Re: [gentoo-user] running X at nice -10
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 13:47, gabor wrote:
and now back to the topic:
IS GIVING A HIGHER PRIORITY TO X A GOOD IDEA OR NOT ?
I can't say whether it is, or not. But, I can say that I already do.
Doesn't really seem to make any real difference tho, but I never really
had a problem before (or they were so random and rare it's nigh on
impossible to say).
Someone posted this a while ago, what I use now, works perfectly.
/* wrapper.c
* Casey Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*
* This is a quick hack that starts X with a priority
* of -10 for increased responsiveness. It should work
* but it may not :) There is no warranty or anything.
* Although I can't see anything possibly going wrong as
* there's only about 3 lines of code, worst case you
* have to reinstall X. Basically, you should never run
* code that you don't understand. That said:
*
* To use this program, verify that /usr/X11R6/bin/X is
* really a symlink to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 (the actual
* server binary) If not, then change the *app to point to
* the actual binary.
* At the console (be careful..no typos):
* kill X and anything X-related (ie: xdm, kdm)
* $ gcc wrapper.c -o XFree86.wrapper
* $ su
* $ cp XFree86.wrapper /usr/X11R6/bin
* $ cd /usr/X11R6/bin
* $ ls -alk X (make sure its a symlink..if not STOP)
* $ rm X
* $ chown root.root XFree86.wrapper
* $ chmod u+s XFree86.wrapper
* $ ln -s XFree86.wrapper X
* $ exit
*
* You should now be able to startx or xdm or whatever.
* Open an xterm and run 'top'. The process XFree86
* (which is the server) should be running at nice -10.
*
* If not, then make sure the XFree86.wrapper is suid
* root, executable by all, owned by root, and pointed
* to by /usr/X11R6/bin/X.
*
* To revert is easy.
* $ su
* $ cd /usr/X11R6/bin
* $ rm X
* $ ln -s XFree86 X
* $ exit
*/
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
#include unistd.h
#include sys/stat.h
#include sys/types.h
const char *app = /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86; // the actual binary
const int root = 0; // root's uid
const int n = -10;// desired nice priority valid range -20..20.
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
seteuid(root);// The X server must be started as root under any
Linux
nice(n); // Makes it nice
execv(app, argv); // This is it!
/* Should never see this unless *app points to invalid binary */
fprintf(stderr, Failed to execv %s with nice value of %d\n, app, n);
exit(1);
}
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Re: [gentoo-user] What the £$%^ happened?
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 11:37, MAL wrote: On a similar note, does anyone else think it would be a good idea for emerge to collate the 'information' text that packages such as portage dump to the console while emerging, to display at the end of a long emerge? OK, portage isn't a problem any more, because it halts the emerge, but when I emerge a lot of other packages together, useful info messages that the package designer obviously wants read, speed by and are lost... only to be found by reading the ebuild :/ That has been discussed many times over, and I believe it's being worked on (wasn't that a feature mentioned in a weekly newsletter?) -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Where Are COMPLETE stages?!
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 08:38, Matthew Tedder wrote: These two sources: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc2/x86/i586/stage3-i586-1.4_rc2.tbz2 ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc2/x86/i586/stages/stage3-i586-1.4_rc2.tbz2 [snip] I grabbed it twice... My architecture is the VIA Eden ESP, so I grabbed it for i586. I first considered raw x86 earlier but there was nothing but stage1 available. The ISO only contains a stage1 package, so I downloaded the stage3. Originally, I was impressed by the documentation and portage--but I have yet to see a working installation. I cannot even compile the kernel without these basic tools missing the packages.. mike@pinky:~$ wget http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc2/x86/i586/stages/stage3-i586-1.4_rc2.tbz2 mike@pinky:~$ wget http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc2/x86/i586/stages/stage3-i586-1.4_rc2.tbz2 -c mike@pinky:~$ tar -jtf stage3-i586-1.4_rc2.tbz2 |grep bin/sh ./usr/bin/shred ./usr/bin/sha1sum ./usr/bin/showkey ./usr/bin/showfont ./usr/bin/shar ./sbin/shutdown ./bin/sh ./bin/shred mike@pinky:~$ tar -jtf stage3-i586-1.4_rc2.tbz2 |grep bin/make ./usr/bin/makeinfo ./usr/bin/make ./usr/sbin/makewhatis mike@pinky:~$ tar -jtf stage3-i586-1.4_rc2.tbz2 |grep bin/clear ./usr/bin/clear -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] --deep oddity
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 10:51, MAL wrote: Hi, could someone help me better understand why --deep does the things it does :) I have gkrellm-2.1.5 installed, and an emerge -pu --deep world says: [ebuildUD] app-admin/gkrellm-1.2.13 [2.1.5] I would check the ebuilds, they probably have different SLOT variables, so should live together peacefully. Most likely something else you have/will install, requires that old version. -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] xfree slowdowns... is that normal?
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 17:44, gabor wrote:
Usually this behavior only occurs on a slower machine. I used to encounter
that on my PIII-800MZ, but now that I'm using an Athlon-XP 1900, I don't see
that behavior. You can overcome that by giving the X server a negative nice
value before starting something like a kernel compile or a lengthy emerge.
If you would like, I can dig around and locate the script I used to run at
startup from local (requires sudo).
ok, please locate that script.
Someone posted this attachment ages ago, works nicely for me, and
doesn't require sudo.
--
Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/* wrapper.c
* Casey Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*
* This is a quick hack that starts X with a priority
* of -10 for increased responsiveness. It should work
* but it may not :) There is no warranty or anything.
* Although I can't see anything possibly going wrong as
* there's only about 3 lines of code, worst case you
* have to reinstall X. Basically, you should never run
* code that you don't understand. That said:
*
* To use this program, verify that /usr/X11R6/bin/X is
* really a symlink to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 (the actual
* server binary) If not, then change the *app to point to
* the actual binary.
* At the console (be careful..no typos):
* kill X and anything X-related (ie: xdm, kdm)
* $ gcc wrapper.c -o XFree86.wrapper
* $ su
* $ cp XFree86.wrapper /usr/X11R6/bin
* $ cd /usr/X11R6/bin
* $ ls -alk X (make sure its a symlink..if not STOP)
* $ rm X
* $ chown root.root XFree86.wrapper
* $ chmod u+s XFree86.wrapper
* $ ln -s XFree86.wrapper X
* $ exit
*
* You should now be able to startx or xdm or whatever.
* Open an xterm and run 'top'. The process XFree86
* (which is the server) should be running at nice -10.
*
* If not, then make sure the XFree86.wrapper is suid
* root, executable by all, owned by root, and pointed
* to by /usr/X11R6/bin/X.
*
* To revert is easy.
* $ su
* $ cd /usr/X11R6/bin
* $ rm X
* $ ln -s XFree86 X
* $ exit
*/
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
#include unistd.h
#include sys/stat.h
#include sys/types.h
const char *app = /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86; // the actual binary
const int root = 0; // root's uid
const int n = -10;// desired nice priority valid range -20..20.
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
seteuid(root);// The X server must be started as root under any Linux
nice(n); // Makes it nice
execv(app, argv); // This is it!
/* Should never see this unless *app points to invalid binary */
fprintf(stderr, Failed to execv %s with nice value of %d\n, app, n);
exit(1);
}
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo init system : was [Re: [gentoo-user]service parameter passing?]
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 13:48, Phil Barnett wrote: What I miss in Gentoo is the simple format for services like found in Redhat and many others, ie: service servicename stop/start/restart It eliminates needing to know where the service directory is or including it every time. service httpd stop is a lot easier than any other incarnation and make any system easier to admin. legolas files # cat /usr/bin/service #!/bin/bash if test -x /etc/init.d/$1 then /etc/init.d/$1 $2 else echo Service not found. fi -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Need to downgrade KDE; how is a specificversion specified with emerge?
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 14:23, Adrian Head wrote: Doing a grep on /var/cache/edb/world for kde only provides: hercules edb # grep kde world =kde-base/kde-3.0.5a media-gfx/pixieplus-kde net-analyzer/kdevmon Is there something else or should I rebuild Gentoo from scratch to see if it works? Yep (kinda), and no. Just lose the = -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Need to downgrade KDE; how is a specificversion specified with emerge?
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 12:02, Adrian Head wrote: I'm still struggling with this; Why is emerge still trying to upgrade KDE?: [ebuildU ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.1-r2 [3.0.5a-r1] [ebuildU ] kde-base/kdebase-3.1-r1 [3.0.5a-r2] I expect that because of this behaviour I will need to put kdelibs kdebase in the /var/cache/edb/world file? Quite possibly. Doesn't --deep look at ALL installed packages? I never installed 'kde', always individual components, so I can't be certain. -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.1 konqueror keyboard shortcuts
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 22:42, Collins wrote: Questions about keyboard shortcuts: 1. How do I find out about existing konqueror shortcuts? 2. Can shortcuts be added? 3. Is there any way (shortcut or other) to oepn a new empty tab as in other browsers? Right click menu only offers open in new tab, which dupes the url you are currently using, and then you have to x out the url in the new tab before continuing. 1) I find Configure Shortcuts on the Settings menu helps :) 2) Yep 3) Ctrl+Shift+n HTH -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.1 konqueror keyboard shortcuts
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 00:11, Norberto Bensa wrote: On Thursday 20 February 2003 07:44 pm, Mike Williams wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 22:42, Collins wrote: 2. Can shortcuts be added? 2) Yep How? The answer to 1 answered that. -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] USE one more time!
