Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages
On 22/05/2014 16:32, Zoltán Kócsi wrote: > On Thu, 22 May 2014 15:42:09 +0200 > "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > >> if you run into issues like this, first try something like >> >> emerge -uDNav world >> >> (--update --deep --newuse --ask --verbose; note the "deep") >> (afaik this is the recommended way to update your system anyway) >> >> If this doesnt help, you can try giving portage more time to >> backtrack, add e.g. the following option (warning this may take a >> while): >> >> --backtrack=1000 > > Thanks, will do that. > > Is there a comprehensive manual about portage and the related tools? > I mean one which explains how the whole thing works, what are atoms and > sets and slots and masks; how dependencies work and how the magic USE > keywords get translated to actual configure parameters, so basically > the whole logic behind it? Then, with all that basic knowledge how > emerge et al work on that info and what they actually do? > > As a developer probably it's all obvious if not trivial to you, but to > the uninitiated it looks a bit of black magic. I went to the Wiki and > went through the handbook, but I couldn't find anything which explained > the actual concepts and implementation of the whole portage system, > just practical snippets of actual tool usage rather than the > foundations. Any pointers to the relevant literature would be most > appreciated. Portage man pages are fairly complete (maybe not so much for very new features). The trick is to find the man pages :-) equery files portage | grep /man/ These are the man pages I rate most useful (there are plenty more) emerge(1) portage(5) ebuild(1) ebuild(5) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Organising btrfs subvolumes
Am 22.05.2014 18:12, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > I'm working on this btrfs malarkey and have a question about best > practice. It is recommended to leave the root volume empty and > create a subvolume for the root filesystem which is set with btrfs > subvolume set-default, which I have done. Alternative: mount the subvol via option "subvolid" etc in fstab if you plan to mount different snapshots, for example. > What is the recommended way to create subvolumes that are mounted > further down the filesystem? Let's say I was usr and var on their > own subvolumes. Do I create them in the btrfs root, which means > they have to be mounted from /etc/fstab - or do I create hem below > the subvolume called root? I saw more examples mounting every dir via a separate line in fstab (which also adds the choice to mount them with different options, think compression etc). My understanding is: * create and use subvols for entities you want to be able to snapshot and rollback individually. * create and use subvols for entities you want to apply special options to: compression, (no)COW, quota ... I would mount each subvol via extra line and create them in parallel ... > That raises another question. Assuming I've done it wrong (well, my > wife always does) is there an equivalent to the zfs rename command > to move or rename a subvolume? As far as I understand you are allowed to mount the root volume (or academic: any subvol in a higher level) and use plain "mv" to rename the subvols as if you renamed sub-dirs. Stefan
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Having Trouble with Wireless Interface
On 05/22/2014 06:34 AM, Jonathan Callen wrote: > On 05/21/2014 01:56 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > Thanks for the explanation. > > > Just to double check I understood it correctly, there's no need to put > > the list of kernel modules into /etc/conf.d/modules any longer, because > > udev is aware of the modules that have been built and will load them by > > consulting /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.alias. Is that correct? > > > Thanks. > > > > You only need to list the modules in /etc/conf.d/modules (for OpenRC) or > /etc/modules-load.d/*.conf (for systemd) if they would not otherwise be > loaded. Just about any module that provides a driver for hardware that > can be autodetected (that is, PCI, USB, etc.) will be auto-loaded by > udev. Modules used to provide filters, etc. for iptables are autoloaded > by iptables itself as needed. Some modules do not have anything that > would cause them to be autoloaded (such as the vbox-* modules from > VirtualBox), in which case you *would* need to explicitly load them. > > Understood. Thanks to all those who did respond to my query.
[gentoo-user] Organising btrfs subvolumes
I'm working on this btrfs malarkey and have a question about best practice. It is recommended to leave the root volume empty and create a subvolume for the root filesystem which is set with btrfs subvolume set-default, which I have done. What is the recommended way to create subvolumes that are mounted further down the filesystem? Let's say I was usr and var on their own subvolumes. Do I create them in the btrfs root, which means they have to be mounted from /etc/fstab - or do I create hem below the subvolume called root? That raises another question. Assuming I've done it wrong (well, my wife always does) is there an equivalent to the zfs rename command to move or rename a subvolume? -- Neil Bothwick Unsupported service (adj): Broken (see Demon) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] May GMN Tips and Tricks
On Wed, 21 May 2014 18:41:28 -0400
David Abbott wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> We are putting together this months GMN [1] Looking for some content
> to add to the "Tip of the month" section.
