Re: [gentoo-user] dbus running but who started it?
Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hi, I'm looking at my system and I'm surprised to find dbus running, since I put -dbus -hal in my /etc/make.conf. msoul...@anton:~$ ps -ef | grep dbus | grep -v grep msoulier 9221 1 0 Apr12 ?00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 4 --print-address 6 --session msoulier 9222 1 0 Apr12 tty1 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session msoul...@anton:~$ rc-config list | grep dbus dbus I didn't configure it to start, so something started it. I'm running XFCE4 so I suspect it started it, since it's running as me and not root. So lets see who needs it. msoul...@anton:~$ equery belongs /usr/bin/dbus-daemon [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/dbus-daemon in *... ] sys-apps/dbus-1.2.3-r1 (/usr/bin/dbus-daemon) msoul...@anton:~$ emerge --pretend --verbose --depclean sys-apps/dbus Calculating dependencies... done! sys-apps/dbus-1.2.3-r1 pulled in by: dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.76 No packages selected for removal by depclean Packages installed: 631 Packages in world:155 Packages in system: 51 Required packages:631 Number to remove: 0 msoul...@anton:~$ emerge --pretend --verbose --depclean sys-apps/dbus-glib No packages selected for removal by depclean That's odd. Nothing needs it? Then who started it? It's daemonized so I don't see a parent process beyond init. Mike Since it appears you have equery installed you can do: equery depends sys-apps/dbus-glib That should list all the packages requiring dbus. --Joshua Doll
Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources
Thanasis wrote: Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources? usr/src/linux/drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_vga16.ppm Why did they substitute the penguin with this ugly disguised mouse? Here's my link on the subject: http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2009/03/new-logo.html --Joshua Doll
Re: [gentoo-user] start X at startup without a login manager
Florian Philipp wrote: fei huang schrieb: I don't have any xdm, gdm stuff but would like to start my windows manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that use it. You know that this is a possible security thread? Anyone who has access to your computer can simply press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and enter the console session you used to start x-server. Locking your X-session won't help against that. You can disable vt switching with: Option DontVTSwitch boolean in the server section of the xorg.conf --Joshua Doll
Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.5.2-r7 build problems
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I had two machine that for some reason wouldn't build the 2.5 slot for python. I've waited weeks for the possibility that something would get cleaned up in portage or on a server somewhere but as of yet it hasn't happened. For kicks today I cleaned out distfiles and did an emerge -e @system but it failed the same way. I'm wondering what to try next? Is it allowable to remove ebuilds by hand? Will an eix-sync get new versions if ebuilds are missing and I change the servers that the machine is pointing to? Looking for ideas about how to move forward. Thanks, Mark What's the error message? --Joshua Doll
Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.5.2-r7 build problems
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I had two machine that for some reason wouldn't build the 2.5 slot
for python. I've waited weeks for the possibility that something would
get cleaned up in portage or on a server somewhere but as of yet it
hasn't happened. For kicks today I cleaned out distfiles and did an
emerge -e @system but it failed the same way. I'm wondering what to
try next?
Is it allowable to remove ebuilds by hand? Will an eix-sync get new
versions if ebuilds are missing and I change the servers that the
machine is pointing to?
Looking for ideas about how to move forward.
Thanks,
Mark
What's the error message?
--Joshua Doll
Not much unfortunately:
Compiling
/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7/image//usr/lib/python2.5/xml/sax/xmlreader.py
...
Compiling
/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7/image//usr/lib/python2.5/xmllib.py
...
Compiling
/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7/image//usr/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py
...
Compiling
/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7/image//usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py
...
make: *** [libinstall] Error 1
^[[31;01m*^[[0m
^[[31;01m*^[[0m ERROR: dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7 failed.
^[[31;01m*^[[0m Call stack:
^[[31;01m*^[[0m ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_install
^[[31;01m*^[[0m environment, line 3469: Called die
^[[31;01m*^[[0m The specific snippet of code:
^[[31;01m*^[[0m make DESTDIR=${D} altinstall maninstall || die;
^[[31;01m*^[[0m The die message:
^[[31;01m*^[[0m (no error message)
^[[31;01m*^[[0m
^[[31;01m*^[[0m If you need support, post the topmost build error,
and the call stack if relevant.
