[gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo
Hey group, I am a long time Linux user, however I am new to Gentoo. I used Red Hat/Fedora for many years, then my own Linux based on LFS and the last year I have been using Ubuntu. I really like Ubuntu because of apt, however I have had frustrations with Ubuntu because it could be a pain to get newer versions of packages installed. For example Ubuntu defaulted to Apache 1.x for mod_mono. I have now been using Gentoo for a few days and I am running into some issues I hope this group can help with. At first emerge was trying to merge some really old packages. For example I wanted mysql 5.x, php 5.x and Apache 2.x and Gentoo was only going to install mysql 4.x. I did find out about ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 which has helped with getting more recent versions of software installed. I am looking for any good links, tips, suggestions of admin software to emerge, etc to help me learn the ins-and-outs of Gentoo. I have tons of questions but don't know where to look. Well, I can google but that takes ages and I was hoping many of you on this list will have a nice set of bookmarks on gentoo admin, handy gentoo software, tips etc. Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on Gentoo: See list of all *installed* software. Browse available software that can be installed. See what version of a particular software package is installed. See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. ... Thanks, Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo
Mantas Povilaitis wrote: On 3/9/06, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey group, snip Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on Gentoo: See list of all *installed* software. Browse available software that can be installed. See what version of a particular software package is installed. See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. ... For these tasks I use Kuroo (for KDE, http://tux.myftp.org/). I know where is something similar for GNOME too. What would be the Gnome equivalent? I use and prefer Gnome :) Jim
Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bo Andresen wrote: snip HtH Thanks Bo, that what what I was looking for. Thanks to everyone else as well. I will know have a long and fun night of playing in Gentoo : ) Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEELNReqJ5Vbm4CxYRAiAAAJ97tMuUwyt7CLWZ4MmcriFmDxdoXACaA0XD rxV+tE9COQuqPTWFqZNCWCY= =I3rx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems
* on the Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:24:58PM +1100, TN said: snip The grub boot lines are: root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 I think I read somewhere that JFS needs to be booted rw instead of ro. Try to change your kernel= line to this: kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 rw *NOTE* the above should be ONE line. P.S. Why didn't you try ReiserFS or ext3? I have always used reiserfs without issue and find it to be very stable and very fast. Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim wrote: * on the Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:24:58PM +1100, TN said: snip The grub boot lines are: root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 I think I read somewhere that JFS needs to be booted rw instead of ro. Try to change your kernel= line to this: kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 rw *NOTE* the above should be ONE line. P.S. Why didn't you try ReiserFS or ext3? I have always used reiserfs without issue and find it to be very stable and very fast. Jim I got it backwards. Change the rw to ro like so: kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 ro Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEEN+feqJ5Vbm4CxYRAh1rAJwKHftjbW/HYTuPjP4o7XX79iqg9ACfcT6F 2vFpERIygQVKVcc2xNejTc8= =ZU8Y -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] AA Fonts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am wondering if I messed up something during my build of Xorg. Some fonts look real nice on my system while others look like junk. Here is a page showing what is going on: http://keeliegirl.com/temp/fonts.html Courier looks like garbage until about 16px. Courier New looks better, though it is faint and not well aliased/hinted. Bitstream Vera Mono looks nice, along with all the other Bitstream fonts. My problem is that there are a lot of web sites (coding) that have code sections that use Courier as the font, for example the Gentoo Forum here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1398168 I also get a lot of MS Word and MS Excel documents from work that all use MS Fonts like Arial, Times New Roman, etc. Is there anything I can do to fix up these fonts? I have the following TTF fonts installed: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/ /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/ /usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/ Thanks, Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFEEOXBeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAm8QAJ43+9woiYSxURl8WJSIjRAWWEduTQCSA3Fj QrP4mDOuE2gQpeE9k66JZw== =Z5J/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 TN wrote: I have tried both rw ro since I had 2 different replies about this problem - unfortunately both failed with the same error as before. I use JFS since I find that it's fast stable too like Reiser. I tended to use a scattering of filesystems in the past so that I had experience of them all, but I'm gravitating towards JFS mostly now on my servers. I've done extensive speed testing using IOZone (http://www.iozone.org/) and for our systems, our drives, our application I just liked jfs. Not a lot between them all though apart from speed of file creation/deletion. thanks Trevor. Did you try to boot from the livecd, or another boot cd, and see if you can even mount your JFS partition? Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEEOxeeqJ5Vbm4CxYRApsdAJ9VGwyvgFzd0UcVVP4H89Rm8YWizwCeJ67S XapNTue457pE2cDqY3DrdOg= =v5sW -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
* on the Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:06:14PM -0800, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman said: Well I can't get the live cd to boot so I'll check back in a year to see if Gentoo has it's act togather yet. I do look forward to running Gentoo, someday. Alvin The live cd is still pretty new and could have some bugs. What issues are you having? Do you get any error messages? What are the specs of the box you are trying to boot it on? Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 TN wrote: Yes I have. It mounts fine when using the livecd to boot from. I can read/write to it no problem, and all the file structure is there. I've had a look at the bootlog with dmesg, and I'm now thinking that the installed kernel doesn't have JFS modules/support in it..the boot identifies the partitions (hda1, hda2 etc), but then it tries to mount hda2 with almost every fs APART from my beloved jfs. It's tried Reiser, XFS, ext2, ext3, vfs - everything but jfs. OhI don't fancy another 6 hour install!! Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Can you build a kernel? I could build a kernel for you with JFS support and zip up the kernel image from /boot and everything under /lib/modues. Or see if you can use a boot CD to boot, then chroot to your JFS drive and build your own kernel. Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEEQJaeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAnppAJ9qNlnsEhYZi9YMDfzOa1x88CdyEQCdF729 Byaw75q1y2+WTa8c+DmWMC0= =Mm9v -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [FIXED] Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 TN wrote: TN wrote: Jim wrote: Can you build a kernel? I could build a kernel for you with JFS support and zip up the kernel image from /boot and everything under /lib/modues. Or see if you can use a boot CD to boot, then chroot to your JFS drive and build your own kernel. Jim Jim Kirby: I haven't built a kernel in gentoo, but I have plenty of times on other distros (suse/debian) in the past. thanks for your offer to build the kernel for me. I was just preparing when I've corrupted /dev/hda2 by my own dumb fault.I reset the machine while /dev/hda2 was still mounted. It wont mount now. gah! I havent' any time left today, so I'll leave it to tomorrow. thanks guys -Trevor. Well thanks again guys, I now have a booting gentoo system. The partition wasn't too damaged and I was able to build a jfs enabled kernel. Now to sort out my kde probs :) cheers -Trevor How long did it take you to build a kernel? It seemed pretty fast since I emailed you. An easy fix for your kde probs is to use Gome : ) Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEERc9eqJ5Vbm4CxYRAuh5AJ9KZrIWofYUVt0Ondh4FB0ykHSNUwCeKKqL F3zpQnUrY42RSi8Xz7sPAbI= =SKo6 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[gentoo-user] Apache security tips
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey group, I was wondering if anyone has some easy to do tips for checking the security of Apache. I am running Apache/2.0.55. Is apache good with handling bad URL's? I remember with an IIS server I use to have I needed to install a url filter to help it out. I noticed that I get requests like the following in my apache log: 70.121.133.60 - - [07/Mar/2006:21:31:05 -0500] SEARCH /\x90\xc9\xc9\xc9\xc9\xc9\ The above is one line and it is 30,000 characters long in the log file. Thanks for any tips, Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEEi7teqJ5Vbm4CxYRAjt0AJ9tVjVWHQ2H9OzBVhxGkqbhL5vizQCfSVPo B/IHirSOHB3Xr4izkO48Rug= =ubVq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache security tips
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 159610784 Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 08:59:09PM -0500, Penguin Lover Jim squawked: I was wondering if anyone has some easy to do tips for checking the security of Apache. I am running Apache/2.0.55. Is apache good with handling bad URL's? I remember with an IIS server I use to have I needed to install a url filter to help it out. I noticed that I get requests like the following in my apache log: 70.121.133.60 - - [07/Mar/2006:21:31:05 -0500] SEARCH /\x90\xc9\xc9\xc9\xc9\xc9\ The above is one line and it is 30,000 characters long in the log file. Near the end of that line should be the HTTP return code Apache gave for that request. What is it? On my box it always returns 414 (Request-URI too long), so I doubt it would be a problem, beyond a major annoyance when going through the logs with 'less'. A URI string like that is almost certainly a client trying to exploit a buffer overflow. I've never seen it being a problem with my (limited) experience running apache. HTH, W I have not see it be a problem either, Apache returned the same code for me. I noticed it because I get errors from webalizer like: Error: Skipping oversized log record It is not a big deal. I just wanted to make sure I have apache locked down OK. The long entries look like someone trying to hack into IIS with requests for exe files. Thanks for the info, Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEExSdeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAqgdAJ0YYDqFV8cAtf6IXGEOLMjuTLAH4QCcDyE4 /F0PCKAW/x6OB5O6foHYA6A= =ukRJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache security tips
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 159600160 Michael Stewart (vericgar) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may want to look into mod_security for apache as well. IIRC it is designed to protect from such attacks. Thanks for the tip. I will give mod_security a try. Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEEyeEeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAvvtAJ9YQ9cZYUW4VkVc9w55vHg166snhQCfUP1k w7zGfSfyktK0Fj3vl+0JkYk= =PaNp -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Memory speed/type
