[gentoo-user] KDE crash on start
Hi there, I have KDE 3.4.1 here, and I am having issues with KDE. I recently tried that GLOcean window decoration. When I first applied the decoration, KWin crashed. I thought it was nothing, so I restarted KDE, (and X). But now, KDE will load about 3 quarters, and then hang. I switched to another 'desktop', (CLI) and killed X. Im now in Fluxbox. I really want KDE back. Any ideas? Im thinking if there was a way to change the decoration in a config file or something, I could switch it to something else to prevent a crash. Your thoughts? Ian __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE crash on start
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 02:06 -0400, Ian K wrote: I really want KDE back. Any ideas? Im thinking if there was a way to change the decoration in a config file or something, I could switch it to something else to prevent a crash. Your thoughts? Ian Hi Ian, If you log into Fluxbox (or any other window manager), open a terminal (e.g. xterm), and then run kcontrol you'll find you can change the window decoration back to something a little more stable. Alternatively, you could delete ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc All the best, Dave. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] KDE crash on start
David Helstroom wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 02:06 -0400, Ian K wrote: I really want KDE back. Any ideas? Im thinking if there was a way to change the decoration in a config file or something, I could switch it to something else to prevent a crash. Your thoughts? Ian Hi Ian, If you log into Fluxbox (or any other window manager), open a terminal (e.g. xterm), and then run kcontrol you'll find you can change the window decoration back to something a little more stable. Alternatively, you could delete ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc All the best, Dave. Got it! Thanks very much. :) 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
[gentoo-user] how to deploy a video lab?
AybOwan! (=welcome) dear lu_zero, im a Sinhalease from Sri lanka. i have a small company here in lanka (video filming company ex:- wedding, parties filming). my editing tools are Adobe Premeir,after effect, etc like propriatary software.so now i want to fully migrate to Gentoo Linux. today i just try to emerge Cinelerra to my Gentoo box but it has been Masked. so friends please be kind enought to advice me to setting up a full professional video lab using Gentoo Linux. -- ...The future lies ahead. ___ Have you mooed today? ---\^__^ \ (oo) \___ (__) \ )\/\||--w||| ||Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r4-Adapt-v1.1#
Re: [gentoo-user] Messages on boot
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:16:10 -0400, C.Beamer wrote: The message means for you to set the hostname in /etc/conf.d/hostname (or /etc/hostname if you are using a rather old baselayout). I don't have a /etc/hostname file, I just have a hosts file. Did I do something wrong? My computer is a stand alone, but I connect to the internet via cable modem. That's why you are getting the message. You must have skipped the part in the handbook where you set /etc/conf.d/hostname (I think all baselayouts now use this instead of the old /etc/hostname). Put your computers name in /etc/conf.d/hostname and the message will disappear. -- Neil Bothwick Facts are stubborn little bastards, be careful with them. pgpJr4dPpLUJK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 6x13 font for gnome-terminal
I think gnome-terminal only can handle xft-fonts (and that's probably a feature)... Have you considered trying some older (and not so user friendly) terminal? rxvt, xterm, urxvt and aterm are all pretty nice, memory efficent and fast, and you can do everything in them that you could in gnome-terminal (well, almost) :-) Oscar Saturday 23 July 2005 00.24 skrev Allan Gottlieb: All my screens are 1600x1200 pixels. Several are reasonably large (~20 inch) lcds and I use what emacs calls a 6x13 font. Its real name is -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 This permits 3 side by side windows (frames in emacs) of 81 columns. I have tried every fixed-width frame I found in the list given for gnome-terminal and cannot find one this size. Is there some way I can tell gnome-terminal to use -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 or, even better, tell gnome to make this font available on the menus? thanks, allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] automatic restart of crushed processes...
Greetings to all Gentoo-users! Is it somehow possible to check, whether a certain process is running, and if not, then start it? I would like to use it for some processes that crush sometimes (like teamspeak and some game-servers), and to mointor sshd, because it is critical for me (my server will be 300km away from me). I thought about writing some small shell-script, which would be run by cron at regular intervals, check if a process is running (something like ps -e | grep $PROCNAME, or maybe with pidof -s $PROCNAME) and if not, than it would start that process with its script in /etc/init.d. But if there is already something which would do the same, I don't want to work on inventing the wheel again. Moreover, my shell scripts are rather quick'n'dirty, so maybe I should start with reading Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide... Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] cinelerra-cvs mpeg files can't import
AybOwan! friends, i emerged cinelerra-cvs its working but i can't import mpeg clips.the movie2-mpeg appz has been masked(i unmasked it try to emerge but i emerge failed). please help me to solve this problem. -- ...The future lies ahead. ___ Have you mooed today? ---\^__^ \ (oo) \___ (__) \ )\/\||--w||| ||Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r4-Adapt-v1.1#
[gentoo-user] whats de best open source video editor?
AybOwan! friends, please give me a tip to emerge a video editor appz.-- ...The future lies ahead. ___ Have you mooed today? ---\^__^ \ (oo) \___ (__) \ )\/\||--w||| ||Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r4-Adapt-v1.1#
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] confusing RE doesn't work in diff
On 2005-07-25 17:50:37 +0800 (Mon, Jul), Zhang Weiwu wrote: My RE must be wrong but I can hardly successfully match a whole line like the below example: This works: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ egrep \b*\/[*].*[*]\/\b* Calendar.php /* $Id: class.boalarm.inc.php,v 1.1.1.1 2005/03/18 09:17:36 dawnlinux Exp $ */ /* $Id: class.boalarm.inc.php,v 1.11 2004/05/23 14:51:27 ralfbecker Exp $ */ This doesn't work: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ egrep ^\b*\/[*].*[*]\/\b*$ Calendar.php any hint? man grep: The symbol \b matches the empty string at the edge of a word It seems that '/' is not considered to be a part of a word. I suppose you may use ^[[:space:]]*/[*].*[*]/[[:space:]]*$ Calendar.php -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by 'grep -i virus $MESSAGE' Trust me. pgpfnqmjJw5aa.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Web based ssh-client?
