[gentoo-user] freerdp-1.0.1 fails to authenticate
I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or I've come across a bug. I'm trying to connect to a Windows7 OS running in virtualbox with Remote Assistance enabled and this is what I get: xfreerdp -u fred -p - 192.168.2.5:69357 -f connecting to 192.168.2.5:69357 connecting to 192.168.2.5:69357 connecting to 192.168.2.5:69357 Warning xf_GetWindowProperty (140): Property 445 does not exist A window tries to be formed momentarily, but it collapses immediately. Adding different --sec (rdp|tls|nla) options, or compression, or pretty much any other options (other than plugins which I don't know if they are needed) makes no difference. I noticed that the message Warning xf_GetWindowProperty (140): Property 445 does not exist comes up even when there is no Windows7 Rremote Assistance session running - so this is a client problem. I can't see anything in the logs (either on Gentoo or in Windows7 Event Viewer). Any ideas? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1
Hi all, I've got an LVM setup at the minute that consists of 3x1TB and 3x1.5TB drives. Its setup with one huge XFS partition with all my data on. I don't have a backup of any kind and I know thats pretty silly but with the cost of replicating the whole lot being what it is and the lack of space in my server for more drives I have to live with it for the minute. Its got to the point now where I have 200gb free on it and the drives are pretty old so I'm going to need to get some new storage. I initially want to replace the 3x1TBs with a single 3TB drive but i've never removed/replaced a drive in an LVM setup before. I think I understand how it is done, using pvmove but a lot of the information around it has giant warnings saying backup before you do it. Has anyone used pvmove before and has it gone as planned or not? Also, would someone with a 3TB drive be able to give me the exact size of the drive so I can work out if it will have enough extents to replace the 3 drives? Thanks for your help Oliver
[gentoo-user] two NICs - kernel crash ?
Hi, on my HP625 I run a bleeding edge Gentoo (kernel 3.3-rc6). If the notebook is connected by an ethernet cable, the net comes up just fine. If I disconnect it from ethernet and start net.wlan0, the WLAN comes up just fine. BUT, if it's connect to ethernet, and net.eth0 has been started, the kernel crashes badly (i.e. no SysRq anymore) if I start net.wlan0 in addition. Is this a configuration error by me or a kernel bug. The WLAN card is a Broadcom BCM4313 with the BRCMSMAC driver. Many thanks for your help, Helmut.
[gentoo-user] Re: freerdp-1.0.1 fails to authenticate
On Tuesday 06 Mar 2012 08:17:49 Mick wrote: I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or I've come across a bug. I'm trying to connect to a Windows7 OS running in virtualbox with Remote Assistance enabled and this is what I get: xfreerdp -u fred -p - 192.168.2.5:69357 -f connecting to 192.168.2.5:69357 connecting to 192.168.2.5:69357 connecting to 192.168.2.5:69357 Warning xf_GetWindowProperty (140): Property 445 does not exist A window tries to be formed momentarily, but it collapses immediately. Adding different --sec (rdp|tls|nla) options, or compression, or pretty much any other options (other than plugins which I don't know if they are needed) makes no difference. I noticed that the message Warning xf_GetWindowProperty (140): Property 445 does not exist comes up even when there is no Windows7 Rremote Assistance session running - so this is a client problem. I can't see anything in the logs (either on Gentoo or in Windows7 Event Viewer). Any ideas? Correction - this is the exact error I'm getting: $ xfreerdp -u fred -p - 192.168.2.5:49163 Warning xf_GetWindowProperty (140): Property 445 does not exist connected to 192.168.2.5:49163 connected to 192.168.2.5:49163 connected to 192.168.2.5:49163 ERRINFO_UNKNOWN 0x0300: Unknown error. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] rng-tools
Hello Michael, On 03/03/2012 02:48 PM, Michael Mol wrote: The version of the rng-tools Debian package I'm using is '2-unofficial-mt.14-1~60squeeze1'. Are the -T and -R parameters unique to Debian, or is the Gentoo package simply out of date? Yes, version 2-unofficial-mt.14* is a Debian fork. Quoting from its README file: rng-tools, unofficial Debian fork = NOTICE: This is an unofficial version of rng-tools with a lot of added functionality and bugs, for which I assume total blame. Don't bother rng-tools upstream with problems you find in this version of rng-tools. rng-tools unofficial-mt is a living reminder to myself to not modify upstream code without sending the changes upstream at every step. Suddenly, you have a mass of changes too big to send upstream, and yet you find yourself without the energy to break them into smallish patches to submit upstream (i.e. to unfork). [..] If you would rather use Debian's version in Gentoo, give sys-apps/rng-tools-2_p14 a try, which I have just added to overlay betagarden: # layman -a betagarden # emerge =sys-apps/rng-tools-2_p14 If you would like to see features from Debian's fork in rng-tools 3.x and beyond, please step up and help rng-tools' upstream integrate Debian's changes. Best, Sebastian
Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: gnome-shell behavior
Found this: http://www.taringa.net/posts/linux/14061303/Gnome-Shell-creashea-cuando-buscas---Nvidia.html and echo ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel helped to fix that issue.
