Re: [gentoo-user] emerge doesn't work after emerge-webrsync

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 8:24 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Today I did an emerge-webrsync successfully, and followed the
> instruction to have upgraded profile to
> default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop. Then all portage related command
> stopped working.


[snip]


>
>  *** Completed websync, please now perform a normal rsync if possible.
> Update is current as of the of MMDD: 20080728


Did you also do this last step? If that profile still gives trouble, you can
use an earlier one instead and re-sync


-- 
Alan McKinnon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] emerge doesn't work after emerge-webrsync

[zhangweiwu]

d take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
  .='update pass'  *='binary update'  @='/var/db move'
  s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*'
.


Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2008
(Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
  .='update pass'  *='binary update'  @='/var/db move'
  s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*'

@@


!!! Your current profile is deprecated and not supported anymore.
!!! Please upgrade to the following profile if possible:
default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop

To upgrade do the following steps:
# cd /etc/
# rm make.profile
# ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop make.profile



>>> Updating Portage cache:  100%

 *** Completed websync, please now perform a normal rsync if possible.
 Update is current as of the of MMDD: 20080728

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DNS Server Patches

[Norberto Bensa]

Norberto Bensa wrote:


I don't get these tests. Why do they probe _my_ IP and not the IP   
of my DNS servers? What's the point on probing me if _maybe_ the   
servers are not patched?




Heh... I'm Sorry. I sometimes forget I run my own DNS servers :)

After changing my /etc/resolv.conf, I got my ISP's servers tested.  
They are patched.


Regards,
Norberto


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RE: [gentoo-user] USB headset...

[Budd, Tracy]

-Original Message-
From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon 7/28/2008 9:51 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USB headset...
 
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Budd, Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Right now mixer shows the onboard sound as the sound device.
How do I switch it to the head set?
Thanks,
-Tracy


Which mixer, what environment, what hardware and what drivers are in use?

-- 
Alan McKinnon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


environment: xfce4 used the alsa-mixer in a terminal
mother board: Epox 9npa+ultra nForce4 ultra chipset, onboard audio Realtek 
ALC850 selectable 2 or 8-CH audio CODEC with SPDIF
cpu: amd athlon 2.4GHz
headset: logitec


lsmod

Module  Size  Used by
snd_seq49824  0 
snd_pcm_oss41504  0 
snd_mixer_oss  16192  1 snd_pcm_oss
isofs  25096  0 
reiserfs  202160  0 
snd_usb_audio  92192  0 
snd_usb_lib16768  1 snd_usb_audio
vfat   12032  1 
snd_rawmidi21792  1 snd_usb_lib
fat51056  1 vfat
snd_seq_device  6544  1 snd_rawmidi
snd_hwdep   8328  1 snd_usb_audio
nvidia   8103504  24 
snd_intel8x0   33384  1 
ohci1394   29576  0 
snd_ac97_codec115544  1 snd_intel8x0
ide_cd 39328  0 
ac97_bus2496  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm78028  4 
snd_pcm_oss,snd_usb_audio,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
ieee1394   86928  1 ohci1394
i2c_nforce2 6080  0 
k8temp  5248  0 
cdrom  37352  1 ide_cd
hwmon   2720  1 k8temp
forcedeth  46412  0 
snd_timer  20552  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
evdev  10752  0 
i2c_core   21336  2 nvidia,i2c_nforce2
ehci_hcd   31756  0 
snd54312  13 
snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_usb_audio,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
ohci_hcd   22404  0 
floppy 61576  0 
snd_page_alloc  8720  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

Let me know if any other information would be useful.
I am not a newbie to Gentoo, but I am far from an expert.

Thank you.
-Tracy
<>

RE: [gentoo-user] Waiting for uevents to be processed...

[Budd, Tracy]

-Original Message-
From: Eric Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon 7/28/2008 8:12 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Waiting for uevents to be processed...
 
