RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange problem with audio CDs
Hi Jake, Have you tried compiling with the cdda use flag? Thanks, Barney -Original Message- From: Jake Moe [mailto:jakesaddr...@gmail.com] Sent: 11 January 2011 06:48 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange problem with audio CDs On 01/11/11 04:38, Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi Jake, Jake Moe wrote: I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive. Data CDs work fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them. Data and Video DVDs seem to work fine as well. But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I get the attached errors in log.bz2. I've tried using things from KsCD to cdplay; everything gives the same errors. Googling seems to indicate that there might be a problem with udev somehow, but most of those that I find have the fix as update to the latest udev using apt/rpm/other binary distro package tool, which obviously won't work for Gentoo. Other solutions seem to be update to libATA, but I'm already using that. I've gone through and tried to check anything obvious in my kernel config, but I can't see anything that'd affect it like this. Also, if I reboot into Windows (this laptop is a work computer as well), it plays and rips the same CDs just fine. Hardware is an HP EliteBook nc6930p laptop. CD/DVD drive is /dev/sr0. Controller is: 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30dc Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46 I/O ports at 8118 [size=8] I/O ports at 813c [size=4] I/O ports at 8110 [size=8] I/O ports at 8138 [size=4] I/O ports at 8000 [size=32] Memory at d8426000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA ? Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features Kernel driver in use: ahci Oddly, if I open Konqueror and type in audiocd:/, it lists the tracks, and has the FLAC, MP3, Ogg, etc folders. But it won't play or copy the files; it gives the error in error.gif. Any other info you need, please let me know. This is driving me nuts. Same for me: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6372251#6372251 I still have my old box around just because of this problem :-/ 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0198 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 64 I/O ports at c880 [size=8] I/O ports at c800 [size=4] I/O ports at c480 [size=8] I/O ports at c400 [size=4] I/O ports at c080 [size=32] Memory at fbcfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA ? Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features Kernel driver in use: ahci When I rip a CD it typically starts to read it slow permanently down and after ~ the 6th song the process is not profgressing anymore ... You're also running 64-bit ? - Jörg Well, mine is a bit different. I typically run FVWM from a SLIM logon, so there's no KDE or Gnome auto-anything running. I only used Konqueror as an example of another way of accessing the CDs that might have worked, but didn't. I can even stop XDM, log in from a console prompt with no X running, and try to play a CD with cdplay or dcd, and I'll get the same results. And with me, it doesn't start to work and then slow down; it never works. It can only read track listings, but not any of the music. And no, I'm on 32-bit stable Gentoo, with only unstable packages being ones that don't have stable ebuilds. Thanks for trying, though. :-) Anyone else have any ideas? Jake Moe -- This message was scanned by ESVA and is believed to be clean.
Re: [gentoo-user] xen-sources and igb (intel network) driver
In 1294686017.7...@rumba elw...@agouros.de (Konstantinos Agouros) writes: Hi, I just upgraded my box to a phenom and an intel quad gbit card. The card is a 82575GB. It is recognized (I use xen-sources 2.6.34-r4) and also tried the latest driver available at intel (2.4.12). Ifconfig show the interfaces mac addresses etc. However I do not get a link. Neither on a switch nor on a laptop with gbit interface. I found googling that there seems to be an issue with xen and this card/ chip. Anybody knows a way out of it? Especially since the card should have some virtualization optimizations? OK more googling gave me the answer: ethtool -K tx off Now the question is: what is the 'gentooest' way to put this into /etc/conf.d/net? From reading the example file I would guess a preup() function. Also: is /etc/conf.d/net the place to put in the bridge definitions for the xen guests? If yes, how do I get it to create empty bridges for inter- guest communications? Regards, Konstantin -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: elw...@agouros.de Altersheimerstr. 1, 81545 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185 Captain, this ship will not survive the forming of the cosmos. B'Elana Torres
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A tiny titillating taste of grub2
