from:"Jeff"

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 7:02 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:

 What is the result of the following:

 # ls -lsah /usr/bin/ndomod.o

 ?


--()-[0s)# ls -lsah /usr/bin/ndomod.o
76K -rwxr-xr-x 1 nagios nagios 75K Sep  7 19:26 /usr/bin/ndomod.o

Re: [gentoo-user] NdoUtils Wont Load module in nagios

Thanks, I saw that one.

If I am reading it right, he was missing the broker_command= which I have:

broker_module=/usr/bin/ndomod.o config_file=/etc/nagios/ndomod.cfg

Then when he add's it, its loading he just doesnt have it config'd
correctly:

[18-12-2012 17:39:07] Finished daemonizing... (New PID=10105)
[18-12-2012 17:39:07] Event broker module '/usr/local/nagios/bin/ndomod.o'
initialized successfully.
[18-12-2012 17:39:07] ndomod: Could not open data sink! I'll keep trying,
but some output may get lost...
[18-12-2012 17:39:07] ndomod: NDOMOD 1.5.2 (06-08-2012) Copyright (c) 2009
Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributors
[18-12-2012 17:39:07] LOG VERSION: 2.0
[

Let me know if I missed something.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
wrote:

 On 08/09/2014 02:32, Jeff Smelser wrote:
  I have been racking my head trying to figure out why this module wont
  load. All the privs are correct as far as I can see.
 
  Sep  7 19:22:32 kyle nagios: Nagios 3.5.1 starting... (PID=32513)
  Sep  7 19:22:32 kyle nagios: Local time is Sun Sep 07 19:22:32 CDT 2014
  Sep  7 19:22:32 kyle nagios: LOG VERSION: 2.0
  Sep  7 19:22:32 kyle nagios: Error: Could not load module
  '/usr/bin/ndomod.o' - file not found
 
  I cant even figure out how to get more debugging from the startup. :(
 
  Thanks,
  Jeff


 This post seems relevant:

 http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8678p=41799



 Also, selinux and such things might be interfering. Are you running
 selinux?

 --
 Alan McKinnon
 alan.mckin...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] NdoUtils Wont Load module in nagios

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:52 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:

 Assuming nagios runs as user 'nagios', can you run:
 # ldd /usr/bin/ndomod.o


--()-[78s)# sudo su - nagios
nagios@kyle ~ $  ldd /usr/bin/ndomod.o
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7fff6e1c7000)
libc.so.6 = /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x7f9dee041000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7f9dee608000)

Re: [gentoo-user] NdoUtils Wont Load module in nagios

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Looks like your problem is not the same. I'm just starting  myself to
 come to grips with this part of nagios, so I don't know how much further
 hhelp I can be.

 One thing that does stick out though is the taken literally, your error
 output cannot be correct. The file cannot possibly be not found when
 it quite obviously is right there on the disk :-)

 So one must now think further out the box. Either the error is
 completely wrong and the error handling code is buggy, or the message is
 incomplete somehow (eg maybe it's not the module that is not found but
 rather a file it references - or something like that).

 I recommend your next stop is the nagios user lists.
 Sorry I couldn;t assist more.


I would agree. I just dont know how to get more info from it. I will head
over there.

Thanks for the help so far,
Jeff

[gentoo-user] NdoUtils Wont Load module in nagios

2014-09-07 Thread Jeff Smelser

I have been racking my head trying to figure out why this module wont load.
All the privs are correct as far as I can see.

Sep  7 19:22:32 kyle nagios: Nagios 3.5.1 starting... (PID=32513)
Sep  7 19:22:32 kyle nagios: Local time is Sun Sep 07 19:22:32 CDT 2014
Sep  7 19:22:32 kyle nagios: LOG VERSION: 2.0
Sep  7 19:22:32 kyle nagios: Error: Could not load module
'/usr/bin/ndomod.o' - file not found

I cant even figure out how to get more debugging from the startup. :(

Thanks,
Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?

2013-09-09 Thread Jeff Horelick

On 9 September 2013 09:44, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:

 Wow... just noticed an update is available which, for me, means it has
 been stabilized (at least on amd64)...

 You'd think this would rate a news item and/or other major announcement,
 considering how long it has taken to get here...

 Anyway, really glad to see this happen, and thanks to the devs for getting
 it here!

 Now to wait a few days to see if there is any breakage to report (not
 worried about it really, though, since it has actually gotten a ton of
 testing over the last year or two)...


I agree that this kind of deserves a news post just because of how
momentous the occasion is, however there should not be many breakages from
this as most of the features have already been in the last stable portage
(such as sets and preserved-rebuild on by default). The biggest changes are
probably userpriv and usersync being on by default (which is a recent
change). I don't really believe that anyone will be using programmatic
custom sets for a while now, which is the last feature to not be
back-patched to 2.1

Re: Portage 2.2 - when will it go stable?? WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-11 Thread Jeff Horelick

On 11 July 2012 14:23, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
 On 2012-07-11 12:17 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:

 Then you probably need portage 2.2 for this. Which will never ever become
 stable it seems,


 Can anyone comment on *why* it is taking so long? It is beginning to border
 on ridiculous - if it is ready (which I seem to recall lots of references to
 'why are you still using 2.1??), why not just stabilize it already? I try
 really hard not to run anything unstable unless I absolutely have to (for
 obvious reasons)...


https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210077   --- This is why it's
taking so long, there are still MANY bugs that should really be fixed.

Part of why it's taking so long for those bugs to be fixed is because
programmatic sets and preserve-libs aren't a priority, but things like
supporting new EAPIs and such are a far bigger priority.

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up, remote root vulnerability discovered in Samba

2012-04-11 Thread Jeff Horelick

On 10 April 2012 23:56, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
 Samba versions 3.6.3 and all versions previous to this are affected
 by a vulnerability that allows remote code execution as the root
 user from an anonymous connection.

 As this does not require an authenticated connection it is the most
 serious vulnerability possible in a program, and users and vendors are
 encouraged to patch their Samba installations immediately.

 More info at:
 https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2012-1182


There is already a fixed version (3.5.14) stable on x86, amd64 and
hppa (and obviously ~arch for the other arches) and it should go
stable on those other arches soon and have a GLSA soon as well.

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package

2012-02-06 Thread Jeff Horelick

On 6 February 2012 21:42, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
 I tried and liked google chrome for a few months until I got tired
 of the multi-hour compile every week or so.  The chrome-binary ebuild
 was removed a while ago, I'm guessing because of library version
 conflicts, but I dunno for sure.

 Anyway, I wanted to try a recent version of chrome without spending
 all day compiling it on this dusty old x86 machine, so I improvised
 this easy workaround:

 First, you need x11-libs/libXScrnSaver and app-arch/rpm2targz already
 installed.

 Next, download the appropriate rpm package from www.google/chrome.

 #cd /tmp   (or whatever staging area you prefer, but do it as root)

 #rpmunpack /path/to/your/downloaded/google-chrome-whatever.rpm

 #mv  google-whatever/opt/google  /opt   (the actual chrome binaries)

 (Note:  you don't need the etc or usr/bin parts of the archive, so
  delete the whole /tmp/google-whatever directory now.)

 Make the symlink
 /usr/bin/google-chrome - /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome

 When you run google-chrome you will likely see an error for missing
 libpng12.so.0, which gentoo has replaced with more recent versions
 like libpng14 or libpng15.

 If you see that error, here is a very quick and easy fix:

 #ebuild  /usr/portage/media-libs/libpng/libpng-1.2.46.ebuild  compile

 That step will build (but not install) libpng12, so you won't disturb
 any of your existing packages.  The newly built library you need is
 now waiting for you here:

 /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/libpng-1.2.46/work/libpng-1.2.46/.libs/

 Now copy libpng12.so.0.46.0 to /opt/google/chrome and rename it (or
 symlink it) to libpng12.so.0, because that is what chrome looks for.

 Complain here if you have problems :)



you seem to have missed a very simple way to do all this:

emerge google-chrome


JOB = DONE

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-11 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 23:57 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
 On Tuesday 10 January 2012 21:45:21 Jeff Cranmer wrote:
 
  
 
  Initially, the RTC options were not enabled in my kernel, but even
 after
 
  setting these, I'm still getting this error. I'm adding all the
 device
 
  drivers as modules and trying again to see if I can remove this
 error.
 
  I suspect it is the root cause of my ntp issues.
 
  
 
 It's possible that your kernel is creating /dev/rtc0 instead
 of /dev/rtc. What does ls -d /dev/rt* show?
 
  
 
 -- 
 
 Rgds
 
 Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
 
  
 
There's nothing in /dev/rt* :-(

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer

This is true, however it's a temporary measure only, and I have backups.
Once the prices drop again, I'll buy another 1.5TB disk and convert back
to a RAID5.

On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 13:14 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
 
 On Jan 10, 2012 8:48 AM, Jeff Cranmer j...@lotussevencars.com
 wrote:
 
 
   
Me too.
   
mdadm --detail /dev/md0 thinks that /dev/sdc1 is faulty.
I'm not sure whether it's really faulty, or just that my setup
 for RAID
is screwed up.
   
How do I get rid of an existing /dev/md0?
  
   you stop it. Override the superblock with dd.. and lose all data
 on the disks.
  
  
   
I'm thinking that I can try creating a RAID1 array using the two
allegedly good disks and see if I can make that work.
  
   yeah
  
   
If that works, I'll get rid of it and try recreating the RAID1
 with one
good disk and the one that mdadm thinks is faulty.
   
  
   you don't have to. You can migrate a 2 disk raid1 to a 3 disk
 raid5. Howtos
   are availble via google.
  
  
   just saying - box in suspend to ram. I change the cable (and
 connector on
   mobo) on a disk with two raid 1 partitions on it.
  
   One came back after starting the box.
  
   The other? Nothing I tried worked. At the end I dd'ed the
 partition.. and did
   a complete 'faulty disk/replacement' resync
  
   argl.
  
  
  OK, so lesson learned.  Just because it builds correctly in a RAID1
  array, that doesn't mean that the drive isn't toast.
 
  I ran badblocks on the three drive components and, surprise,
  surprise, /dev/sdc came up faulty.  I think I'll just build the two
  non-faulty drives as a RAID0 array until the hard drive prices come
 back
  down to pre-Thailand flood prices and backup regularly.
 
  Thanks for all the help.
 
  Jeff
 
 
 
 
 RAID 0?!?! 
 
 Please reconsider. 
 
 With RAID 0, *any* single drive failure will result in *total* data
 loss.
 
 Rgds,

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 13:56 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:

 Define crashing?
 
 This looks more like problems with yout TZ variables than ntpd.
 
 try ntpq -p to check if its actually running/locked.  If ntpd is
 freewheeling, it is prpbably because your time is too far from lock so
 it will silently fail (default config).
 
 If ntpd has really crashed (ps aux will confirm), try running the daemon
 manually from a console - if it segfaults or comes up with a missing
 library, try ldd /usr/sbin/ntpd to find which lib is needed and fix.
 
 BillK
 

ntpd -p returns:
ntpq: read: Connection refused

/etc/init.d/ntpd status returns:
 * status: crashed

/etc/init.d/ntpd stop returns
 * Caching service dependencies ...
[ ok ]
 * Stopping ntpd ...
 * start-stop-daemon: no matching processes found 

I tried running /usr/sbin/ntpd from a console, and nothing much happens.
There now appears to be a process running for ntpd, but my time is still
wrong.

ps -aux shows
root 21470  0.0  0.0  26140  1908 ?Ss   07:22
0:00 /usr/sbin/ntpd

ntpq -p now returns
 remote   refid  st t when poll reach   delay   offset
jitter
==
 ntp.cox.net .GPS.1 u5   647   42.229  1800133
3.020
 235-69-67-68.st 130.88.200.6 3 u4   647   47.125  1800132
1.457
 clock.team-cymr 172.16.65.22 2 u3   647   50.691  1800132
0.905
 sulfur.mednor.n 164.67.62.1942 u1   647   88.498  1800131
2.870

After a few minutes, I repeated ntpq -p, and got connection refused.
The program is crashed.  No error messages appear in the command
window. 

The offset is large, which may be why it's crashing.  There may be some
problem setting the hardware clock, since I had an error on bootup
stating that I was unable to set the hardware clock by any method until
I set clock_systohc=NO
in /etc/conf.d/hwclock (which just prevents it trying to set the
hardware clock).  

hwclock --debug output may be useful:
hwclock from util-linux 2.20.1
hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed: No such file or directory
No usable clock interface found.
hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 13:02 -0600, Dale wrote:
 Florian Philipp wrote:
  Besides, ntpd does not correct such large differences. It is not 
  designed to do this, especially on a running system. Activate 
  /etc/init.d/ntp-client. It will set the clock so that ntpd can keep it 
  in sync afterwards. You can start ntp-client on a running system but 
  it might lead to funny errors or crashes of applications. Better add 
  it to runlevel default and restart. Regards, Florian Philipp 
 
 Two things.  One, you need to set the clock manually since it is s 
 far off.  I would do this:
 
 ntpdate -b -u pool.ntp.org
 
 then start ntpd.  Second thing, if you are dual booting with windows, 
 you have to edit the config file to set it correctly:  It is set in 
 /etc/conf.d/hwclock and it has a message about how to set it.  I think 
 it is UTC.  It tells you in the file tho.  If it is not in yours, let me 
 know and I'll post it.
 
 Dale
 
 :-)  :-)
 
Thanks.

ntpdate -b -u pool.ntp.org synchronised my clock.

My system is not tainted by Windoze, so no problems there.

I'm still a little concerned by the results of hwclock --debug
hwclock from util-linux 2.20.1
hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed: No such file or directory
No usable clock interface found.
hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.

Initially, the RTC options were not enabled in my kernel, but even after
setting these, I'm still getting this error.  I'm adding all the device
drivers as modules and trying again to see if I can remove this error.
I suspect it is the root cause of my ntp issues.

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-09 Thread Jeff Cranmer


  
  
  
 Success - I managed to get a raid1 device operating.  
 I created the final filesystem by using mkfs.xfs -f /dev/md0, then
 waited for the rebuild to complete before rebooting the system.
 
 It appears to be created successfully.  Now I'll try the same sequence
 with sdb and sdc to see if sdc is a good disk.  If that works, I'll
 retry a raid5 array tomorrow night.
 
Hmm - it seems to be a bug in RAID5 creation.
I can successfully create a RAID1 array either 
/dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1 or 
/dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdd1

If, however, I try to create a RAID5 array with all three elements, I
get /dev/sdc reporting a failure.

cat /proc/mdstat fails with the following report.

Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5]
[raid4] [multipath] 
md0 : active raid5 sdd1[3](S) sdc1[1](F) sdb1[0]
  2930272256 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/1]
[U__]
  
unused devices: none

Has anyone else experienced similar problems?  Is there an extra
diagnostic procedure which I can use to validate the sdc drive?

Is there something extra I have to do when I go over the 2TB level which
could explain this goofy behaviour?

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-09 Thread Jeff Cranmer


  
  Me too.
  
  mdadm --detail /dev/md0 thinks that /dev/sdc1 is faulty.
  I'm not sure whether it's really faulty, or just that my setup for RAID
  is screwed up.
  
  How do I get rid of an existing /dev/md0?
 
 you stop it. Override the superblock with dd.. and lose all data on the disks.
 
 
  
  I'm thinking that I can try creating a RAID1 array using the two
  allegedly good disks and see if I can make that work.
 
 yeah
 
  
  If that works, I'll get rid of it and try recreating the RAID1 with one
  good disk and the one that mdadm thinks is faulty.
  
 
 you don't have to. You can migrate a 2 disk raid1 to a 3 disk raid5. Howtos 
 are availble via google.
 
 
 just saying - box in suspend to ram. I change the cable (and connector on 
 mobo) on a disk with two raid 1 partitions on it.
 
 One came back after starting the box.
 
 The other? Nothing I tried worked. At the end I dd'ed the partition.. and did 
 a complete 'faulty disk/replacement' resync
 
 argl.
 
 
OK, so lesson learned.  Just because it builds correctly in a RAID1
array, that doesn't mean that the drive isn't toast.

I ran badblocks on the three drive components and, surprise,
surprise, /dev/sdc came up faulty.  I think I'll just build the two
non-faulty drives as a RAID0 array until the hard drive prices come back
down to pre-Thailand flood prices and backup regularly.

