Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing glibc

2014-08-19 Thread Timur Aydin
No other diff program comes even close to BC in terms of diff output quality and merge capability. I am willing to go through much more hoops than this just to be able to use this under linux. And also, to avoid any misrepresentation, their support in determining the cause of the issue was

[gentoo-user] Changing glibc

2014-08-18 Thread Timur Aydin
Hi, I am using a closed source software package on my 64 bit gentoo linux system. The software package is beyond compare by scooter soft. Because of the way this package is built, it needs a specially patched version of glibc. I have patched my existing glibc version (2.18) and have been

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing glibc

2014-08-18 Thread Timur Aydin
Thanks a lot guys for the helpful responses. I will definitely try all of them, just for the learning experience, even if one does take care of the problem. Cheers! -- Timur

[gentoo-user] Forwarding bug in kernel 3.14.1 and 3.14.2

2014-05-05 Thread Timur Aydin
Hi, To all folks that use their gentoo linux PC as their internet router/gateway, don't upgrade your kernel to 3.14.1 or 3.14.2. These versions have a bug related to IP packet forwarding. Internet upload speed for the NAT clients gets extremely slow (in the order of 10Kbps), which download speed

[gentoo-user] VPN question

2013-12-23 Thread Timur Aydin
Hello everybody, I have a gentoo linux PC at home that I am using as my internet gateway. It is also running a web server and a mail server with a static IP. Everything is working fine. Now I have installed a VPN server on this system (OpenVPN) and I am using a VPN service provider to get a USA

[gentoo-user] VPN question

2013-12-23 Thread Timur Aydin
Hello everybody, I have a gentoo linux PC at home that I am using as my internet gateway. It is also running a web server and a mail server with a static IP. Everything is working fine. Now I have installed a VPN server on this system (OpenVPN) and I am using a VPN service provider to get a USA

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN question

2013-12-23 Thread Timur Aydin
On 12/23/13 17:55, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 12/23/2013 07:47 AM, Timur Aydin wrote: Hello everybody, I have a gentoo linux PC at home that I am using as my internet gateway. It is also running a web server and a mail server with a static IP. Everything is working fine. Now I have

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN question

2013-12-23 Thread Timur Aydin
On 12/23/13 18:12, Michael Orlitzky wrote: Anything you can provide, it's not clear to the rest of us how many computers are involved. Is the web/mail server only the gatway, or is that the workstation that you're using (when, for example, trying to access the website)? This is my home

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN question

2013-12-23 Thread Timur Aydin
On 12/23/13 18:24, Burak Arslan wrote: Once the VPN connection is established, among the routes pushed by your OpenVPN provider is also a default gateway entry which routes every non-local packet through the vpn. Here is the routing setup after the tunnel is up: bonsai ~ # /etc/init.d/openvpn

Re: [gentoo-user] creating overlay to modify net-fs/samba-3.6.18

2013-09-11 Thread Timur Aydin
On 09/11/13 23:13, Alan McKinnon wrote: I can't reproduce that fault here, and google hits on the matter seem to point towards stale metadata referencing eclasses that no longer exist. I have a hunch you do not have valid metadata for your local overlay, so I suggest: 1. delete the eclass

Re: [gentoo-user] creating overlay to modify net-fs/samba-3.6.18

2013-09-11 Thread Timur Aydin
On 09/12/13 01:00, Alan McKinnon wrote: Yes of course, it make a great deal of sense now. Basically, your local overlay had no idea where the parent portage tree is or how to find it so couldn't find the eclass directory. As I understand it, this information used to be hard-coded magic and

[gentoo-user] creating overlay to modify net-fs/samba-3.6.18

2013-09-10 Thread Timur Aydin
'`. * Working directory: '/usr/lib64/portage/pym' * S: '/var/tmp/portage/net-fs/samba-3.6.18/work/samba-3.6.18' == To resolve this, I just copied /usr/portage/eclass to /usr/local/portage/eclass. Is this a proper solution? -- Timur Aydin

