Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?
On Monday 09 Sep 2013 09:44:01 Tanstaafl wrote: Wow... just noticed an update is available which, for me, means it has been stabilized (at least on amd64)... ---8 Now to wait a few days to see if there is any breakage to report (not worried about it really, though, since it has actually gotten a ton of testing over the last year or two)... ...and the first time I use it it falls over! Portage was the only thing updated yesterday, so nothing else changed at the same time. # emerge --sync Synchronization of repository 'gentoo' located in '/usr/portage'... Starting rsync with rsync://192.168.2.2/gentoo-portage... Checking server timestamp ... receiving incremental file list rsync: mkstemp /var/tmp/.tmp8KJSYc.AHSsPH failed: Permission denied (13) I checked it wasn't anything I'd set in make.conf by stripping out everything but the original few lines from system installation, so I'm sure I hadn't set any odd paths. So for the moment I've masked out =sys-apps/portage-2.2.1 and reverted to 2.1.12.2. Now I'm getting some odd USE flag conflicts, which I suppose won't be related; I'll work on sorting that out. I also tried syncing a 32-bit chroot Gentoo system and that worked fine. That system has always had: # grep portage /etc/portage/package.keywords sys-apps/portage- ** Trust someone to find a problem! :-( Is it working for you, Dale? :-) -- Regards, Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] FlashPlayer crashes in FireFox
Am 09.09.2013 11:45, schrieb Dan Johansson: As of lately (I can not really remember since when) FlashPlayer has stopped working in FireFox. I'm running an stable AMD64 system with FireFox (www-client/firefox-17.0.8), FlasPlayer (www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.297) and NS-Plugin-Wraper (www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3). If I emerge the 64bit FlasPlayer I get the following errormessage when trying to wiev a video on YouTube The Adobe Flash plugin has crashed and I get the following in the .xsession-errors: plugin-container: htab.c:83: vlGetDataHTAB: Assertion `handle' failed. WARNING: pipe error (51): Connection reset by peer: file /var/tmp/notmpfs/portage/www-client/firefox-17.0.8/work/mozilla-esr17/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 421 If I on the other hand emerge the 32bit version + nspluginwraper nothing happens in FF (the video-pane just stays black) and I get the following messages in .xsession-errors: npviewer.bin: htab.c:83: vlGetDataHTAB: Assertion `handle' failed. *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_WriteReady() invoke: Broken pipe *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(/var/tmp/portage/www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3/work/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4/src/npw-wrapper.c:2705):invoke_NPP_Write: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin-connection)) *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(/var/tmp/portage/www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3/work/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4/src/npw-wrapper.c:2478):invoke_NPP_NewStream: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin-connection)) *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(/var/tmp/portage/www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3/work/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4/src/npw-wrapper.c:2550):invoke_NPP_DestroyStream: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin-connection)) *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(/var/tmp/portage/www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3/work/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4/src/npw-wrapper.c:2434):invoke_NPP_URLNotify: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin-connection)) *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(/var/tmp/portage/www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3/work/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4/src/npw-wrapper.c:2434):invoke_NPP_URLNotify: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin-connection)) *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(/var/tmp/portage/www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3/work/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4/src/npw-wrapper.c:2550):invoke_NPP_DestroyStream: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin-connection)) *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(/var/tmp/portage/www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3/work/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4/src/npw-wrapper.c:2434):invoke_NPP_URLNotify: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin-connection)) *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(/var/tmp/portage/www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3/work/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4/src/npw-wrapper.c:2478):invoke_NPP_NewStream: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin-connection)) *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(/var/tmp/portage/www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3/work/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4/src/npw-wrapper.c:2434):invoke_NPP_URLNotify: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin-connection)) Send additional request to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRbnLYHzsfI *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(/var/tmp/portage/www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3/work/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4/src/npw-wrapper.c:2219):invoke_NPP_SetWindow: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin-connection)) *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject proxy 0x7f33d3c27de0 is no longer valid! *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject proxy 0x7f33d3c27de0 is no longer valid! *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject proxy 0x7f33d3c27de0 is no longer valid! (The last line just keeps repeating) Any suggestions what my problem could be and how to solve it? Regards, Adobe doesn't support the plugin API that FF uses anymore. Flash video is almost certain to crash for most users. Chrome uses (created?) the pepper API that Adobe supports, ships a recent Flash version and videos work there. I didn't test it, but there is www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins for Chromium that should deliver the same.
