Re: [gentoo-user] Daylight time change and cron run twice
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 06:36:50PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 11/04/2012 03:16 PM, Michael George wrote: Local time changes of less than three hours, such as those caused by the start or end of Daylight Saving Time, are handled specially. This only applies to jobs that run at a specific time and jobs that are run with a granularity greater than one hour. Jobs that run more frequently are scheduled normally. ... So it seems that DST changes are accommodated. Is there some side-effect of the cron.period method of scheduling tasks that I'm overlooking? The run-crons script is triggered every ten minutes, and so avoids the special handling. But the script is broken, and has been so forever: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69777 I'm surprised that hasn't been fixed by now. Looking at the cron guide (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69777), is bcron subject to the same problem because the run-crons script is in cronbase and not part of the cron daemon? -- -M Rident stolidi verba Latina. -Ovid
[gentoo-user] Daylight time change and cron run twice
Last night was our change from EDT to EST. So we went through the 1am-2am hour twice. My crontab has the following: # for vixie cron # $Header: # /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-process/vixie-cron/files/crontab-3.0.1-r4,v # 1.3 2011/09/20 15:13:51 idl0r Exp $ # Global variables SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly 59 * * * *rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly 9 3 * * * rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily 19 4 * * 6 rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly 29 5 1 * * rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly */10 * * * * roottest -x /usr/sbin/run-crons /usr/sbin/run-crons So the cron.daily file should be removed at 3:09am -- it should only run once as the 2am-forward time only occurred once. However, this morning I have two sets of email from my daily jobs running. At this time: Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 02:20:05 -0500 (EST) and this time: Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 03:10:04 -0500 (EST) Why would it have run twice? -- -M Rident stolidi verba Latina. -Ovid
Re: [gentoo-user] Daylight time change and cron run twice
Well, this is what I initially thought would happen. However, my crontab indicates that cron.daily would be removed at 3:09am. But at 2am EDT, the time changed back to 1am EST, never having reached 3:09am EDT. Then after an hour it would be 2am EST, or 2am again. See here: http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b2.html But 3:09am would never have been reached last night during EDT, only at EST, so I don't expect something after 3am would ever suffer from the change. What am I missing? On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 04:36:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 08:58:54 -0500 Michael George geo...@mutualdata.com wrote: Last night was our change from EDT to EST. So we went through the 1am-2am hour twice. My crontab has the following: # for vixie cron # $Header: # /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-process/vixie-cron/files/crontab-3.0.1-r4,v # 1.3 2011/09/20 15:13:51 idl0r Exp $ # Global variables SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly 59 * * * *rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly 9 3 * * * rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily 19 4 * * 6 rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly 29 5 1 * * rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly */10 * * * * roottest -x /usr/sbin/run-crons /usr/sbin/run-crons So the cron.daily file should be removed at 3:09am -- it should only run once as the 2am-forward time only occurred once. However, this morning I have two sets of email from my daily jobs running. At this time: Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 02:20:05 -0500 (EST) and this time: Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 03:10:04 -0500 (EST) Why would it have run twice? This is clearly documented in the man pages for Vixie cron. cron is utterly unaware of the vagaries and stupidities that humans get up to recording the passage of time. If your crontab is this: 0 0 * * * something then when the clock says it is 0 minutes past the 0 hour, the cron will run. That time happened twice. Therefore the cron ran twice. You can't really blame cron for not picking up that an event that is guaranteed to happen once in a period actually happened twice in a period. There comes a time when a developer has to step back and say To hell with that, it's out of contract spec and actually not my problem! There are other crons that avoid this problem by taking a completely different approach. You configure them by declaring you want a job to run in a given period of time. When daylight saving kicks in, it sees a job has already run and doesn't do it again. But you have to lose the ability to specify the exact time a job must run at to do it this way. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com -- -M Rident stolidi verba Latina. -Ovid
Re: [gentoo-user] Daylight time change and cron run twice
On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 04:36:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 08:58:54 -0500 Michael George geo...@mutualdata.com wrote: Last night was our change from EDT to EST. So we went through the 1am-2am hour twice. My crontab has the following: # for vixie cron # $Header: # /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-process/vixie-cron/files/crontab-3.0.1-r4,v # 1.3 2011/09/20 15:13:51 idl0r Exp $ # Global variables SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly 59 * * * *rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly 9 3 * * * rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily 19 4 * * 6 rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly 29 5 1 * * rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly */10 * * * * roottest -x /usr/sbin/run-crons /usr/sbin/run-crons So the cron.daily file should be removed at 3:09am -- it should only run once as the 2am-forward time only occurred once. However, this morning I have two sets of email from my daily jobs running. At this time: Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 02:20:05 -0500 (EST) and this time: Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 03:10:04 -0500 (EST) Why would it have run twice? This is clearly documented in the man pages for Vixie cron. cron is utterly unaware of the vagaries and stupidities that humans get up to recording the passage of time. If your crontab is this: 0 0 * * * something then when the clock says it is 0 minutes past the 0 hour, the cron will run. That time happened twice. Therefore the cron ran twice. You can't really blame cron for not picking up that an event that is guaranteed to happen once in a period actually happened twice in a period. There comes a time when a developer has to step back and say To hell with that, it's out of contract spec and actually not my problem! There are other crons that avoid this problem by taking a completely different approach. You configure them by declaring you want a job to run in a given period of time. When daylight saving kicks in, it sees a job has already run and doesn't do it again. But you have to lose the ability to specify the exact time a job must run at to do it this way. Actually, checking the page for cron(8) of vixie-cron, we see this: Daylight Saving Time and other time changes Local time changes of less than three hours, such as those caused by the start or end of Daylight Saving Time, are handled specially. This only applies to jobs that run at a specific time and jobs that are run with a granularity greater than one hour. Jobs that run more frequently are scheduled normally. If time has moved forward, those jobs that would have run in the interval that has been skipped will be run immediately. Conversely, if time has moved backward, care is taken to avoid running jobs twice. Time changes of more than 3 hours are considered to be corrections to the clock or timezone, and the new time is used immediately. So it seems that DST changes are accommodated. Is there some side-effect of the cron.period method of scheduling tasks that I'm overlooking? -- -M Rident stolidi verba Latina. -Ovid
[gentoo-user] pg_upgrade from 9.0.5 to 9.1.1
I am trying to upgrade my postgresql server from 9.0 to 9.1. I've installed 9.1.1 and used eselect to make it the slot to run for the system. When I run: pg_upgrade -v --check -d /var/lib/postgresql/9.0/data -D \ /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/data -b /usr/lib64/postgresql-9.0/bin -B \ /usr/lib64/postgresql-9.1/bin I get: Running in verbose mode Performing Consistency Checks - Checking current, bin, and data directories ok Checking cluster versions ok /usr/lib64/postgresql-9.0/bin/pg_ctl -w -l /dev/null -D /var/lib/postgresql/9.0/data -o -p 5432 -c autovacuum=off -c autovacuum_freeze_max_age=20 start /dev/null 21 When I run that command manually and send the output to a logfile, it appears that it's trying to find postgresql's *.conf files in the data directory rather than in /etc/postgresql-9.0. I don't see a way to specify the location of the conf files separate from the data files. How do I proceed? -- -Michael Rident stolidi verba Latina. -Ovid
Re: [gentoo-user] pg_upgrade from 9.0.5 to 9.1.1
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:31:58AM -0500, Michael George wrote: I am trying to upgrade my postgresql server from 9.0 to 9.1. I've installed 9.1.1 and used eselect to make it the slot to run for the system. When I run: pg_upgrade -v --check -d /var/lib/postgresql/9.0/data -D \ /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/data -b /usr/lib64/postgresql-9.0/bin -B \ /usr/lib64/postgresql-9.1/bin I get: Running in verbose mode Performing Consistency Checks - Checking current, bin, and data directories ok Checking cluster versions ok /usr/lib64/postgresql-9.0/bin/pg_ctl -w -l /dev/null -D /var/lib/postgresql/9.0/data -o -p 5432 -c autovacuum=off -c autovacuum_freeze_max_age=20 start /dev/null 21 When I run that command manually and send the output to a logfile, it appears that it's trying to find postgresql's *.conf files in the data directory rather than in /etc/postgresql-9.0. I don't see a way to specify the location of the conf files separate from the data files. How do I proceed? According to: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-09/msg01482.php The normal workaround is to make symlinks and delete them after the pg_upgrade. It appears they might implement a solution, but it isn't in place for 9.1. :( -- -M Rident stolidi verba Latina. -Ovid
Re: [gentoo-user] cups 1.3 - 1.4 no more avahi?
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:31:36AM +0100, Stroller wrote: On 26 June 2011, at 04:42, Michael George wrote: I upgraded cups to 1.4.6 today and my Macs could no longer print to it. ? I'm not sure what I'm missing for the Macs to be happy like they were with 1.3 and avahi. Version of CUPS on your Mac? http://localhost:631/ 1.4.7. I have Show printers shared by other systems enabled. I notice that there is no more avahi USE flag for 1.4. I had that enabled for 1.3 and the Macs found the printer automagically. Thank you! -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
[gentoo-user] cups 1.3 - 1.4 no more avahi?
