Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, Linux and bank websites.
On Saturday 24 March 2007 06:03, Dale wrote: Hi, I'm hoping someone can explain this to me and maybe even offer a workaround. This may only apply to us U.S. folks. Banks and credit card company are in the process of changing the way you log into a website. It registers your computer when you sign up as a security feature. Problem is, this doesn't work with Linux and I suspect it doesn't work on a Mac either. I'm not sure, nor can I find out, what it uses to register my computer. It may be a CPU serial number or something like that. Nah, I don't think they are that sophisticated. Your link seems to work fine in Opera and Firefox, but does not work in Konqueror. I am talking about accepting all cookies here, because it is cookies and IP address that they use to identify your computer. I also don't know if this is Linux or the web browser, I use Seamonkey. I plan to test a theory at my brothers that uses winders XP and Seamonkey to see if it works up there. I think that it may have something to do with the way you have configured your cookies. Invariably they need you to accept 'referrer logging' and third party cookies. This is because they most often than not use a different server to log who the users are. Any ideas?? Am I cooked? I don't think that you are cooked, but it seems that you will need to change your cookie policy on the browser in question. PS. The more stupid of the banks also discriminate against anything other than MSIE. This can in most cases be bypassed by setting your browser to be identified as IE (it returns the appropriate headers to the server once you set it up to do so). -- Regards, Mick pgpmsuF2GqGwS.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Emerge gcc et c++ ?
Hello, To compile a program, I need to upgrade my gcc. After verification by emerge -pva gcc I saw that no gcc was installed (strange!!), but I saw that was the 3.6.6 version. So I decided to install gcc 4.1.1 I don't know the gcc, its compiler and others params. I used the following flag bootstrap build objc. When I would compiled my program, I had an error concerning c++ object (isn't present). So, I added fortran and objc++ to my use-flags and compiled again... To begin, Emerge try to install gmp-4.2.1 and I get the error C++ compiler not available... If I want to emerge gcc, I get a message : you delete a part of your system :-( So stop, Arnaud send a message to newsgroup !! 1. Can I unmerge my gcc without problem ? 2. how emerge gcc to have the c++ compiler 3. how reset a correct environnement !! Thank you for your help Regards Arnaud -- *** * Arnaud FARINE * *** begin:vcard fn:Arnaud FARINE n:FARINE;Arnaud adr:;;;Mougins;;;France email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] url:http://arnouf.blogspot.com version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:16:47 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: There's no point, because they'll only be copied back the next time you sync. Thanks for the response. I guess I was just looking to keep my hard drive and free of superfluous files as possible. This tip will keep the whole portage tree in a single file http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage#MultiPurpose_Trick I've been using it on several boxes, one of them being a local rsync mirror, for a while now, with good speed and no problems. -- Neil Bothwick No maintenance: Impossible to fix. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Back down to older version (emerge)
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:32:52 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The few times I've tried backing down from current installed to older versions of something... I've had a problem getting the syntax right. According to man emerge and man portage this syntax should work: Either: emerge -vp =mail-mta/sendmail-8.13.7 or emerge -vp =mail-mta/sendmail-8.13.7 This upgrades = means greater than or equal to, so it will install the latest available version. You want one of emerge -av =mail-mta/sendmail-8.13.7 to emerge a specific version, or emerge -av mail-mta/sendmail-8.14.0 to get the latest available 8.13 version. Gack, thanks... I had just carelessly used the examples in man pages. You can also make this change permanent by adding =mail-mta/sendmail-8.14.0 to /etc/portage.package.mask Neil was the above a typo? Or is it correct that using greater than or equal to 8.14.0 in /etc/portage.package.mask will cause a version of 8.13.X to be kept? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, Linux and bank websites.
