[gentoo-user] genkernel has destroyed /boot!
hello all, I have just installed a new kernel with genkernel 3.0.1_beta9. After compiling it says : Kernel compiled successfully!, etc Then I try to edit my grub.conf, but I discover that /boot has changed much more than I expected :-( : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot]# ls -l total 4332 lrwxr-xr-x1 root root1 2003-07-22 18:29 boot - . -rw-r--r--1 root root 1298137 2004-02-04 05:48 initrd-2.6.2-rc2-mm1 -rw-r--r--1 root root 2002616 2004-02-04 05:33 kernel-2.6.2-rc2-mm1 -rw-r--r--1 root root 1119770 2003-06-19 08:17 vmlinuz-gentoo no more grub into /boot!!! I have tried to start the procedure of installing grub by typing grub in /boot: GRUB version 0.92 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub setup (hd0) Checking if /boot/grub/stage1 exists... yes Checking if /boot/grub/stage2 exists... yes Checking if /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 exists... yes Running embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)... 16 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/grub.conf... succeeded Done. etc... this seems to indicate that /boot/grub does exist, but I still don't see it! can anybody help me? tia, -- Jean Magnan de Bornier 3 Cours Victor Hugo, 13980 Alleins France Tel: 04 90 59 33 94Port: 06 09 17 35 87 mèl: jm.bornier*at*free.fr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel has destroyed /boot!
On gentoo my /boot seems to be usually unmounted. This could lead to the behaviour you are experiencing. Do a 'mount /boot' and check again? Eugene. - Original Message - From: Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 6:04 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] genkernel has destroyed /boot! hello all, I have just installed a new kernel with genkernel 3.0.1_beta9. After compiling it says : Kernel compiled successfully!, etc Then I try to edit my grub.conf, but I discover that /boot has changed much more than I expected :-( : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot]# ls -l total 4332 lrwxr-xr-x1 root root1 2003-07-22 18:29 boot - . -rw-r--r--1 root root 1298137 2004-02-04 05:48 initrd-2.6.2-rc2-mm1 -rw-r--r--1 root root 2002616 2004-02-04 05:33 kernel-2.6.2-rc2-mm1 -rw-r--r--1 root root 1119770 2003-06-19 08:17 vmlinuz-gentoo no more grub into /boot!!! I have tried to start the procedure of installing grub by typing grub in /boot: GRUB version 0.92 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub setup (hd0) Checking if /boot/grub/stage1 exists... yes Checking if /boot/grub/stage2 exists... yes Checking if /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 exists... yes Running embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)... 16 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/grub.conf... succeeded Done. etc... this seems to indicate that /boot/grub does exist, but I still don't see it! can anybody help me? tia, -- Jean Magnan de Bornier 3 Cours Victor Hugo, 13980 Alleins France Tel: 04 90 59 33 94Port: 06 09 17 35 87 mèl: jm.bornier*at*free.fr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel has destroyed /boot!
Le 02/04/04 Eugene Rosenzweig [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit notamment: Yes Eugene that was it, when mounting /boot I see everything again, thx On gentoo my /boot seems to be usually unmounted. This could lead to the behaviour you are experiencing. Do a 'mount /boot' and check again? Eugene. - Original Message - From: Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 6:04 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] genkernel has destroyed /boot! hello all, I have just installed a new kernel with genkernel 3.0.1_beta9. After compiling it says : Kernel compiled successfully!, etc Then I try to edit my grub.conf, but I discover that /boot has changed much more than I expected :-( : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot]# ls -l total 4332 lrwxr-xr-x1 root root1 2003-07-22 18:29 boot - . -rw-r--r--1 root root 1298137 2004-02-04 05:48 initrd-2.6.2-rc2-mm1 -rw-r--r--1 root root 2002616 2004-02-04 05:33 kernel-2.6.2-rc2-mm1 -rw-r--r--1 root root 1119770 2003-06-19 08:17 vmlinuz-gentoo no more grub into /boot!!! I have tried to start the procedure of installing grub by typing grub in /boot: GRUB version 0.92 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub setup (hd0) Checking if /boot/grub/stage1 exists... yes Checking if /boot/grub/stage2 exists... yes Checking if /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 exists... yes Running embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)... 16 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/grub.conf... succeeded Done. etc... this seems to indicate that /boot/grub does exist, but I still don't see it! can anybody help me? tia, -- Jean Magnan de Bornier 3 Cours Victor Hugo, 13980 Alleins France Tel: 04 90 59 33 94Port: 06 09 17 35 87 mèl: jm.bornier*at*free.fr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Jean Magnan de Bornier 3 Cours Victor Hugo, 13980 Alleins France Tel: 04 90 59 33 94Port: 06 09 17 35 87 mèl: jm.bornier*at*free.fr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using transparent terminal...
On Feb 3, 2004, at 9:55 PM, TriKster Abacus wrote: That is pretty damn funny.. MacOS X! Talk about insert foot into mouth! mac os x supports alpha blending. i use translucent terminals quite often. You can set transparency using Eterm, aterm.. and probably a lot more too.. (I only use Eterm) unless eterm has changed dramatically in 0.9.2 i doubt it has the kind of transparency he's talking about. however, i believe there are certain engines for kde and possibly also gnome that support real (fake) transparency. though i'm afraid the kind of transparency that os x does is beyond what xfree can currently render. there was a fellow who wrote an opengl hardware layer hack to xfree... google for 'transluxent' if you're interested. j. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with ntpd...
Hello, Thanks a lot for all the replies Benoit Le Mardi 3 Février 2004 15:26, Tom Hendrikx a écrit : On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 14:45, Benoit Joseph wrote: Hello all, I have a very strange problem with my ntpd server. Its configuration resets all the time... My config file is very simple, server ntp.belnet.be logfile /var/log/ntp.log driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift After a reboot, my config file becomes restrict default noquery notrust nomodify restrict 127.0.0.1 restrict 217.117.42.0 mask 255.255.254.0 fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 3 server 127.127.1.0 driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift logfile /var/log/ntp.log And this without any operations of me. This is quite annoying! Anybody has an idea? It will be welcome! Thanks for advance, Benoit This is caused by dhcpd, you should add a `dhcpcd_eth0=-N` to /etc/conf.d/net more info: http://search.gmane.org/search.php?group=gmane.linux.gentoo .userquery=ntp+configuration Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Be there. Aloha. -- Steve McGarret, _Hawaii Five-Oh_ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 00:48, William Kenworthy wrote: There's lots of use 2.6 messages here, but does anyone have a list of what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I take the leap? The only thing that has been somewhat problematic for me is that OpenAFS still does not work with 2.6. I don't need it always, so it's not been a showstopper, but from the discussion in the openafs lists, it looks like it might be a while before it's ported. Other than that, I have nothing but good things to say about 2.6. Particularly interactive performance is fantastic - I almost never feel my system slowing down, even under the highest loads. --Diego -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Progress bars??
Tommi Pirinen said, A bit bloated solution I had in mind once was to create a stubmake program that would walk through the make process, but instead of actually executing the compiler commands it would count them for the progress bar to use, and because it'd simulate typical make process it would always know the exact amount of commands the make process would execute in the current specific settings. Like this? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=42346highlight=emergeprogresssid=3c66f1e0ff64d1c988e565486c467cae I used it for a while and it provided useful feedback of the progress of lengthy compiles, but it also caused problems with a number of packages so I've now removed it. Cheers Neil -- This is as bad as it can get; but don't bet on it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot install samba 2.2.8a and lprng
Jens Mayer wrote: * On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 16:11:54 +, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] # emerge --usepkg --pretend samba These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] net-print/lprng (virtual/lpr from pkg net-print/cups-1.1.20) [ebuild N] net-print/cups-1.1.20 [ebuild N] net-fs/samba-2.2.8a ## Why that? Give USE=-cups emerge -pv samba a try. Regards, Jens Thanks, this works. :-) Heinrich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Is this renaming something that the ebuild does? I don't know - it should. I installed it manually (that was still under SuSE). And if so what happens when you go back to the 2.4 series - do the new tools work for that or do you have to rename them again? No, the new utils will check what kernel is running and transparently call the old ones if it's 2.4 or earlier. Arne Vogel wrote: Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I can't even get it to boot! Do you have up-to-date module-init-tools? Module loading will otherwise fail. The old tools (modprobe, insmod, rmmod, lsmod) must be renamed to xxx.old because they will be invoked when booting pre-2.6. Also, some modules have been renamed, so you will have to provide an adjusted /etc/modprobe.conf. Best check /var/log/messages to see *what* exactly fails (for me it was e.g. psmouse which was previously called mousedev). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Progress bars??
