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How do How do I unsubscribe   please unsubscribe  me

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RE: [gentoo-user] =dev-lang/spidermonkey-60.5.2_p0-r4 fails @world update

[Sean O'Myers]

How do I unscripted

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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] =dev-lang/spidermonkey-60.5.2_p0-r4 fails @world 
update

On Saturday, 20 June 2020 00:07:45 BST urp...@gmx.com wrote:

> I haven't thought about these things in a long time. I've never had more
> than 4GB of RAM.

Welcome to the world of compiling everything from source.

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RE: [gentoo-user] emerge -u fails with "OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory"

[Sean O'Myers]

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From: J. Roeleveld
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To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u fails with "OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot 
allocate memory"

On 16 June 2020 20:31:56 CEST, n952162  wrote:
>Admonished to get everything updated, I turned to my raspberry pi with
>Sakaki's binary image.  Synced and updated portage with no problem.
>Then I did an emerge -u @world and got (after *hours* of dependency
>checking):
>
> >>> Jobs: 0 of 206 complete, 1 running Load avg: 2.84, 3.44, 3.85
> >>> Emerging binary (1 of 206) sys-libs/glibc-2.31-r5::gentoo
> >>> Jobs: 0 of 206 complete, 1 running Load avg: 2.84, 3.44, 3.85
> >>> Jobs: 0 of 206 complete Load avg: 3.60, 3.54, 3.87
> >>> Installing (1 of 206) sys-libs/glibc-2.31-r5::gentoo
> >>> Jobs: 0 of 206 complete Load avg: 3.60, 3.54, 3.87
>Exception in callback AsynchronousTask._exit_listener_cb(method...0x7f9180d9d8>>)
>handle: method...0x7f9180d9d8>>)>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/asyncio/events.py", line 145, in _run
> self._callback(*self._args)
>   File
>"/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line
>201, in _exit_listener_cb
> listener(self)
>   File
>"/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/_emerge/BinpkgPrefetcher.py", line
>31, in _fetcher_exit
> self._start_task(verifier, self._verifier_exit)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/_emerge/CompositeTask.py",
>line 113, in _start_task
> task.start()
>   File
>"/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line
>30, in start
> self._start()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/_emerge/BinpkgVerifier.py",
>line 59, in _start
> self._digester_exit)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/_emerge/CompositeTask.py",
>line 113, in _start_task
> task.start()
>   File
>"/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line
>30, in start
> self._start()
>   File
>"/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/portage/util/_async/FileDigester.py",
>line 30, in _start
> ForkProcess._start(self)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/_emerge/SpawnProcess.py",
>line 112, in _start
> retval = self._spawn(self.args, **kwargs)
>   File
>"/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/portage/util/_async/ForkProcess.py",
>line 24, in _spawn
> pid = os.fork()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/portage/__init__.py", line
>246, in __call__
> rval = self._func(*wrapped_args, **wrapped_kwargs)
>OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory
>
>What's the recommended course of action here?
>
>Log attached.

Suggestion:
1) ensure you only have 1 job running and absolutely no parallel builds. 
"--jobs 1" for both emerge and make

2) get SWAP, preferably on USB stick/harddrive so as not to kill the SD card.

Because rasppis are low on memory and they have very specific uses, I tend not 
to bother with Gentoo on them.

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RE: [gentoo-user] What's with all these "acct-group" ebuilds recently?

[Sean O'Myers]

How do unsubscrip from all

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From: Walter Dnes
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Subject: [gentoo-user] What's with all these "acct-group" ebuilds recently?

  Inquiring minds want to know.  What exactly do they accomplish,
besides cluttering up a database somewhere?

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RE: [gentoo-user] docutils needing py2.7, but not wanting py2.7?

[Sean O'Myers]

I know this off the subject  but could you tell me where I can buy Gentoo I
Try buying one from Amzon.com the cd was Fragmented

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From: Ashley Dixon
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] docutils needing py2.7, but not wanting py2.7?

On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 05:56:04PM -0500, Dale wrote:
> Seeing the output of emerge --info for that package may shed some light
> on the problem but allowing etc-update to change the config isn't going
> to help.  It's in one of its circular problems that comes from something
> else.
>
> Maybe we will get more info shortly.

Are you able to replicate this problem, attempting to install all the  mentioned
packages with the --pretend option  and  USE="-python_targets_python2_7" ?  I've
been trying various things for about  half-an-hour  and  still  can't  see  this
behaviour on my own machine.

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Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver-5.15 doesn't find images

[sean]

On 12/29/2011 08:02 AM, Philip Webb wrote:

I tried updating to Xscreensaver 5.15 , but it fails to load images
eg for the Jigsaw screensaver, using a default image instead.
Going back to 5.14 solves the problem.  Has anyone else seen this ?



Same problem here on 5.15.

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Drive Mount

[sean]

On Nov 30, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
 
 
 That's good news. Is that the external USB cable or something inside a
 drive case?
 
 I'd suspect something like a slightly suspect USB controller
 somewhere. Changing the cable probably shifted the electrical
 parameters on the cable just enough that it started working.
 
 I should give that a try here and see if I get so lucky!
 
 Cheers,
 Mark
 
 

The external USB cable.

Sean

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Drive Mount

[sean]

On 11/27/2011 04:02 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:





I have something like 10 USB drives here at home. 9 of those drives
works perfectly in 5 machines in the house. 1 drive works when
attached to 4 of the machines but produces a similar error when
attached to my most expensive i7-980x machine.

I've never determined what causes it and have sort of decided it's
just some weird incompatibility...

- Mark



Mark,

	I swapped to a very short USB cable to connect the drives to my system. 
It cured the problem here.


Sean

[gentoo-user] USB Drive Mount

[sean]

I have two 500GB USB drives that my Gentoo system here will not read. 
Both these drives are fat formatted.


The tail of DMESG, the entries actually go on for a long long time, has 
the following report for either of those two drives,

[ 6027.085508] ehci_hcd :01:0a.2: detected XactErr len 0/8 retry 29
[ 6027.085636] ehci_hcd :01:0a.2: detected XactErr len 0/8 retry 30
[ 6027.085760] ehci_hcd :01:0a.2: detected XactErr len 0/8 retry 31
[ 6027.085885] ehci_hcd :01:0a.2: devpath 3 ep0in 3strikes
[ 6027.136031] ehci_hcd :01:0a.2: GetStatus port:3 status 001002 0 
ACK POWER sig=se0 CSC

[ 6027.136052] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 3
[ 6027.136062] hub 1-0:1.0: state 7 ports 5 chg  evt 0008

Both these fat formatted drives are easily read on several other systems 
running Windows or MAC OS X.


The Gentoo system will read small usb memory sticks up to 16 GB fat 
formatted.

The Gentoo system will also read a 750 GB NTFS drive without problems.

Is anyone able to point me in the direction to figure out why the fat 
usb drives will not be read by the Gentoo system?


Thanks
Sean

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

[sean]

On Mar 15, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Matthew Finkel wrote:
 
 
 Is it possible you ran depclean prior to compiling the newest kernel that you 
 emerged? 

Do not think so.
I keep things up to date and there were no warnings flags such as the 
nvidia-drivers that notified me of the missing .config in usr/src/linux.

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

[sean]

On 03/12/2011 01:28 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote:

 
 But if this was a pre-existing build, he should have had numerous
 kernels configured, unless he removed/moved the config each time he
 upgraded. 
 
 Sean,
 
 Two questions. I don't think you ever replied as to whether /usr/src is
 a mounted partition, is it? Also, did you have multiple kernels emerged
 into different slots before this happened? if so, does portage still
 think they're installed?

It was not a mounted partition.
No multiple kernels. I try to clean up after myself.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /usr/src/linux gone

[sean]

On 03/09/2011 07:01 PM, walt wrote:

 Just as an example, I use the sys-kernel/gentoo-sources package for
 my kernel source code.  

I use gentoo-sources as well.

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

[sean]

On Mar 11, 2011, at 10:08 PM, Matthew Finkel wrote:
 
 
 Did you reboot your system and then realize it was empty or did you notice it 
 was empty after merging the updates?

As the updates were running, when it came time to update the nvidia-drivers, a 
message appeared that it could not find a valid .config in /usr/src/linux
I went to investigate and the linux directory under /usr/src was completely 
gone.
Fortunately I keep a backup copy of .config.

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

[sean]

On Mar 10, 2011, at 5:12 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:

 On Thursday 10 March 2011 03:31:55 Dale wrote:
 
 Did you perhaps run --depclean and it removed it?  That's the only way I
 can think of that emerge would remove it.
 
 Depclean might have removed the files from the source package, but it 
 wouldn't have removed .config or anything resulting from compilation. Not 
 unless it's horribly broken, in which case I'm sure we'd have heard by now.
 
