[gentoo-user] Install kernel 2.6.22
Hi all, I want to emerge the gentoo-source-2.6.22, but the latest portage does not have it but only have 2.6.16, 2.6.25 and above. How can I install the kernel 2.6.22 for gentoo? Thanks in advance. Regards, Zhiwei
Re: [gentoo-user] Install kernel 2.6.22
Am Montag 17 August 2009 09:22:16 schrieb Song Zhiwei: I want to emerge the gentoo-source-2.6.22, but the latest portage does not have it but only have 2.6.16, 2.6.25 and above. How can I install the kernel 2.6.22 for gentoo? Thanks in advance. If you don't need any special things provided by gentoo-sources, you can get any version from kernel.org. curiosity Why install such an old version? /curiosity Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Install kernel 2.6.22
Thanks for your reply. Yes, I want to use the special things provided by gentoo-sources. I need the old one because the can2usb driver I used does not support any kernel above 2.6.22. Zhiwei 2009/8/17 Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de: Am Montag 17 August 2009 09:22:16 schrieb Song Zhiwei: I want to emerge the gentoo-source-2.6.22, but the latest portage does not have it but only have 2.6.16, 2.6.25 and above. How can I install the kernel 2.6.22 for gentoo? Thanks in advance. If you don't need any special things provided by gentoo-sources, you can get any version from kernel.org. curiosity Why install such an old version? /curiosity Bye... Dirk
Re: [gentoo-user] Install kernel 2.6.22
Song Zhiwei schrieb: Hi all, I want to emerge the gentoo-source-2.6.22, but the latest portage does not have it but only have 2.6.16, 2.6.25 and above. How can I install the kernel 2.6.22 for gentoo? Thanks in advance. Regards, Zhiwei get the ebuild from here http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/?hideattic=0 and use a local overlay signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] When will the ~ go from Firefox 3.0.12?
In 4a87e19a.2040...@coolmail.se pete...@coolmail.se (pk) writes: Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, normally gentoo was quick with security updates for Firefox but it is almost a month now since 3.0.12 and still the ~ is attached. What's going on there? 3.0.13 is the latest (with security updates). Or 3.5.2... well for www-client/mozilla-firefox there isn't even a 3.0.13 ebuild with a sync from last evening. Plus: This does not answer my question. Best regards Peter K -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: elw...@agouros.de Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185 Captain, this ship will not survive the forming of the cosmos. B'Elana Torres
Re: [gentoo-user] Install kernel 2.6.22
Thank you. 2009/8/17 Justin jus...@j-schmitz.net: Song Zhiwei schrieb: Hi all, I want to emerge the gentoo-source-2.6.22, but the latest portage does not have it but only have 2.6.16, 2.6.25 and above. How can I install the kernel 2.6.22 for gentoo? Thanks in advance. Regards, Zhiwei get the ebuild from here http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/?hideattic=0 and use a local overlay
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: prelink Gentoo docs confusing
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: But the docs I quotes say You do not need to set FEATURES=prelink in your make.conf. Maybe not an answer to your questions but...: http://lwn.net/Articles/341244/ Best regards Peter K
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events
=== On Mon, 08/17, Dale wrote: === So, another possible cause dealt with. Still watching for others tho. === Any clues in /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? -- Keith Dart -- -- ~ Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz public key: ID: 19017044 http://www.dartworks.biz/ =
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with pppd-added routes
=== On Mon, 08/17, Mike Kazantsev wrote: === But then, as usual, pppd messes up the routing table, adding the following route: __pptp_server_ip__ dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src __given_ip__ That's not messed up, that's what it's supposed to do. resulting in routing table like this: __pptp_server_ip__ dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src __given_ip__ 192.168.0.0/28 dev ath0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.11 127.0.0.0/8 via 127.0.0.1 dev lo default via 192.168.0.10 dev ath0 The __pptp_server_ip__ (you don't say what it is) should be the inner, or tunneled IP address to the server's tunneled interface. ...and ppp0 falls off in two minutes, because of inability to access __pptp_server_ip__. Naturally, all packets to __pptp_server_ip__ should go through 192.168.0.10 gateway, so I've always managed to work around this problem (with ISPs) by adding a route like this: No they shouldn't, because it probably isn't routable. It may be that your local IP network and the remote tunneled IP network are the same. That would cause you problems. If your connection is dropping then it may be that your destination is behind a firewall. It's hard to tell exactly what is going on with the limited information here. So, the question: can I tell pppd/kernel not to add this route somehow? I bet there should be some option, but I'm unable to find it in man page or google. Prehaps I can ban pppd from adding _any_ routes somehow? That's not the problem to solve. The most common problem is setting up routes to the tunneled destination. You probably need to add some static routes to the remote networks. You can do this by adding a shell script to /etc/ppp/ip-up.d directory: # cat 70-routes.sh #!/bin/sh # Used parameters and environment variables: # $1 - interface name # $6 - ipparam name case $6 in ipparamvalue) ip route add 10.0.0.0/8 dev $1;; esac -- Keith Dart -- -- ~ Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz public key: ID: 19017044 http://www.dartworks.biz/ =
Re: [gentoo-user] When will the ~ go from Firefox 3.0.12?
