Re: [gentoo-user] New MySQL doc (update 3)
Chris White wrote: Added a bazillion spell fixes, also a list of places to find GUI frontends for MySQL: Thanks goes to my mom, my dad, my family for all their support I'd also like to thank the academy for their hard effort Philip Webb for tolerating my odd grammar/spelling/logic Bruce Wolk for the same And most importantly, I'd like to thank the fine folks at Speedy's dinner! http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/mysql.html Chris White I know you've seen this twice from other replies, but you still haven't changed it. It's not Standard Query Language, it's Structured Query Language. Cheers, Kevin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?
On 10:50 Wed 13 Jul , Ow Mun Heng wrote: uclibc profile /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86/ That's probably the problem then How can I check? Profiles have use.mask files. uclibc/x86 doesn't have one, but it's parent is uclibc whose parent is base, and win32codecs is in /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.mask, which is the reason why you can't use win32codecs. You could remove win32codecs from base/use.mask, try and use it and see if it works since it shouldn't break anything. But each time you did emerge sync it'd get written over. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ogle and mplayer
On 22:19 Tue 12 Jul , Canek Pel??ez wrote: Isn't ogle unsupported? I suppose it has to do with Xv, but I don't know really. Anyway, I'm pretty sure ogle is unsupported. What makes you say that? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?
David Morgan schreef: You could remove win32codecs from base/use.mask, try and use it and see if it works since it shouldn't break anything. But each time you did emerge sync it'd get written over. Which is why the proper way to unmask a hard-masked package is to enter it into /etc/portage/package.unmask (and often thereafter also into /etc/portage/package.keywords, as many hard-masked packages are also keyword-masked). HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] gentoo web development tool
AybOwan! dear friends, what is the gentoo official web site WEB DEVELOPMENT TOOL? (like screem, nvu or what?)-- ...The future lies ahead. ___ Have you mooed today? --- \^__^ \ (oo) \___ (__) \ )\/\||--w||| ||Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r4-Adapt-v1.1#
Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?
David Morgan schreef: On 12:06 Wed 13 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: Which is why the proper way to unmask a hard-masked package is to enter it into /etc/portage/package.unmask (and often thereafter also into /etc/portage/package.keywords, as many hard-masked packages are also keyword-masked). Great, but what does that have to do with USE flags that are masked on a particular profile? What does which profile it is have to do with the mask? /etc/portage/package.unmask unmasks hard-masked applications on the profile you are using-- the profile supercedes all later adjustment files, insofar as all later adjustment files (/etc/make.conf, /etc/portage/whatever) all refer to the profile defaults to know what to adjust. Obviously -- or at least it seems obvious to me, but that doesn't say much-- that if the package is hard-masked, the USE flag that is associated with it will be disabled (because the package the USE flag would call is unavailable). So if the package became available (was unmasked), then I would assume that the USE flag would be enabled, and one could just USE it normally (via /etc/portage/package.use, or /etc/make.conf). There's probably an equivalent for them (/etc/portage/profile/use.unmask at a guess). I suspect that it's masked for a reason though.. Yes, hard masking is always for a reason-- and the fact that you have to go through several steps to install a hard-masked package is, I suspect, for a reason as well. Hard masking means that there are serious problems with the package (under certain conditions, if the package is only hard-masked under certain arches or profiles), and unmasking it via several steps should drive home that you're doing something that you should consider carefully before proceeding with. Hard masking also suggests that testers are needed to nail down the problem, so that the packages can be unmasked-- so by unmasking it, you are tacitly agreeing to be such a tester, and to contribute to b.g.o on the subject after all, if the package has serious problems, you're going to have to deal with them anyway, so you might as well report what you find. If you don't want to have anything to do with such a difficult package, then you shouldn't expend the effort to unmask it... that's why it's masked, so that those who don't want problems never see it at all. Holly -- 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
Re: [gentoo-user] ogle and mplayer
el Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:19:06 -0500 Canek Peláez [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Anyway, I'm pretty sure ogle is unsupported. is it? i emerged it normally, it wasn't masked or anything. it also used to work on my previous linux installation. anyway, i'm using xine now, it's the only dvd player i tried so far that works well. best, lj ¿cómo anda el méxico querido? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?
(top posting because I can't be bothered to sort all the irrelevant stuff you posted) The person in question is using /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86 If you look in /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86/parent you'll see that t's parent profile is /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/. If you look in /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/parent you'll see that it's profile is /usr/portage/profiles/base. Now, look in /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.mask That's the reason the win32codecs useflag is masked on this profile, as I explained in an earlier email. Dave On 13:28 Wed 13 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: David Morgan schreef: On 12:39 Wed 13 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: Obviously -- or at least it seems obvious to me, but that doesn't say much-- that if the package is hard-masked, the USE flag that is associated with it will be disabled (because the package the USE flag would call is unavailable). Maybe, but that's not the way portage works these things out Well, it looks like you're at least partially right-- I went back to the source: # Copyright 2004 Gentoo Foundation. # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/default-linux/use.mask,v 1.14 2005/05/20 11:52:10 lu_zero Exp $ # This file masks out USE flags that are simply NOT allowed in the default # profile for any architecture. This works, for example, if a non-default # profile (such as the selinux profiles) have a USE flag associated with # them. uclibc # aqua USE flag is only valid on Mac OS X aqua # amd64 only: emul-linux-x86 # sparc only: ultra1 # x86 only divx4linux win32codecs kqemu # Copyright 2004 Gentoo Foundation. # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/default-linux/x86/use.mask,v 1.8 2005/05/21 01:13:41 lu_zero Exp $ # This file masks out USE flags that are simply NOT allowed in the default # x86 profile. This works, for example, if another architecture's # profile have a USE flag associated with (such as altivec, mmx, etc). # Unmask x86 instruction sets -mmx -mmx2 -mmxext -sse -sse2 -3dnow -3dnowext -win32codecs Plus, these files are where the masks are, the use.mask for the uclibc profile only contains pam nls nptl nis # aqua USE flag is only valid on Mac OS X aqua # this seems to pull in pre compiled glibc libs. divx4linux emul-linux-x86 and nothing else (and the other folders in the profile folder don't contain a use.mask). Oh, wait a minute, I think I found it: # Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/selinux/use.mask,v 1.1 2005/05/08 23:37:08 pebenito Exp $ -selinux # disallow posix acl since this is SELinux acl # aqua USE flag is only valid on Mac OS X aqua # must use a specific SELinux profile that unmasks this uclibc # Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/selinux/2005.1/x86-uclibc/use.mask,v 1.3 2005/05/14 20:53:38 pebenito Exp $ -uclibc -win32codecs # PPC instructions altivec nls But from this, it looks like there is no way to unmask the USE flags in question-- simply NOT allowed seems pretty definitive, although a careful reading of man portage might reveal a loophole. But I doubt it.. and in fact, it does not seem to have any such, from the files list in man portage: SYNOPSIS /etc/ make.globals make.conf(5) /etc/make.profile/ deprecated make.defaults packages packages.build package.provided parent use.defaults use.mask virtuals /etc/portage/ bashrc package.mask package.unmask package.keywords package.use mirrors categories /etc/portage/profile/ site-specific overrides of /etc/make.profile/ /usr/portage/profiles/ arch.list categories info_pkgs info_vars package.mask profiles.desc thirdpartymirrors use.desc use.local.desc use.mask /var/lib/portage/ world Don't see anything like a use.unmask file. What I would now be interested in, if this concerned me, is why this particular USE flag is simply NOT allowed under this extremely specialized profile, but I have no idea where I
Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?