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are there any programs for Gentoo that can show what speed memory I have, i.e. PC2700? I plan on ordering some memory but I cannot remember what speed I put in and I want to be lazy and not unhook everything and open it up. I tried dmidecode but that doesn't tell me what speed the memory is. Here is the relevant stuff: Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes Base Board Information Manufacturer: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD Product Name: MS-6570 Version: Serial Number: Handle 0x0006, DMI type 6, 12 bytes Memory Module Information Socket Designation: A0 Bank Connections: None Current Speed: 10 ns Type: Other Installed Size: Not Installed Enabled Size: Not Installed Error Status: OK Handle 0x0007, DMI type 6, 12 bytes Memory Module Information Socket Designation: A1 Bank Connections: 2 Current Speed: 10 ns Type: Other Installed Size: 256 MB (Single-bank Connection) Enabled Size: 256 MB (Single-bank Connection) Error Status: OK Handle 0x0008, DMI type 6, 12 bytes Memory Module Information Socket Designation: A2 Bank Connections: 4 Current Speed: 10 ns Type: Other Installed Size: 256 MB (Single-bank Connection) Enabled Size: 256 MB (Single-bank Connection) Error Status: OK I was thinking of maybe trying one of the freeware apps for windows under Wine if there is no app under linux. Thanks, Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEE6W0eqJ5Vbm4CxYRAqkcAJ9/DdT7YqCOYS8LsqozhVCOYWs6uQCfZ3MO yPKVlAACPDMwT4QEwXa24h8= =g1sh -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache (paths not showing in url)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 157182712 Tito Valentin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hans, It is showing a framset in my page when I view page source. How would I be able to correct this? If I hit the test site I can see all the paths but when I host it live I CANNOT see the paths in the url. Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Just put a frame break in your main page that you don't want to be in a frame. Here is an example script: script language=javascript type=text/javascript /* == * ': This forces the current document to the top of any ': frames. ': You MUST either remove it or comment it out if you ': want the page to be frameable in browsers supporting ': scripting. '* == */ if (top.location != self.location) { top.location.replace(self.location); // pop to top } /script Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFDsheqJ5Vbm4CxYRAlctAJ4lpChgD+3GqsA3toEVJ3FcnvicVwCeNasE GiNEzODFxCwEhHAvFYawbB4= =OC+n -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem Installing a gentoo | cross compiling install ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 161979872 Keats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip if i choose to boot a stage3-x86 and do my install wwith it... when i'll reboot, i ll not be able to make an upgrade to 64bit api cause my kernel will be in 32 bits... is there any solution ? thanx. Why can't you do the stage3-x86 then reboot to a 32bit kernel. Once you do that you should be able to compile a 64-bit kernel and add a new grub menu item for your new 64bit compiled kernel and make sure to set it as the default. So basically you will have to do the base system twice. Once for 32bit. Once the 32bit is up and running, you then compile a 64bit kernel and boot into that and then just recompile your system. I am not sure if the above will work since I have never had to do it. Just thought I throw out the suggestion :) Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFFMFeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAv1wAJ9+e4RkIeBKBIulZ58jnRJcJX9l6ACffXQr 9k2j/7ZwglqqmTGq1inrdmA= =PJYV -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Memory speed/type
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 147007040 Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I was thinking of maybe trying one of the freeware apps for windows under Wine if there is no app under linux. Thanks, Jim FYI, this did not work :) Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFFTNeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAql0AJ99VZrsGTSfU3qhNyKjuXYqPUeCegCfQNcA WL4Uy5ONEuIbnc1jbERBIwc= =11SG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Memory speed/type
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 162934872 Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any programs for Gentoo that can show what speed memory I have, i.e. PC2700? I plan on ordering some memory but I cannot remember what speed I put in and I want to be lazy and not unhook everything and open it up. snip Thanks, Jim FYI: I installed memtest and booted into that and it showed all I needed to know about my memory. It is DDR400 by the way ; ) Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFZNPeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAtrgAJ0alD8cGOqgvX5Emc3jMeUVa6XAGgCfckLl FeLZjRfXezNSRBvJx6stQdM= =m+cz -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gnome menu editing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a gnome menu editing app that I can emerge in gentoo? There was a menu editor for Gnome in the latest version of ubuntu, though I can not remember the name of it. Thanks, Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFZR3eqJ5Vbm4CxYRAjMUAJ9qPTaz1Gl6Gra0N7D0V/GL9yTvfgCeITIz sWkPJWl4lsdtB1svsvHAemM= =21te -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mount permissions
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 163718720 Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The root of all my rsync/network problems is a permissions problem The /mnt/network is drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Mar 13 13:24 test After I mount using mount -t smbfs -o username=paul,password=pass //LKG7DDD5F/gentoobackup /mnt/network the /mnt/network permissions have change to drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Mar 13 16:57 test How do I ensure the permissions stay the same after the mount Paul type man mount or man mount.cifs. Once in man, press / which will let you search. Now type smbfs and hit enter. You should see the options for smbfs. The interesting ones are: uid gid umask fmask/file_mode dmask/dir_mode uid will let you set a user id for all files gid will let you set a group id for all files umask remove umaks bits. for example if you mount with umask=000, everything will be 777 or rwx. fmask/file_mode set the mas for files dmask/dir_mode set the mask for directories If you are mounting win2k or higher, you should use cifs. This is how I mount my C$ share on my WinXP laptop: mount -t cifs -o username=administrator,gid=100,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770 //laptop/C$ /mnt/laptop The above is should be one line. This will mount my laptops C$ share and give permission for everyone in the users group to read/write/execute. If you need to mount win2k then you would change cifs to smbfs, file_mode to fmask and dir_mode to dmask. Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFbApeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAm0BAJsEgG+wLteEQ3ObxncyONuQyquOeACfdEDI KE+BUBJTU1VpvmOEL09MthU= =djHQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 163692080 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip There is no good reason to buy intel today. But... emm... I bought a Venive S939, 3200+ 1000MHZ HT for less than 130¤ or so just 5Month ago. so you should get a much better CPU than you wrote for 150$ Thanks for the tip. I did see the Venice core on newegg. Where did you get your S939? Did you do AMD64 for gentoo or just x86? I just finished getting everything compiled and setup where I like it. I won't mind doing it again if running gentoo in 64-bit on an AMD64 would be a noticeable difference from running 32-bit on an AMD64. Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFbqCeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAtG0AJ9B+ZNw9EC5/Pqhgdei3ib6rHnUTgCfft9L 29GXO8rFqf2cCcrz5uFcGkw= =6M2I -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] -nls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does turning off nls break anything? I did the livecd install and everything in the base install was compiled with +nls. Once I started compiling my own stuff like X, Gnome etc, I change to -nls in my USE flags. I only speak English so I don't need Native Language Support. I flipped the nls USE flag back on and update world/system would have to recompile a *lot*. I will probably have all the main software I want compiled in the next day or two and then plan to do a backup. I don't want to continue with those plans if I am going to get burned down the road because I turned of Native Language Support . I would rather recompile now while I have the time ; ) Has anyone gotten burned by turning off Native Language Support? Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFbvgeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAhm5AJ4rWLRsKPumFQjiDxUxEXsId090zACfcveD TirL03MgRxeJpdB/12pLkPE= =97Dh -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 163609048 maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, I tried wget'ing this on dialup: ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso Then, because I needed to use the phone, after downloading 150Megs or so, I ctrl-C'd outta there thinking I could pick up where I left off. Wrong! wget wants to start from the beginning. I gave it the -nc option and it reports 'already there, not retrieving'. What did I do wrong? I've done this before with other files and this never happened. Maybe I used a different tool, can't remember. -Maxim Use wget -c. Example, you start to download http://www.microsoft.com/linux-kernel.iso and your connection dies. To continue you would use: wget -c http://www.microsoft.com/linux-kernel.iso Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFbJ4eqJ5Vbm4CxYRAlT7AJ9O1C9ozY+YnPwQ4Z83jRAe1H2BbQCeJ0om uzQ/XGZfHEV0WCSu11eD19E= =NRPy -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] -nls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 163381024 kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim wrote: Has anyone gotten burned by turning off Native Language Support? The only thing I've ever run into on the server side that wanted it was the Horde framework requiring PHP to have NLS... however I didn't look real hard for a workaround so that might not have been a hard requirement. kashani Thanks kashani. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFcaDeqJ5Vbm4CxYRApT8AJ9NTQb/e3AncLtfpQolLwvTdjzqDwCePrnL TmvJSz39juvl9O1cVZItnpQ= =i5FQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 164593240 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better memory architecture and microcode, larger caches, etc.; you might even get a Hz bump; in the near future, you'll get hw virtualization. There are lot of reasons to choose a modern processor than just the 64-bit mode. That said, there's very little reason to have less than 1G of RAM these days, and at that point you are well-served to put (at least) your kernel in 64-bit mode. Is there a how-to on going 64-bit with Gentoo? Anything special to do with/for the kernel to go 64-bit? Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFd+UeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAi0xAJ4rvSEyExCXRsJFFA0FGtzsfyp+XwCeOtBJ 8jJMZOdaMktryZtOqkRBr7c= =Qw+M -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination
On 152923032 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip (I haven't validated this, but it *shouldn't* break your system. If you are using LVM and have a little extra space, it might just be better to do a chroot install, then boot into it and remove your old install [don't remove /home!]) Thanks for the details Boyd. ;) I have plenty of space so I might try the chroot. I take it I can find chroot gentoo install instructions on the wiki? Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Google-Talk
Abhay Kedia wrote: On Monday 13 March 2006 01:07, Mick wrote: Is there way of setting up a VoIP talk session with another person who is using Google Talk? He is running the Google Talk Windoze application. -- If you don't mind using beta stuff then I just saw this on gentoo forums http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-442920.html Do tell us if it works. Dang!!! Why does it have to be a kde app :K Does anyone know if jingle support is in any gnome app? Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] slots
Hey group, I have dev-db/mysql 5.0.18-r30 installed. After a sync I get the following when I run: emerge -avb dev-db/mysql-5.0.19 Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild NS ] dev-db/mysql-5.0.19 +berkdb -big-tables -cluster -debug -embedded -extraengine -max-idx-128 -minimal +perl (-selinux) -srvdir +ssl -static 19,074 kB Total size of downloads: 19,074 kB I read about slots, however I didn't see anywhere to do an upgrade instead of a slot. I don't want/need to versions of mysql on my system. Is there an option to emerge to tell it to only use the latest version of mysql? Or do I need to emerge -c the older mysql? Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VIA K8M890/K8M880 (VT8251) supported?