Mick wrote: On Saturday 24 March 2007 06:03, Dale wrote: Hi, I'm hoping someone can explain this to me and maybe even offer a workaround. This may only apply to us U.S. folks. Banks and credit card company are in the process of changing the way you log into a website. It registers your computer when you sign up as a security feature. Problem is, this doesn't work with Linux and I suspect it doesn't work on a Mac either. I'm not sure, nor can I find out, what it uses to register my computer. It may be a CPU serial number or something like that. Nah, I don't think they are that sophisticated. Your link seems to work fine in Opera and Firefox, but does not work in Konqueror. I am talking about accepting all cookies here, because it is cookies and IP address that they use to identify your computer. I also don't know if this is Linux or the web browser, I use Seamonkey. I plan to test a theory at my brothers that uses winders XP and Seamonkey to see if it works up there. I think that it may have something to do with the way you have configured your cookies. Invariably they need you to accept 'referrer logging' and third party cookies. This is because they most often than not use a different server to log who the users are. Any ideas?? Am I cooked? I don't think that you are cooked, but it seems that you will need to change your cookie policy on the browser in question. PS. The more stupid of the banks also discriminate against anything other than MSIE. This can in most cases be bypassed by setting your browser to be identified as IE (it returns the appropriate headers to the server once you set it up to do so). OK. This is a start in the right direction. I checked on my cookie settings and here is what I have it set too in Seamonkey. Under Cookie Acceptance Policy I have it set to Allow All Cookies which is as allowable a policy as it has. Under Cookie Retention Policy I have it set to Accept Cookies Normally which is the most allowable policy it has. So you may could say I have it set to the least secure and wide open setting there is. Keep in mind that all other sites store my login information just fine. It is just this Passmark crap that doesn't work. Any ideas on what I can change here? Thanks. Dale :-) :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Back down to older version (emerge)
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:29:25 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can also make this change permanent by adding =mail-mta/sendmail-8.14.0 to /etc/portage.package.mask Neil was the above a typo? Or is it correct that using greater than or equal to 8.14.0 in /etc/portage.package.mask will cause a version of 8.13.X to be kept? It will, because you are masking 8.14.0 and later, so the most recent 8.13 package will be used. -- Neil Bothwick A man needs a mistress - just to break the monogamy signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] VFS: cannot open root device hdd2 on unknown-block(0,0)
Oh well... I've been battleling with my Silicon Image PCI ATA-133 controller. I've spent the last 7-8 hours trying to compile a working kernel with support for the extra IDE controller. But so far I've failed. I've tried several combinations (with/without support for CMD0680 - with/without xtables - on 2.6.18 and 2.6.19) - and have tracked the problem to the PCI IDE controller. I've googled for hours as well, but I have no clues but one: Enabling support for the PCI IDE/PATA Controller apparently pushes the device names for the on-board IDE/PATA controller (e.g. /d_ev/hdd becomes /dev/hdh). Is that even possible? That the extra PCI ATA-Controller takes precedence over the on-board Controller? Kind Regards, Kristian Poul Herkild --- Output from lspci: 00:0a.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0680 Ultra ATA-133 Host Controller (rev 02) Error message on boot: VFS: cannot open root device hdd2 on unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel-Panic not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rfc viewer
Am Donnerstag, den 22.03.2007, 13:41 +0800 schrieb Shaochun Wang: Doesn't anyone know a good rfc viewer available for linux? -- Shaochun Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 70C2 6945 0E46 E08B 419A 007C AC5C F21F 358A 0833 You can get my publickey from the following url: http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/~scwang/docs/scwangpublickey.gpg Well, it looks like rfcview is the only thing in the portage tree (found via 'emerge -S rfc'): * app-emacs/rfcview [ Masked ] Latest version available: 0.5 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 5 kB Homepage: http://www.neilvandyke.org/rfcview/ Description: rfcview.el is a small Emacs add-on that reformats IETF RFCs for display License: GPL-2 Masked by ~amd64 keyword, by the way, in case you were wondering. Oh, and http://packages.gentoo.org/ seems to be a good place for quick searches (emerge -S keyword takes forever). -- Marc Joliet signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil
Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: cannot open root device hdd2 on unknown-block(0,0)