 -- 
 Rgds
 Peter
 

I do run depclean after updating the system.
Still at a loss as to the cause.

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

[sean]

On Mar 10, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
 
 
 Another random cause I can think of would be some of the cruft
 cleaning scripts that there are around and that are not part of
 Gentoo.
 
 On a more paranoid though, it could also be a rootkit, or maybe your
 box was hacked.
 
 But, otherwise, you removed it, maybe without noticing.
 
 --depclean would never remove this, even if it was buggy enough to
 remove all your kernels (which it isn't) it wouldn't remove all the
 files that do not belong to the package, and there are thousands of
 these in any kernel tree that's been configured and/or compiled.
 Hence, the non-empty directories would never be removed either.
 
 -- 
 Jesús Guerrero Botella
 
 

If you have anything you wish me to check, I will.
But I know that I did not remove it.

I su'd in the terminal, started the updates, and as mentioned eventually saw 
the nvidia-drivers complaining about not finding a .config.
That is what led me to discover the missing directory.
I update the system regularly.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /usr/src/linux gone

[sean]

On Mar 10, 2011, at 8:55 AM, James wrote:

 sean tech.junk at myfairpoint.net writes:
 
 
 
 As I said I do not know how this happened, this system has been running
 fine for years with little effort  to maintain.
 
 Hmmm,
 Not a good idea.
 

What I mean by that is that I have had few real problems with it, the system is 
always kept up to date.

[gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

[sean]

I just did an update of my system and now the linux directory under
/usr/src is not there.
In fact under /usr/src there is nothing.

Something change or would anyone have any ideas of what might have
happened, and how to fix?

Thanks
Sean

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/src/linux gone

[sean]

On 03/09/2011 06:41 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:

 
 You rm'ed it while doing a fantastic imitation of a numbnut?
 Portage for sure did not do it, so that leaves you.

I did not delete it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /usr/src/linux gone

[sean]

thanks for the info.
As I said I do not know how this happened, this system has been running
fine for years with little effort  to maintain.

Re: [gentoo-user] E17 installation

[sean]

I thought Gentoo was supposed to be bleeding edge when it came to all
things Linux.

Why would something like E17, (or any package,) still need to be applied
through an overlay after all this time instead of just being in portage?
I thought building from scratch was to be the way to put a package
together based on what you want, and what is available on your sytem.
I understand that some basic needs are required to build a package, but
again, I figured working from source would make such things so much more
flexible.

I am not trying to start any type of nasty discussion, it is just a
nagging question I have wondered about.

Thanks
Sean

[gentoo-user] KDE's RSSNow Browser Selection

[sean]

In a recent upgrade, I forget which one, the KDE Plasmoid RSSNow now
only opens a link in Konqueror despite my setting of Firefox as the
default browser.

Is anyone else seeing this, and might now a setting or fix to correct
this RSSNow setting?

Thanks
Sean

[gentoo-user] Camera App

[sean]

Is anyone able to recommend an application that can snap a picture using
a webcam?

I would prefer one not really tied to Gnome or KDE, but if it is a must,
I would choose KDE.

Being in portage is a nice plus as well.

Thanks,
Sean

Re: [gentoo-user] Joomla

[sean]

On 06/09/2010 02:14 AM, Matthias Fechner wrote:
 Hi Mick,
 
 Am 09.06.10 08:05, schrieb Mick:
 I can't answer directly your question, but unless you have a
 particular reason to use Joomla, I would strongly recommend to give
 Drupal a try.  It is a more powerful CMS with more modules than
 Joomla.

 
 yes you are right with your comment, I currently use joomla and tried to
 switch to drupal, but an essential modul, docman, is not available for
 drupal.
 If you do not need a tool that manages you download I would recommend
 drupal too.
 
 Matthias
 

I am only interested because it is being implemented where I work and
want to try to become familiar with Joomla a bit.

[gentoo-user] Joomla

[sean]

Is anyone able to point me at a definitive write-up of Joomla on Gentoo
(amd64)?

Any recommend use flags or other tips from those who have set this up to
get the best from this package?


Thanks
Sean

Re: [gentoo-user] Sansa Clip+

[sean]

Alan McKinnon wrote:

 
 what is the output from dmesg?
 

I have the Sansa Clip + in MSC mode, though have tried the other two modes.

The tail end of my last few connects, and disconnects.
Not sure of how much to include.


[16243.196854] usb 3-3.2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and
address 6
[16248.196977] usb 3-3.2: khubd timed out on ep0in len=0/64

[16253.197094] usb 3-3.2: khubd timed out on ep0in len=0/64

[16258.196213] usb 3-3.2: khubd timed out on ep0in len=0/64

[16258.262213] usb 3-3.2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[16258.521154] ohci_hcd :01:00.1: urb 88023a512b40 path 3.2
ep0in 5fd6 cc 5 -- status -62
[16258.524141] ohci_hcd :01:00.1: urb 88023a512b40 path 3.2
ep0in 5ec2 cc 5 -- status -62
[16258.527141] ohci_hcd :01:00.1: urb 88023a512b40 path 3.2
ep0in 5ec2 cc 5 -- status -62
[16258.546169] hub 3-3:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2
[16258.549198] hub 3-3:1.0: state 7 ports 4 chg  evt 0004
[16258.555149] hub 3-3:1.0: port 2, status 0100, change 0001, 12 Mb/s
[16258.758118] hub 3-3:1.0: debounce: port 2: total 175ms stable 100ms
status 0x100
[16260.159893] hub 3-3:1.0: state 7 ports 4 chg  evt 0004
[16260.164996] hub 3-3:1.0: port 2, status 0101, change 0001, 12 Mb/s
[16260.278845] hub 3-3:1.0: debounce: port 2: total 100ms stable 100ms
status 0x101
[16260.345831] usb 3-3.2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and
address 7
[16265.345960] usb 3-3.2: khubd timed out on ep0in len=0/64
[16270.345081] usb 3-3.2: khubd timed out on ep0in len=0/64
[16275.345208] usb 3-3.2: khubd timed out on ep0in len=0/64
[16275.411186] usb 3-3.2: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[16275.658149] ohci_hcd :01:00.1: urb 88017cd349c0 path 3.2
ep0in 5fd6 cc 5 -- status -62
[16275.661133] ohci_hcd :01:00.1: urb 88017cd349c0 path 3.2
ep0in 5ec2 cc 5 -- status -62
[16275.664130] ohci_hcd :01:00.1: urb 88017cd349c0 path 3.2
ep0in 5ec2 cc 5 -- status -62
[16275.683163] hub 3-3:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2
[16275.686154] hub 3-3:1.0: state 7 ports 4 chg  evt 0004
[16275.692136] hub 3-3:1.0: port 2, status 0100, change 0001, 12 Mb/s
[16275.894652] hub 3-3:1.0: debounce: port 2: total 175ms stable 100ms
status 0x100
[16275.894660] hub 3-3:1.0: state 7 ports 4 chg  evt 0004
[16277.276874] hub 3-3:1.0: state 7 ports 4 chg  evt 0004
[16277.287223] hub 3-3:1.0: port 2, status 0101, change 0001, 12 Mb/s
[16277.431845] hub 3-3:1.0: debounce: port 2: total 125ms stable 100ms
status 0x101
[16277.498836] usb 3-3.2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and
address 8
tardis sean

Re: [gentoo-user] Sansa Clip+

[sean]

Damian wrote:

 Did you enable USB in your kernel?
 
 

Sure did, USB memory sticks work fine, and I believe they work on the
same principal as the Clip+.

I attached dmesg output into another reply.

[gentoo-user] Sansa Clip+

[sean]

Hello All,

My son just purchased a Sansa Clip+ and from what I read it is supposed
to be accessible in Linux, it would look like a USB drive for drag and drop.

Anyway, I updated the firmware to the latest, and set the USB mode on
the Clip+ to MSC.

I am wondering if I need to setup support in the kernel, or something else?

Any tips anyone?

Thanks
Sean

Re: [gentoo-user] Sansa Clip+

[sean]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
 
 Do you do yet the obvious first step, which is to plug in it and see what 
 happens?
 
 If so, what happened?
 If not, do so, then post what happened.
 
 

That I had tried.
The device is not seen.

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with weather plasmoids

[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.

Re: [gentoo-user] cmake - need help

[sean]

Helmut Jarausch wrote:
 Hi,
 
 unfortunately I have no experience with cmake.
 The current version of kde-base/step-4.3.4 fails because it cannot find
 the eigen2 include directory. (I have created a bug report
 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295411
 )
 
 Looking at  kdeedu-4.3.4/step/CMakeLists.txt
 there is
 include_directories(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} ${EIGEN2_INCLUDE_DIR})
 
 
 How is this CMakeLists.txt processed (how to debug it).
 
