Re: [gentoo-user] help line 6: B: command not found
Dave writes: I also get this when booting in the middle of the normal service startup messages: /sbin/rc: line 6: B: command not found Did you perhaps edit this file, maybe using etc-update and interactive merge? These are the first lines of my file: #!/bin/bash # Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc. # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/sbin/rc,v 1.80 2004/04/25 22:31:48 agriffis Exp $ trap : INT QUIT TSTP No B supposed to be there. Do you have it there? You can probably delete or comment this line then. Alex -- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key available [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo hates my hard drive
DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) is a standalone tool which can boot from CD-R to wipe a hard drive. -Original Message- From: Colin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 11:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo hates my hard drive Phil Sexton wrote: On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 22:32, Colin wrote: Well, I finally fixed that annoying kernel panic problem and got Gentoo to boot on my computer! I fixed it by removing the hard drive that I had planned to install Gentoo on. The kernel booted perfectly. Whenever I put the hard drive back in, though, I get the Attempted to kill init kernel panic. So I'm still in a quandry. Any guessed as to why Gentoo doesn't like my hard drive (Seagate Barracuda ST360021A, 60.0 GB IDE)? Has that drive ever had a Microsoft filesystem on it? I had a drive I had to zero out before it would partition and format correctly in Linux. It would cause all sorts of mysterious errors before I zeroed out the drive. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdX bs=512 I put the three Linux partitions on it and a 1 GB FAT32 at the end of the disk in Windows with PartitionMagic 8. I'll zero it out, but it will have to be done in Windows, because I can't boot Linux with it in. -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Securing files in a USB stick
I use AxCrypt for my USB FOB on windows. Just double-click a file, enter a
passphrase (which I make fairly long) and the file decrypts temporarily
while open. Dunno if there is a version for linux or not.
- Alex
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From: Andrew Cowie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 9:58 PM
To: gentoo-user
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Securing files in a USB stick
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 17:54 +0100, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote:
I would like to put some sensitive information in my USB stick, so
I can take it with me (ssh private keys,
I had the same issue. I travel a *lot*, and so sooner or later a hard drive
will die, or a laptop will get stolen, or...
So I carry (wear around my neck) a USB key. Whenever I've done more than a
few lines of work on something, I just simple copy it onto the usbkey
- a draft document, some source code - no big deal.
But corporate documents, my archive of presentations, my web site code and
source code-in-progress, taken together, that certainly needs to be
encrypted.
Use GPG and encrypt the files.
So a few months ago, I wrote something to make tarballs of important
hierarchies in my home directory and then sign/encrypt them, and then push
them to { usbkey | remote server }. I just use standard GPG encryption with
myself as the recipient.
That, of course, implies I have my private key to decrypt those tarballs...
I've been reading a bit about GPG (I haven't used it before) and it
seems ... only difference between them seem to be that GPG trust is
based on a decentralized web of trust
[ remember that trust is irrelevant if you are using asymmetric encryption
when sending something to yourself - you by definition have the private
half of the your own key pair. (In GPG terms, that's ultimate trust) ]
I guess in this case I should include the private key as a unencrypted
file in my USB stick and protect it with a good password, as it will
be used whenever I need to decrypt any file. Am I right?
Even more important than all the documents and what-not are my ssh keys and
pgp keys + trustdb. Naturally, if I'm storing those against the possibility
of loosing my machine (naturally causes or otherwise), using asymmetric
encryption is no good because I wouldn't have the private key available to
recover the data!
So, as suggested elsewhere in this thread, I store the private crypto
information in a separate tarball which I encrypt using gpg's symmetric
facility.
++
Naturally, a script to do all this is a natural idea. Well, I wrote one, and
it got out of hand. :) You're welcome to use it. It's called geode.
http://www.operationaldynamics.com/reference/software/scripts/#geode
[You'll need to customize it a bit, as it's obviously specific to my paths
and usage cases]
If nothing else it's a good example of how to use some of the more obscure
gpg options.
It's also a good example of how to use zenity (a little command line
front-end for creating GTK dialog boxes). I used it to ask for the pass
phrases and to pop up a progress bar of how far it has worked through the
.tar.bz2 creation.
AfC
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[gentoo-user] Portage broken by emerge --sync
I was runnning a emerge --sync and portage died at the end: deleting app-accessibility/gnome-mag/files/digest-gnome-mag-0.11.11 deleting app-accessibility/gnome-mag/files/digest-gnome-mag-0.10.4 Number of files: 113281 Number of files transferred: 2980 Total file size: 88664800 bytes Total transferred file size: 5950431 bytes Literal data: 5950431 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 2551394 Total bytes written: 59781 Total bytes read: 8636699 wrote 59781 bytes read 8636699 bytes 80897.49 bytes/sec total size is 88664800 speedup is 10.20 Updating Portage cache: 100% Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2005 (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move' s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*' [EMAIL PROTECTED] (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 2630, in ? reload(portage) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 7241, in ? do_upgrade(mykey) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 7132, in do_upgrade db[/][vartree].dbapi.move_ent(mysplit) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 4555, in move_ent fixdbentries(origcp, newcp, pkgdir) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 3837, in fixdbentries f = open(dbdir+/+myfile, r) IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory And now everything falls over. Is there a known problem and a way to fix this? -- Alex Bennee [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple physical consoles
I think you'll need to actually start two X servers, one for each of the video cards. How the kbd and mouse get mapped I don't know but there will probably to be separate X configurations for each server and maybe the input devices can be specified there. The last I looked at running X was a lng time ago. - Alex -Original Message- From: Bill Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 6:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiple physical consoles On 23:38 Fri 04 Mar , James Colannino wrote: Sami Samhuri wrote: There's at least one interested person... Well then, I'll let you know what happens :) Here's a neat little trick I learned on this list a couple of days ago that might help. If you open up a second console by doing ctrl-alt F2, login as a second user, and type startx -- :1 or, in my case, I'm using xfce: startxfce4 -- :1 you'll find that you have two X sessions for two separate users, one on ctrl-alt F7 and one on ctrl-alt F8. Now the question is, how to get each session going in a separate monitor, controlled by separate keyboard/mouse. Haven't done the two monitor thing, I'll have to leave that for you. Bill Roberts -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311?
Here is a follow up. I could not get any tulip-based driver to recognize the FA311. I did a web search and found that the tulip driver supported FA310 cards, but the chipset was changed on the FA311 and the natsemi driver is required instead. Funny, the Netgear driver on the CD has yet a different name, so I suspect something is different from the stock natsemi driver. Going back to the natsemi driver, I was able to get some communication through after several attempts - almost like some kind of delay caused by misconfiguration which eventually fixed itself. However even after getting pings and dns requests through, I was still seeing the eth0: PIC error 0x80 message come up repeatedly. And not getting communication working right away makes me suspicious that there could be other hidden problems. I will work towards installing a 2.4 kernel to see if the natsemi driver works any better. If not, I'll try building and configuring the Netgear driver. Are 2.4 ethernet drivers supposed to work with 2.6 kernels, or is some modification required to accomplish that? If I find out no mods are required, I could try compiling the 2.6 kernel with the Netgear driver first to stay with the 2.6 kernels. As I write this I'm thinking I should probably be looking for info at kernel.org or some kernel mailing list instead of bothering you guys with the questions here. Just wanted to keep you all up-to-date. BTW, this is a lower priority project for me. Thanks for your help so far, - Alex -Original Message- From: Alex Stagg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311? Sorry, I also forgot to mention that although I've used RH and debian in the past, I'm a newbee to gentoo and I'm not sure how to use the tulip driver instead of the natsemi driver during the install. But I'll try to somehow deactivate the device, rmmod, insmod and reactivate it. - Alex -Original Message- From: Christopher Fisk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311? On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Alex Stagg wrote: I think the NIC is good - it is brand new. Sorry I forgot to mention that I have WinNT4 installed on another partition with the Netgear driver and I have no networking problems (no symptoms, also checked the event logs) when running that. I dunno if it sill applies these days but I also tried changed the machine's BIOS settting for an other OS (the other option for that is a Windows OS). It used to be this kind of thing had to be set for the PCI bus to get set up by the BIOS. I think I tried it both ways. This is an older machine (400Mhz AMD K6). Did using the tulip driver help? Christopher Fisk -- A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center. -- Homer Simpson, Lisa the Greek -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311?
