Re: [gentoo-user] Freeze up during X session
On 14 Jan, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm experiencing a problem where during an X session the machine inexplicably freezes up... networking along with mouse keyboard etc. No access is then possible via ssh or any other way other than a hard reboot. I've attempted to debug the problem by first searching the logs. But not finding anything I recognize as a clue. I've inserted a line like this in /etc/syslog.conf cat /etc/syslog.conf [...] *.* -/var/log/debug.log [...] and then created a tiny script called by cron every 5 minutes that simply pinged an external host and reported the results by way of piping to `logger', guaranteeing it would appear in the system logs . Then after a freeze up and reboot, search the logs for the most recent successful ping and see what happened after that. (The freeze up freezes networking too so the ping would then fail). And Hopefully I'd see something of note between the last successful ping and the reboot. But I see absolutely nothing of note. The freeze does not appear to obey any particular time frame after a boot, only that sooner or later a freeze up will occur. Apparently there is nothing happening that merits a log entry. Its been going on for a goodly while and I've just been rebooting as needed ... I haven't been really active on the machine for a while so it was easy to get along with, but now I need to do more work and so the problem is a major stumbling block. A few months, ago, I had similar symptoms. It turned out to be a defective AMD Phenom CPU (a very tricky error since all hardware tests passed) I guess it's a cache coherence problem (the Phenom has 4 cores). Luckily it was quite a new machine so my dealer replaced the CPU. The problem didn't occur ever since. While searching the net for a reason of failure I came accross messages about failing graphics chips / or graphics drivers. Perhaps you try an open source driver for your graphics card and see if the problem still occurs. (Before I suspected the CPU, I have tortured memory and I have even replaced the motherboard) To exclude a software problem, try booting from a SystemRescue-CD http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page It's Gentoo based and sports an X-Server. That are the problems that makes one crazy! Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
Re: [gentoo-user] kde wont log in user
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:38:27 + (UTC), James wrote: Well I just updated a laptop that had not been updated for 8 months. It's all fine, except I cannot log in via the kde menu You need to give a better description. By the KDE menu, do you mean the kdm login screen? What happens when you try to log in, does it reject your username/password, does it try to open a KDE desktop and then fall back to kdm or does kdm not open a login screen in the first place? I cannot login tells us nothing. Before you reply, take a look for anything useful in /var/log/kdm.log. -- Neil Bothwick Tagline stealing is the sincerest form of flattery. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:19:56 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: I wasn't thinking that at all. You use sshfs to mount the remote directory locally, then mount that with encfs. All the remote host needs is ssh. I'm not sure what is going wrong here, if neither of us is listening to the other or what... but I've stressed that I wanted a solution for when I could not access my home machine Does your solution involve that? No, I missed that part. Do you means you cannot access the machine or you cannot load your normal OS because it is broken? In the latter case, a live C/USB distro will help. If you mean no access to the computer at all and you're forced to use whatever is available, you have something of a problem as you can never know what will be available. I used the method I mentioned, but I have more than one computer, so if one breaks I can use the other to get at the backups. -- Neil Bothwick A consultant is a person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets the watch, and sends you a bill for it. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Problems playing back DVD
ubiquitous1980 nixuser1...@gmail.com wrote: http://tobias.rautenkranz.ch/libdvdread_ifo.html.en http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460400 Might help to upgrade to a newer version of libdvdread (you don't say which version you have installed)? I am wondering if you have tried to dd it for yourself rather than using front ends? If you have a master DVD without CSS, you just may use the mounted filesystem on the medium as master for mkisofs. Just make sure that all filenames use uppercase letters. If you like to write a conformant video DVD, you need to use mkisofs -dvd-video and if mkisofs cannot understand the IFO file, it cannot place the VOB files at the right places that would allow a standalone player to play the disk. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Problems playing back DVD
pk wrote: John H. Moe wrote: play or rip it on my computer. SMplayer, VLC, Xine, K3B, DVD::Rip and AcidRip all seem to have the same basic problem: libdvdread: Can't seek to block 3362902 libdvdread: Invalid IFO for title 18 (VTS_18_0.IFO). Not sure if this is the solution but judging from what you write it seems likely: http://tobias.rautenkranz.ch/libdvdread_ifo.html.en http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460400 Might help to upgrade to a newer version of libdvdread (you don't say which version you have installed)? Best regards Peter K Thanks for the reply! Sorry, I didn't think to put versions in. I'm currently using 0.97, the latest stable ebuild on x86. However, the link you pointed me to seems to say if I go up to 4.13, I shouldn't have that problem. Portage, conveniently, has unstable builds for 4.13. I'll give it a go and report back. John Moe
Re: [gentoo-user] kde wont log in user
James wrote: Well I just updated a laptop that had not been updated for 8 months. It's all fine, except I cannot log in via the kde menu ssh works fine and all packages are current. Any suggestions on how to get this fixed? Sorry, my psychic powers are not functioning today. You give nothing to go on whatsoever. ;) A quick stab in the dark - are you trying to log in as root? KDE will not allow that (by default) for obvious security reasons. Be lucky, Neil http://www.neiljw.com
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Problems playing back DVD
John H. Moe wrote: pk wrote: John H. Moe wrote: play or rip it on my computer. SMplayer, VLC, Xine, K3B, DVD::Rip and AcidRip all seem to have the same basic problem: libdvdread: Can't seek to block 3362902 libdvdread: Invalid IFO for title 18 (VTS_18_0.IFO). Not sure if this is the solution but judging from what you write it seems likely: http://tobias.rautenkranz.ch/libdvdread_ifo.html.en http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460400 Might help to upgrade to a newer version of libdvdread (you don't say which version you have installed)? Best regards Peter K Thanks for the reply! Sorry, I didn't think to put versions in. I'm currently using 0.97, the latest stable ebuild on x86. However, the link you pointed me to seems to say if I go up to 4.13, I shouldn't have that problem. Portage, conveniently, has unstable builds for 4.13. I'll give it a go and report back. John Moe Damn, didn't work. I still get the same error from Xine, but now VLC will play the first track. However, if I try to view the 2nd through the 8th track, they all seem to be the same track. Also, it seems to think there's 99 tracks on the DVD. And if I choose something higher up like track 75, it segfaults and I get what's in the attached log. I've included logs of all output from Xine, VLC and K3B in case something in there helps. Any other ideas? Should I just pick one player, and follow up on their mailing list? I've only asked here because it doesn't seem to be specific to any one player, and am looking for some more general help. Or is this even fixable? I assume this all has something to do with copy protection, and that they've come up with a new way of doing it that the authors of the apps/libs haven't figured out yet, and maybe I just need to wait? Any help or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks. John Moe j...