[gentoo-user] Blockers problem: no ebuilds to satisfy media-libs/libpng:0/0=
For the first time in years portage is driving me crazy. I'm trying to
update my desktop after half a year in storage and coping with the Gnome
3.10 upgrade that I want to avoid because of systemd. And this is where
it always gets stuck:
| aldous ~ # emerge --keep-going --jobs=5 -DNuvta @world
|
| These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
|
| Calculating dependencies... done!
|
| emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy media-libs/libpng:0/0=.
| (dependency required by media-gfx/rawstudio-2.0-r1 [installed])
| (dependency required by @selected [set])
| (dependency required by @world [argument])
| aldous ~ # eix libpng
| [I] media-libs/libpng
| Available versions:
| (1.2) 1.2.50-r1 ~1.2.51
| (1.5) 1.5.17-r15 ~1.5.18
| (0)1.6.8(0/16) ~1.6.9(0/16) ~1.6.10(0/16)
|{apng neon static-libs ABI_MIPS=n32 n64 o32 ABI_X86=32 64 x32}
| Installed versions: 1.6.8(09:32:10 PM 03/29/2014)(apng -neon
-static-libs ABI_MIPS=-n32 -n64 -o32 ABI_X86=64 -32 -x32)
| Homepage:http://www.libpng.org/
| Description: Portable Network Graphics library
So media-libs/libpng:0 is indeed installed, and it not only works but
| emerge -1vta `equery d libpng`
does work, too. That way I have already recompiled every single thing
that requires libpng, including rawstudio so IMAO it shouldn't even come
up during @world updating, and if there is some reason for to be
recompiled it should work just like when I say emerge -1 rawstudio.
I've run into a few blockers during this update run and Google has been
my friend for most of there, but here I only find some QT-related forum
entries that seem to be unrelated or offer solutions like masking some
libpng version
[http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7520134.html#7520134] that didn't
help and frankly sound rather voodoo.
Could anyone help me out here?
cheers,
Matthias
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Re: [gentoo-user] Crossdev won't go away
Hi Peter, on Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:50:32AM +, you wrote: I'm still having a bit of bother with crossdev. If I emerge -upDvtN world I get this warning (omitting the N makes no difference): !!! The following installed packages are masked: - cross-i686-pc-linux-gnu/linux-headers-2.6.23-r3 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword) I had a similar issue just recently when I built a crossdev environment for ARM on an amd64 system. I'm not exactly sure how it happened any more but I suppose it has to do with a later version of linux-headers being stable for the platform you want to crosscompile for than for your native one. Which isn't the case when I look now, perhaps the keywords have just been updated? For me, installing crossdev with -s1 helped, I'm only compiling for an embedded system anyway so I don't need the headers. Maybe just try again after an rsync? cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgp1iXDp0g5n1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] mutt + gnupg
Hi Michael, on Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:39:59AM -0500, you wrote: Now I run gpg-agent in my .xsession, with the GPG_AGENT_INFO variable being inherited by Mutt, but signing email doesn't work, as gpg says there's no secret key available. Do you have set pgp_use_gpg_agent=yes in your muttrc? Works fine here, though I don't remember what I changed in the last year when gpg started to need the agent, if anything. If that's not it, I can just mail you my config as well... cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpSI2yRB4vpQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 4 port ethernet card support
Hi James, on Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:30:57PM +, you wrote: ANA-6944A/TX [...] Not very useful. Why not just ask Google for ANA-6944A and Linux? It turns up stuff like this: http://www.freelabs.com/~whitis/hardware/quartet.html which suggests it might work with the Tulip driver. For grepping the sources, a much better guess than the model is the PCI ID. cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpjshRNrJYiq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] limit maximum memory size of any process
Hi Zhang, on Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 03:30:55PM +0800, you wrote: I interpret the above as use a maximum of 300,000 KiB of memory, of which 300 may be resident (i.e. in physical memory) and 299,700 swapped out. That doesn't sound good, although I'm not sure I'm reading it correctly. Sorry, it seems I used these parameter without care. I guess I only need to set physical memory limit, a.k.a. resident memory. Yes, that sounds reasonable. Remember it's in kilobytes so that would be 30. OT: I don't know why I have max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32 But it has been like that before I set ulimit. Locked memory is memory that a process has protected against being swapped to disk. The best-known example is the memory gpg uses to store keys and passphrases, it would be pretty bad if it got swapped and someone could find your unprotected key on the disk later, so gpg tries to lock this memory in RAM. I don't have a file called /etc/sercurity/limits.conf and neither can I find information about it by using 'man limits.conf'. Further I couldn't find a package called pam_limits to emerge. Can you give me some clue which package I should emerge in order to set limits.conf ? The pam_limits module is part of the standard PAM distribution, here it's sys-libs/pam-1.0.1. Maybe just re-emerge it? cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpLO2liwse9h.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] limit maximum memory size of any process
Hi Zhang, on Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 06:24:00PM +0800, you wrote: I hope I can configure the system so that any process uses more than 50% of memory are automatically killed. first I was recommend to use ulimit by googling around. However this seems doesn't work even if I set both -d and -m (here is my .xinitrc) ~$ cat .xinitrc #export [EMAIL PROTECTED] #fcitx ulimit -d 30 ulimit -m 300 exec /usr/bin/fluxbox Result: OpenOffice stands still even when it takes 80% memory (read from top). So: is ulimit the solution? If so, what option should I set? I interpret the above as use a maximum of 300,000 KiB of memory, of which 300 may be resident (i.e. in physical memory) and 299,700 swapped out. That doesn't sound good, although I'm not sure I'm reading it correctly. What I do is use /etc/sercurity/limits.conf (from pam_limits) with a couple of entries like those: | @users hardnproc 1000 | mb hardnproc 5000 | @users hardas 2097152 | mb hardas 6291456 | mb hardnice-5 | mb hardrtprio 5 Meaning, everyone but me (mb) may use up to 1000 processes per login, with a max. address space of 2 GiB each; for myself the limit is 6 GiB and 5k processes. Myself I cannot accidentially set a negative nice-value because I left the soft limit at its default (0 for non-root users) but using ulimit I can set it to the hard limit of -5 and nice-up processes even as a normal user. cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpRLx3YFB6kP.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] OT: Python (was: package.keywords syntax?)
Hi Albert, on Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:11:04PM -0400, you wrote: ... but Jorge is right. This is easily picked up by a lint tool... and good python programmers use them ;-). Some python-aware editors even have this functionality built in. Whow...I've been out of Python long enough to totally forget that you *needed* to do this. In Perl, the use strict you find at the top of every well-written script does it at compile time. cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpW5p5UNElJT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany flash
Hi Erik, on Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:34:11PM +0200, you wrote: Chances are Epiphany is more stable *because* you don't have Flash in it - it often causes Firefix to crash. Likely. Pretty much the only reason of FF3 crashes here. I recommend to either try one of the open source alternatives or install Flashblock [1]. Note however that this can make flash even more unstable in combination with other blockers like NoScript. I had Flashblock installed since the time when NoScript didn't have this functionality and it caused FF to crash 90% of the time I manually started a YouTube video. Since NoScript can do it, I got rid of Flashblock, whitelisted a few sites and have since had FF uptimes of weeks again. cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpNKLvBciC0d.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] It's the Mind!
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 06:40:58PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: It seems that you missunderstand things. The people behind cdrkit are on a crusade against free software. Good evening! Tonight on It's The Mind we'll examine the phenomenon of déjà-vu. -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpokOxRYuEmH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to automate rsync of updated portage tree across multiple boxes without each having to pull it down from a gentoo mirror
Hi Vaeth, on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 09:49:08AM +0200, you wrote: [...] that in any halfway sane router these NAT problems are not an issue. And with many routers running Linux today so you can even get a shell and check iptables... :) We are obviously talking about a different price category of routers. Most routers people use here in Germany for home systems are from their ISP, and they are usually proprietary implementations [...] Huh? I don't have a good overview of the market here but the ISP I work at uses only FritzBox routers which run a fine Linux, and as far as I know so do most of T-Com's Speedport models which should be the most widely used in Germany. Not that it was significantly cheaper than a FritzBox or a WRT54... cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpJ76v2Z1nkR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to automate rsync of updated portage tree across multiple boxes without each having to pull it down from a gentoo mirror
Hi Vaeth, on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:40:47AM +0200, you wrote: Alan Cox: chroot is not and never has been a security tool, see e.g. http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Abusing_chroot No disrespect to Mr. Cox but a silly argument stays a silly argument even if brought forward by Alan. Programs like postfix certainly don't use chroots for security because they were designed noobs or incompetent people. I did not cite the webpage because of the insults but because it shows how much the kernel programmers are interested in closing possible ways to break out of a chroot as root : not at all, because they think it is ok. That's why I said that _only_ with grsecurity a chroot _might perhaps_ be considered as a serious security measurement (but in fact, people which really need chroot to run binaries from two systems cannot activate these security enhancements). Sure, you can't expect that the Debian-loving friend you gave root on your Debian-chrooted-on-Gentoo system will stay confined to that chroot. Big deal, just don't do it. That's not what any sane person would recommend chroot for anyway. Alan acknowledges that Normal users cannot use chroot() themselves so they can't use chroot to get back out Yes, _this_ method of breaking out does not work without additional exploits like privilege escalation. (grsecurity closes a lot more methods; I did never reasearch which tricks might perhaps work as a user). But if everything works as it should, just running with low privileges does not make much of a difference than running with low privileges in a chroot: In any case you should only have access to those data which the privileges allow. ...which is usually pretty much everything in the bin directories, a lot of stuff in /etc, and most importantly a shell. In a non-chrooted program, an attacker who can exploit a bug can simply bind /bin/sh to a port, run netcat, even use your compiler to prepare the next steps for perhaps a local privilege escalation. In a chroot, nothing of the sort is possible, you're limited to what you can do in your injected code. (Admittedly there is a _slight_ increase in security: You might now be safe of ways of privilege escalation by bugs in certain SUID-programms). ...plus safe from most information disclosure that would otherwise be possible. That's not to say that setting up a vserver for each of your programs exposed to the net wasn't *more* secure than a chroot That's a different topic, but a vserver might also even be more dangerous than doing nothing, because it has to be implemented (of course) with the highest available privileges, and so you have an additional risk of bugs (i.e. possible exploits) of the vserver - and in such a case the attacker has immediately the highest privileges. That's true, I just mentioned it because that's what Alan mentioned as the true security tool. but it's certainly a whole lot more secure if used properly than not doing it at all. ...as is the usage of NAT as a security feature. Of course, saying that using NAT or using chroot would not increase security at all would be a lie. But it is better to emphasize the dangers than to support the common misbelieve (as Alan alrady pointed out) that by using it there is no risk that closed ports can come through or that no other data than those in the chroot can be accessed. Alan would probably emphasize the dangers of a seat belt and say competent people used it only to keep their shopping bags from falling over and not as a security tool because if you don't use it the recommended way you can strangle yourself with it =^ Remember the starting point of the discussion: The statement rsyncd uses chroot, so an attacker can do nothing bad is just false. Except that statement wasn't Neil's. To quote it correctly: | In addition, the default rsyncd configuration with Gentoo uses a chroot | jail. So even if you do allow connections to your portage tree, they | won't be able to access anything else. To summarize: for an attacker to be able to compromise a chrooted rsyncd behind a NATting DSL router: a) your ISP has to have a router configuration b0rked beyond belief b) the attacker has to be aware of that and be able to distinguish between your traffic and that of several hundred others that will respond to his packets to 192.168.x.x c) your router has to have a serious security hole d) rsyncd has to be exploitable e) your kernel needs to have a local privilege escalation bug Now if that risk is worth the more complicated configuration using rsync over ssh, I'm really not sure...I think I'd rather spend the time on folding tin foil hats for the upcoming attack from Mars ;) cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpEIWGy6o0sA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I am a f*****g retard. Can you help me?