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?
On 10 September 2013 10:13, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Monday 09 Sep 2013 09:44:01 Tanstaafl wrote: Wow... just noticed an update is available which, for me, means it has been stabilized (at least on amd64)... ---8 Now to wait a few days to see if there is any breakage to report (not worried about it really, though, since it has actually gotten a ton of testing over the last year or two)... ...and the first time I use it it falls over! Portage was the only thing updated yesterday, so nothing else changed at the same time. # emerge --sync Synchronization of repository 'gentoo' located in '/usr/portage'... Starting rsync with rsync://192.168.2.2/gentoo-portage... Checking server timestamp ... receiving incremental file list rsync: mkstemp /var/tmp/.tmp8KJSYc.AHSsPH failed: Permission denied (13) Maybe this http://bugs.gentoo.org/477682 -- Regards, Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?
Peter Humphrey wrote: Is it working for you, Dale? :-) [IP-] [ ] sys-apps/portage-2.2.1:0 Sun Aug 25 05:27:12 2013 sys-apps/portage-2.2.1 So far, so good. I been using unstable, except for the version, for quite a while. Are you saying something is broke and it works for me?? O_O Seriously?? This is a joke right?? Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?
On Tuesday 10 Sep 2013 07:18:11 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: Is it working for you, Dale? :-) So far, so good. I been using unstable, except for the version, for quite a while. Are you saying something is broke and it works for me?? O_O Seriously?? This is a joke right?? No joke, I assure you. As Markos pointed out, a bug has already been opened, and I fell over it with a vanilla make.conf. Unless someone knows of a work-around, I'll stick with the old version of portage until the bug-fix reaches the stable system. -- Regards, Peter
[gentoo-user] bios+gpt+grub2 boot windows
I format my hard disk to gpt.Then create a 1M partition at the header of hard disk ,add bios_grub flag.I can install and boot gentoo,debain and archlinux,but have no idea how to boot windows7 and 8.When I boot win7 or win8 from usb,it always complain the gpt partition and cannot install.What should I do?
Re: [gentoo-user] bios+gpt+grub2 boot windows
2013/9/10 东方巽雷 dongfangxun...@gmail.com: I format my hard disk to gpt.Then create a 1M partition at the header of hard disk ,add bios_grub flag.I can install and boot gentoo,debain and archlinux,but have no idea how to boot windows7 and 8.When I boot win7 or win8 from usb,it always complain the gpt partition and cannot install.What should I do? It's impossible to install Windows into a GPT partition if the firmware isn't EFI. This is a limitation artificially set by Microsoft; here's Microsoft's FAQ on this. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/gg463525.aspx In this case, you must either revert to an msdos partition table (can be done w/o data loss IIRC), or trick Windows into believing it's running on EFI, i.e. set up UEFI DUET. Google that and you'll find an excellent HOWTO on this. Happy hacking~
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?
On Tuesday 10 Sep 2013 16:48:24 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: Try [adding] -userpriv to your FEATURES (as in FEATURES=-userpriv) in make.conf Nope. Didn't help. I see mention of usersync in the bug conversation, but I don't know what that means. I'll just wait for the fixed version, I think. -- Regards, Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] why does revdep-rebuild object to mounting /var on /mnt/var ?
