[gentoo-user] Launching emerge remotely via VPN

[v . demartino2]

At office I'm setting up a new  gentoo 2004.3 postgresql server from scratch
. Now, at home having a VPN connection under win xp via PUTTY I'm "emerging
 the system" but this implies very long VPN sessions with interruptions
due sometime to network failure. To avoi this I have tried to launch a myexec
file of with this 2 lines:

#myexec
export http_proxy=http://proxy.mycom:8080
emerge -bn system
 #endfile

With the following command

./myexec &

To no avail. I see emerge running on the dispplay all the same so I think
that if I close the VPN session it would stop emerge also.

Is there any way of keeping a job executing a long emerge session going
 on after having closed the VPN session?

Ciao
Vittorio


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[gentoo-user] Re: Launching emerge remotely via VPN

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 05 February 2005 10:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there any way of keeping a job executing a long emerge session
> going on after having closed the VPN session?

nohup

nohup belongs to coreutils, so it is likely already present on that box

Maybe screen... (emerge -p screen && man screen)

ciao
 Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Launching emerge remotely via VPN

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 05 February 2005 10:22, Francesco Talamona wrote:
> On Saturday 05 February 2005 10:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Is there any way of keeping a job executing a long emerge session
> > going on after having closed the VPN session?
>
> nohup
>
> nohup belongs to coreutils, so it is likely already present on that
> box
>
> Maybe screen... (emerge -p screen && man screen)

Oops, it should be: "emerge screen && man screen" :-)

Ciao
  Francesco

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Re: [gentoo-user] Synchronizing 2 Gentoo systems

[Neil Walker]

Walter Dnes wrote:
The simplest way is to use NFS and simply mount /usr/portage on the host 
machine from the others. It works well here on a network of 6 machines.


  I don't think I made myself clear enough.  I do *NOT* want to
duplicate /portage/distfiles.  I want to duplicate machine A's definition
of "world" on Machine B.
Then mounting the /usr/portage tree with NFS is definitely the way to 
go. I have the one machine set up with a cron job to sync at midnight 
every day and an appropriate line in /etc/fstab on each of the other 
machines. That is it. I never have to sync the other machines.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Synchronizing 2 Gentoo systems

[Bastian Balthazar Bux]

Walter Dnes ha scritto:
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:56:18AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote
 

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 09:40, Neil Walker wrote:
   

Walter Dnes wrote:
 

Is there an "offifial Gentoo method" for syncing installed packages on two
machines?
   

The simplest way is to use NFS and simply mount /usr/portage on the host 
machine from the others. It works well here on a network of 6 machines.

Alternatively, you can use rsync. There is a how-to somewhere on the 
Gentoo website.
 

This is what I do.
1. echo 'GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://129.253.108.99/sync/";' >> /etc/make.conf
2. Set up Apache so that it serves the portage distfiles (actually)
3. Set up a Rsync cron job or something that just polls this box. No
need to for a how to.
   

 I don't think I made myself clear enough.  I do *NOT* want to
duplicate /portage/distfiles.  I want to duplicate machine A's definition
of "world" on Machine B.
 

try:
# emerge -uDpv --newuse --noreplace $WORLD_OF_PIII
this should both keep updated your machine and emerge all the packages 
not present.
The --noreplace is needed to not force portage recompile a package 
already present.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Synchronizing 2 Gentoo systems

[Bastian Balthazar Bux]

Bastian Balthazar Bux ha scritto:
Walter Dnes ha scritto:
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:56:18AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote
 

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 09:40, Neil Walker wrote:
  

Walter Dnes wrote:


Is there an "offifial Gentoo method" for syncing installed 
packages on two
machines?
  
The simplest way is to use NFS and simply mount /usr/portage on the 
host machine from the others. It works well here on a network of 6 
machines.

Alternatively, you can use rsync. There is a how-to somewhere on 
the Gentoo website.

This is what I do.
1. echo 'GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://129.253.108.99/sync/";' >> 
/etc/make.conf
2. Set up Apache so that it serves the portage distfiles (actually)
3. Set up a Rsync cron job or something that just polls this box. No
need to for a how to.
  

 I don't think I made myself clear enough.  I do *NOT* want to
duplicate /portage/distfiles.  I want to duplicate machine A's 
definition
of "world" on Machine B.

 

try:
# emerge -uDpv --newuse --noreplace $WORLD_OF_PIII
this should both keep updated your machine and emerge all the packages 
not present.
The --noreplace is needed to not force portage recompile a package 
already present.
better:
# scp 192.168.0.2:/var/lib/portage/world /tmp/piii_world
# emerge -uDav --newuse --noreplace  $(cat /tmp/piii_world)
on your p4

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Re: [gentoo-user] So depclean *is* dangerous after all!

[Bastian Balthazar Bux]

Alastair Murray ha scritto:
Jim Hatfield wrote:
ls: error while loading shared libraries: libacl.so.1: cannot open
shared object file: no such file or directory

I also experienced this after a depclean (I didn't realise libacl and 
libattr where critical at the time).  However, I didn't reboot so 
using already running or unaffected programs I managed to download and 
extract the necessary files from a few rpms, then reemerge coreutils.  
Maybe you could do a similiar thing from a bootable CD?

Alastair Murray.
if you can boot from cd AND you have an athlon you can do this:
boot from rescue, mount your hd root
# wget http://www.francesco-riosa.com/gentoo/old/acl-2.2.27.tbz2
# tar -C /mnt/gentoo -jxvf acl-2.2.27.tbz2
where "/mnt/gentoo" is your hd root mount point
The tbz is generated from "quickpkg sys-apps/acl" in this environment
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -fpermissive"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
Linux appserver 2.6.8-gentoo-r10 #3 Tue Jan 11 03:55:12 CET 2005 i686 
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
The file will be there for next few days

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Re: [gentoo-user] Launching emerge remotely via VPN

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Saturday 05 February 2005 03:05 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there any way of keeping a job executing a long emerge session going
>  on after having closed the VPN session?

nohup?
screen? (with detaching)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Launching emerge remotely via VPN

[Bastian Balthazar Bux]

Francesco Talamona ha scritto:
On Saturday 05 February 2005 10:22, Francesco Talamona wrote:
 

On Saturday 05 February 2005 10:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   

Is there any way of keeping a job executing a long emerge session
going on after having closed the VPN session?
 

nohup
nohup belongs to coreutils, so it is likely already present on that
box
Maybe screen... (emerge -p screen && man screen)
   

Oops, it should be: "emerge screen && man screen" :-)
Ciao
 Francesco
 

I don't know about screen but with nohup the emerge will stop (and not 
restart) emerging portage, you will need to relaunch manually it after that.
nohup will output a file named nohup.out, in the current directory or in 
your home, to see what happen issue an
# nohup emerge whatever &
# tail -f nohup.out
then if you became bored to see the output a ^C is ok it will stop only 
the tail command leaving nohup emerge running.

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Re: [gentoo-user] portage rsync via ssh

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Saturday 05 February 2005 03:53, David Corbin wrote:

> The box in question is publicly accessible.  Why have another port open if
> I don't need to?  Besides, I can't get rsyncd to start correctly, so I was
> looking for alternatives.

Can't check from here, but probably you can use ssh or stunnel to tunnel rsync 
connections to the server inside ssl. This way, you still have to have rsyncd 
running on the server, but can restrict incoming connections to localhost 
(ie, the server itself) only, and close rsync port (873 IIRC) to the rest of 
the world.

HTH

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Re: [gentoo-user] yet another tv card sound problem

[Jean-Philippe Bosc]

Le jeudi 03 février 2005 à 21:37 +0100, Tamas Sarga a écrit :
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Jean-Philippe Bosc wrote:
> 
> >
> > could anyone send me a lsmod or other stuff just to let me know what i'm
> > missing ?
> >
> 
> Hi,
> I attached my .config and output of lsmod.
> I compiled ALSA from fresh portage packages, but it doesn't matter I
> think.
> 


If i understand well, you've got a bt878 too... i see you didn't compile
the SND_BT87x module in ALSA. Do you have a PCI or USB device ?

It seems that my "tvaudio" modules is built automatically with bttv
driver. But i cant see that module in your lsmod... does it work like it
for you ? shoudl i have to unload this module too ?

if i remove the snd-bt87x from my /etc/init.d/alsa and reload it, i
surely can't access my tvcard mixer through alsamixer -c 1. And can't
hear no sound.

Finally, lots of howto's tell to build i2c-dev, but you don't deem to
use it. why then have to build it if the module is not even loaded ?

thanx for your patience


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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge alsa-driver vs. built-in driver

[Holly Bostick]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Karsten Baumgarten wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Simple answer: You followed the wrong section of the guide. :)
If you have built-in ALSA support, there is no need to mess around with
/etc/modules.conf and stuff. The only thing you need to do is step 4.
Note that the ALSA driver in the kernel is usually not the most recent
version. In case your card doesn't work properly using the built-in
driver, disable the ALSA support in the kernel and follow _all_ the
steps from your post.
Regards,
Karsten
Thanks for the rapid reply. If the only step I need is step 4, then should I 
undo steps 1 and 2?
1. Add to /etc/modules.conf:
ALSA_CARDS="cs4236"
2.  Edit /etc/modules.d/alsa to say:
alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4236
How then does alsa know what driver to use?
1) Because you have made the correct module available by selecting it 
during kernel compilation;

2) Because during the hardware detection phase of the boot process, the 
kernel communicates with the card, which identifies itself, allowing the 
kernel to know which driver to load (the kernel knows which drivers go 
with which cards-- that's its job), and/or you have added the module to 
/etc/modules.d.autoload/kernel-2.6;

3) Because you have run alsaconf, which also (usually) detects your card 
and sets up the alsa config files to look for it.

The ALSA_CARDS line is only needed if you emerge the alsa-drivers 
package (it tells the package which cards to compile drivers for; 
otherwise it compiles available drivers, which is a waste of time and 
space if you know what card you have).

Alsaconf should set up /etc/modules.d/alsa itself when run, assuming the 
card is correctly detected.


If I don't worry about this and just jump forward to alsamixer, I get:
alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
Any tips?
No, I'd actually be interested in knowing what this is as well. I'm 
getting it too, but under SuSE 9.2, and an "old" 2.6.8 kernel. It 
doesn't seem to be a problem, insofar as sound does work, but I don't 
particularly like not knowing why it's happening. I don't remember 
seeing this error under higher-versioned kernels I used under Gentoo, or 
in fact under Gentoo at all.

