Re: [gentoo-user] USB mass storage - WD My Book
> > On Tuesday 07 November 2006 12:22, Adrian wrote: > > --- > Mon Nov 06 22:21:41 > ~ > root $ mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/500G/ > mount: you must specify the filesystem type > > Mon Nov 06 23:45:07 > ~ > root $ mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/500G/ -t vfat > mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist > > > Good thought however. Thank you. A > Okay, at least the simle one is out of the way. I would suggest either kernel version or the built modules are your problem. You are already trying updated kernel version, maybe that will do it. If not stick it in the working computer and do an 'lsmod'. Identify which modules are used by the device. Then make sure those modules are built and loaded on the non-working system. usb 1-6: device descriptor read/8, error -110 scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 7 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device printk: 522 messages suppressed. Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 976751744 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 976751745 seems like the error that matters. Check the kernel SCSI config, compare it with the working computer. - Noven -- >-- Novensiles divi Flamen --< > Miles Militis Fons < pgptFk4RaYOBI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 06:44, Richard Fish wrote: > On 11/4/06, Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > `/var/tmp/portage/vmware-dsp-1.3/work/vmwaredsp-1.3/src/32' > > cc -c -W -Wall -O2 -fPIC -o vmdsp.o ../vmdsp.c > > cc -shared -Wl,-version-script=../vmdsp.map -o libvmdsp.so > > vmdsp.o -lpthread -ldl -lc > > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bi > >n/ld: libvmdsp.so: undefined versioned symbol name [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bi > >n/ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: Bad value > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > make[1]: *** [libvmdsp.so] Error 1 > > rm vmdsp.o > > make[1]: Leaving directory > > `/var/tmp/portage/vmware-dsp-1.3/work/vmwaredsp-1.3/src/32' > > Hmm, looks like building this is broken on AMD64 arches...too bad. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150495 -- Bo Andresen pgp2IWOuqwtfJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound
On 11/6/06, Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I suspect that there is a glibc "problem": http://www.vmware.com/community/message.jspa?messageID=26228 Look at the posts by... Richard Fish ;-) Nah, not the same problem. In my case it was a gentoo-specific glibc patch that was messing up. I think yours 32-vs-64 bit compatibility. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound
On 11/5/06, Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #!/bin/bash LD_PRELOAD=libaoss.so exec /opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware & Now: i) if I run the script as myself, sound doesn't work and I get ERROR: ld.so: object 'libaoss.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. This is the same 32-vs-64 bit problem as with vmwaredsp. Unfortunately I don't see any obvious way to get alsa-oss to build 32-bit version. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB mass storage - WD My Book
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 11:43:18 +0700 Novensiles divi Flamen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > On Tuesday 07 November 2006 12:22, Adrian wrote: > > > > Mon Nov 06 22:18:38 > > ~ > > root $ mount /dev/sda /mnt/500G/ > > mount: you must specify the filesystem type > > > > Mon Nov 06 22:20:39 > > ~ > > root $ mount /dev/sda /mnt/500G/ -t vfat > > mount: special device /dev/sda does not exist > > > > >8 0 488386584 sda > >8 1 488375968 sda1 > > - > > > try mounting /dev/sda1 > > - Noven > -- > >-- Novensiles divi Flamen --< > > Miles Militis Fons < --- Mon Nov 06 22:21:41 ~ root $ mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/500G/ mount: you must specify the filesystem type Mon Nov 06 23:45:07 ~ root $ mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/500G/ -t vfat mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist Good thought however. Thank you. A -- On The Fly Photography -:- Creation From Chaos On The Fly Photography: http://204EastSouth.com Purchase from On The Fly: http://204EastSouth.com/OTFStore.htm The Cynical Libertarian Society: http://www.204EastSouth.com/cls -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound
Sorry for the late reply...I've been away for a couple of days. On 11/4/06, Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: `/var/tmp/portage/vmware-dsp-1.3/work/vmwaredsp-1.3/src/32' cc -c -W -Wall -O2 -fPIC -o vmdsp.o ../vmdsp.c cc -shared -Wl,-version-script=../vmdsp.map -o libvmdsp.so vmdsp.o -lpthread -ldl -lc /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: libvmdsp.so: undefined versioned symbol name [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [libvmdsp.so] Error 1 rm vmdsp.o make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/vmware-dsp-1.3/work/vmwaredsp-1.3/src/32' Hmm, looks like building this is broken on AMD64 arches...too bad. testing ~ # ldd /usr/lib/libvmdsp.so ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for `/usr/lib/libvmdsp.so' libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x2b944790f000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x2b9447a25000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x2b9447b29000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x4000) Ah, libvmdsp.so is a 64-bit library. I am pretty sure that vmware is still distributed as a 32-bit application, so yeah, preloading 64-bit libraries won't work. Try changing the vmwarearts script to preload the library from /usr/lib32 instead of /usr/lib. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X crashes randomly
Hi, I would try without any of these: > Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true" > Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true" > Section "Extensions" > Option "Composite" "true" > EndSection You say that you are not running packages in ~arch and I must believe so, but that config seems to similar to this of people running nvidia beta drivers and beryl or something like that. Anyway, this > Backtrace: > 0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x71) [0x480171] > 1: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x2b31e4b055d0] > 2: /usr/bin/X [0x50e7ec] > 3: /usr/bin/X [0x50eb53] > 4: /usr/bin/X [0x50acea] > 5: /usr/bin/X [0x500916] > 6: /usr/bin/X(Dispatch+0x1b9) [0x448249] > 7: /usr/bin/X(main+0x44d) [0x43103d] > 8: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x2b31e4af3134] > 9: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xa1) [0x430339] Does not seem glx or nvidia related at all, but still try without composite, in case it help. You config seems sane, indeed. Jesús. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB mass storage - WD My Book
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 12:22, Adrian wrote: > > Mon Nov 06 22:18:38 > ~ > root $ mount /dev/sda /mnt/500G/ > mount: you must specify the filesystem type > > Mon Nov 06 22:20:39 > ~ > root $ mount /dev/sda /mnt/500G/ -t vfat > mount: special device /dev/sda does not exist > >8 0 488386584 sda >8 1 488375968 sda1 > - > try mounting /dev/sda1 - Noven -- >-- Novensiles divi Flamen --< > Miles Militis Fons < pgpNsZnTeZPAo.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] USB mass storage - WD My Book
