Re: [gentoo-user] Where has Aqua Datastudio gone?
Hi Wolfgang, On 2/20/06, Wolfgang Liebich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm developing DB centered JAVA apps, so I tried out Aqua Datastudio (a DB frontent written in pure JAVA), and was rather satisfied w/ it. BUT now the ebuild for that app (dev-db/aqua-data-studio) has gone, w/o a trace. What happened? see bug 63257[1]. There's also e new ebuild which seems to be better, at least that's what the reporter said, bug 120719[2]. HTH, Max [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/63257 [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/120719 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wireless works with Knoppix CD but not Gentoo
On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 12:38 -0800, Grant wrote: Ok, this must be a package version issue right? Which packages should I be examining? I'm thinking wireless-tools. Anything else? What file should I look at on the Knoppix disc to find out what version it's running so I can match it on the Gentoo system? - Grant Might be worth giving wpa_supplicant a shot instead of wireless-tools. It can replace wireless-tools as it supports WEP, no-encryption and WPA. I don't think that package versions would be the issue here but you never know. What iwconfig commands are you running ? Rob signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...
Bo Andresen wrote: On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:35, gentuxx wrote: Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav gentoo-sources ? I mean, u for update? emerge -uav gentoo-sources These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! Total size of downloads: 0 kB Nothing to merge; do you want me to auto-clean packages? [Yes/No] n Quitting. kernel, so I cancel. Any thoughts? Is there a portage setting, or package dependency, that would prevent this package from being upgraded? Do you have eix installed? If not I suggest you install it. No, I just installed it. So this is the first time running these commands - if that makes any difference. Could you post the output of: # update-eix update-eix Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/var/cache/eix) from scratch .. [0] /usr/portage/ (cache: flat) Reading 100% [1] /usr/local/portage (cache: none) Reading 100% Applying masks .. Database contains 10162 packages in 146 categories. # eix -e gentoo-sources eix -e gentoo-sources * sys-kernel/gentoo-sources Available versions: 2.4.28-r9 ~2.4.31-r1 2.6.9-r9 2.6.12-r9 2.6.12-r10 ~2.6.13 ~2.6.13-r1 ~2.6.13-r2 2.6.13-r3 Installed: 2.6.11-r5 2.6.11-r6 2.6.11-r8 2.6.11-r9 2.6.11-r11 2.6.12-r6 2.6.12-r9 2.6.12-r10 2.6.13-r3 Homepage:http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/gentoo-dev-sources Description: Full sources including the gentoo patchset for the 2.6 kernel tree Found 1 matches Also the output of emerge --info would be nice. emerge --info Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686) = System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 AUTOCLEAN=yes CBUILD=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/fax /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control /var/spool/fax/etc CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles FEATURES=autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/ ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/; MAKEOPTS=-j2 PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage SYNC=rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage USE=x86 X acl adns alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cdb cdr cgi clamav cli crypt cscope cups curl dba directfb eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm ggi gif glut gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hardened iconv idn imagemagick imlib ithreads java jpeg jpg kde kdeenablefinal lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad maildir mbox mhash mikmod ming mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mpm-worker mysql nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl php png postgres python qt quicktime readline recode ruby samba sasl sdl session slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis win32codecs xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS - -- gentux echo hfouvyAdpy/ofu | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint == 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A 6996 0993 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD9NgxLYGSSmmWCZMRArkpAKDjCyp0NvdAAJ+bgHWW2xSDPgTk3wCfYJlZ v8QwKr1rnTPb4lZbCIx5+64= =vSQG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Can be old profile? Which is your profile? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: udev upgrade fails
As of now, nothings has changed, apart from the fact that also other people have trouble in emerging udev I hope it will be solved soon. Regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild for net-mail/mailman
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Jonatan Antoni wrote: I've just emerged mailman-2.1.7 and noticed that it is installed to /usr/local/mailman. IMHO the /usr/local-directory is not the right place for installing software by a package-management. I think it would be much better to place it to /opt or split the package up into the existing /usr-directory. Generally, /opt in Gentoo is for binary-only or commercial packages. Its perfectly reasonable to have local stuff under /usr/local (see FHS: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-4.9.html). Of course, you can change where stuff gets installed too. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] raid/partition question
