[gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?
On 06/29/2009 08:21 AM, Dale wrote: Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, On ~x86 did the upgrade to qt 4.5.2 and get the following message: After a rebuild or upgrade of Qt, it can happen that Qt plugins (such as Qt and KDE styles and widgets) can no longer be loaded. In this situation you should recompile the packages providing these plugins... Packages that typically need to be recompiled are kdelibs from KDE4, any additional KDE4/Qt4 styles, qscintilla and PyQt4... Then followed the link on the plugins which stated: The Qt library and all plugins are built using a build key. The build key in the Qt library is examined against the build key in the plugin, and if they match, the plugin is loaded. If the build keys do not match, then the Qt library refuses to load the plugin. So how do I find all the installed qt plugins on my system and check their build keys? I saw the same message on qt-4.5.1 and I just ran revdep-rebuild -i and it said all was fine. revdep-rebuild only resolves link-time errors, not runtime errors. You need to observe yourself if something is broken and then rebuild it manually; revdep-rebuild ain't gonna help in this case.
[gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?
On 06/29/2009 08:04 AM, Roy Wright wrote: On ~x86 did the upgrade to qt 4.5.2 and get the following message: After a rebuild or upgrade of Qt, it can happen that Qt plugins (such as Qt and KDE styles and widgets) can no longer be loaded. In this situation you should recompile the packages providing these plugins... Packages that typically need to be recompiled are kdelibs from KDE4, any additional KDE4/Qt4 styles, qscintilla and PyQt4... Then followed the link on the plugins which stated: The Qt library and all plugins are built using a build key. The build key in the Qt library is examined against the build key in the plugin, and if they match, the plugin is loaded. If the build keys do not match, then the Qt library refuses to load the plugin. So how do I find all the installed qt plugins on my system and check their build keys? You can obtain a list of packages that might depend upon any Qt 4 package with: for p in `qlist -IC x11-libs/qt:4`; do equery -q depends $p; done | sort | uniq This command can take several minutes to complete. Of course not every one of those packages needs to be rebuilt, but it makes it easier to pick some by hand. Usually though, it's not necessary to rebuild anything, especially during minor updates (like from Qt 4.5.1 to 4.5.2).
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: coexisting GCC versions
Hello Alex, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: Roger Mason writes: If there is something else that I need to do then I did not see it in the upgrade guide, so please, will someone enlighten me? No, your steps worked fine for me. What is your $PATH? (echo $PATH) I have /usr/i486-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2 in there (just before /usr/i686- pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2), don't know where this comes from. The directory usr/i486-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin does not exist, so it does not matter. Also have a look in /etc/env.d/*gcc*, do these settings look okay? That's where gcc-config changes things. My 05gcc-i686-pc-linux-gnu has the line PATH=/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2 in it. garnet ~ $ echo $PATH /home/rmason/.nix-profile/bin:/usr/local/coda/bin:/usr/local/coda/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.1:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/jre/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/jre/javaws:/usr/qt/3/bin:/home/rmason/bin:/usr/local/axiom/mnt/linux/bin:/usr/local/apache-uima//bin:/usr/local/tau/i386_linux/bin:/usr/local/pdt/i386_linux/bin garnet ~ $ gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.1 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.2 * garnet ~ $ ls /etc/env.d/gcc/ -l total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32 Aug 3 2006 config-i386-pc-linux-gnu -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32 Jun 28 21:14 config-i686-pc-linux-gnu -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235 Mar 8 2008 i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235 Jun 28 14:13 i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.2 garnet ~ $ cat /etc/env.d/gcc/config-i686-pc-linux-gnu CURRENT=i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.2 garnet ~ $ cat /etc/env.d/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.2 LDPATH=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2 MANPATH=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/man INFOPATH=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/info STDCXX_INCDIR=g++-v4 GCC_PATH=/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2 garnet ~ $ cat /etc/env.d/05gcc-i686-pc-linux-gnu MANPATH=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/man INFOPATH=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/info LDPATH=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1 PATH=/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2 ROOTPATH=/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2 GCC_SPECS= Thanks, Roger
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: revdep-rebuild only resolves link-time errors, not runtime errors. You need to observe yourself if something is broken and then rebuild it manually; revdep-rebuild ain't gonna help in this case. Though it would be nice if there was some process to detect what needs to be rebuilt. Having to wait for something to break is not really very good practice, and rebuilding everything using the qt4 libraries is a little OTT.
[gentoo-user] How to help portage to be become a bit smarter
Hi, I'm using portage-2.2_rc33. And it has become smarter with every new release. Still, I don't understand why it's sometimes smarter than other times. In most cases now, it's able to handle cases where installed old packages which depend on, say, libXX-version-1, block emerging libXX-version-2 by unmerging the old version itself. But sometimes, like today when upgrading from various qt-...-4.5.1 to qt-...-4.5.2 packages it produces tons of blockings which it cannot resolve itself. How can I help portage to resolve this blockings itself in a smart way? (trying to do emerge --keep-going -j2 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep @system @world automatically. ) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: revdep-rebuild only resolves link-time errors, not runtime errors. You need to observe yourself if something is broken and then rebuild it manually; revdep-rebuild ain't gonna help in this case. Sounds like Gentoo needs a new tool. Calling all geeks and nerds !! Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] How to help portage to be become a bit smarter
Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm using portage-2.2_rc33. And it has become smarter with every new release. Still, I don't understand why it's sometimes smarter than other times. In most cases now, it's able to handle cases where installed old packages which depend on, say, libXX-version-1, block emerging libXX-version-2 by unmerging the old version itself. But sometimes, like today when upgrading from various qt-...-4.5.1 to qt-...-4.5.2 packages it produces tons of blockings which it cannot resolve itself. How can I help portage to resolve this blockings itself in a smart way? (trying to do emerge --keep-going -j2 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep @system @world automatically. ) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. Well, I have a question that may help. I went through this upgrade and it did fine. Do you have anything qt in your world file? You shouldn't unless you are a developer that works with qt. That's what I have read anyway. Another unrelated question. Why do you have -j2 on the command? If that is the MAKEOPTS setting, why not have it in make.conf? I also put --keep-going in mine to save typing. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] How to help portage to be become a bit smarter
Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm using portage-2.2_rc33. And it has become smarter with every new release. Still, I don't understand why it's sometimes smarter than other times. In most cases now, it's able to handle cases where installed old packages which depend on, say, libXX-version-1, block emerging libXX-version-2 by unmerging the old version itself. But sometimes, like today when upgrading from various qt-...-4.5.1 to qt-...-4.5.2 packages it produces tons of blockings which it cannot resolve itself. How can I help portage to resolve this blockings itself in a smart way? (trying to do emerge --keep-going -j2 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep @system @world automatically. ) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. Another thought to. The option --with-bdeps y may help. It may not but it could be worth a try. I have ran into problems where that helped and have read where a few others have ran into similar problems and that fixed it. It just tells emerge to dig a little deeper from my understanding. Can't think of anything else at the moment. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore
Hi all, after some updating (emerge --sync and emerge --update --deep world, etc.) my wirelss card does not work anymore. In the boot messagesI have: [...] * Starting wlan0 SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory * Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ... SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP [ ok ] * Starting wpa_cli on wlan0 ... [ ok ] * Backgrounding ... [...] And dmesg shows: [...] iwl3945 :03:00.0: PCI INT A - GSI 17 (level, low) - IRQ 17 iwl3945 :03:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x100102, writing 0x100106) firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2 iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2 iwl3945 :03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled iwl3945 :03:00.0: PCI INT A - GSI 17 (level, low) - IRQ 17 iwl3945 :03:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x100102, writing 0x100106) firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2 iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2 iwl3945 :03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled iwl3945 :03:00.0: PCI INT A - GSI 17 (level, low) - IRQ 17 iwl3945 :03:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x100102, writing 0x100106) firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2 iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2 iwl3945 :03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled iwl3945 :03:00.0: PCI INT A - GSI 17 (level, low) - IRQ 17 iwl3945 :03:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x100102, writing 0x100106) firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2 iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2 iwl3945 :03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled [...] Some research on 'SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory' showed that this is often caused by missing firmware for the wireless card. But net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode is installed on my system. Any hints on how to fix? Thanks! -- Regards, Marco
Re: [gentoo-user] How to help portage to be become a bit smarter
On 29 Jun, Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm using portage-2.2_rc33. And it has become smarter with every new release. Still, I don't understand why it's sometimes smarter than other times. In most cases now, it's able to handle cases where installed old packages which depend on, say, libXX-version-1, block emerging libXX-version-2 by unmerging the old version itself. But sometimes, like today when upgrading from various qt-...-4.5.1 to qt-...-4.5.2 packages it produces tons of blockings which it cannot resolve itself. How can I help portage to resolve this blockings itself in a smart way? (trying to do emerge --keep-going -j2 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep @system @world automatically. ) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. Another thought to. The option --with-bdeps y may help. It may not but it could be worth a try. I have ran into problems where that helped and have read where a few others have ran into similar problems and that fixed it. It just tells emerge to dig a little deeper from my understanding. Can't think of anything else at the moment. Thanks Dale, --with-bdeps y seems to help. By the way, the '-j n' option of emerge has nothing to do with the MAKEOPTS option. The -j option of emerge require parallel emerging of several packages at a time while the -j option in MAKEOPTS requires parallel make of a single package. In some phases (like configure, bzip of the man pages, etc) emerge cannot use multiple cores for a single package. Therefore the -j option of emerge tries to emerge several packages at a time unless dependencies forbid that. It's quite clever in that respect. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore
On Monday 29 June 2009 11:29:22 Marco wrote: Hi all, after some updating (emerge --sync and emerge --update --deep world, etc.) my wirelss card does not work anymore. In the boot messagesI have: [...] * Starting wlan0 SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory * Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ... SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP [ ok ] * Starting wpa_cli on wlan0 ... [ ok ] * Backgrounding ... [...] And dmesg shows: [...] iwl3945 :03:00.0: PCI INT A - GSI 17 (level, low) - IRQ 17 iwl3945 :03:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x100102, writing 0x100106) firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2 iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2 Did you install the microcode? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore
В Пнд, 29/06/2009 в 11:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon пишет: On Monday 29 June 2009 11:29:22 Marco wrote: Hi all, after some updating (emerge --sync and emerge --update --deep world, etc.) my wirelss card does not work anymore. In the boot messagesI have: [...] * Starting wlan0 SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory * Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ... SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP [ ok ] * Starting wpa_cli on wlan0 ... [ ok ] * Backgrounding ... [...] And dmesg shows: [...] iwl3945 :03:00.0: PCI INT A - GSI 17 (level, low) - IRQ 17 iwl3945 :03:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x100102, writing 0x100106) firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2 iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2 Did you install the microcode? Same problem after install microcode.
Re: [gentoo-user] list of emerged programs?
On Sunday 28 June 2009 21:06:15 James wrote: Is there a simple, quick way to list all of the packages that have been emerged in cronological order? grep '::: completed' /var/log/emerge.log -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 29 June 2009 11:29:22 Marco wrote: Hi all, after some updating (emerge --sync and emerge --update --deep world, etc.) my wirelss card does not work anymore. In the boot messagesI have: [...] * Starting wlan0 SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory * Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ... SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP [ ok ] * Starting wpa_cli on wlan0 ... [ ok ] * Backgrounding ... [...] And dmesg shows: [...] iwl3945 :03:00.0: PCI INT A - GSI 17 (level, low) - IRQ 17 iwl3945 :03:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x100102, writing 0x100106) firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2 iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2 Did you install the microcode? emerge -pv net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode-15.32.2.9 66 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 66 kB Yes, it seems to be installed. -- Regards, Marco
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:29:22 +0200, Marco wrote: after some updating (emerge --sync and emerge --update --deep world, etc.) my wirelss card does not work anymore. What did you update? Telling us you updated wporld means nothing, it just tells us that one of the unknown packages you updated may have broken something. Use genlop or qlop to produce a list of the exact packages installed. iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2 iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2 [snip] Some research on 'SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory' showed that this is often caused by missing firmware for the wireless card. But net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode is installed on my system. You may have it installed, but it is either in the wrong place or an incompatible version as the kernel cannot load it. -- Neil Bothwick Access denied--nah nah na nah nah! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:29:22 +0200, Marco wrote: after some updating (emerge --sync and emerge --update --deep world, etc.) my wirelss card does not work anymore. What did you update? Telling us you updated wporld means nothing, it just tells us that one of the unknown packages you updated may have broken something. Use genlop or qlop to produce a list of the exact packages installed. I installed a file containing the output of 'qlop -l' iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2 iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2 [snip] Some research on 'SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory' showed that this is often caused by missing firmware for the wireless card. But net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode is installed on my system. You may have it installed, but it is either in the wrong place or an incompatible version as the kernel cannot load it. How can I find out about that? Where should it be located? -- Regards, Marco qlop.list Description: Binary data
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Marcolistwo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:29:22 +0200, Marco wrote: after some updating (emerge --sync and emerge --update --deep world, etc.) my wirelss card does not work anymore. What did you update? Telling us you updated wporld means nothing, it just tells us that one of the unknown packages you updated may have broken something. Use genlop or qlop to produce a list of the exact packages installed. I installed a file containing the output of 'qlop -l' ^^ attached I mean...
