[gentoo-user] GNOME configuration problem
Hi, I'm not using the full GNOME desktop but only single applications like 'meld'. (Only) for some users (including root on one machine and a non-root user on an another machine) meld fails with : File /usr/lib64/meld/meld/ui/historyentry.py, line 121, in _save_history self.__gconf_client.set_list(key, gconf.VALUE_STRING, gconf_items) glib.GError: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: D-BUS error: Can't overwrite existing read-only value: Value for `/apps/gnome-settings/meld/history-direntry' set in a read-only source at the front of your configuration path I have even removed $HOME/.gconf and $HOME/.local/meld with no success. Any hints are very much appreciated, Helmut.
[gentoo-user] Using KDE networkmanagement applet with systemd??
Hi all, I'm wondering if it is possible to get the KDE network management (system tray) applet to work properly on my laptop. I'm using the Gentoo systemd overlay and KDE 4.9.5. $ emerge -pv networkmanager network management [ebuild R ~] net-misc/networkmanager-0.9.6.4-r1 USE=avahi dhcpcd doc gnutls introspection modemmanager ppp systemd wext -bluetooth -connection-sharing -consolekit -dhclient -nss -resolvconf -vala -wimax 0 kB [ebuild R ~] kde-misc/network management-0.9.0.6:4 USE=(-aqua) -debug LINGUAS=-ar -ca -cs -da -de -el -es -et -fa -fi -fr -ga -hu -it -ja -kk -km -lt -nb -nds -nl -nn -pl -pt -pt_BR -ro -ru -se -sk -sr -sr@ijekavian -sr@ijekavianlatin -sr@latin -sv -tr -uk -zh_TW 1,298 kB Currently the tray applet starts but can't see the systemd enabled NetworkManager service - the service is definitely working though... $ systemctl status NetworkManager.service NetworkManager.service - Network Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib64/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled) Active: active (running) since Mon 2013-02-04 10:35:19 GMT; 43min ago Main PID: 4849 (NetworkManager) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/NetworkManager.service ├─4849 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon └─4908 /sbin/dhcpcd -B -K -L -G -c /usr/libexec/nm-dhcp-client.action eth0 I click on the KDE network management system tray icon and the popup window says Network Manager is not working. Please start it. Clearly should work - as it does on ARCH, Chakra, OpenSUSE, Mageia and Rosa distros!! Not really a big deal but it would be nice to fix it :-) Any thoughts?? Thanks Bob
[gentoo-user] google drive
Hi All, I would like to get some advise what would be the good - reasonably good - solution use my Google Drive storage under Gentoo. In the last 1.5 years I haven't used Gentoo so, I'm a little bit out of scope about the actualities. I found grive but it is not compiling. At the moment I don't have time to figure out what could be the issue with it and I have no time to report it. Maybe, later. What I'm looking for is similar to I had under Windows. The drive could be mountable and it is synchronized. At the moment does not matter it is synchronized automatically or it requires a command. Thanks for any suggestions in advance! András -- -- Csanyi Andras (Sayusi Ando) -- http://sayusi.hu -- http://facebook.com/andras.csanyi -- Trust in God and keep your gunpowder dry! - Cromwell
Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling Gentoo for Raspberry Pi (Was: List of base system packages)
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Yohan Pereira yohan.pere...@gmail.com wrote: In that case why don't you just go ahead and use the stage 3 provided for the pi? I know you said you didn't want to use it earlier, but assuming your using the default profile to cross compile it will pull in everything that's in the stage3 tarball anyway. Once the stage 3 is setup you can use distcc and get rid of the stuff you dont want. Another thing you can do to speed things up is mount the root file system over NFS or on a usb hdd. It was quite a bit faster in my experience Three reasons: Fun Experience Knowledge :-) -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Using KDE networkmanagement applet with systemd??