I have a universal live CD 2004.3. When I boot it detects my FA311 card and configures the natsemi driver for it, but when traffic is attempted I get lots of messages eth0: PCI error 0x80 and nothing gets through. The Netgear CD only has drivers for 2.2 and 2.4 kernels (a different driver than natsemi). Will I need to install everything from CD and then build a 2.4 kernel with the Netgear driver or is there another way to get this running? - Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311?
I think the NIC is good - it is brand new. Sorry I forgot to mention that I have WinNT4 installed on another partition with the Netgear driver and I have no networking problems (no symptoms, also checked the event logs) when running that. I dunno if it sill applies these days but I also tried changed the machine's BIOS settting for an other OS (the other option for that is a Windows OS). It used to be this kind of thing had to be set for the PCI bus to get set up by the BIOS. I think I tried it both ways. This is an older machine (400Mhz AMD K6). - Alex -Original Message- From: Christopher Fisk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 9:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311? On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Alex Stagg wrote: I have a universal live CD 2004.3. When I boot it detects my FA311 card and configures the natsemi driver for it, but when traffic is attempted I get lots of messages eth0: PCI error 0x80 and nothing gets through. The Netgear CD only has drivers for 2.2 and 2.4 kernels (a different driver than natsemi). Will I need to install everything from CD and then build a 2.4 kernel with the Netgear driver or is there another way to get this running? You can also try the tulip driver. If it still doesn't work I would verify that the NIC is good. The FA series of cards are extremely well supported under linux. I've been using them since the 2.2 series of kernel. Christopher Fisk -- Calculon: I'm programmed to be very busy. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311?
Sorry, I also forgot to mention that although I've used RH and debian in the past, I'm a newbee to gentoo and I'm not sure how to use the tulip driver instead of the natsemi driver during the install. But I'll try to somehow deactivate the device, rmmod, insmod and reactivate it. - Alex -Original Message- From: Christopher Fisk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311? On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Alex Stagg wrote: I think the NIC is good - it is brand new. Sorry I forgot to mention that I have WinNT4 installed on another partition with the Netgear driver and I have no networking problems (no symptoms, also checked the event logs) when running that. I dunno if it sill applies these days but I also tried changed the machine's BIOS settting for an other OS (the other option for that is a Windows OS). It used to be this kind of thing had to be set for the PCI bus to get set up by the BIOS. I think I tried it both ways. This is an older machine (400Mhz AMD K6). Did using the tulip driver help? Christopher Fisk -- A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center. -- Homer Simpson, Lisa the Greek -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Before I run into trouble
Frank writes: I plan to update my gentoo installation this weekend. I rather ask before having trouble. I have Cisco VPN Client installed. I know there is a new version of Cisco VPN client out there which I don't have access to. How can I update my world leaving this package as is? In case you have net-misc/cisco-vpnclient-3des-4.0.5 installed, add the line net-misc/cisco-vpnclient-3des-4.0.5 to /etc/portage/package.mask . This will prevent higher versions from being installed. 'man portage' gives more information. I remember from the past that emerge stops at the point it has problems with a single package so the remaining don't get updated. You can continue afterwards with 'emerge --resume --skipfirst'. When doing huge updates while being away from the computer, I do it like this: emerge world -ua || emerge --resume --skipfirst || emerge --resume -- skipfirst || emerge --resume --skipfirst || emerge --resume -- skipfirst || emerge --resume --skipfirst Alex -- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key available [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 with nForce3-250 - Networking Just *Stopped* Working
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 00:09 -0500, Michael Haan wrote: New install, roughly a week old. Running 2.6.10-rc7 and everything was fine networking wise after initially using gentoo noapic off the cd. Then last night *boom* it just stopped working. I'm getting netconsole: not configured. aborting. I've tried adding noapic pci=noacpi in grub.conf to no avail. Has anyone seen this? I may have. I reported a lock up with forcedeth to lkml (http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg58294.html). Does networking work again if you shutdown and remove all power from the box? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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[gentoo-user] Mouse Problems...
I am being slowly driven insane by my mouse. When in X.org (GNUStep) I am having problems with my mouse losing synchronisation and doing odd stuff (randomly moving, selecting, clicking etc). Sometimes (and for varying degrees fo time in both fixing and before it becomes unfixable) I can fix this by removing the psmouse module and reloading it (It is now a mosule to avoid me having to reboot every time it did this). I have tried different mice and different kernels (in kernel and module), but nothing seems to fix this. I have come to the conclusion it's a hardware problem (unless anyone knows of any problems with mice doing this in latest portage (~x86) x.org or GNUStep). I have also noticed that sometimes, when I do have to reboot over this issue, one of my SCSI harddrives is Not Ready (from the Advansys BIOS screen) and I have to leave it for a while before rebooting again. Could this be tied into the problem? If so, I need to remove it from my LVM before I can take it out and was looking to see if anyone had any other ideas before I bring the house down with my screaming. Alex x x -- Website: http://www.penwing.org.uk Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (go look at http://www.jabber.org) ICQ: 92075277 (if you must) Linux User: 360012 6Music Addict - http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] file preview in KDE's open file dialog
On Monday 07 February 2005 02:39, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: somehow I managed to disable file preview (for images, pdfs etc.) in my KDE setup. I remember there was a preview pane on the right side of any open file dialog in KDE, but now it's gone. Does anybody has an idea how I can get this back? Just press F11 or you can click on the settings icon and enable it again. -- Cheers, Alex pgpo2SP3gG9Mh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many posts do you have saved for this mailing list?
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 00:47, Ian K wrote: If its ok though, how many messages do you have from this list? At the moment, 28,920 -- Cheers, Alex pgpvcqqil7aAr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel,nvidia-kernel/glx upgrade - doom3 broken
On Friday 21 January 2005 12:03, Robert S wrote: snip $ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 doom3 ./doom.x86: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Have you tried running # opengl-update nvidia -- Cheers, Alex pgpp1vJlqOFwG.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] How I broke emerge (failed emerge of glibc)
I created a chroot environment using the stage3 tarball and copied across my make.conf and did: emerge --sync emerge portage Everything was fine up until this point. I then executed an emerge of glibc and left it to build. It failed with: --- /etc/init.d/ /etc/init.d/nscd --- /sbin/ /sbin/ldconfig /sbin/sln Safely unmerging already-installed instance... !!! FAILED prerm: 35584 I then attemed to re-emegre glibc and saw a repeat of the failure I reported before: [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc # emerge glibc Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1 to / [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc # I then rm'd the incomplete glibc and re-extracted the stage tarball et voila: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # rm -rf /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/-MERGING-glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -p vim These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] dev-util/ctags-5.5.4 [ebuild N] sys-libs/gpm-1.20.1 [ebuild N] app-editors/vim-core-6.3-r3 [ebuild N] app-editors/vim-6.3-r2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge vim Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 4) dev-util/ctags-5.5.4 to / Downloading http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/ctags-5.5.4.tar.gz --23:49:46-- http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/ .. .. Everything seems to be working again in the chroot environment. So it seems the incomplete emegre of glib is whats clobbering the system. Is there any debugging infomation people want to work out what went wrong? -- Alex http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge broken?