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Budd, Tracy wrote:
>  
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Eric Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:42 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Waiting for uevents to be processed...
> 
> Budd, Tracy wrote:
>> This step in the bootup seems to take a very long time.
>> Any suggestions on how to speed this up or where to look if there 
>> might be some problem?
>> Thanks,
>> -Tracy
> 
> I too had that problem.  I deleted 70-persistent-rules for another
> reason and rebooted which regenerated it.  Problem gone.  Just make sure
> you make a backup of it before you reboot.
> 

I don't understand what you did you fix it. How would I delete
70-persistent-rules?


Make a backup of /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent*.rules (I moved them to
my home drive)
delete 70-persistent*.rules (accomplished by move)
reboot

If they don't regenerate you can copy them back.  then I'd re-emerge udev.

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Thank you for the input. Unfortunately, it didn't work.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] updatedb/locate - reasons to use

[Beau Henderson]

G'day

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Andrey Falko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Are there (emerge/revdep-rebuild/other portage tools related) situations
> > when fs db creating is useful?
> >
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
>
> I believe there are. I used to use slocate when I had tens of
> thousands of mp3s and other media files. Its a lot of times its faster
> to use slocate or locate than a find to find a certain file.
>
>
I believe the OP's intentions are to determine if slocate would have any
benefit specifically for portage related utilities.

And with that, there would not be any benefit to the average user IMHO, as
slocate is updated usually nightly ( when installed ) and as such if the
utilities were using the results obtained from that utility, it might apply
changes which would be detrimental to the system, assuming changes have been
made to portage or installed apps since the updatedb run.


-- 
Beau "Did It!" Henderson

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS Server Patches

[Stroller]

On 28 Jul 2008, at 12:08, Norberto Bensa wrote:


Quoting Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


Dan Kiersky's own description, and web-based nameserver checker:

http://www.doxpara.com/

Alternate web-based nameserver checker (recommended by me! )

https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/services/dnsentropy


I don't get these tests. Why do they probe _my_ IP and not the IP  
of my DNS servers? What's the point on probing me if _maybe_ the  
servers are not patched?


Wild guess: the problem is with the client mode of operation. DNS  
servers are affected because their clients to the root name-servers.


I think this vulnerability highlights the issue of using servers that  
you TRUST.


It applies to other vulnerabilities, too. It doesn't matter if you  
revoke your SSH key and upload it to OpenForge if the OpenForge  
server itself is trusting an insecure SSH key, and an attacker can  
use it to get at your account that way.


Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] updatedb/locate - reasons to use

[Andrey Falko]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Are there (emerge/revdep-rebuild/other portage tools related) situations
> when fs db creating is useful?
>
>
> Andrew
>
>

I believe there are. I used to use slocate when I had tens of
thousands of mp3s and other media files. Its a lot of times its faster
to use slocate or locate than a find to find a certain file.

[gentoo-user] Re: new sys-apps/hal-0.5.11: changing keyboard layout

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Sven Köhler wrote:
So what's the answer? How do i do it properly? How do i tell xorg-x11 to 
use "de" layout for all hot-plugged keyboards?
Because gdm offers no keyboard-settings, as far as i know. And since my 
keyboard is "qwertz", i see a "y" when typing a "z" in gdm. gnome 
settings kick in AFTER logging in - so that's pretty useless for gdm.


In xorg.conf, try this:

  Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier "Keyboard1"
  Driver "evdev"
  Option "AutoRepeat" "250 30"
  Option "XkbRules"   "xorg"
  Option "XkbModel"   "evdev"
  Option "XkbLayout"  "de"
  EndSection

Make sure the keyboard is used in the "ServerLayout" section:

  Section "ServerLayout"
  # ...
  InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
  EndSection

For a Gnome panel you may have to emerge some package.  At least for 
KDE, the "Keyboard Layouts" entry in KDE's control panel was missing 
until I emerged kxkb.  If you get the Gnome config panel to work, you 
must select "evdev device" or similar, not "pc104".  If you don't need 
to switch between layouts (DE to US and back), you don't need the Gnome 
panel at all.  The entry in xorg.conf is enough.

[gentoo-user] new sys-apps/hal-0.5.11: changing keyboard layout

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

have you noticed the hal update?

It just informed me about some trouble concerning my keyboard-layout. 
Keyboards as well as mice are now added automatically to xorg (and the 
evdev driver is used - hooray! always wanted to use evdev).


