Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp problems
On 31/03/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:18:35 -0500 Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried both those options, and have even tried just a static ip address just in case dhcp was messed up, and it still gives me that Function not implemented error message. I have done 3 different installs of gentoo, recompiled different modules for the network card etc to no avail. how is it that it can work with ubuntu and suse, but i cant get the darned thing to work in gentoo, the OS i really want on my laptop ;-) any more ideas? thanks Nick I don't have the original thread anymore. What type of laptop? What type of network card? Internal wireless? Sorry, I have no ideas to contribute. I am similarly confused about a laptop I just got. It is a Compaq Evo N600c (82801CAM (ICH3) PRO.100 VM (KM) Ethernet Controller which I run with the e100 module). I use dhcpcd and the darn thing will take ages to get an address from the router. Some times I have to reboot both. Other boxen on the same lan get an IP address in nanoseconds! Please let us know if you crack this one. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] samsung network printer on amd64 - only half page printed
Hi, I have a problem on my amd64 system. I put a fresh x64 gentoo install to an amd64 machine about a month ago. Now I bought a Samsung CLP 510N network printer and tried to use under 64 bit gentoo. So, after hacking setup.sh (correct lib paths for 32 bit compatibility libraries) I installed the samsung's config programs, drivers etc., using cups as printing system. Now, the problem is: if I print out a document from openoffice 2, I got exactly the half pages. I mean, if I print out 3 pages, I got 1st page correctly, second contains only the upper half, the left simply missing. If I print one page, I got a half. This problem happens, when I print a test page under linux-config, which is the samsung provided utility. BUT. If I print a test page from Webmin (1.250), I got a full page, without problem. On my laptop, which is a 32 bit system, the printing working well to the same printer, using the same drivers, which are installed to the 64 bit system. I googled around and I found lot of cups related issues with amd64, mostly from year 2005. My problem definitely was not there. I dig at www.gentoo.org printing howto, but there is no solution. I also tried to find something at samsung site, there is nothing. Does anybody know this issue or have an idea, how to solve this situation? Now, printing is more or less useless for me in amd64 environment. Regards, István -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cannt open root device ?
- Original Message - From: Bo Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] cannt open root device ? Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:11:18 +0800 Hello everybody : I know maybe my question is just a piece of cake for you , but I have struggled with it for 4 days , and I didn't get any answer from the google and the archive . So I came here ! And my problem is that : I use VMware , and install gentoo linux on the vm which hold a scsi disk . I compile the linux kernel with scsi support in the kernel self , but when boot up the kernel panic with the bellow message : VFS: Cannot open root device 803 or unkonw-block(8,3) Please append a correct root= boot option But I have a line in my lilo.conf : root=/dev/sda3 I have recompile the kernel for many times , but it panic everytime . Thanks in advance ! Best Regard ! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Although I have never used VMware, I have had the same error message before. It turned out that I had either forgot to put support for the file system in the kernel that my partition was formatted in, or that I had mistyped the root= line. I can also tell you that if you used genkernel to build your kernel (but it sounds like you didn't) it requires several different kernel parameters to boot. Hope this helps. -- ___ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and OpenLDAP
I'll tell you what, I'm kind of busy right now. But, when I have more time on my hands, I'll post a full HOWTO on the Gentoo Wiki. What do you think? 2006/3/29, Leandro Melo de Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Are you the kinf of person that hold the information just for you? Your problem/solution can help other people. Leandro. On 3/29/06, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That won't be necessary, I've already solved it. 2006/3/27, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:19:55 -0300 Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A little bit OT, a very noobish of me. I'm having trouble with LDAP filters. I'm still trying to get the hang of it. I'd like filter to use on the Apache mod_auth_ldap that returns all the uids inside a given group. Anyone knows how to do that? Regards, Raphael Start a new thread with a topic like OT: LDAP Filters and I can try to give you some direction. Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Leandro Melo de Sales. Computer Science Student Laboratório de Sistemas Distribuídos - www.lsd.ufcg.edu.br Laboratório de Sistemas Embarcados e Computação Pervasiva - www.embeddedacademy.org Universidade Federal de Campina Grande - UFCG Campina Grande - PB - Brasil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 for notebook/pentium-m
Thanks to everyone who replied (Willie, Daniel, Todor...) Just out of curiosity: how long (approximately) does it take to install a common gentoo-desktop (with X+KDE) on a notebook (pentium-m 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM)? So that I knew how much time to reserve for it... BTW, I'm a little afraid of possible overheating, as notebooks are usually not expected to work under high load for long time... Jarry -- Feel free - 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX TopMail testen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 for notebook/pentium-m
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags#Pentium-M_.2F_Centrino_.28Intel.29 Hope this answers you. 2006/3/30, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Gentoo-fans, I want to install gentoo on my pentium-m (centrino 2) based notebook, but I do not know which stage3 should I download and use: i586, i686 or x86? And which -march setting should I define for Pentium-M? Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 for notebook/pentium-m
Am Freitag, den 31.03.2006, 10:12 +0200 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks to everyone who replied (Willie, Daniel, Todor...) Just out of curiosity: how long (approximately) does it take to install a common gentoo-desktop (with X+KDE) on a notebook (pentium-m 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM)? So that I knew how much time to reserve for it... I have a 1.6 GHz Pentium-M with 512 MB RAM and I find that little beast a noch faster than my P4 2.4 desktop with 512 MB. I compiled a full blown Gnome environment including Firefox and OpenOffice 2 in less then a day. I didn't recognize temperature issues - every now and then the cooler turned on for a couple of minutes and that was it. BTW, I'm a little afraid of possible overheating, as notebooks are usually not expected to work under high load for long time... Jarry -- Feel free - 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX TopMail testen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: bash scripting: implement uninterruptable sleep
Hi, On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Richard Fish wrote: On 3/28/06, Sascha Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a shell script and want a uninterruptable sleep. /usr/bin/sleep itself seems to have its own signal handlers. How is it possible to sleep uninterruptable? trap echo 'Ctrl+C should not work' INT now=`date +%s` expires=$(( $now + 10 )) while test $now -lt $expires; do sleep $(( $expires - $now )) now=`date +%s` done excellent! take system time and loop sleep until time is over. Thanks, Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge inforamtion
Just adding something. Since the package is already installed, you can type: equery u net-print/hplip It should give you a description of what each USE flag means. And it works with every package. If you get a command not found error, emerge gentoolkit to get the equery program :) Regards, Raphael 2006/3/30, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: USE flags doubts (again). If I run this command: emerge -pv hplip the output is: [ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-0.9.7-r3 +X +cups +foomaticdb -ppds +qt +scanner* -snmp +usb 0 kB There are 5 flags prefixed by a plus and red coloured (+X, +cups, +foomaticdb, +qt and +usb). These flags are already set. Right? The plus sign means that it will be compiled with support for that flag. It means you can use that basically. There are 2 flags prefixed by a menus and blue coloured (-ppds and -snmp). These flags are not set. But, should I set them? It depends on whether you will use them or not. This is what that flag is for: ppds - Adds support for automatically generated ppd (printing driver) files. If you need it, edit make.conf file and put it in the USE= line. The snmp is this: snmp - Adds support for the Simple Network Management Protocol if available. You can get the same info from here: /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc Finally there is anoter flag prefixed by a plus and green coloured (+scanner*). What does the trailing * mean? What does the green colour mean? Thank you a lot in advance. emilio If I recall correctly, that * means it has been changed since the program was instaled. If you changed some flags recently, you may want to do a emerge -Nvp world to see what else has changed. If everything looks OK, take off the p and let it recompile those for you so it will work correctly. Hope that helps. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)...
