RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
Hi! What did you recommend? Can you repeat that? Bye Goran -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Fish Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 5:45 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags On 3/14/06, Goran Maksimoviæ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have already asked this but I will ask again. I am looking for who could write me a list of USE flags to setup in make.conf, so anyone? I need desktop system with KDE and not GNOME, support for DVD and CD ripping and burning, playing DVDs and DivX movies, MP3. I will do programming and testing of Apache server, mail server, MySQL. What was wrong with the USE flags I recommended? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help getting MythTV to work withnew(er) kernel
Hi, In kernel config (at least in 2.6.15) there is an option to support the Philips SAA7115. That's the point where you get you're first error message. I only got the ivtv driver to work ok in 2.6.15 after enabling the SAA7115 support. (I do not have my linux box at hand now so I cannot exactly tell you were the option is in the kernel config but it is somewhere like Device drivers multimedia shit v4L extra or additonell drivers or so. There you have to options and when you choose for help (in make menuconfig) you will see the supp. For SAA7115 mentioned). If you cannot find let me know I'll take a look tonight. Sorry, when I mentioned XX.XXX in the ivtv command I meant : replace this by an actual frequency where there is a tv station. Bye Rik -Original Message- From: Michael Sullivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 5:05 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help getting MythTV to work withnew(er) kernel On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 09:03 +0100, Rik van de Bovenkamp wrote: Hi, If you check dmesg, is everything OK loading ivtv? You should see the ivtv messages between two lines. Using diff to compare the dmesg output for different kernels has led me to getting things to work. I booted with my old kernel and copied the ivtv stuff from dmesg into a file. Here it is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat ivtv-2.6.14-r5 ivtv: START INIT IVTV ivtv: version 0.4.2 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 SMP 486 gcc-3.4 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist. ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 250 card (cx23416 based) ACPI: PCI Interrupt :05:00.0[A] - GSI 21 (level, low) - IRQ 22 ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) tveeprom: ivtv version tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 32552, rev = C168, serial# = 8059944 tveeprom: tuner = LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx = 68, type = 47) tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x1000) tveeprom: audio processor = MSP4448 (type = 1b) tveeprom: decoder processor = SAA7115 (type = 13) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50] tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0 ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61] saa7115 0-0021: ivtv driver saa7115 0-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=saa7115, addr=21] msp3400 0-0040: ivtv driver msp3400 0-0040: chip=MSP4448G-A2 +nicam +simple +simpler +radio mode=simpler ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=MSP4448G-A2, addr=40] msp3400 0-0040: msp34xxg daemon started tda9887 0-0043: (ivtv) chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tda9887, addr=43] ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream tuner: type set to 47 (LG NTSC (TAPE series)) by ivtv i2c driver #0 ivtv0: Initialized WinTV PVR 250, card #0 ivtv: END INIT IVTV [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Then I booted with the new kernel and did the same thing. Here it is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat ivtv-2.6.15-r1 ivtv: START INIT IVTV ivtv: version 0.4.2 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 SMP 486 gcc-3.4 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist. ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 250 card (cx23416 based) ACPI: PCI Interrupt :05:00.0[A] - GSI 21 (level, low) - IRQ 22 ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50] tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 32552, rev C168, serial# 8059944 tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx 68, type 47) tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08) tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is MSP4448 (idx 27) tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is SAA7115 (idx 19) tveeprom 0-0050: has radio, has no IR remote tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61] ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7115 ivtv0 warning: i2c client addr: 0x21 not found for command 0x8004646b! msp3400 0-0040: chip=MSP4448G-A2 +nicam +simple +simpler +radio mode=simpler ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=MSP4448G-A2, addr=40]
Re: [gentoo-user] Stop and continue emerge -e world
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:48:46 +, Unknown wrote: Not so. emerge --resume restarts the previous emerge process, even after a reboot, exactly as Petr needs. what i meant is that it will have to recompile allover again No it won't, it will start again with the package it was working on when the emerge was interrupted. -- Neil Bothwick I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: php4 vs php5
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 03:35:49 + (UTC), James wrote: dev-php is on it's way out and has not been updated in some time. You're likely vulnerable at this moment. Um, I must not have been clear. JFFNMS is critical. It requires php4. so upgrading to php5 is NOT an option, until the JFFNMS devs move to php5. Yes, but you need dev-lang/php-4*, not dev-php/php-4*. Unmerge the blockers and dev-lang/php-4* will emerge. You don't need mod_php anymore, it is provided by the apache(2) USE flags of dev-lang/php. If the JFFNMS ebuild explicitly depends on dev-php/php, it is broken. file a bug and add it to /etc/portage/profile/package.provided to work around it until it is fixed (or fix the ebuild yourself). -- Neil Bothwick Another casualty of applied metaphysics. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 23:14 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:00:08 -0700, Joseph wrote: If I use: dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso I only get about 2Gb file and it stops or freezes, the disk is bout 4.3Gb Is it the same size every time? Is is the same with different discs? It could be a fault on the disc. I usually use cp /dev/dvd file.iso but dd has always worked for me in the past, albeit slightly slower (even with a larger block size). Yes, almost the same size. I know there is a file size limit on ext2 but I'm using ext3, so there shouldn't be a problem. If I try cp /dev/hdc file.iso I get an error: cp: reading /dev/hdc' : Input/output error Have you verified that your file system supports files larger than 2GB? Try the following: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=largefile bs=1M count=5000 -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] DDNS Problem
Hi All,
I am facing problems in configuring DDNS with dhcpd. When i'm rebooting linux machine, it is getting dynamically ip address from linux server but no dynamic dns updates are there. Also when i renew ip address of windows 2000 prof, it not getting ip address from linux dhcp server. Following is the configuration that might help you solving my problem. Both Master DNS and dhcp server are on the same server
server1.guru.com
#guru.com.zone#$TTL 86400$ORIGIN guru.com.@1D IN SOA@ root.guru.com. (00;Serial10;Refresh
1M;Retry1W;Expiry1M );Minimum TTL
1D IN NS@
server1 1D IN A192.168.0.2server2 1D IN A192.168.0.3win2k2D IN A192.168.0.1
www1INCNAMEserver1.guru.com.www2INCNAMEserver2.guru.com.www3INCNAMEwin2k.guru.com.#END
##0.168.192.zone$TTL 86400@INSOAguru.com.root.guru.com.(00;Serial10;Refresh1M;Retry
1W;Expiry1M );Minimum TTL
INNSguru.com.
2INPTRserver1.guru.com.1INPTRwin2k.guru.com.3INPTRserver2.guru.com.#END
###dhcpd.conf###ddns-updates on;ddns-update-style interim;#ignore client-updates;
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
# --- default gatewayoption routers192.168.0.2;option subnet-mask255.255.255.0;
#option nis-domaindomain.org;option domain-nameguru.org;option domain-name-servers192.168.0.2
;
option time-offset-18000;# Eastern Standard Time#option ntp-servers192.168.0.1;#option netbios-name-servers192.168.0.1;# --- Selects point-to-point node (default is hybrid). Don't change this unless
# -- you understand Netbios very well#option netbios-node-type 2;
range dynamic-bootp 192.168.0.128 192.168.0.254;default-lease-time 43200;max-lease-time 43200;
# we want the nameserver to appear at a fixed address#host ns {#next-server server1.redhat.com;#hardware ethernet 12:34:56:78:AB:CD;#fixed-address
207.175.42.254;#}}#END##/var/log/messages#server1.guru.com log file##Mar 15 15:29:36 server1 dhcpd: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0c:29:9f:6e:55/192.168.0.0/24
Mar 15 15:29:36 server1 dhcpd: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0c:29:9f:6e:55/192.168.0.0/24Mar 15 15:29:36 server1 dhcpd: Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0c:29:9f:6e:55/192.168.0.0/24Mar 15 15:29:36 server1 dhcpd: Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
Mar 15 15:29:36 server1 dhcpd: Mar 15 15:29:36 server1 dhcpd: Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0c:29:9f:6e:55/192.168.0.0/24Mar 15 15:29:36 server1 dhcpd: Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-netMar 15 15:29:36 server1 dhcpd: dhcpd startup succeeded
Mar 15 15:37:57 server1 dhcpd: dhcpd shutdown succeededMar 15 15:37:57 server1 dhcpd: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server V3.0pl2Mar 15 15:37:57 server1 dhcpd: Copyright 1995-2003 Internet Software Consortium.
Mar 15 15:37:57 server1 dhcpd: All rights reserved.Mar 15 15:37:57 server1 dhcpd: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCPMar 15 15:37:57 server1 dhcpd: Wrote 1 leases to leases file.
Mar 15 15:37:57 server1 dhcpd: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server V3.0pl2Mar 15 15:37:57 server1 dhcpd: Copyright 1995-2003 Internet Software Consortium.Mar 15 15:37:57 server1 dhcpd: All rights reserved.
