Re: [gentoo-user] can anyone please help me with gnome?
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 14:46 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: 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 ip link, shows that lo interface is there 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] overnetclc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open
On Thursday 16 March 2006 06:57, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: 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. But shouldn't libstdc++-v3 install both 64 bit and 32 bit libraries then? It most certainly doesn't. # equery files libstdc++-v3 [ Searching for packages matching libstdc++-v3... ] * Contents of sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.6: /etc /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/99libstdc++ /usr /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/libstdc++-v3 /usr/lib64/libstdc++-v3/libstdc++.so.5 - libstdc++.so.5.0.7 /usr/lib64/libstdc++-v3/libstdc++.so.5.0.7 Also this leads me to believe that the use flag is actually off. This may have no importance (because of the profile) but I am quite confused on how this is supposed to work. # equery uses libstdc++-v3 [SNIP] [ Found these USE variables for sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.6 ] U I [SNIP] - - multilib : On 64bit systems, if you want to be able to compile 32bit and 64bit binaries [SNIP] Also, you might need one (or more) of the packages from app-emulation/emul-x86-*. # eix -s emul -S libstdc++ * app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat Available versions: 1.0 1.0-r1 Installed: none Homepage:http://www.gentoo.org/ Description: emul-linux-x86 version of lib-compat, with the addition of a 32bit libgcc_s and the libstdc++ versions provided by gcc 3.3 and 3.4 for non-multilib systems. The description leads me to believe that this is for non-multilib systems. But I want multilib. Am I missing anything here? If anyone can direct me towards some proper documentation of how multilib is supposed to work I would appreciate that. And as always thanks for your replies. :) -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
Joseph writes: Is there any limitation in using dd to generate backup of DVD (dvd is 4.7, unencrypted)? There should be no limit. 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 Are there any syslog or dmesg messages? Some ideas: Try readcd instead of dd, it's in app-cdr/cdrtools. readcd dev=/dev/dvd -f backup.iso Or use dvdisaster (free, get it from http://www.dvdisaster.com/). It is especially useful for bad disks, and doesn't stop when encountering an error. If the image has errors after reading the whole disk, you can read the image again, with another drive if possible, and it will fill the missing parts. It is a graphical application (with a nice rendering of the reading process), but also works on the command line. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning
Hi all, I am so dumb. I partitioned a new disk for 1 large partition, I then needed to make a file system and by mistake I entered mke2fs -j /dev/sda and ignored the warning. I soon discovered that I didn't have any partition so I created it again with fdisk and the made the file system correctly with mke2fs -j /dev/sda1 My problem now is that when I plug the disk in (it's am external USB disk) I get 2 icons on my kde desktop both saying 200G Media one is /dev/sda and the other /dev/sda1 but of course I only have 1 200G disk. How can I correct this? Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning
Hi, On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:50:10 + Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem now is that when I plug the disk in (it's am external USB disk) I get 2 icons on my kde desktop both saying 200G Media one is /dev/sda and the other /dev/sda1 but of course I only have 1 200G disk. Probably there are still the filesystem magic bytes written in the boot sector (first 512 bytes). I think overwriting them should do the trick, but I'd like a second opinion on this, before I advice you to do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 (but if there isn't any data on that drive, then go and try this...) -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
Hi Joseph, on Wednesday, 2006-03-15 at 15:55:17, you wrote: 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. Could it be that it's supposed to be like this? Some kiind of copy protection using bad blocks that are unused in the file system so in normal use you never run into them, but you do when trying to get an image? Stuff like this has been common since the C64 age. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpH4hQBOH0zb.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] gnomeui-warning: authentication rejected -- hangs on splash screen
Unknown wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 22:27 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Unknown wrote: 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. That says it all, doesn't it? Now, I have no idea what this means, but google for none of the authentication protocols specified are supported and you'll find plenty to read. But here are some things to try: run etc-update first. If that didn't help, then re-emerge pam with 'emerge --oneshot pam' and run etc-update again, and show us the output of 'emerge -pv pam'. Also post the output of 'emerge --info' and the contents of /etc/hosts. Another thing to try: go down to single-user mode, clean out /tmp and /var/tmp: make sure to remove every occurrence of .ICE* and similar files, also from your home dirs and from root's home dir. 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, Eh? Why would I want to insult you? I'm trying to help you, even though you are doing almost everything wrong: uninformative subject line, a rambling vague message, no actual error messages... And no, also now I am not trying to insult you, just telling you how things are. i did try to locate smth on google, [...] You didn't say. You didn't say all the things you had already tried and searched. How am I supposed to know? Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning
On Thursday 16 Mar 2006 12:01, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:50:10 + Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem now is that when I plug the disk in (it's am external USB disk) I get 2 icons on my kde desktop both saying 200G Media one is /dev/sda and the other /dev/sda1 but of course I only have 1 200G disk. Probably there are still the filesystem magic bytes written in the boot sector (first 512 bytes). I think overwriting them should do the trick, but I'd like a second opinion on this, before I advice you to do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 (but if there isn't any data on that drive, then go and try this...) -hwh Thanks for the reply, I tried your suggestion but it didn't make any difference. This is a print the raw data in the partition table Device: /dev/sda 0x000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x090: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x110: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x120: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x130: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x140: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x150: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x160: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x170: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 AA This is the same type of disk's print the raw data in the partition table Device: /dev/sda 0x000: 33 C0 8E D0 BC 00 7C FB 50 07 50 1F FC BE 1B 7C 0x010: BF 1B 06 50 57 B9 E5 01 F3 A4 CB BE BE 07 B1 04 0x020: 