Yet, they are always added with us keyboard layout. So hal's ebuild 
suggested, that i use gnome's keyboard settings or that i use setxkbmap 
to override the us-setting.


So my first thought was: how to hell do i tell gdm to use "de" keyboard 
layout?


So what's the answer? How do i do it properly? How do i tell xorg-x11 to 
use "de" layout for all hot-plugged keyboards?
Because gdm offers no keyboard-settings, as far as i know. And since my 
keyboard is "qwertz", i see a "y" when typing a "z" in gdm. gnome 
settings kick in AFTER logging in - so that's pretty useless for gdm.



Regards,
  Sven

[gentoo-user] [OT] updatedb/locate - reasons to use

[Andrew Gaydenko]

Hi!

Are there (emerge/revdep-rebuild/other portage tools related) situations 
when fs db creating is useful?


Andrew

[gentoo-user] Re: blank consoles after X starts

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Jorge Martínez López wrote:

uvesafb was working perfectly for me, without any delays at boot. It
has been included in the mainline kernel and it seems to be "The Way
to Go" (TM).


I stumbled upon a new development on X.Org: Kernel Mode Setting.  I 
think that "The Way to Go" will be using the same driver for the 
framebuffer console as well as X.


http://www.x.org/wiki/ModeSetting
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=kernel_modesetting&num=1

Hopefully we'll see this sooner rather than later.  It would mean 100% 
thorough and *instant* VT switching.

Re: [gentoo-user] USB headset...

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 28 July 2008, Budd, Tracy wrote:
> What do you mean by environment, and by drivers do you mean loaded
> modules?

environment as in desktop environment (kde, gnome, something else...), 
mainly so others can see if you are using a mixer that plays nicely 
with other stuff you have running

drivers as in which drivers is your kernel using to address the audio 
hardware. It sometimes is useful to note if they are modules or 
compiled-in, but don't omit one class

Your original question is not really answerable due to lack of data, you 
have basically asked one of those "how long is a bit of string?" 
questions. Are you new to gentoo? If so, it's good to say so. Then 
other people on the list know how complicated they can make the 
answer :-)

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

[Alan E. Davis]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Eric Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
>
> Alan E. Davis wrote:
> > I have found a script called emwrap.sh
>


Please don't top post, it makes it very hard to follow the flow of the
> list.  Thanks!  Let us know how that turns out with the script.  Also,
> where did you find it?
>
> I apologize for that.

I think this would get it for you.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-282474-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html

Alan


>
> Eric Martin
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-- 
Alan Davis

"It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..."
---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

[Eric Martin]

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Alan E. Davis wrote:
> I have found a script called emwrap.sh  The forum thread attached to that
> script makes it clear it is important to compile the few core TC files twice
> before emerge -e system.  Then do that twice.  Then emerce -e world.  Wow.
> The script is supposed to shorten the overall time, by not recompiling TC
> and system when compiling the rest of the world.  It seems logical.
> 
> I also found some inconsistencies in my USE flags, so it's back to square
> one.  I hope this works.  (I am trying the script).
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> Alan
> 
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:39 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <
>>>
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Andrey Falko wrote:
> To eliminate the first factor do: emerge -e world.
 no. Just no.
>>> For what it's worth, I started emerge -e system quite some time ago.  It
>>> stops about 1/2 way through on glib.  Apparently this is common.   I
>>> started it up again as "emerge -e system --skipfirst".  How bad of an
>> idea
>>> was that?  I think about 200 out of about 350 pkgs have been rebuilt.
>>>
>>> I'll halt this and rebuild dbus again.  Etc/
>>>
> The second
> factor can be eliminated by downgrading to firefox2. If it is a
> firefox3 problem then the bug report would go to firefox developers.
>>> It does affect firefox 2 also.  All users except root.  All gecko
>> browsers,
>>> I guess (all firefox, and epiphany---didnt' try galeon).
>>>
 just re-emerge dbus and/or revdep-rebuilt should be enough. Or that
 'preserved-libs' stuff.
>>>  I don't qet it about preserved-libs.  THerefore I haven't done anything
>>> about any of the messages.  I don't understand the messages, exactly what
>>> would happen?  Would I be building the same app with the same old lib or
>>> with the new lib?  I need to find something in the docs, but haven't seen
>>> anything yet.
>> http://r0bertz.blogspot.com/2008/06/portage-22-preserve-libs-features.html
>>
>> the problem with it (a friend run into it - maybe the have fixed it in the
>> meantime)if you do an emerge -e system/world while the old stuff is still
>> there, some apps and libs will link against the old stuff. Thus the whole
>> exercise will be a waste of time and energy.
>>
>>
> 
> 
Please don't top post, it makes it very hard to follow the flow of the
list.  Thanks!  Let us know how that turns out with the script.  Also,
where did you find it?

