Re: [gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ddclient?
On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 03:11:57 - (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: > They have a nicely documented API, and the server does support HTTPS, > so it may be time to write my own DDNS client daemon. Doesn't your router have a Dynamic DNS function? I stopped using ddclient years ago because my D-Link router does the updates. It is in a much better position to know when it is necessary! Robin --
[gentoo-user] Re: mailing list problem: changing subscription type
(Replying as listowner, but I'm also on the nomail version of gentoo-user, please CC to gentoo-user+ow...@lists.gentoo.org or to me directly for most mail) On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 07:35:20AM +0530, Madhu wrote: > I had subscribed to gentoo-user on 2022-05-25, and posted a message on > that date. > > I then wished to change my subscription to no-mail delivery. The > instructions I received after sending a message to > gentoo-user+h...@lists.gentoo.org indicated I could do this by sending > a message to gentoo-user+subscribe-nom...@lists.gentoo.org, which I > did. and I got a response saying > > "Thank you for confirming your subscription. You have now been added to the > no-mail version of the list." > > However the email address is still receiving messages from the > list. Apparently my email is subscribed on two lists - the mail > version and the non-mail version, and there doesn't seem to be any way > to unsubscribe only from the mail-version while remaining on the > latter. ... > Could I request the list owner to make sure I remain subscribed to the > the list while not receiving copies in the mail? I don't see any requests to unsubscribe from the regular version of the list. The regular/digest/nomail subscriptions are entirely independent. Just subscribing to the nomail version of the list does not impact your other subscriptions at all. Did some part of the documentation make you think it would impact the subscription? Regardless, how do you feel the documentation could improve to make it clear that they are separate. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 GnuPG FP : 7D0B3CEB E9B85B1F 825BCECF EE05E6F6 A48F6136 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Initial console messages garbled [REPOST]
Since as Dale and others have pointed out, I posted my first message on this subject by using an existing message as a template which doesn't work because it gets added to the existing thread. So here goes again. (I have also just noticed some replies that I had missed for the same reason: lesson learned! Rich's response looks very useful.) I posted about this on the Gentoo forums (see [1]) but didn't get any response so I'll try my luck here! The post explains everything but. briefly, normally when I boot a kernel I initially get some messages in a large clunky font, and then the frame-buffer module loads and everything is hi-res and fills the entire monitor. On my new box the first messages are video-static until the frame-buffer takes over. I have an error in a new root partition I have built and need to read those messages! What of all the numerous parameters in various places should I try tweaking? Thanks Robin 1. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1114668-highlight-.html > From: "Sid Spry" > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Initial console messages garbled > Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2020 11:03:12 -0500 > Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > User-Agent: > Cyrus-JMAP/3.3.0-dev0-543-gda70334-fm-20200618.004-gda703345 > X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 2:55 AM Robin Atwood > > wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:31:30 -0400 > > > tedheadster wrote: > > > > > > > Robin, > > > > are you comfortable just going with a bare-bones console and > > > > build a new kernel where you _disable_ CONFIG_FB? That might do > > > > it. > > > > > > > > Alternately, you can hook up a serial cable to another computer > > > > and set "console=ttyS0,115200n8". > > > > > > I will try that, if it works it will at least give me a chance to > > > look at the error messages. > > > > > > I don't think I have any serial cables! > > > > > > > Well, you may need to buy a cable one way or another if your issue is > very early in the boot process, typically qualified as "before the > console comes up." Netconsole may help you though. > > Most motherboards used to have potentially unpopulated serial port > headers on them. Those seen to be disappearing. > > The replacement is > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.4/driver-api/usb/usb3-debug-port.html. > Most (all?) desktop xHCI controllers support a device mode that is > essentially a very high speed CBC ACM serial port. This is especially > useful for debugging laptops. > > You do need to either make or buy the special A to A cable. > From: Rich Freeman > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Initial console messages garbled > Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2020 10:51:26 -0400 > Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 2:55 AM Robin Atwood wrote: > > > > On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:31:30 -0400 > > tedheadster wrote: > > > > > Robin, > > > are you comfortable just going with a bare-bones console and > > > build a new kernel where you _disable_ CONFIG_FB? That might do > > > it. > > > > > > Alternately, you can hook up a serial cable to another computer > > > and set "console=ttyS0,115200n8". > > > > I will try that, if it works it will at least give me a chance to > > look at the error messages. > > > > I don't think I have any serial cables! > > > > While serial consoles are one solution, I'd take a look at network > consoles. They're FAR easier to manage on commodity hardware. All > you really need is another host on the network that can run netcat. > > I stick this in my /etc/grub/default - or otherwise get it onto the > command line in the bootloader: > netconsole=@/,@192.168.1.1 > > That tells the kernel to send all console output over UDP to > 192.168.1.1:. If you have multiple interfaces/etc you might need > to expand that command line a bit. I have no idea how it comes up > with the sending IP - if you care about that you can specify it. I'm > guessing it doesn't run DHCP - but this is just plain UDP so it is > one-way and there is no need for acks to get back to the sender. > > On the destination host I run: > nc -u -l -p > > (nc is provided by the netcat package - a very basic tool that should > be available everywhere - probably on non-linux operating systems > also) > > Start up the reception part before you try booting the host you're > troubleshooting, because it is just going to send packets
Re: [gentoo-user] Initial console messages garbled
On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 13:55:18 +0700 > > Robin, > > are you comfortable just going with a bare-bones console and build > > a new kernel where you _disable_ CONFIG_FB? That might do it. > > > > Alternately, you can hook up a serial cable to another computer and > > set "console=ttyS0,115200n8". > > I will try that, if it works it will at least give me a chance to look > at the error messages. I couldn't disable CONFIG_FB in the kernel, only select "module" or "built-in" mode. I guess there is another parameter which needs disabling. Researching that, I discovered you can disable frame-buffer on the kernel command line. Also, that there might be an option in the BIOS to set but I checked that and found nothing. So I rebooted and used Grub to edit the kernel parameters and set "VGA=NORMAL NOMODESET". This resulted in the usual initial garbage which was not cured by loading the frame-buffer module. So disabling frame-buffer support made things worse, which is rather what I was expecting. :( Given the almost total lack of response to my post, I guess I am stuck with this problem. Thanks Robin --
Re: [gentoo-user] Initial console messages garbled
On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:31:30 -0400 tedheadster wrote: > Robin, > are you comfortable just going with a bare-bones console and build a > new kernel where you _disable_ CONFIG_FB? That might do it. > > Alternately, you can hook up a serial cable to another computer and > set "console=ttyS0,115200n8". I will try that, if it works it will at least give me a chance to look at the error messages. I don't think I have any serial cables! Thanks Robin --
Re: [gentoo-user] Initial console messages garbled
On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 12:54:32 -0400 Jack wrote: > I can't answer your question, but I can suggest that you start a new > thread with a new message, not replying to an old message, even if > you do change the subject. Many email readers thread discussions > using internal message headers, not just subject, so it increases the > chance your message may not be seen by someone who can answer. > > Jack Thanks for pointing that out, it was the easiest way to post! Robin --
[gentoo-user] Initial console messages garbled
I posted about this on the Gentoo forums (see [1]) but didn't get any response so I'll try my luck here! The post explains everything but. briefly, normally when I boot a kernel I initially get some messages in a large clunky font, and then the frame-buffer module loads and everything is hi-res and fills the entire monitor. On my new box the first messages are video-static until the frame-buffer takes over. I have an error in a new root partition I have built and need to read those messages! What of all the numerous parameters in various places should I try tweaking? Thanks Robin 1. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1114668-highlight-.html -- -- Robin Atwood. --
Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to Qt 5.12.4 makes some applications invisible
On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 02:41:01 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Qt was upgraded from 5.12.3 to 5.12.4 and as a result some > applications (Clementine and qBittorrent) become invisible when you > minimize them and then restore them. They only become visible again > when you resize their window, and resizing the window is very slow. > > This does not affect most applications. Dolphin, Kate/Kwrite, System > Settings, SMPlayer, etc, all work fine. > > Rebuilding Clementine and qBittorrent didn't fix it. Rebuilding > kde-frameworks and kde-plasma didn't fix it. > > Have anyone else encountered this? Yes, I can confirm this behaviour with Clementine. I thought it was more Plasma video instability, I'm glad it's not! Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB
On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 09:11:22 +1000 Adam Carter wrote: > > > > OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is > > what I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD. > > > > lsblk is nice > > $ lsblk > NAMEMAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT > sda 8:00 931.5G 0 disk > └─sda18:10 931.5G 0 part /var > nvme0n1 259:00 477G 0 disk > ├─nvme0n1p1 259:10 1G 0 part > └─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 476G 0 part / lsblk *is* nice, thanks! Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB
On Sat, 06 Jul 2019 11:14:38 +1000 Paul Colquhoun wrote: > > OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is > > what I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD. > > > It would probably just have created a normal file called /dev/sdb > which would have grown till it filled the empty space on the > partition. Yes, that's what it did, though it didn't fill the partition up. Phew, that's a relief, I was worrying I had overwritten the BIOS or something! Thanks Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB
On Fri, 05 Jul 2019 15:47:04 +0100 Mick wrote: > On Friday, 5 July 2019 15:44:46 BST Robin Atwood wrote: > > > OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is > > what I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD. > > Cool, I hope you didn't overwrite useful data and you keep > backups. ;-) > Me too, and yes! -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB
On Fri, 05 Jul 2019 15:34:18 +0100 Mick wrote: > On Friday, 5 July 2019 15:30:06 BST Robin Atwood wrote: > > > Thanks Vladimir, that sounds promising. Can you recommend any GPT > > programs (this is new to me)? However the dd utility failed when I > > tried to copy my old HD to the new one. > > > > # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=64K conv=noerror,sync > > dd: error writing '/dev/sdb': No space left on device > > 160+0 records in > > 159+0 records out > > 10481664 bytes (10 MB, 10 MiB) copied, 0.132944 s, 78.8 MB/s > > > > Cheers > > Robin > > You can use gptfdisk, parted/gparted, etc. > > To check the size as well as additional information you can use > smartmontools and run: > > smartctl -i /dev/sda > > It may also be worth checking if later firmware is available to > address any issues with it, like reporting the wrong size with some > tools. > > However, the dd command failure sounds suspicious - as I understand > it dd should not fail unless the disk has run out of space. OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is what I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD. Thanks Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB
