Re: [gentoo-user] besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge
On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:42:09 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know about /etc/portage/package.use but where would I keep something like and extra configure flag, that I always want applied. mkdir -p /etc/portage/env/cat/ echo EXTRA_ECONF='whatever' /etc/portage/env/cat/pkg -- Neil Bothwick MASOCHIST: Windows SDK programmer with a smile! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get my overlay into layman ?
If you just want a simple solution for your own, do a file with the overlay stuff in it: e.g. layman overlay type=rsync src=rsync://example.net/private-portage-overlay contact=[EMAIL PROTECTED] name=private-overlay link http://example.net/Private Portage Overlay /link descriptionsome usefull patches and progs/description /overlay /layman and provide it at you webservice : http://www.example.net/private-overlay.xml than edit /etc/layman/layman.cfg locally: overlays : http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/layman-global.txt http://www.example.net/private-overlay.xml The last thing you need is $ layman -L layman -a private-overlay . Viola !! Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 23:17:03 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: could anyone please give me some hint how to get my overlay into layman's overlay list ? As it says in the layman man page: To get a new overlay added to the central list provided for layman, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
Hi, On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her machine I happen to use Yahoo as my home page and now I see a very boring home page with Yahoo giving me this message: Why miss out? To see all the new Yahoo! home page has to offer, please upgrade to a more recent browser. Supported browsers include: Internet Explorer 7 optimized by Yahoo! Firefox 2.0 Safari 2.0 Opera 9 Are others seeing the same thing? Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
Mark Knecht schrieb: Hi, On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her machine I happen to use Yahoo as my home page and now I see a very boring home page with Yahoo giving me this message: Why miss out? To see all the new Yahoo! home page has to offer, please upgrade to a more recent browser. Supported browsers include: *Internet Explorer 7 optimized by Yahoo!* Maybe you need windows for that!! Firefox 2.0 Safari 2.0 Opera 9 Are others seeing the same thing? Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge
On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Mick wrote: Searching further I noticed this in my .xsession-errors: /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession: /home/michael/.xsession: /bin/csh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory This was probably a red herring and a remnant of having csh installed at some stage. I decided to go back to basics, suspecting that I misconfigured some env setting file. I soon came across /etc/rc.conf in which there was no $XSESSION variable set! No sooner did I enter XSESSION=fluxbox I was able to boot normally again. I believe that this happened when I used etc-update, but cannot for the life of me remember overwritting what was there before. As I haven't changed this entry for a few years now can you please confirm that one is meant to use rc.conf to set $XSESSION. Apologies for the noise. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
RE: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge
-Original Message- From: Michal 'vorner' Vaner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 1 januari 2008 13:38 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge Hello On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:48:52AM +, Mick wrote: Happy New Year to all! I find my self in a bit of a pickle after a recent emerge. When I enter my username+passwd at the xdm login screen it sort of tries to load up fluxbox, but within a second or so it returns to the login screen. I can't see anything worth mentioning in the logs. I have downgraded baselayout, sysvinit and freetype but the problem remains. Any ideas? These are the packages emerged recently: This sounds to me like the fluxbox starter (I'm not sure if fluxbox by itself or some script that starts it with one or two other programs) crashes. Did you try running revdep-rebuild? And, if you want to experiment, you can start X from vt, lets say: X :1.0 (on :0.0, it is already running with xdm) then switch back to vt (probably different one) and start an xterm DISPLAY=:1.0 xterm then switch back to your new X (ctrl+f8 -- f7 is the xdm one) and try starting fluxbox from the xterm to see what happens. Did it help? -- No, you will not fix me Computer Michal 'vorner' Vaner -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge
-Original Message- From: Michal 'vorner' Vaner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 1 januari 2008 13:38 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge Hello On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:48:52AM +, Mick wrote: Happy New Year to all! I find my self in a bit of a pickle after a recent emerge. When I enter my username+passwd at the xdm login screen it sort of tries to load up fluxbox, but within a second or so it returns to the login screen. I can't see anything worth mentioning in the logs. I have downgraded baselayout, sysvinit and freetype but the problem remains. Any ideas? These are the packages emerged recently: This sounds to me like the fluxbox starter (I'm not sure if fluxbox by itself or some script that starts it with one or two other programs) crashes. Did you try running revdep-rebuild? And, if you want to experiment, you can start X from vt, lets say: X :1.0 (on :0.0, it is already running with xdm) then switch back to vt (probably different one) and start an xterm DISPLAY=:1.0 xterm then switch back to your new X (ctrl+f8 -- f7 is the xdm one) and try starting fluxbox from the xterm to see what happens. Did it help? -- No, you will not fix me Computer Michal 'vorner' Vaner -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 03:32:47 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her machine I happen to use Yahoo as my home page and now I see a very boring home page with Yahoo giving me this message: Why miss out? To see all the new Yahoo! home page has to offer, please upgrade to a more recent browser. Supported browsers include: Internet Explorer 7 optimized by Yahoo! Firefox 2.0 Safari 2.0 Opera 9 Are others seeing the same thing? Thanks, Mark I just checked for you, and I got the same page using the Firefox 3 trunk. This is why discriminating based on user-agent is a Bad Thing, Yahoo. -- Brian Marshall signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