David Morgan schreef: (top posting because I can't be bothered to sort all the irrelevant stuff you posted) The person in question is using /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86 If you look in /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86/parent you'll see that t's parent profile is /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/. If you look in /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/parent you'll see that it's profile is /usr/portage/profiles/base. Now, look in /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.mask That's the reason the win32codecs useflag is masked on this profile, as I explained in an earlier email. But the use.mask-- even the correct one-- still does not lead to an explanation or documentation of what the mask of a USE flag actually means or what it means in this particular case (why this specific USE flag is masked under this specific profile), in such a way that one would know if it was something one had to learn to live with (definitively unresolveable), or was in some way unmaskable. That's the original issue-- is there a way to compile mPlayer using this USE flag under this profile, or is there not? Normally, *.mask files seem to contain some explanation of the reason for the mask (even if only minimal), which is why I was looking through them, but here that does not seem to be the case. Does that mean that the OP is SOL? Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB....etc
On 7/13/05, Jim Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone remind me what it means when you just get millions of GRUBs scrolling up the screen. Came back from a few days away and my box was locked up. Rebooting gets me the GRUB menu but which ever kernel I selected started to boot then scrolled up reams of very nasty looking messages. Sounded like a hardware fault. So I reseated the memory, CPU, all connectors, and pulled out the CMOS battery for a few minutes. Rebooted, let the BIOS memory test run for a while, went into the BIOS setup, reset to factory defaults, did a reset configuration data. Now on boot I just get the continuous scrolling GRUBs. I've seen it before but I can't remember what it means Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I've seen that one before. I solved it by setting the BIOS to LBA for that drive. But for some people the following link is the solution : http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub-error-guide.xml?style=printable -- Louis Brazeau Informaticien -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?
On 14:49 Wed 13 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: But the use.mask-- even the correct one-- still does not lead to an explanation or documentation of what the mask of a USE flag actually means or what it means in this particular case (why this specific USE flag is masked under this specific profile), in such a way that one would know if it was something one had to learn to live with (definitively unresolveable), or was in some way unmaskable. That's the original issue-- is there a way to compile mPlayer using this USE flag under this profile, or is there not? Normally, *.mask files seem to contain some explanation of the reason for the mask (even if only minimal), which is why I was looking through them, but here that does not seem to be the case. Does that mean that the OP is SOL? My guess is that he's SOL. If I were in that situation I'd just edit /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.mask and see if win32codecs will work on that profile, and if they did they I'd try and figure out how to do it properly. I think there's a good chance that win32codecs just won't work with uclibc though. You might be able to find the reason that it's masked on bugzilla, in the gentoo-embedded archives or on google. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New MySQL doc (update 3)
Chris White wrote: Added a bazillion spell fixes, also a list of places to find GUI frontends for MySQL: Thanks goes to my mom, my dad, my family for all their support I'd also like to thank the academy for their hard effort Philip Webb for tolerating my odd grammar/spelling/logic Bruce Wolk for the same And most importantly, I'd like to thank the fine folks at Speedy's dinner! http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/mysql.html Chris White Default installations of MySQL are bound only to localhost by way of the line bind-address = 127.0.0.1 in my.cnf is a fact that really needs to be addressed in your doc. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-356728.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-349692.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-344032.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-303769.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-300745.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-282209.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-225581.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-206368.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-150044.html kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting
Richard Fish wrote: In short, if you don't really know what initramfs is, you are probably not using it! So I am not sure why you are having this problem. Neither am I. I already installed a couple of servers with full raid1 using various distros (RedHat, Caldera, Debian), now I'm trying Gentoo and I can not get past the first booting... :-( Could you double check that /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules contains: # md block devices KERNEL==md[0-9]*, NAME=md/%n, SYMLINK+=%k, GROUP=disk Yes, I do have it there... Also, do you have any custom rules files in /etc/udev/rules.d? No custom rules. Did not have time to make them, you now, my system is not booting at all... In the maintenance mode, does /sys/block/md0/* exist? What does cat /proc/mdstat report? mdstat does not report anything. No /dev/md* exist, so no /dev/md* is running... BTW, on gentoo-forum I got answer with link pointing to debian list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/02/msg00253.html It seems (or at least it is discussed there) that this (udev does not create /dev/md* at startup) is some kernel-bug! If some of our kernel developers is watching this list, could he confirm or refuse it? Can I somehow get rid of udev, when it is causing problems to me? In the meantime I'm trying to update my system to 2.6.12-r4 (up to now I used 2.6.11-r3 from 2005.0 universal installation cd)... Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 15:09, Jarry wrote: It seems (or at least it is discussed there) that this (udev does not create /dev/md* at startup) is some kernel-bug! If some of our kernel developers is watching this list, could he confirm or refuse it? Can I somehow get rid of udev, when it is causing problems to me? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/29788 -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:13 +0100, David Morgan wrote: On 14:49 Wed 13 Jul , Holly Bostick wrote: But the use.mask-- even the correct one-- still does not lead to an explanation or documentation of what the mask of a USE flag actually means or what it means in this particular case (why this specific USE flag is masked under this specific profile), in such a way that one would know if it was something one had to learn to live with (definitively unresolveable), or was in some way unmaskable. That's the original issue-- is there a way to compile mPlayer using this USE flag under this profile, or is there not? Normally, *.mask files seem to contain some explanation of the reason for the mask (even if only minimal), which is why I was looking through them, but here that does not seem to be the case. Does that mean that the OP is SOL? My guess is that he's SOL. What is SOL? Someone care to tell me? (I'm the OP) If I were in that situation I'd just edit /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.mask and see if win32codecs will work on that profile, and if they did they I'd try and figure out how to do it properly Hmm.. I think I will try to comment it out and see what goes/gives. I think there's a good chance that win32codecs just won't work with uclibc though. You might be able to find the reason that it's masked on bugzilla, in the gentoo-embedded archives or on google. I'll trawl and report what I find here (if I find anything :-) Thanks. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 22:21:20 up 9:46, 5 users, load average: 0.28, 0.80, 0.96 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?
On 22:21 Wed 13 Jul , Ow Mun Heng wrote: What is SOL? Someone care to tell me? (I'm the OP) Sh*t out of luck emerge wtf wtf sol :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?