Hi b.n., on Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:26:56PM +0200, you wrote: Seriously: can someone more skilled than me explain why using --resume-skipfirst and then trying to solve the unmerged packages is/can be a bad idea? How can this break the system? Frankly I have no idea. I've heard that argument many times in the Paludis discussions but never even an attempt at an explanation that went beyond it breaks your system. My understanding is that you can have two kinds of situation if an upgrade fails: a) the failed package is not a dependency of any other package b) the failed package is a dependency of at least one other package In case a) you get to keep the old version, no problem. In case b) the package that depends on the failed one can b1) work with the old version b2) require the upgrade (and say so in the ebuild) In case b1) things will continue working just fine. In case b2) you'll get another failed emerge as portage will notice the unmet dependency, so you get to keep the old version, no problem. Did I miss anything? Sorry, no flowers today. cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgp6nMHlYcdp9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I am a f*****g retard. Can you help me?
Hi Vaeth, on Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 01:34:31AM +0200, you wrote: The problem is that after failing of a package, portage does not recalculate the dependencies, i.e. it will attempt to install also those packages which depend on the failed package. OIC, so that was what I missed :) Somehow the thread got split up and I missed your answer. In the presence of a --keep-going option, it is now fortunately not necessary anymore to weight the pros and cons. Of course, to insult somebody just because he weighted the pros and cons differently is beyond any acceptable limit. ++ I'd say reimplement it properly (i.e. check the deps) is always the better approach than the old implementation is b0rken so let's declare the functionality so and not reimplement it at all. cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpdXEs5w8z7Z.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to automate rsync of updated portage tree across multiple boxes without each having to pull it down from a gentoo mirror
Hi Neil, on Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 04:59:39PM +0100, you wrote: Except that this is not completely true: See some of the many articles in the net which explain why NAT is not a security feature. A quick google search gave e.g. http://www.nexusuk.org/articles/2005/03/12/nat_security/ So the router maintains a database of current connections so that traffic is always allowed through for them, and you can tell it to filter all new connections made from the internet whilest allowing all new connections made from inside the local network. This means that noone can make a connection from the internet to one of your workstations, even though they can route to its address. If the relevant ports are not forwarded in the router, this applies and no one can make a new connection to your rsync server. I don't even see why you'd strictly need connection tracking to avoid attacks made possible by grossly misconfigured ISP routers. Your router knows that packets with a destination address of 10/8, 192.168/16 and the like have absolutely no business on the public internet so the only sensible behavior would be to just drop them. cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgp79947zvasg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to automate rsync of updated portage tree across multiple boxes without each having to pull it down from a gentoo mirror
Hi Vaeth, on Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 07:14:48PM +0200, you wrote: In addition, the default rsyncd configuration with Gentoo uses a chroot jail. Also a chroot jail is not a security feature: There are several ways known how to break out. Huh? In the case of NAT it's reasonable to say it's not a security feature---it's a kludge that happens to increase security somewhat in the standard case. But there's only one reason I can see why you'd use a chroot environment *except* for security and that's to have more than one set of system binaries active at the same time for different applications. Which is normally a pretty bad kludge in itself (not that I hadn't done it, to avoid endless library woes on a Debian system that absolutely must be kept on Woody... :-S), I'd say the vast majority of chroot jails are there for nothing else but security. cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpX7qEZAEROh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to automate rsync of updated portage tree across multiple boxes without each having to pull it down from a gentoo mirror
Hi Vaeth, on Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 07:54:43PM +0200, you wrote: I don't even see why you'd strictly need connection tracking to avoid attacks made possible by grossly misconfigured ISP routers. Your router knows that packets with a destination address of 10/8, 192.168/16 and the like have absolutely no business on the public internet so the only sensible behavior would be to just drop them. This also requires a special kind of router: Namely one which has a physical way of distinguishing between the dangerous connection to the net and your local network (if they are dynamic, this can also sometimes be tricked). Of course, combined router/modems have this separation practically by definition. I can only recall one router where this wasn't the case, my first weird and wonderful DSL line in the Philippines :D Normally, why bother routing if you can just physically connect the thwo networks and have their traffic intermix? However, in any case it requires that the functionality you mention is implemented on the router and has no bugs and that the router cannot be compromised by other means. Sure, if your router is compromised you're fuxx0red anyway. I was just saying that in any halfway sane router these NAT problems are not an issue. And with many routers running Linux today so you can even get a shell and check iptables... :) cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpC3gaCIfo8p.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to automate rsync of updated portage tree across multiple boxes without each having to pull it down from a gentoo mirror
Hi Vaeth, on Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 08:36:28PM +0200, you wrote: Also a chroot jail is not a security feature: There are several ways known how to break out. [...] But there's only one reason I can see why you'd use a chroot environment *except* for security and that's to have more than one set of system binaries active at the same time for different applications. Or simply several systems (e.g. amd64 and x86, or gentoo and debian, or your boot disk and your newly installed system [the install handbook makes massive use of chroot]). This is exactly what chroot was made for. Sure, that's why I kept it as general als more than one set, be it a different architecture/vendor/purpose/whatever. I'd say the vast majority of chroot jails are there for nothing else but security. Alan Cox: chroot is not and never has been a security tool, see e.g. http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Abusing_chroot No disrespect to Mr. Cox but a silly argument stays a silly argument even if brought forward by Alan. Programs like postfix certainly don't use chroots for security because they were designed noobs or incompetent people. Alan acknowledges that Normal users cannot use chroot() themselves so they can't use chroot to get back out but insists on his point, completely ignoring that doing a chroot() immediately followed by dropping your root privileges is exactly the recommended way to use it for security. That's not to say that setting up a vserver for each of your programs exposed to the net wasn't *more* secure than a chroot if you want to do it but it's certainly a whole lot more secure if used properly than not doing it at all. cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpO5vRqjdOl0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Partition schme question
Hi Alan, on Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:57:42AM +0200, you wrote: These days the entire concept of a cylinder is a mere abstraction to make tools like fdisk work in a sane manner. Of course not. The disk is physically organized in cylinders, that's the structure dictated by the mechanical design. That a disk controller is theoretically free to map cylinders and sectors to whereever it pleases doesn't mean that there wasn't a direct relationship between cylinder number and physical location on the platter in the vast majority of non-broken (i.e. cylinder-remapped) disks. With many HD tests in magazines you get a cylinder-vs.-transfer-rate plot and it still mostly matches the old rule. I suppose not even firmware hackers are really eager to make things more complicated than absolutely necessary :) cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpPX11oU6Z07.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Partition schme question
Hi Alan, on Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 02:17:07PM +0200, you wrote: However, it does make the most sense to keep fdisk's cylinders in some sort of sequential order, so low numbered cylinders will in all probability end up near one edge and high numbered cylinders at the other edge. I strongly suspect that you know this also, and we actually do have the same understanding of how it works :-) Yes, now I'm pretty sure we do ;) cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpsxKnBADWl8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] RAID with mixed drive sizes
Hi Florian, on Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:55:14AM +0200, you wrote: Hmm, you might be right. Maybe someone should do a field test. I think we have a candidate here on the list... ;) cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgp0nVPJOX7m8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] RAID with mixed drive sizes
