Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?
On Tuesday 02 April 2013 19:51:17 Davide Carnovale wrote: Hi all gentoo people! I've been away from gentoo for a while, and I'm in the process of reinstalling it today. While downloading the stage 3 I noticed that only an i486 version is available. As far as I remember, gentoo was best known, back in the days, for being fast, as it was one of the first distro to support i686... am i wrong with this? if not, why only i486 today? apart from the reasons behind the decision of shipping only an i486 stage 3, do you think it's worth the pain to recompile everything (like the old stage1) for a different arch? i have an intel i5 processor. regards Davide Your bookmarks are very very old ;) The stage3 is available for almost every supported arch, see for example: http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/alpha/autobuilds/current-stage3/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3/ those above are two links taken from: http://www.gentoo.org/main/it/where.xml HTH. Ciao Francesco
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?
On Thursday 03 January 2013 18:22:08 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: I do not know who shat into the brains of the kdepim devs that they fucked up kmail in this unbelievable broken way. Most people do not need akonadi - or nepomuk. Everything worked GREAT. Now most shit only works half way, a lot of crap doesn't work at all - and once in a while (in my experience every 4h of runtime) Nepomuk, that utter waste of electrons starts to eat cpu-cores. +1 Try to find all config files and folder under ~/.kde4somewhat related to kmail2 ad you'll end adding more colorful remarks... F. Talamona
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?
On 4.9.3 you are still experiencing something similar. Hmmm. Indicates to me a high probability of a systemic problem with the projects approach, something that is unlikely to ever get really fixed. In my opinion kdepim2 is vastly over-engineered and an attempt to solve a problem that does not actually exist. I recommend you use a different mail app. After an indescribable amount of pain and time wasted I was able to regain control over my mail. I recently migrated a kmail used nearly for ten years to the latest kmail2. Migration took around a month of struggle. It's mandatory to have nepomuk+akonadi running (I configured file indexing to run only on a folder containing a few files), it has to be checked for mail too. In the migration you'll lose your filters, your profiles, and the flag of the mail will be randomly changed (thousands of read mail will come up unread, important flag will be lost... And so on). If you try to reimport (after deleting the akonadi database as somewhere advised) the mail from ~/Mail you'll discover the the import tool is unable to handle maildir (or mailbox, I don't remember) format. If, like me, you used kmail for several years, then not all mail folders have the same format, given the fact that the default was changed during time. Beware also that full text indexing is on per default for every mail folder created. So, as soon as I imported a mail folder, I deselected this option by hand (under folder properties - maintenance). So, this is the step-by-step guide to migrate to kmail2: * backup your ~ folder, especially ~/Mail, ~/.config and ~/.kde4 * make sure akonadi, nepomuk co are running (with the command akonadictl status for example). * look carefully in ~/.xsession-errors if some errors appear related to akonadi, nepomuk, mysql, soprano, virtuoso... Do not migrate if you see any errors, fix them first. for example the following error is guaranteed to slowly and painfully drain all of your setup and mail to a black hole: Soprano: Could not connect to server at /tmp/ksocket-sko/nepomuk-socket (No such file or directory) * Delete everything no more necessary (mail messages, old accounts...). * Archive every folder you want to migrate and delete them from the old client * Take note of your filters, especially if some of them makes elaborate operations, mail account settings, profile preferences... * backup again, just to be sure * upgrade kmail, and start kmail2, let it run for the time needed (one night or more is normal) until the I/O and CPU load are back to a reasonable level * reimport archived folder (and disable for each one full text indexing before is started) * reconfigure filters, accounts, profiles... * backup for the last time Hoping to save someone else the waste of time I went through. F. Talamona
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?
On Sunday 06 January 2013 19:22:16 Mick wrote: WOW! The fact that any KDEPIM devs consider this migration torture even remotely acceptable must be a clear sign of advanced insanity! O_O Thank you very much for your detailed instructions. It seems that kmail2 requires the full KDE desktop running or it won't play well. Perhaps that's why my attempts to date were futile. With kmail-1.13.7 I am getting this error: Nepomuk Query Server not available kmail(3842)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig: search paths: (/usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/bin, /bin, /opt/bin, /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.5.4, /opt/Citrix/ICAClient) /usr/bin/akonadi_nepomuk_contact_feeder(3872) Soprano: Could not connect to server at /tmp/ksocket-michael/nepomuk-socket (No such file or directory) [snip ...] Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) akonadi_maildispatcher_agent(3871)/libakonadi Akonadi::SpecialCollectionsRequestJob::slotResult: Failed SpecialCollectionsRequestJob::slotResult Failed to fetch the resource collection. It seems that it is a matter of time before I am forced to use T'bird - or make the time to configure and learn how to use mutt. :-( The error is simply telling you that indexing is not active, try in System Settings - Desktop Search - Nepomuk/Strigi Server Configuration - check Enable Nepomuk Semantic Desktop and Enable Email Indexer The crazy thing is that the migration won't work without this enabled, yet the process isn't aborted if this mandatory part of it is absent/not running... Cheers F. Talamona
[gentoo-user] Re: mount and exfat
On Tuesday 30 October 2012, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Any idea how I can get the mount command to recognise exfat? It works as root but not via fstab for users. bunyip ~ # mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/tmp mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat' bunyip ~ # mount.exfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/tmp FUSE exfat 0.9.8 bunyip ~ # BillK http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30t=85873 Never used exfat myself, but I think you should include exfat-fuse in fstab HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 3.6.2-gentoo, Compiled #3 SMP Sat Oct 20 09:46:59 CEST 2012 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 8GB RAM, 11659 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Resurrecting a Gentoo install
On Saturday 21 January 2012, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 01/20/2012 09:42 PM, Grant wrote: # emerge -avDuN system [snip] !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =sys-auth/pambase-20081028 have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - sys-auth/pambase-20101024-r1 (masked by: EAPI 4) - sys-auth/pambase-20101024 (masked by: EAPI 3) USE=-pam emerge @system will avoid that particular block, although it may only get you as far as the next one. I seem to get an error like this from whatever I try to emerge. Is untarring a stage3 my only option? - Grant You don't have to do the entire stage3 at once, http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/ has precompiled packages for the major arches and profiles. You could try to replace just pambase, pam, python, etc. -- whatever's giving you trouble. This was not my first recommendation because I've managed to break e.g. `tar` and `cp` before in the attempt at which point you have two rescues to attempt. Stage3 isn't your only option, keep it as the least. In addition to Michael's good advice let me add that in your place I would start unmerging every package not strictly needed for the task, too many things changed in the last two years. I would leave only eix, gentoolkit... I would also remove extra USE flags. Another advice is: stabilize the system (emerge --depclean and revdep- rebuild) before syncing portage, but from what I understand is too late, it seems you already synced portage tree. Another idea is to sync to an old portage version, doing your upgrade in several big step instead of a single giant leap, take a look at this link (maybe there are older around): http://ftp.twaren.net/Gentoo/snapshots/ Good luck Francesco -- Linux Version 3.2.1-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 16 23:05:20 CET 2012 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4019.24 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Partitioning strategy...?
On Friday 25 November 2011, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 21:35, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is highly-partitioned, like this: - 8 snip I don't use LVM but I suspect that on this list that would be the #1 recommendation to take care of the numbers question. Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room starts spinning, and I can hear wolves howling ... :D Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and is!) mighty complex. So, I want to start from something simple. Aaaanyways, after reviewing my production boxes, I decided to implement the following strategy: / == 800 MiB /boot == 20 MiB /usr == 1800 MiB /usr/portage == 2000 MiB /var == 4000 MiB /var/lib/postgresql == 1000 MiB Comments, suggestions, are welcome :) Rgds, IMO /usr/portage and /boot are too small, these are the respective sizes in my system: [root@aemaeth:~]$ du -sh /usr/portage 19G /usr/portage [root@aemaeth:~]$ du -sh /boot 52M /boot HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 3.1.1-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 14 07:03:50 CET 2011 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.84 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Partitioning strategy...?
