Re: [gentoo-user] HP Cluster on Gentoo
On Monday 19 February 2007 02:47:03 Hans-Stefan Bauer wrote: * Loading lock_dlm kernel module ... FATAL: Error inserting lock_dlm (/fs/gfs_locking/lock_dlm/lock_dlm.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) * Failed to load lock_dlm kernel module [ !! ] This looks strangely like dlm-kernel was compiled against the wrong kernel. Or that dlm-kernel doesn't have support for that kernel. Do you have a newer kernel installed than the one you are using? It very well might have built against it instead. This webpage is a bit dated, but shows steps to get GFS working under gentoo. https://open.datacore.ch/DCwiki.open/Wiki.jsp?page=GFS.Install They talk about a CONFIG_LOCK_DLM needing to be set in the kernel, but I think that is taken care of by the dlm-kernel module. You'll also need to make sure you have device-mapper installed. Can you give an update on what you've found and if you've made any progress? -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Music Database Collection
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 17:49, Daniel Iliev wrote: Sean wrote: I would like to create a database of some sort for my music collection. It is large so I thought that somehow I could use some application that could pull the info from a freebd server and if I wished I could alter any info. Try to entering it all by hand will be just to big of a project. My vote goes to media-sound/amarok. Yeah mine goes to Amarok too. I've got a lot of music. I love the ability to use a proper DB as my backend. I use postgresql and the DB is currently 7.0 gigs. It was much much larger until I enabled autovaccuum... By having your musicDB split off onto a postgres backend you can do whatever you like with it. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails
On Friday 06 October 2006 09:31, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: gcc -o digits -Wall -ansi -pedantic digits.c With that, I got the implicit declaration of function BLAH message. When that happens, and the man page does not list anything special, I usually add this at the beginning of the source file: #define _GNU_SOURCE et voila', now compiles cleanly Yes but this is still entirely wrong Come on people let's at least try to be standards based. If you really want isascii() and isblank() then you need this #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600 Without the above define: gcc -Wall -pedantic ctype.c -o ctype ctype.c: In function 'main': ctype.c:13: warning: implicit declaration of function 'isascii' ctype.c:14: warning: implicit declaration of function 'isblank' With the above define: gcc -Wall -pedantic ctype.c -o ctype This is needed for A Strictly Conforming POSIX Application. If you read the SUSv3 it states that you should define _POSIX_C_SOURCE to 200112L, but that this is redundant if you define _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600. Now realistically you should not be defining it yourself, you should be testing for compliance then using what is available. Please let's not try and make code completely unportable to different compilers just cause we all like gcc. There may be a day that another compiler comes along that is way better than gcc and by using _GNU_SOURCE you are locked in. We do have standards. They are sometimes a little hard to read and sometimes you just can't get the behavior you want by following them, try to use them when possible and be aware of the standards that functions are defined in on their man pages. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash 2 problem
On Saturday 16 September 2006 03:44, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, I am using gnucash 2 with the postgres backend. Somehow I know can not make any changes to the bookings anymore. Anybody got a clue what might have gone wrong? Please try the gnucash mailing list. Let google be your guide. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT The Real Darkside...
On Saturday 09 September 2006 20:21, Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:03:58 -0400 By the time he went to bed it was running and he'd been on the net using firefox and checked that runescape (online java game) worked. By the time I got up this morning he was setting up his RSS feeds in kontact and configuring various other bits. Heck yeah! If everyone knew about Kontact... I demo it and KStars every chance I get. Pretty good I thought. Not sure whether it says something about Miles, or about SuSE's ease of installation (probably both). He has used linux before, and is pretty computer literate (gaining a High Distinction in an international exam, batting against kids 2 years older), but neither those exams nor school do much to prepare you for installing a different OS. We've come a long way in the last 6 years. I think even further than the proceeding years. Suse 10.1 is really a landmark. I say that from my Gentoo installation, but they really did something right with that release. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo
On Saturday 09 September 2006 07:49, Rodrigo Lazo wrote: [user] Portage Handbook, it dragged me out of the dull and darkness that I was living in and because... it works!! 99% of the times it didn't work was because of me. Okay I've taken the bait. This is the same reason I love Gentoo. The bugs (outside of portage) are MY bugs. Other distros might have strange interaction problems because of patches they add for usability or stability, but in Gentoo the bugs are MINE. I own the bugs. It's up to me to push to get them fixed or find workarounds, because either I'm doing something wrong or there is an honest to goodness bug in the app. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dual scsi configuration?