2013/2/4 Robert Walker robert_mt_wal...@yahoo.co.uk Hi all, I'm wondering if it is possible to get the KDE network management (system tray) applet to work properly on my laptop. I'm using the Gentoo systemd overlay and KDE 4.9.5. $ emerge -pv networkmanager network management [ebuild R ~] net-misc/networkmanager-0.9.6.4-r1 USE=avahi dhcpcd doc gnutls introspection modemmanager ppp systemd wext -bluetooth -connection-sharing -consolekit -dhclient -nss -resolvconf -vala -wimax 0 kB [ebuild R ~] kde-misc/network management-0.9.0.6:4 USE=(-aqua) -debug LINGUAS=-ar -ca -cs -da -de -el -es -et -fa -fi -fr -ga -hu -it -ja -kk -km -lt -nb -nds -nl -nn -pl -pt -pt_BR -ro -ru -se -sk -sr -sr@ijekavian -sr@ijekavianlatin -sr@latin -sv -tr -uk -zh_TW 1,298 kB Currently the tray applet starts but can't see the systemd enabled NetworkManager service - the service is definitely working though... $ systemctl status NetworkManager.service NetworkManager.service - Network Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib64/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled) Active: active (running) since Mon 2013-02-04 10:35:19 GMT; 43min ago Main PID: 4849 (NetworkManager) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/NetworkManager.service ├─4849 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon └─4908 /sbin/dhcpcd -B -K -L -G -c /usr/libexec/nm-dhcp-client.action eth0 I click on the KDE network management system tray icon and the popup window says Network Manager is not working. Please start it. Clearly should work - as it does on ARCH, Chakra, OpenSUSE, Mageia and Rosa distros!! Not really a big deal but it would be nice to fix it :-) Any thoughts?? Thanks Bob Here it is working pretty well, and I'm not using any overlay, just the useflag systemd. I had a problem recently, but it was solved when I filled this bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45 . When I started using systemd, I had a similar problem. It was something related with pam autentication, that I don't remember, but it surely worth to search a little about. In fact, I was connected to the Internet, using networkmanagement, but I had this problem with the tray icon. -- João de Matos Linux User #461527 Graduando em Engenharia de Computação 2005.1 UEFS - Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana
Re: [gentoo-user] google drive
On 04/02/13 at 01:43pm, András Csányi wrote: Hi All, I would like to get some advise what would be the good - reasonably good - solution use my Google Drive storage under Gentoo. In the last 1.5 years I haven't used Gentoo so, I'm a little bit out of scope about the actualities. I found grive but it is not compiling. At the moment I don't have time to figure out what could be the issue with it and I have no time to report it. Maybe, later. Place the attached file in the folder (create the folder if it doesn't exists) /etc/portage/patches/net-misc/grive-0.2.0/ Here's how it looks on my system. $ cat /etc/portage/patches/net-misc/grive-0.2.0/binutils.patch --- grive-0.2.0/libgrive/src/bfd/SymbolInfo.cc 2012-07-07 21:13:18.0 +0530 +++ grive-0.2.0-patch/libgrive/src/bfd/SymbolInfo.cc2012-10-25 19:50:12.753953058 +0530 @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ #include Debug.hh #include vector - +#define PACKAGE #include bfd.h #include execinfo.h #include dlfcn.h What I'm looking for is similar to I had under Windows. The drive could be mountable and it is synchronized. At the moment does not matter it is synchronized automatically or it requires a command. after you configure grive, it syncs the current folder with your google drive. You need to run it again to sync any changes. I use a cron entry to periodically sync my drive. -- - Yohan Pereira The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal. -- Mark Twain --- grive-0.2.0/libgrive/src/bfd/SymbolInfo.cc 2012-07-07 21:13:18.0 +0530 +++ grive-0.2.0-patch/libgrive/src/bfd/SymbolInfo.cc 2012-10-25 19:50:12.753953058 +0530 @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ #include Debug.hh #include vector - +#define PACKAGE #include bfd.h #include execinfo.h #include dlfcn.h
[gentoo-user] Re: google drive
On 02/04/2013 04:43 AM, András Csányi wrote: Hi All, I would like to get some advise what would be the good - reasonably good - solution use my Google Drive storage under Gentoo. In the last 1.5 years I haven't used Gentoo so, I'm a little bit out of scope about the actualities. I found grive but it is not compiling. Here's a quick and dirty workaround: #cd /usr/include #ln -s json-c json (I think the json-c package puts that symlink in the wrong place.) That should let you install grive. Let us know if grive does what you want.
[gentoo-user] cloning problem
Hi, since not too long I have a problem when cloning a Gentoo system on to a machine with identical hardware. I copy / /usr and /LOCAL to the new machine, edit several files in /etc rebuilt the kernel and reinstall grub:0. Furthermore I have adapted the fstab file in the initramfs. On the very first boot the cloned system fails to mount all file systems even /dev/pts which is a bit problematic when doing all this from remote. I get PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 Luckily I still can use the console on the remote system although I don't get a prompt. Just doing mount -a and rebooting seems to fix the problem. Still, I'm interested what's going there? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.