[gentoo-user] tracking IT work
Greetings, a somehow offtopic topic ... ;-) I assume most of you are sysadmins and IT guys, employed or running their own company. How do you track your work for customers? Especially the everyday tasks, which sometimes are very short and lots of them are done, hopping from one server/customer to the next. Do you use something like the gnome hamster applet? I lost track of it since gnome-3 ... I am still searching for an efficient way to track my work as I often get the feeling that I lose money by not keeping enough logs of my everyday work. Also the many todos are often hard to maintain, I don't really like creating tasks in Lightning, for example. I'd like to hear your opinions and recommendations, for sure I'd be happy to hear that the tools are available within portage. Thanks, Stefan
Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: gnome-shell behavior
Am 06.03.2012 11:34, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Found this: http://www.taringa.net/posts/linux/14061303/Gnome-Shell-creashea-cuando-buscas---Nvidia.html and echo ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel helped to fix that issue. solved for a few minutes ... it seems that the Gnome extension Journal triggers the crash. Disabled it now, gotta monitor things. Maybe it has to do with zeitgeist.
Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work
On Mar 6, 2012 5:57 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Greetings, a somehow offtopic topic ... ;-) I assume most of you are sysadmins and IT guys, employed or running their own company. How do you track your work for customers? Especially the everyday tasks, which sometimes are very short and lots of them are done, hopping from one server/customer to the next. Do you use something like the gnome hamster applet? I lost track of it since gnome-3 ... I am still searching for an efficient way to track my work as I often get the feeling that I lose money by not keeping enough logs of my everyday work. Also the many todos are often hard to maintain, I don't really like creating tasks in Lightning, for example. I'd like to hear your opinions and recommendations, for sure I'd be happy to hear that the tools are available within portage. Thanks, Stefan Well, I use Gleeo Time Tracker on my Samsung Galaxy W phone... that way I don't have to power up my laptop just to record time... Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work
Am 06.03.2012 13:58, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Well, I use Gleeo Time Tracker on my Samsung Galaxy W phone... that way I don't have to power up my laptop just to record time... I installed it and will have a look, thanks. It depends on the workflow, I'd want something accessible from the desktop as well. But I test ;-)
Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work
On Mar 6, 2012 8:24 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 06.03.2012 13:58, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Well, I use Gleeo Time Tracker on my Samsung Galaxy W phone... that way I don't have to power up my laptop just to record time... I installed it and will have a look, thanks. It depends on the workflow, I'd want something accessible from the desktop as well. But I test ;-) Well, of course sooner or later, you'll have to use a desktop to produce a billable report. Gleeo is perfectly able to export to CSV, and you can tabulate the data using LibreOffice. Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work
On Tuesday 06 Mar 2012 13:30:46 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Mar 6, 2012 8:24 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 06.03.2012 13:58, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Well, I use Gleeo Time Tracker on my Samsung Galaxy W phone... that way I don't have to power up my laptop just to record time... I installed it and will have a look, thanks. It depends on the workflow, I'd want something accessible from the desktop as well. But I test ;-) Well, of course sooner or later, you'll have to use a desktop to produce a billable report. Gleeo is perfectly able to export to CSV, and you can tabulate the data using LibreOffice. Rgds, * app-office/taskcoach Available versions: 1.2.31 amd64 x86 [libnotify] ~ 1.3.8 ~amd64 ~x86 [libnotify] Homepage:http://www.taskcoach.org http://pypi.python.org/pypi/TaskCoach Description: Simple personal tasks and todo lists manager Don't know if there is a phone version too. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Horrible TrueCrypt performance
Whoops! I for got to write an update. Two months ago, I wrote: I have to copy some 100 G of files from one to another USB drive. Both are formatted with NTFS, the destination drive already has a truecrypt container file where I need to store the data into. This is sort of working, but the speed is waa too slow. After about four hours, only 8 G were copied. [...] The problem was the TrueCrypt container file. What I did instead was to format the whole drive as a TruCrypt volume, which took about two hours I think. When I mounted the partition, copying speed was as fast as it should be. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work
Am 06.03.2012 14:30, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Well, of course sooner or later, you'll have to use a desktop to produce a billable report. Gleeo is perfectly able to export to CSV, and you can tabulate the data using LibreOffice. Sure. What I meant is that it sounds a bit strange to have to use my smartphone to track work while I sit at my 2x22-displays-fully-powered-workstation-with-keyboard all day long ;-)
Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work
On Mar 6, 2012 9:46 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 06.03.2012 14:30, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Well, of course sooner or later, you'll have to use a desktop to produce a billable report. Gleeo is perfectly able to export to CSV, and you can tabulate the data using LibreOffice. Sure. What I meant is that it sounds a bit strange to have to use my smartphone to track work while I sit at my 2x22-displays-fully-powered-workstation-with-keyboard all day long ;-) Ah, I see :-) My workflow happens to be jumping from a station to another, so I try not turning on my laptop, reserving its battery for the times when I truly need it. That's why I prefer having my time tracker on my phone, which stays on 24x7. Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1
