Re: [gentoo-user] Cheapest dedicated gentoo servers?
On Sat, 03 Sep 2011, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 09/03/2011 04:26 AM, Adam Carter wrote: I'm looking for dedicated server providers whose rates are low, support Gentoo and most importantly are reliable. Service should be stable. Location is not important, but preferable in EU. Amazon EC2 does Gentoo... Big name may help you sell to management. @everyone, I already know about a VPS provider, with reliability, and Gentoo support. Been with them since 2008. cheapvps.co.uk, if you're interested. They have xen, kvm openvz (us-only). For dedicated I know just one for now- hetzner.de, who allows you to install your own os (you're provided with a rescue system). If you know any more dedicated providers, please reply. I'll compare their rates :) Definition of cheap is fairly relative :) -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com next to hetzner.de in germany i know ovh.de: http://www.ovh.de/items/distributionen/gentoo.xml?sort=all not sure if they meet your 'low rates' limit. they seem to have decent connection speeds some of which have a 'lossless' tag in their names. not entirely sure what that means though. x
Re: [gentoo-user] systemd
On Saturday 03 Sep 2011 01:05:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 17:28:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: At the moment I'm using claws and it seems quite fine. It has it's funnies (mostly just different behaviour from kmail actually) so I need to rewire my brain a bit. I *really* like Claws Mail, I never liked KMail. In fact, removing KDEPIM is the best way to improve KDE. Interesting! With me it has been the opposite. I didn't make a list of the things that really bothered me with Claws, but after a dozen use cases of me saying why can't Claws behave like Kmail? I gave up and went back to Kmail ... I'm so glad I ditched KMail before akonadi and friends came along. Akonadi and all the bloatware that came with KDE4 has been a major disappointment and cause of annoyance for me. Thankfully, after some initial teething problems with sqlite (I don't use mysql on my laptop) akonadi has not given me any trouble - but I am worried about what is coming when reading Alan's experience! Have I understood this correctly that Kmail2 will no longer store messages in conventional maildir files and it will all be stored in database tables? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] systemd
On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 08:56:15 +0100, Mick wrote: I *really* like Claws Mail, I never liked KMail. In fact, removing KDEPIM is the best way to improve KDE. Interesting! With me it has been the opposite. I didn't make a list of the things that really bothered me with Claws, but after a dozen use cases of me saying why can't Claws behave like Kmail? I gave up and went back to Kmail Well, if you want a program that behaves just like KMail, KMail is probably the best choice... -- Neil Bothwick ALZHEIMER.COM found . . . Out of . . . something . . signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] update world with emul-linux-x86 blocks
Since some time I am getting the following errors while doing update world on my dektop machine (running amd64 stable): -8 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20110722 [20110129] USE=-development 34,381 kB [ebuild U ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-opengl-20110722 [20110129-r1] USE=-development 44,036 kB [ebuild U ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20110722 [20110129] USE=opengl -development 2,586 kB [ebuild U ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20110722 [20110129] USE=-development 4,714 kB [ebuild U ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-medialibs-20110722 [20110129] USE=-development 7,874 kB [ebuild U ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs-20110722 [20110129] USE=alsa -development -pulseaudio 5,966 kB [ebuild U ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-qtlibs-20110722 [20110129] USE=-development 16,626 kB Total: 7 packages (7 upgrades), Size of downloads: 116,180 kB !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs:0 (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20110129::gentoo, installed) pulled in by ~app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20110129 required by (app- emulation/emul-linux-x86-motif-20110129::gentoo, installed) (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20110722::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by ~app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20110722 required by (app- emulation/emul-linux-x86-medialibs-20110722::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (and 2 more with the same problem) app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs:0 (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20110722::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by ~app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20110722 required by (app- emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20110722::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (and 4 more with the same problem) (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20110129::gentoo, installed) pulled in by ~app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20110129 required by (app- emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20110129::gentoo, installed) -8 What would be the correct way to resolve this issue? I am a little bit afraid to start unmerging any of these packages as among other things sys-boot/grub depends on some of them. Regards, -- Dan Johansson, http://www.dmj.nu *** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! ***
Re: [gentoo-user] systemd