38 2C 7C 09 75 15 83 C6 10 E2 F5 CD 18 8B 14 8B 0x030: EE 83 C6 10 49 74 16 38 2C 74 F6 BE 10 07 4E AC 0x040: 3C 00 74 FA BB 07 00 B4 0E CD 10 EB F2 89 46 25 0x050: 96 8A 46 04 B4 06 3C 0E 74 11 B4 0B 3C 0C 74 05 0x060: 3A C4 75 2B 40 C6 46 25 06 75 24 BB AA 55 50 B4 0x070: 41 CD 13 58 72 16 81 FB 55 AA 75 10 F6 C1 01 74 0x080: 0B 8A E0 88 56 24 C7 06 A1 06 EB 1E 88 66 04 BF 0x090: 0A 00 B8 01 02 8B DC 33 C9 83 FF 05 7F 03 8B 4E 0x0A0: 25 03 4E 02 CD 13 72 29 BE 46 07 81 3E FE 7D 55 0x0B0: AA 74 5A 83 EF 05 7F DA 85 F6 75 83 BE 27 07 EB 0x0C0: 8A 98 91 52 99 03 46 08 13 56 0A E8 12 00 5A EB 0x0D0: D5 4F 74 E4 33 C0 CD 13 EB B8 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0E0: 56 33 F6 56 56 52 50 06 53 51 BE 10 00 56 8B F4 0x0F0: 50 52 B8 00 42 8A 56 24 CD 13 5A 58 8D 64 10 72 0x100: 0A 40 75 01 42 80 C7 02 E2 F7 F8 5E C3 EB 74 49 0x110: 6E 76 61 6C 69 64 20 70 61 72 74 69 74 69 6F 6E 0x120: 20 74 61 62 6C 65 00 45 72 72 6F 72 20 6C 6F 61 0x130: 64 69 6E 67 20 6F 70 65 72 61 74 69 6E 67 20 73 0x140: 79 73 74 65 6D 00 4D 69 73 73 69 6E 67 20 6F 70 0x150: 65 72 61 74 69 6E 67 20 73 79 73 74 65 6D 00 00 0x160: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x170: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x180: 00 00 00 8B FC 1E 57 8B F5 CB 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 58 BB 35 CD 00 00 00 01 0x1C0: 01 00 07 3F E0 FF 20 00 00 00 E0 E7 49 17 00 00 0x1D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 AA -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] overnetclc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open
On Thursday 16 March 2006 03:45, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] overnetclc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open': If anyone can direct me towards some proper documentation of how multilib is supposed to work I would appreciate that. From http://www.gentoo.ro/doc/en/gentoo-amd64-faq.xml#multilib : What is multilib and how can I use it? Every AMD64 processor is able to run 32-bit code as well as 64-bit code. However, when you have a 32-bit application, you are unable to mix it with 64-bit libraries or vice versa. You can, however, natively run 32-bit applications if all shared libraries it needs are available as 32-bit objects. You can choose whether you want multilib support or not by selecting the according profile. The default is a multilib-enabled profile. -- 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] overnetclc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open
On Thursday 16 March 2006 03:45, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] overnetclc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open': Also, you might need one (or more) of the packages from app-emulation/emul-x86-*. # eix -s emul -S libstdc++ * app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat Available versions: 1.0 1.0-r1 Installed: none Homepage:http://www.gentoo.org/ Description: emul-linux-x86 version of lib-compat, with the addition of a 32bit libgcc_s and the libstdc++ versions provided by gcc 3.3 and 3.4 for non-multilib systems. The description leads me to believe that this is for non-multilib systems. But I want multilib. Am I missing anything here? The description must be out of date with current practice; from my system (a multilib system): # equery b libstdc++.so.5 [ Searching for file(s) libstdc++.so.5 in *... ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat-1.0-r1 (/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 - libstdc++.so.5.0.5) games-fps/doom3-1.3.1302-r1 (/opt/doom3/libstdc++.so.5) # ls -l /etc/make.profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Feb 28 00:09 /etc/make.profile - ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.0 -- 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] dvdrip help
On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 15:32:29 -0600, Mike Myers wrote: Can somebody please recommend another tool or show me how to fix dvdrip? I'd really like to watch these dvds from something other than my laptop. I've just tried K9copy on my amd64 box and it works well. -- Neil Bothwick Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 11:49:00AM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Or use dvdisaster (free, get it from http://www.dvdisaster.com/). It is especially useful for bad disks, and doesn't stop when encountering an error. I havent followed this thread closely but have the 'conv=noerror' option to dd been tried? Cheers, Rasmus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] overnetclc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open [SOLVED]
On Thursday 16 March 2006 14:32, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: # eix -s emul -S libstdc++ * app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat Available versions: 1.0 1.0-r1 Installed: none Homepage:http://www.gentoo.org/ Description: emul-linux-x86 version of lib-compat, with the addition of a 32bit libgcc_s and the libstdc++ versions provided by gcc 3.3 and 3.4 for non-multilib systems. The description leads me to believe that this is for non-multilib systems. But I want multilib. Am I missing anything here? The description must be out of date with current practice; from my system (a multilib system): # equery b libstdc++.so.5 [ Searching for file(s) libstdc++.so.5 in *... ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat-1.0-r1 (/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 - libstdc++.so.5.0.5) games-fps/doom3-1.3.1302-r1 (/opt/doom3/libstdc++.so.5) As you can see from your own mail emul-linux-x86-compat does not install any libs into /usr/lib32. Therefore I still think that the description may be correct and that package may be unaware of multilib being enabled. Nonetheless it does solve the problem and that's good enough for me. :) On Thursday 16 March 2006 14:30, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: From http://www.gentoo.ro/doc/en/gentoo-amd64-faq.xml#multilib : What is multilib and how can I use it? Every AMD64 processor is able to run 32-bit code as well as 64-bit code. However, when you have a 32-bit application, you are unable to mix it with 64-bit libraries or vice versa. You can, however, natively run 32-bit applications if all shared libraries it needs are available as 32-bit objects. You can choose whether you want multilib support or not by selecting the according profile. The default is a multilib-enabled profile. While this does explain that multilib is in fact enabled it tells me nothing about how it is supposed to work. Just above it [1] there is a section about the emul-linux-x86 packages which apparently explains that emul-linux-x86-compat should have been a dependency of overnet. But it does not state anything about multilib being required for those emul-linux-x86 packages to work. And if multilib isn't required for it then I am uncertain about what good it actually does. [1] http://www.gentoo.ro/doc/en/gentoo-amd64-faq.xml#emul32 -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] resource mapping wrong? pci-x nvidia fails to load