@jhb5970 ~ $ k3b K3bQProcess::QProcess(0x0) K3bQProcess::QProcess(0x0) j...@jhb5970 ~ $ libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access libdvdread: Can't seek to block 2389220 libdvdread: Can't seek to block 2389220 libdvdread: Invalid IFO for title 14 (VTS_14_0.IFO). j...@jhb5970 ~ $ VLC media player 1.0.4 Goldeneye [0x9d268a8] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 4.1.3 libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.10 for DVD access libdvdnav: DVD Title: SC8-0A-AT1_DES libdvdnav: DVD Serial Number: UNDEFINED libdvdnav: DVD Title (Alternative): libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/jmoe/.dvdnav/SC8-0A-AT1_DES.map' libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00f5. Regions: 2 4 libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x02d0 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.VOB at 0x0408 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x040f libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.VOB at 0x0408 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB at 0x040f libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.VOB at 0x0408 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB at 0x040f libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_0.VOB at 0x0007a103 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB at 0x0007a10a libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_0.VOB at 0x0007a103 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB at 0x0007a10a libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_0.VOB at 0x0007a103 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_1.VOB at 0x0007a10a libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_0.VOB at 0x000ed583 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_1.VOB at 0x000ed58a libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_0.VOB at 0x000ed583 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_1.VOB at 0x000ed58a libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_09_0.VOB at 0x000ed583 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_09_1.VOB at 0x000ed58a libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_10_0.VOB at 0x00160ed4 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_10_1.VOB at 0x00160edb libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_11_0.VOB at 0x00160ed4 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_11_1.VOB at 0x00160edb libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_12_0.VOB at 0x001d4a71 libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_12_1.VOB at 0x001d4a78
Re: [gentoo-user] Going ~x86?
Some time ago, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 11 November 2009 17:21:26 Alex Schuster wrote: I wonder if it's worth the trouble. I read here that running a full ~x86 system would probably be easier. And I'd like to try, but while going from x86 to ~x86 is easy, the other way is quite hard, isn't it? If possible at all. yes, it is easier to just go ~x86. Yes, it is very very very hard to go back - easier to reinstall I hope I will not have to do so :) But I have a backup, just in case. BTW, why would the downgrade be so painful? Is this because of the impossible glibc downgrade, or are there even more problems? BTW, when I test this and enable ~x86 in make.conf, I first need to set the extras use flag for udev, and then I get these blockers. So I have to go to openrc, okay. And again trouble with my ati drivers. But maybe this will be over once I have completed the switch. There are several documents you should read first at gentoo.org, all related to upgrades. They are in the docs section, the page with the big long list: - the switch to openrc Done. Did not yet reboot, though :) - the most recent X.org upgrade Not done, that does not work with ati-drivers. - installing KDE4 Already have that. - the horrendous amoun of work to get x and hal working if it doesn't work out the box The horror but think not much will change here. Deal with these blocks individually for best results: [blocks B ] sys-apps/sysvinit-2.86-r11 (sys-apps/sysvinit-2.86- r11 is blocking sys-apps/openrc-0.5.2-r2) emerge -av1 openrc read the elog message and do *exactly* what it says I think I was just able to update baselayout. Was I really liked was that I did not have so much to do, things were done automatically, like migrating new services into the boot runlevel. Nice work! [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.0 (=x11-base/xorg- server-1.7.0 is blocking x11-drivers/ati-drivers-9.9-r2, x11-drivers/ati- drivers-9.10) unmerge ati-drivers, make sure VIDEO_CARDS is correct in make.conf and merge X then remerge ALL your drivers. The elog tells you how to proceed Um, no. ati-drivers is not compatible with xorg-server-1.7, and after I was not able to get the radeon driver to work (I tried... oh how I tried), I keep my old X.org. I put this into package.mask (got most of it from bug #290739 [1]), maybe I could trim it some more: =x11-base/xorg-server-1.7 #=x11-proto/xcmiscproto-1.2.0 #=x11-proto/bigreqsproto-1.1.0 #=x11-proto/xf86driproto-2.1.0 #=x11-proto/xf86bigfontproto-1.2.0 =x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.7 =x11-proto/xextproto-7.1.1 =x11-proto/fixesproto-4.1.1 =x11-proto/inputproto-2.0 =x11-libs/libX11-1.3.2 =x11-libs/libXext-1.1.1 =x11-libs/libXi-1.3 =x11-apps/xinput-1.5.0 =x11-proto/xf86vidmodeproto-2.3 =x11-libs/libXxf86vm-1.1.0 =x11-proto/recordproto-1.14 =x11-libs/libXtst-1.1.0 =x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.2.0 =x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.2.0 =x11-proto/xineramaproto-1.2 =x11-libs/libXinerama-1.1 =x11-proto/xf86dgaproto-2.1 =x11-libs/libXxf86dga-1.1.1 =media-libs/mesa-7.6 Looks ugly, but as long as my package.mask will be smaller than my current package.keywords... emerge -avuND world I had to remove samba and poppler to resolve blockers, but I'm emerging @system now. Hooray! Now I have a final question (for the moment). What is this ~x86 called? Writing is easy, 4 characters, but how is this pronounced? Tilde-ex- eightysix / tilde-arch? Or is it just testing? The problem came up when I was at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin and talked to the guys at the Gentoo desk. Oh, dev-libs/klibc-1.5.15-r1 just failed to build. #285355 [2] suggests to disable distcc, and yes, this does the trick. Strange, but, whatever. 107 packages to go now. Wonko [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/290739 [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285355
Re: [gentoo-user] kde wont log in user
Neil Bothwick writes: On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:38:27 + (UTC), James wrote: Well I just updated a laptop that had not been updated for 8 months. It's all fine, except I cannot log in via the kde menu You need to give a better description. By the KDE menu, do you mean the kdm login screen? What happens when you try to log in, does it reject your username/password, does it try to open a KDE desktop and then fall back to kdm or does kdm not open a login screen in the first place? I cannot login tells us nothing. I also had a I cannot login error with kdm-4.x, so I am still using kdm-3.5 as display manager. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Problems playing back DVD
