[gentoo-user] Install fails
Hi to e-body! I want to install Gentoo linux on my laptop but boot from livecd fails because my laptop dislike apic and it does'n work even if i pass 'noapic' to the kernel parms. What do u think? Thank you, Maur8 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] APIC problem
there is no error message, boot simply hangs! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Install fails
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is APIC or ACPI it doesn't like? APIC is an interrupt controller which I've never had trouble with. ACPI is resource and power management, which I have had trouble with. I use acpi=off to disable it. On Wednesday 26 February 2003 06:36 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to e-body! I want to install Gentoo linux on my laptop but boot from livecd fails because my laptop dislike apic and it does'n work even if i pass 'noapic' to the kernel parms. What do u think? Thank you, Maur8 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list - -- Pat Double, [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+XKovdOmLNuoWoKgRAsoqAKC2dcXo7oIx+aME4eQoofWl0pz6AgCg6ojG qK56yrKMvBraxqvYJC/1zeE= =xXOS -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Install fails
I want to install Gentoo linux on my laptop but boot from livecd fails because my laptop dislike apic and it does'n work even if i pass 'noapic' to the kernel parms. Try apic=off Gwendolyn. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Install fails
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:37:54PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to e-body! I want to install Gentoo linux on my laptop but boot from livecd fails because my laptop dislike apic and it does'n work even if i pass 'noapic' to the kernel parms. What do u think? I hadb problems with acpi until I discovered that the boot disk instructions are wrong --- it should be acpi=off, not acpi-no as the boot disk suggests Mx. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] APIC problem
Wed, 26 Feb 2003: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's an APIC problem: my laptop doesn't like apic probing (i think) and kernel compiled with the 'apic on uniprocessor' option hangs booting. I try to pass 'noapic' and 'apic=off' option to the kernel parms, but it doesn't work and booting always fails. try apic=no think it's this way. Greetings / Gruss Thomas Schneider ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Systemverwaltung Lst. Broy Plead read this: http://www.notcpa.org/ Registered Linux User No. 278960 http://counter.li.org/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Accessing a Gentoo machine
Title: Message I don't if any one can help me. My late son has gentoo on both his laptop and pc. I do not know any of the passwords but I need to be able to log on to they system to access critical information relating to our business. Can anyone advise me how I may be able to get into the system? I am getting pretty desperate Malcolm GardnerMalcolm Gardner Associates LtdPO Box 152BroughHU15 1WZTelephone +44 (07005) 963690Fax +44 (07005) 963691Mobile +44 (07811) 362309www.malcolmgardner.co.uk[EMAIL PROTECTED]This email and any files transmitted with it are private and confidential. They are intended solely for the of the individual(s) or entity(ies) to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the postmaster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thank you.registered company number 4452841 registered office 1 Oak Close Thorpe-le-Soken Clacton-on-Sea Essex CO16 0HU company secretary Roy Prockter Directors Daniel Gardner Malcolm Gardner John Kirke DPR PZ6375875 2003 Malcolm Gardner Associates ltd All rights reserved except where noted
Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Gentoo machine
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:03:23PM -, Counter Fraud-Group (Malcolm Gardner) wrote: I don't if any one can help me. My late son has gentoo on both his laptop and pc. I do not know any of the passwords but I need to be able to log on to they system to access critical information relating to our business. Can anyone advise me how I may be able to get into the system? Tell him to give you the password ? :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Gentoo machine
Someone said that Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:03:23 - Counter Fraud-Group \(Malcolm Gardner\) wrote: | I don't if any one can help me. My late son has gentoo on both his | laptop and pc. I do not know any of the passwords but I need to be able | to log on to they system to access critical information relating to our | business. Can anyone advise me how I may be able to get into the system? | | I am getting pretty desperate That's quit impossible (to simplify ;) I mean, there are many ways to get in the system, but it's too long to explain here. Ask him the password, isn't better? Or even the information you need :) Tiago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Gentoo machine
