Re: [gentoo-user] how to enable glx
On Friday 10 March 2006 03:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I enabled the glx, but it seems the speed is still slow. $ glxinfo | grep rendering direct rendering: Yes The output of glxgears is about 130 FPS. I use intel_agp. As I have stated before I get around 230 FPS when [EMAIL PROTECTED] is running and it jumps to around 1300 FPS when I stop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nothing else changed. This is an Radeon 9000 Mobility. Make sure you have nothing else running and see if that makes a difference. ~ $ glxgears 1001 frames in 5.0 seconds = 200.200 FPS 1136 frames in 5.0 seconds = 227.200 FPS 1186 frames in 5.0 seconds = 237.200 FPS 1149 frames in 5.0 seconds = 229.800 FPS 1185 frames in 5.0 seconds = 237.000 FPS ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/foldingathome stop * Stopping [EMAIL PROTECTED] on CPU 1 ... [ ok ] ~ $ glxgears 6299 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1259.800 FPS 6744 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1348.800 FPS 6941 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1388.200 FPS 6897 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1379.400 FPS 6801 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1360.200 FPS -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman wrote: Well I can't get the live cd to boot so I'll check back in a year to see if Gentoo has it's act togather yet. I do look forward to running Gentoo, someday. Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home page http://ka9qlq.tripod.com This PC is windows free with Mepis Linux 3.4-3 http://www.mepis.org/ 1(747)632-4973 SIP Get Gizmo 1 cent per minuet calling http://www.gizmoproject.com/ I 've had 2006.0 livecd freezes as well...first time on a machine that had no troubles whatsoever with the previous releases.. By frozen I mean : Booting the default kernel with or wouth framebuffer stops at copying to the tmpfs into ram So I can confirm it may have some bugs for certain hardware... in my case : a via board based system. Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host Bridge Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8118 rgds, Peter P.S. The minimal CD worked just fine !!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Fairwell for now
i've run the live cd and the installer on my MSI neo4 with amd athlon 64 3000+ and 1GB of RAM with no errors.. i just ran into a problem that i made myself by canceling the installation while still partitioning the system it deleted the partitions but that was easliy fixed. a bug in the installer is that it hangs when installing ssmtp but if you want to install the system just install the packages marked GRP to get a workign system and boot it and emerge whatever package you need.. i personally liked the old isntallation method more it gave me great experience but if you're in a rush and want the system to just work the installer is perfect On 3/10/06, Peter van Eck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman wrote: Well I can't get the live cd to boot so I'll check back in a year to see if Gentoo has it's act togather yet. I do look forward to running Gentoo, someday. Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home page http://ka9qlq.tripod.com This PC is windows free with Mepis Linux 3.4-3 http://www.mepis.org/ 1(747)632-4973 SIP Get Gizmo 1 cent per minuet calling http://www.gizmoproject.com/ I 've had 2006.0 livecd freezes as well...first time on a machine that had no troubles whatsoever with the previous releases.. By frozen I mean : Booting the default kernel with or wouth framebuffer stops at copying to the tmpfs into ram So I can confirm it may have some bugs for certain hardware... in my case : a via board based system. Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host Bridge Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8118 rgds, Peter P.S. The minimal CD worked just fine !!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Cheers, Ghaith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: moving /usr
On 3/10/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have an out of disk space problem machine. It looks like moving /usr to a new partition would be the best thing to do. How can I do this safely? Thanks, Mark Very sorry to answer my own post. I found this link in the forums: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=121164 I'll proceed in this manner unless I hear back that there is some problem with doing it this way. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2
On Friday 10 Mar 2006 14:42, Harry Putnam wrote: snip I don't really understand the relationship between what you call a server and the actual disks. How is it different from just having the disks on an USB port? The external USB discs have a USB connector that plugs into the Linksys network storage box, that in turn is connected to my network switch as are my linux and my windows boxes. I will disconnect one of the drives and connected it to my linux box's USB port and see if I can glean any more information. snip I suggest you take this question in as succinct a format as you can to the rsync list. I suspect some of the experts there will recognize this right off the bat. It can be accessed thru gmane. Thanks, I will post a question and let you know the answer. Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr
i think this should be easy, make the new partition copy the contenet of /usr to it change your fstab to include the new modifications i'm not sure how to delete the old one after it's mounted maybe mount -o bind? or just boot a live cd and delete the content of your old /usr from there when you restart it shoudl be working fine On 3/10/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have an out of disk space problem machine. It looks like moving /usr to a new partition would be the best thing to do. How can I do this safely? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Cheers, Ghaith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to track this down (emerge of amaya)
Hi, On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:49:28 -0600 Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attempting to emerge www-client/amaya The tail end of emerge shows: i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++: ../redland/raptor/.libs/libraptor.a: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [../bin/amaya] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/amaya-8.7/work/Amaya/LINUX-ELF/amaya' make: *** [amaya_prog] Error 2 !!! ERROR: www-client/amaya-8.7 failed. media-libs/raptor is installed. How to track this down? The ebuild needs a fix, or even better: upstream needs to be fixed. It's mentioned in bugzilla already (gentoo bugzilla, that is). I helped myself by compiling manually. The same problem occurs, but you can simply change the directory to Amaya/WX/redland/raptor, type make, return to Amaya/WX/amaya and continue building with another make. This would also give you a more current version of amaya, the one in portage is a little bit older. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman schreef: It recognises my Nvida card [fx 5200] but when you get to the stage where the icons dissapear as stuff loads, when the last one goes the monitor shuts off. as is't booting from a cd there's no error log and nofb didn't help. Like I said some day Gentoo will get there, but right now it's not stable. The graphical installer is not the distribution. The fact that the installer doesn't work for you is not the same as Gentoo is not stable. The graphical installer is indeed not stable, but we all knew that (or we would have if we read the release notes). Is there some reason that you can't use the current CD to install in the traditional manner (without X), or with an ncurses interface (again, without X), or conversely use the previous install CD (that doesn't have a graphical installer), to install Gentoo? Also, you might check the forums and bugs.gentoo.org to see if this is a known problem (you seem to be not the first having signal loss from the install CD on this list) and if there is a workaround. Or you could just go on as you are doing and blow us off as unstable. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] lost partition table