* on the Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 10:59:05PM +0100, Jarry said: Norberto Bensa wrote: SATA VT8251 do not work on Linux. There are -very- experimental patches, but I've not tried them myself. Return the board and buy anything else that's not VIA based. I did. Bought nForce4-based board. Got stuck with sata-II drives (lock-ups, crushes, out-of-sync, both in linux and in windows). It is a buggy chipset, has problems with nearly all sata-II drives (tried Seagate and Samsung) and nvidia does not care a sh*t... Jarry I have an ASRock 939NF4G-SATA2 nForce4 based motherboard. I put a WDC WD1600JS-22M SATA II hard drive in the system. Everything has been workinging perfectly. The drive is very fast and everything onboard works. The system has been very stable. The only issue I had with the board was that I couldn't get alsa to work. So I was stuck with NVidia's OSS based nvsound. nvsound does hardware mixing, though a lot of newer programs want alsa. So I recompiled everything to do oss. Today I found a simple fix to get the onboard audio to work by adding the ID to an alsa driver and recompile. Now alsa is up and running. I have had nothing but headaches with VIA and ALi in the past. This ASRock board is a great value at $75. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] anyone having apache2 memory issues
On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 20:50 -0800, Alan Bailward wrote: Hey all. I recently swapped my apache 1.3 site (personal blog, albums, etc) over to apache 2 (stable) and all seemed to go well. However lately I've been having a lot of out of memory issues on the server. Even when memory is still available snip What output do you get from: top -b -n 1 For example, here is my apache output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] top -b -n 1 top - 11:48:06 up 2 days, 15:11, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.04 Tasks: 88 total, 2 running, 86 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 7.4% us, 5.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 86.2% id, 0.8% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.5% si Mem: 2010484k total, 1678576k used, 331908k free, 264884k buffers Swap: 522104k total, 136k used, 521968k free, 945556k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 15536 root 16 0 56784 10m 4864 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.16 apache2 16374 apache16 0 57188 9816 3108 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.10 apache2 6481 apache15 0 57172 9780 3100 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.02 apache2 Go through top and see what is sucking up your memory. Or you can use gnome-system-monitor, which I like better. Here is a little program I tossed together to free that cached memory. Just run it and specify an amount of memory in MB. Do not run this as root, a normal user is fine. I have 2 GB and after running VMWare I run: mem 1200 Which frees all that cached memory that VMWare sucked up. If you have 1 GB, you should turn swap off before you run this, otherwise you might just be allocating memory from swap and defeat the purpose. Before you run the program, look at the output of free to see how much you should try to free. For example, [EMAIL PROTECTED] free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1963 1643 3190 258 923 -/+ buffers/cache: 461 1502 Swap: 509 0 509 I have 923 MB sitting in cache. So if I run: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mem 1200 allocating: 1200MB bytes of memory allocated: 1258291200MB bytes of memory freed 1258291200MB bytes of memory I now have 1.2 GB free: [EMAIL PROTECTED] free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1963 715 1248 0 45 307 -/+ buffers/cache: 362 1600 Swap:509 0 509 To compile the program, just do: You can replace $CFLAGS with whatever you like, for example -O3. [EMAIL PROTECTED] gcc $CFLAGS -o mem mem.c [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo cp mem /usr/bin BEGIN CUT #include stdlib.h #include stdio.h int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { char* ptr = 0; int i= 0; int size = 0; if (argc != 2) { printf(Usage: %s SIZE\nwhere SIZE is the size of memory to allocate in MB\n, argv[0]); return 1; } /* get the size in MB from the command line */ size = atoi(argv[1]); printf(allocating: %iMB bytes of memory\n, size); ptr = (char*)malloc(1024 * 1024 * size); if (ptr) { printf(allocated: %iMB bytes of memory\n, (1024 * 1024 * size)); for (i=0; i(1024 * 1024 * size); i++) { ptr[i]=1; } free(ptr); printf(freed %iMB bytes of memory\n, (1024 * 1024 * size)); } else printf(failed to allocate %iMB bytes of memory\n, (1024 * 1024 * size)); return 0; } END CUT You might want to try: # mem 225 Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I'm a geek, but I don't get it. 36-24-36 = -24. What's the significance? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Florida, USA, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Modular X
Would this be a problem with the EBuild or with the app? I am try to install tightvnc and get the following error. Source unpacked. Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/tightvnc-1.2.9-r1/work/vnc_unixsrc ... /usr/portage/net-misc/tightvnc/tightvnc-1.2.9-r1.ebuild: line 41: xmkmf: command not found !!! ERROR: net-misc/tightvnc-1.2.9-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1526: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 923: Called src_compile tightvnc-1.2.9-r1.ebuild, line 41: Called die I take it xmkmf is no longer used in xorg 7.0? Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I'm a geek, but I don't get it. 36-24-36 = -24. What's the significance? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Florida, USA, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 22:29 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/db/pkg $ epm -qf `which xmkmf ` imake-1.0.1-r1 Please file a bug against tightvnc, as it's missing a dependency. Will do. BTW: Why use tightvnc at all? Realvnc 4 is as fast in my experience and there's still somebody workign on it - seeing that the last update to tightvnc is dated July 2005, I doubt that anybody maintains it anymore. I am testing out the different vnc versions along with freeNX to see what will give me the fastest remote desktop. Alexander Skwar Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I'm a geek, but I don't get it. 36-24-36 = -24. What's the significance? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Florida, USA, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] anyone having apache2 memory issues
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 22:24 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Jim wrote: Here is a little program I tossed together to free that cached memory. Hm. Why do this? Do you actually get any performance benefits after having freed the memory occupied by the cache? In theory, you shouldn't see any benefits, as the system should throw away memory pages occupied by cache stuff, as soon as there are more important requests (like any malloc). Or am I wrong? That is how it should be. However I noticed when I only had 512 MB of memory that most of my memory would be used and I would see a lot of cache. Instead of that cache being freed or used, I would see a lot of swap file usage which really kills performance. I basically don't want to see swap touched unless I actually run out of physical memory. The best thing to do besides have a bunch of memory is to tune your swappiness: http://kerneltrap.org/node/3000 Now that I have 2 GB of memory, I don't worry about it any more. However when I had 512MB it was an issues, especially when trying to run apache, mysql, postfix, courier and a full desktop. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I'm a geek, but I don't get it. 36-24-36 = -24. What's the significance? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Florida, USA, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] setting the time
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 03:20 +0200, Daniel Waeber wrote: hi i have a problem with changing the time/date of my computer. I only can change it temporally till the next reboot. I tried date and ntptime to set it. after setting it the system shows the right time, but after a reboot i have the old time again. i have no other system running on the computer that could change the time, so it is a problem with linux/gentoo. do i somehow have to finalize the setting? thanks in advance ! Edit /etc/conf.d/clock and set CLOCK_SYSTOHC to yes. This will sync your hardware clock to your system time when you shutdown/reboot. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I'm a geek, but I don't get it. 36-24-36 = -24. What's the significance? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Florida, USA, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] gccmakedep
Does anyone know the path to this file? I am trying to compile net-misc/tightvnc and have run in to several issues. I am trying to get it to compile on xorg 7.0. If I get it to compile I will submit a bug report. I cannot use the standard net-misc/vnc because it wants to merge an older version of xorg. I an trying to run x11-misc/vnc2swf to make a demo. However I cannot get it to with net-misc/vino or x11-misc/x11vnc. When I connect to local host, both of those apps go nuts and start a mirror effect. So it looks like I need to run a separate xvncserver to do the vnc recording. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I'm a geek, but I don't get it. 36-24-36 = -24. What's the significance? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Florida, USA, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imap won't start
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 15:05 +0200, Bo Andresen wrote: This script does start it up successfully. Still the initscript doesn't. I have tested that all the variables are set to the same things in the initscript simply by printing them with echo and they are. /usr/lib/courier-imap/courier-imapd.indirect doesn't exist btw... I trying to use version 4.0.1 # eix courier -I -c [I] net-libs/courier-authlib (0.58): courier authentication library [I] net-mail/courier-imap (4.0.1): An IMAP daemon designed specifically for maildirs I am using: [EMAIL PROTECTED] eix -I -c courier [I] net-libs/courier-authlib (0.58): courier authentication library [I] net-mail/courier-imap (4.0.4): An IMAP daemon designed specifically for maildirs [EMAIL PROTECTED] equery belongs /usr/lib/courier-imap/courier-imapd.indirect [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/courier-imap/courier-imapd.indirect in *... ] net-mail/courier-imap-4.0.4 (/usr/lib/courier-imap/courier-imapd.indirect) Maybe try the newer version with the newer ebuild or just make your own startup script? Jim -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Finally, the bell rings.
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 17:17 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alle 16:55, domenica 2 aprile 2006, david ha scritto: What brand and model # is your printer? HP PSC 1410 Then emerge hplip and they you need to start hplip and cups. sudo /etc/init.d/hplip start sudo /etc/init.d/cupsd start sudo rc-update add hplip default sudo rc-update add cupsd default Now you should be able to go to: http://localhost:631/ Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I'm a geek, but I don't get it. 36-24-36 = -24. What's the significance? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Florida, USA, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [normal] [gentoo-user] OT: Application for video cutting ?
* on the Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 07:08:37PM +0200, Marc Redmann said: Would you happen to have a link? All I found was this guide on doom9: http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/DigiTV/projectx-fullguide.htm As Jeremy already mentioned it is in portage, anyway here is the link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/project-x brgds, Marc Thanks for the link. I found that site the other day, though based on the description, I thought I had the wrong project: Project X gives you a look behind the transmissions and tries its best to handle repair many stream types and shows what went wrong on reception. Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Packages CD image
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 10:42 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Can't find anything, too. As last resort, if your arch is at at least i686 you could use the liveCD-2006.0 directly (to install) or start it and using quickpkg make your own binary packages. Save them elsewhere, and use later. If arch i686 can't help. BTW: check for Kuroraa-0.2 or better RR4-3.0b, the second is a half full DVD with many packages (may be even too many ;) - Gentoo derivates. HTH.Rumen Speaking of quickpkg, does anyone know if one can run quickpkg on an AMD and have it run on a pentium M? I compiled my main desktop which is an ADM64 with: -O3 -msse2 -msse3 -mfpmath=sse -march=athlon-xp -pipe I am going away for 2 weeks and I am snagging my wife's laptop and ditching WinXP. I don't have time to build a fully functional Gentoo system so I was hoping to be able to use my current one. My only other option would be Ubuntu or bloated Fedora. Thanks, Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] x86 Install CD
Is there anyway to modify the x86 install CD? Last night I tried to install Gentoo on my laptop and things just didn't work out. I know all the major devices work with Linux because I put in Ubuntu 6.06 - Dapper Drake and my Intel wireless ipw2200 and sound worked OTB. The sound didn't work with the Gentoo install CD which is no biggie since I can fix that after install. However, the killer was that there was no support for ipw2200! I looked in /lib/firmware and there were the firmware binaries for the 2100, but not the 2200. I couldn't download the firmware since Gentoo didn't have support for my wireless card. I tried to do an install without network but it failed. Looking at the log, emerge tried to get to the net. I also noticed that there was no stage-3 on the x86 liveCD installer so I picked to make the packages from the CD itself. I put in a pcmcia D-Link card and dmesg showed it, however iwconfig didn't list it and Gentoo didn't do anything with it. The docs on the CD weren't much help for wireless. I am going on vacation tomorrow and would really like to have Gentoo, though I will deal with Ubuntu 6.06 if need be. Has anyone gotten an Intel pro wireless 2200 (ipw2200) working with Gentoo and more specifically with the installer? Thanks, Jim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I'm going crazy ;-)
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 08:18 +0100, Qian Qiao wrote: That's exactly the reason we still use mysql 4.0 in our production environment. The mysql charset thingy is basically a whole load of mess. A brief search on mysql's bug database shows some of the encoding bugs and unicode key length not correctly calculated are still not properly fixed yet they pushed their production version to 5.0. We might be switching to postgres, at least it supports views, triggers and handles encoding properly. The only thing preventing us from doing so is that we use Mantisbt, which only works with mysql. Are you sure it is not an Gentoo thing? I noticed this as well. Gentoo has utf8 in /etc/mysql/my.cnf. I personally don't need/want utf8. Some things I noticed with the Gentoo mysql install. MySQL sucks up a bunch of memory just sitting there. Looking in my.cnf the Gentoo defaults are pretty big. Lowering all the values got mysql down from 100+ MB to about 30MB. Why is it using utf8? Does mysql 5.x require that? Couldn't the Gentoo ebuild make it an option? When I tried to replace the Gentoo my.cnf with the example my-small.cnf, things wouldn't work. Maybe have the ebuild configure the three example files so that they all work and then a user can just symlink to the one they want? I am not running a production MySQL at home, just a development MySQL so I want it to have the smallest memory footprint possible. I would like to stay with MySQL 5.x for the new features. Switching to PostgreSQL doesn't really seem like an option (yet). A lot of the open source apps out there only target MySQL. This is especially true with PHP 4.x apps since PHP Data Objects (PDO) was not available and PHP 4.x required a slow DB wrapper class/script to target multiple databases and a lot of code duplications with mysql_*(), PGSQL_*(), etc. Once/If all those great PHP-based apps get ported to PHP 5.x and PDO, then PostgreSQL would be a true option. Have you tried to just download the MySQL binary and install it in /opt and see how that works? I might give that a go. Jim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Web mail
Can anyone recommend a webmail client? I am looking for something more modern than SquuirrelMal. I have been using SquuirrelMal, however I find it the interface too old and outdated. I also looking into the code to see if I could freshen it up. From a quick look, the code is based on really outdated procedural-style PHP where the code and HMTL is all mushed together resulting in a mess like this in compose.php: if ($compose_new_win == '1') { echo 'table align=center bgcolor='.$color[0].' width=100% border=0'.\n . ' trtd/td'.html_tag( 'td', '', 'right' ). 'input type=button name=Close onclick=return self.close() value='. _(Close).' //td/tr'.\n; } else { echo 'table align=center cellspacing=0 border=0' . \n; } if ($location_of_buttons == 'top') { showComposeButtonRow(); Does anyone know of a good *modern* webmail app? Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???