Counter Fraud-Group (Malcolm Gardner) wrote: I don't if any one can help me. My late son has gentoo on both his laptop and pc. I do not know any of the passwords but I need to be able to log on to they system to access critical information relating to our business. Can anyone advise me how I may be able to get into the system? I am getting pretty desperate If the machine uses grub, try pressing 'e' when the machine gives a list of operating systems to boot, (at startup, right after the BIOS screen). This will let you edit the boot command. select the line that reads: kernel blah blah and press 'e' again - this should let you edit this line. Add a space and 'single' to the end of the line, then press enter and then 'b'. This /should/ boot the machine into single user mode, bypassing any passwords. Of course his machine could be using lilo as the bootloader, (unlikely), or grub could be passworded, or indeed there could be additional security measures on the boot procedure, but the above should work for a generic gentoo install. Regards, MAL -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
AW: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Gentoo machine
If the mentioned method does not work you can always try to start another os without password and then access the harddrive. I would recommend knopix. You can download it on www.linuxiso.org. Get knopix, burn it onto a cd, start the laptop with it. The nice thing is knopix is directly started from the cd without realy installing it. So you don't change/ destroy you son's os but can get you information. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: MAL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 26. Februar 2003 14:12 An: Counter Fraud-Group (Malcolm Gardner) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Gentoo machine Counter Fraud-Group (Malcolm Gardner) wrote: I don't if any one can help me. My late son has gentoo on both his laptop and pc. I do not know any of the passwords but I need to be able to log on to they system to access critical information relating to our business. Can anyone advise me how I may be able to get into the system? I am getting pretty desperate If the machine uses grub, try pressing 'e' when the machine gives a list of operating systems to boot, (at startup, right after the BIOS screen). This will let you edit the boot command. select the line that reads: kernel blah blah and press 'e' again - this should let you edit this line. Add a space and 'single' to the end of the line, then press enter and then 'b'. This /should/ boot the machine into single user mode, bypassing any passwords. Of course his machine could be using lilo as the bootloader, (unlikely), or grub could be passworded, or indeed there could be additional security measures on the boot procedure, but the above should work for a generic gentoo install. Regards, MAL -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Gentoo machine
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:11 pm, Tiago Sant' Anna da Silva wrote: Someone said that Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:03:23 - Counter Fraud-Group \(Malcolm Gardner\) wrote: | I don't if any one can help me. My late son has gentoo on both his | laptop and pc. I do not know any of the passwords but I need to be able | to log on to they system to access critical information relating to our | business. Can anyone advise me how I may be able to get into the system? | | I am getting pretty desperate That's quit impossible (to simplify ;) I mean, there are many ways to get in the system, but it's too long to explain here. Ask him the password, isn't better? Or even the information you need :) Tiago late son implies his son is dead. Call me nasty but this mail looks dodgy anyway. Take a really close look at his website and its links. Surely one of his extensive range of experienced IT consultants could help him out? This does seem to be right in their field after all... and he does have physical access to the drive, obviously. -- luke -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Squirrelmail issue
I believe that you can get that error if you don't have SSL setup correctly. (i.e. your web server is running on port 443, but not with SSL capabilities). Try going to: http://localhost:443/squirrelmail/src/login.php and see if that works. Also, just try (if you have apache set up on port 80 as well) http://localhost/squirrelmail/src/login.php to make sure that apache and php are working. Ryan I followed through the desktop user guide on setting up squirrelmail. Everything checks out up to the part where you actually login with: https://localhost/squirrelmail/src/login.php When I try doing this, I get a The document contains no data message. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? ___ Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Accessing a Gentoo machine