On Friday 08 September 2006 19:43, James wrote: If I want maximum/optimized IO performance from these drives what is the best file system to use and drive configuration. (1/2) the swap space on each drive? Raid level? Other methods? EVMS(which I know nothing about)? Well what's the workload? Random reads, sequential reads, random writes, sequential writes? All these are important to selecting the best method of getting optimal I/O. There is no one perfect filesystem/raid level for everything. Since you are using only a 400Mhz processor I think that reiser3 may be out of the question. It uses a lot of CPU and gets great performace, but if the processor can't keep up then reiser loses a lot of performance. Also any Device Mapper layers will slow you down a bit. I user LVM and love it, but if I really need maximum raw throughput I'd look to hw RAID or sw based RAID (if my system is up to that). For filesystems it just depends on your needs. If you want high sequential reads/writes then JFS and XFS are particularly good. If you need an all around performer, random reads/writes with good sequential throughput then ext3 and reiser (see above note on reiser). Reiser is also the best at purely random access especially with large directories (1,000s of little files). To be honest if you just go look at the filesystem howtos and filesystem comparisons (use google luke) you won't go wrong. They are all up to the task as long as you know a little bit about what your workload is going to look like. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo
On Thursday 07 September 2006 19:31, Chris White wrote: So, wondering why people use Gentoo. Put [dev] or something if you're an actual gentoo dev and [user] if you're a user. Doesn't need to be fancy, you can put community or something if that's all you want. All responses off list please. Thanks. Please read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT Bookeeping recommendations
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 20:02, Nico wrote: yep, this is the stable one, but I'd like to know about usability of the testing 2.0.1. I like it. It's mostly the same. They took great care to make the release as solid as possible. Give it a shot. I think you'll like it. If you need accounting I'd start with GnuCash and then move on if it doesn't meet your needs. I'd also start with the latest stable 2 version out. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST recursive problem
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 00:33, Jean-Marc Beaune wrote: Hi, Just a stupid question : What is bootstrap.sh used for ? This is the script used to bootstrap your system. Usually this is only used if installing from stage1. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT Bookeeping recommendations
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 20:24, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Brett, What software does anyone use for bookeeping under Linux. I do some consulting and need to be able to track income, expenses, and do invoices and payments. I don't need anything fancy. Maybe GnuCash http://www.gnucash.org/ GnuCash is very good. Also you should investigate KMyMoney. Both programs are capable. GnuCash has been around longer, but they lack some features now due to spending the last two years porting to GTK2. Good luck, -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hostname -d returns no domainname
On Friday 26 May 2006 04:43, Alexander Skwar wrote:
I don't think that I can set a domain entry in resolv.conf, as it's
generated by dhcpcd.
The domainname start up script starts before DHCP so yes it would set it. It
doesn't depend on net.
What does the DNSDOMAIN setting in /etc/conf.d/domainname do?
Here's what it used to do. From my /etc/config-archive/etc/init.d/domainname:
start() {
# Ensure that we have a hostname binary or function
source /lib/rcscripts/net.modules.d/helpers.d/functions
local retval=0
local retval2=0
if checkconfig_nis ; then
ebegin Setting NIS domainname to ${NISDOMAIN}
hostname -y ${NISDOMAIN}
retval=$?
eend ${retval} Failed to set the NIS domainname
fi
if checkconfig_dns ; then
ebegin Setting DNS domainname to ${DNSDOMAIN}
resolv=$(grep -v '^[[:space:]]*domain' /etc/resolv.conf)
[[ ${OVERRIDE} == 1 ]] \
resolv=${resolv}$'\n'domain ${DNSDOMAIN} \
|| resolv=domain ${DNSDOMAIN}$'\n'${resolv}
echo ${resolv} /etc/resolv.conf
retval2=$?
eend ${retval2} Failed to set the DNS domainname
fi
return $((retval + retval2))
}
${DNSDOMAIN} and ${NISDOMAIN} are read out of /etc/conf.d/domainname earlier
in the script. So it does as I said it did it sets a domain line
in /etc/resolv.conf.
However, this file does not exist in my /etc/init.d anymore. I'm not sure
when that changed or why.
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Re: DNSDOMAIN in /etc/conf.d/domainname has no effect? (was: [gentoo-user] hostname -d returns no domainname)
On Friday 26 May 2006 08:25, Alexander Skwar wrote: Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Friday 26 May 2006 10:46 skrev Etaoin Shrdlu: I seem to remember that this was somehow related to /etc/hosts, look: # cat /etc/hosts Changing: 10.0.0.10 mybox mybox.my.domain to: 10.0.0.10 mybox.my.domain mybox has just solved this issue for me. :) Thanks! Here is why this solved the issue for you. hostname -d and hostname --fqdn get the domain part by using gethostbyname() so it does a DNS lookup on your hostname. If your /etc/hosts.conf is set to files, bind then it will look your hostname up in /etc/hosts then query DNS. If your /etc/hosts file has an FQDN entry for your hostname then all is well. If not then your hostname is queried in DNS using the domain statement in /etc/resolv.conf. But I wonder what this DNSDOMAIN setting in /etc/conf.d/domainname is supposed to do. Because of It sets the domain in /etc/resolv.conf # When setting up resolv.conf, what should take precedence? # If you wish to always override DHCP/whatever, set this to 1. OVERRIDE=1 I thought that this setting would have an effect. Seems not so... This will determin whether DHCP will be allowed to replace your domain statement in /etc/resolv.conf. I hope this clears it up. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What can I use for a compressed file system?
On Thursday 11 May 2006 19:51, W.Kenworthy wrote: What can I use for a compressed file system? I am looking at setting up a loopback mounted filesystem that I want to use to store backups into. Compression is needed as space will become a limitation in the future (I want to do a whole system backup that so far is 2:1 compressed via tar.bzip2. I am thinking of using dirvish into a compressed loopback mount - but how do I set up a compressed fs? Have you tried reiserfs? As long as it is NOT mounted with the notail option it can sometimes save 50% on space compared to ext3/jfs/xfs depending on your usage. There is also a possiblility of using LVM2 snapshots also if you have LVM2 devices already set up. I'm not sure how dirvish is for backup and I'm not sure how good a loopback backup to a file really is anyway. That depends on the consistency of at least a partition anyway. Maybe you are trying to solve the wrong problem? -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome and KDE on same system!
