Re: [gentoo-user] Naive question
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:37:39 + Vittorio wrote: I'm somewhat confused! Just yesterday I issued an emerge --rsync, fixpackages, then emerge -ubD world Issuing now ls -l /etc/make.profile I get lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 4 gen 18:46 /etc/make.profile - ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2004.3 How come I'm still stuck to 2004.3 and not to 2005.1? read the answers to your previous message, in particular Chris Gysin's answer. 2004.3 is only your profile, which is a set of defaults that your original system weas built with. forget it, if you have emerge sync'd and then updated your packages, you are up to date. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST
Micheal really I've no more ideas, can you try exactly this? set your CLOCK=UTC in /etc/rc.conf or /etc/conf.d/clock depending from your baselayout version # cd /etc # rm localtime # ln -s ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Rome localtime reboot if (your time now is CET) is EST5EDT is broken ? try to emerge again sys-libs/glibc else not the problem is not the file try to emerge again baselayout remember to relink the wanted EST5EDT reboot better ideas are well accepted Michael Haan ha scritto: I have rebooted since I made the change. On a prior install of gentoo a month ago on this same hardware, that choice worked for my timezone. On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:16:04 -0500, Bradley Serbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micheal, Your file is definitly linked correctly to a file in zoneinfo; however I don't know if that is the same zone/setting as mine (/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern). I'm also not sure of the difference. Have you rebooted your machine since making the CLOCK=local change? If you don't want to reboot you can run /etc/init.d/clock restart and restart any depending services as suggested by a previous post. - Brad Serbu Michael Haan wrote: I think it does, doesn't it? On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:25:32 -0500, Bradley Serbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /etc/localtime should be linked to a file in /usr/share/zoneinfo that corresponds to your local time. Dave Nebinger wrote: What is /etc/localtime linked to? -- No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. ~ Charles M. Schulz But sometimes run fast is better ~ Francesco R. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] No signal or image from BT878-based video capture card
firstly do you have video devices, they should be created by the bttv module cd /dev find|grep video there should be something like /dev/v4l/video0 secondly is xawtv using the right device? force t to a particular device with the -c parameter. xawtv -c /dev/v4l/video0 once you have found the video device secondly go into xawtv and make sure you have the right input and norm selected. Typically inputs are composite, tuner (or tv) and s-video. this is selectable from xawtv's interface. norm is pal, ntsc etc. this will depend on your camera. On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 11:54:48 -0500 Kevin wrote: Hi List- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST
[EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ echo $TZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 08:52:01 +1300, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is TZ set to? echo $TZ this takes preference over the system wide preference set by /etc/localtime On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:27:34 -0500 Michael Haan wrote: -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor Christchurch http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST
I just found out something interesting whilst fiddling: TZ is the local users timezone setting, it can be set different to the systemwide default of /etc/localtime. This is so someone logging in from the other side of the world can have their own timezone, via setting their TZ variable now most people will not have TZ set, as they are logging in to a local machine and /etc/localtime will fix it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ env|grep TZ (no output, ie TZ is not set, even to null, in my environment) [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $date Fri Mar 4 09:29:00 NZDT 2005 BUT if TZ is present in your environment, but set to null, the system will give UTC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ TZ= date Thu Mar 3 20:29:51 UTC 2005 (thats a space after TZ= , ie set TZ to null.) I think you should see if TZ exists in your environment by : env|grep TZ On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:07:07 -0500 Michael Haan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ echo $TZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 08:52:01 +1300, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is TZ set to? echo $TZ this takes preference over the system wide preference set by /etc/localtime On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:27:34 -0500 Michael Haan wrote: -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor Christchurch http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor Christchurch http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound Won't Work
No, so the ALSA developers can snicker and laugh at people sending messages to mailing lists saying their sound isn't working, but it appears everything's configured properly. =P I know that I'd make it muted by default if I were one of the ALSA developers, since it'd be funny to go er.. you unmute it yet? :) On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:09:50 -0800, John Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 06:00, Mike Turcotte wrote: When I tried using my Audigy 2 in linux (emu10k1), I had to configure ARTS to use only ALSA support instead of auto, and yes the mixers were muted by default, I don't know why Perhaps so you don't blow out your speakers on first boot? -- t3h 3l3ctr0n3rd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Supermarket Deli Clerk and Student Programmer OpenPGP Key Fingerprint: 0A65 EEFA B23A F0AC E6C2 C71C BEA0 E055 BE0E EC25 -- Microsoft is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. -- Linus Torvalds -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fsck
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, pepone pepone wrote: Hello what is the correct way in gentoo for automatic check partitions that are not cleane unmounted If you reboot it will check the partitions if necessary (or use a journal to make sure they are consistent). To do it manually, you should reboot into single user mode and run fsck manually on the unmounted file-system then bring the system up multi-user. -- A. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard Control Keys Stopped working.