Greetings. Wondering if anyone can help me out on this. I got a Western Digital My Book, 500G -- and it's not happy with my main computer. I tried it on a Windows system and my other computer, running 2.6.17-r8, and it's happy there. So the drive is working. However on this box, running 2.6.12-r6 I get the messages below from dmesg. I should mention that I can not mount the drive on the 2.6.12 box, but it mounts fine on the 2.6.17 system. The error messages start shorty (a minute or so) after plugging the device in and doing nothing else. If I try to mount it: Mon Nov 06 22:18:38 ~ root $ mount /dev/sda /mnt/500G/ mount: you must specify the filesystem type Mon Nov 06 22:20:39 ~ root $ mount /dev/sda /mnt/500G/ -t vfat mount: special device /dev/sda does not exist --- root $ cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 3 0 120060864 hda 3 1 13671976 hda1 3 2 13672008 hda2 3 3 13672008 hda3 3 4 1 hda4 3 5 13671976 hda5 3 6 976720 hda6 3 7 64396048 hda7 33 0 293057352 hde 33 1 489951 hde1 33 2 1 hde2 33 5 979933 hde5 33 65855661 hde6 33 7 11719386 hde7 33 87815591 hde8 33 9 266188986 hde9 34 0 160086528 hdg 34 1 160079661 hdg1 8 0 488386584 sda 8 1 488375968 sda1 - I mention kernel versions as that is my first guess about the problem. I'm currently compiling 2.6.17-r8 for this box to see if that makes any difference. I might be barking up the wrong tree however. I've also done a bit of googleing for that error message, nothing helpful there. This computer works fine with 2G and 6G usb memory sticks, also works fine with my ipod, and I've used a digital camera -- thus I know that usb works in general. As always, any assistance is greatly appreciated. Adrian error message -- usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 24 scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 24 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: WDModel: 5000YS External Rev: 101a Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04 SCSI device sda: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda1 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi7, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 usb 1-6: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 24 usb 1-6: device descriptor read/64, error -110 usb 1-6: device descriptor read/64, error -110 usb 1-6: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 24 usb 1-6: device descriptor read/64, error -110 usb 1-6: device descriptor read/64, error -110 usb 1-6: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 24 usb 1-6: device descriptor read/8, error -110 usb 1-6: device descriptor read/8, error -110 usb 1-6: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 24 usb 1-6: device descriptor read/8, error -110 usb 1-6: device descriptor read/8, error -110 scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 7 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device printk: 522 messages suppressed. Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 976751744 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 976751745 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 976751746 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 976751747 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 976751748 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 976751749 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 976751750 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 976751751 usb 1-6: USB disconnect, address 24 scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 976751744 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 976751745 scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi7 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi7 (
Re: [gentoo-user] X crashes randomly
try a revdep-rebuilt. A lot of such crashs are caused by some changed dependencies. (oh, and you can remove the BusID line from your xorg.conf. It won't make your problem go away, but you don't need it too. Or do you have several cards installed?). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] X crashes randomly
Hello, Starting today, X has been acting a little strange for me. I'll be doing nothing to spectacularer in kde, like typing in openoffice or something else like that, and all of the sudden, X restarts and I am faced with kdm. I don't know if this is a problem with something in kde, kdm, or X, so I don't know where to file a bug. I haven't really seen anything related to what I am dealing with in those places so far. Here's a little summary of my system Arch: amd64 I'm not using any packages marked ~. My /etc/make.conf: # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built$ # Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" MAKEOPTS="-j2" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ f$ SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X mozilla nsplugin ieee1394 alsa arts crypt kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvi$ VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" --- /etc/X11/xorg.conf:(using xorg-x11 7.1) --- Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/" EndSection Section "Module" Load "extmod" Load "dbe" Load "record" Load "xtrap" #Load "dri" Load "glx" Load "freetype" Load "type1" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection Section "Monitor" #DisplaySize 280 210 # mm Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "SAM" ModelName"1d73" ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: HorizSync30.0 - 54.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 120.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: : integer, : float, : "True"/"False", ### : "String", : " Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "SWcursor" # [] #Option "HWcursor" # [] #Option "NoAccel" # [] #Option "ShadowFB" # [] #Option "UseFBDev" # [] #Option "Rotate" # [] #Option "VideoKey" # #Option "FlatPanel"# [] #Option "FPDither" # [] #Option "CrtcNumber" # #Option "FPScale" # [] #Option "FPTweak" # Identifier "Card0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "C51PV [GeForce 6150]" BusID "PCI:0:5:0" Option "RenderAccel" "true" Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true" EndSection #Section "Device" # Identifier "nVidia Inc. GeForce6" # Driver "nvidia" # VideoRam65536 #Option "RenderAccel" "true" #EndSection Section "Screen" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor"Monitor0" # SubSection "Display" # Viewport 0 0 # Depth 1 # EndSubSection # SubSection "Display" # Viewport 0 0 # Depth 4 # EndSubSection # SubSection "Display" # Viewport 0 0 # Depth 8 # EndSubSection # SubSection "Display" # Viewport 0 0 # Depth 15 # EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "true" EndSection -- a
[gentoo-user] Re: sanba mount on host machine
"James Ausmus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Rephrasing the question: Will it work to mount a hosts (gentoo host) >> native onboard drives as cifs mounts only. These drives would all be >> formatted NTFS > > In short - no. > > Samba/CIFS are *network* filesystems - you can't "format a partition > with a Samba or CIFS filesystem", and you can't mount a local drive as > Samba or CIFS - it is not a physical filesystem, but a protocol to > access a share *over a network*. > > All you need to do is format these drives with the filesystem of your > choice (I personally like ReiserFS, I've heard some people say that OK, I seem to have been tying myself in unnecessary knots (not an unknown state for me). I seem to recall somewhere having seen something that made me think there was some problem inherent in moving large files from one of the linux formats (I use Reiserfs on all but /boot and have for a good while) onto NTFS or vice versa. I wasn't sure it would be as transparent as you say. Is this just a myth I've picked up somewhere? I guess it would not be that hard to test out. I'm thinking to test a format conversion from CanopusDV.avi to mpeg2 streams like one uses for DVD authoring, putting the source *.avi of some 15gb on my gentoo box on an reiserfs partition. Then from the windows XP where the conversion application resides find the source file and give the destination of the mpeg files onto one of the NTFS partitions on the win box. Time that run then do it with two windows XP boxes with source on one and conversion tools on the other. time that run and compare. Not scientific for sure but should give some fairly good comparison. All boxes have gigabit interconnectivity. If its not to far apart I'll say I was hoodwinked about there being a problem. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT]Real compute cycles in a laptop?
