Re: [gentoo-user] need help with amdgpu driver

[Björn Fischer]

Klaus,

[    0.760009] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: RAS: optional ras ta ucode 
is not available
[    0.767012] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: RAP: optional rap ta ucode 
is not available
[    0.767016] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: SECUREDISPLAY: securedisplay 
ta ucode is not available


It seems I made a step forward  and I will try to get get X11 up next.


yep, that is normal.

The firmware for encrypted display connection is not released yet.

Cheers,
Björn

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with amdgpu driver

[Klaus Dittrich]

On 27.01.23 16:05, Klaus Dittrich wrote:

On 27.01.23 15:30, Julien Roy wrote:

Klaus Dittrich  writes:

as I do not use a initrd or initramfs I am, as far as I know, forced
to compile the driver amdgpu into the kernel, not as modules to be
loaded.


No, you can use modules even without an initrd.


I looked at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Amdgpu#Unknown_firmware_blobs
but I still do not know what name is relevant to the built-in-gpu
of a AMD-7900X  processor.(!?)

Does this gpu really needs all these blobs of the list there?


No, these blobs are given as examples. They vary per GPU models and in
fact there are several hundred different blobs available:

ls -l /lib/firmware/amdgpu | wc -l
479

So you have to figure out which ones you need. The easiest method is to
let the kernel load them itself by having the driver built as a module,
otherwise it may take several iterations of modifying the
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE value until you get it to work.



Julien and Peter,

now I (assume I) understand what you mean.

The kernel needs the entries to CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE
just for drivers to be compiled in and for modules just
to reduce the seeking  in /lib/firmware/amdgpu ?

So when I set CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU=m and then look at dmesg
of the so compiled kernel it detects the type of
hardware I have (here the type of the cpu-built-in gpui
and tells me (via dmesg) which blobs  are needed
to satisfy the driver for the hardware it has detected.

I will try that, moment please ..


Julien and Peter,

I got no errors or messages form dmesg saying that some blobs
are missed.
I got some console messsages written in an very big font-
So I compiled the the kernel again with AMDGPU=y this time
and now I got  all the messages of the kernel boot
in normal fonts (my screen is 3840x2160).

dmesg:
[0.666078] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: Fetched VBIOS from VFCT
[0.666079] amdgpu: ATOM BIOS: 102-RAPHAEL-008
[0.666084] [drm] VCN(0) decode is enabled in VM mode
[0.666085] [drm] VCN(0) encode is enabled in VM mode
[0.666087] amdgpu :0d:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console
[0.666089] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: Trusted Memory Zone (TMZ) 
feature not supported

[0.666091] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: PCIE atomic ops is not supported
[0.666299] [drm] vm size is 262144 GB, 4 levels, block size is 
9-bit, fragment size is 9-bit
[0.666303] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: VRAM: 512M 
0x00F4 - 0x00F41FFF (512M used)
[0.666305] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: GART: 1024M 
0x - 0x3FFF
[0.666307] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: AGP: 267419648M 
0x00F8 - 0x

[0.666311] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=512M, BAR=512M
[0.666312] [drm] RAM width 128bits DDR5
[0.666327] [drm] amdgpu: 512M of VRAM memory ready
[0.666329] [drm] amdgpu: 31782M of GTT memory ready.
[0.666525] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 262144, num gpu pages 262144
[0.39] [drm] PCIE GART of 1024M enabled (table at 
0x00F41FC0).
[0.666963] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: PSP runtime database doesn't 
exist
[0.666967] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: PSP runtime database doesn't 
exist

[0.667073] [drm] Loading DMUB firmware via PSP: version=0x05000500
[0.668329] [drm] use_doorbell being set to: [true]
[0.668408] [drm] Found VCN firmware Version ENC: 1.24 DEC: 2 VEP: 0 
Revision: 0
[0.668411] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: Will use PSP to load VCN 
firmware

[0.691438] [drm] reserve 0xa0 from 0xf41e00 for PSP TMR
[0.760009] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: RAS: optional ras ta ucode 
is not available
[0.767012] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: RAP: optional rap ta ucode 
is not available
[0.767016] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: SECUREDISPLAY: securedisplay 
ta ucode is not available
[0.767276] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: smu driver if version = 
0x0004, smu fw if version = 0x0005, smu fw program = 0, smu fw 
version = 0x00544fcc (84.79.204)

[0.768927] [drm] Display Core initialized with v3.2.207!
[0.769472] [drm] DMUB hardware initialized: version=0x05000500
[0.815836] amdgpu :0d:00.0: adding component (ops 
0x827288f0)

[0.816440] device: 'i2c-0': device_add
[0.816442] bus: 'i2c': add device i2c-0
[0.843548] device: 'i2c-1': device_add
[0.843549] bus: 'i2c': add device i2c-1
[0.843778] device: 'i2c-2': device_add
[0.843778] bus: 'i2c': add device i2c-2
[0.843809] device: 'i2c-3': device_add
[0.843810] bus: 'i2c': add device i2c-3
[0.88] [drm] kiq ring mec 2 pipe 1 q 0
[0.846850] [drm] VCN decode and encode initialized 
successfully(under DPG Mode).

[0.847968] kfd kfd: amdgpu: Allocated 3969056 bytes on gart
[0.848003] amdgpu: sdma_bitmap: 3
[0.848271] amdgpu: Virtual CRAT table created for GPU
[0.848480] amdgpu: Topology: Add dGPU node [0x164e:0x1002]
[0.848482] kfd kfd: amdgpu: added device 1002:164e
[0.848489] 

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with amdgpu driver

[Klaus Dittrich]

On 27.01.23 15:30, Julien Roy wrote:

Klaus Dittrich  writes:

as I do not use a initrd or initramfs I am, as far as I know, forced
to compile the driver amdgpu into the kernel, not as modules to be
loaded.


No, you can use modules even without an initrd.


I looked at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Amdgpu#Unknown_firmware_blobs
but I still do not know what name is relevant to the built-in-gpu
of a AMD-7900X  processor.(!?)

Does this gpu really needs all these blobs of the list there?


No, these blobs are given as examples. They vary per GPU models and in
fact there are several hundred different blobs available:

ls -l /lib/firmware/amdgpu | wc -l
479

So you have to figure out which ones you need. The easiest method is to
let the kernel load them itself by having the driver built as a module,
otherwise it may take several iterations of modifying the
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE value until you get it to work.



Julien and Peter,

now I (assume I) understand what you mean.

The kernel needs the entries to CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE
just for drivers to be compiled in and for modules just
to reduce the seeking  in /lib/firmware/amdgpu ?

So when I set CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU=m and then look at dmesg
of the so compiled kernel it detects the type of
hardware I have (here the type of the cpu-built-in gpui
and tells me (via dmesg) which blobs  are needed
to satisfy the driver for the hardware it has detected.

I will try that, moment please ..
--
Regars Klaus

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with amdgpu driver

[Julien Roy]

Klaus Dittrich  writes:
> as I do not use a initrd or initramfs I am, as far as I know, forced
> to compile the driver amdgpu into the kernel, not as modules to be
> loaded.

No, you can use modules even without an initrd.

> I looked at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Amdgpu#Unknown_firmware_blobs
> but I still do not know what name is relevant to the built-in-gpu
> of a AMD-7900X  processor.(!?)
>
> Does this gpu really needs all these blobs of the list there?
>
No, these blobs are given as examples. They vary per GPU models and in
fact there are several hundred different blobs available:

ls -l /lib/firmware/amdgpu | wc -l
479

So you have to figure out which ones you need. The easiest method is to
let the kernel load them itself by having the driver built as a module,
otherwise it may take several iterations of modifying the
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE value until you get it to work.

-- 
Regards,
Julien


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Re: [gentoo-user] need help with amdgpu driver

[Björn Fischer]

Hi Klaus,

CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam19h.bin 
amdgpu/psp_13_0_5_toc.bin"

CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware"

[...]
What firmware blobs of linux-firmware has to be installed  to support 
the gpu of a  ryzen-7900X?

CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=?

I do not use initrd nor initramfs and all neccessary drivers
are not installed as modules but compiled into the kernel.


like you, I also use amdgpu hardcompiled into the kernel. It seems to be
safe to include _all_ blobs in /lib/firmware/amdgpu. Then you can boot
that kernel and check which blobs are actually necessary just by
grepping though dmesg. Then you can boil down CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE to
that set.

This worked with several different AMD GPUs, RX 7900 included, but I
never tried an integrated GPU/APU.

Cheers
Björn

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with amdgpu driver

[Julien Roy]

Hello Klaus,

Klaus Dittrich  writes:

>
> The error happens with and without "amdgpu/psp_13_0_5_ta.bin" in
> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE as I discoverd meanwqhile.

Your issue is most likely that you are missing firmware in the
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE setting. In my case there at 10 firmware blobs
that I need in the kernel.

Have you read the AMDGPU page on the Gentoo Wiki? Particularly the part
about incorporating firmware blobs in the kernel?
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Amdgpu#Unknown_firmware_blobs

What I suggest is you change the AMDGPU driver back to a module rather
than built it, and reboot once. Check DMESG (as explain in the link
above) and it will show you every firmware that is loaded during boot.
What that information you can update your CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE
parameter with the proper values and put the AMDGPU driver back to built-in.

-- 
Regards,
Julien


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Re: [gentoo-user] need help with amdgpu driver

[Klaus Dittrich]

On 27.01.23 12:17, Peter Böhm wrote:

Hello Klaus,

have you made your kernel again after changing EXTRA_FIRMWARE ?

Maybe you want read this:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger/Tutorials/
Manual_kernel_configuration#Driver_needs_Firmware

Greetings,
Peter

Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2023, 11:08:58 CET schrieb Klaus Dittrich:

I it possible that a that moment the kernel cannot get blobs
because the ext4 filesystem is not mounted already?
So does one have to use initrd to get the blobs loaded?

What is the meaning of "failed with error -2"?







Peter,
thanks for your answer.

Sure, the machine is fast so a recompilation of the kernel is no
problem.

The error happens with and without "amdgpu/psp_13_0_5_ta.bin" in
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE as I discoverd meanwqhile.

--
Regards Klaus

Re: [gentoo-user] need help with amdgpu driver

[Peter Böhm]

Hello Klaus,

have you made your kernel again after changing EXTRA_FIRMWARE ?

Maybe you want read this:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger/Tutorials/
Manual_kernel_configuration#Driver_needs_Firmware

Greetings,
Peter

Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2023, 11:08:58 CET schrieb Klaus Dittrich:
> I it possible that a that moment the kernel cannot get blobs
> because the ext4 filesystem is not mounted already?
> So does one have to use initrd to get the blobs loaded?
>
> What is the meaning of "failed with error -2"?

[gentoo-user] need help with amdgpu driver

[Klaus Dittrich]

I have a ryzen-7900X cpu but I cannot get the amdgpu driver up and 
running with my kernel 6.1.8 (uefi system)



These are the errors dmesg shows:

[0.668913] [drm] amdgpu: 512M of VRAM memory ready
[0.668915] [drm] amdgpu: 31783M of GTT memory ready.
[0.669819] amdgpu :0d:00.0: Direct firmware load for 
amdgpu/psp_13_0_5_ta.bin failed with error -2

[0.669823] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: fail to initialize ta microcode
[0.669828] [drm:amdgpu_device_init.cold] *ERROR* sw_init of IP block 
 failed -2

[0.669831] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: amdgpu_device_ip_init failed
[0.669833] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: Fatal error during GPU init
[0.669834] amdgpu :0d:00.0: amdgpu: amdgpu: finishing device.
[0.670042] amdgpu: probe of :0d:00.0 failed with error -2
[0.670046] amdgpu :0d:00.0: devm_attr_group_remove: removing 
group (ptrval)

[0.670052] [drm] amdgpu: ttm finalized
[0.907335] bus: 'pci': add driver pcie_mp2_amd
[0.907411] bus: 'platform': add driver amd_pmc
[1.007964] amd_hsmp: HSMP is not supported on Fam:19 model:61
[1.007967] amd_hsmp: Or Is HSMP disabled in BIOS ?
[1.007968] bus: 'platform': add driver amd-pmf


This is my .config
#
# Firmware loader
#
CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_PAGED_BUF=y
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam19h.bin 
amdgpu/psp_13_0_5_toc.bin"

CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware"
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=y
# CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK is not set
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS=y
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS_XZ=y
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS_ZSTD=y
# CONFIG_FW_UPLOAD is not set
# end of Firmware loader


I do not even get a console because of amdgpu gets not loaded.

But I can log into the system via ssh because the system is
a copy of my well running mbr system.

My questions are:

What firmware blobs of linux-firmware has to be installed  to support 
the gpu of a  ryzen-7900X?

CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=?

I do not use initrd nor initramfs and all neccessary drivers
are not installed as modules but compiled into the kernel.

I it possible that a that moment the kernel cannot get blobs
because the ext4 filesystem is not mounted already?
So does one have to use initrd to get the blobs loaded?

What is the meaning of "failed with error -2"?


--
regards Klaus

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help to compile a minimal wine

[tuxic]

On 09/23 06:39, R0b0t1 wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 1:21 PM,   wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to compile wine to execute a single commandline tool.
> > That's it.
> >
> > The commandline tool is the AVR-assembler made by ATmel to recompile
> > a FORTH interpreter for the AVR-line of microcontrollers of
> > ATMEL/Micorchip:
> >
> 
> Are you sure you need the assembler as released by Atmel? Most of
> their development work seems to have gone to AVR-GCC. Is the syntax of
> avrasm2 unique and are there any features that are not implemented in
> GNU as?
> 
> > avrasm2.exe: PE32 executable (console) Intel 80386, for MS Windows
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > (My system is not multilib.)
> >
> 
> As "WINE is Not an Emulator" it seems to me like you will either need
> to reinstall as a multilib system, or set up an x86 chroot or
> container to run the assembler.
> 
> There is a small possibility that WINE's WOW64 support (the thing that
> runs Win32 executables on Win64) does not require multilib, but if so
> then they would have needed to reimplement large parts of multilib and
> certain kernel facilities. It does not seem likely that they would
> have done this.
> 
> Looking at https://wiki.winehq.org/Building_Wine#Shared_WoW64 it seems
> like there is an implicit dependency on a multlib system. Most Linux
> distributions are multilib, likely because it is necessary to support
> many closed source Linux programs.
> 
> Cheers,
>  R0b0t1
> 


Yes, unfortunately I am sure that I need the ATmel-thingy...