On Thursday 11 May 2006 09:14, Philip Webb wrote: To get both Gnome KDE, emerge the appropriate parts -- I don't use Gnome itself, tho' I have much of it installed, KDE now comes in modules, some of which are essential, others a choice -- then edit ~/.xinitrc to start the one you want with 'startx'. That's if you boot into a raw terminal: if you boot into X straight off, then you need to get them listed in Kdm or Gdm or whatever you use. I boot into a raw terminal, then 'startx' have 2 versions of .xinitrc # PP 050123 : for KDE xscreensaver startkde # PP 050619 : for Fluxbox xscreensaver fluxbox There is no need to go through this trouble. It's gentoo. You can set the system default WM/DE in /etc/rc.conf. To select a different WM/DE when you startx all you have to do is export XSESSION=name of wm. Then you will have the window manager/desktop environment of your choice. If you are already using kdm/gdm as a login manager then you have the ability to easily select what environment you want each time you login. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide
On Wednesday 03 May 2006 16:04, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Wed, 3 May 2006, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Signals are the only way (or you have a parent died logic inside the child process). And this will always open a racing condition when But I won't be able to use svc to interact with the child. That's why I feel I must reformulate the whole setup. If you need deeper interaction with a child process then you might need to look outside the realm of shell. I'd suggest looking at perl. Not that you can't accomplish what you are looking for with bash scripting, but you may be better served by using a more full featured programming language than shell offers. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:48, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Tue, 2 May 2006, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: I think (untested) you can do something like trap 'kill pid of child' TERM at then beginning of parent.sh. This way, when the parent recives TERM it in turn sends a TERM to the child. If you want the parent to terminate, add the exit command as well: trap 'kill pid of child; exit 1' TERM But how to find out the PID of child? What would be convenient is a way to send signals recursively to a process and its children. Maybe I'm trying to solve a problem with wrong tools... Thanks, You can find the PID of the last backgrouned process using the bash variable $! So something like: subprocess $pid=$! Using trap along with maybe setting alarms should get you what you want. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] shell script
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 00:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a shellp script, let
STRING=a.txt b.txt c.txt
And I want to delete a sub-string from $STRING, for example
b.txt, and then we got
$STRING is a.txt c.txt
How to achieve it?
From man bash:
${parameter:-word}
Use Default Values. If parameter is unset or null, the expansion of word is
substituted. Otherwise, the value of parameter is substituted.
So for what you want just do:
STRING=a.txt b.txt c.txt
${STRING:-b.txt}
There are tons of ways to manipulate parameters and you should reference the
man page for more. Look under Parameter Expansion for all the
possibilities.
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Re: [gentoo-user] User group problem
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 01:34, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I sometimes have to add my user to a group. This of course doesn't take effect until I log out and back in. However, if I'm under X, I can't logout without first exiting X. So, I'm wondering if there is any way to re-log the user without exiting X? Not really. (please someone correct me if I'm wrong) However, if you are using a terminal to launch an application and using bash -l for that terminal application then anything you start will show the new group. If you are instead just launching from the applications menu in your desktop (kde, gnome, blackbox) then you have to log out of X then log back in. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Space opera
On Friday 07 April 2006 23:32, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: When I have to copy my current / to another harddisk, which has a different physical layout of partitions and another overall size -- how would I do this best (conserving as much of the information of the old root as possible) Is cp -a sufficient ? Why not? Just make sure after you finish copying all the files that you install grub to the new disk and make it bootable etc. If you are using lvm this is easier because you can do a pvmove to migrate the data to the new disk. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] chroot
On Monday 27 March 2006 23:21, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that's an option to, although with more than ~768K of ram it's not ideal. Maybe not ideal (especially on 64-bit processors) it is more than possible to address a lot of memory (damn I forget the numbers, I think 64G). Why is that? I thought 32-bit should have no problems addressing 2GB? Yes you can. It will be slower than native 48-bit address modes from 64-bit processors, but not a large overhead at all (and the code mostly stays in cache). You will need to select 3G/1G split to access the full 2GB you have in your system. I have 1.5G and have to use 2G/2G to address all of mine. Plus, with a 64-bit kernel, it'll have access to the 64-bit specific registers. :) That is a much larger benefit than most people give it credit for. Almost double the registers! -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hosted server as distcc machine
On Monday 27 March 2006 12:16, Grant wrote: So you're saying if I don't use PKI, the remote system is going to prompt me for a password after I'm already logged in? You say each compile that goes to an ssh host will ask for a password. At what point in the emerge process does this happen? Anytime you dipatch a job to another system. If you are using ssh to send your jobs (instead of distccd) you will be prompted for a password for every job you send to the remote host. That is of course until distcc realises it can't communicate and will then fall back to sending the jobs to localhost. If you have a lot of jobs you are sending to distcc then you will see a huge increase in your load average as a result. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can't compile audacity
On Saturday 25 March 2006 06:31, Tamas Sarga wrote: Hi, I use -gtk2 -unicode wxgtk1 use flags and wxGTK-2.4.2-r4 and wxGTK-2.6.1 . It works for me on x86 with audacity-1.2.1 . The error message (/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/../../../libwx_gtk2-2.4.so) hint, that it tries to use gtk2 for the compilation. Is this on x86_64 here is my output from emerge -av audacity (using 2005.1 profile): ebuild R ] media-sound/audacity-1.2.4b-r1 USE=encode mad vorbis 4,394kB What gtk use flag are you talking about??? I don't have one. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can't compile audacity
On Sunday 26 March 2006 02:13, Martins Steinbergs wrote: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild N] media-sound/audacity-1.2.3-r1 USE=encode gtk2 vorbis -flac -libsamplerate -mad 4,078 kB This is a package to definately put in package.keywords with ~arch. Not only is it under rapid development, each ebuild contains a release (even the betas) that is almost of release quality. I feel completely safe using the betas that come out of the audacity project for my every day audio work. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Where is perlfunc?
