[gentoo-user] codec h264
Hi all, anybody in the know whether there is a h264 codec (especially an *encoder*) for linux? Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dmesg for Previous Boot?
Jerry McBride wrote: Yes that would be possible. But since the OP's kernel doesn't even boot up, it's not an option. He was asking how to see the previous dmesg output this would do it on future boot ups... He was trying to update the kernel. Since it didn't boot up, he was looking for a way to get the kernel messages from the non-booting kernel. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] codec h264
mencoder seems to support something called x264enc (according to the man page) On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 10:14 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi all, anybody in the know whether there is a h264 codec (especially an *encoder*) for linux? Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is aticonfig (bug confirmation, please)?
Richard Fish schreef:
Holly Bostick wrote:
As you all might know, I have an ati card. I just installed the new
8.18.6 drivers yesterday.
I was later hanging around on the Rage3D Linux Drivers forum, and
noticed mention of a utility called 'aticonfig', which apparently is a
workalike for fglrxconfig (the xorg.conf configurator), but (also
apparently) works better than fglrxconfig; not least because it
--apparently-- adds to your currently-existing xorg.conf, rather than
creating a (garbage) one from scratch.
So naturally I thought I'd try running it but I don't seem to have
it, and I don't know why.
I'm guessing the following line from the 8.18.6 ebuild is the reason: :-)
rm -rf ${WORKDIR}/usr/X11R6/bin/{aticonfig,fglrx_pplay}
My guess is that it should be added to the ati-drivers-extra ebuild, but
I don't see it there, so yes, it looks worthy of a bug report to me.
Thanks :-) ; for any interested parties, the bug can be found at
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109687
Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] codec h264
Uwe Thiem wrote: anybody in the know whether there is a h264 codec (especially an *encoder*) for linux? http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html x264 is still in early development, but you might give it a try. You can use mencoder (from the mplayer package) to encode h264. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 04:13:34PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:19:55 -0300, Matias Grana wrote: I'm trying to compile vim with +clipboard support. One can do this by passing --enable-clipboard to configure. There's no USE flag for this feature. After some research, I've learned that the way to do this is to configure the EXTRA_ECONF variable. Now the question is: is there a file to put these variables in? Something like /etc/portage/package.use but for econfs? You can set variables for individual ebuilds using /etc/portage/bashrc. save the attached file as /etc/portage/bashrc then do mkdir -p /etc/portage/env.d/app-editors echo /etc/portage/env.d/app-editors/vim 'EXTRA_ECONF=--enable-clipboard' You can use this to set variables, or override default settings, for any package. -- Neil Bothwick Nice! thanks so much; maybe I'll try this next time. It seems that this time I've missed some doc: On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 08:28:54PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:19:55 -0300 Matias Grana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'm trying to compile vim with +clipboard support. One can do this | by passing --enable-clipboard to configure. There's no USE flag for | this feature. Incorrect. USE=vim-with-x. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm Nicer! So this is what vim-with-x stand for! I saw the flag, but thought that it would pull down gvim, which I already have in my world. Now: this pops up a second question: where can we see the exact efect of USE flags on packages? For instance: what other features 'vim-with-x' will enable? Matias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?
Matias Grana schreef: On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 08:28:54PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:19:55 -0300 Matias Grana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'm trying to compile vim with +clipboard support. One can do this | by passing --enable-clipboard to configure. There's no USE flag for | this feature. Incorrect. USE=vim-with-x. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm Nicer! So this is what vim-with-x stand for! I saw the flag, but thought that it would pull down gvim, which I already have in my world. Now: this pops up a second question: where can we see the exact efect of USE flags on packages? For instance: what other features 'vim-with-x' will enable? USE flag descriptions can be found in /usr/portage/profiles. There are two files: /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc (for global USE flags), and /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc (for local USE flags relevant to individual packages). You can of course search/grep normally through these files, but I find it easier to nick an alias that someone on the list provided, and add it to ~/.bashrc: alias useflag='grep /usr/portage/profiles/use.*desc -e' which enables me to do this (after re-sourcing ~/.bashrc, which I also have an alias to do :-) ): di 10/18/05 15:39 ~ motub- useflag vim-with-x /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:app-editors/vim:vim-with-x - Linking console vim against X11 libraries to enable title and clipboard features in xterm And now I know what it does, instead of guessing ;-) . Hope this helps Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] codec h264
On 18 October 2005 13:12, Christoph Gysin wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: anybody in the know whether there is a h264 codec (especially an *encoder*) for linux? http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html x264 is still in early development, but you might give it a try. You can use mencoder (from the mplayer package) to encode h264. Thanks! I'll have a look but guess early development isn't good enough yet. I asked because we encoded a 1h45m movie with h264 on an mac with surprising results. The whole movie in full PAL quality shrunk to about 500MB The encoding took 5 hours on a dual G5, though. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error
Please help -- I can't emerge ethereal and I would really like to use it. I get a mess: i686 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -o .libs/dftest dftest.o util.o .libs/dftestS.o -Wl,--export-dynamic -Wl,--export-dynamic -pthread -L/usr/local/lib wiretap/.libs/libwiretap.so epan/.libs/libethereal.so -lcrypto /usr/lib/libpcre.so /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lm -lpcap -lz creating dftest /usr/bin/perl ./perlnoutf.pl ./make-authors-format.pl AUTHORS-SHORT AUTHORS-SHORT-FORMAT (cd doc ; \ make ../ethereal-filter.4 ) make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/ethereal-0.10.12/work/ethereal-0.10.12/doc' ../tethereal -G fields | /usr/bin/perl ./dfilter2pod.pl ./ethereal-filter.pod.template ethereal-filter.pod ** (process:20746): WARNING **: radius: Could not find the radius directory /usr/bin/pod2man\ --section=4 \ --center=The Ethereal Network Analyzer\ --release=0.10.12 \ ethereal-filter.pod ../ethereal-filter.4 i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DINET6 -D_U_=__attribute__((unused)) -Wall -W -O -mcpu=i686 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -o text2pcap text2pcap.o text2pcap-scanner.o -Wl,--export-dynamic -pthread -L/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lm -lz collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [text2pcap] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ethereal-0.10.12/work/ethereal-0.10.12/doc' make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ethereal-0.10.12/work/ethereal-0.10.12' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ethereal-0.10.12/work/ethereal-0.10.12' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.12 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 83, Exitcode 2 !!! compile problem Why does it want a radius directory anyway? How do I fix this? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 09:20, Dan wrote: Please help -- I can't emerge ethereal and I would really like to use it. I get a mess: i686 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -o .libs/dftest dftest.o util.o .libs/dftestS.o -Wl,--export-dynamic -Wl,--export-dynamic -pthread -L/usr/local/lib wiretap/.libs/libwiretap.so epan/.libs/libethereal.so -lcrypto /usr/lib/libpcre.so /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lm -lpcap -lz creating dftest /usr/bin/perl ./perlnoutf.pl ./make-authors-format.pl AUTHORS-SHORT AUTHORS-SHORT-FORMAT (cd doc ; \ make ../ethereal-filter.4 ) make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/ethereal-0.10.12/work/ethereal-0.10.12/doc' ../tethereal -G fields | /usr/bin/perl ./dfilter2pod.pl ./ethereal-filter.pod.template ethereal-filter.pod ** (process:20746): WARNING **: radius: Could not find the radius directory /usr/bin/pod2man\ --section=4 \ --center=The Ethereal Network Analyzer\ --release=0.10.12 \ ethereal-filter.pod ../ethereal-filter.4 i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DINET6 -D_U_=__attribute__((unused)) -Wall -W -O -mcpu=i686 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -o text2pcap text2pcap.o text2pcap-scanner.o -Wl,--export-dynamic -pthread -L/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lm -lz collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [text2pcap] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ethereal-0.10.12/work/ethereal-0.10.12/doc' make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ethereal-0.10.12/work/ethereal-0.10.12' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ethereal-0.10.12/work/ethereal-0.10.12' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.12 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 83, Exitcode 2 !!! compile problem Why does it want a radius directory anyway? How do I fix this? add -radius to your USE flags? -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error
John Jolet wrote: add -radius to your USE flags? How willl this help? $ grep IUSE /usr/portage/net-analyzer/ethereal/*.ebuild IUSE=adns gtk ipv6 snmp ssl kerberos Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] codec h264
Uwe Thiem wrote: Thanks! I'll have a look but guess early development isn't good enough yet. I'd still give it a shot. Most of the time the software is more stable than the developers would admit. I asked because we encoded a 1h45m movie with h264 on an mac with surprising results. The whole movie in full PAL quality shrunk to about 500MB The encoding took 5 hours on a dual G5, though. Sounds interesting! Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems distribution name and release version. The lsb_release ir commands seems to provide what we are looking for and works under a number of popular distributions. Ive tested the command using Gentoo 2005.0 text install and the command was not found. Does Gentoo support lsb_release ir command? If not how can I contact the developers to request this? Thank you, Frank -- This e-mail message (including attachments, if any) is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, proprietary , confidential and exempt from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and erase this e-mail message immediately. -- Le present message electronique (y compris les pieces qui y sont annexees, le cas echeant) s'adresse au destinataire indique et peut contenir des renseignements de caractere prive ou confidentiel. Si vous n'etes pas le destinataire de ce document, nous vous signalons qu'il est strictement interdit de le diffuser, de le distribuer ou de le reproduire. Si ce message vous a ete transmis par erreur, veuillez en informer l'expediteur et le supprimer immediatement. --
Re: [gentoo-user] CDMA phone line for Asterisk?