I upgraded cups to 1.4.6 today and my Macs could no longer print to it. I looked and the avahi USE flag is gone, so I checked the avahi wiki page to see if some other flag should be used. That page said this: Zeroconf isn't enabled by default so you have to browse the CUPS admin page and enable it. Open http://localhost:631/admin if you're running it on localhost and enable the Share published printers connected to this system option. Change Settings will restart CUPS and your printer should be instantly visible to zeroconf-aware applications in the local network. Unfortunately, shared printers from other systems aren't usable with zero configuration by default. You have to check Show shared printers from other systems under Administration and you have to actively search for them and manually add them in the webinterface. I looked and I already have those options set. My config file has the following sharing options: Browsing On BrowseOrder allow,deny BrowseAllow all BrowseAddress @LOCAL BrowseLocalProtocols CUPS I'm not sure what I'm missing for the Macs to be happy like they were with 1.3 and avahi. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
[gentoo-user] sane-backends
I just got a new scanner which will be supported in version 1.0.22 of the sane-backend package. However, that version isn't in portage yet. How do I find who the maintainers of the portage package are so that I can contact them to see if I can help get that port made available? -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
[gentoo-user] problems with mutt and mimetypes
I'm having trouble with mutt opening other applications for various mime types. I'm sure this worked last month, and from what I can see, I had mutt-1.5.20-r18 and firefox-3.6.13. I now have mutt-1.5.21-r1 and firefox-3.6.15. mutt -nF /dev/null -Q mailcap_path gives me: mailcap_path=~/.mailcap:/usr/share/mutt/mailcap:/etc/mutt/mailcap:/etc/mailcap:/usr/etc/mailcap:/usr/local/etc/mailcap I have nothing for the tag text/html in my muttrc file. I have text/html; firefox %s in my ~/.mailcap file. I have the following in /etc/mailcap: text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -force_html '%s'; needsterminal; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -dump -force_html '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html and if I put auto_view in my muttrc file, it will try to open the files with lynx. Yet putting the firefox %s command into /etc/mailcap doesn't open firefox. All the docs I can find seem to indicates that what I have configured should try to open firefox like it used to, but it isn't. Is there perhaps some type of connecting package that needed to be rebuild with firefox for this to work? -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
Re: [gentoo-user] problems with mutt and mimetypes
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 07:23:13AM +0800, Amankwah wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 06:44:44PM -0400, Michael George wrote: I'm having trouble with mutt opening other applications for various mime types. I'm sure this worked last month, and from what I can see, I had mutt-1.5.20-r18 and firefox-3.6.13. I now have mutt-1.5.21-r1 and firefox-3.6.15. mutt -nF /dev/null -Q mailcap_path gives me: mailcap_path=~/.mailcap:/usr/share/mutt/mailcap:/etc/mutt/mailcap:/etc/mailcap:/usr/etc/mailcap:/usr/local/etc/mailcap I have nothing for the tag text/html in my muttrc file. I have text/html; firefox %s in my ~/.mailcap file. I have the following in /etc/mailcap: text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -force_html '%s'; needsterminal; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -dump -force_html '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html and if I put auto_view in my muttrc file, it will try to open the files with lynx. Yet putting the firefox %s command into /etc/mailcap doesn't open firefox. All the docs I can find seem to indicates that what I have configured should try to open firefox like it used to, but it isn't. Is there perhaps some type of connecting package that needed to be rebuild with firefox for this to work? try to using the /usr/bin/firefox in your ~/.mailcap instead? Thank you for your reply, but that didn't work, either. However, I tried replacing the second text/html entry from /etc/mailcap with: text/html; /usr/bin/firefox %s; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html and if I had auto_view text/html in my .muttrc file, it would open a firefox tab as soon as I open the mail message. If I comment that line out, it won't display the html in a firefox window even when I select that part of the mail... -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
Re: [gentoo-user] bypassing CUPS - howto
On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 11:10:04PM -0400, Michael George wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 08:47:49AM -0500, Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 29 Apr, Stroller wrote: On 28 Apr 2010, at 15:27, Helmut Jarausch wrote: ... Why do you need to bypass CUPS? Thanks, it's just for debugging. Printing some pdf files with acroread makes some printers hang here. To locate the problem source, I'd like to check if the printer works if it gets the postscript or pdf-file (there printer is assumed to accept postscript level 3). Have you tried using `lpr` at the command line? I *believe* something like `lpr /path/to/file.pdf` should work. Thanks, but lpr is just a front-end for cups. I tried that here and got a error. It may be a bad setting on my end but it didn't like the idea. r...@smoker ~ # lpr /data/pdf/LivingWill.pdf lpr: Unsupported format 'application/pdf'! r...@smoker ~ # I started noticing this today too. My Macs aren't able to successfully print, I just get an error in the error log about application/pdf being an unsupported format. If I take a PDF generated on the Mac and move it to my Linux system and run lpr filename.pdf I get: lpr: Unsupported format 'application/pdf'! If I use pdftops to generate a PS file, lpr filename.ps works fine. If I open the PDF in xpdf and print, telling it to use the command lpr, that also works fine. I upgraded from cups 1.3.10 to 1.3.11 today (cannot go back). I've rebuilt all the foomatic packages I had installed, gutenprint, cups-pdf, ghostscript-gpl, but still it doesn't work... I'm not sure that you are having the same problem I am, but I found the solution here to work for me: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?format=multipleid=309901 -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
Re: [gentoo-user] bypassing CUPS - howto
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 08:47:49AM -0500, Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 29 Apr, Stroller wrote: On 28 Apr 2010, at 15:27, Helmut Jarausch wrote: ... Why do you need to bypass CUPS? Thanks, it's just for debugging. Printing some pdf files with acroread makes some printers hang here. To locate the problem source, I'd like to check if the printer works if it gets the postscript or pdf-file (there printer is assumed to accept postscript level 3). Have you tried using `lpr` at the command line? I *believe* something like `lpr /path/to/file.pdf` should work. Thanks, but lpr is just a front-end for cups. I tried that here and got a error. It may be a bad setting on my end but it didn't like the idea. r...@smoker ~ # lpr /data/pdf/LivingWill.pdf lpr: Unsupported format 'application/pdf'! r...@smoker ~ # I started noticing this today too. My Macs aren't able to successfully print, I just get an error in the error log about application/pdf being an unsupported format. If I take a PDF generated on the Mac and move it to my Linux system and run lpr filename.pdf I get: lpr: Unsupported format 'application/pdf'! If I use pdftops to generate a PS file, lpr filename.ps works fine. If I open the PDF in xpdf and print, telling it to use the command lpr, that also works fine. I upgraded from cups 1.3.10 to 1.3.11 today (cannot go back). I've rebuilt all the foomatic packages I had installed, gutenprint, cups-pdf, ghostscript-gpl, but still it doesn't work... -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
[gentoo-user] Sansa Clip+ no device for expansion card
I just got a Sansa Clip+ and when I plug it into my gentoo box, it sees the device as mass-storage, creates /dev/sdc, and I can mount it as vfat and put songs on it. That's all fine. However, I put an expansion micro-SD card into it. The player sees it fine. When I plug the player into my Mac, it puts two devices on the desktop. When I plug it into my Linux box, /var/log/messages only lists /dev/sdc (not /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd as I expected) being created. I can plug another USB device in and /dev/sdd is created, so there's nothing keeping the system from creating /dev/sdd. I have it's USB mode set to MSC. What else could be keeping it from seeing the expansion card? -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
Re: [gentoo-user] Sansa Clip+ no device for expansion card
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 04:15:42PM -0800, James Ausmus wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Michael George geo...@mutualdata.comwrote: I just got a Sansa Clip+ and when I plug it into my gentoo box, it sees the device as mass-storage, creates /dev/sdc, and I can mount it as vfat and put songs on it. That's all fine. However, I put an expansion micro-SD card into it. The player sees it fine. When I plug the player into my Mac, it puts two devices on the desktop. When I plug it into my Linux box, /var/log/messages only lists /dev/sdc (not /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd as I expected) being created. I can plug another USB device in and /dev/sdd is created, so there's nothing keeping the system from creating /dev/sdd. I have it's USB mode set to MSC. What else could be keeping it from seeing the expansion card? Probably kernel config - check to make sure you enabled Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device - under Device Drivers-SCSI device support Ah, I checked and I didn't have that option set. I'll change it, rebuild, and reboot. Thanks to all who answered! -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
[gentoo-user] mouse frozen
I had a weird thing happen today. I started up a clean vmware image with vmplayer and was trying to grab the input and press F2 to set the boot options. In the process of doing that, the mouse (PS/2) stopped working. I couldn't move it, click it or anything. The keyboard (USB) was fine, so I could release the input, but still it wouldn't move. I could use the kbd to hop between my windows and get to a terminal, so I killed all the vmware processes in the hopes that would help. No luck. So I killed my window manager (exiting X) and got to the command line. I restarted X in the hopes it would work then. No luck. I needed the mouse back and I was starting to run late for work so I just did a reboot (ack!) and all is well. So I know it's not a hardware issue... I'm wondering two things: 1. Has anyone else ever had this happen? 2. What could I have done to re-init the mouse? I don't think there are any kernel modules I could unload and load, at least I wasn't able to identify any... If anyone has anything I might be able to use, I'd sure appreciate hearing it! Thanks! -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp and re-exec of init in log file