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 02:26:57 +0300, Alexander Kirillov wrote: Hi all, I needed to restart sendmail more than once after upgrade and noticed the script always produces these warnings: # /etc/init.d/sendmail restart * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Stopping sendmail ... [ok] * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Starting sendmail ... [ok] What might be wrong here? TIA, Sasha I have seen this too recently with samba, vmware, ntpd, privoxy and others (but not always) during both startup and shutdown sequences. I think something has changed in the init scripts. Everything seems to work OK and there is nothing in the logs indicating anything wrong. Example: mars peter # /etc/init.d/privoxy stop * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Stopping privoxy ... [ ok ] mars peter # /etc/init.d/privoxy start * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Starting privoxy ... [ ok ] Not sure what's being cached or recached. Makes no sense to me. Ideas? -- Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Configuration Errors
CR Little wrote: configuration error - unknown item 'FAILLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'LASTLOG_ENAB' Run etc-update. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cannt open root device ?
Did you read this ? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_on_VMware_in_Windows_NT/2K/XP Maybe, your right SCSI driver is not enable in the kernel.On 3/31/06, Bo Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody :I know maybe my question is just a piece of cake for you , but I have struggled with it for 4 days , and I didn't get any answer fromthe google and the archive .So I came here !And my problem is that :I use VMware , and install gentoo linux on the vm which hold a scsi disk . I compile the linux kernel with scsi support in the kernel self , butwhen boot up the kernel panic with the bellow message :VFS: Cannot open root device 803 or unkonw-block(8,3)Please append a correct root= boot option But I have a line in my lilo.conf : root=/dev/sda3I have recompile the kernel for many times , but it panic everytime .Thanks in advance !Best Regard !-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Emerge --sync: what was done ?
Hi, I would like to get an info from emerge, what packages were updated without to pipe all the output of the --sync-process into a file. Is this possible somehow ? Keep hacking! mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync: what was done ?
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:17:26 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote: I would like to get an info from emerge, what packages were updated without to pipe all the output of the --sync-process into a file. emerge eix and then use eix-sync instead of emerge --sync. -- Neil Bothwick Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach. Those who cannot teach, HACK! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] System bell
Hi all, after emerging and emerging . . . and an enrge --newuse world the system bell keeps on not working. With System bell I mean: KDE Control Center - Sound Miltimedia - System bell I controlled the volume levels on kmix and aumix. I do not know which other attempt to try. Bye emilio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: apache2 without DNS?
Michael Stewart (vericgar vericgar at gentoo.org writes: http://192.168.2.9/ pops up the usually apache2 default page But I cannot get to the /var/www/localhost/htdocs/htdocs/admin/setup.php page, from a web browser running on neither the server, nor anywhere on the network. The default apache2 page does pop up on a web browser from any machine on the network, including the apache2 server. I may be misunderstanding your question, so please clarify if I have. Are you looking for the URL you need to type in your browser to get to the setup script? Assuming that you haven't changed the DocumentRoot setting, try using http://192.168.2.9/htdocs/admin/setup.php Nothing but the default apache2 web page popped up in the beginning. The I went and changed all of the files and directory permissions to 777. Now I can get this dir page: http://192.168.2.9/htdocs/admin/ and this one: http://192.168.2.9/htdocs/admin/adm/test.php the only other page in dir 'http://192.168.2.9/htdocs/admin/adm/' that shows up, contains this error message: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: html() in /opt/jffnms/htdocs/admin/adm/structures.php on line 701 I did not change the 'DocumentRoot' but, which file to I check to see if installing JFFNMS altered something erroneously? I followed this guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/jffnms.xml So far the only error I have 'flushed out' is # psql template1 postgres /usr/portage/net-analyzer/jffnms/files/postgresql_db_tables should be: # psql template1 postgres /usr/portage/net-analyzer/jffnms/files/postgresql_db_table Which file(s) do I need to check to ensure the DocumentRoot is correct? I cannot locate that setting in either httpd.conf nor apache2.conf. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System bell
On 16:46 Fri 31 Mar , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, after emerging and emerging . . . and an enrge --newuse world the system bell keeps on not working. With System bell I mean: KDE Control Center - Sound Miltimedia - System bell I controlled the volume levels on kmix and aumix. I do not know which other attempt to try. Bye emilio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR ? -- djm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: apache2 without DNS?
