Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz
Arrgh, trying to do it from memory! Thanks for the correction. On Wednesday 14 December 2005 15:41, Robert Crawford wrote: On Wednesday 14 December 2005 09:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't /etc/package/provides the proper way to do this as inject is deprecated? It's: /etc/portage/profile/package.provided From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OO.o 2?
Use /etc/portages/package.keywords to put this in. app-office/openoffice ~x86 With what you did you will use ~x86 on everything. On Thursday 22 December 2005 00:56, Martin S wrote: Before my crash I had installed OpenOffice 2 on Gentoo, now going by ~x86 (again!) I still am not getting to emerge OO.o 2. It is ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 in /etc/make.conf isn't it? Regards, Martin S -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE without aRts?
I don't run arts and things seem to work but as someone else pointed out skype needs artsd. I have -arts in my make.conf. As for all those packages the -D makes it also do dependencies. On Saturday 31 December 2005 15:27, Abhay Kedia wrote: Hi, I am currently running a KDE 3.5 system with arts in /etc/make.conf but now experiencing serious problems with it. In my quest to remove arts I tried to do a USE=-arts emerge -upDNv world and found that emerge wants to recompile 134 packages!!! I am a bit sceptical in letting emerge take such a big step so I wanted to take advice from people with first hand experiences on running KDE without arts (if any). What all problems should I expect by putting a -arts in /etc/make.conf? I tried searching on Google and Gentoo Forums but could not find anything conclusive. Also, I like to use JuK as my audio player and use Skype extensively. Will disabling arts trouble me? Is it a must to run a sound server? Here I would like to mention that I am using an on-board sound card (Intel HDA) which does not have hardware mixing but iirc ALSA's dmix has taken over the software mixing stuff now. So do I need a sound server AT ALL? If yes then will running JACK suffice? I have been reading a lot about JACK lately but don't know how it is faring on single user desktop systems. I will be highly thankful for any insights. TIA Regards, Abhay -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about Portage Update
First check and see if a newer version is available but masked. You can do ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -s ruby and see what you get. Disclaimer - DO NOT install it using the ACCEPT_KEYWORD! If a newer version is there then update the /etc/portage/package.keyword file. To contribute create an ebuild and submit it on bugzilla. First search bugzilla to see if it's already there. If Rail is maintained you might also contact the maintainer to see what his plans are. On Sunday 01 January 2006 15:18, William Gabriel wrote: Hello and Happy New Year to everybody: I want to start this post off by stressing that I am not complaining, but merely inquiring. I have recently become interested in learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I installed Ruby onto my system using Portage, and it happened to be the version (1.8.2) required for Rails. My main question has to do with about how Portage gets updated. Is there some central authority that updates the repository, or is it any user that is interested in making a Portage package? How often does software get updated (it seems like Ruby was pretty close to up-to-date, but Rails was a little behind). Is there any way that I can help update the package? Is there documentation for updating packages? And where would I find the 0.13.1 package source so that I have a base to work with? And then how wou submit the new package to the central repository? Thanks, Bill -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail
For what you're doing you don't need the MTA or MDAs. I just installed KDE 3.4 on one of my Gentoo systems and all I did was goto the accounts setup and point it at bellsouth mailserver, enter the username,etc. and it worked. KDE allows you to set up several accounts as you know and handles them very well. Maybe to got Settings-configure kmail and set up a new test account that only goes to Bellsouth. On Tuesday 03 January 2006 09:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 03 January 2006 02:10, a tiny voice compelled Rumen Yotov to write: On (02/01/06 17:31), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ernie, are you doing anything special here? I'm running KDE and simply went into the accounts and set up my pop server (mail.bellsouth.net) and it works. Same for T-bird. BTW, look at Korn for a newsreader . I'm not trying to do anything special... just get kmail to send mail. I have a bellsouth account as well as a Netplex account. Both were set up for pop server and worked fine until I deleted old KDE versions and did some house cleaning. It would seem that I removed what ever is supposed to handle authentication to my ISP's SMTP server, or possibly I borked some config file somewhere. IIRC, when I installed Gentoo 3 years ago, I set it up to use the reccomended MTA, and everything just worked. I can't tell what, if anything I may have done to blow the mail sending, but, in all honesty, I've tried a lot of ways to fix this and am unsure of all the changes I've made. What MTA are you using? I've seen in my searches something written about MDA's but can't find out what, if any MDA I should be running or what an MDA does. snip -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives
I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID (I'm using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives which aren't holding up too well) and am looking at going with SATA. Some input from the those with recommendations or experiences would be appreciated. 1. SATA Controllers - I see a bunch listed in menuconfig but what have you found to work? Is Promise any good? What are some good brands 2. Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable and work well. I've crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience with the Ultrastores. Thank you. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list problems
It's working here. On Sunday 08 January 2006 20:52, Jamie Dobbs wrote: Are there issues with the mailing lists at the moment? I have made a few posts in the last 2-3 hours that have yet to show up on the lists. I've also noticed considerably less traffic on the lists in recent days, could this be due to a general email slow down due to an increase in spam email traffic? -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives
Thanks, Mark, for the info. Sounds like I need to avoid ATI G. I'm in a position where I have a motherboard that doesn't support SATA so I can either go IDE or SATA and going SATA appears to be the future way. That means I have to add a card. Wat the Promise used on a Linux system? Sounds like I'll pass on Seagate - we used to say the made IDE and DOA drives G. Thanks. On Sunday 08 January 2006 21:07, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi Brett On 1/8/06, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID (I'm using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives which aren't holding up too well) and am looking at going with SATA. Some input from the those with recommendations or experiences would be appreciated. 1. SATA Controllers - I see a bunch listed in menuconfig but what have you found to work? Is Promise any good? What are some good brands I have no experience with SATA cards so this may be useless info. I've used Promise SATA on a 2 year old machine at my dad's house, NVidia SATA in my AMD64 machine and ATI SATA in my Pundit-R Myth frontend machines. Of the three the ATI has worked pretty badly in terms of performance. All have been reliable so far. 2. Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable and work well. I've crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience with the Ultrastores. I'm at wit's end about Seagate drives. I bought 3 80GB Seagates from Newegg. The produced all sorts of strange messages in my dmesg files and I sent them back. This was on the ATI Pundit-R machines. I've used WD SATA drives in the other machines, 80GB and 250GB. They have worked really well. Again, it's pretty limited info and probably not very useful in terms of buying an adapter card, etc. Good luck, Mark -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Video recording
I have some VHS tapes I want to record to DVD. I have an Nvidia GeForce3 - TI500 card with Composite Input. For those who have done this what software do you recommend to record the VHS, edit the recording, and then write it to DVD. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives
I'd love to keep this card (it has 256MB of ram, too) but the problem is that it's running six IBM/Hitachi Ultrastore drives - all of which are useless. They keep going bad and even though they are under warranty and get replaced I can't build a system that keeps working for any period of time. Unfortunately, SCSI drives are expensive and I can't afford them at this time. So I'm looking at going to something more affordable that will let me run. This is a home workstation although I would like to do some audio work with it. On Sunday 08 January 2006 22:24, kashani wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID (I'm using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives which aren't holding up too well) and am looking at going with SATA. Some input from the those with recommendations or experiences would be appreciated. Seeing as that's a real RAID card, complete with an onboard cache of up to 256MB RAM, I'd try to replace it with something as good or better. That qualification pretty much eliminates 90% of the SATA cards out there. Most of them are consumer grade with no caching and usually no RAID processing since they're doing it in the driver. I've had good luck with 3ware cards and whatever OEM Adaptec AAC RAID card Dell includes in their machines these days. kashani -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video recording
Thanks. I'll look it up. On Monday 09 January 2006 13:26, James wrote: Brett I. Holcomb brettholcomb at bellsouth.net writes: For those who have done this what software do you recommend to record the VHS, edit the recording, and then write it to DVD. The linux Journal had an article on 'kino' some time ago you might find useful. hth, James -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives
That is very nice to know. I like the price G. Thank you for this and the drive info. On Monday 09 January 2006 10:35, Bill Roberts wrote: I just bought this sata controller: SYBA SY-VIA-150 PCI SATA /IDE Combo Controller Card, Non Raid Cost was $11.60 at Newegg. Gives you two satas, one ide. Only has one sata cable with it, and you will need sata power-adapters, depending on the sata drives you buy. Works well with the following kernel settings. CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=y CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=y Good luck. Bill Roberts On 20:50 Sun 08 Jan , Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID (I'm using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives which aren't holding up too well) and am looking at going with SATA. Some input from the those with recommendations or experiences would be appreciated. 1. SATA Controllers - I see a bunch listed in menuconfig but what have you found to work? Is Promise any good? What are some good brands 2. Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable and work well. I've crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience with the Ultrastores. Thank you. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives
Thanks. I'll look at them. Anyone want any used IBM 36 Gig SCSI Ultra 3 drives G. On Monday 09 January 2006 11:38, maxim wexler wrote: 2. Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable and work well. I've crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience with the Ultrastores. Western Digital works OK for me. in my .config: CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_NV=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL=y __ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vmware workstation daemon problem
This post came at a good time. I had just installed vmplayer on my XP box at work so I could run Linux and have some real mail and news programs. So I decided to try it on gentoo. Emerged it and it wouldn't configure - kept whining it couldn't stop vmware - of course not it wasn't running. I did what you suggested in the first post and got it to configure. I then did what you suggested here. However, when I do /etc/init.d/vmware the first time it did this: * Starting VMware services: [ ok ] * Virtual machine monitor [ !! ] * Virtual ethernet [ !! ] * Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 [ !! ] * Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background)[ ok ] * Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background)[ ok ] * NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 [ !! ] After that I get this when I try and start vmware. [EMAIL PROTECTED] init.d # /etc/init.d/vmware start VMware Player is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for the running kernel. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command: /opt/vmware/player/bin/vmware-config.pl. If I run vmware-config.pl it complains it can't stop it. I even repeated the steps in your first post. Any ideas on what might be wrong? Thanks. On Sunday 15 January 2006 00:50, Halo0784 (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: well for /etc/init.d/vmware all it does is makes a pretty output to a call to the /etc/vmware/init.d/vmware file but an append to my earlier post after following the instructions for the install created by the vmware-config script we can use the following commands to clean up what tweak we did mv /etc/init.d/old-vmware /etc/init.d/vmware rc-update add vmware default now it is safe to reboot with the original gentoo script ive done this tweaked install on 3 systems so far and all have been 100% safe and installed correctly infact im useing IE6 in a full windows xp install running in vmware as i post this =) all with a very big smile to know that windows will no longer die when i dont want it to -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/vmware-workstation-daemon-problem-t720417.html#a23866 92 Sent from the gentoo-user forum at Nabble.com. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vmware workstation daemon problem
I had the unloadable modules. I then reran config today and it worked - config.pl created a new setup. I turned the system on this morning so maybe that did it. Can you explain host vs bridge vs other network options? I want to have vmplayer use the same IP address as the system it's running on. Thanks. On Sunday 15 January 2006 01:46, Halo0784 (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: do you have module unloading compiled into your kernel? if not this is needed because of how the /etc/vmware/init.d/vmware script works also a debug check list first check for your vm modules lsmod this should show you your vmmon / vmnet modules also check your /dev folder for your vm files ls -l /dev/vm* this should show you vmmon / vmnet / vmnet0 and so on lastly if you find that you have module unloading support and all the above check out fine do rc-update add vmware default then just reboot a very windows approach to this i know but im lzy and it will do 2 things... 1) shows you that your install is goin good (if u reboot and vmware does'nt work then it aint a good install) 2) deals with any modules that may be loaded in as perment, im sure there may be a better way but ... im lzy =) as you reboot you should see the vm services load with the typical [ok] login then run your vmware as you would normally. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/vmware-workstation-daemon-problem-t720417.html#a23869 00 Sent from the gentoo-user forum at Nabble.com. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vmware workstation daemon problem