just wanted to ask before i mess something up. i have booted off the install cd, created a raidtab with my mirrored drives on it. i have created the raid. now, do i go in and setup the partitions i want on that raid? or should i have done that before creating the raid? so instead of having one big mirror and then partitioning that, do i need to create my seperate partitions and then mark them as fd and then create each raid seperate? i think im confusing myself here. can you partition a raid device aka /dev/md0? when i look at it in fdisk it shows the partitions of both drives (they are the same). if i partition md0 and try to write the table i get : WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 22: Invalid argument. The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at the next reboot. Syncing disks. did i just set myself up for failure? or is it going to work? im doing this install remotely so i really cant reboot to see if its going to work, but i dont want to continue with the install if im just wasting my time. thats why im asking here to be sure. this is on sparc hardware, but i dont think that will make a difference. TIA Nick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question
On 2/20/06, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think im confusing myself here. can you partition a raid device aka /dev/md0? Yes. You can either use mdadm to create a partitionable raid device, or use LVM/EVMS (which would be my recommendation) to create logical volumes on the array. Just beware that /boot should either be it's own partition (non-raid), or on a RAID-1 array (with no partitions). Otherwise the boot loader will have trouble locating and loading the kernel. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps
Hi folks, this is about Powerpoint Presentations and Gentoo and (almost) any other linux distribution. There are two different types of presentations: *.ppt and *.pps. The difference is that *.pps have an interpreter linked into the document so you can run it under Windows without having Powerpoint. *.ppt do not cause any problems but *.pps do. If you do a file something.pps it reports it as Microsoft Office Document without qualifying what kind of document. As long as you have set all your file associations of Microsoft documents to OpenOffice, it will work for you because OO still is a monolithic application that handles all of them. This is not true if you have set file associations of Microsoft documents to specific applications in any other office suite, including but not limited to koffice. In the case of koffice, kword gets started, It starts to load the presentation and decides correctly that this isn't a word document. So my question is: Aren't there any mime type and/or magic file experts here that can extent the magic file to recognise *.pps files correctly? Would be great if we could get that sorted out. I tried myself. Unfortunately, I am not a magic file expert and failed badly. :-( Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] open-Xchange
Hi folks, anybody in the know here what is going on this openXchange? It has been masked since September last year. Other distribution ship it. Did the Gentoo developers drop out or what? Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Sybase ASE 15.0
Hi everybody! Does anyone happen to have this SGBD installed and working? As a pre-requisite I installed sun-jre-bin 1.5.0.06 What else is necessary? Where can I find some docs about it? Thanks in advance! Fabiano -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question
On Monday 20 February 2006 09:57, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] raid/partition question': just wanted to ask before i mess something up. i have booted off the install cd, created a raidtab with my mirrored drives on it. i have created the raid. now, do i go in and setup the partitions i want on that raid? or should i have done that before creating the raid? so instead of having one big mirror and then partitioning that, do i need to create my seperate partitions and then mark them as fd and then create each raid seperate? I would suggest partitioning the drives identically, then using mdadm to create your raid devices. The reason I say this is because the kernel does not seem to have any room in the device node space for partitions on an md device. I could be wrong here; but I know partition and then build will work. If you'll look at the major/minor number of IDE devices, you'll see that hda and hdb have the same major, but the minor number on hdb is +64... thus this allows 63 recognized partitions / disk labels on an IDE device. (hda1 is +1 minor from hda, hda2 is +2, etc.; similarly for hdb) If you do the same investigation on SCSI/SATA devices, you'll see that sda and sdb have the same major number, but the minor number on sdb is +16... thus only 15 partitions / disk labels are recognized on a SCSI/SATA device. I do believe we recently had a member of gentoo-user run into this problem. (Switching to not using partitions as much will help; I prefer LVM LVs myself.) Finally, you can look at the software raid devices, you'll see that md0 and md1 have the same major number (9) and the minor number on md1 (1) is only +1 from the minor number on md0 (0). Due do this, I fear that the kernel may not properly recognize partitions / disk labels on software raid devices. It's entirely possible that partitions on software raid devices use a different major number and/or use dynamic minor numbers so partitioning the raid device may work -- I just can't recommend it because I don't know it'll work and I know partitioning first, then raid-ing the partitions does work. As the other poster said, be careful with how you treat your bootable partition. It must be a partition recognized by your bootloader, on a disk recognized by the BIOS / EMI, using a filesystem understood by your bootloader. If you use the old-style software raid (no superblock; by default mdadm does create a superblock), you can use raid 1 for boot, but each component partition should satisfy all the conditions for a bootable partition. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps
