Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:46:05 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Was the expectation that running `lafilefixer --justfixit' would stop revdep-rebuild from continuously finding a broken binutils? That sometimes happens as lafilefixer fixes some problems that revdep-rebuild want to re-emerge to fix. -- Neil Bothwick signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] remove unneeded package.keywords entries
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:11:49 -0600, Dale wrote: eix-test-obsolete Be prepared for a LONG list tho. It prints a LOT on mine. That just means you have a lot of cleaning up to do :P -- Neil Bothwick I wonder how much deeper would the ocean be without sponges. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] trouble starting bash
Greetings, This morning, all of the sudden, I'm encountering process creation problems. The problems seem to affect only bash. There are no problems starting X applications like firefox and open office. FWIW, my usual update world was done yesterday (and emerged the packages listed at the end of this message). Anybody have suggestions regarding the symptoms given below? Regards, David ### symptoms ### Attempting to start a new terminal session from an existing terminal session (using ctrl-shft-N). There was an error creating the child process for this terminal and a terminal window without a prompt (not running bash??) The same message and window appear when I try to start one from the GNOME menu. From emacs, running the shell command produces the following message (and a usable shell window): bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Invalid argument bash: no job control in this shell ssh into box gives: PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 Neither dmesg nor /var/log/messages has any unusual messages ### recently emerged packages ### app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.14 app-text/poppler-0.12.3-r3 dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.4.5 dev-util/global-5.7.7 media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.21a media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.21 media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.21-r1 sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.2 virtual/poppler-0.12.3-r1 virtual/poppler-glib-0.12.3-r2 virtual/poppler-utils-0.12.3-r1
Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash
Stabbing in the dark here: I don't think this is a bash problem. Most likely something else broke on your system. On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote: ssh into box gives: PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 Issue 'ls /dev/pt*' for me? ### recently emerged packages ### How complete is this list? I assume you didn't reboot recently into a new kernel? Did you upgrade udev by any chance? The only other suspect that I see is util-linux, but you are on the stable version. app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.14 app-text/poppler-0.12.3-r3 dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.4.5 dev-util/global-5.7.7 media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.21a media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.21 media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.21-r1 sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.2 virtual/poppler-0.12.3-r1 virtual/poppler-glib-0.12.3-r2 virtual/poppler-utils-0.12.3-r1 Cheers, W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote: This morning, all of the sudden, I'm encountering process creation problems. The problems seem to affect only bash. There are no problems starting X applications like firefox and open office. Also, can you log-in on a vc? If you are in X, hit ctrl-alt-f2 and try to log into the console? W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 10:00:33AM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: How complete is this list? I assume you didn't reboot recently into a new kernel? Also, if you did reboot recently (maybe into the same kernel), cat /etc/fstab for me? W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
[gentoo-user] Sipix Pocket Printer A6
I can get the Sipix Pocket Printer A6 installed in CUPS and it will get about 20% through a CUPS test page, but it always stops in the same spot and the LED just blinks. Has anyone gotten one of these going? I've tried two of them and I'm using a USB-serial converter. http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=SiPix-Pocket_Printer_A6 - Grant
[gentoo-user] Re: Sipix Pocket Printer A6
I can get the Sipix Pocket Printer A6 installed in CUPS and it will get about 20% through a CUPS test page, but it always stops in the same spot and the LED just blinks. Has anyone gotten one of these going? I've tried two of them and I'm using a USB-serial converter. http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=SiPix-Pocket_Printer_A6 - Grant Alternatively, does anyone know of another portable printer that might work for boarding passes? The price is right on this other one, but it only prints 2 x 3 and I could see that being too small to read: http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=pz310sap - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] remove unneeded package.keywords entries
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:11:49 -0600, Dale wrote: eix-test-obsolete Be prepared for a LONG list tho. It prints a LOT on mine. That just means you have a lot of cleaning up to do :P True but if the OP hasn't cleaned his before, he may very well have a lot of cleaning to do as well. I clean mine every few months and it still has some size to the output. It just depends on how much as went stable since adding a package to one or more of those files. It is handy tho. I'm glad someone wrote that little program. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Sipix Pocket Printer A6