Quoting Counter Fraud-Group (Malcolm Gardner) from Feb 26 I don't if any one can help me. My late son has gentoo on both his laptop and pc. I do not know any of the passwords but I need to be able to log on to they system to access critical information relating to our business. Can anyone advise me how I may be able to get into the system? I am getting pretty desperate DISCLAIMER 1: Before you read on, I would like to express that I pass that information for a purely informational purpose, and cannot be held responsible for its application for illegal breach of security, unauthorized access to, or loss of, any sensitive data, or even distruction of the computer systems in question. Use it at your own discretion. END DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER 2: If you are not familiar with Linux or UNIX systems, get someone who is to do it for/with you. This is not trivial, and it is _very_ easy to destroy data, or simply get very frustrated trying this. END DISCLAIMER That said, probably the easiest way to do this would be to try booting into single user mode by issuing the kernel command linue option single from the boot loader. If you turn on the computer, wait until the GRUP boot screen appears and press e to edit the command line, and add the word single (without quotes) to the command line which appears. It is possible that even single user mode is protected by a root password, or might even be disabled from within GRUB. If so, you have to try one of the solutions below: Second way: boot from any of the linux live-cds, mount the harddisks from there and transfer your data to another media, like burning to a CD, storing on a pen-drive or ftp/scp-ing to another machine. You can get linux livecds from these locations: http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/ http://trinux.sourceforge.net/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc2/x86/x86/livecd/ It is also possible to do the same using one or more floppies (usually called rescue floppies, available from several distributions), but livecds usually provide full-fledged and easier to use linux systems. It is not easy determining which steps will be necessary for your problem, but basically the roadmap looks like this: 1)Download the images, burn them onto a cd, and boot them in one of the machines. 2) using fdisk or cfdisk, determine what partitions are on the linux system to recover. 3) create the appropriate mount points in /mnt 4) you might have to create device files in /dev too, read man mknod and /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt on how to do this 5) mount the partitions 6) browse for your files Another prssibility would be to physically remove the harddisks from the machine (probably not possible with the laptop), put them into another computer, and browse the files from there. You can even do this from Windows using the utility from here: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm A fifth way i can imagine (not sure if that would work though) would be to, from the livecd system, chroot to the properly mounted system partitions (read the gentoo install guide on how to do this exactly), and in the chrooted system, using the passwd utility to set the root password to a new one. If your son on the was on the safe/paranoid side, he might have his data encrypted, in which case you might be pretty out of luck, as state-of-the-art encryption is very effective and almost impossible to brute-force. Hope it helps, Peter -- The Empire never ended. Tractates: Cryptica Scriptura, no. 6 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Gentoo machine
I agree with other posts that the original question sounds dodgy. To the original poster: if you really did have a son who passed away, please accept my condolences, and take the harshness of some of the other replies in the context that your question does arouse quite reasonable suspicions. It is however *just* possible that the post in question is legitimate, and since what I discuss below is quite common knowledge, in UNIX circles anyway, even if the question is dodgy, the knowledge is readilly accessible regardless. So after some internal debate I've concluded that, if the post is legit, a little help won't hurt, and if it isn't, I'm not telling him something he can't find out by simply reading the documentation in any event. Bottom line: anyone with physical access to the drive will get at whatever (unencrypted) data is on the drive, as any security (including encryption, if you have enough time available) can be bypassed through simply having physical access. The following will work for any UNIX, UNIX-like, MAC OS X, or Windows system (with minor changes to detail, of course). For Gentoo GNU/Linux in particular the following applies. Quoting MAL [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If the machine uses grub, try pressing 'e' when the machine gives a list of operating systems to boot, (at startup, right after the BIOS screen). This will let you edit the boot command. select the line that reads: kernel blah blah and press 'e' again - this should let you edit this line. Add a space and 'single' to the end of the line, then press enter and then 'b'. This /should/ boot the machine into single user mode, bypassing any passwords. This will indeed boot into single user mode (you can also type 1 instead of single), but it will not bypass the password. However, what you can do is download a bootable installation CD (iso), such as the current live-cd, boot from the cd rom, then manually mount the hard drive partitions