Justin Findlay wrote: On 5/8/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would you recommend changing USE flags or making them better? You should post suggestions to the devs. I think they need some fixing as well. However, I haven't really thought much about it and so have no real useful suggestions, yet. OK, let's think about this for a second. I'm just shooting from the hip here. It may very well be that I don't have any substantial improvements for USE flags. but I think it would be easier and faster to set/unset use flags if they were catergorized. I like it. Sounds like a good idea to me ;) Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
Nagatoro wrote: Least: Konsole + Gnome-terminal, slow, and in my opinion horrible color support. Don't use the tabs since I like to be able to look at all (or many) sessions at once, so tabs makes no sense to me. The early versions of gnome-terminal were a little slow. Have you tried gnome-terminal 2.14? It is *really* fast now. About 4x faster then xterm. If you use antialiased fonts, xterm gets *real* slow. xterm is more then 60x slower then gnome-terminal for scrolling a lot of antialiased text. http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-14/ Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag
Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/13/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/13/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wonder if anyone could explain the USE flag 'unicode' better than the Gentoo description located here: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml unicode Adds support for Unicode I think the person who wrote this knows too much. ;-) Or figured the reader would know how to use google... :-) http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html -Richard That much I did before writing. There are lots of similar sites. Thanks. However, being a musican and not a computer scientist all of that is mostly gibberish to lower life forms such as myself. The unicode flag possibility shows up on some new emerges for fonts. I suppose they are then fonts that use 16-bits instead of whatever they use when I don't include the unicaode flag. All that stated, then question still arises, why would I want these on my system? Do you speak languages other then English? If so, that is where Unicode can come in. It can handle a lot more characters then just the English alphabet. I only speak and read English and have no need for those funny characters so I built my systems with a global use flag of -unicode. It won't hurt to include Unicode. Basically if you want to work with any language other then English, just enable Unicode. Thanks, Mark Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error with sys-apps/apmd
On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 19:31 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I think you need to re-emerge libtool and then run fix_libtool_files.sh 3.4.4 allan Ahh, thanks for the tip. I never knew about fix_libtool_files.sh. Jim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Flash and Xorg 7.1?
* on the Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:39:40AM -0400, Willie Wong said: I am not quite sure what went wrong. The result: http://www.math.princeton.edu/~wwong/20061600026.png whenever I try to access a website with flash content on it, the weird bands of messed-up stuff appear across the screen. It does go away after I close the offending tab, and performs some action that forces X to redraw. This started happening after I did a largish update after being away for 2.5 weeks. I think the problem is either with X, firefox, or flash, though it might go as far as the video driver. Any ideas? (Or, can anyone reproduce the behaviour?) And so I use the built-in radeon drivers. Thanks, Willie I have the same issue. I upgraded gcc to 4.1.x and that has been a mess since I rebooted. I need to rebuild world :-) I get the same flash issue. Simple flash sites work, flash sites with video mostly puke now. I also get display issues with gnome-terminal where all/most of the text becomes invisible until I hit enter and then it is redrawn. I use the binary NVidia driver and thought it was releated to that. However I am currently downgrading x11-libs/libX11, x11-base/xorg-server and x11-base/xorg-x11 and all the installed drivers I have under x11-drivers/*. I hope this will fix me up because right now I cannot get into Gnome. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- You roll an 18 in Dex and see if you don't end up with a girlfriend =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Join plain text paragraphs
* on the Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 07:28:17AM +0100, David Morgan said: On 22:46 Mon 12 Jun , JimD wrote: David Morgan wrote: On 18:53 Mon 12 Jun , JimD wrote: Sweet. Thanks for the tips. I need to start using OOo more ;-) No need. sed -e :a -e '$!N;s/\n[^$]//;ta' -e 'p;D' filename Close. It is removing the first character of every paragraph. I am trying to digitize my book collection. For example, here is a test output from Narnia - The Magician's Nephew: Indeed - didn't my corrected version get through? I received it before I received your reply anyway. sed -e :a -e '$!N;s/\n\([^$]\)/\1/;ta' -e 'p;D' filename Almost perfect. It now joins the lines without removing the first character. However, There is now no space between the joined lines. For example: CHAPTER ONE THE WRONG DOOR becomes CHAPTER ONETHE WRONG DOOR I added space to the end of all lines, except blank lines and now it gets me pretty much what I was looking for. Thanks, Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros cons
Dale wrote: Philip Webb wrote: 071008 Alan McKinnon wrote: This question Is LVM a good idea? keeps cropping up on mailing lists. I find this a bit strange as I find huge benefits and have yet to find a valid downside for general use. If you haven't used it, it looks like a questionable extra complexity, which could bite your fingers unexpectedly for little real gain. However, I am grateful for all the replies may decide to use it, the comments being generally reassuring as to its stability. There is a Gentoo doc re how to fit it into the install process. That's me too. I checked into it but just have not got the nerve up to switch. I have had to redo my partitions a couple times though so I could use it for sure. Maybe one of these days. Dale :-) :-) :-) I must be one of the 'crazy' ones. I run LVM2 for / under linux RAID. Even /boot is on a RAID1. I use genkernel for the proper initramfs. You just need to use dolvm2 and lvmraid=/dev/mdX ... on your boot line. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
[gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10
I have a well-running AMD64 system running on a 250G disk that is beginning to show some SMART errors. I have purchased and partitioned two 1T disks into RAID10 arrays and would like to move everything to the new arrays, make them bootable and abandon booting from the 250G disk. I know I'll need to change /boot/grub/grub.conf, /etc/fstab and any other files that refer to my current drive partitions, /dev/sda{1,2,3,4}. I am concerned whether my current kernel will recognize the /dev/md{1,2,3,4} arrays on booting, and before switching from the initrd root disk. How can I check the parameters and contents of the initrd I'm currently using and/or generate a new one to permit booting from the RAID disks? -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10
On Saturday 02 May 2009 13:43:27 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 02 Mai 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: I have a well-running AMD64 system running on a 250G disk that is beginning to show some SMART errors. I have purchased and partitioned two 1T disks into RAID10 arrays and would like to move everything to the new arrays, make them bootable and abandon booting from the 250G disk. I know I'll need to change /boot/grub/grub.conf, /etc/fstab and any other files that refer to my current drive partitions, /dev/sda{1,2,3,4}. I am concerned whether my current kernel will recognize the /dev/md{1,2,3,4} arrays on booting, and before switching from the initrd root disk. How can I check the parameters and contents of the initrd I'm currently using and/or generate a new one to permit booting from the RAID disks? how do you do 10 with only two disks? You need four! the kernel is able to autoassemble - so you don't need an initrd - me I hate initrds. RAID10 = RAID1+0. It works fine with 2 disks. I was able to create it first with one drive missing and then add the second, which sync'ed without problems. I'm glad I don't need any special initrd. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] OpenOffice 3.0.0 with dead keys
I´m trying to get OpenOffice 3.0.0 to recognize and enter French accented characters (e.g., ´ + e or ^ + a , etc.) I´ve set up KDE keyboard layouts and can get the proper characters displayed on console, xterm, kmail and other windows, but the dead key combinations in OpenOffice are simply dead--no characters produced at all. When switching back to the US layout without dead keys, the same key presses to OpenOffice produce two characters, as one would expect. I do this all the time with OpenOffice on my laptop with openSUSE 10.3. Is there something I´ve not setup correctly on my gentoo system? -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Cursor keys stopped working in VMware workstation
I have been using VMware workstation V. 5.5.9 and a Logitech wireless keyboard for some time. Today I somehow mistyped a Ctrl-something sequence while in the VM window, meaning to enter it elsewhere instead of the VM. Now, the cursor keys between the main keys and the keypad have stopped working correctly. Most do nothing, but the down arrow key causes Windows to raise the Start menu, as if I had pressed the windows key near left-alt. The cursor movement keys on the keypad still work, with numlock off. I have tried restarting windows, restarting VMware workstation, restarting the X (KDE) session, and rebooting the computer. The only thing I haven't done is a complete power off/on. All cursor keys work fine in non-VMware applications, so I suspect VMware and/or Windows, but I've been wrong blaming MS or VM before, so.. Does anyone have a clue what might be wrong, and how to fix this? Thanks, -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 3.0.0 with dead keys
