[gentoo-user] Re: can't start X as user
if nothing else works, this should: :; chmod 4711 /usr/bin/Xorg that was changed to not be suid some time back, relying instead on things like elogind. but the old way should still work. on gentoo the suid use flag for x11-base/xorg-server would do that at merge time. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6
[gentoo-user] amd64 (not ~) glibc SEGVs
Anyone else seeing a multitude of segv in libc on a stable box with =sys-libs/glibc-2.34-r10? not everything dies, but a lot of important stuff does, including portage and gdb profile on that box is: profiles/default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib/hardened -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6
[gentoo-user] Re: How to run X11 apps remotely?
ah, yes. i completely forgot about xpra. probabably a better solution than spice. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-user] How to run X11 apps remotely?
unfortunately running the single application over app-emulation/spice might be as good as it gets. even over a local 1gig lan link those bugs you described are annoying. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge colors and light background
>>>>> "KE" == Klaus Ethgen <klaus+gen...@ethgen.de> writes: KE> I use light background and many colors of emerge and other tools are KE> simple unreadable (like light green). I also use light backgrounds for my terminals. For eix, I have this in a file in /etc/eixrc/: BG0=none BG1=none BG2=none BG3=none COLORSCHEME0=3 COLORSCHEME1=3 That is not as good as eix did before the current 256-color schemes were added, but it is not unreadable. For portage, I find its color choices to be OK. My environment includes: COLORFGBG='0;15' COLORTERM=rxvt And in ~/.Xdefaults I have: URxvt*background: white URxvt*color3: chocolate4 URxvt*color11: chocolate2 For terms like xterm and the rxvts you can configure any X11 colors for each of the numbered terminal colors. URxvt's default colours are: ! color0 (black) = Black ! color1 (red)= Red3 ! color2 (green) = Green3 ! color3 (yellow) = Yellow3 ! color4 (blue) = Blue3 ! color5 (magenta)= Magenta3 ! color6 (cyan) = Cyan3 ! color7 (white) = AntiqueWhite ! color8 (bright black) = Grey25 ! color9 (bright red) = Red ! color10(bright green) = Green ! color11(bright yellow) = Yellow ! color12(bright blue)= Blue ! color13(bright magenta) = Magenta ! color14(bright cyan)= Cyan ! color15(bright white) = White ! foreground = Black ! background = White I'm sure most terminals have some way of doing that sort of configuration. -JimC -- James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts
>>>>> "t" == thelma <the...@sys-concept.com> writes: t> Which package contain "Helvetica" font? t> I'm using "flpsed" and apparently it is using Helvetica font, which t> "eselect fontconfig list" is not showing anything that resemble "helvet" t> "eix helvet" is not showing anything either. t> The fonts in "flpsed" display are very rugged/pixelated, it is hard to t> look at them. I read a number of posts in this thread; few had anything useful to say... First of all, FL_HELVETICA is a #define from fltk. Cf http://www.fltk.org/doc-1.1/enumerations.html So with which USE flags have you compiled fltk? If you have eix installed, eix fltk will show them. You probably want the xft and/or cairo flags enabled. If you have xft, fltk will use fontconfig and client-side fonts. And then running: :; fc-match helvetica will show you which font fontconfig will use when asked for helvetica. Also, try this: :; XFT_DEBUG=1 flpsed If fltk uses xft, then that will show you which fonts it selected. If nothing prints than fltk is compiled to use server-side fonts. Which you probably prefer to avoid. -JimC -- James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6
[gentoo-user] ffmpeg cpu flags
I see that the ffmpeg ebuild requires that mmxext is set if sse is set. Isn't mmxext amd-only? And is there really any value from micromanaging things like that in an ebuild? -JimC -- James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-user] Lable Printer for gLabels
J == Joseph syscon...@gmail.com writes: J Does anybody know if there is any label printer that will work with J gLabels For the benefit of the archive, net-print/dymo-cups-drivers works for each of the Dymo label printers, and glabels ships with templates for most (all?) of the supports label sizes. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-user] Ext3 FS File Size Limits