Amforth as Flashforth are written in ATmel Assembler and based
on/compiled with avrasm2...I talked to the developers in beforehand.

How can I compile a minimal wine (as described) for my puposes?

Cheers
Meino

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help to compile a minimal wine

[R0b0t1]

On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 1:21 PM,   wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to compile wine to execute a single commandline tool.
> That's it.
>
> The commandline tool is the AVR-assembler made by ATmel to recompile
> a FORTH interpreter for the AVR-line of microcontrollers of
> ATMEL/Micorchip:
>

Are you sure you need the assembler as released by Atmel? Most of
their development work seems to have gone to AVR-GCC. Is the syntax of
avrasm2 unique and are there any features that are not implemented in
GNU as?

> avrasm2.exe: PE32 executable (console) Intel 80386, for MS Windows
>
> [...]
>
> (My system is not multilib.)
>

As "WINE is Not an Emulator" it seems to me like you will either need
to reinstall as a multilib system, or set up an x86 chroot or
container to run the assembler.

There is a small possibility that WINE's WOW64 support (the thing that
runs Win32 executables on Win64) does not require multilib, but if so
then they would have needed to reimplement large parts of multilib and
certain kernel facilities. It does not seem likely that they would
have done this.

Looking at https://wiki.winehq.org/Building_Wine#Shared_WoW64 it seems
like there is an implicit dependency on a multlib system. Most Linux
distributions are multilib, likely because it is necessary to support
many closed source Linux programs.

Cheers,
 R0b0t1

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help to compile a minimal wine

[Christoph Böhmwalder]

Hi Meino,

I haven't tried this, but may I ask why you're not using the ATmel AVR 
Toolchain [0] that's readily available for Linux?

[0] http://www.atmel.com/tools/atmelavrtoolchainforlinux.aspx

--
Regards,
Christoph

Am 23. September 2017 20:21:45 MESZ schrieb tu...@posteo.de:
>Hi,
>
>I want to compile wine to execute a single commandline tool.
>That's it.
>
>The commandline tool is the AVR-assembler made by ATmel to recompile
>a FORTH interpreter for the AVR-line of microcontrollers of
>ATMEL/Micorchip:
>
>avrasm2.exe: PE32 executable (console) Intel 80386, for MS Windows
>
>Most GENTOO related tutorials on how to compile/install wine were
>made for those of us who want to use wine as kind a "bootloader" for
>games (NO pune intended!).
>
>I tried to compile wine ... but all end with an compilation error.
>
>To save time and hassle:
>Is there any wine version out there, which is currentlu compilable
>and/or recommended?
>
>Is there any tutorial which covers my intended use case for wine?
>
>(My system is not multilib.)
>
>Thanks a lot for any help in advance!
>Cheers
>Meino

[gentoo-user] Need help to compile a minimal wine

[tuxic]

Hi,

I want to compile wine to execute a single commandline tool.
That's it.

The commandline tool is the AVR-assembler made by ATmel to recompile
a FORTH interpreter for the AVR-line of microcontrollers of
ATMEL/Micorchip:

avrasm2.exe: PE32 executable (console) Intel 80386, for MS Windows

Most GENTOO related tutorials on how to compile/install wine were
made for those of us who want to use wine as kind a "bootloader" for
games (NO pune intended!).

I tried to compile wine ... but all end with an compilation error.

To save time and hassle:
Is there any wine version out there, which is currentlu compilable
and/or recommended?

Is there any tutorial which covers my intended use case for wine?

(My system is not multilib.)

Thanks a lot for any help in advance!
Cheers
Meino

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help interpreting kernel panic

[Johannes Rosenberger]

On 11.02.2017 20:47, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Harry Putnam  wrote:
>> Again I get a kernel panic but this time its different.  It seems to
>> mount the disks ok but then fails to find a working `init' command.
>>
>> Checking that with sysrescueCD I see /sbin/init does exist on that new vm.
>> and is executable.
>>
>> The disk setup is sda1=/boot sda2=swap sda3=/home sda4=/
>>
> My guess is that it is mounting the wrong filesystem as root.  It
> might be detecting /dev/sdb as /dev/sda.  Also, the root device might
> be named /dev/xda4 depending on the kernel/etc.  Systemrescuecd isn't
> using the same kernel/etc so it might not see the disks the same way.
>
> An initramfs with root=UUID="505f850e-b26a-4d0f-a02f-6ba573a48ad8" (or
> a label) would be a more reliable way to handle this, or you can
> probably just fiddle with the device names until you stumble on the
> right one.
>
>
Well, if you look at the kernel messages you see that the init is found
but not executable (error -8). I don't know what the error number means, but
have you set CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF and CONFIG_BINFMT_SCRIPT in your .config?
Is /bin/sh executable?

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help interpreting kernel panic

[Rich Freeman]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Harry Putnam  wrote:
>
> Again I get a kernel panic but this time its different.  It seems to
> mount the disks ok but then fails to find a working `init' command.
>
> Checking that with sysrescueCD I see /sbin/init does exist on that new vm.
> and is executable.
>
> The disk setup is sda1=/boot sda2=swap sda3=/home sda4=/
>

My guess is that it is mounting the wrong filesystem as root.  It
might be detecting /dev/sdb as /dev/sda.  Also, the root device might
be named /dev/xda4 depending on the kernel/etc.  Systemrescuecd isn't
using the same kernel/etc so it might not see the disks the same way.

An initramfs with root=UUID="505f850e-b26a-4d0f-a02f-6ba573a48ad8" (or
a label) would be a more reliable way to handle this, or you can
probably just fiddle with the device names until you stumble on the
right one.


-- 
Rich

[gentoo-user] Need help interpreting kernel panic

[Harry Putnam]

I didn't want any typos in this kernel output so took a small screen
shot.

I'm working on a new vm (vbox) install of gentoo but having trouble
getting a kernel that boots.

Architecture=amd64 (not strict)

I started out by copying a .config from a running gentoo vm and using
it to do `make oldconfig' then fumbled my way thru the questions,
followed by a `make menuconfig' to look things over.

That kernel panicked and it seems to say it could not mount an ATA
disk.

Ok, went back to make oldconfig with that copied .config and and just
yessed my way thru the questions.  I mean accepting the default on
them all.

Again I get a kernel panic but this time its different.  It seems to
mount the disks ok but then fails to find a working `init' command.

Checking that with sysrescueCD I see /sbin/init does exist on that new vm.
and is executable.

The disk setup is sda1=/boot sda2=swap sda3=/home sda4=/

 root and kernel lines from grub.conf:
 
  root   (hd0,0)
  kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda4 vga=0x31b video=vesfb:mtrr:3,ywrap

(see fstab below:)


/etc/fstab:

#   


# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
#
# NOTE: Even though we list ext4 as the type here, it will work with ext2/ext3
#   filesystems.  This just tells the kernel to use the ext4 driver.
#
# NOTE: You can use full paths to devices like /dev/sda3, but it is often
#   more reliable to use filesystem labels or UUIDs. See your filesystem
#   documentation for details on setting a label. To obtain the UUID, use
#   the blkid(8) command.

## /dev/sda1/boot   ext2noauto,noatime  1   
2
UUID=1e323735-c111-48de-bd04-d255a07cc2b5   /boot   ext2noauto,noatime  
1   2
## /dev/sda2noneswapsw  0   0
UUID=5af8156e-3ea7-467e-9bbd-e015dfb25493   noneswapsw  0   0
## /dev/sda3/home   ext4noatime 0   1
UUID=e2a40d27-fdcf-4413-99d5-e01a73ea68f1   /home   ext4defaults
0   1
## /dev/sda4/   ext4noatime 0   1
UUID=505f850e-b26a-4d0f-a02f-6ba573a48ad8   /   ext4defaults
0   1

##

## From blkid:

## /dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
## /dev/sda1: UUID="1e323735-c111-48de-bd04-d255a07cc2b5" TYPE="ext2" 
PARTUUID="29b3e776-01"
## /dev/sda2: UUID="5af8156e-3ea7-467e-9bbd-e015dfb25493" TYPE="swap" 
PARTUUID="29b3e776-02"
## /dev/sda3: UUID="e2a40d27-fdcf-4413-99d5-e01a73ea68f1" TYPE="ext4" 
PARTUUID="29b3e776-03"
## /dev/sda4: UUID="505f850e-b26a-4d0f-a02f-6ba573a48ad8" TYPE="ext4" 
PARTUUID="29b3e776-04"
## /dev/sdb1: UUID="87d69626-8798-4d1d-8ac9-64e6f8b47f42" TYPE="ext4" 
PARTUUID="ead06e45-01"
## /dev/sr0: UUID="2017-01-26-18-16-11-00" LABEL="sysrcd-4.9.2" TYPE="iso9660"

[gentoo-user] Need help: Filesystem (ext4) corrupted!

[meino . cramer]

Hi,



I need some urgent help...



The rootfs and $HOME of my embedded system is stored 
on a 16GB SD-card (about 5GB used, rest free). The FS
is ext4.

Since the system hangs for unknown reasons several times I
removed the sdcard, put it in a card reader and did an
ext4.fsck on it.

Clean was the result.

Then I forced a check with -f -p.

The result was:

solfire:/rootfsck.ext4 -f -p /dev/sdb2
rootfs: Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found.  

rootfs: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
(i.e., without -a or -p options)
[1]18644 exit 4 fsck.ext4 -f -p /dev/sdb2


Return code 4 means

4- File system errors left uncorrected

which indicates nothing and all at the same time.


At this point I started to write this mail.

Before I fscked the sdcard I mounted the FS and tar'ed everything on
it into a backup file.

The tar process did not return an error.

Since it costs A LOT OF TIME to compile everything from source on a 
1GHz CPUed embedded system natively - and for abvious different other 
reasons - I am very interested in doing the next steps correctly.

What can I do to eliminate the problem without data loss (best
case) or to save the most while knowing what and where the corrupted 
data are located on the system?

Thank you very much in advance for any help!

Best regards,
mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help: Filesystem (ext4) corrupted!

[Pandu Poluan]

On Sep 2, 2013 11:16 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:

 Hi,



 I need some urgent help...



 The rootfs and $HOME of my embedded system is stored
 on a 16GB SD-card (about 5GB used, rest free). The FS
 is ext4.

 Since the system hangs for unknown reasons several times I
 removed the sdcard, put it in a card reader and did an
 ext4.fsck on it.

 Clean was the result.

 Then I forced a check with -f -p.

 The result was:

 solfire:/rootfsck.ext4 -f -p /dev/sdb2
 rootfs: Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found.

 rootfs: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
 (i.e., without -a or -p options)
 [1]18644 exit 4 fsck.ext4 -f -p /dev/sdb2


 Return code 4 means

 4- File system errors left uncorrected

 which indicates nothing and all at the same time.


 At this point I started to write this mail.

 Before I fscked the sdcard I mounted the FS and tar'ed everything on
 it into a backup file.

 The tar process did not return an error.

 Since it costs A LOT OF TIME to compile everything from source on a
 1GHz CPUed embedded system natively - and for abvious different other
 reasons - I am very interested in doing the next steps correctly.

 What can I do to eliminate the problem without data loss (best
 case) or to save the most while knowing what and where the corrupted
 data are located on the system?

 Thank you very much in advance for any help!


I'm not really sure how to fix the corrupt fs, but don't forget to backup
the whole disk using dd

Rgds,
--

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help: Filesystem (ext4) corrupted!

[meino . cramer]

Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info [13-09-02 18:40]:
 On Sep 2, 2013 11:16 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
 
  Hi,
 
 
 
  I need some urgent help...
 
 
 
  The rootfs and $HOME of my embedded system is stored
  on a 16GB SD-card (about 5GB used, rest free). The FS
  is ext4.
 
  Since the system hangs for unknown reasons several times I
  removed the sdcard, put it in a card reader and did an
  ext4.fsck on it.
 
  Clean was the result.
 
  Then I forced a check with -f -p.
 
  The result was:
 
  solfire:/rootfsck.ext4 -f -p /dev/sdb2
  rootfs: Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found.
 
  rootfs: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
  (i.e., without -a or -p options)
  [1]18644 exit 4 fsck.ext4 -f -p /dev/sdb2
 
 
  Return code 4 means
 
  4- File system errors left uncorrected
 
  which indicates nothing and all at the same time.
 
 
  At this point I started to write this mail.
 
  Before I fscked the sdcard I mounted the FS and tar'ed everything on
  it into a backup file.
 
  The tar process did not return an error.
 
  Since it costs A LOT OF TIME to compile everything from source on a
  1GHz CPUed embedded system natively - and for abvious different other
  reasons - I am very interested in doing the next steps correctly.
 
  What can I do to eliminate the problem without data loss (best
  case) or to save the most while knowing what and where the corrupted
  data are located on the system?
 
  Thank you very much in advance for any help!
 
 
 I'm not really sure how to fix the corrupt fs, but don't forget to backup
 the whole disk using dd
 
 Rgds,
 --

Currently doing exactly this...

mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!

[Neil Bothwick]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:28:11 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:

 protipp: in local.start:
 dmesg  /dmesg.out

Or put log_dmesg=YES into /etc/conf.d/bootmisc, which I think is there
by default anyway.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

When companies ship Styrofoam, what do they pack it in?


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[gentoo-user] Need Help!

[Willie]

Hi All,

I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop
manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am
having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open
without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

-- 

Willie Matthews
matthews.wil...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 09:20:24 schrieb Willie:
 Hi All,
 
 I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop
 manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am
 having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open
 without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC.
 
 Any help is greatly appreciated.

dmesg, Xorg.0.log, .xsession-errors... for starters.
-- 
#163933

Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!

[Willie]

Fist thing I do is start XDM, login with my normal users. I can't open
Session and Startup. Like I said before, I haven't been on it in XFCE for a
long time. When I do that the screen becomes blurry, no keyboard, mouse or
ssh access to the computer. I assume that the entire computer is frozen.
There is nothing in /var/log/messages but a jump in time from when it
crashed to when it started to boot again. Can't read dmesg, if I am not
mistaken that starts over when you restart the computer. Haven't tried to
read the Xorg.0.log or the .xsession-errors yet. I am going to try it again
now and see what it says about this.

