Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption
On Sunday 12 November 2006 14:02, Richard Fish wrote: On 11/12/06, Peter Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the daemon is running. It starts when you modprobe ipw3945. There isn't a wifi switch that I've found. There is an LED that blinks slowly. The card appears to be on. I just can't get it configured. Well I can attest that the wep will work with this card...I have it working. What versions of net-wireless/ipw3945, net-wireless/ipw3945-ucode, net-wireless/ipw3945d, and net-wireless/ieee80211 do you have installed? In other words, what is the output of: emerge -pv net-wireless/ipw3945 net-wireless/ipw3945-ucode \ net-wireless/ipw3945d net-wireless/ieee80211 And I suppose the outputs of iwconfig -v and iwconfig could help too. Thanks, Richard. I'm not sure how I did it, but suddenly it 'just worked'. What I can't do is /etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart If I shut it down, then I need to either reboot or kill the ipw3945d, then start it again. I put the ipw3956d call in /etc/conf.d/local.start, which brings it up fine. Very kludged, but maybe once I get X running at more than 1024x768 I'll spend more time on it. Getting the wireless part working so I could emerge away from a switch was the first biggie. Peter -- clone, n: 1. An exact duplicate, as in our product is a clone of their product. 2. A shoddy, spurious copy, as in their product is a clone of our product. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption
On Sunday 12 November 2006 02:00, Mick wrote: On Sunday 12 November 2006 01:33, Ryan Tandy wrote: Peter Kelly wrote: I emerge'd ipw3945, but can't get it to work. is ipw3945d running? /etc/init.d/ipw3945d start Also, make sure that you have pressed the WiFi button to switch on the hardware on that laptop, or have switched it on in the BIOS (not familiar with the model). Yes, the daemon is running. It starts when you modprobe ipw3945. There isn't a wifi switch that I've found. There is an LED that blinks slowly. The card appears to be on. I just can't get it configured. Thanks. Peter -- Linus Torvalds: This is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 Winfried Truemper: Umh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit working today and rise on easter? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] java failure (or DVArchive issue)
Holas, I'm slowly, but surely, moving away from the Windows platform. My latest challenge is DVArchive, a utility for ReplayTV users. When I run it as root, there is no issue. I ran it as a user once, but every time since then I get [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ java -jar /opt/DVArchive/DVArchive.jar Warning: Cannot convert string -bh-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 to type FontStruct java.lang.Exception: Stack trace at java.lang.Thread.dumpStack(Thread.java:1064) at dvarchive.L.D.?(ReplayDevice.java:448) at dvarchive.D.Q.?(KnownDVR.java:153) at dvarchive.D.Q.init(KnownDVR.java:39) at dvarchive.ReplayUI.R.?(OpenDVRManager.java:274) at dvarchive.ReplayUI.dvaMainFrame.?(dvaMainFrame.java:233) at dvarchive.ReplayUI.dvaMainFrame.?(dvaMainFrame.java:385) at dvarchive.dvArchive$1.run(dvArchive.java:434) at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:189) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:478) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:201) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:151) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:145) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:137) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:100) As a java-ignorant individual, I have no idea where to even start, after Google. I get the same font warning as root, so I doubt that's the issue. Then again... Any ideas? Thanks. Peter -- Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problem with gst-plugins-mad depclean
Holas, I decided to perform my (semi) monthly `emerge -a --depclean`, and ran into a problem. Part of the cleaning involved -- media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad selected: 0.6.4 protected: none omitted: 0.8.11 Well, doing this bails with /var/db/pkg/media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4.ebuild: line 10: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `' /var/db/pkg/media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4.ebuild: line 12: syntax error: unexpected end of file Not too surprising, since the ebuild looks like # Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc. # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4.ebuild,v 1.8 2004/03/07 22:40:56 avenj Exp $ inherit gst-plugins KEYWORDS=x86 ppc sparc alpha hppa amd64 ia64 IUSE= DEPEND=media-sound/madplay^A and that's it. Re-sync'ing didn't help. Looking at my weekly backups, the ebuild looks the same. Google didn't find any ebuild this old. gentoo.org doesn't have an ebuild this old. OK. It's busted. Furthermore, eix now shows crichton WORD # eix gst-plugins-mad Garbage at end of version string: ortage_lockfile Garbage at end of version string: ortage_lockfile * media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad Available versions: 0.8.8 ~0.8.9 0.8.10 0.8.11 ~0.8.12 0.10.3 Installed: 0.6.4 0.6.4.portage_lockfile 0.8.11 Accepting that's it broken, how can I fix it? How can I make portage forget that 0.6.4 is installed? Thanks. Peter -- Stupid, n.: Losing $25 on the game and $25 on the instant replay. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaner USE variable in /etc/make.conf
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 06:04, Walter Dnes wrote:
I have a long USE variable (starts with -*, so I enter stuff
manually. At one point it got to be something like...