This leads me to wonder if it's a KDE issue, as I did not use KDE under 
Gentoo, but do under SuSE, and (aside from the distribution backend, 
which I know little about), that's "the only difference" (figuratively 
speaking) between my installations.

The only other possibility that comes to my mind, but is unconfirmed, is 
that I recently got a real soundcard and disabled my onboard sound chip. 
I don't know if I was getting this error before I did that; if not, then 
that would explain both the error --the onboard sound chip is found 
first, being a motherboard resource, but is disabled in the BIOS, so 
fails to open-- and the fact that the error seems irrelevant-- because 
the disabled onboard sound (which I presume is the "default" referred 
to) is not in fact configured as snd-card-0 and is not used. So maybe 
it's alsamixer or alsaconf that's behind the times.

What is your sound setup? Does sound work despite this annoying error? 
If using KDE, you might want to use qamix or KMix to control the sound 
channels.

HTH,
Holly
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[gentoo-user] Weird dmesg message

[Robert S]

I recently got this in my dmesg.  What the dickens does it mean??  It looks
bad.  I got a funny message while running links.

ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
ld-linux.so.2[32745]: segfault at 556c rip 5655a9bf rsp

8c78 error 7
ld-linux.so.2[32747]: segfault at 556c rip 5655a9bf rsp

8c78 error 7
ld-linux.so.2[32751]: segfault at 5584 rip 5655a9bf rsp

8c68 error 7
ld-linux.so.2[32753]: segfault at 5584 rip 5655a9bf rsp

8c68 error 7
oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2
DMA per-cpu:
cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
Normal per-cpu:
cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
HighMem per-cpu: empty

Free pages: 668kB (0kB HighMem)
Active:58096 inactive:58890 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:167
slab:4636 mapped:115
347 pagetables:2069
DMA free:20kB min:20kB low:40kB high:60kB active:5588kB inactive:5540kB
present:16384kB
protections[]: 0 0 0
Normal free:648kB min:700kB low:1400kB high:2100kB active:226796kB
inactive:230020kB pre
sent:507840kB
protections[]: 0 0 0
HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:256kB high:384kB active:0kB inactive:0kB
present:0kB
protections[]: 0 0 0
DMA: 1*4kB 0*8kB 1*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB
0*2048kB 0*4096kB
 = 20kB
Normal: 0*4kB 1*8kB 2*16kB 1*32kB 3*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB
0*2048kB 0*409
6kB = 648kB
HighMem: empty
Swap cache: add 524382, delete 524381, find 120080/166021, race 2+2
Out of Memory: Killed process 22297 (links).
oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2





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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox random lockups

[Nuno Alexandre]

On ons, 02 feb 2005, Collins Richey wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:39:26 -0500, Thomas Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > * On Feb  2  5:07, comsatcat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) thusly jotted:
> > > As of two days ago, firefox started to randomly lockup.  Things will
> > > work fine for awhile, then when I go to a random site, it will just lock
> > > solid.  The only way I've been able to get it to not lock up is to rm
> > > -rf /tmp/*.  Does anyone know which files may be causing the lockup or
> > > does anyone have a solution for this?
> > 
> > I can't say I've had it lock up, but it's definitely crashed a lot
> > recently.  It always occurs when trying to open a new site, but will not
> > reoccur when I revisit the site later.  I can't say I've noticed anything
> > strange in /tmp though...
> > Tom
> > 
> > p.s. to be fair, "a lot" means more than usual.  Nothing really crashes
> > often.
> > 
> 
> The only crash activity I've seen is: randomly when selecting the back
> key while viewing a PDF document.

Hi, 
are you sure the problem is Firefox ?
I doubt! and you are using Xorg, right ?
Well look here.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80642

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Re: [gentoo-user] Weird dmesg message

[Chris Boot]

Hi,
From the last two lines:
Out of Memory: Killed process 22297 (links).
oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2
This is saying the kernel's Out of Memory system has kicked in and 
killed a process to free up some memory (in this case 'links'). 
Basically, you've run out of free memory (RAM + SWAP) and it's nuked 
something to free up a little. I haven't personally seen this since I 
mistyped my swap mounts in /etc/fstab, so you might like to take a look 
at 'top' and/or /proc/meminfo to see that you actually have your swap 
mounted.

I'm not sure about the other messages, but I would guess they're related 
to the above.

HTH,
Chris
Robert S wrote:
I recently got this in my dmesg.  What the dickens does it mean??  It looks
bad.  I got a funny message while running links.
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
ld-linux.so.2[32745]: segfault at 556c rip 5655a9bf rsp

8c78 error 7
ld-linux.so.2[32747]: segfault at 556c rip 5655a9bf rsp

8c78 error 7
ld-linux.so.2[32751]: segfault at 5584 rip 5655a9bf rsp

8c68 error 7
ld-linux.so.2[32753]: segfault at 5584 rip 5655a9bf rsp

8c68 error 7
oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2
DMA per-cpu:
cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1
Normal per-cpu:
cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16
cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16
HighMem per-cpu: empty
Free pages: 668kB (0kB HighMem)
Active:58096 inactive:58890 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:167
slab:4636 mapped:115
347 pagetables:2069
DMA free:20kB min:20kB low:40kB high:60kB active:5588kB inactive:5540kB
present:16384kB
protections[]: 0 0 0
Normal free:648kB min:700kB low:1400kB high:2100kB active:226796kB
inactive:230020kB pre
sent:507840kB
protections[]: 0 0 0
HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:256kB high:384kB active:0kB inactive:0kB
present:0kB
protections[]: 0 0 0
DMA: 1*4kB 0*8kB 1*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB
0*2048kB 0*4096kB
= 20kB
Normal: 0*4kB 1*8kB 2*16kB 1*32kB 3*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB
0*2048kB 0*409
6kB = 648kB
HighMem: empty
Swap cache: add 524382, delete 524381, find 120080/166021, race 2+2
Out of Memory: Killed process 22297 (links).
oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2
 


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[gentoo-user] Re: Weird dmesg message

[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

Robert S wrote:

> I recently got this in my dmesg.  What the dickens does it mean??  It
> looks
> bad.  I got a funny message while running links.
> 
> ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
> ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
> ld-linux.so.2[32745]: segfault at 556c rip 5655a9bf
> rsp 
[snip]

> HighMem: empty
> Swap cache: add 524382, delete 524381, find 120080/166021, race 2+2
> Out of Memory: Killed process 22297 (links).
> oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2

Shooting from the hip...

Looks like you ran out of memory for whatever you were doing.  Do you have
swap enabled?  (To find out, issue command 'swapon -s')

Enter command 'vmstat' to get a rough idea of your memory usage.  If you use
KDE enter command 'kinfocenter' and click on "Memory."  It gives a nice
info about your memory usage.

Is this a problem with a gentoo installation or a liveCD?  What do you do to
create the problem?  What actually happens?  More information would be
helpful.


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[gentoo-user] wierd slotting of Libgtkhtml

[purslow]

i had  libgtkhtml-3.2.3  &  yelp-2.6.4  installed,
the 2nd for Xscreensaver, & was told by 'revdep-rebuild' to re-emerge 'yelp'.
when i tried to do this, it gave  libgtkhtml-2.6.0  as a dependency
& indeed when i tried 'emerge --nodeps yelp' it refused to compile.
after 'emerge yelp' & installing  libgtkhtml-2.6.0  besides  -3.2.3 ,
i tried 'qpkg' to see what it had to say about dependencies & got :

gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-2.6.0 *
  DEPENDED ON BY:
libgtkhtml-3.2.3
yelp-2.6.4
gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-3.2.3 *
  DEPENDED ON BY:
libgtkhtml-3.2.3
yelp-2.6.4

how can Libgtkhtml depend on itself ??
why does Yelp need both slotted versions ??

does anyone have any light to throw ... (smile) ?

BTW i don't use Gnome, but install whatever bits other packages need.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Weird dmesg message

[Robert S]

> This is saying the kernel's Out of Memory system has kicked in and
> killed a process to free up some memory (in this case 'links').

Here is my memory info.  Looks as if links might have spat the dummy, but I
haven't been able to reproduce it.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] robert $ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:   510256 kB
MemFree: 37300 kB
Buffers: 22804 kB
Cached: 361092 kB
SwapCached:  30600 kB
Active: 124064 kB
Inactive:   297836 kB
HighTotal:   0 kB
HighFree:0 kB
LowTotal:   510256 kB
LowFree: 37300 kB
SwapTotal:  522072 kB
SwapFree:   339476 kB
Dirty:  92 kB
Writeback:   0 kB
Mapped:  41464 kB
Slab:30260 kB
Committed_AS: 11216772 kB
PageTables:   6280 kB
VmallocTotal: 536870911 kB
VmallocUsed: 23072 kB
VmallocChunk: 536846211 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free:  0
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB

[EMAIL PROTECTED] robert $ vmstat
procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system--
cpu
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   sobibo   incs us sy id
wa
 0  0 182596  37300  22816 36109233   10947   1626  2  1 95 
2

basement robert # swapon -s
FilenameTypeSizeUsed   
Priority
/dev/hda5   partition   522072  182596  -1



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RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Weird dmesg message

[Joost van Surksum]

Your swapfile is pretty heavily in use, with 182 MB. I don't know what the
machine is doing, but using much swap space may slow down a system. Is your
system responding well? Consider inserting more RAM memory into your system.

Joost

> basement robert # swapon -s
> FilenameTypeSize  
>   Used   
> Priority
> /dev/hda5   partition   
> 522072  182596  -1
> 



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[gentoo-user] no panels in gnome

[PK]

Hi
I need some help please fixing gnome-light
when I start x I get an error saying "there is already a panel running - 
exiting"

and I get no panels
Thank you for your help in advance
Paul
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[gentoo-user] weird OO font problem

[purslow]

i have a document which among much else contains some bold text.
last October, using the latest version of Open Office,
i was able to print it correctly using Times New Roman font.
today, using OO 1.1.4 , i can't : underline & italics work, bold doesn't.

in OO, bold shows on screen with Times New Roman
& prints with other fonts, eg Georgia.
in Kword & Abiword, bold shows & prints correctly with Times New Roman.

my system & my printer have never given me serious problems otherwise.
does anyone have any observations about this strange font phenomenon ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] no panels in gnome

[Anielkis Herrera Gonzalez]

try executing 
#killall -9 gnome-panel
and then 
$ gnome-panel

this is becuase is another gnome-panel's process runing in background

On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 15:51 +0200, PK wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I need some help please fixing gnome-light
> 
> when I start x I get an error saying "there is already a panel running - 
> exiting"
> 
> and I get no panels
> 
> Thank you for your help in advance
> 
> Paul
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[gentoo-user] migrating installation from one disk to another

[Kumar Golap]

Hi All,

I am thinking of migrating my system disk (/usr   etc..) to a bigger one

Any ways of how to do that withuot doing a fresh install...

