Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer, audio but no video
At Sun, 25 Sep 2005 13:37:08 -0400 Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 07:14:32AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote > > emerge net-www/mplayerplug-in > > and be sure that you have the "gtk2" USE flag set. I just tried this and it seems to want xemacs. Is this correct? I already have fsf emacs installed? thanks, allan ajglap ~ # emerge -v --tree --ask emerge net-www/mplayerplug-in These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] net-www/mplayerplug-in-2.80 +gtk2 170 kB [ebuild N] net-libs/gecko-sdk-1.7.8 +crypt -debug +gnome +ipv6 -java -ldap -mozcalendar -mozdevelop -moznocompose -moznoirc -moznomail -moznoxft -mozsvg -mozxmlterm -postgres +ssl +truetype -xinerama -xprint 30,193 kB [ebuild N] app-xemacs/xemacs-base-1.75 458 kB [ebuild N] app-xemacs/emerge-1.09 59 kB [ebuild N] app-editors/xemacs-21.4.15-r3 +X -Xaw3d -athena +berkdb -canna -dnd -freewnn +gpm +jpeg -ldap +motif -mule -nas -neXt +png -postgres +tiff -xface 10,441 kB Total size of downloads: 41,322 kB Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] no Quitting. ajglap ~ # -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox crashing when printing--SOLVED
At Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:53:52 +0200 Aurélien Reynaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le samedi 27 août 2005 à 17:59 -0400, Allan Gottlieb a écrit : >> Firefox is now crashing whenever I print a page. Firefox gives its >> popup showing the status. When the status is complete, everything >> vanishes and nothing is printed. The error msg is not very helpful. > > I had the same problem a while ago. Solved it by deleteing > the .mozilla/firefox directory. Don't forget to backup your bookmarks > beforehand... Worked perfectly! Thanks, allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] firefox crashing when printing
Firefox is now crashing whenever I print a page. Firefox gives its popup showing the status. When the status is complete, everything vanishes and nothing is printed. The error msg is not very helpful. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/doc $ firefox No running windows found (firefox-bin:9293): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value has wrapped in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?) /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 116: 9293 Segmentation fault "$mozbin" "$@" firefox-bin exited with non-zero status (139) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/doc $ I can print fine with mozilla and with ggv (and lpr of text files). I should note. 1. Recently an emerge --tree --ask --verbose --newuse --update --deep world brought in mozilla. I am not sure what change caused this. This might be the first time I printed since that emerge. 2. I emerged gnome-light a long time ago 3. I tried very recently to follow the gentoo-wiki on native windows printing. This was the first print after that attempt (but as listed above; only firefox printing has problems). thanks in advance for any help. allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] font problems after following instructions in gentoo wiki
Summary: After following the instructions in the Xorg and fonts wiki
the default firefox font is awful (the combination "at" especially).
Workaround is simple; should I file a bug or have I erred?
Details:
I followed basically all the instructions in the Xorg and fonts gentoo
wiki (my files are given below) including those for firefox (I don't
use thunderbird). The default serif font settings for firefox in the
wiki are Bitstream Vera Serif at 16 pixels. With this default font
and size many pages look awful. Specifically, the letter "t" seems to
be too far left and for sure the combination "at" is partially
superimposed. For example, viewing http://cs.nyu.edu/~gottlieb with
this font and size is bad.
If I change the size to 15 or 17 or change the font to say century
schoolbook L (with size 16), the problem disappears.
Have I messed up the settings or should I fill a bug? If the latter,
where is the appropriate bug site for this?
thanks,
allan
/etc/fonts/local.conf
unknown
rgb
true
medium
false
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
[snip]
# DisplaySize (in mm) important for fonts (so says gentoo font wiki)
DisplaySize 409 307
[snip]
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
# For XFS, uncomment this and comment the others
# FontPath "unix/:-1"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/freefont"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/terminus"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/unifont"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/artwiz"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/ukr"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/local/"
# ModulePath can be used to set a search path for the X server modules.
# The default path is shown here.
#ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
EndSection
# **
# Module section -- this is an optional section which is used to specify
# which run-time loadable modules to load when the X server starts up.
# **
Section "Module"
Load"dbe"
# Load the glx module we obtained from nvidia
Load"glx"
# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection "extmod"
EndSubSection
Load"type1"
Load"freetype"
# Load the synaptics driver from synaptics ebuild.
Load"synaptics"
EndSection
~/.fonts.conf
No such file
# Mozilla User Preferences
/* Do not edit this file.
*
* If you make changes to this file while the browser is running,
* the changes will be overwritten when the browser exits.