John H. Moe wrote: Any help or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks. libdvdread is part of the mplayer project so I would try mplayer mail list. Other than that you could try what Ubiquitous1980 or Joerg suggests. Sorry, I don't have any other ideas, but I think mplayer mail list is the safest bet; if there's some new variant of the dvd format then it might even help others... Best regards Peter K
Re: [gentoo-user] Going ~x86?
On Friday 15 January 2010 15:04:12 Alex Schuster wrote: Some time ago, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 11 November 2009 17:21:26 Alex Schuster wrote: I wonder if it's worth the trouble. I read here that running a full ~x86 system would probably be easier. And I'd like to try, but while going from x86 to ~x86 is easy, the other way is quite hard, isn't it? If possible at all. yes, it is easier to just go ~x86. Yes, it is very very very hard to go back - easier to reinstall I hope I will not have to do so :) But I have a backup, just in case. BTW, why would the downgrade be so painful? Is this because of the impossible glibc downgrade, or are there even more problems? glibc is the one thing that makes it almost impossible. Everything else just makes it very very hard. [snip] Now I have a final question (for the moment). What is this ~x86 called? Writing is easy, 4 characters, but how is this pronounced? Tilde-ex- eightysix / tilde-arch? Or is it just testing? The problem came up when I was at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin and talked to the guys at the Gentoo desk. any of those will do. Even unstable arch. Anyone with more than a few days experience with gentoo will know what you are talking about. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Re: kde wont log in user
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:38:27 + (UTC), James wrote: Well I just updated a laptop that had not been updated for 8 months. It's all fine, except I cannot log in via the kde menu You need to give a better description. By the KDE menu, do you mean the kdm login screen? What happens when you try to log in, does it reject your username/password, does it try to open a KDE desktop and then fall back to kdm or does kdm not open a login screen in the first place? I cannot login tells us nothing.] Ok, I do not know what it is called. I'm running kde-meta 4.3.3 It's the kde screen where you put your login and passwd. It flashes for a second or 2, like the passwd is accepted, but kde cannot start. If I do not auto start kdm via rc-update, then I can log in as a user and X starts (twm?). I can also ssh into the system so the user passwd is ok. Before you reply, take a look for anything useful in /var/log/kdm.log. Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server error setting MTRR (base = 0xe000, size = 0x0100, type = 1) Invalid argument (22) (EE) GLX error: Can not get required symbols. (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: Warning: Multiple names for keycode 211 Using I211, ignoring AB11 Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: Warning: Multiple names for keycode 211 Using I211, ignoring AB11 Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: Warning: Multiple names for keycode 211 Using I211, ignoring AB11 Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server Maybe a keyboard error? I have ran this several times: emerge -D1 $(qlist -I -C x11-drivers) No xorg.conf file in use: x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4-r1 x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.5-r1 ati-driver-9.11 linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r5 Ideas? James
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: file system failure after emerge -DuN @system
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:10 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/14/2010 01:33 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, An old machine hadn't been turned on in a few months. I decided I try getting it up to date so I went through an emerge cycle to see if I could get things going. It was a little picky about upgrading udev but at the time I thought it had gone OK, but possibly not. emerge -DuN @system completed without errors, running it again said there was nothing to update, python-updater ran fine, as did revdep-rebuild. However when I rebooted I see messages when starting udev: inotify_init failed: fnction not implemented... inotify_init is provided by glibc, so that seems to be important. That machine seems to have some mismatched components, but which ones? It's important that glibc be compiled with the kernel headers that are actually installed on your machine, so the order of package upgrading does matter, at least when system libs like glibc are involved. E.g. if glibc was updated *before* the kernel-headers package then you might expect such problems. Of course, I have no idea if that's what happened to you. On my x86 I have linux-headers-2.6.27-r2 and glibc-2.10.1-r1. I see that all of my linux-headers files are dated 2009-08-24, and glibc was updated just this week. You may want to check to see which of those packages was installed earlier. Does the machine run well enough that you can reinstall both glibc and udev again? Not right now. After the boot complains that the super block isn't right the disk is getting mounted read only. I cannot even edit a file with vi.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: file system failure after emerge -DuN @system
On 15 Jan, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:10 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/14/2010 01:33 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, An old machine hadn't been turned on in a few months. I decided I try getting it up to date so I went through an emerge cycle to see if I could get things going. It was a little picky about upgrading udev but at the time I thought it had gone OK, but possibly not. emerge -DuN @system completed without errors, running it again said there was nothing to update, python-updater ran fine, as did revdep-rebuild. However when I rebooted I see messages when starting udev: inotify_init failed: fnction not implemented... inotify_init is provided by glibc, so that seems to be important. That machine seems to have some mismatched components, but which ones? It's important that glibc be compiled with the kernel headers that are actually installed on your machine, so the order of package upgrading does matter, at least when system libs like glibc are involved. E.g. if glibc was updated *before* the kernel-headers package then you might expect such problems. Of course, I have no idea if that's what happened to you. On my x86 I have linux-headers-2.6.27-r2 and glibc-2.10.1-r1. I see that all of my linux-headers files are dated 2009-08-24, and glibc was updated just this week. You may want to check to see which of those packages was installed earlier. Does the machine run well enough that you can reinstall both glibc and udev again? Not right now. After the boot complains that the super block isn't right the disk is getting mounted read only. I cannot even edit a file with vi. Try booting by using a rescue CD (www.sysresccd.org) fsck your root disk chroot to your root disk then try to repair your system (e.g. building/installing a new kernel) Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
[gentoo-user] How can I move system to new disk?