May be its similar to how people may want to clone a system

And more important is that my portage state needs to be remembered so
that i can update later without a hitch.

Thanks

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Re: [gentoo-user] Another way to view apache2's logs

[Grant]

> > above.  One thing I'd really like to see that no log analyzer seems to
> > include is a breakdown of info by day.  It always seems to be by
> > month, and that means I get much more relevant information during the
> > first couple days of every month when I get to see what happened
> > during those days.
> >
> 
> Apologies if it was already brought up (I already deleted most of this
> thread), but did you evaluate app-admin/analog? It's been a couple years
> since I used it, but it does report some things by day.

I did check that one out and it actually seems pretty much identical
to Webalizer as far as the data it provides.  What I really need is
keyword and referrer information by day.  I don't know why no one
offers that.

- Grant

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Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.10-hardened-r3 sound card driver changes

[Grant]

> > But if I boot into 2.6.7-hardened-r17 with alsa compiled in, sound works 
> > great.
> 
> I'm just wondering, since the error message you showed above meant the
> device files weren't there, are you using udev or devfs? If devfs, did
> you forget to enable 'mount at boot' or anything like that?
> 
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Maybe I'm oversimplifying this, but since sound works great in 2.6.7
but not in 2.6.10, there has to be some type of a kernel problem
right?

- Grant

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Re: [gentoo-user] x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.14-r1

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 20:42:32 -0500 David Corbin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| While emerging the above package, I get...
| 
| configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

To expand on what Holly said... *re*emerge XML-Parser. You upgraded
perl and didn't run the perl modules rebuilder thingie, so sometimes
you'll have slight problems with a few perl modules. 

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Re: [gentoo-user] no panels in gnome

[PK]

Anielkis Herrera Gonzalez wrote:
try executing 
#killall -9 gnome-panel
and then 
$ gnome-panel

this is becuase is another gnome-panel's process runing in background
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 15:51 +0200, PK wrote:
 

Hi
I need some help please fixing gnome-light
when I start x I get an error saying "there is already a panel running - 
exiting"

and I get no panels
Thank you for your help in advance
Paul
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thanks
that gets the panel running
however I saw this message when running gnome-panel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ gnome-panel
Unable to open desktop file greasy-00e36db137.desktop for panel 
launcher: Error reading file 
'file:///home/rush/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/greasy-00e36db137.desktop': 
File not found
Unable to open desktop file foo-0083ab7595.desktop for panel launcher: 
Error reading file 
'file:///home/rush/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/foo-0083ab7595.desktop': 
File not found

any reason? or anyting I should do ?
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Re: [gentoo-user] no panels in gnome

[Anielkis Herrera Gonzalez]

there are the launchers that you have in the gnome-panel, next to the
Aplications Menu.
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Re: [gentoo-user] DVD ripping copying

[Jason Cooper]

Luke Ravitch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled:
> On 2005-02-01 12:10, Jason Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > http://lakedaemon.netmindz.net/dvd9to5/
> > 
> > Let me know if you have any questions.
> 
> Jason, the script is great!  Pretty soon I'll have copies of all my
> DVDs and will no longer have to live in fear of the kids handling
> them!  (The copies, anyway.)
> 
> I am having a certain issue with some of the DVDs that I'm trying to
> copy.  At the mplex stage, I get the message:
> 
> **ERROR: [mplex] Need to split output but there appears to be no
> %d in the filename pattern movie.mpeg
> 
> Much of the time, movie.mpeg seems to go all the way to the end of the
> credits (i.e., it looks done to me).  So, a few questions...
> 
> - You said you've copied a ~100 DVDs - have you seen this before?
> - Any ideas what I could do to avoid it?
> - Since movie.mpg looks done, is there some way to force dvd9to5
>   to continue processing anyway?

Yep, I've run into it a few times, and had a few reports of it.
Apparently it is a bug in mplex.  I've tried adjusting the options
passed to mplex to satisfy it, and nothing seems to work.  

What version of mplex are you using?

Cooper.

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Re: [gentoo-user] no panels in gnome

[PK]

Anielkis Herrera Gonzalez wrote:
there are the launchers that you have in the gnome-panel, next to the
Aplications Menu.
 

thanks
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox random lockups

[Collins Richey]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 14:01:30 +0100, Nuno Alexandre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On ons, 02 feb 2005, Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:39:26 -0500, Thomas Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > wrote:
> > > * On Feb  2  5:07, comsatcat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) thusly jotted:
> > > > As of two days ago, firefox started to randomly lockup.  Things will
> > > > work fine for awhile, then when I go to a random site, it will just lock
> > > > solid.  The only way I've been able to get it to not lock up is to rm
> > > > -rf /tmp/*.  Does anyone know which files may be causing the lockup or
> > > > does anyone have a solution for this?
> > >
> > > I can't say I've had it lock up, but it's definitely crashed a lot
> > > recently.  It always occurs when trying to open a new site, but will not
> > > reoccur when I revisit the site later.  I can't say I've noticed anything
> > > strange in /tmp though...
> > > Tom
> > >
> > > p.s. to be fair, "a lot" means more than usual.  Nothing really crashes
> > > often.
> > >
> >
> > The only crash activity I've seen is: randomly when selecting the back
> > key while viewing a PDF document.
> 
> Hi,
> are you sure the problem is Firefox ?
> I doubt! and you are using Xorg, right ?
> Well look here.
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80642
> 

Thanks for the info. Maybe this will help others, but this is not my
problem. My problem is

1. Not a freeze or hang condition; browser always dies, but nothing
else is affected.
2. Seldom reproducible, very random.
3. Always associated with use of acroread, and usually after printing
from acroread.

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[gentoo-user] Multiple Logins mit kdm

[Sven Rudolph]

Hello Liste,
i have a weird problem with kdm:
I would like to have two kdm login screens, on vt7 and vt8. So i changed 
 /usr/kde/3.3/share/config/kdm/Xservers like this:

:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt7
:1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt8
A restart of kdm gave me two login screens, but i am only able to log in 
on vt7.
When i try to log in on vt8, the screen just blanks for a moment and 
then it returns to the kdm login screen.

After that i found .xsession-errors-:1 in my home directory, containing
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
It seems that the kdm on vt8 trys to launch my window manager on vt7, 
which of course fails.

The documentation on http://docs.kde.org/en/3.2/kdebase/kdm/kdmrc.html 
doesn't help.

Did i miss something, Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Sven
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox random lockups

[Holly Bostick]

Collins Richey wrote:
Thanks for the info. Maybe this will help others, but this is not my
problem. My problem is

3. Always associated with use of acroread, and usually after printing
from acroread.
Well, that's a horse of a different color. Not to put too fine a point 
on it, the acroread browser extension sucks, and has a 
strong tendency to crash any browser (Win or Lin).

I don't know much about this so I can't speak "technically", but what I 
have observed is that using the acroread plugin (meaning actually 
viewing a PDF document using it via the browser) for an extended period 
(like a couple of hours, i.e., just leaving the browser open with the 
plugin in use) will eventually cause a failure in the browser (resource 
leak?).

Also, unless you actively close the plugin tab, acroread will stay 
loaded if you close the browser or it crashes, and firefox won't restart 
until you actually go into a process manager and stop the stupid plugin.

Solutions?
1) download the PDF and use the reader to open it standalone, rather 
than opening it in a browser window;

2) close the plugin tab *as soon as you finish using it*, do not leave 
it open for any reason, and definitely do not close the browser with the 
plugin tab still active.

Hope this helps somewhat,
Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox random lockups

[Collins Richey]

On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 18:08:54 +0100, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> > Thanks for the info. Maybe this will help others, but this is not my
> > problem. My problem is
> >
> 
> > 3. Always associated with use of acroread, and usually after printing
> > from acroread.
> >
> 
> Well, that's a horse of a different color. Not to put too fine a point
> on it, the acroread browser extension sucks, and has a
> strong tendency to crash any browser (Win or Lin).
> 

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Not too surprising since the vendor refuses to do much for unix/linux users.

Fortunately, I only need PDF documents once in a blue moon.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Compiling Failure

[Captain FantastiK]

