Re: [gentoo-user] System.map not found - unable to check symbols
System.map not found - unable to check symbols. which doesn't seem to cause problems during/after booting (??). I did a manual kernel compilation To do this, I always do: make all modules_install install This will do all the necessary steps. I tried the make all option and it added a /boot - . Inside /boot. Also, a menu.lst file was created inside /boot/grub that points to grub.conf. Other than that there no changes/additions we made. 'make all' is supposed to compile the kernel, 'make modules_install' will compile the kernel modules, 'make install' will install the kernel and 'make all modules_install install' will do all three of those things. I tried multiple times, different ways installing the kernel (vanilla sources) and reinstalling grub. Still the same message of System.map not found during booting. I rebooted and had the same problem occurring: System.map not found -- unable to check symbols Could you provide the output of: # df -h | grep boot # ls -l /boot Nothing from the previous commands since /boot is not mounted (it is no in fstab as suggested by the install handbook) # uname -r 2.6.15.1 Where is the message comming from? do you get it during kernel load or once the initscripts with the green stars beside them start doing their thing? I'm guessing from the OP that you have x86 hardware? 1) If its the kernel load (easier to check) I suggest the following. As root user... - make sure the boot partition is mounted run 'mount /boot' - make sure the /usr/src/linux link is pointing to the kernel you want to boot from - cd /usr/src/linux - run 'make clean' (this will essentially deletes all the compiled stuff except for your config file, in other words cleans up the tree :) - run 'make all modules_install install' - have a look in /boot to make sure the installer created the appropriate link 'System.map' to the version it just installed. use 'ls -l' to see this - now try a reboot making sure you use the same kernel you just built do you still get the message? If so you may need to alter the kernel config and see if that makes any difference, or you might like to try a different kernel version. 2) If its happening while the initscripts load, or at some other time after kernel boot, then its a gentoo specific issue and you need to work through those scripts somehow to isolate the cause. -- Thus spake the master programmer: After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless. -- Geoffrey James, The Tao of Programming pgpKclLTjUI22.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Windows -Linux Video Chat App
On Sunday 07 May 2006 8:18 am, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Saturday 06 May 2006 15:05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Windows -Linux Video Chat App': On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 17:10 +0200, Simon Kellett wrote: Netmeeting on Windows should be able to talk to Gnomemeeting on Linux (the app does not *have* to be the same, just the protocols and codecs etc.) The keyword here being should While I'm sure we'd help you if we could, this is a very general gentoo list and not many of us will have even tried to do what you are doing. I think you'd be better served by asking on the netmeeting newsgroups or the gnome(meeting)/ekiga support areas (mailing list, newsgroup, IRC, w/e they have). Also check out kopete if you run KDE. it has a plugin for the old netmeeting protocol too. -- Melange is the financial crux of CHOAM activities. Without this spice, Bene Gesserit Reverend Mothers could not perform feats of observation and human control, Guild Navigators could not see safe pathways across space, and billions of Imperial citizens would die of addictive withdrawal. Any simpleton knows that such dependence upon a single commodity leads to abuse. We are all at risk. -- CHOAM Economic Analysis of Materiel Flow Patterns pgpk8qh75UtS2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel vs. gentoo-sources
On Thursday 04 May 2006 7:35 am, S. Schwartz wrote: Richard Fish wrote: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127618 Thanks for the link, very interesting indeed. In comment #18 someone says that Nvidia won't release a newer legacy driver set any time soon, whereas in the nVNews-forum someone from NVIDIA Corporation announced that an updated legacy graphics driver is planned for the near future. That one should match 1.0-8756. Sounds pretty bad and good at the same time. Still: isn't someone of the Gentoo-guys (experienced in patching) able to patch the old 6629 for the time being or do I simply underestimate the effort? Sigi Nvidia dont release the source for this driver, which makes it difficult for others to patch it, even if they new how the card internals worked ;). Does the xorg nv driver do what you need? -- A mystic is a person who is puzzled before the obvious but who understands the nonexistent. [Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author, editor, publisher] pgpnYMpO5HLNA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-input-mouse-1.0.4 not compiling?
On Thursday 04 May 2006 4:40 am, Stephen Cantini wrote: CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium-m -msse3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe Dont know much about the app, but does removing -msse3 make any difference? pgppYVe2voelB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problems on catherine.espersunited.com
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 2:47 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: The sound stopped working on my wife's computer about a week ago. I've run every test I can think of and can't seem to track the problem down. /etc/init.d/alsasound starts up fine. I can run alsamixer on her computer just fine (on my computer, when ALSA isn't working I can't open alsamixer); she has the volume control applet running on her panel, but there simply is no sound. Its probably a bit off, but do you have a cat? Some get their whiskers in a twist about the nice clean continuous line that forms cabling. Check that any speaker cables and the plug in back of your comp hasn't been left dangling in the wind... pgpbnypbX2rAJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problems on catherine.espersunited.com
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 8:51 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: I fixed it. I feel really stupid about it too. When I was helping her to diagnose the problem, I asked her to open the volume control and make sure everything was turned up all the way. She said it was, and when I checked in alsamixer, everything was turned up all the way. However, when I sat down at her computer and opened the volume control applet, the PCM was turned all the way down. I raised the level and now the sound works again... Hey thats good to hear. Hope your wife wasnt to grumpy :). Sometimes its the simplest things that are the hardest to figure. -- Stewie Griffin: Forecast for tomorrow; A few sprinkles of genius with a chance of doom. pgpPrw4l9HMhk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?
On Saturday 29 April 2006 7:39 am, Willie Wong wrote: Dear all, I performed a massive update on my laptop last night, and started observing the following behaviour on boot. A message would pop-up saying to the effect that udev is processing kernel events and then proceeds to load a bunch of kernel modules which I didn't specify for loading in /etc/modules.autoload.d In autoload, I only specified 'bcm570x' for my NIC, but after the updates, the computer would automatically load the 'ipw2200' module for wireless and 'radeon_fb' (which I was playing with for a while but have decided not to use). Any clue as to where I can turn off this behaviour? I checked the config files for udev and /etc/conf.d/rc, and I don't see anything obvious. You could try rebuilding the kernel without those modules... althoug why is the kernel loading them anyway if the hardware isnt there -- Look, just gimme some inner peace, or I'll mop the floor with ya! -- Homer Simpson El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Homer pgpRrNai1uEhq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Two things, AC97 sound and Gnome issues!
On Friday 28 April 2006 12:41 am, Christopher E wrote: 1. I am have a error message when booting about snd_via82xx not found. FATAL: Module snd_via82xx not found. is the exact message. I have the driver as part of the kernel, when I don't ALSA then gives a message like this: ALSA device list: Sound Card not found alsasound service normally tries to load all the stuff it detects as modules. If you ran alsaconf, then in /etc/modules.d/alsa there will be a line aliasing the snd_via82xx module. you can safely remove it, which will get rid of the message. Alternatively recompile the kernel with that option as a module, and it will load as alsasound expects at boot. The gentoo base seems to work better with kernel as modules, and if you change your hardware and already have the modules built, simply rerunning alsaconf will reconfigure your sound setup appropriately. -- One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him. pgplgyyAtbKaX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in problem
On Monday 24 April 2006 3:30 pm, Glenn Enright wrote: Yeah I been through this too. I get this error when trying to play movie files, sound file work fine (Gecko:17960): Gtk-WARNING **: Can't set a parent on widget which has a parent rebuilding xine-lib seems to have fixed it. -- Alaska, where Moosehead isn't a beer, it's a misdemeanor. Q: You know how to figure out if your lover's been invovlved? A: Antler marks on their hips. pgpFrNmCnuduG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in problem
On Monday 24 April 2006 6:37 pm, Colleen Beamer wrote: Hi, Today, I updated my system. Among the updates were a kernel update, a firefox update and an mplayer update. Everything seems to be working fine except that I can't get the mplayer plugin to work properly in Firefox. After updating everything and compiling and booting to the new kernel, I rebuilt mplayer so that it would include the win32codecs, which it does not do by default. After doing this, I reinstalled the mplayerplug-in. After doing this, I recopied the mplayer.so files to my Firefox plugins directory. I *did not* recompile Firefox after recompiling and booting to the new kernel. I've done everything I can think of, but when I try to play a feed from CNN or if I just try to play another video file in Firefox, it appears that mplayer is loading, but then Stopped is displayed. And no buttons display for stop, start or pause. Any ideas? Thanks and regards, Colleen Yeah I been through this too. I get this error when trying to play movie files, sound file work fine (Gecko:17960): Gtk-WARNING **: Can't set a parent on widget which has a parent -- Very few profundities can be expressed in less than 80 characters. pgpTxxPwPSvR5.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] bindkey
Does anyone know which package supplies this function. -- Ginger snap. pgp2jyDQJ7VAK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] bash completion
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 12:24 pm, JimD wrote: I also recommend renaming /etc/profile.d/bash-completion to /etc/profile.d/bash-completion.sh so it gets picked up by /etc/profile. Doing that creates an error about /etc/bash_completion.sh not existing -- It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life and then come round. -- Lord Alfred Douglas pgpGpGgZLec8E.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] bash completion
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 12:52 pm, JimD wrote: Glenn Enright wrote: On Tuesday 25 April 2006 12:24 pm, JimD wrote: I also recommend renaming /etc/profile.d/bash-completion to /etc/profile.d/bash-completion.sh so it gets picked up by /etc/profile. Doing that creates an error about /etc/bash_completion.sh not existing Really??? Weird. Here is what I have at the end of /etc/profile for sh in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do if [ -r $sh ] ; then . $sh fi done Actually I cant replicate it... damn :( What I'm getting now is bash login hangs until I press ^C. the bash_completion file works as expected when run manually. -- Fundamentally, there may be no basis for anything. pgp27DBkMiAah.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] bash completion
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 2:49 pm, Glenn Enright wrote: just added a statement at the end of my profile file to manually run /etc/bash-completion and it all seems to work as expected now. Just got an issue with csh scripts spitting errors about bindkey not existing and a dodgy goto command -- One-Shot Case Study, n.: The scientific equivalent of the four-leaf clover, from which it is concluded all clovers possess four leaves and are sometimes green. pgpXCy3gAF6XG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] What's broken with portage now?
