[gentoo-user] Re: How to access ~user on lighttpd ?
Amar Cosic wrote: I uncomented mod_userdir in lighttpd.conf but still cant access to it. I got 404 error You also need something like this: userdir.path = public_html userdir.exclude-user = (root) userdir.path sets the name of directory in the user's home that will be exported. Regards Jure -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Mathematica 6 Gentoo amd64
Aleksey V. Kunitskiy wrote: Hi, Does anybody have experience of installing Mathematica 6 on Gentoo amd64 box? Is there any possibility to install it without chroot'ed environment? Thanks for suggentions I never tried version 6, but they used to have 64 bit version for 5, so I guess there should be one for 6 :/ . Since the 5.1 that I used was native 64 bit, it needed no chroot. Regards -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Disable the access to a defined memory area
On Monday 02 of July 2007 11:50:37 Pongracz Istvan wrote: Hi, One of my partners has a problem in an existing motherboard. There are physical memory regions, which regions are buggy. I do not know, the memory module itself, or them motherboard, but if the kernel want to access to these region, it crashes. I would like to know, is there a solution to make a memory hole, which will be never addressed? The situation is similar, when the HDD has bad sectors and I cover them with a never-used-partition or file. I googled a while, before I wrote this email, but I have no result yet. Thank you, István I think a boot parameter of the form reserve=0xff48,0x87 should do the trick. Regards, Jure -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSL certificates and Kmail
On Sunday 20 of May 2007 20:16:43 Mick wrote: OK, I also tried Validate with CRL and I am now getting a CRL related error: = 5 - 2007-05-20 19:09:00 gpg-agent[7251]: handler 0x80c8820 for fd 0 terminated 7 - 2007-05-20 19:09:01 dirmngr[9532.0x8080078] DBG: - ISVALID CDECFDC58640B7262B39CCB59B61E8EEFF2ED4D0.0380C6 7 - 2007-05-20 19:09:01 dirmngr[9532]: no CRL available for issuer id CDECFDC58640B7262B39CCB59B61E8EEFF2ED4D0 7 - 2007-05-20 19:09:01 dirmngr[9532.0x8080078] DBG: - INQUIRE SENDCERT 7 - 2007-05-20 19:09:01 dirmngr[9532.0x8080078] DBG: - [ 44 20 30 82 05 42 30 82 03 2a a0 03 02 01 02 02 03 03 80 c6 30 25 30 44 06 09 2a [snip ] 7 - 2007-05-20 19:09:01 dirmngr[9532.0x8080078] DBG: - [ 44 20 1c 45 de 3e 49 63 5f 1f 65 58 03 4f 5c 08 82 ef cd b0 15 bd a7 2b 3e 58 76 [snip ] 7 - 2007-05-20 19:09:01 dirmngr[9532.0x8080078] DBG: - END 7 - 2007-05-20 19:09:01 dirmngr[9532]: crl_fetch via issuer failed: Configuration error 7 - 2007-05-20 19:09:01 dirmngr[9532]: command ISVALID failed: Configuration error 7 - 2007-05-20 19:09:01 dirmngr[9532.0x8080078] DBG: - ERR 167772275 Configuration error 6 - 2007-05-20 19:09:01 gpgsm[9531]: response of dirmngr: ec=10.115 6 - 2007-05-20 19:09:01 gpgsm[9531]: checking the CRL failed: Configuration error 6 - 2007-05-20 19:09:01 gpgsm[9531.0x80806a0] DBG: - S INV_RECP 0 9964FAAE960AD708013D03A5CC3E6023CDC3E990 6 - 2007-05-20 19:09:01 gpgsm[9531.0x80806a0] DBG: - ERR 167772275 Configuration error 6 - 2007-05-20 19:09:04 gpgsm[9531.0x80806a0] DBG: - BYE 6 - 2007-05-20 19:09:05 gpgsm[9531.0x80806a0] DBG: - OK closing connection 7 - 2007-05-20 19:09:05 dirmngr[9532.0x8080078] DBG: - [EOF] = What should I use OCP or CRL and if the latter how am I supposed to configure this? Ugh. Well, they say a picture is worth a thousand words: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/unspeakable_pun.jpg Now that I checked with some random signed mails on this list, it turns out my setup shows exactly the same symptoms as yours, i.e. it can't download certain CRLs and cacert's OCP doesn't work. To be frank, what I really needed S/MIME to work for are the bills my telco issues through e-mail. After installing dimngr and the relevant certificate, kmail recognizes signature in their bills correctly. Funny thing is, kleopatra can and does download certain CRLs correctly using URLs embedded in a certificate, but can't do so for some others. And even if it can download a CRL, it then can't download the issuer certificate which makes it a bit useless. I haven't a clue how to proceed, as documentation seems a bit scarce. As there are people on this list who use S/MIME signatures I guess it can be made to work. Perhaps someone could chime in? Regards Jure signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSL certificates and Kmail
On Sunday 20 of May 2007 19:20:11 Elias Probst wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2007 14:53:06 Jure Varlec wrote: As, for the solution, it seem Kleopatra wants app-crypt/dirmngr, emerging it solved my problem. I'm not sure why relevant KDE apps don't depend on it. If kleopatra and other KDE apps really need dirmngr and it's not yet set as a dependency in the ebuilds, please report this to bugs.gentoo.org Thanks! Elias P. Oh, I certainly would. The problem is I'm not quite sure that it is really a bug. Debug output suggests the preferred way to handle this isn't the dirmngr binary, but a service; the binary is merely a fallback. I don't know enough to determine which package provides it. S/MIME certs are black magic to me: I understand the principle, but the implementation is horrific from my point of view. Regards Jure signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSL certificates and Kmail