On Monday 04 May 2009 18:10:50 Saphirus Sage wrote: Jim Cunning wrote: I´m trying to get OpenOffice 3.0.0 to recognize and enter French accented characters (e.g., ´ + e or ^ + a , etc.) I´ve set up KDE keyboard layouts and can get the proper characters displayed on console, xterm, kmail and other windows, but the dead key combinations in OpenOffice are simply dead--no characters produced at all. When switching back to the US layout without dead keys, the same key presses to OpenOffice produce two characters, as one would expect. I do this all the time with OpenOffice on my laptop with openSUSE 10.3. Is there something I´ve not setup correctly on my gentoo system? Did you remember to compile OpenOffice with LINGUAS=fr? May be something to consider adding to your make.conf to get around language/localization issues. I'm not sure that's what I need. I would like OpenOffice to be in English, not French, but do want to be able to enter accented characters as used in French, German, etc., when I select the us-intl keyboard layout. Where can I get documentation on the environment variables OpenOffice build uses, and how OpenOffice uses alternate keyboard layouts? I've googled, but nothing I've encountered describes how to avoid my situation. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/15/05, Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found Linux Software RAID very useful and reliable. While probably being beaten in the performance area by hardware implementations, I just want to point out that when we are talking hardware here, we mean real hardware RAID...made by companies like 3-ware. The 'hardware' RAID in the NForce4 chipset (like just about all MB chips, and a lot of the cheap add-in cards) is just a BIOS helper...all of the actual RAID functions are expected to be implemented by the driver running on the CPU. Don't you hate how the hardware and mobo manufacturers have muddied the hardware RAID waters by marketing this sort of thing has hardware RAID (or at least implying it) ? Another thing to check out, seeing that he has a mobo with built in ghetto-RAID (TM), is dmraid. This is a device mapper implementation of RAID which makes use of various fake hardware RAID metadata to support them under Linux. Someone's also done up a Gentoo LiveCD with dmraid support on it too (who knows, perhaps the latest liveCDs have it also). The only advantage of using this I can see is the ability to to make use of the BIOS RAID helpers to create and manage your arrays, and deal with the inherent boot time issues. I'm not sure about the stability or reliability of this though, as I havn't used it, and the readme doesn't really give me courage :-). Anyone using this successfuly ? It seems interesting. I just put together a little home server which uses both Linux RAID (md) and LVM2 on an old Abit KG7-RAID motherboard. Even though it has a built in Highpoint HPT37X "RAID chip" (a ghetto-RAID BIOS helper), I decided to go with good old "md". I've tested it by pulling power on drives, and it even boots up when the 'primary' drive doesn't exist (boot blocks on both mirrored drives of course). Seems to work very well. I have /boot mirrored (md0), and root and swap on LVM2 partitions which live on another mirrored partition (md1). For any wanting to do similar, you just need to set up GRUB on both drives, and make sure your have initramfs support for starting up md and LVM2. Generkernel will produce a kernel with this if you compile the md drivers into the kernel, and include --lvm2 in the genkernel flags. Make sure you include "dovlm2" and lvmraid=/dev/mdX lines for each of of your RAID devices on the boot line, which tells the linuxrc scripts to start up your RAID devices in the initramfs so it can mount your LVM2 root partition. - Jim -- +-------+ | Jim Burwell - Sr. Systems/Network/Security Engineer, JSBC | +---+ | "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." - Mark Twain | | "UNIX was never designed to keep people from doing stupid things, because | | that policy would also keep them from doing clever things." - Doug Gwyn | | "Cool is only three letters away from Fool" - Mike Muir, Suicyco | | "..Government in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst | | state an intolerable one.." - Thomas Paine, "Common Sense" (1776)| +---+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN: 1695089 | +---+ | Reply problems ? Turn off the "sign" function in email prog. Blame MS. | +---+
Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a disk fails, your system would likely crash (due to the swap device), but would reboot in a degraded mode (no swap, slow performance, etc). You could avoid that by not using RAID for swap. Instead, use four separate swap partitions, one on each drive. As long as they all have the same priority, the kernel will share swap duties between them equally. If you make more swap partitions on more physical drives with the same priority, it is the same as swap on raid0: system strips swap across drives. And if some drive crashes and swap partition on that drive has been used, very probably system crashes too. But then reboots at least with remaining swap partitions... Yes, although there's a posibility of an 'endless crash/reboot' scenereo here, if the errors are 'soft' (e.g. not drive just vanishing). For instance, a few bad sectors develop on one of your swap partitions, the kernel can't read them, and panic/reboots. The system comes back up, the same swaps are used, and it happens again, over and over until you edit the bad partition out of the fstab. In a redundant RAID situation, I'm presuming that a bad sector or two would result in the RAID driver detaching the bad drive, and chugging along in degraded mode, where if this happened in a distrubuted swap situation, it's already 'too late', since the sectors are lost and the kernel would probably panic. There's no real benefit to using RAID for swap, unless you are limited on RAM and use swap a lot, when RAID0 may help. There is some benefit, if you use raid1 for swap. In such a case even drive failure does not cause system crash, because swap space is mirrored too. But raid1 slightly degrades swap performance... This is exactly why I'm doing RAID1 on swap. If one drive goes poof, my system stays up. Based on what this server is going to do, it should rarely use much swap, so swap performance isn't a priority for me. Plus, as you say, I believe the performance hit on swap writes (reads should actually be faster) should wind up being only a bit slower than if you were swapping to a single drive. - Jim -- +---+ | Jim Burwell - Sr. Systems/Network/Security Engineer, JSBC | +---+ | "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." - Mark Twain | | "UNIX was never designed to keep people from doing stupid things, because | | that policy would also keep them from doing clever things." - Doug Gwyn | | "Cool is only three letters away from Fool" - Mike Muir, Suicyco | | "..Government in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst | | state an intolerable one.." - Thomas Paine, "Common Sense" (1776)| +---+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN: 1695089 | +---+ | Reply problems ? Turn off the "sign" function in email prog. Blame MS. | +---+
Re: [gentoo-user] vnc.so
Tom Smith wrote: Hi all, I installed vnc with the server USE flag enabled. I've been working on getting the vnc.so module loaded for X.org and now have it working. My question is, is this module a part of RealVNC or some other program? (I tried to locate a description of the use flags for VNC but was unable to.) Thanks in advance for the help. Yes the vnc.so X module is part of the VNC package. AFAIK its purpose is to implement the shared display # 0 functionality, where you can start a VNC session and interact with the system's local :0 X display. That is, say that you're logged into the target machine itself and have an X session running on it attached to the system's monitor/vid card/KB/mouse. The vnc.so provides the functionality to attach to THAT session. Note that not all VNC packages support this (notably TightVNC doesn't, but RealVNC seems to, although I havn't tried it. There's also 'xf4vnc' and 'x11vnc' which appear to provide the functionality). Perhaps the module is also used in the normal Xvnc session also, but TightVNC doesn't even include the module and it implements Xvnc. Normally, vncserver starts up its own X server (Xvnc) which uses a new X display number which is completely independant of any X server which may be running on the target system. Perhaps this is what you're really looking for ? If so, it's very easy. Just run something like 'vncserver -depth 24 -geometry 1024x768' and you'll be able to attach a VNC viewer to the virtual X display by connecting the viewer to hostname or IP:1. - Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] XML parsing error when downloading files with Firefox
I think this may have started happening since a recent Firefox upgrade. If I try to download (say) vtun from vtun.sourceforge.net, it points me at the mirror list and I pick one, say Heanet. I get the what should firefox do with this file dialog and select Save To Disk and when I hit OK I then get: XML Parsing Error: not well formed Location: chrome://global/content/filepicker.xul Line Number 1, Column 22: all, dialog=no, url, null, null, line); ^ ie the uparrow is pointing at the second comma. Is there an easy way of fixing this bar removing and reinstalling Firefox? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] XML parsing error when downloading files with F irefox
On Wed, 11 May 2005 14:28:24 +0100, in local.gentoo.users you wrote: 1) if you're specifically talking about vtun, it's in Portage, so you don't even necessarily have to download it separately. I'm building a statically linked version for a remote Redhat box to which I only have ssh access and which has no compilation tools and doesn't have the LZO library installed. Fortunately it seems to work fine - phew! So this is probably one of the ever-popular make sure to create a new profile when upgrading issues. That would be the first thing I would try. Done, and it worked. Many thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Setting up a route through a point-to-point interface
Scenario: using vtun to build a Lan-to-Lan VPN. One end FreeBSD, one end Linux. On the BSD box I can set up a route directly through the tun0 device without having to assign it an IP address, like this: ifconfig tun0 up mtu 1450 -arp route add 192.168.10.0/24 -interface tun0 and it works just fine. On Linux (I've tried Gentoo and Redhat) it would seem that the following should work: ifconfig tun0 up mtu 1450 pointopoint route add -net 192.168.10.0/24 dev tun0 However I get a: SIOCADDRT: No such device which suggests that the tun device doesn't support the right ioctl variants. Has anyone done this? It's easy enough to do it using throw-away IP addresses for the two ends of the tunnel, but it's neater if they can be avoided. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Build failure when updating mplayer - header version problem?
I did a 'emerge --update world' and the mplayer compile ended like this: cc -c -I../libvo -I../../libvo -I/usr/X11R6/include -fno-PIC -O2 -mcpu=pentium4 -pipe -frename-registers -fno-pie -fno-pie -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I.. -I../loader -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I../libavcodec -I../libavformat -I/usr/src/linux/include -o stream_vcd.o stream_vcd.c In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/asm/byteorder.h:57, from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/cdrom.h:14, from vcd_read.h:7, from stream_vcd.c:25: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:43: error: syntax error before __cpu_to_le64p /usr/src/linux/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h: In function `__cpu_to_le64p': /usr/src/linux/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:45: error: `__le64' undeclared (first use in this function) The relevant bits of /etc/make.conf are: CFLAGS=-O2 -mcpu=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} MAKEOPTS=-j3 USE=-kde -gnome alsa oss avi cdr dvb dvd dvdr encode java mmx quicktime samba sse sse2 truetype usb xine xv xvid I don't recall seeing anything like this on the list over the last few weeks. I saw a mail this morning about not using headers from /usr/src/linux, but this seems to be doing just that. Could that be the cause of the problem? I see that there are differences between /usr/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h and /usr/src/linux/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h, and the diff listing shows these very macros which are failing in the compile. If this is the problem, how do I make mplayer build against /usr/include/linux rather than /usr/src/linux/include/linux? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Why the changes to /etc/nisdomainname etc
I'm trying to move from a Unix-based DNS to an AD setup, changing DNS domain name (but not NIS domain name) in the process. I'm testing by switching DHCP servers on and off. I had a problem with NIS and while investigating noticed that some key files seem to have changed since the last time I rebooted the machine some months ago: /etc/hostname - /etc/conf.d/hostname /etc/dnsdomainname - /etc/conf.d/domainname /etc/nisdomainname - /etc/conf.d/domainname Is there any reason for this? Was something broken with the old way of doing it? Given that the DHCP server gives out the hostname and DNS and NIS domain names, should these files be left empty? /etc/conf.d/domainname is a bit confusing: #DNSDOMAIN= # This only set what /bin/hostname returns. If you need to setup NIS, meaning # what /bin/domainname returns, please see: # # http://www.linux-nis.org/nis-howto/HOWTO/ # NISDOMAIN=insignia Which line does that comment refer to, the one above or the one below? Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ypbind man page incomplete?