Konstantinos Agouros wrote: well for www-client/mozilla-firefox there isn't even a 3.0.13 ebuild with a sync from last evening. Plus: This does not answer my question. It was not meant to answer your question about what's happening (I'm not involved in that so I don't know the answer). I just wanted to mention if you are looking for the latest security fixes, 3.0.12 is not the latest version. FYI: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/ Best regards Peter K
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with pppd-added routes
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:37:42 -0700 Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz wrote: === On Mon, 08/17, Mike Kazantsev wrote: === But then, as usual, pppd messes up the routing table, adding the following route: __pptp_server_ip__ dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src __given_ip__ That's not messed up, that's what it's supposed to do. Guess it's just because all the gateways I've connected to lead to the outside world, not the inner network with local IPs, so inner and outer IPs there are the same (yes, both networks are actually the same outside world, see below). resulting in routing table like this: __pptp_server_ip__ dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src __given_ip__ 192.168.0.0/28 dev ath0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.11 127.0.0.0/8 via 127.0.0.1 dev lo default via 192.168.0.10 dev ath0 The __pptp_server_ip__ (you don't say what it is) should be the inner, or tunneled IP address to the server's tunneled interface. ...and ppp0 falls off in two minutes, because of inability to access __pptp_server_ip__. Naturally, all packets to __pptp_server_ip__ should go through 192.168.0.10 gateway, so I've always managed to work around this problem (with ISPs) by adding a route like this: No they shouldn't, because it probably isn't routable. It may be that your local IP network and the remote tunneled IP network are the same. That would cause you problems. If your connection is dropping then it may be that your destination is behind a firewall. It's hard to tell exactly what is going on with the limited information here. Hm, the inner word clears it up, thanks for the tip. Indeed, the networks, routed by local and pptp gateway do overlap, because they both lead to the outside internet (although both are a bit restricted subset of it). So the should-be-inner IP (__pptp_server_ip__) is just identical to the outer one. I wonder if it does matter whether the remote gateway is closed to a __given_ip__ - connection was established from first gw's outer IP anyway, so the route to it is indeed severed: to send a packet to ppp0 gw, I need to use ppp0 and to use ppp0 I need to send that packet to ppp0 gw ;) Okay, I'll try to be more specific, although your guess about networks' layout seem to be correct anyway. Note that the host 87.224.197.1 should be accessible via both gateways. tests (1): # ping -c 1 87.224.197.1 PING 87.224.197.1 (87.224.197.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 87.224.197.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=4.67 ms # ping -c 1 93.182.147.2 PING 93.182.147.2 (93.182.147.2) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 93.182.147.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=107 ms ip ro before pon: 192.168.0.0/28 dev ath0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.13 127.0.0.0/8 via 127.0.0.1 dev lo default via 192.168.0.10 dev ath0 pon: ... rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x2 compress VJ 0f 01 addr 93.182.147.27] local IP address 93.182.147.27 remote IP address 93.182.147.2 Script /etc/ppp/ip-up started (pid 5048) Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid 5048), status = 0x0 ip ro now: 93.182.147.2 dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src 93.182.147.27 192.168.0.0/28 dev ath0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.13 127.0.0.0/8 via 127.0.0.1 dev lo default via 192.168.0.10 dev ath0 tests (2): # ip ro add 87.224.197.1 dev ppp0 # ping 87.224.197.1 PING 87.224.197.1 (87.224.197.1) 56(84) bytes of data. ^C --- 87.224.197.1 ping statistics --- 7 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 7000ms # ping 93.182.147.2 PING 93.182.147.2 (93.182.147.2) 56(84) bytes of data. ^C --- 93.182.147.2 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3000ms 2 minutes later (pon output): Modem hangup Connect time 2.0 minutes. Sent 1847283226 bytes, received 0 bytes. Script /etc/ppp/ip-down started (pid 5169) MPPE disabled sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 MPPE disabled] Connection terminated. Script pptp 93.182.147.2 --nolaunchpppd finished (pid 5042), status = 0x0 Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished (pid 5169), status = 0x0 ppp0 is destroyed along with it's routes and both pings work again via 192.168.0.10 gw, while I wanted to access 87.224.197.1 via the tunnel. If I'll add ip ro del 93.182.147.2 dev ppp0 quickly enough to test (2) block, both pings will work - packets to 93.182.147.2 will be routed via 192.168.0.10 and to 87.224.197.1 via 93.182.147.2. And so the question stays the same: So, the question: can I tell pppd/kernel not to add this route somehow? I bet there should be some option, but I'm unable to find it in man page or google. Prehaps I can ban pppd from adding _any_ routes somehow? Not a chance? :( That's not the problem to solve. The most common problem is setting up routes to the tunneled destination. You probably need to add some static routes to the remote networks. You can do this by adding a shell script to /etc/ppp/ip-up.d directory: Yes,