Hi Florian, on Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:29:07PM +0200, you wrote: Note1: NEVER EVER build some kind of RAID other than Linear (also called JBOD) over two IDE disks on the same cable. Performance will suffer greatly as will security because most simple onboard controllers can't handle a dying disk and that one might take the other one with it into death. Your suggestions sound reasonable (as reasonable as you get if one insists on going with the drives that are there instead of getting a third 500G drive that is :) [and for RAID5 I'd add a cheapish SATA controller as well]) but I wonder why the above should be better than a RAID0. The risk is the same---if either disk dies, the partition is fuct. And considering drive mechanics are still the slowest part of the system, even two EIDE disks that tend fight for the bus should be a tad faster when striped than any one alone, which is what you effectively get in a JBOD, right? cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpsEEEAL8173.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] package.use update
Hi Mick, on Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 01:51:18AM +0100, you wrote: Did you see this today? # etc-update [...] File: /etc/portage/._cfg_package.use [...] What is it about? No, I didn't see it, but it looks like some package moved to another category or got renamed so portage patched package.use for you. Try dispatch-config, preferably with vimdiff and perhaps RCS support, it makes maintaining your config so much easier than etc-update. I can't remember any case where it wasn't just fine to just accept the changes though. cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpIUtLxhKhUN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo x86 to AMD64
Hi Anthony, on Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 04:01:42PM +0100, you wrote: I have two theories about how to go about this.no1, install esx 3i on a spare drive, make a 32bit Linux guest and point it's drives at the raw partitions I have now :) no2, alter make.conf to 64bit flags, and emerge -e world --buildpkgonly then reboot into a 64bit live cd, and emerge -e world --usepkgonly which should give me a working systemObviously the kernel and network drivers would also need rebuilding at this point again Will no 2 work? I'm not sure I understood #1 correctly but it sounds like neither will work. Going 32-64bit (or vice versa) always requires a fresh install. What I *think* you could do to reduce the hassle of updating all your configs is to start off with a partition with your 32bit system on it and use that for the regular Gentoo install procedure, i.e. slap the tarballs on top and then do all the emerging. But it would certainly leave some garbage around in /lib etc. so I wouldn't recommend it. If you didn't actually change the hardware so you don't have to reconfigure your kernel and stuff, a fresh install using your old world file shouldn't take more than a day. cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpUICGvv1mya.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] FIXED!! Re: Can't emerge xfce4 with installed lprng. But ran out of inodes. :-(
Hi Dale, on Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 03:44:54PM -0500, you wrote: How do you run out of inodes anyway? I use reiserfs for most partitions except /boot and portage. My /data partition has 75,000 files and 3,600 directories. No problems so far but not near as many files as you have. You can adjust the number of inodes to create at mkfs using -i, -N or -T which are just different ways of doing the same thing. Lowering the number of inodes wastes less disk space if you know you're not going to write many files anyway. This feature bit me once when I set up a -Tlargefile4 partition (i.e. one inode per 4 MiB of disk) for videos. As it happens, I had to misuse it for backups at some point and was very puzzled when df showed 3% used space but even touch gave me a no space left on device error. tarring the stuff I had planned to just copy solved it and would prolly have been faster in the first place :) cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpvA54BVEYxS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia GeForce Go 6800 and nvidia-drivers == Cannot switch to ttys or close X
Hi andrea, on Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 08:53:53AM +0100, you wrote: I've had big stability problems as well with 169.09-r1 on an el-cheapo GeForce 7300 but 169.12 has been rock solid for about a week now. At the speed any modern chip runs at, I don't feel the need for any framebuffer tricksi any more Well, I don't use any login manager, so when I close my X session I'd like to be back in a working console. Do you actually do work there that you can't do while X is running? Because ye olde VGA should work in any case and it's good enough for entering startx or watching the machine resume from disk ;) I'm guessing if there is alternative driver that gives Nvidia 3D accel, (like for ATI I can use radeon instead of fglrx). I don't care too much about performance (no desktop 3D effects or composite are needed) and I'm not a game player. BTW I'd like to have applications requiring 3D (such as googleearth) just working. AFAIK the open source nv driver has only 2D accel, and I haven't been able to get GLX working with it. I guess it's possible using MESA's software rendering somehow but as the latest nvidia driver works fine for me I haven't investigated any further there. cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpwATuEz7ks4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia GeForce Go 6800 and nvidia-drivers == Cannot switch to ttys or close X
Hi 7v5w7go9ub0o, on Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:09:15PM -0400, you wrote: Help, please! I'm thinking of building a new box: asus p5e/intel core2 quad. I had thought of getting an NV. Would ATI be the better choice? As far as I've heard, all proprietary graphics drivers on Linux suck but NVidia's suck a little less. I've had big stability problems as well with 169.09-r1 on an el-cheapo GeForce 7300 but 169.12 has been rock solid for about a week now. At the speed any modern chip runs at, I don't feel the need for any framebuffer tricksi any more---the console runs in regular 1980s VGA 80x25 text mode which is fine for the boot process, after that I use gnome-terminal in fullscreen mode which looks just like a framebuffer console but with full unicode support and everything. cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpb9viY8caea.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo
Hi Iain, on Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:53:40PM +0930, you wrote: brag I just installed Gentoo on a quad-core dual-cpu Xeon E5420 (2.50GHz). 8Gb RAM, 800Gb raid. It's not mine - I've only convinced the sysadmin to let me play until it needs to be used for something real (what a waste to have those cpu's doing nothing, I thought, so let's install Gentoo :) FSC made a mistake with their price lists for us these weeks, they seem to have deducted academic institution discount twice---and as they have to give 30 days notice upon raising prices according to their contract with university, they couldn't just correct it right away. Guess who got himself a machine pretty much like that... snicker scnr, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpk88T4GeVHo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] The device-mapper init script is written for baselayout-2
Hi Stroller, on Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 12:51:04PM +, you wrote: Since I'm not real sure what this package does, I am unsure if I should just unmerge and re-emerge it (perhaps at one time I ran the ~x86 version and so I have a mixture?) I'm not sure what this does, either. Someone may come along in a moment with better advice, but as a first step I'd `equery b /etc/initi.d/device-mapper`. If it says that device-mapper doesn't belong to any of your current packages then I think you can safely (remove it from the default runlevel and subsequently) delete it, otherwise I'd reemerge the package to which it belongs. Baselayout has a bunch of init scripts and utilities that all the other init scripts need, plus /etc/conf.d stuff (equery f baselayout can tell you what exactly). You certainly don't want to unmerge that if you ever plan to reboot your system. I'm not 100% sure about the device-mapper script but I ran into the same question when I installed my new amd64 system these days. The x86 one didn't have it when I started using encrypted homes so I hadn't noticed it appeared in one of the latest dm-crypt versions. It looks like they just split off some functionality Baselayout-1 has in localmount and checkfs into its own script. Just ignore/remove it for now, there will probably be a fat warning when Baselayout-2 turns stable and you have to re-add it. cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpgWdYUrQfMZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition
Hi Mark,
on Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 05:39:12PM +1300, you wrote:
{Ghost functionality]
I actually think that 'dump' will do what you want... provided you can
choose a time when the machine is not busy (should be easy if it's your
desktop!). You have to do 1 dump per filesystem, but many desktop
installations only consist of / (+ maybe /boot) anyway. Also dump of a 80Gb
system that only uses 5Gb will produce a 5Gb image Also it can do
incremental an cumulative backups.
Some friends of mine use Amanda to backup their (Redhat/Centos) servers,
that may worth looking at too.
Amanda is very versatile but it can be a bitch to configure and is IMHO
only really worth it for larger installations with at least more than
one machine and preferably a backup server. But it can also use dump(1)
internally. I didn't really follow the thread but it seems dump has a
problem with busy file systems? I used amanda with dump on several
machines for a few years and never had any so it should be fine for a
desktop.
One method I used for getting the image size down (but which is no good
on a live system) was to use dd if=/dev/zero of=dummy bs=1M to quicky
write a file of zeroes that would fill up all free blocks, then dd the
whole partition through gzip that would just compress away the free
blocks. Works fine for install images but only when the disk is not
mounted r/w during imaging.
cheers,
Matthias
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Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Freezing: does encryption become useless?
