Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had my music collection mounted over nfs and I ran into a similar problem: amarok wouldn't be able to read the entire thing and the nfs shares would stop working. The problem turned out to be that amarok keeps all these files /open/ and the remote share runs out of resources. I'm using audacious now without problems. - --Myk Sarah wrote: All our music (about 80 Gb, I think, mainly (but not all) OGG files) is stored on a server, accessed on a mounted Samba share. The share would mount correctly - and I tried mounting it with a variety of permissions set - but I couldn't get Amarok to 'read' the music collection successfully. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFQwi7BOPsJyAQkeARAu+NAJ99BK6kVPvBk0iMYrwKpoeEQD/R+QCfc75B ZcX9RL9HDtvHRjoQ72BI9JI= =YJlw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] ram question
memtest86+ ( http://www.memtest.org/ ) works well for detecting bad RAM, and comes standard on the x86 Gentoo install CD, I believe. Ryan Sims wrote: only the new stick is in. Is this indicative of something? I'm already pretty convinced that it's a bad stick, but I wondered if anyone could shed further light for me. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Specific Kernel Sources
Mariusz Pękala wrote:
Additionally emerge unmerge leaves the remnants of compilation
process, so you still have to do rm -r on the sources.
I've always liked to keep /usr as read-only as possible. I set a few
variables in /etc/make.conf that (I find) make everything a little more
maintainable:
--- from /etc/make.conf --
PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/portage
DISTDIR=${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/distfiles
PKGDIR=${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/portage-pkg
DISTCC_DIR=${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/distcc
KBUILD_OUTPUT=${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/kernel
end --
then I have a script that builds the kernel, setting the 'O' (oh, not
zero) parameter so that build output goes into the ${KBUILD_OUTPUT}
directory, and leaves /usr/src/kernel version pristine:
--- excerpt from makekernel script -
sourceDir=/usr/src/linux
workDir=${KBUILD_OUTPUT}
binDir=/boot
target=kernel.hostname.version.date
(cd ${sourceDir} sudo -u portage make O=${workDir} menuconfig)
(cd ${workDir}/include sudo -u portage lndir ${sourceDir}/include)
(cd ${sourceDir} sudo -u portage make O=${workDir})
(cd ${sourceDir} make O=${workDir} modules_install)
cp ${workDir}/arch/${arch}/boot/bzImage ${binDir}/${target}
-- end ---
I've been using this script (full script inlined below) for more than a
year without problems. The lndir line is there to appease packages that
build kernel modules, and expect to find ${KBUILD_OUTPUT}/include
populated with header files. make is run as user 'portage' since some
packages like to run make O=${KBUILD_OUTPUT} mrproper, so user portage
needs write access.
--myk
-- makekernel script
#!/bin/sh
#
# makekernel
#
# written by Myk Taylor, 2004
# 'makekernel' without parameters will build and install the custom
kernel for
# the local machine (that is, it will use the config file named
HOSTNAME.config
# where HOSTNAME is the hostname of the local host in caps) For example,
# TUX.config would be the config file for host 'tux'.
# 'makekernel CONF_ID' will build and install only that specific
kernel, that is,
# it will used the file named CONF_ID.config
# 'makekernel all' will build and install all kernel confs in the current
# directory (a kernel conf is identified as a file with an all-caps
stem and a
# '.config' extension)
[ -f /etc/make.conf ] source /etc/make.conf
# script parameters
sourceDir=/usr/src/linux
workDir=${KBUILD_OUTPUT:-/tmp/kernel}
binDir=/boot
# get a list of config stems
configNames=$*
# if 'all' is one of the config names, set configNames to be all the
# config files in the current directory
# elif no parameters specified, use local kernel config
if [ ! -z `echo ${configNames} | grep -w 'all'` ]; then
configNames=`ls | grep '^[A-Z0-9 _-]*\.config$' | sed
's/\.config//'`
elif [ -z ${configNames} ]; then
configNames=`hostname | sed 's/\..*//' | tr a-z A-Z`
fi
# do some sanity checking
versionFile=${sourceDir}/Makefile
if [ ! -f ${versionFile} ]; then
echo ${versionFile} not found
exit 1
fi
if [ `echo ${configNames} | grep '[^A-Z0-9 _-]'` ]; then
echo config file name stems should be in all caps
exit 1
fi
echo Making kernel(s): `echo -n ${configNames}`
osvString=^VERSION =
osplString=^PATCHLEVEL =
osslString=^SUBLEVEL =
osevString=^EXTRAVERSION =
osv=`grep ${osvString} ${versionFile} | sed s/${osvString}//`
ospl=`grep ${osplString} ${versionFile} | sed s/${osplString}//`
ossl=`grep ${osslString} ${versionFile} | sed s/${osslString}//`
osev=`grep ${osevString} ${versionFile} | sed s/${osevString}//`
if [ ! -z ${osv} -a ! -z ${ospl} -a ! -z ${ossl} -a ! -z ${osev}
]; then
osr=${osv}.${ospl}.${ossl}${osev}
else
osr=${osr:-'Unknown'}
fi
kerPrefix=kernel.
