[gentoo-user] Perl problem
Hi! It seems like perl-5.8.8-r3 introduced a new place (/usr/lib/vendor_perl) for perl modules, but the perl-cleaner utility didn't catch that properly. Now all perl modules/utilities (like genlop) are broken for me. What is the easiest way out? Trying to find out which perl modules are installed and re-install them all? Has anybody else seen the same problem? /Andreas -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Perl problem
Andreas Vinsander wrote: Hi! It seems like perl-5.8.8-r3 introduced a new place (/usr/lib/vendor_perl) for perl modules, but the perl-cleaner utility didn't catch that properly. Now all perl modules/utilities (like genlop) are broken for me. What is the easiest way out? Trying to find out which perl modules are installed and re-install them all? Something like this: emerge -av1 $(equery --nocolor list -f 'dev-perl/.*' |tail --lines=+2 | sed 's;dev-perl;=dev-perl;g') was what I had in mind. /Andreas -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Perl problem
On (19/11/07 09:00) Andreas Vinsander wrote: Hi! It seems like perl-5.8.8-r3 introduced a new place (/usr/lib/vendor_perl) for perl modules, but the perl-cleaner utility didn't catch that properly. Now all perl modules/utilities (like genlop) are broken for me. What is the easiest way out? Trying to find out which perl modules are installed and re-install them all? Has anybody else seen the same problem? /Andreas -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Hi, Yes. you're not alone :-) Tried to disable -ithreads for libperlperl but thing only got more broken. Then 'perl-cleaner reallyall' - errors everywhere. Perl even couldn't find it's Config.pm @INC. Reverted to 'ithreads', now at least it partly works. What's the result of (1) $perl -V (2) $perl -e 'print join \n, @INC' ? Mine is (2): /etc/perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl ...cut... PS: /etc/perl - no such dir here HTH. Rumen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Perl problem
Am Montag, 19. November 2007 schrieb ext Andreas Vinsander: It seems like perl-5.8.8-r3 introduced a new place (/usr/lib/vendor_perl) for perl modules Hmm, I don't have this directory on my system with 5.8.8-r3 installed and I don't see any traces of it in perl -V output. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Perl problem
On Monday 19 November 2007, Andreas Vinsander wrote: Hi! It seems like perl-5.8.8-r3 introduced a new place (/usr/lib/vendor_perl) for perl modules, but the perl-cleaner utility didn't catch that properly. Now all perl modules/utilities (like genlop) are broken for me. What is the easiest way out? Trying to find out which perl modules are installed and re-install them all? Has anybody else seen the same problem? Please re-emerge perl. *Somebody* hrm played with a stable ebuild without committing a revision bump (which would have gone to unstable first). emerge --syncemerge -1 dev-lang/perl should fix this. See this bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/199518 for more information. -- /PA -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Perl problem
Peter Alfredsen wrote: Please re-emerge perl. *Somebody* hrm played with a stable ebuild without committing a revision bump (which would have gone to unstable first). emerge --syncemerge -1 dev-lang/perl should fix this. See this bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/199518 for more information. Thanks a lot! I searched b.g.o before posting to the list but didn't find that bug myself. /Andreas -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] free -m under x86_64
Bryan Whitehead schrieb: Can you just run uname -a and cut/paste that to an email and send to us? I think you are still in 32bit land. # uname -a Linux hiro 2.6.22-gentoo-r9 #4 SMP PREEMPT Sat Nov 17 02:42:03 CET 2007 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Stefan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] free -m under x86_64
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: Bryan Whitehead schrieb: Can you just run uname -a and cut/paste that to an email and send to us? I think you are still in 32bit land. # uname -a Linux hiro 2.6.22-gentoo-r9 #4 SMP PREEMPT Sat Nov 17 02:42:03 CET 2007 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux And additionally: # free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 398210410446602937444 0 21200 548428 -/+ buffers/cache: 4750323507072 Swap: 1052216 01052216 Looks OK to me already. Stefan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Building all packages except gcc
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:19:06 +0200, ~/Timur Aydin wrote:
How would I go about rebuilding all installed packages, except gcc? I
suppose I could do emerge --emptytree world, but that would also merge
gcc, which I don't want, because I want to be sure that the whole system
is rebuilt with the same compiler.