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:57:41 +0200, Marco wrote: What did you update? Telling us you updated wporld means nothing, it just tells us that one of the unknown packages you updated may have broken something. Use genlop or qlop to produce a list of the exact packages installed. I installed a file containing the output of 'qlop -l' But you haven't told us when the problem started, so which of those packages are relevant? It looks like you installed a new microcode package two days ago, that may be incompatible with your card. Have you tried rolling back to the previous version? You may have it installed, but it is either in the wrong place or an incompatible version as the kernel cannot load it. How can I find out about that? Where should it be located? qlist will show where is is installed, /lib/firmware is the standard location. -- Neil Bothwick Being defeated is a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore
On 29 Jun 2009, at 10:39, Marco wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 29 June 2009 11:29:22 Marco wrote: Hi all, after some updating (emerge --sync and emerge --update --deep world, etc.) my wirelss card does not work anymore. In the boot messagesI have: [...] * Starting wlan0 SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory * Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ... SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP [ ok ] * Starting wpa_cli on wlan0 ... [ ok ] * Backgrounding ... [...] And dmesg shows: [...] iwl3945 :03:00.0: PCI INT A - GSI 17 (level, low) - IRQ 17 iwl3945 :03:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x100102, writing 0x100106) firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2 iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2 Did you install the microcode? emerge -pv net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode-15.32.2.9 66 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 66 kB Yes, it seems to be installed. You may need to REinstall it. I would guess the installer might put the firmware in /lib/modules/ `uname -r`/something If you change the kernel version, the `uname -r` path changes. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:57:41 +0200, Marco wrote: [...] It looks like you installed a new microcode package two days ago, that may be incompatible with your card. Have you tried rolling back to the previous version? I just rolled back to iwl3945-ucode-15.28.1.6. Wireless is working again. Is the fact that the new version 15.32.2.9 does not work anymore something I should report in the bug database? You may have it installed, but it is either in the wrong place or an incompatible version as the kernel cannot load it. How can I find out about that? Where should it be located? qlist will show where is is installed, /lib/firmware is the standard location. There it is! Thanks for your support! -- Regards, Marco
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore
Am Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:29:53 +0200 schrieb Marco listwo...@gmail.com: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:57:41 +0200, Marco wrote: [...] It looks like you installed a new microcode package two days ago, that may be incompatible with your card. Have you tried rolling back to the previous version? I just rolled back to iwl3945-ucode-15.28.1.6. Wireless is working again. Is the fact that the new version 15.32.2.9 does not work anymore something I should report in the bug database? No, there are slotted versions of it. On purpose... This is because of changes in kernel. I do not remember which version of the Kernel required the new firmware. But it was definitely stated in the elog of iwl3945-ucode, that there are compatibility issues with some kernel versions. Sebastian -- Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. | _ ASCII ribbon campaign Karl Marx | ( ) against HTML e-mail s...@sti@N GÜNTHER | X against M$ attachments mailto:sam...@guenther-roetgen.de | / \ www.asciiribbon.org signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to help portage to be become a bit smarter
Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 29 Jun, Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm using portage-2.2_rc33. And it has become smarter with every new release. Still, I don't understand why it's sometimes smarter than other times. In most cases now, it's able to handle cases where installed old packages which depend on, say, libXX-version-1, block emerging libXX-version-2 by unmerging the old version itself. But sometimes, like today when upgrading from various qt-...-4.5.1 to qt-...-4.5.2 packages it produces tons of blockings which it cannot resolve itself. How can I help portage to resolve this blockings itself in a smart way? (trying to do emerge --keep-going -j2 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep @system @world automatically. ) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. Another thought to. The option --with-bdeps y may help. It may not but it could be worth a try. I have ran into problems where that helped and have read where a few others have ran into similar problems and that fixed it. It just tells emerge to dig a little deeper from my understanding. Can't think of anything else at the moment. Thanks Dale, --with-bdeps y seems to help. By the way, the '-j n' option of emerge has nothing to do with the MAKEOPTS option. The -j option of emerge require parallel emerging of several packages at a time while the -j option in MAKEOPTS requires parallel make of a single package. In some phases (like configure, bzip of the man pages, etc) emerge cannot use multiple cores for a single package. Therefore the -j option of emerge tries to emerge several packages at a time unless dependencies forbid that. It's quite clever in that respect. Helmut. Dang portage. It just gets better all the time. ;-) Glad that helped. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Mounting a usb device
I have a wireless hand held scanner that is temporary connected with a usb cable. I would like to embed Gentoo on it, but I don't know the mount. How can I find the device? lsscsi # just shows the scsi hard drive. cat /proc/partitions # just shows the eide and scsi partitions. lsusb # This does recognize the device and give me the following Bus 005 Device 004: ID 05e0:2000 Symbol Technologies What do I do at this point to communicate with the device? Thanks, dave
Re: [gentoo-user] Self created initramfs cannot work
my /init script is running now, but I got '/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off' error. I google a lot, and I think it would relate with my HD. When this error occurs, I got a simple shell. I tried 'lvm vgscan' in that shell, and it cannot find my lvm. I copied my block devices with: cp -a /dev/hda /usr/src/initramfs/dev cp -a /dev/hda1 /usr/src/initramfs/dev cp -a /dev/hda2 /usr/src/initramfs/dev what I missed? On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 8:55 PM, David Shendavidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: thanks a lot On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Dirk Heinrichsdirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Samstag 27 Juni 2009 10:25:11 schrieb David Shen: yep, i'd like to learn from your script. OK, here you are. BTW, I also put my initramfs into a separate partition /boot. Seems you misunderstood. I don't use an initramfs anymore, /boot _is_ my initramfs replacement. Whatever you put into an initramfs can as well be put into /boot. I've attached both set of scripts, just choose the one you like more. mkinitfs_script.tar.bz2 contains the script to put stuff to /boot, while mkinitramfs_script.tar.bz2 contains the script to create an initramfs for use inside the kernel (kernel+initramfs will be one file). In both cases, you should adapt the /etc/mkinit*fs/config file to your needs, just adapt the list of executables you need/want in your init*fs and run the desired script. The mkinitramfs.sh script will put everything into /usr/src/initramfs. You should configure this in your kernel config so that the kernel build system can create the image for you. The other one will put everything into /boot. Out of the box, the resulting fs will be suited for accessing / from a logical volume which may optionally be encrypted using LUKS. The init script will find out at boot time wether the LV is encrypted and will run cryptsetup to prompt for a password. Finally, you need to adapt your bootloader, depending on which approach you choose: initramfs: realroot=/dev/vg/root (* NO root=, because that's the initramfs). initfs: You'll need both root=/dev/sda1, which should be your /boot, realroot= as above and rw (this is important). BTW: Newer kernels also have a configuration option for this: CONFIG_CMDLINE. In case of further questions, just send a mail. Bye... Dirk -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84 -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a usb device
On 29 Jun 2009, at 12:48, dhk wrote: I have a wireless hand held scanner that is temporary connected with a usb cable. I would like to embed Gentoo on it, but I don't know the mount. How can I find the device? lsscsi # just shows the scsi hard drive. cat /proc/partitions # just shows the eide and scsi partitions. lsusb # This does recognize the device and give me the following Bus 005 Device 004: ID 05e0:2000 Symbol Technologies What do I do at this point to communicate with the device? Are you sure the device should appear as a mass storage device? That appears to be what you're expecting, but I don't find that clear at all. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a usb device
Stroller wrote: On 29 Jun 2009, at 12:48, dhk wrote: I have a wireless hand held scanner that is temporary connected with a usb cable. I would like to embed Gentoo on it, but I don't know the mount. How can I find the device? lsscsi # just shows the scsi hard drive. cat /proc/partitions # just shows the eide and scsi partitions. lsusb # This does recognize the device and give me the following Bus 005 Device 004: ID 05e0:2000 Symbol Technologies What do I do at this point to communicate with the device? Are you sure the device should appear as a mass storage device? That appears to be what you're expecting, but I don't find that clear at all. Stroller. No, I'm not sure how the device should appear. However, I thought it should look like any other disk or usb stick since it currently has a Microsoft CE on it, which I want to change to Gentoo.
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a usb device
Stroller wrote: On 29 Jun 2009, at 12:48, dhk wrote: I have a wireless hand held scanner that is temporary connected with a usb cable. I would like to embed Gentoo on it, but I don't know the mount. How can I find the device? lsscsi # just shows the scsi hard drive. cat /proc/partitions # just shows the eide and scsi partitions. lsusb # This does recognize the device and give me the following Bus 005 Device 004: ID 05e0:2000 Symbol Technologies What do I do at this point to communicate with the device? Are you sure the device should appear as a mass storage device? That appears to be what you're expecting, but I don't find that clear at all. Stroller. I googled a bit and it appears to be seen as a keyboard device. I googled for 05e0:2000 Symbol Technologies with no quotes tho. I thought maybe I was finding the wrong device. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a usb device
Dale wrote: Stroller wrote: On 29 Jun 2009, at 12:48, dhk wrote: I have a wireless hand held scanner that is temporary connected with a usb cable. I would like to embed Gentoo on it, but I don't know the mount. How can I find the device? lsscsi # just shows the scsi hard drive. cat /proc/partitions # just shows the eide and scsi partitions. lsusb # This does recognize the device and give me the following Bus 005 Device 004: ID 05e0:2000 Symbol Technologies What do I do at this point to communicate with the device? Are you sure the device should appear as a mass storage device? That appears to be what you're expecting, but I don't find that clear at all. Stroller. I googled a bit and it appears to be seen as a keyboard device. I googled for 05e0:2000 Symbol Technologies with no quotes tho. I thought maybe I was finding the wrong device. Dale :-) :-) I'm still not sure what to do with this, but I'll see if any of these Google links help. Thanks.