Hi, I'm in the market for a new laptop. I sold mine about a year ago and it's time to get a new one. I will run both Linux and Win XP on the machine. The Linux workload will not be anything substantial but when in Win XP I have a program that I'll be running that is very compute bound on my only XP desktop machine. Does anyone know of good comparative data on BogoMIPs in Linux vs. real compute speed for different processors? I'm looking for some way to compare different processors in the laptops I'm looking at vs. my current XP desktop which is my slowest machine. The application under Windows is doing neural network stuff. I have no idea how much of it is floating point based but my assumption is that is a pretty big part of the whole picture. Is the AMD FPU still superior to the Intel FPU or are they at parity these days? The current machine has 768MB. The application never uses more than 256MB and there is no significant disk I/O but the processor sits at 100% in XP for hours doing it's work optimizing the neural network. Thanks in advance for any pointers. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] X server runs out of file descriptors
My X server (xorg-server-1.1.1-r1; USE flags below) churns through file descriptors at the rate of ~15/hour (on AMD64). Eventually, it reaches the 255 open file limit and I can no longer open any new windows. A snippet from "ls -l /proc//fd": lrwx-- 1 root root 64 Nov 6 18:41 126 -> socket:[1408395] lrwx-- 1 root root 64 Nov 6 18:41 127 -> socket:[1408397] lrwx-- 1 root root 64 Nov 6 18:41 128 -> socket:[1408400] A snippet from "lsof -c X": X 14872 root 126u unix 0x81002ed46b80 1408395 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 X 14872 root 127u unix 0x81002ed47680 1408397 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 X 14872 root 128u unix 0x81002ed47100 1408400 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 This is new (a few days old) behavior. Any ideas on how I should go about figuring out why this is happening? Thanks. Vladimir -3dfx -aiglx -debug -dmx dri -input_devices_acecad -input_devices_aiptek -input_devices_calcomp -input_devices_citron -input_devices_digitaledge -input_devices_dmc -input_devices_dynapro -input_devices_elo2300 -input_devices_elographics input_devices_evdev -input_devices_fpit -input_devices_hyperpen -input_devices_jamstudio -input_devices_joystick input_devices_keyboard -input_devices_magellan -input_devices_microtouch input_devices_mouse -input_devices_mutouch -input_devices_palmax -input_devices_penmount -input_devices_spaceorb -input_devices_summa -input_devices_synaptics -input_devices_tek4957 -input_devices_ur98 -input_devices_vmmouse -input_devices_void -input_devices_wacom ipv6 -kdrive -minimal nptl sdl video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus video_cards_cyrix video_cards_dummy -video_cards_epson video_cards_fbdev -video_cards_fglrx video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 -video_cards_i740 video_cards_i810 -video_cards_impact -video_cards_imstt -video_cards_mach64 video_cards_mga video_cards_neomagic -video_cards_newport -video_cards_nsc video_cards_nv -video_cards_nvidia -video_cards_r128 -video_cards_radeon video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb -video_cards_sunbw2 -video_cards_suncg14 -video_cards_suncg3 -video_cards_suncg6 -video_cards_sunffb -video_cards_sunleo -video_cards_suntcx video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo xorg xprint -- Vladimir G. Ivanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8
On Monday 06 November 2006 12:53, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: > > >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/kbd-1.12-r8/work/kbd-1.12 ... > > > > Configuring for PREFIX=/usr > > Configuring for DATADIR=/usr/share > > Configuring for MANDIR=/usr/share/man > > checking for gcc > > ./configure: 151: Syntax error: Bad substitution > > > > !!! ERROR: sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8 failed. > > Call stack: > > ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_compile > > ebuild.sh, line 937: Called src_compile > > kbd-1.12-r8.ebuild, line 93: Called die > > > > !!! (no error message) > > !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call > > stack if relevant. I don't. I suppose the output of this should give a hint: # ebuild `portageq portdir`/sys-apps/kbd/kbd-1.12-r8.ebuild clean unpack | grep "Unpacking kbd.* to" >>> Unpacking kbd-1.12.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8/work (note that this path differs depending on your version of portage) # cd /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8/work # sed -i -e '141 aset -x\n' -e '152 aset +x\n' kbd-1.12/configure # ebuild `portageq portdir`/sys-apps/kbd/kbd-1.12-r8.ebuild compile Also might be a good idea to post the output of: # emerge --info -- Bo Andresen pgpvzmCP3GQYC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Determine kernel release of non-running kernel
Thanks, Sergio, that worked like a charm. The string I wanted wasn't actually in the first 20 lines so a 'strings /tmp/vmlinuz | grep 2.6' worked better.Audrey, I wanted information about a kernel that was built by somebody else on another machine, so I don't have access to the applicable /lib/modules TimOn 11/6/06, Andrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 06 November 2006 23:50, Tim Garton wrote:> Anyone know how to determine the kernel release of a non-running kernel?> Like 'uname -r' but point it at a kernel file?I didn't understand the problem... What about: ls /lib/modules/ ?--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Determine kernel release of non-running kernel
On AD 2006 November 07 Tuesday 12:59:03 AM +0100, Sergio Polini wrote: > Tim Garton: > > Anyone know how to determine the kernel release of a non-running > > kernel? Like 'uname -r' but point it at a kernel file? > > $ strings | head -20 $ strings /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18 | grep "2\.6\.[0-9]\+" Justin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Determine kernel release of non-running kernel
On Monday 06 November 2006 23:50, Tim Garton wrote: > Anyone know how to determine the kernel release of a non-running kernel? > Like 'uname -r' but point it at a kernel file? I didn't understand the problem... What about: ls /lib/modules/ ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Determine kernel release of non-running kernel
Tim Garton: > Anyone know how to determine the kernel release of a non-running > kernel? Like 'uname -r' but point it at a kernel file? $ strings | head -20 ;-) ... but I don't know how to automate that. HTH Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Determine kernel release of non-running kernel
Anyone know how to determine the kernel release of a non-running kernel? Like 'uname -r' but point it at a kernel file?Tim
Re: [gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare
On Monday 06 November 2006 23:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 20:23:49 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > > It's still not mentioned in /etc/make.conf.example :( > > > > It's in `man make.conf`. > > I know. > > > The example was never intended to be complete. > > Still surprising though, when much newer features are documented in the > example file. Personally I don't think these features are important enough that they should be in the example rather than just the man page, but I'm not a portage dev so my opinion doesn't really matter. If you think it should be in the example then I suggest you file a bug about it. It may be marked WONTFIX but then again maybe it'll be fixed. I guess we won't know unless someone requests it... :) -- Bo Andresen pgpdEhyeeOmLo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 20:23:49 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > It's still not mentioned in /etc/make.conf.example :( > > It's in `man make.conf`. I know. > The example was never intended to be complete. Still surprising though, when much newer features are documented in the example file. -- Neil Bothwick Error reading FAT record: Try the SKINNY one? (Y/N) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newbie stuck at starting gate