and look at their contents. To do this, do what the previous poster suggested, but rather than editing the lines and booting, make a note of what the partition name is for root. It will be the string immediately following the root= string in the kernel load command, e.g. if the kernel load string is kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage root=/dev/hda2, then the partition you will want to note is /dev/hda2. boot from a live-cd, then create a directory to mount the partition on, e.g. after booting: (cdimage /# represents a prompt and is not a part of the command you type. If you ever worked with DOS, everything preceeding and including the # is equivelent to C:) cdimage /# mkdir /mnt/other Then mount the partition. For example, if the partition you noted was /dev/hda2, you would type: cdimage /# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/other Now, the root partition is accessible under /mnt/other. You can cd there and list the files in the top level directory: cdimage /# cd /mnt/other cdimage /mnt/other# ls Now is the trick to make the system accessible, with a password you know. To do this we change the root environment to the directory you mounted, so that you can modify the password and have it affect the environment stored on the hard drive (rather than the temporary environment you've booted into from the CD ROM): cdimage /mnt/other# chroot /mnt/other /bin/bash cdimage /# env-update cdimage /# . /etc/profile (the prompt MIGHT change slightly at this point) machinename /# passwd root New UNIX password: [enter a known password here] Retype new UNIX password: [reenter the same password again to confirm] You have now changed the root (administrator) password on the drive you were trying to access. Now, exit out of the chrooted environment machinename /# exit and reboot (removing the CDROM after the system is halted and pressing reset to reboot). cdimage /mnt/other# halt When asked for a username and password after reboot, type root as the username, and the password you entered above. You should now have godlike powers over the system, so be careful lest you destroy the very information you are trying to access. Now of course you'll have to learn something about GNU/Linux, and what your son was doing, what apps he used to store/retrieve the data in question, etc. That is far beyond the scope of this comment however (you'll need to obtain and read some books, etc.) If you are lying (and engaging in social engineering to access someone elses private data), then a pox upon you for abusing the public trust and engaging in such despicable activity. If this suspicion is ungrounded, then the best of luck in retrieving your company's data. You now have the power to do so (assuming it is all unencrypted), but tread carefully as you also have the power to obliterate what is on the machine. If the partition or data are encrypted, then barring an actual design flaw in either the software implimentation or the encryption algorithm, you are probably SOL. Jean. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] KDE font installer + antialiasing
This is a tired old subject, I know... I'm using KDE 3.1. Antialiased fonts always used to work, until now. I used Font Installer to install a new font, and magically antialiasing doesn't work anymore. It still works in KDM, though. Where do I begin to look for the cause? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Gentoo machine
Counter Fraud-Group (Malcolm Gardner) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't if any one can help me. My late son has gentoo on both his laptop and pc. I do not know any of the passwords but I need to be able to log on to they system to access critical information relating to our business. Can anyone advise me how I may be able to get into the system? I am getting pretty desperate Boot from a floppy or cd, mount the directories on the hd. -- Hilsen Harald. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Two questions
david mattatall wrote: Ok I generated this list by doing an emerge -ep --deep world and removing all the packages that I had previously finnished compiling. I need to know if there is a way I can turn this into a command I can use to resume where I left off. I believe the latest, (possibly masked), portage has emerge resume support inbuilt. MAL -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.2 oddly slow
gabor wrote: [Gnome semms to be slow.. ] Are there any general fixes for this sort of thing, or is the ebuild somehow unoptimized? do you have a nvidia card? if you do have, don't use the newest nvidia-binary driver ( 4191? ) with gnome... use the 3xyz version. there are problems with the 4191 version Hi, I'm using the 4191 version for my Geforce4 Ti4200 and it works without any problems for me. My desktop (Gnome 2.2) seems to react very fast (moving, resizing windows, etc.), faster than ever before.. :-) best regards, John -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] freetype-2.1.2-r2.ebuild error