 Many thanks for a pointer,
 Helmut.
 

There is an eigen use flag.
Perhaps you need that?

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE apps, with minimal KDE install

[sean]

Mick wrote:
 
 I don't mean to hijack the OP's thread, but why would it be that although I 
 have switched the darned thing off, it still keeps popping up every time I 
 start kmail?

As the original poster of this thread, have fun, I found my answer,
enjoy your discussion.

[gentoo-user] KDE apps, with minimal KDE install

[sean]

I do not run the KDE desktop here but do like and have used some of
their apps, Gwenview and K3B being some examples.
Previously I could install the minimum KDE 3 support needed and that was it.

It would seem that now in order to install such an app as K3B I have to
include the entire KDE 4 desktop.
Is this what others are seeing or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks
Sean

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE apps, with minimal KDE install

[sean]

Dale wrote:
 
 I would also add, watch the USE flags.  You may be able to turn some
 off, that may help as well.
 Dale
 


Altering some USE flags was a big help. I had been altering them, but
finally it worked.
I went from over 300 packages down to 32.

[gentoo-user] USB auto mounting

[sean]

Using Windowmaker with Thunar as a file manager, with the volume manager
in place and that plugin is enabled.

For some reason Thunar is now not seeing any USB device when plugged
in. I am not sure when this stopped working.

My USB devices of keyboard, trackball, and webcam are working fine.
If I lsusb I can see the flash drive listed when inserted.

I have tried re-emerging various items hoping that it would bring it
back to life. Obviously no luck since I am posting.

Would anyone have any ideas on a possible cause and cure?

Thanks in advanced,
Sean

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.

[sean]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
 
 What kind of card?
 
 It's likely formatted with FAT, there's hundreds of tools for Windows that 
 can 
 undelete files on FAT. I recall using such stuff written by a certain Mr 
 Peter 
 Norton when I was still but a little lad...
 

I think they have a compact flash camera.
As mentioned, they no longer have a Windows system at their house, they
decided to try out Linux, and have been using it now for several months.
It was an old pc and I set them up with Xubuntu. I felt Gentoo would
have been to much for them to maintain.

So far, leaving out some of the minor learning curves, they think it has
been great.

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.

[sean]

Mick wrote:
 
 It goes without saying that you should create an image of the card on your 
 machine using e.g. dd, mount it using -o loop and then perform any recovery 
 with testdisk or what not on that image.
 

I pointed them to the testdisk package and the instructions.

[gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.

[sean]

Some friends, who are trying out Linux on their home system,
accidentally deleted some pictures on their camera memory card, while it
was plugged into the camera.

Is there any software to recover a deleted file off of a memory card in
such a circumstance?

I already told them not to use the card for anything else and to lock it.

Thanks
Sean

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering a deleted file.

[sean]

Jesús Guerrero wrote:


 
 photorec is probably perfect for this concrete task.
 
 http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
 

Thanks, I will pass it on.

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo Messenger replacement

[sean]

What version of Pidgin?
I am running 2.5.8 and it connects to yahoo without problems.
Did you emerge with the yahoo flag enabled, maybe that could be the culprit?

[gentoo-user] virtual modem

[sean]

I was looking through portage trying to find any tools that might allow 
me to trick an old program that has built modem support to instead 
communicate over a local network.I found nothing, does anyone know of 
such a package?



I have an old program running in dosbox that I am tying to get to 
communicate with another system also running in dosbox.


Thanks all in advance,
Sean

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual modem

[sean]

Paul Hartman wrote:

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:56 AM, seantech.j...@myfairpoint.net wrote:

I was looking through portage trying to find any tools that might allow me
to trick an old program that has built modem support to instead communicate
over a local network.I found nothing, does anyone know of such a package?


I have an old program running in dosbox that I am tying to get to
communicate with another system also running in dosbox.


DOSbox has this feature built in. See:

http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Configuration:SerialPort

http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=19256




Thanks Paul

[gentoo-user] Mozilla Lightening Alarms

[sean]

Hello All,

	Is there an option I am missing in Thunderbird's Lightening extension, 
or some other way to get alarms to appear when Thunderbird is not running?


I have noticed also that if Thunderbird is shutdown at the time of a 
reminder popping up, it does not pop up later after the fact when 
Thunderbird is started.


Thanks
Sean

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla Lightening Alarms

[sean]

Paul Hartman wrote:

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:57 AM, seantech.j...@myfairpoint.net wrote:

Hello All,

   Is there an option I am missing in Thunderbird's Lightening
extension, or some other way to get alarms to appear when Thunderbird is not
running?

I have noticed also that if Thunderbird is shutdown at the time of a
reminder popping up, it does not pop up later after the fact when
Thunderbird is started.



From the FAQ on the Lightning website:


Can Sunbird/Lightning remind me when closed? Can Sunbird start minimized?
No, Sunbird and Lightning can't give pop-up messages or send
e-mails when they are not running. There is a 'trick' for this
problem. You can hide Sunbird in the tray. This can be done with
Suntray or Minimize to Tray for Windows and Kdocker for Linux.





Thanks, I had hoped there was some other undocumented trick.

[gentoo-user] Escape a hung X session

[sean]

Does anyone know a way to kill an X session when it locks up?

CTRL-ALT-Backspace and anything else that was tried does not kill the 
session.

Sadly we have to pull the power to get back in.
There is not other system at the location to get in remotely.

Thanks
Sean

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

[Sean]

On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 16:46 +0100, bn wrote:
 So, what kind of traps like that should I expect?

I expect things like that to have potentially changed with every point
release of the 2.6 kernel, since the numbering scheme is practically
useless now. Every 2.6.XX release has the potential for major changes.

Typically I will run a make oldconfig and then walk through the
menuconfig options. I don't consider it a pleasant exercise, but since I
don't upgrade the kernel very much it's not so terrible.

-Sean

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

[sean]

Is there a repository somewhere that you can download fdi files for a
device?
It seems that would make things easier for all, since many people likely
use the same devices in exactly or closely similar ways?

I have to get my trackball working again the way I had before the upgrade.

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

[sean]

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

 
 just do the stuff in xorg.conf and hal's 'settings' should be ignored.
 
 
 

My xorg.conf is being ignored for my trackball settings.
Is there something that needs to be added somewhere for the conf file to
be read?

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

[sean]

Joseph wrote:
 On 04/07/09 17:22, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
 
 which pretty much makes hal a bad idea. 'use hal so you don't have to
 edit files' and then have to edit hal's convoluted xml files instead
 of the simple, easy to read xorg.conf ...
 
 I'll second it, why complicate simple design; going from text file
 configuration to xml :-(
 
 

I agree, right now it is a step backward. A nasty one.
But if there were some sort of repository that you could just download a
config, or it automatically fetches, then that would be an improvement.

If the repository was setup for example like the Gentoo-Portage.com site
interface, it might make things real easy.

Just think, you search for a device like a Kensington Mouse or keyboard.
A list is presented of what features a config which has been created
will do for that device, you pick and download it into the proper
directory, done!

Of course also set things up so people could upload a config they have
made or tweaked with some details of what it does.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to freeze my Gentoo system

[Sean]

On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 13:40 -0700, Michael Higgins wrote:
 Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for a while, 
 yet allow package-rN updates...

I don't think there's a real good way to accomplish this, but the
approach I would take is to setup a local portage tree that the system
syncs from. You could then cherry pick the ebuild updates that go into
that local, and now customized, portage tree. 

-Sean

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash Drive Install

[sean]

Iain Buchanan wrote:

 
 Just be mindful of James' comment about lots of writes!
 

It is more of a curiosity project.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash Drive Install

[sean]

James wrote:

 
 If you come up with more/better tips, post back to the thread.
 
 goodluck,
 
 
 James
 
 

I did come across this site, http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ and tried out
the Gentoo install using Windows.
Amazingly easy.

On bootup it is asking for a login and password, I do not know what the
default is for the live CD, so I just left login and password as blank.
Logs in without problem.

Did CTL/ALT/F1 to get to a prompt and set a root password, and then
back into the GUI using CTL/ALT/F7 to get back in and all seems OK.

Took a quick look at the make.conf and it shows the standard message
that I am working using the Live CD and not to make changes there.

Not much else yet tried.

Have Fun,
Sean

[gentoo-user] Flash Drive Install

[sean]

Once you go through the steps instructed here,
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml

Can the live CD install be altered to work just like a normal Gentoo system?
I have managed to get my hands on a 16GB flash drive, and am thinking of
trying it out.