On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 19:31:39 +0500 Vladimir Romanov wrote: > Well, dd should work well in any case. May be your drive is broken > really? > > пт, 5 июл. 2019 г., 19:30 Robin Atwood : > > > On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 19:14:35 +0500 > > Vladimir Romanov wrote: > > > > > Fdisk can not work with drives larger than 2TB. Your drive may be > > > slightly (10 mb) larger than that, so the result. For such disks > > > you need not Fdisk, but GPT programs. > > > > > > пт, 5 июл. 2019 г., 19:12 Robin Atwood : > > > > > > > I just bought a new "2TB" Western Digital hard drive. Imagine my > > > > surprise when fdisk reports it is only 10MiB in capacity! Is > > > > there anything I can do to rectify this (of a technical > > > > nature)? I live in Bangkok so it is not unlikely the guy in the > > > > little shop where I bought it sold me a load of junk. But the > > > > device is in warranty until 2022 and looks convincing (I > > > > checked the serial number on the WD web site). Of course I can > > > > go to the WD service centre and get the HD exchanged but I > > > > thought I would see if there were any technical wheezes first. > > > > Thanks Vladimir, that sounds promising. Can you recommend any GPT > > programs (this is new to me)? However the dd utility failed when I > > tried to copy my old HD to the new one. > > > > # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=64K conv=noerror,sync > > dd: error writing '/dev/sdb': No space left on device > > 160+0 records in > > 159+0 records out > > 10481664 bytes (10 MB, 10 MiB) copied, 0.132944 s, 78.8 MB/s It looks like it. :( Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB
On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 19:14:35 +0500 Vladimir Romanov wrote: > Fdisk can not work with drives larger than 2TB. Your drive may be > slightly (10 mb) larger than that, so the result. For such disks you > need not Fdisk, but GPT programs. > > пт, 5 июл. 2019 г., 19:12 Robin Atwood : > > > I just bought a new "2TB" Western Digital hard drive. Imagine my > > surprise when fdisk reports it is only 10MiB in capacity! Is there > > anything I can do to rectify this (of a technical nature)? I live in > > Bangkok so it is not unlikely the guy in the little shop where I > > bought it sold me a load of junk. But the device is in warranty > > until 2022 and looks convincing (I checked the serial number on the > > WD web site). Of course I can go to the WD service centre and get > > the HD exchanged but I thought I would see if there were any > > technical wheezes first. Thanks Vladimir, that sounds promising. Can you recommend any GPT programs (this is new to me)? However the dd utility failed when I tried to copy my old HD to the new one. # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=64K conv=noerror,sync dd: error writing '/dev/sdb': No space left on device 160+0 records in 159+0 records out 10481664 bytes (10 MB, 10 MiB) copied, 0.132944 s, 78.8 MB/s Cheers Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
[gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB
I just bought a new "2TB" Western Digital hard drive. Imagine my surprise when fdisk reports it is only 10MiB in capacity! Is there anything I can do to rectify this (of a technical nature)? I live in Bangkok so it is not unlikely the guy in the little shop where I bought it sold me a load of junk. But the device is in warranty until 2022 and looks convincing (I checked the serial number on the WD web site). Of course I can go to the WD service centre and get the HD exchanged but I thought I would see if there were any technical wheezes first. Thanks Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/ missing
[This post is directed at Mike Gilbert. I am not receiving Gentoo list messages for some reason, I found his reply in the archives!] >OpenRC only gained support for the "unified" cgroup hierarchy within >the last week or so in version 0.31. Thanks for the hint. I have that version of openrc installed. Openrc-0.31.1 is now available so I installed that and the problem went away. Cheers Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
[gentoo-user] /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/ missing
I just logged off KF5 after an extensive update and XDM would not restart, I got a message about /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/ did not exist (which it doesn't). The /sys/fs/cgroup/ directory is there, it's the "unified" sub-directory that's missing. I have not rebooted for a long time so I did that and still got the messages. Fortunately the system still comes up. I must have missed a config update somewhere I guess but I cannot find any useful hits when I search. Any idea what I am missing? Thanks Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] Something started muting the sound
On Monday 14 August 2017, Mick wrote: > On Monday 14 Aug 2017 19:31:48 Robin Atwood wrote: > > That's very interesting and would explain a lot except that I don't have > > a dock! So does anybody have an idea as to why the TP has decided it's > > been docked when it hasn't? There are not currently any other output > > devices to select (AFAICT). > > It could be a hardware problem. Check the docking port has not been > unlocked accidentally for some reason, no debris is shorting its > connectors and that the BIOS menu does not report it being docked. I > think the audio output device symptom is controlled by ACPI, but before > blaming bugs in ACPI I'd start by looking at the hardware in the first > instance. The docking slot is clear, there is nothing in the BIOS about docking and acpitool doesn't report anything about the docking state. The Dock option is on in the ACPI section of the kernel config. Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] Something started muting the sound
On Monday 14 August 2017, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 13 Aug 2017 20:27:12 Robin Atwood wrote: > > On Saturday 12 August 2017, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > However, grepping dmesg was interesting: > > > > # grep HDA /var/log/dmesg > > [ 10.981754] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as > > /devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/sound/card0/hdaudioC0D0/inp > > ut9 > > [ 10.981963] input: HDA Intel MID Mic as > > /devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input10 > > [ 10.982033] input: HDA Intel MID Dock Mic as > > /devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input11 > > [ 10.982102] input: HDA Intel MID Dock Headphone as > > /devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input > > 12 > > [ 10.982171] input: HDA Intel MID Headphone as > > /devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input13 > > The above shows you have your laptop docked. When docked the on board > speakers are usually disconnected. > > It's been a very long time since I docked a laptop and my memory is not > very reliable, but I recall fixing a similar problem by selecting a > different output device. I don't know if you can do this from alsamixer, > but you should be able to do it from pulseaudio, or from whatever GUI your > desktop provides for managing audio devices. Switch over from > headphones/docking station to speakers and you should be OK. That's very interesting and would explain a lot except that I don't have a dock! So does anybody have an idea as to why the TP has decided it's been docked when it hasn't? There are not currently any other output devices to select (AFAICT). Thanks Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] Something started muting the sound
On Saturday 12 August 2017, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Robin Atwood <ro...@binro.org> wrote: > What's the output of these command lines? > (1). lspci -vnn | sed '/Audio/,/driver/!d' > > (2). grep -Ei '^[^#]*(snd|hda)' linux/.config > > (3). rc-update show | grep alsa > > (4). grep HDA /var/log/dmesg The output was what you would expect, lots info about HDA drivers and hardware: lspci -vnn | sed '/Audio/,/driver/!d' 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio [8086: 3b56] (rev 06) Subsystem: Lenovo 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio [17aa:215e] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28 Memory at f242 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00 Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel 01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller [10de:0be3] (rev a1) Subsystem: Lenovo High Definition Audio Controller [17aa:218f] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 29 Memory at cdefc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel However, grepping dmesg was interesting: # grep HDA /var/log/dmesg [ 10.981754] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/sound/card0/hdaudioC0D0/inp ut9 [ 10.981963] input: HDA Intel MID Mic as /devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input10 [ 10.982033] input: HDA Intel MID Dock Mic as /devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input11 [ 10.982102] input: HDA Intel MID Dock Headphone as /devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input 12 [ 10.982171] input: HDA Intel MID Headphone as /devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input13 No output about the speakers. On another system (that works) I see: [ 20.712891] input: HDA Intel Rear Mic as /devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input5 [ 20.712984] input: HDA Intel Front Mic as /devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input6 [ 20.713097] input: HDA Intel Line as /devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input7 [ 20.713185] input: HDA Intel Line Out as /devices/pci:00/:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input8 I think Line Out is a speaker. So why the difference? Thanks Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] Something started muting the sound
On Saturday 12 August 2017, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 12 Aug 2017 20:49:48 Robin Atwood wrote: > Which device does alsamixer or pulseaudio show as being active? I found on > some PCs that HDMI is now set as the default audio device and I had to > change the configuration to make analogue sound devices active again. Mick, thanks for the suggestion but alsamixer still shows: Card: HDA Intel MID │ Chip: Conexant CX20585 and is in fact the only device. Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
[gentoo-user] Something started muting the sound
I have a Thinkpad T410 where, after I installed Gentoo on it, everything "just worked (TM)". The sound is via the bog-standard Intel chips on the mobo and uses the hda_intel drivers. I didn't use the TP for a long time, just periodically updating Gentoo, but when I eventually did try to use it the sound was muted. This means I shut down the X server to remove complications from the desktop and from the console aplay doesn't produce any sound. Everything looks normal, driver modules loaded, alsamixer shows the usual output, channels all active. I booted to a windows partition and the sound works, so the hardware is OK. The very weird thing is if I put the TP to sleep with acpitool and wake it up again, the sound works for about 60 seconds and then dies. There is nothing in the message log at all when this happens. I upgraded the kernel but that didn't help. This problem has been dragging on for some years and I am contemplating a complete re-install from scratch. But before I do that does anyone have any idea what I could try? TIA Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] After KDE5 install massive depclean list
On Wednesday 15 February 2017, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 15/02/2017 15:14, Robin Atwood wrote: > > Having finally got a stable KDE5 system I did an emerge depclean and got > > 288 candidates! I am not sure which packages I need to keep and which > > can go. I assume any package like kde-apps/kxxx-4.14* can go unless you > > actually want it, but I am unclear about packages like > > kde-apps/plasma-apps-15.12.3 which are slotted as 4 but have upgrades to > > 16.08.3. Do I still need these? > > For the most part, no. > > Almost every kde4 package (libs, apps, plugins, and more) got updated > for KDE% and many were pkgmv'ed around to new categories. So 288 sounds > like the right ballpark from memory. > > I found that the kde ebuild maintainers did a really good job with this, > and virtually every upgrade went smooth for me. The KDE4 apps I still > have (amarok, k3b, etc) have their DEPENDs correct so depclean tends to > be correct as is, including the plasma SLOTs. > > If your world file is in good condition I recommend you let portage > clean what it wants to. In the unlikely evnt the devs missed something, > you can always emerge a missing package or two back. Thanks, Alan. I have added a few packages to world and will let emerge go ahead! Cheers Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
[gentoo-user] After KDE5 install massive depclean list
Having finally got a stable KDE5 system I did an emerge depclean and got 288 candidates! I am not sure which packages I need to keep and which can go. I assume any package like kde-apps/kxxx-4.14* can go unless you actually want it, but I am unclear about packages like kde-apps/plasma-apps-15.12.3 which are slotted as 4 but have upgrades to 16.08.3. Do I still need these? Thanks Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop
On Sunday 08 January 2017, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > Try to login as a new user (or move your home directory out of the > way). If it works start selectively deleting dot files/directories > from your home directory. Start with .cache, .kde4 and everything that > starts with a k in .config and .local and go from there. I had the > exact same problem when I upgraded one of my laptops and that's how I > fixed it. Also delete anything in /var/cache and any files belonging > to your uses in /tmp and /run. > > You can also try switching to a VT and kill plasmashell and if it > doesn't restart automatically start it with the DISPLAY environment > variable properly set. > > Also look at the system logs, .xsession-errors, xorg logs, etc for > clues. You can also run kdebugdialog5 from another DE to enable a lot > of kde debug output to the system logs. > I said above that I created a new user and got exactly same problem, so that pretty much excludes old files as a possibility. Thanks Robin -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop