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 3:28 pm, Ian Tindale wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 2:14 pm, Ian Tindale wrote: I think (I might be right) that the problem is a lack of end bracket in the file. Hmm. Just had the same fault on another ebuild* during installation of KDE. Same solution - fix the missing last closing curly bracket in the file. ...and again, on 'gdk-pixbuf' Hmm... -- Ian Tindale -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Warning to hardware purchasers
I know that this is way off topic and probably belongs on the forum, but I figured that I could reach the maximum # of people this way. A couple of weeks ago, I decided to upgrade one of my computers with a new motherboard and processor. I searched the web for top rated boards at a good price and decided on the Leadtek K7NCR18D-pro. My focus then changed to obtaining the best price possible. My search led me to decide on a company called PCRapids. Although their shipping charges were on the high side, their prices were still the best. My step-son and 3 of his co-workers decided to join in and I placed my order on Feb. 15th for 5 Leadtek boards and 5 AthlonXP 2100+ processors. (at a fair price of $1.113.00) This sum was immediately charged to my account and I was able to access a page that reported my order status as IN PROCESS. Now, after 11 days, this page still says IN PROCESS `10 or 12 emails inquiring about my order have gone un answered and most telephone calls are not picked up on their end. When a call is actually answered, I am given an answer designed to placate me. Last Thursday, I was told that my order had been shipped and that I could expect an email shortly with a UPS tracking #. The email never appeared. Several emails and phone calles were all unanswered. The following day, at 11:00 A.M. EST, I was able to contact someone there by phone. He was very apolligetic and informed me that in fact, the order was still in shipping and I could expect an email shortly with my tracking number. Once again, no email was received. Several phone calls over the weekend went unanswered (their site does state that they are closed Saturday and Sunday) Monday morning, once again at 11:00 AM I was able to reach someone by phone. This person, Miguele, informed me that for some unknown reason, my order had not shipped as promised he assured me that he would check into my situation and email me immediately with more information. Again, I received no email. Still more phone calls and emails were ignored. Yesterday,(2/26) I once again reached Miguele at 11:00 AM. He explained that once again, my order had not shipped and again appologised to the point where he actually sounded somewhat sincere. He assured me that the order was packaged and waiting for their 4:00 PM UPS pickup and that shipping had been upgraded to UPS 2nd day to partially make up for any inconvenience. He also assured me that soon after the order left the building,I would receive an email with the tracking number. Instead of a tracking number I received my first email response from PCRapids durring this whole saga. I have pasted it below: i appologize for the delayed update. Your order with PCR for 5 leadtek motherboards, was not shipped today. the reason for this delay is because we only have limited stock of the Leadtek board that you wanted to purchase. We cannot send you an incomplete order that is why your order has not left our warehouse. I sincerely appologize for the inconvenience caused and understand excactly how you are feeling at this time. At this point however i will not be able to get your order sent out today and will probably have this out the door tomorrow, thought this is not also not guaranteed. We do want your business but due to the circumstance, we wont be able to fulfill your request at this point. Again we appologize. If you are still interested with this order please reply to this email and i will try my best to expedite your order right away. Well, I am pretty flippin' mad here, but as it will take about a week for my charge account to process a refund and another week to process an order with another company, I am pretty much stuck with these people. I intend to take what action I can against this company as soon as I have received either my order or a refund, but I wanted to start here with a warning to my friends at Gentoo. This same company also does business as tufshop.com and Mid-City Computers. see other's reports on dealing with this company: http://www.resellerratings.com/seller1924.html -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] installation problem
I have installed from a RCl1.4 CDrom on a PentiumIII and have followed all of the instructions carefully (or so I thought). I have obviously missed something as now the system will not boot from the hard drive. I get no grub prompt, nothing but a cursor blinking at the top left of the screen. My grub.conf file: default 0 timeout 30 splash=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Steve's Gentoo Linux root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 I set up grub by running the command root (hd0,0) and setup. I compiled a kernel and copied it to the /boot partition. I even tried hanging the path in grub.conf to remove the /boot from the paths. I don't know what to try next. Any help appreciated. Steve White -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge tetex fails
