Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE and Xfree problem
Hi Jason, Thanks for your advice. Kindly advise whether there are no precompile KDE and X-free available on Gentoo and its mirror sites. As far as I know (which is not very far) the only precompiled KDE and xfree packages are stored within the livecd isos. You can always ftp to oregonstate and browse around. I have kde-3.1.2.tbz2 kde-env-3-r2.tbz2 kdeaddons-3.1.2.tbz2 .. etc. on CD2 (I have 2 Gentoo-1.4 CD version) I have no idea how to install them simultaneously. Nor whether they have to be installed separately. Kindly advise. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cancelling eth0 start
Hi,
Now the long answer.
I'm using a extra service (in boot) in witch you can choose with grub
and i thin lilo also witch kind of network you will start, with thoose
scripts you can change everything you can image.
Internal network, wireless, no netwerk and so on even the firwall
settings.
How it works:
/etc/init.d/netconfig
this file is placed in the boot runlevel (rc-update add netconfig boot)
at boot time this script read the value of NetConfig=xxx in grub/lilo
and performs the right action. In my case eth0 or eth1. It just places a
symbolic link to my /et/runlevels/default/net.eth0 so eth0 start or
not.
If you have any questions about it just send me a mail.
HTH
Patrick
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#!/sbin/runscript
#
# netconfig
#
# Written by: Sean C. Higgins
RunLevelPath=/etc/runlevels/default
depend() {
before net.*
}
start() {
ebegin Starting netconfig
case $NetConfig in
eth0)
ebegin Switching to: $NetConfig
ln -s /etc/conf.d/net-eth0 $RunLevelPath/net.eth0;;
eth1)
ebegin Switching to: $NetConfig
if [[ -e $RunLevelPath/net.eth0 ]]; then
rm -f $RunLevelPath/net.eth0
fi
esac
}
stop() {
ebegin Stopping netconfig
rm $RunLevelPath/net.eth0
eend $? Error removing $RunLevelPath/net.eth0
}
default 5
timeout 10
splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo - Ingebouwd
root (hd0,4)
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda7 NetConfig=eth0
initrc (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r7
title=Gentoo - Wireless
root (hd0,4)
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda7 NetConfig=eth1
initrc (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r7
title=Windows XP
root (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
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Re: [gentoo-user] Cancelling eth0 start
Hi Blue, Am Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2003 22:19 schrieb BlueRibbon: I usually have my laptop connected to some network that gives the ip dinamically (dhcp), but sometimes I use it on a no-network environment. In the latter situation, while booting, I have to wait some minutes while the system tries to get an IP address for my machine, until it fails starting eth0. Is there any way to cancel that (I've tried ^C)? Or at least to reduce the time I have to wait? you can have more than one network configuration as described in http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=90752 Kai -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] NPTL
Jason Stubbs wrote, On 10/15/2003 04:09 AM There are several glibc versions that are hard-masked but the latest straight ~x86 version contains working nptl. I believe the hard-masked contains later versions of nptl that have been shown to have serious bugs. The latest ~x86 version of glibc worked fine for me with nptl. BTW, after recompiling glibc, you'll also want to recompile Sun's jre/jdk if you're using it/them and also want to recompile openoffice. They'll work without doing so but will only take advantage of nptl afterward. Thanks. But it looks like I can't use 2.6 yet, due to missing pcmcia drivers :-( I found an nptl patch for 2.4.22 which is use by redhat, I'll give that a go next. I'm not sure how the glibc install detects the kernel version though. I still have a hole, though, the win4lin kernel patches are not compatable with nptl patches. Sigh ... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] how to record a wav-file?
I tried arecord (with arguments): arecord -v -f cd -d 20 -D hw:0,1 blabla.wav The file is stopped by Ctrl-c, of size 10 or something and doesn't play anything when used with aplay. Only complaints given by arecord is that it records a mono sound of 8000 Khz in stead of requested cd sound 44100 Hz. I hear the sound in my speakers (very low) -- Venlig hilsen / Greetings from Claus L. Wilson, Linux mdk91 Sdr. Boulevard 226, st.tv 5000 Odense C tlf. 66191050 / mob. 61665543 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE and Xfree problem
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 7:33 am, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Jason, Thanks for your advice. Kindly advise whether there are no precompile KDE and X-free available on Gentoo and its mirror sites. As far as I know (which is not very far) the only precompiled KDE and xfree packages are stored within the livecd isos. You can always ftp to oregonstate and browse around. I have kde-3.1.2.tbz2 kde-env-3-r2.tbz2 kdeaddons-3.1.2.tbz2 .. etc. on CD2 (I have 2 Gentoo-1.4 CD version) I have no idea how to install them simultaneously. Nor whether they have to be installed separately. Kindly advise. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml section 25.1 applies for those with GRP... but those packages apply to a particular snapshot taken back in September and the portage tree has very likely changed by now if that's what you are using. Followed by: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml which tells you how to get X up and running and also how to get KDM and KDE going. You will encounter a little bugette which can be solved by reading the following: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29223 now short of actually coming round and doing it for you, these should do the trick. Please make sure that you actually read all of the instructions Personally I would recommend that you install the whole shebang from scratch if you really want to use the GRP packages, then you can do an emerge synch to update your tree. For this you _WILL_ require CD1. Paul Cooke -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Why are masked ebuilds masked?
Silly question, Where can I find out why an ebuild is masked, for example abcde 2.0.3 is the latest unmasked version, ebuilds up to 2.1.6 exist, what's wrong with them? Rick Kitty5 NewMedia http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] man emerge problem
Any ideas? it does this with a few other things (but not everything) - I ran 'emerge man-pages' and it continued to do the following. if I view the man page as root it works fine thereafter. [EMAIL PROTECTED] sigma $ man emerge rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `/var/cache/man/cat1/emerge.1.bz2'? n Formatting page, please wait... sh: line 1: /var/cache/man/cat1/emerge.1.bz2: Permission denied Error executing formatting or display command. System command (cd /usr/share/man (echo .pl 1100i; /bin/gunzip -c '/usr/share/man/man1/emerge.1.gz'; echo; echo .pl \n(nlu+10) | /usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/nroff -Tlatin1 -c -mandoc | /bin/bzip2 /var/cache/man/cat1/emerge.1.bz2) exited with status 1. rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `/var/cache/man/cat1/emerge.1.bz2'? n bzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly; perhaps it is corrupted? *Possible* reason follows. bzip2: Success Input file = /var/cache/man/cat1/emerge.1.bz2, output file = (stdout) It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted. You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files. You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover data from undamaged sections of corrupted files. Rick Kitty5 NewMedia http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x231E1CEA -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why are masked ebuilds masked?
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:03, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: Silly question, Where can I find out why an ebuild is masked, for example abcde 2.0.3 is the latest unmasked version, ebuilds up to 2.1.6 exist, what's wrong with them? Rick I'd say they are ~x86 which means 'testing'. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -p abcde for really masked packages there might be some info in package.mask 'less /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask' Besides that I recommend reading: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/portage-user.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/portage-manual.xml Good Luck and enjoy reading. Roger (roger55 on #gentoo) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Update of Transcode
On Tue 14 October 2003 18:47, Paul Varner wrote: I had the same issue. Upon looking into it further it is a problem with the mmx code not being configured correctly during the configure process. I don't know enough to determine if it is in the ebuild or the actual transcode code. But the workaround that I found was to do the following: env USE=mmx emerge transcode This enabled the ebuild to compile correctly on my box. Regards, Paul Thanks Paul, that worked Paul -- -- This message was sent using gentoo linux and kmail -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wants X on server
begin quote On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:15:48 +0200 Timo Boettcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When trying to update my router, I was a bit shocked to see it wants to install xfree86, whereas it didn't do so in older updates and even though I have -X in my USE-Flags. qpkg -q doesn't list X as dependency for anything, so why is it being istalled? A few of theese strikes me as possible reasons, can you please paste the USE section from emerge info (No, not just make.confg. emerge info |grep USE ) My first guess is that you have +gtk or +gtk2 in (some buggy ebuilds still think they should work if you have +gtk2 ) //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wants X on server
When trying to update my router, I was a bit shocked to see it wants to install xfree86, whereas it didn't do so in older updates and even though I have -X in my USE-Flags. qpkg -q doesn't list X as dependency for anything, so why is it being istalled? Just a guess, but do you have tcltk in your USE flags? If so, python will want tk, which wants virtual/x11. HTH, Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE and Xfree problem
Hi Paul, Thanks for your advice. - snip - I have kde-3.1.2.tbz2 kde-env-3-r2.tbz2 kdeaddons-3.1.2.tbz2 .. etc. on CD2 (I have 2 Gentoo-1.4 CD version) I have no idea how to install them simultaneously. Nor whether they have to be installed separately. Kindly advise. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml section 25.1 applies for those with GRP... but those packages apply to a particular snapshot taken back in September and the portage tree has very likely changed by now if that's what you are using. Followed by: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml which tells you how to get X up and running and also how to get KDM and KDE going. Gentoo Linux 1.4 Installation Instructions is a very nice document. I followed it to install Gentoo. At time of installation from CD1, I completed Code listing 25.2 but failed to complete 25.1 and 25.3 # emerge - xfree and # emerge -k kde running without end. Finally I force-rebooted the PC. Besides my PC for this test is a slow machine, P-II350/256MB therefore I expect to know whether it is possible to make use of those pre-compile packages on CD2. I suppose all of them have been copied to my OS after completing Code listing 25.2 # mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom # cp -a /mnt/cdrom/packages/* /usr/portage/packages/ Can I apply following command to install all kde packages simultaneously; # emerge /usr/portage/packages/kde-3.1.2.tbz2 | /usr/portage/packages/kde-env-3-r2.tbz2 | /usr/portage/packages/kdeaddons-3.1.2.tbz2 | etc. You will encounter a little bugette which can be solved by reading the following: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29223 now short of actually coming round and doing it for you, these should do the trick. Noted with thanks Please make sure that you actually read all of the instructions Personally I would recommend that you install the whole shebang from scratch if you really want to use the GRP packages, Please provide me more information how to install the whole shebang from scratch then you can do an emerge synch to update your tree. For this you _WILL_ require CD1. Whether you meant starting the PC with CD1, mounting root device, connecting broadband, chroot, etc and then running # emerge synch Thanks B.R. Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wants X on server
Hi Spider, Nachricht vom Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2003, 13:50:45: Timo Boettcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When trying to update my router, I was a bit shocked to see it wants to install xfree86, whereas it didn't do so in older updates and even though I have -X in my USE-Flags. qpkg -q doesn't list X as dependency for anything, so why is it being istalled? A few of theese strikes me as possible reasons, can you please paste the USE section from emerge info (No, not just make.confg. emerge info |grep USE ) Router root # emerge info | grep USE USE=crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gtk imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis pdflib png qt quicktime sdl spell svga truetype xml2 xmms gdbm berkdb slang readline gpm tcpd ssl perl python ldap -3dfx -3dnow -acpi -alsa -arts -apm -avi -dga -directfb -dvb -dvd -esd -ev6 -evo -fbcon firebird -flash -gb -gnome -gphoto2 -gps -kde -lirc -matrox -mbox -moziolla -oci -oss -opengl -pam -pcmcia -pda -ruby -scanner -sse -voodoo3 -wavelan -X -Xaw3d -xface -xinerama xv -zeo -ppc -sparc -alpha -mips -hppa -arm mmx nocardbus x86 zlib Router root # My first guess is that you have +gtk or +gtk2 in (some buggy ebuilds still think they should work if you have +gtk2 ) That was gtk (according to ufed). I took it out, do I have to restart the still running (it will run for some time, it only a 233MHz machine) emerge -uUD world ? //Spider Thx Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Fluxbox