On Sunday 08 January 2017, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 7 January 2017 22:03:53 GMT Robin Atwood wrote: > > I finally grasped the nettle and did the Plasma 5 upgrade. The first > > machine went OK eventually (apart from the week spent resolving > > blockers), so I thought the second would be much smoother. And so it was, > > until I logged on. I got the splash screen, a bouncing ball as something > > started and then a black screen relieved only by a cursor and a couple of > > apps in the autostart list. kwin-x11, plasmashell, ksmserver are all > > running, it seems like something got omitted in the install. Does anyone > > know which binary starts the window manager and taskbar, etc? I did the > > usual things like create a new user, rename .kde4, to no avail. > > While you were sorting out the blockers, did you make USE changes? The > problem may lie there somewhere. What does 'emerge -pe world' give you? Any > errors? > > Although I'm still wrestling with KMail, I had no trouble with KDE itself. > Well, apart from being unable to right-click on the desktop to change the > behaviour of the mouse wheel, which infuriates me when the pointer strays > outside the window I'm concentrating on. But I gave up trying to sort out > the blockers you mention and built a new system; it may still be worth you > considering that. I only removed the qt4 flag. Emerge -pw world just wants to replace a lot of packages - no errors. Thanks Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop
On Saturday 07 January 2017, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Did you install plasma-meta? > Or did you specify some yourself? > > Also. Did you select the plasma desktop profile? > > If either or both of these are answered with 'no', the bit you are missing > might just be in there somewhere. I followed the KDE5 Plasma upgrade guide. I selected the plasma profile and installed plasma-meta. After which, I did an update/world. Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop
On Saturday 07 January 2017, Dale wrote: > When I did my upgrade a long time ago, I had a similar issue. There is > a menu to select which part of KDE you want to login to. I can't recall > the names or even which one is the correct one for sure but think it is > the one with plasma in it. I think the default is some other one which > didn't work for me at least, wayland comes to mind for some reason. > Anyway, on the login screen, check that drop down and try a different > one. It may not be the problem but at least it would eliminate it. On > mine, it is in the upper left but yours could be different. It's the > same place you would select Gnome or some other desktop if you have them > installed. > > May not help but worth a try I guess. ;-) > > Dale > > :-) :-) Thanks, Dale, but I have tried all the session settings. Plasma is the one for standard KDE5 and that's the one that gets the black desktop. Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
[gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop
I finally grasped the nettle and did the Plasma 5 upgrade. The first machine went OK eventually (apart from the week spent resolving blockers), so I thought the second would be much smoother. And so it was, until I logged on. I got the splash screen, a bouncing ball as something started and then a black screen relieved only by a cursor and a couple of apps in the autostart list. kwin-x11, plasmashell, ksmserver are all running, it seems like something got omitted in the install. Does anyone know which binary starts the window manager and taskbar, etc? I did the usual things like create a new user, rename .kde4, to no avail. I have already posted on the Gentoo forums but didn't get much help. You can see the post with the sddm log here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1057060.html. Hopefully the vast intellects of the Gentoo list will have an idea! My current workaround is to install lxqt as the desktop; it works pretty well, if a bit rough around the edges. Cheers Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4
On Tuesday 20 September 2016, konsolebox wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Robin Atwood <ro...@binro.org> wrote: > > > > Anybody got any idea what the problem with kde-sunset is? > > Custom repositories listed in /etc/portage/repos.conf/ are > synchronized with `emerge --sync`. `kde-sunset` is not in layman. Thanks, that did the trick. Still get the update/world error but never mind. Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4
On Saturday 17 September 2016, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 17/09/2016 15:26, Robin Atwood wrote: > > On Monday 15 August 2016, Robin Atwood wrote: > >> On Sunday 14 August 2016, Daniel Frey wrote: > >> > On 08/14/2016 05:12 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > >> > > 'layman -L' finds no kde-sunset. > >> > > >> > I had that problem too, it's not listed there. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > If you want to use it, create /etc/portage/repos.conf/kde-sunset.conf > >> > > >> > with these contents: > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > [kde-sunset] > >> > > >> > auto-sync = yes > >> > > >> > location = /var/local/overlays/kde-sunset > >> > > >> > masters = gentoo > >> > > >> > sync-type = git > >> > > >> > sync-uri = https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/proj/kde-sunset.git > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > Dan > >> > >> Dan- > > > > I tried it and got: > > > > > > > > # layman -s kde-sunset > > > > > > > > * Fetching remote list... > > > > * Fetch Ok > > > > > > > > * Syncing selected overlay(s)... > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > > > File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/layman/api.py", line 394, in > > sync > > > > odb = db.select(ovl) > > > > File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/layman/dbbase.py", line 260, in > > select > > > > raise UnknownOverlayException(overlay) > > > > layman.dbbase.UnknownOverlayException: Exception: Overlay "kde-sunset" > > does not exist. Anybody got any idea what the problem with kde-sunset is? Thanks Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4
On Saturday 17 September 2016, Alan McKinnon wrote: > What a peculiar odd thing to say. You might want to revisit your word > choice there. Perhaps you're right. Unfortunately I don't have the time currently to fight with ebuilds so I will declare my system, in IBM's immortal expression, "functionally stabilised"! It does everything I need it to so updates are not really necessary. I looked into the KDE5 upgrade recently and what I read did not inspire me with confidence. Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4
On Monday 15 August 2016, Robin Atwood wrote: > On Sunday 14 August 2016, Daniel Frey wrote: > > On 08/14/2016 05:12 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > > 'layman -L' finds no kde-sunset. > > > > I had that problem too, it's not listed there. > > > > If you want to use it, create /etc/portage/repos.conf/kde-sunset.conf > > with these contents: > > > > [kde-sunset] > > auto-sync = yes > > location = /var/local/overlays/kde-sunset > > masters = gentoo > > sync-type = git > > sync-uri = https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/proj/kde-sunset.git > > > > Dan > > Dan- I tried it and got: # layman -s kde-sunset * Fetching remote list... * Fetch Ok * Syncing selected overlay(s)... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/layman/api.py", line 394, in sync odb = db.select(ovl) File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/layman/dbbase.py", line 260, in select raise UnknownOverlayException(overlay) layman.dbbase.UnknownOverlayException: Exception: Overlay "kde-sunset" does not exist. This is becoming a problem because now I also get when updating Gentoo: # emerge -uDv @world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "kde-plasma/kactivitymanagerd:5" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - kde-plasma/kactivitymanagerd-5.7.5::gentoo (masked by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword) - kde-plasma/kactivitymanagerd-5.7.4::gentoo (masked by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword) - kde-plasma/kactivitymanagerd-5.6.5::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) (dependency required by "kde-base/kactivities-4.13.3-r2::gentoo" [installed]) (dependency required by "kde-apps/okular-16.04.3::gentoo[kde]" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "@selected" [set]) (dependency required by "@world" [argument]) looking at the kactivities ebuild I see: RDEPEND=" kde-plasma/kactivitymanagerd:5 " So KDE4 users are no longer allowed to update Gentoo? TIA Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4
On Sunday 14 August 2016, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 08/14/2016 05:12 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > 'layman -L' finds no kde-sunset. > > I had that problem too, it's not listed there. > > If you want to use it, create /etc/portage/repos.conf/kde-sunset.conf > with these contents: > > [kde-sunset] > auto-sync = yes > location = /var/local/overlays/kde-sunset > masters = gentoo > sync-type = git > sync-uri = https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/proj/kde-sunset.git > > Dan Dan- Thanks, I will try that. Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4
On Sunday 14 August 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 13 Aug 2016 22:54:19 Robin Atwood wrote: > > On Saturday 13 August 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Saturday 13 Aug 2016 20:56:50 Robin Atwood wrote: > > > > And the next problem: > > > > > > > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy > > > > "kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-wallpapers:5" have been masked. > > > > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your > > > > request: - kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-wallpapers-5.7.3::gentoo > > > > (masked > > > > by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword) > > > > - kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-wallpapers-5.6.5::gentoo (masked by: > > > > package.mask) > > > > > > > > (dependency required by "kde-base/kdebase-startkde-4.11.22- > > > > r2::gentoo[wallpapers]" [installed]) > > > > (dependency required by "@selected" [set]) > > > > (dependency required by "@world" [argument]) > > > > > > > > Why does kdebase-startkde:4 want plasma-workspace-wallpapers:5? has > > > > anyone solved this yet? > > > > > > I don't know, but the ebuild calls version 5 explicitly. > > > > > > What happens if you add USE=-wallpapers to startkde in package.use? > > > > I wondered about that but thought I might end up with no wallpapers. :( > > Well, either you can try it to see what happens, maybe putting it back > afterwards, or you can remove that line from the ebuild - again, > temporarily. Or try the kde-sunset overlay as Dan suggests. > > It's becoming steadily harder to stick with KDE-4 in Gentoo. I gave up a > few weeks ago, once I'd found a desktop arrangement to suit me. Using -wallpapers worked and I still have wallpapers. 'layman -L' finds no kde-sunset. I suppose I will at some stage have to install KDE5 on a laptop; will KMail 4.4 still work? Cheers Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4
On Saturday 13 August 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 13 Aug 2016 20:56:50 Robin Atwood wrote: > > And the next problem: > > > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy > > "kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-wallpapers:5" have been masked. > > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your > > request: - kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-wallpapers-5.7.3::gentoo (masked > > by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword) > > - kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-wallpapers-5.6.5::gentoo (masked by: > > package.mask) > > > > (dependency required by "kde-base/kdebase-startkde-4.11.22- > > r2::gentoo[wallpapers]" [installed]) > > (dependency required by "@selected" [set]) > > (dependency required by "@world" [argument]) > > > > Why does kdebase-startkde:4 want plasma-workspace-wallpapers:5? has > > anyone solved this yet? > > I don't know, but the ebuild calls version 5 explicitly. > > What happens if you add USE=-wallpapers to startkde in package.use? I wondered about that but thought I might end up with no wallpapers. :( Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4
On Friday 15 July 2016, Robin Atwood wrote: > On Tuesday 12 July 2016, Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: > > 2016-07-09 8:52 GMT-05:00 Robin Atwood <ro...@binro.org>: > > > Attempting to update/world this weekend I get: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > # emerge -uDv @world > > > > > > > > > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > > > > > > > > > > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > > > > > > > > > > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta:5" > > > have been masked. > > > > > > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your > > > request: > > > > > > - kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta-16.04.2::gentoo (masked by: > > > package.mask, ~amd64 keyword) > > > > > > - kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta-15.12.3::gentoo (masked by: > > > package.mask) > > > > > > > > > > > > (dependency required by "kde-base/kdebase-startkde-4.11.22-r1::gentoo" > > > [ebuild]) > > > > > > (dependency required by "@selected" [set]) > > > > > > (dependency required by "@world" [argument]) > > > > > > > > > > > > I have all of KDE:5 masked since I think installing it sounds too > > > risky. Checking the kdebase-startkde-4.11.22-r1 ebuild it has a > > > dependency on kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta:5. Is this a mistake? Has > > > anyone found a solution to this? > > > > Robin, > > > > My ugly hack on this to keep on kde4 withouth pulling frameworks 5: > > > > 1) use a local overlay > > 2) locate kactivitymanagerd-4.13.3-r1.ebuild (in > > /var/db/pkg/kde-plasma/kactivitymanagerd-4.13.3-r1) > > 3) put the kactivitymanagerd-4.13.3-r1.ebuild into > > /usr/local/portage/kde-plasma/kactivitymanagerd/ > > 4) add a > > SLOT="5" > > line to the ebuild > > 5) add a unmask line > > =kde-plasma/kactivitymanagerd-4.13.3-r1 > > to /etc/package.unmask > > > > I need 5) because I mask all kde-plasma/* packages > > Andrés- > That did the trick! Thanks very much. Until the next time... :( And the next problem: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-wallpapers:5" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-wallpapers-5.7.3::gentoo (masked by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword) - kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-wallpapers-5.6.5::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) (dependency required by "kde-base/kdebase-startkde-4.11.22- r2::gentoo[wallpapers]" [installed]) (dependency required by "@selected" [set]) (dependency required by "@world" [argument]) Why does kdebase-startkde:4 want plasma-workspace-wallpapers:5? has anyone solved this yet? Thanks Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4