On Jan 3, 2008 5:17 AM, Brian Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 03:32:47 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her machine I happen to use Yahoo as my home page and now I see a very boring home page with Yahoo giving me this message: Why miss out? To see all the new Yahoo! home page has to offer, please upgrade to a more recent browser. Supported browsers include: Internet Explorer 7 optimized by Yahoo! Firefox 2.0 Safari 2.0 Opera 9 Are others seeing the same thing? Thanks, Mark I just checked for you, and I got the same page using the Firefox 3 trunk. This is why discriminating based on user-agent is a Bad Thing, Yahoo. -- Brian Marshall Brian, Thanks for checking. I don't think it's Yahoo. I think it's Gentoo 32-bit. My desktop machine is Gentoo 64-bit using 2.0.0.11 and it's working perfectly fine. - Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 05:17 -0800, Brian Marshall wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 03:32:47 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her machine I happen to use Yahoo as my home page and now I see a very boring home page with Yahoo giving me this message: Why miss out? To see all the new Yahoo! home page has to offer, please upgrade to a more recent browser. Supported browsers include: Internet Explorer 7 optimized by Yahoo! Firefox 2.0 Safari 2.0 Opera 9 Are others seeing the same thing? Thanks, Mark I just checked for you, and I got the same page using the Firefox 3 trunk. This is why discriminating based on user-agent is a Bad Thing, Yahoo. I think they fixed it. When I checked earlier this morning using Epiphany 2.20 I got the same page, but now the regular page shows up. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Card reader only works if booted with card in
My card reader works if an SD card is inserted when the system is booted. If the card is inserted after the system is already booted, /dev/mmcblk0 never appears. Is there any way to get the running system to check for a card in the slot? - Grant and you have compiled in 'Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device '? Fixed. Thank you very much. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Card reader only works if booted with card in
Hemmann, Volker Armin skrev: On Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2008, Grant wrote: My card reader works if an SD card is inserted when the system is booted. If the card is inserted after the system is already booted, /dev/mmcblk0 never appears. Is there any way to get the running system to check for a card in the slot? and you have compiled in 'Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device '? Thanks! I just enabled it and now I can access an SD card inserted into a Garmin nüvi GPS navigator! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Wireless Network Adapter?
I'm using ASUS WL-167g USB WLAN (rt73usb) and work well with or without WPA_SUPPLICANT. driver is already integrated in sys-kernel/vanilla-sources (2.6.24-rc5) Where do you see that driver? I'm giving vanilla-sources-2.6.24-rc6 a try and I don't see it. - Grant AJ Spagnoletti a écrit : I was actually just researching that exact one. Have you tested it with WPA? Which driver are you using? gentoo-portage.com lists a few ralink drivers but no rt73. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I haven't tested the WPA yet, I know it works well with a WEP encryption. I can test WPA tomorrow while everyone is at work and get back to you with those results. I used the CVS driver provided at this link [1] and followed the directions posted here [2]. Like I said I havent tested under gentoo, but I see no reason why the drivers wouldn't work. AJ [1] http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Downloads [2]https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/RalinkRT73 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:42:09 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know about /etc/portage/package.use but where would I keep something like and extra configure flag, that I always want applied. mkdir -p /etc/portage/env/cat/ echo EXTRA_ECONF='whatever' /etc/portage/env/cat/pkg Yikes... I was beginning to wonder why I was still getting errors on root commit. Looks like I had it backward.. from OP: ECONF_EXTRA='--enable-rootcommit' At the `pkg' part of /etc/portage/env/cat/pkg Do I need to include the full address somehow like: dev-util/cvs or just `/etc/portage/env/cat/cvs' The reason I ask is that it is possible with cvs to get the root commit error for other (as yet not understood) reasons than actually being root and trying to commit. So it might not be so easy to test if the procedure has worked, unless there is a command for cvs that will make it cough up its compile time flags. So I want to know that part is good so I can worry about other problems with cvs in the event of problems following an update during update world. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge
On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:44:14 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the `pkg' part of /etc/portage/env/cat/pkg Do I need to include the full address somehow like: dev-util/cvs or just `/etc/portage/env/cat/cvs' cat = category pkg = package Use /etc/portage/env/dev-util/cvs -- Neil Bothwick Windows isn't a virus -- viruses do something! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:44:14 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the `pkg' part of /etc/portage/env/cat/pkg Do I need to include the full address somehow like: dev-util/cvs or just `/etc/portage/env/cat/cvs' cat = category pkg = package Egad I had imagined some how the `cat' directory told emerge the info in pkg was to be `/bin/cat'ted' into the compile time scenario. Ok.. on with the dunce cap. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:44:14 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the `pkg' part of /etc/portage/env/cat/pkg Do I need to include the full address somehow like: dev-util/cvs or just `/etc/portage/env/cat/cvs' cat = category pkg = package Use /etc/portage/env/dev-util/cvs Sorry to keep nagging with this but I must still not have it right. I do not see that compile flag being set during emerge: ls -R /etc/portage/env /etc/portage/env: dev-utils /etc/portage/env/dev-utils: cvs cat /etc/portage/env/dev-utils/cvs EXTRA_ECONF='--enable-rootcommit' And a snippet of emerge -v cvs ouput: (wrapped for mail) [...] Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/cvs-1.12.12-r4/work/cvs-1.12.12 ... * econf: updating cvs-1.12.12/build-aux/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating cvs-1.12.12/build-aux/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --with-external-zlib --with-tmpdir=/tmp --enable-encryption --with-gssapi --enable-nls --enable-pam --enable-server --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu [...] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge
On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:01:07 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to keep nagging with this but I must still not have it right. I do not see that compile flag being set during emerge: It looks like the cvs ebuild doesn't use EXTRA_ECONF. You could file a bug report about this. -- Neil Bothwick Forgive your enemies. But hit them a few times first. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
Mark Knecht wrote: On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her machine I happen to use Yahoo as my home page and now I see a very boring home page with Yahoo giving me this message: Why miss out? To see all the new Yahoo! home page has to offer, please upgrade to a more recent browser. I use Firefox on a 32-bit system (built from source, not binary) and I do not see this problem! -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe
Can anyone think of a way to extract the XP 64-bit drivers I know are in an .exe file from that file? I've run the executable inside of vmware running 32-bit XP but I'm sure the installed drivers are 32-bit. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe
Can anyone think of a way to extract the XP 64-bit drivers I know are in an .exe file from that file? I've run the executable inside of vmware running 32-bit XP but I'm sure the installed drivers are 32-bit. If you are lucky and the file is an exe archive it might be possible to unrar or unzip it just like any other archive. If it is in a propietary format you might need to use a windows installation to use it's contents. Unfortunately running the archive on 32-bit Windows starts the installation routine and trying unzip errors. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 11:20:14 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone think of a way to extract the XP 64-bit drivers I know are in an .exe file from that file? I've run the executable inside of vmware running 32-bit XP but I'm sure the installed drivers are 32-bit. If you are lucky and the file is an exe archive it might be possible to unrar or unzip it just like any other archive. If it is in a propietary format you might need to use a windows installation to use it's contents. -- Jesús Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:01:07 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to keep nagging with this but I must still not have it right. I do not see that compile flag being set during emerge: It looks like the cvs ebuild doesn't use EXTRA_ECONF. You could file a bug report about this. If that were true it should fail at the command line too shouldn't it? Or is that side stepping somehow? It works at the command line: EXTRA_ECONF='--enable-rootcommit' emerge -v cvs Does pass the configure flag along during the compile. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe
Can anyone think of a way to extract the XP 64-bit drivers I know are in an .exe file from that file? I've run the executable inside of vmware running 32-bit XP but I'm sure the installed drivers are 32-bit. From man cabextract: cabextract - program to extract files from Microsoft cabinet (.cab) archives Unfortunately not a cabinet file either. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:30:08 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone think of a way to extract the XP 64-bit drivers I know are in an .exe file from that file? I've run the executable inside of vmware running 32-bit XP but I'm sure the installed drivers are 32-bit. From man cabextract: cabextract - program to extract files from Microsoft cabinet (.cab) archives Unfortunately not a cabinet file either. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list If there is no cabinet, you can try unrar x and unzip on it. Some exe's are just zip or rar files, but if that doesn't work I don't think you will be able to get the contents without an 64 bit windows installation. -- Jesús Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Advanced routing
We switched from a cisco router to using a gentoo box with mutiple nics - all appears to be working very well. However, i ran into a major problem when one of my PC's went nuts. It flooded the network with unknown protocol which I saw from tcpdump. Basically, I am trying to find a way to protect the internal network from bad network devices. This did happen when under the cisco setup but it did not bring the network down. I'm assuming we need a little bandwidth control (TC) implementation but is there any tricks in the kernel/network setup which will help as well. Any pointers will greatly help! Vernon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] How to update portage offline with minimal impact?