On Thursday 16 March 2006 06.01, Richard Fish wrote: On 3/14/06, Jimmy Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, this is an NVidia GeForce 6600 PCI-X card on an Intel SE7525RP2 Have you tried updating the motherboard BIOS? According to the thread here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46824 We had feedback from Intel and it's common PCI problem with SE7525GP2 Hopefully Intel fixes (their) firmware so I can use the two SE7525GP2s now sitting in the cabinet. This was over a year ago, and it looks like intel has done a couple of BIOS updates since then. http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/filter_results. aspx?strTypes=allProductID=2095OSFullName=SuSE*+Linux+Enterprise+S erver+9.0lang=engstrOSs=127submit=Go%21 Of particular interest in the release notes: - SP/GP Tracker 20204 : [X] nVidia graphics cards do not work on GP2. Ok, so everything references a GP2, and you have an RP2, but maybe they have the same problem/fix? -Richard Thanks a bunch guys. Really helpful. Saved the day you did. Now I'm really happy, because I can finally bring my personal workstation home to my apartment, instead of keeping it in the lab to be able to do any real work. I finally got the approval from the sysadmins to flash the bios with the xxx04xxx18xxx update, and ... it worked like a charm. The problem is gone and all is well, so far at least. If anyone is considering this kind of setup based on the Intel SE7525GP2 or SE7525RP2, I would recommend going with a cheaper dual core athlon or opteron setup instead. This thing is way overpriced and doesn't give enough bang for the bucks. Harebrafolk Jimmy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] SPLUNK
Has anyone here installed splunk on a Gentoo box? Any problems or gotchas??? 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.15
hi, there, yersterday I compiled for the first (and 2nd, 3rd, ...) time gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r7. and many things seemed different from 2.6.14. one of them is about preemption. I tried the desktop and low latency desktop options, and in both of them my desktop seemed overloaded. even mouse movement was chopped. I usually have theses apps running: - azureus - tvtime - konqueror - mozilla-firefox - konsole and in 2.6.14 it didn't happen. is it just me, or should I try 2.6.15-r1 instead? what should I check in order to verify what's going on in my machine? I appreciate any help. thanks in advance. claudio. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] dhcp problems
i have a new laptop that is giving me fits when i try to get any distro of linux installed. i was actually able to install gentoo and got it to boot (this is my first amd64 machine) but i cant get it to pull an ip address via dhcp i get this in the syslog: dhcpcd[6038]: dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCSIFFLAGS: Function not implemented i did install dhcpcd on the install so that should be working, and i do have the 8139too driver compiled into the kernel like i normally do. what am i missing here? thanks for any help Nick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.15
On 3/16/06, Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one of them is about preemption. I tried the desktop and low latencydesktop options, and in both of them my desktop seemed overloaded.even mouse movement was chopped.This sounds similar to a kernel upgrade problem that I had a few versions ago. The mouse would get choppy any time the system was accessinga disk. Having several applications reading/writing in parrallel would make thesystem unusable. Disk access was also much slower.I used genkernel to build the kernel and I had forgotten the step about copying over the /proc/config.gz. There is a reference in the handbookto this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#genkernel Tom Naujokas
[gentoo-user] Re: dhcp problems
On 3/16/06, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a new laptop that is giving me fits when i try to get any distro of linux installed. i was actually able to install gentoo and got it to boot (this is my first amd64 machine) but i cant get it to pull an ip address via dhcp i get this in the syslog: dhcpcd[6038]: dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCSIFFLAGS: Function not implemented i did install dhcpcd on the install so that should be working, and i do have the 8139too driver compiled into the kernel like i normally do. what am i missing here? thanks for any help Nick i get this on the live cd too for some reason. i installed with the new Live CD. but i am now using a minimal amd64 install cd to try and fix thisany ideas? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Return from the dead... almost [SOLVED]
On Thursday 16 March 2006 00:22, Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: Peter Kelly wrote: Hello to all. snip 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. Well, I did all that, and etc-update still didn't ask me to fix /etc/login.defs. So I renamed the file, and emerge'd pam-login AGAIN. Then it gave me the correct file. Yeah! And for those keeping score at home, in order to get 'Mail', you need to emerge nail. I think I'm now back to the same system I had before hdb started whining, and the motherboard decided that there was nothing attached to IDE1. Don't forget to backup! Peter -- Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. -- John Kenneth Galbraith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 15:24 +0100, Rasmus Andersen wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 11:49:00AM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: Or use dvdisaster (free, get it from http://www.dvdisaster.com/). It is especially useful for bad disks, and doesn't stop when encountering an error. I havent followed this thread closely but have the 'conv=noerror' option to dd been tried? Good try, thank. But the output is the same, I got only about 846MB out of 4.7Gb DVD and it stopped with Input/output error I don't think that I would ever try to rely on DVD as a backup medium after my simple experience. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:43:53 -0700, Joseph wrote: Good try, thank. But the output is the same, I got only about 846MB out of 4.7Gb DVD and it stopped with Input/output error Is it the same place on every disc? -- Neil Bothwick Ubuntu is an ancient African word, meaning I can't configure Slackware. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] unformat a partition
i just accidentally blew away my ntfs partition with the gentoo install cd (formatted hda1 instead of hdb1) is there a way to unformat if it was just done? like undo the format information? i formatted with ext3. ordinarily i wouldnt mind, but i have some VERY important information on there and a ton of pictures i cannot lose (originals). i can probably use getdataback when i get home just wanted to know if there was another way since im still at the prompt on the install cd now. thanks (bangs head on wall) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: php4 vs php5
kashani kashani-list at badapple.net writes: 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 Well, I have gotten delayed, but when I get a few things done, I'll test the latest JFFNMS with dev-lang/php-4.4.2. One of the devs has worked on it, quite a lot lately. If more folks install JFFNMS and use it, we're more likely to get better support from the devs. 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. It has undergone many changes, as it is quite fluid as NMS. The website states that it runs on PHP5 also, but, I have not had time to drill down into the details. What's your adversion to Java Serverlets? (just curious). James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning
Hi Paul, on Thursday, 2006-03-16 at 12:44:15, you wrote: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 (but if there isn't any data on that drive, then go and try this...) Thanks for the reply, I tried your suggestion but it didn't make any difference. If there's nothing on it yet, you can of course zero-out the whole disk---bit of an overkill but will do the job :) I would have thought killing the boot sector would do it as well but then perhaps the volume manager could be looking for a root sector? cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpjyRo0xesVp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 16:58 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:43:53 -0700, Joseph wrote: Good try, thank. But the output is the same, I got only about 846MB out of 4.7Gb DVD and it stopped with Input/output error Is it the same place on every disc? NEW INFORMATION I've tried the same command dd conv=noerror if=/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 of=family.iso on x86 (different machine) and I was able to copy 2.6Gb to iso file; so it stopped in different location. However, in one of your previous email you suggested I try: # mkisofs -o mydvd.iso /mnt/dvdr/ so I did and the system stopped (on amd64 machine) with Input/output error. can not read from '/mnt/dvdr/video_ts/vts_01_0.bup' Following you suggestion quote--- 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? ---end qutoe--- That was good suggestion, so I rebooted the amd64-machine (just to make sure not process is left running from previous operations), mounted the DVD: # mount /dev/hdc /mnt/dvdr and I've tried to copy that file 'video_ts/vts_01_0.bup' and I could not, I got Input/output error. # cp: reading /mnt/dvdr/video_ts/vts_01_0.bup': Input/output error However, when I repeated the same process on x86-machine it copied just fine: # cp /mnt/cdrom/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.BUP . # ll total 2759652 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 126976 Mar 16 10:34 VTS_01_0.BUP It copies the same file without any problem The strange part is that when I mount the same DVD in amd64-machine all directory and files are listed in small letters (and I know they should be all CAPS). # ll /mnt/cdrom/video_ts/ total 4211042 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 12288 Jan 27 12:37 video_ts.bup -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 12288 Jan 27 12:37 video_ts.ifo -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 114688 Jan 27 12:37 video_ts.bob -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 126976 Jan 27 12:33 vts_01_0.bup ... But when I mount the same DVD on x86-machine it list the directory and files in CAPS as it should # ll /mnt/cdrom/VIDEO_TS/ total 4211042 -r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 12288 Jan 27 12:37 VIDEO_TS.BUP -r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 12288 Jan 27 12:37 VIDEO_TS.IFO -r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 114688 Jan 27 12:37 VIDEO_TS.VOB -r--r--r-- 1 4294967295 4294967295 126976 Jan 27 12:33 VTS_01_0.BUP ... Though, I don't see what difference it could make, but why one machine list the files and directories in small letter and the other one in caps. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning
On Thursday 16 March 2006 18:55, Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Paul, on Thursday, 2006-03-16 at 12:44:15, you wrote: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 (but if there isn't any data on that drive, then go and try this...) Thanks for the reply, I tried your suggestion but it didn't make any difference. If there's nothing on it yet, you can of course zero-out the whole disk---bit of an overkill but will do the job :) I would have thought killing the boot sector would do it as well but then perhaps the volume manager could be looking for a root sector? cheers! Matthias Normally it wouldn't Problems like this can usually be solved by 1. wiping the first few sectors on the harddisk (I usually do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1k count=100, I know it's way more then neede but it never hurts and types just as fast ;)) 2. (s/c)fdisk the drive and create the new partition and reboot after it to be certain the partition table is read again (I've seen otherwise before) 3. mke2fs, mkreiserfs, or something similar :) -- Rick van Hattem Rick.van.Hattem(at)Fawo.nl pgp9UoCoSFw2g.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] QT 4
Hello, Has anyone any experiences with developing software with QT4? checking whats available, with 'emerge -pv qt', I see: x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r8 Nothing else... If I add x11-libs/qt to the package.keywords file, I get x11-libs/qt-4.1.1 after editing the package.keyword file, If I run emerge -uDp world, it want to upgrade qt: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r9 [3.3.4-r8] I really confused as this is not very clear what the hardmasked, testing and stable versions of QT? I've been told that QT 4 is 'very young' which I interpret as unstable and buggy. How do I tell if qt-4.1.1 is hard masked or testing as I've never seen this before. Should I avoid qt4 or is it OK for use, it's just testing on Gentoo? Any feedback is appreciated, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?
I get a lot of bounce messages from Postfix relating to emails that are not actually from me, and the mail q shows lots of stuff I don't recognize. I'd like to know how to interpret this, and if it is called-for, to secure this daemon a bit more. Can somebody point me in the right direction? I'll RTFM if it's not *too* big, if I know the appropriate FM to R. ++ kevin-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] Return from the dead... almost
[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 had exactly the same messages after updating pam-login (because, even though it told me too, I didn't etc-update right away). After running etc-update and replacing the old config file with the new one, everything was fine. So my guest is, you still have the old config file in your system. Try to emerge pam-login again. Good luck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp problems
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:21:17 -0500 Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a new laptop that is giving me fits when i try to get any distro of linux installed. i was actually able to install gentoo and got it to boot (this is my first amd64 machine) but i cant get it to pull an ip address via dhcp i get this in the syslog: dhcpcd[6038]: dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCSIFFLAGS: Function not implemented i did install dhcpcd on the install so that should be working, and i do have the 8139too driver compiled into the kernel like i normally do. what am i missing here? thanks for any help Nick I had similar problems with a new Centrino laptop. The wireless would not work, neither would the regular network port. I first tried to boot with the kernel parameter acpi=off. This worked for me, however I then lost all acpi funtions so I could not use SpeedStep or see how much battery life I had. I kept searchig and found irqpoll as a kernel boot option. Using that fixed my wireless up and allowed me to get my battery status. I think it all had to do with irq sharing and conflicts. Try booting up with the irqpool kernel boot option or the acpi=off boot option and see what you get. Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] QT 4
On Thursday 16 March 2006 12:11, James wrote: Hello, Has anyone any experiences with developing software with QT4? checking whats available, with 'emerge -pv qt', I see: x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r8 Nothing else... If I add x11-libs/qt to the package.keywords file, I get x11-libs/qt-4.1.1 after editing the package.keyword file, If I run emerge -uDp world, it want to upgrade qt: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r9 [3.3.4-r8] since packages you use (I assume KDE etc.) are not using qt4 (i.e. require specifically qt3 branch) portage doesn't find any reasons to bump version of qt. AFAIR Qt is a slotted package and you can safely go ahead and do emerge =x11-libs/qt-4.1.1 but you packages wouldn't use it. -- Dmitry Makovey Web Systems Administrator Athabasca University (780) 675-6245 pgpewKocLWeQB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?