On Sunday 20 of May 2007 13:24:09 Mick wrote: Hi All, I am trying to get to grips with OpenSSL Certs in Kmail. I have created a CA and then created and signed with it a certificate for my email account (crt). Finally, I exported it as a pkcs12 bundle and tried to import it as smime into Konqueror Kmail. All went seemingly well, except for: 1. When I tried to specify which cert to use in Kmail/Indentity/Cryptography I can see my imported Cert, but as I select it a red X comes up on the key symbol. I assume then that it is not suitable for smime signatures/encryption? 2. When I run gpgsm -K I get: === [snip] validity: 2007-05-19 18:12:12 through 2010-05-18 18:12:12 key type: 4096 bit RSA key usage: [error: No value] chain length: [error: No value] === which is different to another certificate I have obtained from www.cacert.org: === validity: 2007-04-23 13:49:42 through 2007-10-20 13:49:42 key type: 2048 bit RSA ext key usage: emailProtection (suggested), clientAuth (suggested), 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.10.3.4 (suggested), serverGatedCrypto.ms (suggested), serverGatedCrypto.ns (suggested) === Any ideas what I need to do to make this certificate valid for use by Kmail? PS. I am not sure if the above errors mean that there is anything wrong with my certificate, as opposed to Kmail Kleopatra. Any certificate signed messages that I receive are not verified in Kmail - all I get is: Not enough information to check signature. [Details] Status: No status information available. If I press on [Details] Kleopatra pops up showing my cert. Selecting Verify just shows done. Have you managed to make smime work with Kmail at all? Hello Heh, I dealt with a similar problem about a week ago. I'm not sure I'll ever understand all these certificate issues that seem to crop up on just about all platforms I ever used. As, for the solution, it seem Kleopatra wants app-crypt/dirmngr, emerging it solved my problem. I'm not sure why relevant KDE apps don't depend on it. Hope this helps Jure signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSL certificates and Kmail
On Sunday 20 of May 2007 16:47:00 Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2007 13:53, Jure Varlec wrote: On Sunday 20 of May 2007 13:24:09 Mick wrote: Hi All, I am trying to get to grips with OpenSSL Certs in Kmail. I have created a CA and then created and signed with it a certificate for my email account (crt). Finally, I exported it as a pkcs12 bundle and tried to import it as smime into Konqueror Kmail. All went seemingly well, except for: 1. When I tried to specify which cert to use in Kmail/Indentity/Cryptography I can see my imported Cert, but as I select it a red X comes up on the key symbol. I assume then that it is not suitable for smime signatures/encryption? 2. When I run gpgsm -K I get: === [snip] validity: 2007-05-19 18:12:12 through 2010-05-18 18:12:12 key type: 4096 bit RSA key usage: [error: No value] chain length: [error: No value] === which is different to another certificate I have obtained from www.cacert.org: === validity: 2007-04-23 13:49:42 through 2007-10-20 13:49:42 key type: 2048 bit RSA ext key usage: emailProtection (suggested), clientAuth (suggested), 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.10.3.4 (suggested), serverGatedCrypto.ms (suggested), serverGatedCrypto.ns (suggested) === Any ideas what I need to do to make this certificate valid for use by Kmail? PS. I am not sure if the above errors mean that there is anything wrong with my certificate, as opposed to Kmail Kleopatra. Any certificate signed messages that I receive are not verified in Kmail - all I get is: Not enough information to check signature. [Details] Status: No status information available. If I press on [Details] Kleopatra pops up showing my cert. Selecting Verify just shows done. Have you managed to make smime work with Kmail at all? Hello Heh, I dealt with a similar problem about a week ago. I'm not sure I'll ever understand all these certificate issues that seem to crop up on just about all platforms I ever used. As, for the solution, it seem Kleopatra wants app-crypt/dirmngr, emerging it solved my problem. I'm not sure why relevant KDE apps don't depend on it. Thanks Jure, I'm afraid it didn't help in my case. :( When I try to sign a message with my cacert.org certificate it fails with: Signing failed: General error. Adding my selfsigned certificate also fails (but his may have something to do with the way I generated the certificate, rather than Kmail). This is sooo complicated compared to GnuPG. Anything else I could try? Hm, installing dirmngr should at least get rid of the Not enough information to check signature problem. *shrugs* I suggest you start kwatchgnupg, it listens on the gnupg socket and displays all messages your apps send through there. It's the only way I found to see what's actually going on, because kmail's and kleopatra's error messages couldn't be less informative. Hopefully, that should give a clue as to what to do next. Regards Jure signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] When could XGL support my video card ATI Radeon M300??