Michael Stewart (vericgar vericgar at gentoo.org writes: Are you looking for the URL you need to type in your browser to get to the setup script? Assuming that you haven't changed the DocumentRoot setting, try using http://192.168.2.9/htdocs/admin/setup.php I found the error_log file so I'm running: tail -f /var/log/apache2/error_log When I attempt to access this URL, I get this message: [Fri Mar 31 06:20:44 2006] [error] [client 192.168.2.23] File does not exist: /var/www/localhost/htdocs/jffnms, referer: http://192.168.2.9/htdocs/admin/tools.php/admin/setup.php maybe a botched installation of jffnms, as the guide is new and I'm far from confident with apache2? ideas? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: System bell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, after emerging and emerging . . . and an enrge --newuse world the system bell keeps on not working. With System bell I mean: KDE Control Center - Sound Miltimedia - System bell I controlled the volume levels on kmix and aumix. I do not know which other attempt to try. Bye emilio As far as I understand, it should beep the motherboard speaker. Verify if you have it connected or if you need to connect it to the sound board somehow. Regards, Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 for notebook/pentium-m
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 11:03:58AM +0200, Penguin Lover Heinz Sporn squawked: Am Freitag, den 31.03.2006, 10:12 +0200 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks to everyone who replied (Willie, Daniel, Todor...) Just out of curiosity: how long (approximately) does it take to install a common gentoo-desktop (with X+KDE) on a notebook (pentium-m 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM)? So that I knew how much time to reserve for it... I have a 1.6 GHz Pentium-M with 512 MB RAM and I find that little beast a noch faster than my P4 2.4 desktop with 512 MB. I compiled a full blown Gnome environment including Firefox and OpenOffice 2 in less then a day. I didn't recognize temperature issues - every now and then the cooler turned on for a couple of minutes and that was it. My experience is similar, though I'd say my laptop and desktop are just about as fast (1.6PM+512ram vs 2.0P4+512ram). My last 'emerge -e world' on the laptop took just under 2 days: I don't have any large packages like KDE or Gnome or OO, but that's also with a lot of crap that I installed which is not necessary for a base system. If you leave you laptop in a well ventilated area, overheating shouldn't be an issue. As a side question, there used to be an option with 'genlop' which you can pipe to it the output from 'emerge --pretend' and show the expected total merge time. Is there a way of doing this with 'qlop'? W -- ARTHUR What is an Algolian Zylatburger anyway? FORDThey're a kind of meatburger made from the most unpleasant parts of a creature well known for its total lack of any pleasant parts. ARTHUR So you mean that the Universe does actually end not with a bang but with a Wimpy? - Cut dialogue from Fit the Fifth. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 139 days, 8:50 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)...
I needed to restart sendmail more than once after upgrade and noticed the script always produces these warnings: # /etc/init.d/sendmail restart * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Stopping sendmail ... [ok] * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Starting sendmail ... [ok] What might be wrong here? I have seen this too recently with samba, vmware, ntpd, privoxy and others (but not always) during both startup and shutdown sequences. I think something has changed in the init scripts. Everything seems to work OK and there is nothing in the logs indicating anything wrong. Not sure what's being cached or recached. Makes no sense to me. Ideas? The problem went away and I don't really know why... Probably a reboot. I also had 2 packages providing firewall service installed at the time. I've tried to reproduce the problem reinstalling one of them before writing this reply. Nope. What else? hw clock on this box is set to local time. But this happened well after baselayout upgrade and well after the last reboot. And sendmail was the only service giving the troubles. I'm sure I had to restart several others without any problems. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System bell
Marco Costa wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, after emerging and emerging . . . and an enrge --newuse world the system bell keeps on not working. With System bell I mean: KDE Control Center - Sound Miltimedia - System bell I controlled the volume levels on kmix and aumix. I do not know which other attempt to try. Bye emilio As far as I understand, it should beep the motherboard speaker. Verify if you have it connected or if you need to connect it to the sound board somehow. Regards, Marco Same here. I just thought it was me changing something and not remembering it. It used to work though. I suspect a etc-update somewhere. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System bell
On 31/03/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco Costa wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, after emerging and emerging . . . and an enrge --newuse world the system bell keeps on not working. With System bell I mean: KDE Control Center - Sound Miltimedia - System bell I controlled the volume levels on kmix and aumix. I do not know which other attempt to try. Bye emilio As far as I understand, it should beep the motherboard speaker. Verify if you have it connected or if you need to connect it to the sound board somehow. Regards, Marco Same here. I just thought it was me changing something and not remembering it. It used to work though. I suspect a etc-update somewhere. Did any of you recompile a kernel and left the misc. device setting off? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System bell
On 11:18 Fri 31 Mar , Teresa and Dale wrote: Same here. I just thought it was me changing something and not remembering it. It used to work though. I suspect a etc-update somewhere. Ahh, you weren't clear about whether or not it had stopped working or had never worked. Does it work when you aren't running X? And in X try running `xset b` (I don't know anything about KDE though, you might like to try running something else when trying to track down the problem (twm would do)). -- Join The no2id Coalition, http://www.no2id.net/ http://www.pledgebank.com/resist djm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System bell
Mick wrote: On 31/03/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same here. I just thought it was me changing something and not remembering it. It used to work though. I suspect a etc-update somewhere. Did any of you recompile a kernel and left the misc. device setting off? -- Regards, Mick I always copy my config over and do a make oldconfig. I *assume* it would leave it on if I had it on before. I'll check it later though. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System bell
David Morgan wrote: On 11:18 Fri 31 Mar , Teresa and Dale wrote: Same here. I just thought it was me changing something and not remembering it. It used to work though. I suspect a etc-update somewhere. Ahh, you weren't clear about whether or not it had stopped working or had never worked. Does it work when you aren't running X? And in X try running `xset b` (I don't know anything about KDE though, you might like to try running something else when trying to track down the problem (twm would do)). Keep in mind that I am not the thread starter. I am just noticing the same thing. I think it changed when I upgraded to KDE 3.5 from KDE 3.4. I'm not positive though. I don't upgrade my kernel to often. I don't reboot enough for all that. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync: what was done ?
less /var/log/emerge.log Followed by a lot of PgDn :) On 3/31/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:17:26 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote:I would like to get an info from emerge, what packages were updated without to pipe all the output of the --sync-process into a file.emerge eix and then use eix-sync instead of emerge --sync.--Neil BothwickThose who can, do. Those who cannot, teach. Those who cannot teach, HACK!
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync: what was done ?
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:50:36 +0200, Erik Walther wrote: less /var/log/emerge.log Followed by a lot of PgDn :) That tells you what emerge --update updated, not emerge --sync. If you want that, try genlop --list --date yesterday. -- Neil Bothwick Love and Trust: Oral sex between cannibals. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Reiserfs partition corrupted - help!