On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 20:51:05 -0500 Nathaniel McCallum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Then after the first package was merged the progress bar would show | 20%, after the second - 30%, the third - 40%, the fourth - 60%, the | fifth - 100%. While it is not that accurate (5 megs of rhythmbox | would take longer than 20 Megs of ximian-artwork, depending on the | system), it could be at least a general idea. What do you think? That would be wildly inaccurate. Besides, there's already an (x of y), why would this be of any more use? -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail:ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] love-sources
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 15:57:36 -0800 (PST) Eric Paynter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Can someone point me to an ebuild for the latest love-sources? | I've searched the forums, bugs.gentoo.org, BMG, and Google and | can't seem to find an actual ebuild. | | What is the love patch? They're a set of broken patches for the sort of people who like to run hard-masked compilers and dodgy ebuilds that aren't in portage. Just remember, if you run love sources, please don't submit any bugs about *anything*. I and several other devs are sick of tracking down 'compile errors' that turn out to be related to some really screwed up kernel breakage. Also remember that filesystem corruption doesn't go away when you reboot into a different kernel, so don't submit bugs related to that box until you've rebuilt from a complete low level format. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail:ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Disable SCSI in 2.6
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 07:42, Canek Pelez Valds wrote: It's not CDRW, that doesn't use the ide-scsi module anymore (it's even deprecated). I think is USB (mass storage needs scsi), or FireWire (ieee1394). Canek You are right it is the USB (mass storage). Thank guys. Vanh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] mm-sources-2.6.2
Can some one explain what is the problem:
emerge (1 of 1) sys-kernel/mm-sources-2.6.2_rc2-r1 to /
md5 src_uri ;-) patch-2.6.2-rc2.bz2
md5 src_uri ;-) linux-2.6.1.tar.bz2
md5 src_uri ;-) 2.6.2-rc2-mm1.bz2
Preparing to unpack...
Unpacking source...
Unpacking linux-2.6.1.tar.bz2 to
/var/tmp/portage/mm-sources-2.6.2_rc2-r1/work
* Applying 2.6.2-rc2-mm1.patch...
patch: pch.c:614: intuit_diff_type: Assertion `i0 != NONE' failed.
/usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1367: 4544 Aborted ( patch
-p${PATCH_DEPTH} --dry-run -f ${i} /dev/null )
patch: pch.c:614: intuit_diff_type: Assertion `i0 != NONE' failed.
/usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1367: 4545 Aborted ( patch
-p${PATCH_DEPTH} --dry-run -f ${i} /dev/null ) [ !! ]
!!! ERROR: sys-kernel/mm-sources-2.6.2_rc2-r1 failed.
!!! Function unipatch, Line 418, Exitcode 1
!!! Unable to dry-run patch.
Yuval Scharf
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[gentoo-user] KDE 3.2
Does anybody know when there will be a stable ebuild for KDE 3.2? I'm very excited about it, but don't want to taint my system with such a big non-ebuild component. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Unable to emerge gxmms
Hi list, What am i missing here? ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] # emerge gxmms Calculating dependencies !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy gxmms have been masked. !!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct. ## -- Heinrich Rebehn University of Bremen Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Department of Telecommunications - Phone : +49/421/218-4664 Fax :-3341 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.2
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:11:12 +0200 (IST) Leonid Podolny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Does anybody know when there will be a stable ebuild for KDE 3.2? I'm | very excited about it, but don't want to taint my system with such a | big non-ebuild component. There are already ebuilds for kde 3.2. They were package.mask'ed until not very long ago, though... Wait a bit, emerge sync and you'll be fine, the mask is now gone: revision 1.2673 date: 2004/02/03 14:43:00; author: caleb; state: Exp; lines: +0 -24 unmask kde 3.2 -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail:ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to emerge gxmms
# emerge -s gxmms Searching... [ Results for search key : gxmms ] [ Applications found : 2 ] * gnome-extra/gxmms [ Masked ] Latest version available: 0.1.0 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 210 kB Homepage:http://www.nongnu.org/gxmms/ Description: XMMS applet for Gnome2 panel ... As you can see, gxmms has been masked. You could bypass this with # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -pv gxmms (substitute x86 with your architecture). Nevertheless, as stated in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/64607 I think it is far more problematic to mix ~x86 and x86 then it is to work with all one or the other. cheers, Laurent Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi list, What am i missing here? ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] # emerge gxmms Calculating dependencies !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy gxmms have been masked. !!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct. ## -- Heinrich Rebehn University of Bremen Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Department of Telecommunications - Phone : +49/421/218-4664 Fax :-3341 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Laurent __ enjoy the penguin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using transparent terminal...
On Feb 4, 2004, at 4:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw some of gentoo screenshots! I haven't used Linux on the desktop in a while, but I thought it was possible, too. and what do you mean of MacOS X? MacOS X theme of X windows or real MacOS X? even we can use transparency feature in MS windows... I think Norro is kidding you on... Mac OS X's windows manager is years ahead of other o/s in terms of eye-candy, and supports transparency in a way others do not. I think that on Linux Windows any transparent window has to fake it - I believe it does this by looking at what should be behind itself, and mixing the transparency itself to paint as it's own background. On Mac OS X the transparency is handled by the o/s, and is hence a lot more efficient. Mac OS X also supports arbitrary transformations upon windows which may not sound very exciting until you actually see what it means. Check out: http://compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org/Mac/Genie1.jpg http://compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org/Mac/Genie2.jpg http://compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org/Mac/Genie3.jpg http://compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org/Mac/Genie4.jpg Notice the way that the video *keeps playing* whilst the window is minimised (you can see that Billy is looking downwards in the first screenshot towards the camera in the 2nd one). Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with first boot
On Feb 3, 2004, at 10:43 pm, Peter Wu wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 20:44:31 -0200 (BRST), barreto wrote: However, whem I have tried my first boot, the system stops with the following message above: STEP 3: Mounting necessary filesystems per boot options Started device management daemon v1.3.25 for /dev STEP 4: Determining root device STEP 4a: Mounting root mount: Mounting /dev/hda3 on /newroot failed: Invalid argument Could not mount specified ROOT, try again Root block device unspecified or not detected Please specify a device to boot, or shell for a shell : I guess you did not edit your /etc/fstab correctly by replacing the ROOT with the actual root you have. Hmmmn... if that is the actual message he received it *does* mention /dev/hda3, which would be consistent with the root device on a standard Gentoo install as per the manual. I don't see Gentoo boot that often - is a reference to /newroot normal..? My guess is that perhaps the OP doesn't have the correct file-systems compiled into his kernel. barreto - can you check this, please..? What file systems are /boot / ..? Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with first boot
My fs are /boot = ext3 and / = reiserfs On Feb 3, 2004, at 10:43 pm, Peter Wu wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 20:44:31 -0200 (BRST), barreto wrote: However, whem I have tried my first boot, the system stops with the following message above: STEP 3: Mounting necessary filesystems per boot options Started device management daemon v1.3.25 for /dev STEP 4: Determining root device STEP 4a: Mounting root mount: Mounting /dev/hda3 on /newroot failed: Invalid argument Could not mount specified ROOT, try again Root block device unspecified or not detected Please specify a device to boot, or shell for a shell : I guess you did not edit your /etc/fstab correctly by replacing the ROOT with the actual root you have. Hmmmn... if that is the actual message he received it *does* mention /dev/hda3, which would be consistent with the root device on a standard Gentoo install as per the manual. I don't see Gentoo boot that often - is a reference to /newroot normal..? My guess is that perhaps the OP doesn't have the correct file-systems compiled into his kernel. barreto - can you check this, please..? What file systems are /boot / ..? Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
William Kenworthy wrote: e.g, is older hardware supported (PIIX - since they removed the tuning option from 2.4 this has been a disaster for me) I've got 2.6.0-test9 on a Compaq Deskpro with a 350 MHz Pentium II, and it looks perfectly happy with it. The fact that it freezes everytime I try to recompile glibc is purely because its harddisk is dying... :) XFS and some other (unspecified) file systems have problems No XFS-related problems on the only desktop I'm using it on. What kind of issues should I be experiencing? The only problems I do have on that machine (2.6.2 mm kernel with udev 015, no devfs) are lacking device nodes for my USB scanner and a parallel printer that has ceased to work, both undoubtedly because I can't get my brain around udev... Cheers Ulrich Plate pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Using transparent terminal...