On Sunday 31 December 2006 06:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was interested in 3D desktop of XGL, but my video has not been supported till now... This is the info of my card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Radeon Mobility M300] So, is there a hope for me to use XGL in future??? My Mobility X700 works quite well with opensource drivers included with xorg and AIGLX (never tried XGL, AIGLX is too simple to set up ;) ). Specifically, I tried it with x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.99.903-r1, media-libs/mesa-6.5.2, x11-libs/libdrm-2.3.0 and x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.6.3. But I still prefer using my i915, even though it's slower and uses shared memory, since x700 tends to have hiccups on heavy disk IO and uses more power (== shorter battery life). pgpFXrXwqUaPK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Please Help: Major problems with Modular X
On Saturday 23 September 2006 09:58, Chris Walters wrote: Hello everyone, I realize that I just posted on this subject, but since all versions of Xorg, except for modular X have been hard masked, I need some help or advice - preferably from someone who has had this problem and solved it. My configuration: Athlon 1 Ghz, 512 MB, and for video an ATI Radeon 9550SE (identified by the kernel probe as a Radeon 9600 AS. This all works fine under monolithic Xorg (6.8.2). However, when I have tried to switch to modular Xorg, I can't get a screen. I have tried both the proprietary driver, which is supposed to support my card (the kernel won't load it), and the radeon driver. For setup, I have used every setup utility available, and even tried to set up my xorg.conf file myself. In most cases, it finds all the modes supported by my card when I try it out, but it errors out with a couple of errors: 1. Insufficient memory for the requested window, and 2. Screens found, but none have a usable configuration. For some reason, modular Xorg is not allocating enough memory for a screen and I can't find a way to fix this. Regards, Chris Chris, Unless I missed your mail, as tends to happen to me on this list, you didn't respond to my earlier suggestion, nor did you post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log as Richard requested. I don't see why a new thread is necessary. Regards, Jure pgpmkWxZ4npd2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Please Help: Major problems with Modular X
On Saturday 23 September 2006 15:09, Chris Walters wrote: I don't recall seeing any replies to my original post, so I figured it must have gotten lost. As for the Xorg log, I don't have one to post - if I had, I would have posted the pertinent portions rather than describe the problem. I apologize then. While single messages do sometimes go missing on this list (they should be archived on gmane though), it's strange that both of them would go missing so I assumed you got at least one. Anyway, my suggestion was to put 'VideoRam 131072' in your xorg.conf under Section Device, assuming misdetection of card's memory is the only problem. There's not much else to try without any detailed information, i.e. logs :/ . How about running with 'startx -logfile filename' or, if that fails, 'startx -verbose 3'? In the latter case, you can log it easily using 'script'. HTH Jure pgphbjqiPzHJl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Major problem with Xorg 7+
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 12:25, Chris Walters wrote: It works with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8, which is now hard masked. Under xorg-x11-7.0-r1 it will not work, no matter what I've tried. I tried the proprietary ATI driver, the Radeon driver and even the VESA driver. The proprietary driver will not load during the boot process, and with the other drivers, even when I tell it what modes to use, I get an error that says there's not enough memory for the selected mode. The final error goes something like, Screens found but none have a usable configuration. I have tried the Xorg configuration utilities, but they haven't produced any better results. Chris, Have you tried putting 'VideoRam 131072' in your xorg.conf under Section Device? The error saying there's not enough memory makes me think it fails to detect the correct amount of it. You can look at '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' to see if this is true. Regards, Jure pgpcJTIgIlBeI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Why is glibc ntpl+nptl-only?
