[gentoo-user] Questions about X warnings/errors
Here's the video card as per lspci -vv == 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- INTx- Latency: 64 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21 Region 0: Memory at d000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 1: I/O ports at cc00 [size=256] Region 2: Memory at fdef (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at fde0 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- == At bootup, I get the following (saved in dmesg) mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent fixed MTRR settings mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs. mtrr: corrected configuration. and I get the following in the X log file. Can I ignore it? (WW) RADEON(0): DRI init changed memory map, adjusting ... (WW) RADEON(0): MC_FB_LOCATION was: 0xd7ffd000 is: 0xd7ffd000 (WW) RADEON(0): MC_AGP_LOCATION was: 0xffc0 is: 0xffc0 == == The following appears in the X log... (II) LoadModule: freetype (WW) Warning, couldn't open module freetype (II) UnloadModule: freetype (EE) Failed to load module freetype (module does not exist, 0) == == Due to bad experiences with fglrx, I'm using the open source ATI drivers. I get the following in the X log... (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/r200_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/r200_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering == == In xorg.conf, I've commented out all fontpaths except... FontPath /usr/share/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/ ...but the log still shows... (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/OTF does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to: /usr/share/fonts/misc/, /usr/share/fonts/Type1/, /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/, /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/, /usr/share/fonts/misc/, /usr/share/fonts/TTF/, /usr/share/fonts/Type1/, /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/, /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/, built-ins == Any comments/suggestions? -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about X warnings/errors
On Samstag 13 Juni 2009, Walter Dnes wrote: Here's the video card as per lspci -vv == 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium TAbort- TAbort- MAbort- SERR- PERR- INTx- Latency: 64 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21 Region 0: Memory at d000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 1: I/O ports at cc00 [size=256] Region 2: Memory at fdef (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at fde0 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- == At bootup, I get the following (saved in dmesg) mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent fixed MTRR settings mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs. mtrr: corrected configuration. and I get the following in the X log file. Can I ignore it? (WW) RADEON(0): DRI init changed memory map, adjusting ... (WW) RADEON(0): MC_FB_LOCATION was: 0xd7ffd000 is: 0xd7ffd000 (WW) RADEON(0): MC_AGP_LOCATION was: 0xffc0 is: 0xffc0 == yes. == The following appears in the X log... (II) LoadModule: freetype (WW) Warning, couldn't open module freetype (II) UnloadModule: freetype (EE) Failed to load module freetype (module does not exist, 0) == you can ignore that too. freetype is not needed. == Due to bad experiences with fglrx, I'm using the open source ATI drivers. I get the following in the X log... (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/r200_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/r200_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering == you are missing a file. Try re-installing mesa. == In xorg.conf, I've commented out all fontpaths except... FontPath /usr/share/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/ ...but the log still shows... (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/OTF does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to: /usr/share/fonts/misc/, /usr/share/fonts/Type1/, /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/, /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/, /usr/share/fonts/misc/, /usr/share/fonts/TTF/, /usr/share/fonts/Type1/, /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/, /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/, built-ins == Any comments/suggestions? yeah. remove all font paths. They are not needed anymore.
Re: [gentoo-user] Prioritizing mpd
On Saturday 13 June 2009 06:30:56 Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:02:00 -0700 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: When I use the medium quality libsamplerate resampler with mpd, my CPU is around 15% and all is well. When I try to use the best quality resampler, the CPU stays around 99% and the sound frequently falls apart. Can I give mpd CPU priority? Yes, it's usually done via nice/renice commands: renice -n -10 -p `pgrep mpd` You can tune it's priority up to -20 (most real-time priority). Don't be surprised if it doesn't do much though. Nice values have always been little more than a hint in Unix systems, the kernel is free to do with it whatever it wants, including completely ignoring your hint. To a large degree, Linux does exactly that - ignore the hint. It does have an effect, a small one, and usually much smaller than the user expects. Nice is an old, antiquated, obsolete and just plain mostly useless way to enforce scheduling, entirely unsuited to modern desktops. The better way is to select a scheduling algorithm that better suits your needs and let the kernel figure out how to give you what you want (it knows MUCH more about how to do it than you do). Or perhaps the OP is using a buggy peice of code. CPU utilization is also a notoriously inaccurate metric that does not mean what people tend to think it means. This information is not in the man pages. It's on lkml and in the code ;-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.5 packages blocking each other
On Saturday 13 June 2009 01:54:45 Francisco Ares wrote: Thanks a lot! It's not completely obvious from Dirk's post (what he said is completely accurate though), but kde-3.5.10 will not receive monolithic ebuilds (dev decision). If you want kde-3.5.10, there is only one way to do it - Unmerge your existing kde monolithic packages Rememerge the new kde split packages There's a good migration guide at gentoo.org, called Migrating to KDE split ebuilds or some such. A quick search will find it for you. Francisco On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.dewrote: Am Freitag 12 Juni 2009 22:45:49 schrieb Francisco Ares: And how do I tell if an ebuild is monolithic or not? The monolithic ones install larger parts of KDE, and usually have the same names as the original source packages offered at KDE.org. The split ebuilds, well, split those packages into their individual applications, so you have ebuilds for konqueror (which is also part of kdenetwork) or kmail (kdepim). In addition, there are the -meta ebuilds, which have the same name as the monolitic ones, but with -meta appended (kdepim-meta). Those usually install the same applications than monolithic ebuilds, but as split ebuilds. So, when you install kde, you get a complete KDE from monolithic ebuilds and when you install kde-meta, you get a complete KDE from split ebuilds. That's also the reason why they block each other. When you have kdepim installed, you already got kmail, so you shouldn't install kmail from the split ebuild again. HTH... Dirk -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
On Friday 12 June 2009 22:24:29 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag 12 Juni 2009 21:56:04 schrieb Alan McKinnon: There's a few guidlelines one can give (but only a few). The variables tend to be large than the amounts with guidelines though. /var/tmp/portage should be at least 1G on a modern system, 6G+ if building mozilla stuff and OOo is something you intend to do. BTW: OOo 3.1 seems to raise the bar to 8.5G. So it's getting worse... I have 6.5G free in /var and rebuilt latest OOo recently. My USE for OOo is pretty restrictive though - no gnome, kde, mono -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !
On Saturday 13 June 2009, Philip Webb wrote:
Yet another step reveals the locus of the problem here at least:
(11) try to run 'klauncher' from CLI : must be started by Kdeinit;
(12) restart in KDE, fix Krusader + Apwal ;
(13) reboot restart FB but without 'kdeinit ' in ~/.xinitrc :
Krusader 'open with' ok !
So my problem seems to lie in starting 'kdeinit' without the KDE desktop.