So far I am 1 week into the gentoo install process. Emerging fluxbox concludes with: Fatal error: can't create or write to /root/.fluxbox/menu. I can't find any help in bugzilla. Can anyone assist, please? TIA. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street Noosaville QLD 4566 Australia Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] strange install situation
Hello: I used the Athlon XP v1.4 (dated 9/11) Live CD disk 1 to do a Stage 3 install of Gentoo. Everything *seemed* to go okay, until reboot, when Grub couldn't find the kernel. I used the Live CD as a rescue disk, looked at my install drive, and, sure enough, no kernel was installed! Also, the /lib/modules directory tree was empty. Now, I'm not (completely) crazy; I specifically remember (during the initial install) doing an emerge -k sys-kernel/gentoo-sources then a emerge -k genkernel and finally running genkernel --config. I made a few minor configuration changes to the kernel (mostly removing unneeded modules), then waited while it built bzImage, modules, did a make modules_install, etc. It took a while, so *something* was going on :) Unfortunately, I don't remember if it exited with an error code (I'm pretty sure I would have noticed that though). As I said, however, for some reason, neither the kernel nor the modules (or even the initrd) got installed. So I repeated the above steps after rescueing from the Live CD. My kernel config options had persisted, and this time the kernel, initrd, modules, etc all actually got installed. But now I'm wondering if other things aren't quite right with my installation. For example, I installed from my cdrom, which is typically /dev/hdc, but there's no hdc showing up in the /dev directory. (I'm using ide-scsi on that drive, but there also aren't any /dev/scd* files.) I'm trying to build the nvidia-kernel modules, but when I do this, I get the following error: emerge nvidia-kernel Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4496-r3 to / md5 src_uri ;-) NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg0.run Unpacking source... Creating directory NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg0 Verifying archive integrity... OK Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 1.0-4496. * Linux kernel 2.4.20 Source unpacked. rm -f nv.o os-agp.o os-interface.o os-registry.o nv-linux.o nv_compiler.h *.d NVdriver nvidia.o echo \#define NV_COMPILER \`gcc -v 21 | tail -n 1`\ nv_compiler.h gcc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wno-multichar -O -MD -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0 -DNV_PATCHLEVEL=4496 -DNV_UNIX -DNV_LINUX -DNV_INT64_OK -DNVCPU_X86 -DREMAP_PAGE_RANGE_4 -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wno-cast-qual nv.c In file included from nv.c:14: nv-linux.h:24:31: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory nv.c: In function `cleanup_module': nv.c:861: warning: unused variable `i' make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 !!! ERROR: media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4496-r3 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 117, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) And it's true, I don't have a /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h file. xmms also fails: emerge (40 of 54) media-sound/xmms-1.2.7-r20 to / md5 src_uri ;-) xmms-1.2.7.tar.gz Unpacking source... Unpacking xmms-1.2.7.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/xmms-1.2.7-r20/work * Applying xmms-jump.patch... [ ok ] * Applying xmms-sigterm.patch... [ ok ] * Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE! Value for $EPATCH_SOURCE is: * * /usr/portage/distfiles/xmms-1.2.7-mmx.patch.gz !!! ERROR: media-sound/xmms-1.2.7-r20 failed. !!! Function epatch, Line 182, Exitcode 0 !!! Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE! Now, I'm not sure if these things are related to the kernel problem or not... I'm tempted to just re-do the whole install, but that takes a fair amount of time. Any suggestions or ideas? Thanks! Matt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] New gentoo user
Title: New gentoo user Hi everyone! I'm compiling my own kernel and am using gentoo-sources. Does anyone have a recommended list of options to choose in genkernel --config. I'm trying to get netfilter/iptables to compile correctly and its not working. Basically I want a Fast kernel that will allow me to use netfilter/iptable to setup a firewall? Any help would be great!!! Thanks, Jeff
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE and Xfree problem
On 15 Oct 2003, at 10:37 am, paul cooke wrote: I have kde-3.1.2.tbz2 kde-env-3-r2.tbz2 kdeaddons-3.1.2.tbz2 .. etc. on CD2 (I have 2 Gentoo-1.4 CD version) I have no idea how to install them simultaneously. Nor whether they have to be installed separately. Kindly advise. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml section 25.1 applies for those with GRP... but those packages apply to a particular snapshot taken back in September and the portage tree has very likely changed by now if that's what you are using. Followed by... I think the 2-CD sets have a .pdf (and probably html a textfile) of installation instructions on them. I think these are likely to be more accurate than the website, which (again, *I think*) is more geared to single-CD installs. now short of actually coming round and doing it for you, these should do the trick. I too am finding these postings wearisome. Please advise. Personally I would recommend... A different distro. One with an installation GUI. I like Gentoo the way it is, but that doesn't mean it's for all users. Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] strange install situation
Matt Garman wrote: Hello: I used the Athlon XP v1.4 (dated 9/11) Live CD disk 1 to do a Stage 3 install of Gentoo. Everything *seemed* to go okay, until reboot, when Grub couldn't find the kernel. I used the Live CD as a rescue disk, looked at my install drive, and, sure enough, no kernel was installed! Also, the /lib/modules directory tree was empty. Now, I'm not (completely) crazy; I specifically remember (during the initial install) doing an emerge -k sys-kernel/gentoo-sources then a emerge -k genkernel and finally running genkernel --config. I made a few minor configuration changes to the kernel (mostly removing unneeded modules), then waited while it built bzImage, modules, did a make modules_install, etc. It took a while, so *something* was going on :) Unfortunately, I don't remember if it exited with an error code (I'm pretty sure I would have noticed that though). As I said, however, for some reason, neither the kernel nor the modules (or even the initrd) got installed. So I repeated the above steps after rescueing from the Live CD. My kernel config options had persisted, and this time the kernel, initrd, modules, etc all actually got installed. Did you create a seperate /boot partition? If so did you look in there for your kernel rather than the / partition (which would of had an empty /boot in that case). You also need to tell grub to look in your /root partition rather than the / one for the kernel and then as a kernel option pass the correct root. e.g. kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda2 (assuming /boot as first parition and / as second). JD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wants X on server
On 15 Oct 2003, at 12:15 pm, Timo Boettcher wrote: When trying to update my router, I was a bit shocked to see it wants to install xfree86, whereas it didn't do so in older updates and even though I have -X in my USE-Flags. qpkg -q doesn't list X as dependency for anything, so why is it being istalled? Router root # emerge -uUD world -p Hihi, Could you post the output of `emerge -uUDpv world`, please..? I think the -v flag will be helpful. Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] possible to routing ssh connection to a different shell?
Andrew Farmer wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:25:33 -0700, Christian Schäfer muttered: hi Andrew, You do know about ssh -t host command? no, I don't think so. tell me. ;-) Try 'ssh -t host /bin/sh'. It'll give you a login shell (with /bin/sh) even if your $SHELL is set to something like /bin/false. In short, there's really no way (that I know of, at least) to keep a user from getting a login shell as long as they have an account. http://rssh.sf.net MAL -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] strange install situation
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:19:11PM +0100, Jon Dye wrote: Did you create a seperate /boot partition? If so did you look in there for your kernel rather than the / partition (which would of had an empty /boot in that case). You also need to tell grub to look in your /root partition rather than the / one for the kernel and then as a kernel option pass the correct root. e.g. kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda2 (assuming /boot as first parition and / as second). Yup, I created the boot partition, although, I guess there is a chance I didn't mount it when I installed the kernel the first time. But, keep in mind, that the modules were also not installed the first time (and they live on the root partition in /lib/modules/). However, once I booted the LiveCD (2nd time), mounted filesystems, chroot'ed, and re-did the genkernel, everything seemed to work (I didn't have to change GRUB's settings). Thanks! Matt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] strange install situation
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:19 pm, Jon Dye wrote: Matt Garman wrote: Hello: I used the Athlon XP v1.4 (dated 9/11) Live CD disk 1 to do a Stage 3 install of Gentoo. Everything *seemed* to go okay, until reboot, when Grub couldn't find the kernel. I used the Live CD as a rescue disk, looked at my install drive, and, sure enough, no kernel was installed! Also, the /lib/modules directory tree was empty. Now, I'm not (completely) crazy; I specifically remember (during the initial install) doing an emerge -k sys-kernel/gentoo-sources then a emerge -k genkernel and finally running genkernel --config. I made a few minor configuration changes to the kernel (mostly removing unneeded modules), then waited while it built bzImage, modules, did a make modules_install, etc. It took a while, so *something* was going on :) Unfortunately, I don't remember if it exited with an error code (I'm pretty sure I would have noticed that though). As I said, however, for some reason, neither the kernel nor the modules (or even the initrd) got installed. So I repeated the above steps after rescueing from the Live CD. My kernel config options had persisted, and this time the kernel, initrd, modules, etc all actually got installed. Did you create a seperate /boot partition? If so did you look in there for your kernel rather than the / partition (which would of had an empty /boot in that case). You also need to tell grub to look in your /root partition rather than the / one for the kernel and then as a kernel option pass the correct root. e.g. kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda2 (assuming /boot as first parition and / as second). JD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list If you followed the install instructions you would have an unmounted /boot partition. Try mount /boot and see what you find. HTH -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] What's with Re: [gentoo-user] is there a good XF86config creator
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 04:54 pm, Sean Higgins wrote: On October 8, 2003 06:26 pm, HvR wrote: one thing i dislike about gentoo is that the support for creating a proper XF86config file is missing. the equivalent tool from redhat is much smarter. so what i do these days is install redhat have it create the config file then copy it to a save spot, install gentoo and then put the redhat configured file back, works like a charm.but... is there a gentoo port of the redhat configurator maybe? What about running xf86cfg? It is much better than xf86config and seemed to detect my hardware just fine... Sean I've gotten 4 copies of this message, all aparently sent at the same time but with different time stamps in the headers. Is this on my side or is someone else receiving these too? -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge mod_php error