*
* To make a manual change to preferences, you can visit the URL about:config
* For more information, see http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#prefs
*/
[snip]
user_pref("font.FreeType2.autohinted", true);
user_pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
user_pref("font.antialias.min", 0);
user_pref("font.directory.truetype.1", "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera");
user_pref("font.directory.truetype.2", "/usr/share/fonts/TTF");
user_pref("font.directory.truetype.3", "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts");
user_pref("font.directory.truetype.4", "/usr/share/fonts/freefont");
user_pref("font.name.monospace.x-western", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono");
user_pref("font.name.sans-serif.x-western", "Bitstream Vera Sans");
user_pref("font.name.serif.x-western", "Bitstream Vera Serif");
user_pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.gain", "0.0");
user_pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.min", 0);
[snip]
about:config default settings
font.freetype2.shared-library libfreetype.so.6
font.FreeType2.unhintedtrue
font.embedded_bitmaps.max 100
font.FreeType2.printingtrue
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "6x13" font for gnome-terminal
At Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:35:07 -0400 James Cloos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> "Allan" == Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Allan> ... I use what [the] 6x13 [bdf] font. > Allan> Its [xlfd] name is > Allan> -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 > > Allan> Is there some way I can tell gnome-terminal to use > Allan> -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 > > Yes, xft supports bitmap fonts and this one should be in the list. > > It can be a bit of work to get the right fontconfig name for a given > xlfd name, so the best thing to do is to find the fonts.dir file that > matches the xlfd to a filename, and find that same filename in the > fonts.cache-1 file in that directory. ... [ very useful information snipped ]] Thanks very much for the information, allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] "6x13" font for gnome-terminal
At Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:37:10 +0200 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oscar Carlsson schreef: >> Saturday 23 July 2005 00.24 skrev Allan Gottlieb: >> >>>All my screens are 1600x1200 pixels. >>> >>>Several are reasonably large (~20 inch) lcds and I use what emacs >>>calls a 6x13 font. Its real name is >>>-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 >>> >>>This permits 3 side by side windows (frames in emacs) of 81 columns. >>> >>>I have tried every fixed-width frame I found in the list given for >>>gnome-terminal and cannot find one this size. >>> >>>Is there some way I can tell gnome-terminal to use >>>-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 >>>or, even better, tell gnome to make this font available on the menus? >>> >> I think gnome-terminal only can handle xft-fonts (and that's probably a >> feature)... >> Have you considered trying some older (and not so user friendly) terminal? >> rxvt, xterm, urxvt and aterm are all pretty nice, memory efficent and fast, >> and you can do everything in them that you could in gnome-terminal (well, >> almost) :-) > > I think Oscar is right (about gnome-terminal only supporting XFT fonts). > > For another suggestion for an alternate, you might consider > > multi-gnome-terminal (emerge multi-gnome-terminal) > > which is "based" on gnome-terminal, and has many more features (like > session saving and history saving per terminal tab), despite being > GTK-based rather than GTK2-based. > > I've just checked, and it does definitely accept font specifications in > the form of -*-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*-r-* , so it > might be more like what you're looking for. It's not quite perfect, but > it's pretty close. Thank you all for these suggestions. allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] "6x13" font for gnome-terminal
All my screens are 1600x1200 pixels. Several are reasonably large (~20 inch) lcds and I use what emacs calls a 6x13 font. Its real name is -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 This permits 3 side by side windows (frames in emacs) of 81 columns. I have tried every fixed-width frame I found in the list given for gnome-terminal and cannot find one this size. Is there some way I can tell gnome-terminal to use -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 or, even better, tell gnome to make this font available on the menus? thanks, allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] whither booting into single user mode
At Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:52:24 +0200 Mariusz Pękala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-07-19 14:28:20 -0400 (Tue, Jul), Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> Previously I could boot into single user mode with the following line >> in grub >> >> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.8-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/hdc7 single >> >> After a recent emerge sync and update of world, the above is just a >> normal multiuser boot. >> >> I can use >> >> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.8-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/hdc7 softlevel=single >> >> but this is not the same as booting into single user mode. For >> example, there are virtual terminals, and hitting ^D does not then put >> you into multiuser mode. >> >> I like single user mode for doing (incremental) backups each day >> before logging in. I realize I can write "init.d scripts" and will >> probably do so, but having an interactive shell "on the way up to" >> full multiuser mode seems useful. >> >> Does anyone know the current method of achieving what >> >> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.8-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/hdc7 single >> >> use to do a few weeks ago? >> > > I am not sure and I cannot test it right now, but for last few years if > I was in need of single user mode a kernel parmaeter 's' was doing its job. > > So, check whether: > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.8-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/hdc7 s > works. > It should be the same as 'single' but maybe there is some magic in it ;-) No magic found. > 'man init' has some info about runlevel 'emergency' or '-b' which promises > to enter single user mode without running any scripts from /etc/inittab. > > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.8-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/hdc7 emergency > > I believe that's what you're looking for. This does work, thanks. It is not the same as the old single (or s) as you mention (no scripts run). Thanks for the pointer and tip. allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] whither booting into single user mode
