Re: [gentoo-user] emerge luatex-0.30.3 fails
On 9/3/09, Strake strake...@gmail.com wrote: /usr/lib64/libmplib/mplib.so: undefined reference to `lua_newtable' /usr/lib64/libmplib/mplib.so: undefined reference to `lua_tostring' /usr/lib64/libmplib/mplib.so: undefined reference to `luaL_getmetatable' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [luatex] Error 1 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267457 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265635 -- Arttu V.
Re: [gentoo-user] What is the correct way to keep a /dev entry through reboots?
Le Thu, 3 Sep 2009 01:17:26 -0400, Walter Dnes a écrit : For now I have the mkdir and mknod commands in /etc/conf.d/local/start to recreate them at each bootup, but putting stuff in there is usually a last resort. Is there a more correct way of doing it? Maybe you should try to setup some udev rules which create/delete the device node on specific kernel events (basically when the modem is plugged/unplugged) : http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
Re: [gentoo-user] What is the correct way to keep a /dev entry through reboots?
On Thursday 03 September 2009 07:17:26 Walter Dnes wrote: I recently bought a USR5637 USB dialup modem for my 2nd PC. I chose it because it's small, and specifically claims to support linux. Following instructions at http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x332.html I * recompiled the kernel with CDC(ACM) USB modem support * tried mknod /dev/usb/ttyACM0 c 166 0 * woops, no /dev/usb/. So I did mkdir /dev/usb and then the mknod * I rebooted, and discovered that /dev/usb was gone For now I have the mkdir and mknod commands in /etc/conf.d/local/start to recreate them at each bootup, but putting stuff in there is usually a last resort. Is there a more correct way of doing it? BTW, the modem works. I ssh'd from my main machine to the 2nd computer and dialed into my dialup ISP, and launched a w3m text browser session. The scarey part is that there is no modem noise to let me know when I'm connected. But ifconfig indicated that I now had ppp0, in addition to lo and eth0. Plus I went to whatismyip.org with w3m and got an IP address that reversed DNS to my dialup provider. Set up a udev rule so that if udevd finds a device with that modem's serial number (or other other identifier you like) then it creates the node you specify. Google for it. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mpd issues
On Thursday 03 September 2009 00:50:34 Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, Fresh issue, might as well keep the same thread. Like I said before the Music Player Daemon is set to start in the default level, so as the netbook boot msgs scroll by I've been use to seeing the msg: Music Player Daemon started just before login. Now suddenly, for some reason I can't fathom, the daemon starts and then stops. Before I can turn on ncmpcpp I have to run #/etc/init.d/mpd start, manually :( Anyone know what's going on here? NAFC. But if you give me an account on that box I can have a look for you. I'll send you a public key. Or, you could look in your logs and tell us what you see. You might have to tell mpd to start logging errors first. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Firefox and Ephiphany hang at a certain directory
It has just happened in the last day that whenever I try to navigate to a certain subdirectory of my home directory, in order to attach a file to an email in gmail, firefox hangs. I have tried a few experiments, with no success. This is also no ordinary directory---it has been under git control for several months. With any file manager this directory is accessible. With Konqueror, it is likewise accessible. Only with Firefox and Epiphany, as far as I can tell, is this happening. I have copied the contents of the directory, without the .git control baggage, and the same happens. This happened concurrently with an upgrade to a new firefox and xulrunner: mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-r2. I down graded by masking this version (and xulrunner were also downgraded when I did this), and the same problem persisted. I had run revdep-rebuild after upgrading to the newer firefox, by the way. This reminds me of a situation some months ago, when a specific home directory was impossible to browse in either nautilus, or firefox. This was due to a peculiar file, I cannot remember the name, but bizaare. When I finally found this file deep in the subdirectories, the problem went away. Thinking the same thing was going no here, I have looked at the directory, but superficially I have seen nothing. Except a file .directory left there by dolphin. I have recently installed kde 4.3.0, and started liking it a bit, and playing around with it. I don't know what else to look for, or what method to use, to look for bizaare bits in a tree. I suppose I will copy all the files over, one at a time. Suggestions would be appreciated. Alan Davis You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing---that's what counts. Richard Feynman
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Ephiphany hang at a certain directory
On Thursday 03 September 2009 11:48:40 Alan E. Davis wrote: It has just happened in the last day that whenever I try to navigate to a certain subdirectory of my home directory, in order to attach a file to an email in gmail, firefox hangs. I have tried a few experiments, with no success. This is also no ordinary directory---it has been under git control for several months. With any file manager this directory is accessible. With Konqueror, it is likewise accessible. Only with Firefox and Epiphany, as far as I can tell, is this happening. Lets eliminate the obvious first - move your existing mozilla profile out of the way and try again. Does the problem persist? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 schrieb Dale: Then again, Kopete forces me to re-enter my Yahoo password every time I restart Kopete too. It seems as a security measure it adds extra dots to the end so hackers can't tell how many characters are in the password. Thing is, that screws up the password as well. So much for the remember password option. Control Centre - Security and privacy - Password entry (or what's it called). Hmmm, what is this supposed to do? It was checked but I unchecked it and I don't see any difference. It still scrambles my password. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'
I have a kernel recompiled here, and I would like to copy over the bz to boot. I have a /boot that I can access but I do not think this is it (there is nothing in there). When I 'mount /boot' I get unkown filesystem type 'ext2'. I have followed Gentoo Handbook direction for the installation of the environemnt. Please Help. Thank In Advanced, Ninus
Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'
On Donnerstag 03 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote: I have a kernel recompiled here, and I would like to copy over the bz to boot. I have a /boot that I can access but I do not think this is it (there is nothing in there). When I 'mount /boot' I get unkown filesystem type 'ext2'. I have followed Gentoo Handbook direction for the installation of the environemnt. Please Help. Thank In Advanced, Ninus you forgot to include ext2 support into your kernel. Choosing it as module is not enought.
Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'
Nick Khamis wrote: I have a kernel recompiled here, and I would like to copy over the bz to boot. I have a /boot that I can access but I do not think this is it (there is nothing in there). When I 'mount /boot' I get unkown filesystem type 'ext2'. I have followed Gentoo Handbook direction for the installation of the environemnt. Please Help. Thank In Advanced, Ninus Did you forget to compile ext2 in the kernel or as a module? Maybe missed loading the module if it is a module? Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'
Nick Khamis a écrit : I have a kernel recompiled here, and I would like to copy over the bz to boot. I have a /boot that I can access but I do not think this is it (there is nothing in there). When I 'mount /boot' I get unkown filesystem type 'ext2'. I have followed Gentoo Handbook direction for the installation of the environemnt. Please Help. H... According to what you said, it seems that when you compiled your current running kernel during the Gentoo install, either you forgot to compile ext2 filesystem support in the kernel, either you compile it as module, in this case doing a modprobe ext2 can help, or in the last choice, you didn't compile ext2 support at all. Try to see if you are in the first cases. If not, you will have to compile your newly kernel with ext2 support, and use grub command line from the boot menu to tell him to use your new kernel instead of the one located in /boot. HTH. Thank In Advanced, Ninus -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :C7DC B10E FC21 63BE B453 D239 F6E6 DF65 1569 91BF signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'
Hell Sir, Thank You for your response, I did add it after I sent the original message, chrooted, mounted, and copied over trhe new bzimage file to the /boot partition. Now I am getting special device dev/sda1 does not exist when trying to issue a mount /boot Thanks In Advnaced, Ninus
Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'
On Thursday 03 September 2009 15:01:58 Nick Khamis wrote: Hell Sir, Thank You for your response, I did add it after I sent the original message, chrooted, mounted, and copied over trhe new bzimage file to the /boot partition. Now I am getting special device dev/sda1 does not exist when trying to issue a mount /boot You probably left out support for your chipset in the kernel. This too must not be a module. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'
Hello Everyone, Thank you all for your help, im an idiot everything works perfect. The only problem I am having is that when xdm is loading I am using nvidia-drivers, xdm loads and nothing works no keyboard etc... I am almost there xorg.conf looks ok, modprobe nvidia with no issues. I cannot every ctral+alt+F1/F2/F3 over to another screen after xdm loads. All the kernel driver that I need are included I think Regards, Ninus
Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'
Nick Khamis a écrit : Hello Everyone, Thank you all for your help, im an idiot everything works perfect. The only problem I am having is that when xdm is loading I am using nvidia-drivers, xdm loads and nothing works no keyboard etc... I am almost there xorg.conf looks ok, modprobe nvidia with no issues. I cannot every ctral+alt+F1/F2/F3 over to another screen after xdm loads. All the kernel driver that I need are included I think If this is a fresh install, so i guess you have updated xorg-server. Maybe try to re-emerge xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse ? HTH. Regards, Ninus -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :C7DC B10E FC21 63BE B453 D239 F6E6 DF65 1569 91BF signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'
I am using a Dell D820 ICH7 family, I am chking to see if appropriate modules have been selectd in the kernel right now. Reagrds, Ninus.
Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'
Nick Khamis a écrit : I am using a Dell D820 ICH7 family, I am chking to see if appropriate modules have been selectd in the kernel right now. You can, it can be useful, but this will not help with your xorg problem. If you can type in startx or /etc/init.d/xdm start, so your keyboard is working. So try to re-emerge xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse, it will probably solves your problem. Regards. Reagrds, Ninus. -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :C7DC B10E FC21 63BE B453 D239 F6E6 DF65 1569 91BF signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'
Exactly! In console everything is find. but when I issue startx my keybaord and mouse are non functional. I did remerge xf86 mouse and keyboard and still nothing. I looking into xorg.conf. Regards, Ninus
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg hal/evdev (was: unknown filesystem type 'ext2')
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 09:29:48 -0400, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Exactly! In console everything is find. but when I issue startx my keybaord and mouse are non functional. I did remerge xf86 mouse and keyboard and still nothing. I looking into xorg.conf. Regards, Ninus New versions of xorg.conf use hal to configure input devices. If you want to continue using the old method (xorg.conf) for input devices, you need to add this line to your xorg.conf: Option AllowEmptyInput False The X will continue to use your old xorg.conf settings for input devices. Else, If you want to migrate to the new policy using hal, you need to do this instead: cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-input.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ You might need to customize that file to suit your localization settings or whatever. -- Jesús Guerrero
[gentoo-user] revdep trouble
Hi all after two months I made a world upgrade. All went well, but when I ran revdep-rebuild I received this: localhost ~ # revdep-rebuild * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild * Checking reverse dependencies * Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update * will be emerged. * Collecting system binaries and libraries * Generated new 1_files.rr * Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH * Generated new 2_ldpath.rr * Checking dynamic linking consistency [ 46% ] * broken /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/32/libstdc++.la (requires -lgcc_s_32) * broken /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/32/libsupc++.la (requires -lgcc_s_32) [ 51% ] * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libcircogen.la (requires -lneatogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libcircogen.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libcircogen.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotgen.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotgen.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -ldotgen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -ltwopigen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -lfdpgen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -lcircogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -lneatogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libfdpgen.la (requires -lneatogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libfdpgen.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libfdpgen.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libgdtclft.la (requires -ltclstub8.4) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libgvrender.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libneatogen.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libneatogen.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -ltclstub8.4) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -ldotgen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -ltwopigen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -lfdpgen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -lcircogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -lneatogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtclplan.la (requires -ltclstub8.4) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtkspline.la (requires -ltkstub8.4) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtkspline.la (requires -ltclstub8.4) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtwopigen.la (requires -lneatogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtwopigen.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtwopigen.la (requires -lcommon) [ 64% ] * broken /usr/lib64/libgnomeprint.la (requires -ldb1) * broken /usr/lib64/libgnomeprint.la (requires -lxml) [ 100% ] I tried re-emerging graphviz and libgnomeprint without any result. It is the first time this happens since I have been using gentoo. Could you give me any tip? emilio
Re: [gentoo-user] revdep trouble
On Thursday 03 September 2009 16:39:07 econti wrote: Hi all after two months I made a world upgrade. All went well, but when I ran revdep-rebuild I received this: localhost ~ # revdep-rebuild * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild * Checking reverse dependencies * Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update * will be emerged. * Collecting system binaries and libraries * Generated new 1_files.rr * Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH * Generated new 2_ldpath.rr * Checking dynamic linking consistency [ 46% ] * broken /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/32/libstdc++.la (requires -lgcc_s_32) * broken /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/32/libsupc++.la (requires -lgcc_s_32) [ 51% ] * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libcircogen.la (requires -lneatogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libcircogen.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libcircogen.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotgen.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotgen.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -ldotgen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -ltwopigen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -lfdpgen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -lcircogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -lneatogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libfdpgen.la (requires -lneatogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libfdpgen.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libfdpgen.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libgdtclft.la (requires -ltclstub8.4) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libgvrender.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libneatogen.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libneatogen.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -ltclstub8.4) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -ldotgen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -ltwopigen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -lfdpgen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -lcircogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -lneatogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtclplan.la (requires -ltclstub8.4) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtkspline.la (requires -ltkstub8.4) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtkspline.la (requires -ltclstub8.4) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtwopigen.la (requires -lneatogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtwopigen.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtwopigen.la (requires -lcommon) [ 64% ] * broken /usr/lib64/libgnomeprint.la (requires -ldb1) * broken /usr/lib64/libgnomeprint.la (requires -lxml) [ 100% ] I tried re-emerging graphviz and libgnomeprint without any result. It is the first time this happens since I have been using gentoo. Could you give me any tip? Did you let revdep-rebuild proceed to rebuild the packages *it* knows that need rebuilding, or did you thumbsuck and manually rebuild the packages *you* think need rebuilding? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Re: revdep trouble
On 09/03/2009 07:39 AM, econti wrote: Hi all after two months I made a world upgrade. All went well, but when I ran revdep-rebuild I received this: localhost ~ # revdep-rebuild * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild * Checking reverse dependencies * Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update * will be emerged. * Collecting system binaries and libraries * Generated new 1_files.rr * Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH * Generated new 2_ldpath.rr * Checking dynamic linking consistency [ 46% ] * broken /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/32/libstdc++.la (requires -lgcc_s_32) * broken /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/32/libsupc++.la (requires -lgcc_s_32) [ 51% ] * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libcircogen.la (requires -lneatogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libcircogen.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libcircogen.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotgen.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotgen.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -ldotgen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -ltwopigen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -lfdpgen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -lcircogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -lneatogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libfdpgen.la (requires -lneatogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libfdpgen.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libfdpgen.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libgdtclft.la (requires -ltclstub8.4) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libgvrender.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libneatogen.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libneatogen.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -ltclstub8.4) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -ldotgen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -ltwopigen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -lfdpgen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -lcircogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -lneatogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtclplan.la (requires -ltclstub8.4) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtkspline.la (requires -ltkstub8.4) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtkspline.la (requires -ltclstub8.4) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtwopigen.la (requires -lneatogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtwopigen.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtwopigen.la (requires -lcommon) [ 64% ] * broken /usr/lib64/libgnomeprint.la (requires -ldb1) * broken /usr/lib64/libgnomeprint.la (requires -lxml) Looks like all of those files are left over from older versions and need to be deleted. If you check the dates on those files I think you will see that they are very old, and there are no libraries that match those *la files.
Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Nick Khamissym...@gmail.com wrote: Exactly! In console everything is find. but when I issue startx my keybaord and mouse are non functional. I did remerge xf86 mouse and keyboard and still nothing. I looking into xorg.conf. Newer Xorg uses a different method of configuring hardware. There are many threads and many possible ways of addressing the problem: 1) emerge xf86-input-evdev and set up input devices using the new configuration method (out of xorg.conf, into FDI files) -- this also requires a certain kernel option to be enabled. 2) Add this option to ServerLayout section of xorg.conf: Option AllowEmptyInput false 3) rebuild xorg-server with hal USE flag disabled Any one of those 3 should fix the problem. The first one is the new way, the others will leave you using legacy configuration methods. Use whatever works best for you. :) There are other possible things you may need to do depending on your particular setup. Fancy mice or non-English keyboards especially will need additional effort to configure the same as before. Read the Gentoo Xorg upgrade guide for more info: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.5-upgrade-guide.xml
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Ephiphany hang at a certain directory
On 3 Sep 2009, at 10:48, Alan E. Davis wrote: It has just happened in the last day that whenever I try to navigate to a certain subdirectory of my home directory, in order to attach a file to an email in gmail, firefox hangs. I have tried a few experiments, with no success. This is also no ordinary directory--- it has been under git control for several months. ... I have copied the contents of the directory, without the .git control baggage, and the same happens. ... Thinking the same thing was going no here, I have looked at the directory, but superficially I have seen nothing. Except a file .directory left there by dolphin. I have recently installed kde 4.3.0, and started liking it a bit, and playing around with it. I don't know what else to look for, or what method to use, to look for bizaare bits in a tree. I suppose I will copy all the files over, one at a time. Suggestions would be appreciated. Are there any files in that directory with unusual names? Names with ümlauts or åccents in them? Names with mpersands or sl\ash/ es in them? Spaces on the end? You say the directory is under SVN - if it's a public project you have no reason to be coy about accessing it, perhaps you can post a link to it, so that other people here can try reproduce. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message
Am Donnerstag, 3. September 2009 schrieb Dale: Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 schrieb Dale: It seems as a security measure it adds extra dots to the end so hackers can't tell how many characters are in the password. Thing is, that screws up the password as well. So much for the remember password option. Control Centre - Security and privacy - Password entry (or what's it called). Hmmm, what is this supposed to do? It was checked but I unchecked it and I don't see any difference. It still scrambles my password. It sounded like you wanted to switch off those extra bulletsand didn't know how to. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I haven’t lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?
Hi, I'm wondering whether these stats are correct? They are captured from this page: http://archives.gentoo.org/ If these stats are both correct and complete then I find them interesting, and maybe a bit disappointing. If they are incorrect then nothing below matters. Not meaning to cause too much of a hubbub but I was surprised at how much email traffic has fallen off for the Gentoo lists over the last couple of years. I suspect that some of this is folks moving to less technical environments - maybe Ubuntu or Arch - but still I was surprised that it was something like a 60% drop since the high in 2006. I was also surprised at the drop off on gentoo-dev as it sort of correlates with my impression of bugs not being addressed as fast these days. Again, I don't want to cause some sort of flame war here. I personally love the distro and as I look at building a new i5 or i7 based machine I suspect it will be much faster to build and maintain Gentoo. I'd like to see the traffic growing, not falling. Maybe someone has written something on this already? Just observing, Mark gentoo-dev 2009, 3743 emails 2008, 5379 emails 2007, 8480 emails 2006, 10184 emails 2005, 9055 emails 2004, 8569 emails 2003, 8324 emails 2002, 8156 emails 2001, 5679 emails 2000, 4 emails gentoo-user 2009, 11126 emails 2008, 15269 emails 2007, 13643 emails 2006, 25954 emails 2005, 15378 emails 2004, 545 emails gentoo-amd64 2009, 1519 emails 2008, 1418 emails 2007, 1977 emails 2006, 4038 emails 2005, 1880 emails 2004, 27 emails
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:59:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Not meaning to cause too much of a hubbub but I was surprised at how much email traffic has fallen off for the Gentoo lists over the last couple of years. I suspect that some of this is folks moving to less technical environments - maybe Ubuntu or Arch - but still I was surprised that it was something like a 60% drop since the high in 2006. It could be a sign of the maturity of Gentoo. If there are less problems there will be less posts, since there are very few threads starting with I did a world update today and everything worked perfectly. I was also surprised at the drop off on gentoo-dev as it sort of correlates with my impression of bugs not being addressed as fast these days. Or they are spending more time developing and less time flaming one another these days? -- Neil Bothwick Guillotine operator wanted. Chance to get ahead. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need dev-libs/libmimedir?
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:56:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: equery depends shows what depends on a package. Rather unreliably, since it does not correctly handle USE flags. emerge --depclean -pv dev-libs/libmimedir is better. -- Neil Bothwick Illiterate? Write today for free help. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm wondering whether these stats are correct? They are captured from this page: http://archives.gentoo.org/ If these stats are both correct and complete then I find them interesting, and maybe a bit disappointing. If they are incorrect then nothing below matters. Not meaning to cause too much of a hubbub but I was surprised at how much email traffic has fallen off for the Gentoo lists over the last couple of years. I suspect that some of this is folks moving to less technical environments - maybe Ubuntu or Arch - but still I was surprised that it was something like a 60% drop since the high in 2006. I was also surprised at the drop off on gentoo-dev as it sort of correlates with my impression of bugs not being addressed as fast these days. I think traffic on ALL mailing lists has dropped, just like usenet. Web forums are the normal place to go these days. Only us technological dinosaurs are still using e-mail lists and newsgroups. :)
Re: [gentoo-user] Internet providers' IP range (xinetd.conf)
1. Put your host into dyndns and ssh to that name I'll often do this and then create a subdomain of a domain I own then have it CNAME to the dyndns domain name. I find that I have a easier time remembering the names I choose this way. -- Kyle
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?