Hello everyone :) I'm currently at work (in a drug store, or whatever it's called in english (: ), using a public computer, and I don't think I dare to download and run putty on this machine... So I'm out looking for a web based ssh client, like a package I can put on a webserver, and run whenever necessary. I'm not even sure this machine has java installed, so something based on like php / perl (or whatever packages you might find on a webserver), and hopefully something secure would be nice... Is there any such thing out there? Oscar
Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ssh-client?
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 15:13, Oscar Carlsson wrote: Hello everyone :) I'm currently at work (in a drug store, or whatever it's called in english (: ), using a public computer, and I don't think I dare to download and run putty on this machine... So I'm out looking for a web based ssh client, like a package I can put on a webserver, and run whenever necessary. I'm not even sure this machine has java installed, so something based on like php / perl (or whatever packages you might find on a webserver), and hopefully something secure would be nice... Is there any such thing out there? Oscar http://www.netspace.org/ssh/ http://www.kybs.de/service/webssh/ http://www.oit.duke.edu/sa/security/ssh.html I Hope this will help you -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ssh-client?
On 7/26/05, Oscar Carlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone :) I'm currently at work (in a drug store, or whatever it's called in english (: ), using a public computer, and I don't think I dare to download and run putty on this machine... So I'm out looking for a web based ssh client, like a package I can put on a webserver, and run whenever necessary. I'm not even sure this machine has java installed, so something based on like php / perl (or whatever packages you might find on a webserver), and hopefully something secure would be nice... One option is anyterm, seems to work pretty well: http://anyterm.org/ HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] pam error, cant su -
pam does not compile *** Building pam-unix module of the framework... mkdir -p /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//lib/security install -m 755 pam_unix.so /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//lib/security for x in pam_unix_auth pam_unix_acct pam_unix_passwd pam_unix_session;\ do ln -sf pam_unix.so /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//lib/security/$x.so ; done mkdir -p /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//usr/sbin install -m 4555 unix_chkpwd /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//usr/sbin make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/work/Linux-PAM-0.78/modules/pam_unix' make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/work/Linux-PAM-0.78/modules/pam_userdb' mkdir -p ./dynamic mkdir -p /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//lib/security /bin/install -c -m 755 pam_userdb.so /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//lib/security make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/work/Linux-PAM-0.78/modules/pam_userdb' make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/work/Linux-PAM-0.78/modules/pam_warn' mkdir -p ./dynamic mkdir -p /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//lib/security /bin/install -c -m 755 pam_warn.so /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//lib/security make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/work/Linux-PAM-0.78/modules/pam_warn' make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/work/Linux-PAM-0.78/modules/pam_wheel' mkdir -p ./dynamic mkdir -p /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//lib/security /bin/install -c -m 755 pam_wheel.so /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//lib/security make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/work/Linux-PAM-0.78/modules/pam_wheel' make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/work/Linux-PAM-0.78/modules/pam_xauth' mkdir -p ./dynamic mkdir -p /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//lib/security /bin/install -c -m 755 pam_xauth.so /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//lib/security test -d /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//usr/share/man/man8 || mkdir -p /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//usr/share/man/man8 /bin/install -c -m 644 pam_xauth.8 /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//usr/share/man/man8/ make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/work/Linux-PAM-0.78/modules/pam_xauth' make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/work/Linux-PAM-0.78/modules' * Checking if all modules were built... * ERROR: pam_cracklib have dependencies in /usr. -- [Jorge J. Boscán Etura] quando omni flunkus moritati Universidad Fermín Toro http://www.uft.edu.ve Linux 2.6.11 i686 running fc2, lu #137000 cell:584185150239 tel:582517100171 -- 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
Re: [gentoo-user] automatic restart of crushed processes...
Jarry wrote: Greetings to all Gentoo-users! Is it somehow possible to check, whether a certain process is running, and if not, then start it? I would like to use it for some processes that crush sometimes (like teamspeak and some game-servers), and to mointor sshd, because it is critical for me (my server will be 300km away from me). I thought about writing some small shell-script, which would be run by cron at regular intervals, check if a process is running (something like ps -e | grep $PROCNAME, or maybe with pidof -s $PROCNAME) and if not, than it would start that process with its script in /etc/init.d. But if there is already something which would do the same, I don't want to work on inventing the wheel again. Moreover, my shell scripts are rather quick'n'dirty, so maybe I should start with reading Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide... Jarry emerge -pv sys-process/daemontools These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-process/daemontools-0.76-r4 -doc (-selinux) -static 36 kB -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Console font gets double spaced when X starts
Hello all, I have my consolefont set to a 8x8 font size. When I start the X server, the console font get double spaced, but it's more like there are two copies of each line, one overlapping the other. If I go back to a 8x16 font, everything is fine. I've tried setting the font size with both the CONSOLEFONT variable and kernel argument. I have to reboot to get the console back to normal. This isn't the first time I've seen this, but both times have been on laptops. I'm currently using Gentoo 2005.0 on a Dell Latitude D505, but it happened to me on Slackware 9 a while back on an older Dell laptop. Thanks for any help! DP -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] whats de best open source video editor?
Don't usually use such tools, but could try out avidemux, seems good ;) Or for a CL-tool mencoder and another one, now can't remember the name, must be part of some video-player package. probably you mean transcode. Furthermore there are Broadcats 2000, Cinelerra, Kino etc. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] distcc and iptables
but distcc doesn't work ...
Ah, did you edit /etc/conf.d/distccd to add the --allow and --listen
options? If you don't specifically enable them the remote system will not
be able to get to distcc on the box.
Locally I use a line as follows to enable the internal lan to hit distccd:
DISTCCD_OPTS=${DISTCCD_OPTS} --allow 192.168.0.0/24 --allow 127.0.0.1
--listen 192.168.0.1
This says allow the internal lan, allow localhost, and set up a listener on
the local ip address.
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[gentoo-user] Enlightenment segfaults?