Re: [gentoo-user] creating overlay to modify net-fs/samba-3.6.18

2013-09-10 Thread Timur Aydin
On 09/11/13 00:01, Alan McKinnon wrote: Do you have userpriv set in FEATURES? That makes emerge run as portage which cannot read /root. Here is the value of FEATURES, based on the output of emerge --info: FEATURES=assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-12 Thread Timur Aydin
(not enough Linux users, most Linux users knowledgeable about computers, and moral reasons). -- Timur Aydin

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring NFS server to handle client reboots

2013-07-01 Thread Timur Aydin
On 7/1/2013 5:09 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: A possible quick-n-dirty approach is to run a script that first does a umount of the share, and then does the mount. Ignore error messages from the umount attempt. Just tried that, but no joy. uClinux knows that the share isn't mounted after reboot

[gentoo-user] configuring NFS server to handle client reboots

2013-06-30 Thread Timur Aydin
Hi, I am using Gentoo Linux as an NFS server while doing development on an Blackfin embedded system. The Blackfin is running uClinux and the development host is Gentoo testing version (~amd64). The NFS server version is 1.2.7. Here is the problem that I am observing: I start from a known state,

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring NFS server to handle client reboots

2013-06-30 Thread Timur Aydin
On 06/30/13 20:10, Timur Aydin wrote: Here is the mount command: mount -o nolock,tcp 10.2.2.254:/romfs_2011R1 /mnt BTW, when I use UDP instead of TCP, then the mount works after repeated reboots. But I would rather use TCP, because based on past experiments I did, TCP mounted NFS shares

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring NFS server to handle client reboots

2013-06-30 Thread Timur Aydin
The server configuration is as follows: === bonsai ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/nfs # /etc/conf.d/nfs # If you wish to set the port numbers for lockd, # please see /etc/sysctl.conf # Optional services to include in default

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-13 Thread Timur Aydin
On 10/13/12 04:11, Mark Knecht wrote: Take look here. The answer is, I think, not necessarily. http://www.makelinux.net/alp/032 Hello Mark, Thank you for the link to an excellent book. However, it seems the book is talking about linuxthreads by Xavier Leroy, not nptl. I am well aware that

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-13 Thread Timur Aydin
On 10/13/12 19:15, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: We can only know seeing the code. Timur, this is the little test I made which creates 5 threads and runs them for 1 minute. In my case, `ps x` shows only 1 PID, care to give it a try? I have re-read all messages and I noticed Canek writing about

[gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-12 Thread Timur Aydin
Hi, I have done many tests on my ~x86 system to confirm that it is nptl based: - I have the nptl and nptlonly use flags in my make.conf and my system is up to date. - Running /lib/libc.so.6 shows: ta@bonsai ~ $ /lib/libc.so.6 GNU C Library stable release version 2.15, by Roland McGrath et al.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my system (really) using nptl

2012-10-12 Thread Timur Aydin
So, what I am wondering now, is my system configured for NPTL or not? pretty sure: yes. How about less YOURAPP: Dynamic section at offset ... contains 27 entries: TagType Name/Value 0x0001 (NEEDED) Shared library:

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird hibernate problem

2012-09-11 Thread Timur Aydin
On 09/11/12 19:08, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Mmmh. You didn't set CONFIG_PM_STD_PARTITION: I specified the partition on the kernel command line: ta@bonsai ~/uclinux_2011R1/db1/uclinux-dist $ cat /boot/grub/grub.conf timeout 30 default 0 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title

[gentoo-user] Weird hibernate problem

2012-09-10 Thread Timur Aydin
After corrupting my gentoo root filesystem system during hibernate experiments, I have finally finished the reinstallation. But hibernate still doesn't seem to work correctly. The symptoms are the same as during the experiments leading to the root fs corruption, but this time the root seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird hibernate problem

2012-09-10 Thread Timur Aydin
I have just tried again using pm-suspend and the same thing happens. Everything looks like it has worked, but when I do a ps ax, there are many (currently around 50) sleeping kernel threads. There are also a few extraneous migration, ksoftirq threads intermixed. -- Timur