> Regards
> David
>
> [1] http://blogs.gentoo.org/news
You can create a simple shell function like this:
whymask() {
find /usr/portage/profiles/ -name '*.mask' -exec \
awk -vRS= "/${*/\//.}/ {
print \" \" FILENAME \":\", \"\n\" \"\n\" \$0 \"\n\"
}" {} + | less
}
You can do `whymask sys-kernel/gentoo-sources` to get reasons as to why
a particular package is masked; very handy to quickly check something
up, especially for USE flag masks which Portage doesn't explain.
You can do `whymask Gnome 3.12` to get the entire GNOME 3.12 mask,
piping it to `grep -v mask: > /etc/portage/package.unmask/gnome3` then
allows you to quickly update your GNOME 3.12 unmask; if you want this to
happen on sync, you can put this line in /etc/portage/postsync.d/gnome3
and make it executable such that it'll be ran after every sync.
The magic trick here is that awk -vRS= "/.../" matches paragraphs; as
the record separator is empty, it takes the blank lines.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages
On Thu, 22 May 2014 15:42:09 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > if you run into issues like this, first try something like > > emerge -uDNav world > > (--update --deep --newuse --ask --verbose; note the "deep") > (afaik this is the recommended way to update your system anyway) > > If this doesnt help, you can try giving portage more time to > backtrack, add e.g. the following option (warning this may take a > while): > > --backtrack=1000 Thanks, will do that. Is there a comprehensive manual about portage and the related tools? I mean one which explains how the whole thing works, what are atoms and sets and slots and masks; how dependencies work and how the magic USE keywords get translated to actual configure parameters, so basically the whole logic behind it? Then, with all that basic knowledge how emerge et al work on that info and what they actually do? As a developer probably it's all obvious if not trivial to you, but to the uninitiated it looks a bit of black magic. I went to the Wiki and went through the handbook, but I couldn't find anything which explained the actual concepts and implementation of the whole portage system, just practical snippets of actual tool usage rather than the foundations. Any pointers to the relevant literature would be most appreciated. Thanks, Zoltan
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages
Am Donnerstag 22 Mai 2014, 19:10:40 schrieb Zoltán Kócsi: > > Then, the command and the response: > --- > ~ # emerge --pretend --newuse @world > Hi Zoltan, if you run into issues like this, first try something like emerge -uDNav world (--update --deep --newuse --ask --verbose; note the "deep") (afaik this is the recommended way to update your system anyway) If this doesnt help, you can try giving portage more time to backtrack, add e.g. the following option (warning this may take a while): --backtrack=1000 Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, council
Re: [gentoo-user] May GMN Tips and Tricks
Alan McKinnon writes: > This month has been a treasure trove of such things here on > gentoo-user. Oh my, an I have some 6500 unread e-mails... that's hard to catch up. But I'll have a look into this month then :) Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem doesn't mount automatically after unclean shutdown
On Friday, May 16, 2014 01:12:52 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 14 May 2014 22:29:46 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > I have this weird problem where a filesystem (Ext4) refuses to mount > > automatically after something like a power loss or forced shutdown. > > > > The fstab entry for it is: > >LABEL=Data /mnt/Data ext4 defaults,relatime,exec 0 2 > > > > During boot, this is what OpenRC tells me: > >Root: clean, 805088/6553600 files, 9129899/26214400 blocks > >Data: recovering journal > >Data: clean, 364344/61546496 files, 137312260/246156800 blocks [ ok ] > >* Mounting local filesystems ...[ ok ] > >* Remounting root filesystem read/write ... [ ok ] > >* Remounting filesystems ...[ ok ] > >* Updating /etc/mtab ...[ ok ] > > > > If I reboot the system again, then all works fine and the FS is mounted > > automatically. So this is a one-time thingy, happening only on the first > > boot after an unclean power-off. > > > > It would seem that I've stumbled across an OpenRC bug? There's no errors > > anywhere to be seem. According to the log output above, everything > > should be fine. I suspect that the "recovering journal" step is what > > causes this, but I don't know why. > > > > Anyone else encountered this? > > No, I can't say I have. I do occasionally have to use the reset button to > reboot (because the KDM shutdown process had hung), and the system just > restarts as Mick says. > > This is my root fstab entry: > > /dev/md5/ ext4relatime1 1 > > The other partitions are similar except for being mounted from /dev/md7. My (2.5 y/o) daughter occasionally presses the reset-button while sitting on my chair... (yes, the button is on a really bad location on the case). So it gets reset unintentionally regularly. Using 2 disks with 2 partitions. 1 with RAID-1 for /boot and the other with RAID-0 with LVM ontop where all the other partitions are inside LVM. Not had a bad start in a very long time. Last time it stopped for a manual fix was after the reset happened during a big emerge-session. -- Joost