On Thursday 16 March 2006 20:12, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I get a lot of bounce messages from Postfix relating to emails that are not actually from me, and the mail q shows lots of stuff I don't recognize. I'd like to know how to interpret this, and if it is called-for, to secure this daemon a bit more. Can somebody point me in the right direction? I'll RTFM if it's not *too* big, if I know the appropriate FM to R. You can check if your machine is an open relay by using telnet to relay-test.mail-abuse.org from the machine which runs the mail. An other alternative is to use their webinterface (http://www.abuse.net/relay.html) but I have no experience with that one. Gerhard -- Ithaka photography, http://ithaka.mine.nu/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] User mounting
Do I need to do anything special to let users (me) mount an cifs share? I don't want to have to use sudo all the time. I can mount/umount /mnt/cdrom without sudo. Here is my /etc/fstab entry: //kaleb/C$ /mnt/kaleb cifs defaults,noauto,user,credentials=/etc/samba/kaleb.conf,gid=100,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770 0 0 The above is one line. If I try to run mount /mnt/kaleb as a regular user I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ mount /mnt/kaleb/ mount error: permission denied or not superuser and mount.cifs not installed SUID Here is mount.cifs: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ dl /usr/bin/mount.cifs -rws--x--x 1 root root 21K Mar 10 12:14 /usr/bin/mount.cifs* Thanks, Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:12:28 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get a lot of bounce messages from Postfix relating to emails that are not actually from me, and the mail q shows lots of stuff I don't recognize. I'd like to know how to interpret this, and if it is called-for, to secure this daemon a bit more. Can somebody point me in the right direction? I'll RTFM if it's not *too* big, if I know the appropriate FM to R. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD Try this link: http://www.spamhelp.org/shopenrelay/ Just put in the IP and port and click the button. Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.15
I am using genkernel --menuconfig ... I'm choosing all the modules I believe will be useful to me. That's why I don't know if something is missing and how can I find it out. By the way, I'm using psmouse. I'll post here as soon as I get home. On 3/16/06, Tom Naujokas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/16/06, Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one of them is about preemption. I tried the desktop and low latency desktop options, and in both of them my desktop seemed overloaded. even mouse movement was chopped. This sounds similar to a kernel upgrade problem that I had a few versions ago. The mouse would get choppy any time the system was accessing a disk. Having several applications reading/writing in parrallel would make the system unusable. Disk access was also much slower. I used genkernel to build the kernel and I had forgotten the step about copying over the /proc/config.gz. There is a reference in the handbook to this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#genkernel Tom Naujokas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] User mounting
On Thursday 16 March 2006 20:48, JimD wrote: Do I need to do anything special to let users (me) mount an cifs share? I don't want to have to use sudo all the time. I can mount/umount /mnt/cdrom without sudo. Here is my /etc/fstab entry: //kaleb/C$ /mnt/kaleb cifs defaults,noauto,user,credentials=/etc/samba/kaleb.conf,gid=100,file_mode=06 60,dir_mode=0770 0 0 try users instead of user -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] User mounting
On Thursday 16 March 2006 19:48, JimD wrote: Do I need to do anything special to let users (me) mount an cifs share? I don't want to have to use sudo all the time. I can mount/umount /mnt/cdrom without sudo. Here is my /etc/fstab entry: //kaleb/C$ /mnt/kaleb cifs defaults,noauto,user,credentials=/etc/samba/kaleb.conf,gid=100,file_mode=06 60,dir_mode=0770 0 0 It's the user option. user lets any normal user mount it, but no-one else unmount it. users does the same, but lets a normal user other than the one which mounted it, to unmount it. man mount for more info. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] User mounting
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:08:29 +
Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's the user option.
user lets any normal user mount it, but no-one else unmount it.
users does the same, but lets a normal user other than the one which
mounted it, to unmount it.
man mount
for more info.
The problem is that I cannot even *mount* it as a regular user.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] $ mount /mnt/kaleb/
mount error: permission denied or not superuser and mount.cifs not
installed SUID
mount.cifs is SUID:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] $ ls -l /usr/bin/mount.cifs
-rws--x--x 1 root root 21232 Mar 10 12:14 /usr/bin/mount.cifs
Running strace on the mount command like so:
strace mount /mnt/kaleb/ trace.txt
Gives me this at the end of the output:
readlink(/mnt, 0xbf95d3e0, 4096) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
readlink(/mnt/kaleb, 0xbf95d3e0, 4096) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
umask(077) = 02
open(/etc/fstab, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
umask(02) = 077
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=454, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 131072, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0xb7dee000 read(3, /dev/hda1\t/\t\t\treiserfs\tnotail,no...,
131072) = 454 read(3, , 131072) = 0
close(3)= 0
munmap(0xb7dee000, 131072) = 0
stat64(/sbin/mount.cifs, {st_mode=S_IFREG|S_ISUID|0755,
st_size=21232, ...}) = 0 clone(mount error: permission denied or not
superuser and mount.cifs not installed SUID child_stack=0,
flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD,
child_tidptr=0xb7e0e708) = 23707 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
wait4(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) WEXITSTATUS(s) == 255}], 0, NULL) = 23707
exit_group(255) = ?
The interesting part is where stat64 is called on /sbin/mount.cifs.
/sbin/mount.cifs is a symlink to ../usr/bin/mount.cifs. Maybe mount
thinks that /sbin/mount.cifs is not SUID even though where it points to
is SUID?