AM == Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de writes: AM Haven't a clue. I would have expected the maximum file size to be a AM number of blocks, which makes it seem strange that doubling the block AM size multiplies max file size by 16. Doubling the block size means that the structure specifying which blocks are in use by a given inode is twice as long. And the structure supports indirect blocks, which contain references to the actual blocks used by the file data. So you get one doubling for the size of the blocks, and another three for the number of blocks each file can use. Most ext3 and ext4 filesystems use 4096 octet blocks. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and path to internet
D == Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: D I thought about renaming my config to *.old and trying that. Thing is, D I have YEARS worth of emails on here that I don't want to lose or anything. Start it with: seamonkey -no-remote -ProfileManager create a new profile and then start that profile. Does it still stop working? You might need to run: seamonkey -P default once after the experiment to ensure that starting seamonkey without args defaults to the original profile again. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-user] PosgreSQL - pg_hba.conf localhost access only
J == Joseph syscon...@gmail.com writes: J In my pg_hba.conf I have: J localall all trust J hostall all 127.0.0.1/32trust J I was under impression that this is configuration is for localhost 127.0.0.1 access only. That tells pg how to authenticate users using the unix domain socket and users using tcp over the loopback interface. To limit the listen_address, edit postgresql.conf in that directory. You want to have: listen_addresses = 'localhost' or: listen_addresses = '127.0.0.1' to prevent any access attempts from any non-localhost ip addresses. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-user] -march=? for this cpu
NG == Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com writes: NG I have two Gentoo VMs at Hetzner and the CPU supports 64 bit (grep lm NG /proc/cpuinfo = true). NG model name : QEMU Virtual CPU version 1.0 march=native does not work on a QEMU virtual. In the past I had success doing this on such VMs: gcc -dM -E - /dev/null |sort /tmp/arch-none gcc -march=native -dM -E - /dev/null |sort /tmp/arch-native diff -U0 /tmp/arch-none /tmp/arch-native gcc-4.4 and gcc-4.5 provide useful results from the formula; 4.6 and newer do not. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-user] Selecting a Linux compatible mobo for FX8350
NG == Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com writes: NG I'm searching for a mobo which is fully compatible with Linux and NG supports AMD FX 8350. Preferably, I'm looking for one with onboard NG GFX, since I don't have any need for a big GFX for now. The only boards I've seen which have an AM3 socket and onboard video have the older chipsets which lack support for 1600 MHz and 8Gig dimms or the boards intended for the opteron 3000 series. I do not know whether the latter will work with an FX. Supermicro's line of opteron 3000 boards is at: http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron3000/ They seem to cost on the order of $300 w/o SAS o $400 with. Otherwise onboard graphics means gx790 boards. OTOH, it looks like a opteron 4300 chip or two with one of these boards: http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron4000/ makes for a great atx or micro-atx compute box for only a bit more than one would pay for a piledriver FX chip and fx990 board. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev-197 moves from /usr/lib to /lib
Or, just:
:; find /var/db/pkg -name CONTENTS | xargs -0 grep -l /usr/lib/udev/ | awk -F/
'{print = $5 / $6}' | xargs emerge -pv
which should be fastest.
-JimC
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James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-user] serial in /sys
If you are looking for the serial number of a usb device, I find them at: /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb*/*/serial NB that not all have them. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-user] Measuring USB packet loss
CS == Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com writes: CS c) Can you recommend somewhere for me to ask this question where it CS can be answered? I'd try one of: linux-...@vger.kernel.org libusb-de...@lists.sourceforge.net libusbx-de...@lists.sourceforge.net They are on gmane.org as: gmane.linux.usb.general gmane.comp.lib.libusb.devel.general gmane.comp.lib.libusbx.devel -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-user] qfile alternative?