Hi Ghaith, on Thursday, 2006-03-09 at 06:52:38, you wrote: help, it seems the gentoo installer deleted my home partition fdisk don't show it what can i do? is there a way to restore it gpart is the tool for that. If nothing works any more, you can use Knoppix or something. Then just start gpart on your disk, let it grind away for a while, and then check the (usually several) partition layouts it finds for one you recognize. It's been a while since I used it but AFAIR it can restore a certain MBR layout you select. If not, you have to recreate it in fdisk. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgp1B6d1CR0kV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like I said some day Gentoo will get there, but right now it's not stable. Holy crap... good thing you are here to tell me this... guess I will have to pull Gentoo off of all my 1/2 dozen or so production servers and go back to Fedora! flame In all seriousness, if your too lazy to sit down with the minimal CD and a pile of docs for your first install then Gentoo is probably NOT for you. Also, there is no reason to go about insulting the developers by making blind statements about the stability of their software. Sheesh. /flame -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] weird error messages
All those entries are stored in /etc/login.defs I guess they are set wrong? Here is it without comments: FAIL_DELAY 3 FAILLOG_ENAByes LOG_UNKFAIL_ENABno LASTLOG_ENAByes MOTD_FILE /etc/motd TTYTYPE_FILE/etc/ttytype FTMP_FILE /var/log/btmp HUSHLOGIN_FILE .hushlogin ENV_PATH/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin ENV_ROOTPATH/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin ENV_SUPATH /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin TTYGROUPtty TTYPERM 0600 PASS_MAX_DAYS 9 PASS_MIN_DAYS 0 PASS_MIN_LEN5 PASS_WARN_AGE 7 UID_MIN 1000 UID_MAX 6 GID_MIN 100 GID_MAX 6 LOGIN_RETRIES3 LOGIN_TIMEOUT 60 CHFN_AUTH yes CHFN_RESTRICT rwh .. Mark On 10/03/06, nick thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I logged into my box just now I received the following error messages: [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) jaguar npt # Can someone tell me what I messed up, and possibly how to fix it? I have been emerging a lot of stuff and doing all sorts of stuff to my box for the last few days and I really don't know what this relates to. Thanks for any help. Nick ***nick thompson. all unix all the time. * gentoo will show you the way. * -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
Gentoo is pretty stable.. the installer isn't try the old way it's way better and makes you more familiar with your system I just finished (about a week ago) my first non-binary install of a linux distribution, compiling from a stage3, starting with the 2006.0 Gentoo Minimal Install CD. As someone who is still relatively new to Linux, I can attest that this was not very difficult, it simply requires patience and a lot of looking things up. Now that I've got my system up and running, I couldn't be happier I'd recommend trying this route, I'm glad I did. If I had gone with a graphical installer, I wouldn't know half of what I know now about Gentoo.. it was a great learning process. Dave -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(+) s+: a24 C++ UBL++ P L++ E--- W+++$ N+ o? K? w O? M-- V? !PS !PE Y PGP- t++ 5++ X+ R+++ tv+ b++ DI D++ G e+ h-- r++ y+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr
Mark Knecht: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=121164 I'll proceed in this manner unless I hear back that there is some problem with doing it this way. There are several hints in that topic. I did move my /usr to a new partition, so I'ld say: 1. create and format your new partition; 2. mount your new partition in /mnt/whatever; 3. copy the content of your /usr into this partition by: cp -a /usr/* /mnt/whatever (the -a option is important; look at man cp); 4. reboot frome a livecd; 5. mount your root filesystem and edit /etc/fstab: /dev/hdXY /usr etc. 6. reboot from the hard disk to be sure that your new partition is well mounted and works; run mount to check that /usr is on your new partition; test this in other ways to be really sure ;-) 7. reboot again from a live cd; 8. mount your root filesystem in /mnt/something; 9. delete the old /usr directory to free the unused space: cd /mnt/something/usr rm -rf * NB: do not delete /usr itself, just its contents, as /usr is the mount point for the new partition; 10. cross your fingers and reboot from the hard disk ;-) HTH Sergio ___ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
-Original Message- From: Dave Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 10:35 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now Gentoo is pretty stable.. the installer isn't try the old way it's way better and makes you more familiar with your system I just finished (about a week ago) my first non-binary install of a linux distribution, compiling from a stage3, starting with the 2006.0 Gentoo Minimal Install CD. As someone who is still relatively new to Linux, I can attest that this was not very difficult, it simply requires patience and a lot of looking things up. Now that I've got my system up and running, I couldn't be happier I'd recommend trying this route, I'm glad I did. If I had gone with a graphical installer, I wouldn't know half of what I know now about Gentoo.. it was a great learning process. Dave I second Dave's opinion. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] weird error messages
It sounds like either bash or baselayout was upgraded recently. Login as root and run etc-update, merge your configuraation changes appropriately, and you should be good to go. HTH- James On 3/9/06, nick thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I logged into my box just now I received the following error messages: [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) jaguar npt # Can someone tell me what I messed up, and possibly how to fix it? I have been emerging a lot of stuff and doing all sorts of stuff to my box for the last few days and I really don't know what this relates to. Thanks for any help. Nick ***nick thompson. all unix all the time. * gentoo will show you the way. * -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [FIXED] Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems
I am a jfs user as well and would recommend (especially on a laptop) to add the line that was recommended above: root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda2 to the bottom of your /boot/grub/grub.conf. Often when I hard reboot (power failures, etc), reading the bootsplash stuff seems to take priority over checking the fs. The simple solution for me is to leave a non-nonsense 'failsafe' line in grub and boot into it so that my fs gets repaired and then reboot normally. You could achieve the same thing by editting the grub command at boot, but this seems like a simple alternative. HTH. -- Travis -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr
On Friday 10 March 2006 15:53, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I have an out of disk space problem machine. It looks like moving /usr to a new partition would be the best thing to do. How can I do this safely? go to the suse support database. Look up your question. They recommend tar (I did it once with their instructions and it worked perfectly). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: moving /usr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Very sorry to answer my own post. I found this link in the forums: Funny enough, you asked almost the exact same question on 04 June 2004! http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/83253 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEEanXCt0ZF9kLPvYRAjUAAJ9Nplt3NIX97AFMw1qbysOzoDvBTgCfWZVQ jLXqFta8DczAmD+dTw08fQM= =A2nR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: moving /usr
On 3/10/06, Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Very sorry to answer my own post. I found this link in the forums: Funny enough, you asked almost the exact same question on 04 June 2004! http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/83253 That's hilarious! Actually, this is the same machine I was speakign about then. However at that time I actually ended up just moving /usr/portage and never had to follow through on that thread. Very funny! Thanks for finding it! Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: how to track this down (emerge of amaya)
Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The ebuild needs a fix, or even better: upstream needs to be fixed. It's mentioned in bugzilla already (gentoo bugzilla, that is). I helped myself by compiling manually. The same problem occurs, but you can simply change the directory to Amaya/WX/redland/raptor, type make, return to Amaya/WX/amaya and continue building with another make. This would also give you a more current version of amaya, the one in portage is a little bit older. Thanks... I noticed the portage version was bit aged. And in fact I downloaded the current version and was going to try to build it but thought by installing the portage version first I'd sort of gaurantee the libs needed would be on board. Thanks for the tip about chdir and make... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like I said some day Gentoo will get there, but right now it's not stable. You're right, Gentoo is not 'stable' [1], and it never will be stable. It is functional and reliable however. But you need to know linux, your hardware, and unix system administration. And a bit of programming knowledge doesn't hurt either. If you can't do something with Gentoo, it is more than likely because you have not learned enough about one of the aforementioned topics, and don't have the patience/desire to learn. [1] Stable implies that the system doesn't change frequently. That definition certainly doesn't apply to gentoo. Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home page http://ka9qlq.tripod.com This PC is windows free with Mepis Linux 3.4-3 http://www.mepis.org/ 1(747)632-4973 SIP Get Gizmo 1 cent per minuet calling http://www.gizmoproject.com/ Could you please stop spamming us with your .sig? I never bothered to respond to your original postings because of this. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr
On 3/10/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=121164 I'll proceed in this manner unless I hear back that there is some problem with doing it this way. There are several hints in that topic. I did move my /usr to a new partition, so I'ld say: 1. create and format your new partition; 2. mount your new partition in /mnt/whatever; 3. copy the content of your /usr into this partition by: cp -a /usr/* /mnt/whatever (the -a option is important; look at man cp); 4. reboot frome a livecd; 5. mount your root filesystem and edit /etc/fstab: /dev/hdXY /usr etc. 6. reboot from the hard disk to be sure that your new partition is well mounted and works; run mount to check that /usr is on your new partition; test this in other ways to be really sure ;-) 7. reboot again from a live cd; 8. mount your root filesystem in /mnt/something; 9. delete the old /usr directory to free the unused space: cd /mnt/something/usr rm -rf * NB: do not delete /usr itself, just its contents, as /usr is the mount point for the new partition; 10. cross your fingers and reboot from the hard disk ;-) HTH Sergio Well...I did my best, but it wasn't good enough. The machine no longer boots to any level that a user could use. I'm told there are lots of messages on the screen about being unable to find files. (/usr/bin, /usr/sbin sort of things...) To bad for me...I guess I know what I'll be doing this weekend. I'm hoping they can find their Gentoo install disk, boot the machine and get it on the network with sshd running. That will give me a fighting chance of getting the darn thing fixed. Thanks to all for the help. I'm sure it was something stupid on my part and not anyone's instructions. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr
Mark Knecht wrote: Well...I did my best, but it wasn't good enough. The machine no longer boots to any level that a user could use. Now that you've broke it, I'd like to suggest to learn and refrain from using old fashioned partitioning. Instead, I'd strongly suggest to use LVM instead. With LVM, it's no problem at all to increase the size of filesystems. Actually, the proper use of LVM includes that the filesystems will be increased when there's need; with LVM, it's normally suggested to make the filesystems as small as needed and then add space on them, when required. I'd suggest to read the LVM howto at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ Alexander Skwar -- /* This bit of chicanery makes a unary function followed by a parenthesis into a function with one argument, highest precedence. */ -- Larry Wall in toke.c from the perl source code -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] DFE-580TX
Hi folks, did anyone here get the D-Link multiport ethernet card DFE-580TX to work on gentoo with kernel 2.6.15 or, preferably, 2.6.14? Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: how to track this down (emerge of amaya)
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I helped myself by compiling manually. The same problem occurs, but you can simply change the directory to Amaya/WX/redland/raptor, type make, return to Amaya/WX/amaya and continue building with another make. This would also give you a more current version of amaya, the one in portage is a little bit older. Thanks... I noticed the portage version was bit aged. And in fact I downloaded the current version and was going to try to build it but thought by installing the portage version first I'd sort of gaurantee the libs needed would be on board. Thanks for the tip about chdir and make... What did you do about Mesa? Just leave it out. I see the Mesa libs are masked even though I'm running ~x86 enabled in /etc/make.conf -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr
On Friday 10 March 2006 09:43, Mark Knecht wrote: Well...I did my best, but it wasn't good enough. The machine no longer boots to any level that a user could use. I'm told there are lots of messages on the screen about being unable to find files. (/usr/bin, /usr/sbin sort of things...) To bad for me...I guess I know what I'll be doing this weekend. I'm hoping they can find their Gentoo install disk, boot the machine and get it on the network with sshd running. That will give me a fighting chance of getting the darn thing fixed. Thanks to all for the help. I'm sure it was something stupid on my part and not anyone's instructions. Cheers, Mark Before you do that... did you also edit /etc/mtab in addition to /etc/fstab? Just a thought, since we are talking about separate partitions to mount. -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Back in the soup [circular mask problem]
I've hit this problem before but never did have to get it sorted because the package I was after was actually installed already. I'm installing amaya by hand since the ebuild fails and its pretty old anyway. I need Mesa libs onboard (its not mandatory ) so looking at partage for mesa libs I find: media-libs/mesa [ Masked ] Latest version available: 6.4.2-r1 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 8,534 kB Homepage:http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/ Description: OpenGL-like graphic library for Linux License: LGPL-2 Ok, so far so good. I'm running iwth ~x86 enabled in /etc/make.conf so this should work.. I'm thinking but it doesn't root # emerge -vp media-libs/mesa These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy media-libs/mesa have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - media-libs/mesa-6.4.2-r1 (masked by: package.mask) # Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] (07 Aug 2005) # Modularized X, upstream release candidates And the advice: For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. Ok, Its the only ebuild available and following that advice for ever will not explain how to get aroud this circular masking problem. Its probably simple enough but not apparent to me. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus
-Original Message- From: Michael Kintzios [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 9:12 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus -Original Message- From: Bob Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 March 2006 21:05 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus [snip] As to insert App Name here not running without Admin rights, most of those cases can be taken care of with RunAs. It's better to run a single App with Admin privledges rather than have all apps including email and browsers running with Admin rights. Actually, it would be better to troubleshoot the particular application and allow it write/execute or modify rights *only* to the files it needs to access for the particular plain user (typically some files or a folder under C:\Program Files). In most cases it's not blocked file writes that cause these apps to fail, it's blocked access to registry keys. In many cases, I'm convinced it's simply a matter of the app incorrectly specifying read/write access to a value or key that it really only needs read access to. It would be inappropiate and dangerous to grant registry write permissions to regular users, even just for certain keys or subsections, just to fix one or two badly designed apps. If it were just a matter of writing to files under the Program Files directory, then the apps would work under a PowerUser account, and yet there are indeed badly designed apps that fail to run as a PowerUser, but work fine when executed with Admin rights. It may take some time to set up access rights for all such badly written apps, but it'll keep your M$Windoze box as safe as it will ever be. If in addition you shut down all the open by default Windoze ports (135-139, 445, 500, 1900, 4000 + remote admin) and disable I agree that a properly configured firewall is important to system security on any machine with a public IP address, that's true regardless of what operating system is running on it. unnecessary/dangerous services and also stop using OE and IE (or at least stop using them with their default settings) you should be safe enough going about your normal business. I've never used OE under Windows, I consider it a throw away app, I find the full version of Outlook much more capable. As to the defaults for it and IE, I'd agree that it's possible to choose more lockedown settings. I'm less concerned about this if they are running under a non Admin account and are behind a decently configured firewall. Personally I find html email much more readable and expressive than bland ASCII text, that being said, neither I nor my wife open unknown/untrusted attachments. WRT IE, I enable/disable scripting/ActiveX depending on what I'm doing and what I know about my destination(s). Regards, Bob Young -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr
On Friday 10 March 2006 18:05, Eric Bliss wrote: Before you do that... did you also edit /etc/mtab in addition to /etc/fstab? Just a thought, since we are talking about separate partitions to mount. Don't touch mtab. mtab is auto-magically generated by mount. Josh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Back in the soup [circular mask problem]
On Friday 10 March 2006 18:10, Harry Putnam wrote: Ok, Its the only ebuild available and following that advice for ever will not explain how to get aroud this circular masking problem. It's not a circular masking problem, mesa is package.mask'd, as in proper-unstable-breaks-the-tree-broken masked. Its probably simple enough but not apparent to me. You could add media-libs/mesa to /etc/portage/package.unmask, but that will lead you into the (also package.mask'd) modularized X. Modularized X is obviously not ready for unstable, and the version of mesa in the tree depends on that modularized version to work. I don't think you are going to get mesa installed without a fair bit of trouble. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr
On Friday 10 March 2006 03:17, Josh Helmer wrote: On Friday 10 March 2006 18:05, Eric Bliss wrote: Before you do that... did you also edit /etc/mtab in addition to /etc/fstab? Just a thought, since we are talking about separate partitions to mount. Don't touch mtab. mtab is auto-magically generated by mount. Josh Ah, okay. Learn something every day. I just remembered seeing mount information in that file when I was reading it (although why I was doing that, I now have no idea). Guess this would explain why. Now if only I could remember why I had even read the file in the past. You don't edit it during the original install process do you? -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DFE-580TX
On Friday 10 March 2006 17:58, Uwe Thiem wrote: did anyone here get the D-Link multiport ethernet card DFE-580TX to work on gentoo with kernel 2.6.15 or, preferably, 2.6.14? Well, strangely enough, I have a machine on the other desk not doing anything which is running 2.6.14, and 3 DFE-580TX also doing nothing (that I've also never used)! Having just plugged one in and booted it up, ifconfig lists all 4 interfaces with the sundance module loaded. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr
On Mar 10, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Eric Bliss wrote: On Friday 10 March 2006 03:17, Josh Helmer wrote: On Friday 10 March 2006 18:05, Eric Bliss wrote: Before you do that... did you also edit /etc/mtab in addition to /etc/fstab? Just a thought, since we are talking about separate partitions to mount. Don't touch mtab. mtab is auto-magically generated by mount. Josh Ah, okay. Learn something every day. I just remembered seeing mount information in that file when I was reading it (although why I was doing that, I now have no idea). Guess this would explain why. Now if only I could remember why I had even read the file in the past. You don't edit it during the original install process do you? before you chroot, you copy /proc/mounts to it so your chrooted environment matches.maybe that's where you saw it. -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
--- Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: flame In all seriousness, if your too lazy to sit down with the minimal CD and a pile of docs for your first install then Gentoo is probably NOT for you. Also, there is no reason to go about insulting the developers by making blind statements about the stability of their software. Sheesh. /flame -Mike Wow! Thank You, and here all this time I though the reason I have 20% use of one hand and can only handle a mouse was because of muscular dystrophy. Of corse I'm sure you can install Gentoo without the need of your hands I'm just to lasy to figure out how. As for insulting the developers I said I looked forward to when they had something I [a normal person] could use and would check back in a year to see what happens, but you were to busy playing with your chip on your shoulder to notice that. Sense we're on it though, why would they put out a broken product? If you have to install gentoo from a stage tarball why devlope a live cd that can't even boot right? Maybe because the devlopers understand that if gentoo is to become populare beyond the geek squad they'll have to have something non-programmers can use. That meens taking risks and working out bugs instead of going whaa he said my product din't work mommy. Bill Gates can sleep good...they even have voice software [8=) Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home page http://ka9qlq.tripod.com This PC is windows free with Mepis Linux 3.4-3 http://www.mepis.org/ 1(747)632-4973 SIP Get Gizmo 1 cent per minuet calling http://www.gizmoproject.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] problems emerge'ing amavis-new
i get this when i try to emerge amavis-new: Unpacking amavisd-new-2.3.3.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/amavisd-new-2.3.3-r2/work * Patching with qmail qmqp support. * Applying amavisd-new-qmqpqq.patch ... [ ok ] * Patching with qmail lf bug workaround. * Applying amavisd-new-2.2.1-qmail-lf-workaround.patch ... * Failed Patch: amavisd-new-2.2.1-qmail-lf-workaround.patch ! * ( /usr/portage/mail-filter/amavisd-new/files/amavisd-new-2.2.1-qmail-lf-workaround.patch ) * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/amavisd-new-2.3.3-r2/temp/amavisd-new-2.2.1-qmail-lf-workaround.patch-28558.out !!! ERROR: mail-filter/amavisd-new-2.3.3-r2 failed. !!! Function epatch, Line 350, Exitcode 0 !!! Failed Patch: amavisd-new-2.2.1-qmail-lf-workaround.patch! !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. here is the contents of the .out file: [14:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[/home/nick]# cat /var/tmp/portage/amavisd-new-2.3.3-r2/temp/amavisd-new-2.2.1-qmail-lf-workaround.patch-29392.out * amavisd-new-2.2.1-qmail-lf-workaround.patch * === PATCH COMMAND: patch -p0 -g0 --no-backup-if-mismatch /usr/portage/mail-filter/amavisd-new/files/amavisd-new-2.2.1-qmail-lf-workaround.patch === can't find file to patch at input line 3 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -- |--- amavisd-new-2.2.1/amavisd.chris2005-01-09 18:05:09.0 +0100 |+++ amavisd-new-2.2.1/amavisd 2005-01-09 18:05:47.360864816 +0100 -- No file to patch. Skipping patch. 1 out of 1 hunk ignored === PATCH COMMAND: patch -p1 -g0 --no-backup-if-mismatch /usr/portage/mail-filter/amavisd-new/files/amavisd-new-2.2.1-qmail-lf-workaround.patch === patching file amavisd Hunk #1 FAILED at 3948. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file amavisd.rej === PATCH COMMAND: patch -p2 -g0 --no-backup-if-mismatch /usr/portage/mail-filter/amavisd-new/files/amavisd-new-2.2.1-qmail-lf-workaround.patch === missing header for unified diff at line 3 of patch can't find file to patch at input line 3 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -- |--- amavisd-new-2.2.1/amavisd.chris2005-01-09 18:05:09.0 +0100 |+++ amavisd-new-2.2.1/amavisd 2005-01-09 18:05:47.360864816 +0100 -- No file to patch. Skipping patch. 