On 6 March 2012, at 09:45, Datty wrote: … I initially want to replace the 3x1TBs with a single 3TB drive but i've never removed/replaced a drive in an LVM setup before. I think I understand how it is done, using pvmove … Or you could just format and mount the new drive and use `cp`. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work
Am 06.03.2012 16:55, schrieb Pandu Poluan: My workflow happens to be jumping from a station to another, so I try not turning on my laptop, reserving its battery for the times when I truly need it. That's why I prefer having my time tracker on my phone, which stays on 24x7. Makes perfect sense in your case. Do you have each customer as a project or how do you organize it? S
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1
Am 06.03.2012 17:32, schrieb Stroller: On 6 March 2012, at 09:45, Datty wrote: … I initially want to replace the 3x1TBs with a single 3TB drive but i've never removed/replaced a drive in an LVM setup before. I think I understand how it is done, using pvmove … Or you could just format and mount the new drive and use `cp`. ;-)
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1
Am 06.03.2012 17:32, schrieb Stroller: On 6 March 2012, at 09:45, Datty wrote: … I initially want to replace the 3x1TBs with a single 3TB drive but i've never removed/replaced a drive in an LVM setup before. I think I understand how it is done, using pvmove … Or you could just format and mount the new drive and use `cp`. Stroller. +1 If you still want to work on LVM, you can use lvconvert to mirror your old volume on the new disk and then remove the old disks. The creation of the mirror should be inherently secure. pvmove should be safe, too. I know pvmove once crashed for me (old kernel bug, years ago) and I didn't loose data. # create mirror, report progress every 10 seconds lvconvert --interval 10 -m1 vg00/lvol1 /dev/new_disk # detach mirror, creates snapshot lvconvert -m0 vg00/lvol1 Disclaimer: Untested Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:32:56 +, Stroller wrote: … I initially want to replace the 3x1TBs with a single 3TB drive but i've never removed/replaced a drive in an LVM setup before. I think I understand how it is done, using pvmove … Or you could just format and mount the new drive and use `cp`. Thereby instantly removing the benefits of LVM and making it almost impossible to extend the space by adding another drive when needed. To the OP, pvmove is perfectly safe as it does a copy;verify;delete on one small block of extents at a time. It also ensures that any new writes while pvmove is running go to the new drive, so you can still use the system while moving (try doing that with cp :). -- Neil Bothwick Interchangeable parts aren't. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work
On Mar 7, 2012 12:06 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 06.03.2012 16:55, schrieb Pandu Poluan: My workflow happens to be jumping from a station to another, so I try not turning on my laptop, reserving its battery for the times when I truly need it. That's why I prefer having my time tracker on my phone, which stays on 24x7. Makes perfect sense in your case. Do you have each customer as a project or how do you organize it? S Yes, each customer is a project, then I create the following taskslots immediately: Planning, Preparation, Deploy, Test, Final. I may add or delete taskslots as I see fit later on during Planning. Then, I just tap on Gleeo's play icon whenever I begin working. Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1
Am 06.03.2012 18:25, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:32:56 +, Stroller wrote: … I initially want to replace the 3x1TBs with a single 3TB drive but i've never removed/replaced a drive in an LVM setup before. I think I understand how it is done, using pvmove … Or you could just format and mount the new drive and use `cp`. Thereby instantly removing the benefits of LVM and making it almost impossible to extend the space by adding another drive when needed. I don't think so. vgextend the volume group with the new disk, lvcreate a new volume using only extents from the new disk, copy data over to it, swap mount points, done. Plus points: Removes fragmentation of the old file system. Also probably faster. To the OP, pvmove is perfectly safe as it does a copy;verify;delete on one small block of extents at a time. It also ensures that any new writes while pvmove is running go to the new drive, so you can still use the system while moving (try doing that with cp :). Wait, are we talking about a system disk (root and stuff)? I was under the impression that it's just a data dump. Of course, with system partitions and other media that cannot be handled read-only for a longer time, pvmove or lvchange are the better options. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] [OT] FOSS history books
I've ordered Rebel Code: Linux And The Open Source Revolution, from Glyn Moody, but I just realized it's pretty old, from January 2001, 11 years ago. Of course I'll love reading it, but I'd like to complete this study with the 2000 developments of FOSS. Linux 2.6, HAL life-cycle, GCC evolution, Ubuntu creation, Mozilla history, Google rising like a rocket. Anyone know a good recommendation in this subject? -- Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] FOSS history books
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira spide...@gmail.com wrote: I've ordered Rebel Code: Linux And The Open Source Revolution, from Glyn Moody, but I just realized it's pretty old, from January 2001, 11 years ago. Of course I'll love reading it, but I'd like to complete this study with the 2000 developments of FOSS. Linux 2.6, HAL life-cycle, GCC evolution, Ubuntu creation, Mozilla history, Google rising like a rocket. Anyone know a good recommendation in this subject? It's possible someone still needs to write one. -- :wq
[gentoo-user] GLSA management
I've been checking this daily for a while: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/index.xml but every time there's a vulnerability in a package I know I have installed, my installed version is unaffected. If I emerge world daily, do I need to check on GLSA's? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1