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RE: [gentoo-user] Waiting for uevents to be processed...

[Budd, Tracy]

 

-Original Message-
From: Eric Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 8:12 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Waiting for uevents to be processed...

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Budd, Tracy wrote:
>  
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Eric Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:42 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Waiting for uevents to be processed...
> 
> Budd, Tracy wrote:
>> This step in the bootup seems to take a very long time.
>> Any suggestions on how to speed this up or where to look if there 
>> might be some problem?
>> Thanks,
>> -Tracy
> 
> I too had that problem.  I deleted 70-persistent-rules for another 
> reason and rebooted which regenerated it.  Problem gone.  Just make 
> sure you make a backup of it before you reboot.
> 

I don't understand what you did you fix it. How would I delete
70-persistent-rules?


Make a backup of /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent*.rules (I moved them to
my home drive) delete 70-persistent*.rules (accomplished by move) reboot

If they don't regenerate you can copy them back.  then I'd re-emerge
udev.

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Got it. I will give that a try when I get back to the machine.

RE: [gentoo-user] USB headset...

[Budd, Tracy]

 



From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 9:51 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USB headset...


On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Budd, Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:


Right now mixer shows the onboard sound as the sound device.
How do I switch it to the head set?
Thanks,
-Tracy


Which mixer, what environment, what hardware and what drivers are in
use?

-- 
Alan McKinnon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
What do you mean by environment, and by drivers do you mean loaded
modules? 

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

[Alan E. Davis]

I have found a script called emwrap.sh  The forum thread attached to that
script makes it clear it is important to compile the few core TC files twice
before emerge -e system.  Then do that twice.  Then emerce -e world.  Wow.
The script is supposed to shorten the overall time, by not recompiling TC
and system when compiling the rest of the world.  It seems logical.

I also found some inconsistencies in my USE flags, so it's back to square
one.  I hope this works.  (I am trying the script).

Thank you very much.

Alan

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:39 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Andrey Falko wrote:
> > > > To eliminate the first factor do: emerge -e world.
> > >
> > > no. Just no.
> >
> > For what it's worth, I started emerge -e system quite some time ago.  It
> > stops about 1/2 way through on glib.  Apparently this is common.   I
> > started it up again as "emerge -e system --skipfirst".  How bad of an
> idea
> > was that?  I think about 200 out of about 350 pkgs have been rebuilt.
> >
> > I'll halt this and rebuild dbus again.  Etc/
> >
> > > > The second
> > > > factor can be eliminated by downgrading to firefox2. If it is a
> > > > firefox3 problem then the bug report would go to firefox developers.
> >
> > It does affect firefox 2 also.  All users except root.  All gecko
> browsers,
> > I guess (all firefox, and epiphany---didnt' try galeon).
> >
> > > just re-emerge dbus and/or revdep-rebuilt should be enough. Or that
> > > 'preserved-libs' stuff.
> >
> >  I don't qet it about preserved-libs.  THerefore I haven't done anything
> > about any of the messages.  I don't understand the messages, exactly what
> > would happen?  Would I be building the same app with the same old lib or
> > with the new lib?  I need to find something in the docs, but haven't seen
> > anything yet.
>
> http://r0bertz.blogspot.com/2008/06/portage-22-preserve-libs-features.html
>
> the problem with it (a friend run into it - maybe the have fixed it in the
> meantime)if you do an emerge -e system/world while the old stuff is still
> there, some apps and libs will link against the old stuff. Thus the whole
> exercise will be a waste of time and energy.
>
>