Hi Volker, on Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:15:22PM +0100, you wrote: http://iht.com/articles/2008/02/22/technology/chip.php don't panic. Just because something works in a lab, does not mean that it works outside of it too. So they were able to freeze some ram and get some information of it. So what? First of all - how man times will someone be able to steal a computer and freeze its ram seconds after it was shut of? Who guarantees that the decayed parts are not the ones holding the key? even a couple of flipped bits make the data useless. And who guarantees that the dram survives the forces when it is cooled down in tens of seconds and heated up (through the current) afterwards? I agree with the don't panic part but not your reasons for it. There is a real danger for *some* of us but it's fairly easy to circumvent for most. How often will someone be able to steal a computer with live key material in RAM? Well, how many laptops are being carried around suspended to RAM? A pretty large percentage of them I suppose. So far, if you didn't have a screen saver with an exploitable buffer overflow (very very unlikely) or an unprotected IEEE1394 port (unlikely on Linux today) the attacker's only chance to get at the data was to cut the power, boot some other media and attack the disk, and with AES or similar encryption that chance was not very good. Now you can leave the power on, dump a can of cooling spray on the SO-DIMM (they easily survive that, you can take your time with the power on), then take it out, drop it in liquid N and take it home (you could do that before of course, but it's widely know now ;) And a couple of flipped bits are no obstacle at all for a cryptoanalyst. A computer that can brute-force 10^11 keys a second needs an average of ~5*10^19 years to crack a 128 bit key. With 8 random flipped bits in an otherwise intact key it should come down to less than five days which I think is a pretty good gain. Makes it viable for people who might just be after some blueprints[0], not just the NSA with super duper UFO technology. So if you have sensitive data on a laptop, make sure you don't leave it in suspend-to-RAM where it could be stolen. If it's a stationary unsupervised machine it should have a good chassis intrusion alarm that cuts the power and/or overwrites memory. That's pretty much what people can do on their own nowif they think it's worth it of course. cheers, Matthias [0] That's not to say this couldn't be a Good Thing in the end what with all the patent BS going on. -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpeUEdX3mU0D.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT]advice for a wireless router
Hi Dan, on Sunday, 2007-10-28 at 18:30:17, you wrote: Of course you can build a low-power system and probably get by without any fans at all if you're clever, and if you outsource the hard drive to another computer you get a fairly low power design that's silent. But not nearly as low power as an integrated device. Or as small. The one that probably comes closest is a VIA Cx system. I got a Cobalt Cube a while ago to replace my current guzzler of a server (old HPPA workstation) and to experiment with other unusual CPUs a bit, and while it's pretty, small, low-power and rather quiet, it's also quite slow. So I've just ordered a passively cooled 800 MHz VIA C7 nanoITX board to replace the MIPS hardware in there and get something that can handle HD encryption and Samba at a decent speed on top of the routing. The plan is to build the syatem on HD and move it to a CF card later so I can spin down the big HD when it's not in use. If it works out it will be a damn neat system, but anyway it's still four times the size of a WRT54 and consumes twice the power. That's the most powerful chip I've found in the 20-30 watts-per-system range though, all the recycled stuff I've run so far doesn't even come close. cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpXEjrI4nVT6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] set xdm to start after agetty
Hi Thanasis, on Friday, 2007-09-28 at 22:41:52, you wrote: How can we set the xdm/gdm not to start before the agetty processes (during the boot phase)? Have a look at the depend() function in /etc/init.d/xdm. It specifies what should be started before xdm, so adding agetty to an after line in this function should do it. cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpVebALK5VQz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
Hi Grant, on Saturday, 2007-09-29 at 16:28:36, you wrote: Do you back up hidden files and directories in the home directory? There seems to be a lot of junk in there. Does something like '--exclude /home/user/.*' work with tar? It certainly does, but I'm quite sure it's not what you want. For me at least losing all my carefully customized stuff in .mutt, .gnupg, .bashrc, .vim etc. would suck asinine reproductive glands. It's usually all text anyway that compresses very well. cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpGkHKAShE1p.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus
Hi Boyd, on Friday, 2007-04-27 at 02:09:18, you wrote: Adjust your LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE, and/or LANG environment variables. (At least, Nautilus /should/ respect those.) You might have to do something like: LC_ALL=POSIX nautilus from a xterm-like application. Usually the collation order should be the same on the shell and in nautilus, right? I think it's really some of what the Gnome folks think was clever in that case---nautilus also completely ignores certain name prefixes like + and _ I put there to have the entries sorted on top. Fortunately, Thunar does no such tricks. You can use env | grep ^L from a new xterm-like seesion to see what nautilus sees by default. Or locale :) BTW, your signature did not validate on this post. Do you have no-escape-from-lines enabled? Then the last line above would have been the reason. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpNHsqQSRS4d.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] NFS vs. jumbo frames
On Tuesday, 2007-04-24 at 15:38:12, I wrote: I have googled for quite a while but can't find a thing. Anyone here using NFS and GigE+jumbo frames with Gentoo? Just to follow up for the archives' sake: this seems to be an old and frustrating problem, I've run into a few messages dating back to 2002 of people with similar problems. Like here: http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2002-December/005568.html and a more recent one on Sun hardware: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=74750 I've switched back to MTU 1500 for now and if I find the time I'll ask for news on this on some kernel list. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgplWDFOWQBJq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] NFS vs. jumbo frames
Hi kashani, on Monday, 2007-04-23 at 11:11:40, you wrote: It sounds like Gigabit Ethernet to me. Yes, that's it. Keep in mind that not all fastE or gigE switches support jumbo frames. Additionally not all cards support jumbo frames either though you can certainly set them to an MTU of 9000 and watch things break. I had that problem before with the Server's onboard Broadcom chip; fortunately it just breaks completely when you up the MTU :) Now I installed an Intel 82545GM card that officially supports jumbo frames and that I haven't heard anyone complain about. The clients all have the same 82547EI onboard chip. To the original poster, I'd do some googling and verify that all the network cards and switches involved can do jumbo frames and that it is enabled on each device as needed. Check. The switches are HP ProCurve 2824 supporting up to 9216 bytes per frame, and I checked the config several times. Jumbo frames are enabled on all ports, and it's a rather basic config anyway, no VLANs 'n stuff, no voice LAN features, just switching. And for everything else but NFS locking it does work fine. A plain netcat from /dev/zero to /dev/null goes from some 35 MB/s at an MTU of 1500 to over 80, ssh does very well, and even NFS file operations other than locking work. I have googled for quite a while but can't find a thing. Anyone here using NFS and GigE+jumbo frames with Gentoo? cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpMKwDcMvlIA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NFS vs. jumbo frames
Hi Francesco, on Monday, 2007-04-23 at 21:58:18, you wrote: Based on my experience I would add to verify also the upper MTU value really supported. According to Documentation/networking/e1000.txt, the adapters should all support 16K frames. The limiting factor would be the switch's 9K limit, but I've stayed below that as well. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgptGqJm9zDOA.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] NFS vs. jumbo frames
I've been fiddling with this for some days and can't but assume it's a bug in one of the Gentoo patches to either the kernel or NFS tools: Basically, NFS locking breaks as soon as I enable jumbo frames on both server and client. touch foobar flock foobar ls works fine in my NFS-mounted home with an MTU of 1500. An MTU of 9000 is great for general net throughput so I wanted to use it on both the server and the clients, but the above sequence hangs indefinitely when I try. I'm aware flock() isn't supposed to work correctly with NFS anyway, but all kinds of stuff depends on it at least pretending to. The strange thing is, SuSE 10.1 as a client works fine with jumbo frames, just my Gentoo box doesn't. I tried enabling nfs_debug with sysctl and sniffing the wire with tcpdump and wireshark but with my pretty basic knowledge of NFS workings I didn't spot anything conspicuous other than that lookup(msbethke/foobar) nfs_update_inode(0:18/3424742 ct=1 info=0x6) nfs_fhget(0:18/1081970 ct=1) permission(0:18/1081970), mask=0x4, res=0 seems to be the exchange after which the hang occurs. Our server is running 2.6.18-hardened-r6 and nfs-utils-1.0.12. The clients are mostly SuSE 10.1 boxes with kernel 2.6.16.21-0.21-smp and nfs-utils-1.0.7-36 while my workstation has 2.6.20-gentoo-r6 (was linux-2.6.19-gentoo-r5 before) and the same ns-utils as the server. -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0m A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpVv5f4MJwd6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Beagle eating up Resources!! (BEagled-index-helper)
Hi Ow, on Tuesday, 2007-02-27 at 18:09:13, you wrote: Does anyone here knows if beagle really sucks up resources?? I just emerged it a week ago and I'm getting very pissed off at it as it's using a lot of resources. The laptop doesn't get much idle time. I was under the impression that this was its raison d'être...? An Apache project perpetr^Wported to .NET can't be anything but a resource hog. It looked pretty interesting when they included it with the SuSE we use @work so it got installed on a few boxes, but seeing what it did to these 2800 MHz P4s put it on top of the list of things to be disabled before rollout. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpP5NZp5Jcza.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking
Hi Daniel, on Saturday, 2007-02-10 at 12:49:14, you wrote: I will give short overview what i have tried so far. 1. Trying different I/O Scheduler ( cfq anticipatory and deadline) 2. Enabling Low latency kernel and Preemptible kernel 3. Setting 1000 HZ for timer frequency 4. Tried the new kernel 2.6.19-gentoo-r6 and even the testing version 2.6.20-gentoo with core 2 enabled in processor type Oh, so it is a multicore CPU---sorry if you mentioned it already, I had deleted the start of the thread already when I read Benno's advice. In that case, try 100 Hz scheduling period as well. I've had very bad experiences with I/O and 250 Hz or higher on a dual Xeon. My guess is that it was a cache effect and therefore shouldn't happen on the Core2Duo, but it might still be worth a try. As i am using Xfce i installed the diskperf-plugin which monitors disk I/O. The monitoring is divided in disk-read and disk-write. I recognized that every time when reading stops writing starts. So is this staggering of writing to disk normal as the programs have to read data they want to write to disk? On my previous machine i didn't recognize such a behaviour. So you're reading and writing from/to the same disk? I'd expect that behavior then, because the I/O scheduler tries to satisfy requests with as little thrashing as possible. So if there are enough write requests queued up it may keep the HD busy writing for a while before reading the next chunk from somewhere else. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgp1cmbiVv67p.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help
Hi Grant, on Saturday, 2007-01-27 at 09:34:47, you wrote: The thing I'm confused about is how I can get anything back to the laptop when it won't even have an OS on it. I could boot a LiveCD but I don't think I'll be able to connect to the wireless network. Hum...that's pretty much a show stopper. In that case, setting up a wired network (if they have wlan, these machines would have wired lan as well, no?) or buying that 2.5 IDE adapter is probably the least hassle. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpvLs5zulXqZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'
Hi Jan, on Saturday, 2007-01-27 at 15:06:32, you wrote: I've begun this thread because of my difficulties with running some OpenGL applications, e.g. Americas Army, on my Xgl. I reckon most in America's army would love to have your problems. SCNR! =^ Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpPWJochKN5M.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help