On Mon, Sep 09 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 10/09/2013 00:26, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Mon, Sep 09 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:51 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: In fstab I have /dev/vg/var /mnt/var ext4 defaults 0 2 I also have lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Aug 31 16:13 /var - mnt/var This has worked ok but revdep-rebuild is not happy I think it's the symlink the thing that is making revdep-rebuild unhappy. Have you tried to bind mount /mnt/var into /var? mount -o bind /mnt/var /var Works great. Thanks. To make it permanent I put /mnt/var /var ext4 bind 0 0 right under /dev/vg/var /mnt/var ext4 defaults 0 2 in /etc/fstab I'm curious as to why you do that, I can't see any benefit at all. The var filesystem is an LV and is only useful if it is mounted at /var where packages expect it to be. Why add the extra complexity of mounting it somewhere else and then bind mounting it to the pnly place it can be useful? An old habit/belief that mounts go in /mnt. Since both revdep-rebuild and you believe this is a bad habit, I now mount directly on /var /opt. There's rules of thumb about this that will always work: No object in /tmp can be expected to survive successive invocations of the program that created the object, and never survive a reboot; No object in /var/tmp can be expected to survive a reboot The best place for temp files, ironically, is ~ I set tmpwatch and wipe_tmp so that files survive in /tmp and /var/tmp for a month. I don't like ~ for temp files since on some, admittedly rare, occasions I actually use the gnome gui file manager and don't want a huge ~. I have long ago created ~/tmp (also cleaned after a month by tmpwatch) so the only problem is breaking the habit of placing short-term files in /tmp instead of ~/tmp. I realize that habit is bad for my (system's) health, but still find it hard to break. I shall try again. Perhaps this is very mild form of what intelligent smokers feel :-). allan
Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address
I don't have access to a Gentoo box atm. But there is an option in /etc/conf.d/net for this. Check the net.example file. -- Joost Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Does anybody know how to spoof mac address on Gentoo? I want to connect a machine directly to the modem but if I do so my static IP will change; so to retain static IP I want to spoof mac address on one of my machine to the same MAC as on my router. -- Joseph -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Does anybody know how to spoof mac address on Gentoo? I want to connect a machine directly to the modem but if I do so my static IP will change; so to retain static IP I want to spoof mac address on one of my machine to the same MAC as on my router. emerge -v net-analyzer/macchanger macchanger --mac=00:11:22:33:44:55 device Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 03:13:50PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 10 Sep 2013 07:18:11 Dale wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: Is it working for you, Dale? :-) So far, so good. I been using unstable, except for the version, for quite a while. Are you saying something is broke and it works for me?? O_O Seriously?? This is a joke right?? No joke, I assure you. As Markos pointed out, a bug has already been opened, and I fell over it with a vanilla make.conf. Unless someone knows of a work-around, I'll stick with the old version of portage until the bug-fix reaches the stable system. Try to add -userpriv to your FEATURES (as in FEATURES=-userpriv) in make.conf WKR Hinnerk signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address
Al 10/09/2013 19:47, En/na Joseph ha escrit: Does anybody know how to spoof mac address on Gentoo? I want to connect a machine directly to the modem but if I do so my static IP will change; so to retain static IP I want to spoof mac address on one of my machine to the same MAC as on my router. ifconfig yournetdevice hw ether 00:00:de:ad:be:ef
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?
On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:28:55 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?: On Tuesday 10 Sep 2013 16:48:24 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: Try [adding] -userpriv to your FEATURES (as in FEATURES=-userpriv) in make.conf Nope. Didn't help. I see mention of usersync in the bug conversation, but I don't know what that means. I'll just wait for the fixed version, I think. I did the following: chown -R portage:portage /usr/portage /var/lib/portage /usr/local/portage and that fixed things. This assumes you use a userid of portage in a group named portage to maintain your system. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address