It will take another couple of reboots (tomorrow) to confirm this.
Mick mb doing things a bit differently his problem mb elsewhere.
I have rebooted a number of times (it's a laptop), always in xdm/fluxbox, but
my Konqueror menus/kcontrol work fine now. I do not have kdeinit in the
fluxbox startup file. Once I have booted up I will typically run {kgpg
kmail} to check my mail and occasionally launch konqueror with {kfmclient
openProfile webbrowsing}. By that stage kdeinit will be running (when things
are normal):
6973 ?S 0:00 kgpg
6976 ?Ss 0:00 kdeinit Running...
6982 ?S 0:00 \_ klauncher [kdeinit] --new-startup
7030 ?S 0:01 \_ kio_imap4 [kdeinit] imap /tmp/ksocket-michael/
20306 ?S 0:00 \_ kio_file [kdeinit] file /tmp/ksocket-michael/k
21164 ?S 0:00 \_ kio_smtp [kdeinit] smtp /tmp/ksocket-michael/k
6980 ?S 0:00 dcopserver [kdeinit] --nosid --suicide
6984 ?S 0:01 kded [kdeinit] --new-startup
6986 ?S 0:00 /usr/libexec/gam_server
7018 ?Sl 0:29 kmail
20414 ?S 0:00 \_ aspell -a -S -B -Tutf8 --encoding=utf-8
When the 'lost menus' problem is there kfmclient will not run and konqueror
will fail to launch. Last time the menus were gone I realised that this was
the case when I clicked on a link to open an attachment from within kmail -
the save as/open with popup was void of any applications. Unfortunately, I
did not check at that time if kdeinit was running, but I would assume that it
was otherwise would kde applications be able to run?
--
Regards,
Mick
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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost free space on /
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:56:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: /var/tmp/portage should be at least 1G on a modern system, 6G+ if building mozilla stuff and OOo is something you intend to do. IMO PORTAGE_TMPDIR should not be on such an important filesystem as /var. Having system programs unable to function properly when they cannot write to logfiles because you OOo emerge has filled the filesystem is not good. A separate filesystem for this, using either ext2 or tmpfs is a safer, and faster, option -- Neil Bothwick Happiness is merely the remission of pain. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] conflict in fstab w/ lvm?
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:47:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: You have only two choices, being an eee user myself, and having it upgraded to 2GB RAM, I choose the tempfs filesystem for /tmp (RAM) instead of keeping temporary files writen and deleted from my poor SSD. If you have low RAM, you can decide to leave it on the SSD and thus give more room for app data on RAM. I use tmpfs for /tmp with a 1GB Eee, /tmp usage is usually small, less than a MB. PORTAGE_TMPDIR, on the other hand getslots of writes, so I have than on a cheap, replaceable SD card. -- Neil Bothwick Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is 100%. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Considering launching into Gentoo
Hello list I am currently running Debian Squeeze and am considering the feasibility of switching to Gentoo due to several issues I am experiencing with a new machine with a SATA HDD and a TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653Z which refuses to play audio CDs and pre-recorded DVDs. In any event, because I have loads of data on my /home partition, I'm curious about a few things, primarily what are the implications of dual-booting with Gentoo as my second OS, so that I can experience Gentoo without losing my data, etc. How compatible are Gentoo and Debian in terms of using a shared /home directory - I am concerned about uid for the directory for instance which, if I changed it for Gentoo, may not work for Debian and vice versa. Any thoughts/ suggestions? Many thanks AG
Re: [gentoo-user] Prioritizing mpd
renice -20 -p `pgrep mpd` but my Athlon 2.2Ghz still can't handle it for more than a few seconds. I don't have SMP enabled because of a bug in madwifi, and I'm hoping when I get that fixed I'll be able to run the best libsamplerate resampler. Any other ideas for making this work? AFAIK resampling is expensive operation that's only necessary when your sound card can't handle native stream sample rate, furthermore, it's a lossy operation (degrading quality). So, I'd look for the answer to the question why mpd is doing it and why I allow it to do that?. For example, you might have enabled it to resample stream to 32 bits depth, while your built-in card can only handle 16 and the stream has also 16, so what happens is userspace-level conversion (with some loss of quality) to 32, loading your CPU, then this stream goes to alsa, and, provided that your card can't play this, driver or the card itself converts it back to 16. Note that the latter case would probably mean card offloads conversion to your CPU as well, so you'll get CPU load for both ways' conversion anyway, only reducing sound quality, no matter how good converters are. To avoid any processing, try disabling resampling in mpd, since it'll probably be done for you anyway, if necessary (you'll hear white noise otherwise). And you can pre-convert all the streams to any given samplerate, but note that you'll probably get far worse results if the target format isn't lossless (flac, ape), even if the source one is lossy, than with worst resampling. And you can get worse CPU/IO load with lossless format in the end, since it's harder to decode and the input data stream is much heavier than with lossy mp3s or oggs. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net I'm upsampling my 16/44.1 files to 24/96 because it sounds much better than letting the USB DAC do it. This was actually recommended by the manufacturer and it sounds much better. Pre-converting sounds interesting. I could convert all of my 16/44.1 files to 24/96 files? That way the CPU wouldn't be stressed at playback time. How can I do that? I use libsamplerate Best for resampling. - Grant
[gentoo-user] Re: Introduce Manual manipulation during an emerge
Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com writes: Is there a reason to use i486 stage3? I think an i686 one might have been available and a better hit if your system is/was set up as an i686 before this? Well, not that it counts now, gotta go with what you have unpacked. Looking at those stages again... it is not apparent in any way that I should have gotten something besides x86. I see there is an i686. But apparently I was to slow to figure out that I needed it. Thanks ... I'm working thru the CHOST doc now.
[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard handling weird... in 2.6.30?
Paul Hartman wrote: try this: Type some text, like X and then hold left arrow. Your cursor will move to the left until you release the key. Now try to hold the right arrow after you've already been holding the left arrow. It will start to move to the right. Previously, it would continue moving to the right after you released the left arrow. Now, the keyboard repeat STOPS once you release the PREVIOUS key. So, in other words, the repeating of the right arrow is stopped when I release the left arrow... which causes the cursor to stop, and causes me to become aggravated. :P Not very helpful, sorry, but I'm running the most recent 2.6.30 from Linus and I don't see the same thing here. I'm not running the gentoo kernel, though, so things may not be comparable. Have to say that I've never held down both arrow keys at the same time before today.
[gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo
On Saturday 13 June 2009, AG wrote: Hello list I am currently running Debian Squeeze and am considering the feasibility of switching to Gentoo due to several issues I am experiencing with a new machine with a SATA HDD and a TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653Z which refuses to play audio CDs and pre-recorded DVDs. In any event, because I have loads of data on my /home partition, I'm curious about a few things, primarily what are the implications of dual-booting with Gentoo as my second OS, so that I can experience Gentoo without losing my data, etc. How compatible are Gentoo and Debian in terms of using a shared /home directory - I am concerned about uid for the directory for instance which, if I changed it for Gentoo, may not work for Debian and vice versa. Any thoughts/ suggestions? Many thanks AG I had for a while a dual boot Gentoo-Debian. It is nothing to worry about. The only two things I remember (it was mid 2005) are: 1) kmail repository is in a different subdir (~/.mail vs ~/Mail) 2) Openoffice folder had different naming as well Those are not issues that are worked around with a couple of symlinks. WRT UID/GID just make sure in advance the two OS uses the same. Don't forget to make backup before starting your tests ;-) Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.30-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jun 11 18:44:20 CEST 2009 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4018.72 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] font missing
After doing emerge --depclean on an amd64 machine, I find that Emacs no longer locates the font it previously used. The font I liked was specified in my .emacs file with the line (set-default-font 10x20). Using the old .emacs file and doing emacs --debug-init now produces an error message that starts as follows:: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error Font `10x20' is not defined) modify-frame-parameters(#frame em...@microway 0xf41280 ((font . 10x20))) set-default-font(10x20) eval-buffer(#buffer *load* nil /home/john/.emacs nil t) ; Reading at buffer position 3345 load-with-code-conversion(/home/john/.emacs /home/john/.emacs t t) load(~/.emacs t t) #[nil Doing xlsfonts -l 10x20 at the Gentoo prompt elicits this response: DIR MIN MAX EXIST DFLT PROP ASC DESC NAME --0 255 some0 23 155 -cronyx-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-koi8-r Interpreting this as a translation of the nickname 10x20 into the long name, I edited my .emacs file, replacing (set-default-font 10x20) with (set-default-font -cronyx-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-koi8-r) With that change done, emacs starts without any error message. However, the font is not quite the same as the old one. The old font had no serifs except on the letters i and l, where they avoid confusion with the number 1. The new font has serifs on most letters and, to my eye, looks unnecessarily cluttered. With emacs running, I tried holding down the shift key and clicking the left mouse button. That as expected brought up a font menu. Selecting Misc 10x20 elicited the response Font not found. Comparing the font paths on the computer with the missing 10x20 font and on a computer with no font problem, I see the paths starting with /usr/share/fonts/misc are identical. Nonetheless there is a difference in the results from doing locate 10x20 on the two machines. I can locate the following misc/10x20 fonts on the machine where Emacs works well but not on the machine where Emacs does not work well: /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-2.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-3.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-4.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-5.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-7.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-8.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-10.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-11.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-13.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-16.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-KOI8-R.pcf.gz Suggestions for recovering the old 10x20 font would be appreciated. -John -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195
[gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo
AG wrote: Hello list I am currently running Debian Squeeze and am considering the feasibility of switching to Gentoo due to several issues I am experiencing with a new machine with a SATA HDD and a TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653Z which refuses to play audio CDs and pre-recorded DVDs. Well, I'm all for using gentoo because I despise the debian package system, but that's just me. Hardware problems like you describe are usually driver- related or really are hardware problems, in my experience. As it's a new machine it can be hard to separate hardware from driver problems without, as you say, trying some different software. The gold standard for such trials usually involves Windows because the drivers are so widely tested before the manufacturer releases them to the public. Chances are you'll be using the same drivers with gentoo as with debian. In any event, because I have loads of data on my /home partition, I'm curious about a few things, primarily what are the implications of dual-booting with Gentoo as my second OS, so that I can experience Gentoo without losing my data, etc. How compatible are Gentoo and Debian in terms of using a shared /home directory - I am concerned about uid for the directory for instance which, if I changed it for Gentoo, may not work for Debian and vice versa. That part is trivial. You can either specify a desired UID when you create your gentoo user, or go back later and change it with chown -R newuid:newgid.
[gentoo-user] set local kenel version
Setting a version to local kernel builds has been discussed here so
sorry to bang on it some more.
I found information here from a previous thread and kept one of the
answers but finding now that I don't really understand it.
Or am doing the proceedure wrong.
It was Neil B's post:
From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk
Subject: Re: Append string on Kernel builds
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:11:22 +
Message-ID: 20090120141122.46b83...@krikkit
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:43:56 -0600, rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
I like to use that and put `-$MYHOST' as string. I wondered if
there is any way to set a numericly incrementing string. Maybe
some trick syntax that can go in that spot?
cd /usr/src/linux
echo -${MYHOST}- localversion1
ln -s .version localversion2
The build system adds the contents of any localversion* files it
finds, and it also increments .version.
But when I try this I get only the $MYHOST part (in this case
host=reader) and not the increment.
So for linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r1
and in /usr/src/linux
cat localverion1:
_reader_
Cat .version:
1
And the symlink
ls -l localversion2
lrwxrwxrwx [...] Jun 12 18:01 localversion2 - .version
I get this naming after a build:
vimlinuz-2.6.30-gentoo-r1_reader_
No version gets appended.
I understood it should have also append the numeric version and
increment it each time I build that kernel.
Anyone see where I'm dorking this up?
Re: [gentoo-user] set local kenel version
On Saturday 13 June 2009 16:27:48 Harry Putnam wrote:
Setting a version to local kernel builds has been discussed here so
sorry to bang on it some more.
I found information here from a previous thread and kept one of the
answers but finding now that I don't really understand it.
Or am doing the proceedure wrong.
It was Neil B's post:
From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk
Subject: Re: Append string on Kernel builds
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:11:22 +
Message-ID: 20090120141122.46b83...@krikkit
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:43:56 -0600, rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
I like to use that and put `-$MYHOST' as string. I wondered if
there is any way to set a numericly incrementing string. Maybe
some trick syntax that can go in that spot?
cd /usr/src/linux
echo -${MYHOST}- localversion1
ln -s .version localversion2
The build system adds the contents of any localversion* files it
finds, and it also increments .version.
But when I try this I get only the $MYHOST part (in this case
host=reader) and not the increment.
So for linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r1
and in /usr/src/linux
cat localverion1:
_reader_
Cat .version:
1
And the symlink
ls -l localversion2
lrwxrwxrwx [...] Jun 12 18:01 localversion2 - .version
I get this naming after a build:
vimlinuz-2.6.30-gentoo-r1_reader_
No version gets appended.
I understood it should have also append the numeric version and
increment it each time I build that kernel.
Anyone see where I'm dorking this up?
I only see two thing:
Did you set both
() Local version - append to kernel release
[ ] Automatically append version information to the version string
In General setup?
Second, you appear to have used a file called localverion1 instead of
localversion1
Is that a real mistake, or just a typo in your mail?