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 01:36, Brett I.Holcomb wrote: 1. Is my edited /etc/make.conf really used during bootstrap. 2. Is the USE variable used for stage 1? Sort of. If you look in the bootstrap script there are (were?) references to 'cleanup', this, I believe, handles the moving around of make.conf. It does make sense to drop to a known, good, solid set of parameters (not just USE) when doing the actual bootstrap. The gcc, glibc, binutils, etc you are left with should have been compiled to your specs when it's all finished, as they are compiled at least twice. -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] kde and superuser
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 03:58, Johnh wrote: Anyone know what kde does internally when you select filemanager superuser mode? It will ask you for the root password. You can run any program this way, with kdesu. -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestion to portage
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 09:43, Bruno Lustosa wrote: What happens today when #1 finishes compiling? It starts and waits for #2 to finish downloading. It would be the same, just a little faster. Instead of starting #2 from the begining, it would already be started, and would just need to wait for it to finish. I was thinking more from a code point of view :) Also, what happens to the downloading output? Never having coded python I have no idea how it could handle 2 output streams. This would benefit mostly big packages (like X or kde*), that take a lot of time to compile. While it compiles a 13mb tbz2, there's plenty of time to download the rest of needed packages. Certainly, no matter how fast your connection, or for that matter, how small a compile, it would be useful. -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestion to portage
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 09:48, Joshua Moore-Oliva wrote: I believe this functionality already exists.. a -f option seems for some reason stuck in my mind. I've never usedit, but I've heard it mentioned int he forums try searching there. -f fetches all tarballs, for later compilation. I use it mostly when I'm at work (mmm, 8meg all to myself at night :). -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.1 konqueror keyboard shortcuts
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 14:00, Stephen Boulet wrote: What program gets exected by the configure shortcuts menu? I don't seem to have one under Settings. As far as I can see, it's just another thread of konq... I certainly don't think I have anything unusual installed, just kdelibs, base, and utils. -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Samba
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 17:59, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: Hi all, After emerging Samba and following the tips from gentoo webpage I started Samba. I get: lpstat: Unable to connect to server : Connection refused. Does anyone know what this means? Do I need to emerge any other application? I'm using cups and I have already emerged cups. Any ideas? I used to get that, so I change my smb.conf thus (among other things) sauron root # diff /etc/samba/smb.conf.example /etc/samba/smb.conf 20c20 workgroup = WORKGROUP --- workgroup = HOME 37,38c37,38 printcap name = lpstat load printers = yes --- # printcap name = lpstat # load printers = yes 43c43 printing = cups --- # printing = cups 269d268 273c272 browseable = no --- browseable = yes -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.1 konqueror keyboard shortcuts
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 18:42, Norberto Bensa wrote: Ahhh You meant you can add new keyboard-shotcuts to already defined actions. Sorry, should have been more verbose first time around :) -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge kde 3.0.x
On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 10:23, Jens Mayer wrote: Anyway, this will leave very few files in /usr/kde/3.0.5/ (if that's what the dir was called, I erased it completely), just look at them and consider whether you can delete them or not. Or, to be safer, do 'qpkg -f /usr/kde/3' (or 3.0.5), and either unmerge, or remerge any packages still using it (probably just shortcuts, or icons), then delete/move/backup/archive the rest. -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] keyboard shunt
On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 19:24, Ernie Schroder wrote: Does anyone happen to know how I can wire up a ps2 connector to fool a server into thinking that a keyboard is attached? Or, is there a command to tell my server to ignor keyboard errors durring a remote reboot? All bioses (bioii ?) I've seen have had an option to select what errors to stop on., and none of the desktops or servers I've owned/admin'd have had a problem with booting headless. -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] sudoers w/wo passwd...
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 06:47, Magnus Lie Hetland wrote: [snip] Hm. It seems I now *am* asked for a password -- but I managed to do a mount without password... Odd. sudo remembers that you've entered a password for a short period, 5 minutes springs to mind. -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] sudoers w/wo passwd...
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 06:52, Magnus Lie Hetland wrote: Ah - thanks. Sorry for being clueless :] We were all clueless once :) Even us Linux Gods (LMAO) -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] chost, cflags, and cxxflags examples
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 20:44, Jason Giangrande wrote: Anyone have any examples of the CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS settings for a dual Athlon system or know of any links that explain these settings more? I use this on my athlon-xp (someone posted it here a while ago) CFLAGS=-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions -fforce-mem -s -funroll-loops -frerun-loop-opt -fdelete-null-pointer-checks -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ffast-math -maccumulate-outgoing-args -fschedule-insns I think there is a specific athlon-mp arch, don't know what it might do though. -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Kroupware
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 00:33, Luke Graham wrote: There is a tgz on http://kontact.org/latest.html . If you need anything, I work with Don Sanders (kontact maintainer), and I know hes excited about a Gentoo ebuild because he keeps asking me to do make one and I keep telling him I will Real Soon Now :P I think now you've owned up you will have to start telling us lot you'll do it RSN :) -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] New portage userpriv (I think)
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 18:54, Alex Walker wrote: The new portage can use the userpriv stuff, and I have it enabled. Part of this requires the distfiles directory to be g+rw, hence every time portage is run, it appears that portage runs chmod -R g+rw /store/distfiles/ (yes, that's where my distfiles are). The problem occurs when it's recursing into the cvs-src directory.. in which I have a few things - - the whole of KDE, E17 and galeon to name the main ones. This means there's 174394 files and directories being chmodded each time portage is run... obviously slowing it down considerably... my distfiles dir is only 1043 files, so it is about 174 times slower than just doing that dir... Solutions I could do right now: i)Change the cvs root place, so it doesn't do this... but would this muck up userpriv stuff still? ii) Disable userpriv It'd be nice if there was a more elegant solution than those I think... any ideas? As per my reply to Norberto Bensa [ReadOnly???] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16768 Edit /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py and comment out the 4 lines (all together) mentioning chgrp, chown, somewhere around line 1435 IIRC. -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] XFree Unmasked?