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 22:51, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: walt wrote: On 01/10/2011 01:37 PM, Dale wrote: pk wrote: On 2011-01-10 14:05, walt wrote: You guys may be losing interest in grub2, but I'm having fun, so... Although I've not been involved in this discussion I still enjoy your progress (I've been meaning to try out grub2 myself since grub1 is basically EOLed but haven't had the time yet)... please continue! Same here. I'm noticing how complicated this thing is. I'm sorry I've given that impression -- the complicated part is finding comprehensible examples to copy, but thanks to your previous links I'm gaining on it. I'm now able to write a functioning grub.cfg file for grub2, but I don't want to publish prematurely ;) It wasn't just you, it was other things I read too. Does it have audio too? Yes, but very primitive. No speech, but you can give it a series of numbers representing tones and durations -- to make it sound like a video game arcade. If you really want to. But I don't. Oh God, it can make sounds. O_O My first impression of grub2 was PAIN. In a foolish attempt to beautify my Desktop, I thought about installing a clean framebuffer logo for boot, and, why not, beautify the bootloader too. Gosh, 2 hours spent in an effort to configure, useless. I don't remember the exact error, but an hour of trying and I quit. Well, it messed the whole boot, so it took me twice the time spent on configuring to get rid of the thing. I never realized how happy I was with simple grub. Gosh, I even missed LILO while fighting with grub2. And LILO was a pain too, but I knew that when I first had to use it. -- Daniel da Veiga
[gentoo-user] Extend a script in /etc/init.d - how to?
Hi, the package sys-power/powernowd comes with an init script which would allow /etc/init.d/powernowd high or /etc/init.d/powernowd low (in addition to the standard parameters start/stop/restart) Unfortunately, that's not implemented when powernowd is installed by portage (emerge). Does anybody know how to teach runscript additional parameters? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.
Re: [gentoo-user] Endless mysql-update
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 9:28 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, since some time I got the same mysql update displayed after doing eix-sync emerge --color=n -p -v --newuse --update --deep world . How can I stop mysql from this ? If it's related to the MySQL/MariaDB blockage ensure your virtual/mysql has the same USE flags as dev-db/mysql
Re: [gentoo-user] Extend a script in /etc/init.d - how to?
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, the package sys-power/powernowd comes with an init script which would allow /etc/init.d/powernowd high or /etc/init.d/powernowd low (in addition to the standard parameters start/stop/restart) Unfortunately, that's not implemented when powernowd is installed by portage (emerge). Does anybody know how to teach runscript additional parameters? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. Maybe a good place to begin if you want to contribute your own scripts: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=4#doc_chap4
[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Strange problem with audio CDs
Jake Moe wrote: On 01/11/11 04:38, Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi Jake, Jake Moe wrote: I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive. Data CDs work fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them. Data and Video DVDs seem to work fine as well. But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I get the attached errors in log.bz2. I've tried using things from KsCD to cdplay; everything gives the same errors. Googling seems to indicate that there might be a problem with udev somehow, but most of those that I find have the fix as update to the latest udev using apt/rpm/other binary distro package tool, which obviously won't work for Gentoo. Other solutions seem to be update to libATA, but I'm already using that. I've gone through and tried to check anything obvious in my kernel config, but I can't see anything that'd affect it like this. Also, if I reboot into Windows (this laptop is a work computer as well), it plays and rips the same CDs just fine. Hardware is an HP EliteBook nc6930p laptop. CD/DVD drive is /dev/sr0. Controller is: 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30dc Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46 I/O ports at 8118 [size=8] I/O ports at 813c [size=4] I/O ports at 8110 [size=8] I/O ports at 8138 [size=4] I/O ports at 8000 [size=32] Memory at d8426000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA ? Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features Kernel driver in use: ahci Oddly, if I open Konqueror and type in audiocd:/, it lists the tracks, and has the FLAC, MP3, Ogg, etc folders. But it won't play or copy the files; it gives the error in error.gif. Any other info you need, please let me know. This is driving me nuts. Same for me: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6372251#6372251 I still have my old box around just because of this problem :-/ 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0198 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 64 I/O ports at c880 [size=8] I/O ports at c800 [size=4] I/O ports at c480 [size=8] I/O ports at c400 [size=4] I/O ports at c080 [size=32] Memory at fbcfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA ? Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features Kernel driver in use: ahci When I rip a CD it typically starts to read it slow permanently down and after ~ the 6th song the process is not profgressing anymore ... You're also running 64-bit ? - Jörg Well, mine is a bit different. Not convinced ;-) I typically run FVWM from a SLIM logon, so there's no KDE or Gnome auto-anything running. I only used Konqueror as an example of another way of accessing the CDs that might have worked, but didn't. I can even stop XDM, log in from a console prompt with no X running, and try to play a CD with cdplay or dcd, and I'll get the same results. And with me, it doesn't start to work and then slow down; it never works. It can only read track listings, but not any of the music. As I said in the forum, I have these log entries running from a pure console (no X started at all) even with a stopped hal. It's enough to put an audio CD into the drive. Happens also with vanilla kernel. Since 2.6.35 I have the message only once though, in the previous two kernels (34+35) they are repeated permanently. And no, I'm on 32-bit stable Gentoo, with only unstable packages being ones that don't have stable ebuilds. Same for me, just using 64-bit. Thanks for trying, though. :-) Anyone else have any ideas? Me, no - unfortunately. - Jörg
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-disk-utility: compilation failed
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:51 on Tuesday 11 January 2011, Pat did opine thusly: This is your error: libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib64/libdbus-glib-1.la' or unhandled argument `/usr/lib64/libdbus-glib-1.la' Your solution is probably: lafilefixer --justfixit -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-disk-utility: compilation failed
Pat writes: I'm trying to update system and got compilation error for gnome-disk-utility. The build.log and environment files are included. Please could you help me? Try this: emerge -u lafilefixer lafilefixer --justfixit Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Cloned partition won't emerge some packages
On Monday 10 January 2011 02:34:13 Alex Schuster wrote: I created two directories sys/ and usr/include/sys/, with normal and hidden files: wo...@weird ~/tmp/tar $ ls -a . sys usr/include/sys .: . .. sys usr sys: . .. .hidden visible usr/include/sys: . .. .hidden.h visible.h I tarred them as you did. Note that the hidden file is also excluded, although I did not exclude sys/.*, too: wo...@weird ~/tmp/tar $ tar cf ../foo.tar --exclude='sys/*' . wo...@weird ~/tmp/tar $ tar tf ../foo.tar ./ ./usr/ ./usr/include/ ./usr/include/sys/ ./sys/ As suggested, I added a './' to the exclude file list and tarred the directory. Seems to work: wo...@weird ~/tmp/tar $ tar cf ../foo.tar --exclude='./sys/*' . wo...@weird ~/tmp/tar $ tar tf ../foo.tar ./ ./usr/ ./usr/include/ ./usr/include/sys/ ./usr/include/sys/visible.h ./usr/include/sys/.hidden.h ./sys/ What shall I use for excluding all the contents of a directory, but not the directory itself? sed -i 's:^:./:g' file.list Thank you very much - I also repeated your findings. My confusion was whether the list passed to -X should be defined as an absolute path, or a pattern. When I originally tried /dir it didn't work, but as you say ./tmp does. Good trick about mount -o bind, too, I had forgotten about that. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] A tiny titillating taste of grub2
On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:51:33 -0600, Dale wrote: Well, I have to say that for the moment, the old grub is working fine here. Just like ntp, that may change next week. I just wonder how much longer it will take before they get it stabilized and expect everyone to switch to it? From my understanding, they are not doing much with the old grub now so it should be to far off. What is there to do with it? It's a bootloader that boots and loads, what more do you want? No longer updated can mean broken, but it can also mean finished. -- Neil Bothwick Deja Moo: The feeling that you heard this bull somewhere before. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A tiny titillating taste of grub2