Hmm, I'll have to think about this. At work I'm running vmplayer on XP and at home I have it on Gentoo. For work, at this point I just want to have the vmplayer session to run Linux mail and news clients (because Windows doesn't have anything worthwhile). This is at work and I have a static IP address that is allowed through to the outside so I have to use the address of the host. Where do I find docs that go into all of this? Thank you for the explanation. On Sunday January 15 2006 20:05, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/15/06, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you explain host vs bridge vs other network options? I want to have vmplayer use the same IP address as the system it's running on. The closest to what you said would be NAT networking. In this case, the guest receives an address on a private network, but can communicate with the outside world using the host's address. However, nothing on the outside can get services from your guest. If you want your guest to provide services to the rest of your network, you need bridged networking. In this case, both the host and the guest show up on the network at different MAC addresses, and thus can get different IP addresses. It is just like if they were separate computers. Host networking is only if you do not want the guest to communicate with the outside at all. The only machine it can communicate with is the host (or other guests) on a private network. You can actually create multiple network cards for the guest using any combination of the above. I have used host-only networking to provide samba shares to the guest, without exporting them to the rest of the world, plus a bridged network connection for the guest to participate in the LAN. -Richard -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID
I'm moving from SCSI to SATA and was wondering if anyone has any experience with the speed of software RAID vs hardware RAID. I'm currently using hardware RAID. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID
Thanks for the in-the-field experience. My feeling was as you indicated that CPUs are cheap and powerful so they can do the work. However, I like to hear from others who have been there! On Thursday January 19 2006 14:39, Mike Williams wrote: On Thursday 19 January 2006 18:33, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I'm moving from SCSI to SATA and was wondering if anyone has any experience with the speed of software RAID vs hardware RAID. I'm currently using hardware RAID. I think the general consensus is that now CPUs are so cheap, and so powerful, that they can quite easily offset the extra horsepower needed, unless your workload is heavily CPU bound. -- Mike Williams -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list
Check out man equery. On Thursday January 19 2006 19:25, Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Easy? Software Products
Use the root password - it's looking for root's login and password. At least that's how mine works. On Saturday January 21 2006 13:22, maxim wexler wrote: Hi, Welcome to my leaner, stripped-to-the-basics, I-can't-setup-my-printer thread. Come in, make yourself at home. Much roomier here, as you can see. Ok, so you click on 'Do Administrative Tasks' at that place of mystery http://localhost:631/ and it asks you for your username and password and you give it your username and password and it asks you again and again...and as often as it asks, you give until you can give no more! Now what do you do? -mw __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't browse WinXP shares from gentoo
You might want to uncheck simple file sharing in the file options and see if that works. On Saturday January 21 2006 19:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 11:45:38PM +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: I can access my Windows XP Pro's shares with out user name or password quite successfully. Using both xsmbrowser and mounting them in the terminal. Are you sure that the other XP machines on the network dont also require a password to access the shares? Did you have to do anything special to enable that kind of sharing? This is the only Windows box on the network (it's my local home LAN), so I don't have anything else to use as a comparison or reference. shrug Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Konqueror and scripts
I'm running KDE 3.4 and on some sites Konqueror pops up a dialog telling me some script is causing KHTML problems - it may freeze things up. If I hit continue Konqueror continues and all is well. Firefox handles these pages so I assume it's some setting but I haven't found it. Any ideas on what it might be. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives
Well, I have this controller - it arrived today. Did you have to do anything to get I've booted the LiveCD and the controller is listed in lspci. However, EVMS doesn't show any volumes nor does anything show up under scsi in /dev/ I haven't found anything on the list or forum that has helped yet Thanks. On Monday January 9 2006 10:35, Bill Roberts wrote: I just bought this sata controller: SYBA SY-VIA-150 PCI SATA /IDE Combo Controller Card, Non Raid Cost was $11.60 at Newegg. Gives you two satas, one ide. Only has one sata cable with it, and you will need sata power-adapters, depending on the sata drives you buy. Works well with the following kernel settings. CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=y CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=y Good luck. Bill Roberts On 20:50 Sun 08 Jan , Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID (I'm using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives which aren't holding up too well) and am looking at going with SATA. Some input from the those with recommendations or experiences would be appreciated. 1. SATA Controllers - I see a bunch listed in menuconfig but what have you found to work? Is Promise any good? What are some good brands 2. Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable and work well. I've crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience with the Ultrastores. Thank you. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives
Got it. I had to disable the onboard IDE - the docs indicated this controller would coexist with the on-board but evidently it doesn't. I'll do more research later. hopefully I can use one IDE on the motherboard so I can have my DVDs on two separate busses. On Wednesday February 1 2006 23:53, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Well, I have this controller - it arrived today. Did you have to do anything to get I've booted the LiveCD and the controller is listed in lspci. However, EVMS doesn't show any volumes nor does anything show up under scsi in /dev/ I haven't found anything on the list or forum that has helped yet Thanks. On Monday January 9 2006 10:35, Bill Roberts wrote: I just bought this sata controller: SYBA SY-VIA-150 PCI SATA /IDE Combo Controller Card, Non Raid Cost was $11.60 at Newegg. Gives you two satas, one ide. Only has one sata cable with it, and you will need sata power-adapters, depending on the sata drives you buy. Works well with the following kernel settings. CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=y CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=y Good luck. Bill Roberts On 20:50 Sun 08 Jan , Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID (I'm using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives which aren't holding up too well) and am looking at going with SATA. Some input from the those with recommendations or experiences would be appreciated. 1. SATA Controllers - I see a bunch listed in menuconfig but what have you found to work? Is Promise any good? What are some good brands 2. Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable and work well. I've crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience with the Ultrastores. Thank you. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Getting at archives on tapes
I have a scsi tape library and a backup program that creates datasets of tar files on the tapes. I gather each dataset is a tar file. I would like to be able to access each of these tar files. At this point I can tar -tvf /dev/tape0 and see the file that contains the tape label. But I can't get beyond that. I've tried skipping to the next file, records, set mark using mt with no luck. Any tips on how to do this? Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting at archives on tapes
Okay, I think I figured out what they are doing. They have a bunch of files for the labels. If I move forward using asf n where n is a number from 1-n I can walk through the label files. They take two files/label file so I go from 1 to 3 to 5 How do I get to this file to untar it? What I have is this when I do tar -tvf /dev/tape0n. -rw-rw 0/01994 2004-11-20 20:56:25 /tmp/fs_95.lbl Thanks. On Sunday February 5 2006 23:36, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/5/06, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a scsi tape library and a backup program that creates datasets of tar files on the tapes. I gather each dataset is a tar file. I would like to be able to access each of these tar files. At this point I can tar -tvf /dev/tape0 and see the file that contains the tape label. But I can't get beyond that. I've tried skipping to the next file, records, set mark using mt with no luck. mt is the correct command, but you need to make sure you are using a no-rewind tape device (ntape or nst0). Otherwise you will end up seeking to the next file, closing the file descriptor, which causes the driver to rewind the tape. -Richard -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help on install Gentoo on SATA disks
You might make sure that the modules for your SATA card are loaded. I have a SYBA card and it recognized it. On Tuesday February 7 2006 14:44, Ann wrote: I just tried to download the Gentoo Universal Code, burn CD, and then to install it. But i found my SATA disk sda hasn't been recognized. I tried load gentoo doscsi, still didn't work, can somebody help me out? Thanks in advance! -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting at archives on tapes
I dug up some docs and found the format is Tape label Fileset label First backupset Filesetlabel second backup set where each section/filemark begins a tar archive. Tape label is a file in Tar format that allows the program to identify the tape. Data following tape label are fileset/backup pairs that contain the data archived from a backup. If I cat or less the archive file created by the dd you suggested I get some test info about the fileset in ascii (see below). If I less the archive I get this info plus what looks like binary data. However, a tar -tvf of the tape or archive file from dd just gives me the /tmp/tapexx_lbl. The block size is 240 for the backup program and the tape is set to a blocksize of 0 for the SCSI tape. mt show this. SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=34, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x28 (Exabyte Mammoth-2). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (8101): EOF ONLINE IM_REP_EN This was designed to be retrieved by standard tar utilties but I guess I'm not using tar right G. You mentioned changing the dd block size - any suggestions? /tmp/fs_95.lbl010066003712101477727110007015 [Fileset Label] FS_BACKUP_TYPE=4 FS_START_DIR=/ FS_X_COMMAND=-fcbFVSa Library1 240 /usr/bp/lists.dir/sub95.inc -zSTATION=gandalf -zWHERE=/ -zVERIFY=2 FS_BLOCKSIZE=240 FS_NODE_NAME=gandalf On Tuesday February 7 2006 10:20, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/5/06, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I think I figured out what they are doing. They have a bunch of files for the labels. If I move forward using asf n where n is a number from 1-n I can walk through the label files. They take two files/label file so I go from 1 to 3 to 5 How do I get to this file to untar it? What I have is this when I do tar Thanks. Sorry for the slow response on this. It sounds like you don't really know the exact contents of the tapes, so I think you should do something like: # dd if=/dev/tape0n of=archive1 bs=10k # dd if=/dev/tape0n of=archive2 bs=10k ... # dd if=/dev/tape0n of=archiveN bs=10k This should give you a dump of all of the data on the tape, and then you can analyze it in more detail. You might have to fiddle with the bs= value above though. For some background info, tape devices generally write file marks between archives. So as long as you are using the no-rewind tape device and reading the full archive, you can usually just read them one after the other. The mt fsf command is mostly useful for skipping over archives. However, tape devices are not very consistent. Sometimes if you read just part of an archive and close it, the tape will automatically move to the next file mark. Other devices will require an mt fsf command to get to the next file mark. The asf command sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't. rewind and fsf is the safest method. -Richard On Sunday February 5 2006 23:36, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/5/06, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a scsi tape library and a backup program that creates datasets of tar files on the tapes. I gather each dataset is a tar file. I would like to be able to access each of these tar files. At this point I can tar -tvf /dev/tape0 and see the file that contains the tape label. But I can't get beyond that. I've tried skipping to the next file, records, set mark using mt with no luck. mt is the correct command, but you need to make sure you are using a no-rewind tape device (ntape or nst0). Otherwise you will end up seeking to the next file, closing the file descriptor, which causes the driver to rewind the tape. -Richard -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting at archives on tapes
Got it. tar -tvb 240 -f /dev/tape0n | more lists the files. I did some searching and found that the error (cannot allocate memory) sometimes shows up when the block size is wrong. For dd dd -if=/dev/tape0n -of=archive1 bs=240b did it. Thanks for the help. I got to delve a little deeper into tar, dd, and the tape. On Tuesday February 7 2006 10:20, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/5/06, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I think I figured out what they are doing. They have a bunch of files for the labels. If I move forward using asf n where n is a number from 1-n I can walk through the label files. They take two files/label file so I go from 1 to 3 to 5 # dd if=/dev/tape0n of=archive1 bs=10k # dd if=/dev/tape0n of=archive2 bs=10k ... # dd if=/dev/tape0n of=archiveN bs=10k This should give you a dump of all of the data on the tape, and then you can analyze it in more detail. You might have to fiddle with the bs= value above though. For some background info, tape devices generally write file marks between archives. So as long as you are using the no-rewind tape device and reading the full archive, you can usually just read them one after the other. The mt fsf command is mostly useful for skipping over archives. However, tape devices are not very consistent. Sometimes if you read just part of an archive and close it, the tape will automatically move to the next file mark. Other devices will require an mt fsf command to get to the next file mark. The asf command sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't. rewind and fsf is the safest method. -Richard On Sunday February 5 2006 23:36, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/5/06, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a scsi tape library and a backup program that creates datasets of tar files on the tapes. I gather each dataset is a tar file. I would like to be able to access each of these tar files. At this point I can tar -tvf /dev/tape0 and see the file that contains the tape label. But I can't get beyond that. I've tried skipping to the next file, records, set mark using mt with no luck. mt is the correct command, but you need to make sure you are using a no-rewind tape device (ntape or nst0). Otherwise you will end up seeking to the next file, closing the file descriptor, which causes the driver to rewind the tape. -Richard -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?