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 10:16, Paul de Vrieze wrote: The portage manpage is allways lagging behind on the features. Even the help funcion is, although that is most times less behind. The --help function can be seen as the authorative source of information about portage though. Not trying to sound like a moan, but --help should contain a *short* (i.e. 1 line) description, and the man page the long description. Same goes for init scripts. I hate getting spamed with 5-6 pages of information when all I want to know is the options available :) IMO the documentation is excellent (when fully upto date), just slightly in the wrong place. -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1 Compile fails at kdeaddons
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 06:37, richard terry wrote: I've not received any replies on where to find the log file for the compile. The emerge.log simply noted the failure. I downloaded another copy of the kdeaddons from another mirror and it crashed at the same place. I couldn't copy the file anywhere, but it said something I think on line 117. Also I noticed, just before these messages that it said something about lib ogg vorbis having been moved, however it all scrolled off the top of the screen too quickly to catch. Does this help? What is wanted is the last few lines of the output *before* the compile failed, *and* all the lines of errors as it died. Generally, you'll get one error, and a short cascade of additional errors as the compile dies. If the compile generated a warning, but continued it'll probably have no impact. As for re-downloading from another mirror, that's a waste of effort, as portage checks the MD5 sum of the downloaded file before it unpacks it. So you can be sure you've got the correct file. Damn, I sound mean. Sorry, rather irritated after 9 hours at work alone, with 3 more to go, and tired :( -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] p.s. Richard Terry? (radiac?) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.1 Compile fails at kdeaddons
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 06:05, richard terry wrote: Mike, I can understand from this what you need, however I still don't know how to 'capture' those last few lines short of writing them all down, and the compile seems to fail and stuff goes past so fast it scrolls off the top of the screen. Sorry, I'm not more capable of describing it. Ahh, a console user? I'd suggest using 'tee', i.e. 'emerge kdeaddons|tee a_log_file'. You'll still get the output to the console, but it will be written to a_log_file also. HTH -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] text mode email program
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 06:09, richard terry wrote: I'm trying as previously mentioned to figure out why kdeaddons fails to compile, and I don't know if there is a text mode email program in the basic install I could use, instead of having to pull the hard drive out and swap to a working gui-linux distribution to do my mailing to the list. Any suggestions I hear good things of mutt, but never used it myself. There is something based on/around emacs I believe (gnus ?) But my personal fave is pine. -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] mod_php error
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 07:39, Louis C. Candell wrote: checking for jpeg_read_header in -ljpeg... no configure: error: libjpeg not found! !!! ERROR: dev-php/mod_php-4.3.1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 217, Exitcode 1 !!! bad ./configure Use the following USE flag in /etc/make.conf : -jpeg That should work. I'd be inclined to look at the config.log, especially as I have php installed with jpeg enable, to actually find the error. In my experience many 'libblah not found!' are attributed to broken installs (i.e. a dependancy got removed), and usually fixed by re-emerging the affected lib. (I couldn't read the TOC of DVDs' from dvdrip, it kept popping up a box and telling me to put a DVD in the drive. I found where the error was generated in the source, and the failing command (tcprobe) which triggered it. Running the command manually showed a missing lib (libdvdread), re-emerged transcode, and I carried on and divx'd the DVD) -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Open Office packages
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 05:15, Troy Dack wrote: OpenOffice - takes about 2 days to build OpenOffice-bin - takes about 10 minutes to install -bin is pre-compiled the binary package available from openoffice.org and not as good looking. In my experience, compiling it yourself is a looong process, which swallows bob loads of memory, cpu, and disk, but the results are worth it. OpenOffices' fonts (especially menus) looked so much nicer afterwards. After all, it's only time, install the -bin version to get you going (if you need), and compile over night (or 'nice -n 19 emerge openoffice', and it won't disturb you :). -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge(portage) problem
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 18:11, Alain Penders wrote: Portage tries to chown that directory to root, so if distfiles is mounted such that creating root files/dirs isn't allowed, portage will fail. That might be the difference between your machines check for differences between the /etc/fstab files. If that doesn't help, you could try deleting /usr/portage/distfiles/cvs-src, and then run portage again (as root). Or, comment out these 4 lines in /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py # os.chown(settings[DISTDIR]+/cvs-src,0,portage_gid) # os.chmod(settings[DISTDIR]+/cvs-src,06770) # spawn(chgrp -R +str(portage_gid)+ +settings[DISTDIR]+/cvs-src, free=1) # spawn(chmod -R g+rw +settings[DISTDIR]+/cvs-src, free=1) -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge(portage) problem
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 18:24, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: Dangers security risks doing this?? Nope, the bug is that portage will try to change the permissions everytime it runs. The permission change isn't really needed anyway, you can always change the permissions manually once, and stop portage doing it. -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] ?meaning of error message on kernel compile
On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 22:36, Richard Terry wrote: I used the instructions on the win4lin site: ie patch -p1 patchname patch.log 21 ^ is a 1 (the number) In both cases I get the followin in the error message logs: patch: strip count l is not a number ^ is an l (the letter) Any help appreciated. I'm almost at point of terminal frustration. Letters are not numbers :) HTH -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] ?meaning of error messages on kernel compile
On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 23:37, Richard Terry wrote: Mike the letters are not number comment doesn't help me. err... What dies it mean, ie has the patch failed, is there are error in the patch code or the way I'm applying it. Letters aren't numbers, you've given a letter argument when a number was required. The example you gave had a number, the error you gave had a letter. (-pint is the strip count, or how many lines to ignore at the top of the patch file) -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer install failing while merging libdv
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 13:59, Don Smith wrote: Ah ah! Looks like the old libarts problem. For some reason the lib isn't found anymore after an upgrade to KDE 3.1. Here's what I did to get it to work: ln -s /usr/kde/3.1/lib/libartsc.so /usr/lib/libartsc.so Then be sure to call 'ldconfig', just to make sure, and retry to compile MPlayer. It should work. I hope. :) Now that is the answer I am looking for! That was it, it is compiling away right now :) I had just upgraded to KDE 3.1.1 recently. Thanks to all for the suggestions. That's a nasty workaround, I'd be inclined to check and fix /etc/env.d/49kdelibs-3.1 /etc/env.d/56kdedir-3.1 (or similar), run 'env-update source /etc/profile ldconfig'. I know you're already compiling, but it'll only break again after the next KDE upgrade :) -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] evolution and KDE
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 20:44, Ben Sparks wrote: Does Evolution run well on a KDE system? I thought that it was only for Gnome, but I am probably mistaken. I would like to try it; is there any special configuration required for evolution in KDE? Mostly, there is no such thing as a 'gnome application', or a 'kde application', merely apps written written for different widget sets (gtk, qt, ...). Many will require some/many libs from one, but should work in the other. Or, more simply. Yes, it works fine, I'm using the setup you describe right now :) Just install evolution, portage will do it's job and install everything else you need. -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] Reply-To !
To whoever did it. Dude, you rock! :P -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] evolution and KDE
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 21:04, Ben Sparks wrote: Thanks guys, I'll emerge as soon as I can, is it a big package? Should I let it go over night or no? I was planning on having openoffice compile overnit, but I might do evolution instead. It's a beast! Added to all the gnome libs you may need, you could be looking at a few (single digit) hours compiling. I upgraded my laptop (celery 650) to evo 1.2.3 earlier, took a good hour to compile. -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.5.x kernels
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 02:44, Collins Richey wrote: I'm getting ready to experiment with 2.5.x kernels. One requirement is the module-init-tools package all versions of which are masked. Can this package be merged without interfering with my current 2.4 kernel? Yup, the module-init-tools package renames the binaries it overwrites, but still works fine with 2.4.x modules. I've had a 2.5 kernel here, on the lappy, but soon went back to a 2.4 -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] evolution and KDE
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 21:42, Ben Sparks wrote: I have an Athlon XP 2400+ with 512mb RAM, I hope it'll finish before bed, so I can start an office suite over night...another question. Open office or koffice?...or both which would you prefer? Depends on what time bedtime is :P It's 0255 here, night shifts suck... I very *very* rarely use any office package, so can't comment really, but OpenOffice annoys me due to it's massive bloat, and funky javaness (I know we have at least one openoffice developer in our ranks, so I'll shut up now :) -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.5.x kernels
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 03:34, Collins Richey wrote: And I presume the module-init-tools dependancy =sys-apps/devfsd-1.3.25-r1 must be non-fatal, right? IIRC it's only a minor downgrade, isn't it? Not caused any problems on either of the machines I've use 2.5 on. -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer install failing while merging libdv