On Tuesday 10 Sep 2013 19:05:59 jo...@antarean.org wrote: I don't have access to a Gentoo box atm. But there is an option in /etc/conf.d/net for this. Check the net.example file. mac_eth0=00:11:22:33:44:55 You will also need to set up PPPoE with username and password for authenticating on your ISP's radius server, unless your modem is in half- bridge mode. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] bios+gpt+grub2 boot windows
On 10.09.2013 19:14, Wang Xuerui wrote: 2013/9/10 东方巽雷 dongfangxun...@gmail.com: I format my hard disk to gpt.Then create a 1M partition at the header of hard disk ,add bios_grub flag.I can install and boot gentoo,debain and archlinux,but have no idea how to boot windows7 and 8.When I boot win7 or win8 from usb,it always complain the gpt partition and cannot install.What should I do? It's impossible to install Windows into a GPT partition if the firmware isn't EFI. This is a limitation artificially set by Microsoft; here's Microsoft's FAQ on this. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/gg463525.aspx Well, actually it *is* possible using hybrid MBR+GPT partitioning. http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html Also google for 'hybrid mbr'. I am using this setup for multibooting several OS incl. Win 7 without problems for a couple of years. In this case, you must either revert to an msdos partition table (can be done w/o data loss IIRC), or trick Windows into believing it's running on EFI, i.e. set up UEFI DUET. Google that and you'll find an excellent HOWTO on this. Happy hacking~ An interesting idea, yet, probably, a little more complicated than hybrid MBR for the sole purpose of multibooting. -- Best wishes, Yuri K. Shatroff
[gentoo-user] Gentoo on System76 laptop, and Netflix
I have an old (6-7 years?) Mac laptop which I mostly use for watching streaming Netflix movies, and ssh into work computers of one sort or another. It has one dead key (up arrow), another which is flaky, the screen brightness sometimes flickers, but it generally still works, mostly. My home computer is gentoo but a big server. At work I have a System76 laptop, Gazelle Pro I think, which has one of the best keyboards I have ever used of any type, so I have been thinking of getting one for myself. But it runs Ubuntu, and while that is ok for work, I'd get pretty tired of it on a personal computer. So, two questions: 1. Anyone have any experience installing gentoo on a System76 laptop? 2. If I use kvm/virsh, is it possible to install a Mac image to watch Netflix streaming movies? Or, yecch, Windows, but I'd really rather not try that, as I haven't touched Windows for 15-20 years and see no reason to enrich Boll Gates' pension. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. 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
[gentoo-user] creating overlay to modify net-fs/samba-3.6.18
Today I had quite a bit of issues while creating a local overlay to
modify samba. Got through all of them, but there were the following
issues which I wanted to bring up, because I am not sure whether I have
done anything wrong:
- I had created the overlay under /root/overlay, but this is causing
permission denied errors from ebuild when creating the Manifest file:
==
/usr/lib64/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 545:
/root/overlay/net-fs/samba/samba-3.6.18.ebuild: Permission denied
* ERROR: net-fs/samba-3.6.18::myoverlay failed (depend phase):
* error sourcing ebuild
*
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 545: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* source $EBUILD || die error sourcing ebuild
*
* If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info
'=net-fs/samba-3.6.18::myoverlay'`,
* the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv
'=net-fs/samba-3.6.18::myoverlay'`.
* Working directory: '/usr/lib64/portage/pym'
* S: '/var/tmp/portage/net-fs/samba-3.6.18/work/samba-3.6.18'
==
After trying many different things without luck, I tried using
/usr/local/portage as the overlay folder and the problem went away! So
my first question is, does ebuild have a special security feature which
prevents it from processing overlays under /root ?
- The second issue is eclass related. After I moved net-fs/samba under
/usr/local/portage, I got the following error during Manifest creation:
==
bonsai samba # ebuild samba-3.6.18.ebuild manifest
* ERROR: net-fs/samba-3.6.18::myoverlay failed (depend phase):
* pam.eclass could not be found by inherit()
*
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 545: Called source
'/usr/local/portage/net-fs/samba/samba-3.6.18.ebuild'
* samba-3.6.18.ebuild, line 7: Called inherit 'pam' 'versionator'
'multilib' 'eutils' 'systemd'
* ebuild.sh, line 257: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* [[ -z ${location} ]] die ${1}.eclass could not be
found by inherit()
*
* If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info
'=net-fs/samba-3.6.18::myoverlay'`,
* the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv
'=net-fs/samba-3.6.18::myoverlay'`.
* Working directory: '/usr/lib64/portage/pym'
* S: '/var/tmp/portage/net-fs/samba-3.6.18/work/samba-3.6.18'
==
To resolve this, I just copied /usr/portage/eclass to
/usr/local/portage/eclass. Is this a proper solution?
