[gentoo-ppc-user] Pegasos II + Radeon 9000: No DRI and wrong colours for OpenGL
Hi there, I updated my xorg-server to the latest version 1.5.3-r6 and now my X11 performance for OpenGL (Mesa 7.3-r1) is bad and has wrong colours (eg. glxgears). grep -e \[drm\] Xorg.0.log (II) [drm] DRM interface version 1.3 (II) [drm] DRM open master succeeded. (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Using the DRM lock SAREA also for drawables. (II) RADEON(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xc000 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel (II) RADEON(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler (II) RADEON(0): [drm] register handle = 0x2900 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Added 32 65536 byte vertex/indirect buffers (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Mapped 32 vertex/indirect buffers (II) RADEON(0): [drm] failure adding irq handler, there is a device already using that irq [drm] falling back to irq-free operation (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Initialized kernel GART heap manager, 5111808 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel (II) RADEON(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xf1076000 at 0x48024000 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Closed DRM master. grep -e ^(EE) Xorg.0.log (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module vesa (module does not exist, 0) (EE) AIGLX error: drmOpenOnce failed (Operation not permitted) (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering (EE) PreInit returned NULL for MOSIC SPEED-LINK Competition Pro (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (EE) PreInit returned NULL for MOSIC USB 2A4K GamePad (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed It seems to be a problem with AIGLX (drmOpenOnce failed). But I have Section DRI Mode 0666 EndSection and Option BusType PCI in my xorg.conf Does anybody have a suggestion? Thanks for any help Johannes -- --//-- //Johannes R. Geiss Zaurus, Pegasos, Amiga and C64 user \\ // PGP at http://home.arcor.de/jgeiss/pgpkey.txt --\X/- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?
Hello all, First off I'll admit to not knowing as much as I should about my system, and am hoping to correct that as I go (that's part of the reason I'm actually doing it this way). I'm trying to set up X on my system, and am not entirely sure which video card I have. I've already checked out lspci and lsmod, but nothing that appears, at least to me, to be specific to my video card jumps out at me. I accept that it may not have been compiled into the kernel, which is actually a lot of why I'm posting here. If anyone can lend a hand in this general area, that'd be greatly appreciated. I did do some looking on google, but didn't find a whole lot beyond folks just guessing and hoping they got it right. Sorry if this comes off as far too newbie-ish for this list, but I am quite new to this aspect of linux. Again, thank you in advance for any help you can provide.
[gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have?
On 06/10/2009 09:50 AM, James Homuth wrote: Hello all, First off I'll admit to not knowing as much as I should about my system, and am hoping to correct that as I go (that's part of the reason I'm actually doing it this way). I'm trying to set up X on my system, and am not entirely sure which video card I have. You open the case of the PC, remove the graphics card and take a good look at it :P
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying SRC_URI first during fetching
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:36:04 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Understandable, but my problem lies in ebuild digest of my own ebuilds and ebuilds of third-party overlays. Along the URLs tried by portage is one that seems to need over a minute to reply with 401 not found. This is highly annoying. I would want to try SRC_URI in those cases first. With your own ebuilds there's no point in them trying to contact the mirrors, so put RESTRICT=nomirror in the ebuild. -- Neil Bothwick Criminal Lawyer is a redundancy. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
RE: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?
lspci | grep VGA Or if that doesn't work lshw -class display
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:52:26 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Yes, just the first few `blah [ok]' lines... maybe 3. Assuming that's the scenario, boot with your install media, enter the chroot, then take a peek at the logs in /var/log. Hopefully you can find a hint. In progress on you suggestion now. But no syslog is running in the chroot.(is it?) But still looking around. Have you got rc_logger=YES in /etc/rc.conf? If so, look at /var/log/rc.log. -- Neil Bothwick Daddy? What's this little red button for? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Trying SRC_URI first during fetching
On 06/10/2009 10:11 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:36:04 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Understandable, but my problem lies in ebuild digest of my own ebuilds and ebuilds of third-party overlays. Along the URLs tried by portage is one that seems to need over a minute to reply with 401 not found. This is highly annoying. I would want to try SRC_URI in those cases first. With your own ebuilds there's no point in them trying to contact the mirrors, so put RESTRICT=nomirror in the ebuild. Thanks. That's pretty much what I was looking for.
RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have?
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras Sent: June 10, 2009 2:55 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have? On 06/10/2009 09:50 AM, James Homuth wrote: Hello all, First off I'll admit to not knowing as much as I should about my system, and am hoping to correct that as I go (that's part of the reason I'm actually doing it this way). I'm trying to set up X on my system, and am not entirely sure which video card I have. You open the case of the PC, remove the graphics card and take a good look at it :P And if you can't see the card, nevermind well enough to open the case? :P
Re: [gentoo-user] Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:50:23 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Mounted the new root and emerged a few things while still chrooted. It'd be difficult to list quickly since I can't boot it, but the highlights are: You can find this from /var/log/emerge.log, if the install system has genlop installed, you can get a list with genlop -l -f /chroot/path/var/log/emerge.log -- Neil Bothwick How do you know that honesty is the best policy until you have tried some of the others? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying SRC_URI first during fetching
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:19:11 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: With your own ebuilds there's no point in them trying to contact the mirrors, so put RESTRICT=nomirror in the ebuild. Thanks. That's pretty much what I was looking for. That's what I thought, which is why I posted it when you first asked ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 47: Act naturally signature.asc Description: PGP signature
RE: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?
-Original Message- From: Adam Carter [mailto:adam.car...@optus.com.au] Sent: June 10, 2009 3:18 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have? lspci | grep VGA Or if that doesn't work lshw -class display Lspci worked. Now to figure out how in the hell to get my apparently intel integrated graphics card to play nice with Gnome+X. Is there a video_card= option for that? The only examples the docs give are for ATI and Nvidia. This is a laptop, if it makes any kind of difference.
Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:50:24 -0400 James Homuth ja...@the-jdh.com wrote: I'm trying to set up X on my system, and am not entirely sure which video card I have. These days X is clever enough to choose appropriate driver for you. I'd suggest to build X with following video drivers: intel radeon nv nvidia sis via xgi vesa, since that covers 90% (or even more) of modern built-in video adapters. Then issue X -configure as root and X will produce appropriate xorg.conf in /root/xorg.conf.new with all the possible parameters for your card, so you won't have to figure them out yourself. You can also remove all the drivers but the one chosen by X and vesa (in case something breaks or you get a new card) afterwards. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:35:58 -0400 James Homuth ja...@the-jdh.com wrote: Lspci worked. Now to figure out how in the hell to get my apparently intel integrated graphics card to play nice with Gnome+X. Is there a video_card= option for that? The only examples the docs give are for ATI and Nvidia. This is a laptop, if it makes any kind of difference. echo 'VIDEO_CARDS=i810 intel' /etc/make.conf (i810 is for older ebuilds only) This page might also be of some use tou you: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?
James Homuth wrote: -Original Message- From: Adam Carter [mailto:adam.car...@optus.com.au] Sent: June 10, 2009 3:18 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have? lspci | grep VGA Or if that doesn't work lshw -class display Lspci worked. Now to figure out how in the hell to get my apparently intel integrated graphics card to play nice with Gnome+X. Is there a video_card= option for that? The only examples the docs give are for ATI and Nvidia. This is a laptop, if it makes any kind of difference. These are the available options that I know of: VIDEO_CARDS=nv nvidia -apm -ark -chips -cirrus -cyrix -dummy -epson -fbdev -fglrx -glint -i128 -i740 (-impact) -imstt -intel -mach64 -mga -neomagic (-newport) -nsc -r128 -radeon -rendition -s3 -s3virge -savage -siliconmotion -sis -sisusb (-sunbw2) (-suncg14) (-suncg3) (-suncg6) (-sunffb) (-sunleo) (-suntcx) -tdfx -tga -trident -tseng -v4l -vesa -vga -via -vmware -voodoo I would start with intel but I think i128 and i740 are Intel as well. You may want to enable vesa as a second option. Sort of a back up to intel and vesa. At least you will have some sort of driver while trying to get the best one working. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have?