Re: [gentoo-user] systemd seems to have broken logwatch
On Thursday, May 22, 2014 08:31:12 AM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Thursday, May 22, 2014 04:54:45 AM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > Hi. I am having a strange problem running under systemd since Monday. > > > I use logwatch to get nice summaries of things going on in the system, > > > it gives me once a day summaries of such things. When running under > > > openrc, I used to get a summary of sshd activity, so I could see the > > > failed logins and the users that actually logged in via ssh. I was > > > using the sysklogd package and am still using it, although I had to > > > listen on a different socket. But now the sshd entries are totally gone > > > and I wonder how to get them back?For instance, I am no longer > > > getting the accepted public key messages anywhere. > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > > > Did you configure logwatch to read from systemd (not sure if this is > > possible) or systemd to write the logs to sysklogd? > > > > Systemd uses it's own binary format for the logging by default. > > I have sysklogd and friends listen on the journal socket rather on the > original socket which systemd has taken over. Strange but someone told > me that they were getting those messages with syslogng (name may be not > correct), but it still does not make sense to me. syslogng != sysklogd. Both are different packages. It could be that sysklogd does not work well with systemd. -- Joost
Re: [gentoo-user] systemd seems to have broken logwatch
J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, May 22, 2014 04:54:45 AM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Hi. I am having a strange problem running under systemd since Monday. > > I use logwatch to get nice summaries of things going on in the system, > > it gives me once a day summaries of such things. When running under > > openrc, I used to get a summary of sshd activity, so I could see the > > failed logins and the users that actually logged in via ssh. I was > > using the sysklogd package and am still using it, although I had to > > listen on a different socket. But now the sshd entries are totally gone > > and I wonder how to get them back?For instance, I am no longer > > getting the accepted public key messages anywhere. > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > Did you configure logwatch to read from systemd (not sure if this is > possible) > or systemd to write the logs to sysklogd? > > Systemd uses it's own binary format for the logging by default. I have sysklogd and friends listen on the journal socket rather on the original socket which systemd has taken over. Strange but someone told me that they were getting those messages with syslogng (name may be not correct), but it still does not make sense to me. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating
On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 11:11:02 PM Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:10 PM, wrote:
> > I run a script that syncs portage, updates @world, depcleans,
> > revdep-rebuild and finally runs dispatch-conf -- about once weekly. Keeps
> > my system in fine trim. :)
>
> This one is a gem - I forget where I saw it (likely planet, but maybe
> it was on a list). Stick it in your crontab. I will warn you that
> sometimes it chokes on its own output and obviously it can't build
> binpkgs for anything more than one step down the dependency tree.
> However, when my weekly chromium build runs at 2AM and I can just
> install it (with -k) the next morning it is a nice thing indeed. You
> still get full control over USE flags/etc, but most of the convenience
> of a binary distro.
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> LIST=$(mktemp);
>
> emerge -puD --changed-use --color=n --columns --quiet=y --with-bdeps=y
> world | awk '{print $2}' > ${LIST};
>
> for PACKAGE in $(cat ${LIST});
> do
> printf "Building binary package for ${PACKAGE}... "
> emerge -uN --quiet-build --quiet=y --buildpkgonly ${PACKAGE};
> if [[ $? -eq 0 ]];
> then
> echo "ok";
> else
> echo "failed";
> fi
> done
Alternatively, set up a chroot to build the binpackages.
I do that for all my machines at home. That runs weekly.