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:12:07 +0100, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: I've googled for hours as well, but I have no clues but one: Enabling support for the PCI IDE/PATA Controller apparently pushes the device names for the on-board IDE/PATA controller (e.g. /d_ev/hdd becomes /dev/hdh). Is that even possible? That the extra PCI ATA-Controller takes precedence over the on-board Controller? There is a kind of logic to that; if you fit a bootable PCI controller, there's a good chance you want to boot from it, so it appears first. If your root partition is not on this controller's disks, you can compile the driver as a module, then /dev/hd[a-d] will already be allocated to the onboard controller before it is loaded. -- Neil Bothwick Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: cannot open root device hdd2 on unknown-block(0,0)
Hi.. In my experience this error: Error message on boot: VFS: cannot open root device hdd2 on unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel-Panic not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) is about bad configuration in grub/lilo, check the real number of your root partition and remember: if you use Grub (great idea) add the real root partition number parameter to your kernel coniguration, plus the init parameter. This problem probably is the result of a change of your pool of disks or changes in your partitions or bad parameter in you boot config file.. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=10 That can help you i guess. I hope help you... P.D : Excuse me for my english i'm learning about it. Have a VERY nice day. On 3/24/07, Kristian Poul Herkild [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh well... I've been battleling with my Silicon Image PCI ATA-133 controller. I've spent the last 7-8 hours trying to compile a working kernel with support for the extra IDE controller. But so far I've failed. I've tried several combinations (with/without support for CMD0680 - with/without xtables - on 2.6.18 and 2.6.19) - and have tracked the problem to the PCI IDE controller. I've googled for hours as well, but I have no clues but one: Enabling support for the PCI IDE/PATA Controller apparently pushes the device names for the on-board IDE/PATA controller (e.g. /d_ev/hdd becomes /dev/hdh). Is that even possible? That the extra PCI ATA-Controller takes precedence over the on-board Controller? Kind Regards, Kristian Poul Herkild --- Output from lspci: 00:0a.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0680 Ultra ATA-133 Host Controller (rev 02) Error message on boot: VFS: cannot open root device hdd2 on unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel-Panic not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- ['Cause without love I won't survive, I love you]. I Francisco Rivas 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 x86 udev v087 gnome 2.16.2 xorg-x11-7.1 hotplug v20040923-r2 e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/E/IT/MU d-(+)@ s++: a-- C ULSC*()+++ 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] Problems with udev and network cards changing device name
On 3/22/07, Jonathan Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Ive got a weird problem here and hoping someone can give me a solution, or point me to some docs that show how to resolve this. I have a system that I have built that I use as a base for all my other boxes. (think stage 4) I tar it up, boot the new box on a livecd, and untar it after mounting up the drive on /mnt/gentoo To tar it up, I boot on a live cd, mount the partitions as needed (root and boot) and then tar with cjpf the whole thing. Once ive set the bootloader up and rebooted, it moves the network cards from eth0 and eth1 to eth2 and eth3 (and its just moved them to eth4 and eth5 on a new installation!) What can I do to make sure it comes up as eth0 and eth1 each time? I use a similar procedure to install many computers with same hardware (just use dd instead of tar), and had the same problem. Then I find that setting RC_COLDPLUG=no in /etc/conf.d/rc.conf disables the use of /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-???-rules so the hardware is detected again on boot. Then you can enable COLDPLUG safely. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] (SOLVED) VFS: cannot open root device hdd2 on unknown-block(0,0)
Neil Bothwick skrev: There is a kind of logic to that; if you fit a bootable PCI controller, there's a good chance you want to boot from it, so it appears first. If your root partition is not on this controller's disks, you can compile the driver as a module, then /dev/hd[a-d] will already be allocated to the onboard controller before it is loaded. IT WORKS! IT WORKS! :D Thanks for confirming my theory and suggesting compiling support as a module (should've thought of that). IT WORKS!! :D :D :D ... But I still think it's a kind of perverted logic, but it works :D - thank you thank you :) Now, my dear oracle. Please tell me Denmark beats Spain tonight ;) Kind Regards Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, Linux and bank websites.