I don't see why this is an issue in the first place. Assuming you have
just rebuilt gcc, to make sure it is as up to date as possible, emerge -e
world will only rebuild an identical copy. Even when you have done this,
you would have to repeat the process for every minor gcc revision bump.
But if you want to do it, and build the packages in the correct order,
the best option is to simply remove gcc from the list that emerge -e
world produces, like this
emerge -oneshot $(emerge -pe world | grep -v 'sys-devel/gcc-[34]' | awk
'/^\[ebuild/ {print $4}' | sed 's/^/=/')
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 7. Configuring the Kernel
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:02:06 + (UTC), Thufir wrote: Booting 'gentoo Linux' root (hd1,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /kernel-has-alsa root=/dev/hdb3 Error 15: File not found Press any key to continue... The significance, to my mind, is that in the line which specifies the kernel, there's no mention of *where* it's looking. Of course not, because you've already specified that on the previ0us line. If you get a file not found error, drop into the GRUB shell and run find /kernel-has-alsa. -- Neil Bothwick Voting Democrat or Republican is like choosing a cabin in the Titanic. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?
Hi, I noticed this in my log and wondered what others may think. Oct 21 20:26:32 smoker smartd[5381]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 252 to 251 Oct 21 22:26:32 smoker smartd[5381]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 251 to 250 snip Nov 19 02:51:51 smoker smartd[1050]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 246 to 247 Nov 19 03:21:50 smoker smartd[1050]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 247 to 248 Nov 19 03:21:51 smoker smartd[1050]: Device: /dev/hdd, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 252 to 251 Nov 19 03:51:50 smoker smartd[1050]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 248 to 250 Nov 19 04:51:50 smoker smartd[1050]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 250 to 249 Nov 19 05:21:50 smoker smartd[1050]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 249 to 251 Nov 19 05:51:50 smoker smartd[1050]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 251 to 252 Here is a little more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # smartctl -A /dev/hda smartctl version 5.37 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 3 Spin_Up_Time0x0027 224 224 063Pre-fail Always - 10931 4 Start_Stop_Count0x0032 253 253 000Old_age Always - 191 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 253 253 063Pre-fail Always - 0 6 Read_Channel_Margin 0x0001 253 253 100Pre-fail Offline - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000a 253 252 000Old_age Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0027 252 239 187Pre-fail Always - 41049 9 Power_On_Minutes0x0032 181 181 000Old_age Always - 101h+59m 10 Spin_Retry_Count0x002b 253 252 157Pre-fail Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x002b 253 252 223Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 253 253 000Old_age Always - 212 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 253 253 000Old_age Always - 0 193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0032 253 253 000Old_age Always - 0 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0032 253 253 000Old_age Always - 35 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x000a 253 252 000Old_age Always - 5031 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0008 253 253 000Old_age Offline - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0008 253 253 000Old_age Offline - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 253 253 000Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count0x0008 199 199 000Old_age Offline - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000a 253 252 000Old_age Always - 0 201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate0x000a 253 251 000Old_age Always - 42 202 TA_Increase_Count 0x000a 253 252 000Old_age Always - 0 203 Run_Out_Cancel 0x000b 253 252 180Pre-fail Always - 2 204 Shock_Count_Write_Opern 0x000a 253 252 000Old_age Always - 0 205 Shock_Rate_Write_Opern 0x000a 253 252 000Old_age Always - 0 207 Spin_High_Current 0x002a 253 252 000Old_age Always - 0 208 Spin_Buzz 0x002a 253 252 000Old_age Always - 0 209 Offline_Seek_Performnce 0x0024 196 190 000Old_age Offline - 0 99 Unknown_Attribute 0x0004 253 253 000Old_age Offline - 0 100 Unknown_Attribute 0x0004 253 253 000Old_age Offline - 0 101 Unknown_Attribute 0x0004 253 253 000Old_age Offline - 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # Do I need to be checking pricewatch and Newegg for a new hard drive? If you need more info just let me know. This thing runs 24/7 since I run folding. Thanks in advance for the advice. Dale :-) :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: Literature on Python
Hi list! I need a recommendation for a good book to learn Python for people experienced in C++ but not Bash, Java or CMD/Powershell. It shouldn't focus on Linux all too much. Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:28:34 -0500 Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did not. What is the procedure for doing this, and what exactly does it accomplish? Thanks # cp /wherever/old/.config /usr/src/linux/.config # cd /usr/src/linux # make oldconfig this prompts only for new or changed config settings that were not in the last config. Safer alternative to just copying over the config. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /bin/sh - dash?
