Re: [gentoo-user] MAC Pro eSATA Card
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 17:54 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag 14 September 2009 09:20:08 schrieb Matthias Langer: Has anyone here experiences with eSATA Cards for a MAC Pro running Gentoo? I've already tried two cards ([1], [2]). Both work fine in connection with normal PC hardware, but they are not recognized by the kernel (or even lspci) on the MAC Pro. Did you try to boot with some LiveCD and run lspci (-vv) from there? No, I didn't... maybe I should try it on the weekend (I don't have physical access to the box I'm talking about right now.), although I doubt that it will make a difference. Thanks, Matthias signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] MAC Pro eSATA Card
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 00:04 +0100, Stroller wrote: On 14 Sep 2009, at 08:20, Matthias Langer wrote: Has anyone here experiences with eSATA Cards for a MAC Pro running Gentoo? I've already tried two cards ([1], [2]). Both work fine in connection with normal PC hardware, but they are not recognized by the kernel (or even lspci) on the MAC Pro. Hi Matt, I'm not an expert on the vagaries of MacPro hardware, which after all uses EFI instead of a BIOS, but are you using the same kernel configuration with the MacPro as you are on the PC that is working? As far as the eSATA Cards are affected the configuration should be identical. I fear that it has something to do with EFI. I would *expect* these to work. Is it possible you're using a kernel that's configured specifically for Mac hardware, and that merely omits the drivers for card. I'd really expect that compiling in the modules for the cards would make them work. Unfortunately it doesn't. I've manually loaded the module that is responsible for the card on ordinary PC hardware on the MAC - without success. We can perhaps be more help if you post the .config (`zcat /proc/ config.gz file`) for both machines the output of `dmesg` (with the cards fitted). I'm going to do this on the weekend, as right now, I don't have physical access to the box I'm talking about, and the eSATA card is currently not built in. Thanks, Matthias signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] MAC Pro eSATA Card
Has anyone here experiences with eSATA Cards for a MAC Pro running Gentoo? I've already tried two cards ([1], [2]). Both work fine in connection with normal PC hardware, but they are not recognized by the kernel (or even lspci) on the MAC Pro. Thanks in advance, Matthias [1]: http://tinyurl.com/qwxdza [2]: Adaptec with Silicon Image Chipset signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] audacious-1.4* - can't adjust volume
Since audacious-1.4* there seems to be something b0rked with the volume controls. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't (there is a thread about this in users-de). In more detail: Adjusting the volume from within audacious works, usually with all files in the current playlist, if at least one of these files has been added manually, since audacious has been started. If this is not the case, you might be able to change the volume from within audacious for a few seconds, but after that, audacious seems to loose complete control over it. You can move the sliders, without them changing anything. If you want to do a quick check, if this problem applies also to you, try $ audacious foo.mp3 wait, say 10 seconds, and then try to change the volume from within audacious. I'm going to file a Bug about this, but before doing so, I want to collect some more information, as I don't think, that this problem affects anyone using audacious, and I want this fixed. So, if you are using audacious-1.4.*, please tell me if the issue I've described above applies to you or not. Also include at least the following information: a.) The versions and USE-Flags of audacious and audacious-plugins. b.) $ uname -msvr c.) Your CFLAGS. d.) The audio output plugin you are using. Here is what I have: a.) media-sound/audacious-1.4.5 USE=dbus nls -chardet -libsamplerate 0 kB media-plugins/audacious-plugins-1.4.4 USE=aac alsa dbus flac gnome mp3 nls pulseaudio sdl sse2 vorbis wma -adplug -arts -chardet -esd -jack -lirc -modplug -mtp -musepack -oss -sid -sndfile -timidity -tta -wavpack 0 kB b.) Linux 2.6.23-gentoo-r9 #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Mar 10 21:18:38 CET 2008 x86_64 c.) CFLAGS=-march=nocona -O2 -pipe d.) ALSA Thanks for your help, Matthias signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] audacious-1.4* - can't adjust volume
ALSA. Using the default, in-kernel driver. The soundcard is some ATI IXP chipset-based onboard thing (listed as ATI in lspci as well IIRC). Thanks for your information: That reminds me... I should probably also add e.) your soundcard + driver inforamtion I'm using Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller with the snd_hda_intel module shipped with the kernel. Matthias signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 08:40 +0200, Zimmerling, Alexander wrote: I had this problem and solved it by deleting ~/.gnome ~/.gnome2 and ~/.gnome2_private hmm, although i've installed gentoo only about 2 month ago, i don't want to loose all my personal settings; i've created a new user - and it seems to work there - but maybe only because i've never really *used* this account... i'm already thinking about solving this problem in a very hackish way: by writing a script that is called on startup and eventually starts metacity for me... hopefully i find a better solution. Hi, I have the same problem here. Deleting the files help, but not for long. After 3-4 Logins without any problem, the problem returns. yes, and i fear that the same would happen to me :-/. regards, matthias -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: AW: AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:56 +0200, Zimmerling, Alexander wrote: Hi, I ried this 'solution' just one time. Unfortunately, I installed a lot of programs during the time. This problem appeared after upgrading gnome to the latest stable version. I had no problems at all by using gnome 2.16. I used a unstable version of gnome-2.18 once and downgraded because of this problem. Nobody able to solve this problem. Matthias, can you post your 'very hackish way' please well, it's nothing special: #!/bin/bash ! ps -u $(whoami) | grep metacity /dev/null metacity put this in a file somewhere in your home directory, make it executable and add it to Startup Programs in Sessions... this does the trick at least for me... regards, matthias -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: AW: AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 22:31 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote:
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:56 +0200, Zimmerling, Alexander wrote:
Hi,
I ried this 'solution' just one time. Unfortunately, I installed a lot of
programs during the time. This problem appeared after upgrading gnome to
the latest stable version. I had no problems at all by using gnome 2.16.
I used a unstable version of gnome-2.18 once and downgraded because of this
problem. Nobody able to solve this problem.
Matthias, can you post your 'very hackish way' please
well, it's nothing special:
#!/bin/bash
! ps -u $(whoami) | grep metacity /dev/null metacity
put this in a file somewhere in your home directory, make it executable
and add it to Startup Programs in Sessions...
or, if you want it more verbose:
#!/bin/bash
LOGFILE=${HOME}/meta.log
COMPLAIN=metacity was not started by gnome
ps -u $(whoami) | grep metacity /dev/null
if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
echo $(date): $COMPLAIN $LOGFILE
metacity
fi
matthias
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[gentoo-user] metacity does not start
i'm wondering if anyone else has this problem, or even better, a solution for it: since i've upgraded to gnome-2.18.x i have to start metacity manually at least sometimes after logging in. that is, in about 1 of 4 logins, i don't have a usable desktop till i type metacity into some terminal. apart from this annoying behavior, gnome seems to be fine. here are some parts of my configuration: $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.9 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 x86_64) [...] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64 CBUILD=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=nocona -O2 -pipe CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [...] USE=3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo caps cddb cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evo exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gd gdbm gif gimp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal hddtemp iconv icu ipod ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k lcms ldap libnotify lm_sensors mad matroska midi mikmod mmap mmx mmxext mono mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl plotutils png pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection ruby sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 svg tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vcd vorbis xattr xml xorg xv xvid zlib ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS=adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol CAMERAS=canon konica ptp2 kodak ELIBC=glibc INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse evdev KERNEL=linux [...] i'm using: x11-wm/metacity-2.18.5 USE=-debug -xinerama x11-libs/gtk+-2.10.14 USE=X jpeg tiff -debug -doc -xinerama gnome-base/gnome-session-2.18.3 USE=ipv6 tcpd -branding -debug -esd gnome-base/gnome-light-2.18.3 also note, that the system i'm using has been installed from scratch just a bit more than a month ago and i'm having this problem ever since. thanks, matthias -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start
On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 17:25 -0700, Hex Star wrote: You should take note of the error message that occurs when you experience this problem and paste the error msg here well, that would be indeed a very good idea; however, i don't start gnome from a terminal but from gdm and i don't know where to look for error messages in this case... maybe i can see if the problem can be reproduced by using startx and maybe i get some error messages there... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients - what can replace Evolution?
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 20:59 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi all, I've got a machine that will no longer run Evolution. For whatever reason all versions of Evolution in Portage crash. I cannot as of yet get a backtrace to determine why. I'm using evolution-2.8.2.1 and it works fine; can you post your emerge --info ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] another strange alsa problem
I'm using alsa for years now and it has always been fine; especially it has always been possible without any problems to have multiple apps running that access the sound card. For example i could start audacious to play some music and to totem and watch a movie _with_ sound; or play some music and start a game etc. Yesterday, i noticed, that this is no longer possible: For example, if i try to play a mp3 in gmplayer while running audacious i get: alsa-init: using device default alsa-lib: pcm_dmix.c:914:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave alsa-init: playback open error: Invalid argument Could not open/initialize audio device - no sound. Now the funny thing is, that the same works as root; so i guess that some permissions are not set correctly (note that my everyday user is in the audio group) and perhaps, but this is only one possible explanation, this is because i've upgraded to sys-fs/udev-103 recently ... any ideas ? btw, this is my sound-card: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 i686) = System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:20:01 + distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 AUTOCLEAN=yes CBUILD=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c CXXFLAGS=-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles FEATURES=autoconfig collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict GENTOO_MIRRORS=ftp://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/gentoo/gentoo LANG=en_US.utf8 LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 LINGUAS=en de MAKEOPTS=-j2 PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages' PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage SYNC=rsync://192.168.0.1/gentoo-portage USE=x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acpi aiglx alsa audiofile avahi beagle berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc emboss encode evo exif fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif ginac gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv icq input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kernel_linux lcms ldap libg++ linguas_de linguas_en mad mikmod mime mmx mmxext mono mozsvg mp3 mpeg msn nautilus ncurses nfs nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdf perl plotutils png posix ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection ruby sdl session sockets spell spl sqlite3 sse ssl subtitles svg tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU vcd video_cards_nvidia vorbis win32codecs wma xine xml xorg xv xvid zlib Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] another strange alsa problem [SOLVED]
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 13:18 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: I'm using alsa for years now and it has always been fine; especially it has always been possible without any problems to have multiple apps running that access the sound card. For example i could start audacious to play some music and to totem and watch a movie _with_ sound; or play some music and start a game etc. Yesterday, i noticed, that this is no longer possible: For example, if i try to play a mp3 in gmplayer while running audacious i get: alsa-init: using device default alsa-lib: pcm_dmix.c:914:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave alsa-init: playback open error: Invalid argument Could not open/initialize audio device - no sound. well, it finally turned out that this problems where related to an ~/.asoundrc that has been created by some strange program. removing that file made alsa happy again ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't Start Epiphany
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 09:01 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: Howdy all, I've just made a shiny new install and am using the Gnome desktop, but I cannot seem to start Epiphany. When I try, I get a dialogue box telling me: Startup failed because of the following error: Unable to determine the address of the message bus (try 'man dbus-launch' and 'man dbus-daemon' for help) I did run /etc/init.d/dbus start as root (and added that to default run level) and I did log out/in afterwards, and the problem persists. Any ideas? is it possible that you are using gnome-2.16 without gdm ? if so, read this: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/gnome/howtos/gnome-2.16-upgrade.xml HTH, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] another strange alsa problem [SOLVED]
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 11:24 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/7/06, Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: alsa-init: using device default alsa-lib: pcm_dmix.c:914:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave alsa-init: playback open error: Invalid argument Could not open/initialize audio device - no sound. This indicates a configuration error. The default device is apparently the dmix plugin, but it is misconfigured to open a slave device that doesn't exist. Now the funny thing is, that the same works as root; so i guess that some permissions are not set correctly Maybe root doesn't have a ~/.asoundrc, and your regular user account does? -Richard thanks for your answer that would have been very, very helpful if i hadn't already fixed this problem [1] ;-) Matthias [1]: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/cutoff=175354 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: OT - Where are the modules (WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Win4Lin)
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 12:08 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I went to www.netraverse.com and found out that the newest patch for Win4Lin for SMP kernels is 2.6.11. I have to tell you that no kernel I've ever built myself (as in without genkernel) has booted. I downloaded 2.6.11 kernel source from www.kernel.org , and it seems to have built correctly. I followed the following steps: cd /usr/src tar xvfj /home/michael/linux-2.6.11.12.tar.bz2 rm linux; ln -s linux-2.6.11.12 linux cd linux make mrproper make menuconfig make bzImage make modules # make modules_install is what you need [1] [1]: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I modify work list of emerge --resume?