I was away from my computer for one week, and so ran a massive update on sunday night. After the update, on Monday morning, I woke up to find my xsession ended with a message on the console that said something to the effect that Enlightenment segfaulted, because some supporting library tries to access memory that it shouldn't be accessing. I dismissed it as enlightenment throwing a hissy fit. But the same thing happened again this morning. The problem is, I don't quite know how to diagnose it. /var/log/Xorg.log only tells me it caught sig 11 and will die. Honestly, I don't think running strace will be the best idea yet, I'd like to save it as a last possibility, for the only reason that I don't even know how to reproduce the crash. X was up and running yesterday for over 14 hours, and enlightenment just crashed in the middle of the night. So: what logs should I check and how should I find out what exactly is causing the problem? W -- Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd be sitting around in darkened rooms munching pills and listening to repetitive music. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1 day, 16:24 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Enlightenment segfaults?
So: what logs should I check and how should I find out what exactly is causing the problem? Did you try the revdep-rebuild -p to see if there are any broken dependencies? Did your files in /etc/conf.d get updated? Is your session stuff correct in /etc/rc.conf? Any messages in the syslog or from dmesg? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pam error, cant su -
Jorge Boscan wrote: pam does not compile *** Building pam-unix module of the framework... mkdir -p /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//lib/security install -m 755 pam_unix.so /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image//lib/security [...] * Checking if all modules were built... * ERROR: pam_cracklib have dependencies in /usr. Try running: ldd /var/tmp/portage/pam-0.78-r2/image/lib/security/pam_cracklib*.so That should turn up what library is linked in /usr instead of /lib. My guess is probably libcrypt.so, but might be libpam as well... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dummy console
Jorge Almeida wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Jorge Almeida wrote: I upgraded from kernel 2.6.11 (gentoo-sources r4) to 2.6.12 (r6), and lost my framebuffer console. No console whatsoever, actually, but xdm starts OK. Checking .config, I see # Console display driver support # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=m Oh, and also, FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE should be =y Will try that (only tomorrow night, I can't access my home box until then). Still, what about the dummy thing? The configurator doesn't give a chance. Is it OK like this? Seems ok (I have the same thing). Looking at the Kconfig file in drivers/video/console, I find: config VGA_CONSOLE bool VGA text console if EMBEDDED || !X86 depends on !ARCH_ACORN !ARCH_EBSA110 !4xx !8xx !SPARC32 !SPARC64 !M68K !PARISC default y [...] Which means that VGA_CONSOLE is only configurable if you are doing an EMBEDDED or non-x86 configuration. For normal x86 builds, VGA_CONSOLE will always be available, since it defaults to 'y' Later on, we find: config DUMMY_CONSOLE bool depends on PROM_CONSOLE!=y || VGA_CONSOLE!=y || SGI_NEWPORT_CONSOLE!=y default y There seems to be a bit of a hole in the logic here, becuase PROM_CONSOLE is only configurable if you are on SPARC, and SGI_NEWPORT_CONSOLE is only configurable if you are on an SGI. So on x86, you are guaranteed both that VGA_CONSOLE will be =y, which means the middle conditional fails, but both of the other conditionals are true, so the whole statement is true. So you will get DUMMY_CONSOLE, and you will not have a chance to configure it since there is no title after the bool. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] He's baaaaaack!--SOLVED
a fixboot from the recovery mode of the WinXP CD will be necessary. This should not overwrite the MBR, only the boot loader that is at the beginning of the windows partition. The problem was two-fold: 1. WinXP boot sector was bad(my best guess). 2. Recovery Console suffered from obscure bug that prevented the use of admin password -- even though the correct password was used. To top it off, Macro$haft expects its drones to _pay_ for the patch to fix _their_own_ mistake! I just re-installed XP-Pro, this time the one w/ the integrated SP1 which fixes the bug. Then I edited grub to map the drive up a notch and now everything knocking on wood is cool! -mw __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] He's baaaaaack!
Martins wrote: it is possible with fdisk, i did it and it worked, and this is steps i followed, step 7 wasnt necesary for me: More info about the bug can be found here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzill...g.cgi?id=115980 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzill...g.cgi?id=113201 Note that whatever web browser and method you are using to cut and paste URLs is producing broken links. Fortunately, at least the bug ID was intact so I was able to lookup the bugs. I don't see how either bug applies to Maxim, as he didn't get this after installing FC2, changing from kernel 2.4 to 2.6, or doing anything to his partiton table. He just moved the disk from primary master to (primary slave?). Also, AFAIK this has not been a problem for any Gentoo user using fdisk to partition his drives. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 63 33732719 16866328+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 74692800 78140159 1723680 1c Hidden W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda3 35834400 74692799 19429200 83 Linux /dev/hda4 33732720 35834399 1050840 82 Linux swap So I recreated this partition table on a spare 100Gb USB disk: Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 193821 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 3346516866328+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 74101 77520 1723680 83 Linux /dev/sda3 35551 7410019429200 83 Linux /dev/sda4 33466 35550 1050840 83 Linux Command (m for help): u Changing display/entry units to sectors Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 193821 cylinders, total 195371568 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 633373271916866328+ 83 Linux /dev/sda27469280078140159 1723680 83 Linux /dev/sda3358344007469279919429200 83 Linux /dev/sda43373272035834399 1050840 83 Linux $ fdisk -H 255 /dev/hda # or 240 for some configurations Command: o (create new partition table) 6. by now you have a newly generaed partition table, with the original disk geometry. Recreate the partitions as they were before: Command: n (new partition) Primary partition (p) Partition number: 1 First cylinder: 63 # beginning of first partition Last cylinder or +size[...]: 33732719 # end of first partition This doesn't work, because we are still working in cylinders: Partition number (1-4): 1 First cylinder (1-12161, default 1): 63 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (63-12161, default 12161): 33732719 Value out of range. But I assume what you really meant is to switch to sectors. After recreating all of the partitions in sector mode, I have: Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders, total 195371568 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 633373271916866328+ 83 Linux /dev/sda27469280078140159 1723680 83 Linux /dev/sda3358344007469279919429200 83 Linux /dev/sda43373272035834399 1050840 83 Linux Ok, so this seems to work. I didn't know about the 'u' command for fdisk, so thanks for that. But I still have a problem with this from a sanity standpoint. Note the output of sfdisk for the 16-heads vs 255-heads tables: carcharias rjf # sfdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 193821 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls#blocks Id System /dev/sda1 0+ 33464 33465- 16866328+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 74100 7751934201723680 83 Linux /dev/sda3 35550 74099 38550 19429200 83 Linux /dev/sda4 33465 3554920851050840 83 Linux Disk /dev/sda: 12161 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls#blocks Id System /dev/sda1 0+ 2099- 2100- 16866328+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 4649+ 4863 215- 1723680 83 Linux /dev/sda3 2230+ 4649- 2419- 19429200 83 Linux /dev/sda4 2099+ 2230-131- 1050840 83 Linux Notice all of the extra '+' and '-' signs...those mean that the partitions do not line up with cylinder boundaries, and we probably should have left the partition table at 16-heads. Fdisk may (now) handle this ok, but it is not standard and less intelligent partition tools are likely to throw a fit. Actually, this is what most of the bug reports regarding parted and disk druid are about...they couldn't handle the misalignment. Anyway, my information about fdisk