[gentoo-user] Re: error: Cg/cg.h: No such file or directory
On 2013-02-03, João Matos wrote: Dear list, I'm trying to build dolphin-emu from gamerlay, and I got the following error: error: Cg/cg.h: No such file or directory But the file actually exists: /opt/nvidia-cg-toolkit/include/Cg/cg.h Should it be a problem that I can solve myself? I thought so, than I've made a symlink for /opt/nvidia-cg-toolkit/include/Cg at /usr/include. The compilation took a little longer, but later, I've got the following: It took a little longer because it compiled, in fact the error occured so early that it failed without doing that much, I guess. /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.6.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lCg /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.6.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lCgGL It is some library detail: when configuring the makefiles to build some piece of source, the configure script needs to find the libraries and set *two* things from these libraries: - The include directories, to which it should append the /opt/nvidia-cg-toolkit/include path - The library directories, to which it should append a directory where nvidia-cg-toolkit has its libs This, at least for some packages, is done with pkg-config, see, for example, if you have gtk+-2.x on your system: pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 This generates the right flags to pass to gcc when you want to compile a gtk+-2.x application. Likewise, --libs gives you the linker flags. Now what happened: you *did* provide it the header file, which is enough to compile the code part that depends on the nvidia library (compilation, which is modular, you can just go for parts of the code and information on other parts are on the header files), but you still need the library itself when you are assembling the final binary, so that the binary can be extended with information on where to get the library (or with the library itself, in the case of static linking). Although here --libs only gives me -l* for gtk, there is also a companion -L flag that, like -I for includes, sets the directories where the libraries can be found. I assue that, if -L is not given, that just means gtk+ is in the default locations. If you can figure out how to tell the configure script where to look for the libs, that would be the easiest thing to do; next to that, you can manually link the files using the right -L parameter or perhaps appending it to LD_LIBRARY_PATH when compiling. Perhaps try reinstalling nvidia-cg-toolkit after resyncing: some searches tell me there was yet another compilation breakage that got fixed recently: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443546 But one person noted it does not work in amd64... I wonder if linking lib64 to lib there would work. -- Nuno Silva (aka njsg) http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/
Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.
Walter Dnes wrote: I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera. I already put up with the fact that it crashes a LOT. It really gets on my nerves but sort of getting used to that. Now I have a new issue. When I tell it to save a picture to say /home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it always saves them to /home/dale. It does this regardless of what I have asked it to save them too. This used to work fine when I had this sort of thing mounted on a directory called /data. It would go something like this: /data/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ That would work fine. When I got my shiney new 3Tb drive, I moved all that over to my home directory and ever since then, Gtkam saves to the wrong place. I have changed the permissions for /home/dale and EVERYTHING under it but still get the same thing. I'm 99% sure it is not a permissions issue. This is what permissions look like: drwxrwxr-x 27 dale users 4096 Dec 9 2009 2009 drwxrwxr-x 37 dale users 4096 Nov 16 2011 2010 drwxrwxr-x 31 dale users 4096 Dec 30 2011 2011 drwxrwxr-x 20 dale users 4096 Nov 12 01:20 2012 drwxrwxr-x 4 dale users 4096 Jan 30 03:00 2013 Grasping at straws here; from /home/dale try... chmod 777 Desktop ...and then try saving an image to Desktop. BTW, do you have pam or acl in use? Well, I cleaned out the camera pics so I'll have to take some more pics to test. After getting digikam to work by importing it through the card reader, I got all the pics downloaded. Then I cleaned out my card. Putting on the todo list. I'll reply when I get some results. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: google drive
On 4 February 2013 15:04, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/04/2013 04:43 AM, András Csányi wrote: Hi All, I would like to get some advise what would be the good - reasonably good - solution use my Google Drive storage under Gentoo. In the last 1.5 years I haven't used Gentoo so, I'm a little bit out of scope about the actualities. I found grive but it is not compiling. Here's a quick and dirty workaround: #cd /usr/include #ln -s json-c json (I think the json-c package puts that symlink in the wrong place.) That should let you install grive. Let us know if grive does what you want. Thanks for the quick help both of you. I compiled the code successfully using the link command you suggested. At the moment sync is running and it looks like that one I want it. -- -- Csanyi Andras (Sayusi Ando) -- http://sayusi.hu -- http://facebook.com/andras.csanyi -- Trust in God and keep your gunpowder dry! - Cromwell
Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling Gentoo for Raspberry Pi (Was: List of base system packages)
On 2/3/2013 23:43, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:14 AM, Dustin C. Hatch admiraln...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/3/2013 12:24, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Okay, the problem is probably the way PAM tries to link against db. Unless you need that functionality, I'd go ahead and remove the berkdb USE flag and try again. You may also want to file a bug. Nah, I don't need berkdb, I'll do without it. Did you install emerge/portage on the Pi yet? Python cannot be cross compiled (it's a hot topic since ages, but very few people have been successful with that). So I guess Python would have to be compiled on the Pi itself... the question is, emerge needs python and python needs emerge?!!? -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com No, minimalist Pi only has exactly what I need to run it. When I need to install additional software, I put the SD card in my desktop and run armv6j-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi-emerge --root=/mnt/raspberrypi -av $pkg I do have Python installed on it though. I actually have more than one Raspberry Pi, one of which runs a full install of Gentoo from a stage3 tarball. I've got it set up with DistCC to offload most of the compiling to my desktops and servers, so it didn't take too long to build Python natively. Once it was built, I just installed the binary on the minimalist Pi using the same method as other packages. -- ♫Dustin