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Sean wrote: I'd really like to replace the /bin/sh link to point to a smaller shell, such as ash or dash instead of the bash default, but that apparently makes functions.sh _very_ unhappy. Use baselayout-2. I use /bin/sh - dash with baselayout-2 and have no problems with the following exceptions: 1. Some /etc/init.d scripts of certain packages need patches (I already mailed several bugs with patches, but some are ignored; e.g. udftools still has no working init-file despite new releases and the open bug) So you have to be prepared to continue patching for many releases of some packages. Fortunately, not too many packages are involved (but on the other hand, I do not use too many packages with daemons, so maybe there are many I don't know about) 2. man displays rubbish at the end of the page. As a workaround, I export MANPL=65535, but one should perhaps file a bug upstream. However, I cannot name the cause (but did not look very long for it either). 3. There were some portage-related tools (but I forgot which one) which displayed textual escape sequences instead of colors (probably, because echo -e is not POSIX). However, this is only a cosmetical issue. Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?
Quoting Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I noticed this in my log and wondered what others may think. Oct 21 20:26:32 smoker smartd[5381]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 252 to 251 I had a harddrive on a server exhibit this behavior for about a year until it finally passed away (was RAID1). During that time, I was able to install a spare. I was curious as to how long it would take till something happened. It at times would make strange noises. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?
On Montag, 19. November 2007, Dale wrote: AFAIK Pre-fail is not a problem. If the harddisk is close to failing you'll get something this in your logs: Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW!_ Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, 785 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors_ Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, 785 Offline uncorrectable sectors_ and something like that with smartctl -a 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0033 001 001 010Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 785 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0031 001 001 010Pre-fail Offline FAILING_NOW 785 btw, the harddisk is now 'failing' for almost two years. Playing around with suspend to disk killed the sectors -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?
Billy Holmes wrote: Quoting Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I noticed this in my log and wondered what others may think. Oct 21 20:26:32 smoker smartd[5381]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 252 to 251 I had a harddrive on a server exhibit this behavior for about a year until it finally passed away (was RAID1). During that time, I was able to install a spare. I was curious as to how long it would take till something happened. It at times would make strange noises. I was looking around on Newegg for a new hard drive. I found a 250GB that should work. Mine runs quiet as a mouse so far. Of course, I have seen drives fail without a peep too. Thanks Dale :-) :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Montag, 19. November 2007, Dale wrote: AFAIK Pre-fail is not a problem. If the harddisk is close to failing you'll get something this in your logs: Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW!_ Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, 785 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors_ Nov 19 15:25:05 [smartd] Device: /dev/hda, 785 Offline uncorrectable sectors_ and something like that with smartctl -a 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0033 001 001 010Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 785 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0031 001 001 010Pre-fail Offline FAILING_NOW 785 btw, the harddisk is now 'failing' for almost two years. Playing around with suspend to disk killed the sectors I found a drive to replace this one. I'll get it installed in a month or so. I'll put useless stuff on this old one. Thanks Dale :-) :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pygtk blocking pygobject
app-office/gnumeric-1.6.3 (python? =dev-python/pygtk-2) gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.18.3-r1 (python? dev-python/pygtk) gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.3 (python? =dev-python/pygtk-2.8) media-gfx/gimp-2.2.17 (python? =dev-python/pygtk-2) x11-libs/vte-0.16.8 (python? =dev-python/pygtk-2.4) xfce-extra/exo-0.3.2 (python? dev-python/pygtk) Perhaps you can mask pygtk-2.9 and see what's trying to pull it in. You could also post the exact command you're typing and error message to give us a better idea of what's going on. Yeah, I had: =dev-python/pygtk-2.9 in package.mask for some unknown reason. Sorry to bother everyone. - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Literature on Python