Hi All, Last night I decided to set up a rsync server on my gentoo server box. I have a partition mounted under /srv, and that was the disk the rsync module was located on. I then proceeded to rsync the contents of my main PC over to the server. I tested the scripts a few times first to ensure that things were working OK, and indeed they were. I then set it running when I went to bed. This morning I wake up to find the server had crashed and was inaccessible. All processes seemed to have shut down. Rebooting the computer resulted in the reiserfsck being run - and failing!! I have tried reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/hdc6 and I get a complaint that the filesystem could not be rebuilt bread: Cannot read the block (87878789) (Input/Output error) It also suggests (aside from buying a new disk!) to try overwriting the blocks if there are only a few of them. How do I go about doing this?? And does anyone have any other suggestions on how to recover the filesystem? Cheers, -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl, KDE, gnome
On 3/30/06, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, After playing with the Kororaa Xgl Live CD, then with Xorg 7 entering ebuild testing, I decided to give Xgl a try. Neat-o. Is it in the ~x86 area? The xorg 7 upgrade went extremely smooth. Big THANK YOU to those responsible! The wiki instructions for installing Xgl worked too. I'm extremely interested in Xgl. I didn't know it was hanging around Gentoo. Can you send me the link? Then I discovered what gnome-window-decorator does in KDE. Not pretty. :-( I figured I could live: * with old fashioned decorations, * without my background image, * with my panel stretching across both monitors, * with windows opening centered on the desktop vs on a display, * with some brain dead right mouse desktop popup menu. Can you try and get me some more detailed info? I'm a information gatherer for the Xgl project. I'm supposed to be ensuring that it has perfect integration with KDE. But I couldn't live with a dead X the next morning. So bye-bye Xgl. Even more interesting... Could you get some more info for me there too? Perhaps a few clips from the log file? OK, off to the net to see what I could find, which distilled down to use gnome. Next gen KDE should have similar features. Well, I've never really gave gnome a try, so maybe it's not as bad as it looks. :-) It's not *bad,* but I find it incredibly bland. It's useable, though I can't say it's much more... Installed gnome. Weee... have fun? Now what I'd really like is to be able to switch between X+KDE and Xgl+gnome sessions. I don't really see how to do this with one display manager. Not sure how to configure to run multiple display managers. Currently I use xdm to run kdm. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you, Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- == GCv3.12 == GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+ P+ L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y = END GCv3.12 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs partition corrupted - help!
Anthony Roy wrote: Hi All, Last night I decided to set up a rsync server on my gentoo server box. I have a partition mounted under /srv, and that was the disk the rsync module was located on. I then proceeded to rsync the contents of my main PC over to the server. I tested the scripts a few times first to ensure that things were working OK, and indeed they were. I then set it running when I went to bed. This morning I wake up to find the server had crashed and was inaccessible. All processes seemed to have shut down. Rebooting the computer resulted in the reiserfsck being run - and failing!! I have tried reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/hdc6 and I get a complaint that the filesystem could not be rebuilt bread: Cannot read the block (87878789) (Input/Output error) It also suggests (aside from buying a new disk!) to try overwriting the blocks if there are only a few of them. How do I go about doing this?? And does anyone have any other suggestions on how to recover the filesystem? Cheers, -- Ant... Google found this: http://www.linuxpackages.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9208sid=7a741429de5dcddf32c3ff133d202d01 This is how I did my search: http://www.google.com/linux?num=100hl=enlr=lang_ensafe=offq=%22Cannot+read+the+block%22+%22%28Input%2FOutput+error%29%22btnG=Search I have some use, sometimes anyway. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?
On 3/30/06, Mike Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just my .02c, but it seems like the 64-bit processors come with more hype than benefits. Not that the 64-bit move is a bad thing at all, but I mean it just seems like people tend to expect much more out of them than what they should. You're very close to the mark, actually. It would seem like a more accurate, but oversimplified explaination would be that it simply allows for other improvements within the computer, but it does not improve anything on it's own. For instance, Yes, you're very close. It does allow for one major thing OTTOH. With a 64-bit wide word, more precise calculations take half the time they would on a 32-bit chip. They don't give any other real major 64-bit exclusive benefits though. The advantages of a 64-bit variable isn't really relevant for most uses though. Things like MatLab are greatly benefitted, however, normal desktop use isn't. Some video games are now being made 64-bit, so they'll benefit from more precise gameplay at higher speeds, however, you are right: 64-bit en se doesn't give any other amazing benefit. allowing 4GB ram, which in turn gives better performance. From what I've read, there are improvements in certain things that are specific to number crunching, like a database with mathematical formulas. Yup. However, for a desktop processor, the difference is going to be barely noticeable, if any, especially since most desktops don't use more than 4 gigs of ram. True. However, sticking to 32-bit for the rest of forever isn't a terribly good idea, now is it? It definitely seems to be a difficult thing to explain though due to the nature of the processor. Most people think simply 'more numbers = more speed', but that's not really case, and surely not the point. Since around the mid 90's, processor speeds have steadily increased, but in the last couple of years, that increase has halted. Not really. AMD is still making their chips more efficient and faster, though the new fad is to add more cores. However, eventually this will still limit threads to the speed of one core, which'll prompt more and more rapid speed increases. Just be patient; you don't need all that number-crunching power right now, do you? ; ) Supposedly, the speeds have been maxed out for the size of the processors, so that's why the manufacturers are trying different routes, like hyperthreading, dual core, multi-core, and 64-bit. None Well, they also need to make the thing smaller. We're still on what? 95 nanometre? Smaller means more transistors in the same area. of these features directly improve performance, but they do increase it's capabilities. More specifically, they allow the computer to do MORE tasks better, instead of focusing on speeding up tasks. That's not a bad thing really, because it's nice to be able to do multiple things simultaneously, like burning a cd while listening to mp3s and playing games on a LAMP server that's running emerge -u world without any degradation in performance in any of the processes. People who do that scare me. That kind of performance seems to be what is intended with these different avenues that the chip makers are taking. That is not to say that single tasks will perform any better, and I think the lack of discerning the difference is causing a lot of confusion for most people, especially when they aren't familiar with low level programming. In the end this might degenerate to a programmer's rating thing. IE: one standardised benchmark. On 3/29/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/29/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: www.alienware.com I beg to differ. I could have sworn I saw a laptop with more than 2G... where was it... wow! You appear to be right! Darn.. I could have SWORN I saw something with 2G... Actually, you are right. I neglected the monstrous Clevo laptop. Its an AMD X2 with capacity for 2 optical drives plus 2 hard drives, up to 3G of memory, and a 200W power adapter. Weighs 12-15 lbs, _not_ counting the power adapter! This is acutally a Clevo design, sold by Sager, AGearnotebooks, and many others. Alienware got it with a customized case. All of the reviews I read on it basically said incredible performance, excellent display, but heavy, noisy, and really hard to describe how large it really is. I was actually considering purchasing this beast...but the noise factor scared me off. Not really appropriate for a shared office or conference room. compiler helps with the 64-bit part. It gets a bit technical, but there is a big difference between something made from the ground up as 64-bit versus something that was made 32-bit and just recompiled 64-bit. For most applications, this is not true. The vast majority of C/C++ code that runs on a desktop system couldn't care less whether longs and pointers are 32-bits or 64-bits in size. It is a compiler
[gentoo-user] BSD /usr/bin/from