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:50:10 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I think Norro is kidding you on... Mac OS X's windows manager is years | ahead of other o/s in terms of eye-candy, and supports transparency in | a way others do not. I think that on Linux Windows any transparent | window has to fake it - I believe it does this by looking at what | should be behind itself, and mixing the transparency itself to paint | as it's own background. On Mac OS X the transparency is handled by the | o/s, and is hence a lot more efficient. Uh, you mean like how fdo Xserver gives true translucency on linux with the XCOMPOSITE stuff? -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail:ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to emerge gxmms
On 11:14 Wed 04 Feb , Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi list, What am i missing here? ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] # emerge gxmms Calculating dependencies !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy gxmms have been masked. !!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct. ## The package is still in testing. Try etcat -v gxmms to check for status. To emerge, try ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge gxmms -- Bill Roberts -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
Hi, On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:17:32AM +0100, Arne Vogel wrote: Well, 3D-Hardware-Acceleration will not work until NVIDIA provides an updated driver. Hmmm, weird, I downloaded the latest driver from the NVIDIA site and it seems to work quite well using 2.6.1 Apart from that, the kernel-included nv driver seems to work without problems (tested on GeForce 5200FX). Not for me, somehow 2.6.1 and nv seemed to have some problems (messed up graphics when starting X) experience problems. The system responsitivity under heavy I/O load (tar xjf...) was greatly improved, so personally I hope these 2 things that prevent me from switching, non-working Hardware OpenGL and ADSL, are fixed soon... Is kernel pppoe that much better performance-wise? I still run the old system on my router, mainly out of lazyness ... Another thing I noticed was broken in 2.6.1 on my Debian machine was the IHC dhcp server - it complained because it was compiled with a 2.4 kernel, a simple recompile solved the problem, though. Greetings, Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's lots of use 2.6 messages here, but does anyone have a list of what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I take the leap? I have used 2.5/2.6 on an Athlon and a Pentium 3 laptop since 2.5.69, and haven't had a single crash or data loss on any of them. e.g, is older hardware supported (PIIX - since they removed the tuning option from 2.4 this has been a disaster for me) There is a config option for PIIX. XFree looks like it has problems No problem with XFree86 here, but I don't use cards without open-source drivers. XFS and some other (unspecified) file systems have problems No problems here, both these machines use xfs. Should I install today, I would probably go back to ext3 with data journaling. -- Hilsen Harald. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] usb storage
hey im having issues with my digital camera memorystic reader and my 32 meg thumbdrive usb storage thing :-p both are flash storage. i was curious how to check whats on the usb bus and what modules i need to read a sony memory stick product supposedly mounted from the camera itself (done it before but having issues now :-p) oh and is there any automounting stuff for usb flash devices? thanks for the help = ::: common sense? does it come with a manual?::: __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 15:00, HvR wrote: apparently LVM doesnt work under 2.6 or did i miss some config setting? It's now EVMS and you need Device Mapper Support and the evms tools. EVMS can handle lvm without any problems. Visit evms.sf.net for the good oil. -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webportage.sf.net Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5 0C96 92E5 FD89 16F9 4D90 BE3C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lightweight httpd
Eamon Caddigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ ... ] Some programs that look interesting (found 'em all in portage) are: boa, monkeyd, cherokee, and fnord. Would anybody with experience in one or more of these share their opinion? Are there any others I'm missing? for the record, on an embedded system I have I run boa: ~ # ps aux | grep boa 229 root392 S /usr/sbin/boa 392K is pretty small, right? this is, however, boa compiled with uClibc. -- Terje -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 20:00:00 -0800 HvR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | apparently LVM doesnt work under 2.6 or did i miss some config | setting? You need to use lvm2 instead. That requires devicemapper v4 support in the kernel and the lvm2 userland stuff (you'll need to unmerge lvm-user first). Alternatively, you could go with the major headache known as EVMS... -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail:ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5 BIG PROBLEMS
Hi, i have installed gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5 and i got a big problem. Everytime i shutdown my system my kernel start the process, so i can see from console, but my comp will never poweoff Thanx in advance -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] usb storage
Try rmmod on usb-storage then modprobe it back. It seems to only want to be used once. Normally, if there is time between insertions, the module cleaning code resets it, but if you unmount, and replug another drive in and try and remount it, it throws the dummy. Its a real bugbear. BillK On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 19:45, Stephen Turner wrote: hey im having issues with my digital camera memorystic reader and my 32 meg thumbdrive usb storage thing :-p both are flash storage. i was curious how to check whats on the usb bus and what modules i need to read a sony memory stick product supposedly mounted from the camera itself (done it before but having issues now :-p) oh and is there any automounting stuff for usb flash devices? thanks for the help = ::: common sense? does it come with a manual?::: __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
Thank you. From: Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/04 Wed AM 03:19:53 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ? I can go back to 2.4 and it works fine, just says that the modules.??? is nower than the modules, but no errors and everything works fine? Mike On Tuesday 03 February 2004 08:06 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Is this renaming something that the ebuild does? And if so what happens when you go back to the 2.4 series - do the new tools work for that or do you have to rename them again? Arne Vogel wrote: Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I can't even get it to boot! Do you have up-to-date module-init-tools? Module loading will otherwise fail. The old tools (modprobe, insmod, rmmod, lsmod) must be renamed to xxx.old because they will be invoked when booting pre-2.6. Also, some modules have been renamed, so you will have to provide an adjusted /etc/modprobe.conf. Best check /var/log/messages to see *what* exactly fails (for me it was e.g. psmouse which was previously called mousedev). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Michael W. Holdeman Why keep payin g for windoze?? Powered by Gentoo Linux 1.2 www.gentoo.org Linux Kernel 2.4.22_rc2-gss lowlatency, preemptable Windows Apps thanks to Win4Lin 5.0 www.netraverse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] 2.6 migration issues
Hello guys I'm contemplating moving to kernel 2.6 (was thinking mm-sources), but I have seen a lot of stuff pass about that and I was wondering what the current state was. * nptl: should I use these, how do I set it up and what do I need to recompile (I heard you needed to recompile glibc, X, nvidia-drivers and kde...) * nvidia-drivers I heard they worked on 2.6 (just need a re-emerge), but are there issues? Do they work when using nptl? * Is there anything other that I need to take care off? Thanks Guy -- __ Guy Van Sanden http://unixmafia.port5.com Registered Linux user #249404 - September 1997 __ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] bios time - clock drift
I also just recently noticed my system clock is WAY off! I have tried the suggestions mentioned on this list, so far, as well as whatever I could find on google. This includes rm /etc/adjtime followed by resetting the hardware clock. I have tried setting the system clock from the hardware clock and vise versa. There appears to be nothing wrong with my hardware clock; hwclock outputs following (correct) time: Wed Feb 4 22:02:10 2004 -0.288672 seconds cat /etc/adjtime outputs: 0.129944 1075822593 0.00 1075822593 LOCAL date outputs: Wed Feb 4 20:40:38 JST 2004 I have the time set to local because I have a dual-boot with winXP. The system clock loses time really fast. I can set it correctly before going to work, come back, and it's behind an hour! This is a pretty big problem. I would appreciate any help. I could sync with a time server, but I shouldn't *have* to. Thanks. Roy Kidder wrote: First (as root), set your system time properly. I'd use ntp if it'a an option, or you could use date -s. Then do a hwclock --systohc. You can check your bios clock any time and compare it to your system clock with hwclock. Hope that helps, Roy LJN said: how'd i change the bios time without rebooting? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problems with first boot
Hi there, I'm experiencing the same problem as barreto, this is my third machine with Gentoo installed, and is the first time I have obtained this. Output from fdisk p: /dev/hda1 * 1 9 72261 83 Linux /dev/hda2 10 134 1004062+ Linux swap /dev/hda3 135 4864 37993725 83 Linux My grub.conf (I've tried with the commented and uncommented lines without success): title Gentoo Linux root (hd0,0) #kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 splash=verbose kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 splash=verbose initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.4.22-gentoo-r5 My /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 noauto, noatime 1 2 /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hda3 / reiserfs noatime 0 1 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0 Some comments: I've taken a look at my working machines, and there is no initrd command in the grub configuration file. And what about /dev/ram0? Why is that included? What is it? Thanks Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
Thank you. That is good to know. From: Arne Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/04 Wed AM 08:50:16 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ? Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Is this renaming something that the ebuild does? I don't know - it should. I installed it manually (that was still under SuSE). And if so what happens when you go back to the 2.4 series - do the new tools work for that or do you have to rename them again? No, the new utils will check what kernel is running and transparently call the old ones if it's 2.4 or earlier. Arne Vogel wrote: Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I can't even get it to boot! Do you have up-to-date module-init-tools? Module loading will otherwise fail. The old tools (modprobe, insmod, rmmod, lsmod) must be renamed to xxx.old because they will be invoked when booting pre-2.6. Also, some modules have been renamed, so you will have to provide an adjusted /etc/modprobe.conf. Best check /var/log/messages to see *what* exactly fails (for me it was e.g. psmouse which was previously called mousedev). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5 BIG PROBLEMS
_JusSx_ wrote: Hi, i have installed gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5 and i got a big problem. Everytime i shutdown my system my kernel start the process, so i can see from console, but my comp will never poweoff Thanx in advance You will probably need to enable APM (or ACPI?) support in the kernel. (in the kernel configuration, General Setup - Power Management Support etc.) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] horrible mysql performance on gentoo (SOLVED - myisamchk to the rescue!)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 04 February 2004 03:59, Alan wrote: *sigh* Never mind, still sucks. Turns out I forgot to restart the mysql server after running the above command, and ab and wget happily returned pages, just ones that had no data on them. Oh well, back to looking I'd go for a nice vanilla kernel next. Then check for query logging, the extra IO could be hurting it. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAIPT3InuLMrk7bIwRAhNZAJ9ETV/Hc4ohTYH8hgfj1W24TRfp9ACeMPW6 N2dwSK8acbis01JZSNLiqbg= =TZqz -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] JFlex?
