Re: [gentoo-user] Listing applications with eix...
Bill Longman wrote: is there a way to list all -- for exmaple -- audio related applications without without being burried under audio related system libs for example or entries with (also as an exmaple) this application does not supprt audio but only imageing I want the full dexcription, not only the heade line... Here's one way that I like to look for these, Meino: eix --stable -c -S audio Obviously there's no easy way to get a noise-free listing of what you want, but I've often found looking for text in the description with the -S is a useful method. well, there is this: (don't forget the trailing slash!) `eix -c media-sound/` but for a whole category you'll definitely want to use '-c', there is so much... but all audio related even without audio in the name or description. Rudmer
Re: [gentoo-user] License question for jdk
Hi, Allan Gottlieb wrote: My update world today produced [nomerge ] dev-java/icedtea-6.1.10.3 USE=hs20 nsplugin nss webstart xrender -cacao -debug -doc -examples -jamvm -javascript -nio2 -pulseaudio -systemtap -zero [nomerge ] dev-java/ant-nodeps-1.8.1 [ebuild NS] virtual/jre-1.7.0 [1.6.0] 0 kB [ebuild NS]virtual/jdk-1.7.0 [1.6.0] 0 kB [ebuild N F ] dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.7.0 USE=X alsa -derby -doc -examples -jce -nsplugin 92,746 kB [snip] The following license changes are necessary to proceed: #required by virtual/jdk-1.7.0, required by virtual/jre-1.7.0, required by dev-java/xalan-2.7.1, required by dev-java/icedtea-6.1.10.3, required by @selected, required by @world (argument) =dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.7.0 Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE NOTE: This --autounmask behavior can be disabled by setting EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--autounmask=n in make.conf. Use --autounmask-write to write changes to config files (honoring CONFIG_PROTECT). So I need the Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE license. But I don't see where it tells me how to do this. Previous license requests said something like but it does:Use --autounmask-write to write changes to config files so you just have to do this: `emerge -va dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin --autounmask-write` followed by `etc-update` and then you can emerge it `emerge -va dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin` or you could just `echo dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE /etc/portage/package.license` Rudmer
Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce4 shutdown issues
On Wednesday 06 July 2011 16:37:40 john wrote: Since a recent upgrade of polkit (I think) as a normal user I can no longer shutdown using log out, shutdown option not available. As root using shutdown only logs you out but does not shutdown. On a second machine as a normal user I can see shutdown but this only logs me out. Are we supposed to write our own rules for this? I am in plugdev group and have dbus, consolekit and polkit in use flags. I cannot see any difference between config files on 2 machines but 1 is a laptop the other desktop??? Any suggestions other than converting to e16? (which is becoming tempting). This seems to happen every upgrade of xfce4/polkit/dbus. I had the same problem and have made this rule/config in /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/power.pkla -- start file -- [Local restart] Identity=unix-group:wheel Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=no ResultActive=yes [Local shutdown] Identity=unix-group:wheel Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=no ResultActive=yes [Local restart - multiple] Identity=unix-group:wheel Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart-multiple-users ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=no ResultActive=yes [Local shutdown - multiple] Identity=unix-group:wheel Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop-multiple-users ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=no ResultActive=yes -- end file -- don't know where I got it from, not from a Gentoo handbook... but this works for me 8-) you might also want to use an udisks.pkla to access usb devices: -- start file -- [udisks full access] Identity=unix-group:usb Action=org.freedesktop.udisks.* ResultAny=yes -- end file -- Rudmer