The 'file' command and mime types are different things. On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 07:20:07PM +0200, Penguin Lover Uwe Thiem squawked: this is about Powerpoint Presentations and Gentoo and (almost) any other linux *.ppt do not cause any problems but *.pps do. If you do a file something.pps it reports it as Microsoft Office Document without qualifying what kind of document. If you do a 'file something.ppt', I am fairly certain it will also say Microsoft Office Document. While grepping for 'Excel' and 'Word' both turn up some stuff in /usr/share/misc/file/magic, there isn't anything that corresponds to 'Power' except for PowerPC related stuff. In fact, I am pretty sure that documents from newer versions of Microsoft Office would all return that string when file is ran against them. This is not true if you have set file associations of Microsoft documents to specific applications in any other office suite, including but not limited to koffice. In the case of koffice, kword gets started, It starts to load the presentation and decides correctly that this isn't a word document. The question is how you are recognizing the files? From what you are saying, it sounds to me like you are double-clicking in some KDE file browser and letting KDE do the job of deciding which application to call. Since I know naught about KDE, I can't help there. So my question is: Aren't there any mime type and/or magic file experts here that can extent the magic file to recognise *.pps files correctly? However, one thing that came to mind is for you to check the mime.types file in /etc/mime.types and make sure [01:01 PM]wwong ~ $ grep pps /etc/mime.types application/vnd.ms-powerpoint ppt pps pps files are indeed associated as powerpoint. HTH W -- This class makes me feel like Ralph Wiggam... ~DeathMech, Some Student. P-town PHY 205 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 100 days, 10:19 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] coreutils downgrade problem
I have this problem couple of times. emerge says that I should downgrade coreutils: citadela ~ # emerge -pvuD system [ebuild UD] sys-apps/coreutils-5.93 [5.94] USE=nls -acl -build -static 0 kB [ebuild U ] sys-devel/make-3.80-r4 [3.80-r3] USE=nls -build -static 0 kB But when I try emerge -uD system I got the following error: zip2: /var/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.93/distdir/coreutils-5.93-patches-1.1.tar.bz2: trailing garbage after EOF ignored * Applying patches from Mandrake ... * 005_all_coreutils-mdk-timestyle.patch ... [ ok ] * 007_all_coreutils-mdk-dumbterm.patch ... [ ok ] * 017_all_coreutils-mdk-mem.patch ... [ ok ] * Done with patching * Applying various patches (bugfixes/updates) ... * 000_all_coreutils-i18n.patch ... [ ok ] * 001_all_coreutils-gen-progress-bar.patch ... [ ok ] * 003_all_coreutils-gentoo-uname.patch ... [ ok ] * 009_all_coreutils-tests.patch ... [ ok ] * 020_all_coreutils-overflow.patch ... [ ok ] * 030_all_coreutils-more-dir-colors.patch ... [ ok ] * Done with patching * Reconfiguring configure scripts (be patient) ... /usr/share/aclocal/gtk.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GTK run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal /usr/share/aclocal/glib.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GLIB /usr/share/aclocal/audiofile.m4:12: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_AUDIOFILE configure.ac: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found. configure.ac: You should verify that configure.ac invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, configure.ac: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory, configure.ac: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal). configure.ac: required file `./install-sh' not found configure.ac: required file `./missing' not found automake-1.9: no `Makefile.am' found for any configure output automake-1.9: Did you forget AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile]) in configure.ac? !!! ERROR: sys-apps/coreutils-5.93 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1894: Called dyn_unpack ebuild.sh, line 694: Called src_unpack I'm using ~x86. Does anyone have any idea what should I do to fix my box. Similar problems appear with emerging of almost any package. Thanks, Marko -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] AUTOTOOLS