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann 
volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:

 Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 09:20:24 schrieb Willie:
  Hi All,
 
  I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop
  manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am
  having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has
 open
  without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC.
 
  Any help is greatly appreciated.

 dmesg, Xorg.0.log, .xsession-errors... for starters.
 --
 #163933




-- 

Willie Matthews
matthews.wil...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 11:07:55 schrieb Willie:
 Fist thing I do is start XDM, login with my normal users. I can't open
 Session and Startup. Like I said before, I haven't been on it in XFCE for a
 long time. When I do that the screen becomes blurry, no keyboard, mouse or
 ssh access to the computer. I assume that the entire computer is frozen.
 There is nothing in /var/log/messages but a jump in time from when it
 crashed to when it started to boot again. Can't read dmesg, if I am not
 mistaken that starts over when you restart the computer. Haven't tried to
 read the Xorg.0.log or the .xsession-errors yet. I am going to try it again
 now and see what it says about this.

protipp: in local.start:
dmesg  /dmesg.out

 
 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann 
 
 volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
  Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 09:20:24 schrieb Willie:
   Hi All,
   
   I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop
   manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am
   having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has
  
  open
  
   without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC.
   
   Any help is greatly appreciated.
  
  dmesg, Xorg.0.log, .xsession-errors... for starters.
  --
  #163933
-- 
#163933

Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!

[Willie]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote:

 Fist thing I do is start XDM, login with my normal users. I can't open
 Session and Startup. Like I said before, I haven't been on it in XFCE for a
 long time. When I do that the screen becomes blurry, no keyboard, mouse or
 ssh access to the computer. I assume that the entire computer is frozen.
 There is nothing in /var/log/messages but a jump in time from when it
 crashed to when it started to boot again. Can't read dmesg, if I am not
 mistaken that starts over when you restart the computer. Haven't tried to
 read the Xorg.0.log or the .xsession-errors yet. I am going to try it again
 now and see what it says about this.


 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann 
 volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:

 Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 09:20:24 schrieb Willie:
  Hi All,
 
  I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop
  manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am
  having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has
 open
  without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC.
 
  Any help is greatly appreciated.

 dmesg, Xorg.0.log, .xsession-errors... for starters.
 --
 #163933




 --

 Willie Matthews
 matthews.wil...@gmail.com


The two files are empty after a reboot.

-- 

Willie Matthews
matthews.wil...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!

[Michael Mol]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote:

 Fist thing I do is start XDM, login with my normal users. I can't open
 Session and Startup. Like I said before, I haven't been on it in XFCE for a
 long time. When I do that the screen becomes blurry, no keyboard, mouse or
 ssh access to the computer. I assume that the entire computer is frozen.
 There is nothing in /var/log/messages but a jump in time from when it
 crashed to when it started to boot again. Can't read dmesg, if I am not
 mistaken that starts over when you restart the computer. Haven't tried to
 read the Xorg.0.log or the .xsession-errors yet. I am going to try it again
 now and see what it says about this.


 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
 volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:

 Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 09:20:24 schrieb Willie:
  Hi All,
 
  I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop
  manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am
  having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has
  open
  without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC.
 
  Any help is greatly appreciated.

 dmesg, Xorg.0.log, .xsession-errors... for starters.

[snip]

 The two files are empty after a reboot.

Any Xorg.*.log file would help.

dmesg's prior output should find its way into /var/log/messages


In any case, try removing xdm from your default runlevel, and run
startx and your X session manually?

-- 
:wq

Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!

[Paul Hartman]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi All,

 I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop
 manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am
 having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open
 without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC.

 Any help is greatly appreciated.

Be sure to emerge --oneshot @x11-module-rebuild after upgrading xorg
stuff. Drivers might be out of sync and maybe that's causing your
pain.

Try to delete/rename your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that makes a
difference. Modern Xorg can start a basic environment without it.

Try to run startx as a user instead of using xdm and see if you get
any better errors/logs.

If you have another computer/device SSH into your problematic computer
before starting X so you can see if it's still alive, just
unresponsive at the local terminal. Maybe then you can see logs and
stuff.

revdep-rebuild just to ensure everything is consistent on your system.

Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!

[Willie]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Paul Hartman 
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Hi All,
 
  I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop
  manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am
  having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has
 open
  without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC.
 
  Any help is greatly appreciated.

 Be sure to emerge --oneshot @x11-module-rebuild after upgrading xorg
 stuff. Drivers might be out of sync and maybe that's causing your
 pain.

 Try to delete/rename your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that makes a
 difference. Modern Xorg can start a basic environment without it.

 Try to run startx as a user instead of using xdm and see if you get
 any better errors/logs.

 If you have another computer/device SSH into your problematic computer
 before starting X so you can see if it's still alive, just
 unresponsive at the local terminal. Maybe then you can see logs and
 stuff.

 revdep-rebuild just to ensure everything is consistent on your system.


I rebuild all of my x11-drivers it rebuild the nvidia driver along with a
couple of others.

I used startx and got the errors below. I have a feeling it has something
to do with my nVidia card (Geforce 8400GS)

SSH is not active anymore. It is also the computer that shares the internet
and no one can access the internet either.

Okay now I think we are getting somewhere. Didn't think to leave XDM out
but I did do it. It still froze but I got some useful information soon as
it did freeze. This is from /var/log/messages

Jun 22 11:52:52 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 6, PE0001
Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU
while in atomic or interrupt context
Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 3, C 0002 SC
0003 M 0100 Data 
Jun 22 11:53:03 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU
while in atomic or interrupt context
Jun 22 11:53:05 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU
while in atomic or interrupt context
Jun 22 11:53:08 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU
while in atomic or interrupt context

That was printed as soon as XFCE froze.

-- 

Willie Matthews
matthews.wil...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!

[Michael Mol]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Paul Hartman
 paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Hi All,
 
  I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop
  manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am
  having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has
  open
  without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC.
 
  Any help is greatly appreciated.

 Be sure to emerge --oneshot @x11-module-rebuild after upgrading xorg
 stuff. Drivers might be out of sync and maybe that's causing your
 pain.

 Try to delete/rename your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that makes a
 difference. Modern Xorg can start a basic environment without it.

 Try to run startx as a user instead of using xdm and see if you get
 any better errors/logs.

 If you have another computer/device SSH into your problematic computer
 before starting X so you can see if it's still alive, just
 unresponsive at the local terminal. Maybe then you can see logs and
 stuff.

 revdep-rebuild just to ensure everything is consistent on your system.


 I rebuild all of my x11-drivers it rebuild the nvidia driver along with a
 couple of others.

 I used startx and got the errors below. I have a feeling it has something to
 do with my nVidia card (Geforce 8400GS)

 SSH is not active anymore. It is also the computer that shares the internet
 and no one can access the internet either.

 Okay now I think we are getting somewhere. Didn't think to leave XDM out but
 I did do it. It still froze but I got some useful information soon as it did
 freeze. This is from /var/log/messages

 Jun 22 11:52:52 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 6, PE0001
 Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU
 while in atomic or interrupt context
 Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 3, C 0002 SC
 0003 M 0100 Data 
 Jun 22 11:53:03 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU
 while in atomic or interrupt context
 Jun 22 11:53:05 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU
 while in atomic or interrupt context
 Jun 22 11:53:08 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU
 while in atomic or interrupt context

 That was printed as soon as XFCE froze.

What do you have for VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf?


-- 
:wq

Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!

[Paul Hartman]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Paul Hartman
 paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Hi All,
 
  I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop
  manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am
  having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has
  open
  without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC.
 
  Any help is greatly appreciated.

 Be sure to emerge --oneshot @x11-module-rebuild after upgrading xorg
 stuff. Drivers might be out of sync and maybe that's causing your
 pain.

 Try to delete/rename your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that makes a
 difference. Modern Xorg can start a basic environment without it.

 Try to run startx as a user instead of using xdm and see if you get
 any better errors/logs.

 If you have another computer/device SSH into your problematic computer
 before starting X so you can see if it's still alive, just
 unresponsive at the local terminal. Maybe then you can see logs and
 stuff.

 revdep-rebuild just to ensure everything is consistent on your system.


 I rebuild all of my x11-drivers it rebuild the nvidia driver along with a
 couple of others.

 I used startx and got the errors below. I have a feeling it has something to
 do with my nVidia card (Geforce 8400GS)

 SSH is not active anymore. It is also the computer that shares the internet
 and no one can access the internet either.

 Okay now I think we are getting somewhere. Didn't think to leave XDM out but
 I did do it. It still froze but I got some useful information soon as it did
 freeze. This is from /var/log/messages

 Jun 22 11:52:52 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 6, PE0001
 Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU
 while in atomic or interrupt context
 Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 3, C 0002 SC
 0003 M 0100 Data 
 Jun 22 11:53:03 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU
 while in atomic or interrupt context
 Jun 22 11:53:05 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU
 while in atomic or interrupt context
 Jun 22 11:53:08 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU
 while in atomic or interrupt context

 That was printed as soon as XFCE froze.

Okay, now I googled those errors and it seems to be a fairly common
problem. The workaround I saw is to add nolapic_timer to your kernel
commandline. Try that, reboot and cross your fingers. ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!

[Willie]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Paul Hartman 
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Paul Hartman
  paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com
  wrote:
   Hi All,
  
   I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop
   manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am
   having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has
   open
   without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC.
  
   Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
  Be sure to emerge --oneshot @x11-module-rebuild after upgrading xorg
  stuff. Drivers might be out of sync and maybe that's causing your
  pain.
 
  Try to delete/rename your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that makes a
  difference. Modern Xorg can start a basic environment without it.
 
  Try to run startx as a user instead of using xdm and see if you get
  any better errors/logs.
 
  If you have another computer/device SSH into your problematic computer
  before starting X so you can see if it's still alive, just
  unresponsive at the local terminal. Maybe then you can see logs and
  stuff.
 
  revdep-rebuild just to ensure everything is consistent on your system.
 
 
  I rebuild all of my x11-drivers it rebuild the nvidia driver along with a
  couple of others.
 
  I used startx and got the errors below. I have a feeling it has
 something to
  do with my nVidia card (Geforce 8400GS)
 
  SSH is not active anymore. It is also the computer that shares the
 internet
  and no one can access the internet either.
 
  Okay now I think we are getting somewhere. Didn't think to leave XDM out
 but
  I did do it. It still froze but I got some useful information soon as it
 did
  freeze. This is from /var/log/messages
 
  Jun 22 11:52:52 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 6, PE0001
  Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the
 CPU
  while in atomic or interrupt context
  Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 3, C 0002 SC
  0003 M 0100 Data 
  Jun 22 11:53:03 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the
 CPU
  while in atomic or interrupt context
  Jun 22 11:53:05 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the
 CPU
  while in atomic or interrupt context
  Jun 22 11:53:08 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the
 CPU
  while in atomic or interrupt context
 
  That was printed as soon as XFCE froze.

 Okay, now I googled those errors and it seems to be a fairly common
 problem. The workaround I saw is to add nolapic_timer to your kernel
 commandline. Try that, reboot and cross your fingers. ;)


Yeah I see that too. Tried to add that to my grub.conf/menu.lst. It did not
work for me. I rebuild my kernel for nouveau drivers. Rebuilt xorg-drivers
and mesa, installed xf86-video-nouveau. So far it is not working, still
might have to do some tweaking.
-- 

Willie Matthews
matthews.wil...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 14:51:04 schrieb Willie:
 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Paul Hartman 
 
 paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote:
   On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Paul Hartman
   
   paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
   On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com
   
   wrote:
Hi All,

I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a
desktop
manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I
am
having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that
has
open
without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
   
   Be sure to emerge --oneshot @x11-module-rebuild after upgrading xorg
   stuff. Drivers might be out of sync and maybe that's causing your
   pain.
   
   Try to delete/rename your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that makes a
   difference. Modern Xorg can start a basic environment without it.
   
   Try to run startx as a user instead of using xdm and see if you get
   any better errors/logs.
   
   If you have another computer/device SSH into your problematic computer
   before starting X so you can see if it's still alive, just
   unresponsive at the local terminal. Maybe then you can see logs and
   stuff.
   
   revdep-rebuild just to ensure everything is consistent on your system.
   
   I rebuild all of my x11-drivers it rebuild the nvidia driver along with
   a
   couple of others.
   
   I used startx and got the errors below. I have a feeling it has
  
  something to
  
   do with my nVidia card (Geforce 8400GS)
   
   SSH is not active anymore. It is also the computer that shares the
  
  internet
  
   and no one can access the internet either.
   
   Okay now I think we are getting somewhere. Didn't think to leave XDM out
  
  but
  
   I did do it. It still froze but I got some useful information soon as it
  
  did
  
   freeze. This is from /var/log/messages
   
   Jun 22 11:52:52 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 6, PE0001
   Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the
  
  CPU
  
   while in atomic or interrupt context
   Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 3, C 0002 SC
   0003 M 0100 Data 
   Jun 22 11:53:03 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the
  
  CPU
  
   while in atomic or interrupt context
   Jun 22 11:53:05 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the
  
  CPU
  
   while in atomic or interrupt context
   Jun 22 11:53:08 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the
  
  CPU
  
   while in atomic or interrupt context
   
   That was printed as soon as XFCE froze.
  
  Okay, now I googled those errors and it seems to be a fairly common
  problem. The workaround I saw is to add nolapic_timer to your kernel
  commandline. Try that, reboot and cross your fingers. ;)
 
 Yeah I see that too. Tried to add that to my grub.conf/menu.lst. It did not
 work for me. I rebuild my kernel for nouveau drivers. Rebuilt xorg-drivers
 and mesa, installed xf86-video-nouveau. So far it is not working, still
 might have to do some tweaking.

if you use nvidia binary, turn off all nvidia graphics related stuff in the 
kernel and to be sure nothing screws you over - unmerge nouveau.

If you use nouveau, try the binary driver.


There are reasons, Linus does not like nvidia very much.

-- 
#163933

Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!

[Paul Hartman]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 14:51:04 schrieb Willie:
 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Paul Hartman 

 paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote:
   On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Paul Hartman
  
   paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
   On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com
  
   wrote:
Hi All,
   
I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a
desktop
manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I
am
having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that
has
open
without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC.
   
Any help is greatly appreciated.
  
   Be sure to emerge --oneshot @x11-module-rebuild after upgrading xorg
   stuff. Drivers might be out of sync and maybe that's causing your
   pain.
  