On Friday 15 September 2006 07:07, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: Hi, For my new gentoo system I switched to the latest greatest profile - 2006.1. During the initial installation emerge told me glibc 2.4 is nptlonly - so I turned on the nptl and nptlonly USE flags in make.conf. Now my old linux system (profile 2006.0) tells me the same. Sooo - i guess I would have to switch to the no-nptl profile in order to keep the old (-nptl -nptlonly) settings. Is this a good Idea? Or is using nptl+nptlonly better (faster, less hassle, less memory footprint) anyways? TIA, Wolfgang Liebich Well, the new glibc-2.4 only supports nptl, unlike glibc-2.3 which supported both threading models. So if you want legacy linuxthreads, you have to stay with glibc-2.3. As for being better, glibc-2.4 is better than 2.3 IMHO. Also, nptl -nptlonly combination with 2.3 actually builds two versions of glibc, one with nptl and one with linuxthreads, so you get a longer compile and larger disk footprint. Regards, Jure pgpfBVcN6quJH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] mediawiki mass installation
On Sunday 27 August 2006 15:06, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, does anyone have some tool for mediawiki mass installations, which does an completely automatic (non-interactive) mediawiki installation from some configfile ? It also would be fine, if this tool could move the non-individual parts (ie. program code, stylesheets, ...) to some common place, so save some space. AFAIK Gentoo's webapp-config does these things, but I've only managed to scratch the surface of what it's capable of since I don't use webapps much. If you have multiple physical servers to maintain, you could emerge mediawiki, install it with webapp-config and write a simple script which executes posti-install instructions and modifies config files so you don't have to do it manually on each server. After that, upgrades are handled with webapp-config. -- Jure Varlec pgpicQey89j7V.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] IP Masquerading hardware, crossover versus hub
On Thursday 10 August 2006 05:22, Iain Buchanan wrote: Go not to gentoo-user for council, for they will say both hub and no hub. I say switch :P -- Jure Varlec pgpD1wbHFlNoA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel output to ttyS1
On Thursday 06 July 2006 20:20, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hi, I'm migrating my router to Gentoo. Therefore I have to boot the old system from time to time. This I'm doing through a serial connection. Grub und the getty communicate to Minicom without complaint. However, the kernel messages while booting get lost. The Grub configuration is: serial --unit=1 --speed=9600 ... kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-myone root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=791 console=tty0 console=ttyS1 The old kernel on the old system reports as expected with the same parameters. Suppose I forgot something to compile into the kernel. Any hints? Thanks in advance, Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de I don't recall what the defaults are, maybe it would help if you changed the parameter for your kernel to console=ttyS1,115200n8r or whatever suits your config. As for the kernel, everything you need should be in Device Drivers - Character devices - Serial drivers My config: * 8250/16550 and compatible serial support [*] Console on 8250/16550 and compatible serial port [ ] 8250/16550 device discovery via ACPI namespace (4) Maximum number of non-legacy 8250/16550 serial ports [*] Extended 8250/16550 serial driver options [*] Support more than 4 legacy serial ports [*] Support for sharing serial interrupts [ ] Autodetect IRQ on standard ports (unsafe) [*] Support special multiport boards [*] Support RSA serial ports -- Jure Varlec pgpSzTfY8yyc6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] ufed questions
On Friday 30 June 2006 04:09, sean wrote: Trying out the program for the first time and one simple question is if you choose an item how do you specify that you want it to be a '-'? Pressing the space bar selects it, and adds it to make.conf with a +, but how do you get it to add with the '-' in front of it? Thanks Sean It's been a while since I last used it, but as far as I remember it will do that only if an item is in the defaults AND you unselected it. No point in having it disabled in make.conf if it wasn't enabled in the first place. -- Jure Varlec pgp1CfSuN7qau.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag
On Thursday 29 June 2006 06:49, Ryan Tandy wrote: Er... maybe I misunderstood something, but gtk and ncurses are two COMPLETELY different things. Well, they are both libraries for creating user interfaces. GTK uses X, ncurses uses a terminal. And if Nick prefers to run profuse in the console, he really doesn't need GTK support. -- Jure Varlec pgp3TYiSq4cuO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag
On Thursday 29 June 2006 09:03, Jure Varlec wrote: On Thursday 29 June 2006 06:49, Ryan Tandy wrote: Er... maybe I misunderstood something, but gtk and ncurses are two COMPLETELY different things. Well, they are both libraries for creating user interfaces. GTK uses X, ncurses uses a terminal. And if Nick prefers to run profuse in the console, he really doesn't need GTK support. Sorry, didn't pay attention to what you quoted. Apologies. without gtk support (aka ncurses) -- Jure Varlec pgpeeqbaZ9gzC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] get unversioned list of installed packages without eix or esearch
On Monday 26 June 2006 08:44, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
I was of course considering something like this:
# cd /var/db/pkg ls * |
${some_magic_regular_expression_to_remove_version}
But I have found it impossible to make a regular expression that does break
for at least one of those:
sed -r 's/-[^-]+(-r[0-9]+)*$//'
It works on the examples you provided. I don't think anything in the tree
uses '-' in the version number, unless it's a case of '-rN'. But you never
know, of course, so I always double check all package names I ever filter
through anything.