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 04:23, Mitchell James wrote: What are these files? What do they do? and where is the documentation? I have never looked at them before. Bits of global environment variables env-update merges them all together, to build the global environment variables (PATH's, lib locations (ld.so.conf), and other cool stuff) *shrug*, reading documentation is the last thing I do (if at all) -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Make Errors Help Needed
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 05:54, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: Thanks for your help. What does the make mrproper command do? I have not run into in the Linux System Commands book or the 6 inches of Gentoo documentation that I have download and printed out to help with the install. The documentation that I have read only indicated that you should do a emerge sync, emerge sys-kernel/sources, then cd /usr/src/linux, then source /etc/profile, then make menuconfig etc. The only change to that was to remove the symlink to the kernel and rebuild it to the new kernel if you are changing kernels. Just confused and about 8 feet up the wall trying to fix the last problems on the system and getting nowhere fast. Thanks for the help. Will let you know how it goes. mrproper (to my knowledge) is unique to the linux kernel makefiles. It's like clean on steroids, and is designed to return the entire tree back to it's original state. All configuration, generated includes, compiled source, etc, is removed, forcing the regeneration/compilation of everything. The errors you've been getting may be indicative of an incorrect .config, if you copy a .config from a older/newer configured kernel, edit it (bad things can easily happen from manually editing), run 'make oldconfig' first, then menuconfig if you wish to check things over (I always do, and generally find something I missed/could use) -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.5.x kernels
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 03:19, Collins Richey wrote: Here's yet another thought. I'm using ALSA. Is it possible to have ALSA with 2.5.x without messing up sound for 2.4.x? I question all this, because the kernel developers are now actively seeking testers for 2.5.x, but I'm not interested if it screws up my 2.4.x setup. The only issue I hit was snd-pcm-oss not loading automagically, like it does with 2.4. Otherwise I can currently boot 2.4 or 2.5 with no issues. -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge ---- /etc -config updates needed
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:24, FX wrote: So just curious, if you dont want to update the /etc file can you just delete the config files that are pending in the /etc folder? example /etc/X11/app-defaults/._cfg_blah Yup, etc-update (and emerge, I hope), just scan for ._cfg00blahblah but on the other side how do you just update the ones you want out of the config list example /etc/X11/app-defaults/._cfg_pickme for updating? Do it manually, or run etc-update and pick it from the list shown (each is numbered for that reason). -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution freeze problem
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 13:28, Martin Polley wrote: Evolution locks up for up to a minute every few minutes. During this time, it does not redraw parts of its windows (though it DOES draw the window frame, the folder bar, the menus and the toolbar). I am using: Evo 1.2.3 (though the same problem occurred in previous versions) KDE 3.1 Gentoo 1.2 2.4.20_lolo_r1 kernel I've used evo for months and months now, never had any sort of lockup problem, or funky crashes. What I *have* had weird problems with is things like pre-empt and low latency. Give a vanilla, or gentoo kernel a go, without low latency or pre empt a go (I was never able to notice any real performance, or latency gain anyway) -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 16:46, Francois Meehan wrote: Hi Robert, Did you have any luck? I am having the same problem, my raid controller is a 2100s Raid controller, certified for RH and suse, obviously not for Gentoo... I hate that, there should be no such thing as certified for RedHat! Linux, is Linux. Have you tried a bastardised redhat kernel? It's masked, but there. -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] php with pspell ???? install
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 22:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a server running Getnoo 1.4rc2, with phpGroupware, and I want to get the spell check working. I inquired on their list about what is needed for it to work and they indicated that I needed to compile pspell into php and it would automatically see it and use it. I looked in the Gentoo forums and packages and seems that pspell has been left behind for the better aspell. My questions is how can I use aspell to replace pspell in php? Thanks for any ideas. A quick grep of the php ebuilds grep spell -rni /usr/portage/dev-php/ shows you need to add 'spell' to your USE, and re-emerge. -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] OT: Log into remote X server via kdm
Hi all, My turn to go a bit OT, sorry :) I've been digging around for a while at this, but not found a good enough answer. What I want to be able to do is, 1 big headless server running X and KDE (or may even Gnome, and others too), and multiple desktops boxes (3-4 to start with) able to login to it. I can already hear calls of LTSP from the back, but... The desktops will be fully independent, capable of, and set up to run their own X servers and desktops. So that I can use them (especially the laptop) away from the home network they must start their own X server, and KDM login screen. From there give me the option on what server to login to. Yeah, I could use VNC, but having to log into one, to ssh into another to run a command, to log in again is... messy... Ideas? Cheers -- Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic Update of KDE menus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 18 August 2003 01:02, Stefano Marinelli wrote: Hi there. Is there a way to update automatically the kde menus with new programs, as soon as they get installed? kappfinder searches for new programs, adds those you wish to the menu, but doesn't find everything and needs to be run manually. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/QBuMInuLMrk7bIwRAqnFAJ4jcP1Jo+XKJTIOG+oBqJxAeHrJKgCfZw6h pWQG7SXAVKyX/FY0c420pbk= =pkTE -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] transcode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 19 August 2003 20:11, plord wrote: Hi All, I've emerge'd transcode but it isn't the latest version. I notice that the gentoo cvs has a later ebuild file. Whats the right way to get transcode 0.6.8 emerge'd ? transcode 0.6.8 is currently marked as 'unstable', if you really want/need it installed do ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge transcode or ~ppc - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Qn1YInuLMrk7bIwRAqa7AJ9PQbhMsrY6ed9HldKFuvI1uEcH9gCgpu1W WurIxTIkGsGb+iod9UFMhPI= =46dw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cupsd doesn't start during boot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 20 August 2003 13:26, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Look into /var/lib/init.d/started and delete the cupsd file. You should be then able to use /etc/init.d/cupsd start again. /etc/init.d/blah zap HTH :) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Q2oWInuLMrk7bIwRAtV6AJ9435eBwhw4aAukvxVuPEe2eHUVmQCgnNx2 nTCzVSrcr3Q/kh/jeVklt94= =nduH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Compaq
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 20 August 2003 09:38, Roar Johnsen wrote: [snip] But here it goes wrong, For instance I'm not able to do : df It says : df: cannot read table of mounted filesystems: No such file or directory In /dev I can't find ida/disc0/disc I only have /dev not /dev/ida What happend? I've tried to download stage 1 from antoher place. After that I have /dev/ida but not /dev/ida/disc0/ Is there a workaround for this, have I done something wrong?.. I have installed Gentoo many times. But it's the first time I've tried to install it on a Compaq DL360. I had gentoo on a DL360, with 3 disks in a raid 5 array. df has never worked correctly for me once in the chroot jail on any machine, and nor should it do. /dev is a filesystem, and (unless you specifically did so yourself) not mounted on /mnt/gentoo/dev, remember you are in a chroot jail :) Once the necessary partitions are mounted (/, /boot, /usr, etc) you shouldn't need to access /dev. If you really need it, then mount it :) mount -t devfs none /mnt/gentoo/dev - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Q3cQInuLMrk7bIwRAobgAJ4sfp5j1bE2speG/l9n6o2q6ulPZQCfRXPA 0knlxfYX/fA51md6m5B0QRA= =BAaP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Going from P3 to Athlon XP
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 20 August 2003 14:19, MAL wrote: The main problem will be pentium3 specific instructions used because of the -march switch. Unless someone can state for certain that the Athlon XP is backward compatible with the pentium3, (unlikely), you will need to recompile your entire system. In theory, emerge -eD world, should do this. However this poses a problem in itself, because if you compile it on the old motherboard, with -march=athlon-xp, it will break when a newly compiled utility tries to use athlon-xp instructions on the P3. It may be possible to untar the i386 stage1 tarball over the top of your existing system, which would mean your base system, (bare bones boot, glibc and compiler), will run on the new motherboard. You should then be able to 'emerge -eD world'. Don't take this for gospel :) How about recompiling everything with -mcpu=athlon-xp on the P3, will work on both then. Could change to -march=athlon-xp at a later date, if so wanted. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Q3fDInuLMrk7bIwRArk3AJ9rzs9ctNkzcJMWxHCQpsJB+vVJOgCfRbhQ BQbfGbekhLo7DIrQPo3sNvk= =CZh1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GPG signature bad?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 22 August 2003 17:54, Brian Richardson wrote: My GPG signature has just showed up as bad in KMail (It worked yesterday...). I've done a world update since then. Is my signature bad? Or is something else to blame? Your signature shows as valid here... - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Rk4oInuLMrk7bIwRAmgHAJ4j2RBEXYNFF2iMaRy0Lg85GjFcaQCfQOc0 Fw5DXDQjmToPW6Ev70Vx+Go= =sxKy -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X Window again