Re: [gentoo-user] Network message encryption
Xianwen Chen schrieb: Hello all, I'm looking for a network message encryption method. Please kindly tell me if you know any Instant Messenger which supports encryption. Thank you very much! Best regards, Wen Hi, IIRC psi can be used togetzter with gnupg. This should do ;-) kh
Re: [gentoo-user] Network message encryption
I use an OTR-plugin for Pidgin. It works fine with ICQ and Facebookchat and most likely with most other protocols too. x11-plugins/pidgin-otr There is even a compatible Plugin for Miranda (encrypted messages to Windows). On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 13:13 +0200, KH wrote: Xianwen Chen schrieb: Hello all, I'm looking for a network message encryption method. Please kindly tell me if you know any Instant Messenger which supports encryption. Thank you very much! Best regards, Wen Hi, IIRC psi can be used togetzter with gnupg. This should do ;-) kh
[gentoo-user] Re: prelink Gentoo docs confusing
On 08/17/2009 12:07 PM, pk wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: But the docs I quotes say You do not need to set FEATURES=prelink in your make.conf. Maybe not an answer to your questions but...: http://lwn.net/Articles/341244/ If you actually read the article linked to from that one: Just before the holiday weekend in the US, somebody uploaded a broken prelink which hosed most important executables on the system. The result was a box which wouldn't boot I take it the prelink in Gentoo is not broken.
Re: [gentoo-user] Network message encryption
Xianwen Chen wrote: Hello all, I'm looking for a network message encryption method. Please kindly tell me if you know any Instant Messenger which supports encryption. Thank you very much! Kopete with the otr use flag supports Off The Record Encryption. This is THE method when communicating over a totally open channel like the internet. The message is encrypted on your computer and decrypted on the receivers computer. A drawback is that you have to handshake with each of the receivers first. New keys are generated on the fly (off the record) such that if your secret key is compromised no old messages can be decrypted still. Wikipedia has a small article about it and it works quite easily once set up in kopete. Best Thomas Best regards, Wen -- Thomas Kahle The fundamental theorem of algebra is open source. Like any other mathematical theorem it can be applied free of charge and everybody has access to its proof and can convince himself how it works. Why should software be any different? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Network message encryption
Hi Dale, On 8/17/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: According to the USE flags, it appears that Kopete supports encryption. I have no clue how good it is or if this is exactly what you are looking for but you may want to look into it. Yes, Kopete supports encryption. Thanks for the information. However, I need to use QQ protocal, which isn't right now supported by Kopete. Best regards, Wen [ebuild R ] kde-base/kopete-3.5.10-r4 USE=crypt groupwise highlight history sametime ssl statistics texteffect yahoo -addbookmarks -alias -autoreplace -connectionstatus -contactnotes -debug -emoticons-manager -gadu -irc -jabber (-jingle) -kdehiddenvisibility -latex -msn -netmeeting -nowlistening -oscar -slp -sms -translator -v4l2 -webpresence -winpopup -xscreensaver r...@smoker / # euse -i crypt global use flags (searching: crypt) [+ CD ] crypt - Add support for encryption -- using mcrypt or gpg where applicable Hope that gets you in the some sort of a direction. Dale :-) :-) -- Xianwen Chen Mobile: +86 13774 228909 Email: cxi...@post.uit.no; xianwen.c...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Network message encryption
Hi Saphirus, On 8/17/09, Saphirus Sage saphirus...@gmail.com wrote: Well, for instant messengers, most do support some form of encryption, such that Empathy, Pidgin or any other client which can handle MSN must use encryption, as everything is sent over SSL. But, in general, I would suggest Pidgin, as via a plugin, it can be used in combination with OTR (Off-The-Record) which uses public-key encryption between clients, and ontop of that, there's even a plugin for pidgin which uses RSA instead, which I've found to be buggy, but is certainly a bit stronger in the cryptographic sense. Thanks very much for the information. I'm emerged pidgin-otr, and it works well! I didn't go for the RSA plugin, since it was buggy, and OTR is enough for me. Best regards, Wen -- Xianwen Chen Mobile: +86 13774 228909 Email: cxi...@post.uit.no; xianwen.c...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Network message encryption