Regards
Jure
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Re: [gentoo-user] Unwanted dependencies
On Friday 23 June 2006 23:16, Benno Schulenberg wrote: These bugs look relevant: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81012 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124053 Benno Ah, thank you. So people are aware of this. I need to search more thoroughly next time :/ Jure pgp06i5ig5iNZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Unwanted dependecies
Thank you for replying. I see now that I should clarify further what is
bothering me, as you didn't quite see my point. I guess it got lost in the
noise. No more stories then :)
Remember USE flags are for *optional* dependencies. Mandatory dependencies
will remain no matter what USE flags you set.
I understand. That is not the problem.
How did you determine that? Did the ebuild inherit any eclasses and did you
look in those? Also make sure you have =gentoolkit-0.2.2.
Gentoolkit is 0.2.2. After equery, I took a look at the ebuild.
As for the eclasses, I must admit I'm still not too comfortable with them,
which is what I was actually referring to when I said I need to understand
portage better. It's a shame really considering that I've been using gentoo
for two-and-a-half years. I need to get spanked ;) . But as far as I
understand it (and from what I can see looking at the eclasses) they are
merely collections of useful shell functions which devs can use when writing
ebuilds.
Anyway, to get rid of unnecessary confusion, I will give you an example
package which I remember, and whose ebuild is simple enough so that it does
not include any complicated inherits. In fact, it is short enough to be
included in this mail.
# Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-gfx/gqview/gqview-2.0.1.ebuild,v
1.8 2006/02/21 21:31:07 mr_bones_ Exp $
DESCRIPTION=A GTK-based image browser
HOMEPAGE=http://gqview.sourceforge.net/;
SRC_URI=mirror://sourceforge/gqview/${P}.tar.gz
LICENSE=GPL-2
SLOT=0
KEYWORDS=alpha amd64 ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86
IUSE=
RDEPEND==x11-libs/gtk+-2.4.0
virtual/libintl
DEPEND=${RDEPEND}
sys-devel/gettext
src_install() {
make DESTDIR=${D} install || die make install failed
# leave README uncompressed because the program reads it
dodoc AUTHORS ChangeLog TODO
rm -f ${D}/usr/share/doc/${PF}/COPYING
}
As you can see, it does not inherit anything, and does not depend on anything
gnomish. However, when I checked with equery, it definitely depended on
something which I didn't need/want (sorry, I can't remember what it was,
probably gconf or some such), although the ebuild specifies no such
dependency, not even indirectly (through gtk+ etc.) After I removed the
unwanted dep and remerged gqview, it did not pull the removed dependency
back in, and no longer depends on it.
The same applies for dependencies which were disabled through use flags, such
as this snip (from openoffice):
gnome? ( =x11-libs/gtk+-2.4
=gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.6
=gnome-base/gconf-2.0 )
In this case, It depended on gnome-vfs and gconf, even when the gnome USE flag
was disabled. After I removed the offending packages and recompiled
openoffice, the dependecy is gone.
Note: you might remember I wrote that oo.org used to be compiled with
USE=eds, which pulls these in along with other stuff indirectly through
gnome-extra/evolution-data-server. It was the reason these libs were
installed in the first place. The dependency problem I'm describing, however,
is independent from that and was present even after I recompiled oo.org
without eds.
I hope this helped you better understand what is bothering me. It's not that
I'm particularly against having those libs installed and wouldn't mind to
keep them if they were hard deps of something I needed, but I'm kind of
frustrated when packages depend on things I told them not to depend on
through USE flags. It means I cant test a package with a hard dep on a lib
because in case I emerge something while that lib is installed, I'll never
know if it will choose to depend on that lib, which in turn would mean that
after I remove the lib, I need to recompile stuff, once more. In the past two
weeks, I recompiled openoffice 4 times, which is 3 times more than I'm
normally willing to do it. This is not to say I would be less frustrated if
only small packages were affected :)
Looking at oo.org ebuild again and I see that it uses use_enable function in
the call to ./configure. So why the heck did it depend on gconf and gnome-vfs
when it was obviously told not to? And even more confusing: how did equery
know about this dependency?
*Sigh*
I hope I'm missing something here. Because if these are bugs, there's quite a
few. Sadly, I removed all the temporary lists of packages I removed and
rebuilt, so I have nothing to report now. Stupid me.