On Friday 25 November 2011, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 20:53, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is highly-partitioned, like this: / /boot /usr /tmp /usr/portage == via NFS /var /var/lib/postgresql /var/tmp /var/log /var/spool (Not all of them will reside on the same physical disk; I have /dev/sda up to /dev/sdd) I've been searching high and low for recommended numbers... and there are as many number as search-hits. So. Care to share your partitioning strategy? (And while we're at it, am I overdoing the partitioning?) I also wonder if /var/tmp can be shared between boxen (via NFS), assuming I ensure that no two boxen perform emerge at the same time... Rgds, If you want to mount /var/tmp/portage over NFS you can set in /etc/make.conf for every machine: PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp/hostname So you won't have to worry about concurrent emerge across different machines. Disclaimer: this is an untested idea. HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 3.1.1-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 14 07:03:50 CET 2011 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.84 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode
On Tuesday 11 October 2011, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 08 October 2011 19:43:53 Michael Orlitzky wrote: I'm going to start a bug-filing campaign against packages like this some day. The only description we ever get for use flag foo is 'enable support for foo', which doesn't tell you anything at all about how it affects a given package. I did file a bug a year or two ago about the almost uselessness of USE flag descriptions. It caused a flurry of activity in quite a few packages, but conspicuous silence in the rest. Needless to say, the activity soon died away and the status quo resumed. Programmers are not writers of English, by and large. Do you remember the bug id? Cheers Francesco -- Linux Version 3.0.6-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 8 20:18:59 CEST 2011 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4019.26 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode
On Saturday 08 October 2011, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 10/08/11 15:09, Francesco Talamona wrote: I'm not going to complain, though I'm willing to point out (e.g. commenting on relevant bug reports) that some packages are affected in a bad way by this move. Comment here? The devs are still CCed even though it's closed: https://bugs.gentoo.org/250179 To be honest I didn't look for a solution in b.g.o because it was straightforward; even if not so manifest for me the link between the perl flag and the ability for rxvt to run tabbed (given that it doesn't give an error). I don't want to be blunt, but your plan looks to me quite vague. My opinion is that some packages should have a different default. That bug is for adding IUSE defaults, rather than removing the flag. Added a brief comment, let's see developers' reaction. Francesco -- Linux Version 3.0.6-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 8 20:18:59 CEST 2011 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4019.26 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode
On Sunday 09 October 2011, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 10/09/11 13:53, Alan McKinnon wrote: For rxvt, a suitable flag name would be plugins Or if there were some package-specific documentation that said, perl: enable the following plugins (written in perl): tabs, transparency, etc. In fact, that would be my favorite solution. How would you call the flag in this case? Regards Francesco -- Linux Version 3.0.6-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 8 20:18:59 CEST 2011 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4019.26 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode
On Saturday 08 October 2011, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 10/08/11 15:09, Francesco Talamona wrote: I'm not going to complain, though I'm willing to point out (e.g. commenting on relevant bug reports) that some packages are affected in a bad way by this move. Comment here? The devs are still CCed even though it's closed: https://bugs.gentoo.org/250179 To be honest I didn't look for a solution in b.g.o because it was straightforward; even if not so manifest for me the link between the perl flag and the ability for rxvt to run tabbed (given that it doesn't give an error). I don't want to be blunt, but your plan looks to me quite vague. My opinion is that some packages should have a different default. That bug is for adding IUSE defaults, rather than removing the flag. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250179#c16 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386827 Cheers Francesco -- Linux Version 3.0.6-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 8 20:18:59 CEST 2011 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4019.26 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode
x11-terms/rxvt-unicode is one of the program I use the most, today I lost the ability to have multiple tabs and almost panicked. I found the solution to have back this essential feature: re-enable perl USE flag for this package and re-emerge. Just wanted to share my experience. HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 3.0.4-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 31 07:34:34 CEST 2011 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11659 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode
On Saturday 08 October 2011, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 10/08/11 13:43, Francesco Talamona wrote: x11-terms/rxvt-unicode is one of the program I use the most, today I lost the ability to have multiple tabs and almost panicked. I found the solution to have back this essential feature: re-enable perl USE flag for this package and re-emerge. Just wanted to share my experience. HTH I'm going to start a bug-filing campaign against packages like this some day. The only description we ever get for use flag foo is 'enable support for foo', which doesn't tell you anything at all about how it affects a given package. There are a number of packages with perl and python use flags where disabling the use flag will silently disable essential functionality. In my opinion, the use flag should simply be removed rather than have what amounts to USE=make_it_work_properly. I agree with the (default) removal of the perl and python flags: http://blog.jolexa.net/ but you should complain about packages that are basically broken without them. I'm not going to complain, though I'm willing to point out (e.g. commenting on relevant bug reports) that some packages are affected in a bad way by this move. To be honest I didn't look for a solution in b.g.o because it was straightforward; even if not so manifest for me the link between the perl flag and the ability for rxvt to run tabbed (given that it doesn't give an error). I don't want to be blunt, but your plan looks to me quite vague. My opinion is that some packages should have a different default. Regards Francesco -- Linux Version 3.0.4-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 31 07:34:34 CEST 2011 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11659 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes
On Sunday 21 August 2011, Mick wrote: Here's a strange one: Suspending a Pentium4 32bit machine used to work a treat. For years. Then around 9 months ago or so, I can't recall exactly, it started causing crashes. What happens is that the monitor will go to sleep and the disk will stop immediately, but the machine continues to run and run and run ... At that point I have lost access to the keyboard and the monitor does not wake up if I move the mouse. Using ssh to connect shows that the machine is off the network, so I assume that the NIC is also suspended. The only way to recover is to pull the plug. :-( Unfortunately, mysql has left a lock file behind, so it won't start at reboot until I remove the lockfile. Now, here's the strange thing about all this. I have 4 RAM modules, 2x1G and 2x500M. Following the manual I have installed them in this order: slot 1 - 1G, slot 2 - 0.5G, slot 3 - 1G, slot 4 - 0.5G If I try to suspend the machine soon after boot, when it is still using low amounts of memory, the machine will suspend each time without fail (just like it used to do in the past). If I wait until the machine is using more than 1G or so, then it will always crash. I'm running memtest86+ just in case, but 3 passes and no errors are shown so far. Suspend to RAM is really a time saver on this machine and was being used at least 4-5 times a day. Now the box is running non-stop 16 hours a day or more, which is wasteful (although with the Pentium4 I'm saving on central heating bills!) Any ideas what I can look into to resolve this? I'm using KDE to suspend my machine, for some reason it recently stopped working, but it was only with kernel 3.0.1 I was able to see an error quickly changing to tty12 where the console is used to echo /var/log/messages after clicking sleep button in KDE Aug 15 07:42:31 aemaeth polkitd(authority=local): Registered Authentication Agent for unix- session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 (system bus name :1.29 [/usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/kde/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) Aug 15 07:42:35 aemaeth dbus[3247]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type=method_call, sender=:1.33 (uid=501 pid=4883 comm=nautilus --sm-client-id 10c6d9d561000130799394) interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties member=GetAll error name=(unset) requested_reply=0 destination=:1.1 (uid=0 pid=3297 comm=/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon ) The machine locked itself shortly after that error, but the log was there. My problem is now gone with kernel 3.0.3. I wish yours it's not a RAM issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting any load to the machine, so it's very useful when it reports error, but when it doesn't you can't be sure if RAM modules are in good health. From my experience the stress load of compiling large packages is more likely to evidence RAM faults than memtest itself. HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 3.0.0-gentoo, Compiled #3 SMP PREEMPT Fri Aug 5 21:02:22 CEST 2011 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11659 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend to RAM caused crashes
On Sunday 21 August 2011, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote: I wish yours it's not a RAM issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting any load to the machine, so it's very useful when it reports error, but when it doesn't you can't be sure if RAM modules are in good health. CPU load doesn't affect RAM errors. CPU load affects CPU errors. If you only get RAM errors during heavy load, the RAM is just fine, but your CPU has a fault. I see your point: to better explain my statement I point you to http://people.redhat.com/~dledford/memtest.shtml The idea is that a synthetic test isn't guaranteed to repeat real life conditions, so its results has to be interpreted rather than taken acritically. Cheers Francesco -- Linux Version 3.0.3-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Aug 19 07:16:13 CEST 2011 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11659 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: /dev/sda* missing at boot
On Friday 19 August 2011, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/18/2011 10:08 PM, András Csányi wrote: On 18 August 2011 18:59,fra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, guys It is a shame, I know, but after several years using Gentoo, it is the first time I try to build a kernel without genkernel. And now I can't boot to that new kernel, it does not find (and really do not have a) /dev/sda* root partition (real-root); during the boot it stops, complaining about that, gives me the option to get a shell, from which I am able to see that there is no /dev/sda* . I have included everything SATA, so it looks like that is not a kernel problem, but a initramfs issue, I guess. What am I missing? Why have you choose this way? I mean, non-genkernel way. genkernel generates generic (bloated) kernels. This is a generalization, not entirely true: genkernel --no-clean --no-mrproper --kerneldir=blabla all With the above command, for example, you can provide your own .config and genkernel will do exactly as you wish. Cheers Francesco -- Linux Version 3.0.0-gentoo, Compiled #3 SMP PREEMPT Fri Aug 5 21:02:22 CEST 2011 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.84 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Kde-meta
On Sunday 07 August 2011, john wrote: Hello, I am trying to emerge kde-meta but getting the following error message Calculating dependencies... done! Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 43, in module retval = emerge_main() File /usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py, line 1907, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File /usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py, line 302, in action_build mydepgraph.display_problems() File /usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py, line 5998, in display_problems self._display_problems() File /usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py, line 6019, in _display_problems self._show_slot_collision_notice() File /usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py, line 702, in _show_slot_collision_notice self._dynamic_config._slot_conflict_handler = slot_conflict_handler(self) File /usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/resolver/slot_collision.py, line 129, in __init__ self._prepare_conflict_msg_and_check_for_specificity() File /usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/resolver/slot_collision.py, line 346, in _prepare_conflict_msg_and_check_for_specificity if use in violated_atom.use.enabled.union(violated_atom.use.disabled): AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'enabled' Is kde-meta the only packages that give this error? Have you tried to emerge something else? It looks like your computer has a problem with python. HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 3.0.0-gentoo, Compiled #3 SMP PREEMPT Fri Aug 5 21:02:22 CEST 2011 Two 2.8GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11256 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?
On Monday 20 June 2011, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and then use cat to reassemble? I think it should work just fine. I've split huge files into huge chunks and never had any issues. Is there some better way to do this? I wonder if splitting is even necessary; rsync will analyze the file and only transmit the differences, right?. So I'd think that even if the transfer fails, a retry would pick up where it left off (assuming rsync keeps the failed copy). Also check out net-misc/unison. It seems to be designed for just this sort of thing. Unison is wonderful for more complex tasks but is very inefficient with large files. As a matter of fact it uses rsync algorithm in order to get good performance, still isn't the best choice in this scenario, see: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases/stable/unison- manual.html#speeding I keep in sync the user home across two computer, and I use both of them daily. It would be impossible without unison, but the 20GB virtual machine is excluded from the sync. Cheers Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.39-gentoo-r1, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jun 9 11:20:57 CEST 2011 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.84 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: to USE loop-aes or not to USE loop-aes, that is the confusion
On Tuesday 14 June 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Why are the versions oscillate that way? Did you add loop-aes globally in /etc/make.conf, or per package in /etc/portage/package.use? In the latter case did you specify the packet version? Can you see why I'm asking these questions? Cheers Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.39-gentoo-r1, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jun 9 11:20:57 CEST 2011 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11659 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Can't find b43 in kernel config
On Thursday 09 June 2011, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I've satisfied these requirements: Depends on: NETDEVICES [=y] WLAN [=y] SSB_POSSIBLE [=y] MAC80211 [=n] HAS_DMA [=y] but I don't see the option here: Location: - Device Drivers - Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y]) - Wireless LAN (WLAN [=y]) Does anyone know how to make it appear? - Grant What is 'b43'? When I have that problem I typically start with cat /usr/src/.config | grep b43 which returns nothing implying to me that b43 doesn't exist at all. - Mark Mark this isn't a good test. It only says that your config doesn't contain references to b43. If you do make menuconfig and then search for b43 (type slash to reach the search functionality) many entries will show up: I count 23 hits in 2.6.39-gentoo-r1 kernel. Grant: you say that the requirements are satisfied, yet I see MAC80211 [=n], could be it? Same way as above to see where the option you lack can be activated HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.39-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu May 26 20:13:26 CEST 2011 Two 2GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM, 8041.06 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Switching to a hardened profile and back again
On Thursday 17 March 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: cp /var/lib/portage/world /etc/portage/sets/my_world emerge @my_world Neil, this is simply wonderful :) Thanks FT -- Linux Version 2.6.38-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 16 20:03:24 CET 2011 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4019.38 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: How do I show list of bad blocks on a disk?