On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 11:21 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I was 8 hours through the emerge -eav world part of upgrading gcc when it hit the pysol package it's not happy with. The messages are telling me I need to recompile python with Tkinter support and asked me to add dev/lang/python X tk to package.use, which I did. However emerge --resume won't go back and recompile python at this point and if I start over it's a 575 package compile job and I was already through about 200 of the packages. Is there any way to get python updated and then to resume the remaining 375 packages where I am currently stopped? Can I somehow save the file emerge --resume is currently using, emerge python with the changes, and then put the current worl list back in? Better yet, can I somehow remove pysol from the list so the emerge --resume just stoarts from the next package? Try emerge --resume --skipfirst and care about that python stuff later ... HTH, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 23:53 -0500, Colleen Beamer wrote: Okay, I give. I'm having a problem with configuring xorg. I *do* have a basic configuration, but can't run some applications in full screen mode and I surmise this is because something isn't set properly in xorg.conf I ran Xorg -configure and it did give me a basic configuration, but the file is nothing like I am used to from before I had to rebuild my system and I can't find an xorg.conf.example file - I don't know if I accidentally deleted it or not. In particular, this is the stuff that I don't understand and without the xorg.conf.example file, I have no means of reference. Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option NoAccel # [bool] #Option SWcursor# [bool] #Option Dac6Bit # [bool] #Option Dac8Bit # [bool] #Option BusType # [str] #Option CPPIOMode # [bool] #Option CPusecTimeout # i #Option AGPMode # i #Option AGPFastWrite# [bool] #Option AGPSize # i #Option GARTSize# i #Option RingSize# i #Option BufferSize # i #Option EnableDepthMoves# [bool] #Option EnablePageFlip # [bool] #Option NoBackBuffer# [bool] #Option DMAForXv# [bool] #Option FBTexPercent# i #Option PanelOff# [bool] #Option DDCMode # [bool] #Option MonitorLayout # [str] #Option IgnoreEDID # [bool] #Option UseFBDev# [bool] #Option MergedFB# [bool] #Option CRT2HSync # [str] #Option CRT2VRefresh# [str] #Option CRT2Position# [str] #Option MetaModes # [str] #Option MergedDPI # [str] #Option MergedXinerama # [bool] #Option MergedXineramaCRT2IsScreen0 # [bool] #Option MergedNonRectangular# [bool] #Option MergedMouseRestriction # [bool] #Option DisplayPriority # [str] #Option PanelSize # [str] #Option ForceMinDotClock# freq #Option ColorTiling # [bool] #Option VideoKey# i #Option RageTheatreCrystal # i #Option RageTheatreTunerPort# i #Option RageTheatreCompositePort# i #Option RageTheatreSVideoPort # i #Option TunerType # i #Option RageTheatreMicrocPath # str #Option RageTheatreMicrocType # str #Option RenderAccel # [bool] #Option SubPixelOrder # [str] #Option ShowCache # [bool] #Option DynamicClocks # [bool] #Option BIOSHotkeys # [bool] #Option VGAAccess # [bool] #Option ReverseDDC # [bool] #Option LVDSProbePLL# [bool] #Option AccelMethod # str Identifier Card0 Driver ati VendorName ATI Technologies Inc BoardName Radeon R200 QL [Radeon 8500 LE] BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection I also tried using xorgcfg, but I didn't even get a working configuration with that and I *do* know my monitor settings. Also, the man page for xorg.config isn't any help cause it doesn't mention any of the stuff like viewport that I could see. I've re-emerged xorg-x11 hoping to get the xorg.conf.example file back, but that didn't work. So, if any of you kind
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf problem
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 23:53 -0500, Colleen Beamer wrote: Okay, I give. I'm having a problem with configuring xorg. I *do* have a basic configuration, but can't run some applications in full screen mode and I surmise this is because something isn't set properly in xorg.conf I ran Xorg -configure and it did give me a basic configuration, but the file is nothing like I am used to from before I had to rebuild my system and I can't find an xorg.conf.example file - I don't know if I accidentally deleted it or not. In particular, this is the stuff that I don't understand and without the xorg.conf.example file, I have no means of reference. You shouldn't need to tweak these settings ... Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option NoAccel # [bool] #Option SWcursor# [bool] #Option Dac6Bit # [bool] #Option Dac8Bit # [bool] #Option BusType # [str] #Option CPPIOMode # [bool] #Option CPusecTimeout # i #Option AGPMode # i #Option AGPFastWrite# [bool] #Option AGPSize # i #Option GARTSize# i #Option RingSize# i #Option BufferSize # i #Option EnableDepthMoves# [bool] #Option EnablePageFlip # [bool] #Option NoBackBuffer# [bool] #Option DMAForXv# [bool] #Option FBTexPercent# i #Option PanelOff# [bool] #Option DDCMode # [bool] #Option MonitorLayout # [str] #Option IgnoreEDID # [bool] #Option UseFBDev# [bool] #Option MergedFB# [bool] #Option CRT2HSync # [str] #Option CRT2VRefresh# [str] #Option CRT2Position# [str] #Option MetaModes # [str] #Option MergedDPI # [str] #Option MergedXinerama # [bool] #Option MergedXineramaCRT2IsScreen0 # [bool] #Option MergedNonRectangular# [bool] #Option MergedMouseRestriction # [bool] #Option DisplayPriority # [str] #Option PanelSize # [str] #Option ForceMinDotClock# freq #Option ColorTiling # [bool] #Option VideoKey# i #Option RageTheatreCrystal # i #Option RageTheatreTunerPort# i #Option RageTheatreCompositePort# i #Option RageTheatreSVideoPort # i #Option TunerType # i #Option RageTheatreMicrocPath # str #Option RageTheatreMicrocType # str #Option RenderAccel # [bool] #Option SubPixelOrder # [str] #Option ShowCache # [bool] #Option DynamicClocks # [bool] #Option BIOSHotkeys # [bool] #Option VGAAccess # [bool] #Option ReverseDDC # [bool] #Option LVDSProbePLL# [bool] #Option AccelMethod # str Identifier Card0 Driver ati VendorName ATI Technologies Inc BoardName Radeon R200 QL [Radeon 8500 LE] BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection Frankly, i don't really know what your problem with xorg is exactly ... if you can provide some details, it would be easier to help ! Regards, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] svc: bad direction 268435456 [SOLVED]
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 07:24 +0200, Ralph Slooten wrote:
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Hash: SHA1
Matthias Langer wrote:
i've recently set up a local nfs server for my disfiles; to keep the WAN
out i have:
iptables -A INPUT -p TCP -i ! ${LAN} -d 0/0 --dport nfs -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -p UDP -i ! ${LAN} -d 0/0 --dport nfs -j DROP
everthing is working fine so far; however, my logs are full with these
messages:
svc: bad direction 268435456, dropping request
any comments ?
I have had this too from quite a while back
(http://blog.axljab.homelinux.org/post/6/). I turned on logging in my
firewall to find out that nfs listens on random ports for UDP
connections. The problem is that the random ports change ;-) In my
firewall *most* of 1024 is open so there isn't much I can do about it.
- From what I noticed it's nobody trying to hack you but rather just
internet static which by coincidence tries a port that your NFS is
listening on. I stopped worrying about it after a while. The option for
NFS to listen only on one interface wasn't then (iirc) an option .. not
sure about now though.
Greetings,
Ralph
Thank you very much .. After adding the following lines to my firewall,
these annyoing messages seem to be gone (at least they did not appear
for one hour now):
iptables -A INPUT -p TCP -i ! ${LAN} -d 0/0 --dport 1026 -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -p UDP -i ! ${LAN} -d 0/0 --dport 1026 -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -p TCP -i ! ${LAN} -d 0/0 --dport 2442 -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -p TCP -i ! ${LAN} -d 0/0 --dport 2292 -j DROP
i'm not sure which of these lines acually fixed my problem as i've just
looked at the output of rpcinfo and grabbed all nfs relevant ports from
there.
Matthias
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Re: [gentoo-user] svc: bad direction 268435456 [SOLVED]
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 14:53 +0200, Ralph Slooten wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias Langer wrote: i'm not sure which of these lines acually fixed my problem as i've just looked at the output of rpcinfo and grabbed all nfs relevant ports from there. This will probably fix your problems *until* you restart nfs. # lsof -n -P|egrep UDP|LISTEN|grep rpc\. rpc.statd 19260 nobody4u IPv4 178640062 UDP *:47496 rpc.statd 19260 nobody5u IPv4 178640054 UDP *:780 rpc.statd 19260 nobody6u IPv4 178640065 TCP *:42346 (LISTEN) rpc.mount 19277 root6u IPv4 178640109 UDP *:797 rpc.mount 19277 root7u IPv4 178640112 TCP *:800 (LISTEN) Restart NSF rpc.statd 19433 nobody4u IPv4 178641101 UDP *:47498 rpc.statd 19433 nobody5u IPv4 178641093 UDP *:953 rpc.statd 19433 nobody6u IPv4 178641104 TCP *:42347 (LISTEN) rpc.mount 19450 root6u IPv4 178641148 UDP *:970 rpc.mount 19450 root7u IPv4 178641151 TCP *:973 (LISTEN) Restart again rpc.statd 19534 nobody4u IPv4 178641453 UDP *:47499 rpc.statd 19534 nobody5u IPv4 178641445 UDP *:630 rpc.statd 19534 nobody6u IPv4 178641456 TCP *:42348 (LISTEN) rpc.mount 19551 root6u IPv4 178641500 UDP *:647 rpc.mount 19551 root7u IPv4 178641503 TCP *:650 (LISTEN) I never worked out how to get NSF to only listen on a single interface. Glad you at least now know what was causing the logs. Greetings, Ralph Well, i guess this can be done by modifiying the steps described in the follwoing howto: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Share_Directories_via_NFS#Setting_Up_Firewall_.28Server_Side.29 I've not tried that yet, as i don't plan to restart my server in the next few days, but will sooner or later take this into account ... Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] svc: bad direction 268435456
i've recently set up a local nfs server for my disfiles; to keep the WAN
out i have:
iptables -A INPUT -p TCP -i ! ${LAN} -d 0/0 --dport nfs -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -p UDP -i ! ${LAN} -d 0/0 --dport nfs -j DROP
everthing is working fine so far; however, my logs are full with these
messages:
svc: bad direction 268435456, dropping request
any comments ?
