[gentoo-user] Digests without attachments
Starting with issue 1370, I receive gentoo-user digests without their attachments, like this: Topics (messages 73878 through 73927): That's all there is. What happens? Is my Thunderbird badly configured, or what? I should be grateful for hints. Charles -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] About permissions, etc.
Hello! I am a bit confused about some matters related to permissions. Here is a part of my fstab file: Sirrah ~ # cat /etc/fstab ... /dev/hda9 /mnt/giga hfs defaults,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda10 /mnt/Sigma hfsplus defaults 0 0 /dev/hda11 /mnt/SigmaX hfsplus defaults 0 0 ... and here are the contents of /mnt: Sirrah ~ # ls -l /mnt total 8 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28 Dec 21 17:00 Sigma drwxrwxr-t 1 root cdrw 38 Jan 21 09:52 SigmaX drwx-- 2 root root 4096 Aug 11 01:49 cdrom drwx-- 2 root root 4096 Aug 11 01:49 floppy drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Dec 21 16:00 giga I want to suppress the write permissions on Sigma and SigmaX. So I did Sirrah ~ # chmod 555 /mnt/Sigma That worked all right, and I went on with Sirrah ~ # chmod 555 /mnt/SigmaX chmod: changing permissions of `/mnt/SigmaX': Read-only file system The error here is surprising, as SigmaX is mounted rw: Sirrah ~ # mount ... /dev/hda11 on /mnt/SigmaX type hfsplus (rw) ... I tried the step of remounting it rw: the error disappeared, but chmod produced no result. SigmaX, strangely, belongs to the cdrw group, and I wondered if that could be the cause of the trouble, so I tried to change it to root; but the answer was again: Read-only file system. Finally, I wondered if SigmaX might have the i attribute, so I tried: Sirrah ~ # lsattr /mnt - /mnt/cdrom - /mnt/floppy lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on /mnt/giga - /mnt/Sigma - /mnt/SigmaX It shows no attributes, but there is this error about giga: it is perhaps of no consequence, but it should not be there! I'd be grateful for any hints that could help me get out of this mess. Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apple keyboards with Gentoo
A. Khattri a écrit : Anyone using an Apple USB keyboard with Gentoo Linux? Specifically, Im running XFCE4 and want to figure out how to map some keys and get some missing functionality. How can I set these up with X11/XFCE? Also, I can't seem to switch between X11 and the console (I think I can't even switch consoles outside of X11) Anyone have any pointers / FAQs? (I already Googled and an archive search proved fruitless). I have a G4 iMac with a USB keyboard. My problem with (Gentoo) Linux was to get the French keyboard to work. I did not solve it myself, but I made use of the work of others: http://www.linux-france.org/macintosh/clavier_gentoo.html http://www.linux-france.org/macintosh/clavier_v4.html This may not be very closely related to your case, but there would be no harm in looking at those links to see what those people have done (if you can manage to read French). With the best. Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE login with non-us keyboard
Neil Bothwick a écrit : On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:53:42 +0200, Charles Trois wrote: How could one make the system aware of French? It sounds like you don't have kde-i18n installed. Set LINGUAS in make.conf before you emerge it. That was it: I did as you advised and that fixed everything. Thank you very much. Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE login with non-us keyboard
Neil Bothwick a écrit : On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:11:50 +0200, Charles Trois wrote: I run KDE 3.4 under Gentoo on a G4 iMac. The keymap specified in xorg.conf is one designed for the extended Apple keyboard (109 keys) in the French language. It works quite well on the whole (in Konsole, Kate, etc), but the KDE login panel (I don't know its name) ignores it, with the result that name and password have to be given in qwerty, which is rather annoying. Does Control Centre - System Admin - Login Manager - Appearance - Locale fix it? No. One finds only US English there. French is not available. It's the same with Control Centre - Regional - Country and Language. How could one make the system aware of French? However, I have been confused, and I apologize for it: the panel I referred to does not seem to belong to KDE. Actually, I don't know how it came up, and I have not seen it again. Probably something in another X application. There is something else about KDE: when xdm is added to rc-update, the real KDE login panel shows up at boot, and it understands azerty (contrary to what I had found, see above). But it does not recognize the password, replying login failed, so that I have to resort to the console login, and do startx. This is serious: how can I fix it? Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] KDE login with non-us keyboard