Thanks
Sean

[gentoo-user] Xine and Mplayer Sound problems

[sean]

Recently whenever I try to play a CD, or a file such as an .avi, Xine
instead generates a xine-out.wav and no sound. The video portion looks
perfect.
If I play the xine-out.wav, it is the audio track from the file I tried
to play.

Trying to play that same .avi with Mplayer yields a pop-up window.
It reports an error, DVB card number must be between 1 and 4.
Like Xine, the video portion displays without problems.

Anyone have any ideas on possible causes?

Trying something like Ekiga, which has sound and video, works without
problems.

Thanks
Sean

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting of USB drives

[sean]

AJ Spagnoletti wrote:

Anyone ever reply to this?  If you're using Gnome, then HAL + Gnome will
take care of it.  I am using HAL + ivman in my servers.   It works well for
fixing mount points.




Thanks, I got several replies but all pointed to just using hal +
gnome, as most desktop environments take care of automounting these
days.




I run Windowmaker here, using Thunar, with it's requirements, as a file 
manager with the plugin Thunar-volman and it detects USB drives without 
problems.

Re: [gentoo-user] libqt-mt.so.3:

[sean]

YoYo siska wrote:

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:48:48PM -0400, sean wrote:

Iain Buchanan wrote:

sean wrote:
sounds like you need to run revdep-rebuild


Gentoo is kind-of different to other distros, so unless the references  
you found were all about gentoo, they're probably leading you up the  
wrong path.


I think you've upgraded qt, hence whatever program you're trying to run 
hasn't been compiled with the new lib versions.


HTH,

Thanks to Dales reply, I have found libqt.
See below.
The system is a fresh install, but it is also amd64 bit, as the result  
shows below.


 equery b libqt-mt.so.3
[ Searching for file(s) libqt-mt.so.3 in *... ]
x11-libs/qt-3.3.8-r4 (/usr/qt/3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3 - libqt-mt.so.3.3

Here is a ls of /usr/qt/3/lib
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  15 Sep 16 10:00 libqt-mt.so.3 -  
libqt-mt.so.3.3
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  17 Sep 16 10:00 libqt-mt.so.3.3 -  
libqt-mt.so.3.3.8

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 8628296 Sep 16 10:00 libqt-mt.so.3.3.8

So it is linked.
The application is called Firstclass, www.firstclass.com , an email  
client my employment uses, so I thought I would try to get it running  
here. Though I would not use it for my own purposes.

I figure the 64bit OS is giving things a headache.


Just to make sure, is the app you're trying to run 32bit or 64bit?
If its 32bit, you would need some of the emul-linux-x86 packages,
perhaps  app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-qtlibs to get the 32bit libqt-mt..

yoyo






32 bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Whether Gentoo framebuffer console support 1280*800?

[sean]

Astomi Chen wrote:

http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/uvesafb/

I follow this guide compile the kernel, add 
video=uvesafb:1024x768-32,mtrr:3,ywrap line to grub kernel command line.


The framebuffer size didn't change, one more problem the console is very 
slow. When I input one character from keyboard, it respond 1 second 
later. I checked the system status(Top, free -m) it seems no problem.





Here is mine, if it helps.
vga=0x31B video=vesafb:1280x1024-16,mtrr:3,ywrap

Perhaps you need the vga statement for your option at the beginning?

Re: [gentoo-user] libqt-mt.so.3:

[sean]

YoYo siska wrote:

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:48:48PM -0400, sean wrote:

Iain Buchanan wrote:

sean wrote:
sounds like you need to run revdep-rebuild


Gentoo is kind-of different to other distros, so unless the references  
you found were all about gentoo, they're probably leading you up the  
wrong path.


I think you've upgraded qt, hence whatever program you're trying to run 
hasn't been compiled with the new lib versions.


HTH,

Thanks to Dales reply, I have found libqt.
See below.
The system is a fresh install, but it is also amd64 bit, as the result  
shows below.


 equery b libqt-mt.so.3
[ Searching for file(s) libqt-mt.so.3 in *... ]
x11-libs/qt-3.3.8-r4 (/usr/qt/3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3 - libqt-mt.so.3.3

Here is a ls of /usr/qt/3/lib
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  15 Sep 16 10:00 libqt-mt.so.3 -  
libqt-mt.so.3.3
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  17 Sep 16 10:00 libqt-mt.so.3.3 -  
libqt-mt.so.3.3.8

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 8628296 Sep 16 10:00 libqt-mt.so.3.3.8

So it is linked.
The application is called Firstclass, www.firstclass.com , an email  
client my employment uses, so I thought I would try to get it running  
here. Though I would not use it for my own purposes.

I figure the 64bit OS is giving things a headache.


Just to make sure, is the app you're trying to run 32bit or 64bit?
If its 32bit, you would need some of the emul-linux-x86 packages,
perhaps  app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-qtlibs to get the 32bit libqt-mt..

yoyo




Unfortunately the package wants the arts use flag in place, and I do not 
want arts installed.

[gentoo-user] libqt-mt.so.3:

[sean]

I am receiving the below error when trying to load a specific program.

error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot open shared 
object file: No such file or directory


I can find references to this problem all over the internet, but not a 
cure. This should give you system info,
Linux tardis 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 #5 SMP Tue Sep 16 16:54:41 EDT 2008 x86_64 
AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux


Thanks
Sean

Re: [gentoo-user] libqt-mt.so.3:

[sean]

Iain Buchanan wrote:

sean wrote:



sounds like you need to run revdep-rebuild


Gentoo is kind-of different to other distros, so unless the references 
you found were all about gentoo, they're probably leading you up the 
wrong path.


I think you've upgraded qt, hence whatever program you're trying to run 
hasn't been compiled with the new lib versions.


HTH,


Thanks to Dales reply, I have found libqt.
See below.
The system is a fresh install, but it is also amd64 bit, as the result 
shows below.


 equery b libqt-mt.so.3
[ Searching for file(s) libqt-mt.so.3 in *... ]
x11-libs/qt-3.3.8-r4 (/usr/qt/3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3 - libqt-mt.so.3.3

Here is a ls of /usr/qt/3/lib
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  15 Sep 16 10:00 libqt-mt.so.3 - 
libqt-mt.so.3.3
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  17 Sep 16 10:00 libqt-mt.so.3.3 - 
libqt-mt.so.3.3.8

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 8628296 Sep 16 10:00 libqt-mt.so.3.3.8

So it is linked.
The application is called Firstclass, www.firstclass.com , an email 
client my employment uses, so I thought I would try to get it running 
here. Though I would not use it for my own purposes.

I figure the 64bit OS is giving things a headache.

Thanks
Sean

[gentoo-user] Xorg Draglock Button

[sean]

I am trying to get DragLockButtons to work in Xorg for my trackball.

I have been able to get it to function but it will only activate when 
the pointer is over the scroll bar.After this is done I can move the 
trackball in any direction.


Is this how it is supposed to work or can I get it to function by 
pressing the DragLockButtons anywhere in the frame?




Thanks
Sean

Re: [gentoo-user] Video DVD Creation

[sean]

If you like to use a DVD-R, you may better use cdrecord instead of growisofs in 
order to get compatibility. Growisofs was designed on top of DVD+RW which uses 
something similar to packetwriting.


Use 


mkisofs -i xx.iso -dvd-video -r -J DVD/
cdrecord -v -sao xx.iso

Jörg



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[gentoo-user] Video DVD Creation

[sean]

Following these steps 
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Applications_GUI_Multimedia/AVI_to_DVD

to create a DVD all went along great, including the Step 6 test.

I burned the DVD as instructed in the second half of step 6 then tried 
the disc in my player.

It did not play, the DVD player just ejected the disc.
Also tried the DVD in my computer and on insert it did not automatically 
start to play, as a store purchased DVD would do.


From command line I can get Xine to play the disc.

Any ideas, perhaps a switch is missing on the burn step?

Thanks
Sean

p.s. I know this is not Gentoo specific, but I am trying to create this 
disc using Gentoo.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Video DVD Creation

[sean]

Joerg Schilling wrote:

sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Following these steps 
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Applications_GUI_Multimedia/AVI_to_DVD

to create a DVD all went along great, including the Step 6 test.

I burned the DVD as instructed in the second half of step 6 then tried 
the disc in my player.

It did not play, the DVD player just ejected the disc.


Did you install cdrkit instead of the official cdrtools?

If you have correct all upercase file names and if you use toe real mkisofs
it should work.

The mkisofs clone genisoimage is know for problems.

Jörg



Thanks Jorg,

	I updated cdrkit, I was a bit behind. The DVD will now play properly on 
the computer, but not the player. Perhaps my Phillips player does not 
like DVD-R.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Video DVD Creation

[sean]

Joerg Schilling wrote:

sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

	I updated cdrkit, I was a bit behind. The DVD will now play properly on 
the computer, but not the player.