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Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 08:04 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Tuesday 30 May 2006 07:41 skrev Graham Murray: Besides, by looking at the terminal while merging packages, you will soon notice, that lot's of packages add their very own CFLAGS to your default ones. For example mplayer or xine-lib was compiled with '-O3' on my system, allthough i have '-O2' in my CFLAGS. (As far as i know, gcc -O3 -O2 == gcc -O3). Where packages do this, should they not filter out the appropriate flags from the user's CFLAGS and substitute their flags rather than having both flags on the command line? Not in this particular case. xine-lib is a good example. src_compile() contains the following in the ebuild (and more): if [[ $(tc-arch) == x86 ]]; then filter-flags -fforce-addr filter-flags -momit-leaf-frame-pointer is-flag -O? || append-flags -O2 fi On an x86 architecture it filters out -fforce-addr and -momit-leaf-frame-pointer. If the CFLAGS contain any optimizations it just appends -O2 yielding that -O2 will be used as stated by Christian Limberg. In 'man gcc' you find the following statement: If you use multiple -O options, with or without level numbers, the last such option is the one that is effective. So this is completely legal. And I very much doubt that there are any ebuilds in the portage tree that enforces -O3 or higher... Well, you are right: However, what i said still applies: Lot's of packages add their very own CFLAGS (-fomit-frame-pointer, -ffunction-sections are two examples for xine-lib). Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.
snip CFLAGS=-O3 -m3dnow -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon64 -msse -msse2 -msse3 -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions -falign-functions=4 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 snip Before doing anything else, please clean up your CFLAGS and do # emerge -e system; emerge -e world If you realy want x86 (with your cpu i would reinstall an amd64 system http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml) then use: CFLAGS=-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer because, mostly all of your flags are redundant and the combination -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon64 will give you nothing but maybe broken compiler output. You may also be interested in these pages: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.6/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#Optimize-Options http://gentoo-wiki.com/CFLAGS http://gentoo-wiki.com/CFLAGS_matrix HTH, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 21:31 +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: From: Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed. Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 21:14:25 +0200 snip CFLAGS=-O3 -m3dnow -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon64 -msse -msse2 -msse3 -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions -falign-functions=4 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 snip Before doing anything else, please clean up your CFLAGS and do # emerge -e system; emerge -e world If you realy want x86 (with your cpu i would reinstall an amd64 system http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml) then use: CFLAGS=-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer because, mostly all of your flags are redundant and the combination -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon64 will give you nothing but maybe broken compiler output. You may also be interested in these pages: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.6/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#Optimize-Options http://gentoo-wiki.com/CFLAGS http://gentoo-wiki.com/CFLAGS_matrix HTH, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list My decision against 64 bit and pro 32 was done, cause 64 bit gives me a performance gain only in some special cirumstances (beside only a few others: when rendering with 64 Bit aware Raytracers) but gives me for sure trouble with software, which isn't 64Bit-ready (according to different articles of the german c't computer magazine (Heise press). When changing CFLAGs on half the way...do I have to recompile my whole system? And -- only from the logical point of view -- redundancy may be not a sign of cleverness not a sign of cleverness but it does not hurt does not hurt the overall context since it instructs the compiler twice to do the same?! Bad compiler output is another thing. Keep hacking! mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 21:31 +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: From: Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed. Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 21:14:25 +0200 snip CFLAGS=-O3 -m3dnow -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon64 -msse -msse2 -msse3 -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions -falign-functions=4 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 snip Before doing anything else, please clean up your CFLAGS and do # emerge -e system; emerge -e world If you realy want x86 (with your cpu i would reinstall an amd64 system http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml) then use: CFLAGS=-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer because, mostly all of your flags are redundant and the combination -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon64 will give you nothing but maybe broken compiler output. You may also be interested in these pages: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.6/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#Optimize-Options http://gentoo-wiki.com/CFLAGS http://gentoo-wiki.com/CFLAGS_matrix HTH, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list My decision against 64 bit and pro 32 was done, cause 64 bit gives me a performance gain only in some special cirumstances (beside only a few others: when rendering with 64 Bit aware Raytracers) but gives me for sure trouble with software, which isn't 64Bit-ready (according to different articles of the german c't computer magazine (Heise press). When changing CFLAGs on half the way...do I have to recompile my whole system? And -- only from the logical point of view -- redundancy may be not a sign of cleverness not a sign of cleverness but it does not hurt does not hurt the overall context since it instructs the compiler twice to do the same?! Of course, redunant compiler options should not do any harm but: 1.) they are difficult to read for people that may help you. 2.) -O3 turns on a group of compiler switches that are veryfied by by the gcc devs to produce good results. The group of these switches may change from time to time. Without further invention, your custum, today redunant swiches, may break your system tomorrow, after you have choosen to do a compiler upgrade and the the actual contents of -O3 have changed. The same applies of course to march=athlon-xp. One (harmless) example where this applies is '-fforce-mem'. This option will be completly removed with gcc-4.2, does nothing with gcc-4.1, but is activated with '-O3' for gcc-3.4.x. More generally: After doing some experiments, i've decided to use CFLAGS=-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe. I don't think that my system would be noticeably faster with -O3, as -O3 often gains you nothing. '-fomit-frame-pointer' may give you a few percent, but it may interfere with debuging. From the gentoo-x86-handbook: Mind you that using -fomit-frame-pointer (which doesn't keep the frame pointer in a register for functions that don't need one) might have serious repercussions on the debugging of applications! From the gcc-manual: -O also turns on -fomit-frame-pointer on machines where doing so does not interfere with debugging Besides, by looking at the terminal while merging packages, you will soon notice, that lot's of packages add their very own CFLAGS to your default ones. For example mplayer or xine-lib was compiled with '-O3' on my system, allthough i have '-O2' in my CFLAGS. (As far as i know, gcc -O3 -O2 == gcc -O3). Bad compiler output is another thing. In this exactly is the reason, i told you to better rebuild your whole system: 1.) emerge -e system so that all base packages (especially gcc, libtool, glibc, !python!, ...) are ok. 2.) emerge -e world so that all your packages are rebuild with your fixed toolchain. If you still problems with openoffice afterwards, it is sure that they are not related to your CFLAGS. Only then it makes sense to me to look at this problem more in detail. Have a nice day, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.
snip PS: I symlinked /var/tmp/portags to /tmp/portage (I carefully copied all permissions settings...) due to space problems. /snip I've not noticed this before: Neil Botwick once wrote to me here, in gentoo-user: quote If you want to move directories, avoid wholesale symlinking like this as it always ends in tears ... /quote You may take a look at: http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c434666D9.3070306% 40gmx.at%3e Maybe you want to solve this issue before rebuilding your system (i would do that in either case). Regards, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem
On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 15:03 +0400, Alexander Kirillov wrote: recently my sister descovered a strange and serious bug with mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 in combination with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7. After visiting http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofilefriendid=36939781 xorg shuts down immediatly direct access to the box via the terminal is impossible. logging in remotley via ssh still works ... can anyone with the above combination verify this ? Yep. Killed my X too. I have these same versions of xorg and firefox. Fortunately I got a kdm login prompt again. The only relevant messages I could find in the logs: # cat /var/log/messages ... May 26 01:10:39 baikal kdm[11220]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly ... # cat /var/log/kdm.log ... *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x096128c0 *** ... You probably should file a bug. Please post to the list if you have any new info on the subject. Alexander, as you are the only one so far that can verify this bug, can you post about:plugins to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134373 ? Hi Matthias, I posted my system config as you requested. But I can't reproduce this bug with the cached page. MP3 Flash player seems to be working except I can't load/play some songs from the list. I don't have any popups I had with the real page either. So it probably was one of the ads? Sasha Well, too bad - possible that the page was removed for a good reason :-). Maybe you want to add yourself to 'CC' for bug 134373 (just select 'Add to CC list' below 'Additional Comments:' and hit enter). There's a message from spyderous that is most likely targeted at you ... Thanks for your efforts, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem
On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 03:45 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 17:04 -0700, Steven Susbauer wrote: On Sat, 27 May 2006, Alexander Kirillov wrote: recently my sister descovered a strange and serious bug with mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 in combination with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7. After visiting http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofilefriendid=36939781 xorg shuts down immediatly direct access to the box via the terminal is impossible. logging in remotley via ssh still works ... can anyone with the above combination verify this ? Yep. Killed my X too. I have these same versions of xorg and firefox. Fortunately I got a kdm login prompt again. The only relevant messages I could find in the logs: # cat /var/log/messages ... May 26 01:10:39 baikal kdm[11220]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly ... # cat /var/log/kdm.log ... *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x096128c0 *** ... You probably should file a bug. Please post to the list if you have any new info on the subject. Alexander, as you are the only one so far that can verify this bug, can you post about:plugins to http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134373 ? Thanks, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3 Problems
On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 14:00 +0100, Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, For some time now I have been getting errors on boot. 1.This happens a number of times:- udev-event [1777]:find_free_number: %e is deprecated, will be removed and is unlikely to work correctly. Don't use it What does this mean and how do I fix it? Well, there was a thread about this here some time ago (i get this message too on all my boxes) ... The conclusion was: don't care about it (gregkh, one of the autors of udev maintains the udev-ebuilds for gentoo himself. i guess he knows what he is doing). 1.etc/modules.devfs not automatically copied modules update forced again what does this mean and hoe do I fix it? 3.2 days ago, after and emerge update of a load of programs, my usb printer does not work, it seems that the usb device is not as shown on the cups setup. So I have been into the kde print manager and selected usb #1 as the printer port but when I try to select the correct printer I get an error:- Unable to start the creation of the driver database. The execution of make_driver_db_cups failed. Any thoughts as to how to resolve this? maybe '# revdep-rebuild' ? just a guess ... Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox hangs frequently...