HJ == Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes: HJ Hi, HJ qfile doesn't find the corresponding packages all the time, e.g. HJ qfile /usr/bin/pq_config showed nothing, but re-installing HJ dev-db/postgresql-base HJ changed that file. The package ownership of /usr/bin/pg_config isn't recorded in a way which would allow such tools to find it. That said, the file is a symlink to one which is so recorded and can be found by q, et al. A good first approximation of what you want would be a script which calls stat(1) on the target and then calls qfile on the target and, if it is a symlink, whatever the symlink points to. Eg, calling: better-qfile /usr/bin/pg_config91 on a box which has dev-db/postgresql-base:9.1 installed would determine that /usr/bin/pg_config91 links to /usr/lib64/postgresql-9.1/bin/pg_config and would therefore run: qfile /usr/bin/pg_config91 /usr/lib64/postgresql-9.1/bin/pg_config which would output the line: dev-db/postgresql-base (/usr/lib64/postgresql-9.1/bin/pg_config) There still would be files managed by eselect(1) or similar tools which wouldn't generate useful output. But for a first approximation, You might want to open an RFE bug report for app-portage/portage-utils suggesting that qfile gain the ability to do the (the logical equivilent of) the above itself. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-user] GCC upgrade from 4.5.3 to 4.5.4 automatically removes 4.5.3???? Wtf???
If you want gcc's minor versions in their own slots, then you want the mutislot use flag: :; euses multislot sys-devel/gcc:multislot - Allow for SLOTs to include minor version (3.3.4 instead of just 3.3) -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-user] AMD Bulldozer cflags ?
AC == Amar Cosic amar.co...@gmail.com writes: AC Couple months ago I tried this AC http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Safe_Cflags/AMD#AMD_FX-8xxx.2F6xxx.2F4xxx_.28Bulldozer.29 Those flags are silly. Specifying -march=bderv1 already enables all of the rest of those -m flags. You will need to use gcc-4.6 or later to have -march=bderv1, otherwise try -march=native and/or -march=amdfam10. Iff you enable the graphite USE flag, you can add: -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block to enable the graphite optimizations. If you do install gcc-4.6.2, try these to confirm what native offers: :; echo | gcc -dM -E - -march=bdver1 | sort gcc-info-bdver1 :; echo | gcc -dM -E - -march=native | sort gcc-info-native A diff(1) of those two files should be empty. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode
AM USE=perl tells you squat, you don't even know what effect it will AM have. You'd have to read the ebuild and the source to figure that out. AM A MUCH better name is USE=tabs with a description like this Provide AM multiple tabs, requires perl. No, that is not a better name for the USE flag. Anyone who has read the docs for rxvt-unicode knows that the perl extension is just that, an *extension*. It is perfectly valid to configure rxvt-unicode with --disable-perl. And on some smaller boxen it may even be necessary. (Sometimes conserving ram is more important than extra functionality.) perl is the right USE flag for rxvt-unciode, and should remain a USE flag. It enables much more functionality than just the tabbed extension, but does so at an expense. An expense which is easily noticed on smaller boxen. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone got any older Portage snapshots kicking around?
I have a clone of the git conversion whose last commit is dated Sun Apr 12 21:54:28 2009 +, if that is of any help. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to have perl-5 and perl-6 installed and in use concurrently?
WK == William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au writes: WK Thats the one (mythtv-0.24_p20110524.ebuild) that wants WK libwww-perl-6 libwww-perl-6 seems to refer to dev-perl/libwww-perl version 6.20.0, as found in the main portage tree. Ie, not libwww-perl for perl6 but rather version 6 of libww-perl for perl5. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-user] leafnode and xinetd?