   Try to delete/rename your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that makes a
   difference. Modern Xorg can start a basic environment without it.
  
   Try to run startx as a user instead of using xdm and see if you get
   any better errors/logs.
  
   If you have another computer/device SSH into your problematic computer
   before starting X so you can see if it's still alive, just
   unresponsive at the local terminal. Maybe then you can see logs and
   stuff.
  
   revdep-rebuild just to ensure everything is consistent on your system.
  
   I rebuild all of my x11-drivers it rebuild the nvidia driver along with
   a
   couple of others.
  
   I used startx and got the errors below. I have a feeling it has
 
  something to
 
   do with my nVidia card (Geforce 8400GS)
  
   SSH is not active anymore. It is also the computer that shares the
 
  internet
 
   and no one can access the internet either.
  
   Okay now I think we are getting somewhere. Didn't think to leave XDM out
 
  but
 
   I did do it. It still froze but I got some useful information soon as it
 
  did
 
   freeze. This is from /var/log/messages
  
   Jun 22 11:52:52 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 6, PE0001
   Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the
 
  CPU
 
   while in atomic or interrupt context
   Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 3, C 0002 SC
   0003 M 0100 Data 
   Jun 22 11:53:03 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the
 
  CPU
 
   while in atomic or interrupt context
   Jun 22 11:53:05 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the
 
  CPU
 
   while in atomic or interrupt context
   Jun 22 11:53:08 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the
 
  CPU
 
   while in atomic or interrupt context
  
   That was printed as soon as XFCE froze.
 
  Okay, now I googled those errors and it seems to be a fairly common
  problem. The workaround I saw is to add nolapic_timer to your kernel
  commandline. Try that, reboot and cross your fingers. ;)

 Yeah I see that too. Tried to add that to my grub.conf/menu.lst. It did not
 work for me. I rebuild my kernel for nouveau drivers. Rebuilt xorg-drivers
 and mesa, installed xf86-video-nouveau. So far it is not working, still
 might have to do some tweaking.

 if you use nvidia binary, turn off all nvidia graphics related stuff in the
 kernel and to be sure nothing screws you over - unmerge nouveau.

 If you use nouveau, try the binary driver.


 There are reasons, Linus does not like nvidia very much.

And if you use the nvidia binary driver be sure to blacklist nouveau
module so it does not autoload in case the module is still around from
a previous build.

Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!

[Willie]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann 
volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:

 Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 14:51:04 schrieb Willie:
  On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Paul Hartman 
 
  paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
   On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com
 wrote:
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Paul Hartman
   
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com
 
   
wrote:
 Hi All,

 I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a
 desktop
 manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem
 I
 am
 having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that
 has
 open
 without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC.

 Any help is greatly appreciated.
   
Be sure to emerge --oneshot @x11-module-rebuild after upgrading
 xorg
stuff. Drivers might be out of sync and maybe that's causing your
pain.
   
Try to delete/rename your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that makes a
difference. Modern Xorg can start a basic environment without it.
   
Try to run startx as a user instead of using xdm and see if you
 get
any better errors/logs.
   
If you have another computer/device SSH into your problematic
 computer
before starting X so you can see if it's still alive, just
unresponsive at the local terminal. Maybe then you can see logs and
stuff.
   
revdep-rebuild just to ensure everything is consistent on your
 system.
   
I rebuild all of my x11-drivers it rebuild the nvidia driver along
 with
a
couple of others.
   
I used startx and got the errors below. I have a feeling it has
  
   something to
  
do with my nVidia card (Geforce 8400GS)
   
SSH is not active anymore. It is also the computer that shares the
  
   internet
  
and no one can access the internet either.
   
Okay now I think we are getting somewhere. Didn't think to leave XDM
 out
  
   but
  
I did do it. It still froze but I got some useful information soon
 as it
  
   did
  
freeze. This is from /var/log/messages
   
Jun 22 11:52:52 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 6, PE0001
Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield
 the
  
   CPU
  
while in atomic or interrupt context
Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 3, C 0002
 SC
0003 M 0100 Data 
Jun 22 11:53:03 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield
 the
  
   CPU
  
while in atomic or interrupt context
Jun 22 11:53:05 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield
 the
  
   CPU
  
while in atomic or interrupt context
Jun 22 11:53:08 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield
 the
  
   CPU
  
while in atomic or interrupt context
   
That was printed as soon as XFCE froze.
  
   Okay, now I googled those errors and it seems to be a fairly common
   problem. The workaround I saw is to add nolapic_timer to your kernel
   commandline. Try that, reboot and cross your fingers. ;)
 
  Yeah I see that too. Tried to add that to my grub.conf/menu.lst. It did
 not
  work for me. I rebuild my kernel for nouveau drivers. Rebuilt
 xorg-drivers
  and mesa, installed xf86-video-nouveau. So far it is not working, still
  might have to do some tweaking.

 if you use nvidia binary, turn off all nvidia graphics related stuff in the
 kernel and to be sure nothing screws you over - unmerge nouveau.

 If you use nouveau, try the binary driver.


 There are reasons, Linus does not like nvidia very much.

 --
 #163933


It was working with this same kernel. I can't figure out for the life of me
why it is not working now. I have a feeling after 6 months of upgrades
something broke in that time. I am fine with the nouveau driver. I only
really want a GUI to play movies.

-- 

Willie Matthews
matthews.wil...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!

[Alecks Gates]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
 volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:

 Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 14:51:04 schrieb Willie:
  On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Paul Hartman 
 
  paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
   On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com
   wrote:
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Paul Hartman
   
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Willie
matthews.wil...@gmail.com
   
wrote:
 Hi All,

 I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a
 desktop
 manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem
 I
 am
 having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one
 that
 has
 open
 without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC.

 Any help is greatly appreciated.
   
Be sure to emerge --oneshot @x11-module-rebuild after upgrading
xorg
stuff. Drivers might be out of sync and maybe that's causing your
pain.
   
Try to delete/rename your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that makes
a
difference. Modern Xorg can start a basic environment without it.
   
Try to run startx as a user instead of using xdm and see if you
get
any better errors/logs.
   
If you have another computer/device SSH into your problematic
computer
before starting X so you can see if it's still alive, just
unresponsive at the local terminal. Maybe then you can see logs and
stuff.
   
revdep-rebuild just to ensure everything is consistent on your
system.
   
I rebuild all of my x11-drivers it rebuild the nvidia driver along
with
a
couple of others.
   
I used startx and got the errors below. I have a feeling it has
  
   something to
  
do with my nVidia card (Geforce 8400GS)
   
SSH is not active anymore. It is also the computer that shares the
  
   internet
  
and no one can access the internet either.
   
Okay now I think we are getting somewhere. Didn't think to leave XDM
out
  
   but
  
I did do it. It still froze but I got some useful information soon
as it
  
   did
  
freeze. This is from /var/log/messages
   
Jun 22 11:52:52 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 6, PE0001
Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield
the
  
   CPU
  
while in atomic or interrupt context
Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 3, C 0002
SC
0003 M 0100 Data 
Jun 22 11:53:03 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield
the
  
   CPU
  
while in atomic or interrupt context
Jun 22 11:53:05 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield
the
  
   CPU
  
while in atomic or interrupt context
Jun 22 11:53:08 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield
the
  
   CPU
  
while in atomic or interrupt context
   
That was printed as soon as XFCE froze.
  
   Okay, now I googled those errors and it seems to be a fairly common
   problem. The workaround I saw is to add nolapic_timer to your kernel
   commandline. Try that, reboot and cross your fingers. ;)
 
  Yeah I see that too. Tried to add that to my grub.conf/menu.lst. It did
  not
  work for me. I rebuild my kernel for nouveau drivers. Rebuilt
  xorg-drivers
  and mesa, installed xf86-video-nouveau. So far it is not working, still
  might have to do some tweaking.

 if you use nvidia binary, turn off all nvidia graphics related stuff in
 the
 kernel and to be sure nothing screws you over - unmerge nouveau.

 If you use nouveau, try the binary driver.


 There are reasons, Linus does not like nvidia very much.

 --
 #163933


 It was working with this same kernel. I can't figure out for the life of me
 why it is not working now. I have a feeling after 6 months of upgrades
 something broke in that time. I am fine with the nouveau driver. I only
 really want a GUI to play movies.

 --

 Willie Matthews
 matthews.wil...@gmail.com

A bit off topic but you don't really need a full GUI for movies.  Try
just X + mplayer, or XBMC.  Dunno if those alone would work for you
(and you probably want to fix your problems anyway).  Depending on
your CPU and video card, the proprietary drivers may help you if you
can use VDPAU for video acceleration.

Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!

[Willie]

This is for my kid. He likes to watch movies. He knows how to use the
shortcut on the desktop. I really don't need to reinvent the wheel on this
one. It all works just like he learned it.

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Alecks Gates aleck...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
  volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
 
  Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 14:51:04 schrieb Willie:
   On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Paul Hartman 
  
   paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com
wrote:
 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Paul Hartman

 paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Willie
 matthews.wil...@gmail.com

 wrote:
  Hi All,
 
  I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a
  desktop
  manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The
 problem
  I
  am
  having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one
  that
  has
  open
  without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC.
 
  Any help is greatly appreciated.

 Be sure to emerge --oneshot @x11-module-rebuild after upgrading
 xorg
 stuff. Drivers might be out of sync and maybe that's causing your
 pain.

 Try to delete/rename your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that
 makes
 a
 difference. Modern Xorg can start a basic environment without it.

 Try to run startx as a user instead of using xdm and see if you
 get
 any better errors/logs.

 If you have another computer/device SSH into your problematic
 computer
 before starting X so you can see if it's still alive, just
 unresponsive at the local terminal. Maybe then you can see logs
 and
 stuff.

 revdep-rebuild just to ensure everything is consistent on your
 system.

 I rebuild all of my x11-drivers it rebuild the nvidia driver along
 with
 a
 couple of others.

 I used startx and got the errors below. I have a feeling it has
   
something to
   
 do with my nVidia card (Geforce 8400GS)

 SSH is not active anymore. It is also the computer that shares the
   
internet
   
 and no one can access the internet either.

 Okay now I think we are getting somewhere. Didn't think to leave
 XDM
 out
   
but
   
 I did do it. It still froze but I got some useful information soon
 as it
   
did
   
 freeze. This is from /var/log/messages

 Jun 22 11:52:52 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 6, PE0001
 Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to
 yield
 the
   
CPU
   
 while in atomic or interrupt context
 Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 3, C
 0002
 SC
 0003 M 0100 Data 
 Jun 22 11:53:03 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to
 yield
 the
   
CPU
   
 while in atomic or interrupt context
 Jun 22 11:53:05 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to
 yield
 the
   
CPU
   
 while in atomic or interrupt context
 Jun 22 11:53:08 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to
 yield
 the
   
CPU
   
 while in atomic or interrupt context

 That was printed as soon as XFCE froze.
   
Okay, now I googled those errors and it seems to be a fairly common
problem. The workaround I saw is to add nolapic_timer to your
 kernel
commandline. Try that, reboot and cross your fingers. ;)
  
   Yeah I see that too. Tried to add that to my grub.conf/menu.lst. It
 did
   not
   work for me. I rebuild my kernel for nouveau drivers. Rebuilt
   xorg-drivers
   and mesa, installed xf86-video-nouveau. So far it is not working,
 still
   might have to do some tweaking.
 
  if you use nvidia binary, turn off all nvidia graphics related stuff in
  the
  kernel and to be sure nothing screws you over - unmerge nouveau.
 
  If you use nouveau, try the binary driver.
 
 
  There are reasons, Linus does not like nvidia very much.
 
  --
  #163933
 
 
  It was working with this same kernel. I can't figure out for the life of
 me
  why it is not working now. I have a feeling after 6 months of upgrades
  something broke in that time. I am fine with the nouveau driver. I only
  really want a GUI to play movies.
 
  --
 
  Willie Matthews
  matthews.wil...@gmail.com

 A bit off topic but you don't really need a full GUI for movies.  Try
 just X + mplayer, or XBMC.  Dunno if those alone would work for you
 (and you probably want to fix your problems anyway).  Depending on
 your CPU and video card, the proprietary drivers may help you if you
 can use VDPAU for video acceleration.




-- 

Willie Matthews
matthews.wil...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Indi]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 04:40:01PM +0100, Tanstaafl wrote:
 
 Hope someone has an idea...

You could try esmtp; Always seems to work for me when the others fail. 
Haven't tried what you're pursuing, but surely it can be made to work
fairly easily...

-- 
caveat utilitor
♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ 

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Tanstaafl]

On 2011-12-14 5:09 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:

Try PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=you@home /usr/sbin/sendmail


Bingo!

I guess I didn't/don't fully understand what needs to go here...

I received the message, but it comes 'from' 'portage@localhost'... 
how/where can I change this from address?


Thanks Neil!

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Tanstaafl]

On 2011-12-15 7:21 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:

I received the message, but it comes 'from' 'portage@localhost'...
how/where can I change this from address?


Never mind, found it:

PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM=myaddress.example

Thanks again Neil!

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Tanstaafl]

On 2011-12-13 5:42 PM, Leho Kraav l...@kraav.com wrote:

i would first of all suggest dropping ssmtp and going with
nullmailer. if ssmtp fails for any reason it will lose your emails.
nullmailer has queue capability.


Sounds good, I'll give it a shot (emerging now)...

Is there a decent HowTo on getting it up and running? The manpage was 
full of technical stuff but I didn't see anmy clearcut examples of 
getting it actually running and being used as the systems default mta 
for sending messages.


Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Tanstaafl]

On 2011-12-14 6:43 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:

On 2011-12-13 5:42 PM, Leho Kraav l...@kraav.com wrote:

i would first of all suggest dropping ssmtp and going with
nullmailer. if ssmtp fails for any reason it will lose your emails.
nullmailer has queue capability.



Sounds good, I'll give it a shot (emerging now)...


Ok, emerged, did emerge --config nullmailer, added:

# A nonstandard SMTP server setup:
# someotherserver.domain.com smtp --port=2525
mail.myserver.com smtp --port=587 --user=user --pass=pass

to /etc/nullmailer/remotes, and added it to default runlevel.