-- 
Alan Davis

"It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..."
---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Andrey Falko wrote:
> > > To eliminate the first factor do: emerge -e world.
> >
> > no. Just no.
>
> For what it's worth, I started emerge -e system quite some time ago.  It
> stops about 1/2 way through on glib.  Apparently this is common.   I
> started it up again as "emerge -e system --skipfirst".  How bad of an idea
> was that?  I think about 200 out of about 350 pkgs have been rebuilt.
>
> I'll halt this and rebuild dbus again.  Etc/
>
> > > The second
> > > factor can be eliminated by downgrading to firefox2. If it is a
> > > firefox3 problem then the bug report would go to firefox developers.
>
> It does affect firefox 2 also.  All users except root.  All gecko browsers,
> I guess (all firefox, and epiphany---didnt' try galeon).
>
> > just re-emerge dbus and/or revdep-rebuilt should be enough. Or that
> > 'preserved-libs' stuff.
>
>  I don't qet it about preserved-libs.  THerefore I haven't done anything
> about any of the messages.  I don't understand the messages, exactly what
> would happen?  Would I be building the same app with the same old lib or
> with the new lib?  I need to find something in the docs, but haven't seen
> anything yet.

http://r0bertz.blogspot.com/2008/06/portage-22-preserve-libs-features.html

the problem with it (a friend run into it - maybe the have fixed it in the 
meantime)if you do an emerge -e system/world while the old stuff is still 
there, some apps and libs will link against the old stuff. Thus the whole 
exercise will be a waste of time and energy.

Re: [gentoo-user] python-updater, boost and endless loop

[Dale]

Qian Qiao wrote:

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  

[snip]



Yes you can, get rid of the old python, and it'll come out clean. If
you want to be on the extra safe side, you can always recompile boost
after getting rid of the old python.

-- Joe

  


Thanks.  Will do.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] Waiting for uevents to be processed...

[Eric Martin]

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Budd, Tracy wrote:
>  
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Eric Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:42 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Waiting for uevents to be processed...
> 
> Budd, Tracy wrote:
>> This step in the bootup seems to take a very long time.
>> Any suggestions on how to speed this up or where to look if there 
>> might be some problem?
>> Thanks,
>> -Tracy
> 
> I too had that problem.  I deleted 70-persistent-rules for another
> reason and rebooted which regenerated it.  Problem gone.  Just make sure
> you make a backup of it before you reboot.
> 

I don't understand what you did you fix it. How would I delete
70-persistent-rules?


Make a backup of /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent*.rules (I moved them to
my home drive)
delete 70-persistent*.rules (accomplished by move)
reboot

If they don't regenerate you can copy them back.  then I'd re-emerge udev.

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RE: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longerwork

[Budd, Tracy]

 

-Original Message-
From: Enzo Erre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 11:09 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no
longerwork

On 14:17 Sat 26 Jul , Budd, Tracy wrote:
> xorg.conf below. Note that driver changed to nv in order to run X.
> If I try to use "nvidia" I get a blank screen and the machine locks.
> I checked the Xorg.0.log file and the machine seems to have died
before it wrote anything.
> Suggestions appreciated.
> -Tracy

Hi,
I had same problems,my solution has been to upgrade kernel to
2.6.25-gentoo-r7 and downgrade+patch nvidia-drivers to 100.14.19.

help link http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=112452
Scuse for my english

Regards

--
Unix Veritates

Thank you for your response.
I fixed the problem by upgrading my bios.

Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longer work

[Enzo Rapagnetta]

On 14:17 Sat 26 Jul , Budd, Tracy wrote:
> xorg.conf below. Note that driver changed to nv in order to run X.
> If I try to use "nvidia" I get a blank screen and the machine locks.
> I checked the Xorg.0.log file and the machine seems to have died before it 
> wrote anything.
> Suggestions appreciated.
> -Tracy

Hi,
I had same problems,my solution has been to upgrade kernel
to 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 and downgrade+patch nvidia-drivers to 100.14.19.

help link http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=112452
Scuse for my english

Regards

-- 
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Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longer work

[Enzo Erre]

On 14:17 Sat 26 Jul , Budd, Tracy wrote:
> xorg.conf below. Note that driver changed to nv in order to run X.
> If I try to use "nvidia" I get a blank screen and the machine locks.
> I checked the Xorg.0.log file and the machine seems to have died before it 
> wrote anything.
> Suggestions appreciated.
> -Tracy

Hi,
I had same problems,my solution has been to upgrade kernel
to 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 and downgrade+patch nvidia-drivers to 100.14.19.

help link http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=112452
Scuse for my english

Regards

-- 
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Re: [gentoo-user] python-updater, boost and endless loop

[Qian Qiao]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip]

Yes you can, get rid of the old python, and it'll come out clean. If
you want to be on the extra safe side, you can always recompile boost
after getting rid of the old python.

-- Joe

-- 
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those who can't.
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RE: [gentoo-user] Waiting for uevents to be processed...

[Budd, Tracy]

 

-Original Message-
From: Eric Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:42 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Waiting for uevents to be processed...

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Budd, Tracy wrote:
> This step in the bootup seems to take a very long time.
> Any suggestions on how to speed this up or where to look if there 
> might be some problem?
> Thanks,
> -Tracy
> 
I too had that problem.  I deleted 70-persistent-rules for another
reason and rebooted which regenerated it.  Problem gone.  Just make sure
you make a backup of it before you reboot.

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I don't understand what you did you fix it. How would I delete
70-persistent-rules?

[gentoo-user] python-updater, boost and endless loop

[Dale]

Hi again,

I updated python and have ran python-updater several times.  Each time 
it recompiles boost.  It's only been about 4 times now.  What gives with 
this?  Info


[I--] [  ] dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2
[I--] [  ] app-admin/python-updater-0.5 (0)
[I--] [  ] dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r13 (2.4)
[I--] [  ] dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r5 (2.5)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] / # python-updater
* Starting Python Updater from 2.4 to 2.5 :
*   Adding to list: =dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2  USE="-debug -doc -icu -pyste 
-tools" 0 kB


Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB

revdep-rebuild comes back clean.  Any idea why it wants to rebuild this 
every time?  Can I just unmerge the old python then recompile boost? 


Thanks

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] Waiting for uevents to be processed...

[Eric Martin]

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Budd, Tracy wrote:
> This step in the bootup seems to take a very long time.
> Any suggestions on how to speed this up or where to look if there might
> be some problem?
> Thanks,
> -Tracy
> 
I too had that problem.  I deleted 70-persistent-rules for another
reason and rebooted which regenerated it.  Problem gone.  Just make sure
you make a backup of it before you reboot.

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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

[Eric Martin]

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Alan E. Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Eric Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> WRT emerge -e world I had a few problems where glibc wouldn't build and
>> tracking down the cause of that fixed my other problems.  Could be
>> coincidence, could be related.  I rebuilt the toolchain once or twice to get
>> glib going again, recompiled and my problems were solved.
>>
> 
> Do you mind to explain a little more?  How would I go about this?  I have a
> few packages that won't build, and glib is one.  Over and over.  gtkmm is
> another.  There is an upstream gtkmm that is said to solve that issue, but I
> haven't gotten the courage to bump an ebuild to a new version.
> 
> How would one rebuild the toolchain?
> 
> 
>> You say it works as root.  This is a stretch but it's wicked easy and
>> should be tried: try killing your profile.  it's as easy as renaming
>> .mozilla so firefox creates a new one next boot.  If it's still broken it
>> only wasted a minute, and if it works you're not banging your head
>> needlessly and later on.
> 
> 
> I have tried it as three different users, and have moved .mozilla, used
> firefox2, firefox3, firefox3-bin, epiphany.  The same thing happens.  Moving
> .mozilla has no effect.hem 
> 
> My system has been riddled with these issues of permissions and (I assume)
> dbus and/or hal issues, since when.  The livecd was a mess: took several
> passes even to get a working, booting system.  It's getting better.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Alan
> 
Toolchain refers to glibc, gcc, and binutils.  Try running

emerge glibc gcc binutils

Portage will put them in the correct order.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Set "max locked memory" to unlimited