On Jun 10, 2009, at 2:20 AM, James Homuth wrote: On 06/10/2009 09:50 AM, James Homuth wrote: Hello all, First off I'll admit to not knowing as much as I should about my system, and am hoping to correct that as I go (that's part of the reason I'm actually doing it this way). I'm trying to set up X on my system, and am not entirely sure which video card I have. You open the case of the PC, remove the graphics card and take a good look at it :P And if you can't see the card, nevermind well enough to open the case? :P I can testify that this method does not always work. I had bought a name brand video card, but it turned out to be a generic card that did not have a manufacturers name, logo or even model number on it, not even a sticker. lshw usually works. If needed, emerge lshw
Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs
Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:27:39 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Also, be careful when you parse the output of the command. Most of the .pyc and .pyo files in the python2.5 directories are byte-compiled version that python generated dynamically the first time they are used. For example: /Numeric/numeric_version.py was installed by the ebuild and thuse qfile tells me it belongs to dev-python/numeric, but .../Numeric/numeric_version.pyc is listed as an orphan. While it is safe to delete, it will just be regenerated again later, wasting computing cycles. That's sort of what I was thinking. It was generated when it was started up the first time. I also noticed some things that I installed in the Seamonkey directory too. Adblock was one of those. That's not quite correct: .py[co] are generated by emerge right after package installaton and these won't come back unless you use these libs as root, since python won't have write access to these paths and will be byte-compiling each script on-the-fly. All the more reason for me to leave them alone then huh? ;-) We all know what happens to portage when python pukes up last weeks meal. :/ Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have?
On 06/10/2009 10:20 AM, James Homuth wrote: On 06/10/2009 09:50 AM, James Homuth wrote: Hello all, First off I'll admit to not knowing as much as I should about my system, and am hoping to correct that as I go (that's part of the reason I'm actually doing it this way). I'm trying to set up X on my system, and am not entirely sure which video card I have. You open the case of the PC, remove the graphics card and take a good look at it :P And if you can't see the card, nevermind well enough to open the case? :P Then you must be on a laptop but you didn't say so ;)
RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have?
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras Sent: June 10, 2009 4:05 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have? On 06/10/2009 10:20 AM, James Homuth wrote: On 06/10/2009 09:50 AM, James Homuth wrote: Hello all, First off I'll admit to not knowing as much as I should about my system, and am hoping to correct that as I go (that's part of the reason I'm actually doing it this way). I'm trying to set up X on my system, and am not entirely sure which video card I have. You open the case of the PC, remove the graphics card and take a good look at it :P And if you can't see the card, nevermind well enough to open the case? :P Then you must be on a laptop but you didn't say so ;) Well, I am. But I also can't see, as in can't see. So that wouldn't really be relevant anyway.
RE: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?
-Original Message- From: Mike Kazantsev [mailto:mk.frag...@gmail.com] Sent: June 10, 2009 3:41 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have? On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:35:58 -0400 James Homuth ja...@the-jdh.com wrote: Lspci worked. Now to figure out how in the hell to get my apparently intel integrated graphics card to play nice with Gnome+X. Is there a video_card= option for that? The only examples the docs give are for ATI and Nvidia. This is a laptop, if it makes any kind of difference. echo 'VIDEO_CARDS=i810 intel' /etc/make.conf (i810 is for older ebuilds only) Then just re-emerge X, I presume?
Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:53:52 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: That's not quite correct: .py[co] are generated by emerge right after package installaton and these won't come back unless you use these libs as root, since python won't have write access to these paths and will be byte-compiling each script on-the-fly. All the more reason for me to leave them alone then huh? ;-) We all know what happens to portage when python pukes up last weeks meal. :/ Nah, you can't crash python by stealing it's bytecode, everything will work, just won't have a nice warm-start. Of course, that's not a good thing, so emerge compiles them on purpose, and unless you really short on space or inodes there's not much point in removing them. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] slim login manager issues
Sebastian Günther wrote: * Laurent Lejeune (olo...@gmail.com) [08.06.09 19:19]: Hi all, I'm having some issues with the slim login manager, which suits my very basic needs very well, except from those two things: * When starting, the keyboard doesn't respond quite well. The characters don't show on screen imediately, and sometimes, it gets even worse: it freezes for maybe 1-2 seconds, then the first key i hit gets stuck, which basically means it repeats that caracter a fine dozen of times. I have that problem, too. But upstream has an even bigger problem: Maintainer needed. * when i have to restart x, slim doesn't restarts itself up, i'm thrown back to basic console login prompt. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261359 Any help greatly appreciated. cya. I think until there is a new maintainer, nothing of this will get fixed anytime soon. :-( Sebastian This is a pity since slim suits my needs perfectly except from that. Anyway, I'm falling back to xdm, which does the job fine but lacks the eye-candy...
Re: [gentoo-user] slim login manager issues
* Laurent Lejeune (olo...@gmail.com) [10.06.09 11:49]: This is a pity since slim suits my needs perfectly except from that. Anyway, I'm falling back to xdm, which does the job fine but lacks the eye-candy... Same with me, but this helped me to a nicer XDM: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/XDM/Customization http://www.pilgerer.org/pw/xdm-multi Sebastian -- Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. | _ ASCII ribbon campaign Karl Marx | ( ) against HTML e-mail s...@sti@N GÜNTHER | X against M$ attachments mailto:sam...@guenther-roetgen.de | / \ www.asciiribbon.org pgpvGW3RxHl5p.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?
On Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009, James Homuth wrote: -Original Message- From: Mike Kazantsev [mailto:mk.frag...@gmail.com] Sent: June 10, 2009 3:41 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have? On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:35:58 -0400 James Homuth ja...@the-jdh.com wrote: Lspci worked. Now to figure out how in the hell to get my apparently intel integrated graphics card to play nice with Gnome+X. Is there a video_card= option for that? The only examples the docs give are for ATI and Nvidia. This is a laptop, if it makes any kind of difference. echo 'VIDEO_CARDS=i810 intel' /etc/make.conf (i810 is for older ebuilds only) Then just re-emerge X, I presume? no, mesa. And install the intel drivers.
Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup
Jason Carson schrieb: Thanks for the clarification Norman :-) ok, I removed net.wlan0 so it doesn't start up anymore. My computer booted up and all the services are working the way they should, however I am having a problem getting hostapd to start. Here is the error I get when I tried to start up hostapd... penguin ~ # /etc/init.d/hostapd start * Bringing up interface wlan0 * Configuring wireless network for wlan0 * Scanning for access points * no access points found * Failed to configure wireless for wlan0 * ERROR: net.wlan0 failed to start * ERROR: cannot start hostapd as net.wlan0 would not start It's suppose to be an access point, not scanning for one so do you have any idea what I should do now? Did you remove wlan0 from the /etc/conf.d/hostapd file?
[gentoo-user] Bluetooth Setup
I'm on an amd64 machine. Ever since I emerged some bluetooth programs (from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bluetooth-guide.xml) to set up a bluetooth dongle my /var/log/kern.log gets filled up with messages like the following. Jun 10 06:26:51 host2 hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for unknown connection handle 92 About 330 of these line get written to kern.log a second and eventually my /var partition gets filled up. Even after stopping bluetooth (/etc/init.d/bluetooth stop) these messages still get written to the log. The setup seemed to go well, but I don't have the sdpd process. When I start bluetooth I get . . . # /etc/init.d/bluetooth start * Starting Bluetooth ... * Starting hcid ... [ ok ] * Starting rfcomm ... [ ok ] The documentation says I should get . . . # /etc/init.d/bluetooth start * Starting Bluetooth ... * Starting hcid ... [ ok ] * Starting sdpd ... [ ok ] * Starting rfcomm ... [ ok ] I can find to much about the sdpd process. What does it do? Is it needed or deprecated? The two problems I'm having are: 1) The kern.log filling up which should stop once the setup is correct, but until then I'd like to be able to stop whatever is doing it. 2) The sdpd process, I don't know why it didn't get installed and if that's causing me problems. The documentation to setup bluetooth seemed easy, I don't know why it didn't work. Thanks, --dhk
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have?