Sorry but my english got worst (you know, 'if you don't use it, you lose it'). I'll start again and maybe you'll understand me better: My problem is that I've been downloading some QT apps (KDE apps) to know how autotools code is written (I read the manual, but I need some practising or reading code). All 'big' apps that could have some strange structure (like amaroK) that I've downloaded have been written through KDevelop help, and I don't want an automatic Makefile. I'll use IDE's when I know how to write it by my own. So, as I've seen, KDevelop copies all files (*.cpp, *.h and *.ui) to src path. Well, I'm pretty organized, and I like to have src/gui for *.ui files for example. All Makefile.am that I've seen suppose that all sources and *.ui files are in src, so they have something like: bin_PROGRAMS = amarokapp SUBDIRS = \ amarokcore \ $(SQLITE_SUBDIR) \ analyzers \ [...] INCLUDES = \ -I$(top_builddir)/amarok/src/amarokcore \ [...] amarokapp_SOURCES = \ Options1.ui \ Options2.ui \ Options4.ui \ Options5.ui \ Options7.ui \ Options8.ui \ actionclasses.cpp \ app.cpp \ [...] METASOURCES = \ AUTO Well, in this case it's pretty easy, because all necessary files for building amaroK are on src. My question is: If I have a path like src, and inside it I have another directory called gui. (src/gui), then Makefile.am inside src/gui should be like this? noinst_LTLIBRARIES = \ whatever.la noinst_HEADERS = \ header1.h \ header2.h whatever_la_SOURCES = \ main.cpp \ METASOURCES = \ AUTO With noinst, because my objective is an unique executable file, and no libraries. Would that be correct? My problem is that it seems that there is no trouble in compiling process, but it seems that when it is going to link it fails, and it throws me some vtable failures (if you want I can write them here, but I've got some and different, because I've been changing my test code depending on what errors I have been getting). Thank you very much, Rafael Fernández López. pgpryEfZ0sLGq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question
On Monday 20 February 2006 11:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question': As an extension of this question since I'm working on setting up a system now. What is better to do with LVM2 after the RAID is created. I am using EVMS also. 1. Make all the RAID freespace a big LVM2 container and then and then create LVM2 volumes on top of this big container. or 2. Parcel out the RAID freespace into LVM2 containers for each partiton (/, /user, etc.). 3. Neither. See below. First a discussion of the two options. 1. Is fine, but it forces you to choose a single raid level for all your data. I like raid 0 for filesystems that are used a lot, but can easily be reconstructed given time (/usr) and especially filesystems that don't need to be reconstructed (/var/tmp), raid 5 or 6 for large filesystems that I don't want to lose (/home, particularly), and raid 1 for critical, but small, filesystems (/boot, maybe). 2. Is a little silly, since LVM is designed so that you can treat multiple pvs as a single pool of data OR you can allocate from a certain pv -- whatever suits the task at hand. So, it rarely makes sense to have multiple volume groups; you'd only do this when you want a fault-tolerant air-gap between two filesystems. Failure of a single pv in a vg will require some damage control, maybe a little, maybe a lot, but having production encounter any problems just because development had a disk go bad is unacceptable is many environments. So, you have a strong argument for separate vgs there. 3. My approach: While I don't use EVMS (the LVM tools are fine with me, at least for now) I have a software raid 0 and a hw raid 5 as separate pvs in a single vg. I create and expand lvs on the pv that suits the data. I also have a separate (not under lvm) hw raid 0 for swap and hw raid 6 for boot. I may migrate my swap to LVM in the near future; during my initial setup, I feared it was unsafe. Recent experience tells me that's (most likely) not the case. For the uninitiated, you can specify the pv to place lv data on like so: lvcreate -L size -n name vg pv lvresize -L size vg/lv pv The second command only affect where new extents are allocated, it will not move old extents; use pvmove for that. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps
On Monday 20 February 2006 19:20, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, this is about Powerpoint Presentations and Gentoo and (almost) any other linux distribution. There are two different types of presentations: *.ppt and *.pps. The difference is that *.pps have an interpreter linked into the document so you can run it under Windows without having Powerpoint. *.ppt do not cause any problems but *.pps do. If you do a file something.pps it reports it as Microsoft Office Document without qualifying what kind of document. As long as you have set all your file associations of Microsoft documents to OpenOffice, it will work for you because OO still is a monolithic application that handles all of them. This is not true if you have set file associations of Microsoft documents to specific applications in any other office suite, including but not limited to koffice. In the case of koffice, kword gets started, It starts to load the presentation and decides correctly that this isn't a word document. So my question is: Aren't there any mime type and/or magic file experts here that can extent the magic file to recognise *.pps files correctly? Would be great if we could get that sorted out. I tried myself. Unfortunately, I am not a magic file expert and failed badly. :-( Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? most simple solution i can give is to rename file.pps to file.ppt for my understanding pps does only that that opening it starts slide show not the editor and powerpoint installation still has to be present martins -- Linux 2.6.15-ck3-r1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ 20:27:21 up 15:55, 7 users, load average: 1.74, 1.71, 1.63 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question