Stroller wrote: On Oct 17, 2005, at 10:08 pm, Michael Crute wrote: On 10/17/05, Widyachacra Rajapaksha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, im very new to asterisk, even diz z my 1st mail to the list. am working for a smb company it has two main CDMA telepone connections. now they wants to deploy a pbx get out 20 nods(telephone extensions) You will probably have better luck asking this on their forum [1] than you will here since this is the Gentoo Users list. [1] http://forums.digium.com/ Or on the Asterisk-users mailing list, which is VERY active. http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users Stroller. Yes, it's very active. But mostly with questions. Very few answers except for the easy questions. -k -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DINET6 -D_U_=__attribute__((unused)) -Wall -W -O -mcpu=i686 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -o text2pcap text2pcap.o text2pcap-scanner.o -Wl,--export-dynamic -pthread -L/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lm -lz collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Well the good news is that since you're getting this far, you're almost out of the woods... As far as the radius warnings go, I got those also but it installed w/o them. There are only minor differences between your command and the one my system issued: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -D_U_=__attribute__((unused)) -Wall -W -O -march=athlon -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -I/u sr/local/include -DXTHREADS -D_REENTRANT -DXUSE_MTSAFE_API -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I /usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/freetype2/config -I/usr/i nclude/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include -o text2pcap text2pcap.o text2pcap-scanner.o -Wl,--e xport-dynamic -pthread -L/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lm -lz The first is the INET6, I don't have ipv6 support enabled on my box (the -ipv6 use flag). The added defines for threads I'm not sure about, but I've got both nptl and the older thread support enabled (the nptl use flag). Also mine didn't emit the -mcpu=686 argument for gcc; is this something you defined in your CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf? Basically I would try the following: 1. Disable ipv6 if you are not using it. 2. Check your nptl/nptlonly use flags; if you have nptlonly set, it might be a threads issue. 3. Check your CFLAGS and possibly remove the -mcpu definition (as I remember that is supposed to be deprecated anyway). Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems distribution name and release version. The “lsb_release –ir” commands seems to provide what we are looking for and works under a number of popular distributions. I’ve tested the command using Gentoo 2005.0 text install and the command was not found. Does Gentoo support “lsb_release –ir” command? There is no such thing as a release in gentoo. You could get the current profile by reading the link in /etc/make.profile. If not how can I contact the developers to request this? By writing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] AFAIR gentoo won't ever be LSB compliant. It doesn't really make sense on such a customizable distribution. Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
it sounds like one of the Linux Standard Base stuff... you won't see it at gentoo in any time soon i guess On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 10:41 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems distribution name and release version. The “lsb_release –ir” commands seems to provide what we are looking for and works under a number of popular distributions. I’ve tested the command using Gentoo 2005.0 text install and the command was not found. Does Gentoo support “lsb_release –ir” command? If not how can I contact the developers to request this? Thank you, Frank -- This e-mail message (including attachments, if any) is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, proprietary , confidential and exempt from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and erase this e-mail message immediately. -- Le present message electronique (y compris les pieces qui y sont annexees, le cas echeant) s'adresse au destinataire indique et peut contenir des renseignements de caractere prive ou confidentiel. Si vous n'etes pas le destinataire de ce document, nous vous signalons qu'il est strictement interdit de le diffuser, de le distribuer ou de le reproduire. Si ce message vous a ete transmis par erreur, veuillez en informer l'expediteur et le supprimer immediatement. -- -- Nothing's gonna change my world signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 11:06 am, Richard Fish wrote: In either case, the solution is the same: MAKEOPTS=j1 emerge ethereal. Sorry, but I can attest to -j(n 1) works locally for me. It is most likely not the issue. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive
Hello everbody, Maxtor suggests I do a low-level format of my flaky Diamond 16 drive using their Powermax tool. Unfortunately it doesn't give you the option of sparing one partition or the other -- it does the whole thing. I strongly suspect the problem lies on the first half of the drive where XP-pro used to reside. Is there a way to do a low-level format of part of a drive while leaving the rest intact? -mw __ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 00:20 +1000, Dan wrote: Please help -- I can't emerge ethereal and I would really like to use it. Try revdep-rebuild. If it is not available emerge gentoolkit and try again. You may have some missing links to the libraries. Good luck, -- Scott Tiret [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 11:56 am, Scott Tiret wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 00:20 +1000, Dan wrote: Please help -- I can't emerge ethereal and I would really like to use it. Try revdep-rebuild. If it is not available emerge gentoolkit and try again. You may have some missing links to the libraries. Good luck, He got all the way to the last part where it builds doco for ethereal... If it were truly a library issue it would have crapped out long before then. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 17:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you cat /etc/gentoo-release it give back Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16. Though being LSB compliant may not make sense for Gentoo as a whole, there is sense in having an ability to remotely identify the system as a Gentoo distribution. If the distribution could support lsb_release -ir output, it would definitely be helpful. since gentoo is NOT LSB compliant (and the chances are fat, that it will never be), it would be just wrong, to give back a lsb-release version, is it not? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 17:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you cat /etc/gentoo-release it give back Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16. Though being LSB compliant may not make sense for Gentoo as a whole, there is sense in having an ability to remotely identify the system as a Gentoo distribution. If the distribution could support lsb_release -ir output, it would definitely be helpful. Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: since gentoo is NOT LSB compliant (and the chances are fat, that it will never be), it would be just wrong, to give back a lsb-release version, is it not? From a developer point of view I would want something common that can be accessed on a system that allows me to at least be able to identify the distributions. The lsb-release -ir may not be the politically correct command, but was a suggestion as it already exists on many distributions. Also from a system administrators point of view it is helpful to know the operating system running on a particular server if you are responsible for managing a diverse environment with thousands of systems. Frank This e-mail message (including attachments, if any) is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, proprietary , confidential and exempt from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and erase this e-mail message immediately. Le present message electronique (y compris les pieces qui y sont annexees, le cas echeant) s'adresse au destinataire indique et peut contenir des renseignements de caractere prive ou confidentiel. Si vous n'etes pas le destinataire de ce document, nous vous signalons qu'il est strictement interdit de le diffuser, de le distribuer ou de le reproduire. Si ce message vous a ete transmis par erreur, veuillez en informer l'expediteur et le supprimer immediatement. - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Also from a system administrators point of view it is helpful to know the operating system running on a particular server if you are responsible for managing a diverse environment with thousands of systems. I'd check for the existence of emerge and/or /etc/make.conf. If one or both exists, I'd suppose that the system is a Gentoo system. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive
maxim wexler schrieb: I strongly suspect the problem lies on the first half of the drive where XP-pro used to reside. Is there a way to do a low-level format of part of a drive while leaving the rest intact? Uhm, I'd make a backup of the data and let that tool whatever it wants to do. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive
On 10/18/05, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everbody, Maxtor suggests I do a low-level format of my flaky Diamond 16 drive using their Powermax tool. Unfortunately it doesn't give you the option of sparing one partition or the other -- it does the whole thing. I strongly suspect the problem lies on the first half of the drive where XP-pro used to reside. Is there a way to do a low-level format of part of a drive while leaving the rest intact? If you have the drive partitioned you can dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdaX Where hdaX is the partition to zero out. This should be equivalent to a low level format. PS: Have you tried running badblocks on it? -- Regards Karol Krzak -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:41:32 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems | and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems | distribution name and release version. The lsb_release -ir commands | seems to provide what we are looking for and works under a number of | popular distributions. I've tested the command using Gentoo 2005.0 | text install and the command was not found. Does Gentoo support | lsb_release -ir command? If not how can I contact the developers to | request this? Not going to happen. We're not going to dignify LSB by adding that kind of nonsense... You can get the current release using: cat $(portageq portdir)/metadata/timestamp assuming the user isn't running off CVS rather than rsync. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpdiPuGUfxcl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] codec h264
it would be about as stable as anything released for windows On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 16:38 +0200, Christoph Gysin wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: Thanks! I'll have a look but guess early development isn't good enough yet. I'd still give it a shot. Most of the time the software is more stable than the developers would admit. I asked because we encoded a 1h45m movie with h264 on an mac with surprising results. The whole movie in full PAL quality shrunk to about 500MB The encoding took 5 hours on a dual G5, though. Sounds interesting! Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Douglas James Dunn.-. 468 South 7th street /v\L I N U X Indiana, PA 15701// \\ Phear the Penguin cell: (724) 316-8266/( )\ Indiana University ^^-^^ of Pennsylvania () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. . .vir.d$b .d$$b..cd$$b. .d$$b. d$$$b .d$$b. .d$$b. ( )$$$b d$$$()$$$. d$$$b Q$$$P$$$P.$$$b. .$$$b. Q$$BP d$$$PQb. . .$$$P' `$$$ .$$$P' `$$$ $$$P Q$$$b d$$$P Qb b b..d$$$ b..d$$$ d$$P Q$$$ Q $ `Q$$$P `Q$$$P $$$P ` Q$$$P Q$$$P Q$$$P `Q$$P signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive
um a low level format is always the entire drive. It basically returns the drive to factory default. AKA all 0's. A high level format would be what your talking about which would be the same as reformatting a partition. as fdisk would do. On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 08:42 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everbody, Maxtor suggests I do a low-level format of my flaky Diamond 16 drive using their Powermax tool. Unfortunately it doesn't give you the option of sparing one partition or the other -- it does the whole thing. I strongly suspect the problem lies on the first half of the drive where XP-pro used to reside. Is there a way to do a low-level format of part of a drive while leaving the rest intact? -mw __ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- Douglas James Dunn.-. 468 South 7th street /v\L I N U X Indiana, PA 15701// \\ Phear the Penguin cell: (724) 316-8266/( )\ Indiana University ^^-^^ of Pennsylvania () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. . .vir.d$b .d$$b..cd$$b. .d$$b. d$$$b .d$$b. .d$$b. ( )$$$b d$$$()$$$. d$$$b Q$$$P$$$P.$$$b. .$$$b. Q$$BP d$$$PQb. . .$$$P' `$$$ .$$$P' `$$$ $$$P Q$$$b d$$$P Qb b b..d$$$ b..d$$$ d$$P Q$$$ Q $ `Q$$$P `Q$$$P $$$P ` Q$$$P Q$$$P Q$$$P `Q$$P signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error
im not sure if this is relevant but is radius not some kind of client server protocol On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 00:20 +1000, Dan wrote: Please help -- I can't emerge ethereal and I would really like to use it. I get a mess: i686 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -o .libs/dftest dftest.o util.o .libs/dftestS.o -Wl,--export-dynamic -Wl,--export-dynamic -pthread -L/usr/local/lib wiretap/.libs/libwiretap.so epan/.libs/libethereal.so -lcrypto /usr/lib/libpcre.so /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lm -lpcap -lz creating dftest /usr/bin/perl ./perlnoutf.pl ./make-authors-format.pl AUTHORS-SHORT AUTHORS-SHORT-FORMAT (cd doc ; \ make ../ethereal-filter.4 ) make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/ethereal-0.10.12/work/ethereal-0.10.12/doc' ../tethereal -G fields | /usr/bin/perl ./dfilter2pod.pl ./ethereal-filter.pod.template ethereal-filter.pod ** (process:20746): WARNING **: radius: Could not find the radius directory /usr/bin/pod2man\ --section=4 \ --center=The Ethereal Network Analyzer\ --release=0.10.12 \ ethereal-filter.pod ../ethereal-filter.4 i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DINET6 -D_U_=__attribute__((unused)) -Wall -W -O -mcpu=i686 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -o text2pcap text2pcap.o text2pcap-scanner.o -Wl,--export-dynamic -pthread -L/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so -ldl /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lm -lz collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [text2pcap] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ethereal-0.10.12/work/ethereal-0.10.12/doc' make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ethereal-0.10.12/work/ethereal-0.10.12' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ethereal-0.10.12/work/ethereal-0.10.12' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.12 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 83, Exitcode 2 !!! compile problem Why does it want a radius directory anyway? How do I fix this? -- Douglas James Dunn.-. 468 South 7th street /v\L I N U X Indiana, PA 15701// \\ Phear the Penguin cell: (724) 316-8266/( )\ Indiana University ^^-^^ of Pennsylvania () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. . .vir.d$b .d$$b..cd$$b. .d$$b. d$$$b .d$$b. .d$$b. ( )$$$b d$$$()$$$. d$$$b Q$$$P$$$P.$$$b. .$$$b. Q$$BP d$$$PQb. . .$$$P' `$$$ .$$$P' `$$$ $$$P Q$$$b d$$$P Qb b b..d$$$ b..d$$$ d$$P Q$$$ Q $ `Q$$$P `Q$$$P $$$P ` Q$$$P Q$$$P Q$$$P `Q$$P signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] Re: low-level formatting a harddrive
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 17:42, maxim wexler wrote: [...] Is there a way to do a low-level format of part of a drive while leaving the rest intact? It is a contradiction in terms, partitioning is not low-level. Use partimage to save the partition to preserve and check/format the disk with provided utility. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.12-gentoo-r9, Compiled #2 Wed Aug 24 18:43:16 CEST 2005 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4325.37 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:41:32 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems | and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems | distribution name and release version. The lsb_release -ir commands | seems to provide what we are looking for and works under a number of | popular distributions. I've tested the command using Gentoo 2005.0 | text install and the command was not found. Does Gentoo support | lsb_release -ir command? If not how can I contact the developers to | request this? Not going to happen. We're not going to dignify LSB by adding that kind of nonsense... You can get the current release using: cat $(portageq portdir)/metadata/timestamp Well that's just craptastic. Now can we just get all of the other distros to define PORTDIR and include portageq as standard? Cause that would be smart. Look I'm not at all suggesting that we dignify LSB but what the o.p. is suggesting is not at all a bad idea. An easy, distro-independent, method for determining what distro, version, release, toolchain versioning, and/or portage timestamp can only help maintainers of heterogenous networks to do their jobs with less frustration. Scott. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems distribution name and release version. Well, there isn't a standard way to any distro, come to think about it. LSB is sort of a pain and one sided, based on their 'standards'. Wasn't there also a hubub on /. on how every 'compliant' distro was faking their results? While we're at it, could people get a clue and stop including moronic little tags in their email like: This e-mail message (including attachments, if any) is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, proprietary , confidential and exempt from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and erase this e-mail message immediately. Is this even legally binding? I have a hard time believing that I can't disclose something someone sent *me* if I didn't sign anything. Also, every email sent to this list is automatically copied in gmane and a dozen little 'problem resolution' forums -- so it's kind of moot.
