Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config Manager
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:07:42 -0700, Trenton Adams wrote: Want this to be managed outside the standard menu config because it will make it easier to switch to a new kernel, such as xen-sources, or vanilla-sources. I can then keep the default settings of that particular kernel, and enable all the *extra* stuff that I need. Copy .config from your old kernel's directory to the new one and run make oldconfig. -- Neil Bothwick How do you know when it's time to tune your bagpipes? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc.
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:23:13 +, Alan E. Davis wrote: Can anyone point me to the right literature on line or other help? It could be a hardware problem, but one suspects the partition table and boot record. Gpart was unable to determine the sector size. Try running cfdisk with the -z option. This ignores the MBR and starts afresh with a blank one. If that fails, try zeroing the MBR with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=512 count=1 If it still fails, it would appear to be a broken disk. -- Neil Bothwick To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] leafnode
Hi,
I emerged leafnode and started xinetd but:
$ telnet localhost 119
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to zipo.vecernik.at.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.
# tail -n 3 /var/log/messages
Dec 23 09:30:48 zipo xinetd[26585]: FAIL: nntp address from=127.0.0.1
Dec 23 09:30:48 zipo xinetd[21471]: START: nntp pid=26585 from=127.0.0.1
Dec 23 09:30:48 zipo xinetd[21471]: EXIT: nntp status=0 pid=26585
duration=0(sec)
# grep -v '#\|^$' /etc/xinetd.d/leafnode-nntp
service nntp
{
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
wait= no
user= news
server = /usr/sbin/leafnode
disable = no
}
# grep -v '#\|^$' /etc/leafnode/config
expire = 20
server = news.aon.at
initialfetch = 100
I tried both stable 1.11.3 and unstable 1.11.5, but same behavior. Can
anybody give my a clue? Thanks!
--
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[gentoo-user] OT: Follow-up on the HDD problems...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Some of you may remember the problem I was having with my SATA II HDD in Windows XP (but not in Linux). To recap: My drive got switched from UDMA mode to PIO mode in Windows (only). I ended up having to reinstall Windows. After some careful investigation, I found that the problem was caused by the copy protection of a game - Superpower 2. Worse, the problem was not corrected when I removed the game. It took either a full reinstall of the OS, or a restoration of the windows registry from before I installed the game to fix this problem. I know that this will not affect dedicated Linux users, but it can affect those of you who use both windows and Linux. Regards, Chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQFFjQOiUx1jS/ORyCsRCHR9AJoDwEorkxKY+4Sl/vUEeit9D+wp/gCgkeAt 3SsHQQUoKPhV+ByfURBnSpY= =kw5l -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?
On Friday 22 December 2006 10:06, Neil Bothwick wrote: A bin package is equally cumbersome. You will very quickly consume huge amounts of disk space - at least equal to all the current packages on the system plus old ones that were updated. Maybe, but they do provide an extremely useful fallback, especially for those of us running ~arch systems. Being able to roll back to an older, working version in seconds rather than minutes or hours is a definite benefit. And in addition to that they only require a working tar and bash (which could be run from a livecd) to roll back. Without them a working gcc and python/portage is required too... -- Bo Andresen pgpYvLRdaF5Le.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware player startup error message
On Thursday 21 December 2006 20:53, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: When I start vmware player, I always get this message: /opt/vmware/player/lib/bin/vmplayer: /opt/vmware/player/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2) Vmware seems to run anyway, so I'm not sure -- is this a problem? Both cairo and vmware are installed by portage, and I'm not aware of any configuration I have done aside from the virtual machine images. I mention this in comment 10 and 14 on bug #148682 [1]. It seems to be a non issue, but if you have ~media-libs/libpng-1.2.12 you can get rid of it by removing (or just moving) /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0 out of the way. Then it will use /usr/lib/libpng12.so instead of /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0. I don't know if it will work with other versions of libpng installed too. Anyway the issue is that vmware provides libpng but not libcairo yet it links against libcairo which is linked against libpng. Another way to get rid of the warning would probably be to compile x11-libs/cairo with the png USE flag disabled. You can, however, safely ignore it. # ldd /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/bin/vmware | egrep libcairo.so|libpng libcairo.so.2 = /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0x4a17f000) libpng12.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x49fdd000) # ldd /usr/lib/libcairo.so | egrep libpng libpng12.