Greetings, I am wondering whether gentoo has any portage containing equivalents to the /usr/bin/from on *BSD; it's a small program that prints names of those who have sent mail. Thanks in advance for any help/comments! Regards, Chen-Mou Cheng -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Firefox + Thunderbird 1.5
Hi All, I had looked into this awhile ago, but put it aside. Does anyone know anything about the status of Firefox 1.5 final and Thunderbird 1.5 final as far as getting into stable? Also, are any of the ~x86 ebuilds the final version, as opposed to a 1.5 beta? I see a mention in a bug report comment for Firefox back in 2006-02-05 that it might be stable in a few days, which hasn't happened. Does anyone have more information about this, or know of better places to look than bug reports? Thanks, Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl, KDE, gnome
As far as I know, you can still only get Xgl from a portage overlay. Check the Gentoo Forums and you'll find a bunch of links to what you're looking for. I've had it working for some time, and it's good, but extremely buggy and not suitable for production environments (obviously :) Here's part three of the huge Xgl discussion. Part 1 is where the original overlay is at:http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-442410-highlight-xgl.html On 3/31/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/30/06, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, After playing with the Kororaa Xgl Live CD, then with Xorg 7 entering ebuild testing, I decided to give Xgl a try. Neat-o.Is it in the ~x86 area? The xorg 7 upgrade went extremely smooth.Big THANK YOU to those responsible! The wiki instructions for installing Xgl worked too.I'm extremely interested in Xgl.I didn't know it was hanging around Gentoo.Can you send me the link? Then I discovered what gnome-window-decorator does in KDE.Not pretty.:-( I figured I could live: * with old fashioned decorations, * without my background image, * with my panel stretching across both monitors, * with windows opening centered on the desktop vs on a display, * with some brain dead right mouse desktop popup menu.Can you try and get me some more detailed info?I'm a information gatherer for the Xgl project.I'm supposed to be ensuring that it hasperfect integration with KDE. But I couldn't live with a dead X the next morning.So bye-bye Xgl.Even more interesting...Could you get some more info for me there too?Perhaps a few clips from the log file? OK, off to the net to see what I could find, which distilled down to use gnome. Next gen KDE should have similar features. Well, I've never really gave gnome a try, so maybe it's not as bad as it looks. :-)It's not *bad,* but I find it incredibly bland.It's useable, thoughI can't say it's much more... Installed gnome.Weee...have fun? Now what I'd really like is to be able to switch between X+KDE and Xgl+gnome sessions.I don't really see how to do this with one display manager. Not sure how to configure to run multiple display managers.Currently I use xdm to run kdm. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you, Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list--== GCv3.12 ==GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+ P+ L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y= END GCv3.12 --gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Jason Weisberger[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl, KDE, gnome
Lord Sauron wrote: I'm extremely interested in Xgl. I didn't know it was hanging around Gentoo. Can you send me the link? See the frontpage of http://gentoo-wiki.com/ or at least the Howto section. Alexander Skwar -- Father, forgive me, I've been caught using Windows... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] MOSTLY FIXED: Re: apache2 without DNS?
Michael Stewart (vericgar vericgar at gentoo.org writes: Are you looking for the URL you need to type in your browser to get to the setup script? Assuming that you haven't changed the DocumentRoot setting, try using http://192.168.2.9/htdocs/admin/setup.php Well, I tried the installation from fresh and now I can get to the setup.php page, but I still have a few questions. During the installation I made these changes, which I'll post to bugzilla about the document's installation instructions: As user postgres, following the install guide, I issued this command: initdb -D /var/lib/postgresql/data which failed: initdb: could not create directory /var/lib/postgresql: Permission denied I had to 'chmod 777 /var/lib' to allow the installation to progress. Is this OK? a security/problem ? Then it said: The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user postgres. This user must also own the server process. Which 'server process' is it referring to and what does this mean, exactly? What else, if anything do I need to do? The message then ended with: WARNING: enabling trust authentication for local connections You can change this by editing pg_hba.conf or using the -A option the next time you run initdb. Success. You can now start the database server using: postmaster -D /var/lib/postgresql/data or pg_ctl -D /var/lib/postgresql/data -l logfile start I never did either of these, unlike last time, and the installation completed with only one more modification. However, I'm not sure if I need to add these to some config file somewhere? Or is the postgres startup file ok at this point? I guess I also need to figure out the authentication using the 'pg_hba.conf' file? Then I just exited from user postgres and completed the installation. Further on in the installation: This failed: 'psql template1 postgres /usr/portage/net-analyzer/jffnms/files/postgresql_db_tables' so I had to use: 'psql template1 postgres /usr/portage/net-analyzer/jffnms/files/postgresql_db_table' that's it, but those above questions are still in need of an answer. thanks, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I had the same thing with sshd, I did an etc-update and now the annoying lines disappeared. Marton Gabor [EMAIL PROTECTED],ICQ UIN: 169394884,T: +36 30 447-2042 GPG fingerprint: 3EF0 B49F C5BF 54A0 00A8 6E72 0F66 74BC BD45 8732 Keyserver: www.keyserver.net -- key ID: 0xBD458732 VE-MIK - VeHoK informatikai megbizott Alexander Kirillov wrote: I needed to restart sendmail more than once after upgrade and noticed the script always produces these warnings: # /etc/init.d/sendmail restart * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Stopping sendmail ... [ok] * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)... * Starting sendmail ... [ok] What might be wrong here? I have seen this too recently with samba, vmware, ntpd, privoxy and others (but not always) during both startup and shutdown sequences. I think something has changed in the init scripts. Everything seems to work OK and there is nothing in the logs indicating anything wrong. Not sure what's being cached or recached. Makes no sense to me. Ideas? The problem went away and I don't really know why... Probably a reboot. I also had 2 packages providing firewall service installed at the time. I've tried to reproduce the problem reinstalling one of them before writing this reply. Nope. What else? hw clock on this box is set to local time. But this happened well after baselayout upgrade and well after the last reboot. And sendmail was the only service giving the troubles. I'm sure I had to restart several others without any problems. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFELZKED2Z0vL1FhzIRAkBxAKDKySFAwczZJC755AaQi1x5bLuV0QCeOnMW YN9E1+Z4h/63Gb+6MJ2W3mg= =zdss -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] BSD /usr/bin/from
I am wondering whether gentoo has any portage containing equivalents to the /usr/bin/from on *BSD; it's a small program that prints names of those who have sent mail. Thanks in advance for any help/comments! You may try something like $ grep '^From:' /your/mailbox -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Issues with Dependencies
Hi, I'm having a bit more trouble. I'm trying to re-compile KDE so that maybe some functionality which didn't compile right the first time will work. However, it says I've got some broken dependencies. localhost ~ # emerge --pretend kde These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] =kde-base/kbounce-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdegames-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/libkdegames-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdegames-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdemultimedia-arts-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/libkcddb-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/klaptopdaemon-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdeutils-3.4.3-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kommander-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdewebdev-3.4.3-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kxsldbg-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdewebdev-3.4.3-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kfilereplace-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdewebdev-3.4.3-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/klinkstatus-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdewebdev-3.4.3-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kimagemapeditor-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdewebdev-3.4.3-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/quanta-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdewebdev-3.4.3-r1) [snipped the stuff that wasn't broken] I don't know what to do. I don't want to loose Quanta+ or KLaptopDaemon, and I frankly didn't know Kommander was there... Please help a old Debian person who isn't used to doing this stuff by himself... Oh, I already tried emerge --depclean, but that didn't fix all the problems apparently. In the mean time I'll try remerging KLaptopDaemon, but I would like to resolve these issues to both learn how and to make life easier in the future. Thanks for your help! -- == GCv3.12 == GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+ P+ L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y = END GCv3.12 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive
Hi - again. You are totally free to get tired of me and completely ignore me. Please, just make sure that you all don't do it all at the same time ; ) Anyways, I've been working to try and mount my USB Flash disk so that I can use the stuff I backed up from my old Kubuntu install. However, /dev/sda1 isn't in /etc/fstab, though usbfs is in /etc/mtab. Sort of a side thing... what's the difference between fstab and mtab? Well, I've narrowed it down to at least one thing: I don't have a mount point for my poor USB Disk. I looked through *all* the 1,400 some-odd lines in the mount command's man page, however, I got no clues, not even a related command. I also # ls /bin to see if there was anything there... I didn't see anything that made sense to me. I've only ever mounted stuff using the graphical tool that Kubuntu supplied, so that's where my ignorance comes from. Thanks for your help!' -- == GCv3.12 == GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+ P+ L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y = END GCv3.12 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive
Lord Sauron wrote: Sort of a side thing... what's the difference between fstab and mtab? Thanks for your help!' -- == GCv3.12 == GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+ P+ L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y = END GCv3.12 The file fstab is what you edit. The file mtab is what the system uses to keep up with what is where and you should NOT edit it. No clue on the USB thing but I dread the day I have to start. Hope that helps. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with Dependencies
Lord Sauron wrote: Hi, I'm having a bit more trouble. I'm trying to re-compile KDE so that maybe some functionality which didn't compile right the first time will work. However, it says I've got some broken dependencies. localhost ~ # emerge --pretend kde These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] =kde-base/kbounce-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdegames-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/libkdegames-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdegames-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdemultimedia-arts-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/libkcddb-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/klaptopdaemon-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdeutils-3.4.3-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kommander-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdewebdev-3.4.3-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kxsldbg-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdewebdev-3.4.3-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kfilereplace-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdewebdev-3.4.3-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/klinkstatus-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdewebdev-3.4.3-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kimagemapeditor-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdewebdev-3.4.3-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/quanta-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdewebdev-3.4.3-r1) It looks like you installed KDE originally using the split ebuilds - i.e. kde-meta instead of kde. Try emerge --pretend kde-meta and see if that doesn't give blocking messages. I expect it won't. -- 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] Issues with Dependencies
On Saturday 01 April 2006 01:52, Lord Sauron wrote: Hi, I'm having a bit more trouble. I'm trying to re-compile KDE so that maybe some functionality which didn't compile right the first time will work. However, it says I've got some broken dependencies. localhost ~ # emerge --pretend kde These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] =kde-base/kbounce-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdegames-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/libkdegames-3.4* (is [SNIP] I don't know what to do. I don't want to loose Quanta+ or KLaptopDaemon, and I frankly didn't know Kommander was there... Please help a old Debian person who isn't used to doing this stuff by himself... Oh, I already tried emerge --depclean, but that didn't fix all the problems apparently. In the mean time I'll try remerging KLaptopDaemon, but I would like to resolve these issues to both learn how and to make life easier in the future. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml#doc_chap2 You are trying to install the monolithic packages while what you have installed are the split packages. I would recommend that you stick with the split packages and emerge kde-meta instead of kde. That way you will have the option to uninstall packages that you don't use later on without having to remerge anything. -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with Dependencies
localhost ~ # emerge --pretend kde-meta These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdialog-3.4.1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdegraphics-kfile-plugins-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kgamma-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kmrml-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kpdf-3.4.3-r4) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kolourpaint-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kcoloredit-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/ksnapshot-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kghostview-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kiconedit-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/ksvg-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kfax-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kviewshell-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kuickshow-3.4.1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kview-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdvi-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kruler-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kate-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kscreensaver-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-data-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdesu-3.4.1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/khotkeys-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kcminit-3.4.1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/khelpcenter-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kcontrol-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdm-3.4.3-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdebugdialog-3.4.1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kreadconfig-3.4.1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/knetattach-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdepasswd-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/libkonq-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kicker-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kappfinder-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kfind-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/ksysguard-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kcheckpass-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/ksplashml-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/klipper-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/ksystraycmd-3.4.1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kwin-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdesktop-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kstart-3.4.1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kxkb-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/ksmserver-3.4.1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/nsplugins-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/ktip-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdeprint-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdcop-3.4.1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kpager-3.4.2) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kmenuedit-3.4.1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kpersonalizer-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/drkonqi-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/konqueror-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/konsole-3.4.3) No. Still doesn't like me. I never know about the meta packages, so I could be on Gnome for a little while until I get this sorted out, huh? On 3/31/06, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 April 2006 01:52, Lord Sauron wrote: Hi, I'm having a bit more trouble. I'm trying to re-compile KDE so that maybe some functionality which didn't compile right the first time will work. However, it says I've got some broken dependencies.