Jürgen Schinker said: On Mon, January 10, 2005 20:05, Alex Bennee said: emerge managed to get stuck while rebuilding glibc and now I can't do anything with it as it seems to keep exiting before doing anything useful. CAn anyone point me at what might be wrong? I ran it though phython -v and I got: hi I'm new to GENTOO but not new to Linux; got the same problem and can't help... Well I fixed my system by creating a chroot environemnt with the stage tarballs and creating a glibc package with: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # quickpkg glibc An then untarring the resultant tarball on top of my main root filesystem. -- Alex http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge broken?
emerge managed to get stuck while rebuilding glibc and now I can't do anything with it as it seems to keep exiting before doing anything useful. CAn anyone point me at what might be wrong? I ran it though phython -v and I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] glibc # python -v /usr/bin/emerge --newuse world # installing zipimport hook import zipimport # builtin # installed zipimport hook # /usr/lib/python2.3/site.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/site.py import site # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/site.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/os.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/os.py import os # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/os.pyc import posix # builtin # /usr/lib/python2.3/posixpath.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/posixpath.py import posixpath # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/posixpath.pyc snip .. .. # /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_db_flat.pyc matches /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_db_flat.pyimport portage_db_flat # precompiled from /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_db_flat.pyc# /usr/lib/portage/pym/emergehelp.pyc matches /usr/lib/portage/pym/emergehelp.pyimport emergehelp # precompiled from /usr/lib/portage/pym/emergehelp.pyc Calculating world dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 34) sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1 to / # clear __builtin__._ # clear sys.path # clear sys.argv # clear sys.ps1 # clear sys.ps2 # clear sys.exitfunc # clear sys.exc_type # clear sys.exc_value # clear sys.exc_traceback # clear sys.last_type # clear sys.last_value # clear sys.last_traceback # clear sys.path_hooks # clear sys.path_importer_cache # clear sys.meta_path # restore sys.stdin # restore sys.stdout # restore sys.stderr # cleanup __main__ # cleanup[1] random # cleanup[1] gdbm # cleanup[1] sgmllib # cleanup[1] zipimport # cleanup[1] portage_localization # cleanup[1] emergehelp # cleanup[1] output # cleanup[1] cStringIO # cleanup[1] encodings # cleanup[1] warnings # cleanup[1] math # cleanup[1] sre # cleanup[1] portage_db_flat # cleanup[1] sre_constants # cleanup[1] _codecs # cleanup[1] dbm # cleanup[1] portage_const # cleanup[1] posix # cleanup[1] encodings.aliases # cleanup[1] sre_parse # cleanup[1] sre_compile # cleanup[1] _random # cleanup[1] site # cleanup[1] strop # cleanup[1] portage # cleanup[1] portage_db_cpickle # cleanup[1] encodings.ascii # cleanup[1] htmlentitydefs # cleanup[1] portage_dep # cleanup[1] urlparse # cleanup[1] getbinpkg # cleanup[1] formatter # cleanup[1] portage_db_template # cleanup[1] ftplib # cleanup[1] codecs # cleanup[1] traceback # cleanup[1] _sre # cleanup[1] portage_gpg # cleanup[1] cPickle # cleanup[1] copy # cleanup[1] anydbm # cleanup[1] cvstree # cleanup[1] dumbdbm # cleanup[1] xpak # cleanup[1] linecache # cleanup[1] htmllib # cleanup[1] dbhash # cleanup[1] portage_checksum # cleanup[1] base64 # cleanup[1] httplib # cleanup[1] sha # cleanup[1] HTMLParser # cleanup[1] re # cleanup[1] commands # cleanup[1] socket # cleanup[1] _socket # cleanup[1] binascii # cleanup[1] portage_exec # cleanup[1] markupbase # cleanup[1] mimetools # cleanup[1] fchksum # cleanup[1] shutil # cleanup[1] bsddb # cleanup[1] _ssl # cleanup[1] rfc822 # cleanup[1] portage_locks # cleanup[1] portage_file # cleanup[1] tempfile # cleanup[1] resource # cleanup[1] signal # cleanup[1] atexit # cleanup[1] fcntl # cleanup[1] thread # cleanup[1] errno # cleanup[1] types # cleanup[1] _bsddb # cleanup[1] portage_util # cleanup[1] exceptions # cleanup[1] portage_data # cleanup[1] portage_exception # cleanup[1] time # cleanup[1] string # cleanup[1] shlex # cleanup[1] pwd # cleanup[1] grp # cleanup[2] UserDict # cleanup[2] os # cleanup[2] posixpath # cleanup[2] copy_reg # cleanup[2] stat # cleanup[2] os.path # cleanup sys # cleanup __builtin__ # cleanup ints: 175 unfreed ints in 32 out of 317 blocks # cleanup floats: 28 unfreed floats in 1 out of 6 blocks Is there anyway to see what caused it to fail? -- Alex http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge broken?
Alec said: Alex Bennee wrote: emerge managed to get stuck while rebuilding glibc and now I can't do anything with it as it seems to keep exiting before doing anything useful. CAn anyone point me at what might be wrong? I ran it though phython -v and I got: snip If you don't run it through python -v, does it generate a backtrace? If you get can a backtrace out of it file a bug on bugs.gentoo.org and someone will take a look at it. No, its depressingly quite: [EMAIL PROTECTED] glibc # emerge --newuse world Calculating world dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 34) sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1 to / [EMAIL PROTECTED] glibc # Which is why I ran it through python -v to see if I could work out why. Is their an equivilent to rpm -V pkg that I could run to check my emerge install wasn't broken? -- Alec Warner Spartasoft Secretary ( spartasoft.msu.edu ) Junior Computer Science Michigan State University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Alex http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mixer - mic CD are quiet
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 08:23, Goran Kavrecic wrote: I have setup audio some time ago and it was fine until I tried to play a CD - there was no sound. Later again I had problems with the microphone. I added the 'lsmod' output if it helps. What additional info do you need to help me out? root # lsmod Module Size Used byNot tainted floppy 47036 0 (autoclean) serial 49092 0 (autoclean) isa-pnp28100 0 (autoclean) [serial] parport_pc 24520 1 (autoclean) lp 6400 0 (autoclean) parport22720 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] usb-storage55860 0 (unused) uhci 23216 0 (unused) ehci-hcd 13288 0 (unused) ohci1394 15592 0 (unused) ieee1394 29708 0 [ohci1394] snd-pcm-oss34756 0 snd-mixer-oss 10992 1 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-via82xx10912 1 (autoclean) snd-pcm53632 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx] snd-ac97-codec 35992 0 (autoclean) [snd-via82xx] snd-mpu401-uart 2752 0 (autoclean) [snd-via82xx] snd-rawmidi12448 0 (autoclean) [snd-mpu401-uart] snd-page-alloc 5748 0 (autoclean) [snd-via82xx snd-pcm] snd-seq-oss24192 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 3264 0 [snd-seq-oss] snd-seq30448 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-timer 12644 0 [snd-pcm snd-seq] snd-seq-device 3776 0 [snd-rawmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq] snd28260 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-via82xx snd-pcm snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-timer snd-seq-device] soundcore 3364 6 [snd] usbcore55488 1 [usb-storage uhci ehci-hcd] nls_iso8859-1 2780 1 (autoclean) nls_cp437 4316 1 (autoclean) vfat9324 1 (autoclean) fat29816 0 (autoclean) [vfat] sk98lin 125476 1 Regards, Goran -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Have you checked the Master and PCM settings in alsamixer? That usually gets me when I upgrade alsa. Both the Master and PCM channels are muted by default. -- Alex Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ANSoft Computing -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vmware
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 10:26, Scharf Yuval wrote: 0. Bull? Learn some manners, sir. 1. VMware was developed by the company. It is not produced by them. No one produces a software. 2. I never said that it is free. It is not. 3. It is NOT stolen!!! only a physical item can be stolen. 4. If he can't pay the american price that they demand then they are NOT deprived of income. 5. He does have the right to own it. VMware must offer him a price relative to the income in his country. Yuval [snip] 1. VMWare produces the the media that it is distributed on and the manuals that go with it. 2. Agreed. 3. Websters dictionary defines stealing thusly: To take (the property of another) without right or permission. There is no distinction that what is stolen must have physical aspects. 4. True as long as you aren't stealing the product. Once you steal the product, you are depriving them of potential income. They have to raise prices to adjust for the losses from stolen copies. Therefore driving the price even higher. 5. So you believe that we all have the right to own whatever software we claim to want/need? VMWare bases the price of it's products on development and production costs and what the market will bear. It pays US developers in US dollars. How much development would get done if it paid the developers according to your plan? Not enough to keep them with the company, I bet. If you don't like the price of some commercial software, write your own open-source version or find a similar open-source project and help it out. Stealing software is not the answer. -- Alex Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ANSoft Computing -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Can't start MozillaFirebird
Any suggestions? Alex. bash-2.05b# MozillaFirebird /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/mozilla-xremote-client: error while loading shared libraries: libplds4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/mozilla-xremote-client: error while loading shared libraries: libplds4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Unknown error 127 from mozilla-xremote-client bash-2.05b# -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Emerge bootsplash fails....