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 13:07 +0800, fei huang wrote: On 5/26/06, Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 10:04 +0800, fei huang wrote: I have seen wierd problems with binary packages. Have you tried compiling firefox from source yet? - -- Jeremy Olexa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) yes, It took me more than half an hour to compile it from source last night, um;--( Maybe you should also # emerge -av gentoolkit # revdep-rebuild HTH, Matthias thank you for your help anyway, I already have gentoolkit installed, I noticed the revdep-rebuild fix a lib file regarding to my nvidia driver, I don't think it has any importance. still have that problem... well, a lot of wierd problems after I come back to gentoo.. seems much work to do. ;-( PS: for now, I guess the problem is caused by some shared objects or libs with wrong version, e.g. gcc. try to change a gcc profile Did you recently switched to a different version of gcc ? I upgraded gcc to version 3.4.5, but still use previous gcc 3.3.6 profile. not switch actually. If you do that, be sure to read http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml. Otherwise you may completely break your system. Does firefox write anything to the terminal after crashing ? nothing, I also tried to start firefox through strace, It stoped at waitpid system call, did not write anything after crashing. I've heard somebody compiling firefox with debug infomation, but I don't know how to use that~. Should be done like this: # echo www-client/mozilla-firefox debug /etc/portage/package.use # vi /etc/make.conf # add 'nostrip' to FEATURES # emerge -av firefox if you have gdb installed, you can: $ gdb firefox (gdb) run if firefox crashes (gdb) back However, i would really advise you to follow the gcc upgrade guide and switch to gcc-3.4.x. This is most likely to solve your problem. Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 15:27 +0400, Alexander Kirillov wrote: recently my sister descovered a strange and serious bug with mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 in combination with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7. After visiting http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofilefriendid=36939781 xorg shuts down immediatly direct access to the box via the terminal is impossible. logging in remotley via ssh still works ... can anyone with the above combination verify this ? Yep. Killed my X too. I have these same versions of xorg and firefox. Fortunately I got a kdm login prompt again. The only relevant messages I could find in the logs: # cat /var/log/messages ... May 26 01:10:39 baikal kdm[11220]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly ... # cat /var/log/kdm.log ... *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x096128c0 *** ... You probably should file a bug. Please post to the list if you have any new info on the subject. I've now filed a bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134373 If you are experiencing the same behavour, please post a comment on that bug including 'emerge --info', use-flag combinations for xorg-x11 and firefox and relevant log entries. I've just tried to open the link above with flash plugin disabled and the page is gone: Invalid Friend ID. This user has either cancelled their membership, or their account has been deleted. That's what i feared. With that page gone (this wasn't the page of my sister) it might be nearly impossible to reproduce this bug. Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 17:04 -0700, Steven Susbauer wrote: On Sat, 27 May 2006, Alexander Kirillov wrote: recently my sister descovered a strange and serious bug with mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 in combination with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7. After visiting http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofilefriendid=36939781 xorg shuts down immediatly direct access to the box via the terminal is impossible. logging in remotley via ssh still works ... can anyone with the above combination verify this ? Yep. Killed my X too. I have these same versions of xorg and firefox. Fortunately I got a kdm login prompt again. The only relevant messages I could find in the logs: # cat /var/log/messages ... May 26 01:10:39 baikal kdm[11220]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly ... # cat /var/log/kdm.log ... *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x096128c0 *** ... You probably should file a bug. Please post to the list if you have any new info on the subject. I've now filed a bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134373 If you are experiencing the same behavour, please post a comment on that bug including 'emerge --info', use-flag combinations for xorg-x11 and firefox and relevant log entries. I've just tried to open the link above with flash plugin disabled and the page is gone: Invalid Friend ID. This user has either cancelled their membership, or their account has been deleted. That's what i feared. With that page gone (this wasn't the page of my sister) it might be nearly impossible to reproduce this bug. Shoot. That's a pity. I still think there's a problem with either flash or sound. Next time then. Sasha Does the Google cached page do the same thing? Hurry up and get it, I don't know how long google's gonna have it up ;) http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:PlfW7wO2VaEJ:profile.myspace.com/index.cfm%3Ffuseaction%3Duser.viewprofile%26friendid%3D36939781+hl=engl=usct=clnkcd=1client=firefox-a My guess is it has something to do with the flash mp3 player on their page (I see nothing else out of the ordinary). It comes from http://www.myspacegeeks.com/myspace-generators/flash-mp3-player/ - that page may/should kill everything as well if that was the problem. I had no problems with anything freezing up on Windows, but firefox would no longer type after having that window open for a few moments. It could have been something else I did, but the behavior stopped after I closed the profile. Thanks for sharing this information. For myself, i don't think that it is worth the effort to go back to 1.0.8 from 1.5.0.3 as i heard that this may lead to problems; besides, i've allready verified that i can reproduce the bug. It would be most valuable if anyone else here with an appropriate system could give these pages a try and post to bug 134373. Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem
recently my sister descovered a strange and serious bug with mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 in combination with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7. After visiting http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofilefriendid=36939781 xorg shuts down immediatly direct access to the box via the terminal is impossible. logging in remotley via ssh still works ... can anyone with the above combination verify this ? Thanks, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 \w xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 problem
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 01:50 +0400, Alexander Kirillov wrote: recently my sister descovered a strange and serious bug with mozilla-firefox-1.0.8 in combination with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7. After visiting http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofilefriendid=36939781 xorg shuts down immediatly direct access to the box via the terminal is impossible. logging in remotley via ssh still works ... can anyone with the above combination verify this ? Yep. Killed my X too. I have these same versions of xorg and firefox. Fortunately I got a kdm login prompt again. The only relevant messages I could find in the logs: # cat /var/log/messages ... May 26 01:10:39 baikal kdm[11220]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly ... # cat /var/log/kdm.log ... *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x096128c0 *** ... You probably should file a bug. Please post to the list if you have any new info on the subject. I've now filed a bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134373 If you are experiencing the same behavour, please post a comment on that bug including 'emerge --info', use-flag combinations for xorg-x11 and firefox and relevant log entries. Thanks, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox hangs frequently...
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 19:37 -0500, Jeremy Olexa wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fei huang wrote: well, I know the post should not shows up at list of gentoo, but the problem is really quite annoying and I could not find any useful solution through google. every time I click on the save link as or save image as, firefox immediately stops responding, It is said that the problem might be caused by the permissions of my last visited folder, but ALL folders and files are accessible. I firstly use a new profile, no luck; safe mode, no use of course; re-emerge it seemed to make it working for only several minutes. besides, it hangs while loading some pages. I'm using fvwm 2.5.16 and mozilla-firefox-bin 1.5.0.3. any ideas~ thanks in advance.. daniel I have seen wierd problems with binary packages. Have you tried compiling firefox from source yet? Maybe you should also # emerge -av gentoolkit # revdep-rebuild HTH, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox hangs frequently...
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 10:04 +0800, fei huang wrote: I have seen wierd problems with binary packages. Have you tried compiling firefox from source yet? - -- Jeremy Olexa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) yes, It took me more than half an hour to compile it from source last night, um;--( Maybe you should also # emerge -av gentoolkit # revdep-rebuild HTH, Matthias thank you for your help anyway, I already have gentoolkit installed, I noticed the revdep-rebuild fix a lib file regarding to my nvidia driver, I don't think it has any importance. still have that problem... well, a lot of wierd problems after I come back to gentoo.. seems much work to do. ;-( PS: for now, I guess the problem is caused by some shared objects or libs with wrong version, e.g. gcc. try to change a gcc profile Did you recently switched to a different version of gcc ? Does firefox write anything to the terminal after crashing ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 07:51 +0200, Nagatoro wrote: [snip] Least: ... Gnome-terminal, slow, and in my opinion horrible color support. [snip] Gnome terminal used to be slow, but vte (the underlying library) has beem optimized heavily during the last few month. I've a simple program that measures the speed of terminals. According to this program gnome-terminal is now __50__ times faster than it was 5 month ago. Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 13:58 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote:
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 07:51 +0200, Nagatoro wrote:
[snip]
Least:
... Gnome-terminal, slow, and in my opinion horrible color support.
[snip]
Gnome terminal used to be slow, but vte (the underlying library) has
beem optimized heavily during the last few month. I've a simple program
that measures the speed of terminals. According to this program
gnome-terminal is now __50__ times faster than it was 5 month ago.
Matthias
Well, here are some comparisons done with my test-prog (attached)
(higher is better):
eterm: ~ 14 000 l/s
xterm: ~ 8 500 l/s
gnome-terminal: ~ 3 500 l/s
frame-buffer: ~ 40 l/s
Btw: I should have written __80__ instead of __50__.
PS: Please note that the attached program is an ad hoc implementation to
do some basic comparisons, and not a sophisticated program. Compile it
with 'g++ -Wall -O3 filename.cc -o executable'.
#include ctime
#include iostream
#include string
#include algorithm
using namespace std;
static string
rStr(AaBbCcEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz(){}[]?*+-/_-:.;, );
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int lines;
if(argc == 1)
lines = 2;
else if(argc == 2)
{
lines = atoi(argv[1]);
if(lines 1000)
{
cerr Please enter at least '1000' for lines ! endl;
return 1;
}
}
else
{
cerr Usage: tspeed lines endl;
return 2;
}
time_t t1 = time(NULL);
for(int i=0; i != lines; ++i)
{
cout rStr endl;
random_shuffle(rStr.begin(), rStr.end());
}
time_t t2 = time(NULL);
time_t elapsed = t2-t1;
if(elapsed == 0)
{
cerr Writing lines lines to the screen took less than one second. endl;
cerr Please choose a bigger value for lines. endl;
return 3;
}
double speed = double(lines)/double(elapsed);
cerr endl;
cerr terminal speed: speed l/s endl;
return 0;
}
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 16:25 +0200, Nagatoro wrote:
Matthias Langer wrote:
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 13:58 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote:
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 07:51 +0200, Nagatoro wrote:
[snip]
Least:
... Gnome-terminal, slow, and in my opinion horrible color support.
[snip]
Gnome terminal used to be slow, but vte (the underlying library) has
beem optimized heavily during the last few month. I've a simple program
that measures the speed of terminals. According to this program
gnome-terminal is now __50__ times faster than it was 5 month ago.
Matthias
Well, here are some comparisons done with my test-prog (attached)
(higher is better):
eterm: ~ 14 000 l/s
xterm: ~ 8 500 l/s
gnome-terminal: ~ 3 500 l/s
frame-buffer: ~ 40 l/s
Om my (slow?) laptop I get:
frame-buffer: 34 l/s
rxvt-unicode: 12 000 l/s
xterm: 4500 l/s
Konsole: l/s
gnome-terminal: l/s
^^^
_not_ faked :)
Maybe this has something to do with your screen resolution; as you are
using a 'slow' laptop, i guess you are using 1024x768, while i use
1280x1024 in my athlon-xp 2400+.
PS: Did you pass any values to the prog ? It's because, it stopps after
it has written 20 000 lines if no arguments are passed. For very fast
terminals this is bad; Imagine a terminal that puts out 11 000 lines per
second. It will then take about 1.8 s to write 20 000 lines. However,
the program uses time(...) and therefore it will write:
20 000 l/s. The '' is not a big surprise, because 20 000 / 3 =
.7. Thus, if your terminal needs from 3s to 4s for 2 lines, you
will always get this result if specifying no arguments. As i said before
this is just a quick hack to make some comparisons. However, here is a
slightly impoved version ...