The man page for ypbind does not specify if domainname needs to be set (it is only mentioned in the SEE ONLY section). The man page implies that all settings are in /etc/yp.conf. However if I have /etc/yp.conf set to: terminator ~ # cat /etc/yp.conf domain insignia broadcast but domainname not set: terminator ~ # domainname (none) then ypbind will not start: terminator ~ # ypbind -d domainname not set - aborting. jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why the changes to /etc/nisdomainname etc
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:35:46 +0100, Jim Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given that the DHCP server gives out the hostname and DNS and NIS domain names, should these files be left empty? Answering my own mail. If /etc/conf.d/hostname and /etc/conf.d/domainname are both blank, we get: (none) ~ # hostname (none) (none) ~ # nisdomainname (none) (none) ~ # dnsdomainname dnsdomainname: Unknown host (none) ~ # cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 172.16.64.1 nameserver 172.18.1.1 search isltd.insignia.com (none) ~ # So even though the DNS domain name was delivered by the DHCP server it was only used for /etc/resolv.conf. And the hostname seems to be set from /etc/conf.d/hostname well before DHCP is activated. So I set /etc/conf.d/hostname and try again: terminator ~ # hostname terminator terminator ~ # dnsdomainname isltd.insignia.com terminator ~ # nisdomainname (none) terminator ~ # cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 172.16.64.1 nameserver 172.18.1.1 search isltd.insignia.com Hmm. So if I set the hostname, the DNS domain name is set from DHCP, but not if I don't. Weird. The same happens if instead of setting the hostname in /etc/conf.d/hostnanme, I set dhcpcd_eth0=-H in /etc/conf.d/net. It would be nice if the NIS domain name could be picked up from DHCP, is there a way to do that? The info returned is picked up because /etc/yp.conf is set to: domain insignia broadcast but that doesn't seem to be enough for ypbind. Also /etc/init.d/domainname looks like it is supposed to put a domain line in /etc/resolv.conf: [[ ${OVERRIDE} == 1 ]] \ resolv=${resolv}$'\n'domain ${DNSDOMAIN} \ || resolv=domain ${DNSDOMAIN}$'\n'${resolv} echo ${resolv} /etc/resolv.conf but as you see above this does not happen, or it is overwritten later. Once I can sort this out I can move on to my real problem, which is that changing the DNS domain name in the DHCP server stops NIS working. But that's for another mail. Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Does the automounter support direct maps?
The man page for auto.master(5) refers to direct maps, ie The mount-point for the direct map is always specified as /- in the auto.master map. My auto.master map looks like this: speyburn ~ # ypcat -k auto.master /home auto.home /mp auto.mp /- auto.direct and my auto.direct map looks like this: speyburn ~ # ypcat -k auto.direct /users -rw,soft banff:/export/home/banff So a reference to /users/username should result in banff:/export/home/banff being mounted on /users - but this does not happen, I get no such file or directory. Also I only have two automount daemons running, for the two indirect maps. Can the Gentoo automounter handle direct maps? BTW while experimenting with this I found a funny in pam. /etc/pam.d/xdm refers to pam_console.so, but there is no such module in /lib/security. Is this provided by a user package? I can't remember the incantation for searching the whole package set for a single file, even if that package isn't installed. Also BTW is it worth reporting on errors in man pages? The man page for autofs refers to /etc/autofs/init.d/autofs, where it should be /etc/init.d/autofs. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 + lvm2
Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm going to re-install gentoo on a small hobby-server and because I need both redundancy and flexibility, I thought in addition to raid1 (2x 160GB ata-disk) this time I would also use lvm2: /dev/md0 /boot (~50MB) /dev/md1 / (2GB) /dev/md2 swap (2GB) /dev/md3 lvm2(rest for /var /tmp /usr /opt /chroot /home) Is this generaly advisable solution (lvm2 over raid1), or is there some risk in using raid1 together with lvm2 ? One more question concerning partition type: If I want to use raid1, I have to set all those 2x4 (hda+hdc) primary partitions as type fd (raid autodetect). Is it not problem later for lvm2 when preparing and creating volume-group? Because lvm-guide says something about setting partition type to 8e (linux lvm), which I can not do, if I want to use raid1... Jarry I recently set up a server like this. I have /boot, swap, and root mirrored using linux RAID (md), and swap and root partition is an LVM2 partition. There's no problem with setting the partition types of 0xfd. LVM2 doesn't have a problem with it. One thing you need is a initrd or initramfs setup to get all this stuff up and running during boot. I found the easiest way to do this was to use genkernel. Here's are some quick notes on how I got this working using the gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r2 kernel: Create your partitions using fdisk (/boot, and LVM2 partition for swap and root) on both disks. Set up RAID1 mirroring for these partitons (/boot md0, LVM2 swap/root md2) Add the md1 device as a physical volume, and create a volume group and logical volumes for swap and root inside it. Do high level formats on your new /boot partition and root volume, and mkswap on your swap volume.. Use genkernel to configure your kernel making sure to include this option: --lvm2 Make sure the linux RAID (md) stuff is compiled into the kernel. The LVM2 (dm) stuff can be modules. Make sure you include these kernel flags in your grub.conf or lilo.conf file: root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/vg00/root dolvm2 lvmraid=/dev/md0 lvmraid=/dev/md1 (Those last two flags don't seem to be documented anywhere, but are required for the genkernel produced linuxrc scripts in the initramfs to start up the md devices before it scans for the LVM2 stuff) All this is probably easier done, if possible, during the install from a livecd. I did it backwards myself. I got a basic gentoo system running on one drive with normal partitions, then transformed it into the RAID/LVM system. I did this by creating the Linux RAID partitons on the second drive with 'missing components' using mdadm (I use mdadm instead of the traditional raidtools). This allows you to create your RAID1 volumes with only one drive, the volumes coming up in degraded mode. You can then do your LVM2 volume creation stuff and create your filesystems, etc, get them mounted, and copy your basic system from the non RAID drive to your new volumes. Then you can update your fstab, set up your bootloader on the RAID drive, and test boot, etc, making sure the system comes up using the RAID/LVM2 setup, while having the original drive for backup in case things don't work. Once you're confident things will come up on the RAID/LVM2 setup, you can repartition the original drive, and "hotadd" the partitions to your RAID volumes. Linux RAID will then sync the formerly missing components, and voila, you now have a synced/clean RAID1 system. Hopefully that all made sense. I banged my head against it for a while getting this set up to boot up (the final key was the lvmraid= flags which cause the linxrc to start up the md devices. I had to read through the linuxrc scripts to figure this one out). Good luck. -- +---+ | Jim Burwell - Sr. Systems/Network/Security Engineer, JSBC | +---+ | "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." - Mark Twain | | "UNIX was never designed to keep people from doing stupid things, because | | that policy would also keep them from doing clever things." - Doug Gwyn | | "Cool is only three letters away from Fool" - Mike Muir, Suicyco | | "..Government in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst | | state an intolerable one.." - Thomas Paine, "Common Sense" (1776)| +---+ | Email: jimb at jay ess bee cee dot com ICQ UIN: 1695089 | +---+ | Reply problems ? Turn off the "sign" function in email prog. Blame MS. | +---+
Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method
though. -- +---+ | Jim Burwell - Sr. Systems/Network/Security Engineer, JSBC | +---+ | I never let my schooling get in the way of my education. - Mark Twain | | UNIX was never designed to keep people from doing stupid things, because | | that policy would also keep them from doing clever things. - Doug Gwyn | | Cool is only three letters away from Fool - Mike Muir, Suicyco | | ..Government in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst | | state an intolerable one.. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)| +---+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN: 1695089 | +---+ | Reply problems ? Turn off the sign function in email prog. Blame MS. | +---+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Anyone run Gentoo on a Dell PowerEdge SC430?
They are so, so cheap right now. Dell UK has them at £199+VAT for the entry level configuration, with free delivery to the end of the month. I'm tempted. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone run Gentoo on a Dell PowerEdge SC430?
kashani wrote: Jim Hatfield wrote: They are so, so cheap right now. Dell UK has them at £199+VAT for the entry level configuration, with free delivery to the end of the month. I'm tempted. I've got three of them running Gentoo in our dev environment. 2005.1 and 2006.0 disks worked just fine and had no kernel or driver issues running them as servers without X. Thanks. I can feel my credit card itching already... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VMware not running well
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: When I run as root, things seem better, but it complains that it was unable to extablish an IP number for the simulated ethernet card (networking is set up for NAT). I had lots of problems initially with running the perl script which configures the network, but eventually after trying about four times it just worked. I'm still having timer problems, vmware complains on startup about /dev/rtc not being available (though it is, and the module is compiled into the kernel). A FreeBSD guest keeps complaining that time is running backwards. Playing Gnometris on a Ubuntu guest is really really easy since the blocks take a minute to descend :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Webmail in portage without PHP?