James Homuth schrieb: Then you must be on a laptop but you didn't say so ;) Well, I am. But I also can't see, as in can't see. So that wouldn't really be relevant anyway. Hi, what laptop do you have? Did you search http://www.linux-laptop.net/ (it was helpful for me) and (in German) http://tuxmobil.de/mylaptops_de.html ? Also it might be helpful to post the output of lspci | grep VGA so someone might just know what to use instead of being forced to guess ;-) Also I just did a quick search at larry showing there are three different xf86 intel video drivers: http://packages.larrythecow.org/?v=pkgc=x11-driverss=xf86-video-i740 http://packages.larrythecow.org/?v=pkgc=x11-driverss=xf86-video-intel http://packages.larrythecow.org/?v=pkgc=x11-driverss=xf86-video-vermilion kh
Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:10:27 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: echo 'VIDEO_CARDS=i810 intel' /etc/make.conf (i810 is for older ebuilds only) Then just re-emerge X, I presume? no, mesa. And install the intel drivers. Or emerge -uavDN world and let portage decide what needs to be (re)installed. -- Neil Bothwick The considered application of terror is also a form of communication. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] How to list every installed package?
Hi there, how can I list every installed package in Gentoo? The file /var/lib/portage/world shows some installed packages, but how can I see all other packages which have been installed automatically? Thanks for any help Johannes -- --//-- //Johannes R. Geiss Zaurus, Pegasos, Amiga and C64 user \\ // PGP at http://home.arcor.de/jgeiss/pgpkey.txt --\X/- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] How to list every installed package?
Johannes Geiss schrieb: Hi there, how can I list every installed package in Gentoo? The file /var/lib/portage/world shows some installed packages, but how can I see all other packages which have been installed automatically? Thanks for any help Johannes eix -I signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to list every installed package?
On 6/10/09, Johannes Geiss johannes.ge...@web.de wrote: Hi there, how can I list every installed package in Gentoo? The file /var/lib/portage/world shows some installed packages, but how can I see all other packages which have been installed automatically? qlist And I often use it with -CISL, but your needs may differ. -- Arttu V.
Re: [gentoo-user] How to list every installed package?
Johannes Geiss schrieb: Hi there, how can I list every installed package in Gentoo? The file /var/lib/portage/world shows some installed packages, but how can I see all other packages which have been installed automatically? Thanks for any help Johannes emerge -pev world
Re: [gentoo-user] How to list every installed package?
KH wrote: Johannes Geiss schrieb: Hi there, how can I list every installed package in Gentoo? The file /var/lib/portage/world shows some installed packages, but how can I see all other packages which have been installed automatically? Thanks for any help Johannes emerge -pev world equery list should work. It's even in alphabetical order which is neat. Dale :-) :-) P. S. Ain't it funny that everybody has a different way of doing the same thing? And a different tool for each one.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have?
KH wrote: Hi, what laptop do you have? Did you search http://www.linux-laptop.net/ (it was helpful for me) and (in German) http://tuxmobil.de/mylaptops_de.html ? Also it might be helpful to post the output of lspci | grep VGA so someone might just know what to use instead of being forced to guess ;-) Also I just did a quick search at larry showing there are three different xf86 intel video drivers: http://packages.larrythecow.org/?v=pkgc=x11-driverss=xf86-video-i740 http://packages.larrythecow.org/?v=pkgc=x11-driverss=xf86-video-intel http://packages.larrythecow.org/?v=pkgc=x11-driverss=xf86-video-vermilion kh This may help. http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ I used it a while back when checking on something and it was helpful. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] How to list every installed package?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale escreveu: KH wrote: Johannes Geiss schrieb: Hi there, how can I list every installed package in Gentoo? The file /var/lib/portage/world shows some installed packages, but how can I see all other packages which have been installed automatically? Thanks for any help Johannes emerge -pev world equery list should work. It's even in alphabetical order which is neat. Dale :-) :-) P. S. Ain't it funny that everybody has a different way of doing the same thing? And a different tool for each one. eix -I --only-names -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkovu0AACgkQ35zeJy7JhCgcSQCZAQibtD/sypHXHkciXKDu0njI YC8An0uTIoVQlO9wqzwYQWGuRoVsW1qT =dpKr -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-user] KVM and no keyboard at start of boot
On 10 Jun 2009, at 00:03, Harry Putnam wrote: ... My keyboard (through kvm) is not recognized until bootup gets to the login prompt. Once there... no problems with keyboard. If I want to do anything early in boot process, like at grub prompt, I must keep a keyboard plugged in direct to machine. If you can't access the BIOS using the KVM then the problem is hardware, not with Linux software. Now using an IOMEGA 4prt `symphany'. All usb. I guess `Symphany' because you can switch speaker connections too. You might try checking BIOS options. Some BIOS have legacy USB modes suchlike. There is a standard for USB keyboards mice - the BIOS might mention HID (Human Interface Devices), which refers to these. Stroller.
[gentoo-user] Re: KVM and no keyboard at start of boot
Mike Kazantsev mk.frag...@gmail.com writes: [...] Harry wrote: So if I could identify what it is in the kernel that allowes it to work at the point where the kernel takes over (login prompt), then maybe I could enable that aspect somehow inside an initramfs, and be able to have the KVM recognized at the grub prompt by booting with an initrd. Mike answered: But it's the grub that loads initrd and linux kernel is actually the one using it, not the grub, so you won't get it until you drop out from grub already. Gack... I can't seem to get it straight how it all loads but I see immediately what you are saying... You can try updating grub itself though, 0.X tree ebuilds are accessible for both stable and unstable gentoo arch, but there's 1.X and even live ebuild masked in the portage tree, prehaps they would be able to work with newer hardware? I'll look into this. I also wonder, does BIOS recognize this KVM, can you access it? How would I access it?
[gentoo-user] Re: KVM and no keyboard at start of boot
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: If you can't access the BIOS using the KVM then the problem is hardware, not with Linux software. You mean if my keyboard through kvm can't get to bios... yea I see your point. I'll try that shortly... currently compiling an older gcc
[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text
Mike Kazantsev mk.frag...@gmail.com writes: Okay, the syslog is probably not one of them, so /var/log shouldn't be too populated, except for rc.log, which should be enabled specifically in /etc/rc.conf (w/ baselayout-2) or /etc/conf.d/rc - look for rc_logger line or something similar with older baselayout. [...] Thanks for the large array of possible ways to proceed. Nice tips to keep handy. I'm not spending any time on that problem now since its disappeared when I downgraded kernel version to 2.6.29-r2 instead of -r5. But these tips look very useful.
[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:50:23 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Mounted the new root and emerged a few things while still chrooted. It'd be difficult to list quickly since I can't boot it, but the highlights are: You can find this from /var/log/emerge.log, if the install system has genlop installed, you can get a list with genlop -l -f /chroot/path/var/log/emerge.log Yeah thanks... I knew that... what I meant by `difficult to list quickly' was having to boot from install media remount several partitions onto /mnt/gentoo, then chroot etc etc. But the problem has disappeared now since downgrading to 2.6.29-r2 kernel and building by hand instead of genkernel.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:03:37 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: You can find this from /var/log/emerge.log, if the install system has genlop installed, you can get a list with genlop -l -f /chroot/path/var/log/emerge.log Yeah thanks... I knew that... what I meant by `difficult to list quickly' was having to boot from install media remount several partitions onto /mnt/gentoo, then chroot etc etc. You only need to mount the partition containing /var and you don't need to chroot. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 00B: Inadequate disk space - Free at least 50MB signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KVM and no keyboard at start of boot
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:56:15 -0500 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Mike Kazantsev mk.frag...@gmail.com writes: I also wonder, does BIOS recognize this KVM, can you access it? How would I access it? Usually via DEL or F2 keys on boot, as soon as monitor lights up. Look out for message on the bottom of splash or text screen like press DEL to enter BIOS, it's there usually displayed somewhere. If not, I guess it should be described in the manual for the motherboard, which should be easily accessible on vendor's site, provided you know the model (at least the series, since there's good chance it's the same for all of them). -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to list every installed package?
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 08:44 -0500, Dale wrote: KH wrote: Johannes Geiss schrieb: Hi there, how can I list every installed package in Gentoo? The file /var/lib/portage/world shows some installed packages, but how can I see all other packages which have been installed automatically? Thanks for any help Johannes emerge -pev world equery list should work. It's even in alphabetical order which is neat. Dale :-) :-) P. S. Ain't it funny that everybody has a different way of doing the same thing? And a different tool for each one. epm -qGa
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:01:02 -0500 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Mike Kazantsev mk.frag...@gmail.com writes: Okay, the syslog is probably not one of them, so /var/log shouldn't be too populated, except for rc.log, which should be enabled specifically in /etc/rc.conf (w/ baselayout-2) or /etc/conf.d/rc - look for rc_logger line or something similar with older baselayout. [...] Thanks for the large array of possible ways to proceed. Nice tips to keep handy. I'm not spending any time on that problem now since its disappeared when I downgraded kernel version to 2.6.29-r2 instead of -r5. Well, as of today you have an unique chance to push your luck with .30 kernel, since it was just released as stable and already hit the ~tree in form of vanilla-sources ;) Guess gentoo-sources should be there in a day or two. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to list every installed package?