Hi Mike, On 8/17/09, Mike Kazantsev mk.frag...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using gajim with TLS-enabled (transport-level encryption) connection to the servers and built-in GPG plugin to encrypt messages, containing some auth info, which I occasionally have to pass. I believe pidgin also had support for such feature via one of the standard plugins. Thanks for the information. I've checked the wikipedia page of gajim. It's very interesting, however, I'm not a jabber user. But I'll check it again if any friend of mine is using jabber, since the GPG plugin is very attractive to me. Best regards, Wen TLS is widely-deployed on XMPP (jabber) servers, but encryption ends at the server in question, so it can intercept / mangle the messages, so it might be good idea to prefer large and reliable servers to possibly-compromised or malicious small ones. Furthermore, in case of XMPP, your (source) server is free to pass the message in unencrypted form to destination server, so message can be caught by any IP-sniffers on the route. Then there's also remote client connection, which can be unencrypted (no TLS/SSL) and likewise intercepted on TCP/IP level. GPG encryption requires clients on both sides to support it, but has benefit that all cryptographic operations are happening on client machines, so server (or any intermediate host) is unable to spoof conversation, provided the encryption (GPG) keys aren't compromised. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net -- Xianwen Chen Mobile: +86 13774 228909 Email: cxi...@post.uit.no; xianwen.c...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Network message encryption
On 8/17/09, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: Hi, IIRC psi can be used togetzter with gnupg. This should do ;-) kh Hi KH, What's IIRC psi? Could you please provide a link? Best regards, Wen -- Xianwen Chen Mobile: +86 13774 228909 Email: cxi...@post.uit.no; xianwen.c...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Network message encryption
Hi Hinnerk, Thanks! I'm using it now! Best regards, Wen On 8/17/09, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen hvbruineh...@googlemail.com wrote: I use an OTR-plugin for Pidgin. It works fine with ICQ and Facebookchat and most likely with most other protocols too. x11-plugins/pidgin-otr There is even a compatible Plugin for Miranda (encrypted messages to Windows). On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 13:13 +0200, KH wrote: Xianwen Chen schrieb: Hello all, I'm looking for a network message encryption method. Please kindly tell me if you know any Instant Messenger which supports encryption. Thank you very much! Best regards, Wen Hi, IIRC psi can be used togetzter with gnupg. This should do ;-) kh -- Xianwen Chen Mobile: +86 13774 228909 Email: cxi...@post.uit.no; xianwen.c...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Network message encryption
Hi Thomas, Thanks for your information. I would love to have a try on Kopete once it supports QQ protocal. Best regards, Wen On 8/17/09, Thomas Kahle tom...@gmx.de wrote: Kopete with the otr use flag supports Off The Record Encryption. This is THE method when communicating over a totally open channel like the internet. The message is encrypted on your computer and decrypted on the receivers computer. A drawback is that you have to handshake with each of the receivers first. New keys are generated on the fly (off the record) such that if your secret key is compromised no old messages can be decrypted still. Wikipedia has a small article about it and it works quite easily once set up in kopete. Best Thomas Best regards, Wen -- Thomas Kahle The fundamental theorem of algebra is open source. Like any other mathematical theorem it can be applied free of charge and everybody has access to its proof and can convince himself how it works. Why should software be any different? -- Xianwen Chen Mobile: +86 13774 228909 Email: cxi...@post.uit.no; xianwen.c...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events
Keith Dart wrote: === On Mon, 08/17, Dale wrote: === So, another possible cause dealt with. Still watching for others tho. === Any clues in /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? -- Keith Dart It has been a while since I tried it but I don't recall anything in there. I need to try this again tho since I know how to use the SysRq keys now. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] In search for a undeclared identifier...