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 05:28:42 -0500 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mick wrote: On Saturday 24 March 2007 06:03, Dale wrote: Hi, I'm hoping someone can explain this to me and maybe even offer a workaround. This may only apply to us U.S. folks. Banks and credit card company are in the process of changing the way you log into a website. It registers your computer when you sign up as a security feature. Problem is, this doesn't work with Linux and I suspect it doesn't work on a Mac either. I'm not sure, nor can I find out, what it uses to register my computer. It may be a CPU serial number or something like that. Nah, I don't think they are that sophisticated. Your link seems to work fine in Opera and Firefox, but does not work in Konqueror. I am talking about accepting all cookies here, because it is cookies and IP address that they use to identify your computer. I also don't know if this is Linux or the web browser, I use Seamonkey. I plan to test a theory at my brothers that uses winders XP and Seamonkey to see if it works up there. I think that it may have something to do with the way you have configured your cookies. Invariably they need you to accept 'referrer logging' and third party cookies. This is because they most often than not use a different server to log who the users are. Any ideas?? Am I cooked? I don't think that you are cooked, but it seems that you will need to change your cookie policy on the browser in question. PS. The more stupid of the banks also discriminate against anything other than MSIE. This can in most cases be bypassed by setting your browser to be identified as IE (it returns the appropriate headers to the server once you set it up to do so). OK. This is a start in the right direction. I checked on my cookie settings and here is what I have it set too in Seamonkey. Under Cookie Acceptance Policy I have it set to Allow All Cookies which is as allowable a policy as it has. Under Cookie Retention Policy I have it set to Accept Cookies Normally which is the most allowable policy it has. So you may could say I have it set to the least secure and wide open setting there is. Keep in mind that all other sites store my login information just fine. It is just this Passmark crap that doesn't work. Any ideas on what I can change here? Thanks. Dale :-) :-) :-) :-) How about your bank ? ; ) wells fargo online services work fine for me, as did those of US bank. Don't know if you have ever heard of those... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge gcc et c++ ?
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:17:01 +0100 Arnaud FARINE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Greetings. So I decided to install gcc 4.1.1 I don't know the gcc, its compiler and others params. I used the following flag bootstrap build objc. When I would compiled my program, I had an error concerning c++ object (isn't present). So, I added fortran and objc++ to my use-flags and compiled again... I _think_ those use flags are for objective c and c++, a modified C language. Fortran is support for the old fortran language. The only use flag for gcc that effects c++ support is the 'nocxx' use flag, which is disabled by default and must be specifically enabled to disable c++ support. If I want to emerge gcc, I get a message : you delete a part of your system :-( So stop, Arnaud send a message to newsgroup !! 1. Can I unmerge my gcc without problem ? no. gcc is used to build most of the executables on your system. Unless you want to install from binary packages from now on (there may not be binaries for every package readily available), you need gcc. 2. how emerge gcc to have the c++ compiler try the program 'g++'. 3. how reset a correct environnement !! I'm not sure what you want here. Hopefully the answer to #2 is what's lacking. Thank you for your help No problem Regards, --Dan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Back down to older version (emerge)
On 22.03.2007, at 11:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: to /etc/portage.package.mask /etc/portage/package.mask as far as i know. Philipp -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, Linux and bank websites.
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 09:59 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: How about your bank ? ; ) Agreed. My (major U.S.) bank's web site works fine in Epiphany. In fact as late as 2003 I went to a (physical) branch and I was surprised to find that they still used Netscape as a browser. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Back down to older version (emerge)
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:12:38 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote: to /etc/portage.package.mask /etc/portage/package.mask as far as i know. That's what I meant; my keyboard must have moved sideways as I was about to hit the key :( -- Neil Bothwick But I thought YOU did the backups... signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] POSTFIX mail hub configuration
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:41:54 -0600 Neal McConachie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) mydestination = - change it to include all the other hosts on your local network that you want to accept mail for. ex: mydestination = $mydomain, localhost.$mydomain, mail.$mydomain, davey.$mydomain, foo.$mydomain Now, that's all well and good, but it also has to know what an acceptable user@*.spore.cth.cx is. 2) local_recipient_maps = I chose not to change that, the main.cf comments seemed to suggest it made things more difficult. Once those things are done, any external email that's addressed to any of your machines should be nicely deposited on your mailserver. That's working very well, thank you. The next thing to consider is mail that gets sent internally. For that, each of the machines on your network should use mail.$mydomain as their relay host. For this to work, a) the mailserver has to be willing to relay their mail, and b) they need to know that they should relay mail to the mailserver. 3a)(on the mailserver) mynetworks= - this should be set to allow your local network to relay mail through the mailserver. It looks like you've set it up already. 3b)(on each machine) relayhost= - here, I'm assuming that you're using postfix to send mail on each of your hosts. You'll want to put in mail.$mydomain as your relay host. Oh, and actually, you also need: mydestination=blank on each local machine - this is assuming you want all logs and such going to the mailserver too - I'm not sure if that's what you want or not... You could play around with this by allowing localhost as a destination on each machine, and specifying [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the log email destination, for example. I tried that, but unfortunately the mails then bounced back and forth indefinitely. The best I could do was put the right address in ~/.forward Hope that helps, - nkm At least external mail is routed correctly ; ) In one sense, if I address mail to a host that doesn't accept mail, I guess it's my fault. Thanks for the advice. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rfc viewer
emerge eix - its 100x faster than emerge -s much better output On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 14:37 +0100, Marc Joliet wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 22.03.2007, 13:41 +0800 schrieb Shaochun Wang: Doesn't anyone know a good rfc viewer available for linux? -- Shaochun Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 70C2 6945 0E46 E08B 419A 007C AC5C F21F 358A 0833 You can get my publickey from the following url: http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/~scwang/docs/scwangpublickey.gpg Well, it looks like rfcview is the only thing in the portage tree (found via 'emerge -S rfc'): * app-emacs/rfcview [ Masked ] Latest version available: 0.5 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 5 kB Homepage: http://www.neilvandyke.org/rfcview/ Description: rfcview.el is a small Emacs add-on that reformats IETF RFCs for display License: GPL-2 Masked by ~amd64 keyword, by the way, in case you were wondering. Oh, and http://packages.gentoo.org/ seems to be a good place for quick searches (emerge -S keyword takes forever).