Thanks for all the help.

Jeff

[gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-09 Thread Jeff Cranmer

Hi,

Can anyone give me any pointers as to how to diagnose a problem with
ntpd crashing.  My time keeps defaulting to 5 hours earlier than it
should.

There's nothing in dmesg when I do dmesg | grep time, or dmesg | grep
ntp, but /etc/init.d/ntpd status tells me that ntpd has crashed.

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-08 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 12:31 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
  
  What is going on here?
 
 (I didn't read this whole thread, sorry if I'm repeating someone else's
 advice)
 
 kernel autodetection only works on old superblock version 0.90, you're
 using 1.2. Not a big deal, we use mdadm to do it.
 
 Define your arrays in /etc/mdadm.conf and start /etc/init.d/mdadm in
 your boot runscripts with rc-update add mdadm boot, it will bring up
 the array at boot time.
 
 In my mdadm.conf i have a line like this:
 
 ARRAY /dev/md1 metadata=1.01 name=black:1
 UUID=8e653e72:9d5df6ba:bb66ea8b:02f1c317
 
 (might be word-wrapped, should be all one line)
 
 That's all that was needed to bring it up automatically at boot time.
 
 Also AFAIR there was a gotcha about the hostname stored in the array's
 metadata must match your machine's hostname or else mdadm auto-assemble
 won't accept it (to protect you in case you're plugging disks from
 another machine for recovery, you don't want it to use them as your main
 drives), so in that case you must specify it explicitly or set the AUTO
 parameter in mdadm.conf to accept this condition. If you created the
 array from within a LiveCD or on another machine, the hostname might not
 match your system.
 
 See the mdadm manpage for more info.

mdadm was added to the default level, not boot.
My /etc/mdadm.conf file has two active lines
DEVICE /dev/sd[bcd]1
ARRAY dev/md0 metadata=1.2 spares=1 name=office-desktop:0
devices=/dev/sdb1,dev/sdc1,/dev/sdd1

It looks like I'm having trouble with a faulty /dev/sdc1, so what I'd
like to do is wipe out the existing array and try starting a RAID1 array
just with sdb1 and sdd1.

I got rid of the old array by using the commands
mdadm --manage --fail /dev/md0
mdadm  --manage --stop /dev/md0

I then used mdadm --verbose --create /dev/md0 --level=1
--raid-devices=2 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdd1

The result of this command was
dadm: /dev/sdb1 appears to be part of a raid array:
level=raid5 devices=3 ctime=Sat Jan  7 08:16:00 2012
mdadm: partition table exists on /dev/sdb1 but will be lost or
   meaningless after creating array
mdadm: Note: this array has metadata at the start and
may not be suitable as a boot device.  If you plan to
store '/boot' on this device please ensure that
your boot-loader understands md/v1.x metadata, or use
--metadata=0.90
mdadm: /dev/sdd1 appears to be part of a raid array:
level=raid5 devices=3 ctime=Sat Jan  7 08:16:00 2012
mdadm: size set to 1465136400K
Continue creating array? y
mdadm: Defaulting to version 1.2 metadata
mdadm: array /dev/md0 started.

The results of cat /proc/mdstat are
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5]
[raid4] [multipath] 
md0 : active raid1 sdd1[1] sdb1[0]
  1465136400 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
  []  resync =  2.1% (31838144/1465136400)
finish=269.7min speed=88551K/sec
  
unused devices: none

Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5]
[raid4] [multipath] 
md0 : active raid1 sdd1[1] sdb1[0]
  1465136400 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
  []  resync =  2.1% (31838144/1465136400)
finish=269.7min speed=88551K/sec
  
unused devices: none

The results of mdadm --detail /dev/md0 are
/dev/md0:
Version : 1.2
  Creation Time : Sun Jan  8 14:47:43 2012
 Raid Level : raid1
 Array Size : 1465136400 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB)
  Used Dev Size : 1465136400 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB)
   Raid Devices : 2
  Total Devices : 2
Persistence : Superblock is persistent

Update Time : Sun Jan  8 14:48:54 2012
  State : active, resyncing
 Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0

 Rebuild Status : 2% complete

   Name : office-desktop:0  (local to host office-desktop)
   UUID : bfc16c6e:4e8cb910:96ff7ed2:6fec32bc
 Events : 1

Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
   0   8   170  active sync   /dev/sdb1
   1   8   491  active sync   /dev/sdd1

When I try to mount this drive, however, I get 
mount: /dev/md0: can't read superblock

What do I need to do to complete the process?

Thanks

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-08 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 15:03 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
 On Sun, 2012-01-08 at 12:31 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
   
   What is going on here?
  
  (I didn't read this whole thread, sorry if I'm repeating someone else's
  advice)
  
  kernel autodetection only works on old superblock version 0.90, you're
  using 1.2. Not a big deal, we use mdadm to do it.
  
  Define your arrays in /etc/mdadm.conf and start /etc/init.d/mdadm in
  your boot runscripts with rc-update add mdadm boot, it will bring up
  the array at boot time.
  
  In my mdadm.conf i have a line like this:
  
  ARRAY /dev/md1 metadata=1.01 name=black:1
  UUID=8e653e72:9d5df6ba:bb66ea8b:02f1c317
  
  (might be word-wrapped, should be all one line)
  
  That's all that was needed to bring it up automatically at boot time.
  
  Also AFAIR there was a gotcha about the hostname stored in the array's
  metadata must match your machine's hostname or else mdadm auto-assemble
  won't accept it (to protect you in case you're plugging disks from
  another machine for recovery, you don't want it to use them as your main
  drives), so in that case you must specify it explicitly or set the AUTO
  parameter in mdadm.conf to accept this condition. If you created the
  array from within a LiveCD or on another machine, the hostname might not
  match your system.
  
  See the mdadm manpage for more info.
 
 mdadm was added to the default level, not boot.
 My /etc/mdadm.conf file has two active lines
 DEVICE /dev/sd[bcd]1
 ARRAY dev/md0 metadata=1.2 spares=1 name=office-desktop:0
 devices=/dev/sdb1,dev/sdc1,/dev/sdd1
 
 It looks like I'm having trouble with a faulty /dev/sdc1, so what I'd
 like to do is wipe out the existing array and try starting a RAID1 array
 just with sdb1 and sdd1.
 
 I got rid of the old array by using the commands
 mdadm --manage --fail /dev/md0
 mdadm  --manage --stop /dev/md0
 
 I then used mdadm --verbose --create /dev/md0 --level=1
 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdd1
 
 The result of this command was
 dadm: /dev/sdb1 appears to be part of a raid array:
 level=raid5 devices=3 ctime=Sat Jan  7 08:16:00 2012
 mdadm: partition table exists on /dev/sdb1 but will be lost or
meaningless after creating array
 mdadm: Note: this array has metadata at the start and
 may not be suitable as a boot device.  If you plan to
 store '/boot' on this device please ensure that
 your boot-loader understands md/v1.x metadata, or use
 --metadata=0.90
 mdadm: /dev/sdd1 appears to be part of a raid array:
 level=raid5 devices=3 ctime=Sat Jan  7 08:16:00 2012
 mdadm: size set to 1465136400K
 Continue creating array? y
 mdadm: Defaulting to version 1.2 metadata
 mdadm: array /dev/md0 started.
 
 The results of cat /proc/mdstat are
 Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5]
 [raid4] [multipath] 
 md0 : active raid1 sdd1[1] sdb1[0]
   1465136400 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
   []  resync =  2.1% (31838144/1465136400)
 finish=269.7min speed=88551K/sec
   
 unused devices: none
 
 Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5]
 [raid4] [multipath] 
 md0 : active raid1 sdd1[1] sdb1[0]
   1465136400 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
   []  resync =  2.1% (31838144/1465136400)
 finish=269.7min speed=88551K/sec
   
 unused devices: none
 
 The results of mdadm --detail /dev/md0 are
 /dev/md0:
 Version : 1.2
   Creation Time : Sun Jan  8 14:47:43 2012
  Raid Level : raid1
  Array Size : 1465136400 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB)
   Used Dev Size : 1465136400 (1397.26 GiB 1500.30 GB)
Raid Devices : 2
   Total Devices : 2
 Persistence : Superblock is persistent
 
 Update Time : Sun Jan  8 14:48:54 2012
   State : active, resyncing
  Active Devices : 2
 Working Devices : 2
  Failed Devices : 0
   Spare Devices : 0
 
  Rebuild Status : 2% complete
 
Name : office-desktop:0  (local to host office-desktop)
UUID : bfc16c6e:4e8cb910:96ff7ed2:6fec32bc
  Events : 1
 
 Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
0   8   170  active sync   /dev/sdb1
1   8   491  active sync   /dev/sdd1
 
 When I try to mount this drive, however, I get 
 mount: /dev/md0: can't read superblock
 
 What do I need to do to complete the process?
 
 Thanks
 
 Jeff
 
 
 
Success - I managed to get a raid1 device operating.  
I created the final filesystem by using mkfs.xfs -f /dev/md0, then
waited for the rebuild to complete before rebooting the system.

It appears to be created successfully.  Now I'll try the same sequence
with sdb and sdc to see if sdc is a good disk.  If that works, I'll
retry a raid5 array tomorrow night.

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid


   
   What am I missing?
  
  have you set the type to linux raid autodetect?
  
  have you tried mdadm --assemble? 
  
 mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 didn't make any difference.
 Where do I set the type?
 
after assembling,
results of cat/proc/mdstat
personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
[multipath] [faulty]
md0 : inactive sdb1[0](S) sdd1[3](S) sdc1[1](S)
  4395409608 blocks super 1.2

unused devices: none

results of mdadm --detail /dev/md0
mdadm: md device /dev/md0 does not appear to be active.

results of /etc/init.d/mdadm status
 * status: started

fstab line
/dev/md0   /data   xfs   noatime   0 0

Is there a raid option I need to add to the fstab entry?
Is there another service that needs to run, other than mdam?

Thanks

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

On Sat, 2012-01-07 at 10:11 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote:

What am I missing?
   
   have you set the type to linux raid autodetect?
   
   have you tried mdadm --assemble? 
   
  mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 didn't make any difference.
  Where do I set the type?
  
 after assembling,
 results of cat/proc/mdstat
 personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
 [multipath] [faulty]
 md0 : inactive sdb1[0](S) sdd1[3](S) sdc1[1](S)
   4395409608 blocks super 1.2
 
 unused devices: none
 
 results of mdadm --detail /dev/md0
 mdadm: md device /dev/md0 does not appear to be active.
 
 results of /etc/init.d/mdadm status
  * status: started
 
 fstab line
 /dev/md0   /data   xfs   noatime   0 0
 
 Is there a raid option I need to add to the fstab entry?
 Is there another service that needs to run, other than mdam?
 
 Thanks
 
 Jeff
 
 
I tried changing the type of each array element in fdisk to fd (linux
raid autodetect.

The array is still not being recognised at boot, with the same 'cannot
read superblock' error.

I also tried re-running mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5
--raid-devices=3 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1
I get the error
mdadm: device /dev/sdb1 not suitable for any style of array.

What is going on here?

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid


  
  I tried changing the type of each array element in fdisk to fd (linux
  raid autodetect.
  
  The array is still not being recognised at boot, with the same 'cannot
  read superblock' error.
  
  I also tried re-running mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5
  --raid-devices=3 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1
  I get the error
  mdadm: device /dev/sdb1 not suitable for any style of array.
  
  What is going on here?
 
 I am thinking ;)
 
 
LOL!

Me too.

mdadm --detail /dev/md0 thinks that /dev/sdc1 is faulty.
I'm not sure whether it's really faulty, or just that my setup for RAID
is screwed up.

How do I get rid of an existing /dev/md0?

I'm thinking that I can try creating a RAID1 array using the two
allegedly good disks and see if I can make that work.

If that works, I'll get rid of it and try recreating the RAID1 with one
good disk and the one that mdadm thinks is faulty.

Hopefully that will show me whether I have a hardware problem or a
software one.

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

  
  How do I get rid of an existing /dev/md0?
 
 you stop it. Override the superblock with dd.. and lose all data on the disks.
 
 
  
  I'm thinking that I can try creating a RAID1 array using the two
  allegedly good disks and see if I can make that work.
 
 yeah
 
  
  If that works, I'll get rid of it and try recreating the RAID1 with one
  good disk and the one that mdadm thinks is faulty.
  
 
 you don't have to. You can migrate a 2 disk raid1 to a 3 disk raid5. Howtos 
 are availble via google.
 
 
 just saying - box in suspend to ram. I change the cable (and connector on 
 mobo) on a disk with two raid 1 partitions on it.
 
 One came back after starting the box.
 
 The other? Nothing I tried worked. At the end I dd'ed the partition.. and did 
 a complete 'faulty disk/replacement' resync
 
 argl.
 
 
You're assuming I have more knowledge that I do.
Can you explain the steps more in layman's terms.  I've never used dd
before.

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-06 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 13:36 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
 Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012, 23:44:10 schrieb Jeff Cranmer:
  On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 02:42 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
   in your case
   
   sfdisk -d /dev/sdb | sfdisk /dev/sdc
   
   of course ;)
  
  One of the disks had a GPT partition table which I was eventually able
  to get rid of with gdisk (emerge -av gptfdisk).
  
  I'm close.  I had a 2.7TiB RAID5 array using genkernal, comprising three
  1.5TB disks, using the commands
  mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5
  --raid-devices=3 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1
  
  mdadm --detail --scan  /etc/mdadm.conf
  
  I formatted this array as an xfs filesystem.
  
  After reboot, however, /dev/md0 is still there, but I get a 'can't read
  superblock' error.
  
  What am I missing?
 
 have you set the type to linux raid autodetect?
 
 have you tried mdadm --assemble? 
 
mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 didn't make any difference.
Where do I set the type?

Thanks

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-05 Thread Jeff Cranmer


On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 11:22 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
 Am Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2012, 22:45:45 schrieb Jeff Cranmer:
  On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 04:01 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
   the short one:
   
   partition one disk with (c)fdisk. Use sfdisk to transfer the partition
   scheme to the other disks.
   
   run mdadm --create /dev/md0 level=whatever you want --raid-
   devices=thenumberofdevices /dev/sdXY /dev/sdZY ...
   
   mdadm --detail --scan  /etc/mdadm.conf
   
   done
  
  OK, but there is active data on the disks, so I don't want to partition
  them.  They should already partitioned, and running fdisk will erase the
  data.
 
 first rule:
 
 always mount a scratch monkey
 
 In your case: always backup data.
 
No big deal.
99.9% of the data is backed up.  I was just hoping to recover the last
0.1% (picky huh?g).  Now that I know one of the main drawbacks of
fakeraid, I think I'll move ahead with software RAID.

OK, so I've partitioned the first disk as a single linux partition
(/dev/sdb1, ID 83, Linux).
How do I use sfdisk to transfer that partition scheme to the other
disks?  Is it not sufficient just to partition the other two disks in
the same way as the first?

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-05 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 02:42 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

 in your case 
 
 sfdisk -d /dev/sdb | sfdisk /dev/sdc
 
 of course ;)
  
One of the disks had a GPT partition table which I was eventually able
to get rid of with gdisk (emerge -av gptfdisk).   

I'm close.  I had a 2.7TiB RAID5 array using genkernal, comprising three
1.5TB disks, using the commands
mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5
--raid-devices=3 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1

mdadm --detail --scan  /etc/mdadm.conf

I formatted this array as an xfs filesystem.

After reboot, however, /dev/md0 is still there, but I get a 'can't read
superblock' error.

What am I missing?

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 22:21 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
 On 01/03/2012 08:57 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
  device-mapper: table: 253:0: raid45: unknown target type
 
 Maybe a dumb question, but is the raid45 module enabled in your kernel
 config?
 
genkernel --dmraid all
Not sure how to check those details in genkernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

I was using a hardware-based 'fakeRAID'.  It used to work on my old
OpenSuse install, but that broke and I installed gentoo instead.  I
wasn't able to get that to work, and then the motherboard died, so I
built a new system and reused the 3-drive RAID5 array.
 
 While in the first case you see all individual disks with their partitions 
 and 
 a /dev/mdX entry that actually contains the raid failsystem, the second one
 shows only a /dev/sdX holding the final raid drive. 
 