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 19:35, JimD wrote: On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:25:06 -0600 perldoc perlfunc or man perlfunc -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dvdrip help
On Sunday 12 March 2006 22:55, Roy Wright wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I'm a big fan of ANDREW from the FSF. There should be an ebuild in bugzilla; but it's trivial to install. It's not a X application, but it /is/, despite the name, a wizard that does all of the heavy lifting for you. fanboy alert Here here! ANDREW Rules! /fanboy alert Just tried acidrip which is mplayer based instead of transcode. It worked fine on the one DVD I've tested with. You should give ANDREW a shot. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124130 -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!
On Monday 13 March 2006 19:21, Iain Buchanan wrote: Has someone already downloaded http://tobemem.memebot.com/download/andrew-1.2.tar.bz2 that they can mirror for me? I can mirror it not for terribly long. I've set my server to maxclients of 3, the file is only 171K. ftp://krakrjak.com/pub/ANDREW/andrew-1.2.tar.bz2 Please anyone that can mirror this file do so! It will be needed for once it gets a package maintainer. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ANDREW homepage is down!
On Monday 13 March 2006 23:26, Alan E. Davis wrote: What's the secret to compiling ANDREW? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124130 Get the ebuild there. There are a lot of dependencies. Also look at the latest note in the bug. You must build ogmtools with the dvd USE flag. Make sure you read the man page, this ANDREW is really flexible. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sound recording software in gentoo
On Sunday 05 March 2006 04:45, Thomas Kear wrote: The only app that i can think of off the top of my head is audacity. Have a look through media-sound though, audacity has some nasty recording latency issues, but it's fine for arranging and mixing tracks. Audacity used to have that issue. And they only had that issue when doing playback and record using integrated sound cards. This is now a non-issue. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question
On Monday 27 February 2006 00:48, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Wrong. Switch to runlevel 1 (using telinit 1), which is for maintenance. In RL 1, no user processes are running and you can umount everything except /. Partially right. Gentoo has several gotchas in runlevel 1. If /usr is a seperate filesystem you have to be careful. Bash by default is not statically linked and requires readline (which is installed in /usr/lib). ls will require libgpm which is also in /usr/lib. So you have to be careful. One of the best things you can do for yourself is install an all in one shell for maintenece like busybox or nash. Also lvm is not statically linked and can require libraries out of /usr/lib also. So be careful and understand what you are doing. You just might need a livecd in some cases for shrinking. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Adding gw route in /etc/conf.d/net
On Monday 27 February 2006 20:06, Harry Putnam wrote: /etc/conf.d/net currently looks like this: config_eth0=( 192.168.0.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 ) routes_eth0=( default via 192.168.0.20 ) config_eth1=( 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 ) With both interfaces up what is the output of ip route? I don't see anything wrong with the configuration really, both networks are in different subnets so they should be seperate. However you may be getting a default route for eth1. You really don't need one, from the description you give you don't need a route at all for eth1. If all the computers on the 192.168.0.0/24 network can all see each other's MAC addresses then there is no problem. I wondering if that is the reason for my troubles. maybe I need to add a static route for config_eth1? This should not be required for your setup as I understand it. I'd be realy interested in your arp table too, arp -a. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SUID mounts
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 00:56, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi All, I'm having some issues with enabling programs to be suid root. Stuffs like /bin/mount /usr/bin/mount.cifs is already in mode 47xx and I still get errors that I have no permissions to execute it (to mount) If the mount point is not specified in /etc/fstab then only root can do the mount. If it's in /etc/fstab it needs the option users to allow this. There are exceptions, like when HAL manages the mount for you. (I'm troubleshooting another program but using mount as an example as the error symptom is the same) What is the other program? What is the real issue? Mount is sort of special. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 03:03, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Oops, you're right, telinit 1 doesn't work as expected in Gentoo (are there any bugreports about it?). However, I can reboot into RL 1 just fine and umount /usr w/o problems. I can also use ls just fine with /usr unmounted, all fs maintenance tools should also work. It just depends on the setup and USE flags. The situation has begun to improve in the default case. The telinit command is not how it's done in Gentoo. You should use rc or init. The best way to get to single user mode on a running Gentoo system is to use rc single. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge
On Monday 27 February 2006 10:39, El Nino wrote: if you want to use prozilla, just change the FETCHCOMMAND and RESUMECOMMAND in /etc/make.conf There is some examples in /etc/make.conf.example, but not for prozilla how can i get to know all these portage features? Read two lines above this one for the answer to your question. The other way is to read man portage, man emerge, man make.conf. The example file stays updated with new features (it may lag some) and so do the man pages. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adding gw route in /etc/conf.d/net