A better idea is to update to cdrtools. cdrkit is still 3 years behind cdrtools
and the bug you mentioned has never been in the original software.

Jörg



Thanks again Jorg,

I removed cdrkit and installed cdrtools.
Same results.

Have Fun,
Sean
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Re: [gentoo-user] Video DVD Creation

[sean]

Jorg,

	Another update. I had made two attempts burning my movie to a no-brand 
DVD-R.


Not wanting to waste another DVD-R I instead used a brand name DVD+RW 
for another test.
It worked, the movie played. When I get the chance I will pick up a 
brand name DVD-R and try the burn again.


Thanks for the help,
Sean
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Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone help

[sean]

Michael Pobega wrote:


No matter what I do the Mic doesn't seem to make any sound through my
laptop's speakers...Any other ideas on what might be causing this
problem?



For KDE I had to specify in KMix which device to capture sound.
Perhaps you need to check such an option in your desktop of choice.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone help

[sean]

Michael Pobega wrote:


I use wmii and I really don't want to have to merge qt just to test out
my sound device...Any other suggestions?



alsamixer is the only other thing that comes to mind.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Qmail and Spamassassin won't integrate

[Sean]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:13:21PM -0600, darren kirby wrote:
 quoth the Tim Garton:
 
 Hi Tim,
 
  I run spamassassin with exim, so can't offer all that much help, but
  as for attempt 1 you may try running:
  spamc -R  {some file containing full source of a sample email}
 
  to make sure spamassassin is running correctly.  It should spit back a
  score and a possibly a list of tests failed, depending on how
  spamassassin is configured.  if you don't get this, or get a score
  like 0/0, something is wrong with your spamassassin setup.
 
 Thanks for this. 'spamc -R  testmail' was failing (hanging forever) 
 while 'spamassassin  testmail' was working fine. This led me to run the 
 spamc command within strace, which showed the command blocked during 
 a 'connect' call to 127.0.0.7. Would you believe it was a firewall issue? I 
 forgot to allow conections to localhost in my iptables script. 
 
  Also, you don't want the -P option anymore, it is deprecated and is
  the default behaviour of spamassassin now.  And you definitely don't
  want it with spamc, since it is an invalid option.  And yes, you do
  want to use spamc over spamassassin for performance reasons.
 
 Thanks for the explanation.
 
 After confirming spamc now works I played around some more. It seems my 
 ~/.qmail file was overriding the system-wide spam check in 'defaultdelivery'.
 
 I changed ~/.qmail from:
 
 |/var/qmail/bin/preline -f /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver
 
 to:
 
 |spamc |/var/qmail/bin/preline -f /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver
 
 ...and everything seems to be cherry now. All incoming mail now has X-Spam 
 headers added. 
 

qmail-scanner (mail-filter/qmail-scanner) can take care of that too, as
well as running the email through clamav (assuming you have that
installed).

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[gentoo-user] Missing .config

[sean]

I was updating my system and the nvidia drivers complained that there
was no .config in /usr/src/linux.

I looked at it was gone.
This has happened before.
Is this some bug?
I am running on amd64.

Unfortunately I do not have a current copy of .config.
Does anyone know a less painful way of rebuilding than through make
menuconfig?
I have got to remember to make a backup.

Thanks
Sean
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[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild

[sean]

I recently removed compiz-fusion after playing with it for a while.
I thought I had removed all bits but revdep-rebuild wants to emerge
emerald again.

How can I best trace what package is trying to pull emerald again?

Thanks
Sean
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[gentoo-user] KDE 4 Blocked packages

[sean]

Trying to emerge KDE 4 and have the following packages blocked.

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N] kde-base/kdelibs-4.0.0

[ebuild  N] kde-base/qimageblitz-0.0.4
[ebuild  N] kde-base/kdebase-pam-7
[ebuild  N] app-accessibility/flite-1.2-r1  USE=-static
[ebuild  N] x11-apps/xgamma-1.0.2
[ebuild  N] media-libs/libgphoto2-2.2.1-r1
[ebuild  N] kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.0.0
[ebuild  N] kde-base/phonon-4.0.0
[ebuild  N] kde-base/kdeartwork-iconthemes-4.0.0
[ebuild  N] kde-base/kdegraphics-4.0.0
[ebuild  N] kde-base/kdenetwork-4.0.0
[ebuild  N] kde-base/kdegames-4.0.0
[ebuild  N] kde-base/kdebase-4.0.0
[ebuild  N] kde-base/knotify-4.0.0
[ebuild  N] kde-base/kdeadmin-4.0.0
[ebuild  N] kde-base/kdemultimedia-4.0.0
[ebuild  N] kde-base/kdeaccessibility-4.0.0
[ebuild  N] kde-base/kdeedu-4.0.0
[ebuild  N] kde-base/kdetoys-4.0.0
[ebuild  N] kde-base/kdeutils-4.0.0
[ebuild  N] kde-base/kdeartwork-4.0.0
[ebuild  N] kde-base/kde-4.0.0

[blocks B ] kde-base/phonon:kde-4 (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-4.0.0)

[blocks B ] kde-base/knotify:kde-4 (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-4.0.0)

[blocks B ] kde-base/kdeartwork:kde-4 (is blocking
kde-base/kdeartwork-iconthemes-4.0.0)

[blocks B ] kde-base/kdeartwork-iconthemes:kde-4 (is blocking
kde-base/kdeartwork-4.0.0)

[blocks B ] kde-base/kdebase:kde-4 (is blocking
kde-base/knotify-4.0.0, kde-base/phonon-4.0.0)

Total: 22 packages (22 new, 5 blocks), Size of downloads: 100,575 kB


I feel like I am missing something obvious.
Is anyone able to shed some light?

Thanks
Sean
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 Blocked packages

[sean]

Brian Marshall wrote:
 On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:22:57 -0500
 sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Trying to emerge KDE 4 and have the following packages blocked.

 [...snip...]
 I feel like I am missing something obvious.
 Is anyone able to shed some light?

  Thanks
  Sean
 You have both monolithic and split packages installed (kdebase is
 monolithic, whereas phonon and such are split). You can either install
 kdebase-meta instead or uninstall the split blockers (installing
 kdebase will replace them).
 
 
   Brian


Thanks Brian and Ken.
Knew it was something simple but just having a brain skip.
Started kde-meta.

Sean
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Re: [gentoo-user] OOo error 65280

[Sean]

Mick wrote:

Hi All,

Has anyone else come across this error? 

ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while 
making /var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.3.1/work/ooo/build/OOG680_m9/xmloff/source/style

make: *** [stamp/build] Error 1
  [31;01m* [0m 
  [31;01m* [0m ERROR: app-office/openoffice-2.3.1 failed.

  [31;01m* [0m Call stack:
  [31;01m* [0m ebuild.sh, line 1701:  Called dyn_compile
  [31;01m* [0m ebuild.sh, line 1039:  Called 
qa_call 'src_compile'

  [31;01m* [0m ebuild.sh, line   44:  Called src_compile
  [31;01m* [0m   openoffice-2.3.1.ebuild, line  341:  Called die
  [31;01m* [0m The specific snippet of code:
  [31;01m* [0m  make || die Build failed
  [31;01m* [0m  The die message:
  [31;01m* [0m   Build failed
===


I was getting similar errors with many builds on a system I 
am currently assembling.
After looking over things I came to the conclusion based on 
whatever I saw to rebuild my kernel. So far since then 
packages that failed have now built.


Sean
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[gentoo-user] resolv.conf being overwritten

[Sean]

On a newly built amd64 based system my resolv.conf keeps 
getting overwritten on system startup so I am loosing my 
nameserver entry.


The system is set with a static address and I have 
dhcp_eth0=nodns in my conf.d/net file.


I read that this included entry would prevent my resolv.conf 
file from being overwritten. Obviously not the case.


Would anyone know a cure to prevent this little annoying 
problem?


Thanks
Sean
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Re: [gentoo-user] resolv.conf being overwritten

[Sean]

Daniel Pielmeier wrote:


I have access to my box now, did something like this work, instead of 
setting dhcp_eth0=nodns.


config_eth0=( dhcp )
dns_servers_eth0=( 192.168.0.1 )


Thanks Daniel.

	I have since discovered that myself. It seems odd that the 
install instructions do not mention this right up front for 
a static address setup. All else is mentioned.


Sean

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[gentoo-user] /bin/sh - dash?

[Sean]

I'd really like to replace the /bin/sh link to point to a smaller shell,
such as ash or dash instead of the bash default, but that apparently makes
functions.sh _very_ unhappy. Does anyone know of some unbashification
documentation for functions.sh? 