And he may have a good quality one but it's dying. I had to replace a PC Power and Cooling recently. After 5 years one of the voltages was dropping low. I finally caught it because on an alert by the motherboard monitor which gave me an alarm. That system was doing the same - lock up or quit for unexplained reasons. On Friday February 17 2006 10:43, Michael Kintzios wrote: -Original Message- From: Mrugesh Karnik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 February 2006 11:13 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably Snip The second and third I've tried. Fourth... Hmm, I'll try to do that. And yeah, the power cord is plugged in perfectly, I just checked. As already suggested the possibility of overheating can be ruled out if you use a domestic comfort cooling fan and with the case open you position it to blow across the MOBO and towards the back of the case. A low/medium setting from some distance is best as you want it to fan out enough to cover MOBO, drives, etc and not race the fans in the case to their maximum. I you still get shutdowns then look again at the power supply. I would heed advice already given - you get what you pay - so go for a good quality PSU with adequate rating for your system's needs. -- Regards, Mick -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?
It is a program provided by the motherboard manufacturer that monitors the status of the board. In this case it was an ASUS board on a windows system and their program is asusprobe. Linux uses lm-sensors if I remember correctly. On Sunday February 19 2006 14:54, Mick wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: And he may have a good quality one but it's dying. I had to replace a PC Power and Cooling recently. After 5 years one of the voltages was dropping low. I finally caught it because on an alert by the motherboard monitor which gave me an alarm. That system was doing the same - lock up or quit for unexplained reasons. motherboard monitor? Is that an application? -- Regards, Mick -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Motherboards
I need to purchase a motherboard that supports SATA and am looking for recommendations. I used to use ASUS but their support is non-existent and totally stupid. Unfortunately this will be for a Windows system but I'd like feedback on what is good and bad. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Motherboards
I have a Tyan Tiger and love it. However, it may be out of my price range at this time but they are first on my list, too! On Friday February 24 2006 20:50, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 24 February 2006 19:27, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Motherboards': I need to purchase a motherboard that supports SATA and am looking for recommendations. I used to use ASUS but their support is non-existent and totally stupid. Unfortunately this will be for a Windows system but I'd like feedback on what is good and bad. I like my Tyan dual-opteron, dual-16x-pci-e, dual-gb-ethernet board. Four sata ports, and firmware raid (nvraid). Even if you don't want or need all that, I still recommend Tyan. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboards
Thanks. I believe Tom's Hardware liked ASRock, too. I'll add them to my list. On Friday February 24 2006 21:02, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Saturday 25 February 2006 02:27, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I need to purchase a motherboard that supports SATA and am looking for recommendations. I used to use ASUS but their support is non-existent and totally stupid. Unfortunately this will be for a Windows system but I'd like feedback on what is good and bad. well, I like my Asrock DualSata2 - but I don't use Sata, so I can't say anything about the sata support. It should work. but no guarantees. But on the other hand, it has agppcie, onboard soundnetwork works and their support is better than the asus one ;) Oh, and it is passive cooled and has a socket upgrade slot. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboards
That's interesting. On Saturday February 25 2006 01:55, Jarry wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Thanks. I believe Tom's Hardware liked ASRock, too. I'll add them to my list. I need to purchase a motherboard that supports SATA and am looking for recommendations. I used to use ASUS but their support is non-existent AFAIK, ASRock is nothing else, then just daughter-company of ASUS, and its primary business-area are low-end (cheap) products which ASUS did not want to sell under name ASUS. But I do not say they it is a bad choice, personally I have ASUS mobo in my workstation and ASRock in one small server. And I'd say ASUS/ASRock support is the same... Jarry -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboards
Sounds like Asus took all the people who knew what they were doing and understood customer service and exiled them to ASRock G. That way the good ones don't contaminate Asus! On Saturday February 25 2006 07:35, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Saturday 25 February 2006 07:55, Jarry wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Thanks. I believe Tom's Hardware liked ASRock, too. I'll add them to my list. AFAIK, ASRock is nothing else, then just daughter-company of ASUS, and its primary business-area are low-end (cheap) products which ASUS did not want to sell under name ASUS. But I do not say they it is a bad choice, yes, Asrock is a daughter, in their 'how to build a computer' video, they even use Asus graphic cards, BUT: their support is better. They regularly release updated bios', and when I had a problem with my elderly scsi controller, I got an answer in less than 36h, which totally solved the problem. They officially don't support linux, but when some people had problems with the K7S8X and some knoppix versions, they released a bios, that fixed the problem in a few days. So they are good guys in my book ;) -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Teaching Linux to remember USB
Check out udev and set them up in the /etc/udev local file. The Gentoo site has docs on udev with links to some good references. On Sunday February 26 2006 15:12, daniel wrote: I have a number of USB devices. Card Reader, Flash drive, iPod, Camera etc. But every time I plug in my CF reader My machine assigns a different id to it. Sometimes it's /dev/sdb sometimes its /dev/sdg etc. It seems to be based on the order in which I plug the devices in, or maybe the port used, or both, I'm not sure. What I'd like to know is how to plug it in and have it always get the same id. Is this even possible? I just want my normal user to always be able to mount my flash drive without having to su to root to edit fstab first. Auto mounting would be cool as well but isn't necessary. I'm just trying to avoid hassle. Ideas? Suggestions? -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] system boot
First copy the new kernel to /boot (make sure /boot is mounted) with a new name like test or something Then copy this part to the end of lilo.conf. image = /boot/bzImage root = /dev/hda7 label = Gentoo read-only # read-only for checking and change these: image=name of your new kernel (say Test) label=Test Then save and exit. Run lilo - t and it will tell you if everything is okay. If not fix it, then when all is well run lilo. Then reboot and you can test your new kernel. Also man lilo and man lilo.conf will help. On Sunday February 26 2006 18:51, Pete wrote: Someone has given me a system to configure their printer on it. yababa root # uname -a The boot menu says it is LILO, so I went to /etc/lilo.conf This is how it looks # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/lilo/files/lilo.conf,v 1.3 2002/09/30 00:55:18 woodchip Exp $ # Author: Ultanium # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /boot/bzImage root = /dev/hda7 label = Gentoo read-only # read-only for checking image = /boot/bzImage.OLD root = /dev/hda7 label = Gentoo_Old read-only # read-only for checking image = /boot/bzImageAR root = /dev/hda7 label = Gentoo_new read-only # read-only for checking # # Linux bootable partition config ends I added the section --- image = /boot/bzImageAR root = /dev/hda7 label = Gentoo_new read-only # read-only for checking --- This is what I don't understand -- yababa root # ls -l /boot/ total 1272 -rw-r--r--1 root root 483904 Feb 26 04:56 System.map-2.4.19r10AR lrwxrwxrwx1 root root1 Jan 12 2003 boot - . -rw-r--r--1 root root 814688 Feb 26 04:40 bzImageAR yababa root # - boot points to itself. Before I copied the System.map-2.4.19r10AR and bzImageAR, there was nothing in there. How does the system boot? ? ? Of course if I run /sbin/lilo, the system complains yababa root # /sbin/lilo Fatal: open /boot/bzImage: No such file or directory yababa root # Any pointers will be greatly appreciated ! Regards Pete -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where do these use flags come from?
They come from /etc/make.conf or /etc/portage/package.use. The profile you are using has defaults set. On Sunday February 26 2006 21:00, Bo Andresen wrote: I decided I wanted to remove the ipv6 use flag which I have had enabled in make.conf for quite a while but never really been on a ipv6 network and don't suspect I will in the near future. When upgrading firefox I noted it has that use flag and decided I want to know what it actually does. Only, I cannot find it anywhere in the ebuilds! So where does it come from and what *exactly* does it do? ~ # emerge -uvp mozilla-firefox These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1-r2 [1.5.0.1-r1] USE=java mozdevelop xprint -debug -gnome -ipv6* -xinerama 33 kB Total size of downloads: 33 kB ~ # grep USE /usr/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox/*.ebuild /usr/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r4.ebuild:IUS E=gnome java mozdevelop mozsvg mozcalendar /usr/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r11.ebuild:IUSE =java mozdevelop /usr/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9.ebuild:IUSE= java mozdevelop /usr/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1-r2.ebuild:I USE=java mozdevelop ~ # grep ipv6 /usr/portage/www-client/mozilla-firefox/*.ebuild ~ # ~ # equery u mozilla-firefox [ Searching for packages matching mozilla-firefox... ] [ Colour Code : set unset ] [ Legend: Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf ] [ : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ] [ Found these USE variables for www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1-r1 ] U I - - debug : Tells configure and the makefiles to build for debugging. Effects vary across packages, but generally it will at least add -g to CFLAGS. Remember to set FEATURES=nostrip too - - gnome : Adds GNOME support - + ipv6 : Adds support for IP version 6 + + java : Adds support for Java + + mozdevelop : Enable features for web developers (e.g. Venkman) - - xinerama : Add support for the xinerama X11 extension, which allows you to stretch your display across multiple monitors + + xprint : Support for xprint, http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xprint/ -- Bo Andresen -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where do these use flags come from?