On 11/6/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This may be because you have not configured the firewall of your VNC server machine and, or you have not set up port forwarding on your router (if you connect to the Internet via a router). This is covered in the FAQs. If you are going to allow connections on your WinXP firewall, it is safer that you limit these to the IP address(es) of the machine on which the VNC viewer is running. On Sunday 05 November 2006 19:59, Heather Howey wrote: > Hello listmates, > > Have downloaded the free viewer to my friend's machine, installed the > server program on my home computer, but cannot, from my friend's machine, > connect. > > Following the instructions on how to find the IP address of the server > machine, I got two. According to my ISP, one of them is static and one is > dynamic. But they won't tell me which is which. So, how can I know which > one to use in the VNC Viewer's dialog box to connect? > > Well, maybe that's not so important, because I've tried using both IP > numbers and neither one works. > > I just get error message "unable to connect to host. Connection refused > (10061)" > > Anyone out there who can see what I'm doing wrong? > > Grateful for tips, > > Heather Looks like you got the wrong list, and please don't top post. -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. --Bill Watterson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound
Hans-Werner Hilse: > On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 12:55:58 +0100 Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Since vmware-dsp (which is ~amd64) doesn't compile, I have: > > - emerged alsa-oss > > - chmod +s /usr/lib/libaoss.so.* > > ^^^ > Why did you do that? I did that because, as far as I have understood, I had to ;-) > Try setting it back and then use LD_PRELOAD. Done. Sound still not working, unless I run aoss vmware (or aoss wmplayer) as root. > Your normal user account can't possibly change to another user > (probably root in this case for /usr/lib/libaoss.*...). I suspect that there is a glibc "problem": http://www.vmware.com/community/message.jspa?messageID=26228 Look at the posts by... Richard Fish ;-) Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Newbie stuck at starting gate
This may be because you have not configured the firewall of your VNC server machine and, or you have not set up port forwarding on your router (if you connect to the Internet via a router). This is covered in the FAQs. If you are going to allow connections on your WinXP firewall, it is safer that you limit these to the IP address(es) of the machine on which the VNC viewer is running. On Sunday 05 November 2006 19:59, Heather Howey wrote: > Hello listmates, > > Have downloaded the free viewer to my friend's machine, installed the > server program on my home computer, but cannot, from my friend's machine, > connect. > > Following the instructions on how to find the IP address of the server > machine, I got two. According to my ISP, one of them is static and one is > dynamic. But they won't tell me which is which. So, how can I know which > one to use in the VNC Viewer's dialog box to connect? > > Well, maybe that's not so important, because I've tried using both IP > numbers and neither one works. > > I just get error message "unable to connect to host. Connection refused > (10061)" > > Anyone out there who can see what I'm doing wrong? > > Grateful for tips, > > Heather > ___ > VNC-List mailing list > VNC-List@realvnc.com > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list -- Regards, Mick pgp3udjJ4aqCS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp-client doesn't start
On Monday 06 November 2006 19:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > John Blinka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have a very old Dell P150ST laptop that I try to maintain Gentoo on. > > Every time I boot it, > > it complains "ERROR: cannot start ntp-client as net.eth0 could not be > > started". > > One way that will probably work is to start ntp-client from > /etc/conf.d/local-start > > local-start is the very last thing called during a bootup so if timing > is the problem this would be a way to skirt around it. > > Just put whatever commands start ntp-client in /etc/conf.d/local-start > and see if it works. Actually I have this in /etc/conf.d/net: postup() { [...] /etc/init.d/ntp-client start >> /var/log/net.log return 0 } postdown() { [...] /etc/init.d/ntp-client stop >> /var/log/net.log return 0 } -- Bo Andresen pgpXbVz3m1nOQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp-client doesn't start
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One way that will probably work is to start ntp-client from > /etc/conf.d/local-start > > local-start is the very last thing called during a bootup so if timing > is the problem this would be a way to skirt around it. > > Just put whatever commands start ntp-client in /etc/conf.d/local-start > and see if it works. > > Same idea occurred to me. It does work. John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sanba mount on host machine
On 11/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:47:12 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Is this possible withou really negative impact of some sort. > If this is a question (please clarify a bit, and use question marks > when appropriate!): Of course it has a negative impact -- opposed to > built-in storage, which should be faster than network based storage :-) I guess it was phrased awkwardly, but did you not see the rest of the post? <== (Posted here again for clarity) Install as many HDD as mobo allows maybe adding a few more with pci controllsers. (all sata if possible) Install Gentoo as host OS on a smallish partition or drive. Mount all remaining drives as CIFS mounts accessable from samba or smb from host or windowsXP clients. All this over gigabit ethernet. > But if you have Windows clients, that's almost the only option you > have. Well, you could go with WebDAV, but I wouldn't recommend that, > it's most probably not nearly as stable as Samba. > Even for Linux/Unix clients (given they have proper CIFS/SMB support) > Samba is a capable option for a networked file system. Rephrasing the question: Will it work to mount a hosts (gentoo host) native onboard drives as cifs mounts only. These drives would all be formatted NTFS In short - no. Samba/CIFS are *network* filesystems - you can't "format a partition with a Samba or CIFS filesystem", and you can't mount a local drive as Samba or CIFS - it is not a physical filesystem, but a protocol to access a share *over a network*. All you need to do is format these drives with the filesystem of your choice (I personally like ReiserFS, I've heard some people say that XFS is better/faster for really big files, or, if you don't want/need journaling, maybe just ext2?), then setup Samba to share those drives over the network to the other computers that need to access them. The magic of Samba/CIFS is that the other computer have absolutely *No Clue* what the *underlying* filesystem on the physical drive is - they don't care, and they don't need to care, as the Samba server on the Gentoo side takes care of all of that. The filesystem on the client side (the Windows box - NTFS) won't make any difference whatsoever when transferring files to the Samba share, as Samba is Samba is Samba - no matter the underlying physical filesystem that the Samba share is "from". HTH- James (unless someone can tell me there is a linux format that will be as fast when dealing with huge video files. And will not introduce some problem when trnaferring between NTFS on a client and whatever format on the gentoo box) I don't want to dink around with mounting as NTFS because of poor or non existent or illegal linux support for NTFS. The gentoo host would have its own partition or drive and would serve as a NAS for the other NTFS drives. So once again the question is can gentoo have its native drives (not the OS drive) formatted as NTFS and mounted only as cifs mounts on the same machine? > OTOH, there's Windows SFU, which you can use to mount NFS shares, but I > heard it's a pain in the *** to set it up. You heard right. I've done it but it took a while and far as I know there is some inherent bottleneck with NFS moving huge files anyway. (That is hearsay since I did not try it when I had that setup. I didn't have the need to move huge files then) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: ntp-client doesn't start
John Blinka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a very old Dell P150ST laptop that I try to maintain Gentoo on. > Every time I boot it, > it complains "ERROR: cannot start ntp-client as net.eth0 could not be > started". One way that will probably work is to start ntp-client from /etc/conf.d/local-start local-start is the very last thing called during a bootup so if timing is the problem this would be a way to skirt around it. Just put whatever commands start ntp-client in /etc/conf.d/local-start and see if it works. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare
On Monday 06 November 2006 19:53, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 18:20:10 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > > Or use FEATURES="nodoc noman noinfo", provided you are using a recent > > > enough portage, I'm unsure of when this was introduced. > > > > It's was introduced before portage-2.0.50. :) > > OK, so "recent enough" >= "2.0.50" :) > > It's still not mentioned in /etc/make.conf.example :( It's in `man make.conf`. The example was never intended to be complete. -- Bo Andresen pgpMYrckYUbtd.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: sanba mount on host machine
Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:47:12 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Is this possible withou really negative impact of some sort. > If this is a question (please clarify a bit, and use question marks > when appropriate!): Of course it has a negative impact -- opposed to > built-in storage, which should be faster than network based storage :-) I guess it was phrased awkwardly, but did you not see the rest of the post? <== (Posted here again for clarity) Install as many HDD as mobo allows maybe adding a few more with pci controllsers. (all sata if possible) Install Gentoo as host OS on a smallish partition or drive. Mount all remaining drives as CIFS mounts accessable from samba or smb from host or windowsXP clients. All this over gigabit ethernet. > But if you have Windows clients, that's almost the only option you > have. Well, you could go with WebDAV, but I wouldn't recommend that, > it's most probably not nearly as stable as Samba. > Even for Linux/Unix clients (given they have proper CIFS/SMB support) > Samba is a capable option for a networked file system. Rephrasing the question: Will it work to mount a hosts (gentoo host) native onboard drives as cifs mounts only. These drives would all be formatted NTFS (unless someone can tell me there is a linux format that will be as fast when dealing with huge video files. And will not introduce some problem when trnaferring between NTFS on a client and whatever format on the gentoo box) I don't want to dink around with mounting as NTFS because of poor or non existent or illegal linux support for NTFS. The gentoo host would have its own partition or drive and would serve as a NAS for the other NTFS drives. So once again the question is can gentoo have its native drives (not the OS drive) formatted as NTFS and mounted only as cifs mounts on the same machine? > OTOH, there's Windows SFU, which you can use to mount NFS shares, but I > heard it's a pain in the *** to set it up. You heard right. I've done it but it took a while and far as I know there is some inherent bottleneck with NFS moving huge files anyway. (That is hearsay since I did not try it when I had that setup. I didn't have the need to move huge files then) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: sanba mount on host machine
Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:47:12 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is this possible withou really negative impact of some sort. > > If this is a question (please clarify a bit, and use question marks > when appropriate!): Of course it has a negative impact -- opposed to > built-in storage, which should be faster than network based storage :-) Did you not see the rest of the post? (Reposted below) Is this possible withou[t] really negative impact of some sort:[colon added] Install as many HDD as mobo allows maybe adding a few more with pci controllsers. (all sata if possible) Install Gentoo as host OS on a smallish partition or drive. Mount all remaining drives as CIFS mounts accessable from samba or smb from host or windowsXP clients. All this over gigabit ethernet. > But if you have Windows clients, that's almost the only option you > have. Well, you could go with WebDAV, but I wouldn't recommend that, > it's most probably not nearly as stable as Samba. No, that isn't true. If you mean mounting the hosts HDD as cifs mounts. Windows machines have no trouble accessing host gentoo drives with no special setup other than samba running. > Even for Linux/Unix clients (given they have proper CIFS/SMB support) > Samba is a capable option for a networked file system. It is clear enough that samba and cifs is required to network with windows machines... that I know going in. The question once again was, can one install a working gentoo OS on a machine and then mount some number of the machines on board HDD as cifs mounts to be accessed with samba internally by the host OS as well as thru smb from any networked computers? What I want here is to know if the host OS can be made to see its own native drives as cifs mounted shares. The drives would be formatted NTFS and would be the basis of a home built NAS [Network Attached Storage]. I want them all NTFS to feed a space hungry Event Videography business. I don't want to dink around with mounting as NTFS on linux since it really isn't yet supported, but want to access these drives solely thru samba. > OTOH, there's Windows SFU, which you can use to mount NFS shares, but I > heard it's a pain in the *** to set it up. You heard right. It does work once you understand the setup but then far as I know NFS has some inherent bottleneck to moving large files anyway. (That is hearsay... not from experience.. I had no really large files to move back when I had Windows SFU set up nor was I concerned with that) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 18:20:10 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > Or use FEATURES="nodoc noman noinfo", provided you are using a recent > > enough portage, I'm unsure of when this was introduced. > > It's was introduced before portage-2.0.50. :) OK, so "recent enough" >= "2.0.50" :) It's still not mentioned in /etc/make.conf.example :( -- Neil Bothwick .<-Stealth Tagline signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: OT - Where are the modules (WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Win4Lin)
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 12:08 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I went to www.netraverse.com and found out that the newest patch for > Win4Lin for SMP kernels is 2.6.11. I have to tell you that no kernel > I've ever built myself (as in without genkernel) has booted. I > downloaded 2.6.11 kernel source from www.kernel.org , and it seems to > have built correctly. I followed the following steps: > > cd /usr/src > tar xvfj /home/michael/linux-2.6.11.12.tar.bz2 > rm linux; ln -s linux-2.6.11.12 linux > cd linux > make mrproper > make menuconfig > make bzImage > make modules # make modules_install is what you need [1] [1]: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the NIC name
Hi, Am Montag, 6. November 2006 15:09 schrieb Timothy A. Holmes: > Hi folks > I have a snort server that I am building that has 2 nics in it > One is a 10/100 realtec > The other is a 10/100/1000 Intel Pro1000 > As the machine built, the realtech is eth0 and the intel is eth1 > I would like to reverse those two names, so that snort can use the > higher capacity card for its sniffer. I am not quite sure where to look > even to begin this process. "nameif" does this. # equery b nameif [ Searching for file(s) nameif in *... ] sys-apps/net-tools-1.60-r12 (/sbin/nameif) # nameif Hth, Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: OT - Where are the modules (WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Win4Lin)
On Monday 06 November 2006 19:08, Michael Sullivan wrote: > cd /usr/src > tar xvfj /home/michael/linux-2.6.11.12.tar.bz2 > rm linux; ln -s linux-2.6.11.12 linux > cd linux > make mrproper > make menuconfig > make bzImage > make modules The steps you're following look like *some* of the steps for compiling a 2.4 kernel. Perhaps you should read these: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=7 -- Bo Andresen pgpKclt0C58ho.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: KDE eating ram
Luigi Pinna sailorferris.com> writes: > If I stay logged enough time, the X process uses all my ram and swap > until killing all x-dependency process and locking keyboard (a reboot > via graphical interface is not possible too). man vmstat hth, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