Jure
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Re: [gentoo-user] Unwanted dependecies
On Friday 23 June 2006 18:34, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:51:16 +0200, Jure Varlec wrote: Note: you might remember I wrote that oo.org used to be compiled with USE=eds, which pulls these in along with other stuff indirectly through gnome-extra/evolution-data-server. It was the reason these libs were installed in the first place. The dependency problem I'm describing, however, is independent from that and was present even after I recompiled oo.org without eds. How did you disable that USE flag? AIUI equery works with global USE flags, so if emerge --info still shows eds, equery will think OOo depends on it, no matter what you have in /etc/portage. It's disabled in make.conf. I have a policy to disable global flags there, and local flags in package.use. It's just that I missed eds when I went through global flags, and I obviously didn't pay attention when I emerged oo.org. Not that it matters for the problem at hand. Jure pgpVtnbGQrnZf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Unwanted dependecies
On Friday 23 June 2006 19:40, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
I do have openoffice and gnome-vfs too. equery depends gnome-vfs does
report openoffice for me despite the fact that the gnome use flag is
disabled. So I tried removing gnome-vfs from
/var/db/pkg/app-office/openoffice*/{R,}DEPEND. That stopped equery from
showing openoffice with equery depends gnome-vfs. I also tried removing
gnome-vfs and running revdep-rebuild -p. This did not report any broken
dependencies from openoffice. So I think it is very possible that there are
still bugs in equery... I don't know though how equery works though so it's
just a guess.
Hm. I guess it's not hard to imagine equery fails to read USE flags correctly
and that would make it a bug. But this still doesn't explain gqview, which
doesn't have neither hard nor USE dependencies on anything I removed.
Obviously I have to do more research, especially since I haven't any data to
support me. And I thought cleaning out unneeded libs would be a fun thing to
do in between the exams :) . Meh. Unless someone picks this up, I'll have
more time in a month or so. I'm definitely not going to file any bugs or some
such until I know more.
Thank you for your input
Jure
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Re: [gentoo-user] LDPATH not set
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 01:45, Robert Persson wrote: in /etc/env.d/00basic I have the line LDPATH=/usr/local/lib yet when I enter echo $LDPATH I get nothing and I have to set it manually to get programs using libraries installed in /usr/local/lib to work. What have I done wrong? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson That's MISTER Scum to you. Did you run env-update? pgpmIxQGSkXLv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] viewing consoles remotely
On Friday 02 June 2006 06:57, Ryan Tandy wrote: Multi-user mode. Only works as root, regardless of who started the screen. AFAIK suid root is enough. Using it depends on your approach to security though :) . pgpscL0Ui4GUP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl mem usage
Funny. I'm using xorg 7 and am experiencing similarly high memory usage. On Wednesday 31 May 2006 16:31, Lukas Kasprowicz wrote: Hi, Is the Xgl mem usage how it should be? For me Xgl starts with 69m RES. After one day it uses 290m RES. It had 400m RES, too until i restarted X. It seems for me, like it does not use cache. Is this correct? Lukas pgpbRKPMBjVMr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems when more than one application uses sound
On Sunday 28 May 2006 17:57, Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Hi, I'm using alsa, and i can't use the sound simultaneously by more than one application, for example, when i'm seeing flash animations on firefox, xmms can't output sound. How can i solve this? Cheers, Felipe ALSA supports software mixing, but you have to create a proper asoundrc config file to activate the dmix plugin. See http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_Complete_(includes_dmix) pgpmKY8aDc0VO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg i810/i915 mode problem (modular X)
On Sunday 21 May 2006 01:42, W.Kenworthy wrote: The modes are there but xorgs log shows them as filled out with zeros (see the bit for Mode 38 below - quite a number of modes are like this). 915resolution reports that the modes I want to use are present) If I start it up with the ext monitor connected I get a weird display on both screens - unusable. Ive done all the standard things and am thinking Ive run up into an xorg bug with this driver. It will be a few weeks before I get the time to fiddle with this again - its at least usable as long as I dont boot it with an ext monitor plugged in, if non-optimal in the way I am currently using it. The modes which xorg null's out are the ones your hardware cannot support. Only now did I notice that your laptop's native resolution is 1366x768. That is 768 pixels vertical. You physically cannot have 1024 pixels. Yet you write that you managed to force it once. Are you sure that was it? Anyway, I don't think you can use such a mode on your laptop. Your projector should work fine of course, but without clone mode. Another possibility would be having 1280x1024 workspace, which should display properly on the projector, but using a lower resolution on the laptop, which should behave like zooming because the workspace is bigger. I don't know how to do this off the top of my head, but it should be in the man pages. Regards, Jure pgpWbjs2oSqCA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg i810/i915 mode problem (modular X)