From: Jason Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Compiling Failure
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 09:04:59 -0500
Captain FantastiK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled:
>
> Hi
>
> I tried many times compiling xorg but it was always ending with the same
> error message:
>
> ...
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[4]: ***[Xorg] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving Directory:
> '/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4/work/xc/programs/Xserver'
> make[3]: ***[all] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving Directory:
> '/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4/work/xc/programs'
> make[2]: ***[all] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving Directory: '/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4/work/xc'
> make[1]: ***[World] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving Directory: '/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4/work/xc'
> make:***[World] Error2
Need about 15 to 20 more lines above this... All that can be seen from
this is that you have a linker error.  Chances are you need to run
'fix_libtool_files.sh' with a version of gcc as an argument.  Run a
search of gentoo-user for that and it should explain how to use it.
hth,
Cooper.
Hi
Here are the lines before this (taken from /var/log/portage/...)
***
cfb32/libcfb32.a(cfbcmap.o)(.text+0x361): In function `cfbInitVisuals':
: multiple definition of `cfbInitVisuals'
cfb16/libcfb16.a(cfbcmap.o)(.text+0x361): first defined here
cfb/libcfb.a(cfbcmap.o)(.text+0x1d8): In function `cfbExpandDirectColors':
: multiple definition of `cfbExpandDirectColors'
cfb16/libcfb16.a(cfbcmap.o)(.text+0x1d8): first defined here
cfb/libcfb.a(cfbcmap.o)(.text+0x248): In function `cfbCreateDefColormap':
: multiple definition of `cfbCreateDefColormap'
cfb16/libcfb16.a(cfbcmap.o)(.text+0x248): first defined here
cfb/libcfb.a(cfbcmap.o)(.text+0x2a0): In function `cfbClearVisualTypes':
: multiple definition of `cfbClearVisualTypes'
cfb16/libcfb16.a(cfbcmap.o)(.text+0x2a0): first defined here
cfb/libcfb.a(cfbcmap.o)(.text+0x2f1): In function `cfbSetVisualTypes':
: multiple definition of `cfbSetVisualTypes'
cfb16/libcfb16.a(cfbcmap.o)(.text+0x2f1): first defined here
cfb/libcfb.a(cfbcmap.o)(.text+0x361): In function `cfbInitVisuals':
: multiple definition of `cfbInitVisuals'
cfb16/libcfb16.a(cfbcmap.o)(.text+0x361): first defined here
mfb/libmfb.a(mfbgc.o)(.text+0xbac): In function `mfbGetInverseAlu':
: multiple definition of `mfbGetInverseAlu'
../../programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xf1bpp/libxf1bpp.a(mfbgc.o)(.text+0xbac): 
first defined here
mfb/libmfb.a(mfbfont.o)(.text+0x49): In function `mfbRealizeFontWeak':
: multiple definition of `mfbRealizeFontWeak'
../../programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xf1bpp/libxf1bpp.a(mfbfont.o)(.text+0x49): 
first defined here
mfb/libmfb.a(mfbfont.o)(.text+0xdc): In function `mfbUnrealizeFontWeak':
: multiple definition of `mfbUnrealizeFontWeak'
../../programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xf1bpp/libxf1bpp.a(mfbfont.o)(.text+0xdc): 
first defined here
mfb/libmfb.a(maskbits.o)(.text+0x192): In function `mergeGetRopBits':
: multiple definition of `mergeGetRopBits'
../../programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xf1bpp/libxf1bpp.a(maskbits.o)(.text+0x192): 
first defined here
mfb/libmfb.a(mfbpushpxl.o)(.text+0x60b): In function `mfbPushPixelsWeak':
: multiple definition of `mfbPushPixelsWeak'
../../programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xf1bpp/libxf1bpp.a(mfbpushpxl.o)(.text+0x60e): 
first defined here
mfb/libmfb.a(mfbclip.o)(.text+0x66d): In function `mfbPixmapToRegionWeak':
: multiple definition of `mfbPixmapToRegionWeak'
../../programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xf1bpp/libxf1bpp.a(mfbclip.o)(.text+0x6ee): 
first defined here
mfb/libmfb.a(mfbmisc.o)(.text+0xc5): In function `mfbQueryBestSizeWeak':
: multiple definition of `mfbQueryBestSizeWeak'
../../programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xf1bpp/libxf1bpp.a(mfbmisc.o)(.text+0xc5): 
first defined here


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox random lockups

[Bastian Balthazar Bux]

Collins Richey ha scritto:
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 18:08:54 +0100, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

Collins Richey wrote:
   

Thanks for the info. Maybe this will help others, but this is not my
problem. My problem is
 


   

3. Always associated with use of acroread, and usually after printing
from acroread.
 

Well, that's a horse of a different color. Not to put too fine a point
on it, the acroread browser extension sucks, and has a
strong tendency to crash any browser (Win or Lin).
   

[ other helpful data snipped ]
Not too surprising since the vendor refuses to do much for unix/linux users.
Fortunately, I only need PDF documents once in a blue moon.
 

as before sayd it is valid also for windows and btw with iexplorer
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Re: [gentoo-user] DVD ripping copying

[Luke Ravitch]

On 2005-02-05 08:50, Jason Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What version of mplex are you using?

mjpegtools mplex-2 version 1.6.2 (2.2.3)

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Re: [gentoo-user] migrating installation from one disk to another

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 08:38 -0700, Kumar Golap wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am thinking of migrating my system disk (/usr   etc..) to a bigger one
> 
> Any ways of how to do that withuot doing a fresh install...
> 
> May be its similar to how people may want to clone a system
> 
> And more important is that my portage state needs to be remembered so
> that i can update later without a hitch.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Kumar
> 

if you can fit the old disk and the new disk in the same machine its a
doddle.

back up!

partition the new disk

make a file system on the new disk

mount the new disk as (say) /newusr

copy the contents of /usr to /newusr, makng sure to preserve ownership
and permissions and symlinks

rename /usr to /oldusr

unmount /newusr and mount it as /usr

edit fstab to add the new mount for /usr

reboot to chack it all works as expected

once you are 100% happy, delete /oldusr to free up some space.




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Re: [gentoo-user] migrating installation from one disk to another

[Adam Collins]

I'm not sure what you mean by "system disk," but it is fairly easy to 
move /usr to a new partition, if that's what you mean.  If you want to move 
your entire "/" (root directory) to a new partition (or partitions), it's a 
bit more complicated but is fairly similar to the steps below.

For my example, /dev/hda6 is the new partition and I'm going to use 
reiserfs.  This won't mess anything up, if done correctly.

0)  Make the new partition with fdisk or cfdisk.

1)  REBOOT!  <-- Just do it.

2)  Make a filesystem on the new partition with mkreiserfs or whatever:
 # mkreiserfs /dev/hda6

3)  Move the /usr data to the new partition:
 # mkdir /mnt/usr
 # mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/usr
 # cp -a /usr /mnt/usr

4)  Cleanup:
 # umount /mnt/usr
 # rmdir /mnt/usr

5)  Modify /etc/fstab.  Add a line like this:
 /dev/hda6  /usr  reiserfs  noatime  0 1

6)  Reboot.

7)  Verify that the new partition is actually being used:
 # mount | grep /usr
 should show something like:
 /dev/hda6 on /usr type reiserfs (rw,noatime)

 If "mount | grep /usr" doesn't show anything, don't continue to the next 
step!
 
8)  Delete the data from the original /usr directory:
 # mount --bind / /mnt
 # cd /mnt
 # rm -rf *   <-- careful with this!
 # cd /
 # umount /mnt

From here, you can run "df -h" to show your filesystem usage.  That's it.

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[gentoo-user] hard drive names

[John Patrick Coder]

My first attempt to install did not work. It did not boot all the way up,
it stoped after complaining about the root definition or somthing.

My question is that in all the examples dev/hda is what is used, mine is
called dev/hdb it is a one hard drive system. Will this matter?

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Re: [gentoo-user] migrating installation from one disk to another

[Phil Sexton]

On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 15:01, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 08:38 -0700, Kumar Golap wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I am thinking of migrating my system disk (/usr   etc..) to a bigger one
> > 
> > Any ways of how to do that withuot doing a fresh install...
> > 
> > May be its similar to how people may want to clone a system
> > 
> > And more important is that my portage state needs to be remembered so
> > that i can update later without a hitch.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Kumar
> > 
> 
> if you can fit the old disk and the new disk in the same machine its a
> doddle.
> 
> back up!
> 
> partition the new disk
> 
> make a file system on the new disk
> 
> mount the new disk as (say) /newusr
> 
> copy the contents of /usr to /newusr, makng sure to preserve ownership
> and permissions and symlinks
> 
> rename /usr to /oldusr
> 
> unmount /newusr and mount it as /usr
> 
> edit fstab to add the new mount for /usr
> 
> reboot to chack it all works as expected
> 
> once you are 100% happy, delete /oldusr to free up some space.

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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/lpt/18_15.html
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/lpt/18_16.html
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[gentoo-user] X/KDM problem

[Nick Rout]

I used to be able to open aonther X session and connect to kdm by
running:

X :1 -query localhost

now when I do that I still see the kdm login screen, but when I log in X
just restarts on that console and goes back to the kdm login screen.

The user that tried to log in gets the following in their
~/.xsession-errors file.

Error: Can't open display: localhost:0.0

I am not sure why it is trying to connect to localhost:0.0, it should be
localhost:1.0

The same thing happens using Xnest :1 -query localhost

Is this weirdness caused by some fault in my kdm config that slipped
past my eagle eyed dispatch-conf'ing, or is it some pam weirdness, or
what?

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Re: [gentoo-user] hard drive names

[Andrew Gaffney]

John Patrick Coder wrote:
My first attempt to install did not work. It did not boot all the way up,
it stoped after complaining about the root definition or somthing.
My question is that in all the examples dev/hda is what is used, mine is
called dev/hdb it is a one hard drive system. Will this matter?
In your case, you'd just replace '/dev/hda' with '/dev/hdb' whereever you see it 
in the install docs. Out of curiosity, why do you have your only hard drive set 
as the primary slave?

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Re: [gentoo-user] migrating installation from one disk to another

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 12:10 -0800, Adam Collins wrote:
> 8)  Delete the data from the original /usr directory:
>  # mount --bind / /mnt
>  # cd /mnt
>  # rm -rf *   <-- careful with this!
>  # cd /
>  # umount /mnt
> 
> From here, you can run "df -h" to show your filesystem usage.  That's
> it.

whoop pull up, isn't this going to delete the whole root dir, therefore
the whole filesystem?

you bind mount / to /mnt

then rm'ing whats in /mnt






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Re: [gentoo-user] hard drive names

[John Patrick Coder]

Ahhh yes I have not used this harddrive for months as I was waiting for
parts to recap this mb I had slaved it to get my stuff now it shall be
freed

Thanks alot I did not know that hdb meant that it was a slave

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Andrew Gaffney wrote:

> John Patrick Coder wrote:
> > My first attempt to install did not work. It did not boot all the way up,
> > it stoped after complaining about the root definition or somthing.
> >
> > My question is that in all the examples dev/hda is what is used, mine is
> > called dev/hdb it is a one hard drive system. Will this matter?
>
> In your case, you'd just replace '/dev/hda' with '/dev/hdb' whereever you see 
> it
> in the install docs. Out of curiosity, why do you have your only hard drive 
> set
> as the primary slave?
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Re: [gentoo-user] X/KDM problem

[Christoph Eckert]

> I used to be able to open aonther X session and connect to
> kdm by running:
>
> X :1 -query localhost

I log in on VT5 and type

startx -- :1

to open a second session.

Furthermore, there has been an other post some minutes ago by 
Peter Ruskin (thanks to him BTW ;-):


=

Make your /usr/kde/3.3/share/config/kdm/Xservers look like 
this:

:0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp
:1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :1
:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :2
:3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :3
:4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :4

...then, after you start a new KDE session, click "Start New 
Session..." from the K menu.


=

Maybe your query doesn't work because you need to remove

-nolisten=tcp

in your

/usr/kde/3.3/share/config/kdm/Xservers


 Best regards


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[gentoo-user] suggest users enable and read (some of) PORT_LOGDIR

[gottlieb]

Several times on this list we have been told how to enable portage log
files, but I don't think enough has been said of how useful they are,
even when nothing is visibly wrong.