Mar 15 15:37:57 server1 dhcpd: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCPMar 15 15:37:57 server1 dhcpd: Wrote 1 leases to leases file.Mar 15 15:37:57 server1 dhcpd: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0c:29:9f:6e:55/192.168.0.0/24
Mar 15 15:37:57 server1 dhcpd: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0c:29:9f:6e:55/192.168.0.0/24Mar 15 15:37:57 server1 dhcpd: Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0c:29:9f:6e:55/192.168.0.0/24Mar 15 15:37:57 server1 dhcpd: Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
Mar 15 15:37:57 server1 dhcpd: Mar 15 15:37:57 server1 dhcpd: Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0c:29:9f:6e:55/192.168.0.0/24Mar 15 15:37:57 server1 dhcpd: Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-netMar 15 15:37:57 server1 dhcpd: dhcpd startup succeeded
Mar 15 15:45:12 server1 named[31429]: query logging is now onMar 15 15:47:10 server1 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.254 from 00:0c:29:db:9c:0d via eth0Mar 15 15:47:10 server1 dhcpd: DHCPACK on
192.168.0.254 to 00:0c:29:db:9c:0d via eth0#END#
Thanks Regards,
Hiren Dave
Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus
There is of course ClamAV for windows -all the power and Open Source- ness of Clam in a windows .exe http://www.clamwin.com/ Fligg. On 6 Mar 2006, at 18:26, Jarry wrote: i have avast updated daily i dono how this virus got in i must try AVG Why not just use A/V when you run Windoze? AVG is still free and quite excellent. Both AVG and Avast sux hard! I used both of them, paid for updates, and despite of that I got viruses many times. Even clamav is better! They (avg/avast) offer virtually no protection against unknown viruses. No wonder, if you look at their scores on virusbtn.com :-( Wanna really good antivir-soft? Try nod32! Unfortunatelly, it is not free, and even trial-version is only for win-world. But it is worth of every penny. Frequent updates (can be also 2-3 times per day), perfect heuristic analysis, low cpu/mem load... Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus
If you've been running without Anti Virus software for years now, how do you know the machines are clean of virus's? On 8 Mar 2006, at 20:24, Bob Young wrote: -Original Message- From: neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 11:23 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus Jarry wrote: I got viruses many times. Over the past 20-odd years, I have had machines running many versions of DOS, all versions of Windows since Windows 286, all versions of OS/2 since 1.3 and several distributions of Linux. I have never, ever seen a virus. I have to wonder what you are doing to be so unfortunate. Here, here. It's really not about the OS, or what protection software is or isn't installed, it's about the habits and practices of the user. Any computer can (and probably will) be compromised if the user is careless or naive about what they do and where they go on the Net. Like you, I've run different versions of DOS, Windows (NT derivatives only), OS/2, Linux. I did get a virus once in the early days when running DOS, but since then I've never had a Windows or Linux box compromised by a virus or malware, and that's without running any anti-virus software of any kind on any of the Windows boxes. FWIW one of those Windows boxes is currently a web/email/DNS/FTP server with seven public IPs serving between four and seven domains. There is also a Gentoo Linux box doing secondary DNS for the domains, the windows box has a firewall but no AV software at all, both servers (one Windows one Gentoo), have remained clean and stable for several years now, as do all of my various Windows and Gentoo workstations, none of which run any antivirus software. In short if a user is getting infected a lot using Windows, switching to Linux is not curing the root cause. The basic problem is the user needs to understand what s/he is doing that's allowing malicious code to execute on their system and stop doing it. In the vast majority of Windows cases, simply *not* routinely logging on with admin privileges would probably stop 99% plus of the infections. Regards, Bob Young -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Tuning SCSI disks-App like hdparm available?
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 08:39 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 3/13/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently got a bunch of (old) scsi disks and would like to get the most out of them. They are 7200 18GB scsi disks which hdparm reports up to 18MB/s of transfer rate. (vs 30MB/s on my 5400 80GB laptop drive and 24MB/s on a 7200 200GB IDE Drive) I'm wondering if there are applications which can be used to tune the disks for better performance? I don't think there is much tuning that can be done, other than putting them in a RAID0 array. Wouldn't Raid5 be a better choice? Although there is the added Parity which does give some fault tolerance. Actually, since you brought it up, I've got 4 drives, 1 I'm using for the OS. The other 3, I'm undecided. It's either. 3x18GB = 54GB in a LVM2 array (/storage) (JBOD I guess) or 3x18GB Raid 0 = 54GB but lose _all_ data if any disk fails. Not an option I suppose. SCSI already does DMA, so as long as they are attached to the fastest controller that the drives support, you are probably maxed out on throughput. Sigh.. That's still low comparatively compared to the newer generation of drives (esp SATA which give up to 80-100MB/s transfers) BTW, 24MB/s on a 7200rpm 200G drive on an IDE channel seems very, very low. It is isn't it? Then again, it's also attached to a Pentium II system. (I was comparing apples to apples) Pentium II 300Mhz w/ SCSI disks - 18MB/s (18GB Scsi 7200rpm) Pentium II 300Mhz w/ IDE disks - 24MB/s (200GB IDE 7200rpm) That number should be more like 65MB/s. Unless this is actually in a USB enclosure... Nope. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:13:22 up 2 days, 13:16, 4 users, load average: 0.98, 0.70, 0.36 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] stilll have this gnome problem i cant get rid of...
Gnome hangs on splash screen after iinsert name and password in gdm, X are working fine, i updated gnome, didnt help though, it did work in beginnig. I can load gnome-wm and gnome-panel, i cant load for some reason gnome-session, it says smth like SESSION_MANAGER=local/drjoms(name of machine):/tmp/.ICE-unix/6865 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] suspend2 problem
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 20:25 +1100, David Helstroom wrote: Pablasso wrote: if you have your video driver with dri/drm (3d acceleration) activated, thats the problem, suspend2 currently does not work along with 3d acceleration so you have to choose beetween them. Hi Pablasso, Perhaps I misunderstand, but suspend2 has long worked alongside 3d acceleration. In my experience, some of the proprietary graphics drivers (ATI's fglrx for example) do not work at all. However I use the X.org included Radeon drivers (and standard Radeon DRI kernel model) and have had no problems whatsoever. It could be a different story for the card in your machine (a Rage II by the looks of it). $ glxinfo | grep render direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 20040929 AGP 4x x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL $ uname -a Linux neuromancer 2.6.14-suspend2-r6 #1 PREEMPT Sun Dec 4 18:21:04 MYT 2005 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 18:11:55 up 2 days, 20:14, 5 users, load average: 1.41, 1.23, 0.76 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DDNS Problem
I am facing problems in configuring DDNS with dhcpd. When i'm rebooting linux machine, it is getting dynamically ip address from linux server but no dynamic dns updates are there. Also when i renew ip address of windows 2000 prof, it not getting ip address from linux dhcp server. You should explicitly allow updates in named.conf and make some directories and zone files writable by bind. Read relevant parts of BIND Administrator Reference Manual. You may also want to add more logging options to named.conf and there should be enough info in syslogs to troubleshoot the problem you're having. HTH -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] subversion
Anybody have any idea when subversion 1.3 will available as an ebuild? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ntp problems
On Monday 13 March 2006 12:22 am, Rumen Yotov wrote: On Sunday 12 March 2006 19:43, David Corbin wrote: On Sunday 12 March 2006 04:28 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 12 March 2006 20:16, David Corbin wrote: ntp-client is in my default run level. However, when I it runs at boot time, I get this error message: 12 Mar 09:06:24 ntpd[9516]: cap_set_proc() failed to drop root privileges: Operation not permitted 12 Mar 09:06:26 ntpd[9561]: parent died before we finished, exiting If I run it as root manually, it runs fine. Add nodroproot to your USE flags and remerge ntp I will, but why does it work fine from the command line? Hi, I don't mean to sound like child who continues to go but why?. Still, it doesn't make sense to me. Because when it wants to drop it's privileges from root to e.g. ntpd (user or group) it can't - get's killed. First, I don't understand how root could ever have a permission problem try to downgrade its privleges. Second, I don't understand how it could not have the require privileges during the boot process (presumably running starting as root), and yet it works when I run it by hand as root. Usually permission problems or in this case it/ntpd can't access /proc to set time (cap_set_proc()). Just a sidenote, recently (a day ago) exchanged ntp for openntpd (from OpenBSD) on a hardened router, because ntp wanted to lock too much memory (RLIMIT_MEMLOCK - from 32K (default) - ~8 MB) and other minor issues. HTH.Rumen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] resource mapping wrong? pci-x nvidia fails to load
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 15:21, Jimmy Rosen wrote: And in response to the other post by Mike Williams, it is of course a PCI Express card, my whimsical mind... Ohh, the humour :o) I updated to nvidia drivers 8178, which give a slightly different dmesg, but still don't work. dmesg: Thankful for any further suggestions... I'm quite lost as to what to do at the moment. I'd go looking for a BIOS update now. How did this problem start? New card, new motherboard, etc? -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 15:02, Goran Maksimoviæ wrote: Hi! I have already asked this but I will ask again. I am looking for who could write me a list of USE flags to setup in make.conf, so anyone? I need desktop system with KDE and not GNOME, support for DVD and CD ripping and burning, playing DVDs and DivX movies, MP3. I will do programming and testing of Apache server, mail server, MySQL. install ufed start ufed as root work the whole list down and read the descriptions, repeat, than you are ready to go. +kde -gnome +qt +mysql +mad +lame +apache +dvd +dvdr +cdr are some, you'll need. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] JFFNMS answer for Timothy
James -- Thank you -- that appears to be the course I will be following -- thanks a bunch TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 5:07 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] JFFNMS answer for Timothy Hello Timothy Sorry for not directly answering your post, but Gmane.org is confused today, as your request will not let me reply (Nothing you have done, just a snafu with Gmane.org). Question (from Timothy): I am trying to install JFFNMS, as part of its dependancies, it wants to install php4.4.2, however the computer already has PHP5 installed and running nicely. Is there a way to install JFFNMS without installing php4 and have it use php5 properly? The very end of the web page http://dev.gentoo.org/~angusyoung/docs/jffnms/docs/jffnms.html You may also fall into problems configuring Apache to work with PHP (specially if you run both PHP4 and PHP5 in the same system). In that case, our guide Configuring Apache to Work with PHP4 and PHP5 may give you some help. It is available here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php4-php5- configuration.xml What I did is put Jffnms on a system without php5, as a temporary work around, for now. If that does provide a solution for you, just refine your question and post again. If the documentation is not clear, go to bugs.gentoo.org and respond to Bug 125721 if you find the install information inadequate. Also, I'll try to answer questions. hth, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 11:32:59 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: - dvdbackup, dvd9to5 and lxdvdrip seem to work nicely enough I'm a big fan of ANDREW from the FSF. There should be an ebuild in bugzilla; but it's trivial to install. It's not a X application, but it /is/, despite the name, a wizard that does all of the heavy lifting for you. There's also k9copy, in portage. -- Neil Bothwick If at first you don't succeed, you must be a programmer. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] DDNS Problem