USE=-* 3dnow X a52 aac alsa bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr dga dio divx4linux dri
dvd dvdr dvdread encode exif ffmpeg flac fortran gb gif gtk2 imlib jpeg
maildir mikmod mime mmap mmx mng mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin
offensive ogg opengl plotutils png posix quicktime readline sdl sharedmem
slang sockets sse sse2 theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts vcd vorbis win32codecs wmf xpm xv zlib
BLEAGH! I've now broken it up into logical groupings...
USE_cpu=3dnow mmx sse sse2
USE_font=bitmap-fonts truetype-fonts type1-fonts
USE_gui=X dga dri gtk2 opengl sdl xv
USE_multimedia=a52 aac alsa divx4linux encode exif ffmpeg flac gif jpeg
mikmod mng mp3 mpeg ogg png quicktime theora tiff vcd vorbis win32codecs
wmf xpm USE_misc=bzip2 cdr dio dvd dvdr dvdread fortran gb imlib maildir
mime mmap ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive plotutils posix readline
sharedmem slang sockets threads zlib
which is followed by...
USE=-* ${USE_cpu} ${USE_font} ${USE_gui} ${USE_multimedia} ${USE_misc}
Glad to see that using -* made your life easier.
Peter
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[gentoo-user] What mouse protocol does xorg use when 'auto'?
Holas, I've just recently fixed a problem I had when scrolling up. Doing that would send out a signal that I had pressed the scroll button, and try to paste. Changing the mouse protocol in xorg.conf from #Option ProtocolIMPS/2 Option Protocolauto fixed the problem. That's great. Now, getting ready for the inevitable move to modular Xorg, I see that http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml Mouse protocol autodetection If you have Protocol auto set in xorg.conf for your mouse, it may not work. You may need to specify Protocol ExplorerPS/2 or IMPS/2 for your wheel to work. Great. How can I find out what protocol xorg is using now? Apparently, I'll need to know pretty soon. Thanks. Peter -- My father, a good man, told me, Never lose your ignorance; you cannot replace it. -- Erich Maria Remarque -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] What mouse protocol does xorg use when 'auto'?
On Thursday 08 June 2006 20:19, Peter Kelly wrote: Holas, Great. How can I find out what protocol xorg is using now? Apparently, I'll need to know pretty soon. Duh. Look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. You'll see a neat little line that says (**) Mouse1: Protocol: ExplorerPS/2 Never mind. Peter -- Everything that you know is wrong, but you can be straightened out. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] http-replicator fetching on the server
Holas,
I'm running http-replicator on a desktop (server). The laptop asks the
desktop for files correctly, and that works just fine.
The problem I'm seeing is on the desktop. Every night I do
# emerge world --update --deep --newuse --fetchonly
# /usr/bin/repcacheman
which gets all the files I'll need (into /usr/portage/distfiles), and then
moves all the files to http-rep cache (/var/cache/http-replicator).
The next time I run
# emerge -autvDN world
portage looks in /usr/portage/distfiles ($DISTDIR in make.conf), and, of
course, doesn't see the files. They've been moved
to /var/cache/http-replicator. Then portage grabs the files, without
consulting http-replicator.
Now, like I said, everything works fine for external machines. They
immediately use port 8080. It's just the desktop/http-rep server that
doesn't use want to use the http-rep cache.
Here are a few pertinent lines from /etc/make.conf
http_proxy=http://crichton:8080;
RESUMECOMMAND=/usr/bin/wget -t 5 --passive-ftp \${URI} -O \
\${DISTDIR}/\${FILE}
# ping crichton
PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
Any idea what I have mis-configured?
