[gentoo-dev] Re: baselayout-1.11.12-r2 request for testers
Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org writes:
yes, it's finally that time ... after months of hearing us say 'we want to
get
new baselayout stable asap', we're serious
so can people please try out baselayout-1.11.12-r2+ and see if they notice
any
regressions ? the 'best' tests are simply rebooting and seeing if your
system comes up :)
I've been running the 1.11.x series since .8 with no problems (except the
parallel thing that was mentioned before). Good work!
I just wanted to share some of the coolness of the new scripts:
Let's say you have a wireless network that uses BlueSocket login. It's rather
annoying to have to load a web browser before you can start using the
connection. I wrote a little perl script to submit the form and call it from
postup(). (Email me if you want the script.)
A second bit of logic I added to postup() was to merge the settings from my
wireless card into the bonding interface. This works as follows:
local ESSID=$( wireless_get_essid eth1 )
if [ ${IFACE} == bond0 ] ; then
echo ESSID: $ESSID
if [ -z $(eval echo \${config_${ESSID}}) ] ||
[ $(eval echo \${config_${ESSID}}) == dhcp ] ; then
dhcpcd -t 5 bond0
else
echo $(eval echo \${config_${ESSID}})
ifconfig ${IFACE} $(eval echo \${config_${ESSID}})
(route -n | grep -q ^0.0.0.0) route del default
route add $(eval echo \${routes_${ESSID}})
fi
fi
Note that I also have these lines for the bond0 interface:
slaves_bond0=eth0 eth1
config_bond0=( null ) # I'll configure this later
The astute reader will notice that I got a little lazy and didn't use the
dhcpcd_xxx variables for that condition, but that wouldn't be too hard to hack
in there.
The end result of this is I can seemlessly go back and forth between the wired
and wireless worlds without losing network connections. It's great to be on
wireless, start a download, plug into the wired, and then get an immediate speed
boost!
Here's another hint for wireless users: Test your card's ability to respond to
iwconfig card txpower val commands. Then put whatever the max value is into
the /etc/conf.d/wireless preassociate() function. This should have a noticable
effect on your ability to connect to networks.
Thanks for making this all this possible!
--Kevin
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: baselayout-1.11.12-r2 request for testers
Am 2005-05-30 19:28 -0400 schrieb Mike Frysinger: try doing `emerge sync` and then `emerge lvm2` ... you should have a script at /lib/rcscripts/addons/lvm2-start.sh Well, the file is there. It is actually named /lib/rcscripts/addons/lvm-start.sh though. This particular error occured on my machine with baselayout-1.11.12-r2 and therefore I file a bugreport against baselayout at bugs.gentoo.org #94120. After that I found two threads here regarding new baselayout versions and changes in lvm2 handling so Ishowed up here with the issue. May be some other thing is puzzled here (2005.0 multilib on ~amd64) but I did not found out yet where to search further. Regards, Konstantin -- GPG KeyID EF62FCEF Fingerprint: 13C9 B16B 9844 EC15 CC2E A080 1E69 3FDA EF62 FCEF -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: baselayout-1.11.12-r2 request for testers
Am 2005-05-31 09:18 -0400 schrieb Mike Frysinger: did you properly `etc-update` then ? Ooops! your /etc/conf.d/rc must have RC_VOLUME_ORDER set to at least 'lvm' ARGH!! I apologize! I always watch the diff output while etc-updating exactly, even on baselayout or something else importand stuff, but this time RC_VOLUME_ORDER did not made it into my new /etc/conf.d/rc! i assume at boot you never see a message like 'Setting up the Logical Volume Manager' before the 'Checking all filesystems' message ? No, was completely missing :) Thanks for your help and tips! Kind Regards, Konsti -- GPG KeyID EF62FCEF Fingerprint: 13C9 B16B 9844 EC15 CC2E A080 1E69 3FDA EF62 FCEF -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: baselayout-1.11.12-r2 request for testers
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 06:49 pm, Konstantin Kletschke wrote: Am 2005-05-31 09:18 -0400 schrieb Mike Frysinger: did you properly `etc-update` then ? Ooops! someone (i think johnm) mentioned this to me before ... i'm going to add a small patch so that if RC_VOLUME_ORDER is unset, it'll default to raid evms lvm dm ... i'll drop it with 1.11.13 or 1.11.14 that way people who are bad and dont etc-update dont end up with bjorked systems -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-dev] Re: baselayout-1.11.12-r2 request for testers
I have an ~amd64 installation and while booting the lvm2 vgs are not activated anymore, so booting stops there. After logging in for maintenance (root is not on lvm) I type vgchange -a y press Ctrl-D and ehre we go. The string vgchange occures in no file located in /etc/init.d/*. Shouldn't that be the case? I reported it as a bug in bugzilla I have to look up the bugnumber if interest exists. This happened with baselayout-1.11.11-r1 and baselayout-1.11.11-r3 IIRC, may be the error still exists. Is the new baselayout-1.11.12-X in my portage tree already? I did not look up yet. If yes I will test that :) Regards, Konsti -- GPG KeyID EF62FCEF Fingerprint: 13C9 B16B 9844 EC15 CC2E A080 1E69 3FDA EF62 FCEF -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: baselayout-1.11.12-r2 request for testers
Konsti, See Mike's message which started this thread. He addressed lvm2 specifically: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/28317 Regards, Aron -- Aron Griffis Gentoo Linux Developer pgp9A0I1NA6JH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: baselayout-1.11.12-r2 request for testers
Am 2005-05-30 10:44 -0400 schrieb Aron Griffis: See Mike's message which started this thread. He addressed lvm2 specifically: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/28317 You mean I should go on the nerves of the LVM2 guys with that :) ? Thats OK if the lvm2 specific stuff goes into lvm2 packages... Regards, Konsti -- GPG KeyID EF62FCEF Fingerprint: 13C9 B16B 9844 EC15 CC2E A080 1E69 3FDA EF62 FCEF -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: baselayout-1.11.12-r2 request for testers
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 02:08 -0700, Duncan wrote: Hmm.. I /did/ have issues with parallel startup a couple revisions back. I had disabled that and haven't reenabled it yet. I suppose I should do that and bug it now, if it still fails. It /was/ working at one point. There may still be issues with parallel startup. It doesn't really startup in parallel and it's not much faster, so if any bugs do come up then we'll probably recommend turning it off. baselayout-1.12.0-alpha3 will have much improved parallel startup thanks to Paul Pacheco patch (bug #69854) which is essentially a re-write of the code so we're not that interested in fixing parallel startup in baselayout-1.11.x at this time. -- Roy Marples [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Linux Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