What is SOL? Someone care to tell me? (I'm the OP) Excrement out of luck, but use the standard slang curse word instead of excrement. ;-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration
Dave Nebinger dnebinger at joat.com writes: Thanks for the scripts and help! That's what we're here for When I roll out a new TCP/IP based data-logger (hopefully this fall) it'll take sensor inputs and control a few outputs. No humans will use the devices for anything other than interfacing sensors and collecting data. As with most other embedded devices, wouldn't these remain fairly static at the OS level? I mean, would you really want to try to debug why (all of a sudden) the remote devices stopped functioning because of an errant package emerge? Well, yes and no. Yes you do not update remote device as often, but, they do need RTOS/executive/kernel/state-machine updates over time. It's a huge problem for devices with a microprocessor/microcontroller. We often design device to store 2 or more bootstrap programs. That way a remote device can get new bootstrap firmware, and if it fails use the old boot code. DISTRIBUTION aka over ppp or TCP/IP is very much needed. Most embedded companies, particulary in the 8-16 bit micro space, do a pathetic job at longevity maintenance planning on their embedded devices. Suppose your remote 8/16 bit micro supports a fat file system on an 8 bit dsp. It's a nightmare support all of the different vendors flash based cards, so the driver(s) usually use a few select vendors. But the company with those devices, cuts a deal with a new 'hong-kong' vendor. Naturally, their flash card does not work. The driver code, part of the RTOS/executive/kernel/StateMachine has to be updated. Also, newer versions of processors end up in products, so you get your maintenace code now spread over several versions of a processor, much like the AMD-Intel-Via.saga. There is a need for a robust binary and remote compilation solution for remotely located embedded devices. Flexibility to mix and match is the key. The applications that run on the RTOS/kernel/executive/StateMachine need more freequent updates than the raw OS engine code, but, both need to be maintained. This would also lead to less disposal of microelectronic devices, world wide. The garbage dumps of the world, need a little reprieve, in my opinion, too. As for learning gentoo at a deeper level, we encourage that. I would suggest, only because it really made things clear for me, that you look at Linux from Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org. It will make the entire process for how to custom build a linux box a lot clearer. Yes this is on my 'todo' list. I consult and work 40-80 hours per week. Soon I'll have a couple of months off. The experience I gain form helping kids/adults use Gentoo, will help me manage thousands of dataloggers across public and private networks. Besides if I screw it up, no big deal. They can always use a winblows box until I get it fixed. Strict user control semantics will be used to limit what they can screw up. From an administrative point of view, however, I think you'd be better served by having one system working, freeze it and then clone it to the other systems. Skip updates as much as possible. Sure but updates for microprocessors are the simili for eduction. Do you think we should minimize educcation? minimize education for adults? Methinks your indescretions and prejudices against micros, is insensitive to the future, sensate possibilitys of micros and the things they inhabit. micros are entering the human body at an alarming rate. Don't you thing we need mechanisms to keep their interal code robust and current? Nanobots are real and the very near future of medicine. Basically you'd be taking the same route as other embedded linux products. My linksys routers, all linux based, have the ability to handle new firmware (linux distribution) but they do not auto-update themselves. I'm thinking much bigger than router code. My wife if in the middle of a phD in Biomedical. Her area of expertise is firmware. There is a HUGE need to further the paradyme. I'm also using jffnms to update and manage all sorts of routers and industrial contols embedded devices. After some time, I'm sure I'll roll my own solution, but for now, managing Gentoo user systems and customizing JFFNMS for router and other snmp devices is enough of to keep me busy. Exactly my point - why introduce even more administrative headaches to have thousands of gentoo systems automatically emerging packages on their own? Well let me remind you of a lawyer story (you know lawyers make much more money than engineers and computer scientists?) There was a small town with with one lawyer. He was financially starving. Another lawyer move to town, business boomed, and both retired wealthy. Quit canabalizing computer science and electrical engineer so that we die of starvation. The more complex the systems, the more money we can all make. Beside complex feature-rich systems are wonderful and employ lots of people. Just look at the space-shuttle (HUGH
[gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration
Dave Nebinger dnebinger at joat.com writes: Thanks for the scripts and help! That's what we're here for BACKGROUND: I did not use your scripts yet...today I'll implement them. I recently set up an internal server for rsync and distfile distribution. How do I check to ensure that this internal server actually was successful at downloading the rsync files and the appropriate distfiles for the other sytems? I followed part 4 of this document: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml?style=printable and these 3 documents: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Local_Rsync_Mirror. http://gentoo-wiki.com/Http_proxy http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Download_Cache_for_LAN-Http-Replicator PROBLEM? I manually ran 'emerge -uDp world' today on both a client and the sever. The client updated a few files, the server returned nothing to update. I kept another p4 system using rsync and downloading the distfiles separate. emerge -uDp world shows this file (among others) on the P4 system using the old external update method: [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r5 The new internal-AMD rsync/distfile server, issueing 'emerge -s gentoo-sources' shows: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources Latest version available: 2.6.12-r4 Latest version installed: 2.6.12-r4 Is this evidence that the nightly updates, are not working on the internal server? Is there a simple test to determine if the updates are working on the rsync and distfiles? Did I miss something? Ideas? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration
Methinks your indescretions and prejudices against micros, is insensitive to the future, sensate possibilitys of micros and the things they inhabit. micros are entering the human body at an alarming rate. Don't you thing we need mechanisms to keep their interal code robust and current? Nanobots are real and the very near future of medicine. Yes but we get back to the point that I had been trying to make - the embedded devices (even nanobots) would not need to build from source. I know if I had embedded nanobots I would want them focusing on the job they were embedded for, not recompiling source from the latest software updates. That's the distinction between a source based an binary based distribution. Use the source based distro to optimize for hardware then that is the template for the binary based distro to the embedded systems. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration
I recently set up an internal server for rsync and distfile distribution. How do I check to ensure that this internal server actually was successful at downloading the rsync files and the appropriate distfiles for the other sytems? /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp contains the timestamp for when the sync was completed. PROBLEM? I manually ran 'emerge -uDp world' today on both a client and the sever. The client updated a few files, the server returned nothing to update. I kept another p4 system using rsync and downloading the distfiles separate. Since the server is the local rsync mirror it must do it's emerge --sync first. After it has completed (note: not during the run), the client(s) can emerge --sync. emerge -uDp world shows this file (among others) on the P4 system using the old external update method: [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r5 The new internal-AMD rsync/distfile server, issueing 'emerge -s gentoo-sources' shows: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources Latest version available: 2.6.12-r4 Latest version installed: 2.6.12-r4 Is this evidence that the nightly updates, are not working on the internal server? No, it is merely an indication that at some point between the server's sync and the older sync that -r5 of gentoo sources was released. My systems, as of last night around midnight thought only -r4 was available. Just now I ran emerge --sync on the server and it now sees that -r5 is available. It's strictly a timing issue. Is there a simple test to determine if the updates are working on the rsync and distfiles? Sure. New packages are released every day. I can't remember a single day in the last month where emerge -uDp reported no packages to update. So if you run a few days and constantly see emerge -uDp reporting no packages, there's probably a sync problem. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] heavy packet loss problem (ifconfig?)
Hello, I'm quite desperate and have tried just about anything. I'll try to explain it... I connect to the net through eth0 and have a masquerading through eth1 to my other computers, using shorewall. My server never had any problems of this kind and all was fine until a couple of days ago. I'm experiencing some heavy packet loss when pinging different hosts. I have isolated the problem (at least I think I did) and got to the conclusion that issuing a simple 'ifconfig eth1 down' and leaving eth0 up, the packet loss vanishes. Tests were made with all services down (shorewall, sshd, apache2, mysqld, proftpd, sendmail, ...) and with the network cable unplugged from eth1 (so no traffic is being generated through eth1 that could cause packet loss) Here are the statistics: - eth1 up - # ping -c 200 google.com --- google.com ping statistics --- 200 packets transmitted, 104 received, 48% packet loss, time 208227ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 152.388/229.520/2016.847/279.805 ms, pipe 3 - eth1 down - # ping -c 200 google.com --- google.com ping statistics --- 200 packets transmitted, 200 received, 0% packet loss, time 199175ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 147.197/169.978/193.949/8.384 ms Both network cards are using the same chipset (RLT8139) loaded as a module in the kernel (2.6.11-hardened-r13). I have tried to replace the network card (with one also using RLT8139) and changing it from IRQ but with no effect. Please help, I've runned out of ideas... Thanks in advance! José Pedro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Packet loss unknown issue
* José Pedro Saraiva [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-12 23:30]: Hello, Hi, I connect to the net through eth0 and have a masquerading through eth1 to my other computers, using shorewall. Uh, I'm not sure i understand you. your localhost eth0 - shorewall - Inet your localhost eth1 - shorewall - your other machines Is above right? What address ranges do you use? My server never had any problems of this kind and all was fine until a couple of days ago. I'm experiencing some heavy packet loss when pinging different hosts. I have isolated the problem (at least I think I did) and got to the conclusion that issuing a simple 'ifconfig eth1 down' and leaving eth0 up, the packet loss vanishes. Tests were made with all services down (shorewall, sshd, apache2, mysqld, proftpd, sendmail, ...) What about routing? As root run: $ route or tracepath? $ tracepath google.com Robert -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?
David Morgan wrote: emerge wtf wtf sol Thanks for the tip! Typically *nix: small program, does only one thing but does it well. I like the man page. -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Backing up /sys...
Hello, Is it possible to copy/backup the /sys directory while the system is live with all filesystems mounted? I have tried a few methods ie: cp, cpio, and rsync, all as root. I am getting various Permission denied and Invalid argument errors. Does anybody have any clear answers jump out at them without me going into greater detail? -- Thank you, Vincent A. Primavera. Director of Information Technology. Ralph Pill Electric Supply Co. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] heavy packet loss problem (ifconfig?)
