Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions
On 02/28/2011 08:25 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 February 2011 13:11, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: Alright, I found a couple thing in Grub that I had wrong. 1) The (hd0,0) for the splash should have been (hd0,2). That fixed the problem with no Grub menu. 2) The Windows menu option was (hd0,1) and should have been (hd0,0) for the Windows boot partition not the Window Operating System. Now when I boot the Grub menu comes up and booting to Windows works. However, I still have the same problem booting to Linux. It chokes on /dev/sda7 which is my root partition and my real_root kernel option. Ah! Our messages crossed in the post! Check that you have compile in the kernel the fs for your root partition and that you have root (hd0,6) in your grub.conf and real_root=/dev/sda7. All works now. It looks like it was in the genkernel. The only thing I changed in the config file was turning off Raid like the documentation said, I must have missed that. So I'm not sure what fixed it, but after I recompiled it worked and in grub it was (hd0,2). Thanks all, dhk
Re: [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start?
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I was looking to see how tall they were at the time. I was more worried about whether it was going to get in the way of my CPU cooler. Turns out, I should have been worried about the fan hitting them instead of the cooler itself. I do wish they would move the memory another inch away from the CPU. That would solve the problem pretty well then. I'm not holding my breath tho. I was worried about that, too, until I bought a Corsair H50 :)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?
2011/3/1 Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org: On Tuesday 01 March 2011 23:14:12 Mick wrote: Ha! I remember on an old machine when in WinXP would rarely if ever crash, while in Gentoo would crash every time. My machine is only about a year old, built by a specialist builder of high- performance systems, so it shouldn't be experiencing hardware failures. Different OS' use memory differently. Indeed they do. My experience is the converse of yours: Gentoo does not hang, while Fedora and Mandriva do. It's not a problem with a particular area of the disks, as I've installed them both in different partitions and got the same result. I assume that some kernel options don't suit my motherboard. Don't all laugh, but it's an Asus P7P55D. After a year or so though the WinXP installation eventually corrupted itself irreparably, while Gentoo (on reiserfs) soldiered on. Eventually, I bought new memory modules and there were no more crashes. Maybe I need to replace the memory. That's a bit drastic though when I haven't actually proved it faulty. Yes, I tend to agree. You could end up replacing the memory only to find out that the crashes persist. memtest 86+ showed no errors, so I didn't know what to blame for all these crashes. It's well known that test programs can't stress a computer the way real life does. It was true of Ferranti Argus 500 systems in 1974, and I'm sure it's still true today. I remember using a script which put the system (memory modules and swap) through its paces. That did show me some errors which made me replace the memory. I can't recall where I found that script, but remember it being aired in this mailing list. After close observation I discovered that the machine would crash the moment it tried to start swapping. Interesting. As far as I can tell though this box doesn't swap often - it can go weeks without doing so. As I said the other day, my 4GB is enough to contain the work I usually do. This would typically happen in the middle of an emerge, which was rather annoying, and/or when updatedb was running. At least you could re-run an aborted emerge; when my box hangs it just stops responding to keyboard and mouse, and the network interface stops receiving packets so I can't ssh in from another box to shut it down neatly. It's BRS time. No I couldn't. :-( The whole system would freeze up, no keyboard, no network, no nothing. I had to pull the plug every time. -- Regards, Mick
[gentoo-user] Re: OT: mobo and Ati video
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102902 OK usb3 will work 3x charge won't. All those nifty tools won't work. The bios fan control is ok - could be better. It likes to err on the higher rpm side which means that the fans turn quicker than with fancontrol - or Asus boards. On the other hand, GB boards do work unlike Asus. I like Asus too, but, GB is less cost and get's good reviews... thanks Volker... James
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?
On 2 March 2011 16:29, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:51:54 +, Mick wrote: This would typically happen in the middle of an emerge, which was rather annoying, and/or when updatedb was running. At least you could re-run an aborted emerge; when my box hangs it just stops responding to keyboard and mouse, and the network interface stops receiving packets so I can't ssh in from another box to shut it down neatly. It's BRS time. No I couldn't. :-( The whole system would freeze up, no keyboard, no network, no nothing. I had to pull the plug every time. Not even Alt-SysRq? That's a serious lockup. Yep, when that box locked up, it didn't do it by half. You can still resume a merge after a power down, with ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge. I see ... by path you mean /var/tmp/portage/... ? -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 16:37:11 +, Mick wrote: You can still resume a merge after a power down, with ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge. I see ... by path you mean /var/tmp/portage/... ? The path to the actual ebuild- /usr/portage/cat/pkg/pkg-ver.ebuild -- Neil Bothwick The best things in life are free, but the expensive ones are still worth a look. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?