I am unable to emerge mod_php due to a failure in emerging the pdflib dependency - the full output and error message is below. This is the only package I have not been able to install due to an error, can anyone offer suggestions on how to get past this? thanks -- z emerge -v mod_php Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 2) media-libs/pdflib-4.0.3-r1 to / md5 src_uri ;-) pdflib-4.0.3.tar.gz md5 src_uri ;-) pdf.c Unpacking source... Unpacking pdflib-4.0.3.tar.gz to /home/portage/portage/pdflib-4.0.3-r1/work Source unpacked. creating cache ./config.cache checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking MACHDEP... linux2 checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc -03 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc -03 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for a BSD compatible install... /bin/install -c checking for Cygwin environment... no checking for mingw32 environment... no checking for executable suffix... no checking for object suffix... o checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B checking whether ln -s works... yes checking how to recognise dependant libraries... pass_all checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... ok checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for strip... strip checking for objdir... .libs checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... no checking if we can lock with hard links... yes checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes checking whether the linker (/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes checking whether a program can dlopen itself... yes checking whether a statically linked program can dlopen itself... no checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no creating libtool checking for Java header files... checking for perl... perl checking for Perl header file... /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux/CORE/perl.h checking for Python header files... /usr/include/python2.2 checking for python... python checking for Python shared library path... /usr/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload checking for Tcl header files... /usr/include checking for tclsh... tclsh checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no checking for PDF import library PDI... not found checking for c++... g++ checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ -03 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe ) works... yes checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ -03 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C++... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking whether the previously found C++ compiler works... yes updating cache ./config.cache creating ./config.status creating bind/java/Makefile creating bind/perl/Makefile creating bind/python/Makefile creating bind/tcl/Makefile creating tiff/Makefile creating flate/Makefile creating png/Makefile creating bind/cpp/Makefile creating Makefile creating pdflib-config creating pdflib/Makefile creating test/Makefile creating clients/Makefile creating util/Makefile creating bind/c/Makefile _ For your convenience, here's a summary of configure's results: Support for shared libraries: yes C++ language binding for PDFlib: yes Java language binding for PDFlib: yes Perl language binding for PDFlib: yes Python language binding for PDFlib:yes Tcl language binding for PDFlib: yes PHP language binding for PDFlib: yes (see bind/php/readme.txt for details) PDF import library (PDI): no Note: if you purchase the additional PDF import library (PDI) you can also manipulate existing PDF documents with PDFlib. See http://www.pdflib.com for details. Please observe the licensing terms for commercial PDFlib usage. PDFlib license agreement and purchase order can be found in the doc directory. cd tiff make cd flate make make[1]: Entering directory `/home/portage/portage/pdflib-4.0.3-r1/work/pdflib-4.0.3/tiff' ../libtool --silent --mode=compile gcc -c -I../pdflib -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -03 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe -DPDF_PLATFORM=\Linux
Re: [gentoo-user] What's with Re: [gentoo-user] is there a good XF86config creator
Not me. Biker snip What about running xf86cfg? It is much better than xf86config and seemed to detect my hardware just fine... Sean I've gotten 4 copies of this message, all aparently sent at the same time but with different time stamps in the headers. Is this on my side or is someone else receiving these too? -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox
I've recently gotten errors of this kind (sandbox violations) when emerging with sudo rather than as root, but I don't know exactly where the bug is. Jacob Smullyan On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:04:01PM +1000, Dennis Robertson wrote: So far I am 1 week into the gentoo install process. Emerging fluxbox concludes with: Fatal error: can't create or write to /root/.fluxbox/menu. I can't find any help in bugzilla. Can anyone assist, please? TIA. -- Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street Noosaville QLD 4566 Australia Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo user
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 15:11, Chase Jeffery D wrote: Hi everyone! I'm compiling my own kernel and am using gentoo-sources. Does anyone have a recommended list of options to choose in genkernel --config. I'm trying to get netfilter/iptables to compile correctly and its not working. Basically I want a Fast kernel that will allow me to use netfilter/iptable to setup a firewall? Any help would be great!!! Thanks, Jeff First of all do not send emails in HTML format! Many people dislike HTML emails including me :) Second, answer on your sort of question: If you want to compile your own kernel, whatever that exactly means, then why are you using genkernel? Genkernel isnt perfect. I tried genkernel too to configure a 2.4.x kernel but didnt work for me either. Best way is to manually configure the kernel. Go to /usr/src/linux and do a make menuconfig and select the things you need for your current hardware. After that make dep clean make bzImage modules modules_install Then copy the bzImage from /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/ into your /boot and configure your bootloader. Offtopic, I am running the 2.6.0 test kernel atm. Thats all, Yee Chie Tu signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo user
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 15:11, Chase Jeffery D wrote: Hi everyone! I'm compiling my own kernel and am using gentoo-sources. Does anyone have a recommended list of options to choose in genkernel --config. I'm trying to get netfilter/iptables to compile correctly and its not working. Basically I want a Fast kernel that will allow me to use netfilter/iptable to setup a firewall? Any help would be great!!! Thanks, Jeff First of all do not send emails in HTML format! Many people dislike HTML emails including me :) Second, answer on your sort of question: If you want to compile your own kernel, whatever that exactly means, then why are you using genkernel? Genkernel isnt perfect. I tried genkernel too to configure a 2.4.x kernel but didnt work for me either. Best way is to manually configure the kernel. Go to /usr/src/linux and do a make menuconfig and select the things you need for your current hardware. After that make dep clean make bzImage modules modules_install Then copy the bzImage from /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/ into your /boot and configure your bootloader. Offtopic, I am running the 2.6.0 test kernel atm. Thats all, Yee Chie Tu signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo user
At 10:14 AM 10/15/2003, you wrote: If you want to compile your own kernel, whatever that exactly means, then why are you using genkernel? Genkernel isn´t perfect. I tried genkernel too to configure a 2.4.x kernel but didn´t work for me either. Best way is to manually configure the kernel. Go to /usr/src/linux and do a make menuconfig and select the things you need for your current hardware. After that make dep clean make bzImage modules modules_install Then copy the bzImage from /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/ into your /boot and configure your bootloader. In case you haven't used genkernel --config, it does all of that for you in steps, except configure your bootloader. The --config flag will run make menuconfig as part of the process allowing you to configure the kernel manually. It does process busybox, whatever that is... Regards Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Update of Transcode
Paul Stear wrote: I had the same issue. Upon looking into it further it is a problem with the mmx code not being configured correctly during the configure process. I don't know enough to determine if it is in the ebuild or the actual transcode code. But the workaround that I found was to do the following: env USE=mmx emerge transcode This enabled the ebuild to compile correctly on my box. Regards, Paul Thanks Paul, that worked Paul jep, thanks this really worked!! but how did you figure out that mmx was the source of the problem? just curious... -eric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] New gentoo user
Sorry, email's in rich text format, I'll switch it to plain text I tried using makemenuconfig also with same results In fact that's how I found out I was getting compile errors. Genkernel Doesn't give you an error message The only thing that I can think of is that I must not be selecting a needed option that allows netfilter to be included in the kernel. I'm new at building my own kernel, used to use mandrake but wanted something that I could build from the ground up. Anyways if someone knows of a web site that has a list of common options for makemenuconfig/makexconfig please let me know. Thanks for your help/time!! Jeff -Original Message- From: Yee Chie Tu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 10:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo user On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 15:11, Chase Jeffery D wrote: Hi everyone! I'm compiling my own kernel and am using gentoo-sources. Does anyone have a recommended list of options to choose in genkernel --config. I'm trying to get netfilter/iptables to compile correctly and its not working Basically I want a Fast kernel that will allow me to use netfilter/iptable to setup a firewall? Any help would be great!!! Thanks, Jeff First of all do not send emails in HTML format! Many people dislike HTML emails including me :) Second, answer on your sort of question: If you want to compile your own kernel, whatever that exactly means, then why are you using genkernel? Genkernel isn´t perfect. I tried genkernel too to configure a 2.4.x kernel but didn´t work for me either. Best way is to manually configure the kernel. Go to /usr/src/linux and do a make menuconfig and select the things you need for your current hardware. After that make dep clean make bzImage modules modules_install Then copy the bzImage from /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/ into your /boot and configure your bootloader. Offtopic, I am running the 2.6.0 test kernel atm. Thats all, Yee Chie Tu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wants X on server
Hi Stroller, Nachricht vom Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2003, 15:20:40: On 15 Oct 2003, at 12:15 pm, Timo Boettcher wrote: When trying to update my router, I was a bit shocked to see it wants to install xfree86, whereas it didn't do so in older updates and even though I have -X in my USE-Flags. qpkg -q doesn't list X as dependency for anything, so why is it being istalled? Router root # emerge -uUD world -p Hihi, Could you post the output of `emerge -uUDpv world`, please..? I think the -v flag will be helpful. taking gtk out of USE fixed it. Router root # USE=gtk emerge -uUD world -pv These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] media-libs/freetype-2.1.4 -doc +zlib -bindist [ebuild N] media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.1 [ebuild N] x11-base/opengl-update-1.5 [ebuild N] x11-misc/ttmkfdir-3.0.9 [ebuild N] app-arch/cabextract-0.6 [ebuild N] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3 -3dfx -sse +mmx -3dnow +xml2 +truetype +nls -cjk -doc -ipv6 -debug -static -pam -sdk -gatos [ebuild N] x11-libs/pango-1.2.5 -doc [ebuild N] dev-libs/atk-1.4.0 -doc [ebuild N] x11-libs/gtk+-2.2.4-r1 -doc -tiff +jpeg Router root # Stroller. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What's with Re: [gentoo-user] is there a good XF86config creator
On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 14:40, Ernie Schroder wrote: I've gotten 4 copies of this message, all aparently sent at the same time but with different time stamps in the headers. Is this on my side or is someone else receiving these too? same here Ernie. Peter -- == Portage 2.0.49-r13 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.23_pre7-gss) i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ == -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What's with Re: [gentoo-user] is there a good XF86config creator
On 15 Oct 2003, at 2:40 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Tuesday 14 October 2003 04:54 pm, Sean Higgins wrote: What about running xf86cfg? It is much better than xf86config and seemed to detect my hardware just fine... Sean I've gotten 4 copies of this message, all aparently sent at the same time but with different time stamps in the headers. Is this on my side or is someone else receiving these too? I often get duplicates of messages, although rarely as many as 4 of the same one. Seems to go in bursts - some days I get a load of duplicates of different messages, others none at all. I kinda figured it must be the connection from the Gentoo mail server to my POP3 provider, which seems to get quite busy. Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo user
On 15 Oct 2003, at 3:35 pm, Chase Jeffery D wrote: Sorry, email's in rich text format, I'll switch it to plain text I tried using makemenuconfig also with same results In fact that's how I found out I was getting compile errors... Hihi, Could you post the last 100 lines or so of these output, and maybe attach your /usr/src/linux/.config file, please..? I'm sure someone will be able to help you. Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] question re creating meta-ebuild for application distribution
A question about using Gentoo's meta-distribution aspect: I'm about to use a local meta-ebuild to deploy a set of applications across a group of servers. I'd rather not add this ebuild to an existing package directory -- I'd rather use app-$mycompanyname -- but when I do so, I see that portage doesn't know about the new package directory when I do an emerge -s $myappname. This isn't a big deal in and of itself, since the ebuild seems to merge and unmerge without problems, but is there a way I can locally add a new package directory so that portage fully knows about it? Can I do so in such a way that an emerge rsync won't lose that information? And if not, I am going to run into other problems by using an unsupported pkg location? Thanks, Jacob Smullyan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Qmail-ldap
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 21:12, Aiko Barz wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 07:00:25PM +0300, Gregory Staggel wrote:
Hello,
Is it possible to emerge qmail-ldap package ?
Just do a:
emerge /usr/portage/net-mail/qmail-ldap/qmail-ldap-1.03-r1.ebuild
Some packages need RDEPEND=net-mail/qmail
Change it into RDEPEND=net-mail/qmail-ldap
Sorry i don't understand :(
I have to make something like that ?
# find . -name *.ebuild -exec grep -H net-mail/qmail {} \;
and change with sed all net-mail/qmail to nat-mail/qmail-ldap ?
where ever i want to install one of them ?
If you want ezmlm you should add the following patch to your ebuild.