Thanks.
Peter
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Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator fetching on the server
On Friday 02 June 2006 09:03, Teresa and Dale wrote:
Peter Kelly wrote:
Holas,
snip
Here are a few pertinent lines from /etc/make.conf
http_proxy=http://crichton:8080;
RESUMECOMMAND=/usr/bin/wget -t 5 --passive-ftp \${URI} -O \
\${DISTDIR}/\${FILE}
# ping crichton
PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
Any idea what I have mis-configured?
Thanks.
Peter
Try something like this in make.conf:
http_proxy=http://192.168.0.1:8080; Change the address to whatever
you are running your machine at. Basically you are pointing emerge back
at itself.
Well, that didn't work. portage still wants to download a file that's not
in /usr/portage/distfiles, but is in /var/cache/http-replicator.
Changing crichton to server ip
http_proxy=http://192.168.1.100:8080;
still gives me
Emerging (1 of 3) kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.3 to /
Downloading
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles/kdelibs-3.5.3.tar.bz2
--09:13:18--
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles/kdelibs-3.5.3.tar.bz2
= `/usr/portage/distfiles/kdelibs-3.5.3.tar.bz2'
Resolving ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu... 128.61.111.10, 128.61.111.11,
128.61.111.9
Connecting to ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu|128.61.111.10|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
You'll note that there is no move to access port 8080 here.
But...
# ll /isoserver/http-replicator/kdelibs-3.5.3.tar.bz2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 15424888 Jun 1
23:45 /isoserver/http-replicator/kdelibs-3.5.3.tar.bz2
Anything else?
Peter
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Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator fetching on the server
On Friday 02 June 2006 10:02, Teresa and Dale wrote: Peter Kelly wrote: On Friday 02 June 2006 09:03, Teresa and Dale wrote: Peter Kelly wrote: Holas, snip Emerging (1 of 3) kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.3 to / Downloading ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles/kdelibs-3.5.3.tar.bz2 --09:13:18-- ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles/kdelibs-3.5.3.tar.bz2 = `/usr/portage/distfiles/kdelibs-3.5.3.tar.bz2' Resolving ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu... 128.61.111.10, 128.61.111.11, 128.61.111.9 Connecting to ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu|128.61.111.10|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! You'll note that there is no move to access port 8080 here. But... # ll /isoserver/http-replicator/kdelibs-3.5.3.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 15424888 Jun 1 23:45 /isoserver/http-replicator/kdelibs-3.5.3.tar.bz2 Anything else? Peter Did you remove or comment out the GENTOO_MIRRORS= line. I forgot that I had to comment it out too. Sorry. There is a thread on the forums with a howto. That may help. It's been a while since I used it. Dale :-) :-) Well, this is still the server, so the machine has to know about GENTOO_MIRRORS. Also, from http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Download_Cache_for_LAN-Http-Replicator : Don't forget that portage needs mirrors! Edit GENTOO_MIRRORS in /etc/make.conf to add more http mirrors and place any ftp mirrors LAST. The default mirrors in gentoo leave something to be desired Use mirrorselect if you need help in selecting mirrors. Which makes me think about the connection it was making earlier. For those who think they know the answer, or want to figure it out with the information in this thread, please stop reading now. The spoiler is given below. The first download location in GENTOO_MIRRORS was an ftp site (ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu). Since portage is looking for an http_proxy, calling an ftp site simply connects to the ftp site. Moving the ftp site to the end of the mirror list made everything work. Or at least it appears to work now. I'll know more tomorrow when another update cycle takes place. Thanks for the help, Dale. Peter -- The pollution's at that awkward stage. Too thick to navigate and too thin to cultivate. -- Doug Sneyd -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kde-meta minus toys, games, etc