Hello! I have searched the Web about this, but didn't find an appropriate reference. I run KDE 3.4 under Gentoo on a G4 iMac. The keymap specified in xorg.conf is one designed for the extended Apple keyboard (109 keys) in the French language. It works quite well on the whole (in Konsole, Kate, etc), but the KDE login panel (I don't know its name) ignores it, with the result that name and password have to be given in qwerty, which is rather annoying. I should be grateful to anyone who could explain what bit of configuring is required to make the program aware of the actual keymap. Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo 2006.1 on an iMac
Hello, I am having trouble while installing 2006.1 on my iMac. I have made other installations before, but never had this problem. I am using the Universal ppc disk, and I have followed strictly all the steps in the 2006.1 handbook. I have not made any modules, everything is in the kernel. What happens is that, on the final reboot, I see 10 or 15 lines of text (is that the Open Firmware part?) that disappear immediately. Then there is nothing, and I have to cut the power to go on. I have also made a more complete version of yaboot.conf with macos, macosx, etc. Then the bootloader shows these options (ignores enablecdboot and enableofboot, though). Typing x for macosx starts it normally, but l for linux fails as described above. This is done without an Internet connexion. I haven't got one yet because my new modem is a Speedtouch 510v5 Ethernet type, which works very well with osx, but is notoriously troublesome with Linux (but this is another affair). I should be grateful for any hints. Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-ppc-user] Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
Hello! I have Gentoo Linux 2006.0 installed on a G4 iMac. The keyboard is of the Apple Extended type (109 keys) and the keymap is us. I have sucessfully tested the X configuration by X -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf; the test grid shows up, but I cannot get rid of it. I have read everywhere that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace would do it, killing X and bringing me back to the console. But it just does not work for me, and the only way out is for me to use the power switch. Is anybody aware of any dificulties related to the Apple hardware? Thanks for your attention. Charles -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ppp-2.4.3-r10.ebuild
It's not easy to install things in Gentoo without Internet access, especially when it's about installing the Internet connexion itself. My ISP uses PPPoA, and I have a Speedtouch USB modem, the installation of which requires ppp-2.4.3. This is not provided by the distfiles, so I used a tarball downloaded under MacOS, which I installed in the ordinary way (which is not the Gentoo way). The Speedtouch pages say that one should (1) write PEER=speedtch in /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0 (speedtch is the name of the modem config file) (2) run rc-update add net.ppp0 default in order that ppp0 start at boot. Thus installed, the thing works, but only up to a point, in that (3) I have to run pppd call speedtch to start ppp, and (4) I must change the default route from eth0 to ppp0 to make the name resolution work. Supposing that these difficulties might result from a bad installation of ppp-2.4.3, and Internet now being available, I looked for a proper emerge, and found ppp-2.4.3-r10.ebuild, which I installed, unmasking it for ~ppc (this is an iMac). That was ok, but the note at the end says that /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 is no longer used and that everything goes through pppd. Then (2) above does no longer make sense, and I am not sure about (1). I tried to run pppd just to see, but there was no result (although no error). From the script, it seems that it might give some messages, but there was nothing. How does it work? What should I do instead of (1) and (2), and shall I be rid of (3) and (4)? I'll be grateful for all hints. Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Compile error on IDE Power Mac driver