I have a couple Sparc systems. One has been running Gentoo for a long time - installed using Gentoo 2006, not updated since due to the issue I'm about the discuss - and the other is a near identical system that might get Gentoo 2007 installed. Both are on two separate networks and have no communication between them. The first system does have some Internet access through a firewall, but it doesn't really work, at least for this purpose; so it's just as good as not having any access at all for this purpose. The second system may or may not have Internet access, so for now let's just assume it doesn't. It's really this second system that I want to figure the problem out for. In either case, I can't update portage using the normal method of 'emerge --sync'. So, I'm trying to figure out a solution that would enable me to update the systems. Under Slackware, I'd just point pkgtool to the CD media and install from that, just like during installation. Is there a similar approach for Gentoo? How do I overcome the source mirror issue too so that the systems don't try to download stuff from the web? I could probably host an rsync server on the local systems to host portage, but how would I keep it up to date? Would I simply be able to extract a tarball into the directory rsync is serving up? I can get large tarballs or ISOs from other systems to these systems; but they won't be able to download them themselves. I noticed the Manual Download info in the FAQ: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#manualdownload However, that is not a solution I can use as I might not be the long term maintainer, and I'd like an easier solution as it requires a lot of work to download stuff. I'd like a solution similar to the following: # tar xvjf /portage-sources-data.tar.bz2 -C /my-portage-sources # tar xvjf /portage-date.tar.bz2 -C /my-portage # emerge --sync --portage-source /my-portage # emerge world -vuD --sources /my-portage-sources If there isn't a solution, I might look into how to make a solution (not sure). TIA, Ben -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe
Can anyone think of a way to extract the XP 64-bit drivers I know are in an .exe file from that file? I've run the executable inside of vmware running 32-bit XP but I'm sure the installed drivers are 32-bit. From man cabextract: cabextract - program to extract files from Microsoft cabinet (.cab) archives Unfortunately not a cabinet file either. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list If there is no cabinet, you can try unrar x and unzip on it. Some exe's are just zip or rar files, but if that doesn't work I don't think you will be able to get the contents without an 64 bit windows installation. When I execute the .exe file on 32-bit windows it starts a real installation routine though. I guess I'm out of luck. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Advanced routing
Am Donnerstag 03 Januar 2008 21:59:59 schrieb Vernon A. Fort: We switched from a cisco router to using a gentoo box with mutiple nics - all appears to be working very well. However, i ran into a major problem when one of my PC's went nuts. It flooded the network with unknown protocol which I saw from tcpdump. What protocol number was is? Maybe you could enable the protocol in the Linux Kernel and then filter it and apply routing rules. What is the router doing usually and how did the flooding bring your network down? Maybe just preventing the router from routing unwanted protocols already help and you don't actually need a bandwidth limiter. Sascha signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:24:34 -0800 James Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some installation programs will completely decompress all contained files prioer to running the actual setup/install application - you might try running the executable, then, while it is running, but without actually going through the installation steps, search the hard drive for any files that were unpacked - you might find where it unpacked files and, if you're lucky, it might contain all contents - 32 bit and 64 bit. Usually in c:\windows\temp\, at least, that was the trend when I used to use windows, many years ago. -- Jesús Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe
Can anyone think of a way to extract the XP 64-bit drivers I know are in an .exe file from that file? I've run the executable inside of vmware running 32-bit XP but I'm sure the installed drivers are 32-bit. snip When I execute the .exe file on 32-bit windows it starts a real installation routine though. I guess I'm out of luck. Some installation programs will completely decompress all contained files prioer to running the actual setup/install application - you might try running the executable, then, while it is running, but without actually going through the installation steps, search the hard drive for any files that were unpacked - you might find where it unpacked files and, if you're lucky, it might contain all contents - 32 bit and 64 bit. That's a really good idea, but no luck. - Grant HTH- James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Advanced routing