On Friday 02 June 2006 14:55, Mike Owen wrote: On 6/2/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Apologies if this has been asked before. I uninstalled my monolithic KDE and am ready to install the split KDE ebuilds. I want to install everything except toys, games and educational packages. Since the DO_NOT_COMPILE is not meant to be used anymore, how would you suggest I go about it? -- Regards, Mick Install kdebase-meta, kdeutils-meta, kdeadmin-meta, etc. Forgive my own ignorance, but what is the advantage to doing this over kdebase, kdeutils, kdeadmin, etc? I've got plenty of disk space, so I never bothered moving away from the monolithic builds. emerge kde worked better for me than emerge kde-meta, which brought in all the same binaries. I know it's much faster to update a particular package as opposed to kdepim (or kdenetwork, or kdemultimedia), but that's not really an issue for me. I really don't want to start a war, but I don't understand why the OP didn't just # emerge -C kdetoys kdegames kdeedu (with any required version numbers) and be done with it. Not having removed kde packages, I'm not sure that would work. But something along those lines should have solved his problem. Peter -- Our fathers ate manna in the desert, In the burning place where whirlwinds came. Lord, save us from that horrible land! Save us, oh-h-h-h-h save us From that dry and thirsty land. -- Songs of Gurney Halleck, Museum of Dar-es-Balat -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xdm is 'stopping' [SOLVED]
On Saturday 27 May 2006 06:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:14 -0500, Peter Kelly wrote: Holas, Everything *seems* to work fine, but then there's that silly 'stopping' comment that doesn't google very well. Anyone seen this, or have an idea? dunno, maybe the init script got confused. Maybe a module couldn't get unloaded and there's a please reboot kernel message sitting somewhere on one of your terminals (it happens :) If init.d/xdm got confused, just `ps aux | grep gdm` to make sure it's not there, `killall Xorg` if you like, and then: `/etc/init.d/xdm zap` to bring it back in line. Then try starting it again. That did it. I never knew about the 'zap' command. Anyhow, everything is 'started' again. Thanks. Peter -- If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labor, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] xdm is 'stopping'
Holas, Two days ago I updated the nvidia drivers, so I killed gdm and restarted xdm to reload the newer modules. Problem is, it looks like xdm never restarted. root ~ $ /etc/init.d/xdm status * status: stopping root ~ $ /etc/init.d/xdm stop * ERROR: xdm is already stopping. rc-status gives xdm [ stopping ] Everything *seems* to work fine, but then there's that silly 'stopping' comment that doesn't google very well. Anyone seen this, or have an idea? Thanks. Peter -- There is brutality and there is honesty. There is no such thing as brutal honesty. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?
On Friday 05 May 2006 17:36, Maurice E Johnson wrote: OMG Will this thread ever stop? It's been high jacked 5 times. Will the guy that asked the original question please either grow a brain or use the one he has. So rest of us don't have to create filters for this list? What does gentoo-wiki have to do with firefox in the hands of children? Thank you Will top-posting never stop? Will selective quoting ever be used so we don't have to create filters? Mail lists in the hands of children... Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rc-status and broken links
On Monday 03 April 2006 04:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 16:34:01 -0600, Peter Kelly wrote: I only see the [broken] message when I use `rc-status -s`. If I just type 'rc-status', I get a correct response for the default runlevel. There's a bug files here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113755 I see the same now, I was thinking of rc-update (I'd automatically corrected your typo :) but rc-status -s shows everything as broken, when it isn't. On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:30:20 +0200, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 16:34:01 -0600, Peter Kelly wrote: I only see the [broken] message when I use `rc-status -s`. If I just type 'rc-status', I get a correct response for the default runlevel. There's a bug files here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113755 I see the same now, I was thinking of rc-update (I'd automatically corrected your typo :) but rc-status -s shows everything as broken, when it isn't. Thanks. I've updated the bug, and added another with a reference, since I couldn't figure out how to re-open 113755. Now, will this post using Agent and Wine? If it double posts, I apologize. Peter -- I only hope to read this in the future - Peter Kelly -- I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. -- Aneurin Bevan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] rc-status and broken links
On Saturday 01 April 2006 19:22, Jeremy Olexa wrote: Peter Kelly wrote: Now, it shows that every service is [broken], but the advice to remove the broken service using rc-update -d (service) and add it in again does nothing. Everything is still [broken]. Anyone seen this, and have an idea how to fix it? Hmm, I had this happen once to me before...every single link in /etc/runlevels was broken. System still booted though? System boots fine. I'm still finding a couple issues after the deaths of the hard drive and motherboard, but pretty minor stuff, like this. After re-reading your post are you saying the sym links are broken in /etc/runlevels or just in the output of rc-status? I only see the [broken] message when I use `rc-status -s`. If I just type 'rc-status', I get a correct response for the default runlevel. The only reason I even know this is a problem is because of a typo. I meant to run rc-update -s, and typed rc-status -s by mistake. But now that I *know* there is an issue, I really want to fix it. Thanks. Peter -- There *__is* no such thing as a civil engineer. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] rc-status and broken links