Hi list again, Just tried to emerge a boot splash and miserably failed. I patched the kernel, tried to recompiled it with bootsplash instructed build-in options, but it dies with the following error message I could gleaned from genkernel.log file. Any suggestions? At least how do I remove the patch that I'd be able to rebuild my kernel for any other reason except this bootsplash? Does emerging other version of bootsplash will help? Alex. ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-xfs-r3/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o init/do_mounts.o --start-group arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/m$ drivers/video/video.o(.text+0x36e7): In function `fbcon_setup': : undefined reference to `con_remap_def_color' drivers/video/video.o(.text+0xcb8e): In function `splash_recolor': : undefined reference to `con_remap_def_color' drivers/video/video.o(.text+0xcc77): In function `splash_status': : undefined reference to `con_remap_def_color' drivers/video/video.o(.text+0xccd8): In function `splash_status': : undefined reference to `con_remap_def_color' make[1]: *** [kallsyms] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-xfs-r3' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 2 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Opera-7.23 ebuild question
Hi! I's anybody knows why Opera require Openmotif? I've used different versions of Opera (including 7.23) a couple of years from 'opera*static*rpm' without any (Open|Less|...)tiff installed (on my LFS-based distro which I've used before hear about Gentoo). Second question: why 'emerge -pv' say I still need to download 9MB Opera source AFTER I've downloaded and even merged Opera (and also Opera size is only about 4.5 MB, not 9.5): home / # qpkg -I opera net-www/opera * home / # emerge -pv opera These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] net-www/opera-7.23 -gnome -kde 9,458 kB Total size of downloads: 9,458 kB Is this may happens because I've executed 'emerge pkgname' in one console and in same time 'emerge -f nextpkgname' in second? -- WBR, Alex. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 = 2.4 - A-FRIGGIN-Men!
Collins Richey wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:34:34 -0600 TriKster Abacus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ lots of stuff that we don't need to repeat snipped ] TriKster, The essential flaw in your benchmarks is this: all of these items are single activities, whereas the changes in kernel 2.6 are not designed to improve the operation of single activities, but rather to improve the aggregate thruput of the system for l-o-t-s of activities, i.e. 1) more robust scalibility for 4 processors 2) better response for interactive jobs (i.e. no job should starve for service while a cpu hog is getting its cut off the top). This means, inevitably, that certain of your loved ones (DVD ripping, for example) may not be able to monopolize the CPU and thus may exhibit extended run times. If you want a fair picture of 2.6 vs. 2.4 operations, you must construct a very mixed, stressful combination of tasks to run opposite X sessions and measure not only the job throughput but the response time effect on the X sessions. Then you would repeat the study varying the number of cpus, memory, etc. I'm pretty sure you will find the same results that the IBM 8-way processor benchmarks did - individual component run times may lengthen, but the system is capable of accomplishing more concurrent work. Also, the IBM benchmarks demonstrated that 2.6 consumes a lot less kernel mode and a lot more user mode CPU time while getting more work through the box. I, personally, don't need to do this sort of benchmarking, because I remember full well the effect of running major compiles on 2.4 while trying to do something else useful. It wasn't a pretty picture unless you bumped the nice values for X, and it now works quite well without screwing with any settings, so that's as accurate a report as I need. YMMV. Enjoy, As a software developer working on a linux box most of the time, I have to agree here. The current 2.6.x releases are NOT designed to have huge performance gains on single tasked systems. They targeted the enterprise (SMP, large RAM, etc) and the typical desktop user. I love being able to recompile X while I am working in Eclipse and browsing Slashdot. All at the same time and without having to twiddle my thumbs while I wait for the system to catch up. Overall system speed has not increased, system responsiveness has. And that meets my needs just fine. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Copy and paste from nano
Hi everyone, I just can't figure out how do I copy a portion or the whole file in nano and paste it into links or other program. I have a problem and would like to post a log file to a list. I have read man and help nano pages but found no info on the subject. Thanks. Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Copy and paste from nano
Thanks Felix, i managed to cut and paste only one line inside nano with your suggestion. However what I intend to do is copy a portion of my genkernel.log in nano and paste it to Sylpheed ( the only working email client on my system). Also. I'm looking for a way to do so without X. Does anyone have a solution? Alex On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 05:42:53 -0500 felix zaslavskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I just can't figure out how do I copy a portion or the whole file in nano and paste it into links or other program. I have a problem and would like to post a log file to a list. I have read man and help nano pages but found no info on the subject. Thanks. There is a couple of things you can do. 1. Copy paste between files inside nano Switch to Multi-File mode with Alt-F and use reugalr Ctl-K Ctl-U to move things around between files. 2. Just like any other copy paste in X. Hightlight with mouse then click third mouse button (or both buttons if you have not third button) to paste. With xterm I get nasty effect pasting souce code into nano where bunch of extra spaces are inserted. If I really must get some source from a browser I just open xclipboard and paste into there then save to file and then one can insert file into nano. -- felix[at]bebinary.com http://www.zaslavskiy.net/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'
Anyway to fix it boot the live CD, then mount the parititon gentoo is on as /mnt/gentoo, cd to /mnt/gentoo/etc and edit fstab. You can do this with any files you need to fix. Hm. why to boot from live CD? I remember once installing gentoo I forget to alter /etc/fstab and it booted nice with /dev/ROOT , etc all I did is added root=/dev/hda3 to my lilo prompt, and it booted with several warnings (like swap not found, etc) I fixed /etc/fstab rebooted again. it fixed the prob. but I did not booted LiveCD only because of that may be with 'grub' you can not do it. I am not sure about grub, but with lilo you can boot adding root=/dev/hda3 option: linux root=/dev/hda3 Alex On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm. I see others are saying it might be genkernel also - did you run it? Something is strange as emerge -u world doesn't normally hose up files like this. From: Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/10 Tue PM 11:22:00 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world' Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like you ran etc-update and let it overwrite everything. You need to fix fstab so it has your devices instead of /dev/ROOT, etc. and put the right type of file systems in. Do not delete the tmpfs line - it's used by Gentoo. I have not run 'etc-upgrade'. The problem happened after 'emerge -u world'. Some other folks on the list or forum also fell into the same trap. Now my problem is that I could not start 'Fail Safe' anymore. Neither I am allowed to key in root-password to login as ROOT nor to login as USER. I can login just pressing 'ENTER' but on a read-only system. I am not allowed to edit /etc/fstab. Any suggestion? TIA -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Alex V. Koval http://www.halogen-dg.com/ http://www.zwarehouse.org/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ~x86 for kde3.2 then what ?
