Re: [gentoo-user] root partition lost - backup too old - please help
On 14 Jun, Dru Kargin wrote: On 06/14/10 12:19, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 14 Juni 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 14 Jun, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 14 Juni 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, due to a disk crash I've lost my root partition. Unfortunately, the backup version is 4 weeks old. But my /usr partition is up-to-date and I have binary build-pkgs. What's the fastest way to restore the portage-relevant data on the root partition? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. if /var/db survived, you can grep for /bin /lib /sbin etc in /var/db and install the packages hit. Thanks, but unfortunately /var was on the root partition. So, I have to emerge -k --update @world @system . Helmut. except that without /var portage does now know what @system or @world is made off. If you have a 4-week old version of /var/db, you can probably use that for the sake of rebuilding/unpackaging system and world. Hopefully, system and world won't have changed so much in four weeks that a ground-up rebuild will be more efficient. Yes, I'm trying that. Though I've encountered some difficulties. E.g. the 'old' system had gcc-4.4.3-r2 in slot (4.4) while the /usr partition contained gcc-4.4.4. Trying to emerge gcc-4.4.4 (binary) portage went into a loop (at least it would have taken more than an hour on a fast machine). I had to fetch /etc/env.d/gcc from a similar machine here. The problem seems to be that during installation portage tries to remove a version which isn't installed anymore. Meanwhile I could reinstall gcc-4.4.4 which was the biggest corner (hopefully). Thanks, Helmut.
[gentoo-user] Open Letter (Plea for Medical/Help Assistance) to World Leaders
[***URGENT***] 15 June 2010 Tuesday 5:50 P.M. Singapore Time To (long list of recipients): Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters without Broders) International Comittee of the Red Cross International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs President of the United States of America Barrack Obama First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland David Cameron President of the Fifth French Republic Nicolas Sarkozy Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper Prime Minister of Australia The Honorable Kevin Rudd MP Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Ma Ying-jeou President of the European Union Jose Manuel Barroso Members of the European Parliament The Oprah Winfrey Show The Rachel Ray Show The Ellen DeGeneres Show Larry King Live TV Show Charlie Rose TV Show International Court of Justice International Court of Human Rights European Court of Human Rights European Court of Justice Public Broadcasting Service American Broadcasting Company (ABC) National Broadcasting Company CBS Broadcasting Inc. Fox News The CW Television Network Ion Television Bloomberg Television America One Omni Broadcasting Network CNN BBC News Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Amnesty International The Carter Center Every Human Has Rights RE: Open Letter (Plea for Medical/Help Assistance) to World Leaders Dear Sir/Madam, I have uploaded photos, videos, and audios of myself, scanned images of my ECG Graphs, laboratory blood test reports, X-Ray films and medical notes to Facebook (Facebook account: Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)) and other preferred image sharing sites. Hopefully, my online accounts, including Facebook, will not be compromised by my antagonists. I hope that the content (text, video, and audio) in my data sharing sites will remain fully intact without unauthorized alteration, modification, and deletion by my adversaries. And hopefully nobody will close my facebook account without my authorization and consent ether. I am exceedingly concerned that I might have heart/coronary artery disease and that it might be in the late stages. My physical symptoms are: 1) Aching in the upper left of my chest since beginning January 2009 90% of the time, sometimes it may migrate to the right side 2) Shortness of breath from time to time 3) Palpitations in the last few days (I can feel my heart beat very hard and irregularly) 4) Muscle aches in the hands and legs, sometimes my hands(palms) will cramp 5) Involuntary movement of fingers/thumbs occasionally 6) Facial spasms occasionally 7) Sometimes I will feel my body vibrating anywhere from head to toe 8) When I tried to feel the pulses on my wrists, the pulses will disappear after a while. This is contrary to what doctors, nurses, and others have been telling me. That my pulses are consistent. 9) Sometimes when I am just about to fall asleep, I will get a sudden jerk or have a feeling that I am falling or my heart is going to pop out 10) giddiness/dizziness/light-headedness from time to time 11) Sometimes I will feel weak after just waking up, especially in the hands 12) discomfort at the back of my head from time to time I have visited many doctors at AE departments of many general hospitals here but they all try to brush me off and tell me I am fine. My request for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for the brain and (more specifically the) heart is usually declined. It seems that the doctors are stalling for time, dragging and delaying until maybe it is too late to do anything for me. I have been unemployed since October 2009 and have depleted all my personal savings. In May 2009, which is just last year only, I have done a MIBI heart perfusion study (radioisotope IV + gamma camera) and the cardiologist/heart specialist told me I have NO heart/coronary artery disease (even though I have high cholesterol and it could be managed). LVEF was 64% and MIBI was negative for ischemic at Stage 2 Bruce (as at 21st May 2009). How could it then have progressed, from NO heart/artery disease to the above-mentioned physical symptoms, in such a very short period of time?! This is all very very very strange. Could it be some other problem instead? Heart/coronary artery disease takes many many years to develop. As you can observe, I am nowhere as obese as Moses Lim, a Singaporean Mediacorp TV actor. References, photos, and videos of Moses Lim: (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Lim (2) http://moseslim.com/content/ (3)