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:25:07 -0400 Scott Stoddard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | An easy, distro-independent, method for determining what distro, | version, release, toolchain versioning, and/or portage timestamp can | only help maintainers of heterogenous networks to do their jobs with | less frustration. Sure. Put together a proposal that doesn't involve LSB, persuade the other big name distros that it's a good idea and maybe we'll consider it. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpc4BwdE4aC0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:41:24PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: motub- useflag vim-with-x /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:app-editors/vim:vim-with-x - Linking console vim against X11 libraries to enable title and clipboard features in xterm Aha! Now it seems that I have an old (or not so accurate) /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc: /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:app-editors/vim:vim-with-x - Enables linking the console vim against X libs to enable some features in xterms This is why I neglected to see that clipboard and vim-with-x were related. But what I find confusing now is why I have this difference. How does one update the use.local.desc file? It seems not to belong to any package (tried equery belongs /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc and didn't get any answer). Matías -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 02:20 pm, Phill MV wrote: We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems distribution name and release version. Well, there isn't a standard way to any distro, come to think about it. LSB is sort of a pain and one sided, based on their 'standards'. Wasn't there also a hubub on /. on how every 'compliant' distro was faking their results? While we're at it, could people get a clue and stop including moronic little tags in their email like: this is required by many companies legal departments. Some places even add it at the mta, not the client. This e-mail message (including attachments, if any) is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, proprietary , confidential and exempt from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and erase this e-mail message immediately. Is this even legally binding? I have a hard time believing that I can't disclose something someone sent *me* if I didn't sign anything. Also, every email sent to this list is automatically copied in gmane and a dozen little 'problem resolution' forums -- so it's kind of moot. -- John Jolet Technology Solutions Your On-Demand IT Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] (512)762-0729 www.jolet.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 02:25 pm, Scott Stoddard wrote: An easy, distro-independent, method for determining what distro, version, release, toolchain versioning, and/or portage timestamp can only help maintainers of heterogenous networks to do their jobs with less frustration. Come on, folks, even though this thread has gone on just today it's gone on long enough... Gentoo isn't LSB, nor will it be. That much is a fact. To think that LSB will solve the problems of maintainers of heterogenous networks is a clear indication that you haven't really read what LSB actually is or means. What the original poster is going to find out is that a) gentoo does not support LSB and that b) gentoo is not alone. This will leave them with the choice of limiting their tool to only LSB compliant distros or doing what the rest of the folks are and that's developing the code base to release onto the end nodes that will be managed. Personally I'd opt for the latter, but then I don't have any say in what their choice will be. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Getting distribution name and release version
Scott Stoddard scott at cs.ubishops.ca writes: An easy, distro-independent, method for determining what distro, version, release, toolchain versioning, and/or portage timestamp can only help maintainers of heterogenous networks to do their jobs with less frustration. Be sure to include enough 'hooks' so that those with nefarious intentions can parse the results so as to optimize/streamline their profile and compromise tools HTH James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:44:54 -0300 Matias Grana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This is why I neglected to see that clipboard and vim-with-x were | related. But what I find confusing now is why I have this difference. | How does one update the use.local.desc file? It seems not to belong | to any package emerge sync -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpCCsCfdO7bQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: codec h264
Uwe Thiem uwix at iway.na writes: anybody in the know whether there is a h264 codec (especially an *encoder*) for linux? I asked because we encoded a 1h45m movie with h264 on an mac with surprising results. The whole movie in full PAL quality shrunk to about 500MB The encoding took 5 hours on a dual G5, though. ffmpeg is raw code for any and all things video. Most of the aforementioned software makes use of ffmpeg in one way or another. CVS is the only way to get at the latest code baseLots of different codecs and folks that know their stuff on codecs http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/index.php an old, stale version is in portage: (eix ffmpeg) PS drop me a line if/when you get the h264 codec working out of cvs on gentoo I have several different pieces of hardware that produce 'h.264' based video, everything from embedded systems that are a 'hack in progress' to finished products from the orient. Interoperability testing is always of keen interest to me. HTH, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 03:44 pm, Matias Grana wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:41:24PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: motub- useflag vim-with-x /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:app-editors/vim:vim-with-x - Linking console vim against X11 libraries to enable title and clipboard features in xterm Aha! Now it seems that I have an old (or not so accurate) /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc: /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:app-editors/vim:vim-with-x - Enables linking the console vim against X libs to enable some features in xterms You're not out of sync, Holly is, possibly an upstream sync issue. This is why I neglected to see that clipboard and vim-with-x were related. But what I find confusing now is why I have this difference. How does one update the use.local.desc file? It seems not to belong to any package (tried equery belongs /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc and didn't get any answer). This file is resynced when you 'emerge --sync'; it is not owned by a package in portage. If you look at the timestamp of the file it should match the date of your last sync. For Holly's case, I'm wondering if she's syncing against a system that doesn't mirror that file from upstream? Just a guess. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:44:54 -0300 Matias Grana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But what I find confusing now is why I have this difference. How does one update the use.local.desc file? It seems not to belong to any package (tried equery belongs /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc and didn't get any answer). Everything under $PORTDIR (usually /usr/portage) except for distfiles gets updated by emerge --sync. Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstanden sind. (Einstein) pgp2iVEiqLSYp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] porno filtering using squid?
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 14:10 -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: znx wrote: How about Squid Guard? http://www.squidguard.org/ With free blacklists http://ftp.tdcnorge.no/pub/www/proxy/squidGuard/contrib/ I use both of these and it works pretty darn well. Configuring per user is straight forward, although setting up anything other than identd is a bit of a troubesome scenario. Tom Veldhouse Back when I was a system administrator at a high school, we used SquidGuard, a collection of black-lists and users were authenticated by their Windows 2000 (yeck!) Active-Directory login. IIRC It was reasonably easy to configure, the hard part was maintaining block-lists because if you block sites incorrectly, you get bitched at by teachers, if you let porn through you get bitched at by the teachers, and you have around 1000 student's trying to circumvent the system, with things such as Coral Cache and Google translate. My 2 cents, Dave Cameron signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?