Emerge output is rather lengthy and the "yellow" comments can easily
be missed.  However, it appears that emerge writes two log files, one
with the standard stuff (compiles, links, etc) and the other with
messages.  Often the latter is empty.  But the good thing is when you
   ls -l $PORT_LOGDIR
you can see when the second (typically much smaller) entry is
non-empty and read this one.

Eventually the logs can take up some noticeable space, but tmpwatch
(or equivalent) solves this.

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Re: [gentoo-user] migrating installation from one disk to another

[Mike Noble]

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| I am thinking of migrating my system disk (/usr   etc..) to a bigger one
|
| Any ways of how to do that withuot doing a fresh install...
|
| May be its similar to how people may want to clone a system
|
| And more important is that my portage state needs to be remembered so
| that i can update later without a hitch.
Here is a simple script that I use to backup my system to another
partition.  You will need to modify it for you partition information.
#!/bin/sh
ORIG=hda3
BACKUP=hda6
# Create new file system on backup
mke2fs -j /dev/${BACKUP}
# Mount the backup file system so we can restore to it
mount /dev/${BACKUP} /mnt/tmp
# cd to the backup file system and do a dump and restore
cd /mnt/tmp
dump 0f - /dev/${ORIG} | restore rf -
cd /root
# Now we need to fix the fstab on the backup file system
sed 's/hda3/hda6/' /mnt/tmp/etc/fstab > /tmp/fstab.tmp
mv /tmp/fstab.tmp /mnt/tmp/etc/fstab
# Now lets verify the new fstab by cating it to the screen
cat /mnt/tmp/etc/fstab
# Remove restoresymtable
rm /mnt/tmp/restoresymtable
# clean /mnt/tmp/tmp
rm -rf /mnt/tmp/tmp/*
# unmount the tmp filesystem
umount /mnt/tmp
HTH
Mike
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[gentoo-user] What is /var/lib/portage/config and a problem

[gottlieb]

I noticed the file /var/lib/portage/config and wonder what it is.
I could not find it mentioned in the portage, emerge, or ebuild man
pages.  I also looked in the portage chapter of the handbook.

I ask because I have a problem with it.  For some reason I cannot
understand this file was moved (I guess by me) to
/local/var/lib/portage/config and presumably a symlink left in
/var/lib/portage.  However, there is no symlink in /var/lib/portage
and a new version of config has been generated.

The same thing occurred with /var/lib/portage/world, but I understand
this file and merged the two versions (after checking the new small
one for sanity).

Should I also merge the two config files and can I alphabetize them
and uniq the result?

thanks,
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Re: [gentoo-user] X/KDM problem

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 21:31 +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> > I used to be able to open aonther X session and connect to
> > kdm by running:
> >
> > X :1 -query localhost
> 
> I log in on VT5 and type
> 
> startx -- :1
> 
> to open a second session.

no, i want the kdm login screen

> 
> Furthermore, there has been an other post some minutes ago by 
> Peter Ruskin (thanks to him BTW ;-):
> 

I saw that. its not what i want. i want xdmcp.

as an added bonus, it now seems I get no login screen at all when i do:

X :1 -query desktop.machine 

from my laptop.

All of this used to work, what has changed?

> 
> =
> 
> Make your /usr/kde/3.3/share/config/kdm/Xservers look like 
> this:
> 
> :0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp
> :1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :1
> :2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :2
> :3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :3
> :4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :4
> 
> ...then, after you start a new KDE session, click "Start New 
> Session..." from the K menu.
> 
> 
> =
> 
> Maybe your query doesn't work because you need to remove
> 
> -nolisten=tcp
> 
> in your
> 
> /usr/kde/3.3/share/config/kdm/Xservers
> 
> 
>  Best regards
> 
> 
> ce
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Re: [gentoo-user] migrating installation from one disk to another

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Saturday 05 February 2005 02:01 pm, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 08:38 -0700, Kumar Golap wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am thinking of migrating my system disk (/usr   etc..) to a bigger
> > one

For future systems, you might check out LVM/EVMS.  Either would allow you 
to add a new disk to the available storage space, transparently migrate 
data off the old disk, and then remove the old disk from available storage 
space.  If both the new and old disk are hot-swappable, there's 0 
downtime.

I use LVM on everything; including my laptop.  [It was really handy when I 
was testing out mm-sources and reiser4.]

> copy the contents of /usr to /newusr, makng sure to preserve ownership
> and permissions and symlinks
cp -vga /usr/* /usr/.[^.]* /newusr

Also, I'd do all of this in single-user mode, so that /usr doesn't get 
written to after the copy but before the new /usr is up.

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Re: [gentoo-user] What is /var/lib/portage/config and a problem

[Bastian Balthazar Bux]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto:
I noticed the file /var/lib/portage/config and wonder what it is.
I could not find it mentioned in the portage, emerge, or ebuild man
pages.  I also looked in the portage chapter of the handbook.
 

I bet it's used to see if the config files installed two different 
emerge are the same, in this way:
# emerge mysql
install a file in /etc/mysql/my.cnf, portage add an entry to .../config 
with it md5 sum.
after this you hand modify it
after a while you emerge again mysql
# emerge mysql
portage cannot analyze your /etc/mysql/my.cnf because you'd modified it. 
But portage is smart
and go to see if the new /etc/mysql/my.cnf is the same it has recorded 
in .../config.
If not you'll be prompted to keep your system in order with etc-update.

in that file should stay all the files that match CONFIG_PROTECT 
variable (emerge --info show this one)
It should not to be a disaster delete that file just boring.

I ask because I have a problem with it.  For some reason I cannot
understand this file was moved (I guess by me) to
/local/var/lib/portage/config and presumably a symlink left in
/var/lib/portage.  However, there is no symlink in /var/lib/portage
and a new version of config has been generated.
The same thing occurred with /var/lib/portage/world, but I understand
this file and merged the two versions (after checking the new small
one for sanity).
Should I also merge the two config files and can I alphabetize them
and uniq the result?
 

Add manually stuff into .../world is not a good idea,
# emerge --noreplace $(cat ../oldworld)
should be better, leave it insert the packages into world,
also *don't* sort it, I bet again that the order of emerge is important, 
surely it can rebuild it but leave it in it's original sorting IMHO is 
wy more secure.

thanks,
allan
 

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[gentoo-user] the hwclock is accurate, its the OS thats wrong!

[William Kenworthy]

This one has me stumped.  I am quite used to having problems with the
way gentoo sets up the clock and can usually fix them.

In this case, the hwclock is accurate, its the OS thats wrong!  When I
sleep the laptop, on wakeup, the OS is varying times ahead of the
(correct) hwclock - ntp soon corrects it and its back in sync again.

However, if no network is available, the hwclock seems to get set to the
incorrect OS time at some point.  If a network is available, I get two
cron jobs (i.e., tripwire sweeps) that should have been run once over
the interval.

This laptop worked fine up until I did a complete reinstall after a
corrupted file system.  I suspect it might be something in gnome as I
first noticed it after I looked at the gnome clock applet and clicked,
then unclicked the time sync option.  However, I cant find a process, or
reason for whats happening.  /etc/localtime and the rc.conf entries are
correct (as utc, and Perth Australia) and time keeping is fine even when
ntp is stopped and the machine is running - its only after a sleep
period.

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[gentoo-user] USB problems

[Jose Gonzalez Gomez]

Hi there,

Basically, I cannot make my USB stick to work. I get an error telling
me "device descriptor read/64, error -71" and the kernel doesn't seem
to detect the device whenever I plug/unplug it. Useful (?)
information:

Using gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.10-r6. My USB related kernel configuration:

CONFIG_USB=m
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI=y
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=m
CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD=m
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=m
CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=m
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=m
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_RW_DETECT=y
CONFIG_USB_HID=m
CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y
CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y


ws00 root # lsmod | grep usb
usb_storage27904  0
usbhid 29632  0
usbcore   101752  6 ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd,usb_storage,usbhid,ehci_hcd


I get the following while booting in /var/log/messages:

Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 ehci_hcd :00:09.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 ehci_hcd :00:09.2: irq 10, pci mem 0xd480
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 ehci_hcd :00:09.2: new USB bus registered,
assigned bus number 1
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 ehci_hcd :00:09.2: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI
0.95, driver 26 Oct 2004
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
and address 3
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
and address 4
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
and address 6
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
and address 7
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
and address 8
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 USB Mass Storage support registered.
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 PCI: Enabling device :00:09.0 (0014 -> 0015)
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:09.0[A] -> GSI 11
(level, low) -> IRQ 11
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 PCI: Via IRQ fixup for :00:09.0, from 255 to 11
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 uhci_hcd :00:09.0: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 uhci_hcd :00:09.0: irq 11, io base 0xd800
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 uhci_hcd :00:09.0: new USB bus registered,
assigned bus number 2
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 PCI: Enabling device :00:09.1 (0014 -> 0015)
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:09.1[B] -> GSI 11
(level, low) -> IRQ 11
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 PCI: Via IRQ fixup for :00:09.1, from 255 to 11
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 uhci_hcd :00:09.1: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#2)
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 uhci_hcd :00:09.1: irq 11, io base 0xd400
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 uhci_hcd :00:09.1: new USB bus registered,
assigned bus number 3
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 11
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:11.2[D] -> GSI 11
(level, low) -> IRQ 11
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 uhci_hcd :00:11.2: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#3)
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 uhci_hcd :00:11.2: irq 11, io base 0xa800
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 uhci_hcd :00:11.2: new USB bus registered,
assigned bus number 4
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:11.3[D] -> GSI 11
(level, low) -> IRQ 11
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 PCI: Via IRQ fixup for :00:11.3, from 9 to 11
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 uhci_hcd :00:11.3: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#4)
Feb  6 00:11:06 ws00 uhci_hcd 0

Re: [gentoo-user] the hwclock is accurate, its the OS thats wrong!

[Daniel Drake]

William Kenworthy wrote:
In this case, the hwclock is accurate, its the OS thats wrong!  When I
sleep the laptop, on wakeup, the OS is varying times ahead of the
(correct) hwclock - ntp soon corrects it and its back in sync again.
Is this with 2.6.10? If so, try upgrading to gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.10-r7. A 
fix is included.