kashani wrote: Grant wrote: Is there a decent webmail package in portage (or a layman overlay) that doesn't depend on PHP? what is the problem with php? Every webmail is going to need to depend on some kind of server side scripting. Nangus I am using perl and I'd rather not install and maintain PHP just so I can use Squirrelmail. It sounds like I may need to though. Does anyone prefer another webmail client to Squirrelmail? - Grant I've run squirrel, horde, and roundcube. I like roundcube best. It's probably the simplest to setup and the cleanest interface. I've set up squirrel and Horde IMP to check them out. Squirrel was relatively easy to set up compared to Horde, and via plugins, has pretty much every feature I want. Horde was a pain to set up, is big and slow, but looks a bit nicer than squirrel (haven't experimented with any skins on squirrel). I also installed ingo and turba on top of horde too, and I'm a bit disappointed. Unless there's a misconfiguration, turba doesn't seem to allow you to simply add a contact from an email message in Imp. And turba's mail filters seem fairly limited. I was expecting something more on the lines of Tbird's mail filter capabilities. I suppose you could get that if you ran procmail or maildrop, or perhaps seive (which I know nothing about, and apparently requires the cyrus imap server). Roundcube looks very promising. Looks like the project is going for a web based T-bird style client. :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Finally got mplayer updated
I posted ages ago about failing to update mplayer due to compile errors which seemed to be caused by it using header files under /usr/src/linux. So after a while of headscratching I did the obvious: renamed /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux.NIU and re-emerged. No problem. Still don't know why mplayer wants to use the header files under /usr/src/linux rather than /usr/include, but at least it's fixed. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Interesting install experience
The machine I posted about earlier (GRUB GRUB GRUB...) is dead. It hung booting the 2005.0 CD, and if I booted a DriveImage CD with a DOS partition, every key on the keyboard was echoed ^A. Ah well. So I just installed another machine, using the 2005.0 CD and using the new instructions. It has a Matrox G400 so I added support for that in the kernel. This may have been a mistake. Everything is fine until I reboot, when after the GRUB screen and kernel selection, the screen goes black with lots of pretty blue squares all over it. Nice, but not helpful in logging in. And of course sshd isn't enabled by default. No matter, I reboot off the CD, mount everything, do the chroot thing and add sshd to the default runlevel, reboot and I can get in remotely. I guess I will rebuild the kernel with Matrox support removed and see if that fixes. BTW, what is the received wistom wrt building things into the kernel or building them as modules? As well as the G400 I have an Intel NIC and a VIA sound card, and this time round chose to build them in, though before I built them as modules. I'm not clear as to the pros and cons. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Ybind problems - doesn't like YP server
We have a Solaris based YP server. On a fresh install I set /etc/yp.conf to: domain insignia broadcast and set NISDOMAIN to insignia in /etc/conf.d/domainname. If I run ypbind -debug I get: speyburn ~ # ypbind -debug parsing config file Trying entry: domain insignia broadcast parsed domain 'insignia' broadcast add_server() domain: insignia, broadcast [Welcome to ypbind-mt, version 1.17.2] do_broadcast() for domain 'insignia' is called Answer for domain 'insignia' from server 'panther.internal.local' leave do_broadcast() for domain 'insignia' Pinging all active server. Pinging all active server. The YP server is correctly identified. I can ping it OK in another window. However if I do a ypwhich in another window I get: speyburn ~ # ypwhich can't yp_bind: Reason: Domain not bound It doesn't make any difference if I use the -broken-server flag. This was working fine on the machine which failed and I'm in the process of replacing, and I'm pretty sure I didn't do any more than the above. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Where to find smbmount?
A system I have which is a year or so old has a /usr/sbin/smbmount, but if I use qpkg -f to find out which package owns it I get nothing. A recently-installed system doesn't have this file and I can't find any obvious package which would have it (except maybe Samba). Do I need to install Samba to get smbmount? I would not have thought so since it is referred to in the man page for mount. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] PHP and files over 2 Gb
I just bought a Pinnacle ShowCenter and am using it with some Apache/PHP/MySQL code to play mpeg movie files to a TV. It appears that PHP as built can't handle files over 2Gb - I get warnings whenever the application peruses a directory with such files in it. I had a look at the USE flags for PHP but didn't see anything obvious. Is there an easy way to build PHP to have large file support? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PHP and files over 2 Gb
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:45:23 +0100, in local.gentoo.users you wrote: It appears that PHP as built can't handle files over 2Gb - I get warnings whenever the application peruses a directory with such files in it. I had a look at the USE flags for PHP but didn't see anything obvious. Is there an easy way to build PHP to have large file support? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24373 That was useful, thanks. It is indeed not enough for PHP to be able to handle large files, Apache has to as well (I think the video files are delivered directly by Apache and not via a script). Looks like I will have to wait for 2.2. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] booting with an lvm2 root. How do I make a working initrd?
Sascha Lucas wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Javier Ubillos wrote: I don't want to use genkernel, but I still want it to work. you realy should use genkernel it's much easier. mkinitrd --preload md_mod --with=md_mod initrd-2.6.16-gentoo-r9 well you should not use mkinitrd, if you refuse genkernel :-). btw: md-mod is RAID (multiple devs), LVM is dm-mod (dev mapper). In conclusion: how do I get/make a working initrd so I can boot with my lvm2 root? that's much work to do it your self start building ext2 images or cpio's with static busybox lvm2 and write your own linuxrc (here you may cheat by looking into linuxrc from genkernel :-)). Don't forget to create dev-files and to include some modules. Sascha. Yes. What Sascha said. I've had many a user (in #gentoo IRC) sneer at me for using Genkernel to produce a kernel + initramfs archive to boot up my RAID + LVM2 based system. But it's far simpler than reinventing the wheel by creating all that is needed to bootstrap the RAID/LVM2 setup (static bins, linuxrc script to start everything up, create device nodes, etc, etc). I don't see much value in doing it myself when Genkernel already does it for me. Also, you can do all the kernel customization you wish (within reason) even if you use Genkernel by using one of the --menu|x|g|config flags, and/or --oldconfig. -- +---+ | Jim Burwell - Sr. Systems/Network/Security Engineer, JSBC | +---+ | I never let my schooling get in the way of my education. - Mark Twain | | UNIX was never designed to keep people from doing stupid things, because | | that policy would also keep them from doing clever things. - Doug Gwyn | | Cool is only three letters away from Fool - Mike Muir, Suicyco | | ..Government in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst | | state an intolerable one.. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)| +---+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN: 1695089 | +---+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Console vanishes after X server is run
Hi, I'm having an issue with text console of one of my gentoo boxes not coming back after the X server exits. The console is there and works fine up to the point when the X server starts (for instance, when gdm comes up). After this, using the key sequences to call up the text vtys, shutting down gdm, etc, results in a black screen. I've tried the various key combos, etc, and the screen just stays black until the system is rebooted (it stays black until the system warm boots and the BIOS screen pops up), or until an X server is started up again (gdm will start up and display the login screen normally). It's as if the whatever is responsible for switching the video mode and/or FB address back to the console settings is not doing its job. I run gensplash and the vesa-tng frame buffer drivers. The graphics card I have is an old Nvidia GeForce 3, and I run the Nvidia binary drivers (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers) under Xorg 7.0. Here is my boot line: kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.16-gentoo-r12 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/vg00/root dolvm2 lvmraid=/dev/md0 lvmraid=/dev/md1 video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose,fadein,mtrr,theme:livecd-2006.0 quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 initrd (hd0,0)/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.16-gentoo-r12 (1280x1024-16 mode is listed in the /proc/fb0/modes file, so it's a valid BIOS mode) Any ideas ? Suggestions ? - Jim smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
[gentoo-user] How to get source of emerge to patch?
Hi. I want to patch cyrus-imapd. I have the diff file, but no source because I emerged from the repository. How do I get the source and ebuild it? Thanks. __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[gentoo-user] Re: world favorites: pros and cons
Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, the world file is a simple way to keep a package version (by removing it from world), for instance, I don't wanna upgrade mysql with my nightly emerge -uDN world, so, its not in my world file. Isn't there any way for nailing it down to some specific version ? Sure, mask anything higher than the version you want in your /etc/portage/package.mask file: dev-db/mysql-4.1.20 -- Jim Ramsay Me fail English? That's unpossible! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: world favorites: pros and cons
Enrico Weigelt wrote: Yeah, but this would also prevent fixes in this ebuild. (ie. if there's a typo or broken dependency) Then you could do: =dev-db/mysql-4.2 This would allow any mysql-4.1.*, including 4.1.20-r1 and 4.1.99 Though you do raise a good point... it would be nice to specify a real upstream version number differently from the Gentoo interim release number such as -r2. Can you think of a sane way to do that? My suggestion would be to use a '+' character to represent all possible gentoo interim releases, as follows: Masking dev-db/mysql-4.1.20+ should allow mysql-4.1.20-r1 but not mysql-4.1.21 -- Jim Ramsay Me fail English? That's unpossible! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: world favorites: pros and cons
Daniel da Veiga wrote: Take a look at the ~ operator... That's what I get for not RTFM first! From 'man ebuild': ~ means match any revision of the base version specified. So in the above example (~net-libs/libnet-1.0.2a), we would match versions '1.0.2a', '1.0.2a-r1', '1.0.2a-r2', etc... So the correct answer(?) would be to mask: ~dev-db/mysql-4.1.20 Then you get bugfixes but no new versions. -- Jim Ramsay Me fail English? That's unpossible! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Network connection repeatedly failing!
Samuel Baldwin wrote: When I run ifconfig, I get this: lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX Packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX Packets:28 errors:0 dropped:2 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions: 0 txqueuelen: 0 RX bytes: 3080 (3.0 KB) TX bytes:3080 (3.0kb) This is just the inernal loopback device, not eth0. Try 'ifconfig -a' and see if your system even knows about your eth0 interface. If it's not listed by 'ifconfig -a', you need to load the right kernel module to get it there. If it's listed but not up, a command like 'ifconfig eth0 up 10.0.0.100' and 'route add default 10.0.0.1' may do for now. Also, does anyone know of a tool that allows you to play audio from a terminal? Basically, sending audio to standard audio out? I'd like to be able to listen to music (all .ogg and .mp3, if it makes a difference), while in runlevel 3. This is a side comment, and do not waste time answering this/looking it up if you don't know off hand. I use 'media-sound/mpd' which is a mp3/ogg playing daemon (server), then one of the front-ends (media-sound/ncmpc is a good console client) to set up your playlist. http://www.musicpd.org for more info and a list of other frontends. -- Jim Ramsay Me fail English? That's unpossible! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Exchange compatibility with MTAs (not evolution)
Alan Mckinnon wrote: I'd like to ask for some user feedback on how well other MTAs manage to talk to Exchange. It's the calendar function I'd like to have - other people at work like to send me invites. I can always pop my mail from exchange, and I can get imap if I ask the admin nicely so the mail stuff is not important. The exchange web front end is enabled so I always have the browser as a fall back, but I'd really like everything in the MTA if possible. Sylpheed-claws has a 'vcalendar' plugin which reports to be compatible with Exchange calendar events. I've never tried it, though. 'emerge sylpheed-claws-vcalendar' -- Jim Ramsay Me fail English? That's unpossible! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Enabling Mutt with SSL for IMAP
Anthony Roy wrote: More generally, how do I find out the relationship between the portage use flags and a packages compile options? Short answer is: Read the ebuild. Look for things like: econf $(use_enable ssl) if use ssl; then # Do many things fi use ssl epatch some_file.patch -- Jim Ramsay Me fail English? That's unpossible! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Streaming Audio: source - server - clients.. What to use for source to send to server?