Dave Nebinger schreef: On Tuesday 18 October 2005 03:44 pm, Matias Grana wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:41:24PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: motub- useflag vim-with-x /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:app-editors/vim:vim-with-x - Linking console vim against X11 libraries to enable title and clipboard features in xterm Aha! Now it seems that I have an old (or not so accurate) /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc: /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:app-editors/vim:vim-with-x - Enables linking the console vim against X libs to enable some features in xterms You're not out of sync, Holly is, possibly an upstream sync issue. I esync every night at 3am CET. How can I be out of sync? And, if Matias somehow synced more recently than I did, how can his sync result in a *less* informative description than the allegedly older one (mine) ? This file is resynced when you 'emerge --sync'; it is not owned by a package in portage. If you look at the timestamp of the file it should match the date of your last sync. la /usr/portage/profiles totaal 261 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 720 okt 18 02:36 . drwxr-xr-x 152 root root 4496 okt 18 02:36 .. -rw-r--r--1 root root97 aug 14 13:35 arch.list drwxr-xr-x2 root root 184 okt 16 11:05 base -rw-r--r--1 root root 1541 sep 4 16:36 categories drwxr-xr-x3 root root72 apr 25 05:37 commercial drwxr-xr-x3 root root72 aug 26 2004 default-bsd drwxr-xr-x4 root root 288 okt 6 05:38 default-darwin drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 552 okt 7 01:06 default-linux drwxr-xr-x3 root root 128 feb 7 2005 default-macos drwxr-xr-x2 root root 152 okt 18 02:36 embedded drwxr-xr-x6 root root 304 okt 6 05:38 hardened -rw-r--r--1 root root 257 apr 28 07:07 info_pkgs -rw-r--r--1 root root 370 apr 11 2005 info_vars -rw-r--r--1 root root 7270 nov 8 2002 lang.desc drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 288 aug 14 00:05 obsolete -rw-r--r--1 root root 51812 okt 18 00:05 package.mask -rw-r--r--1 root root 828 sep 5 19:35 profiles.desc drwxr-xr-x4 root root 288 okt 14 01:05 selinux -rw-r--r--1 root root 62518 okt 11 13:35 thirdpartymirrors drwxr-xr-x7 root root 392 okt 18 02:36 uclibc drwxr-xr-x2 root root 384 okt 17 04:08 updates -rw-r--r--1 root root 20490 okt 17 02:06 use.desc -rw-r--r--1 root root 89205 okt 18 02:06 use.local.desc drwxr-xr-x3 root root 296 sep 26 12:35 vserver So no, use.local.desc is at least current, and use.desc has apparently not changed for one day longer. For Holly's case, I'm wondering if she's syncing against a system that doesn't mirror that file from upstream? Just a guess. I sync against the Netherlands rsync pool, SYNC=rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage. I suppose what you say is possible, but does not seem to be the case. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Annoying Plugin pop-up, Firefox and Epiphany
Hi All, I'm running Gentoo on a SunBlade 100 SPARC machine, and so can't install Sun Java or Macromedia crap. Does anyone know how/if you can disable the plugin popup on Epiphany and Firefox, it's really frustrating to have these constant nags, especially(sic) since I can't install these binary-only plugins, both because of my social conscience, and because of my platform, I would much appreciate it if someone knew. On the lines of Java, why doesn't sun make Java for Linux on Sun? and what is the best Free-Software JVM. Regards, Dave Cameron signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] Apple Partition Scheme - any way to mount it?
Hi, I'm playing around with some external 1394 drives. The purpose is to find the best setup to allow a given drive to be mounted on my Gentoo boxes, my last Win XP system and my new Mac Mini. Obviously not all file system types are going to work everywhere. So far it seems that only FAT32 is supported by all 3, but I cannot use FAT32, AFAICT, due to path length name restrictions for instance. Anyway, I've emerged the HFS+ tools package on Gentoo, but it turns out that Apple's GUI will only put HFS+ on a 1394 drive that uses the 'Apple Partition Scheme', and when I plug this drive into my Gentoo box it tells me that it doesn't recognize the partition format. In my kernel config I have included both: * Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL) * Apple Extended HFS file system support thinking this would get me there, but when I plug the drive in all I see is this in dmesg: scsi5 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048] ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command scsi5 : destination target 0, lun 0 command: cdb[0]=0x12: 12 00 00 00 24 00 Vendor: IC35L080 Model: AVVA07-0 Rev: Type: Direct-Access-RBC ANSI SCSI revision: 04 SCSI device sdc: 160836480 512-byte hdwr sectors (82348 MB) sdc: asking for cache data failed sdc: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sdc: 160836480 512-byte hdwr sectors (82348 MB) sdc: asking for cache data failed sdc: assuming drive cache: write through sdc: unknown partition table Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ and when I try to run fdisk I get this: lightning ~ # fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table lightning ~ # Does anyone know the trick to make Apple's HFS+ mount on Gentoo? Do I have to format the drive on Gentoo and then use it on the Mac? Can Apple's Partition Scheme be used at all under Linux? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 04:34 pm, Holly Bostick wrote: For Holly's case, I'm wondering if she's syncing against a system that doesn't mirror that file from upstream? Just a guess. I sync against the Netherlands rsync pool, SYNC=rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage. I suppose what you say is possible, but does not seem to be the case. I figured you sync'd daily Holly; I wouldn't have expected any less. ;-) The question is, however, if you and I both sync daily and, although file times suggest they have been updated, but the file contents are different, where would the problem lie? The only guess I could come up with is the upstream mirror. I sync against http://gentoo.osuosl.org/, and you're syncing against the netherlands pool. Either one themselves could be sync'd against another mirror which is sync'd against another mirror... Somewhere along the line I'm guessing that perhaps this particular file is not fetched/updated for some reason which would leave one of us with an outdated copy. I know mine comes out of CVS with the header $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.local.desc,v 1.1502 2005/10/18 00:03:00 vapier Exp $, so I'm guessing that I have the later file. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:20:28 +1000 Dan wrote: Please help -- I can't emerge ethereal and I would really like to use it. Please please do NOT hijack threads. If you wish to start a new thread do NOT just reply to another message and change the subject. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error -SOLVED - [blush...]