#include cmath
#include ctime
#include iostream
#include string
#include algorithm
using namespace std;
static string
rStr(AaBbCcEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz(){}[]?*+-/_-:.;, );
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int lines;
if(argc == 1)
lines = 2;
else if(argc == 2)
{
lines = atoi(argv[1]);
if(lines 1000)
{
cerr Please enter at least '1000' for lines ! endl;
return 1;
}
}
else
{
cerr Usage: tspeed lines endl;
return 2;
}
time_t t1 = time(NULL);
for(int i=0; i != lines; ++i)
{
cout rStr endl;
random_shuffle(rStr.begin(), rStr.end());
}
time_t t2 = time(NULL);
time_t elapsed = t2-t1;
if(elapsed == 0)
{
cerr endl;
cerr Writing lines lines to the screen took less than one second. endl;
cerr Please choose a bigger value for lines. endl;
return 3;
}
double speed = double(lines)/double(elapsed);
if(elapsed 6)
{
cout endl;
cout Warning: writing lines lines took fewer than 6 seconds. endl;
cout The the results may be inaccurate. endl;
cout Try tspeed value with valueceil(6*speed) endl;
}
cout endl;
cout terminal speed: floor(speed) l/s endl;
return 0;
}
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build wine
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 03:12 -0400, Justin Hart wrote: Anybody know what this error is about? I can't seem to build wine. i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -DINCLUDEDIR=\/usr/include/wine\ -Wall -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-strict-aliasing -gstabs+ -Wpointer-arith -march=pentium4 -pipe -O2 -o y.tab.o y.tab.c flex -Cf -d -8 ./parser.l i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -DINCLUDEDIR=\/usr/include/wine\ -Wall -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-strict-aliasing -gstabs+ -Wpointer-arith -march=pentium4 -pipe -O2 -o lex.yy.o lex.yy.c lex.yy.c:9174: error: syntax error before numeric constant lex.yy.c: In function `yy_scan_string': lex.yy.c:9175: error: number of arguments doesn't match prototype lex.yy.c:367: error: prototype declaration lex.yy.c:9177: warning: passing arg 1 of `strlen' makes pointer from integer without a cast lex.yy.c:9177: warning: passing arg 1 of `yy_scan_bytes' makes pointer from integer without a cast ./parser.l: At top level: lex.yy.c:8687: warning: `yyunput' defined but not used lex.yy.c:9266: warning: `yy_top_state' defined but not used make[2]: *** [lex.yy.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/wine-20050725-r1/work/wine-20050725/tools/wrc' make[1]: *** [wrc] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/wine-20050725-r1/work/wine-20050725/tools' make: *** [tools] Error 2 !!! ERROR: app-emulation/wine-20050725-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1532: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 929: Called src_compile wine-20050725-r1.ebuild, line 133: Called die !!! depend !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. -- Justin W. Hart Well, version 20050725-r1 is hardmasked, as it seems for good reasons. If you want to try the latest version, go for 0.9.12 (just released a few days ago) - it works fine for me. Otherwise try the currently stable version 0.9.8-r1 which should also be newer than 20050725-r1. HTH, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Install help
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 01:11 +0530, Farhan Ahmed wrote: Bob Bao wrote: Hi. I am a new gentoo user here. I downloaded gentoo 2.6 liveCD from gentoo website. After couple time trying, finally I successfully complete the installing. But, after log in, I only get a xterm window and a session window. I think suppose I should get a graphic user interface like boot Hi Bob and welcome to Gentoo, Which graphic desktop you have installed? If its plain X server (i.e., xorg-x11) then you'll get a very basic desktop, which you obviously dont want. If you installed kde, then probaby you've not modified your .xinitrc file. Execute this command from from console, echo exec startkde ~/.xinitrc next time you execute 'startx', kde will startup. for GNOME, execute this command first echo exec gnome-session ~/.xinitrc then startx will bring gnome up. I think the more offical way is to uncomment the following lines in /etc/rc.conf: DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm XSESSION=Gnome -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] # users gives strange results [SOLVED]
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 13:11 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 02:40 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 18:51 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 04:51:31AM +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: Recently i've got a power failure while one of my gentoo boxes was up and running. Since then, the users command seems not to work correctly anymore, as it claims for users to be logged in that almost certainly aren't and don't have a single process running. Besides of this issue, everthing seems to work as expected. Can anybody here tell me where to look for the source of this problem ? Ok, I finally solved my problem by updating to sys-apps/coreutils-5.94-r1 ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] InkScape trouble
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 12:46 +, b.n. wrote: Meino Christian Cramer wrote: As normal user I did: # inkscape Ok, InkScape thought, let's crash! BADABOOM! That's it. Funny :) , but I think this is not the error message you're displayed when inkscape crashes... Can you post the true error message and not your,ehm,emotional interpretation? m. Maybe dynamic linking is not consistent on your system: Try # emerge gentoolkit # revdep-rebuild -p # revdep-rebuild Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] # users gives strange results
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 02:40 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 18:51 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 04:51:31AM +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: Recently i've got a power failure while one of my gentoo boxes was up and running. Since then, the users command seems not to work correctly anymore, as it claims for users to be logged in that almost certainly aren't and don't have a single process running. Besides of this issue, everthing seems to work as expected. Can anybody here tell me where to look for the source of this problem ? Thanks, Matthias I am running into a similar problem recently. I found out that sometimes, after updating 'system', init would restart. During an recent upgrade, after init restarts, the users that were logged-in at that time become ghosts of some sort. 'w' would show the correct number of people logged in, but some other commands won't. It might have something to do with the fact that wtmp is not registering the logouts from thost users. If I issue 'last | head' i would see something to that effect. I am wondering perhaps removing /var/log/wtmp would solve the issue (you might also want to touch /var/log/wtmp afterwards). It might require a rebooting (which I haven't gotten around to doing). Well, i tried that after booting into x86-2006.0-minimal. Unfortunatley, that didn't solve my issuses; I found out that my system behaves after the following pattern: login with user1: $ users user1 $ exit login with user2: $users user1 user2 $exit login with user3: $users user2 user3 Thus, the system seems to ignore logouts as long as there are not more then two additional logins. I've also did a reiserfschk while staying in the live-cd environment, but no corruptions where found ... By the way, the output of $ w seems correct ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Flag USE
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 13:50 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am new on this list (and new of Gentoo). I have some doubts on the setting of the flag USE. I understood its features but I do not know WHEN use them. Some questions: 1 - Is it mandatory to set the Flag USE? 2 - If not, should I verify which flags to use for each package I want to install (using the --pretend and --verbose options of emerge) and then set USE accordingly? Bye emilio You should never do things like: USE=some_flags emerge some_package Instead you should configure a set of useflags you think are good for your needs in general in make.conf. If you want to overide these settings for a specific package do so by using /etc/portage/package.use. Just to give you an example, my make.conf contains this: USE=3dnow alsa bzlib gphoto2 apm jpeg mmx xine xmms zlib opengl oggvorbis gnome gtk gtk2 sse 3dnowext sqlite usb -emacs -flac -php -pyton -mysql -matrox -kde -wxwindows -scanner -samba -yahoo -oci -qt unicode evo mmxext dvdr -eds hal dbus firefox nvidia dvd win32codecs -firebird nsplugin -arts real flac theora vcd css -oss nautilus cairo a52 avi dvdread divx4linux dv encode fame mpeg ogg quicktime subtitles vorbis xvid nptl wma -apache -apache2 fam -esd You find documentation on the various gentoo use flags at: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml For example, to emerge dev-libs/boost with +debug +doc +threads on my system, i did: # echo dev-libs/boost debug doc threads /etc/portage/package.use # emerge -av boost By the why, if you think emerge -s some_package is slow, then # emerge eix This is a really nice tool for searching trough portage fast and with very nice and informative output. Instead of # emerge sync you can do # eix-sync HTH, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] # users gives strange results
On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 18:51 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 04:51:31AM +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: Recently i've got a power failure while one of my gentoo boxes was up and running. Since then, the users command seems not to work correctly anymore, as it claims for users to be logged in that almost certainly aren't and don't have a single process running. Besides of this issue, everthing seems to work as expected. Can anybody here tell me where to look for the source of this problem ? Thanks, Matthias I am running into a similar problem recently. I found out that sometimes, after updating 'system', init would restart. During an recent upgrade, after init restarts, the users that were logged-in at that time become ghosts of some sort. 'w' would show the correct number of people logged in, but some other commands won't. It might have something to do with the fact that wtmp is not registering the logouts from thost users. If I issue 'last | head' i would see something to that effect. I am wondering perhaps removing /var/log/wtmp would solve the issue (you might also want to touch /var/log/wtmp afterwards). It might require a rebooting (which I haven't gotten around to doing). Well, i tried that after booting into x86-2006.0-minimal. Unfortunatley, that didn't solve my issuses; I found out that my system behaves after the following pattern: login with user1: $ users user1 $ exit login with user2: $users user1 user2 $exit login with user3: $users user2 user3 Thus, the system seems to ignore logouts as long as there are not more then two additional logins. I've also did a reiserfschk while staying in the live-cd environment, but no corruptions where found ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] # users gives strange results
On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 10:32 +0100, Rick van Hattem wrote: On Monday 20 March 2006 05:02, Matthias Langer wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 04:51 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: Recently i've got a power failure while one of my gentoo boxes was up and running. Since then, the users command seems not to work correctly anymore, as it claims for users to be logged in that almost certainly aren't and don't have a single process running. Besides of this issue, everthing seems to work as expected. Can anybody here tell me where to look for the source of this problem ? Just for the case that this helps describing my problem: # users mlangc mlangc [should be: rattan] # top not a single process for mlangc # tail -n 400 /var/log/messages Mar 19 22:21:37 lgate886 login(pam_unix)[8674]: session opened for user mlangc by (uid=0) ... ... Mar 19 22:21:47 lgate886 (mlangc-8784): starting (version 2.12.1), pid 8784 user 'mlangc' ... ... Mar 20 00:02:45 lgate886 (mlangc-8784): Exiting Mar 20 00:02:50 lgate886 login(pam_unix)[8674]: session closed for user mlangc Mar 20 04:29:35 lgate886 sshd[9620]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for rattan from 192.168.0.102 port 41237 ssh2 Mar 20 04:29:35 lgate886 syslog-ng[5304]: STATS: dropped 0 Mar 20 04:29:35 lgate886 sshd(pam_unix)[9626]: session opened for user rattan by (uid=0) Mar 20 04:30:29 lgate886 su[9634]: Successful su for root by rattan Mar 20 04:30:29 lgate886 su[9634]: + pts/0 rattan:root Mar 20 04:30:29 lgate886 su(pam_unix)[9634]: session opened for user root by (uid=1002) Perhaps you could try booting in single user mode (or a livecd or something like that) and remove /var/log/utmp and /var/log/wtmp Those are the files that track who is logged on and who isn't, perhaps you can also delete/rename those while running but I'm not sure what results you'll get and I'm not gonna try on one of my boxes :P Thanks, i tried to remove /var/log/wtmp [/var/log/utmp doesn't exist on my box], but that did not help (see my other reply). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] # users gives strange results
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 02:46 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 10:32 +0100, Rick van Hattem wrote: On Monday 20 March 2006 05:02, Matthias Langer wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 04:51 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: Recently i've got a power failure while one of my gentoo boxes was up and running. Since then, the users command seems not to work correctly anymore, as it claims for users to be logged in that almost certainly aren't and don't have a single process running. Besides of this issue, everthing seems to work as expected. Can anybody here tell me where to look for the source of this problem ? Just for the case that this helps describing my problem: # users mlangc mlangc [should be: rattan] # top not a single process for mlangc # tail -n 400 /var/log/messages Mar 19 22:21:37 lgate886 login(pam_unix)[8674]: session opened for user mlangc by (uid=0) ... ... Mar 19 22:21:47 lgate886 (mlangc-8784): starting (version 2.12.1), pid 8784 user 'mlangc' ... ... Mar 20 00:02:45 lgate886 (mlangc-8784): Exiting Mar 20 00:02:50 lgate886 login(pam_unix)[8674]: session closed for user mlangc Mar 20 04:29:35 lgate886 sshd[9620]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for rattan from 192.168.0.102 port 41237 ssh2 Mar 20 04:29:35 lgate886 syslog-ng[5304]: STATS: dropped 0 Mar 20 04:29:35 lgate886 sshd(pam_unix)[9626]: session opened for user rattan by (uid=0) Mar 20 04:30:29 lgate886 su[9634]: Successful su for root by rattan Mar 20 04:30:29 lgate886 su[9634]: + pts/0 rattan:root Mar 20 04:30:29 lgate886 su(pam_unix)[9634]: session opened for user root by (uid=1002) Perhaps you could try booting in single user mode (or a livecd or something like that) and remove /var/log/utmp and /var/log/wtmp Those are the files that track who is logged on and who isn't, perhaps you can also delete/rename those while running but I'm not sure what results you'll get and I'm not gonna try on one of my boxes :P Thanks, i tried to remove /var/log/wtmp [/var/log/utmp doesn't exist on my box], but that did not help (see my other reply). Hmm, well, by $ strace users i found out that i have in fact the file /var/run/utmp; But removing this file did not solve my problem either ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] # users gives strange results