Mick writes: On 2 March 2011 16:29, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: You can still resume a merge after a power down, with ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge. I see ... by path you mean /var/tmp/portage/... ? No, /usr/portage/category/package. Alternatively, you can use FEATURES=keepwork emerge package, or even simpler with FEATURES=keepwork emerge --resume. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:51:54 +, Mick wrote: This would typically happen in the middle of an emerge, which was rather annoying, and/or when updatedb was running. At least you could re-run an aborted emerge; when my box hangs it just stops responding to keyboard and mouse, and the network interface stops receiving packets so I can't ssh in from another box to shut it down neatly. It's BRS time. No I couldn't. :-( The whole system would freeze up, no keyboard, no network, no nothing. I had to pull the plug every time. Not even Alt-SysRq? That's a serious lockup. You can still resume a merge after a power down, with ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge. -- Neil Bothwick Drop your carrier .. we have you surrounded signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] internal-sftp and logs files
2011/3/1 Naira Kaieski na...@faccat.br: Good afternoon, Staff set up openssh to direct users to a certain group members to a chroot environment and these users will have access only to the server using sftp protocol. Put in the sshd_config file: Match Group customers ChrootDirectory% h ForceCommand internal-sftp-l VERBOSE f-AUTH Thus each user is directed to the chroot environment indicated in the variable% h (home directory defined in / etc / passwd) An example of directory is: User: naira Home directory: /var/www/naira.com.br The problem is that I am not able to capture logs of the user group clients that are targeted to the chroot environment. Access via internal-sftp from other users who do not belong to the client I get the logs in auth.log files. I'm using syslog-ng. Has anyone ever made this kind of setup? Thanks, -- Naira Kaieski Nucleo de Internet/Redes - Faccat Linux Professional Institute - LPI000223834 Hi! Actually, I am incompetent at this area, but have you tried this? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.security.ssh/browse_thread/thread/ce30a1d9889dc2e2 Best regards, Ivan
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: mobo and Ati video
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 16:21:46 james wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102902 OK usb3 will work 3x charge won't. All those nifty tools won't work. The bios fan control is ok - could be better. It likes to err on the higher rpm side which means that the fans turn quicker than with fancontrol - or Asus boards. On the other hand, GB boards do work unlike Asus. I like Asus too, but, GB is less cost and get's good reviews... thanks Volker... James my last ASUS board was a very expensive piece of shit that: loved not to boot at all boot only after disconnecting it from the mains boot only after resetting the bios and at least 2crashs every day since I changed that f*er for a 880GA-UD3H I haven't had any problems at all. And the mobo was the only thing I changed. The Asus drove the fans a lot lower than the GB, but I prefer my computers non-crashy.
[gentoo-user] dev-vcs/qbzr - bug or no?
Hi, I'm using qbzr - a GUI for the Bazaar VCS. When performing a network operation involving SSH, I get the following error: Run command: bzr push bzr+ssh://kensing...@example.com/home/kensington/whatever ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/lib64/misc/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory In order to make this work, I need to emerge net-misc/x11-ssh-askpass. My question is: would this be considered a bug of some variety (missing dependency or flag?), or rather just something the user needs to figure out themself. Thanks, Michael
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background out of screen?
On Tuesday 01 March 2011 21:21:32 Alex Schuster wrote: Jarry writes: is there any way to move running (already started) process to background, and disconnect it from screen/terminal so that I could log off (without terminating the process)? Ctrl-Z bg I think to be able to detach from the terminal w/o terminating the process you also need 'disown'. Regards
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background out of screen?
Daniel Heemann writes: On Tuesday 01 March 2011 21:21:32 Alex Schuster wrote: Jarry writes: is there any way to move running (already started) process to background, and disconnect it from screen/terminal so that I could log off (without terminating the process)? Ctrl-Z bg I think to be able to detach from the terminal w/o terminating the process you also need 'disown'. You are right. I was not sure myself, so I did test this, but only with a 'sleep 60' command. It was still running when I closed the shell, so I thought this would work. But now I learnt this is not true for emerge. Does anyone know why? I agree with Stroller, tmux seems like the way to go. I do not use it (yet), because I already know screen, but it is on my to do list, after some postings here. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background out of screen?
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 06:21:13 Stroller wrote:
On 1/3/2011, at 7:12pm, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
...
Combine with GNU Screen to achieve what you want.
Not screen.
He's never used screen before, therefore he has no reason not to use tmux.
$ eix -I tmux
[I] app-misc/tmux
Available versions: 1.2 1.3 ~1.4 ** {debug vim-syntax}
Installed versions: 1.3(18:51:19 10/08/10)(vim-syntax)
Homepage:http://tmux.sourceforge.net
Description: Terminal multiplexer
$
tmux is better that screen in a variety of ways. Many of those ways are
minor, however all together and in total they're significant enough. You
may want to stay with screen if you have a highly-customised .screenrc and
use many other machines on which you're unable to install tmux, but screen
should not be recommended over tmux without a very good reason.
Stroller.
please elaborate
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background out of screen?