Hola! After a recent rebuild starting with a failed hard drive, I think I've got everything nailed down... except root ~ $ rc-status -s default Runlevel: all alsasound [ broken ] apmd[ broken ] ... xdm [ broken ] xfs [ broken ] * You have some broken symbolic links as reported by the broken * status above. This can be fixed by removing the broken service * from its runlevel and re-adding it back using rc-update. Now, it shows that every service is [broken], but the advice to remove the broken service using rc-update -d (service) and add it in again does nothing. Everything is still [broken]. Anyone seen this, and have an idea how to fix it? Thanks. Peter -- Conformity is the refuge of the unimaginative. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Return from the dead... almost [SOLVED]
On Thursday 16 March 2006 00:22, Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: Peter Kelly wrote: Hello to all. snip I know its a basic one but you say you re-emerged baselayout and bash but did you re-emerge pam-login? Maybe pam and shadow also? Maybe shadow was emerged without USE=pam? The funny thing is, my setup is ok and I have none of these values in my /etc/login.defs which belongs to pam-login package. Eugene. Well, I did all that, and etc-update still didn't ask me to fix /etc/login.defs. So I renamed the file, and emerge'd pam-login AGAIN. Then it gave me the correct file. Yeah! And for those keeping score at home, in order to get 'Mail', you need to emerge nail. I think I'm now back to the same system I had before hdb started whining, and the motherboard decided that there was nothing attached to IDE1. Don't forget to backup! Peter -- Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. -- John Kenneth Galbraith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Return from the dead... almost
Hello to all. After an exciting week of a failed hard drive (/usr, /home, /var) killing the IDE port on the motherboard, I've finally got my gentoo box running again. Thank gawd for backups (/home, /var, /etc and all data). I finished the 'emerge -e world', but have a couple issues. First, when issuing the 'su' command, I enter the password and then get [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su - Password: configuration error - unknown item 'FAILLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'LASTLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'MOTD_FILE' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'FTMP_FILE' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_ROOTPATH' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MIN_LEN' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'CHFN_AUTH' (notify administrator) root ~ $ As you can see, I still get the root shell, but I'd like to get rid of the errors. I know these 'items' are all in /etc/login.defs, but I don't know how to get pam-login to play nice. I've seen other questions answered with changes to baselayout and/or bash, so I re-emerged both of these. No change. Secondly, I've got a cron that updates nightly and mails me the results. One of the lines is diff-eix /var/cache/eix.old | Mail -s New packages on $(hostname) root The part I can't figure out is the 'Mail' command. Even after emerging world, I have no 'Mail' on my system. In fact, I have no 'mail' either. What I have in my world file is root ~ $ grep -i mail /var/lib/portage/world mail-filter/procmail mail-client/mailx-support mail-filter/spamassassin net-mail/fetchmail mail-mta/postfix I can get mail from the roadrunner stmp server without any problem, but have an issue with local mail. This worked for months, so I know I'm just forgetting something I did a long time ago. Any idea what I need to emerge, or where the solution may lie? Thanks. And backup tonight! Peter -- Psychology. Mind over matter. Mind under matter? It doesn't matter. Never mind. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Dual-Opteron
Dale wrote: Something like 640 packages according to the line count in Kwrite. Try emerge -pe world |grep ebuild |wc -l to get the exact number of packages. Peter -- Jesus is my POSTMASTER GENERAL ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Posting to mail list through knode
Holas, Before I did something (the big question), I could post to the gentoo-users list through knode. I still get all the messages through kmail, but it's so much easier to follow threads through knode. How can I post to the list through knode? What did I un-do to stop this? Thanks. Peter -- Marticus There's too much blood in my caffeine system. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Allmost freakin' done.