Re: [gentoo-user] He's baaaaaack!--SOLVED
maxim wexler wrote: everything knocking on wood is cool! Very cool indeednow you can do what we all got computers for in the first place...to play solitaire. ;-) -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Having trouble installing grub on second disk
Hello, I wonder if some wise person here can give me some suggestion on how to solve this problem. I have Gentoo (2005.0) installed on my master primary device, and I am trying to create a minimal Linux system on a new disk, my slave primary device. So, I partition and make a 32M ext2 file system, make the appropriate directories and devices, install busybox and other odds and ends. Then I copy over the kernel from my Gentoo system (same hardware, so the same kernel). Finally I install grub on the slave primary device, and set up my grub.conf like so: default 0 timeout 10 title=minimal linux on slave primary device root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 root (hd1,0) should be the first partition on my slave primary device /boot/vmlinuz is indeed my kernel (I didn't bother with a separate boot partition ) finally root=/dev/hdb1 tells grub that the root is on the first partition of my slave primary device I test by rebooting and entering my bios settings, and then i set the boot device to hd1 instead of hd0. Save and exit, and grub tells me Error 15: File not found. It doesn't tell me which file isn't found, but I've learned that this usually means the kernel. So I double and triple check the spelling and the location. It's right, unless I'm going blind. As an experiment, I added these lines to grub.conf on hda, so that I could use grub on hda but boot from my kernel and root on hdb: title=minimal linux on slave primary device root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 this worked, which perhaps suggests that my grub setup on hdb is faulty. So I reinstalled grub on hdb, but it still fails with the same error. Lastly the grub install reported no errors. Any suggestions? Sincerely, Michael Shiloh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to deploy a video lab?
Last time I tried Cinelerra it was not what I would call production ready and feature wise it can not replace Premier. However if you want to test it out see the following link for instructions on how to use portage and correctly deal with masked packages. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Portage_Correctly In short you can do the following and then emerge normally. echo media-video/cinelerra ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords -- David On 7/26/05, simply change [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AybOwan! (=welcome) dear lu_zero, im a Sinhalease from Sri lanka. i have a small company here in lanka (video filming company ex:- wedding, parties filming). my editing tools are Adobe Premeir,after effect, etc like propriatary software.so now i want to fully migrate to Gentoo Linux. today i just try to emerge Cinelerra to my Gentoo box but it has been Masked. so friends please be kind enought to advice me to setting up a full professional video lab using Gentoo Linux. -- ... The future lies ahead. ___ Have you mooed today? --- \^__^ \ (oo) \___ (__) \ )\/\ ||--w | || || Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r4-Adapt-v1.1# -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pam error, cant su -
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 10:23 am, Jorge Boscan wrote: pam does not compile *** Building pam-unix module of the framework... ---snip--- * Checking if all modules were built... * ERROR: pam_cracklib have dependencies in /usr. I just had this problem while upgrading an older desktop. What's happening is... you updated cracklib to version 2.80 which installed it's libraries under /usr/lib and the install scripts left an old 2.70 cracklib library under /usr. Look under /usr and then under /usr/lib. Checking tobe certain that cracklib 2.80 is indeed installed on your computer. Then delete the old *crack* stuff from /usr. Pam will now install correctly. Cheers. -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004 Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net Buy an Xbox for $149.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $150.00! 4:47pm up 8 days, 16:46, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Having trouble installing grub on second disk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I test by rebooting and entering my bios settings, and then i set the boot device to hd1 instead of hd0. Save and exit, and grub tells me Error 15: File not found. For grub, the (hd0) and (hd1) devices are the ordered in the same order that the BIOS puts them in, so if you are going to switch them around in the BIOS, you should set the entries in the grub.conf to (hd0,0) instead of (hd1,0). In otherwords, (hd0) is always the disk currently being booted from. You can test this by editing the lines when grub comes up, and change kernel to be: kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Having trouble installing grub on second disk
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:12:40 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Gentoo (2005.0) installed on my master primary device, and I am trying to create a minimal Linux system on a new disk, my slave primary device. So, I partition and make a 32M ext2 file system, make the appropriate directories and devices, install busybox and other odds and ends. Then I copy over the kernel from my Gentoo system (same hardware, so the same kernel). Finally I install grub on the slave primary device, and set up my grub.conf like so: default 0 timeout 10 title=minimal linux on slave primary device root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 root (hd1,0) should be the first partition on my slave primary device You don't need to install GRUB on the slave drive, just add this to your existing grub.conf. GRUB is able to boot from a different drive. I test by rebooting and entering my bios settings, and then i set the boot device to hd1 instead of hd0. Save and exit, and grub tells me Error 15: File not found. That's because your slave drive is now hd0, the boot drive is considered the first drive. Either fix your config or, and better IMO, keep everything in one grub.conf on the master drive. -- Neil Bothwick Forget the Joneses...I can't keep up with The Simpsons. pgpEKewQRGD5H.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Having trouble installing grub on second disk
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Richard Fish wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I test by rebooting and entering my bios settings, and then i set the boot device to hd1 instead of hd0. Save and exit, and grub tells me Error 15: File not found. For grub, the (hd0) and (hd1) devices are the ordered in the same order that the BIOS puts them in, so if you are going to switch them around in the BIOS, you should set the entries in the grub.conf to (hd0,0) instead of (hd1,0). In otherwords, (hd0) is always the disk currently being booted from. You can test this by editing the lines when grub comes up, and change kernel to be: kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 -Richard AHA! That sure sounds like my problem. I'll test this tonight. So the mapping is NOT hard-coded: hd0 = primary master hd1 = primary slave hd2 = secondary master hd3 = secondary slave but rather is the boot order I select? Thank you so much for the rapid reply, Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Enlightenment segfaults?