1 out of 1 hunk ignored === PATCH COMMAND: patch -p3 -g0 --no-backup-if-mismatch /usr/portage/mail-filter/amavisd-new/files/amavisd-new-2.2.1-qmail-lf-workaround.patch === missing header for unified diff at line 3 of patch can't find file to patch at input line 3 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -- |--- amavisd-new-2.2.1/amavisd.chris2005-01-09 18:05:09.0 +0100 |+++ amavisd-new-2.2.1/amavisd 2005-01-09 18:05:47.360864816 +0100 -- No file to patch. Skipping patch. 1 out of 1 hunk ignored === PATCH COMMAND: patch -p4 -g0 --no-backup-if-mismatch /usr/portage/mail-filter/amavisd-new/files/amavisd-new-2.2.1-qmail-lf-workaround.patch === missing header for unified diff at line 3 of patch can't find file to patch at input line 3 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -- |--- amavisd-new-2.2.1/amavisd.chris2005-01-09 18:05:09.0 +0100 |+++ amavisd-new-2.2.1/amavisd 2005-01-09 18:05:47.360864816 +0100 -- No file to patch. Skipping patch. 1 out of 1 hunk ignored what do i need to do to correct this? TIA Nick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr
Mark Knecht: Well...I did my best, but it wasn't good enough. The machine no longer boots to any level that a user could use. I'm told there are lots of messages on the screen about being unable to find files. (/usr/bin, /usr/sbin sort of things...) That happened to me too ;-) But the reason was quickly clear: I had deleted /usr instead of /usr/*! Remember: 9. delete the old /usr directory to free the unused space: cd /mnt/something/usr rm -rf * NB: do not delete /usr itself, just its contents, as /usr is the mount point for the new partition; Let us suppose that your /etc/fstab looks like: /dev/hda1 /boot type opts dump/pass /dev/hda2 / type opts dump/pass /dev/hda3 /usr type opts dump/pass The first and simplest try: reboot from a livecd, then: mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/something ls /mnt/something/usr If /mnt/something/usr doesn't exist, then: mkdir /mnt/something/usr reboot You could check that the new /usr partition is there, before rebooting: mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/something_else ls /mnt/something_else The old /usr contents should be there. Why not? So, if your reboot doesn't work, reboot again from a livecd and check /etc/fstab. Let me/us know! Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: moving /usr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Very funny! Thanks for finding it! LOL, well it's not really like I was trying to find it. Truth be told it was my software that found it. I wrote a few scripts to archive all my gentoo-user mailing to a MySQL database (88,132 emails and counting). It got stuck on the reply from Sergio Polini, whose email doesn't comply with the standards (doesn't contain a In-Reply-To header). The software then checks the database for message-subjects matching the email's, in this case finding 2 (your old one and this one), and didn't know which to add it to, skipping it ~ that's how I spotted it ;-) Greetings Ralph -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEEc2xCt0ZF9kLPvYRAifEAKCQM0AVecVSz0F7gCdVAz7fZoBaawCeO8Au l6FSrQi84h7hgZ2r8Fdbm0U= =LdI0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
Sense we're on it though, why would they put out a broken product? If you have to install gentoo from a stage tarball why devlope a live cd that can't even boot right? Maybe because the devlopers understand that if gentoo is to become populare beyond the geek squad they'll have to have something non-programmers can use. I think you will find that is a minority of gentoo programmers - the majority are just fine in geek mode - haven't you heard? the Geek will inherit the earth. 8=} Cheers Antoine -- This is where I should put some witty comment. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DFE-580TX
On 10 March 2006 20:19, Mike Williams wrote: On Friday 10 March 2006 17:58, Uwe Thiem wrote: did anyone here get the D-Link multiport ethernet card DFE-580TX to work on gentoo with kernel 2.6.15 or, preferably, 2.6.14? Well, strangely enough, I have a machine on the other desk not doing anything which is running 2.6.14, and 3 DFE-580TX also doing nothing (that I've also never used)! Having just plugged one in and booted it up, ifconfig lists all 4 interfaces with the sundance module loaded. How did you do that? Here is my experience with 2.6.14-gentoo-r6. Hardware detection works because the sundance driver gets loaded. dmesg: tg3.c:v3.42 (Oct 3, 2005) ACPI: PCI Interrupt :04:04.0[A] - GSI 17 (level, low) - IRQ 20 eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95705A50) rev 3003 PHY(5705)] (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:0b:cd:e7:12:bd eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] Split[0] WireSpeed[0] TSOcap[1] eth0: dma_rwctrl[763f] Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.13-NAPI (May 11, 2002) ACPI: PCI Interrupt :04:05.0[A] - GSI 18 (level, low) - IRQ 16 tulip0: MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7849 advertising 05e1. eth1: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at e14a4000, 00:50:BF:A9:AE:02, IRQ 16. sundance.c:v1.01+LK1.09a 10-Jul-2003 Written by Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/sundance.html ACPI: PCI Interrupt :05:04.0[A] - GSI 21 (level, low) - IRQ 21 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :05:05.0[A] - GSI 18 (level, low) - IRQ 16 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :05:06.0[A] - GSI 19 (level, low) - IRQ 19 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :05:07.0[A] - GSI 20 (level, low) - IRQ 22 lspci: 04:04.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705_2 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) 04:05.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11) 04:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 21152 PCI-to-PCI Bridge 05:04.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DL10050 Sundance Ethernet (rev 15) 05:05.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DL10050 Sundance Ethernet (rev 15) 05:06.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DL10050 Sundance Ethernet (rev 15) 05:07.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DL10050 Sundance Ethernet (rev 15) So it's there. ifconfig shows only the other two interfaces eth0 and eth1 which isn't surprising because the ones DFE-680TX is supposed to provide aren't configured yet. ls /sys/class/net only shows eth0, eth1 and lo. And there it ends. You are saying ifconfig showed all four interfaces of that card. That means you actually got them configured. How? Would you please shed some more light on this? I am under a deadline here and need it to work by Monday. ;-) Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
Am Freitag, 10. März 2006 19:44 schrieb A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman: Bill Gates can sleep good...they even have voice software [8=) Stop trolling and grow up. -- --- Heiko. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DFE-580TX
On Friday 10 March 2006 19:00, Uwe Thiem wrote: Would you please shed some more light on this? I am under a deadline here and need it to work by Monday. ;-) Sure. I booted the machine, ran genkernel to find and compile the driver, then restart coldplug. ifconfig -a then listed all 5 real interfaces, only eth0 has an IP address, but they are there. dmesg: sis900.c: v1.08.08 Jan. 22 2005 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:04.0[A] - GSI 19 (level, low) - IRQ 17 :00:04.0: ICS LAN PHY transceiver found at address 1. :00:04.0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xb400, IRQ 17, 00:0f:ea:ca:0c:eb. eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex sundance.c:v1.01+LK1.09a 10-Jul-2003 Written by Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/sundance.html ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:04.0[A] - GSI 17 (level, low) - IRQ 22 eth1: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port Server Adapter at 0001a000, 00:0d:88:c6:0b:90, IRQ 22. eth1: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7809 advertising 01e1. ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:05.0[A] - GSI 18 (level, low) - IRQ 23 eth2: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port Server Adapter at 0001a400, 00:0d:88:c6:0b:91, IRQ 23. eth2: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7809 advertising 01e1. ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:06.0[A] - GSI 19 (level, low) - IRQ 17 eth3: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port Server Adapter at 0001a800, 00:0d:88:c6:0b:92, IRQ 17. eth3: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7809 advertising 01e1. ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:07.0[A] - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 16 eth4: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port Server Adapter at 0001ac00, 00:0d:88:c6:0b:93, IRQ 16. eth4: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7809 advertising 01e1. lspci: 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 90) 02:04.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DL10050 Sundance Ethernet (rev 14) 02:05.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DL10050 Sundance Ethernet (rev 14) 02:06.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DL10050 Sundance Ethernet (rev 14) 02:07.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DL10050 Sundance Ethernet (rev 14) -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman schreef: As for insulting the developers I said I looked forward to when they had something I [a normal person] could use You know, it just occurs to me to question this often-heard assumption that non-geek=normal -- with geek being defined by these so-called normal people. Is it not normal to want to understand what you're doing when installing an OS? Is it normal to object (vociferously, usually) to having to read the instructions before attempting to perform a complex technical procedure? Is it normal to think that click a fancy button and everything just works is the way things are *supposed* to be, when dealing with a complex technical operation? I personally don't think so, but then again I'm a geek, apparently, and I don't know what normal is, anyway, since I'm apparently not. Not to be rude, but if I was normal, I suppose I would understand how one can be a normal person and severely disabled in the same paragraph, since these conditions either have no relationship to each other (in which case there was no need for the I'm disabled trump card), or contradict each other (in which case the speaker looks like a. person who smells of elderberries). But of course, I'm out of here; pointless flame-fests are not my idea of a fun Friday night. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr
On 3/10/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht: Well...I did my best, but it wasn't good enough. The machine no longer boots to any level that a user could use. I'm told there are lots of messages on the screen about being unable to find files. (/usr/bin, /usr/sbin sort of things...) That happened to me too ;-) But the reason was quickly clear: I had deleted /usr instead of /usr/*! Remember: OK, so far I cannot get into the machine so I don't know how to double check that but I'm pretty sure I didn't do this. The issue in and around these instructions, for me was that: 1) I'm in a completely out of disk space situation 2) I'm trying to move /usr 3) /usr includes /usr/bin and /usr/sbin which is where all commands are to basically use the machine and make the changes. (mv, cp, ls and all the normal stuff.) so I 1) Copied everything to the new partition 2) Removed everything from the original /usr except /usr/bin and /usr/lib. The only copy of /usr/sbin is on the new partition. /usr/lib had to remain for me to use vim to edit fstab. 3) The new partition was labeled using e2label 4) fstab was edited to mount the new partition at the existing /usr direcotry which still contained /usr/bin and /usr/lib 5) As a backup, since I had removed most of /usr to create space I now made a new directory /usrBACKUP and placed a copy of what was left in /usr there so I could get to it if I needed to. 6) Unmounted /mnt/usr_temp and rebooted. The messages (I'm told over the phone by a 78 year old man who is hard of hearing) are in and around not being able to find /usr/sbin. I don't know what they really say as we didn't try to get that detailed. He has decided to ship the machine to me via FedEx and I'll have to fix it here when it arrives. He didn't want to mess with Knoppix or the Gentoo install disk as he felt it was way beyond what he could do. Again, thanks for the ideas below, but since the machine is 350 miles away it's hard to do the experiements below. I'll do them when it arrives next week. Cheers, Mark 9. delete the old /usr directory to free the unused space: cd /mnt/something/usr rm -rf * NB: do not delete /usr itself, just its contents, as /usr is the mount point for the new partition; Let us suppose that your /etc/fstab looks like: /dev/hda1 /boot type opts dump/pass /dev/hda2 / type opts dump/pass /dev/hda3 /usr type opts dump/pass The first and simplest try: reboot from a livecd, then: mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/something ls /mnt/something/usr If /mnt/something/usr doesn't exist, then: mkdir /mnt/something/usr reboot You could check that the new /usr partition is there, before rebooting: mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/something_else ls /mnt/something_else The old /usr contents should be there. Why not? So, if your reboot doesn't work, reboot again from a livecd and check /etc/fstab. Let me/us know! Sergio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
-Original Message- From: Moser, Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 10:44 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now -Original Message- From: Dave Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 10:35 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now Gentoo is pretty stable.. the installer isn't try the old way it's way better and makes you more familiar with your system I just finished (about a week ago) my first non-binary install of a linux distribution, compiling from a stage3, starting with the 2006.0 Gentoo Minimal Install CD. As someone who is still relatively new to Linux, I can attest that this was not very difficult, it simply requires patience and a lot of looking things up. Now that I've got my system up and running, I couldn't be happier I'd recommend trying this route, I'm glad I did. If I had gone with a graphical installer, I wouldn't know half of what I know now about Gentoo.. it was a great learning process. Dave I second Dave's opinion. [Timothy A. Holmes] At the risk of piling on opinions, I agree as well, after doing 15 or so compiled installs, I have moved to the installer for the simple fact of needing to speed up my deployment. My only complaint with the compiled installation is that it takes a lot of time, I cannot just sit down get it going and move on to other tasks. It is faster for me to do the graphical install (all the effort is at the front end) and then just turn it loose, if I need to later, I can rework the kernel and install that. It may not be the ideal deployment strategy, but it appears to be working reasonably well. TIM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
But of course, I'm out of here; pointless flame-fests are not my idea of a fun Friday night. Well said. -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(+) s+: a24 C++ UBL++ P L++ E--- W+++$ N+ o? K? w O? M-- V? !PS !PE Y PGP- t++ 5++ X+ R+++ tv+ b++ DI D++ G e+ h-- r++ y+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
-- Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the risk of piling on opinions, I agree as well, after doing 15 or so compiled installs, I have moved to the installer for the simple fact of needing to speed up my deployment. My only complaint with the compiled installation is that it takes a lot of time, I cannot just sit down get it going and move on to other tasks. It is faster for me to do the graphical install (all the effort is at the front end) and then just turn it loose, if I need to later, I can rework the kernel and install that. It may not be the ideal deployment strategy, but it appears to be working reasonably well. TIM Thank you Tim, I like to tinker and learn too, but sometime it's nice to just start the car with out having to rebuild it. Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home page http://ka9qlq.tripod.com This PC is windows free with Mepis Linux 3.4-3 http://www.mepis.org/ 1(747)632-4973 SIP Get Gizmo 1 cent per minuet calling http://www.gizmoproject.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 20:32 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman schreef: As for insulting the developers I said I looked forward to when they had something I [a normal person] could use You know, it just occurs to me to question this often-heard assumption that non-geek=normal -- with geek being defined by these so-called normal people. Is it not normal to want to understand what you're doing when installing an OS? Is it normal to object (vociferously, usually) to having to read the instructions before attempting to perform a complex technical procedure? Is it normal to think that click a fancy button and everything just works is the way things are *supposed* to be, when dealing with a complex technical operation? I personally don't think so, but then again I'm a geek, apparently, and I don't know what normal is, anyway, since I'm apparently not. Not to be rude, but if I was normal, I suppose I would understand how one can be a normal person and severely disabled in the same paragraph, since these conditions either have no relationship to each other (in which case there was no need for the I'm disabled trump card), or contradict each other (in which case the speaker looks like a. person who smells of elderberries). But of course, I'm out of here; pointless flame-fests are not my idea of a fun Friday night. Holly Amen to that. The US government has labelled me mentally disabled, and I still managed to successfully install Gentoo on three different PCs... If someone like me can do it, anyone can. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Drive Failing?
Hi.
I get the following error in my logs.. Should I be looking at replacing this drive.. This is on a machine that has been up for well in excess of 2 years at this stage..
Thanks
WARNING: Kernel Errors Present
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:05 (hda)...: 1 Time(s)
hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { Uncorrect...: 1 Time(s)
hda: dma_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }...: 1 Time(s)
Mar 10 23:50:11 hda: dma_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Mar 10 23:50:11 hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=6579533, high=0, low=6579533, sector=1952744
Mar 10 23:50:11 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:05 (hda), sector 1952744
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Re: [gentoo-user] Drive Failing?
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 15:44 -0500, Michael Crute wrote: It may not be the drive. I would start by checking the ribbon cable and replacing that before you go out and buy a new drive. OK Thanks.. Will do..
Re: [gentoo-user] Back in the soup [circular mask problem]
Harry Putnam wrote: I need Mesa libs onboard (its not mandatory ) so looking at partage for mesa libs I find: media-libs/mesa [ Masked ] Latest version available: 6.4.2-r1 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] If you have xorg-6.8.2 installed, then you already have Mesa on board: equery files xorg-x11 | grep -i mesa Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
Michael Sullivan wrote: Amen to that. The US government has labelled me mentally disabled, and I still managed to successfully install Gentoo on three different PCs... If someone like me can do it, anyone can. Well, maybe you've *GOT* to be mentally disabled to be able to install and appreciate Gentoo? :) SCNR, Alexander Skwar -- Antonym, n.: The opposite of the word you're trying to think of. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Back in the soup [circular mask problem]
Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: equery files xorg-x11 | grep -i mesa Yes of course, what I need is I guess the developer set with include files. I've downloaded and installed most of it not they look like: ls -F /usr/local/include/ GL/ GLES/ /usr/local/include/GL: GLwDrawA.hfxmesa.h glu_mangle.h mglmesa.hxmesa.h GLwDrawAP.h ggimesa.hglut.hosmesa.h xmesa_x.h GLwMDrawA.h gl.h glutf90.h svgamesa.h xmesa_xf86.h GLwMDrawAP.h gl_mangle.h glx.h uglglutshapes.h amesa.h glext.h glx_mangle.h uglmesa.h directfbgl.h glfbdev.hglxext.h vms_x_fix.h dmesa.h glu.hmesa_wgl.hwmesa.h This stuff is what Amaya wants to compile... but I still haven't got it all pieced together... Thats why I wanted to emerge it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2
2. How do other gentoo'ers achieve backup onto a windows machine? In my case, with dd and gzip. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Apache security tips
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey group, I was wondering if anyone has some easy to do tips for checking the security of Apache. I am running Apache/2.0.55. Is apache good with handling bad URL's? I remember with an IIS server I use to have I needed to install a url filter to help it out. I noticed that I get requests like the following in my apache log: 70.121.133.60 - - [07/Mar/2006:21:31:05 -0500] SEARCH /\x90\xc9\xc9\xc9\xc9\xc9\ The above is one line and it is 30,000 characters long in the log file. Thanks for any tips, Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEEi7teqJ5Vbm4CxYRAjt0AJ9tVjVWHQ2H9OzBVhxGkqbhL5vizQCfSVPo B/IHirSOHB3Xr4izkO48Rug= =ubVq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to enable glx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I enabled the glx, but it seems the speed is still slow. $ glxinfo | grep rendering direct rendering: Yes The output of glxgears is about 130 FPS. I use intel_agp. Yes, it's not a particularly powerful card. Since direct rendering is now enabled, that's about as good as it'll get until such time as the drivers improve significantly. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] eth1:1 alais help
On Friday 10 March 2006 04:54, Mattias Merilai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] eth1:1 alais help': Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I have a wireless card in my laptop, setup on all my ap's it is assigned 192.168.14.102. My vm-ware is setup to use samba to share the drives on teh laptop. Now I have the necessity to use ap's that are set-up to use 192.168.0.nn series ip addresses, so therefore samba does not work properly to share those disk drives. I want to use possible an alaised eth1:1? and set it at 192.168.14.102 somehow to get samba to work correctly, and I am lost.. This is a snip of /etc/conf.d/net from one of my servers. config_eth0=( 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.1.255 192.168.2.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.2.255 192.168.3.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.3.255 ) Works for me, but i'm not sure about the /24 netmasks - aliasing interfaces on my freebsd boxen i came upon the requirement to set netmasks of aliases to 255.255.255.255. Just checked out - I seem to have some trouble connecting between the machines. Maybe someone can point me to some good information about netmasks and aliases? The documentation for iproute2 (or maybe it was the kernel...) mentions that all addresses assigned to a link/interface are equal and doesn't refer to them as aliases. I don't remember anything in the document requiring /32 netmasks, so I'm fairly sure you don't need to do that. HOWEVER, you probably do want to check your routing tables and make sure they are sane. You don't want packets to have multiple outgoing routes, normally. As for references. I'd say the your best sources are the TLDP's Advanced Linux Routing and Traffic Control HOWTO, the iproute2 documentation (man pages and such), and the kernel documentation. The TLDP's ALRaTCHT is incomplete in a few areas, but easier to digest than the other two. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to enable glx
As I have stated before I get around 230 FPS when [EMAIL PROTECTED] is running and it jumps to around 1300 FPS when I stop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nothing else changed. This is an Radeon 9000 Mobility. Make sure you have nothing else running and see if that makes a difference. The Rage card he's using is far less powerful than any Radeon - not surprisingly, considering that when it was current there *were* no Radeons yet. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Back in the soup [circular mask problem]
On Friday 10 March 2006 18:22, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Back in the soup [circular mask problem]': Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: equery files xorg-x11 | grep -i mesa Yes of course, what I need is I guess the developer set with include files. Does xorg-x11 not have a SDK USE flag? -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Drive Failing?