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:01 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I need a recommendation for a good book to learn Python for people experienced in C++ but not Bash, Java or CMD/Powershell. It shouldn't focus on Linux all too much. Well, the usual answers are: python.org (official tutorial) _Learning Python_ (the O'Reilley book) _Programming Python_ (the O'Reilly book, how I learned Python) comp.lang.python (great newsgroup, excellent SNR) But Bash/Powershell shouldn't be necessary to learn Python. Bash has little in common with Python. Powershell can be thought of as a broken Python/bash/Perl/whatever_else_they_could_think_of_to_throw_in. Python can be thought of as a fixed Java ;-) -a -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pygtk blocking pygobject
=dev-python/pygtk-2.9 in package.mask for some unknown reason. Sorry to bother everyone. Ahh, I've had that happen... though I usually insert a timestamp/reason comment so I know what I did it. -a -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Literature on Python
On Monday 19 November 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:01 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I need a recommendation for a good book to learn Python for people experienced in C++ but not Bash, Java or CMD/Powershell. It shouldn't focus on Linux all too much. Well, the usual answers are: python.org (official tutorial) _Learning Python_ (the O'Reilley book) _Programming Python_ (the O'Reilly book, how I learned Python) comp.lang.python (great newsgroup, excellent SNR) Also a good and free book is imho dive into python: http://www.diveintopython.org/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:46:52 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking around on Newegg for a new hard drive. I found a 250GB that should work. You might consider getting a Seagate ES. Enterprise level seagate drives, although they cost maybe $30 USD more, are spec.'d to spin continuously for 5 years. A good choice if you're planning to have the host around for a while. I am very happy with their performance. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Literature on Python
check out http://diveintopython.org/ you can read the book online and then think about buying it for having some paper in your hands :) Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:01 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I need a recommendation for a good book to learn Python for people experienced in C++ but not Bash, Java or CMD/Powershell. It shouldn't focus on Linux all too much. Well, the usual answers are: python.org (official tutorial) _Learning Python_ (the O'Reilley book) _Programming Python_ (the O'Reilly book, how I learned Python) comp.lang.python (great newsgroup, excellent SNR) But Bash/Powershell shouldn't be necessary to learn Python. Bash has little in common with Python. Powershell can be thought of as a broken Python/bash/Perl/whatever_else_they_could_think_of_to_throw_in. Python can be thought of as a fixed Java ;-) -a -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Building all packages except gcc
On Monday 19 November 2007 16:35:17 Dan Farrell wrote: How would I go about rebuilding all installed packages, except gcc? I suppose I could do emerge --emptytree world, but that would also merge gcc, which I don't want, because I want to be sure that the whole system is rebuilt with the same compiler. Any help is appreciated... Maybe I missed something, but I believe the easy (and most correct) answere would be /etc/portage/package.mask. Mask out package versions greater than your current gcc version, and portage will refuse to update it (or proceed with any updates that depend on the newer version, so don't forget about having edited the file!). package.mask is useless when you use --emptytree. -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] memtest86+ taking too long
Hello, After looking at the /var/log/messages file, I saw an entry which seemed to indicate a memory address problem. I decided to run memtest86+. However it is taking too long. So far 17 hours and still going. The Pass field reads 25%; I hope this is an indication of how much of the total has been done. The Test field is frequently updated so it seems memtest is running. The total memory is 10GB, the chipset: Intel E7505 ECC. Is this execution time expected? Thanks for any comments, -- Valmor de Almeida -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] memtest86+ taking too long
On Nov 19, 2007 12:03 PM, de Almeida, Valmor F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, After looking at the /var/log/messages file, I saw an entry which seemed to indicate a memory address problem. I decided to run memtest86+. However it is taking too long. So far 17 hours and still going. The Pass field reads 25%; I hope this is an indication of how much of the total has been done. The Test field is frequently updated so it seems memtest is running. The total memory is 10GB, the chipset: Intel E7505 ECC. Is this execution time expected? Thanks for any comments, -- Valmor de Almeida -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list For 10 gigs? probably. -- - Mark Shields
RE: [gentoo-user] memtest86+ taking too long