On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 01:05:33 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 17:28:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: At the moment I'm using claws and it seems quite fine. It has it's funnies (mostly just different behaviour from kmail actually) so I need to rewire my brain a bit. I *really* like Claws Mail, I never liked KMail. In fact, removing KDEPIM is the best way to improve KDE. :-) It wants to wait for me to manually expunge folders, and I haven't quite Account PreferencesAdvancedMove deleted mail to trash and expunge immediately When I'd got around to reading the FAQ, I found this very tidbit of useful info but thanks figured out how to always get it to use the correct .sig (a few times my work .sig got used on mailing lists where I always use gmail), but claws has these two amazing features that make it a killer app for me: Set up a different (SMTP-only if necessary) account for each address and specify the sig. You can set the default account to use for a folder, which means you always use the correct address on a mailing list. If no default account is set, Claws will default to using the account that the mail you are replying to was sent to. I like to use local IMAP folder and route all mail into those, organized by work and other. I found that I can set prefs for a top folders and all children folders which handled this one nicely. - it actually sends, receives and stores mail (akonadi users will appreciate how a mailer can get to make that insanely more complex than it needs to be) I'm so glad I ditched KMail before akonadi and friends came along. The mythical man-month by Brooks perfectly describes akonadi, they went right ahead and made every mistake in the book, especially all the ones solved in the 70s already,... -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
[gentoo-user] Help needed:jpeg_resync_to_restart() and zathura pdf reader
Hello list, I was wondering if someone could explain me what ebuild provides the jpeg_resync_to_restart() function as when I try to run a pdf using a zathura-pdf-mupdf plugin, it gives me the following error: --- error: could not load plugin /usr/lib/zathura/pdf.so (/usr/lib/zathura/pdf.so: undefined symbol: jpeg_resync_to_restart) --- I was told that it might be a problem with the libjpeg-turbo, but I have tried both versions (1.1.0 and 1.1.1) and it did not affect anything. I was wondering whether there are some compilation options, which I am not aware of? Alternatively, the problem might lie in my lack of knowledge in writing ebuilds. You can find my ebuild on [1], whereas a known version of AUR PKGBUILD can be found on [2]. Could someone, ideally familiar with both GNU/Linux Distributions, explain me what I am doing wrong? All best, Ignas A. [1] - https://github.com/gns-ank/gnlay/blob/master/app-text/zathura-pdf-mupdf/zathura-pdf-mupdf-.ebuild [2] - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/za/zathura-pdf-mupdf-git/PKGBUILD
Re: [gentoo-user] systemd
On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 08:56:15 +0100 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I'm so glad I ditched KMail before akonadi and friends came along. Akonadi and all the bloatware that came with KDE4 has been a major disappointment and cause of annoyance for me. Thankfully, after some initial teething problems with sqlite (I don't use mysql on my laptop) akonadi has not given me any trouble - but I am worried about what is coming when reading Alan's experience! To be fair my problems started after migrating a setup that had come along since early-KDE3 days and went through many pre-release versions of akonadi. Almost everyone I found with major problems was in the same boat while people who did fresh installs on SuSE and Fedora were fine. Observe that clkean new install is not a valid use-case for a gentoo user Have I understood this correctly that Kmail2 will no longer store messages in conventional maildir files and it will all be stored in database tables? No, akonadi functions as a giant cache. The backing store for mail is still mbox, MailDir, IMAP or whatever and used as normal. Akonadi stores meta data about the mail (maildir index files are not in files for example, they are in Akonadi). Contacts and calendars are still on disk with a cached copy in Akonadi. Full text searches of mail bodies is stored in Nepomuk. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] systemd
On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 11:40:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Set up a different (SMTP-only if necessary) account for each address and specify the sig. You can set the default account to use for a folder, which means you always use the correct address on a mailing list. If no default account is set, Claws will default to using the account that the mail you are replying to was sent to. I like to use local IMAP folder and route all mail into those, organized by work and other. I found that I can set prefs for a top folders and all children folders which handled this one nicely. So do I. In Claws, folders and accounts are entirely separate - you can have mail from various accounts in the same IMAP folder tree. -- Neil Bothwick Always be sincere... whether you mean it or not! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 12:17:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I believe you can trust it, but why use --depclean instead of just -C? If you unmerge with -C you have to be sure that nothing needs it as a dependency. Using --depclean helps because it checks that and only unmerges if nothing needs it as a dependency anymore. Greetings Sebastian Fair enough. Thanks. Presumably the use of --depclean doesn't work until you're clear with emerge -DuN @world? I've used this stuff so long I've not learned many of the newer tricks I think. Good stuff. I believe the -C output recommends using --depclean instead now. -- Neil Bothwick This chicken has no beak, said Tom impeccably. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] update world with emul-linux-x86 blocks
