[gentoo-user] Why auctex requires Xaw3d?

[Deling Ren]

I tried to emerge app-emacs/auctex and got this error message:

 *
 * Emacs needs to be compiled with Xaw3d support.
 * Please emerge emacs with USE="Xaw3d".
 *

and it refused to continue. I modified the ebuild and commented out the
"die ..." statement. Everything went well then. I have been using auctex
mode on a lot of other platforms many of which even don't have X11 (e.g.
Mac OS X) and never met any problem. I am just wondering why the ebuild on
gentoo requires Xaw3d?

Thanks.

Regards.
Deling

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[gentoo-user] SnapServer and NFS Home Dirs

[Matt Neimeyer]

Hey All,

I admit upfront that I'm out of my depth here... We've got a small
office network running with some Gentoo, some Windows and one lone Mac
running and wanted to upgrade our storage space. So the powers that be
got us a SnapServer 1100. For the Mac and the Windows machines it's
absolutely great... but any attempt to move the /home folders of our
Gentoo boxes results in not being able to log into Gnome. The Gnome
behavior is to accept the user and password, blink (like a resolution
change) pop up the cursor then blink again and go back to the log on
box. no errors or anything. The .gnomerc-errors file says:

** (gnome-session:1436): WARNING **: Unable to lock ICE authority file:
/home/testuser/.ICEauthority

I can log in fine using any text console or ssh. Per the forums and a
similar error I tried adding nolock to my fstab for the /home mount.
I've also made sure that NFS 3 is compiled into the kernel and that
nfsmount is running (the Snap claims to run an RFC compliant NFS 3.0
server). 

Can anyone offer any advice?

Thanks!

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Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox keys

[Deling Ren]

Not sure about fluxbox, but I am using openbox on a Solaris machine in the
office. I use bbkey to define the key combinations. I heard there are
better alternatives now but I don't remember their names.

Regards.
Deling

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Marshal Newrock wrote:

> I've recently switched from KDE to fluxbox.  It works great, except that
> the alt key does not work.  Using xev and xmodmap, it looks like the
> keymap is set up correctly, but alt-[anything] does not do anything, and
> in fact, in an aterm, alt-f1 will display something like '~[[1' (I'm not
> at my computer, so I can't be sure I'm remembering exactly.  Also, sshing
> to another system and running vim, the backspace key, as well as home and
> end, do not work either, although they work locally and on remote shell.
> And actually, home and end work properly in ee, which they never have
> before (in KDE or Gnome using gnome-terminal).
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie install.

[Ben Munat]

Hi Hoyt,

That "cd image root#" is the command prompt... it's waiting for you to 
start issuing commands. Which commands are explained in the installation 
docs on the website. Having recently gone through my first install, the 
best advice I can give you is follow the instructions *very* carefully. 
Make sure you understand what you're supposed to do. Some of the 
concepts presented can get very complicated, so give yourself plenty of 
time and be (well, try anyway) patient. You can certainly ask questions 
here, and the gentoo forums (forums.gentoo.org) and fairly helpful too. 
It might also help to have a linux reference book or two lying around.

Now, this might prove controversial amongst my listmates, but if this is 
your first exposure ever to linux, you may want to install Mandrake or 
Red Hat (they have gui installers that guide you through the 
installation) and play with it for awhile to get to know linux. It's not 
really the sort of thing you pick up in a day or two. On the other hand, 
you may be really sharp and all the instructions will be clear as a bell 
to you... if so, rock on.

Good luck.

b

Hoyt Bailey wrote:

I received the Gentoo Linux 1.4 Athlon XP 2cd set.  Read the instructions
and booted CD1.  I pressed F2 for kernel options and the system continued
with ?.  So I reset and while reading the instructions the system booted
2.4.21 (I would have prefered 2.4.23), but this was ok.  Then I selected
verbose mode and when it ended I had the following:
cd image root#
Checked the instructions and didnt find anything about cd image.  What am I
supposed to tell the system?
As far as I can tell everything that I was concerned about was detected and
I should be ok with that.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Rsync Outage

[Thomas T. Veldhouse]

It doesn't explain the email slowdown ... something else was up.

Tom Veldhouse

- Original Message - 
From: "Eamon Caddigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 9:23 PM
Subject: [gentoo-user] Rsync Outage


> As seen on gentoo.org:
> 
>   update: Service should be largely restored now, though traffic seems
>   to be high on most mirrors because of the outage. The cause of the
>   problem seems to be localized to some filesystem corruption on the
>   root partition.
> 
> Well?! Which filesystem was it running?
> 
> -Eamon
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Re: [gentoo-user] gimp question

[Norberto Bensa]

Chris wrote:
> Would what the tutorials teach for photoshop work when using gimp?

Hmmm... Tell us :-)

Regards..

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[gentoo-user] Rsync Outage

[Eamon Caddigan]

As seen on gentoo.org:

  update: Service should be largely restored now, though traffic seems
  to be high on most mirrors because of the outage. The cause of the
  problem seems to be localized to some filesystem corruption on the
  root partition.

Well?! Which filesystem was it running?

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[gentoo-user] fluxbox keys

[Marshal Newrock]

I've recently switched from KDE to fluxbox.  It works great, except that
the alt key does not work.  Using xev and xmodmap, it looks like the
keymap is set up correctly, but alt-[anything] does not do anything, and
in fact, in an aterm, alt-f1 will display something like '~[[1' (I'm not
at my computer, so I can't be sure I'm remembering exactly.  Also, sshing
to another system and running vim, the backspace key, as well as home and
end, do not work either, although they work locally and on remote shell.
And actually, home and end work properly in ee, which they never have
before (in KDE or Gnome using gnome-terminal).

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[gentoo-user] gimp question

[Chris]

Would what the tutorials teach for photoshop work when using gimp?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie install.

[Steve Withers]

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 10:21, Hoyt Bailey wrote:



> Checked the instructions and didnt find anything about cd image.  What am I
> supposed to tell the system?

It's there. Maybe you didn't understand it. 

> As far as I can tell everything that I was concerned about was detected and
> I should be ok with that.
> 
> Hoyt

Sorryforgot to paste in the URL for the instructions. 

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1



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Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie install.

[Steve Withers]

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 10:21, Hoyt Bailey wrote:

.

> Checked the instructions and didnt find anything about cd image.  What am I
> supposed to tell the system?
> 
> As far as I can tell everything that I was concerned about was detected and
> I should be ok with that.

I strongly recommend you have the install instructions on the Gentoo web
site available either on a second PC or in printed form. 

You almost certainly won't get through a Gentoo install without them. 
Go step-by-step through these instructions.reading carefully every
step of the way. 

Gentoo isn't an easy installbut it's (relative) difficulty is part
of the funand you learn a *LOT* along the way - especially if you
stop at each main item and investigate the how and why of it.

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[gentoo-user] Newbie install.

[Hoyt Bailey]

I received the Gentoo Linux 1.4 Athlon XP 2cd set.  Read the instructions
and booted CD1.  I pressed F2 for kernel options and the system continued
with ?.  So I reset and while reading the instructions the system booted
2.4.21 (I would have prefered 2.4.23), but this was ok.  Then I selected
verbose mode and when it ended I had the following:
cd image root#
Checked the instructions and didnt find anything about cd image.  What am I
supposed to tell the system?

As far as I can tell everything that I was concerned about was detected and
I should be ok with that.

Hoyt



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Re: [gentoo-user] What kind of filesystem encryption options are available in porta ge?

[Jerry McBride]

On Tuesday 13 January 2004 02:03 pm, Brenden Walker wrote:
> I'm searching portage now, but I suspect it may be hard to find all the
> options.  What I'd like is fairly simple encryption of selected filesystems
> for my laptop.. I looked into doing the loopback bit, boy does that appear
> to be a headache  I just want to keep the casual thief outta my data,
> without having to manually encrypt and unencrypt.
>
>

You mean cryptoloop? You are going to hate me, but after looking at the 
available solutions offered. it's the best one going.

Take a tip, jump straight to 2.6.1 kernel and implement/deploy your 
crypto-loop project from there. My reasons for doing so are, there's no need 
to patch the kernel to support cryptoloop (it's build in) and there's crypto 
incompatibilites when between earlier crypto engines.

If you need a script to setup your crypto-loop are boot up, I've got a nice 
one. Just ask.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge problem

[Deling Ren]

It seems that you are trying to emerge a "~x86" ebuild? Try exporting env
variable ACCEPT_KEYWORDS as "~x86".

Regards.
Deling

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Thomas Degris wrote:

> Hello,
>
> what should I do with this kind of error ?
>
> # emerge -uUDpv world
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating world dependencies |
> !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "virtual/linux-sources" have been masked.
> !!!(dependency required by "media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.8" [ebuild])
>
> !!! Problem with ebuild kde-base/kdeedu-3.1.4
> !!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem.
>
> !!! Depgraph creation failed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas
>
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] installing system on other pc and then move it

[Deling Ren]

I don't see a problem with it if you can plug in the scsi drives to a
hardware platform which is otherwise identical or similar to server. You
can just format the hard drive on the new system and dump the whole
partition from the server to the new system (except /proc and /tmp) and I
suppose it would work (this is how I moved my gentoo from a partition to
another).