Jim
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[gentoo-user] Spamassassin
I have (the latest) spamassassin 3.1.0 (on Perl 5.8.7) installed on my not-extremely-powerful small-scale Gentoo server (P2-450 with 256Mb RAM and 500Mb swap - not running X) and I'm experiencing a recurring fault... I'm running spamd and using the spamassassin client to re-direct email to it from my systemwide procmail setup (using the recommended | /usr/bin/spamc -f approach with a size limiter to avoid over-burdening spamassassin with any massive emails.) Everything seems to work well for a fair while, then the spamd process gets wedged - and in spite of there being a near-0 load, and dozens and dozens of messages reported by mailq, none of my mail gets processed in a hurry - and after a long while (maybe every half-an-hour, say) an email is delivered from the head of my mail queue - which has not passed through spamd (according to the headers) - and has no spam-score attached. I read some suggestions a long while ago which said that --round-robin as an option was a work-around for a bug with the same consequences. My /etc/conf.d/spamd currently has the options: SPAMD_OPTS=-m 5 -c -H -l --round-robin However, I still get this problem. I thought that it was related to the length of time the spamd process had been running - so I set a cron job to re-start the server at an unusual time early every morning... but this hasn't been an successful work around either. It now seems that to be triggered by an increased system load - today I ran # emerge apache squirrelmail then left... when I returned the emerge had long-since completed by my spamd remained stuck. Is this a problem everyone is having? I had no problem like this with the elder (3.0.4) version of spamassassin I had installed previously on the same hardware. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: unformat a partition
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:15:24 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: i just accidentally blew away my ntfs partition with the gentoo install cd (formatted hda1 instead of hdb1) is there a way to unformat if it was just done? like undo the format information? i formatted with ext3. ordinarily i wouldnt mind, but i have some VERY important information on there and a ton of pictures i cannot lose (originals). i can probably use getdataback when i get home just wanted to know if there was another way since im still at the prompt on the install cd now. thanks (bangs head on wall) A definite MAYBE. If you did a quick format, not doing error checking, there is an excellent chance your data is intact. If you did error checking, then probably not, although badblock normally restores data as it checks each sector. If you know about partition editing, then go in and change the partition type back to ntfs and see if it can be mounted by Windows or linux. Now, first thing I would do is do an image backup of the partition just so you can save it and try again with a different approach if need be. Second, the sfdisk utility in Linux allows for low level partition editing, but it's not easy. Windows utilities are much better for this kind of thing. I remember the old Norton Disk Doctor for example. Nonetheless, the good news is if you did a quick format, you most likely will be fine. How fine depends on whether or not you can get the partition to mount again under the original partition type. Otherwise, there are services like Ontrack which, for mega $$$ get your stuff back. Good luck! -- Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: QT 4
Dmitry S. Makovey dmitry at athabascau.ca writes: since packages you use (I assume KDE etc.) are not using qt4 (i.e. require specifically qt3 branch) portage doesn't find any reasons to bump version of qt. AFAIR Qt is a slotted package and you can safely go ahead and do emerge =x11-libs/qt-4.1.1 but you packages wouldn't use it. Ok this kinda makes sense. But what exactly is a 'slotted package', how do I determine when a packages is slotted, and where do I read more about 'slotted'? I see this term used ofen, but, really have no clue exactly what slotted means or if it has various meanings based on the context of it's (verbiage) usage. I'm looking at participating in developing software for remote control of hardware, SCADA, if that means anything to you. One of the guys is raving about QT4, so I need to install it, write a little code and play with it to form an opinion related to it's viability as a basis for open source SCADA development. Java is very nice, but many folks do not like JAVA, due to licenses issues.. Hence the interest in QT4. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: QT 4
James wrote: Dmitry S. Makovey dmitry at athabascau.ca writes: since packages you use (I assume KDE etc.) are not using qt4 (i.e. require specifically qt3 branch) portage doesn't find any reasons to bump version of qt. AFAIR Qt is a slotted package and you can safely go ahead and do emerge =x11-libs/qt-4.1.1 but you packages wouldn't use it. Ok this kinda makes sense. But what exactly is a 'slotted package', how do I determine when a packages is slotted, and where do I read more about 'slotted'? I see this term used ofen, but, really have no clue exactly what slotted means or if it has various meanings based on the context of it's (verbiage) usage. Slotted means you can have several different versions of a package installed, *at the same time*. So in this case it would mean you would end up with qt-3.x still installed and qt-4.x also installed. Since KDE would be linked against 3.x, it would continue to use that, while you could in theory link against the 4.x version. James wrote: checking whats available, with 'emerge -pv qt', I see: x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r8 Nothing else... If I add x11-libs/qt to the package.keywords file, I get x11-libs/qt-4.1.1 after editing the package.keyword file, If I run emerge -uDp world, it want to upgrade qt: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r9 [3.3.4-r8] If you go to http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=qt;offset=40 you can see all the versions of qt (third one down on the page). 'emerge -pv qt' first off shows you the latest stable version, 3.3.2-r8. When you add qt to your package.keywords file though, emerge -pv qt' will want to install the *latest* version of qt that is available, currently 4.1.1. However the update world command will find that KDE specifically requires 3.x, so therefore will update to the latest 3.x version, in this case 3.3.4-r9 because even though that in the testing branch, you've just enabled it by adding it in your package.keywords file. Although I don't know why portage doesn't also want to install the 4.1.1 version of qt if they are slotted... Shawn -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: QT 4
On Thursday 16 March 2006 15:03, James wrote: Dmitry S. Makovey dmitry at athabascau.ca writes: since packages you use (I assume KDE etc.) are not using qt4 (i.e. require specifically qt3 branch) portage doesn't find any reasons to bump version of qt. AFAIR Qt is a slotted package and you can safely go ahead and do emerge =x11-libs/qt-4.1.1 but you packages wouldn't use it. Ok this kinda makes sense. But what exactly is a 'slotted package', how do I determine when a packages is slotted, and where do I read more about 'slotted'? I see this term used ofen, but, really have no clue exactly what slotted means or if it has various meanings based on the context of it's (verbiage) usage. in /usr/portage/x11-libs/qt/qt-4.1.1.ebuild check the line SLOT=4 and compare it to /usr/portage/x11-libs/qt/qt-3.3.5.ebuild: SLOT=3 which indicates that those installed in different slots (in basic terms - those could be installed side by side without affecting existing applications unless they explicitly dependant on specific Qt version). there are quite a few slotted packages in portage so you might bump into this every now and then (KDE is slotted AFAIR). -- Dmitry Makovey Web Systems Administrator Athabasca University (780) 675-6245 pgpRm1XWL7WAr.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re-creating an Empty Qmail Queue
Dear friends, how to re-creating and Empty QMail Queue? 1. i need to delete my existing queue folder due to huge unwanted spam mails. 2. how to re-creating the queue now? hope your valuable advice(s)... -- ... (((o)))~--~--~-- Proud to be a Sinhalese. SINHALESE ARE GENIUSES OF IRRIGATION http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~sydney/sinhales.htm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unformat a partition
On Thursday 16 March 2006 09:15 Nick Smith was like: i just accidentally blew away my ntfs partition with the gentoo install cd (formatted hda1 instead of hdb1) is there a way to unformat if it was just done? like undo the format information? i formatted with ext3. IMPORTANT: Please don't follow the following advice until you have had a second opinion from someone else—I think this will work, but I can't swear it will: Reformat to NTFS and then use a recovery tool. If I remember right, windows fdisk is pretty insistent on doing a low level format, so you would be safer using the gnu tool for formatting. I don't know whether the gnu ntfs tools are up to the recovery job, or whether you need to use something proprietary. If you are lucky you may be able to read the old data on the newly created partition without needing to use a recovery tool (I was able to do that with a linux partition once—can't remember if it was reiserfs or ext3), but I would copy all the files somewhere safe in any case because even very minor corruption could come back to haunt you later (as many theologians never tire of reminding us). -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: QT 4
On Thursday 16 March 2006 23:43, Shawn Haggett wrote: Although I don't know why portage doesn't also want to install the 4.1.1 version of qt if they are slotted... That's because qt is neither in the world file or a depency of any package which is in the world file. It wants to upgrade to newest qt-3* because that is a depency of one or more packages in the world file. -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re-creating an Empty Qmail Queue
El Nino wrote: Dear friends, how to re-creating and Empty QMail Queue? 1. i need to delete my existing queue folder due to huge unwanted spam mails. 2. how to re-creating the queue now? hope your valuable advice(s)... emerge net-mail/qmhandle That will allow you to delete everything from the queue. You should not need to recreate it if you use qmhandle. I believe the syntax is qmhandle -D or something similar, but it's been about three years since I played with it. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re-creating an Empty Qmail Queue
On Thursday 16 March 2006 22:53, El Nino wrote:
how to re-creating and Empty QMail Queue?