Thank you very much. I'll need to go back and reread this and digest it some more. I hadn't thought of doing multiple RAID types on the drives. I have two and did RAID1 for /boot and was going to RAID1 the rest. However, I really want RAID0 for speed and capacity on some file systems. The swap comment is interesting, too. I have two small partitons for swap - one on each drive and I was going to parallel them per one of DRobbins articles. From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/02/20 Mon PM 01:30:59 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question On Monday 20 February 2006 11:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question': As an extension of this question since I'm working on setting up a system now. 3. Neither. See below. First a discussion of the two options. 1. Is fine, but it forces you to choose a single raid level for all your data. I like raid 0 for filesystems that are used a lot, but can easily be reconstructed given time (/usr) and especially filesystems that don't need to be reconstructed (/var/tmp), raid 5 or 6 for large filesystems that I don't want to lose (/home, particularly), and raid 1 for critical, but small, filesystems (/boot, maybe). 2. Is a little silly, since LVM is designed so that you can treat multiple pvs as a single pool of data OR you can allocate from a certain pv -- whatever suits the task at hand. So, it rarely makes sense to have multiple volume groups; you'd only do this when you want a fault-tolerant air-gap between two filesystems. Failure of a single pv in a vg will require some damage control, maybe a little, maybe a lot, but having production encounter any problems just because development had a disk go bad is unacceptable is many environments. So, you have a strong argument for separate vgs there. 3. My approach: While I don't use EVMS (the LVM tools are fine with me, at least for now) I have a software raid 0 and a hw raid 5 as separate pvs in a single vg. I create and expand lvs on the pv that suits the data. I also have a separate (not under lvm) hw raid 0 for swap and hw raid 6 for boot. I may migrate my swap to LVM in the near future; during my initial setup, I feared it was unsafe. Recent experience tells me that's (most likely) not the case. For the uninitiated, you can specify the pv to place lv data on like so: lvcreate -L size -n name vg pv lvresize -L size vg/lv pv The second command only affect where new extents are allocated, it will not move old extents; use pvmove for that. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Autotools
Hi, Since my question about Autotools was pretty bad explained, I'll sum up it into a question: I'm searching for a manual (not autotools manual from gnu, because I had already read it and it is not enough) that explains how to use autotools with QT apps (METASOURCES = AUTO), and so on... I wouldn't like to use any IDE's, just nano and terminal. Thanks, Rafael Fernández López. pgpYKOYgkUa26.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] got lprng?
On Sunday 19 February 2006 10:09 pm, maxim wexler wrote: This looks like an elaborate form of echo -e This text should appear on the printer\f /dev/lp0 Which works fine. Also, from apsfilter I was able to print a test page. So the hardware seems to be OK. OK, then. Now, if I remember correctly, you require pure text printing using the printer's built-in bitmap fonts, correct? Is this an absolute requirement, or is the requirement just to be able to print text files? If the latter, then CUPS may still be an option. CUPS will convert the text file to Postscript, then pipe it through Ghostscript and print it out on the printer in graphical mode. The disadvantages of this method are a) it will probably be slower than pure text printing, b) the font used to print the text will be something like Courier instead of the printer's built-in font, and c) if your print file includes printer escape sequences (to change font size, etc.) it won't work correctly. These issues can be worked around by defining a raw CUPS queue and manually filtering the input file through unix2dos or something similar, Now, supposing that you do require pure text printing, you'll want an /etc/printcap entry like the following: lp:sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P :force_localhost :lp=/dev/lp0 :filter=/usr/lib/filters/lpf Once you've created the entry, run checkpc to check for any configuration errors, and /etc/init.d/lprng start - let's see if that does the trick. I think the force_localhost may resolve your hostname issues. -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mclure.org ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice seg faults
My system has just gone wonky - I am running ~AMD64 and today I can't run Firefox, Thunderbird or OpenOffice. I get the following errors: kryton kevin # thunderbird-bin No running windows found 1553: Î(tU 1553: Î(tU/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 1553 Segmentation fault $mozbin $@ thunderbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139) kryton kevin # firefox-bin No running windows found 1509: ÎpU 1509: ÎpU/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 1509 Segmentation fault $mozbin $@ firefox-bin exited with non-zero status (139) kryton kevin # ooffice2 1565: Hµÿÿ 1565: $¥ÿÿ/usr/lib32/openoffice/program/soffice: line 233: 1565 Segmentation fault $sd_prog/$sd_binary $@ Last night I ran revdep-rebuild and it rebuilt OpenOffice-bin and thunderbird-bin. I googled around and tried a few options such as removing ~/.gt config files, removing ~/.mozilla and also changing kde theme but all to no avail. Any ideas welcome. Kevin,. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] trying kde no support for hal??