Previously I could boot into single user mode with the following line in grub kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.8-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/hdc7 single After a recent emerge sync and update of world, the above is just a normal multiuser boot. I can use kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.8-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/hdc7 softlevel=single but this is not the same as booting into single user mode. For example, there are virtual terminals, and hitting ^D does not then put you into multiuser mode. I like single user mode for doing (incremental) backups each day before logging in. I realize I can write "init.d scripts" and will probably do so, but having an interactive shell "on the way up to" full multiuser mode seems useful. Does anyone know the current method of achieving what kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.8-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/hdc7 single use to do a few weeks ago? Thanks, allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] most of /usr/portage gone--why? and what now}
At Sun, 17 Jul 2005 03:57:14 +0200 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William Kenworthy schreef: >> If files have gone missing first step is fsck the disk just in case. >> Next emerge sync if it works. (dont use the fancy options until its >> working again.) Done. Fsck clean. Emerge --sync has repopulated /usr/portage ... but it gave an error at the end. Here is the tail of the output 118600 files... Number of files: 118670 Number of files transferred: 98725 Total file size: 93601075 bytes Total transferred file size: 93601075 bytes Literal data: 93601075 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 2882564 Total bytes written: 1974681 Total bytes read: 50760948 wrote 1974681 bytes read 50760948 bytes 259143.14 bytes/sec total size is 93601075 speedup is 1.77 >>> Updating Portage cache: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2705, in ? oldcat = portage.catsplit(cp_list[0])[0] IndexError: list index out of range ajglap ~ # >> Whats "esync" ?? I wouldnt trust it until you know what happened. > > Esync is a part of gentoolkit-- it runs emerge sync and outputs or mails > you the updated package list (new and upgradeable packages). It's really > not dangerous in and of itself. It also runs eupdatedb, which indexes the packages so that a subsequent esearch goes much faster than emerge --search > Isn't what happened that the sync failed before it was able to import > the new portage tree, but after it had removed the old one? That is my theory as well > Afaics, this is one of those "head wound" kinda problems (bleeds a lot > and looks very scary, but not as serious as it seems at first glance). Great description. Thank you both. I am guessing that the the "updating portage cache" error is due to the previous failed emerge --sync. Hence I ran an emerge --metadata This succeeded. I then ran eupdatedb which also succeeded. Running both esearch portage and emerge --ask portage showed that portage was up to date so I then proceeded to emerge --tree --ask --verbose --newuse --update --deep world which showed firefox, glibc, and a few others. This is now chugging along successfully. Thank you again; once once this group has proven to be one of the great gentoo assets. Sincerly, allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] most of /usr/portage gone--why? and what now}
This fine morning I awoke to find that in my fairly new gentoo install nearly all of /usr/portage is gone. bash-2.05b# ls -lA /mnt/gentoo-new/usr/portage total 20 drwxrwsr-x 4 root portage 16384 Jul 12 22:10 distfiles drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 11 23:04 packages bash-2.05b# The distfiles directory has many (appropriate) files and packages has the one package it should. The partition has plenty of room (almost 7GB). I run esync from cron (anacron) when I boot and it failed (see below for the mail sent by anacron) telling me to see emerge-sync.log. Here I see some failures and a statement that a new version of portage is available (again see below). I still have my previous gentoo (using it right now) on a different partition. It started from one of the 2004 profiles, but has been kept up to date until a very few weeks ago when I started cutting over to my new system. I can certainly run an emerge --tree --ask --verbose --newuse --update --deep world but wanted to do as little as possible before asking for advice. My main question is whether I should copy files from the old /usr/portage to the new one or is there better method to proceed. I keep extensive backups of all my files and all of /etc, but do not backup the system files (other than having an older version of gentoo that is kept reasonably up to date). Thanks for any help. allan Mail from anacron concerning today's esync >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jul 16 09:27:45 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Original-To: root Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 0) id 5E33E544B5; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:49:51 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anacron) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Anacron job 'anacron-daily-2' Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:49:51 -0400 (EDT) * Importing old portage tree * Doing '/usr/bin/emerge sync' now * Error: '/usr/bin/emerge sync' failed, see /var/log/emerge-sync.log for errors run-parts: /local/etc/anacron-daily-2/esync-cron exited with return code 1 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jul 16 09:34:29 2005 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Original-To: root Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 0) id 869A7544B7; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 09:34:26 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anacron) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Anacron job 'anacron-daily-2' Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 09:34:26 -0400 (EDT) * Importing old portage tree * Doing '/usr/bin/emerge sync' now * Doing 'eupdatedb' now * esearch-index generated in 1 second(s) * indexed 0 ebuilds * size of esearch-index: 0 kB * Importing new portage tree * Preparing databases * Searching for changes * No updates found Contents of emerge-sync.log rsync: failed to connect to 128.118.99.31: Connection timed out rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(88) == CLARKSON OPEN SOURCE INSTITUTE http://cosi.clarkson.edu == IP: mirror.clarkson.edu rsync10.us.gentoo.org Specs: Sun Ultra60 2 x 296Mhz CPUs 1796 MB RAM 250 GB RAID Storage Bandwidth: 10 Mbit (when limited) User Limit: 35 off-campus connections Location: Clarkson University http://www.clarkson.edu Potsdam, NY USA Contact:[EMAIL PROTECTED] == Welcome to our rsync server. receiving file list ... 1 file to consider Number of files: 1 Number of files transferred: 0 Total file size: 32 bytes Total transferred file size: 0 bytes Literal data: 0 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 32 Total bytes written: 203 Total bytes read: 550 wrote 203 bytes read 550 bytes 301.20 bytes/sec total size is 32 speedup is 0.04 == CLARKSON OPEN SOURCE INSTITUTE http://cosi.clarkson.edu == IP: mirror.clarkson.edu rsync10.us.gentoo.org Specs: Sun Ultra60 2 x 296Mhz CPUs 1796 MB RAM 250 GB RAID Storage Bandwidth: 10 Mbit (when limited) User Limit: 35 off-campus connections Location: Clarkson University http://www.clarkson.edu Potsdam, NY USA Contact:[EMAIL PROTECTED] == Welcome to our rsync server. receiving file list ... 1 file to consider 0 files... Number of files: 1 Number of files transferred: 0 Total file size: 0 bytes Total transferred file size: 0 bytes Literal data: 0 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 20 Total bytes written: 181 Total bytes read: 538 wrote 181 bytes read 538 bytes 287.60 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 >>> starting rsync with rsync://128.118.99.31