On Tuesday 11 January 2011 15:18:53 Daniel da Veiga wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 22:51, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: walt wrote: On 01/10/2011 01:37 PM, Dale wrote: pk wrote: On 2011-01-10 14:05, walt wrote: You guys may be losing interest in grub2, but I'm having fun, so... Although I've not been involved in this discussion I still enjoy your progress (I've been meaning to try out grub2 myself since grub1 is basically EOLed but haven't had the time yet)... please continue! Same here. I'm noticing how complicated this thing is. I'm sorry I've given that impression -- the complicated part is finding comprehensible examples to copy, but thanks to your previous links I'm gaining on it. I'm now able to write a functioning grub.cfg file for grub2, but I don't want to publish prematurely ;) It wasn't just you, it was other things I read too. Does it have audio too? Yes, but very primitive. No speech, but you can give it a series of numbers representing tones and durations -- to make it sound like a video game arcade. If you really want to. But I don't. Oh God, it can make sounds. O_O My first impression of grub2 was PAIN. In a foolish attempt to beautify my Desktop, I thought about installing a clean framebuffer logo for boot, and, why not, beautify the bootloader too. Gosh, 2 hours spent in an effort to configure, useless. I don't remember the exact error, but an hour of trying and I quit. Well, it messed the whole boot, so it took me twice the time spent on configuring to get rid of the thing. I never realized how happy I was with simple grub. Gosh, I even missed LILO while fighting with grub2. And LILO was a pain too, but I knew that when I first had to use it. Same here, I messed up an installation trying different things because the grub2 splash would not work. Probably early days back then and this was a feature not working as it should. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] xen-sources and igb (intel network) driver
On Tuesday 11 January 2011 14:09:00 Konstantinos Agouros wrote: In 1294686017.7...@rumba elw...@agouros.de (Konstantinos Agouros) writes: Hi, I just upgraded my box to a phenom and an intel quad gbit card. The card is a 82575GB. It is recognized (I use xen-sources 2.6.34-r4) and also tried the latest driver available at intel (2.4.12). Ifconfig show the interfaces mac addresses etc. However I do not get a link. Neither on a switch nor on a laptop with gbit interface. I found googling that there seems to be an issue with xen and this card/ chip. Anybody knows a way out of it? Especially since the card should have some virtualization optimizations? OK more googling gave me the answer: ethtool -K tx off Now the question is: what is the 'gentooest' way to put this into /etc/conf.d/net? From reading the example file I would guess a preup() function. Also: is /etc/conf.d/net the place to put in the bridge definitions for the xen guests? If yes, how do I get it to create empty bridges for inter- guest communications? In case you haven't yet, it may be a worth you having a look at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xen-guide.xml and the way it suggests you create bridged interfaces. There's also some links at the bottom of the page that may be of interest. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] A tiny titillating taste of grub2
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:51:33 -0600, Dale wrote: Well, I have to say that for the moment, the old grub is working fine here. Just like ntp, that may change next week. I just wonder how much longer it will take before they get it stabilized and expect everyone to switch to it? From my understanding, they are not doing much with the old grub now so it should be to far off. What is there to do with it? It's a bootloader that boots and loads, what more do you want? No longer updated can mean broken, but it can also mean finished. My point was, if something changes and it no longer works, then we may all have to switch. According to the website, nothing much is being done with the old grub. I want to wait until either the old grub doesn't work for me or the new grub is known to be stable and has got all the kinks worked out. Even then, I may wait until I have a issue or the old grub leaves the tree. I seem to recall hal was stable and worked for most people too. It just didn't work here for me. When is the last time a package was finished never to be changed again? I have never seen that from any program. There is always something new, some better way to do things or just some little tweak to improve things. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] boot to console only?
Hi, What (if any) is a way to boot a Gentoo VM as far as the console, not starting X, to allow a root login? Possibly some sort of interactive boot where I can tell it to continue or not? The current kernel on this VM is 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 if it matters. Thanks, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] boot to console only?