^[[31;01m*^[[0m A complete build log is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7/temp/build.log'.
^[[31;01m*^[[0m The ebuild environment file is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.5.2-r7/temp/environment'.
^[[31;01m*^[[0m
I might be mistaken, but I don't think that is make error message. You
might want to check further up in the build.log for more information.
--Joshua Doll
Re: [gentoo-user] The Linux Ecosystem (with funny references to Gentoo vs Canonical)
Roy Wright wrote: Mick wrote: On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Joshua D Doll wrote: Saphirus Sage wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1069 I found it quite interesting that even Gentoo beat Canonical in the amount of patches contributed upstream... Good find, I actually didn't know about E-Trade using Gentoo servers. I don't think it should be too surprising that Gentoo would contribute more patches than Conical, as until today, I'd only actually heard of one of them. This video brought up an interesting question by my friend (an ubuntu user). How would one go about getting Canonical or the ubuntu community to change their practice of not contributing fixes back upstream? Without having to change distributions. Gentoo involves you more with what goes bad under the bonnet and the average Gentoo user is more interested in the workings of their OS to attempt troubleshooting it and filing bugs. Your average Ubuntu user is less likely to get their hands dirty, unless they are a dev. So, essentially we are talking about different user profiles here. To answer your friend's hypothetical question - he would either have to change your average Ubuntu's user technical aptitude, or change the user. Either attempt may mean the end of Ubuntu as we know it. The ubuntus are targeted at disgruntled windows users while gentoo is targeted at unix users. The former are used to complaining and getting no response while the later know it's their responsibility to help make it better... Have fun, Roy I think you may be right with your assessment there Roy. The only solution I could up with was to change distributions he didn't like that suggestion, not sure why, because changing distros is like changing underwear. Maybe he has some strange fascination with Ubunutu's pretty color scheme? --Joshua Doll //
Re: [gentoo-user] The Linux Ecosystem (with funny references to Gentoo vs Canonical)
Saphirus Sage wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1069 I found it quite interesting that even Gentoo beat Canonical in the amount of patches contributed upstream... Good find, I actually didn't know about E-Trade using Gentoo servers. I don't think it should be too surprising that Gentoo would contribute more patches than Conical, as until today, I'd only actually heard of one of them. This video brought up an interesting question by my friend (an ubuntu user). How would one go about getting Canonical or the ubuntu community to change their practice of not contributing fixes back upstream? Without having to change distributions. --Joshua Doll
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: gentoo's installer is EASY if you just read the docs. I'd rather be installing and waiting for the installer to tell me what to do rather than go read docs somewhere else :P and when the nice installer fucks up, you are screwed. You're screwed anyway if you can't use the CLI installer correctly. Reading the docs is fine, but they're written for geeks, not normal people. Normal people don't have a clue what the docs are talking about :) I think the Handbook and other Official gentoo docs are well and written. I feel they are so well written and informative that a new user could read and follow what the doc is trying to convey. --Joshua Doll
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote: I think the Handbook and other Official gentoo docs are well and written. I feel they are so well written and informative that a new user could read and follow what the doc is trying to convey. --Joshua Doll I agree. Everything except the grub part. It's well written but it requires more knowledge about the actual hardware than the rest of it, especially if you do it wrong and have to recover. I helped my brother install Ubuntu and the lack of control over grub was frustrating. It just did what it wanted to do without asking (which was install grub onto the wrong drive with the wrong drive numbers, because the BIOS boot order did not match Ubuntu's detected drive order). If that drive had been part of a RAID or had some important metadata in the boot sector, it could have been a disaster. No distro is perfect. Gentoo is perfect for me, though :) I think you mean to say no boot loader is perfect. ;-) --Joshua Doll
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?
Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote: I think the Handbook and other Official gentoo docs are well and written. I feel they are so well written and informative that a new user could read and follow what the doc is trying to convey. --Joshua Doll I agree. Everything except the grub part. It's well written but it requires more knowledge about the actual hardware than the rest of it, especially if you do it wrong and have to recover. I helped my brother install Ubuntu and the lack of control over grub was frustrating. It just did what it wanted to do without asking (which was install grub onto the wrong drive with the wrong drive numbers, because the BIOS boot order did not match Ubuntu's detected drive order). If that drive had been part of a RAID or had some important metadata in the boot sector, it could have been a disaster. No distro is perfect. Gentoo is perfect for me, though :) I completely agree. I like the control also. I only took a *very* small exception to Joshua's statement that a 'new user' could read, follow it and understand what it's telling him/her to do and then do it and come out with a working machine. I think it's true if the new user builds exactly the 3 partition example shown in the docs and does *only* the very basic install on a machine that doesn't have Windows, etc. However I think that the docs (not the software!) could be improved to handle things like dual-boot, either another distro or windows, etc. which personally I think 'new users' come up against. Issues about stuff like where to put the MBR, why and why not to do that sort of thing, requires (or is vastly enhanced) if that new user has some knowledge about hard drives, booting, etc. - Mark I 100% agree that the docs can and should cover more. Maybe a flowchart would be useful? --Joshua Doll
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote: I think the Handbook and other Official gentoo docs are well and written. I feel they are so well written and informative that a new user could read and follow what the doc is trying to convey. --Joshua Doll I agree. Everything except the grub part. It's well written but it requires more knowledge about the actual hardware than the rest of it, especially if you do it wrong and have to recover. I helped my brother install Ubuntu and the lack of control over grub was frustrating. It just did what it wanted to do without asking (which was install grub onto the wrong drive with the wrong drive numbers, because the BIOS boot order did not match Ubuntu's detected drive order). If that drive had been part of a RAID or had some important metadata in the boot sector, it could have been a disaster. No distro is perfect. Gentoo is perfect for me, though :) I think you mean to say no boot loader is perfect. ;-) --Joshua Doll The ubuntu installer did not tell me which drive it was installing the boot loader onto, nor did it give me a choice -- it chose the one it thought was appropriate (and it was wrong). If you google for ubuntu grub sata ide you can see it happens to nearly everyone who has a mixture of IDE and SATA drives where they boot from IDE but linux gives sda to sata and sdc to IDE or whatever. Actually the kernel has assigned most hdd, etc. some form of sd* for awhile now. The only thing that is labeled different, that I've seen in awhile is my dvd burner. Anyways getting to my statement I was being facetious. I can't think of a single piece of software that is perfect, except for maybe hello, world!, but that's not very useful. --Joshua Doll
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?
Dale wrote: Joshua D Doll wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I completely agree. I like the control also. I only took a *very* small exception to Joshua's statement that a 'new user' could read, follow it and understand what it's telling him/her to do and then do it and come out with a working machine. I think it's true if the new user builds exactly the 3 partition example shown in the docs and does *only* the very basic install on a machine that doesn't have Windows, etc. However I think that the docs (not the software!) could be improved to handle things like dual-boot, either another distro or windows, etc. which personally I think 'new users' come up against. Issues about stuff like where to put the MBR, why and why not to do that sort of thing, requires (or is vastly enhanced) if that new user has some knowledge about hard drives, booting, etc. - Mark I 100% agree that the docs can and should cover more. Maybe a flowchart would be useful? --Joshua Doll I wish the man pages had more examples. Give me a real world example and I can wrap my poor brain around what it should look like when I do something. Dale :-) :-) Man pages are notoriously bad. The gentoo handbook and other official docs are great OTOH. --Joshua Doll
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?
Saphirus Sage wrote: Joshua D Doll wrote: Dale wrote: Joshua D Doll wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I completely agree. I like the control also. I only took a *very* small exception to Joshua's statement that a 'new user' could read, follow it and understand what it's telling him/her to do and then do it and come out with a working machine. I think it's true if the new user builds exactly the 3 partition example shown in the docs and does *only* the very basic install on a machine that doesn't have Windows, etc. However I think that the docs (not the software!) could be improved to handle things like dual-boot, either another distro or windows, etc. which personally I think 'new users' come up against. Issues about stuff like where to put the MBR, why and why not to do that sort of thing, requires (or is vastly enhanced) if that new user has some knowledge about hard drives, booting, etc. - Mark I 100% agree that the docs can and should cover more. Maybe a flowchart would be useful? --Joshua Doll I wish the man pages had more examples. Give me a real world example and I can wrap my poor brain around what it should look like when I do something. Dale :-) :-) Man pages are notoriously bad. The gentoo handbook and other official docs are great OTOH. --Joshua Doll Man pages notoriously bad?! Now that's a stance I can hardly understand, they've always been a godsend in my experience! Just practice using a command a few times, look through the options and learn it in the period of ten minutes, and a man page has done its purpose. If this stance is due to your own inadequate ability to read technical documents, then do not apply the lacking to anything but your own capacity for comprehension. Just cause you haven't run across an uninformative/incomplete man page doesn't mean others haven't. Also man pages lacking valuable information is the reason why GNU has switched to the majority of their packages to using info! You shouldn't flame someone because your experiences are different from their's. --Joshua Doll
Re: [gentoo-user] Internet radio?