Hiren Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am facing problems in configuring DDNS with dhcpd. When i'm rebooting linux machine, it is getting dynamically ip address from linux server but no dynamic dns updates are there. I think you must allow dynamic updates by allow-update or update-policy in bind's zone-files... And one more thing: for every ip from your dyn-ip pool I would set very short ttl/expire in your zone-files. Otherwise caching-clients would get know too late, that there was a change in ip/dn assignment... Jarry -- Echte DSL-Flatrate dauerhaft für 0,- Euro*! Feel free mit GMX DSL! http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] resource mapping wrong? pci-x nvidia fails to load
On 3/14/06, Jimmy Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 14 March 2006 15.08, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 3/14/06, Jimmy Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, perhaps someone can shed some light on this problem? nvidia driver fails to load. In dmesg I find this: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. ACPI: PCI Interrupt :03:00.0[A] - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 16 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :03:00.0 to 64 NVRM: The IO regions for your NVIDIA card are invalid. NVRM: Your system BIOS may have misconfigured your graphics card. NVRM: bar1 (framebuffer) appears to be wrong: 0x0 0x0 ACPI: PCI interrupt for device :03:00.0 disabled nvidia: probe of :03:00.0 failed with error -1 NVRM: the NVIDIA probe routine was not called for 1 device(s)!! NVRM: no devices probed, aborting! NVRM: this often occurs when rivafb is loaded and claims the device's resources. NVRM: try removing the rivafb module (or reconfiguring your kernel to remove NVRM: rivafb support) and then try loading the NVIDIA kernel module again. Have you tried doying what the module message told you to? Remove rivafb from you kernel and then load the nvidia module. Now, this is an NVidia GeForce 6600 PCI-X card on an Intel SE7525RP2 motherboard with 1GB ram. Kernel 2.6.15 gentoo sources r1, nvidia drivers nvidia-kernel 1.0.6629-r5 and nvidia-glx 1.0.6629-r6. According to what little I've found on the web, there seems to be something weird with bios? I've tried cmos clear, and restarting with all cards unplugged, but I can't get it to work. Some sites suggested there might be some bios settings left if the pci-x had been plugged in before the ram expansion, which was the case here. I don't think its your BIOS, probably a imcompatibility between riva framebuffer support and nvidia module. As I remember, you can use just VESA for framebuffer and disable this specific framebuffer driver. That might solve your problem. -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- Hello, Yes, I have removed all riva support from the kernel, which didn't help, and also tried with a small and clean 2.6.14 kernel that doesn't have rivafb as module or compiled in. The motherboard also has an ATI card, which I have tried disabling in bios, but that doesn't help either. And in response to the other post by Mike Williams, it is of course a PCI Express card, my whimsical mind... I updated to nvidia drivers 8178, which give a slightly different dmesg, but still don't work. dmesg: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. ACPI: PCI Interrupt :03:00.0[A] - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 16 NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is invalid: NVRM: BAR1 is 0M @ 0x (PCI:0003:00.0) NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your graphics card. nvidia: probe of :03:00.0 failed with error -1 NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s). NVRM: None of the NVIDIA graphics adapters were initialized! --- cut some other non-related usb stuff --- ACPI: PCI Interrupt :03:00.0[A] - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 16 NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is invalid: NVRM: BAR1 is 0M @ 0x (PCI:0003:00.0) NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your graphics card. nvidia: probe of :03:00.0 failed with error -1 NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s). NVRM: None of the NVIDIA graphics adapters were initialized! It does seem odd that the new 8178 driver probes the card twice and thinks it has found adapter_s_. Thankful for any further suggestions... I'm quite lost as to what to do at the moment. Jimmy Well, something is wrong, a LOT wrong when it can't find the board and use it. Well, if I were you (I had some GForces some time ago), I would remove all and any support for riva or nv or nvidia from kernel, boot into the new kernel and try NVidia proprietary drivers runnign directy their stuff, not portage (it was the way I had my first NVidia working before I knew portage had nvidia stuff in the tree). -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] subversion
On 2006-03-15 00:47, David Corbin uttered these thoughts: Anybody have any idea when subversion 1.3 will available as an ebuild? It is... Marked testing on most architectures it seems. If you want it, read man portage and look for package.keywords Regards, Patrick Börjesson -- / () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email \ /\ and proprietary formats. pgpYY7mw6fIL4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 01:33 am, Goran Maksimović wrote: Read it! But with that you didn't still answer my question :). Bye Goran -Original Message- From: Justin Krejci [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 4:51 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags On Tuesday 14 March 2006 01:02 pm, Goran Maksimovi? wrote: Hi! I have already asked this but I will ask again. I am looking for who could write me a list of USE flags to setup in make.conf, so anyone? I need desktop system with KDE and not GNOME, support for DVD and CD ripping and burning, playing DVDs and DivX movies, MP3. I will do programming and testing of Apache server, mail server, MySQL. Bye Goran Try reading this page, it is quite nice. http://www.gentoo-portage.com/USE -- You could probably not use any USE flags and just install applications to do the things you need, mysql, apache, kde, kmplayer, etc. If you think you need some extra functionality from a specific program, you then should add it. No one but you will know what you need to add. You can also change your USE flags around later and re-install something if you need to. I would do something like this to see what you think you might need emerge -vp kde kmplayer xmms apache mysql k3b (etc etc) This will give you all of the USE flags available for each program and which are included by default with the package. Then set them accordingly and rerun the emerge without the p option. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Stop and continue emerge -e world
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 08:56 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:48:46 +, Unknown wrote: Not so. emerge --resume restarts the previous emerge process, even after a reboot, exactly as Petr needs. what i meant is that it will have to recompile allover again No it won't, it will start again with the package it was working on when the emerge was interrupted. I've found that in situations like this, it's useful to have FEATURES=keepwork in /etc/make.conf, provided that you remember to delete the contents of /var/tmp/portage every now and then... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] overnetclc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open
I am having a problem with overnet on an amd64 computer. For some reason it connat load libstdc++.so.5. $ overnetclc overnetclc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I checked and realized that I did not have this file so I emerged libstdc++-v3. This did get me the file in /usr/lib64. Still no luck. I suppose the problem is that overnet is a binary package which requires a 32 bit library. Still I don't know how to solve this problem. Perhaps the problem is that I need multilib but I don't know how to select that since the multilib use flag is missing. # equery hasuse multilib [ Searching for USE flag multilib in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.4 (5) [I--] [ -] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5-r2 (2.2) [I--] [ -] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4-r1 (3.4) # emerge -vp `equery hasuse multilib | sed -e 's/^/=/'` These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.4 USE=nls nptl -build 0 kB [ebuild R ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5-r2 USE=nls nptl nptlonly -build -erandom -glibc-compat20 -glibc-omitfp -hardened -linuxthreads-tls -pic -profile -userlocales 0 kB [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4-r1 USE=fortran gtk nls -bootstrap -boundschecking -build -gcj -hardened -ip28 -multislot -nocxx -nopie -nossp -objc -vanilla 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB # ls -ld /etc/make.profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Feb 24 14:25 /etc/make.profile - ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.0 Any hints on this would be appreciated. If you need any additional information please ask. -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DDNS Problem
Hi,
I think you must allow dynamic updates by allow-update or update-policy in bind's zone-files...
Here is my named.conf file which may help you solving my problem
named.conf on server1.guru.com
# Configured by Hiren Dave on 07th March 2006options {directory /var/named;dump-file /var/named/data/cache_dump.db;statistics-file /var/named/data/named_stats.txt;
allow-transfer { 192.168.0.3; };allow-query { 192.168.0.0/24; localhost; };allow-recursion { 192.168.0.0/24
; localhost; };};
controls {inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; };};
logging {category dnssec{ security_log; };category update{ security_log; };category security{ security_log; };
channel security_log {file /var/named/dns-security.log versions 5 size 20m;print-time yes;print-category yes;print-severity yes;severity info;};};
//Root server hintszone . IN { type hint;file named.ca;};
zone localhost IN {type master;file localhost.zone;};
zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa IN {type master;file 127.0.0.zone;};
acl dhcp-server {192.168.0.2;};
acl dhcp-clients {192.168.0/24;};
zone guru.com IN {type master;file guru.com.zone;allow-query { any; };allow-update { dhcp-clients; };};
zone 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa IN {type master;file 0.168.192.zone;allow-query { any; };allow-update { dhcp-clients; };};
#include /etc/rndc.key;
##END#
Hiren Dave
On 3/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hiren Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am facing problems in configuring DDNS with dhcpd. When i'm rebooting
linux machine, it is getting dynamically ip address from linux server but no dynamic dns updates are there.I think you must allow dynamic updates by allow-update or update-policy
in bind's zone-files...And one more thing: for every ip from your dyn-ip pool I wouldset very short ttl/expire in your zone-files. Otherwise caching-clientswould get know too late, that there was a change in ip/dn assignment...