On Monday 24 April 2006 9:11 am, Mick wrote: If I were to delete something it has to be the lot. Which directory am I supposed to rm? Before you do that try emerge metadata or emerge sync -- Chemistry professors never die, they just fail to react. pgpGontcxyAOM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] aRts sound server on KDE 3.5.2?
On Thursday 20 April 2006 8:12 am, Michael B. Trausch wrote: I got this all the time with ac97 chipset with older versions of arts. Maybee you are running a similar chipset? or an old driver or something? what kernel version do you run? From google with search on 'arts cpu overload' http://www.arts-project.org/doc/handbook/faq.html#id2805932 13.3 What is wrong in the driver if I get the cpu overload problem? Usually, artsd uses select() to find out when to write new data. Then, it uses an ioctl(...GETOSPACE...) to find out how much data to write. Finally, it writes this data. A problem occurs if artsd is woken up either always or if there are minimal amounts of data to write. The OSS documentation specifies that select() only wakes up a process if there is at least one fragment to write. However, if artsd is woken up if there isn't data to write, or very little, for instance one sample, then it will keep writing little pieces of audio data, which can be very costly, and eventually overload the cpu. To fix this, the driver should wake up artsd only if there is a full fragment to write. That page is a little old but it sould give you an idea of where to start. -- It's not easy, being green. -- Kermit the Frog pgp4JpS7T6QdN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real
On Thursday 06 April 2006 11:08, Iain Buchanan wrote: wlll, it's not exactly old - it's a 3.0GHz P4 laptop (Inspiron 9100). It could be a RAM issue - only 512 Mb. But I definately notice it when emerging sources, and then trying to switch virtual workspaces when I have, say, firefox evolution vmware running... even if emerge is niced. what are the specs on your HDD? surely seems like the key here. Like Richard pointed out, as soon as IO systems become loaded they struggle to keep up with demand. Laptops usually have 5400rpm HDD dont they? but do you actually do anything to notice this slowdown? ie. are you changing desktops, starting other applications, etc? absolutely, running openoffice, juk, kate, kmail, firefox and gkrellm atm on four desktops amongst others. Emergeing at the same time, Firefox can grind on the rendering but otherwise its pretty sweet. BTW I only have 512 MB RAM also. OT my desktop stystem generates significant heat, often often over 35c in the case alone, but laptops can't get away with disipating as much heat so there must be tradeoffs somewhere. Actually Im impressed that its still going after 3 years and the amount of work it does. :) thanks for the tips. I'll check out the ioprio someone else mentioned... Yeah looks keen as :) -- panic(esp_handle: current_SC == penguin within interrupt!); linux-2.2.16/drivers/scsi/esp.c -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_NICENESS for real
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 12:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: meetoo! I've noticed it helps with cpu allocation, but not with the disk. If you're emerging something like sources, or openoffice, portage still gets too much disk time and other processes suffer. nice doesn't seem to affect disk access. This is surely very dependant on you specific hardware and kernel configuration. There are some systems that just dont 'multitask' very effectively. Also, sounds like you have either an older HDD or your motherboard is struggling to keep up with the I/O requirements of compiling. Remeber that compiling is non-trivial work for *any* system. Also check that your kernel is making full use of any features available on you system such as SMP or Hyperthreading etc. As a point of comparison, I'm running a P4 2.6 on an IS7 motherboard with SATA disks, and only under the heaviest compilations, for short periods of time do I notice any slowdowns. -- About the only thing on a farm that has an easy time is the dog. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] every second rightclick in KDE: the context menu does not stay
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 09:59, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Monday 03 April 2006 22:22, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Anyone else seeing this? Just to make sure I'm not having a subtly broken system. yepp, see the same - easy workaround: don't release the right mouse button.. as long as you are holding it, the menu will stay. I'm not getting this at all :), but then just upgraded to 3.5.2. I recall something like this a while ago but its gone now. What version of kde are you running? If you change your theme does it make any difference? -- The modern world is essentially non-religious. This may seem a strange statement given the rise of a militant Catholic church and militant Muslim, American Protestant, and Judaic groups. But if one examines the acts, as opposed to the rhetoric, of these movements, one finds their primary purpose is to reassert dominance over women and subordinate groups, e.g., Muslim socialists, American blacks, Israeli Arabs. [Marilyn French, Will Secularism Survive? article in _Free Inquiry_ magazine] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] first ebuild, looking for reviewer
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 12:54, Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, Writing my first ebuild and would like to have it reviewed. Is there a forum or list or volunteer? The ebuild is for CastPodder 4.0 (http://www.castpodder.net/) which has an open request in bugs.gentoo.org: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114430 TIA, Roy For staters you can post the ebuild to the bug. If it doesnt work you can engage in discussion there with anyone else interested in that app, and repost it with fixes etc. -- Kaylee: Looks like they've jerry-rigged it with a pressure catch. It's the only thing that'd work with all these spare parts. We could probably bypass that easy, we get to the DC line. Mal: You tell me right now, little Kaylee, you really think you can do this? Kaylee: Sure. Yeah. I think so. 'Sides, if I mess up, not like you'll be able to yell at me. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT every second rightclick in KDE: the context menu does not stay
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 12:58, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: emm, I don't want to change my theme at the moment (it is dekorator+qtcurve), because I am not annoyed or really hit by this. I could get his behaviour, bit it does not bother me ;) Nice :). I had to install XP recently for my wife, but after playing with it for a couple of days, ran screaming back to KDE with no reservations! That was a real eye opener on how comfortable it is to use and how you adjust to expect some features to just exist even in simple applications. Kudos to the KDE devs especially. -- Susie: You'd get a good grade without doing any work. Calvin: So? Susie: It's wrong to get rewards you haven't earned. Calvin: I've never heard of anyone who couldn't live with that. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] trouble installing blender
below is a smaple of the results from my attempts to install blender. Anyone
able to help with why the config portion is bailing?
The ebuild doesnt fail, but the only things installed are some scripts and the
desktop icon, nothing seems to be getting actually built. This applies to the
2.40 and 2.41 versions so must be something missing about my system?
Unpacking blender-2.40.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/blender-2.40/work
* Applying blender-2.37-dirs.patch ...
[ ok ]
Source unpacked.
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
targets = []
arguments = {}
/var/tmp/portage/blender-2.40/work/blender-2.40
Creating new config file: config.opts
externs...
bftgl
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets ...
scons: building terminated because of errors.