OT - Where are the modules (WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Win4Lin)
I went to www.netraverse.com and found out that the newest patch for Win4Lin for SMP kernels is 2.6.11. I have to tell you that no kernel I've ever built myself (as in without genkernel) has booted. I downloaded 2.6.11 kernel source from www.kernel.org , and it seems to have built correctly. I followed the following steps: cd /usr/src tar xvfj /home/michael/linux-2.6.11.12.tar.bz2 rm linux; ln -s linux-2.6.11.12 linux cd linux make mrproper make menuconfig make bzImage make modules I didn't apply the patch because I wanted to see if I could get the vanilla kernel to work before altering it. Everything seemed to build correctly. As I've had many many problems with trying to boot kernels without an initrd (on top of the fact that no manually-built kernel has worked), I emerged mkinitrd. WWhen I tried to use it, it gave me an error saying that /lib/modules/linux-2.6.11.12 is not a directory. An ls showed me that it didn't exist in any form. My question is where are the modules that were built? Can I just move the modules over (once I find them), or do I need to create some type of subdirectory structure? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the NIC name
Timothy A. Holmes wrote: >> On Monday 06 November 2006 21:59, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: >> >> I would like to reverse those two names, so that snort >> can use the >> higher capacity card for its sniffer. I am not quite >> sure where to >> look even to begin this process. >>> You can give arbitrary names to those interfaces by configuring udev >>> appropriately: >>> >>> e.g. /etc/udev/rules.d/10-my-own-rules: >>> ---snip >>> KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:12:34:fe:dc:ba", NAME="eth-lan" >>> KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:56:78:98:76:54", >>> >> NAME="eth-sniff" >> >>> ---snip >>> >> You could also just tell Snort to use eth1. But this is useful info. >> >> - Noven >> -- >> >>> -- Novensiles divi Flamen --< >>> Miles Militis Fons < >>> >> > > Ive been trying to do that - I can do it from command line, but not from > init script which is why im trying to change the names around > > Timothy A. Holmes > IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher > Medina Christian Academy > A Higher Standard... > > > Another approach: When linux loads the modules it assigns the names by the order of loading. If the module for the Intel NIC is loaded first it becomes eth0, the next NIC whose module is loaded becomes eth1 and so on. If you have your drivers built into the kernel then the names are related to the PCI slots - the NIC connected to the PCI with lowest number become eth0 and so on. So you could change their places on the main board. HTH -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT Good DNS registrar?
James wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for a good DNS registrar, where I provide my own primary > and secondary service. Maybe one that will provide some secondary > service. I did find this list, but most seem to be just selling > DNS bundled with indigenous web hosting: > > http://www.icann.org/registrars/accredited-list.html > > Anyother possiblitiy (if anyone on this list is interested, is to > swap secondary DNS services with somebody else, preferable in the > usa, as that is where ~90% of my traffic will originate/terminate. > My traffic is very low volume. > > > Any ideas or recommendations? > > > James > > > > > Well, I would not propose registrar(s) because it may sound as an advertisement. I've never heard about a free registrar. AFAIK all of them are commercial. However if we talk about a free service provider I hope it won't be a problem, so I would propose you to try the DNS service provided by http://www.everydns.net/ . It is free and if you don't like it you could just replace it with another one which would serve you better. If you also need reverse resolving then you have to ask your ISP to put your domain name in their DNS. HTH P.S. I have no connection nor relation with "EveryDNS.net" other than I'm using their free DNS service and I'm pleased with it. -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Win4Lin
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:- app-emulation/win4lin-5.1.1 (masked by: package.mask)# J. Alberto Suárez López <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > (13 Oct 2006)# Masked pending removal for 13 Nov 2006.# netraverse don't support gentoo more, and users can# use the w4l installer.On 11/5/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anybody know what happened to Win4Lin in portage? The packageitself seems to be masked, and sys-kernel/win4lin-sources is completelygone...--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Jason Weisberger[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [gentoo-user] Stability Testing of a new server
On Monday 06 November 2006 23:35, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > > I think running the build in a testing environment first is > > your best bet. > > > > -Mike > > Mike: > > I agree and in essence this is what I have done, the system is built and > sitting there, what I need to know is how to test the system in that > environment to make sure its gonna work properly > If you want to be really thorough set it up (as you have done) and then try to use it for the intended purpose. Sit down and go through every step taken in an average day or user session. Intentionally do things wrong to see how it handles it. Then rope a few students in to sit down and use it for an average session - users have a habit of breaking simple things that work the admin ;) If you want to stress test it run a few compiles or similar that will take lots of cpu time. On top of that check out http://www.opensourcetesting.org/ - Noven -- >-- Novensiles divi Flamen --< > Miles Militis Fons < pgpp4bkH6epFh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare
On Monday 06 November 2006 14:27, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 13:50:35 +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > If you want to strip down documentation, > > locales and stuff, have a look at the scripting facilities of portage: > > e.g. put this into /etc/portage/bashrc (on the "master" chroot, if you > > go with a buildhost): > > ---snip > > post_src_install() { > > rm -rf image/usr/share/man > > rm -rf image/usr/share/doc > > } > > Or use FEATURES="nodoc noman noinfo", provided you are using a recent > enough portage, I'm unsure of when this was introduced. It's was introduced before portage-2.0.50. :) http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-src/portage/bin/ebuild.sh?r1=1.145&r2=1.146 -- Bo Andresen pgp7zgkO6h1Iw.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: [gentoo-user] Stability Testing of a new server
> On 11/6/06, Timothy A. Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I just finished building a new server running Gentoo. > Before I begin > > the application installs and start preparing it for production, id > > like to test it a bit to see if its stable, I don't really > know how I > > would do this, or if its even possible. The build is a little > > unusual, in that it's a stage4 dropped on a machine that is > running LVM2. > > I think running the build in a testing environment first is > your best bet. > > -Mike > Mike: I agree and in essence this is what I have done, the system is built and sitting there, what I need to know is how to test the system in that environment to make sure its gonna work properly Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Changing the NIC name
> On Monday 06 November 2006 21:59, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > > > I would like to reverse those two names, so that snort > can use the > > > higher capacity card for its sniffer. I am not quite > sure where to > > > look even to begin this process. > > > > You can give arbitrary names to those interfaces by configuring udev > > appropriately: > > > > e.g. /etc/udev/rules.d/10-my-own-rules: > > ---snip > > KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:12:34:fe:dc:ba", NAME="eth-lan" > > KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:56:78:98:76:54", > NAME="eth-sniff" > > ---snip > > You could also just tell Snort to use eth1. But this is useful info. > > - Noven > -- > >-- Novensiles divi Flamen --< > > Miles Militis Fons < > > Ive been trying to do that - I can do it from command line, but not from init script which is why im trying to change the names around Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete plugins dissapeared