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird hibernate problem

2012-09-10 Thread Timur Aydin
One unusual property of this system is that it has 5 additional SATA disks to be used for RAID experiments, in addition to the disk holding gentoo. So there are a total of 6 disks. But during these experiments, these 5 additional disks are not mounted. The motherboard is an Asus

[gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-18 Thread Timur Aydin
Hi, I am using the ~x86 (testing) version of gentoo linux. After recent updates, my X windows became extremely sluggish and I found out that the problem is related to a new version of mesa (7.8.2 specifically). So I downgraded to version 7.7.1 and my desktop works great again. Now I want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync'ed my ~x86 system yesterday and now resolver stopped working

2009-05-30 Thread Timur Aydin
Graham Murray wrote: Timur Aydin t...@taydin.org writes: Hi, I have synced my ~x86 system yesterday and after it completed, the resolver doesn't work for some programs anymore. For example, ping hostname says unknown host name. It doesn't even contact the dns server, which is running

[gentoo-user] Sync'ed my ~x86 system yesterday and now resolver stopped working

2009-05-29 Thread Timur Aydin
Hi, I have synced my ~x86 system yesterday and after it completed, the resolver doesn't work for some programs anymore. For example, ping hostname says unknown host name. It doesn't even contact the dns server, which is running on the same host. But dig hostname works fine. Also, using the

[gentoo-user] Building all packages except gcc

2007-11-18 Thread ~/Timur Aydin
Hello, How would I go about rebuilding all installed packages, except gcc? I suppose I could do emerge --emptytree world, but that would also merge gcc, which I don't want, because I want to be sure that the whole system is rebuilt with the same compiler. Any help is appreciated... -- Timur

[gentoo-user] Wireless PCMCIA card issue with 2.6.18 linux kernel

2007-01-21 Thread Timur Aydin
Hi, I have a Senao NL-2511CD PLUS EXT2 wireless PCMCIA card, which I am planning to use in my desktop PC through a Ricoh RL5c475 PCI-PCMCIA bridge. The relevant output from uname, lspci and lspcmcia is at the end of this message. The kernel configuration file and /etc/pcmcia/config.opts is

[gentoo-user] Wireless PCMCIA card issue with 2.6.18 linux kernel

2007-01-21 Thread Timur Aydin
Hi, I have a Senao NL-2511CD PLUS EXT2 wireless PCMCIA card, which I am planning to use in my desktop PC through a Ricoh RL5c475 PCI-PCMCIA bridge. The relevant output from uname, lspci and lspcmcia is at the end of this message. The kernel configuration file and /etc/pcmcia/config.opts is

[gentoo-user] glibconfig.h missing

2005-12-06 Thread Timur Aydin
extracted glib-1.2 and ran the configure script, and the glibconfig.h was generated. Once I copied this file into /usr/include/glib-1.2, the problem was resolved. Is this a bug or is it a misconfiguration of my system? -- Timur Aydin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-29 Thread Timur Aydin
. There should be a localhost alias in each /etc/hosts and it should point to the IP address of the relevant machine. -- Timur Aydin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-29 Thread Timur Aydin
controller on the K8N Neo2 motherboard that I am using is OHCI. I had compiled support for UHCI and EHCI and left out OHCI. After adding support for OHCI, my wheel is now working fine and I didn't see any erratic mouse behaviour so far... -- Timur Aydin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-28 Thread Timur Aydin
coming back when I turn the mouse wheel. When I boot into the gentoo that is installed on the harddisk and do the same thing, no data comes back when I turn the mouse wheel. As a result, I am almost certain that this is related to the kernel configuration. Continuing the search... -- Timur Aydin

Re: [gentoo-user] [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-28 Thread Timur Aydin
apparently doesn't see the wheel turning. -- Timur Aydin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-25 Thread Timur Aydin
the mouse pointer starts jumping all over the screen, with random click events here and there. Then it recovers for a while and then same cycle repeats again later. I am suspecting that this is related to a bug in udev... I will try switching back to devfs to see if that makes a difference. -- Timur

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD recorder recommendations

2005-08-25 Thread Timur Aydin
Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am using a Philips DVD writer for backup purposes under Gentoo with good results. -- Timur Aydin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list