On my system it's in /usr/include/GL/glew.h header, which belongs to media-libs/glew, so you probably need to have it installed. My bad, I've misread grep results. It really is in /usr/include/GL/glext.h. And that file should be symlink created by eselect opengl with source belonging either to media-libs/mesa or nvidia drivers. If source file include lines are correct, you might want to try re-emerging nvidia drivers and eselect'ing them. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net Hi, thank for the help ! :o) Currently I cannot decide whether everything is setup correctly on my box: ls -l /usr/include/GL/glext.h gives me lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2009-08-14 04:34 /usr/include/GL/glext.h - //usr//lib/opengl/global/include/glext.h which looks linke pointing neither to mesa nor to nvidia -- at least for my blurred eyes. Would it be possible to post a correctly set link for comparison? Thanks a lot in advance! mcc PS: And thank you for the tip: Now I can save my money for better things as DVDs of Raiders of the lost identifier (Indiana Gnu). -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
[gentoo-user] Re: In search for a undeclared identifier...
On 08/17/2009 06:51 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: On my system it's in /usr/include/GL/glew.h header, which belongs to media-libs/glew, so you probably need to have it installed. My bad, I've misread grep results. It really is in /usr/include/GL/glext.h. And that file should be symlink created by eselect opengl with source belonging either to media-libs/mesa or nvidia drivers. If source file include lines are correct, you might want to try re-emerging nvidia drivers and eselect'ing them. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net Hi, thank for the help ! :o) Currently I cannot decide whether everything is setup correctly on my box: ls -l /usr/include/GL/glext.h gives me lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2009-08-14 04:34 /usr/include/GL/glext.h - //usr//lib/opengl/global/include/glext.h which looks linke pointing neither to mesa nor to nvidia -- at least for my blurred eyes. You didn't follow the instructions. eselect opengl will tell you. To make sure, do eselect opengl set x11; eselect opengl set nvidia. But as I already wrote in another post, this looks like a bug in the application you're trying to build.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: In search for a undeclared identifier...
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2009-08-14 04:34 /usr/include/GL/glext.h - //usr//lib/opengl/global/include/glext.h which looks linke pointing neither to mesa nor to nvidia -- at least for my blurred eyes. You didn't follow the instructions. eselect opengl will tell you. To make sure, do eselect opengl set x11; eselect opengl set nvidia. But as I already wrote in another post, this looks like a bug in the application you're trying to build. Before I posted, I did a eselect opengl set nvidia but from the result I can not tell, whether its pointing to the correct file. The only proof I have is the command I gave. -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
Re: [gentoo-user] Network message encryption
Xianwen Chen schrieb: On 8/17/09, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: Hi, IIRC psi can be used togetzter with gnupg. This should do ;-) kh Hi KH, What's IIRC psi? Could you please provide a link? Best regards, Wen Hi Wen, IIRC = Acronym for If I Recall(or Remember) Correctly. See [1] PSI = net-im/psi See [2] and [3] This is from the PSI website [3]: Using the same SSL technology that makes it possible for you to safely shop on the web, Psi automatically encrypts its communication with compatible IM servers to provide a secure connection over untrusted networks like public WiFi access points. For advanced security needs, Psi can also encrypt messages end-to-end with OpenPGP. Regards kh [1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=iircr=f [2] http://packages.larrythecow.org/?v=pkgc=net-ims=psi [3] http://psi-im.org/
[gentoo-user] I lost the ability to boot into single user
I used to specify this: softlevel=boot in the Grub screen to boot to single user. However, this doesn't work anymore; it boots right into the default runlevel. I think this happened after I upgraded to GCC 4.4.1 (and rebuilt system and world with it, and also the kernel.) What can the problem be? What is needed for softlevel= selection to work?
Re: [gentoo-user] I lost the ability to boot into single user
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I used to specify this: softlevel=boot in the Grub screen to boot to single user. However, this doesn't work anymore; it boots right into the default runlevel. I think this happened after I upgraded to GCC 4.4.1 (and rebuilt system and world with it, and also the kernel.) What can the problem be? What is needed for softlevel= selection to work? Try softlevel=single and see if that works. I go to single user using the command rc single so it should exist and should work from grub too. Maybe grub has changed its options? Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] I lost the ability to boot into single user
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I used to specify this: softlevel=boot in the Grub screen to boot to single user. However, this doesn't work anymore; it boots right into the default runlevel. I think this happened after I upgraded to GCC 4.4.1 (and rebuilt system and world with it, and also the kernel.) What can the problem be? What is needed for softlevel= selection to work? Try softlevel=single and see if that works. I go to single user using the command rc single so it should exist and should work from grub too. Maybe grub has changed its options? I think you can put the number 1 on the end of the line instead for the same result... not completely sure though. I don't think I've ever booted to single-user mode.
[gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I used to specify this: softlevel=boot in the Grub screen to boot to single user. However, this doesn't work anymore; it boots right into the default runlevel. I think this happened after I upgraded to GCC 4.4.1 (and rebuilt system and world with it, and also the kernel.) What can the problem be? What is needed for softlevel= selection to work? Try softlevel=single and see if that works. I go to single user using the command rc single so it should exist and should work from grub too. Maybe grub has changed its options? Dale :-) :-) Openrc no longer supports the softlevel= option on the kernel command line (this hit me as well, as I use a number of different runlevels). Instead, pass S to skip just about everything, and start a root shell (via sulogin), or 1 to do the equivalent of /sbin/rc single (that is, drop the softlevel=boot completely, and add the single character S or 1 after a space). An example from my grub.conf: titleGentoo, current kernel (single user) kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 1 titleGentoo, current kernel (root shell) kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 S I also have my /etc/inittab set up so that init's runlevels 2-5 go into rc's various runlevels (on my machine, 2=default, 3=gui, 4=network, 5=gui-network). - -- ABCD -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkqJwdMACgkQOypDUo0oQOrXJACfbCNpIYYmy4LJVeTI8Mz9W7RB ETgAoLkoM9knBUV48E6R853MZhVR1SiR =6rbI -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user
Openrc no longer supports the softlevel= option on the kernel command line (this hit me as well, as I use a number of different runlevels). Instead, pass S to skip just about everything, and start a root shell (via sulogin), or 1 to do the equivalent of /sbin/rc single (that is, drop the softlevel=boot completely, and add the single character S or 1 after a space). An example from my grub.conf: titleGentoo, current kernel (single user) kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 1 titleGentoo, current kernel (root shell) kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 S I also have my /etc/inittab set up so that init's runlevels 2-5 go into rc's various runlevels (on my machine, 2=default, 3=gui, 4=network, 5=gui-network). This is possibly an (unreported) bug. Just for SG I booted with softlevel=BOOT on an Openrc and it reports that there is no runlevel BOOT and then basically puts me in single level mode :|, but softlevel=boot seems to be ignored. I think it should support it... why else would rc-update work with different runlevels it you are not able to use them? Also the man pages for rc-update and rc seem to reflect this. FWIW I usually forgo the runlevels and just use init=/bin/bash because it doesn't prompt for the root password and pretty much the only time i need to boot into single user is when I've forgotten the root password :P -a
Re: [gentoo-user] problems with the web browsers
On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 18:49 +0200, Ward Poelmans wrote: On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 18:40, M Daniel R M4.maga...@gmail.com wrote: firefox: Here the problem is very very annoying, I've run firefox before with many other Linux flavours and never..., never got to this status of inability; once you've got about six tabs opened on the same frame window, firefox gets close to hang, and you become unable to manage it anymore, unless you have an infinite patience. Doing top from a CLI shows a %CPU _over_ 100%, amazing!. At the end, you'll have to kill the process from console. Have you tried running firefox with all your extensions and plugins disabled? Which version of firefox are you running and what use flags do you use? Ward Yes, after your suggestion ;-) I had those extensions, until today: babelfish, boost for facebook, foxlingo, suggestmeyes. They are not on my firefox web browser any more. Then I tried once again, and the problem continued there, exactly the same. Well, I didn't want to touch the next, but.. Now I just have two more extensions left, the most used for me: pdf download, and clickweather. I just disabled them. Tried again several tabs and now... it's OK. Everything seems to be running pretty stably. Mozilla Firefox Version: 3.0.11 USE flags I use are pasted here on my first mail, man. Thank you very much, the problem seems to be located. Now I ask to myself whether there is anything I could do in order to have enabled those two extensions, working and without leave stability on firefox, or maybe this is, at the moment, not possible. Daniel Rguez. Magarzo
Re: [gentoo-user] problems with the web browsers
On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 19:09 +0200, Jesús Guerrero wrote: I am not into konqueror these days, so no idea about that. As for firefox, most problems comes from corrupted profiles, silly extensions, etc. So, first I would try using a clean profile, the easiest way to do that is to create a new user to test with. If the problem goes away then you know that there's something wrong in your profile, try disabling every extension and plugin before doing anything else. Yes, as I said just before, extensions (but not silly..) were the problem; not much convincing to me this solution, but facts were clear: after removing or disabling them, firefox run smoothly again. BTW, sorry but I didn't understood what you meant when saying about profile, (I'm not much got into tech issues, sorry :-) Daniel R. Magarzo
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problems with the web browsers
On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 20:16 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 08/16/2009 07:40 PM, M Daniel R M wrote:
firefox: Here the problem is very very annoying, I've run firefox before
with many other Linux flavours and never..., never got to this status of
inability; once you've got about six tabs opened on the same frame
window, firefox gets close to hang, and you become unable to manage it
anymore, unless you have an infinite patience. Doing top from a CLI
shows a %CPU _over_ 100%, amazing!. At the end, you'll have to kill the
process from console.