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 05:30, Harry Putnam wrote: It all cleared up after a reboot. I didn't mention I made a domain name switch preceding the reported problem too. I suspect my nameserver cache hadn't had time to clear up (I have pretty long Time To Live values set). Although I really don't now if that would be an issue. That's great! Too bad you didn't get to the bottom of it, but fixed is better than broken. ip route 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.2 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.4 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo scope link default via 192.168.0.20 dev eth0 This is proper. Only one gateway and it's through the eth0 device. arp -a fw.local.lan (192.168.0.20) at 00:09:5B:01:2F:E4 [ether] on eth0 fwobsd.local.lan (192.168.0.19) at 00:10:B5:91:85:88 [ether] on eth0 It's interesting here that you don't see anything on 192.168.1.0/24. Perhaps nothing is connected to that interface right now? Congrats on the problem being fixed. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: linux filesystem + transparent compression (rw)
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 13:48, Sascha Lucas wrote: what is the status of transparent compression in a linux filesystem (read/write)? wikipedia[1] says jfs has one. Is this true? I don't think so. Hans Reiser proclaimed to have a reiser4 compression plugin before 2.6.1[4-5]. Where is it? Has someone tried extz[2]? chattr(1) tells me to set the (c) attribute. But this seems not to work: writing 100MB /dev/zero to a c ./test file on a 100MB partion results in disk full. I will speak to what I know, which is the reiser4 part of the story. There will be no repacker/resizer or any other modules for the fs until it gets merged into the kernel. During the process of getting reiser4 into mainline many things about the implementation are changing so it is probably impossible to write the compression or encryption modules until it gets merged. I don't consider it a lacking feature, just a nice checkbox to be able to check. If we get transparent compression in the filesystems (that you can toggle on and off) then that will be great news to marketers. It also could be good news to embedded people if the compression isn't too processor intensive. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no sound when playing flash
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 10:19, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I once had the same problem, solved it using ESD (well, not the best solution, but it works), so, at my startup script I have esd and flash anims have sound... It's not only the best solution it is the only solution. Flash uses esd for sound. You can start it everytime you start your web browser or you can add esound to your default run level. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no sound when playing flash
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 14:56, David Morgan wrote: eh? I have sound with flash and I don't have esd installed. Didn't use to be the case, went googling and found that it no longer requires esd it just uses OSS. I don't have proper hardware mixing though, so when I want to hear sound with flash I usually have to restart firefox or it doesn't work. Or as I found there are alternatives here, try launching firefox with artsdsp firefox, or alternatively aoss firefox. This will play all sound through a muxer and will allow it to play nice even on machines without hardware mixing. So to recap, you don't need esd anymore, just working OSS (ALSA provides OSS compatibility). If you are having trouble with it playing while other things are playing sound try using aoss or artsdsp to mux the sounds for you (or esd if you like). -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adding gw route in /etc/conf.d/net
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 16:12, Harry Putnam wrote: arp -a (after ssh to 192.168.1.1) ? (192.168.1.1) at 00:04:75:9B:E5:0D [ether] on eth1 harvey.local.lan (192.168.0.22) at 00:11:2F:92:54:E7 [ether] on eth0 fw.local.lan (192.168.0.20) at 00:09:5B:01:2F:E4 [ether] on eth0 fwobsd.local.lan (192.168.0.19) at 00:10:B5:91:85:88 [ether] on eth0 Do you know what the first line notation means? Yeah the first field is the hostname of the remote system. If it's not in your /etc/hosts file or in DNS then it will show up with a ?. It shows that eth1 is seeing another host at 192.168.1.1 and eth0 shows three hosts 192.168.0.10,20,22 and each of those it knows their hostname. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA: All modules loaded, mixer unmuted, still no sound
On Sunday 26 February 2006 02:20, Ducky Z. wrote: Hello, The sound card works fine with Ubuntu in my other partition. I've followed Gentoo's Alsa Guide and currently with kernel modules. But no sound comes out when I play music or any other things. The 'lspci' for my card is: 00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 04) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Unknown device ff10 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10 I/O ports at e100 [size=256] I/O ports at e200 [size=64] Memory at d018 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] Memory at d0180200 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 The 'lsmod' for the OS is: Module Size Used by ipw220089900 0 ieee80211 29256 1 ipw2200 ieee80211_crypt 4736 1 ieee80211 firmware_class 8192 1 ipw2200 sky2 32640 0 snd_seq48080 0 snd_seq_device 6924 1 snd_seq snd_pcm_oss48160 0 snd_mixer_oss 17024 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_intel8x0 29468 0 snd_ac97_codec 91168 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_bus1920 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm79240 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 21508 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd46180 8 snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_code c,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 7776 1 snd snd_page_alloc 8456 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm xfs 543448 1 ntfs 99440 1 Did you look at your mixer? Try alsamixer. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA: All modules loaded, mixer unmuted, still no sound
On Sunday 26 February 2006 02:50, Ducky Z. wrote: I've already unmuted all channels. Still no sound. My aplogies I didn't read far enough Do you have any programs that will play sound? I think I may have to bow out of this discussion. It's always worked for me just fine (emu10k driver here). -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?