Hey folks, Just wondering if anybody knew if JFlex was available in portage? (And if so, where?) Matt -- http://www.mattsscripts.co.uk/ - A great source for free CGI and stuff Nuke the unborn gay female whales for Jesus. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lightweight httpd
Terje Kvernes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eamon Caddigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some programs that look interesting (found 'em all in portage) are: boa, monkeyd, cherokee, and fnord. Would anybody with experience in one or more of these share their opinion? Are there any others I'm missing? for the record, on an embedded system I have I run boa: ~ # ps aux | grep boa 229 root392 S /usr/sbin/boa 392K is pretty small, right? this is, however, boa compiled with uClibc. Actually, I'd consider 400k as pretty big for a small webserver. fnord (being started from tcpserver) needs ~28k rss for a request and the tcpserver process needs ~50k (note that everything was linked against the diet libc). Gruß Uli -- Or have we eaten on the insane root, that takes the reason prisoner? -- MacBeth I, 3 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with first boot
My configuration files are exactly like yours. The only difference on fstab is: /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0 ( your ) /dev/cdrom/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0 ( mine ) About your doubt concerning /dev/ram0 and initrd command, those are recommendations after genkernel has finished compilation. I've used gentoo-sources with genkernell all --install options to do my kernel compilation and everithing was OK. Thank you for your help. Marcelo Hi there, I'm experiencing the same problem as barreto, this is my third machine with Gentoo installed, and is the first time I have obtained this. Output from fdisk p: /dev/hda1 * 1 9 72261 83 Linux /dev/hda2 10 134 1004062+ Linux swap /dev/hda3 135 4864 37993725 83 Linux My grub.conf (I've tried with the commented and uncommented lines without success): title Gentoo Linux root (hd0,0) #kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 splash=verbose kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 splash=verbose initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.4.22-gentoo-r5 My /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 noauto, noatime 1 2 /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hda3 / reiserfs noatime 0 1 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0 Some comments: I've taken a look at my working machines, and there is no initrd command in the grub configuration file. And what about /dev/ram0? Why is that included? What is it? Thanks Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Progress bars??
Neil Bothwick wrote: Like this? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=42346highlight=emergeprogresssid=3c66f1e0ff64d1c988e565486c467cae I used it for a while and it provided useful feedback of the progress of lengthy compiles, but it also caused problems with a number of packages so I've now removed it. Cheers Neil Yes, that does seem quite a bit like what I had in mind. I wonder if it could be made stable with some minor modifications... though as far as I can read the maketoo.diff there shouldn't be anything that'd cause problems, but otoh make is a complex program so it might not be as trivial as I think. I'll try to play with it anyways, let's see how it turns out... Any chance for some devs consider adding this kind of functionality to the main tree? -- .signature: No such file or directory
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with first boot
Marcelo, Do you mean that you have solved the mount problem? I'm still stuck with that... regards Jose [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: My configuration files are exactly like yours. The only difference on fstab is: /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0 ( your ) /dev/cdrom/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0 ( mine ) About your doubt concerning /dev/ram0 and initrd command, those are recommendations after genkernel has finished compilation. I've used gentoo-sources with genkernell all --install options to do my kernel compilation and everithing was OK. Thank you for your help. Marcelo Hi there, I'm experiencing the same problem as barreto, this is my third machine with Gentoo installed, and is the first time I have obtained this. Output from fdisk p: /dev/hda1 * 1 9 72261 83 Linux /dev/hda2 10 134 1004062+ Linux swap /dev/hda3 135 4864 37993725 83 Linux My grub.conf (I've tried with the commented and uncommented lines without success): title Gentoo Linux root (hd0,0) #kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 splash=verbose kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 splash=verbose initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.4.22-gentoo-r5 My /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 noauto, noatime 1 2 /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hda3 / reiserfs noatime 0 1 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0 Some comments: I've taken a look at my working machines, and there is no initrd command in the grub configuration file. And what about /dev/ram0? Why is that included? What is it? Thanks Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] kdevelop3.0 ~x86
anyone had trouble with this or does the ebuild work as it should? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: [normal] [gentoo-user] 2.6 migration issues
Hi Guy, * nptl: should I use these, how do I set it up and what do I need to recompile (I heard you needed to recompile glibc, X, nvidia-drivers and kde...) except glibc the only thing i had to recompile was nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel. * nvidia-drivers I heard they worked on 2.6 (just need a re-emerge), but are there issues? Do they work when using nptl? they do, you just have to reemerge nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel. brgds, Marc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Progress bars??
On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 16:28:59 +0200 Tommi Pirinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Any chance for some devs consider adding this kind of functionality to | the main tree? Hell no. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail:ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Using transparent terminal...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I want to use a transparent terminal. I tried gnome terminal and eterm (Eterm -O). They support transparency feature but not actually transparent! I couldn't see the background and can just see the background picture of terminal or background of transparent tone colors. Is there any actually transparent terminal??? How can I use that? I saw many guys using that... Fresco[1] window system provides the alpha transparency, but it's still under heavy devolopment. However it's in portage. [1] http://fresco.org -- Regards, Nickolay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdevelop3.0 ~x86
works like a charm for me On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 15:37:39 +0100 LJN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone had trouble with this or does the ebuild work as it should? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- GPG public keys available at pgp.mit.edu pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: [gentoo-user] Possibly copy protected CDs?
I did get warnings, but the CD still works. I think it is warning you that there is something fishy going on, but that it is going to proceed anyway. Try it. Burn the CD and test it. Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/03/04 5:46 PM WARNING: Found L-EC error at sector 827 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.2
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:11:12 +0200 (IST) Leonid Podolny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Does anybody know when there will be a stable ebuild for KDE 3.2? I'm | very excited about it, but don't want to taint my system with such a | big non-ebuild component. There are already ebuilds for kde 3.2. They were package.mask'ed until not very long ago, though... Wait a bit, emerge sync and you'll be fine, the mask is now gone: revision 1.2673 date: 2004/02/03 14:43:00; author: caleb; state: Exp; lines: +0 -24 unmask kde 3.2 Yes, but it's at ~x86 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] unmerge with deps
i would like to know, if its possible to unmerge a package with all packs that depends or any way it warns about a package that depends of it thank you marcello -- Marcello Mezzanotti [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mezzanet.homeunix.org icq: 1845241 msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] horrible mysql performance on gentoo SOLVED for real this time
Solved for real this time. Turns out that 4.0.16 wasn't using the same indexes in the table as the older 4.0.14, so the newer version was using filesort instead of indexes, causing the massive slowdown. Reverting back to 4.0.14 and everything went back to full speed. I have no idea why mysql would not using the indexes the same database, but I'm happy to have things back up at 100% :) alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with first boot
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 08:44:31PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [skpd] STEP 3: Mounting necessary filesystems per boot options Started device management daemon v1.3.25 for /dev STEP 4: Determining root device STEP 4a: Mounting root mount: Mounting /dev/hda3 on /newroot failed: Invalid argument Could not mount specified ROOT, try again Root block device unspecified or not detected Please specify a device to boot, or shell for a shell : I've experienced something very similar trying to install gentoo couple of weeks ago (don't know if anything has changed since). My problem was that kernel didn't have built-in support for reiserfs (my '/' partition) and the initrd stuff didn't load it. I've resolved it by compiling reiserfs into kernel (as opposed to having it compiled as module). Could it be your problem as well? -- - Andrey ~ In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different (Larry McVoy) ~ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla Firebird problems
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 05:36 am, Michael Martin wrote: Valmor de Almeida wrote: Add /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird to /etc/env.d/00basic then do env-update -- Valmor My /etc/env.d/00basic contains this... PATH=/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin ROOTPATH=/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin LDPATH=/usr/local/lib MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man INFODIR=/usr/share/info INFOPATH=/usr/share/info CVS_RSH=ssh PAGER=/usr/bin/less LESSOPEN=|lesspipe.sh %s Where should I add /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Put it in /opt/mozillaFirebird.2004-02-04 if you are installing binaries. There are multiple files the binary installs, and this ensures they do not mix with a bin file. You will have to create the directory. Then create a symbolic link to the executable from /opt/bin. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.2
On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 17:28:22 +0200 Leonid Podolny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Yes, but it's at ~x86 Yes, and it will follow the usual procedure for ~x86 - x86. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail:ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge with deps
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 04 February 2004 15:35, Marcello Mezzanotti wrote: i would like to know, if its possible to unmerge a package with all packs that depends or any way it warns about a package that depends of it If you merge it with 'emerge package', then once you've unmerged it you should be able to clean it's dependancies with 'emerge depclean'. If you merge it with 'emerge depdancy1 dependacy 2 package', the each package will either need to be unmerge specifically, or take a look at /var/cache/edb/world, remove the entries you no longer want, and try 'emerge depclean' again. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAIRMpInuLMrk7bIwRAmNBAKCmI3BDWGfhB3s0u8HNUg3FrCklwACfe5di dn3JfLeG/tVFNDz9IoS1iDI= =+vl+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] JFlex?