Draeven a écrit : Charles Trois wrote: Charles, Did you do a rc-update add net.eth0 default so that the interface is brought up at boot? You may also want to take a look at this section of the Gentoo Handbook: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml?part=4 I am still working hard at this; I even have burnt a new CD and reinstalled from it, but there is nothing doing. To state my problem again, it occurs on an G4 iMac with the Gentoo universal ppc-install-2005.1 disc. At the end of the boot process, just before the login, I get this: == * Starting syslog-ng ... [ ok ] * Starting gpm ... [ ok ] * Starting eth0 * Bringing up eth0 * Configuration not set for eth0 - assuming dhcp * dhcp * Running dhcpcd ... [ !! ] * Starting vixie-cron ... [ ok ] * Starting local ... [ ok ] * ERROR: Problem starting needed services. * netmount was not started. == And the corresponding bit in /var/log/messsages is: == Dec 1 11:00:55 sirrah rc-scripts: Configuration not set for eth0 - assuming dhcp Dec 1 11:01:55 sirrah dhcpcd[4718]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response Dec 1 11:01:55 sirrah cron[5378]: (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0) Dec 1 11:01:56 sirrah rc-scripts: ERROR: Problem starting needed services. Dec 1 11:01:56 sirrah rc-scripts: netmount was not started. Dec 1 11:02:50 sirrah login(pam_unix)[5457]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) == The cause of the trouble seems to be pointed out by the line dhcpcd[4718]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response (and there is indeed quite a delay at the stage Running dhcpcd). But now what can I do to get this valid DHCP server response? There seems to be nothing about dhcp in the .config file: what then? does it suppose that I am already connected to the Net? Charles -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times
Benno Schulenberg a écrit : Charles Trois wrote: The legal time, here in France and at this (winter) period, is GMT + 1, as shown correctly by the clock of my iMac, but date keeps returning GMT + 2. Sounds like your harware clock is running at local time. What does 'hwclock --show --debug' say? Look for the line saying Time read from Hardware Clock:. If the hardware clock is really set at UTC, do you maybe have TZ set? 'echo $TZ'. If it is, then unset it: 'unset TZ', and then see if date and hwclock operate correctly. And also check that the symlink /etc/localtime points at the correct zone. Benno Here are the results: ~ # hwclock --show --debug hwclock from util-linux-2.12i Using /dev/rtc interface to clock. ... Hardware clock is on local time Assuming hardware clock is kept in local time. Waiting for clock tick... ... Time read from Hardware Clock: 2005/11/23 19:04:14 Hw clock time : 2005/11/23 19:04:14 = 1132769054 seconds since 1969 Wed Nov 23 19:04:14 2005 -0.188934 seconds ~ # ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Nov 22 20:39 /etc/localtime - /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Paris and in /etc/conf.d/clock: CLOCK=local echo $TZ returns nothing, so TZ is presumably not set. All that seems correct to me, and yet the time returned by date is still one hour fast. What else can I check? Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Compile error on IDE Power Mac driver
Matti Bickel a écrit le 11/11/2005 Charles Trois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mounting /dev for udev The mount command failed with error: wrong fstype, bad option, bad superblock on udev, or too many mounted file systems Please check if you compiled support for tmpfs in your kernel. The option is CONFIG_TMPFS. Do NOT make this a module. This is kinda wild guess, but it sounds like you're missing kernel-support. Sorry for this late answer. Your guess was quite right and enabled me to get over that error. I then met various little problems that I was able to solve, but there remains a (hopefully) last one. The new error message is: Problem starting needed services netmount was not started. /etc/init.d/netmount start gives the same error. eth0 is not brought up and ifconfig lists only lo. What have I done wrong? Charles -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times
Benno Schulenberg a écrit : Your hardware clock is supposed to be at UTC? Check with 'grep CLOCK= /etc/conf.d/clock'. Your time zone is correctly set? Check with 'ls -l /etc/localtime'. If those are okay, do: rm /etc/adjtime hwclock --set --utc --date=2005-11-18 21:34 # example time hwclock --hctosys If your hardware clock must be at local time, then replace --utc with --localtime. I too have a clock problem (the time returned by date being one hour fast), and I have been fiddling with hwclock without finding the right way. When I saw the above post, I thought that it gave me the answer, and tried to apply it, but had no success (I used both --utc and --localtime). The legal time, here in France and at this (winter) period, is GMT + 1, as shown correctly by the clock of my iMac, but date keeps returning GMT + 2. Can anyone figure out the solution? Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Console behaviour