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard handling weird... in 2.6.30?
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 9:00 AM, waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: try this: Type some text, like X and then hold left arrow. Your cursor will move to the left until you release the key. Now try to hold the right arrow after you've already been holding the left arrow. It will start to move to the right. Previously, it would continue moving to the right after you released the left arrow. Now, the keyboard repeat STOPS once you release the PREVIOUS key. So, in other words, the repeating of the right arrow is stopped when I release the left arrow... which causes the cursor to stop, and causes me to become aggravated. :P Not very helpful, sorry, but I'm running the most recent 2.6.30 from Linus and I don't see the same thing here. I'm not running the gentoo kernel, though, so things may not be comparable. Have to say that I've never held down both arrow keys at the same time before today. Apparently I do it all the time and never realized it. It affects all repeatable keys, not just the arrows, and it is driving me crazy. :) Thanks for testing! I will keep searching... I will also add that I am using a USB keyboard, in case it matters.
Re: [gentoo-user] Considering launching into Gentoo
On Saturday 13 June 2009 15:02:26 AG wrote: Hello list I am currently running Debian Squeeze and am considering the feasibility of switching to Gentoo due to several issues I am experiencing with a new machine with a SATA HDD and a TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653Z which refuses to play audio CDs and pre-recorded DVDs. In any event, because I have loads of data on my /home partition, I'm curious about a few things, primarily what are the implications of dual-booting with Gentoo as my second OS, so that I can experience Gentoo without losing my data, etc. You have to ensure that the config files you have in your home directory are compatible with both systems. If you have a directive in a file that works correctly on one version and causes catastrophic failures if used on another, you have to be sure you do not use the latter. Luckily, this is exceptionally rare. Unluckily, only a manual audit can find this out. Luckily, we have this other grand idea called a backup :-) Just backup the dot files. As for data files, no need to worry. They will be just fine. How compatible are Gentoo and Debian in terms of using a shared /home directory - I am concerned about uid for the directory for instance which, if I changed it for Gentoo, may not work for Debian and vice versa. Both use the same GNU tools to do stuff. Just ensure that your UID is the same on both systems. useradd -u and usermod -u and chown -R are the tools you need to do it right and/or correct any mistakes afterwards In short, you have to do something spectacularly stupid (or act like a clueless Windows user) or have monumental bad luck to actually successfully break stuff here. You might want to read wizard screens on automated installers too and make sure you don't click the box that asks to create /home, delete and format it? (y/n) It's not likely you will make this error. As a Debian user, it is normally safe to assume you can, in fact, read :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] install consistently fails to create work (sub)directory
I can't perform any successful emerges. An example output is:
Emerging (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13
* portage-2.1.6.13.patch.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) [ ok ]
* portage-2.1.6.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) [ ok ]
* checking ebuild checksums ;-)
[ ok ]
* checking auxfilechecksums ;-)
[ ok ]
* checking miscfilechecksums ;-)
[ ok ]
cfg-update-1.8.2-r1: Checksum index is up-to-date ...
/usr/lib64/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 654: 15626 Illegal
instruction install -m${PORTAGE_WORKDIR_MODE:-0700} -d $
{WORKDIR}
*
* ERROR: sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 2112: Called ebuild_main
* ebuild.sh, line 2034: Called dyn_unpack
* ebuild.sh, line 689: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* install -m${PORTAGE_WORKDIR_MODE:-0700} -d $
{WORKDIR} || die Failed to create dir '${WORKDIR}'
* The die message:
* Failed to create dir '/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13/
work'
*
* 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/sys-apps/
portage-2.1.6.13/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-
apps/portage-2.1.6.13/temp/environment'.
*
The last kernel log entry registers the failure [15626] shown in the
above output:
WALRUS ~ # cat /var/log/kernel/current | grep install
Jun 13 00:34:13 [kernel] install[12732] trap invalid opcode rip:40acd8
rsp:7fffaa8319d0 error:0
Jun 13 00:36:38 [kernel] install[13001] trap invalid opcode rip:40acd8
rsp:71ae8c90 error:0
Jun 13 00:49:45 [kernel] install[13347] trap invalid opcode rip:40acd8
rsp:7fffe38249d0 error:0
Jun 13 00:51:43 [kernel] install[13636] trap invalid opcode rip:40acd8
rsp:7fff535a2670 error:0
Jun 13 00:57:01 [kernel] install[13921] trap invalid opcode rip:40acd8
rsp:7fff36e98050 error:0
Jun 13 06:57:45 [kernel] Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed.
Jun 13 07:15:37 [kernel] install[5477] trap invalid opcode rip:40a93f
rsp:7fffdf45f0d8 error:0
Jun 13 07:58:55 [kernel] install[5969] trap invalid opcode rip:40a93f
rsp:7fff1834cf98 error:0
Jun 13 08:19:29 [kernel] install[6381] trap invalid opcode rip:40a93f
rsp:7fff8bdfa9a8 error:0
Jun 13 10:24:38 [kernel] install[15361] trap invalid opcode rip:40a93f
rsp:7fff9b352ef8 error:0
Jun 13 10:29:02 [kernel] install[15626] trap invalid opcode rip:40a93f
rsp:7fff83e2b9d8 error:0
I'm in way over my head here. Any help would be appreciated.
WALRUS ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2,
glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
=
System uname: Linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r4-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-
_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_4200+-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:15:01 +
app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.7
dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.4-r2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/cmake: 2.4.8
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2,
1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64
CBUILD=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
CFLAGS=-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -msse3
CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/
kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/
java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/
sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/
language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d
CXXFLAGS=-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -msse3
DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles
FEATURES=ccache collision-protect distlocks fixpackages parallel-
fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch
GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://gentoo.osuosl.org/
ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo
http://mirrors.acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo/
http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo
ftp://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo ftp://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/
http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/gentoo/
LANG=en_US.utf8
LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1
LINGUAS=en en_US
MAKEOPTS=-j3
PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT=/
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --
compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --
exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp
PORTDIR=/usr/portage
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/portage/local/layman/java-binary /usr/portage/
local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/java-overlay /usr/
portage/local/layman/lisp
SYNC=rsync://rsync21.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
USE=X acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 arts berkdb blas bluetooth branding
bzip2 cairo cdr cjk cli
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !
On Saturday 13 June 2009 11:33:56 Mick wrote:
On Saturday 13 June 2009, Philip Webb wrote:
Yet another step reveals the locus of the problem here at least:
(11) try to run 'klauncher' from CLI : must be started by Kdeinit;
(12) restart in KDE, fix Krusader + Apwal ;
(13) reboot restart FB but without 'kdeinit ' in ~/.xinitrc :
Krusader 'open with' ok !