On Sunday 06 March 2011, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 06.03.2011 18:07, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Before leaving home, I started an fsck.ext4 on a filesystem (500GB) that resides on a disk that I suspect is damaged: fsck.ext4 -c -c -f /dev/sdb1 When I came back 10 hours later, it was still checking. After 2 hours more (so it took 12 hours total) it finally finished. The output was: e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010) Checking for bad blocks (non-destructive read-write test) Testing with random pattern: done Extra: Updating bad block inode. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information Extra: * FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED * Extra: 11/30531584 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 1966902/122096638 blocks I'm not sure how to read this. Were there any bad blocks or not? Is there a way to query the filesystem for the now known bad blocks? (The Updating bad block inode. message suggests that such a list is stored directly inside the filesystem.) When there is nothing else reported, there was no error. FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED usually just means that a directory lost+found was created. That would be interactive, and it would show up in the console output: fsck from util-linux-ng 2.18 e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity /lost+found not found. Createy? yes Pass 3A: Optimizing directories Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information /dev/mapper/sda5: * FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED * /dev/mapper/sda5: 177646/4481024 files (6.7% non-contiguous), 10916521/17920370 blocks Anyway I don't worry about the fact that the filesystem was modified, as long as the program doesn't ask for user intervention. As you can see in my case there was a directory optimization. Fsck took a very long time because of -c option (you are not taking advantage of the fact that the disk is almost empty), and you specified it twice, so the bad block scan will be done using a non-destructive read-write test. as stated in the man page, so in the end, nothing to worry about WRT filesystem. You should also check SMART status. Bye Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.37-gentoo-r1, Compiled #4 SMP PREEMPT Sat Mar 5 16:45:57 CET 2011 Two 2.8GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11255 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...
On Monday 31 January 2011, BRM wrote: I just wrote a new script last night, but I'm still not sure that all of the parameters are correct Why not something proven and reliable like emerge --sync? Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.36-gentoo-r6, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 3 11:54:58 CET 2011 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.84 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...
On Sunday 30 January 2011, BRM wrote: A little while back my server ran out of hard disk space (due to a failed hard drive) and as a result my local portage mirror got destroyed. Well, I fixed there server - initially by just grabbing a new copy of portage like a new install since it was just completely hosed, and the server is back up and working. However, now my desktop and laptop are both having problems. They sync just fine against the server, but I get a series of errors about not having various ebuilds in the manifest files - so many that I can't emerge anything (even portage). It seems your three systems share a broken portage tree, try with the latest portage snapshot, for example from http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/snapshots/ You can also skip the sync and put it directly on the clients to see if the rsync service on server is broken... Once you stabilize the root cause, it's time to focus on the other issues (for example run a non-X runlevel on the laptop to fix the login issue, use nano until vim is ok, and so on). HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.36-gentoo-r6, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 3 11:54:58 CET 2011 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.84 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.
On Thursday 06 January 2011, Dale wrote: Francesco Talamona wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2011, Dale wrote: Now on my old system, it would adjust the drift file and the adjustments would get smaller and smaller. On the new rig, as you can see it stays about the same. I would like it to get to a point where it doesn't have to sync so often. I read on the website where they are needing more servers to help with the load and I don't want to be one of the ones putting a load on it. Maybe you copied over /etc/adjtime from the previous machine. I would try to regenerate it... Ciao Francesco I'm sure I didn't copy that. I copied ntp.conf but that is all. I didn't even notice that one being there. I got to see what purpose that has. I may delete it tho and see what happens. It would generate a new one if I restart the service correct? Dale :-) :-) It makes the hardware clock take care of the systematic drift. If a wrong value is stored in it, it can interfere with ntp in the way you described: every time ntp runs it always corrects for the same amount. From man 8 hwclock: The Hardware Clock is usually not very accurate. However, much of its inaccuracy is completely predictable - it gains or loses the same amount of time every day. This is called systematic drift. hwclock's adjust function lets you make systematic corrections to correct the systematic drift. and: It is good to do a hwclock --adjust just before the hwclock --hctosys at system startup time, and maybe periodically while the system is running via cron. This is my recipe: let ntpdate sync your clock, then /sbin/hwclock --systohc and you are done. From that moment on ntp takes care of the non systematic error, while the drift is zeroed by hwclock. Somewhere it is suggested to run /sbin/hwclock --adjust once a year. I experienced what you describe when I built my new machine, I had copied /etc/adjtime (without knowing what it was) from the previous, it took me a good deal of googling... BTW I don't have ntp.drift, I only use ntpdate and the clock is always correct. HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.36-gentoo-r6, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 3 11:54:58 CET 2011 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.84 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Help with eix-test-obsolete
On Thursday 06 January 2011, Vaeth wrote: Lately it seems that eix disregards the content of /etc/portage/package.keywords.nowarn From the ChangeLog: *eix-0.22.1 [...] - use /etc/portage/package.nowarn instead of /etc/portage/package.*.nowarn; the latter is now obsolete. If you want continue to use it, set OBSOLETE_NOWARN=true That's it. Many thanks! Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.36-gentoo-r6, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 3 11:54:58 CET 2011 Two 2.6GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 10453 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.
On Thursday 06 January 2011, Dale wrote: I deleted the /etc/adjtime but it has not been recreated. What creates this file? I deleted it a couple days ago and nothing has brought it back yet. /sbin/hwclock --systohc does. What happens in the long run if you don't run any synchronization service at all? Does the time go stray or it just exhibits a systematic error? Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.36-gentoo-r6, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 3 11:54:58 CET 2011 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11659 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.
On Wednesday 05 January 2011, Dale wrote: Now on my old system, it would adjust the drift file and the adjustments would get smaller and smaller. On the new rig, as you can see it stays about the same. I would like it to get to a point where it doesn't have to sync so often. I read on the website where they are needing more servers to help with the load and I don't want to be one of the ones putting a load on it. Maybe you copied over /etc/adjtime from the previous machine. I would try to regenerate it... Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.36-gentoo-r6, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 3 11:54:58 CET 2011 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.84 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Help with eix-test-obsolete
What I'm trying to accomplish:
For some packages, when a new version is available, to be able to merge
them without adding them to /etc/portage/package.keyword, and when/if
the installed version is marked as stable I wish eix-test-obsolete won't
tell me that this particular package is redundant.
How my system is configured:
I have those packages listed in /etc/portage/package.keyword without the
version number, and the same packages name also in
/etc/portage/package.keywords.nowarn
Lately it seems that eix disregards the content of
/etc/portage/package.keywords.nowarn, or maybe I messed up with a
configuration file :)
for example:
grep amsn /etc/portage/*
/etc/portage/package.keywords:net-im/amsn ~amd64
/etc/portage/package.keywords.nowarn:net-im/amsn in_keywords no_change
The only flags in eixrc (following the guide in [1]) are related to
mask/unmask policies, so they shouldn't interfere with my goal:
cat /etc/eixrc | grep -Ev '^\#|^$'
TEST_FOR_NONEXISTENT=true
NONEXISTENT_IF_OTHER_OVERLAY=true
REDUNDANT_IF_UNMASK_NO_CHANGE=false
REDUNDANT_IF_IN_MASK=false
Anyway eix-test-obsolete -bd lists amsn among the programs redundant
in /etc/portage/package.keywords because the latest version is stable
(or maybe because there are keyworded unstable versions?).
eix --version
eix 0.22.6 (gcc-4.4.4, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
The complete output:
eix-test-obsolete -bd
No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.keywords.
No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords.
No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.mask.
No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.unmask.
No non-matching or empty entries in /etc/portage/package.use.
No non-matching or empty entries in /etc/portage/package.env.
No non-matching or empty entries in /etc/portage/package.cflags.
The names of all installed packages are in the database.
Redundant in /etc/portage/package.{,accept_}keywords:
... considered as REDUNDANT_IF_WEAKER
[I] sys-apps/portage (2.2.0_alph...@01/01/2011): Portage is the package
management and distribution system for Gentoo
... considered as REDUNDANT_IF_NO_CHANGE
[I] app-emulation/dosemu (1.4.1_pre20091...@01/05/2010): DOS Emulator
[I] app-emulation/virtualbox-bin (3.2.12...@31/12/2010): Family of
powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use
[I] app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions (3.2...@03/01/2011):
VirtualBox kernel modules and user-space tools for Linux guests
[I] app-emulation/virtualbox-modules (3.2...@03/01/2011): Kernel Modules
for Virtualbox
[I] media-video/ffmpeg (0.6_p25...@26/11/2010): Complete solution to
record, convert and stream audio and video. Includes libavcodec.
[I] media-video/nvidia-settings (260.19...@20/12/2010): NVIDIA Linux X11
Settings Utility
[I] net-im/amsn (0.9...@28/11/2010): Alvaro's Messenger client for MSN
[I] net-wireless/madwifi-ng (0.9.4.4133.20100...@03/01/2011): Next
Generation driver for Atheros based IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless LAN cards
[I] net-wireless/madwifi-ng-tools (0.9.4.4133.20100...@12/08/2010): Next
Generation tools for configuration of Atheros based IEEE 802.11a/b/g
wireless LAN cards
[I] sys-apps/dbus (1@03/01/2011): A message bus system, a simple way
for applications to talk to each other
[I] www-client/firefox (3.6...@10/12/2010): Firefox Web Browser
[I] x11-drivers/xf86-input-virtualbox (3.2...@04/12/2010): VirtualBox
input driver
[I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox (3.2...@03/01/2011): VirtualBox
video driver
Found 13 matches.
No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.{,accept_}keywords
No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.mask
No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.mask
No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.unmask
No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.unmask
No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.use
No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.use
No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.env
No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.env
No redundant entries in /etc/portage/package.cflags
No uninstalled entries in /etc/portage/package.cflags
All installed versions of packages are in the database.
[1] http://linuxreviews.org/man/eix/
Thanks in advance
Francesco
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[gentoo-user] Re: UPS driver error
On Saturday 01 January 2011, Mick wrote:
Hi All,
I have a iDowell UPS with a USB connection which I'm trying to
configure with Gentoo. This UPS works fine with the default settings
in WinXP and apparently with AppleMac boxen which it is marketed for:
http://store.apple.com/uk/product/TR423ZM/A
This is what it shows in dmesg:
usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=075d, idProduct=0300
usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=1, SerialNumber=2
usb 3-2: Product: iBox
usb 3-2: Manufacturer: iDowell
usb 3-2: SerialNumber: 0001
generic-usb 0003:075D:0300.0002: hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Device
[iDowell iBox] on usb-:00:1d.1-2/input0
I've added this udev rule in
# iDowell iBox USB
ATTR{idVendor}==075d, ATTR{idProduct}==0300, MODE=664,
GROUP=nut
and have defined this UPS and driver in /etc/nut/ups.conf:
[iDowell]
driver = usbhid-ups
port = auto
vendorid = 075d
desc = iBox by iDowell
However, the driver does not seem to recognise the device:
# /etc/init.d/upsd restart
* Starting upsd ...