--
Joost
Re: [gentoo-user] systemd seems to have broken logwatch
On Thursday, May 22, 2014 04:54:45 AM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Hi. I am having a strange problem running under systemd since Monday. > I use logwatch to get nice summaries of things going on in the system, > it gives me once a day summaries of such things. When running under > openrc, I used to get a summary of sshd activity, so I could see the > failed logins and the users that actually logged in via ssh. I was > using the sysklogd package and am still using it, although I had to > listen on a different socket. But now the sshd entries are totally gone > and I wonder how to get them back?For instance, I am no longer > getting the accepted public key messages anywhere. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Did you configure logwatch to read from systemd (not sure if this is possible) or systemd to write the logs to sysklogd? Systemd uses it's own binary format for the logging by default. -- Joost
Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages
On Thu, 22 May 2014 19:40:51 +1000, Zoltán Kócsi wrote: > > the output you posted is hard to read because your mailer wrapped it > > but it may be that updating sysvinit manually first will clear it. > > > > emerge -1a sysvinit > > It did it indeed, so the immediate problem is solved, thanks a lot for > that. > > However, I'd be obliged if you could tell me what was wrong and why an > update cleared it? I genuinely don't understand what goes on and I'd be > keen to learn about how Gentoo manages dependencies. To be honest, it was a bit of a guess, because I had so much trouble parsing the wrapped emerge output. The basic problem is that you have a package that portage wants to update, but another package wants to keep it at the same version. This is generally solved by either updating individual packages manually or unmerging the package causing the problem and then letting portage pull in the correct versions. In most cases, portage can now handle these things automatically but there are time it cannot. This may well have been caused by the various USE flag changes in your situation. If you make massive changes to your USE flags after installing from a stage 3, you can often see this sort of behaviour. The solution is generally to take small steps, change a few flags at a time. -- Neil Bothwick Always be sincere... whether you mean it or not! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: May GMN Tips and Tricks
On Thu, 22 May 2014 00:45:44 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 22/05/2014 00:41, David Abbott wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > We are putting together this months GMN [1] Looking for some content > > to add to the "Tip of the month" section. > > Regards > > David > > > > [1] http://blogs.gentoo.org/news > > This month has been a treasure trove of such things here on > gentoo-user. > > If you have the time, trawl the systemd and grub2 threads for some > amazing tips. I skipped those threads because I don't use systemd and I'm having no trouble with grub, but now I've marked them to go back to when I have time. So thanks for pointing me (and GMN and everyone) to them!
Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages
On Thu, 22 May 2014 10:30:39 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > doc flag is at fault here. You have changed other flags, such as > ipv6, so the advice is to make such sweeping USE flag changes one at > a time. This often avoids the problem and otherwise makes it easier > to see. Point taken, thanks. > the output you posted is hard to read because your mailer wrapped it > but it may be that updating sysvinit manually first will clear it. > > emerge -1a sysvinit It did it indeed, so the immediate problem is solved, thanks a lot for that. However, I'd be obliged if you could tell me what was wrong and why an update cleared it? I genuinely don't understand what goes on and I'd be keen to learn about how Gentoo manages dependencies. Thanks, Zoltan
Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating
On Wed, 21 May 2014 23:11:02 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> This one is a gem - I forget where I saw it (likely planet, but maybe
> it was on a list). Stick it in your crontab. I will warn you that
> sometimes it chokes on its own output and obviously it can't build
> binpkgs for anything more than one step down the dependency tree.
> However, when my weekly chromium build runs at 2AM and I can just
> install it (with -k) the next morning it is a nice thing indeed. You
> still get full control over USE flags/etc, but most of the convenience
> of a binary distro.
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> LIST=$(mktemp);
>
> emerge -puD --changed-use --color=n --columns --quiet=y --with-bdeps=y
> world | awk '{print $2}' > ${LIST};
One slight problem, it ignores slotted packages. I realise this is not a
big issue as you are simply trying to get the big packages built in
advance, If you drop the --columns and replace the awk call with
sed 's/.*\] \(\S*\).*/=\1/'
you will get properly versioned atoms.
Or you could try --keep-going as suggested by Marc - I've no idea whether
that will play nicely with --buildpkgonly.
Either way, it's an excellent idea and one for the GMN tips thread.