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 08:47, Matt Wilson wrote: Hey folks, Just wondering if anybody knew if JFlex was available in portage? (And if so, where?) Matt -- http://www.mattsscripts.co.uk/ - A great source for free CGI and stuff Nuke the unborn gay female whales for Jesus. Matt, Whenever you need to search for a package, just do 'emerge -s regex' or 'emerge -S regex' to search package descriptions also. Or, if you prefer an interface, there's always http://packages.gentoo.org/ Aaron -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] p800 and net.ppp
hi all I'm trying to connect to my p800 phone using net.ppp and my knowledge of pp is very lacking. I found page that details a pp connection to my phone suing the following settings Here is my /etc/ppp/peers/p800-usb: connect /usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/peers/p800.chat noauth user ppp crtscts lock local proxyarp passive 115200 /dev/ttyUSB0 192.168.0.3:192.168.0.4 And here is /etc/ppp/peeers/p800.chat: . Are you there?~ ~mRouter - I'm here~ You now connect to your P800 by executing: pppd call p800-usb I would like this in net.pp rather .. can somebody help me convert this to net.pp settings as I don't understand what any of this really means I also need to start bind AFTER ppp0 is started ... any help on that ? Thanks -- Henti Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Co-Owner +27 82 958 2525 http://www.geekware.co.za -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Progress bars??
On February 4, 2004 09:28 am, Tommi Pirinen wrote: Any chance for some devs consider adding this kind of functionality to the main tree? there's no need to add this to the main tree. one of the really great things about gentoo is the fact that it just installs what you *need* get get running. everything else is an addon. and asthetics are most definately not required. -- we understand that you can't transform people who don't have internal drive and desire to create. but we also know it doesn't work to urge people to think outside the box without giving them the tools to climb out. - laurie dunnavant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with first boot
This problem has occured even if I made my / partition as ext2 or ext3 fs type. Marcelo On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 08:44:31PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [skpd] STEP 3: Mounting necessary filesystems per boot options Started device management daemon v1.3.25 for /dev STEP 4: Determining root device STEP 4a: Mounting root mount: Mounting /dev/hda3 on /newroot failed: Invalid argument Could not mount specified ROOT, try again Root block device unspecified or not detected Please specify a device to boot, or shell for a shell : I've experienced something very similar trying to install gentoo couple of weeks ago (don't know if anything has changed since). My problem was that kernel didn't have built-in support for reiserfs (my '/' partition) and the initrd stuff didn't load it. I've resolved it by compiling reiserfs into kernel (as opposed to having it compiled as module). Could it be your problem as well? -- - Andrey ~ In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different (Larry McVoy) ~ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge with deps
Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 04 February 2004 15:35, Marcello Mezzanotti wrote: i would like to know, if its possible to unmerge a package with all packs that depends or any way it warns about a package that depends of it If you merge it with 'emerge package', then once you've unmerged it you should be able to clean it's dependancies with 'emerge depclean'. If you merge it with 'emerge depdancy1 dependacy 2 package', the each package will either need to be unmerge specifically, or take a look at /var/cache/edb/world, remove the entries you no longer want, and try 'emerge depclean' again. No! Don't do it! _NEVER_ use emerge depclean, it can corrupt your system. At first do 'emerge -p depclean' and then unmerge unwanted packages. For example: #emerge -p depclean | grep '/' ~/depclean Then remove packages from the list, that you don't want to unmerge #emacs ~/depclean #cat ~/depclean | xargs emerge --unmerge Works good for me. Also search gentoo forums, someone has posted there a perl script that removes packages with their dependacies. -- Regards, Nickolay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using transparent terminal...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to use a transparent terminal. I tried gnome terminal and eterm (Eterm -O). They support transparency feature but not actually transparent! I couldn't see the background and can just see the background picture of terminal or background of transparent tone colors. It seems the kde and gnome terminals only support blending in the background image (of the terminal or desktop). I haven't seen or heard of a really transparent terminal so far. Is there any actually transparent terminal??? How can I use that? I saw many guys using that... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with first boot
Jose, Unfortunatelly I haven't solved that problem. I don't now what can I do more... Regards, Marcelo Marcelo, Do you mean that you have solved the mount problem? I'm still stuck with that... regards Jose [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: My configuration files are exactly like yours. The only difference on fstab is: /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0 ( your ) /dev/cdrom/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0 ( mine ) About your doubt concerning /dev/ram0 and initrd command, those are recommendations after genkernel has finished compilation. I've used gentoo-sources with genkernell all --install options to do my kernel compilation and everithing was OK. Thank you for your help. Marcelo Hi there, I'm experiencing the same problem as barreto, this is my third machine with Gentoo installed, and is the first time I have obtained this. Output from fdisk p: /dev/hda1 * 1 9 72261 83 Linux /dev/hda2 10 134 1004062+ Linux swap /dev/hda3 135 4864 37993725 83 Linux My grub.conf (I've tried with the commented and uncommented lines without success): title Gentoo Linux root (hd0,0) #kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 splash=verbose kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.4.22-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 splash=verbose initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-2.4.22-gentoo-r5 My /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 noauto, noatime 1 2 /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hda3 / reiserfs noatime 0 1 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0 Some comments: I've taken a look at my working machines, and there is no initrd command in the grub configuration file. And what about /dev/ram0? Why is that included? What is it? Thanks Jose -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge with deps
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 04 February 2004 15:59, Nickolay Savchenko wrote: No! Don't do it! _NEVER_ use emerge depclean, it can corrupt your system. At first do 'emerge -p depclean' and then unmerge unwanted packages. The big fat warning when you run depclean should scare enough :) If the list is fine, then just let it do it's work. - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAIRoJInuLMrk7bIwRAopyAJsGJozmsVthMyYqEwoGHfLSXiW5jACgp3xm 36uTiHznT3oGCCjbqAElvEg= =tY9n -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using transparent terminal...