On Monday 06 November 2006 23:22, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: > >On Monday 06 November 2006 22:33, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > >>I recently emerged modular kde, and along with the coming of kopete > >>0.12.3 all the plugins dissapeared except for the Cryptography plugin, > >>does anyone now something about this? should i just re emerge it? > >> > >>Thanks in advance! > >> > >>Rafael > > > >You'll have to enable the ones you want via USE flags. > > One flag per each plugin? I am mainly interested in the history plugin > do you know which flag i need? where i can find a list of kopete flags? > > Thanks for your reply emerge -pv kde-base/kopete The history plugin is enabled with the 'history' USE flag. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete plugins dissapeared
On Monday 06 November 2006 18:22, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > One flag per each plugin? I am mainly interested in the history > plugin do you know which flag i need? where i can find a list of > kopete flags? > > Thanks for your reply emerge -pv1 kopete ;-) -- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net pgpLBqICDGN14.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete plugins dissapeared
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: On Monday 06 November 2006 22:33, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: I recently emerged modular kde, and along with the coming of kopete 0.12.3 all the plugins dissapeared except for the Cryptography plugin, does anyone now something about this? should i just re emerge it? Thanks in advance! Rafael You'll have to enable the ones you want via USE flags. One flag per each plugin? I am mainly interested in the history plugin do you know which flag i need? where i can find a list of kopete flags? Thanks for your reply -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete plugins dissapeared
On Monday 06 November 2006 22:33, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > I recently emerged modular kde, and along with the coming of kopete > 0.12.3 all the plugins dissapeared except for the Cryptography plugin, > does anyone now something about this? should i just re emerge it? > > Thanks in advance! > > Rafael You'll have to enable the ones you want via USE flags. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the NIC name
On Monday 06 November 2006 21:59, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > I would like to reverse those two names, so that snort can use the > > higher capacity card for its sniffer. I am not quite sure where to > > look even to begin this process. > > You can give arbitrary names to those interfaces by configuring udev > appropriately: > > e.g. /etc/udev/rules.d/10-my-own-rules: > ---snip > KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:12:34:fe:dc:ba", NAME="eth-lan" > KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:56:78:98:76:54", NAME="eth-sniff" > ---snip You could also just tell Snort to use eth1. But this is useful info. - Noven -- >-- Novensiles divi Flamen --< > Miles Militis Fons < pgpA7esC1KAQL.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Kopete plugins dissapeared
I recently emerged modular kde, and along with the coming of kopete 0.12.3 all the plugins dissapeared except for the Cryptography plugin, does anyone now something about this? should i just re emerge it? Thanks in advance! Rafael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the NIC name
Hi, On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 09:09:40 -0500 "Timothy A. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As the machine built, the realtech is eth0 and the intel is eth1 > > I would like to reverse those two names, so that snort can use the > higher capacity card for its sniffer. I am not quite sure where to > look even to begin this process. You can give arbitrary names to those interfaces by configuring udev appropriately: e.g. /etc/udev/rules.d/10-my-own-rules: ---snip KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:12:34:fe:dc:ba", NAME="eth-lan" KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:56:78:98:76:54", NAME="eth-sniff" ---snip -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT Good DNS registrar?
Hello, I'm looking for a good DNS registrar, where I provide my own primary and secondary service. Maybe one that will provide some secondary service. I did find this list, but most seem to be just selling DNS bundled with indigenous web hosting: http://www.icann.org/registrars/accredited-list.html Anyother possiblitiy (if anyone on this list is interested, is to swap secondary DNS services with somebody else, preferable in the usa, as that is where ~90% of my traffic will originate/terminate. My traffic is very low volume. Any ideas or recommendations? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Changing the NIC name
Hi folks I have a snort server that I am building that has 2 nics in it One is a 10/100 realtec The other is a 10/100/1000 Intel Pro1000 As the machine built, the realtech is eth0 and the intel is eth1 I would like to reverse those two names, so that snort can use the higher capacity card for its sniffer. I am not quite sure where to look even to begin this process. Thanks 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] Stability Testing of a new server
Hi folks: I just finished building a new server running gentoo. Before I begin the application installs and start preparing it for prodcution, id like to test it a bit to see if its stable, I don't really know how I would do this, or if its even possible. The build is a little unusual, in that it's a stage4 dropped on a machine that is running LVM2. Any insights or suggestions that you can offer would be greatly appreciated TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sanba mount on host machine
Hi, On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:47:12 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is this possible withou really negative impact of some sort. If this is a question (please clarify a bit, and use question marks when appropriate!): Of course it has a negative impact -- opposed to built-in storage, which should be faster than network based storage :-) But if you have Windows clients, that's almost the only option you have. Well, you could go with WebDAV, but I wouldn't recommend that, it's most probably not nearly as stable as Samba. Even for Linux/Unix clients (given they have proper CIFS/SMB support) Samba is a capable option for a networked file system. OTOH, there's Windows SFU, which you can use to mount NFS shares, but I heard it's a pain in the *** to set it up. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] distfiles on samba and 2.6.18
Hi, On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:09:23 +1100 Dave Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since upgrading to the 2.6.18 kernel I get this on my client machine > when trying to emerge. I have distfiles mapped to a server samba share > and this works if I boot back up into 2.6.17. Does anyone have any > ideas how to stop this happening? > [...] > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_locks.py", line 159, in > unlockfile locking_method(myfd,fcntl.LOCK_UN) > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied > Error in sys.exitfunc: Look at /etc/make.conf.example: First try cleaning the locks using /usr/lib/portage/bin/clean_locks If that doesn't work, you have more options: - specify a PORTAGE_TMPFS (albeit I'm not sure if this applies for distfiles locks, too), - remove "distlocks" FEATURE. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] WinXP under VMWare: no sound
Hi, On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 12:55:58 +0100 Sergio Polini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since vmware-dsp (which is ~amd64) doesn't compile, I have: > - emerged alsa-oss > - chmod +s /usr/lib/libaoss.so.* ^^^ Why did you do that? Try setting it back and then use LD_PRELOAD. Your normal user account can't possibly change to another user (probably root in this case for /usr/lib/libaoss.*...). > - created a script: -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Networking problems