Holas. I did the gcc upgrade. Most stuff works, but there are a couple things to put to bed. During the days long emerge of system and world, and the subsequent reboot, things are the same. From what I know, this is what's changed, in addition to new compile. baselayout1.12.0_pre11-r3 udev077-r4 1. bringing up /dev/rtc/ takes about 8 secs to come up when rebooting. Prior to the latest changes, it would pop up its changes just as fast as any other service. 2. Networking complains about missing netmask and broadcast modules. When the script think it's done, I have both eth0 and eth0:1. I'm not running DHCP for this device. Everything continues to work, so it's not a huge problem, just something I hadn't seen before. I'd appreciate a couple of suggestions. And finally, how can I make a reply from Knode actually follow the list? Following mailing lists in a news reader is so much easier. I've got all the accounts/users set up correctly (I think). I did it in the past. Thanks. Peter -- Absence makes the heart forget. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] can't rebuild autofs after gcc upgrade
Hola, I recently did the gcc upgrade to 3.4.4. During the emerge -system/world, autofs failed, so I moved on with the --skipfirst. Now that emerge -e world has finished, I'm looking into the failures. So, a little more looking shows this. lookup_hesiod.c:20:20: hesiod.h: No such file or directory lookup_hesiod.c: In function `lookup_mount': lookup_hesiod.c:82: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast make[1]: *** [lookup_hesiod.so] Error 1 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs strip --strip-debug parse_hesiod.so make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs strip --strip-debug lookup_nisplus.so make[1]: Leaving directory `/isoserver/portage/portage/autofs-4.1.3-r4/work/autofs-4.1.3/modules' make: *** [daemon] Error 2 !!! ERROR: net-fs/autofs-4.1.3-r4 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 48, Exitcode 2 !!! make failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Sure enough, lookup_hesiod.c is looking for hesiod.h, which does not exist on the system. lookup_hesiod.c seems to be part of the tarball extraction. I don't know. Anyone else seen this? Only autofs non-compile issue I saw on b.g.o was unrelated. Thanks. Peter -- Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Missing LVM2 drive after upgrade/reboot
Holas,
After a week or so of upgrading gcc, emerge -e world/system, watching hal/dbus
toggle between +/- 0.5 versions, and having gentoo upgrade udev while I'm
doing all this, I've finally got a clean, rebuilt system.
revdep-rebuild gives comes up clean.
emerge -autvDN world comes up empty.
emerge -a depclean says I don't have to do anything.
However, upon reboot, I can't get a USB backup drive to mount correctly.
It's an LVM2 partition that should show up as vgusbhd, mounted to /mnt/usbhd.
Something seems to die between vgscan finding the drive/partition, and udev
creating a /dev/mapper/vgusb* mountpoint. It has no problem finding the
other /hd* LVM2 partitions. Seems only the /dev/sda partition is missing.
Of course, it's the only usb/sd* drive on the system.
crichton ~ # vgscan
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Found volume group vgiso using metadata type lvm2
Found volume group vg using metadata type lvm2
Found volume group vgexport using metadata type lvm2
Found volume group vgusbhd using metadata type lvm2
crichton ~ # ll /dev/vgusb/usbhd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Dec 10 16:07 /dev/vgusb/usbhd - ../sda1
And the udev rule that seems to work, since there is a link
BUS=usb, KERNEL=sd*1, SYSFS{product}=USB 2.0 Storage Device,
SYSFS{serial}=0004200*, NAME=%k, SYMLINK=vgusb/usbhd
crichton ~ # ll /dev/mapper/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 200 Dec 10 15:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 13940 Dec 10 16:14 ..
crw-rw 1 root root 10, 63 Dec 10 15:59 control
brw--- 1 root root 254, 4 Dec 10 15:59 vg-portage
brw--- 1 root root 254, 5 Dec 10 15:59 vg-source
brw--- 1 root root 254, 3 Dec 10 15:59 vg-sysbackup
brw--- 1 root root 254, 1 Dec 10 15:59 vg-usr
brw--- 1 root root 254, 2 Dec 10 15:59 vg-usrlocal
brw--- 1 root root 254, 6 Dec 10 15:59 vgexport-export
brw--- 1 root root 254, 0 Dec 10 15:59 vgiso-isoserver
As you can see, there is no /dev/mapper/vgusb.
From /etc/fstab...
/dev/mapper/vgusbhd-usbhd /mnt/usbhd ext3 atime 0 0
Trying to mount the drive directly to /dev/sda1 doesn't work, either
crichton ~ # mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbhd/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
crichton ~ # dmesg | tail
snip
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda1.