 Additionally, for the hardware based raid, you'll need a driver for the 
 controller that supports the raid5. I think this is the configuration you're 
 trying to run, since you mentioned that you created your raid in the RAID 
 BIOS.
 
 I'm not sure (I've never tried this) whether there is a driver for Linux 
 supporting raid modes on board-embedded HW raid controllers.
 
 Alex

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 14:39 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
 Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012, 21:57:18 schrieb Jeff Cranmer:
  Hi all,
  
  I have recently built a new system, running Gentoo on a Sabertooth 990FX
  motherboard.  The board has a raid controller on which I'm running a
  120GB solid state drive for the OS (Raid 0) and a set of three 1.5TB
  drives which were previously running as a RAID5 array.
 
 no, it does not have a raid controller. It is bios raid. AKA fake raid. You 
 will have less trouble if you stop using it.
 
 google for mdadm. There are some very nice howto's.
 

Not sure I'd agree with you about the howtos being nice.  They mostly
deal with trying to boot from a RAID array (don't want that, as I have
my OS on a non-RAID 120GB SSD).  They're also contradictory, with some
saying I need dmraid, and some saying not.  Most seem to make no more
than a passing nod towards genkernel.

So, given that from the links that I've found, here's my starting set of
questions.

In /etc/genkernel.conf, which options do I need to enable.
One guide suggested the following settings 
DMRAID=no
MDADM=yes
MDADM_CONFIG=/etc/mdadm.conf
MDADM_VER=3.1.4

If this is correct, does it matter that my mdadm version which I emerged
is 3.1.5?  The tarball in /var/cache/genkernel/src is
mdadm-3.1.4.tar.bz2
Should I copy mdadm-3.1.5.tar.bz2 from /etc/portage/distfiles into there
and rebuild genkernel.

Do I need the dodmraid option compiled into genkernel, or is that only
for fakeraid, or situations where I need to boot from a raid partition?

Do I need the dodmraid option set true in the grub.conf file, or is
'domdadm' more appropriate?

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 04:01 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

 the short one:
 
 partition one disk with (c)fdisk. Use sfdisk to transfer the partition scheme 
 to the other disks.
 
 run mdadm --create /dev/md0 level=whatever you want --raid-
 devices=thenumberofdevices /dev/sdXY /dev/sdZY ... 
 
 mdadm --detail --scan  /etc/mdadm.conf
 
 done
 
 
OK, but there is active data on the disks, so I don't want to partition
them.  They should already partitioned, and running fdisk will erase the
data.

If I run mdadm --create /dev/md0 level=5
--raid-devices=3 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd, will that erase data
already on the disks?

Prior to running this command, there is no /dev/md entry.  Is this
correct?

Looking further by using fdisk, it appears that sdc has a linux
partition on sdc1 starting at sector 34, and a GPT partition of size 0+
at /dev/sdc4, sector 0.  Nothing else is on that disk (no sdc2 or sdc3).

sdd and sdb report invalid partition table flags and do not appear to
have active partitions.  Does this make sense?

Is it possible that I ordered the disks incorrectly when I installed
them, and by simply swapping disks b and c at the raid I can get things
to start making sense?  Is there an order to a set of RAID5 disks?  I
thought any two of three RAID5 disks could be recovered, regardless of
which one dies?
 
 there is a reason why I never ever touch genkernel.
 
 you should forget that crap. You don't need to copy around anything. If your 
 root is not on some fancy setup, you don't need initramfs.
 
 Just make a nice kernel, put it in /boot. Done.
 
OK.  The OS disk is non-RAID (120GB SSD), so I don't need any fancy
options in my kernel. All the domdadm and dodmraid stuff is needed just
when your OS disk is raided.  Correct?

Thanks

Jeff

[gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-03 Thread Jeff Cranmer

Hi all,

I have recently built a new system, running Gentoo on a Sabertooth 990FX
motherboard.  The board has a raid controller on which I'm running a
120GB solid state drive for the OS (Raid 0) and a set of three 1.5TB
drives which were previously running as a RAID5 array.

I can see the sda 120GB drive and have installed the operating system on
that.  I can't see one device for the three disk RAID5 array, even
though the RAID BIOS reports it as a healthy 3TB disk.  Instead I see
three separate devices, sdb, sdc and sdd

What do I need to do to mount the 3TB RAID disk?  I'm running genkernel,
and compiled it with genkernel --dmraid all.  It should already have
data on it, if I can only get gentoo to recognise it.

I can see the RAID controller when I use lspci

00:11.0 RAID bus controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0,SB8x0,SB9x0 SATA
Controller [RAID5 mode] (rev 40)

One possible clue may be in dmesg, where I get the error
device-mapper: table: 253:0: raid45: unknown target type

Any assistance gratefully received.

Thanks

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting KDE

2012-01-01 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 13:37 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
 On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 14:59 -0200, Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote:
  On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 13:53, Jeff Cranmer j...@lotussevencars.com wrote:
   I'm attempting to bring up a new system.  Processor is AMD Phenom 1055,
   running on a Sabertooth 990FX motherboard.  Graphics card is an NVIDIA
   GEForce GTX550Ti.
  
\After a little bit of further investigation, I discovered that the
 kdm.log file was full of old error messages.  Deleting this log file did
 not result in a replacement file when I retried startx
 
 dmesg, however, was reporting some 'invalid opcode' errors.  After
 finding a 2-page pdf on the correct compile flags to use with and
 amdfam10 processors (attached), I had enabled a couple of extra compile
 flags, -mabm and -msse4a, as well as setting -march=amdfam10.
 
 I've deleted the -mabm and -msse4a compile flag options from make.conf
 and I'm now running a full recompile (emerge -Dav system, emerge -Dav
 world).  If that doesn't work, I'll try changing the architecture flag
 to -march=amd64 and recompile once more.

I changed to -march=k8 in the make.conf file, removed all packages from
kde-base to trigger a meta recompile, then re-installed kde-meta and
compiled everything else using emerge -Dav system and emerge -Dav world.
I still get the same error.

from dmesg
kded4[16907] trap invalid opcode ip:7fde193e74d7 sp:7fffa5120510 error:0
in libqtGui.so.4.7.4[7fde19226000+a74000]
kcminit_startup[16909] trap invalid opcode ip:7fde193e74d7
sp:7fffa5120610 error:0 in libqtGui.so.4.7.4[7fde19226000+a74000]
kcmserver[16911] trap invalid opcode ip:7fde193e74d7 sp:7fffa511ff70
error:0 in libqtGui.so.4.7.4[7fde19226000+a74000]

So it appears that the problem is in libQtGui.so.4.7.4
How do I know that I've recompiled this?  I suspect this is still a
hangover from the original compile settings.

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting KDE

2012-01-01 Thread Jeff Cranmer

  
  Jeff
 
 $ qfile libQtGui.so.4.7.4
 x11-libs/qt-gui (/usr/lib64/qt4/libQtGui.so.4.7.4)
 
 Look at the date time that you built x11-libs/qt-gui (in your emerge.log, or 
 use genlop) and compare with said file.

The files match, last compiled in the morning, two days ago, which is
before I tried my most recent changes.  

Success - Recompilation of this file gets me a k desktop.

Is there a good way to force-recompile an entire system's code?  emerge
-Dav system and emerge -Dav world don't seem to go down far enough in
the hierarchy to recompile all dependencies.

Many thanks.

Jeff

[gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

Hi,

I'm getting an error when trying to emerge phonon-gstreamer on my
amdfam10 system.  The compilation error is 'undefined reference to
'typeinfo for Phonon::StreamInterface'

Has anyone else seem this error?  I'm trying to clear out all remaining
items in an emerge -NDuav world prior to debugging some kde startup
problems.

Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 09:59 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I'm getting an error when trying to emerge phonon-gstreamer on my
 amdfam10 system.  The compilation error is 'undefined reference to
 'typeinfo for Phonon::StreamInterface'
 
 Has anyone else seem this error?  I'm trying to clear out all remaining
 items in an emerge -NDuav world prior to debugging some kde startup
 problems.
 
 Thanks
 
 
 
PS:  I'm not sure what package requires this.  By individually updating
all the packages in world and system showing as updates, I now have the
situation where either an emerge -Duav system or emerge -Duav world only
returned new package media-libs/phonon-gstreamer as a requirement. 
revdep-rebuild returns that my system is consistent without this
package.

Jeff

[gentoo-user] Problems starting KDE

I'm attempting to bring up a new system.  Processor is AMD Phenom 1055,
running on a Sabertooth 990FX motherboard.  Graphics card is an NVIDIA
GEForce GTX550Ti.

If I start X with twm, the xserver connection is made, and TWM comes up
correctly with three Xterm windows.  

I note that I get two errors reported,
(EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load module dri2 (Module does not exist, 0)
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 62: xclock: command not found

The first error is definitely on startup, but the latter could have
appeared on exit.

I have a file 20-nvidia.conf in the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d directory
with the following information

Section Device
  Identifier Device0
  Driver nvidia
  VendorName NVIDIA Corporation
  BoardName GeForce GTX550 Ti
  BusID PCI:5:0:0
  Screen 0
EndSection

Section Module
  Disable dri
  Disable dri2
  Load glx
EndSection

If I add exec startkde to the top of the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file,
then startx fails to start.  I get the same dri2 error as above, but
also get

startkde: Starting up...
Connecting to deprecated signal
QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
kded(13865): Communication Problem with kded, it probably crashed.
Error message was: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply :  Message did
not receive a reply (timeout by message bus) 

I verified using /etc/init.d/dbus status that the dbus service is
running.  Same for consolekit.

/var/log/kdm.log shows one error, repeated for each startup attempt.
KCrash: Appication 'kdmgreet' crashing
KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/drkonqi directly
Server Terminated successfully (0).  Closing log file.

Any assistance gratefully received.

Thanks

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 10:50 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
 --tree
 
Sorry - please could you be a little more verbose? :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 11:47 -0600, Dale wrote:
 Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote:
  Maybe some use flag inconsistency? Try adding --newuse or -N to your emerge.
  Try this: emerge -uavDN world. If this still just pulls
  phonon-gstreamer, then there should be some problem in the package
  itself.
 
 
 
 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6888730.html#6888730
 
 Dale
 
 :-)  :-)
 
Thanks for the link.
I tried changing the use flags for phonon to -gstreamer vlc, but for
some reason I'm still getting gstreamer pulled in as use flag
requirement, though it adds vlc.  Same error as before.

I'll try -makeopts=-j1, since at the moment I'm running
makeopts=-j6 

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

  
  http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6888730.html#6888730
  
  Dale
  
  :-)  :-)
  
 Thanks for the link.
 I tried changing the use flags for phonon to -gstreamer vlc, but for
 some reason I'm still getting gstreamer pulled in as use flag
 requirement, though it adds vlc.  Same error as before.
 
 I'll try -makeopts=-j1, since at the moment I'm running
 makeopts=-j6 
 
 Jeff

No luck with makeopts=-j1 either.

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling phonon-gstreamer

On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 14:52 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
 On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Jeff Cranmer j...@lotussevencars.com wrote:
  
   http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6888730.html#6888730
  
   Dale
  
   :-)  :-)
  
  Thanks for the link.
  I tried changing the use flags for phonon to -gstreamer vlc, but for
  some reason I'm still getting gstreamer pulled in as use flag
  requirement, though it adds vlc.  Same error as before.
 
  I'll try -makeopts=-j1, since at the moment I'm running
  makeopts=-j6
 
  Jeff
 
  No luck with makeopts=-j1 either.
 
 If you add --tree to your emerge line, you can see what's pulling in
 gstreamer. If it comes to it, running a command like:
 
 emerge -pe --verbose --tree --with-bdeps=y @world
 
 will give you a tree view showing the entire dependency tree on your
 system. From there, you should be able to get a clue as to which
 packages are pulling in packages you're having difficulty with.
 
 
doing an emerge -pDv world, I can see the following tree
kde-base/kdeedu-meta-4.7.4
  kde-base/kmplot-4.7.4
x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.7.4
  media-libs/phonon-4.6.0-r1
media-libs/phonon-gstreamer-4.5.1

Phonon reports a use flag of gstreamer, despite me calling -gstreamer in
make.conf.  The calling packages don't report gstreamer as a use flag.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Plasma-runtime compilation problems

2011-08-23 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 11:55 -0700, walt wrote:
 On 08/20/2011 12:21 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
  /usr/include/KDE/Plasma/../../plasma/service.h:321: error:
  previous definition of 'struct QMetaTypeIdPlasma::Service*'
 
 Hm, well purely a wild guess, but perhaps /usr/include/plasma/service.h
 is left over from an earlier plasma package and the compiler really
 shouldn't be using it.  What package does that file belong to?
 
 
I don't know.
Pardon my ignorance, but how do I find out?

Thanks

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Plasma-runtime compilation problems

2011-08-10 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 16:16 -0700, walt wrote:
 On 08/10/2011 03:04 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
  Hi,
  
  Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2011, 14:40:31 schrieb walt:
  On 08/09/2011 08:34 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
  Hi all,
 
  I'm trying to upgrade kde from 4.4 to 4.6, and I've run into a problem.
 
  Plasma-runtime-4.6.3 is failing.  The error appears to be
  redefinition of 'struct QMetaTypeIDPlasma::Service*'
 
  I don't use kde so I can't be specific, but usually a redefinition is
  just a warning -- unless the package is compiled with the -Wall flag or
  equivalent.
 
 (Of course I meant -Werror, sorry.)
 
  No, this is plain wrong. Redefinition of a struct is an error in C and C++
  
  ~$cat foo.c
  struct foo {
  int i;
  };
  
  struct foo {
  char* v;
  };
  
  ~$gcc foo.c -o foo
  foo.c:5:8: error: redefinition of 'struct foo'
  foo.c:1:8: note: originally defined here
 
 Hm.  I know I've seen compiler redefinition messages thousands of times
 over the years.  Is it really possible that all of those thousands were
 errors instead of warnings?  If that's true then I've wasted a lot more
 time tracking them down than I care to think about :)
 
 
I've seen lots of compiler warnings in the past.  This one, however, was
flagged as an 'Error', not as a warning.  It was the last message before
the compile failed, so I think it's reasonable to assume that therein
lies the problem?

I have emerged all system files, as well as a lot of the world files
that are currently out of date.  This particular compilation failure
happened late in an emerge -NDuav kdebase-meta, as the first part of the
upgrade from kde4.4 to kde4.6

Running revdep-rebuild following the emerge didn't help.  I still have
some world files that are out of date, but all of those are allegedly
not deep dependencies of kdebase-eta.  Last time I tried to do a full
emerge -NDuav world, however, I was then unable to operate my HDPVR
unit, as it suffered a lot of usb failures.  I had to recover my system
from an earlier clonezila backup, so now I'm trying to sneak up on the
problem by doing as little as possible each emerge, then checking
everything works and running another OS clone before continuing.

Unfortunately, kde is now broken, so I'm operating my mythtv interface
via gnome while I attempt to recover kde.  It's probable that the fault
lies in one of the other packages within world that are still to be
upgraded, but it would be nice to get some clues as to which one is the
culprit, so I can continue to inch up on whatever is breaking my HDPVR
based mythtv.

Jeff

[gentoo-user] Plasma-runtime compilation problems

2011-08-09 Thread Jeff Cranmer

Hi all,

I'm trying to upgrade kde from 4.4 to 4.6, and I've run into a problem.

Plasma-runtime-4.6.3 is failing.  The error appears to be 
redefinition of 'struct QMetaTypeIDPlasma::Service*'

Has anyone encountered this problem, and is there an easy fix?

Thanks

Jeff

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-08-02 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 16:55 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote:
 On 01/-10/37 11:59, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
  
  I think this one should have worked? It seems to have found the
  superblock on /dev/sda, at least.
  
  Anyway, I imagine everyone (myself included) is afraid to tell you to do
  anything at this point that might trash your data. My advice now would
  be to put it back where it worked, and make a backup.
 
 I'm just going through this myself. As far as I know mdadm does *not*
 support nvraid. It does support imsm, or intel raid, which I'm in the
 process of setting up on my workstation.
 
 I can't find anything in the docs regarding mdadm working with nvraid,
 you should be trying dmraid for that.
 