If you look at the ebuild there is an IUSE entry. You can also use equery uses package name to see what it uses. On Sunday February 26 2006 21:40, Ryan Tandy wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: They come from /etc/make.conf or /etc/portage/package.use. The profile you are using has defaults set. On Sunday February 26 2006 21:00, Bo Andresen wrote: I decided I wanted to remove the ipv6 use flag which I have had enabled snip -- Bo Andresen I think what the OP is asking, is where the usability of the flags is specified in the Firefox ebuild(s) - which it quite clearly isn't. If this is the case, I think the ipv6 USE-flag is added by an inherited eclass (assuming they can do that) - probably one of the mozilla ones. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where do these use flags come from?
Evidently I didn't understand what you were asking the first time - sorry it didn't meet your needs. I learned something, too - that the eclasses can pass their flags on. On Sunday February 26 2006 22:03, Bo Andresen wrote: On Monday 27 February 2006 03:49, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: If you look at the ebuild there is an IUSE entry. You can also use equery uses package name to see what it uses. Perhaps you should read the original post a little more carefully... ;) As you'll see I do not ask where the use flag is set rather I ask where it comes from. Secondly it is not in the IUSE of entry of that ebuild rather it is in the IUSE of one of the eclasses that the ebuild inherits from (I had no idea it could inherit use flags too). And thirdly I actually do use equery uses in the original post... BTW stop top-posting, please. :) -- Bo Andresen -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives
What kind of motherboard do you have? I have two older boards that it just doesn't work on. I have a Tyan Tiger MPX and an ASUS A7M266-D. On both I can install the OS by booting from the LiveCD on one system and using XP Pro on the other system. The drives are seen and the install goes well. However, when I reboot and try and start the OS there is no drive. In the BIOS I see no entries for the drives or Syba. I see no messages during boot up from the card either. Any tricks to get it working? On Monday January 9 2006 10:35, Bill Roberts wrote: I just bought this sata controller: SYBA SY-VIA-150 PCI SATA /IDE Combo Controller Card, Non Raid Cost was $11.60 at Newegg. Gives you two satas, one ide. Only has one sata cable with it, and you will need sata power-adapters, depending on the sata drives you buy. Works well with the following kernel settings. CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=y CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=y Good luck. Bill Roberts On 20:50 Sun 08 Jan , Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID (I'm using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives which aren't holding up too well) and am looking at going with SATA. Some input from the those with recommendations or experiences would be appreciated. 1. SATA Controllers - I see a bunch listed in menuconfig but what have you found to work? Is Promise any good? What are some good brands 2. Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable and work well. I've crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience with the Ultrastores. Thank you. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: modules built post kernel install (on the fly)
Builtin means it's built into the kernel - the * indicates that. On Saturday March 4 2006 23:03, Harry Putnam wrote: Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That is correct. Unless you alter bzImage, modprobe newmodule should work just fine. If your new module is built in, you will need to reload the kernel (reboot). Ok, this is confusing to me... What do you mean by `built in'. I'm thinking the very nature of a module is that it isn't built in. Or do you just mean I'd chose `*' instead of `m' and move bzImage into place in /boot? -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wacky Mouse... (fwd)
-- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:39:10 -0400 From: David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wacky Mouse... On Monday 18 April 2005 08:34 pm, Erik Osterholm wrote: On 4/18/05, David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 18 April 2005 02:33 am, Andreas Fredriksson wrote: Hi, while I don't know what's causing your specific problem, this sounds a lot like the behavior you would see back in the day when you set the mouse protocol to PS/2 when the mouse device was really a serial mouse, or vice versa. It's not. Further review of emerged files shows gcc, qt and glib. I doubt one of them is causing the problem, but they seem the most likely candidates anyway. Did you update the kernel from a 2.6.10 to a 2.6.11 version? No. I'm running 2.6.7, and have been for some time. Otherwise, posting the relevant portions of your kernel config/xorg.conf would be helpful in debugging. from the kernel .config. CONFIG_INPUT=y CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=y CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1920 CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=1200 CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=y CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y from xorg.conf: Section InputDevice Driver mouse Identifier Mouse[1] Option ButtonNumber 2 Option Device /dev/psaux Option Emulate3Buttons on Option Name AutoDetection Option Protocol PS/2 Option Vendor Sysp Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section ServerLayout InputDevice Mouse[1] CorePointer ... EndSection All of the above was transcribed, as copy/paste is a bit hard without a functional mouse. I also have variation that uses the synaptics driver instead of the default ps/2 emulation, but I'll settle for either one working to start with. Thanks David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order?
Check the Gentoo udev docs which have links to a couple of good sites that are helpful. From: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/04/20 Wed PM 02:55:07 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet Card Init order? Neil Bothwick wrote: Alternatively, you can use udev to give them whatever names you like. Huh? How? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] rdesktop
Frank, do you have info (documentation, etc) on how you got this working. Thanks. From: Adi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/04/25 Mon PM 05:55:50 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rdesktop Luni 25 Aprilie 2005 12:37, Dirk Raeder a scris: Frank Schafer wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 11:32 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 21:20 +0300, Adi wrote: Howdy. I know this has nothing to do specifically with Gentoo, but I've seen people finding great advices on this list. We've recently installed an Oracle database on 9i on RedHat ES 3. I was curious if there's a way to connect via Remote Desktop $ rdesktop rdesktop: A Remote Desktop Protocol client. Version 1.3.1. Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Matt Chapman. See http://www.rdesktop.org/ for more information. from a Windows machine to the Linux Server. If that's impossible VNC will do. I know KDE has something like krfb, but wee need to log in without previously being logged in if it's possible. WIndows-Linux? Hmm... That Im not sure. Not much use for windows You'll need a X-server for Windoze to do this. I've used Exceed a while ago. There are others. I'm not sure if there is a free one. Regards Frank There's definitely a free one: use Cygwin/X; http://x.cygwin.org - I use it at home and in the university. Some of the machines I'm forced to work on just have Windows installed, so I added Cygwin. Now I have XTerminals and run a fully operational (except for sound) KDE on Windows... HTH Hi, Dirk! This sounds like a plan. Thank you very much. I'm going to try it. -- Adi -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage still seeing non-existant version 5's of packages
Do you have a portage overlay? From: Calvin Spealman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/04/29 Fri PM 02:45:49 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Portage still seeing non-existant version 5's of packages For a few packages, currently k3b and koffice, portage is seeing the newest version as being 5. These versions don't exist, and portage chokes very badly on installing or updating the packages. Does anyone know where it might be getting these faulty version numbers, or where I need to look to fix it. I've cleared some caches as suggested previously, synced, installed a binary of portage executables, and ran an emerge --regen, but with no noticable results. If anyone has any suggestions on fixing this error, please let me know, and thanks for your help, in advance. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] EVMS for /boot, /
I understand that you can put /boot and / on an LVM but it's not recommended. What about making / and /boot EVMS compatible volumes - will that work? Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS for /boot, /
Thanks. I have it set up with / and /boot as regular partitions and I'll let EVMS handle the rest. From: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/05/02 Mon AM 02:37:37 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS for /boot, / Am Montag, 2. Mai 2005 04:41 schrieb ext Brett I. Holcomb: I understand that you can put /boot and / on an LVM but it's not recommended. What about making / and /boot EVMS compatible volumes - will that work? / yes, you'll have to boot with an initrd. /boot depends on the bootloader. AFAIK there is a patch for lilo to make it work with EVMS volumes, but not for grub. I'd recommend to make /boot a real partition (32M should be enough). Everything else can be on lv's. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40472 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net pgpwQCqptc0dF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS for /boot, /
In EVMS a compatible volume is one which doesn't have the EVMS metadata on it. From what I've seen I'll simply make / and /boot compatible, standard volumes and then let EVMS handle the rest. From: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/05/02 Mon AM 12:08:46 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS for /boot, / Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I understand that you can put /boot and / on an LVM but it's not recommended. What about making / and /boot EVMS compatible volumes - will that work? I'm not sure what you mean by making 'compatible' volumes...a partition/disk is either an LVM physical volume, or it isn't. There is no 'compatible' mode. There is no problem to mix regular partitions with LVM partitions on the same disk. Or, put another way, an LVM physical volume can be any Linux block device, which includes whole disks, primary or logical partitions, raid volumes, encrypted loop volumes, dm-crypt volumes, etc. There is no problem putting / on an LVM volume. It is a bit more work, because you have to make sure your initrd script runs the appropriate commands to scan and activate the volumes. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for/against USB and PS/2 KVM switch to work with gentoo
I use BlackBox products on various OSs - they work fine. I have a ServSwitch Multi now on Gentoo. I've used Belkin for FC3 and Windows XP and don't like them as they sometimes loose the mouse and you have to power them and the systems back on and off - but they are cheap. Over the years I've found BlackBox costs more but they just work under all conditions. On Mon, 2 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Years ago, I had a heck of a time finding a KVM switch that wouldn't cause my mouse to go crazy. It's time to get a new KVM switch, one that can support USB mice (but sadly still a PS/2 keyboard). Does anyone have any recommendations, for or against, KVM switches that play well with gentoo? Thanks, Michael -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?
Welcome back - wondered where you were! Well said - and who wants to receive a virus breeding ground in the mail G - no HTML! On Tue, 3 May 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Greg Donald wrote: On 5/2/05, Alex A. Smith MCP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Time straped as it is, I'll type in what ever my Default Email prog wants me to Laziness is no excuse. Takes all of 2 seconds to turn it off. Just to prove it in Thunderbird: Messages in HTML format. Done (just had to do it myself, since I've *finally* got Gentoo reinstalled --who missed me ? :) -- and this is thus a new T-bird install). -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] can't mount CD
I use udev and have /dev/cdrom mapped to /dev/cdrom - hda. I have all SCSI except for the CD/DVD unit. Here's the udev rule # cdrom symlinks and other good cdrom naming BUS=ide, KERNEL=hd[a-z], PROGRAM=/etc/udev/scripts/cdsymlinks.sh %k, SY On Wed, 4 May 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote: I have experienced the exact same situations as you have described. But, for some very odd reason, I have not seen an error while mounting a cdrom ever since I changed my fstab line from /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc. I am clueless as to why this is the case... heck. Would depend upon what /dev/cdrom is mapped to, whether you're using the legacy devfs or udev, etc. /dev/hdc will always map to the ide device where /dev/cdrom might be incorrectly configured (i.e. via udev) to not map to the correct device. Dave -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] libsdl emerge dies
Man ebuild has what you need - check out the digest option.