From: Mark Shields [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Nov 19, 2007 12:03 PM, de Almeida, Valmor F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this execution time expected? Thanks for any comments, -- Valmor de Almeida For 10 gigs? probably. Wow. In fact I don't have a clue when it is going to end. There are 2 fields with varying percentage values; but they get cleared from time to time. Another field is called Test and it was #3 (I think), and now it is at #4. So far it has taken 20:35h. On the upside, no errors detected. -- Valmor de Almeida -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] free -m under x86_64
Looks fine. Looks like you see nearly all of the 4GB of ram (3982104). You probably have a lot of memory reserved in BIOS shadows or other hardware (like video card). This looks perfectly normal. If you have an onboard video card, a chunk of your memory is probably being used for that. In the BIOS you can usually set how much memory should be reserved for your video card. On board sound card can do the same. On Nov 19, 2007 2:06 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: Bryan Whitehead schrieb: Can you just run uname -a and cut/paste that to an email and send to us? I think you are still in 32bit land. # uname -a Linux hiro 2.6.22-gentoo-r9 #4 SMP PREEMPT Sat Nov 17 02:42:03 CET 2007 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux And additionally: # free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 398210410446602937444 0 21200 548428 -/+ buffers/cache: 4750323507072 Swap: 1052216 01052216 Looks OK to me already. Stefan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] memtest86+ taking too long
memtest86 will keep retesting your memory over and over. Look at the Pass and Errors column. If Errors is 0 and Pass is more than 1, your memory is fine. If Pass is 0 and Errors is 0, then it is still on the first run. It shouldn't take this long. In that case make sure you have the latest version. Example: http://www.memtest.org/pics/i875-big.gif On Nov 19, 2007 12:47 PM, de Almeida, Valmor F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow. In fact I don't have a clue when it is going to end. There are 2 fields with varying percentage values; but they get cleared from time to time. Another field is called Test and it was #3 (I think), and now it is at #4. So far it has taken 20:35h. On the upside, no errors detected. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] memtest86+ taking too long
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan memtest86 will keep retesting your memory over and over. Look at the Pass and Errors column. If Errors is 0 and Pass is more than 1, your memory is fine. If Pass is 0 and Errors is 0, then it is still on the first run. It shouldn't take this long. In that case make sure you have the latest version. Excellent. I have the latest version 1.70, and the Pass column is at 4 and no errors. Thanks, -- Valmor -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] OT: Literature on Python
Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:01 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I need a recommendation for a good book to learn Python for people experienced in C++ but not Bash, Java or CMD/Powershell. It shouldn't focus on Linux all too much. Well, the usual answers are: python.org (official tutorial) _Learning Python_ (the O'Reilley book) _Programming Python_ (the O'Reilly book, how I learned Python) comp.lang.python (great newsgroup, excellent SNR) I read both above-mentioned books and they are worth owning. I would add to the list, the python cookbook from O'Reilly. -- Valmor de Almeida -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Failed to allocate mem
Hello, This is showing up on my /var/log/messages file. I've done a memtest and the memory seems fine. I wonder what does this mean. Maybe it is not even related to the physical memory. PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for :01:00.0 The machine and OS seem fine but I still worry about this message. Here is some info from lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation E7505 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:00.1 Class ff00: Intel Corporation E7505/E7205 Series RAS Controller (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation E7505/E7205 PCI-to-AGP Bridge (rev 03) 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation E7505 Hub Interface B PCI-to-PCI Bridge (rev 03) Don't know if this is of any help. I am like a goat looking at a watch. Thanks for any inputs. -- Valmor -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] memtest86+ taking too long