 If all you have is /dev/control and you are not using a dmraid supported
 kernel (genkernel requires dodmraid to find and assemble arrays) then
 execute `dmraid -ay` and check dmesg and /dev/mapper for contents.
 
 Dan
 
Thanks Dan,

I'm not using genkernel at the moment.  I'll try those steps and let you
know how it goes.  The Raid array worked on the OpenSuse operating
system that I blew away to install gentoo, so I should be able to
resurrect it without wiping everything out.

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-25 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 10:45 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
 On 07/22/11 21:56, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
  Is there anyone who can help me recover my raid array?
  
 
  Next, I tried commenting out the previously added DEVICE line, and
  adding
  ARRAY /dev/md0 devices=/dev/sda,/dev/sdb,/dev/sdc
 
  mdadm --assemble --scan returns something different
  mdadm: /dev/sdb has no superblock - assembly aborted.
 
 I think this one should have worked? It seems to have found the
 superblock on /dev/sda, at least.
 
 Anyway, I imagine everyone (myself included) is afraid to tell you to do
 anything at this point that might trash your data. My advice now would
 be to put it back where it worked, and make a backup.
 
I already

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-25 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 10:45 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
 On 07/22/11 21:56, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
  Is there anyone who can help me recover my raid array?
  
 
  Next, I tried commenting out the previously added DEVICE line, and
  adding
  ARRAY /dev/md0 devices=/dev/sda,/dev/sdb,/dev/sdc
 
  mdadm --assemble --scan returns something different
  mdadm: /dev/sdb has no superblock - assembly aborted.
 
 I think this one should have worked? It seems to have found the
 superblock on /dev/sda, at least.
 
 Anyway, I imagine everyone (myself included) is afraid to tell you to do
 anything at this point that might trash your data. My advice now would
 be to put it back where it worked, and make a backup.
 
I already have a backup of the data (much of it in multiple locations).
If it gets trashed, I can recover all critical data.  Right now, I just
want to get the storage space back.

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

Is there anyone who can help me recover my raid array?

On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 20:43 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
 On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 09:06 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
  On 07/18/2011 11:08 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
   
   
   Pardon my additional questions before taking the plunge here.  
   
   So, given that I have three devices, /dev/sda, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, if
   I run the command mdadm --assemble --scan, would this find all the
   components and create a /dev/md0 disk without damaging the contents of
   the original RAID array?
  
  If you've got the space and time, a backup can't hurt. Using --scan will
  make it check the config file, but right now, there's probably nothing
  useful in it. This looks like what you want to do to me:
  
If the --scan option is not given, then only devices and identities
listed on the command line are considered.
  
The first device will be the array device, and the remainder will be
examined when looking for components.
  
  but I'd figure out where that md0 is coming from (below) first.
  
 When I tried mdadm --assemble --scan with nothing uncommented in the
 configuration file, I got
 mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically.
 Typing dmesg | grep md0 returned no lines.
 
 There are a couple of lines in dmesg when I run dmesg | grep md:, but
 they read
 md: linear personality registered for level -1
 md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
 md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
 md: raid10 personality registered for level 10
 md: raid6 personality registered for level 6
 md: raid5 personality registered for level 5
 md: raid4 personality registered for level 4
 md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect
 md: If you don't use raid, use raid=noautodetect
 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays
 md: Scanned 0 and added 0 devices
 md: autorun...
 md: ... autorun DONE.
 
 I think this means that raid5 is set up correctly in the kernel, but it
 can't find the raid array.
 
 Next I tried adding a line to the config file:
 
 DEVICE /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc
 mdadm --assemble --scan returned the same results as before
 
 Next, I tried commenting out the previously added DEVICE line, and
 adding
 ARRAY /dev/md0 devices=/dev/sda,/dev/sdb,/dev/sdc
 
 mdadm --assemble --scan returns something different
 mdadm: /dev/sdb has no superblock - assembly aborted.
  
   The only item in /dev/mapper is th default 'control' entry.  There is
   a /dev/md0 item already listed, but presently when I try to mount it, it
   reports that it is unable to read the superblock.  Would the command
   above fix this?
  
  Depends. Where'd the md0 come from? You probably have something in your
  logs or dmesg, unless that device was created manually on your old system.
  
  
   Where is the config file mentioned in your e-mail, and do I need to edit
   it first to add the three raid disks?
  
  It's /etc/mdadm.conf. You don't need it to create or use the array, but
  you'll want to run mdadm when the machine boots and the config file
  tells it what to do. Once the array is working, you can just do,
  
mdadm --detail --scan  /etc/mdadm.conf
  
 mdadm --detail --scan returns no output.
 
 Also, I just checked /dev and md0 is now gone from the list.
 
 Since there are also /dev/sg0, /dev/sg1 and /dev/sg1, I also tried those
 instead of /dev/sda, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc in the ARRAY line, but mdadm
 --assemble --scan returned no output
 
 I tried re-booting, but /dev/md0 is now permanently gone.
 
 Does this give you any ideas what I can try next??
 
 Thanks
 
 Jeff

[gentoo-user] No keyboard or mouse with X after upgrade

Hi All,

I recently ran an emerge -NDuav on my system and world lists, and now I
can't start X and keep the keyboard or mouse operating.

Is this a known issue?  Any simple fixes?

Thanks in advance

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] No keyboard or mouse with X after upgrade

On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 10:18 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
 On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 22:00 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
  Hi All,
  
  I recently ran an emerge -NDuav on my system and world lists, and now I
  can't start X and keep the keyboard or mouse operating.
  
  Is this a known issue?  Any simple fixes?
  
  Thanks in advance
  
  Jeff
  
  
  
 Did you follow the rebuild instructions for keyboard/mouse etc in the
 ebuild messages? - yes its a known problem when you dont do that.
 
 BillK
 
Thanks.  It looks like I've missed that.  Where were the ebuild
messages?  I don't see anything on xorg-server-1.10.2

Re: [gentoo-user] No keyboard or mouse with X after upgrade

On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 22:39 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
 On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 10:18 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
  On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 22:00 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
   Hi All,
   
   I recently ran an emerge -NDuav on my system and world lists, and now I
   can't start X and keep the keyboard or mouse operating.
   
   Is this a known issue?  Any simple fixes?
   
   Thanks in advance
   
   Jeff
   
   
   
  Did you follow the rebuild instructions for keyboard/mouse etc in the
  ebuild messages? - yes its a known problem when you dont do that.
  
  BillK
  
 Thanks.  It looks like I've missed that.  Where were the ebuild
 messages?  I don't see anything on xorg-server-1.10.2
 
 
Got it - xf86-input-evdev needed to be recompiled to recover keyboard
and mouse operation.

Thanks

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-20 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 09:06 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
 On 07/18/2011 11:08 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
  
  
  Pardon my additional questions before taking the plunge here.  
  
  So, given that I have three devices, /dev/sda, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, if
  I run the command mdadm --assemble --scan, would this find all the
  components and create a /dev/md0 disk without damaging the contents of
  the original RAID array?
 
 If you've got the space and time, a backup can't hurt. Using --scan will
 make it check the config file, but right now, there's probably nothing
 useful in it. This looks like what you want to do to me:
 
   If the --scan option is not given, then only devices and identities
   listed on the command line are considered.
 
   The first device will be the array device, and the remainder will be
   examined when looking for components.
 
 but I'd figure out where that md0 is coming from (below) first.
 
When I tried mdadm --assemble --scan with nothing uncommented in the
configuration file, I got
mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically.
Typing dmesg | grep md0 returned no lines.

There are a couple of lines in dmesg when I run dmesg | grep md:, but
they read
md: linear personality registered for level -1
md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
md: raid10 personality registered for level 10
md: raid6 personality registered for level 6
md: raid5 personality registered for level 5
md: raid4 personality registered for level 4
md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect
md: If you don't use raid, use raid=noautodetect
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays
md: Scanned 0 and added 0 devices
md: autorun...
md: ... autorun DONE.

I think this means that raid5 is set up correctly in the kernel, but it
can't find the raid array.

Next I tried adding a line to the config file:

DEVICE /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc
mdadm --assemble --scan returned the same results as before

Next, I tried commenting out the previously added DEVICE line, and
adding
ARRAY /dev/md0 devices=/dev/sda,/dev/sdb,/dev/sdc

mdadm --assemble --scan returns something different
mdadm: /dev/sdb has no superblock - assembly aborted.
 
  The only item in /dev/mapper is th default 'control' entry.  There is
  a /dev/md0 item already listed, but presently when I try to mount it, it
  reports that it is unable to read the superblock.  Would the command
  above fix this?
 
 Depends. Where'd the md0 come from? You probably have something in your
 logs or dmesg, unless that device was created manually on your old system.
 
 
  Where is the config file mentioned in your e-mail, and do I need to edit
  it first to add the three raid disks?
 
 It's /etc/mdadm.conf. You don't need it to create or use the array, but
 you'll want to run mdadm when the machine boots and the config file
 tells it what to do. Once the array is working, you can just do,
 
   mdadm --detail --scan  /etc/mdadm.conf
 
mdadm --detail --scan returns no output.

Also, I just checked /dev and md0 is now gone from the list.

Since there are also /dev/sg0, /dev/sg1 and /dev/sg1, I also tried those
instead of /dev/sda, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc in the ARRAY line, but mdadm
--assemble --scan returned no output

I tried re-booting, but /dev/md0 is now permanently gone.

Does this give you any ideas what I can try next??

Thanks

Jeff

[gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-18 Thread Jeff Cranmer

Hi all,

After cleaning off my Opensuse O.S. and installing Gentoo, I'm having
trouble getting my 3-disk nvidia SATA raid5 array back on line.

The gentoo OS is on a separate non-raid IDE disk, and I can see the
three individual disks which make up the raid array (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb
and /dev/sdc).  Unfortunately, the system does not seem to be able to
detect the raid array, and dmesg shows no md disks detected or mounted.

There are a few guides on line for setting up a system which boots to a
raid array, but I haven't found any guides for simply mounting a raided
disk.  I think I've got all the kernel settings right, and the raid
array was working before I cleared out the IDE disk.  I know that the
Nvidia array isn't a true hardware raid array, but it's a data disk
only, and while I have a reasonably recent backup, I'm not keen on
re-formatting it and setting up a kernel-based raid array.

Any suggestions or pointers gratefully received.  Thanks in advance.

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Nvidia fake raid array

2011-07-18 Thread Jeff Cranmer



On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 22:29 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
 
 Make sure your kernel supports RAID, and RAID5 (they're separate
 options). Then emerge mdadm. Once you get it up and running once, you
 can dump the current config to /etc/mdadm.conf so you don't have to
 assemble it again. Then add mdadm to the boot runlevel.
 
I'm Ok so far - Raid and Raid5 options are both already compiled into
the kernel, and mdadm is in the boot runlevel.

 # mdadm --assemble --help
 Usage: mdadm --assemble device options...
mdadm --assemble --scan options...
 
 This usage assembles one or more raid arrays from pre-existing
 components. For each array, mdadm needs to know the md device, the
 identity of the array, and a number of sub devices. These can be found
 in a number of ways.

 The md device is either given on the command line or is found listed
 in the config file. The array identity is determined either from the
 --uuid or --super-minor commandline arguments, from the config file,
 or from the first component device on the command line.
 
 The different combinations of these are as follows:
 If the --scan option is not given, then only devices and identities
 listed on the command line are considered.
 
 The first device will be the array device, and the remainder will be
 examined when looking for components.
 
 If an explicit identity is given with --uuid or --super-minor, then
 only devices with a superblock which matches that identity is
 considered, otherwise every device listed is considered.
 
 If the --scan option is given, and no devices are listed, then
 every array listed in the config file is considered for assembly.
 The identity of candidate devices are determined from the config file.
 
 If the --scan option is given as well as one or more devices, then
 Those devices are md devices that are to be assembled. Their identity
 and components are determined from the config file.
 
 If mdadm can not find all of the components for an array, it will
 assemble it but not activate it unless --run or --scan is given. To
 preserve this behaviour even with --scan, add --no-degraded. Note that
 all of the components means as many as were present the last time the
 array was running as recorded in the superblock. If the array was
 already degraded, and the missing device is not a new problem, it will
 still be assembled. It is only newly missing devices that cause the
 array not to be started.

Pardon my additional questions before taking the plunge here.  

So, given that I have three devices, /dev/sda, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, if
I run the command mdadm --assemble --scan, would this find all the
components and create a /dev/md0 disk without damaging the contents of
the original RAID array?

The only item in /dev/mapper is th default 'control' entry.  There is
a /dev/md0 item already listed, but presently when I try to mount it, it
reports that it is unable to read the superblock.  Would the command
above fix this?

Where is the config file mentioned in your e-mail, and do I need to edit
it first to add the three raid disks?

Thanks

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-17 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 14:28 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
 On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 14:51 +1100, Adam Carter wrote:
  I use an xorg.conf, and have the following;
  
  Section Files
  ModulePath /usr/lib64/xorg/modules
  ModulePath /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/
  EndSection
  
  Your xorg cant find the dri and dri2 modules because its not looking
  in the second directory. 
  
  Also, it might be worth trying the latest driver, so 
  # echo x11-drivers/ati-drivers ~amd64
   /etc/portage/package.keywords
  Then emerge ati-drivers again.
  
  If that doesnt help, send the X11 log again after you've made those
  changes.
 
 I made the changes above, and added the fbdev entry to VIDEO_CARDS from
 Nikos' e-mail.  
 
 I also added fglrx to my /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 file.
 
 It's a bit overkill but next I did emerge -Dav system and emerge -Dav
 world before running emerge -NDuav system and emerge -NDuav world.
 
 I rebooted the machine, ran startx and it looks like success.
 I reinstalled xdm to the default runlevel, and I have a working graphics
 card.  Thanks all for the advice.
 
 There are a couple of issues:
 (1) Even though the resolution is set to 1920 x 1080, it appears to be
 scaled so that it doesn't fill the entire screen.  It is scaled to about
 90% for some reason.
 (2) Compositing is not supported as it stands.  I may need to switch
 that on in xorg.conf.
 
 Does anyone know how to fix the scaling issue or whether it is advisable
 should turn on compositing in xorg.conf?
 
 Jeff
 

In case anyone is suffering the same problem.   I fixed the display
scaling issue.  

The ATI Catalyst control center in KDE allows you to change the scaling
options.  My display was set to about 7% underscaling in the display
manager DTV1 menu, on the adjustments tab.  All I needed to do was move
the scaling slider all the way to the right, and the display scaled
perfectly.

Now, if only I could get compositing working :-/

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-16 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 14:51 +1100, Adam Carter wrote:
 I use an xorg.conf, and have the following;
 
 Section Files
 ModulePath /usr/lib64/xorg/modules
 ModulePath /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/
 EndSection
 
 Your xorg cant find the dri and dri2 modules because its not looking
 in the second directory. 
 
 Also, it might be worth trying the latest driver, so 
 # echo x11-drivers/ati-drivers ~amd64
  /etc/portage/package.keywords
 Then emerge ati-drivers again.
 
 If that doesnt help, send the X11 log again after you've made those
 changes.

I made the changes above, and added the fbdev entry to VIDEO_CARDS from
Nikos' e-mail.  

I also added fglrx to my /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 file.

It's a bit overkill but next I did emerge -Dav system and emerge -Dav
world before running emerge -NDuav system and emerge -NDuav world.

I rebooted the machine, ran startx and it looks like success.
I reinstalled xdm to the default runlevel, and I have a working graphics
card.  Thanks all for the advice.

There are a couple of issues:
(1) Even though the resolution is set to 1920 x 1080, it appears to be
scaled so that it doesn't fill the entire screen.  It is scaled to about
90% for some reason.
(2) Compositing is not supported as it stands.  I may need to switch
that on in xorg.conf.

Does anyone know how to fix the scaling issue or whether it is advisable
should turn on compositing in xorg.conf?

Jeff




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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 10:32 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

 
 You mentioned that you used fglrxinfo in your post, which assumes 
 you're using the closed source driver :-/  Another hint was that you're 
 using an HD5000 series card, which is not supported correctly by the 
 open source drivers anyway at this point.
 
Yeah - I realised afterwards that I had left a few things in place from
a failed attempt at installing the closed source drivers.  