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 08:12, W.Kenworthy wrote: I have a new Sony Vaio laptop with a 1366x768 screen using the intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller which can be driven by the xorg i810 driver. Works fine on the laptop in this resolution. The problem I have is that many of the possible modes for this chipset return blank when xorg starts as in the example below from the xorg log - the mode I want to use is 1280x1024 for an external projector. I have (once!) been able to get 1280x1024 using 915resolution to force the mode, and two screens but I need to use clone mode so this wasnt practical (I want clone mode with the same desktop on both screens) Can someone point me towards a solution please. It seems to me that xorg is not reading the chipset correctly. Note that ddc on or off doesnt help (and if I have an external monitor attached when xorg starts, it really stuffs things up, also ddc on or off!) My requirement is to use 1360x768 when standalone, or 1280x1024 on either an LCD desk monitor, or same resolution on a projector in clone mode. When doing the external thing, the laptop screen doesnt have to be 'perfect'. Currently I can do this, but only in 1024x768, which looks terrible on the ext LCD due to aliasing. BillK First, make sure you have proper modes in your VBIOS with 915resolution, and that you have those resolution in your Screen section in xorg.conf. Then make sure xorg knows which pipe has which display (e.g., I have Option MonitorLayout CRT,LFP in my xorg.conf; check the driver's man page). After that, using clone mode should work with all those resolutions. However, there are two things you must be aware of. Firstly, it seems you need to restart xorg /after/ you connect the other monitor in order for it to enable clone mode (although I think there is an option for the driver to enable polling). Secondly, xorg fails to negotiate the proper resolution with certain displays, e.g. I had a problem with a projector once. In that case, you must set the correct resolution in your Screen section and delete the others. Good luck. pgpXwEUnXps44.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] A couple projects on my laptop
On Monday 08 May 2006 20:48, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: I need to be able to use a USB to Serial dongle to talk to my switches -- the adapters that I have are Triplite ones and I do have the driver disk for windows -- along with this, I need a good communications program (equivalent to hyperterm ) to use with them to talk to my switches and to my UPS There are many drivers in the kernel. They've got a category among other USB devices. I'm not sure, but it may be that you have to enable serial support. You can read more under Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt. For the terminal, I recommend net-dialup/minicom. pgpdRI0STxwh7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2 Problems
I've never seen this issue, so I may not be the right person to give advice here. But at a glance, it looks like lvm and device-mapper are incompatible or something similar. If I were in your place I would try differrent versions of lvm2, device-mapper and/or kernel. FYI, my configuration works with kernel 2.6.16-r1, device-mapper 1.02.03 and lvm2 2.02.05. On Tuesday 09 May 2006 17:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I recently synced my Gentoo (2.6.7-gentoo-r13) and after emerging updated ebuilds, sure lvm2 was one of them and a reboot I lost my mounted fs. Fortunately I do not have / (root) under LVM however all efforts so far haven't brought my fs back: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.14 2003/10/13 20:03:38 azarah Exp $ # # noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't # needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage # efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to # switch between notail and tail freely. # fs mountpointtype opts dump/pass # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts. /dev/hda1 /boot ext2noauto,noatime 0 0 /dev/hda2 / reiserfsnoatime 0 0 /dev/cont/swap noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/cont/usr /usrreiserfsnoatime 0 0 /dev/cont/var /varreiserfsnoatime 0 0 /dev/cont/home /home reiserfsnoatime 0 0 /dev/cont/tmp /tmpreiserfsnoatime 0 0 /dev/cont/var-log /var/logreiserfsnoatime 0 0 /dev/cont/var-www /var/wwwreiserfsnoatime 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 #/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy autonoauto 0 0 # NOTE: The next line is critical for boot! none/proc procdefaults 0 0 # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will # use almost no memory if not populated with files) # Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this: none/dev/shmtmpfs defaults 0 0 df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 479M 80M 399M 17% / none pvscan PV /dev/hda3 VG cont lvm2 [111.23 GB / 6.74 GB free] Total: 1 [111.23 GB] / in use: 1 [111.23 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group cont using metadata type lvm2 vgchange -a y device-mapper: deps ioctl failed: Invalid argument _deps: task run failed for (254:0) Failed to add device (254:0) to dtree device-mapper: deps ioctl failed: Invalid argument _deps: task run failed for (254:1) Failed to add device (254:1) to dtree device-mapper: deps ioctl failed: Invalid argument _deps: task run failed for (254:2) Failed to add device (254:2) to dtree device-mapper: deps ioctl failed: Invalid argument _deps: task run failed for (254:3) Failed to add device (254:3) to dtree device-mapper: deps ioctl failed: Invalid argument _deps: task run failed for (254:4) Failed to add device (254:4) to dtree device-mapper: deps ioctl failed: Invalid argument _deps: task run failed for (254:5) Failed to