Hi, tried to emerge teTeX-2.0-r1 with Gentoo 1.1a (gcc 2.95.3-r7) and got the following error: - gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/w3c-libwww -DHAVE_CON FIG_H -DHAVE_LIBWWW -DHAVE_WWWLIB_H -I../../libs/t1lib -I./../../libs/t1lib -I../../libs/t1lib/../type1 -I./../../libs/t1lib/../type1 -DPS_GS -DOmega -DXSERVER_INFO -I../../libs/t1lib/lib/t1lib -I../kpathsea -I/usr/X11R6/include -mcpu=i686 -O3 -pipe -c xdvi.c xdvi.c:103: WWWLib.h: No such file or directory xdvi.c:104: WWWInit.h: No such file or directory xdvi.c:105: WWWCache.h: No such file or directory xdvi.c:106: HTEscape.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [xdvi.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0-r1/work/tetex-src-2.0/texk/oxdvik' make[1]: *** [all] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/tetex-2.0-r1/work/tetex-src-2.0/texk' make: *** [all] Error 1 !!! ERROR: app-text/tetex-2.0-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 45, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) - - USE libwww is set in make.defaults - --with-system-libwww --with-libwww-include=/usr/include/w3c-libwww set correctly in .ebuild Does anybody know, why this path is not included? Is this a case for bugzilla? Please let me know if you need any further information. Many thanks for your help. Regards Christian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling additional modules for liveCD?
You should probably check the version of the kernel that is used on liveCD. 'uname -r' should show the kernel version. Also you can see the version from the boot messages. On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 15:13:48 -0500 Cedric Veilleux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need some modules that are not on the liveCD. I was thinking of placing them on a floppy and load them after booting off the CD.. What's the proper way to do this? Which kernel should I use to make the modules? I tried with gentoo-sources but got an error when loading them, saying they were not compiled for this kernel. Is there a proper way to do this or is it just not possible? Thank you, Cedric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] env-update repair
Hi, all, Don't ask me why, but I need to undo the results of executing env-update on my gentoo box - is there a way to do this?? I went in to repair something from the CD, and by accident, I used env-update command in the chrooted shell. Now, when I boot up the machine, it has no information about users or passwords or whatever, gives me the wrong greeter (xdm instead of gdm), and other things like that. Now can I fix all these things without doing a clean re-install?? Thanks for any help! Denis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] additional install of old glibc-2.2.5
Hi, I need the glibc-2.2.5 for use with a properitary software that is linked with this old glibc. As I do understand the slot-system of gentoo, for libs it should be possible to emerge the current glibc-2.3.1 and the old glibc-2.2.5 at the same time. Isn't it? I figured out that compiling glibc-2.2.5 works only with gcc-3.2 not with gcc-3.2.1 So I tried the following: emerge --buildpackageonly sys-devel/gcc/gcc-3.2.1-r7.ebuild emerge --buildpackageonly sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.3.1-r2.ebuild emerge --buildpackageonly sys-devel/gcc/gcc-3.2-r4.ebuild emerge -K packages/All/gcc-3.2-r4.tbz2 emerge --buildpackageonly sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.2.5-r7.ebuild and at last: emerge -K packages/All/glibc-2.2.5-r7.tbz2 And this was my last action... ;-) Instantly the fileutils (ls,cp, etc) didn't work any more, because the files of the glibc-2.3.1 were overwritten. That's the reason I took precautions with building the .tbz2s and so I were able to reinstall the current glibc. Ok. Here are the questions: Is it possible to install old and new glibc at the same time? What went wrong trying my way of installation? Is the answer out there? ;-) Thanks -- Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Boot hangs (at least in vmware)
I've installed a x86 system from scratch using the instructions on the homepage. This I've done in a vmware virtual machine. I've compiled everything. I used the stage1 tarball stage1-x86-1.4_pre20030220.tar.bz2 rather than the one on the 1.4rc2 cd. Everything seems to be working as expected until after reboot. The system boots up as expected (except that I can't seem to get grub to boot the system automatically for some reason), but then hangs after having written starting local. Nothing more happens, no matter how much I beat my keyboard. I would have expected to see a login prompt here, but I don't. The system doesn't feel totally locked, as I can flip between consoles with F1-F12 (all except F1 blank). I've debugged this so far so as to see that the local script finishes. The /sbin/rc script finishes too (I put an echo hello in the bottom of the script and it is printed after starting local). I even reinstalled everything again, but the same thing happened. What do I do now? // Joel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] phoenix crashes possibly solved