Hello! I believe that my console does not work as it ought to. There are two main troubles. First, the text does not move as it gets written. In order to read the result of a command that produces a substantial amount of text in response (such as reboot or ls /etc), I have to switch to another console and back (for instance alt-F2 then alt-F1). Secondly, the cursor is not visible, and, in an editor (such as nano), I have constantly to hunt for it and move it through keystrokes, which is very inconvenient. gpm is installed and works, using the button emulation (this is an iMac), but only to a certain extent: I mean that it does copy-and-paste, but not cut-and-paste. It cannot set the cursor. Is there some sort of configuring to do? or what else? Thanks for hints. Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Compile error on IDE Power Mac driver
Gerardo Lisboa a écrit : Hi, Have you a separate boot partition using a ext2 fs? No. The opinions that I read so far are rather against it, so that I did not plan to use one. Thanks all the same for your suggestion; I shall keep it in mind, just in case. Cheers. Charles -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Config help texts
Mike Williams a écrit : On Saturday 05 November 2005 08:34, Charles Trois wrote: In the 2.6 sources, that file does no longer exist. Yet the help is still there, and there is bound to be a data base somewhere. I have looked for it in the sources, but could not identify it. Does anybody know where it is and under what name? The Kconfig files. I see. The information is fragmented, whereas I was looking for something global. Thanks very much. Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Config help texts
A little practical problem. In the 2.4 sources, there is a file called /Documentation/configure.help (I don't remember the exact name), which contains all the help texts that are available on request in menuconfig, so that they can be read at leisure. In the 2.6 sources, that file does no longer exist. Yet the help is still there, and there is bound to be a data base somewhere. I have looked for it in the sources, but could not identify it. Does anybody know where it is and under what name? Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-ppc-user] Bootloader trouble
Hello! Having had no success with the 2005.1 disk, I am trying to reinstall Gentoo from 2005.0 on my G4 iMac. This had been all right before, but now I am meeting bootloader trouble. At my first attempt, ybin warned me that your kernel is too old. I wonder what the reference is, since this install has never seen the Web. However, I put in a more recent kernel (2.6.13.3), but it is also said to be too old, and I am still having the same trouble: what happens is that the bootloader menu (with l for linux, etc) does not show, and that the machine boots directly into Mac OS9. Here is my yaboot.conf file. Is there anything wrong i it that could explain this behaviour? ## yaboot.conf generated by yabootconfig 1.0.8 boot=/dev/hda12 device=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: delay=15 timeout=30 macos=hd:10 macosx=hd:11 defaultos=macosx install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot enablecdboot enableofboot image=/boot/kernel-2.6.13.3 label=Linux root=/dev/hda15 partition=15 sysmap=/boot/System.map-2.6.13.3 read-only Thanks for all hints. Charles -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Linux installed from 2005.1 disk does not start
Joseph Jezak a écrit : Can you put a kernel config up on the internet somewhere? Yes, certainly. I attach it here. Charles # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux kernel version: 2.6.14-rc3 # Thu Oct 6 15:38:26 2005 # CONFIG_MMU=y CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS=y CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY=y CONFIG_PPC=y CONFIG_PPC32=y CONFIG_GENERIC_NVRAM=y CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER=y CONFIG_ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC=y # # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_CLEAN_COMPILE=y CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y CONFIG_INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT=32 # # General setup # CONFIG_LOCALVERSION= # CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is not set CONFIG_SWAP=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE=y CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y # CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 is not set # CONFIG_SYSCTL is not set # CONFIG_AUDIT is not set CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y # CONFIG_KOBJECT_UEVENT is not set # CONFIG_IKCONFIG is not set CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE= # CONFIG_EMBEDDED is not set CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y # CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is not set CONFIG_PRINTK=y CONFIG_BUG=y CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y CONFIG_FUTEX=y CONFIG_EPOLL=y CONFIG_SHMEM=y CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_FUNCTIONS=0 CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_LABELS=0 CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_LOOPS=0 CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_JUMPS=0 # CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0 # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y # CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD is not set CONFIG_OBSOLETE_MODPARM=y # CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set # CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL is not set CONFIG_KMOD=y # # Processor # CONFIG_6xx=y # CONFIG_40x is not set # CONFIG_44x is not set # CONFIG_POWER3 is not set # CONFIG_POWER4 is not set # CONFIG_8xx is not set # CONFIG_E200 is not set # CONFIG_E500 is not set CONFIG_PPC_FPU=y CONFIG_ALTIVEC=y # CONFIG_TAU is not set # CONFIG_KEXEC is not set # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ is not set # CONFIG_PPC601_SYNC_FIX is not set # CONFIG_WANT_EARLY_SERIAL is not set CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU=y # # Platform options # CONFIG_PPC_MULTIPLATFORM=y # CONFIG_APUS is not set # CONFIG_KATANA is not set # CONFIG_WILLOW is not set # CONFIG_CPCI690 is not set # CONFIG_POWERPMC250 is not set # CONFIG_CHESTNUT is not set # CONFIG_SPRUCE is not set # CONFIG_HDPU is not set # CONFIG_EV64260 is not set # CONFIG_LOPEC is not set # CONFIG_MVME5100 is not set # CONFIG_PPLUS is not set # CONFIG_PRPMC750 is not set # CONFIG_PRPMC800 is not set # CONFIG_SANDPOINT is not set # CONFIG_RADSTONE_PPC7D is not set # CONFIG_PAL4 is not set # CONFIG_GEMINI is not set # CONFIG_EST8260 is not set # CONFIG_SBC82xx is not set # CONFIG_SBS8260 is not set # CONFIG_RPX8260 is not set # CONFIG_TQM8260 is not set # CONFIG_ADS8272 is not set # CONFIG_PQ2FADS is not set # CONFIG_LITE5200 is not set # CONFIG_MPC834x_SYS is not set # CONFIG_EV64360 is not set CONFIG_PPC_CHRP=y CONFIG_PPC_PMAC=y CONFIG_PPC_PREP=y CONFIG_PPC_OF=y CONFIG_PPCBUG_NVRAM=y # CONFIG_SMP is not set # CONFIG_HIGHMEM is not set # CONFIG_HZ_100 is not set CONFIG_HZ_250=y # CONFIG_HZ_1000 is not set CONFIG_HZ=250 # CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y # CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set CONFIG_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL=y # CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL is not set # CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_MANUAL is not set CONFIG_FLATMEM=y CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP=y # CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_STATIC is not set CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y CONFIG_PROC_DEVICETREE=y # CONFIG_PREP_RESIDUAL is not set CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL=y CONFIG_CMDLINE=console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0 root=/dev/hda15 # CONFIG_PM is not set # CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND is not set CONFIG_SECCOMP=y CONFIG_ISA_DMA_API=y # # Bus options # # CONFIG_ISA is not set CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y CONFIG_PCI=y CONFIG_PCI_DOMAINS=y # CONFIG_PCI_LEGACY_PROC is not set # # PCCARD (PCMCIA/CardBus) support # # CONFIG_PCCARD is not set # # Advanced setup # # CONFIG_ADVANCED_OPTIONS is not set # # Default settings for advanced configuration options are used # CONFIG_HIGHMEM_START=0xfe00 CONFIG_LOWMEM_SIZE=0x3000 CONFIG_KERNEL_START=0xc000 CONFIG_TASK_SIZE=0x8000 CONFIG_BOOT_LOAD=0x0080 # # Networking # CONFIG_NET=y # # Networking options # CONFIG_PACKET=y # CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP is not set CONFIG_UNIX=y # CONFIG_NET_KEY is not set CONFIG_INET=y # CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set # CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER is not set CONFIG_IP_FIB_HASH=y # CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set # CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set # CONFIG_NET_IPGRE is not set # CONFIG_ARPD is not set # CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES is not set # CONFIG_INET_AH is not set # CONFIG_INET_ESP is not set # CONFIG_INET_IPCOMP is not set # CONFIG_INET_TUNNEL is not set CONFIG_INET_DIAG=y CONFIG_INET_TCP_DIAG=y # CONFIG_TCP_CONG_ADVANCED is not set CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y # # IP: Virtual Server Configuration # # CONFIG_IP_VS is not set # CONFIG_IPV6 is not set CONFIG_NETFILTER=y # CONFIG_NETFILTER_DEBUG is not set # CONFIG_NETFILTER_NETLINK is not set # # IP: Netfilter Configuration # CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK=m CONFIG_IP_NF_CT_ACCT=y CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK_MARK=y #