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 23 August 2003 19:35, Pupeno wrote: Not being able to solve my X window problem I'm posting it again hoping someone *new* has a clue of what'is wrong with this. I ssh to a box, with X forwarding enabled (I know the box works because I did it from another distribution in this same computer and it worked without problem), I run an X application and I get this: _X11TransSocketOpen: socket() failed for tcp _X11TransSocketOpenCOTSClient: Unable to open socket for tcp _X11TransOpen: transport open failed for tcp/localhost:12 Error: Can't open display: localhost:12.0 If nobody knows what's wrong... can someone point me where can I ask about it ? thank you. Have you tried ssh'ing to the host with -v (or -vv, or -vvv) and inspecting the output for errors/oddities? - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/R71uInuLMrk7bIwRAnJEAKCQ3h1iV8k9k2sNGlAo6g3fR1M7AACbBB5q Fk1Ycmhr1sFxI3vnMlWMWrM= =KooE -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X Window again (more update)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 23 August 2003 21:36, Pupeno wrote: _X11TransSocketOpen: socket() failed for tcp _X11TransSocketOpenCOTSClient: Unable to open socket for tcp _X11TransOpen: transport open failed for tcp/localhost:13 Error: Can't open display: localhost:13.0 I run ssh with -vvv and I get this when sshing... debug2: x11_get_proto: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth list :1.0 2/dev/null Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. I too get exactly this, and X forwarding works. A quick google suggests needing network lookback support, which I have as a module and isn't loaded, nor do the /dev/loop* devices exists. It could always do some funky stuff somewhere else in the kernel that I don't know about, and anyway it can't hurt trying :) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/R9b2InuLMrk7bIwRAq2QAJ9hVih2I3wtdhwVOC+TM7N2ubydegCgjwEq SL492glqRpfEY3kZIHKFrgI= =LcNz -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage killed itself
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 23 August 2003 21:55, Simon Mushi wrote: Hi people, Wow, I can't believe it...after upgrading portage just today...I realized that it removed itself after I the upgrade. when I try to run emerge i get: -bash: emerge: command not found ...even accessing the manual : No manual entry for emerge ...even kportage sigfaults to something is definitely wrong. Is there anyway I can get portage back. Otherwise I guess my workstation is pretty much dead in the water :( Appreciate any help whatsoever /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files/README.RESCUE is there for such an eventuality! Good luck! - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/SBB/InuLMrk7bIwRAjWsAJ4hOGaDlTUXpT4rpWmUMBMWBl+9DQCeMD4m VPimgxIG+5xXjQKtm7KTcxk= =QSKw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Deleting /var/tmp/portage/*
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 24 August 2003 07:56, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote: Hello gentooers! A short question: Is it safe to wipe out contents of /var/tmp/portage directory? Quick searching in docs didnt give me an answer (perhaps that's because I'm too sleepy now). Thanks in advance for answers. Yes, just don't do it while any emerge is running. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/SIomInuLMrk7bIwRAr71AJ0ToHw5+VGJgMrahXEcCg+KBIKxQwCeJ92l xprroX+tbS3zMQWzKg5yuWQ= =4nW0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage errors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 24 August 2003 05:28, David wrote: I get the following message whenever i use emerge (emerge sync, emerge -upv world...etc). Emerge last worked about 4 hours ago when I emerged mutt, fetchmail and procmail. Then... [snip errors] Woah, cool error. It seems to mention the portage db/cache, you wouldn't happen to have run out of space on /var would you? - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/SIuoInuLMrk7bIwRApn1AJ4gu4jQY4CX/RuUMjSJX48qCjAcPACfW4Zt 2dWqkTvWC4bdkl23VpiIxyc= =3Nbi -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help please! I screwed up!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 25 August 2003 20:56, Klaus Neumann wrote: After compiling a new kernel (and exchanging my second HD) I got this while trying to boot: Mounting /proc ... Mounting devfs at /dev ... modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.4-4GB/modules.dep (No such file or directory) The mount command failed with error: sf type devfs not supported by kernel ... ... startup cannot continue. What does this mean, and how can I fix it? 2.4.4-4GB ?!? Anyway, chroot into your install and try this depmod -a -F System.map for 2.4.4-4GB I'm writing this email from Win98, which I installed to go online. Of course it wiped out my lilo. :-( Lilo ?!? Use grub, it's so much easier :) I hope someone can tell me how to get out of this mess, without re-installing everything! TIA! This is linux we're talking about here, with chroot and a working bootable medium pretty much only a fatal hard drive crash should force a reinstall - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/SmwkInuLMrk7bIwRAtcsAJ9a9WPn3vK6WbaFEL0nyyYCTftMqQCgqhIi 9zPa/A8jhuURfBd6v6cen4c= =4wut -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which livecd for AMD Duron 900Mhz please
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 25 August 2003 20:50, latin hypercube wrote: i686 presumably or is athlon-xp suitable for this processor series. Thanks in advance. i686 definitely, athlon-xp is unlikely. The only differences I can see between my athlon-xp and duron are that the duron has apic and athlon-xp has sse. The sse thing should be the kicker. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Sm5HInuLMrk7bIwRAjx3AKCHmnc7YsMA0wrNDLiiDHtJWcTBUQCgkxVc wfGQyh67GZQvM/DH+ScY1Bw= =W9VF -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux 1.4 General Install Questions
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 25 August 2003 23:51, Kevin Miller, Jr. wrote: I just purchased a copy of Gentoo Linux 1.4 to replace Red Hat 9.0. I have been using Linux off and on for a year now but the Red Hat distro could not convince me to switch over to Linux full time. Thus, I ran Windows and I used SSH secure shell to access my Unix accounts. Welcome, and congratulations on your excellent decision :) First question. My notebook has a duel boot partition running both Windows XP Pro and Red Hat Linux 9.0. Will I be able to install Gentoo right over the Red Hat partition? Honestly, I never plan to use Red Hat again. I will definately not miss their surveys to keep my membership current. Yup. I haven't read the install docs in a long time, but the partition layout described are purely a suggestion. If you only have a single partition that will do nicely. I believe there is some special code to handle the automatic mounting of /boot for special cases, but I wouldn't worry too much if you don't have a /boot (my laptop now , and when I can be arsed desktop and 2 servers, mount /boot ReadOnly). Second question which I am sure many of you asked. From which tarball stage should I install? During the demo at Indiana University, they started with stage3 since they told us it takes a couple of days of compiling before you can get a working systems with Gentoo. Is still still the norm for 1.4? I will be installing Gentoo on a Dell Inspirion 8100 notebook with a Pentium III 1 GHz Processor with 512 megs of RAM. Which stage did most of you start from? I'm a stage 1 guy, have been since my very first installation. Depends on how comfortable with linux you are, and how much bandwidth and time you have. Then there is the geekiness/masochist aspect :o) I have a feeling I will be asking more questions once my CDs arrive. Ask away, there are plenty more people here, many of whom I'm sure know a lot more than I. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/SpcSInuLMrk7bIwRAng3AKCiYZTCngcIIanPn+AXl63V+PD19ACeK7re sPx9DjythgZIV4z8kOmyOqk= =XpzK -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] depend/use problet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allo all, Since installing mythtv on my desktop I have come across a possibly fairly major defect with portage. The mythtv ebuild depends on, among other things, QT (should also depend on mysql, but that's another matter). If the ebuild did depend on mysql *before* QT on a system without QT already installed I believe there would be no problem. My desktop already had QT installed, and no mysql. So QT didn't have mysql support, which mythbackend and some of the other tools it seems require. I imagine some of you are now seeing the problem. Obviously QT needs to have mysql installed before it's built to enable it's support, simply adding a dependancy to mysql before QT (in mythtv for example) will have no effect on QT if it's already installed. The current state of dependancies, as I understand them, have no way to know the USE flag settings those dependancies were built with. For those developers/gurus among us, is this even a remote possibility? Cheers - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/SqaIInuLMrk7bIwRAlHNAJwP7+GFUfqsdtE/QBudBiMjs/30TgCglf2+ 4JYT3OOOqXXXy8LVMkVlaVA= =hm9O -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] depend/use problet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 26 August 2003 01:38, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2003 09:15, Mike Williams wrote: My desktop already had QT installed, and no mysql. So QT didn't have mysql support, which mythbackend and some of the other tools it seems require. I imagine some of you are now seeing the problem. That is a definate problem if I understand you correctly, Basically what you are saying is that mythtv *requires* both QT and mysql and *requires* mysql support in QT but mysql support in QT is *optional*. Is that correct? To further add to the problem, even if QT wasn't installed prior to mysql it still would not be built with mysql support because it is not in the USE flags. Well spotted! That is correct. While I was writing and QT was recompiling I did a separate manual configure of QT using the basic configure string from the ebuild, sans any USE optional flags. It picked up the mysql client library, but not the header files (the mysql USE flag has to add another include path, /usr/include/mysql). So I imagine you are correct again, mysql would need to be in USE as well. Sounds like another deficiency of the blanket USE flags system. Any devs care to comment? Jason - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/SrBbInuLMrk7bIwRAluCAJ4tZX9NPpwFaX5/Izn+raTrzMGnCgCgjEsb ADalGtFIxpnpiNZDePKUGl0= =eA8E -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux 1.4 General Install Question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 26 August 2003 19:45, Meph Istopheles wrote: [snippage and rearrangement] # mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/gentoo # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/home # mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/gentoo/home # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/backup # mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/gentoo/backup # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/backup2 # mount /dev/hdd1 /mnt/gentoo/backup2 This is something which caught my eye when I was skimming the docs: /mnt/gentoo. Is this a system thing, or is there a time one will actually be editing docs have to remember that /mnt/gentoo... is required as opposed to /, which is all I've done with RH, slack FreeBSD? Maybe my migrain is effecting my coherence Code listing 7.2 shows how to mount a typical simple partition layout from _within_ the InstallCD chroot. Ah, chroot. I've only used this during rescue operations with RH. It'll be odd having to do this as a part of install, but that's cool. Create the directories, mount the partitions, untar the stageX tarball, and chroot into /mnt/gentoo. Using /mnt/gentoo is completely optional, you could make it /a/totally/pointlessly/deep/directory, once you've chroot'd it will be / - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/S73XInuLMrk7bIwRAq1rAKCFpx83UZViQOiLPvtekDuEjsHGnACfdIo9 Xz6d2uLticXoG2rZI/cibKA= =kPXN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DebToo: Debian, Gentoo-style