Re: [gentoo-user] libre vs openoffice
Hi, On Wednesday 01 June 2011, Stéphane Guedon wrote: Is there a way currently to install libreoffice on the same computer as openoffice ? Right now, emerge said open is blocking libreoffice, and I would like to try libre but keep open ... apparently not, but I recently switched to libreoffice and it just works. you can always store your current openoffice using `quickpkg app- office/openoffice` that way you can easily go back without compiling! Rudmer
Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.13 warning
On Monday 07 February 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: Don't install glibc-2.13 if you either use prelinking or run postfix. After testing it on my netbook, which uses neither, I installed it on my desktop and home server and broke both. confirmed, prelink kills the system! running prelink -u restores it (if you happen to have a root shell open) so I'm disabling prelink for now, glibc-2.12.2 does not build with latest binutils... Rudmer
[gentoo-user] Howto get rid of USE qt3support
Hi, there is a new qt and kde available, but it still has the annoying USE flag qt3support... is there a way to get rid of it? a lot of kde packages are complaining about qt3support and I don't want it. qt3 left my system a couple of years ago! so this is starting to get really annoying 8-( Rudmer
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto get rid of USE qt3support
On Wednesday 09 June 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/09/2010 11:27 PM, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: Hi, there is a new qt and kde available, but it still has the annoying USE flag qt3support... is there a way to get rid of it? a lot of kde packages are complaining about qt3support and I don't want it. qt3 left my system a couple of years ago! so this is starting to get really annoying 8-( What Paul said. qt3support is needed by some Qt4 programs and it's not optional. If a program needs it, there's no way around it. But it's nothing you should be concerned about; qt3support is part of Qt4 itself. ok, thanks. it's just that it sounds so old and I'm running ~amd64... but since you have no control yourself why not de-USE it or make it a forced USE? Rudmer
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing
On Tuesday 11 May 2010, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sonntag 09 Mai 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 09 Mai 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2010, walt wrote: This looks to me like a major portage screwup. I see that on my ~amd64 machine I have both versions of libpng, but the 1.2.43-r1 doesn't install a pkg-config file because 1.4.2 installs one with the same name, and just as bad, version 1.2.43-r1 removed the libpng12 header files. For now, I'd suggest just going back to to 1.2.43 if you can -- maybe mask 1.2.43 in package.mask? Meanwhile I'm trying to fix firefox so I can read the bug report mentioned by Andras. well I'm getting into a .la hell... you need to rebuild packages which are themselves not invalid and therefore can't be found by revdep-rebuild... searching with grep png12 `find /usr/lib64/ -name '*.la'` lists all .la files with a bad png version, rebuilding those will fix the system. after that all packages found by revdep-rebuild can be emerged. Rudmer run la fixer ah, yes I knew there was something easier 8-) well running `lafilefixer --justfixit` did not find anything so I got them all thanks! Rudmer sadly, it does not get them all. The only save way: grep -R for png12 and remerge all packages whose files pop up. For example revdep-rebuilt failed to rebuild pygtk - because of glade. But it never tried to rebuild glade... In my box (~amd64, unmasked portage) emerge automagically slotted 1.2 and emerged 1.4 in slot 0. And everything seems to work and be happy. revdep-rebuild finds nothing wrong. So maybe the easy fix is to emerge libpng:1.2? yeah, thats what I have now... I still need png 1.2 for VMware Player. but in my case, I had 1.2.43-r2 which is in slot 0?! so on install of 1.4.2 it deinstalled the 1.2.43-r2 version. manually installed 1.2.43-r1 to get 1.2 back. Rudmer