[gentoo-user] Linux installed from 2005.1 disk does not start
Hello! I am posting this to both gentoo-user and gentoo-ppc-user lists. My problem concerns the installation of Gentoo Linux on my G4 iMac, using the 2005.1 universal ppc disk. I should first mention that I have done this before, using the 2005.0 disk, and there was no trouble whatsoever. Now I have the same hardware and the same partitions. The install process went smoothly to its end, the kernel compiled at the first attempt, and the bootloader is well configured. But when I boot and choose l for Linux, I get this message (copied by hand): Please wait, loading kernel Elf32 kernel loaded Loading System.map System.map loaded at 0170, size:260 Kbytes Opening display /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/NVDA,[EMAIL PROTECTED] ok Copying OF device tree...done Calling quiesce... returning 0x0140 from prom_init And then everything hangs; the only way out is to cut the power. This is quite obscure to me and I am completely puzzled. I have found this occurrence (or something similar) reported a number of times on the Web, but without any useful answer. Has anybody on this list got an idea? I shall be grateful for all suggestions. Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Bash prompt
Hello! I am getting confused with profile, bashrc, etc. The prompt string I want to use is PS1=[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]\$ I therefore wrote it in /etc/profile (at two levels, root and non-root), ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc. If I log in as a plain user (moi), I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] moi]$ which is all right. But, if I log in as root, I get the basic default bash-2.05b# . I thought that /etc/profile should provide the default, but I was obviously wrong. Trying to mend things, I created two files /root/.bash_profile and /root/.bashrc, writing just PS1 in each. Now, logging in as root, the result is [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]$ which is wrong, since $ appears in place of #, as though my syntax of PS1 were incorrect, but I don't see that it is. How am I to clean up all this? I'll be grateful for all suggestions. Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gentoo not yet quite right on iMac
Hello, Gentoo is nearly operational on my G4 iMac, but there are one or two catches. --1-- KDE works and I have been able to install a proper French Macintosh keyboard, but some characters, such as the Euro symbol, are not printed. I understand that I have to choose another font (or character set, or what not, I am very ignorant). I have read about lat0-16, lat1-16, Latin9, ISO-8859-1 (or 9, or 15...), and I feel lost, not even knowing if they are for the X system or the console. Could someone please describe exactly what steps I should take to find a suitable font, check that it contains the wanted characters, and install it in the X system? --2-- Regarding the console, my problem is that I cannot get at it: pressing ctl-cmd-F1 (on this keyboard, cmd replaces alt) produces only a red screen that seems to remain for ever; however, I can get out of it by cmd-F7. Another fishy thing is that changing the default runlevel in /etc/inittab has no effect: I put it to 3 and the system booted at level 5 all the same. Obviously, there are configuration errors somewhere: could someone help me there? Thanks for all hints. Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Compile error
Maybe you have old kernel stuff lying around? did you do a make clean first? you can try disabling the advanced tcpip kernel options till you can resync with a gentoo mirror and get newer/better sources? On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Zac Medico wrote: Charles Trois wrote: Hello! While installing Gentoo on my G4 iMac from the Universal 2005.0 disk, I was able to go as far as configuring the kernel. But, at the make step, I got this error (text copied by hand): net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_fw_compat.c: In function fw_in net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_fw_compat.c: 83: error: too few arguments to function 'ip_ct_gather_frags' [/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_fw_compat.o] Error 1 Hi Charles, That net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_fw_compat.c file doesn't even exist in my 2.6.11 sources. If the problem feature isn't needed then perhaps you can simply disable it in the kernel config. Zac -- Bryan Whitehead Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org Thank you Zac and Bryan! Looking at the file in question in nano, I saw that it has to do with firewalls. Scanning menuconfig for something related, I found network packet filtering, which was selected. So I unselected it, and after that all worked well, as far as the installation goes (now I am a bit stuck with X, but it is another story). Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Compile error