Recently i've got a power failure while one of my gentoo boxes was up and running. Since then, the users command seems not to work correctly anymore, as it claims for users to be logged in that almost certainly aren't and don't have a single process running. Besides of this issue, everthing seems to work as expected. Can anybody here tell me where to look for the source of this problem ? Thanks, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] # users gives strange results
On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 04:51 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: Recently i've got a power failure while one of my gentoo boxes was up and running. Since then, the users command seems not to work correctly anymore, as it claims for users to be logged in that almost certainly aren't and don't have a single process running. Besides of this issue, everthing seems to work as expected. Can anybody here tell me where to look for the source of this problem ? Just for the case that this helps describing my problem: # users mlangc mlangc [should be: rattan] # top not a single process for mlangc # tail -n 400 /var/log/messages Mar 19 22:21:37 lgate886 login(pam_unix)[8674]: session opened for user mlangc by (uid=0) ... ... Mar 19 22:21:47 lgate886 (mlangc-8784): starting (version 2.12.1), pid 8784 user 'mlangc' ... ... Mar 20 00:02:45 lgate886 (mlangc-8784): Exiting Mar 20 00:02:50 lgate886 login(pam_unix)[8674]: session closed for user mlangc Mar 20 04:29:35 lgate886 sshd[9620]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for rattan from 192.168.0.102 port 41237 ssh2 Mar 20 04:29:35 lgate886 syslog-ng[5304]: STATS: dropped 0 Mar 20 04:29:35 lgate886 sshd(pam_unix)[9626]: session opened for user rattan by (uid=0) Mar 20 04:30:29 lgate886 su[9634]: Successful su for root by rattan Mar 20 04:30:29 lgate886 su[9634]: + pts/0 rattan:root Mar 20 04:30:29 lgate886 su(pam_unix)[9634]: session opened for user root by (uid=1002) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] gnome-system-monitor-2.12.1 crashes
I just would like to know if someone else is experiencing random crashes with gnome-system-monor-2.12.1 when modifing the information displayed in the process list, as i described in more detail at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120006. Thanks, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 07:17 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/20/06, Linux Java [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. Linus recommends you use KDE. http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2005-December/000390.html Don't take me wrong, i really respect Linus and appreaciate what he did, but i don't care a damn second about the dektop environment he prefers because this is mostly a matter of tase. I use gnome because i like gnomes simplistic approach, because i like evolution, nautilus, totem, the gnome terminal, gtk+ and especially gtkmm (c++ api for gtk+ - qt folks should really take a look at it) and lot's of great gtk+ based programs like inkscape, gimp, gvim, beep-media-player, ... But the really great thing is that there are lot's of desktop environments and/or window-managers out there and everybody can make it's own choice. Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of gnome
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 16:22 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Wednesday 18 January 2006 14:46, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:21:19 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.10.2 -accessibility -debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.10.1 -debug 0 kB [ebuild N] gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.2.3 -debug -doc +ipv6 -kerberos +ldap +mozilla -nntp +ssl 0 kB It looks like you have eds in your USE flags. Can you post the output from emerge --info | grep USE. # emerge --info | grep USE USE=x86 3dnow X aalib acl acpiapm adabas aim alsa apm arts audiofile avi bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dga directfb dvd eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flac flash foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm ggi gif gimpprint glut gmp gphoto gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java jikes jpeg kde lcms ldap leim libg++ libwww lua mad maildir mbox mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly oav ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl pic png python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zeo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc I would add -gtk -gtk2 -esd -gphoto -gimpprint -gstreamer to get rid of eaven more gnome dependencies. Besides, i would add -mozilla firefox to get rid of mozilla. -oss alsa may be o good idea, as oss will soon be removed from mainline kernels, as far as i know, and most apps support alsa. matthias Ahh yes eds, but not in make.conf. I had to add -eds to my use line. I looked at what wanted to be rebuilt with the newuse option and gaim was at the top of the list. I rebuilt gaim and tried again Orbit and gconf want to be added in, apparently they were needed by gdk-plugins (3 packages) I removed the 3 plugins packages and tried again. This time, the plugins and orbit and gconf wanted to be installed without any clear reason why. At this point, I've more or less resigned myself to the fact that I will have the 2 gnome packages on my box. I would like to know why though. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] permissions on ntfs partitions
Can anybody tell me if it is normal that files on ntfs partitions are executable by default when mounting them under linux ? Or is it possible that this has something to do with the following line from my fstab: /dev/hde1 /mnt/bill ntfs user,umask=,nls=utf8 0 0 Thanks, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 13:08 +, Stroller wrote: On Dec 15, 2005, at 5:05 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: Well, i use azureus - and of course i know that upload-speed can be limited - which is maybe in fact the best solution to my problem. ... for p2p apps - give them as much bandwidth they can reasonably get but don't let them slow down firefox, ssh etc. Because i want this setup just for my homenetwork, it would perfectly suffice if packages get their priorities by examining port-numbers. And because i want to at least partially understand what i'm doing i would prefer a simple and clean setup. I haven't used it yet, but my understanding of traffic-shaping is that it's exactly what you want. I believe that other quality-of-service mechanisms may require applications to be QoS aware (setting a QoS bit in the packet header). You're absolutely right in that reducing the bandwidth of the p2p app isn't the ideal way to achieve what you want - I find latency in browsing surfing with BitTorrent consuming only 60% - 70% of my upload - it doesn't help that other peers are continually making requests of you. If you lower the bandwidth consumption in Azureous then you have to remember to up it again when you go to bed - traffic shaping WILL allow you to permanently maximise your p2p bandwidth, with the ROUTER reducing it only when your priority services send packets. I know that in principle the neccessairy steps to do what i wannt can be found in the 'Packet Shaping HOWTO'. By the way, there are many different packet shedulers in the kernel - and the HOWTO only explains the HTP-scheduler. What about the other schedulers - can they be usefull for my purposes too - and if yes, how can they be configured and used ? No idea. I hope you'll give us feedback when you've discovered more. Ok i found out that in fact the HFSC scheduler should be the one which does exactly what i like because it handles bandwidth and latency seperatley. Here is my current setup, which seems not to be ideal - ssh is still slow when my upload is high: # create the following tree # 1: # 1:1 # 1:10 1:20 1:301:40 # where 1:10 is for ssh, 1:20 for svn, 1:30 for surfing and 1:40 for unmatched traffic # creates the root qdisc tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1: hfsc default 40 # node 1:1 tc class add dev eth0 parent 1: classid 1:1 hfsc sc rate 441kbit ul rate 441kbit # node 1:10 (ssh) - guaranty 1500b in 20ms with an overarall rate of 88kbit tc class add dev eth0 parent 1:1 classid 1:10 hfsc sc umax 800b dmax 20ms rate 88kbit # node 1:20 (svn) - guaranty 1500b in 30ms with an overall rate of of 147kbit tc class add dev eth0 parent 1:1 classid 1:20 hfsc sc umax 800b dmax 30ms rate 147kbit # node 1:30 (firefox) - garanty 2b in 100ms with an overall rate of 120kbit tc class add dev eth0 parent 1:1 classid 1:30 hfsc sc umax 2b dmax 100ms rate 120kbit #node 1:40 (unmatched) tc class add dev eth0 parent 1:1 classid 1:40 hfsc sc rate 96kbit # now that we have our qdiscs we need filters for them # ssh tc filter add dev eth0 protocol ip parent 1: prio 1 u32 match ip dport 22 0x flowid 1:10 # svn tc filter add dev eth0 protocol ip parent 1: prio 2 u32 match ip dport 3690 0x flowid 1:20 # firefox tc filter add dev eth0 protocol ip parent 1: prio 3 u32 match ip dport 80 0x flowid 1:30 Note that i use the u32 filter (must be enabled in the kernel) and not iptables. By the way, there is a very interesting article about traffic control with qdiscs and different schedulers, in particular HFSC, written by the author of HFSC himself in the german 'Linux Magazin' 02/2005. I'll tell you about further experiences with HFSC - comments and suggestions are welcome. Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 09:53 +0200, Matan Peled wrote: Matthias Langer wrote: Now, when i start a p2p app on my workstation the latency of my internet connection suffers greatly, allthogh i've 384 kbit/s up and 3072 kbit/s down. I know that there are some approaches to solve this kind of problem by categorizing packets and assign different priorities to them, as explained at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Packet_Shaping. However, my knowledge of iptables and networking is very limited and i just want a simple and clean solution as i don't plan to trick myself by switching my p2p apps to non standard ports or manipulating the packet size ... I've used that HOWTO (and contributed bits to it), and its great. But why can't you just limit your P2P application's upload speed? I mean, the program should have some controls that let you do that, right? I know every sane bittorrent app has this. Well, i use azureus - and of course i know that upload-speed can be limited - which is maybe in fact the best solution to my problem. However, what i have in mind is somehow similar to cpu-resources and process-priority. If i start at process with nice level 15, it will get all available cpu-resources without slowing down the other apps. As far as i understand, this is not the same as limiting the process to, say 80% of cpu power. Now, what i want is the same for p2p apps - give them as much bandwidth they can reasonably get but don't let them slow down firefox, ssh etc. Because i want this setup just for my homenetwork, it would perfectly suffice if packages get their priorities by examining port-numbers. And because i want to at least partially understand what i'm doing i would prefer a simple and clean setup. I know that in principle the neccessairy steps to do what i wannt can be found in the 'Packet Shaping HOWTO'. But i wanted to hear experiences and opinions of others first before starting messing around with my router. By the way, there are many different packet shedulers in the kernel - and the HOWTO only explains the HTP-scheduler. What about the other schedulers - can they be usefull for my purposes too - and if yes, how can they be configured and used ? Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 20:15 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Matthias Langer schreef: Now, what i want is the same for p2p apps - give them as much bandwidth they can reasonably get but don't let them slow down firefox, ssh etc. In the case of Azureus specifically, your problem is actually not with Azureus, but with Java (that's what's slowing down, and further what is likely to be slowing down Firefox as well if it's running. Certainly I find that running both Firefox and Azureus together is the fast road to The System of Molasses). Hmm, i can't confirm this, bacause as long as azureus is not down/uploading heavily browsing is not really affected. But this may differ from java-vm to vm. I use sun-jdk-1.5.05 because i do same java programming stuff ... You might consider aliasing Java to run at a good niceness (in ~/.bashrc) alias java=nice -n 15 java so that when Azureus starts the (many, many) Java processes that it uses, they will be niced to something you can live with. What effect this will have on Firefox, I cannot say, however. Just an idea, hope it helps, Holly But thanks for your answer nevertheless, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p
I've a small home network, actuall consisting of two gentoo boxes, where one box acts as router, firewall, svn server and desktop for my sister (i know this isn't an optimal setup) and the other one is my workstation. Now, when i start a p2p app on my workstation the latency of my internet connection suffers greatly, allthogh i've 384 kbit/s up and 3072 kbit/s down. I know that there are some approaches to solve this kind of problem by categorizing packets and assign different priorities to them, as explained at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Packet_Shaping. However, my knowledge of iptables and networking is very limited and i just want a simple and clean solution as i don't plan to trick myself by switching my p2p apps to non standard ports or manipulating the packet size ... To cut a long story short: I want high latency for ssh, browsing, subversion while offering p2p services a maximum of bandwidth in a small homenetwork containing only 2 boxes. Any suggestions ? Thanks, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 20:02 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: I've a small home network, actuall consisting of two gentoo boxes, where one box acts as router, firewall, svn server and desktop for my sister (i know this isn't an optimal setup) and the other one is my workstation. Now, when i start a p2p app on my workstation the latency of my internet connection suffers greatly, allthogh i've 384 kbit/s up and 3072 kbit/s down. I know that there are some approaches to solve this kind of problem by categorizing packets and assign different priorities to them, as explained at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Packet_Shaping. However, my knowledge of iptables and networking is very limited and i just want a simple and clean solution as i don't plan to trick myself by switching my p2p apps to non standard ports or manipulating the packet size ... To cut a long story short: I want high latency for ssh, browsing, (what i mean is in fact low latency :-) subversion while offering p2p services a maximum of bandwidth in a small homenetwork containing only 2 boxes. Any suggestions ? Thanks, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unkillable processes
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 16:34 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: On 11/30/05, Travis Osterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes something about her setup goes haywire and she loses all her desktop icons and her wallpaper. I've had a similar issue and, for me, it's usually nautilus erroring. If I run '$ nautilus ' that usually fixes things (brings back wallpaper, icons, panels, etc).. Well, thats very similar to my approach, when i got problems with gnome (usually minor ones): $ killall nautilus If your gnome is setup correctly nautilus should be restarted afterwars atomatically - and hopefully work again. Matthias HTH -- Travis Thanks Travis. We'll keep that in mond for the next time this happens. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] bad interpreter