Hi, I'm facing this problem: I want to exchange hard-drive in my computer for other, bigger one. I do not want to add new hard-drive somewhere on mount-point permanently, I just want to copy everything from the old drive to the new one and then get rid of the old one. And of course, I'd like to use my computer as before. What is the best (maybe I should ask for safest) way to acomplish this? First I thought about cp -a. But I'm not sure which directories I should skip (/proc, maybe some other like /dev?). And I do not know how cp handles links (if I first copy link and later target, where is the link pointing? to the original file or its copy?). Maybe dump/restore is better solution? Or something else? Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move system to new disk?
Tar is your friend and ally. 1. install and Mount the disk to a mount point. 2. Use tar in for it's intended purpose https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem/TAR 3. remove old drive, configure the new one as your primary. 4. get a drink. On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm facing this problem: I want to exchange hard-drive in my computer for other, bigger one. I do not want to add new hard-drive somewhere on mount-point permanently, I just want to copy everything from the old drive to the new one and then get rid of the old one. And of course, I'd like to use my computer as before. What is the best (maybe I should ask for safest) way to acomplish this? First I thought about cp -a. But I'm not sure which directories I should skip (/proc, maybe some other like /dev?). And I do not know how cp handles links (if I first copy link and later target, where is the link pointing? to the original file or its copy?). Maybe dump/restore is better solution? Or something else? Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted. -- Hazen Valliant-Saunders IT/IS Consultant (613) 355-5977
[gentoo-user] Re: Freeze up during X session
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes: To exclude a software problem, try booting from a SystemRescue-CD http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page It's Gentoo based and sports an X-Server. Thanks for the recue disk tip. That are the problems that makes one crazy! Well put... hehe. But I chickened out and took the path of least resistance. I'm in the middle of an install from scratch right now. But if its hardware as yours was... that won't help either. My hardware is not amd so keeping my fingers crossed.
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move system to new disk?
remember to use --exclude to exclude your new drive's mounted point. \ and to use a pipe so your command would look like: r...@yoursystem #cd / r...@yoursystem #tar -cvpzf - -–exclude=/- --exclude=/mnt/newdrive | cd /mnt/newdrive (tar -xvpf -) If all else fails! # man tar Regards, Hazen. On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Hazen Valliant-Saunders haze...@gmail.com wrote: Tar is your friend and ally. 1. install and Mount the disk to a mount point. 2. Use tar in for it's intended purpose https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem/TAR 3. remove old drive, configure the new one as your primary. 4. get a drink. On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm facing this problem: I want to exchange hard-drive in my computer for other, bigger one. I do not want to add new hard-drive somewhere on mount-point permanently, I just want to copy everything from the old drive to the new one and then get rid of the old one. And of course, I'd like to use my computer as before. What is the best (maybe I should ask for safest) way to acomplish this? First I thought about cp -a. But I'm not sure which directories I should skip (/proc, maybe some other like /dev?). And I do not know how cp handles links (if I first copy link and later target, where is the link pointing? to the original file or its copy?). Maybe dump/restore is better solution? Or something else? Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted. -- Hazen Valliant-Saunders IT/IS Consultant (613) 355-5977 -- Hazen Valliant-Saunders IT/IS Consultant (613) 355-5977
[gentoo-user] What xorg pkgs needed for X to work
Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of anything better. I'm rebuilding my home desktop with a full reinstall So far haven't gotten to getting X working... but did notice that when I test what all gets installed with: emerge -vp xfce4-meta I notice that xorg-x11 is not amongst the... dependencies. xorg-server is absent as well, but I seem to recall a more basic xorg pkgs being involved. Maybe something like xorg-base... or whatever. Apparently something has happened with naming of pkgs or something, that I haven't kept up with. But can a user really get use out of xfce4-meta with no xorg-server? Just so you know its not already installed, heres a grep of all installed pkgs: qlop --list|grep xorg Fri Jan 15 11:02:43 2010 x11-misc/xorg-cf-files-1.0.3 - - -= - - - I've included the dependencies in case anyone is interested... Should there be something more from xorg? emerge -vp xfce4-meta These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild N] app-text/libpaper-1.1.23 343 kB [ebuild N] sys-apps/eject-2.1.5-r2 USE=nls 121 kB [ebuild N] dev-python/setuptools-0.6.10 0 kB [ebuild N] sys-apps/dmidecode-2.10 0 kB [ebuild N] app-text/iso-codes-3.11.1 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-libs/glib-2.22.3 USE=-debug -doc -fam -hardened (-selinux) -xattr 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXext-1.1.1 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] media-libs/freetype-2.3.11 USE=X -bindist -debug -doc -fontforge -utils 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.5 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] sys-apps/dbus-1.3.0-r1 USE=X -debug -doc (-selinux) -test 0 kB [ebuild U ] app-admin/eselect-1.2.9 [1.2.3] USE=-bash-completion -doc 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-proto/fixesproto-4.1.1 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r2 USE=python -debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libxkbfile-1.0.6 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-themes/xfce4-icon-theme-4.4.3 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/xcb-util-0.3.6 USE=-debug -test 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-apps/appres-1.0.2 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] media-libs/netpbm-10.48.00-r1 USE=X jpeg png tiff zlib -jbig -jpeg2k -rle -svga -xml 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-proto/recordproto-1.14 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.2.0 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-apps/xprop-1.1.0 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.22 USE=python -alisp -debug -doc ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS=adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-misc/xbitmaps-1.1.0 