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x49fdd000) [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148682 -- Bo Andresen pgpVl70Rr6jua.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:47:04 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Maybe, but they do provide an extremely useful fallback, especially for those of us running ~arch systems. Being able to roll back to an older, working version in seconds rather than minutes or hours is a definite benefit. And in addition to that they only require a working tar and bash (which could be run from a livecd) to roll back. Oh yes, I've been there when a broken glibc update stopped the computer booting. Untarring the old glibc package from a live CD was all I needed to get working again. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 8: Tight slacks signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config Manager
Trenton Adams wrote: Hi guys, Does anyone know of a kernel config manager that manages the kernel configuration settings that I want? For instance, I want this network driver, and that driver, and the other driver. Want this to be managed outside the standard menu config because it will make it easier to switch to a new kernel, such as xen-sources, or vanilla-sources. I can then keep the default settings of that particular kernel, and enable all the *extra* stuff that I need. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks. Yet another approach: cd /usr/src/linux/ zcat /proc/config.gz .config make oldconfig make config | menuconfig | xconfig -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config Manager
Daniel Iliev wrote: Yet another approach: cd /usr/src/linux/ zcat /proc/config.gz .config make oldconfig make config | menuconfig | xconfig If he has that enabled in the kernel. That can be a good thing to have around though. Especially if you accidentally erase your old config. Dale :-) :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?
On Saturday 23 December 2006 08:44, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?': On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:47:04 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Maybe, but they do provide an extremely useful fallback, especially for those of us running ~arch systems. Being able to roll back to an older, working version in seconds rather than minutes or hours is a definite benefit. And in addition to that they only require a working tar and bash (which could be run from a livecd) to roll back. Oh yes, I've been there when a broken glibc update stopped the computer booting. I've broken multiple packages including glibc (multiple times), but was able to recover via busybox (which has a shell and tar built-in). /me hugs his Gentoo. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh pgp1k5fZ0fo0f.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?
On Saturday 23 December 2006 15:44, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:47:04 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Maybe, but they do provide an extremely useful fallback, especially for those of us running ~arch systems. Being able to roll back to an older, working version in seconds rather than minutes or hours is a definite benefit. And in addition to that they only require a working tar and bash (which could be run from a livecd) to roll back. Oh yes, I've been there when a broken glibc update stopped the computer booting. Untarring the old glibc package from a live CD was all I needed to get working again. nice for you, but downgrading glibc broked my system extremly badly. 'no devices because of no udev' badly. 'You can't boot a livecd, because the kernels are too old for your sata' badly. No fun at all... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Almost Completely OT - Hacking the Telephone Adapter
My wife and I signed up with Vonage VoIP service last week. They sent us a telephone adapter to plug into our DSL modem/router that would allow us to use our analog phones with Vonage. Since it's plugged in to our router, I found its IP address and scanned it with nmap. The thing allows http and ssh access. nmap said the adapter runs Linux with a 2.4.x kernel. I played around some with the web interface after discovering the username and password. I'd really like to view some of the configuration settings and maybe see exactly how OUR adapter translates analog data into digital data, plus I've never looked around an embedded system before, but the username used for the web interface is not an actual account on the adapters OS. I'd like to look around in there, but I don't the names of any of the accounts, and even if I did, I don't know the password. The only way I know that the username I used to get into the web interface is not an account on the system is because I can view the system log from the web interface. I own the adapter; it's sitting on my desk beside me. I just want to explore the filesystem. Is there any way I can get in? Does anyone know any tricks for doing this? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config Manager
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:22:36 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: make config | menuconfig | xconfig ... | gconfig -- Neil Bothwick System halted - Press all keys at once to continue. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Apple keyboards with Gentoo