Hi Grant, on Friday, 2007-01-26 at 09:47:51, you wrote: My laptop is currently still copying everything to my desktop system via tar and ssh. That's good. dd would be easier on the HD in case it's breaking but if you have a filesystem error you'd still have to fix that after copying back. If the HD is not about to die, tar (or rsync as Neil mentioned) is much better. When I ran rc this morning, I saw that ssh started so it must have stopped some time overnight as it usually does. The laptop was still running the tar | ssh command I had started the night before. Could the desktop be missing some of the laptop's data since the desktop wasn't running ssh all night, or would it catch up now that ssh is running? If the connection didn't break on the laptop side (ssh|tar reporting a broken pipe), you should be fine. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpTrJ4JAcT3V.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help
Hi Grant, on Thursday, 2007-01-25 at 08:20:37, you wrote: I successfully wrote an iso of some important files after booting up normally (minus hald, X, and vi) so that's good. Is there a utility I can run on the disk to see if there is permanent damage? Should I try re-emerging packages that are having trouble or should I try to emerge -e world? As Thomas said, use the manufacturer's tools. Maybe smartmontools if you don't have anything more specialized. I suppose I should see if I can write and burn iso's of everything in /home/grant/ right away. Is there a good way to get a bunch of data into multiple iso's that are each no larger than 650MB? Also, I've read man mkisofs and experimented before with trying to preserve filenames perfectly but it never comes out quite right. Can anyone recommend mkisofs options for preserving filenames perfectly? I'd recommend trying it over a network or USB/IEEE1394 to another disk if at all possible. If the HD is dying anyway, writing ISOs to it while reading many files from another region of the disk at the same time will kill it very quickly. Same thing with a damaged file system: the more you write, the greater the damage. I'd try to connect an external HD or export a partition on some machine on the net, mount the partition read-only and back it up using tar. Then it's at least reformat/restore if not swap HD/format/restore. good luck! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpnMX5166Ika.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] recommend clean monospaced condensed TTF
Hi Alan, on Wednesday, 2007-01-17 at 11:11:29, you wrote: I prefer Bitstream Vera Mono for this (or DejaVu which is a fork of the same font). It looks good at small sizes down to 7 and I can easily tell the difference between i,I,1,l and 0,O. It has an actual bold font variant so there's none of that double-print-one-pixel to the right nonsense which looks awful. Agree, that's two very important features. There is a pretty good overview of some monospace fonts, most with screenshots: http://www.lowing.org/fonts/ cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpyt87X49OBL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] UTF-8 troubles
Hi Bo, on Saturday, 2006-12-02 at 06:48:51, you wrote: I switched a few systems to all-UTF-8 a while ago, and while it's generally a big improvement, a few apps are playing up. There's a nice guide [1] in case you haven't noticed. Yup, I largely folloed it in my transition. Pretty common apps that is, most notably tin and centericq, so I think it's probably my problem. [SNIP] I don't know anything about tin bug for centericq there's bug #138740 [2]. I'm not sure the unicode support in centericq is flawless though. Otherwise I would suggest looking for alternatives with better unicode support. OK, in centericq's case it seems to be the program's fault, I was just wondering because the errors are so similar that it might be an ncurses problem. Well, I'll just try slrn... Thanks! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpvAytXoxBlF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice
Hi Jorge, on Wednesday, 2006-11-29 at 21:00:06, you wrote: I'm about to dump Firefox, because I can't google in English. The thing doesn't let me choose the language, and I'm tired of getting useless Brazilian links. Yes, I know about the settings, I already deleted the google.pt cookie, but it's no use. I don't know, nor care, whose fault it is (Google's, firefox's or mine, for not having telepathic gifts), I just won't let anyone choose for me. Are you sure you aren't being sent to the Portuguese version because Google finds your IP is in Portugual and redirects you to where it thinks you want to go? I've seen this in .de, .br and .ph, so I presume it's the same in other countries. I also don't want the national versions so I go directly to http://www.google.com/advanced_search where the redirection doesn't happen. Works fine in any browser here. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpLJBASwqkrL.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] UTF-8 troubles
I switched a few systems to all-UTF-8 a while ago, and while it's generally a big improvement, a few apps are playing up. Pretty common apps that is, most notably tin and centericq, so I think it's probably my problem. Thing is, tin seems to decode messages correctly and tries to show umlauts. However, I only see the lowercase ä, ö and ü; the uppercase versions and the German sharp s (ß) are garbled. The latter for example is displayed as a diamond with a question mark inside (supposedly indicating invalid UTF sequence) followed by ~_ (0x7e 0x5f---the correct UTF-8 sequence is 0xc3 0x9f). Centericq is similar; I see all umlauts I type in the input area as two question marks, but the lowercase ones get transmitted correctly and I can read others' lowercase umlauts. No capitals, no ß either. The only distinction I could make out between the sets of characters that are displayed correctly and those that aren't is that the latter contain UTF-8 bytes that would not be printable when interpreted as ISO-8859-x, so my hypothesis is that something in-between the app's text output and the terminal eats bytes unless they're deemed printable. The affected programs all seem to use ncurses. I couldn't find anything in terminfo that could be causing this, but then I don't have much of a clue about terminfo in the first place. Google doesn't seem to hvae heard of the problem. Any ideas where I could look? cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpjIiUL6vMu5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt xD card with photos
Hi Mick,
on Monday, 2006-09-25 at 22:54:49, you wrote:
I must be doing something wrong:
$ ./recoverpics
./recoverpics: line 1: /bin: is a directory
./recoverpics: line 2: /bin: is a directory
./recoverpics: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./recoverpics: line 3: ` * Copyright (C) 2004 Matthias Bethke
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Is that the expected output?
No, not really. Looks like you're starting the source or something?
Here's how it's supposed to look:
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ tar -jxvvf recoverpics-1.6.tar.bz2
| -rw-r- mb/users 13294 2004-02-28 07:08:36 recoverpics/recoverpics.c
| drwxr-x--- Creating directory: recoverpics
| -rwxr-xr-x mb/users542 2004-02-27 16:13:03 recoverpics/checkpics.sh
| -rw-r- mb/users140 2004-02-27 16:10:04 recoverpics/Makefile
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cd recoverpics/
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/recoverpics $ make
| cc -O2 -finline-functions -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE=1 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
| recoverpics.c -orecoverpics
| strip recoverpics
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/recoverpics $ ./recoverpics
| Usage: recoverpics file [offset] [max-output-size]
Then you should be able to run it as ./recoverpics /dev/sda or
something.
good luck :)
Matthias
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Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt xD card with photos
Hi Mick, on Monday, 2006-09-11 at 22:50:01, you wrote: Thanks Matthias, How do I install it manually? install tells me: # install install: missing file operand Ow, sorry, I missed your reply before! Well, simple, you don't :) This is a very primitive program and the Makefile is just there so you don't have to set any CFLAGS (such as -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE) by hand. You run make, it compiles the single source file and leaves an executable there which you can move whereever you want it. Or run it directly, as hopefully you won't need it too often. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpMbbcBM1aax.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?
Hi michael, on Friday, 2006-09-08 at 08:44:05, you wrote: I hope my experience is better than yours. I'm in the middle of this process on a live system, been building since Monday (it's an old 600MHz box) I just upgraded one Pentium-M laptop; went fine save for a few hitches like Richard mentioned, packages such as Glame that won't work with gcc4 in the stable version. My own laptop which I'm writing this on is just working on the upgrade and it's looking fine, should be done by tomorrow. And this morning I started the upgrade on a 132 MHz HPPA machine---it's still at 15% of the system compile but working flawlessly, hope it will be ready before the weekend ;-) cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpYp4WP3iZRJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt xD card with photos
Hi Mick, on Monday, 2006-09-11 at 19:50:05, you wrote: Is there a Linux (or even M$Windoze?) way of me recovering the last photo, that doesn't involve reconstructing raw data with a hexeditor? I had the honor of being tasked by my wife with recovering photos from the amorphous blob of data left over after some virus persuaded her Windoze that it was a good idea to dump its memory all over the NTFS root block. recoverpics finds pretty much every JFIF picture that is in one piece, i.e. not in a fragmented file, no matter what the file system. At 5k source it could be worth a try: https://www.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/~msbethke/software.html HTH, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpUjNsRxrx0j.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Best choice for a dual core
Hi Alexander, on Thursday, 2006-07-27 at 15:10:00, you wrote: If not, then you won't use those advantages either. Somebody correct me, but if you want to WORK with this machine (ie. not fiddle), I'd suggest to stay 32bit. Or what advantages would 64bit provide? Depends a lot on the code[tm]. Some things benefit a lot from a decent number of registers. OTOH, fiddling with pointers in memory slows things down as compared to 32bit. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpUIRU49hHlU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] interconnecting speeds
Hi Paul, on Tuesday, 2006-07-25 at 10:45:31, you wrote: My gentoo box is set ok using ethtool. How do I check the setting on the windows xp box? If the connection has a tray icon, double-clicking that should bring up an info dialog that has the link speed somewhere. Otherwise you'll have to click you way through control panel-network-blah, I don't know exactly...Windoze config is a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. Another thing: check the Linux side with ifconfig, it gives some statistics on errors, dropped packets and overruns next to RX and TX packet counts. Those should be zero, or at most pretty small numbers. If they are not, your cables and/or switch are flaky. HTH Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpOQDccvVphk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Backup schemes involving Win XP stored to linux
Hi reader, on Tuesday, 2006-07-25 at 00:03:45, you wrote: Three or more windows XP boxes that are devoted primarily to editing video or graphics in one way or another. The stuff needing backup can be in really big files but also lots of normal sized still images etc. I'm planning to use rsnapshot/rsync to back up the NTFS windows disks to a gentoo box with internal discs with the needed capacity. If the copying is only for backup, you could use amanda and Samba for the job. I've only done it with a single XP crate but it worked flawlessly and has the advantage of allowing backups to devices smaller than the backupee's disks, or even smaller than individual files, in case they should be \LARGE. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgp23RPUj4VTA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash'
Hi oskar, on Saturday, 2006-07-22 at 13:45:01, you wrote: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory of course file is present, executable, and I'm doing it as su... You should be fine if ou follow William's instructions. The reason for this is the error the linker returns to execve(2): | ENOENT The file filename or a script or ELF interpreter does not |exist, or a shared library needed for file or inter- |preter cannot be found. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgp0WRxjmucrQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Sun SparcStation 5 (Gentoo LiveCD)
Hi Grzegorz, on Saturday, 2006-07-08 at 07:57:07, you wrote: I decided to set up GenToo linux on Sun SparcStation 5. Since this computer is quite old (32 bit architecture, 170MHz CPU) I need a bit older version of Getoo (I do not think that this old hardware is supported by new versions). I wouldn't assume that. The kernel supports loads of stoneage PC hardware so I'd think in the SPARC world with its longer HW cycles that shouldn't be a problem either. I recently used the latest Gentoo install CD (2006/0 IIRC) on an HPPA crate from around '94, no problems. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgplfesgmZVyq.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] CUPS, HPLIP and BEH: solved?