Re: [gentoo-user] rfc viewer
Am Samstag, den 24.03.2007, 11:50 -0500 schrieb deface: emerge eix - its 100x faster than emerge -s much better output Yeah, I forgot about that. Eix still isn't in my consciousness when I want to do searches etc. Thanks for the reminder :). -- Marc Joliet signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil
Re: [gentoo-user] Custom rsync command for emerge --sync?
How do I tell emerge to use a custom rsync command? Hello, I hope you know about the script. Create some kind of directory, let's say /opt/mybin copy your rsync script to this directory and call it rsync. Then do this: PATH=/opt/mybin:$PATH emerge --sync Regards, Nico -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Custom rsync command for emerge --sync?
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:41:52 +0100 Nico Schümann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I hope you know about the script. Create some kind of directory, let's say /opt/mybin copy your rsync script to this directory and call it rsync. Then do this: PATH=/opt/mybin:$PATH emerge --sync Regards, Nico Sorry, but could you tell me where to find the corresponding code that is responsible for this behaviour, because I can just find the hard coded path in the variable mentioned earlier. :) Jan-Hendrik Zab -- | Jan-Hendrik Zab | +49 (0)1773392888 | http://www.v3ng34nce.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Custom rsync command for emerge --sync?
Sorry, but could you tell me where to find the corresponding code that is responsible for this behaviour, because I can just find the hard coded path in the variable mentioned earlier. :) OK, that doesn't work. But it's easier. Open /usr/bin/emerge with your favourite editor and search for /usr/bin/rsync. Replace this by your own script. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, Linux and bank websites.
Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 09:59 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: How about your bank ? ; ) Agreed. My (major U.S.) bank's web site works fine in Epiphany. In fact as late as 2003 I went to a (physical) branch and I was surprised to find that they still used Netscape as a browser. -- Albert W. Hopkins Well, I will know soon enough. The bank itself will be changing to this mess in a few days. If it doesn't work, I'll just call customer service to find out my balance because it will be much faster than trying to get it on the internet. This is if I can get in at all. Right now, only my credit card site is doing this. I have had times where I could not get into the thing to pay bill for over a week because of this thing. My credit card and bank has two separate websites. I posted my settings, is there anything I can change? If this works for you folks, why not me? Well, this is usual really, everything seems to crap out on me. :/ Open to ideas. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967
Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points
On Wednesday 14 March 2007 12:02, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 14 March 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi all, Why am I always the one to get the wierd hardware issues? Here's my latest. The powers that be at work made me move my desk, and dhcpcd on *this* laptop doesn't work at *this* network point, or any of the other four in this row of desks, althought hey work OK on Windows. It's most certainly a cabling issue, I can go to the server room and plug a flylead into the *same*port* on the switch and it all works right. A static ip isn't an easy option as I move between different networks and don't want to have to keep editing resolv.conf. I'm not allowed to do my first reaction, which is to swap my outlet with a working one... tcpdump shows me this when I insert the network cable: 16:11:06.855229 IP 0.0.0.0.bootpc 255.255.255.255.bootps: BOOTP/DHCP, Request [|bootp] repeated 6 more times then it times out With a static ip, I do get full bandwidth, error free, just like it should be. So whatever this cabling issue is, it affects only bootp... hardware: Dell Latitude D810: NIC: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01) Gigabit Ethernet is liminted to 25 meters for full speed. It sounds like you are to far from swich. Force the card to do 100mps this should do it. Also if your building is old enough the wire is probly CAT5 100 Mps(300 meters) raited CAT6 is needed for 1000mps. But the 25 meter limitation is still there with CAT6 cable. The CAT 5 will give you less than the rated distance for 1000 Mps. I beleve that the (gag) windows box is forcing the card to connect at a lower speed during DHCP request. On windows ( without software) You realy can't test network speed. But I don't know how to tell your card to switch to 100 Mps on Gentoo. Rob Intel Network Certified Engineer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] all digest files missing for portage update after rsync with local server