Am 02.03.2011 21:44, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Wednesday 02 March 2011 06:21:13 Stroller wrote: tmux is better that screen in a variety of ways. Many of those ways are minor, however all together and in total they're significant enough. You may want to stay with screen if you have a highly-customised .screenrc and use many other machines on which you're unable to install tmux, but screen should not be recommended over tmux without a very good reason. Stroller. please elaborate He already did: http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg107371.html I really have to give tmux a try. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] any mythtv/set top box experts?
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: On 28/02/2011 22:06, Hamilton Silva wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi all, I've recently started to set up a mythtv box for my parents. I've found a USB DVB-T receiver which works perfectly and I've got the system up and running on some old hardware. Now I've been tasked with finding something small that can sit by their TV and do it all. I've been looking at MiniITX machines with the nVidia ION chipset that support 720/1080 HD playback and HDMI outputs. My questions are concerning the digital output and remote controls. I've only ever used HDMI/digital output on windows and it confuses me then. Is there some added complexity to getting the HDMI output working (including audio) with a TV? Is there anything to look out for as far as compatibiliy goes? And remote controls, the USB DVB-T unit comes with its own remote and pretty much works out of the box even on linux. At least it works for the basic up/down/left/right/enter, I really don't know enough to get any more out of it. The MiniITX bundle I'm looking at comes with a remote designed for media centres and looks to be a million times nicer than the one from the receiver, but is there going to be a lot of trouble getting it working with Lirc? I only know a teeny tiny bit about Lirc, I don't know what driver this remote will use so I don't know if there's likely to be any compatibility issue. As you can tell I'm not very hot on this stuff, so any tips/help/suggestions would be much appreciated. I'd especially appreciate if anyone could point to some known-good hardware for this purpose. Thanks Matt For the remote i suggest the ps3 bd controller. It uses bluetooth so, it's omnidirectional and works with mythtv: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Sony_PS3_BD_Remote Hamilton That looks interesting, thanks for the reply. I guess I'll have to find a bluetooth receiver to go with it, maybe i can find one onboard something. Thanks You can find some bluetooth usb dongle for about $2-4 at dealextreme or ebay. Hamilton
[gentoo-user] Re: OT: mobo and Ati video
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: since I changed that f*er for a 880GA-UD3H OK, how's the 7.1 audio output? Is it analog or digital audio output that you have set up and used. Do you like it? james
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background out of screen?
Alex Schuster wrote: You are right. I was not sure myself, so I did test this, but only with a 'sleep 60' command. It was still running when I closed the shell, so I thought this would work. But now I learnt this is not true for emerge. Does anyone know why? I agree with Stroller, tmux seems like the way to go. I do not use it (yet), because I already know screen, but it is on my to do list, after some postings here. Wonko Do share. I use screen here to but plan to look into tmux. Right now, I have no clue what it even is. I'm going to install it when I finish the current download. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background out of screen?
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: I agree with Stroller, tmux seems like the way to go. I do not use it (yet), because I already know screen, but it is on my to do list, after some postings here. Do share. I use screen here to but plan to look into tmux. Right now, I have no clue what it even is. I'm going to install it when I finish the current download. See Stroller's comprehensive posting: http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg107371.html Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 16:37:11 Mick wrote: On 2 March 2011 16:29, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: You can still resume a merge after a power down, with ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge. I see ... by path you mean /var/tmp/portage/... ? No, I think he means something like: ebuild `equery w atom` merge -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move running proces to background out of screen?
Alex Schuster wrote: See Stroller's comprehensive posting: http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg107371.html Wonko I read that but still would love to here of someone else's experience. From that link tho, it sounds . . . interesting. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Gnumeric USE options and .xlsx files?
Is Gnumeric unable to handle Excel .xlsx files or am I missing a USE flag somewhere? Or is there a quick-n-dirty viewer/translator? I've downloaded a file from Auto Observer. Gnumeric segfaults trying to open it, after issuing the message... MarketShare!P70 : Dropping missing object I'm running pure 64-bit AMD64 Gentoo on an Intel i3. Any ideas other than one of the *Office alternatives? They're best described as About: kitchen sink... USE=qt3support ssl accessibility kde dbus exceptions emerge -pv qt-core kspread Total: 41 packages (41 new), Size of downloads: 304,022 kB emerge -pv libreoffice Total: 24 packages (23 new, 1 in new slot), Size of downloads: 528,859 kB emerge -pv openoffice Total: 22 packages (21 new, 1 in new slot), Size of downloads: 564,301 kB The file in question is... http://www.autoobserver.com/car-data-center/assets/2011-03%20Sales.xlsx -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
[gentoo-user] Postgresql emerge question
Am I supposed to emerge postgresql-server? Any Gentoo-specific gotcha's that anyone's aware of? This will be on pure 64-bit (no-multi-lib) Intel i3 with 8 gigs of ram. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