Network UPS Tools upsd 2.4.3
listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493
Can't connect to UPS [iDowell] (usbhid-ups-iDowell): No such file or
directory allowfrom in upsd.users is no longer used
[ ok ]
and
# /etc/init.d/upsdrv start
* Starting UPS drivers ...
Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.4.3
Network UPS Tools - Generic HID driver 0.34 (2.4.3)
USB communication driver 0.31
No matching HID UPS found
Driver failed to start (exit status=1)
* Failed to start UPS drivers!
[ !! ]
I have noticed that dmesg continuously fills up with messages like:
usb 3-2: USB disconnect, address 116
usb 3-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 117
usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=075d, idProduct=0300
usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=1, SerialNumber=2
usb 3-2: Product: iBox
usb 3-2: Manufacturer: iDowell
usb 3-2: SerialNumber: 0001
generic-usb 0003:075D:0300.005C: hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Device
[iDowell iBox] on usb-:00:1d.1-2/input0
usb 3-2: USB disconnect, address 117
usb 3-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 118
usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=075d, idProduct=0300
usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=1, SerialNumber=2
usb 3-2: Product: iBox
usb 3-2: Manufacturer: iDowell
usb 3-2: SerialNumber: 0001
generic-usb 0003:075D:0300.005D: hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Device
[iDowell iBox] on usb-:00:1d.1-2/input0
I do not know why it keeps disconnecting and reconnecting getting a
new address every time.
Any ideas what else I could try?
I think is an issue with the UDEV rules.
At the end of /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules I put this line for my
liebert USB UPS:
SUBSYSTEMS==usb,ATTRS{idVendor}==10af,ATTRS{idProduct}==0004,SYMLINK+=liebert-
ups MODE=0660, GROUP=nut, OPTIONS=last_rule
and in
/etc/nut/ups.conf
user = nut
[liebert]
port = /dev/liebert-ups
driver = liebert
Make sure also about permissions:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2 gen 10.34 /dev/liebert-ups - usb/hiddev0
crw-rw 1 root nut 180, 96 2 gen 10.34 usb/hiddev0
HTH
Francesco
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[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code
On Saturday 13 November 2010, Grant wrote: I don't need encouragement, I need advice. :) In the end it isn't a technical problem, it is a question of trust. The questions are: 1) The relative sizes of the problems? No problems really. It's just kind of a never-ending project that could go in many directions. The more coders working on the project the more directions can be explored. 2) How much your time is worth? Even if I spend 80 hours a week coding, the rate at which I code will be the project's limiting factor. I'd love to fix the bottleneck and make the limiting factor the number of coders I can hire. So your project would definitely benefit if you hire someone else. 3) Do you prefer spec-writing and project management or writing code? If the choice is between 1 hour coding and 1 hour writing and managing in order to accomplish 1 hour of coding, I'll code. If it's 1:1 either your ability to make yourself clear or the coder's proficiency, or both, are incomplete. You should try to give a little part of the project, a portion that doesn't require the knowledge of the entire code. Work with just one or two developer and see. You have to build trust. You'll have to trust them and believe that your project will benefit, they'll have to trust in you. HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.36-gentoo-r1, Compiled #3 SMP PREEMPT Sat Nov 13 23:34:14 CET 2010 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.84 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking
On Wednesday 03 November 2010, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc67 HTH Francesco I'll look forward to that going stable x86. Right now that means sys-apps/portage-2.1.8.3 Actually 2.2_rc67 was removed recently. ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.35-gentoo-r11, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 29 20:33:46 CEST 2010 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11657 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: world symlinking
On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Gary Golden wrote: Hi, list. I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. Can I safely do: mv /var/lib/portage/world /etc/portage ln -s /etc/portage /var/lib/portage/world Will portage update handle it properly? Using hardlinks seems to be more cleaner way, but for some reason I don't want to use it for this task. Have a nice day! ;) Actually it's much easier, I have two machines, both with /etc/world. And it's a exact copy of /var/lib/portage/world, something in my computers is doing this, and it isn't a (soft|hard)link :) sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc67 HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.35-gentoo-r11, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 29 20:33:46 CEST 2010 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.86 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Bugzilla search
On Saturday 30 October 2010, Thanasis wrote: I was searching Bugzilla for a bug namely #342845, which I found via google (http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/dev-vcs/git/ git-1.7.3.2-r1.ebuild?view=markup), because when I put git-1.7.3.2-r1 in the Find field of Bugzilla (http://bugs.gentoo.org/) it returns Zarro Boogs found. Is this normal? Am I missing something in the way I should use the Bugzilla interface to do a seach? I guess you wrote '#342845', if you use '342845' it works: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342845 HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.35-gentoo-r11, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 29 20:33:46 CEST 2010 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11659 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Sniffing / analysis of application / wifi packets on my LAN
On Friday 08 October 2010, Adam Carter wrote: So Wireshark is a GUI tool? Yes. But net-analyzer/wireshark installs a CLI tool too: tshark Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.35-gentoo-r9, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Sep 28 20:02:12 CEST 2010 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11659 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Fire the fox.
On Sunday 19 September 2010, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Is it just me? Or does Firefox get slower every release? And less stable. I got myself up to the latest, and I cannot install my 4 add-ons (xmarks, AdBlockPlus, Noscript, Stumble-upon) without it crashing. Seg fault sometimes. I've got ECC memory, and no reported problems, and it does not help to clear the profiles (rename ~/.mozilla) and re-emerge. Grr. Ditto. Every time slower and less stable. And when it crashes makes the X destop crash too, I use it with firebug and it's slow as molasses. Looking forward to FF4, still not tried on Linux. greets FT -- Linux Version 2.6.35-gentoo-r7, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Sep 17 21:01:33 CEST 2010 Two 2.4GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 9648.04 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: How to fix circular dependency?
On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Ajai Khattri wrote: OK, Ive managed to proceed a little further, but now Im encountering this: # emerge -uDtpvk world When it's time to upgrade a large number of programs, it's better to take the task one step at a time, for example the following command: emerge -pu system Will (tell you to) upgrade a little subset, it'll less likely get stuck on circular deps and will upgrade the more important programs first. HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.35-gentoo-r5, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Aug 28 12:20:05 CEST 2010 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4019.06 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: autodepclean script (was how to remove HAL)
On Sunday 22 August 2010, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:07:40PM +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote I'm unclear about the aim of your script, what does different from emerge -a --depclean followed by revdep-rebuild -- -a? The autodepclean script automatically generates a list of of target ebuuilds to clean out (i.e. cleanscript). This gives you the opportunity to review it and delete items from the list before going ahead. Does emerge -a --depclean allow you to skip individual items? Ah ok, now i see the point. Usually I prefer to stop depclean (answering no) and specify the exceptions with emerge --noreplace. This is because the exclusion of some packages from depclean can affect the following result of it. If you install a package having many dependencies, with emerge --oneshot and then run emerge --depclean you'll see that is easier to run two times depclean than edit the generated list :) Cheers Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.35-gentoo-r1, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 11 07:11:30 CEST 2010 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11657 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: autodepclean script (was how to remove HAL)
On Thursday 19 August 2010, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:49:22PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote I've just experimented a bit with that and it turned out that --depclean doesn't clean up the buildtime-only deps. But if I remove one of them (eg. cabextract), they don't get pulled in again (that's indicating the depending ebuilds are written properly). This reminds me of a script I've been working on to remove unnecessary cruft. Everything that follows is run as root, because it runs emerge. The attached script autodepclean parses the output from emerge --pretend --depclean and generates a script cleanscript that you can run to clean up your system. This should handle your situation, but it's also a general solution to the entire class of problems of cleaning up when you remove all programs or USE flags that pull in a lib. It is not restricted to just HAL Warning, this script is beta. Use with care. It will remove gentoo-sources versions higher than your current kernel. This is technically correct for removing unused ebuilds. But it may not be what you want. I'm unclear about the aim of your script, what does different from emerge -a --depclean followed by revdep-rebuild -- -a? Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.35-gentoo-r1, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 11 07:11:30 CEST 2010 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.84 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping
On Thursday 15 April 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote: I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post correctly first time, not even on the archives. Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out why, but every so often (anything between a week or an hour) vixie-cron just stops. There's nothing in the logs, the service just stops. I have no idea where to start looking for a culprit so I'm hoping someone here has some good ideas :) thanks in advance Matt You probably don't want to hear this, but: vixie-cron is problematic in the extreme. I have endless hassle with it's weird behaviours. Use a different cron daemon. Your advice is vague :) I use app-admin/syslog-ng and I wouldn't change, Alan you too can try it. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.33-gentoo-r1, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 10 17:35:50 CEST 2010 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11659 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: recovering RAID from an old server
Should I be able to mount them automatically and let the SW RAID module sort it out or do I have to know how they're tied together beforehand? md: looking for a shared spare drive md100: no spare disk to reconstruct array! -- continuing in degraded mode md: recovery thread finished ... md: hde5 [events: 03a5]6(write) hde5's sb offset: 273024 md: hdg5 [events: 03a5]6(write) hdg5's sb offset: 273024 XFS mounting filesystem md(9,100) Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: md(9,100) The partitions look like: 9 100 546112 md100 9 101 273024 md101 It seems it has correctly mounted its partition... Can't you find it? I have the feeling that you are messing it up. If I understand it correctly the server has an hardware RAID controller, that has to be managed via its drivers. Software RAID tools aren't suitable to mount correctly this setup, I would mount random partition for testing purposes only, on a spare machine. The wiser thing to do is find an old livecd supporting PERC SAS (or whatever raid card is in that Snap) RAID cards and assemble the array in degraded mode for data recovery. Another thing can come very useful: we once had a similar problem, we ended up borrowing one identical disc from another running server to put the array back online, we recovered our data, then restored the other server's array. HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.32-gentoo-r5, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 17 20:30:02 CET 2010 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.84 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: recovering RAID from an old server