My keys do that on occasion if I'm running VMware. Logging out and back in fixes it usually. On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:23:03 -0500, Kurt Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Twice today, my keyboard control keys (ctrl, shift, caps lock, etc.) quit working on both a keyboard and laptop. I've never seen this problem before. I emerged sys-apps/procps-3.2.4-r3 this morning, but I don't think that would do it. Any ideas? --Kurt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Microsoft is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. -- Linus Torvalds -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST
[EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ env | grep TZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ Good idea, but no banana. On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:32:39 +1300, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just found out something interesting whilst fiddling: TZ is the local users timezone setting, it can be set different to the systemwide default of /etc/localtime. This is so someone logging in from the other side of the world can have their own timezone, via setting their TZ variable now most people will not have TZ set, as they are logging in to a local machine and /etc/localtime will fix it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ env|grep TZ (no output, ie TZ is not set, even to null, in my environment) [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $date Fri Mar 4 09:29:00 NZDT 2005 BUT if TZ is present in your environment, but set to null, the system will give UTC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ TZ= date Thu Mar 3 20:29:51 UTC 2005 (thats a space after TZ= , ie set TZ to null.) I think you should see if TZ exists in your environment by : env|grep TZ On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:07:07 -0500 Michael Haan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ echo $TZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 08:52:01 +1300, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is TZ set to? echo $TZ this takes preference over the system wide preference set by /etc/localtime On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:27:34 -0500 Michael Haan wrote: -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor Christchurch http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor Christchurch http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Configure.help file gone from 2.6.x kernels
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Kevin wrote: From watching make menuconfig start up, and glancing at the file it calls on the command line, I think I've answered my own question. Looks like the answer to my question is this file: arch/i386/Kconfig If you browse through /usr/src/liux you will also see that each folder has a Kconfig file that describes the menu (and any submenus) for whatever is in the folder. -- A. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST
Micheal, I'm also out of ideas. I had a similar problem when doing a clean re-install of gentoo on a fresh drive. However, the CLOCK=local fixed the problem for me. - Brad Michael Haan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ env | grep TZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ Good idea, but no banana. On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:32:39 +1300, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just found out something interesting whilst fiddling: TZ is the local users timezone setting, it can be set different to the systemwide default of /etc/localtime. This is so someone logging in from the other side of the world can have their own timezone, via setting their TZ variable now most people will not have TZ set, as they are logging in to a local machine and /etc/localtime will fix it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ env|grep TZ (no output, ie TZ is not set, even to null, in my environment) [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $date Fri Mar 4 09:29:00 NZDT 2005 BUT if TZ is present in your environment, but set to null, the system will give UTC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ TZ= date Thu Mar 3 20:29:51 UTC 2005 (thats a space after TZ= , ie set TZ to null.) I think you should see if TZ exists in your environment by : env|grep TZ On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:07:07 -0500 Michael Haan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ echo $TZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 08:52:01 +1300, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is TZ set to? echo $TZ this takes preference over the system wide preference set by /etc/localtime On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:27:34 -0500 Michael Haan wrote: -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor Christchurch http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor Christchurch http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound Won't Work
Yes they do it to prove that no one reads documentation. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml has a whole section about it. I am sure the alsa docs themselves deal with it too. On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:33:31 -0600 Keith Gable wrote: No, so the ALSA developers can snicker and laugh at people sending messages to mailing lists saying their sound isn't working, but it appears everything's configured properly. =P I know that I'd make it muted by default if I were one of the ALSA developers, since it'd be funny to go er.. you unmute it yet? :) -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST
I'm wondering if my bios is set to use UTC. Need to check that out. On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:55:14 -0500, Bradley Serbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micheal, I'm also out of ideas. I had a similar problem when doing a clean re-install of gentoo on a fresh drive. However, the CLOCK=local fixed the problem for me. - Brad Michael Haan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ env | grep TZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ Good idea, but no banana. On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:32:39 +1300, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just found out something interesting whilst fiddling: TZ is the local users timezone setting, it can be set different to the systemwide default of /etc/localtime. This is so someone logging in from the other side of the world can have their own timezone, via setting their TZ variable now most people will not have TZ set, as they are logging in to a local machine and /etc/localtime will fix it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ env|grep TZ (no output, ie TZ is not set, even to null, in my environment) [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $date Fri Mar 4 09:29:00 NZDT 2005 BUT if TZ is present in your environment, but set to null, the system will give UTC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ TZ= date Thu Mar 3 20:29:51 UTC 2005 (thats a space after TZ= , ie set TZ to null.) I think you should see if TZ exists in your environment by : env|grep TZ On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:07:07 -0500 Michael Haan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ echo $TZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 08:52:01 +1300, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is TZ set to? echo $TZ this takes preference over the system wide preference set by /etc/localtime On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:27:34 -0500 Michael Haan wrote: -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor Christchurch http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor Christchurch http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST
do you also boot windows? if you don't then you can simply leave CLOCK=UTC in /etc/rc.conf all that this setting does is define how to translate the hardware/bios clock to system/kernel time on boot up, and vice versa on shutdown. It does NOT affect how time is displayed on the system using the unix date functions. Once the kernel clock is set on startup it functions without reference to the hardware clock. On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:05:29 -0500 Michael Haan wrote: I'm wondering if my bios is set to use UTC. Need to check that out. -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor Christchurch http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard Control Keys Stopped working.
Keith Gable wrote: if I'm running VMware. Yes, I've been using vmware heavily to configure some servers. Perhaps that's it. Thx. --Kurt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST
for heaven's sake bradley you only need to post each message once! you have the list in as to: and cc: and learn to trim your posts please. On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:55:14 -0500 Bradley Serbu wrote: Micheal, I'm also out of ideas. I had a similar problem when doing a clean re-install of gentoo on a fresh drive. However, the CLOCK=local fixed the problem for me. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST
Obviously I know that... I had a no Reply-All memory lapse necessary because of the robin.gentoo forum transition. It'll be easier on everyone once the transition takes place. Nick Rout wrote: for heaven's sake bradley you only need to post each message once! you have the list in as to: and cc: and learn to trim your posts please. On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:55:14 -0500 Bradley Serbu wrote: Micheal, I'm also out of ideas. I had a similar problem when doing a clean re-install of gentoo on a fresh drive. However, the CLOCK=local fixed the problem for me. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST
Well, you're all gonna laugh - or not. One of my earlier posts holds the key, though I found it by trying to md5sum my timezone file. From before: [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Feb 26 17:34 /etc/localtime - /usr/share/zoneifo/EST5EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ ls -l /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT -rw-r--r-- 5 root root 1267 Feb 26 04:41 /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ Anything look funny with where /etc/localtime is linked to? Look closely. On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:18:39 +1300, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for heaven's sake bradley you only need to post each message once! you have the list in as to: and cc: and learn to trim your posts please. On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:55:14 -0500 Bradley Serbu wrote: Micheal, I'm also out of ideas. I had a similar problem when doing a clean re-install of gentoo on a fresh drive. However, the CLOCK=local fixed the problem for me. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fsck
I use jfs for my home partition and if mount fails i want to aumatic run fsck maybe i need same expecial option in fstab? /dev/hdc5 /home/peponejfs noatime 0 0 On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:14:28 -0500 (EST), A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, pepone pepone wrote: Hello what is the correct way in gentoo for automatic check partitions that are not cleane unmounted If you reboot it will check the partitions if necessary (or use a journal to make sure they are consistent). To do it manually, you should reboot into single user mode and run fsck manually on the unmounted file-system then bring the system up multi-user. -- A. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST
Michael Haan wrote: Well, you're all gonna laugh - or not. One of my earlier posts holds the key, though I found it by trying to md5sum my timezone file. From before: [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Feb 26 17:34 /etc/localtime - /usr/share/zoneifo/EST5EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ ls -l /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT -rw-r--r-- 5 root root 1267 Feb 26 04:41 /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ Anything look funny with where /etc/localtime is linked to? Look closely. Oh, *man*... For want of an 'N', I spent the whole bloody day tearing my hair out...! Hey, it happens to us all at least once (and often more than once). Glad you found the problem (and that as usual, it wasn't Gentoo's fault, as Gentoo is perfect, even when we are not ;-) ). Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo mirrors
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:07:09 +0100, Julien Cayzac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using mirrorselect to update my make.conf and get faster downloads, but I've noticed that each mirror it selects gets unreachable after a while (usually one week or two). Are you experiencing such problems? I think I'm going to call mirrorselect in my cron.daily :-( You may want to manually edit you make.conf file. Go to gentoo's website, pick the mirror that you think is fastest, and put it in ur make.conf file. HTH. -- Joe -- Money can't buy everything. Sometimes money can't even buy a gun... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:42:21 -0500 Michael Haan wrote: Well, you're all gonna laugh - or not. One of my earlier posts holds the key, though I found it by trying to md5sum my timezone file. From before: [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Feb 26 17:34 /etc/localtime - /usr/share/zoneifo/EST5EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ ls -l /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT -rw-r--r-- 5 root root 1267 Feb 26 04:41 /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ Anything look funny with where /etc/localtime is linked to? Look closely. man you do have to look hard to see it. you can avoid this by using tab completion when putting in long paths. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] 6 gigs to clean up
Hi all. I got my Gentoo system finished a couple weeks ago and since that time it has grown to over 6 gigs. I found FINDCRUFT from the forum: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=254197highlight=findcruft. When I run the script, it outputs a file that is 4.4 megs in size. Most of which points to my Portage directory. After about an hour of clicking and deleting, I checked the size of the Portage directory it is now down 98183 items, totalling 76.7 MB. At this point I came to the realization that this is not what I bought a computer to spend my time doing. Is there a more reasonable/saner way to maintain my system. I am wondering is there any places where Portage stashes files that it has downloaded, or temp files (other than the tmp directory) that could be safely flushed. Thanks in advance. George -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] gentoo mirrors
I'm using mirrorselect to update my make.conf and get faster downloads, but I've noticed that each mirror it selects gets unreachable after a while (usually one week or two). What do you mean by 'unreachable'? emerge --sync reports an error, or is it more of a network problem that ping/traceroute actually reports a node is unreachable? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Bugday reminder
Hi all. Just a reminder that saturday 5th marks the monthly bugday aka your chance to help fix annoying bugs, meet some of the developers and have a great time in general. As usual, bugday is held in #gentoo-bugs on irc.freenode.net. Regards, Bryan stergaard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 6 gigs to clean up
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:04:16 -0700, George Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I got my Gentoo system finished a couple weeks ago and since that time it has grown to over 6 gigs. I found FINDCRUFT from the forum: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=254197highlight=findcruft. When I run the script, it outputs a file that is 4.4 megs in size. Most of which points to my Portage directory. After about an hour of clicking and deleting, I checked the size of the Portage directory it is now down 98183 items, totalling 76.7 MB. At this point I came to the realization that this is not what I bought a computer to spend my time doing. Is there a more reasonable/saner way to maintain my system. I am wondering is there any places where Portage stashes files that it has downloaded, or temp files (other than the tmp directory) that could be safely flushed. Your system's portage distfile dir and portages work dir can be safely deleted. HTH. -- Joe -- Money can't buy everything. Sometimes money can't even buy a gun... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] 6 gigs to clean up
You can safely drop /var/tmp/portage to reclaim a lot of space. /usr/portage will typically contain the distribution files for those pieces that you've emerged; you can remove these but re-emerging/updating would download them again. To 'clean' your /usr/portage directory you could try removing the whole thing then drop a snapshot in place. I keep my distribution files in an alternate location (my local ftp space for other gentoo boxes on the internal network to retrieve from), but du -h /usr/portage still reports that I'm using 1.5 Gig. To me this is a small price to pay, especially since disk space is so darn cheap to begin with. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 6 gigs to clean up
everything inside /var/tmp/portage can be deleted. this is the area where portage builds packages. if everything sompletes cleanly there is usually not too much cruft here, but if an ebuild craps out it can leave a lot of stuff. PS don't do this in the middle of an active ebuild, it will well and truly stop the operation! /usr/portage/distfiles is the source files that you have downloaded. For packages that have been superceded by a new version you can definitely delete the source file. For current packages there is no difficulty deleting the source package, but if you want to rebuild it you will need to download it again. you may want to rebuild it for any number of reasons, eg if there is an updated ebuild of the same version (eg package-1.4 gets bumped to package-1.4-r1) or if you change your USE flags. If you search the forums there are scripts to intelligently delete older stuff from /usr/portage/distfiles On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:04:16 -0700 George Roberts wrote: Hi all. I got my Gentoo system finished a couple weeks ago and since that time it has grown to over 6 gigs. I found FINDCRUFT from the forum: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=254197highlight=findcruft. When I run the script, it outputs a file that is 4.4 megs in size. Most of which points to my Portage directory. After about an hour of clicking and deleting, I checked the size of the Portage directory it is now down 98183 items, totalling 76.7 MB. At this point I came to the realization that this is not what I bought a computer to spend my time doing. Is there a more reasonable/saner way to maintain my system. I am wondering is there any places where Portage stashes files that it has downloaded, or temp files (other than the tmp directory) that could be safely flushed. Thanks in advance. George -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor Christchurch http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 6 gigs to clean up
George Roberts wrote: I am wondering is there any places where Portage stashes files that it has downloaded /usr/portage/distfiles. This can always be safely deleted, although doing so will mean that you will have to re-download the source files if you ever need to reinstall any of the programs you have currently installed. or temp files (other than the tmp directory) that could be safely flushed. The temp files for failed emerges are found in (I believe) /var/tmp/portage/package_name. These can also be deleted (the temp files are deleted automatically when the emerge succeeds, and if the emerge has failed, the temp files aren't going to help you much anyway), and can get pretty big if you failed to compile OO.o, for example. Hope this helps. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Lost VI colors...