--- Makefile.orig 2003-09-08 23:19:15.0 +0200
+++ Makefile2003-09-08 23:22:54.0 +0200
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
# avoids the silly qmail syndrome with high injection rates)
#LDAPFLAGS=-DQLDAP_CLUSTER -DEXTERNAL_TODO
#LDAPFLAGS=-DQLDAP_CLUSTER -DEXTERNAL_TODO -DDASH_EXT
+LDAPFLAGS=-DDASH_EXT
# SMTP Authentication
Bis denne,
Aiko
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mod_php error
On 15 Oct 2003, at 2:44 pm, Z wrote: I am unable to emerge mod_php due to a failure in emerging the pdflib dependency - the full output and error message is below. This is the only package I have not been able to install due to an error, can anyone offer suggestions on how to get past this? thanks -- z emerge -v mod_php Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 2) media-libs/pdflib-4.0.3-r1 to / md5 src_uri ;-) pdflib-4.0.3.tar.gz md5 src_uri ;-) pdf.c Unpacking source... Unpacking pdflib-4.0.3.tar.gz to /home/portage/portage/pdflib-4.0.3-r1/work Source unpacked. creating cache ./config.cache checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking MACHDEP... linux2 checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc -03 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe ) works... yes This should have picked up the problem, I think. You might want to consider filing a bug against it. ... make[1]: Entering directory `/home/portage/portage/pdflib-4.0.3-r1/work/pdflib-4.0.3/flate' ../libtool --silent --mode=compile gcc -c -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -03 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe -DPDF_PLATFORM=\Linux 2.4.20-gentoo-r7\ adler32.c gcc: unrecognized option `-03' gcc: no input files $ gcc -03 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe gcc: unrecognized option `-03' gcc: no input files $ gcc -O3 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe gcc: no input files [EMAIL PROTECTED] stroller $ Can you spot the difference..? Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What's with Re: [gentoo-user] is there a good XF86config creator
On 15 Oct 2003, at 3:57 pm, Stroller wrote: On 15 Oct 2003, at 2:40 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Tuesday 14 October 2003 04:54 pm, Sean Higgins wrote: What about running xf86cfg? It is much better than xf86config and seemed to detect my hardware just fine... Sean I've gotten 4 copies of this message, all aparently sent at the same time but with different time stamps in the headers. Is this on my side or is someone else receiving these too? I often get duplicates of messages, although rarely as many as 4 of the same one. Seems to go in bursts - some days I get a load of duplicates of different messages, others none at all. I kinda figured it must be the connection from the Gentoo mail server to my POP3 provider, which seems to get quite busy. Whups! Spoke too soon! Two more copies of this message just came through! Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] strange install situation
On 2003.10.15 09:11, Matt Garman wrote: Hello: I used the Athlon XP v1.4 (dated 9/11) Live CD disk 1 to do a Stage 3 install of Gentoo. Everything *seemed* to go okay, until reboot, when Grub couldn't find the kernel. I used the Live CD as a rescue disk, looked at my install drive, and, sure enough, no kernel was installed! Also, the /lib/modules directory tree was empty. Now, I'm not (completely) crazy; I specifically remember (during the initial install) doing an emerge -k sys-kernel/gentoo-sources then a emerge -k genkernel and finally running genkernel --config. I made a few minor configuration changes to the kernel (mostly removing unneeded modules), then waited while it built bzImage, modules, did a make modules_install, etc. It took a while, so *something* was going on :) Unfortunately, I don't remember if it exited with an error code (I'm pretty sure I would have noticed that though). (snip) I'm trying to build the nvidia-kernel modules, but when I do this, I get the following error: (snip) In file included from nv.c:14: nv-linux.h:24:31: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory nv.c: In function `cleanup_module': nv.c:861: warning: unused variable `i' make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 And it's true, I don't have a /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h file. Basically, it looks like you didnt do the symlink from your kernel source to /usr/src/linux . xmms also fails: emerge (40 of 54) media-sound/xmms-1.2.7-r20 to / md5 src_uri ;-) xmms-1.2.7.tar.gz Unpacking source... Unpacking xmms-1.2.7.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/xmms-1.2.7-r20/work * Applying xmms-jump.patch... [ ok ] * Applying xmms-sigterm.patch... [ ok ] * Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE! Value for $EPATCH_SOURCE is: * * /usr/portage/distfiles/xmms-1.2.7-mmx.patch.gz !!! ERROR: media-sound/xmms-1.2.7-r20 failed. !!! Function epatch, Line 182, Exitcode 0 !!! Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE! This i dont know. try emerge sync'ing again and see if the problem still exists. -- Chris I While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both of his. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mod_php error
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:44:16 -0400 Z [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unable to emerge mod_php due to a failure in emerging the pdflib dependency - the full output and error message is below. This is the only package I have not been able to install due to an error, can anyone offer suggestions on how to get past this? checking whether the C compiler (gcc -03 -march=i686 -funroll-loops ... gcc: unrecognized option `-03' ... The correct compiler option is -O3 - that's an alpha; you have -03 - that's zero three. Correct your /etc/make.conf and try again. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] question re creating meta-ebuild for application distribution
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 11:20, Sigurd Stordal wrote: directory so that portage fully knows about it? Can I do so in such a way that an emerge rsync won't lose that information? And if not, I PORTDIR_OVERLAY. You set it in the make.conf file, and make every new app dir there, will not be updated by emerge sync. I am using PORTDIR_OVERLAY. But simply creating a new package directory within it doesn't solve the problem. To see this, try creating a new subdirectory $PORTDIR_OVERLAY/app-whatever, create an application directory within it, and a valid ebuild within it. Do an ebuild digest, then emerge app-whatever/whatever/whatever-1.0.ebuild. It should install fine. Then do an emerge -s whatever. It won't find your ebuild. So package directories must be registered somehow with portage, but I don't know the mechanism. js -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: question re creating meta-ebuild for application distribution
Jacob Smullyan wrote:
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I am using PORTDIR_OVERLAY. But simply creating a new package directory
within it doesn't solve the problem.
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You can add categories in file /etc/portage/categories (system
categories are in ${PORTDIR}/profiles/categories).
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Re: [gentoo-user] strange install situation
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:17:28AM -0400, Chris I wrote: In file included from nv.c:14: nv-linux.h:24:31: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory nv.c: In function `cleanup_module': nv.c:861: warning: unused variable `i' make: *** [nv.o] Error 1 And it's true, I don't have a /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h file. Basically, it looks like you didnt do the symlink from your kernel source to /usr/src/linux . Shouldn't emerging the kernel source or using genkernel do that for me? At any rate: bash-2.05b# ls -la /usr/src/linux lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 22 Oct 14 19:43 /usr/src/linux - linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 bash-2.05b# updatedb bash-2.05b# locate modversions.h bash-2.05b# So maybe it's just not part of the gentoo-sources 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 kernel? On my old system, I have a modversions.h file in both include/linux and include/config in my vanilla kernel source trees, for versions 2.4.20 through 2.4.22. shrug I think I'm just going to re-install anyway (if only for peace of mind). I must have made some subtle mistake or overlooking something. xmms also fails: This i dont know. try emerge sync'ing again and see if the problem still exists. Yup, xmms is no longer problematic. I'll write that one off to random strangeness :) Thanks for all the feedback! Matt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] strange install situation
Matt Garman wrote: [snip] xmms also fails: emerge (40 of 54) media-sound/xmms-1.2.7-r20 to / md5 src_uri ;-) xmms-1.2.7.tar.gz Unpacking source... Unpacking xmms-1.2.7.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/xmms-1.2.7-r20/work * Applying xmms-jump.patch... [ ok ] * Applying xmms-sigterm.patch... [ ok ] * Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE! Value for $EPATCH_SOURCE is: * * /usr/portage/distfiles/xmms-1.2.7-mmx.patch.gz !!! ERROR: media-sound/xmms-1.2.7-r20 failed. !!! Function epatch, Line 182, Exitcode 0 !!! Cannot find $EPATCH_SOURCE! Didn't spot this bit before, I just skimmed over the nvida bit and missed it! I had this problem when my USE variable contained 3dnow but not mmx. Apparently xmms needs a patch for mmx or 3dnow but the patch is only downloaded if mmx is set and not if 3dnow is. There is a bug report on this and it's fixed in later versions. JD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: question re creating meta-ebuild for application distribution
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 06:11:42PM +0200, sf wrote:
Jacob Smullyan wrote:
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I am using PORTDIR_OVERLAY. But simply creating a new package directory
within it doesn't solve the problem.
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You can add categories in file /etc/portage/categories (system
categories are in ${PORTDIR}/profiles/categories).
Thanks, that seems to do the trick! Unfortunately I can't find
documentation for it anywhere :(.
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[gentoo-user] Re: question re creating meta-ebuild for application distribution
Jacob Smullyan wrote:
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You can add categories in file /etc/portage/categories (system
categories are in ${PORTDIR}/profiles/categories).
Thanks, that seems to do the trick! Unfortunately I can't find
documentation for it anywhere :(.
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Gentoo, especially portage, is not well documented. The devs do not seem
to care.
This particular undocumented (AFAIK) feature is to be found in
/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py (look for getting
categories from an external file now).