I know that while this helps some people, it doesn't fix all of the "clock 
racing during sleep" problems. They are definately all fixed in 2.6.11-rc3 
though. So you might also wish to try that.

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Re: [gentoo-user] the hwclock is accurate, its the OS thats wrong!

[William Kenworthy]

Thanks, this looks like it.

BillK
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 23:53 +, Daniel Drake wrote:
> William Kenworthy wrote:
> > In this case, the hwclock is accurate, its the OS thats wrong!  When I
> > sleep the laptop, on wakeup, the OS is varying times ahead of the
> > (correct) hwclock - ntp soon corrects it and its back in sync again.
> 
> Is this with 2.6.10? If so, try upgrading to gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.10-r7. A 
> fix is included.
> 
> I know that while this helps some people, it doesn't fix all of the "clock 
> racing during sleep" problems. They are definately all fixed in 2.6.11-rc3 
> though. So you might also wish to try that.
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] What is /var/lib/portage/config and a problem

[gottlieb]

At Sun, 06 Feb 2005 00:22:12 +0100 Bastian Balthazar Bux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto:
>
>>I noticed the file /var/lib/portage/config and wonder what it is.
>>I could not find it mentioned in the portage, emerge, or ebuild man
>>pages.  I also looked in the portage chapter of the handbook.
>>
> I bet it's used to see if the config files installed two different
> emerge are the same, in this way:

Yes.  My suspicion is also that this has an md5 sum.
>
> in that file should stay all the files that match CONFIG_PROTECT
> variable (emerge --info show this one)
> It should not to be a disaster delete that file just boring.
>
>>Should I also merge the two config files and can I alphabetize them
>>and uniq the result?
>>
> Add manually stuff into .../world is not a good idea,
> # emerge --noreplace $(cat ../oldworld)
> should be better, leave it insert the packages into world,
> also *don't* sort it, I bet again that the order of emerge is
> important, surely it can rebuild it but leave it in it's original
> sorting IMHO is wy more secure.

Is this correct?  I was under the impression that one could safely add
entries to world manually and the order was unimportant (so
alphabetizing is safe).

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Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm/installation issue

[Roger Sherman]

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:15:44 -0800, you wrote:

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>Roger Sherman wrote:
>| Hi - I'm trying to install Gentoo for the first time, and I've
>| actually managed to run into a snag before the install process has
>| actually started. I put the Gentoo cd into the cdrom tray, start the
>| box up, boot into the installation program, start that up with the
>| gentoo kernel, get the networking going, and then get to the part
>| where I'm supposed to partition off my hard drive...and that's where
>| the problem starts. This particular hard drive has never had anything
>| on it except for Mandrake Linux (which I've had my fill of). No DOS,
>| no MS, nothing else. So when I type
>|
>| fdisk /dev/hda
>|
>| I get the following message:
>|
>| "You will not be able to write the partition table.
>| Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun SGI or
>| OFS disk label.
>| Building a new DOS disk label. Changes will remain in memory only,
>| until you decide to write one. After that, of course, previous content
>| will be unrecoverable.
>|
>| Warning: invalid flag 0x of partition table 4 will be corrected by
>| w."
>|
>|
>|
>| At this point, all I am trying to do is to build the very basic
>| partition table suggested in the installation directions, which is a
>| 32 meg MBR, a 512 meg swap partition, and the rest as a root partition
>| (definitely not my ultimate setup, but this is just a first run). No
>| problem with the first partition, but then for the second partition,
>| it says hit enter for the default start point of 33, and again for the
>| default end point of 63. For the end point, however, I obviously want
>| it to be +512M, which is what I tell it to do, and it tells me that is
>| out of range. Can anyone help me with this hurdle? I'm not very
>| familiar with hdparm...I tried using a couple of the options that
>| showed up when I hit m, but couldn't seem to pull it off.
>|
>
>Rog,
>
>You say that Mandrake was on this system before.  How did you have the
>disk layout with Mandrake?  You can always use the same partitions
>as Mandrake, therefor swap is still swap and the root partition is still
>a valid linux partition.  You just need to know what they are.  Here
>is my disk layout, I have 3 partitions with different roots, 1 /boot, 1
>swap, 1 backup, and 1 home.  But you should get the idea.
>
>Command (m for help): p
>
>Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
>16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
>
>~   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
>/dev/hda1   *   1 215  108328+  83  Linux
>/dev/hda2 2164312 2064888   82  Linux swap / Solaris
>/dev/hda34313   3077613337856   83  Linux
>/dev/hda4   30777  155061626396405  Extended
>/dev/hda5   30777   5638812908416+  83  Linux
>/dev/hda6   56389   8200012908416+  83  Linux
>/dev/hda7   82001  10761212908416+  83  Linux
>/dev/hda8  107613  15506123914264+  83  Linux
>
>You keep mentioning hdparm, this has nothing to do with laying out a
>disk.  The use of hdparm is to modify how the disk is accessed.  Do
>you want to turn on DMA access that sort of thing, hdparm affects the
>entire disk not a partition on the disk.  An example of hdparm output
>is as follows:
>
>root# hdparm /dev/hda
>
>/dev/hda:
>~ multcount= 16 (on)
>~ IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
>~ unmaskirq=  1 (on)
>~ using_dma=  1 (on)
>~ keepsettings =  0 (off)
>~ readonly =  0 (off)
>~ readahead= 256 (on)
>~ geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 80026361856, start = 0
>
>
>If you can show us how your disk layout is, we might be able to
>see what is going on.
>
>HTH
>Mike


Hi Mike, 

I used the graphical tool that Mandrake uses upon installation. The
reason I was trying to use hdparm (which wasn't seeing any of my
partitions), was just to be able to do the installation while
following the directions as closely as possible. Even though I've been
using linux (almost exclusively Mandrake) for several years, lot of
the stuff that I read here goes right over my head, so I want to do
the install as close as possible to the directions just to keep the
chance of error as low as possible...at least the first time.

The layout I have on this hd is very simple - I'd usually have quite a
few more partitions, but this is a brand new hd, and I just threw
Mandrake on in its most basic configuration just to have something on
there - in fact, I don't think there is even a swap partition, just /
and /home. But the thing that concerns me, is when I hit p to show the
partition layout ... it's as if there's nothing there at all. 


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Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0

[raptor]

hmm.. that something new.. where i can see description 
of this new syntax ?!!

|[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto:
|
|>hi,
|>
|>in /etc/conf.d/net I have in alias_eth0 :
|>around ~20 aliases
|>
|>alias_eth0="x.x.x.x .. y.y.72.0 y.y.73.0 y.y.74.0  x.x.x.x"
|>
|>it creates these interfaces with netmask 255.255.0.0 and as consequense it
|>inserst a route to y.0.0.0/8 instead of three routes to these 3 networks..
|>any solution ?
|>
|>  
|>
|I'm not sure to understund your question, so I simply post one net.eth0 
|config that has multiple aliases on multiple networks with multiple path ;)
|
|modules=( "iproute2" )
|
|ipaddr_eth0=(
|"192.168.1.100/24"
|"192.168.1.101/24"
|"192.168.1.102/24"
|
|"192.168.2.100/24"
|"192.168.2.101/24"
|"192.168.2.102/24"
|
|"192.168.3.100/24"
|"192.168.3.101/24"
|"192.168.3.102/24"
|)
|
|iproute_eth0=(   
|"to 192.168.21.0/24 via 192.168.2.1"
|"to 192.168.22.0/24 via 192.168.3.1"
|"default via 192.168.1.1"
|)
|
|
|you need to emerge sys-apps/iproute2 to make it work
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Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0

[raptor]

i have ~20 entires... and have to type alot until i get to the correct spot...
probably I should move these entires in the front..so that i can add specific 
masks only for them


|[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|> hi,
|> 
|> in /etc/conf.d/net I have in alias_eth0 :
|> around ~20 aliases
|> 
|> alias_eth0="x.x.x.x .. y.y.72.0 y.y.73.0 y.y.74.0  x.x.x.x"
|> 
|> it creates these interfaces with netmask 255.255.0.0 and as consequense it
|> inserst a route to y.0.0.0/8 instead of three routes to these 3 networks..
|> any solution ?
|
|You should also have these two lines in your /etc/conf.d/net
|
|#broadcast_eth0="192.168.0.255 192.168.0.255"
|#netmask_eth0="255.255.255.0 255.255.255.0"
|
|Uncomment and do them in the same order as your aliases and then your 
|networks will be setup correctly.
|
|kashani
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Re: [gentoo-user] migrating installation from one disk to another

[Antoine]

Nick Rout wrote:
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 08:38 -0700, Kumar Golap wrote:
Hi All,
I am thinking of migrating my system disk (/usr   etc..) to a bigger one
Any ways of how to do that withuot doing a fresh install...
May be its similar to how people may want to clone a system
And more important is that my portage state needs to be remembered so
that i can update later without a hitch.
Thanks
Kumar

if you can fit the old disk and the new disk in the same machine its a
doddle.
back up!
partition the new disk
make a file system on the new disk
mount the new disk as (say) /newusr
copy the contents of /usr to /newusr, makng sure to preserve ownership
and permissions and symlinks
rename /usr to /oldusr
unmount /newusr and mount it as /usr
edit fstab to add the new mount for /usr
reboot to chack it all works as expected
once you are 100% happy, delete /oldusr to free up some space.
I did something similar not t long ago. I would boot to a live disk 
to do it (someone suggested single user, I guess that might work too, 
but what about root...). There are a couple of gotchas which the 
tutorial someone suggested might help you with, but it is pretty 
straightforward. Just don't forget fstab and boot, and you can do 
everything no probs. I did it with a gentoo live disk I think but it is 
probably even better with a knoppix. In any case, I lost nothing, and am 
not an admin, so if you have a backup just give it a crack Nigel.
Cheers
Antoine
ps. remember we are linux and not doze here - so no nasty files hiding 
somewhere "because the user doesn't know how to take care of his own ..."

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Re: [gentoo-user] hard drive names

[Qian Qiao]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 12:31:00 -0800 (PST), John Patrick Coder
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ahhh yes I have not used this harddrive for months as I was waiting for
> parts to recap this mb I had slaved it to get my stuff now it shall be
> freed
> 
> Thanks alot I did not know that hdb meant that it was a slave
> 
> On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> 
> > John Patrick Coder wrote:
> > > My first attempt to install did not work. It did not boot all the way up,
> > > it stoped after complaining about the root definition or somthing.
> > >
> > > My question is that in all the examples dev/hda is what is used, mine is
> > > called dev/hdb it is a one hard drive system. Will this matter?
> >
> > In your case, you'd just replace '/dev/hda' with '/dev/hdb' whereever you 
> > see it
> > in the install docs. Out of curiosity, why do you have your only hard drive 
> > set
> > as the primary slave?