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 26 August 2003 19:53, Chris de Vidal wrote: Volunteers needed! http://debtoo.org I'm confused... == DebToo: Debian, Gentoo-style == Probably not. Seems like far less work if you like Debian's feature X, modify the Gentoo source to include this (and submit the code back to Gentoo), rather than changing all of Debian to support downloading the original sources and compiling ala Gentoo. What is this project? Adding gentoo-esq automatic source compilation to debian, or debian package management systems/ability to gentoo? I don't mean to be patronising or critical, it's just I don't understand :) Doesn't debian already have source packages? (deb-src apt sources) Never used them myself, so don't know how they work. I moved from debian to gentoo myself, over a year ago. But there is still one box here running debian, which I hate touching. dpkg and apt just don't cut it for me anymore :) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/S8GvInuLMrk7bIwRAib2AJ0X0AVR36wjY26UNNAeYYCFGmTrcQCfYNpS 4G1VtPxVPHKwCcxNmcXAYro= =TbkP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge option for dependencies?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 26 August 2003 21:23, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm looking through man emerge but not finding an option to let me determine which packages on my system would be effected by removing a package that is currently installed. emerge -Cp gnupg says it would just uninstall that package. Can I be sure that no other packages will break if I do this? It would be nice in this case to see some sort of tree display of what uses what, but I think that's not too practical. (If it is, please tell me how!) You won't find it in emerge, but qpkg part of gentoolkit. legolas root # qpkg -I -q gnupg app-crypt/gnupg-1.2.2-r1 * DEPENDED ON BY: app-arch/rpm-4.2_pre069 net-www/mozilla-1.4-r3 - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/S8RRInuLMrk7bIwRAv4eAKCdvrq5V1U6JKpGQqduGrmGarEBkQCfSs6Q y26QE3HBPsKD6bzD06oTIiE= =4Glt -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] local mail delivery
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 26 August 2003 23:14, Greg Donald wrote: What do I need to do to get local mail delivery? sauron root # qpkg -f `which mail` net-mail/mailx * HTH - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/S90iInuLMrk7bIwRAkIBAJsF42i3XpmTU4NwcJTpuiglbmb2MQCglMbq +aPnYWtFymv+SYnT/Zm69zo= =y1ze -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mask issue: I checked emerge info
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 26 August 2003 21:37, Tom Wesley wrote: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 ~x86 Change to ~x86 only Yup, no need for the x86 as well. The other problem is: legolas root # grep -B2 -A1 xmule /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask # [EMAIL PROTECTED] (19 Aug 2003) # security holes ! =net-p2p/xmule-1.4.3 - -- # [EMAIL PROTECTED] (18 July 2003) # package is obsolete and unsupported # use net-p2p/xmule instead net-p2p/lmule Oddly the only versions in portage are masked because of security holes... Just comment out the xmule line and you'll be set to go. Remember, any sync you do will revert your changes. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/S8cLInuLMrk7bIwRAln0AJ45Xg6HqoR57Z4WvKShVU2BxERT4gCgjEw7 9Cmr7fq8agNdOW2kRoS/Srk= =XvIB -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mask issue: I checked emerge info
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 26 August 2003 22:14, Robert Young wrote: The only problem was the security holes. Thanks for all the quick responses. In a perfect world should emerge not have reported Calculating dependencies !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy net-p2p/xmule have been HARD masked. please see package.mask !!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct. This would have saved me and others some time. Should I request an enhancement for this? Can't hurt. My feeling is tho it won't get done. Things in package.mask are there for a reason, quite often because they are broken, break other packages, or do other nasty or untested things. You could then argue that they should be in portage in the first place, but they need testing by people with the knowledge and experience to test and/or recover from a nasty mess. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/S9GUInuLMrk7bIwRAhbaAKCWlKhkbQi0f/+WMAENoAx7wZgnIQCfQmpN p6VuL7MtDtFO0Xm8F2lse74= =EOdK -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] resolving network name
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 27 August 2003 09:15, Owen Ford wrote: If he is using dhcp he very well might have to change those hosts listings very frequently. I don't have a good solution either ;) I do :) DHCP + djbdns + http://www.thismetalsky.org/magic/projects/dhcp_dns.html It's all fairly straight forward once you've got your head round djb. I can provide more assistance when I've woken up a little (I really shouldn't keep my laptop next to my bed...) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TGvSInuLMrk7bIwRAqJPAJ9bRFoTREbAoXApT4kUPXYRm4GiqQCeKxlk dpvetT4azAfkF1IOMy1qhs4= =RTEy -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cups/gimp-print not working
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 27 August 2003 09:25, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Bill, Should I downgrade ghostscript too? Nope, just gimp-print. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TGw3InuLMrk7bIwRAq83AJwPgPHbM7EazC4x3FXAMq/ie1INuQCePJlo 0jHGOt62ww8wj2oSvytQ6Sg= =oK9U -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] install gentoo with out cd/floppy drive
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 27 August 2003 01:51, Davi Jose O Bueno wrote: Hello, Anyone could help resolv this problem. I have 2 computers, one pentium II 10Gb Hd, 128Mb Ram, with out drive and another is Ahtlon 800Mhz, 30Gb Hd, 512Mb Ram, whti drives floppy/cdrom. How can i install gentoo on pentium ii? 2 options really, both you mention below. If you really don't want to move the cdrom across you'll have to compile a basic working install on the athlon for the pentium. There isn't much to do in a stage3, is there? Subsequent upgrades, in time, will wipe out pretty much everything that you didn't compile yourself, or you could emerge -De world later on. Little more information: The pentium is with out OS I can install the hd of pentium in the atlhon for copy the stage*-date.tar.gz and other minor things I would like boot and compile all things in pentium. I don't want to move the cdrom to the pentium until the install is finish. the athlon is running mdk9.1 the computers are in lan with adsl internet connection Davi Bueno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TG0TInuLMrk7bIwRAiGXAKCaq7a/Y1AGlgVPoEtzesybRZfkDwCfXAae z52HW4qKVAWoqw4bXCizqpc= =ZiPj -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Install Help - Gentoo Load Fails at modules.conf.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 27 August 2003 15:33, Nicholas Pappas wrote: Hello all. I've felt my way through the install process for Gentoo for my first time and everything seemed to work out... but I seem to have missed something, somewhere. :( When the OS attempts to load, I get an error when trying to mount the filesystem. The system can not find modules.conf (it is, infact, *not* there). It complains about that a few more times and then pops up this message: Once you're running, run modules-update. That will build a modules.conf from the files in /etc/modules.d/ If the partition table has not be changed, and the partition is valid and it really contains a reiserfs partition, then the superblock is corrupted and you need to run --rebuild-sb. My root parition is ReiserFS (boot is ext3). I finally get an error message: Warning... fsck.reiserfs for device /dev/ROOT exited with signal 6. * Filesystem couldn't be fixed :( I'm then asked for the root password, so I can try and repair something I don't know how I broke in the first place. Could anyone please help me out to get my system to boot? This is my first attempt at Gentoo, and I'm a bit confused as to what I should even be looking for right now. Christopher has already answered this. Boot with you're gentoo CD, chroot in and fix things. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TMSVInuLMrk7bIwRArALAJ0WbV/oZUjTgt52B3G0uPawdPVXRwCgrdeq ixnjusTlBeeUieDj5NByiXI= =cGln -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] resolving network name
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 27 August 2003 18:38, Tony Rein wrote: Here's another suggestion: Check into alias ip numbers. I'm sorry I don't remember the exact syntax under Gentoo (I'm at a RedHat computer right now), but it involves the /etc/init.d/net.eth0 file (or net.eth1, net.eth2, whatever your card is). [snip] 192.168.0.240 marvin Then, no matter what ip your DHCP server happens to hand out, your other computers can find marvin. I hope this helps. Now that is an ingenious solution, filled for future reference! - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TPG2InuLMrk7bIwRApvdAKCr7knHTA0bSjJxcLvufcOckwS3AgCfa+tC TE2tM7ky0uRlu+Y7BA63WrI= =ZW1E -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How complete is world?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 27 August 2003 10:50, Marius Mauch wrote: That seems to happen from time to time, problem is that it's going unnoticed in most cases and is probably not reproducable when it's noticed. Search bugs.gentoo.org for an existing bug report and file a new one if there is none. Is 'system' part of 'world', or separate? Seems separate from the results below. sauron root # emerge -up `qpkg -I -nc` These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuildU ] dev-libs/elfutils-0.84 [0.76-r2] [ebuildU ] sys-apps/devfsd-1.3.25-r3 [1.3.25-r1] [ebuildU ] sys-devel/prelink-20030811 [20030217] sauron root # emerge world -Dup These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuildU ] dev-libs/elfutils-0.84 [0.76-r2] [ebuildU ] sys-devel/prelink-20030811 [20030217] sauron root # emerge system -Dup These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating system dependencies ...done! [ebuildU ] sys-apps/devfsd-1.3.25-r3 [1.3.25-r1] - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TTEjInuLMrk7bIwRAht+AJ9T7V761pZzCAJHZ58U1Du0iMfv8wCgol6Z uMlSzXyt/H6LzmiIay7rYSU= =xw2s -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] resolving network name
