[gentoo-user] Bug in Gentoo udev guide?
I noticed that the Gentoo udev Guide (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml) still refers to the 2.6 kernels as being proided by gentoo-dev-sources... udev is meant to be used in combination with a 2.6 kernel (like development-sources or gentoo-dev-sources). I thought for 2005.0 that was changed to the main gentoo-sources kernel ebuild... Should I file this as a bug? Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Portage downgrading question
Hi All- I needed to fill out a PDF form today, so I figured I'd try the new Adobe Acrobat Reader 7. I did the following: `ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -pv acroread` And subsequently emerged the package without the -pv. All went well, and acroread seems to work happily enough on my box. I'm impressed with the software, I just wish it was open-source. So now I'd like to do an `emerge -pvuD world` to clear up a few GLSAs that have come across in the last few days. Alas, this is among the output: [ebuild UD] app-text/acroread-5.10 [7.0] -cjk -noplugin 9,068 kB `man emerge` explains well enough why it's trying to downgrade acroread. The only place I can find some semblance of a recommendation to prevent this behavior is here: http://users.dslextreme.com/~craig.lawson/linux_notes/gentoo_portage.html Where the author suggests modifying /var/lib/portage/world so that the package reads: =app-text/acroread-7.0 But doing this doesn't change emerge's behavior when doing an `emerge -pvuD world`. It still tries to downgrade acroread. ??? Thanks, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage downgrading question
On Wed, April 6, 2005 1:32 pm, Scott Jones said: Dave, I believe that echo =app-text/acroread-7.0 ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords will fix your problem. Basically you put programs you want to have masked ~x86 in the file package.keywords in the directory /etc/portage Scott Jones Thanks, Scott and others - this fixed the problem! Best Regards, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] USB mass storage help
Hi All- I'm trying to get my new Canon 20D to talk to my Gentoo box, but so far no luck getting the mass storage device driver to see it: 1) `dmesg` reports the following when plugging in camera: usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 63 Normally the usb-storage driver loads immediately after, but not for this camera. The camera is in Normal communication mode, as opposed to the PTP setting! 2) A quick `lsmod` indicates that usb-storage is indeed not loaded. 3) Attempting to modprobe usb-storage results in the following error on dmesg: kobject_register failed for usb_storage (-17) [c01f951b] kobject_register+0x5b/0x60 [c012c725] mod_sysfs_setup+0x75/0xe0 [c012d80d] load_module+0x79d/0xa40 [c012db1a] sys_init_module+0x6a/0x1b0 [c01030df] syscall_call+0x7/0xb 4) /proc/bus/usb/devices lists the following: T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=04 Cnt=01 Dev#= 63 Spd=480 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=04a9 ProdID=30eb Rev= 0.01 S: Manufacturer=Canon Inc. S: Product=Canon Digital Camera C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=100mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none) E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 64 Ivl=64ms This behavior is the same regardless of which port I use, or if a USB hub is used. I know usb-storage is working on this machine in general, since it works fine with a USB CF card reader. Unfortunately that reader ate a CF card last time I used it, so I'd much prefer to go directly from the (much more reliable) camera. Switching to PTP mode and using gphoto or similar software is not an option...I use my own scripts to mount the mass storage device and pull the photos into my workflow, so I need mass storage support. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB mass storage help
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:54 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: The Canon 300D and A75 don't present themselves as mass storage devices, so I doubt the 20D does either. You can access it with gphoto, or by using camera:/ in Konqueror, but not as a block device. Personally, I prefer to use a card reader. A USB 2.0 reader is MUCH faster than the camera (even my old 1.1 reader was faster than the camera) and doesn't drain the camera's battery. OK, sorry for the list noise - you confirmed a suspicion that I had after subsequently trying the camera on my windows box and getting nowhere just as quickly. I dug my reader out of the trash this morning as a last-resort, and I'll see if I can snag something a little more reliable from work. I prefer using the reader as well, as it's faster and more convenient. Just needed something for the short term, until I can get a CF card reader that doesn't have a history of hosing CF cards! Thanks Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Samba getpeername failed - Reverse DNS?