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 11:25:11 -0800, Grant wrote: I can get the Sipix Pocket Printer A6 installed in CUPS and it will get about 20% through a CUPS test page, but it always stops in the same spot and the LED just blinks. Does it do the same with standard printing jobs? I ask because I have an Epson printer that failed on the CUPS test page, no matter what I tried, but then I tried printing a photo from KDE and it worked perfectly. -- Neil Bothwick A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] remove unneeded package.keywords entries
On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:01:47 -0600, Dale wrote: That just means you have a lot of cleaning up to do :P True but if the OP hasn't cleaned his before, he may very well have a lot of cleaning to do as well. I clean mine every few months and it still has some size to the output. That's why I run it every week :) -- Neil Bothwick Master of all I survey (at the moment, empty pizza boxes) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash
H'lo Willie, The output of ls /dev/pt* is suspiciously short: r...@osage / # ls /dev/pts /dev/ptmx /dev/pts: udev was emerged twice quite recently: 1/26 upgrade from 141-r1 to 146-r2 1/32 downgrade from 146-r2 to 146-r1 My computer was last rebooted 21 days ago. As you seem to suspect udev and /dev/pt* seems b0rked, I'll try downgrading back to 141-r1 to see what happens. Regards, David On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:00:33 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: Stabbing in the dark here: I don't think this is a bash problem. Most likely something else broke on your system. On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote: ssh into box gives: PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 Issue 'ls /dev/pt*' for me? ### recently emerged packages ### How complete is this list? I assume you didn't reboot recently into a new kernel? Did you upgrade udev by any chance? The only other suspect that I see is util-linux, but you are on the stable version. app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.14 app-text/poppler-0.12.3-r3 dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.4.5 dev-util/global-5.7.7 media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.21a media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.21 media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.21-r1 sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.2 virtual/poppler-0.12.3-r1 virtual/poppler-glib-0.12.3-r2 virtual/poppler-utils-0.12.3-r1 Cheers, W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
Re: [gentoo-user] remove unneeded package.keywords entries
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:01:47 -0600, Dale wrote: That just means you have a lot of cleaning up to do :P True but if the OP hasn't cleaned his before, he may very well have a lot of cleaning to do as well. I clean mine every few months and it still has some size to the output. That's why I run it every week :) You got to much time on your hands. You need better things to do. lol Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:13:02 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 10:00:33AM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: How complete is this list? I assume you didn't reboot recently into a new kernel? Also, if you did reboot recently (maybe into the same kernel), cat /etc/fstab for me? It's been 3 weeks ... FWIW, I've downgraded udev from 146-r1 to 141 (what was running 2 weeks ago) with no change in system behavior. Upgrading back to 146-r1 didn't fix or break anything additional.
Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:11:07 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote: This morning, all of the sudden, I'm encountering process creation problems. The problems seem to affect only bash. There are no problems starting X applications like firefox and open office. Also, can you log-in on a vc? If you are in X, hit ctrl-alt-f2 and try to log into the console? Works fine ... Looking at ls -l /dev/vc* I see timestamps of 2010-02-02 23:34. At 23:31 that day, openrc was upgraded from 0.3.0-r1 to 0.6.0-r1. sysvinit was upgraded from 2.86-r10 to 2.87-r The openrc upgrade occured because I had noticed automounting of my flash drives had stopped working. Attempts to restart udev had failed because /etc/init.d/sysfs wasn't present and that generated a baselayout related complaint (because I installed baselayout-2 months ago). Aren't dependencies wonderful?
Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 04:08:58PM -0500, David Relson wrote: The output of ls /dev/pt* is suspiciously short: r...@osage / # ls /dev/pts /dev/ptmx /dev/pts: That's it? There's nothing under /dev/pts? And you have terminals running in X? On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote: This morning, all of the sudden, I'm encountering process creation problems. The problems seem to affect only bash. There are no problems starting X applications like firefox and open office. Also, can you log-in on a vc? If you are in X, hit ctrl-alt-f2 and try to log into the console? Works fine ... Looking at ls -l /dev/vc* I see timestamps of 2010-02-02 23:34. At 23:31 that day, openrc was upgraded from 0.3.0-r1 to 0.6.0-r1. sysvinit was upgraded from 2.86-r10 to 2.87-r This is possibly a problem. I am guessing that if you issue 'mount', devpts is not mounted. The mounting of that pseudo filesystem is relegated to /etc/init.d/devfs, which belongs to openrc. What is the output of 'rc-status sysinit'? W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 17:27:14 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 04:08:58PM -0500, David Relson wrote: The output of ls /dev/pt* is suspiciously short: r...