I == Indi thebeelzebubtrig...@gmail.com writes: Leafnode works fine here. I Output of xinetd -d Looks fine. In addition to the other reply's suggestions, does running /usr/sbin/leafnode from a root shell work? Have you run fetchnews at least once? -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-user] -march=native
BH == Beau Henderson b...@thehenderson.com writes: BH The correct -march is being displayed, I just can't make sense of the BH options showing as [disabled]. While the option may be implied by the BH -march settings, it just makes sense to me that the option should show BH as enabled. Indeed, with my core2 machine the majority of the options BH do display as enable as expected, just not with my k8-see3 @native. FWIW, a tests on -march=amdfam10 on both gentoo and debian also show odd enabled/disabled results, as do debian k8-sse3 and core2 boxen. The fedora core2 box I have access to, however, shows reasonable enableds. Odd. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/cron.d being ignored
John == John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Hi. I am using sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 and I have John discovered that the files in /etc/cron.d are not being John processed. Is this a known bug or does this version of John cron not process that directory? Paul (Vixie) added code some time back to ignore any files that are not owned by root with 0600 perms. (That also applies to /etc/crontab, IIRC.) I don't beleive the ebuild patches that out. If that is the issue, it will show up in syslog. -JimC (who didn't much like that change :-) -- James Cloos [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Overlay moved
My portage overlay has moved from git.jhcloos.org to freedesktop.org. If you have a clone, please edit .git/remotes/origin and replace the old URL with either of: git://people.freedesktop.org/~cloos/overlay.git http://people.freedesktop.org/~cloos/overlay.git (http is there for those who have a firewall blocking the native git protocol; using git:// urls is faster, in my experience.) -JimC -- James Cloos [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: 6x13 font for gnome-terminal
Allan == Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Allan ... I use what [the] 6x13 [bdf] font. Allan Its [xlfd] name is Allan -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 Allan Is there some way I can tell gnome-terminal to use Allan -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 Yes, xft supports bitmap fonts and this one should be in the list. It can be a bit of work to get the right fontconfig name for a given xlfd name, so the best thing to do is to find the fonts.dir file that matches the xlfd to a filename, and find that same filename in the fonts.cache-1 file in that directory. The font you want is in /usr/share/fonts/misc/6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz and that matches this line in /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts-cache-1: , | 6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz 0 Fixed-12:style=SemiCondensed:slant=0: | weight=100:width=87:pixelsize=13:spacing=110:foundry=Misc: | antialias=False:index=0:outline=False:scalable=False:dpi=75: | charset= |^1!|^1!|^1!P0oWQ |^1!|^1!|^1!: | lang=aa|...long-list...|zu: | fontversion=0:fontformat=PCF ` I've manually broken that to fit in 80 cols, and elided the full list of the lang attribute. This means that the string from Fixed to PCF is the full fontconfig name. In practice you can leave out a lot of that. This should let you view the font: :; xfd -fa 'Fixed-12:style=semicondensed:pixelsize=13:foundry=misc' the equivalent invocation for that font as a server-side font is: :; xfd -fn -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 To get gnome-terminal to use that font you may need to manually edit the gconf file. I'd first make a named profile in gnome-terminal's edit current profile dialog (from the right-click menu), and then look for that profile's name in: ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/ The default profile is named Default, and its gconf file is: ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/%gconf.xml In that file, look for: entry name=font and put the fontconfig name in the stringvalue container w/in that entry. There is also an x_font entry that appears to take an xlfd, so I'd change that, too. Depending on your dpi setting, you might even get lucky by using g-t's dialog to choose Fixed, style=semicondensed and one of the offered point sizes. On my 133dpi screen -- with X actually using that dpi -- I was unable to get the dialog to match 6x13. As an alternative, you can try Vera Mono or DevaVu Mono; they have about the same aspect ratio as the bdf fixed fonts and look as good if you have freetype installed w/o bindist in USE. Ie, when using the bycode interpreter, the hinting leaves the stems sharp and adds just a hint of smoothing to the curves and diagonals. It looks especially sweet on an LCD w/ fontconfig setup w/ rgba. -JimC -- James H. Cloos, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jhcloos.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