My immediate guess would be a routing issue. What's the routing definition for when eth1 is up vs down? Issue the 'route' command as root and send us the details. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Backing up /sys...
/sys is a completely virtual filesystem. Why would you bother to back it up? You can't restore it so the backup does you no good at all. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up /sys...
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 17:41, Vincent A. Primavera wrote: backing up sys? that is like backing up /proc... there is nopthing interessting, nothing that will or should survive a reboot, so why do you want to make a backup? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting - SOLVED !
In the meantime I'm trying to update my system to 2.6.12-r4 (up to now I used 2.6.11-r3 from 2005.0 universal installation cd)... Actually, I did not updated the system, but installed once more. This time as a network installation, with latest portage and stage1 downloaded from some mirror-server (previously I installed without network, portage and stage3 from gentoo-2005.0 universal CD). And (to my surprise!) everything works without a problem. Halleluyah! And I even used the same kernel-config from 2.6.11-r3 for 2.6.12-r4 (was too lazy to go through the whole make menuconfig again)... Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration
Dave Nebinger dnebinger at joat.com writes: I recently set up an internal server for rsync and distfile distribution. How do I check to ensure that this internal server actually was successful at downloading the rsync files and the appropriate distfiles for the other sytems? /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp contains the timestamp for when the sync was completed. Ahhh that's it: # cat /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp Tue Jul 12 13:06:52 UTC 2005 # date Wed Jul 13 12:05:26 UTC 2005 The clock (hw and OS) were off, by about25 minutes but that has been correct now. /etc/crontab was set for 1:30 30 1 * * * root emerge sync PROBLEM? I manually ran 'emerge -uDp world' today on both a client and the sever. The client updated a few files, the server returned nothing to update. I kept another p4 system using rsync and downloading the distfiles separate. Since the server is the local rsync mirror it must do it's emerge --sync first. After it has completed (note: not during the run), the client(s) can emerge --sync. emerge -uDp world shows this file (among others) on the P4 system using the old external update method: [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r5 The new internal-AMD rsync/distfile server, issueing 'emerge -s gentoo-sources' shows: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources Latest version available: 2.6.12-r4 Latest version installed: 2.6.12-r4 Is this evidence that the nightly updates, are not working on the internal server? No, it is merely an indication that at some point between the server's sync and the older sync that -r5 of gentoo sources was released. My systems, as of last night around midnight thought only -r4 was available. Just now I ran emerge --sync on the server and it now sees that -r5 is available. It's strictly a timing issue. Well now I'm starting to 'get it'. Before when I ran rsync manually, it did not update (rsync was launched last night (EST), so I got some error message about not being available or something like that. Now I just ran 'emerge syncc' maually on the server machine and it did update the rsync files (portage cache). On the internal server emerge -uDp world now does not reveal any new files to update... Is there a simple test to determine if the updates are working on the rsync and distfiles? Sure. New packages are released every day. I can't remember a single day in the last month where emerge -uDp reported no packages to update. So if you run a few days and constantly see emerge -uDp reporting no packages, there's probably a sync problem. Well 2 things. I'm going to implement your scripts now. And I shall have patiences for a few days to see how the updates proceed on the internal server and the clients using the internal server. Checking against the internal clients still using remote servers for rsync and distfile updates Thanks, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Packet loss unknown issue
What about routing? As root run: $ route # route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 00 eth1 loopback* 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo default 195-23-73-156.n 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 What's the route when eth1 is down? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] where is the functionality of etcat
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 19:50, Tom Wesley wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:26:14 +0200 I haven't seen anyone post this script as yet. It's by ciaranm and is very useful when people ask on irc why a certain package version can't be installed on their arch. Sample output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 0 0.67 $ eshowkw gnome Keywords for gnome-base/gnome: | a a a h i m m p p p p s s s x x x x | l m r p a 6 i p p p p 3 h p 8 8 8 8 | p d m p 6 8 p c c c c 9 a 6 6 6 6 | h 6 a 4 k s 6 - - 0 r - - - | a 4 4 m o c f o o | a d b b d | c s s | o d d | s + 1.4-r3 | - + + 2.8.2 | + + + + + + + + 2.8.3-r1| ~ + + + ~ + + + 2.10| ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 2.10-r1 | + + + ~ + ~ + + 2.10.1_pre0 | ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Hope this is helpful to someone ;) nice! don't think it is really useful for me, I have two archs (amd64 and x86) but have good access to both machines. if you maintain more archs than this can be very usefull. Is this in some (dev-)package? maybe something for gentoolkit?? Rudmer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo web development tool
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, simply change wrote: what is the gentoo official web site WEB DEVELOPMENT TOOL? (like screem, nvu or what?) I dont know if there is an official tool - speaking from experience many designers use whatever they feel comfortable with. There is a new design for the site currently in progress, designed by Aaron Shi (aaronshi.com). Sven Vermeulen is working on building the new design. You might want to talk to those guys and/or look at the re-design roadmap site at http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/www-redesign/roadmap.html -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash
Did you created /dev/tty1? From the ebuild: * It appears that the /dev/tty1 character device doesn't exist on * the root filesystem. This will prevent the silent mode from working * properly. You can fix the problem by doing: * mount --bind / /lib/splash/tmp * mknod /lib/splash/tmp/dev/tty1 c 4 1 * umount /lib/splash/tmp That did the trick for me. Canek On 7/10/05, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 10 July 2005 21:07, Manuel McLure wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: Still no joy. Same behaviour as before. :-( Actually, I wouldn't give a rat's ass for it but this is for a customer, and looks are important. Did you update the /usr/src/linux symlink to point to linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r4? The splashutils ebuild uses that to figure out what kernel to build against. -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mclure.org ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft Yes, of course I did. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Canek Peláez Valdés Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] udev recent genkernel + gentoo-sources
I recently updated portage tree kernel and using usual genkernel --menuconfig --save-config all produced unbootable system :( Symptoms point most probably to udev being used by default etc. Here's what I have in grub.conf: title Gentoo linux (updated) root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r4n root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/hda11 init=/linuxrc video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose gentoo=nodevfs udev devfs=nomount initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r4n I've tried to follow those: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml http://webpages.charter.net/decibelshelp/LinuxHelp_UDEVPrimer.html http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Migrate_to_UDEV http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-FAQ But it doesn't look like it applies to my case or maybe I jumped too far ahead and udev is not fully supported yet? Here's what I get booting (I'm writing it from memory mostly so don't think it's exact output): -install: applet not found /init: 41: ln: not found /init: 45: cat: not found ... Loading modules /init: 172: touch: not found /init: 172: cat: not found /init: 172: sed: not found ... Activating udev /init: 178: mkdir: not found /sbin/udevstart: not found -=*something about not being able to mount root partition*=- (boot):: -- Dmitry Makovey Web Systems Administrator Athabasca University (780) 675-6245 pgpvghHL0ZQXU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] udev recent genkernel + gentoo-sources