On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 13:45 +, cucu ionut cristian wrote: tryng to install various aplications that wore not in portage found the folowing error: bad interpreter: Permission denied As I remeber i got this error tring to install luminocity and now e17 modules; concrete: trying moon from e17 tar xfvz and then ./autogen.sh gives me: bash: ./autogen.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permision denied i'm doing sh ./autogen.sh and then sh ./autogen.sh Running aclocal... Running autoheader... Running autoconf... Running libtoolize... Running automake... ./autogen.sh: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied Again same thing doing it as root so what to do? Well i had this problem too some time ago; The reason for this on my box was that the location from where i worked was mounted on a partition with restricted permissions. If this may be the case for you, check your fstab and try the mount the suspect partition with 'defaults' instead of 'user' or something else. HTH, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Let's make a map of Gentoo users
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 23:44 +0200, Paul wrote: Not any more Ryan On 12/6/05, Ryan Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You guys are still awake!?!? When I signed up (about half an hour ago) I was the only one in San Francisco! What's up with that? What a great idea, b.n.! Thanks! Michael On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, b.n. wrote: Yup currently I am the only South African and one of 3 in the Southern Hemisphere. -- When you say I wrote a program that crashed Windows, people just stare at you blankly and say Hey, I got those with the system, for free. - Linus Torvalds, 1995 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Nice idea - it seems that i'm the first gentoo user from austria :-) Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange ALSA issue
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 16:45 -0500, Marc Morrisette wrote: I just got done following the GCC migration guide on 3 computers. It went smoothly on 2 of them, everything works fine, but on the third, after I recompiled the kernel, alsa-driver won't compile. I'm using vanilla-sources 2.6.14.2, the kernel options are all identical to what they were before I did the GCC migration. It's getting stuck very early in the ALSA compile: In file included from /var/tmp/portage/alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc3/work/alsa-driver-1.0.10rc3/include/adriver.h:765, from /var/tmp/portage/alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc3/work/alsa-driver-1.0.10rc3/acore/sgbuf.c:13: include/linux/pci.h:392: error: parse error before numeric constant make[4]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc3/work/alsa-driver-1.0.10rc3/acore/sgbuf.o] Error 1 make[3]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc3/work/alsa-driver-1.0.10rc3/acore] Error 2 make[2]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/portage/alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc3/work/alsa-driver-1.0.10rc3] Error 2 make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.14.2' make: *** [compile] Error 2 !!! ERROR: media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc3 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 96, Exitcode 2 !!! Make Failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. I have no idea how to solve this...it's only happening on one computer. On the others, ALSA compiled fine after recompiling the kernel with the new compiler. The only change that I made after switching compiler was changing my CFLAGS. 3.3.6 didn't have a --march entry for my processor, so I had to use i686. After the GCC update, I changed the CFLAGS to --march=c3-2, then I did emerge -e system and emerge -e world afterwards. Everything but ALSA is working fine. I'm lost here, I can't imagine what the problem could be. ALSA would've been recompiled as part of world after the GCC upgrade/CFLAGS change, it must've worked then as I didn't get any errors from the emerge. Why don't you try the alsa drivers provided with the kernel (i'm quite happy with them) ? Maybe this will work ... Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange ALSA issue
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 23:58 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 16:45 -0500, Marc Morrisette wrote: I just got done following the GCC migration guide on 3 computers. It went smoothly on 2 of them, everything works fine, but on the third, after I recompiled the kernel, alsa-driver won't compile. I'm using vanilla-sources 2.6.14.2, Are you using the same kernel on all machines, or different versions ? the kernel options are all identical to what they were before I did the GCC migration. It's getting stuck very early in the ALSA compile: In file included from /var/tmp/portage/alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc3/work/alsa-driver-1.0.10rc3/include/adriver.h:765, from /var/tmp/portage/alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc3/work/alsa-driver-1.0.10rc3/acore/sgbuf.c:13: include/linux/pci.h:392: error: parse error before numeric constant make[4]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc3/work/alsa-driver-1.0.10rc3/acore/sgbuf.o] Error 1 make[3]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc3/work/alsa-driver-1.0.10rc3/acore] Error 2 make[2]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/portage/alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc3/work/alsa-driver-1.0.10rc3] Error 2 make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.14.2' make: *** [compile] Error 2 !!! ERROR: media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc3 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 96, Exitcode 2 !!! Make Failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. I have no idea how to solve this...it's only happening on one computer. On the others, ALSA compiled fine after recompiling the kernel with the new compiler. The only change that I made after switching compiler was changing my CFLAGS. 3.3.6 didn't have a --march entry for my processor, so I had to use i686. After the GCC update, I changed the CFLAGS to --march=c3-2, then I did emerge -e system and emerge -e world afterwards. Everything but ALSA is working fine. I'm lost here, I can't imagine what the problem could be. ALSA would've been recompiled as part of world after the GCC upgrade/CFLAGS change, it must've worked then as I didn't get any errors from the emerge. Why don't you try the alsa drivers provided with the kernel (i'm quite happy with them) ? Maybe this will work ... Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help with world update
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 23:32 +, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Hello, I am running a emerge -u world and there is a package (realplayer) that keeps failing the build due to an error in package retrieval. My first question is why is portage trying to emerge this package as I do not have it installed in the first place ( I had it once a while ago, then it was unmerged) and my second is how tell portage not to emerge the package. I'm presuming that there was an error during the unmerging such that portage still thinks the package is installed, what can I do to fix this? Thanks. As explained at the end of the migration guide (did not see it myself the first time) use: # emerge --resume --skipfirst This will continue your last emerge but skip the first package in the list (which is the one that failed). realplayer is most likley pulled in as dependecy by another package, maybe because of a specific use flag. If you have gentoolkit installed, try # equery depends realplayer HTH, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 22:49 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I think I've somehow managed to screw gcc up. Whenever I try to emerge anything I get this message: checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables It also says See config.log for details, but I can't find config.log - it doesn't give a full path. Is there a way to repair this without having to completely reinstall Gentoo? I've had this problem too some time ago - however, i'm not sure how i solved it - but i think it was something with fix-libtool.sh or gcc-config. Try to compile a simple c-program by hand - maybe this will give you some hints about the source of your problem. Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: default stage3
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:17 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:28:26 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: As I understand it, the first time you recompile new toolchain with your old toolchain, and then the 2nd time you're recompiling the toolchain with the new toolchain, with the idea that the new toolchain will compile/assemble/link/etc everything in a different way than the old toolchain. Please correct if I'm wrong. I would suggest 'emerge -uD gcc emerge -e world'; This should recompile the new toolchain with the new toolchain and be considerably faster. The first command won't do anything, -D doesn't take account of of USE or CFLAG changes. Well, you are right, in theory; In practice, where the toolchain on the live-cd is not up to date, it will get completley recompiled by emerge -uD gcc (after syncing) - at least I think so ... However, thanks for pointing that out ... emerge -e system emerge -e world might be better, but there are scripts on the forums that recompile just what you need, in the best order, such as; http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-282474.html Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: changing CHOST in stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] default stage3)
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 17:11 -0500, Matthew Cline wrote: On 11/22/05, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why? What do you expect to gain? The computer I am installing this on is an old Compaq laptop with a Cyrix MediaGX processor. Everything I have read suggests that this is equivalent to an i586. Am I wrong in thinking that the CHOST variable should reflect the kind of processor in the machine? Wouldn't leaving the CHOST at i386-pc-linux-gnu build unoptimized binaries? Matt I'm not an expert, but this is just copied and pasted from the gentoo handbook: The CHOST variable declares the target build host for your system. This variable should already be set to the correct value. Do not edit it as that might break your system. If the CHOST variable does not look correct to you, you might be using the wrong stage3 tarball. Cheers, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 21:33 +0900, Steve B wrote: WTF.. I'm getting ready to rebuild my gentoo box. I have always did a stage 1 install. i was under the impression that if u used a stage 3 u couldn't muck with your CFLAGS or what not. If I'm forced to use canned binaries I might as well go with FC or Debian.. I've never listened to the Gentoo is dead comments.. but now who knows.. this is just crazy.. who came up with this stupid idea? from the sounds of it certianly not the Gentoo Community! I think you haven't really read the discussions about this topic. As long as you don't edit bootstrap.sh, stage3-emerge sync-adapt make.conf, package.* files etc.-emerge -e world will just have the same effect as a stage1 install but - faster - with fewer pitfalls Regards, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 13:57 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 21:33 +0900, Steve B wrote: WTF.. I'm getting ready to rebuild my gentoo box. I have always did a stage 1 install. i was under the impression that if u used a stage 3 u couldn't muck with your CFLAGS or what not. The only flag you should not change after a stage 3 install is CHOST. If you downloaded the right stage3 tarball there is no reason to do so unless you are cross-compiling. Note that stage1 is still available, but no longer supported by the handbook, as there is allmost no reason, even for an experienced gentoo-er not to use stage3. If I'm forced to use canned binaries I might as well go with FC or Debian.. I've never listened to the Gentoo is dead comments.. but now who knows.. this is just crazy.. who came up with this stupid idea? from the sounds of it certianly not the Gentoo Community! I think you haven't really read the discussions about this topic. As long as you don't edit bootstrap.sh, stage3-emerge sync-adapt make.conf, package.* files etc.-emerge -e world will just have the same effect as a stage1 install but - faster - with fewer pitfalls Regards, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: default stage3
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 17:01 -0500, Ryan Sims wrote: I installed gentoo on a dual Opteron box this weekend, I've always done stage1 installs, but this time decided to try the recommeded stage3 method. I understand the concept of doing an emerge -e world in order to get the optimization of a stage1 install, and I've done this ( one time ) on the install I just completed. Can sombody explain why it's necessary/desirable to do this *twice*? What real difference does the second execution really make? As I understand it, the first time you recompile new toolchain with your old toolchain, and then the 2nd time you're recompiling the toolchain with the new toolchain, with the idea that the new toolchain will compile/assemble/link/etc everything in a different way than the old toolchain. Please correct if I'm wrong. I would suggest 'emerge -uD gcc emerge -e world'; This should recompile the new toolchain with the new toolchain and be considerably faster. Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 Nvidia
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 17:58 -0800, Bob Young wrote: -Original Message- From: David Corbin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 3:21 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 Nvidia On Sunday 06 November 2005 11:13 pm, Norberto Bensa wrote: Philip Webb wrote: Has anyone got Nvidia to work with Kernel 2.6.14 ? Yup. In /etc/conf.d/local.start /sbin/NVmakedevices.sh or mknod /dev/nvidia0 c 195 0 mknod /dev/nvidiactl c 195 255 This doesn't work for me. If I have the nvidia FB compiled in, then nvidia module fails to load long before local.start seems to be called. You can't have the nv driver providing the console frame buffer, then load the nvidia driver. If you do that, you have two different modules laying claim to control of the video hardware, thus causing the second one to fail to load.. If you want support for different video modes and boot splash etc, use the vesafb, then your nvidia driver should load. Bob Young This link may be relevant: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104369 mlangc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] evolution, aspell and multilanguage support
I've recently switched to evolution for writing and receiving mail. As German is my mother language I write German e-mails in regular intervals. So I thought installing app-dicts/aspell-de would be a good idea. However, I'm not able to select a German dictionary in evolution. Last but not least some information on my system which might be relevant: app-text/aspell-0.50.5-r4 app-text/aspell-de-50.2 mail-client/evolution-2.2.3-r3 $ equery uses evolution ... + + spell : Adds dictionary support ... Maybe someone here can help me ... Thanks, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dma_intr: status=0x51
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
On Saturday 08 October 2005 04:15, Matthias Langer wrote:
I just bought myself a new harddrive. While everything seems to work
fine so far, I recognized these messages from dmesg:
hdd: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
I'm using vanilla-sources-2.6.12.5.