Regards.
Deling

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, A.J.S. Simenon wrote:

> i have a scsi card and 3 scsi disks coming in and i want to set it up with
> as minimum downtime as possible. So i was thinking on setting up the scsi
> raid on another system and install gentoo on it and configure it. Then i
> want to plug it all out and plug it all back in on the server, so that i
> just can reboot and have it running. Does this sound possible ? How can i
> best copy me server setup to the scsi raid ? Is there some special things
> that i need to look into ?
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Re: [gentoo-user] hello

[Hoyt Bailey]

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From: "Paidhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 01:13
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] hello


> On Monday 05 January 2004 21:53, Aaron Stout wrote:
> > hello
> Servus aus Wien
> (Vienna, Austria)
>
Hi
Hoyt
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[gentoo-user] Gnome MPEG movie player - How do I replace my Video Card and update Gentoo

[Alan Watson]

Hello,

Thanks for the suggestion.  On another slightly related matter I wish to
replace the video card in my computer.  The current one is quite old.
Is it a simple update procedure under Gentoo?  Can anyone give me any
pointers

Thanks,

Richard

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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome MPEG movie player

begin  quote
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:43:46 +1000
"Alan Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi - Can anyone suggest an MPEG movie player that runs under Gnome or
> X?


totem is a good one for Gnome (works with the xine libraries for
backend) plays most things around

mplayer is otherwise rocking... ;)

vlc has some good things for it too.  though the interface.. erm..
sucks.



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Re: [gentoo-user] winCVS stupidities

[gabriel]

On January 13, 2004 07:39 am, Roel Schroeven wrote:
> gabriel wrote:
> > linux is so damned cool.  so very cool that when i have to configure
> > another person's windows box to talk to my cvs server, i go out of my
> > mind.  ...and so i come to you smart bunch.
> >
> > does anyone know how to configure wincvs to talk to a cvs server over ssh
> > using a non-standard port?
>
> I haven't done it with WinCVS since I prefer TortoiseCVS for most
> operations. To get that to work with a non-standard port, I created a
> small batch file that calls the real ssh command with the correct
> parameter.

thanks!  as it turned out, i blew a whole day figuring out how to do it in 
wincvs and then later discovered tortoisecvs for myself.  for the record, all 
i had to do (with both) to get it to connect w/ keys on a non-standard port 
was to install putty, and create a session with the private key and the 
non-standard port.  then in cvs, i reffered to that session by name 
instead of the hostname.

also note that putty-generated keys are not compatible with OpenSSH.  you have 
to run the following on the server side to populate authorized_keys:

  $ ssh-keygen -i -f  >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

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[gentoo-user] Emerge problem

[Thomas Degris]

Hello,

what should I do with this kind of error ?

# emerge -uUDpv world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies |
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "virtual/linux-sources" have been masked.
!!!(dependency required by "media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.8" [ebuild])
!!! Problem with ebuild kde-base/kdeedu-3.1.4
!!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem.
!!! Depgraph creation failed.

Thanks,

Thomas



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[gentoo-user] installing system on other pc and then move it

[A.J.S. Simenon]

i have a scsi card and 3 scsi disks coming in and i want to set it up with
as minimum downtime as possible. So i was thinking on setting up the scsi
raid on another system and install gentoo on it and configure it. Then i
want to plug it all out and plug it all back in on the server, so that i
just can reboot and have it running. Does this sound possible ? How can i
best copy me server setup to the scsi raid ? Is there some special things
that i need to look into ?


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Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage, mounting on another system

[Oliver Lange]

Mike Morrell wrote:
  It would be nice to share the portage.  I hate having to sync multiple
portages all the time and losing 2.5GB of disk space on every machine I
have.
The caveeat is: i download partiqally different stuff on 3 boxes, which are
1: gateway/router/firewall, 2: X-Window workstation, 3: files/services;
i'm using a script named distclean.py which is able to cleanup the contents
of /usr/portage/distfiles, deleting all files no longer installed on the
local box. Now, merging several machines into one dir would also leave
all these files forever on the harddisk..
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Re: [gentoo-user] Adding entries in start menu

[Ted Ozolins]

khurram b wrote:

Hi!
I want to add my own category of programming in the
start menu in kde. so that I click on the programes
and it executes.
 

Right click on the start button and choose menu editor. then click on 
the catagory where you would want the prog to reside and click on new 
item (on top).

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Re: [gentoo-user] running modprobe for quickcam

[Chris]

On Tuesday 13 January 2004 12:13 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 Jan 2004 09:13, Chris wrote:
> > how do i run modprobe quickcam whenever i boot so i wont have to run
> > it manually when i need the cam?
>
> Add "quickcam" to /etc/modules.autoload.d/
>
> Peter

i already tryed that last night when i didnt get any new mail from the list. 
it was the only place i could think to put it.

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[gentoo-user] rsync.gentoo.org not working?

[Jose Gonzalez Gomez]

   Hi there,

   Is there any known problem with the rsync gentoo servers? I keep 
getting the following message:

>>> starting rsync with rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage...
rsync: failed to connect to rsync.gentoo.org: Connection timed out
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(83)
   Regards
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Re: [gentoo-user] IDE RAID 0 and 1

[Sami Näätänen]

On Tuesday 13 January 2004 21:20, Jimmy Rosen wrote:
> I have some experience with the following:
> 3ware
> Promise
> kernel SW raid
>
> Promise:
> I once started with a promise 6000 card and after serious problems
> with that card I decided to abandon that path.
> Primarily the card is largely incompatible with the AMD 760 chipset
> as far as I've been able to conclude. I use dual athlon MP for most
> customer cluster nodes.
> Secondarily the serious tech support, while _very_ eager to help are
> situated in China and, believe it or not, are forbidden to access
> certain useful websites e.g. the openmosix site. So while we had some
> very interesting problems trying to smuggle kernel sources back and
> forth through their bizzaro imposed cencorship I finally got too
> tired of working with it.
>
> 3ware:
> I've built a 4x120GB raid 5 to serve as main storage for a cluster I
> built for a customer. It works very nicely. I'm disappointed with the
> performance, only about 15MB/s. Anyone else got better results? It is

The problem most likely is the fact that it used normal PCI bus, which 
really is not even closely enough for even single disk access.
Those 3ware cards are really fast and good when plugged to 64bit PCI-X 
bus working at 133 MHz speed, but to normal PCI there simply can't be a 
speedy PCI ide raid, because the PCI bus is too slow.


PS. I has integrated ide raid which is half HW half SW from ITE. It 
works well and is quite speedy too. Under normal system load (mp3 
listening etc) two ibm 120GB HD's as RAID 1 gives these results. 
Smaller result from the two consecutive runs.

high-voltage /home/sami # hdparm -tT /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   2712 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1356.00 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  140 MB in  3.00 seconds =  43.56 MB/sec



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Re: [gentoo-user] IDE RAID 0 and 1

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:20:40 +0100
Jimmy Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> Kernel SW raid:
> One customer wanted a very cheap storage solution for the cluster I built 
> him. So I deployed a 2x120GB raid 1 on kernel SW raid.
> Very simple setup, very simple management, good general cheap solution.
> 

How was performance in comparison to the Hardware alternatives?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: DMA not working (2.4.22 and 2.6.1)

[Daniel Drake]

Richard Revis wrote:
Are you using 80-conductor or 40-conductor IDE cables?
Not sure.
Doesn't really matter, if it works on 1 kernel it should work on the other.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] peu $ lspci
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
Your IDE driver should be VIA82CXXX then.
Are you sure you have the VIA support compiled in? Your dmesg suggests otherwise.
For example, in the source code of the VIA82CXXX driver (in 2.6.1-mm1) I can see:

/*
 * Print the boot message.
 */
pci_read_config_byte(isa, PCI_REVISION_ID, &t);
printk(KERN_INFO "VP_IDE: VIA %s (rev %02x) IDE %s "
"controller on pci%s\n",
via_config->name, t,
via_dma[via_config->flags & VIA_UDMA],
pci_name(dev));
You should see a message on bootup (in your dmesg) giving some basic info 
about your IDE controller. More notably, everything that the VIA82CXXX driver 
prints starts with "VP_IDE" and I see nothing like that in your dmesg.

Linux version 2.6.1-rc3-gentoo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Gentoo Linux 1.4 3.2.3-r3, propolice)) #4 Mon Jan 12 21:56:56 GMT 2004
The date there indicates when the kernel was compiled, so that should be able 
to confirm that you are booting the kernel that you think you are!
Just to confirm, you are definately mounting /boot before copying the new 
kernel over? Checking that grub points to the right kernel bzImage? Running 
"/sbin/lilo" if you use lilo?




Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:1856
in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
Call Trace:
 [] __might_sleep+0xab/0xd0
 [] kmem_cache_alloc+0x65/0x70
 [] __get_vm_area+0x21/0x100
 [] get_vm_area+0x33/0x40
 [] __ioremap+0xb3/0x100
 [] ioremap_nocache+0x29/0xb0
 [] os_map_kernel_space+0x68/0x6c [nvidia]
 [] __nvsym00568+0x1f/0x2c [nvidia]
 [] __nvsym00775+0x6e/0xe0 [nvidia]
 [] __nvsym00781+0x1e/0x190 [nvidia]
 [] rm_init_adapter+0xc/0x10 [nvidia]
 [] nv_kern_open+0xf5/0x232 [nvidia]
 [] chrdev_open+0xc0/0x1d0
 [] devfs_open+0xeb/0x110
 [] dentry_open+0x112/0x180
 [] filp_open+0x66/0x70
 [] sys_open+0x53/0x90
 [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Offtopic, thats not looking too good. Looks like the nvidia module is causing 
some problems. Do you see this much? Which version of nvidia-driver are you 
running?

Daniel

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[gentoo-user] Saving configs with genkernel and 2.6.1

[Michael Bernhard Sørensen]

Hi out there.

Why doesn't genkernel (3.0.4_beta4-3) save compile settings?

I use "genkernel all --color --bootsplash --install --menuconfig" and 
every time I enter the menuconfig the settings are back to some default 
settings. Why, oh why indeed? :-)

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Michael
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[gentoo-user] Re: Re: DMA not working (2.4.22 and 2.6.1)

[Richard Revis]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:32:26 +, Daniel Drake wrote:

> No, the line you pasted refers to your PCI controller. We are interested in 
> your IDE controller.

Apologies.

> Please post the entire "lspci" output.