On Friday 22 December 2006 19:31, A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\) wrote: I may be preaching to the converted, but have you tried Ctrl-Alt-Fx keys to try and get a console? Does the keyboard have any odd switches to turn the F keys on? My logitech keyboard does - to switch between hotkeys and Fx keys. Basically, Im using an Apple USB keyboard on an amd64 box. The Option key (which has the word Alt written above it) does not function as an ALT key at all (even on the console it doesn't work). So this tells me that I need to set my keyboard map in the console and get that working first (hopefully, the key will work in X too when I solve this). Of course, I could just use a regular PC keyboard (though this Apple keyboard was a spare I had lying around and Ive grown fond of it). So... how do we play with the keyboard mapping in the console? -- A Hi I'm not really a Gentoo user anymore, but I follow the list every once in a while. So the advice I can give applies for FreeBSD. Gentoo should be similar however. The keymaps for the console are to found under /usr/share/syscons/keymaps. For example, german is in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/german.cp850.kbd. Just look for .kbd files in your system. If you want to change X play with the files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/. Maybe that helps, Cheers, Ben -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apple keyboards with Gentoo
Hi again. Maybe you can also have a look for example at the xorg.lst file in the rules directory for X and then adjust your xorg.conf properly... B On Saturday 23 December 2006 18:27, Benjamin Sobotta wrote: On Friday 22 December 2006 19:31, A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\) wrote: I may be preaching to the converted, but have you tried Ctrl-Alt-Fx keys to try and get a console? Does the keyboard have any odd switches to turn the F keys on? My logitech keyboard does - to switch between hotkeys and Fx keys. Basically, Im using an Apple USB keyboard on an amd64 box. The Option key (which has the word Alt written above it) does not function as an ALT key at all (even on the console it doesn't work). So this tells me that I need to set my keyboard map in the console and get that working first (hopefully, the key will work in X too when I solve this). Of course, I could just use a regular PC keyboard (though this Apple keyboard was a spare I had lying around and Ive grown fond of it). So... how do we play with the keyboard mapping in the console? -- A Hi I'm not really a Gentoo user anymore, but I follow the list every once in a while. So the advice I can give applies for FreeBSD. Gentoo should be similar however. The keymaps for the console are to found under /usr/share/syscons/keymaps. For example, german is in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/german.cp850.kbd. Just look for .kbd files in your system. If you want to change X play with the files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/. Maybe that helps, Cheers, Ben -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hal startup messages [solved]
Hello all, Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I upgraded to the ~x86 versions then reverted to those given in my original post. I ran revdep-rebuild afterwards and verified that nothing further needed rebuilding by running revdep-rebuild -p, which reported everything as being consistent. After some digging I found a similar problem reported in the forums and fixed by upgrading to (~arch) ivman-6.13. So it was an ivman, not a hal problem. Cheers, Roger -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.
Hi, I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will require several CDs. It would be nice if it would tar it or zip it but it is not required. I searched using equery and emerge -s but I can't seem to find much. Oh, GUI would be nice too. Is there anything out there that would do this? Thanks. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and /etc/portage/package.*
On Friday 22 December 2006 12:30, Arnau Bria wrote: It's the first time that etc-update changes something in my /etc/portage dir. It has changed x11-themes/emerald-themes cause it has changed its category and removed ksudoku... I undestand first change, but not second one, so could someone explain what checks etc-update in that dir? many thanks in advance. It's done because of the updates files in /usr/portage/profiles/updates/ which I think are read during `emerge --sync`. I'm not aware of any documentation for this so I think the best source of information are the archives of the gentoo-dev mailing list. The keywords are slotmove and move. $ egrep ksudoku|emerald-themes /usr/portage/profiles/updates/* /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2006:move games-board/ksudoku games-puzzle/ksudoku /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2006:move x11-misc/emerald-themes x11-themes/emerald-themes So it should just have moved ksudoku from the games-board to the games-puzzle category. -- Bo Andresen pgplLLINNhOXE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.