0 kB [ebuild N] media-libs/giflib-4.1.6-r1 USE=X -rle 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-misc/imake-1.0.2 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-misc/gccmakedep-1.0.2 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-python/numpy-1.4.0 USE=-doc -lapack -test 0 kB [ebuild N] sys-apps/usbutils-0.86-r1 USE=zlib -network-cron 0 kB [ebuild N] virtual/eject-0 0 kB [ebuild N] media-libs/libexif-0.6.19 USE=nls -doc 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-proto/resourceproto-1.1.0 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libfontenc-1.0.5 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-apps/iceauth-1.0.3 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.7.1 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.82 USE=-bash-completion -debug -doc -test 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXmu-1.0.5 USE=-debug -ipv6 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/startup-notification-0.10 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXfixes-4.0.4 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXrandr-1.3.0 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-libs/atk-1.28.0 USE=-debug -doc 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXi-1.3 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.70 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXpm-3.5.8 USE=nls -debug 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-python/pygobject-2.20.0 USE=-debug -doc -examples -libffi -test 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-apps/mkfontscale-1.0.7 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-apps/xkbcomp-1.1.1 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXxf86misc-1.0.2 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXxf86vm-1.1.0 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] app-admin/eselect-emacs-1.13 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXp-1.0.0 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-libs/libcroco-0.6.2 USE=-debug -doc 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXfontcache-1.0.5 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-perl/glib-perl-1.222 0 kB [ebuild N] app-admin/gam-server-0.1.10 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXres-1.0.4 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] xfce-base/xfconf-4.7.0 USE=perl -debug -profile 461 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXcursor-1.1.10 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXdamage-1.1.2 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXcomposite-0.4.1 USE=-debug -doc 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-apps/xrdb-1.0.6 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-apps/xwininfo-1.0.5
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move system to new disk?
Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: Tar is your friend and ally. 1. install and Mount the disk to a mount point. 2. Use tar in for it's intended purpose https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem/TAR 3. remove old drive, configure the new one as your primary. 4. get a drink. On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com mailto:mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm facing this problem: I want to exchange hard-drive in my computer for other, bigger one. I do not want to add new hard-drive somewhere on mount-point permanently, I just want to copy everything from the old drive to the new one and then get rid of the old one. And of course, I'd like to use my computer as before. What is the best (maybe I should ask for safest) way to acomplish this? First I thought about cp -a. But I'm not sure which directories I should skip (/proc, maybe some other like /dev?). And I do not know how cp handles links (if I first copy link and later target, where is the link pointing? to the original file or its copy?). Maybe dump/restore is better solution? Or something else? Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted. I have done this several times and only used cp -a. I just skipped /dev, /proc, /tmp and other none needed ones. Don't forget to copy console and null in /dev tho. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: file system failure after emerge -DuN @system
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de writes: Does the machine run well enough that you can reinstall both glibc and udev again? Not right now. After the boot complains that the super block isn't right the disk is getting mounted read only. I cannot even edit a file with vi. Try booting by using a rescue CD (www.sysresccd.org) fsck your root disk chroot to your root disk then try to repair your system (e.g. building/installing a new kernel) Something similar has happened here in the past, it was related to fsck being called inappropriately. At least a few times I was able to remount things after the initial boot ended up with read only filesystem using the command: `mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda_whatever /' Or maybe just: `mount -o remount,rw /' To remount in place After boot came up `read only' it worked apparently since the timing wasn't a factor then. But you might try that command first to see if you can do repairs that way.
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move system to new disk?
cp -a works, i just like pipes. On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: Tar is your friend and ally. 1. install and Mount the disk to a mount point. 2. Use tar in for it's intended purpose https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem/TAR 3. remove old drive, configure the new one as your primary. 4. get a drink. On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com mailto: mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm facing this problem: I want to exchange hard-drive in my computer for other, bigger one. I do not want to add new hard-drive somewhere on mount-point permanently, I just want to copy everything from the old drive to the new one and then get rid of the old one. And of course, I'd like to use my computer as before. What is the best (maybe I should ask for safest) way to acomplish this? First I thought about cp -a. But I'm not sure which directories I should skip (/proc, maybe some other like /dev?). And I do not know how cp handles links (if I first copy link and later target, where is the link pointing? to the original file or its copy?). Maybe dump/restore is better solution? Or something else? Jarry --___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted. I have done this several times and only used cp -a. I just skipped /dev, /proc, /tmp and other none needed ones. Don't forget to copy console and null in /dev tho. Dale :-) :-) -- Hazen Valliant-Saunders IT/IS Consultant (613) 355-5977
[gentoo-user] Re: How can I move system to new disk?