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, What (if any) is a way to boot a Gentoo VM as far as the console, not starting X, to allow a root login? Possibly some sort of interactive boot where I can tell it to continue or not? The current kernel on this VM is 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 if it matters. Thanks, Mark Put softlevel=single on the end of the boot line. I think init=/bin/bash will work but I don't think it requires a password either. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] A tiny titillating taste of grub2
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:46 on Wednesday 12 January 2011, Dale did opine thusly: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:51:33 -0600, Dale wrote: Well, I have to say that for the moment, the old grub is working fine here. Just like ntp, that may change next week. I just wonder how much longer it will take before they get it stabilized and expect everyone to switch to it? From my understanding, they are not doing much with the old grub now so it should be to far off. What is there to do with it? It's a bootloader that boots and loads, what more do you want? No longer updated can mean broken, but it can also mean finished. My point was, if something changes and it no longer works, then we may all have to switch. According to the website, nothing much is being done with the old grub. I want to wait until either the old grub doesn't work for me or the new grub is known to be stable and has got all the kinks worked out. Even then, I may wait until I have a issue or the old grub leaves the tree. I seem to recall hal was stable and worked for most people too. It just didn't work here for me. When is the last time a package was finished never to be changed again? I have never seen that from any program. There is always something new, some better way to do things or just some little tweak to improve things. grub is actually a good candidate for that. It's a boot loader, it loads a kernel, sets the instruction pointer and tells the cpu to let rip. What new features could it get? Legacy grub boots right now. It boots off most file systems that most people use and it uses the bios to get going. The point where we are all forced to switch is one of two: In many many many years time when no-one uses any of the file systems grub knows about, or in many many many years time when BIOS is nothing but a bad memory. That will all happen. In many many many years from now. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] boot to console only?
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What (if any) is a way to boot a Gentoo VM as far as the console, not starting X, to allow a root login? Possibly some sort of interactive boot where I can tell it to continue or not? The current kernel on this VM is 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 if it matters. Put gentoo=nox on the end of the VM's boot line at the boot loader.
Re: [gentoo-user] boot to console only?
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What (if any) is a way to boot a Gentoo VM as far as the console, not starting X, to allow a root login? Possibly some sort of interactive boot where I can tell it to continue or not? The current kernel on this VM is 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 if it matters. Put gentoo=nox on the end of the VM's boot line at the boot loader. Thanks to you both Adam and Dale. I found the nox keyword searching in Google but couldn't figure out how to use it correctly. It does exactly what I was looking for. The problem was I built a VM that started X but only had KDE in the VM and no user accounts yet. KDE starts and runs in the VM but KDE wouldn't allow a root login so there wasn't a way for me to get a user account added without stopping at the login like this. Cheers, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] A tiny titillating taste of grub2
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I want to wait until either the old grub doesn't work for me or the new grub is known to be stable and has got all the kinks worked out. Even then, I may wait until I have a issue or the old grub leaves the tree. I seem to recall hal was stable and worked for most people too. It just didn't work here for me. Meaning you want grub-legacy to remain in the portage tree until you no longer need it and not when some dev decides he no longer wants to support it. So do I. Of course, we have the option of personal overlays. Get the ebuild for grub as well as a copy of the code, build your own overlay, modify the ebuild, test it, maintain it, and write it to a CD somewhere. When you install a new machine load it on in the build process and you're in good shape, right? If I was really on top of this stuff I'd run my own rsync server and keep it there for the dozen or so Gentoo machines VMs lurking around my house these days. I'm just not on top of it. ;-) - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] A tiny titillating taste of grub2
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:46:43 -0600, Dale wrote: What is there to do with it? It's a bootloader that boots and loads, what more do you want? No longer updated can mean broken, but it can also mean finished. My point was, if something changes and it no longer works, then we may all have to switch. According to the website, nothing much is being done with the old grub. What can change? We are stuck with a hardware spec from 30 years ago for booting. That won't change any time soon. I want to wait until either the old grub doesn't work for me or the new grub is known to be stable and has got all the kinks worked out. Even then, I may wait until I have a issue or the old grub leaves the tree. I seem to recall hal was stable and worked for most people too. It just didn't work here for me. That's completely different. HAL had to deal with varying hardware and varying requirement of the software that wanted to interface with that hardware. When is the last time a package was finished never to be changed again? I have never seen that from any program. There is always something new, some better way to do things or just some little tweak to improve things. Maybe there are, and if that's what you want you can use GRUB2, but legacy GRUB won't stop working as long as we are using the BIOS to boot from disk-like devices. -- Neil Bothwick Zmodem has bigger bits, softer blocks, and tighter ASCII signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] boot to console only?