Below.
 
> Also, you could post the dmesg output from under the 2.4.20 kernel where DMA 
> worked, plus the dmesg output on a kernel where DMA does not work.

Dmesg from 2.6, at the moment it's rebuilding a corrupt Oracle DB so can't
be rebooted. I'll try and get the other later.
 
> More details, are you running these disks straight off the motherboard? Or are 
> you using a PCI IDE card?

Off the mobo directly, from the primary (1 & 2) IDE slots, not the on
board RAID controller (which is disabled in the BIOS, this setting is
unchanged from the known good).

> Are you using 80-conductor or 40-conductor IDE cables?

Not sure.

lspci and dmesg follow:

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00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP]
00:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 02)
00:08.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 02)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 02)
00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
00:0f.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 23)
00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 23)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP 8x] 
(rev a1)

Linux version 2.6.1-rc3-gentoo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Gentoo 
Linux 1.4 3.2.3-r3, propolice)) #4 Mon Jan 12 21:56:56 GMT 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820:  - 000a (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0010 - 1fff (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 1fff - 1fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 1fff3000 - 2000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: fec0 - fec01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: fee0 - fee01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820:  - 0001 (reserved)
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 131056
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
  Normal zone: 126960 pages, LIFO batch:16
  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.2 present.
ABIT KX7-333[R] machine detected. Disabling APM.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 VIA694) @ 0x000f70e0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 VIA694 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x) @ 0x1fff3000
ACPI: FADT (v001 VIA694 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x) @ 0x1fff3040
ACPI: DSDT (v001 VIA694 AWRDACPI 0x1000 MSFT 0x010d) @ 0x
Building zonelist for node : 0
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdb5 hdd=ide-scsi vga=794
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order 11: 16384 bytes)
Detected 1667.403 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Memory: 514808k/524224k available (2328k kernel code, 8672k reserved, 835k data, 140k 
init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 3284.99 BogoMIPS
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff  
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff  
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff  0020
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb4b0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20031203
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger.
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 1 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie portage question -- don't want X progs

[Daniel Drake]

Alan wrote:

Funnily enough, add "-X" into your list of use flags for this.  However,
php seems to really like having X for some of it's plugins and font
processing.
USE="-X -qt" *should* be enough here.

Daniel

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DMA not working (2.4.22 and 2.6.1)

[Daniel Drake]

Richard Revis wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] peu $ lspci
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333
AGP]
(So VIA82Cxxx chipset driver?)
No, the line you pasted refers to your PCI controller. We are interested in 
your IDE controller.
Please post the entire "lspci" output.

Also, you could post the dmesg output from under the 2.4.20 kernel where DMA 
worked, plus the dmesg output on a kernel where DMA does not work.

More details, are you running these disks straight off the motherboard? Or are 
you using a PCI IDE card?
Are you using 80-conductor or 40-conductor IDE cables?

Daniel

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DMA not working (2.4.22 and 2.6.1)

[Gerhard W . Gruber]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:05:28 +, Richard Revis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Sadly it is still not working. Any more ideas? FWIW I compiled hdparm
>under 2.4.20-r9, will it now need a recompile?

Did you try enable DMA only for disks in the kernel config?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel does not work in XFree86

[Krikket]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Krikket wrote:
>
> Err, what's the command to load "IMPS/2"?
>
> (Also, I'd check the archives, but as I'm a brand-spanking new user, I
> haven't figured out where they are.  No obvious links on
> ...)

I hang my head in shame.  Both questions were answered on the list before
I posted.  Many apologies for a bad start...

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[gentoo-user] Framebuffer background image

[Fred Labrosse]

Sebastian Bergmann writes:
 >   Hi,
 > 
 >   I am using gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.1 and the following grub config
 > 
 > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.1 root=/dev/hda3
 > video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=0x317
 > initrd=/boot/initrd-1024x768
 > 
 >   where
 > 
 > /boot/initrd-1024x768
 > 
 >   was generated using
 > 
 > /sbin/splash -f -s  >/boot/initrd-1024x768
 > 
 >   Now I do not want a silent bootsplash with a progress bar, so I did not
 > 
 > rc-update add bootsplash default
 > 
 >   All I want is a 1024x768 framebuffer console with a background image
 >   during boot.

I believe this is what is responsible for the background image on the
different ttys.  The /boot/initrd-1024x768 is the one responsible for the
background image during boot time.

 > 
 >   The one thing that nags me is that about halfway through the boot
 >   process the
 > 
 > Booting the system... Press F2 for verbose mode
 > 
 >   message appears in the center of the screen. The message is overwritten
 >   (looks ugly) by subsequent messages.
 > 

This looks like a silent mode only partially working.  Normally, specifying
"splash=verbose" on the kernel line in grub.conf should solve the problem.
The strange thing though is that this is supposed to be the default
("splash=silent" being the other possibility).

My problem is the opposite: I do want silent mode and can't (the "silenjpeg
size  does not fit into framebuffer" problem, which I'm not sure how to
solve without patching things).

Fred


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Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse wheel does not work in XFree86

[Krikket]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Tianran Chen wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Vanh Phom wrote:
>
> > Here is mine. I have microsoft intelli mouse.
> >
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > Identifier  "Mouse0"
> > Driver  "mouse"
> > Option  "Protocol" "IMPS/2" #"auto"
> > Option  "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> > Option "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Vanh
>
> is this for USB mouse? when i try to use "IMPS/2", the mouse cannot be
> used.

Err, what's the command to load "IMPS/2"?

(Also, I'd check the archives, but as I'm a brand-spanking new user, I
haven't figured out where they are.  No obvious links on
...)

Thanks in advance!

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Re: [gentoo-user] IDE RAID 0 and 1

[Elton Algera]

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 22:57, Alan wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 02:37:53PM -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> > Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > >On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:48:38 -0600 Andrew Gaffney
> > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >| I'm looking for a decent PCI IDE RAID card that can do hardware RAID 0
> > >| and/or 1 under Linux. Can anyone recommend anything? Thanks.
> > >
> > >If you *really* want 'IDE RAID', you have to get a 3ware. The promise
> > >and highpoint drivers are just silly software hacks.
> > >
> > >On the other hand, in-kernel md raid is faster for IDE anyway, and
> > >doesn't lock you in to a specific vendor.
> > 
> > With the kernel software RAID, what would I need to do in order to move an 
> > existing system over to the RAID? I have 2 identical 120GB HD's. The second 
> > is just backup. I have a script that runs every night and rsync's from HD1 
> > to HD2. I want to move to RAID-1 with minimal system downtime as this is a 
> > production server.
> 
> If you want to move to raid 1 from a single disk there's a bit of a
> procedure to go through.  Hopefully others can add onto this for me, as
> I've never done it myself (completely anyway).  First of all, check the
> howto:
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.6
> It has one way to do it (redhat specific, but should give you some good
> pointers that are compatible with gentoo and a liveCD :)
> 
> Basically what you'll do is set up *one* of the two disks for raid,
> setting the other as 'failed-disk' in the raidtab.  Start up the raid
> and it'll be running in degraded mode (1/2 disks available).  At this
> point you can copy data across from your "real" disk.  Setup grub or
> lilo so that your system will boot from /dev/md0 instead of /dev/hda1,
> then change your fstab to match up.  Then you can reboot (I think) and
> because raid1 is redundant you can leave your "old" hard drive alone
> without having to nuke it as you would if you were going to raid5 or
> raid0.  Once things are set up properly and working from the raid disk,
> you can set the old disk to be integrated into the raid array and then
> hot-add it in, let it resync (mirror the data) and you're golden.
> 
> Disclaimer: I haven't done this, never tried it, and quite possibly
> missed some very important step, so don't hold me responsible for things
> totally screwing up and destroying everything :)  Backup first, etc etc.
> However, the gist of what is above *should* work :)


Hi,

I tried the above procedure with raid on loop devices and with User mode
linux and it worked...

However, the performance was not so good ;-)






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Re: [gentoo-user] qmail vs. sendmail

[Thomas Smith]

Mike Williams wrote:

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Hash: SHA1
On Monday 12 January 2004 01:16, Ben Munat wrote:
 

Okay, that's two votes for postfix and none for qmail... and the words
"simpler to setup and manage" are music to my ear... thanks for the help.
   

Then I'll put my vote in for qmail.
qmail is simple to setup, and manage. More so with webmin, but still simple 
from the command line. Can't say I've found anything remotely difficult.

Simple? Welldoable. My experience with qmail in a high-spam 
environment, more than a million attempted deliveries per month for just 
one domain due to joe-job attacks, is less than adequate. I hate to say 
it, but Sendmail was actually working better to stop the joe-job 
attacks. The biggest problem I had with qmail was recipient 
verification--there wasn't anything available that could check against a 
standard user database, like /etc/passwd or vpopmail's vpasswd files. I 
had to use the moregootrcptto patch for this--and that requires some 
additional administration overhead.

I recently started investigating Postfix and found that it has MANY 
/built-in/ UCE features--none of which qmail has. Which Postfix, I can 
reject mail at the SMTP connection level if the HELO/EHLO, MAIL FROM, or 
RCPT TO has an invalid domain name. I can also specify recipient maps 
that allow me to add users without having to update any files other than 
the user database.

For virtuals, wellit doesn't get any easier. One can simply create a 
MySQL database (or a flat file, if preferred) that contains the 
necassary data about the virtual users like home directory, quotas, etc.

If you want to talke about "manageability", with qmail I have 10 to 15 
programs that I need for each server: qmail and patches, vpopmail, 
Courier-IMAP, Maildrop, checkpasswd, qmail-scanner, .SqWebmail, 
SpamAssassin, F-Prot, and others.

With Postfix, I need only Postfix, Courier-IMAP, Maildrop, MySQL (for 
virtual support), SqWebmail, SpamAssassin, and F-Prot.