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive
Anyways, I've been working to try and mount my USB Flash disk so that I can use the stuff I backed up from my old Kubuntu install. However, /dev/sda1 isn't in /etc/fstab, though usbfs is in /etc/mtab. Well, I've narrowed it down to at least one thing: I don't have a mount point for my poor USB Disk. If you have and /etc/fstab, and you already know your usb flash disk is /dev/sda1, well, just add the right fstab entry. Mine looks this way: /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable vfat noauto,async,user,exec 0 0 I looked through *all* the 1,400 some-odd lines in the mount command's man page, however, I got no clues, not even a related command. I also # ls /bin to see if there was anything there... I didn't see anything that made sense to me. your effort is nice, but have you thought about Google or another search engine? I've only ever mounted stuff using the graphical tool that Kubuntu supplied, so that's where my ignorance comes from. I think you refer to the hey-my-usb-disk-appears-magically-on-my-desktop! trick. I guess it's managed by HAL, you can have it on Gentoo too (don't ask me for info, since I don't use it) m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with Dependencies
On Saturday 01 April 2006 02:25, Lord Sauron wrote: localhost ~ # emerge --pretend kde-meta These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdialog-3.4.1) [SNIP] [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdegraphics-kfile-plugins-3.4.3) [SNIP] No. Still doesn't like me. I never know about the meta packages, so I could be on Gnome for a little while until I get this sorted out, huh? Seems you have a mixture of monolithic and split. Like I said before I recommend the split packages. To get those you have to unmerge the monolithic packages. So: # emerge --unmerge --ask --verbose kdebase kdegraphics # emerge --ask --verbose kde-meta It is all explained at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=1#doc_chap4 And please learn to cut out anything you don't reply to and reply below that which you do reply to. -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive
I can just nano /etc/fstab and add /dev/sda1? Not only you can: you actually have to! :) Check the Gentoo handbook for details. When I did install Gentoo (in december 2004), I had to write *all* my fstab by hand, I don't know if now it's different. I thought fstab was generated by the machine or something, and that it isn't a terribly good idea to edit it. A fstab file is ususally generated by the operating system installer, but, being it a plain text configuration file, it is thought to be editable by root. It has a pretty straightforward syntaxis. The machine-generated thing you shouldn't touch, instead, is /etc/mtab. This one contains the *current* state of mounted devices. I don't have a /mnt directory. Should I just create one? Well, you have to create an empty directory to use as a mountpoint. I create them inside a /mnt directory, but that's just historical habit. Many distro I see around now use /media as a root directory for removable media mountpoints. Nothing stops you from using /home/sauron/whatever, although I feel symlinks are a cleaner way to access mount points from your home... No, I had to manually create a mount point via the GUI and then enable the thing and all this stuff. Then KDE just looked at /media and slapped that on my desktop. I mounted my windows partition (back when I had one) on /media so that I could have that on my desktop too. That's the same of writing on the fstab, but managed by a gui instead of done by hand (editing fstab is really easy once you manage the logic of it). m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with Dependencies
On 3/31/06, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 April 2006 02:25, Lord Sauron wrote: localhost ~ # emerge --pretend kde-meta These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdialog-3.4.1) [SNIP] [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdegraphics-kfile-plugins-3.4.3) [SNIP] No. Still doesn't like me. I never know about the meta packages, so I could be on Gnome for a little while until I get this sorted out, huh? Seems you have a mixture of monolithic and split. Like I said before I recommend the split packages. To get those you have to unmerge the monolithic packages. So: I was a little rash and unmerged everything with the string kde in it. When in doubt, restart. # emerge --unmerge --ask --verbose kdebase kdegraphics # emerge --ask --verbose kde-meta It is all explained at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=1#doc_chap4 And please learn to cut out anything you don't reply to and reply below that which you do reply to. Srry... I'm a little bit scatterbrained at times. -- == GCv3.12 == GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+ P+ L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y = END GCv3.12 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive
On 3/31/06, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can just nano /etc/fstab and add /dev/sda1? Not only you can: you actually have to! :) Check the Gentoo handbook for details. When I did install Gentoo (in december 2004), I had to write *all* my fstab by hand, I don't know if now it's different. Well, the automated installer did most of it for me, so I never got the exposure to it. I thought fstab was generated by the machine or something, and that it isn't a terribly good idea to edit it. A fstab file is ususally generated by the operating system installer, but, being it a plain text configuration file, it is thought to be editable by root. It has a pretty straightforward syntaxis. Yeah, didn't take too long for me to figure out how to word what I wanted. Only a few tries and one reboot (don't ask). The machine-generated thing you shouldn't touch, instead, is /etc/mtab. This one contains the *current* state of mounted devices. Okay. That makes sense. I don't have a /mnt directory. Should I just create one? Well, you have to create an empty directory to use as a mountpoint. I create them inside a /mnt directory, but that's just historical habit. Many distro I see around now use /media as a root directory for removable media mountpoints. Nothing stops you from using /home/sauron/whatever, although I feel symlinks are a cleaner way to access mount points from your home... I made /mnt/sda1, 'cuz that's what I used about 4 years ago on a Red Hat Linux box. It was really messing me up with all this /media stuff when I used Kubuntu. No, I had to manually create a mount point via the GUI and then enable the thing and all this stuff. Then KDE just looked at /media and slapped that on my desktop. I mounted my windows partition (back when I had one) on /media so that I could have that on my desktop too. That's the same of writing on the fstab, but managed by a gui instead of done by hand (editing fstab is really easy once you manage the logic of it). Yeah, I can now see what the GUI did. From my experience with Qt I can safely say it was harder to make the GUI than to do it by hand. -- == GCv3.12 == GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+ P+ L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y = END GCv3.12 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: /sys-demystifying-tool?