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a usb device
On 29 Jun 2009, at 13:53, dhk wrote: ... What do I do at this point to communicate with the device? Are you sure the device should appear as a mass storage device? That appears to be what you're expecting, but I don't find that clear at all. No, I'm not sure how the device should appear. However, I thought it should look like any other disk or usb stick since it currently has a Microsoft CE on it, which I want to change to Gentoo. I don't think that's a reasonable conclusion _at all_. If the scanner plugs into a Windows PC and appears as a disk drive then, sure, I'd expect to be able to treat it the same under Linux. But, assuming it plugs into a Windows PC at all, it's more likely that the manufacturer's software (which you'll need on the PC anyway, to handle barcode stock-control data?) talks to it over in some proprietary-over-serial format. Finally, can you even install Linux on this scanner? Chances are its processor is ARM - Linux will run on that architecture, but you won't be able to chroot in from your x86 box install GRUB. Chances are that this scanner is some kind of rebadged HP iPaq or something, onto which Linux has been / can be cludged onto, but you seem to be making a lot of assumptions ahead of time. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: coexisting GCC versions
Roger Mason writes: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: What is your $PATH? (echo $PATH) I have /usr/i486-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2 in there (just before /usr/i686- pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2), don't know where this comes from. The directory usr/i486-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin does not exist, so it does not matter. Seems to be some leftover from the installation. I just deleted the directory, and /etc/env.d/05gcc-i486-pc-linux-gnu. Also have a look in /etc/env.d/*gcc*, do these settings look okay? That's where gcc-config changes things. My 05gcc-i686-pc-linux-gnu has the line PATH=/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2 in it. garnet ~ $ echo $PATH /home/rmason/.nix-profile/bin:/usr/local/coda/bin:/usr/local/coda/sbin:/u sr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.1:/ usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/bin:/opt/sun-jdk -1.4.2.17/jre/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/jre/javaws:/usr/qt/3/bin:/home/rma son/bin:/usr/local/axiom/mnt/linux/bin:/usr/local/apache-uima//bin:/usr/lo cal/tau/i386_linux/bin:/usr/local/pdt/i386_linux/bin [...] garnet ~ $ cat /etc/env.d/05gcc-i686-pc-linux-gnu [...] PATH=/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2 Looks good to me. Finally, what is the PATH in /etc/profile.env? According to the order of your gcc paths, I guess it has /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc- bin/4.1.1:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.2 in it, while only the second one should be there. Does grep /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.1 /ect/env.d/* find something? Some obscure other file that env-update uses? If not, I have no more ideas. I'd change /etc/profile.env by hand then, and file a bug report. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Kbackup and dvd sized slices
On 6/29/09, Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com wrote: But in other news there, they seem to have released kbackup 0.6 just a month ago, which incidentally among other things removes the 4GB limit: If someone is brave and stupid enough to try, I tried to modify the ebuild from 0.5.4-r1 to compile 0.6. Bug #275824 Unfortunately, kbackup-0.6 still seems to have the 4GB limit for the custom size setting, but it also has some standard DVD sizes to choose from which go well beyond in size (17.1GB is the largest -- and then there's always the unlimited). -- Arttu V.
Re: [gentoo-user] Kbackup and dvd sized slices
Arttu V. wrote: On 6/29/09, Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com wrote: But in other news there, they seem to have released kbackup 0.6 just a month ago, which incidentally among other things removes the 4GB limit: If someone is brave and stupid enough to try, I tried to modify the ebuild from 0.5.4-r1 to compile 0.6. Bug #275824 Unfortunately, kbackup-0.6 still seems to have the 4GB limit for the custom size setting, but it also has some standard DVD sizes to choose from which go well beyond in size (17.1GB is the largest -- and then there's always the unlimited). Well, I'm fairly brave but not stupid. I'm not going to try that. It sounds iffy. Huh, spell check liked that word. I'm thinking about going backward if I can. It used to work. Maybe it is still in portage. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] finding qt plugins?
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Roy Wrightr...@wright.org wrote: Howdy, On ~x86 did the upgrade to qt 4.5.2 and get the following message: After a rebuild or upgrade of Qt, it can happen that Qt plugins (such as Qt and KDE styles and widgets) can no longer be loaded. In this situation you should recompile the packages providing these plugins... Packages that typically need to be recompiled are kdelibs from KDE4, any additional KDE4/Qt4 styles, qscintilla and PyQt4... Then followed the link on the plugins which stated: The Qt library and all plugins are built using a build key. The build key in the Qt library is examined against the build key in the plugin, and if they match, the plugin is loaded. If the build keys do not match, then the Qt library refuses to load the plugin. So how do I find all the installed qt plugins on my system and check their build keys? From a couple minutes of poking around: strings /usr/lib/qt4/libQtCore.so | grep Build.key strings some-other-file | grep buildkey Which comes back with seemingly everything build against Qt4... But I don't know how to tell which ones qualify as a plug-in... Typically when I rebuild Qt4 I also rebuild kdelibs, PyQt4, and my themes... in my case that is gtk-engines-kde4, gtk-engines-qt, and all qtcurve packages. Seems to work for me.
Re: [gentoo-user] Removing qt4 meta
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Marcolistwo...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to find out if packages depend on qt? Although I think I did not install any packages that depend on qt (saving space) I am not 100% sure... emerge --depclean -pv qt-core
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore
After read this thread I don't understand how to start net.wlan0 with firmware from slot (1) (using 2.6.30-gentoo-r1) instead of usage a script which manual configure device but this is not the solution...
Re: [gentoo-user]WAS lvm problem -- NOW sleep tweak?FIXED
1. Add that sleep to fsck (or any earlier script) instead of localmount. Thanks Mike, I put 'sleep 5' in checkfs and that seemed to do the trick. Interesting: The file systems are checked in two stages. *Checking root fiilesystem... and /dev/sda is set up followed by *Remounting root filesystem read/write next, the modules are loaded followed by *Checkinig all filesystems... and /dev/sdb is set up, followed by *Mounting local filesystems... and I'm in. Never noticed that before. mw
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore
Read this warning: * * Due to ucode API change this version of ucode works only with kernels * =2.6.29-rc1. If you have to use older kernels please install ucode * with older API: * emerge net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode:0 * For more information take a look at bugs.gentoo.org/246045 *
Re: [gentoo-user] Self created initramfs cannot work
Am Montag 29 Juni 2009 14:08:54 schrieb David Shen: my /init script is running now, but I got '/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off' error. I google a lot, and I think it would relate with my HD. When this error occurs, I got a simple shell. I tried 'lvm vgscan' in that shell, and it cannot find my lvm. Do you have dm_mod compiled into the kernel? I copied my block devices with: cp -a /dev/hda /usr/src/initramfs/dev cp -a /dev/hda1 /usr/src/initramfs/dev cp -a /dev/hda2 /usr/src/initramfs/dev There's no need to do that, that's what udev is for. Did you look into the scripts I've send? They should setup everything for you. Initially, you only need console, null and initctl in /dev of your initrd, udev takes care of everything else. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Java apps in 64 bit JVM?
Hi all, The company has a Juniper Secure Connect VPN and I run amd64. The process is: log in via a web page in a browser, click a button and the page starts a java APP to create the ssl tunnel - a full blown Swing app, not a mere applet. I've only ever got this Java app to run in 32 bit Firefox with the java-x86- emul package. 64 bit Firefox, Konqueror, Opera all fail. I've tried sun-jdk, sun-jre (nsplugin and nsplugin-2), blackdown and icedtea. The only thing that works is firefox-bin with a 32bit jvm. The app doesn't do much in the way of logging so I don't know why it's failing. This strikes me as odd: A java app is bytecode that is independent of platform. It should make no difference whether a 32bit or 64bit jvm executes the bytecode as the format of the Java Virtual Machine and it's bytecode is constant. Surely? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Java apps in 64 bit JVM?