dateStr=`date +%Y%m%d`
kerSuffix=-${osr}.${dateStr}
for configName in ${configNames}; do
configFileName=${configName}.config
# add more architectures as required
if [ ! -z `grep '^CONFIG_X86_64=y' \${configFileName}\` ]; then
arch=x86_64
elif [ ! -z `grep '^CONFIG_X86=y' \${configFileName}\` ]; then
arch=i386
else
echo cannot determine target architecture in
${configFileName}
echo the script probably needs to be updated
exit 1
fi
target=${kerPrefix}${configName}${kerSuffix}
echo == building ${binDir}/${target} from ${configFileName}
mkdir -p ${workDir} chown portage:portage ${workDir}
cp ${configFileName} ${workDir}/.config chown
portage:portage ${workDir}/.config || exit 1
(cd ${sourceDir} sudo -u portage make O=${workDir}
menuconfig) || exit 1
(cd ${workDir}/include sudo -u portage lndir
${sourceDir}/include /dev/null) || exit 1
(cd ${sourceDir} sudo -u portage make O=${workDir}) ||
exit 1
(cd ${sourceDir} make O=${workDir} modules_install) ||
exit 1
mkdir -p ${binDir
Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Specific Kernel Sources
emerge -C gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 or emerge -C =gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 -C is short for --unmerge --myk C. Beamer wrote: I would like to remove the oldest one - specifically linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Removing Specific Kernel Sources
just 'rm -rf'ing the source dirs gets rid of the files, true, but not formally unmerging packages desynchronizes the package management system, which will think you still have the older versions installed. In practice, I don't think it causes any real problems (maybe it will make emerge(1) take a little longer when calculating dependencies...), but it will allow cruft to build in your system, and with it, possible troubleshooting difficulties. --myk Samir Faci wrote: is there an advantage to doing that as opposed to rm -fr /usr/src/linux-2.6.12-r10 (or whatever the dir is called)? Just curious, I always just used the rm -fr Myk Taylor wrote: emerge -C gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 or emerge -C =gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 -C is short for --unmerge C. Beamer wrote: I would like to remove the oldest one - specifically linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail
default gnupg (Enigmail) integration with Thunderbird was removed recently because of trouble with the build. from the ebuild: ewarn Enigmail Support has been dropped since it doesn't work on fresh install. ewarn The Gentoo Mozilla team is working on making enigmail its own build, ewarn sorry for the inconvenience. For now, you can download enigmail from ewarn http://enigmail.mozdev.org; --myk John Dangler wrote: Brett~ Thanks for the reply. I did find some additional information about these that tells me I should be using Firefox and Thunderbird... The USE flags on portage for thunderbird don't require gnupg, but I noticed in Mozilla mail that in order to use encrypted mail, Mozilla mail wanted it. Is there a gnupg USE flag that will emerge Thunderbird with this feature built-in? John D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] root and portage alternately own distcc lock files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After getting ccache to work, I set up distcc with another computer on my lan and compiled a few packages to test it out. It worked great until I tried to compile busybox, where it displayed the error message: distcc[12251] (dcc_open_lockfile) ERROR: failed to creat /var/portage/distcc/lock/cpu_localhost_0: Permission denied the file was owned by root:portage, so I deleted the lock directory and tried to compile busybox again. This time the error messages didn't show up and when I checked, the files were owned by portage:portage. I deleted the directory again and compiled nano. The lock files were owned by root:portage again. What's going on? Why are distcc lock files sometimes owned by root and sometimes by portage? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC0hnmBOPsJyAQkeARAlevAJ0dVwXRXClpLdeZeK1e9UntmsNJgwCgqAzo VZvYcM8fgwl+nlPALwTAW3Q= =qmBX -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] what's new with all those new packages?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think if you're using Gentoo, there is an assumption that if it's new (and acceptably stable), I want it. I agree that a comprehensive list of fixed bugs and new features would be nice for each updated package, but I imagine that it would be unwelcome extra work for the port maintainers. Especially handy would be if I were updating from version x to version y of a particular package and emerge would tell me the functional delta between those two versions. If there's a package I'm particularly interested in (or dubious about), I'll venture over to its homepage to check out the changelist when it gets updated, but I usually defer to the wisdom of the portage and package maintainers. - --myk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: portage reminds me of updating packages frequently, i have to decide what to update, and if it's worth downloading? is there a easy way to see what's new of those packages to be updated? the ChangeLog within /usr/portage/xxx-xxx/ make no sense to me. thanks. regards daniel.. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC0pxMBOPsJyAQkeARAsvEAJ9RWQ9LBWOdXJpBsesgfJP2wOBtBgCbBU0m 7LtGA+VdldKj/sxxrjlMtzg= =NhMW -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Another question on mailing cron-job output