I just posted this on linuxprinting.foomatic.devel, but I guess some
here might have the same problem, namely that the HPLIP printer
drivers fail when combined with CUPS' Backend Error Handler:
To fully utilize the capabilities of our HP LaserJets I recently
installed HPLIP and was quite pissed off at the fact that it doesn't
work with BEH---I had almost forgotten how much work BEH had saved me
killing users' stuck print jobs and manually restarting the printer in
CUPS. So I started digging in the HPLIP sources today and got it working
with a trivial patch:
# diff /usr/share/hplip/base/device.py.orig
# /usr/share/hplip/base/device.py
47c47
pat_deviceuri =
re.compile(r(.*?):/(.*?)/(\S*?)\?(?:serial=(\S*)|device=(\S*)|ip=(\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}[^]*))(?:port=(\d))?,
re.IGNORECASE)
---
pat_deviceuri =
re.compile(r(.*):/(.*?)/(\S*?)\?(?:serial=(\S*)|device=(\S*)|ip=(\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}[^]*))(?:port=(\d))?,
re.IGNORECASE)
I.e. I just removed the first question mark in the RE to make it greedy
again. Now it seems to work fine with my printers.conf:
DeviceURI beh:/1/3/120/cupspykota:hp:/net/HP_LaserJet_4100_Series?ip=12.34.56.78
This hasn't been tested extensively yet so I may be missing something
and the patch might break more that it fixes on other configs, but maybe
some of you would like to give it a try. Comments welcome.
cheers!
Matthias
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Re: [gentoo-user] Finding packages which provide a file
Hi Daniel, on Friday, 2006-05-26 at 19:54:11, you wrote: http://www.rommel.stw.uni-erlangen.de/~fejf/pfs/ Oh, that's two streets away from here :) Looks like a project I'd want to participate in... cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpJybA1VMobN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome as an X Server.
Hi Kurt, on Wednesday, 2006-05-17 at 11:33:30, you wrote: Hmm, maybe cause it is NOT an X server, its a Window Manager. Right, right. I probably deserve to get spanked for not using the proper terminology. You both do :) Gnome is a desktop environment that comes with a window manager (currently Metacity IIRC, used to be Sawfish) but can be used with a number of other window managers as well. Anyway, I'd like to pop X windows on my desktop. I have gnome setup (including gdm), everything is working fine, except that I don't have X configured to use an external port such that I can xhost +servername and pop a window on my desktop. ssh has been suggested, and I second that. Much better than xhost 'n stuff. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpuiuHls18Ea.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Disappearing ebuilds
Here's what I've been getting on the last few emerges: | huxley ~ # emerge -DNvuta world | | These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: | | Calculating world dependencies | !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all | !!! masked or don't exist: | app-crypt/gpg-agent media-gfx/sodipodi app-emulation/winesetuptk | net-misc/xfsamba | | ...done! These just seem to be masked. It happeded before, and sometimes there was a message in the Changelog, but usually there's none. On another machine, sys-apps/fileutils just disappeared. Do I have to follow gentoo-dev to catch when/why things like this will happen and possibly what other packages stuff is being moved to, or is there a comprehensive log where this is recorded? cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpnNynbltdZE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] QTrouble: static libraries?
Hi Richard,
on Saturday, 2006-05-13 at 10:29:53, you wrote:
Well the building of static libraries is on a per package basis, so I
guess your fastest option here is to copy the qt ebuild to your
overlay directory and modify it to make a static library. You could
also file a bug report on bugzilla requesting the change for qt, if
there isn't already an existing report for this.
OK, I'll try the local ebuild first.
However, my guess is that you are on the wrong track. It really
sounds like the DISPLAY environment variable is not set correctly, or
possibly the program is modifying it's own environment for some
reasonmaybe an strace of the program would reveal more.
Well, other X programs work just fine from the same ssh session, so it
can't be the environment. The program doesn't modify anything in it
either, I checked that much. But the strace I hadn't tried yet---here's
the halfway interesting bit:
| access(/usr/lib/qt3//plugins, F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
| access(/root/.qt, F_OK) = 0
| lstat64(/root/.qt, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
| brk(0x868a000) = 0x868a000
| access(/etc/X11//qtrc, F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
| access(/root/.qt/qtrc, F_OK) = 0
| [trying to read empty qtrc]
| munmap(0x4000, 4096)= 0
| fcntl64(3, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0},
0xbf9dbe60) = 0
| close(3)= 0
| write(2, usrmgr: cannot connect to X serv..., 35usrmgr: cannot connect to X
server ) = 35
It doesn't matter if the plugins dir ot /root/.qt/qtrc is there or not.
I can even put the old server's /etc/X11/qtrc in place, no difference.
I'll play with strace some more, looks like the program used some call
that's not traced by default because it's not even trying to read
$DISPLAY; the error seems to be something generic.
cheers!
Matthias
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
Hi Neil, on Tuesday, 2006-05-09 at 19:33:51, you wrote: which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? Almost exclusively Gnome-Terminal. Although I usually prefer console tools I never really got into screen usage, so tabs are essential. I don't have anything to complain about its color support, and its Unicode support (especially quick swicthing between encodings) is better than any other term I tried. As I use XFCE4, I also had a closer look at xfterm. Slim, fast, very nice to use, but fairly unstable last timeI looked, I'd get a frozen term about every other day. But I'm looking forward to it maturing. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpTeTjYkiOzn.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] QTrouble: static libraries?
I have a QT program that's supposed to run on a server. I never liked the idea of putting all this QT runtime crap on the server just for this single program, so when it still ran SuSE, I just compiled it statically and all was fine. Now under Gentoo, the program complains it couldn't open the display (yes, I'm using ssh -X and other X programs are fine). So I thought maybe it's the switch from XF86 to X.org, can't hurt to recompile with the latest libraries. But there are no static libraries (libqt.a and such) installed and I don't know how to get portage to install them. USE=static seems to work only for linking certain programs statically, not the libs itself. I'm probably overlooking something very obvious... cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpRSpsaF9hgs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
Hi Jeremy, on Monday, 2006-05-08 at 09:38:34, you wrote: I don't think you need that silly cable. My understanding was that the audio cable connected to you sound card was for when you wanted to listen to the cd and your computer was in low-power mode Either way, I have stopped installing that cable on new computers that I build and it has always worked fine for me. Strictly speaking you don't need it, it will work just as well via ATAPI/SCSI. It's just so convenient that a) you have a separate volume control for the CD input on soundcards and b) playing a CD takes nothing more than a handful of commands (and probably one a second or so to update the play timer), the CD-ROM does everything else on its own. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpW88Osq8DdD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?
Hi Walter, on Tuesday, 2006-05-09 at 20:34:29, you wrote: My idea of the right application doesn't install 75% of KDE or GNOME... Good point! :) What about media-sound/cdplay? Doesn't seem to have any dependencies at all. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgp6mJW2B7NVk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 not up when init script returns?
Hi Hani, on Thursday, 2006-05-04 at 11:19:33, you wrote: Have you looked through the '/etc/conf.d/net.example' file? I'm not too familiar with DHCP, but the net.example file has this entry: As Uwe said, that's not the issue. It's a server box, the one responsible for dealing out the others' addresses via DHCP. eth0 has a fixed IP. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpoX8QclaoRH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 not up when init script returns?
Hi Vladimir, on Thursday, 2006-05-04 at 17:56:58, you wrote: Anyway, I figured out what my problem was. I was starting eth0 twice, once through an rc script, and once with ifplugd. When I zapped the rc script (rc-update del net.eth0), things started work better. Still sounds like an ifplugd config problem. As I learnt from this list a while ago, you *should* start both ifplugd and the net.eth* scripts---it actually works better like this, e.g. auto-joining wireless networks via ifplugd never worked until I re-added the init script for eth1. Here's my /etc/conf.d/ifplugd: INTERFACES=eth0 eth1 AUTO=yes BEEP=yes IGNORE_FAIL=yes IGNORE_FAIL_POSITIVE=no IGNORE_RETVAL=yes POLL_TIME=2 DELAY_UP=0 DELAY_DOWN=0 API_MODE=auto SHUTDOWN=no WAIT_ON_FORK=no MONITOR=no ARGS= MONITOR_eth1=yes DELAY_UP_eth1=5 DELAY_DOWN_eth1=5 cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpSYjozXPG6G.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache + Per User Directory configuration
Hi Ognjen, on Monday, 2006-05-01 at 11:22:23, you wrote: I have spent most of the day getting per user web serving to work (/home/$user/public_html = http://server/~$user) but was constantly getting 401 Forbidden errors with apache2. After lots of hunting I found that you have to set the permissions for the user directories to 755 (a+rx). So now it works, but all the users can see each others home directories, which is unacceptable for this server. So I am here to ask if anyone cen recommend a more secure way of doing this. I My web server is still running an old SuSE system, but this should be basically the same. There are two ways to solve this. If you use the public_html subdirectory approach, $HOME only has to be o+x, so others can *enter* a user's directory but not *view* its contents. That should be acceptable if people use a safe umask. The reason we changed it a while ago was that we wanted to allow CGIs, at least for certain users some of which didn't know that much about input sanitizing 'n stuff, so a hacker could try to read other people's files by guessing their names---the web server would need access to the whole NFS-mounted parent of everybody's home. So now $HOME/public_html is just a link to /www/home/$USER which lives on the web server and is exported from there. That way a rogue CGI script could read other people's web pages which is far less critical. Of course you still have to check once in a while so you don't expose your passwd file or something. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpALPfUNyEug.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't get my wengophone account
Hi Ptitjack, on Tuesday, 2006-05-02 at 12:24:01, you wrote: I just emerged Wengophone. When I run Wengophone as user, I have to get my first Wengo account. A new window is opening with : You don't have a Wengo account ? Click here. Problem, the link does not work ! When I click on it, nothing happens ! What can I do ?? I seem to remember I had the same problem. IIRC, what I did was to dig in the sources until I found the link that's tied to this button (simple: find /your/src/dir -name *.c|xargs grep button text) and entered it into a browser by hand. I don't really have a clue about QT programming so I didn't try to fix it. HTH Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpf93jtjZCTR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnupg (probably) FAQs
Hi Mick,
on Sunday, 2006-04-16 at 19:48:00, you wrote:
1. What is the relationship between gpg-agent and ssh-agent? Do I need both?
One is for SSH, the other for GPG :) Yes, I don't think either can be made to
work for the other program.