Both are good MTAs. But when it comes to manageablity and UCE controls, 
Postfix has the heads up--for me, anyway.

I've replaced qmail-smtpd with qpsmtpd, a drop in perl replacement. It's so 
cool to be able to change *anything* I wish with minimal effort.
Want to allow one host, or mail to one user to bypass max file size? 2-3 lines 
of perl and your done (well, I was when I had a user needing to send a few 
slightly larger files than the max 5meg).

This is actually a nifty idea. The only problem I'd see here is the 
overhead generated by Perl--using qmail-scanner (all Perl) has more than 
tripled the CPU/RAM overhead of my server. Most people who write these 
types of filters disclaim upfront that this type of overhead /will/ occur.

Spamassassin filtering for incoming mail only? Another line or two and the 
spamassassin plugin is modified to not scan mail from local users.

Yeah, Postfix can do that too! ;-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] newbie portage question -- don't want X progs

[Alan]

> I'm setting up a web/dns/mail server as my first try at gentoo, and 
> everything was going along pretty well as I installed bind and apache 
> and a few other basic packages with 'emerge -k ', until I 
> decided to try to install mod_php.  Now, granted I didn't verify that 
> this was exactly what I wanted, but I think it is.  I'm just looking for 
> the php plug-in to Apache.  But anyway, I didn't do the --pretend switch 
> on emerge to see what kind of dependencies it'd pick up and was rather 
> surprised when it started pulling all of the xfree86 libraries and a few 
> other things.
> 
> Needless to say, as this is a server, I'd rather not even have X, or 
> anything that's only needed by X, installed.  Waste of space, etc.  Is 
> there any way I can set a USE flag in make.conf that's like a 
> don't-install-any-X-stuff flag?  The USE flags as I understand them are 
> kind of the opposite of that.  They say, 'install this capability for 
> every package you build that can', but I want to avoid installing any 
> packages that either require X or are X-related.

Funnily enough, add "-X" into your list of use flags for this.  However,
php seems to really like having X for some of it's plugins and font
processing.

alan
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Re: [gentoo-user] Virus's

[Peter Ruskin]

On Tuesday 13 Jan 2004 20:30, Manuel Pérez López wrote:
> me too.
>
> El Martes, 13 de Enero de 2004 20:14, Jan escribió:
> > I received multiple virus mails today (many of microsoft ;) )
> >
If you're using postfix, take a look at http://www.securitysage.com.  
I created the /etc/postfix/maps directory and am using the latest 
header_checks and mime_header_checks from that site.  I update 
header_checks weekly with
/etc/cron.weekly/postfix_header_checks_update.cron:
#
#! /bin/sh
cd /etc/postfix/maps
wget http://www.securitysage.com/files/header_checks
#

Peter
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Re: [gentoo-user] X/Gnome: How does this work for regular users?

[Michael Stilson Jr.]

hey, cool, cool...

So then we get something like...
.
.
drwxrwxrwt5 root root 1024 Jan 13 15:16 tmp
.
.
Haven't tested it out on my home desktop and laptop yet, but my little 
test server here at the office let's me store my options in lynx 
instead of just crashing. A very positive step in the correct 
direction...

Thanks a bunch!

- michael

On Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 02:32  PM, Collins Richey wrote:

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:01:34 -0500

So, peoples...What are considered the "proper" write privileges on
/tmp? Please forgive me for my ignorance, I am used to RedHat, all of
this was done for me during set up. :)
As root user, 'chmod 1777 /tmp'.  This is the standard setting for 
/tmp.  The 1 causes the "sticky bit" to be set, which prevents users 
from deleting files they did not create. Otherwise, allow anyone 
anywhere to have full authority for files in /tmp.

HTH,

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Re: [gentoo-user] how can i tell if a daemon has been patched?

[brettholcomb]

Check the Openssh web site.

> 
> From: gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2004/01/13 Tue PM 03:11:36 EST
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [gentoo-user] how can i tell if a daemon has been patched?
> 
> i'm working on a linux box here @work that's running a little-known distro 
> called "neos" and i'm trying to determine if the ssh daemon that's running on 
> it is free of all the scary bugs that have appeared over the last year.
> 
> typing "sshd -v" gives me this:
> 
>   # sshd -v
>   sshd: illegal option -- v
>   sshd version OpenSSH_3.0.2p1
>   Usage: sshd [options]
>   ...
> 
> and since i'm running OpenSSH_3.7.1p2 on my gentoo system, i wonder if the 
> above is patched for all the holes.  how can i tell?
> 
> -- 
> the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral 
> crises maintain their neutrality.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Software for multiformat DVD writer

[brettholcomb]

Any good links on what all the versions mean and how compatible they are with each 
other and which ones play on a regular video DVD?  I found some links last night but 
would like more information as the links I found were not unbiased.

> 
> From: Christian Herzyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2004/01/13 Tue AM 03:21:56 EST
> To: Gentoo_users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [gentoo-user] Software for multiformat DVD writer
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am going to get a DVD writer one of the next days. It will be an LG 
> 4081B supporting DVD+-R and RAM. Now I am thinking about the software.
> Does it make sense to install dvd+rw-tools and dvdtools?
> Any other recomendations (except updating k3b)?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Christian
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Virus's

[Manuel Pérez López]

me too.

El Martes, 13 de Enero de 2004 20:14, Jan escribió:
> I received multiple virus mails today (many of microsoft ;) )
>
> I'm not sure they were coming from this list as it is a general mailbox...
>
> Jan
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Peter Ruskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 7:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Virus's
>
> > On Wednesday 07 Jan 2004 15:15, Jonathan Nichols wrote:
> > > Dennis Freise wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:14:47 -0500
> > > >
> > > > Nicholas Hockey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >>does anybody else on this mailing list get slammed by the
> > > >> "Microsoft Update" virus going around, i'm trying to figure out
> > > >> why i get nailed by it all the time, and i apologize for the
> > > >> apparent list spam. (  i believe the virus is called swen or gibe
> > > >> )
> > >
> > > Hrm, never seen it. OH, that one with the fake "Windows patch?"
> > >
> > > Here's how to kill it 99% of the time:
> > >
> > > /name=[^>]*\.(ade|adp|asd|bas|bat|chm|cmd|com|cpl|crt|dbx|dll|exe|hlp
> > >
> > >|hta|inf|ins|isp|lnk|js|jse|lnk|ocx|mde|mdt|mdw|msc|msi|msp|mst|nws|op
> > >
> > >s|p
> > > cd|pi|pif|prf|reg|scf|scr|sct|shb|shm|shs|swf|uue|vb|vbe|vbs|vbx|vxd|
> > >wab|wsc|wsf|wsh)/ REJECT Potentially dangerous file attachment. Please
> > > do
> > >   not include any executable attachments in your email.
> > >
> > > Add to "header_checks" in /etc/postfix
> > >
> > > Run "postmap /etc/postfix/header_checks"
> >
> > You don't have to postmap the checks files.. They are regexp and/or
> > pcre, and don't need to be in db format.
> >
> > If you do run `postmap /etc/postfix/header_checks` you'll see warnings.
> >
> > I received the above advice from Jeffrey Posluns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> when
> > I emailed him about the warnings.
> >
> > > Add "header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks" to
> > > /etc/postfix/main.cf
> > >
> > > You would be absolutely amazed at the amount of internet cruft that
> > > header_checks file keeps out. :) Even if you do see the email slip
> > > through, it won't have the virus payload.
> > > SpamAssassin usually tags the virus email anyway.
> > >
> > > Take a look at http://www.securitysage.com for more information. Note
> > > that this is for Postfix, if you're using qmail or sendmail, it'll be
> > > different. :D
> >
> > Peter
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> > glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.6.1-gentoo-w4l) i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+
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Re: [gentoo-user] !!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable.

[Jean Magnan de Bornier]

Le 01/13/04 "Jan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit notamment:

> http://www.gentoo.org
>
> Did you even look? :-)
>

Well I looked at the site in the morning and this announcement wasn't
there yet; thanks for pointing to it :-)
Cheers
>
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Jean Magnan de Bornier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 12:59 PM
> Subject: [gentoo-user] !!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable.
>
>
> Hello all,
> I just performed a routine "emerge sync"; at the end I read:
>
> !!! INVALID ACCEPT_KEYWORDS: x86
>
>  * An update to portage is available. It is _highly_ recommended
>  * that you update portage now, before any other packages are updated.
>  * Please do so and then update ALL of your configuration files.

[...]


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[gentoo-user] newbie portage question -- don't want X progs

[john lawler]

Hi guys,

I'm new to gentoo, after getting a referral from a buddy of mine.  I've 
got a year or so's experience with Linux in general, mostly coming from 
the RedHat side, but after hearing about the philosophy behind gentoo, I 
decided to check it out.

So far, I'm pretty impressed.  The install was mostly painless and the 
documentation for the installation was very well written.

Having said that, I've got a couple of basic questions about portage, 
one of which I outline below:

I'm setting up a web/dns/mail server as my first try at gentoo, and 
everything was going along pretty well as I installed bind and apache 
and a few other basic packages with 'emerge -k ', until I 
decided to try to install mod_php.  Now, granted I didn't verify that 
this was exactly what I wanted, but I think it is.  I'm just looking for 
the php plug-in to Apache.  But anyway, I didn't do the --pretend switch 
on emerge to see what kind of dependencies it'd pick up and was rather 
surprised when it started pulling all of the xfree86 libraries and a few 
other things.

Needless to say, as this is a server, I'd rather not even have X, or 
anything that's only needed by X, installed.  Waste of space, etc.  Is 
there any way I can set a USE flag in make.conf that's like a 
don't-install-any-X-stuff flag?  The USE flags as I understand them are 
kind of the opposite of that.  They say, 'install this capability for 
every package you build that can', but I want to avoid installing any 
packages that either require X or are X-related.