 Anyway, if you're on open source drivers, I think that's your problem. 
 Only the closed source driver works correctly with 3D for HD5000 cards 
 at this moment.
 
 
Thanks for the advice.  I'll take another crack at the closed source
drivers, and if that doesn't work, I'll rip out the $%^ thing and
replace it with an Nvidia cardg

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer

OK, so let's have a go at the ATI drivers again.

First, get rid of the open source ati drivers
emerge --unmerge -av radeon-ucode xf86-video-ati

Editing the /etc/make.conf file to change the last line to
VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx
then running emerge -NDuav system changes the mesa driver so that I have
no valid selections for VIDEO_CARDS=, so I'll unmerge mesa

emerge --unmerge -av mesa

running emerge -NDuav world identified the xorg-drivers and pm-utils
packages that have changed, and attempts to re-emerge mesa, so I'll
unmerge those two

emerge --unmerge -av xorg-drivers pm-utils

moving on to the kernel, I verify that I have the correct kernel
parameters:

Device drivers -
 Graphics Support -
  * dev/agpgart (AGP support)

None of the other modules below the agpgart appear to be appropriate, so
I'll not enable any of these.

Disable the direct rendering manager and framebuffer support, so this
should take care of the radeon driver module.  I'll do a locate search
for this before I reboot.

 Device Drivers  -
 Generic Driver Options  -
 Userspace firmware loading support
[ ] Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary

Recompile the kernel and update using grub.

emerge ati-drivers

It seems this was still present from the previous attempt, so I'll
re-emerge it.

Running emerge -NDuav system still pulls in mesa, so back in it goes.
Running emerge -NDuav world pulls back in xorg-drivers and pm-utils, so
these are also reinstalled.

emerge --depclean pulls out a few packages, 
radeontool
gst-plugins-v4l
gst-plugins-v4l2
gentoo-sources-2.6.34-r6

since gentoo-sources-2.6.34-r6 is the kernel I'm presently operating
with, I'll re-emerge that and verify that it is still current via
eselect kernel list.

revdep-rebuild doesn't add anything else.

Prevent boot-up into X-windows, then reboot.

rc-update del xdm default 
reboot

run aticonfig --initial to create an xorg.conf file.

startx

total system crash - hard reset required to reboot.

Hmm - the xorg.log file has this error.
atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized.

Can anyone shed light on this?

Thanks

Jeff


On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 20:11 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
 On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 10:32 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
 
  
  You mentioned that you used fglrxinfo in your post, which assumes 
  you're using the closed source driver :-/  Another hint was that you're 
  using an HD5000 series card, which is not supported correctly by the 
  open source drivers anyway at this point.
  
 Yeah - I realised afterwards that I had left a few things in place from
 a failed attempt at installing the closed source drivers.  
 
  Anyway, if you're on open source drivers, I think that's your problem. 
  Only the closed source driver works correctly with 3D for HD5000 cards 
  at this moment.
  
  
 Thanks for the advice.  I'll take another crack at the closed source
 drivers, and if that doesn't work, I'll rip out the $%^ thing and
 replace it with an Nvidia cardg
 
 Jeff
 
 
 


X.Org X Server 1.7.7
Release Date: 2010-05-04
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.34-gentoo-r6 x86_64 
Current Operating System: Linux Media-PC 2.6.34-gentoo-r6 #10 SMP Fri Oct 15 21:26:03 EDT 2010 x86_64
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda3
Build Date: 12 October 2010  08:15:38PM
 
Current version of pixman: 0.18.2
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Fri Oct 15 22:10:34 2010
(==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
(==) ServerLayout aticonfig Layout
(**) |--Screen aticonfig-Screen[0]-0 (0)
(**) |   |--Monitor aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0
(**) |   |--Device aticonfig-Device[0]-0
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ does not exist.
	Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/OTF does not exist.
	Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ does not exist.
	Entry deleted from font path.
(==) FontPath set to:
	/usr/share/fonts/misc/,
	/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,
	/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/
(==) ModulePath set to /usr/lib64/xorg/modules
(II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
(II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device.
(II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
	If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable AutoAddDevices.
(II) Loader magic: 0x7c3220
(II) Module ABI versions:
	X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
	X.Org Video Driver: 6.0
	X.Org XInput driver : 7.0
	X.Org Server Extension : 2.0
(--) using VT number 7

(--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 1002:68be:174b:e148 ATI Technologies Inc rev 0, Mem @ 0xd000/268435456, 0xfdfc/131072, I/O @ 0xee00/256, BIOS @ 0x/131072
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 22:24 -0400, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
 OK, so let's have a go at the ATI drivers again.
 
 First, get rid of the open source ati drivers
 emerge --unmerge -av radeon-ucode xf86-video-ati
 
 Editing the /etc/make.conf file to change the last line to
 VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx
 then running emerge -NDuav system changes the mesa driver so that I have
 no valid selections for VIDEO_CARDS=, so I'll unmerge mesa
 
 emerge --unmerge -av mesa
 
 running emerge -NDuav world identified the xorg-drivers and pm-utils
 packages that have changed, and attempts to re-emerge mesa, so I'll
 unmerge those two
 
 emerge --unmerge -av xorg-drivers pm-utils
 
 moving on to the kernel, I verify that I have the correct kernel
 parameters:
 
 Device drivers -
  Graphics Support -
   * dev/agpgart (AGP support)
 
 None of the other modules below the agpgart appear to be appropriate, so
 I'll not enable any of these.
 
 Disable the direct rendering manager and framebuffer support, so this
 should take care of the radeon driver module.  I'll do a locate search
 for this before I reboot.
 
  Device Drivers  -
  Generic Driver Options  -
  Userspace firmware loading support
 [ ] Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary
 
 Recompile the kernel and update using grub.
 
 emerge ati-drivers
 
 It seems this was still present from the previous attempt, so I'll
 re-emerge it.
 
 Running emerge -NDuav system still pulls in mesa, so back in it goes.
 Running emerge -NDuav world pulls back in xorg-drivers and pm-utils, so
 these are also reinstalled.
 
 emerge --depclean pulls out a few packages, 
 radeontool
 gst-plugins-v4l
 gst-plugins-v4l2
 gentoo-sources-2.6.34-r6
 
 since gentoo-sources-2.6.34-r6 is the kernel I'm presently operating
 with, I'll re-emerge that and verify that it is still current via
 eselect kernel list.
 
 revdep-rebuild doesn't add anything else.
 
 Prevent boot-up into X-windows, then reboot.
 
 rc-update del xdm default 
 reboot
 
 run aticonfig --initial to create an xorg.conf file.
 
 startx
 
 total system crash - hard reset required to reboot.
 
 Hmm - the xorg.log file has this error.
 atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized.
 
 Can anyone shed light on this?
 
 Thanks
 
 Jeff

Oops - forgot to eselect opengl set ati

Now it's still failing, but a different set of errors, as attached.

Any suggestions gratefully received.



X.Org X Server 1.7.7
Release Date: 2010-05-04
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.34-gentoo-r6 x86_64 
Current Operating System: Linux Media-PC 2.6.34-gentoo-r6 #10 SMP Fri Oct 15 21:26:03 EDT 2010 x86_64
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda3
Build Date: 12 October 2010  08:15:38PM
 
Current version of pixman: 0.18.2
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Fri Oct 15 22:41:42 2010
(==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
(==) ServerLayout aticonfig Layout
(**) |--Screen aticonfig-Screen[0]-0 (0)
(**) |   |--Monitor aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0
(**) |   |--Device aticonfig-Device[0]-0
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ does not exist.
	Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/OTF does not exist.
	Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ does not exist.
	Entry deleted from font path.
(==) FontPath set to:
	/usr/share/fonts/misc/,
	/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,
	/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/
(==) ModulePath set to /usr/lib64/xorg/modules
(II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
(II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device.
(II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
	If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable AutoAddDevices.
(II) Loader magic: 0x7c3220
(II) Module ABI versions:
	X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
	X.Org Video Driver: 6.0
	X.Org XInput driver : 7.0
	X.Org Server Extension : 2.0
(--) using VT number 7

(--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 1002:68be:174b:e148 ATI Technologies Inc rev 0, Mem @ 0xd000/268435456, 0xfdfc/131072, I/O @ 0xee00/256, BIOS @ 0x/131072
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(II) extmod will be loaded by default.
(II) dbe will be loaded by default.
(II) glx will be loaded by default.
(II) record will be loaded by default.
(II) dri will be loaded by default.
(II) dri2 will be loaded by default.
(II) LoadModule: extmod
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so
(II) Module extmod: vendor=X.Org Foundation
	compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.0.0
	Module class: X.Org Server Extension
	ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(II) Loading extension XFree86

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-13 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 17:06 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: 

 Forgot one last thing.  After you do what I described in my other post, 
 make sure to execute:
 
 eselect opengl set ati
 
 
Hi Nikos,

Thanks for the advice.

I think that the instructions that you're providing, however, are for
the closed source ATI driver.  I've already battled unsuccessfully with
that driver via OpenSUSE, Kubuntu, Fedora and gentoo, so I'm trying to
configure using the open source Radeon driver instead, with reference to
this wiki here
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon

Regarding eselect, I used eselect opengl xorg-xll to select the open
source driver instead of ati.  I think this is correct?

The kernel options are configured as follows

Device Drivers  -
Generic Driver Options  -
  * Userspace firmware loading support
   [*] Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary
Graphics support  -
  * /dev/agpgart (AGP Support)
  * Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) -
   * ATI Radeon
[*] Enable modesetting on radeon by default

When I re-ran emerge radeon-ucode and checked my kernel blobs line
in .config, I discovered that I had not included the kernel blobs
radeon/R600_rlc.bin and radeon/R700_rlc.bin, so I recompiled the kernel
using those options and rebooted after running grub to setup the revised
kernel.

I also noted the instructions at
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Framebuffer#Drivers_with_Kernel_Mode_Setting_.28KMS.29
and recompiled the kernel once more after changing the following
settings

Device Drivers -
Graphics support -
  [*] Support for frame buffer devices  ---
   [*] Enable firmware EDID
   [*] Enable Video mode handling helpers

Following on further, I found this link
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/radeonBuildHowTo#RemovingAMD.2BAC8-ATIcatalyst.2BAC8-fglrxdriver.28closedsource.29
and discovered that I still had the fglrx.ko module
in /lib/modules/2.6.34-gentoo-r6/video, so I deleted it and typed 
depmod -a

After reviewing my /etc/make.conf, I discovered that I had the
VIDEO_CARDS=fglrx option set, so I changed that to
VIDEO_CARDS=radeon and ran

emerge -Dav mesa libdrm xf86-video-ati
emerge -NDuav system  (nothing to merge)
emerge -NDuav world (rebuilt xorg-drivers-1.7 and
pm_utils-1.4.1http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/radeonBuildHowTo#RemovingAMD.2BAC8-ATIcatalyst.2BAC8-fglrxdriver.28closedsource.29

I then re-ran grub and tried to boot into the revised kernel, but still
no luck getting anything other than software rasteriser.  The Xorg.0.log
file for this run is attached.

I then tried moving the xorg.conf file to another location and restarted
with no xorg.conf.  I still got only software rasteriser, but now I have
errors in Xorg.0.log where fbdev and vesa modules do not exist.

This log file is in the second attachment, Xorg.0.log.noXorg.conf

Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I go from here?

Thanks in advance

Jeff


X.Org X Server 1.7.7
Release Date: 2010-05-04
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.34-gentoo-r6 x86_64 
Current Operating System: Linux Media-PC 2.6.34-gentoo-r6 #9 SMP Wed Oct 13 20:46:13 EDT 2010 x86_64
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda3
Build Date: 12 October 2010  08:15:38PM
 
Current version of pixman: 0.18.2
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Wed Oct 13 21:00:54 2010
(==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
(==) ServerLayout aticonfig Layout
(**) |--Screen aticonfig-Screen[0]-0 (0)
(**) |   |--Monitor default monitor
(**) |   |--Device aticonfig-Device[0]-0
(==) No monitor specified for screen aticonfig-Screen[0]-0.
	Using a default monitor configuration.
(**) Option Xinerama off
(**) Option AIGLX On
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic.
	Entry deleted from font path.
	(Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic).
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/share/fonts/encodings.
	Entry deleted from font path.
	(Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/share/fonts/encodings).
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/share/fonts/util.
	Entry deleted from font path.
	(Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/share/fonts/util).
(WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ does not exist.
	Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/OTF does not exist.
	Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ does not exist.
	Entry deleted from font path.
(**) FontPath set to:
	/usr/share/fonts/100dpi,
	/usr/share/fonts/75dpi,
	/usr/share/fonts/corefonts,
	/usr/share/fonts/dejavu,
	/usr/share/fonts/misc,
	/usr/share/fonts/misc/,
	/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,
	/usr/share/fonts/75dpi

[gentoo-user] Trying to configure Radeon card

2010-10-12 Thread Jeff Cranmer

Hi,

I have a Sapphire Radeon HD5750 graphics card installed on my Gentoo
box, and I'm having some difficulty configuring it.

When I run fglrxinfo, I get the OpenGL messages for a basic Mesa driver.

I've attached the xorg.conf file, the Xorg.0.log file, and the results
of the lspci command.  Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?  I tried
auto-generating an xorg.conf file, but that would result in a totally
blank screen.

Thanks in advance.

Jeff

X.Org X Server 1.7.7
Release Date: 2010-05-04
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.34-gentoo-r6 x86_64 
Current Operating System: Linux Media-PC 2.6.34-gentoo-r6 #5 SMP Fri Oct 8 23:13:33 EDT 2010 x86_64
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda3
Build Date: 08 October 2010  07:45:48PM
 
Current version of pixman: 0.18.2
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Tue Oct 12 18:51:46 2010
(==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
(==) ServerLayout aticonfig Layout
(**) |--Screen aticonfig-Screen[0]-0 (0)
(**) |   |--Monitor default monitor
(**) |   |--Device aticonfig-Device[0]-0
(==) No monitor specified for screen aticonfig-Screen[0]-0.
	Using a default monitor configuration.
(**) Option Xinerama off
(**) Option AIGLX On
(==) Automatically adding devices
(==) Automatically enabling devices
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/share/fonts/100dpi.
	Entry deleted from font path.
	(Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/share/fonts/100dpi).
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/share/fonts/75dpi.
	Entry deleted from font path.
	(Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/share/fonts/75dpi).
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic.
	Entry deleted from font path.
	(Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic).
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/share/fonts/encodings.
	Entry deleted from font path.
	(Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/share/fonts/encodings).
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/share/fonts/util.
	Entry deleted from font path.
	(Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/share/fonts/util).
(WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ does not exist.
	Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/OTF does not exist.
	Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ does not exist.
	Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/.
	Entry deleted from font path.
	(Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/).
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/.
	Entry deleted from font path.
	(Run 'mkfontdir' on /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/).
(**) FontPath set to:
	/usr/share/fonts/corefonts,
	/usr/share/fonts/dejavu,
	/usr/share/fonts/misc,
	/usr/share/fonts/misc/
(**) ModulePath set to /usr/lib/xorg/modules,/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions,/usr/lib/dri
(**) Extension Composite is enabled
(II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
(II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device.
(II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
	If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable AutoAddDevices.
(II) Loader magic: 0x7c3220
(II) Module ABI versions:
	X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
	X.Org Video Driver: 6.0
	X.Org XInput driver : 7.0
	X.Org Server Extension : 2.0
(++) using VT number 7

(--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 1002:68be:174b:e148 ATI Technologies Inc rev 0, Mem @ 0xd000/268435456, 0xfdfc/131072, I/O @ 0xee00/256, BIOS @ 0x/131072
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(II) extmod will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) dbe will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) glx will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) record will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) dri will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) dri2 will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
(II) LoadModule: evdev
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
(II) Module evdev: vendor=X.Org Foundation
	compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 2.4.0
	Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
	ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 7.0
(II) LoadModule: dri
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so
(II) Module dri: vendor=X.Org Foundation
	compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.0.0
	ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) LoadModule: glx
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor=X.Org Foundation
	compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.0.0

[gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

I have a problem with my gentoo system

I am trying to update, and I get a C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity 
check error on a number of packages.

After a bit of searching, the solution that I come across most often is to 
recompile glibc and gcc.  Unfortunately, when I try to compile glibc, I get 
the same sanity check error.  Catch 22.