2. How can I get the gpg-agent to start if I do not use KDM, but XDM
with fluxbox? (I added eval $(gpg-agent --daemon) in my ~/.xsession
with no effect).
I found this script somehwere and installed it blobally. It's called in my
.profile:
#!/bin/sh
if [ -x /usr/bin/gpg-agent ]; then
if [ -f ${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info ]; then
OLD_GPG_AGENT=`cat ${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info`
CHECK_PID=`echo ${OLD_GPG_AGENT}|cut -d : -f 2`
PROG=`ps -p ${CHECK_PID} |tail -n1| sed -e s,^[^ ]* *[^ ]* *[^ ]* *,,`
if [ ${PROG}x != gpg-agentx ]; then
rm ${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info
else
export GPG_AGENT_INFO=${OLD_GPG_AGENT}
fi
fi
if [ ! -f ${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info ]; then
eval `gpg-agent --daemon`
echo $GPG_AGENT_INFO ${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info
fi
fi
3. Some mail clients do not handle gpg signing very elegantly (as in
automatically). Neverhteless, the signature is presented as an
attachment. How can the recipient check the validity of the
signature? It would be useful to find this answer not just for Linux,
but also for M$Outlook.
There is a plugin for Outlook, two in fact, I think one is linked from the GPG
site and the older one is included with WinPT.
4. I created two uids one for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and one for
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought that I would be able to switch
between uids depending on the domain that I use in Kmail. Things got
rather messed up thereafter. When I try to select a Signing key id
(Group properties on say a newsgroup/Identity/Signing key/Change) I
always get the [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the uid, instead of the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] as a signature. How can I switch between uids?
You can only set one as the primary UID, in fact there won't be any difference
in the signature whether you use one or the other. It's just a difference in
the key's flags.
5. When I revoke a uid is it also removed from the keyservers?
No. That is, they did do some cleanup in the past when there were too many
expired/invalid/revoked keys lingering around, but it's not under your control.
The UID will just be flagged as revoked and therefore be as good as gone as far
as GPG is concerned.
6. Is there a way of finding out what is kept with respect to my
sigs/uids on a keyserver?
It's pretty much a verbatim copy of your key. For finding out the details, this
one may be helpful (this and the relevant RFCs, 20-something)
* app-crypt/pgpdump
Available versions: 0.22 ~0.24
Installed: 0.22
Homepage:http://pgp.iijlab.net/pgpdump.html
Description: A PGP packet visualizer
HTH
cheers!
Matthias
--
I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665
Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665
pgpaoW2ZJpR0u.pgp
Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge without download
Hi Benno, on Wednesday, 2006-04-05 at 14:50:29, you wrote: Just put LINGUAS=fr en. I'm unsure whether en-us is recognized. The Localization Guide isn't very clear about the syntax of these, nor how to get a list of available codes. I guess the basic ones are the two-letter ISO codes as for locales, but is it en-us, en_US or something? Is it case sensitive at all? cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpCMLGdqYANY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] lsocket!?!
Hi Justin, on Tuesday, 2006-04-04 at 00:27:18, you wrote: I'm trying to compile some network code... but gcc is telling me cannot find -lsocket That's right, the socket API is part of libc. That's some pretty old code, isn't it? Just leave out the -lsocket and you should be fine. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpYp0UBJ8L6f.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Strange emerge for poppler
Portage is acting strage today. Poppler has been acting up for a while now, but today it seems more like portage is confused about what to emerge: | # emerge -DNuta world | | These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: | | Calculating world dependencies ...done! | [nomerge ] gnome-base/gnome-2.12.2 | [nomerge ] app-text/evince-0.5.1 | [ebuild U ] app-text/poppler-bindings-0.5.1-r1 [0.5.1] | [nomerge ] app-office/lyx-1.3.5-r2 | [nomerge ] app-text/xpdf-3.01-r7 | [ebuild UD] app-text/poppler-0.5.0-r5 [0.5.1] ^ | [...] | [nomerge ] dev-libs/popt-1.7-r1 | [nomerge ] app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.10 | [nomerge ] sys-libs/libcap-1.10-r5 | [nomerge ]dev-lang/swig-1.3.21 | [nomerge ] dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03 | [nomerge ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.10 | [nomerge ] app-doc/doxygen-1.4.4 | [nomerge ]x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r8 | [nomerge ] net-print/cups-1.1.23-r7 | [ebuild U ] app-text/poppler-0.5.1-r1 [0.5.1] ^ | [nomerge ] media-libs/libmng-1.0.8-r1 | [ebuild U ] media-libs/lcms-1.15 [1.14-r1] | [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-2.27 [2.26] I don't see anyting in the Changelog that would explain the downgrade. Anyway, I'll just see what happens, thought somebody could have an idea... cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpmzJ7iod3mK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Core Duo Processor - Anyone?
Hi Lord, on Wednesday, 2006-03-29 at 17:41:49, you wrote: However, at the same time, you really shouldn't expect games out of any but the most expensive laptops. You know, games includes stuff released before January 2006 =^ The 486/100 laptop I bought for EUR 150 some 8 years ago runs Zork just fine. In C64 emulation if you like. And although I wouldn't want to try them all I bet my Mobile Athlon XP 1600+ with its crappy shared memory SiS gfx would run most things in portage/games-* just fine. SCNR :) Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgp0XA1su14XW.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] OT: iRiver players (was: USB sync/async mount)
Hi Boyd, on Monday, 2006-03-27 at 16:51:00, you wrote: The stock firmware does not show up as a USB block device under either Windows or Linux. There is an official USB firmware that you can download and install that makes it act like a standard USB block device under both operating systems. I tried it on my iFP-895 and didn't like it at all. The proprietary protocol isn't exactly speedy but with the ifp driver for Linux it's OK, does some 700-800 kB/s on my USB 1.1. The USB Mass Storage implementation peaks at about 50 kB/s. For a 512 MB player that's a tad slow... cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpVevH9j7h21.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Multiple whatis hits
I was wondering about those multiple hits I get every time I use whatis(1) or apropos(1) these days. Everything is listed three times, which is kind of annoying. It's not too hard to find the culprit if you look at whatis: /etc/man.conf lists /usr/man and /usr/X11R6/man as separate entries for MANPATH but these are both links to /usr/shar/man where the actual whatis-db lives. Now that's easy to fix, but I was wondering a) why it is like that in the default config (I don't think man.conf is built dynamically depending on whether e.g. you install X11?) and b) whether the best way to fix it would be to simply change man.conf or convert /usr/man and /usr/X11R6/man to real directories and ask portage for all manpages that are supposed to be installed there and move them from /usr/share/man manually? cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpxxJKVBEBU0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] skype experiences: good/bad/etc
Hi Pongracz, on Wednesday, 2006-03-22 at 20:29:36, you wrote: Question is, why other guys do not start a real open source project to make a phone application? Another one that has been in portage for a few weeks: net-im/wengophone My experience is that the sound quality isn't quite as good as Skype's and it can't do conferences (yet?) but OTOH it kinda supports webcams which Skype's Linux version doesn't. Kinda because it's not quite stable yet, once in a while it locks up or fails to display the other sides's image, and it uses an awful lot of CPU, but at least it's there. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpVykgz4wzK5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] ieee1394 card - ports order
Hi Joseph, on Friday, 2006-03-24 at 18:51:17, you wrote: I was under impression that ieee1394 cards would work the same as USB-ports; regardless which port I plug my device into it will just work, not so with ieee1394 cards. I'm not an expert on ieee1394 but from what I've seen they actually do work the same in this respect, I've only tries SBP2 mass storage stuff though, no cameras. Have a look at dmesg output; usually the kernel will print some info there when you plug in a 1394 device. If it shows nothing at all you most likely don't have all the modules loaded, otherwise it should at least be an error message. I heard the ports on some external HD cases were actually different in that they accepted a host only on one but not the other, and there seem to be some general problems in the kernel with daisy-chaining devices. As you don't seem to have any oth these problems, no, I'm quite sure order doesn't matter. In kino under settings there is IEEE1394 tab and has an option raw1394 interface option that is set to 0 I've tried setting it to 1 but it didn't work. You do have the kernel support for that, don't you? CONFIG_IEEE1394_VIDEO1394 and CONFIG_IEEE1394_RAWIO in .config? cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgp62bDuqOHwX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing linux's internet connection with an iMac?