Hello list. My local rsync server has been upgraded to the 2006.1 profile (gcc-4.2.2). All my other boxes that sync against the local server have problems with missing digest files. I follow the instructions in http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Local_Rsync_Mirror and http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml to create my own local rsync server. An emerge --sync on the boxes updates the portage tree but the next step: emerge portage, complains about missing digest files. I have to manually create the digest files with !!! Type ebuild foo.ebuild digest to generate it. for each foo.ebuild. Does anyone know what the problem is? It seems to be the rsync server configuration since the server had no problem with the portage tree upgrade. Thanks for any inputs. -- Valmor PS: After the emerge --sync an emerge --search on any package returns: Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] for all packages. -emerge --pretend --verbose portage These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.15 [0.1.11-r1] -caps 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r5 -bindist -gmp -test 0 kB [ebuild U ] sys-devel/automake-wrapper-3-r1 [1-r1] 0 kB [ebuild U ] sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-4-r3 [3-r1] 0 kB [ebuild U ] sys-devel/m4-1.4.7 [1.4.4] +nls 0 kB [ebuild U ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.61 [2.59-r7] -emacs 0 kB [ebuild NS ] sys-devel/automake-1.10 0 kB [ebuild N] virtual/libiconv-0 0 kB [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gettext-0.16.1 [0.14.4] -doc -emacs +nls -nocxx 0 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.4 [5.94-r1] -acl +nls (-selinux) -static 0 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.2 [2.0.54-r2] -build -doc (-elibc_FreeBSD) +elibc_glibc (-elibc_uclibc) -epydoc -linguas_pl (-selinux) (-userland_Darwin) +userland_GNU 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB -emerge portage Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 11) app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.15 to / Downloading ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles/pax-utils-0.1.15.tar.bz2 --23:41:26-- ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles/pax-utils-0.1.15.tar.bz2 = `/usr/portage/distfiles/pax-utils-0.1.15.tar.bz2' Resolving ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu... 128.61.111.10, 128.61.111.11, 128.61.111.9 Connecting to ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu|128.61.111.10|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! == SYST ... done.== PWD ... done. == TYPE I ... done. == CWD /pub/gentoo/distfiles ... done. == PASV ... done.== RETR pax-utils-0.1.15.tar.bz2 ... done. Length: 53,850 (53K) (unauthoritative) 100%[] 53,850--.--K/s 23:41:27 (625.12 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/pax-utils-0.1.15.tar.bz2' saved [53850] !!! No package digest file found: /usr/portage/app-misc/pax-utils/files/digest-pax-utils-0.1.15 !!! Type ebuild foo.ebuild digest to generate it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] all digest files missing for portage update after rsync with local server
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote: My local rsync server has been upgraded to the 2006.1 profile (gcc-4.2.2). All my other boxes that sync against the local server have problems with missing digest files. The problem is that portage-2.1.2.2 will automatically exclude the digest files during sync. In order to make the sync compatible with portage-2.0.x, you can override the PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS variable that's defined in /etc/make.globals. You do that by redefining it in /etc/make.conf. Copy the value from make.globals and remove the - --filter=H_**/files/digest-* option. After you've removed that option, the digest files will reappear the next time that you sync. Note that after you upgrade from portage-2.0.x to portage-2.1.x, you need to run `emerge --metadata`. Zac -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGBhCk/ejvha5XGaMRAjXQAKC2eyJAAPqHxDBzNUeMAtppKUbwNwCcDygq yo7vD4bgXTcVEMprnp2ue9w= =1Z4N -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