Dan wrote: Please help -- I can't emerge ethereal and I would really like to use it. SNIP useless error messages Why does it want a radius directory anyway? How do I fix this? I tried again with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86. As always, it just emerges the same packages anyway, but I let it run regardless. No space left on device. Oh dear, how embarassing. A genuine thnkyou to everyone who replied, your efforts are _always_ very welcome. I'll do some more sanity checking next time before I post -- I'll also take care no to hijack an existing thread, for those of you who noticed. Thanks again! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error
Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:20:28 +1000 Dan wrote: Please help -- I can't emerge ethereal and I would really like to use it. Please please do NOT hijack threads. If you wish to start a new thread do NOT just reply to another message and change the subject. That's a little ironic -- I've been doing that on mailing lists for years, I noticed the effect myself right after I sent the message with thunderbird's threaded view. Noone has ever complained before, until now -- in other words, the first time I notice and realise how silly it is also the first time someone complains -- and I see the complain about 30 seconds after I send an apology. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive
--- Douglas James Dunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: um a low level format is always the entire drive. It basically returns the drive to factory default. AKA all 0's. A high level format would be what your talking about which would be the same as reformatting a partition. as fdisk would do. done that. Disk boots linux which is halfway along 120G drive(hdb) provided /boot resides on another, master drive(hda). _Nothing_ can be booted from the start of the drive. And nothing dos or windows can be installed on it at all. LBA is set to auto in BIOS, but POST console says it's off. I used fdisk and mkdosfs to format the first half fat32 but it makes no difference. -mw __ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:40, maxim wexler wrote: I used fdisk and mkdosfs to format the first half fat32 but it makes no difference. Did your problems start when you tried to remove windows? Or was the disk just plain flakey to begin with? -- /* The HME is the biggest piece of shit I have ever seen. */ linux-2.6.6/drivers/scsi/esp.h -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Open Office and ODBC Connection to MySQL
Hi all, I'm tearing my hair out by the roots on this one. First, I had a bit of a problem getting the the ODBC connection to my MySQL database set up. That was my own fault though 'cause a couple of files that I though were supposed to go in /etc (that's where they went in Fedora Core) were actually supposed to go in /etc/unixODBC/. So, I got the connection set up okay. The issue that I'm having is that once I got the ODBC connection working, I can view the data source in Open Office, but cannot edit the table. I took a look on Gentoo Forums and I found one similar issue except that it turned out that the person did not have a primary key set. I have a primary key set in the MySQL database, but I still can't edit the table in Open Office. I have no idea what to try next. I'm using the ebuild openoffice-bin-1.1.5. However, I tried the openoffice-ximian ebuild and had no better luck with that. I don't think its a permission problem 'cause I checked this and I am a member of the mysql group. Any ideas? Regards, Colleen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:12:39 +1000 Dan wrote: That's a little ironic -- I've been doing that on mailing lists for years, I noticed the effect myself right after I sent the message with thunderbird's threaded view. Noone has ever complained before, until now -- in other words, the first time I notice and realise how silly it is also the first time someone complains -- and I see the complain about 30 seconds after I send an apology. Hey thats cool, at least you are intelligent enough to notice the problem and address it. Thats more than can be said for plenty of people :) Cheers, Nick -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 16:50 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: On Tuesday 18 October 2005 04:34 pm, Holly Bostick wrote: For Holly's case, I'm wondering if she's syncing against a system that doesn't mirror that file from upstream? Just a guess. I sync against the Netherlands rsync pool, SYNC=rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage. I suppose what you say is possible, but does not seem to be the case. I figured you sync'd daily Holly; I wouldn't have expected any less. ;-) The question is, however, if you and I both sync daily and, although file times suggest they have been updated, but the file contents are different, where would the problem lie? The only guess I could come up with is the upstream mirror. I sync against http://gentoo.osuosl.org/, and you're syncing against the netherlands pool. Either one themselves could be sync'd against another mirror which is sync'd against another mirror... Somewhere along the line I'm guessing that perhaps this particular file is not fetched/updated for some reason which would leave one of us with an outdated copy. I know mine comes out of CVS with the header $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.local.desc,v 1.1502 2005/10/18 00:03:00 vapier Exp $, so I'm guessing that I have the later file. [EMAIL PROTECTED] cvs up use.local.desc ; grep vim-with-x use.local.desc app-editors/vim:vim-with-x - Linking console vim against X11 libraries to enable title and clipboard features in xterm [EMAIL PROTECTED] head -n 4 use.local.desc |tail -n 2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.local.desc,v 1.1505 2005/10/18 20:18:45 agriffis Exp $ //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying Plugin pop-up, Firefox and Epiphany
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:39, Dave Cameron wrote: Hi All, I'm running Gentoo on a SunBlade 100 SPARC machine, and so can't install Sun Java or Macromedia crap. Does anyone know how/if you can disable the plugin popup on Epiphany and Firefox, it's really frustrating to have these constant nags, especially(sic) since I can't install these binary-only plugins, both because of my social conscience, and because of my platform, I would much appreciate it if someone knew. For firefox, first try going to Menu View --Preferences-- Web Features, and disabling (unchecking) java, javascript and maybee installing software. Close ALL firefox windows and restart to take effect, then test. If this doesnt fix, try typing about:config in URL bar and browse through the many possible settings. Google may be able to help with those. -- Credit ... is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man. -- James Blish -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?
Dave Nebinger schreef: On Tuesday 18 October 2005 04:34 pm, Holly Bostick wrote: I know mine comes out of CVS with the header $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.local.desc,v 1.1502 2005/10/18 00:03:00 vapier Exp $, so I'm guessing that I have the later file. So does mine: # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.local.desc,v 1.1502 2005/10/18 00:03:00 vapier Exp $ are you saying that this line app-editors/vim:vim-with-x - Linking console vim against X11 libraries to enable title and clipboard features in xterm is not the same on your file, despite the identical header? Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
Scott Stoddard said: Look I'm not at all suggesting that we dignify LSB but what the o.p. is suggesting is not at all a bad idea. An easy, distro-independent, method for determining what distro, version, release, toolchain versioning, and/or portage timestamp can only help maintainers of heterogenous networks to do their jobs with less frustration. Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but you may want to check the contents of the /etc/gentoo-release and /etc/lsb-release files. I think lots of other distros have the same basic /etc/distro-release file that you could check for too. :-/ --Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] stealth ethernet
Hello, For a variety of reasons, I need to be able to make an ethernet interface on a gentoo system, change into listen only (stealth mode). Kind of like half duplex, so to speak. Any simple tricks? Just disabling all responses from the ethernet interface would do. I know I can just use 'ifconfig eth0 down' but anything more elegant or that would allow the interface to keep receiving packets for analysis and logging would be better. At other times I need to run a full blown IDS, like snort, on an ethernet port, but without being externally detected. What would be best method (tools) to ensure the interface is actually not detectable on a given lan segment? Here is a good (Redhat) but old link that kind of outlines the idea: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6222 Any web pages, documents or information that is more current and gentoo specific would be of greatly appreciated. TIA, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] stealth ethernet
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 23:19 +, James wrote: Hello, For a variety of reasons, I need to be able to make an ethernet interface on a gentoo system, change into listen only (stealth mode). Kind of like half duplex, so to speak. Any simple tricks? Just disabling all responses from the ethernet interface would do. I know I can just use 'ifconfig eth0 down' but anything more elegant or that would allow the interface to keep receiving packets for analysis and logging would be better. I've never used this one, but the idea of a Honeypot is simple and sounds like what you are looking for. emerge -s honey Searching... [ Results for search key : honey ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * net-analyzer/honeyd [ Masked ] Latest version available: 1.0-r1 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 2,566 kB Homepage:http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/honeyd/ Description: Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network License: GPL-2 -- Scott Tiret [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] stealth ethernet
On 10/18/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, For a variety of reasons, I need to be able to make an ethernet interface on a gentoo system, change into listen only (stealth mode). Kind of like half duplex, so to speak. Any simple tricks? Just disabling all responses from the ethernet interface would do. I know I can just use 'ifconfig eth0 down' but anything more elegant or that would allow the interface to keep receiving packets for analysis and logging would be better. At other times I need to run a full blown IDS, like snort, on an ethernet port, but without being externally detected. What would be best method (tools) to ensure the interface is actually not detectable on a given lan segment? Here is a good (Redhat) but old link that kind of outlines the idea: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6222 Any web pages, documents or information that is more current and gentoo specific would be of greatly appreciated. I would suggest using iptables to simply DROP all outgoing packets. -- Justin Patrin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] stealth ethernet
Hi! On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:19:56 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a variety of reasons, I need to be able to make an ethernet interface on a gentoo system, change into listen only (stealth mode). Kind of like half duplex, so to speak. Any simple tricks? Just disabling all responses from the ethernet interface would do. I know I can just use 'ifconfig eth0 down' but anything more elegant or that would allow the interface to keep receiving packets for analysis and logging would be better. I don't really know how to do this, but the first thing that came into my mind was to configure a firewall so that it drops every packet going outside. Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstanden sind. (Einstein) pgplc73jhEKnG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] stealth ethernet