Can anyone help me get around this 'insanity'?

Thanks

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

On Sunday 21 December 2008 11:52:11 am Jeff Cranmer wrote:
On Sunday 21 December 2008 11:11:59 am Justin wrote:
Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
I have a problem with my gentoo system

I am trying to update, and I get a C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails
sanity check error on a number of packages.

After a bit of searching, the solution that I come across most often is
to recompile glibc and gcc. Unfortunately, when I try to compile
glibc, I get the same sanity check error. Catch 22.

Can anyone help me get around this 'insanity'?

Thanks

Jeff

Can you provide some more information please? Logs etc?

Here is the end of the output.

checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ISO C89...
unsupported checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.
*
* ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile
* environment, line 3457: Called eblit-run 'src_compile'
* environment, line 1115: Called eblit-glibc-src_compile
* src_compile.eblit, line 179: Called src_compile
* environment, line 3457: Called eblit-run 'src_compile'
* environment, line 1115: Called eblit-glibc-src_compile
* src_compile.eblit, line 187: Called toolchain-glibc_src_compile
* src_compile.eblit, line 120: Called
glibc_do_configure 'src_compile'
* src_compile.eblit, line 97: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* ${S}/configure ${myconf} || die failed to configure glibc
* The die message:
* failed to configure glibc
*
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if
relevant.
* A complete build log is located
at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located
at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201/temp/environment'.
*

* Messages for package sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201:

*
* ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile
* environment, line 3457: Called eblit-run 'src_compile'
* environment, line 1115: Called eblit-glibc-src_compile
* src_compile.eblit, line 179: Called src_compile
* environment, line 3457: Called eblit-run 'src_compile'
* environment, line 1115: Called eblit-glibc-src_compile
* src_compile.eblit, line 187: Called toolchain-glibc_src_compile
* src_compile.eblit, line 120: Called
glibc_do_configure 'src_compile'
* src_compile.eblit, line 97: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* ${S}/configure ${myconf} || die failed to configure glibc
* The die message:
* failed to configure glibc
*
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if
relevant.
* A complete build log is located
at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located
at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201/temp/environment'.

I've attached the build.log, but can't find config.log. Where is this
normally located?

Jeff

After finding this link with a possible solution,
http://www.linux-solved.com/post/gnu-stubs-32-h-No-such-file-or-directory-multilib-SOLVED-564.html

I downloaded binaries of glibc and gcc

I emerged gcc from a binary successfully, but when I tried to install the
glibc binary, it failed because the binary I found was rev 2.6.1, and the
present version is glibc-2.9_p20081201, so emerge would not allow the
downgrade.

The error was
* Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system:
* Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to destruction
*
* ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called pkg_setup
* environment, line 3275: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* die aborting to save your system;
* The die message:
* aborting to save your system
*
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if
relevant.
* A complete build log is located
at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located
at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1/temp/environment'.

I then tried emerge binutils glibc gcc after running source /etc/profile and
env-update.

binutils emerged successfully, but glibc still failed with the same sanity
check error.

Does anyone know where I can get the latest binary for an amd64 system, or
otherwise get around this issue?

Thanks

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check


 Hmm, if you have a separate machine with the same architecture, you
 can build those binary packages yourself, just man emerge and take a
 look at the buildpkg section. Alternatively, you can cross compile
 binary packages[1].

 Or, why not just use a stage tarball?

 HTH.

 Joe

 [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/cross-development.xml

I'm not an expert, and I don't have a second amd64 machine.  My laptop runs a 
different PC processor type.  How would I go about cross-compiling an amd64 
binary on my laptop, and creating the necessary .tbz2 tarball.  If I could do 
that, I would probably be able to test out the theory that this would fix my 
broken system.

Thanks

Jeff

Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check


On Sunday 21 December 2008 12:43:58 pm Willie Wong wrote:
 On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:52:11AM -0500, Penguin Lover 
 Jeff Cranmer  
squawked:
  checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
  checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes
  checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ISO C89...
  unsupported checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
  configure: error: C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check
  See `config.log' for more details.

 Try posting config.log in the build directory also.

 The build log that you posted was virtually identical to this.

 W

where do I find config.log?

It wasn't in the same directory as build.log, or in the root directory.

Thanks

Jeff


---

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

On Sunday 21 December 2008 01:49:41 pm Justin wrote:
 Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
  Hmm, if you have a separate machine with the same architecture, you
  can build those binary packages yourself, just man emerge and take a
  look at the buildpkg section. Alternatively, you can cross compile
  binary packages[1].
 
  Or, why not just use a stage tarball?
 
  HTH.
 
  Joe
 
  [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/cross-development.xml
 
  I'm not an expert, and I don't have a second amd64 machine.  My laptop
  runs a different PC processor type.  How would I go about cross-compiling
  an amd64 binary on my laptop, and creating the necessary .tbz2 tarball. 
  If I could do that, I would probably be able to test out the theory that
  this would fix my broken system.
 
  Thanks
 
  Jeff

 Perhaps you should go back to a lower glib version. Latest versions of
 such important packages might always have issues.

What is the approved way to do this?

When I tried to install an old version of glibc from a binary, I got the 
error:

The error was
* Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system:
 *  Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to destruction
 *
 * ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called pkg_setup
 *             environment, line 3275:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *               die aborting to save your system;
 *  The die message:
 *   aborting to save your system
 *
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if 
relevant.
 * A complete build log is located 
at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located 
at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1/temp/environment'.

The error message
Downgrading glibc is not supported and is a sure way to destruction
makes me think that going back would not be such a good idea.

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check


  
   Perhaps you should go back to a lower glib version. Latest versions of
   such important packages might always have issues.
 
  What is the approved way to do this?

 There is no approved way to downgrade glibc. The output message from the
 error you posted tells you why the devs will not provide you with a method
 to do it. If you *really* want to do it, your could comment out the if
 statement between lines 159 and 163 of the latest glibc ebuild.

 The only correct way I know of is to perform a reinstall. It'll probable be
 quicker, easier and far less painful than trying to recover from ripping
 the foundation out from under your OS...


 However, did you notice that the parent poster mentioned glib and you have
 attempted to downgrade glibc?



The issue that I have is that glibc is broken, probably due to my profile 
having at some point switched from a 64 bit profile back to i386.

After discovering this, I tried to fix this by switching the profile back, and 
that's when my problems began.  glibc appears to be broken, and causes errors 
when trying to compile (specifically, lib cpp fails the sanity check).  
Reinstalling glibc from a binary was recommended as a way to fix this, but I 
don't have access to a binary of the same or more recent vintage as the one 
already installed on my system.  Trying to install an older version that I 
could find caused the glibc error.

emerge -eav system causes the same errors, as glibc appears to require glibc 
to compile, and since it's not working, I have a circular dependency that I 
can't resolve.  

If its OK to do so, and has a chance of working, I could install an older 
version of glib.  All I need to know is how to do this.

Any pointers gratefully received.  I'd really rather not have to rip out 
everything and re-install the OS (several days of work), as it's basically 
working right now - just won't upgrade at the moment.

Thanks

Jeff

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

On Sunday 21 December 2008 02:35:56 pm Justin wrote:
  However, did you notice that the parent poster mentioned glib and you
  have attempted to downgrade glibc?

 My fault missed the c.
 @Jeff
 Please provide a emerge --info so that we can comment on it. Perhaps
 this will protect you from some more headache when reinstalling.

there ya go :-)

Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, 
glibc-2.9_p20081201-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
=
System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 
3800+
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:00:01 +
app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1
dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/cmake:  2.4.6-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 
1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64
CBUILD=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -march=athlon64
CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config 
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ 
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ 
/etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild 
/etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d
CXXFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -march=athlon64
DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles
FEATURES=distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans 
userfetch
GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://distfiles.gentoo.org 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo;
LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1
MAKEOPTS=-j3
PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress 
--force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles 
--exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp
PORTDIR=/usr/portage
SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
USE=X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 asf berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo 
cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dar64 dbus doc dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss 
encode esd evo fam firefox foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gpm 
gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde ldap libnotify mad midi mikmod 
mjpeg mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl 
openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime 
readline realmedia reflection scanner sdl session smp spell spl sse sse2 ssl 
startup-notification svg symlink sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis 
wmf xinerama xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib ALSA_CARDS=hda-intel 
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS=adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file 
hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null 
plug rate route share shm softvol APACHE2_MODULES=actions alias auth_basic 
auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm 
authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex 
cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter 
file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio 
mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer 
proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir 
usertrack vhost_alias ELIBC=glibc INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse joystick 
KERNEL=linux LCD_DEVICES=bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 
mtxorb ncurses text USERLAND=GNU VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, 
LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, 
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

OK - accepting that my system is broken, I've tried emerge -eav system, and it 
is failing due to several errors.  Other than reformatting the hard drive, 
how do I reinstall everything?

Where do I change the accept keywords variable?  It isn't in my make.conf, and 
if I put an accept keywords line in there, it simply adds to the list of 
keywords, rather than replacing the amd64 with ~amd64

Jeff


On Sunday 21 December 2008 02:49:46 pm Justin wrote:
 Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
  On Sunday 21 December 2008 02:35:56 pm Justin wrote:
  However, did you notice that the parent poster mentioned glib and you
  have attempted to downgrade glibc?
 
  My fault missed the c.
  @Jeff
  Please provide a emerge --info so that we can comment on it. Perhaps
  this will protect you from some more headache when reinstalling.
 
  there ya go :-)
 
  Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2,
  glibc-2.9_p20081201-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
  =
  System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core
  Processor

 definitely a 64bit kernel. If you ever switched to a 32bit profile you
 system is broken and you better reinstall everything.

  3800+
  Timestamp of tree: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:00:01 +
  app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33
  dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1
  dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7
  dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
  dev-util/cmake:  2.4.6-r1
  sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
  sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.18.1-r2
  sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
  sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2,
  1.10.1-r1
  sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
  sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
  sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
  virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
  ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64

 You should use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 as long as you don't have alot
 experience.  You can manually enable the usage of masked packages.

  CBUILD=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
  CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -march=athlon64
  CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
  CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
  /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb
  CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d
  /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf
  /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/
  /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo
  /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d CXXFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -march=athlon64
  DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles
  FEATURES=distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict
  unmerge-orphans userfetch
  GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://distfiles.gentoo.org
  http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo;
  LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1
  MAKEOPTS=-j3
  PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages
  PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
  --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180
  --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
  PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp
  PORTDIR=/usr/portage
  SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
  USE=X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 asf berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2
  cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dar64 dbus doc dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread
  eds emboss encode esd evo fam firefox foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif
  gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde ldap
  libnotify mad midi mikmod mjpeg mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls
  nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python
  qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline realmedia reflection scanner sdl
  session smp spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg symlink sysfs
  tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis wmf xinerama xml xorg xulrunner xv
  xvid zlib ALSA_CARDS=hda-intel ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS=adpcm alaw asym copy
  dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat
  linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm
  softvol APACHE2_MODULES=actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon
  authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default
  authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav
  dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter
  file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio
  mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer
  proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id
  userdir usertrack vhost_alias ELIBC=glibc INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard
  mouse joystick KERNEL=linux LCD_DEVICES=bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk
  hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text USERLAND=GNU
  VIDEO_CARDS=nvidia
  Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK,
  LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS,
  PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

To clarify, when I try to run emerge -eav system, the first package which 
fails is sandbox.

It advises me to try 
FEATURES=-sandbox emerge sandbox
in response to the cannot run C compiled programs, but I still get the same 
error.  My research on the web points me back towards gcc not being compiled 
correctly, which brings me back to the glibc sanity check problem :-(

Calculating dependencies... done!
 Verifying ebuild Manifests...

 Emerging (1 of 1) sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2 to /
 * sandbox-1.2.18.1.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...   [ 
ok ]
 * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ...  [ 
ok ]
 * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ 
ok ]
 * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...[ 
ok ]
 * checking sandbox-1.2.18.1.tar.bz2 ;-) ...  [ 
ok ]
 Unpacking source...
 Unpacking sandbox-1.2.18.1.tar.bz2 
to /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2/work
 * Applying sandbox-1.2.18.1-open-normal-fail.patch ...   [ 
ok ]
 * Applying sandbox-1.2.18.1-open-cloexec.patch ...   [ 
ok ]
 Source unpacked.
 Compiling source 
in /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2/work/sandbox-1.2.18.1 ...
 * If configure fails with a 'cannot run C compiled programs' error, try this:
 * FEATURES=-sandbox emerge sandbox
 * Configuring sandbox for ABI=x86...
 * econf: updating sandbox-1.2.18.1/config.guess 
with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess
 * econf: updating sandbox-1.2.18.1/config.sub 
with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub
../sandbox-1.2.18.1//configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu 
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share 
--sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/usr/lib32 
--enable-multilib --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C 
compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

!!! Please attach the following file when seeking support:
!!! 
/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2/work/build-x86-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/config.log
 *
 * ERROR: sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *   ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_compile
 * environment, line 2471:  Called 
econf 'src_compile' 'src_compile'
 *   ebuild.sh, line  519:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *  die econf failed
 *  The die message:
 *   econf failed
 *
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if 
relevant.
 * A complete build log is located 
at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located 
at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2/temp/environment'.
 *


On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:03:59 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote:
 OK - accepting that my system is broken, I've tried emerge -eav system, and
 it is failing due to several errors.  Other than reformatting the hard
 drive, how do I reinstall everything?

 Where do I change the accept keywords variable?  It isn't in my make.conf,
 and if I put an accept keywords line in there, it simply adds to the list
 of keywords, rather than replacing the amd64 with ~amd64

 Jeff

 On Sunday 21 December 2008 02:49:46 pm Justin wrote:
  Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
   On Sunday 21 December 2008 02:35:56 pm Justin wrote:
   However, did you notice that the parent poster mentioned glib and you
   have attempted to downgrade glibc?
  
   My fault missed the c.
   @Jeff
   Please provide a emerge --info so that we can comment on it. Perhaps
   this will protect you from some more headache when reinstalling.
  
   there ya go :-)
  
   Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2,
   glibc-2.9_p20081201-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
   =
   System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core
   Processor
 
  definitely a 64bit kernel. If you ever switched to a 32bit profile you
  system is broken and you better reinstall everything.
 
   3800+
   Timestamp of tree: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:00:01 +
   app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33
   dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1
   dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7
   dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
   dev-util/cmake:  2.4.6-r1
   sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
   sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.18.1-r2
   sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
   sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2,
   1.10.1-r1
   sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
   sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
   sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
   virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:15:41 pm Justin wrote:
 Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
 First avoid top posting

  OK - accepting that my system is broken, I've tried emerge -eav system,
  and it is failing due to several errors.  Other than reformatting the
  hard drive, how do I reinstall everything?

 boot livecd, mount the disc as described in the official manuals [1],
 extract a propriate tarball, remove all /etc/portage/packages*, review
 make.conf, emerge -e system, will bring back your system.

  Where do I change the accept keywords variable?  It isn't in my
  make.conf, and if I put an accept keywords line in there, it simply adds
  to the list of keywords, rather than replacing the amd64 with ~amd64

 Search for it in /etc.

I'm afraid you'll need to be a little more specific on the accept keywords 
variable.

  Jeff

 [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=install

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:28:09 pm Justin wrote:
 Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
  I'm afraid you'll need to be a little more specific on the accept
  keywords

 reinstall and never change this variable. Stick to the many guides out
 there. Your system is broken and fixing takes the same effort than
 reinstalling.

Except reinstalling raises the specter of losing all my key data.  The guides 
are written for a blank system.  That is not what I have.  The problem is 
with glibc.  Why can't I fix glibc and then to an emerge -eav from there?

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:44:37 pm Justin wrote:
 Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
  On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:28:09 pm Justin wrote:
  Jeff Cranmer schrieb:
  I'm afraid you'll need to be a little more specific on the accept
  keywords
 
  reinstall and never change this variable. Stick to the many guides out
  there. Your system is broken and fixing takes the same effort than
  reinstalling.
 
  Except reinstalling raises the specter of losing all my key data.  The
  guides are written for a blank system.  That is not what I have.  The
  problem is with glibc.  Why can't I fix glibc and then to an emerge -eav
  from there?
 