I don't know, either, why firefox gets to this status; preferences are
as usual, etc. Maybe the problem roots from the flags when compiling,
but I haven't received any message from the system, IIRC... Is there any
flag wrong on my system?
I remember Firefox was biting me with this too at some time. The
solution for me was to go to Edit-Preferences, and in the Security
tab uncheck the Block reported attack sites and Block reported web
forgeries checkboxes. The issue was that those features use sqlite to
update internal databases of thousands of malware sites, and updates
to these lists were bringing my CPU to its knees.
So try that and see if it helps.
Originally they both were checked. Then, unchecked and re-cheched again,
it seems that there were no difference here. Disabling add-ons on
firefox seems to have been the provisional solution.
CFLAGS=-march=nocona -O2 -pipe
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
Btw, if you're on a Core2 and a recent GCC, you might want to change
that to -march=core2 or -march=native.
Yes, I'm on a Core2, a laptop (Thinkpad T61), here you are a cat over
cpuinfo:
proc # cat cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8100 @ 2.10GHz
stepping: 6
cpu MHz : 2101.000
cache size : 3072 KB
physical id : 0
siblings: 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe
syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni dtes64
monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 lahf_lm ida
tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
bogomips: 4189.76
clflush size: 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8100 @ 2.10GHz
stepping: 6
cpu MHz : 2100.000
cache size : 3072 KB
physical id : 0
siblings: 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe
syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good pni dtes64
monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 lahf_lm ida
tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
bogomips: 4189.28
clflush size: 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
--
Here you are the GCC version:
proc # gcc --version
gcc (Gentoo 4.3.2-r3 p1.6, pie-10.1.5) 4.3.2
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is
NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
-
I already knew about that possibility indeed; Actually, I got to have it
some time ago (months) here, on this unit, when I made my first install
of Gentoo (bad end then :-))
Now, I've just leaved it as is 'cause of laziness, just laziness, man.
Apart from that, I'm not much sure there would be any significant
difference..., would be it?
Thanks a lot.
Daniel
Re: [gentoo-user] problems with the web browsers
On Mon, August 17, 2009 23:29, M Daniel R M wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 18:49 +0200, Ward Poelmans wrote: On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 18:40, M Daniel R M4.maga...@gmail.com wrote: firefox: Here the problem is very very annoying, I've run firefox before with many other Linux flavours and never..., never got to this status of inability; once you've got about six tabs opened on the same frame window, firefox gets close to hang, and you become unable to manage it anymore, unless you have an infinite patience. Doing top from a CLI shows a %CPU _over_ 100%, amazing!. At the end, you'll have to kill the process from console. Have you tried running firefox with all your extensions and plugins disabled? Which version of firefox are you running and what use flags do you use? Ward Yes, after your suggestion ;-) I had those extensions, until today: babelfish, boost for facebook, foxlingo, suggestmeyes. They are not on my firefox web browser any more. Then I tried once again, and the problem continued there, exactly the same. Well, I didn't want to touch the next, but.. Now I just have two more extensions left, the most used for me: pdf download, and clickweather. I just disabled them. Tried again several tabs and now... it's OK. Everything seems to be running pretty stably. Mozilla Firefox Version: 3.0.11 USE flags I use are pasted here on my first mail, man. Thank you very much, the problem seems to be located. Now I ask to myself whether there is anything I could do in order to have enabled those two extensions, working and without leave stability on firefox, or maybe this is, at the moment, not possible. The best you can do is to report the problem to the creator(s) of the said extension(s). Somewhere around the configuration of the extension or in the mozilla extensions site you should be able to find info about them or a contact mail or a link. Alternatively, you can try to substitute them with any other extension or program that can do the work. -- Jesús Guerrero
Re: [gentoo-user] problems with the web browsers