Re: [gentoo-user] Interesting install experience
At Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:33:23 +0100 Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> *Very* interesting. Please let us know when the documentation is >> available. I have build everything into the kernel (including alsa) >> and so far it is working well, but I haven't stressed audio. What >> problems should I be looking for and do you advise rebuilding the >> kernel with alsa as modules even if we don't experience trouble with >> everything built in? (I should have said all but nvidia built in). > > It's fine to build ALSA into the kernel if you are happy to configure it, > which usually isn't too much hassle anyway. > > The reasoning behind compiling ALSA as modules is that it then gives you the > option of using 'alsaconf'. > > alsaconf is a great little utility, which, providing you have built the > modules, will configure pretty much any sound card for you, set up the system > for autoloading the relevant modules and saving/restoring volume, and unmuting > the channels. > > I came across it when i was attempting to get an ISA sound card going in an > old computer. It just didn't work when built into the kernel or loading the > module manually. I discovered alsaconf, which did some weird probing, and 20 > secs later informed me of 4 cryptic parameters that were needed to pass to the > module in order to find the sound card, as well as doing everything else I > described above. > > Recently at work, I built *all* alsa drivers as modules, and proceeded to test > 30-40 sound cards that we had lying around. ALSA supported every one of them > that wasn't so broken that it stopped the PC booting, and alsaconf made it > dead easy even with the older PCI cards and the ISA ones too. > > So, the advantage of building ALSA modules is that you can use alsaconf, which > in most cases makes initial configuration a little bit simpler, and in some > cases is a complete lifesaver. thank you for the lucid explanation. > You might be interested in our recently revamped ALSA guide: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml It is indeed much improved since I last used it. > And also, if you are interested in the upcoming kernel config doc, then you > can add yourself to the CC list on http://bugs.gentoo.org/94955 Done. Thanks again, allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Interesting install experience
At Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:58:42 +0100 Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Hatfield wrote: >> BTW, what is the received wistom wrt building things into the >> kernel or building them as modules? As well as the G400 I have >> an Intel NIC and a VIA sound card, and this time round chose to >> build them in, though before I built them as modules. I'm not >> clear as to the pros and cons. > > We are writing documentation on this at the moment. With manual configuration, > build everything into the kernel unless you have a reason *not* to. Build ALSA > (sound) as modules, since the ALSA utilities work better with modules. *Very* interesting. Please let us know when the documentation is available. I have build everything into the kernel (including alsa) and so far it is working well, but I haven't stressed audio. What problems should I be looking for and do you advise rebuilding the kernel with alsa as modules even if we don't experience trouble with everything built in? (I should have said all but nvidia built in). allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 1st Install
At Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:38:43 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 14 July 2005 16:39, Mark Humphrey wrote: >> Hi there >> >> I'm new to Gentoo and I'm currently running WinXP at home. I'd like to >> know how I should go about an installation with release 2005.0 to make >> it a dual boot with XP, but upgrade to KDE 3.4.1? >> > > first, read the instructions on gentoo.org. If you do not want to print > everything, you should at least take some notes. > Read them again, look out for other helpfull guides. > The examples are always helpfull, you might want to write them down, too. > > After that use your favorite partition tool, to make some free space on your > harddisk. PartitionMagic should be able to do this and a lot more. google is > your friend > > Boot from the gentoo cd. Now use cfdisk to make at least two partitions into > the free space, / and /boot. Don't you also need swap? /boot is desirable, but not required. > Do not use PartitionMagic to create the linux-partitions! This will > sometimes cause some very delicate problems. > > After that, install into that partitions like described in the guides. > > Will take 24h- some days, depends on your CPU and ram. Very good advice. Good luck, allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I think I messed up USE flag by using -alsa as Gnome has no sound
At Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:48:01 +1000 Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Have you loaded the newly-compiled alsa driver modules for your sound >>> card, run alsaconf and unmuted the mixer via alsamixer? >>> Holly > > Hi again - I tried > # emerge -s alsa > and got loads of output. Would you know what the correct emerge command is > for the alsa driver modules? Does alsaconf come as part of the driver > install? > > I had installed alsamixer (with -alsa ...) earlier and it loads a blank > interface with no controls at all. > > At this stage I'm doing > # emerge --update --ask --deep --verbose --newuse --tree world One of my favorite commands. > as setting alsa on is asking quite few items to want to recompile. For me, the key to sound was adding "gstreamer" to USE (and then running one of my favorite commands). I use gnome. allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is GNOME_MixerAapplet (SOLVED)
At Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:21:24 +0200 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allan Gottlieb schreef: >> The key seems to be having gstreamer in the USE variable. >> >>> I had this problem as well and i re-emerged gnome-panel and it went >>>away. >>> >>>On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 14:16 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >>> >>>>I just installed a new stage1 gentoo with gnome-2.10. >>>> >>>>It keeps complaining that >>>> >>>> The panel encountered a problem while loading >>>> "OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet". > > In that case, make sure to run > > gstreamer-properties > > to make sure the gstreamer backend is properly configured. That actually was set correctly. Once I installed gstreamer and joined the audio group, all was well. The only somewhat non obvious part was that you need the gstreamer USE variable. Thanks for your help. allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I think I messed up USE flag by using -alsa as Gnome has no sound
At Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:12:53 +1000 Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - I've just finished compiling Gnome and have no sound whatsoever. > Looking at my USE flags I noticed I had inadvertently set -alsa as a flag. > > At this stage I've changed the flag to alsa and re-run genkernel. But still > no sound. Do I have to recompile everything from scratch or have I made an > incorrect diagnosis of the problem? > > As always any help would be appreciated When you change USE flags, you should run emerge --update --newuse world to recompile the affected packages. Actually I run emerge --update --ask --deep --verbose --newuse --tree world allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is GNOME_MixerAapplet
The key seems to be having gstreamer in the USE variable. At Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:58:02 -0500 LostSon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had this problem as well and i re-emerged gnome-panel and it went > away. > > > On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 14:16 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> I just installed a new stage1 gentoo with gnome-2.10. >> >> It keeps complaining that >> >>The panel encountered a problem while loading >>"OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet". -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is GNOME_MixerAapplet
At Sun, 10 Jul 2005 22:52:36 +0200 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allan Gottlieb schreef: >> Mark Knecht suggests just telling gnome to delete the mixer from my >> panel config and install in manually, which I may well do (thanks >> mark). > > I think that's how I fixed it too-- although the gnome mixer isn't all > that useful as a mixer (compared to alsamixer, or gamixer), it is useful > to be sure that *GNOME* is correctly set up for sound (the mixer acts > like the canary in the mines; if it won't load, or errors with the 'no > device found' business, you can be sure that no GNOME/GTK applications > which normally produce sound, will). Good point >> I am sure I can find some mixer somewhere, but would prefer to >> actually find this one. > > Right click on the panel; Add to Panel=>Mixer should be somewhere in the > list; if not, then check in the 'Pre-existing Gnome Packages' section > (but I think it's in the first list). No. It really wasn't there, i.e. the binary wasn't present. I followed your advice and went to bugzilla. This sent me to the forums and the hint that the gstreamer USE is important. I set this and did the requisite emerges. Now sounds do come up but I get the "no device found" you mentioned above. I shall pursue this. The mixer still does not appear when I do "add to panel". I don't see "pre-existing gnome packages". What (and where) is it? > In any case, very few, if any, of the former gnome-applets seem to be > runnable as commands any more. And the most recent gnome-panel (2.10.2) > is so buggy-- even for GNOME-- that I've had to go back to fbpanel, > which at least doesn't crash all the time due to some problem with the > system notification area... instead of getting better (it used to be > that the panel would crash in the mixer applet all the time, until you > got the GNOME backend straightened out, but after that it was pretty > stable-- no more, it seems). So this problem really could be anything, > but I will say that the mixer applet worked fine once I (working from > memory): > > 1) went to the GNOME control panel and made sure esd was set to start at > GNOME login, which I believe also needed > > 2) the esound daemon running in the default runlevel > > and then > > 3) deleted and re-added the mixer applet. > > Problem was I didn't really want to be running the Enlightened Sound > Daemon, so I somehow or other reconfigured everything to be ALSA instead > (took esound out of the default runlevel, and *thought* I told GNOME not > to start esd at startup, but it persists in doing so, went to the GNOME > Control Panel=>Multimedia and Sound, and mucked about with the sources > and sinks until I could at least get test sounds), and the mixer applet > continued to work (although the panel itself was notoriously unstable). > If you can follow all that ... it was a bit of a trial. Hope it's > helpful. Helpful, as always ... and as always, thanks. allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Where is GNOME_MixerAapplet
I just installed a new stage1 gentoo with gnome-2.10. It keeps complaining that The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet". I have emerged gnome-light, gnome-audio, gnome-alsamixer, and gnome-applets, but cannot find the gnome mixer applet. Can anyone tell me where it is? Thanks, allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is GNOME_MixerAapplet
At Sun, 10 Jul 2005 20:35:10 +0100 Edward Catmur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 14:51 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> I just installed a new stage1 gentoo with gnome-2.10. >> >> It keeps complaining that >> >>The panel encountered a problem while loading >>"OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet". >> >> I have emerged gnome-light, gnome-audio, gnome-alsamixer, and >> gnome-applets, but cannot find the gnome mixer applet. Can anyone >> tell me where it is? > > GNOME_MixerApplet belongs to gnome-applets, actually. Thanks for the confirmation, but it isn't there as far as I can tell. In my old gnome-2.8 bash-2.05b# ls /usr/libexec/mi* /usr/libexec/mini_commander_applet /usr/libexec/mixer_applet2 bash-2.05b# But in my new gnome-2.10 bash-2.05b# ls /mnt/gentoo-new/usr/libexec/mi* /mnt/gentoo-new/usr/libexec/mini_commander_applet bash-2.05b# Mark Knecht suggests just telling gnome to delete the mixer from my panel config and install in manually, which I may well do (thanks mark). I am sure I can find some mixer somewhere, but would prefer to actually find this one. This seems to be a bug. Should I file it with gentoo (perhaps bad packaging) or with gnome? Thanks again to both of you. allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Where is GNOME_MixerAapplet
I just installed a new stage1 gentoo with gnome-2.10. It keeps complaining that The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet". I have emerged gnome-light, gnome-audio, gnome-alsamixer, and gnome-applets, but cannot find the gnome mixer applet. Can anyone tell me where it is? Thanks, allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-Up sys-lib/ss breaks Apps
At Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:47:51 -0500 kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Bickers wrote: >> On Fri July 8 2005 01:38 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: >> >>>Which is a huge bummer since most of us don't go checking the ebuilds >>>for these specific lines. How I wish It would just abort and BLAST the >>>Einfo on the screen for me to see the next day and decide to do it >>>manually. >> I have this concern as well. Also, when emerging multiple packages, >> the helpful and sometimes necessary output at the end of each merge >> is easily missed as the next package begins. It would be nice to at >> least have these messages logged somewhere. Are they? Can they be >> without patching portage? >> > mkdir /var/log/portage > echo "PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage" >> /etc/make.conf Although I didn't check this particular case, it is normally true that emerge generates *two* logs in the directory for each build. The large one contains the normal stuff (e.g., compiler output); the small one contains the important tidbits such as those mentioned above. allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] stage1 vs. stage3 was Re: [gentoo-user] installation failure (libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed during emerge --emptytree)
At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:38:13 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >> It is the part where the differences between the stages are described. >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=2#doc_chap2 >> >> It is not wrong as it only mentions tweaking initial settings, but I >> would say that a normal reading is that stage gives you less ability >> to tweak the *final* system even though this is not stated. >> >> allan >> >> Stage2 Pros and Cons >> +You can still tweak your settings >> -You cannot tweak as much as with a stage1 >> >> A Stage3 Approach >> >> Stage3 Pros and Cons >> +Fastest way to get a Gentoo base system >> -You cannot tweak the base system - it's built already >> > > IMO it's misleading where it says "cannot" for stage2 and > stage3. That is too harsh of a word. Like I mentioned before, > "emerge -e world" rebuilds *everything* so that all your tweaks will > be actualized. It could miss some packages but you can get those > with "emerge -a depclean". Agreed. allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] stage1 vs. stage3 was Re: [gentoo-user] installation failure (libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed during emerge --emptytree)
At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:09:34 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:32:00 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>Allan Gottlieb wrote: >>> >>>>The handbook suggests that with stage3, you can't tweak all the >>>>settings. Can you change CFLAGS and then bootstrap gcc and glibc? >>> >>>You can tweak all you want with a stage3 except for CHOST. An >>>"emerge -e world" will always actualize all of your tweaks. You can >>>tweak your own stage3 if you build it yourself with catalyst. >> >> >> I see. If the compiler source changes (say a better optimization), >> you need to compile it twice; but if we just change flags, compiling >> once is sufficient. >> >> It appears the handbook is misleading in describing the differences >> between the stages. >> >> allan > > Can you point out which part of the handbook is misleading? This > part about the CHOST seems pretty clear to me: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=5#doc_chap5_sect2 It is the part where the differences between the stages are described. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=2#doc_chap2 It is not wrong as it only mentions tweaking initial settings, but I would say that a normal reading is that stage gives you less ability to tweak the *final* system even though this is not stated. allan Stage1 Pros and Cons + Allows you to have total control over the optimization settings and optional build-time functionality that is initially enabled on your system + Suitable for powerusers that know what they are doing + Allows you to learn more about the inner workings of Gentoo - Takes a long time to finish the installation - If you don't intend to tweak the settings, it is a waste of time - Requires a working Internet connection during the installation A Stage2 Approach A stage2 is used for building the entire system from a bootstrapped "semi-compiled" state. Stage2 installs allow you to skip the bootstrap process; doing this is fine if you are happy with the optimization settings that we chose for your particular stage2 tarball. Stage2 Pros and Cons + You don't need to bootstrap + Faster than starting with stage1 + You can still tweak your settings - You cannot tweak as much as with a stage1 - It's still not the fastest way to install Gentoo - You have to accept the optimizations we chose for the bootstrap - Requires a working Internet connection during the installation A Stage3 Approach A stage3 installation contains a basic Gentoo Linux system that has been built for you. You will only need to build a few packages of which we can't decide for you which one to choose. Choosing to go with a stage3 allows for the fastest install of Gentoo Linux, but also means that your base system will have the optimization settings that we chose for you (which to be honest, are good settings and were carefully chosen to enhance performance while maintaining stability). Stage3 is also required if you want to install Gentoo using prebuilt packages or without a network connection. Stage3 Pros and Cons + Fastest way to get a Gentoo base system - You cannot tweak the base system - it's built already -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] stage1 vs. stage3 was Re: [gentoo-user] installation failure (libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed during emerge --emptytree)
At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:32:00 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >> The handbook suggests that with stage3, you can't tweak all the >> settings. Can you change CFLAGS and then bootstrap gcc and glibc? > > You can tweak all you want with a stage3 except for CHOST. An > "emerge -e world" will always actualize all of your tweaks. You can > tweak your own stage3 if you build it yourself with catalyst. I see. If the compiler source changes (say a better optimization), you need to compile it twice; but if we just change flags, compiling once is sufficient. It appears the handbook is misleading in describing the differences between the stages. allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] installation failure (libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed during emerge --emptytree)
At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:59:30 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> This failed as well. When trying to emerge automake, >> /usr/bin/autoconf is needed (see below). I could copy >> /usr/bin/autoconf from my current gentoo to this new one, but I would >> like to do a "clean" install. Should I get a new stage1 file and >> start over? > > I recommend a stage3 install to everyone unless you can't get a > stage3 for your CHOST. IMO the progression from stage1 to stage3 is > best handled by catalyst. Perhaps this is sound pragmatic advice and, if I didn't have a fully functional gentoo on which to run, I would adopt it. However, I am somewhat bitten by the "do-it-from-scratch" bug (not enough to actually use linuxfromscratch) and would like to see what went wrong so I will try again from stage1. The handbook suggests that with stage3, you can't tweak all the settings. Can you change CFLAGS and then bootstrap gcc and glibc? thanks, allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] installation failure (libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed during emerge --emptytree)