On Saturday 23 December 2006 19:45, Dale wrote: Hi, I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will require several CDs. It would be nice if it would tar it or zip it but it is not required. I searched using equery and emerge -s but I can't seem to find much. Oh, GUI would be nice too. Is there anything out there that would do this? I've never used it myself, but I read an article somewhere about it and seems that mondorescue can do that: http://www.mondorescue.org/about.shtml However, I'm not sure about its portage status: it seems that all the versions are masked (for x86 at least). The relevant entry in package.mask says has security issues and will be removed from portage due to upstream behaviour, see bug #106497 but that comment is rather old (more than one year) and it's still in portage. Furthermore, the mondorescue home page shows many gentoo-related downloads. Maybe there's someone else using it that hopefully can give you more detailed information. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:56:12 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Saturday 23 December 2006 19:45, Dale wrote: Hi, I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will require several CDs. It would be nice if it would tar it or zip it but it is not required. I searched using equery and emerge -s but I can't seem to find much. Oh, GUI would be nice too. Is there anything out there that would do this? I've never used it myself, but I read an article somewhere about it and seems that mondorescue can do that: http://www.mondorescue.org/about.shtml However, I'm not sure about its portage status: it seems that all the versions are masked (for x86 at least). The relevant entry in package.mask says has security issues and will be removed from portage due to upstream behaviour, see bug #106497 but that comment is rather old (more than one year) and it's still in portage. Furthermore, the mondorescue home page shows many gentoo-related downloads. Maybe there's someone else using it that hopefully can give you more detailed information. I've heard good things about the package, installed it yesterday, and will soon give it a test. In my case, I'm interested in creating a bootable CD so that I can have a functioning system able to restore my system from an external hard drive :- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.
Hi Dale, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will require several CDs. It would be nice if it would tar it or zip it but it is not required. I searched using equery and emerge -s but I can't seem to find much. Oh, GUI would be nice too. Is there anything out there that would do this? I think dar (it's in portage) can do this: I've never used it myself. Cheers, Roger -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT, but short
Is anyone out there using Residential SBC/Yahoo DSL with dynamic DNS? I want to know if the ISP blocks incoming requests to your servers if you're not paying them the rate for a static IP... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:52:15 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will require several CDs. It would be nice if it would tar it or zip it but it is not required. I searched using equery and emerge -s but I can't seem to find much. Oh, GUI would be nice too. I think dar (it's in portage) can do this: I've never used it myself. There's also kdar, a GUI for dar that also writes the split archives to CD/DVD. -- Neil Bothwick User-friendly: (adj.) trivialized, slow, incapable, and boring. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT, but short
On Saturday 23 December 2006 4:08 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: Is anyone out there using Residential SBC/Yahoo DSL with dynamic DNS? I want to know if the ISP blocks incoming requests to your servers if you're not paying them the rate for a static IP... Yes and yes. Unless you setup your sever(s) to receive requests from a non-standard port(s). Even then you'll want to be prepared to change ports if the bots catch on. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT, but short
On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 16:37 -0600, Joe Menola wrote: On Saturday 23 December 2006 4:08 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: Is anyone out there using Residential SBC/Yahoo DSL with dynamic DNS? I want to know if the ISP blocks incoming requests to your servers if you're not paying them the rate for a static IP... Yes and yes. Unless you setup your sever(s) to receive requests from a non-standard port(s). Even then you'll want to be prepared to change ports if the bots catch on. -jm But it's nonetheless doable? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.
I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will require several CDs. It would be nice if it would tar it or zip it but it is not required. I've been in the same boat the last week, and have investigated a number of options, and seem to be settling on app-backup/dar. It compresses; does incrementals; creates split archives of any given size; can keep an online catalog of offline data; and can even encrypt. Sample run: dar -c /backups/root-$(date -I)-full ! what to write -R / ! what to dump (root) -M ! don't span filesystems -s 700M ! Write CD-size files? -y ! compress... -Z '*.gz' -Z '*.tgz' -Z '*.zip' ! ...but don't compress these -P usr -P tmp -P var/cache ! Exclude these directories -D ! (write them as empty dirs) This assumes that /backups is a separate filesystem. Many of those default options can and should be put in /etc/darrc. The above command will write /backups/root-date-full.1.dar, .2.dar, as many as it needs. It's then up to you to write those to CD/DVD. Note that mkisofs doesn't yet grok 2G files. At this writing, the cdrtools-devel version claims to... but I'm not interested in verifying that claim :-). So you can't really do -s 4608M or whatever the size is for a DVD. Lots more info, including very thorough documentation and tutorials, on the project home page: http://dar.linux.free.fr/ G'luck, ^E -- Ed Santiago Toolsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Wrong dependencies to postgresql
Hi folks, since jakub (as always) closes all my bugs, I'll report the issue to this list before completely giving up and never ever waste a single second on reporting bugs ... Lots of packages have an wrong/unnecessary dependency to postgresql. Three cases: a) probably traditionally depended on the whole postgresql, maybe since before libpq was an own package. ie. qt, dovecot, ... b) many apps (ie. webapps like bugzilla) have postgresql as dep., although they do not need it to be installed. (ie. bugzilla does not have to do anything directly w/ postgresql, since it uses perl-DBD for database access). Of course they maybe want to have access to some postgres database, but this obviously does not need an local server. cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc.