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 05:02:38AM +, Stroller wrote: It might be helpful to post the EXACT error messages. I doubt if I'm able to help, but it seems to me that posting without them may be one of those people-may-tend-to-ignore-your-message mistakes. Good point, thank you. One of the message in the log file regards init: Jan 2 09:00:38 brego dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.253 to 00:a0:c9:68:03:05 via eth0 Jan 2 09:01:07 brego init: Trying to re-exec init Jan 2 09:01:08 brego locale-gen: Generating locale-archive: forcing # of jobs to 1 Jan 2 09:10:01 brego cron[7189]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons /usr/sbin/run-crons ) So the only thing near it is locale-gen, which doesn't appear in any cron or logrotate scripts. The other error is from DHCP: Jan 2 07:16:47 brego crontab[26016]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (root) Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server V3.1.1-Gentoo Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium. Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: All rights reserved. Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: Usage: dhcpd [-p UDP port #] [-d] [-f] [-cf config-file] [-lf lease-file] [-user user] [-group group] [-chroot dir] [-tf trace-output-file] [-play trace-input-file] [-t] [-T] [-s server] [if0 [...ifN]] Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: If you did not get this software from ftp.isc.org, please Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: get the latest from ftp.isc.org and install that before Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: requesting help. Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: If you did get this software from ftp.isc.org and have not Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: yet read the README, please read it before requesting help. Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: If you intend to request help from the dhcp-ser...@isc.org Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: mailing list, please read the section on the README about Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: submitting bug reports and requests for help. Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: Please do not under any circumstances send requests for Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: help directly to the authors of this software - please Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: send them to the appropriate mailing list as described in Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: the README file. Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: Jan 2 07:17:05 brego dhcpd: exiting. Jan 2 07:20:01 brego cron[7644]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons /usr/sbin/run-crons ) And there is nothing right before or after that which seem suspicious. Stroller. On 4 Jan 2009, at 02:29, Michael George wrote: That seems to be a poor subject for my question, so I reposted with something more descriptive... On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 07:17:41PM -0500, Michael George wrote: About a week ago I noticed a couple entries in /var/log/messages (as reported by logwatch) that seemed odd. ... One of the entries is a Usage: message from dhcp, as though something tried to restart the DHCP server. The other is Re-execs of init: 1 times. I found some references to this on the 'net, but generally when discussing prelink. I don't have prelink installed, though. ... -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
Re: SPAM-MED Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp and re-exec of init in log file
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 02:37:34PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 07:39:40 -0500, Michael George wrote: Jan 2 09:01:07 brego init: Trying to re-exec init Jan 2 09:01:08 brego locale-gen: Generating locale-archive: forcing # of jobs to 1 Does this coincide with (re)emerging glibc? As a matter of fact, I did re-emerge glibc on that day, at that time. Must be there's a connection that I didn't find in my searching the 'net? -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
Re: SPAM-MED Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp and re-exec of init in log file
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 04:29:15PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 11:20:45 -0500, Michael George wrote: Jan 2 09:01:07 brego init: Trying to re-exec init Jan 2 09:01:08 brego locale-gen: Generating locale-archive: forcing # of jobs to 1 Does this coincide with (re)emerging glibc? As a matter of fact, I did re-emerge glibc on that day, at that time. Must be there's a connection that I didn't find in my searching the 'net? The connection is that the glibc ebuild reloads init and runs locale-gen in the pkg_postinst function. Okay, that's good to know. Now that you point it out, I see it in the ebuild. I guess it might be good to have a better understanding of the ebuilds in order to examine them for such things. Thanks, Neil! -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
[gentoo-user] strange entries in messages
About a week ago I noticed a couple entries in /var/log/messages (as reported by logwatch) that seemed odd. They have appeared a couple times since, but they don't appear at the same time in the logfile, but I think they happen on the same day. One of the entries is a Usage: message from dhcp, as though something tried to restart the DHCP server. The other is Re-execs of init: 1 times. I found some references to this on the 'net, but generally when discussing prelink. I don't have prelink installed, though. I've checked the log file and nothing interesting happens just before or just after these messages. I can't find any mention of dhcp or init in any of the cron files or logrotate files that might be starting it. There are no entries in /var/spool/cron/crontabs that might be doing it. Has someone cracked my system? -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
[gentoo-user] dhcp and re-exec of init in log file
That seems to be a poor subject for my question, so I reposted with something more descriptive... On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 07:17:41PM -0500, Michael George wrote: About a week ago I noticed a couple entries in /var/log/messages (as reported by logwatch) that seemed odd. They have appeared a couple times since, but they don't appear at the same time in the logfile, but I think they happen on the same day. One of the entries is a Usage: message from dhcp, as though something tried to restart the DHCP server. The other is Re-execs of init: 1 times. I found some references to this on the 'net, but generally when discussing prelink. I don't have prelink installed, though. I've checked the log file and nothing interesting happens just before or just after these messages. I can't find any mention of dhcp or init in any of the cron files or logrotate files that might be starting it. There are no entries in /var/spool/cron/crontabs that might be doing it. Has someone cracked my system? -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
Re: [gentoo-user] audacious 1.5 not playing
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 06:27:54PM +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Michael George schrieb am 30.11.2008 11:33: I updated audacious and audacious-plugins from 1.4.6 and .5 to 1.4.1-r1 and r3, respectively. It comes up and seems to operate fine, but it won't play my ogg files. It doesn't even seem to try. I downgraded to 1.4.6/5 and it plays fine. I'll be testing it on mp3 files today, I hope, to see if it's a problem unique to 1.5.x. Anyone else having problems with audacious 1.5.x? Had the same problem here! I guess you have set Detect file formats on demand, instead of immediately under Preferences - Audio - Format Detection Disabling this option makes playback of ogg and mp3 files working again here. I am able to play mp3's regardless of the format detection. However, OGG files aren't playing. If I tell it to detect the formats on demand, I can add ogg files to the playlist, but they still will not play. The only way the ogg files play is if I tell it to determine the file type by the file extension. In 1.4 it was able to determine the file type even if it didn't have an .ogg extension... -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
[gentoo-user] audacious 1.5 not playing
I updated audacious and audacious-plugins from 1.4.6 and .5 to 1.4.1-r1 and r3, respectively. It comes up and seems to operate fine, but it won't play my ogg files. It doesn't even seem to try. I downgraded to 1.4.6/5 and it plays fine. I'll be testing it on mp3 files today, I hope, to see if it's a problem unique to 1.5.x. Anyone else having problems with audacious 1.5.x? -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
[gentoo-user] openoffice 3.0 problem
Yesterday I saw that openoffice 3.0 was unmasked for amd64 so I built and installed it. It seemed to work fine on a couple test documents that I opened, but then I ran into a problem with the one which has my household expense spreadsheets. I opened it and the data on one of the sheets was there for sure, but there was no tab bar for moving between the sheets. I saved a copy of that spreadsheet into a new file to see if a natively-stored file will have the same problem. It did. I looked to see if there was an option to turn on the sheet tab bar, but I didn't find any. So I rebuilt 2.4.1 and tested it on the spreadsheed which I saved with OOo 3.0. It also didn't show the tab bar at the bottom! When I opened my original with 2.4.1, though, it appears fine. Has anyone else encountered this type of problem? -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
[gentoo-user] Re: SPAM-MED Re: [gentoo-amd64] openoffice 3.0 problem
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 03:13:52PM +0200, Beso wrote: 2008/10/21 Michael George [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yesterday I saw that openoffice 3.0 was unmasked for amd64 so I built and installed it. It seemed to work fine on a couple test documents that I opened, but then I ran into a problem with the one which has my household expense spreadsheets. I opened it and the data on one of the sheets was there for sure, but there was no tab bar for moving between the sheets. I saved a copy of that spreadsheet into a new file to see if a natively-stored file will have the same problem. It did. I looked to see if there was an option to turn on the sheet tab bar, but I didn't find any. So I rebuilt 2.4.1 and tested it on the spreadsheed which I saved with OOo 3.0. It also didn't show the tab bar at the bottom! When I opened my original with 2.4.1, though, it appears fine. i can see the tab bar in my openoffice 3.0. but in the openoffice options you can a find a reference to it: tools-options-Openoffice.org Calc-View-Sheet divider should be ticked. Ah, there's the setting for it. Turning it off and back on brought the tabs back. Thanks for the help! -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
[gentoo-user] problems building php
I noticed there was an update to php a couple days ago, so I went to build it for my system and I get this error: /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/php-5.2.6-r2/work/php-5.2.6/ext/imap/php_imap.c: In function '_php_rfc822_write_address_len': /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/php-5.2.6-r2/work/php-5.2.6/ext/imap/php_imap.c:3906: error: 'RFC822BUFFER' undeclared (first use in this function) /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/php-5.2.6-r2/work/php-5.2.6/ext/imap/php_imap.c:3906: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/php-5.2.6-r2/work/php-5.2.6/ext/imap/php_imap.c:3906: error: for each function it appears in.) /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/php-5.2.6-r2/work/php-5.2.6/ext/imap/php_imap.c:3906: error: expected ';' before 'buf' /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/php-5.2.6-r2/work/php-5.2.6/ext/imap/php_imap.c:3908: error: 'buf' undeclared (first use in this function) make: *** [ext/imap/php_imap.lo] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs I've never run into trouble building PHP before, so this is new to me. I haven't found anything on the 'net that references an RFC822BUFFER. Has anyone else had this problem? -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] man pages not displaying right