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Kenneth Prugh ken69...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:03:41 -0800
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
What keywords are required to get Amarok 2 to build? I'm not clear
what ~*2.0.1.1 means.
So from the man page it says that ~* means:
This version is masked by missing keyword, stable on no
architecture, but unstable
on an alien architecture.
Is there a way for me to build this for an amd64 machine? I tried
portage.keywords with:
media-sound/amarok ~amd64 *~
Do I need something in portage.unmask?
Masked by missing keyword requires:
media-sound/amarok **
in package.keywords if I remember correctly
Thanks. That does seem to wake things up.
Not sure now if I want to do this. It's forcing me to unmask lots of
KDE-4 packages and also to rebuild mysql with an 'embedded' flag. I
seem to remember something about that causing problems for mythtv. Not
sure.
Thanks,
Mark
I give up. I'm at 17 packages I have to unmask and I don't know how to
get portage to give me the list of all packages that have to be
unmasked. This jsut goes on and on, one package at a time.
I think it's not reasonable for me to build this at this time.
Thanks for your help,
Mark
media-sound/amarok ~amd64 **
=kde-base/plasma-workspace-4.1 ~amd64
=kde-base/kdepimlibs-3.1 ~amd64
=kde-base/kdelibs-4.1 ~amd64
=dev-util/cmake-2.6.2 ~amd64
=app-misc/strigi-0.5.7 ~amd64
dev-libs/soprano ~amd64
=kde-base/kdebase-data-4.1 ~amd64
=kde-base/qimageblitz-0.0.4 ~amd64
=media-sound/phonon-4.2.0 ~amd64
=kde-base/automoc-0.9.87 ~amd64
app-office/akonadi-server ~amd64
=kde-base/libkworkspace-4.1.4 ~amd64
=kde-base/soliduiserver-4.1.4 ~amd64
=kde-base/libtaskmanager-4.1.4 ~amd64
=kde-base/libplasma-4.1.4 ~amd64
=kde-base/kde-menu-icons-4.1.4 ~amd64
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 emerge -p xorg-x11|awk '/ebuild/{print $4
}'|sed 's/-[0-9].*/ ~amd64/' /etc/portage/package.keywords
Replace xorg-x11 with your package and ~amd64 with the keyword for the
package you are trying to unmask.
--Joshua Doll
Re: [gentoo-user] rebuilding dependent packages
Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hi, I recently did an emerge --update --deep world, which resulted in a rebuild of the ffmpeg library. The libavcodec library went from version 51 to 52, which broke transcode. The --deep argument did not find the dependency there and rebuild transcode. On my FreeBSD server, portupgrade has the -r and -R arguments to force rebuilds of dependent and reverse-dependent packages. Is there a way to have emerge do the same? Thanks, Mike I'm thinking you might want to check out revdep-rebuild from the gentoolkit package. --Joshua Doll
Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server + gentoo-sources-2.6.26, anyone?
James wrote: All, I upgrade gentoo-sources to 2.6.26 a few days ago and just noticed that vmware-server doesn't play nice with the new kernel. I've seen bug ID 227303, but haven't been successful in patching vmware-server as some of the comments in the bug indicate. Anyone been able to get vmware-server to work with the new kernel? -j You might want to have a gander at this bug report. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227303 Joshua Doll
Re: [gentoo-user] idea on updates
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:22:00 + (UTC), James wrote: Why, could the dev add an option that parses out all of those pesky admin things into either a singular log file? Or better yet, a gui popup that lists just those instructions for each package. Then a lazy admin could go through them, take whatever action necessary, and then just kill the pop-up. Do you mean like the elog system that can write this information to a separate log file, email it to you, pass it to a command or any combination of these? There are also elog viewers in portage, although I have no experience of these, I use my mailer to read these messages. I concur elog is great. I have it e-mail me a single file after I've run updates or installed anything. It's stupid simple to setup too. --Joshua Doll
Re: [gentoo-user] confusing blocker in gnome update
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
I was away for two weeks and am not trying to do an --update world.