On Saturday 03 Sep 2011 10:17:19 Dan Johansson wrote: Since some time I am getting the following errors while doing update world on my dektop machine (running amd64 stable): -8 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20110722 [20110129] USE=-development 34,381 kB [ebuild U ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-opengl-20110722 [20110129-r1] USE=-development 44,036 kB [ebuild U ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20110722 [20110129] USE=opengl -development 2,586 kB [ebuild U ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20110722 [20110129] USE=-development 4,714 kB [ebuild U ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-medialibs-20110722 [20110129] USE=-development 7,874 kB [ebuild U ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs-20110722 [20110129] USE=alsa -development -pulseaudio 5,966 kB [ebuild U ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-qtlibs-20110722 [20110129] USE=-development 16,626 kB Total: 7 packages (7 upgrades), Size of downloads: 116,180 kB !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs:0 (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20110129::gentoo, installed) pulled in by ~app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20110129 required by (app- emulation/emul-linux-x86-motif-20110129::gentoo, installed) (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20110722::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by ~app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20110722 required by (app- emulation/emul-linux-x86-medialibs-20110722::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (and 2 more with the same problem) app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs:0 (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20110722::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by ~app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20110722 required by (app- emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20110722::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (and 4 more with the same problem) (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20110129::gentoo, installed) pulled in by ~app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20110129 required by (app- emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20110129::gentoo, installed) -8 What would be the correct way to resolve this issue? I am a little bit afraid to start unmerging any of these packages as among other things sys-boot/grub depends on some of them. Regards, Have you looked at this thread? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/246133 -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2
On 09/02/2011 06:59 PM, James wrote: Jameswirelessat tampabay.rr.com writes: It is time to remove dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2 emerge --depclean -pv =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2 [...] CAN I TRUST this syntax to test for packages to remove? You can trust it because portage *is* the package manager, and the package manager always knows what the dependencies of packages are. Tools like equery can do analysis and stuff, but the final decision of what gets installed and what's needed is up to Portage. So if you can't trust the package manager, you're screwed anyway :-) However, emerge -uDN world must pass cleanly before you depclean something.
Re: [gentoo-user] update world with emul-linux-x86 blocks
-On Saturday 03 September 2011 12.31:01 Mick wrote: On Saturday 03 Sep 2011 10:17:19 Dan Johansson wrote: Since some time I am getting the following errors while doing update world on my dektop machine (running amd64 stable): -8-- What would be the correct way to resolve this issue? I am a little bit afraid to start unmerging any of these packages as among other things sys-boot/grub depends on some of them. Regards, Have you looked at this thread? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/246133 OOuuppss! Missed that one :-( -- Dan Johansson, http://www.dmj.nu *** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! ***
Re: [gentoo-user] systemd
On Saturday 03 September 2011 10:40:52 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 01:05:33 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: I'm so glad I ditched KMail before akonadi and friends came along. The mythical man-month by Brooks perfectly describes akonadi, they went right ahead and made every mistake in the book, especially all the ones solved in the 70s already,... What? Is that old dog still around? I read it about 20 years ago. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
Re: [gentoo-user] equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2
On Friday 02 September 2011 16:34:59 James wrote: SO It is time to remove dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2 But, I do not believe the results of this command, as python-2.7x has been installed on this system for some time. I have updated many times with -D and rebuild @system recently. Still many packages are listed as depending specifically on dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2. I assume you have run python-updater? -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2
On Saturday 03 September 2011 11:55:06 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You can trust it because portage *is* the package manager, and the package manager always knows what the dependencies of packages are. Tools like equery can do analysis and stuff, but the final decision of what gets installed and what's needed is up to Portage. So if you can't trust the package manager, you're screwed anyway :-) Well I did trust it yesterday when it decided it ought to remove MySQL. What the hell, I thought: I can put it back easily enough. So today when I started KMail it wouldn't. I had not only to remerge MySQL but to add mysql USE flag to qt-sql in package.use and remerge qt-sql as well. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
Re: [gentoo-user] systemd
On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 14:09:15 +0100 Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Saturday 03 September 2011 10:40:52 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 01:05:33 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: I'm so glad I ditched KMail before akonadi and friends came along. The mythical man-month by Brooks perfectly describes akonadi, they went right ahead and made every mistake in the book, especially all the ones solved in the 70s already,... What? Is that old dog still around? I read it about 20 years ago. It might be old but every word in it is still just as true as the day it was written. Nothing else has come close to doing it like Brooks. I found my copy in a tiny out of the way junk shop in a place called Memel (at the arse end of the world), priced at about a cup of coffee. A treasured find indeed :-) -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
[gentoo-user] Gnome 3 upgrade
Hi, I would like to upgrade from gnome 2 to gnome 3. However I could not find any procedure on google. At least a smooth one. I have already add the gnome overlay but still getting version 2.32 as the gnome package to be emerged. Thank you in advance, Akio
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...