The drive has an ext3 fs on it. It worked until the reboot. But it's (as
indicated) an LVM partition.
crichton ~ # fdisk -l
snip
Disk /dev/sda: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1911973248336 8e Linux LVM
So, is there a simple command that will get me going? Everything I saw on
Google says upon reboot, you should have...
I don't.
Thanks.
Peter
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Re: [gentoo-user] Missing LVM2 drive after upgrade/reboot
On Saturday 10 December 2005 16:59, Richard Fish wrote:
On 12/10/05, Peter Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, upon reboot, I can't get a USB backup drive to mount correctly.
It's an LVM2 partition that should show up as vgusbhd, mounted to
/mnt/usbhd. Something seems to die between vgscan finding the
drive/partition, and udev creating a /dev/mapper/vgusb* mountpoint. It
has no problem finding the other /hd* LVM2 partitions. Seems only the
/dev/sda partition is missing. Of course, it's the only usb/sd* drive on
the system.
Udev doesn't create the device nodes for LVM volumes, these are
created by the LVM tools, and should be symlinks to devices in
/dev/mapper/. These are made after you do vgchange -a y group.
And this command fixed it. /dev/mapper/vgusbhd-usbhd exists.
crichton ~ # ll /dev/vgusb/usbhd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Dec 10 16:07 /dev/vgusb/usbhd - ../sda1
This is wrong...this link should be to /dev/mapper/vgusbhd-usbhd.
I may have to try this. The original reason I moved to udev was that the usb
drive would sometimes show up as /dev/sda, or /dev/sdb after a power failure.
I've got a UPS on the system, not on the usb drive.
And the udev rule that seems to work, since there is a link
BUS=usb, KERNEL=sd*1, SYSFS{product}=USB 2.0 Storage Device,
SYSFS{serial}=0004200*, NAME=%k, SYMLINK=vgusb/usbhd
This rule should not exist.
Have you run vgchange -a y vgusbhd?
That was the winning command.
Think I'll try editing a couple files, and reboot. See if it works.
Thanks.
Peter
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Re: [gentoo-user] Missing LVM2 drive after upgrade/reboot
On Saturday 10 December 2005 17:35, Peter Kelly wrote:
using bad netiquette by answering my own message
And this command fixed it. /dev/mapper/vgusbhd-usbhd exists.
crichton ~ # ll /dev/vgusb/usbhd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Dec 10 16:07 /dev/vgusb/usbhd - ../sda1
This is wrong...this link should be to /dev/mapper/vgusbhd-usbhd.
And removing the udev rule eliminates this. There is no /dev/vgusb/usbhd
at all.
And the udev rule that seems to work, since there is a link
BUS=usb, KERNEL=sd*1, SYSFS{product}=USB 2.0 Storage Device,
SYSFS{serial}=0004200*, NAME=%k, SYMLINK=vgusb/usbhd
This rule should not exist.
See above. I banged it out, and the device node doesn't get created at all.
Have you run vgchange -a y vgusbhd?
This is still a winning command. Once I run it, followed by 'mount -a',
everything is there.
Why do I need to run this after every reboot? It's not *that* big a deal, as
I'm only rebooting now because of the gcc upgrade, but I'd sure like to
understand why.
So, bottom line, I still don't get the USB hard drive mounted without
intervention. That stinks.
By the way, I noticed a few other issues upon reboot. /dev/rtc takes about 8
seconds to create, and starting eth0 complains about no modules for netmask
or broadcast. And I have eth0:1 at 192.168.1.255. But that's next. Along
with udev, baselayout got upgraded.