Jarry--Echte DSL-Flatrate dauerhaft für 0,- Euro*!Feel free mit GMX DSL! http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl--
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RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help getting MythTV to work withnew(er) kernel [SOLVED]
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 09:18 +0100, Rik van de Bovenkamp wrote: Hi, In kernel config (at least in 2.6.15) there is an option to support the Philips SAA7115. That's the point where you get you're first error message. I only got the ivtv driver to work ok in 2.6.15 after enabling the SAA7115 support. (I do not have my linux box at hand now so I cannot exactly tell you were the option is in the kernel config but it is somewhere like Device drivers multimedia shit v4L extra or additonell drivers or so. There you have to options and when you choose for help (in make menuconfig) you will see the supp. For SAA7115 mentioned). If you cannot find let me know I'll take a look tonight. Sorry, when I mentioned XX.XXX in the ivtv command I meant : replace this by an actual frequency where there is a tv station. Bye Rik I made the modifications to the kernel you suggested (I couldn't find SAA7115, so I added support for everything else in Device Drivers-Multimedia-V4L that wasn't marked experimental), rebooted with the new kernel and it all seems to be working right. Thanks for your help. I'll let you know if I have any more problems with it... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] missing 15GB of hard disk space
Did you grow/shrink reiserfs on those partitions after you resized them?On 3/14/06, Nich Steicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hey everyone,I have recently moved, and resized the partitions on my 120GB hdd (/dev/hdb). I moved and resized the partitions as there is data i verymuch want to keep, but dont have hard disk space elese where to back it upduring a compleat re-write of the drive.The process was going well, and everything i wanted was on my new reiserfs partition (/dev/hdb1). I had deleated some stuff that i no longer neededorwanted during the process and so i checked to see how much space i hadfreed up, and was astonished to find that i had not gained more free space, but lost some! i was intreged to i took a look arround, and foundthat the space i was using on the reiserfs partition was the wrong size,detales are as follows:Parted:Using /dev/hdb(parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/hdb: 0kB - 120GBDisk label type: msdosNumberStart End SizeTypeFile systemFlags1 32kB87GB87GBprimary reiserfs2 87GB119GB 32GBprimary fat32lba 4 119GB 120GB 543MB primary linux-swap(parted)df -h (extract):/dev/hdb167G 43G 24G65% /mnt/hdb/dev/hdb230G 28G2.8G91% /mnt/games size of /dev/hdb4:/dev/hdb4 is a 518MB swap partitionand incase you would like this infomation:fdisk:Command (m for help): pDisk /dev/hdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks IdSystem/dev/hdb1 1 1063185393476 83Linux/dev/hdb2 10632 1452731294620cW95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hdb4 14528 14593530145 82Linux swap /SolarisThanks for u help;Nich Steicke-http://narthollis.net --gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Apache vhosts.d settings
Hello List, I am trying to add more than one virtual host in my vhost.conf file. I added and 01 and an 02 entry in the vhost.d directory. Once I add those am I supposed to removed 00 entry which is the default from the httpd.conf file? I tried both ways but it was still not working. What is the proper way to bind the ip address for the different vhosts (VirtualHost )? I need to know this so that I can set it properly for each vhost file for 00, 01, and 02. Thanks in advance, Tito -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:33:16 +0100, Goran Maksimović wrote: Read it! But with that you didn't still answer my question :). But he did provide you with the means to answer the question yourself. You are the only one who really knows what you want from your system, now you know how to get it. The default USE flags are reasonable for general desktop use, fine tuning is your choice, not mine or anyone else's. USE settings are not permanent, you can change them as often as you feel the need, so read the docs and experiment. -- Neil Bothwick When your pet bird sees you reading the newspaper, does he wonder why you're just sitting there, staring at carpeting? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] missing 15GB of hard disk space
freed up, and was astonished to find that i had not gained more free space, but lost some! i was intreged to i took a look arround, and found that the space i was using on the reiserfs partition was the wrong size, detales are as follows: I've never used reiserfs and this may be obvious, but I'll throw it out in case its not - this doesn't have anything to do with the reserved space for the root user, does it? When I go to create the filesystem for ext3, I have to manually specify not to reserve 5% of the disk space per filesystem for the root user - this is, I take it, to keep the system bootable and the file system accessible in the event that, say, a runaway log issue should fill it up. May have nothing to do with your problem but I figure I'd mention it just in case. -- Quag7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.computerrooms.org Photographs of the edge of the internet... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: php4 vs php5
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: dev-php is on it's way out and has not been updated in some time. You're likely vulnerable at this moment. Um, I must not have been clear. JFFNMS is critical. It requires php4. so upgrading to php5 is NOT an option, until the JFFNMS devs move to php5. Yes, but you need dev-lang/php-4*, not dev-php/php-4*. Unmerge the blockers and dev-lang/php-4* will emerge. You don't need mod_php anymore, it is provided by the apache(2) USE flags of dev-lang/php. If the JFFNMS ebuild explicitly depends on dev-php/php, it is broken. file a bug and add it to /etc/portage/profile/package.provided to work around it until it is fixed (or fix the ebuild yourself). OK, thanks for all the input. I'll let you guys know what I figure out, and post if any questions that arise. Thanks guys, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] missing 15GB of hard disk space
Reiserfs does the same thing, 5% saved for root. On 3/15/06, Quag7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: freed up, and was astonished to find that i had not gained more free space, but lost some! i was intreged to i took a look arround, and found that the space i was using on the reiserfs partition was the wrong size, detales are as follows:I've never used reiserfs and this may be obvious, but I'll throw it outin case its not - this doesn't have anything to do with the reservedspace for the root user, does it?When I go to create the filesystem for ext3, I have to manually specify not to reserve 5% of the disk spaceper filesystem for the root user - this is, I take it, to keep thesystem bootable and the file system accessible in the event that, say, a runaway log issue should fill it up.May have nothing to do with your problem but I figure I'd mention itjust in case.--Quag7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.computerrooms.orgPhotographs of the edge of the internet...--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] create packages of every installed program
On 3/14/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/14/06, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 14 March 2006 18:50, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi list, i would like to ask how to create a package of EVERY program installed on the system, as a backup of everything. Just add buildpkg to your FEATURES in make.conf.That will work for new merges and updates.For current packages: quickpkg /var/db/pkg/*/* Where do they go when you do that? How do you use them later? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] create packages of every installed program
On 3/15/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quickpkg /var/db/pkg/*/* Where do they go when you do that? How do you use them later? They go into your PKGDIR directory (normally /usr/portage/packages). To use them later, specify the --usepkg/--usepkgonly options to emerge. For example, I currently have portage-2.1_pre3-r1 through portage-2.1_pre6-r2 packages. If I have a problem with pre6-r2, and want to quickly downgrade, I can do something like: emerge --oneshot --usepkgonly =sys-apps/portage-2.1_pre5-r4 This is really useful for large packages that take a long time to compile, like X, KDE, or openoffice.org. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] create packages of every installed program
On 3/15/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/14/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/14/06, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 14 March 2006 18:50, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi list, i would like to ask how to create a package of EVERY program installed on the system, as a backup of everything. Just add buildpkg to your FEATURES in make.conf. That will work for new merges and updates. For current packages: quickpkg /var/db/pkg/*/* Where do they go when you do that? How do you use them later? They go to $PKGDIR, if that's set, else, /usr/portage/packages... You use them giving emerge the -k option, or -K to force it to only use binaries. man emerge -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] create packages of every installed program
Hi Richard, Where do they go when you do that? How do you use them later? They go into your PKGDIR directory (normally /usr/portage/packages). To use them later, specify the --usepkg/--usepkgonly options to emerge. For example, I currently have portage-2.1_pre3-r1 through portage-2.1_pre6-r2 packages. If I have a problem with pre6-r2, and want to quickly downgrade, I can do something like: emerge --oneshot --usepkgonly =sys-apps/portage-2.1_pre5-r4 This is really useful for large packages that take a long time to compile, like X, KDE, or openoffice.org. thanks for this info... in fact i was searching for the packages in the /var/db directory and i could not find anything... Regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Anyone run Gentoo on a Dell PowerEdge SC430?
They are so, so cheap right now. Dell UK has them at £199+VAT for the entry level configuration, with free delivery to the end of the month. I'm tempted. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone run Gentoo on a Dell PowerEdge SC430?
Jim Hatfield wrote: They are so, so cheap right now. Dell UK has them at £199+VAT for the entry level configuration, with free delivery to the end of the month. I'm tempted. I've got three of them running Gentoo in our dev environment. 2005.1 and 2006.0 disks worked just fine and had no kernel or driver issues running them as servers without X. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus
Every few months or so I'll load Norton AntiVirus, grab the latest latest virus definitions, and do a full scan of the entire system, nothing is ever found. After the scan is complete I uninstall it. The importance of Antivirus software is waaay over exagarated. For people who aren't willing to adopt the few simple practices that would keep them safe, AntiVirus software may have some value. However, for anyone willing to adhere to a few basic rules, AV software is mostly the modern day equevelent of Snake Oil, it's a waste of money and CPU cycles. Regards Bob Young -Original Message- From: Midnight Toker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:57 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus If you've been running without Anti Virus software for years now, how do you know the machines are clean of virus's? On 8 Mar 2006, at 20:24, Bob Young wrote: Here, here. It's really not about the OS, or what protection software is or isn't installed, it's about the habits and practices of the user. Any computer can (and probably will) be compromised if the user is careless or naive about what they do and where they go on the Net. Like you, I've run different versions of DOS, Windows (NT derivatives only), OS/2, Linux. I did get a virus once in the early days when running DOS, but since then I've never had a Windows or Linux box compromised by a virus or malware, and that's without running any anti-virus software of any kind on any of the Windows boxes. FWIW one of those Windows boxes is currently a web/email/DNS/FTP server with seven public IPs serving between four and seven domains. There is also a Gentoo Linux box doing secondary DNS for the domains, the windows box has a firewall but no AV software at all, both servers (one Windows one Gentoo), have remained clean and stable for several years now, as do all of my various Windows and Gentoo workstations, none of which run any antivirus software. In short if a user is getting infected a lot using Windows, switching to Linux is not curing the root cause. The basic problem is the user needs to understand what s/he is doing that's allowing malicious code to execute on their system and stop doing it. In the vast majority of Windows cases, simply *not* routinely logging on with admin privileges would probably stop 99% plus of the infections. Regards, Bob Young -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] font problem
Hi list, i have problems when running programs as gv, ggv and other postscript viewer (but also with xterm); everytime i start the application this message appears: Warning: Cannot convert string -*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1 to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string -*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1 to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string -*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-100-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1 to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string -*-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1 to type FontStruct Do i need to install some font library? Regards, MC -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] can anyone please help me with gnome?
X are working fine, when i GDM and log into PC it stops on splashscreen, no error messages, no nothing... I am frustrated, i created new user, gave all permissions, didnt work out, i deleted old config files from system, didnt help either, i am not programmer, so i cant make much, anyone had this sort of problems before? gnome panel works ok, gnome-wm works too, gnome-session shows mistakes, but i am not sure its problem of gnome-session, i recompiled it anyway, didnt help... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone run Gentoo on a Dell PowerEdge SC430?
kashani wrote: Jim Hatfield wrote: They are so, so cheap right now. Dell UK has them at £199+VAT for the entry level configuration, with free delivery to the end of the month. I'm tempted. I've got three of them running Gentoo in our dev environment. 2005.1 and 2006.0 disks worked just fine and had no kernel or driver issues running them as servers without X. Thanks. I can feel my credit card itching already... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache vhosts.d settings
On 15/03/06, Tito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to add more than one virtual host in my vhost.conf file. I added and 01 and an 02 entry in the vhost.d directory. Once I add those am I supposed to removed 00 entry which is the default from the httpd.conf file? I tried both ways but it was still not working. What is the proper way to bind the ip address for the different vhosts (VirtualHost )? I need to know this so that I can set it properly for each vhost file for 00, 01, and 02. In my httpd.conf file, I have only: Include /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/*.conf and I DO still have (and want) my 00_default_vhost.conf file in vhosts.d/. It is possible to put all your domains in a single *vhost.conf file, but I split mine into a separate file for each. Not sure of the Gentoo convention, but I prefer separate files. Is this name-based virtual hosts? If so, you need VirtualHost *:80 ServerName domainname.com DocumentRoot /var/www/domain.com/htdocs #optional but recommended convention #rest of config /VirtualHost If it's IP-based, replace * with the IP address. I THINK that the ServerName attribute is only necessary for multiple domains on the same IP (which can also be the case on a box with multiple IP addresses, of course). Cheers, Mickey -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT - I've built my cross-compilation environment; now what?