* enabling game engine
* enabling internationalization
Warning: the --no-print-directory option is not yet implemented
gcc -fPIC -funsigned-char -O2 -c blur.c -I../include
gcc -fPIC -funsigned-char -O2 -c clouds2.c -I../include
ld -Bshareable clouds2.o -o clouds2.so
gcc -fPIC -funsigned-char -O2 -c tiles.c -I../include
ld -Bshareable blur.o -o blur.so
gcc -fPIC -funsigned-char -O2 -c scatter.c -I../include
ld -Bshareable tiles.o -o tiles.so
ld -Bshareable scatter.o -o scatter.so
gcc -fPIC -funsigned-char -O2 -c showzbuf.c -I../include
ld -Bshareable showzbuf.o -o showzbuf.so -lc
Test phase [not enabled]: media-gfx/blender-2.40
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Re: [gentoo-user] file limit
On Thursday 23 March 2006 13:50, Bruce Therrien wrote: Is there a limit to the files contained in a directory? we have over 19,000 in our store graphics directory and sometimes cannot acces it because the ftp software says it's not a directory. It's on an IBM server running gentoo. More likely its a limit of the ftp server software or the underlying filesystem than ftp protocol, although you might anticipate timeouts if the transfering of file listings is over a slow connection. Does the ftp server have issues with any other storage spaces? Is it just one big directory or broken down into heirarchy? if the latter, does any particular part seem to be causing issues? -- The heart is not a logical organ. -- Dr. Janet Wallace, The Deadly Years, stardate 3479.4 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] QT 4
On Friday 17 March 2006 08:11, James wrote: Hello, Has anyone any experiences with developing software with QT4? checking whats available, with 'emerge -pv qt', I see: x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r8 Nothing else... If I add x11-libs/qt to the package.keywords file, I get x11-libs/qt-4.1.1 Just out of interest how far along is qt4? Last time I looked the next major release of kde *might* be using it, if it becomes stable in time. Is this still the case? -- The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutang trying to play the violin. -- Honor'e DeBalzac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 17:50, Ghaith Hachem wrote: On 3/15/06, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I try cp /dev/hdc file.iso I get an error: cp: reading /dev/hdc' : Input/output error there's a problem with the disk then it's not reading it the disk is unmounted right? -- Chance is perhaps the work of God when He did not want to sign. -- Anatole France -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination
On Monday 13 March 2006 21:47, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Hyper-Transport is a way for CPUs to exchange data directly rather than going through a memory controller, thus allowing limited resources (L1/2/3 cache) to be used more effectively. In particular, process migration causes fewer cache misses. Hyper-Threading is a way for a CPU to pretend to be two, thus causing the system to request/require more resources than are available. Hyper-Transport attempts to alleviate a bottleneck, while Hyper-Threading increases the load on an existing one. I apreciate that AMD certainly seem to have the memory bandwidth/throughput thing nailed, and their processors stand tall as a result. but I doubt that a p4 would perform near as well without a large part of the enginered paralelism that comes as part HThreading, compared to a purely serial system. I can certainly tell you that compiling (as an example) *wihtout* HT enabled on my P4 is a bad idea, takes nearly 4 times as long. -- Woman: I'm not going to press charges, but I assume you'll want to punish him. Homer: 'Preciate the suggestion, lady, but he hates that. And I gotta live with him. Bart: You're the man, Homer. Bart After Dark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 00:53, Iain Buchanan wrote: conspiracy theory there may even be some intentional slowdown when you do a bios / chip based disable /conspiracy theory lol -- All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific. -- Jane Wagner -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] annotate html pages
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 02:54, Harry Putnam wrote: Glenn Enright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: while not having investigated it too much, openoffice and other similar apps all process web pages... perhaps they can do the work for you? Looks like a product called Amaya maybe more directly designed for this. For anyone interested: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ very nice... might have a play with that myself :) -- Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cups and parallel printing
On Thursday 02 March 2006 18:19, Glenn Enright wrote: Scratch that. got it working finally! seems there was something not quite right with the esp driver, and now a new kernel build along with a foomatic driver did the trick! Yay!!! -- Al Gore resembled a Vulcan desperately in need of a blow job. -- Bobcat Goldthwait -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia hangs Xorg
On Thursday 02 March 2006 00:37, Jonatan Antoni wrote: Hi again, Starting up xorg just with 'startx' works fine.. xfce4 comes up. But lateron it hangs with nearly 100 percent of cpu-time usage, especially if I use the webbrowser firefox. Use a process viewer to see what is chugging through the usage. It probably isnt your xorg configuration, although you might try changing the Modules section to this... Section Module # This loads some basic X extensions. Loaddbe # Double buffer extension # Some graphics specific modules Loadextmod# basic graphics subsystem extended support Load glx # glx support EndSection You might like to run revdep-rebuild -p and pay special attention to any graphics stuff that is broken. Im also running the same chipset and it goes flawlessly with that driver version. Other posibilities, longshot but worth checking are sound (especially artsd in kde), and gtk support (firefox dependancy). PS you did run 'opengl-update nvidia' right? -- A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensible answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place. -- IEEE Grid newsmagazine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] cups and parallel printing
I strugglung to get my hp720c printer to work under my latest install. I have tried many things as follows... * emerged ghostscript, foomatic, pnm2ppd, and cups * fiddled with kernel settings re plugnplay related to a bug mentioned ealier on the list. I can print to files in whatever format, and I im leaning towards a fault with the kernel or device that is being created. Even sending text to the device doesnt work. odd thing is that cups knows what the printer is and where it is. It just wont print anything. The printer does work, I had it going under an older knoppix build 3.??. So that must mean all the hardware is fine too. Starting to pull my hair out here after no printer for several weeks. Can anyone help? Pretty please? -- ciaranm doom == sealed in an unpleasant fate latexer doom == rockin' oldschool FPS. tseng doom == where ol' pete is heading fast bazik doom = city in eastern france latexer uh oh... bazik just reassigned doom to something new. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox OOo oddness
On Sunday 26 February 2006 01:55, Peter Ruskin wrote: See http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=384087highlight=filepicker+kde nice site. opens up a few posibilities too. :) -- Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] got lprng?
On Monday 20 February 2006 14:36, Manuel A. McLure wrote: On Sunday 19 February 2006 05:47 pm, Glenn Enright wrote: after modprobe lp lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). after cat textfile... lp0: ECP mode Some googling brought up this: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-416986-highlight-.html Apparently there are problems with recent kernels and the printer port. Apparently ACPI Plug and Play support breaks it. Try the kernel settings in that forum post and see if that fixes it. -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mclure.org ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft ok thanks for that lead. will check it out tonight :) -- Class, that's the only thing that counts in life. Class. Without class and style, a man's a bum; he might as well be dead. -- Bugsy Siegel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox java plugin
On Monday 20 February 2006 08:39, Antoine wrote: Hi, I can't seem to find out how to get java working again in firefox (1.5). I am running blackdown (std, 1.4.2) and I simply don't get java with most sites now. Is it possible that I need to update to sun's 1.5? Cheers Antoine the blakcdown version is a little dated now, but should still work with most sites. You may need to add a link to the java plugin in you firefix configuration directory (either in home or systemwide) eg link /opt/java-jre-version/plugin/i386/plugin name to ~/.mozilla/plugins/plugin name easy to drop in custom plugins there too :) -- There was a young lady from Rheims Who amazingly pissed in four streams. A friend poked around And a fly-button found Lodged tight in her hole so it seems. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] got lprng?
On Monday 20 February 2006 11:29, Manuel A. McLure wrote: /bin/echo -e -n Hello\\015\\012World\\015\\012\\014 textfile.txt I am having similar difficulty getting my hp720c working. After trying the test you suggested, I still got just nothing on the printer. I have both parport, parport_pc, and lp modules loaded, which gives me the lp0 device. any suggestions? # ll lp0 crwxrwxrw- 1 root lp 6, 0 Feb 20 14:08 lp0 PS the printer does work in knoppix. Does this seem like probably a kernel issue? -- A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste. -- Whitney Balliett -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox java plugin
On Monday 20 February 2006 13:49, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 14:02 +1300, Glenn Enright wrote: the blakcdown version is a little dated now, but should still work with most sites. what jre would you recommend? -- Iain Buchanan iain at netspace dot net dot au What one fool can do, another can. -- Ancient Simian Proverb Im am using the one from sun atm, nut thats only cause its was recomended in the forums, its seems to work on 99% of sites I visit -- Robot, n.: Someone who's been made by a scientist. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] got lprng?
On Monday 20 February 2006 13:54, Manuel A. McLure wrote: On Sunday 19 February 2006 05:14 pm, Glenn Enright wrote: On Monday 20 February 2006 11:29, Manuel A. McLure wrote: /bin/echo -e -n Hello\\015\\012World\\015\\012\\014 textfile.txt I am having similar difficulty getting my hp720c working. After trying the test you suggested, I still got just nothing on the printer. I have both parport, parport_pc, and lp modules loaded, which gives me the lp0 device. any suggestions? # ll lp0 crwxrwxrw- 1 root lp 6, 0 Feb 20 14:08 lp0 PS the printer does work in knoppix. Does this seem like probably a kernel issue? Possibly - try running dmesg after the cat textfile.txt /dev/lp0 and see if anything shows in the kernel logs. -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mclure.org ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft after modprobe lp lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). after cat textfile... lp0: ECP mode -- What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. When did you last hear of a clerk giving his life for the company? Perhaps your deficiency rests in the false assumption that you can order men to think and cooperate. This has been a failure of everything from religions to general staffs throughout history. General staffs have a long record of destroying their own nations. As to religions, I recommend a rereading of Thomas Aquinas. As to you of CHOAM, what nonsense you believe! Men must want to do things out of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness -- they cannot work and their civilization collapses. -- A letter to CHOAM, Attributed to The Preacher -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gthumb 2.6.8 doesn't save images anymore
On Monday 23 January 2006 02:47, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello! Since a few days, gthumb doesn't save changed images anymore. When I try to save an image as jpeg, it creates a 0 byte file. When I try to save a PNG, it does the same and, as a bonus :), it crashes. A while back, this used to work. I also tried to recompile gthumb - didn't help... :( Sounds like some of the dependancies of gthumb may have changed on your system. You can figure out the dependencies with ldd eg; #ldd /sbin/udev linux-gate.so.1 = (0xe000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7dd) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f07000) Are any of the files you get related to packages you updated/downgrades recently? are they made available in /etc/portage/package.* which might indicate using unstable builds? Just some ideas. not to sure otherwise -- It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.