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing
On Sunday 09 May 2010, walt wrote: This looks to me like a major portage screwup. I see that on my ~amd64 machine I have both versions of libpng, but the 1.2.43-r1 doesn't install a pkg-config file because 1.4.2 installs one with the same name, and just as bad, version 1.2.43-r1 removed the libpng12 header files. For now, I'd suggest just going back to to 1.2.43 if you can -- maybe mask 1.2.43 in package.mask? Meanwhile I'm trying to fix firefox so I can read the bug report mentioned by Andras. well I'm getting into a .la hell... you need to rebuild packages which are themselves not invalid and therefore can't be found by revdep-rebuild... searching with grep png12 `find /usr/lib64/ -name '*.la'` lists all .la files with a bad png version, rebuilding those will fix the system. after that all packages found by revdep-rebuild can be emerged. Rudmer
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing
On Sunday 09 May 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 09 Mai 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2010, walt wrote: This looks to me like a major portage screwup. I see that on my ~amd64 machine I have both versions of libpng, but the 1.2.43-r1 doesn't install a pkg-config file because 1.4.2 installs one with the same name, and just as bad, version 1.2.43-r1 removed the libpng12 header files. For now, I'd suggest just going back to to 1.2.43 if you can -- maybe mask 1.2.43 in package.mask? Meanwhile I'm trying to fix firefox so I can read the bug report mentioned by Andras. well I'm getting into a .la hell... you need to rebuild packages which are themselves not invalid and therefore can't be found by revdep-rebuild... searching with grep png12 `find /usr/lib64/ -name '*.la'` lists all .la files with a bad png version, rebuilding those will fix the system. after that all packages found by revdep-rebuild can be emerged. Rudmer run la fixer ah, yes I knew there was something easier 8-) well running `lafilefixer --justfixit` did not find anything so I got them all thanks! Rudmer
Re: [gentoo-user] ati-driver for xorg-1.8.0 ?
On Tuesday 13 April 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 13 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, while ati-drivers-8.721 is working just fine with xorg-server-1.7.6 it is blocked by the recent xorg-server-1.8.0 . Is there a more recent version of the ati-drivers, already? no well you could use the git (-) version works perfectly here. you need to unmask it in /etc/portage/package.unmask Rudmer
Re: [gentoo-user] ati-driver for xorg-1.8.0 ?
On Tuesday 13 April 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: On Tuesday 13 April 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 13 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, while ati-drivers-8.721 is working just fine with xorg-server-1.7.6 it is blocked by the recent xorg-server-1.8.0 . Is there a more recent version of the ati-drivers, already? no well you could use the git (-) version works perfectly here. you need to unmask it in /etc/portage/package.unmask and you can find it in the x11 overlay... Rudmer
[gentoo-user] license change in sun-jdk
Hi, for all who have problems with their jdk (and don't want to spent half an hour finding out why 8-): after sync, portage wants to install dev-java/icedtea6-bin, although there is a jdk installed (I already had dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.17) well it turns out that sun-jdk-1.6.0.17 has suddenly been license masked... adding ACCEPT_LICENSE=dlj-1.1 to make.conf lets sun-jdk be accepted again. no more spontaneous forced installation of icedtea6-bin! Rudmer
Re: [gentoo-user] license change in sun-jdk
On Monday 09 November 2009, Dale wrote: Rudmer van Dijk wrote: well it turns out that sun-jdk-1.6.0.17 has suddenly been license masked... adding ACCEPT_LICENSE=dlj-1.1 to make.conf lets sun-jdk be accepted again. no more spontaneous forced installation of icedtea6-bin! I cheated then. I did this for mine: ACCEPT_LICENSE=* I think that covers them all. that will certainly prevent future problems! 8-) thanks! Rudmer
Re: [gentoo-user] Oracle 10 or 11...