At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:44:04 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >> /usr/bin/autoconf did not exist. Indeed as shown below a number of >> files need to be emerged. I have started the emerge and will then >> redo >>emerge --emptytree system >> >> My question now is what went wrong. That is, why didn't I have >> autoconf after the bootstrap or why didn't the >> emerge --emptytree system >> bring it in before it was needed? >> >> thanks again, >> allan >> > > Good question. My best guess is that you deviated from the handbook > or simply borked something somehow. Then again, maybe it's a bug > that can be reproduced. Anyone? I agree that it is most likely operator error. The only thing I (knowingly) did slightly different from the base install is that I am installing on a clean partition but did *not* do a mkfs. The partition to hold my new gentoo (/dev/hdc3, the only hard disk is hdc) is my current "active partition", i.e. grub is in its boot block. I wish to continue using this boot block (I dual boot windows to (shamefully) play diablo II; and have had trouble in the past with windows so try to not affect anything it its path to booting). Note that with this new installation I have *not* yet reached the point of configuring the kernel or installing grub. What I do is remove all the directories (and "hidden" files) except for boot and rename boot to boot-old. Then I bring in stage1 and unpack. When I want to reboot into my old system I move the boot from the stage1 unpack to boot-new and move boot-old to boot. I don't see how this could affect /usr/bin/autoconf but of course finger slips can occur. Anyway I will try again and will check at various points if /usr/bin/autoconf exists. Thanks again for your help. allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] installation failure (libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed during emerge --emptytree)
At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:32:23 -0400 Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:14:37 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Allan Gottlieb wrote: >>> I am installing 2005.0 onto an empty partition. The bootstrap from >>> stage 1 to stage 2 went fine, but >>> emerge --emptytree system >>> failed as shown below. >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any help. >>> >>> allan >>> >>> >>>>>>emerge (37 of 173) dev-libs/libgpg-error-1.0-r1 to / >>>>>>Downloading http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/libgpg-error-1.0.tar.gz >>> >>> --22:06:28-- http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/libgpg-error-1.0.tar.gz >>>=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/libgpg-error-1.0.tar.gz' >>> Resolving gentoo.osuosl.org... 140.211.166.134 >>> Connecting to gentoo.osuosl.org[140.211.166.134]:80... connected. >>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK >>> Length: 323,724 [application/x-gzip] >>> >>> 100%[>] 323,724 49.55K/sETA >>> 00:00 >>> >>> 22:06:35 (44.20 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/libgpg-error-1.0.tar.gz' >>> saved [323724/323724] >>> >>> >>>>>>md5 files ;-) libgpg-error-0.7-r1.ebuild >>>>>>md5 files ;-) libgpg-error-1.0.ebuild >>>>>>md5 files ;-) libgpg-error-1.0-r1.ebuild >>>>>>md5 files ;-) libgpg-error-0.6-r1.ebuild >>>>>>md5 files ;-) ChangeLog >>>>>>md5 files ;-) metadata.xml >>>>>>md5 files ;-) files/digest-libgpg-error-1.0 >>>>>>md5 files ;-) files/libgpg-error-1.0-locale.h.patch >>>>>>md5 files ;-) files/digest-libgpg-error-0.6-r1 >>>>>>md5 files ;-) files/digest-libgpg-error-0.7-r1 >>>>>>md5 files ;-) files/digest-libgpg-error-1.0-r1 >>>>>>md5 src_uri ;-) libgpg-error-1.0.tar.gz >>>>>>Unpacking source... >>>>>>Unpacking libgpg-error-1.0.tar.gz to >>>>>>/var/tmp/portage/libgpg-error-1.0-r1/work >>> >>> * Applying libgpg-error-1.0-locale.h.patch ... [ >>> ok ]env: autoconf: No such file or directory >>> >>> !!! ERROR: dev-libs/libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed. >>> !!! Function src_unpack, Line 27, Exitcode 127 >>> !!! autoconf failed >>> !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status >>> message. >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/portage # >> >> >> Does /usr/bin/autoconf exist? >> >> emerge autoconf-wrapper >> >> Zac >> -- >> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > Thank you zac. > > /usr/bin/autoconf did not exist. Indeed as shown below a number of > files need to be emerged. I have started the emerge and will then > redo >emerge --emptytree system > > My question now is what went wrong. That is, why didn't I have > autoconf after the bootstrap or why didn't the > emerge --emptytree system > bring it in before it was needed? > > thanks again, > allan > > > > ajglap / # emerge --verbose --ask autoconf-wrapper > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild N] dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5 -debug -hardened 411 kB > [ebuild N] sys-apps/miscfiles-1.4.2 -minimal 1,489 kB > [ebuild N] sys-libs/cracklib-2.7-r11 -debug -minimal +pam 20 kB > [ebuild N] sys-devel/automake-1.5 514 kB > [ebuild N] sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r3 647 kB > [ebuild N] sys-devel/automake-1.6.3 465 kB > [ebuild N] sys-devel/automake-1.7.9-r1 564 kB > [ebuild N] sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6 366 kB > [ebuild N] sys-devel/automake-wrapper-1-r1 0 kB > [ebuild N] sys-devel/automake-1.9.5 740 kB > [ebuild N] sys-libs/pam-0.77-r6 +berkdb -debug -pwdb (-selinux) 3,552 kB > [ebuild N] sys-apps/pam-login-3.14 -livecd +nls (-selinux) 137 kB > [ebuild N] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.5-r3 -debug +nls +pam (-selinux) -skey > 988 kB > [ebuild N] sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r6 903 kB > [ebuild N] sys-devel/autoconf-2.13 433 kB > [ebuild N] sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-2-r1 0 kB > > Total size of downloads: 11,234 kB > > Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list This failed as well. When trying to
Re: [gentoo-user] installation failure (libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed during emerge --emptytree)
At Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:14:37 -0700 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> I am installing 2005.0 onto an empty partition. The bootstrap from >> stage 1 to stage 2 went fine, but >> emerge --emptytree system >> failed as shown below. >> >> Thanks in advance for any help. >> >> allan >> >> >>>>>emerge (37 of 173) dev-libs/libgpg-error-1.0-r1 to / >>>>>Downloading http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/libgpg-error-1.0.tar.gz >> >> --22:06:28-- http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/libgpg-error-1.0.tar.gz >>=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/libgpg-error-1.0.tar.gz' >> Resolving gentoo.osuosl.org... 140.211.166.134 >> Connecting to gentoo.osuosl.org[140.211.166.134]:80... connected. >> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK >> Length: 323,724 [application/x-gzip] >> >> 100%[>] 323,724 49.55K/sETA >> 00:00 >> >> 22:06:35 (44.20 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/libgpg-error-1.0.tar.gz' >> saved [323724/323724] >> >> >>>>>md5 files ;-) libgpg-error-0.7-r1.ebuild >>>>>md5 files ;-) libgpg-error-1.0.ebuild >>>>>md5 files ;-) libgpg-error-1.0-r1.ebuild >>>>>md5 files ;-) libgpg-error-0.6-r1.ebuild >>>>>md5 files ;-) ChangeLog >>>>>md5 files ;-) metadata.xml >>>>>md5 files ;-) files/digest-libgpg-error-1.0 >>>>>md5 files ;-) files/libgpg-error-1.0-locale.h.patch >>>>>md5 files ;-) files/digest-libgpg-error-0.6-r1 >>>>>md5 files ;-) files/digest-libgpg-error-0.7-r1 >>>>>md5 files ;-) files/digest-libgpg-error-1.0-r1 >>>>>md5 src_uri ;-) libgpg-error-1.0.tar.gz >>>>>Unpacking source... >>>>>Unpacking libgpg-error-1.0.tar.gz to >>>>>/var/tmp/portage/libgpg-error-1.0-r1/work >> >> * Applying libgpg-error-1.0-locale.h.patch ... [ >> ok ]env: autoconf: No such file or directory >> >> !!! ERROR: dev-libs/libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed. >> !!! Function src_unpack, Line 27, Exitcode 127 >> !!! autoconf failed >> !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status >> message. >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/portage # > > > Does /usr/bin/autoconf exist? > > emerge autoconf-wrapper > > Zac > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Thank you zac. /usr/bin/autoconf did not exist. Indeed as shown below a number of files need to be emerged. I have started the emerge and will then redo emerge --emptytree system My question now is what went wrong. That is, why didn't I have autoconf after the bootstrap or why didn't the emerge --emptytree system bring it in before it was needed? thanks again, allan ajglap / # emerge --verbose --ask autoconf-wrapper These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5 -debug -hardened 411 kB [ebuild N] sys-apps/miscfiles-1.4.2 -minimal 1,489 kB [ebuild N] sys-libs/cracklib-2.7-r11 -debug -minimal +pam 20 kB [ebuild N] sys-devel/automake-1.5 514 kB [ebuild N] sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r3 647 kB [ebuild N] sys-devel/automake-1.6.3 465 kB [ebuild N] sys-devel/automake-1.7.9-r1 564 kB [ebuild N] sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6 366 kB [ebuild N] sys-devel/automake-wrapper-1-r1 0 kB [ebuild N] sys-devel/automake-1.9.5 740 kB [ebuild N] sys-libs/pam-0.77-r6 +berkdb -debug -pwdb (-selinux) 3,552 kB [ebuild N] sys-apps/pam-login-3.14 -livecd +nls (-selinux) 137 kB [ebuild N] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.5-r3 -debug +nls +pam (-selinux) -skey 988 kB [ebuild N] sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r6 903 kB [ebuild N] sys-devel/autoconf-2.13 433 kB [ebuild N] sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-2-r1 0 kB Total size of downloads: 11,234 kB Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] installation failure (libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed during emerge --emptytree)
I am installing 2005.0 onto an empty partition. The bootstrap from stage 1 to stage 2 went fine, but emerge --emptytree system failed as shown below. Thanks in advance for any help. allan >>> emerge (37 of 173) dev-libs/libgpg-error-1.0-r1 to / >>> Downloading http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/libgpg-error-1.0.tar.gz --22:06:28-- http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/libgpg-error-1.0.tar.gz => `/usr/portage/distfiles/libgpg-error-1.0.tar.gz' Resolving gentoo.osuosl.org... 140.211.166.134 Connecting to gentoo.osuosl.org[140.211.166.134]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 323,724 [application/x-gzip] 100%[>] 323,724 49.55K/sETA 00:00 22:06:35 (44.20 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/libgpg-error-1.0.tar.gz' saved [323724/323724] >>> md5 files ;-) libgpg-error-0.7-r1.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) libgpg-error-1.0.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) libgpg-error-1.0-r1.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) libgpg-error-0.6-r1.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) ChangeLog >>> md5 files ;-) metadata.xml >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-libgpg-error-1.0 >>> md5 files ;-) files/libgpg-error-1.0-locale.h.patch >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-libgpg-error-0.6-r1 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-libgpg-error-0.7-r1 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-libgpg-error-1.0-r1 >>> md5 src_uri ;-) libgpg-error-1.0.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking libgpg-error-1.0.tar.gz to >>> /var/tmp/portage/libgpg-error-1.0-r1/work * Applying libgpg-error-1.0-locale.h.patch ... [ ok ]env: autoconf: No such file or directory !!! ERROR: dev-libs/libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed. !!! Function src_unpack, Line 27, Exitcode 127 !!! autoconf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/portage # -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] difficulty installing gentoo on AMD sempron
At Sat, 04 Jun 2005 18:54:21 -0700 (PDT) Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thanks Zac, I was having the same problem and this >> fixed it for me. It >> makes me wonder why was this necessary? > > The bootstrap script probably works fine with the > 2005.0 portage snapshot. Apparenly there's a bug when > the script upgrades the compiler to a new version. I agree. Should I file a bug (I was the OP)? It seems unfortunate to have problems in the initial install. I know that gcc-config can be needed when you upgrade gcc. If this problem can't be fixed in the bootstrap script, perhaps the handbook can give a warning. Thanks for your advice to try gcc-config. It fixed the problem. allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] difficulty installing gentoo on AMD sempron
I have installed gentoo a few times without difficulty, but always on
pentium 4s. My son is installing it on an AMD sempron and we are
having trouble involving i686 vs i386.
In make.conf we have
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -pipe -O2"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPT="-j2"
PORT_LOGDIR="/var/log/portage"
We used the install-x86-minimal-2005.0.iso live CD
and downloaded
stage1-x86-20005.0.tar.bz2
We unpacked the tar and ran bootstrap.sh
The compile of glibc fails trying to access the file
/etc/env.d/gcc/i386-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5
The file does not exist. Instead we have the file
/etc/env.d/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-20050130
The directory /etc/env.d/gcc also contains two config files
config
and
config-i386-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5
These files are identical and contain one line
CURRENT=i386-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5
I realize that the bootstrap builds the compiler twice and we did
define PORT_LOGDIR, but I don't have the machine available now. If it
is needed to send some output from one of the logs that can be done.
Thanks in advance,
allan
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