On Thursday 19 January 2006 05:41, Willie Wong wrote: Hum, is there a place in Mozilla to set your name/alias that goes in the From field for an e-mail? Can you double check that to see if you made a typo in the e-mail address or something? Sometimes ISPs reject mails sent to be relayed by their servers that neither originate nor end on their servers. Some ISPs may also require your alias to be a specific thing, eg your real name, or the same as your email address. Silly but true. -- JFMuggs I have a package that is distributed from the website as: SciPy-0.2.0_alpha_200.4161_src.tar.gz JFMuggs what's a sane way to name the ebuild for it? ciaranm JFMuggs: got a baseball bat and a rusty nail? JFMuggs ciaranm: that's not nice to do to people who are writing the code I need JFMuggs besides, klieber already suggested the moral equivalent 8) carpaski Doesn't involve fecees and a bag, does it? klieber no bag. saran wrap. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy...
On Monday 16 January 2006 04:28, Stroller wrote: It does indeed seem very good, but again it requires training, which is something I'm trying to avoid in this instance. Stroller. No solution you have is going to be perfect I suspect. Really it does come down to individual requirements, because everyone is different. It is much easier to offer a full filter service to clients, then If they want it turn it on - just like many ISPs do - they can. So 'training' is minimised to maybee a simple FAQ and users can take care of the rest. Course this is not useful if your site is getting hammered by spam :( Otherwise, for example with spamassasin, each client can set up their own account with some effective filters for their own type of email. I'm using kmail with my own account and that has a very useful wizard that creates a seperate folder for spam, learns and dumps any that I manually mark as spam, and moves it all to that folser, where I can easily review it. Also I use another module called mail-filter/dcc that seems to help greatly. -- Simon: I never shot anyone before. Book: I was there, son. I'm fair sure you haven't shot anyone yet. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy...
On Monday 16 January 2006 06:01, Stroller wrote: I'm looking at dcc now - it looks useful, but I'm not yet clear on how to configure it (with SpamAssassin?). perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DCC in the file /etc/spamassassin/init.pre add this line loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DCC and configure /etc/dcc/dcc.conf as required Be aware that some plugins use a lot of system resources, tho temporarily. -- Confucious say: woman who slide down bannister make monkey shine. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`
On Friday 30 December 2005 06:43, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: I had something alike and found that the hotplug script was looking for /var/run/console/console.lock to see who owned the console (and to use this info to chown the usbfile) You can easily check if you have the same problem: disconnect the camera, become root on the commandline and use cat loginname /var/run/console/console.lock (so if you're logged in as michael use cat michael /var/run/console/console.lock ) Plug in the camera and try to download the photo's. If it now works, you have the same problem which I had (and which has to do I think with pam_console which is a flag for emerging pam) Anyhow, as I got bored to create the lockfile every time I just fixed the /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam to use my name whenever it couldn't find a lock file.. Somewhat ugly, but oh well.. Hope this helps.. Gerhard -- Ithaka photography, http://ithaka.mine.nu/ This link may be helpful to those still looking at this... http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html -- Finally, Zippy drives his 1958 RAMBLER METROPOLITAN into the faculty dining room. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`
On Friday 30 December 2005 06:43, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: Interesting I can get it to work the first time it is connected. But after disconnetcting or turning off the camera (a Kodak cx7330) it doesnt work anymore. Neither as root or as user. It looks liek every time I reconnect a usb device the device number gets incremented by one for some reason? -- Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something. -- Clifton Fadiman, Enter Conversing -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`
On Friday 30 December 2005 16:09, Glenn Enright wrote: On Friday 30 December 2005 06:43, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: Interesting I can get it to work the first time it is connected. But after disconnetcting or turning off the camera (a Kodak cx7330) it doesnt work anymore. Neither as root or as user. It looks liek every time I reconnect a usb device the device number gets incremented by one for some reason? Ok looks like I can but have to update the device in the software Im using bcause it doesnt detect the usb port change (digikam broken?) -- Oh, I could while away the hours, Smoking herbs and flowers, Shooting up my veins, De-dum, De-dum, De-dum Tell you, I've been a-thinkin' I could drive a shiny Lincoln, If I dealt in good cocaine. -- To If I Only Had A Brain from The Wizard of Oz -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub,sata,savedefault and error 27
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 10:15, capsel wrote: Have you read info grub ?? fallback should be on top and it is, savedefault fallback can be in title section and means that I want to save as a default fallback which in my case is 0. I think it should be EOT for now... I've checked if savedefault works from command line of /sbin/grub on different machine (@home) and it doesn't, but it works in config file. My bad. Furthur reading did prove enlightening. A thousand apologies... -- Dprintk(oh dear, we are idle\n); linux-2.6.6/drivers/net/ns83820.c -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] world problems
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 07:28, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/25/05, Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my list of what it want to take out of the world file - 'app-emulation/crossover-office-bin' has no ebuilds available 'games-fps/unreal-tournament-bonuspacks' has no ebuilds available 'media-libs/epeg' has no ebuilds available 'media-fonts/acroread-asianfonts' has no ebuilds available 'sci-astronomy/setiathome' has no ebuilds available 'media-tv/xawdecode' has no ebuilds available 'games-fps/unreal-tournament-goty' has no ebuilds available You have something really wrong here. Do these ebuilds actually exist? For example, does ls /usr/portage/app-emulation/crossover-office-bin/*.ebuild show any items? -Richard I also have sveral surprises after an upgrade to portage. otherland2 ~ # emaint --check world Checking world for problems 'x11-themes/noia-warm' has no ebuilds available 'x11-misc/transset' has no ebuilds available 'dev-perl/Data-Dumper' has no ebuilds available 'app-crypt/gpg-agent' has no ebuilds available 'media-libs/divx4linux' has no ebuilds available 'media-video/avifile' has no ebuilds available 'pdev-java/jakarta-regexp' has no ebuilds available 'app-vim/vimspell' has no ebuilds available 'media-sound/pmidi' has no ebuilds available 'x11-wm/xfce' has no ebuilds available 'xfce-extra/xffm-icons' has no ebuilds available 'app-admin/conky' has no ebuilds available Finished otherland2 ~ # ls /usr/portage/app-admin/conky/ ChangeLog conky-1.3.1.ebuild conky-1.3.4-r1.ebuild files Manifest conky-1.3.3.ebuild conky-1.3.4-r2.ebuild metadata.xml -- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub,sata,savedefault and error 27
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 08:13, capsel wrote: 2005/12/27, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 12/27/05, capsel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: title gentoo root (hd0,0) kernel /bzImage root=/dev/sdb2 savedefault fallback that last line does nothing in the configuration file. fall back is meant to be used as a top level config command with a entry number coresponding to your menu entry of choice. eg fallback 2 when your second entry is for memcheck or windows, etc. savedefault is meant to be used at the grub command line, not in the config file. enter grub and type 'help savedefault' for more info. -- The Third Law of Photography: If you did manage to get any good shots, they will be ruined when someone inadvertently opens the darkroom door and all of the dark leaks out. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!