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[gentoo-user] Linuxant DriverLoader
Hi all, don't know if this is very new for you, but it is at least for me. I found this [1] article on lwn.net and it seems to be ... yeah, wow! ;) Has anyone some experience with that? Is this as much wow as I think? Greetings and thx for *all* info, Matthias footnote: [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/53452/ -- Hello? Yes? Oh! Heh, heh, uh ... if you're looking for that big donut of yours ... um, Flanders has it. Just smash open his house. (Closing the door.) He came to life. Good for him. -- Homer Simpson Treehouse of Horror VI -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] 3rd party ebuilds
I have a couple of questions regarding installation of ebuilds. I recently had to install a patched ebuild from a standalone ebuild supplied by a gentoo developer. Although the man page for ebuild documents the use of a standalone external file as a source for an ebuild, following the directions resulted in errors complaining about paths and the ebuild not being found under /usr/portage. What's the correct procedure for installing a standalone ebuild file and incorporating it into the build tree? Along the same line, I've been wondering if 3rd party ebuilds for gentoo for stuff not already in gentoo are common on places like freshmeat, as are packages for other distributions for open source work not already available through the distribution's regular channels. The answer to the above question would, of course, apply to any 3rd party ebuilds one might download. -- Lindsay Haisley | Everything works| PGP public key FMP Computer Services | if you let it | available at 512-259-1190 |(The Roadie) | http://www.fmp.com/pubkeys http://www.fmp.com| | -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3rd party ebuilds
Take a look at PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/make.conf Lindsay Haisley wrote: I have a couple of questions regarding installation of ebuilds. I recently had to install a patched ebuild from a standalone ebuild supplied by a gentoo developer. Although the man page for ebuild documents the use of a standalone external file as a source for an ebuild, following the directions resulted in errors complaining about paths and the ebuild not being found under /usr/portage. What's the correct procedure for installing a standalone ebuild file and incorporating it into the build tree? Along the same line, I've been wondering if 3rd party ebuilds for gentoo for stuff not already in gentoo are common on places like freshmeat, as are packages for other distributions for open source work not already available through the distribution's regular channels. The answer to the above question would, of course, apply to any 3rd party ebuilds one might download. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE and Xfree problem
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 2:17 pm, Stroller wrote: On 15 Oct 2003, at 10:37 am, paul cooke wrote: I have kde-3.1.2.tbz2 kde-env-3-r2.tbz2 kdeaddons-3.1.2.tbz2 .. etc. on CD2 (I have 2 Gentoo-1.4 CD version) I have no idea how to install them simultaneously. Nor whether they have to be installed separately. Kindly advise. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml section 25.1 applies for those with GRP... but those packages apply to a particular snapshot taken back in September and the portage tree has very likely changed by now if that's what you are using. Followed by... I think the 2-CD sets have a .pdf (and probably html a textfile) of installation instructions on them. I think these are likely to be more accurate than the website, which (again, *I think*) is more geared to single-CD installs. When you boot up CD1 of the 2 CD set it shows right there on the welcome screen after completely booting up, instructions for loading in the installation document into the text based browser. Those instructions are almost the same as the ones on the website... but it did mention that the more recent version on the website should be referred to if in doubt. I had all four consoles going with F2 showing the installation document and F1 actually in the chrooted environment... the other two were in use for doing the copying tasks etc. now short of actually coming round and doing it for you, these should do the trick. I too am finding these postings wearisome. Please advise. AAARRRGGGHHH!!! Personally I would recommend... A different distro. One with an installation GUI. I like Gentoo the way it is, but that doesn't mean it's for all users. Stroller. My Gentoo box had to be broken up yesterday... I needed the power supply to get another machine back up and running quickly. It didn't die in vain though... I've gained experience to put into practice on my next gentoo build... which will be real soon and the P4 in the corner with SuSE 8.2 on it is looking a bit nervous. Paul Cooke -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Package installation question
Hi Jon, If you know the name of the package, have a look in /usr/portage with find, e.g. cd /usr/portage find . -name 'rolo' -maxdepth 2 find . -name 'openoffice*' -maxdepth 2 Alternatively, have a trawl through the online package listing on the gentoo website. Or try emerge search name e.g. emerge search kde Broadband connected # emerge search kde /tmp/kde-search (kde-search is attached to this posting) - snip - check the results, then do the same without the -p. Then go home for the weekend. You never know, it might be done! Just installed gentoo and from the base install it took about a day to compile and install kde (including all it's dependencies like XFree86). This is on an Athlon 1.3 Noted with thanks B.R. Stephen Searching... [ Results for search key : kde ] [ Applications found : 24 ] * app-doc/kdelibs-apidocs Latest version available: 3.1.4 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 10,290 kB Homepage:http//developer.kde.org/ Description: API documentation autogenerated from the kde-base/kdelibs package * dev-python/pykde Latest version available: 3.7.4 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 615 kB Homepage:http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pykde/ Description: set of Python bindings for the KDE libs * dev-util/kdevelop Latest version available: 2.1.5 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 6,754 kB Homepage:http://www.kdevelop.org/ Description: KDevelop 2.1.5 * kde-base/kde Latest version available: 3.1.4 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 0 kB Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ Description: KDE 3.1 - merge this to pull in all non-developer kde-base/* packages * kde-base/kde-env Latest version available: 3-r2 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 0 kB Homepage:http://www.gentoo.org/ Description: Sets up some env.d files for kde * kde-base/kde-i18n Latest version available: 3.1.4 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 340,302 kB Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ Description: KDE 3.1.4 - i18n: kde-i18n * kde-base/kdeaccessibility [ Masked ] Latest version available: 3.2.0_alpha2 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 1,183 kB Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ Description: KDE accessibility module * kde-base/kdeaddons Latest version available: 3.1.4 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 1,057 kB Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ Description: KDE addon modules: plugins for konqueror, noatun etc * kde-base/kdeadmin Latest version available: 3.1.4 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 1,522 kB Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ Description: KDE administration tools (user manager, etc.) * kde-base/kdeartwork Latest version available: 3.1.4 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 13,526 kB Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ Description: KDE artwork package * kde-base/kdebase Latest version available: 3.1.4 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 14,835 kB Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ Description: KDE base packages: the desktop, panel, window manager, konqueror... * kde-base/kdebindings Latest version available: 3.1.2 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 6,028 kB Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ Description: KDE library bindings for languages other than c++ * kde-base/kdeedu Latest version available: 3.1.4 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 19,570 kB Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ Description: KDE educational apps * kde-base/kdegames Latest version available: 3.1.4 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 8,335 kB Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ Description: KDE games (solitaire :-) * kde-base/kdegraphics Latest version available: 3.1.4 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 4,487 kB Homepage:http://www.kde.org/ Description: KDE graphics-related apps * kde-base/kdelibs Latest version available: 3.1.4 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 10,290 kB Homepage:http//www.kde.org/ Description: KDE libraries needed by all kde programs * kde-base/kdemultimedia Latest version available: 3.1.4-r1 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE and Xfree problem
At 12:42 PM 10/15/2003, you wrote: When you boot up CD1 of the 2 CD set it shows right there on the welcome screen after completely booting up, instructions for loading in the installation document into the text based browser. Those instructions are almost the same as the ones on the website... but it did mention that the more recent version on the website should be referred to if in doubt. I had issues with the instructions myself and I'd like to think I'm not a linux newbie. I've been using Linux since late '97... My first distro was Redhat 5.0 --- no GUI, newbie-friendly install process there. After that it was Mandrake (as easy as installing Windows), and then Debian for a couple of years. It took me (3) tries with Gentoo. After attempt # 2, I gave up ... for about three days. :) I then printed out the instructions from the website and followed them. 1) IMO, there are mistakes in the instructions that will throw many people, myself included. 2) There needs to be seperate instructions for stage1 installs, stage2, stage3, GRP, and stage3+GRP (seperate instructions may alleviate (1) in that some things weren't clear enough that you had to do something vs it only applies to a different install method. Regards Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo user
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 15:11, Chase Jeffery D wrote: Hi everyone! I'm compiling my own kernel and am using gentoo-sources. Does anyone have a recommended list of options to choose in genkernel --config. I'm trying to get netfilter/iptables to compile correctly and its not working Basically I want a Fast kernel that will allow me to use netfilter/iptable to setup a firewall? Any help would be great!!! Thanks, Jeff Just a note: I have never been able to compile/emerge iptables when using gentoo-sources, but it works fine with vanilla-sources. (Which is OK, I use iptables on my firewall/gateway box which doesn't need the spiffy fast super-response features of the gentoo-sources kernel, anyway) The iptables emerge process stalls on Calculating dependencies..[something] if I remember correctly, with gentoo-sources. I have tried many different configurations to make it work, including reducing the number of netfilter modules to the bare minimum, no luck though. Regards, Øyvind -- Øyvind Stegard [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Oslo, Dept. of informatics. http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~oyvinst Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. - Mark Twain -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE and Xfree problem
SNIP At time of installation from CD1, I completed Code listing 25.2 but failed to complete 25.1 and 25.3 # emerge - xfree and # emerge -k kde running without end. Finally I force-rebooted the PC. did you actually reboot (with CD1 removed) to get your system started up correctly??? cos what you've described sounds like you were still in the chrooted environment immediately after compiling the kernel etc. Besides my PC for this test is a slow machine, P-II350/256MB therefore I expect to know whether it is possible to make use of those pre-compile packages on CD2. Of course you can... I was using a much lower spec machine than yours and got mine up and running in KDE in just eight hours worth of work. (started 4pm Friday evening and had logged into KDE before midnight.) I suppose all of them have been copied to my OS after completing Code listing 25.2 # mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom # cp -a /mnt/cdrom/packages/* /usr/portage/packages/ Can I apply following command to install all kde packages simultaneously; # emerge /usr/portage/packages/kde-3.1.2.tbz2 | /usr/portage/packages/kde-env-3-r2.tbz2 | /usr/portage/packages/kdeaddons-3.1.2.tbz2 | etc. no... just emerge -k kde it fetches in all of kde with the exception of the two dependencies already mentioned in the bug report. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Package installation question
If you have mysql, you can add portagesql.. I wouldn't advise using it for everyday use, however, I searching is awesome.. emergesql -s kde - takes about 2 seconds to come back.. :) Just to bad the portage guys don't see the value in a sql backend. -Original Message- From: Stephen Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 11:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Package installation question Hi Jon, If you know the name of the package, have a look in /usr/portage with find, e.g. cd /usr/portage find . -name 'rolo' -maxdepth 2 find . -name 'openoffice*' -maxdepth 2 Alternatively, have a trawl through the online package listing on the gentoo website. Or try emerge search name e.g. emerge search kde Broadband connected # emerge search kde /tmp/kde-search (kde-search is attached to this posting) - snip - check the results, then do the same without the -p. Then go home for the weekend. You never know, it might be done! Just installed gentoo and from the base install it took about a day to compile and install kde (including all it's dependencies like XFree86). This is on an Athlon 1.3 Noted with thanks B.R. Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Package installation question
At 12:54 PM 10/15/2003, you wrote: Just installed gentoo and from the base install it took about a day to compile and install kde (including all it's dependencies like XFree86). This is on an Athlon 1.3 Noted with thanks I did my first emerge world -uv (this updates *all* installed packages, as I understand it) last night. Here's what was available to update: emerge world -uvp These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] app-admin/metalog-0.6-r11 [0.6-r10] [ebuild N ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7 [ebuild U ] dev-libs/glib-2.2.3 [2.2.2] [ebuild U ] kde-base/arts-1.1.4 [1.1.3] [ebuild U ] media-libs/libart_lgpl-2.3.16 [2.3.14] [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.1.4 [3.1.3-r1] [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdeedu-3.1.4 [3.1.3] [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdebase-3.1.4 [3.1.3] [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdenetwork-3.1.4 [3.1.3] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/tcp-wrappers-7.6-r6 [7.6-r4] [ebuild U ] media-sound/esound-0.2.32 [0.2.29-r1] [ebuild U ] dev-lang/nasm-0.98.38 [0.98.36] [ebuild U ] dev-libs/DirectFB-0.9.19-r1 [0.9.18] [ebuild U ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3 [4.3.0-r2] [ebuild U ] media-libs/libsdl-1.2.6-r1 [1.2.5-r2] +svga -aalib +opengl [ebuild N ] sys-libs/lib-compat-1.2 [ebuild N ] media-libs/divx4linux-20030428-r1 [ebuild N ] media-libs/win32codecs-0.90.1-r2 [ebuild N ] media-libs/xvid-0.9.1 [ebuild N ] media-libs/flac-1.1.0 [ebuild N ] media-libs/libfame-0.9.0 [ebuild N ] media-libs/xine-lib-1_beta12 [ebuild N ] media-video/xanim-2.80.1-r4 [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.1.4-r1 [3.1.3] [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdeaddons-3.1.4 [3.1.3] [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdepim-3.1.4 [3.1.3] [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdetoys-3.1.4 [3.1.3] [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdegames-3.1.4 [3.1.3] [ebuild N ] media-libs/glut-3.7.1 [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdegraphics-3.1.4 [3.1.3] [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdeadmin-3.1.4 [3.1.3] [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdeartwork-3.1.4 [3.1.3] [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdeutils-3.1.4 [3.1.3] [ebuild U ] kde-base/kde-3.1.4 [3.1.3] I was curious how long it would take, so I used the time command to time it for me. It took 361 minutes (just about 6 hours on the nose). Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] (mozilla) firbird 0.7 released
Well the latest firebird is out, but the download site seems to be pegged; I can't get there yet. What looks slicker-n-snot is the ability to bookmark a set of open tabs and reopen all automatically later. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE and Xfree problem
On Oct 15, 2003, at 5:52 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: I had issues with the instructions myself and I'd like to think I'm not a linux newbie... It took me (3) tries with Gentoo. After attempt # 2, I gave up ... for about three days. :) I then printed out the instructions from the website and followed them. Agreed. When I first installed Gentoo I did it via ssh, just across the room, and opened the Gentoo Install Guide for each step. It was only after much confusion ( some wasted time) that I realised the install instructions had changed since I had started! The changes might not have been very significant, but they were sufficient for me to do things is the wrong order to throw me off generally. 2) There needs to be seperate instructions for stage1 installs, stage2, stage3, GRP, and stage3+GRP (seperate instructions may alleviate (1) in that some things weren't clear enough that you had to do something vs it only applies to a different install method. Agreed. Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE and Xfree problem
I have never followed the web page Step by step before.. After looking at it, its pretty straight forward to me.. Starting from stage 1 Would be a indication that if I am running from stage 2, to skip this step to Starting from Stage two, continuing from 1... I don't see how the confusion starts. I have never had any gentoo specific problems during installs... Was I lucky?? :) On Oct 15, 2003, at 5:52 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: SNIP 2) There needs to be seperate instructions for stage1 installs, stage2, stage3, GRP, and stage3+GRP (seperate instructions may alleviate (1) in that some things weren't clear enough that you had to do something vs it only applies to a different install method. Agreed. Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Package installation question
Hi Al, Thanks for your advice # find . -name 'openoffice*' -maxdepth 2 ./app-office/openoffice-bin ./app-office/openoffice Then what command shall I issue to install them 1) emerge -k openoffice or 2) ./openoffice-bin I'd imagine it would be emerge -k openoffice... have a look on the online package database at the descriptions of both. Will probably give a better indication. 2) should be emerge -k openoffice-bin I think Ok. I will try # emerge -k openoffice-bin later Unfortunately, there isn't a web based search. You can do: emerge search searchterm As another poster suggested (I didn't know this, but then I only started using gentoo on friday!). Once you know which section it's in, you can go and have a look on the website for more details, e.g. with sc, type: emerge search sc I did # emerge search kde /tmp/kde-search according to Jon's advice. I attached 'kde-search' file to my reply to Jon earlier. will give you a whole list of things with 'sc' in. In amongst these is app-office/sc, so go to http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/index.xml and click on app-office, then sc. This will give you a few details, including the developer homepage etc. In most cases, I think you can bypass the clicking by doing (e.g.) http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/app-office/sc.xml Actually sc is a lousy example as there a lot of things with sc in their name, so you'll get lots of results. In this case you might want to try emerge search sc | egrep '^\*.*\/sc$' # emerge search sc | egrep '^\*.*\/sc$' * app-office/sc - snip - Try this and see if it makes it any clearer: echo net-www/mozilla mylist.txt echo net-www/w3m mylist.txt echo kde mylist.txt emerge -p `cat mylist.txt` Should say that it would install a whole lot of packages! then do: emerge `cat mylist.txt` emerge `cat mylist.txt` displays a long list of [ebuild N ] kde-base/kde-3.1.4 .. etc. and it'll go off and do it. The advantage of this is that you can prepare a whole lot of packages that you want it to compile and then leave it for a long time, rather than having to be at the computer or going back every hour or so. Get a nice long list of everything you want and then leave your computer to build it all over the weekend or whatever. However I hesitate to install kde from net because of my slow PC. I don't know how long it will take. I am in anticipation to use the pre-compile kde packages on CD2 - snip - What command shall be used? I have all tarballs copied to /usr/portage/packages/ALL/ emerge packagename where packagename is something like kde or mozilla or app-office/sc (without the quotes). Adding a -k before the package name will try and use a binary if it's available. In many ways this defies the point of gentoo though, as it's supposed to be a source based distribution (makes things run faster). Also, -k only installs binaries if they're available, otherwise it compiles from source. That's about all I can think of, if I've missed anything or said anything wrong, hopefully someone more knowledgeable will pick up on it and correct me. I think the key thing when you're installing gentoo (which hopefully I'll finish eventually!) is to be very very very very very very very patient. Noted with thanks B.R. Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on booting after installation.