On 6 March 2012, at 17:25, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:32:56 +, Stroller wrote: … I initially want to replace the 3x1TBs with a single 3TB drive but i've never removed/replaced a drive in an LVM setup before. I think I understand how it is done, using pvmove … Or you could just format and mount the new drive and use `cp`. Thereby instantly removing the benefits of LVM and making it almost impossible to extend the space by adding another drive when needed. Uh, why not create a new volume group with the new disk? OP says he wants to *replace* the old disks. Admittedly, I don't like the RAID0 nature of LVM, so my question probably did reflect that cynicism. To the OP, pvmove is perfectly safe as it does a copy;verify;delete on one small block of extents at a time. Yeah, I actually have quite a bit of confidence that migrating entirely in LVM would work just fine, but my qualifications in this area are quite minimal. I am glad, however, to have generated some responses to OP's question, which had been languishing for c 8 hours without replies when I commented. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 6 March 2012, at 17:25, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:32:56 +, Stroller wrote: … I initially want to replace the 3x1TBs with a single 3TB drive but i've never removed/replaced a drive in an LVM setup before. I think I understand how it is done, using pvmove … Or you could just format and mount the new drive and use `cp`. Thereby instantly removing the benefits of LVM and making it almost impossible to extend the space by adding another drive when needed. Uh, why not create a new volume group with the new disk? OP says he wants to *replace* the old disks. Makes a certain amount of sense. But it sounds like he found a tool (pvmove) to do what he needs to do, and trying to do more on top complicates things beyond what they need to be. Admittedly, I don't like the RAID0 nature of LVM, so my question probably did reflect that cynicism. I typically put LVM on top of RAID. -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] GLSA management
On 03/06/12 13:32, Grant wrote: I've been checking this daily for a while: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/index.xml but every time there's a vulnerability in a package I know I have installed, my installed version is unaffected. If I emerge world daily, do I need to check on GLSA's? Does glsa-check still work? It's part of gentoolkit.
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1
On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:44:18 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Or you could just format and mount the new drive and use `cp`. Thereby instantly removing the benefits of LVM and making it almost impossible to extend the space by adding another drive when needed. I don't think so. vgextend the volume group with the new disk, lvcreate a new volume using only extents from the new disk, copy data over to it, swap mount points, done. But Stroller made no mention of LVM on the new disk, just format and mount. To the OP, pvmove is perfectly safe as it does a copy;verify;delete on one small block of extents at a time. It also ensures that any new writes while pvmove is running go to the new drive, so you can still use the system while moving (try doing that with cp :). Wait, are we talking about a system disk (root and stuff)? I was under the impression that it's just a data dump. Of course, with system partitions and other media that cannot be handled read-only for a longer time, pvmove or lvchange are the better options. It doesn't have to be a system disk, just something that is in use. Copying 3TB is going to take a while, making the drive unavailable to whatever needs to write for it for that amount of time may be be unacceptable and is certainly unnecessary. -- Neil Bothwick A consultant is a person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets the watch, and sends you a bill for it. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] GLSA management
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 10:32:35 -0800, Grant wrote: I've been checking this daily for a while: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/index.xml but every time there's a vulnerability in a package I know I have installed, my installed version is unaffected. If I emerge world daily, do I need to check on GLSA's? If you run testing, you usually have the fixed version before it gets into a GLSA. Just run glsa-check -t all after syncing. -- Neil Bothwick COBOL: Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] GLSA management
Am 06.03.2012 19:32, schrieb Grant: I've been checking this daily for a while: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/index.xml but every time there's a vulnerability in a package I know I have installed, my installed version is unaffected. If I emerge world daily, do I need to check on GLSA's? - Grant I don't know the exact policy but I've never seen a GLSA being issued before the fix got stabilized. If you update daily, GLSAs should not affect you. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1
Am 06.03.2012 19:47, schrieb Michael Mol: On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 6 March 2012, at 17:25, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:32:56 +, Stroller wrote: … I initially want to replace the 3x1TBs with a single 3TB drive but i've never removed/replaced a drive in an LVM setup before. I think I understand how it is done, using pvmove … Or you could just format and mount the new drive and use `cp`. Thereby instantly removing the benefits of LVM and making it almost impossible to extend the space by adding another drive when needed. Uh, why not create a new volume group with the new disk? Nitpicking: No need for a new volume group, just a new PV. Using a separate VG makes migration harder. OP says he wants to *replace* the old disks. Makes a certain amount of sense. But it sounds like he found a tool (pvmove) to do what he needs to do, and trying to do more on top complicates things beyond what they need to be. Admittedly, I don't like the RAID0 nature of LVM, so my question probably did reflect that cynicism. I typically put LVM on top of RAID. I guess the OP is running the JBOD nature (linear in LVM terms). Not that it matters, really. BTW: Am I the only one seeing a good opportunity for creating a backup using the old disks? LVM snapshots would be perfect here, as long as the old disks can be kept running. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] GLSA management