Thank you, Neil: Neither of these worked: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 dd: writing `/dev/hda': Input/output error 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 3.96744 seconds, 0.0 kB/s gparted shows the whole disk as unallocated. When I try to install a new partition, it wants to install a disklabel. The attempt fails. What I don't understand---this happened after installing Sabayon on /dev/hda8. The first time I downloaded sabayon (mini x86) the md5sum was incorrect, but the install tried to work. The second time, with a correct md5sum, I tried to install on /dev/hda1, with errors on that partition. Then, I reinstalled on /dev/hda8. The install seemed to go really quickly, perhaps TOO quickly. Then, ever since rebooting, the system knows there's a disk. But something isn't right. I am starting to wonder whether a virus or trojan was hitchhiking on the blown iso download? Very seldom does wget fail. I think the download may have been resumed from a different mirror. I don't know where to go from here. Maybe try some other install cds. Maybe back to a gentoo CD. Thank you again. Alan On 12/23/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:23:13 +, Alan E. Davis wrote: Can anyone point me to the right literature on line or other help? It could be a hardware problem, but one suspects the partition table and boot record. Gpart was unable to determine the sector size. Try running cfdisk with the -z option. This ignores the MBR and starts afresh with a blank one. If that fails, try zeroing the MBR with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=512 count=1 If it still fails, it would appear to be a broken disk. -- Neil Bothwick To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up. -- Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-256-2043 I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Richard Stallman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc.
Alan E. Davis wrote: Thank you, Neil: Neither of these worked: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 dd: writing `/dev/hda': Input/output error 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 3.96744 seconds, 0.0 kB/s gparted shows the whole disk as unallocated. When I try to install a new partition, it wants to install a disklabel. The attempt fails. What I don't understand---this happened after installing Sabayon on /dev/hda8. The first time I downloaded sabayon (mini x86) the md5sum was incorrect, but the install tried to work. The second time, with a correct md5sum, I tried to install on /dev/hda1, with errors on that partition. Then, I reinstalled on /dev/hda8. The install seemed to go really quickly, perhaps TOO quickly. Then, ever since rebooting, the system knows there's a disk. But something isn't right. I am starting to wonder whether a virus or trojan was hitchhiking on the blown iso download? Very seldom does wget fail. I think the download may have been resumed from a different mirror. I don't know where to go from here. Maybe try some other install cds. Maybe back to a gentoo CD. Thank you again. Alan On 12/23/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:23:13 +, Alan E. Davis wrote: Can anyone point me to the right literature on line or other help? It could be a hardware problem, but one suspects the partition table and boot record. Gpart was unable to determine the sector size. Try running cfdisk with the -z option. This ignores the MBR and starts afresh with a blank one. If that fails, try zeroing the MBR with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=512 count=1 If it still fails, it would appear to be a broken disk. -- Neil Bothwick To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up. I suspect your HDD is dead. Send the boot messages here - they may contain some useful info. dmesg dmsg.log #and attach dmsg.log -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.