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This sounds perfectly reasonable. cron mails you and output the command sends to stdout, so yes, redirecting its output to a file would also prevent cron's email. the crontab lines would look something like: 0 * * * * command /dev/null echo commandTitle done_deals.txt 1 3 * * * cat done_deals.txt rm done_deals.txt man bash for more info on commandline syntax. you could get even sneakier with an 'if' statement (or a combination of and ||), outputting different messages for success and failure of the cron job. compiling successful jobs into a list can be useful, but the modifications to cron to get it done are pretty minimal--I doubt there's much call for an external tool in this case. the default behavior for cron accomplishes something functionally equivalent anyway: it informs you by mail if a job fails. So you'd still know (by process of elimination) which jobs succeeded and which failed. - --myk Holly Bostick wrote: If I: Changed the individual job that I don't want mailed, but want notification of to send it's output to /dev/null (is it only /dev/null, or will cron still mail me if I output to a text file instead?) *and then to* echo the name of the job to (let's say) done_deals.txt after the job completed, and then Made a new cron job that runs last in that time period which sent me the output of cat done_deals.txt (which would hopefully contain the names of all the jobs that completed, but whose actual output was sent to /dev/null or whatever) would that work? It sounds reasonable, although I don't know how to do it (I am so not a command-line jockey), and it also sounds easily repeatable (for cron jobs of all time periods, or if new jobs are added to any time period), which supports it being doable. Does this sound flakey? Does this sound useful? And if it does sound useful, is there any tool that would allow me to create a more global setup in case I wanted to provide this solution to others (i.e. post it on the forums as some kind of script, or package it in some way for Bugzilla)? Holly -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCwsrxBOPsJyAQkeARArh+AKCyPhrkqNFdQV4RovfmzBzmjjdr8wCfS6W6 cM+/Ji3FIVOMXNb/djN787g= =SlBP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] root block device unspecified error on boot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ah, sounds similar to the discussion on http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-23080.html short version: make sure the drivers for the hdd device and filesystem are compiled into the kernel and doubld check your grub.conf kernel= line. - --myk Gentoo Linux Mailing List Client wrote: yeah I did that as well. grub is not the problem as far as I can tell. I get the boot menu just fine. my system stops when it tries to (re)mount the root partition. It seems to think I didn't specify it. I thought that's what fstab was for ??? Gentoo Linux Mailing List Client wrote: I had to move my linux partition from /dev/hda3 to /dev/hda1 I have altered /etc/fstab to reflect the move, along with /boot/grub/menu.lst yet everytime I boot I still get the following error. The root block device is unspecified or not detected. Please specify a device or shell for a shell. BOOT () :: at this point if I enter /dev/hda1 the system continues to boot fine. what am I forgetting to fix? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCoBhSBOPsJyAQkeARAn9bAJ4kizZmArNUONC0+FjoSoR+0PLJiACfe3v8 lU22SEfXXLzhyx3de5U0Y7c= =OkNf -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] When is Gentoo CVS synched to the trunk?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've noticed a few Gentoo bugs have been closed with remarks stating: 'fixed in CVS'. However, weeks later, I still haven't seen the changes reflected in the web view of Gentoo CVS. Are the maintainers committing to a different repository? And if so, how often are the two repositories synched? - --myk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCnsHmBOPsJyAQkeARAiUpAKCse2OBIxCHgDbZIupeb0AWWPzQQACffcZi RhXbTix3EV9lBvKzAQ1kzSM= =SZGm -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] root block device unspecified error on boot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have you directed the first-stage bootloader to find root on hda1? from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.0/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=10#doc_chap2 try 'grub-install /dev/hda' or 'grub' and grub root (hd0,0) (Specify where your /boot partition resides) grub setup (hd0) (Install GRUB in the MBR) grub quit (Exit the GRUB shell) - --myk Gentoo Linux Mailing List Client wrote: I had to move my linux partition from /dev/hda3 to /dev/hda1 I have altered /etc/fstab to reflect the move, along with /boot/grub/menu.lst yet everytime I boot I still get the following error. The root block device is unspecified or not detected. Please specify a device or shell for a shell. BOOT () :: at this point if I enter /dev/hda1 the system continues to boot fine. what am I forgetting to fix? TIA, Tomoki Taniguchi -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCnsxnBOPsJyAQkeARAvGqAKDAFeCbyTVjPqezDwaGr3lITAiE4ACfTxku RwFWxRzeKggA0rutmGBTBaQ= =3UIJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] When is Gentoo CVS synched to the trunk?