--
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Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages
On Thu, 22 May 2014 17:29:26 +0800 Amankwah wrote: > *DO NOT* add the USE flag "doc" into you /etc/make.conf, That may > cause many unexpected conflict. Somebody had told me this several > years before. > > If you need doc for any package, just add this flag int file > /etc/portage/package.use for the certain package. That's exactly what I've done. I do *not* have 'doc' in make.conf, I have it in package.use for a handful of packages. Zoltan
Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages
On Thu, 22 May 2014 19:10:40 +1000, Zoltán Kócsi wrote: > Empty machine, Gentoo installed from CD and stage3 tarball. It will be > a server, so the 'hardened' profile was selected from the offered > choices. A few packages (mailserver, bind, webserver, iptables etc) got > installed. I want their documentation, so I added "doc" to their > package specific USE flags in package.use. Atandard documentation: READMEs, manpages, info pages, is installed by default. The doc flag enables extra documentation for developers. This often needs to be built from the sources, and thus requires extra tools. These often cause blocks, however, it does not appear that the doc flag is at fault here. You have changed other flags, such as ipv6, so the advice is to make such sweeping USE flag changes one at a time. This often avoids the problem and otherwise makes it easier to see. the output you posted is hard to read because your mailer wrapped it but it may be that updating sysvinit manually first will clear it. emerge -1a sysvinit -- Neil Bothwick I used to live in the real world, but I got evicted. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 07:10:40PM +1000, Zoltán Kócsi wrote:
> On Thu, 22 May 2014 10:23:27 +0200
> "J. Roeleveld" wrote:
>
> > > I want to install some packages with docs but emerge tells me that
> > > it can't do that. Quite interestingly it complains about blocked
> > > packages.
> > > [...]
> >
> > Can you send the actual emerge-output you are seeing along with the
> > full emerge-command you are issuing?
>
> No problem. Background:
>
> Empty machine, Gentoo installed from CD and stage3 tarball. It will be
> a server, so the 'hardened' profile was selected from the offered
> choices. A few packages (mailserver, bind, webserver, iptables etc) got
> installed. I want their documentation, so I added "doc" to their
> package specific USE flags in package.use.
>
> The USE in make.conf is
>
> USE="berkdb crypt ssl -ipv6"
>
> and in package.use contains postfix, iptables, iproute2 and a few
> other similar packages, with the 'doc' flag and whatever else they
> needed for their actual function (e.g. postfix gets 'sasl' and 'mbox').
>
> Then, the command and the response:
> ---
> ~ # emerge --pretend --newuse @world
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild N ] sys-apps/paxctl-0.7-r2
> [ebuild R] net-misc/iputils-20121221 USE="-ipv6*"
> [ebuild R] sys-process/psmisc-22.20 USE="-ipv6*"
> [ebuild R] sys-devel/gcc-4.7.3-r1 USE="hardened* -fortran*"
> [ebuild R] app-arch/gzip-1.5 USE="pic*"
> [ebuild R] sys-apps/busybox-1.21.0 USE="-ipv6*"
> [ebuild N ] dev-python/pypax-0.8.4 USE="ptpax xtpax"
> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3 (-pypy) (-python2_6)
> -python3_2" [ebuild N ] sys-apps/elfix-0.8.4 USE="ptpax
> xtpax" [ebuild R] dev-tcltk/expect-5.44.1.15 USE="doc*" [ebuild
> NS] sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2 [0.97-r12] USE="multislot nls
> -custom-cflags -debug -device-mapper -doc -efiemu (-libzfs) -mount -sdl
> -static {-test} -truetype" GRUB_PLATFORMS="-coreboot -efi-32 -efi-64
> -emu -ieee1275 -multiboot -pc -qemu -qemu-mips -yeeloong" [ebuild
> U ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.24.1-r2 [2.22.2] USE="pam%*
> -bash-completion% -caps% -cytune% -fdformat% -python% -tty-helpers%"
> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7%* -python3_2% -python3_3% (-python3_4)"
> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7%* python3_3%* -python3_2%
> (-python3_4)" [ebuild R] net-misc/rsync-3.0.9-r3
> USE="-ipv6*" [ebuild R] net-misc/wget-1.14
> USE="-ipv6*" [ebuild R] net-libs/gnutls-2.12.23-r4
> USE="-bindist*" [ebuild R] app-admin/syslog-ng-3.4.7
> USE="-ipv6*" [ebuild R] net-misc/dhcpcd-6.2.0-r1
> USE="-ipv6*" [blocks B ] (" sys-apps/util-linux-2.24.1-r2) [blocks B ]
> >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.23 (">=sys-apps/util-linux-2.23" is blocking
> >sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r4)
>
> * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
> * installed at the same time on the same system.
>
> (sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r4::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
> >=sys-apps/sysvinit-2.86-r6 required by
> (sys-apps/openrc-0.12.4::gentoo, installed)
>
> (sys-apps/util-linux-2.24.1-r2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> pulled in by >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.20 required by
> (sys-fs/udev-208::gentoo, installed) >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.16
> required by (sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.42.7::gentoo, installed)
> >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.16 required by (x11-libs/libSM-1.2.2::gentoo,
> installed) sys-apps/util-linux required by @system
>
>
> For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the
> following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is
> irrelevant):
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked
>
>
> * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
> * Use eselect news to read news items.