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with samba (Possibly OT)
On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 22:43 +0100, Stroller wrote: On 14 Jun 2010, at 21:41, Michael Sullivan wrote: ... When I try to connect to the samba share from my linux install, I get this: mich...@camille ~ $ smbclient //carter//home Enter michael's password: Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.6] tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME mich...@camille ~ $ smbclient //carter//michael Enter michael's password: Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.6] tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME (The host name is carter, and I didn't understand what the second part should be.) If you're referring to the //first/second syntax, then the first part is the computer name, the second part the share name. Also, I didn't know if michael's password meant my password on my local box, my password on the remote box, or some password I set up for Samba forever ago... The second / third option. Each user on the Samba server has a password, but it isn't the same as their system password. Log on to the Samba server (i.e. `ssh carter`) and run smbpasswd (possibly `sudo smbpasswd -U michael`). Here's my /etc/samba/smb.conf file: ... hosts allow = 192.168.1. 127. If it's been some time since this system was used, are you still using the 192.168.1.x subnet? If your ISP sent you a new router, you might now be on 192.168.0.x. IMO change this to: hosts allow = 192.168. 127. Also run `smbtree` (works without a password). I appreciate that Samba tends not to make any sense when you're inexperienced, but there ought to be lots of troubleshooting guides out there. Google troubleshooting samba, follow through the steps suggested by 2 or 3 and report back tell us what you've done. Stroller. I've got a couple of new errors in the logs: From /var/log/samba/log.___192.168.1.3: [2010/06/15 11:56:58, 0] lib/util_sock.c:1564(matchname) matchname: host name/address mismatch: :::192.168.1.3 != camille.espersunited.com [2010/06/15 11:56:58, 0] lib/util_sock.c:1685(get_peer_name) Matchname failed on camille.espersunited.com :::192.168.1.3 and from /var/log/samba/log.camille: [2010/06/15 11:56:58, 0] smbd/service.c:942(make_connection_snum) Can't become connected user! What's with the :192.168.1.3? Camille's address IS 192.168.1.3, and it seems to know that because it calls the host at the address 'camille'...
Re: [gentoo-user] Some log stuff shows up on text console after recent emerge
On Monday 14 June 2010 03:18:27 Walter Dnes wrote:
Any time I insert/remove a USB key, or when iptables has something to
say, it shows up on all text consoles, not just number 12. This seems
to be happening after a recent update. I'm running syslog-ng 3.0.6. I
have not manually touched any config files.
Searching through Google turned up answers for various other distros,
directing me to various config files that don't exist in Gentoo. Here
is my config for syslog-ng.
@version: 3.0
options {
chain_hostnames(no);
stats_freq(43200);
};
source src {
unix-stream(/dev/log max-connections(256));
internal();
file(/proc/kmsg);
};
destination messages { file(/var/log/messages); };
destination console_all { file(/dev/tty12); };
The above line is meant to send messages to /dev/tty12.
log { source(src); destination(messages); };
log { source(src); destination(console_all); };
Are you sure that your syslog-ng is reading the correct /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-
ng.conf ?
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Regards,
Mick
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Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for pdftk
Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu writes: After a recent gcc upgrade (4.3.4 - 4.4.3-r2) on an amd64, pdftk won't compile anymore. Although I like the pdtk I'm looking for a replacement as pdft is no more maintained (last release November 28, 2006). Any suggestions for a good command line tool to manage PDFs like pdftk (split (burst) a PDF, combine two or more PDFs, Rotate PDFs and so on)? Hello, I don't know if this could help you, but I have recently discover pdftk. My gcc version was 4.4.3-r2 on amd64 and when I try to emerge pdftk, it tell me to add gcj USE flag to gcc, so you could try to re-emerge gcc with gcj USE flag enabled. After that everything compiles fine in my case. Hope this help (and sorry for my poor english speaking) -- * Fred * Webmaster at http://www.drakonix.fr pgpNTfiuaz5TD.pgp Description: Signature numérique PGP
[gentoo-user] Cups printing
I just loaded a kde 4.3.5 system onto my computer. I printed a kword file to a pdf file. When I now print to the cups printer I get an error: application/pdf in the error log. I tried to change the destination (type), without success. Printing from other applications, like Firefox works ok. Am I doing anything wrong or is this a bug. Dan