Ash Varma wrote:
hda: dma_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error
}...: 1 Time(s)
Every time I have ever seen this error, it has been because of a drive
getting ready to die. It could be the ribbon, but have a backup ready
just in case.
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Drive Failing?
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 18:30 -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote:
Ash Varma wrote:
hda: dma_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error
}...: 1 Time(s)
Every time I have ever seen this error, it has been because of a drive
getting ready to die. It could be the ribbon, but have a backup ready
just in case.
thanks...
ordered a new drive earlier today.. will probably take the machine offline and replace the drive...
Re: [gentoo-user] Drive Failing?
On Friday 10 March 2006 8:37 pm, Ash Varma wrote: thanks... ordered a new drive earlier today.. will probably take the machine offline and replace the drive... Keep in mind that any attempt to backup or copy this drive could be what kills it completely. My advice is don't use the drive until a replacement is available, and then only use it to transfer data to the new drive. Whatever you decide, only attempt backup/transfer after the drive is over night cold. HTH-jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Drive Failing?
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 20:55 -0600, Joe Menola wrote: On Friday 10 March 2006 8:37 pm, Ash Varma wrote: thanks... ordered a new drive earlier today.. will probably take the machine offline and replace the drive... Keep in mind that any attempt to backup or copy this drive could be what kills it completely. My advice is don't use the drive until a replacement is available, and then only use it to transfer data to the new drive. Whatever you decide, only attempt backup/transfer after the drive is over night cold. HTH-jm thanks for the advise.. the drive in question just holds the /boot, one of the swap partitions and my /usr/portage.. i have already disabled the swap on the drive and have a backup of the /boot stored in the attached raid array on the machine... not too concerned about the /usr/portage but good advise anyways :) Thanks
[gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 on HP DL580
Has anyone gotten Gentoo 2006.0 installed using the x86 livecd installer on a HP DL580? On my DL580, it loads the cciss driver and the partitions show up in /proc/partitions. However both the console and gui installation don't find a hard drive to partition. The console installer crashes while the gui install doesn't find any partitions at all. If it helps I booted the cd with: gentoo doscsi Thanks in advance. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Network Speed
I noticed something today. For some reason, when I'm running a Gentoo Live-CD to rebuild this system (as I am now in the finishing stages of once again) I get really speedy data xfer rates over my cable link pulling files from portage mirrors. I noticed that 1.2MB/s was average which is correct because I think my ISP runs around 10Mbit or there abouts. However, when I rebooted the machine, pulling files from the same mirror(s) now seems to go much slower (say, 170KB/s tops). Come to think of it, I have noticed that difference before. I never get xfer rates normally like I do when running the live-cd. During the install, I run net-setup and just tell it to use dhcp (my router issues addresses which is fine when doing an install since the system isn't really set up to be interesting to anyone else yet). When I am all set for production again, I use the same settings, hardcoded, as the router receives from the modem and passes to clients, just a different address obviously. So my question seems to be: What might the live-cd be doing which I am not? Is it something in the kernel or could the xfer rate be throttled somewhere, etc? Ideas? Thanks. -Statux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache security tips
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 08:59:09PM -0500, Penguin Lover Jim squawked: I was wondering if anyone has some easy to do tips for checking the security of Apache. I am running Apache/2.0.55. Is apache good with handling bad URL's? I remember with an IIS server I use to have I needed to install a url filter to help it out. I noticed that I get requests like the following in my apache log: 70.121.133.60 - - [07/Mar/2006:21:31:05 -0500] SEARCH /\x90\xc9\xc9\xc9\xc9\xc9\ The above is one line and it is 30,000 characters long in the log file. Near the end of that line should be the HTTP return code Apache gave for that request. What is it? On my box it always returns 414 (Request-URI too long), so I doubt it would be a problem, beyond a major annoyance when going through the logs with 'less'. A URI string like that is almost certainly a client trying to exploit a buffer overflow. I've never seen it being a problem with my (limited) experience running apache. HTH, W -- You're not paranoid. The world _IS_ fucked. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 118 days, 21:18 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] weird error messages
James Ausmus wrote: It sounds like either bash or baselayout was upgraded recently. Login as root and run etc-update, merge your configuraation changes appropriately, and you should be good to go. HTH- James James, etc-update did the trick. thanks to all who replied. you guys are great! nick On 3/9/06, nick thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I logged into my box just now I received the following error messages: [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) jaguar npt # Can someone tell me what I messed up, and possibly how to fix it? I have been emerging a lot of stuff and doing all sorts of stuff to my box for the last few days and I really don't know what this relates to. Thanks for any help. Nick ***nick thompson. all unix all the time. * gentoo will show you the way. * -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