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 28 August 2003 15:31, Ernie Schroder wrote: Along the same line, I have 2 gentoo boxes behind a linksys router. They both have static internal IP's. From /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.2 hostname_1.domainname..com hostname_1 and 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.2 hostname_2.domainname..com hostname_2 Neither machine can ping the other with the hostname, only with the IP. What am I missing here? The router is a Linksys BEFSR11 hostname_1 should define the IP and name for hostname_2, vice-versa. Also the double dot (..com) is wrong, only need one dot. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ThQCInuLMrk7bIwRArWlAJ9RPVqP1wj0FBsngz/aunmFWvh7DQCeMst2 LylBar34XSzSz1af9Dqva+s= =A+hY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] HD back up
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 28 August 2003 22:06, Pupeno wrote: Hello... I have one HD with a various partitions (10 GB NTFS, the linux swap, the /boot partition and my main partition), it is an 80 GB HD... I have another 80 GB HD to make back ups... what method of backing up do you recomend me ? Something that is fast to recover being that I have a whole HD to do the back up ? Something that is faster than doing a whole 'copy' every night ? Thank you. I'd say your best bet is rsync. Something possibly as simple as 'rsync -xlpogt --delete-after / /mnt/backup'. Never really managed to get my head round rsync properly :o) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TnR0InuLMrk7bIwRAtNIAJ9kCszRUkPjI1yQ+kUWepfZS1TsbwCeJDRG 0gEBoE1phmYqQRuaChIf2IQ= =P7xs -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Private ebuild unmerge problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 31 August 2003 00:00, Paulo da Silva wrote: I am writing a small ebuild, mainly to install some last versions of packages I want to try. Emerging seems to work fine but when I try emerge unmerge foo.ebuild I got a message telling foo.ebuild is not in /var/db/pkg ! Drop the .ebuild bit. Once it's installed, no matter where the ebuild is/was, it's installed. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/US76InuLMrk7bIwRArorAJwJAvGhCjtN4vKSN6+UJPcH9iWLVwCffDOW +WPJUmL6NVhzUGGlqzNywcs= =V/7V -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] basic Gentoo CD doesn't boot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 31 August 2003 20:17, drewbian wrote: Is there something more terrible then a dialup connection? No connection? Celine Dion? Celine Dion streamed over a dialup connection? Celine Dion flooding a broadband connection? - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Uc/5InuLMrk7bIwRAlrwAKCkSkbd06U8JIjCE3+KdNKz9BTsvQCgpY00 o6pKNPV7hiurk5mWBD2VTqQ= =2SlV -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] libphp4.so
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 31 August 2003 18:02, Ben Anderson wrote: so then shouldn't php create this file when it emerges? Why is it not on my system and how do I get it? No. Your problem relates to apache, so you need mod_php. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/UipqInuLMrk7bIwRAiwxAJsFbI1haXn3SBO7NFSNtAUWSDsbHQCeLYq1 mmjNj+1YAiaotCx8VgjU+vI= =Olhf -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] libphp4.so
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 31 August 2003 14:01, Ben Anderson wrote: hello, I've been having ongoing problems when I updated my system(of which included Apache 1.3 to 2.0 and PHP and MySQL). This is the error I get when I do: apache2ctl start: Syntax error on line 22 of /etc/apache2/conf/apache2.conf: Cannot load /etc/apache2/apache2-extramodules/libphp4.so into server: /etc/apache2/apache2-extramodules/libphp4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I did a find on the whole hard drive but didn't find libphp4.so anywhere. I've tried revdep-rebuild and also builder.sh. Could someone just tell me the way that I know I can fix it. I don't care how long it takes - I am willing to put in time. I'm just sick of being clueless. Should I just forget emerging php and follow the instructions on php.net php is the command line executable, mod_php is for inclusion in apache. The output from the ebuild will tell you which version of apache it's being compiled and installed for. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/UfR8InuLMrk7bIwRAqqRAKCLBRzzhKTR2hcGwKhXVq9OFgy/jgCeKWWp KtLvdHkphXk7nOfB0f71A5A= =HIAR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PyXML disappeared?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 31 August 2003 21:08, Andrew Farmer wrote: Hey all. After a recent emerge rsync, running emerge -up `qpkg -I -nc` gives me the error: !!! Couldn't find match for dev-python/PyXML unmerge: no packages selected for removal. qpkg -I lists PyXML as being installed, but there seems to no longer be an ebuild for it. Does anybody know how I could just rip this out of the database to make emerge happy again? (I'm using ~x86. Guess this is what I get when I go for the unstable branch...) You could try re-emerging *pyxml*. It would seem PyXML became pyxml, caused all sorts of problems when the modified ebuild hit the mirrors. Until the name was changed back to PyXML *inside* the ebuild. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/UlnNInuLMrk7bIwRAt9uAJ9hl4D3ArOffpNqomOuuuU+dRIoeACfRlxs fEWYB5FPtpQDzjrPU4WA/0g= =kTwa -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] k3b not detecting burner
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On Monday 01 September 2003 16:20, Adam Dunstan wrote:
ive added
append = hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi
to my lilo conf and rerun lilo
now after a reboot k3b wont detect any drive as a reader or wrighter.
so i think i need to have ide-scsi load automaticaly at boot time, but i
dont know how. man modules.conf is conufusing because i dont realy
understand the modules lingo.
any help?
- From about version 2 of cdrtools there is NO NEED FOR IDE-SCSI EMULATION!
I have k3b running on a ~x86 box (cdrtools v2.01_alpha18 verses v2.01_alpha14
for stable).
Make sure you've run k3bsetup, then if k3b itself still doesn't detect it add
the device manually (find out where /dev/{cdrom,cdrw} points to ultimately,
it'll be /dev/ide/...). Sometimes mine will detect it properly, sometimes it
won't. But k3bsetup (and cdbakeoven) find it everytime, weird.
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Re: [gentoo-user] k3b not detecting burner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 September 2003 16:58, Adam Dunstan wrote: k3bsetup is detecting my burner as a Reader, but not as a writer I take it the info it detects from the drive says that it doesn't burn CDs or CD/RWs? If it does, sounds like a bug. You might try something else, like cdbakeoven. when i changed the lilo conf, k3bsetup dident detect either my dvdrom or burner as a reader or writer also /dev/cdrw doesent exist on my pc... Maybe I added that symlink then, I forget :) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/U29mInuLMrk7bIwRAt9IAJ9eBq7cMvq8unzRV/DzEhWRD+LfPwCePCbD Ki1t6k9KbX+5WFYEU8ZL/kM= =y6Fy -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] keyboard from hell (Logitech Elite Duo)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 September 2003 19:29, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Pupeno wrote: I was using, both of them, with USB to PS/2 adaptors because I can't type on GRUB with an USB keyboard (is that posible ?). Some BIOSs have the option to use a USB keyboard, which I believe lets it emulate a PS/2 keyboard. I don't know if this actually works in GRUB, but it certaintly can't hurt. It does. I can work in grub with my USB keyboard (fairly normal keyboard, few extra buttons that don't do anything), with USB mouse plugged into it. The computer turns on and off, runs KDE, logs in and out, and reboots without error. My Mum and brother use it, neither are IT literate and have no problems so it must work well :) Sorry I can't be of any more use. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/U47ZInuLMrk7bIwRAgF1AJ4hP/62h/CbnDVtgfUOshg96GdB0wCeL4Xr Nup48aX3GFs2jbwETH/pjqs= =xgFm -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync back up
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 September 2003 17:16, Pupeno wrote: Hello, I'm using a modified script of the one that was posted recently to make back ups... sometimes when I do the back up, I get this at the end: wrote 112104962 bytes read 202820 bytes 205128.37 bytes/sec total size is 41357449389 speedup is 368.25 rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(620) It doesn't say why it couldn't tranfer the files nor which files where them... so, I'm kinda lost of how to solve them problem, does anybody have an idea ? Thanks. Do you have any symlinks out of the are you're backup? - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/U50eInuLMrk7bIwRAkj5AJ0TdhSp9p7+Z2kS4q2mhf793lHnkwCgrmlI TCzCYjlWxhs3UTpQ7EsDrVo= =7Ef8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rsync back up
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 September 2003 22:14, Ernie Schroder wrote: I see Peter in there and I just GOT to pick his brain some more. I'd like rsync to log some basic information such as the summary I see at the end, time started and time ended, but not all the file lists I see scrolling by. I have written a file, saved as /etc/rsyncd.conf on both the client and host, that has the single line: log file = /var/log/rsync.log on both machines there is no rsync.log being written. IIUC, the log should, or if the .conf was right, would be written to the machine that is the destination of the backup. But: $ tail /var/log/rsync.log tail: /var/log/rsync.log: No such file or directory I've even resorted to rebooting the destination box. Still no joy. I'm obviously missing something here could you point me in the right direction? rsync.conf is for the daemon. The daemon generally listens for connections, and sends files out. Should really be split into 2 binaries, rsync and rsyncd. I haven't followed this thread fully, but I understand you are in fact transferring the files over ssh. This is what I have always had to do when using rsync in this manner. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/U7hvInuLMrk7bIwRAh9XAJ9smnLd6aVICr+XF4mgIRMgFYBhiQCfSDds TsZTkuVGUaQW9Pjg6VmSsIk= =3soY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wanting to install gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r6
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 September 2003 22:19, Adam Mercer wrote: You might try checking /var/cache/edb/virtuals. I think I remember having a similar problem, and it turned out that portage, at some point, had left gentoo-sources in virtual/linux-sources. Theres no mention of gentoo-sources in /var/cache/edb/virtuals, or virtual/linux-sources either, could that be the problem? That wasn't what I was thinking, but yes, it is the problem, I'm sure. There will be something you've got installed which depends on virtual/ linux-sources as portage believes you don't have anything installed which provides it, it's picking something. You can add the line you need yourself, just like the rest. Note the extra space(s) on the end of each line, don't know if it matters, but suspect it's to make the code easier or something. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/U7mnInuLMrk7bIwRAh3jAJwNRMj9HeCQGOOctabhGDY/GORjaQCfZ0AP wv/evdQtxqIZtF5+WUr7cDw= =qEoo -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] php installation