I've succeeded in building a cross-compilation environment for an i586 on an i686 via crossdev, but I'm unsure how to use it. Can anyone help me? There are no docs for crossdev in /usr/share/doc, no man pages for it that I can find, and no info pages. I looked at the log files crossdev created when I ran it and I see things like this: emerge (1 of 1) cross-i586-gnu-linux/gcc-3.4.5-r1 to / But when I try to emerge things myself for the environment, emerge doesn't know what I'm talking about: camille ~ # emerge cross-i586-gnu-linux/mysql Calculating dependencies emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy cross-i586-gnu-linux/mysql. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache vhosts.d settings [SOLVED]
Mickey, Thanks for the help...that solved it!! :-D Thanks, Tito Mickey Mullin wrote: On 15/03/06, Tito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to add more than one virtual host in my vhost.conf file. I added and 01 and an 02 entry in the vhost.d directory. Once I add those am I supposed to removed 00 entry which is the default from the httpd.conf file? I tried both ways but it was still not working. What is the proper way to bind the ip address for the different vhosts (VirtualHost )? I need to know this so that I can set it properly for each vhost file for 00, 01, and 02. In my httpd.conf file, I have only: Include /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/*.conf and I DO still have (and want) my 00_default_vhost.conf file in vhosts.d/. It is possible to put all your domains in a single *vhost.conf file, but I split mine into a separate file for each. Not sure of the Gentoo convention, but I prefer separate files. Is this name-based virtual hosts? If so, you need VirtualHost *:80 ServerName domainname.com DocumentRoot /var/www/domain.com/htdocs #optional but recommended convention #rest of config /VirtualHost If it's IP-based, replace * with the IP address. I THINK that the ServerName attribute is only necessary for multiple domains on the same IP (which can also be the case on a box with multiple IP addresses, of course). Cheers, Mickey -- Gilberto Tito Valentin Information Technology Manager Linux Systems/Network Administrator EZ Yield.com, Inc. 481 N. State Road 434 Suite 117 Altamonte Springs, FL 32714 v 407.629.0900 ext 29 IMPORTANT NOTICE: The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any further disclosure or use, distribution, or copying of this message or any attachment is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please delete the e-mail, and either e-mail the sender at the above address or notify us at our telephone number (407) 629-0900. Internet e-mail may be subject to delays, non-delivery and unauthorized alterations, therefore opinions, conclusions and other information expressed are not binding upon EZ Yield.com unless otherwise notified independently of this message. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
Hi! If you read my first post about USE flags I wanted some recommendations and not links to sites where USE flags are explained. I don't know why you think that if you don't fine tune your system that nobody does that also. Finally thanks to everyone who have answered my question but really answered my question with their recommendations and suggestions. Bye Goran -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 5:12 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:33:16 +0100, Goran Maksimović wrote: Read it! But with that you didn't still answer my question :). But he did provide you with the means to answer the question yourself. You are the only one who really knows what you want from your system, now you know how to get it. The default USE flags are reasonable for general desktop use, fine tuning is your choice, not mine or anyone else's. USE settings are not permanent, you can change them as often as you feel the need, so read the docs and experiment. -- Neil Bothwick When your pet bird sees you reading the newspaper, does he wonder why you're just sitting there, staring at carpeting? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
On 3/15/06, Goran Maksimović [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! If you read my first post about USE flags I wanted some recommendations and not links to sites where USE flags are explained. I don't know why you think With all due respect, you're lazy... that if you don't fine tune your system that nobody does that also. Finally We CAN'T suggest anything because it all depends on what YOU will do, the flags suggested won't fine tune your system because you are the only one able to do that... My cristal ball still can't predict what programs you'll use, what packages you'll install and how you'll want them configured. You are the one in control, so start learning HOW to control it... The only good answers you got were the ones that pointed you on solving your own problem while LEARNING how to do it, wich in fact is what anyone would do in all the time between your first post and now. C'mon, if you write programs the way you ask questions you'll only finish one the day someone post you the complete code. thanks to everyone who have answered my question but really answered my question with their recommendations and suggestions. The best recommendation: read the docs, the best suggestion: read them again. Sorry for this, but I hate when people: 1) do not value the time and effort of people answering them. 2) keep asking to be spoon-feeded with information instead of learning how to cook a meal. -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can anyone please help me with gnome?
Unknown wrote: X are working fine, How do you know X is working fine? when i GDM You mean when you start gdm? How? What command do you give? What runlevel do you normally boot into? and log into PC You must already be logged in to be able to give commands... it stops on splashscreen, It's maybe waiting for something? Is /home mounted? gnome-session shows mistakes, What mistakes? In short: too little info. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Also, please first learn how to use a mailing list: do not answer an existing post when starting a new discussion. Start instead a new thread by clicking the mailing list's address. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
Hi! I said what will I do on my system and I value the answers of people who really answered what I have asked. May be I am lazy but why the hack could I not use some experience of other Gentoo users. As you could see to some people it had not been a problem to share their experience on USE flags and I presume that they also haven't got a cristal ball so you are the first who mentiones that :). Bye Goran -Original Message- From: Daniel da Veiga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 9:49 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags On 3/15/06, Goran Maksimović [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! If you read my first post about USE flags I wanted some recommendations and not links to sites where USE flags are explained. I don't know why you think With all due respect, you're lazy... that if you don't fine tune your system that nobody does that also. Finally We CAN'T suggest anything because it all depends on what YOU will do, the flags suggested won't fine tune your system because you are the only one able to do that... My cristal ball still can't predict what programs you'll use, what packages you'll install and how you'll want them configured. You are the one in control, so start learning HOW to control it... The only good answers you got were the ones that pointed you on solving your own problem while LEARNING how to do it, wich in fact is what anyone would do in all the time between your first post and now. C'mon, if you write programs the way you ask questions you'll only finish one the day someone post you the complete code. thanks to everyone who have answered my question but really answered my question with their recommendations and suggestions. The best recommendation: read the docs, the best suggestion: read them again. Sorry for this, but I hate when people: 1) do not value the time and effort of people answering them. 2) keep asking to be spoon-feeded with information instead of learning how to cook a meal. -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list __ NOD32 1.1444 (20060315) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
Goran Maksimović schreef: Hi! I said what will I do on my system and I value the answers of people who really answered what I have asked. Great, happy to hear it. Congratulations to our lucky winners, good luck in the future to everyone else, and can we please move on now? The 'discussion' would seem to be complete. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 18:47 +1300, Glenn Enright wrote: On Wednesday 15 March 2006 17:50, Ghaith Hachem wrote: On 3/15/06, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I try cp /dev/hdc file.iso I get an error: cp: reading /dev/hdc' : Input/output error there's a problem with the disk then it's not reading it the disk is unmounted right? Yes, the disk is unmounted. I have the same problem on x86 and AMD64. There are no scratches on the disk. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 10:23 +0100, Harald Arnesen wrote: Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 23:14 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:00:08 -0700, Joseph wrote: If I use: dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso I only get about 2Gb file and it stops or freezes, the disk is bout 4.3Gb Is it the same size every time? Is is the same with different discs? It could be a fault on the disc. I usually use cp /dev/dvd file.iso but dd has always worked for me in the past, albeit slightly slower (even with a larger block size). Yes, almost the same size. I know there is a file size limit on ext2 but I'm using ext3, so there shouldn't be a problem. If I try cp /dev/hdc file.iso I get an error: cp: reading /dev/hdc' : Input/output error Have you verified that your file system supports files larger than 2GB? Try the following: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=largefile bs=1M count=5000 -- Hilsen Harald. Yes, that command worked, it gave me 5Gb file -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] missing 15GB of hard disk space
Reiserfs does the same thing, 5% saved for root. On 3/15/06, Quag7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: freed up, and was astonished to find that i had not gained more free space, but lost some! i was intreged to i took a look arround, and found that the space i was using on the reiserfs partition was the wrong size, detales are as follows: I've never used reiserfs and this may be obvious, but I'll throw it out in case its not - this doesn't have anything to do with the reserved space for the root user, does it? When I go to create the filesystem for ext3, I have to manually specify not to reserve 5% of the disk space per filesystem for the root user - this is, I take it, to keep the system bootable and the file system accessible in the event that, say, a runaway log issue should fill it up. May have nothing to do with your problem but I figure I'd mention it just in case. Hey, nah - dosnt seem be a problem. i did manage to fix the filesystem size by using the command 'resize-reiserfs /dev/hdb1' (was susjested by a friend) thanks for your replies Nich Steicke - http://narthollis.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:18:25 +0100, Goran Maksimović wrote: If you read my first post about USE flags I wanted some recommendations and not links to sites where USE flags are explained. Did you read the second paragraph of my post before replying to it? -- Neil Bothwick I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] create packages of every installed program
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:07:10 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: To use them later, specify the --usepkg/--usepkgonly options to emerge. For example, I currently have portage-2.1_pre3-r1 through portage-2.1_pre6-r2 packages. If I have a problem with pre6-r2, and want to quickly downgrade, I can do something like: emerge --oneshot --usepkgonly =sys-apps/portage-2.1_pre5-r4 This is really useful for large packages that take a long time to compile, like X, KDE, or openoffice.org. It's also useful if a new version of a critical package screws your system, like glibc, gcc, python or portage. You can untar the package directly into the root filesystem to get a functional system back, then use emerge --usepkg after to do it properly (otherwise portage will think the new version is still installed). -- Neil Bothwick Windows NT is the OS of the future and always will be... signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:04:06 -0700 Joseph wrote: If I use: dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso First of all, I would add the bs option to increase the buffer and therefore speed. Something like: dd bs=10 if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso No, this command didn't work either, I got about 700Mb and it quit, though the light in the drive was flashing nothing was copied to ISO file. I only get about 2Gb file and it stops or freezes, the disk is bout 4.3Gb That would indicate read errors. Is the dvd scratched or dirty? Wash it with lukewarm water and dishwasher liquid and try again. DVD is brand new, no scratches. could be the reader then? Do you have another computer with a dvd drive and 4.7g available space? these things are fiddly, there are billions of little holes and a laser light reading them. There are manufacturing tolerances in the reader and the disk. There are imperfect firmwares in the drives. In short, sometimes a particular disk and a particular drive just don't get on. The drives also get old and tired. IMHO you need to be prepared to throw the drive out after some indeterminate (but not long enough) period and get a new one. Is this a movie or data? Have you tried just mounting then copying the files to your hard drive. This might identify where on the disk things are going wrong. If it is a small or unimportant file you might still have an effective backup. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Return from the dead... almost