>
> ---
>
> It is entirely possible that I'm, being a complete newbie on Gentoo
> made something stupid thing, so I'm not blaming the system, just looking
> for an explanation and possibly a solution.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Zoltan
>
*DO NOT* add the USE flag "doc" into you /etc/make.conf, That may cause
many unexpected conflict. Somebody had told me this several years
before.
If you need doc for any package, just add this flag int file
/etc/portage/package.use for the certain package.
Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 21 May 2014 20:38:15 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> Isn't there a kernel setting that cuts off after 4GBs or something? I >> seem to recall having to turn that on at some point. I would think this >> would be on by default but . . . . > That's only in 32 bit kernels AFAIR. The live CD idea is a good one, also > run memtest86+ to make sure the RAM is not only seen but working. > > Could be. I can't recall if it was on my new rig or my older rig that I had to do that on. Old age and got to much stuff going on. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] systemd seems to have broken logwatch
On Thu, 22 May 2014 04:54:45 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Hi. I am having a strange problem running under systemd since Monday. > I use logwatch to get nice summaries of things going on in the system, > it gives me once a day summaries of such things. When running under > openrc, I used to get a summary of sshd activity, so I could see the > failed logins and the users that actually logged in via ssh. I was > using the sysklogd package and am still using it, although I had to > listen on a different socket. But now the sshd entries are totally gone > and I wonder how to get them back?For instance, I am no longer > getting the accepted public key messages anywhere. I use syslog-ng with systemd and logcheck still show reports for sshd, so this may be specific to sysklogd. -- Neil Bothwick Electricians DO IT until it Hz... signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages
On Thu, 22 May 2014 10:23:27 +0200
"J. Roeleveld" wrote:
> > I want to install some packages with docs but emerge tells me that
> > it can't do that. Quite interestingly it complains about blocked
> > packages.
> > [...]
>
> Can you send the actual emerge-output you are seeing along with the
> full emerge-command you are issuing?
No problem. Background:
Empty machine, Gentoo installed from CD and stage3 tarball. It will be
a server, so the 'hardened' profile was selected from the offered
choices. A few packages (mailserver, bind, webserver, iptables etc) got
installed. I want their documentation, so I added "doc" to their
package specific USE flags in package.use.
The USE in make.conf is
USE="berkdb crypt ssl -ipv6"
and in package.use contains postfix, iptables, iproute2 and a few
other similar packages, with the 'doc' flag and whatever else they
needed for their actual function (e.g. postfix gets 'sasl' and 'mbox').
Then, the command and the response:
---
~ # emerge --pretend --newuse @world
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] sys-apps/paxctl-0.7-r2
[ebuild R] net-misc/iputils-20121221 USE="-ipv6*"
[ebuild R] sys-process/psmisc-22.20 USE="-ipv6*"
[ebuild R] sys-devel/gcc-4.7.3-r1 USE="hardened* -fortran*"
[ebuild R] app-arch/gzip-1.5 USE="pic*"
[ebuild R] sys-apps/busybox-1.21.0 USE="-ipv6*"
[ebuild N ] dev-python/pypax-0.8.4 USE="ptpax xtpax"
PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3 (-pypy) (-python2_6)
-python3_2" [ebuild N ] sys-apps/elfix-0.8.4 USE="ptpax
xtpax" [ebuild R] dev-tcltk/expect-5.44.1.15 USE="doc*" [ebuild
NS] sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2 [0.97-r12] USE="multislot nls
-custom-cflags -debug -device-mapper -doc -efiemu (-libzfs) -mount -sdl
-static {-test} -truetype" GRUB_PLATFORMS="-coreboot -efi-32 -efi-64
-emu -ieee1275 -multiboot -pc -qemu -qemu-mips -yeeloong" [ebuild
U ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.24.1-r2 [2.22.2] USE="pam%*
-bash-completion% -caps% -cytune% -fdformat% -python% -tty-helpers%"
PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7%* -python3_2% -python3_3% (-python3_4)"
PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7%* python3_3%* -python3_2%
(-python3_4)" [ebuild R] net-misc/rsync-3.0.9-r3
USE="-ipv6*" [ebuild R] net-misc/wget-1.14
USE="-ipv6*" [ebuild R] net-libs/gnutls-2.12.23-r4
USE="-bindist*" [ebuild R] app-admin/syslog-ng-3.4.7
USE="-ipv6*" [ebuild R] net-misc/dhcpcd-6.2.0-r1
USE="-ipv6*" [blocks B ] =sys-apps/util-linux-2.23 (">=sys-apps/util-linux-2.23" is blocking
>sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r4)
* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
* installed at the same time on the same system.
(sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r4::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
>=sys-apps/sysvinit-2.86-r6 required by
(sys-apps/openrc-0.12.4::gentoo, installed)
(sys-apps/util-linux-2.24.1-r2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
pulled in by >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.20 required by
(sys-fs/udev-208::gentoo, installed) >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.16
required by (sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.42.7::gentoo, installed)
>=sys-apps/util-linux-2.16 required by (x11-libs/libSM-1.2.2::gentoo,
installed) sys-apps/util-linux required by @system
For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the
following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is
irrelevant):
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked
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It is entirely possible that I'm, being a complete newbie on Gentoo
made something stupid thing, so I'm not blaming the system, just looking
for an explanation and possibly a solution.
Thanks,
Zoltan
Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable
On Wed, 21 May 2014 20:38:15 -0500, Dale wrote: > Isn't there a kernel setting that cuts off after 4GBs or something? I > seem to recall having to turn that on at some point. I would think this > would be on by default but . . . . That's only in 32 bit kernels AFAIR. The live CD idea is a good one, also run memtest86+ to make sure the RAM is not only seen but working. -- Neil Bothwick I have seen things you lusers would not believe. I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab. I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate. All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last week. Time to die. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] systemd seems to have broken logwatch
Hi. I am having a strange problem running under systemd since Monday. I use logwatch to get nice summaries of things going on in the system, it gives me once a day summaries of such things. When running under openrc, I used to get a summary of sshd activity, so I could see the failed logins and the users that actually logged in via ssh. I was using the sysklogd package and am still using it, although I had to listen on a different socket. But now the sshd entries are totally gone and I wonder how to get them back?For instance, I am no longer getting the accepted public key messages anywhere. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages
On Thursday, May 22, 2014 05:08:17 PM Zoltán Kócsi wrote: > Hi, > > I'm fairly new to Gentoo and I have a blocking issue which I don't > really understand. > > I want to install some packages with docs but emerge tells me that it > can't do that. Quite interestingly it complains about blocked packages. > > One of them is openrc and the other is linux-util. I don't want to > delete either one, and wisely so, because even emerge tells me that > they are part of my system profile and should not be deleted. > > Now the actual questions I have are the following: > > - Why does emerge complain about blocking packages when I want to > recompile a few *other* packages, already on the system and all I > want is their documentation created? > > - If those two packages do indeed block each other, why are they in my > system profile, which was set up by Gentoo itself when I installed > the system? > > - If they block each other, how did both get installed on the machine? > > - Why do they block each other? As far as I could see, they are not > clashing, one is a SysV type init scripts and the 'rc' binary and the > other is all sorts of utilities and system management stuff. > > Thanks, > > Zoltan Can you send the actual emerge-output you are seeing along with the full emerge-command you are issuing? Many thanks, Joost
Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable
Am 21.05.2014 23:37, schrieb Alex Schuster: > Hi there! > > So I installed another 4 GiB RAM into a Gentoo amd64 system that had 4 GiB > already. But it still sees only 4 GiB, not 8 GiB: > > leela ~ # uname -a > Linux leela 3.6.11-gentoo #3 SMP Mon Feb 4 15:37:48 CET 2013 x86_64 AMD > A6-3500 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > > leela ~ # > free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 3688 3269419 0108 1050 > -/+ buffers/cache: 2110 1577 > Swap: 2047 54 1993 > > Huh? Any idea why this is? The BIOS shows the full 8GiB, and lshw finds > it. dmidecode shows that 8G should work: > > leela ~ # dmidecode -t 16 > # dmidecode 2.11 > SMBIOS 2.7 present. > > Handle 0x0008, DMI type 16, 23 bytes > Physical Memory Array > Location: System Board Or Motherboard > Use: System Memory > Error Correction Type: None > Maximum Capacity: 8 GB > Error Information Handle: Not Provided > Number Of Devices: 2 > > In case this helps, I uploaded the outputs of dmesg [1], lshw -c memory > [2] and full dmidecode output [3]. The dmesg output is somewhat weird > though, it has several 'vmalloc: allocation failure: 0 bytes' entries. I > suspected those were causing