Here are some other parts from dmesg, which are included to describe the
relevant hardware in detail:
SiI680: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:09.0
SiI680: chipset revision 1
SiI680: BASE CLOCK == 133
SiI680: 100% native mode on irq 10
ide0: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
...
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3540A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: Maxtor 6L250R0, ATA DISK drive
hdd: max request size: 64KiB
hdd: 490234752 sectors (251000 MB) w/16384KiB Cache, CHS=30515/255/63,
UDMA(133)
hdd: cache flushes supported
Finally, this is what i get from hdparm -i /dev/hdd:
Model=Maxtor 6L250R0, FwRev=BAH41G10, SerialNo=L59CY5SH
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=16384kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 udma6
AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: (null):
Maybe someone can give me a hint what might be wrong with my configuration.
first off all, you should never mix ata and atapi devices (harddisks and
opticals) on one channel. That is known for making problems.
Your error message could be have two origins: your cable is defective or not
properly seated (easy to check), or your harddisk is on its way to the great
vendor in the sky.
Get a different cable. Connect the drive with this new cable. ONLY connect the
drive, not the burner. Does the error still occurs? Bring back the harddisk,
where you bought it.
Well, I tried to connect the drive to another cable with success.
However, with this cable, which seemed to be an older one, the drive was
restricted to UDMA(33).
My theory about these messages now is the following:
The HD I'm talking about is not directly connected to the ide-cable, but
via a rather old 'HD-Box'. Thus I have:
Controller-Modern IDE-Cable-HD-Box-Old IDE-Cable-HD.
I think that the 'Old IDE-Cable' part is causing the troubles. However I
can't verify that without rearranging a bulk of ide-drives.
I'll buy myself a new box and tell you about the results.
Thanks for your hints, Matthias
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Re: [gentoo-user] dma_intr: status=0x51
Matthias Langer wrote:
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
On Saturday 08 October 2005 04:15, Matthias Langer wrote:
I just bought myself a new harddrive. While everything seems to work
fine so far, I recognized these messages from dmesg:
hdd: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
I'm using vanilla-sources-2.6.12.5.
Here are some other parts from dmesg, which are included to describe
the
relevant hardware in detail:
SiI680: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:09.0
SiI680: chipset revision 1
SiI680: BASE CLOCK == 133
SiI680: 100% native mode on irq 10
ide0: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
...
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3540A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: Maxtor 6L250R0, ATA DISK drive
hdd: max request size: 64KiB
hdd: 490234752 sectors (251000 MB) w/16384KiB Cache, CHS=30515/255/63,
UDMA(133)
hdd: cache flushes supported
Finally, this is what i get from hdparm -i /dev/hdd:
Model=Maxtor 6L250R0, FwRev=BAH41G10, SerialNo=L59CY5SH
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=16384kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 udma6
AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: (null):
Maybe someone can give me a hint what might be wrong with my
configuration.
first off all, you should never mix ata and atapi devices (harddisks
and opticals) on one channel. That is known for making problems.
Your error message could be have two origins: your cable is defective
or not properly seated (easy to check), or your harddisk is on its
way to the great vendor in the sky.
Get a different cable. Connect the drive with this new cable. ONLY
connect the drive, not the burner. Does the error still occurs? Bring
back the harddisk, where you bought it.
Well, I tried to connect the drive to another cable with success.
However, with this cable, which seemed to be an older one, the drive
was restricted to UDMA(33).
My theory about these messages now is the following:
The HD I'm talking about is not directly connected to the ide-cable,
but via a rather old 'HD-Box'. Thus I have:
Controller-Modern IDE-Cable-HD-Box-Old IDE-Cable-HD.
I think that the 'Old IDE-Cable' part is causing the troubles. However
I can't verify that without rearranging a bulk of ide-drives.
I'll buy myself a new box and tell you about the results.
Well, it was as I expected. After switching to an UDMA(133) compatible
mobile rack the error messages are gone.
Thanks for your hints, Matthias
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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition
Norberto Bensa wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: if you want to use copy, I would prefer cp -a ;) Use tar since cp wont preserve empty dirs. # cd /path/to/old/dir # tar cf - * | ( cd /path/to/new/dir tar xf - ) What about rsync -a ? They used tar, for some reasons they mentioned and I forgot ;) :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] two questions about gdm
Matthias Langer wrote: I've two questions about gdm (I use version 2.8.0.3): 1.) Recently I recognized that I get the following error message when logging in via gdm: The configuration file contains an invalid command line for the login dialog, so using the default command. Please fix your configuration. Because of the fact that I'm normally logged in automatically by gdm, I can't say which upgrade led to this problem, but at least I've never edited any of gdms config files myself. Maybe someone can tell me which file is responsible for this mess, and maybe how to fix that ... 2.) Is there a way to force gdm to use a user defined screen resolution without messing around with xorg.conf ? Thanks, Matthias This is just a repost ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] dma_intr: status=0x51
I just bought myself a new harddrive. While everything seems to work
fine so far, I recognized these messages from dmesg:
hdd: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
I'm using vanilla-sources-2.6.12.5.
Here are some other parts from dmesg, which are included to describe the
relevant hardware in detail:
SiI680: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:09.0
SiI680: chipset revision 1
SiI680: BASE CLOCK == 133
SiI680: 100% native mode on irq 10
ide0: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
...
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3540A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: Maxtor 6L250R0, ATA DISK drive
hdd: max request size: 64KiB
hdd: 490234752 sectors (251000 MB) w/16384KiB Cache, CHS=30515/255/63,
UDMA(133)
hdd: cache flushes supported
Finally, this is what i get from hdparm -i /dev/hdd:
Model=Maxtor 6L250R0, FwRev=BAH41G10, SerialNo=L59CY5SH
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=16384kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 udma6
AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: (null):
Maybe someone can give me a hint what might be wrong with my configuration.
Thanks, Matthias
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[gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition
I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both directories were on the same partition, as splitting drives never seemed very appealing to me. As far as I know, one possibility would be to [with the boot-cd] # mv /usr /mnt/newHD/ # mv /home /mnt/newHD/ # ln -s /mnt/newHD/usr usr # ln -s /mnt/newHD/home home However, I'm not sure if this is the suggested method of doing so and to be honest, I'm not completley sure if this would even work. Any comments or suggestions ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition
Joe Menola wrote: On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote: I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition, because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both directories were on the same partition, as splitting drives never seemed very appealing to me. As far as I know, one possibility would be to [with the boot-cd] # mv /usr /mnt/newHD/ # mv /home /mnt/newHD/ # ln -s /mnt/newHD/usr usr # ln -s /mnt/newHD/home home However, I'm not sure if this is the suggested method of doing so and to be honest, I'm not completley sure if this would even work. Any comments or suggestions ? In theory I suppose that would work. Myself, I would copy the contents to /mnt/newHD/ then rename the original directories and create the links. The renamed directories can be deleted after you've verified positive results. And if it all craps out, the originals can simply be renamed back to /usr and /home. You should consider creating separate partitions for these though. At some point you may wish to blow out the install but retain your /home. Separate partitions makes this much easier. And also opens the possibility of sharing your /home with multiple installs. HTH -jm Well, maybe you are right and creating a /usr and a /home partition is the better choice. As I want to buy a 250GB drive, I'm thinking of 20G for /usr and 230GB for home, while still 16GB remain for /opt, /root, /bin . Now another genooist pointed out that it would be wiser to use rsync or tar instead of just # cp - r /usr /mnt/newHd_part_usr/ So, should I enter # rsync -r /usr /mnt/newHd_part_usr/ or are there some options I should activate to make sure I get what I want ? Thanks, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] two questions about gdm
I've two questions about gdm (I use version 2.8.0.3): 1.) Recently I recognized that I get the following error message when logging in via gdm: The configuration file contains an invalid command line for the login dialog, so using the default command. Please fix your configuration. Because of the fact that I'm normally logged in automatically by gdm, I can't say which upgrade led to this problem, but at least I've never edited any of gdms config files myself. Maybe someone can tell me which file is responsible for this mess, and maybe how to fix that ... 2.) Is there a way to force gdm to use a user defined screen resolution without messing around with xorg.conf ? Thanks, Matthias -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:48:13 +0200 Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By accident i recognized that the link /usr/X11R6/ conatains itself - leading to an infinite recursion, as hinted in the subject of this message ... Does it really contain _itself_? I think this would be wrong. Instead, it should point to /usr, i.e. the directory containing the sym link. Reading the subject of your mail, I guess that's the case for you, too. But above you said otherwise (pointing to itself)... Well you are right: ls -l in /usr: ... X11R6 - ../usr ... Matthias It's due to the fact that X11 is distro-managed and as such there's little reason to keep it in an extra location. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....
By accident i recognized that the link /usr/X11R6/ conatains itself - leading to an infinite recursion, as hinted in the subject of this message ... I don't think that this is a problem, but i doubt that this behavour is intended. Maybe i should mention that this doesn't change after removing the symlink and reemerging xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4. Any comments, or should i file a bug ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] gcc usefalgs
I'm woudering about the effect of the following useflags for sys-devel/gcc: gtk, multislot, vanilla Does anybody know what they do ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] multiple gcc versions
I'm mainly in x86 and thus using gcc-3.3.6. However, as i do some programming, i want to know if it is without greater problems possible, to install gcc-3.4.4 additionally, so that i can make sure that the code i'm writing is accepted by gcc-3.4.x too [i know that i can't expect my code to work, as it is c++ stuff and the libs i'm using are compiled with 3.3.6 - i only want to be sure that the code compiles cleanly]. Thanks, Matthias Langer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] alias
Recently i was woundering where gentoo stores the aliases i get by: $ alias alias d='ls --color' alias ll='ls --color -l' alias ls='ls --color=auto' alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh' The reason i want to know this is mainly because i want to add my own ones to this list without fooling around with /etc/conf.d/local.start. Matthias Langer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] alias [RESOLVED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can put them in your ~/.bash_rc or _profile - I can't remember of the top of my head. For host wide ones I created a /etc/bash.rc where I put stuff I want everybody to get - or at least start with as they can override it. I then source this in the ~/.bash?? and to make sure new users get it I modify what's in /etc/skel. I used /etc/bash.rc because it was on a distro I was familiar with at the time. From: Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/09/19 Mon AM 08:24:45 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] alias Recently i was woundering where gentoo stores the aliases i get by: $ alias alias d='ls --color' alias ll='ls --color -l' alias ls='ls --color=auto' alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh' The reason i want to know this is mainly because i want to add my own ones to this list without fooling around with /etc/conf.d/local.start. Matthias Langer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Thank you all for your tipps - in fact the file ~/.bashrc was the first one i was looking for; however, i must have been blind because it appeard to me that there is no such file Matthias Langer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