Sascha Hlusiak wrote: Am Donnerstag 03 Januar 2008 21:59:59 schrieb Vernon A. Fort: We switched from a cisco router to using a gentoo box with mutiple nics - all appears to be working very well. However, i ran into a major problem when one of my PC's went nuts. It flooded the network with unknown protocol which I saw from tcpdump. What protocol number was is? Maybe you could enable the protocol in the Linux Kernel and then filter it and apply routing rules. What is the router doing usually and how did the flooding bring your network down? Maybe just preventing the router from routing unwanted protocols already help and you don't actually need a bandwidth limiter. This was in the heat of the moment - i was able to get a MAC address from the unknown protocol messages from tcpdump. We tracked it down to a HUNG pc - basically flooding the network. This gentoo box is a firewall / router. We have three NIC's, one for the internet and one for each subnet. I've been at this long enough to see bad network devices HANG an entire network several times but this is the first time i've used Linux as a router. Just trying to come up with a solution to prevent this in the future - i guess i will have to wait until it happens again due to the lack of debugging logs/information. I was just hoping there was some kernel or network setting to help with bad devices that i missed when setting this box up. Vernon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options
Is anyone who is running 2.6.24 have a CONFIG_MAC80211 option in .config? I'm trying to figure out why vanilla-sources-2.6.24-rc6 does not include the rt2x00 drivers and the dev here apparently has very different .config options than I do: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=27943 - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.24 config options
Is anyone who is running 2.6.24 have a CONFIG_MAC80211 option in .config? I'm trying to figure out why vanilla-sources-2.6.24-rc6 does not include the rt2x00 drivers and the dev here apparently has very different .config options than I do: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=27943 - Grant My mistake. Enabling CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL generated a lot more config options. I thought all possible config options would exist in .config, even if they weren't enabled. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] walk thru new ._cfg000 - a rough perl script
I've been working on something to aid handling incoming ._cfg* files that occur during emerges at times. I know we have at least a couple of tools already for this, but I wanted something much closer to manual handling but still doing most of the drudgery. I used the term `rough' in the subject but that may be a little overly kind. Prospective users may find the script rather primitive. But if anyone can make use of it please do. And if anyone has comments or wants to pass along any edits they think will improve it please do that too. The script tries to report what its doing as it goes along, prior to actually doing anything. And provides several opportunities to bail. It has a usage message that explains things. `updetc.pl help' to see it. People may not like that it creates directories throughout the file system but I like keeping the various configs for a while so this does it for me in some orderly way yet avoids any problems with leaving renamed files in working directories like /etc/init.d or /etc/conf.d. `updetc.pl' finds the new configs and their counterpart [if it exits]. Offers you a chance to see a diff then copies and moves the files around so that you end up with your choice on the system. A copy of both the working version and the new one with a dated extension and indicative string pre-pended (START-USE STOP-USE NOUSE) are kept in a special directory (START_STOP/) at the same level as the config files. The script does not try to automate everything. It offers a pre assembled diff cmd to past into a cmd prompt for a quick look at the differences of new and old. And handles the copy move rename and mkdir chores. I thought I'd prefer to leave the `diff' part to user if they wanted a diff, rather than coding it in perl or using perl modules. Instead just offer a pre-assembled command to make it easier. Any merging or the like is up to the user. Straight yes or no about the new conf is handled by updetc.pl. I've included the bare script in line at the end but to encourage people to try it out, a little package can be grabbed at URL below containing a ready to go sandbox for testing. (Note that I have NOT tested this extensively so use at your own RISK I am using it on my real filesystem now for a couple of weeks) http://www.jtan.com/~reader/updetc updetc*.tar.gz The ready to go sandbox includes an assortment of ._cfg000*, a directory hierarchy along with corresponding system config files and the script. Expect these directories and files in the compressed tar file. ./test_updetc/ etc1/ test directory hierarchy - assorted ._cfg* and some system counterparts etc2/ replace from this for further testing (Just a copy of etc1) updetc.pl My direct email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options
--- Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone who is running 2.6.24 have a Where does this x.x.24 kernel come from? I did a recent emerge sync and when I do emerge -pv gentoo-sources portage comes up with x.x.22-r9. -mw Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2.6.24 config options
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:31:08 -0800, Grant wrote: My mistake. Enabling CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL generated a lot more config options. I thought all possible config options would exist in .config, even if they weren't enabled. Use the search facility in make menuconfig to find options, it also tells you what you need to enable to make the options visible. -- Neil Bothwick Famed tautologist dies of suicide in distressing tragedy signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:45:32 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone who is running 2.6.24 have a Where does this x.x.24 kernel come from? I did a recent emerge sync and when I do emerge -pv gentoo-sources portage comes up with x.x.22-r9. -mw git-sources most likely. Also, gentoo-sources has .23 if your using ~arch. -- Ken69267 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting XP drivers from an .exe