the problem, but I found that I needed to > activate CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y, and they are gone. But still only 4 GiB RAM. > The system is using an old kernel right now, so I cannot get the current > dmesg, sorry for this. > > Probably related: Since I inserted this 2nd RAM module, wakeup > from hibernate-ram does no longer work. > > Does this ring any bells? I'm out of ideas. Except than pulling out the 4 > GB, or trying another mainboard. > > [1] http://www.wonkology.org/tmp/lshw.txt > [2] http://www.wonkology.org/tmp/dmesg.txt > [3] http://www.wonkology.org/tmp/dmidecode.txt > > Wonko > To be sure, that the new RAM isn't broken, try booting with only the new RAM inserted in the 1st slot. If it works, insert the old RAM into the 2nd slot and see if the problem persists. Good luck Daniel -- Get my PGP key at: * http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x837FB8B5BB9D4887 * $ gpg --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xBB9D4887 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable
Dale wrote: > wraeth wrote: > > > > > > On 22/05/14 07:37, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > Does this ring any bells? I'm out of ideas. Except than pulling out > the 4 > > > GB, or trying another mainboard. > > > > Just a quick suggestion to help rule it out: try booting a LiveCD or other > > "one-size-fits-most" medium and seeing if your full memory is registering > > there. If it is, then it's not a hardware malfunction; if it doesn't, then > > either you've got bad hardware or a configuration issue in your BIOS. > > > > cheers > > wraeth > > > Isn't there a kernel setting that cuts off after 4GBs or something? I > seem to recall having to turn that on at some point. I would think this > would be on by default but . . . . Make sure you are really running a 64-bit kernel! Sure seems like you are not to me, but there may be other things. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating
Am Wed, 21 May 2014 23:11:02 -0400
schrieb Rich Freeman :
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:10 PM, wrote:
> > I run a script that syncs portage, updates @world, depcleans, revdep-rebuild
> > and finally runs dispatch-conf -- about once weekly. Keeps my system in fine
> > trim. :)
>
> This one is a gem - I forget where I saw it (likely planet, but maybe
> it was on a list). Stick it in your crontab. I will warn you that
> sometimes it chokes on its own output and obviously it can't build
> binpkgs for anything more than one step down the dependency tree.
> However, when my weekly chromium build runs at 2AM and I can just
> install it (with -k) the next morning it is a nice thing indeed. You
> still get full control over USE flags/etc, but most of the convenience
> of a binary distro.
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> LIST=$(mktemp);
>
> emerge -puD --changed-use --color=n --columns --quiet=y --with-bdeps=y
> world | awk '{print $2}' > ${LIST};
>
> for PACKAGE in $(cat ${LIST});
> do
> printf "Building binary package for ${PACKAGE}... "
> emerge -uN --quiet-build --quiet=y --buildpkgonly ${PACKAGE};
> if [[ $? -eq 0 ]];
> then
> echo "ok";
> else
> echo "failed";
> fi
> done
I think nowadays one would prefer --keep-going, which automatically resumes on
failure (and recomputes the dependency tree!), and prints a list of failed
packages when it's finished. However its output is more verbose than just "ok"
and "failed" (it'll print the build.log if it's only one package, IIRC).
--
Marc Joliet
--
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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Re: [gentoo-user] maintenance
On 140522 0851, William Kenworthy wrote: > Last year there was an enormous thread on how to maintain gentoo system > (portage tools etc) - was this ever summarised anywhere? > > BillK Was it this one? http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/261836 -- Tuomo Hartikainen signature.asc Description: Digital signature
[gentoo-user] Blocked packages
Hi, I'm fairly new to Gentoo and I have a blocking issue which I don't really understand. I want to install some packages with docs but emerge tells me that it can't do that. Quite interestingly it complains about blocked packages. One of them is openrc and the other is linux-util. I don't want to delete either one, and wisely so, because even emerge tells me that they are part of my system profile and should not be deleted. Now the actual questions I have are the following: - Why does emerge complain about blocking packages when I want to recompile a few *other* packages, already on the system and all I want is their documentation created? - If those two packages do indeed block each other, why are they in my system profile, which was set up by Gentoo itself when I installed the system? - If they block each other, how did both get installed on the machine? - Why do they block each other? As far as I could see, they are not clashing, one is a SysV type init scripts and the 'rc' binary and the other is all sorts of utilities and system management stuff. Thanks, Zoltan
