Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 emerge question
krgn wrote: hi I have a question concerning my modular X installation. I did this according to the gentoo guide here http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml. now, I have synced again, and a lot of blocks are coming up and I am not sure really how to solve this. These are the blocks. how can I get rid of them? is it to do with the virtual ebuild or so, I have not really an idea... I had the same problem, and found this in the modular Xorg WIKI: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg#.27emerge_-u_world.27_wants_to_install_xorg-x11_6.x_or_virtual.2Fx11 However, putting x11-base/xorg-x11-6* in /etc/portage/profile/package.provided doesn't seem to work. Instead I just put in x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8 and then the emerge -u world worked fine without wanting the old xorg-x11-6.8. I suppose in your case maybe you want x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 in there as well? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)
Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm concerned. When I got out of the shower just now and came to check my email, I didn't have any. Concerned that sendmail might not be running, I ps'd for it: [snip] Is there a way to make sure that unauthorized people are not sending mail through my domain? I used to use this test when I had a mail server: telnet relay-test.mail-abuse.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A confession
Philip Webb wrote: Yes, a short turn with another distro soon reminds how good Gentoo is. A couple of weeks ago, I wanted to update the OS in my back-up machine, which had Mandrake 10.0 (early 2004) working adequately when needed is too slow infrequently used to install Gentoo. [snip] How about Kubuntu? -- I don't like Gnome, so didn't want Ubuntu -- , so I got the CD, installed booted the system. First, [snip] A little off topic, but I'm also a non-Gnome guy and I have had pretty good luck with the free version of Xandros on a P3 450 machine that I really only care about browsing the web, listening to audio, or playing simple games on. I don't know how politically incorrect Xandros is, but it seems to work pretty well. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth
Nick Rout wrote: OK once again the ebuild is attached, it now creates a desktop file in /usr/share/applications/ and pops the .xpm icon file into /usr/share/pixmaps/. This is where gentoo likes these things to be. Those of you who have expressed an interest in this game please try it out. If it works OK I will check out any last tweaks i need and then submit it to bugs.gentoo.org I tried the new ebuild and it worked. I use KDE 3.4 and the laby icon shows up under the games menu and correctly launches the game. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth
Holly Bostick wrote: This was a simple emerge, so I hope I didn't bork it myself; I did forget to create a 'files' directory in the overlay folder, but since there were no files, I can't think that that would be the problem. I could be wrong, though, especially since it works under KDE. Why would the symlink not have been created for me? Actually, /usr/games/bin/laby isn't a symlink, just a simple wrapper. I think you need to create the files directory and copy the 'laby' file there. May be that you missed it because it wasn't included in the version 1.03 ebuild email, just the 1.02 one. You can get the file from Nick Rout's first ebuild email from Aug 24. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sub-net 0.0.0.0
Joseph wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 13:38 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 10:02:08AM -0600, Joseph wrote: I have a device with an IP 192.168.0.1 which I need to access via browser. My PC gets an IP via DHCP from the router. What should I use for gateway? I've tired 192.168.0.0 192.168.0 huh? if you get the IP via DHCP, doesn't it also set up the gateway? No, I set my firewall/router with my numbers. My main network is set to Gateway 10.0.0.1 and DHCP pool range (so other devices an get the IP automatically) is 10.0.0.150 - 10.0.0.180 But the deice I have has a preset from the factory static IP 192.168.0.1 If they set it to anything else like 192.168.0.10 or 192.168.0.100 it would be easy. This is a little confusing to me - is there something special about IP 192.168.0.1 compared to any other IP? I could set my gateway to 192.168.0.1 and DHCP pool range to 192.168.0.10 to 192.168.0.100 and it would work. When I try to set my gateway to 192.168.0.0 my DHCP pool range 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.100 doesn't work. Not sure what hardware you have around, but if you don't have a crossover cable do you at least have a hub or switch? If you do, just disable DHCP temporarilly on your PC and manually set the IP address to 192.168.0.2, set the gateway to 192.168.0.1 and netmask to 255.255.255.0 and plug the PC and router device into the same hub/switch. This method has worked for me in the past when I have a router with a preset address that needed to be changed. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth
Nick Rout wrote: I know I should upload this to bugs.gentoo.org, but as we are in the middle of a thread i thought I'd load it here for anyone interested to try (and to criticise) Please be gentle with me, this is my first ebuild. The ebuild is attached, as is the small startup script. The way it works and installs is detailed below (although the version is now 1.0.2 rather than 1.0.0) You need to have portage overlay enabled, and assuming your overlay is in /usr/local/portage, you need to make the following directories: /usr/local/portage/games-roguelike/laby/ and /usr/local/portage/games-roguelike/laby/files the ebuild file goes in the former, the file laby goes in the latter. You will need to: ebuild /usr/local/portage/games-roguelike/laby/laby-1.0.2.ebuild digest and then add laby your list of unstable builds: echo games-roguelike/laby ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords It _should_ then emerge fine. As long as you are in the games group you should be able to just run laby Nick, I just followed your instructions and everything worked without errors. So far so good. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night
A. Khattri wrote: I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year. Because of this, we now have a Seagate-only policy for hard-drives - they may cost a bit more but they're reliable and many come with a three year warranty. I also had a bad experience with Maxtor, though I admit I've only bought one in my life. But friends have also reported problems with Maxtore too. Ended up with the same read-only problem as the OP. It predictably occurred weekly after the emerge sync in cron. I use Seagate for SCSI, and WD for IDE/SATA and have never had a problem with either. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth
Markus Döbele wrote: Can't the rest be automated too? I mean creating the directories and to check first if portage is installed? Would be easier for the users. Then a link should be created in PATH thet you can type laby everywhere. Once the ebuild is officially in the portage tree, it is all automated, i.e., to install and run your program would be as simple as this: # emerge laby # laby All the steps that I followed from Nick Rout were part of using/testing an unofficial ebuild. Not having portage installed is akin to not having rpm installed on RedHat. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk
Richard Fish wrote: Alec Shaner wrote: Once the buffer fills up would you expect it to work fine at 1.2MB/s? I wish I had kept the logs, but it was extremely slow (much slower than 1.2). I was copying a series of ~70MB files over and it would work fine on about the first 5 or so files before croaking. I eventually had to kill the job. From this, I'm guessing your machine has about 512MB of memory. The precise behavior I would expect is: The first 350-450MB of files (5-6 at 70MB each) would read at the speed the filesystem/disk can provide them...in this case it seems about 11MB/sec. So reading the first few files will take 30-40 seconds. At this point, the USB disk will only have written 30-40 MB to disk...leaving 300-400MB left to go. The userspace program (rsync,cp?) at this point will basically stop writing for the next 5 to 7 _minutes_. In other words, you will not see nice smooth transition from 11MB/sec down to 1.2MB/s. It will burst at high-speed for several seconds, then stop for an extended period of time, before resuming again. Ah, that makes sense. The system has 2GB of memory, but what you describe is very similar to what I observed. This of course assumes that there are no hardware problems involved. You may want to check your /var/log/messages file or dmesg output for any timeout or other disk errors being reported during the copy operation. The kernel's reaction to a communication error with a disk is to reset the controller and retry the command. I'm not sure if there is an eventual timeout to this process or not...if there is, it is larger than my personal 'patience timeout'! ;- -Richard I dug around the archived syslog files and found this snippet in there: Jun 3 15:41:04 scream kernel: SCSI device sdb: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) Jun 3 15:41:04 scream kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through Jun 3 15:41:04 scream kernel: /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 Jun 3 15:41:06 scream kernel: SCSI device sdb: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) Jun 3 15:41:06 scream kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through Jun 3 15:41:06 scream kernel: /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 Jun 3 15:48:16 scream kernel: SCSI error : 2 0 0 0 return code = 0x7 Jun 3 15:48:16 scream kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 47188047 Jun 3 15:48:16 scream kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 47187984 Jun 3 15:48:16 scream kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1 Jun 3 15:48:16 scream kernel: SCSI error : 2 0 0 0 return code = 0x7 Jun 3 15:48:16 scream kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 47188048 and so on -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk
Richard Fish wrote: Alec Shaner wrote: I recently purchased a WD 160GB external USB drive and can't get it to perform reliably on my server. It works fine when connected to my workstation machine (a P4P800 ASUS MB with USB 2.0 support). The server only has 1.1 USB support, but the problem is that it starts out copying fine at about 11MB/sec and then after a bit slows to a crawl and stays that way. I have formatted it with an ext3 filesystem. Here's all the info if anyone has an idea. With USB 1.1 you are not going to get more than about 1.2MB/s throughput, because the top speed is 11 megabits/sec, not megabytes: 11 mbit / 8 bits-per-pyte = 1.375. The initial burst you see at 11MB/sec is likely due to buffering. -Richard Once the buffer fills up would you expect it to work fine at 1.2MB/s? I wish I had kept the logs, but it was extremely slow (much slower than 1.2). I was copying a series of ~70MB files over and it would work fine on about the first 5 or so files before croaking. I eventually had to kill the job. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk
Mark Knecht wrote: The typical reason for low performance AND high CPU is that the controller (in this case probably the USB interface chip) isn't enabled for DMA. It looked like you have the right drivers loaded so possibly the USB chip is not a major brand name? Sorry I didn't read earlier parts of this thread. What chipset is this? lspci -v and supply back the data on the USB chips. The next idea is that you have both the ehci and uhci drivers loaded. If somehow you got the drive plugged into a USB 1.0/1.1 port then you'd only get about 1MB/S. Did you try all your ports? They are not all the same on my Compaq and I do get better performance from the USB 2.0 ports. Good luck, Mark I recently purchased a WD 160GB external USB drive and can't get it to perform reliably on my server. It works fine when connected to my workstation machine (a P4P800 ASUS MB with USB 2.0 support). The server only has 1.1 USB support, but the problem is that it starts out copying fine at about 11MB/sec and then after a bit slows to a crawl and stays that way. I have formatted it with an ext3 filesystem. Here's all the info if anyone has an idea. lspci -v: :00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc: Unknown device 3580 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16 I/O ports at 2000 [size=32] :00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc: Unknown device 3580 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19 I/O ports at 2020 [size=32] :00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc: Unknown device 3580 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18 I/O ports at 2040 [size=32] KERNEL config (2.6.11-gentoo-r9 #1 SMP) CONFIG_USB=y CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD=y CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI=y CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=y CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=y CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB is not set I guess there's no reason to have ECHI/OHCI turned on, but does that matter? For the time being I am using NFS to access the drive (currently connected to my workstation) from the server. I don't care much about the speed difference from 1.1 to 2.0, this is just used as extra storage for some low priority batch jobs. Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