Gnome 2.22 has gone stable so there are a number of pkgs to emerge and
a few blockers. (full output is below)
I can't understand the first blocker msg
[blocks B ] media-video/totem-2.21 (is blocking
dev-libs/totem-pl-parser-2.22.3)
It seems clear enough and the ebuild for the parser does have
DEPEND=${RDEPEND}
!media-video/totem-2.21
=dev-util/intltool-0.35
doc? ( dev-util/gtk-doc )
But I don't have totem-2.21 installed
allan gottlieb # eix --verbose totem
* dev-libs/totem-pl-parser
Available versions: ~2.22.2 2.22.3 {doc hal}
Best versions/slot: 2.22.3
Homepage:http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/
Description: Playlist parsing library
License: LGPL-2
* media-video/totem
Available versions: 2.18.3 2.20.3 ~2.20.4 ~2.22.1 ~2.22.2 2.22.2-r1 {a52
bluetooth debug dvd ffmpeg flac galago gnome hal lirc mad mpeg nautilus
nsplugin nvtv ogg python seamonkey theora tracker vorbis xulrunner xv}
Installed versions: Version: 2.20.3
Date:22:23:17 07/21/08
USE: bluetooth dvd gnome hal mad mpeg ogg python
vorbis xv -a52 -debug -ffmpeg -flac -galago -lirc -nsplugin -nvtv -seamonkey
-theora -xulrunner
Best versions/slot: 2.22.2-r1
Recommendation: Upgrade
Homepage:http://gnome.org/projects/totem/
Description: Media player for GNOME
License: GPL-2 LGPL-2
Found 2 matches.
allan gottlieb #
I tried just merging totem (w and w/o deep) and again received the
block.
Any help would be appreciated.
allan
PS Here is the full output of the --update world
allan gottlieb # emerge --ask --verbose --deep --tree --newuse --update world
These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
Calculating world dependencies... done!
[ebuild U ] gnome-base/gnome-2.22.2 [2.20.3] USE=cdr cups dvdr esd ldap -accessibility -mono 0 kB
[nomerge ] media-sound/sound-juicer-2.22.0 [2.20.1-r1] USE=-debug -test (-flac%) (-ogg%*)
[ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-cdparanoia-0.10.20 [0.10.14] 1,940 kB
[nomerge ] media-sound/sound-juicer-2.22.0 [2.20.1-r1] USE=-debug -test (-flac%) (-ogg%*)
[nomerge ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta-0.10-r2 [0.10] USE=X alsa dvd%* esd mad%* mpeg%* ogg%* vorbis%* xv -a52% -dvb% -ffmpeg% -flac% -mythtv% -oss -theora%
[ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-mpeg2dec-0.10.8 [0.10.6] 865 kB
[ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-vorbis-0.10.20 [0.10.14] 0 kB
[ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-ogg-0.10.20 [0.10.14] 0 kB
[ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.10.8 [0.10.6] 0 kB
[ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-esd-0.10.8 [0.10.6] 1,873 kB
[ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-a52dec-0.10.8 [0.10.6] 0 kB
[ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.10.20 [0.10.14] 0 kB
[ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-xvideo-0.10.20 [0.10.14] 0 kB
[ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-dvdread-0.10.8 [0.10.6] 0 kB
[nomerge ] gnome-base/gnome-2.22.2 [2.20.3] USE=cdr cups dvdr esd ldap -accessibility -mono
[nomerge ] media-video/totem-2.22.2-r1 [2.20.3] USE=bluetooth gnome python -debug -galago -lirc -nautilus% -nsplugin -nvtv -seamonkey -tracker% -xulrunner (-a52%) (-dvd%*) (-ffmpeg%) (-flac%) (-hal%*) (-mad%*) (-mpeg%*) (-ogg%*) (-theora%) (-vorbis%*) (-xv%*)
[ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-pango-0.10.20 [0.10.14] 0 kB
[ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-gnomevfs-0.10.20 [0.10.14] 0 kB
[ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-x-0.10.20 [0.10.14] 0 kB
[ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-gconf-0.10.8-r1 [0.10.6] 0 kB
[ebuild N] gnome-extra/swfdec-gnome-2.22.2 USE=-debug 164 kB
[ebuild N] media-libs/swfdec-0.6.6-r1 USE=alsa gstreamer gtk -doc -ffmpeg -oss -pulseaudio 8,568 kB
[ebuild U ] media-libs/gst-plugins-good-0.10.8-r1 [0.10.6] USE=-debug 0 kB
[ebuild U ] media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.20 [0.10.14] USE=nls%* -debug (-X%*) (-alsa%*) (-esd%*) (-oss%) (-xv%*) 0 kB