Arne Vogel wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to use a transparent terminal. I tried gnome terminal and eterm (Eterm -O). They support transparency feature but not actually transparent! I couldn't see the background and can just see the background picture of terminal or background of transparent tone colors. It seems the kde and gnome terminals only support blending in the background image (of the terminal or desktop). I haven't seen or heard of a really transparent terminal so far. Is there any actually transparent terminal??? How can I use that? I saw many guys using that... i m using Eterm and aterm, both can be transparent... (tested with: blackbox, fluxbox and KDE 3.x) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- = Fraunhofer Institut Sichere Telekooperation (SIT) Infrastructure Management (ITM) Richard Sammet [e-axe] Tel.: +49 6151 869 60027 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
Alex Nelson wrote: Arne Vogel wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: There's lots of use 2.6 messages here, but does anyone have a list of what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I take the leap? e.g, is older hardware supported (PIIX - since they removed the tuning option from 2.4 this has been a disaster for me) nvidia keeps cropping up Well, 3D-Hardware-Acceleration will not work until NVIDIA provides an updated driver. Apart from that, the kernel-included nv driver seems to work without problems (tested on GeForce 5200FX). I cannot get rp-pppoe (ADSL), version 3.5, running on 2.6, too. Seems like a change in a kernel interface broke it. Strangely enough, ADSL via SuSE's smpppd did continue to work (I switched to Gentoo only recently). Update: I got it running, a kernel module for PPP over tty was missing (despite originally copying the 2.4.21 config to the 2.6.1 dir). Probably they renamed some config options which caused the module to disappear. snip Ummm. I am running the latest NVIDIA drivers (5336-r1) on a FX5200 board with OpenGL and it runs just fine. In fact, it runs America's Army faster and with higher framerates than the same hardware under Windows. Yes it does taint the kernel, but I am fine with that for the performance. The biggest issue I have with 2.6.x is the problem with using KVM's. I have to plug my mouse directly into my desktop for the mouse to work correctly with the 2.6.x kernels. Sound and performance have been great otherwise. As with anything else, use caution when making the switch. Keep a copy of your current kernel around until you are sure that 2.6.x is for you. Good luck!! Ok thanks! I previously tried to install 5328 for kernel 2.6.1 and it refused to install the kernel module. I now got 5336, and it works, except that KDE doesn't start (undefined symbol in /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1). GNOME and America's Army do work. Probably some library was linked against a previous version of libGLcore; I'm trying an emerge kdelibs now. If this works, I'm going to make 2.6.1 my default kernel! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gentoo-2004.0 new x86-livecd + stages / status
Hi folks, just a quick report about the x86-release (new livecd and stages - datestamp 20040204 - will hit the mirrors soon). See the lists below. Stages : Stages now contain a populated /dev (thanks to zhen, brad_mssw and azarah for their fixes on baselayout Smile ) CD: livecd now reboots/halts perfectly (thanks brad_mssw and azarah for working on that) pcmcia-cs now included on livecd, but doesn't work (rc-script says: module ds not found) (thank you latexer for making the ebuild work with module-init-tools) linux-wlan-ng included on livecd (thank you latexer for making the ebuild work with module-init-tools) vim on livecd dokeymap doesn't work experimental kernel (2.6.1) left off CD for now since it causes too many problems Regards beejay -- Benjamin Judas http://dev.gentoo.org/~beejay Gentoo-developerhttp://www.gentoo.org Germany GPG-Public-Key : http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xC31DEDD8 Key-Fingerprint : 4E65 AAFE 785B 61D8 E4D9 1671 E017 87B7 C31D EDD8 signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
Alexander Klink wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:17:32AM +0100, Arne Vogel wrote: Well, 3D-Hardware-Acceleration will not work until NVIDIA provides an updated driver. Hmmm, weird, I downloaded the latest driver from the NVIDIA site and it seems to work quite well using 2.6.1 The newest version now works, thx! Apart from that, the kernel-included nv driver seems to work without problems (tested on GeForce 5200FX). Not for me, somehow 2.6.1 and nv seemed to have some problems (messed up graphics when starting X) experience problems. The system responsitivity under heavy I/O load (tar xjf...) was greatly improved, so personally I hope these 2 things that prevent me from switching, non-working Hardware OpenGL and ADSL, are fixed soon... Is kernel pppoe that much better performance-wise? I still run the old system on my router, mainly out of lazyness ... rp-pppoe is user space, and I don't mind. The problem was that ADSL didn't run at all, but adding the ppp for sync tty module now fixed it. Another thing I noticed was broken in 2.6.1 on my Debian machine was the IHC dhcp server - it complained because it was compiled with a 2.4 kernel, a simple recompile solved the problem, though. Greetings, Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
Alan wrote: On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:48:12AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: There's lots of use 2.6 messages here, but does anyone have a list of what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I take the leap? It's not really a leap as you can swap kernels back and forth with only a reboot, no need to recompile everything or any such sillyness :) Personally I have problems with my logitech mx700 mouse (ps2). There were speed issues (different sampling method or something) which are solved with a kernel parameter (search the archives) but with the same X config my extra buttons and scroll wheel have stopped working properly. This is the only reason I'm not back with 2.4 for my desktop :-\ alan Hmm, my mouse wheel (Fujitsu-Siemens mouse) does work. Here's the XF86Config section, maybe it helps (snipped all the comments). XF86 version is 4.3.0: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocolimps/2 Option Device /dev/mouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] mutt New Message Status Flag and Procmail
When I started using procmail to pre-sort incoming e-mail, mutt no longer sets the 'N', new message status flag, for new messages. According to the mutt manual this is caused by not properly resetting the access time. How do I use procmail AND have mutt display the 'N' flag for new e-mail? or how do I get procmail to reset the file access time? I use MH type mailboxes. Richard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla Firebird problems
Add to LDPATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib/MozillaFirebird note that the error you were having was related to a shared library not found. For some reason the installationof MozillaFirebird does not add /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird to the /etc/ld.so.conf. I was using Mozilla and changed to MozillaFirebird recently; I like it. Cheers -- Valmor de Almeida Valmor de Almeida wrote: Add /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird to /etc/env.d/00basic then do env-update -- Valmor My /etc/env.d/00basic contains this... PATH=/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin ROOTPATH=/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin LDPATH=/usr/local/lib MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man INFODIR=/usr/share/info INFOPATH=/usr/share/info CVS_RSH=ssh PAGER=/usr/bin/less LESSOPEN=|lesspipe.sh %s Where should I add /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Progress bars??
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 15:40, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 16:28:59 +0200 Tommi Pirinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Any chance for some devs consider adding this kind of functionality to | the main tree? Hell no. why not? Gentoo is about choices: so make it an option, just introduce a USE variable 'progressbar' or somthing like it. Now people who want it can enable it and others can leave it out! Rudmer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] horrible mysql performance on gentoo (SOLVED - myisamchk to the rescue!)
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:34:47PM +, Mike Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 04 February 2004 03:59, Alan wrote: *sigh* Never mind, still sucks. Turns out I forgot to restart the mysql server after running the above command, and ab and wget happily returned pages, just ones that had no data on them. Oh well, back to looking I'd go for a nice vanilla kernel next. Then check for query logging, the extra IO could be hurting it. Same problem with 2.4.24 vanilla, and I've also tried using the precompiled binary from mysql.com. I don't think it's query logging either, as this performance hit can be seen in a single query. Any other ideas? -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using transparent terminal...
On Feb 4, 2004, at 11:03 am, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:50:10 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I think Norro is kidding you on... Mac OS X's windows manager is years | ahead of other o/s in terms of eye-candy, and supports transparency in | a way others do not. I think that on Linux Windows any transparent | window has to fake it - I believe it does this by looking at what | should be behind itself, and mixing the transparency itself to paint | as it's own background. On Mac OS X the transparency is handled by the | o/s, and is hence a lot more efficient. Uh, you mean like how fdo Xserver gives true translucency on linux with the XCOMPOSITE stuff? Uh, I have no idea. I don't use X-windows. Please note I said I think and I believe. If my understanding is flawed I'd be delighted if you could post some references to simple explanations. Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.2
040204 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 17:28:22 +0200 Leonid Podolny Yes, but it's at ~x86 Yes, and it will follow the usual procedure for ~x86 - x86. which is ... ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] bug in kdelibs-3.2 configure ?
Following is an excerpt from kdelibs-3.2 configure script, lines from 32239 to
32255.
Maybe I'm not reading this right, but is the second if statement correct? It
seems to me that it builds with arts when configure option saysdon't
(--without-arts).
quote
# Check whether --with-arts or --without-arts was given.
if test ${with_arts+set} = set; then
withval=$with_arts
build_arts=$withval
else
build_arts=yes
fi;
if test $build_arts != no; then
include_ARTS_TRUE=
include_ARTS_FALSE='#'
else
include_ARTS_TRUE='#'
include_ARTS_FALSE=
fi
/quote
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[gentoo-user] i2c device creation?
I emerged i2c and lm-sensors hoping to get some temperature readings on my hardware. However, when I run sensors-detect, it says the following: No i2c device files found. Use prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh to create them. I presumed that the ebuild would automatically create the i2c devices, but apparently not. So I extracted the archive /usr/portage/distfiles/i2c-2.8.1.tar.gz. The prog directory is empty, though (even after doing a make). Does anyone happen to know how I can get these i2c devices created? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Progress bars??
gabriel said, and asthetics are most definately not required. emerge-progress isn't aesthetic, it provides information. The progress bar style is similar to that used by wget, hardly eye candy. Cheers Neil -- WinErr 01F: Reserved for future mistakes of our developers. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using transparent terminal...
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:52:51 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Uh, you mean like how fdo Xserver gives true translucency on linux | with the XCOMPOSITE stuff? | | Uh, I have no idea. I don't use X-windows. | | Please note I said I think and I believe. If my understanding is | flawed I'd be delighted if you could post some references to simple | explanations. fdo Xserver is an alternative to xfree that can do real transparency. Screenie: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/screenshots/raindrop-2003-11-17b.png Ebuilds: http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/overlay-freedesktop/ Linkage: http://freedesktop.org/Software/xserver Right now it's pretty unstable and doesn't really work with nvidia cards. But it's chock full of eye candy if you don't mind the occasional segfault :) -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail:ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Using transparent terminal...
i m using Eterm and aterm, both can be transparent... (tested with: blackbox, fluxbox and KDE 3.x) There seems to be a confusion: Most modern terminal programs (aterm, Eterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, etc.) plus some others (Kopete, gdesklets, etc.) implement pseudo-transparency. This is achieved by the program grabbing the chunk of background underneath its window, and redisplaying it as its own background. The effect is that of a transparent (or translucent) window, but it is not really transparent: if your transparent window is on top of some other window, it will still show the background image, and not the window underneath. Real transparency, or alpha blending, is a more profound feature that makes it possible to have any object have transparency. Because it's implemented by the graphics or window engine (e.g. X11, or Quartz in MacOS X), it allows any application to have transparency, and it is true transparency: if you place a transparent window over another window, the back window shows through the transparent one, even as it updates. Real transparency does not exist in standard X11. Some other systems, as the aforementioned Fresco, implement it, but are not very stable yet. See number 2 in http://wiki.fresco.org/FrescoVsX. I understood the original poster was asking about true transparency, and the answer is you can't, not in standard XFree86. What you have seen in the screenshots are pseudo-transparent terminals (which work mostly OK most of the time, and look nice). --Diego -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] i2c device creation?