I noticed today that my man pages aren't displaying correctly. Whenever I view one, I see the ESC codes rather than seeing bold fonts, etc. I don't remeber when I last used man and it displayed correctly, but I can check back 2 weeks this evening. I have tried several terminals (xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole) and all have the problem. Would this be a tercap problem? Unicode issue, perhaps? -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] man pages not displaying right - SOLVED
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:20:44AM -0400, Michael George wrote: I noticed today that my man pages aren't displaying correctly. Whenever I view one, I see the ESC codes rather than seeing bold fonts, etc. I don't remeber when I last used man and it displayed correctly, but I can check back 2 weeks this evening. I have tried several terminals (xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole) and all have the problem. Would this be a tercap problem? Unicode issue, perhaps? It was /etc/man-conf. A change in the NROFF definition caused the problem. Running dispatch-conf didn't prompt me for the config change, so I ran etc-update this time and found it. Hopefully this will be helpful for someone. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] man pages not displaying right - SOLVED
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 06:12:19PM +0200, Wolf Canis wrote: Michael George wrote: | | It was /etc/man-conf. A change in the NROFF definition caused the | problem. Running dispatch-conf didn't prompt me for the config change, | so I ran etc-update this time and found it. | | Hopefully this will be helpful for someone. Hello, yes it's helpful, but I used etc-update and was to fast and can't remember what are the changes. Could you give me an idea of the working NROFF definition? For now, I solved it by changing the MANPAGER variable to less. I had set MANPAGER to vimmanpager. Perhaps I have a additional problem? Here is the NROFF definition which did *not* work: NROFF/usr/bin/nroff -mandoc This is my NROFF setting now, and from before I had the problem, which *does* work: NROFF/usr/bin/nroff -Tascii -c -mandoc I hope this can be helpful to many of you out there. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] apcupsd
Today I upgraded apcupsd from 3.10.18-r1 to 3.12.4. The ebuild installs the files differently than it did and webapp-config is used for the install. When the emerge is complete, the cgi files are installed into /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin and are owned by root. There is also a directory /var/www/localhost/htdocs/apcupsd/, but only the webapp-config files are in there. When I try to access upsstats.cgi with the same path I used to use, I get URL not found. The HOWTO discusses the configuration as was done in 3.10, not with webapp-config. Where should I go for more reading to learn how to configure my apache configs so that I can access those pages again? Thanks! -- -Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd
Sorry, sorry... I just needed to point my browser to cgi-bin/multimin.cgi rather than apcupsd/multimon.cgi... On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:32:43PM -0400, Michael George wrote: Today I upgraded apcupsd from 3.10.18-r1 to 3.12.4. The ebuild installs the files differently than it did and webapp-config is used for the install. When the emerge is complete, the cgi files are installed into /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin and are owned by root. There is also a directory /var/www/localhost/htdocs/apcupsd/, but only the webapp-config files are in there. When I try to access upsstats.cgi with the same path I used to use, I get URL not found. The HOWTO discusses the configuration as was done in 3.10, not with webapp-config. Where should I go for more reading to learn how to configure my apache configs so that I can access those pages again? Thanks! -- -Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox not finding plugins in /opt/netscape
I just updated my mozilla-firefox-bin package to the latest and I noticed that it wasn't finding the plugins installed in /opt/netscape/plugins. It was only finding the plugins in /opt/firefox/plugins. I made symlinks to the plugins in /opt/firefox, but I don't remember doing that before to get the flash and helix plugins, and I keep my firefox up to-date. Is there a change in USE flags or something that I missed? -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.23 and xorg delayed startup
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 10:18:55AM -0500, Eric Martin wrote: Michael George wrote: I just upgraded my kernel from 2.6.19 to 2.6.23 and it takes almost a minute for X to start now. I have changed window managers (normally ctwm, tested with twm) with the same results. I rebooted the 2.6.19 kernel and X fires right up as expected. Booting back to 2.6.23 and it's excruciatingly long. I saw some prior posts which indicated a network problem, but in that case the OP said that the loopback interface wasn't up. I checked my system (ifconfig) and both lo and eth0 are up and running. I see that you checked if it was up, but have you pinged 127.0.0.1? Also, could you possibly have firewall rules setup blocking things on lo? It's a shot in the dark but sometimes the oddest of problems have the simplest of solutions. Yes, it's up. However, I think this error is a wild goose... I rebooted to the 2.6.19 kernel and started X. It came right up, and this was the output of startx startx.2.6.19 21: xauth: creating new authority file /home/george/.serverauth.6547 X Window System Version 1.3.0 Release Date: 19 April 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3 Build Operating System: UNKNOWN Current Operating System: Linux brego 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 #5 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 8 19:16:48 EST 2007 x86_64 Build Date: 22 December 2007 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Thu Dec 27 20:30:12 2007 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (II) Module already built-in (II) Module already built-in (II) Module already built-in (II) Module already built-in (II) Module already built-in (EE) MGA(0): Static buffer allocation failed, not initializing the DRI (EE) MGA(0): Need at least 15360 kB video memory at this resolution, bit depth (EE) MGA(1): Not initializing the DRI on the second head (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable (EE) AIGLX: Screen 1 is not DRI capable Couldn't establish a connection to :9202: IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname ':9202' access control disabled, clients can connect from any host SetClientVersion: 0 9 ctwm: unable to find bitmap ctwm: unable to find bitmap ctwm: unable to find bitmap X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Major Opcode: 4 fetchmail: background fetchmail at 6646 killed. xscreensaver: 20:30:27: SIGHUP received: restarting... xscreensaver: 20:30:27: running as george/george (500/500) waiting for X server to shut down XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0 after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. Console: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server :0.0 xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server :0.0 xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server :0.0 SchedTerm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server :0.0 SchedTerm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server :0.0 FreeFontPath: FPE /usr/share/fonts/misc refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. Notice the 9202 error line. I then rebooted back into 2.6.23 and started X with startx startx.2.6.23 21. It took 1-2min to for me to get my window environment, and here is the output of that run: xauth: creating new authority file /home/george/.serverauth.6950 X Window System Version 1.3.0 Release Date: 19 April 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3 Build Operating System: UNKNOWN Current Operating System: Linux brego 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 #3 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 23 21:35:17 EST 2007 x86_64 Build Date: 22 December 2007 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Thu Dec 27 20:32:51 2007 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (II) Module already built-in (II) Module already built-in (II) Module already built-in (II) Module already built-in (II) Module already built-in (EE) MGA(0): Static buffer allocation failed, not initializing the DRI (EE) MGA(0): Need at least 15360 kB video memory at this resolution, bit depth (EE) MGA(1): Not initializing the DRI on the second head (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable (EE) AIGLX: Screen 1
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.23 and xorg delayed startup
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 01:47:53PM -0500, Michael George wrote:
Notice there is little difference between them. I think I need to trim
out my .xinitrc file and see if there is something I'm starting from
there that is causing the delay with a different kernel...
I don't see anything in my .xinitrc file that would be causing the
problem. Here are the contents of that file:
#!/bin/sh
DISPLAY=${DISPLAY-unix:0}; export DISPLAY
RDISPLAY=${RDISPLAY-`hostname`:0}; export RDISPLAY
# I've tried taking this line out and it doesn't speed anything up...
sh /usr/local/src/ltsp-server-pkg-static-0.1/xsession-lbus-start
# Change the keys around
xmodmap .xmodmap.pass1
xmodmap .xmodmap.pass2
# Load .Xdefaults into the X resource database
xrdb -nocpp -display $DISPLAY -load .Xdefaults
# Start a console window. This line should not be removed.
xterm -T Console -n Console -name Console -C -iconic +vb -geometry =80x14-0+0
# Start another xterm
xterm -display $DISPLAY -geometry 80x50+0-0 -T Shell -n Shell
sleep 1
xterm -display $DISPLAY -geometry 80x50-1280-0 -T Shell -n Shell
# Start a terminal for the schedule screen
xterm -display $DISPLAY -name SchedTerm -geometry 80x50+0-0 -T Shell -n
Shell
sleep 1
xterm -display $DISPLAY -name SchedTerm -geometry 80x50-1280-0 -T Shell -n
Shell
xcalendar -name xIdeal -display $DISPLAY
gkrellm
xload -display $DISPLAY
gkrellm2 -c secondary
xcalendar -name xHopper11 -display $DISPLAY
xdaliclock
# open up my planner
xcalendar -display $DISPLAY
# Set the background
# I've run this script manually and it doesn't take long at all to run
(sleep 1; $HOME/bin/background)
#turn on the screensaver
xscreensaver
#disable access control
xhost +
# Make the mouse move a little faster than normal
xset m 3 4
# Make the keys repeat more quickly
xset r rate 300 20
# start fetchmail
fetchmail
#Start the window manager
ctwm
#fix keyboard
/usr/bin/kbd_mode -a
# stop fetchmail
fetchmail --quit
#clear
There isn't anything there that I can see which would cause the 2min.
delay in even getting an X mouse pointer...
I'm leaning toward some strange type of Xorg -- kernel interaction,
but I'm not sure what it might be...