When starting manually I get the following warning:

li66-207 nullmailer # /etc/init.d/nullmailer start
 * Starting nullmailer ...  [ ok ]
 * WARNING: -c/--chuid is deprecated and will be removed in the future, 
please use -u/--user instead 


li66-207 nullmailer #

Checking the init script, I see:

start() {
checkconfig
ebegin Starting nullmailer
cd /var/nullmailer
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --chuid ${USER}:${GROUP} \
  --exec ${DAEMON} -- ${ARGS}
eend $?
}

Should I change this? Ianap, so don't really feel comfortable just 
changing it without confirming first...


Thanks again...

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Pandu Poluan]

On Dec 14, 2011 7:08 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:

 On 2011-12-14 6:43 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:

 On 2011-12-13 5:42 PM, Leho Kraav l...@kraav.com wrote:

 i would first of all suggest dropping ssmtp and going with
 nullmailer. if ssmtp fails for any reason it will lose your emails.
 nullmailer has queue capability.


 Sounds good, I'll give it a shot (emerging now)...


 Ok, emerged, did emerge --config nullmailer, added:

 # A nonstandard SMTP server setup:
 # someotherserver.domain.com smtp --port=2525
 mail.myserver.com smtp --port=587 --user=user --pass=pass

 to /etc/nullmailer/remotes, and added it to default runlevel.

 When starting manually I get the following warning:

 li66-207 nullmailer # /etc/init.d/nullmailer start
  * Starting nullmailer ...  [ ok ]
  * WARNING: -c/--chuid is deprecated and will be removed in the future,
please use -u/--user instead
 li66-207 nullmailer #

 Checking the init script, I see:

 start() {
checkconfig
ebegin Starting nullmailer
cd /var/nullmailer
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --chuid ${USER}:${GROUP} \
  --exec ${DAEMON} -- ${ARGS}
eend $?
 }

 Should I change this? Ianap, so don't really feel comfortable just
changing it without confirming first...

 Thanks again...


Don't.

Just file a bug, and let the maintainer take care of it.

It's *still* supported currently.

Rgds,

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Neil Bothwick]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:05:12 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:

 When starting manually I get the following warning:
 
 li66-207 nullmailer # /etc/init.d/nullmailer start
   * Starting nullmailer ...  [ ok ]
   * WARNING: -c/--chuid is deprecated and will be removed in the
 future, please use -u/--user instead 

Ignore it, it is only a deprecation warning. IMO these warnings shouldn't
be displayed to normal users by default, they are intended for devs.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Walk softly and carry a fully charged phazer.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Tanstaafl]

On 2011-12-14 7:16 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:

Should I change this? Ianap, so don't really feel comfortable just
changing it without confirming first...



Don't.

Just file a bug, and let the maintainer take care of it.

It's *still* supported currently.


Will do...

But, I noticed I was still getting the same error after unmerging ssmtp 
and emerging nullmailer, and /etc/ssmtp still exists... so apparently it 
is still trying to use ssmtp somehow?


I moved the /etc/ssmtp dir (temporarily, until I figure this out) to my 
home directory, and set PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI= back to its default 
(commented it out), and now I'm getting this error:


!!! A network error occurred while trying to send logmail:
[Errno 111] Connection refused
Sure you configured PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI correctly?

How do I tell the system to use nullmailer?

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Pandu Poluan]

On Dec 14, 2011 7:22 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:

 On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:05:12 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:

  When starting manually I get the following warning:
 
  li66-207 nullmailer # /etc/init.d/nullmailer start
* Starting nullmailer ...  [ ok ]
* WARNING: -c/--chuid is deprecated and will be removed in the
  future, please use -u/--user instead

 Ignore it, it is only a deprecation warning. IMO these warnings shouldn't
 be displayed to normal users by default, they are intended for devs.



... or for normal users so that the normal users will file a bug. :-)

Rgds,

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Tanstaafl]

On 2011-12-14 7:25 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:

!!! A network error occurred while trying to send logmail:
[Errno 111] Connection refused
Sure you configured PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI correctly?


Ok, finally figured out why I wasn't seeing any errors in the main log...

Here is the error in the main log:

Dec 14 07:58:17 li66-207 nullmailer[27759]: Starting delivery: protocol: 
smtp host: mail.myserver.com file: 1323867377.8321
Dec 14 07:58:17 li66-207 nullmailer[13029]: smtp: Failed: 530 5.7.0 Must 
issue a STARTTLS command first
Dec 14 07:58:17 li66-207 nullmailer[27759]: Sending failed:  Permanent 
error in sending the message
Dec 14 07:58:17 li66-207 nullmailer[27759]: Delivery complete, 1 
message(s) remain.


So... does nullmailer even support STARTTLS?

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Tanstaafl]

On 2011-12-14 8:00 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:

So... does nullmailer even support STARTTLS?


Crap, apparently not...

http://untroubled.org/nullmailer/TODO

back to square one...

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Neil Bothwick]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:28:33 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:

  Ignore it, it is only a deprecation warning. IMO these warnings
  shouldn't be displayed to normal users by default, they are intended
  for devs.

 ... or for normal users so that the normal users will file a bug. :-)

After they have asked about it on mailing lists and forums for the
umpteenth time. The package devs and arch testers should see those
messages, it's only a deprecation notice not an error.


-- 
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Windows - From the people who brought you EDLIN!


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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Tanstaafl]

On 2011-12-14 8:05 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:

On 2011-12-14 8:00 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:

So... does nullmailer even support STARTTLS?


Crap, apparently not...

http://untroubled.org/nullmailer/TODO

back to square one...


Ok, found msmtp, which does support STARTTLS, and still can't get this 
working... I really hope I don't have to resort to installing postfix 
just to get simple outbound mail running...


I've removed nullmailer (had to manually kill the still running process 
and delete the /etc/nullmailer dir for it too), and installed and 
configged msmtp, and it is still not working...


I also did reset PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI= to default (commented it out).

li66-207 ~ # msmtp --serverinfo
SMTP server at smtp.myserver.com (smtp.myserver.com [70.43.81.99]), port 
587:

smtp.myserver.com ESMTP Postfix
Capabilities:
SIZE 3072:
Maximum message size is 3072 bytes = 29.30 MiB
PIPELINING:
Support for command grouping for faster transmission
ETRN:
Support for RMQS (Remote Message Queue Starting)
DSN:
Support for Delivery Status Notifications
STARTTLS:
Support for TLS encryption via the STARTTLS command
This server might advertise more or other capabilities when TLS is active.
li66-207 ~ #

So, it is talking successfully to my relayhost here in the office, but 
I'm still getting this ordinary error:


!!! A network error occurred while trying to send logmail:
[Errno 111] Connection refused
Sure you configured PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI correctly?

and NOTHING in/var/log/messages...

Hope someone has an idea...

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Tanstaafl]

On 2011-12-14 10:29 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:

!!! A network error occurred while trying to send logmail:
[Errno 111] Connection refused
Sure you configured PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI correctly?

and NOTHING in/var/log/messages...


Ok, so, I now have more info so hopefully some kind soul will take pity 
on me and provide the clue-stick...


I can confirm that sending email from the commandline now works:

li66-207 ~ # echo This is a test e-mail... | mail -s Test e-mail 
ad...@myserver.com

li66-207 ~ #

I received the email.

But, I'm still getting the same error as above when portage tries to 
email me the emerge logs.


How do I tell portage to simply use the 'mail' command?

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Urs Schutz]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:29:44 -0500
Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:

 On 2011-12-14 10:29 AM, Tanstaafl
 tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
  !!! A network error occurred while trying to send
  logmail: [Errno 111] Connection refused
  Sure you configured PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI correctly?
 
  and NOTHING in/var/log/messages...
 
 Ok, so, I now have more info so hopefully some kind soul
 will take pity on me and provide the clue-stick...
 
 I can confirm that sending email from the commandline now
 works:
 
 li66-207 ~ # echo This is a test e-mail... | mail -s
 Test e-mail ad...@myserver.com
 li66-207 ~ #
 

Did you send this as user? What about sending this from
the root account?

Urs

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Tanstaafl]

On 2011-12-14 3:59 PM, Urs Schutz u.sch...@bluewin.ch wrote:

Did you send this as user? What about sending this from
the root account?


I sent it from root... maybe that's the problem?

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Neil Bothwick]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:29:44 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:

 I can confirm that sending email from the commandline now works:

 How do I tell portage to simply use the 'mail' command?

AFAIR there used to be an option for this, but it's not in the docs. Have
you tried

PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=user@address localhost

Or leave MAILURI unset in which case it will deliver to root@localhost.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Tanstaafl]

On 2011-12-14 4:09 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:

On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:29:44 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:


I can confirm that sending email from the commandline now works:



How do I tell portage to simply use the 'mail' command?


AFAIR there used to be an option for this, but it's not in the docs. Have
you tried

PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=user@address localhost

Or leave MAILURI unset in which case it will deliver to root@localhost.


Yep, that's how it is set now...

I'm stumped...

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Neil Bothwick]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:29:44 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:

 How do I tell portage to simply use the 'mail' command?

You don't, you tell it to use sendmail

From make.conf.example:

mailserver: smtp server that should be used to deliver the mail
(defaults to localhost) alternatively this can also be a the path to a
sendmail binary if you don't want to use smtp 

Try PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=you@home /usr/sbin/sendmail

This will use ssmtp's sendmail, which you already have working.


-- 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Alex Schuster]

Neil Bothwick writes:

 On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:29:44 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
 
 I can confirm that sending email from the commandline now works:
 
 How do I tell portage to simply use the 'mail' command?
 
 AFAIR there used to be an option for this, but it's not in the docs.
 Have you tried
 
 PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=user@address localhost
 
 Or leave MAILURI unset in which case it will deliver to
 root@localhost.

What about
PORTAGE_ELOG_COMMAND=cat '\${LOGFILE}' | mail -s 'ebuild log for
\${PACKAGE}' user@address

Doesn't seem to work here, though. Even if I set PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM to
custom and PORTAGE_ELOG_COMMAND to an existing script, it is not being
called.

Wonko

[gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Tanstaafl]

Hi all,

Ok, this is also on this new hosted VM...

I need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using SASL auth on a 
remote host using ssmtp...


I found this thread that has me almost there (I think):

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/217567?do=post_view_threaded#217567

But it doesn't seem to be using SASL auth, because the attempt is being 
blocked by my server client_access rule (which comes *after* 
permit_sasl_authenticated)...


Here's what I have in make.conf (after reading the above thread):

PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=root@user:password mail.myserver.com:100587

and in ssmtpd.conf:

root=postmaster
mailhub=mail.myserver.com:587
AuthUser=username
AuthPass=password
UseSTARTTLS=YES

And here is the error I'm currently getting:

!!! An error occurred while trying to send logmail:
{'root@username:password': (554, '5.7.1 
li66-207.members.linode.com[74.207.224.207]: Client host rejected: 
Access denied')}


Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Charles

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help getting portage to email me emerge logs using ssmtp...

[Leho Kraav]

i would first of all suggest dropping ssmtp and going with nullmailer. if ssmtp 
fails for any reason it will lose your emails. nullmailer has queue capability.

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2 [SOLVED]

[Florian Philipp]

Am 24.10.2011 03:15, schrieb Michael Sullivan:
 On 10/23/11 18:15, Neil Bothwick wrote:
 On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:00:52 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:

 pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file
 v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw  

 Is this file present in /lib/firmware?

 Nope:

 It should be obvious that this needs to be addressed before anything
 else.
[...]

 
 I downloaded that file and rebooted and dmesg griped about another file
 and I found it and downloaded it and rebooted and now my output looks
 like this, which I'm happy with:
 
 
[...]
 
 Speaking of which, isn't there an easier way to reload modules than
 rebooting?  When I started using Gentoo in 2004, there was an
 /etc/init.d/hotplug, which was replaced by /etc/init.d/coldplug, but
 neither one seems to be present anymore on the system.  What service
 loads modules on bootup now?
 

You mean like `modprobe -vr pvrusb2  modprobe -v pvrusb2`? I joined
Gentoo in 2006 so I'm not sure if that is what you mean.

It doesn't help much with pvrusb2, anyway ... (but you can still try)



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[gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2

[Michael Sullivan]

Hello.  I recently purchased a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR external TV card.
I'm trying to get it to work with Gentoo Linux.  I think I've followed
the steps found at
http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-1900 correctly,
but I'm still getting errors.  When I plug the TV card into the USB slot
in the back of the computer and search dmesg, it says:

michael@carter /lib/firmware $ dmesg | grep pvrusb2
pvrusb2: Hardware description: WinTV HVR-1950 Model 751xx
usbcore: registered new interface driver pvrusb2
pvrusb2: V4L in-tree version:Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 MPEG2 Encoder/Tuner
pvrusb2: Debug mask is 31 (0x1f)
pvrusb2: ***WARNING*** Device fx2 controller firmware seems to be missing.
pvrusb2: Did you install the pvrusb2 firmware files in their proper
location?
pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file
v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw
pvrusb2: Failure uploading firmware1
pvrusb2: Device initialization was not successful.
pvrusb2: Giving up since device microcontroller firmware appears to be
missing.
pvrusb2: Device being rendered inoperable
pvrusb2: Hardware description: WinTV HVR-1950 Model 751xx
pvrusb2: ***WARNING*** Device fx2 controller firmware seems to be missing.
pvrusb2: Did you install the pvrusb2 firmware files in their proper
location?
pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file
v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw
pvrusb2: Failure uploading firmware1
pvrusb2: Device initialization was not successful.
pvrusb2: Giving up since device microcontroller firmware appears to be
missing.


I've emerged linuxtv-dvb-firmware and reissued the above command with no
change.  How do I get Gentoo to recognize this card?
-Michael Sullivan-

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2

[Florian Philipp]

Am 23.10.2011 23:36, schrieb Michael Sullivan:
 Hello.  I recently purchased a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR external TV card.
 I'm trying to get it to work with Gentoo Linux.  I think I've followed
 the steps found at
 http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-1900 correctly,
 but I'm still getting errors.  When I plug the TV card into the USB slot
 in the back of the computer and search dmesg, it says:
 
[...]
 
 
 I've emerged linuxtv-dvb-firmware and reissued the above command with no
 change.  How do I get Gentoo to recognize this card?
 -Michael Sullivan-
 

Try media-tv/ivtv-firmware. For some reason, that works better for me.
And also media-tv/ivtv-utils.

BTW: If your HVR behaves the same as my old PVR2, it can sometimes help
to suspend and wake the system to get it working.