Hi, On Wednesday 10 December 2008, Steve wrote: I am interested in the possibility of running a small-scale oracle server for some experimental development work. Ideally, I'd install on gentoo - as this is my server box... though I guess there may be hoops through which I must jump... I found this: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/HOWTO_Install_Oracle_10g But it isn't in English... or, I think, up to date. Is there a howto for a currently available oracle download I can follow? Does anyone on this list run oracle on their Gentoo install? Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options you can try this one: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Install_Oracle_10g I think I used the one that is lost (but this one looks very much like it) to install Oracle 11R1 and it works, needed to do some modifications but seem to have lost the file... it had something to do with linking against libclient Rudmer
Re: [gentoo-user] Which openoffice
On Monday 05 May 2008, Wang, Baojun wrote: 在 2008-05-05一的 11:35 +0200，econti写道： Hi all I'd like to install OO on my Gentoo PC. I ran emerge -s openoffice and here is the result * app-office/openoffice Latest version available: 2.4.0 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 247,060 kB Homepage: http://go-oo.org Description: OpenOffice.org, a full office productivity suite. License: LGPL-2 * app-office/openoffice-bin Latest version available: 2.4.0 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 1,149,284 kB Homepage: http://www.openoffice.org/ Description: OpenOffice productivity suite License: LGPL-2 Questions: 1 - the difference between openoffice and openoffice-bin openoffice-bin is a binary tarball thus we don't have to build from source. but it dosn't have so many USE flag as `openoffice` so I think it's less flexible, most important, it's only for 32bit (on x86), so if you need an amd64 version of OO, you'd better to build your own. 2 - how long does it take to compile openoffice-bin on a PC with 2 GB Ram and a AMD Athlon-64 3200+ Processor? I think should be around 4 hrs, if it's a dual-core processor, that should be faster. nope: Estimated update time: 7 hours, 31 minutes. (app-office/openoffice-2.4.0) this is on a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ with 3GiB of RAM so you should be really sure that you want to compile it!! otherwise go with the openoffice-bin package it saves you a lot of time/frustration Rudmer -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3
Hi, On Sunday 30 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: I think I screwed up :-( Sorry about post length, there's a lot of error output. (If I need to, I have a 2005.0 stage 3 with an old compiler. If this can't be easily fixed, I reckon I could mount/chroot/quickpkg gcc and install it on the host) While cleaning up my machine, I unmerged gcc-3.3.6-r1 and the spare quickpkg I had of it. Now virtual/libstdc++ needs it and the build but do you really, really need it? virtual/libstdc++ depends on sys-libs/libstdc++-v3, sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-bin or gcc-3. you will need either one of those. I have installed on ~amd64 the combination virtual/libstdc++ with sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 and that works fine. Rudmer -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache
On Thursday 14 June 2007, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote: I cannot emerge --sync my system anymore, as this brings out the try running `emerge --metadata` it will restore the portage cache in /var/cache/edb/dep Rudmer following error : Updating Portage cache: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 5530, in ? retval = emerge_main() File /usr/bin/emerge, line 5489, in emerge_main action_metadata(settings, portdb, myopts) File /usr/bin/emerge, line 4300, in action_metadata eclass_cache=ec, verbose_instance=noise_maker) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/util.py, line 22, in mirror_cache dead_nodes = dict.fromkeys(trg_cache.keys()) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/template.py, line 95, in keys return tuple(self.iterkeys()) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py, line 122, in iterkeys st = os.lstat(p) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-misc/vmpsd-1.3-r\x12' So, it looks like the problem is with the content of the directory /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-misc/ localhost net-misc # cd /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-misc/ localhost net-misc # ls ./ (TAB PRESSED) asterisk-chan_capi-0.4.