On Saturday 20 February 2010, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 10:46 +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote: Should I be able to mount them automatically and let the SW RAID module sort it out or do I have to know how they're tied together beforehand? md: looking for a shared spare drive md100: no spare disk to reconstruct array! -- continuing in degraded mode md: recovery thread finished ... md: hde5 [events: 03a5]6(write) hde5's sb offset: 273024 md: hdg5 [events: 03a5]6(write) hdg5's sb offset: 273024 XFS mounting filesystem md(9,100) Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: md(9,100) The partitions look like: 9 100 546112 md100 9 101 273024 md101 It seems it has correctly mounted its partition... Can't you find it? This is with the server recovery console, which is basically just a web page. No shell access. There's not much I can do to get at md100 and md101 (is this what software RAID devices usually appear as?) I have the feeling that you are messing it up. If I understand it correctly the server has an hardware RAID controller, that has to be managed via its drivers. I think it's software RAID. There is no RAID controller AFAICT. All 4 drives are visible to the BIOS as Primary and Secondary Master and Slaves. This isn't a proof: most hardware RAID are proprietary software solutions pretending to be hardware. Linux without the driver can't see the logical volume and shows all the physical drives. You should do some research about that server hardware... Aren't snap equipped with PERC controller?. Another thing can come very useful: we once had a similar problem, we ended up borrowing one identical disc from another running server to put the array back online, we recovered our data, then restored the other server's array. That's a possibility given what I can find on Google, however these are few and far between, so I'd have to find someone willing to send their drive to me (or vice versa) or send me the OS, which overlandstorage doesn't like! What happens if you physically remove the drive marked as bad? You may image it for backup, then format it at low level, then put it back in place as if it was brand new. Or add a similar disk to be considered spare by the controller (given that it is looking for a spare disk in first instance). Most controller have automated procedures to manage failures, disk swaps and so on. For this reason you can't be sure that the inspection operations you are doing are read only. Unless the drives are attached to another machine with a trusted OS doing nothing on its own. The ideas given above may let you to waste all of your data, be very careful and patient. Good luck. Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.32-gentoo-r5, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 17 20:30:02 CET 2010 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11659 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.3 + compiz = no window border
On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 06 January 2010 12:35:36 Francesco Talamona wrote: On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Xi Shen wrote: hi, when i replace the kde windows manager with compiz, all windows lost their window border, and i cannot move the window. how can i fix this? Maybe kwin crashed. what happens if you open a terminal and launch kwin? That makes no sense. He's using compiz, kwin cannot run together with compiz My bad... This is what I used when I was trying to use compiz and crashed, leaving me without WM. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.32-gentoo-r1, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 31 19:05:16 CET 2009 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.84 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.3 + compiz = no window border
On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Xi Shen wrote: hi, when i replace the kde windows manager with compiz, all windows lost their window border, and i cannot move the window. how can i fix this? Maybe kwin crashed. what happens if you open a terminal and launch kwin? Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.32-gentoo-r1, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 31 19:05:16 CET 2009 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.90 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Services order/hierarchy
Is it there a tool or command in gentoo to see a la emerge --tree the inter-dependencies and boot order of services? I know about cinit [1] but I never used it, because I'm looking for a way to see at a glance without rebooting. Imagine a tool for confronting two different servers without downtime. TIA Francesco [1] http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cinit/ -- Linux Version 2.6.32-gentoo-r1, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 31 19:05:16 CET 2009 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.90 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: strange dmesg output
On Monday 26 October 2009, Maxim Wexler wrote: Did I leave something out of the kernel? I can't think what. Maybe you pulled in too much :-) It could be some debug flag switched on in the USB storage subsystem. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.31-gentoo-r3, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 15 07:09:01 CEST 2009 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11659 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Uninstalled programs history
I use very often genlop to see the history of emerged packages, but sometimes I need to know which packages were uninstalled and when. Is it there a reliable and simple way to know this kind of information? Anyone before felt the need to fulfil this curiosity? Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.31-gentoo-r3, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 15 07:09:01 CEST 2009 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.84 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Uninstalled programs history
On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2009 schrieb Francesco Talamona: I use very often genlop to see the history of emerged packages, but sometimes I need to know which packages were uninstalled and when. Is it there a reliable and simple way to know this kind of information? genlop -u Of course! I googled before posting, but genlop manpage didn't occurred to me, too obvious! To be exact to see which packages were unmerged for example in the last two days: genlop -ul --date 2 days ago Thanks for your reply... I could have searched for ages ;-) Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.31-gentoo-r3, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 15 07:09:01 CEST 2009 Two 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 8844.86 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone use squid?
On Sunday 27 September 2009, David Juhl wrote: I want to block as many dating sites as possible, but I am having to luck. The url_regex can't catch a lot. Either I need to find a regular expression in the url or find something that will look at the sites web page... Not all urls use date in their url... thanks and bye David You need danguardian, a web content filter squid is aware of. net-proxy/dansguardian ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.31-gentoo, Compiled #3 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 12 15:07:06 CEST 2009 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4021.84 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone use squid?
On Sunday 27 September 2009, Stroller wrote: The dansguardian website states that it does not include blacklists http://dansguardian.org/?page=blacklist and instead links to http://urlblacklist.com/?sec=download. That has a category for dating, and can surely be referenced directly by Squid, without recourse to dansguardian. I didn't know, it's interesting. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.31-gentoo, Compiled #3 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 12 15:07:06 CEST 2009 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11659 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: @preserved-rebuild
On Sunday 27 September 2009, James wrote: Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: Portage deletes these after emerge @preserved-rebuild has successfully re-emerged packages depending on it. OK, so now I just have to root it out manually.? qfile -o $(find /lib* /usr/lib*) qfile -o $(find /lib* /usr/lib*) bash: /usr/bin/qfile: Argument list too long Now what? I look at the man page for qfile and tried all the -m option, but still get the same error? ideas? James for i in $(find /lib* /usr/lib*) ; do qfile -o $i ; done Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.31-gentoo, Compiled #3 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 12 15:07:06 CEST 2009 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11659 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Jinja2 sphinx deadly embrace
On Saturday 26 September 2009, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote:
Any attempt of updating my system is locked by this problem:
[ebuild N]dev-python/jinja2-2.1.1 USE=doc examples
-i18n -test [ebuild N] dev-python/sphinx-0.6.1-r1
USE=doc -test
* Error: circular dependencies:
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/sphinx-0.6.1-r1', 'merge') depends on
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/jinja2-2.1.1', 'merge') (buildtime)
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/jinja2-2.1.1', 'merge') depends on
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/sphinx-0.6.1-r1', 'merge') (buildtime)
* Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by
temporarily * disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies.
How to get rid of it ? a workaround ? bug report ? Please help
~adj~
http://bugs.gentoo.org/268805
unset doc use flag in /etc/portage/package.use for jinja2.
Ciao
FT
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[gentoo-user] Re: How to hotplug IDE hard drive?
On Saturday 26 September 2009, KostyaSha wrote: How to hotplug IDE hard drive? I connect the cable, turning on power and then kernel must rescan IDE cable. How tell kernel to rescan ? No hot-plug with IDE, it simply isn't supported. Maybe you need /usr/sbin/partprobe (from parted) Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.31-gentoo, Compiled #3 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 12 15:07:06 CEST 2009 Two 1.8GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 7236.56 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Why so many duplicate entries in K menu?
On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Mittwoch 26 August 2009 20:21:27 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 08/26/2009 09:04 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Hi all, the subject says it all: I've got multiple multiple duplicate entries in KDE's (4.3.0) K menu. Any idea how to get rid of them? Google doesn't give a definitive answer :( Looks like you have KDE3 installed too? Nope. It's gone since a long time now. Bye... Dirk I'd check for a .kde3.5 leftover folder in user home. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.30-gentoo-r5, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Aug 15 09:51:20 CEST 2009 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4019.06 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Decreasing volume of an mp3 audio
On Monday 24 August 2009, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Montag 24 August 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
is there an application, which is able to physically decrease
the volume level of an mp3 with as less as possible loss of
sound quality.
(Background: I am merging video parts done with my webcam
with sound trailers. Volume of the webcam's mics and
the volume of the mp3 should be not too different.)
Thank you very much for any help in advance !
Best regards
]|[cc
maybe this is the thing you are looking for:
* media-sound/normalize
Available versions: 0.7.7 {audiofile mad nls userland_BSD}
Homepage:http://normalize.nongnu.org/
Description: Audio file volume normalizer
?