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:17:16PM -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: So: what logs should I check and how should I find out what exactly is causing the problem? Did you try the revdep-rebuild -p to see if there are any broken dependencies? Did your files in /etc/conf.d get updated? Is your session stuff correct in /etc/rc.conf? Any messages in the syslog or from dmesg? Since this was a gargantuan update on my part, I, of course, ran revdep-rebuild immediately after the emerge --update --deep world Then I ran etc-update and checked all the files. I boot into console so there's hardly anything at all there in /etc/rc.conf no log in /var/log/everything/, nor in dmesg. Whatever it was it has to be userland. All I know so far is from /var/log/Xorg.0.log which tells me that X died on SEGV, and a line in the console where I started X from that reads something like Enlightenment caused a seg fault. Right now I am running X with $ xinit Xerror 21 to see if I can capture the entire stderr that was printed (some floated off screen so the only thing I saw was effectively that enlightenment was bad). Question: During the update, there were 2 or 3 packages that I wasn't able to update due to sandbox violations. I've been intending to check into that later on this week. Those were dependencies of mplayer and were not, as far as I know, dependencies of enlightenment or X. I am hoping that those aren't the packages. W -- I cannot go to school today Said little Peggy Ann McKay. I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a rash and purple bumps. My mouth is wet, my throat is dry. I'm going blind in my right eye. My tonsils are as big as rocks, I've counted sixteen chicken pox And there's one more-that's seventeen, And don't you think my face looks green? My leg is cut, my eyes are blue It might be instamatic flu. I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke, I'm sure that my left leg is broke My hip hurts when I move my chin, My belly button's caving in, My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained, My 'pendix pains each time it rains. My toes is cold, my toes are numb, I have a sliver in my thumb. My neck is stiff, my voice is weak, I hardly whisper when I speak. My tongue is filling up my mouth, I think my hair is falling out. My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight, My temperature is one-o-eight. My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear, There's a hole inside my ear. I have a hangnail, and my heart is - What? What's that? What's that you say? You say today is ...Saturday? Goodbye, I'm going out to play! Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1 day, 20:30 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Having trouble installing grub on second disk
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:12:40 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Gentoo (2005.0) installed on my master primary device, and I am trying to create a minimal Linux system on a new disk, my slave primary device. So, I partition and make a 32M ext2 file system, make the appropriate directories and devices, install busybox and other odds and ends. Then I copy over the kernel from my Gentoo system (same hardware, so the same kernel). Finally I install grub on the slave primary device, and set up my grub.conf like so: default 0 timeout 10 title=minimal linux on slave primary device root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 root (hd1,0) should be the first partition on my slave primary device You don't need to install GRUB on the slave drive, just add this to your existing grub.conf. GRUB is able to boot from a different drive. Ah, but eventually the first disk will go away. It's just support while I develop the minimal install. So I do need grub on it. But thanks for responding anyway, I appreciate the help Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Having trouble installing grub on second disk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Richard Fish wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I test by rebooting and entering my bios settings, and then i set the boot device to hd1 instead of hd0. Save and exit, and grub tells me Error 15: File not found. For grub, the (hd0) and (hd1) devices are the ordered in the same order that the BIOS puts them in, so if you are going to switch them around in the BIOS, you should set the entries in the grub.conf to (hd0,0) instead of (hd1,0). In otherwords, (hd0) is always the disk currently being booted from. You can test this by editing the lines when grub comes up, and change kernel to be: kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 -Richard AHA! That sure sounds like my problem. I'll test this tonight. So the mapping is NOT hard-coded: hd0 = primary master hd1 = primary slave hd2 = secondary master hd3 = secondary slave but rather is the boot order I select? That is true, well, sort of. It is defined as BIOS order, which generally means that the disk being booted from is the first BIOS disk. The other disks could be in the same order that you specified for boot, or in the order they were detected. In case you still have some trouble, one other command that might be useful from the grub prompt is: find /boot/vmlinuz That will cause grub to search all of the primary partitions on all of the disks for the specified file, and output where it is found. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to deploy a video lab?