Jarry wrote: Maybe dump/restore is better solution? Or something else? Boot a live CD, mount a source partition to /mnt/src, a destination partition to /mnt/dst (with the right options, e.g. acl and user_xattr if you use them), then: rsync -avHAX /mnt/src/ /mnt/dst (The slash after src is intentional.) Repeat with all partitions. Then install GRUB to the MBR of the new disk. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I move system to new disk?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Em 15-01-2010 15:33, Jarry escreveu: Hi, I'm facing this problem: I want to exchange hard-drive in my computer for other, bigger one. I do not want to add new hard-drive somewhere on mount-point permanently, I just want to copy everything from the old drive to the new one and then get rid of the old one. And of course, I'd like to use my computer as before. What is the best (maybe I should ask for safest) way to acomplish this? First I thought about cp -a. But I'm not sure which directories I should skip (/proc, maybe some other like /dev?). And I do not know how cp handles links (if I first copy link and later target, where is the link pointing? to the original file or its copy?). Maybe dump/restore is better solution? Or something else? Jarry In a small cluster with machines have the same configuration (or not, when newer hd are more bigger than the oldest) i use a live cd and cp - -pr /mnt/gentoo/* /mnt/gentoo2/*. Works fine. Changing hostname and ip and i have a new cluster client. Better than ghost that don't change mbr or dd. A shutdown -Fr now in a first reboot is a good idea. att -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAktQtKUACgkQ35zeJy7JhCh/rQCcDO7hr/0V64cnHBudL2BseQKg OtEAn2P13ZvQXDprMCNrNbCNEGGD0GJw =zlNP -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[gentoo-user] What xorg pkgs needed for X to work
[Please excuse if this is a double whammy... it appears not to have made it to the mail/news server] Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of anything better. I'm rebuilding my home desktop with a full reinstall So far haven't gotten to getting X working... but did notice that when I test what all gets installed with: emerge -vp xfce4-meta I notice that xorg-x11 is not amongst the... dependencies. xorg-server is absent as well, but I seem to recall a more basic xorg pkgs being involved. Maybe something like xorg-base... or whatever. Apparently something has happened with naming of pkgs or something, that I haven't kept up with. But can a user really get use out of xfce4-meta with no xorg-server? Just so you know its not already installed, heres a grep of all installed pkgs: qlop --list|grep xorg Fri Jan 15 11:02:43 2010 x11-misc/xorg-cf-files-1.0.3 - - -= - - - I've included the dependencies in case anyone is interested... Should there be something more from xorg? emerge -vp xfce4-meta These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild N] app-text/libpaper-1.1.23 343 kB [ebuild N] sys-apps/eject-2.1.5-r2 USE=nls 121 kB [ebuild N] dev-python/setuptools-0.6.10 0 kB [ebuild N] sys-apps/dmidecode-2.10 0 kB [ebuild N] app-text/iso-codes-3.11.1 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-libs/glib-2.22.3 USE=-debug -doc -fam -hardened (-selinux) -xattr 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXext-1.1.1 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] media-libs/freetype-2.3.11 USE=X -bindist -debug -doc -fontforge -utils 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.5 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] sys-apps/dbus-1.3.0-r1 USE=X -debug -doc (-selinux) -test 0 kB [ebuild U ] app-admin/eselect-1.2.9 [1.2.3] USE=-bash-completion -doc 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-proto/fixesproto-4.1.1 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r2 USE=python -debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libxkbfile-1.0.6 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-themes/xfce4-icon-theme-4.4.3 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/xcb-util-0.3.6 USE=-debug -test 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-apps/appres-1.0.2 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] media-libs/netpbm-10.48.00-r1 USE=X jpeg png tiff zlib -jbig -jpeg2k -rle -svga -xml 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-proto/recordproto-1.14 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.2.0 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-apps/xprop-1.1.0 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.22 USE=python -alisp -debug -doc ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS=adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-misc/xbitmaps-1.1.0 0 kB [ebuild N] media-libs/giflib-4.1.6-r1 USE=X -rle 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-misc/imake-1.0.2 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-misc/gccmakedep-1.0.2 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-python/numpy-1.4.0 USE=-doc -lapack -test 0 kB [ebuild N] sys-apps/usbutils-0.86-r1 USE=zlib -network-cron 0 kB [ebuild N] virtual/eject-0 0 kB [ebuild N] media-libs/libexif-0.6.19 USE=nls -doc 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-proto/resourceproto-1.1.0 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libfontenc-1.0.5 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-apps/iceauth-1.0.3 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.7.1 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.82 USE=-bash-completion -debug -doc -test 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXmu-1.0.5 USE=-debug -ipv6 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/startup-notification-0.10 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXfixes-4.0.4 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXrandr-1.3.0 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-libs/atk-1.28.0 USE=-debug -doc 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXi-1.3 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.70 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXpm-3.5.8 USE=nls -debug 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-python/pygobject-2.20.0 USE=-debug -doc -examples -libffi -test 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-apps/mkfontscale-1.0.7 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-apps/xkbcomp-1.1.1 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXxf86misc-1.0.2 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXxf86vm-1.1.0 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] app-admin/eselect-emacs-1.13 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXp-1.0.0 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-libs/libcroco-0.6.2 USE=-debug -doc 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXfontcache-1.0.5 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-perl/glib-perl-1.222 0 kB [ebuild N] app-admin/gam-server-0.1.10 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXres-1.0.4 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] xfce-base/xfconf-4.7.0 USE=perl -debug -profile 461 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXcursor-1.1.10 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXdamage-1.1.2 USE=-debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXcomposite-0.4.1 USE=-debug -doc 0 kB
Re: [gentoo-user] What xorg pkgs needed for X to work
On Friday 15 January 2010 20:43:32 Harry Putnam wrote: [Please excuse if this is a double whammy... it appears not to have made it to the mail/news server] Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of anything better. I'm rebuilding my home desktop with a full reinstall So far haven't gotten to getting X working... but did notice that when I test what all gets installed with: emerge -vp xfce4-meta I notice that xorg-x11 is not amongst the... dependencies. xorg-server is absent as well, but I seem to recall a more basic xorg pkgs being involved. Maybe something like xorg-base... or whatever. Apparently something has happened with naming of pkgs or something, that I haven't kept up with. But can a user really get use out of xfce4-meta with no xorg-server? Yes. This is how X11 works. xfce does not need a full blown xserver on the *local* machine, it simply needs X libs to function. The X libs in turn will talk to the xserver, which does not have to be on the local machine. Parallel situation: You do not need X and a browser on a machine running a web server, as the pages served are not necessarily viewed on the machine hosting apache. To get X you can either; merge xorg-x11 (this is the meta package you didn't know the name of) or put X in USE Note carefully that this is not a silly situation, it works this way by design. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I move system to new disk?