[ebuild U ]media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.20 [0.10.14] USE=nls%* -debug% -test% 2,201 kB
[nomerge ] gnome-base/gnome-2.22.2 [2.20.3] USE=cdr cups dvdr esd ldap -accessibility -mono
[nomerge ] dev-python/gnome-python-desktop-2.22.0 [2.20.0] USE=X eds%* -debug -doc
[nomerge ] media-video/totem-2.22.2-r1 [2.20.3] USE=bluetooth gnome python -debug -galago -lirc -nautilus% -nsplugin -nvtv -seamonkey -tracker% -xulrunner (-a52%) (-dvd%*) (-ffmpeg%) (-flac%) (-hal%*) (-mad%*) (-mpeg%*) (-ogg%*) (-theora%) (-vorbis%*) (-xv%*)
[nomerge ]media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta-0.10-r2 [0.10] USE=X alsa dvd%* esd mad%* mpeg%* ogg%* vorbis%* xv -a52% -dvb% -ffmpeg% -flac% -mythtv% -oss -theora%
[ebuild U ]
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.26, rtc problem
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === On Friday 18 July 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: === On Friday 18 July 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! After upgrading to 2.6.26 I have got a problem with starting hwclock service - it doesn't find /dev/rtc. I have tried to add rtc_cmos to /conf.d/modules, but the module loads after the service starting. So, questions are: 1. How to force the module loading be before the service starting? I believe /etc/modules.d/* may do it. AFAIK it runs very early in the init sequence -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com If understand well, those files (in /etc/modules.d/) contain configuration options for modules rather a list of modules to load. The was /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 file wich at some update point magically disappered. I think Gentoo developers suppose some replacement for this file. Andrew I still have that file on one of my systems. My other system is running openrc which does not have that file but it does have /etc/conf.d/modules. --Joshua Doll -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.26, rtc problem
Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
=== On Friday 18 July 2008, Joshua D Doll wrote: ===
Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
=== On Friday 18 July 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: ===
On Friday 18 July 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
Hi!
After upgrading to 2.6.26 I have got a problem with starting hwclock
service - it doesn't find /dev/rtc. I have tried to add rtc_cmos
to /conf.d/modules, but the module loads after the service starting.
So, questions are:
1. How to force the module loading be before the service starting?
I believe /etc/modules.d/* may do it. AFAIK it runs very early in the
init sequence
--
Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
If understand well, those files (in /etc/modules.d/) contain
configuration options for modules rather a list of modules to load.
The was /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 file wich at some update
point magically disappered. I think Gentoo developers suppose some
replacement for this file.
Andrew
I still have that file on one of my systems. My other system is running
openrc which does not have that file but it does have
/etc/conf.d/modules.
--Joshua Doll
'hwclock' contains this fragment:
ebegin Setting system clock using the hardware clock [${utc}]
if [ -e /proc/modules -a ! -e /dev/rtc ]; then
modprobe -q rtc || modprobe -q genrtc
fi
But there are no such modules at all :-) I have installed openrc since
april, but have got time-related problem only now.
Andrew
I was just letting you know where the file moved to for auto-loading
modules. I'm not sure why hwclock isn't loading the module. You could
try changing the modprobe -q to modprobe -v. To make the output verbose.
--Joshua Doll
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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Screensaver to slideshow photos?