Michael writes: OK I have never used the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 before but I wanted kde3.2 so I did it with emerge -u kde. All worked well, and in fact I do love kde3.2. My problem is that now when I run emerge -u world alot of what was upgraded for kde3.2 now wants to be downgraded? What do I do for this? I don't think I want to run emerge -u world with the ~x86 cause I don't want to break anyhitng on this box? You shouldn't have given the -u option when upgrading KDE, because now you got more packages upgraded than needed. -u (--update) upgrades all direct dependencies also (and --deep would upgrade the whole dependency tree). I think you can safely let portage downgrade those packages to the normal state. If you like living on the edge and all is working well, you can just stay with your setup, and if you use the -U (-- upgradeonly) switch, emerge will not want to downgrade anything. That's what I would do in this case. In case you downgrade and you have buildpkg in your FEATURES list in /etc/make.conf, you might use the -k (--usepkg) option, this avoids the re-compilation. Alex -- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key available [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla 1.6 not compiling
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Redeeman wrote: It seems that compilation has been stopped at place of nsIRegistry.h -- this file is not found nsIURI.h -- same ... etc I have no idea why those files are not there. But you can set any CFLAGS, and most probably it will have no impact on this kind of error. Alex i just emerged for some days ago, very strange, tried cut down the CFLAGS? On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 12:46, Alberto Bert wrote: Hi all, I'm not an expert of gentoo at all, but I've never had compilation problems up to now (~ 1 year working), so I was very surpised today... I tryed to emerge mozilla 1.6, it requested several other updating and new emerging, among them xfree, gtk+, etc. The compilation stops with the following error message. Plus, now something seems to be happened to emerge, since when I try to emerge centain packages it gives me errors like: snoopy root # emerge -pv xterm These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy xterm have been masked. !!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct. the error appear not for all packages... What am Isupposed to correct? Any help would be VERY appreciated. thanks, Alberto g++ -o nsAccessProxy.o -c -DOSTYPE=\Linux2.4\ -DOSARCH=\Linux\ -I../../../dist/include/xpcom -I../../../dist/include/string -I../../../dist/include/docshell -I../../../dist/include/dom -I../../../dist/include/widget -I../../../dist/include/gfx -I../../../dist/include/layout -I../../../dist/include/content -I../../../dist/include/uriloader -I../../../dist/include/pref -I../../../dist/include/embedcomponents -I../../../dist/include/accessproxy -I../../../dist/include -I/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-1.6/work/mozilla/dist/include/nspr -I/usr/X11R6/include -fPIC -I/usr/X11R6/include -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-long-long -march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium4 -pipe -s -fforce-addr -Wno-deprecated -fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -ffunction-sections -O2 -I/usr/X11R6/include -DMOZILLA_CLIENT -include ../../../mozilla-config.h -Wp,-MD,.deps/nsAccessProxy.pp nsAccessProxy.cpp nsAccessProxy.cpp:46:25: nsIRegistry.h: No such file or directory In file included from nsAccessProxy.cpp:52: ../../../dist/include/content/nsIDocument.h:48:20: nsIURI.h: No such file or directory ../../../dist/include/content/nsIDocument.h:53:26: nsILoadGroup.h: No such file or directory In file included from nsAccessProxy.cpp:52: ../../../dist/include/content/nsIDocument.h: In instantiation of `nsDerivedSafensIURI': ../../../dist/include/content/nsIDocument.h:135: instantiated from here ../../../dist/include/content/nsIDocument.h:135: base class `nsIURI' has incomplete type ../../../dist/include/content/nsIDocument.h: In member function `nsIURI* nsIDocument::GetDocumentURL() const': ../../../dist/include/content/nsIDocument.h:135: cannot convert `const nsCOMPtrnsIURI' to `nsIURI*' in return ../../../dist/include/content/nsIDocument.h: In member function `nsIURI* nsIDocument::GetBaseURL() const': ../../../dist/include/content/nsIDocument.h:163: cannot convert `const nsCOMPtrnsIURI' to `nsIURI*' in return In file included from nsAccessProxy.cpp:58: nsAccessProxy.h:35:28: nsIAccessProxy.h: No such file or directory In file included from nsAccessProxy.cpp:58: nsAccessProxy.h: In static member function `static const nsID nsAccessProxy::GetCID()': nsAccessProxy.h:64: `NS_ACCESSPROXY_CID' undeclared (first use this function) nsAccessProxy.h:64: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) nsAccessProxy.cpp: In member function `virtual nsresult nsAccessProxy::HandleEvent(nsIDOMEvent*)': nsAccessProxy.cpp:102: invalid use of undefined type `struct nsIDOMEvent' ../../../dist/include/dom/domstubs.h:107: forward declaration of `struct nsIDOMEvent' nsAccessProxy.cpp:113: cannot convert `nsIDOMEvent*' to `nsISupports*' for argument `1' to `const nsQueryInterface do_QueryInterface(nsISupports*, nsresult*)' ../../../dist/include/xpcom/nsCOMPtr.h: In member function `nsCOMPtrT nsCOMPtrT::operator=(T*) [with T = nsIURI]': ../../../dist/include/content/nsIDocument.h:136: instantiated from here ../../../dist/include/xpcom/nsCOMPtr.h:570: no matching function for call to ` nsCOMPtrnsIURI::assign_with_AddRef(nsIURI*)' ../../../dist/include/xpcom/nsCOMPtr.h:407: candidates are: void nsCOMPtr_base::assign_with_AddRef(nsISupports*) ../../../dist/include/xpcom/nsISupportsUtils.h: In static member function `static const nsIID nsCOMTypeInfoT::GetIID() [with T = nsILoadGroup]': ../../../dist/include/xpcom/nsIWeakReferenceUtils.h:62
Re: [gentoo-user] recommended kernel for gateway/firewall
I have installed 2.6.1 on router (Pentium-133 MMX) some time ago with 48Mb ram: proxy, routing, mail server, etc, for the biggest hospital in our 2 mln city. and its working great. So I recommend to use 2.6.x until you have some very old hardware (386SX, etc) On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Aaron Walker wrote: I am setting up a P233-MMX as a gateway/firewall for my home LAN, and was wondering if anyone could recommend a kernel for this purpose. Obviously, stability and security are of the highest concern. Any recommendations? Thanks, Aaron -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Alex V. Koval http://www.halogen-dg.com/ http://www.zwarehouse.org/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ps2 mouse
Arne Vogel wrote: Koala Gnu wrote: Hi all, I compiled 2.6.1 kernel on my gentoo distr and the behavior of my PS/2 mouse is changed. It seems to be too sensitive and then unusable. This will happen both in text mode (using gpm) and X. The mouse works fine in 2.4. I read from the linux mail list archive that this is not a new problem and several suggestions have been submitted. I tried using: psmouse_noext=1 (as suggested by Torvalds) as boot parameter but it does not work. Then I tried also with psmouse_rate=60 psmouse_resolution=200 but it does not work too. Any suggestion? PS let me know if you need more info. No idea why the boot params are not working, but I was too lazy to get informed and just adjusted the mouse sensitivity in KDE (and games...). That's not a pretty solution, but it will most definitely work for you. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Another question is are you using a KVM? I had a similar problem with my optical scroll mouse going nuts under the 2.6.x kernels and it turned out to be my kvm. Not sure if there is a fix out for this yet or not. Good luck either way! -Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] i2c device creation?