I've been checking this daily for a while: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/index.xml but every time there's a vulnerability in a package I know I have installed, my installed version is unaffected. If I emerge world daily, do I need to check on GLSA's? - Grant I don't know the exact policy but I've never seen a GLSA being issued before the fix got stabilized. If you update daily, GLSAs should not affect you. Thanks Florian. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] GLSA management
I've been checking this daily for a while: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/index.xml but every time there's a vulnerability in a package I know I have installed, my installed version is unaffected. If I emerge world daily, do I need to check on GLSA's? If you run testing, you usually have the fixed version before it gets into a GLSA. Just run glsa-check -t all after syncing. Thanks, that works great. - Grant
[gentoo-user] Clone live system as a simple backup?
Hi, I'm interested in the idea of cloning a live, complicated hardware system onto a single external hard drive as a simple backup. I would like this external drive to be completely bootable. What's the best way to approach doing this? I was considering just doing a Gentoo install from scratch but figured maybe there's a way to clone enough of the live system to get me there less painfully? The system I'm playing with has five 500MB hard drives with most partitions in linked together in various forms of RAID. (1, 5 6) That said, the total storage that this system presents KDE and the users is about 600GB. I have an external 1TB eSATA drive which is therefore large enough to hold everything on this system, albeit without the reliability of RAID which is fine for this purpose. The system looks more or less like: /dev/sda1 - /boot (50MB) /dev/sdb1 - /boot copy /dev/sdc1 - /boot copy c2stable ~ # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 51612920 31862844 17128276 66% / /dev/root 51612920 31862844 17128276 66% / rc-svcdir 102492 932 9% /lib64/rc/init.d udev 10240 476 9764 5% /dev shm 6151284 0 6151284 0% /dev/shm /dev/md7 389183252 350247628 19166232 95% /VirtualMachines tmpfs8388608 0 8388608 0% /var/tmp/portage /dev/sda1 54416 29516 22091 58% /boot c2stable ~ # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md6 : active raid5 sdb6[1] sdc6[2] sda6[0] 494833664 blocks super 1.1 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU] md7 : active raid6 sdb7[1] sdc7[2] sda7[0] sdd2[3] sde2[4] 395387904 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 16k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [U] md3 : active raid6 sdb3[1] sdc3[2] sda3[0] sdd3[3] sde3[4] 157305168 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 16k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [U] md126 : active raid1 sdc5[2] sda5[0] sdb5[1] 52436032 blocks [3/3] [UUU] unused devices: none c2stable ~ # /dev/md3 is a second Gentoo installation that doesn't need to be backed up at this time. md6 is an internal RAID used to back up md7 daily. It doesn't need to be backed up, but if the machine totally failed killing all the drives that wouldn't survive so currently I back up md126 to md6 daily, and then back up md6 weekly to an external eSATA drive. What I'd like to do is clone 1) /boot (sda1) including grub and everything required to make it bootable 2) back up the system portions of dev/md126 (/ ) 3) Add some swap space on the external drive 4) back up /dev/md7 which is all of my VMs 5) back up /home to a separate partition on the external drive 6) back up some special things like /var/lib/portage/world and /usr/portage/packages My thought is that this drive is basically bootable, but over time gets out-of-sync with the system. However should the system fail I've got a bootable external drive with all the binary packages required to get it running again quickly. However I can always boot the drive, do an emerge -ek @world, and basically be back to where I am as of the last backup. The external drive will look something like: /dev/sdg1 - /boot /dev/sdg2 - swap /dev/sdg3 - / (not including /home, /usr/portage/distfiles, etc) /dev/sdg5 - /usr/portage/packages /dev/sdg6 - /dev/md7 etc I will of course have to modify grub.conf and /etc/fstab to work from this drive but that's no big deal. What are folks best ideas about how to approach doing something like this? Thanks, Mark
[gentoo-user] kernel 3.2.x has problems with NetGear WNDA3100 wireless USB dongle
Hi, I have come across a strange problem ... I use a NetGear WNDA3100 USB wireless dongle which is using the kernel module carl9170 as driver. It is working fine for a little while, some minutes, then it stops receiving/transmitting anything at all. If I unplug and insert it again it works fine a couple of minutes before it stops receiving/transmitting anything again. The LED is stuck on pink but not flashing blue/pink as it usually do when receiving/transmitting data. This is when using a 3.2.x version of gentoo-sources, if I use 3.1.10 of gentoo-sources it is working fine for hours but sometimes shuts down totally and the LED is off and only comes alive again if I unplug and insert it. Any ideas? BR / P-E
Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work
Am 06.03.2012 18:25, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Yes, each customer is a project, then I create the following taskslots immediately: Planning, Preparation, Deploy, Test, Final. I may add or delete taskslots as I see fit later on during Planning. Then, I just tap on Gleeo's play icon whenever I begin working. I will play with it for a while to see if it fits ;-) The gnome hamster applet would be helpful if it worked against a DB somewhere ... have it on the desktop and the thinkpad and just press the shortkey gotta check how it works with gnome3 now.