On 6/10/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: P. S. Ain't it funny that everybody has a different way of doing the same thing? And a different tool for each one. No, the suggested commands aren't all even doing the same thing. Especially emerge -e world is an outlier. On a box with a lazy or a first time install, learning Gentoo admin it's likely to give a very different result from most of the others. As the OP hasn't given a reason or motivation why he needs the package list, what it is for, we can only make assumptions and throw out wild guesses. After all, he might even be after emerge -pv --depclean, as it, too, sort of prints out pretty much all packages on the system. Not to mention a few thousand lines of dependency information. :) -- Arttu V.
[gentoo-user] Re: Fresh install on reboot endless scrolling text
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:03:37 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: You can find this from /var/log/emerge.log, if the install system has genlop installed, you can get a list with genlop -l -f /chroot/path/var/log/emerge.log Yeah thanks... I knew that... what I meant by `difficult to list quickly' was having to boot from install media remount several partitions onto /mnt/gentoo, then chroot etc etc. You only need to mount the partition containing /var and you don't need to chroot. Yeah unless I want to use tools that are not available on (minimal) install media but are available on my installed os. But anyway... just rebooting with install media and getting to the partitions is most of it... but done now and need no more comment.
[gentoo-user] emerging procmail failure
setup: kernel-2.6.29-r2 gcc-4.3.2-r3 procmail is one tool that is absolutely robust and I expected no trouble whatever emerging it... however the emerge is failing like as shown below. I'm not sure what to do about getline. The only useflags that come up are one I set `mbox' and one other `-selenix' [...] ln ../src/procmail ../new/procmail i486-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -c -O2 -march=i486 -pipe -fno-inline-functions lockfile.c i486-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=i486 -pipe -fno-inline-functions lockfile.o exopen.o sublib.o acommon.o mcommon.o authenticate.o lastdirsep.o -o lockfile -Wl,-z,now -Wl,-O1 -lm -lnsl -ldl -lc ln ../src/lockfile ../new/lockfile i486-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -c -O2 -march=i486 -pipe -fno-inline-functions formail.c In file included from formail.c:25: formisc.h:20: error: conflicting types for 'getline' /usr/include/stdio.h:651: error: previous declaration of 'getline' was here make[1]: *** [formail.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/procmail-3.22-r10/work/procmail-3.22/src' make: *** [bins] Error 2 * * ERROR: mail-filter/procmail-3.22-r10 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2527: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake CC=$(tc-getCC) || die * The die message: * (no error message) * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/procmail-3.22-r10/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at *'/var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/procmail-3.22-r10/temp/environment'.
[gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
I cannot understand whats doing... :( All day smbd loaded my CPU and now GNOME said me, that I have not free space on /! Really, sh-3.2# df -h Файлова система Розм Вик Дост Вик% змонтований на /dev/sda2 28G 28G 0 100% / udev 10M 192K 9,9M 2% /dev /dev/sda5 50G 34G 14G 71% /home /dev/sda6 50G 17G 31G 36% /media/From /dev/sda7 130G 110G 13G 90% /media/Different /dev/sdb5 291G 274G 3,1G 99% /media/Large /dev/sdb6 138G 39G 93G 30% /media/Library /dev/sdb7 9,7G 5,4G 3,8G 60% /media/Crypt shm 2,5G 0 2,5G 0% /dev/shm but if I see on every separate folder, I cannot get 28 GB of loaded space (I had 15 GB free yesterday). sh-3.2# du -hs /opt 2,5G /opt sh-3.2# du -hs /bin 5,7M /bin sh-3.2# du -hs /dev 192K /dev sh-3.2# du -hs /root 1,4M /root sh-3.2# du -hs /tmp 30K /tmp sh-3.2# du -hs /var 12G /var sh-3.2# du -hs /boot 35M /boot sh-3.2# du -hs /etc 11M /etc sh-3.2# du -hs /lib 35M /lib sh-3.2# du -hs /mnt 0 /mnt sh-3.2# du -hs /sbin 5,9M /sbin sh-3.2# du -hs /sys 0 /sys The last install is Qt Creator with Qt SDK. How to clean partition? Thanks! -- Alexander Pilipovsky aka Engraver
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
Alexander Pilipovsky schrieb: I cannot understand whats doing... :( All day smbd loaded my CPU and now GNOME said me, that I have not free space on /! Really, sh-3.2# df -h Файлова система Розм Вик Дост Вик% змонтований на /dev/sda2 28G 28G 0 100% / udev 10M 192K 9,9M 2% /dev /dev/sda5 50G 34G 14G 71% /home /dev/sda6 50G 17G 31G 36% /media/From /dev/sda7 130G 110G 13G 90% /media/Different /dev/sdb5 291G 274G 3,1G 99% /media/Large /dev/sdb6 138G 39G 93G 30% /media/Library /dev/sdb7 9,7G 5,4G 3,8G 60% /media/Crypt shm 2,5G 0 2,5G 0% /dev/shm but if I see on every separate folder, I cannot get 28 GB of loaded space (I had 15 GB free yesterday). sh-3.2# du -hs /opt 2,5G /opt sh-3.2# du -hs /bin 5,7M /bin sh-3.2# du -hs /dev 192K /dev sh-3.2# du -hs /root 1,4M /root sh-3.2# du -hs /tmp 30K /tmp sh-3.2# du -hs /var 12G /var sh-3.2# du -hs /boot 35M /boot sh-3.2# du -hs /etc 11M /etc sh-3.2# du -hs /lib 35M /lib sh-3.2# du -hs /mnt 0 /mnt sh-3.2# du -hs /sbin 5,9M /sbin sh-3.2# du -hs /sys 0 /sys The last install is Qt Creator with Qt SDK. How to clean partition? Thanks! -- Alexander Pilipovsky aka Engraver You have something big in /var. Check /var/tmp/portage or /var/log. Alos test sys-fs/ncdu or similar tools. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup
Jason Carson schrieb: Thanks for the clarification Norman :-) ok, I removed net.wlan0 so it doesn't start up anymore. My computer booted up and all the services are working the way they should, however I am having a problem getting hostapd to start. Here is the error I get when I tried to start up hostapd... penguin ~ # /etc/init.d/hostapd start * Bringing up interface wlan0 * Configuring wireless network for wlan0 * Scanning for access points * no access points found * Failed to configure wireless for wlan0 * ERROR: net.wlan0 failed to start * ERROR: cannot start hostapd as net.wlan0 would not start It's suppose to be an access point, not scanning for one so do you have any idea what I should do now? Did you remove wlan0 from the /etc/conf.d/hostapd file? No, should I just leave it empty? INTERFACES= What about /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf? Do I leave it like this... interface=wlan0 ...or remove that line too?
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
2009/6/10 Justin jus...@j-schmitz.net Alexander Pilipovsky schrieb: You have something big in /var. Check /var/tmp/portage or /var/log. Alos test sys-fs/ncdu or similar tools. Thanks, it's was /var/log/messages that had 11 GB and was not opened by any editor. -- Alexander Pilipovsky aka Engraver
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: I cannot understand whats doing... :( All day smbd loaded my CPU and now GNOME said me, that I have not free space on /! Really, sh-3.2# df -h Файлова система Розм Вик Дост Вик% змонтований на /dev/sda2 28G 28G 0 100% / udev 10M 192K 9,9M 2% /dev /dev/sda5 50G 34G 14G 71% /home /dev/sda6 50G 17G 31G 36% /media/From /dev/sda7 130G 110G 13G 90% /media/Different /dev/sdb5 291G 274G 3,1G 99% /media/Large /dev/sdb6 138G 39G 93G 30% /media/Library /dev/sdb7 9,7G 5,4G 3,8G 60% /media/Crypt shm 2,5G 0 2,5G 0% /dev/shm but if I see on every separate folder, I cannot get 28 GB of loaded space (I had 15 GB free yesterday). sh-3.2# du -hs /opt 2,5G /opt sh-3.2# du -hs /bin 5,7M /bin sh-3.2# du -hs /dev 192K /dev sh-3.2# du -hs /root 1,4M /root sh-3.2# du -hs /tmp 30K /tmp sh-3.2# du -hs /var 12G /var sh-3.2# du -hs /boot 35M /boot sh-3.2# du -hs /etc 11M /etc sh-3.2# du -hs /lib 35M /lib sh-3.2# du -hs /mnt 0 /mnt sh-3.2# du -hs /sbin 5,9M /sbin sh-3.2# du -hs /sys 0 /sys The last install is Qt Creator with Qt SDK. How to clean partition? Thanks! -- Alexander Pilipovsky aka Engraver If you unmount /home, does any file show up under /home then? Keep in mind, if you have files in for example /home then mount a new partition on /home, the old files are still on the root partition. It just mount /home on top of the old file on the root partition. I'm assuming the /media/* directories are CD, DVD or some other removable media? If not, unmount those and check to see if anything is hiding under there. Hope this helps. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] How to list every installed package?