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:49:30 -0500 Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Vim. Vim and vim core (for both) are 6.3-r4. Hrm. Are we talking app-vim/colorschemes stuff here? If so, sync and upgrade. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpO5uDkqbwiv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 6 gigs to clean up
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:04:16 -0700 George Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a more reasonable/saner way to maintain my system. I am wondering is there any places where Portage stashes files that it has downloaded, or temp files (other than the tmp directory) that could be safely flushed. Hi, portage/distfiles contains downloaded sources and can grow quite large over time. If you have a fast internet connection you can safely delete it. portage/packages contains binary packages that are created when using the -b or -B options to emerge, or if you have set FEATURES=buildpkg in make.conf. You can delete this as well. /var/tmp/portage contains temp files while building. Those files can be left behind if emerge fails or is interrupted. You can delete it as long as emerge is not running. Regards -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT - mailman issues and more
I emerged mailman this afternoon. I've posted to this list about mailman before, so I dug up those responses and followed there advice, setting the mail ID to the daemon's gid in the ebuild and setting the VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW = OFF in mm_cfg.py. I set up a test list and went out to the website to subscribe myself to it. It said that my subscription was successful, but I never got any kind of welcome message in evolution, or even a notice that someone had subscribed (the address I subscribed to the Test list from was the same as what I gave as the owner of the list). I searched the logs, and the only thing somewhat out of the ordinary I found was this: Mar 3 16:34:17 bullet sm-mta[31393]: j23MXBTH031209: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], delay=00:00:22, xdelay=00:00:21, mailer=local, pri=140918, relay=local, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent I don't have a mailman.log file or even a mail.log - I get everything out of /var/log/messages unless it would be in the apache2 logs, but I checked there and didn't see anything that seemed relevent. Another problem I have that's related to mailman is the apache2 setup of mailman. This morning I followed the HowTo at gentoo.wiki.com to set up apache with mod_php. PHP was working until I added the -D MAILMAN to /etc/conf.d/apache2 This is how I have it now: APACHE2_OPTS=-D PHP4 APACHE2_OPTS=-D MAILMAN It's on two lines, and I think the second line is overriding the first. Originally I had it on one line: APACHE2_OPTS=-D PHP4 -D MAILMAN but then when I went to restart apache2 it wouldn't restart. It kept failing. What is the proper syntax for the APACHE2_OPT lines? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST
Michael Haan ha scritto: Well, you're all gonna laugh - or not. One of my earlier posts holds the key, though I found it by trying to md5sum my timezone file. From before: [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Feb 26 17:34 /etc/localtime - /usr/share/zoneifo/EST5EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ ls -l /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT -rw-r--r-- 5 root root 1267 Feb 26 04:41 /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ Anything look funny with where /etc/localtime is linked to? Look closely. well reread the first answer you received ^_^ ... ... going laughing (remembering that I've done much worst things) [strip] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: OT - mailman issues and more
UPDATE: I got both apache to start with both the PHP4 and MAILMAN options on the same line, so that part isn't a problem anymore. I guess it was just a fluke earlier... On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 16:52 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I emerged mailman this afternoon. I've posted to this list about mailman before, so I dug up those responses and followed there advice, setting the mail ID to the daemon's gid in the ebuild and setting the VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW = OFF in mm_cfg.py. I set up a test list and went out to the website to subscribe myself to it. It said that my subscription was successful, but I never got any kind of welcome message in evolution, or even a notice that someone had subscribed (the address I subscribed to the Test list from was the same as what I gave as the owner of the list). I searched the logs, and the only thing somewhat out of the ordinary I found was this: Mar 3 16:34:17 bullet sm-mta[31393]: j23MXBTH031209: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], delay=00:00:22, xdelay=00:00:21, mailer=local, pri=140918, relay=local, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent I don't have a mailman.log file or even a mail.log - I get everything out of /var/log/messages unless it would be in the apache2 logs, but I checked there and didn't see anything that seemed relevent. Another problem I have that's related to mailman is the apache2 setup of mailman. This morning I followed the HowTo at gentoo.wiki.com to set up apache with mod_php. PHP was working until I added the -D MAILMAN to /etc/conf.d/apache2 This is how I have it now: APACHE2_OPTS=-D PHP4 APACHE2_OPTS=-D MAILMAN It's on two lines, and I think the second line is overriding the first. Originally I had it on one line: APACHE2_OPTS=-D PHP4 -D MAILMAN but then when I went to restart apache2 it wouldn't restart. It kept failing. What is the proper syntax for the APACHE2_OPT lines? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - mailman issues and more
Michael Sullivan ha scritto: I emerged mailman this afternoon. I've posted to this list about mailman before, so I dug up those responses and followed there advice, setting the mail ID to the daemon's gid in the ebuild and setting the VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW = OFF in mm_cfg.py. I set up a test list and went out to the website to subscribe myself to it. It said that my subscription was successful, but I never got any kind of welcome message in evolution, or even a notice that someone had subscribed (the address I subscribed to the Test list from was the same as what I gave as the owner of the list). I searched the logs, and the only thing somewhat out of the ordinary I found was this: Mar 3 16:34:17 bullet sm-mta[31393]: j23MXBTH031209: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], delay=00:00:22, xdelay=00:00:21, mailer=local, pri=140918, relay=local, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent I don't have a mailman.log file or even a mail.log - I get everything out of /var/log/messages unless it would be in the apache2 logs, but I checked there and didn't see anything that seemed relevent. Another problem I have that's related to mailman is the apache2 setup of mailman. This morning I followed the HowTo at gentoo.wiki.com to set up apache with mod_php. PHP was working until I added the -D MAILMAN to /etc/conf.d/apache2 This is how I have it now: APACHE2_OPTS=-D PHP4 APACHE2_OPTS=-D MAILMAN It's on two lines, and I think the second line is overriding the first. Originally I had it on one line: APACHE2_OPTS=-D PHP4 -D MAILMAN APACHE2_OPTS=-D PHP4 -D PYTHON works for me so you were right but then when I went to restart apache2 it wouldn't restart. It kept failing. What is the proper syntax for the APACHE2_OPT lines? yep APACHE2_OPTS=-D PHP4 alone work for you ? repeat with only MAILMAN + look at /var/log/apache2/error_log + look at the output of: # /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -D PHP4 -D MAILMAN -- No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. ~ Charles M. Schulz But sometimes run fast is better ~ Francesco R. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME Volume Hotkeys (or how to set what my master volume control actually increases/decreases...)