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, The company has a Juniper Secure Connect VPN and I run amd64. The process is: log in via a web page in a browser, click a button and the page starts a java APP to create the ssl tunnel - a full blown Swing app, not a mere applet. I've only ever got this Java app to run in 32 bit Firefox with the java-x86- emul package. 64 bit Firefox, Konqueror, Opera all fail. I've tried sun-jdk, sun-jre (nsplugin and nsplugin-2), blackdown and icedtea. The only thing that works is firefox-bin with a 32bit jvm. The app doesn't do much in the way of logging so I don't know why it's failing. This strikes me as odd: A java app is bytecode that is independent of platform. It should make no difference whether a 32bit or 64bit jvm executes the bytecode as the format of the Java Virtual Machine and it's bytecode is constant. Surely? Alan, I can only echo your frustrations. I don't have a 64-bit Windows installation to test but I've run into numerous web sites that make use of Java and never found an installation for my 64-bit Gentoo that works as well as my wife's 32-bit Gentoo. Maybe things work perfectly fine on both machines but numerous ones fail on mine and when tested on my wife's seem to work fine. Things like buttons, selection check marks, stock charts and other things that specific sites were doing in Java tended to be where I had trouble. Along these lines was part of the reason I posed a question some weeks ago on the Gentoo-64-bit list about the possibility of using a 64-bit kernel but building all apps as 32-bit. (Not my idea - picked it up on LKML.) Good luck and keep us posted. I hope you make progress. Cheers, Mark
[gentoo-user] Insane load on gentoo server - possibly clamassassin related?
Today my gentoo server that has sat happily churning my mundane (and lightweight) tasks froze and I noticed when it stopped serving DNS queries... and the server was even unresponsive from the command prompt. I rebooted and was a bit taken aback at what I found. The server currently runs, but has a load of over 60, where I'd expect a load of below 0.1. Investigations using top did not suggest that a single process was using vast amounts of processing time... but there were significantly more clamascan processes than I'd expect... and even more procmail processes -- $ ps auwx | grep clamscan | grep -v grep | wc -l 42 $ ps auwx | grep procmail | grep -v grep | wc -l 94 $ ps auwx | grep clamassassin | grep -v grep | wc -l 55 -- The first few lines from top say: -- PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 15451 usr 20 0 35944 33m 872 D 2.7 3.3 0:00.60 clamscan 216 root 15 -5 000 S 0.7 0.0 0:03.80 kswapd0 15116 usr 20 0 76136 15m 668 D 0.7 1.6 0:03.30 clamscan 15299 usr 20 0 2584 1224 840 R 0.7 0.1 0:04.36 top 15428 usr 20 0 61288 57m 872 D 0.7 5.7 0:01.38 clamscan 1 root 20 0 1648 196 172 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.64 init 2 root 15 -5 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd -- The procmail configuration I've adopted hasn't changed in years... -- DEFAULT=$HOME/.maildir/ SHELL=/bin/sh MAILDIR=$HOME/.maildir :0fw * 1024000 | /usr/bin/clamassassin | /usr/bin/spamc -f -- I'm assuming that my suddenly starting to have problems with this is something to do with an update to clamd/clamassassin... I've a vague recollection that one or the other of them might have been updated when I last synchronised and emerged updates... but I can't remember. Any ideas? This isn't a heavily loaded server usually - I've more procmail processes than I usually receive in emails in an hour. Something's wrong - can anyone offer any hints? Has anyone else run into this problem? Is there a known 'quick fix'?
Re: [gentoo-user] Java apps in 64 bit JVM?
On Monday 29 June 2009 18:54:13 Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, The company has a Juniper Secure Connect VPN and I run amd64. The process is: log in via a web page in a browser, click a button and the page starts a java APP to create the ssl tunnel - a full blown Swing app, not a mere applet. I've only ever got this Java app to run in 32 bit Firefox with the java-x86- emul package. 64 bit Firefox, Konqueror, Opera all fail. I've tried sun-jdk, sun-jre (nsplugin and nsplugin-2), blackdown and icedtea. The only thing that works is firefox-bin with a 32bit jvm. The app doesn't do much in the way of logging so I don't know why it's failing. This strikes me as odd: A java app is bytecode that is independent of platform. It should make no difference whether a 32bit or 64bit jvm executes the bytecode as the format of the Java Virtual Machine and it's bytecode is constant. Surely? Alan, I can only echo your frustrations. I don't have a 64-bit Windows installation to test but I've run into numerous web sites that make use of Java and never found an installation for my 64-bit Gentoo that works as well as my wife's 32-bit Gentoo. Maybe things work perfectly fine on both machines but numerous ones fail on mine and when tested on my wife's seem to work fine. Things like buttons, selection check marks, stock charts and other things that specific sites were doing in Java tended to be where I had trouble. Along these lines was part of the reason I posed a question some weeks ago on the Gentoo-64-bit list about the possibility of using a 64-bit kernel but building all apps as 32-bit. (Not my idea - picked it up on LKML.) Good luck and keep us posted. I hope you make progress. I'm thinking it must be something in Juniper's ncsvc app - judging by the quality of their install and launch scripts, I'd rate their programmer's skill on par with chimpanzee's for the most part. I'd understand a traditional applet - it runs in the browser's process space and all sorts of things could conflict. But this is just a regular app (I can kill Firefox as soon as the VPN is up and ncsvn continues as normal). I'm now going to search for options to make this thing log more and better. Let's see what happens. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore
2009/6/29 Fabio Palladino palladino.fa...@gmail.com Read this warning: * * Due to ucode API change this version of ucode works only with kernels * =2.6.29-rc1. If you have to use older kernels please install ucode * with older API: * emerge net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode:0 * For more information take a look at bugs.gentoo.org/246045 * That seams clear dont't instal the latest ucode if you are not running the latest stable gentoo kernel. Sounds good. Did you only update ucode, but not the kernel? Time to do it. I have the same chip in my notebook, never a problem with this. Cheers!
Re: [gentoo-user] Insane load on gentoo server - possibly clamassassin related?