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 September 2003 01:53, momesana wrote: greetings, everybody. I have trouble installing php. It quits with the following errormessage that I have inserted at the end of this file. I found some mails on the internet that discussed this problem. see http://maclux-rz.uibk.ac.at/~maillists/sablotron/msg04029.shtml for more on this (the programmers of sablotron answering an email request). anyone having a clue on how to fix it? please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanx in advance, momesana! jsdom-ref.xml Can't locate XML/Parser.pm in @INC (@INC contains: [snip] !!! ERROR: app-text/sablotron-0.97 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 26, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Sablotron depends on dev-perl/XML-Parser, which provides XML/Parser.pm. So I'm not sure why it can't be found. Where is XML/Parser.pm on your system, and what version of perl do you have installed? - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/U83nInuLMrk7bIwRAi90AJ92c65YZpVnOxIXyKJPEA7CEejPRgCfX7XH KuGpQ8eUuKZDOt6ombPkWVk= =Tcas -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Add a window manager to KDM
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 September 2003 01:21, Nicholas Pappas wrote: Can anyone point me to a site (or go over the steps) showing how to add a new window manager to the KDE login manager? Specifically, I am looking to add WindowMaker. I found a brief writeup on the KDE site, but it gave a few example and I wasn't sure which one to use with Gentoo. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Oddly enough this is something I happened to chance across about a week ago! I have no idea if this is purely a gentoo specific thing, probably isn't. Drop an init script into /etc/X11/Sessions. Seems to only need to be called whatever you associate with, and contain enough to start the desktop environment, for example: sauron root # cat /etc/X11/Sessions/kde-5 #!/bin/sh /usr/kde/cvs/bin/startkde - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/U+T2InuLMrk7bIwRAvVmAJ48ieaHUL+v+EFJ5hsOLvhkbZB3HgCfS0ih adWQwlkh99rlXPoBT8Z/Rj4= =7E3v -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] subversion
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 September 2003 21:55, Alcino Dall Igna Junior wrote: Forget that never mind... :( After a successful (or at least an apparently success) commit, I get this: svn log svn: Berkeley DB error svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/repos/bin' svn: Berkeley DB error while opening environment for filesystem /home/svn/repos/db: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery and db4_recover, directly or via su apache makes no difference. I think that subversion was easy than cvs... :( Did you create a totally fresh repository? - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/VQS7InuLMrk7bIwRAtCaAJ0TQwu3+T2w7uz4WFpt1b5PEBoP9gCdFHa9 IAOFC3K+x6ryEDR3raTErbc= =kElx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] log in without X
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 September 2003 23:07, Chris wrote: I have a problem I was editing /etc/rc.config when my cat jumped right in the middle of my keyboard. Needless to say my X session is now trashed. How do I get back in so I can fix it? I don't see anything in /etc/rc.conf that could 'trash' X. I assume it just doesn't start? So why not just log into the text console and fix it? :) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Wm1pInuLMrk7bIwRAiLDAJ0dOTgPt1B1Asd2BTGoy9qj2yZqUgCffy1M DXzcb0JBP4dPsDgeUb5nA7I= =+Bra -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: module errors
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 September 2003 15:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, here is the exact verbage I get: [snip] modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r6/modules.dep (No such file or directory) modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r6/modules.dep (No such file or directory) modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r6/modules.dep (No such file or directory) modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r6/modules.dep (No such file or directory) * Configuring kernel parameters...[ok] Could you try a 'depmod -a', then reboot? In theory it should create the dependency file, but I've never run with no module support at all, so who knows. * Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run... [ok] xargs: environment is too large for exec [snip] I would like to clean up the four modprobe errors. Also, I am curious about the xargs entry as well. So would I! Couple weeks back I tried to figure out, but lost. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Wm8NInuLMrk7bIwRAnb+AJ95Jf/lx+Done/xg4HPhEfL6M+j2QCfZbSS HyRsgr4caC7iZ3i396RKzQU= =V4BA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] continued depmod problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 September 2003 19:43, Mark Knecht wrote: At this point all the drivers that I seem to need are running without errors. However, depmod is not happy about other things installed on my system: Wizard root # depmod -a depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r2/kernel/drivers/atm/atmtcp.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r2/kernel/drivers/block/loop.o SNIP depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r2/kernel/net/sched/sch_teql.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r2/kernel/net/sunrpc/sunrpc.o Wizard root # There are about 50 failures like this. Here's the basic series of events as best I remember them them: 0) I tried running genkernel, but it started compiling without giving me a chance to configure, so I Ctrl-C'ed out of it. 1) I needed USB support which was not built into my kernel. 2) I ran make xconfig to get USB turned on, but there were a lot of things I wasn't sure about, and I had a working Redhat machine running a 2.4.21 kernel, so I copied over that .config file into /usr/src/linux. (Could this cause this sort of problem?) 3) I built the kernel using make dep clean bzImage install modules modules_install After changes of this magnitude, coupled with the aborted compile, you really should backup your .config (VERY important!), then run a 'make mrproper', copy the .config back and run either 'make oldconfig/menuconfig/xconfig' then your usual 'make dep clean .'. 'make mrproper' puts the source tree back into a state as close to untouched as possible. This morning I tried moving the existing lib/modules/gentoo* directory out of the way and ran make modules_install again, and still get the same depmod -a failures after a reboot. There is no need to move existing modules out of the way before module_install'ing, the make does that itself. I notice that I have other gentoo-sources installed, but /usr/src/linux is still pointing at 2.4.20-r2. Does this matter? Should I repoint to 2.4.20-r6 and build from there? Why would this matter? You shouldn't *have* to, as to find the current running kernel, source tree and module location you can use 'uname -r'. But I'm pretty sure there are things in the portage tree which check for the symlink, so it's best to keep it current. Can anyone venture a guess as to what I did wrong here? I ventured! Bet I didn't succeed tho :) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/WnDRInuLMrk7bIwRApfaAJ9Ug3blNS2VGbvw4AtM0+0UpJO8twCfXH96 VaobrmxDeqfMyy8NLYWX0aQ= =P4Zz -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging without ccache
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 September 2003 01:22, Paulo da Silva wrote: Hi, I couldn't get lilypond compiled because of ccache! I needed to unemerge ccache, emerge lilypond and then reemerge ccache again. Is there a way to emerge forcing ccache or distcc not to be used? Yep, check /etc/make.conf and remove ccache and distcc from FEATURES. If FEATURES isn't set, thus using the defaults, then do an 'emerge info' find out what is being used and set FEATURES minus what you don't want. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Wnz8InuLMrk7bIwRAinsAKCs4GXFqB94b5PL/K0sXuXBBb+/VwCeI3y2 PT8w5B9K+iYq5qp/bHteues= =etmx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /dev permissions
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 September 2003 01:19, Paulo da Silva wrote: Hi! Where are the /dev permissions kept? I changed some /dev permissions but I would like to restore them to the original status. devfs should reset some of them upon un/reloading of the appropriate modules or a reboot, otherwise /dev entries are basically the same as normal files. If what you have changed doesn't get reset after a reboot, and is causing you trouble post to the list and I'm sure someone can tell you the default. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Wn2lInuLMrk7bIwRAs0wAJ4okKJdrOZg5VQHj8f7uer292k1eQCfb4SO uktGX8bt7gnfS7yL27z4NAo= =cNEL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Upgraded from 2.4.20r5 to r6 ???'s...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 September 2003 11:39, Joshua Banks wrote: When I issued the commad: emerge -u world My kernel was upgraded form 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 to r6. Among other things. [snip] If I do a uname -a, it shows that I'm still running 2.4.20-gentoo-r5. Did I do the right thing after upgradeing or do I need to reboot as well? Kernels, under no circumstances, are automagically built and installed for you. What emerge did was put the new source onto your system, for you to compile. The kernel is far too important to risk messing with in an automated way. You can use the genkernel script to help. Is there some type of Standard Operating Proceedure after doing an emerge sync ,emerge -u world and/or right after downloading anytype of application..I.E. ethereal, Gaim, ect..ect.. that I should be following for best practices? Not especially, just update the config files as asked. Can I download other applications (tar.gz's) that aren't included in the portage tree without effecting Gentoo in anyway? You can, just follow the convention of putting them into /usr/local/..., and remove them again if they appear in portage. All kinds of horrid compilation problems can ensue if out of date libraries are found, especially when they aren't under portage's control. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/WwzDInuLMrk7bIwRAu58AJ96zfHxide0ZNV2tt7y/xih2/933wCfY9nc SS5QuCOao76b9ZnsOuFp7/8= =kCnX -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can Gentoo install source file?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 September 2003 08:20, TaZZ wrote: Hi! I'm newbie in Gentoo... Can Gentoo install tar.gz source file (how one rpm-package install Red Hat :-)) or I must do: ./configure make make install If it's not in portage, then yes, that's basically what you would have to do. If feeling brave you could try knocking up a simple ebuild for it. Just don't put it into /usr/portage cos your next rsync will delete it. :) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Ww05InuLMrk7bIwRAg4NAJ9E2vq+V+aY5/RcAIIOKweGWJGP9wCfbnTz WVy9uVAR1fgiLVInvDJcwqA= =BAjY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