Hello to all. After an exciting week of a failed hard drive (/usr, /home, /var) killing the IDE port on the motherboard, I've finally got my gentoo box running again. Thank gawd for backups (/home, /var, /etc and all data). I finished the 'emerge -e world', but have a couple issues. First, when issuing the 'su' command, I enter the password and then get [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su - Password: configuration error - unknown item 'FAILLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'LASTLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'MOTD_FILE' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'FTMP_FILE' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_ROOTPATH' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MIN_LEN' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'CHFN_AUTH' (notify administrator) root ~ $ As you can see, I still get the root shell, but I'd like to get rid of the errors. I know these 'items' are all in /etc/login.defs, but I don't know how to get pam-login to play nice. I've seen other questions answered with changes to baselayout and/or bash, so I re-emerged both of these. No change. Secondly, I've got a cron that updates nightly and mails me the results. One of the lines is diff-eix /var/cache/eix.old | Mail -s New packages on $(hostname) root The part I can't figure out is the 'Mail' command. Even after emerging world, I have no 'Mail' on my system. In fact, I have no 'mail' either. What I have in my world file is root ~ $ grep -i mail /var/lib/portage/world mail-filter/procmail mail-client/mailx-support mail-filter/spamassassin net-mail/fetchmail mail-mta/postfix I can get mail from the roadrunner stmp server without any problem, but have an issue with local mail. This worked for months, so I know I'm just forgetting something I did a long time ago. Any idea what I need to emerge, or where the solution may lie? Thanks. And backup tonight! Peter -- Psychology. Mind over matter. Mind under matter? It doesn't matter. Never mind. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Packages CD for x86 with 2006.0
Is there a set of binary packages available on CD for 32 bit x86 of any description. The list on the release page seems to be. amd64 ppc (ppc) ppc (g4) ppc (64 bit - 32bit userland) ppc (64 bit - 64bit userland) sparc64 same on the torrents page. Do users of older machines (who could really do with a quick install method) miss out? Please don't argue against binary installs in your reply. I know the issues. Nick (running the annual chch gentoo mini installfest soon) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:50:59 -0700, Joseph wrote: Yes, the disk is unmounted. I have the same problem on x86 and AMD64. There are no scratches on the disk. Have you tried another disc? I asked this before but you haven't mentioned it. -- Neil Bothwick Time for a diet! -- [NO FLABBIER]. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 14:04, Joseph wrote: If I use: dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso First of all, I would add the bs option to increase the buffer and therefore speed. Something like: dd bs=10 if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso No, this command didn't work either, I got about 700Mb and it quit, though the light in the drive was flashing nothing was copied to ISO file. I only get about 2Gb file and it stops or freezes, the disk is bout 4.3Gb That would indicate read errors. Is the dvd scratched or dirty? Wash it with lukewarm water and dishwasher liquid and try again. DVD is brand new, no scratches. You said earlier that the disk was unencrypted. Is it a disk that you made, or a disk that you purchased? I ask because I heard a while back that some DVD manufacturers would create their disks with intensionally bad sectors as a kind of copy protection. You could be running into a problem with that, if it's a manufactured disk rather than a burned disk. -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Packages CD for x86 with 2006.0
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Nick Rout wrote: Is there a set of binary packages available on CD for 32 bit x86 of any description. The list on the release page seems to be. amd64 ppc (ppc) ppc (g4) ppc (64 bit - 32bit userland) ppc (64 bit - 64bit userland) sparc64 same on the torrents page. Do users of older machines (who could really do with a quick install method) miss out? Please don't argue against binary installs in your reply. I know the issues. Nick (running the annual chch gentoo mini installfest soon) It doesn't look like it's hiding somewhere on the mirrors. Perhaps they want you to stick with the 2005.1 packages? Really odd all around. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Return from the dead... almost
On 3/15/06, Peter Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su - Password: configuration error - unknown item 'FAILLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'LASTLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'MOTD_FILE' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'FTMP_FILE' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_ROOTPATH' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MIN_LEN' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'CHFN_AUTH' (notify administrator) root ~ $ I don't know about the rest, but this is likely because you didn't do etc-update -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(+) s+: a24 C++ UBL++ P L++ E--- W+++$ N+ o? K? w O? M-- V? !PS !PE Y PGP- t++ 5++ X+ R+++ tv+ b++ DI D++ G e+ h-- r++ y+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 14:30 -0800, Eric Bliss wrote: On Wednesday 15 March 2006 14:04, Joseph wrote: If I use: dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso First of all, I would add the bs option to increase the buffer and therefore speed. Something like: dd bs=10 if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso No, this command didn't work either, I got about 700Mb and it quit, though the light in the drive was flashing nothing was copied to ISO file. I only get about 2Gb file and it stops or freezes, the disk is bout 4.3Gb That would indicate read errors. Is the dvd scratched or dirty? Wash it with lukewarm water and dishwasher liquid and try again. DVD is brand new, no scratches. You said earlier that the disk was unencrypted. Is it a disk that you made, or a disk that you purchased? I ask because I heard a while back that some DVD manufacturers would create their disks with intensionally bad sectors as a kind of copy protection. You could be running into a problem with that, if it's a manufactured disk rather than a burned disk. No, the disk (DVD) IS NOT encrypted, I created is using dvd-slideshow (some family photos), so the original ISO that I burn to DVD disk was about 4.3GB. For curiosity I tried to get it back from DVD to ISO file and I run onto problems that I can not solve. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:55:17 -0700 Joseph wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 11:19 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:04:06 -0700 Joseph wrote: If I use: dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso First of all, I would add the bs option to increase the buffer and therefore speed. Something like: dd bs=10 if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso No, this command didn't work either, I got about 700Mb and it quit, though the light in the drive was flashing nothing was copied to ISO file. I only get about 2Gb file and it stops or freezes, the disk is bout 4.3Gb That would indicate read errors. Is the dvd scratched or dirty? Wash it with lukewarm water and dishwasher liquid and try again. DVD is brand new, no scratches. could be the reader then? Do you have another computer with a dvd drive and 4.7g available space? Yes, I've tired on two different systems, one is x86 and the other amd64 with similar result on both of them; the copying stops at some point and doesn't go any further. One system has Philips DVD drive and the other one has BenQ DVD I can burn perfect DVD every time but getting it back in form of ISO from DVD is a pain - IMPOSSIBLE. these things are fiddly, there are billions of little holes and a laser light reading them. There are manufacturing tolerances in the reader and the disk. There are imperfect firmwares in the drives. In short, sometimes a particular disk and a particular drive just don't get on. The drives also get old and tired. IMHO you need to be prepared to throw the drive out after some indeterminate (but not long enough) period and get a new one. Is this a movie or data? Have you tried just mounting then copying the files to your hard drive. This might identify where on the disk things are going wrong. If it is a small or unimportant file you might still have an effective backup. I can mount the DVD without any problems. I created the DVD using dvd-slideshow and it worked perfectly. I can rip VOB's from the DVD using k3b or dvdrip; works in both programs. So I can recreate the DVD but what bugs me that I can not make a backup to an ISO file using command line. OK I see you have considered most of the possibilities i considered. how about: mount /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd mkisofs -o mydvd.iso /mnt/dvd (disclaimer, other options might be needed. is mkisofs even the right program for dvd's? k3b is making me lazy) -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Packages CD for x86 with 2006.0
On Thursday 16 March 2006 00:23, Nick Rout wrote: Is there a set of binary packages available on CD for 32 bit x86 of any description. The list on the release page seems to be. amd64 ppc (ppc) ppc (g4) ppc (64 bit - 32bit userland) ppc (64 bit - 64bit userland) sparc64 same on the torrents page. Do users of older machines (who could really do with a quick install method) miss out? Please don't argue against binary installs in your reply. I know the issues. Nick (running the annual chch gentoo mini installfest soon) -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Seems the lower harware limit for an install with binary packages is i686. Using the ones on the livecd-i686-2006.0. There're not even classical binary packages, but livecd could be used to perform a binary install (haven't made one though). Assume the target audience was considered too small to bother. Rumen pgpubbNNE87we.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] can anyone please help me with gnome?
follow the instructions which are to start X with /etc/init.d/xdm start then report back On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:03:54 + Unknown wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 22:27 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Unknown wrote: X are working fine, I use X right now, (i can xinit X windows to work or i can execute GDM, chose Custom session which is nearly same xinit, with some unknown window manager, not gnome though) How do you know X is working fine? when i GDM You mean when you start gdm? How? What command do you give? What runlevel do you normally boot into? I boot into normal mode(default one), get root access from console and manually run gdm, than log in using my current user(using custom session, which is nearly same xinit by the way it looks), i did try root and i did try to create new user and log in as user using Gnome session - same story, nothing helped... and log into PC You must already be logged in to be able to give commands... it stops on splashscreen, It's maybe waiting for something? Is /home mounted? home is 100% mounted, and if i am not mistaking, wouldnt it say smth like, blah blah blah cant access configuration files from home directory, so i am using defaults? however its not the case gnome-session shows mistakes, right now it showed smth like: gnomeui-warning: while connecting manager: authentication rejected, reason : none of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. SESSION_MANAGER=local/drjoms:/tmp/.ICE-unix/6217 What mistakes? mistakes may warry, but SESSEION_MANAGER=... BLAH BLAH BLAH is more or less same, with exception of number(perhaps some sort of process id number? i cant find it using pstree -p|grep $PROCESS_NUMBER) In short: too little info. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ok, i agree i am inexpirienced, but it looks a bit like an insult to me, cause even though i am nooby and i didnt read rules properly and used plain intuition, i did follow rules, i did try to locate smth on google, i cant ask more experienced friend, cause i live in country where ammount of people using hi speed internet is going down, no need to explain futher, i did try to find an answere on forums, i did try irc(i live in there, in #gentoo and in #linux chnannels) and hell no i would sign for smth up to find an answere if it wouldnt be that bad :( And BTW, i was adviced to ask this question in here, in casewhat - it wasnt my decision, just i am a person who needs a help, if you can help = please do so, critics wont help me much... Also, please first learn how to use a mailing list: do not answer an existing post when starting a new discussion. Start instead a new thread by clicking the mailing list's address. thats a good idea, i shall do that, in fact, right now Benno thank you for answering -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Packages CD for x86 with 2006.0
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:31:30 -0800 (PST)
Steven S. wrote:
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Nick Rout wrote:
Is there a set of binary packages available on CD for 32 bit x86 of any
description. The list on the release page seems to be.
amd64
ppc (ppc)
ppc (g4)
ppc (64 bit - 32bit userland)
ppc (64 bit - 64bit userland)
sparc64
same on the torrents page.