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 08:18 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the combined idea of hal, dbus, udev and auto mounting that you don't need entries in fstab? Yes, you're right. You don't need to manually add entries to fstab. udev/hal will do that on the fly for you. And with Gnome, this works perfectly fine for me. Yes, it worked for me in Gnome too (after a few updates of udev). But I'm trying kde for a bit. I still get nothing happening when I insert removable media. I have dbus and hal installed and started. I have kdebase installed, so kioslaves is already part of it. I still get the message no support for HAL on this system in the peripherals storage media setup. any more ideas? many thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au There but for the grace of God, goes God. -- Winston Churchill, speaking of Sir Stafford Cripps. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] trying kde no support for hal??
On Monday 20 February 2006 02:57 pm, Iain Buchanan wrote: I still get the message no support for HAL on this system in the peripherals storage media setup. A stupid question - do you have the 'hal' USE flag set in make.conf? -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mclure.org ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] trying kde no support for hal??
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 15:04 -0800, Manuel A. McLure wrote: On Monday 20 February 2006 02:57 pm, Iain Buchanan wrote: I still get the message no support for HAL on this system in the peripherals storage media setup. A stupid question - do you have the 'hal' USE flag set in make.conf? yep: USE=-apm -oss -xmms acpi samba smb kde gnome qt gtk2 hal dbus thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au Either approach may give birth to various sorts of monstrosities. -- Larry Wall in [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] trying KDE (konsole placement)
I thought I had this one sorted, but apparently not! Essentially, I want konsole to always appear in the bottom right of the screen. It appears the -geometry option isn't quite implemented properly, so a user suggested to use the special window settings to remember the position of konsole. This worked well for a while, until I realised that these settings don't stay with what I set them to! eg. 1. open konsole and position it where I want it. 2. select special window settings from window advanced menu. 3. set position to remember, and the coords should be already there. 4. open and close konsole as many times as you want and believe that it works :) 5. open konsole, move it, then close it. 6. open konsole again. Now it opens where I last moved it to, NOT where I told it to. If I look at special window settings now, I see that the coords have changed!! Why? I didn't tell it to?!?!? Is this the intended behaviour? I'd appreciate any comments. Thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au /* And you'll never guess what the dog had */ /* in its mouth... */ -- Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Resolving hostnames with OpenVPN/TUN device?
Hey all. I've got OpenVPN installed, and it runs great. Only thing - I've noticed between the Windows and Linux version - the Windows version seems to auto-magically assign the proper nameserver addresses to the TUN device once connected, hence I can just enter hostnames and ping or PuTTY with no problem. How can I do the same with OpenVPN on Linux? So far, I have to enter IP addresses, which isn't bad - it just stinks trying to memorize them all! Thanks! -- Emperor Palpatine: Soon the Rebellion will be crushed and young Skywalker will be one of us! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] trying KDE (konsole placement)
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 01:48, Iain Buchanan wrote: 1. open konsole and position it where I want it. 2. select special window settings from window advanced menu. 3. set position to remember, and the coords should be already there. 4. open and close konsole as many times as you want and believe that it works :) 5. open konsole, move it, then close it. 6. open konsole again. Now it opens where I last moved it to, NOT where I told it to. If I look at special window settings now, I see that the coords have changed!! Why? I didn't tell it to?!?!? Is this the intended behaviour? I'd appreciate any comments. Thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au /* And you'll never guess what the dog had */ /* in its mouth... */ -- Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code you chose wrong setting, change 'Remember' to 'Aplay Initialy' hope this helps martins -- Linux 2.6.15-ck3-r1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ 02:09:38 up 2:23, 3 users, load average: 0.54, 1.22, 1.36 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] trying KDE (konsole placement)
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 02:11 +0200, Martins Steinbergs wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 01:48, Iain Buchanan wrote: 1. open konsole and position it where I want it. 2. select special window settings from window advanced menu. 3. set position to remember, and the coords should be already there. 4. open and close konsole as many times as you want and believe that it works :) 5. open konsole, move it, then close it. 6. open konsole again. Now it opens where I last moved it to, NOT where I told it to. If I look at special window settings now, I see that the coords have changed!! Why? I didn't tell it to?!?!? you chose wrong setting, change 'Remember' to 'Aplay Initialy' hope this helps aha, that fixed it. Thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au The prayer of serenity applies here. To both of us. :-) -- Larry Wall in [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off'
Since my recent upgrade of glibc from glibc-2.3.6-r2 (Jan 18) to glibc-2.3.6-r3 (Feb 21) I'm getting this error when starting emacs and doing various other things: etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off' according to equery /etc/host.conf belongs to glibc. I've rebooted, but the behaviour is still there. Any ideas? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem. -- Ashleigh Brilliant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 emerge question