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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2

[Michael Sullivan]

On 10/23/11 16:52, Florian Philipp wrote:
 Am 23.10.2011 23:36, schrieb Michael Sullivan:
 Hello.  I recently purchased a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR external TV card.
 I'm trying to get it to work with Gentoo Linux.  I think I've followed
 the steps found at
 http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-1900 correctly,
 but I'm still getting errors.  When I plug the TV card into the USB slot
 in the back of the computer and search dmesg, it says:

 [...]


 I've emerged linuxtv-dvb-firmware and reissued the above command with no
 change.  How do I get Gentoo to recognize this card?
 -Michael Sullivan-

 
 Try media-tv/ivtv-firmware. For some reason, that works better for me.
 And also media-tv/ivtv-utils.
 
 BTW: If your HVR behaves the same as my old PVR2, it can sometimes help
 to suspend and wake the system to get it working.
 

I suspended the system, but now I can't wake it up again!  I hit the
power button, and I heard a sound through the speakers similar to an
error sound.  I would say a barb sound, but I doubt any of you would be
able to make sense of it.  The only visual output of that computer is a
video output component going to the TV set.  I work on that computer
through ssh from another one in another room.  Should I just restart it
manually?  If not, how do I wake it up?

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2

[Michael Sullivan]

On 10/23/11 16:52, Florian Philipp wrote:
 Am 23.10.2011 23:36, schrieb Michael Sullivan:
 Hello.  I recently purchased a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR external TV card.
 I'm trying to get it to work with Gentoo Linux.  I think I've followed
 the steps found at
 http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-1900 correctly,
 but I'm still getting errors.  When I plug the TV card into the USB slot
 in the back of the computer and search dmesg, it says:

 [...]


 I've emerged linuxtv-dvb-firmware and reissued the above command with no
 change.  How do I get Gentoo to recognize this card?
 -Michael Sullivan-

 
 Try media-tv/ivtv-firmware. For some reason, that works better for me.
 And also media-tv/ivtv-utils.
 
 BTW: If your HVR behaves the same as my old PVR2, it can sometimes help
 to suspend and wake the system to get it working.
 


OK.  I restarted the computer.  (I have never suspended that computer
before and was unsure of what would happen, but I did not realize at the
time that my the game running on my wife's computer was using a samba
share that would be disrupted.)  I had no luck with ivtv-firmware, so I
have reinstalled linuxtv-dvb-firmware-2009.09.19.  Now the output of
dmesg has changed somewhat:

michael@carter ~ $ dmesg | grep -i pvr
pvrusb2: Hardware description: WinTV HVR-1950 Model 751xx
usbcore: registered new interface driver pvrusb2
pvrusb2: V4L in-tree version:Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 MPEG2 Encoder/Tuner
pvrusb2: Debug mask is 31 (0x1f)
pvrusb2: ***WARNING*** Device fx2 controller firmware seems to be missing.
pvrusb2: Did you install the pvrusb2 firmware files in their proper
location?
pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file
v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw
pvrusb2: Failure uploading firmware1
pvrusb2: Device initialization was not successful.
pvrusb2: Giving up since device microcontroller firmware appears to be
missing.

Does this help?

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:36:41 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:

 pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file
 v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw

Is this file present in /lib/firmware?


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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2

[Michael Sullivan]

On 10/23/11 17:48, Neil Bothwick wrote:
 On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:36:41 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
 
 pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file
 v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw
 
 Is this file present in /lib/firmware?
 
 

Nope:

michael@carter ~ $ ls /lib/firmware
3com cpia2 ess  mts_gsm.fw  ti_3410.fwvicam
acenic   cxgb3 kaweth   ositech ti_5052.fw
whiteheat.fw
adaptec  dabusbkeyspan_pda  qlogic  tigon
whiteheat_loader.fw
advansys e100  korg r128tr_smctr.bin  yamaha
atmsar11.fw  edgeport  matrox   radeon  ttusb-budget
bnx2 emi26 mts_cdma.fw  sun v4l-cx25840.fw
cis  emi62 mts_edge.fw  tehuti  v4l-cx25840.fw.1

How do I get that file?

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:00:52 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:

  pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file
  v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw  
  
  Is this file present in /lib/firmware?

 Nope:

It should be obvious that this needs to be addressed before anything
else.

 How do I get that file?

Putting the filename into Google gave me those instructions in the first
link.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2

[Michael Sullivan]

On 10/23/11 18:15, Neil Bothwick wrote:
 On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:00:52 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
 
 pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file
 v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw  

 Is this file present in /lib/firmware?
 
 Nope:
 
 It should be obvious that this needs to be addressed before anything
 else.
 
 How do I get that file?
 
 Putting the filename into Google gave me those instructions in the first
 link.
 
 


OK I've got the file:

michael@carter /lib/firmware $ ls v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw
v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw

It's still giving me the same errors though:

michael@carter /lib/firmware $ dmesg | grep pvrusb
pvrusb2: Hardware description: WinTV HVR-1950 Model 751xx
usbcore: registered new interface driver pvrusb2
pvrusb2: V4L in-tree version:Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 MPEG2 Encoder/Tuner
pvrusb2: Debug mask is 31 (0x1f)
pvrusb2: ***WARNING*** Device fx2 controller firmware seems to be missing.
pvrusb2: Did you install the pvrusb2 firmware files in their proper
location?
pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file
v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw
pvrusb2: Failure uploading firmware1
pvrusb2: Device initialization was not successful.
pvrusb2: Giving up since device microcontroller firmware appears to be
missing.

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with pvrusb2 [SOLVED]

[Michael Sullivan]

On 10/23/11 18:15, Neil Bothwick wrote:
 On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:00:52 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
 
 pvrusb2: request_firmware unable to locate fx2 controller file
 v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw  

 Is this file present in /lib/firmware?
 
 Nope:
 
 It should be obvious that this needs to be addressed before anything
 else.
 
 How do I get that file?
 
 Putting the filename into Google gave me those instructions in the first
 link.
 
 

I downloaded that file and rebooted and dmesg griped about another file
and I found it and downloaded it and rebooted and now my output looks
like this, which I'm happy with:


michael@carter ~ $ dmesg | grep -i pvrusb2
pvrusb2: Hardware description: WinTV HVR-1950 Model 751xx
usbcore: registered new interface driver pvrusb2
pvrusb2: V4L in-tree version:Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 MPEG2 Encoder/Tuner
pvrusb2: Debug mask is 31 (0x1f)
pvrusb2: Binding ir_rx_z8f0811_haup to i2c address 0x71.
pvrusb2: Binding ir_tx_z8f0811_haup to i2c address 0x70.
cx25840 2-0044: cx25843-24 found @ 0x88 (pvrusb2_a)
pvrusb2: Attached sub-driver cx25840
pvrusb2: Attached sub-driver tuner
pvrusb2: Supported video standard(s) reported available in hardware:
PAL-M/N/Nc;NTSC-M/Mj/Mk;ATSC-8VSB/16VSB
pvrusb2: Mapping standards mask=0x300b700
(PAL-M/N/Nc;NTSC-M/Mj/Mk;ATSC-8VSB/16VSB)
pvrusb2: Setting up 6 unique standard(s)
pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=0 name=PAL-M
pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=1 name=PAL-N
pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=2 name=PAL-Nc
pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=3 name=NTSC-M
pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=4 name=NTSC-Mj
pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=5 name=NTSC-Mk
pvrusb2: Initial video standard (determined by device type): NTSC-M
pvrusb2: Device initialization completed successfully.
pvrusb2: registered device video0 [mpeg]
DVB: registering new adapter (pvrusb2-dvb)


Speaking of which, isn't there an easier way to reload modules than
rebooting?  When I started using Gentoo in 2004, there was an
/etc/init.d/hotplug, which was replaced by /etc/init.d/coldplug, but
neither one seems to be present anymore on the system.  What service
loads modules on bootup now?

[gentoo-user] Need help : Compiling xe-guest-utilities (xenstore) from Source

[Pandu Poluan]

Okay, I got the .rpm for Citrix's xe-guest-utilities from this thread:

http://forums.citrix.com/message.jspa?messageID=1468339

Granted, it's slightly older than the latest version, but that's not
my main problem.

The problem is: How do I run a Config.mk file?

Or am I looking at this from a wrong way?

Any hints would be appreciated; my Google-fu has failed me.

Rgds,
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Re: OT: CVS [WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Need help discovering what's using a port (for cvsd)] SOLVED

[Michael Sullivan]

On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 09:43 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
 On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 17:30 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
  On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com 
  wrote:
   netstat: no support for `AF IPX' on this system.
   netstat: no support for `AF AX25' on this system.
   netstat: no support for `AF X25' on this system.
   netstat: no support for `AF NETROM' on this system.
  
  
   I assume these are kernel options, but without knowing specific symbol
   names, I'm not sure how to compile them into the kernel.  Can anyone
   give me any advice on this situation?
 
  I think if you don't have support for those protocols the chances of a
  program using them is probably zero. :) FWIW i get the exact same
  messages. I don't think it is meaningful.
 
  I use a similar command (omitting all the unix sockets stuff): netstat
  -lnp --inet
 
  With regard to your original problem, try to edit the cvsd.conf and
  specify an actual IP address to listen on (instead of 0.0.0.0 or * or
  however it is defined there) and see if that helps.
 
 
  Now I've got the server running, but I can't connect to it:
 
  mich...@camille ~ $ cvs login
  Logging in to :pserver:mich...@carter.espersunited.com:2401/root
  CVS password:
  cvs [login aborted]: connect to
  carter.espersunited.com(192.168.1.2):2401 failed: Connection refused
 
 Hmm, does cvsd use inetd? maybe it needs to be added to allowed port
 list or something like that.
 
This line in the config file:

Listen 127.0.0.1  2401

needed to be changed to this:
Listen 192.168.1.2 2401

And now it works

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with samba (Possibly OT)

[Michael Sullivan]

On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 22:43 +0100, Stroller wrote:
 On 14 Jun 2010, at 21:41, Michael Sullivan wrote:
  ... When I try to connect to the samba share from my
  linux install, I get this:
 
  mich...@camille ~ $ smbclient //carter//home
  Enter michael's password:
  Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.6]
  tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME
  mich...@camille ~ $ smbclient //carter//michael
  Enter michael's password:
  Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.6]
  tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME
 
  (The host name is carter, and I didn't understand what the second part
  should be.)
 
 If you're referring to the  //first/second syntax, then the first part  
 is the computer name, the second part the share name.
 
  Also, I didn't know if michael's password meant my password on my
  local box, my password on the remote box, or some password I set up  
  for
  Samba forever ago...
 
 The second / third option.
 
 Each user on the Samba server has a password, but it isn't the same as  
 their system password. Log on to the Samba server (i.e. `ssh carter`)  
 and run smbpasswd (possibly `sudo smbpasswd -U michael`).
 
  Here's my /etc/samba/smb.conf file:
  ...
hosts allow = 192.168.1. 127.
 
 If it's been some time since this system was used, are you still using  
 the 192.168.1.x subnet? If your ISP sent you a new router, you might  
 now be on 192.168.0.x. IMO change this to:
 hosts allow = 192.168. 127.
 
 Also run `smbtree` (works without a password).
 
 I appreciate that Samba tends not to make any sense when you're  
 inexperienced, but there ought to be lots of troubleshooting guides  
 out there. Google troubleshooting samba, follow through the steps  
 suggested by 2 or 3 and report back  tell us what you've done.
 
 Stroller.
   
 
I've got a couple of new errors in the logs:

From /var/log/samba/log.___192.168.1.3:
[2010/06/15 11:56:58,  0] lib/util_sock.c:1564(matchname)
  matchname: host name/address mismatch: :::192.168.1.3 !=
camille.espersunited.com
[2010/06/15 11:56:58,  0] lib/util_sock.c:1685(get_peer_name)
  Matchname failed on camille.espersunited.com :::192.168.1.3

and from /var/log/samba/log.camille:

[2010/06/15 11:56:58,  0] smbd/service.c:942(make_connection_snum)
  Can't become connected user!


What's with the :192.168.1.3?  Camille's address IS 192.168.1.3, and
it seems to know that because it calls the host at the address
'camille'...

[gentoo-user] Need help with samba (Possibly OT)

[Michael Sullivan]

My personal workstation is a dual-boot setup with Gentoo and Windows XP.
A long time ago, I set up Samba on another computer on my network to
provide extra hard drive space to our Windows installations.  They used
to work, but we haven't used them in some time.  I tried to use it today
and it didn't work.  When I try to connect to the samba share from my
linux install, I get this:

mich...@camille ~ $ smbclient //carter//home
Enter michael's password: 
Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.6]
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME
mich...@camille ~ $ smbclient //carter//michael 
Enter michael's password: 
Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.6]
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME

(The host name is carter, and I didn't understand what the second part
should be.)
Also, I didn't know if michael's password meant my password on my
local box, my password on the remote box, or some password I set up for
Samba forever ago...

Here's my /etc/samba/smb.conf file:

carter samba # cat smb.conf
[global]
   workgroup = MYGROUP
   server string = Samba Server %v
   printcap name = cups
   load printers = yes
   printing = cups
   log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
   max log size = 50
   hosts allow = 192.168.1. 127.
   map to guest = bad user
   security = user
   encrypt passwords = yes
   socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
   dns proxy = no 

[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = no
   writable = yes
   valid users = michael amy
   path = /samba

[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   path = /var/spool/samba
   browseable = no
   guest ok = no
   writable = no
   printable = yes

[print$]
   path = /var/lib/samba/printers
   browseable = yes
   read only = yes
   write list = @adm root
   guest ok = yes

[tmp]
   comment = Temporary file space
   path = /samba
   read only = no
   public = yes
   valid users = michael amy

I'm sure I've screwed something up somewhere, I'm just not sure what it
is.

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with samba (Possibly OT)

[Stroller]

On 14 Jun 2010, at 21:41, Michael Sullivan wrote:

... When I try to connect to the samba share from my
linux install, I get this:

mich...@camille ~ $ smbclient //carter//home
Enter michael's password:
Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.6]
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME
mich...@camille ~ $ smbclient //carter//michael
Enter michael's password:
Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.6]
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME

(The host name is carter, and I didn't understand what the second part
should be.)


If you're referring to the  //first/second syntax, then the first part  
is the computer name, the second part the share name.