Grant wrote: Does anyone know of a screensaver app in portage (xscreensaver?) that will slideshow through photos? How about using the internet as a source for the photos? - Grant There's webcollage in xscreensaver that will grab photos off the net and make a collage out of them. Gnome-screensaver has one that will do local files, but good luck configuring that POS. --Joshua Doll -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software
Eric Martin wrote: Before I recreated the wheel, does anybody know of any good library management software (preferably in portage)? My wife and I are having a hard time keeping track of what books we have, and what books we are lending out to people so I figured this would be a good way to keep track. Since it's for personal use it doesn't have to be anything big. Preferably backended by MySQL as I already have a server running for MythTV and Amarok. I did a few eix searches for portage and came up empty handed, and sourceforge.net has a ton of stuff but I was wondering what other people use. Thanks! Have you looked at alexandria? http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/index.html. --Joshua Doll -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild wants to downgrade packages!
John covici wrote: Hi. I just emerged the firefox 3.0 which required a new version also of xulrunner. Now if I run revdep-rebuild, it wants to downgrade both of these packages. A number of packages seem to depend on libnss3.so.11 libsmime3.so.11 libssl3.so.11 . How can I resolve this conflict? Thanks in advance for any ideas on this. I believe you want to run revdep-rebuild with the -X option flag. Also make sure you're using the xulrunner use flag instead of the firefox use flag. --Joshua Doll -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable
Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote: Try add to grub.conf this line vga=0x31B This controls resolution and color depth of your framebuffer screen. You can read more about this at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=10 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=10 On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latest stable emerge of grub decided to add splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz to my grub.conf Since I do not have support for this in my kernel the screen was unreadable. Should I file this as a bug? thanks, allan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list splashimage has nothing to with the kernel. The kernel isn't even loaded at this point. It's very likely that the splashimage line is pointing to a nonexistent file. --Joshua Doll -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:25:30 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: splashimage has nothing to with the kernel. The kernel isn't even loaded at this point. It's very likely that the splashimage line is pointing to a nonexistent file. Grub hangs if that's the case. I've had exactly the same thing happen to me when I've had the path wrong for the splashimage. You get a highly unreadable screen, but it still works. --Joshua Doll -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:20:43 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: Grub hangs if that's the case. I've had exactly the same thing happen to me when I've had the path wrong for the splashimage. You get a highly unreadable screen, but it still works. Did the wrong path point to something? When I got it wrong, grub refused to load the menu.lst file at all. Mind you, that was a couple of years ago. Maybe handles things differently now, I haven't dared find out! It pointed to nothing. I actually had the wrong drive and/or partition in the line. I say it worked but really the screen was so jacked it was useless. --Joshua Doll -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?
Grant wrote: Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing that lately? - Grant Rock solid. --Joshua Doll -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?
b.n. wrote: Grant ha scritto: Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing that lately? - Grant Yes. Looks like my Gentoo box is rotting these days, but most probably it's me not having time at all to iron out even the smallest things. I have however a couple of *persistent* quirks I don't know how to fix. One is Kopete refusing at all to delete MSN contacts. The other is Flash+CompizFusion interacting badly. But I can live with that. m. I think I remembered seeing something on the compizfusion ml about issues with flash. --Joshua Doll -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Looking for SATA controller recommendation
Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, I'm looking to add three more drives to my system for a software RAID5 media volume. I've used all my motherboard SATA ports so need a SATA controller. I don't want a hardware RAID controller (been there, burned when controller died). 4 SATA2 ports is the minimum required. I have both PCIe and PCI slots available. I do not need high performance as the RAID will just contain media files for access in my home. I would prefer a controller supported by normal kernel drivers. My preference is to keep costs down (3 x 1 TB drives are costly enough :). Any recommendations? FYI, system is gentoo ~x86, Intel Q9300, Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6. TIA, Roy Have tried 3ware? I find them to be reasonably priced and they do True Hardware RAID, and have very good mainline Linux Kernel support. --Joshua Doll -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] installing vmware?