- Original Message -
From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc:
Sent: Friday, September 2, 2011 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...
On Friday 02 Sep 2011 14:38:56 BRM wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:52 PM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com
wrote:
I still haven't decided what to get for my system to replace
the NIC
with, but the card I have should be working with my existing 802.11g
network already; however, it doesn't - I have had to connect my
laptop
via Ethernet cable to my wireless bridge to get network access.
/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 starts, but goes immediately inactive. From
what
I
can find on-line, this seems to have been something common after
moving
to Base Layout 2/OpenRC; however, I couldn't find anything that
specified what the actual solution was - I think most ended up doing a
complete reinstall of their wicd/wpa-supplicant software - either way
details were lacking. I've successfully had wpa-supplicant
working in
the past, and as a result of all of this I've tried to get it up
through
the other method too (iwconfig?), but no success. (I think I have
managed to get it to scan some, but not sufficiently and certainly no
connections.)
Did you followed the instructions at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml
specifically the network section?
Yes, I believe so. It's been a while since I made the migration, but
the
wireless configuration seems to have broken about the same time.
The wired configuration works just fine, and the guide mentions nothing
about Wireless changes - e.g. WPA Supplicant - and that's where the
problem is.
Anyone see this issue and know what the solution is? I'd like
to at
least get my 802.11g access back - the current setup is a bit of a
pain
and very limiting.
Since you use a laptop, I will assume you have either KDE, GNOME or
Xfce. If that's the case, why don't you try NetworkManager or
connman,
and use the GUI thingy to do the work for you? I haven't manually
configured a wireless network in years, and I have been the last three
months traveling with my laptop literally all over the world,
connecting to all kinds of access points.
NetworkMnager just works, but I also hear great comments about
connman.
I'm using KDE, yes. I've tried the tools but it doesn't seem to
ever scan
for a wireless network on its own, and the scans I have been able to force
don't result in a connection - they don't even find the network
I'm trying
to attach it to. Prior to the change, I could get WPA Supplicant to
connect to my wireless, though I did have to have it specifically
configured to do so. It wouldn't typically work using the tools for the
one wireless network, while I could get it to for others (hotels, other
places, etc.).
I have added another network that is configured a little differently that I
would prefer to connect to (over the old one), but at the moment I'll
take
either. (The new 802.11g network uses WPA2; the old one uses WEP+Shared.)
Assuming that you have built in your kernel or loaded the driver module for
your NIC and any firmware blobs have also been loaded, please show:
Yes. As I noted, it's worked before. The driver loads it find the firmware, etc.
Configuration information is below.
/etc/conf.d/net
# This is a network block that connects to any unsecured access point.
# We give it a low priority so any defined blocks are preferred.
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel
#ctrl_interface_group=wheel
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
# This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.*
# scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration,
# please review /etc/conf.d/net.example and save your configuration
# in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!).
# Standard Network:
config_eth0=( dhcp )
dns_domain_lo=coal
# Wireless Network:
# TBD
#config_wlan0 ( wpa_supplicant )
#
# Enable this to use WPA supplicant; however, need to change the configuration
of the Wireless first.
modules=( !plug !iwconfig wpa_supplicant )
#modules=( !plug wpa_supplicant )
#modules=(iwconfig)
#wpa_supplicant_wlan0=-Dwext
#wpa_timeout_wlan0=15
#modules=(iwconfig)
#iwconfig_wlan0=mode managed
#wpa_timeout_wlan0=15
and
grep ^[^#] /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
country=US
# Home Network
#network={
# ssid=MY-NETWORK
# key_mgmt=IEEE8021X
# eap=TLS
# wep_key0=DEADBEAF0123456789ABCDEF000
# priority=1
# auth_alg=SHARED
#}
#
#network={
# key_mgmt=NONE
# priority=-999
#}
The network information is commented out as I was trying to get it to work with
the normal
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 3 upgrade
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:05 AM, akio.tam...@gmail.com akio.tam...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to upgrade from gnome 2 to gnome 3. However I could not find any procedure on google. At least a smooth one. I have already add the gnome overlay but still getting version 2.32 as the gnome package to be emerged. Thank you in advance, Akio This may help; http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/gnome.git;a=blob;f=README
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...