Hi All- Having some odd difficulties with samba and Windows XP SP2 clients. File share browsing works just fine, but printing is taking forever. It takes several seconds to get a print dialog on a WinXP box, then several seconds more if you want to change printers, then several seconds more to actually print the job after hitting the Print button. Not experiencing any of this when printing to printers shared from non-Samba boxes. I did some poking around in the logs first. I see the following interesting things: In /var/log/messages: getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected This only occurs periodically, not every time a print attempt is made= In /var/log/samba: There are four log files made each time an XP machine connects: log.0.0.0.0 log.[the-xp-machine's-ip] log.[the-xp-machine's-netbios-name] log.[the-xp-machine's-netbios-name].old In /var/log/samba/log.0.0.0.0: smbd/connection.c:yield_connection(76) yield_connection: tdb_delete for name failed with error Record does not exist. /var/log/samba/[the-xp-machine's-netbios-name] is HUGE... Looks almost like every packet is getting logged here. My debuglevel in /etc/samba/smb.conf is set to 3. After poking around on google, I'm thinking it might be a reverse DNS issue. Some prior posts on this list pseudo-confirmed that, but I'm still not sure what I need to do to resolve it. If I try to ping one of the windows boxes by its netbios name, I get a host not found, as I would expect. But I've so far been unsuccessful in getting netbios name lookups working. I've tried adding a wins server = [ip-address-of-wins-server] in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file - no help. I've tried adding wins to the hosts: line of /etc/nsswitch.conf - no help. Meanwhile, I can type ping [somemachine] in a command window on my XP box, and it happily finds the other box. Anyone have any suggestions? I need to get this printing slowness problem resolved. Thanks, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] simple backups
On Thu, February 3, 2005 11:04 am, Nick Smith said: i read up on the man page of rsync and got that this command will backup my server to another external drive i have: mail root # rsync -avz / /mnt/backup/ but when i run that command i get a bunch of 'no such file errors' and then it starts coping everything. is this bad? [snip] the root drive is 80gig, and im backing up to an external 160gig drive, in the event that the 80gig crashes will this be good enough to just copy the contents back to another drive and have it boot work just like before the crash? or am i going about this the wrong way? there is no X on this machine so it will have to be console based. also ive never made a cron job before, im using vixie-cron, how to i make this command run every week on sunday at 3am? Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't you also exclude the mountpoint to which you're backing up? I would think that rsync would be able to detect a potential infinite recursion, but I've never tried it myself. Idea here is that you shouldn't include the backup destination in the backup itself, and since you're backing up / and /mnt/backup is part of /, you'd think it would have recursion problems. To make the job run Sundays at 0300, first run `crontab -e` as the user who should run the cron'd command. It sounds like you'd need it to be root if you don't want to get permission errors, but you may want to create a different user to run the cron job, then do fun things with groups in order to get access to the files you need. That, or create a new user who is a member of the root group, edit the crontab, then change the login shell for that user to /dev/null so that they can't log in. Running `crontab -e` will open your favorite editor (as defined by your EDITOR environment variable) in which you can add crontab lines. Their syntax can be found here: http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/crontab.htm I'd also recommend, after you get things running smoothly, using the quiet switch to cut rsync's output. That is, unless you want a report e-mailed daily to the user whose crontab contains the rsync command. If this user is really restricted, you might end up seeing a lot of sendmail (or other MTA) errors in your logs. Wouldn't want to bog down your local MTA's queue with a whole nutload of cron reports that can't be delivered! Best of luck, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hosting plan? [OT]
On Thu, January 27, 2005 10:12 am, Zhang Weiwu said: Come on, I just wish to find a host for my homepage:) Instead of having a pretty geek girlfriend (which is admirable, only a few people have the luck), why not try to appreciate art, music, literature, poem... that any thing make you not just a geek but a romantic man;) Try Linode... http://www.linode.com/ Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ISP blocking smtp
Time to start thinking about colocating SMTP_A or speaking with Comcast about unblocking the SMTP port... This may require purchasing business-class service or a static IP address... On Thu, January 20, 2005 11:08 am, Nick Smith said: well i understand that, but SMTP_B would be whoever im sending mail to, for example, an address @yahoo.com, i dont have control over yahoo's smtp server so i wouldnt be able to change any ports, the only one i have control over is SMTP_A, so what else can i do? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ISP blocking smtp
On Thu, January 20, 2005 11:51 am, Michael Sullivan said: I've been following this thread, but I'm still a little confused; You have a domain name (I think); you have a Linux system. Why do you use comcasts' SMTP server? My domain is espersunited.com. I use Cox Business Services as my ISP so that I can get a static IP address. I send all mail out through smtp.espersunited.com. That's located in the PC sitting on the floor next to me. Why can't you do that? To me it seems like the obvious choice, but I know the obvious choice is often the most difficult to see. Am I understanding the situation correctly? Some don't have the luxury of a business-class connection, and thus don't have a static IP. If this is the case for our distressed friend, chances are the proliferation of winblows virii that turn sheeple's computers into little spam servers or open relays has forced the ISP to block outgoing port 25 traffic. During my time living on-campus during my undergrad years, I had the luxury of a dhcp-assigned static IP address. I was able to accept incoming mail routed to my Linux box, but was unable to send mail out because the university had this same policy. Too many liberal arts students with insecure infected windows boxes, so IPs inside the university's range started appearing on RBLs. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System Recovery
On Thu, January 20, 2005 12:25 pm, James said: What alternatives (like a boot floppy) do I have to get this system up, so I can copy off critical files? Try burning yourself a Knoppix CD, and boot directly into this. Then you can perhaps burn your critical files off to a CD, or SCP your files to another box. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Palm/Visor + Gnome 2 + Evo 2 + gpilotd Problems...