On Sat, 7 May 2005, Walter Dnes wrote:
I'm trying to build mplayer. One of the dependancies is libsdl.
That's where the emerge dies. I won't bother with the diagnostics here.
I found http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89628 which had a few
messages. One of them claimed that they had managed to get libsdl to
build by commenting out the following two lines in the ebuild...
epatch ${FILESDIR}/${PV}-gcc2.patch #75392
epatch ${FILESDIR}/${P}-gcc2.patch.bz2 #86481
That doesn't look too hard. However, after doing that, I get...
!!! Digest verification failed
and the emerge halts in its tracks, because I've manually changed the
ebuild. I understand the point of checksums and verification. But in
this case, I want to bypass it. I didn't find anything in the emerge
man page. So my question is how do I get it to build now? I don't care
whether it's a matter of doing a new checksum or bypassing verification.
I just want the damn thing to build.
I have never fiddled around with an ebuild before, so I need specific
instructions if I have to generate a new checksum. This would be my
first time.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config - How to Enable Advansys SCSI Support?
I now run 2.6.11-r5 and have -r6 (gentoo-sources) installed. It's in both. I have prompt for experimental checked in the menuconfig (first item). If I uncheck it then Advansys goes away. On Sat, 7 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/7/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/7/2005 6:42 PM Brett I. Holcomb wrote: For me it shows up in menuconfig Device Drivers-SCSI Device Support-SCSI Low level Drivers and then selcet the Advansys option either as a module or in the kernel. If you're booting off of it make sure it's in the kernel. Not there for me. I'm using gentoo-source I just got today per the instructions. It's kernel version linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r6. Maybe yours is an older version? Thanks, Drew Drew, I think you and I are on the same kernel and neither of us see it. I think that (at least some time ago) Brett was using a 2.4 series kernel, but almost certainly it's older than the ones we are using. I expect that Brett will confirm that. As I say, I knew it used to be there. Googling around I get the feeling that the driver may have had some problems with new kernel stuff or new C compilers. Maybe no one is supporting it anymore? Just a guess. - Mark -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config - How to Enable Advansys SCSI Support? -- SOLVED!!!
You're welcome. On Sat, 7 May 2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 5/7/2005 7:19 PM Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I now run 2.6.11-r5 and have -r6 (gentoo-sources) installed. It's in both. I have prompt for experimental checked in the menuconfig (first item). If I uncheck it then Advansys goes away. That was it! Thanks, Drew On Sat, 7 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/7/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/7/2005 6:42 PM Brett I. Holcomb wrote: For me it shows up in menuconfig Device Drivers-SCSI Device Support-SCSI Low level Drivers and then selcet the Advansys option either as a module or in the kernel. If you're booting off of it make sure it's in the kernel. Not there for me. I'm using gentoo-source I just got today per the instructions. It's kernel version linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r6. Maybe yours is an older version? Thanks, Drew Drew, I think you and I are on the same kernel and neither of us see it. I think that (at least some time ago) Brett was using a 2.4 series kernel, but almost certainly it's older than the ones we are using. I expect that Brett will confirm that. As I say, I knew it used to be there. Googling around I get the feeling that the driver may have had some problems with new kernel stuff or new C compilers. Maybe no one is supporting it anymore? Just a guess. - Mark -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config - How to Enable Advansys SCSI Support?
Thanks. On Sat, 7 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Good work Brett! On 5/7/05, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now run 2.6.11-r5 and have -r6 (gentoo-sources) installed. It's in both. I have prompt for experimental checked in the menuconfig (first item). If I uncheck it then Advansys goes away. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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[gentoo-user] MTU for DSL
From what I can see I am supposed to set my MTU to 1492 for DSL using PPOE. I modified the /etc/conf.d/net.eth0 iface line to add the option mtu 1492. However, from what the manual says I can't set the addresses and the mtu. So where in Gentoo should I set the mtu. I can set it in /etc/conf.d/local.start but I'm wondering if there is a better place. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How do you get OpenOffice to run?
If I remember correctly as a user I had to run the setup command. OOo is installed, then you do another install as a user and have a choice of network, or other type install. On Mon, 9 May 2005, Rob wrote: Ric de France wrote: Rob, On 5/8/05, rob3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I compiled OpenOffice. It ran all day and successfully completed the ebuild. Now I run setup and I get hundreds of error messages. How do I install it? What have I missed? Have you just opened up a prompt (as a regular user and not root) and typed in: $ ooffice ?? Mine will just start up a basic openoffice.org window what error messages do you get? ...Ric I got it working with the ooffice command, but only as root. Doesn't seem to work when as a regular user. Rob. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] First Install - Help Setting Root Password
If you're worried about the bad password message ignore it. Mine always give that but if you notice it updates your password anyway. Try su - and see what happens. On Sun, 8 May 2005, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 5/8/2005 4:42 PM Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 5/8/2005 4:20 PM Mike Williams wrote: On Monday 09 May 2005 00:09, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I thought I did that with the '-G wheel' option I passed to useradd. 'single' to the end of the kernel line in grub. Booted to single user mode and issued 'passwd' command from there. It still doesn't work. My session goes like this: sh-2.05b# passwd New UNIX password: BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word. Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully I get the 'BAD PASSWORD' message no matter what password I use. I tried this one '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' which I'm sure is not in the dictionary but still got that message. I don't know if that provides any clues or not. To test the various new passwords, I used this string of commands after each attempt to set root's password: sh-2.05b# su user su(pam_unix)[1911]: session opened for user user by (uid=0) bash-2.05b$ su Password: setgid: Operation not permitted bash-2.05b$ I repeated to two scenarios above with several different passwords. All attempts failed. So I have a bright shiny new system that I'd just love to be able to get in to. :) Any suggestions? Thanks, Drew -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nfs export/remote mount problem
Here's my hosts.deny and allow set up per the How-To. [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc # cat hosts.allow portmap: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 lockd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 mountd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 rquotad: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 statd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc # cat hosts.deny portmap:ALL lockd:ALL mountd:ALL rquotad:ALL statd:ALL On Tue, 10 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/10/05, Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 10 May 2005 17:36, Mark Knecht wrote: /MusicLib 192.168.1.55(ro,sync,no_root_squash) 192.168.1.29(ro,sync,no_root_squash) 192.168.1.51(ro,sync,no_root_squash) The line commented out above was all that was required to allow MusicLib to be mounted when Dragonfly was running FC2. That hasn't worked under Gentoo, nor has the currently more complicated line shown above. Don't know if this will help Mark, but I've been successfully sharing files between three Gentoo machines with NFS for some time. Based on my /etc/exports, the above lines would be: /MusicLib 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(sync,insecure,no_root_squash,ro) Peter, I'll give this version a try. I haven't used the insecure option yet. That one is new. (10 minutes later...) Nope - no luck. From the server side: dragonfly ~ # exportfs -ra dragonfly ~ # /etc/init.d/nfs restart * Stopping NFS mountd ... [ ok ] * Stopping NFS daemon ... [ ok ] * Stopping NFS statd ... [ ok ] * Starting NFS statd ... [ ok ] * Exporting NFS directories ... [ ok ] * Starting NFS daemon ... [ ok ] * Starting NFS mountd ... [ ok ]dragonfly ~ # cat /etc/exports # /etc/exports: NFS file systems being exported. See exports(5). /MusicLib 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(sync,insecure,no_root_squash,ro) dragonfly ~ # exportfs /MusicLib 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 dragonfly ~ # So the server says it's exported. However on the Gentoo laptop I get this when I try to mount it: flash ~ $ mount MusicLib mount: dragonfly:/MusicLib failed, reason given by server: No such file or directory flash ~ $ If you have a second could you reply back with what services you are running on the server when you do this? The ones below I've been messing with but I no longer am really sure which are required on a Gentoo server. I'm not currently running nfsmount or xinetd although I have tried them. (I think...) netmount (default) nfs (default) nfsmount (not started) portmap (default) xinetd (not started) If there is some other service or a specific config file you think I should check on please let me know. I'm completely puzzled here. The machine serves as a MythTV backend server as well as a day to day desktop for my wife. It's a great machine in every other respect. I just cannot figure this one out. Thanks, Mark -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nfs export/remote mount problem
Now you can troubleshoot it! On Tue, 10 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Brett, Thanks. Now both machines are mounting. Actually the FC2 machines mount immediately. The Gentoo laptop takes about 90 seconds before it mounts. I don't see any messages about what's taking so long, but at least it mounts. Thanks! - Mark On 5/10/05, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my hosts.deny and allow set up per the How-To. [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc # cat hosts.allow portmap: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 lockd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 mountd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 rquotad: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 statd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc # cat hosts.deny portmap:ALL lockd:ALL mountd:ALL rquotad:ALL statd:ALL On Tue, 10 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/10/05, Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 10 May 2005 17:36, Mark Knecht wrote: /MusicLib 192.168.1.55(ro,sync,no_root_squash) 192.168.1.29(ro,sync,no_root_squash) 192.168.1.51(ro,sync,no_root_squash) The line commented out above was all that was required to allow MusicLib to be mounted when Dragonfly was running FC2. That hasn't worked under Gentoo, nor has the currently more complicated line shown above. Don't know if this will help Mark, but I've been successfully sharing files between three Gentoo machines with NFS for some time. Based on my /etc/exports, the above lines would be: /MusicLib 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(sync,insecure,no_root_squash,ro) Peter, I'll give this version a try. I haven't used the insecure option yet. That one is new. (10 minutes later...) Nope - no luck. From the server side: dragonfly ~ # exportfs -ra dragonfly ~ # /etc/init.d/nfs restart * Stopping NFS mountd ... [ ok ] * Stopping NFS daemon ... [ ok ] * Stopping NFS statd ... [ ok ] * Starting NFS statd ... [ ok ] * Exporting NFS directories ... [ ok ] * Starting NFS daemon ... [ ok ] * Starting NFS mountd ... [ ok ]dragonfly ~ # cat /etc/exports # /etc/exports: NFS file systems being exported. See exports(5). /MusicLib 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(sync,insecure,no_root_squash,ro) dragonfly ~ # exportfs /MusicLib 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 dragonfly ~ # So the server says it's exported. However on the Gentoo laptop I get this when I try to mount it: flash ~ $ mount MusicLib mount: dragonfly:/MusicLib failed, reason given by server: No such file or directory flash ~ $ If you have a second could you reply back with what services you are running on the server when you do this? The ones below I've been messing with but I no longer am really sure which are required on a Gentoo server. I'm not currently running nfsmount or xinetd although I have tried them. (I think...) netmount (default) nfs (default) nfsmount (not started) portmap (default) xinetd (not started) If there is some other service or a specific config file you think I should check on please let me know. I'm completely puzzled here. The machine serves as a MythTV backend server as well as a day to day desktop for my wife. It's a great machine in every other respect. I just cannot figure this one out. Thanks, Mark -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0
In OOo you do what the call a net install first which installs everything. The each user runs another setup (in the OOo programs directory) which then sets the user up - you do this for each user. The OOo install guide has all this in it for various operating systems in more detail. On Wed, 11 May 2005, rob3 wrote: S. Schwartz wrote: Michael W. Holdeman wrote: And I built OpenOffice once, it ended up running slower than OpenOffice-bin... How come? I have noticed the same effect with Mozilla-software. At least I get the feeling that the binaries are a little faster -- I can't really say for sure. Sigi Hi, I'm still trying to figure out why my install doesn't execute for normal users. So OO only works for root. Upon the ooffice command a normal user gets a message regarding setup or something like that, then it aborts. Rob. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] links in Thunderbird
Its the equivalent of the windows format c: G. On Sat, 14 May 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 14 May 2005 12:01:46 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb wrote: You might also check cfdisk - it presents, to me anyway, a better layout of what I have and what I'm doing and I can work in megs, kb, etc. While cfdisk can be used to reset your Thunderbird configuration to default, I'd recommend a somewhat less extreme approach :-O -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?