Hello! While installing Gentoo on my G4 iMac from the Universal 2005.0 disk, I was able to go as far as configuring the kernel. But, at the make step, I got this error (text copied by hand): net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_fw_compat.c: In function fw_in net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_fw_compat.c: 83: error: too few arguments to function 'ip_ct_gather_frags' [/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_fw_compat.o] Error 1 I can't properly look at the files, because the console is quite lame. There is nothing very special about my configuration, except that I added support for Firewire, ATM, pppoatm, speedtouch. I would be grateful for all suggestions. Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Installing on Firewire drive?
I had put my question on this list two or three weeks ago, and Mark Knecht was kind enough to take an interest in it. Now, I have made some progress and the problem is different. To summarize: on my G4 iMac, Yellow Dog Linux 4.0.1 is installed on the HD, and I want to install Gentoo on a FW drive. I have more or less done it, using the 2005.0 universal disk. The problem now is that Gentoo does not boot: I get the message Cannot open root device sda11 or unknown-block(0.0). Please append a correct root= boot option. Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0.0) (and, by the way, the colours of the screen are very strange). On my other Linux, I can mount whatever is on the FW drive and inspect it. In this way, I have found these bits: --/etc/yaboot.conf as written by Gentoo on the FW disk: boot=/dev/sda9 device=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sbp-2/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: partition=11 root=/dev/sda11 timeout=30 install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot image=/boot/kernel-2.6.10 label=Linux read-only --/etc/fstab as written by Gentoo on the FW disk: /dev/sda11 / ext3noatimes0 0 /dev/sda12 /home ext3defaults0 0 /dev/sda10 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/hdb/mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 Looking at this, I don't see how /dev/sda11 could be wrong. But there is the other question of the unknown-block(0.0) and I can't at all see what it means. Could somebody kindly enlighten me? Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Installing on Firewire drive?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : [gentoo-user] Installing on Firewire drive? 11039 - Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sujet: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on Firewire drive? Expéditeur: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 11:04:49 -0700 Destinataire: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Destinataire: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Hi, Is mac-fdisk a mount command or is it a way to used fdisk under Yellow Dog on a Mac? Generally speaking you mount *partitions* so it would be mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/firewire-1 Under normal linux you could do fdisk -l /dev/sdb and get a listing of partitions on sdb. You might try to find the equivalent for Yellow Dog I suppose. I run 4 external 1394 drives on x86 so I can help out if you get a better response from one of these command ideas. Good luck, Mark Hello, Sorry for a slight misunderstanding: I mentioned Yellow Dog just to indicate that it had given confirmation that the 1394 drive is well alive, and that its address is /dev/sdb. mac-fdisk is the command that is prescribed in the Universal-2005.0-ppc handbook. It appears to be a Gentoo variant of pdisk or fdisk. Actually the command mac-fdisk /dev/hda (and then P) prints the map of the iMac hard disk, and I could go on from there to install Gentoo. But I would prefer to keep my Yellow Dog in place and to put Gentoo on the 1394 drive, and that is where I have a difficulty. I would have thought that the same command applied to /dev/sdb would open it, but it replies no medium found (not no such file however). That is my problem. Any ideas? Cheers. Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