[gentoo-user] Solution for Address family not supported by protocol
I just upgrade to the last version of the libvirt on my Gentoo System.
(From 0.9.6 to 0.9.10-r3) But i have a problem with starting my NAT:
Error starting network 'NAT': Cannot open network interface control
socket: Address family not supported by protocol
Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py, line 45, in
cb_wrapper
callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
File /usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py, line 66, in tmpcb
callback(*args, **kwargs)
File /usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/network.py, line 82, in start
self.net.create()
File /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py, line 1863, in
create
if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virNetworkCreate() failed',
net=self)
libvirtError: Cannot open network interface control socket: Address
family not supported by protocol
Anyone have an idea how to fix this? I try also to add a new adapter by
hand, but know seems to work her
so far
4k3nd0
Re: [gentoo-user] Solution for Address family not supported by protocol
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:02 PM, 4k3nd0 4k3...@googlemail.com wrote:
I just upgrade to the last version of the libvirt on my Gentoo System.
(From 0.9.6 to 0.9.10-r3) But i have a problem with starting my NAT:
Error starting network 'NAT': Cannot open network interface control
socket: Address family not supported by protocol
Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py, line 45, in
cb_wrapper
callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
File /usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py, line 66, in tmpcb
callback(*args, **kwargs)
File /usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/network.py, line 82, in start
self.net.create()
File /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py, line 1863, in
create
if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virNetworkCreate() failed',
net=self)
libvirtError: Cannot open network interface control socket: Address
family not supported by protocol
Anyone have an idea how to fix this? I try also to add a new adapter by
hand, but know seems to work her
This Redhat bug seems similar, in their case it was related to sound...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multipleid=504451
HTH
Re: [gentoo-user] Horrible TrueCrypt performance
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 03:41:01PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Whoops! I for got to write an update. Two months ago, I wrote: I have to copy some 100 G of files from one to another USB drive. Both are formatted with NTFS, the destination drive already has a truecrypt container file where I need to store the data into. [...] The problem was the TrueCrypt container file. What I did instead was to format the whole drive as a TruCrypt volume, which took about two hours I think. When I mounted the partition, copying speed was as fast as it should be. Yes, it is also my experience that write performance on NTFS is very suboptimal for bigger files. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I forbid any use of my email addresses with Facebook services. ATARI! We make top-notch toasters affordable! pgpPjvRTaH1jE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work
Am 06.03.2012 21:32, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: The gnome hamster applet would be helpful if it worked against a DB somewhere ... have it on the desktop and the thinkpad and just press the shortkey gotta check how it works with gnome3 now. The dev has some work done for an extension for gnome shell: https://github.com/tbaugis/hamster-shell-extension Something for my todo-list. If I had some ;-) S
[gentoo-user] Re: Why can't I print in landscape?
On 03/05/2012 04:52 PM, Mick wrote: Also, in a full KDE desktop I select the hplip tooltray applet (or whatever its called) and also change in there the settings to print landscape. I discovered (the very hard way) to delete and re-create the printer devices whenever I update hplip. I kept seeing some really weird printing bugs that no one else was seeing, until I deleted and re-created the devices with hp-setup. Worth a try, anyway.
Re: [gentoo-user] GLSA management
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 10:32:35 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I've been checking this daily for a while: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/index.xml but every time there's a vulnerability in a package I know I have installed, my installed version is unaffected. If I emerge world daily, do I need to check on GLSA's? - Grant I run a cron job that does glsa-check -t all daily, and had one glsa showing up lately (201201-09). This was an old slot of media-libs/freetype, pulled in by emerge because of obscure useflags in luatex. This was with stable packages. Another one showed up because of app-text/acroread, and was resolved by replacing acroread with evince. So in my opinion it is necessary to run glsa-check regularly to show the detected problems within the system. Run as a cron job there is little work to do, checking the mail takes less than 10 seconds. And: A big thanks to the people who invest their time and use their brains to write the Gentoo Linux Security Advices! Urs
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why can't I print in landscape?