better still install main actor. heres how I did it: 1. Go to http://mainconcept.com and download the SuSE rpm. The file I downloaded is mainactor-5.5.7-suse_9.3.i686.rpm 2. emerge rpm if it is not already on your system 3. install mainactor: rpm -Uvh --nodeps mainactor-5.5.7-suse_9.3.i686.rpm 4. run the binary: mactor 5. There is a good manual for downloading in pdf format. It is worth reading. There are also support forums. This is a closed source package, but it is IMHO very good. It will work as per a licensed copy except it renders a message on your video when doing final rendering. You can therefore get a good idea of what it does, without the normal shareware die after 30 days or render only up to two minutes nonsense. The license is EUR177/USD199. Not super cheap, but there is not a lot of choice of good video editing software on linux. kino is quite good, but limited in the file formats it will handle, basically dv (ie as captured from a digital video camera). it will render to other formats, but will only import a rather limited range. cinelerra should be good but is almost document-less. avidemux is a good front end for basic cutting of scenes and trancoding to other formats, but doesn't have any ability to add effects or transitions, so is not a real video editor of the sort you want. Its good for bringing in a video track (eg recorded tv), cutting out the bits you don't want (ads, start finish overlap, sex etc) and then rendering to something like xvid, although it will render to DVD compatible mpeg2 too. You may want to present clients with well mastered dvd's once you have edited the scenes and added transitions and a soundtrack. I know that some winders products offer a suite which does everything from DV camera import through to burning the DVD. The linux approach will require more mix and match, especially putting together DVD menus and stuff which will require a tool like dvdstyler.I have successfully used dvdstyler to make dvd's of family movies, recorded TV etc complete with menus. One thing to note too is that there is a bit of a trend for cameras to take mpeg or avi files instead of the more tradition digital video cam DV format, It would pay to make sure that you will be able to use your raw material in whatever software you decide to use. There are all sorts of possibilities for transcoding stuff to a usable format before you edit it, but the more steps you put in the process the more quality you can lose. On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:44:46 -0400 David Miller wrote: Last time I tried Cinelerra it was not what I would call production ready and feature wise it can not replace Premier. However if you want to test it out see the following link for instructions on how to use portage and correctly deal with masked packages. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Portage_Correctly In short you can do the following and then emerge normally. echo media-video/cinelerra ~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords -- David On 7/26/05, simply change [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AybOwan! (=welcome) dear lu_zero, im a Sinhalease from Sri lanka. i have a small company here in lanka (video filming company ex:- wedding, parties filming). my editing tools are Adobe Premeir,after effect, etc like propriatary software.so now i want to fully migrate to Gentoo Linux. today i just try to emerge Cinelerra to my Gentoo box but it has been Masked. so friends please be kind enought to advice me to setting up a full professional video lab using Gentoo Linux. -- ... The future lies ahead. ___ Have you mooed today? --- \^__^ \ (oo) \___ (__) \ )\/\ ||--w | || || Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r4-Adapt-v1.1# -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor Christchurch Contact details at http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dummy console
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Richard Fish wrote: Oh, and also, FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE should be =y Well, that made it! :) Seems ok (I have the same thing). Looking at the Kconfig file in drivers/video/console, I find: config VGA_CONSOLE bool VGA text console if EMBEDDED || !X86 depends on !ARCH_ACORN !ARCH_EBSA110 !4xx !8xx !SPARC32 !SPARC64 !M68K !PARISC default y [...] Which means that VGA_CONSOLE is only configurable if you are doing an EMBEDDED or non-x86 configuration. For normal x86 builds, VGA_CONSOLE will always be available, since it defaults to 'y' Later on, we find: config DUMMY_CONSOLE bool depends on PROM_CONSOLE!=y || VGA_CONSOLE!=y || SGI_NEWPORT_CONSOLE!=y default y There seems to be a bit of a hole in the logic here, becuase PROM_CONSOLE is only configurable if you are on SPARC, and SGI_NEWPORT_CONSOLE is only configurable if you are on an SGI. So on x86, you are guaranteed both that VGA_CONSOLE will be =y, which means the middle conditional fails, but both of the other conditionals are true, so the whole statement is true. So you will get DUMMY_CONSOLE, and you will not have a chance to configure it since there is no title after the bool. -Richard Thank you for the explanation. Cheers, Jorge -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Enlightenment segfaults?
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Willie Wong wrote: I was away from my computer for one week, and so ran a massive update on sunday night. After the update, on Monday morning, I woke up to find my xsession ended with a message on the console that said something to the effect that Enlightenment segfaulted, because some supporting library tries to access memory that it shouldn't be accessing. I dismissed it as enlightenment throwing a hissy fit. But the same thing happened again this morning. The problem is, I don't quite know how to diagnose it. /var/log/Xorg.log only tells me it caught sig 11 and will die. Honestly, I don't think running strace will be the best idea yet, I'd like to save it as a last possibility, for the only reason that I don't even know how to reproduce the crash. X was up and running yesterday for over 14 hours, and enlightenment just crashed in the middle of the night. So: what logs should I check and how should I find out what exactly is causing the problem? W Disk full? df -h -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Enlightenment segfaults?
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 08:22:04PM -0300, Urs Schuetz wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Willie Wong wrote: I was away from my computer for one week, and so ran a massive update on sunday night. After the update, on Monday morning, I woke up to find my xsession ended with a message on the console that said something to the effect that Enlightenment segfaulted, because some supporting library tries to access memory that it shouldn't be accessing. I dismissed it as enlightenment throwing a hissy fit. But the same thing happened again this morning. The problem is, I don't quite know how to diagnose it. /var/log/Xorg.log only tells me it caught sig 11 and will die. Honestly, I don't think running strace will be the best idea yet, I'd like to save it as a last possibility, for the only reason that I don't even know how to reproduce the crash. X was up and running yesterday for over 14 hours, and enlightenment just crashed in the middle of the night. So: what logs should I check and how should I find out what exactly is causing the problem? Disk full? df -h Uh.. no. But I am curious where you got that conclusion... W -- Oops, I always forget the purpose of competition is to divide people into winners and losers. -Hobbes being sarcastic Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1 day, 23:19 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] I thought /etc/X11/xorg.conf was set in stone