On Monday 29 June 2009 19:04:44 Steve wrote: Today my gentoo server that has sat happily churning my mundane (and lightweight) tasks froze and I noticed when it stopped serving DNS queries... and the server was even unresponsive from the command prompt. I rebooted and was a bit taken aback at what I found. The server currently runs, but has a load of over 60, where I'd expect a load of below 0.1. Investigations using top did not suggest that a single process was using vast amounts of processing time... but there were significantly more clamascan processes than I'd expect... and even more procmail processes -- $ ps auwx | grep clamscan | grep -v grep | wc -l 42 $ ps auwx | grep procmail | grep -v grep | wc -l 94 $ ps auwx | grep clamassassin | grep -v grep | wc -l 55 -- The first few lines from top say: -- PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 15451 usr 20 0 35944 33m 872 D 2.7 3.3 0:00.60 clamscan 216 root 15 -5 000 S 0.7 0.0 0:03.80 kswapd0 15116 usr 20 0 76136 15m 668 D 0.7 1.6 0:03.30 clamscan 15299 usr 20 0 2584 1224 840 R 0.7 0.1 0:04.36 top 15428 usr 20 0 61288 57m 872 D 0.7 5.7 0:01.38 clamscan 1 root 20 0 1648 196 172 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.64 init 2 root 15 -5 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd -- The procmail configuration I've adopted hasn't changed in years... -- DEFAULT=$HOME/.maildir/ SHELL=/bin/sh MAILDIR=$HOME/.maildir :0fw * 1024000 | /usr/bin/clamassassin | /usr/bin/spamc -f -- I'm assuming that my suddenly starting to have problems with this is something to do with an update to clamd/clamassassin... I've a vague recollection that one or the other of them might have been updated when I last synchronised and emerged updates... but I can't remember. Any ideas? This isn't a heavily loaded server usually - I've more procmail processes than I usually receive in emails in an hour. Something's wrong - can anyone offer any hints? Has anyone else run into this problem? Is there a known 'quick fix'? Looks like you have 200 processes sitting there blocking I/O. Is there anything related in the logs? Your best bet is to examine emerge.log (better still - genlop) and find all recent upgrades that might affect this. Then roll them back one by one till the problem goes away. Once you know the errant package, we can start to examine diffs and see why it might behave like that. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] pxe boot + nfs mountpoints
All, I am having a weird problem and I'm going nuts trying to figure out what may be going wrong. I've followed the Diskless Nodes document[1] on the g.o website. So far my machine will PXE boot and mount root partition without any issues. The diskless client, however, does *not* mount the non-root partitions (such as /opt, /usr, etc.). This results in a system with no /usr partition and a ton of my tools missing. ;) If I log into the crippled system, however, I can manually mount /usr and /opt. Things work better at that point. Here's the fstab file inside of /diskless/gentoo/etc/: 10.1.1.5:/diskless/gentoo/ nfs sync,hard,intr,rw,nolock,rsize=8192,wsize=81920 0 10.1.1.5:/opt/opt nfs sync,hard,intr,ro,nolock,rsize=8192,wsize=81920 0 10.1.1.5:/usr/usr nfs sync,hard,intr,ro,nolock,rsize=8192,wsize=81920 0 10.1.1.5:/home /home nfs sync,hard,intr,rw,nolock,rsize=8192,wsize=81920 0 none/proc procdefaults 0 0 - /etc/exports is as follows: /pxe/diskless/gentoo*(sync,rw,no_root_squash,no_all_squash,no_subtree_check) /opt*(sync,ro,no_root_squash,no_all_squash,no_subtree_check) /usr*(sync,ro,no_root_squash,no_all_squash,no_subtree_check) /home *(sync,rw,no_root_squash,no_all_squash,no_subtree_check) /var/log*(sync,rw,no_root_squash,no_all_squash,no_subtree_check) Any thoughts on why these partitions are not mounting automatically? I've even appended auto to the fstab mountpoints with no success. Help greatly appreciated. :) -j 1 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml
[gentoo-user] after moving /usr/portage - /var/portage, user can't --pretend
HI group, I moved /usr/portage to /var/portage and readjusted PORTDIR in make.conf and re re'd the link to /etc/make.profile. Now emege -p pkg for user leads to Permission denied: '/var/portage/profiles/categories' It's OK for root. NB:user is in portage group, /var/portage/profiles/categories is owned by portage:portage. I googled the error message(I can't be the first to move portage to var)and got nothing. Something else to check? Maxim
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore
В Пнд, 29/06/2009 в 14:15 -0300, Alejandro пишет: 2009/6/29 Fabio Palladino palladino.fa...@gmail.com Read this warning: * * Due to ucode API change this version of ucode works only with kernels * =2.6.29-rc1. If you have to use older kernels please install ucode * with older API: * emerge net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode:0 * For more information take a look at bugs.gentoo.org/246045 * That seams clear dont't instal the latest ucode if you are not running the latest stable gentoo kernel. Sounds good. Did you only update ucode, but not the kernel? Time to do it. I have the same chip in my notebook, never a problem with this. Cheers! After reading this thread I don't understand how to start net.wlan0 with firmware from slot (1) (using 2.6.30-gentoo-r1) instead of usage a script which manual configure device but this is not the solution... -- Vasya Volkov
Re: [gentoo-user] Insane load on gentoo server - possibly clamassassin related?
Steve wrote: $ ps auwx | grep clamscan | grep -v grep | wc -l 42 $ ps auwx | grep procmail | grep -v grep | wc -l 94 $ ps auwx | grep clamassassin | grep -v grep | wc -l 55 -- The first few lines from top say: -- PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 15451 usr 20 0 35944 33m 872 D 2.7 3.3 0:00.60 clamscan 216 root 15 -5 000 S 0.7 0.0 0:03.80 kswapd0 15116 usr 20 0 76136 15m 668 D 0.7 1.6 0:03.30 clamscan 15299 usr 20 0 2584 1224 840 R 0.7 0.1 0:04.36 top 15428 usr 20 0 61288 57m 872 D 0.7 5.7 0:01.38 clamscan 1 root 20 0 1648 196 172 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.64 init 2 root 15 -5 000 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd -- The procmail configuration I've adopted hasn't changed in years... -- DEFAULT=$HOME/.maildir/ SHELL=/bin/sh MAILDIR=$HOME/.maildir :0fw * 1024000 | /usr/bin/clamassassin | /usr/bin/spamc -f -- Might be bug in clamd/spamassassin. But it could also be you are being mail-bombed (e.g. infinite depth of compressed-in-compressed attachements). I recommend to include some limit for number of clamd/spamassassin instances. Don't know if procmail has such a capability, but it is easy to control it with wrappers like amavisd-new or MailScanner... Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.
Re: [gentoo-user] Java apps in 64 bit JVM?
On Montag 29 Juni 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi all, The company has a Juniper Secure Connect VPN and I run amd64. The process is: log in via a web page in a browser, click a button and the page starts a java APP to create the ssl tunnel - a full blown Swing app, not a mere applet. I've only ever got this Java app to run in 32 bit Firefox with the java-x86- emul package. 64 bit Firefox, Konqueror, Opera all fail. I've tried sun-jdk, sun-jre (nsplugin and nsplugin-2), blackdown and icedtea. The only thing that works is firefox-bin with a 32bit jvm. The app doesn't do much in the way of logging so I don't know why it's failing. This strikes me as odd: A java app is bytecode that is independent of platform. It should make no difference whether a 32bit or 64bit jvm executes the bytecode as the format of the Java Virtual Machine and it's bytecode is constant. Surely? yes, the bytecode is agnostic. But the vm is not - and look into the directory, tons and tons of old crap. If juniper is badly programmed, it might trigger some bug in the old stuff.
Re: [gentoo-user] Insane load on gentoo server - possibly clamassassin related?
Alan McKinnon wrote: Looks like you have 200 processes sitting there blocking I/O. Is there anything related in the logs? Not sure - as I'm not sure where to look, or what to look for. Your best bet is to examine emerge.log (better still - genlop) and find all recent upgrades that might affect this. Then roll them back one by one till the problem goes away. Once you know the errant package, we can start to examine diffs and see why it might behave like that. The only relevant package seems to be clamav... my emerge.log shows that I upgraded 8 packages yesterday just before 5pm - and the second of these was app-antivirus/clamav-0.95.2 - I think I simply chose to use the new configurations after issuing a dispatch-config... I didn't do anything 'adventurous'. Perhaps this might be something to do with a long-forgotten hack for clamassassin to work with clamd that might have been overwritten... (changing CLAMSCAN=/usr/bin/clamscan to CLAMSCAN=/usr/bin/clamdscan in /usr/bin/clamassassin) but this seems odd - since the date on clamassassin is 7 September 2008... and this problem with my server is very recent - it was working fine yesterday... and clamassassin hasn't been re-installed since everything worked fine - only clamav was emerged. As an interim hack, I've removed /usr/bin/clamassassin from my global procmailrc; stopped spamd; killed all the procmail and clamscan processes - and restarted postfix. This has left me with an operational server with which I can interact. It would seem very strange if I'm the only person having trouble with clamscan... in the context of what (I think) is a fairly standard postfix install.
Re: [gentoo-user] Java apps in 64 bit JVM?