Matt Garman wrote: I emerged i2c and lm-sensors hoping to get some temperature readings on my hardware. However, when I run sensors-detect, it says the following: No i2c device files found. Use prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh to create them. I presumed that the ebuild would automatically create the i2c devices, but apparently not. So I extracted the archive /usr/portage/distfiles/i2c-2.8.1.tar.gz. The prog directory is empty, though (even after doing a make). Does anyone happen to know how I can get these i2c devices created? Thanks, Matt If you are running a 2.6.x kernel, make sure you have the i2c-dev module loaded. That one caught me for a while too. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ~x86 ?
gabriel wrote: On February 3, 2004 02:49 pm, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Generally pretty good. I wouldn't muck with it though unless you are willing to get dirt on your hands and dig in when things do break (which is fairly rare really). I think it is far more problematic to mix ~x86 and x86 then it is to work with all one or the other. i can second this I can third it. I run completely ~86 on my desktop and usually fare very well. I am running the latest nvidia drivers and the 2.6.2-rc3 with no problems. I can play America's Army for hours on end with no problems. Rocks for development work as well. The new kernel is MUCH more responsive than the 2.4 series for me. I have tried a few times to mix and match between stable and unstable and it usually causes more problems than it is worth. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Possibly copy protected CDs?
Larry Meadors wrote: I used it for a data CD that was copy protected, and it worked. YMMV. :) I think these were the commands: cdrdao read-cd --device 2,0,0 --read-raw \ --datafile mydata.bin -v 99 mydata.cue Then this: cdrdao write --device 2,0,0 --overburn \ -v 99 --speed 4 mydata.cue Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/03/04 4:06 PM You might try cdrdao, I have used it to copy all kinds of stuff. Larry, OK, I just emerged cdrdao. Can you provide me with a suggested command line? Looking at the options it looks like it's intended for audio CDs and not data CDs. Thanks in advance, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Copy protection systems many times put CRC values on the CD that do not match the data. They then look for those bogus values when you go to play the game. Most software wants to write the correct CRC which then causes the game to fail. Good luck and send an email to the list if you find a solution that works. I have several disks I would like to have backups for but can't. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
Arne Vogel wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: There's lots of use 2.6 messages here, but does anyone have a list of what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I take the leap? e.g, is older hardware supported (PIIX - since they removed the tuning option from 2.4 this has been a disaster for me) nvidia keeps cropping up Well, 3D-Hardware-Acceleration will not work until NVIDIA provides an updated driver. Apart from that, the kernel-included nv driver seems to work without problems (tested on GeForce 5200FX). I cannot get rp-pppoe (ADSL), version 3.5, running on 2.6, too. Seems like a change in a kernel interface broke it. Strangely enough, ADSL via SuSE's smpppd did continue to work (I switched to Gentoo only recently). XFree looks like it has problems Version 4.3.0 works fine under 2.6.1 on my machine. YMMV. XFS and some other (unspecified) file systems have problems Well, if you've heard these have problems and use those file systems, I would advise caution until these things are worked out. Testing a scanner is one thing, wasting an FS another... In any case, if you want to try 2.6.x, make sure you install it alongside the one you're using now so you can easily switch back if you experience problems. The system responsitivity under heavy I/O load (tar xjf...) was greatly improved, so personally I hope these 2 things that prevent me from switching, non-working Hardware OpenGL and ADSL, are fixed soon... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Ummm. I am running the latest NVIDIA drivers (5336-r1) on a FX5200 board with OpenGL and it runs just fine. In fact, it runs America's Army faster and with higher framerates than the same hardware under Windows. Yes it does taint the kernel, but I am fine with that for the performance. The biggest issue I have with 2.6.x is the problem with using KVM's. I have to plug my mouse directly into my desktop for the mouse to work correctly with the 2.6.x kernels. Sound and performance have been great otherwise. As with anything else, use caution when making the switch. Keep a copy of your current kernel around until you are sure that 2.6.x is for you. Good luck!! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Possibly copy protected CDs?
Mark writes: On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 17:28, Marshal Newrock wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Mark Knecht wrote: Gentoo2 root # dd if=/dev/cdrom of=EXILE_DISK_1.iso dd: reading `/dev/cdrom':Input/oupuut error 3304+0 records in 3304+0 records out Gentoo2 root # That's correct. You get an I/O error when it hits the end of the disk. If you mount the .iso on loopback, you'll see it's complete. readcd (which I think comes with cdrtools) also does a similar thing. readcd also complains about the end of the disk, it's always the second or third last block. This block contains no real data, so the ISO will be okay, but it makes verifying the CD difficult. I read this does not necessarily happen, but for me it does. That's really interesting. Can you explain 'mounting on loopback'? What is that? I only have one Linux book (Linux in a Nutshell) and it doesn't have loopback in the index. This allows to mount an ISO image instead of a real CD: mount -t iso9660 -o loop EXILE_DISK_1.iso /mnt/tmp You need to have loopback device compiled into the kernel (or as module). Alex -- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key available [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Nvidia-kernel 5336-r1
Anyone else having problems with the new Nvidia-kernel 5336-r1 build? I synced this afternoon and when I go to build it, I get the following. setup unpack Unpacking source... Creating directory NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1 Verifying archive integrity... OK Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 1.0-5336 Linux kernel 2.4.24 Source unpacked. compile rm -f nv.o os-agp.o os-interface.o os-registry.o nv-linux.o nv_compiler.h *.d NVdriver nvidia.o make[1]: *** No rule to make target `nvidia.o'. Stop. make: *** [nvidia.o] Error 2 !!! ERROR: media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.5336-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 115, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Any ideas or suggestions? I have deleted the ebuild and the files and re-synced but still get the same result. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-kernel 5336-r1
Andrej Kacian wrote: On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 14:33:29 -0500 Alex Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else having problems with the new Nvidia-kernel 5336-r1 build? I synced this afternoon and when I go to build it, I get the following. setup unpack Unpacking source... Creating directory NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1 Verifying archive integrity... OK Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 1.0-5336 Linux kernel 2.4.24 Source unpacked. compile rm -f nv.o os-agp.o os-interface.o os-registry.o nv-linux.o nv_compiler.h *.d NVdriver nvidia.o make[1]: *** No rule to make target `nvidia.o'. Stop. make: *** [nvidia.o] Error 2 !!! ERROR: media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.5336-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 115, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Any ideas or suggestions? I have deleted the ebuild and the files and re-synced but still get the same result. I already posted a bug to gentoo bugzilla yesterday, and spyder already fixed it in portage cvs. :) Cool. Guess I will wait for it to come into the pipe then. Thanks for the quick reply. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] disc free space
Paul Stear wrote: Hi again, Can anybody help with my backup script? I need to calculate the free space on a disc. I can get the disc size so all I need is to calculate the used size and then subtract. Or is there an easier way? thanks Paul Use the df command and that will tell you the free space on all your disks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Several problems with nVidia