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[gentoo-user] LTSP 5

[sean]

Is anyone able to tell me what the status is of Gentoo moving to LTSP 5?

http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Ltsp5Status shows Gentoo as not
supported but states work is being done to provide LTSP-5 in the future.

Doing some searches I do not come across any information newer than
eight months old.

So would anyone know if this is still being worked on for inclusion into
Gentoo and portage?

Thanks
Sean
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building all packages except gcc

[Sean]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 03:14:47AM +0100, Miernik wrote:
 David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  /var/lib/world has a (partial) list of installed packages.  You could
  do something like:
  
   cat /var/lib/world | grep -v /gcc$ | xargs emerge
 
 ???
 
 przehyba ~ # cat /var/lib/world
 cat: /var/lib/world: No such file or directory
 przehyba ~ # uname -a
 Linux przehyba 2.6.22-gentoo-r9 #1 SMP Fri Nov 9 22:38:35 CET 2007 x86_64 AMD 
 Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
 przehyba ~ #

/var/lib/portage/world

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[gentoo-user] LTSP sound and readme.

[sean]

At this link http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ltsp.xml near the bottom in 
the FAQ there is a question posted about using the soundcard of a 
workstation.
The answer responds that there is a ltsp-sound package in Gentoo and 
more instructions can be found in the included readme.


Doing a search of portage there is only the ltsp package.
So where would this sound package be located?

I am guessing that this readme would provide those answers, but would 
anyone know where it is located?


Thanks
Sean
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Re: [gentoo-user] tftp config problem (ltsp)

[sean]

Looked over the directory structure in the tftp directory compared to 
what was setup in the ltsp directory.

Found some differences.

Copied over a directory called 2.6.17.80ltsp-1 which contained all the 
needed files in proper placement to tftp under the same original name.
Adjusted some conf files to point where needed and my test laptop 
started to boot.


First problem I ran into here was due to the touch mouse hardware.
It caused the boot to hang or panic. I deactivated the touch mouse and 
the boot restarted and progressed further till another problem.
During the boot process was getting error notices about not being able 
to connect to the nfs server.


Did some research and found this sometimes occurs when the speed of the 
server nic is so much faster then the client nic. Apparently this showed 
up with the 2.6 kernel.
Anyway, some more tweeks and had a successful boot and was greeted by 
the KDE login screen.


Logged in and was greeted by my usual desktop. Setting are still default 
so will play with them for such things as sound.


Decided to order a diskless workstation from 
http://www.disklessworkstation.com/ They appear to be a supporter of the 
ltsp project.

Also ordered an etherboot model, since that is an open standard.
Now when that shows up get to beat on it for a while.

Thanks all for the help,
Sean

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Re: [gentoo-user] tftp config problem (ltsp)

[sean]

Dan Farrell wrote:

On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:09:06 +
sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Decided to order a diskless workstation from 
http://www.disklessworkstation.com/ They appear to be a supporter of

the ltsp project.


why would you do that?  Coudn't you build an excellent diskless host
for less than they cost?  And their specs aren't very impressive...


They support the project so I figured one could not hurt.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Audio/Mpeg

[sean]

Liviu Andronic wrote:

On 10/11/07, sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Firefox is complaining that a plugin is not available for audio/mpeg
support.
Any recommendations on getting support?


Not sure if it helps:
emerge mplayerplug-in

and recently (by the same author(s))
emerge gnome-mplayer gecko-mediaplayer

Regards,
Liviu


Thanks Liviu.

This did the trick.
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Re: [gentoo-user] tftp config problem (ltsp)

[sean]

Roger Mason wrote:

I set up diskless booting recently but I'm by no means an expert, so
take my comments with plenty of salt.


Sounds like you have had better success than me.



INTFTPD_PATH=/tftpboot/

What happens with INTFTPD_PATH=/tftpboot? (remove trailing / )


Since removed. Made no difference.


Are you using syslinux?  I'm not sure but shouldn't there be a
pxelinux.0 file in /tftpboot?



I am using what ever was emerged using Gentoo's instructions.
I have had a bit more success since last posting, but not full success.
Depends on what I put in the dhcpd.conf file for the filename entry.

If it specifies
filename /pxe/pxelinux.0; it will start the boot but finally halts 
stating cannot find kernel image: linux.


If it specifies
filename /lts/vmlinuz-2.6.17.8-ltsp-1; then I get the NBP is to large 
for memory error.



So far no luck getting past either point.

Thanks
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[gentoo-user] tftp config problem (ltsp)

[sean]

I am trying to get LTSP working here.
All appear on the right track with one apparent problem, tftp'ing the file.

When I boot a client it appears to pull in the network information but 
when it starts to tftp the file, I receive a message that the file is 
not found on the client display.


I have been following the instructions here, 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ltsp.xml

and of course alter to what I need for my system.
Am I missing something obvious or something less so?

Thanks,
Sean


Below is my in.tftpd file.
# /etc/init.d/in.tftpd

# Path to server files from
# Depending on your application you may have to change this.
# This is commented out to force you to look at the file!
#INTFTPD_PATH=/var/tftp/
INTFTPD_PATH=/tftpboot/
#INTFTPD_PATH=/tftproot/

# For more options, see in.tftpd(8)
# -R 4096:32767 solves problems with ARC firmware, and obsoletes
# the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range hack.
# -s causes $INTFTPD_PATH to be the root of the TFTP tree.
# -l is passed by the init script in addition to these options.
#INTFTPD_OPTS=-R 4096:32767 -s ${INTFTPD_PATH}
INTFTPD_OPTS= -s ${INTFTPD_PATH}


The tftp file looks exactly like the one specified in the instructions.


Here is my dhcpd.conf file

#General Options
default-lease-time  21600;
max-lease-time  21620;
ddns-update-style   ad-hoc;
use-host-decl-names on;
#authoritative;

#Boot Options
allow booting;
allow bootp;

#Network Options
#option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
#option broadcast-address   192.168.0.255;
#option domain-name mydomain.net;
#option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1;
#option log-servers 192.168.0.11;
#option routers 192.168.0.1;

#LTSP Path Options
option root-path192.168.0.11:/opt/ltsp-4.2/i386;
filename /opt/ltsp-4.2/vmlinuz-2.6.17.8-ltsp-1;
#filename /tftboot/lts/ltsp-4.2/vmlinuz-2.6.17.8-ltsp-1;
next-server 192.168.0.11;

shared-network WORKSTATIONS
{
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0
{
range dynamic-bootp 192.168.0.40 192.168.0.50;
option subnet-mask  255.255.255.0;
option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
option domain-name  mydomain.net;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1;
option log-servers  192.168.0.11;
option routers  192.168.0.1;
}
}


ls of the opt/ltsp location

tardis / # cd opt/ltsp-4.2/
tardis ltsp-4.2 # ls
2.6.17.8-ltsp-1  i386  vmlinuz-2.6.17.8-ltsp-1
tardis ltsp-4.2 # pwd
/opt/ltsp-4.2
tardis ltsp-4.2 #


ls of the tftpboot structure

tardis tftpboot # pwd
/tftpboot
tardis tftpboot # ls
lts  pxe  pxelinux.cfg
tardis tftpboot # cd lts/
tardis lts # ls
vmlinuz-2.6.17.8-ltsp-1
tardis lts # cd ..
tardis tftpboot # cd pxe
tardis pxe # ls
bzImage-2.6.17.8-ltsp-1eb-5.0.9-eepro100.lzpxe  initramfs.gz
eb-5.0.9-3c905c-tpo.lzpxe  eb-5.0.9-rtl8139.lzpxe   pxelinux.0
tardis pxe #


Here is the tail of the message log. If I am rading correctly, it looks 
proper and the client is trying to start the tftp session.

Nov  3 18:44:18 tardis dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:86:43:b9:c0 via eth0
Nov  3 18:44:19 tardis dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.40 to 
00:00:86:43:b9:c0 via eth0

Nov  3 18:44:20 tardis dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:86:43:b9:c0 via eth0
Nov  3 18:44:20 tardis dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.40 to 
00:00:86:43:b9:c0 via eth0

Nov  3 18:44:24 tardis dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:00:86:43:b9:c0 via eth0
Nov  3 18:44:24 tardis dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.40 to 
00:00:86:43:b9:c0 via eth0
Nov  3 18:44:32 tardis dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.40 
(192.168.0.11) from 00:00:86:43:b9:c0 via eth0
Nov  3 18:44:32 tardis dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.40 to 
00:00:86:43:b9:c0 via eth0
Nov  3 18:44:32 tardis xinetd[12818]: START: tftp pid=12826 
from=192.168.0.40


Here is some info from the message log after starting xinetd.
That file is at default.