To all you good people who make up the gentoo community. Its a privelige to be a member of such a lively and creative forum. Cheers to you all. Hope you all enjoy your day tomorrow. Merry Christmas! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] RFC about kooka block
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 11:50, Francesco Talamona wrote: Isn't it a bit strange? Shouldn't be kooka blocked, as it is already installed? Ok, kde il slotted, but... Maybe I miss something about split ebuilds :-) Is this a bug? Any comments? Ciao Francesco You do seem to be confusing monlithic kde builds with split ones. From 3.5, superkaramba is built with kdeutils so you can either keep the installed version, and install the kdeutils *compenents* seperately, or uninstall it and build the whole of *kdeutils* in one go. As far as kooka is concerned, you obviously haven't yet unmasked the 3.5 version. -- Very few profundities can be expressed in less than 80 characters. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] opengl brightness setting
Does anyone know if there is somewhere I can configure opengl settings? All my opengl applications are extremely dark and I have to chnage setings just for those apps. For example mplayer runs most reliably on my system with opengl except I am constantly having to adjust the brightness/contrast. Same with Unreal Tournament. Window or fullscreen make no diference its the rendering as far as I can tell. nvidia-settings has an option to adjust xv overlays and some other nifty things but not those options. Any suggestions welcome. -- At these prices, I lose money -- but I make it up in volume. -- Peter G. Alaquon -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] hal emerge conflict
I installed kde3.5 which is great, but to do soI had to unmask some packages, including hal. So I have version 0.5.5.1 installed. Unfortunately I also have gnome-light installed, which requires hal-0.4 for gnome-vfs. Any ideas on how I might solve this conflict. I dont really need gnome, but it has been drawn in by OOffice and has several other dependencies that I use such as firefox. In addition this is despite having -gnome in my use flags. Help! TIA -- Now of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It leaves me only fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow. -- A.E. Housman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hal emerge conflict [SOLVED]
On Friday 16 December 2005 10:24, Richard Fish wrote: Since you do not use gnome, you probably don't care whether gnome-vfs supports hal or not: echo gnome-base/gnome-vfs -hal /etc/portage/package.use -Richard Of course! :) Simple elegant fix. Thanks for your insight. -- [Lois' sister is in labor] Peter Griffin: It looks like Carol's blowing a bubble. Lois Griffin: That's the head. Carol, push. Push. Peter Griffin: I am. It won't go back in. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] moving mountpoint to folder
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 09:33, michael higgins wrote: So, my question is, does anyone know what will happen if I try to umount -l, remove the /usr/lib mountpoint, and rename /usr/lib2 to /usr/lib? It would seem that there'd be no problem as long as I don't need to log into a new shell? Going the other way wasn't a problem, as I just renamed the old folder and mounted the partition on a new one. Any suggestions appreciated. If you are willing to take the system down for a few minutes, try booting with a copy of knopix or your gentoo livecd, and doing your filesystem mods that way. Then you can be more comfortable with the sanity of your os. after all there is so much important stuff in there. Or maybee drop to single user mode, that may work. -- Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word collectible as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success. -- Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Notification of Limited Account Access (Routing Code: C840-L1111-Q110-1113)
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 17:23, Michael Sullivan wrote: I tried to notify the real Paypal that someone was posing at them, but they didn't even have an abuse address... send it to spoof at paypal dot com -- Mary had a little lamb, The lamb turned out to be a ram, Now Mary has a little lamb. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerged older KDE, revdep-rebuild fails (no ebuild)
On Monday 12 December 2005 20:11, Maxime Robert-Schreyers wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:17:29 +0100, Maxime Robert-Schreyers wrote: I've emerged KDE 3.5 last week (unmasking it in /etc/portage/package.unmask and /etc/portage/package.keywords) I had no trouble at all, but noticed 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 were still there, so I tried to clean those. I did equery list -p kde | grep 3.3 | xargs emerge unmerge -p It worked fine too, but then I tried revdep-rebuild -- -p and it tries to re-emerge kde-base/kdebase-3.2.3-r1 and mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.2 but doesn't find ebuilds for them. Furthermore, I don't want to have kdebase-3.2 reinstalled. Something you still have installed depends on kdebase-3.2. Run emerge -utvD world to see what it is and either unmerge it or re-emerge it. Thanls for the reply. here's the output: nonpoint ~ # emerge -utvDa world These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [nomerge ] media-video/dvdrip-0.52.0 +cdr -gnome [nomerge ] media-video/vcdimager-0.7.21 -minimal +xml2 [ebuild U ] dev-libs/libcdio-0.75-r1 [0.73] -cddb -minimal 1,768 kB [nomerge ] app-portage/eix-0.3.0-r2 +bash-completion [ebuild N] app-shells/bash-completion-config-0.8-r2 106 kB It doesn't show anything about kdebase :-/ Am i missing some cleaning step before revdep or the re-emerge ? Maxime try the same coomand without the -u ie; emerge -Davt world should show quite a few results -- This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. -- Arthur Clarke -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] straggling with paper size
snip look in /var/log/portage if you have it enabled higer log files will br for more recent emerges -- Don't worry so loud, your roommate can't think. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdm will not start
On Sunday 04 December 2005 17:27, Joseph wrote: Now, I'm fighting with kpdf, as it tries to print on A4 instead of letter format. In the kde Control Center, go to Reigonal Accesibility - Country/Reigon Layout select the tab Misc Choose the paper format you prefer. Be aware this is the default setting for kde and not just kpdf. -- You know you're using the computer too much when: you use 'u' instead of 'you' in the first place. -- thebell -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdm will not start
On Sunday 04 December 2005 19:07, Joseph wrote: In the kde Control Center, go to Reigonal Accesibility - Country/Reigon Layout select the tab Misc Choose the paper format you prefer. Be aware this is the default setting for kde and not just kpdf. I have it letter in there. Though, I'm thinking that it must have something to do with the way xpdf is compiled. The variable psPaperSize match is not compiled and/or correctly compiled to xpdf. What format (ps, pdf, etc) are the files you are trying to print in? -- Fortune's graffito of the week (or maybe even month): Don't Write On Walls! (and underneath) You want I should type? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - GIMP question
On Sat, 03 Dec 2005 18:14, Michael Sullivan wrote: It works great in Linux using Mozilla, but when my wife tries to view the page in Internet Explorer the image appears with a white background. What's going wrong here? Any ideas? Probably MS doesnt support png in IE? PNG is an opensource format... -- I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. -- Emo Phillips -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub on a SATA drive
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:45, Heinz Sporn wrote: snip When I boot w/ the grub floppy I do: grub root (hd0,1) Fs is ext2, part type 0x83 grub kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x120, size 0x1463b31] snip ...VFS: Cannot open root device sda6 or unknown block (0,0) Please append correct root boot option Kernel Panic-not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (0,0) In your /boot dir there should be a symlink called /boot which is linked to /boot! So when you have a seperate partition for your /boot area, using /boot/vmlinuz will stay valid through the entire boot process. So then your second line can read... kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda? ... ^^^ -- Larkinson's Law: All laws are basically false. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How does Portage prioritze emerges in emerge world?
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 06:47, Holly Bostick wrote: 1) disable the symlink USE flag and manage the redirect manually, which would enable me to download any kernel at any time without concern for whether a kernel module was upgrading in the same operation; or snip I guess I'll go for option 1, but the long and the short of it is that complete automation is unavailable and my only choice is what I prefer to manage manually. OK, then. sigh Thanks. Holly Yeah it would be nice if there was a system to manage this, but your solution works for me too and its relatively easy to remember what you need to fix when you do a kernel upgrade. I get the feeling that automating this sort of thing is non-trivial. Besides... are we gentoo users or what?! ;) -- Ozmosis: The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub on a SATA drive
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 05:31, maxim wexler wrote: I note grub doesn't like root(sd0,1), returns Error 23: Error while parsing number. But what do I call it? hd0 and hd1 are taken. -mw Just to make sure, remember that grub has to be installed in the boot sector of your drive and it needs a built in reference so it can find the config file and stage2-*s. Assuming you followed the install guides on gentoo.org you would have looked through the following http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2005.0/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=10#doc_chap2 Also consider that grub doesn't understand sda or hda terminology, only numbers. The stuff on the kernel line is for the kernel to pick up and use in conjunction with your /etc/fstab file -- Sigh. I like to think it's just the Linux people who want to be on the leading edge so bad they walk right off the precipice. -- Craig E. Groeschel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Return of My Continuing ALSA woes
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:24, Harold Naparst wrote: snip and then: /etc/init.d/alsasound restart * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service. * Storing ALSA Mixer Levels ... /usr/sbin/alsactl: get_control:149: Cannot read control info '2,0,0,Front Playback Volume,0': Invalid argument [ !! ] * Unloading ALSA ... Looks like the saved mixer settings are corrupt. Find where they live, (/etc/asound.state?) delete or move them, and then load again. Should recreate the default mixer data and then you can play with the volumes to get them set up again. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 04:54, Holly Bostick wrote: Secondly, you're *using* 2.6.14, and you're keeping 2.6.12 around as a fallback. It's very unlikely you're going to actually boot into 2.6.9, and while you may boot into 2.6.12, you are not in fact doing so (because 2.6.14 is working OK). So what is the need for this symlink redirection? For my part I'm playing round with the kernel source in several custom versions and rebooting often when testing for some things. Doing that several times in an hour, re-making the simlink manually can be tedious. So it just takes some of the drudgery out of manually performing this every time. And you know that when you boot the kernel source is in a sane state even if you forgot that you had booted back into your stable kernel and for example there is a new nvidia version available. -- Isn't it ironic that many men spend a great part of their lives avoiding marriage while single-mindedly pursuing those things that would make them better prospects? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] use of /usr/src/linux symlink
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:37, Robert Crawford wrote: I guess it depends on how much updating and compiling you do as too how aggrevating this would become, but since it's no big deal to change it, I'd recommend doing it as a matter of course, so you don't have to stop and do it during an emerge session. Robert Crawford Exactly. Well said. On that note I don't think it needs to be something for the gentoo init scripts to implement, its more a handy thing for users to implement if they wish to, making their day easier :) -- ...all the good computer designs are bootlegged; the formally planned products, if they are built at all, are dogs! bo-- David E. Lundstrom, A Few Good Men From Univac, MIT Press, 1987 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with partition reiserfs