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 08:53 -0600, Keith Gable wrote: I noticed a key in gconf. It's something like /apps/panel/profiles/default/applet.4/preferences/channel (or something to that effect, I have no idea what it actually is [snip] I had a play around, and it looks like its the settings for the volume control applet on the gnome panel. Right click on this applet to bring up preferences, then you can select which chanel the applet controls. (You'll notice the value in gconf-editor changing as well). I use this applet to control my volume, because I can't get the keys working properly - its second best though as I have to move the mouse to the applet, etc. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fsck
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, pepone pepone wrote: I use jfs for my home partition and if mount fails i want to aumatic run fsck maybe i need same expecial option in fstab? /dev/hdc5 /home/peponejfs noatime Normally checkfs runs fsck BEFORE mounting a file system (file systems need to be unmounted for fsck to work on them), so your system probably already does this. In the old days this would be similar to the preen options which do some light cleanup of file systems. You can also force a full fsck every time you boot by creating the file /forcefsck (e.g. touch /forcefsck) when shutting down - the next time you restart it will do a full fsck of all disks. -- A. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 6 gigs to clean up
Firstly let me thank everbody for their responses. By snapshot (please excuse me, I am a noobie), do you mean have the system regenerate a snapshot of where the system is today. So that if I were to a merge --newuse world, only the active packages in use as of today would be rebuilt. Or I just totally lost somewhere out in left field? Dave Nebinger wrote: To 'clean' your /usr/portage directory you could try removing the whole thing then drop a snapshot in place. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdeenablefinal
On 2005-03-03 11:01:29 -0400 (Thu, Mar), Arran Fraser wrote: So is the heavy mem usage only during compilation, or do the compilation speedups result in programs that use lots of memory? AFAIK it affect only compilation time. Last time I was using it, heavy mem usage was not noticeable for me having 512 RAM. I was happily working in KDE during compilation. The compilation time reduction was impressing: * kde-base/kdeedu Thu Jul 29 23:46:39 2004 kde-base/kdeedu-3.2.3 merge time: 1 hour, 4 minutes and 18 seconds. Sun Sep 12 22:19:18 2004 kde-base/kdeedu-3.3.0 merge time: 1 hour, 35 minutes and 32 seconds. Fri Nov 12 06:01:36 2004 kde-base/kdeedu-3.3.1 merge time: 1 hour, 43 minutes and 41 seconds. Mon Jan 3 02:35:19 2005 kde-base/kdeedu-3.3.2 merge time: 4 hours, 9 minutes and 4 seconds. Mon Feb 21 01:57:37 2005 kde-base/kdeedu-3.3.2-r1 merge time: 39 minutes and 37 seconds. -- $ ls -lart /bin/ls: you must be root to use LART pgptCyHbHDgZO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 6 gigs to clean up
George Roberts wrote: Firstly let me thank everbody for their responses. By snapshot (please excuse me, I am a noobie), do you mean have the system regenerate a snapshot of where the system is today. So that if I were to a merge --newuse world, only the active packages in use as of today would be rebuilt. Or I just totally lost somewhere out in left field? No, what is meant is a Portage snapshot, such as the one used when installing without a network connection. Quote: Installing a Portage Snapshot and Source Code from LiveCD There is a Portage snapshot available on the Universal LiveCDs. Since you are reading this, we can safely assume you are using such a LiveCD. To install this snapshot, take a look inside /mnt/cdrom/snapshots/ to see what snapshot we have available: /endquote Snapshots can also be downloaded from the Internet, for example from ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo/snapshots/ So basically, if you just wipe the Portage directory, a snapshot allows you to start clean, if you would find that useful. Many of us find it sufficient to just delete the contents of /usr/portage/distfiles. Ebuilds themselves don't take up much space. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fsck
On Thursday 03 March 2005 23:05, A. Khattri wrote: You can also force a full fsck every time you boot by creating the file /forcefsck (e.g. touch /forcefsck) when shutting down - the next time you restart it will do a full fsck of all disks. Not quite. You need to set the last field of each partition line in fstab to a number greater than 1, otherwise the forcefsck won't touch them. -- Mike Williams pgpPxWW5RLLAe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] 6 gigs to clean up
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:32:29 -0700 George Roberts wrote: Firstly let me thank everbody for their responses. By snapshot (please excuse me, I am a noobie), do you mean have the system regenerate a snapshot of where the system is today. no a snapshot is a tarball of the /usr/portage directory made at a certain point in time, and not including the distfiles or packages subdirectories. What the poster was saying was that if you want to completely clean out /usr/portage, then delete it and install a (recent) snapshot, then you have what portage provides and only what portage provides. I am not sure I agree that that is a good idea, just trying to explain what was posted earlier. So that if I were to a merge --newuse world, only the active packages in use as of today would be rebuilt. Or I just totally lost somewhere out in left field? Dave Nebinger wrote: To 'clean' your /usr/portage directory you could try removing the whole thing then drop a snapshot in place. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor Christchurch http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 6 gigs to clean up
Holly Bostick wrote: George Roberts wrote: Firstly let me thank everbody for their responses. By snapshot (please excuse me, I am a noobie), do you mean have the system regenerate a snapshot of where the system is today. So that if I were to a merge --newuse world, only the active packages in use as of today would be rebuilt. Or I just totally lost somewhere out in left field? No, what is meant is a Portage snapshot, such as the one used when installing without a network connection. Quote: Installing a Portage Snapshot and Source Code from LiveCD There is a Portage snapshot available on the Universal LiveCDs. Since you are reading this, we can safely assume you are using such a LiveCD. To install this snapshot, take a look inside /mnt/cdrom/snapshots/ to see what snapshot we have available: /endquote Snapshots can also be downloaded from the Internet, for example from ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo/snapshots/ So basically, if you just wipe the Portage directory, a snapshot allows you to start clean, if you would find that useful. Many of us find it sufficient to just delete the contents of /usr/portage/distfiles. Ebuilds themselves don't take up much space. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Oh ok, got it now. Thanks. Sometimes I forget the KISS principle. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] events/1 hogs 99.9% CPU in 2.6.10 kernel w/SATA!