Matt Garman wrote: I emerged i2c and lm-sensors hoping to get some temperature readings on my hardware. However, when I run sensors-detect, it says the following: No i2c device files found. Use prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh to create them. I presumed that the ebuild would automatically create the i2c devices, but apparently not. So I extracted the archive /usr/portage/distfiles/i2c-2.8.1.tar.gz. The prog directory is empty, though (even after doing a make). Does anyone happen to know how I can get these i2c devices created? Thanks, Matt If you are running a 2.6.x kernel, make sure you have the i2c-dev module loaded. That one caught me for a while too. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] 2.6 - Badness in interruptible_sleep_on at kernel
I just had my first attempt at a 2.6 kernel (mm-sources). It seems to work, but this message keeps popping up: Badness in interruptible_sleep_on at kernel/sched.c:2239 Call Trace: [c0124f95] interruptible_sleep_on+0x105/0x110 [c0124b30] default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 [c02c72cb] pagebuf_daemon+0x27b/0x2a0 [c04183a2] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x14 [c02c7020] pagebuf_daemon_wakeup+0x0/0x30 [c02c7050] pagebuf_daemon+0x0/0x2a0 [c010b2c9] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xc What does it mean? -- __ Guy Van Sanden http://unixmafia.port5.com Registered Linux user #249404 - September 1997 __ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] No /dev/mouse?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My symlink to /dev/mouse isn't created on boot. The mouse device is loaded (it shows up in `dmesg') and if I cat /dev/misc/psaux and move the mouse around I get data spit to the screen. /etc/devfsd.conf has a section to create the symlink /dev/mouse from /dev/misc/psaux, but it doesn't appear to be WAD. My experience with devfs is limited, so I'm not sure if something's fubar'ed in the configuration file, or there's something else that needs to be set up. Has anyone seen something similar to this, or have a suggestion on which files to look at to determine why the link's not created on boot? - -- Michael J. Barillier | ``Those who make peaceful email: mbarilli(at)midsouth.rr.com | revolution impossible will make web: http://shadizar.dyndns.org/ | violent revolution inevitable.'' Public key available on request. | -- John F. Kennedy -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAISw/2CJ4zjXlSXMRAqRsAJ4ly8dS/zZVTJ3sut8GekXFhS84JQCfUGVb ulg86DAIo1qJFqXzsRbKG0w= =w6w4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] openbsd partitions, grub
I have two hard drives in my system, a SCSI drive from which the OS runs, and a big IDE drive that I use for backups. I recently converted the system from OpenBSD to Gentoo. I didn't touch the IDE drive during the install, except during grub configuration. Since it can be somewhat confusing to distinguish between SCSI and IDE drives in grub, I accidently ran the grub setup command on my IDE drive. Now it appears as though there are *no* partitions on the IDE drive (it used to have four FFS partitions). No partitions are reported at boot time, and none are shown when I print the partition table from fdisk. Plus, I have no /dev/hda[1-4] devices. What are the chances I ruined the partition table of the IDE drive while I was playing with grub? Is there anything else I can do to further diagnose the problem and/or get at the data on that drive? Thanks! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] i2c device creation?
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 12:10:30PM -0500, Alex Nelson wrote: Matt Garman wrote: However, when I run sensors-detect, it says the following: No i2c device files found. Use prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh to create them. If you are running a 2.6.x kernel, make sure you have the i2c-dev module loaded. That one caught me for a while too. I'm running kernel version 2.4.22-gentoo-r5. But, for what it's worth, I did load the i2c-dev module (to no avail). Thanks! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 - Badness in interruptible_sleep_on at kernel
On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 18:13:46 +0100 Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I just had my first attempt at a 2.6 kernel (mm-sources). | | It seems to work, but this message keeps popping up: | | Badness in interruptible_sleep_on at kernel/sched.c:2239 That's *probably* caused by a driver doing something screwy. Are you using nvidia drivers, or is this something that can be debugged and fixed? Alternatively... Are you using XFS? If so, this is a known bug (well, it's not actually a bug per se, it's just screwy behaviour). -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail:ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Using transparent terminal...
Uh, I have no idea. I don't use X-windows. Please note I said I think and I believe. If my understanding is flawed I'd be delighted if you could post some references to simple explanations. Only issue I had with what you said (since I don't use Macs) was your comment that the transparency was handled by the O/S. I have a fairly limited definition of O/S when it comes to issues like this. It's either kernel space or user space. You are still talking about an application that lives in user space -- it's just handled outside of the individual application. Windows XP also supports the alpha blending that you are referring to. I have run Trillian in transparent mode. I find it somewhat less than useful for most things because then my eyes have more to look at. Certainly it's a powerful tool for graphics applications but not so terrific for most user apps. Ric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla Firebird problems
Valmor de Almeida said: I emerged Mozilla Firebird, but when I try to run it I get the following error... [EMAIL PROTECTED] michael $ MozillaFirebird /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/mozilla-xremote-client: error while loading shared libraries: libplds4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Add /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird to /etc/env.d/00basic then do env-update And check for a bug on this. If there isn't one, open one. The ebuild should do this for you. -Eric -- arctic bears - email and name services 25 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] CA$11.95/month DNS starting at CA$3.49/month - domains from CA$25.95/year for details contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://www.arcticbears.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel has destroyed /boot!
The old version of genkernel (the one that didnt need any parameters) would mount /boot, the new version does not. i think it is time for a new online doc on how to use the new genkernel other than its name it has little in common with the old one: there is a new config file for it, it doesnt look at /etc/kernels anymore etc etc... On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 23:52, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Le 02/04/04 Eugene Rosenzweig [EMAIL PROTECTED] a crit notamment: Yes Eugene that was it, when mounting /boot I see everything again, thx On gentoo my /boot seems to be usually unmounted. This could lead to the behaviour you are experiencing. Do a 'mount /boot' and check again? Eugene. - Original Message - From: Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 6:04 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] genkernel has destroyed /boot! hello all, I have just installed a new kernel with genkernel 3.0.1_beta9. After compiling it says : Kernel compiled successfully!, etc Then I try to edit my grub.conf, but I discover that /boot has changed much more than I expected :-( : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot]# ls -l total 4332 lrwxr-xr-x1 root root1 2003-07-22 18:29 boot - . -rw-r--r--1 root root 1298137 2004-02-04 05:48 initrd-2.6.2-rc2-mm1 -rw-r--r--1 root root 2002616 2004-02-04 05:33 kernel-2.6.2-rc2-mm1 -rw-r--r--1 root root 1119770 2003-06-19 08:17 vmlinuz-gentoo no more grub into /boot!!! I have tried to start the procedure of installing grub by typing grub in /boot: GRUB version 0.92 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub setup (hd0) Checking if /boot/grub/stage1 exists... yes Checking if /boot/grub/stage2 exists... yes Checking if /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 exists... yes Running embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)... 16 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/grub.conf... succeeded Done. etc... this seems to indicate that /boot/grub does exist, but I still don't see it! can anybody help me? tia, -- Jean Magnan de Bornier 3 Cours Victor Hugo, 13980 Alleins France Tel: 04 90 59 33 94Port: 06 09 17 35 87 ml: jm.bornier*at*free.fr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using transparent terminal...