Hi Kevin, Kevin Bucknum wrote: The PC used for testing is a slow machine PII500 256MB RAM. To overcome the difficulty can I make use of the 2nd CD. If YES, then HOW. I already have all packages on the 2nd CD copied to Gentoo 1.4 Not sure what's on the second cd - back when I installed there was just one. It sounds like you are trying to avoid compiling these packages, and in the time you spent trying to get the binaries to work, the source would have compiled by now. But if want to use the binaries - what does echo $PKGDIR I have browsed CD2 (second CD). There are many kde packages there in .tbz I have copied all of them to /usr/portage/packages/ # echo $PKGDIR empty return B.R. Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3rd party ebuilds
Yes, I have PORTDIR_OVERLAY defined, but this doesn't really address my question. In particular, I had some difficulty installing the patch from a gentoo maintainer: # ebuild gnome-panel-2.4.0-r2.ebuild unpack !!! aux_get(): ebuild for '/gnome-panel-2.4.0-r2' does not exist at: !!!/usr/portage//gnome-panel/gnome-panel-2.4.0-r2.ebuild gnome-panel-2.4.0-r2.ebuild is in the pwd (~root), from whicn I'm running this command. What am I missing? The man page defines the syntax as 'ebuild file command [command]...' I get the same error whatever command I try to run w. ebuild. What am I doing wrong? Thus spake Jose Gonzalez Gomez on Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:32:30AM CDT Take a look at PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/make.conf Lindsay Haisley wrote: I have a couple of questions regarding installation of ebuilds. I recently had to install a patched ebuild from a standalone ebuild supplied by a gentoo developer. Although the man page for ebuild documents the use of a standalone external file as a source for an ebuild, following the directions resulted in errors complaining about paths and the ebuild not being found under /usr/portage. What's the correct procedure for installing a standalone ebuild file and incorporating it into the build tree? Along the same line, I've been wondering if 3rd party ebuilds for gentoo for stuff not already in gentoo are common on places like freshmeat, as are packages for other distributions for open source work not already available through the distribution's regular channels. The answer to the above question would, of course, apply to any 3rd party ebuilds one might download. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Lindsay Haisley | Everything works| PGP public key FMP Computer Services | if you let it | available at 512-259-1190 |(The Roadie) | http://www.fmp.com/pubkeys http://www.fmp.com| | -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 3rd party ebuilds
The ebuild needs to be in the regular portage or PORTDIR_OVERLAY directories. From what you said the patch ebuild was in root - that won't work. On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:43:26 -0500 Lindsay Haisley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I have PORTDIR_OVERLAY defined, but this doesn't really address my question. In particular, I had some difficulty installing the patch from a gentoo maintainer: # ebuild gnome-panel-2.4.0-r2.ebuild unpack !!! aux_get(): ebuild for '/gnome-panel-2.4.0-r2' does not exist at: !!! /usr/portage//gnome-panel/gnome-panel-2.4.0-r2.ebuild gnome-panel-2.4.0-r2.ebuild is in the pwd (~root), from whicn I'm running this command. What am I missing? The man page defines the syntax as 'ebuild file command [command]...' -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] A7V600 SATA - Is this supported by a Gentoo kernel?
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:28, Andreas Roedl wrote: Hello! Am Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2003 20:16 schrieb Mark Knecht: I think someone must be using this board? Have you had good results? Easy or difficult to install Gentoo? I just bought an Asus A7V600 SATA board where the SATA controller is included in the southbridge and realized that its impossible to get it working under Linux. The day after I bought the Asus A7N8X Deluxe which is equipped with a Silicon Image 3112 Chip and it works pretty well. If you have the chance to get rid of the A7V600 and exchange it against the A7N8X Deluxe, do it! SNIP I patched the my kernels for vt8237 support (manually, because gentoo-sources don't handle the patch) and now everything is fine like before. Except windows but I wasn't using it anyway ;-) I also patched my mandrake's kernel and could boot mandrake too. Note: I have not tried sata, the via sound interface or the 3com gigaethernet. But everything else work fine. (almost: my kernel always complains about irq routing conflicts during boot). Andreas, Mattieu Peter, Thanks for the responses. I have been asking this question in a couple of different forums and am getting somewhat conflicting answers. I think this is most likely due to SATA being pretty new, and certainly not really well supported just yet. Mattieu - can you confirm if you are using a SATA hard drive? Or are you using an EDIE drive on the more traditional parallel ATA interface that this motherboard offers? Peter - as I understand the numbering, the VT8237 is the South Bridge on this motherboard which contains the SATA controller. Do the patches you indicate are now in the gs-sources kernel specifically include SATA patches? Or were you just saying that that there is no reason for people to patch the kernel to support the VT8237 any more? A BIT MORE INFO - I am told that on the Asus P4C800 motherboard that there is a BIOS option for the SATA controller called 'compatibility mode', and that with this option enabled people are able to boot and install Redhat 9. I have no information about what that option might do to SATA performance, or whether this option exists on the A7V600 motherboard. Maybe it's an Intel only thing. Thanks again for your help. I'd really like to run both Gentoo SATA on this box, so I need to get this info before spending the cash. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: (mozilla) firbird 0.7 released
Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well the latest firebird is out, but the download site seems to be pegged; I can't get there yet. What looks slicker-n-snot is the ability to bookmark a set of open tabs and reopen all automatically later. You can do that already in 0.6.1. It's certainly slick, though. -- Björn Lindström [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bkhl.elektrubadur.se/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on booting after installation.
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 19:45, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Kevin, Kevin Bucknum wrote: The PC used for testing is a slow machine PII500 256MB RAM. To overcome the difficulty can I make use of the 2nd CD. If YES, then HOW. I already have all packages on the 2nd CD copied to Gentoo 1.4 Not sure what's on the second cd - back when I installed there was just one. It sounds like you are trying to avoid compiling these packages, and in the time you spent trying to get the binaries to work, the source would have compiled by now. But if want to use the binaries - what does echo $PKGDIR I have browsed CD2 (second CD). There are many kde packages there in .tbz I have copied all of them to /usr/portage/packages/ # echo $PKGDIR empty return B.R. Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list All GRP packages should live in /usr/portage/packages/All/here Unless you emerge synced 'emerge -k appname' should work if not try: 'emerge -K appname' Good luck Roger (roger55 on #gentoo) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on booting after installation.