1. i need to delete my existing queue folder due to huge unwanted spam
mails. 2. how to re-creating the queue now?
stop qmail-send
# cd /var/qmail/queue
# find info mess remote -type f -exec rm -f -- {} \;
start qmail-send.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: QT 4
Dmitry S. Makovey schreef: there are quite a few slotted packages in portage so you might bump into this every now and then (KDE is slotted AFAIR). Even easier-- so are kernel sources. Install a new one, and it's always going to be [ NS ], not [ U ] . Looking at how kernel sources are handled on the system seems to me to be the easiest entry point to understanding SLOTs. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 14:52 -0500, JimD wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:12:28 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get a lot of bounce messages from Postfix relating to emails that are not actually from me, and the mail q shows lots of stuff I don't recognize. I'd like to know how to interpret this, and if it is called-for, to secure this daemon a bit more. Try this link: http://www.spamhelp.org/shopenrelay/ Just put in the IP and port and click the button. which automatically notifies a list of spammers that they can use your mail server... no not really ;) Do you have a firewall? Should your box be accessible from outside? You could lock it down so _no_one_ outside can access it, or you could restrict it to certain ip's... But I also get a few bounce messages from me about emails I never wrote - once your email address is out there, spammers use it as their from address, even if they're not using your mail server for a relay. sucks. -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: QT 4
On Thursday 16 March 2006 23:03, James wrote: Dmitry S. Makovey dmitry at athabascau.ca writes: since packages you use (I assume KDE etc.) are not using qt4 (i.e. require specifically qt3 branch) portage doesn't find any reasons to bump version of qt. AFAIR Qt is a slotted package and you can safely go ahead and do emerge =x11-libs/qt-4.1.1 but you packages wouldn't use it. Ok this kinda makes sense. But what exactly is a 'slotted package', Slotted means that several versions of a package can coexist at the same system. In the case of qt version 3 goes into /usr/qt/3 and version 4 goes into /usr/qt/4. how do I determine when a packages is slotted, and where do I read more about 'slotted'? Have a look at 'man emerge' # emerge -vp qt These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild NS ] x11-libs/qt-4.1.1 USE=... 27,110 kB ^^^ The 'S' means that it is slotted. On Thursday 16 March 2006 20:11, James wrote: I really confused as this is not very clear what the hardmasked, testing and stable versions of QT? I've been told that QT 4 is 'very young' which I interpret as unstable and buggy. How do I tell if qt-4.1.1 is hard masked or testing as I've never seen this before. I would recommend app-portage/eix as it gives a clear overview of the available versions of any package. # eix -e qt * x11-libs/qt Available versions: 3.3.4-r8 ~3.3.4-r9 [M]3.3.5 [M]3.3.5-r1 4.1.0-r1 4.1.0-r2 4.1.1 Installed: 3.3.4-r8 Homepage:http://www.trolltech.com/ Description: The Qt toolkit is a comprehensive C++ application development framework. Versions that are prefixed by [M] are hard masked usually because they are broken. They should not be unmasked without knowing why they were originally masked. Versions prefixed by a ~ are masked by ~ARCH i.e. testing and can be used by adding them to package.keyword. eix respects package.* an hence 4.1.0-r1 is shown as stable because of this: # grep x11-libs/qt /etc/portage/package.keywords =x11-libs/qt-4.1* ~x86 As you can see you can specify versions to unmask if you want a testing version of qt-4.1* but stable for any other version. This is explained in 'man portage'. To see why a package is hard masked you have to look in the package.mask files. Packages are masked on several levels. Both general and profile specific. On my system I am using the default-linux/x86/2006.0 profile. # ls -ld /etc/make.profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 Mar 10 02:02 /etc/make.profile - ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0 Therefore packages on my system might be masked in the following locations (note that not all of those files actually exist because no packages are hard masked on some of those levels. Still these are the locations where portage will look.): /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0/package.mask /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/package.mask /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/package.mask /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask And the reason why qt-3.3.5 is hard masked: # grep -A 2 Qt /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask # Qt-3.3.5 causes a lot of compilation failures. # See bug #106402. ~x11-libs/qt-3.3.5 But qt-4 is not hard masked so it should be working or at least it won't break anything. ;) HtH -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] 451 qq temporary problem (#4.3.0)
dear friends, i delete my qmail queue using qmHandle. now it gave me this error 451 qq temporary problem (#4.3.0) please help me... -- ... (((o)))~--~--~-- Proud to be a Sinhalese. SINHALESE ARE GENIUSES OF IRRIGATION http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~sydney/sinhales.htm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 451 qq temporary problem (#4.3.0)
On 3/16/06, El Nino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i delete my qmail queue using qmHandle. now it gave me this error 451 qq temporary problem (#4.3.0) please help me... Google 451 qq temporary problem (#4.3.0) Seems to come up with quite a few very interesting results. -- -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] kernel 2.6.15
I downgraded my kernel to 2.6.15-r1 and used genkernel config file to compile the new kernel. Now everything works as it should be. Thanks, Tom! Regards! On 3/16/06, Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using genkernel --menuconfig ... I'm choosing all the modules I believe will be useful to me. That's why I don't know if something is missing and how can I find it out. By the way, I'm using psmouse. I'll post here as soon as I get home. On 3/16/06, Tom Naujokas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/16/06, Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one of them is about preemption. I tried the desktop and low latency desktop options, and in both of them my desktop seemed overloaded. even mouse movement was chopped. This sounds similar to a kernel upgrade problem that I had a few versions ago. The mouse would get choppy any time the system was accessing a disk. Having several applications reading/writing in parrallel would make the system unusable. Disk access was also much slower. I used genkernel to build the kernel and I had forgotten the step about copying over the /proc/config.gz. There is a reference in the handbook to this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#genkernel Tom Naujokas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: QT 4
Bo Andresen bo.andresen at gmail.com writes: Slotted means that several versions of a package can coexist at the same system. In the case of qt version 3 goes into /usr/qt/3 and version 4 goes into /usr/qt/4. how do I determine when a packages is slotted, and where do I read more about 'slotted'? ^^^ The 'S' means that it is slotted. OK, thanks everyone, these explainations and the man pages make more sense now. thanks everyone! James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 and dhcpcd