And what about dd? Not the fastest solution, but it is copy the mbr, the boot loader, the partition table and all partitions. After it you should use the parted or the gparted to move/resize the necesarry partitions. -- Szénási István
Re: [gentoo-user] What xorg pkgs needed for X to work
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 12:03 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of anything better. I'm rebuilding my home desktop with a full reinstall So far haven't gotten to getting X working... but did notice that when I test what all gets installed with: emerge -vp xfce4-meta I notice that xorg-x11 is not amongst the... dependencies. xorg-server is absent as well, but I seem to recall a more basic xorg pkgs being involved. Maybe something like xorg-base... or whatever. Apparently something has happened with naming of pkgs or something, that I haven't kept up with. But can a user really get use out of xfce4-meta with no xorg-server? Yes, in same way a user can can get use out of Firefox without installing Apache ;-). X11 is client/server based. Client(s) and server need not exist on the same machine, and a server can serve multiple distributed clients simultaneously without any local clients. You probably want: $ # set up VIDEO_CARDS and INPUT_DEVICES as appropriate $ emerge -vp xfce4-meta xorg-server
[gentoo-user] Re: What xorg pkgs needed for X to work
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: On Friday 15 January 2010 20:43:32 Harry Putnam wrote: [Please excuse if this is a double whammy... it appears not to have made it to the mail/news server] Sorry for the awkwardly phrased subject... but couldn't think of anything better. I'm rebuilding my home desktop with a full reinstall So far haven't gotten to getting X working... but did notice that when I test what all gets installed with: emerge -vp xfce4-meta I notice that xorg-x11 is not amongst the... dependencies. xorg-server is absent as well, but I seem to recall a more basic xorg pkgs being involved. Maybe something like xorg-base... or whatever. Apparently something has happened with naming of pkgs or something, that I haven't kept up with. But can a user really get use out of xfce4-meta with no xorg-server? Yes. This is how X11 works. xfce does not need a full blown xserver on the *local* machine, it simply needs X libs to function. The X libs in turn will talk to the xserver, which does not have to be on the local machine. Parallel situation: You do not need X and a browser on a machine running a web server, as the pages served are not necessarily viewed on the machine hosting apache. Ahh yes... I see you point now. To get X you can either; merge xorg-x11 (this is the meta package you didn't know the name of) or put X in USE Note carefully that this is not a silly situation, it works this way by design. Well that is kind of the kicker... I do have X in use flags. In fact posting all I have in /etc/make.conf below: USE=X acpi alsa apache2 branding cscope dbus emacs ffmpeg gif hal jpeg lock logrotate mbox mysql samba sasl session svg vim-pager vim-with-x png pdf session startup-notification subversion thunar tiff exif win32codecs Xaw3d ## FOR Xfce4 = branding dbus hal lock session startup-notification thunar ## They are added above -bluetooth -crypt -eds -emboss -evo -gnome -gstreamer -imap -ipv6 -kde -ldap -mad -maildir -mikmod -minimal -qt3 -qt3support -qt4 -sdl -xscreensaver As you see, it is the very first USE flag. Maybe something the the negative list is making a problem...? But its not a major obstacle.. of course, my real aim is to get X going with Xfce4 and I'm pretty sure I can get that done. Thanks for the input.
[gentoo-user] What role does dev-libs/boost play with encfs?
I'm probably way behind the eightball asking something like this, but I'm wondering what role `dev-libs/boost' plays with encfs. The home page indicates its something of a helper application for using cpp++ programming language and applications. The reason I ask is that it appears to be up there with kde when it comes to compiling that critter. I'm rebuilding my main desktop from scratch install and have been used to using encfs for some private data... I don't recall having to wrestle `boost' to the ground when I installed encfs (long ago). I may just have been too busy to see it burning up time. But what seems like hrs is just a bit lenghy for something that is billed as a sort of helper application. Well its really only been a little over an hour but I see no signs of the end coming near in the present output... I'ts not really a big complaint... I'm more curious than put out. Being a retiree and lazy to boot I have the time for it... hehe. Oh, and my hardware is not that uptodate ... its p4 celeron 3.0 cpu with 3GB ram.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I move system to new disk?