[Daniel Iliev]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:10:03 +0200
Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> >
> > Assuming your system is PAM-enabled, you can set the limits by
> > editing "/etc/security/limits.conf".
> >
> > The new limits will not affect sessions which are already started.
> > In other words you need to log off/on for the new settings to take
> > effect.
> >
> > More info: man(5) limits.conf
> >
> >
> >   
> 
> That works, but how can I set it to unlimited?
> 


If you have no entry there should be no limit. Alternatively, I
believe, a dash ("-") can be used to specify "unlimited".



-- 
Best regards,
Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] USB headset...

[Alan McKinnon]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Budd, Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  Right now mixer shows the onboard sound as the sound device.
> How do I switch it to the head set?
> Thanks,
> -Tracy
>

Which mixer, what environment, what hardware and what drivers are in use?

-- 
Alan McKinnon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] USB headset...

[Budd, Tracy]

Right now mixer shows the onboard sound as the sound device.
How do I switch it to the head set?
Thanks,
-Tracy

[gentoo-user] Waiting for uevents to be processed...

[Budd, Tracy]

This step in the bootup seems to take a very long time.
Any suggestions on how to speed this up or where to look if there might
be some problem?
Thanks,
-Tracy

RE: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longer work

[Budd, Tracy]

 

-Original Message-
From: Volker Armin Hemmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 10:25 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longer
work

On Sonntag, 27. Juli 2008, Budd, Tracy wrote:
> removed wfb, xtrap, record. Still didn't work.
> No nvidiafb in kernel.
> Is nvnews a lists.gentoo.org list?
> Thank you.
> -Tracy
>

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14
you should search the forum first - and read the sticky's.

pleae don't top post.


Thank you for the link. It turns out that I needed to upgrade the BIOS.
All is good now.

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

[Alan E. Davis]

I have reread the GCC upgrade guide.  I skipped the step of fixing libtool,
and recompiling.  So another overnight emerge -e world ...

Thank you, meantime

Alan


>

-- 
Alan Davis

"It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..."
---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

[Alan E. Davis]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Eric Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
>>
> WRT emerge -e world I had a few problems where glibc wouldn't build and
> tracking down the cause of that fixed my other problems.  Could be
> coincidence, could be related.  I rebuilt the toolchain once or twice to get
> glib going again, recompiled and my problems were solved.
>

Do you mind to explain a little more?  How would I go about this?  I have a
few packages that won't build, and glib is one.  Over and over.  gtkmm is
another.  There is an upstream gtkmm that is said to solve that issue, but I
haven't gotten the courage to bump an ebuild to a new version.

How would one rebuild the toolchain?


>
> You say it works as root.  This is a stretch but it's wicked easy and
> should be tried: try killing your profile.  it's as easy as renaming
> .mozilla so firefox creates a new one next boot.  If it's still broken it
> only wasted a minute, and if it works you're not banging your head
> needlessly and later on.


I have tried it as three different users, and have moved .mozilla, used
firefox2, firefox3, firefox3-bin, epiphany.  The same thing happens.  Moving
.mozilla has no effect.

My system has been riddled with these issues of permissions and (I assume)
dbus and/or hal issues, since when.  The livecd was a mess: took several
passes even to get a working, booting system.  It's getting better.

Thank you,

Alan

-- 
Alan Davis

"It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..."
---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man

[gentoo-user] Re: DNS Server Patches

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Norberto Bensa wrote:

Quoting Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


Dan Kiersky's own description, and web-based nameserver checker:

http://www.doxpara.com/

Alternate web-based nameserver checker (recommended by me! )

https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/services/dnsentropy


I don't get these tests. Why do they probe _my_ IP and not the IP of my 
DNS servers? What's the point on probing me if _maybe_ the servers are 
not patched?


Er, they *do* test the IP of your DNS server.  At least that's case 
here; it successfully tested my ISP's DNS (and told me it sucks and is 
vulnerable).