090903 Mark Knecht wrote: I'm wondering whether these stats are correct? They are captured from http://archives.gentoo.org/ I find them a bit disappointing. I was surprised how much email traffic has fallen off for the Gentoo lists over the last couple of years. I suspect some of this is folks moving to less technical environments - maybe Ubuntu or Arch - but still I was surprised that it was something like a 60 % drop since the high in 2006. I was also surprised at the drop on gentoo-dev as it correlates with my impression of bugs not being addressed as fast. gentoo-dev gentoo-user gentoo-amd64 2009 374311126 1519 2008 537915269 1418 2007 848013643 1977 20061018425954 4038 2005 905515378 1880 2004 8569 545 27 2003 8324 2002 8156 2001 5679 20004 First, you need to adjust 2009 by 3/2 , ie 2009 561516689 2279 which shows a significant increase this year in all 3 categories. Otherwise, I agree with the other comments, ie that Gentoo has matured: Portage is more user-friendly, big changes like Udev have been accomplished, people who shouldn't be using Gentoo have dropped out the few devs who were responsible have stopped flaming one another (or perhaps do so on a non-public list somewhere else); it may also be true that the Forum has taken away a lot of users, who seem on average younger (it sounds like a high-school cafeteria). Quality is what matters I'ld say it has improved in recent years. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Donnerstag, 3. September 2009 schrieb Dale: Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 schrieb Dale: It seems as a security measure it adds extra dots to the end so hackers can't tell how many characters are in the password. Thing is, that screws up the password as well. So much for the remember password option. Control Centre - Security and privacy - Password entry (or what's it called). Hmmm, what is this supposed to do? It was checked but I unchecked it and I don't see any difference. It still scrambles my password. It sounded like you wanted to switch off those extra bulletsand didn't know how to. The extras are still there tho. They are there either way. I want it to remember my password but it adds the extras as a security measure or that's what my research said anyway. It used to work tho. They just added a feature and now it is broke. LOL Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:59:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Not meaning to cause too much of a hubbub but I was surprised at how much email traffic has fallen off for the Gentoo lists over the last couple of years. I suspect that some of this is folks moving to less technical environments - maybe Ubuntu or Arch - but still I was surprised that it was something like a 60% drop since the high in 2006. It could be a sign of the maturity of Gentoo. If there are less problems there will be less posts, since there are very few threads starting with I did a world update today and everything worked perfectly. Well, mostly I'd say that's true, certainly at the app level it's my experience, but it seems to me that upgrades like Xorg haven't gone so well this year. Maybe that's mostly an aberration driven by upstream quality problems, but if my recollections are correct it wasn't only a problem for me. I was also surprised at the drop off on gentoo-dev as it sort of correlates with my impression of bugs not being addressed as fast these days. Or they are spending more time developing and less time flaming one another these days? Now that idea puts a smile on my face but unfortunately isn't consistent with my personal view of bugs getting fixed. Maybe I just got hit a bit harder but my memory of how long it took to get an ebuild fixed in 2006 was considerably faster. Probably I'm mistaken. For me 2009 has been a pretty disappointing year in terms of running Gentoo and the first year in the last 5 or 6 where I spent ANY time seriously looking around at other distros. Nothing struck me as being good enough to warrant putting the time in to learn it. Gentoo is still what I choose to run. I hope the stats are positive in nature but I know of numerous pro-audio overlay users who have left the Gentoo fold this year. (They don't seem any happier to me so I'm not following...) I hope it's not happening too much in the more global community. Thanks for the responses! Cheers, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?
Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:59:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Not meaning to cause too much of a hubbub but I was surprised at how much email traffic has fallen off for the Gentoo lists over the last couple of years. I suspect that some of this is folks moving to less technical environments - maybe Ubuntu or Arch - but still I was surprised that it was something like a 60% drop since the high in 2006. It could be a sign of the maturity of Gentoo. If there are less problems there will be less posts, since there are very few threads starting with I did a world update today and everything worked perfectly. Well, mostly I'd say that's true, certainly at the app level it's my experience, but it seems to me that upgrades like Xorg haven't gone so well this year. Maybe that's mostly an aberration driven by upstream quality problems, but if my recollections are correct it wasn't only a problem for me. SNIP Thanks for the responses! Cheers, Mark Yea, there are quite a few that disabled hal, myself included. I disabled mine with the USE flag but some put the line in xorg.conf to disable it. Either way, I still can't get hal to work with the new xorg-server. I think that has been my only really sore spot. I did have a issue with a gcc update. Couldn't compile a kernel, Seamonkey crashes like bumper cars and a few other weird things. I just backed up to the previous version and all is well again. I do think Gentoo is a lot better tho. The way it handles most blocks is really really cool. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep trouble
Post #2 from Mr. McKinnon is the question. If, as it sounds like, you didn't let revdep-rebuild go ahead and reemerge those packages itself, but rather you reemerged them yourself, then I believe you will need to `revdep-rebuild -i` (see manpage) to see if it has any other complaints. And there's nothing unusual about broken dependencies after library upgrades... just let revdep-rebuild rebuild the necessary packages for you, that's why it's there. On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:04 AM, waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/03/2009 07:39 AM, econti wrote: Hi all after two months I made a world upgrade. All went well, but when I ran revdep-rebuild I received this: localhost ~ # revdep-rebuild * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild * Checking reverse dependencies * Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update * will be emerged. * Collecting system binaries and libraries * Generated new 1_files.rr * Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH * Generated new 2_ldpath.rr * Checking dynamic linking consistency [ 46% ] * broken /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/32/libstdc++.la (requires -lgcc_s_32) * broken /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/32/libsupc++.la (requires -lgcc_s_32) [ 51% ] * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libcircogen.la (requires -lneatogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libcircogen.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libcircogen.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotgen.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotgen.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -ldotgen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -ltwopigen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -lfdpgen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -lcircogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -lneatogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libdotneato.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libfdpgen.la (requires -lneatogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libfdpgen.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libfdpgen.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libgdtclft.la (requires -ltclstub8.4) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libgvrender.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libneatogen.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libneatogen.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -ltclstub8.4) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -ldotgen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -ltwopigen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -lfdpgen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -lcircogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -lneatogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtcldot.la (requires -lcommon) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtclplan.la (requires -ltclstub8.4) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtkspline.la (requires -ltkstub8.4) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtkspline.la (requires -ltclstub8.4) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtwopigen.la (requires -lneatogen) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtwopigen.la (requires -lgvrender) * broken /usr/lib64/graphviz/libtwopigen.la (requires -lcommon) [ 64% ] * broken /usr/lib64/libgnomeprint.la (requires -ldb1) * broken /usr/lib64/libgnomeprint.la (requires -lxml) Looks like all of those files are left over from older versions and need to be deleted. If you check the dates on those files I think you will see that they are very old, and there are no libraries that match those *la files.