Arttu V. wrote: On 6/10/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: P. S. Ain't it funny that everybody has a different way of doing the same thing? And a different tool for each one. No, the suggested commands aren't all even doing the same thing. Especially emerge -e world is an outlier. On a box with a lazy or a first time install, learning Gentoo admin it's likely to give a very different result from most of the others. As the OP hasn't given a reason or motivation why he needs the package list, what it is for, we can only make assumptions and throw out wild guesses. After all, he might even be after emerge -pv --depclean, as it, too, sort of prints out pretty much all packages on the system. Not to mention a few thousand lines of dependency information. :) They may not be doing the same thing but they are a answer to the same question. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Alexander Pilipovskyalexander.pilipov...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/10 Justin jus...@j-schmitz.net Alexander Pilipovsky schrieb: You have something big in /var. Check /var/tmp/portage or /var/log. Alos test sys-fs/ncdu or similar tools. Thanks, it's was /var/log/messages that had 11 GB and was not opened by any editor. I had a similar problem, 100% cpu usage caused by a daemon that did not respond well when network connection was lost. My /var/log/messages grew over 60GB in a few hours with the same message repeated tens of millions of times. I changed my logger from syslog-ng to metalog, which suppresses duplicates, and now it's not a problem.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KVM and no keyboard at start of boot
On 10 Jun 2009, at 15:56, Harry Putnam wrote: ... I also wonder, does BIOS recognize this KVM, can you access it? How would I access it? My KVM is slightly clever, in that (boastnot only can I access it with a web-browser/boast) it allows keyboard shortcut combinations to be mapped. I have one that presses Escape, F1, F2, F8, F10 then Delete in immediate succession, and have never known this not to access the BIOS. Stroller.
[gentoo-user] PyQt4-4.5 and pykde4-4.2.4 blockers
Today's sync includes PyQt4-4.5 which is blocked by pykde4-4.2.4 (incompatible and build issues). Apparently pykde4-4.3 will fix this, but meanwhile I need to get emerge world to run and complete. To decide what to mask and what to leave, I need to discover what these packages actually do and what the effect will be if I unmask stuff. I *could* experiment, but will probably overlook many important things. As an assist to figuring this out and deciding, can someone tell me what pykde4 and PyQt4 actually do and how these packages use them: a...@nazgul ~/downloads/kernel $ equery depends pykde4 * Searching for pykde4 ... kde-base/marble-4.2.4 (python ? =kde-base/pykde4-4.2.4:4.2[kdeprefix=]) kde-base/plasma-workspace-4.2.4 (python ? =kde- base/pykde4-4.2.4:4.2[kdeprefix=]) a...@nazgul ~/downloads/kernel $ equery depends PyQt4 * Searching for PyQt4 ... dev-python/qscintilla-python-2.3.2-r1 (qt4 ? =dev-python/PyQt4-4.4) kde-base/marble-4.2.4 (python ? =dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.4-r1[X,svg]) kde-base/plasma-workspace-4.2.4 (python ? =dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.0[X]) kde-base/pykde4-4.2.4 (=dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.4- r1[dbus,qt3support,svg,webkit,X]) media-sound/picard-0.11 (dev-python/PyQt4[X]) net-print/hplip-3.9.4b (!minimal qt4 !qt3 ? dev-python/PyQt4[X]) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
Dale написав(ла): Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: If you unmount /home, does any file show up under /home then? Keep in mind, if you have files in for example /home then mount a new partition on /home, the old files are still on the root partition. It just mount /home on top of the old file on the root partition. I'm assuming the /media/* directories are CD, DVD or some other removable media? If not, unmount those and check to see if anything is hiding under there. Hope this helps. Dale :-) :-) Thanks, really, it may be... I wrote DVD a few hours ago and after reboot with unmounting all partitions all O'k. -- Alexander Pilipovsky aka Engraver signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
Paul Hartman написав(ла): On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Alexander Pilipovskyalexander.pilipov...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/10 Justin jus...@j-schmitz.net Alexander Pilipovsky schrieb: You have something big in /var. Check /var/tmp/portage or /var/log. Alos test sys-fs/ncdu or similar tools. Thanks, it's was /var/log/messages that had 11 GB and was not opened by any editor. I had a similar problem, 100% cpu usage caused by a daemon that did not respond well when network connection was lost. My /var/log/messages grew over 60GB in a few hours with the same message repeated tens of millions of times. I changed my logger from syslog-ng to metalog, which suppresses duplicates, and now it's not a problem. Thanks, I'm going to install metalog :) -- Alexander Pilipovsky aka Engraver signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] PyQt4-4.5 and pykde4-4.2.4 blockers
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Today's sync includes PyQt4-4.5 which is blocked by pykde4-4.2.4 (incompatible and build issues). Apparently pykde4-4.3 will fix this, but meanwhile I need to get emerge world to run and complete. I had to add these 4 packages to my /etc/portage/package.mask to get emerge to proceed: =dev-python/PyQt4-4.5 =dev-python/PyQt-3.18 =dev-python/qscintilla-python-2.4 =x11-libs/qscintilla-2.4 I'll try unmasking them in a few days to see if the deps have been sorted out.
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 20:55:16 schrieb Paul Hartman: I had a similar problem, 100% cpu usage caused by a daemon that did not respond well when network connection was lost. My /var/log/messages grew over 60GB in a few hours with the same message repeated tens of millions of times. Well, that's the reason you should put /var on its own partition/logical volume. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] emerging procmail failure
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: setup: kernel-2.6.29-r2 gcc-4.3.2-r3 procmail is one tool that is absolutely robust and I expected no trouble whatever emerging it... however the emerge is failing like as shown below. I'm not sure what to do about getline. The only useflags that come up are one I set `mbox' and one other `-selenix' [...] ln ../src/procmail ../new/procmail i486-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -c -O2 -march=i486 -pipe -fno-inline-functions lockfile.c i486-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=i486 -pipe -fno-inline-functions lockfile.o exopen.o sublib.o acommon.o mcommon.o authenticate.o lastdirsep.o -o lockfile -Wl,-z,now -Wl,-O1 -lm -lnsl -ldl -lc ln ../src/lockfile ../new/lockfile i486-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -c -O2 -march=i486 -pipe -fno-inline-functions formail.c In file included from formail.c:25: formisc.h:20: error: conflicting types for 'getline' /usr/include/stdio.h:651: error: previous declaration of 'getline' was here make[1]: *** [formail.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/procmail-3.22-r10/work/procmail-3.22/src' make: *** [bins] Error 2 * * ERROR: mail-filter/procmail-3.22-r10 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2527: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake CC=$(tc-getCC) || die * The die message: * (no error message) * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/procmail-3.22-r10/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at *'/var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/procmail-3.22-r10/temp/environment'. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270551 HTH -- Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine. -- Irwin Edman - This message may be digitally signed: GPG KeyID:0x9D2FD6C8 || FNMT SSL cert
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
But how many space on hard disk for it will be good? Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 20:55:16 schrieb Paul Hartman: I had a similar problem, 100% cpu usage caused by a daemon that did not respond well when network connection was lost. My /var/log/messages grew over 60GB in a few hours with the same message repeated tens of millions of times. Well, that's the reason you should put /var on its own partition/logical volume. Bye... Dirk -- Alexander Pilipovsky aka Engraver signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 20:55:16 schrieb Paul Hartman: I had a similar problem, 100% cpu usage caused by a daemon that did not respond well when network connection was lost. My /var/log/messages grew over 60GB in a few hours with the same message repeated tens of millions of times. Well, that's the reason you should put /var on its own partition/logical volume. Bye... Dirk Well something creating that much messages is just buggi! The cpu will be on havy duty no diffrence where /var is mounted. This is a bug which should not happen. kh
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Dirk Heinrichsdirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 20:55:16 schrieb Paul Hartman: I had a similar problem, 100% cpu usage caused by a daemon that did not respond well when network connection was lost. My /var/log/messages grew over 60GB in a few hours with the same message repeated tens of millions of times. Well, that's the reason you should put /var on its own partition/logical volume. Next time I build a computer I will for sure :) For now I have 3 partitions, /, /boot and /home
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 21:56:21 schrieb KH: Well something creating that much messages is just buggi! The cpu will be on havy duty no diffrence where /var is mounted. This is a bug which should not happen. But if it happens, it only fills /var! Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Re: emerging procmail failure
galiza.ce...@gmail.com (Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila) writes: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270551 HTH Yes... except _OH CRAP_ I've forgotten whatever little tiny skill I once had to add a patch into the emerge process manually. Or dink around with sed inside as another poster on the bug did... also manually. Any URL where I can beef up on that a bit?
Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup
Jason Carson schrieb: Jason Carson schrieb: Thanks for the clarification Norman :-) ok, I removed net.wlan0 so it doesn't start up anymore. My computer booted up and all the services are working the way they should, however I am having a problem getting hostapd to start. Here is the error I get when I tried to start up hostapd... penguin ~ # /etc/init.d/hostapd start * Bringing up interface wlan0 * Configuring wireless network for wlan0 * Scanning for access points * no access points found * Failed to configure wireless for wlan0 * ERROR: net.wlan0 failed to start * ERROR: cannot start hostapd as net.wlan0 would not start It's suppose to be an access point, not scanning for one so do you have any idea what I should do now? Did you remove wlan0 from the /etc/conf.d/hostapd file? No, should I just leave it empty? INTERFACES= What about /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf? Do I leave it like this... interface=wlan0 ...or remove that line too? INTERFACES should at least contain the bridge device. The wired NIC does not hurt either. In /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf wlan0 is needed to tell hostapd which device it has to initialize, so leave it like this.
Re: [gentoo-user] PyQt4-4.5 and pykde4-4.2.4 blockers
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 21:38:25 Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Today's sync includes PyQt4-4.5 which is blocked by pykde4-4.2.4 (incompatible and build issues). Apparently pykde4-4.3 will fix this, but meanwhile I need to get emerge world to run and complete. I had to add these 4 packages to my /etc/portage/package.mask to get emerge to proceed: =dev-python/PyQt4-4.5 =dev-python/PyQt-3.18 =dev-python/qscintilla-python-2.4 =x11-libs/qscintilla-2.4 I'll try unmasking them in a few days to see if the deps have been sorted out. I'd pretty much come to the same conclusion - couldn't figure out what the packages did and didn't feel like experimenting. Easier to keep things as is and wait for pykde4-4.3 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerging procmail failure
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com wrote: Yes... except _OH CRAP_ I've forgotten whatever little tiny skill I once had to add a patch into the emerge process manually. man ebuild HTH :)
Re: [gentoo-user] PyQt4-4.5 and pykde4-4.2.4 blockers
On Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: Today's sync includes PyQt4-4.5 which is blocked by pykde4-4.2.4 (incompatible and build issues). Apparently pykde4-4.3 will fix this, but meanwhile I need to get emerge world to run and complete. To decide what to mask and what to leave, I need to discover what these packages actually do and what the effect will be if I unmask stuff. I *could* experiment, but will probably overlook many important things. As an assist to figuring this out and deciding, can someone tell me what pykde4 and PyQt4 actually do and how these packages use them: a...@nazgul ~/downloads/kernel $ equery depends pykde4 * Searching for pykde4 ... kde-base/marble-4.2.4 (python ? =kde-base/pykde4-4.2.4:4.2[kdeprefix=]) kde-base/plasma-workspace-4.2.4 (python ? =kde- base/pykde4-4.2.4:4.2[kdeprefix=]) a...@nazgul ~/downloads/kernel $ equery depends PyQt4 * Searching for PyQt4 ... dev-python/qscintilla-python-2.3.2-r1 (qt4 ? =dev-python/PyQt4-4.4) kde-base/marble-4.2.4 (python ? =dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.4-r1[X,svg]) kde-base/plasma-workspace-4.2.4 (python ? =dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.0[X]) kde-base/pykde4-4.2.4 (=dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.4- r1[dbus,qt3support,svg,webkit,X]) media-sound/picard-0.11 (dev-python/PyQt4[X]) net-print/hplip-3.9.4b (!minimal qt4 !qt3 ? dev-python/PyQt4[X]) http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/?p=389 especially the bug linked to.
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 21:50:27 Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: But how many space on hard disk for it will be good? As much as you need. There's only one person who can determine that. That person is you. Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 20:55:16 schrieb Paul Hartman: I had a similar problem, 100% cpu usage caused by a daemon that did not respond well when network connection was lost. My /var/log/messages grew over 60GB in a few hours with the same message repeated tens of millions of times. Well, that's the reason you should put /var on its own partition/logical volume. Bye... Dirk -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
KH wrote: Dirk Heinrichs schrieb: Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 20:55:16 schrieb Paul Hartman: I had a similar problem, 100% cpu usage caused by a daemon that did not respond well when network connection was lost. My /var/log/messages grew over 60GB in a few hours with the same message repeated tens of millions of times. Well, that's the reason you should put /var on its own partition/logical volume. Bye... Dirk Well something creating that much messages is just buggi! The cpu will be on havy duty no diffrence where /var is mounted. This is a bug which should not happen. kh My messages file gets huge sometimes too. Usually when hal or something doesn't unmount the DVD drive and it just spits out error after error about every two seconds. Let's not get started on how buggy hal is. That could turn into a huge thread for sure and could lead to discussions about xorg-server and the recent upgrade. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] PyQt4-4.5 and pykde4-4.2.4 blockers
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 22:22:09 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/?p=389 especially the bug linked to. Thanks. I read that blog a bit earlier but there isn't enough info for me to reach a decision about what to dump and what to keep. I've since installed blockers to prevent these upgrades and am waiting for compatible versions to hit the portage tree -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] can't emerge gentoo-sources from sysrescd-1.2.0
Hi group, I thought that this was the fault of my dialup connection at home but now I find it's doing it at the wifi spot in the library. I'm following the quick-install guide and got to 'code listing 2-19'. Portage goes through the mirror addresses but can't resolve any; as if there were no connection. But here I am in gmail ;( Here's the tail end of #emerge gentoo-sources ... Resolving gentoo.osuosl.org... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution. wget: unable to resolve host address `gentoo.osuosl.org' !!! Couldn't download 'genpatches-2.6.29-7.extras.tar.bz2'. Aborting. * Fetch failed for 'sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5', Log file: * '/var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5/temp/build.log' Failed to emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5, Log file: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5/temp/build.log' * Messages for package sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5: * Fetch failed for 'sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5', Log file: * '/var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5/temp/build.log' sysresccd etc # Maxim
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
On Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 10 June 2009 21:50:27 Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: But how many space on hard disk for it will be good? As much as you need. There's only one person who can determine that. That person is you. my /var is 36gb in size. But I also have portage and packages in /var - to keep the fragmentation of / down ... I still have more than 20gb free but I use reiser4+compression.
Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge gentoo-sources from sysrescd-1.2.0
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 22:44, Maxim Wexlermaxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: Hi group, Hi, I thought that this was the fault of my dialup connection at home but now I find it's doing it at the wifi spot in the library. I'm following the quick-install guide and got to 'code listing 2-19'. Portage goes through the mirror addresses but can't resolve any; as if there were no connection. But here I am in gmail ;( Did you copy the resolv.conf from the liveCD /etc/ to the chroot ? You're not in gmail from the chrooted env, are you ? regards, Boris Here's the tail end of #emerge gentoo-sources ... Resolving gentoo.osuosl.org... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution. wget: unable to resolve host address `gentoo.osuosl.org' !!! Couldn't download 'genpatches-2.6.29-7.extras.tar.bz2'. Aborting. * Fetch failed for 'sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5', Log file: * '/var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5/temp/build.log' Failed to emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5, Log file: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5/temp/build.log' * Messages for package sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5: * Fetch failed for 'sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5', Log file: * '/var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5/temp/build.log' sysresccd etc # Maxim -- 42
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerging procmail failure
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: galiza.ce...@gmail.com (Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila) writes: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270551 HTH Yes... except _OH CRAP_ I've forgotten whatever little tiny skill I once had to add a patch into the emerge process manually. Or dink around with sed inside as another poster on the bug did... also manually. Any URL where I can beef up on that a bit? Here you are: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/epatch/index.html cheers -- Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine. -- Irwin Edman - This message may be digitally signed: GPG KeyID:0x9D2FD6C8 || FNMT SSL cert
Re: [gentoo-user] PyQt4-4.5 and pykde4-4.2.4 blockers
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 10 June 2009 21:38:25 Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Today's sync includes PyQt4-4.5 which is blocked by pykde4-4.2.4 (incompatible and build issues). Apparently pykde4-4.3 will fix this, but meanwhile I need to get emerge world to run and complete. I had to add these 4 packages to my /etc/portage/package.mask to get emerge to proceed: =dev-python/PyQt4-4.5 =dev-python/PyQt-3.18 =dev-python/qscintilla-python-2.4 =x11-libs/qscintilla-2.4 I'll try unmasking them in a few days to see if the deps have been sorted out. I'd pretty much come to the same conclusion - couldn't figure out what the packages did and didn't feel like experimenting. Easier to keep things as is and wait for pykde4-4.3 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com Take a look at emerge -DuN world and see if they are still blocked. I had a problem like this yesterday on my AMD64 machine. Wasn't able to do emerge -DuN @system without lots of blockage problems but was able to do emerge -DuN @world with none... - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge gentoo-sources from sysrescd-1.2.0
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 22:44:51 Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, I thought that this was the fault of my dialup connection at home but now I find it's doing it at the wifi spot in the library. I'm following the quick-install guide and got to 'code listing 2-19'. Portage goes through the mirror addresses but can't resolve any; as if there were no connection. But here I am in gmail ;( Here's the tail end of #emerge gentoo-sources ... Resolving gentoo.osuosl.org... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution. How long does this step take? If it fails immediately (unlikely) then you have no connectivity to your name servers. If it takes 30 seconds, then you have broken name servers. Check what's in /etc/resolv.conf, use dig to see what comes back and change your name servers as necessary. Failing that, change your mirror or just download that file manually from gentoo.org. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerging procmail failure
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Or dink around with sed inside as another poster on the bug did... also manually. Just do a less on /usr/portage/mail-filter/procmail/procmail-3.22-r10.ebuild and you'll see a good example. Cheers. -- Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine. -- Irwin Edman - This message may be digitally signed: GPG KeyID:0x9D2FD6C8 || FNMT SSL cert
Re: [gentoo-user] can't emerge gentoo-sources from sysrescd-1.2.0FIXED
On 6/10/09, Boris Fersing kernelsen...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 22:44, Maxim Wexlermaxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: Hi group, Hi, I thought that this was the fault of my dialup connection at home but now I find it's doing it at the wifi spot in the library. I'm following the quick-install guide and got to 'code listing 2-19'. Portage goes through the mirror addresses but can't resolve any; as if there were no connection. But here I am in gmail ;( Did you copy the resolv.conf from the liveCD /etc/ to the chroot ? D'oh!
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 22:49:39 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: my /var is 36gb in size. Mine has only 2. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] PyQt4-4.5 and pykde4-4.2.4 blockers
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 22:57:38 Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 10 June 2009 21:38:25 Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Today's sync includes PyQt4-4.5 which is blocked by pykde4-4.2.4 (incompatible and build issues). Apparently pykde4-4.3 will fix this, but meanwhile I need to get emerge world to run and complete. I had to add these 4 packages to my /etc/portage/package.mask to get emerge to proceed: =dev-python/PyQt4-4.5 =dev-python/PyQt-3.18 =dev-python/qscintilla-python-2.4 =x11-libs/qscintilla-2.4 I'll try unmasking them in a few days to see if the deps have been sorted out. I'd pretty much come to the same conclusion - couldn't figure out what the packages did and didn't feel like experimenting. Easier to keep things as is and wait for pykde4-4.3 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com Take a look at emerge -DuN world and see if they are still blocked. I had a problem like this yesterday on my AMD64 machine. Wasn't able to do emerge -DuN @system without lots of blockage problems but was able to do emerge -DuN @world with none... It's emerge -uND world that shows the problem. I'll resync tomorrow and try again - my mirror runs about 12 hours behind gentoo.org -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Wednesday 10 June 2009 21:50:27 Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: But how many space on hard disk for it will be good? As much as you need. There's only one person who can determine that. That person is you. Hi, I am sorry but I think if someone asks about an opinion here, writing something like: that's all you desision, gentoo is not taking your hand for anything is not helpful at all. We all know that our systems are fit to our personal needs. So every system is different. But asking should leed to something like: consider this, consider that ... kh
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 23:24:50 KH wrote: Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Wednesday 10 June 2009 21:50:27 Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: But how many space on hard disk for it will be good? As much as you need. There's only one person who can determine that. That person is you. Hi, I am sorry but I think if someone asks about an opinion here, writing something like: that's all you desision, gentoo is not taking your hand for anything is not helpful at all. We all know that our systems are fit to our personal needs. So every system is different. But asking should leed to something like: consider this, consider that ... And how EXACTLY do you want me to answer the original question? Be specific, You should have done blash responses don't help anyone. The question only has vague guidelines for answers and is totally install- and need-dependant. Do keep in mind that the original is a do my homework for me question and my reply was designed to get the OP to look for himself. He didn't even post how big his current /var is or what his machine is used for or even which logs he'd like to have and keep. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup
Jason Carson schrieb: Jason Carson schrieb: Thanks for the clarification Norman :-) ok, I removed net.wlan0 so it doesn't start up anymore. My computer booted up and all the services are working the way they should, however I am having a problem getting hostapd to start. Here is the error I get when I tried to start up hostapd... penguin ~ # /etc/init.d/hostapd start * Bringing up interface wlan0 * Configuring wireless network for wlan0 * Scanning for access points * no access points found * Failed to configure wireless for wlan0 * ERROR: net.wlan0 failed to start * ERROR: cannot start hostapd as net.wlan0 would not start It's suppose to be an access point, not scanning for one so do you have any idea what I should do now? Did you remove wlan0 from the /etc/conf.d/hostapd file? No, should I just leave it empty? INTERFACES= What about /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf? Do I leave it like this... interface=wlan0 ...or remove that line too? INTERFACES should at least contain the bridge device. The wired NIC does not hurt either. In /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf wlan0 is needed to tell hostapd which device it has to initialize, so leave it like this. Alright, I have done everything you have suggested but when hostapd tries to start I am getting this error... penguin ~ # /etc/init.d/hostapd start * Starting hostapd... Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf Failed to set interface wlan0 to master mode. nl80211 driver initialization failed. ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=5 eloop_data=0x80f1a38 user_data=(nil) handler=0x8091790 * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/sbin/hostapd' [ !! ] * ERROR: hostapd failed to start Do you have any idea why this is happening?
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Alexander Pilipovskyalexander.pilipov...@gmail.com wrote: But how many space on hard disk for it will be good? This depends on your usage, of course, and for what purpose you expect to use /var. If you run a server with lots of logs, like a high-traffic web server, you may want to ensure /var/log is in a place with enough room. I use logrotate to archive and compress log files so they don't take up too much space. In my case I have my temp dir as /var/tmp (i think this is the default location), so things like ripping/encoding/burning a DVD image can use sometimes near 25G of temp space. Portage will also use (again, as default) for its temp dir, so any aborted compile sessions and giant packages like OpenOffice will need sufficient space as well. KDE pixmap cache is using 1.5G in my user's tmp directory alone. And of course portage itself stores the packages cache there. All of the above can be changed, of course, or links/mounted to different drives/partitions I think the rule of thumb that applies is: calculate the greatest amount of space you would ever realistically need and then double it. :)
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: But how many space on hard disk for it will be good? I haven't followed this thread in detail, but has anyone suggested LVM ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Mittwoch 10 Juni 2009 22:49:39 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: my /var is 36gb in size. Mine has only 2. Bye... Dirk Mine is about 300MBs right now. It has been 1GB before tho. This is a desktop rig so no server stuff here. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup
Jason Carson schrieb: Alright, I have done everything you have suggested but when hostapd tries to start I am getting this error... penguin ~ # /etc/init.d/hostapd start * Starting hostapd... Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf Failed to set interface wlan0 to master mode. nl80211 driver initialization failed. ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=5 eloop_data=0x80f1a38 user_data=(nil) handler=0x8091790 * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/sbin/hostapd' [ !! ] * ERROR: hostapd failed to start Do you have any idea why this is happening? Not quite... What kernelsettings do you activate for you wlan?