Hello, I'm having a problem with two machines I admin. Both are running identical 2.6.10 kernels: Linux rhea 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 #1 SMP Mon Feb 21 16:54:22 EST 2005 i686 Pentium II(Deschutes) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux One is an SMP machine, and the other is not (but runs an SMP kernel). This problem showed up on my non SMP machine even before it was running an SMP kernel, so I'm ruling out SMP. Here's the CPU hog from `top`: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 7 root 15 -10 000 R 99.9 0.0 312:26.32 events/1 And here it is from `ps`: # ps auxwww | grep event root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?D 13:19 0:00 [events/0] root 7 94.9 0.0 0 0 ?R 13:19 316:49 [events/1] The *only* similarity between these two machines that I can think of is the fact that they both run SATA drives with the libata driver. One is a P4, one is a dual CPU P2. They're very different machines. If I try to shut the machine down when it is in this state, it hangs after it saves the random seed data. Has anyone seen this before? Does anyone else run SATA via libata on a 2.6.10 kernel without this problem? How do I fix it? -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] configuration nvidia TNT2 m64
Why, As I'm aware, the nvidia-kernel doesn't suport anymore old card. So I've a problem, because I have an nvidia m64. I heared that I could use nv Driver, and that's what I'm doing, but until now the maximum that I could do was getting some graphics were I can use the mouse and nothing more. Can anyone send the configuration file for this card. That is, can anyone send the script for xorg.conf to get this car working? I would apreciate. Pedro Sousa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] small fonts in Evolution reply after recent upgrade
When I hit reply to text email in Evolution my font are smaller then usual after recent upgrade. Does anybody knows what is causing it? Is it worth switching to Thunderbird? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Where is (and how do I read) root's mail?
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:54:34PM -0700, Scott Taylor wrote The ssmtp package sets up a simplistic mail relay that'll allow local apps to send mail to localhost and ssmtp just forwards it to a real mail server somewhere else. But you'll need to tell even it where to send your root emails. Booby trap alert. ssmtp can install a symlink as /usr/sbin/sendmail which points back to /usr/sbin/ssmtp. I did that once... and chatty cron jobs sent their emails to root. sendmail forwarded them to my smarthost, i.e. my ISP's MTA. It in turn forwarded the emails to root@ my ISP. I got a polite email from my ISP asking me to stop thatg. That's been my most embarressing moment as a user. I solved that by setting root=waltdnes. As a safety measure, I also deleted the sendmail symlink. This is where I learned about apps that *WILL NOT BUILD* if they can't find sendmail. Surprisingly, mutt builds OK, and I point it to /usr/sbin/ssmtp. The surprises were gnupg and slrn refusing to build when they couldn't find sendmail. In frustration, I went and did... touch /usr/sbin/sendmail chmod 755 /usr/sbin/sendmail chattr +i /usr/sbin/sendmail The presence of a zero-byte executable called /usr/sbin/sendmail gave gpg and slrn the necessary warm fuzzies to build on my system. While we're on the subject of ssmtp, I own my personal domain, and use several names @waltdnes.org (including postmaster and abuse) which are forwarded to my waltdnes account. It seems that ssmtp absolutely *INSISTS* on setting the From: to useraccount@, regardless of what I set the From: to in mutt. The only override I've managed to find is revaliases. It's somewhat clunky having to su - and edit revaliases to answer an email to one of my other aliases. Is there a glaringly obvious easier way that I've missed somewhere? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure, and has a lower TCO, than linux. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge fails finding jdk
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:19:46PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Did you emerge a java and then run the java config? Check the Gentoo site for docs on setting up the java. Does OO *NEED* Java? And if so, why? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure, and has a lower TCO, than linux. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 6 gigs to clean up
To add to this, many updates are released as a patch to the existing source, so again, an upgrade without the source will require it to be downloaded - again. There are utilities (search the forums) that will clean distfiles, limiting it to only the installed sources - these usually work well. However, unless space is critical I would leave them there. Unless you are on a low cost, mega fast link having the sources already available speeds things up a lot. Alternatives are burn them to cdrom, put them on a remote nfs mount etc. BillK On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 23:11 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: George Roberts wrote: I am wondering is there any places where Portage stashes files that it has downloaded /usr/portage/distfiles. This can always be safely deleted, although doing so will mean that you will have to re-download the source files if you ever need to reinstall any of the programs you have currently installed. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] small fonts in Evolution reply after recent upgrade
El 04/03/05 00:56:21, Joseph escribió: When I hit reply to text email in Evolution my font are smaller then usual after recent upgrade. Does anybody knows what is causing it? Is it worth switching to Thunderbird? are you using evolution outside of gnome, i've got to start gnome- settings-daemon in fluxbox to get correct size of fonts in evolution... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] small fonts in Evolution reply after recent upgrade
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 23:12 +, rodrigo wrote: El 04/03/05 00:56:21, Joseph escribió: When I hit reply to text email in Evolution my font are smaller then usual after recent upgrade. Does anybody knows what is causing it? Is it worth switching to Thunderbird? are you using evolution outside of gnome, i've got to start gnome- settings-daemon in fluxbox to get correct size of fonts in evolution... Yes, I'm using Evolution with KDE. The font got considerably smaller but my eyes are not getting any better; so it is annoying. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub-install failure
Yes; since when is /boot on /dev/hda? Did you move your WinXP drive (which you said was /dev/hda, and does not contain a /boot directory, afaik) to another slot on the IDE cable and re-swap your Linux drive to the primary master? I was hoping for something like my previous system where XP would boot but give me a choice between XP, the master, and two other linuxes, slack and ubuntu, each on a seperate, slave drive. I had already copied over to C:\ the first 512 bytes of each seperate drive and edited my boot.ini file accordingly. I merely scrolled to whatever OS I wanted. If one of the linuxes was chosen the lilo on the appropriate slave would start. It was simply a matter of popping the two other drives in and out. -mw __ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 6 gigs to clean up
Thanks again to all that have helped me. After following your instructions I have dropped from over 6 gigs down to 3.8 gigs, which seems to be a more reasonable figure to me. I am on a cable connection so re-downloading is not a major issue with me. My distfiles had grown to 1.2 gigs, and yes also there were some failed emerge packages. Backing up to cds is always a good idea. This sets my deranged mind to wondering, is there a howto setup for how to screw up my system and bring it back to the stable point simply working from backups? W.Kenworthy wrote: To add to this, many updates are released as a patch to the existing source, so again, an upgrade without the source will require it to be downloaded - again. There are utilities (search the forums) that will clean distfiles, limiting it to only the installed sources - these usually work well. However, unless space is critical I would leave them there. Unless you are on a low cost, mega fast link having the sources already available speeds things up a lot. Alternatives are burn them to cdrom, put them on a remote nfs mount etc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] BillK On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 23:11 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: George Roberts wrote: I am wondering is there any places where Portage stashes files that it has downloaded /usr/portage/distfiles. This can always be safely deleted, although doing so will mean that you will have to re-download the source files if you ever need to reinstall any of the programs you have currently installed. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub-install failure