[gentoo-user] new install
OK,
It's been a while, so I'm following the handbook to install a gentoo
server that will eventually become a firewall using a 4GB Compact
Flash to IDE drive on this mobo(processor):
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping: 6
cpu MHz : 1002.398
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug: no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug: no
coma_bug: no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat
pse36 mmx fxsr sse up
bogomips: 2007.10
So looking, via links Chapter 5, I have these choices:
install-x86-minimal-20090901
stage3-i486-20090901.tar.bz2
stage3-i686-20090901.tar.bz2
which of these should I download?
Here is my proposed make.conf file. Please suggest any enhancements,
I should make to this file:
CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu
CFLAGS=-Os -march=i586 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
PORTAGE_NICENESS=1
MAKEOPTS=-j2
USE=-* -nls hardened ncurses ssl crypt berkdb tcpd pam perl pcre \
python readline zlib bzip2 nptl nptlonly syslog
PS I lost that url to the nifty file where the cpu/arch is matched with
CHOST and flag settings for various architectures This make.conf file
was for a minimal K6 system and the Pentium3 should be a little bit different?
All suggestions are most welcome.
James
[gentoo-user] Cannot connect hp 840c on parallel port.
Hi. Here some problem - can't connect printer hp 840c on parallel port LPT1. Necessary kernel modules I've enabled. But CUPS by foomatic db or hplip by their own drivers can't detect this printer. Hplip tells me that error: No device selected/specified or that supports this functionality. but printer on LPT port. CUPS can add this printer but can't print. How I can resolve it and what information I need to show you? Version of hplip - 3.9.4b-r1
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?
On Thursday 03 September 2009 17:59:57 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm wondering whether these stats are correct? They are captured from this page: http://archives.gentoo.org/ If these stats are both correct and complete then I find them interesting, and maybe a bit disappointing. If they are incorrect then nothing below matters. Not meaning to cause too much of a hubbub but I was surprised at how much email traffic has fallen off for the Gentoo lists over the last couple of years. I suspect that some of this is folks moving to less technical environments - maybe Ubuntu or Arch - but still I was surprised that it was something like a 60% drop since the high in 2006. I was also surprised at the drop off on gentoo-dev as it sort of correlates with my impression of bugs not being addressed as fast these days. In a lot of ways, distros are like fashion statements, complete with current flavours of the week. 3 years ago Gentoo was on a high but a lot of those fanboys have gone elsewhere or maybe to the forums. Personally, I don't care. I perceive that there has always been about the same amount of good quality mail on this list. 3 years ago we had about what we have now plus a whole bunch of help-me-pleeez! whingers and way too much flaming. We really need the first category - it's what makes this the best list I'm subscribed to - and are better of without the other two. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mpd issues
NAFC. New anagram for me. Not As Far...? But if you give me an account on that box I can have a look for you. I'll send you a public key. Can't grok. If I have an account on this box it's news to me. How and what would you be looking for? Or, you could look in your logs and tell us what you see. You might have to tell mpd to start logging errors first. Not doing it now. I followed the wiki and made the log_level verbose did a restart and just got a lot of 'database: get song' lines. I've heard this from others. mpd known to change it's behavior from boot to boot. mw
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mpd issues
On Thursday 03 September 2009 21:04:06 Maxim Wexler wrote: NAFC. New anagram for me. Not As Far...? Not A F..king Clue :-) But if you give me an account on that box I can have a look for you. I'll send you a public key. Can't grok. If I have an account on this box it's news to me. How and what would you be looking for? Well, you basically said mpd doesn't work. Why? To which the best answer is I haven't the foggiest idea. But, if I could log into the machine in question and run a shell, I'd be in an excellent position to give a sane answer. Don't read too much into it. I felt like taking the mickey out of someone and today was your turn :-) Or, you could look in your logs and tell us what you see. You might have to tell mpd to start logging errors first. Not doing it now. I followed the wiki and made the log_level verbose did a restart and just got a lot of 'database: get song' lines. I've heard this from others. mpd known to change it's behavior from boot to boot. Without some form of sane output message or a well-known bug, it's not possible to diagnose what you might be running into. I personally have never heard of mpd doing different things between boots. Changing configs and not restarting mpd - yes. Random changes - no. mpd works just fine for me and is rock-solid here. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, MySQL, UltraMonkey Clusters
Nick Khamis wrote: I should also point out that we are interested in load balancing and high availability. Regards, Ninus. Alright there's a lot going on here so I'm going to break down the last ten years of dealing with sort of thing into three pages. :-) Stability vs Flexibility I'm a start up guy (five and counting) so I always prefer flexibility, but you need to decide based on your application. Also depends on how much money you have to build in fault tolerance, back ups, etc. You yourself as the admin also need to be disciplined in your methods. That means having actual QA processes, test/stage VMs, unit tests, and being able to enforce those processes. Gentoo allows enormous flexibility and being able to have things like glibc-2.9 immediately while RHEL4 shipped with 2.3 and RHEL5 with 2.5 means you can take advantage of incremental fixes in NPTL that is missing in stable distros. Also having gcc-4.4 is a big win on modern processors. Mysql Definitely go with Mysql 5.1 and hell if you're going to be building your own or if it's already in an overlay somewhere look at Mysql 5.4. Basically it's 5.1 plus the Google, Percona, and everyone else that has been rolling custom patches for Mysql. If you don't want to be that far out on the bleeding edge look at using Percona's build, linked below. If you want to go way way way out to the bleeding edge and can wait a year to ramp up, Drizzle is very interesting. http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-54.html http://www.percona.com/percona-lab.html http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/ http://drizzle.org/wiki/Drizzle_Features High Availability Round Robin db masters almost never works unless you've designed your schema from the ground up to work that way. If you're wondering if yours was, it wasn't. Even when you do it right it can be flakey. Easier and simpler to write to one master which then writes to a number of slaves. If you want to get fancy to you can have two round robin masters with two slave each. When a master fails you need to point to the other master as well as pull the two slaves from the broken master out or rotation. How to accomplish that is up to you, but I prefer a somewhat manual process. Swapping masters around automatically is usually a good way to end up with corrupt data somewhere. YMMV. Simple round robin VIPs should work with your Mysql slaves. Not sure if Ultramonkey does that. Connection pools usually suck and I wouldn't bother with them as modern OS threading makes it nearly pointless. Make sure your application is closing Mysql connections properly which I've had issue with far too often. Storage Engines in Mysql Sphinx Don't use myisam tables for full text searches. Hell if you have the time don't use your database for full text search, but if you do look at using the Sphinx full text engine. You'll need to build the plugin yourself. Innodb Use the innodb plugins, it's much faster Myisam Don't use. Really. xtradb Innodb fork by Percona. Looks interesting and I have tried it. Things to remember about databases Buffers are configured on a per storage engine basis. If you give 12GB to Innodb you can't also give 12GB to Sphinx... unless you have a 32GB machine. RAID 10 is your friend, but RAM is almost always better *if* your database will fit into RAM. Make sure your RAID card has battery backup, write cache on your disks is turned off, and that you actually check your RAID card's config to make sure cache is turned on an DMA or whatever is enabled. It's almost never correct out of the box. Fixing your queries, index, and schema is 10-100x more effective than dicking around with Mysql settings, custom compile, and hardware tweaks unless you've done something really moronic. mysqldump will not give consistent backups of Innodb. Use a slave, stop the slave, take a backup preferably through LVM snapshotting so it doesn't take forever, bring the slave back up and put it into rotation. Stored procedures will make your life difficult. It's easy to say code-1.3.2 is on production. It's hard to say code-1.3.2 and stored-procs-1.1.1 are on production when the push process is different, the teams are different, etc. You *can* manage it, but given a choice it buys you very little and I never meet a DBA that didn't like to tweak things directly. Hell I've meet far too many that needed to taught how to checkin code. kashani
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 11:20 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: I think traffic on ALL mailing lists has dropped, just like usenet. Web forums are the normal place to go these days. Only us technological dinosaurs are still using e-mail lists and newsgroups. :) I'm going to concur with this only because I'm also on other mailing lists/newsgroups where someone has said the very same thing. So either these mediums are falling out of fashion or I'm struck with the curse of being attracted to dying technologies :| -a
[gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working
Hello Everyone, I got gnome to fire with some problems: 1) startx startx gnome but rc-update add xdm default starts xdm: ~/.xinitrc: exec gnome-session /etc/conf.d/xdm: DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm That is not my problem, the reason why I am almost getting blue in the face is because when I issue a startx, gnome fires up perfect, however; I am greeted with a There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon message box and also nothing works. I try to open firefox nothing, network manager nothing. I look at ctrl+alt+f1 and seeing errors like: dbus_g_proxy_connect_signal: assertion 'DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed ..a bunch of errors. a lot of failed to open file d/.config. d/.gnome2. No such file or directory. I am almost there, I am just at this point lost, scared and kind of cold ;) Your help and guidance is greatly appreciated, I understand that this is almost the worst description of a problem ever. I am starting to get light headed. Regards, Ninus.
Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 16:25 -0400, Nick Khamis wrote: I got gnome to fire with some problems: [...] Question: Is the dbus service running? -a
Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working
dbus is running yes. Please Help :)
Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working
hald is running too
Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working
When I do a: rc-update add xdm default Gentoo does not fire up but rather xdm, and my root login fails even thought I know its the right username password. Regards, Ninus.
[gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?
No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/ is this a mount issue. Ican start gentoo but nothing works, cannot start firefox, console etc... I get the no direcotry message when I log in using console. Regards, Ninus
[gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?
When I try to send an email to a ucla.edu email address from my hosted server, the message bounces and I'm directed to this page: http://info.smtp.ucla.edu/faq.php which says: The gateway disallows direct connections from residential broadband systems, from other dynamically allocated IP addresses, or from hosts with generic reverse DNS entries (ie, a variation of A-B-C-D.isp.com for D.C.B.A). I do get this: $ ping -c 1 mydomain.com PING mydomain.com (m.y.i.p) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from p.i.y.m.static.reverse.myhost.com (m.y.i.p): icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=1267 ms Does anyone know how to fix this? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, MySQL, UltraMonkey Clusters
I was considering something as is pointed out at the following link: http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up-a-loadbalanced-mysql-cluster-with-mysql5.1 Regards, Ninus
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?
Relay through your ISP. Using Postfix this is /etc/transports (and `postmap /etc/postfix/ transport` and restart Postfix) If you have any influence at ucla.edu tell them how much their policy sucks. Stroller. On 3 Sep 2009, at 21:45, Grant wrote: When I try to send an email to a ucla.edu email address from my hosted server, the message bounces and I'm directed to this page: http://info.smtp.ucla.edu/faq.php which says: The gateway disallows direct connections from residential broadband systems, from other dynamically allocated IP addresses, or from hosts with generic reverse DNS entries (ie, a variation of A-B-C-D.isp.com for D.C.B.A). I do get this: $ ping -c 1 mydomain.com PING mydomain.com (m.y.i.p) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from p.i.y.m.static.reverse.myhost.com (m.y.i.p): icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=1267 ms Does anyone know how to fix this? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?
On Donnerstag 03 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm wondering whether these stats are correct? They are captured gentoo-user 2009, 11126 emails 2008, 15269 emails 2007, 13643 emails 2006, 25954 emails 2005, 15378 emails 2004, 545 emails the numbers are incorrect. also the forums took a lot a way. Less tech savie people prefer forums.
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Grantemailgr...@gmail.com wrote: When I try to send an email to a ucla.edu email address from my hosted server, the message bounces and I'm directed to this page: http://info.smtp.ucla.edu/faq.php which says: The gateway disallows direct connections from residential broadband systems, from other dynamically allocated IP addresses, or from hosts with generic reverse DNS entries (ie, a variation of A-B-C-D.isp.com for D.C.B.A). I do get this: $ ping -c 1 mydomain.com PING mydomain.com (m.y.i.p) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from p.i.y.m.static.reverse.myhost.com (m.y.i.p): icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=1267 ms Does anyone know how to fix this? Have the company from whom you get your static IP set up the reverse DNS to be your domain rather than the generic myhost.com address.
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?
Ooops... please ignore. I just noticed you said from my hosted server. You can still try complaining to them. Good luck!! Stroller. On 3 Sep 2009, at 21:51, Stroller wrote: Relay through your ISP. Using Postfix this is /etc/transports (and `postmap /etc/postfix/ transport` and restart Postfix) If you have any influence at ucla.edu tell them how much their policy sucks. Stroller. On 3 Sep 2009, at 21:45, Grant wrote: When I try to send an email to a ucla.edu email address from my hosted server, the message bounces and I'm directed to this page: http://info.smtp.ucla.edu/faq.php which says: The gateway disallows direct connections from residential broadband systems, from other dynamically allocated IP addresses, or from hosts with generic reverse DNS entries (ie, a variation of A-B-C- D.isp.com for D.C.B.A). I do get this: $ ping -c 1 mydomain.com PING mydomain.com (m.y.i.p) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from p.i.y.m.static.reverse.myhost.com (m.y.i.p): icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=1267 ms Does anyone know how to fix this? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?
On Donnerstag 03 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote: No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/ is this a mount issue. Ican start gentoo but nothing works, cannot start firefox, console etc... I get the no direcotry message when I log in using console. Regards, Ninus well, do you have /home in fstab? was /home/$USER created when you created your user?
Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working
At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:35:28 -0400 Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: When I do a: rc-update add xdm default Gentoo does not fire up but rather xdm, and my root login fails even thought I know its the right username password. Not sure what you mean by gentoo in the last sentence. Perhaps you meant gnome. In that case the problem might be that you didn't set gnome as your xsession in /etc/rc.conf (or /etc/conf.d/xdm). allan
Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?
On Thursday 03 September 2009 22:41:29 Nick Khamis wrote: No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/ is this a mount issue. Ican start gentoo but nothing works, cannot start firefox, console etc... I get the no direcotry message when I log in using console. Three options: The file system containing /home is not mounted when you log in Your home directory was never created (useradd needs -m to do that) Your home directory as per fstab does not agree with what it's actually called (perhaps you renamed your home directory) Either way, what the system thinks is your home directory isn't there. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?