Do users of older machines (who could really do with a quick install
method) miss out?
Please don't argue against binary installs in your reply. I know the
issues.
Nick (running the annual chch gentoo mini installfest soon)
It doesn't look like it's hiding somewhere on the mirrors. Perhaps they
want you to stick with the 2005.1 packages? Really odd all around.
D'oh. RTFM Nick
2006.0 handbook, section 1b
Is GRP Available?
Not all architectures provide GRP packages. That doesn't mean GRP isn't
supported on the other architectures, but it means that we don't have the
resources to build and test the GRP packages.
At present we provide GRP packages for the following architectures:
* The amd64 architecture (amd64)
* The ppc architecture (ppc32, ppc64)
* The sparc architecture (sparc64)
* The x86 architecture (athlon, athlon-xp,
athlon-mp, pentium-pro, pentium2, pentium3, pentium4 and pentium-m)
Note: THE PACKAGES ARE FOR I686 AND ARE AVAILABLE ON THE INSTALLER
LIVECD.
SHOUTING and extra *'s added by me to reinforce my previous silliness.
Sorry to bother you all.
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Re: [gentoo-user] can anyone please help me with gnome?
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 12:17 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: follow the instructions which are to start X with /etc/init.d/xdm start then report back You are gonna laugh, out put of /etc/init.d/xdm start was - starting GDM, well probably i did a stupid thing somewhere letting gdm coming over XDM but, i didnt do that on purpose - first, second i am using pure X right now by executing xinit, .xinitrc file has only xterm i have feeling it can help somehow... Do you want me to change topic somehow? On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:03:54 + Unknown wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 22:27 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Unknown wrote: X are working fine, I use X right now, (i can xinit X windows to work or i can execute GDM, chose Custom session which is nearly same xinit, with some unknown window manager, not gnome though) How do you know X is working fine? when i GDM You mean when you start gdm? How? What command do you give? What runlevel do you normally boot into? I boot into normal mode(default one), get root access from console and manually run gdm, than log in using my current user(using custom session, which is nearly same xinit by the way it looks), i did try root and i did try to create new user and log in as user using Gnome session - same story, nothing helped... and log into PC You must already be logged in to be able to give commands... it stops on splashscreen, It's maybe waiting for something? Is /home mounted? home is 100% mounted, and if i am not mistaking, wouldnt it say smth like, blah blah blah cant access configuration files from home directory, so i am using defaults? however its not the case gnome-session shows mistakes, right now it showed smth like: gnomeui-warning: while connecting manager: authentication rejected, reason : none of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. SESSION_MANAGER=local/drjoms:/tmp/.ICE-unix/6217 What mistakes? mistakes may warry, but SESSEION_MANAGER=... BLAH BLAH BLAH is more or less same, with exception of number(perhaps some sort of process id number? i cant find it using pstree -p|grep $PROCESS_NUMBER) In short: too little info. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ok, i agree i am inexpirienced, but it looks a bit like an insult to me, cause even though i am nooby and i didnt read rules properly and used plain intuition, i did follow rules, i did try to locate smth on google, i cant ask more experienced friend, cause i live in country where ammount of people using hi speed internet is going down, no need to explain futher, i did try to find an answere on forums, i did try irc(i live in there, in #gentoo and in #linux chnannels) and hell no i would sign for smth up to find an answere if it wouldnt be that bad :( And BTW, i was adviced to ask this question in here, in casewhat - it wasnt my decision, just i am a person who needs a help, if you can help = please do so, critics wont help me much... Also, please first learn how to use a mailing list: do not answer an existing post when starting a new discussion. Start instead a new thread by clicking the mailing list's address. thats a good idea, i shall do that, in fact, right now Benno thank you for answering -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Welcome to gentoo-user@gentoo.org
On 3/15/06, Ghaith Hachem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try as root chown YOURUSER:users /home/YOURUSER -Rthis should fix your permission problemsif it still don't load create a new user with a new home directorystart gnome there if it loads copy over your backups like .mozilla .amsnand stuffgnome once failed to load when i installed gentoo after ubuntu andthat's what fixed it for mei did have this sort of problems before too, gnome is a buggy thing IMHO, solution You told me did work for me at that time too... i am sure, all folders an files belong to my user.To make things sure i created new user and run gdm with new user as well, same story as my current user session, same story as root session.--Cheers,Ghaith--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listI want to appologise in advance, my english is not so good sometimes, and my speech is badly spoiled with IRC kinda style, i hope You will not make a fuss out of it...
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 12:06 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:55:17 -0700 Joseph wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 11:19 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:04:06 -0700 Joseph wrote: If I use: dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso First of all, I would add the bs option to increase the buffer and therefore speed. Something like: dd bs=10 if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso No, this command didn't work either, I got about 700Mb and it quit, though the light in the drive was flashing nothing was copied to ISO file. I only get about 2Gb file and it stops or freezes, the disk is bout 4.3Gb That would indicate read errors. Is the dvd scratched or dirty? Wash it with lukewarm water and dishwasher liquid and try again. DVD is brand new, no scratches. could be the reader then? Do you have another computer with a dvd drive and 4.7g available space? Yes, I've tired on two different systems, one is x86 and the other amd64 with similar result on both of them; the copying stops at some point and doesn't go any further. One system has Philips DVD drive and the other one has BenQ DVD I can burn perfect DVD every time but getting it back in form of ISO from DVD is a pain - IMPOSSIBLE. these things are fiddly, there are billions of little holes and a laser light reading them. There are manufacturing tolerances in the reader and the disk. There are imperfect firmwares in the drives. In short, sometimes a particular disk and a particular drive just don't get on. The drives also get old and tired. IMHO you need to be prepared to throw the drive out after some indeterminate (but not long enough) period and get a new one. Is this a movie or data? Have you tried just mounting then copying the files to your hard drive. This might identify where on the disk things are going wrong. If it is a small or unimportant file you might still have an effective backup. I can mount the DVD without any problems. I created the DVD using dvd-slideshow and it worked perfectly. I can rip VOB's from the DVD using k3b or dvdrip; works in both programs. So I can recreate the DVD but what bugs me that I can not make a backup to an ISO file using command line. OK I see you have considered most of the possibilities i considered. how about: mount /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd mkisofs -o mydvd.iso /mnt/dvd (disclaimer, other options might be needed. is mkisofs even the right program for dvd's? k3b is making me lazy) Good try, but it didn't work either. When, I mount the DVD and try: mkisofs -o mydvd.iso /mnt/dvdr/ I get: mkisofs: Input/output error. can not read from '/mnt/dvdr/video_ts/vts_01_0.bup' I run out of ideas as well how to copy (my own) DVD to iso file. Thanks to all who responded, I'll put this case to rest I think. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Stop and continue emerge -e world
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 08:10 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I've found that in situations like this, it's useful to have FEATURES=keepwork in /etc/make.conf, provided that you remember to delete the contents of /var/tmp/portage every now and then... Is it possible somehow to use a feature like keepwork that deltes /var/tmp/portage after a successful emerge, but not after an interrupt? (Which is how I assume it works now?) thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. -- Ben Franklin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can anyone please help me with gnome?
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:57:13 + Unknown wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 12:17 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: follow the instructions which are to start X with /etc/init.d/xdm start then report back You are gonna laugh, out put of /etc/init.d/xdm start was - starting GDM, well probably i did a stupid thing somewhere letting gdm coming over XDM but, i didnt do that on purpose - first, second i am using pure X right now by executing xinit, .xinitrc file has only xterm i have feeling it can help somehow... Do you want me to change topic somehow? /etc/init.d/xdm is the gentoo init script for X. It does NOT necessarily start xdm, it starts what you have specified in $DISPLAYMANAGER, which is set in /etc/rc.conf Therefore gdm starting is probably the correct result fo rrunning /etc/init.d/xdm start OK so once you have started gdm in the correct manner, does it work? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:24:12 -0700 Joseph wrote: Good try, but it didn't work either. When, I mount the DVD and try: mkisofs -o mydvd.iso /mnt/dvdr/ I get: mkisofs: Input/output error. can not read from '/mnt/dvdr/video_ts/vts_01_0.bup' I run out of ideas as well how to copy (my own) DVD to iso file. Thanks to all who responded, I'll put this case to rest I think. Just to flog a dead horse, I suspect that there is indeed some error on the dvd and that it is in the file video_ts/vts_01_0.bup It may be that the error is insufficient to matter on playback (after all, whats a few frames of video between friends, the eye hardly notices it ), but when the computer actually needs a bitwise copy it barfs? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can anyone please help me with gnome?
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 13:35 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:57:13 + Unknown wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 12:17 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: follow the instructions which are to start X with /etc/init.d/xdm start then report back You are gonna laugh, out put of /etc/init.d/xdm start was - starting GDM, well probably i did a stupid thing somewhere letting gdm coming over XDM but, i didnt do that on purpose - first, second i am using pure X right now by executing xinit, .xinitrc file has only xterm i have feeling it can help somehow... Do you want me to change topic somehow? /etc/init.d/xdm is the gentoo init script for X. It does NOT necessarily start xdm, it starts what you have specified in $DISPLAYMANAGER, which is set in /etc/rc.conf Therefore gdm starting is probably the correct result fo rrunning /etc/init.d/xdm start OK so once you have started gdm in the correct manner, does it work? it does, it asks me for user and password, and if i set those 2 correct and mention that i need gnome session - than problems happen. Gnome is started, i can see gentoo splash screen and thats the place where it hangs... -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 15:55 -0700, Joseph wrote: I can mount the DVD without any problems. I created the DVD using dvd-slideshow and it worked perfectly. I can rip VOB's from the DVD using k3b or dvdrip; works in both programs. So I can recreate the DVD but what bugs me that I can not make a backup to an ISO file using command line. Have you considered this?: dd doesn't do any sort of error checking or retrying, therefore the first hiccup it runs into may make it stop, and that's that. You could mount it and use mkisofs from the command line? -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au A good name lost is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever. -- J. Hawes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can anyone please help me with gnome?