On Saturday 03 Sep 2011 15:14:27 BRM wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Assuming that you have built in your kernel or loaded the driver module
for your NIC and any firmware blobs have also been loaded, please show:
Yes. As I noted, it's worked before. The driver loads it find the firmware,
etc. Configuration information is below.
/etc/conf.d/net
# This is a network block that connects to any unsecured access point.
# We give it a low priority so any defined blocks are preferred.
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel
I think the above should be either:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
or,
DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel
#ctrl_interface_group=wheel
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
# This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.*
# scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration,
# please review /etc/conf.d/net.example and save your configuration
# in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!).
# Standard Network:
config_eth0=( dhcp )
The old syntax you use here, which was ( value ) is now deprecated. You
should replace all such entries by removing the brackets, e.g. the above
becomes:
config_eth0=dhcp
This is explained in: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml
dns_domain_lo=coal
# Wireless Network:
# TBD
#config_wlan0 ( wpa_supplicant )
#
# Enable this to use WPA supplicant; however, need to change the
configuration of the Wireless first. modules=( !plug !iwconfig
wpa_supplicant )
#modules=( !plug wpa_supplicant )
#modules=(iwconfig)
#wpa_supplicant_wlan0=-Dwext
#wpa_timeout_wlan0=15
#modules=(iwconfig)
#iwconfig_wlan0=mode managed
#wpa_timeout_wlan0=15
You should also add something like:
modules=wpa_supplicant
wpa_supplicant_wlan0=-Dwext
config_wlan0=dhcp
and
grep ^[^#] /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
country=US
# Home Network
#network={
# ssid=MY-NETWORK
# key_mgmt=IEEE8021X
# eap=TLS
# wep_key0=DEADBEAF0123456789ABCDEF000
# priority=1
# auth_alg=SHARED
#}
#
#network={
# key_mgmt=NONE
# priority=-999
#}
The network information is commented out as I was trying to get it to work
with the normal user-space tools (e.g. Network Manager); however, it is no
longer working in that configuration either. It doesn't seem to ever get
to doing the SCAN portion of trying to find networks.
I can see wlan0 in wpa_gui, but I can't get it to scan at all. And I'd much
rather use Network Manager if I could over wpa_gui; but it doesn't even
see wlan0 (it happily finds eth0, my wired NIC.)
Ben
You need to add or uncomment the following to your wpa_supplicant.conf:
=
network={
key_mgmt=NONE
priority=0
}
=
The above will let latch on the first available AP.
Also, you can then add any AP of preference with passphrases and what not:
=
# Home Network
network={
ssid=MY-NETWORK
# key_mgmt=IEEE8021X --You don't need these entries here, unless
# eap=TLS --you run SSL certs for authentication
wep_key0=DEADBEAF0123456789ABCDEF000
priority=1
auth_alg=OPEN
}
=
and something like this for WPA2:
=
network={
ssid=what-ever
proto=RSN
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP
auth_alg=OPEN
group=CCMP
pskpass_123456789
priority=5
=
Something like the above should get you online again, but you may need to
experiment with different settings depending on the encryption used by the
chosen AP.
When wardriving open the wpa_gui, scan and double-click on your desired AP.
Then enter the key for it (if it has one) and you should be able to associate.
At that point dhcpcd will kick in and you'll get an IP address and be able to
connect to the Internet (as long as the AP is not asking for DNS
authentication or some such security measure).
Of course if you use networkmanager you do not need to use wpa_gui.
--
Regards,
Mick
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[gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2
On 09/03/2011 04:20 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 03 September 2011 11:55:06 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You can trust it because portage *is* the package manager, and the package manager always knows what the dependencies of packages are. Tools like equery can do analysis and stuff, but the final decision of what gets installed and what's needed is up to Portage. So if you can't trust the package manager, you're screwed anyway :-) Well I did trust it yesterday when it decided it ought to remove MySQL. What the hell, I thought: I can put it back easily enough. So today when I started KMail it wouldn't. I had not only to remerge MySQL but to add mysql USE flag to qt-sql in package.use and remerge qt-sql as well. Which is 100% correct behavior. Nothing in your system needed MySQL installed, and qt-sql was merged without the mysql USE flag.