On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 19:29, Rafael Barreto wrote: I'm with a very strange problem with a partition reiserfs. When I installed gentoo I created a partition to save my personal docs and I formatted it with reiserfs filesystem. Today, I was wrinting a little program in python using Kate and, accidentaly, I overwrite a file on that partition. The strange was that Kate don't ask me for a confirmation about that. Kate just overwrote the file. Well, I imagined that comportament was not right and I tried to ovewrite an archive in the partition mounted under /home and Kate, now, ask me for a confirmation. Strange... any idea? Are you sure you were working as the same user? not as root or something? Could have been different user settings. -- Some men are so interested in their wives' continued happiness that they hire detectives to find out the reason for it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot open root device hde4 or uknown-block(0,0)
On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 19:59, Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:54:56PM -0800, Bill Six wrote: VFS: Cannot open root device hde4 or uknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic.. It's a 120 Gig harddrive /dev/hde1 is 20 Gigs, for Windows /dev/hde2 is 32 Megs, for /boot /dev/hde3 is 512 Megs, for swap /dev/hde4 is the rest of the harddrive, for / Any ideas? what do you have in grub.conf? That looks like the right idea to me too. root(0,0) is not what should be in your boot loader. -- BOFH Excuse #200: The monitor needs another box of pixels. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wiping unused space and/or secure erasing of files
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:33, Mike Williams wrote: On Sunday 30 October 2005 09:08, Uwe Thiem wrote: With the right hardware, forensics are *far* beyond this. The NSA *crush* old hardware. You ever seen a car crushed? Complete car, engine, drive train, interior, wheels, everything, crushed into a cube less than a meter cubed. I'd use one of them, and crush lots in one go. Or melt it down. -- Mike Williams Lol better safe than sorry right. All I can say is anyone who designs stuff to do this sort of recovery has my respect. Just looking at a few of the OSS tools available, such as found on http://www.linux-forensics.com/ and http://www.forensiclug.com/ A LOT of man hours in such work! -- Hard reality has a way of cramping your style. -- Daniel Dennett -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wiping unused space and/or secure erasing of files
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:57, Glenn Enright wrote: On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:33, Mike Williams wrote: On Sunday 30 October 2005 09:08, Uwe Thiem wrote: With the right hardware, forensics are *far* beyond this. The NSA *crush* old hardware. You ever seen a car crushed? Complete car, engine, drive train, interior, wheels, everything, crushed into a cube less than a meter cubed. I'd use one of them, and crush lots in one go. Or melt it down. -- Mike Williams Lol better safe than sorry right. All I can say is anyone who designs stuff to do this sort of recovery has my respect. Just looking at a few of the OSS tools available, such as found on http://www.linux-forensics.com/ and http://www.forensiclug.com/ A LOT of man hours in such work! *cough* people-hours ;p. Scuse me -- Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. -- Hannah Arendt. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wiping unused space and/or secure erasing of files
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:42, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: app-misc/secure-delete Description: Secure file/disk/swap/memory erasure utilities Just out of interest, I understand ext3 is pretty good at eliminating old data during delete, because the data structure is so abstract? So in this case a simple rm and poof files gone? Or are forensics beyond this now? -- Birds and bees have as much to do with the facts of life as black nightgowns do with keeping warm. -- Hester Mundis, Powermom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Agetty
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:27, Daniel Faulknor wrote: Hi everyone After my kernel loads i get the message INIT: cannot execute /sbin/agetty INIT: cannot execute /sbin/agetty INIT: cannot execute /sbin/agetty INIT: cannot execute /sbin/agetty INIT: cannot execute /sbin/agetty INIT: cannot execute /sbin/agetty INIT: cannot execute /sbin/agetty INIT: Id c2 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id c3 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id c4 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id c5 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id c6 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel Then the computer just stops - HELP! Thanks Daniel Faulknor -- www.nzguydaniel.blogspot.com http://www.nzguydaniel.blogspot.com you are missing the agetty application that is described in your /etc/inittab file. agetty belongs to sys-apps/util-linux, which you could reemerge by using your livecd and doing the chroot thing like when you installed. either that or you are playing with a new kernel, and forgot to compile support for the filesystem which /sbin is on. Consider that init calls inittab as soon as the kernel is up, so if it stops, you will probably only see a few lines from the kernel on screen and not much else... is this what you are experiencing? -- furbling, v.: Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you are the only person in line. -- Rich Hall, Sniglets -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Agetty
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 02:48, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: either that or you are playing with a new kernel, and forgot to compile support for the filesystem which /sbin is on. If this was the case, how could init be executed, or even read inittab? it is possibly on a separate partition. -- I want to reach your mind -- where is it currently located? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Agetty
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:30, Glenn Enright wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 02:48, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: either that or you are playing with a new kernel, and forgot to compile support for the filesystem which /sbin is on. If this was the case, how could init be executed, or even read inittab? scuse not enough coffee in the veins :(. you are correct -- Tonight's special, blackened leftovers -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Agetty
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:59, Daniel Faulknor wrote: On 10/24/05, Glenn Enright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:27, Daniel Faulknor wrote: Hi everyone After my kernel loads i get the message INIT: cannot execute /sbin/agetty INIT: Id c2 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel Then the computer just stops - HELP! Thanks Daniel Faulknor -- I emerged it but it didnt help - i just restarted the computer and it didnt work - i hadnt done anything to it. It used to work A post on the gentoo forums mentions that having the user option on your /boot and / partitions may break the boot cycle. could you try removing that if its there? Otherwise mabee post /etc/fstab here? The link to the forums is http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-204427-highlight-agetty.html -- I've coined new words, like misunderstanding and Hispanically. George W. Bush March 29, 2001 From speech given at the Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner in Washington, D.C. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] power loss when emerging
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:38, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi all, I had a doubt, I got a power loss when emerging gcc it was almost at final, when I do a emerge --resume, it beguns all over again so my doubt is if there a way to continue compilation from where it stops. thanks, Allan Yeah thats the way portage and emerge works. I'm guessing that the devs decided it was the only safe way to guarantee a sane build, rather than trying to restart the process half way through. -- That's the problem with nature, something's always stinging you or oozing mucous all over you. Let's go and watch TV. --- Calvin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:40, maxim wexler wrote: I used fdisk and mkdosfs to format the first half fat32 but it makes no difference. Did your problems start when you tried to remove windows? Or was the disk just plain flakey to begin with? -- /* The HME is the biggest piece of shit I have ever seen. */ linux-2.6.6/drivers/scsi/esp.h -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying Plugin pop-up, Firefox and Epiphany
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:39, Dave Cameron wrote: Hi All, I'm running Gentoo on a SunBlade 100 SPARC machine, and so can't install Sun Java or Macromedia crap. Does anyone know how/if you can disable the plugin popup on Epiphany and Firefox, it's really frustrating to have these constant nags, especially(sic) since I can't install these binary-only plugins, both because of my social conscience, and because of my platform, I would much appreciate it if someone knew. For firefox, first try going to Menu View --Preferences-- Web Features, and disabling (unchecking) java, javascript and maybee installing software. Close ALL firefox windows and restart to take effect, then test. If this doesnt fix, try typing about:config in URL bar and browse through the many possible settings. Google may be able to help with those. -- Credit ... is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man. -- James Blish -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Setting $TERM in Konsole (and others)
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:57, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I couldn't find it either. What bothers me is that in a Konsole, there's a Settings - Configure Konsole - Session - $TERM setting that looks like it should override anything X does. I would expect that Konsole would be started, change the TERM environment and start the indicated shell. This isn't happening. I guess it's time to look in a bugs database for KDE. ++ kevin On 10/15/05, Glenn Enright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 03:06, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I run Konsole for shell sessions, and things are going slightly wrong. I've tracked it down to the fact that although I've set the Konsole preferences to $TERM=linux, that variable is obdurately xterm. When I put an echo in .bashrc or .bash_profile, it's already xterm. How can I find the culprit? ++ kevin You'll find if you log into a text console (ALT F1, F2 etc), $TERM should be linux. However konsole and others in 'X' are set to xterm so something is being set as X loads. I couldn't find xterm in any of the /etc/env.d files, so its not being picked up there anyhow. Did a little more investigating. When I load a konsole I have a tab down the bottom for each session. To get another session I can click on the icon next to the tabs. If I hold the mouse buttion over this session, I get a list which includes a 'Linux session'. This should have the $TERM variable set correctly for you. -- We will use our technology to enhance uncertainties abroad. George W. Bush March 6, 2000 The president was referring to foreign threats, including terrorism. Quoted in the New York Times. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: CPU Temperature
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 19:57, Jamie Dobbs wrote: I built myself an AMD64 based system a week ago using the following components: Albatron K8NF4U motherboard AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (Socket 939) 1GB DDR Memory Albatron TC6200 video card Motherboard sensors indicate that the CPU core is running at a constant 65 degrees Celcius and this figure does not change more than a degree no matter what is being done, it only increased to 66 degrees C while doing a compile of xorg, kde and gnome which took a few hours. Should I be worried about these figures? The heatsink feels only slightly warm to the touch and I am sure it is seated correctly so I wonder if the BIOS is reporting the right temperatures. Does anyone have the same board that can help me out here? Can anyone point me in the right direction to find out what the acceptable temperature range for my CPU is? Cheers Jamie I'm not an expert on AMD chips but that does seem quite high. With intensive compiles I would expect to see the temp raising about 20 degrees or so, depending on your fan and sink. How are you monitoring the temp? through /proc/acpi/thermal? or just from the bios? Or are you lucky enough to have a readout on your box? -- /* Ugly, ugly fucker. */ linux-2.6.6/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_limit.h -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Setting $TERM in Konsole (and others)