Marco writes: First problem: At boot time. Everything works at the beginning but shortly after entering runlevel 3 (before starting X) the screen start to flicker very fast and becomes unreadable. This continues until the start of xdm. I do not understand what could be the reason (some change of font or similar?). This problem first appeared upgrading to linux 2.4.22. The font may be changed if /etc/init.d/consolefont is activated, so maybe a rc-update del consolefont will help the next time you boot. /etc/init.d/consolefont stop might also help directly. Second problem: I cannot use Ctrl-Alt-Fn keys to switch from X to text console. It was the same with linux 2.4.20. I have a PC where I can switch to the text console this way, but when switching back, X is corrupted, and I have to reboot :( But my main machine is just working fine with the nvidia drivers. Alex -- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key available [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge mod_php - does not work :(
Hi, trying: appserver root # emerge mod_php Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) dev-php/mod_php-4.3.4-r2 to / md5 src_uri ;-) php-4.3.4.tar.bz2 md5 src_uri ;-) php-4.3.2-fopen-url-secure.patch !!! ERROR: dev-php/mod_php-4.3.4-r2 failed. !!! Function dyn_setup, Line 466, Exitcode 1 !!! pkg_setup function failed; exiting. Not sure what's wrong, but error code is not very informative :( -- Alex V. Koval http://www.halogen-dg.com/ http://www.zwarehouse.org/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] 2.6 kernel mouse issue
I have a GE (I know, cheap) 5 button optical mouse. It works just great under the 2.4 series of kernels using gpm and X. When I switch to the 2.6.x series the mouse jumps all over the place and is completely unusable. Any ideas or suggestions? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] vmware moves RAM
Hi guys! I'm in trouble with vmware. Everything worked fine till i recognized that vmware moves my RAM into cache. With in one Minute there is only 4000k free available everything else moves to cache ( ~40 per sec ). That occuers when i boot the guest. This happens when i start a guest ( W2K ) . The guest boots normaly, after Login he dies! I already tried to reconfigure vmware, doesn't help. Any ideas? This happened on a Athlon XP2200 with 512MB RAM, 128 MB for the guest. Thanks for any advice! Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vmware moves RAM
Am Montag, 29. Dezember 2003 14:15 schrieb Alexander Puchmayr: On Monday 29 December 2003 11:14, Alex Huth wrote: Hi guys! I'm in trouble with vmware. Everything worked fine till i recognized that vmware moves my RAM into cache. With in one Minute there is only 4000k free available everything else moves to cache ( ~40 per sec ). That occuers when i boot the guest. This happens when i start a guest ( W2K ) . The guest boots normaly, after Login he dies! I already tried to reconfigure vmware, doesn't help. Any ideas? This happened on a Athlon XP2200 with 512MB RAM, 128 MB for the guest. Thanks for any advice! AFAIK vmware create a large file in /tmp-directory, which represents the guest's physical memory. In your case this file will be 128M (it needs some extra-mem, don't ask me for what). These file is hidden, you can't see it (even with ls -la, since it is immedately deleted after creation). So, does the partition holding your /tmp-directory have enough free space to store this file? That's what i know so far. There is about 500MB free,what should be enough in /tmp. A second possibility which you should check is if you are running into some limitations (ulimit or quota) Sorry, no qouota, no ulimit :-( Thanks! Greetings, Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with gaim
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 16:33:48 +, Tom Wesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 16:02, Roger wrote: How can I update Gaim from 0.66 to 0.74? Each time I use emerge gaim , it always install 0.66version. I do not want to download the 0.74 package manually, and unpack it ... I just want to update it through emerge!!! 2003122723:03Tom Wesley On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 14:56, Roger wrote: happy new year to all. I want to use gaim to act as MSN to chat with other, but I fail to logon, I got the following error message. Protocol dose not support. Are you using a new-ish version of Gaim - 0.74 is the latest. MSN changed their logon protocol fairly recently, so it's possible you need to upgrade. As root do an # emerge sync # emerge gaim -pv check the output then # emerge gaim 0.74 is not yet 'latest portage recommended' version. Here what emerge search gaim says on my system: * net-im/gaim Latest version available: 0.72-r1 Latest version installed: 0.74-r1 Size of downloaded files: 3,400 kB Homepage:http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ Description: GTK Instant Messenger client I have installed 0.74-r1 as: bash-2.05b$ emerge /usr/portage/net-im/gaim/gaim-0.74-r1.ebuild there are 2 more (?) alternate syntax to do the same thing, but I feel myself most comfortable by giving the full name of ebuild to the emerge. -- Alex V. Koval http://www.halogen-dg.com/ http://www.zwarehouse.org/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Distcc problems.
Dennis writes: On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 23:04:23 + Dane Elwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: distcc[29430] (dcc_mkdir) ERROR: mkdir /var/tmp/portage/.distcc/state failed: No such file or directory I think 'mkdir /var/tmp/portage/.distcc' solves your problem. I think an additional 'chown portage.portage /var/tmp/portage/.distcc' might be necessary, at least with userpriv in the FEATURES list in /etc/make.conf. Alex -- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key available [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mounting winxp-vfat
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:38:27 -0600, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to move some things from winxp-vfat-hda1-C to gentoo-hdb3 so I looked in the forums http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=29285 for a how to while the list was down the couple days and found one. It said to compile windows nonsence into the kernel (it was already compiled in so no prob there) then add a line to fstab so it can be mounted (/dev/hda1 /mnt/cvfat defaults,umask=000 0 0) is the one I chose since it gives me the most leway. On boot it gives the following error ; Mount:mountpoint /mnt/c does not exist. most probably you have to create directory /mnt/c first :) What could I have done wrong, I followed the instructions to the letter? mkdir /mnt/c -- Alex V. Koval http://www.halogen-dg.com/ http://www.zwarehouse.org/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] 'system' packages list; svscan inittab
Hi! I've used for about 2.5 years my own linux distribution based on ideas from LinuxFromScratch, so I'm not a newbie in this area. At this time I'm interested in Gentoo because I've no more time to support my own distribution. I want to compile and configure Gentoo in the way I use for my distribution, and I've some question related to this: 1. Why there is so many packages in 'system' list? Why not make 'system' list much smaller (like in LinuxFromScratch)? Is there exists documentation which describe reason to include all these packages in 'system' list? Here is one small example: I don't need and don't like PAM. But 'pam' and 'pam-login' is in 'system' list, so I can't compile Gentoo without PAM... 2. My distribution uses a lot of DJB's software like daemontools, qmail, djbdns... And I've installed in way recommended by DJB, i.e. svscan was executed from /etc/inittab (it's 100% reliable because if it died by some reason then /sbin/init process will restart it, so all my daemons guarantied to work while /sbin/init process exists and they don't depend on any bash scripts and /var/run/*.pid files). Is there exists a way in Gentoo to execute svscan from /etc/inittab instead of /etc/init.d/svscan and execute all other daemons under svscan/supervise control (instead of under /etc/init.d/* bash scripts plus /var/run/*.pid files control which is less reliable)? -- WBR, Alex. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] question about alsa-sound and aplay
Hi I am using alsa-sound and I have no idea how to mix sounds? I read all manual on aplay, alsa-sound, searched google, and nothing helps, so I am asking community.. Problem: I set 'sound' into my IM as 'aplay soundfile'. When I listen to music via XMMS, XMMS blocks the audio device. As result, I do not hear the sound from my IM program (in fact, a number of aplay process are waiting in background until XMMS is finished). So, when I stop playing XMMS, it takes around 2-3 minutes to listen to all those sounds which were waiting for several hours. Question: --- Does anybody know how to play sounds simultaneously (via some mixer???) so I will hear both IM and XMMS player? thanks. -- Alex V. Koval http://www.halogen-dg.com/ http://www.zwarehouse.org/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 'system' packages list; svscan inittab