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Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.23 and xorg delayed startup
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 02:19:14PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 10:36:16PM -0500, Michael George wrote: I do have this error from startx, though: Couldn't establish a connection to :9202: IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname ':9202' I hate to offer so primitive a suggestion, but grep -rl 9202 /etc might help. I checked /etc/services and it indicates a WAP service. I don't use wireless networking here. The odd thing is this: The only variable which changes is the kernel. 2.6.19 vs. 2.6.23. The xorg.conf is the same, the services that start at boot time are the same, xinit.conf is the same. The only change is the kernel, and I build that with make oldconfig to grab all the same configurations it could from the old kernel... I'm baffled... -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.23 and xorg delayed startup
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 11:06:21AM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: Michael George wrote: Couldn't establish a connection to :9202: IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname ':9202' I'm not sure why the kernel would make this difference, but it looks like something is trying to connect to No Host:9202. Do you have your hostname properly configured? And in /etc/hosts do you have your 127.0.0.1 entry? I agree with your assessment. I found a similar message on an LTSP list, but the terminal's name was before 9202. (That post was about a different problem, so the solution there didn't help me.) My /etc/hosts file includes the localhost entry (127.0.0.1 localhost) and also an entry for my system's real IP address and hostname (192.168.0.251 brego ...). So I don't think that is the problem. Thank you for the suggestion, though, as I had not double-checked /etc/hosts yet... -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] 2.6.23 and xorg delayed startup
I just upgraded my kernel from 2.6.19 to 2.6.23 and it takes almost a minute for X to start now. I have changed window managers (normally ctwm, tested with twm) with the same results. I rebooted the 2.6.19 kernel and X fires right up as expected. Booting back to 2.6.23 and it's excruciatingly long. I saw some prior posts which indicated a network problem, but in that case the OP said that the loopback interface wasn't up. I checked my system (ifconfig) and both lo and eth0 are up and running. I do have this error from startx, though: Couldn't establish a connection to :9202: IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname ':9202' I forgot to check if I had that error when running 2.6.19... I tried a web search for this type of error and came up empty. What part of X would this error be from? Thanks! -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hald is stuck
Bah! It's happened again to my system. It was fine this morning when I left for work, but now hald-addon-storage is stuck waiting on Disk IO (state of D). I looked in the log and the only thing I noticed was that the ide-cd system received a lost interrupt and timed out errors on both devices (hda and hdb). All I have on there are IDE CD-ROM drives and they are both empty... Anyone have enough experience to hazard a guess as to whether I have a drive going bad or if it's the controller? Or could the timeout errors be unrelated? On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:02:07AM -0400, Michael George wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 05:33:59PM +0200, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: I had the same problem: hald was sucking 99% cpu, removables devices didn't work and launching hald from terminal with the option --daemon=no --verbose=yes i discovered it was on a infinite loop echo-ing something about rules so I got in /etc/udev/rules.d and found (by probing one by one) 99-libgphoto2.rules that was HALS's murder. I don't have that ruleset on my system. I'll have to look into how to probe one by one the rulesets if it should happen again. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] netscape-flash
Well, I wondered where the vmware player package went, but it came back the next day. However, I see that netscape-flash has now been hard-masked for both i386 and amd64. Should users be migrating to media-libs/libflash? -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] cannot emerge sys-block/nbd
I am trying to emerge sys-block/nbd for my LTSP system. I get the error: configure: error: Could not find an nbd.h from 2.6 or above. But locate nbd.h gives me: /usr/include/linux/nbd.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-gentoo-r5/include/linux/nbd.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-gentoo-r5/include/config/blk/dev/nbd.h so it should be easily finding it. I have tried linking /usr/include/nbd.h to /usr/include/linux/nbd.h, but that didn't help. I'm using gcc 4.1.2, if that makes a difference. Anyone else have this trouble? -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X locks up
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:11:15PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Michael George wrote: What happens is that sometimes (amazingly frequently) when I have open office running on my right screen and I click File, the displays will freeze. The system is still running, because I can get in from one of my terminals. I check and X is consuming 100% of one processor. [...] System info: openoffice-bin-2.1.0 xorg-x11-7.1 xorg-server-1.1.1-r4 (VIDEO_CARDS=mga, INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse) Hmm, mga. You're probably looking at one of these bugs: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8666 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473 What version of x11-drivers/xf86-video-mga are you using? Have you tried upgrading to the latest, 1.4.6.1? I tried the upgrade to 1.4.6.1, but the same thing happened. X is the runaway, for when I kill it, the load drops right off... It did seem that the 1.4.6.1 video driver sucked up a lot more memory, though. I think I'll downgrade it, I'm no worse off... -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X locks up
So far, I haven't checked the output of Xorg.0.log. Next time it locks up, I'll check that and file a bug with freedesktop with all my details. The two bugs you cite may be similar, but since I still get the lockup with 1.4.6.1, it's not quite the same. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X locks up
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:11:15PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Michael George wrote: What happens is that sometimes (amazingly frequently) when I have open office running on my right screen and I click File, the displays will freeze. The system is still running, because I can get in from one of my terminals. I check and X is consuming 100% of one processor. [...] System info: openoffice-bin-2.1.0 xorg-x11-7.1 xorg-server-1.1.1-r4 (VIDEO_CARDS=mga, INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse) Hmm, mga. You're probably looking at one of these bugs: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8666 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473 What version of x11-drivers/xf86-video-mga are you using? Have you tried upgrading to the latest, 1.4.6.1? Thaks for that lead. I usually don't build ~arch packages, but I will give that a try! -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] X locks up
I have been having trouble with my system. For some reason, I've only noticed it recently, but nothing has been updated on the system. What happens is that sometimes (amazingly frequently) when I have open office running on my right screen and I click File, the displays will freeze. The system is still running, because I can get in from one of my terminals. I check and X is consuming 100% of one processor. I can kill openoffice and ctwm (my window manager) reasily, but I have to use -9 option to kill to get X to die. Even after that, though, the video and keyboard are still locked. The only way I know of to get them back is to restart the system. IIRC, it only happens when OOo is on the right screen, but I can start oowriter2, put it on the right screen, and click file and it won't always lock things up. System info: openoffice-bin-2.1.0 xorg-x11-7.1 xorg-server-1.1.1-r4 (VIDEO_CARDS=mga, INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse) libXinerama-1.0.1 ctwm-3.7 Video card: Matrox G450 System starts up to a CLI login, not XDM Anyone have any clue as to what is going on here? Is there a way I can release the hold on my keyboard and/or display so that I can just get to the console so that I can reissue startx? -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] broken fonts in vmware-player, realplayer
I recently upgraded my kernel and a few other packages on my system. Now when I start up vmware-player, I don't get any fonts -- just little blocks. I noticed the same thing when I start realplayer. Both seem to work fine, but it's rather hard to work with them when I cannot see the fonts 1n the windows. I have an amd64 system and have asked over there and someone suggested perhaps my gtk font paths are broken. I run CTWM rather than Gnome or KDE (if that makes a difference...) and I'm not sure where they would be broken that I need to fix them. In the past they have just worked. I ran kcontrol and checked to see if its fonts seem to be appearing right, and they display fine. I found a reference when searching online to gconftool-2, but I'm not sure what settings/directories I should look at in there... So far, I am not finding anything useful through Google. If anyone has any references that I should or could read to help me with this, I'm all ears. I'm posting this to the gentoo-user and ctwm lists, as both the distro and window manager would be involved... Some package versions that might be relevant: gtk+: both 1.2.10-r12 and 2.10.6 are installed gtk+extra: 2.1.1 gtk-engines: 2.8.2 gtk-engines-xfce: 2.2.8-r1 emul-linux-x86-gtklibs: 10.0.r1 gentoo-sources (kernel): 2.6.19-r5 ctwm: 3.7 I recently upgraded a bunch of the emul-linux-x86 libraries. I have tried to remove and re-emerge vmware-player to no avail. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] broken fonts in vmware-player, realplayer
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 02:12:40PM -0500, Michael George wrote: I recently upgraded my kernel and a few other packages on my system. Now when I start up vmware-player, I don't get any fonts -- just little blocks. I noticed the same thing when I start realplayer. Both seem to work fine, but it's rather hard to work with them when I cannot see the fonts 1n the windows. I have an amd64 system and have asked over there and someone suggested perhaps my gtk font paths are broken. I run CTWM rather than Gnome or KDE (if that makes a difference...) and I'm not sure where they would be broken that I need to fix them. In the past they have just worked. I ran kcontrol and checked to see if its fonts seem to be appearing right, and they display fine. I found a reference when searching online to gconftool-2, but I'm not sure what settings/directories I should look at in there... So far, I am not finding anything useful through Google. If anyone has any references that I should or could read to help me with this, I'm all ears. I'm posting this to the gentoo-user and ctwm lists, as both the distro and window manager would be involved... Some package versions that might be relevant: gtk+: both 1.2.10-r12 and 2.10.6 are installed gtk+extra: 2.1.1 gtk-engines: 2.8.2 gtk-engines-xfce: 2.2.8-r1 emul-linux-x86-gtklibs: 10.0.r1 gentoo-sources (kernel): 2.6.19-r5 ctwm: 3.7 I recently upgraded a bunch of the emul-linux-x86 libraries. I have tried to remove and re-emerge vmware-player to no avail. I user on the gentoo-amd64 list lead me to the answer. I had upgraded emul-linux-x86-gtklibs to 10.0-r1, but the qt3 USE flag was set in make.conf. I turned off that flag and rebuild the library and all is well! Gentoo users are awesome! -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] problem emerging tclx
I'm updating my system (amd64) to gcc4.1 and things are going rather smoothly. One problem I'm having, though, is that tclx-8.3 will not complete it's build. I can build it fine with gcc-3.4, but not 4.1. The error I get is: /var/tmp/portage/tclx-8.3.5/work/tclx8.3.5/tcl/generic/tclXbsearch.cIn file included from /usr/include/time.h:8, from /usr/include/gentoo-multilib/amd64/sys/times.h:29, from /usr/include/sys/times.h:8, from /var/tmp/portage/tclx-8.3.5/work/tclx8.3.5/tcl/unix/tclXunixPort.h:32, from /var/tmp/portage/tclx-8.3.5/work/tclx8.3.5/tcl/generic/tclExtdInt.h:27, from /var/tmp/portage/tclx-8.3.5/work/tclx8.3.5/tcl/generic/tclXbsearch.c:19: /usr/include/gentoo-multilib/amd64/time.h:61: error: two or more data types in declaration specifiers /var/tmp/portage/tclx-8.3.5/work/tclx8.3.5/tcl/generic/tclXbsearch.c: In function 'TclProcKeyCompare': /var/tmp/portage/tclx-8.3.5/work/tclx8.3.5/tcl/generic/tclXbsearch.c:115: warning: passing argument 2 of 'Tcl_Merge' from incompatible pointer type make[1]: *** [tclXbsearch..o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/tclx-8.3.5/work/tclx8.3.5/tcl/unix'make: *** [TCLX] Error 2 !!! ERROR: dev-tcltk/tclx-8.3.5 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 937: Called src_compile tclx-8.3.5.ebuild, line 65: Called die I've searched the net and found a posting of the error, but it's in a language I do not understand. Has anyone else run into this problem and found a solution? -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] vmware-player installation
I am trying to install vmware-player, but things don't seem to be working right. Aftere doing the emerge, and starting /etc/init.d/vmware, I was told that cupsd had to be started after vmware but that some of the vmware dependencies required cupsd. Since I don't need to pring from the VM, I blew that off. I ran vmware-config.pl and set up the bridged networking. But after answering the questions, I get: * Starting VMware services: [ ok ] * Virtual machine monitor [ ok ] * Virtual ethernet[ !! ] * Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 [ !! ] (on my first attempt I configured the bridged and NAT networking, but I've re-run vmware-config.pl since then). When I ran vmplayer, I was told that it wasn't configured as /etc/vmware/not_configured was still in place. Just to see what would happen, I removed it and fired it up. There was a complaint about vmmon not being loaded, and it appeared that the install built vmmon.ko for kernel 2.6.15, rather than for 2.6.17, so I rebuilt it and installed the module. I re-ran vmplayer and I get errors that networking is not properly configured. Given the !! above, I'm not surprised. I think I'll need to go back to the beginning, but I'm not sure what to do differently that I might succeed. Anyone have any advice? -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-player installation
I figured it out... along with the vmmon module being built for the wrong kernel was the vmnet module. Once I built it for the right kernel, put it into place and ran /etc/init.d/vmware start, it runs without error. Sorry for the intrusion. :) On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 02:21:08PM -0500, Michael George wrote: I am trying to install vmware-player, but things don't seem to be working right. Aftere doing the emerge, and starting /etc/init.d/vmware, I was told that cupsd had to be started after vmware but that some of the vmware dependencies required cupsd. Since I don't need to pring from the VM, I blew that off. I ran vmware-config.pl and set up the bridged networking. But after answering the questions, I get: * Starting VMware services: [ ok ] * Virtual machine monitor [ ok ] * Virtual ethernet[ !! ] * Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 [ !! ] (on my first attempt I configured the bridged and NAT networking, but I've re-run vmware-config.pl since then). When I ran vmplayer, I was told that it wasn't configured as /etc/vmware/not_configured was still in place. Just to see what would happen, I removed it and fired it up. There was a complaint about vmmon not being loaded, and it appeared that the install built vmmon.ko for kernel 2.6.15, rather than for 2.6.17, so I rebuilt it and installed the module. I re-ran vmplayer and I get errors that networking is not properly configured. Given the !! above, I'm not surprised. I think I'll need to go back to the beginning, but I'm not sure what to do differently that I might succeed. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS
On 7/29/06, Michael George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The docs I found on gentoo localization indicate that I can set LINGUAS in make.conf and build for just the languages I desire. I set it to: LINGUAS=en_US but all that does is prepend en_US to the beginning of the string above. Thanks to all who responded to my questions. I now have a better understanding of this variable, USE flags, and emerge in general. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
I use terminal from Xfce4. It's very much like gnome-terminal, which I like, but it appears to be much lighter. Next to that I just use plan ol' xterm when I don't need colors or tabs. It's about as light as you can get... If it makes a difference, I use ctwm as my window manager... On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 07:33:51PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? Let's hope this generates some interesting comment before degenerating into a subset of the typical KDE/GNOME flamefest ;-/ -- Neil Bothwick Bother, said Pooh, more from force of habit than anything else. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] DEVPATH not set (subsystem pci)
My system has this message in the log from several times: Feb 14 10:41:45 archie hal.hotplug[11262]: DEVPATH is not set (subsystem pci) I just updated the system last week and that included a bump in udev and hal. However, another system which is nearly the same architecture was also updated and it doesn't have this message in the log at boot... What do I do to fix this problem? So far, I think things work as they should, but it looks like a problem waiting to happen... -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] php uncompatible with nis USE flag?