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 03:06, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I run Konsole for shell sessions, and things are going slightly wrong. I've tracked it down to the fact that although I've set the Konsole preferences to $TERM=linux, that variable is obdurately xterm. When I put an echo in .bashrc or .bash_profile, it's already xterm. How can I find the culprit? ++ kevin You'll find if you log into a text console (ALT F1, F2 etc), $TERM should be linux. However konsole and others in 'X' are set to xterm so something is being set as X loads. I couldn't find xterm in any of the /etc/env.d files, so its not being picked up there anyhow. -- We shall take only the greatest minds, the finest soldiers, the most faithful servants. We shall multiply them a thousandfold and release them to usher in a new era of glory. -- Col. Corazon Santiago, The Council of War -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]
Try this... ls -l /usr/src/linux uname -r these should give you the same version. If not you need to adjust the linux symlink to reflect the kernel version you are running. Then cd /usr/src/linux cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) ./ make oldconfig make Now you should be able to do the emerges you wanted to. The point is to have your source tree in working condition, and findable, as opposed to clean. If you run different kernel versions often, try adding a few lines to /etc/conf.d/ like # -- quick hack to ease work of updating kernels and make emerges consistent # ebegin Refreshing kernel source link to running kernel. rm -f /usr/src/linux if ! ln -s /usr/src/linux-$(uname -r) /usr/src/linux then ewarnBugger ... could not update. Please manually create the ewarnsymbolic link '/usr/src/linux' to the running kernel source. ewend 1 fi # -- -- I think we are in Rats' Alley where the dead men lost their bones. -- T.S. Eliot -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:42, Glenn Enright wrote: Try this... ls -l /usr/src/linux uname -r these should give you the same version. If not you need to adjust the linux symlink to reflect the kernel version you are running. Then cd /usr/src/linux cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) ./ make oldconfig make Now you should be able to do the emerges you wanted to. The point is to have your source tree in working condition, and findable, as opposed to clean. If you run different kernel versions often, try adding a few lines to /etc/conf.d/ like scuse :-o ^^^-- /etc/conf.d/local.start # -- quick hack to ease work of updating kernels and make emerges consistent # ebegin Refreshing kernel source link to running kernel. rm -f /usr/src/linux if ! ln -s /usr/src/linux-$(uname -r) /usr/src/linux then ewarnBugger ... could not update. Please manually create the ewarnsymbolic link '/usr/src/linux' to the running kernel source. ewend 1 fi # -- -- I think we are in Rats' Alley where the dead men lost their bones. -- T.S. Eliot -- IBM's original motto: Cogito ergo vendo; vendo ergo sum. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:04, Bogo Mipps wrote: On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:42, Glenn Enright wrote: On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:42, Glenn Enright wrote: Try this... ls -l /usr/src/linux uname -r these should give you the same version. rugosa / # ls -l /usr/src/linux lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 3 14:22 /usr/src/linux - linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 rugosa / # uname -r 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 rugosa / # This looks ok? Yes? So where to from there? No point in the If not? You still need to make sure the sources are 'bedded in' as it were, so perform the stuff described in the second part of my post as well. -- The scum also rises. -- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version [New Thread]
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 22:27, Bogo Mipps wrote: *getfilevar VARIABLE CONFIGFILE * Could not find a usable .config in the kernel source directory. * Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a configured set of Linux sources. * If you are using KBUILD_OUTPUT, please set the environment var so that * it points to the necessary object directory so that it might find .config. Why would the .config that's in the directory not be usable? I just did the make oldconfig make as you suggested - which ran without errors ... Bah! try cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig exit out of that and save in the process. Try the emerge again. Stupid software ;) -- I suppose you expect me to talk. Ö No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die. -- Goldfinger -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sk98lin
On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:00, Martin Ullrich wrote: Hi! I tried both sk98lin (which works with SuSE) and skge. But none of them seems to detect my ethernet card correctly. Martin 2005/10/1, Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED]: IIRC, sk98lin is deprecated; use skge instead (I have one Marvell Yukon Gigabit NIC on my home PC). On 10/1/05, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try: modprobe sk98lin -- #Joseph On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 13:43 +0200, Martin Ullrich wrote: Hi! I recently wanted to Install gentoo on my desktop computer (Acer 1804WSMi Laptop works fine with Gentoo!), but none of my two ethernet cards was working when I booted the universal installation CD. This is the composition of my system: Asus P5AD2 Deluxe Mainboard (Socket 775) Intel P4 3.4 Ghz (Hyperthreading - 2 virtual prozessors) 2G system memory (DDR2 - 533 MHz, bios automatically overclocks to 600MHz) 2x Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet Cards (on board) 2x SATA-Harddisks (disks and controller work fine) 2x PATA CD/DVD ReWriter (working fine) Under SuSE Linux the driver sk98lin for the two ethernet cards works and exports eth0 and eth1, but when I booted the CD and manually modprobe sk98lin the driver, no ethernet cards were found. I found some other stuff about ASUS Mainboards on the Internet (sk98lin related), but it mostly didn't apply to my problem (I got NO error message during loading the module or in dmesg). Does somebody know what I could do? Thankful for every help, Martin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- - Mark Shields I've had a similar experience with gentoo CDs and the same module. You may need to run dhcpd explicitly first. I think it may be something in the boot dependencies, but don't quote me on that. What version of the CD are you using? -- BOFH Excuse #330: quantum decoherence -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is my video card or motherboard going?
On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 04:53, Joseph wrote: All of a sudden I've noticed strange green color around all the letters and icons on desktop, some object have vertical green stripes. Would it be an indication that motherboard or video is going? This bos has ASUS A7V8X Motherboard and GeForce4 MX 440 AGP Video card. -- #Joseph what type of monitor are you using? can you test that on another box to see if it gives a good picture? Also does increasing the colour saturation on the monitor make the problem significantly worse? Make sure there are no new speakers or magnetic things too close by. -- Five rules for eternal misery: (1) Always try to exhort others to look upon you favorably. (2) Make lots of assumptions about situations and be sure to treat these assumptions as though they are reality. (3) Then treat each new situation as though it's a crisis. (4) Live in the past and future only (become obsessed with how much better things might have been or how much worse things might become). (5) Occasionally stomp on yourself for being so stupid as to follow the first four rules. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is my video card or motherboard going?
On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 17:26, Joseph wrote: snip what type of monitor are you using? can you test that on another box to see if it gives a good picture? Also does increasing the colour saturation on the monitor make the problem significantly worse? Make sure there are no new speakers or magnetic things too close by. It seems to me you were right. The problem is with monitor, this is NEC 18in LCD monitor. The good thing is that it just happened one week before warranty is about to expire. -- #Joseph Lol still sucks but good job spotted it now eh. Luck getting it fixed ASAP for you :). -- You will overcome the attacks of jealous associates. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 04:58:12 +, Glenn Enright wrote: I second esync. It is a nice script that runs a little faster than 'emerge sync'. It calls emerge sync, so how can it run faster? # This script imports the current esearch index, # calls `emerge sync` and `eupdatedb` and then # shows the packages which were updated or added # during the sync. #... syncprogram = /usr/bin/emerge sync Umm... i didn't realize that! :p Until now I hadn't actually looked at the esync script. I guess while I was trying it out, subjectively it seemed to do its thing faster. Perhaps that was down to the fact it calls emerge with the verbose option off, which provides less overhead in the terminal. But obviously that is easy enough to do from the command line as well. Still I get the functionality of esearch in the bargain so it suits me. -- To IBM, 'open' means there is a modicum of interoperability among some of their equipment. -- Harv Masterson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:12, Paweł Madej wrote:
Dunc wrote:
For something you should only do once a day, 10 minutes isn't that bad
though.
I sync not day by day but 2-3 times a week but when I sync I want to run
just after it emerge of updates (I follow new ebuilds on [1] site and
run emerge if sth interesting for me appears there).
My other question is if there is some script which could follow rrs from
[1] and run emerge sync and emerge -uND world after there is for example
10 ebuild updated comparing to my system, or other way that it will
email me that there is 10 ebuilds new and i should run sync manually.
Greets
Paweł
I second esync. It is a nice script that runs a little faster than 'emerge
sync'. I have a little script in my daily cron list that follows...
#! /bin/sh
# /etc/cron.daily/esync.automated
#
# Based on rkhunter script by Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Written by Glenn Enright on 14-Oct-2004
#
# Purpose
# To provide a facility to regularly update the portage tree via cron so we
# don't have to remember to do it manually, and send us a list of updates to
# consider.
#
# Requires
# portage to be properly installed. see 'man emerge' for details
# esearch: do 'emerge esearch'
#
# CHANGELOG:
# 19-Oct-2004 - updated to use tool esearch. Improved speed and
# feedback.
# 29-Sep-2005 - Reviewed code and did some tidying up. Changed file
# group to wheel to allow easier administration.
#
#
# ENABLEMENT OPTIONS
# set to no if you don't want to run this script
#
ENABLE=yes
# set to 'yes' if you wish the output to be mailed to you
#
SEND_EMAIL=yes
#
# OPERATIONAL COMMANDS
# main command
# fixme: is nice needed with 2.6 kernel?
CMD=nice esync --nocolor --nospinner
# NOTE: the rest of these options are only relevant
# if you set SEND_EMAIL to 'yes'
#
EMAIL_SUBJECT=${HOSTNAME}: 'esync' output
EMAIL_RECIPIENT=root
EMAIL_CMD=| mail -s \${EMAIL_SUBJECT}\ ${EMAIL_RECIPIENT}
#
if [ ${ENABLE} = yes ]; then
if [ -x /usr/bin/emerge ]; then
#---
# test to see if we want to send success/failure email
#
if [ ${SEND_EMAIL} = yes ]; then
CMD=${CMD} ${EMAIL_CMD}
else
CMD=${CMD} /dev/null
fi
# --
# --
# check to see if emerge is already running so
# we dont interupt it. fail gracefully if it is
#
if [ ! ps -ax | grep -c emerge ]; then
# NB: the following text is formated from the margin.
MAIL_WARN_MESSAGE=echo -e ' ** WARNING ** : The program 'emerge' is
currently running. Please wait for the next scheduled update or run esync
manually.'
eval exec ${MAIL_WARN_MESSAGE} ${EMAIL_CMD}
else
# actually do the thing
eval exec ${CMD}
fi
# -
fi
fi
# EOF
--
The programmers of old were mysterious and profound. We cannot fathom
their thoughts, so all we do is describe their appearance.