--
Timur Aydin
Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address
On 10/09/2013 19:47, Joseph wrote: Does anybody know how to spoof mac address on Gentoo? I want to connect a machine directly to the modem but if I do so my static IP will change; so to retain static IP I want to spoof mac address on one of my machine to the same MAC as on my router. If you have a host and a router with the same MAC address, how do you suppose ethernet will continue to work? Instead, rather do it right - your modem has a dhcp server. Configure it to supply a specific address to your host's MAC address. Or, just set the address statically in /etc/conf.d/net and don't use dhcp. Or, do you actually want to bridge the modem and do pppoe on the host instead of by the modem? in /etc/conf.c/net: mac_key_001122334455=s:foobar documented in /usr/share/doc/netifrc*/net.example.bz2 If you use a different network manager, consult that packages own docs on how to change mac addresses. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] why does revdep-rebuild object to mounting /var on /mnt/var ?
On 10/09/2013 18:57, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I'm curious as to why you do that, I can't see any benefit at all. The var filesystem is an LV and is only useful if it is mounted at /var where packages expect it to be. Why add the extra complexity of mounting it somewhere else and then bind mounting it to the pnly place it can be useful? An old habit/belief that mounts go in /mnt. Since both revdep-rebuild and you believe this is a bad habit, I now mount directly on /var /opt. Ah, OK. Technically a mount can go anywhere. Permanent mounts just go where they are supposed to go, and /mnt was a throwback to the bad old days where everything else was mounted at /mnt/something, including cdroms, filesystems you wanted to access quickly, windows partitions on a dual boot machine etc etc. or the gentoo partition during install before your chroot Then removeable media started being mounted in /media where the GUI could manage it and not have to deal with root-only permissions in /mnt Nowadays media goes in /run/media All very confusing and hard to keep up with. It's like trying to figure out what politicians and your boss happen to be talking about today :-) There's rules of thumb about this that will always work: No object in /tmp can be expected to survive successive invocations of the program that created the object, and never survive a reboot; No object in /var/tmp can be expected to survive a reboot The best place for temp files, ironically, is ~ I set tmpwatch and wipe_tmp so that files survive in /tmp and /var/tmp for a month. I don't like ~ for temp files since on some, admittedly rare, occasions I actually use the gnome gui file manager and don't want a huge ~. I have long ago created ~/tmp (also cleaned after a month by tmpwatch) so the only problem is breaking the habit of placing short-term files in /tmp instead of ~/tmp. OK, I get it. I'd write all that temp stuff to /var/tmp so it doesn't get nuked by something cleverly trying to manage /tmp. I often feel the same way about ~/.xsession-errors. I have to restrain myself from symlinking it to /dev/null :-) I realize that habit is bad for my (system's) health, but still find it hard to break. I shall try again. Perhaps this is very mild form of what intelligent smokers feel :-). There is no such thing as an intelligent smoker; there are only stupid smokers :-) I'm a two-packs-a-day man myself, I speak from many years experience! -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] creating overlay to modify net-fs/samba-3.6.18
On 10/09/2013 22:11, Timur Aydin wrote: Today I had quite a bit of issues while creating a local overlay to modify samba. Got through all of them, but there were the following issues which I wanted to bring up, because I am not sure whether I have done anything wrong: - I had created the overlay under /root/overlay, but this is causing permission denied errors from ebuild when creating the Manifest file: Do you have userpriv set in FEATURES? That makes emerge run as portage which cannot read /root. Putting things like code, data and configs in /root is universally a bad idea. Do not do this. Put such things in the usual places, protected by orthodox permissions, just like every other package on your system. Your local overlay is no different to the tree and does not require special handling. [snip] After trying many different things without luck, I tried using /usr/local/portage as the overlay folder and the problem went away! So my first question is, does ebuild have a special security feature which prevents it from processing overlays under /root ? No, you just had the overlay in a highly unusual place. - The second issue is eclass related. After I moved net-fs/samba under /usr/local/portage, I got the following error during Manifest creation: == bonsai samba # ebuild samba-3.6.18.ebuild manifest * ERROR: net-fs/samba-3.6.18::myoverlay failed (depend phase): * pam.eclass could not be found by inherit() [snip] To resolve this, I just copied /usr/portage/eclass to /usr/local/portage/eclass. Is this a proper solution? No, that copies ALL the eclasses and is likely to really mess things up. In fact, you should not have had to do anything with eclasses at all. I suspect your make.conf is faulty. What is the contents of make.conf? what is ls -al $PORTDIR/eclass/pam.eclass -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address