On the off-chance that perhaps there was an error in the ebuild file, I did a sync. However, php will still not build. Are the NIS USE flag and dev-lang/php mutually-exclusive? I had no problem building dev-php/php and dev-php/mod_php with the same USE flags. If anyone can offer advice on dealing with this issue, I would be grateful. Thank you. On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:49:15AM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Michael George wrote: I am trying to update my system, and it seemed like a good time to go from the old php ports to the dev-lang ports. But I'm having trouble building php-4.4.1-r3. I have masked php-5 and up, as I'm not quite ready to move to that yet. When I try to emerge php-4.4.1-r3, it stops with this error: QA Notice: USE Flag 'nis' not in IUSE for dev-lang/php-4.4.1-r3 I get the same error with php-5.0.5. I don't have nis set as a use flag anywhere in my stuff, though, and I cannot find it set for php in the profiles. I have put -nis into package.use for php and I have tried removing nis and setting -nis into /etc/make.conf, but nothing helps. Did you do an emerge -uaDNtv world after you put -nis in make.conf, to recompile anything with the USE flag previously active? From looking at the ebuild, it looks like this is due to php-4 inheriting the php-4_4.sapi eclass; contained in the eclass is this line: # Recode is not liked confutils_use_conflict recode mysql imap nis Now, I don't know what this means, but it clearly is intended in some way. I also would suspect that the nis flag is not related to PHP itself, but one of its dependencies, which was compiled previously with this flag set, which has now become 'illegal' (that happened to me the other day with another package, the dependency had to be recompiled without a particular flag set for the upgrade of the main package to install). Here's the list of packages that have this flag: equery hasuse -p nis [ Searching for USE flag nis in all categories among: ] * installed packages * Portage tree (/usr/portage) [I--] [ ] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0-r2 (4) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0-r1 (4) [-P-] [ ] net-mail/lbdb-0.30 (0) [-P-] [ ~] net-mail/lbdb-0.31 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.5 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.4 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.7 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.8 (0) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.4-r1 (3) [-P-] [ ] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r3 (0) [-P-] [ ~] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r4 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.8-r1 (0) [-P-] [ ~] www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r3 (0) [-P-] [ ~] www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r2 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.7-r1 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.5-r1 (0) [-P-] [M-] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0 (4) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.43-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.60 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r999 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.54 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.52 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.50 (0) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-4.0.1 (4) [-P-] [M~] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.5 (3) [-P-] [ ] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.4 (3) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r1 (0) I don't have anything to do with PHP myself, but if one of these is associated with your install of PHP, I would consider recompiling it without the nis USE flag, and then see if PHP compiles. Hope this is helpful, despite my ignorance of this specific package. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] php uncompatible with nis USE flag?
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 07:38:00AM -0500, Michael George wrote: On the off-chance that perhaps there was an error in the ebuild file, I did a sync. However, php will still not build. Are the NIS USE flag and dev-lang/php mutually-exclusive? I had no problem building dev-php/php and dev-php/mod_php with the same USE flags. If anyone can offer advice on dealing with this issue, I would be grateful. After playing with the USE flags a bit, I was able to generate another error *after* the message: QA Notice: USE Flag 'nis' not in IUSE for dev-lang/php-4.4.1-r3 I'm suspecting now that execution of the emerge is continuing after the QA notice and the failure is actually later in the script. Though there are no further error messages to indicate what the problem is... On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:49:15AM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Michael George wrote: I am trying to update my system, and it seemed like a good time to go from the old php ports to the dev-lang ports. But I'm having trouble building php-4.4.1-r3. I have masked php-5 and up, as I'm not quite ready to move to that yet. When I try to emerge php-4.4.1-r3, it stops with this error: QA Notice: USE Flag 'nis' not in IUSE for dev-lang/php-4.4.1-r3 I get the same error with php-5.0.5. I don't have nis set as a use flag anywhere in my stuff, though, and I cannot find it set for php in the profiles. I have put -nis into package.use for php and I have tried removing nis and setting -nis into /etc/make.conf, but nothing helps. Did you do an emerge -uaDNtv world after you put -nis in make.conf, to recompile anything with the USE flag previously active? From looking at the ebuild, it looks like this is due to php-4 inheriting the php-4_4.sapi eclass; contained in the eclass is this line: # Recode is not liked confutils_use_conflict recode mysql imap nis Now, I don't know what this means, but it clearly is intended in some way. I also would suspect that the nis flag is not related to PHP itself, but one of its dependencies, which was compiled previously with this flag set, which has now become 'illegal' (that happened to me the other day with another package, the dependency had to be recompiled without a particular flag set for the upgrade of the main package to install). Here's the list of packages that have this flag: equery hasuse -p nis [ Searching for USE flag nis in all categories among: ] * installed packages * Portage tree (/usr/portage) [I--] [ ] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0-r2 (4) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0-r1 (4) [-P-] [ ] net-mail/lbdb-0.30 (0) [-P-] [ ~] net-mail/lbdb-0.31 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.5 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.4 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.7 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.8 (0) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.4-r1 (3) [-P-] [ ] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r3 (0) [-P-] [ ~] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r4 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.8-r1 (0) [-P-] [ ~] www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r3 (0) [-P-] [ ~] www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r2 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.7-r1 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.5-r1 (0) [-P-] [M-] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0 (4) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.43-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.60 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r999 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.54 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.52 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.50 (0) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-4.0.1 (4) [-P-] [M~] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.5 (3) [-P-] [ ] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.4 (3) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r1 (0) I don't have anything to do with PHP myself, but if one of these is associated with your install of PHP, I would consider recompiling it without the nis USE flag, and then see if PHP compiles. Hope this is helpful, despite my ignorance of this specific package. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] php uncompatible with nis USE flag?