David Relson wrote: On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:56:12 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Saturday 23 December 2006 19:45, Dale wrote: Hi, I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will require several CDs. It would be nice if it would tar it or zip it but it is not required. I searched using equery and emerge -s but I can't seem to find much. Oh, GUI would be nice too. Is there anything out there that would do this? I've never used it myself, but I read an article somewhere about it and seems that mondorescue can do that: http://www.mondorescue.org/about.shtml However, I'm not sure about its portage status: it seems that all the versions are masked (for x86 at least). The relevant entry in package.mask says has security issues and will be removed from portage due to upstream behaviour, see bug #106497 but that comment is rather old (more than one year) and it's still in portage. Furthermore, the mondorescue home page shows many gentoo-related downloads. Maybe there's someone else using it that hopefully can give you more detailed information. I've heard good things about the package, installed it yesterday, and will soon give it a test. In my case, I'm interested in creating a bootable CD so that I can have a functioning system able to restore my system from an external hard drive :- Speaking of booting, it would be nice if the first CD was bootable and could be restored that way. I only have one CD drive at the moment so something to boot from would be nice. I'll check into that though. I have heard of it too. It just didn't show up in my search. Thanks Dale :-) :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:52:15 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will require several CDs. It would be nice if it would tar it or zip it but it is not required. I searched using equery and emerge -s but I can't seem to find much. Oh, GUI would be nice too. I think dar (it's in portage) can do this: I've never used it myself. There's also kdar, a GUI for dar that also writes the split archives to CD/DVD. I read about that one but I was not sure it would span across CDs. That's nice to know. Thanks :-) :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: Almost Completely OT - Hacking the Telephone Adapter
Michael Sullivan michael at espersunited.com writes: allow us to use our analog phones with Vonage. Since it's plugged in to our router, I found its IP address and scanned it with nmap. The thing allows http and ssh access. nmap said the adapter runs Linux with a 2.4.x kernel. I played around some with the web interface after discovering the username and password. Interesting, My vonage device is made by motorola, but, they have a large amount of processors running uClinux to a full linux (w/MMU) Can you tell what the chipset is? If so, go to that semi company and look at their published app notes. I'd really like to view some of the configuration settings and maybe see exactly how OUR adapter translates analog data into digital data, That's not hard, most devices run a flavor of 'sip' and if you poke about the sources to various protocols, associated with slip (megaco etc etc) You'll figure how how it works. Often, vendors do not stray far from published code. plus I've never looked around an embedded system before, but the username used for the web interface is not an actual account on the adapters OS. I'd like to look around in there, but I don't the names of any of the accounts, and even if I did, I don't know the password. The only way I know that the username I used to get into the web interface is not an account on the system is because I can view the system log from the web interface. I own the adapter; it's sitting on my desk beside me. I just want to explore the filesystem. Interested in embedded system, are we? gentoo_embedded is what you want.. Is there any way I can get in? Does anyone know any tricks for doing this? Not sure I'd discuss this in an open forum, but, if you look long enough you can find just about anything from XP to cisco sources, so I'd not be surprised to learn of vonage sources. But, let me introduce you to the CLUE_TRAIN It's a thousand times easier to write, debug and use code you develop, than to poke around a starving_vendor's property. If you start looking 'under the hood' of the average embedded system, your likely to be disappointed.. Beside why not just ask the company for a job, cause most of them have lots of broken or poorly_written embeddecd code. Vonage is no exception. I know one MAJOR router vendor that routinely uses driver code directly from a silicon company...caveat emptor! PS, if you put Vonage out of business (hacking and publishing their code) it's very likely there will not be any serious competitors with ATT, Verizon, Comcast and all of the other behemoths. HTH, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] How to see Windows graphics chars
I would not ordinarily care about Windows pseudo-graphics characters, but for one brief moment on one project I need to manipulate them a bit. This is a bit hard on KDE and gentoo as things stand because the terminals don't know about that encoding/font/codepage/whatever. I see there's a way to make my terminals speak a variety of encodings, but the ones I've tried don't help. Anybody out there know how to do this? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.
Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:52:15 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will require several CDs. It would be nice if it would tar it or zip it but it is not required. I searched using equery and emerge -s but I can't seem to find much. Oh, GUI would be nice too. I think dar (it's in portage) can do this: I've never used it myself. There's also kdar, a GUI for dar that also writes the split archives to CD/DVD. I read about that one but I was not sure it would span across CDs. That's nice to know. Thanks :-) :-) :-) OK. I downloaded Kdar so far. It was smaller and I'm on dial-up. Does these programs preserve file permissions? On some of what I plan to back up it won't matter but if I do a system back up then it will of course. Just curious if anyone knows about this question. Dale :-) :-) :-)