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:45:33 + Unknown wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 13:35 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:57:13 + Unknown wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 12:17 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: follow the instructions which are to start X with /etc/init.d/xdm start then report back You are gonna laugh, out put of /etc/init.d/xdm start was - starting GDM, well probably i did a stupid thing somewhere letting gdm coming over XDM but, i didnt do that on purpose - first, second i am using pure X right now by executing xinit, .xinitrc file has only xterm i have feeling it can help somehow... Do you want me to change topic somehow? /etc/init.d/xdm is the gentoo init script for X. It does NOT necessarily start xdm, it starts what you have specified in $DISPLAYMANAGER, which is set in /etc/rc.conf Therefore gdm starting is probably the correct result fo rrunning /etc/init.d/xdm start OK so once you have started gdm in the correct manner, does it work? it does, it asks me for user and password, and if i set those 2 correct and mention that i need gnome session - than problems happen. Gnome is started, i can see gentoo splash screen and thats the place where it hangs... -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK like another poster I suspect name resolution. He asked you what the hostname is, you didn't directly answer. what answer does the hostname command give? gnome is fussy about being able to resolve and reverse resolve your computer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can anyone please help me with gnome?
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 13:59 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:45:33 + Unknown wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 13:35 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:57:13 + Unknown wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 12:17 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: follow the instructions which are to start X with /etc/init.d/xdm start then report back You are gonna laugh, out put of /etc/init.d/xdm start was - starting GDM, well probably i did a stupid thing somewhere letting gdm coming over XDM but, i didnt do that on purpose - first, second i am using pure X right now by executing xinit, .xinitrc file has only xterm i have feeling it can help somehow... Do you want me to change topic somehow? /etc/init.d/xdm is the gentoo init script for X. It does NOT necessarily start xdm, it starts what you have specified in $DISPLAYMANAGER, which is set in /etc/rc.conf Therefore gdm starting is probably the correct result fo rrunning /etc/init.d/xdm start OK so once you have started gdm in the correct manner, does it work? it does, it asks me for user and password, and if i set those 2 correct and mention that i need gnome session - than problems happen. Gnome is started, i can see gentoo splash screen and thats the place where it hangs... -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK like another poster I suspect name resolution. He asked you what the hostname is, you didn't directly answer. what answer does the hostname command give? gnome is fussy about being able to resolve and reverse resolve your computer hostname drjoms -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:18:25 +0100, Goran Maksimović wrote: If you read my first post about USE flags I wanted some recommendations and not links to sites where USE flags are explained. Did you read the second paragraph of my post before replying to it? I think he read it, but didn't understand it... after all, anybody who would say something like Goran Maksimović schreef: I don't know why you think that if you don't fine tune your system clearly doesn't know you from around here (or anywhere else :-) ) -- even a little bit. I'd LOL if I wasn't having a 'thing' today where I just don't want to watch half the list (including me, actually) come out swinging on somebody who's missing the point, shall we say, since apparently none of our attempts to explain why what Goran wants us to do is not really possible are getting through. But hey, have a good time, y'all. It's way past my bedtime anyway. :-D Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: php4 vs php5
Neil Bothwick wrote: Yes, but you need dev-lang/php-4*, not dev-php/php-4*. Unmerge the blockers and dev-lang/php-4* will emerge. You don't need mod_php anymore, it is provided by the apache(2) USE flags of dev-lang/php. If the JFFNMS ebuild explicitly depends on dev-php/php, it is broken. file a bug and add it to /etc/portage/profile/package.provided to work around it until it is fixed (or fix the ebuild yourself). It looks like jffnms just hit portage at large on Monday. Still masked, but it's in there. Assuming James is using this version it seems happy to use to dev-lang/php-4.4.2 On a side note, didn't jffnms want java serverlets or some nonsense in the past? I seem to recall looking at it and then dropping it due to the requirements. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can anyone please help me with gnome?
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 01:09:01 + Unknown wrote: OK like another poster I suspect name resolution. He asked you what the hostname is, you didn't directly answer. what answer does the hostname command give? gnome is fussy about being able to resolve and reverse resolve your computer hostname drjoms have you started net.lo? find out by /etc/init.d/net.lo status if it isn't going do : /etc/init.d/net.lo start Nick (running out of ideas) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
On 3/15/06, Goran Maksimović [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! What did you recommend? Can you repeat that? Or you could see the mail list archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/cutoff=156279 For the other flags per package, you have to decide on this. You will obviously want apache, php, and mysql installed. But dev-lang/php has dozens of possible USE flags, and while some of them you obviously will want (+mysql, +apache), nobody here is going to be able to tell you whether you need/want USE=spell with php. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
This might sound weird but yesterday i was making an iso out of a 700MB cdrom with the cp /dev/hda command it gave an error then i started gnome cd master and did the image it copied normally it happened to 2 cds so try that -- Cheers, Ghaith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] overnetclc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 08:29, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] overnetclc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open': I am having a problem with overnet on an amd64 computer. For some reason it connat load libstdc++.so.5. $ overnetclc overnetclc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I checked and realized that I did not have this file so I emerged libstdc++-v3. This did get me the file in /usr/lib64. Still no luck. I suppose the problem is that overnet is a binary package which requires a 32 bit library. Still I don't know how to solve this problem. Perhaps the problem is that I need multilib but I don't know how to select that since the multilib use flag is missing. Multilib is handled by profiles now. From the part of your post I've trimmed (DOH) you are using a multilib profile, so the use flag is treated as always on. Also, you might need one (or more) of the packages from app-emulation/emul-x86-*. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - I've built my cross-compilation environment; now what?
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 12:48, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] OT - I've built my cross-compilation environment; now what?': I've succeeded in building a cross-compilation environment for an i586 on an i686 via crossdev, but I'm unsure how to use it. Can anyone help me? There are no docs for crossdev in /usr/share/doc, no man pages for it that I can find, and no info pages. I looked at the log files Good luck finding solid cross-compilation documentation for /any/ environment. That's black magic only practiced by high-geeks. ;) Even they avoid it when possible because of the high toll on the practitioners sanity. ;) Most of us only use the cross-compilation toolchain for such geek-bishop activities as distcc. crossdev created when I ran it and I see things like this: emerge (1 of 1) cross-i586-gnu-linux/gcc-3.4.5-r1 to / But when I try to emerge things myself for the environment, emerge doesn't know what I'm talking about: camille ~ # emerge cross-i586-gnu-linux/mysql Calculating dependencies emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy cross-i586-gnu-linux/mysql. It's not quite that easy. You may need to change your make.conf, make.profile, and /etc/portage to correct values for the TARGET architecture (emerge will still use them and a -march=i686 will ruin the packages you build, even if you use i586-pc-linux-gnu-gcc to build them), then make sure and run emerge with the ROOT in your environment set to where you want the alternate installation rooted. Check out http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/CROSS-COMPILE-HOWTO . Specifically the very bottom (Step 9) where he talks about installing stuff. WARNING: I've heard some ebuilds don't respect ROOT and/or that ROOT is ignored if you try and specify it in make.conf. NB: The cross-* categories are only for the toolchain. Other packages don't use their category for cross-compiling. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Return from the dead... almost
Peter Kelly wrote: Hello to all. After an exciting week of a failed hard drive (/usr, /home, /var) killing the IDE port on the motherboard, I've finally got my gentoo box running again. Thank gawd for backups (/home, /var, /etc and all data). I finished the 'emerge -e world', but have a couple issues. First, when issuing the 'su' command, I enter the password and then get [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su - Password: configuration error - unknown item 'FAILLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'LASTLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'MOTD_FILE' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'FTMP_FILE' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_ROOTPATH' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MIN_LEN' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'CHFN_AUTH' (notify administrator) root ~ $ As you can see, I still get the root shell, but I'd like to get rid of the errors. I know these 'items' are all in /etc/login.defs, but I don't know how to get pam-login to play nice. I've seen other questions answered with changes to baselayout and/or bash, so I re-emerged both of these. No change. Secondly, I've got a cron that updates nightly and mails me the results. One of the lines is diff-eix /var/cache/eix.old | Mail -s New packages on $(hostname) root The part I can't figure out is the 'Mail' command. Even after emerging world, I have no 'Mail' on my system. In fact, I have no 'mail' either. What I have in my world file is root ~ $ grep -i mail /var/lib/portage/world mail-filter/procmail mail-client/mailx-support mail-filter/spamassassin net-mail/fetchmail mail-mta/postfix I can get mail from the roadrunner stmp server without any problem, but have an issue with local mail. This worked for months, so I know I'm just forgetting something I did a long time ago. Any idea what I need to emerge, or where the solution may lie? Thanks. And backup tonight! Peter I know its a basic one but you say you re-emerged baselayout and bash but did you re-emerge pam-login? Maybe pam and shadow also? Maybe shadow was emerged without USE=pam? The funny thing is, my setup is ok and I have none of these values in my /etc/login.defs which belongs to pam-login package. Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] gdk-pixbuf
Hi all, this should probably asked on the developers list but I am not subscribed to it. Maybe, enough gentoo developers are on this list as well. ;-) rant Who made gdk-pixbuf dependent on gnome-libs? From the ebuild: RDEPEND=media-libs/jpeg media-libs/tiff =x11-libs/gtk+-1.2* =media-libs/libpng-1.2.1 amd64? ( sys-libs/db ) !amd64? ( sys-libs/db-2 ) =gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.1.2-r1 # We need gnome-libs here, else gnome support do not get compiled into # gdk-pixbuf (the GnomeCanvasPixbuf library ) It pulls gnome-libs and, through gnome-libs I guess orbit, in although it does not really depend on gnome. If there is an optional dependency on gnome it should respect my -gnome USE flag setting. Lot's of pure gtk apps depend on gdk-pixbuf but don't depend on gnome or orbit. I should be able to emerge that library without pulling all the other stuff in I have no use of. /rant :-) Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