On Sunday 26 February 2006 18:57, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: My proposal at this point, would be for an additional restriction on packages based on a new UPSTREAM variable in the ebuild itself, ACCEPT_UPSTREAM variable in make.conf / the environment, and the package.upstream file in /etc/portage. Stephen and I have talked about this before. The real fleshed out idea is meant to be for a user that might want to follow a package as it moves from alpha-beta-release. While the overall stability of the system might be compromised by globally adding an ACCEPT_UPSTREAM=BETA an individual may be willing to make that compromise to test new applications and provide upstream bug reports before a package has made it to final release. I read your previous posts about this as that you wanted it to be easier to get beta versions but what you want is in fact the exact opposite - further restriction. Now I get it. I don't envision it as further restriction, instead it's a way to add seperation of ebuild/software stability. Imagine that I have a package that is in early alpha state and very unstable. However the ebuild for that package does not hurt the system, it's proper and conforms to portage and plays nicely. Under the current system if my ebuild was added to portage it would be masked with package.mask. Under the new system it would not be in package.mask, instead a user would have to set ACCEPT_UPSTREAM=ALPHA or set mypackage ALPHA in package.upstream. This also facilitates cvs ebuilds nicely by not having to hard mask everything, but instead making the user choose the system's level of stability. Of course the defaults would be sane, but then the user could override it globally or locally to each package. This would clean package.mask up and make it purely for misbehaving ebuilds. I'm imaging the default provided by the base profile would be ACCEPT_UPSTREAM=RELEASE BUG_FIX SECURITY_FIX so that packages with UPSTREAM=BETA (or HEAD, SNAPSHOT, ALPHA, PRE_RELEASE, RELEASE_CANDIDATE, alia al) would not be installed. (Until you changes your ACCEPT_UPSTREAM in make.conf or edit /etc/portage/package.upstream) Let's take a real life example of the cloudiness of the current situation. If you run ~arch right now and update your system it will pull a new kernel in even if that kernel is a release candidate. The ebuild is clean and installs properly and is not in package.mask, however if you don't want release candidate kernels there isn't an easy way to do it and only allow released version. Under the new system the kernel ebuilds would still be handled the same way (not placed into package.mask), but the user wouldn't get a release candidate kernel unless they say ACCEPT_UPSTREAM=RELEASE_CANDIDATE or set the kernel up that way in package.upstream. Another example that sticks out in my head. In the run up to KDE 3.5 I wanted to follow all the ALPHA, BETA and RC releases so I could file bug reports and make the final version better. There wasn't an easy way to do this and the list of packages to unmask was enourmous. Somewhere near beta2 all the ebuils were good, so it could be cleanly merged, but you had to go through the unmask dance. Under the new system once the ebuilds were clean, they would move out of package.mask and any user with the appropriate ACCEPT_UPSTREAM/package.upstream settings could test the new KDE. If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh I can't believe he said that! What he might have meant is that we should provide sane defaults to our users so newcomers don't get hosed systems due to us requiring intimate knowledge of the system. While we shouldn't make unsafe policies at the global level we should allow advanced users to do as they please. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA: All modules loaded, mixer unmuted, still no sound
On Sunday 26 February 2006 22:17, Ducky Z. wrote: I'm using the modules provided by the kernel, which is 2.6.15. alsa-lib is 1.0.10. This should be fine. When I aplay a file, it shows: ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:900:(snd_pcm_direct_initialize_slave) unable to install hw params ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:831:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to initialize slave aplay: main:544: audio open error: Inappropriate ioctl for device Hrm Is this being done as root? I think your /etc/asound.conf file might need some help. I'm not sure here, but it might not be able to play because the wrong information is in the asound.conf file. In addition to being unmuted are the outputs actually turned up? Output means? Means that PCM, MASTER are not set to 0 in alsamixer. You said earlier that they were unmuted and turned up so I think you have this covered, but you should double check. You appear to have the right modules loaded, but those dmesg errors are likely because the userland is having problems talking to the kernel. Is there any workaround? Well the workaround is to get programs using the alsa libraries to properly initialize the device. Not sure what the configuration issue is. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] S/P diff question
On Friday 24 February 2006 09:12, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi there! I'm wondering why dts and aac sound coming from DVD is perfectly transmitted over the spdif port (the A/V receiver recognizes the format ans switches to dts/dolby mode, and -- much important -- I can hear the movie's sound); But if I try the same with a normal divx-file or try to play anything else, nothing comes out over the spdif port, only via the analog audio jacks I can hear something. What program is playing back the DVD? Is this different from the player playing the other media files? Since something can play out the spdif port then it might be important to look at that program's setup for audio output. What device is it using etc. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question
On Friday 24 February 2006 00:03, Alexander Skwar wrote:
John Jolet wrote:
Remember, the fs cannot be mounted when you extend it.
That's wrong. Every FS can be extended online, even ext{2,3}
with certain patches IIRC.
WRONG!!! (or partially anyway) Here's the rundown:
reiser3, resizable online in two ways
1)resize_reiserfs /path/to/dev
2)mount -o remount,resize /path/to/dev
XFS, MUST be mounted to resize use xfs_grow /mount/point
JFS, resizable online with a mount -o remount,resize /path/to/dev
ext2/3, resizable offline reliably. Online resize is a *very* experimental
experiment. Have good backups.