Had the same problem. Have you forgotten to mount /proc before chroot:ing? (That peice is hidden a little earlier in the handbook). I mounted it. I followed the instructions in the FAQ re a kernel recompile in a broken system. Only I did a grub-install instead. -mw __ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] linux-2.6.11 is out
Chris Cox wrote: Put the following in your /etc/portage/package.mask (create the file if it doesn't exist) : =media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629 =media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.6629 Then emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx and try this version of the nvidia driver. All versions above nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r3 do not work for me. So I finally just excepted that fact and masked everything =1.0.6629. Thanks, but I've already added those to my package.mask, but the 1.0-6111 nVidia kernel module refuses to compile on 2.6.11 and most its the release candidates for me. I'm ok with it though. I rarely play games and I have no need for hardware which can only work with proprietary drivers. Is it idealistic? Very. Is it impractical? Probably to some. The less proprietary software I use the better. Coincidentally, I haven't had X hardlock on me for quite some time now... ;-) Thanks anyway though. :-) -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key ID: 0x109DBECE GPG Key Fingerprint (SHA1): E485 E2F7 11CE F9B2 E3D9 C95D 208F B732 109D BECE Encrypted and/or Signed correspondence preffered. GPG Public Key available upon request or from pgp.mit.edu's public key server. --- signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] configuration nvidia TNT2 m64
I have the same card. It's a Riva TNT2 M64, 2x AGP. 32 MB (ELSA ERAZOR III LT). I can send you my xorg.conf if you'd like. -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key ID: 0x109DBECE GPG Key Fingerprint (SHA1): E485 E2F7 11CE F9B2 E3D9 C95D 208F B732 109D BECE Encrypted and/or Signed correspondence preffered. GPG Public Key available upon request or from pgp.mit.edu's public key server. --- signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] grub-install failure
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:40:56 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Had the same problem. Have you forgotten to mount /proc before chroot:ing? (That peice is hidden a little earlier in the handbook). I mounted it. I followed the instructions in the FAQ re a kernel recompile in a broken system. Only I did a grub-install instead. OK, review time per the handbook. 1) You've booted from an emergency system 2) you've mounted your gentoo root partition 3) you've mounted your gentoo boot partion 4) you've mounted /proc 5) you've done chroot, env-update, source /etc/profile 6) you've determined that /mnt/gentoo/boot/grub does contain the grub stage files and a valid grub.conf 7) grub root (hdx,y) - specs for your boot partition (should get feedback on partition type) setup (hd0) - the first disk (should get feedback about finding all the files and success) quit What are the results of this operation for you? Specific messages please. -- Collins -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge fails finding jdk
From what I've seen OOo will use java. In the windows install it was optional - I could skip it. On Gentoo maybe using -java or someother flag will disable it. On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:19:46PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Did you emerge a java and then run the java config? Check the Gentoo site for docs on setting up the java. Does OO *NEED* Java? And if so, why? -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge
Neil Bothwick, who happens to be smarter than you, thinks: On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:22:03 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Also, eix is newer and ~x86 only, IIRC. It's not only ~x86, it's ~x86, ~amd64, ~alpha, ~ia64, ~ppc and ~sparc. However, as good as eix is, it won't help in this case because it cannot search categories. esearch will. emerge esearch eupdatedb (this is the part that is slower than eix) esearch -F net-analyzer Using Ebuild IndeX Version 0.2.1 % eix -A net-analyzer do the same ;-) ot And also faster x-D [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ time esearch -F net-analyzer /dev/null real0m0.350s user0m0.100s sys 0m0.014s [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ time eix -A net-analyzer /dev/null real0m0.059s user0m0.038s sys 0m0.002s (Come on, who cares about milisecs? :P) /ot -- Will it improve my CASH FLOW? pgpXRtogLEZ9s.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] fsck
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 23:50 +, Mike Williams wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 23:05, A. Khattri wrote: You can also force a full fsck every time you boot by creating the file /forcefsck (e.g. touch /forcefsck) when shutting down - the next time you restart it will do a full fsck of all disks. Not quite. You need to set the last field of each partition line in fstab to a number greater than 1, otherwise the forcefsck won't touch them. however, while looking into this, (because I noticed I haven't ever seen the filesystem check when I shutdown uncleanly) I found in /etc/init.d/checkfs: fsck -C -T -R -A -a now I'm happy with all of that except the -R, according to man fsck: -R When checking all file systems with the -A flag, skip the root file system (in case it's already mounted read-write). Am I right when I read this as don't even bother to try to check the root fs? Shouldn't it be rather try to check the root fs unless its mounted read-write? any thoughts? -- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub-install failure
What are the results of this operation for you? Specific messages please. YIPPEE! all is cool 8-) Nobody's suggestions worked. I tried every possible combination of hdx with the same result: /boot or /boot/boot or //boot (or some others I don't recall): Not found or not a block device. So I just used lilo. I edited lilo.conf as if /dev/hdb was my only drive and reduced the pause time to zero secs. I did dd if=/dev/hdb1 bs=512 count=1 onto a floppy as gentoo.bin, booted XP and copied it to C:\. Then I edited my boot.ini adding the line C:\gentoo.bin=Gentoo. Now XP boots and gives me a choice. A simple click, and awaaay we go. Now lessee, how do I get rid of grub? -mw __ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] search emerge
On Friday 04 March 2005 05:05, Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3) wrote: emerge esearch eupdatedb (this is the part that is slower than eix) esearch -F net-analyzer Using Ebuild IndeX Version 0.2.1 % eix -A net-analyzer do the same ;-) and with esync all you have to do is: esync and you will rsync+update the easearch db + shows all newupdated ebuilds... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fsck
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Iain Buchanan wrote: however, while looking into this, (because I noticed I haven't ever seen the filesystem check when I shutdown uncleanly) I found in /etc/init.d/checkfs: fsck -C -T -R -A -a now I'm happy with all of that except the -R, according to man fsck: -R When checking all file systems with the -A flag, skip the root file system (in case it's already mounted read-write). Am I right when I read this as don't even bother to try to check the root fs? Shouldn't it be rather try to check the root fs unless its mounted read-write? Think about this - if the checkfs script is running then root must already be mounted. You shouldn't (can't?) fsck a mounted fs. Also if you look at the startup scripts you will see that checkroot runs BEFORE checkfs so the root file system has already been fsck'ed at that point by the checkroot script. -- AK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How emerge keeps track of what files need to be copied?