Also media-sound/mp3gain does the trick
Ciao
Francesco
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[gentoo-user] [off-topic] diary/blog desktop software advice
I am looking for a software to keep a paperless diary, but I seem I can't find anything valid, at first I tried app-office/qchartdiary, it doesn't run, then I found www-apps/nanoblogger and www-apps/polarblog, but are both in the needloving [1], don't know if it worth trying. I need something simple, easy, with the ability to attach emails and other external files, it also has to be private and never intended to be hosted, neither in my local apache. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong direction... Any advices? Thanks in advance F. Talamona [1] http://gpnl.larrythecow.org/search.php?q=www-appst=1 -- Linux Version 2.6.30-gentoo-r1, Compiled #3 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jun 14 07:17:24 CEST 2009 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11654 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: [off-topic] diary/blog desktop software advice
On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Mike Kazantsev wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:18:25 +0200 Francesco Talamona francesco.talam...@know.eu wrote: I am looking for a software to keep a paperless diary, but I seem I can't find anything valid, at first I tried app-office/qchartdiary, it doesn't run, then I found www-apps/nanoblogger and www-apps/polarblog, but are both in the needloving [1], don't know if it worth trying. I need something simple, easy, with the ability to attach emails and other external files, it also has to be private and never intended to be hosted, neither in my local apache. You can try bournal for simple and easy. It's bash, CLI and features encryption, although it doesn't seem to be intended for anything but pure text. http://frankpena.googlepages.com/bournal.html Bournal has no internet capablities, so if you're looking for a blogging app, boy did you click the wrong link. Wow, it seems what I was looking for! Not sure about attaching ability, but I'll check shortly. People please keep posting tips, I'm willing to test more than one program. Thanks Mike! Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.30-gentoo-r1, Compiled #3 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jun 14 07:17:24 CEST 2009 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4018.62 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo
On Saturday 13 June 2009, AG wrote: Hello list I am currently running Debian Squeeze and am considering the feasibility of switching to Gentoo due to several issues I am experiencing with a new machine with a SATA HDD and a TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653Z which refuses to play audio CDs and pre-recorded DVDs. In any event, because I have loads of data on my /home partition, I'm curious about a few things, primarily what are the implications of dual-booting with Gentoo as my second OS, so that I can experience Gentoo without losing my data, etc. How compatible are Gentoo and Debian in terms of using a shared /home directory - I am concerned about uid for the directory for instance which, if I changed it for Gentoo, may not work for Debian and vice versa. Any thoughts/ suggestions? Many thanks AG I had for a while a dual boot Gentoo-Debian. It is nothing to worry about. The only two things I remember (it was mid 2005) are: 1) kmail repository is in a different subdir (~/.mail vs ~/Mail) 2) Openoffice folder had different naming as well Those are not issues that are worked around with a couple of symlinks. WRT UID/GID just make sure in advance the two OS uses the same. Don't forget to make backup before starting your tests ;-) Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.30-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jun 11 18:44:20 CEST 2009 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4018.72 Bogomips Total aemaeth
Re: /boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc)
On Saturday 09 May 2009, Dale wrote: I was talking about with just a plain file system. I read in a install guide somewhere when I was installing ages ago that having /boot on a separate partition, and not always mounted, was a good security practice. That way no one could alter the kernel since it was not mounted. I do agree that if a person was on the system and able to get root access, they could them mount the /boot partition as well. I never was really sure why this was thought to work. I used a separate /boot because for a while I was dual booting Mandrake and Gentoo. Old habit now I guess. It's a suggestion for security against user errors; I'm pretty sure it was there long before genkernel came out, when there wasn't automation in kernel building. Furthermore you can use a non journalled filesystem for /boot. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.29-gentoo-r3, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 9 18:15:29 CEST 2009 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4018.42 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time
On Sunday 10 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: Once you sort that out, there's a whole host of other stuff to fix as well - expat, latest xorg and many more - all stuff that everyone else fixed a while ago and since forgot. Yes, beware of mktemp/coreutils too. I don't remember of other dangers, maybe pam... Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.29-gentoo-r3, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 9 18:15:29 CEST 2009 Two 2.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 11653 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: X-forwarding fails with Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
On Friday 01 May 2009, Grant wrote: $ ssh -Y 192.168.10.1 The authenticity of host '192.168.10.1 (192.168.10.1)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (/home/grant/.ssh/known_hosts). I think the problem is here: too strict permissions in ~/.ssh preventing ssh to update known_hosts list, needed to continue connection. it should be 700 for the .ssh directory and 600 for the file known_hosts. What is the output of: ls -l .ssh -d ? And ls -l .ssh ? Is 192.168.10.1 in your known_hosts? With the right RSA key? Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.29-gentoo-r2, Compiled #7 SMP PREEMPT Thu Apr 30 19:25:11 CEST 2009 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4018.40 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: conflict in update
On Sunday 26 April 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: It should be easy enough to write a program that examines world and displays all packages it finds that are dependencies of something else in world, but I haven't found one, and prefer the manual approach above. I know you can use eix-test-obsolete to find outdated/unneeded thing in /etc/portage but I wish it would also do something similiar for the world file. I just wonder if the person that wrote eix and friends could add that in as a feature? It would be neat. eix works really well for what it does. Is their anyone we could sort of poke to work on this? Dale My experience with the world file is I'll first make a copy and then start deleting individual lines I think aren't required. If I'm right then emerge -p --depclean won't try to take anything off the system. If I'm wrong then I add the line back in. I'm blank right now as to whether you can just comment out a line in the world file. Maybe that works also. Anyway, my definition of a minimal world file is I have all the software I want and need, the fewest lines in the world file, and --depclean/revdep-rebuild are happy. - Mark Have you ever tried regenworld? It sounds less time consuming. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.29-gentoo-r1, Compiled #3 SMP PREEMPT Sun Apr 12 09:01:02 CEST 2009 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4018.44 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?
On Friday 03 April 2009, Wyatt Epp wrote: Greets, So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. Things like the danger of depclean or the way portage will only show one mask at a time. So I was curious...what have people that are *not* myself and my mate noticed that is mildly irritating and disruptive to the Gentoo experience? Cheers, Wyatt aemaeth portage # emerge -a1 app-editors/joe-3.5 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependenciest, !!! 'app-editors/joe-3.5' is not a valid package atom. !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details. !!! (Did you specify a version but forget to prefix with '='?) ... done! aemaeth portage # emerge -C app-editors/joe-3.5 app-editors/joe selected: 3.5 protected: none omitted: none 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. Waiting 5 seconds before starting... (Control-C to abort)... Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1 Unmerging app-editors/joe-3.5... * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. Why in some circumstances emerge is perfectly able to spot user omission and fill-in it automatically, while with other options it just complains? The inability to add missing = and the inconsistence annoy me. IMHO emerge should be able to add the equal sign when it makes perfect sense as it already does sometimes. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.29-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 26 20:25:16 CET 2009 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4018.42 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: extending /usr partition...
On Sunday 22 March 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 14:13 -0700, BRM wrote: With all the words of LVM2 going on, I feel it is only appropriate to also mention the risk. On a desktop I had installed LVM2 considering that I did need to upgrade partitions every now and then and my previous solution was add another drive/partition and cross mount - e.g. like done with /usr/local under /usr, which worked fairly well. LVM2 worked great - until one of the drives crashed and I was trying to figure out what was on it. From that pov, volume management is a pain. I did figure out what I had mounted to it - but only after deconstructing the LVM configuration file to match it up with what I had put there. (And no, I had not yet gotten to doing an LVM soft-RAID solution to map a single LVM partition to two drives, which would certainly have helped.) I got my system working by adding a new drive that was not part of the volume group, and removing the old drives from the volume group. Fortunately, I had my volume setup so that they one partition was not made up of non-overlaping partitions on different drives. (e.g. partition A = sda1 + sda2 instead of sda1 + sdb1.) So, unless you are looking to use LVM in a soft-RAID solution between multiple physical drives, not multiple partitions on the same drive, (e.g. partition A = sda1 + sda2, with mirror on sdb1+sdb2), then I would not suggest it as should anything happen, it'll make data recovery that much harder. Just 2 cents for the pot. With or without LVM if you lose a drive then you've lost the data on it. LVM does have the capability of assembling a partially damaged volume group just not a partially damaged logical volume which, when you think about it, makes sense. And you can also throw in the standard warning about backing up your data. The point is that LVM adds an extra layer of complexity. I used LVM paired with soft RAID, and when I needed to boot from a liveCD I discovered that I had to rebuild the setup by hand. When you're in trouble it is pristine to have a quick way out instead of being swamped. I had my notes and managed to reckon the configuration (cold sweating!), but at the first occasion I reverted my system to plain RAID. Never used LVM for the few Gentoo server I manage. That said backup+RAID is the way to go. Cheers Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.28-gentoo-r3, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Mar 8 12:38:59 CET 2009 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4018.04 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: extending /usr partition...
On Saturday 21 March 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's correct, and it also highlights just what a PITA it is to manipulate traditional disk partitions. With lvm, this becomes a breeze. With ZFS (we might see it one day) this becomes invisible. I thought it was already there: sys-fs/zfs-fuse Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.28-gentoo-r3, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Mar 8 12:38:59 CET 2009 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4018.04 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Time to move on?
On Sunday 22 March 2009, Mike Diehl wrote: Now I'm doing an emerge -u world. But before I could do that, I had to upgrade portage, with made sense. When I go to emerge -u portage, I'm told: sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-7.1) So I do: emerge -C mktemp Now I've gotten a whole page of error messages. The most basic of error messages indicates that the system can't load libselinux.so.1. I'm not using SElinux Nor do I want to. I've read the other threads; are you still interested in finding the solution to this showstopper ? My guess is that the system was already unstable, maybe awaiting for a revdep-rebuild. Are you completely blocked or it's possible to fix at last the basic elements? Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.28-gentoo-r3, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Mar 8 12:38:59 CET 2009 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4018.04 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] splitting and printing big image
On Sunday 22 March 2009, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! I have a PDF document. One of documet's page is a (scalable) schematics. Printing the page via my A4 Kyocera isn't suitable - I can see a schematics with a lens only :-) Is there a way to split the page (into 2 or 4 parts) and ptint parts separately (saving a scale, of course)? Maybe you can convert the page with pdftk to an imagem and then gimp it. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.28-gentoo-r3, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Mar 8 12:38:59 CET 2009 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4018.04 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: extending /usr partition...
On Sunday 22 March 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: [...] The point is that LVM adds an extra layer of complexity. I used LVM paired with soft RAID, and when I needed to boot from a liveCD I discovered that I had to rebuild the setup by hand. You mean the 1 extra command that's needed to assemble a VG? It wasn't that easy, that's what I did in the end: 1) vgchange -a n 2) vgexport -a 3) vgimport -a 4) vgscan --mknodes 5) vgchange -a y Maybe 4) and 5) alone would do the trick... I don't remember which livecd I used then, except for the fact that I had to reboot with dolvm2 option; now I have a tested first aid kit with notes on paper (all my notes were on those discs at the time) with well known and proven liveCDs. When I have to resize/redesign my partitions I simply find easier rsync plus a reboot. I rsync the live system while I use it, than reboot to a liveCD to rsync the file changed meanwhile (to minimize downtime). So I shortly tossed LVM and since I live happily without. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.28-gentoo-r3, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Mar 8 12:38:59 CET 2009 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4018.04 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} xfce4 network management?
On Sunday 08 February 2009, Francesco Talamona wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2009, Grant wrote: Why choose wicd over NetworkManager? Hi guys I'm back with a differend mail address, hope someone missed me :-) I tested both, but NM keeps shutting down wired NIC randomly, sometimes is eth0, other times is eth1. eth0 and ath0 are connected to the same access point, so it is sane to inhibite eth0, but I have hundred services relying on eth1 (fixed IP, internal network), half my system go upside down when eth1 lose its address. I don't want NM to touch this interface, even it is unplugged. Is it there a way to fix this? With wicd is trivial to pair eth0 and ath0, but it runs wireless for a few minutes, then it switches back to wired. So I'm going to try wpa_gui... Cheers Francesco An the winner is... wicd. The uptime was quite regular, so it came to my mind the DHCP client demon. It was the DHCP indeed, instead of automatic (that picks up dhclient) I switched to dhcpcd and now works like a charm Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.28-gentoo, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 26 08:55:48 CET 2008 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4018.02 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} xfce4 network management?
On Sunday 08 February 2009, Grant wrote: Why choose wicd over NetworkManager? Hi guys I'm back with a differend mail address, hope someone missed me :-) I tested both, but NM keeps shutting down wired NIC randomly, sometimes is eth0, other times is eth1. eth0 and ath0 are connected to the same access point, so it is sane to inhibite eth0, but I have hundred services relying on eth1 (fixed IP, internal network), half my system go upside down when eth1 lose its address. I don't want NM to touch this interface, even it is unplugged. Is it there a way to fix this? With wicd is trivial to pair eth0 and ath0, but it runs wireless for a few minutes, then it switches back to wired. So I'm going to try wpa_gui... Cheers Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.28-gentoo, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 26 08:55:48 CET 2008 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4018.04 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: media-video/gspcav1 or kernel module?