Alan McKinnon schrieb: Hi all, The company has a Juniper Secure Connect VPN and I run amd64. The process is: log in via a web page in a browser, click a button and the page starts a java APP to create the ssl tunnel - a full blown Swing app, not a mere applet. I've only ever got this Java app to run in 32 bit Firefox with the java-x86- emul package. 64 bit Firefox, Konqueror, Opera all fail. I've tried sun-jdk, sun-jre (nsplugin and nsplugin-2), blackdown and icedtea. The only thing that works is firefox-bin with a 32bit jvm. The app doesn't do much in the way of logging so I don't know why it's failing. This strikes me as odd: If it isn't an applet, maybe you can extract the jar's URL from the web page, download it with wget and try to run it locally. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Insane load on gentoo server - possibly clamassassin related?
Jarry wrote: Might be bug in clamd/spamassassin. But it could also be you are being mail-bombed (e.g. infinite depth of compressed-in-compressed attachements). I thought about that - but I can't find an offending email with a bogus attachment if I am. I recommend to include some limit for number of clamd/spamassassin instances. Don't know if procmail has such a capability, but it is easy to control it with wrappers like amavisd-new or MailScanner... I'd assumed that clamassassin would take care of this with some sensible defaults for me... My default clamd.conf says: -- # Maximum depth directories are scanned at. # Default: 15 #MaxDirectoryRecursion 20 -- So, I'd imagine that would take care of this... conversely - it did seem a bit strange that clamassassin was configured to use clamscan not clamdscan (which would have made more sense to me) but it had been configured that way for a very long time according to the file-dates and it's only recently that things went awry for me... My procmailrc is simply how I wire in my mail delivery filters. I'd expect the filters themselves to behave sensibly... Though it came as a bit of a shock to see that my postfix user had as many processes spawned as it did... I'd always thought that the purpose of postfix was to queue mail in order that it could be processed sequentially in order to avoid this sort of problem...
Re: [gentoo-user] Java apps in 64 bit JVM?
On Monday 29 June 2009 19:48:28 Florian Philipp wrote: Alan McKinnon schrieb: Hi all, The company has a Juniper Secure Connect VPN and I run amd64. The process is: log in via a web page in a browser, click a button and the page starts a java APP to create the ssl tunnel - a full blown Swing app, not a mere applet. I've only ever got this Java app to run in 32 bit Firefox with the java-x86- emul package. 64 bit Firefox, Konqueror, Opera all fail. I've tried sun-jdk, sun-jre (nsplugin and nsplugin-2), blackdown and icedtea. The only thing that works is firefox-bin with a 32bit jvm. The app doesn't do much in the way of logging so I don't know why it's failing. This strikes me as odd: If it isn't an applet, maybe you can extract the jar's URL from the web page, download it with wget and try to run it locally. There's a local copy on the machine anyway, which I've tried to run stand- alone. The VPN uses two-factor auth - the Windows domain username/pass plus an OTP from a credit-card fob. It appears that the web page sets this up right somehow, and it's https:// so I can't sniff it and see what gives. I'll keep trying though -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Java apps in 64 bit JVM?
On Monday 29 June 2009 18:10:44 Alan McKinnon wrote: judging by the quality of their install and launch scripts, I'd rate their programmer's skill on par with chimpanzee's for the most part. About the same as mine then :-( No programming since 1991, and that was Fortran. Mind you, 10 years earlier I was a bit of a whiz at assembler on an Argus 500. [/OT] -- Rgds Peter
[gentoo-user] please disregard post re: portage move
Hi group, I didn't preserve the rwx permissions. Crisis averted! Sorry 'bout that. Maxim
Re: [gentoo-user] Java apps in 64 bit JVM?
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, The company has a Juniper Secure Connect VPN and I run amd64. The process is: log in via a web page in a browser, click a button and the page starts a java APP to create the ssl tunnel - a full blown Swing app, not a mere applet. I've only ever got this Java app to run in 32 bit Firefox with the java-x86- emul package. 64 bit Firefox, Konqueror, Opera all fail. I've tried sun-jdk, sun-jre (nsplugin and nsplugin-2), blackdown and icedtea. The only thing that works is firefox-bin with a 32bit jvm. The app doesn't do much in the way of logging so I don't know why it's failing. This strikes me as odd: A java app is bytecode that is independent of platform. It should make no difference whether a 32bit or 64bit jvm executes the bytecode as the format of the Java Virtual Machine and it's bytecode is constant. Surely? According to my Google search results, a 64-bit Sun Java plug-in has been provided starting with Java SE 6 Update 12 Build 02. You should be able to select your preferred plug-in and virtual machine using eselect (I don't think I have tried it... I can't remember the last time I encountered a Java applet on the web)
[gentoo-user] Xorg dropping keyboard events?
After recent updates Xorg on several of my machines have started dropping keyboard events. Sometimes it's a keydown event -- in which case the keystroke is ignored. Sometimes it's a keyup event -- in which case the key repeats indefinitely until another key is pressed. It _seems_ to happen more when the CPU is busy, but I can't get it to happen predictably. It stated on all of my machines within the last week or two. They don't all get updated at the same time, but it seems to have started on each one after a recent udpate. I haven't been able to find anything that seems relevent in bugzilla. Has anybody else seen this problem pop up recently? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I'd like some JUNK at FOOD ... and then I want to visi.combe ALONE --
Re: [gentoo-user] Java apps in 64 bit JVM?
On Monday 29 June 2009 20:31:07 Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, The company has a Juniper Secure Connect VPN and I run amd64. The process is: log in via a web page in a browser, click a button and the page starts a java APP to create the ssl tunnel - a full blown Swing app, not a mere applet. I've only ever got this Java app to run in 32 bit Firefox with the java-x86- emul package. 64 bit Firefox, Konqueror, Opera all fail. I've tried sun-jdk, sun-jre (nsplugin and nsplugin-2), blackdown and icedtea. The only thing that works is firefox-bin with a 32bit jvm. The app doesn't do much in the way of logging so I don't know why it's failing. This strikes me as odd: A java app is bytecode that is independent of platform. It should make no difference whether a 32bit or 64bit jvm executes the bytecode as the format of the Java Virtual Machine and it's bytecode is constant. Surely? According to my Google search results, a 64-bit Sun Java plug-in has been provided starting with Java SE 6 Update 12 Build 02. You should be able to select your preferred plug-in and virtual machine using eselect (I don't think I have tried it... I can't remember the last time I encountered a Java applet on the web) I said in my original post that I had tried a 64 bit jre without success. It's also NOT an applet - it continues to run as it's own full-blown process even after the browser exits. And the correct commands to configure system and user vm's were executed each time. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Insane load on gentoo server - possibly clamassassin related?