At 01:45 PM 10/15/2003, you wrote: /usr/portage/packages/ # echo $PKGDIR empty return You have to define $PKGDIR first. You do that by export $PKGDIR=/path/to/your/package/dir Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mod_php error - fixed
On Wednesday October 15 2003 11:32 am, Collins Richey wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:44:16 -0400 Z [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unable to emerge mod_php due to a failure in emerging the pdflib dependency - the full output and error message is below. This is the only package I have not been able to install due to an error, can anyone offer suggestions on how to get past this? checking whether the C compiler (gcc -03 -march=i686 -funroll-loops ... gcc: unrecognized option `-03' ... The correct compiler option is -O3 - that's an alpha; you have -03 - that's zero three. Correct your /etc/make.conf and try again. Thanks (and to stroller) - I had updated make.conf recently and must have misread when typing - glad that not everyone is as dsylexic as I am ;-) -- z -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (mozilla) firbird 0.7 released
Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well the latest firebird is out, but the download site seems to be pegged; I can't get there yet. What looks slicker-n-snot is the ability to bookmark a set of open tabs and reopen all automatically later. You can do that already in 0.6.1. It's certainly slick, though. I was actually able to download it with relative ease via straight FTP earlier. The mirror I hit had a DNS reverse-lookup restriction dealio on the email-password thing for anonymous access, which probably explained it... It's niiice :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE and Xfree problem
I'm new to gentoo and I had no problems following the install doc Except for when I went and tried to compile iptables/netfilter into the gentoo-sources kernel... Yeah that's not working so well!!! :0) -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Smelser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 1:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE and Xfree problem I have never followed the web page Step by step before.. After looking at it, its pretty straight forward to me.. Starting from stage 1 Would be a indication that if I am running from stage 2, to skip this step to Starting from Stage two, continuing from 1... I don't see how the confusion starts. I have never had any gentoo specific problems during installs... Was I lucky?? :) On Oct 15, 2003, at 5:52 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: SNIP 2) There needs to be seperate instructions for stage1 installs, stage2, stage3, GRP, and stage3+GRP (seperate instructions may alleviate (1) in that some things weren't clear enough that you had to do something vs it only applies to a different install method. Agreed. Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] New gentoo user
Thanks Øyvind!! At least I'm not the only person that has had this problem!!! -Original Message- From: Øyvind Stegard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 12:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo user On Wednesday 15 October 2003 15:11, Chase Jeffery D wrote: Hi everyone! I'm compiling my own kernel and am using gentoo-sources. Does anyone have a recommended list of options to choose in genkernel --config. I'm trying to get netfilter/iptables to compile correctly and its not working Basically I want a Fast kernel that will allow me to use netfilter/iptable to setup a firewall? Any help would be great!!! Thanks, Jeff Just a note: I have never been able to compile/emerge iptables when using gentoo-sources, but it works fine with vanilla-sources. (Which is OK, I use iptables on my firewall/gateway box which doesn't need the spiffy fast super-response features of the gentoo-sources kernel, anyway) The iptables emerge process stalls on Calculating dependencies..[something] if I remember correctly, with gentoo-sources. I have tried many different configurations to make it work, including reducing the number of netfilter modules to the bare minimum, no luck though. Regards, Øyvind -- Øyvind Stegard [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Oslo, Dept. of informatics. http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~oyvinst Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. - Mark Twain -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Update of Transcode
Eric Marchionni wrote: Paul Stear wrote: I had the same issue. Upon looking into it further it is a problem with the mmx code not being configured correctly during the configure process. I don't know enough to determine if it is in the ebuild or the actual transcode code. But the workaround that I found was to do the following: env USE=mmx emerge transcode This enabled the ebuild to compile correctly on my box. Regards, Paul jep, thanks this really worked!! but how did you figure out that mmx was the source of the problem? just curious... -eric I went into /var/tmp/portage/work/ and found the directory where it was being compiled. I copied the config.h file to /tmp and then did a make distclean to clean up portages attempts at compiling and configuring. I then ran ./configure and make to see if it compiled properly. When it did compile properly, I did a diff on the config.h file created when portage ran configure and the config.h when I ran configure. The difference was something like CONFIG_MMX=N vs CONFIG_MMX=Y (This wasn't exactly what was displayed, but is the gist of the differences) I then did an etcat -u transcode, which showed that the mmx USE flag was turned off. This led me to try setting the mmx USE flag with the emerge command. I honestly think the problem is with the ebuild, but I don't know enough to definitively determine that. Regards, Paul -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A7V600 SATA - Is this supported by a Gentoo kernel?
On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 18:50, Mark Knecht wrote: Peter - as I understand the numbering, the VT8237 is the South Bridge on this motherboard which contains the SATA controller. Do the patches you indicate are now in the gs-sources kernel specifically include SATA patches? Or were you just saying that that there is no reason for people to patch the kernel to support the VT8237 any more? Hi Mark, I have a Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394 board that also has the VIA KT600 chipset. I'm not using the builtin VT8237 but the patch Mathieu posted is identical to the driver included in at least the last three versions of gs-sources, so there's no need to patch gs-sources. Peter -- == Portage 2.0.49-r13 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.23_pre7-gss) i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ == -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] COUNTER file
No I don't have gnome 2.2 (I am sure) Steven Elling wrote: On Tuesday 14 October 2003 05:32, Sloan Poe wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 04:52, Mike Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 14 October 2003 09:49, SMS WebMaster wrote: After upgrading to gnome 2.4 now everytime I emerge any program I got at the end : ['gnome-base/gnome-applets', '2.2.2', 'r0'] ['gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.2.2', 'gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.4.0'] !!! COUNTER file is missing for gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.2.2 in /var/db. !!! Please run /usr/lib/portage/bin/fix-db.pl or remerge the package. IF I run /usr/lib/portage/bin/fix-db.pl I got : Grabbing db contents... Grabbing mtimes... fix-db: fatal: insufficient data for app-dicts/dictd-dicts-1.0 Remove this package's directory from /var/db/pkg to fix this, then start this script again. If everything worked correctly, you must remerge app-dicts/dictd-dicts-1.0 to not mess up any dependencies. Any Help ? (nothing in google/gentoo.org) Remove the directory, and gnome-applets-2.2.2, and any others that complain in the same way later. If you have them installed, install them again afterwards, otherwise your done. I've been running into this too with LOTS of packages. It seems like it could take hours to get the whole mess fixed. It also worries me that this is all of a sudden happening, right after a recent portage update. -sloan poe From the looks of the output above the user has two version (2.2.2 and 2.4.0) of gnome-applets installed -- look above the line containing 'COUNTER'. I would suggest the older version(s) of gnome-applets in this case be remove and see if the errors go away. I had similar problems with baselayout and removing older versions took care of the problem. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- http://www.4-SMS.Com http://eShop.4-SMS.Com http://Mozilla.4-SMS.Com -*- If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem -*- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge wants X on server
begin quote On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:43:01 +0200 Timo Boettcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Router root # emerge info | grep USE USE=crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gtk imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis pdflib png qt quicktime spell svga truetype xml2 xmms gdbm berkdb slang readline gpm tcpd ssl perl python ldap -3dfx -3dnow -acpi -alsa -arts -apm -avi -dga -directfb -dvb -dvd -esd -ev6 -evo -fbcon firebird -flash -gb -gnome -gphoto2 -gps -kde -lirc -matrox -mbox -moziolla -oci -oss -opengl -pam -pcmcia -pda -ruby -scanner -sse -voodoo3 -wavelan -X -Xaw3d -xface -xinerama xv -zeo -ppc -sparc -alpha -mips -hppa -arm mmx nocardbus x86 zlib Router root # Things that will bite you here : qt sdl xmms motif I'd actually suggest having : USE=-* ncuses nls libwww cups crypt xml2 readline slang berkdb gpm ssl perl python ldap firebird mmx nocardbus foomaticdb the -* will disable just about anytning , and then you set only positive things that you know you do want. (Just like when you create a firewall ;) That was gtk (according to ufed). I took it out, do I have to restart the still running (it will run for some time, it only a 233MHz machine) emerge -uUD world ? Probably, yes. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Distcc on LiveCD..?
On Oct 14, 2003, at 1:13 am, Stroller wrote: On 14 Oct 2003, at 12:52 am, William Kenworthy wrote: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/experimental/ x86/livecd/ the one I used was different, this was a month ago though, and gcc was one 3.2 value less (both 3.2.n cant remember what ones) and it wouldnt work Perfect! Thanks. FYI: I downloaded the 2.4.21 CD from there - I have gcc 3.2.3 installed on my main Gentoo installations the gcc 3.2.2 on these liveCDs seems to work ok when in distcc with it. Well, that's what a small test compile indicates, at least - I guess it's possible I may encounter issues when I `emerge -e world`. Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cancelling eth0 start
Thanks, that was a great help!
Patrick Marquetecken wrote:
Hi,
Now the long answer.
I'm using a extra service (in boot) in witch you can choose with grub
and i thin lilo also witch kind of network you will start, with thoose
scripts you can change everything you can image.
Internal network, wireless, no netwerk and so on even the firwall
settings.
How it works:
/etc/init.d/netconfig
this file is placed in the boot runlevel (rc-update add netconfig boot)
at boot time this script read the value of NetConfig=xxx in grub/lilo
and performs the right action. In my case eth0 or eth1. It just places a
symbolic link to my /et/runlevels/default/net.eth0 so eth0 start or
not.
If you have any questions about it just send me a mail.
HTH
Patrick
#!/sbin/runscript
#
# netconfig
#
# Written by: Sean C. Higgins
RunLevelPath=/etc/runlevels/default
depend() {
before net.*
}
start() {
ebegin Starting netconfig
case $NetConfig in
eth0)
ebegin Switching to: $NetConfig
ln -s /etc/conf.d/net-eth0 $RunLevelPath/net.eth0;;
eth1)
ebegin Switching to: $NetConfig
if [[ -e $RunLevelPath/net.eth0 ]]; then
rm -f $RunLevelPath/net.eth0
fi
esac
}
stop() {
ebegin Stopping netconfig
rm $RunLevelPath/net.eth0
eend $? Error removing $RunLevelPath/net.eth0
}
default 5
timeout 10
splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo - Ingebouwd
root (hd0,4)
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda7 NetConfig=eth0
initrc (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r7
title=Gentoo - Wireless
root (hd0,4)
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r7 root=/dev/hda7 NetConfig=eth1
initrc (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r7
title=Windows XP
root (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
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[gentoo-user] Remove user permission for graphical login - kdm
Hello, Hope the subject isn't too confusing. Basically, when I emerged proftd, a user proftp was created. All this is fine and dandy, but the issue is that when I start kdm, the users that can login to the box are root, proftp and myself. Proftp is a user I do not want to even have in the kdm login menu. So how can I remove this user from the kdm graphical login list? any docs I can take a look at? Thanks for any help, -- Eduardo Silva -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] make oldconfig does not care about me?
Hi all, I want to compile my new kernel like this: # cd /usr/src # cp linux/.config linux-new/ # cd linux-new/ # make oldconfig but everytime i have tried to make oldconfig it just starts flying through the options/answers (Y/n/m) all by itself. it's as if i was holding down the [enter] key until i have to kill it via ctl-c. i have had this problem in the past, but i went ahead and just went the full make menuconfig route. i really wish that i could figure out why i am having these problems, and any suggestions would be appreciated. TIA -- jacob[at]buildtheb0x.com | [praying wont help] - Smith Wesson: the orignal point-and-click interface. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig does not care about me?
Hi all, I want to compile my new kernel like this: # cd /usr/src # cp linux/.config linux-new/ # cd linux-new/ # make oldconfig but everytime i have tried to make oldconfig it just starts flying through the options/answers (Y/n/m) all by itself. it's as if i was holding down the [enter] key until i have to kill it via ctl-c. i have had this problem in the past, but i went ahead and just went the full make menuconfig route. i really wish that i could figure out why i am having these problems, and any suggestions would be appreciated. TIA Two things... * You'll probably want to move the `linux' symlink to the new tree * And, make oldconfig is supposed to do just that. It should only stop and ask you what to do on the new features in the new version. -b -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig does not care about me?
Make oldconfig automatically answers the questions that you have answered in the past with that response. if there are no new options, you won't do anything but watch crap fly on the screen.. :) -Original Message- From: [jacob] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 2:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig does not care about me? Hi all, I want to compile my new kernel like this: # cd /usr/src # cp linux/.config linux-new/ # cd linux-new/ # make oldconfig but everytime i have tried to make oldconfig it just starts flying through the options/answers (Y/n/m) all by itself. it's as if i was holding down the [enter] key until i have to kill it via ctl-c. i have had this problem in the past, but i went ahead and just went the full make menuconfig route. i really wish that i could figure out why i am having these problems, and any suggestions would be appreciated. TIA -- jacob[at]buildtheb0x.com | [praying wont help] - Smith Wesson: the orignal point-and-click interface. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig does not care about me?