So my problem seems to lie in starting 'kdeinit' without the KDE desktop.
It will take another couple of reboots (tomorrow) to confirm this.
Mick mb doing things a bit differently his problem mb elsewhere.
I have rebooted a number of times (it's a laptop), always in xdm/fluxbox,
but my Konqueror menus/kcontrol work fine now. I do not have kdeinit in
the fluxbox startup file. Once I have booted up I will typically run {kgpg
kmail} to check my mail and occasionally launch konqueror with
{kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing}. By that stage kdeinit will be running
(when things are normal):
On the odd occasion when I run e17 these days, I run kcminit as step 1 after
logging in.
I have no idea how this actually works, but it fixes odd errors like fonts,
themes and IIRC once a weird menu problem (the details I forget).
Worth a try.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Re: set local kenel version
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: So for linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r1 and in /usr/src/linux cat localverion1: _reader_ Cat .version: 1 And the symlink ls -l localversion2 lrwxrwxrwx [...] Jun 12 18:01 localversion2 - .version I get this naming after a build: vimlinuz-2.6.30-gentoo-r1_reader_ No version gets appended. I understood it should have also append the numeric version and increment it each time I build that kernel. Anyone see where I'm dorking this up? I only see two thing: Did you set both () Local version - append to kernel release That one needs to be left blank right? Else what ever you put there will appear in kernel name and I'm using localversion files for that. [ ] Automatically append version information to the version string This one is checked. In General setup? Second, you appear to have used a file called localverion1 instead of localversion1 Is that a real mistake, or just a typo in your mail? Its a typo... I just checked to make sure though.. would have been nice if a real missnaming was the problem. ls -l /usr/src/linux/localversion* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Jun 12 18:01 /usr/src/linux/localversion1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 12 18:01 /usr/src/linux/localversion2 - .version
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: set local kenel version
On Saturday 13 June 2009 18:05:37 Harry Putnam wrote: Is that a real mistake, or just a typo in your mail? Its a typo... I just checked to make sure though.. would have been nice if a real missnaming was the problem. ls -l /usr/src/linux/localversion* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Jun 12 18:01 /usr/src/linux/localversion1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 12 18:01 /usr/src/linux/localversion2 - .version Pity - I was hoping you'd have an easy fix here :-) localversion is a feature I never use, so I fear I won't be able to help you much further... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Prioritizing mpd
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:31:39 -0700 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Pre-converting sounds interesting. I could convert all of my 16/44.1 files to 24/96 files? That way the CPU wouldn't be stressed at playback time. How can I do that? I use libsamplerate Best for resampling. Just use flac/lame/vorbis-tools, they have all the capabilities you need. lame --decode /some/file.mp3 - | \ flac --bps=24 --sample-rate=96 - file.flac lame --decode /some/file.mp3 - | \ oggenc --resample 24000 -q 6 - -o file.ogg lame --resample 24 --preset standard /some/file.mp3 file.mp3 Try tweaking quality settings / listening to results in different formats to pick the best one for you. ogg and mp3 should result in some loss of sound quality, although it might be insignificant while compression benefit over flac is quite noticeable. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: set local kenel version
On 06/13/2009 05:27 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Setting a version to local kernel builds has been discussed here so
sorry to bang on it some more.
I found information here from a previous thread and kept one of the
answers but finding now that I don't really understand it.
Or am doing the proceedure wrong.
It was Neil B's post:
[...]
cd /usr/src/linux
echo -${MYHOST}-localversion1
[...]
But when I try this I get only the $MYHOST part (in this case
host=reader) and not the increment.
So for linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r1
and in /usr/src/linux
cat localverion1:
_reader_
It doesn't seem you followed the instructions correctly. I don't know
if that's the cause of the problem, but the instructions said:
echo -${MYHOST}-localversion1
but you seem to have used:
echo _${MYHOST}_localversion1
instead.
[gentoo-user] Installing python packages for different versions
Hi! This is actually a follow-up for my thread Trouble installing Plone. Following scenario: I have packages which run on python-2.4 and other packages which work with 2.5. Zope is a prominent example of the 2.4 gang. The problem: When I emerge a python package, for example dev-python/imaging, it is only installed in the /usr/lib/python-2.*/site-packages directory of the python version which is currently enabled by eselect. Naturally, this is the most recent version: 2.5. However, as soon as a python-2.4 package depends on one of these other packages, it just doesn't work because it expects them in /usr/lib/python-2.4/site-packages. How am I supposed to work around this? My current workaround is to switch temporarily to python-2.4 and re-emerge the necessary packages. However, this only works as long as there are either 2.4-packages which depend on these re-emerged ones or 2.5-packages because portage purges the corresponding byte code in the now disabled python directory. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !
On Saturday 13 June 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 13 June 2009 11:33:56 Mick wrote:
On Saturday 13 June 2009, Philip Webb wrote:
Yet another step reveals the locus of the problem here at least:
(11) try to run 'klauncher' from CLI : must be started by Kdeinit;
(12) restart in KDE, fix Krusader + Apwal ;
(13) reboot restart FB but without 'kdeinit ' in ~/.xinitrc :
Krusader 'open with' ok !
So my problem seems to lie in starting 'kdeinit' without the KDE
desktop. It will take another couple of reboots (tomorrow) to confirm
this. Mick mb doing things a bit differently his problem mb
elsewhere.
I have rebooted a number of times (it's a laptop), always in xdm/fluxbox,
but my Konqueror menus/kcontrol work fine now. I do not have kdeinit in
the fluxbox startup file. Once I have booted up I will typically run
{kgpg kmail} to check my mail and occasionally launch konqueror with
{kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing}. By that stage kdeinit will be
running (when things are normal):
On the odd occasion when I run e17 these days, I run kcminit as step 1
after logging in.
I have no idea how this actually works, but it fixes odd errors like fonts,
themes and IIRC once a weird menu problem (the details I forget).
Worth a try.
Thanks Alan, I will remember to try this next time the menus go sideways for
me.
I can't recall if I mentioned it that running kbuildsycoca --noincremental
only produced a result when I was logged in KDE/kdm *and* ran the command in
konsole, but not in aterm ...
--
Regards,
Mick
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !
090613 Mick wrote: On Saturday 13 June 2009, Philip Webb wrote: Yet another step reveals the locus of the problem here at least: (11) try to run 'klauncher' from CLI : must be started by Kdeinit; (12) restart in KDE, fix Krusader + Apwal ; (13) reboot restart FB but without 'kdeinit ' in ~/.xinitrc : Krusader 'open with' ok ! So my problem seems to lie in starting 'kdeinit' without the KDE desktop. It will take another couple of reboots (tomorrow) to confirm this. Mick mb doing things a bit differently his problem mb elsewhere. I have rebooted a number of times (it's a laptop), always in xdm/fluxbox, but my Konqueror menus/kcontrol work fine now. I do not have kdeinit in the fluxbox startup file. That means your problem is/was something else. After a long sleep, I restarted the machine Krusader's 'open with' is ok. It looks as if the problem here is that if 'kdeinit' is started without an existing desktop to relate to, some connection is not made. As it makes no noticeable difference to start-up times, I can easily do without having 'kdeinit ' in ~/.xinitrc . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
[gentoo-user] Re: set local kenel version
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: On Saturday 13 June 2009 18:05:37 Harry Putnam wrote: Is that a real mistake, or just a typo in your mail? Its a typo... I just checked to make sure though.. would have been nice if a real missnaming was the problem. ls -l /usr/src/linux/localversion* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Jun 12 18:01 /usr/src/linux/localversion1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 12 18:01 /usr/src/linux/localversion2 - .version Pity - I was hoping you'd have an easy fix here :-) localversion is a feature I never use, so I fear I won't be able to help you much further... You did already you made me look around better and finally recompile to test once more and now it works. Some kind of operator dimmness going on before I guess.
[gentoo-user] antlr compile error
I'm getting the following when trying to compile antlr. I'm not sure
exactly where the error is. Should I file a bug on this?
make -C lib/python all
make[2]: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/antlr-2.7.7/work/antlr-2.7.7/lib/python'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/antlr-2.7.7/work/antlr-2.7.7/lib/python'
make -C lib/csharp all
make[2]: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/antlr-2.7.7/work/antlr-2.7.7/lib/csharp'
make -C lib/csharp/antlr.astframe all
make[3]: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/antlr-2.7.7/work/antlr-2.7.7/lib/csharp/antlr.astframe'
make[4]: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/antlr-2.7.7/work/antlr-2.7.7/lib/csharp/antlr.runtime'
/usr/bin/mcs -nologo -t:library
-out:/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/antlr-2.7.7/work/antlr-2.7.7/lib/antlr.runtime.dll
-r:System.Windows.Forms.dll -r:System.Drawing.dll -r:System.dll
-d:APTC
/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/antlr-2.7.7/work/antlr-2.7.7/scripts/csc.sh:
line 253: 14662 Killed $cmd ${ARGV}
E R R O R
/usr/bin/mcs -nologo -t:library
-out:/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/antlr-2.7.7/work/antlr-2.7.7/lib/antlr.runtime.dll
-r:System.Windows.Forms.dll -r:System.Drawing.dll -r:System.dll
-d:APTC [ file(s) skipped]
- Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: set local kenel version
On Saturday 13 June 2009 20:13:06 Harry Putnam wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: On Saturday 13 June 2009 18:05:37 Harry Putnam wrote: Is that a real mistake, or just a typo in your mail? Its a typo... I just checked to make sure though.. would have been nice if a real missnaming was the problem. ls -l /usr/src/linux/localversion* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Jun 12 18:01 /usr/src/linux/localversion1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 12 18:01 /usr/src/linux/localversion2 - .version Pity - I was hoping you'd have an easy fix here :-) localversion is a feature I never use, so I fear I won't be able to help you much further... You did already you made me look around better and finally recompile to test once more and now it works. Some kind of operator dimmness going on before I guess. :-) That sounds awfully familiar, I wonder who do I know that does that all the time himself? Oh wait, it's me :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo
Alan McKinnon wrote: ...As a Debian user, it is normally safe to assume you can, in fact, read :-) Ah, maybe that explains why I despise their package manager. When I was a Debian user I figured that the most basic of utilities should be easy to use -- and I'm only half joking. Just for fun I tried Ubuntu recently since it's been so popular the last few years. They built their system on top of a Debian base, including my nemesis, the Debian package management system :o( The Synaptics GUI front end for their package manager is a great deal easier than the original back end, true, but the basic bad design of the back end still glares through the eye candy. (Just my opinion.) I like gentoo's portage system so-o-o-o much better!
[gentoo-user] Acrobat reader problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have just installed my first amd64 gentoo. I took the world file of one of my x86 installs and did an emerge -e world. Now everythin seems to work fine apart from acroread. There seems to be a font problem: instead of the text normally displayed in the menubar, all I can see here is black squares. My locale is UTF-8. My system info is listed below. Any ideas? Peter Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 x86_64) = System uname: Linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r5-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_5000+-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:00:05 + app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox:1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64 CBUILD=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8-sse3 -pipe CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /var/lib/hsqldb CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=k8-sse3 -pipe DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles FEATURES=distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch GENTOO_MIRRORS=ftp://chi-10g-1-mirror.fastsoft.net/pub/linux/gentoo/gentoo-distfiles/ http://chi-10g-1-mirror.fastsoft.net/pub/linux/gentoo/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo; LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 MAKEOPTS=-j3 PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT=/ PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times - --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 - --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage USE=3dnow 3dowext X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 amrnb amrwb apache2 avi bash-completion bidi big-tables bindist bitmap-fonts bl branding bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia cjk cli cracklib crypt css cups custom-cflags custom-cxxflags custom-optimization daemon dbus dga dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread enca encode examples exif extras fbcon fbcondecor ffmpeg flac fortran freetype gdbm geoip gif gimp gnutls gpm gtk hal hardened httpd iconv icu id3tag imlib injection ipv6 isdnlog java java6 jpeg kerberos ladspa libwww live loop-aes lzo mad madwifi matroska max-idx-128 midi mmx mmxext mp2 mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib mysqli ncurses nemesi nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl php plotutils png pni postscript pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime raw readline reflection rtc sdl server session sis skins spell spl srt sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification stream svg svnserve sysfs taglib tcpd theora threads tiff tk truetype unicode upnp vcd vim-syntax vlm vorbis wxGTK wxwindows x264 xanim xinerama xml xml2 xmlrpc xorg xscreensaver xslt xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib ALSA_CARDS=intel-hda ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS=adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol APACHE2_MODULES=actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias ELIBC=glibc INPUT_DEVICES=evdev KERNEL=linux LCD_DEVICES=bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text USERLAND=GNU VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAko0GGUACgkQpGFGVEw9tBlN5wCdEEupCS0f3q9HMBpjnEYNb6M0 HzoAn1TBIY5TBAa5J7OiLBKfzna/ZmWd =rcKj -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo
walt ha scritto: Ah, maybe that explains why I despise their package manager. When I was a Debian user I figured that the most basic of utilities should be easy to use -- and I'm only half joking. Just for fun I tried Ubuntu recently since it's been so popular the last few years. They built their system on top of a Debian base, including my nemesis, the Debian package management system :o( The Synaptics GUI front end for their package manager is a great deal easier than the original back end, true, but the basic bad design of the back end still glares through the eye candy. (Just my opinion.) I like gentoo's portage system so-o-o-o much better! As a user of both Debian-based and Gentoo systems, I am curious to know what do you find so annoying about apt-get. Portage is more flexible probably, but apt-get, with an appropriate frontend like Synaptics, is a piece of cake: in 99% of cases is click go. And surely it makes more sense to use than rpm, on the command line (let alone the crazy Slackware guys :) ) m.