On Friday 25 February 2005 07:26, Francisco Figueiredo Jr. wrote:
Hi all,
After using sometime emerge, I noticed that it first compiles the
programs to somedir/work temp dir and later copy contents to the real
prefix /
Does emerge uses that procedure to be able to keep track of what files
need to be copied to /prefix?
Does it uses this information too to know what files need to be deleted
when I emerge -C?
Just to confirm, if I did a ebuild which compiles files a.blah and
b.blah and copies them to /usr/bin when I emerge -C emerge will know it
needs to delete a.blah and b.blah?
NB: I am not an ebuild writer, but I have played with them on occasion, and I
have read the docs.
That said,
Here's how it works:
The ebuild unpacks the source into ${WORKDIR}
(/var/tmp/portage/foo-x.y.z/work)
The ebuild compiles the source in ${WORKDIR}.
Portage creates ${DESTDIR} (/var/tmp/portage/foo-x.y.z/image)
The ebuild installs the compiled package, not into /, but ${DESTDIR}
(i.e. /usr/bin/foo would actually be installed into ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin/foo).
Portage then copies the contents of ${DESTDIR} into /, recording the file
path, timestamps and an md5sum of each file as it goes.
emerge -C just takes this list, and deletes every file in the list where
(1) the timestamps match
(2) the md5sum matches
(3) the file is not CONFIG_PROTECTed
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[gentoo-user] Apache + PHP5
Hi. I have been using apache-2.0.52-r2 and PHP5 for a while... Recently upgraded to apache-2.0.52-r3 and moved all the configs to the httpd.conf However, I cannot get PHP5 to work... All browsers try to download the file, rather than display it... What could be wrong? I have included what I think are the relant sections of my config files... Any pointers / help very much appreciated. - /etc/apache2/httpd.conf-- Include conf/modules.d/*.conf --- - /etc/conf.d/apache2 - APACHE2_OPTS=-D PHP5 -D SSL -D DOC --- - /etc/apache2/modules.d/70_mod_php5.conf - IfDefine PHP5 # Load the module first IfModule !sapi_apache2.c LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so /IfModule # Set it to handle the files IfModule mod_mime.c AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3 AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4 AddType application/x-httpd-php .php5 AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps /IfModule /IfDefine --- -- Ash Varma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stewie Griffin: It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] glsa-check - is it any good?
I keep my systems reasonably up to date and kind of assume that regular syncing and updating will keep it safe. However today I started looking at glsa-check, just to suss it out. However either I am doing something wrong, or it is stupid. For example GLSA 200502-09 relates to python. It says that the problem is solved if python is =2.3.4-r1. I have 2.3.4-r1 installed. However glsa -t 200502-09 tells me that the glsa applies to my system. There are several other similar examples. [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ glsa-check -d 200502-09 WARNING: This tool is completely new and not very tested, so it should not be used on production systems. It's mainly a test tool for the new GLSA release and distribution system, it's functionality will later be merged into emerge and equery. Please read http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/glsa-integration.xml before using this tool AND before reporting a bug. GLSA 200502-09: Python: Arbitrary code execution through SimpleXMLRPCServer Synopsis: Python-based XML-RPC servers may be vulnerable to remote execution of arbitrary code. Announced on: February 08, 2005 Last revised on: February 08, 2005: 01 Affected package: dev-lang/python Affected archs:All Vulnerable:=2.3.4 Unaffected:=2.3.4-r1 =~2.3.3-r2 =~2.2.3-r6 Related bugs: 80592 Background:Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, cross-platform programming language. Description: Graham Dumpleton discovered that XML-RPC servers making use of the SimpleXMLRPCServer library that use the register_instance() method to register an object without a _dispatch() method are vulnerable to a flaw allowing to read or modify globals of the associated module. Impact:A remote attacker may be able to exploit the flaw in such XML-RPC servers to execute arbitrary code on the server host with the rights of the XML-RPC server. Workaround:Python users that don't make use of any SimpleXMLRPCServer-based XML-RPC servers, or making use of servers using only the register_function() method are not affected. Resolution:All Python users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose dev-lang/python References: CAN-2005-0089: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0089 Python PSF-2005-001: http://www.python.org/security/PSF-2005-001/ -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How emerge keeps track of what files need to be copied?
It also will not delete a directory if it isn't empty.
The rest is spot-on though.
John Myers wrote:
NB: I am not an ebuild writer, but I have played with them on occasion, and I
have read the docs.
That said,
Here's how it works:
The ebuild unpacks the source into ${WORKDIR}
(/var/tmp/portage/foo-x.y.z/work)
The ebuild compiles the source in ${WORKDIR}.
Portage creates ${DESTDIR} (/var/tmp/portage/foo-x.y.z/image)
The ebuild installs the compiled package, not into /, but ${DESTDIR}
(i.e. /usr/bin/foo would actually be installed into ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin/foo).
Portage then copies the contents of ${DESTDIR} into /, recording the file
path, timestamps and an md5sum of each file as it goes.
emerge -C just takes this list, and deletes every file in the list where
(1) the timestamps match
(2) the md5sum matches
(3) the file is not CONFIG_PROTECTed
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Re: [gentoo-user] System has UTC, where I want EST
I think it does, doesn't it? On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:25:32 -0500, Bradley Serbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /etc/localtime should be linked to a file in /usr/share/zoneinfo that corresponds to your local time. Dave Nebinger wrote: What is /etc/localtime linked to? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mod_jk ebuild?
On 2005-03-03 12:53:36 -0500, Covington, Chris wrote: Is there an ebuild for mod_jk now that mod_jk2 is unsupported? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19094 I've successfully used the 1.2.6 ebuild, but haven't tried 1.2.8 yet. Add it to your overlay and give it a try. -- Daniel Westermann-Clark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