At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:41:29 -0400 Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/ is this a mount issue. Ican start gentoo but nothing works, cannot start firefox, console etc... I get the no direcotry message when I log in using console. Well does the user have an accessible home directory? What does /etc/passwd contain and then, starting from root, does the user have access to the entire path leading to the home directory? allan
Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working
On Thursday 03 September 2009 22:35:28 Nick Khamis wrote: When I do a: rc-update add xdm default Gentoo does not fire up but rather xdm, and my root login fails even thought I know its the right username password. Root login to console or root login to X? Almost every sane distro on the planet ships with X root login disabled. This is a very good thing and only stupid people expect otherwise or try to change it. It is also possible to disable root login on the console (via pam) but this is not normally the default. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working
Hello Sir, ~/.xinitrc: exec gnome-session /etc/conf.d/xdm: DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm Thank You For Your Response, I did do that. I had Gnome fireed up and working fine, then I am not sure what was it I did that now it fires up using startx but nothing works, my session is not loaded etc.. Thanks In Advanced, Ninus.
Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working
oops I did mean gnome
Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?
I just created a new user and the home firecotry is fine. However my root user has no home. I did not rename it and /dev/sda3 is mounted. I tries useradd -m root, I am getting useradd:user root exists. fstab - dev/sda3/ ext3 noatime Thanks in Advnaced, Ninus
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?
On Thursday 03 September 2009 22:51:04 Stroller wrote: Relay through your ISP. Using Postfix this is /etc/transports (and `postmap /etc/postfix/ transport` and restart Postfix) If you have any influence at ucla.edu tell them how much their policy sucks. ucla.edu have the perfect policy. I refuse point blank to accept any mail whatsoever from dynamic ranges or insane reverse lookups. Why? Because doing so immediately gets rid of 1,000,000+ spam messages PER DAY. Yes, you read that right - a million spams each and every day. The number of users with other ISPs that have valid reasons to host MTAs on DSL is tiny in comparison and they can relay through their ISP (or get a different one that understands mail). Do you have any idea how much that bandwidth costs in a third world country? Or the spam cluster to deal with it? Management agree with that sentiment. Although they did raise an eyebrow a year ago when a colleague blocked ALL of China. They asked him nicely to narrow things down a bit to actual offenders :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?
On Donnerstag 03 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote: I just created a new user and the home firecotry is fine. However my root user has no home. I did not rename it and /dev/sda3 is mounted. I tries useradd -m root, I am getting useradd:user root exists. fstab - dev/sda3/ ext3 noatime Thanks in Advnaced, Ninus root does not have a home in /home. root's home is /root
Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working
oops, i'm stupid, I tries to login xdm using root, I saw this was possible using gnome so I figures what the heck. So that is fine (not being able to login xdm using root). But I still have a problem in regard to gnome not being able to work. Firefox does not start, nothing starts not even console. I think this is a /home mounting issue. Thanks for everyone help. Regards, Ninus
Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?
Yes of course Now when I fire up gnome, I see nothing on my desktop and nothing is working (cannot open console, or firefox etc..). I When I load gnome I see: please contact your system administration to resolve the follwoing issue: could not resolve the address xml:readwrite:d/.gconf in the configuration file /etc/gconf/path : Failed could not make direcotry 'd/.gconf': No such file or direcotry. isusing a startx as root from console. Your Help Is Greatly Apprecated, Regards, Ninus
Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?
Ok I just created a new user and gnome works fine, but with my root it is getting the errors described above.
Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?
On Donnerstag 03 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote: Ok I just created a new user and gnome works fine, but with my root it is getting the errors described above. well - you shall never log into X as root anyway.
Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?
Yes for sure, hmmm but its broken an I want to fix it. I have logged into X using root just earlier today and now when I log into console using root I get the No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/. I would like to fix this. fstab is as per the gentoo documentation. Regards, Ninus
Re: [gentoo-user] No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/?
oops. I think trying to fiz my original problem of gnome+root, I invented a new one root console + error message (No direcotry, logging in with HOME=/). This is not an error root has /root not home so when someone logs into console using root this message will always show? Sorry about that Regards, Ninus.
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Ephiphany hang at a certain directory
This is my personal working directory, under git control to carry it around between computers on a flash drive. Now stripped of git. I am reluctant to send it along, but I could send a tarball to someone who is willing to check on it. It's 300M. I moved ./mozilla out of the way. The problem persists. I found one ampersand in a file name, and changed it. No happiness. Don't know how to find a filename with a space at the end. Is there a tool to find hosed filenames? Thank Alan Davis You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing---that's what counts. Richard Feynman On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: On 3 Sep 2009, at 10:48, Alan E. Davis wrote: It has just happened in the last day that whenever I try to navigate to a certain subdirectory of my home directory, in order to attach a file to an email in gmail, firefox hangs. I have tried a few experiments, with no success. This is also no ordinary directory---it has been under git control for several months. ... I have copied the contents of the directory, without the .git control baggage, and the same happens. ... Thinking the same thing was going no here, I have looked at the directory, but superficially I have seen nothing. Except a file .directory left there by dolphin. I have recently installed kde 4.3.0, and started liking it a bit, and playing around with it. I don't know what else to look for, or what method to use, to look for bizaare bits in a tree. I suppose I will copy all the files over, one at a time. Suggestions would be appreciated. Are there any files in that directory with unusual names? Names with ümlauts or åccents in them? Names with mpersands or sl\ash/es in them? Spaces on the end? You say the directory is under SVN - if it's a public project you have no reason to be coy about accessing it, perhaps you can post a link to it, so that other people here can try reproduce. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 13:45:46 -0700 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: When I try to send an email to a ucla.edu email address from my hosted server, the message bounces and I'm directed to this page: ... Does anyone know how to fix this? If you have an open mail relay server, you can use that, as already suggested. Strange thing, but I've never seen one ;) My solution is to use SASL authentication with any SMTP, so you can relay your message through any server, like gmail.com, for example. All you need is to find sendmail substitute that supports it, and if you don't need a full-fledged MTA to receive mail, I'd suggest to try out msmtp. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Error Message When Loading into Gnome
Hello Everyone, Please disregard any previous emails from me, I was using a differnt computer to send emails then my almost alive gentoo box (can't wait) Just a few porblems with this fresh install: When logging into gnome I presented with the follwoing messagebox: There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. The Settings Daemon restarted too many times. GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in. services hald is started and dbus is started another error is when issuing a: su root nautilus I am getting (nautilus:11539): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Unable to create ~/.gnome2 directory: No such file or directory Could not create per-user gnome configuration directory `d/.gnome2/': No such file or directory Logging into gnome using root (I know is not advised), I am reciving many error that look similar to: `d/.gnome2/': No such file or directory Your patience and help is greatly appreciated, Ninus,
[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Ephiphany hang at a certain directory
On 09/03/2009 02:48 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote: It has just happened in the last day that whenever I try to navigate to a certain subdirectory of my home directory, in order to attach a file to an email in gmail, firefox hangs... You could try starting firefox from a command prompt like this: $firefox foo (where foo is the name of the guilty subdirectory.) You might see some error messages on the console, or not. Perhaps running firefox with strace would give you a hint which file is causing the hangup.