luis jure wrote: hello list, i bought i laptop with windows xp pre-installed. i shrunk the windows partition to install my gentoo linux, which is what i normally use. but the machine is still dual boot. several years ago (8-9) i tried a 30-days demo version of vmware and it was quite efficient running windows in a virtual machine under linux. now i found that there are many ebuilds to install vmware, and i'm a bit confused: first, there are many different ebuilds, what do i need to run the windows xp i have installed in a different partition? second, vmware is not free in the sense that you have to buy it, what does the ebuild install? a free version? a demo? i found a few pages on the net explaining how to install vmware on gentoo, but i'm not clear about those issues. thanks for any hint. best, lj 1. I know workstation will do it, maybe server. 2. The ebuild installs the full version, you get with workstation a evaluation key which you enter the first time you run it. Or if you actually purchase a key you can do that. Either way it's the same files. There is a fetch restriction on the ebuild which requires you to download the tarball from VMware and place it in your distdir. I would also like to point out that server is free to use. VMware gives it away in hopes that you will like it and want to purchase one of their other products. I have had very few issues with VMware on my system it was easy to setup, and has rarely given me issues. The only issues I have had were brought on by my need to share the VM with multiple users on my desktop, and that was just a matter of getting the permissions right. I've also heard good things about Virtualbox, but haven't played with it myself. Since all of VMware's production are usually free to use for at least 30 days I'd suggest playing with as many of them as you can, that is if you really want to go the VMware route. I've found their products to be pretty solid and reliable. --Joshua Doll -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?
Florian Philipp wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 10:11 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: Michael Schmarck wrote: Hello. Sorry for being somewhat Off Topic, but could you guys please tell me if it's possible to use iTunes with wine-0.9.57 under a ~x86 system? Is it possible to change the store location to something other than US (as that's required to buy songs, as far as I know)? Thanks, Michael iTunes works pretty well, running on a VM of windows. I run windows XP with VMWare Workstation and have iTunes installed to sync my iPod, because no OSS solutions handle m4a very well :-(. --Joshua Doll But you have no way to burn an audio-cd from it and thus get rid of drm, right? I've burned a copy of CDs from within the VM, but not using iTunes. I personally don't have very many DRM'd music, like I said I just use it to transfer m4a (apple lossless which is not DRM'd) files to my iPod. --Joshua Doll -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?
Michael Schmarck wrote: Hello. Sorry for being somewhat Off Topic, but could you guys please tell me if it's possible to use iTunes with wine-0.9.57 under a ~x86 system? Is it possible to change the store location to something other than US (as that's required to buy songs, as far as I know)? Thanks, Michael iTunes works pretty well, running on a VM of windows. I run windows XP with VMWare Workstation and have iTunes installed to sync my iPod, because no OSS solutions handle m4a very well :-(. --Joshua Doll -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2008.0 beta release
James wrote: Anyone know where (or who do I ask) to test a beta release of the 2008.0 installation stages? James According to this document they are still working on the specs for the beta: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2008.0/index.xml --Joshua Doll -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] layman -L does not show ecatmur, but I can layman -a ecatmur.
Mark David Dumlao wrote: I'm currently dual-booting a machine that I'd like to shift completely to gentoo, but I left an ubuntu installaiton in the other disk (where I hope to transfer my gentoo). However, my brother has been downloading some torrents for weeks on end, and their sessions have been left alive in the gnome-btdownload interface. It gets annoying when he boots up to ubuntu sometimes because I often remotely login to my machine and all. So I thought to install gnome-btdownload. Unfortunately I couldnt find it in portage a few weeks ago, and I just forgot about it. Today I logged in remotely to my machine, remembered my old problem, and decided to hunt for an ebuild. I noticed that it's in the ecatmur tree, so I thought just to add it on layman and get it done with. TOTALLY WEIRD. I do a layman -L on my machine and strangely enough, ecatmur isn't listed. I think I've used it beore on layman though, so I look up the overlays listing on the gentoo overlays list, here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/layman-global.txt Sure enough, ecatmur is present. So I just blindly go layman -a ecatmur and he gets added. I don't understand why layman wouldn't report ecatmur in his listing but accepts ecatmur there anyway when I add? Is this a bug? trixie / # layman --version 1.1.1 trixie / # emerge --version Portage 2.1.3.19 http://2.1.3.19 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22-ck1 x86_64) weird? I remember somewhere that there was something you had to edit to make the overlays appear in the listing, (the stock layman would only show a few entries I think). Maybe this is an extension of that idea but I couldn't find what to edit in the documentation. Any ideas? -- thing. Try layman -Lk -k, --nocheck Do not check overlay definitions and do not issue a warning if description or contact information are missing. --Joshua Doll -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