On 15 Jan 2010, at 20:12, Szénási István wrote: And what about dd? Not the fastest solution, but it is copy the mbr, the boot loader, the partition table and all partitions. After it you should use the parted or the gparted to move/resize the necesarry partitions. It should be mentioned that if you use this method then, after running parted to resize the partition(s), you will also need to resize the filesystem(s) on the partition(s). This is well documented - google resize ext3 or whatever. Not sure if this is necessary using GParted - probably not. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] exaile + XFCE + global shortcuts
On Wednesday 13 January 2010 16:13:38 Arnau Bria wrote: Hi all, I'm moving from amarok to exaile. Now I'm trying to configure my global shortcuts on XFCE. I've read somewhere (forums+google) that I should have some exaile plugin called keyboard shortcut, but I don't have it when I open the plugin dialog box. I don't find any plugin in portage and I don't know if I have to manually download it or not (and where to get it). I'm using 0.2.99. Could someone that is already using exaile give me some help on this issue? Thank your for bringing it to our attention! I've been on a lookout for an amarok replacement. I just installed it so I'm not up to speed with it to answer your question, but I am having a similar problem. When I click on Shoutcast it complains that there is a HTTP protocol missing: A HTTP protocol source plugin is required to play this stream, but not installed. Which one is that? The shoutcast plugin is in there and enabled. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] exaile + XFCE + global shortcuts
On Friday 15 January 2010 23:31:52 you wrote: On Wednesday 13 January 2010 16:13:38 Arnau Bria wrote: Hi all, I'm moving from amarok to exaile. Now I'm trying to configure my global shortcuts on XFCE. I've read somewhere (forums+google) that I should have some exaile plugin called keyboard shortcut, but I don't have it when I open the plugin dialog box. I don't find any plugin in portage and I don't know if I have to manually download it or not (and where to get it). I'm using 0.2.99. Could someone that is already using exaile give me some help on this issue? Thank your for bringing it to our attention! I've been on a lookout for an amarok replacement. I just installed it so I'm not up to speed with it to answer your question, but I am having a similar problem. When I click on Shoutcast it complains that there is a HTTP protocol missing: A HTTP protocol source plugin is required to play this stream, but not installed. Which one is that? The shoutcast plugin is in there and enabled. I may have found what determines the plugins: I think that you need to install the corresponding gst-plugins. There seems to be one already installed on my system called gnomemmkeys (you can find this when you click Edit/Plugins/Install plugins and it takes you to /usr/share/exaile/plugins to choose from). HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] What role does dev-libs/boost play with encfs?
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 23:11 +, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm probably way behind the eightball asking something like this, but I'm wondering what role `dev-libs/boost' plays with encfs. Boost is a C++ library. It provides facilities for such things as handling XML, abstracting filesystems, complex data structures, etc, etc. See http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0 encfs is a FUSE and accompanying utilties. It utilizes C++ and uses a few libraries, among them Boost. The home page indicates its something of a helper application for using cpp++ programming language and applications. It's a library, not an application (qlist boost). The reason I ask is that it appears to be up there with kde when it comes to compiling that critter. It's C++. g++ is slow. I'm rebuilding my main desktop from scratch install and have been used to using encfs for some private data... I don't recall having to wrestle `boost' to the ground when I installed encfs (long ago). I may just have been too busy to see it burning up time. But what seems like hrs is just a bit lenghy for something that is billed as a sort of helper application. It's a library. Not a helper application. It includes a lot of useful stuff (although encfs probably uses only a few of them). Well its really only been a little over an hour but I see no signs of the end coming near in the present output... I'ts not really a big complaint... I'm more curious than put out. Being a retiree and lazy to boot I have the time for it... hehe. Oh, and my hardware is not that uptodate ... its p4 celeron 3.0 cpu with 3GB ram. If you *really* want to know what encfs uses Boost for you could, of course, examine the source :) But you really only need to know that it's a big C++ library that's used by encfs. Go grab a coffee or do a load of laundry or something. -a
[gentoo-user] changing nvidia settings dynamically
Hi all, For a long time I've been using nvidia's twinview for two 1920x1200 displays (laptop and external LCD). Whenever I dock / undock I have to run nvidia-settings to change the resolution from the virtual 3840x1200 to 1920x1200 or vice versa. Also since two screens is the Default I have to do this when I log in with only the laptop. I am looking for a way to use the command line nvidia-settings (as much as I've studied the help I can't find out how to do it - all attributes seem read-only to the command line nvidia-settings) Then I can call nvidia-settings --some-options on a dock / undock event. Alternatively, I read in the nvidia-drivers README that you can use metamodes and then use the FN-F8 (CRT/LCD switch key) to switch between them. However, when I use metamodes I always get a 3840 wide screen, and I can scroll left and right to the unseen space. These are the metamodes I've tried: 1. The two-screen only metamode: Option metamodes DFP-0: 1920x1200 +1920+0, DFP-2: 1920x1200 +0+0 2. attempt to use a 1920 metamode as well: Option metamodes DFP-0: 1920x1200; DFP-0: 1920x1200 +1920+0, DFP-2: 1920x1200 +0+0 3. attempt 2: Option metamodes DFP-0: 1920x1200 +1920+0, DFP-2: 1920x1200 +0+0; DFP-0: 1920x1200 +0+0, Here's my screen section (all other sections are basic): Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Device0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth24 Option TwinView 1 Option TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder DFP-2 Option metamodes DFP-0: 1920x1200 +1920+0, DFP-2: 1920x1200 +0+0 SubSection Display Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Has anyone done a dynamic mode change with nvidia xinerama? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au If you have nothing to do, don't do it here.
[gentoo-user] Intel 4965 doesn't work with 2.6.32?
Hi again, just when I think I'm solving problems here's another one: my laptop mpci wireless card is detected by lspci as: 0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61) with 2.6.31 everything works fine (network manager, wpa supplicant, etc). However with 2.6.32, I can load the module (iwlagn) and see it in dmesg, but iwconfig just says wlan0 no wireless extensions. and I can't associate or do anything. Google doesn't find any similar issues, however someone on the tuxonice list is having trouble resuming a 4965 Golan... any ideas? thanks -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Stult's Report: Our problems are mostly behind us. What we have to do now is fight the solutions.