Also, I didn't know if michael's password meant my password on my
local box, my password on the remote box, or some password I set up  
for

Samba forever ago...


The second / third option.

Each user on the Samba server has a password, but it isn't the same as  
their system password. Log on to the Samba server (i.e. `ssh carter`)  
and run smbpasswd (possibly `sudo smbpasswd -U michael`).



Here's my /etc/samba/smb.conf file:
...
  hosts allow = 192.168.1. 127.


If it's been some time since this system was used, are you still using  
the 192.168.1.x subnet? If your ISP sent you a new router, you might  
now be on 192.168.0.x. IMO change this to:

   hosts allow = 192.168. 127.

Also run `smbtree` (works without a password).

I appreciate that Samba tends not to make any sense when you're  
inexperienced, but there ought to be lots of troubleshooting guides  
out there. Google troubleshooting samba, follow through the steps  
suggested by 2 or 3 and report back  tell us what you've done.


Stroller.
 

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with samba (Possibly OT)

[Michael Sullivan]

On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 22:43 +0100, Stroller wrote:
 If it's been some time since this system was used, are you still using  
 the 192.168.1.x subnet? If your ISP sent you a new router, you might  
 now be on 192.168.0.x. IMO change this to:
 hosts allow = 192.168. 127.
 
I bought a brand new Linksys Wireless-N router a few months ago.  I
configure it to start addresses after 192.168.1.1 because that's what
we've always used, it's what all the computers on our LAN are set up
for, and I see no reason to change it.
 Also run `smbtree` (works without a password).
 
 I appreciate that Samba tends not to make any sense when you're  
 inexperienced, but there ought to be lots of troubleshooting guides  
 out there. Google troubleshooting samba, follow through the steps  
 suggested by 2 or 3 and report back  tell us what you've done.
 
 Stroller.
   

I actually started today at
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/install.html

carter ~ # testparm /etc/samba/smb.conf
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
rlimit_max: rlimit_max (1024) below minimum Windows limit (16384)
Processing section [homes]
Processing section [printers]
Processing section [print$]
Processing section [tmp]
Loaded services file OK.
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions

[global]
workgroup = MYGROUP
server string = Samba Server %v
map to guest = Bad User
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
printcap name = cups
dns proxy = No
hosts allow = 192.168.1., 127.

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
path = /samba
valid users = michael, amy
read only = No
browseable = No
browsable = No

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = Yes
browseable = No
browsable = No

[print$]
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
write list = @adm, root
guest ok = Yes

[tmp]
comment = Temporary file space
path = /samba
valid users = michael, amy
read only = No
guest ok = Yes

mich...@camille ~ $ smbclient -L carter  
Enter michael's password: 
Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.6]

Sharename   Type  Comment
-     ---
print$  Disk  
tmp Disk  Temporary file space
IPC$IPC   IPC Service (Samba Server 3.4.6)
Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.6]

Server   Comment
----
CARTER   Samba Server 3.4.6

WorkgroupMaster
----
MYGROUP  CARTER

mich...@camille ~ $ smbclient  //carter/tmp   
Enter michael's password: 
Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.6]
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE


Then I went to the Samba Checklist:
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/diagnosis.html

1: Run testparm; already did that.
2: Ping test:

mich...@camille ~ $ ping carter
PING carter.espersunited.com (192.168.1.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from carter.espersunited.com (192.168.1.2): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
time=0.157 ms
64 bytes from carter.espersunited.com (192.168.1.2): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64
time=0.145 ms
^C
--- carter.espersunited.com ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.145/0.151/0.157/0.006 ms

carter ~ # ping camille
PING camille.espersunited.com (192.168.1.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from camille.espersunited.com (192.168.1.3): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
time=0.158 ms
64 bytes from camille.espersunited.com (192.168.1.3): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64
time=0.155 ms
^C
--- camille.espersunited.com ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.155/0.156/0.158/0.012 ms

3: carter ~ # smbclient -L carter   
Enter root's password: 
Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.6]

Sharename   Type  Comment
-     ---
print$  Disk  
tmp Disk  Temporary file space
IPC$IPC   IPC Service (Samba Server 3.4.6)
Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.6]

Server   Comment
----
CARTER   Samba Server 3.4.6

WorkgroupMaster
----
MYGROUP  CARTER

4: mich...@camille ~ $ nmblookup -B BIGSERVER __SAMBA__
querying __SAMBA__ on 192.168.1.255
192.168.1.2 __SAMBA__00

4:  carter ~ # nmblookup -B camille *
querying xorg.conf.new on 192.168.1.3
name_query failed to find name xorg.conf.new

*I'm not sure what finding xorg.conf.new has 

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with samba (Possibly OT)

[Alex Schuster]

Michael Sullivan writes:

 4: mich...@camille ~ $ nmblookup -B BIGSERVER __SAMBA__
 querying __SAMBA__ on 192.168.1.255
 192.168.1.2 __SAMBA__00
 
 4:  carter ~ # nmblookup -B camille *
 querying xorg.conf.new on 192.168.1.3
 name_query failed to find name xorg.conf.new
 
 *I'm not sure what finding xorg.conf.new has to do with Samba, but it's
 on the checklist...

The shell replaces the * by files in your current directory. I do not know 
about nmblookup, but I gues you have to escape the *. That is, use '*' or 
\* instead.

Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with samba (Possibly OT)

[Michael Sullivan]

On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 02:12 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
 Michael Sullivan writes:
 
  4: mich...@camille ~ $ nmblookup -B BIGSERVER __SAMBA__
  querying __SAMBA__ on 192.168.1.255
  192.168.1.2 __SAMBA__00
  
  4:  carter ~ # nmblookup -B camille *
  querying xorg.conf.new on 192.168.1.3
  name_query failed to find name xorg.conf.new
  
  *I'm not sure what finding xorg.conf.new has to do with Samba, but it's
  on the checklist...
 
 The shell replaces the * by files in your current directory. I do not know 
 about nmblookup, but I gues you have to escape the *. That is, use '*' or 
 \* instead.
 
   Wonko
 

carter ~ # nmblookup -B camille '*'
querying * on 192.168.1.3
name_query failed to find name *

What is this command looking for?

Re: OT: CVS [WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Need help discovering what's using a port (for cvsd)]

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 17:30 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
 On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
  netstat: no support for `AF IPX' on this system.
  netstat: no support for `AF AX25' on this system.
  netstat: no support for `AF X25' on this system.
  netstat: no support for `AF NETROM' on this system.
 
 
  I assume these are kernel options, but without knowing specific symbol
  names, I'm not sure how to compile them into the kernel.  Can anyone
  give me any advice on this situation?

 I think if you don't have support for those protocols the chances of a
 program using them is probably zero. :) FWIW i get the exact same
 messages. I don't think it is meaningful.

 I use a similar command (omitting all the unix sockets stuff): netstat
 -lnp --inet

 With regard to your original problem, try to edit the cvsd.conf and
 specify an actual IP address to listen on (instead of 0.0.0.0 or * or
 however it is defined there) and see if that helps.


 Now I've got the server running, but I can't connect to it:

 mich...@camille ~ $ cvs login
 Logging in to :pserver:mich...@carter.espersunited.com:2401/root
 CVS password:
 cvs [login aborted]: connect to
 carter.espersunited.com(192.168.1.2):2401 failed: Connection refused

Hmm, does cvsd use inetd? maybe it needs to be added to allowed port
list or something like that.

[gentoo-user] Need help discovering what's using a port (for cvsd)

[Michael Sullivan]

A few years ago I was working on a programming project.  I installed a
cvsd server on our server box and checked in/checked out the project
whenever I felt like working on it (it would have gotten majorly screwed
up if the only copy of the project lived on my personal workstation -
hence using cvsd).  Anyway, I got busy with other things and forgot
about that particular programming project.  At some point over the last
few years, cvsd got unmerged.  I remerged it today and have been trying
to get it to work.  I checked the repository directory and the files I
need are still there.  I can't get the server to start.  I tried
running /etc/init.d/cvsd start and it failed with the [!!] thing.  I
catted the script and saw that the executable for the cvsd server lives
at /usr/sbin/cvsd, so I tried calling it directly:
carter log # /usr/sbin/cvsd --debug
cvsd: debug: reading config file (/etc/cvsd/cvsd.conf)
cvsd: debug: done reading config file
cvsd: debug: cvscmd: /bin/cvs
cvsd: debug: cvsargs[0]: cvs
cvsd: debug: cvsargs[1]: -f
cvsd: debug: cvsargs[2]: --allow-root=/root
cvsd: debug: cvsargs[3]: pserver
cvsd: debug: cvsenv[0]: HOME=/
cvsd: debug: cvsenv[1]: PATH=/bin
cvsd: debug: cvsenv[2]: SHELL=/bin/sh
cvsd: debug: cvsenv[3]: TMPDIR=/tmp
cvsd: debug: cvsenv[4]: CVSUMASK=027
cvsd: version 1.0.7 starting
cvsd: debug: binding 0.0.0.0 2401 family=2 socktype=1 protocol=6
cvsd: listening on 0.0.0.0 2401
cvsd: debug: binding :: 2401 family=10 socktype=1 protocol=6
cvsd: bind() failed: Address already in use
cvsd: version 1.0.7 bailing out
carter log # netstat -anp | grep 2401
carter log # 

Nothing.  I hope I'm using the netstat command correctly.  I wrote in to
a linux list years ago asking how to find out which process is using a
port, and they said to grep `netstat -anp` for whatever port I was
looking for.  Anyway, when I ran netstat -anpv, I got some errors:

netstat: no support for `AF IPX' on this system.
netstat: no support for `AF AX25' on this system.
netstat: no support for `AF X25' on this system.
netstat: no support for `AF NETROM' on this system.


I assume these are kernel options, but without knowing specific symbol
names, I'm not sure how to compile them into the kernel.  Can anyone
give me any advice on this situation?  

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help discovering what's using a port (for cvsd)

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote:
 netstat: no support for `AF IPX' on this system.
 netstat: no support for `AF AX25' on this system.
 netstat: no support for `AF X25' on this system.
 netstat: no support for `AF NETROM' on this system.


 I assume these are kernel options, but without knowing specific symbol
 names, I'm not sure how to compile them into the kernel.  Can anyone
 give me any advice on this situation?

I think if you don't have support for those protocols the chances of a
program using them is probably zero. :) FWIW i get the exact same
messages. I don't think it is meaningful.

I use a similar command (omitting all the unix sockets stuff): netstat
-lnp --inet

With regard to your original problem, try to edit the cvsd.conf and
specify an actual IP address to listen on (instead of 0.0.0.0 or * or
however it is defined there) and see if that helps.

OT: CVS [WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Need help discovering what's using a port (for cvsd)]

[Michael Sullivan]

On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 17:30 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
 On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote:
  netstat: no support for `AF IPX' on this system.
  netstat: no support for `AF AX25' on this system.
  netstat: no support for `AF X25' on this system.
  netstat: no support for `AF NETROM' on this system.
 
 
  I assume these are kernel options, but without knowing specific symbol
  names, I'm not sure how to compile them into the kernel.  Can anyone
  give me any advice on this situation?
 
 I think if you don't have support for those protocols the chances of a
 program using them is probably zero. :) FWIW i get the exact same
 messages. I don't think it is meaningful.
 
 I use a similar command (omitting all the unix sockets stuff): netstat
 -lnp --inet
 
 With regard to your original problem, try to edit the cvsd.conf and
 specify an actual IP address to listen on (instead of 0.0.0.0 or * or
 however it is defined there) and see if that helps.
 

Now I've got the server running, but I can't connect to it:

mich...@camille ~ $ cvs login
Logging in to :pserver:mich...@carter.espersunited.com:2401/root
CVS password: 
cvs [login aborted]: connect to
carter.espersunited.com(192.168.1.2):2401 failed: Connection refused

My .cvspass looks kinda weird too:
mich...@camille ~ $ cat .cvspass
/1 :pserver:mich...@carter.espersunited.com:2401/root Ah0 %0]y?

Is this right?

[gentoo-user] Need help to improve boot time using readahead-list

[Ngoc Nguyen Bao]

Hi, I'm trying to use readahead-list to improve my system's boot time. But
I'm now stuck in customizing /etc/readahead-list to fit my system. So if
anyone used it, could you give me some advices? Thanks.
P/s: I read about
thishttp://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_prefetch_files_on_bootbut it
doesn't seem to help improving boot time much.

-- 
Nguyễn Bảo Ngọc
http://www.facebook.com/pymaster

[gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

[Robin Atwood]

Regexs are not my strong point! I am trying to get a list of service scripts 
that provide virtual services. Each such script contains a line like:

provide dns

i.e. the line starts with one or more spaces, followed by the text provide, 
followed by one or more spaces and a single word. i have come up with:

 grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w /etc/init.d

but, as usual, nothing is matched. What am I doing wrong?

TIA
-Robin












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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

[Andrey Falko]

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Robin Atwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Regexs are not my strong point! I am trying to get a list of service scripts
 that provide virtual services. Each such script contains a line like:

provide dns

 i.e. the line starts with one or more spaces, followed by the text provide,
 followed by one or more spaces and a single word. i have come up with:

 grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w /etc/init.d

Right now you are saying: match one or more spaces in the begining
followed by provide followed by one or more spaces followed by *one*
word followed by one space and followed by /etc/init.d

I think you mean: grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w+ /etc/init.d

 but, as usual, nothing is matched. What am I doing wrong?

 TIA
 -Robin












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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

[Andrey Falko]

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Andrey Falko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Robin Atwood
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Regexs are not my strong point! I am trying to get a list of service scripts
 that provide virtual services. Each such script contains a line like:

provide dns

 i.e. the line starts with one or more spaces, followed by the text provide,
 followed by one or more spaces and a single word. i have come up with:

 grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w /etc/init.d

 Right now you are saying: match one or more spaces in the begining
 followed by provide followed by one or more spaces followed by *one*
 word followed by one space and followed by /etc/init.d

 I think you mean: grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w+ /etc/init.d

 but, as usual, nothing is matched. What am I doing wrong?

I see your mistake\w means alphanumeric character, not word.
 TIA
 -Robin












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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Saturday 24 May 2008, 17:22, Robin Atwood wrote:

 Regexs are not my strong point! I am trying to get a list of service
 scripts that provide virtual services. Each such script contains a
 line like:

   provide dns

 i.e. the line starts with one or more spaces, followed by the text
 provide, followed by one or more spaces and a single word. i have
 come up with:

grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w /etc/init.d

 but, as usual, nothing is matched. What am I doing wrong?