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.xonf, Input_class keyboard
On Saturday 03 Sep 2011 04:15:32 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, in my xorg.conf I have set this: Section InputClass Identifier keyboard-all Driver evdev # Option XkbOptions ctrl:nocaps,compose:ralt,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp Option XkbOptions terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,caps:super MatchIsKeyboard on EndSection Does: Option XkbOptions terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp on its own work? On one box of mine I had to add: MatchDevicePath /dev/input/event* Also, check that you have not any old conflicting directives in Section ServerLayout, like e.g. InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Correct way to modify keymaps for X console
Hi, I want to modify some of the keymappings of my keyboard. The last time (some ages ago ;) ) I did this with the help of xkeycaps, xmodmap and an appropiate .xmodmap file at $HOME. And time passes by... Now I have: /etc/X11/xorg.conf with its Options for the Input Device class /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.con setxkbmap and still xmodmap and at least a nonsense displaying and confused xkeycaps despite the fact that my keyboard creates the characters, which I would exspect -- the changes I want to make to some funtion keys are enhancements and no error corrections. I am running Linux 3.0.4 vanilla kernel with a recent Gentoo using a 102 key QWERTZ (german layout) keyboard (no Windows- key, no media keys no other gismos...only the alphabet and friends ;) (no punt intended!)... My questions are: What is the sane method to modify the keymapping and related options? How can I get xkeycaps back to normal? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards and have a nice weekend! mcc
[gentoo-user] /etc/modules, 2.6, and 3.0
Upgrading /etc/modules, I notice it has 2_6 for all its examples; should this be changed to 3_0 if running a 3.0 kernel? I am going to expand it with both, for the time being, but all the gentoo.org docs still show 2_6, and it made me think, always a confusing misstep. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2
On Saturday 03 September 2011 16:27:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Which is 100% correct behavior. Nothing in your system needed MySQL installed, and qt-sql was merged without the mysql USE flag. Except that it hadn't happened before. The system had been sitting happily humming away, being updated daily, and then suddenly it realised that it had excess packages on its hands. I couldn't see anything to explain why it happened just yesterday, not a week or a fortnight ago. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 12:17:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I believe you can trust it, but why use --depclean instead of just -C? If you unmerge with -C you have to be sure that nothing needs it as a dependency. Using --depclean helps because it checks that and only unmerges if nothing needs it as a dependency anymore. Greetings Sebastian Fair enough. Thanks. Presumably the use of --depclean doesn't work until you're clear with emerge -DuN @world? I've used this stuff so long I've not learned many of the newer tricks I think. Good stuff. I believe the -C output recommends using --depclean instead now. -- Neil Bothwick Hi Neil, Yeah, I think that's been true for awhile. However I'm fairly selective about actually using --depclean when I can use -C, but that's just me personally. In the case of the OP if I wanted to remove exactly 1 package then personally I'd just use -C followed by emerge -pvDuN @world or maybe revdep-rebuild -ip. But again, that's me. --depclean is probably best for removing lots of things, and as I think is clear from this thread, I didn't even know that --depclean followed by a package name was even supported. Cheers, Mark
[gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2
On 09/03/2011 09:52 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 03 September 2011 16:27:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Which is 100% correct behavior. Nothing in your system needed MySQL installed, and qt-sql was merged without the mysql USE flag. Except that it hadn't happened before. The system had been sitting happily humming away, being updated daily, and then suddenly it realised that it had excess packages on its hands. I couldn't see anything to explain why it happened just yesterday, not a week or a fortnight ago. The warning was here. You just missed it :-) Recently, I did an emerge -auDN world, and there was a USE flag change. Namely mysql was removed from the default enabled flags of qt-sql, marked as -mysql in a yellow color. Yeah, it's easy to miss. But using Gentoo for quite a while now, I've learned to pay attention to the smallest detail in the output of emerge before entering y ;-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2
On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:49:41 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 09/03/2011 09:52 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 03 September 2011 16:27:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Which is 100% correct behavior. Nothing in your system needed MySQL installed, and qt-sql was merged without the mysql USE flag. Except that it hadn't happened before. The system had been sitting happily humming away, being updated daily, and then suddenly it realised that it had excess packages on its hands. I couldn't see anything to explain why it happened just yesterday, not a week or a fortnight ago. The warning was here. You just missed it :-) Recently, I did an emerge -auDN world, and there was a USE flag change. Namely mysql was removed from the default enabled flags of qt-sql, marked as -mysql in a yellow color. Yeah, it's easy to miss. But using Gentoo for quite a while now, I've learned to pay attention to the smallest detail in the output of emerge before entering y ;-) +1 I took to training my eyes to scan down emerge output (colourized) looking for anything in green or yellow. Deal with those first, then look at everything else. Saved myself a lot of grief that way. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