Re: [gentoo-user] Creating accounts in Thunderbird
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: For the first one, host is 127.0.0.1, wizard validates it as saves it as localhost. For the second one, host is again entered as 172.0.0.1, which is a different string to localhost, validation succeeds and config is written to prefs.js. Ha-ha! Gotcha motherfucker! Your stupid front end validation didn't think of that! Similar to what I did, but added /etc/hosts entries so i have localhost localhost2 localhost3 localhost4 and so on. All pointing to the same IP. :)
Re: [gentoo-user] Creating accounts in Thunderbird
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: For the first one, host is 127.0.0.1, wizard validates it as saves it as localhost. For the second one, host is again entered as 172.0.0.1, which is a different string to localhost, validation succeeds and config is written to prefs.js. Ha-ha! Gotcha motherfucker! Your stupid front end validation didn't think of that! Similar to what I did, but added /etc/hosts entries so i have localhost localhost2 localhost3 localhost4 and so on. All pointing to the same IP. :) If you run /sbin/ip route show, you should see this in your routing table: 127.0.0.0/8 via 127.0.0.1 dev lo You have an entire /8 devoted to localhost. 127.0.0.1 goes to the same place as 127.15.0.0, 127.11.10.1, etc... -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] cloning problem
On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:53:09 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On the very first boot the cloned system fails to mount all file systems even /dev/pts which is a bit problematic when doing all this from remote. I get PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 Luckily I still can use the console on the remote system although I don't get a prompt. Did you copy /dev/null and /dev/console to the new machine. These need to exist on the root partition as they are needed before udev starts. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 00F: Unexplained error - Please tell us how this happened signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Feeding new versions of mdadm to genkernel?
Hi all, It seems that the genkernel team did the switcheroo with genkernel. I used to build an initramfs with a newer mdadm by putting: MDADM_VER=3.2.6 in genkernel.conf and copying the related tarball to /var/cache/genkernel. I discovered a bit of a problem, all that's been removed in the latest genkernel, and I don't see any obvious notes or new config files. Anyone know how to do this? Dan
Re: [gentoo-user] Confusing emerge output
On 02/03/2013 04:00 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sub-slots_and_Slot-Operators I'd already found much the same info in devmanual by the time I got and read your reply. So let's see if I understand this now: Beats me. I know what they're supposed to do, but haven't bothered to figure out how they work yet.
Re: [gentoo-user] Feeding new versions of mdadm to genkernel?
On 05/02/13 06:54, Daniel Frey wrote: Hi all, It seems that the genkernel team did the switcheroo with genkernel. I used to build an initramfs with a newer mdadm by putting: MDADM_VER=3.2.6 in genkernel.conf and copying the related tarball to /var/cache/genkernel. I discovered a bit of a problem, all that's been removed in the latest genkernel, and I don't see any obvious notes or new config files. Anyone know how to do this? Dan I got caught with the busybox versions ... it seems if you put the older entries back it will work as it used to, at least it did for me. BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling Gentoo for Raspberry Pi (Was: List of base system packages)
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Dustin C. Hatch admiraln...@gmail.com wrote: No, minimalist Pi only has exactly what I need to run it. When I need to install additional software, I put the SD card in my desktop and run armv6j-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi-emerge --root=/mnt/raspberrypi -av $pkg I do have Python installed on it though. I actually have more than one Raspberry Pi, one of which runs a full install of Gentoo from a stage3 tarball. I've got it set up with DistCC to offload most of the compiling to my desktops and servers, so it didn't take too long to build Python natively. Once it was built, I just installed the binary on the minimalist Pi using the same method as other packages. The question is, how did you compile python? You ran a job on one of the Pis? -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling Gentoo for Raspberry Pi (Was: List of base system packages)
On 2/4/2013 22:41, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Dustin C. Hatch admiraln...@gmail.com wrote: No, minimalist Pi only has exactly what I need to run it. When I need to install additional software, I put the SD card in my desktop and run armv6j-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi-emerge --root=/mnt/raspberrypi -av $pkg I do have Python installed on it though. I actually have more than one Raspberry Pi, one of which runs a full install of Gentoo from a stage3 tarball. I've got it set up with DistCC to offload most of the compiling to my desktops and servers, so it didn't take too long to build Python natively. Once it was built, I just installed the binary on the minimalist Pi using the same method as other packages. The question is, how did you compile python? You ran a job on one of the Pis? -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com Yes. Just use the --buildpkg switch, copy the resulting .tbz2 from $PKGDIR on the Raspberry Pi to your crossdev host and then use emerge --usepkg to install it on your SD card. -- ♫Dustin