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:04 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/05/2012 04:52 PM, Mick wrote: Also, in a full KDE desktop I select the hplip tooltray applet (or whatever its called) and also change in there the settings to print landscape. I discovered (the very hard way) to delete and re-create the printer devices whenever I update hplip. I kept seeing some really weird printing bugs that no one else was seeing, until I deleted and re-created the devices with hp-setup. Worth a try, anyway. With my printer, I must re-run the HP firmware plug-in downloader as root every time I update hplip. If I forget to do that, the printer either does not work at all or appears to be working but may do crazy things.
Re: [gentoo-user] tracking IT work
On Mar 7, 2012 6:07 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 06.03.2012 21:32, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: The gnome hamster applet would be helpful if it worked against a DB somewhere ... have it on the desktop and the thinkpad and just press the shortkey gotta check how it works with gnome3 now. The dev has some work done for an extension for gnome shell: https://github.com/tbaugis/hamster-shell-extension Something for my todo-list. If I had some ;-) S Most important IMO is the capability to expert as CSV; then you can slice and dice it every which way you want :-) Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1
On Tuesday 06 March 2012 19:05:01 Neil Bothwick wrote: A consultant is a person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets the watch, and sends you a bill for it. I didn't realise you'd been in the white heat of software project management :-) -- Rgds Peter
[gentoo-user] Re: two NICs - kernel crash ?
On 03/06/2012 02:08 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, on my HP625 I run a bleeding edge Gentoo (kernel 3.3-rc6). If the notebook is connected by an ethernet cable, the net comes up just fine. If I disconnect it from ethernet and start net.wlan0, the WLAN comes up just fine. BUT, if it's connect to ethernet, and net.eth0 has been started, the kernel crashes badly (i.e. no SysRq anymore) if I start net.wlan0 in addition. Is this a configuration error by me or a kernel bug. The WLAN card is a Broadcom BCM4313 with the BRCMSMAC driver. Well, this is just my non-expert opinion, but I feel that any knob that can be twiddled by a user should never crash the kernel, ever. However, the kernel devs might agree with my wife about my opinions ;) Do kernels from the stable branch also crash?
[gentoo-user] Re: GLSA management
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 19:06:46 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: If you run testing, you usually have the fixed version before it gets into a GLSA. IME, the same is true of running stable. I saw comments somewhere recently about the GLSA-releasing process having a bottleneck somewhere, but there weren't details. I think I was reading bugs.gentoo.org, but I'm not sure. The stabilization bug[1] for GLSA 201203-12[2] has the fix stabilized on all arches, and a GLSA request made, on 16 January but the GLSA wasn't issued until 6 March. I don't know if that's an anomaly or not. There's a lot I don't know in this post, heh. I guess I'm requesting comments. 1 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397695 2 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201203-12.xml
[gentoo-user] Re: GLSA management
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 19:48:43 -0600 »Q« boxc...@gmx.net wrote: The stabilization bug[1] for GLSA 201203-12[2] has the fix stabilized on all arches, and a GLSA request made, on 16 January but the GLSA wasn't issued until 6 March. I don't know if that's an anomaly or not. Of the 12 GLSAs issued today, I believe that was the oldest. There's a lot I don't know in this post, heh. I guess I'm requesting comments. 1 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397695 2 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201203-12.xml
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why can't I print in landscape?
Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:04 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/05/2012 04:52 PM, Mick wrote: Also, in a full KDE desktop I select the hplip tooltray applet (or whatever its called) and also change in there the settings to print landscape. I discovered (the very hard way) to delete and re-create the printer devices whenever I update hplip. I kept seeing some really weird printing bugs that no one else was seeing, until I deleted and re-created the devices with hp-setup. Worth a try, anyway. With my printer, I must re-run the HP firmware plug-in downloader as root every time I update hplip. If I forget to do that, the printer either does not work at all or appears to be working but may do crazy things. I have had to do the same thing. I have also noticed if I don't run the config tool that it will max out one CPU core until I kill hplip or log out and sometimes have to kill hplip then. Recently, I have noticed I don't have to do that and everything works as expected. Sort of surprised really. I have got so used to redoing everything after a update. 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] tracking IT work
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 07:38:08 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Mar 7, 2012 6:07 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 06.03.2012 21:32, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: The gnome hamster applet would be helpful if it worked against a DB somewhere ... have it on the desktop and the thinkpad and just press the shortkey gotta check how it works with gnome3 now. The dev has some work done for an extension for gnome shell: https://github.com/tbaugis/hamster-shell-extension Something for my todo-list. If I had some ;-) S Most important IMO is the capability to expert as CSV; then you can slice and dice it every which way you want :-) Rgds, I'm going to throw out that org-mode is also excellent for tossing around notes, scheduling, and time-tracking, though my experience with the time-tracking portion of it is limited so I'm not sure how well that would serve you. And it's all just text(TM) with a nice simple syntax. Definitely worth a look if Emacs is your editor of choice. Cheers, Bryan
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why can't I print in landscape?