[gentoo-user] apache-2.2.20 - upstream config files reappear in /etc
So after upgrading against the Range header vulnerability, I find that apache-2.2.20 seems to litter /etc/apache2 with standard configuration files, while I don't remember anything at least in 2.2.1x range doing that. leho@server etc $ qlist apache- | grep etc /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-autoindex.conf /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-multilang-errordoc.conf /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-mpm.conf /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-default.conf /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-dav.conf /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-languages.conf /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-ssl.conf /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-info.conf /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-manual.conf /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/00_default_ssl_vhost.conf /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/00_default_vhost.conf /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/.keep_www-servers_apache-2 /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/default_vhost.include /etc/apache2/magic /etc/apache2/original/extra/httpd-autoindex.conf /etc/apache2/original/extra/httpd-multilang-errordoc.conf /etc/apache2/original/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf /etc/apache2/original/extra/httpd-mpm.conf /etc/apache2/original/extra/httpd-default.conf /etc/apache2/original/extra/httpd-dav.conf /etc/apache2/original/extra/httpd-languages.conf /etc/apache2/original/extra/httpd-ssl.conf /etc/apache2/original/extra/httpd-info.conf /etc/apache2/original/extra/httpd-manual.conf /etc/apache2/original/extra/httpd-userdir.conf /etc/apache2/original/httpd.conf /etc/apache2/httpd.conf /etc/apache2/apache2.conf /etc/apache2/mime.types /etc/apache2/modules.d/00_mod_userdir.conf /etc/apache2/modules.d/00_languages.conf /etc/apache2/modules.d/00_mod_status.conf /etc/apache2/modules.d/00_mod_info.conf /etc/apache2/modules.d/00_mod_mime.conf /etc/apache2/modules.d/46_mod_ldap.conf /etc/apache2/modules.d/00_error_documents.conf /etc/apache2/modules.d/00_mod_autoindex.conf /etc/apache2/modules.d/.keep_www-servers_apache-2 /etc/apache2/modules.d/00_mpm.conf /etc/apache2/modules.d/45_mod_dav.conf /etc/apache2/modules.d/40_mod_ssl.conf /etc/apache2/modules.d/00_mod_log_config.conf /etc/apache2/modules.d/00_default_settings.conf /etc/apache2/modules.d/10_mod_mem_cache.conf /etc/conf.d/apache2 /etc/init.d/apache2 /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 leho@server etc $ sudo git status -s apache2 M apache2/modules.d/70_mod_wsgi.conf ?? apache2/apache2.conf ?? apache2/extra/ ?? apache2/mime.types ?? apache2/modules.d/00_mod_headers.conf ?? apache2/original/ My git log shows I did a Gentoo-config migration about 8 months ago. commit 48baa69137ad8d84c1678b59a13648092d8f7906 Author: leho l...@kraav.com Date: Fri Dec 17 23:33:01 2010 +0200 apache2: vimdiff merge gentoo distro configa + apps/*.conf diff --git a/apache2/httpd.conf b/apache2/httpd.conf index 85e5126..241a7ba 100644 --- a/apache2/httpd.conf +++ b/apache2/httpd.conf @@ -1,69 +1,43 @@ +# This is a modification of the default Apache 2.2 configuration file +# for Gentoo Linux. ... yadda yadda Can anyone shed some light (discussion URLs?) onto why apache2.conf, extra/ and original/ are installed again? Maybe some eclass thing? -- Leho Kraav, M.Sc. http://leho.kraav.com
Re: [gentoo-user] systemd
On Saturday 03 September 2011 01:05:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: I'm so glad I ditched KMail before akonadi and friends came along. You've got me intrigued now. I haven't used Claws since an early, unstable version, but it looks as though it might suit me now. First, though, does it have an easy bulk import mechanism from KMail format? I have over 10,000 mails here in about 50 folders, and I really wouldn't want to go through that lot one by one. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
Re: [gentoo-user] systemd
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 00:52:39 +0100 Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Saturday 03 September 2011 01:05:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: I'm so glad I ditched KMail before akonadi and friends came along. You've got me intrigued now. I haven't used Claws since an early, unstable version, but it looks as though it might suit me now. First, though, does it have an easy bulk import mechanism from KMail format? I have over 10,000 mails here in about 50 folders, and I really wouldn't want to go through that lot one by one. It doesn't support KMail folders directly (Claws doesn't do traditional MailDir, it's native format is MH) but you can find import scripts here: http://www.claws-mail.org/tools.php?section=downloads There are kmail-specific scripts listed -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Help needed:jpeg_resync_to_restart() and zathura pdf reader
On 09/03/2011 05:44 AM, Ignas Anikevicius wrote:
Hello list,
I was wondering if someone could explain me what ebuild provides the
jpeg_resync_to_restart() function as when I try to run a pdf using a
zathura-pdf-mupdf plugin, it gives me the following error:
---
error: could not load plugin /usr/lib/zathura/pdf.so
(/usr/lib/zathura/pdf.so: undefined symbol: jpeg_resync_to_restart)
---
I was told that it might be a problem with the libjpeg-turbo, but I
have tried both versions (1.1.0 and 1.1.1) and it did not affect
anything. I was wondering whether there are some compilation options,
which I am not aware of?