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Wednesday 10 June 2009 23:24:50 KH wrote: Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Wednesday 10 June 2009 21:50:27 Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: But how many space on hard disk for it will be good? As much as you need. There's only one person who can determine that. That person is you. Hi, I am sorry but I think if someone asks about an opinion here, writing something like: that's all you desision, gentoo is not taking your hand for anything is not helpful at all. We all know that our systems are fit to our personal needs. So every system is different. But asking should leed to something like: consider this, consider that ... And how EXACTLY do you want me to answer the original question? Be specific, You should have done blash responses don't help anyone. The question only has vague guidelines for answers and is totally install- and need-dependant. Do keep in mind that the original is a do my homework for me question and my reply was designed to get the OP to look for himself. He didn't even post how big his current /var is or what his machine is used for or even which logs he'd like to have and keep. Hi, I totaly do agree with you. There has been nothing indicated to give a one out of one answer. In case someone is a noob, ( I am still one because I don't no anything about how everything is working) what you just wrote is the answer. Like what are your needs and what resurces do you have? Like I don't think it was something like do my homework but more like I don't even know what to look for. This list is realy helpful. I am often searching answers or learn by reading but sometimes it is just infront of someone not even knowing it is there. The OP said nothing and this is what could be replyed. Like You said nothing. Often googling for something is leading to lists where absolutly no help can be found because someone writes something like: what can I do. secend replays like: do A. Frst: cool this did it for me. In the end nobody else can use this solution because it is just not EXACT. So you are right. kh
Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup
Jason Carson schrieb: Jason Carson schrieb: Alright, I have done everything you have suggested but when hostapd tries to start I am getting this error... penguin ~ # /etc/init.d/hostapd start * Starting hostapd... Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf Failed to set interface wlan0 to master mode. nl80211 driver initialization failed. ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=5 eloop_data=0x80f1a38 user_data=(nil) handler=0x8091790 * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/sbin/hostapd' [ !! ] * ERROR: hostapd failed to start Do you have any idea why this is happening? Not quite... What kernelsettings do you activate for you wlan? I used the kernel settings mentioned here... http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k#Enabling_ath5k ...but I built everything directly into the kernel, NOT as modules. I have attached my .config to this email so you can see if I am missing anything. I also activated CONFIG_HOSTAP=y CONFIG_HOSTAP_FIRMWARE=y CONFIG_HOSTAP_FIRMWARE_NVRAM=y but i think i found the real reason. I checked the 2.6.29.x ath5k base.c and found, that the AP code is still dormant. You need to apply this patch: --- linux-2.6.29/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c 2009-02-10 06:11:43.186470883 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.29/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c.old 2008-11-14 09:36:40.0 +0100 @@ -522,6 +501,7 @@ hw-wiphy-interface_modes = BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) | BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC) | + BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) | BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT); hw-extra_tx_headroom = 2; Open the file /usr/src/linux-yourversion/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c, search for hw-wiphy-interface_modes and the apply the line BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) | between these lines. Rebuild and install the kernel. Background: The AP code is there, but it is not activated yet. This line activates it. I thought newer 2.6.29er kernels do not have this restriction, so i did not think of this, but apparently they do.
Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup
Jason Carson schrieb: Jason Carson schrieb: Alright, I have done everything you have suggested but when hostapd tries to start I am getting this error... penguin ~ # /etc/init.d/hostapd start * Starting hostapd... Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf Failed to set interface wlan0 to master mode. nl80211 driver initialization failed. ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=5 eloop_data=0x80f1a38 user_data=(nil) handler=0x8091790 * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/sbin/hostapd' [ !! ] * ERROR: hostapd failed to start Do you have any idea why this is happening? Not quite... What kernelsettings do you activate for you wlan? I used the kernel settings mentioned here... http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k#Enabling_ath5k ...but I built everything directly into the kernel, NOT as modules. I have attached my .config to this email so you can see if I am missing anything. I also activated CONFIG_HOSTAP=y CONFIG_HOSTAP_FIRMWARE=y CONFIG_HOSTAP_FIRMWARE_NVRAM=y but i think i found the real reason. I checked the 2.6.29.x ath5k base.c and found, that the AP code is still dormant. You need to apply this patch: --- linux-2.6.29/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c 2009-02-10 06:11:43.186470883 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.29/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c.old 2008-11-14 09:36:40.0 +0100 @@ -522,6 +501,7 @@ hw-wiphy-interface_modes = BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) | BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC) | + BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) | BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT); hw-extra_tx_headroom = 2; Open the file /usr/src/linux-yourversion/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c, search for hw-wiphy-interface_modes and the apply the line BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) | between these lines. Rebuild and install the kernel. Background: The AP code is there, but it is not activated yet. This line activates it. I thought newer 2.6.29er kernels do not have this restriction, so i did not think of this, but apparently they do. That did the trick. I applied that line, rebuilt installed the kernel, rebooted and hostapd loaded without any errors. Thanks you very much for your help :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: PyQt4-4.5 and pykde4-4.2.4 blockers
On 06/10/2009 10:25 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Today's sync includes PyQt4-4.5 which is blocked by pykde4-4.2.4 (incompatible and build issues). Apparently pykde4-4.3 will fix this, but meanwhile I need to get emerge world to run and complete. To decide what to mask and what to leave, I need to discover what these packages actually do and what the effect will be if I unmask stuff. I *could* experiment, but will probably overlook many important things. As an assist to figuring this out and deciding, can someone tell me what pykde4 and PyQt4 actually do and how these packages use them. I recommend putting -python in your make.conf followed by emerge -auDN world and then a depclean along with revdev-rebuild. This should get rid of Python bindings. Usually, when you're not sure if you need them, you don't need them. PyQt and PyKDE are big packages and not worth having to just lying around.
[gentoo-user] Re: PyQt4-4.5 and pykde4-4.2.4 blockers
On 06/11/2009 06:11 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I recommend putting -python in your make.conf followed by emerge -auDN world and then a depclean along with revdev-rebuild. You might have to enable python in a few packages after that though and disable it in others. In my case: echo dev-libs/libxml2 python /etc/portage/package.use Just follow the messages that tell you to enable the python USE flag in specific packages. It's much cleaner to enable it only in packages that actually need it rather than globally (which drags along PyQt and PyKDE.)
[gentoo-user] Re: emerging procmail failure
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com wrote: Yes... except _OH CRAP_ I've forgotten whatever little tiny skill I once had to add a patch into the emerge process manually. man ebuild HTH :) Doesn't any manual patching have to be done in an overlay? My own portage setup. Then stepped thru with ebuild to get it accepted by emerge? I see no hits at all on either `overlay' or `layman' in man ebuild. There must be more to the story than just running ebuild commands. And expect the modified ebuild to be accepted by emerge.
[gentoo-user] Re: emerging procmail failure
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com wrote: Yes... except _OH CRAP_ I've forgotten whatever little tiny skill I once had to add a patch into the emerge process manually. man ebuild Just in case another intellectually challenged gentoo user happens to be searching for nuts and bolts of creating a custom ebuild. I looked up a previous thread I started here in Nov 2008, with Subject: Nots and bolts of creating an ebuild where some brief outlines of how to do it are provided by David R and Daniel P. See it on gmane here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/205481/focus=205483
Re: [gentoo-user] How to list every installed package?
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 15:48 +0300, Arttu V. wrote: On 6/10/09, Johannes Geiss johannes.ge...@web.de wrote: Hi there, how can I list every installed package in Gentoo? The file /var/lib/portage/world shows some installed packages, but how can I see all other packages which have been installed automatically? qlist And I often use it with -CISL, but your needs may differ. Thank you all for your answers, that is exactly I was looking for. Bye Johannes -- --//-- //Johannes R. Geiss Zaurus, Pegasos, Amiga and C64 user \\ // PGP at http://home.arcor.de/jgeiss/pgpkey.txt --\X/- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