My connection to my provider is kind of slow, so they suggested I connect one of the box directly to the cable modem. Since I have a dynamic IP (that hardly ever changes), I'll disconnect the router and configure one of my box to the same mac address has router eth0 has and connect it to the mode. This should ensure that my IP will not change. All I want to do is to run a test speed from: testmy.net -- Joseph On 09/10/13 23:10, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 10/09/2013 19:47, Joseph wrote: Does anybody know how to spoof mac address on Gentoo? I want to connect a machine directly to the modem but if I do so my static IP will change; so to retain static IP I want to spoof mac address on one of my machine to the same MAC as on my router. If you have a host and a router with the same MAC address, how do you suppose ethernet will continue to work? Instead, rather do it right - your modem has a dhcp server. Configure it to supply a specific address to your host's MAC address. Or, just set the address statically in /etc/conf.d/net and don't use dhcp. Or, do you actually want to bridge the modem and do pppoe on the host instead of by the modem? in /etc/conf.c/net: mac_key_001122334455=s:foobar documented in /usr/share/doc/netifrc*/net.example.bz2 If you use a different network manager, consult that packages own docs on how to change mac addresses. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address
I forgot to mention. My router is an old 486-box running freesco. So I'm trying to find out if the router is the problem with slow connection. as my download speed on cable is only 3.7Mbps and it should be about 15Mbps up to 25Mbps upload speed is 1.5Mbps -- Joseph On 09/10/13 23:10, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 10/09/2013 19:47, Joseph wrote: Does anybody know how to spoof mac address on Gentoo? I want to connect a machine directly to the modem but if I do so my static IP will change; so to retain static IP I want to spoof mac address on one of my machine to the same MAC as on my router. If you have a host and a router with the same MAC address, how do you suppose ethernet will continue to work? Instead, rather do it right - your modem has a dhcp server. Configure it to supply a specific address to your host's MAC address. Or, just set the address statically in /etc/conf.d/net and don't use dhcp. Or, do you actually want to bridge the modem and do pppoe on the host instead of by the modem? in /etc/conf.c/net: mac_key_001122334455=s:foobar documented in /usr/share/doc/netifrc*/net.example.bz2 If you use a different network manager, consult that packages own docs on how to change mac addresses. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address
On Tuesday 10 Sep 2013 22:38:35 Joseph wrote: My connection to my provider is kind of slow, so they suggested I connect one of the box directly to the cable modem. Since I have a dynamic IP (that hardly ever changes), I'll disconnect the router and configure one of my box to the same mac address has router eth0 has and connect it to the mode. You would normally also need to authenticate onto your ISP's network, a function previously performed by the modem. Unless you connect a router behind the modem to do the PPPoE authentication you will need to do this at the PC. This should ensure that my IP will not change. There is a possibility that you will pick up a new IP address if your connection resync's. All I want to do is to run a test speed from: testmy.net I will be *really* surprised if you see a difference in speed in any way attributable to the change you want to implement at the modem. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] creating overlay to modify net-fs/samba-3.6.18
On 09/11/13 00:01, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Do you have userpriv set in FEATURES?
That makes emerge run as portage which cannot read /root.
Here is the value of FEATURES, based on the output of emerge --info:
FEATURES=assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified
distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch
preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn
unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync
So as you say, userpriv is set and it explains why /root/overlay doesn't
work.
I suspect your make.conf is faulty.
What is the contents of make.conf?
what is ls -al $PORTDIR/eclass/pam.eclass
Here are the contents of /etc/portage/make.conf:
==
# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically
# built this stage.
# Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a more
# detailed example.
CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
# WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should be done lightly.
# Please consult http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml before
changing.
CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
# These are the USE flags that were used in addition to what is provided
by the
# profile used for building.
MAKEOPTS=-j8
GENTOO_MIRRORS=ftp://ftp.linux.org.tr/pub/gentoo;
USE=nptl nptlonly unicode minizip tk udev python threads xvfb perl dlz
caps sqlite upcall systemd -gtk2 -gtk3 -acl
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64
ACCEPT_LICENSE=*
VIDEO_CARDS=intel
INPUT_DEVICES=evdev keyboard mouse
FEATURES=-test
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage
==
And here is the pam.eclass perms:
bonsai ~ # ls -al /usr/portage/eclass/pam.eclass
-rw-r--r-- 1 portage portage 6455 Aug 5 2012
/usr/portage/eclass/pam.eclass
[gentoo-user] spoof mac address
Does anybody know how to spoof mac address on Gentoo? I want to connect a machine directly to the modem but if I do so my static IP will change; so to retain static IP I want to spoof mac address on one of my machine to the same MAC as on my router. -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address
On 09/10/13 21:11, Albert wrote: Al 10/09/2013 19:47, En/na Joseph ha escrit: Does anybody know how to spoof mac address on Gentoo? I want to connect a machine directly to the modem but if I do so my static IP will change; so to retain static IP I want to spoof mac address on one of my machine to the same MAC as on my router. ifconfig yournetdevice hw ether 00:00:de:ad:be:ef Yes, that is what I did: # ifconfig net0 down # ifconfig net0 hw ether 00:21:5A:9B:00:F2 # ifconfig net0 up Now how to reset to the original mac address, without restarting. -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address
On 09/10/13 22:48, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 10 Sep 2013 22:38:35 Joseph wrote: My connection to my provider is kind of slow, so they suggested I connect one of the box directly to the cable modem. Since I have a dynamic IP (that hardly ever changes), I'll disconnect the router and configure one of my box to the same mac address has router eth0 has and connect it to the mode. You would normally also need to authenticate onto your ISP's network, a function previously performed by the modem. Unless you connect a router behind the modem to do the PPPoE authentication you will need to do this at the PC. This should ensure that my IP will not change. There is a possibility that you will pick up a new IP address if your connection resync's. All I want to do is to run a test speed from: testmy.net I will be *really* surprised if you see a difference in speed in any way attributable to the change you want to implement at the modem. -- Regards, Mick I just changed the MAC and I got the same IP from the shaw modem but you are correct the speed did not improved I got only 4Mbps down. -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address
On 10/09/2013 23:50, Joseph wrote: I forgot to mention. My router is an old 486-box running freesco. So I'm trying to find out if the router is the problem with slow connection. as my download speed on cable is only 3.7Mbps and it should be about 15Mbps up to 25Mbps upload speed is 1.5Mbps What speed NIC do you have in that 486? 10M? 100M? And is it running full duplex? 3.7M is, IIRC, about what I'd expect from 10M half-duplex. NIC cards of that era were prone to getting auto-negotiation badly wrong. Even an old 486 should be able to deal with 100M traffic easily. Even so, I'd still not trust your cable provider's advice. There is still a good chance the problem really is with the cable connection. -- Joseph On 09/10/13 23:10, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 10/09/2013 19:47, Joseph wrote: Does anybody know how to spoof mac address on Gentoo? I want to connect a machine directly to the modem but if I do so my static IP will change; so to retain static IP I want to spoof mac address on one of my machine to the same MAC as on my router. If you have a host and a router with the same MAC address, how do you suppose ethernet will continue to work? Instead, rather do it right - your modem has a dhcp server. Configure it to supply a specific address to your host's MAC address. Or, just set the address statically in /etc/conf.d/net and don't use dhcp. Or, do you actually want to bridge the modem and do pppoe on the host instead of by the modem? in /etc/conf.c/net: mac_key_001122334455=s:foobar documented in /usr/share/doc/netifrc*/net.example.bz2 If you use a different network manager, consult that packages own docs on how to change mac addresses. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address
On 09/11/13 00:44, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 10/09/2013 23:50, Joseph wrote: I forgot to mention. My router is an old 486-box running freesco. So I'm trying to find out if the router is the problem with slow connection. as my download speed on cable is only 3.7Mbps and it should be about 15Mbps up to 25Mbps upload speed is 1.5Mbps What speed NIC do you have in that 486? 10M? 100M? And is it running full duplex? 3.7M is, IIRC, about what I'd expect from 10M half-duplex. NIC cards of that era were prone to getting auto-negotiation badly wrong. Even an old 486 should be able to deal with 100M traffic easily. Even so, I'd still not trust your cable provider's advice. There is still a good chance the problem really is with the cable connection. I called shaw tech.support and we did all kind of testing, with box connected directly to the modem (by-passing the router); no difference. So they've scheduled technician to test it, they suspect it could be a modem itself. -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] why does revdep-rebuild object to mounting /var on /mnt/var ?