On Thursday 03 January 2008, Jesús Guerrero wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:24:34 -0800 James Ausmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some installation programs will completely decompress all contained files prioer to running the actual setup/install application - you might try running the executable, then, while it is running, but without actually going through the installation steps, search the hard drive for any files that were unpacked - you might find where it unpacked files and, if you're lucky, it might contain all contents - 32 bit and 64 bit. Usually in c:\windows\temp\, at least, that was the trend when I used to use windows, many years ago. It also could be in: c:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Local Settings\Temp\temporary_installation_folder or it may be in a subfolder of said application within: c:\Program Files\application name\installation_subfolder If you know what the name of the 64bit file is you can run search on c:\ while the installation executable is running. BTW, the unzip command should be run on Linux rather than MS Windows. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:45:32 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote: Where does this x.x.24 kernel come from? I did a recent emerge sync and when I do emerge -pv gentoo-sources portage comes up with x.x.22-r9. But Grant is trying to use vanilla-sources. -- Neil Bothwick Can vegetarians eat animal crackers? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options
Where does this x.x.24 kernel come from? I did a recent emerge sync and when I do emerge -pv gentoo-sources portage comes up with x.x.22-r9. But Grant is trying to use vanilla-sources. Exactly. Last I checked vanilla, git, and mm have 2.6.24 available in portage. Looking forward to hardened. Anybody tested out the Completely Fair Scheduler BTW? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge
On Thursday 03 January 2008 19:12:50 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:01:07 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to keep nagging with this but I must still not have it right. I do not see that compile flag being set during emerge: It looks like the cvs ebuild doesn't use EXTRA_ECONF. You could file a bug report about this. It uses econf. econf uses EXTRA_ECONF. On Thursday 03 January 2008 19:01:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cat /etc/portage/env/dev-utils/cvs EXTRA_ECONF='--enable-rootcommit' You got the category wrong. -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Wireless Network Adapter?
I'm using ASUS WL-167g USB WLAN (rt73usb) and work well with or without WPA_SUPPLICANT. driver is already integrated in sys-kernel/vanilla-sources (2.6.24-rc5) Where do you see that driver? I'm giving vanilla-sources-2.6.24-rc6 a try and I don't see it. - Grant AJ Spagnoletti a écrit : I was actually just researching that exact one. Have you tested it with WPA? Which driver are you using? gentoo-portage.com lists a few ralink drivers but no rt73. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I haven't tested the WPA yet, I know it works well with a WEP encryption. I can test WPA tomorrow while everyone is at work and get back to you with those results. I used the CVS driver provided at this link [1] and followed the directions posted here [2]. Like I said I havent tested under gentoo, but I see no reason why the drivers wouldn't work. AJ [1] http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Downloads [2]https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/RalinkRT73 I can't believe it but this is now working with the rt2x00 driver built into 2.6.24. The rt2x00 ebuild still won't compile for me though. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options
On Freitag, 4. Januar 2008, Grant wrote: Where does this x.x.24 kernel come from? I did a recent emerge sync and when I do emerge -pv gentoo-sources portage comes up with x.x.22-r9. But Grant is trying to use vanilla-sources. Exactly. Last I checked vanilla, git, and mm have 2.6.24 available in portage. Looking forward to hardened. Anybody tested out the Completely Fair Scheduler BTW? - Grant if you are using 2.6.23 or above you are using CFS. There is no way around. You can not 'not try' it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.24 config options
Where does this x.x.24 kernel come from? I did a recent emerge sync and when I do emerge -pv gentoo-sources portage comes up with x.x.22-r9. But Grant is trying to use vanilla-sources. Exactly. Last I checked vanilla, git, and mm have 2.6.24 available in portage. Looking forward to hardened. Anybody tested out the Completely Fair Scheduler BTW? - Grant if you are using 2.6.23 or above you are using CFS. There is no way around. You can not 'not try' it. Must be good. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