On Sunday 08 February 2009, Iain Buchanan wrote: [...] I recently upgraded from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28. My el-cheapo webcam (lsusb: 0c45:602c Microdia Clas Ohlson TWC-30XOP WebCam) used the media-video/gspcav1 driver, but that no longer compiles: /var/tmp/portage/media-video/gspcav1-20071224/work/gspcav1-20071224/g spca_core.c:54:27: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory /var/tmp/portage/media-video/gspcav1-20071224/work/gspcav1-20071224/g spca_core.c: In function 'spca5xx_ioctl': /var/tmp/portage/media-video/gspcav1-20071224/work/gspcav1-20071224/g spca_core.c:2463: error: implicit declaration of function 'video_usercopy' etc. I discovered a number of gspca modules in the kernel: gspca_spca508 gspca_spca506 gspca_spca505 gspca_spca500 gspca_spca501 gspca_spca561 [...] If you boot 2.6.26 it should be easier to spot the right module. Anyway I encountered the same problem with my gspca561, IIRC there's a problem with 2.6.28 kernel. Waiting for a kernel upgrade I lent my webcam to a vista user... HTH. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.28-gentoo, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 26 08:55:48 CET 2008 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4018.04 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: lsof-4.81 working for anybody?
On Sunday 26 October 2008, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: I just tried the latest lsof-4.81 in ~x86 an dit doesn't seem to do anything - no output, it just silently returns. 4.80-r1 works just fine and always has. Does anybody else see this behaviour? Just making sure it's not something on my end before I hassle b.g.o. thanks Holger Same silent behaviour on my amd64. Let me downgrade now... Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.27-gentoo, Compiled #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 14 20:02:27 CEST 2008 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4018.44 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: A huge list
On Saturday 27 September 2008, econti wrote: Hi all, running revdep-rebuild I see a very long list of broken linking (see the attached gzipped file of the revdep-rebuild output). At the end revdep-rebuild emerge orbit and libbonobo. After that I ran revdep-rebuild again: same long list and same packages to emerge. That for three times (then I stopped). What can I do to eliminate that long list and to avoid to emerge every time orbit and libbonobo? Ragards emilio It seems like you unmerged needed packages, for example imagemagick and x11-libs/gtk+. Please post the output of: emerge -uavD --newuse --with- bdeps y world Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.26-gentoo-r1, Compiled #8 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 27 09:54:30 CEST 2008 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4020.86 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: A huge list
On Saturday 27 September 2008, econti wrote: Francesco Talamona ha scritto: On Saturday 27 September 2008, econti wrote: Hi all, running revdep-rebuild I see a very long list of broken linking (see the attached gzipped file of the revdep-rebuild output). At the end revdep-rebuild emerge orbit and libbonobo. After that I ran revdep-rebuild again: same long list and same packages to emerge. That for three times (then I stopped). What can I do to eliminate that long list and to avoid to emerge every time orbit and libbonobo? Ragards emilio It seems like you unmerged needed packages, for example imagemagick and x11-libs/gtk+. Both imagemagick (6.4.0.6) and gtk+ (2.12.11) are installed. Please post the output of: emerge -uavD --newuse --with- bdeps y world The output is: nothing! Ciao Francesco Ciao emilio aemaeth ~ # equery belongs libdb.so.2 libgdk-1.2.so.0 libglib-1.2.so.0 libgmodule-1.2.so.0 libgtk-1.2.so.0 [ Searching for file(s) libdb.so.2,libgdk-1.2.so.0,libglib-1.2.so.0,libgmodule-1.2.so.0,libgtk-1.2.so.0 in *... ] x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r12 (/usr/lib64/libgdk-1.2.so.0 - libgdk-1.2.so.0.9.1) x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r12 (/usr/lib64/libgtk-1.2.so.0 - libgtk-1.2.so.0.9.1) app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20080316 (/usr/lib32/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 - libgmodule-1.2.so.0.0.10) app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20080316 (/usr/lib32/libglib-1.2.so.0 - libglib-1.2.so.0.0.10) app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20071214 (/usr/lib32/libgtk-1.2.so.0 - libgtk-1.2.so.0.9.1) app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20071214 (/usr/lib32/libgdk-1.2.so.0 - libgdk-1.2.so.0.9.1) dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5 (/usr/lib64/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 - libgmodule-1.2.so.0.0.10) dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5 (/usr/lib64/libglib-1.2.so.0 - libglib-1.2.so.0.0.10) What about reinstalling gtk+, glib, emul-linux-x86-baselibs and emul-linux-x86-gtklibs, than rerun revdep-rebuild? The huge list should be shorter, then. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.26-gentoo-r1, Compiled #8 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 27 09:54:30 CEST 2008 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4020.86 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: problem with a slow rsync server
On Thursday 11 September 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: 180 seconds is 5 minutes ??? 60*3 = 180 5 minutes are 300 seconds :-) Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.26-gentoo-r1, Compiled #2 PREEMPT Fri Aug 15 09:40:53 CEST 2008 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4408.87 Bogomips Total aemaeth
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[gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning out my world file
On Friday 15 August 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 08:38 -0500, Dale wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 15 August 2008 14:36:58 Dale wrote:
Somewhat still on the same subject since I am still cleaning.
Anyway to clean out unneeded files in /etc? I'm thinking about
files that may be there but the programs are no longer
installed. I read the man page for dep but didn't see anything.
Dang thing does a lot tho.
You could use the very long way round, something based on this:
find /etc/ -type f -exec equery belongs {} \;
then leave it alone for an hour or three
H, I had to stop that after a few minutes. It sort of took
away from my folding. Pushed my CPU to about 80% or so.
There has to be a tool for this too. Gentoo has about everything
else.
I do a similar thing every month as a cron job. It' runs at night so
I just get an email the next day.
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#!/bin/bash
# Print out orphan files in specified directories
find /etc -xdev -type f -print|xargs qfile -o
find /usr -xdev \( -path /usr/src -prune \) -o -type f -not -name
'*.pyc' \
-not -name '*.pyo' -not -name .keep -print | \
xargs qfile -o
find /lib -xdev \( -path /lib/modules -prune \) -o -type f |xargs
qfile -o
It doesn't handle filenames with spaces, I tried with
find /etc -xdev -type f -exec qfile -o {} \;
that works with spaces, but has awful performances, so that's completely
unusable on /usr.
BTW I also tried to remove false positive hiding /usr/portage and the
overlays folder .
Does anyone know how to deal with spaces (to avoid false positives) and
keep reasonable running times?
TIA
Francesco
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[gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning out my world file
On Sunday 17 August 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 08:00 +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote:
It doesn't handle filenames with spaces, I tried with
find /etc -xdev -type f -exec qfile -o {} \;
that works with spaces, but has awful performances, so that's
completely
unusable on /usr.
BTW I also tried to remove false positive hiding /usr/portage and
the overlays folder .
Does anyone know how to deal with spaces (to avoid false positives)
and
keep reasonable running times?
Change -print to -print0 and change xargs to xargs -0.
I should also say that that script is not fool-proof. It goes under
the assumption that files are always going to be installed by the
ebuild src_install process. Experience shows this is not always the
case. For example the *.pyc files, some, /etc/*, font-cache files,
etc. are installed during post-install and so are not recorded by
portage as belonging to a package. Common sense always prevails. Of
course a person cleaning out an /etc/ dir that you hasn't been
cleaned out in five years is going to require considerably more
common sense than one who cleaned theirs out last month.
I've also modified the script to exclude /usr/portage and /usr/local
(they were on separate filesystems for me so I didn't need to). You
may need to tweak it further for your needs.
-a
It works very well. It's perfect for the purpose.
I already found many leftover here and there.
As you say the script gives clues, but obviously it can't be automated.
Thanks
FT
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[gentoo-user] Re: df and du difference
On Saturday 16 August 2008, Dale wrote: Sebastian may have more and better ideas but if a reboot gave you some space back, then you should check the tmp directories that are usually cleared when rebooting. I notice that in your list /tmp takes up 3.8Gb which is a good bit. May want to see what is in there. Just my thoughts. Absolutely right! Double check what's stuffing /tmp. You also could try to mount /tmp on a larger partition (like /usr and /var). Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.26-gentoo, Compiled #2 PREEMPT Sat Aug 9 20:21:11 CEST 2008 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2004.04 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: unicode losting
On Thursday 14 August 2008, Rev. Ferris wrote: Hi, I update last month to new profile (using eselect) and since that time I nitice that my unicode doesn't work properly. I configured my gentoo-box using unicode wiki on gentoo website, but it seems that new profile disactives my unicode setting and by update I lost unicode support. How can I solve it? Thank you, Luigi A similar thing happened to me too. You just have to follow again the instructions in the Gentoo wiki. Please tell us more, what is the content of /etc/locale.gen /etc/env.d/02locale Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.26-gentoo, Compiled #2 PREEMPT Sat Aug 9 20:21:11 CEST 2008 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2004.05 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] updatedb/locate - reasons to use
On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Alex Schuster wrote: emerge -C slocate emerge mlocate time updatedb time updatedb mlocate is supposed to be compatible with slocate, but the updatedb command runs much faster. Your test doesn't proof anything!! Many information are cached and available for some time, this is a desirable feature and a good use of the system memory. Your conclusion may be wrong, or right, or ... who knows? This is what I have with slocate: aemaeth ~ # time updatedb ; time updatedb real3m1.687s user0m2.209s sys 0m7.339s real0m7.005s user0m2.054s sys 0m3.005s Cheers Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.26-gentoo, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sat Jul 19 09:00:16 CEST 2008 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2004.08 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: Can't complete emerge world.