Did you make the modules - emerge nvidia when you're up and running on the new kernel? On Thu, 19 May 2005, Michael Haan wrote: On 5/19/05, Matan Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Haan wrote: I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking it trying to use IPv6 after installing a new kernel. Why, and how do I fix it? Nope. As near as I can tell, everything nVidia goes to crap when you install a new kernel. The list of things nVidia - previously working - which no longer work: 1) Ethernet - forcedeth stops working, nvnet won't build 2) X - 7174 gives some rm_init error 3) sata_nv - hangs indefinitely This is pretty fun. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image
Okay - it was a good idea in theory. However, he can mount it, copy it somewhere, modify it and then create an iso of the changes. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Ryan wrote: Sad Jack wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can mount the iso on a loop device and manipuilate it there. That not entirely correct. You cannot simply use mount -o loop name.iso /mountpoint and expect it to be writtable. It will NOT be writtable, it will still only be read only. That is probably the problem he is running into. There are ways to mount it in write mode, but I've never needed to do this myself so I have no idea if it even works or not. You might be able to use mount -o loop,rw name.iso /mountpoint. But I've never tried it, so I dont know if that would work or not. From: Sad Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/05/20 Fri PM 04:01:59 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image Does anyone know of a linux based prog to add files to an iso image? There are windows based ones but thats a route I'd rather not go down. Thanks in advance -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Great idea. I'll give it a go. Thanks everyone -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] adding files to an iso image
Wouldn't that be nice! Oh, well till then we copy, modify, make new iso. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Nice bluff though. I was hoping sombody added rw support to the iso9660 driver ;-) --- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay - it was a good idea in theory. However, he can mount it, copy it somewhere, modify it and then create an iso of the changes. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Ryan wrote: Sad Jack wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can mount the iso on a loop device and manipuilate it there. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] keeping source
Check out the features in /etc/make.conf. You can tell emerge to leave the source behind. On Fri, 20 May 2005, cfk wrote: Pardon the slightly naive question. I would like to study the c and cpp source on the packages I am emerging. I *think* they are removed after compilation. I say I *think* as I was looking in /var/tmp/portage and /usr/portage and didnt find them. How do I go about keeping the source for later reference of the various packages that I emerge with gentoo. Charles -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS
A static dynamic DNS G. Thanks. I'll look at that. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Michael Semcheski wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org and set up something with them but can I setup my own name server (BIND or whatever) and some program that will work with that to keep the DNS updated? What may be the easiest thing to do is look at man 5 dhcpd.conf. You can have dhcpd assign each computer the same IP address everytime, based on its IP address. Not quite as slick as dynamic DNS, but very effective, and with the added benefit that your DNS won't get stale if the DHCP address decides to change. Mike -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS
So does mine but you need to sign up for an external service. I'd like to try it without that. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Rob wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: A static dynamic DNS G. Thanks. I'll look at that. On Fri, 20 May 2005, Michael Semcheski wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org and set up My LinkSys Router has a DynDNS update service already in the software. Cool. Robl -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS
Thanks. I'll look at it. On Sat, 21 May 2005, Felix Tiede wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org and set up something with them but can I setup my own name server (BIND or whatever) and some program that will work with that to keep the DNS updated? Yes, you can. Especially ISC-BIND with ISC-DHCP can do this. I've tried it once, but it messed up my zone-files in bind so I decided to use the simple way: Assign addresses based on the clients' MAC-address via DHCP and keep static entries in my zones. I do not know which of both packages has the more complete description for DDNS (as dhcp names it), but both of them have documentation for this scenario. AFAIK there's one caveat: Normally bind uses authentication between rndc (the commandline tool to control bind's operation) and the daemon, it's not that simple to keep this up with DHCP. Maybe this has changed in younger versions. HTH, regards Felix -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] last problem OpenOffice not working from user acct.
After you installed OO as root did you then log in as user and run the setup in the OO programs directory (/opt/openoffice../programs)? On Sat, 21 May 2005, rob3 wrote: Root or su can start OO easily with ooffice command. But it doesn't work as a user. I keeps sending the error message that the setup is aborted. Who knows what this means, but its irritating, having to go back in to user directory and chowning and chgrpin files. Rob. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)
You may need to define the devices in /etc/udev/rules/10.. The 50.xxx file is for standard devices but you can add some - I've done that for a couple of my devices. If you haven't already Gentoo docs have a udev guide with links to some good sites. On Sun, 22 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm not 100% sure of this but I've been trying to set up a MythTV backend on a second system. The system was running and older kernel and devfs. I updated the kernel to 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 and included v4l support built into the kernel. I was using devfs at that time yesterday. I *thought* that after doing that I had some /dev/v4l entries but I'm not positive. Somewhere along the way I decided that since I'm here I'd convert the machine to udev. That went OK as far as I can tell, but now I notice that I don't have any /dev/v4l entries on this machine. Maybe they weren't there before. I'm no longer very sure. In the new machine we've got the new PVR-150 card working with the development version of ivtv (Not portage - ver. 0.3.3k) and now doing the test of the card we capture video. cat /dev/video0 test.mpg and then playing the video in mplayer everything looks good. At this point I'm not sure what creates /dev/v4l entries. I have them in my backend machine in Northern CA which uses a PVR-250 and currently ivtv-0.2.0 from their site. (not portage) dragonfly linux # ls -al /dev/v4l total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 160 May 11 10:55 . drwxr-xr-x 25 root root32660 May 20 09:15 .. crw-rw 1 root video 81, 64 May 11 10:55 radio0 crw--- 1 evelyn sys 81, 224 May 11 10:55 vbi0 crw--- 1 evelyn sys 81, 32 May 11 10:55 video crw--- 1 evelyn sys 81, 0 May 11 10:55 video0 crw--- 1 evelyn sys 81, 24 May 11 10:55 video24 crw--- 1 evelyn sys 81, 32 May 11 10:55 video32 dragonfly linux # uname -r 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 dragonfly linux # But not on the new backend machine in southern CA: gandalf linux # ls -al /dev/v4l ls: /dev/v4l: No such file or directory gandalf linux # uname -r 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 gandalf linux # I've checked that both have v4l support enabled in the kernel. What am I missing on this new machine? I'm sure there must just be some other thign required to get this turned on? I don't seem to be able to configure MythTV without this. Thanks, Mark -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)
Okay. That's not it. Here's what I have in /etc/conf.d/rc that pertains to udev/devfs. I assume you have RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP set to no but what about the tarball? # Set to yes if you want to save /dev to a tarball on shutdown # and restore it on startup. This is useful if you have a lot of # custom device nodes that udev do not handle/know about. # (ONLY used by UDEV enabled systems!) RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=no # Set to yes if you want devfsd to start upon bootup. This is # the default for Gentoo. # Set to no only if you understand the full implications. A # number of files may need to be altered (i.e. /etc/inittab, # /etc/fstab, etc.). # Also note that it does _NOT_ start for UDEV enabled systems, # even if RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP=yes ... RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP=no On Sun, 22 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Brett, Thanks. Looking at 50.xxx there are rules for v4l devices but for some reason they do not seem to be turning on: # v4l devices KERNEL=video[0-9]*, NAME=v4l/video%n, SYMLINK=video%n, GROUP=video KERNEL=radio[0-9]*, NAME=v4l/radio%n, GROUP=video KERNEL=vbi[0-9]*, NAME=v4l/vbi%n, SYMLINK=vbi%n, GROUP=video KERNEL=vtx[0-9]*, NAME=v4l/vtx%n, GROUP=video -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no /dev/v4l devices after switching to udev? (possibly)
Try the tarball no. It may be using the old devfs tarball. On Sun, 22 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/22/05, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay. That's not it. Here's what I have in /etc/conf.d/rc that pertains to udev/devfs. I assume you have RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP set to no but what about the tarball? # Set to yes if you want to save /dev to a tarball on shutdown # and restore it on startup. This is useful if you have a lot of # custom device nodes that udev do not handle/know about. # (ONLY used by UDEV enabled systems!) RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=no # Set to yes if you want devfsd to start upon bootup. This is # the default for Gentoo. # Set to no only if you understand the full implications. A # number of files may need to be altered (i.e. /etc/inittab, # /etc/fstab, etc.). # Also note that it does _NOT_ start for UDEV enabled systems, # even if RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP=yes ... RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP=no Brett, My /etc/conf.d/rc file looks a bit different but good enough I hope. I do not have a variable called RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP. None the less I've rebuilt the kernel yet again (5th time today?) completely removing devfs and even with these settings I am not getting /dev/v4l devices: # Use this variable to control the /dev management behavior. # auto - let the scripts figure out what's best at boot # devfs - use devfs (requires sys-fs/devfsd) # udev - use udev (requires sys-fs/udev) # static - let the user manage /dev #RC_DEVICES=auto RC_DEVICES=udev # UDEV OPTION: # Set to yes if you want to save /dev to a tarball on shutdown # and restore it on startup. This is useful if you have a lot of # custom device nodes that udev does not handle/know about. RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=yes udev is starting and the messages at boot time look OK to me. I'm thinking I must somehow be barking up the wrong tree. I do not understand the udev language but it would seem that it cannot be that difficult. Why are there no v4l devices? # v4l devices KERNEL=video[0-9]*, NAME=v4l/video%n, SYMLINK=video%n, GROUP=video KERNEL=radio[0-9]*, NAME=v4l/radio%n, GROUP=video KERNEL=vbi[0-9]*, NAME=v4l/vbi%n, SYMLINK=vbi%n, GROUP=video KERNEL=vtx[0-9]*, NAME=v4l/vtx%n, GROUP=video The rules do not seem to be the problem. They are standard in the rules file. Therefore there must be something not happening to cause them to get invoked, or possibly something that did happen taht caused them to be invalid. Problem is I don't have a clude what makes this happen? Why do any of these get involed in the first place? Is there some caracter device I need to create to make them happen the first time? I haven't found evidence of that in the wiki's but maybe I've missed it. Thanks much, Desperately Mark -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage v. yum with regards to java