^P_pre1netprofiles)ims-0.1.0134 stuNnel-4.15 htbinit^I0.8.5netstat)nat-1.4.7 suite3230-3.3.2_p1 icaclient-9^N0-r1 networkianager-0.6.4_pre20061028 tightvnc-1.^R.9-r4 iputils)20060512 sipsak-0.9.^Q vmpsd-1.3-r^R linUx-identd-1.3-r1 stoje-2.2e vnc-4.1^N2-r1 lksctp-Pools-1.0.4stone-2^N2c memcached-1^N1.13-r1 streamtuner-0.9^Y.99 This shows that the offending file somehow exists (?); but these files cannot be accessed, as the ls command shows : localhost net-misc # ls ls: cannot access vmpsd-1.3-r: No such file or directory ls: cannot access streamtuner-0.9.99: No such file or directory ls: cannot access vnc-4.12-⎼1: N⎺ ⎽┤␌ °␋┌␊ ⎺⎼ ␍␋⎼␊␌├⎺⎼≤ ┌⎽: ␌▒┼┼⎺├ ▒␌␌␊⎽⎽ ┼␊├⎻⎼⎺°␋┌␊⎽)␋└⎽-0.1.0134: N⎺ ⎽┤␌ °␋┌␊ ⎺⎼ ␍␋⎼␊␌├⎺⎼≤ ┌⎽: ␌▒┼┼⎺├ ▒␌␌␊⎽⎽ ┼␊├⎽├▒├)┼▒├-1.4.7: N⎺ ⎽┤␌ °␋┌␊ ⎺⎼ ␍␋⎼␊␌├⎺⎼≤ + more garbage Is my filesystem damaged ? rm -rf /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-misc has no effect on these problematic files ; I have executed fsck.ext2 on the filesystem, and this reported no error. Many thanks for your helpful suggestions. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache
On Thursday 14 June 2007, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote: Many thanks for your kind answers. I have tried to emerge --metadata, too, and the result is just the same. localhost ~ # emerge --metadata Updating Portage cache: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 5530, in ? retval = emerge_main() File /usr/bin/emerge, line 5489, in emerge_main action_metadata(settings, portdb, myopts) File /usr/bin/emerge, line 4300, in action_metadata eclass_cache=ec, verbose_instance=noise_maker) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/util.py, line 22, in mirror_cache dead_nodes = dict.fromkeys(trg_cache.keys()) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/template.py, line 95, in keys return tuple(self.iterkeys()) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py, line 122, in iterkeys st = os.lstat(p) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-misc/vmpsd-1.3-r\x12' I have manually deleted a lot of files from /var/cache/edb/dep, but the offending ones can neither be removed nor renamed. (Was I all right, in manually butchering /var/cache/edb/dep ?) The fact that the remaining files contain strange characters is puzzling, indeed. I thought some wise list member might correct me in the way I use portage, but I am getting to think that the problem is with the file system, more than with portage ? hmm, then it really looks like your filesystem is screwed... what filesystem are you using? and have you tried to do a fsck on it? I'll report a bug (Gentoo bug ?) , if this is more appropriate. I don't think it is useful, the problem is clearly not in portage but on your filesystem. on the other hand if your filesystem is damaged through use of portage... Here is my emerge --info, anyhow : snip [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list z� ��(��j)b� b� hmm, this is not suppost to be there... you really should be backing up your valuable data and checking your haddrive/filesystem for errors. Rudmer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache
On Thursday 14 June 2007, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote: On 6/14/07, Rudmer van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm, then it really looks like your filesystem is screwed... what filesystem are you using? and have you tried to do a fsck on it? It is ext3 filesystem ; I have executed fsck on it, which reported no errors. It looks like the fs is out of sync with itself : some files are listed, which do not really exist. Better backup that data, and prepare for re-installing the system soon, I suppose. well, re-installation is not necessary: you can tar the contents of the affected partition, umount partition, re-create the filesystem and then untar the backup (do not forget to use --preserve-permissions). if it is your root partition you need a live-cd or installation-cd to accomplish this. Rudmer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg CPU spike with Firefox