Re: [gentoo-user] Idle Process Scheduling
Am Saturday 13 June 2009 07:46:34 schrieb Jason Lynch: I'm having a strange problem on my Q6600 that cropped up starting with the 2.6.29 series of the kernel, and is still present in 2.6.30. Essentially, at all times, I have four nice 19 processes running, which for the sake of this post, we'll call dnetc. All four cores are utilized. At this point, if I start another CPU-bound process that isn't niced, it begins to take up an entire core. This is expected. What isn't expected, however, is that another core begins idling inexplicably. As a result, despite 5 processes currently available to run, only 3 are actually running at any given time (the non-niced process, and two instances of dnetc). How do you know how many processes are running? What does 'top' say about CPU usage and load? Maybe dnetc has two threads, which can each occupy a core, so you have still 4 threads that are running, in 3 processes. You still should get a load of 5 or higher. You don't have a lot of IO load, do you? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] How to know the fonts inside various font packages
How can user learn the exact fonts contained in the various font package offered in portage without actually installing them? Even after installing, unless you have something like xlsfonts installed you still won't be able to tell. equery files font-pkg Gives a list of the files installed but the naming is way different from what you see or need to use when assigning a specific to be used in some app. And of course using equery already means you've had to install the font. I want to find this information before installing a font package. I ask because I'm building up a new install, trying mirror or nearly so my previous install which was yrs in the making. I looked under /var/db/pkg/media-fonts in backups from the previous install and find no less than 38 font pkgs installed. I don't as a rule use anything far out... I like fonts assigned to emacs and xterm... thats about it. And those are common ones like -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso8859-1 But on a fresh install that particular one is missing. I'd like to have been able to see what package it was in without installing anything. I've already gone ahead and installed some listed in the backup mentioned and now have that one available but I'd like to know for future reference if I can determine what fonts are in which packge somehow.
[gentoo-user] Re: font missing
John P. Burkett burk...@uri.edu writes: Suggestions for recovering the old 10x20 font would be appreciated. I had the same problem but was able to view from an old backup of var in a previous OS install what was installed. It showed 38 packages I'd also like to know what specific fonts are in which package. But I just installed a few from the list. This is a guess but I think it was media-fonts/font-sony-misc that supplied the missing 10x20 and mine was also missing 9x15. Be warned that the above pkg is JUST a GUESS... since I installed several pkgs and found no way to really tell what is in them. Even equery files font-pkg doesn't tell you since the naming apparently changes somewhere between files installed and actual fonts available. The entire list I now have installed is listed below in case the guess above is wrong. One in that bunch has it. Look in: /var/db/pkg/media-fonts to see what is already installed. Severl of those listed below will almost certainly be there. So maybe it will narrow it down for you a bit. === font-misc-meltho-1.0.0 font-sony-misc-1.0.0 font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.0 font-misc-misc-1.0.0 font-sun-misc-1.0.0 font-adobe-75dpi-1.0.0 font-mutt-misc-1.0.0 font-util-1.0.1 font-alias-1.0.1 font-schumacher-misc-1.0.0 gnu-gs-fonts-std-8.11
[gentoo-user] Re: set local kenel version
rea...@newsguy.com writes: Just for you own info in case you ever want to do it not that wasn't why it didn't work. Jesus... I'm getting more illiterate as time goes on. Should say: Just for [your] own info in case you ever want to do it... [No], that wasn't why it didn' work.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: set local kenel version
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:13:06 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: You did already you made me look around better and finally recompile to test once more and now it works. Some kind of operator dimmness going on before I guess. .version isn't set until after the first make run, so it will show up as blank the first time you compile a new kernel. -- Neil Bothwick The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: How to know the fonts inside various font packages
On 06/14/2009 12:52 AM, rea...@newsguy.com wrote: How can user learn the exact fonts contained in the various font package offered in portage without actually installing them? Either by visiting the homepage of the package, or by fetching it (emerge --fetchonly) and then examining the downloaded tarball (it's in /usr/portage/distfiles). After installing, the names of the fonts are listed in a file called fonts.alias. See for example /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.alias.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing: not solved !
090613 Philip Webb wrote: It looks as if the problem here is that if 'kdeinit' is started without an existing desktop to relate to, some connection is not made. I've investigated further can't find which file Krusader uses to remember its file associations. However, I did find the changelog for 'kdelibs-3.5.10-r2', which says move kdeglobals to kdelibs for non-KDE users using KDE apps, which looks like the crucial change. Even so, there's nothing relevant in ~/.kde3.5/share/config/kdeglobals . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
[gentoo-user] inkscape won't start
So, it used to work, but now I get this:
(inkscape:456): gtkmm-CRITICAL **:
voidunnamed::container_foreach_callback(GtkWidget*, void*): assertion
`widget != 0' failed
Emergency save activated!
Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now.
If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at www.inkscape.org
with a detailed description of the steps leading to the crash, so we can fix
it
So I figure something needed is missing.
msoul...@anton:~$ revdep-rebuild --pretend
* Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild
* Checking reverse dependencies
* Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update
* will be emerged.
* Collecting system binaries and libraries
* Generated new 1_files.rr
* Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH
* Generated new 2_ldpath.rr
* Checking dynamic linking consistency
[ 100% ]
* Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done.
Hmm. Not according to revdep-rebuild.
So, lets try to rebuild it.
msoul...@anton:~$ sudo emerge media-gfx/inkscape
Password:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N] dev-libs/poppler-0.10.7 USE=abiword poppler-data
[ebuild N] dev-libs/poppler-glib-0.10.7 USE=cairo
[uninstall] app-text/poppler-bindings-0.10.5-r1
[blocks b ] dev-libs/poppler (dev-libs/poppler is blocking
app-text/popple
r-bindings-0.10.5-r1, app-text/poppler-0.10.5-r1)
[blocks b ] app-text/poppler-bindings (app-text/poppler-bindings is
blocki
ng dev-libs/poppler-glib-0.10.7, dev-libs/poppler-0.10.7)
[blocks b ] dev-libs/poppler-glib (dev-libs/poppler-glib is blocking
app-t
ext/poppler-bindings-0.10.5-r1, app-text/poppler-0.10.5-r1)
[ebuild U ] virtual/poppler-glib-0.10.7 [0.10.5]
[ebuild R ] media-gfx/inkscape-0.46-r5
[blocks B ] app-text/poppler (app-text/poppler is blocking
dev-libs/popple
r-glib-0.10.7, dev-libs/poppler-0.10.7)
[blocks B ] dev-libs/poppler (dev-libs/poppler is blocking
app-text/popple
r-bindings-0.10.5-r1, app-text/poppler-0.10.5-r1)
[blocks B ] dev-libs/poppler-glib (dev-libs/poppler-glib is blocking
app-t
ext/poppler-bindings-0.10.5-r1, app-text/poppler-0.10.5-r1)
* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
* installed at the same time on the same system.