Hi Hans-Werner, on Monday, 2006-03-27 at 13:36:38, you wrote: Most likely it wouldn't work because of the wlan link layer. Most WiFi cards don't go well with bridging... So routing is the option which is left. The 802.11 link layer is almost exactly the same as in Ethernet so that should be a driver issue. Particularly the LLC part is completely compatible...I never actually tried the bridging though. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpgjlXiUP8De.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
Hi Joseph, on Wednesday, 2006-03-15 at 15:55:17, you wrote: could be the reader then? Do you have another computer with a dvd drive and 4.7g available space? Yes, I've tired on two different systems, one is x86 and the other amd64 with similar result on both of them; the copying stops at some point and doesn't go any further. Could it be that it's supposed to be like this? Some kiind of copy protection using bad blocks that are unused in the file system so in normal use you never run into them, but you do when trying to get an image? Stuff like this has been common since the C64 age. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpH4hQBOH0zb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning
Hi Paul, on Thursday, 2006-03-16 at 12:44:15, you wrote: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 (but if there isn't any data on that drive, then go and try this...) Thanks for the reply, I tried your suggestion but it didn't make any difference. If there's nothing on it yet, you can of course zero-out the whole disk---bit of an overkill but will do the job :) I would have thought killing the boot sector would do it as well but then perhaps the volume manager could be looking for a root sector? cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpjyRo0xesVp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] lost partition table
Hi Ghaith, on Thursday, 2006-03-09 at 06:52:38, you wrote: help, it seems the gentoo installer deleted my home partition fdisk don't show it what can i do? is there a way to restore it gpart is the tool for that. If nothing works any more, you can use Knoppix or something. Then just start gpart on your disk, let it grind away for a while, and then check the (usually several) partition layouts it finds for one you recognize. It's been a while since I used it but AFAIR it can restore a certain MBR layout you select. If not, you have to recreate it in fdisk. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgp1B6d1CR0kV.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Encrypting removable media
I have a bit of chicken-and-egg problem trying to get encrypted removable devices to work as normal as possible. Using Loop-AES and a GPG-encrypted key I had no problems encrypting my external FW drive, but to pass all the options to losetup without entering them by hand every time, I need an fstab entry. The drive shows up as /dev/sda, but putting /dev/sda1 there is no good as it would try to use Loop-AES on *every* external drive. So far I could just use volume labels in my fstab to distinguish any number of drives---well, I used to until hald/dbus made that automatic. But now there are no labels any more as they get encrypted as well. Has anyone come up with a solution for this yet? I could imagine some plugin for the hotplug system that checks /proc/scsi/scsi for a certain model before mounting. Not the cleanest solution either but as my external drives are different models it would work for me. I don't have much of a clue about the hotplug system though... regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpG2ljrhKBsH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting removable media
Hi Etaoin, on Friday, 2006-02-24 at 15:42:39, you wrote: With udev you can create hardware-specific devices (meaning you can have a device in /dev that corresponds exactly to some particular hard disk), based on various hardware-specific information (eg, manufacturer name or device id and many others) See http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html for the details. Looks like just the ting I need, plus some education :) Thanks very much for the ultra-speedy reply! Gotta love the Gentoo lists... cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgphYkGjTGJ6A.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] modules PID
Hi Cláudio, on Wednesday, 2006-01-25 at 13:47:21, you wrote: I thought it could solve it killing the module. I have tried modprobe -rf visor but visor do not want to die. any ideas? Do you have forced module unloading enabled in your kernel? If you do, it's probably a problem in the module itself that can't be solved without hacking the source. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpTiPIaX1Cto.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?
Hi Michael, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 20:18:16, you wrote: Plone in portage hasn't changed in a very long time. I recommend you get the new ebuilds from http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105187 and install them, then put your comments in that bug to let the devs know that it's working. Or, if you want, you can modify the 1.0.4 ebuild to accept poppler. I just switched to the unstable portaltransforms for now, and all is fine. Otherwise I'd have had to use portage overlays and thing swould have been more complicated -- the unstable version seems to be only this fix and a minor patch ahead so it's probably less problematic than stable. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpoJBNby0R6z.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses
Hi Ow, on Wednesday, 2006-01-18 at 09:22:06, you wrote: you have a DHCP server you don't control (@work?) Yes. and it's not giving you the IP you want but something else---abd in what way? it's giving me an IP, just not a good One. (upstream connection is bad) Well, what exactly is wrong with this IP? Is it from a different subnet? Or is it just that the router isn't set correctly, so you see all other machines in the local net but can't get out? Or does the router refuse to route packets from parts of the subnet and you get an address in this part? I'd think if the DHCP server gives you an andress that doesn't work in your subnet then it's a server configuration issue and should be fixed there. yeah.. Unfortunately, I have no administrative control over it. :-( If you tell the guy in charge that you'll use a static IP as long as he doesn't get the server fixed, I think that will be a motivation :) Sorry for the late reply! cheers, Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpjOVI6wnW9y.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses
Hi Ow, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 13:22:06, you wrote: I have a problem in which the DHCP server assigns a Bad IP address to me. (miss pings, long delays etc..) I have tried various means to get a new IP but it's not giving it to me since the DHCP has bonded it self to my PCMCIA NIC's MAC Addr. Short of waiting close 24 hours (and hoping that that address is not given back to me again!), is there any way to reject some IP addreses it provides to me? I don't think so, but I'm not quite sure I understand this anyway. So you have a DHCP server you don't control (@work?) and it's not giving you the IP you want but something else---abd in what way? And it remembers your PCMCIA card's MAC address...so you have another port in your laptop and want to use that instead? I'd think if the DHCP server gives you an andress that doesn't work in your subnet then it's a server configuration issue and should be fixed there. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgplQGDnOcaIg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP Jammer
Hi Chris, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 17:50:01, you wrote: Say, I have a DHCP server is distributing 172.30.10.0/24 IP range, but a joker simply plug in another DHCP server and distributing 192.168.12.0/24 IP. Is there anyway I can stop the unwanted DHCP broadcast? That's a network infrastructure and policy issue. Use port security in your switches, i.e. filter by MAC addresses so everybody who wants to plug in their machine hast to pass by your desk and register their MAC. Set up dhcpcd on every machine to log its actions to syslog so you can determine the MAC address of every fake server that assigned some wrong address. Then get a cat-5-o'nine-tails (http://www.tasigh.org/tuq/whips.html) and wait. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpqiTVmtlBf1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?
Hi Michael, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 10:53:50, you wrote: I had missed that! Are you saying that if poppler has been emerged there's no need to re-emerge xpdf? I didn't know that and I re-emerged xpdf. I think you do, poppler is just the library. I have another problem with poppler now though: one of my machines has Plone and Cups installed. Cups wants poppler, Plone wants net-zope/portaltransforms. The latter wants pdftohtml, which is blocked by poppler. It seems to boil down to a system that cannot have Cups and Plone installed on the same machine :( I think it would make sense to add a USE flag to portaltransforms that removes the dependency on pdftohtml---after all, I wouldn't use this functionality in Plone anyway. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpoWqYSrM8O0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?
Hi Uwe, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 15:53:20, you wrote: If I understand the ebuild of portaltransforms correctly it wants either pdftohtml or lynx. Maybe you can get away by installing lynx? No, it wants both of them. I do have lynx but that's probably for HTML-text and the other, as the name says, PDF-HTML. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgp9rkRd0mz5h.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?
Hi Michael, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 09:47:44, you wrote: Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Uwe, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 15:53:20, you wrote: If I understand the ebuild of portaltransforms correctly it wants either pdftohtml or lynx. Maybe you can get away by installing lynx? No, it wants both of them. I do have lynx but that's probably for HTML-text and the other, as the name says, PDF-HTML. regards Matthias What ebuild did you use? Portaltransforms is supposed to have been fixed to have an dependency on either pdftohtml OR poppler. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105187#c66 Sorry, I should have mentioned that was portaltransforms-1.0.4.ebuild, mosdef with the bug still in. I just noticed there's -r1 with the fix, but it's still in unstable. Just syncing again, maybe it will have moved up to stable... regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpOesIYMMBoZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] OT: GPG (was: ipw2200 dmesg error)
Hi Rafael, on Sunday, 2006-01-15 at 21:58:06, you wrote: The server I've tried to upload returned always error 500. Now it is uploaded. Sorry I absolutely have forgotten to re-upload. Looks better now :) I've been getting these 500 errors as well in the last weeks, from several servers. The web interface usually works though, and subkeys.us.pgp.net even still lets me upload from GPG. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpaj348aY9ZL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 dmesg error
Hi Rafael, on Sunday, 2006-01-15 at 16:45:29, you wrote: Sorry I did a dmesg and that message shows for me too... but less times [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ dmesg | grep ipw2200 ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.10 ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection ipw2200: Unknown notification: subtype=40,flags=0xa0,size=40 ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting. I have the same, though I never even noticed. The card works just fine. BTW, Rafael, if you uploaded your key to the keyserver network, signing your mail would even make sense :) regards Matthias ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log captured. ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting. ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists. Bye, Rafael Fernández López. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpQnEJcfYByk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O
Hi Eric, on Thursday, 2006-01-12 at 14:35:52, you wrote: Yup, it's Kmail. What setup do you use for sending mail? Some ISPs have configs that block port 25 from being used for third party servers. Could be they put in a port blocker recently, and you're just one of the few people who are having problems with it. That would be my guess as well, I had this problem before. I think it was that I invented a domainname for the machine that only had a dialup connection anyway, and that was what it sent in the SMTP HELO. Somebody at the ISP's thought refusing aliens in the HELO phase was a good idea against spam but they didn't tell the support people about it so they insisted that nothing was changed. tcpdump helped. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpZ2wezxVkUX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O
Hi Neil, on Friday, 2006-01-13 at 12:51:32, you wrote: By default, su does not allow access to X. You can mess around setting and exporting $DISPLAY, or you can use sux instead of su. sux is a shell wrapper for su that takes care of this. I wonder why that should be necessary in the first place as su seems to support this .Xauthority linking on its own. On SuSE systems /usr/X11R6/bin/sux is just a symbolic link to /bin/su, I just tried it here and it works. The bad thing is that sudo sux does not work as in this case sux is called as root already. Perhaps I should write my own suxdo wrapper? :) regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpIGWXVB3M10.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O
Hi Dale, on Friday, 2006-01-13 at 13:40:00, you wrote: I think something is wrong with xorg or something myself. I can read. LOL If anyone else wants to see this thing, let me know. I'll send it to you. I noticed similar things can happen when for some reason (DHCP, some dialup script, ...) your hostname changes while X is running already. Everything running continues running just fine but X thinks the new connections were coming from a different host and refuses them. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpilTXZPHAnZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O
Hi Dale, on Friday, 2006-01-13 at 16:42:33, you wrote: Any ideas? Anybody want to host this large strace file so others can see it? I don't have anyway to host it here. No problem, just send it and I'll put it online. regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpjxu547HhKC.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: It's Dale from Gentoo list with the strace error.
Hi Dale, on Friday, 2006-01-13 at 17:06:58, you wrote: Here is the file if it helps. If you would post a link to in the list. Maybe someone will make sense of it. I'm clueless. OK, the file is online at http://www.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/~msbethke/strace-dale.txt It doesn't look like permissions or so were the problem though. Maybe just let strace write everything to a file (strace -olog mozilla). The result will prolly be huge, but gzipped it should be OK. There's 20G free on the server ;) regards Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpDJt7TxR2ql.pgp Description: PGP signature