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 D'oh. I see my mistake. The bug was fixed in an eclass, not the ebuild where I was expecting it. Sorry for the noise. Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 01:23:02 -0700 Myk Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I've noticed a few Gentoo bugs have been closed with remarks stating: | 'fixed in CVS'. However, weeks later, I still haven't seen the | changes reflected in the web view of Gentoo CVS. Are the maintainers | committing to a different repository? And if so, how often are the | two repositories synched? viewcvs updates pretty quickly. We're talking hours, not weeks. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCn0bcBOPsJyAQkeARAuUPAJ9V/tgbkGBsjzjgY8pZBz7pZoEAkwCeN/Hb YMk+fqwKOGPaZxAiV3yV3T8= =/MrV -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Back up with no root
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Run sudo after you ssh. On my network, I backup my servers by setting up sudoers on the server I want to backup and running the following command from my workstation: ssh flags user@hostname sudo dump -udumplevelf- filesystem | gzip hostname.dumplevel.date.gz Pupeno wrote: Hello, I'm trying to set up my computers so I make backups of my server from my workstation (we don't have a backup server). The thing is that I have a normal user on that server and I'm on the sudoers file to perform any root-task. Now, to back up, I'm running an rsync thru ssh to the server, but that runs as a my user because I can't ssh as root, how can I achieve root privileges to be able to perform the back up ? Thank you. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCl2JIBOPsJyAQkeARAglpAKChjai/SSVils4LLAhvBHFw4GPF0gCgx50O 4JBov/gZcdie8jtIhnBLvGw= =1cGc -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] console switching wierdness
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Which framebuffer module are you using? I have an nVidia card, and found that using the nVidia framebuffer resulted in ~1 sec latency when switching between virtual consoles. Removing the nVidia framebuffer and using vesafb-tng was the solution for me. - --myk maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, Don't even know how to google for this one. Having giving up for now getting a Radeon9250 to work with gentoo. I replaced it with an ATI Rage128 AGP card and referenced the appropriate module, aty128fb, in modules.autoload. Now, even before configuring X something bizarre happens: I'll be working away in one console then decide to ctlaltf2 to the next one, do some stuff there and ctlaltf1 back to the first; but then suddenly I lose ~80% of screen brightness! Horrified,I reboot and find everything back to normal, switch consoles back and forth, same thing happens. Anybody know what's going on? -mw -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCjCWtBOPsJyAQkeARApZDAJ9dfmAfQf7TTP/IlBcwlGM5fXGKMgCguCrS nvtqwtAzXE8C2gK2RQfBDao= =Cb3q -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sometimes emerges fail
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I find that sometimes MAKEOPTS=-j2 is the culprit. Make sometimes tries
to link an executable before all of its constituent object files are
compiled (this shouldn't normally happen, but maybe the structure of the
Makefile isn't exactly what make expects or something).
After modifying the MAKEOPTS line in /etc/make.conf to explicityly allow
only one thread: MAKEOPTS=-j1 (and patching
kernel-mod.eclass so that it respects KBUILD_OUTPUT
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89142), all my compilations have
gone smoothly.
- ---make.conf---
#
# make.conf
CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu
CFLAGS=-O3 -march=i686 -fforce-addr -ftracer -pipe
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} -fvisibility-inlines-hidden
PORTAGE_NICENESS=3
MAKEOPTS=-j1
AUTOCLEAN=yes
FEATURES=ccache distlocks sandbox buildpkg userpriv fixpackages
CCACHE_SIZE=4G
PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/portage
DISTDIR=${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/distfiles
PKGDIR=${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/packages
PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage
PORTAGE_TMPFS=/dev/shm
GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo
ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo;
USE=3dnow Xaw3d acpi audiofile bash-completion cdparanoia cjk dvd dvdr
dvdread esd flac immqt java junit kdeenablefinal mmx mozilla nptl nvidia
offensive samba sse unicode usb win32codecs xine xscreensaver
# for KDE and OpenOffice.org
LINGUAS=en zh_TW
# for gtk 1.x
#LINGUAS=en zh_TW.Big5
# for packages that build kernel modules
KBUILD_OUTPUT=/tmp/kernel
- --end make.conf-
- --myk
Grant wrote:
All of my machines will sometimes fail to emerge a package
successfully, but the next try will be successful. I've read through
this metabug:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20600
but it can't be bad hardware because it happens on 4 different systems
including a hosted remote server. Here are my CFLAGS:
CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
Could the -O2 be the problem?
- Grant
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