Hope that made enough sense to answer.

Thanks,

John Lawler

p.s.  Oh also, might I be okay if I force emerge to remove X, even 
though mod_php requires it?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:03:56 -0800 Ian Truelsen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:55:31 +
| Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| 
| > Disclaimer: I wasn't really paying attention when this was discussed
| > because I run my own local rsync mirror anyway...
| > 
| Me too, but my local server got hosed when it updated. 
| 
| Do you know if the Gentoo team are planning to post (web site, forums,
| lists) when the love is back?

I'd imagine that the infrastructure guys will update the website once
they're sure that everything is happy. According to the /topic in
#gentoo-dev on freenode, "rsync tree should be restored", but some
mirrors with laggy dns may not be fixed.

Disclaimer: like I said, I wasn't really paying attention :)

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[gentoo-user] how can i tell if a daemon has been patched?

[gabriel]

i'm working on a linux box here @work that's running a little-known distro 
called "neos" and i'm trying to determine if the ssh daemon that's running on 
it is free of all the scary bugs that have appeared over the last year.

typing "sshd -v" gives me this:

  # sshd -v
  sshd: illegal option -- v
  sshd version OpenSSH_3.0.2p1
  Usage: sshd [options]
  ...

and since i'm running OpenSSH_3.7.1p2 on my gentoo system, i wonder if the 
above is patched for all the holes.  how can i tell?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem? : emerge -pu system: baselayout overwrites make.conf

[brettholcomb]

After your updates do you run etc-update in the automatic mode?  If so don't do that.  
Run it and check the files it wants to update. Let it do the ones that you haven't 
modified and then look at what it's doing with each of the remaining files.

> 
> From: Jimmy Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2004/01/13 Tue AM 09:53:45 EST
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [gentoo-user] Problem? : emerge -pu system: baselayout overwrites make.conf
> 
> I've been using gentoo for a while now. Every time I have updated 
> baselayout it has overwritten the make.conf file automatically with a 
> default file. I've tried protecting it but to no avail.
> 
> Is this as it should be?
> 
> I'm asking because it's about time for another system update
> emerge -pu system
> and that will bring in another update to baselayout, as well as a whole 
> bunch of other stuff.
> As baselayout is somewhere in the middle of this, and before portage itself 
> is updated and emerge-ing the system is restarted, the make.conf file will 
> be overwritten in the middle of my system update. Now, since that will 
> overwrite my use flags, does it mean the rest of the update will be 
> compiled with the default use and make flags?
> 
> I'd be glad if someone could enlighten me on this particular pickle.
> 
> Harebrafolk
> Jimmy
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge

[Ian Truelsen]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:55:31 +
Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Disclaimer: I wasn't really paying attention when this was discussed
> because I run my own local rsync mirror anyway...
> 
Me too, but my local server got hosed when it updated. 

Do you know if the Gentoo team are planning to post (web site, forums,
lists) when the love is back?

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[gentoo-user] qmail-pop3d and replacement for @-symbol?

[Matthias F. Brandstetter]

Hi all,

I have a strange problem w/ my qmail server and a mac user. I run qmail's 
own pop3d for mail distribution, and everything works like a charm. Only 
one user has a problem retrieving his mail: He works on a mac and can't 
use his full email address for authentication (which is needed, because I 
host several virtual domains with vmailmgr, so username for pop3d is 
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"), because he can't use the @-sign.

Some time ago, I heard something about configuring pop3d to accept other 
signs than '@', IIRC it was ';' ("user;domain.com").

Does anybody know more? Would really be glad if I could solve this issue...
Greetings and TIA, Matthias

-- 
Marge:  I know we didn't ask for this, Homer, but doesn't the Bible
say, "Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, that you
do unto me...?"

Homer:  Yes, but doesn't the Bible also say, "Thou shalt not take
moochers into thy hut?"

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:15:20 -0600 "Thomas T. Veldhouse"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Yes, you got hosed by something that appears to have been done to the
| Gentoo rsync server and you are not alone.  They are remaining hush
| about what has really happened.  They state on their webpage that the
| master rsync servers are down, but they have not stated the problem
| that has developed (like you have posted about), nor have the
| indicated a more systemic problem like the non-function and now long
| lag of the email lists.

>From what I've heard, which may be inaccurate... eagle (rsync1.us, the
master rsync server) fell over due to hardware problems. Unfortunately,
due to really unlucky timing it seems all the second level mirrors
managed to sync an empty tree. To avoid hosing local rsync trees, the
DNS records were updated to point to localhost.

Things *should* be back to normal now.

Disclaimer: I wasn't really paying attention when this was discussed
because I run my own local rsync mirror anyway...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge

[Thomas T. Veldhouse]

Jan wrote:
> http://www.gentoo.org
>
> Did you even look? :-)
>

That site explains almost nothing ... like how all the profiles have been
deleted during an rsync.

Tom Veldhouse


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[gentoo-user] Video capture

[Thomas Degris]

Hello,

I would like to make a mpg video of what happen in a window in my X 
environment. Any suggestions of package to emerge ?

Thanks,

Thomas

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Re: [gentoo-user] X/Gnome: How does this work for regular users?

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:01:34 -0500

> So, peoples...What are considered the "proper" write privileges on 
> /tmp? Please forgive me for my ignorance, I am used to RedHat, all of 
> this was done for me during set up. :)
> 

As root user, 'chmod 1777 /tmp'.  This is the standard setting for /tmp.  The 1 causes 
the "sticky bit" to be set, which prevents users from deleting files they did not 
create. Otherwise, allow anyone anywhere to have full authority for files in /tmp.

HTH,

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem? : emerge -pu system: baselayout overwrites make.conf

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:53:45 +0100
Jimmy Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've been using gentoo for a while now. Every time I have updated 
> baselayout it has overwritten the make.conf file automatically with a 
> default file. I've tried protecting it but to no avail.
> 
> Is this as it should be?
> 

No, it's not.  You will need to scan the documentation at www.gentoo.org, or maybe 
someone else will respond.  You apparently have the option config-protect=none (not 
sure the exact syntax).  This should have been reset after installation.

Normally, gentoo does not apply updates to /etc (and a few other directories) 
automatically.  You have to run etc-update when instructed to, and you will be asked 
to confirm each file change.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge

[gabriel]

On January 13, 2004 05:10 am, Gregory Staggel wrote:
> I tried to update my portage install today and I got this error.

try reading the mailing list you're posting to!
2 other posts of this nature have already appeared here in the last few hours.  
read the site (www.gentoo.org) and the forums (forums.gentoo.org) or bugs 
(bugs.gentoo.org).  in other words, note that RTFM now applies to more than a 
man page.

-- 
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in order to gain security,
will not have,
nor do they deserve,
either one.
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Re: [gentoo-user] IDE RAID 0 and 1

[Jimmy Rosen]

I have some experience with the following:
3ware
Promise
kernel SW raid

Promise:
I once started with a promise 6000 card and after serious problems with 
that card I decided to abandon that path.
Primarily the card is largely incompatible with the AMD 760 chipset as far 
as I've been able to conclude. I use dual athlon MP for most customer 
cluster nodes.
Secondarily the serious tech support, while _very_ eager to help are 
situated in China and, believe it or not, are forbidden to access certain 
useful websites e.g. the openmosix site. So while we had some very 
interesting problems trying to smuggle kernel sources back and forth 
through their bizzaro imposed cencorship I finally got too tired of 
working with it.

3ware:
I've built a 4x120GB raid 5 to serve as main storage for a cluster I built 
for a customer. It works very nicely. I'm disappointed with the 
performance, only about 15MB/s. Anyone else got better results?
It is well supported in vanilla and openmosix sources.
The only problem I've had with this card is that it has dropped single 
disks twice in 12 months. After replacing and testing I have found nothing 
wrong with the disks, but I cannot really trust them after being dropped 
from the raid. Rebuilding is a breeze.

Kernel SW raid:
One customer wanted a very cheap storage solution for the cluster I built 
him. So I deployed a 2x120GB raid 1 on kernel SW raid.
Very simple setup, very simple management, good general cheap solution.


Harebraman
Jimmy

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Re: [gentoo-user] XFree on Sun Ultra 30 - keyboard type?

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:20:46 -0600 "Leonard, Phil"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I emerged XFree on my Sun Ultra 30 and went to configure it but I
| can't seem to get the correct setting for the keyboard.

I'm assuming you have a type5 or a non-usb type6 keyboard... In which
case:

For 2.4.x kernels:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Keyboard0"
Driver  "keyboard"
Option  "CoreKeyboard"
Option  "XkbRules" "sun"
Option  "XkbModel" "type5"
Option  "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

For 2.6.x kernels:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Keyboard0"
Driver  "keyboard"
Option  "CoreKeyboard"
Option  "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option  "XkbModel" "type5"
Option  "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

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Re: [gentoo-user] What's the f**k?

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:16:27 -0500
Imre Solti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=123981
> OR the webpage.
> Imre

>Aleksandr wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Today in the morging, as always, i did 'emerge sync'
> 
> Next time I looked at the console:
> deleted  

[ rest snipped ]

The site you selected is down.  I suggest that you select another mirror.  

As a perment fix, emerge app-portage/mirrorselect, select some good mirrors close to 
you, and update /etc/make.conf with a list of alternate mirrors to try.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge

[Thomas T. Veldhouse]

Yes, you got hosed by something that appears to have been done to the Gentoo
rsync server and you are not alone.  They are remaining hush about what has
really happened.  They state on their webpage that the master rsync servers
are down, but they have not stated the problem that has developed (like you
have posted about), nor have the indicated a more systemic problem like the
non-function and now long lag of the email lists.

In other words, I am a little irritated with the lack of communication from
the Gentoo teams on this.  I am subscribed to the email lists and will look
here or on the website for any published issues, but you won't find me
digging through forums for something that should be up front and immediate.