I solved this problem. It appears that emerge wasn't giving me all the errors that it should have. When I turned on the --debug switch, I found that there was an error that was never displaying to my screen which indicated that the USE flag recode is incompatible with some other flags, like mysql and nis. So I added -recode to the /etc/portage/package.use entry for dev-lang/php. emerge then gave me an error about a conflict between the USE flags sharedmem and threads (though that's not a conflict for other packages, that I've noticed). Adding -sharedmem to the package.use entry allowed me to build the package. Why would that error message not have been making it to the scrren? Thank you. On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 08:02:27AM -0500, Michael George wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 07:38:00AM -0500, Michael George wrote: On the off-chance that perhaps there was an error in the ebuild file, I did a sync. However, php will still not build. Are the NIS USE flag and dev-lang/php mutually-exclusive? I had no problem building dev-php/php and dev-php/mod_php with the same USE flags. If anyone can offer advice on dealing with this issue, I would be grateful. After playing with the USE flags a bit, I was able to generate another error *after* the message: QA Notice: USE Flag 'nis' not in IUSE for dev-lang/php-4.4.1-r3 I'm suspecting now that execution of the emerge is continuing after the QA notice and the failure is actually later in the script. Though there are no further error messages to indicate what the problem is... On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:49:15AM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Michael George wrote: I am trying to update my system, and it seemed like a good time to go from the old php ports to the dev-lang ports. But I'm having trouble building php-4.4.1-r3. I have masked php-5 and up, as I'm not quite ready to move to that yet. When I try to emerge php-4.4.1-r3, it stops with this error: QA Notice: USE Flag 'nis' not in IUSE for dev-lang/php-4.4.1-r3 I get the same error with php-5.0.5. I don't have nis set as a use flag anywhere in my stuff, though, and I cannot find it set for php in the profiles. I have put -nis into package.use for php and I have tried removing nis and setting -nis into /etc/make.conf, but nothing helps. Did you do an emerge -uaDNtv world after you put -nis in make.conf, to recompile anything with the USE flag previously active? From looking at the ebuild, it looks like this is due to php-4 inheriting the php-4_4.sapi eclass; contained in the eclass is this line: # Recode is not liked confutils_use_conflict recode mysql imap nis Now, I don't know what this means, but it clearly is intended in some way. I also would suspect that the nis flag is not related to PHP itself, but one of its dependencies, which was compiled previously with this flag set, which has now become 'illegal' (that happened to me the other day with another package, the dependency had to be recompiled without a particular flag set for the upgrade of the main package to install). Here's the list of packages that have this flag: equery hasuse -p nis [ Searching for USE flag nis in all categories among: ] * installed packages * Portage tree (/usr/portage) [I--] [ ] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0-r2 (4) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0-r1 (4) [-P-] [ ] net-mail/lbdb-0.30 (0) [-P-] [ ~] net-mail/lbdb-0.31 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.5 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.4 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.7 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.8 (0) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.4-r1 (3) [-P-] [ ] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r3 (0) [-P-] [ ~] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r4 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.8-r1 (0) [-P-] [ ~] www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r3 (0) [-P-] [ ~] www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r2 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.7-r1 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.5-r1 (0) [-P-] [M-] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0 (4) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.43-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.60 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r999 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.54 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.52 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.50 (0) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-4.0.1 (4) [-P-] [M~] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.5 (3) [-P-] [ ] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.4 (3) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r1 (0) I don't have anything to do with PHP myself, but if one of these is associated with your install of PHP, I would consider recompiling it without the nis USE flag, and then see if PHP compiles. Hope this is helpful, despite my ignorance of this specific package. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus
[gentoo-user] php 4.4.1-r3 wont emerge
I am trying to update my system, and it seemed like a good time to go from the old php ports to the dev-lang ports. But I'm having trouble building php-4.4.1-r3. I have masked php-5 and up, as I'm not quite ready to move to that yet. When I try to emerge php-4.4.1-r3, it stops with this error: QA Notice: USE Flag 'nis' not in IUSE for dev-lang/php-4.4.1-r3 I get the same error with php-5.0.5. I don't have nis set as a use flag anywhere in my stuff, though, and I cannot find it set for php in the profiles. I have put -nis into package.use for php and I have tried removing nis and setting -nis into /etc/make.conf, but nothing helps. I don't find reference to this issue when I google, so that tells me that something might be misconfigured in my system. I try not to do anything too wild, so I'm not sure what it might be. If it makes a difference, I have copied my system into another partition and I have chrooted into it. This has worked fine for me in the past, though, so it doesn't seem that would be the problem. Any helpful advice would be appreciated. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] php 4.4.1-r3 wont emerge
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:49:15AM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Did you do an emerge -uaDNtv world after you put -nis in make.conf, to recompile anything with the USE flag previously active? From looking at the ebuild, it looks like this is due to php-4 inheriting the php-4_4.sapi eclass; contained in the eclass is this line: # Recode is not liked confutils_use_conflict recode mysql imap nis Now, I don't know what this means, but it clearly is intended in some way. I also would suspect that the nis flag is not related to PHP itself, but one of its dependencies, which was compiled previously with this flag set, which has now become 'illegal' (that happened to me the other day with another package, the dependency had to be recompiled without a particular flag set for the upgrade of the main package to install). Holly, thanks for the information. I will give that a try, but the problem is that I *want* the nis USE flag set. I cannot imagine that something precludes php being used on a system which uses nis... Here's the list of packages that have this flag: equery hasuse -p nis [ Searching for USE flag nis in all categories among: ] * installed packages * Portage tree (/usr/portage) [I--] [ ] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0-r2 (4) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0-r1 (4) [-P-] [ ] net-mail/lbdb-0.30 (0) [-P-] [ ~] net-mail/lbdb-0.31 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.5 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.4 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.7 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.8 (0) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.4-r1 (3) [-P-] [ ] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r3 (0) [-P-] [ ~] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r4 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.8-r1 (0) [-P-] [ ~] www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r3 (0) [-P-] [ ~] www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r2 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.7-r1 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.5-r1 (0) [-P-] [M-] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0 (4) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.43-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.60 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r999 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.54 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.52 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.50 (0) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-4.0.1 (4) [-P-] [M~] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.5 (3) [-P-] [ ] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.4 (3) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r1 (0) I don't have anything to do with PHP myself, but if one of these is associated with your install of PHP, I would consider recompiling it without the nis USE flag, and then see if PHP compiles. Hope this is helpful, despite my ignorance of this specific package. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] /dev/hda not created
I've got one of my servers that doesn't have /dev/hda on it at boot time. I've got a lite-on DVD burner there that works just fine (once I create the device) and is noted as hda in the boot messages. However, /dev/hda doesn't exist. That's a problem. /dev/hda?* did exist, though... I tried turning off the DEV_TARBALL option in /etc/conf.d/rc and rebooting. Then there was no /dev/hda* at all. I have created /dev/hda* with MAKEDEV and turned the DEV_TABALL back on, but I don't know that that will make any difference, becasue I've created /dev/hda before and rebooted with the TARBALL option on and /dev/hda still wan't there. I also had someone say that they had to manually modprobe ide_cdrom one time, but I didn't see that happen this time (maybe someone else did it...). I re-emerged udev, in case a config was corrupted, but no config files changed and /dev/hda was still not there after reboot. I suspect it's a udev configuration issue, but since I didn't change anything, I'm not sure how it would've broken. Thanks. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/hda not created
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:32:29PM -0700, Lares Moreau wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:20 -0500, Michael George wrote: I've got one of my servers that doesn't have /dev/hda on it at boot time. I've got a lite-on DVD burner there that works just fine (once I create the device) and is noted as hda in the boot messages. However, /dev/hda doesn't exist. That's a problem. /dev/hda?* did exist, though... I tried turning off the DEV_TARBALL option in /etc/conf.d/rc and rebooting. Then there was no /dev/hda* at all. I have created /dev/hda* with MAKEDEV and turned the DEV_TABALL back on, but I don't know that that will make any difference, becasue I've created /dev/hda before and rebooted with the TARBALL option on and /dev/hda still wan't there. I also had someone say that they had to manually modprobe ide_cdrom one time, but I didn't see that happen this time (maybe someone else did it...). I re-emerged udev, in case a config was corrupted, but no config files changed and /dev/hda was still not there after reboot. I suspect it's a udev configuration issue, but since I didn't change anything, I'm not sure how it would've broken. COuld you give more detail about your situation. Is this a new install on this system? ie. liveCD Is this an upgrade of the kernel? or was this just the addition of the DVD-R? I just noticed the problem, so I'm not sure when it started (I don't use the drive on it much). It turns out that we only need to load the ide_cd module at boot time and the dev will show up. It will show up whenever we load the module, but it was causing confusion by not being there after a reboot. Someday I need to read up on udev, hal, hot- and cold-plug and how they all interact with the system nowadays... Thanks for your reply. My apologies for eating bandwidth. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] very strange nsswitch.ldap problem
I have been fighting with a system for a couple hours now to get it to work again and I finally did it. But I don't know why what was wrong keeps it from booting right. Here's what I have: I'm testing using Samba and LDAP as a PDC server. So I have a system that I configured with Samba, LDAP, pam_ldap, and nsswitch_ldap. I had it all configured and it was fine. However, after an update of the system, including upgrading to gcc-3.4, the system didn't boot right (if at all). It would sit forever, apparently trying to build /dev with udev. I found that eventually it would continue the boot sequence, but /dev was broken. Immediately I could see that /boot was not able to be mounted and the swap was not made active: the system couldn't access /dev/sdaX, there was no valid device there. Root was on sda3 and it was mounted, but I think grub set that up directly w/o the use of /dev. I traced the problem to the nsswitch.ldap that I put into place as nsswitch.conf. If I have: hosts: files dns the system boots just fine. If I have: hosts: files dns ldap the system cannot deal with the udev devices correctly. I have confirmed this by repeatedly making this change and unmaking it and the system was wonky when ldap was included and worked fine when ldap wasn't included. Is there a logical reason why this would be happening? I'll be happy to post any relevant info to my system if that would help in explaining the situation, but I'm not sure if any other settings come into play... -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] self-referential blocks...