Aware, like a fox crossing the water. Alert, like a general on the
battlefield. Kind, like a hostess greeting her guests. Simple, like uncarved
blocks of wood. Opaque, like black pools in darkened caves.
Who can tell the secrets of their hearts and minds?
The answer exists only in the Tao.
-- Geoffrey James, The Tao of Programming
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Re: [gentoo-user] codec drivers problem.
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 08:45, David Harel wrote: Jonathan, Thanks for your explanation. I still don't get it. The command emerge should have done the dependent packages before doing the desirable package anyway. Also, if I have to specify additional packages while doing mplayer, how do I add them? but last thing. I did emerge win32codec and THEN mplayer and that didn't work. Ok let me take a crack at this. The dependant packages ARE installed as needed. But this is ho it works. USE flags are there to enable various bonus features of packages that you may like. IF you want to enable certain features then you change the USE flags in /etc/make.conf right? However its not as simple as just remerging the package, because other dependencies may be affected by the change in USE flags too. To catch all this emerge has an option --newuse, which tells the system to update all packages that have their use flags changed. So change your USE flags to include any features you want on your system, then run emerge --ask --newuse --verbose world or emerge -avN world This should show you a list of packages with the use flags listed next to each package and any flags that have changed will be highlighted with a '*', and you can type y or n in answer to the question about making it happen. If you change a lot of flags you may have a very long list of packages to update, but its worth it long term, because you get a functional feature set, that works for you :). As stated previously on this list, USE flags are described in the portage tree in /$PORTAGEDIR/profiles/use.desc Most of this info is from 'man emerge' BTW. -- Now I'm being INVOLUNTARILY shuffled closer to the CLAM DIP with the BROKEN PLASTIC FORKS in it!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:18, Holly Bostick wrote: Dave Nebinger schreef: /usr/src/- linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 exists You need to link /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4, as in: # cd /usr/src # ln -sf linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 linux Dave Or, dicing it down even further: /usr/src/linux is not a folder. linux is a symlink in the /usr/src/ folder. This symlink, because it is targeted, either manually or automatically, to the last-installed kernel source-- which is not necessarily the same as the currently running kernel-- is used by applications which need to know what version of the kernel to compile against. What your error is saying is that it cannot determine what kernel source to compile against, because the 'linux' symlink in /usr/src (/usr/src/linux, thus) does not exist, or is not valid (does not point to a kernel source). In your case, it does not seem to exist. Holly Also one I came across is if the sources are in vanilla condition (ie youve run 'make mrproper' or similar) then the version hasnt been stamped out yet, which confuses some programs. I had to do a config and then make to get them in acceptable shape. This was way back with 2.6.5 I think. -- Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it. George W. Bush May 20, 1996 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:17, Holly Bostick wrote: So, I would ask: Is the source that /usr/src/linux links to configured? Has it been compiled? Holly Point taken. As always your posts are detailed and helpful :) -- PIZZA!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP
On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 04:40, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, OK, the target machine is now rebuilt. I decided since I had to rebuild both WinXP and Gentoo that I'd just put them on the same hard drive. The Gentoo install is complete right up to the point where I run grub and write it somewhere and I want to make sure I understand the right way to do this. The disk layout is like this (MBR) - Win XP /dev/hda1 - Win XP /dev/hda2 - extended partition /dev/hda5 - /boot /dev/hda6 - swap /dev/hda7 - / /dev/hda8 - /home Now, my question, where do I write grub? I believe it's into the MBR and not into partition 1, correct? If so I'd use: grub grub root (hd0,4) grub setup (hd0) (Install GRUB in the MBR) grub quit Youve got the right idea, but hd0,4 is the logical holder for your linux partitions, not the boot partition that holds the grub files. So root is your /boot partition, ie hd0,5. All this information can be found in your info files for grub, and by using your method, section 3.2 (Installing Grub Natively) -- Breaking up Microsoft isn't enough. What the court needs to do is start breaking kneecaps. -- The BSD Daemon, when asked by Humorix for his reaction to the proposed Microsoft two-way split -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Dock Application
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:56, Michael Crute wrote: This is kind of off topic but could someone please look at this screenshot (http://pstudios.ath.cx/screenshots/kody-nov-4-04.png) and tell me what dock (or icon set) this guy is using. Thanks -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware. In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates? If we could access it then maybee we would... -- When you're in command, command. -- Admiral Nimitz -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Root login, KDE-3.4
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:34, Ted Ozolins wrote: Just completed an emerge -uvD world on all my systems here. The update went extremely smooth, many thanks to the Gentoo developers and package maintainer. Now root is not permitted to login to KDE, which is just fine by me except for login into my lab-rat. My test machine is placed on the net only as a user and when I need to upgrade, the rest of the time it is not on the net. I use the lab-rat to test new hardware/software and its convenient to be logged in as root. How do I enable root login in kdm? TIA -- Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C do you mean you cant use the root login name or that there is no icon for root in kdm? you should be able to type root in the username box and passswd as per normal. Why you would really want to escapes me right now tho, cause all the important stuff can be done with control center or konsole using su. just my 2c. -- Hildebrant's Principle: If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:44, Mark Knecht wrote: Humm... I tried gkrellm2 on one machine. It runs but I haven't figured out how to make it show me fans and temps. I wonder if this older Asus A7V266-E machine can do that? I also emerge gkrellm-sensors but I'll have to find some info on how to use that. Possibly it's part of the solution. Thanks, Mark Ok fair nough. I belive that gkrellm2 has most of the plugins as part of its emerge, sorta like a monlithic ebuild, wheras gkrellm-sensors is part of gkrelm version1. to configure right click on gkrelm and look for sensors under plugins. If everything is working, there should be a big list of checkboxes there you may enable. if you modprobe these modules *after* starting gkrellm it wont pick them up tho. -- I WILL NOT CUT CORNERS Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 7F11 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] kopete emerge fails on test
Im having problems compiling newer 'stable' versions of kopete with the tests active. It dies on kpasswordtest. Any kde gurus able to tell me why? I didnt really understand the source. -- Alaska: A prelude to No. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hints for using Unison?
On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 17:16, Mark Knecht wrote: On 7/31/05, Glenn Enright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 11:52, Mark Knecht wrote: On 7/31/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Possibly this problem is really an NFS issue or a 1394 issue? Neither of these are overly tested, at least on my system under Gentoo. I ran the same system with FC2 for quite awhile. 1394 worked fine as far as I could tell, but I never used NFS much and I only jsut set up NFS today to try out Unison so maybe it's one of those systems causing the problem? Is the NFS filesystem mounted read-only? -- No Glenn, it's mounted read/write and I tested that I Could write it from the machine running Unison. I tried running Unison on a directory containing a single CD. It hung up on that also. After the hang up the machine is really unhappy rebooting. It gives me messages about being unable to unmoust the NFS filesystems. Thanks, Mark thanks, Mark Ok just a thought :). Last time I had a dodgy program Zac Medico suggested I run strace on it, so in your case from a command prompt... # strace unison dir1 dir2 Does using a different terminal program make any difference? maybee using screen?. Not an expert here you understand just trying to fit peices in the puzzle. -- Life, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it. -- Marvin the paranoid android pgpNekwLGB12H.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Hints for using Unison?
On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 11:52, Mark Knecht wrote: On 7/31/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Possibly this problem is really an NFS issue or a 1394 issue? Neither of these are overly tested, at least on my system under Gentoo. I ran the same system with FC2 for quite awhile. 1394 worked fine as far as I could tell, but I never used NFS much and I only jsut set up NFS today to try out Unison so maybe it's one of those systems causing the problem? Is the NFS filesystem mounted read-only? -- Speak the truth. That is always much easier, and is often the most powerful argument. -- Bene Gesserit Axiom pgp3FMykjmfLN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] gzip segmentation fault
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:02, Zac Medico wrote: Glenn Enright wrote: Bugger. was afraid of that. Ive been running gcc3.4 for a while which needs some ~x86 stuff (glibc). Umm... static doesnt change. Strace on gzip isnt very interesting, gunzip gives me a stat64 file error towards the end... My system is mostly ~x86 stuff and I've never had a problem like yours. I currently use glibc-2.3.5 and gcc-3.4.3-r1 with no noticeable troubles. I was going to suggest that you check the digests on glibc with equery check glibc but looking back at the original email I see that you already rebuilt it. It looks like you definitely need to look at the toolchain (things listed in emerge --info like binutils and gcc). Zac ok thanks heaps for all your help. back to the drawing board... -- === ALL CSH USERS PLEASE NOTE Set the variable $LOSERS to all the people that you think are losers. This will cause all said losers to have the variable $PEOPLE-WHO-THINK-I-AM-A-LOSER updated in their .login file. Should you attempt to execute a job on a machine with poor response time and a machine on your local net is currently populated by losers, that machine will be freed up for your job through a cold boot process. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