Hi, On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 07:24:51 -0500 (GMT-05:00) Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the /etc/resolv.conf file, I have: > search belkin > nameserver 192.168.2.1 > nameserver 207.69.188.185 > nameserver 207.69.188.186 > nameserver 207.69.188.187 Given that the router runs a local DNS (caching) server, that should be alright. > route -n returns > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags > MetricRef Use Iface > 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 > 127.0.0.00.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo > 0.0.0.0 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 looks good. > Comparing this with the equivalent working connection via my Mandriva > Linux boot-up, /etc/resolv.conf is the same, but route -n returns > [...] > The main difference is that the metric column is all 0 on my > non-working install, and I'm missing the 169.254.0.0 row from route -n That doesn't matter. That 169.254.0.0 subnet is the Windows autoconfiguration range (when there's no DHCP server, but IP address gathering is set to "automatic") and the metric doesn't matter because you don't have concurrent routes. > I'm not using genkernel. Is it possible that a kernel > misconfiguration is responsible for the problems I'm having? Unlikely, because in that case DHCP wouldn't work at all. Maybe the Belkin is blocking your pings? Maybe the Belkin is misconfigured and does not have Internet access? Maybe some firewall, either on the Belkin or on your Gentoo machine (you can check by issuing "iptables -vnL")? You should also try to monitor traffic with tcpdump when issuing those test pings. BTW, you cannot ping "http://www.google.de"; since that isn't a domain name but a URL. But you probably *did* ping the domain name, didn't you? -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 13:50:35 +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > If you want to strip down documentation, > locales and stuff, have a look at the scripting facilities of portage: > e.g. put this into /etc/portage/bashrc (on the "master" chroot, if you > go with a buildhost): > ---snip > post_src_install() { > rm -rf image/usr/share/man > rm -rf image/usr/share/doc > } Or use FEATURES="nodoc noman noinfo", provided you are using a recent enough portage, I'm unsure of when this was introduced. -- Neil Bothwick Committee (noun): A group of people spending hours taking minutes signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare
Hi, On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:43:40 -0700 "Trenton Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone here played with minimalizing everything for use in vmware? No, not for that use, but for other uses, yes. But you need to specify what exactly you mean by saying "minimized". I wouldn't go the road and use LFS, as suggested here. IMHO, LFS is absolutely not the way to go when in need for security updates and stuff. Gentoo does it just fine. OTOH, you won't be able to run Tomcat with 64MB of RAM without it getting vry sluggish... My suggestion would be to setup a "master" chroot environment on some crafty machine and compile binary packages for all the software you need, then distribute them to the VMs by setting up stage3's and set PORTAGE_BINHOST appropriately. If you want to strip down documentation, locales and stuff, have a look at the scripting facilities of portage: e.g. put this into /etc/portage/bashrc (on the "master" chroot, if you go with a buildhost): ---snip post_src_install() { rm -rf image/usr/share/man rm -rf image/usr/share/doc } ---snip HTH, -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8
Does anyone else have problems like this? > # emerge -uDNav world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies... done! > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8 [1.12-r7] USE="nls" 0 kB > > Total size of downloads: 0 kB > > Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] yes > > >>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8 to / > * kbd-1.12.tar.gz MD5 ;-) > ...[ ok ] > * kbd-1.12.tar.gz RMD160 ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * kbd-1.12.tar.gz SHA1 ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * kbd-1.12.tar.gz SHA256 ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * kbd-1.12.tar.gz size ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * svorakln.tar.gz MD5 ;-) > ...[ ok ] > * svorakln.tar.gz RMD160 ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * svorakln.tar.gz SHA1 ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * svorakln.tar.gz SHA256 ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * svorakln.tar.gz size ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * checking ebuild checksums ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * checking auxfile checksums ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * checking miscfile checksums ;-) > ...[ ok ] > * checking kbd-1.12.tar.gz ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * checking svorakln.tar.gz ;-) > ... [ ok ] > >>> Unpacking source... > >>> Unpacking kbd-1.12.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/kbd-1.12-r8/work > >>> Unpacking svorakln.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/kbd-1.12-r8/work > * Applying kbd-1.08-terminal.patch > ... [ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-configure-LANG.patch > ... [ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-find-map-fix.patch > ... [ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-kbd_repeat-v2.patch > ... [ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-debian.patch > ... [ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-unimap.patch > ... [ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-cz-qwerty-map.patch > ... [ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-jp-escape.patch > ... [ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-Meta_utf8.patch > ... [ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-alias.patch > ... [ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-setfont-man.patch > ...[ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-xcompile.patch > ... [ ok ] > * Applying kbd-1.12-kbio.patch > ... [ ok ] > >>> Source unpacked. > >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/kbd-1.12-r8/work/kbd-1.12 ... > Configuring for PREFIX=/usr > Configuring for DATADIR=/usr/share > Configuring for MANDIR=/usr/share/man > checking for gcc > ./configure: 151: Syntax error: Bad substitution > > !!! ERROR: sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8 failed. > Call stack: > ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_compile > ebuild.sh, line 937: Called src_compile > kbd-1.12-r8.ebuild, line 93: Called die > > !!! (no error message) > !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call > stack if relevant. > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure remote backup
Dan Johansson wrote: > cross-site-remote-backups Erm, "Me too..." My first attempt centred on Duplicity - which, on the surface, seemed to be exactly what I wanted... but, unfortunately, it is unusably buggy... and is no longer in avtive development. My second (in-progress) attempt is with BoxBackup - which seems far more robust... and promises the benefits of a 'continuous' backup - which I now consider significant. The BoxBackup distribution instills a greater sense of confidence - but documentation remains thin... and I'm wrestling with configuring the backup daemon on a remote server (for which I do not have root access...) I'd be interested to hear other annecdotes about BoxBackup - is anyone here using it and happy with their setup? Is there a good HowTo anywhere? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ntp-client doesn't start
Roger Mason wrote: > > I may be leading you astray, but that IP address looks like one for a private > net. Is ntp-client > looking on that private net for a time-server? > It is a private net, but ntp-client is looking at pool.ntp.org for the time server. John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure remote backup
Am Samstag, 4. November 2006 13:56 schrieb ext Dan Johansson: > Me and a friend are looking into the possibility to do > cross-site-remote-backups (I'm backing up my data to a directory in his > box and he on mine). We want the connection and remote-storage to > encrypted and we do not want to open too many ports in our firewalls. Any > suggestions on how this could be accomplished? Others have already pointed you to sshfs+encfs. Another possibility would be to use encrypted network block devices (dm-crypt with LUKS on top of NBD). Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40472 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net pgpNDjCEiSw2q.pgp Description: PGP signature