Diego Zamboni wrote: i m using Eterm and aterm, both can be transparent... (tested with: blackbox, fluxbox and KDE 3.x) There seems to be a confusion: Most modern terminal programs (aterm, Eterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, etc.) plus some others (Kopete, gdesklets, etc.) implement pseudo-transparency. This is achieved by the program grabbing the chunk of background underneath its window, and redisplaying it as its own background. The effect is that of a transparent (or translucent) window, but it is not really transparent: if your transparent window is on top of some other window, it will still show the background image, and not the window underneath. Right, I just emerged Eterm, and it only supports the background image pseudo-transparency. Nice feature anyway, but not true alpha blending. It's also not updated immediately, so the image hops when moving the window. As for Fresco, you said it's not stable yet? For the moment I'll rather stick with a stable XFree86 4.3.0 than sacrifice stability for some rather superfluous special FX. Would be good for bragging to one's (Windoze-using) friends, though! ;-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems emerging
Dennis Freise wrote: On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 17:49:29 + Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As belt and braces I upped my CPU fan speed and started compiling. 1 Hour later - compiler crash recursive error. I looked at http://www.freehackers.org/gentoo/gccflags/flag_gcc3.html And selected ... Pentium III (Intel) CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer CXXFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer Started compiling, three hours later - compiler crash ! I changed -o3 to -o2. Its been running for 24Hrs without a glitch. Although this seems to have solved the problem I'm unsure why the compiler could not handle -o3. I have PIII 700Mhz (coppermine) 256MB, 40GB Partition with DMA enabled. Any comments ? I've got gentoo on an P3 933Mhz/512MB/[EMAIL PROTECTED] completly compiled with the flags you got from freehackers with -O3 - the compiler never crashed for me. I'm @~x86. Maybe you should run some memtest86's... OK tracked dowm memtest86 - am going to run it overnight Dave -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla Firebird problems
It is bug 39308 (status: NEW) Valmor de Almeida said: I emerged Mozilla Firebird, but when I try to run it I get the following error... [EMAIL PROTECTED] michael $ MozillaFirebird /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/mozilla-xremote-client: error while loading shared libraries: libplds4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Add /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird to /etc/env.d/00basic then do env-update And check for a bug on this. If there isn't one, open one. The ebuild should do this for you. -Eric -- arctic bears - email and name services 25 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] CA$11.95/month DNS starting at CA$3.49/month - domains from CA$25.95/year for details contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://www.arcticbears.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using transparent terminal...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arne Vogel wrote: | Diego Zamboni wrote: | | i m using Eterm and aterm, both can be transparent... (tested with: | blackbox, fluxbox and KDE 3.x) | | | | There seems to be a confusion: | | Most modern terminal programs (aterm, Eterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, | etc.) plus some others (Kopete, gdesklets, etc.) implement | pseudo-transparency. This is achieved by the program grabbing the | chunk of background underneath its window, and redisplaying it as its | own background. The effect is that of a transparent (or translucent) | window, but it is not really transparent: if your transparent window | is on top of some other window, it will still show the background image, | and not the window underneath. | | | Right, I just emerged Eterm, and it only supports the background image | pseudo-transparency. | Nice feature anyway, but not true alpha blending. It's also not updated | immediately, so the image | hops when moving the window. | | As for Fresco, you said it's not stable yet? For the moment I'll rather | stick with a stable | XFree86 4.3.0 than sacrifice stability for some rather superfluous | special FX. Would be good for | bragging to one's (Windoze-using) friends, though! ;-) A few points here... XFree86 does NOT support true transparency YET. This is a limitation of X not window managers or terminals. A workaround is to use faked transparencies. gnome-terminal, aterm, Eterm, and others support these faked transparencies. All they do is allow your background (wallpaper) to show through. It is really cool, I use it myself, but however if you have a transparent terminal on top of an application you cannot see the application behind it, only the background shows through. Mac OS X and Windows XP do support true transparency. If this makes you jealous, mad, sad, etc. YOU can do something about it. XFree86 is OPEN SOURCE. If you don't like it, you can HELP fix it. That is why Linux is better than the rest in the first place. We don't have to wait for some big corporation to implement a cool feature, we can do it ourselves. Good Luck, Lonnie -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAIRpAV/MhEP5B7SYRAvltAJ43xUj7wU3q3ZScyUzkNqp3J08erwCgutps A81d1s0nMpOt2dm0ftgXcZM= =V1Zo -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] horrible mysql performance on gentoo
use deadline scheduler On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 00:25, Alan wrote: Hi guys... still in the middle of getting a server cut over from debian to gentoo and I just found some serious performance problems with mysql. My new hardware is a dual p3 1.13Ghz system with 2G of ECC ram running kernel 2.6.1 (gentoo-dev-sources) with preempt compiled. The current hardware is an athlon XP1800 with 1G of ram running 2.4.24. Running apache benchmark (ab -n 1000 -c 50 http://blah/) on both boxes on a non-database intensive page shows the new hardware to be about twice as fast as the old (expected as it's got dual CPUs). However, when I load a search page on the UBBThreads (php based forums) board that is running on the box and do a long search (this and that or the other thing) I see a HUGE performance hit :( Based on 'time wget http://url-with-search; -O /dev/null' the query on the old box take about .13s but on the new (stage 2 set up and fully tuned) server take 39s! I ran ab -n 1000 -c 5 search url and it's *still going* while on the old box (debian unstable) it's been done for ages. Not only that but the load from running ab is up to 7.6 on the gentoo box but barely blipped on the old system. The new system has Mysql 4.0.16 and is compiled with CFLAGS of: -O2 -march=pentium3 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -pipe and USE flags of: -static +readline +innodb +berkdb +tcpd +ssl +perl -debug Currently using the example my-huge.conf file for my configuration. The old system is debian mysql-server version 4.0.14-1. Any clue as to what could be making it so slow? -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\- against microsoft attachments -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] cups epson c60 problem
Hi, The gentoo adventure continues. Got xsane working, nvidia working, KDE Gnome are up but got problems with cups/foomatic. My Epson stylus C60 workes fine on Debian so I know its a software problem. I followed the Gentoo printing guide loaded the modules parport, parport_pc (Parellel port printer) checked /var/log/messages ... got lp0: using parport0 (polling) ... looked good, tried the echo hello world test.txt cat test.txt /dev/lp0 Zip . I googled found some epsons won't talk unless you escputil -u -s -r /dev/lp0 To switch them out of packet mode and into ASCII mode When I tried it I got the error cannot read from lp0 I checked /etc/groups .. I don't think I have to be registerd to any particluar group. Anyhow I went ahead with foomatic, found the driver Epson-Stylus_C60 Followed the instructions ... logged onto localhost:631 there is CUPS but no option for a C60 printer under configure printer Any ideas anyone ? Dave -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Anyone successfully emerged kdebase-3.2.0?
I'm having problems emerging kdebase-3.2.0 - it keeps failing when building the userguide with docbook (everything else seems to succeed) - has anyone seen this and have a solution? Thanks! -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mclure.org ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla Firebird problems
Thanks, That did the trick. This is another reason why I went with Gentoo, the community is awesome. Valmor de Almeida wrote: Add to LDPATH="/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib/MozillaFirebird" note that the error you were having was related to a shared library not found. For some reason the installationof MozillaFirebird does not add /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird to the /etc/ld.so.conf. I was using Mozilla and changed to MozillaFirebird recently; I like it. Cheers -- Valmor de Almeida Valmor de Almeida wrote: Add /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird to /etc/env.d/00basic then do env-update -- Valmor My /etc/env.d/00basic contains this... PATH="/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin" ROOTPATH="/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin" LDPATH="/usr/local/lib" MANPATH="/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man" INFODIR="/usr/share/info" INFOPATH="/usr/share/info" CVS_RSH="ssh" PAGER="/usr/bin/less" LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s" Where should I add /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Running gentoo inside VMWare
Did anybody successfully run a gentoo installation within a VMWare session? If so I would really appreciate it if I could get the kernel configuration for it. Of course how to install X and this stuff will also help, but the first step is the kernel. :) Thanks! -- Gerhard Gruber Maintainer of SoftICE for Linux - http://pice.sourceforge.net/ Fast application launcher - http://sourceforge.net/projects/launchmenu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Running gentoo inside VMWare
Yup, do it all the time.. I didn't have to do anything odd for the kernal config, pretty much followed the standard installation instructions and everything worked fine. I think on at least one of my Gentoo VMWare sessions.. I've got a 2.6.1-gentoo and a 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 kernels running under VMWare, which .config ya want? -Original Message- From: Gerhard W. Gruber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Running gentoo inside VMWare Did anybody successfully run a gentoo installation within a VMWare session? If so I would really appreciate it if I could get the kernel configuration for it. Of course how to install X and this stuff will also help, but the first step is the kernel. :) Thanks! -- Gerhard Gruber Maintainer of SoftICE for Linux - http://pice.sourceforge.net/ Fast application launcher - http://sourceforge.net/projects/launchmenu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Running gentoo inside VMWare
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:39:57PM +0100, Gerhard W.Gruber wrote: Did anybody successfully run a gentoo installation within a VMWare session? If so I would really appreciate it if I could get the kernel configuration for it. Yup, no problems at all. The kernel configuration is pretty standard, the only thing you'll want to do is make sure you have the right ethernet card set, vmware uses the pcnet32 driver IIRC. Not sure which SCSI driver it uses though (if you're using scsi). Probably the best way would be to use the livecd in the vmware session and just note what drivers / modules are loaded in there. Of course how to install X and this stuff will also help, but the first step is the kernel. :) For X you can either configure using the standard vga driver or go to vmware.com and download the vmware specific X driver. HTH alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