My guess is that you didn't pass the correct root partition to the
kernel. Have a look at your boot loader's config file.

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[gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

[Brett I. Holcomb]

I have a DOS floppy I try and mount but get the error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
   or too many mounted file systems
I've searched, didn't find any real answers.  I checked this system 
against another Gentoo system that works just fine and mounts the floppy. 
What am I doing wrong.  MSDOS and Vfat are compiled into the kernel.

Thanks.
/etc/fstab entry is shown below.
#
# Floppy
#
/dev/fd0/mnt/fd0vfat noauto,user,exec,nohide 0 0
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Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

[Ted Ozolins]

Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
I have a DOS floppy I try and mount but get the error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
   or too many mounted file systems
I've searched, didn't find any real answers.  I checked this system 
against another Gentoo system that works just fine and mounts the 
floppy. What am I doing wrong.  MSDOS and Vfat are compiled into the 
kernel.

Thanks.
/etc/fstab entry is shown below.
#
# Floppy
#
/dev/fd0/mnt/fd0vfat noauto,user,exec,nohide 0 0

does /mnt/fd0 exist?  ls /mnt and see. If not mkdir /mnt/fd0 and try again.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 17:50 -0800, Ted Ozolins wrote:
> Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> 
> > I have a DOS floppy I try and mount but get the error:
> >
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
> >or too many mounted file systems
> >
> > I've searched, didn't find any real answers.  I checked this system 
> > against another Gentoo system that works just fine and mounts the 
> > floppy. What am I doing wrong.  MSDOS and Vfat are compiled into the 
> > kernel.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > /etc/fstab entry is shown below.
> >
> >
> > #
> > # Floppy
> > #
> > /dev/fd0/mnt/fd0vfat noauto,user,exec,nohide 0 0
> >
> >
> does /mnt/fd0 exist?  ls /mnt and see. If not mkdir /mnt/fd0 and try again.
> 
> Cheers

try the types as msdos or fat and see if it makes a difference.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Here it is
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  6 Jan 13 22:21 fd0
Thanks.
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Ted Ozolins wrote:
Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
 I have a DOS floppy I try and mount but get the error:
 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
 or too many mounted file systems
 I've searched, didn't find any real answers.  I checked this system 
 against another Gentoo system that works just fine and mounts the floppy. 
 What am I doing wrong.  MSDOS and Vfat are compiled into the kernel.

 Thanks.
 /etc/fstab entry is shown below.
# 
#   Floppy
# 
 /dev/fd0/mnt/fd0vfat noauto,user,exec,nohide 0 0


does /mnt/fd0 exist?  ls /mnt and see. If not mkdir /mnt/fd0 and try again.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

[Brett I. Holcomb]

fat asks if I mean vfat so I used vfat.  Both vfat and msdos give me the 
same error.

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Nick Rout wrote:
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 17:50 -0800, Ted Ozolins wrote:
Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
I have a DOS floppy I try and mount but get the error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
   or too many mounted file systems
try the types as msdos or fat and see if it makes a difference.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Sunday 06 February 2005 03:10, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> fat asks if I mean vfat so I used vfat.  Both vfat and msdos give me the
> same error.
>
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Nick Rout wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 17:50 -0800, Ted Ozolins wrote:
> >> Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> >>> I have a DOS floppy I try and mount but get the error:
> >>>
> >>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
> >>>or too many mounted file systems
> >
> > try the types as msdos or fat and see if it makes a difference.

don't you have to give a default codepage as a mount option for (v)fat, since 
recently?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk

[Brett I. Holcomb]

I'm not sure about the codepage.  There is a default set in the kernel 
build.

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Sunday 06 February 2005 03:10, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
fat asks if I mean vfat so I used vfat.  Both vfat and msdos give me the
try the types as msdos or fat and see if it makes a difference.
don't you have to give a default codepage as a mount option for (v)fat, 
since
recently?
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[gentoo-user] Selection Of Fonts Available To GTK Apps

[John Lowell]

I'm having some
difficulty getting an answer to a question I've raised here, on the
forums and elsewhere regarding how a little
application like gtk-theme-switch or gtk-chtheme gets the listing of
fonts it offers a user when modifying gtk2 applications, balsa for
example. The user is shown a standard list, similar if not identical to
the list firefox or thunderbird shows under "preferences -> fonts".
What file determines the content of a list of this kind? I'd dearly
love to have an answer to this question but it would seem that it
stumps everyone I've asked. Certainly something determines the content
of the list provided, but what?

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Re: [gentoo-user] suggest users enable and read (some of) PORT_LOGDIR

[Peter Gordon]

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| files, but I don't think enough has been said of how useful they are,
| even when nothing is visibly wrong.
|
| Emerge output is rather lengthy and the "yellow" comments can easily
| be missed.  However, it appears that emerge writes two log files, one
| with the standard stuff (compiles, links, etc) and the other with
| messages.  Often the latter is empty.  But the good thing is when you
|ls -l $PORT_LOGDIR
| you can see when the second (typically much smaller) entry is
| non-empty and read this one.
|
| Eventually the logs can take up some noticeable space, but tmpwatch
| (or equivalent) solves this.
|
| allan gottlieb
Good tip Allan. Thanks. =)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Selection Of Fonts Available To GTK Apps

[Calvin Walton]

On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 21:27:53 -0500, John Lowell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  I'm having some difficulty getting an answer to a question I've raised
> here, on the forums and elsewhere regarding how a little application like
> gtk-theme-switch or gtk-chtheme gets the listing of fonts it offers a user
> when modifying gtk2 applications, balsa for example.

The font list in most modern apps (gtk2, qt3) is generated by the
fontconfig utility/library - take a look at http://www.fontconfig.org/
and a google search for "fontconfig"

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Re: [gentoo-user] Selection Of Fonts Available To GTK Apps

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 21:27 -0500, John Lowell wrote:
> I'm having some difficulty getting an answer to a question I've raised
> here, on the forums and elsewhere regarding how a little application
> like gtk-theme-switch or gtk-chtheme gets the listing of fonts it
> offers a user when modifying gtk2 applications, balsa for example. The
> user is shown a standard list, similar if not identical to the list
> firefox or thunderbird shows under "preferences -> fonts". What file
> determines the content of a list of this kind? I'd dearly love to have
> an answer to this question but it would seem that it stumps everyone
> I've asked. Certainly something determines the content of the list
> provided, but what?
> 
> jlowell

well the good thing about open source is that you can read the source
and find out for yourself :-)

In a less facetious mood, I'd say try running gtk-theme-switch with
strace and see what files it opens

something like

strace -eopen -ostrace.out gtk-theme-switch

then peruse strace.out for a list of files opened by gtk-theme-switch



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Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Compiling Failure

[Captain FantastiK]

Hi
Now, I foudn out what was the problem. It seems to be the -static USE Flag 
(But I don't understand why) so when I removed, the compiling Process was 
OK. But Now, I have another Problem with X: the modules is failing from 
Loading: Here is the output of Xorg.0.log:

***
X Window System Version 6.8.0
Release Date: 8 September 2004
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux modemcable158.221-37-24.mc.videotron.ca 
2.6.10-gentoo-r6 #1 Thu Feb 3 09:40:12 EST 2005 i686
Build Date: 05 February 2005
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Feb  5 21:41:27 2005
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) ServerLayout "Simple Layout"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen 1" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "My Monitor"
(**) |   |-->Device "** NVIDIA (generic)   [nv]"
(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse1"
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard1"
(**) FontPath set to 
"/usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/local/"
(**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/modules"
(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory)
(II) Module ABI versions:
	X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.2
	X.Org Video Driver: 0.7
	X.Org XInput driver : 0.4
	X.Org Server Extension : 0.2
	X.Org Font Renderer : 0.4
(II) Loader running on linux
(II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a
Duplicate symbol __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx in 
/usr/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a:bitmapmod.o
Also defined in /usr/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a

Fatal server error:
Module load failure
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
	 at http://wiki.X.Org
for help.
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional 
information.

Does anybody knew how to fix this
cApTaiN_FaNtAsTiK


From: Jason Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg Compiling Failure
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 09:04:59 -0500
Captain FantastiK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled:
>
> Hi
>
> I tried many times compiling xorg but it was always ending with the same
> error message:
>
> ...
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[4]: ***[Xorg] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving Directory:
> '/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4/work/xc/programs/Xserver'
> make[3]: ***[all] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving Directory:
> '/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4/work/xc/programs'
> make[2]: ***[all] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving Directory: '/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4/work/xc'
> make[1]: ***[World] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving Directory: '/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4/work/xc'
> make:***[World] Error2
Need about 15 to 20 more lines above this... All that can be seen from
this is that you have a linker error.  Chances are you need to run
'fix_libtool_files.sh' with a version of gcc as an argument.  Run a
search of gentoo-user for that and it should explain how to use it.
hth,
Cooper.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Logins mit kdm

[Sven Rudolph]

Hello Peter,
thanks for your quick answer!
Make your /usr/kde/3.3/share/config/kdm/Xservers look like this:
:0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp
:1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :1
:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :2
:3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :3
:4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :4
...then, after you start a new KDE session, click "Start New 
Session..." from the K menu.
In know this, but i don't use KDE. I just use kdm, so this is no option.
Any other suggestions?
Sven

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge alsa-driver vs. built-in driver

[Karsten Baumgarten]

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|> alsamixer
|> alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
|>
|> Any tips?
Try to do this as root. If it works, the permissions for the device
nodes are not set properly. Check if your user is in the audio group as
well.
Regards,
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[gentoo-user] can't modprobe sound driver (WAS: alsa-driver vs. built-in driver)

[michael]

Good suggestion; unfortunately I've been doing this all as root.
I decided to follow your other recommendation, and recompiled my kernel
to use the cs4236 driver as a module. This yields my driver, but when I
try to modprobe it I get:
laptop cs423x # modprobe snd-cs4236
FATAL: Error inserting snd_cs4236 
(/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r8/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.ko): No such 
device
The driver does exist:
file /lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r8/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r8/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.ko:
ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
I'm trying to figure out why the modprobe fails. Could it be it can't
find my hardware device?
I'm still in the process of googling so I can't say I've exhausted my
own resources yet, but any suggestions are welcome.
I might also try
emerge alsa-driver
again, since that's why I switched to the module rather than built-in
driver. With any luck, it will solve my problem as well.
Michael
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Karsten Baumgarten wrote:
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If I don't worry about this and just jump forward to alsamixer, I get:
alsamixer
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
Any tips?
Try to do this as root. If it works, the permissions for the device
nodes are not set properly. Check if your user is in the audio group as
well.
Regards,
Karsten
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[gentoo-user] Courier Imap problem

[David Corbin]

I had a working IMap installation.  I did an upgrade that included several 
courier updates.  Now I'm having "connection problems".  When I telnet to it, 
I get this:

Connected to imap.
Escape character is '^]'.
* BYE imaplogin expected exactly two arguments.
Connection closed by foreign host.