On Sunday 04 February 2007, Willie Wong wrote: On Febuary 2nd, I upgrade xorg from 7.1 to 7.2, which also pulled in an upgrade for xorg-server, libXdamage, and other things. Starting yesterday (the 3rd of Feb), I noticed lock-ups when ever firefox is open. At first I thought it was the fault of the animated background, but then I found out that it still happened if I started a no-frills, barebone fvwm session. I tried almost all of my other X applications, and none of them had these behaviour (mplayer, inkscape, gimp, abiword included). When I start firefox, the cpu use for X shots up to 90+ percent (for X, not for firefox) for several minutes, and everytime I open a new tab X cpu use goes up to 90+ percent for several minutes, during which firefox is completely unresponsive, and xterms that I opened have a lag of round 0.5 - 2 seconds between keypress and character appearing on screen. are you sure this is only with firefox? I have noticed this behavior too but due to lack of time I have reverted to use xorg-server-1.1.1-r4 for me it looked like every application triggered a cpu load of 90% by X. only I normally have a firefox window open all the time... have you tried a rebuild of firefox _after_ installation of then new xorg packages? maybe that will solve the problem. Rudmer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild
Hi, On Monday 01 January 2007 15:16, Uwe Thiem wrote: revdep-rebuild produces a long list of binaries to be rebuilt. Not wuite surprising since I haven't done it on that box for a long while. Problem is it tells me that at least for one binary no ebuild exists but it doesn't tell me which binary. Bummer! How do I find out? you can try `eix-test-obsolete` that will display inconsistencies all over the place, as well as installed packages which does not exist anymore. Rudmer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] eupdatedb
On Saturday 23 September 2006 16:27, Daniel D Jones wrote: How is esearch supposed to stay in sync? I've realized that mine is constantly out of sync and I have to manually run eupdatedb if I want to receive accurate answers. I can set up a cron job to run it after syncing emerge, of course, but I'd first like to know if there's another mechanism that isn't working properly, or if keeping it synced is an exercise left to the reader. easiest way would be to switch to eix (`emerge eix`) and then use eix-sync to keep portage up-to-date. eix-sync runs `emerge --sync` and then shows a list of ebuilds that have been changed, that's is really great! Rudmer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Any booby-traps with AMD64?
On Saturday 27 August 2005 05:41, Walter Dnes wrote: This'll be my first linux install that won't be 32-bit Intel. I've Congratulations! you've made a wonderful choice 8-) been reading the AMD64 install docs on the Gentoo.org website. The big items I've noticed are... - stick with ext2fs/ext3fs with all other filesystems being unstable oh? for almost a year now I have an AMD64 system and I've used reiserfs for all my filesystems without any problems! so I can really recommend reiserfs but I can't say anything about other filesystems... - do not enable kernel pre-emption if I want firewire to work I don't know about firewire and preemtion since I don't have firewire. But recent kernels have two preemt options: full and voluntary preemtion maybe you can try both and see what happens. - enable 32-bit emulation for some apps yup, if you want to use Flash then you need a 32-bit browser. to use win32 codecs you need a 32-bit mplayer. I notice that the AMD64 Gentoo install manual at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml only lists GRUB. Does LILO not work on AMD64? never tried to use lilo on AMD64, since I switched from lilo to grub and never want to go back. I intend to use the following partition layout... - /8 gigs a little tiny: your /usr gets very big when you have a lot of programs (Gentoo installs everything on /usr by default) and your posrtage cache easily reaches ~3GB... I suggest to create a /usr partition of ~8GB and a / of ~2GB - swap 2 gigs - /var 8 gigs - /home gets the rest of the drive. There'll be tons of my garbage under /home/misc. /usr/local and /opt will be symlinks on / with the actual files sitting in /home/misc/local and /home/misc/opt. in Gentoo /usr/local is almost not used: du /usr/local only lists empty dirs. so this can just reside on the /usr partition This layout reflects my experiences from my Windows and Redhat days. Keep the OS on its own partition, so you can blow away and re-install or install the next version as required. Anything else to watch for when installing on AMD64? not that I know of, so have fun with your new system! Rudmer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