Peter
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Re: [gentoo-user] Missing LVM2 drive after upgrade/reboot
On Saturday 10 December 2005 19:43, Thomas Harold wrote: Out of curiosity, is this the only LVM volume that won't boot? (i.e. do you have other LVM2 volumes?) Yes. It's the only volume that isn't detected at boot. crichton log # mount |grep mapper /dev/mapper/vg-usr on /usr type ext3 (rw) /dev/mapper/vg-usrlocal on /usr/local type ext3 (rw) /dev/mapper/vg-sysbackup on /sysbackup type ext3 (rw) /dev/mapper/vg-portage on /usr/portage type ext3 (rw) /dev/mapper/vg-source on /usr/src type ext3 (rw) /dev/mapper/vgexport-export on /export type ext3 (rw) /dev/mapper/vgiso-isoserver on /isoserver type ext3 (rw) problem mount == /dev/mapper/vgusbhd-usbhd on /mnt/usbhd type ext3 (rw) Plenty of others are detected. And there is no problem with mounting the usb drive, once I run vgchange -a y vgusbhd mount -a after booting. What was your kernel version before/after the upgrade? There was no change to the kernel version 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 Just re-compiled along with the modules after the gcc upgrade. Peter -- That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in Oath of Fealty -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Serious pcmcia network issues
Hola, I've got this old laptop that I'm bringing back from the dead (attic) for a special project. It needs sound and network capability. As it's a 300MHz PII, and I'm running gentoo on the 3GHz home server, I thought the optimizations of gentoo might pay off. First, I did a stage 3 install. Everything went fine until I lost the network connection. Nothing I did could bring it back. However, it always worked with the Universal 2005.0/1 disks, so there was nothing wrong with the hardware. I went with a stage 1 install, This worked for a couple weeks, while I spent time getting all the tweaks done. Then I popped in a Cisco Aironet 350, thinking I could make the laptop mobile. All networking died. Rebooting, no help. Rebuilding kernel with no Aironet support, no help. Loading an older kernel with networking yes, sound no, still broke. The network card I've used is a 3Com 3c589D. Upon boot with the 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 kernel, it was detected and assign it's correct static IP. Further inspection indicated that it had no route, and I could not add the route. Apparently, there might be an issue with the yenta_socket module and ACPI. At least, that's what the Google searches indicate. So, after a full day and a half of banging my head against the wall, I tried using 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 sources. I make menuconfig, make make modules_install and the damn thing works upon reboot. Again, this is a software issue only. Using the Universal install CD, or even Fedora, everything works fine. So here's the hardware IBM Thinkpad 770X (8MB Video Ram) 256MB RAM 3Com 3c589D pcmcia network card -- Modules for pcmcia card 3c589_cs pcmcia yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core Kernel 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 worked for a long time. Once it stopped working, it stopped working forever (or until I figure it out). Problem seems to be with IRQ issues, as this is what I saw in /var/log/messages Oct 30 14:57:46 tux Yenta TI: socket :00:02.0 no PCI interrupts. Fish. Please report. Oct 30 14:57:46 tux Yenta: no PCI IRQ, CardBus support disabled for this socket. Oct 30 14:57:46 tux Yenta: check your BIOS CardBus, BIOS IRQ or ACPI settings. Oct 30 14:57:46 tux Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0498, PCI irq 0 --- and other like this Oct 30 11:46:04 tux cardmgr[15669]: socket 1: 3Com 589 Ethernet Oct 30 11:46:04 tux eth0: 3Com 3c589, io 0x300, irq 3, hw_addr 00:60:08:25:40:E0 Oct 30 11:46:04 tux 8K FIFO split 5:3 Rx:Tx, auto xcvr Oct 30 11:46:25 tux eth0: flipped to 10baseT Oct 30 11:46:37 tux eth0: interrupt(s) dropped! Any help will be greatly appreciated. Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] giflib vs. libungif
On Saturday 29 October 2005 10:03 am, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, I've got a weird conflict between giflib and libungif. emerge --update world told me that libungif blocked giflib. So I unmerged libungif and compiling kuickshow of kdegraphics failed because it needs libungif. test ~ # equery depends libungif [ Searching for packages depending on libungif... ] dev-tex/latex2html-2002.2.1_pre20041025 media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7 kuickshow isn't listed because it isn't a direct dependency but through imlib. test ~ # equery depends giflib [ Searching for packages depending on giflib... ] dev-tex/latex2html-2002.2.1_pre20041025 media-libs/imlib-1.9.14-r3 media-libs/sdl-image-1.2.3-r1 media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7 Hm... mplayer wants both. Any ideas what to do? Uwe Get everything set up for giflib. Re-emerge imlib, and then re-emerge kdegraphics. I fought that one for awhile, myself. On another note, is there a way to both view and post to this list through Knode? I've been watching the list for months, never really understanding that my replies were never seen by others. Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