fire-eyes wrote: I'm out of ideas now, and pretty frustrated. I am looking for ideas. This would preferably be a console application so I don't have to depend on a GUI. Again, it needs to support both mp3 and ogg at the same time, yet have the ability to take the oggs, re-encode to mp3 on the fly and stream them as mp3 to the icecast server. I'm pretty sure media-sound/mpd can do this. -- Jim Ramsay Me fail English? That's unpossible! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot figure out emerge blocks
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 14:07:01 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: please consider searching the email archives for this list in the future. The phonon mess has been explained only a few days ago. as a kde user you want media-sound/phonon all you need to know: http://ben.liveforge.org/2009/06/03/preventing-the-qt-phonon-vs-phonon-bloc k Looking through http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user didn't give me any more information than I already had, namely the problem with kde 3.5.9 vs 3.5.10 blocking issues, and monolithic vs -meta ebuilds. I didn't know about the phonon issues, and going back to the archive, I still didn't see any reference to it. Sorry to have offended you. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks
I am trying to install KDE 4.2 or 4.3 on a stable KDE 3.5.10 system, following the guidelines in http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml, and the emerge fails with the following blocks: --- [blocks B ] net-wireless/bluez-libs (net-wireless/bluez-libs is blocking net-wireless/bluez-4.39) [blocks B ] net-wireless/bluez (net-wireless/bluez is blocking net-wireless/bluez-libs-3.36) Total: 294 packages (3 upgrades, 145 new, 141 in new slots, 5 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 347,708 kB Conflict: 2 blocks (2 unsatisfied) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. ('installed', '/', 'net-wireless/bluez-libs-3.36', 'nomerge') pulled in by =net-wireless/bluez-libs-3.12 required by ('installed', '/', 'gnome-base/gvfs-1.0.3-r2', 'nomerge') ('ebuild', '/', 'net-wireless/bluez-4.39', 'merge') pulled in by net-wireless/bluez required by ('ebuild', '/', 'kde-base/solid-4.2.4', 'merge') --- I don't use gnome, but it appears that gnome-base/gvfs is ultimately pulled in by net-im/pidgin, which I do use. Does this mean I can't continue using pidgin with KDE4? Are there good alternatives to pidgin, including OTR (the encrypted plug-in)? -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] How to get an old ebuild
I am currently running kernel 2.6.25-r7 and have an emerge that fails because it can't find a Makefile for the kernel. I somehow no longer can run genkernel, or emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r7. I would rather not upgrade my kernel at this point--how can I find/emerge this slightly older kernel? -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Emerge gramps-3.1.2 fails
Trying to emerge gramps-3.1.2 fails with the following error: === checking for sh... /bin/sh checking Python bindings for gtk 2.10 (pygtk2=2.10.0)... configure: error: The python bindings for gtk 2.10 (pygtk2=2.10.0) could not be found. !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support: !!! /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/gramps-3.1.2/work/gramps-3.1.2/config.log * * ERROR: app-misc/gramps-3.1.2 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_configure * environment, line 3604: Called gnome2_src_configure * environment, line 2451: Called econf '--disable-mime-install' * ebuild.sh, line 534: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die econf failed * The die message: * econf failed * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app- misc/gramps-3.1.2/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app- misc/gramps-3.1.2/temp/environment'. * Failed to emerge app-misc/gramps-3.1.2, Log file: '/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/gramps-3.1.2/temp/build.log' = and yet, pygtk seems to be installed: jlc64 ~ # eix -I pygtk [D] dev-python/pygtk Available versions: (2) 2.12.1-r2 2.14.1 {X doc examples} Installed versions: 2.14.1-r1(2)(23:46:21 09/17/09)(X -doc -examples) Homepage:http://www.pygtk.org/ Description: GTK+2 bindings for Python Any suggestions how to resolve this? -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge gramps-3.1.2 fails SOLVED
On Friday 18 September 2009 02:50:03 Arttu V. wrote: On 9/18/09, Jim Cunning jcunn...@cunning.ods.org wrote: Trying to emerge gramps-3.1.2 fails with the following error: === checking for sh... /bin/sh checking Python bindings for gtk 2.10 (pygtk2=2.10.0)... configure: error: The python bindings for gtk 2.10 (pygtk2=2.10.0) could not be found. !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support: !!! /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/gramps-3.1.2/work/gramps-3.1.2/config.log You should attach config.log, or at a minimum the spot in there where configure tries to find gtk and pygtk. Without that info it's very hard to limit the things that could be broken. I looked at the configure script for gramps and discovered it was creating a python test for the gtk bindings. dev-python/pygtk-2.14.1 was already installed, and re-emerging produced this: * Messages for package dev-python/pygtk-2.14.1: * Unable to establish /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pygtk.py symlink * Unable to establish /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pygtk.pth symlink In gentoo forums, I found a discussion about pygobject and pygtk both needing to be re-emerged. I did emerge -1 -av pygobject pygtk successfully and then the emerge for gramps is now proceeding past the point of earlier failure. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] How to suppress starting kmail with KDE 4.3.2
I recently upgraded to KDE 4.3.x, now at 4.3.2. With KDE 3.5.10 I could have kontact running on logout and it would be restarted the next time I logged in. With KDE 4.3.x, kontact is started, but so is kmail in a separate window. I changed my default mail application to kontact, but I cannot find where kmail is mentioned to start on login, so I can remove it. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] How to suppress starting kmail with KDE 4.3.2
On Monday 12 October 2009 23:12:25 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: I recently upgraded to KDE 4.3.x, now at 4.3.2. With KDE 3.5.10 I could have kontact running on logout and it would be restarted the next time I logged in. With KDE 4.3.x, kontact is started, but so is kmail in a separate window. I changed my default mail application to kontact, but I cannot find where kmail is mentioned to start on login, so I can remove it. you have probably saved a session with kmail running. IMHO worth a try saving a session without kmail running. I presume saving a session is done by logging out. I have already done that, leaving KDE without any mail client running. On logging in again, kmail is started. The KDE session manager doesn't appear to have any option to save a session, but it does have a way to exclude applications from saved sessions. I'll try excluding kmail and then logging out. No change--KDE starts kmail even when logging out with neither kmail or kontact running. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] mozilla-sunbird segfaults
I had sunbird running while doing an emerge update world. After logging out and back in, sunbird didn't start. Manually starting it produced: jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 30349 Segmentation fault $(type -P aoss) $mozbin $xulparams $@ sunbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139) === After re-emerging mozilla-sunbird, starting it produces: jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird Removing /home/jcunning/.mozilla/sunbird/naf79q2v.default/compreg.dat leftover from older sunbird Removing /home/jcunning/.mozilla/sunbird/naf79q2v.default/XUL.mfasl leftover from older sunbird Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 29262 Segmentation fault $(type -P aoss) $mozbin $xulparams $@ sunbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139) jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ I didn't see any recent complaints of segfaults for version 0.9 in a google search. Anyone have suggestions? -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] How to suppress starting kmail with KDE 4.3.2
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:10:40 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, you wrote: On Monday 12 October 2009 23:12:25 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: I recently upgraded to KDE 4.3.x, now at 4.3.2. With KDE 3.5.10 I could have kontact running on logout and it would be restarted the next time I logged in. With KDE 4.3.x, kontact is started, but so is kmail in a separate window. I changed my default mail application to kontact, but I cannot find where kmail is mentioned to start on login, so I can remove it. you have probably saved a session with kmail running. IMHO worth a try saving a session without kmail running. I presume saving a session is done by logging out. no, you presume wrong. Open the menu, go to the logout tab, there is a 'Save Session' option, click that. Hmmm. KDE 4.3.2 menu shows tabs for: Favorites, Applications, Computer, Recently Used, Leave. No logout tab. The Leave tab shows: Logout, Lock, Switch User, Suspend to disk, Restart, Shutdown. No Save Session option -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] [FIXED] mozilla-sunbird segfaults
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 12:52:51 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 13 October 2009 19:12:45 Jim Cunning wrote: I had sunbird running while doing an emerge update world. After logging out and back in, sunbird didn't start. Manually starting it produced: jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 30349 Segmentation fault $(type -P aoss) $mozbin $xulparams $@ sunbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139) === After re-emerging mozilla-sunbird, starting it produces: jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird Removing /home/jcunning/.mozilla/sunbird/naf79q2v.default/compreg.dat leftover from older sunbird Removing /home/jcunning/.mozilla/sunbird/naf79q2v.default/XUL.mfasl leftover from older sunbird Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 29262 Segmentation fault $(type -P aoss) $mozbin $xulparams $@ sunbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139) jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ I didn't see any recent complaints of segfaults for version 0.9 in a google search. Anyone have suggestions? Rebuild sunbird? Stuff it links do has likely changed. I did that--shown above--with no change in final result. I did a 'revdep- rebuild' (twice), and both times only app-emulation/emul-linux-x86- soundlibs-20080418 was rebuilt. Still no difference. Now--three hours later--sunbird starts fine. I didn't deliberately do anything more after the revdep-build's. Anyway, it works now. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Strange sunbird segfault
I normally keep mozilla-sunbird calendar running on my desktop. Occasionally, I find that it has disappeared and when I attempt to restart it, it fails with a segfault. It has happened twice now that I have been unable to restart sunbird for a matter of several hours, and then with no other change to the system and otherwise normal activity continuing, sunbird starts up fine. The information on a konsole when starting and failing is: jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 25986 Segmentation fault $(type -P aoss) $mozbin $xulparams $@ sunbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139) When it finally starts OK the Generic Event Extension errors also appear, but the ap seems to run without problems. The event extension problem is something else I need to resolve, but I don't think it's related to sunbird, as gvim and other applications starting also get them. Anyone have any suggestions where to look when sunbird segfaults again? -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] How to build vmware-modules for kernel 2.6.30
I upgraded to kernel 2.6.30 and now cannot build the vmware kernel- modules-1.0.0.15-r2 that I need for vmware-workstation-5.5.9. I've seen references on google searches that kernel-modules-1.0.0.25 will work for vmware-5.3 up to vmware-6.something. vmware-workstation-5.5.9 seems to require *only* vmware-modules-1.0.0.15. Is there a way I can change this and rebuild both vmware and its kernel modules? -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] How to build vmware-modules for kernel 2.6.30
On Tuesday 20 October 2009 07:15:45 Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Jim Cunning jcunn...@cunning.ods.org wrote: [...] vmware-workstation-5.5.9 seems to require *only* vmware-modules-1.0.0.15. Is there a way I can change this and rebuild both vmware and its kernel modules? You could perhaps emerge the newer modules with --nodeps and see if it works. You might have to put the old vmware-modules package into package.provided so emerge doesn't complain about it. This worked so far as to get the modules built and loaded. Then vmware 5.5.9 complained about mismatched interface version numbers. There are patches to supposedly make it work (it requires patching your kernel as well as your vmware-module sources): http://www.insecure.ws/2009/04/21/vmware-specific-specific-55x-and-kernel-2 629 More involved than I want to undertake, and also would require repeating each time the kernel were updated. Other possible actions would be to go back to older kernel or upgrade to newer vmware-workstation. :) I bit the bullet and upgraded to vmware-workstation-6.5.3. Much easier. It just drops in and works. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.