[gentoo-user] Re: new install
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes:
stage3-i686-20090901.tar.bz2
Well I found the doc:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Safe_Cflags/Intel
so here are my answers to my questions:
CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu
CFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
Where -O2 is change to -Os to keep binaries small.
USE=-* -nls hardened ncurses ssl crypt berkdb tcpd pam perl pcre \
python readline zlib bzip2 nptl nptlonly syslog
Adding these entris to the USE flags: mmx sse
Any other suggestions or comments are most welcome.
James
Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working
At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:19:52 -0400 Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: oops, i'm stupid, I tries to login xdm using root, I saw this was possible using gnome so I figures what the heck. If you are using gnome (and hence gdm not xdm) then trying to login as root from the gui results in a dialog box asking you if you REALLY want to. Do you get a dialog box? allan
Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message
Am Donnerstag, 3. September 2009 schrieb Dale: It seems as a security measure it adds extra dots to the end so hackers can't tell how many characters are in the password. Thing is, that screws up the password as well. So much for the remember password option. Control Centre - Security and privacy - Password entry (or what's it called). Hmmm, what is this supposed to do? It was checked but I unchecked it and I don't see any difference. It still scrambles my password. It sounded like you wanted to switch off those extra bulletsand didn't know how to. The extras are still there tho. They are there either way. I want it to remember my password but it adds the extras as a security measure or that's what my research said anyway. It used to work tho. They just added a feature and now it is broke. LOL You could have a look at your kopeterc. Look into the Yahoo account's section and search for RememberPassword. It says true here and it works. Or perhaps if you use it, ask KWallet about your yahoo settings. I do remember though that Kopete asked me for a password once in a while, but then usually only once. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Pilot: Radar, Good Day, Airforce Blackbird, request FL 600 Controller (with a chuckle): Sir, if you can reach, you are cleared FL 600 Pilot: US Air Force Blackbird, leaving FL 800, descending Level 600 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome
On 09/03/2009 03:38 PM, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, Please disregard any previous emails from me, I was using a differnt computer to send emails then my almost alive gentoo box (can't wait) Just a few porblems with this fresh install: When logging into gnome I presented with the follwoing messagebox: There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. The Settings Daemon restarted too many times. That error message became very familiar to some of us during the upgrade from gnome 2.24 to 2.26 on ~x86 a few months ago. The underlying problem is that gnome-session tries to start a session dbus and fails (I am told) due to a bug in gnome-session. So the fix is to start gnome-session with 'dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session' in your ~/.xinitrc (if you use startx.) Alternatively you can use 'exec /etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome' in your .xinitrc, or, if you use gdm, you can set XSESSION=Gnome in /etc/rc.conf, which executes exactly the same shellscript indirectly. The whole point of the above is that a session dbus has to be running *before* gnome-settings-daemon is started, or you will get the error you quoted above and nothing works right after that.
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Ephiphany hang at a certain directory
Am Donnerstag, 3. September 2009 schrieb Alan E. Davis: Don't know how to find a filename with a space at the end. Is there a tool to find hosed filenames? This will find files with a space at the end: $ find . |grep \ $ PS.: No HTML and/or top posting for a better future for our children. ;-) -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' LOL, you said ROFL. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome
Hey Walt, Thank you so much for your response, I am sitting behind the machine right now. (I know we are not suppose to but I just want it to be working as expected) Basically when using root user and logging into console I get my first suspicious message, No direcotory, logging in with HOME=/, when issuing a echo $HOME I am recieving /. And when doing a startx it loads, nothing works and the Desktop does not load the items in the folder. This is not the case with ninus a user that I just created. Your Help is Greatly Appreciated, Ninus
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge luatex-0.30.3 fails
Thank you! This worked fantastically. Strangely enough, this bug never turned up during my search, but I probably tried the wrong terms. 2009/9/3 Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com: On 9/3/09, Strake strake...@gmail.com wrote: /usr/lib64/libmplib/mplib.so: undefined reference to `lua_newtable' /usr/lib64/libmplib/mplib.so: undefined reference to `lua_tostring' /usr/lib64/libmplib/mplib.so: undefined reference to `luaL_getmetatable' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [luatex] Error 1 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267457 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265635 -- Arttu V. -- MFD
[gentoo-user] Kernel 28/29/30 and ati-drivers and vwmare-workstation
I use gentoo sources, and have just updated from .28-r5 to .29-r5 both using ati-drivers 9.8. glxgears dropped from 1850 to 1500, however vmware guest OSes appear to be loading twice as fast (used vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 with 28 and 1.0.0.23-r1 with 29). Interestingly ati-drivers 9.7 with .29 returned 1800fps on glxgears, but really I don't care much about 3D so I havent gone back. I'm just wondering how other ati and vmware users are finding the kernel versions, and in particular if you're having luck with .30-r4?
[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 28/29/30 and ati-drivers and vwmare-workstation
On 09/04/2009 04:34 AM, Adam Carter wrote: I use gentoo sources, and have just updated from .28-r5 to .29-r5 both using ati-drivers 9.8. glxgears dropped from 1850 to 1500, however vmware guest OSes appear to be loading twice as fast (used vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 with 28 and 1.0.0.23-r1 with 29). Interestingly ati-drivers 9.7 with .29 returned 1800fps on glxgears, but really I don't care much about 3D so I havent gone back. I'm just wondering how other ati and vmware users are finding the kernel versions, and in particular if you're having luck with .30-r4? Please stop using glxgears as a performance benchmark. You could double the driver's performance in real applications and glxgears would report the same or worse results. Use a real benchmark. If app-benchmarks/phoronix-test-suite is too complex for you (it's overkill for a quick GL test), you can try some stand-alone GL benchmark. Like this: http://dee.cz/lightsmark
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome
At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:21:38 -0400 Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you so much for your response, I am sitting behind the machine right now. (I know we are not suppose to but I just want it to be working as expected) Basically when using root user and logging into console I get my first suspicious message, No direcotory, logging in with HOME=/, when issuing a echo $HOME I am recieving / At that point (right after issuing echo $HOME) try cd /root. If that fails (as it probably will), then post the output of ls -ld / /root allan
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error Message When Loading into Gnome
That does not fail. I can cd /root/Desktop perfectly. What I decided to do is a fresh install to see where it was that I went wrong. fstab and mtab looked ok. I did load the live cd, mounted and chrooted over and saw that echo $HOME did return /root. If I do not make mistakes I will not learn. This is a great mailing list I am very gratefull for the response time and help I am getting out of it. Hope to return the favour to someone in this list in the future whom is making the same mistakes I am currently making. Regards, Ninus.
[gentoo-user] Can't detect printer hp 840c on parallel port
Hi. Here some problem - can't connect printer hp 840c on parallel port LPT1. Necessary kernel modules I've enabled. But CUPS by foomatic db or hplip by their own drivers can't detect this printer. Hplip tells me that error: No device selected/specified or that supports this functionality. but printer on LPT port. CUPS can add this printer but can't print. How I can resolve it and what information I need to show you? Version of hplip - 3.9.4b-r1