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-libs/poppler-glib-0.10.7', 'merge') pulled in by
~dev-libs/poppler-glib-0.10.7[cairo] required by ('installed', '/',
'media-g
fx/gimp-2.6.4', 'nomerge')
~dev-libs/poppler-glib-0.10.7[cairo] required by ('ebuild', '/',
'virtual/po
ppler-glib-0.10.7', 'merge')
~dev-libs/poppler-glib-0.10.7[cairo] required by ('ebuild', '/',
'media-gfx/
inkscape-0.46-r5', 'merge')
('installed', '/', 'app-text/poppler-0.10.5-r1', 'nomerge') pulled in by
~app-text/poppler-0.10.5 required by ('installed', '/',
'app-text/xpdf-3.02-
r2', 'nomerge')
~app-text/poppler-0.10.5 required by ('installed', '/',
'app-office/openoffi
ce-3.0.0', 'nomerge')
~app-text/poppler-0.10.5 required by ('installed', '/',
'dev-tex/luatex-0.30
.3', 'nomerge')
(and 1 more)
Wow. How'd I get in this state?
I'm not completely up-to-date, so I'm going to update world first, but there's
no update to inkscape or poppler mentioned in that.
This seems like a full-time job.
Mike
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Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a
touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
--Albert Einstein
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[gentoo-user] apache dep apr no emerge
Setup: pc 2.6.30-gentoo-r1_rdr_3 profile=default/linux/x86/2008.0 This a fresh install... just being built up now. Attempting to emerge apache, and breaking on the depenedency apr. Apparently something to do with not being able to determine `tagged configuration' Anyone recognize what the problem is? Tail of emerge below: Source configured. Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/apr-1.3.5/work/apr-1.3.5 ... make make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/apr-1.3.5/work/apr-1.3.5' /bin/sh /usr/bin/libtool --silent --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLINUX=2 -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -I./include -I/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/apr-1.3.5/work/apr-1.3.5/include/arch/unix -I./include/arch/unix -I/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/apr-1.3.5/work/apr-1.3.5/include/arch/unix -I/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/apr-1.3.5/work/apr-1.3.5/include -o passwd/apr_getpass.lo -c passwd/apr_getpass.c touch passwd/apr_getpass.lo libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag' make[1]: *** [passwd/apr_getpass.lo] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/apr-1.3.5/work/apr-1.3.5' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 * * ERROR: dev-libs/apr-1.3.5 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2691: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die emake failed; * The die message: * emake failed
[gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo
bn wrote: walt ha scritto: Ah, maybe that explains why I despise their package manager. When I was a Debian user I figured that the most basic of utilities should be easy to use -- and I'm only half joking. Just for fun I tried Ubuntu recently since it's been so popular the last few years. They built their system on top of a Debian base, including my nemesis, the Debian package management system :o( The Synaptics GUI front end for their package manager is a great deal easier than the original back end, true, but the basic bad design of the back end still glares through the eye candy. (Just my opinion.) I like gentoo's portage system so-o-o-o much better! As a user of both Debian-based and Gentoo systems, I am curious to know what do you find so annoying about apt-get. Heh. I laughed out loud when I read this link about dselect, especially the quote from Andrew Morton who captured my sentiments exactly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dselect Portage is more flexible probably, but apt-get, with an appropriate frontend like Synaptics, is a piece of cake: in 99% of cases is click go. Yes, if gentoo ever disappears (God forbid) I would probably go back to Ubuntu because the Synaptics front end isn't too confusing. But I'm still annoyed by the idea that a binary package can be only 'partially installed', whatever that means. And why does a binary package need to be configured, whatever that means? After I dropped dselect like a hot potato I used apt-get from the command line routinely. I recall that there were often conflicts between the newly downloaded packages and the old installed ones, leaving the machine in an undefined state for me to sort out however I could. Perhaps Debian has matured a bit since then -- I certainly hope so! And surely it makes more sense to use than rpm, on the command line (let alone the crazy Slackware guys :) ) I can barely remember using Red Hat, and I've never used Slackware, so I can't offer any comments either pro or con. It's me and gentoo til death do us part. And I hope I go first...
[gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo
On 06/14/2009 03:04 AM, walt wrote: Portage is more flexible probably, but apt-get, with an appropriate frontend like Synaptics, is a piece of cake: in 99% of cases is click go. Yes, if gentoo ever disappears (God forbid) I would probably go back to Ubuntu because the Synaptics front end isn't too confusing. Fortunately there's Arch too ;)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: font missing
rea...@newsguy.com wrote: John P. Burkett burk...@uri.edu writes: Suggestions for recovering the old 10x20 font would be appreciated. I had the same problem but was able to view from an old backup of var in a previous OS install what was installed. It showed 38 packages I'd also like to know what specific fonts are in which package. But I just installed a few from the list. This is a guess but I think it was media-fonts/font-sony-misc that supplied the missing 10x20 and mine was also missing 9x15. Be warned that the above pkg is JUST a GUESS... since I installed several pkgs and found no way to really tell what is in them. Even equery files font-pkg doesn't tell you since the naming apparently changes somewhere between files installed and actual fonts available. The entire list I now have installed is listed below in case the guess above is wrong. One in that bunch has it. Look in: /var/db/pkg/media-fonts to see what is already installed. Severl of those listed below will almost certainly be there. So maybe it will narrow it down for you a bit. === font-misc-meltho-1.0.0 font-sony-misc-1.0.0 font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.0 font-misc-misc-1.0.0 font-sun-misc-1.0.0 font-adobe-75dpi-1.0.0 font-mutt-misc-1.0.0 font-util-1.0.1 font-alias-1.0.1 font-schumacher-misc-1.0.0 gnu-gs-fonts-std-8.11 Thank you very much for your helpful response. Emerging font-misc-misc solved the problem for me. :-) Best regards, John -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:04:57 -0700 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: It's me and gentoo til death do us part. And I hope I go first... C'mon, something better might always come along, obsoleting gentoo, like gentoo-ng ;) -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