On Tuesday 12 July 2016, Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: > 2016-07-09 8:52 GMT-05:00 Robin Atwood <ro...@binro.org>: > > Attempting to update/world this weekend I get: > > > > > > > > > > > > # emerge -uDv @world > > > > > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > > > > > > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > > > > > > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta:5" have > > been masked. > > > > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your > > request: > > > > - kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta-16.04.2::gentoo (masked by: package.mask, > > ~amd64 keyword) > > > > - kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta-15.12.3::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) > > > > > > > > (dependency required by "kde-base/kdebase-startkde-4.11.22-r1::gentoo" > > [ebuild]) > > > > (dependency required by "@selected" [set]) > > > > (dependency required by "@world" [argument]) > > > > > > > > I have all of KDE:5 masked since I think installing it sounds too risky. > > Checking the kdebase-startkde-4.11.22-r1 ebuild it has a dependency on > > kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta:5. Is this a mistake? Has anyone found a > > solution to this? > > Robin, > > My ugly hack on this to keep on kde4 withouth pulling frameworks 5: > > 1) use a local overlay > 2) locate kactivitymanagerd-4.13.3-r1.ebuild (in > /var/db/pkg/kde-plasma/kactivitymanagerd-4.13.3-r1) > 3) put the kactivitymanagerd-4.13.3-r1.ebuild into > /usr/local/portage/kde-plasma/kactivitymanagerd/ > 4) add a > SLOT="5" > line to the ebuild > 5) add a unmask line > =kde-plasma/kactivitymanagerd-4.13.3-r1 > to /etc/package.unmask > > I need 5) because I mask all kde-plasma/* packages Andrés- That did the trick! Thanks very much. Until the next time... :( Cheers Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4
On Sunday 10 July 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 09 Jul 2016 23:22:49 I wrote: > > On Sunday 10 Jul 2016 04:08:36 Michael Palimaka wrote: > --->8 > > > > This change is correct - we're in the process of cleaning up some old > > > ebuilds at the moment. > > > > > > In this case kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta:5 doesn't imply anything > > > KF5-based - it has just been ported to use a newer eclass. It still > > > just pulls in the old KDE4-based kde-runtime packages. > > I don't think that's entirely true; see below. > > > That's good news. Now, how does one allow that package to be installed > > while keeping the rest of KF5 masked? > > > > # cat /etc/portage/package.mask > > kde-plasma/* > > kde-frameworks/*:5 > > kde-apps/*:5 > > kde-misc/*:5 > > > > >=kde-apps/kde4-l10n-16.04.1 > > > > We seem to need an analogue of CONFIG_PROTECT and CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK, in > > which we could mask all kde-apps/*:5 while allowing > > kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta:5 to be installed. Can that be done? I hope > > there's an easier way than masking all 122 apps separately. > > In fact I tried the separate masking. It led on to having to treat > kde-plasma and kde-frameworks similarly, and before I knew it I was > unmasking a load of packages that don't belong in a KDE-4 system. > > What to try next? Indeed. The situation seems to be that Gentoo is not upgradable unless KDE5 is installed. :( Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
[gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4
Attempting to update/world this weekend I get: # emerge -uDv @world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta:5" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta-16.04.2::gentoo (masked by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword) - kde-apps/kdebase-runtime-meta-15.12.3::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) (dependency required by "kde-base/kdebase-startkde-4.11.22-r1::gentoo" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "@selected" [set]) (dependency required by "@world" [argument]) I have all of KDE:5 masked since I think installing it sounds too risky. Checking the kdebase-startkde-4.11.22-r1 ebuild it has a dependency on kde- apps/kdebase-runtime-meta:5. Is this a mistake? Has anyone found a solution to this? Thanks Robin -- ------ Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling -- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
[gentoo-user] Gentoo Foundation seeks new US CPA
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Re: [gentoo-user] Akonadi gets MySQL errors after upgrade
On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 19:17:01 +0100 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: When I update mysql I run: mysqlcheck --all-databases --check-upgrade -u root -p Not sure if it will help your case, but I'm throwing it out there just in case. You may need to point it to wherever your akonadi db may stored. Thanks, but it made no difference. I had already run myisamchk and got no errors. Robin
[gentoo-user] Akonadi gets MySQL errors after upgrade
After the latest KDE upgrade to 4.12.4 I logged on and Akonadi won't start. It is still at 4.4.11.1 and normally runs faultlessly. Now I get $ akonadictl start Starting Akonadi Server... done. Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) search paths: (., /usr/local/sbin, /usr/local/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, ., /sbin, /usr/sbin, ., /usr/local/sbin, /usr/local/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/bin, /bin, /opt/bin, /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.8.2, /usr/games/bin, /var/spool/fax/bin, /home/robin/bin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin, /usr/games/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/sbin, /usr/local/libexec, /usr/libexec, /opt/mysql/libexec, /opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin, /opt/mysql/sbin) Found mysql_install_db: Found mysqlcheck: /usr/bin/mysqlcheck QSqlDatabasePrivate::removeDatabase: connection 'initConnection' is still in use, all queries will cease to work. Database akonadi opened using driver QMYSQL DbInitializer::run() checking table SchemaVersionTable checking table ResourceTable checking table CollectionTable checking table MimeTypeTable checking table PimItemTable checking table FlagTable checking table PartTypeTable checking table PartTable checking table CollectionAttributeTable checking table TagTable checking table TagAttributeTable checking table TagRemoteIdResourceRelationTable CREATE TABLE TagRemoteIdResourceRelationTable (tagId BIGINT NOT NULL, resourceId BIGINT NOT NULL, remoteId VARBINARY(255) NOT NULL, FOREIGN KEY (tagId) REFERENCES TagTable(id) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE, FOREIGN KEY (resourceId) REFERENCES ResourceTable(id) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE) COLLATE=utf8_general_ci DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 Sql error: Can't create table 'akonadi.TagRemoteIdResourceRelationTable' (errno: 150) QMYSQL: Unable to execute query Query: CREATE TABLE TagRemoteIdResourceRelationTable (tagId BIGINT NOT NULL, resourceId BIGINT NOT NULL, remoteId VARBINARY(255) NOT NULL, FOREIGN KEY (tagId) REFERENCES TagTable(id) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE, FOREIGN KEY (resourceId) REFERENCES ResourceTable(id) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE) COLLATE=utf8_general_ci DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 Unable to initialize database. So it looks like an SQL problem. I have run myisamchk on the /var/lib/mysql/akonadi and found no problems. How do I reinitialise the various databases from scratch? Incidentally, I upgraded a similar system at the same time and its akonadi still runs fine. TIA Robin
Re: [gentoo-user] rfcomm0 interface missing
On Monday 18 November 2013, Mick wrote: After more than a year I tried to tether my mobile to my laptop to connect to GPRS using kppp. I noticed that kppp hangs and I have to kill it, while it hangs with Modem Ready. I can query the modem successfully using kppp, and it responds to ATI initialisation commands, so now I am trying to understand what is wrong with it and why the connection does not complete. ifconfig -a does not show rfcomm0, but this may be because it never completes the connection to my mobile phone provider's network, so the ppp link is not established. I can see that the rfcomm device is being created: # ls -la /dev/rfcomm* crw-rw 1 root uucp 216, 0 Nov 17 15:51 /dev/rfcomm0 and it does try to connect until it freezes showing Modem Ready, but I am getting no more errors to know what to do next. I was thinking that this may be related to the udev NIC renaming change that happened within the last year. However, I never had any udev rules to manage rfcomm and from what I recall vaguely when the udev update came, I had no problem connecting (but memory may be failing me after all this time). It could of course be related to my mobile phone providers settings - I haven't changed these for a long time and looking on the Internet I can't find if they are any different now. How should I troubleshoot this further? Could someone please hold my hand to set up ppp so that I can avoid kppp and its freezing behaviour? Have you started the rfcomm service? I remember having trouble until I did that. HTH Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Acer Aspire One D255
On Thursday 06 June 2013, Mick wrote: On Thursday 06 Jun 2013 12:52:54 Silvio Siefke wrote: /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start Bringing up interface eth0 ERROR: interface eth0 does not exist Ensure that you have loaded the correct kernel module for your hardware ERROR: net.eth0 failed to start As has already been mentioned, udev may have used a different naming scheme for your card, so eth0 may not work. Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet (rev c1) I think you need module atl1c for this NIC - but you'll need to google for more info. 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak] I think you need module iwlwifi for this card and the correct firmware: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi There is a very useful site to identify drivers: http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/. Just paste in the output of lspci -n and it does the rest! HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.10 and plasma crashing
On Sunday 10 Feb 2013, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 10:25:25 -0600, Dale wrote: Of course I have backups, although a quick run of demerge got it back for me. But rolling back KDE, with the attendant hassles of messed up configs, only sidesteps the bug , which relates to qr-core not KDE. I didn't have any config problems at all. I did have to update but its the same thing I have to do when I do a upgrade. It's not the same. KDE has an inbuilt system for handling upgrades, one that does any config file conversions that may be needed without the applications needing to worry about it. But it only handles upgrades, not downgrades. After downgrading, my Activities were messed up. Of course, the best thing about tackling the problem at, or at least nearer, the source is that I won't have to upgrade KDE again when it's fixed ;-) The issue is now moot, if you sync and upgrade you will get a new qt-core and plasma-workspace which work happily when compiled with -O2. :) -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about systemd logging
On Friday 11 January 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: On Thursday 10 January 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: Stupid question, the syslog-ng.service is running correctly? What does the following command say: systemctl status syslog-ng.service Syslog-ng is running fine, I get all my normal logging, just none from systemd. If I can get I don't have to mess around with journalctl. -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about systemd logging
On Friday 11 January 2013, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 23:46:29 +0700
Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote:
Thanks for the tips, now I can get more output to tty1 if I want. I
still can't get any systemd messages to syslog-ng, however. A bit of
a mystery.
This may be way off as I expect systemd to never shape up to a point
that I will use it, but with a bit of luck this may point you in the
right direction. On Arch systemd avoiders had to change their
syslog-ng.conf to the following to get their logging back.
source src {
unix-dgram(/dev/log);
internal();
file(/proc/kmsg);
};
I already have that! It's the systemd source that seems to have run dry.