wirecutters/stanley knife as appropriate - cut the tx wires in the cable to the card. In one case where the box had to absolutely silent (hacker proof, undetectable monitoring - think it was the honeypot project where I saw this one?), the wires from the socket to the circuit board on the card itself were cut. BillK On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 23:19 +, James wrote: Hello, For a variety of reasons, I need to be able to make an ethernet interface on a gentoo system, change into listen only (stealth mode). Kind of like half duplex, so to speak. Any simple tricks? Just disabling all responses from the ethernet interface would do. I know I can just use 'ifconfig eth0 down' but anything more elegant or that would allow the interface to keep receiving packets for analysis and logging would be better. At other times I need to run a full blown IDS, like snort, on an ethernet port, but without being externally detected. What would be best method (tools) to ensure the interface is actually not detectable on a given lan segment? Here is a good (Redhat) but old link that kind of outlines the idea: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6222 Any web pages, documents or information that is more current and gentoo specific would be of greatly appreciated. TIA, James -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
this is required by many companies legal departments.Some places even add itat the mta, not the client. :\ that sucks. That just leaves me with one question: is it really legally binding? Is it actually forseeable that someone might give me a hard time for say posting such an email verbatim on a website? --John JoletTechnology SolutionsYour On-Demand IT Department [EMAIL PROTECTED](512)762-0729www.jolet.net--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 08:32 pm, Phill MV wrote: That just leaves me with one question: is it really legally binding? Is it actually forseeable that someone might give me a hard time for say posting such an email verbatim on a website? Legally binding, maybe But enforcable, hardly. Had the individual mailed you directly and you published it to the web, then you would have been violating the original intent of the sender, to establish a protected conversation between the two of you (or, from the company's perspective, to share privileged information with you, which you then made public). However, as the OP posted his message to the mailing list which is of course archived, republished as digests, and generally available from the website. So there was no intent on his/their part to discretely share information with one or a few individuals. Look at the guy that just got busted for releasing early information on some apple product (the ipod mini, I think?) There's an example of what can happen if you share info that is given to you by a corporate entity and you go spreading it around. But once the individual/company make it public (ala posting a message like that to the list), it no longer carries privilege with it, unless of course it contained information that you used in some way to develop a competing product/service, at which point you've opened a different can of worms... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 07:00 pm, Holly Bostick wrote: are you saying that this line app-editors/vim:vim-with-x - Linking console vim against X11 libraries to enable title and clipboard features in xterm is not the same on your file, despite the identical header? I mustbe getting old or something. I swear when I looked at it before it matched the other guys and not yours. Now mine matches yours. I need to start drinking ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:39:09 -0400 Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I mustbe getting old or something. I swear when I looked at it | before it matched the other guys and not yours. Now mine matches | yours. I need to start drinking ;-) Wheee, another person successfully confused by sneakily changing stuff in response to mailing list questions and not bothering to announce the fact. You're all crazy, anyway. There's no ing in the description. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpkcsSOBq824.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:32:03 -0400 Phill MV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | :\ that sucks. | That just leaves me with one question: is it really legally binding? | Is it actually forseeable that someone might give me a hard time for | say posting such an email verbatim on a website? Well... UK financial companies can get in trouble if they don't include such a disclaimer, since they're required to mention the independent financial advice nonsense on every communication... It's more likely that there's some silly law out there that means you're in trouble if you don't do it than that anyone actually thinks it'll protect them. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpzlayTT7rFP.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] udevstart Segmentation fault - Urgent
I have just run 'emerge --update --deep --newuse world' on 2 of my Gentoo machines as I do every few days. This upgraded my udev from 068-r1 to 070. Neither machine will now boot. I've been investigating why on my server as it is most important that I get this machine up and running ASAP. During boot I get the following error: /sbin/rc: line 93: 1062 Segmentation fault /sbin/udevstart Then when it gets to checking root filesystem it reports /dev/sda3 is missing and drops me to a filesystem repair console. Please can someone help. I urgently need to get this machine back up and running. Cheers, Dave. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
Legally binding, maybeBut enforcable, hardly.Had the individual mailed youdirectly and you published it to the web, then you would have been violating the original intent of the sender, to establish a protected conversationbetween the two of you (or, from the company's perspective, to shareprivileged information with you, which you then made public). Well, it's just weird. What if said person is engaging in harassment? Is it then illegal to go about spam if they include the little disclaimer? It doesn't make sense to me :P but oh well. However, as the OP posted his message to the mailing list which is of course archived, republished as digests, and generally available from the website.So there was no intent on his/their part to discretely share information withone or a few individuals.Look at the guy that just got busted for releasing early information on some apple product (the ipod mini, I think?)There's an example of what canhappen if you share info that is given to you by a corporate entity and yougo spreading it around. That's a different case. IIRC the guy who leaked the info on the iPod shuffle/Mac mini broke an NDA he signed with Apple - which is then perfectly legal. Trade secrets and the like, I suppose. But once the individual/company make it public (ala posting a message likethat to the list), it no longer carries privilege with it, unless of course it contained information that you used in some way to develop a
Re: [gentoo-user] stealth ethernet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: Hello, For a variety of reasons, I need to be able to make an ethernet interface on a gentoo system, change into listen only (stealth mode). Kind of like half duplex, so to speak. Any simple tricks? Just disabling all responses from the ethernet interface would do. I know I can just use 'ifconfig eth0 down' but anything more elegant or that would allow the interface to keep receiving packets for analysis and logging would be better. At other times I need to run a full blown IDS, like snort, on an ethernet port, but without being externally detected. What would be best method (tools) to ensure the interface is actually not detectable on a given lan segment? Here is a good (Redhat) but old link that kind of outlines the idea: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6222 Any web pages, documents or information that is more current and gentoo specific would be of greatly appreciated. TIA, James I've set up Solaris systems with multiple NICs, 1 as a command-and-control interface, and 1 as a sniffing interface. The sniffing interface was configured without an IP. I don't see any reason why this can't be done in gentoo. I guess it depends on how non-detectable you need to be. - -- gentux echo hfouvyAdpy/ofu | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint == 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A 6996 0993 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDVccVLYGSSmmWCZMRAu4OAJ9nAfOv124BdEfcSf7hYVlQviljAQCgsPNs wOXDcsBhtk1uRXDm8yX9oq0= =Rq/B -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] adding comment on pdf files?
Looks like if I wish to add comment to PDF files, the only thing I can do is to buy Acrobat. I don't mind buying one copy, but other people in the company will need it too, that's a lot of copies. Just come by this question and is there a free product for adding PDF comments? I need to add comment, nothing more (like stamping, audio clips and such things are not so useful). Looks like in Linux even a product that can READ pdf file correctly are lacking. I use gpdf, and a lot of eps embeded images looks corrupted but they were fine in acroread, besides, these (looking-bad-in-gpdf) pdf files are exported from Openoffice, another excellent opensource product. -- Zhang Weiwu CEO Real Softservice International business: http://www.realss.com International sales:0086 10 84606011 Inland business:http://www.realss.cn Inland sales call: 0086 592 2099987 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart Segmentation fault - Urgent
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 13:47 +1000, Dave Oxley wrote: I have just run 'emerge --update --deep --newuse world' on 2 of my Gentoo machines as I do every few days. This upgraded my udev from 068-r1 to 070. Neither machine will now boot. I've been investigating why on my server as it is most important that I get this machine up and running ASAP. During boot I get the following error: /sbin/rc: line 93: 1062 Segmentation fault /sbin/udevstart Then when it gets to checking root filesystem it reports /dev/sda3 is missing and drops me to a filesystem repair console. Please can someone help. I urgently need to get this machine back up and running. Cheers, Dave. Hi, Don't think it's a problem with udev-0.70, running it for a day or two. Maybe a hardware failure or try previous version (0.68), hope you have a binary package of it if you can't emerge it again. Useful sometimes. Boot with a LiveCD (gentoo) and re-emerge udev-0.68-rX or just install a binary package of it. If emerge/portage isn't working unpack it at / (root) dir, ignore warning about extra data at the end of archive. HTH.Rumen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart Segmentation fault - Urgent
I have just downgraded udev to 068-r1 and my server now boots again. I'm about to do the same with my other Gentoo machine. The only thing the 2 machines have in common is that they both have SATA drives, so I wonder if this is causing the new udev a problem. Dave. Dave Oxley wrote: I have just run 'emerge --update --deep --newuse world' on 2 of my Gentoo machines as I do every few days. This upgraded my udev from 068-r1 to 070. Neither machine will now boot. I've been investigating why on my server as it is most important that I get this machine up and running ASAP. During boot I get the following error: /sbin/rc: line 93: 1062 Segmentation fault /sbin/udevstart Then when it gets to checking root filesystem it reports /dev/sda3 is missing and drops me to a filesystem repair console. Please can someone help. I urgently need to get this machine back up and running. Cheers, Dave. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apple Partition Scheme - any way to mount it?