On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Mike Diehl wrote: What do I need to do to get past this? TIA, -- Mike Diehl Try this command, what gives you? emerge -av =sys-libs/ss-1.40.9 =sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.40.9 =sys-libs/com_err-1.40.9 Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.26-gentoo, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sat Jul 19 09:00:16 CEST 2008 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2004.05 Bogomips Total aemaeth
[gentoo-user] Re: problems building php
On Wednesday 09 July 2008, Michael George wrote: Has anyone else had this problem? Can you compile without the imap flag? Maybe some underlying lib is missing... Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.25-gentoo-r6, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sat Jul 5 18:06:28 CEST 2008 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2004.03 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Detecting printers at a remote site
I don't have nc and so far cannot find what package might contain it. nc is in net-analyzer/netcat Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.25-gentoo-r4, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sun May 18 08:04:58 CEST 2008 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4408.92 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: pear hangs no FUTEX_WAIT
On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Frank Gruellich wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20. May 08: Even the simple pear command from the command line hangs, strace show that it hangs at futex(0x2ac88d5093a0, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL I had this problem with rpm waiting for a lock in its DB. This futex() call waits forever, that at memory address 0x2ac88d5093a0 appears a 2. Try to figure out what's mapped on 0x2ac88d5093a0 and what could write a 2 to it but doesn't. It should also appear somewhere in the strace. Maybe this gives a clue what it is waiting for. HTH. Kind regards, Frank. -- Sigmentation fault I can try tomorrow morning... Never thought to see what's in the address, it could give me a clue. I was able to install PEAR-PEAR in the past, now it hangs too, there must be something obvious. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.25-gentoo-r4, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sun May 18 08:04:58 CEST 2008 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2004.05 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Multiple error messages for each keystroke in nano
On Saturday 17 May 2008, Bob Young wrote: Can anybody explain what's going on here, and tell me how I can fix it? BTW, if I edit with vi.everything works fine, and of course typing at the console works okay as well. Just a guess... Did you run etc-update? Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.25-gentoo-r3, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sun May 11 08:04:22 CEST 2008 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2004.03 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Home page slowness
On Saturday 10 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We plan to eval Gentoo. We await 2008 final. Why? What features are you expecting? The comment is, Gentoo home page gives no clue about status. Convincing people that Gentoo is alive becomes tricky because the final is months late and little motion on the home page. That's about all most people inspect. You are right, many people take conclusions from superficial looks. So bottom line, impressions of Gentoo are going south even before we test. I don't think we should make Gentoo more appealing, you can attract people that later will dislike its lack of eye-candy, better be honest :-) Some sort of progress bar or chart showing bugs squashed and new reported, maybe?? At least some kind of ticker showing expected final release date? Counting lines of code or something? Personally I don't care when final ships - just knowing present expectations or status with an easy home page glance is all I ask. Unlike other distros, Gentoo evolves linearly, not by leaps (releases). Indeed there's no strong distinction between updates and upgrades, if you keep it up-to-date, already have the latest release. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.25-gentoo-r2, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sun May 4 08:26:42 CEST 2008 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2004.04 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Question about gstreamer
On Thursday 08 May 2008, AJ Spagnoletti wrote:
Here is the relavent output from eix gstreamer:
[UD] media-libs/gstreamer
Available versions: (0.10) 0.10.14 (~)0.10.17 (~)0.10.19
{debug nls test}
Installed versions: 0.8.11(0.8)(18:40:46 04/24/07)(-debug -doc)
0.10.14(0.10)(17:45:07 09/17/07)
Homepage: http://gstreamer.sourceforge.net
Description: Streaming media framework
From this output it appears that 0.8.** versions of gstreamer have
been removed from the portage tree, is gstreamer-0.8 leftover on my
system and can it safely be removed?
Gstreamer 0.8 *is installed*, maybe is this the source of confusion?
Unmerge gstreamer specifying the version (version 0.10 will be left
there):
emerge -Ca media-libs/gstreamer-0.8.11
Clean revdep-rebuild temp files:
rm /root/.revdep-rebuild*
re-run revdep-rebuild
Ciao
Francesco
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[gentoo-user] Re: Which openoffice
2 - how long does it take to compile openoffice-bin on a PC with 2 GB Ram and a AMD Athlon-64 3200+ Processor? On my 2003 machine (AMD 2500+) 5 hours ; on my 2007 machine (Intel Core-2 Duo 6700) 2 hours . Those are the timings of openoffice, openoffice-bin doesn't get compiled, it is deployed, on my 2 GB amd 64 3200+: Sat Apr 19 14:40:43 2008 app-office/openoffice-bin-2.4.0 merge time: 2 minutes and 57 seconds. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.25-gentoo-r2, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sun May 4 08:26:42 CEST 2008 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2004.02 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: rkhunter and /dev/dev
On Sunday 27 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:33:03 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning, out of curiosity, I ran rkhunter: it gave me a warning about GasKit. It's because there's a /dev/dev folder Have you run rkhunter --update? I used to see this warning, but it disappeared a while ago with a database update. Actually I didn't think about an update, I updated right now and rechecked, but nothing has changed. Why do I have duplicated md devices? Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.25-gentoo-r1, Compiled #2 PREEMPT Sun Apr 20 10:05:09 CEST 2008 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4408.89 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: rkhunter and /dev/dev
On Sunday 27 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: Why do I have duplicated md devices? It sounds like a udev rule may be causing this, possibly an incorrectly written one, because the /dev part of node names is implicit in udev, so if you set a name or symlink to dev/foo, you'll get /dev/dev/foo. It was the first thing I searched for in /etc/udev, but there weren't explicit pointers to dev, furthermore I have one only custom file in /etc/udev/rules.d: 10-local.rules, and the only other one I edited is 70-persistent-net.rules; they surely have nothing to do with md devices. After your second reply I did a crazy thing: moved /etc/udev to another position and reemerged udev. Then I diffed the two directories, because there were many files dated 2005 and 2006 not belonging to any packages. This cleanup wasn't enough, but then I edited /etc/mdadm.conf, modified the ARRAY directive from: ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=... to: ARRAY md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=... I got some warnings at bootup, but no /dev/dev. Now I have no ARRAY directives in /etc/mdadm.conf, no /dev/dev and my system is more zippy than ever!! No more slowdowns on large file transfers: previously I was used to see transfer rate drop from initial peak to 8-10MB/sec, now the speed is constantly high.. Of course rkhunter is now happy about my configuration, as like as me! Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.25-gentoo-r1, Compiled #2 PREEMPT Sun Apr 20 10:05:09 CEST 2008 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2004.01 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(
On Sunday 20 April 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Never do this unless you're using xfs. Why? never fsck at boot time - Because bad things can happen if you don't fsck at boot time. The only exception to this is xfs, which you are not using, as I see below. You stated this (xfs doesn't need to be checked at boot) twice, but I'd like to read a bit of explanation. Note: I'm not trying to start a flamewar. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.25-gentoo-r1, Compiled #2 PREEMPT Sun Apr 20 10:05:09 CEST 2008 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2004.02 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: [ebuild U ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1 [6.9-r1] USE=acl nls (-selinux) -static -vanilla% -xattr 3,670 kB [blocks B ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1) [blocks B ] =sys-apps/coreutils-6.10 (is blocking sys-apps/mktemp-1.5) You are just another victim, search this list for the last week posts for the recovery details. Basically you have to use install disc to copy all the core utils now missing. Once recovered you are again able to emerge coreutils The explanation of the message above is: coreutils is going to upgrade from version 6.9-r1 to 6.10-r1, the latter (and other versions above) includes mktemp, so to avoid conflicts it is required to uninstall mktemp, now provided elsewhere. HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.24-gentoo-r4, Compiled #2 PREEMPT Wed Apr 2 08:07:24 CEST 2008 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2004.03 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Gyuszk wrote: I can unmount my /boot and /home partitions but I just can't remount my root device to be readonly. (Linux says it is busy.) What should I do with this? 1.) Should I edit my Grub menu.lst to make a new entry with single ro kernel parameteres? 2.) Of course I can fsck from (for example) a LiveCD (like Gentoo minimal cd), but at the present I don't have any of these. 3.) Other solution? Of course: it's in use :-) Two options: 1) force partition check with the following command (seen recently in this list) shutdown -Fr 2) create the file /forcefsck touch /forcefsck then reboot, during shutdown you'll see A full fsck will be forced on next startup and then Checking root filesystem (full fsck forced) See the scripts /etc/init.d/halt.sh, /etc/init.d/checkfs and /etc/init.d/checkroot to see all the nuts and bolts Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.24-gentoo-r4, Compiled #2 PREEMPT Wed Apr 2 08:07:24 CEST 2008 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2004.03 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: Thanks a lot! I'll give a deep look at the mentioned files. Anyway I think I'll set my fstab. Now all my partitions are set to never fsck at boot time. :) Supposing it's a ext2/3 partition you may also want to use tune2fs to set the check *frequency*. Other filesystems have specialized tools to do it. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.24-gentoo-r4, Compiled #2 PREEMPT Wed Apr 2 08:07:24 CEST 2008 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2004.03 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Raid5 not assembled after boot
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Roy Wright wrote: Looking thru dmesg and /var/log/messages, it looks like there are no attempts to start the array until I manually try. Any hints on what I'm missing? Personal experience: 1) don't mix raidtools stuff with mdadm, use only the latter (I'm not saying you used raidtools, but I found a lot of misleading documentation lying around) 2) check carefully the UUID of *all* the partitions, I had exactly the same issue, that I discovered to be caused by a leftover partition that was part of a different raid set (spurious UUID). At some point in the bootup the correct set were disassembled. 3) evms can badly intefere with mdadm (or it was LVM?): try to modify a partition/raid setup and it always appears busy, preventing any editing. HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.24-gentoo-r4, Compiled #2 PREEMPT Wed Apr 2 08:07:24 CEST 2008 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2004.03 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: ck8s ethernet support in 2.6.23-r6 kernel
On Thursday 17 April 2008, maxim wexler wrote: I noted also a broken runlevel with regard to net.eth0 which I deleted. Hopefully that's the fix. Should know next boot. But doesn't explain(at least to me) why eth0 is now defunct. If all I have is one ethernet port, doesn't that default to eth0? No, not if that name is already in use, the message udev: renamed eth0 to eth1 is the consequence. Udev renames the device, so every config file referring to eth0 showed up errors. If you now delete the file that fixes net names the card will take first slot and be named eth0. You'll have to take back that runlevel link. HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.24-gentoo-r4, Compiled #2 PREEMPT Wed Apr 2 08:07:24 CEST 2008 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2003.99 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: installing vmware?
On Friday 04 April 2008, Thierry de Coulon wrote: The problem I've run into with VirtualBox is that network only uses NAT, while VMWare uses bridging. Probably only a question of understanding how to set up NAT - seems easy if you're using DHCP but I use fixed IP's VirtualBox can be configured in either way! http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Advanced_Networking_Linux Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.24-gentoo-r4, Compiled #2 PREEMPT Wed Apr 2 08:07:24 CEST 2008 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4408.89 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows
On Saturday 29 March 2008, Stroller wrote: Thanks! I'll look into PING. The documentation on PING's homepage seems a little scanty, but I'm sure a Google will be a bit more forthcoming. It's very easy to use, I found a pdf somewhere that described it in few pages. There are a couple of reasons I appreciate copying on a file-by-file basis - I don't know if PING would allow me the same flexibility. Sure it won't. You provide plenty of examples... While reading them I remembered dar kdar but it seems the latter is no more actively mantained. And anyway not a solution for windows users if you want to let them to take a bit of care of themselves. An option is to shrink the old disk to a secondary partition and leave it on the same disk, but again having another partition isn't the best for end users: it's easier to claim back space without specializer tools if everything's is just a folder away. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.24-gentoo-r3, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Thu Feb 28 22:23:31 CET 2008 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4408.90 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