hi I have a question concerning my modular X installation. I did this according to the gentoo guide here http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml. now, I have synced again, and a lot of blocks are coming up and I am not sure really how to solve this. These are the blocks. how can I get rid of them? is it to do with the virtual ebuild or so, I have not really an idea... Karsten Calculating world dependencies . . ...done! [blocks B ] x11-libs/libXft (is blocking x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-misc/gccmakedep-1.0.1-r1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-75dpi-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-apps/mkfontscale-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libfontenc-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking media-fonts/encodings-1.0.0) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking media-fonts/font-util-1.0.0) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-apps/bdftopcf-1.0.0) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libXfont-1.0.0) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/fontsproto-2.0.2) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/fontcacheproto-0.1.2) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-apps/mkfontdir-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking media-fonts/font-alias-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.0.1.3) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libXxf86misc-1.0.0) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/xf86miscproto-0.9.2) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/liblbxutil-1.0.0) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/compositeproto-0.2.2) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/dmxproto-2.2.2) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/damageproto-1.0.3) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/resourceproto-1.0.2) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libXres-1.0.0) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/xf86dgaproto-2.0.2) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/videoproto-2.2.2) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.1-r4) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/trapproto-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.0.2) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-apps/rgb-1.0.0) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-apps/iceauth-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/xf86rushproto-1.1.2) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking media-fonts/font-misc-misc-1.0.0) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libxkbfile-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libxkbui-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking media-fonts/font-cursor-misc-1.0.0) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/glproto-1.4.4) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libXxf86vm-1.0.0) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/xf86vidmodeproto-2.2.2) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-misc/makedepend-1.0.0) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking media-libs/mesa-6.4.2-r1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libdrm-2.0) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/evieext-1.0.2) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libdmx-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-apps/xauth-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-misc/xbitmaps-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-misc/xkbdata-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-apps/xkbcomp-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-proto/xf86driproto-2.0.3) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-apps/xinit-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-apps/xclock-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-apps/xrdb-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-wm/twm-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi-1.0.0) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv-1.0.1.5) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-apps/xdm-1.0.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-drivers/xf86-video-v4l-0.0.1.5) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-1.0.0.5) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9
Re: [gentoo-user] Resolving hostnames with OpenVPN/TUN device?
On 2/20/06 6:04 PM, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all. I've got OpenVPN installed, and it runs great. Only thing - I've noticed between the Windows and Linux version - the Windows version seems to auto-magically assign the proper nameserver addresses to the TUN device once connected, hence I can just enter hostnames and ping or PuTTY with no problem. How can I do the same with OpenVPN on Linux? So far, I have to enter IP addresses, which isn't bad - it just stinks trying to memorize them all! There are instructions about this on the openvpn site, or at least the mailing list archives. Short answer is, you can't. Really, put them in the /etc/hosts file. The instructions talk about scripts that get run on interface up and down. They involve copying around /etc/resolv.conf files. Kinda clunky. Thanks! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] OS X admin book
Can anyone recommend a book for administering OS X tiger. I am looking for something that focuses on securing and configuring the OS rather than using iChat. Cheers, John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: odd /dev/null beharvior
Christopher Cowart ccowart at rescomp.berkeley.edu writes:
The easiest way to fix this problem permanently is to
$ sudo rm /etc/udev/{permissions,rules}.d/50-*
$ sudo emerge -av udev
This will blow away the default udev conf files that are causing you
problems, then re-emerge udev. The updated defaults will be installed in
the right place. This assumes you haven't touched the 50-* files (you
put all custom changes in 10-local, right).
Nope,
I'll give this a whirl and let you know
thanks,
James
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[gentoo-user] Re: odd /dev/null beharvior
Christopher Cowart ccowart at rescomp.berkeley.edu writes:
The easiest way to fix this problem permanently is to
$ sudo rm /etc/udev/{permissions,rules}.d/50-*
$ sudo emerge -av udev
This will blow away the default udev conf files that are causing you
problems, then re-emerge udev. The updated defaults will be installed in
the right place. This assumes you haven't touched the 50-* files (you
put all custom changes in 10-local, right).