Cheers
-Robin
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Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst
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Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about systemd logging
On Thursday 10 January 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:12 AM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: I have temporarily shelved my problem with mounting since my work-around seems adequate. But I have some questions about logging. Journald works fine but what am I supposed to see on the main console? What do you mean by main console? tty1? tty12? /dev/console? All I can see is a few kernel messages which cease after the lvm service completes. There are no service starting messages and no login prompt appears. The other ttys have a banner and prompt as usual. systemd by default only spawns 1 (one) tty, tty1: $ ls /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/ getty@tty1.service That's the only login prompt spawned by default. The other virtual consoles get spawned automatically if you switch to them. In other words, if you never switch to the virtual console 2, there is no login prompt there. It will appear until you switch to it. systemd should switch to tty1 and launch getty@tty1.service automatically when the getty.target is reached in the boot process. I'm not really sure what the problem is; if you are concerned by the [ OK ] messages when booting, it is possible that systemd is so fast that you have no chance to see them (that happens in my laptop with a solid state harddrive). Also, if you have a splash (like plymouth), the whole point of the splash is that you don't see said messages. You can see a copy of the boot log in /var/log/boot.log; that it's what you are supposed to see when booting, but if you have a splash you won't, or maybe it will be so fast that you will miss it. Secondly I want to merge the journal into syslog-ng for post-processing. I have the correct syslog-ng service defined and syslog-ng.conf has been modified to use /run/systemd/journald/syslog as a source unix-stream. But I see no systemd messages appearing. In the Gentoo package all the journald.conf statements are commented out, which ones are necessary to do what I want. I have tried the logging_to_syslog/kmsg options but to no effect, but there are many! I switched from syslog-ng to rsyslog around three years ago, and exclusively to the journal some months ago, so this is from memory: 1. You need to link your syslog service unit to /etc/systemd/system/syslog.service; for example: /etc/systemd/system/syslog.service - /usr/lib/systemd/system/syslog-ng.service 2. You need to set LogTarget=syslog (or LogTarget=syslog-or-kmsg) in /etc/systemd/system.conf. You are configuring *systemd* to use a third party syslog; you don't need to configure the journal itself. man 5 systemd.conf man 1 systemd If I recall correctly, that's it. systemd automatically will buffer the early boot messages until your preferred syslog service start, and from that point on it will send the logs to it immediately. Thanks for the tips, now I can get more output to tty1 if I want. I still can't get any systemd messages to syslog-ng, however. A bit of a mystery. Cheers -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
[gentoo-user] Questions about systemd logging
I have temporarily shelved my problem with mounting since my work-around seems adequate. But I have some questions about logging. Journald works fine but what am I supposed to see on the main console? All I can see is a few kernel messages which cease after the lvm service completes. There are no service starting messages and no login prompt appears. The other ttys have a banner and prompt as usual. Secondly I want to merge the journal into syslog-ng for post-processing. I have the correct syslog-ng service defined and syslog-ng.conf has been modified to use /run/systemd/journald/syslog as a source unix-stream. But I see no systemd messages appearing. In the Gentoo package all the journald.conf statements are commented out, which ones are necessary to do what I want. I have tried the logging_to_syslog/kmsg options but to no effect, but there are many! TIA -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Processes hang - system dies
On Tuesday 08 January 2013, Adam Carter wrote: On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.netwrote: ** I have a very severe problem after a recent disk replacement. After a few days running, all new processes just hang. The kernel reports: My guess is disk failing or kernel bug. Install smartmontools and see if smartctl -H devicename returns anything interesting. What kernel are you using? Try 3.7.1 if you're not already using that. That's my feeling too, since smartd is reporting sectors failing by the dozen. However the smartctl -H test gave me a clean bill of health. The kernel is 3.6.8, I have already upgraded with no improvement. Cheers -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd and lvm
On Sunday 06 January 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: On Friday 04 Jan 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: Having observed all the ranting, I thought I would try systemd on a laptop. It actually seems to work quite well and it is a lot faster. However I am having trouble getting my LVM partitions mounted. I installed the LVM service unit from the Gentoo Wiki but it never completes, timing-out on a job that mounts /var. The VG is actually created by an initramfs and when systemd dumps you out to the emergency shell you can use lvs to see the volumes, /dev/mapper has all the correct devices and dmsetup ls shows the LVs. In fact, everything appears as it should, the partitions just don't get mounted. I circumvented this by putting mount -a in the lvm.service unit, which then completes and the mount jobs time-out. Everything seems to be OK but it is a bit of a kludge. One thing I notice is: # udevadm info -p /dev/mapper/vg00-rootfs -q all syspath not found Udev seems not to know about the LVs. Any ideas? How did you create your initramfs? Have you tried dracut, with DRACUT_MODULES=lvm? Regards. I always use genkernel with LVM=YES in genkernel.conf. There is a thread about the udev issue at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6837888.html . I tried the suggested work-around but it made no difference, I must still use mount - a. I've never used genkernel. You could try dracut; its mandatory dependencies are minimal, and it's actually designed to create an initramfs, not like genkernel, where the functionality was added as an afterthought. Another option is to roll your own initramfs, like the first responder in the forums thread. Good luck. Maybe I will try dracut but I suspect the problem lies with systemd. -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd and lvm
On Friday 04 Jan 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: Having observed all the ranting, I thought I would try systemd on a laptop. It actually seems to work quite well and it is a lot faster. However I am having trouble getting my LVM partitions mounted. I installed the LVM service unit from the Gentoo Wiki but it never completes, timing-out on a job that mounts /var. The VG is actually created by an initramfs and when systemd dumps you out to the emergency shell you can use lvs to see the volumes, /dev/mapper has all the correct devices and dmsetup ls shows the LVs. In fact, everything appears as it should, the partitions just don't get mounted. I circumvented this by putting mount -a in the lvm.service unit, which then completes and the mount jobs time-out. Everything seems to be OK but it is a bit of a kludge. One thing I notice is: # udevadm info -p /dev/mapper/vg00-rootfs -q all syspath not found Udev seems not to know about the LVs. Any ideas? How did you create your initramfs? Have you tried dracut, with DRACUT_MODULES=lvm? Regards. I always use genkernel with LVM=YES in genkernel.conf. There is a thread about the udev issue at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6837888.html . I tried the suggested work-around but it made no difference, I must still use mount - a. -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
[gentoo-user] Processes hang - system dies
commands just hang, only Alt-Sysrq-B does anything. I would be grateful for any suggestions! TIA -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
[gentoo-user] Systemd and lvm
Having observed all the ranting, I thought I would try systemd on a laptop. It actually seems to work quite well and it is a lot faster. However I am having trouble getting my LVM partitions mounted. I installed the LVM service unit from the Gentoo Wiki but it never completes, timing-out on a job that mounts /var. The VG is actually created by an initramfs and when systemd dumps you out to the emergency shell you can use lvs to see the volumes, /dev/mapper has all the correct devices and dmsetup ls shows the LVs. In fact, everything appears as it should, the partitions just don't get mounted. I circumvented this by putting mount -a in the lvm.service unit, which then completes and the mount jobs time-out. Everything seems to be OK but it is a bit of a kludge. One thing I notice is: # udevadm info -p /dev/mapper/vg00-rootfs -q all syspath not found Udev seems not to know about the LVs. Any ideas? TIA -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - mesa-9.0 needs media-libs/glu in addition
On Tuesday 09 October 2012, Helmut Jarausch wrote: upgrading from mesa-9.0_pre20120918 to mesa-9.0 broke some package, among them ati-drivers. They have remove glu. Installing media-libs/glu in addition now (never needed it before) restores the essential /usr/include/GL/glu.h file. I found the same problem with KDE. media-libs/glu should become a dependency! -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?
On Tuesday 28 Feb 2012, James Broadhead wrote: On 27 February 2012 23:29, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: I am glad we had this little chat! I always pass my kernel configs from release to release, so I went and checked the bluetooth section, and lo, it looks like it got reorganised some time after version 3.0.0 and lots of options were no longer checked. Fixed that and now bluetooth works: I can transfer files and browse the phones storage. Thanks for giving me a nudge. :) Are you aware of make oldconfig, which will interactively walk you through the changes to the config layout? Of course, but I am lazy and usually you get away with it. ;) -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?
On Monday 27 Feb 2012, Mick wrote: On 26 February 2012 15:12, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: On Sunday 26 Feb 2012, Mick wrote: if your run: # sdptool browse your_device_MAC_address it will list a number of services that the device supports after you connect it to your PC. Although I could not browse any files using Dophin or obexftp, I was able to send and receive files using obex push. I tried the browse but got Protocol not supported. :( Hmm ... odd! Have you compiled all the necessary BT drivers in your kernel/as modules? Are they loaded? I am glad we had this little chat! I always pass my kernel configs from release to release, so I went and checked the bluetooth section, and lo, it looks like it got reorganised some time after version 3.0.0 and lots of options were no longer checked. Fixed that and now bluetooth works: I can transfer files and browse the phones storage. Thanks for giving me a nudge. :) -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling -- -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?
On Sunday 26 Feb 2012, Mick wrote: On Friday 24 Feb 2012 11:46:33 Mick wrote: On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 12:47:00 James Broadhead wrote: On 23 February 2012 12:39, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: I have just tried to send a file from my phone to my laptop running KDE 4.8.0 and it fails; the two devices never bind. When I set up the laptop it was running KDE 4.6.3 and bluetooth worked fine. The BlueZ libraries have changed substantially since, I think. Using 'hcitool inq' works fine, it's the KDE dialogs which sit there searching endlessly. Any recommended settings for /etc/bluetooth/*? Doc is a bit hard to come by. TIA -Robin Not exactly on-topic, but I recently got my bluetooth headset working without any major hassle using net-wireless/gnome-bluetooth by - Building the appropriate communications-types modules - Starting the bluetooth init script - Running bluetooth-wizard to pair and bluetooth-applet to connect/disconnect I'm using net-wireless/bluedevil-1.2.2 and I do not have any such problems. However, I'm not using the whole KDE desktop and I'm still on KDEPIM 4.4.11.1 I had a go at browsing the filesystem on my Blackberry. It won't work. obexftp fails in each case to list the contents on the BB internal flash. When looking under Known Devices on the Bluedevil applet on the desktop, it says: No supported services found which make me think that the way this BB is set up, it won't share its fs with a PC. if your run: # sdptool browse your_device_MAC_address it will list a number of services that the device supports after you connect it to your PC. Although I could not browse any files using Dophin or obexftp, I was able to send and receive files using obex push. I tried the browse but got Protocol not supported. :( -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
[gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?
I have just tried to send a file from my phone to my laptop running KDE 4.8.0 and it fails; the two devices never bind. When I set up the laptop it was running KDE 4.6.3 and bluetooth worked fine. The BlueZ libraries have changed substantially since, I think. Using 'hcitool inq' works fine, it's the KDE dialogs which sit there searching endlessly. Any recommended settings for /etc/bluetooth/*? Doc is a bit hard to come by. TIA -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.
On Thursday 07 Jul 2011, Dale wrote: Well, I'm going to send this then open Konsole. See if it locks up again. There was a fairly well documented problem, on the Gentoo fora at least, with the nvidia drivers, Xorg-server-1.10, KDE 4.6 and Konsole. I had it on several machines that locked up as soon as you resized konsole. The solution was to fall-back to Xorg 1.9 server and drivers. However, with the latest Xorg drivers and nvidia drivers, the problem is solved: [I] x11-base/xorg-drivers (1.11@01/07/11): Meta package containing deps on all xorg drivers [I] x11-base/xorg-server (1.10.2@25/06/11): X.Org X servers [I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers (275.09.07@25/06/11): NVIDIA X11 driver and GLX libraries I am running kernel 2.6.39-r2 but i don't believe that is critical. HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling -- -- -- Robin Atwood. mobile: +91 9986 037121 --
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?
On Thursday 23 Jun 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 23 June 2011 19:16:08 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:23:58 +0200, pk wrote: It refuses to die because it's still very useful in certain niche areas (hpc, numerical computing etc.) where modern languages doesn't cut it... :-) Or so the Fortran programmers with jobs to protect will tell you... You'll be telling us there's still a place for Cobol next :-O Of course there's a place for Cobol, a classic one is in the bank my gf does data warehousing at. There's not a single soul in the entire bank that is willing to sign off on a project to replace the Cobol that has run justfinethanksverymuch for 25+ years It's the latest thing! http://visualcobol.microfocus.com/ -Robin --
Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that Just Works?