Hi All- Just finished upgrading to Evolution 2, and I'm having a lot of trouble syncing up my PalmOS device... It all started just after running Evolution 2 for the first time, when I tried to sync. It appeared to sync fine, went through the motions, but did not actually update the contacts/to-do/calendar in Evo or on the palm with new entries created on the opposite side. So, I backed up the palm and tgz'd the ~/MyPilot and ~/.evolution directories. I then tried a variety of different things to get things syncing. The only thing that seemed to make a difference was going to /usr/share/gnome-pilot/conduits and moving the non-2.0 conduits to /usr/share/gnome-pilot/oldconduits After this, it appeared to use the new 2.0 conduits, and attempt to sync the data into Evo 2. But I ended up with duplicate records. D'oh! Running pilot-dedupe got rid of some duplicates, but I still had at least 2 copies of every entry in the contacts, calendar and to-do databases. At this point, I opted to start over, so I attempted to restore from my backups: `rm ~/.evolution -fr` `rm ~/MyPilot -fr` Hard reset Palm Untar ~/MyPilot backup Untar ~/.evolution backup Use pilot-xfer to restore pilot from ~/MyPilot/* But now, when I try to sync up the palm, I get CORBA errors. Same errors when I try to use gpilotd-control-applet to get/send the ID to the pilot. Figured next I'd try removing ~/.evolution once again and doing a straight Copy-From-Pilot to restore my contacts and calendar, since they're OK on the pilot after the pilot-xfer restore. But still can't get the pilot to sync with gpilotd. Tried unmerging and re-emerging evolution, gnome-pilot and gnome-pilot-conduits. No change. Am currently at wit's end... Has anybody got any ideas? Thanks, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Palm/Visor + Gnome 2 + Evo 2 + gpilotd Problems...
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 00:37 +0100, Heinz Sporn wrote: I do have a similar issue here. My Tungsten E synchronizes perfectly with jPilot. With Evolution only contacts are somewhat working. Memos / calender are simply ignored. Not even an initial forced copy from Palm to Evolution works - no warnings no errors. So at least I guess we are not alone ;-) OK, let's try an experiment to see if we're really on the same page. Run `gpilotd-control-applet` from a terminal window, and see what the output looks like when you try to set up a new Pilot and click Get ID from Pilot or whatever the button says... If you see the following on the terminal output, we are indeed in the same boat: (gpilotd-control-applet:8611): gpilotd-WARNING **: gnome-pilot-client.gob:484: Caught exception: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 Then we will figure out what's going on - WE SHALL EMERGE VICTORIOUS! ~Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Login, Schmogin
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 00:28 -0800, John Lowell wrote: [snip] I have no idea what in heaven's name would cause a delay of this kind. Is an answer to this problem really so obscure? God knows, maybe it is. I'm pretty far down the Linux food chain, even farther so in the Gentoo community, but this occurred to me... Is there some way you can crank up the debug output level on the kernel itself?? Usually whenever I have a problem whose source isn't immediately apparent, the first thing I try to do is scour the logs for anything off-color that occurs around the questionable point. If I don't see anything, my next knee-jerk reaction is to crank up the debug level so that there's a better chance of me catching something! Best Regards Good Luck, Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