I am ready to update my system and a problem has crept up that I thought I'd solved previously. When I do an emerge -Duva world, I get kdebase is blocking konsole and then later down the list I have konsole is blocking kdebase. I understand that kde-base/kdebase is a monolithic package and I actually only want individual packages on my system, so I didn't install it. However, something is now trying to pull it in. eix -e of kdebase and kde shows that neither is installed (not the monolithic nor the meta package). equery depends kdebase lists: app-cdr/k3b-0.12.4a kde-base/kdm-3.4.1 kde-base/kcheckpass-3.4.1 kde-base/kdebase-meta-3.4.1 but emerge -Duvp k3b kdm kcheckpass kdebase-meta doesn't show the blockage problem. emerge -tuvp world shows that kdegames is the culprit, but it is installed now and doesn't have kde-base. Should I remove kdegames and put in kdegames-meta instead? What is the difference between kde, kdebase, and kdebase-meta? All three have version 3.5.0, so it's apparent that none supercede the others... Thanks! -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] system stopped booting
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 11:10:33AM -0500, Michael George wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 09:17:28PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/6/05, Michael George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Already checked that. The root filesystem does contain /dev/null and /dev/console are there. However, something is obviously breaking when udev mounts the /dev system and then those devices are no longer there... Hmm, take a look at the rules files in /etc/udev/rules.d, and see if there is any obvious corruption there. Same thing with /etc/udev/permissions.d/. At this point, you might have to do something drastic: rm -rvf /etc/udev emerge --oneshot udev I'd like to do that, but the problem is that an emerge of udev cannot complete. Doesn't get started as a matter of fact. I'm suspecting corruption in the FS, but it's quite weird that I can emerge some things just fine, btu others never get past the emerge message... Well, nothing I do can address the problem. The last things I've done: I checked the consistency of the disks at the 3ware card, I fsck'd the filesystems, I tried not using the tarball for the /dev directory, I changed the permissions of /dev/console to be 660 as per the udev docs. Nothing seemed to work. I wanted to pull a tarball of the whole system first, though. So I booted from CD and chrooted to the HDD partitions. Tar could not complete. If I didn't chroot, tar could complete just fine. My only conclusion is that updating the system with bad RAM caused some weird problems in the filesystem which had nothing to do with consistency. Even though the problems are VERY strange and I'm a bit skeptical about this explanation, I can think of no other explanation. We know the problem happened after an update. We know that the RAM failed at memtest86. We know that the system cannot boot. We know that the system cannot rebuild itself in a chroot. We know that the system couldn't even tarball itself in chroot. We know that the tar, of the same data, could complete just fine using the exectuable when booted from the CD-ROM. I wish I had a way to recover, but I can think of none. The CD isn't equipped to do emerges (AFAIK) and emerge cannot be told to do a virtual chroot (use the executables on the CD to emerge software in a chroot, updating portate info inside that chroot -- I'm sure there are serious issues with wanting to do this, like gcc and glibc versions, but it would still have helped), I have no choice but reinstall the system and start over with it. I'm posting this so that the thread may have closure and whomever might find it in the archives will know what I tried and that I found no solution. Thank you everyone for your helpful advice. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] system stopped booting
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 09:17:28PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/6/05, Michael George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Already checked that. The root filesystem does contain /dev/null and /dev/console are there. However, something is obviously breaking when udev mounts the /dev system and then those devices are no longer there... Hmm, take a look at the rules files in /etc/udev/rules.d, and see if there is any obvious corruption there. Same thing with /etc/udev/permissions.d/. At this point, you might have to do something drastic: rm -rvf /etc/udev emerge --oneshot udev I'd like to do that, but the problem is that an emerge of udev cannot complete. Doesn't get started as a matter of fact. I'm suspecting corruption in the FS, but it's quite weird that I can emerge some things just fine, btu others never get past the emerge message... -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] system stopped booting
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:57:47PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About a week later, I booted it and it wouldn't boot. It got stuck at configuring system to use udev and never gets okay. I just sits there for ever. My system hangs at this point quite often. I have no idea why - it seems to be quite random but if I try again I usually get it to boot. I take it your system never gets past this line on boot? correct. I've left it for minutes several times. Never goes beyond... -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] system stopped booting
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:51:27PM +, b.n. wrote: Have you checked the mobo? Memtest will report errors if the mobo is bad. I have new RAM in it and it passed a full course of memtest86 with no problems reported. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] system stopped booting
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 05:29:19PM -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: Michael George wrote: If anyone has any suggestions, I'd like to find a way out of this other than reinstalling the system. Such a thing might happen again in the future to a non-development system and I'd like to know the way to get it working again. Any kernel messages or syslog entries during the chrooted work? Embarassingly, I didn't think to check that... I am out with meetings today but I should be able to get to it again tomorrow and try it. Thanks for all your suggestions and comments! When I have more info, I will report back to this thread. Hopefully we can solve it w/o a reinstall. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] system stopped booting
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:03:55AM -0500, Michael George wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 05:29:19PM -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: Michael George wrote: If anyone has any suggestions, I'd like to find a way out of this other than reinstalling the system. Such a thing might happen again in the future to a non-development system and I'd like to know the way to get it working again. Any kernel messages or syslog entries during the chrooted work? Embarassingly, I didn't think to check that... I am out with meetings today but I should be able to get to it again tomorrow and try it. Thanks for all your suggestions and comments! When I have more info, I will report back to this thread. Hopefully we can solve it w/o a reinstall. Okay, I have to oddities: 1. system will not proceed in boot process beyond the configuring system to use udev 2. when chrooting into the system, some ports will not build. Notably, udev will not (re)build. I booted the system (to the 2005.1 Live/Universal CD), chrooted, and I'm trying to re-emerge udev. Using debug mode on the emerge, I get: livecd / # emerge -vd udev Calculating dependencies Parent:None Depstring: sys-fs/udev Candidates: ['sys-fs/udev'] ebuild: sys-fs/udev-070-r1 binpkg: None - Parent:ebuild / sys-fs/udev-070-r1 merge Depstring: sys-apps/hotplug-base !bootstrap? ( sys-devel/patch ) !bootstrap? ( sys-devel/patch ) sys-apps/hotplug-base =sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.6.12-r3 Exiting... None ...done! emerge (1 of 1) sys-fs/udev-070-r1 to / /var/log/messages (outside the chroot) has nothing written to it to indicate disk errors or anything. dmesg also shows no new entries. I can, though emerge other ports, like hotplug, with no problem. Back to problem #1: Another thing I noticed is that route inside the chroot will not complete. It prints the headers and then sits there doing nothing. I checked the logs for the system on the HDD, and it appears that the boot process cannot open /dev/console and agetty cannot open any of the /dev/ttyX devices. I am running baselayout 1.11.13-r1, so it's not supposed to have problems if the files aren't there. In addition /dev on that partition is fully populated (though /dev/console has 600 perms, not 660)... -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] system stopped booting
Changing the perms of /dev/console to 660 didn't help much. I do get Populating /dev/with device nodes ... (which I don't think I got before), but it still stops there. Is the boot process trying to unload a tarball or something that it might be choking on? RC_DEVICE_TARBALL is set to yes, but setting it to no didn't help before... -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] system stopped booting
Actually, I spoke too soon. The change in perms did get it further in the boot process, but it complained about the special device /dev/sda1 (for /boot) not existing. But it continued... It seems to be stopped at Caching service dependencies now, but I will check /var/log/messages and /var/log/dmesg and see what it tells me. time passes Looking at /var/log/messages, it appears that /dev/console and /dev/ttyX were still not found, so /dev is not being correctly created, I don't think. It also says that the SCSI device was attached at /dev/sda, so the file should have been there. The last message in the log is from slapd, so it appears that the boot process got quite a way through what it was supposed to. However, it never did give me a login prompt, just stopped at Caching service dependencies. I think that's because /dev/ttyX couldn't be opened. So the system basically booted all it's services and had / mounted because grub did that (didn't need /dev/sda3). I wouldn't consider it a stable system, though, w/o /dev being right. Anyone know of a way to fix this issue? -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] system stopped booting
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:06:39PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/6/05, Michael George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I spoke too soon. The change in perms did get it further in the boot process, but it complained about the special device /dev/sda1 (for /boot) not existing. But it continued... It seems to be stopped at Caching service dependencies now, but I will check /var/log/messages and /var/log/dmesg and see what it tells me. time passes Looking at /var/log/messages, it appears that /dev/console and /dev/ttyX were still not found, so /dev is not being correctly created, I don't think. It also says that the SCSI device was attached at /dev/sda, so the file should have been there. The last message in the log is from slapd, so it appears that the boot process got quite a way through what it was supposed to. However, it never did give me a login prompt, just stopped at Caching service dependencies. I think that's because /dev/ttyX couldn't be opened. So the system basically booted all it's services and had / mounted because grub did that (didn't need /dev/sda3). I wouldn't consider it a stable system, though, w/o /dev being right. Anyone know of a way to fix this issue? A couple of thoughts: Make sure the /dev/null and /dev/console exist on the root filesystem (boot from a livecd or mount --bind / /mnt/root). Already checked that. The root filesystem does contain /dev/null and /dev/console are there. However, something is obviously breaking when udev mounts the /dev system and then those devices are no longer there... Also I recommend setting RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=no and RC_USE_FSTAB=no in /etc/conf.d/rc I have tried RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=no and that didn't make a difference. I think RC_USE_FSTAB=no is the default. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] system stopped booting
I'm having a strange problem with a system that we're putting together to be an LDAP-based PDC. I had it all configured and it was working fine. I had to put the project aside for a couple weeks as I had other things to work on and then I came back to it. Since it had been a while, I updated the whole system, updated the configs with etc-update, and I'm pretty sure I rebooted to make sure all was well. About a week later, I booted it and it wouldn't boot. It got stuck at configuring system to use udev and never gets okay. I just sits there for ever. I booted a gentoo live cd as a rescue and found that I could chroot into the broken system and work with it. I tried to rebuild the whole thing, but some emerges (one I remember is udev) would stall. They will only get so far as the initial emerge line and they will sit there for ever. The emerges that fail will always fail. The emerges that succeed will do so build after build. I ran memtest on the RAM and it failed some tests so I thought I'd found the problem. A couple weeks later, I have new RAM for it, but it behaves the same. I am not sure where to go with this one. I'm not sure why it won't build or boot. The system had been running just fine before the update and I *think* it booted after it. However, I realize I might have dorked some config file in /etc, but I am not sure which it might be... If anyone has any suggestions, I'd like to find a way out of this other than reinstalling the system. Such a thing might happen again in the future to a non-development system and I'd like to know the way to get it working again. Thank you. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