For a good reference if one is ever needed to give to a friend, relative or
foe try http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question
On Friday 24 February 2006 22:13, John Jolet wrote: okay, i'll rephrase being an old aix hand... with the (possible) exeption of reiser I, personally, would not trust any filesystem to resize without being unmounted. but then, compared to the aix lvm, which can be resized with oracle accessing at full speed, linux lvms are just barely getting to what I'd call production ready. interesting to see that we're moving in an online-resizable direction on linux. :) What an unenlighten troll. I have plenty of experience with AIX's volume manager. LVM2 can stand up to it any day. As a matter of fact Linux's LVM is about to completely surpass what is available in AIX. LVM2 can do cluster locking and management. You can use LVM2 with Multipathing tools just as you can under any commercial Unix. LVM2 is more than ready for prime time as can be seen by looking at RHEL and SLES distributions. Linux is not a toy and neither is LVM2. It can be used as a toy or a learning device, but it is not relegated to the closet of geeks. And don't get me started on AIX if you don't happen to have the OnlineJFS sets installed. Also the draconian having to resize the filesystem by calculating the number of 512 byte blocks in the filesystem. Do your homework please. Just because you've dealt exclusively or extensively with one flavor of *nix doesn't mean that others aren't up to the task. And just because it's IBM's Unix doesn't make it more or less ready for the enterprise, it just makes it proprietary. You'd do well to judge based on features, capabilities and the completeness of the tools. -- Zac Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:1415282 YM:krakrjak AIM:ttyp99 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] AUTOTOOLS
On Sunday 19 February 2006 18:32, Rafael Fernández López wrote: That is one of the reasons because I would like to write my own Makefile.am. But lots of questions came to my mind, like if I have something like: myproject src gui base sounds [...] And my objective is only an executable (no .so...) is it necessary to go on creating *.la files for each directory (and portion of code) to get them linked at the end of the build process? I'm not sure what you mean. As a matter of fact your entire question is strange. If you wnat to use autoconf/automake and don't want to use KDevelop then you are going to have to read the info pages for autoconf and automake. You will also need to find out what the m4 tests are for QT versions and kdelibs versions if you need that sort of dependency. Makefile.am is only part of the puzzle here. Your above section here doesn't make much sense either. If you don't want to build libraries in your subdirs you don't have to. You can build all the object files and then link them all together at the end of the build process. If you are creating a custom Makefile you can do whatever you please. I had some vtable errors from GCC that I had never had before (because before I used to write my own Makefiles) [no autotools]. What sort of vtable issues? A little more information and a clearer statement of what you are trying to do would be very helpful. -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic
On Saturday 18 February 2006 08:58, Izar Ilun wrote: Here's the issue: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-435070.html From your post: title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-9-386 root(hd1,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386 root=/dev/hdb2 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-9-386 savedefault boot Try removing the initrd first. Just comment that line out and remove quiet and splash from the entry. This will test and make sure that /dev/hdb2 has a working installation. Once you can boot into the system proper then you can look for how to get the initrd image working. -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What about a new file system subtree?
On Saturday 18 February 2006 09:52, Rafael Fernández López wrote: ./configure ; make ; make install (in an app called 'whatever') and it could create for example /home/me/bin/whatever and /home/me/share/doc/whatever or /home/me/doc/whatever, and so on. This is what --prefix is for. ./configure --prefix=~/ make make install This puts it into /home/user/ where /home/user is considered to be / -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What about a new file system subtree?
On Saturday 18 February 2006 10:16, Rafael Fernández López wrote: This is what --prefix is for. ./configure --prefix=~/ make make install This puts it into /home/user/ where /home/user is considered to be / What I meant is that it could be selected as default option. My idea is to make easier new users to install apps that don't have, and that would like to, without having to read man configure. This is the pneumonic load of *nix. Installing software is non-trivial. We make it much easier in gentoo with emerge, just as autoconf/automake made it much simpiler in the past. If a user is going to compile and install software in their home directory they are going to have to at least learn --prefix as an option to configure. Fortunately/unfortunately this is a requirement. Just as learning to use ls to list files in a directory. -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What about a new file system subtree?