On Wednesday 30 March 2011, Robin Atwood wrote: I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware worked out of the box with Linux. I am most concerned about WiFi/audio/webcam, the finer points of hibernation are of lesser concern. Currently I have a Linux Certified machine but I want to avoid shipping costs to the UK. Thanks to everyone who replied. The overwhelming choice seems to be a ThinkPad so I have just ordered a T510 with a Core i7, 4GB of 1033 RAM and a 1600x900 screen Now I can't wait for it to be delivered. :) Hopefully this thread will be useful to other users. Cheers -Robin. -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
[gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that Just Works?
I am in the market for a new laptop and would be interested if anyone else on the list had recently bought a laptop in which all the hardware worked out of the box with Linux. I am most concerned about WiFi/audio/webcam, the finer points of hibernation are of lesser concern. Currently I have a Linux Certified machine but I want to avoid shipping costs to the UK. TIA -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling -- -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon KMS driver - what benefits?
On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/23/2010 02:20 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/22/2010 09:40 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/22/2010 07:02 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: I have just gone through the steps to use the Radeon KMS driver on my old laptop which has an RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]. Everything seems to work all right and I get the right render string from glxinfo. However, I thought it might enable compositing to work on the KDE4 desktop but there is no change. What's more, glxgears used to give about 2200 FPS but now it's 50! So have I been wasting my time? You have to enable compositing yourself in System Settings. Of course, but it didn't take. KMS means you're using DRI2 now, which results in a VSync'ed OpenGL rendering. Though I'd expect 60FPS because of VSync, not 50 :-P One other thing you should do is to enable the gallium USE flag and re-emerge Mesa. Then switch to the Gallium driver using: eselect mesa r300 gallium Because that driver is the recommended one for your hardware (R300). The classic driver should be avoided. Thanks, I would try that, but... # emerge -av media-libs/mesa These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libX11-1.4.0 [1.3.6] USE=-doc -ipv6 -static-libs - test (-xcb%*) 2,036 kB [ebuild R ] media-libs/mesa-7.8.2 USE=nptl pic xcb -debug (-gallium) - motif (-selinux) VIDEO_CARDS=radeon -intel -mach64 -mga -nouveau -r128 - savage -sis -svga -tdfx -via 0 kB I set gallium in /etc/make.conf but (-gallium) means the flag is turned off in a profile somewhere? Oh, you're not on ~arch. I assumed to much. I don't know how that works on old versions of the drivers and Mesa, or whether Gallium3D was any good with old versions of Mesa. I can only confirm that it works on recent versions. For your KDE problem, try adding/changing these in your ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc: [Compositing] Backend=OpenGL CheckIsSafe=false DisableChecks=true Enabled=true GLDirect=true GLTextureFilter=1 GLVSync=false OpenGLIsUnsafe=false When I try to enable compositing KDE gives a message that it's not possible. Setting Disable checks also gives an error message. So I cannot see any actual benefit. Try the whole thing I posted, because some of the settings do *not* have a GUI button and can only be enabled/disabled by editing kwinrc. Nah, the desktop failed to load. I am now trying mesa-7.9 from the x11 overlay. -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon KMS driver - what benefits?
On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Robin Atwood wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/23/2010 02:20 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/22/2010 09:40 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/22/2010 07:02 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: I have just gone through the steps to use the Radeon KMS driver on my old laptop which has an RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]. Everything seems to work all right and I get the right render string from glxinfo. However, I thought it might enable compositing to work on the KDE4 desktop but there is no change. What's more, glxgears used to give about 2200 FPS but now it's 50! So have I been wasting my time? You have to enable compositing yourself in System Settings. Of course, but it didn't take. KMS means you're using DRI2 now, which results in a VSync'ed OpenGL rendering. Though I'd expect 60FPS because of VSync, not 50 :-P One other thing you should do is to enable the gallium USE flag and re-emerge Mesa. Then switch to the Gallium driver using: eselect mesa r300 gallium Because that driver is the recommended one for your hardware (R300). The classic driver should be avoided. Thanks, I would try that, but... # emerge -av media-libs/mesa These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libX11-1.4.0 [1.3.6] USE=-doc -ipv6 -static-libs - test (-xcb%*) 2,036 kB [ebuild R ] media-libs/mesa-7.8.2 USE=nptl pic xcb -debug (-gallium) - motif (-selinux) VIDEO_CARDS=radeon -intel -mach64 -mga -nouveau -r128 - savage -sis -svga -tdfx -via 0 kB I set gallium in /etc/make.conf but (-gallium) means the flag is turned off in a profile somewhere? Oh, you're not on ~arch. I assumed to much. I don't know how that works on old versions of the drivers and Mesa, or whether Gallium3D was any good with old versions of Mesa. I can only confirm that it works on recent versions. For your KDE problem, try adding/changing these in your ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc: [Compositing] Backend=OpenGL CheckIsSafe=false DisableChecks=true Enabled=true GLDirect=true GLTextureFilter=1 GLVSync=false OpenGLIsUnsafe=false When I try to enable compositing KDE gives a message that it's not possible. Setting Disable checks also gives an error message. So I cannot see any actual benefit. Try the whole thing I posted, because some of the settings do *not* have a GUI button and can only be enabled/disabled by editing kwinrc. Nah, the desktop failed to load. I am now trying mesa-7.9 from the x11 overlay. Mesa 7.9 allows you to use eselect to set the gallium driver but it *still* doesn't make any difference. OTOH, it doesn't seem to do any harm so I will leave the new driver in place in the hope that in the future it will improve. ;) -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
[gentoo-user] Radeon KMS driver - what benefits?
I have just gone through the steps to use the Radeon KMS driver on my old laptop which has an RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]. Everything seems to work all right and I get the right render string from glxinfo. However, I thought it might enable compositing to work on the KDE4 desktop but there is no change. What's more, glxgears used to give about 2200 FPS but now it's 50! So have I been wasting my time? TIA -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon KMS driver - what benefits?
On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/22/2010 07:02 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: I have just gone through the steps to use the Radeon KMS driver on my old laptop which has an RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]. Everything seems to work all right and I get the right render string from glxinfo. However, I thought it might enable compositing to work on the KDE4 desktop but there is no change. What's more, glxgears used to give about 2200 FPS but now it's 50! So have I been wasting my time? You have to enable compositing yourself in System Settings. Of course, but it didn't take. KMS means you're using DRI2 now, which results in a VSync'ed OpenGL rendering. Though I'd expect 60FPS because of VSync, not 50 :-P One other thing you should do is to enable the gallium USE flag and re-emerge Mesa. Then switch to the Gallium driver using: eselect mesa r300 gallium Because that driver is the recommended one for your hardware (R300). The classic driver should be avoided. Thanks, I would try that, but... # emerge -av media-libs/mesa These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libX11-1.4.0 [1.3.6] USE=-doc -ipv6 -static-libs - test (-xcb%*) 2,036 kB [ebuild R ] media-libs/mesa-7.8.2 USE=nptl pic xcb -debug (-gallium) - motif (-selinux) VIDEO_CARDS=radeon -intel -mach64 -mga -nouveau -r128 - savage -sis -svga -tdfx -via 0 kB I set gallium in /etc/make.conf but (-gallium) means the flag is turned off in a profile somewhere? -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon KMS driver - what benefits?
On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Mick wrote: On 22 November 2010 17:02, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: I have just gone through the steps to use the Radeon KMS driver on my old laptop which has an RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]. Everything seems to work all right and I get the right render string from glxinfo. However, I thought it might enable compositing to work on the KDE4 desktop but there is no change. What's more, glxgears used to give about 2200 FPS but now it's 50! So have I been wasting my time? Which xorg-server version are you using? x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.2.901 - everything is current. -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Radeon KMS driver - what benefits?
On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/22/2010 09:40 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/22/2010 07:02 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: I have just gone through the steps to use the Radeon KMS driver on my old laptop which has an RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]. Everything seems to work all right and I get the right render string from glxinfo. However, I thought it might enable compositing to work on the KDE4 desktop but there is no change. What's more, glxgears used to give about 2200 FPS but now it's 50! So have I been wasting my time? You have to enable compositing yourself in System Settings. Of course, but it didn't take. KMS means you're using DRI2 now, which results in a VSync'ed OpenGL rendering. Though I'd expect 60FPS because of VSync, not 50 :-P One other thing you should do is to enable the gallium USE flag and re-emerge Mesa. Then switch to the Gallium driver using: eselect mesa r300 gallium Because that driver is the recommended one for your hardware (R300). The classic driver should be avoided. Thanks, I would try that, but... # emerge -av media-libs/mesa These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libX11-1.4.0 [1.3.6] USE=-doc -ipv6 -static-libs - test (-xcb%*) 2,036 kB [ebuild R ] media-libs/mesa-7.8.2 USE=nptl pic xcb -debug (-gallium) - motif (-selinux) VIDEO_CARDS=radeon -intel -mach64 -mga -nouveau -r128 - savage -sis -svga -tdfx -via 0 kB I set gallium in /etc/make.conf but (-gallium) means the flag is turned off in a profile somewhere? Oh, you're not on ~arch. I assumed to much. I don't know how that works on old versions of the drivers and Mesa, or whether Gallium3D was any good with old versions of Mesa. I can only confirm that it works on recent versions. For your KDE problem, try adding/changing these in your ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc: [Compositing] Backend=OpenGL CheckIsSafe=false DisableChecks=true Enabled=true GLDirect=true GLTextureFilter=1 GLVSync=false OpenGLIsUnsafe=false When I try to enable compositing KDE gives a message that it's not possible. Setting Disable checks also gives an error message. So I cannot see any actual benefit. Thanks for the tips! -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] How to exclude a directory from rsync
On Tuesday 16 November 2010, Mick wrote: Try: 'rsync -a -l -v --exclude */System Volume Information -e ssh -c blowfish -l root /mnt/User_WinXP/ 10.10.10.25:/home/httpd/backup' From man rsync Note that if you don’t specify --backup-dir, (1) the --omit-dir-times option will be implied, and (2) if --delete is also in effect (without --delete- excluded), rsync will add a protect filter-rule for the backup suffix to the end of all your existing excludes (e.g. -f P *~). This will prevent previously backed-up files from being deleted. Note that if you are supplying your own filter rules, you may need to manually insert your own exclude/protect rule somewhere higher up in the list so that it has a high enough priority to be effective (e.g., if your rules specify a trailing inclusion/exclusion of ’*’, the auto-added rule would never be reached). HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB
On Thursday 11 November 2010, Dale wrote: I just checked again, it is still working. I'm liking that I can watch a video whenever I want instead of when it decides to work. ;-) I also have good news to report. I upgraded to Qt 4.7.0 and my xserver is a reformed character! It sits and chugs away at 1.0% CPU like it used to with Qt/KDE 3.5. No other graphics related packages were updated at the same time, so it's definitely Qt which made the difference. HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB
On Monday 08 November 2010, Dale wrote: Robin Atwood wrote: On Saturday 06 November 2010, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: This is getting weird. I haven't rebooted in a few weeks now. I tried to watch a video a bit ago and it was slow again. It was down to about 2 or 3 frames per second. It is awful. If I go tell it to switch to opengl, it gets fast again but after a while it will go back to being really slow. Why do I have to keep telling it to use nvidia's opengl when it says it is using it and I have switched to a few times? If it is using it, why does it slow down until I tell it to switch? I did do a huge KDE upgrade the other day. I don't recall seeing anything else X related being updated but I could have missed something in that LONG list. I did do a baselayout upgrade and portage itself has been upgraded a few times. Any ideas on why this thing keeps doing this? Would a reboot even help in this situation? When it gets very slow start up top and see what's using the CPU. My bet is the Xserver. I have a GeForce 9400 GT 512MB and the xserver will happily use 90% while nothing much is happening. Start a KDE4 app which constantly updates (ktorrent, kps are good 3rd party examples) and the xserver goes crazy. HTH -Robin Nope, it wasn't that here. This is what top says: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 17995 root 20 0 45360 15m 3360 R 89.6 0.7 0:35.72 glxgears 32113 dale 20 0 305m 162m 27m S 3.3 8.0 17:56.38 seamonkey-bin 31796 root 20 0 187m 76m 30m S 2.0 3.8 21:51.94 X 31914 dale 20 0 286m 47m 24m S 1.7 2.3 18:04.02 kwin It was glxgears that was taking up the most CPU time but I think the rest of it was processing the video. Thing is, nothing has been updated and I have not even logged out of KDE since it was working this morning. So, without me doing a single thing, it has stopped working as it should. It's like the card is being bypassed as far as it using its own CPU to process the picture. Oh, look at this miserable mess: 2 frames in 8.5 seconds = 0.236 FPS 2 frames in 8.7 seconds = 0.230 FPS 2 frames in 8.3 seconds = 0.241 FPS 2 frames in 8.1 seconds = 0.246 FPS 2 frames in 8.1 seconds = 0.247 FPS 2 frames in 8.1 seconds = 0.247 FPS 2 frames in 8.3 seconds = 0.241 FPS Trust me, to see those little wheels turn that slow is really boring. Going back to single user and switch this again. I have noticed that telling it to switch to nvidia's opengl while in single user mode does seem to last longer. Going to re-emerge the drivers to while I am at it. Can't hurt anything. Still open to ideas cause this is weird. AFAIK, all eselect opengl does is set up some symlinks so you use NVidia libraries and not Mesa ones. You might want to poke around and check last access dates. HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB
On Monday 08 November 2010, walt wrote: On 11/06/2010 01:06 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: ,,,I have a GeForce 9400 GT 512MB and the xserver will happily use 90% while nothing much is happening. Start a KDE4 app which constantly updates (ktorrent, kps are good 3rd party examples) and the xserver goes crazy. That sounds to me like a bug somewhere. Do you have the fancy kde user interface enabled? (Can't remember what it's called.) Compositing is turned on but turning it off doesn't help. -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB
On Saturday 06 November 2010, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: This is getting weird. I haven't rebooted in a few weeks now. I tried to watch a video a bit ago and it was slow again. It was down to about 2 or 3 frames per second. It is awful. If I go tell it to switch to opengl, it gets fast again but after a while it will go back to being really slow. Why do I have to keep telling it to use nvidia's opengl when it says it is using it and I have switched to a few times? If it is using it, why does it slow down until I tell it to switch? I did do a huge KDE upgrade the other day. I don't recall seeing anything else X related being updated but I could have missed something in that LONG list. I did do a baselayout upgrade and portage itself has been upgraded a few times. Any ideas on why this thing keeps doing this? Would a reboot even help in this situation? When it gets very slow start up top and see what's using the CPU. My bet is the Xserver. I have a GeForce 9400 GT 512MB and the xserver will happily use 90% while nothing much is happening. Start a KDE4 app which constantly updates (ktorrent, kps are good 3rd party examples) and the xserver goes crazy. HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Setup for two graphical logins on one machine
On Thursday 04 November 2010, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 12:53 +0100, Markus Oehme wrote: Hi everybody, I've got a somewhat exotic wish: I want to have two graphical logins on my box. Currently I'm using /etc/init.d/xdm to start slim which in turn starts an XFce session after login. All of this happens on vt7 (reachable via ctrl-alt-f7). Now I wish for a second graphical login on vt8. What I currently hope for is a way to tell /etc/init.d/xdm to start two instances of slim, one on vt7 and one on vt8. Bonus points if the second instance of slim starts a fluxbox session instead of an XFce session upon login. Do you think this is possible? AFAIK, you must poke around in /etc/X11/ where the xserver config files are. XAccess seems to ring a bell! I have kdm here which does it all in one big kdmrc file, so I can't tell you exactly. HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Filesize does not match recorded size
On Monday 25 October 2010, Joseph wrote:
I'm trying to reinstall asterisk-1.4.22.1 but I get:
('Filesize does not match recorded size', 20776689, 11602819)
!!! Fetched file: asterisk-1.4.22.1.tar.gz VERIFY FAILED!
!!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size
!!! Got: 20776689
!!! Expected: 11602819
Refetching... File renamed to
'/usr/portage/distfiles/asterisk-1.4.22.1.tar.gz._checksum_failure_.eNAPDH
'
The asterisk in portage stable is 1.2 (too old), unstable 1.6 does not work
with some providers for me so I'm trying sticking with 1.4 I had this
problem in the past and I did solve it by:
cd /usr/local/portage/layman/voip/net-misc/asterisk/
ebuild --force asterisk-1.4.22.1.ebuild manifest
but it is not working now?
Any suggestion?
Try downloading a good copy of asterisk-1.4.22.1.tar.gz to your
/usr/portage/distfiles and then
cd /usr/local/portage/layman/voip/net-misc/asterisk/
ebuild asterisk-1.4.22.1.ebuild digest
which should get the tarball and the ebuild in sync.
HTH
-Robin
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo in chroot on s390
On Thursday 30 September 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I've got some RHEL instance on an z/VM (s390) and like to get Gentoo running in chroot. Did anyone already do that ? Or any HOWTO ? Me, some time ago. :) Have a look at http://www.binro.org/gentoo-2008.6-s390x-unofficial.tar.bz2 Unpack it and follow the README. If you already have a RHEL image running it's much easier because you do not need the starter system: just format new DASD, unpack the stage 3 onto them and chroot. Have fun! -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root
On Sunday 26 September 2010, Dale wrote: Dale wrote: It appears that maybe portage got the order wrong or something was amiss with KDE. I re-emerged the following: kdebase-menu kdebase-menu-icons kmenuedit kdesu After that, it works again. So, either something was built in the wrong order or KDE had some issue with something. Oh, no config files to update after that either. Don't know what fixed it exactly but at least it works again. Maybe the OP should try rebuilding some packages too? May help, may not. Dale :-) :-) I spoke to soon I guess. I was gone for a while so I cut my puter off. Now, the programs don't work as root again even after recompiling those packages again. This is weird. Works one time then stops again. I always run several apps under kdesu and sometimes they don't start. Once I did an strace and found it hanging opening /var/tmp/kdecache-user; deleting all those solved the problem. HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
[gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1
I decided to attempt the upgrade to KDE 4.5.1 now it's out. Upgrading Qt to
4.6.3 got rid of most of the blocks but I am left with a problem with
kdepimlib. It looks like various kdenetwork packages are dragging in
kdepimlib-4.5.1 which is incompatible with keeping KDEPIM at 4.4. Anyone else
seen this and (hopefully) have a solution?
* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
* installed at the same time on the same system.
('installed', '/', 'kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.4.3', 'nomerge') pulled in by
=kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.4.3[akonadi,-kdeprefix,-aqua] required by
('installed', '/', 'kde-base/kmail-4.4.3', 'nomerge')
=kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.4.3[akonadi,-kdeprefix,-aqua] required by
('installed', '/', 'kde-base/kdepim-runtime-4.4.3', 'nomerge')
=kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.4.3[akonadi,-kdeprefix,-aqua] required by
('installed', '/', 'kde-base/akonadi-4.4.3', 'nomerge')
(and 4 more)
('ebuild', '/', 'kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.5.1', 'merge') pulled in by
=kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.5.1[-kdeprefix,-aqua] required by ('ebuild', '/',
'kde-base/kopete-4.5.1', 'merge')
=kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.4.3[-kdeprefix,-aqua] required by ('installed',
'/', 'kde-base/knode-4.4.3', 'nomerge')
=kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.5.1[semantic-desktop,-kdeprefix,-aqua] required by
('ebuild', '/', 'kde-base/kdeplasma-addons-4.5.1', 'merge')
(and 23 more)
TIA
-Robin
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Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
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Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1
On Friday 03 September 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:54 on Friday 03 September 2010, Robin Atwood did opine thusly: I decided to attempt the upgrade to KDE 4.5.1 now it's out. Upgrading Qt to 4.6.3 got rid of most of the blocks but I am left with a problem with kdepimlib. It looks like various kdenetwork packages are dragging in kdepimlib-4.5.1 which is incompatible with keeping KDEPIM at 4.4. Anyone else seen this and (hopefully) have a solution? Are you installing from portage or from the overlay? From the kde overlay. It's not in portage yet, is it? Cheers -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood, Bangkok, Thailand. tel/fax: +66 2252 1438 mobile: +66 851 322487 MSN:ro...@binro.org Skype: abend922 Yahoo: abend922 --
Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1
On Friday 03 September 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 16:14 on Friday 03 September 2010, Robin Atwood did opine thusly: On Friday 03 September 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:54 on Friday 03 September 2010, Robin Atwood did opine thusly: I decided to attempt the upgrade to KDE 4.5.1 now it's out. Upgrading Qt to 4.6.3 got rid of most of the blocks but I am left with a problem with kdepimlib. It looks like various kdenetwork packages are dragging in kdepimlib-4.5.1 which is incompatible with keeping KDEPIM at 4.4. Anyone else seen this and (hopefully) have a solution? Are you installing from portage or from the overlay? From the kde overlay. It's not in portage yet, is it? There's an blog entry on the front page at www.gentoo.org about 4.5.1, it seems to imply that it will go into portage with kdepimlibs pegged at 4.4. But it's wasn't in portage yet as of this morning I looked at the blog entry and at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=230247 which it cites and the bug implies that you need kdepimlibs-4.5.*. So maybe the solution is to unemerge kdepimlibs-4.4.* and then rebuild KDEPIM-4.4 against kdepimlibs-4.5.1. You have kopete and other ebuilds pulling in =kdepimlib-4.5.1 so hard masking the later version won't work. I can only think of two approaches: 1. move the kde ebuilds to your private overlay and edit the DEPENDS for the offending packages, 2. wait till 4.5.* hits portage I faced the same decision and went with #2. It's lousy collection of choices, perhaps someone else has a better plan. I am sure I saw some posts here where people claimed to have installed 4.5.0 from the overlay. Maybe they have some input? Otherwise I will go with choice 2! -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?
On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers to a local distribution file. I've tried SRC_URI=file::///usr/local/Src/MyPack.tar.bz2 but file:// doesn't seem to be supported. Is there any alternative? Thanks for a hint, Helmut. (I'm using portage-2.2._rc68) ln -s /usr/local/Src/MyPack.tar.bz2 /usr/portage/distfiles maybe? HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?