Tom Veldhouse

- Original Message -
From: "Gregory Staggel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 4:10 AM
Subject: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge

Hello,

I tried to update my portage install today and I got this error.

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giveme / # emerge -vu portage

!!! INVALID ACCEPT_KEYWORDS: ~x86
!!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable.
giveme / #


Any ideas ?



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Re: [gentoo-user] from arch-linux back to gentoo

[Bryn Reeves]

On 18:09 Tue 13 Jan , Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> does anybody tried arch-linux before and can tell me now, why gentoo is
> better. I need some good arguments for a friend, who doesn't know which
> distribution (arch/gentoo) he should use.
> Is it just the speed which is very important?
> 
> Greetings!
> Fabian
> 
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Just looking at the front page of http://www.archlinux.org tells me that
arch-linux is optimised for i686. This is a big difference from gentoo, for
one thing I assume it is x86 only. Gentoo will optimize packages however
you ask it too, based on your /etc/make.conf settings - it can do this
because it builds everything (if you use a stage1 tarball) on the local
machine as you install it. 

Gentoo has portage as a package manager, arch-linux has pacman, again the
homepage tells me:

 "Pacman package manager, which couples a simple binary package format with
  an easy-to-use build system"

So there you are. arch-linux has a (primarily) binary package manager, gentoo
(primarily) source-based.

I don't think it is a question of which is 'better' in absolute terms, it
all depends what you want to do with it, and what your personal tastes and
goals for a distro dictate. 

Your best option is probably to read the About section of their website and
see how well it fits your needs.

Cheers

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Re: [gentoo-user] Virus's

[Jan]

I received multiple virus mails today (many of microsoft ;) )

I'm not sure they were coming from this list as it is a general mailbox...

Jan

- Original Message - 
From: "Peter Ruskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Virus's


> On Wednesday 07 Jan 2004 15:15, Jonathan Nichols wrote:
> > Dennis Freise wrote:
> > > On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:14:47 -0500
> > >
> > > Nicholas Hockey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >>does anybody else on this mailing list get slammed by the
> > >> "Microsoft Update" virus going around, i'm trying to figure out
> > >> why i get nailed by it all the time, and i apologize for the
> > >> apparent list spam. (  i believe the virus is called swen or gibe
> > >> )
> >
> > Hrm, never seen it. OH, that one with the fake "Windows patch?"
> >
> > Here's how to kill it 99% of the time:
> >
> > /name=[^>]*\.(ade|adp|asd|bas|bat|chm|cmd|com|cpl|crt|dbx|dll|exe|hlp
> >|hta|inf|ins|isp|lnk|js|jse|lnk|ocx|mde|mdt|mdw|msc|msi|msp|mst|nws|op
> >s|p
> > cd|pi|pif|prf|reg|scf|scr|sct|shb|shm|shs|swf|uue|vb|vbe|vbs|vbx|vxd|
> >wab|wsc|wsf|wsh)/ REJECT Potentially dangerous file attachment. Please
> > do
> >   not include any executable attachments in your email.
> >
> > Add to "header_checks" in /etc/postfix
> >
> > Run "postmap /etc/postfix/header_checks"
> 
> You don't have to postmap the checks files.. They are regexp and/or 
> pcre, and don't need to be in db format.
> 
> If you do run `postmap /etc/postfix/header_checks` you'll see warnings.
> 
> I received the above advice from Jeffrey Posluns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> when 
> I emailed him about the warnings.
> >
> > Add "header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks" to
> > /etc/postfix/main.cf
> >
> > You would be absolutely amazed at the amount of internet cruft that
> > header_checks file keeps out. :) Even if you do see the email slip
> > through, it won't have the virus payload.
> > SpamAssassin usually tags the virus email anyway.
> >
> > Take a look at http://www.securitysage.com for more information. Note
> > that this is for Postfix, if you're using qmail or sendmail, it'll be
> > different. :D
> >
> Peter
> -- 
> ==
> Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.0.49-r20 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, 
> glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.6.1-gentoo-w4l) i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+
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> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge

[Jan]

http://www.gentoo.org

Did you even look? :-)

- Original Message - 
From: "Gregory Staggel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:10 AM
Subject: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge


> 
> Hello,
> 
> I tried to update my portage install today and I got this error.
> 
> --
> giveme / # emerge -vu portage
>  
> !!! INVALID ACCEPT_KEYWORDS: ~x86
> !!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable.
> giveme / #
> 
> 
> Any ideas ?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Gregory
> 
> * Computers are like air-conditioners: 
>   both stop working, if you open windows.
> 


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Re: [gentoo-user] !!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable.

[Jan]

http://www.gentoo.org

Did you even look? :-)




- Original Message -
From: "Jean Magnan de Bornier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 12:59 PM
Subject: [gentoo-user] !!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable.


Hello all,
I just performed a routine "emerge sync"; at the end I read:

!!! INVALID ACCEPT_KEYWORDS: x86

 * An update to portage is available. It is _highly_ recommended
 * that you update portage now, before any other packages are updated.
 * Please do so and then update ALL of your configuration files.

Then when trying to update portage I got he message in my subject. I tried
to emerge another app, same error message!!!
Any ideas of what's happening?
TIA,
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Re: [gentoo-user] What happened today?

[Thomas T. Veldhouse]

Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> Can anybody explain what happened to the email lists and the rsync
> server today?  I notice that there is still a stale posting on the
> website about the rsync problem (doesn't mention that the lists were
> down yet again), but no update.
>
> Anybody?

Also note that this email was delayed by more than 3 hours ... something
else systemic is going on with Gentoo.  Not just the rsync servers.  For
awhile, this list was not functioning at all (all mail was queueing
somewhere).

Tom Veldhouse


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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge not always succeed ..

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:09:17 -0500
Al Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Can you emerge anything else?
> 
> If not you might have a corrupt portage and may need to redownload the 
> binary again...
> 
> 
> 
> At 11:55 AM 1/13/2004 +0200, you wrote:
> >hi,
> >I have strange problems... when emerging stuff sometimes they succeed,
> >somtimes not, sometimes I get segfaults as below :
> >
> >#emerge glib
> >.
> > > /usr/lib/glib-2.0/include/glibconfig.h
> > >>> /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.200.3
> > >>> /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.la
> > >>> /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0.200.3
> > >>> /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0.200.3
> > >>> /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.la
> > >>> /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so -> libgthread-2.0.so.0.200.3
> >Segmentation fault
> >
> >what can be the reason..
> >The system on which i do this is working ... even it has alot of 
> >programs,servers running w/o problems ..
> >
> >--

Segfaults can also be:

1. You compiled your system with the wrong cpu support.  (Not likely, if you are only 
seeing this occasionally.)

2. You have flaky memory chips.  Obtain and run the memtest86 program (available on 
LiveCD) for 24 hours or more.  If any errors, replace the memory.

3. Overheating.  Most bios these days can report out the temperature (enter setup when 
you boot), or you can use lm-sensors (or equivalent for 2.6 kernels) to to this online.


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Re: [gentoo-user] development-sources vs gentoo-dev-sources

[Daniel Drake]

development-sources are the "raw" 2.6 kernel sources from kernel.org
gentoo-dev-sources are the 2.6 sources plus some other patches applied
my guess is that one day, gentoo-dev-sources will become gentoo-sources, and 
development-sources will become vanilla-sources.

Daniel

Aaron Walker wrote:
I just recently upgraded from 2.4.22-gentoo-r2 => 
development-sources-2.6.1_rc1.  While browsing the online package 
database, I saw that there is also a gentoo-dev-sources kernel.  What is 
the difference between development-sources and gentoo-dev-sources?

Thanks,
Aaron
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Re: [gentoo-user] What happened today?

[Bryn Reeves]

On 11:41 Tue 13 Jan , Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> Can anybody explain what happened to the email lists and the rsync server
> today?  I notice that there is still a stale posting on the website about
> the rsync problem (doesn't mention that the lists were down yet again), but
> no update.
> 
> Anybody?
> 
> 
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well, I'm somebody, but not anybody 'triffically special :)

rsync.gentoo.org had it's dns record changed to 127.0.0.1, I guess to
reduce the flood of traffic while the chaps at gentoo.org were working on
the box... I couldn't find anything bar the note on the website either, it
was only posted today I think, but atleast it gave you some clue as to what 
was going on...

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Re: [gentoo-user] winCVS stupidities

[Roel Schroeven]

gabriel wrote:
linux is so damned cool.  so very cool that when i have to configure another 
person's windows box to talk to my cvs server, i go out of my mind.  ...and 
so i come to you smart bunch.

does anyone know how to configure wincvs to talk to a cvs server over ssh 
using a non-standard port?
I haven't done it with WinCVS since I prefer TortoiseCVS for most 
operations. To get that to work with a non-standard port, I created a 
small batch file that calls the real ssh command with the correct 
parameter.

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[gentoo-user] What kind of filesystem encryption options are available in porta ge?

[Brenden Walker]

I'm searching portage now, but I suspect it may be hard to find all the
options.  What I'd like is fairly simple encryption of selected filesystems
for my laptop.. I looked into doing the loopback bit, boy does that appear
to be a headache  I just want to keep the casual thief outta my data,
without having to manually encrypt and unencrypt.


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Re: [gentoo-user] gaim problem with Yahoo!

[Adrian Pirciu]

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had the same problem, solved.

1. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -pv gaim

will emerge gaim 0.75 and something called gaim-encryption. 

2. after that, modify the Yahoo server to scs.msg.yahoo.com. that's 
all. it works now :))

On Saturday 10 January 2004 18:10, Tom Wesley wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 16:05, Ben Sparks wrote:
> > Gaim .75 was released yesterday.  emerge sync and then try it
> > out, they say the yahoo problem has been fixed in .75.
>
> Still doesn't work for me...
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Re: [gentoo-user] IDE RAID 0 and 1

[Al Smith]

HP has a card called a netraid-1 for their netserver product line that does 
decent hardware raid controlling.