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:54:40 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: What (if any) is a way to boot a Gentoo VM as far as the console, not starting X, to allow a root login? Possibly some sort of interactive boot where I can tell it to continue or not? Add gentoo=nox to the kernel parameters. If you want to start X later, run /etc/init.d/xdm restart. -- Neil Bothwick Help put the fun back in dysfunctional ! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] boot to console only?
On Tuesday 11 January 2011 23:40:55 Mark Knecht wrote: I found the nox keyword searching in Google but couldn't figure out how to use it correctly. It does exactly what I was looking for. I define a separate run-level for no-x*, which doesn't contain xdm and also omits various other things that are only needed when running an X session (lm_sensors, vboxdrv, alsasound, ...). Then I put a separate entry into grub.conf for it and select it at boot time. It doesn't get used very often, but when I need it nothing else will do. Very handy for, e.g., major upgrades of KDE, when I'd rather not carry on running old-KDE and risk starting a program thoughtlessly that might be either old-KDE or new-KDE. Single-user mode won't do for this because I want the range of VTs to be available to do work in. * like this: # mkdir /etc/runlevels/no-x # rc-update add package no-x -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
[gentoo-user] Re: boot to console only?
On 01/12/2011 01:40 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: [...] The problem was I built a VM that started X but only had KDE in the VM and no user accounts yet. KDE starts and runs in the VM but KDE wouldn't allow a root login so there wasn't a way for me to get a user account added without stopping at the login like this. Uhm, CTRL+Alt+F1 will switch you to the first console so you can login as root. If you're on VMWare, that shortcut becomes CTRL+Alt+Space, release them, then press F1.
Re: [gentoo-user] boot to console only?
Mark Knecht wrote: What (if any) is a way to boot a Gentoo VM as far as the console, not starting X, to allow a root login? Possibly some sort of interactive boot where I can tell it to continue or not? With rc_interactive=YES in /etc/rc.conf (with baselayout2, I'm not sure how that was enabled with baselayout1) you can press the 'I' key during boot to enable interactive mode. You are asked then for every init script if it should start or not. But if you only want to avoid X, the other solutions that were posted are better. And switching to a text console probably is the easiest. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot to console only?
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 01/12/2011 01:40 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: [...] The problem was I built a VM that started X but only had KDE in the VM and no user accounts yet. KDE starts and runs in the VM but KDE wouldn't allow a root login so there wasn't a way for me to get a user account added without stopping at the login like this. Uhm, CTRL+Alt+F1 will switch you to the first console so you can login as root. If you're on VMWare, that shortcut becomes CTRL+Alt+Space, release them, then press F1. That's what I do on a physical Gentoo box and it works fine. (Either Alt-Ctrl-F1 or Alt-F1) This VM, running in Virtualbox-4.0.0 on Win 7 didn't work. A more or less identical Gentoo VM running on a Gentoo server (yes, Gentoo within Gentoo) didn't switch to the VM's console but switched to the server's console. Assuming I was actually capturing keyboard strokes by the VM that doesn't make sense to me but possible things like Alt Alt-Ctrl sequences are handled differently by Linux. Dunno.. Anyway, the gentoo=nox solution worked great for my needs. Thanks, Mark
[gentoo-user] Re: boot to console only?