  Jeff

 boot livecd, mount the disc as described in the official manuals [1],
 extract a propriate tarball, remove all /etc/portage/packages*, review
 make.conf, emerge -e system, will bring back your system.

OK - since I'm no gentoo expert, I need to define the exact procedure here 
before I'm going to attempt this, so I have a number of questions:

(1) If I remove /etc/portage/packages*, nothing will be removed, as nothing 
matches that search string, so what exactly should I be removing?  Do you 
mean remove the entire contents of /etc/portage?  If I do this, I'll lose all 
the package.use, keywords, mask information that I have set up.  Why is this 
necessary?  It seems that this will just break my system further.

(2) In my system, swap is /dev/sda2, boot is /dev/sda5, and root is /dev/sda3
I should skip the fdisk commands, then
swapon /dev/sda2
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo
mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/gentoo/boot
cd /mnt/gentoo
Is this correct?

(3) After extracting the stage3 tarball for an amd64 system, downloaded using
links http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml
with the command
tar xvjpf stage3-*.tar.bz2, I can then proced with editing make.conf, as I 
don't need to reinstall a portage snapshot (since I already have one set up 
from my present install).
Is this correct?

(4) After editing the make.conf file, verifying that it is correct for a 64 
bit system, I then can run the command
emerge -e world, and everything should compile correctly?

(5) With this method, I will not lose any other key settings such as video, 
kde etc.
Is this correct?

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Monday 15 December 2008 03:40:00 am Neil Bothwick wrote:
 On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:48:47 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
  I've also discovered that the /etc/make.profile symlink was pointing at
  the x86 default-linux profile set, not the amd64 profile.
 
  I'm attempting a recompile now with the symlink changed, and hopefully
  this will fix my problems.  I wonder if this latent error is not about
  to cost me a whole bunch more though.  Is there anything I should do
  with the emerge command or any other command in order to correct this
  profile problem?

 What is your CHOST set to? The output of emerge --info may be helpful
 here.

 I'd definitely do an emerge -e world once you've got make.conf and your
 profile straightened out.

sun-jdk is now installed.
I'm now having problems with gcc, as it fails with an error.  I'm guessing 
that having an out-of date gcc is probably driving a few more packages to 
failure.

 * ERROR: sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *   ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_compile
 * environment, line 4656:  Called toolchain_src_compile
 * environment, line 5174:  Called gcc_src_compile
 * environment, line 2982:  Called gcc_do_make
 * environment, line 2805:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *   emake LDFLAGS=${LDFLAGS} STAGE1_CFLAGS=${STAGE1_CFLAGS} 
LIBPATH=${LIBPATH} BOOT_CFLAGS=${BOOT_CFLAGS} ${GCC_MAKE_TARGET} || 
die emake failed with ${GCC_MAKE_TARGET};
 *  The die message:
 *   emake failed with profiledbootstrap
 *
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if 
relevant.
 * A complete build log is located 
at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located 
at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2/temp/environment'.

Here's what emerge --info looks like
Portage 2.1.4.5 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.3.2, 
glibc-2.9_p20081201-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
=
System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 
3800+
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:00:01 +
app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/cmake:  2.4.6-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 
1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64
CBUILD=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -march=athlon64
CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config 
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ 
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ 
/etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild 
/etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d
CXXFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -march=athlon64
DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles
FEATURES=distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans 
userfetch
GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://distfiles.gentoo.org 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo;
MAKEOPTS=-j3
PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress 
--force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles 
--exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp
PORTDIR=/usr/portage
SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
USE=a52 aac acl amd64 asf berkdb cli cracklib crypt cups dar64 doc dri dv 
dvdread foomaticdb fortran gdbm gimpprint gpm hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog midi 
mjpeg mmx mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre pdf perl pppd 
python readline realmedia reflection scanner session smp spl sse sse2 ssl 
tcpd tiff unicode usb wmf xinerama xorg xulrunner xvid zlib 
ALSA_CARDS=hda-intel ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS=adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare 
dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter 
mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol 
APACHE2_MODULES=actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd 
authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile 
authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd 
deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident 
imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation 
proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so 
speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias ELIBC=glibc 
INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse joystick KERNEL=linux LCD_DEVICES=bayrad 
cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text 
USERLAND=GNU VIDEO_CARDS

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-14 Thread Jeff Cranmer

Thanks,

That only adds more questions.
My environment is amd64.  It appears to have downloaded the i586 binary.  
Surely this is incorrect?

my make.conf file contains the line
CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -march=athlon-xp, which should trigger the 64 bit binaries 
to be downloaded and acted upon.

The CFLAGS variable was previously set to -O2 -pipe -march=athlon64, and I 
don't think that athlon64 is a valid gcc compile flag, but the response was 
the same with this set of CFLAGS variables too.

Also,since I changed the CFLAGS variable, is there anything I need to do in 
compilation to correct any errors resulting from the original (I believe 
invalid) variable?

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Jeff

On Saturday 13 December 2008 06:43:24 pm Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote:
 2008/12/13 Jeff Cranmer jcranme...@earthlink.net

  Perhaps it would have done if I knew where the download page was.

 The file /usr/portage/dev-java/sun-jdk/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11.ebuild
 will disclose this information, and hints at
 https://jdk-distros.dev.java.net/developer.html


 Regards.

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-14 Thread Jeff Cranmer

Progress:

I've discovered that athlon64 is a valid gcc make flag, so I changed it back.

I've also discovered that the /etc/make.profile symlink was pointing at the 
x86 default-linux profile set, not the amd64 profile.

I'm attempting a recompile now with the symlink changed, and hopefully this 
will fix my problems.  I wonder if this latent error is not about to cost me 
a whole bunch more though.  Is there anything I should do with the emerge 
command or any other command in order to correct this profile problem?

Thanks

Jeff


On Sunday 14 December 2008 09:17:22 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote:
 Thanks,

 That only adds more questions.
 My environment is amd64.  It appears to have downloaded the i586 binary.
 Surely this is incorrect?

 my make.conf file contains the line
 CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -march=athlon-xp, which should trigger the 64 bit
 binaries to be downloaded and acted upon.

 The CFLAGS variable was previously set to -O2 -pipe -march=athlon64, and
 I don't think that athlon64 is a valid gcc compile flag, but the response
 was the same with this set of CFLAGS variables too.

 Also,since I changed the CFLAGS variable, is there anything I need to do in
 compilation to correct any errors resulting from the original (I believe
 invalid) variable?

 Any suggestions gratefully received.

 Jeff

 On Saturday 13 December 2008 06:43:24 pm Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote:
  2008/12/13 Jeff Cranmer jcranme...@earthlink.net
 
   Perhaps it would have done if I knew where the download page was.
 
  The file /usr/portage/dev-java/sun-jdk/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11.ebuild
  will disclose this information, and hints at
  https://jdk-distros.dev.java.net/developer.html
 
 
  Regards.

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-14 Thread Jeff Cranmer

It looks like fixing the /etc/make.profile symlink fixed my problem.
I'm still a little nervous about whether I need to run any other commands in 
order to prevent my system going wrong after making this correction.

Jeff


On Sunday 14 December 2008 09:48:47 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote:
 Progress:

 I've discovered that athlon64 is a valid gcc make flag, so I changed it
 back.

 I've also discovered that the /etc/make.profile symlink was pointing at the
 x86 default-linux profile set, not the amd64 profile.

 I'm attempting a recompile now with the symlink changed, and hopefully this
 will fix my problems.  I wonder if this latent error is not about to cost
 me a whole bunch more though.  Is there anything I should do with the
 emerge command or any other command in order to correct this profile
 problem?

 Thanks

 Jeff

 On Sunday 14 December 2008 09:17:22 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote:
  Thanks,
 
  That only adds more questions.
  My environment is amd64.  It appears to have downloaded the i586 binary.
  Surely this is incorrect?
 
  my make.conf file contains the line
  CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -march=athlon-xp, which should trigger the 64 bit
  binaries to be downloaded and acted upon.
 
  The CFLAGS variable was previously set to -O2 -pipe -march=athlon64,
  and I don't think that athlon64 is a valid gcc compile flag, but the
  response was the same with this set of CFLAGS variables too.
 
  Also,since I changed the CFLAGS variable, is there anything I need to do
  in compilation to correct any errors resulting from the original (I
  believe invalid) variable?
 
  Any suggestions gratefully received.
 
  Jeff
 
  On Saturday 13 December 2008 06:43:24 pm Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote:
   2008/12/13 Jeff Cranmer jcranme...@earthlink.net
  
Perhaps it would have done if I knew where the download page was.
  
   The file /usr/portage/dev-java/sun-jdk/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11.ebuild
   will disclose this information, and hints at
   https://jdk-distros.dev.java.net/developer.html
  
  
   Regards.

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-13 Thread Jeff Cranmer

Perhaps it would have done if I knew where the download page was.

On Saturday 13 December 2008 07:25:36 am Neil Bothwick wrote:
 On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:03:43 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
  Failed to extract the files.  Please refer to the Troubleshooting
  section of the Installation Instructions on the download page for more
  information.

 Did this help?

[gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-12 Thread Jeff Cranmer

I am getting an error when I try to update sun-jdK

/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11/distdir/jdk-6u11-dlj-linux-i586.bin: 
line 821: ./install.sfx.14482: No such file or directory
Failed to extract the files.  Please refer to the Troubleshooting section of
the Installation Instructions on the download page for more information.
 *
 * ERROR: dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *   ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_unpack
 * environment, line 2683:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *   sh ${DISTDIR}/${A} --accept-license --unpack || die Failed to 
unpack
 *  The die message:
 *   Failed to unpack
 *
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if 
relevant.
 * A complete build log is located 
at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located 
at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11/temp/environment'

Can anyone shed any light on this error for me?

Thanks

Jeff

[gentoo-user] Printing to an HPD7400 Series Printer

2008-06-29 Thread Jeff Cranmer

Can anyone help me with the correct CUPs settings to print to an HP D7400 
series printer over a wireless network?

I can access the printer's home page via the IP address, but when I set up 
CUPS with the printer option socket://192.168.2.4, the job fails, and the 
printer screen returns the error
/usr/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed.

I'm using the HP PhotoSmart D7400 Foomatic/hpijs driver.

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Thanks

Jeff
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[gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo

Has anyone had any luck viewing videos on news.bbc.co.uk using gentoo?

I have Firefox and mplayerplug-in installed, however I cannot view videos, 
either with the embedded player or the standalone.

Jeff
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Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo

This PC is a 32 bit OS.  It does have flash - all youtube videos work OK.

Jeff

-Original Message-
From: Ian Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Feb 10, 2008 1:04 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo

Ian Lee wrote:
 Jeff Cranmer wrote:

 Has anyone had any luck viewing videos on news.bbc.co.uk using gentoo?

 I have Firefox and mplayerplug-in installed, however I cannot view videos, 
 either with the embedded player or the standalone.

 Jeff

 It's a flash based player mplayer wont work

If you're using 64 bit firefox net-www/nspluginwrapper is a good way to
get flash working or theres firefox-bin
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Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo

Ah - it appears that if I copy the weblink, then open it in Realplayer, I can 
successfully view the videos.

The question is, how do I get firefox to launch realplayer as the standalone 
player instead of mplayerplug-in?

Jeff

-Original Message-
From: Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Feb 10, 2008 1:12 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo

On Sunday 10 February 2008 12:48:44 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote:
 Has anyone had any luck viewing videos on news.bbc.co.uk using gentoo?

 I have Firefox and mplayerplug-in installed, however I cannot view videos,
 either with the embedded player or the standalone.

 Jeff

Works here. Running Gentoo, firefox and the realplayer plugin. When you click 
on a video, in the next box click on stand-alone player and use realplayer. 
Takes a while for the stream to start, but once it does it's ok...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo




 From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride

I can use realplayer aswell, I use it to stream BBC radio, though it works 
better if you click launch as a stand-alone player, the embeded version tends 
to skip a bit

How do I get firefox to use realplayer for bbc audio and video files instead of 
defaulting to mplayer?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sandisk mounting problems

2008-01-06 Thread Jeff Cranmer




Try rmmod ehci-hcd, then modprobe ohci-hcd and see what happens. 

Also, include from /var/log/messages everything printed from when ohci-hcd is 
modprobed to then end of actually plugging in the Sansa. And again when 
trying ehci-hcd.

-- 
ohci was not included in my kernel.
I recompiled with ehci and uhci as modules, then ran rmmod ehci-hcd
Since my wireless ethernet adapter is also a usb module, the output is a little 
verbose, so my apologies in advance for the length of the dmesg output below.

That did seem to get the card working, so I then recompiled a kernel with uhci 
support only, and I was then able to attach the device.  This seems to be a 
little extreme, however, as I know this device maps correctly on my desktop in 
ehci mode.  Can you discern anything from the dmesg output which might shed 
some light on the real root cause?

Thanks

Jeff

ehci_hcd :00:1d.7: remove, state 1
usb usb7: USB disconnect, address 1
ehci_hcd :00:1d.7: USB bus 7 deregistered
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device :00:1d.7 disabled
ehci_hcd :00:1a.7: remove, state 1
usb usb6: USB disconnect, address 1
usb 6-2: USB disconnect, address 2
RX Status Error!
RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ff94) RX Status Error!
RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ff94) RX Status Error!
RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ff94) RX Status Error!
RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ff94) RX Status Error!
RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ff94) RX Status Error!
RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ff94) RX Status Error!
RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ff94) RX Status Error!
RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ff94) RX Status Error!
RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ff94) RX Status Error!
RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ff94) RX Status Error!
RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ff94) RX Status Error!
RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ff94) RX Status Error!
RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ff94) RX Status Error!
RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ff94) RX Status Error!
RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ff94) RX Status Error!
RX process aborted due to explicit shutdown (ff94) 4rtl8180_close process
rtl8180_down process
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[gentoo-user] Sandisk mounting problems

2008-01-05 Thread Jeff Cranmer

I have a new Sansa Sandisk MP3 player.
When I plug it in, I get the following dmesg output

usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
ehci_hcd :00:1d.7: port 1 reset error -110
hub 2-0:1.0: hub_port_status failed (err = -32)

I have been able to successfully mount several other players.  Has anyone had 
similar problems or can offer a potential solution?

Thanks

Jeff

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Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Saturday 22 December 2007 10:30:45 am Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:

  I think I'm getting closer now.
  I removed the driver from the kernel, and installed ndiswrapper.
  I got the inf driver from a guy from realtek, and used
  ndiswrapper -i drivername.inf  to install it.
 
  Now, when I run
  iwlist wlan0 scanning, I can actually see my access point listed, plus
  lots of other local wireless networks.

 That's good. It actually receives.

  connecting to it is a different matter, however, as the connection always
  appears to time out.  I'm using iwconfig to manually set the ESSID, wep
  key etc. at the moment, and have tried the trick of setting the speed
  manually to 5.5M to avoid timeouts.
 
  When I try to run dhcpcd wlan0 the first time, I get Error, wlan0: timed
  out The second time I try to run it, I get an error because dhcpcd is
  already running.

 Try the minimal approach first and configure it manually using
 ifconfig/route and ping some host on your network (or the AP if it does
 IP). If that does not work, there's something wrong with the driver, if
 it does, the culprit is dhcpcd (vram USE flag?).

Just to clarify, how would I ping a host on my network?  I only have one other 
PC connected to the router.
If that is not possible, due to wireless router firewall stealthing (I have a 
rather crash-prone Belkin wireless router at the moment), the next attempt 
would presumably be to ping the AP.
If I have an AP MAC address, 00:15:E9:19:73:F2 (for example), how would I ping 
this?

I have checked the dhcpcd install, and the vram USE flag is presently unset.
Does this flag need to be set?

 Start with WEP, if that works switch to WPA.

I've given up on WPA for now.  If I can get WEP to work, I'll be happy at this 
point, though WPA operation would be the ultimate goal.
Is ndiswrapper meant to work with the 2.6.23 kernel?  I don't want to have to 
step down to an earlier kernel, as that causes problems with changing Xorg 
configurations, but I could go through the pain of this if it were strictly 
necessary.