My 2 cents worth. I used RPM for a long time, went to Gentoo about three years ago. This year I had to start using FC2 and FC3. I've been trying to use apt-get and looked at yum. Both of those made me appreciate how good portage is and how many packages we have available. Frankly both apt-get and yum are essentially useless G. I found apt-get doesn't do much with source except download it and then you have to do everything yourself. In addition it seemed like the packages apt-get could find were limited - it's as if the repostiories aren't that great - and I had some of the major ones listed. But whenever I wanted to get a package they didn't have it! I used to write RPM spec files and put the packages together and believe me Portage ebuilds are so nice! On Mon, 23 May 2005, Nick Rout wrote: I thought so, but it wasn't very clear. yum is not a packaging system, it is a front end to a packaging system (rpm) [1]. It will work on a number of different distros. You need to ask each distro why it does not package a particular program, or version thereof. http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/ Yum is an automatic updater and package installer/remover for rpm systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out what things should occur to install packages. It makes it easier to maintain groups of machines without having to manually update each one using rpm. On Sun, 22 May 2005 22:07:49 -0400 Mark Shields wrote: He's asking exactly that: why is a package in portage that's isn't allowed in yum, while both programs are 'repositories' of sorts. I can't give you a factual answer, but I can give you a guess: it's possible yum has different guidelines on including files, such as the sun-jdk you pointed out. Licensing restrictions, maybe? But no, that wouldn't make sense. Or would it? On 5/22/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what are you asking? On Mon, 23 May 2005 02:12:43 +0100 THUFIR HAWAT wrote: what is about portage which allows http://packagestest.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?sun-jdk-1.5.0.03, which don't exist in yum? thanks, Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wine
Who's doing the porting and where do we get them. Some time ago I wanted to get some of the games and all the links pointed to Loki who was no more. On Tue, 24 May 2005, Johannes Weiner wrote: Games don't run well in emulation, especially Doom III and Half-Life 2, due to the heavy use of DirectX. You can try Wine or Cedega, but even the fastest systems will experience quite a performance hit. You're best off dual-booting a copy of Windows and running the games from there. It's OK, dual-booting for playing games is a perfectly acceptable use of Windows. :-P DoomIII runs native on linux. Half-LifeII will be ported soon too. As for OpenOffice.org, I use it all the time, even on my Windows machines. Why pay $500 for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage and Outlook when you've got OpenOffice and Thunderbird all for free (plus any donations you make)? They can read and write Office files with minimal trouble. The only thing you'll miss is the Office shortcut bar, but just copy the icons to GNOME's top panel and you're back in business. I was highly recommended the new OpenOffice. Looking forward for OOo2 :) Greets hannes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools
oldconfig usually works for minor version changes - just don't use it to go from say a 2.4 to 2.6. xconfig needs qt installed - I get an error about qt when I try to run it. * * Unable to find the QT installation. Please make sure that the * QT development package is correctly installed and the QTDIR * environment variable is set to the correct location. * make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/.tmp_qtcheck] Error 1 make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 On Thu, 26 May 2005, James wrote: Hello, Is it OK to use 'make oldmenuconfig' to ensure that the options I had selected in a 2.6.x kernel also are selected for the newer 2.6. kernel? Isn't 'make oldmenuconfig' deprecated for 2.6 or does it still work? Also I perviously used xconfig (make xconfig) in lieu of make menuconfig, but I cannot seem to find anything other than menuconfig. Surely there is a nicer gui to use to build kernels and track options selected in various kernel builds than the ole standby 'make menuconfig'. ideas? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Clamav out of date
During startup clamav tells me it's out of date. If I run freshclam I get the message below. However, I'm running the most current version in portage and haven't found anyting in bugzilla about this. What do I do to get the functionality level where clamav will be happy? ClamAV update process started at Sat May 28 18:52:09 2005 WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update immediately! WARNING: Local version: 0.83 Recommended version: 0.85.1 main.cvd is up to date (version: 31, sigs: 33079, f-level: 4, builder: tkojm) daily.cvd is up to date (version: 898, sigs: 1782, f-level: 5, builder: ccordes) WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update immediately! WARNING: Current functionality level = 4, required = 5 -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Clamav out of date
Thanks for the feedback. I may give it a try here. x On Sun, 29 May 2005, Robert S wrote: Yes, I saw that - but it's masked for some reason and I hesitate to install it until it's unmasked as I assume it's masked for a reason. I was wondering if there was anything else I could or needed to do. I guess I'll wait until 0.85 is unmasked. I've been using 0.85/0.85.1 and now 0.85.1-r1 with no problems. I always used to use the latest version compiled from source before I started using gentoo. Never had any problems related to the version. The clamav-milter startup script has been improved and the pid and socket files have been moved to a much more logical place. Expect to do a small amount of fiddling. If your life doesn't depend on it, you'd be OK using the latest. I think that you need the latest version to catch all the viri. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Clamav out of date
Thanks. I'll go for it. On Sun, 29 May 2005, Rumen Yotov wrote: Robert S wrote: Yes, I saw that - but it's masked for some reason and I hesitate to install it until it's unmasked as I assume it's masked for a reason. I was wondering if there was anything else I could or needed to do. I guess I'll wait until 0.85 is unmasked. Hi, Had this problem too, even more clamav (x86) wasn't working with qmail-scanner at all. Went to ~x86 and it works. Maybe 0.85.1 should be made stable, not just as a warning ;) HTH. Rumen -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Clamav out of date
I forgot about the thirty day wait. I'll keyword it. On Sun, 29 May 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 28 May 2005 20:08:53 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Yes, I saw that - but it's masked for some reason and I hesitate to install it until it's unmasked as I assume it's masked for a reason. I was wondering if there was anything else I could or needed to do. I guess I'll wait until 0.85 is unmasked. It is masked as testing because it is new. Packages stay in testing, on average, for around thirty days before being marked stable. this probably isn't a good idea for a virus checker, an unstable version is unlikely to take down your system, but an old version is worse than nothing. I'd recommend adding testing clamav to /etc/portage/package.keywords -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer setup tool
Yes, that would be a problem G. Check /var.log/cups/ for the log files and see what they say. On Tue, 31 May 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Holly Bostick wrote back: It no longer tells me that it cannot find tux but it still says that port 631 is aready in use and dies. I would first open the CUPS administration web interface (http://localhost:631 in your web browser) and see if the printer had some stuck jobs in the queue, and stop them if so. If that didn't work, I might even go so far as to remove the installed printer, stop CUPS, restart CUPS, reopen the web interface and reinstall the printer. I can't, cupsd dies quickly. Well, that's a problem. At what point does it die (what are you doing when it dies), and what does it say with its dying breath (error message)? Holly -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all the config file updates???
It was a baselayout change. If you'd checked all the changes you would have seen much of the stuff has moved to /etc/conf.d files. For example, rc.conf is stripped down but the items that were there are now in files in /etc/conf.d. On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Walter Dnes wrote: I just ran emerge sync and emerge --ask --deep --update --world on my main machine and on my hot backup machine. There seemed to be a few more items than usual, even though I do update every week or so. After the update, I saw a message about approximately 40 config files needing updates... OUCH. Given what I've seen so far in the first 3 or 4, I'm tempted to throw out the rest, sight unseen. rc.conf is totally stripped down, and probably defaults galore. Is UTC (rather than local) the default? I don't want it. I've also set 10-pixel high fonts on 640x480 text consoles (VGA=6) to give a crisp 84x48 display that's much nicer than VGA 80x50 with crummy 8-pixel-high fonts. The default is 16 pixels, giving 80x30 on a 19 CRT, wasting screen space. I've also set inittab to give me 10 text consoles, with X showing up on tty11 and log messages on tty12. I don't want to drop back to the default 6 consoles. I am grateful that my current configs weren't overwritten, but I would still like to know what hit me. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all the config file updates???
I don't know about there being a manual but one way is to have etc-update show you the differences - that shows what's being taken out and what's added. Second look through the files in /etc/conf.d of which there are many new ones. In etc-update you can do an interactive merge which lets you choose whether you want the new or old stuff. I did that and didn't loose anything. Although etc-update seems like a kludge it's still one of the better ways to handle updating and not - as in some distros - a) blow away all the users changes for the new or b) don't add any of the changes some of which may be desired. The etc-update seems to make the best of something that's tough to do - automate as much as possible updates to user changed config files. It's better than manual editing and copy and paste. On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 10:10:10PM -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote It was a baselayout change. If you'd checked all the changes you would have seen much of the stuff has moved to /etc/conf.d files. For example, rc.conf is stripped down but the items that were there are now in files in /etc/conf.d. m450 root # man rc.conf No manual entry for rc.conf I'm willing to RTFM, now all I have to do is FTFM (*FIND* TFM). Is there a description somewhere that I can read? I don't want to dump *ALL* my old rc.conf settings before I know what they're being replaced with. I've put in some work to set up my system the way *I* want it set up, and I don't want to have everthing go back to old defaults again. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] too many devs in /dev since udev
Try setting the RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=yes to no in /etc/conf.d/rc. On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, [ISO-8859-15] Sven Köhler wrote: Hi, i liked the idea of having very few devices in /dev. Since i installed udev, i got plenty of them. AFAIK, the deives are saved on shutdown and restored on boot. How can start my gentoo with an empty /dev directory which is re-populated by udev? Thx Sven -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email
Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?