On 01/12/2011 05:12 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 01/12/2011 01:40 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: [...] The problem was I built a VM that started X but only had KDE in the VM and no user accounts yet. KDE starts and runs in the VM but KDE wouldn't allow a root login so there wasn't a way for me to get a user account added without stopping at the login like this. Uhm, CTRL+Alt+F1 will switch you to the first console so you can login as root. If you're on VMWare, that shortcut becomes CTRL+Alt+Space, release them, then press F1. That's what I do on a physical Gentoo box and it works fine. (Either Alt-Ctrl-F1 or Alt-F1) Ctrl is needed when in X11. When in a console, only Alt is needed. This VM, running in Virtualbox-4.0.0 on Win 7 didn't work. A more or less identical Gentoo VM running on a Gentoo server (yes, Gentoo within Gentoo) didn't switch to the VM's console but switched to the server's console. Assuming I was actually capturing keyboard strokes by the VM that doesn't make sense to me but possible things like Alt Alt-Ctrl sequences are handled differently by Linux. Dunno.. Anyway, the gentoo=nox solution worked great for my needs. It's always good to be able to switch to the consoles without needing a reboot. Since you're on VirtualBox, maybe this helps: http://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox#Switchingconsoles
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Strange problem with audio CDs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/11/11 12:52, Jörg Schaible wrote: Jake Moe wrote: On 01/11/11 04:38, Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi Jake, Jake Moe wrote: I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive. Data CDs work fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them. Data and Video DVDs seem to work fine as well. But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I get the attached errors in log.bz2. I've tried using things from KsCD to cdplay; everything gives the same errors. Googling seems to indicate that there might be a problem with udev somehow, but most of those that I find have the fix as update to the latest udev using apt/rpm/other binary distro package tool, which obviously won't work for Gentoo. Other solutions seem to be update to libATA, but I'm already using that. I've gone through and tried to check anything obvious in my kernel config, but I can't see anything that'd affect it like this. Also, if I reboot into Windows (this laptop is a work computer as well), it plays and rips the same CDs just fine. Hardware is an HP EliteBook nc6930p laptop. CD/DVD drive is /dev/sr0. Controller is: 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30dc Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46 I/O ports at 8118 [size=8] I/O ports at 813c [size=4] I/O ports at 8110 [size=8] I/O ports at 8138 [size=4] I/O ports at 8000 [size=32] Memory at d8426000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA ? Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features Kernel driver in use: ahci Oddly, if I open Konqueror and type in audiocd:/, it lists the tracks, and has the FLAC, MP3, Ogg, etc folders. But it won't play or copy the files; it gives the error in error.gif. Any other info you need, please let me know. This is driving me nuts. Same for me: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6372251#6372251 I still have my old box around just because of this problem :-/ 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0198 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 64 I/O ports at c880 [size=8] I/O ports at c800 [size=4] I/O ports at c480 [size=8] I/O ports at c400 [size=4] I/O ports at c080 [size=32] Memory at fbcfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA ? Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features Kernel driver in use: ahci When I rip a CD it typically starts to read it slow permanently down and after ~ the 6th song the process is not profgressing anymore ... You're also running 64-bit ? - Jörg Well, mine is a bit different. Not convinced ;-) I typically run FVWM from a SLIM logon, so there's no KDE or Gnome auto-anything running. I only used Konqueror as an example of another way of accessing the CDs that might have worked, but didn't. I can even stop XDM, log in from a console prompt with no X running, and try to play a CD with cdplay or dcd, and I'll get the same results. And with me, it doesn't start to work and then slow down; it never works. It can only read track listings, but not any of the music. As I said in the forum, I have these log entries running from a pure console (no X started at all) even with a stopped hal. It's enough to put an audio CD into the drive. Happens also with vanilla kernel. Since 2.6.35 I have the message only once though, in the previous two kernels (34+35) they are repeated permanently. And no, I'm on 32-bit stable Gentoo, with only unstable packages being ones that don't have stable ebuilds. Same for me, just using 64-bit. Thanks for trying, though. :-) Anyone else have any ideas? Me, no - unfortunately. - Jörg Jake, Are you a member of the audio and/or plugdev group? James Wall - -- - -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNLTPPAAoJEISPTA/exVD81VEH/3X/aVllDbJZ9ZnuqlKEdMC4 T1u0KS66vG7sp0E0AwWJ5/xGIemBj5dg3+o3sCcfTTy/M9p4ZBTBrsOGN2Eu9swl McrwIp7MA5Nd6d16Xpb3roADoANq85SDtylmuSIyZ23zDEOlt+qzlT+sSx+4vUn8 d9V264oKaLbqrR3EuJp08IB81mNWCXNzAafUuS0TfAC8d3KiIGon2T97nLiGaodn 4NmA+rdswVFQcoU7FfFDEMFTl6FsabY6hFPgP2UmpQbAM+/NsuYmg2f0uFMSWLJw