Thanks

Jeff
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Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff Cranmer

-Original Message-
From: Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Dec 22, 2007 2:01 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

On Saturday 22 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
 On Saturday 22 December 2007 10:30:45 am Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
   I think I'm getting closer now.
   I removed the driver from the kernel, and installed ndiswrapper.
   I got the inf driver from a guy from realtek, and used
   ndiswrapper -i drivername.inf  to install it.

   Now, when I run
   iwlist wlan0 scanning, I can actually see my access point listed, plus
   lots of other local wireless networks.

  That's good. It actually receives.

Yep, you're half way there.  The radio communication part of the equation 
seems to be working.

   connecting to it is a different matter, however, as the connection
   always appears to time out.  I'm using iwconfig to manually set the
   ESSID, wep key etc. at the moment, and have tried the trick of setting
   the speed manually to 5.5M to avoid timeouts.

   When I try to run dhcpcd wlan0 the first time, I get Error, wlan0:
   timed out The second time I try to run it, I get an error because
   dhcpcd is already running.

Try to kill it first (dhcpcd -k) and then re-run it.  I would run with 
defaults (re. channel, speed, etc.) and perhaps only add a small delay in 
your /etc/conf.d/net to allow the device to come up:

sleep_scan_wlan0=1

  Try the minimal approach first and configure it manually using
  ifconfig/route and ping some host on your network (or the AP if it does
  IP). If that does not work, there's something wrong with the driver, if
  it does, the culprit is dhcpcd (vram USE flag?).

 Just to clarify, how would I ping a host on my network?  I only have one
 other PC connected to the router.

You use the LAN IP address of the router/host.  I don't know what options 
Belkin gives you, can you turn on responses to pings (ICMP packet requests) 
both on the router and on the other PC?

 If that is not possible, due to wireless router firewall stealthing (I have
 a rather crash-prone Belkin wireless router at the moment), the next
 attempt would presumably be to ping the AP.
 If I have an AP MAC address, 00:15:E9:19:73:F2 (for example), how would I
 ping this?

You could use arping (net-analyzer/arping) - but that assumes that the router 
accepts broadcast messages.

 I have checked the dhcpcd install, and the vram USE flag is presently
 unset. Does this flag need to be set?

Well, it may need to be set depending on your router.  Certain dhcpcd server 
implementations won't play nicely with the latest stable version of the 
dhcpcd client and you end up getting time outs and no IP address.  
Re-emerging with vram USE flag set solves this problem.  Manually setting up 
an available/suitable static LAN IP address may also work (e.g. ifconfig 
wlan0 192.168.0.2).

  Start with WEP, if that works switch to WPA.

 I've given up on WPA for now.  If I can get WEP to work, I'll be happy at
 this point, though WPA operation would be the ultimate goal.
 Is ndiswrapper meant to work with the 2.6.23 kernel?  I don't want to have
 to step down to an earlier kernel, as that causes problems with changing
 Xorg configurations, but I could go through the pain of this if it were
 strictly necessary.

ndiswrapper works fine with this kernel.  I would start with the dhcpcd vram 
flag to take this time out problem out of the equation and then I would edit 
the /etc/conf.d/net to set up all necessary parameters instead of having to 
enter everything via iwconfig at the command line.  This will also minimise 
the chance of typos at the CLI.  Following a process of elimination I would 
start with no encryption whatsoever at the router and if it works I would 
then gradually add WEP and finally WAP.

PS. Assuming you get ndiswrapper going you can retry the in-kernel driver in 
future versions as it is likely that more and more devices will be added.

HTH.
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Regards,
Mick

I tried recompiling with the vram USE flag set in dhcpcd, but that didn't help.
I then uninstalled ndiswrapper, and installed the modified rtl8187 driver from 
http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2007/09/26/no-more-vista.

SUCCESS!! :-D

Finally, I have a working wireless card.  I've not tried WPA yet, but WEP 
definitely works.  It isn't quite perfect, as knetworkmanager can't recognise 
the connection, and i haven't quite figured out how to implement the required 
startup script to run automatically, but it's up, and only requires a single 
root user command to execute.

Jeff

I think I'll give it a couple of kernels and see if the built-in RTL driver 
improves.
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Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Friday 21 December 2007 09:21:03 am Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
 Hi,

 On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:45:26 -0500 Jeff Cranmer

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The card I have is an 8197, not an 8187.  I wonder if this is
part of the problem.  Could it be that the kernel driver does not
support the 8197?
 
  [...]
  At the moment, I think the key line in dmesg is .
  phy0: RF calibration failed! 0
 
  If I could figure out what this line meant, and what I could do to
  fix it, I might be on my way to a potential solution.

 Well, although you managed to bring it to a point where at least the
 driver recognized the device, there is still the possibility it won't
 work anyway. My guess here is that the driver does not fully support
 your device. Probably, some back end mechanics is different. WLAN cards
 often consist of separate modules, some of them even being small
 computers running a firmware. I guess at that point your hardware
 differs from what the driver supports.

 Did you find indications on the Web that the 8187 driver should work
 for the 8197? Or did you chose to try based on the similarity of the
 two numbers? you might also want to try asking on the driver's mailing
 list.

 -hwh

I think I'm getting closer now.
I removed the driver from the kernel, and installed ndiswrapper.
I got the inf driver from a guy from realtek, and used
ndiswrapper -i drivername.inf  to install it.

Now, when I run
iwlist wlan0 scanning, I can actually see my access point listed, plus lots of 
other local wireless networks.

connecting to it is a different matter, however, as the connection always 
appears to time out.  I'm using iwconfig to manually set the ESSID, wep key 
etc. at the moment, and have tried the trick of setting the speed manually to 
5.5M to avoid timeouts.

When I try to run dhcpcd wlan0 the first time, I get Error, wlan0: timed out
The second time I try to run it, I get an error because dhcpcd is already 
running.

Also, when I try running /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start, I get the error
WEP key is not set for my_wireless_network_name - not connecting
followed by similar errors for other nearby wireless networks, then
*   Couldn't associate with any access points on wlan0
*   Failed to configure wireless for wlan0

Damn, this has to be the most frustrating thing I've tried to do on gentoo.
I know I'm close, because the OS can now see the access point.  All I need to 
do is stop it timing out and connect to it :-/

Jeff
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Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-20 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Thursday 20 December 2007 03:40:07 am Mick wrote:
 Hi Jeff,

 On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
  I have checked, and ndiswrapper and  the rtl8187 package were
  uninstalled. I think that the problem I have may be more basic.
 
  The card I have is an 8197, not an 8187.  I wonder if this is part of the
  problem.  Could it be that the kernel driver does not support the 8197?
 
  The attached weblink suggests that this may be the case:
  http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2007/09/26/no-more-vista/
 
  Does anyone know how I can locate the equivalent code in the kernel and
  perhaps perform a similar modification?

 (can you please stop top-posting, it makes reading of threads difficult in
 this mailing list).

 Your device may still be supported by the driver.  The problem may exist
 with the wpa_supplicant.  You could try commenting out the wpa_supplicant
 in your /etc/conf.d/net file and using net-wireless/wireless-tools instead.
 Then try again to see if it a)finds the access point (try iwlist wlan0
 scanning), b)associates with it (try iwlist wlan0 accesspoint) .  Of course
 you will need to remove WPA from the AP.  Should all this succeed you can
 work your way up from there.

 PS.  I haven't managed to make wpa_supplicant work with my device rt2570usb
 for more than a year now, but haven't tried recently.

I tried removing any reference to wpa_supplicant.  The 
alternative /etc/conf.d/net configuration that I tried is:

essid_wlan0=mynetworkname
channel_wlan0=( 2 )   # the channel my wireless card is presently set to
key_home=( my_hex_WEP_key enc open )
config_wlan0=( dhcp )
dhcpcd_wlan0=-I ''

iwlist wlan0 scanning returns
wlan0   Interface does not support scanning : Network is down

iwlist wlan0 accesspoint returns
wlan0   Interface doesn't have a list of Peers/Access-Points

At the moment, I think the key line in dmesg is .  
phy0: RF calibration failed! 0

If I could figure out what this line meant, and what I could do to fix it, I 
might be on my way to a potential solution.

Jeff
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Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

2007-12-20 Thread Jeff Cranmer

On Thursday 20 December 2007 02:00:36 am Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
 Hi,

 I cannot really go into details, but maybe I'm competent enough to make
 some notes on this:

 On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:47:55 -0500

 Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I manually edited the file
  /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187_dev.c [...]
  I added the line
  {USB_DEVICE(0x0bda, 0x8197)},
  in the /* Realtek */ area of the structure, then ran
  make clean, then
  make  make modules_install etc.
 
  After rebooting into the modified kernel, I now have iwmaster0 and iwlan0
  lines showing up when I type iwconfig.

 Although that's a good sign, it does not guarantee that the driver
 fully supports your device. However, the kernel log should now have
 changed significantly and the driver might now tell you there if it's
 fully operable. ifconfig showing the correct MAC is also a good sign.

 As a side note: My suggestion would be to play with the different
 drivers of wpa_supplicant. DHCP won't work if there's no correct WPA
 setup anyway.

 -hwh

ifconfig only shows the eth0 and lo interfaces, whereas iwconfig shows info on 
the wireless interface, but not the MAC address

The MAC address does appear in the dmesg logs, with the line
phy0: hwaddr actual address not put in e-mail,  rtl8187 V0 + rtl8225

This is followed by
phy0: RF calibration failed! 0
which I think is the key symptom that I need to address in order to move 
forwards.
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Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

I have checked, and ndiswrapper and  the rtl8187 package were uninstalled.
I think that the problem I have may be more basic.

The card I have is an 8197, not an 8187.  I wonder if this is part of the 
problem.  Could it be that the kernel driver does not support the 8197?

The attached weblink suggests that this may be the case:
http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/2007/09/26/no-more-vista/

Does anyone know how I can locate the equivalent code in the kernel and 
perhaps perform a similar modification?

Thanks

Jeff
 


On Monday 17 December 2007 06:26:41 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote:
 I have rtl8187 compiled into the kernel.
 I could try compiling it as a module, then loading it via modules.autoload,
 to see if that gives any alternative response.  Perhaps the first step
 would be not to put it in modules.autoload and modprobe it to more easily
 see the response.

 Since I was playing around with ndiswrapper and the rtl8187 portage
 package, it's possible that they may be messing things up, and I can't
 remember whether or not I unmerged them.  I'll check whether these packages
 are still present and get rid of them if they are.

 I'm away from my laptop at the moment, so can't run the dmesg command you
 suggested until tomorrow evening.  I'll let you know whether my activities
 reveal anything interesting then.

 Thanks

 Jeff


 -Original Message-

 From: Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Dec 16, 2007 8:13 PM
 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup
 
 On 16 Dec 2007, at 22:56, Mick wrote:
  On Sunday 16 December 2007, Stroller wrote:
  On 16 Dec 2007, at 17:14, Mick wrote:
  On Sunday 16 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
  Running the command 'dmesg | grep rtl8187' after reboot returns
  the message
  usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187
 
  All I get for iwconfig is
  lo  no wireless extensions
  eth0no wireless extensions.
 
  This means that the driver has not been loaded yet.
 
  Looking at Jeff's previous post (quoted added above) that's not a
  conclusion I'd jump to.
 
  Oops!  Sorry, didn't see that.  If the driver is loaded then why
  isn't an
  interface showing up?
 
 Good question. I agree that without seeing that statement I might
 
 well have thought the same thing. That's why I wrote:
  But it would have helped if Jeff had posted `dmesg | grep rtl8187 
  iwconfig` in the same post to prove the point.
 
 Stroller.
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Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

I've tried to run through the instructions at
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rtl8187.

The kernel is configured per that guide, and I get the message:
usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187

When I try to run ifconfig wlan0 up, however, I get:
wlan0: unknown interface: no such device

I get the same result if I run ifconfig wlan up (net.wlan is the symlink that 
I set up in /etc/init.d)

The wireless section of my /etc/conf.d/net file reads
mode_wlan=managed
wpa_supplicant_wlan=-Dwext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant_RTL8187.conf
config_wlan=( dhcp )
dhcp_wlan=-R -G

wpa_supplicant has been emerged.

Jeff


On Sunday 16 December 2007 12:14:42 pm Mick wrote:
 On Sunday 16 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
  All I get for iwconfig is
  lo  no wireless extensions
  eth0no wireless extensions.

 This means that the driver has not been loaded yet.  In generic terms
 you'll need to install the necessary driver for your WiFi device (either
 the new one in the kernel or emerge net-wireless/rtl8187, or ndiswrapper
 and the MS Windows driver).  If you build the driver as a module then you
 need to modprobe -v rtl8187, while you keep an eye on the logs to see how
 things go (tail -f /var/log/messages).  You have seen this, right?

 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rtl8187

  I think I need some more info in /etc/conf.d/net, and need somehow to
  create the necessary /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 or whatever driver.
 
  The only 'net.anything' drivers present at the moment are net.lo and
  net.eth0

 You will of course have to manually create a symlink between net.wlan0 -
 net.lo (or whatever your new WiFi device is recognised as by the kernel) so
 that you can bring it up by running /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start.  But this
 is only necessary for autoloading the driver through the runlevel scripts. 
 To try it out follow the instructions in the Wiki page above.
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Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

I made significant progress today.

I manually edited the file /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187_dev.c

There is a static structure near the top of the code,

static struct usb_device_id rtl8187_table[] __devinitdata = {
/* Realtek */
{USB_DEVICE(0x0bda, 0x8187)},
/* netgear */
{USB_DEVICE(0x0846, 0x6100)},
{USB_DEVICE(0x0846, 0x6a00)},
{}
};

I added the line
{USB_DEVICE(0x0bda, 0x8197)},
in the /* Realtek */ area of the structure, then ran 
make clean, then 
make  make modules_install etc.

After rebooting into the modified kernel, I now have iwmaster0 and iwlan0 
lines showing up when I type iwconfig.

The applicable lines of iwconfig are

wmaster0no wireless extensions

wlan0   IEEE 802.11g ESSID=mynetworkESSID
Mode:ManagedFrequency=2.417GHz  Access Point: 
Not associated
Retry min limit 7   RTS thr:off Fragment 
thr=2346B
Encryption key:not telling you
Link Quality:0  Signal Level:0  Noise 
Level:0
Rx Invalid nwid:0   Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx 
invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0  Missed 
beacon:0

I'm not all the way there yet, but this is significant progress.

wpa_supplicant gui still is blank, with the message 'could not get status from 
WPA_supplicant', but at least now I have an interface showing up

It appears that it cannot find an access point.  The access point is active, 
as I can connect my work laptop to it, but so far, the laptop can't see it.

Any further advice gratefully received.

Jeff


On Wednesday 19 December 2007 06:09:50 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote:
 I've tried to run through the instructions at
 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rtl8187.

 The kernel is configured per that guide, and I get the message:
 usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187

 When I try to run ifconfig wlan0 up, however, I get:
 wlan0: unknown interface: no such device

 I get the same result if I run ifconfig wlan up (net.wlan is the symlink
 that I set up in /etc/init.d)

 The wireless section of my /etc/conf.d/net file reads
 mode_wlan=managed
 wpa_supplicant_wlan=-Dwext -c
 /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant_RTL8187.conf config_wlan=( dhcp )
 dhcp_wlan=-R -G

 wpa_supplicant has been emerged.

 Jeff

 On Sunday 16 December 2007 12:14:42 pm Mick wrote:
  On Sunday 16 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
   All I get for iwconfig is
   lono wireless extensions
   eth0  no wireless extensions.
 
  This means that the driver has not been loaded yet.  In generic terms
  you'll need to install the necessary driver for your WiFi device (either
  the new one in the kernel or emerge net-wireless/rtl8187, or ndiswrapper
  and the MS Windows driver).  If you build the driver as a module then you
  need to modprobe -v rtl8187, while you keep an eye on the logs to see how
  things go (tail -f /var/log/messages).  You have seen this, right?
 
  http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rtl8187
 
   I think I need some more info in /etc/conf.d/net, and need somehow to
   create the necessary /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 or whatever driver.
  
   The only 'net.anything' drivers present at the moment are net.lo and
   net.eth0
 
  You will of course have to manually create a symlink between net.wlan0 -
  net.lo (or whatever your new WiFi device is recognised as by the kernel)
  so that you can bring it up by running /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start.  But
  this is only necessary for autoloading the driver through the runlevel
  scripts. To try it out follow the instructions in the Wiki page above.
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