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:52:48 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I switched to kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 (from r5), with an identical .config file, dhcpcd doesn't stay alive as a daemon: - it starts okay at boot time and eth1 gets its address from IAF, then it dies - when the lease time's over, I don't have internet access anymore until I rebbot. What gives ? Anyone got the same problem ? I can't actually say. However, if it's the dhcpcd that comes with net-misc/dhcp then that client has a persistence problem and the standalone client - net-misc/dhcpcd is a better choice. Or perhaps - net-misc/pump, might be a better choice? Yes, I didn't answer your question as I don't have a working knowledge of the kernel and the client other than the persistence issue seen on another Linux on an ia64 platform. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 and dhcpcd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I switched to kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 (from r5), with an identical .config file, dhcpcd doesn't stay alive as a daemon: - it starts okay at boot time and eth1 gets its address from IAF, then it dies - when the lease time's over, I don't have internet access anymore until I rebbot. What gives ? Anyone got the same problem ? I have the same problem, I'm running 2.6.15-r1. I was thinking it was hardware related, as I've been unable to find any similar cases in forum/list/web searches. Maybe I'm not searching for the 'right' terms, but I've been operating Gentoo for about a month now and this problem has persisted. On 3/16/06, Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't actually say. However, if it's the dhcpcd that comes with net-misc/dhcp then that client has a persistence problem and the standalone client - net-misc/dhcpcd is a better choice. * net-misc/dhcpcd Latest version available: 2.0.2 Latest version installed: 2.0.2 Or perhaps - net-misc/pump, might be a better choice? I've never heard of it, though I will definitely check it out. Thanks adj, for asking the question that I hadn't gotten around to asking yet, and thanks Bob for the suggestions. Dave -- -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] QT 4
On Friday 17 March 2006 08:11, James wrote: Hello, Has anyone any experiences with developing software with QT4? checking whats available, with 'emerge -pv qt', I see: x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r8 Nothing else... If I add x11-libs/qt to the package.keywords file, I get x11-libs/qt-4.1.1 Just out of interest how far along is qt4? Last time I looked the next major release of kde *might* be using it, if it becomes stable in time. Is this still the case? -- The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutang trying to play the violin. -- Honor'e DeBalzac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended amd64 box for Gentoo
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:04:58 -0600 Michael Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone recommend an amd64 box to use with Gentoo 2006.0? I had considered one of the following workstations; has anyone had good or bad experience with these workstations and Gentoo for amd64? HP xw9300 Sun Ultra 40 IBM IntelliStation A Pro Alienware MJ-12 7550a No. Shuttle XPC SN95G5 V3 - typing this email now Nvidia 6600GT Gfx card, though it's seen several others. This system was built early 2005. Penguin Computing 1U server - been running since 2004, 2P Opteron Self-built 2P Opteron Tyan K8W S2885 motherboard, running since 2004. Nvidia 6600GT gfx card. Started out with an Nvidia 5900XT. It lost one cpu - memory controller went bad last year. Upgraded both cpus and now have powernowd running doing dynamic frequency control. Self-built 2P Opteron MSI motherboard, built 2004, motherboard lost memory traces in 2005. Now dead. All have run Gentoo, though the Penguin Computing server started out with SLES 8, that basically sucked. SLES 9 and SLES 10 are better, but it's a critical lab server and I won't run software we test on something critical like that. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] overnetclc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open [SOLVED]
On Thursday 16 March 2006 08:39, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] overnetclc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open [SOLVED]': But it does not state anything about multilib being required for those emul-linux-x86 packages to work. And if multilib isn't required for it then I am uncertain about what good it actually does. # pwd -P /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.0/no-multilib # grep emul-.*-x86 package.mask app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-glibc app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-medialibs app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-nvidia app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-qtlibs app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-sdl app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-java Yep, those packages don't work under a no-multilib profile. -- 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] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On Thursday 16 March 2006 12:11, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso': The strange part is that when I mount the same DVD in amd64-machine all directory and files are listed in small letters (and I know they should be all CAPS). Though, I don't see what difference it could make, but why one machine list the files and directories in small letter and the other one in caps. One machine is mounting as iso9660; the other is mounting as UDF. The one mounting as UDF is more correct. This won't make a difference to dd (since it operates below the file system) but would affect cp, ll, or any other program that required the drive to be mounted. I used to rip DVDs and CDs using dd w/ conv=noerror. I find I actually get better results with a tool designed to read CDs specifically. I don't know if it is because they better moderate the speed of the drive, or if they are simply cognizant of the error correction bits on the disk, but I'll never go back to reading CDs or DVDs with dd again. -- 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] gdk-pixbuf
On 3/15/06, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 ChangeLog: *gdk-pixbuf-0.16.0-r6 (31 Mar 2002) 31 Mar 2002; Seemant Kulleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] gdk-pixbuf-0.16.0-r6.ebuild: GNOME support is no longer an option -- it is built-in automatically, because downstream applications tend to expect it in this package. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] QT 4
On 17 March 2006 05:16, Glenn Enright wrote: Just out of interest how far along is qt4? Last time I looked the next major release of kde *might* be using it, if it becomes stable in time. Is this still the case? The current version is Qt-4.1.1 AFAIK and it's pretty stable. KDE4 will be base on Qt4, no if. Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] removing xorg 7
hello, i was installing xorg 7 yesterday updating from the old one following the guide on gentoo.org gdm wouldn't start anymore.. i kind of messed up the system after that.. now it wouldn't start X normally i reemerged xorg 6.8 i was able to start X but fglrx is not working.. emerges are failing.. everything seems messed up. is there a way i can remove everything related to xorg 7 and reemerge it.. i looked at the packages that emerge --depclean would remove none of these seemed related to x i know my message is messy and unclear.. but i really don't know how i can explain more -- Cheers, Ghaith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