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: I recently updated portage tree kernel and using usual genkernel --menuconfig --save-config all Have you tried building a kernel manually (i.e. without using genkernel)? -- Aj. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, James wrote: Ahhh that's it: # cat /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp Tue Jul 12 13:06:52 UTC 2005 # date Wed Jul 13 12:05:26 UTC 2005 On my machines, the master rsync server does a sync at 3am. The rest of the machines sync with the master server at 4am. This way there's no timing problems. The clock (hw and OS) were off, by about25 minutes but that has been correct now. /etc/crontab was set for 1:30 I run ntpd on ALL my machines (If you want to get fancy, you could setup your rsync server to also be a local NTP master server and have the other machines sync their clocks with this server too - makes even more sense if you use NFS). -- Aj. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ogle and mplayer
On 7/13/05, luis jure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: el Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:19:06 -0500 Canek Peláez [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Anyway, I'm pretty sure ogle is unsupported. is it? i emerged it normally, it wasn't masked or anything. it also used to work on my previous linux installation. My bad; I was meaning unmantained. Go to the homepage; last version is from November 2003. anyway, i'm using xine now, it's the only dvd player i tried so far that works well. Xine is OK; Totem it's getting there. ¿cómo anda el méxico querido? quitando al tarado que tenemos como presidente, sobreviviendo. ¿cómo va Uruguay? -- Canek Peláez Valdés Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev recent genkernel + gentoo-sources
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: I recently updated portage tree kernel and using usual genkernel --menuconfig --save-config all produced unbootable system :( Symptoms point most probably to udev being used by default etc. Here's what I have in grub.conf: title Gentoo linux (updated) root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r4n root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/hda11 init=/linuxrc video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose gentoo=nodevfs udev devfs=nomount initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r4n I've tried to follow those: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml http://webpages.charter.net/decibelshelp/LinuxHelp_UDEVPrimer.html http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Migrate_to_UDEV http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-FAQ But it doesn't look like it applies to my case or maybe I jumped too far ahead and udev is not fully supported yet? Here's what I get booting (I'm writing it from memory mostly so don't think it's exact output): -install: applet not found /init: 41: ln: not found /init: 45: cat: not found ... Loading modules /init: 172: touch: not found /init: 172: cat: not found /init: 172: sed: not found ... Activating udev /init: 178: mkdir: not found /sbin/udevstart: not found -=*something about not being able to mount root partition*=- (boot):: FOr the initrd/initramfs in =genkernel-3.2 you need CONFIG_FEATURE_INSTALLER enabled in the busybox config. You'll have to build a new busybox unless you want to use an older version of genkernel. For most people the initrd isn't required anyways. Are you just using it for splash? I think you can bypass the initrd in that case: root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r4n root=/dev/hda11 video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose gentoo=nodevfs udev devfs=nomount initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r4n Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting
Mike Williams wrote: On Wednesday 13 July 2005 15:09, Jarry wrote: It seems (or at least it is discussed there) that this (udev does not create /dev/md* at startup) is some kernel-bug! If some of our kernel developers is watching this list, could he confirm or refuse it? Can I somehow get rid of udev, when it is causing problems to me? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/29788 Just to expand a bit on the linked thread: Gentoo now has support for creating the device nodes at boot time, in the stable baselayout, which should be 1.11.12-r4 at this point. To enable it, you need: 1. A proper /etc/raidtab or /etc/mdadm.conf (mdadm.conf preferred) 2. The mdadm tools emerged. 3. Add md to RC_VOLUME_ORDER in /etc/conf.d/rc. The above should trigger then execution of /lib/rcscripts/addons/raid-start.sh during startup which will create the device nodes for you. I did not know any of this before I posted regarding the RAID device nodes in the linked thread... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting
Jarry wrote: In the maintenance mode, does /sys/block/md0/* exist? What does cat /proc/mdstat report? Actually, if the kernel autodetection runs at boot time, /proc/mdstat should show the devices regardless of whether the device nodes exist or notso something is a bit strange with your kernel configuration. Either you are missing a RAID driver in the kernel, or a necessary disk driver. Take a careful look at what grep =m /usr/src/linux/.config reports...something in there is almost certainly the problem! You can also follow my notes about creating an mdadm.conf file in another message (sorry for the multiple replies!). It seems (or at least it is discussed there) that this (udev does not create /dev/md* at startup) is some kernel-bug! If some of our kernel developers is watching this list, could he confirm or refuse it? I don't know if I would call it a kernel bug. It is mostly just functionality that isn't clear where it belongs, and there is no obvious right thing to do. The autodetection feature of the MD driver came from a different era of kernel development, and would almost certainly not be accepted today. Can I somehow get rid of udev, when it is causing problems to me? Well, you can always revert back to static device nodes. See the RC_DEVICES entry in /etc/conf.d/rc. If you set this, you will need to run a bunch of /sbin/MAKEDEV commands to get the static nodes created. If you do decide to go this route, I encourage you to consider it a temporary solution until you get the system up and running. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting - SOLVED !
And this will teach me to scan all messages in a thread before I start replying!!! Glad you got it working. If the kernel config is truly the same, then I suspect you got an updated version of baselayout or udev that fixed it. -Richard Jarry wrote: In the meantime I'm trying to update my system to 2.6.12-r4 (up to now I used 2.6.11-r3 from 2005.0 universal installation cd)... Actually, I did not updated the system, but installed once more. This time as a network installation, with latest portage and stage1 downloaded from some mirror-server (previously I installed without network, portage and stage3 from gentoo-2005.0 universal CD). And (to my surprise!) everything works without a problem. Halleluyah! And I even used the same kernel-config from 2.6.11-r3 for 2.6.12-r4 (was too lazy to go through the whole make menuconfig again)... Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: My laptop is freaking me out.
Ian K wrote: Heres the bad news.. I turned my laptop on today, and the fans didn't come on like they did before, and within five minutes and 1 compile, the laptop was off. Ok, so you defintely have some kind of problem with your fans. Did you follow the cleaning instructions that others provided? Maybe they are just too gummed up to spin up reliably? Also, does anyone else here have the same model laptop that can confirm that the ACPI stuff looks right?? I mean, not even a thermal sensor?? That seems weird! Some of the other things that I have read or can think of that might effect the fans would be: 1. In dual boot system with Windows, warm or cold restarts from Windows to Linux can affect whether the fans spin up. 2. Firmware (BIOS) updates. (See Sager 9880 and 9860 and stuck fans!!) 3. Whether you are running on AC or battery. I get: CONFIG_ACPI=y Looks sane to me Jul 12 16:45:03 Avalon ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (off-line) Jul 12 16:45:03 Avalon ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present) Do you get better results if you start with the AC power connected? What if you do a truly cold restart? (remove the battery, unplug then connect the AC, and then power up). -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev recent genkernel + gentoo-sources
On July 13, 2005 11:43 am, A. Khattri wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: I recently updated portage tree kernel and using usual genkernel --menuconfig --save-config all Have you tried building a kernel manually (i.e. without using genkernel)? Nope... might try it as well but my understanding that all genkernel does is automates compilation/installation and makes sure options for devfs or udev are on (depending on --[no]udev --[no]devfs flags). -- Aj. -- Dmitry Makovey Web Systems Administrator Athabasca University (780) 675-6245 pgp0EZXwjw5gs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] udev recent genkernel + gentoo-sources