If you've executed mythfrontend from .xinitrc what happens if you put an exit as the last command or just loop back to exec mythfrontend again? x On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: On 6/20/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if this is more complex than it needs to be. How about getting X to run on bootup straight into mythfrontend. a startup script might contain (eg via /etc/init.d/local) su - mythtv -c startx and ~mythtv/.xinitrc contains: exec mythfrontend I *think* this will work but the problem I was worried about, and granted xdm/gdm/whatever doesn't solve it, is that what happens when the user makes a mistake and exits mythfrontend. (Or mythfrontend crashes, etc.) Now I'm back at the command line somewhere (I think) but the machine doesn't have a keyboard. (I've been looking at autologin stuff) How does someone non computer literate get MythTV running again? Power cycle? Maybe there could be some sort of cron job that runs every so often and figures out if the frontend was running and then restarts it (or powers down safely) but I was hoping to not run cron on these frontend boxes and thus almost never spin up the hard drives. I also wondered about setting up some sort of monitor on the backend machine that checks status on the frontend machines and takes some sort of action if mythfrontend isn't running. Just a bunch of not so well formed ideas. Personally I am going to use the power button on my remote to trigger /sbin/halt for turning off. I like that. There's also a shutdown config option within mythtvfrontend that might help. I think that will require sudo which always messes with my mind when I try to write rules taht don't require password. Thanks for the thoughts. - Mark On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:05:51 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: I found 'entrance' but there are too many ~x86 packages for my liking. Can anyone else recommend a graphical login manager that might have the ability to allow a user to shut the system down from the login screen? gdm wants to emerge pretty much all of gnome so I cannot use that. xdm seems so sparce and doesn't allow shutdown. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?
Can you just set .xinitrc to loop back (go to) the exec command so if myth is exited it executes it again? On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: On 6/20/05, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you've executed mythfrontend from .xinitrc what happens if you put an exit as the last command or just loop back to exec mythfrontend again? x Hi Brett, I currently do that in my .xsession file while running xdm. That causes fluxbox to drop back to the xdm login screen which then (unfortunately) requires a keyboard to log back in. This is essentially fine with me IF I have a login manager that allows the system to be powered down like gdm does, and assuming I eventually figure out the autologin stuff when booting. I wanted the exit 0 command so that a user wasn't left with a fluxbox desktop and no idea what to do to from there. Thanks, Mark -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] SATA and RAID
I'm considering moving to SATA and wanted some feedback from other Gentoo users. 1. For SATA RAID what cards and drives do you recommend for a desktop system running Gentoo. I will be doing some audio recording on a dual AMD 1.6 with 2 gig of memory 2. If I went with SATA how much does using software RAID and LVM hurt me? 3. Anything else I should know? Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unable to execute i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
Thank you. I finally did an emerge system and it all worked without problem. I may do what you say and see what happens. On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 1.10.2005 schrieb Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm installing from a stage 1 on 2005.0 LiveCD. I did the boot strap and a now am doing the emerge --emptytree system stage. However, I keep getting this error on python-fchksum AND files. unable to execute i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: No such file or directory error: command 'i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1 I had the same error here recently. I solved it by symlinking the missing i386 stuff to the i686 pendants. Right now I have no access to the machine where the probleme arose but IIRC I just compared the folder structures of i386 with i686 and filled in the blanks so to say. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unable to execute i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
Well, I did an emerge --emptytree system today and it all of them worked - no errors. I guess the emerge system put whatever was needed in place although I do not have an i386 directory. I was already to try your fix! I'll file it for future reference. On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 1.10.2005 schrieb Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm installing from a stage 1 on 2005.0 LiveCD. I did the boot strap and a now am doing the emerge --emptytree system stage. However, I keep getting this error on python-fchksum AND files. unable to execute i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: No such file or directory error: command 'i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1 I had the same error here recently. I solved it by symlinking the missing i386 stuff to the i686 pendants. Right now I have no access to the machine where the probleme arose but IIRC I just compared the folder structures of i386 with i686 and filled in the blanks so to say. Checking Bugzilla showed some bugs on this but the hints given did not work - I still get the error. That bug was marked a duplicate of another that had a long discussion on dependencies but no help on fixing it. I have not touched CHOST it is still CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu Any ideas on how to fix this? -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and console black screen
I've searched bugzilla, the forums, google and I can't find anything that helps although I've tried several things. I have installed a system from stage 1 and have it running. I emerged the nvidia-kernel and glx drivers and set up xorg.conf. Xorg.conf works with the nv driver and works with the nvidia driver. I can startx fine (I am booting to default command line right now and then run startx) and I get my X display and xfce4 running. However, when I exit xfce4 and go back to the console the screen is black and I can never get it to display. I am using vesafg-tng - no rivafb. I have agpgart as a module. I remember a thread on it but can't find it and can't remember what the problem was. The crazy thing is that this system worked before with nvidia and the same card. I had to do a rebuild due to disk problems. I tried the stable and the ~x86 nvidia-* also. Any ideas would be appreciated. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unable to execute i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
You may be right. I hope it's gone - it caused considerable headache! On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Frank Schafer wrote: Maybe it's fixed. I had exactly the same problem during the installation of python-fchksum. This is on b.g.o. too and we discussed this on gentoo-dev a while ago. Python had the compiler it is built with hard coded and python-fchksum was built before Python during ``emerge system''. I had to ``emerge --oneshot python'' before ``emerge system''. If it works without this trick, let's hope this dependency bug is fixed now. Regards Frank On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 18:37 -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Well, I did an emerge --emptytree system today and it all of them worked - no errors. I guess the emerge system put whatever was needed in place -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Working for now - Nvidia drivers and console black screen
For the record in case this helps someone. After more searching I found this post which has a script that creates the nvidia /dev entries. It appears for some reason that udev is not doing it. I'm using udev 068-r1 which is latest stable and changelog does not mention any nvidia fixes in newer versions. A search for udev+nvidia turned up others with the trouble. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-375466.html On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I've searched bugzilla, the forums, google and I can't find anything that helps although I've tried several things. I have installed a system from stage 1 and have it running. I emerged the nvidia-kernel and glx drivers and set up xorg.conf. Xorg.conf works with the nv driver and works with the nvidia driver. I can startx fine (I am booting to default command line right now and then run startx) and I get my X display and xfce4 running. However, when I exit xfce4 and go back to the console the screen is black and I can never get it to display. I am using vesafg-tng - no rivafb. I have agpgart as a module. I remember a thread on it but can't find it and can't remember what the problem was. The crazy thing is that this system worked before with nvidia and the same card. I had to do a rebuild due to disk problems. I tried the stable and the ~x86 nvidia-* also. Any ideas would be appreciated. -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel tuning
Out of curiosity and so I can learn. Why did you suggest CONFIG_HZ be set to 100 (IIRC default is 250) and also what exactly is it supposed to do for you. We did not have it before. Also what about CONFIG_PREMPT being none? The help mentions it is for low latency. Thanks. On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: John Jolet wrote: On Saturday 01 October 2005 14:59, gentuxx wrote: - Mark Shields IIRC, RedHat kernels are relatively generic in that they have almost MUCH faster. 1) Because you'll have a pre-defined kernel config. 2) You'll know what most of the kernel options are (at least superficially) and which ones you need enabled. You'll just have to read the help for any new ones that pop up. ;-) I've done all that, in terms of drivers/features turned on/off/modules. I meant more in terms of things like threads per process, processes per user (ulimit and friends), max data stack, that sort of thing. For that take a look at http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20050808-newsletter.xml section Tips and Tricks The sys-kernel/hardened-sources give some more flexibility but the fact is not so widely used, as (on amd64) the vanilla ones has to be considered. Also setting ulimit and sysctl apply to every linux system not only gentoo and should be always checked, also if you trust that the distro you are using is optimized to be used as server. Also to consider: CONFIG_HZ=100 CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y IOSCHED_AS || IOSCHED_DEADLINE || IOSCHED_CFQ HTHToo -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel tuning
Thank you for the explanation. I missed that servers is what the OP is really interested in. I'll look at the scheduler options again. On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Out of curiosity and so I can learn. Why did you suggest CONFIG_HZ be set to 100 (IIRC default is 250) and also what exactly is it supposed to do for you. We did not have it before. In the past was fixed to 100Hz, then to 1000 appeared, now there is a third option for 250, the current default and a good compromise. An home system become more responsive with a higher frequency. cpu and interrupt timings become lower with a lower frequency, so it's better for a server system. Expecially a multi processor one. Also what about CONFIG_PREMPT being none? The help mentions it is for low latency. CONFIG_HZ=100 CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y IOSCHED_AS || IOSCHED_DEADLINE || IOSCHED_CFQ Preemption permit to interrupt kernel processes, providing a still more responsive kernel. Good if you're hering music, playing videos and such but not very interesting for a server. The third option is the scheduler (IOSCHED_*) how the kernel access the disk. this has been discussed in great detail over the net. Quoting the kernel help here, since it's short and explanatory. - quote - CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS: The anticipatory I/O scheduler is the default disk scheduler. It is generally a good choice for most environments, but is quite large and complex when compared to the deadline I/O scheduler, it can also be slower in some cases especially some database loads. Symbol: IOSCHED_AS [=y] Prompt: Anticipatory I/O scheduler Defined at drivers/block/Kconfig.iosched:14 Location: - Device Drivers - Block devices - IO Schedulers - quote - -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT shell scripting] how to wait a few seconds
man sleep? On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Harry Putnam wrote: This is pretty dopey especially since I've used this dozens of times in the past. I can not remember how to make a script wait for a few seconds during execution. Its something really simple like. smcmd 3 Where smcmd is something like set, sit, bla etc. and the number is number of seconds to wait. Trying both set and sit here I get an error from sit and no pause from set. (Using ksh) -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an ebuild
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS only works on the command line you use it on. You need to add this to /etc/portage/package.keywords to make it stick. mail-filter/bogofilter ~x86 should do it. If you want to get more specific as to versions check man portage. On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Harry Putnam wrote: Just stumbling around with half remembered things to get an ebuild to install. I wanted to install the most recent version of bogofilter, reported in portage as mail-filter/bogofilter/bogofilter-0.95.2.ebuild This package was masked on my system so I finally used: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -v \ /usr/portage/mail-filter/bogofilter/bogofilter-0.95.2.ebuild Which seems to have worked. However when I run `esearch bogofilter' it still reports like this: * mail-filter/bogofilter Latest version available: 0.92.8 Latest version installed: 0.92.8 Size of downloaded files: 622 kB [...] Running bogofilter --version does show the 0.95 installed: bogofilter --version bogofilter version 0.95.2 Is this normal or what? -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Install Order for Packages?
Gentoo figures out the dependencies so if you try and install KDE and X is not installed it will install X first. Do emerge packagename -p and it will tell you what it will install. On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, billyd wrote: I've been playing around with Gentoo 2005.1 trying to get it installed using genkernel. I am a little beyond newbie with linux but still in a steep learning curve. I am at the point in this installation where I can start installing packages. The handbook uses kde as an example. My question: Is there an order in which packages need to be installed. For example, should x11-xorg be installed before kde? Thanks, -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