On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 20:01 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 16 August 2009 18:40:12 M Daniel R M wrote: Konqueror: very stable indeed, but it couldn't be at another way since it's a key piece of the KDE environment... The problem comes when I want to fill in forms (you know... web pages for registering, etc.). It stops many times without giving us an alert message or some kind of explanation, so you have to deduce that the problem is not from the website, but the browser instead. I don't know whether problems come from java or whatever..., I've checked my konqueror preferences and I'd bet they are all OK.. javascript support in konqueror sucks. I always thought that here it isn't my fault (that is, incomplete installs and so on..) For everything else it's actually OK. One of these days it will use webkit as the backend and then things might improve. Until then, I'm afraid you are SOL. ASAP, please! I think konqueror lacks of such abilities, and they are practically essential nowadays, but apart from that..., other capabilities are fine IMHO (speed, stability, ...). Ops! In addition, I realize now that sometimes konqueror renders (shows) some webpages badly (you know, things placed in the frame where they shouldn't, etc.) Regards, Daniel R. Magarzo
Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question
On Aug 16, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Roy Wright wrote: Went ahead and added the kde-testing overlay. Then moved /etc/ portage/kde and /etc/portage/sets to /tmp. This allowed emerge - uDNav world to not have any stoppers. Using the overlay for the new sets solved the upgrading. The new features seem very problematic, for example assigning wallpaper to activities just doesn't work and just using activities seem to make the desktop extremely flaky. Some plasmoids (like calendar) can be dragged from a panel to the desktop but some (like calculator) can not. Then the upgrade re-enabled the stupid desktop search which maxes a core forever (at least an hour which is when I disabled it). Also had to change the plasmoid theme back to oxygen from the new air. Surprisingly the rest of my customized environment seemed to have survived the upgrade... Thanks everyone!
[gentoo-user] dmesg output
Hi all, After I upgrade to the later version of xorg-server, dmesg output is full of debugging input event messages. It is inconvenient when I want to see what is going on with my computer. Below is the sample of debugging message obtained from dmesg command evbug.c: Event. Dev: input3, Type: 4, Code: 4, Value: 458795 evbug.c: Event. Dev: input3, Type: 1, Code: 15, Value: 0 evbug.c: Event. Dev: input3, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0 What should I do to get rid off these messages in dmesg output? Thanks a lot Hung
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user
Albert Hopkins wrote: Openrc no longer supports the softlevel= option on the kernel command line (this hit me as well, as I use a number of different runlevels). Instead, pass S to skip just about everything, and start a root shell (via sulogin), or 1 to do the equivalent of /sbin/rc single (that is, drop the softlevel=boot completely, and add the single character S or 1 after a space). An example from my grub.conf: titleGentoo, current kernel (single user) kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 1 titleGentoo, current kernel (root shell) kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda5 S I also have my /etc/inittab set up so that init's runlevels 2-5 go into rc's various runlevels (on my machine, 2=default, 3=gui, 4=network, 5=gui-network). This is possibly an (unreported) bug. Just for SG I booted with softlevel=BOOT on an Openrc and it reports that there is no runlevel BOOT and then basically puts me in single level mode :|, but softlevel=boot seems to be ignored. I think it should support it... why else would rc-update work with different runlevels it you are not able to use them? Also the man pages for rc-update and rc seem to reflect this. FWIW I usually forgo the runlevels and just use init=/bin/bash because it doesn't prompt for the root password and pretty much the only time i need to boot into single user is when I've forgotten the root password :P -a I agree, this should be reported so it can be fixed. While init-/bin/bash would work, it shouldn't be the only option. Who would want to put that option in grub and make it easy for someone to hack in? I did try softlevel=single a bit ago and it booted all the way but with no GUI. It went wy past single tho. rc-status reported it was in single user mode but it wasn't. Console #2 and up was working but X didn't start. Pretty darn weird. :/ Who's going to open the can of Raid? Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] dmesg output
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Hung Danghungp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, After I upgrade to the later version of xorg-server, dmesg output is full of debugging input event messages. It is inconvenient when I want to see what is going on with my computer. Below is the sample of debugging message obtained from dmesg command evbug.c: Event. Dev: input3, Type: 4, Code: 4, Value: 458795 evbug.c: Event. Dev: input3, Type: 1, Code: 15, Value: 0 evbug.c: Event. Dev: input3, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0 What should I do to get rid off these messages in dmesg output? I think of 3 things to try: 1) fix the problem with the device that is causing the errors 2) rmmod the evbug module 3) blackist the evbug module
[gentoo-user] Re: I lost the ability to boot into single user
On 08/18/2009 02:00 AM, Dale wrote: I agree, this should be reported so it can be fixed. While init-/bin/bash would work, it shouldn't be the only option. I filed a bug for it: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281850