Nov  3 19:01:22 tardis xinetd[13084]: Reading included configuration 
file: /etc/xinetd.d/chargen-dgram [file=/etc/xinetd.conf] [line=49]
Nov  3 19:01:22 tardis xinetd[13084]: Reading included configuration 
file: /etc/xinetd.d/chargen-stream [file=/etc/xinetd.d/chargen-stream] 
[line=67]
Nov  3 19:01:22 tardis xinetd[13084]: Reading included configuration 
file: /etc/xinetd.d/cups-lpd [file=/etc/xinetd.d/cups-lpd] [line=67]
Nov  3 19:01:22 tardis xinetd[13084]: Reading included configuration 
file: /etc/xinetd.d/daytime-dgram [file=/etc/xinetd.d/daytime-dgram] 
[line=12]
Nov  3 19:01:22 tardis xinetd[13084]: Reading included configuration 
file: /etc/xinetd.d/daytime-stream [file=/etc/xinetd.d/daytime-stream] 
[line=67]
Nov  3 19:01:22 tardis xinetd[13084]: Reading included

[gentoo-user] Vixie Cron

[sean]

How is vixie-cron setup to accept remote connections?

Thanks
Sean
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Re: [gentoo-user] Vixie Cron

[sean]

sean wrote:

How is vixie-cron setup to accept remote connections?

Thanks
Sean


Forget this question, made a mistake.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Music Retrieval

[sean]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I suspect they aren't sending the information via icmp, so just the fact
that the server is pingable really doesn't provide useful information in
this particular case.


Have you tried if the servers they try to connect are reachable from
you? Just to be sure it's not their fault.



I can ping them.



I installed Audacious again and it works with error, I will just stick 
with that. I was only trying out Amarok.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Music Retrieval

[sean]

sean wrote:



I installed Audacious again and it works with error, I will just stick 
with that. I was only trying out Amarok.

That should have been without error.
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Music Retrieval

[sean]

Dan Farrell wrote:

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:01:08 -0400



I was only trying out Amarok.


What did you think?  I thought it was super cool, except it's resource
utilization is so high i don't run it anymore if I can avoid.  


I thought it looked interesting, but much more then I really need.
Took a while for playback getting started when I put a music CD in the 
player.

Like the capabilities of Internet radio, played with a bit, before removal.


I suspect they aren't sending the information via icmp, so just the
fact that the server is pingable really doesn't provide useful
information in this particular case.


yeah, but it is a lot more likely that the server would be down than
that it's just misconfigured.  servers go down all the time; they are
generally seldom administered.  so it seems to me a ping is a good
first step in testing access to these servers.  im guessing CDDB does
use IP, so if icmp can get through, so can tcp (udp,or any other
protocols encapsulated in ip).  


Audacious works fine on info retrieval, Amarok only worked a short bit, 
even when both installed together.
Still tend to think that something was not right when the package was 
emerged.

Anyway, I will stick with Audacious for now.
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[gentoo-user] Music Retrieval

[sean]

Trying both Xine and Amarok neither is pulling in music info from the 
Internet.

Use flag cddb is present.

Later after emerging K3B Xine and Amarok starting pulling in cd info.
Since emerging some other packages, they have once again stopped.

Is anyone able to give me some tips as to what to check to cure this 
problem?


Tried re-emerging the apps and some other libraries, but no luck.

Thanks
Sean
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Re: [gentoo-user] Music Retrieval

[sean]

b.n. wrote:

sean ha scritto:

Trying both Xine and Amarok neither is pulling in music info from the
Internet.
Use flag cddb is present.

Later after emerging K3B Xine and Amarok starting pulling in cd info.
Since emerging some other packages, they have once again stopped.

Is anyone able to give me some tips as to what to check to cure this
problem?

Tried re-emerging the apps and some other libraries, but no luck.


It seems more a problem with the cddb/freedb/whatever servers than with
your software...

Have you tried if the servers they try to connect are reachable from
you? Just to be sure it's not their fault.

m.


I can ping them.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Java Version

[sean]

Abraham Marín Pérez wrote:
Ok, since you have more than one JDK and JDK's can be used as JRE's you 
may have to specify which version you want your system to use. If you 
run the following command you'll know your available JVM's and also the 
one you are currently using:


java-config --list-available-vms

The one with an asterisk at the beginning will be the one you're using.

On the other hand, you should make sure whether you installed Java with 
browser-plugin capabilities. I guess you installed sun-jdk and sun-jre, 
so running this you'll have the info you need:


equery uses sun-jdk

equery uses sun-jre

equery is in gentoolkit (this time it's truly there :-P).

HTH,
Abraham





# java-config --list-available-vms
The following VMs are available for generation-2:
1)  Blackdown JDK 1.4.2.03 [blackdown-jdk-1.4.2]
*)  Sun JDK 1.5.0.12 [sun-jdk-1.5]
tardis sean # equery uses sun-jdk
[ Searching for packages matching sun-jdk... ]
[ Colour Code : set unset ]
[ Legend : Left column  (U) - USE flags from make.conf  ]
[: Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ]
[ Found these USE variables for dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.12 ]
 U I
 + + X: Adds support for X11
 + + alsa : Adds support for media-libs/alsa-lib (Advanced Linux 
Sound Architecture)

 - - doc  : Adds extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc)
 - - examples : Install example source code
 - - jce  : Enable Java Cryptographic Extension Unlimited Strength 
Policy files

 - - nsplugin : Builds plugins for Netscape compatible browsers


Blackdown was pulled in when I emerged openoffice.
As you can also see, nsplugin is in place, but I guess somehow the 64 
bit is causing the problem.
I had it working previously on this system, before I had to change the 
drive.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Java Version

[sean]

Abraham Marín Pérez wrote:

sean escribió:

Abraham Marín Pérez wrote:


The fetch restriction appears when downloading its documentation, not 
the jvm itself; if you don't have doc use flag enabled for jvm you 
won't download it, and hence, you won't experience its fetch 
restrictions.


On the other hand, which flag have you exactly enabled for getting 
java into Firefox?


Abraham



USE flag nsplugins

The instructions on Gentoo's site differ a bit from the actual results.


eselect java-nsplugin list results as below

Available 32-bit Java browser plugins
Available 64-bit Java browser plugins

No numbered options as to choose one.

I am on AMD64 and using the 64 bit version, so I figured the 64-bit 
version should support the 64 bit firefox compiled?
There are no number options because you don't seem to have any Java 
browser plugin available. This is the output I get when I run eselect 
java-nsplugin list:


Available Java browser plugins
 [1]   sun-jdk-1.5  current

Since I have sun-jdk available. Could you please run both eix ^jre$ 
and eix ^jdk$ and post the output?


Abraham


eix ^jre$
[U] virtual/jre
 Available versions:
(1.4)   1.4.1 1.4.2
(1.5)   1.5.0
(1.6)   1.6.0
 Installed versions:  1.5.0(1.5)(12:25:57 AM 08/21/2007)
 Homepage:http://java.sun.com/
 Description: Virtual for JRE

eix ^jdk$
[I] virtual/jdk
 Available versions:
(1.4)   1.4.1 1.4.2
(1.5)   1.5.0
(1.6)   ~1.6.0
 Installed versions:  1.4.2(1.4)(07:07:49 PM 08/21/2007) 
1.5.0(1.5)(12:09:34 AM 08/21/2007)

 Homepage:http://java.sun.com/
 Description: Virtual for JDK



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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: E17 and .ICEauthority

[sean]

Alan McKinnon wrote:

On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote:

I have installed E17 and it's very cool, especially with composite. I
am running into a problem though. When running KDE apps, from time to
time, I have to remove ~/.ICEauthority to get them to start. Is this
something I'll have to live with? Or, is there a fix?


Which apps do this, and are there any errors printed?

I too run e17 and often find konqueror and kontact just hang there and 
do nothing. Lately kopete is doing the same. So far I haven't found an 
actual reason for this and have been resorting to the drastic step 
of 'killall dcopserver' to fix it.


alan



I found that composite being enabled in Xorg was the cause of Xine 
hanging for me, much like you describe.

I removed it and now Xine works great.

Sean
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: E17 and .ICEauthority

[sean]

Ernie Schroder wrote:




alan

I found that composite being enabled in Xorg was the cause of Xine
hanging for me, much like you describe.
I removed it and now Xine works great.

Sean


This was happening even before I added composite, though perhaps more 
frequently now




Did you recompile as well?
I removed, or emerge -C the xcompmgr and then recompiled Xine, and I 
think I also recompiled Xorg as well.