Am Dienstag, den 18.10.2005, 13:39 -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi, I'm playing around with some external 1394 drives. The purpose is to find the best setup to allow a given drive to be mounted on my Gentoo boxes, my last Win XP system and my new Mac Mini. Obviously not all file system types are going to work everywhere. So far it seems that only FAT32 is supported by all 3, but I cannot use FAT32, AFAICT, due to path length name restrictions for instance. Anyway, I've emerged the HFS+ tools package on Gentoo, but it turns out that Apple's GUI will only put HFS+ on a 1394 drive that uses the 'Apple Partition Scheme', and when I plug this drive into my Gentoo box it tells me that it doesn't recognize the partition format. In my kernel config I have included both: * Apple Macintosh file system support (EXPERIMENTAL) * Apple Extended HFS file system support I'm not sure but wouldn't you need CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION (File Systems / Partition Types / Advanced Partition Selection) as well? thinking this would get me there, but when I plug the drive in all I see is this in dmesg: scsi5 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048] ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command scsi5 : destination target 0, lun 0 command: cdb[0]=0x12: 12 00 00 00 24 00 Vendor: IC35L080 Model: AVVA07-0 Rev: Type: Direct-Access-RBC ANSI SCSI revision: 04 SCSI device sdc: 160836480 512-byte hdwr sectors (82348 MB) sdc: asking for cache data failed sdc: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sdc: 160836480 512-byte hdwr sectors (82348 MB) sdc: asking for cache data failed sdc: assuming drive cache: write through sdc: unknown partition table Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ and when I try to run fdisk I get this: lightning ~ # fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table lightning ~ # Does anyone know the trick to make Apple's HFS+ mount on Gentoo? Do I have to format the drive on Gentoo and then use it on the Mac? Can Apple's Partition Scheme be used at all under Linux? Thanks, Mark -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Heinz Sporn SPORN it-freelancing Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.sporn-it.com Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 A-4540 Bad Hall Austria / Europe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] adding comment on pdf files?
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 12:14 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Looks like if I wish to add comment to PDF files, the only thing I can do is to buy Acrobat. I don't mind buying one copy, but other people in the company will need it too, that's a lot of copies. Just come by this question and is there a free product for adding PDF comments? I need to add comment, nothing more (like stamping, audio clips and such things are not so useful). There are lots of libraries for dealing with pdf files. Take a look at reportlab. Looks like in Linux even a product that can READ pdf file correctly are lacking. What is wrong with acroread on linux? I use gpdf, and a lot of eps embeded images looks corrupted but they were fine in acroread, besides, these (looking-bad-in-gpdf) pdf files are exported from Openoffice, another excellent opensource product. -- Zhang Weiwu CEO Real Softservice International business: http://www.realss.com International sales:0086 10 84606011 Inland business:http://www.realss.cn Inland sales call: 0086 592 2099987 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 12:09 am, Phill MV wrote: Well, it's just weird. What if said person is engaging in harassment? That's a separate can of worms altogether. First you'd have to prove to the court that you are actually getting harrassed. A statement like the one automagically appended would have nothing to do with that situation. Is it then illegal to go about spam if they include the little disclaimer? Well, I think that's different as well. The spammers want you to share the spam with your friends/family/coworkers as they want the clicks/sales. A statement like the one that was on the OPs email would suggest that sort of thing was not wanted... It doesn't make sense to me :P but oh well. Me either. I'm pretty much a novice when it comes to the law, but I've been known to crack open a few books when necessary. Basically it's a CYA move by the companies to allow for litigation should one of their employees let something slip... That's a different case. IIRC the guy who leaked the info on the iPod shuffle/Mac mini broke an NDA he signed with Apple - which is then perfectly legal. Trade secrets and the like, I suppose. But I think had that been an internal apple employee that sent it to an individual without an NDA, just a buddy he wanted to give a heads up to, and that buddy posted it on the net, the court may look at the wording of the blurb and apply a similar ruling. Then again, the whole thing might get thrown out by the court, but by that time you're bankrupt because you try to stand up for yourself. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart Segmentation fault - Urgent
Dave Oxley wrote: I have just downgraded udev to 068-r1 and my server now boots again. I'm about to do the same with my other Gentoo machine. The only thing the 2 machines have in common is that they both have SATA drives, so I wonder if this is causing the new udev a problem. Dave. Dave Oxley wrote: I have just run 'emerge --update --deep --newuse world' on 2 of my Gentoo machines as I do every few days. This upgraded my udev from 068-r1 to 070. Neither machine will now boot. I've been investigating why on my server as it is most important that I get this machine up and running ASAP. During boot I get the following error: /sbin/rc: line 93: 1062 Segmentation fault /sbin/udevstart Then when it gets to checking root filesystem it reports /dev/sda3 is missing and drops me to a filesystem repair console. Please can someone help. I urgently need to get this machine back up and running. Cheers, Dave. I'm running dual SATA Raptors with udev 70, kernel 2.6.12-r10. Just did a reboot to confirm that I could. So it is possible. Any info in dmesg? How far in the boot process do you get? -Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart Segmentation fault - Urgent
Roy Wright wrote: Dave Oxley wrote: I have just downgraded udev to 068-r1 and my server now boots again. I'm about to do the same with my other Gentoo machine. The only thing the 2 machines have in common is that they both have SATA drives, so I wonder if this is causing the new udev a problem. Dave. Dave Oxley wrote: I have just run 'emerge --update --deep --newuse world' on 2 of my Gentoo machines as I do every few days. This upgraded my udev from 068-r1 to 070. Neither machine will now boot. I've been investigating why on my server as it is most important that I get this machine up and running ASAP. During boot I get the following error: /sbin/rc: line 93: 1062 Segmentation fault /sbin/udevstart Then when it gets to checking root filesystem it reports /dev/sda3 is missing and drops me to a filesystem repair console. Please can someone help. I urgently need to get this machine back up and running. Cheers, Dave. I'm running dual SATA Raptors with udev 70, kernel 2.6.12-r10. Just did a reboot to confirm that I could. So it is possible. Any info in dmesg? How far in the boot process do you get? -Roy Both machines are now back up and running with udev-068-r1 so I can't get the dmesg for when it went wrong at the moment. I'm running kernel 2.6.13-r4 on both machines but I tried booting with 2.6.13-r3 and 2.6.12-r10 and they made no difference. The drives in both machines are Samsung Spinpoint SATA drives. This is the only thing the machines have in common: The server is a P4 2.8 with Hyperthreading and therefore an SMP kernel while the HTPC is an AMD64. I will upgrade udev to 070 again on the HTPC and try to get the dmesg for it a bit later on. The machines busy at the moment. When I do this, is there any other information I can get from the logs etc that will help? Cheers, Dave. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