On my system, no initscript has the line provide dns in it, so it might 
be possible that you don't have any file with that line.

That said, you should use -r, and you don't need the -e switch:

grep -r '^[[:space:]]\{1,\}provide[[:space:]]\{1,\}dns' /etc/init.d

or, perhaps clearer

grep -rE '^[[:space:]]+provide[[:space:]]+dns' /etc/init.d
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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

[Robin Atwood]

On Saturday 24 May 2008, Andrey Falko wrote:
 On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Andrey Falko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Robin Atwood
 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Regexs are not my strong point! I am trying to get a list of service
  scripts that provide virtual services. Each such script contains a line
  like:
 
 provide dns
 
  i.e. the line starts with one or more spaces, followed by the text
  provide, followed by one or more spaces and a single word. i have come
  up with:
 
  grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w /etc/init.d
 
  Right now you are saying: match one or more spaces in the begining
  followed by provide followed by one or more spaces followed by *one*
  word followed by one space and followed by /etc/init.d
 
  I think you mean: grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w+ /etc/init.d
 
  but, as usual, nothing is matched. What am I doing wrong?

 I see your mistake\w means alphanumeric character, not word.

I had just realised that myself. However, it still doesn't work. :( 
Thanks for trying, though.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 24 May 2008, Robin Atwood wrote:
 Regexs are not my strong point! I am trying to get a list of service
 scripts that provide virtual services. Each such script contains a
 line like:

   provide dns

 i.e. the line starts with one or more spaces, followed by the text
 provide, followed by one or more spaces and a single word. i have
 come up with:

grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w /etc/init.d

 but, as usual, nothing is matched. What am I doing wrong?

grep -e is not the same thing as egrep or grep -E, and
I never managed to get \s to work as a synonym for [[:space:]]
Plus you need a proper file glob i your file spec

Try:
egrep '^[[:space:]]+provide[[:space:]]+\w' /etc/init.d/*

As in:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/init.d $ 
egrep '^[[:space:]]+provide[[:space:]]+\w' /etc/init.d/*
/etc/init.d/courier-authlib:provide authdaemond
/etc/init.d/hwclock:provide clock
/etc/init.d/net.eth0:   provide net
/etc/init.d/net.lo: provide net
/etc/init.d/net.lo.openrc.bak:  provide net
/etc/init.d/net.wlan0:  provide net
/etc/init.d/postfix:provide mta
/etc/init.d/shorewall:  provide firewall
/etc/init.d/syslog-ng:  provide logger
/etc/init.d/vixie-cron: provide cron
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/init.d $ 
grep -E '^[[:space:]]+provide[[:space:]]+\w' /etc/init.d/*
/etc/init.d/courier-authlib:provide authdaemond
/etc/init.d/hwclock:provide clock
/etc/init.d/net.eth0:   provide net
/etc/init.d/net.lo: provide net
/etc/init.d/net.lo.openrc.bak:  provide net
/etc/init.d/net.wlan0:  provide net
/etc/init.d/postfix:provide mta
/etc/init.d/shorewall:  provide firewall
/etc/init.d/syslog-ng:  provide logger
/etc/init.d/vixie-cron: provide cron
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/init.d $ 
grep -e '^[[:space:]]+provide[[:space:]]+\w' /etc/init.d/*
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/init.d $ 
  
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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

[Robin Atwood]

On Saturday 24 May 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
 On Saturday 24 May 2008, 17:22, Robin Atwood wrote:
  Regexs are not my strong point! I am trying to get a list of service
  scripts that provide virtual services. Each such script contains a
  line like:
 
  provide dns
 
  i.e. the line starts with one or more spaces, followed by the text
  provide, followed by one or more spaces and a single word. i have
  come up with:
 
   grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w /etc/init.d
 
  but, as usual, nothing is matched. What am I doing wrong?

 On my system, no initscript has the line provide dns in it, so it might
 be possible that you don't have any file with that line.

 That said, you should use -r, and you don't need the -e switch:

 grep -r '^[[:space:]]\{1,\}provide[[:space:]]\{1,\}dns' /etc/init.d

 or, perhaps clearer

 grep -rE '^[[:space:]]+provide[[:space:]]+dns' /etc/init.d

I am looking for all the scripts with lines like provide xxx, not just the 
dns service. That said, your solution did the trick! I amended the expression 
to:

 grep -rE '^[[:space:]]+provide[[:space:]]+\w+' /etc/init.d

and got what I was after. But why does [[:space:]]+ work and \s+ fail?

Cheers
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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

[Robin Atwood]

On Saturday 24 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:

 grep -e is not the same thing as egrep or grep -E, and
 I never managed to get \s to work as a synonym for [[:space:]]

I was wondering about that!

 Plus you need a proper file glob i your file spec
That was a typo in my post.

 Try:
 egrep '^[[:space:]]+provide[[:space:]]+\w' /etc/init.d/*

Thanks, I am in business now.

Cheers
-Robin
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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 24 May 2008, Robin Atwood wrote:
 But why does [[:space:]]+ work and \s+ fail?

Apparently because \s is not a synonym for [[:space:]]

I've heard this one before but never got it to work and never seen it in 
writing. Do you have a reference for where you read it?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

[Wolf Canis]

Robin Atwood wrote:
grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w /etc/init.d
 
 but, as usual, nothing is matched. What am I doing wrong?

You have to use back slashed versions of metacharacters. Following
how would do that:

$ grep -e '^[[:space:]]\+provide[[:space:]]\+[a-z]\+' /etc/init.d/*
/etc/init.d/syslog-ng:  provide logger
/etc/init.d/vixie-cron: provide cron


W. Canis



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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

[Robin Atwood]

On Saturday 24 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
 On Saturday 24 May 2008, Robin Atwood wrote:
  But why does [[:space:]]+ work and \s+ fail?

 Apparently because \s is not a synonym for [[:space:]]


Here for a start:
http://www.regular-expressions.info/charclass.html#shorthand

and also
http://doc.trolltech.com/3.3/qregexp.html#characters-and-abbreviations-for-sets-of-characters

Is it a Perl thing? Probably!
http://www.troubleshooters.com/codecorn/littperl/perlreg.htm#DoingStringComparisons

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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 24 May 2008, Robin Atwood wrote:
 On Saturday 24 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
  On Saturday 24 May 2008, Robin Atwood wrote:
   But why does [[:space:]]+ work and \s+ fail?
 
  Apparently because \s is not a synonym for [[:space:]]

 Here for a start:
 http://www.regular-expressions.info/charclass.html#shorthand

 and also
 http://doc.trolltech.com/3.3/qregexp.html#characters-and-abbreviation
s-for-sets-of-characters

 Is it a Perl thing? Probably!
 http://www.troubleshooters.com/codecorn/littperl/perlreg.htm#DoingStr
ingComparisons

Ah yes, it's the old:

grep/sed/awk/vi/perl-implement-regexes-identically-except-when-they-don't 
thing again!


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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

[Wolf Canis]

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Robin Atwood wrote:
grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w /etc/init.d
 
 but, as usual, nothing is matched. What am I doing wrong?

You have to use back slashed versions of meta characters. Following
how would do that:

$ grep -e '^[[:space:]]\+provide[[:space:]]\+[a-z]\+' /etc/init.d/*
/etc/init.d/syslog-ng:  provide logger
/etc/init.d/vixie-cron: provide cron


W. Canis


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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

[Florian Philipp]

Hans-Werner Hilse schrieb:
 Hi,
 
 On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:38:26 +0200
 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Now the kernel can handle connection state matching :)

 I can apply your rules with one exception:
 iptables -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE

 The same error message as before.
 
 But a different cause: My brain ;-)  That should rather read
 $ iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE
 (I forgot the -t nat)
 
 There is, however, a kernel configuration needed for masquerading, too
 (CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE on newer kernels, you can search for it
 -- or just MASQUERADE on older kernels -- using the / key in the
 kernel's menuconfig). So if iptables keeps complaining, check that too.
 
 BTW: I'm starting to really hate the HOWTO that much that I might even
 consider editing it. The HOWTO got this command wrong as well: It
 MASQUERADEs the connections going out to the LAN interface...
 
 For a proper durable setup, after performing all steps manually until
 you have iptables in the way, you should issue
 $ /etc/init.d/iptables save
 and have iptables fire up using rc-update, if not yet done. Also put
 the sysctl setting in /etc/sysctl.conf. Then routing/masquerading will
 be set up right on each boot.
 
 -hwh
 

Thank you for your patience, it's finally working!

If you don't edit the wiki, I'll do it (sooner or later). Just tell me
if you don't want to see your name when I give you credit for the settings.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing [OT: Issues with an article on the wiki]

[Hans-Werner Hilse]

Hi,

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:35:41 +0200
Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Thank you for your patience, it's finally working!

OK, that's good news :-)

 If you don't edit the wiki, I'll do it (sooner or later). Just tell me
 if you don't want to see your name when I give you credit for the settings.

Reading through it, it'll need a general rewrite.

The more I look at it, the less it makes sense. Though on the
discussion site, the last comment gives a valuable hint to what the
main culprit is: The article doesn't clarify on its focus (and I guess
that's why it hasn't got that much attention yet). Based on the title,
there are many ways to conclude what task is described there. I guess
it was really about routing an internet connection to some clients,
but the general concept of Routing is broader. So I think the article
should
- clarify what it's about (introduction)
- introduce routing and the route command (and/or ip route)
- introduce masquerading (what you wanted and the original article
  intended to describe, I think)

I'll take a try on rewriting it this evening (CEST). Feel free to
further rewrite it or start doing it, but I really think the aspects
noted above are worth following.

-hwh
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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

[Florian Philipp]

Hans-Werner Hilse schrieb:
 Hi,
 
 On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:59:03 +0200
 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 I'll attach relevant ifconfig, route and iptables -L output.
 
 Hm, OK. This:
 snip
 Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
 target prot opt source   destination 
 ACCEPT all  --  10.8.0.1 anywhere
 ACCEPT all  --  anywhere 10.8.0.1
 DROP   all  -- !10.8.0.1 anywhere
 snip
 
 is on what computer? On the server (I guess it's the router) the last
 line would effectively prevent routing for the client (but I don't know
 why ICMP works...). I would suggest starting without it and then
 setting up proper rules -- and then setting the chain's policy to DROP
 (plus some REJECT rules for proper answers).
 
 Dan's hint is also worth investigating.
 BTW: use route/ifconfig/netstat/iptables' -n switch to make analysis
 easier!
 
 -hwh

I followed the howto's nomenclature of server and client.
I'm a bit puzzled right now. Is there anything essentially wrong with
the howto ( http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_quick_routing )? I followed it
word by word.
The drop rule is explained as #prevent others ip from conecting to my eth0
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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

[Dan Farrell]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:48:20 +0200
Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 is on what computer? On the server (I guess it's the router) the
 last line would effectively prevent routing for the client (but I
 don't know why ICMP works...). I would suggest starting without it
 and then setting up proper rules -- and then setting the chain's
 policy to DROP (plus some REJECT rules for proper answers).

I agree, I thought your firewall rules were a little wacky too.  These
rules only route to one host.  generally you'd want to route to a whole
network, not just one host. 

 (but I don't know why ICMP works...).

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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

[Hans-Werner Hilse]

Hi,

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:30:51 +0200 Florian Philipp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Hm, OK. This:
  snip
  Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
  target prot opt source   destination 
  ACCEPT all  --  10.8.0.1 anywhere
  ACCEPT all  --  anywhere 10.8.0.1
  DROP   all  -- !10.8.0.1 anywhere
  snip
  
  is on what computer? On the server (I guess it's the router) the
  last line would effectively prevent routing for the client (but I
  don't know why ICMP works...). I would suggest starting without it
  and then setting up proper rules -- and then setting the chain's
  policy to DROP (plus some REJECT rules for proper answers).
 
 I followed the howto's nomenclature of server and client.
 I'm a bit puzzled right now. Is there anything essentially wrong with
 the howto ( http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_quick_routing )? I followed
 it word by word.
 The drop rule is explained as #prevent others ip from conecting to
 my eth0

Hm, judging from that the article on Routing uses a Client and
Server nomenclature, I consider the article being at least partly
crap ;-)

And yes, that guide really seems to be a bunch of BS (sorry, but that's
the way it seems to be). It is outright horrible. Personally I hate
discussing on Wikis' Discussion Pages, so, no, I won't correct it (but
looking at its discussion page, others considered it bad, too, and are
planning to correct/delete it).

That iptables setup is absolutely stupid. It accepts packets from and
to the machine itself (note that 10.8.0.1 is the router's IP), but will
drop any packet not originating from 10.8.0.1. The latter should be
true for all packets originating from the client (since it has the
address 10.8.0.2). So all the client's communication is dropped, and
that's it, end of story.

Better have a look at netfilter's set of HOWTOs, especially the NAT
howto. Better learn what you're doing... Otherwise, just take the hints
from my previous posting.

My suggestion for a proper setup would be

$ iptables -F FORWARD
$ iptables -P FORWARD DROP
$ iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o ppp0 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED 
-j ACCEPT
$ iptables -A FORWARD -i ppp0 -o eth0 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j 
ACCEPT
...plus rules allowing for forwarding designated ports, if any

You'll certainly want to keep this:
$ iptables -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE
in place, too.

Note that this trusts any box connecting via eth0, not just a single
client.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

[Florian Philipp]

Dan Farrell schrieb:
 On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:48:20 +0200
 Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 is on what computer? On the server (I guess it's the router) the
 last line would effectively prevent routing for the client (but I
 don't know why ICMP works...). I would suggest starting without it
 and then setting up proper rules -- and then setting the chain's
 policy to DROP (plus some REJECT rules for proper answers).
 
 I agree, I thought your firewall rules were a little wacky too.  These
 rules only route to one host.  generally you'd want to route to a whole
 network, not just one host. 
 
 (but I don't know why ICMP works...).
 

Well, as I've written, they aren't my rules. I just copied and pasted
them.

I know just as much about iptables as I know about cars. I know the
theory, I've seen the building process from like 10 meters distance and
I use finished product.

I'd really appreciate if you could post the correct settings or config
file(s).
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