Nope, Here's what I get:
!!! Digest verification Failed:
!!!/usr/portage/sys-fs/udev/files/udev.permissions
!!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size
Please ensure you have sync'd properly. Please try 'emerge sync' and
optionally examine the file(s) for corruption. A sync will fix most cases.
Now I've unmerge udev, and sync'd twice
Ideas?
James
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[gentoo-user] alsactl store wont save alsamixer
Hi all, I am having a bit of trouble trying to save alsamixer settings. I had tried every little thing I know and could make it to work, if I reboot my system alsamixer settings go all to mute :( Anyone have a clue about it ? -- An application asked: Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better, so I´ve installed Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New printer setup - having trouble with CUPS [SOLVED]
Ok, after skimming through Gentoo docs, and reading people's comments on this thread, I've once again tracked down the culprit. All I did, so that CUPS would show me all the available drivers in the web interface, is add the following flags to my make.conf: cups ppds cups - Add support for CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) ppds - Adds support for automatically generated ppd (printing driver) files Re-emerged cups and gimp-print, and now everything works great! Thanks to all for your help. P.S. I also added gimp-print ~x86 to my /etc/portage/package.keywords file. Mark Knecht wrote: On 2/19/06, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys. Just my two cents - I'm having trouble configuring the Epson C86, which is odd, because I've used this printer with Gentoo/CUPS before, and never had any problems. It's odd that gimp-print is installed, and I don't see the drivers popping up in the web interface. I'll keep you posted! Back to the drawing board! Norberto Bensa wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Hi Norberto, The printer is an Epson Stylus C62. Try C42UX (ijs) IIRC it's in the gimp-print package, but I'm not sure. Hi Jeff, We ended up leaving the printer on the older FC2 box so that we didn't have to deal with this. Mostly it works pretty well that way for us. Cheers, Mark -- Darth Vader: The force is with you young Skywalker, but you are not a Jedi yet. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What about a new file system subtree?
On Feb 18, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Rafael Fernández López wrote: Hi, Since I have started a project that needs to be redistributed (it'll be GPL) I've started to deeply read Autoconf and Automake manuals. Well, I had read some of FHS too, to know what I should do and what I should not do with my file hierarchy. But, what came to my mind (maybe it's possible today) is that we could make a new file system subtree in every ~. For example, a user will be able to do a ./configure ; make but if the system is well-administrated a user won't be able to run a make install, since it can cause problems to the system. (I know we, Gentoo users, don't care about that). But what I wanted to say is that if we are not root (typical case) we could do a ./configure ; make ; make install (in an app called 'whatever') and it could create for example /home/me/bin/whatever and /home/me/share/doc/whatever or /home/me/doc/whatever, and so on. That would be great since a normal user won't infect any root filesystem, and an administrator can fix any tricky problem deleting /home/me. Bye and thanks !, Rafael Fernández López. You might want to check out Gobolinux, it's an unusual distro that make the breaks the FHS by making the file system into a version control system for installed packages. Gobolinux has a rootless option that lets an unprivileged user install software into their home directory using their package system. It can work in conjunction with any other distro, Gentoo included. http://www.gobolinux.org/?page=rootless Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps
On Monday 20 February 2006 22:50, Uwe Thiem wrote: So my question is: Aren't there any mime type and/or magic file experts here that can extent the magic file to recognise *.pps files correctly? If you are in KDE, then right clicking on the file should give you a Open with... option in the context menu. Choose that, browse to the application you want to use to open the file and then check the Remember application association This will set the mime type in KDE. Now just double click the file and it will open in your desired application. If you are rather using Gnome, then I am sure someone using that DE will have some ideas. -- Regards, Abhay pgpSJv8QIyXNp.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Portage mirroring questions
Hello Gentoo users, I have had this problem for a while and never ended up finding an answer to it, wondering if anyone has a similar situation and if so what have they done about it to make their lives easier. I run a heap of web servers and some of them are mirrors of others (backup strategy). So lets take two machines for example, call one Master and the other Slave. As and when my clients require new features/packages I merge them on the Master server, now more often than not I foget to do this on the Slave. Come one day if I had to use the Slave server things would not be the same. Can I automate the process of emerging the packaging that I merge on the Master for the Slave. Thank you for your time Devraj -- Devraj Mukherjee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eternity Technologies Pty Limited -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