add device (254:5) to dtree device-mapper: deps ioctl failed: Invalid argument _deps: task run failed for (254:6) Failed to add device (254:6) to dtree device-mapper: deps ioctl failed: Invalid argument _deps: task run failed for (254:7) Failed to add device (254:7) to dtree 8 logical volume(s) in volume group zoom now active 248M 0 248M 0% /dev/shm Any further suggestions how to troubleshoot or fix the issue ? ~Barny pgpBxLT72Rqdu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 20:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? I use yakuake. It's the the best drop-down terminal I've ever used, and I believe I tried almost all of them (there really aren't many). Off the top of my head, I recall yeahconsole and kuake. There's also tilda, but I never tried it. yeahconsole is good if you want as few dependencies as possible. It's basically xterm wrapped in a hidable window, although it seems to be missing some functionality (e.g. unicode support, at least back when I used it). Also, you need to use screen if you want to make it really useful, which isn't bad, of course, but lack of tabs is lack of features nonetheless :) . Also, I had to hack source in order to change some configuration, can't remember what. kuake is rather out-of-date and has been superseded by yakuake. While both are wrappers for KDE's konsole, the latter is noticeably faster and has more features. Most important, it has tabs and is also more configurable regarding focus policy (whether it retracts when it loses focus). The only thing it currently lacks and would really be useful is emacs-like tiling. It would basically make it a retractable set of terminals. It would make copypaste easier. But tab switching is actually quick enough to compensate for this lacking. pgpKavzr2Rrtb.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] What exactly is kernel timer frequency?
What exactly does 'Timer frequency' (under 'Processor type and features') do? Which timer does it control? I'm asking because it seems to have interesting effects. I used to have it set to 1KHz. Yesterday, I tried setting it to 100Hz just to see what effects it would have. I didn't notice any impact on responsiveness. There is a funny effect with superkaramba though. I noticed it with the system monitor first, but I added a clock to see it better. I set the refresh interval for the clock to 1 sec, and everytime it refreshes, it seems to 'skip a beat'. Hard to describe it. When it refreshes to show the current number of seconds, it refreshes again a not-sot-tiny fraction of a second later and shows the next second. Then, it fails to refresh for almost 2 sec, then does it again. It seems funny because 100Hz frequency is low enough for a human to observe (or not, depending on what you're observing) but too high to cause such behavior. That means I misunderstand what this setting does, so I'm turning to you for an answer. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What exactly is kernel timer frequency?
On Sunday 07 May 2006 21:47, Jure Varlec wrote: So now I mostly understand what this does. But the way the clock acts still seems funny. Where could that jump come from? 100Hz seems too high for that, unless I'm missing something. I played with it some more. Only with superkaramba for now, as this is where it's most apparent (haven't noticed this jump/skip anywhere else for now). This jump seems to happen when I have multiple themes and/or sensors set to the same update interval of 1 sec, i.e. when there are many processes starting up at the same moment. As the timer frequency relates to the process scheduler, I now believe that with such a low frequency not all processes manage to complete their tasks within the update interval. Therefore some of them update too late. But why another update so soon after the last one? It makes me think two updates get stacked and then both processed at the same time. Pha. It's bloody obvious I haven't a clue about how this is all implemented. While it's not an issue to be solved, it's interesting and I'd appreciate if someone can explain this to me. pgp8hHpLRuSgN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card
On Friday 05 May 2006 15:52, Jeremy Olexa wrote: Does anyone really know what the difference is? I originally used the ebuilds because I could only assume that they will be more up to date. But now I realize that new kernels come out pretty quick so I don't think this is the case. Anyone have insight? For me, both worked well for normal usage. However, the in-kernel drivers didn't support monitor mode too well (or at all), i.e. kismet didn't work. I think firmware was the real culprit, but I'm not sure. Anyways, ebuild drivers and firmware 3.0 work perfectly. pgpbSzq0dwfYI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Non Standard X Resolution
On Thursday 04 May 2006 05:46, Jamie wrote: In the next few days I will be getting my brand new Dell 2007WFP LCD delivered and obviously I want to use it on my Gentoo box. This screen uses a non-standard resolution of [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I have no idea how to get this setting in my XOrg setup. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks Jamie It's a valid resolution, simply put it under Modes, Subsection Display, Section Screen. The only problem you should have are invalid VideoBIOS entries if your card is an i915. pgpPbDtraRIyL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux
On Thursday 04 May 2006 18:26, Michael Sullivan wrote: Is there a way to defragment a rieserfs file system? From Wikipedia: There is no known way to defragment a ReiserFS filesystem, aside from a full dump and restore. However ReiserFS v4 has a repacker that takes care of file fragmentation. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