On Wednesday 07 Mar 2012 02:11:37 Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:04 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/05/2012 04:52 PM, Mick wrote: Also, in a full KDE desktop I select the hplip tooltray applet (or whatever its called) and also change in there the settings to print landscape. I discovered (the very hard way) to delete and re-create the printer devices whenever I update hplip. I kept seeing some really weird printing bugs that no one else was seeing, until I deleted and re-created the devices with hp-setup. Worth a try, anyway. With my printer, I must re-run the HP firmware plug-in downloader as root every time I update hplip. If I forget to do that, the printer either does not work at all or appears to be working but may do crazy things. I have had to do the same thing. I have also noticed if I don't run the config tool that it will max out one CPU core until I kill hplip or log out and sometimes have to kill hplip then. Recently, I have noticed I don't have to do that and everything works as expected. Sort of surprised really. I have got so used to redoing everything after a update. Thanks guys, but I think that I only use the hpjis driver rather than the full hplip package. This is because the printer is connected to this printer server: http://support.netgear.com/app/products/model/a_id/2516/ which works with lpd://ip_address I remember running the hp-config or some such script some years back. It did not find the printer, or server, or ever configured anything. It only tried to connect to USB devices. Now looking at my machine I can't see it anywhere, but there's loads of other commands there! hp-align hp-infohp-pqdiag hp-systray hp-check hp-levels hp-print hp-testpage hp-clean hp-linefeedcal hp-printsettings hp-timedate hp-colorcalhp-makecopies hp-probe hp-toolbox hp-devicesettings hp-makeuri hp-query hp-unload hp-fab hp-mkuri hp-scanhp-wificonfig hp-faxsetuphp-pkservice hp-sendfax hpftodit hp-firmwarehp-plugin hp-setup hpijs I will try to run some of these when I get to that machine next, because I will be interested to see if it changes anything. Any suggestions what I should run? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why can't I print in landscape?
On Wednesday 07 Mar 2012 06:49:10 Mick wrote: On Wednesday 07 Mar 2012 02:11:37 Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:04 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/05/2012 04:52 PM, Mick wrote: Also, in a full KDE desktop I select the hplip tooltray applet (or whatever its called) and also change in there the settings to print landscape. I discovered (the very hard way) to delete and re-create the printer devices whenever I update hplip. I kept seeing some really weird printing bugs that no one else was seeing, until I deleted and re-created the devices with hp-setup. Worth a try, anyway. With my printer, I must re-run the HP firmware plug-in downloader as root every time I update hplip. If I forget to do that, the printer either does not work at all or appears to be working but may do crazy things. I have had to do the same thing. I have also noticed if I don't run the config tool that it will max out one CPU core until I kill hplip or log out and sometimes have to kill hplip then. Recently, I have noticed I don't have to do that and everything works as expected. Sort of surprised really. I have got so used to redoing everything after a update. Thanks guys, but I think that I only use the hpjis driver rather than the full hplip package. This is because the printer is connected to this printer server: http://support.netgear.com/app/products/model/a_id/2516/ which works with lpd://ip_address I remember running the hp-config or some such script some years back. It did not find the printer, or server, or ever configured anything. It only tried to connect to USB devices. Now looking at my machine I can't see it anywhere, but there's loads of other commands there! hp-align hp-infohp-pqdiag hp-systray hp-check hp-levels hp-print hp-testpage hp-clean hp-linefeedcal hp-printsettings hp-timedate hp-colorcalhp-makecopies hp-probe hp-toolbox hp-devicesettings hp-makeuri hp-query hp-unload hp-fab hp-mkuri hp-scanhp-wificonfig hp-faxsetuphp-pkservice hp-sendfax hpftodit hp-firmwarehp-plugin hp-setup hpijs I will try to run some of these when I get to that machine next, because I will be interested to see if it changes anything. Any suggestions what I should run? Oops! Yes, it was hp-setup as you say. Will try that again and see what it gives. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] netcat - which?
eix netcat returned net-analyzer/gnu-netcat and net-analyzer/netcat What's the difference? Which one should I emerge? Rgds, -- FdS Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ • LOPSA Member #15248 • Blog : http://pepoluan.tumblr.com • Linked-In : http://id.linkedin.com/in/pepoluan