@osage / # ls /dev/pts /dev/ptmx /dev/pts: That's it? There's nothing under /dev/pts? And you have terminals running in X? On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:44AM -0500, David Relson wrote: This morning, all of the sudden, I'm encountering process creation problems. The problems seem to affect only bash. There are no problems starting X applications like firefox and open office. Also, can you log-in on a vc? If you are in X, hit ctrl-alt-f2 and try to log into the console? Works fine ... Looking at ls -l /dev/vc* I see timestamps of 2010-02-02 23:34. At 23:31 that day, openrc was upgraded from 0.3.0-r1 to 0.6.0-r1. sysvinit was upgraded from 2.86-r10 to 2.87-r This is possibly a problem. I am guessing that if you issue 'mount', devpts is not mounted. The mounting of that pseudo filesystem is relegated to /etc/init.d/devfs, which belongs to openrc. What is the output of 'rc-status sysinit'? Hi Willie, Your replies are much appreciated as we're in an area of Linux about which I'm poorly informed. Output (below) of rc-status sysinit indicated devfs stopped, so I started devfs (which didn't change /dev/pt*), then restarted udev (which didn't affect /dev/pt*). Regards, David ### output follows ### r...@osage portage # rc-status sysinit Runlevel: sysinit dmesg [ stopped ] udev [ started ] devfs [ stopped ] r...@osage portage # service devfs status * status: started r...@osage portage # rc-status sysinit Runlevel: sysinit dmesg [ stopped ] udev [ started ] devfs [ started ] r...@osage portage # ls /dev/pt* /dev/ptmx /dev/pts: r...@osage portage # service udev restart * WARNING: you are stopping a sysinit service * Stopping udevd ... [ ok ] * Starting udevd ... [ ok ] * Populating /dev with existing devices through uevents ... [ ok ] * Waiting for uevents to be processed ... [ ok ] r...@osage portage # ls /dev/pt* /dev/ptmx /dev/pts: r...@osage portage #
Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:29:27PM -0500, David Relson wrote: Your replies are much appreciated as we're in an area of Linux about which I'm poorly informed. Output (below) of rc-status sysinit indicated devfs stopped, so I started devfs (which didn't change /dev/pt*), then restarted udev (which didn't affect /dev/pt*). Right, but can you ssh in to the machine now (or open a terminal emulator in X)? /dev/pts is just the mount point for the devpts pseudo filesystem. In modern versions of linux the pts devices are created on-the-fly when requested (as opposed to other versions and some modern unixes where there will be a fixed number of device nodes under /dev/pts or equivalent). All that just goes to say that if /dev/pts is empty right after you restart the devfs service, it is normal. A device file should be created automatically now when userspace programs demand it. (E.g. if you now ssh in, and if it succeeds, ls /dev/pts should show one entry.) Try it, let me know if the problem is still there. Cheers, W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils
Leon Feng rainofch...@gmail.com writes: [...] I'm running ~x86 on everything and latest version of gentoolkit (I don't have gentoolkit-dev installed) I've emerged lafilefixer (thanks Steve) and ran lafilefixer --justfixit Then ran revdep-rebuild again it still finds broken binutils so I'm letting it `oneshot' the emerge. Was the expectation that running `lafilefixer --justfixit' would stop revdep-rebuild from continuously finding a broken binutils? Or was I expected to run lafilefixer --justfixit and then rebuild binutils once more? In any case I did the later and now the oneshot has finished and a rerun of revdep-rebuild again finds the same `broken' binutils Apparently no progress has occurred.. Same here. I am running ~x86 too. lafilefixer --justfixit and reemerged glibc do no work. I will try out the patch in bug 298651 soon. Leon, sorry to be a lamer here but I didn't understand the patch or even that there was an actual patch, after reading the long confusing exchange on that bug report. Did you come away with a semi-easily done patch? If so can you explain a bit about how its applied or maybe direct me to the part that discusses an actual patch? ps - have you see something detrimental happening if you just go ahead and run like it is?
Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:13:33 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:29:27PM -0500, David Relson wrote: Your replies are much appreciated as we're in an area of Linux about which I'm poorly informed. Output (below) of rc-status sysinit indicated devfs stopped, so I started devfs (which didn't change /dev/pt*), then restarted udev (which didn't affect /dev/pt*). Right, but can you ssh in to the machine now (or open a terminal emulator in X)? /dev/pts is just the mount point for the devpts pseudo filesystem. In modern versions of linux the pts devices are created on-the-fly when requested (as opposed to other versions and some modern unixes where there will be a fixed number of device nodes under /dev/pts or equivalent). All that just goes to say that if /dev/pts is empty right after you restart the devfs service, it is normal. A device file should be created automatically now when userspace programs demand it. (E.g. if you now ssh in, and if it succeeds, ls /dev/pts should show one entry.) Try it, let me know if the problem is still there. Nope. Both ssh and X terminal emulators are still broken. No change in behavior. FWIW, most of the entries in /dev are timestamped 02/02 23:34 which is when I updated udev earlier this week. Today's upgrade/downgrade emerge hasn't affected the timestamps. A comparison of /etc/udev/rules.d to a saved copy didn't show much. The only puzzling difference is: --- 90-hal.rules (revision 51) +++ 90-hal.rules (working copy) @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ # pass all events to the HAL daemon -RUN+=socket:/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event +RUN+=socket:@/org/freedesktop/hal/udev_event removing the @ and restarting udev hasn't helped. Since the rule is hal related, I also restarted hald -- which hasn't helped.
[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils
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