On Saturday 18 February 2006 10:20, Rafael Fernández López wrote: Is [OT] marked because it has nothing to do with Gentoo. I mean when no ebuild is provided, someone is a new user (doesn't know what --prefix is), and by default with one shot ./configure ; make ; make install it could be installed in home. If this is what you want then the user must be in the portage group. Now that user may be able to install software in / due to a lack of knowledge of the system. However they can do ROOT=/home/user emerge program and that will install it into their home directory. However if they have the power to do this, they have the power to accidentally install into /. Pick your poison here. -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 06:44, Iain Buchanan wrote: Screen sections get corrupted, windows are unusable, parts of windows are transparent, old parts of the screen aren't updated (eg, the splash screen is visible long after it's really disappeared) web browsing shows lines of text over the top of each other - It is still very beta. This codebase will improve and more of the compositing functions will be put into the window managers. is this what everyone else sees with translucency? Maybe not they might be using per application translucency like what konsole has. -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge troubles
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 21:14, Jorge Almeida wrote: Well, so that was it! I just finished compiling gcc. I wonder why those limits were set for user root?! My home computer didn't have such restriction, and I recently made a new install on the computer that had all this problem, so I'm sure I didn't do it myself and forgot it... Check /etc/limits to see what the defaults are. I'd also look at any shell scripts that are being sourced during login (/etc/profile ~/.bashrc, etc.). It's a relief to know it's not hw problem! Memory allocation is one of those things that usually isn't. Normally you'd see physical memory errors as programs randomly crashing (like the kernel, with no PANIC). You also might notice when you start the system up that it is reporting less memory than you have installed. Thank you, and thanks also to Benno and Zac. Very appreciated. -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror as an FTP Client
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 22:54, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/15/06, Ryan Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My initial thoughts are that Konqueror is opening too many simultaneous connections and the FTP Site doesn't like it. Can anybody help me? Use KGet (the KDE download manager) to limit the number of simultaneous connections. This is unhelpful. He is asking about a way to get konqueror to work as a full on ftp client. It won't work doing uploads. installing kget does not solve the problem at all. I've not used konqueror for this only for ftp downloads and can't really comment here. You might want to try a kde list for more insight. -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge troubles
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 17:43, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: parser error : out of memory error /bin/sh: line 1: 3831 Segmentation fault Doesn't look good. :( No it doesn't, but there has to be a reason why he's out of memory... What is the output of free, before emerge? How about after it fails? Can you give the output of the following commands: cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness cat /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory cat /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio Also try using vmstat 5 in one window and attempting the emerge in another window. What process is using the most memory right now? (Check top sorted by memory). Is this box always on? Have you tried rebooting? Maybe loads of memory have leaked away. WHOA! Stop right there. Perhaps we should help him diagnose his problem before using a shotgun. If the RAM has gone bad, to replace it you will have to touch it anyway. So, no harm in trying to wriggle it a bit first. Touch and hold the case before touching the RAM strips. There is nothing in the information he has presented thus far to show that there are memory errors of any type. He very well may be just running out of memory. It happens. Send back the extra information and let's get to the bottom of the issue. -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] is kde 3.5 stable enough?
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 15:47, b.n. wrote: However I did it now and I noticed the USE flag kdexdeltas, which description on gentoo-portage.com is: kdexdeltas - Makes kde ebuilds download binary diffs rather than entire new tarballs for every new release how is it supposed to work?! does it work for every kind of C flag? This will download binary source diffs against a previous release. So if you have the kdelibs-3.4 tar ball it will just get the delta tar ball that will contain the binary diff from kdelibs-3.4-kdelibs-3.5 CFLAGS are irrelevant here. It can save you a lot of bandwidth if the delta exists. I think it is important to note that KDE 3.5 has been released as stable by KDE for some time. It is only the ebuilds that are still marked as testing. Yes, I know. But I'm easily scared :P Well kde 3.5.1 is probably one of the most solid releases in a while. 3.5 had some issues, but so far 3.5.1 seems almost as mature as 3.4.4 was. YMMV. -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 16:09, Richard Fish wrote: Which ATI do you have? The ATI drivers (fglrx) does not support composite yet. Both of the above options are only for nvidia users, I believe. Enabling the Composite extension should work for all drivers, it isn't accelerated on fglrx, but there is a software fallback. It may not be worth it if you can't get HW acceleration. -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge troubles
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 19:25, Jorge Almeida wrote: $ cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness 60 $ cat /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory 0 $ cat /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio 50 That was a long shot, but just wanted to make sure the system was allowing overcommit. $ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 1035204 968140 67064 0 270248 538412 -/+ buffers/cache: 159480 875724 Swap: 996020300 995720 This seems within spec. You have plenty of memory free. Of course, this is the output of free _after_ the previous failed emerge attempts. It seems RAM really was caught and not released... I can try rebooting, but there is the possibility that the box won't boot, and I'm away... Is there some way to find what's eating RAM? If you don't have physical access to the system, don't reboot it. It's not just a good rule of thumb, it's one you should live by (whenever possible). What process is using the most memory right now? (Check top sorted by memory). $ top top - 01:21:23 up 22 days, 17:29, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Tasks: 120 total, 2 running, 118 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 1035204k total, 968760k used,66444k free, 270684k buffers Swap: 996020k total, 300k used, 995720k free, 538452k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 8291 root 15 0 159m 29m 3056 S 0.0 3.0 5:05.74 X 24756 jorge 15 0 30592 25m 2576 S 0.0 2.5 0:06.52 pine 28731 jorge 16 0 20016 14m 14m S 0.0 1.4 0:19.34 imap 26923 root 15 0 21236 12m 9704 S 0.0 1.2 0:00.39 kdm_greet 24757 jorge 16 0 8436 6292 5984 S 0.0 0.6 0:01.85 imap 21961 jorge 16 0 8044 3992 2684 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.15 vim 8259 root 16 0 5756 2852 1356 S 0.0 0.3 0:50.69 cupsd 24734 root 16 0 5944 1764 1440 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.01 sshd 24767 root 16 0 5948 1764 1440 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.01 sshd 3588 root 15 0 2644 1560 1172 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.11 bash 24746 jorge 15 0 2924 1472 1164 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.02 bash 6396 privoxy 15 0 36028 1464 784 S 0.0 0.1 0:07.90 privoxy 24785 jorge 15 0 2796 1456 1156 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 bash 24799 root 16 0 2664 1456 1156 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 bash Well nothing really stands out here There are multiple imap processes open, but really you have plenty of memory. Just an absolute blind stab in the dark. what does df -h give you? Anything interesting in dmesg? And just to make sure we have PLENTY of information here, can we get the end of emerge.log (some context prior to the error message). -- Zac Slade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
