CMakeFiles/kvm.kss.dir/kvm.o Building CXX object kscreensaver/kdesavers/CMakeFiles/krotation.kss.dir/rotation.o Linking CXX executable klorenz.kss Linking CXX executable kpolygon.kss Linking CXX executable kblob.kss Linking CXX executable kclock.kss [ 52%] Building C object kscreensaver/kdesavers/CMakeFiles/kvm.kss.dir/vm.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lKDE4Workspace__kscreensaver collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [kscreensaver/kdesavers/klorenz.kss] Error 1 make[1]: *** [kscreensaver/kdesavers/CMakeFiles/klorenz.kss.dir/all] Error 2 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lKDE4Workspace__kscreensaver collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [kscreensaver/kdesavers/kpolygon.kss] Error 1 make[1]: *** [kscreensaver/kdesavers/CMakeFiles/kpolygon.kss.dir/all] Error 2 [ 54%] [ 55%] Building CXX object kscreensaver/kdesavers/CMakeFiles/kpendulum.kss.dir/sspreviewarea.o Linking CXX executable kbanner.kss Building C object kscreensaver/kdesavers/CMakeFiles/kvm.kss.dir/vm_random.o Linking CXX executable klines.kss /var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kdeartwork-kscreensaver-4.7.4/work/kdeartwork-kscreensaver-4.7.4/kscreensaver/kdesavers/vm.c: In function ‘pop’: /var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kdeartwork-kscreensaver-4.7.4/work/kdeartwork-kscreensaver-4.7.4/kscreensaver/kdesavers/vm.c:56:34: warning: unused parameter ‘pool’ /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lKDE4Workspace__kscreensaver collect2: ld returned 1 exit status /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lKDE4Workspace__kscreensaver collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [kscreensaver/kdesavers/kclock.kss] Error 1 make[1]: *** [kscreensaver/kdesavers/CMakeFiles/kclock.kss.dir/all] Error 2 make[2]: *** [kscreensaver/kdesavers/kblob.kss] Error 1 make[1]: *** [kscreensaver/kdesavers/CMakeFiles/kblob.kss.dir/all] Error 2 Linking CXX executable ksolarwinds.kss [ 56%] Building CXX object kscreensaver/kdesavers/CMakeFiles/krotation.kss.dir/sspreviewarea.o Linking CXX executable kflux.kss /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lKDE4Workspace__kscreensaver collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [kscreensaver/kdesavers/klines.kss] Error 1 make[1]: *** [kscreensaver/kdesavers/CMakeFiles/klines.kss.dir/all] Error 2 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lKDE4Workspace__kscreensaver collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [kscreensaver/kdesavers/kbanner.kss] Error 1 make[1]: *** [kscreensaver/kdesavers/CMakeFiles/kbanner.kss.dir/all] Error 2 Linking CXX executable kvm.kss /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lKDE4Workspace__kscreensaver collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [kscreensaver/kdesavers/ksolarwinds.kss] Error 1 make[1]: *** [kscreensaver/kdesavers/CMakeFiles/ksolarwinds.kss.dir/all] Error 2 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lKDE4Workspace__kscreensaver collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [kscreensaver/kdesavers/kvm.kss] Error 1 make[1]: *** [kscreensaver/kdesavers/CMakeFiles/kvm.kss.dir/all] Error 2 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lKDE4Workspace__kscreensaver collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [kscreensaver/kdesavers/kflux.kss] Error 1 make[1]: *** [kscreensaver/kdesavers/CMakeFiles/kflux.kss.dir/all] Error 2 Linking CXX executable kfountain.kss I have tried searching with google and on the forums with nothing that looks recent. I hate to say this but the search function on the Gentoo forums is about worthless to me. It seems whenever I want to search for something, it is to common a term and
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 14:39 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012, 21:57:18 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: Hi all, I have recently built a new system, running Gentoo on a Sabertooth 990FX motherboard. The board has a raid controller on which I'm running a 120GB solid state drive for the OS (Raid 0) and a set of three 1.5TB drives which were previously running as a RAID5 array. no, it does not have a raid controller. It is bios raid. AKA fake raid. You will have less trouble if you stop using it. google for mdadm. There are some very nice howto's. Not sure I'd agree with you about the howtos being nice. They mostly deal with trying to boot from a RAID array (don't want that, as I have my OS on a non-RAID 120GB SSD). They're also contradictory, with some saying I need dmraid, and some saying not. Most seem to make no more than a passing nod towards genkernel. So, given that from the links that I've found, here's my starting set of questions. In /etc/genkernel.conf, which options do I need to enable. One guide suggested the following settings DMRAID=no MDADM=yes MDADM_CONFIG=/etc/mdadm.conf MDADM_VER=3.1.4 If this is correct, does it matter that my mdadm version which I emerged is 3.1.5? The tarball in /var/cache/genkernel/src is mdadm-3.1.4.tar.bz2 Should I copy mdadm-3.1.5.tar.bz2 from /etc/portage/distfiles into there and rebuild genkernel. Do I need the dodmraid option compiled into genkernel, or is that only for fakeraid, or situations where I need to boot from a raid partition? Do I need the dodmraid option set true in the grub.conf file, or is 'domdadm' more appropriate? Jeff
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid