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

[Eric Martin]

Alan E. Davis wrote:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:


On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Andrey Falko wrote:

 >
 > To eliminate the first factor do: emerge -e world.

no. Just no.

 
For what it's worth, I started emerge -e system quite some time ago.  It 
stops about 1/2 way through on glib.  Apparently this is common.   I 
started it up again as "emerge -e system --skipfirst".  How bad of an 
idea was that?  I think about 200 out of about 350 pkgs have been rebuilt.


I'll halt this and rebuild dbus again.  Etc/



WRT emerge -e world I had a few problems where glibc wouldn't build and 
tracking down the cause of that fixed my other problems.  Could be 
coincidence, could be related.  I rebuilt the toolchain once or twice to 
get glib going again, recompiled and my problems were solved.



 > The second
 > factor can be eliminated by downgrading to firefox2. If it is a
 > firefox3 problem then the bug report would go to firefox developers.


It does affect firefox 2 also.  All users except root.  All gecko 
browsers, I guess (all firefox, and epiphany---didnt' try galeon). 


You say it works as root.  This is a stretch but it's wicked easy and 
should be tried: try killing your profile.  it's as easy as renaming 
.mozilla so firefox creates a new one next boot.  If it's still broken 
it only wasted a minute, and if it works you're not banging your head 
needlessly and later on.



just re-emerge dbus and/or revdep-rebuilt should be enough. Or that
'preserved-libs' stuff. 





Thank you for the advice,

Alan Davis


HTH
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Re: [gentoo-user] DNS Server Patches

[Norberto Bensa]

Quoting Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


Dan Kiersky's own description, and web-based nameserver checker:

http://www.doxpara.com/

Alternate web-based nameserver checker (recommended by me! )

https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/services/dnsentropy


I don't get these tests. Why do they probe _my_ IP and not the IP of  
my DNS servers? What's the point on probing me if _maybe_ the servers  
are not patched?


Thanks,
Norberto


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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox et al. crash when attaching file in gmail --- dbus?

[Alan E. Davis]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Montag, 28. Juli 2008, Andrey Falko wrote:
>
> >
> > To eliminate the first factor do: emerge -e world.
>
> no. Just no.


For what it's worth, I started emerge -e system quite some time ago.  It
stops about 1/2 way through on glib.  Apparently this is common.   I started
it up again as "emerge -e system --skipfirst".  How bad of an idea was
that?  I think about 200 out of about 350 pkgs have been rebuilt.

I'll halt this and rebuild dbus again.  Etc/





> > The second
> > factor can be eliminated by downgrading to firefox2. If it is a
> > firefox3 problem then the bug report would go to firefox developers.
>

It does affect firefox 2 also.  All users except root.  All gecko browsers,
I guess (all firefox, and epiphany---didnt' try galeon).

>
>
> just re-emerge dbus and/or revdep-rebuilt should be enough. Or that
> 'preserved-libs' stuff.


 I don't qet it about preserved-libs.  THerefore I haven't done anything
about any of the messages.  I don't understand the messages, exactly what
would happen?  Would I be building the same app with the same old lib or
with the new lib?  I need to find something in the docs, but haven't seen
anything yet.

Thank you for the advice,

Alan Davis

>
>
>


-- 
Alan Davis

"It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..."
---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man

Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longer work

[Jesús Guerrero]

Hi again,

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:18:39 -0400
"Budd, Tracy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Card GeForce 8600GT. nvidia-drivers 173.14.09.
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Jesús Guerrero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sun 7/27/2008 12:10 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] upgraded video card, nvidia drivers no longer work
>  
> Hi,
> 
> Please, let us know the driver version and the card model.
> 
> -- 
> Jesús Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> 

Sorry for being late. It seems a right combination. Are you sure it's a driver
issue? Maybe your wm is dying or something. Is it able to do a soft power off
if the acpi daemon is running? Can you remotely ssh and see what's happening?

The logs don't reveal a thing, look at the creating date or just delete it to
see if it's being recreated. If that's the case, then Xorg is starting without
a problem, and we should start looking elsewhere.
-- 
Jesús Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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