On Sunday 24 July 2005 22:21, Mark Shields wrote: No I do not, as I was under the impression it's not required unless you have at least 4gb (sorry for the poor formatting, copying from putty/terminal to a text box doesn't format very well): well the -mm kernel does not have this option anymore, but IIRC you need to select 4G support to enable the rest of your memory. Linux Kernel v2.6.11-gentoo-r6 Configuration ┌─── High Memory Support ┐ │ Use the arrow keys to navigate this window or press the hotkey of │ │ the item you wish to select followed by the SPACE BAR. Press│ │ ? for additional information about this option. │ │ ┌┐ │ │ │(X) off │ │ │ │( ) 4GB │ │ │ │( ) 64GB│ │ │ ││ │ │ ││ │ │ ││ │ │ └┘ │ ├┤ │ Select Help│ └┘ did you read the help asociated with each item? All 3 memory sticks appear fine. The motherboard is an A7N8X Deluxe, my main PC has an A7N8X-E Deluxe; both of them are capable of using 3gb of memory, 1gb per stick (3 slots for memory). The 2 x 256 mb sticks came from my main PC which I upgraded with 2 x 512mb sticks. The 512mb stick has been in use by the server for 4 months. I could understand if it was possible that they're incompatible, but then it wouldn't show a gig of RAM when the PC shows the bios screen. Regardless, I'll run memtest86 overnight to be sure. I'll also see what an ubuntu or knoppix livecd shows. I'm sure you will not see any hardware failures, it has something todo with the split user/kernel that you only see ~800MB of ram. enable highmem support for 4G and you will be able to use all of your memory. Rudmer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
On Sunday 24 July 2005 22:52, Mark Shields wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem MemTotal: 1034284 kB MemFree:953172 kB Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing. that's better than here: rudmer:~ # cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem MemTotal: 1026304 kB MemFree: 79152 kB that's almost 22MB... and that's what Richard already said probably a BIOS setting which you shouldn't try to disable to get a couple of MB's more. Rudmer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where is the functionality of etcat
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 19:50, Tom Wesley wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:26:14 +0200 I haven't seen anyone post this script as yet. It's by ciaranm and is very useful when people ask on irc why a certain package version can't be installed on their arch. Sample output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 0 0.67 $ eshowkw gnome Keywords for gnome-base/gnome: | a a a h i m m p p p p s s s x x x x | l m r p a 6 i p p p p 3 h p 8 8 8 8 | p d m p 6 8 p c c c c 9 a 6 6 6 6 | h 6 a 4 k s 6 - - 0 r - - - | a 4 4 m o c f o o | a d b b d | c s s | o d d | s + 1.4-r3 | - + + 2.8.2 | + + + + + + + + 2.8.3-r1| ~ + + + ~ + + + 2.10| ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 2.10-r1 | + + + ~ + ~ + + 2.10.1_pre0 | ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Hope this is helpful to someone ;) nice! don't think it is really useful for me, I have two archs (amd64 and x86) but have good access to both machines. if you maintain more archs than this can be very usefull. Is this in some (dev-)package? maybe something for gentoolkit?? Rudmer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] where is the functionality of etcat
etcat is deprecated in favor of equery but equery does not have a functionality like `etcat -v package` (listing all available versions of a package). I used it quite often and have been struggling with equery ever since etcat is deprecated... Are there plans to build this functionality into equery? if not, why?? Rudmer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kde Issue
On Sunday 26 June 2005 15:04, Ian K wrote: Hi there, I have just used the split ebuilds install from KDE. I have 3.4, and am having a few issues. It starts up fine, but as soon as I right click the normal desktop, it and the Mac OSX style desktop menu are blanked. The desktop goes black, icons are removed. The menu's file,window, etc dissappear. The desktop does not respond to any clicks. If I open up a QT program, like Konsole, the menu at the top, does work normally, but I still have a black desktop. Any ideas? did one of the components crash? check the running kde programs and look if something is missing (sorry no program suggestion, I don't use kde...) PS I may have not emerged something I need to. I hate this new split ebuild thing, emerge kde was ten times easier. I only use KMail, it is really easy: `emerge kmail` and it wil include all needed dependencies. Here is what I emerged: snip very large emerge list wasn't it just easier to do `emerge kde-meta`? that will build a full kde suite. (or one of the other -meta ebuilds to get the old-style kde package) Rudmer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