* de Almeida, Valmor F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19. Nov 07: From: Mark Shields [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Nov 19, 2007 12:03 PM, de Almeida, Valmor F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this execution time expected? Yes, I can confirm that. In addition you should run it more than one time... In fact I don't have a clue when it is going to end. It will never end. If it finished all tests it will start over again. There are 2 fields with varying percentage values; but they get cleared from time to time. Another field is called Test and it was #3 (I think), and now it is at #4. So far it has taken 20:35h. On the upside, no errors detected. In the table below you have a field Pass, probably 0 right now. This will increment after the first turn. In upper area you have another Pass and a progress bar right of it. That's the progress of the current pass. One pass involves several tests (configurable by pressing c). (Disclaimer: everything from my mind.) To be sure make at least a second run, because some memory faults will only manifest after hardware is heated. The more passes the better. Last words: if memtest86+ doesn't find any errors, even not after days, you still can't be totally sure that your memory is okay. But if it finds a damaged address there is for sure a problem with hardware. Second last words: if it finds a problem there can be other broken parts beside memory. Basically everything involved on the path from memory to CPU: memory, Northbridge, memory controller, CPU... HTH, kind regards, Frank. -- Sigmentation fault -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition
Hi there, Today, I applied mkswap on root partition by accident ( I thought that was swap, but it is root). And since this is the only system on my laptop, I even don't dare to reboot my computer after that. Does it really matter? Or what should I do to recover? Thank you all! --- Teng -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 16:45 -0600, Teng Wang wrote: Hi there, Today, I applied mkswap on root partition by accident ( I thought that was swap, but it is root). And since this is the only system on my laptop, I even don't dare to reboot my computer after that. Does it really matter? Or what should I do to recover? Didn't mkswap tell you the device is in use... Actually it doesn't :( I just did what you did in a VM and find / returns just / ... so I think you're screwed... but you do have backups right? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] The generated cache was invalid...
Hi all, I've been seeing this error during every emerge for a while now, and I don't know where it comes from, or what it means: * Updating desktop mime database ... * Updating shared mime info database ... * Updating icons cache ... The generated cache was invalid. [ !! ] * Updating scrollkeeper database ... * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. * IMPORTANT: 2 config files in '/etc' need updating. * See the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge * man page to learn how to update config files. google was no real help, and b.g.o doesn't have anything either. I haven't noticed any adverse effects... any ideas? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au In order to understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition
No, I don't have a backup. And I still didn't turn off my laptop. The problem is how I can recover my system? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Packages not in portage
Hello all There are same interesting packages that i can't found in gentoo portage. If any body knows about a non oficial ebuild for any of then i interesting in it. AppWeb embeded web server http://www.appwebserver.org. Vmime c++ mail library http://www.vmime.org/index.shtml CTemplate is a simple but powerful template language for C++ http://code.google.com/p/google-ctemplate/ Thanks
Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:48:36 -0600, Dale wrote: I found a drive to replace this one. I'll get it installed in a month or so. I'll put useless stuff on this old one. Like Vista? ;-) -- Neil Bothwick I am Barry Norman of the Borg - you will be assimilated - and why not? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 17:36 -0600, Teng Wang wrote: No, I don't have a backup. And I still didn't turn off my laptop. The problem is how I can recover my system? The first solution I was thinking of would be to back your system up before you reboot, and then re-create the filesystem and restore but, at least for me, mkswap pretty much destroys the filesystem instantly. The second solution would have been to restore from your most recent backup but, as you've said, you don't have one. Hopefully this incident illustrates the importance of having a backup. Beyond that, I don't see much hope for you (beyond re-installing). Likely mkswap has destroyed your filesystem metadata (and data) and There's probably no sane way of recovering from it other than a restore. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Packages not in portage
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:41:14 +0100, pepone.onrez wrote: There are same interesting packages that i can't found in gentoo portage. If any body knows about a non oficial ebuild for any of then i interesting in it. Vmime c++ mail library http://www.vmime.org/index.shtml % eix vmime * dev-cpp/libvmime Available versions: ~*0.8.1[1] Homepage:http://www.vmime.org/ Description: A powerful C++ class library for working with MIME messages and Internet messaging services like IMAP, POP or SMTP. [1] (layman/sunrise) So it's in the sunrise overlay. Try searching b.g.o and f.g.o for the others. -- Neil Bothwick Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition
I still wonder that after mkswap the root partition, I even do swapon. But this time, it says it is invalid argument. So I think the data on that disk will not be lost, since it did not serve as the swap partition. So is it still screwed? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition
On Montag, 19. November 2007, Teng Wang wrote: Hi there, Today, I applied mkswap on root partition by accident ( I thought that was swap, but it is root). And since this is the only system on my laptop, I even don't dare to reboot my computer after that. Does it really matter? Or what should I do to recover? Thank you all! --- Teng you could try testdisk. Or (after backup) this cd: http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition
I think it is not hard to do a backup right now. But the problem is I use separate partition for /home /usr /usr/portage/distfiles /var /tmp. So, how can I exclude these directory when I use cp -av? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:25:47 -0600, Teng Wang wrote: So, how can I exclude these directory when I use cp -av? Add -x/--onefilesystem, it's all in TFM. -- Neil Bothwick Scrotum is a small planet near Uranus. True/False? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition
Since I don't think there is anything important in the root partition, I still try to reboot my computer to see what will happen. Very Lucky, my computer reboot normally. Thank you for all your suggestion. But I still want to know what on earth mkswap does to the disk. IF it would rewrite the metadata, I don't think I can use this partition anymore. It also does not format the disk or even write anything. Really strange. Since if I want to use one partition/file as swap, I must run this command. But actually, it writes nothing. (Maybe this is the reason it gives no warning) --- Teng Wang -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I applied mkswap on root partition
Teng Wang writes: Today, I applied mkswap on root partition by accident ( I thought that was swap, but it is root). And since this is the only system on my laptop, I even don't dare to reboot my computer after that. Does it really matter? Or what should I do to recover? With a litle luck, e2fsck should be able to repair the file system. mkswap only initializes the partition, little data should be written to the first few blocks. This includes the superblock, but you have backups of it every 8192 blocks. So try 'e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/hdwhatever', if a simple e2fsck failed, and increase to -b 16385 and so on until it works. But I'd reboot the machine first and start with a boot CD. Depending on the availability of free space, your free time, and importance of the data, you probably should backup the partition first, just in case things get messed up. Wonko -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] The generated cache was invalid...
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 00:40:16 Iain Buchanan wrote: I've been seeing this error during every emerge for a while now, and I don't know where it comes from, or what it means: * Updating desktop mime database ... * Updating shared mime info database ... * Updating icons cache ... The generated cache was invalid. [ !! ] This comes from the gnome2-utils eclass. It runs gtk-update-icon-cache -qf on the dirs in /usr/share/icons/. Running emerge with --debug should tell you which dir it's trying to update when it emits the error message.. -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems
On Monday 19 November 2007 12:35:14 am Billy Holmes wrote: Jeff Cranmer wrote: Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown block (0,0) Please append a correct root= boot option. Here are the available partitions run make menuconfig in your new kernel dir. check to ensure ext3 is compiled in. (not sure why it wouldn't be) ext3 journalling file system support, ext3 extended attributes and ext3 posix access control lists are all compiled into the kernel. check to make sure you've got udev or devfs installed properly in both kernels (maybe one isn't defined in the kernel, and the old kernel had it). I'd really try to ensure you're running udev and not devfs, but first things first. IF SATA: Make sure the proper SATA options are the same for each kernel. There's one SATA option that isn't compatible with another SATA option. (it could be fixed in newer kernels by now) From dmesg for the current working kernel, I worked out that the drive which it is having trouble finding is a serial ATA drive, running the sata_nv driver. Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD2500JS-60N Rev: 10.0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 I disabled all the SATA drivers except for the nvidia one, and have made some progress. The kernel now finds the drive, but for some reason puts a little 8MB drive at sda, and populates the 'real' 250MB drive at sdb, so the kernel still panics (probably due to fstab wanting to see the main drive at sda, not sdb). I'd like to get a log of this, but dmesg only shows the log of the kernel that boots. Does anyone have any suggestions of how to get at the log for a panicking kernel, or have any suggestions on how to fix this. I suspect the I may be able to play with fstab and get the new kernel to boot, but I'm loath to do this, as that will most likely break the kernel that is working, so if it doesn't simultaneously fix the non-working kernel, I'm toast. Any suggestions gratefully received. --- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems
On Monday 19 November 2007 11:46:39 pm Billy Holmes wrote: Jeff Cranmer wrote: The kernel now finds the drive, but for some reason puts a little 8MB drive at sda, and populates the 'real' 250MB drive at sdb, so the kernel still panics (probably due to fstab wanting to see the main drive at sda, not sdb). that's very odd that there is a sda drive. Perhaps sda is a pen drive that you have installed? a USB drive? you can always change your boot options in grub. at the grub prompt, hit [e]dit, select the line which has the kernel line, move the cursor to the end, and change root=/dev/sda1 to /dev/sdb1 hit [b]oot sit back and smile. I already tried that - sit back and sulk, I'm afraid :-( Because fstab still points to /dev/sda, it fails when it tries to map the drives. I could play with fstab, but I'm not ready to break my working OS yet. There are no usb drives connected to the system. In fact, the only USB device attached is the HP PSC750xi printer. When it fails after re-pointing the grub booter to /dev/sdb, it does at least fail so that I can get to a shell as root. dmesg doesn't work from the shell, however. I wonder if there is a command I can use to query the new sda and find out where it is getting it from? Jeff --- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems
Jeff Cranmer wrote: The kernel now finds the drive, but for some reason puts a little 8MB drive at sda, and populates the 'real' 250MB drive at sdb, so the kernel still panics (probably due to fstab wanting to see the main drive at sda, not sdb). that's very odd that there is a sda drive. Perhaps sda is a pen drive that you have installed? a USB drive? you can always change your boot options in grub. at the grub prompt, hit [e]dit, select the line which has the kernel line, move the cursor to the end, and change root=/dev/sda1 to /dev/sdb1 hit [b]oot sit back and smile. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.22-r9 installation problems
Jeff Cranmer wrote: When it fails after re-pointing the grub booter to /dev/sdb, it does at least fail so that I can get to a shell as root. dmesg doesn't work from the shell, however. I wonder if there is a command I can use to query the new sda and find out where it is getting it from? oh. then you practically have a working system! If you can get to a shell. You just need to mount /usr to the right place! see if you can run busybox: busybox cat /etc/fstab busybox mount /dev/sdbWHATEVER /usr busybox ... etc, etc, etc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is my hard drive sick?
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:48:36 -0600, Dale wrote: I found a drive to replace this one. I'll get it installed in a month or so. I'll put useless stuff on this old one. Like Vista? ;-) NO ! There is no windoze allowed in this house. I have never bought M$ stuff and windoze is still not good enough to go on a failing drive, tho it would be fitting since windoze is crap and the drive may be turning into crap. LOL What does Vista look like anyway? I don't think I have ever even seen it. I have heard it sucks with older hardware tho. One friend of mine switched back to XP. No internet and no printer. H, if I put winders on it, would it make the drive fail faster? LOL Dale :-) :-) Note: This entire email is not to be taken seriously here. I took it as a joke and just had to add to it. LOL I don't have windoze tho.
[gentoo-user] [OT] Grab info off the net
What are people using and can vouch for that can snag webpages or parts of web pages to store/save/organize/report on etc etc, as well as handling clipboard content or the like? Something to collect disparate pieces of information with that can organize and present it. I've used a windows oriented tool called NetSnippets at one time but it is no longer being developed and I wanted something to work on linux anyway. What do we have that does that? I know about wget of course, of course but while it can collect webpages well there is no provision for organizing it etc. Hard to figure what to search portage for. I tried: eix -S research And got a few hits but none were about that I'm looking for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: 7. Configuring the Kernel
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:18:23 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: If you get a file not found error, drop into the GRUB shell and run find /kernel-has-alsa. I did get to a point with GRUB where I edited the line which specifies the kernel and used tab-completion to select the kernel I wanted. (That I could do this reinforced to my mind that there wasn't a typo, I didn't notice that it was different.) However, once I'd pressed, IIRC, e to edit, pressed enter to select the line, tab completion, enter again I was unsure of the next step :( -Thufir -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