On Jan 3, 2008 2:57 PM, Brian Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 06:47:42 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 3, 2008 5:17 AM, Brian Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 03:32:47 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her machine I happen to use Yahoo as my home page and now I see a very boring home page with Yahoo giving me this message: Why miss out? To see all the new Yahoo! home page has to offer, please upgrade to a more recent browser. Supported browsers include: Internet Explorer 7 optimized by Yahoo! Firefox 2.0 Safari 2.0 Opera 9 Are others seeing the same thing? Thanks, Mark I just checked for you, and I got the same page using the Firefox 3 trunk. This is why discriminating based on user-agent is a Bad Thing, Yahoo. -- Brian Marshall Brian, Thanks for checking. I don't think it's Yahoo. I think it's Gentoo 32-bit. My desktop machine is Gentoo 64-bit using 2.0.0.11 and it's working perfectly fine. - Mark That's odd then. I just tried again and I'm still blocked, even after clearing cookies and throwing Firefox in my user-agent. I'm on 32-bit with a vanilla Firefox 3 from the Mozilla trunk. Hopefully Yahoo will wise up and realize the concept of supported browsers is absurd. -- Brian Marshall Yeah, my wife's 32-bit machine is still blocked. My son's 32-bit machine which hasn't been updated yet is still fine as is my 64-bit machine. Logically so far I do think it's a Gentoo problem. If it was specific to some Yahoo server that my house is pointed at it would have been at least consistent on my wife's son's machines, or so I think. Strange problem. Maybe it's a USE flags issue of some type. I'll do a comparison. Note that today my wife is reporting a few new problems with the Gnome update itself so maybe there is some larger issue. I've done a revdep-rebuild on her machine. I've not finished all of the emerge -DuN world updates yet but it's probably 95% done. Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Can't compile modules on vanilla-sources-2.6.24-rc6
I'm having trouble compiling modules since I moved to vanilla-sources-2.6.24-rc6 from hardened-sources-2.6.23-r4. My /usr/src/linux link is correct but alsa-driver, vmware-modules, acer_acpi, and madwifi-ng all fail. I can't seem to find a common denominator between the errors: 1. Preparing ath_hal module ../scripts/get_arch.mk:44: *** ARCH mismatch: supplied x86, determined x86_64. 2. /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1/work/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:176: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type 3. CFLAGS was changed in /var/tmp/portage/app-laptop/acer_acpi-0.8.2/work/acer_acpi-0.8.2/Makefile. Fix it to use EXTRA_CFLAGS. Can anyone make sense of this? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
Mark Knecht wrote: Logically so far I do think it's a Gentoo problem. If it was specific to some Yahoo server that my house is pointed at it would have been at least consistent on my wife's son's machines, or so I think. I already posted this, but I am using the same version of Firefox (and also in Gnome, though I doubt that matters) and don't see this problem. Are you using firefox-bin instead of building it? Any funny settings in about:config? -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: besides package.use where to store info needed at emerge
Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It looks like the cvs ebuild doesn't use EXTRA_ECONF. You could file a bug report about this. It uses econf. econf uses EXTRA_ECONF. On Thursday 03 January 2008 19:01:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cat /etc/portage/env/dev-utils/cvs EXTRA_ECONF='--enable-rootcommit' You got the category wrong. Aaahh shoot... if it weren't for those nasty little typos I'd be a millionaire retired on a Caribbean island somewhere... Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: walk thru new ._cfg000 - a rough perl script
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've included the bare script in line at the
OOps maybe not..
===
./updetc.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
## find /etc -iname '._cfg_*'
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Find;
my $myscript;
($myscript = $0) =~ s/^.*\///;
# Variable to create directory where needed
my $STST = 'START_STOP';
## produces something like: 091207_101630
## Which means: Aug 12 2007 10:16:30
my ($mon,$mday,$year,$hour,$min,$sec) = (localtime(time))[4,3,5,2,1,0];
#$year += 1900; ## prints 2005
$year -= 100; ## prints 05 (with %02d)
$mon += 1;
my $PaddedDateStr = sprintf %02d%02d%02d%s%02d%02d%02d,
$mon,$mday,$year,_,$hour,$min,$sec;
if([EMAIL PROTECTED]){
usage();
print Usage tripped at . __LINE__ . \n;
exit;
}
my $dir;
my $switch = shift;
$dir = shift || die We need two cmdline arguments: $!;
if ( ! -d $dir){
usage();
print No directory $dir can be found\n;
print Usage tripped at . __LINE__ . \n;
}
find(\wanted, $dir);
my @ar;
sub wanted {
if(/^\._cfg/){
push @ar,$File::Find::name;
}
}
if([EMAIL PROTECTED]){
print
No temporary ._cfg_*files were found... exiting\n;
exit;
}
if($switch =~ /\-s\s*$/){
## we are in `show' mode
for(@ar){
print $_\n;
}
exit;
}
if($switch =~ /\-c\s*$/){
## cp new versions over old
## get our filename for echoing and its root
my $newconf1 = $ar[0];
(my $fs_conf = $newconf1) =~ s/\._cfg0+_//;
print
* Replacing old conf versions with new,, backup both *
We find the new ._cfg000 files and offer a chance to view diffs
followed by choosing to use or not. But either way they are
stored for future reference or use.
If you decide to use the conf files we OVERWRITE the old ones but
keep a dated copy in a special directory START_STOP made for that
purpose, wherever needed in the filesystem.
Like:
copy $newconf1
OVERWRITING
$fs_conf
(NOTE: We will save renamed copies of both the one on the fs and the
new version. New versions are also backed up to that special directory
START_STOP/ created throughout filesystem as needed.)