-Al

At 01:23 PM 1/13/2004 -0500, you wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:48:38 -0600
Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm looking for a decent PCI IDE RAID card that can do hardware RAID 0 
and/or 1 under
> Linux. Can anyone recommend anything? Thanks.
>

I recently installed a 3ware Escalade 7006 card (cheap one $) running RAID 
1 in my gentoo system and so far am very pleased with it. I didn't convert 
my existing HD, I added two new HDs and just moved certain partitions (not 
the root or boot) to RAID. I stayed away from Adaptec IDE cards because so 
many other gentooists on the forums had problems with them.

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Re: [gentoo-user] from arch-linux back to gentoo

[Bill Roberts]

On 18:09 Tue 13 Jan , Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> does anybody tried arch-linux before and can tell me now, why gentoo is
> better. I need some good arguments for a friend, who doesn't know which
> distribution (arch/gentoo) he should use.
> Is it just the speed which is very important?
> 
> Greetings!
> Fabian
> 
> 
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Take a look at what Linux Journal has to say:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?thold=0&mode=thread&order=0&sid=7002

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[gentoo-user] Problem with emerge

[Gregory Staggel]

Hello,

I tried to update my portage install today and I got this error.

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!!! INVALID ACCEPT_KEYWORDS: ~x86
!!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable.
giveme / #


Any ideas ?



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Re: [gentoo-user] qmail vs. sendmail

[Adrian Pirciu]

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On Monday 12 January 2004 15:42, Øyvind Stegard wrote:
> On Monday 12 January 2004 01:19, Ben Munat wrote:
> 
>
> > belongs to sendmail. So, should I unmerge sendmail? (It seemed
> > like folks on this list liked qmail better than sendmail...
> > anyone disagree?)
>
> Put in another vote for Postfix. It's the best, in my personal
> opinion.

and another one for qmail. easiest to manage IMHO. works for me and 
>5000 clients for at least 2 years. 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Virus's

[Peter Ruskin]

On Wednesday 07 Jan 2004 15:15, Jonathan Nichols wrote:
> Dennis Freise wrote:
> > On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:14:47 -0500
> >
> > Nicholas Hockey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>does anybody else on this mailing list get slammed by the
> >> "Microsoft Update" virus going around, i'm trying to figure out
> >> why i get nailed by it all the time, and i apologize for the
> >> apparent list spam. (  i believe the virus is called swen or gibe
> >> )
>
> Hrm, never seen it. OH, that one with the fake "Windows patch?"
>
> Here's how to kill it 99% of the time:
>
> /name=[^>]*\.(ade|adp|asd|bas|bat|chm|cmd|com|cpl|crt|dbx|dll|exe|hlp
>|hta|inf|ins|isp|lnk|js|jse|lnk|ocx|mde|mdt|mdw|msc|msi|msp|mst|nws|op
>s|p
> cd|pi|pif|prf|reg|scf|scr|sct|shb|shm|shs|swf|uue|vb|vbe|vbs|vbx|vxd|
>wab|wsc|wsf|wsh)/ REJECT Potentially dangerous file attachment. Please
> do
>   not include any executable attachments in your email.
>
> Add to "header_checks" in /etc/postfix
>
> Run "postmap /etc/postfix/header_checks"

You don't have to postmap the checks files.. They are regexp and/or 
pcre, and don't need to be in db format.

If you do run `postmap /etc/postfix/header_checks` you'll see warnings.

I received the above advice from Jeffrey Posluns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> when 
I emailed him about the warnings.
>
> Add "header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks" to
> /etc/postfix/main.cf
>
> You would be absolutely amazed at the amount of internet cruft that
> header_checks file keeps out. :) Even if you do see the email slip
> through, it won't have the virus payload.
> SpamAssassin usually tags the virus email anyway.
>
> Take a look at http://www.securitysage.com for more information. Note
> that this is for Postfix, if you're using qmail or sendmail, it'll be
> different. :D
>
Peter
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Re: [gentoo-user] running modprobe for quickcam

[Peter Ruskin]

On Tuesday 13 Jan 2004 09:13, Chris wrote:
> how do i run modprobe quickcam whenever i boot so i wont have to run
> it manually when i need the cam?

Add "quickcam" to /etc/modules.autoload.d/

Peter
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[gentoo-user] development-sources vs gentoo-dev-sources

[Aaron Walker]

I just recently upgraded from 2.4.22-gentoo-r2 => 
development-sources-2.6.1_rc1.  While browsing the online package 
database, I saw that there is also a gentoo-dev-sources kernel.  What is 
the difference between development-sources and gentoo-dev-sources?

Thanks,
Aaron
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[gentoo-user] XFree on Sun Ultra 30 - keyboard type?

[Leonard, Phil]

I emerged XFree on my Sun Ultra 30 and went to configure it but I can't seem to get 
the correct
setting for the keyboard.  I figured out that for the mouse I had to use /dev/sunmouse 
for the 
driver but if I use the default settings for the keyboard (default from XFree86 
-configure) then
XFree won't work (ie, blank screen and no keyboard response).  I changed the keyboard 
setting 
to /dev/kbd and then XFree will display twm but they keyboard "works" but none of the 
keys
are in the correct places.  What should I use for the keyboard setting to get my Sun 
keyboard
to work under XFree?

My "InputDevice" section in /etc/X11/XF86Config looks like this:


Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Keyboard0"
Driver  "keyboard"
Option  "Protocol" "auto"
Option  "Device" "/dev/kbd"
EndSection


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Re: [gentoo-user] warning problem emerge sync this morning.

[Jonathan Nichols]

Philippe Van Hecke wrote:

It seem that an emerge sync 
remove all the /usr/portage/profile dir.
after that you are unable to do any emerge. I will full fill a new bug.

Philippe
Don't. Just look at www.gentoo.org :P



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[gentoo-user] Re: DMA not working (2.4.22 and 2.6.1)

[Richard Revis]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 03:14:15 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I had the same problem, you may want to enable support for your IDE 
> Chipset in your kernel, the specific one... not just general support.

Sadly it is still not working. Any more ideas? FWIW I compiled hdparm
under 2.4.20-r9, will it now need a recompile?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] peu $ lspci
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333
AGP]

(So VIA82Cxxx chipset driver?)

  x x[*] PCI IDE chipset support
  x x[*]   Sharing PCI IDE interrupts support   
  x x[ ]   Boot off-board chipsets first support
  x x[*]   Generic PCI IDE Chipset Support
  x x< >   OPTi 82C621 chipset enhanced support (EXPERIMENTAL) 
  x x<*>   RZ1000 chipset bugfix/support 
  x x[*]   Generic PCI bus-master DMA support 
  x x[ ] Force enable legacy 2.0.X HOSTS to use DMA
  x x[*] Use PCI DMA by default when available
  x x[ ]   Enable DMA only for disks 
  x x<*> VIA82CXXX chipset support


elrsr-1 root # hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb

/dev/hdb:
 setting using_dma to 1 (on)
 HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

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Re: [gentoo-user] rsync.gentoo.org unknown?

[Thomas T. Veldhouse]

gabriel wrote:
>
> in a case like this, where something major (rsync) that worked
> yesterday and isn't working today, it's likely that it's a
> system-wide problem and therefore it would have a post on both of the
> above urls.
>

I think the central server requirement for rsync needs to be revisitted.
FreeBSD has a good idea with cvsup and choosing the most local mirror and
sticking with it.

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[gentoo-user] !!! No profile directory; system mode unavailable.

[Jean Magnan de Bornier]

Hello all,
I just performed a routine "emerge sync"; at the end I read:

!!! INVALID ACCEPT_KEYWORDS: x86

 * An update to portage is available. It is _highly_ recommended
 * that you update portage now, before any other packages are updated.
 * Please do so and then update ALL of your configuration files.

Then when trying to update portage I got he message in my subject. I tried
to emerge another app, same error message!!!
Any ideas of what's happening?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Font Problems or "What is the best configuration?"

[Jason Stubbs]

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On Tuesday 13 January 2004 06:54, Jan Drugowitsch wrote:
> On Monday 12 January 2004 15:55, Daniel Drake wrote:
> > > emerge xfs
> > > rc-update add xfs default
> > > Add "FontPath "unix/:7100" " to the "Files"   section of your
> > > XFconfig file.
> > > Add font dirs to /etc/X11/fs/config
> > > then reboot, or:
> > >   /etc/init.d/xfs start
> > >   restart X
> >
> > I tried this configuration, and when starting X, it says:
> > Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
>
> in /etc/init.d/xfs the server is set to only listen on unix sockets by
> default (XFS_PORT="-1"). You can either set it to a tcp port and then add
> the "unix/:7100" to your XF86Config or leave it like that (which is safer
> if you don't use xfs over a network) and set your FontPath to "unix/:-1".

Well, I seem to have got this working but my fonts aren't actually available 
to applications (at least not in KDE). Even if it had worked fully, xfs is 
missing many features of fontconfig that I require such as per font 
anti-aliasing settings and font substitution. Which brings me back to my 
original question... there must be some way to use fontconfig without getting 
huge application start-up delays. Has nobody got this working correctly?

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[gentoo-user] Software for multiformat DVD writer

[Christian Herzyk]

Hello all,

I am going to get a DVD writer one of the next days. It will be an LG 
4081B supporting DVD+-R and RAM. Now I am thinking about the software.
Does it make sense to install dvd+rw-tools and dvdtools?
Any other recomendations (except updating k3b)?