Am Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2012, 21:28:32 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 14:39 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012, 21:57:18 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: Hi all, I have recently built a new system, running Gentoo on a Sabertooth 990FX motherboard. The board has a raid controller on which I'm running a 120GB solid state drive for the OS (Raid 0) and a set of three 1.5TB drives which were previously running as a RAID5 array. no, it does not have a raid controller. It is bios raid. AKA fake raid. You will have less trouble if you stop using it. google for mdadm. There are some very nice howto's. Not sure I'd agree with you about the howtos being nice. They mostly deal with trying to boot from a RAID array (don't want that, as I have my OS on a non-RAID 120GB SSD). They're also contradictory, with some saying I need dmraid, and some saying not. Most seem to make no more than a passing nod towards genkernel. the short one: partition one disk with (c)fdisk. Use sfdisk to transfer the partition scheme to the other disks. run mdadm --create /dev/md0 level=whatever you want --raid- devices=thenumberofdevices /dev/sdXY /dev/sdZY ... mdadm --detail --scan /etc/mdadm.conf done So, given that from the links that I've found, here's my starting set of questions. In /etc/genkernel.conf, which options do I need to enable. One guide suggested the following settings DMRAID=no MDADM=yes MDADM_CONFIG=/etc/mdadm.conf MDADM_VER=3.1.4 there is a reason why I never ever touch genkernel. you should forget that crap. You don't need to copy around anything. If your root is not on some fancy setup, you don't need initramfs. Just make a nice kernel, put it in /boot. Done. grub.conf: kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 nmi_watchdog=0 and you are fine. Have the raids assembled by a) kernel (in that case you have to tell mdadm that on creation time, man mdadm is your friend) or by mdadm init script. Don't use fakeraid. Set bios to ahci and be done with this. the relevant part of Kernel config for example: * RAID support │ │ │ │ [*] Autodetect RAID arrays during kernel boot│ │ │ │ Linear (append) mode │ │ │ │ RAID-0 (striping) mode │ │ │ │ * RAID-1 (mirroring) mode │ │ │ │ RAID-10 (mirrored striping) mode │ │ │ │ * RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 mode │ │ │ │ [ ] RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 Multicore processing (EXPERIMENTAL) │ │ │ │ Multipath I/O support │ │ │ │ Faulty test module for MD │ │ │ │ Device mapper support │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ as you can see no dm support in my kernel. No look what I got... cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md5 : active raid1 sdg2[2] sdf2[1] 830278202 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] md4 : active raid1 sdf1[1] sdg1[2] 146479542 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] md124 : active raid1 sdc1[2] sdd1[1] sdb1[0] 64128 blocks [3/3] [UUU] md1 : active raid5 sdc3[2] sdd3[1] sdb3[0] 78123904 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU] md2 : active raid5 sdc5[2] sdd5[1] sdb5[0] 39069824 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU] md127 : active raid5 sdc6[2] sdd6[1] sdb6[0] 843813888 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU] the numbers where once nicely 0-4 but some update fucked that up. No big deal - I mount by UUID. Something I strongly recommend. -- #163933
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE won't start up....
On 01/05/12 02:51, walt wrote: On 01/04/2012 09:04 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: I can start up bog standard X via startx and the mouse and keyboard work but I can't get KDE to start. Does startx give you the twm session with some xterms and an xclock? If so, try running 'startkde' from an xterm. (Or whatever may have replaced startkde since I looked last.) Running revdep-rebuild is a good idea after every update, too. revdep-rebuild is your friend I can remember kicking off the original emerge that caused my problem and thinking I also need to remember to run revdep-rebuild when done and then promptly forgot to do so. Thanks to walt's prompt, I've run it and things are now good. Also thanks to the others for kicking in with suggestions, Andrew
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 04:01 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: the short one: partition one disk with (c)fdisk. Use sfdisk to transfer the partition scheme to the other disks. run mdadm --create /dev/md0 level=whatever you want --raid- devices=thenumberofdevices /dev/sdXY /dev/sdZY ... mdadm --detail --scan /etc/mdadm.conf done OK, but there is active data on the disks, so I don't want to partition them. They should already partitioned, and running fdisk will erase the data. If I run mdadm --create /dev/md0 level=5 --raid-devices=3 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd, will that erase data already on the disks? Prior to running this command, there is no /dev/md entry. Is this correct? Looking further by using fdisk, it appears that sdc has a linux partition on sdc1 starting at sector 34, and a GPT partition of size 0+ at /dev/sdc4, sector 0. Nothing else is on that disk (no sdc2 or sdc3). sdd and sdb report invalid partition table flags and do not appear to have active partitions. Does this make sense? Is it possible that I ordered the disks incorrectly when I installed them, and by simply swapping disks b and c at the raid I can get things to start making sense? Is there an order to a set of RAID5 disks? I thought any two of three RAID5 disks could be recovered, regardless of which one dies? there is a reason why I never ever touch genkernel. you should forget that crap. You don't need to copy around anything. If your root is not on some fancy setup, you don't need initramfs. Just make a nice kernel, put it in /boot. Done. OK. The OS disk is non-RAID (120GB SSD), so I don't need any fancy options in my kernel. All the domdadm and dodmraid stuff is needed just when your OS disk is raided. Correct? Thanks Jeff
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles
Well after a couple hours of trying to get the Radeon HD3300 to actually start properly so I can test the compilation.. I haven't done it yet. Instead I decided to go ape-s**t on the radeon wiki article which drove me into so many dead ends. http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon Now that it's up and running, I'm recompiling chromium from inside gnome 3 with -j5 and I'll report in tomorrow morning. On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Jason Weisberger wrote: Oh yeah, I hear you on the head scratching, believe me. Well so far on the built in card I have managed to compile chromium -j5, which i couldn't do for the two weeks prior. Same build, so i know it wasn't an upstream or ebuild problem. Damn. Next step is to get X running again and do it one more time. Last thing i want to do is go from a 9800gt to an integrated 3300, but i suppose it's better than nothing. At least i had something to test on. Try a different version of the driver. Maybe that specific version has a bug in it. If you run stable, try a unstable version. If you run unstable, try a stable one. Worth a shot. While at it, blow some air on it too. Check all the contacts or as I do, use a pencil eraser and rub on it a couple times. Makes it shiney then try again. Wouldn't hurt to blow down in the connector on the mobo either. Spec of dust in the wrong place can cause weird things. When falling off cliff, grab all the straws you can. ;-) Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--quiet-build=n -- Jason Weisberger jbdu...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles
This is why I figured you'd want to go without X for the purpose of testing. No X, no framebuffer, the card should have acted like a plane-jane VGA or VESA adapter. On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Jason Weisberger jbdu...@gmail.com wrote: Well after a couple hours of trying to get the Radeon HD3300 to actually start properly so I can test the compilation.. I haven't done it yet. Instead I decided to go ape-s**t on the radeon wiki article which drove me into so many dead ends. http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon Now that it's up and running, I'm recompiling chromium from inside gnome 3 with -j5 and I'll report in tomorrow morning. On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Jason Weisberger wrote: Oh yeah, I hear you on the head scratching, believe me. Well so far on the built in card I have managed to compile chromium -j5, which i couldn't do for the two weeks prior. Same build, so i know it wasn't an upstream or ebuild problem. Damn. Next step is to get X running again and do it one more time. Last thing i want to do is go from a 9800gt to an integrated 3300, but i suppose it's better than nothing. At least i had something to test on. Try a different version of the driver. Maybe that specific version has a bug in it. If you run stable, try a unstable version. If you run unstable, try a stable one. Worth a shot. While at it, blow some air on it too. Check all the contacts or as I do, use a pencil eraser and rub on it a couple times. Makes it shiney then try again. Wouldn't hurt to blow down in the connector on the mobo either. Spec of dust in the wrong place can cause weird things. When falling off cliff, grab all the straws you can. ;-) Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--quiet-build=n -- Jason Weisberger jbdu...@gmail.com -- :wq
[gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles
Well like i said earlier, it did work that way. The final test is doing it in X with full drivers loaded again. Then i get to kick my 9800gt off a cliff.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Jason Weisberger jbdu...@gmail.com wrote: Well like i said earlier, it did work that way. The final test is doing it in X with full drivers loaded again. Then i get to kick my 9800gt off a cliff. Well, keep in mind you're switching from a PCIe card to an integrated chipset. It could be your PCIe slot (or even northbridge) that's failing. I'd suggest finding another PCIe video card and giving it a shot, if the X-with-integrated-video works. If it works with the HD3300, but not with a PCIe graphics card (even an ATI one), I'd suspect your northbridge is messed up, and may have been damaged by the overclocking. -- :wq
[gentoo-user] fonts for: gv, xpdf, flpsed
What kind of font packages are following application use for their interface (GUI menus) gv, xpdf, flpsed etc. Ever since I switch to a new system, I'm having problem view the menu options in all these packages that deal with postscipt files. Their menu fonts are small barley readable and ugly, some package don't even work correctly like flpsed. So I'm thinking, I'm missing some fonts or they are not correctly pointing to the correct location. -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3
On 2012-01-05 01:02, Alan McKinnon wrote: On my notebooks and test/development VMs, that's different. Those need udev. Why does it need udev specifically? Just curious... if there's a technical need for something else than /dev population (and possible configuration of devices, i.e. tell the kernel what bits needs to be switched)? On something as complex as a node manager, I do not believe there is such a thing as one-size fits all or a universal design. Fully agree. Best regards Peter K
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:30:52 +0100 pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On my notebooks and test/development VMs, that's different. Those need udev. Why does it need udev specifically? Just curious... if there's a technical need for something else than /dev population (and possible configuration of devices, i.e. tell the kernel what bits needs to be switched)? Simply because they are typical notebooks and VMs :-) I fiddle around a lot with the hardware on those and udev deals with that nicely considering udev is designed to deal with that nicely. Becoming rather lazy in my old age is getting to be a factor too -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