If you want more information before proceeding..
Press Ctrl-c now and type:
\`$myscript help' to learn the names to search for and
the detailed proceedure
;
print Press enter to continue or select the Ctrl-c option\n;
STDIN;
print
= * = * = * = * =\n;
my $ans;
for(@ar){
## Setup some more file name renditions we are likely to need
my $newconf = $_;
## Reassing fs_conf so old value doesn't pop up unwanted from above
($fs_conf = $newconf) =~ s/\._cfg0+_//;
(my $prepended = $newconf) =~ s/(^.*)(\._cfg0+_.*$)/$2/;
(my $conf_path = $newconf) =~ s/\/\._cfg0+.*$//;
(my $fs_conf_short = $fs_conf) =~ s/^.*\///;
my $stt_conf = START-USE . $prepended;
my $stp_conf = STOP-USE_ . $fs_conf_short;
my $nouse_conf= NOUSE.$newconf;
## Test to see if me have a matching conf already on
## the fs in use.
if ( ! -e $fs_conf){
## None present.. so we offer to install AND save it in STST
print
$newconf
has no counterpart on the fs.. Shall we install it like this:
cp $newconf (over writing!)
$fs_conf
and
mv $newconf
$conf_path/$STST/$stt_conf-$PaddedDateStr
;
print
Any thing but y will rename the newconf to:
$conf_path/$STST/NOUSE$prepended-$PaddedDateStr
;
print [y/n] ;
$ans = STDIN;
## Make sure we have the $STST directory
if (! -d $conf_path/$STST) {
print Creating directory $conf_path/$STST\n;
mkdir $conf_path/$STST ||
die Cannot mkdir $conf_path/$STST: $!;
}
if ($ans !~ /\by\b/) {
print
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Operations Underway -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Moving
$newconf
to
$conf_path/$STST/NOUSE$prepended
;
rename $newconf, $conf_path/$STST/NOUSE.$prepended .-.
$PaddedDateStr || die
Can't rename $newconf to $conf_path: $!;
print =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rename succeded
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-\n;
next;
}else {
print
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Operations Underway -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Ok, you've decided to start using this conf file.
cp $newconf (installing it)
$fs_conf
and moving
$newconf to
$conf_path/$STST/$stt_conf-$PaddedDateStr
;
## open the START-USE file
open(START,$conf_path/$STST/$stt_conf-$PaddedDateStr)
or die Can't open $conf_path/$STST/$stp_conf-$PaddedDateStr:
$!;
## Write our size tested slurped data to that file Now theoretically
## we have solid copy of the working conf file written to the STST
directory
print START slurp($fs_conf) .
[gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage
The current version of nvidia-drivers I have installed is pretty old but it's the last one I've found that will display the resolution of my monitor correctly at 1366x768. The later versions insist on 1280x768 I think. I need to re-compile the nvidia module since I'm upgrading the kernel, but how can I do that if there is no ebuild? I use 'eclean distfiles' regularly and apparently eclean will delete the distfile of an installed program since the distfile for the version of nvidia-drivers I have installed doesn't exist in /usr/portage/distfiles. I would at least try to get the right resolution working with the latest nvidia-drivers but I don't think I'll be able to revert back to the old version since 'emerge -K =nvidia-drivers-1.0.9639' doesn't work. I'm not sure why since I've always had FEATURES=buildpkg set. Can I build a binary package now in case I need to revert? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage
Am Freitag, 4. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Grant: The current version of nvidia-drivers I have installed is pretty old but it's the last one I've found that will display the resolution of my monitor correctly at 1366x768. The later versions insist on 1280x768 I think. I need to re-compile the nvidia module since I'm upgrading the kernel, but how can I do that if there is no ebuild? There is still the ebuild you have installed from in /var/db/pkg/category/package. You can copy it over to your local overlay and keep it there forever. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Need ebuild no longer in Portage
Also, gentoo has an attic where all older ebuilds are archived. You can grab the ebuild and any related files and use your local overlay to keep it around for as long as you need. http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/x11-drivers/ There are nvidia-drivers and a legacy branch for even older. In nvidia-drivers there is a link to view dead files (or attic) - prob same everywhere. BillK On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 07:29 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 4. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Grant: The current version of nvidia-drivers I have installed is pretty old but it's the last one I've found that will display the resolution of my monitor correctly at 1366x768. The later versions insist on 1280x768 I think. I need to re-compile the nvidia module since I'm upgrading the kernel, but how can I do that if there is no ebuild? There is still the ebuild you have installed from in /var/db/pkg/category/package. You can copy it over to your local overlay and keep it there forever. HTH... Dirk -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home in Perth! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