I have noticed in the last couple days that rolling the wheel on my mouse is not scrolling through webpages or email. I checked my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and it had not been changed. Just to be sure it is not a broken mouse I booted into Mandrake and tested it there, mouse scrolled like a charm. After I booted back to Gentoo, the mouse was still not working. I decided to steal the setting from Mandrake's XF86Config, since it was working there. I changed my /etc/X11/xorg.conf from: IdentifierMouse1 Drivermouse Option ProtocolPS/2 Option Device /dev/input/mouse0 OptionZAxisMapping 4 5 to: IdentifierMouse1 Drivermouse Option ProtocolExplorerPS/2 Option Device /dev/input/mouse0 OptionZAxisMapping 6 7 After I made that change I rebooted. When I checked my /var/log/Xorg.0.log, it was still showing the original settings i.e. PS/2 not the ExplorerPS/2. After some digging around noticed the line (==) Using config file: //xorg.conf. Sure enough I had backed up my xorg.conf to the / folder a couple months ago and sure enought it was using that copy. After I changed that file name, I rebooted and the correct information is now showing in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I was under the impression that the folder /etc/X11is the folder only scanned and used. That is why I put the backup copy there. My question is: is this behavior a know thing and I missed it, or can others be bitten by this also? P.S. the mouse is still not scrolling. Any help with this would be great. Thanks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I thought /etc/X11/xorg.conf was set in stone
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Check man xorg.conf and it will give you the locations searched for xorg.conf. On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, George Roberts wrote: I have noticed in the last couple days that rolling the wheel on my mouse is Snip I was under the impression that the folder /etc/X11is the folder only scanned and used. That is why I put the backup copy there. My question is: is this behavior a know thing and I missed it, or can others be bitten by this also? P.S. the mouse is still not scrolling. Any help with this would be great. Thanks Thanks, it seems the system searchs farther than I understood. Based on what I have read on gdm, the X server is started by a non-privliged user, to avoid possiblities of exploition of the system via the login area. If this is in fact true then the search for the xorg.conf file would be limited to the /usr or /etc folders, not the / folder. Does there need to be an update to the man file, or is this a undocumented feature? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Having trouble installing grub on second disk
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Richard Fish wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I test by rebooting and entering my bios settings, and then i set the boot device to hd1 instead of hd0. Save and exit, and grub tells me Error 15: File not found. For grub, the (hd0) and (hd1) devices are the ordered in the same order that the BIOS puts them in, so if you are going to switch them around in the BIOS, you should set the entries in the grub.conf to (hd0,0) instead of (hd1,0). In otherwords, (hd0) is always the disk currently being booted from. You can test this by editing the lines when grub comes up, and change kernel to be: kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 -Richard I'm glad to report that Richard's suggestion solved my problem. Thanks very much! After a bit of experimentation, this worked: root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 init=/bin/sh That's interesting, because the first line refers to the drive (remember, it's my slave primary device, but in my BIOS I have it selected for booting) as hd0, but the second line refers to it as hdb. Yes, I tried hda, and it didn't work. I did a bit of research after our initial email and it seems that grub numbering starts with the BIOS boot device, and then goes up from there, but I couldn't find any clear explanation of what happens with drives that preceeded the boot device. If you have 4 drives and you boot from the second, does grub go back and get the first at the end, or never? A topic for future research. The information I found also suggests that this is somewhat BIOS dependent, so future readers of this thread take note: this may not apply to you. Trial and error may be the only foolproof solution. Thanks again everyone, Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I thought /etc/X11/xorg.conf was set in stone
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 01:54, George Roberts wrote: I have noticed in the last couple days that rolling the wheel on my mouse is not scrolling through webpages or email. I checked my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and it had not been changed. Just to be sure it is not a broken mouse I booted into Mandrake and tested it there, mouse scrolled like a charm. After I booted back to Gentoo, the mouse was still not working. I decided to steal the setting from Mandrake's XF86Config, since it was working there. I changed my /etc/X11/xorg.conf from: IdentifierMouse1 Drivermouse Option ProtocolPS/2 Option Device /dev/input/mouse0 OptionZAxisMapping 4 5 Option ProtocolPS/2 should be Option ProtocolImPS/2 and the wheel should start working -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I thought /etc/X11/xorg.conf was set in stone
My understanding is that X searches the path given in xorg.conf irregardless of who starts it but I may be wrong. I use xdm, not gdm. On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, George Roberts wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Check man xorg.conf and it will give you the locations searched for xorg.conf. On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, George Roberts wrote: I have noticed in the last couple days that rolling the wheel on my mouse is Snip I was under the impression that the folder /etc/X11is the folder only scanned and used. That is why I put the backup copy there. My question Thanks Thanks, it seems the system searchs farther than I understood. Based on what I have read on gdm, the X server is started by a non-privliged user, to avoid possiblities of exploition of the system via the login area. If this is in fact true then the search for the xorg.conf file would be limited to the /usr or /etc folders, not the / folder. Does there need to be an update to the man file, or is this a undocumented feature? -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox won run
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:59:46 -0300 Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi All, firefox do not want to run after update ... any clues ? what are the error messages (go to an xterm and type it in, hit enter, messages should appear -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I thought /etc/X11/xorg.conf was set in stone
According to the man xorg.conf the search paths are different depending who is starting X. If X is started by a user the search paths are not as extensive as if X is started by root. If root was the one to start X then it could be able to pick up the xorg.conf I had stashed in the / folder. The sudden switch from my /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /xorg.conf is what triggered my confusion. Brett I. Holcomb wrote: My understanding is that X searches the path given in xorg.conf irregardless of who starts it but I may be wrong. I use xdm, not gdm. On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, George Roberts wrote: Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Check man xorg.conf and it will give you the locations searched for xorg.conf. On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, George Roberts wrote: I have noticed in the last couple days that rolling the wheel on my mouse is Snip I was under the impression that the folder /etc/X11is the folder only scanned and used. That is why I put the backup copy there. My question Thanks Thanks, it seems the system searchs farther than I understood. Based on what I have read on gdm, the X server is started by a non-privliged user, to avoid possiblities of exploition of the system via the login area. If this is in fact true then the search for the xorg.conf file would be limited to the /usr or /etc folders, not the / folder. Does there need to be an update to the man file, or is this a undocumented feature? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I thought /etc/X11/xorg.conf was set in stone