Recently gdk-pixbuf 0.22.0 appeared in the list of masked packages. Because my Phoenix kept crashing at least five times a day with a gdk error, I decided to try this new gdk-pixbuf and Phoenix hasn't crashed for two days. So if I were gentoo, I'd mark this version stable Henk, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Funny Keyboard Repeat Rate
I just did a fresh Gentoo 1.4 rc2 install on my desktop PC and I've been having some issues with the keyboard repeat rate and delay. At a framebuffer console, the repeat rate was going really slow, so I put the following in my /etc/conf.d/local.start file: /usr/bin/kbdrate -r 24.0 /dev/null That cleaned up the console for me. But once I got X working, I've been having trouble with X. While typing things in a terminal (or even as I type this e-mail), some keys seem to *stick* and they repeat themselves a few (actually , usually a lot like 20-40) times. It seems that this might only happen when there is a CPU load (like while I'm emerging something). Even then, this never happened before. Any suggestions? I tried messing with the keyboard rate with xset, but couldn't seem to find a value that stopped this behavior. Is the console's keyboard rate messing with X's rate? Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] KOrganizer and Session startup...
Howdy, I've started using and enjoying KOrganizer, however, it appears to exhibit somewhat strange behaviour when started via a saved session. I can start KOrganizer from the task bar with no problem. It starts on it's assigned desktop and loads the default organzier file. If I save my session with KOrganizer open, and re-login, KOrganizer starts on the correct desktop, but it doesn't load the correct file, it doesn't load any file. This is a bit frustrating. Does anyone know how to get KOrganizer to start from a session with the default file loaded? Thanks. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant www.craigelachie.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.2 oddly slow
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:22:17 +0100 Johannes Zweng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gabor wrote: [Gnome semms to be slow.. ] Are there any general fixes for this sort of thing, or is the ebuild somehow unoptimized? do you have a nvidia card? if you do have, don't use the newest nvidia-binary driver ( 4191? ) with gnome... use the 3xyz version. there are problems with the 4191 version Hi, I'm using the 4191 version for my Geforce4 Ti4200 and it works without any problems for me. My desktop (Gnome 2.2) seems to react very fast (moving, resizing windows, etc.), faster than ever before.. :-) best regards, John -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Is Gnome/X, still responsive while compiling an app? pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge confused
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Today, I ran this command: upstairs root # emerge -up --deep world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuildU ] x11-base/xfree-4.2.99.902 [4.2.99.4] [ebuildU ] net-fs/samba-2.2.8_pre1 [2.2.7a] [ebuildU ] media-libs/libdvdread-0.9.4 [0.9.3] [ebuildU ] gnome-base/gnome-panel-1.4.2-r2 [2.2.0.1-r1] [ebuildU ] gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-2.2.0-r1 [2.2.0] [ebuildU ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.6.0-r3 [0.6.0-r2] [ebuildU ] x11-libs/vte-0.10.25 [0.10.23] What I don't understand is why it wants to DOWNgrade gnome-panel. Since there is no 'D' it doesn't want to DOWNgrade. What I understand even less is why it seems to think that's an UPgrade. I think this is one of the new features of portage-0.47.x. gnome-panel 1.4 and 2.2 can live parallel, and now portage wants do _additionally_ install gnome-panel 1.4. It doesn't want to unmerge 2.2 since there is no 'D'. :-) take care, have fun /christian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+XWh2mauZIX3ydQURAgIzAKCvsYKLmoHoFt6AMBoAEo8zyMa5DwCgl3Y7 MysINtATRIjswWX1ZPS/KBw= =twTE -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Gentoo machine
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Feb 26 Yeah, I did look at the website, and I have to go with looks dodgy as well. [...] So, why am I writing? I want to make a prediction. The prediction is that, in Malcolm Gardner Associates' training materials and courses on Data protection there will now appear an anecdote about how by simply claiming that there was a death in the family, their anti-fraud experts were able to convince a bunch of hackers to assist them in breaking the security of a linux hard-drive. The same sort of rabid, ignorant fear-mongering that is the stock-in-trade of far too many security consultants. He repied to me. One line. Calling me a *star*. Still, IMO good advice is never in vain. oh well, at least to _someone_ I might look like a hacker.. Ph34r my sk1||z 4nd my kn0pp1x 1S0z. :) Peter -- The Empire never ended. Tractates: Cryptica Scriptura, no. 6 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Packages Downgraded??