I never even have the chance to send it a command.

Ideas?
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Re: [gentoo-user] can't modprobe sound driver (WAS: alsa-driver vs. built-in driver)

[Karsten Baumgarten]

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| Good suggestion; unfortunately I've been doing this all as root.
|
| I decided to follow your other recommendation, and recompiled my kernel
| to use the cs4236 driver as a module. This yields my driver, but when I
| try to modprobe it I get:
|
| laptop cs423x # modprobe snd-cs4236
| FATAL: Error inserting snd_cs4236
| (/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r8/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.ko): No
| such device
|
| The driver does exist:
|
| file
/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r8/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.ko
| /lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r8/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.ko:
| ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not
stripped
|
| I'm trying to figure out why the modprobe fails. Could it be it can't
| find my hardware device?
|
| I'm still in the process of googling so I can't say I've exhausted my
| own resources yet, but any suggestions are welcome.
|
| I might also try
|
| emerge alsa-driver
|
| again, since that's why I switched to the module rather than built-in
| driver. With any luck, it will solve my problem as well.
This could have several reasons:
1. It is the wrong driver.
2. The driver is already loaded in the kernel (unlikely, since you
haven't tried to build the ALSA-enabled kernel yet, have you?).
3. OSS-modules in the kernel (ALSA and OSS compete for your soundcard,
OSS wins 'cause it was there first)
4. OSS-support in the kernel (see above).
My best bet would be 1.
Regards,
Karsten
P.S.: Don't change thread subjects. You're confusing my mail app. ;)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Selection Of Fonts Available To GTK Apps

[John Lowell]

Calvin Walton wrote:

  
The font list in most modern apps (gtk2, qt3) is generated by the
fontconfig utility/library - take a look at http://www.fontconfig.org/
and a google search for "fontconfig"

  

Thank you, Calvin, for your reply.

Regards.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Selection Of Fonts Available To GTK Apps

[John Lowell]

Nick Rout wrote:

  
well the good thing about open source is that you can read the source
and find out for yourself :-)

In a less facetious mood, I'd say try running gtk-theme-switch with
strace and see what files it opens

something like

strace -eopen -ostrace.out gtk-theme-switch

then peruse strace.out for a list of files opened by gtk-theme-switch


  

Hi Nick!

There's always an answer, isn't there? Thanks for acquainting me with
strace.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Courier Imap problem

[Lenroc]

On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 22:58:11 -0500, David Corbin wrote:

> I had a working IMap installation.  I did an upgrade that included several 
> courier updates.  Now I'm having "connection problems".  When I telnet to it, 
> I get this:

What packages got updated, and to what versions? It might be helpful to
know what versions you were running before, too...

See http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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[gentoo-user] squirrelmail

[David Corbin]

I have squirrelmail emerged (w/apache 2.0), but it won't work.  There doesn't 
appear to be anything in the apache configuration that allows it run php, 
instead of just returning the source.

Pointers?

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Re: [gentoo-user] USB problems

[Sven Rudolph]

Hi Jose,
try this:
Basically, I cannot make my USB stick to work.
emerge hotplug sg3_utils

My /etc/fstab:
none/proc/bus/usb   usbfs  defaults   0 0
/dev/sda1  /mnt/usbflash  auto   noauto,user  0 0
Remove the line:
none/proc/bus/usb   usbfs  defaults   0 0
rc-update add hotplug default
(You allready have CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y)
I use these Kernel options:
[*] /proc file system support
[*]   /proc/kcore support
[*] /dev file system support (OBSOLETE)
[*]   Automatically mount at boot
[*] /dev/pts Extended Attributes
[*] Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)
(From the Gentoo documentation)
The command "sg_map -i" from sg3_utils will show you something like this:
# Note: the devfs pseudo file system is present
/dev/sg0  /dev/sda  Generic   USB Reader-SMC  2002
/dev/sg1  /dev/sdb  Generic   USB Reader-CF  2002
/dev/sg2  /dev/sdc  Generic   USB Reader-SD  2002
/dev/sg3  /dev/sdd  Generic   USB Reader-MS  2002
/dev/sg4  /dev/sde   QDI  USBDisk   1.00
(But i think you allready know this)

Coldplug complains while booting:
Hm, never heard of coldplug :-)
Greetings
Sven
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[gentoo-user] netscape-7.2 segfault

[Michael W. Holdeman]

Any one else get a segfault w/netscape 7.2?

Any one have it working?

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Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-7.2 segfault

[Michael W. Holdeman]

On Sunday 06 February 2005 12:16 am, Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> Any one else get a segfault w/netscape 7.2?
>
> Any one have it working?
>
> Mike
/opt/netscape/7.2/netscape
/usr/lib/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh: line 159:  4158 Segmentation fault  
"$prog" ${1+"$@"}

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Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-7.2 segfault

[Andrew Gaffney]

Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
Any one else get a segfault w/netscape 7.2?
Why are you using Netscape in linux instead of Mozilla or Firefox?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Courier Imap problem

[Manuel McLure]

David Corbin wrote:
I had a working IMap installation.  I did an upgrade that included several 
courier updates.  Now I'm having "connection problems".  When I telnet to it, 
I get this:

Connected to imap.
Escape character is '^]'.
* BYE imaplogin expected exactly two arguments.
Connection closed by foreign host.
I never even have the chance to send it a command.
The authentication has changed. Read 
/usr/share/doc/courier-imap-4.0.1/courier-imap-gentoo.readme.gz for an 
overview of the changes. Primarily, the authdaemond service has been 
replaced with courier-authlib. The default courier-authlib setup is in 
my opinion broken, so you should edit /etc/courier/authlib/authdaemonrc 
to reflect your setup - in particular the authmodulelist parameter.

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Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-7.2 segfault

[Michael W. Holdeman]

On Sunday 06 February 2005 12:24 am, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> > Any one else get a segfault w/netscape 7.2?
>
> Why are you using Netscape in linux instead of Mozilla or Firefox?
I prefer konqueror, and firefox, but turbotaxweb now requires netscape 7.1 and 
up or IE.

I trief konquerors spoof reporting but it keeps crashing.

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Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-7.2 segfault

[Andrew Gaffney]

Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
On Sunday 06 February 2005 12:24 am, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
Any one else get a segfault w/netscape 7.2?
Why are you using Netscape in linux instead of Mozilla or Firefox?
I prefer konqueror, and firefox, but turbotaxweb now requires netscape 7.1 and 
up or IE.
Ah, I ran into that same problem. I used the User Agent Switcher extension for 
Firefox. I had to do IE6 to get to the logon screen, switch to Netscape 7.2 (a 
custom entry), enter username/password and login. It works great.

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Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-7.2 segfault

[Michael W. Holdeman]

On Sunday 06 February 2005 12:37 am, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> > On Sunday 06 February 2005 12:24 am, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> >>Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> >>>Any one else get a segfault w/netscape 7.2?
> >>
> >>Why are you using Netscape in linux instead of Mozilla or Firefox?
> >
> > I prefer konqueror, and firefox, but turbotaxweb now requires netscape
> > 7.1 and up or IE.
>
> Ah, I ran into that same problem. I used the User Agent Switcher extension
> for Firefox. I had to do IE6 to get to the logon screen, switch to Netscape
> 7.2 (a custom entry), enter username/password and login. It works great.

I'll try, thanks!

(Wish konqueror could handle this)


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[gentoo-user] reboot failure

[John Patrick Coder]

upon the first reboot during the install I get a "primary master hard disk
fail"

I will guess that this is from some mistake from step eight, I tried a
stage three install and my etc/fstab file looked a little different than
is in the manuel

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Re: [gentoo-user] can't modprobe sound driver (WAS: alsa-driver vs. built-in driver)

[michael]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Karsten Baumgarten wrote:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good suggestion; unfortunately I've been doing this all as root.
I decided to follow your other recommendation, and recompiled my kernel
to use the cs4236 driver as a module. This yields my driver, but when I
try to modprobe it I get:
laptop cs423x # modprobe snd-cs4236
FATAL: Error inserting snd_cs4236
(/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r8/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.ko): No
such device
The driver does exist:
file
/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r8/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r8/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.ko:
ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not
stripped
I'm trying to figure out why the modprobe fails. Could it be it can't
find my hardware device?
I'm still in the process of googling so I can't say I've exhausted my
own resources yet, but any suggestions are welcome.
I might also try
emerge alsa-driver
again, since that's why I switched to the module rather than built-in
driver. With any luck, it will solve my problem as well.
This could have several reasons:
1. It is the wrong driver.
2. The driver is already loaded in the kernel (unlikely, since you
haven't tried to build the ALSA-enabled kernel yet, have you?).
3. OSS-modules in the kernel (ALSA and OSS compete for your soundcard,
OSS wins 'cause it was there first)
4. OSS-support in the kernel (see above).
My best bet would be 1.
Good advice! I went into my bios setup to see if it would tell me what
chip i had, and it showed that my sound device was in upnp mode - i
switched this to simply "enabled" and then all seemed to work. Thanks
for your tip!
Regards,
Karsten
P.S.: Don't change thread subjects. You're confusing my mail app. ;)
sorry!
Thanks again,
Michael
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Re: [gentoo-user] reboot failure

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 22:27 -0800, John Patrick Coder wrote:
> upon the first reboot during the install I get a "primary master hard disk
> fail"
> 
> I will guess that this is from some mistake from step eight, I tried a
> stage three install and my etc/fstab file looked a little different than
> is in the manuel

you should reboot from the cd, and follow the instructions to mount your
gentoo root dir and chroot into it, then thoroughly check your grub
configuration and your /etc/fstab file. post them here if you are still
having problems.

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