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: I recently updated portage tree kernel and using usual genkernel --menuconfig --save-config all produced unbootable system :( Symptoms point most probably to udev being used by default etc. Here's what I have in grub.conf: title Gentoo linux (updated) root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r4n root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/hda11 init=/linuxrc video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose gentoo=nodevfs udev devfs=nomount initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r4n I've tried to follow those: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml http://webpages.charter.net/decibelshelp/LinuxHelp_UDEVPrimer.html http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Migrate_to_UDEV http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-FAQ But it doesn't look like it applies to my case or maybe I jumped too far ahead and udev is not fully supported yet? Well, udev is most definitly supported, since as of 2.6.12 devfs has been officially removed from the kernel. Ok, technically only the config option was removed, but you can expect that 2.6.13 will be released without any devfs at all. Here's what I get booting (I'm writing it from memory mostly so don't think it's exact output): -install: applet not found /init: 41: ln: not found /init: 45: cat: not found It looks to me like your /initramfs is completely screwed. Whatever created that missed copying a bunch of necessary utilities (or more likely, a dependant library) to the /initramfs. The /init messages you see are almost certainly from the /init script in the initramfs. Every line indicates it went to run a command, and either the command or a library wasn't found. I'm with Aj here...you need to skip genkernel and configure a kernel from scratch. Compile everything you need to boot (disk drivers, root filesystem driver, etc) into the kernel statically (not as a module!). Then get rid of the initrd line in grub, lose the real_root=, init=, splash=, gentoo=, and devfs= options on the kernel command line, and change the root= option to root=/dev/hda11. What a freakin' mess! -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev recent genkernel + gentoo-sources
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: On July 13, 2005 11:43 am, A. Khattri wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: I recently updated portage tree kernel and using usual genkernel --menuconfig --save-config all Have you tried building a kernel manually (i.e. without using genkernel)? Nope... might try it as well but my understanding that all genkernel does is automates compilation/installation and makes sure options for devfs or udev are on (depending on --[no]udev --[no]devfs flags). -- Aj. Hi, Have used both genkernel and manual-kernel-config, quite no problems with both (except genkernel on hardened ;) Think that you must manually give the options you want, ex.genkernel --menuconfig --udev --install --bootsplash all The manual one is easier, less options ;) see install guide, kernel compilation part. HTH. Rumen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOfficeWriter: wee small fonts
Hi Ian, Maybe the update changed some things in X.org's configuration file? the file is exact the same as before, I copied it manually. But anyway, thanks a lot for the idea! Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev recent genkernel + gentoo-sources
Richard Fish wrote: Here's what I get booting (I'm writing it from memory mostly so don't think it's exact output): -install: applet not found /init: 41: ln: not found /init: 45: cat: not found It looks to me like your /initramfs is completely screwed. Whatever created that missed copying a bunch of necessary utilities (or more likely, a dependant library) to the /initramfs. The /init messages you see are almost certainly from the /init script in the initramfs. Every line indicates it went to run a command, and either the command or a library wasn't found. It's not as bad as it looks. I had the same problem. You simply need to enable CONFIG_FEATURE_INSTALLER in the busybox config. Then you can do busybox --install and it automatically creates hardlinks for all the enabled applets. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] OpenOfficeWriter: wee small fonts
Missed the original post but it sounds similar to what I had run into awhile back. Sorry I don't remember what I did exactly but the problem was basically with the fonts, not OO in particular. Now I don't remember exactly but re-emerging the font packages (freetype specifically and possibly fontconfig) had something to do with it. Possibly the re-emerge needed to be followed by a re-emerge of OO. Sorry I don't remember the details but I do remember that was the basic gist of the issue. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev recent genkernel + gentoo-sources
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: Nope... might try it as well but my understanding that all genkernel does is automates compilation/installation and makes sure options for devfs or udev are on (depending on --[no]udev --[no]devfs flags). True, but a lot of people have had problems with genkernel that went away when they did a manual kernel build instead. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev recent genkernel + gentoo-sources
A. Khattri wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: Nope... might try it as well but my understanding that all genkernel does is automates compilation/installation and makes sure options for devfs or udev are on (depending on --[no]udev --[no]devfs flags). True, but a lot of people have had problems with genkernel that went away when they did a manual kernel build instead. In this case the problem is in the initrd so I can guarantee he won't have the same problem if he doesn't use root=/dev/ram0 with a broken initrd ;-). Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration
A. Khattri ajai at bway.net writes: On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, James wrote: Ahhh that's it: # cat /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp Tue Jul 12 13:06:52 UTC 2005 # date Wed Jul 13 12:05:26 UTC 2005 On my machines, the master rsync server does a sync at 3am. The rest of the machines sync with the master server at 4am. This way there's no timing problems. The timing problems have been eliminated. All dates and times are within a few second of each other now. System/OS clocks have all been sync to cell phone time. Bios/Hardware clocks are now sync'd to the System/OS clocks. The clock (hw and OS) were off, by about25 minutes but that has been correct now. /etc/crontab was set for 1:30 I run ntpd on ALL my machines (If you want to get fancy, you could setup your rsync server to also be a local NTP master server and have the other machines sync their clocks with this server too - makes even more sense if you use NFS). I don't want to run NTP right now, but later I will. I do not use NFS, as each system has plenty of disk space. I'm not a big fan of NFS YMMV. Thanks for the ideas, although these are not the source of my problems. I'm implementing Dave's scripts tonight. Then I'll see what happens I think the inherent entropy associated with patience, is my greatest source of errors, presently... If I'm wrong, we'll adjust things externally, and then continue the epic battle with entropy. Thanks, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging out with fbsplash
Zac Medico wrote: Richard Fish wrote: Greetings list, I have spent most of my weekend trying to get fbsplash running on my laptop. I've managed to resolve most of the issues (getting the initramfs to be recognized, starting up RAID, LVM, and encryption from the initramfs, etc). The problem I have now is that my system hangs in the rc-scripts if I give a splash= option on the kernel command line. After adding a lot of 'echo' statements to the scripts, and a few hundred reboots, I have narrowed it down the following command: Hi Richard, I tried but could not reproduce it. Hi Zac, I know this is a couple of weeks old, but I just wanted to thank you for trying it. The problem turned out to be a kernel bug. In case you are curious: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4857 I suggest that you rebuild the kernel with CONFIG_FB_SPLASH=n ;-). So, for the record, I now have a beautiful splash screen appearing about 1 second after grub finishes loading my kernel image (which, BTW, is now some 5MB in size!!). I had to do a lot more work to get reliable flipping to verbose mode to prompt for my password for my root-on-loop-AES setup, followed by a flip back to silent mode, but it really is beautiful to look at. I need to write up some howto's in the next week or so, because using an initramfs works much better than an initrd for encrypted root. Thanks again, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev recent genkernel + gentoo-sources
Zac Medico wrote: A. Khattri wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: Nope... might try it as well but my understanding that all genkernel does is automates compilation/installation and makes sure options for devfs or udev are on (depending on --[no]udev --[no]devfs flags). True, but a lot of people have had problems with genkernel that went away when they did a manual kernel build instead. In this case the problem is in the initrd so I can guarantee he won't have the same problem if he doesn't use root=/dev/ram0 with a broken initrd ;-). Not quite, its an initramfs. Slightly different rules apply for initramfs vs initrd, so you also have to remove the initrd line from grub if you want to eliminate it. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOfficeWriter: wee small fonts