I just updated portage and did a web-rsync; rsync. But for some reason a bunch of packages downgraded. Here's a partial list, there are about 90 or so packages that did this. [ebuildUD] net-mail/evolution-1.2.1 [1.2.2] [ebuildUD] net-print/foomatic-2.0.0 [2.0.2] [ebuildUD] media-gfx/gimp-print-4.2.4 [4.2.5] [ebuildUD] net-print/hpijs-1.2.2 [1.3] [ebuildUD] media-sound/xmms-1.2.7-r15 [1.2.7-r18] [ebuildUD] net-libs/libpcap-0.7.1 [0.7.1-r2] [ebuildUD] net-analyzer/ethereal-0.9.8-r1 [0.9.9] [ebuildUD] media-libs/imlib2-1.0.6-r1 [1.0.6.20030220] [ebuildUD] x11-libs/libast-0.4-r1 [0.5] [ebuildUD] x11-terms/eterm-0.9.1-r5 [0.9.2-r3] [ebuildUD] net-misc/dhcpcd-1.3.22_p3-r3 [1.3.22_p4] [ebuildUD] dev-libs/libsigc++-1.2.2 [1.2.3] [ebuildUD] app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.57.0 [1.60.1] [ebuildUD] media-libs/flac-1.0.4 [1.1.0] [ebuildUD] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.6.0-r1 [0.6.0-r3] What gives? -Arlo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Default page size in openoffice
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 07:22 pm, John H wrote: Does anyone know how to set this? It seems to be set at A4, which is a real pain for this USA user. Invoke the spadmin program (it's in the same directory where you find soffice). -- Collins Richey - Denver Area Athlon-XP gentoo 1.4_rc2 kde 3.1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Packages Downgraded??
What gives is you updated Portage, which in turn updated /etc/make.conf, and you probably elected to overwrite your old file with the new shiny one. Try putting back the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS flag. /tom --On Wednesday, February 26, 2003 18:22:58 -0800 Arlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just updated portage and did a web-rsync; rsync. But for some reason a bunch of packages downgraded. Here's a partial list, there are about [snip] What gives? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] debug use flag?
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 22:02, Ian Truelsen wrote: Would it be possible to implement a debug use flag that could be used to add debugging options to ebuilds so that one could get a backtrace without having to manually build from the sources? Already possible. :) DEBUGBUILD=true emerge package I got this from /etc/make.globals, BTW, which contains the following: # Debug build -- if defined, binaries won't be stripped #DEBUGBUILD=true You could set it in make.conf, of course, but I just use it one package at a time because I don't want to debug *everything*. :) -- // Carl Hudkins :: ICQ 5723399 :: PGP 50238D9E // // I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month; // and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. // --Thomas Jefferson pgp0.pgp Description: signature
[gentoo-user] OpenOffice + german build
Hi everyone, is there a way to build a localized version (in my case german) of OpenOffice using the standard ebuild? Thank you, Christian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