Thanks

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Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade to Gnome 2.4

[raptor]

yep that is interesting when I do "New pannel" nothing happens 
(no sub menu there as I have on other machine with 2.2)

|On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 23:49, raptor wrote:
|> Everything is ok.. only that I cannot create panels !!
|
|You should be able to right click on a panel and see "New Panel". Click
|that to add one.
|
|If all the panels are gone... you're not supposed to be able to do that
|(minimum one panel, although you can hide it / slide it)... dunno -
|there are a bunch of GNOME people here (linux.conf.au), I could ask if
|you like.
|
|AfC
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[gentoo-user] Init & config files

[Sensei]

Hi.

I found a weird behaviour in the init sequence. I'm trying to set up AFS 
for our dept and it uses NIS and Portmap. I installed it and modified

/etc/init.d/openafs

in order to have portmap and ypbind on before afs. The problem is that I 
cannot set the nis domain.

I modified:
/etc/yp.conf
/etc/yp.conf.sv
to use our domain, but at each startup, the yp.conf is overwritten with 
the dns domain. I mean, our NIS domain is 'vn-inf' and our dept is 
'dia.uniroma3.it'. I modify /etc/yp.conf to

domain vn-inf broadcast

and when I reboot, I have it set to

domain dia.uniroma3.it broadcast

Now, who overwrites the configuration files? I had the same problem with 
modules.conf for alsa, and I had to modify /etc/modules.d/alsa --- and I 
found no documentation about this kind of init.

Anyone can help me? I don't understand who starts who and how! And I 
have to set up the workstations...

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[gentoo-user] Adding entries in start menu

[khurram b]

Hi!
I want to add my own category of programming in the
start menu in kde. so that I click on the programes
and it executes.


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Re: [gentoo-user] IDE RAID 0 and 1

[Alec Shaner]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:48:38 -0600
Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm looking for a decent PCI IDE RAID card that can do hardware RAID 0 and/or 1 
> under 
> Linux. Can anyone recommend anything? Thanks.
> 

I recently installed a 3ware Escalade 7006 card (cheap one $) running RAID 1 in my 
gentoo system and so far am very pleased with it. I didn't convert my existing HD, I 
added two new HDs and just moved certain partitions (not the root or boot) to RAID. I 
stayed away from Adaptec IDE cards because so many other gentooists on the forums had 
problems with them.

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Re: [gentoo-user] What's the f**k?

[Thomas T. Veldhouse]

John Helliwell wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:09, Aleksandr wrote:
>
>> Please help me how to get out of this shit...
>
>> If it's a bug, it's a really BIG bug...
>
> http://www.gentoo.org
>
> Did you even look? :-)
>

It only said the servers were not up and running, not that it was deleting
local files when you ran rsync.  Further, it said it would be fixed in a
couple of hours ... and that was many hours ago with no update.

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Re: [gentoo-user] X/Gnome: How does this work for regular users?

[Michael Stilson Jr.]

On Sunday, January 11, 2004, at 07:31  PM, Aaron Walker wrote:
gabriel wrote:
On January 11, 2004 07:04 pm, Michael Stilson Jr. wrote:
Just got done emerging xfree and gnome. My root user can log into 
gnome
fine (obviously), but my regular user (groups: users, wheel, audio)
cannot log in to gnome. Looks like permission errors.
what errors do you get if you try running "startx" as a regular user? 
 also check to make sure that (a) all files in /home// are 
owned by that user and that that user can write to /tmp/
gabriel: I have been getting these errors...

startx output:

/usr/X11R6/bin/startx: line 104: cannot create temp file for here 
document: Permission denied
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx: line 104: cannot create temp file for here 
document: Permission denied

~/.xsession-errors:

/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession//Default: Registering your session with wtmp 
and utmp
/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession//Default: running: sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp 
-u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -1 :0 mstilson

Yeah, I had this same problem when I started using Gentoo.. took me a 
week to realize I never set proper write permissions for /tmp. 
Shouldn't this be in the installation guide?
So, peoples...What are considered the "proper" write privileges on 
/tmp? Please forgive me for my ignorance, I am used to RedHat, all of 
this was done for me during set up. :)

Should I chgrp on /tmp to "users" or something and then set write 
privileges to the group?

I went through this tutorial last night (got it from the gentoo DCG):
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/os-dw-linuxxwin-i.html
Got some good info on .xinitrc, the X resource db and such. None of it 
fixed my problems though.

Big thanks, for the info and the quick response.

- michael

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Re: [gentoo-user] from arch-linux back to gentoo

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:09:48 +0100
Fabian Braennstroem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> does anybody tried arch-linux before and can tell me now, why gentoo is
> better. I need some good arguments for a friend, who doesn't know which
> distribution (arch/gentoo) he should use.
> Is it just the speed which is very important?
> 

I haven't tried arch-linux, but I would have the following questions:

1. How long has the distribution existed?
2. How many developers?
3. How many users?
4. How responsive to fixing bugs?
5. How many packages offered?

I'm sure you will find that gentoo is the better choice when you compare the answers 
to questions 2-5.

Of course, if your friend is a total newbie, you might try SUSE.

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[gentoo-user] What happened today?

[Thomas T. Veldhouse]

Can anybody explain what happened to the email lists and the rsync server
today?  I notice that there is still a stale posting on the website about
the rsync problem (doesn't mention that the lists were down yet again), but
no update.

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[gentoo-user] nvidia & apache

[mathieu perrenoud]

Hi,

after having compiled the new kernel (2.6.1-r1), I emerged nvidia-kernel, like 
usual. But portage choosed for whatever reason to remove apache. I haven't 
been fast enough to hit ctrl-c to stop it from doing that silly thing and now 
(after re-emerging), apache won't start anymore, complaining about 
mod_access. I will surely solve the issue about mod_acces, but why has 
portage decided to remove apache??

here is a sample from genlop:
Tue Jan 13 16:06:15 2004 --> media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.5328-r1
Tue Jan 13 16:06:50 2004 <-- net-www/apache-2.0.48-r1

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[gentoo-user] Problem? : emerge -pu system: baselayout overwrites make.conf

[Jimmy Rosen]

I've been using gentoo for a while now. Every time I have updated 
baselayout it has overwritten the make.conf file automatically with a 
default file. I've tried protecting it but to no avail.

Is this as it should be?

I'm asking because it's about time for another system update
emerge -pu system
and that will bring in another update to baselayout, as well as a whole 
bunch of other stuff.
As baselayout is somewhere in the middle of this, and before portage itself 
is updated and emerge-ing the system is restarted, the make.conf file will 
be overwritten in the middle of my system update. Now, since that will 
overwrite my use flags, does it mean the rest of the update will be 
compiled with the default use and make flags?

I'd be glad if someone could enlighten me on this particular pickle.

Harebrafolk
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[gentoo-user] Re: metalog versus harddrive spindown

[Sebastian Bergmann]

Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
> However, this only happens if I don't have metalog running. This does
> not make sense to me since I don't log to the harddrive because I mount
> /var/log using tmpfs.

  Correction: vcron, not metalog, is the culprit here. Since stopping
  metalog also stops vcron I did not realize this earlier.

  Is there any reason for vcron to keep files open or anything that
  prevents the harddrive from going idle?

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Re: [gentoo-user] rsync.gentoo.org unknown?

[Patrick Börjesson]

> I am getting the following when I try to do an emerge sync.
> 
> >>> Starting retry 3 of 3
> >>> checking server timestamp ...
> rsync: getaddrinfo: rsync.gentoo.org 873: Name or service not known
> rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(88)
> 
> !!! Rsync has not successfully finished. It is recommended that you
> keep!!! trying or that you use the 'emerge-webrsync' option if you are
> unable!!! to use rsync due to firewall or other restrictions. This
> should be a!!! temporary problem unless complications exist with your
> network!!! (and possibly your system's filesystem) configuration.
> 
> Could someone let me know What is going on?

A tip to those who post to the mailinglist without as much as a try to
find out what's wrong yourselves first: Good practise is to first search
in the forums (forums.gentoo.org) and bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org) or just
take a look on Gentoo's homepage to see if someone else said something
about it... The first thing you see when going to the Gentoo homepage is
a news with the topic "rsync mirror troubles". Mght be what your
looking for?

Patrick Börjesson

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[gentoo-user] warning problem emerge sync this morning.

[Philippe Van Hecke]

It seem that an emerge sync 
remove all the /usr/portage/profile dir.
after that you are unable to do any emerge. I will full fill a new bug.

Philippe


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Re: [gentoo-user] rsync.gentoo.org unknown?

[Imre Solti]

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=123981

William Hubbs wrote:
I am getting the following when I try to do an emerge sync.


Starting retry 3 of 3
checking server timestamp ...

rsync: getaddrinfo: rsync.gentoo.org 873: Name or service not known
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(88)
!!! Rsync has not successfully finished. It is recommended that you keep
!!! trying or that you use the 'emerge-webrsync' option if you are unable
!!! to use rsync due to firewall or other restrictions. This should be a
!!! temporary problem unless complications exist with your network
!!! (and possibly your system's filesystem) configuration.
Could someone let me know What is going on?

William

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Re: [gentoo-user] What's the f**k?

[Imre Solti]

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=123981
OR the webpage.
Imre
Aleksandr wrote:
Hello,

Today in the morging, as always, i did 'emerge sync'

Next time I looked at the console:
deleted 
deleted 
deleted 
deleted 
deleted 
deleted 
deleted 
deleted 
Invalid something ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"

after that I tryed rsync'ing again and now I always get:

receiving file list ...
0 files to consider
client: nothing to do: perhaps you need to specify some filenames or the 
--recursive option?
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(653)

I'm attaching make.conf and my portage version is Portage 2.0.49-r20 
(default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.22-gentoo-r4). I'm 
using rsync.de.gentoo.org.

Please help me how to get out of this shit...

If it's a bug, it's a really BIG bug...

Thank you in advance,
Aleksandr
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