Hi, sorry for this offtopic question, but: Where installers met :) I am looking for a tool, which makes /sys more humand readable. It dont need to have a gui or such...something like lspci would be sufficient. Thanks a lot for any helpful reply in advance ! :) Have a nice weekend ! mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive
basic method : $ mount [-t fstype...] [-o options...] /dev/sda1 /mountpoint $ ls /mountpoint convenient way : add entry in /etc/fstab, /dev/sda1/mountpointfstype...options then, you can mount this way $ mount /dev/sda1 or, $ mount /mountpoint more convenient, modern way : udev, hotplug, hald, dbus, gnome-volume-manager(or similiar thing in KDE) ... just plug in USB drive, and that will appear in your desktop(background, places menu, file-manager...) http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Customizing_UDEV#Terminology http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_gnome-volume-manager http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_D-BUS%2C_HAL%2C_KDE_media:/ Hey! don,t hurry relax ~ : ) It's also useful in traditional way $ man mount $ man fstab -- Mait 2006/4/1, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 3/31/06, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can just nano /etc/fstab and add /dev/sda1? Not only you can: you actually have to! :) Check the Gentoo handbook for details. When I did install Gentoo (in december 2004), I had to write *all* my fstab by hand, I don't know if now it's different. Well, the automated installer did most of it for me, so I never got the exposure to it. I thought fstab was generated by the machine or something, and that it isn't a terribly good idea to edit it. A fstab file is ususally generated by the operating system installer, but, being it a plain text configuration file, it is thought to be editable by root. It has a pretty straightforward syntaxis. Yeah, didn't take too long for me to figure out how to word what I wanted. Only a few tries and one reboot (don't ask). The machine-generated thing you shouldn't touch, instead, is /etc/mtab. This one contains the *current* state of mounted devices. Okay. That makes sense. I don't have a /mnt directory. Should I just create one? Well, you have to create an empty directory to use as a mountpoint. I create them inside a /mnt directory, but that's just historical habit. Many distro I see around now use /media as a root directory for removable media mountpoints. Nothing stops you from using /home/sauron/whatever, although I feel symlinks are a cleaner way to access mount points from your home... I made /mnt/sda1, 'cuz that's what I used about 4 years ago on a Red Hat Linux box. It was really messing me up with all this /media stuff when I used Kubuntu. No, I had to manually create a mount point via the GUI and then enable the thing and all this stuff. Then KDE just looked at /media and slapped that on my desktop. I mounted my windows partition (back when I had one) on /media so that I could have that on my desktop too. That's the same of writing on the fstab, but managed by a gui instead of done by hand (editing fstab is really easy once you manage the logic of it). Yeah, I can now see what the GUI did. From my experience with Qt I can safely say it was harder to make the GUI than to do it by hand. -- == GCv3.12 == GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+ P+ L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y = END GCv3.12 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive
On 3/31/06, Mait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey! don,t hurry relax ~ : ) Relax? Sounds like something that unemployed people do : \ It's also useful in traditional way $ man mount $ man fstab Wow... I didn't know that man had a fstab entry. I thought it was only for commands and stuff... -- == GCv3.12 == GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+ P+ L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y = END GCv3.12 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT - Apache, mod_perl, and Apache-ASP
I am attempting to install Apache-ASP for my users on my server box. Personally, I don't use ASP (I prefer PHP), but most of my users still prefer Microsoft and they might want to use it. It wasn't available in portage, so I had to get the source code off the Internet. I've followed all the instructions (I think), but I still see the example ASP code when I go to the example ASP scripts that came bundled with Apache-ASP. Does anyone else have experience with Apache-ASP that could tell me what I'm doing wrong? Apache-ASP depends on mod_perl (I emerged it last night), and I've added -D PERL to the APACHE2_OPTS variable in /etc/conf.d/apache2 and restarted apache, but I'm not sure if it's working. Is there a way for me to test if mod_perl is working? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] anyone having apache2 memory issues
Hey all. I recently swapped my apache 1.3 site (personal blog, albums, etc) over to apache 2 (stable) and all seemed to go well. However lately I've been having a lot of out of memory issues on the server. Even when memory is still available naked alan # free -m total used free sharedbufferscached Mem: 505475 29 0 33 219 -/+ buffers/cache:222282 Swap: 525 75450 vmstat: procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system-- cpu r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id wa 0 0 77020 50124 34212 20667200 2 5 103 126 0 1 99 1 (sorry about the wrapping) I'm still getting errors like this in my site's error log: [Fri Mar 31 20:07:08 2006] [error] [client 209.123.8.19] (12)Cannot allocate memory: couldn't create child process: 12: mt-tb.cgi [Fri Mar 31 20:07:08 2006] [error] [client 209.123.8.19] (12)Cannot allocate memory: couldn't spawn child process: /var/www/arcterex.net/htdocs/mt/mt-tb.cgi[Fri Mar 31 20:07:09 2006] [error] [client 209.123.8.19] (12)Cannot allocate memory: couldn't create child process: 12: mt-tb.cgi This happens for most of the pages when I got to my movable site admin pages (all cgi). I'm using pretty much the stock apache2 config files on a 512mb athlon xp2600 server. I've used threads -threads and mpm-prefork in my USE flags, with pretty much the same results :( The server itself is a standard samba/apache/mysql system which seemed to run mostly ok under apache 1.3, so I'm really wondering what the heck is going on. When the server reports the out of memory conditions I can sometimes hit the page a couple of times and then it'll come up. Other times apache will run with 100% cpu and slowly use up memory and swap until I have to (slowly) login and kill it by hand. Anyone seen anything like this or have an idea on how to fix? TIA Alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net Backups are for people who don't pray. -- big Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 08:07:16PM -0800, Lord Sauron wrote $ man mount $ man fstab Wow... I didn't know that man had a fstab entry. I thought it was only for commands and stuff... There are man pages for just about every file in the /etc directory. For optional packages, you do need to have the package installed to get the manpage. Another cute trick if you've got something plugged in, but don't know which device it's listed as; as root, execute the command... fdisk -l The l (for list) option lists all connected block devices, even it they aren't mounted. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive
On 3/31/06, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 08:07:16PM -0800, Lord Sauron wrote $ man mount $ man fstab Wow... I didn't know that man had a fstab entry. I thought it was only for commands and stuff... There are man pages for just about every file in the /etc directory. For optional packages, you do need to have the package installed to get the manpage. Neat. Another cute trick if you've got something plugged in, but don't know which device it's listed as; as root, execute the command... fdisk -l The l (for list) option lists all connected block devices, even it they aren't mounted. Neater. It's a wonder no one makes on great big document about all this... to me it looks like its spread all over the internet in ways that makes it hard to find... At least, I don't know about the great big authoritative document of documentation... -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- == GCv3.12 == GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+ P+ L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ DI+++ D+ G e* h- !r !y = END GCv3.12 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