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:35:45PM -0500, [jacob] wrote: Hi all, I want to compile my new kernel like this: # cd /usr/src # cp linux/.config linux-new/ # cd linux-new/ # make oldconfig but everytime i have tried to make oldconfig it just starts flying through the options/answers (Y/n/m) all by itself. it's as if i was holding down the [enter] key until i have to kill it via ctl-c. i have had this problem in the past, but i went ahead and just went the full make menuconfig route. i really wish that i could figure out why i am having these problems, and any suggestions would be appreciated. That's what make oldconfig does, it takes your previous answers to options and applies then and continues on. It will only stop if there is an option in the new kernel that wasn't in the old kernel. If this didn't happen in the past either you didn't copy your .config properly or the kernel changes were very big, and there were lots of changes. You can of course, let make oldconfig complete, and then go into a make config, menuconfig or xconfig or whatever and check to make sure everything is like you want it to be. -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] A7V600 SATA - Is this supported by a Gentoo kernel?
Hi Mark, I have a Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394 board that also has the VIA KT600 chipset. I'm not using the builtin VT8237 but the patch Mathieu posted is identical to the driver included in at least the last three versions of gs-sources, so there's no need to patch gs-sources. Peter Peter, I'm not using the builtin VT8237... I wanted make sure I understand this comment. You are not using which part of the VT8237? It's a huge chip with a lot of functions - Serial ATA, RAID Controller, Parallel ATA, portions of Via sound support, USB, keyboard and mouse controllers. I am *thinking* you mean that you are not using SATA, or RAID, or neither, but I'm not clear. You MUST be using the keyboard and mouse controllers at least, right? I guess maybe you are using just a standard ATA drive and CDROM on the parallel ATA interface? This could be a fall-back position if I do have trouble with SATA for some reason. (I think I won't, but...) I completely get that I do not need to patch gs-sources to use the VT8237. I just want to be 100% completely clear what you are doing. Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Linuxant DriverLoader
Hi Matthias I stumbled across it yesterday - I think it's very new (10th October ?) Having just bought a Belkin 54g wireless pci card this seemed like the only answer to getting it working with Linux (thanks Belkin tech support - you were a great help..not) It did everything it said it would - i.e. took the windows sys and inf files to configure it from within linux I haven't actually got it to work yet thoalthough I suspect that's possibly my ineptitude ...I'm not yet disheartened - I'll try again... It seems succesfully set up as eth1 - I set up an ip address, netmask, gateway etc...but can't get any traffic through it...I've yet to try it with dhcp Not sure how much it is though (possible $15) but you get a months free trial to play about with it... I'd be interested to hear of anyone else's experiences too ! dick Hi all, don't know if this is very new for you, but it is at least for me. I found this [1] article on lwn.net and it seems to be ... yeah, wow! ;) Has anyone some experience with that? Is this as much wow as I think? Greetings and thx for *all* info, Matthias footnote: [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/53452/ -- Hello? Yes? Oh! Heh, heh, uh ... if you're looking for that big donut of yours ... um, Flanders has it. Just smash open his house. (Closing the door.) He came to life. Good for him. -- Homer Simpson Treehouse of Horror VI -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig does not care about me?
On Wed Oct 15, 2003 at 01:14:55PM -0700, Alan wrote: That's what make oldconfig does, it takes your previous answers to options and applies then and continues on. It will only stop if there is an option in the new kernel that wasn't in the old kernel. If this didn't happen in the past either you didn't copy your .config properly or the kernel changes were very big, and there were lots of changes. lol, doh .. i must have been getting that confused with make config (or forgot to copy it before). okay thnx to all who replied, i didn't have a single change to make in the up'd kernel so i continued along: # make dep make bzImage modules modules_install hopefully all will be good, thnx again all. -- jacob[at]buildtheb0x.com | [praying wont help] - There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig does not care about me?
On Wed Oct 15, 2003 at 02:06:10PM -0700, Alan wrote: Just as a side note, from what I know you can remove the extra make in there and just do make dep bzImage modules modules_install and if any fail the entire process will stop. Doesn't really affect anything though, just some extra keystrokes saved :) thnx bud, every little bit counts ;) -- jacob[at]buildtheb0x.com - Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Install stage-1 from the disk
Hello I would like to install Gentoo tuned for my hardware (Thinkpad 240) I don't have a bootable CD drive, is it possible to just untar the stage-1 archive on a partition and install there? I have a partition with Mandrake 9, a partition with my home folder and a partition for Gentoo. Thanks! -- Denis. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Install stage-1 from the disk
short answer yes.. Long answer, technically, you can build it on just about any machine and transfer it over.. the machine your building on just must be able to support the pc your putting it on.. This is how I install all of mine, I have never used that live cd BS.. Hello I would like to install Gentoo tuned for my hardware (Thinkpad 240) I don't have a bootable CD drive, is it possible to just untar the stage-1 archive on a partition and install there? I have a partition with Mandrake 9, a partition with my home folder and a partition for Gentoo. Thanks! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] slow name resolution
I read the thread at: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=91507highlight=resolving+host but, frankly, it sounds like a load to me. Name resolution on my two Gentoo boxes (one at work, on a Gig-E network, static; the other, at home, behind a Linksys router connected to a cable modem, dhcp) is ridiculously slow. At home, Mutt and Evolution time out unless I put my email server in /etc/hosts. What gives? Again at home, RH9 and my wife's WinXP box exhibit no such slowness? Anyone?? -- Barry Marler Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory University of Georgia Room 229, Center for Applied Genetic Technologies 111 Riverbend Rd. Athens, GA 30602 706.583.0164 [office] 706.583.0160 [fax] http://www.plantgenome.uga.edu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Keyboard Layout Gnome 2.4
Hi After I upgrade to Gnome 2.4 no I can't change my Keyboard layout with my keyboard (e.g. Shift+Alt) I am using Keyboard Layout Switcher 2.4.0 and I had change the Keyboard shortcuts option in the program preferences to Alt-Shift_L Anyone had the same problem ? -- http://www.4-SMS.Com http://eShop.4-SMS.Com http://Mozilla.4-SMS.Com -*- If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem -*- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] up2date files
mozilla family's new releases are out. I've always taunted my friends about being top of the edge with gentoo. Most of them are using mandrake and since you've to wait eons for new releaes, they're used to downlload/compile new things themselves. And now I'm stuck with an older version. Well... Just kidding But how do I install thing to be sure that gentoo's next ebuild will clean my own builds away? I don't want to fill my box with rc1, rc2, b1, a2 releases everywhere! And If you answer to this, please don't tell me to 'configure --prefix=/myownbuilds/' -- mathieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What's with Re: [gentoo-user] is there a good XF86config creator
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 09:40, Ernie Schroder wrote: I've gotten 4 copies of this message, all aparently sent at the same time but with different time stamps in the headers. Is this on my side or is someone else receiving these too? Same thing here. -- Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A7V600 SATA - Is this supported by a Gentoo kernel?
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 19:50, Mark Knecht wrote:
Mattieu - can you confirm if you are using a SATA hard drive? Or are you
using an EDIE drive on the more traditional parallel ATA interface that
this motherboard offers?
maTHieu please ;-)
I'm using pure IDE, sorry. sata cables are still in the box.
I had to buy a new card and my reseller sold me this one. I don't use sata,
raid, giga-ethernet nor the via-soundcard.
Next time, I'll check the specs before buying a new card.
Anyway, after my first reboot with the new card, I was just missing dma
support (that's the only thing I was able to spot). Keyboard, disks and usb
worked fine.
I don't think that the patch includes SATA support. Unless it was defined in
FUTURE_BRIDGES.
-#ifdef FUTURE_BRIDGES
{ vt8237, PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8237, 0x00, 0x2f, VIA_UDMA_133 },
-#endif
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Re: [gentoo-user] slow name resolution
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Barry Marler wrote: but, frankly, it sounds like a load to me. Name resolution on my two Gentoo boxes (one at work, on a Gig-E network, static; the other, at home, behind a Linksys router connected to a cable modem, dhcp) is ridiculously slow. At home, Mutt and Evolution time out unless I put my email server in /etc/hosts. What gives? Again at home, RH9 and my wife's WinXP box exhibit no such slowness? Anyone?? My two Gentoo boxes show no particular DNS resolution slowness. One of them is actually my DNS server, so that might help. Still, I haven't noticed anything particularly slow about either one. ---Patrick M [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3784715-- Quote of the Week: I probably won't start on the idea, and if I do it will wind up being an unfinished project on my personal website featuring pictures of my cat. rh2600 on /. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Why are masked ebuilds masked?
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 23:52, Roger Miliker wrote: I hope I answered your question err... yes peace, oops. i gotta stop to think before clicking Send... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Remove user permission for graphical login - kdm
On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 20:54, Eduardo Silva wrote: Hello, Hope the subject isn't too confusing. Basically, when I emerged proftd, a user proftp was created. All this is fine and dandy, but the issue is that when I start kdm, the users that can login to the box are root, proftp and myself. Proftp is a user I do not want to even have in the kdm login menu. So how can I remove this user from the kdm graphical login list? any docs I can take a look at? Thanks for any help, In KDE Control Centre - System Administration - Login Manager - Users, pick Selected only and choose the users you want. Peter -- == Portage 2.0.49-r13 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.23_pre7-gss) i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ == -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A7V600 SATA - Is this supported by a Gentoo kernel?
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 16:07, mathieu perrenoud wrote:
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 19:50, Mark Knecht wrote:
Mattieu - can you confirm if you are using a SATA hard drive? Or are you
using an EDIE drive on the more traditional parallel ATA interface that
this motherboard offers?
maTHieu please ;-)
Very sorry. My son's named Matt. I'm too used to writing 2 t's.
I'm using pure IDE, sorry. sata cables are still in the box.
I had to buy a new card and my reseller sold me this one. I don't use sata,
raid, giga-ethernet nor the via-soundcard.
Next time, I'll check the specs before buying a new card.
Yes, I can imagine you would!
Anyway, after my first reboot with the new card, I was just missing dma
support (that's the only thing I was able to spot). Keyboard, disks and usb
worked fine.
I don't think that the patch includes SATA support. Unless it was defined in
FUTURE_BRIDGES.
-#ifdef FUTURE_BRIDGES
{ vt8237, PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8237, 0x00, 0x2f, VIA_UDMA_133 },
-#endif
Thanks,
Mark
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Re: [gentoo-user] A7V600 SATA - Is this supported by a Gentoo kernel?
On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 21:21, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi Mark, I have a Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394 board that also has the VIA KT600 chipset. I'm not using the builtin VT8237 but the patch Mathieu posted is identical to the driver included in at least the last three versions of gs-sources, so there's no need to patch gs-sources. Peter Peter, I'm not using the builtin VT8237... I wanted make sure I understand this comment. You are not using which part of the VT8237? It's a huge chip with a lot of functions - Serial ATA, RAID Controller, Parallel ATA, portions of Via sound support, USB, keyboard and mouse controllers. I am *thinking* you mean that you are not using SATA, or RAID, or neither, but I'm not clear. You MUST be using the keyboard and mouse controllers at least, right? I guess maybe you are using just a standard ATA drive and CDROM on the parallel ATA interface? I have three ATA133 drives and one DVD writer. The DVD writer is on the second IDE channel and the 3 hard disks are on a Promise ATA133 card - which I've always trusted more than VIA. I'm not using SATA drives - that's what I meant to say. I have a Soundblaster Live card, so the Realtek audio is disabled in the bios. Onboard LAN (Realtek) and USB (2.0 and USB-alt) work fine. This could be a fall-back position if I do have trouble with SATA for some reason. (I think I won't, but...) I completely get that I do not need to patch gs-sources to use the VT8237. I just want to be 100% completely clear what you are doing. Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- == Portage 2.0.49-r13 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.23_pre7-gss) i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ == -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