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Wednesday 27 July 2005 01:54, George Roberts wrote: I have noticed in the last couple days that rolling the wheel on my mouse is not scrolling through webpages or email. I checked my /etc/X11/xorg.conf and it had not been changed. Just to be sure it is not a broken mouse I booted into Mandrake and tested it there, mouse scrolled like a charm. After I booted back to Gentoo, the mouse was still not working. I decided to steal the setting from Mandrake's XF86Config, since it was working there. I changed my /etc/X11/xorg.conf from: IdentifierMouse1 Drivermouse Option ProtocolPS/2 Option Device /dev/input/mouse0 OptionZAxisMapping 4 5 Option ProtocolPS/2 should be Option ProtocolImPS/2 and the wheel should start working Thanks that did it. Opps your right that was the original setting in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf. After chasing my tail trying different settings, only to find that X had changed files, I had forgotten where I started. Thanks again. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 6x13 font for gnome-terminal
At Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:37:10 +0200 Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oscar Carlsson schreef: Saturday 23 July 2005 00.24 skrev Allan Gottlieb: All my screens are 1600x1200 pixels. Several are reasonably large (~20 inch) lcds and I use what emacs calls a 6x13 font. Its real name is -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 This permits 3 side by side windows (frames in emacs) of 81 columns. I have tried every fixed-width frame I found in the list given for gnome-terminal and cannot find one this size. Is there some way I can tell gnome-terminal to use -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 or, even better, tell gnome to make this font available on the menus? I think gnome-terminal only can handle xft-fonts (and that's probably a feature)... Have you considered trying some older (and not so user friendly) terminal? rxvt, xterm, urxvt and aterm are all pretty nice, memory efficent and fast, and you can do everything in them that you could in gnome-terminal (well, almost) :-) I think Oscar is right (about gnome-terminal only supporting XFT fonts). For another suggestion for an alternate, you might consider multi-gnome-terminal (emerge multi-gnome-terminal) which is based on gnome-terminal, and has many more features (like session saving and history saving per terminal tab), despite being GTK-based rather than GTK2-based. I've just checked, and it does definitely accept font specifications in the form of -*-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*-r-* , so it might be more like what you're looking for. It's not quite perfect, but it's pretty close. Thank you all for these suggestions. allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] recompiling vim linked to libncursesw
Hi all. I'm having trouble with my encoding using mutt + vim + utf-8, basically mi emails are sent with wrong encoding when *replying*. I've tracked the problem, searched, readed FAQs and i found that maybe my problem is this: that while mutt is linked to libncursesw (wide library) vim is to libncurses (normal), this is the output of ldd: $ ldd `which vim` | grep curses libncurses.so.5 = /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb7f98000) $ ldd `which mutt` | grep curses libncursesw.so.5 = /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7f8f000) Except for this my utf-8 environment is running fine. I tried re 'emerge vim' thinking that maybe it just get fixed since i use unicode and utf8 in my USE, but that didn't do anything, vim is still linked to the non wide curses library. So the question is: how do i tell to emerge to forge a vim wich is linked to libncursesw.so ? -- Fernando Canizo - LUGMen: www.lugmen.org.ar - A8N: a8n.lugmen.org.ar snappy repartee: What you'd say if you had another chance. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] recompiling vim linked to libncursesw
Fernando Canizo wrote: Hi all. I'm having trouble with my encoding using mutt + vim + utf-8, basically mi emails are sent with wrong encoding when *replying*. I've tracked the problem, searched, readed FAQs and i found that maybe my problem is this: that while mutt is linked to libncursesw (wide library) vim is to libncurses (normal), this is the output of ldd: $ ldd `which vim` | grep curses libncurses.so.5 = /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb7f98000) $ ldd `which mutt` | grep curses libncursesw.so.5 = /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7f8f000) Except for this my utf-8 environment is running fine. I tried re 'emerge vim' thinking that maybe it just get fixed since i use unicode and utf8 in my USE, but that didn't do anything, vim is still linked to the non wide curses library. So the question is: how do i tell to emerge to forge a vim wich is linked to libncursesw.so ? Hmm, tough one. I don't see any way to configure vim specifically for ncursesw. Your best bet may be to try and fake out the dynamic linker and tell it to use libncursesw instead of libncurses for vim. ln -s /lib/libncursesw.so.5 /etc/vim/libncurses.so.5 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/etc/vim ldd /usr/bin/vim LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/etc/vim vim If vim seems sane, then exporting LD_LIBRARY_PATH before starting mutt should resolve the problem (assuming that the problem really is in the type of ncurses...) -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using genkernel
Hello Zac Medico, Once you wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using genkernel: I've never thought to use the --bootloader=grub option because I've always want wanted to edit grub.conf myself. I think i will go this way too :) Are there any clues in /var/log/genkernel.log? No just the same output i pasted before * Adding kernel to /boot/grub/grub.conf... and no any error messages around. What version of genkernel is it? tribus log # genkernel --version 3.2.10 -- Best regards, Waldemar Tribus mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using genkernel
Hello Neil Bothwick, Once you wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Problem using genkernel: Why? If you are comfortable with configuring your kernel by hand, why give up control of the process to a tool that is known to cause problems for many people? Just wanted to follow gentoo 2.4 to 2.6 migration guide, to avoid stipud error which i could make if i would do it by myself :) -- Best regards, Waldemar Tribus mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] GDM restarts citing lderror: missing pam_console.so after running et
Ran a emerge -NDuva world, updated a bunch of gnome stuff. gnome-base/gnome-2.10-r1 and deps and gnome-base/gdm-2.6.0.9-r2 Launching et (enemey territory) gives (in /var/log/messages) Jul 26 22:58:13 dsotm gdm[23200]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_console.so) Jul 26 22:58:13 dsotm gdm[23200]: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_console.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] Jul 26 22:58:13 dsotm gdm[23200]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_console.so Jul 26 22:58:15 dsotm gdm(pam_unix)[23200]: session opened for user chris by (uid=0) Jul 26 22:58:23 dsotm su(pam_unix)[23301]: session opened for user root by (uid=1000) Jul 26 23:00:35 dsotm su(pam_unix)[23301]: session closed for user root Jul 26 23:00:39 dsotm gdm[23200]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 Jul 26 23:00:39 dsotm gdm(pam_unix)[23200]: session closed for user chris gdm restarts no game I've tried commenting out all of dsotm ~ # grep console /etc/pam.d/* /etc/pam.d/gdm:session optional /lib/security/pam_console.so /etc/pam.d/gdm-autologin:session optional /lib/security/pam_console.so /etc/pam.d/xdm:session optional pam_console.so /etc/pam.d/xserver:# Next line you need console ownership to be able to start X /etc/pam.d/xserver:#auth required pam_console.so restarting gdm, even rebooting, same error as above. tried setting USE=pam_console emerge -Nva pam ... adding the login pam_console, uncommenting all of the above lines, i just get the Jul 26 22:41:05 dsotm gdm[8000]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 i'm almost ready to USE=-pam emerge -e world ... chris -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