On Tue, Sep 10 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 10/09/2013 18:57, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: There's rules of thumb about this that will always work: No object in /tmp can be expected to survive successive invocations of the program that created the object, and never survive a reboot; No object in /var/tmp can be expected to survive a reboot The best place for temp files, ironically, is ~ I set tmpwatch and wipe_tmp so that files survive in /tmp and /var/tmp for a month. I don't like ~ for temp files since on some, admittedly rare, occasions I actually use the gnome gui file manager and don't want a huge ~. I have long ago created ~/tmp (also cleaned after a month by tmpwatch) so the only problem is breaking the habit of placing short-term files in /tmp instead of ~/tmp. OK, I get it. I'd write all that temp stuff to /var/tmp so it doesn't get nuked by something cleverly trying to manage /tmp. But A. McKinnon says (above) that an always valid rule of thumb is No object in /var/tmp can be expected to survive a reboot. I realize that habit is bad for my (system's) health, but still find it hard to break. I shall try again. Perhaps this is very mild form of what intelligent smokers feel :-). There is no such thing as an intelligent smoker; there are only stupid smokers :-) I'm a two-packs-a-day man myself, I speak from many years experience! I promise not to mention it again, but you really should quit. I consider one of my contributions to computer architecture is being at least a little influential in getting Per Stenstrom to quit. At the time he was a rising star, who I felt would contribute greatly if he didn't get sick from the cigs. He did quit and has certainly contributed. allan
Re: [gentoo-user] bios+gpt+grub2 boot windows
2013/9/11 Yuri K. Shatroff yks-...@yandex.ru: Well, actually it *is* possible using hybrid MBR+GPT partitioning. http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html Also google for 'hybrid mbr'. I am using this setup for multibooting several OS incl. Win 7 without problems for a couple of years. I almost forgot about hybrid MBRs... also it's fragile indeed, so I probably won't recommend it even if I thought about it in the first place. In this case, you must either revert to an msdos partition table (can be done w/o data loss IIRC), or trick Windows into believing it's running on EFI, i.e. set up UEFI DUET. Google that and you'll find an excellent HOWTO on this. Happy hacking~ An interesting idea, yet, probably, a little more complicated than hybrid MBR for the sole purpose of multibooting. I've tried that on a VirtualBox VM last year, and I'd like to point out that describing the process as a little more complicated is serious underestimation. :D
Re: [gentoo-user] bios+gpt+grub2 boot windows
I have solved my problem by using uefi shell.My pc bios can load uefi shell from usb fat32 partition. Thank you. 2013/9/11 Wang Xuerui idontknw.w...@gmail.com 2013/9/11 Yuri K. Shatroff yks-...@yandex.ru: Well, actually it *is* possible using hybrid MBR+GPT partitioning. http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html Also google for 'hybrid mbr'. I am using this setup for multibooting several OS incl. Win 7 without problems for a couple of years. I almost forgot about hybrid MBRs... also it's fragile indeed, so I probably won't recommend it even if I thought about it in the first place. In this case, you must either revert to an msdos partition table (can be done w/o data loss IIRC), or trick Windows into believing it's running on EFI, i.e. set up UEFI DUET. Google that and you'll find an excellent HOWTO on this. Happy hacking~ An interesting idea, yet, probably, a little more complicated than hybrid MBR for the sole purpose of multibooting. I've tried that on a VirtualBox VM last year, and I'd like to point out that describing the process as a little more complicated is serious underestimation. :D