On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 08/24/10 13:45:05, Robin Atwood wrote: On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers to a local distribution file. I've tried SRC_URI=file::///usr/local/Src/MyPack.tar.bz2 but file:// doesn't seem to be supported. Is there any alternative? Thanks for a hint, Helmut. (I'm using portage-2.2._rc68) ln -s /usr/local/Src/MyPack.tar.bz2 /usr/portage/distfiles maybe? Thanks, but isn't that erased when I resync next time? No. Syncing doesn't touch the distfiles. I use this technique all the time. -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
[gentoo-user] Lost some favicons
The other day Konqueror got very confused and I had to delete all of its caches in /tmp and /var/tmp. That cured the problem but all the favicons on my tool bar turned into question marks. This was mostly solved by visiting the sites and letting the icon refresh, or using Update Favicon in the bookmarks dialogue. However, a couple are stubbornly stuck as ?. Does anyone know how to reset this? Removing ~/.kde4/share/apps/konqueror/faviconrc made no difference. TIA -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] VM experiences and faqs?
On Monday 28 June 2010, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I have a 4-core Intel i3 (/proc/cpuinfo dump below) running 64 bit Gentoo. I want to try hosting 32-bit Gentoo and also OS/2 Warp 4 on it. What are people's experiences with different VM environments? Google searching turns up a lot of out-of-date blogs/wikis. My CPU... I installed OS/2 Warp 4 with KVM and it just worked (TM)! It is also incredibly fast (on a Core2 Duo). HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start Slapd (OpenLDAP)
On Saturday 22 May 2010, Christopher Kurtis Koeber wrote: Hello, I am trying to start OpenLDAP (I am following this guide http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ldap-howto.xml here) but the service fails to start. I get the double exclamations like this: Code: * Starting ldap-server ... [ !! ] When I go to /var/log/messages nothing is logged there. Anything I can do to fix this? Take a look at /var/log/ldaplog! HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start Slapd (OpenLDAP)
On Saturday 22 May 2010, Christopher Kurtis Koeber wrote: When I go to /var/log/messages nothing is logged there. Anything I can do to fix this? Oh wait, /var/log/ldaplog is my customisation of syslog-ng. But slapd messages should be written with facility local4. Trying it with the --debug option on the command line. -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] STARTTLS verification problem
On Saturday 10 April 2010, Eray Aslan wrote: On 10.04.2010 11:08, Mick wrote: Apr 9 21:45:47 my_box sendmail[4013]: STARTTLS=client, relay=smtp.comcast.net, version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL, cipher=DHE-RSA- AES256-SHA, bits=256/256 Any idea why this is happening? Nothing to worry about. It just means you do not trust the certificate issuer for smtp.comcast.net. For smtp delivery, this is perfectly fine. See below: $ openssl s_client -connect smtp.comcast.net:25 -starttls smtp [...] SSL-Session: [...] Verify return code: 20 (unable to get local issuer certificate) versus when I tell it to trust some CAs (including verisign) on the local machine: openssl s_client -connect smtp.comcast.net:25 -starttls smtp -CApath /etc/ssl/certs/ [...] SSL-Session: [...] Verify return code: 0 (ok) That's very interesting, I have puzzled about STARTTLS stuff for years! How do I make sendmail trust the CAs? At the moment my sendmail.mc looks like: define(`CERT_DIR',`/etc/mail/certs') define(`confCACERT_PATH',`CERT_DIR') define(`confCACERT',`CERT_DIR/cacert.pem') define(`confSERVER_CERT',`CERT_DIR/cert.pem') define(`confSERVER_KEY',`CERT_DIR/key.pem') define(`confCLIENT_CERT',`CERT_DIR/cert.pem') define(`confCLIENT_KEY',`CERT_DIR/key.pem') where I made the certs with the TinyCA package. TIA -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] STARTTLS verification problem
On Saturday 10 April 2010, Mick wrote: On Saturday 10 April 2010 16:32:37 Eray Aslan wrote: On 10.04.2010 18:12, Robin Atwood wrote: That's very interesting, I have puzzled about STARTTLS stuff for years! How do I make sendmail trust the CAs? This is neither necessary nor recommended for TLS. Why would that be? define(`CERT_DIR',`/etc/mail/certs') define(`confCACERT_PATH',`CERT_DIR') define(`confCACERT',`CERT_DIR/cacert.pem') define(`confSERVER_CERT',`CERT_DIR/cert.pem') define(`confSERVER_KEY',`CERT_DIR/key.pem') define(`confCLIENT_CERT',`CERT_DIR/cert.pem') define(`confCLIENT_KEY',`CERT_DIR/key.pem') These 3 files (cacert.pem, cert.pem, key.pem) are for your own server. It has been awhile since I used sendmail, but adding CA certificates to CACERT_PATH should make sendmail trust them. Again, this is contrary to best practices. Do not trust third party CA certificates unnecessarily. It might come back and bite you. Can you please explain this? I am curious too! -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 permission
On Sunday 28 March 2010, Joseph wrote: How to change permission on /dev/ttyS0 ? Which program controls it owner and permission? Is it possible to change it with hylafax? Currently I have: crw--- 1 uucp uucp 4, 64 Mar 19 13:46 /dev/ttyS0 And I wan it to be: crw-rw-rw- 1 uucp uucp 4, 64 Mar 19 13:46 /dev/ttyS0 I've tried adding a rule to 50-udev.rules in /dev but /udev is not running and when I try to restart it I get: The udev init-script is written for baselayout-2 Please do not use it with baselayout-1 This is set by parameter DeviceMode: 0660 in file /var/spool/fax/etc/config.ttyS0. You are asked in the setup script. HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 permission
On Monday 29 March 2010, Joseph wrote: On 03/28/10 23:48, Robin Atwood wrote: On Sunday 28 March 2010, Joseph wrote: How to change permission on /dev/ttyS0 ? Which program controls it owner and permission? Is it possible to change it with hylafax? Currently I have: crw--- 1 uucp uucp 4, 64 Mar 19 13:46 /dev/ttyS0 And I wan it to be: crw-rw-rw- 1 uucp uucp 4, 64 Mar 19 13:46 /dev/ttyS0 I've tried adding a rule to 50-udev.rules in /dev but /udev is not running and when I try to restart it I get: The udev init-script is written for baselayout-2 Please do not use it with baselayout-1 This is set by parameter DeviceMode: 0660 in file /var/spool/fax/etc/config.ttyS0. You are asked in the setup script. HTH -Robin Yes, you are correct. I was able to find it as well: http://wiki.contribs.org/HylaFax I had a problem make it dial-up work in Windows XP running in VirtualBox when hylafax is running. I had to disable faxgetty ttyS0 in inittab or Windows XP dial-up will not work. But wvdial works OK when Hylafax is ON. Presumably VirtualBox does not follow the Unix locking protocol: http://tldp.org/LDP/nag2/x-087-2-serial.devices.html HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't hear anything. :-(
On Tuesday 16 February 2010, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, gentoo, I'm trying to get sound to sound on my new Gentoo box, following the Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide. Everything seems to be working fine, except no sound is coming out of my loudspeakers. I've checked the obvious things: the speakers are plugged in, switched on and connected to the appropriate socket on my motherboard (the light green one). I have drivers for my motherboard's sound chips compiled into my kernel, and they are correctly identified by alsamixer. With alsamixer I've unmuted various things and turned up the volume. madplay appears to play an mp3 file I have. Just that no actual sound comes out. One other strange thing: the titles under the volume bars in alsamixer are very different from the ones in the document: Instead of Master / Headphone / Tone / Bass / Treble / 3D Contr / PCM, I've got Master / Headphon / Front / Front Mi / Surround / Center / LFE / Side / Line / Mic / Mic Boos / S/PDIF / S/PDIF D / Beep. Why is this? In particular, I'm missing the PCM volume bar which the documentation says is so important to unmute. What am I missing here? Thanks in advance! I had a similar problem with an Audigy (CA0106) card. If depends if you have analogue or digital speakers. If they are analog the S/PDIF slider must be *muted* or there is no sound. This is counter-intuitive since one's first action with Alsa is to unmute everything! HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
[gentoo-user] KDE 4.4: window tabbing?
Has anyone got the much vaunted window-tabbing of KDE 4.4 working? I have set my middle mouse button to Start window tab drag but when I try it nothing happens. Searching, I found references to a window menu option Move window to group but I don't have that. I don't think there is a USE option I have missed. Anybody have better luck? TIA -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.4: window tabbing?
On Saturday 13 February 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 13 Februar 2010, Robin Atwood wrote: Has anyone got the much vaunted window-tabbing of KDE 4.4 working? I have set my middle mouse button to Start window tab drag but when I try it nothing happens. Searching, I found references to a window menu option Move window to group but I don't have that. I don't think there is a USE option I have missed. Anybody have better luck? I have set the middle mouse button to nothing and window tabbing works great. So what do you do? Do you have the new window menu option? -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.4: window tabbing?
On Sunday 14 February 2010, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Samstag, 13. Februar 2010 schrieb Robin Atwood: Has anyone got the much vaunted window-tabbing of KDE 4.4 working? I have set my middle mouse button to Start window tab drag but when I try it nothing happens. Searching, I found references to a window menu option Move window to group but I don't have that. I don't think there is a USE option I have missed. Anybody have better luck? Do you use Oxygen or anything else as window decorator? I use crystal, where tabbing does not work. However, after I changed to Oxygen, it did. So the Decorator has to support it. Thanks, that's the problem, I use Crystal. Changing to Oxygen makes it all work. Bummer, I don't much like Oxygen. ;) Cheers -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with weather plasmoids
On Monday 14 December 2009, Matthias Krebs wrote: Am Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009 16:44:49 schrieb sean: Robin Atwood wrote: Since the massive Qt 4.6.0/KDE 4.3.4 update I have noticed that the search widget for the various weather plasmoids always returns Cannot find 'London' or whatever. This is on two systems; anyone else notice this? Just tried it here, and had the same results as you wrote. This has been fixed upstream, but it's not in portage yet. http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=67t=84388sid=db3072b20e6b7a1afaa29f2 fe7c44d3c There is a new version of yawp (0.3.2) which has the option of searching Accuweather and that works. HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
[gentoo-user] Trouble with weather plasmoids
Since the massive Qt 4.6.0/KDE 4.3.4 update I have noticed that the search widget for the various weather plasmoids always returns Cannot find 'London' or whatever. This is on two systems; anyone else notice this? TIA -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for x86 or AMD64 disassembler
On Sunday 06 December 2009, David Relson wrote: Indeed, hexdump mbr would show me the bytes but I want to see the code as instructions. objdump works fine for ELF. Being greedy, the ideal tool would handle all 3 formats. The immediate need is pure binary (like the MBR). A couple of weeks ago I had to resort to an old DOS disassembler for a DOS executable. I'd be much happier with a straight Linux solution. [I] dev-util/biew (5@28/12/08): A portable viewer of binary files, hexadecimal and disassembler modes. HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] NFS poor performance, high system load
On Tuesday 24 November 2009, Hal Martin wrote: Roy Wright wrote: On Nov 23, 2009, at 8:11 PM, Hal Martin wrote: Hello all, Sorry if it seems like this is a repeat question, but I've gone through my Gentoo list for the past 2 years and none of the answers provided for previous threads on this seem to work for me. Here's the situation: /etc/exports: /mnt/daigo 192.168.0.31(rw,insecure) /etc/exports: /var/media 192.168.80.0/24(async,no_subtree_check,rw,no_root_squash,insecure) That's fixed it! Thanks! I'm now getting ~50MB/s over NFS. System load is still up around 6, but I can live with that. FWIW, I think it is the async option that makes the difference. It certainly fixed it for me when I had a similar problem. -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