Hi Dave, Sorry I don't remember the details but I do remember that was the basic gist of the issue. thanks for the hint, will try it out on weekend (reemerging OOo will take a while, I guess ;-). Thanks best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev recent genkernel + gentoo-sources
On July 13, 2005 02:47 pm, Richard Fish wrote: Not quite, its an initramfs. Slightly different rules apply for initramfs vs initrd, so you also have to remove the initrd line from grub if you want to eliminate it. So if I understand correctly something like: title Gentoo linux (update) root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r4 root=/dev/hda11 init=/linuxrc video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose should produce desired results (i.e. bootable system)? If yes - I've got quite a few error messages about missing symbols in kernel modules on boot :( But I've tries so many combinations already that it could've been attributed to other changes I've made. So I'll try it again and come back if problem persists (or if you'll tell me my assumptions are wrong). -- Dmitry Makovey Web Systems Administrator Athabasca University (780) 675-6245 pgpbWx32LOIKz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging out with fbsplash
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:44:52PM +0200, Richard Fish wrote: I need to write up some howto's in the next week or so, because using an initramfs works much better than an initrd for encrypted root. Please, please do! -- The revolution will not be televised. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition
Hi, Here's a strange one... I use 2 partitions for Windows 98, hda1 and hda5. I set both up as type c (fat32 LBA) during my gentoo installation, using fdisk. The entries in /etc/fstab are almost identical: /dev/hda1/mnt/win_cvfatumask=0,noexec 0 0 /dev/hda5/mnt/win_dvfatumask=0,noexec 0 0 Yet hda1 mounts with no problems, whereas hda5 doesn't. If I execute mount /mnt/win_d I get the error: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5, or too many mounted file systems I tried various combinations (such as mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d) and always get the same error. The only differences between the 2 partitions that I can think of are: (a) hda1 is primary whereas hda5 is logical (b) hda5 is larger than hda1 (20 Gb and 15 Gb, respectively) (c) hda1 is set as the boot partition in fdisk. If I type the above error in Google I get many hits, but nothing helped. Any ideas? Thanks. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition
aabb wrote: Hi, Here's a strange one... I use 2 partitions for Windows 98, hda1 and hda5. I set both up as type c (fat32 LBA) during my gentoo installation, using fdisk. The entries in /etc/fstab are almost identical: /dev/hda1/mnt/win_cvfatumask=0,noexec 0 0 /dev/hda5/mnt/win_dvfatumask=0,noexec 0 0 Any of the mask entries correspond to octal permission; therefore, they need to be three-digit numbers. I recommend 022 (rwxr-xr-x), but I assume you want 000 (rwxrwxrwx). Don't forget to set uid and gid or else only root will have access to the files! -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Packet loss unknown issue
On Wednesday 13 of July 2005 18:07, José Pedro Saraiva wrote: iface_eth1=192.168.0.254 netmask 255.255.0.0 Your modem/router which is 192.168.1.254 on eth0 fits the netmask of the eth1 network. -- Petr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition
That doesn't seem to address the issue as mounting by hand still spits out errors relative to partition problems. What's the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda? On 7/13/05, Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: aabb wrote: Hi, Here's a strange one... I use 2 partitions for Windows 98, hda1 and hda5. I set both up as type c (fat32 LBA) during my gentoo installation, using fdisk. The entries in /etc/fstab are almost identical: /dev/hda1/mnt/win_cvfatumask=0,noexec 0 0 /dev/hda5/mnt/win_dvfatumask=0,noexec 0 0 Any of the mask entries correspond to octal permission; therefore, they need to be three-digit numbers. I recommend 022 (rwxr-xr-x), but I assume you want 000 (rwxrwxrwx). Don't forget to set uid and gid or else only root will have access to the files! -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 18:39:38 -0400 Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: aabb wrote: Here's a strange one... I use 2 partitions for Windows 98, hda1 and hda5. I set both up as type c (fat32 LBA) during my gentoo installation, using fdisk. The entries in /etc/fstab are almost identical: /dev/hda1/mnt/win_cvfatumask=0,noexec 0 0 /dev/hda5/mnt/win_dvfatumask=0,noexec 0 0 What's the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda? BTW, I use noauto,noexec,user,fmask=0133 as options in fstab for vfat partitions. Any of the mask entries correspond to octal permission; therefore, they need to be three-digit numbers. I recommend 022 (rwxr-xr-x), but I assume you want 000 (rwxrwxrwx). Don't forget to set uid and gid or else only root will have access to the files! I set file mask to fmask=0133 on vfat partitions, because files on windows partitions don't need the executable bit. It only annoys me when Midnight Commander tries to execute them after I press ENTER. Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise lösen, durch die sie entstanden sind. (Einstein) pgpDnKgGIf0GN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login using KDM
Did you recently update your kernel? There is a problem with gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4. There is a bug in iptables that causes problems with KDE logins. If you stop iptables, your login will work. If you upgrade to gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r5, the problem will be solved. Sean On Tuesday 12 July 2005 10:46 am, Yuval Scharf wrote: Hi, I'm using KDE 3.4. Since few days ago I can't login using KDM. The login process can't pass the initializing peripherals stage. I can see that there are two processes running kded (one of the is the father of the other) which I can't kill. After rebooting the machine I can login once and then the probelm returns. Any ideas? Thanks, Yuval Scharf -- Sean Higgins, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.systura.com - Where information becomes knowledge. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev recent genkernel + gentoo-sources
On July 13, 2005 03:11 pm, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: On July 13, 2005 02:47 pm, Richard Fish wrote: Not quite, its an initramfs. Slightly different rules apply for initramfs vs initrd, so you also have to remove the initrd line from grub if you want to eliminate it. So if I understand correctly something like: title Gentoo linux (update) root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r4 root=/dev/hda11 init=/linuxrc video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose finally I've got to optimum (in my opinion) combination: title Gentoo linux (update) root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r4 real_root=/dev/hda11 video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose But I've got new problem - for some reason KDE (3.4.1) now hangs after login doing initialize peripherals or something like that... and it happens only when I switch to 2.6.12, weird... anybody seen symptoms like that? First time since I've switched to 2.6.x kernels I've got so many issues with simple kernel upgrade, is there something going on I should be aware of? -- Dmitry Makovey Web Systems Administrator Athabasca University (780) 675-6245 pgpkQ2ZRdln06.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] perl 5.8.6 install/update - @INC not working, solved?
Hello list. I just decided to rebuild perl as I recently noticed that perl wasn't working for me anymore. When I just happened to need to use it, of course. As an aside, if perhaps relevant, I had a couple of problems with failed compiles. As is usually is the fix for this machine, I opened the case, and the compile finished. New perl installed, no big deal. And then an emerge message indicated I should complete the update via perl-cleaner. Ran perl-cleaner. However, still, trying to run even perl -V yields: Can't locate Config.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .). BEGIN failed--compilation aborted. . . . I finally noticed that the @INC doesn't include the new perl folder for 5.8.6. Ah. Looking into it, it would seem that 'which perl' gives /usr/local/bin/perl. This is, apparently, not a link. It is, however the perl that is broken... but ls -l /usr/bin/perl lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 13 16:46 /usr/bin/perl - perl5.8.6 and /usr/bin/perl -V Does work... as expected. So, what happened? And, how do I fix it? # cd /usr/local/bin bin # mv perl perl5.8.5 Okay. That wasn't so good. I got a failed reference to /usr/local/bin/perl from bash, so I tried: # cp /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/perl And that seems to work. But, my question is, still, why was there another perl in /usr/local/bin... Could be it got promoted in my path somehow? And why would bash still look for /usr/local/bin/perl when I run a script, when /usr/bin has a perl that is working (and is the one that's #!referenced at the top of my script anyway)? TIA for any enlightenment in this area. '-) -- |\ /| | | ~ ~ | \/ | |---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ / michael[dot]higgins[at]snet[dot]net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: My laptop is freaking me out.