Alternatively, the problem might lie in my lack of knowledge in
writing ebuilds. You can find my ebuild on [1], whereas a known
version of AUR PKGBUILD can be found on [2]. Could someone, ideally
familiar with both GNU/Linux Distributions, explain me what I am doing
wrong?
The latest zathura ebuild in portage has,
RDEPEND==x11-libs/cairo-1.8.8
=dev-libs/glib-2.22.4:2
=x11-libs/gtk+-2.18.6:2
=app-text/poppler-0.12.3[cairo]
DEPEND=${RDEPEND}
dev-util/pkgconfig
How come you only have the following?
RDEPEND==app-text/mupdf-0.8
DEPEND=${RDEPEND}
dev-util/pkgconfig
And have you tried using libjpeg instead of the -turbo version?
Re: [gentoo-user] systemd
On Sunday 04 September 2011 01:19:51 Alan McKinnon wrote: It doesn't support KMail folders directly (Claws doesn't do traditional MailDir, it's native format is MH) but you can find import scripts here: http://www.claws-mail.org/tools.php?section=downloads There are kmail-specific scripts listed Good stuff! Thanks Alan. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
[gentoo-user] Layman errors. Google ain't helping.
I'm working on the install for my friend still. Since KDE4 wants to stay in bed, I thought I would try KDE3 from the overlay. I read not long ago that it is still somewhat kicking. So I installed layman and added the overlay. I then added this line to make.conf: source /var/lib/layman/make.conf When I add that, I get errors like this: !!! Parse error in '/etc/make.conf': source command failed: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/layman/make.config' !!! Parse error in '/etc/make.conf': source command failed: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/layman/make.config' fireball / # eix-update Reading Portage settings .. failed to source '/var/lib/layman/make.config' Building database (/var/cache/eix) .. [0] gentoo /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata-flat) I have googled and followed some Gentoo docs and this error just keeps popping up. What am I doing wrong? Keep in mind I am doing a 32 bit install on a 64 bit machine. I am following the guide that was linked to earlier. Ideas? Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Layman errors. Google ain't helping.
Dale wrote: I'm working on the install for my friend still. Since KDE4 wants to stay in bed, I thought I would try KDE3 from the overlay. I read not long ago that it is still somewhat kicking. So I installed layman and added the overlay. I then added this line to make.conf: source /var/lib/layman/make.conf When I add that, I get errors like this: !!! Parse error in '/etc/make.conf': source command failed: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/layman/make.config' !!! Parse error in '/etc/make.conf': source command failed: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/layman/make.config' fireball / # eix-update Reading Portage settings .. failed to source '/var/lib/layman/make.config' Building database (/var/cache/eix) .. [0] gentoo /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata-flat) I have googled and followed some Gentoo docs and this error just keeps popping up. What am I doing wrong? Keep in mind I am doing a 32 bit install on a 64 bit machine. I am following the guide that was linked to earlier. Ideas? Dale :-) :-) Oh, the file is there. fireball / # ls -al /var/lib/layman/make.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64 Sep 3 22:49 /var/lib/layman/make.conf fireball / # I forgot to post that. Fire away. I need ideas. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