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Re: [gentoo-user] Java Version

[sean]

Abraham Marín Pérez wrote:

The instructions on Gentoo's site differ a bit from the actual results.


eselect java-nsplugin list results as below

Available 32-bit Java browser plugins
Available 64-bit Java browser plugins

No numbered options as to choose one.

I am on AMD64 and using the 64 bit version, so I figured the 64-bit 
version should support the 64 bit firefox compiled?
There are no number options because you don't seem to have any Java 
browser plugin available. This is the output I get when I run eselect 
java-nsplugin list:


Available Java browser plugins
 [1]   sun-jdk-1.5  current

Since I have sun-jdk available. Could you please run both eix ^jre$ 
and eix ^jdk$ and post the output?


Abraham



Hello Abraham,

Sorry for the slow reply, been away for about a week.
Anyway, I have since recalled the nspluginwrapper package since last I 
was here, so all but my java plugin appears.


Your eix commands do not work, but here is the output of java -version

java version 1.5.0_12
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_12-b04)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.5.0_12-b04, mixed mode)


I saw the other posting of no 64 bit java plugin, but how is the above 
of Available 64-bit Java browser plugins listed?


I still get the above in response of eselect java-nsplugin list

Available 32-bit Java browser plugins
Available 64-bit Java browser plugins

Thanks
Sean
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Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up sftp and user permissions

[Sean Johnson]

a) The new user is asked to login with passwd as opposed to pubkey.  This is 
surprising as (I thought) that I had set up sshd_config to allow pubkey 
authentication only - need to check this again when I get home.  Other than a 
misconfigured sshd_config could it be anything else that causes this?


If you want to disable password based logons, and only use shared keys, 
then change UsePAM yes to UsePAM no.


b) Once logged in via sftp the new user can read and access other users files.  
This is because the default permission setting for /home/%u/ is 0644 
(rw-r--r--).  Is there a clever way of tightening this down without messing 
up all home file and directory permissions indiscriminately?


chmod 700 /home/*

I understand that there are many ways to skin a cat - in this case to contain 
somewhat what a plain user can and cannot do when they log in via sftp.  Some 
ideas that I have across are to use a limited shell like rssh, use an ssh 
chroot, modify the umask for user directories.


I am interested to find out what you might have tried and what you would 
recommend.


If you're that worried about them having shell access, then don't use 
sftp. Use encrypted ftp (ftp + tls ... pureftpd provides this) for file 
transfers, or even webdav over https.


-Sean
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Re: [gentoo-user] Server Network Configuration

[Sean]

I've done this sort of thing before, but never with one interface 
running dhcp. You definitely want to emerge iproute2 (which gives you 
the ip command), and add your interfaces to /etc/iproute2/rt_tables, for 
example (though in this case, 10 eth0 won't actually get used):


10 eth0
11 eth1
12 eth2

Then in /etc/conf.d/net, put:

modules_eth0=(iproute2)
modules_eth1=(iproute2)
modules_eth2=(iproute2)

config_eth0=(dhcp)

config_eth1=(10.0.0.{1-10} netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255)
rules_eth1=(from 10.0.0.0/24 src table eth1)
routes_eth1=(10.0.0.0/24 src 10.0.0.1 table eth1
 10.0.0.0/24 src 10.0.0.2 table eth1
 *** and so on ***)

Then do the same kind of thing for eth1. Now, I also seem to remember 
that I had another system that I just did everything with the ip 
commands in rc.local. And since you're also using dhcp, I don't know if 
that will muck with the routing tables everytime the IP renews itself.


Hope that helps. (Also, I seem to remember finding a decent amount of 
information about multihoming with iproute2 on the gentoo forums)


-Sean

BRM wrote:

Ok, first - I wasn't sure which list this should go to, so if this is
the wrong list please just let me know.

I am in the process of upgrading my server from a P90 running Slackware
to a newer system running Gentoo 2007.0. Everything is pretty okay
until I got to doing the network config. My basic config is as follows:

Public DHCP'd Interface - eth0 (default gw)
Private Lan Interface #1 - eth1
Private Lan Interface #2 - eth2

I also have a number of IP Aliases on the eth1  eth2. I managed this
under Slack through a series of custom rc scripts, which autodetected
the IP address of eth0 for use in the routing. However, I am having
trouble figuring out how to do the same thing in Gentoo's conf.d/net
file system.

Thus far, in /etc/conf.d/net, I have the following:

config_eth0(dhcp)

config_eth1(list of static IP addresses)

config_eth2(static ip address)

I also had a route line for eth1 and eth2, but it specified the IP of
eth1, not eth0 - which is unknown.

I've tried the following:

route_eth1(default via ${COMMAND_STRING_TO_EXTRACT_IP_OF_ETH1})

which kinda works (it does get the IP address, but fails with at adding
the route - I'm not at the system right now, so I'll have to post the
specific SIG name later); however, I am very much doubting that that is
the right way to do what I want under Gentoo.

So, my primary question is:

What is the proper way to do this under Gentoo?

I know I could just go and manually write versions of
/etc/init.d/net.eth1/eth2, but I'd rather do it the right way if there
is one, and only do that as a last resort. (And even then, wouldn't I
be risking the Gentoo Configuration system replace them with symlinks?)

Any how...any advice on the proper way to do this would be greatly
appreciated. I really like Gentoo and really do want to keep - I use to
keep Slack up-to-date manually, and just don't have the time for it
anymore, which is why I'm trying Gentoo.

Thanks,

Ben

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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

[Sean]

You could always install via a knoppix livecd, since knoppix seems to be 
the best around for odd hardware. There's really nothing special about 
the gentoo livecd as far as being able to install gentoo.


Walter Dnes wrote:

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:24:02AM +0100, Mick wrote


Could you try passing to the kernel the keyboard parameter at
this stage?  I am thinking of something like:

gentoo keyboard=gb or keyboard=41, or whatever.


  There don't seem to be any such parameters.  I did read through the
file /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and tried
various iterations of
gentoo atkbd.foobar=n

  No luck.


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Re: [gentoo-user] AutoCad2000 on wine

[Sean]

Wow .. you are one brave soul fiddling around with windows software and 
wine as root.


James wrote:

Hello,

Noodling around, I ran across a web page that said autocad2000 would
run on wine and gentoo. Naturally, I just had to test this out.

It was really quite easy.

Ivman picked up the install cd and as root I issued this command:
wine /media/sr0/autorun.exe

then It ran to 99% completion, looking like it hung on fonts:
wine: creating configuration directory '/root/.wine'...
wine: '/root/.wine' created successfully.


ixme:seh:check_no_exec No-exec fault triggered at 0x17793c, enabling 
work-around

fixme:seh:check_no_exec No-exec fault triggered at 0x1148de, enabling 
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fixme:seh:check_no_exec No-exec fault triggered at 0x113900, enabling 
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fixme:seh:check_no_exec No-exec fault triggered at 0x1450bc, enabling 
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fixme:seh:check_no_exec No-exec fault triggered at 0x144750, enabling 
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fixme:seh:check_no_exec No-exec fault triggered at 0x17825a, enabling 
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fixme:seh:check_no_exec No-exec fault triggered at 0x171298, enabling 
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fixme:seh:check_no_exec No-exec fault triggered at 0x175eaa, enabling 
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fixme:seh:check_no_exec No-exec fault triggered at 0x1604cf, enabling 
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fixme:seh:check_no_exec No-exec fault triggered at 0x176c3a, enabling 
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fixme:seh:check_no_exec No-exec fault triggered at 0x14622e, enabling 
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fixme:seh:check_no_exec No-exec fault triggered at 0x143f70, enabling 
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fixme:seh:check_no_exec No-exec fault triggered at 0x183546, enabling 
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fixme:seh:check_no_exec No-exec fault triggered at 0x172000, enabling 
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fixme:seh:check_no_exec No-exec fault triggered at 0x173da2, enabling 
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fixme:seh:check_no_exec No-exec fault triggered at 0x174458, enabling 
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fixme:seh:check_no_exec No-exec fault triggered at 0x12ba1f, enabling 
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fixme:seh:check_no_exec No-exec fault triggered at 0x12aeb8, enabling 
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fixme:seh:check_no_exec No-exec fault triggered at 0x12c3d5, enabling 
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fixme:seh:check_no_exec No-exec fault triggered at 0x179195, enabling 
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fixme:seh:check_no_exec No-exec fault triggered at 0x1a4d4c, enabling 
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fixme:seh:check_no_exec No-exec fault triggered at 0x1a5260, enabling 
work-around


I do remember some (google) noise about fonts (mostlikely missing
MS fonts, so does anyone know where I van find these fonts, or
or how to extract them from win98,2k,2000 or XP?

Since this is my first foray into wine country, any and all
suggestions are most welcome.


James





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