Richard Fish wrote: Ian K wrote: Heres the bad news.. I turned my laptop on today, and the fans didn't come on like they did before, and within five minutes and 1 compile, the laptop was off. Ok, so you defintely have some kind of problem with your fans. Did you follow the cleaning instructions that others provided? Maybe they are just too gummed up to spin up reliably? The strange thing is though, they do work fine under Windows. Im just Guessing that Linux cant activate them. Also, does anyone else here have the same model laptop that can confirm that the ACPI stuff looks right?? I mean, not even a thermal sensor?? That seems weird! Some of the other things that I have read or can think of that might effect the fans would be: 1. In dual boot system with Windows, warm or cold restarts from Windows to Linux can affect whether the fans spin up. What would you recommend along those lines? 2. Firmware (BIOS) updates. (See Sager 9880 and 9860 and stuck fans!!) I tried that, the BIOS came updated to the most recent version. I should point out its a Phoenix BIOS too, so the toshiba-utils does not work on my system. 3. Whether you are running on AC or battery. Always AC, I never run off of a battery if I can help it. I get: CONFIG_ACPI=y Looks sane to me Jul 12 16:45:03 Avalon ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (off-line) Jul 12 16:45:03 Avalon ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present) Do you get better results if you start with the AC power connected? The strange thing is, it was connected. That was a detection error in th log. What if you do a truly cold restart? (remove the battery, unplug then connect the AC, and then power up). I will try that. On the topic of ACPI, I found this post on LinuxQuestions. I post as omega21 there. The thread is in the SuSe Forum, but I doubt it matters too much. What do you make of it? http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=threadid=288588 As well, someone else on LQ advised trying APM, instead of ACPI(?). Im not sure if its a good idea or not. Lastly, I found another project that packs Toshiba features into the kernel. Im not sure if I should try it though. http://sourceforge.net/projects/omke/ Cheers, Ian PS I hope we can solve this. I forgot how icky Windows XP is. ;) -Richard begin:vcard fn:Ian K n:K;Ian email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note;quoted-printable:Pentium 3=0D=0A= 500mHz=0D=0A= 256MB RAM=0D=0A= 80.0GB HDD=0D=0A= ATI Radeon 7000 Evil Wizard 64MB=0D=0A= Computer name: PentaQuad=0D=0A= x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: [gentoo-user] udev recent genkernel + gentoo-sources
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: On July 13, 2005 03:11 pm, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: On July 13, 2005 02:47 pm, Richard Fish wrote: Not quite, its an initramfs. Slightly different rules apply for initramfs vs initrd, so you also have to remove the initrd line from grub if you want to eliminate it. So if I understand correctly something like: title Gentoo linux (update) root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r4 root=/dev/hda11 init=/linuxrc video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose finally I've got to optimum (in my opinion) combination: title Gentoo linux (update) root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r4 real_root=/dev/hda11 video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose But I've got new problem - for some reason KDE (3.4.1) now hangs after login doing initialize peripherals or something like that... and it happens only when I switch to 2.6.12, weird... anybody seen symptoms like that? First time since I've switched to 2.6.x kernels I've got so many issues with simple kernel upgrade, is there something going on I should be aware of? I heard there was a problem like that with gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4 and iptables: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-userm=112129686806476 Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging out with fbsplash
Richard Fish wrote: Hi Zac, I know this is a couple of weeks old, but I just wanted to thank you for trying it. The problem turned out to be a kernel bug. In case you are curious: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4857 Yes, that's interesting. Thanks I suggest that you rebuild the kernel with CONFIG_FB_SPLASH=n ;-). So, for the record, I now have a beautiful splash screen appearing about 1 second after grub finishes loading my kernel image (which, BTW, is now some 5MB in size!!). I had to do a lot more work to get reliable flipping to verbose mode to prompt for my password for my root-on-loop-AES setup, followed by a flip back to silent mode, but it really is beautiful to look at. I need to write up some howto's in the next week or so, because using an initramfs works much better than an initrd for encrypted root. Thanks again, -Richard That sounds nice. Do you use busybox for the root-on-loop-AES setup? What is better about initramfs? Do you have to compile the cpio archive into the kernel or is it just as good when you load it like an initrd? I'm looking forward to the howto ;-). Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Seeking recommdations for multi-card reader.
Good evening all. My San Disk ImageMate dual reader said goodbye to our family today. She should have left a few months ago. So, what I'm searching for is a replacement reader. I saw some good reviews for ImageMate® 8-in-1 Reader/Writer. I don't really need all eight, but so what. What I'd really like, though, is the ability plug and unplug cards while the reader remains attached via usb2 or firewire. My old San Disk gave me problems for years. Sometimes no connection. Sometimes inserted card could be any of sdb[1-15]. Udev helped with this a little, but basically the reader was a POS (for you wtf users). I'm looking for something that will react the same every time. Any recommendations? Boy - I just read this over, and the fact that I've been up close to 30 hours has severely affected my grammar. Apologies. Thanks, John -- The revolution will not be televised. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Seeking recommdations for multi-card reader.
John J. Foster wrote: Good evening all. My San Disk ImageMate dual reader said goodbye to our family today. She should have left a few months ago. So, what I'm searching for is a replacement reader. I saw some good reviews for ImageMate® 8-in-1 Reader/Writer. I don't really need all eight, but so what. What I'd really like, though, is the ability plug and unplug cards while the reader remains attached via usb2 or firewire. My old San Disk gave me problems for years. Sometimes no connection. Sometimes inserted card could be any of sdb[1-15]. Udev helped with this a little, but basically the reader was a POS (for you wtf users). I'm looking for something that will react the same every time. Any recommendations? I've got an AFT PRO-9. It's a 9-in-1 connects via USB 2.0 internally/externally and has Secure Digital, Multimedia Card, SmartMedia, xDigital, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, CompactFlash, MicroDrive and a 4-pin FireWire 400 port (pass-through, you need a FireWire port somewhere on your computer). I've only tested it with an SD card, and it seems to work perfectly. To use this, you need to compile in SCSI support (the same you need for USB Mass Storage) and make sure you select the Probe all LUN's option. -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] strange /init kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r5 boot problems
I just compiled kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r5 almost exactly the same way I've compiled every other kernel, but this one won't boot! I used genkernel as so: sudo genkernel --no-menuconfig --save-config --no-bootsplash --gensplash --gensplash=emergence --install --kernel-config=/home/iain/configs/2.6.12-gr5-2005-07-14 --makeopts=-j3 --mountboot --bootloader=grub all which is the same as I used for 2.6.12-gentoo and 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 (etc) and they worked fine. The only difference is I removed --udev from the genkernel options because genkernel told me its specified by default. The kernel and initrd files are named differently: kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r5 initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r5 as opposed to kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r11 initrd-2.6.11-gentoo-r11 Grub loads the initrd ok, but somewhere in the boot process, this happens (with lots more /init lines where I've placed 'etc'): ... ACPI wakeup devices: LID PBTN PCIO USB1 USB2 USB4 USB3 MODM PCIE ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S4bios S5) Freeing unused kernel memory: 228k freed all ok up to here, but then: -install: applet not found /init: 41: In: not found /init: 45: cat: not found /init: 150: sed: not found Loading modules /init: 172: touch: not found /init: 172: cat: not found ... etc! ... Activating udev /init: 178: mkdir: not found /init: 178: /sbin/udevstart: not found /init: 178: In: not found ... etc! ... [: /dev/md: unknown operand /init: 187: mkdir: not found Determining root device... !! The root block device is unspecified or not detected. Please specify a device to boot, or shell for a shell... boot() :: (this is typed from a photo, so EOE !!) At this stage, I can type shell, but I don't get any commands. When I try to use tab completion, I see some strange directory names (sorry can't remember exactly). I thought maybe for some reason I didn't have the right filesystem modules compiled in, but they're certainly there: CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y and so on, but anyway, I haven't changed this from 2.6.11. So, any ideas on what's going on? Something udev related? google only returned the usual init not found, MARC showed nothing and I can't connect to gmane, anyone know whats going on there? Many TIA! -- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] multiband audio equalizer ?
Hello, I have basic audio working via alsa on several systems. What do folks use as graphical band equlizer to increase of decrease the frequency output to the speakers? I found lots of apps using hte work mixer, but nothing seems like what I want. Something graphical that is an 11 band or more audio equlizer with slide controls for each band surely it exists, and I've just missed it? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: GPRS - Anyone aware of any packages which do this?
Michael Haan michael.haan at gmail.com writes: I guess what I'm trying to figure out is what exists either in gentoo-space specifically, or linux-space generally (in that order) for working with GPRS. GSM-GPRS is virtually a TCP/IP highway. All you need is ppp or TCP/IP on top of it. If you get service from T mobile (or whoever) and you tell them you want to use it for Internet access, they'll sell you cables that plug into your usb/serial/zigbee/bluetooth/pccard or irda port. I'm pretty sure it's just ppp over a physical connection with GSM-GPRS. Not positive though... If the vendor give you crap that only MS/Apple work, just sniff the connection. emerge -s gsm reveals: app-mobilephone/gsmlib Latest version available: 1.11_pre030826 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 465 kB Homepage:http://www.pxh.de/fs/gsmlib/ Description: Library and Applications to access GSM mobile phones License: LGPL-2 * media-sound/gsm Latest version available: 1.0.10 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 64 kB Homepage:http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/~jutta/toast.html Description: Lossy speech compression library and tool. License: OSI-Approved Googling for 'GPRS linux' produces a wealth of useful information. http://www.developertutorials.com/tutorials/wireless-technology/ linux-wireless-networking-050504/page4.html HTH James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