On Monday 29 June 2009 19:44:49 Steve wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: Looks like you have 200 processes sitting there blocking I/O. Is there anything related in the logs? Not sure - as I'm not sure where to look, or what to look for. Your best bet is to examine emerge.log (better still - genlop) and find all recent upgrades that might affect this. Then roll them back one by one till the problem goes away. Once you know the errant package, we can start to examine diffs and see why it might behave like that. The only relevant package seems to be clamav... my emerge.log shows that I upgraded 8 packages yesterday just before 5pm - and the second of these was app-antivirus/clamav-0.95.2 - I think I simply chose to use the new configurations after issuing a dispatch-config... I didn't do anything 'adventurous'. Perhaps this might be something to do with a long-forgotten hack for clamassassin to work with clamd that might have been overwritten... (changing CLAMSCAN=/usr/bin/clamscan to CLAMSCAN=/usr/bin/clamdscan in /usr/bin/clamassassin) but this seems odd - since the date on clamassassin is 7 September 2008... and this problem with my server is very recent - it was working fine yesterday... and clamassassin hasn't been re-installed since everything worked fine - only clamav was emerged. As an interim hack, I've removed /usr/bin/clamassassin from my global procmailrc; stopped spamd; killed all the procmail and clamscan processes - and restarted postfix. This has left me with an operational server with which I can interact. It would seem very strange if I'm the only person having trouble with clamscan... in the context of what (I think) is a fairly standard postfix install. That looks sane enough. I guess now you get to keep an eye on it for a few days. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Re: pxe boot + nfs mountpoints
Okay, I've gotten a little further by moving some of the runscripts to /etc/runlevel/boot. I still, however, can't seem to get /usr/ nfs mounted before some of the boot runlevel daemons kick off (like keymap, etc.). I think part of the problem is I'm using OpenRC. Any way on forcing netmount init script to kick off before everything else? -j On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Jamesj...@nc.rr.com wrote: All, I am having a weird problem and I'm going nuts trying to figure out what may be going wrong. I've followed the Diskless Nodes document[1] on the g.o website. So far my machine will PXE boot and mount root partition without any issues. The diskless client, however, does *not* mount the non-root partitions (such as /opt, /usr, etc.). This results in a system with no /usr partition and a ton of my tools missing. ;) If I log into the crippled system, however, I can manually mount /usr and /opt. Things work better at that point. Here's the fstab file inside of /diskless/gentoo/etc/: 10.1.1.5:/diskless/gentoo / nfs sync,hard,intr,rw,nolock,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0 10.1.1.5:/opt /opt nfs sync,hard,intr,ro,nolock,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0 10.1.1.5:/usr /usr nfs sync,hard,intr,ro,nolock,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0 10.1.1.5:/home /home nfs sync,hard,intr,rw,nolock,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 - /etc/exports is as follows: /pxe/diskless/gentoo *(sync,rw,no_root_squash,no_all_squash,no_subtree_check) /opt *(sync,ro,no_root_squash,no_all_squash,no_subtree_check) /usr *(sync,ro,no_root_squash,no_all_squash,no_subtree_check) /home *(sync,rw,no_root_squash,no_all_squash,no_subtree_check) /var/log *(sync,rw,no_root_squash,no_all_squash,no_subtree_check) Any thoughts on why these partitions are not mounting automatically? I've even appended auto to the fstab mountpoints with no success. Help greatly appreciated. :) -j 1 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml
Re: [gentoo-user] Java apps in 64 bit JVM?
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 29 June 2009 20:31:07 Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, The company has a Juniper Secure Connect VPN and I run amd64. The process is: log in via a web page in a browser, click a button and the page starts a java APP to create the ssl tunnel - a full blown Swing app, not a mere applet. I've only ever got this Java app to run in 32 bit Firefox with the java-x86- emul package. 64 bit Firefox, Konqueror, Opera all fail. I've tried sun-jdk, sun-jre (nsplugin and nsplugin-2), blackdown and icedtea. The only thing that works is firefox-bin with a 32bit jvm. The app doesn't do much in the way of logging so I don't know why it's failing. This strikes me as odd: A java app is bytecode that is independent of platform. It should make no difference whether a 32bit or 64bit jvm executes the bytecode as the format of the Java Virtual Machine and it's bytecode is constant. Surely? According to my Google search results, a 64-bit Sun Java plug-in has been provided starting with Java SE 6 Update 12 Build 02. You should be able to select your preferred plug-in and virtual machine using eselect (I don't think I have tried it... I can't remember the last time I encountered a Java applet on the web) I said in my original post that I had tried a 64 bit jre without success. It's also NOT an applet - it continues to run as it's own full-blown process even after the browser exits. And the correct commands to configure system and user vm's were executed each time. Okay, I misunderstood. It looks like it may be a Juniper-related problem and not a Java problem. I have used Java Web Start apps using 64-bit java on my system and it works fine, but googling juniper vpn shows several people on various distros having problems similar to yours. This page appears to have some info about what you need to do in order to get it going: http://mad-scientist.us/juniper.html (from an Ubuntu perspective) There are some sample JWS apps on http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/javawebstart/demos.html if you want to make sure your Java Web Start is working. Since 64-bit Java from Sun is so new, I didn't really see many references to the Juniper VPN from a 64-bit standpoint (just people trying to get it working with 32-bit JWS in a 64-bit browser etc). One person said they installed the 32-bit JVM to use with the VPN and used 64-bit with everything else. You may need to be the trailblazer. :)
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:03:32 +0400, Vasya Volkov wrote: After read this thread I don't understand how to start net.wlan0 with firmware from slot (1) (using 2.6.30-gentoo-r1) instead of usage a script which manual configure device but this is not the solution... emerge -C net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode:0 emerge -av net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode:1 -- Neil Bothwick Is that woof feed me; woof walk me; woof there's a burglar? What?? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Java apps in 64 bit JVM?
On Monday 29 June 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: an OTP from a credit-card fob. It appears that the web page sets this up right somehow, and it's https:// so I can't sniff it and see what gives. Yes you can with some tool like webmitm, dsniff or ettercap (or others).
[gentoo-user] synaptics support in xorg
Hi group, According to 'The X Server Configuration HOWTO' If you use alternative input devices, such as a Synaptics touchpad for a laptop, be sure to add it to INPUT_DEVICES. So I put in make.conf INPUT_DEVICES=mouse keyboard synaptics and did emerge -pv xorg-server. In the output after INPUT_DEVICES I saw keyboard, mouse and evdev in red and synaptics in blue with a minus sigh. So I removed keyboard and mouse from the line in make.conf. Same result. Don't know where evdev comes from; I never specified it anywhere. Only by explicitly entering INPUT_DEVICES=synaptics emerge -pv xorg-server was I able to see, after INPUT_DEVICES in the output, the word synaptics in green with an asterisk at the end. The words evdev, keyboard and mouse appear further along in the output, also in green ending in asterisks but preceeded with a minus sign. And, that was after re-adding mouse and keyboard to INPUT_DEVICES in make.conf. Questions: Is this the right way to go? Why won't portage accept what's in make.conf in this case? It accepts my USE flags and my VIDEO_CARDS entry. What's with the green and the asterisk? Is the doc wrong? I note it was updated just three weeks ago. Maxim
Re: [gentoo-user] Self created initramfs cannot work
yeah, I see you used udev. But I see the gentoo wiki, they do not use udev, so I think I can work without udev, too. I will check if I have dm_mod in my kernel. Thanks. On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Dirk Heinrichsdirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Montag 29 Juni 2009 14:08:54 schrieb David Shen: my /init script is running now, but I got '/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off' error. I google a lot, and I think it would relate with my HD. When this error occurs, I got a simple shell. I tried 'lvm vgscan' in that shell, and it cannot find my lvm. Do you have dm_mod compiled into the kernel? I copied my block devices with: cp -a /dev/hda /usr/src/initramfs/dev cp -a /dev/hda1 /usr/src/initramfs/dev cp -a /dev/hda2 /usr/src/initramfs/dev There's no need to do that, that's what udev is for. Did you look into the scripts I've send? They should setup everything for you. Initially, you only need console, null and initctl in /dev of your initrd, udev takes care of everything else. Bye... Dirk -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84
Re: [gentoo-user] after moving /usr/portage - /var/portage, user can't --pretend
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 11:30 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: HI group, I moved /usr/portage to /var/portage and readjusted PORTDIR in make.conf and re re'd the link to /etc/make.profile. Now emege -p pkg for user leads to Permission denied: '/var/portage/profiles/categories' It's OK for root. NB:user is in portage group, /var/portage/profiles/categories is owned by portage:portage. I googled the error message(I can't be the first to move portage to var)and got nothing. Something else to check? Maxim Maybe it's one of the higher-up directories, that the user cannot read? Check /var /var/portage /var/portage/profiles. Easiest thing to do, would be to run as the user (not root): $ find /var/portage /dev/null Only error messages should be displayed :) Bye, Daniel