Hi! On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 05:59:01PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 17:11:40 +0200 Alex Efros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | 1. Why there is so many packages in 'system' list? Why not make | 'system' |list much smaller (like in LinuxFromScratch)? Is there exists |documentation which describe reason to include all these packages |in'system' list? Well, you could make your own profile (/usr/portage/profiles/) with fewer things in it. Just don't blame us when it goes wrong :) :-)) I understand this. Gentoo try to allow people to configure it as much as possible, this is Gentoo's philosophy! :-) I just try to point to another thing which may be configurable - PAM support - and which now can't be configured in legal/supported way because it's in 'system' list. Also I think what there is probably too much 'system' packages (comparing to LinuxFromScratch), and maybe it will be nice to exclude some packages from 'system' list to make Gentoo much more configurable. Some other software which may be removed from 'system' is: 1) gawk - there is a lot of different 'awk' realizations which user may want instead of gawk (I prefer 'mawk') 2) sysklogd - for example, I prefer 'multilog t /var/log/kernel /proc/kmsg' instead of 'klogd', and 'read_syslog' instead of 'syslogd'. 3) xfree - I don't know why xfree is in 'system' - I think this is bad idea to have 'xfree' always installed, even on servers. 4) dhcpd - it's small, but probably not 'system' because it isn't used at all in many networks 5) debianutils 6) fbset 7) bc 8) ... and some other utilities, which may or may not be useful, but which are not required, so they shouldn't be in 'system' - user can install 'fbset' or 'bc' or other such utils later at any time... -- WBR, Alex. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 'system' packages list; svscan inittab
Hi! On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 01:29:16AM +0100, Spider wrote: Some other software which may be removed from 'system' is: 1) gawk - there is a lot of different 'awk' realizations which user may want instead of gawk (I prefer 'mawk') This may not be direct in system, check virtuals/ support ( a list of packages that provide the same functionality ) Ok, thanks, I will check it. 2) sysklogd - for example, I prefer 'multilog t /var/log/kernel /proc/kmsg'instead of 'klogd', and 'read_syslog' instead of 'syslogd'. its not. virtual/logger is. if you don't supply a logger yourself, it will use sysklogd because its default Yeah, you right. 3) xfree - I don't know why xfree is in 'system' - I think this is bad idea to have 'xfree' always installed, even on servers. USE flag +X +gtk +qt +kde +tcltk may any and all of those bring in xfree as a dependency. I'd suggest reading some more on USE flags too ;). Hmm.. So, if I set USE=-X then xfree will not be compiled by `emerge system`? As far as I understand USE - it affect only optional package dependency, not packages to install: I can `emerge xfree` with USE=-X without prob, but all software with optional XFree support will be compiled without it. Ohh, sorry!!! I've just rechecked /etc/make.profile/packages and noticed what there is no 'star' at line '=x11-base/xfree-4.1.0-r12', so it shouldn't be installed by `emerge system` at all, right? 4) dhcpd - it's small, but probably not 'system' because it isn't used at all in many networks its a hard package cause there were too many users who forgot to install it and ended up with nonworking machines. :) Ok, let it be there... ;-)) 5) debianutils Needed for readlink , and only that afaik. Hmm. I think it's simple enough to realize 'readlink' as bash-function using 'ls -l'... but this isn't really important. 7) bc Common unix standard tool, used by a lot of buildscripts. I don't know such buildscripts... Really: home root # qpkg --installed --query-deps bc sys-devel/bc-1.06-r5 * DEPENDED ON BY: sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r3 * DEPENDED ON BY: gcc-3.2.3-r3 but I 100% sure what gcc will compile without 'bc' just because I've compiled it (many versions from 3.0 to 3.2.3) a lot of times for my distribution, and I've no 'bc' in my distribution. (I've about 200 packages in my distribution, and no one of them need 'bc'.) For me, 'bc' is too strange thing, I prefer to use 'expr' from sh-utils for simple calculations in bash scripts and 'perl' in complex cases. 8) ... and some other utilities, which may or may not be useful, but which are not required, so they shouldn't be in 'system' - user can install 'fbset' or 'bc' or other such utils later at any time... System provides a set of decent defaults for a user, making it simple to redo. if you wish to roll your own profile its dead simple actually, just check the /etc/make.profile, move it from a link to a directory and then do the changes.. (or simply relink it to another place ;) I've now checked /etc/make.profile/packages again, and all my questions about it content disappear: bc, dhcpd, debianutils, etc. is mostly small harmless things. Only question left is my initial question: do you really think what PAM support is 100% required for anyone and should be in 'system'? Is it safe to just unmerge pam and pam-login (I've USE=-pam)? ... From my point of view, PAM is very good idea with very bad realization - there a number of bugs and security holes found from time to time in PAM, so it's safer to not use PAM if you don't need some PAM's features. -- WBR, Alex. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] -U or --upgradeonly does not work for me - it still try to downgrade?
Hi anybody have idea why my emerge tries to downgrade my gaim-0.74 when I set flags as -U?? bash-2.05b# emerge -p -u -U world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gettext-0.12.1 [0.11.5-r1] [ebuild UD] net-im/gaim-0.72-r1 [0.74] bash-2.05b# emerge -p -u --upgradeonly world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gettext-0.12.1 [0.11.5-r1] [ebuild UD] net-im/gaim-0.72-r1 [0.74] My emerge version: * sys-apps/portage Latest version available: 2.0.49-r15 Latest version installed: 2.0.49-r15 Size of downloaded files: 230 kB Homepage:http://www.gentoo.org Description: Portage ports system Thanks. -- Alex V. Koval http://www.halogen-dg.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] -U or --upgradeonly does not work for me - it still try to downgrade?
Maybe you used ~x86 when first emerged gaim. no, I do not know how to do that... If your default in make.conf is x86. I looked at make.conf and found that the only place where I can find x86: # would add '~x86' to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to enable unstable/testing packages. also, before it was working fine. I upgraded world 3 or 4 times since I installed Gentoo 2 months ago. it appears to happend now after last 'emerge -u -U world' upgrade which happend approx a week ago On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:01:54 +0200, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex V. Koval wrote: Hi anybody have idea why my emerge tries to downgrade my gaim-0.74 when I set flags as -U?? bash-2.05b# emerge -p -u -U world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gettext-0.12.1 [0.11.5-r1] [ebuild UD] net-im/gaim-0.72-r1 [0.74] bash-2.05b# emerge -p -u --upgradeonly world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gettext-0.12.1 [0.11.5-r1] [ebuild UD] net-im/gaim-0.72-r1 [0.74] My emerge version: * sys-apps/portage Latest version available: 2.0.49-r15 Latest version installed: 2.0.49-r15 Size of downloaded files: 230 kB Homepage:http://www.gentoo.org Description: Portage ports system Thanks. Hi, Maybe you used ~x86 when first emerged gaim. If your default in make.conf is x86. Bye. Rumen. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Alex V. Koval http://www.halogen-dg.com http://www.zwarehouse.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] -U or --upgradeonly does not work for me - it still try to downgrade?
Thanks, Rumen: I found it, here is is: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30357 it means that if ebuild file was removed from portage, then it will allow for downgrade even if flag --upgradeonly is used. Alex On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:28:10 +0200, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex V. Koval wrote: Maybe you used ~x86 when first emerged gaim. no, I do not know how to do that... If your default in make.conf is x86. I looked at make.conf and found that the only place where I can find x86: # would add '~x86' to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to enable unstable/testing packages. also, before it was working fine. I upgraded world 3 or 4 times since I installed Gentoo 2 months ago. it appears to happend now after last 'emerge -u -U world' upgrade which happend approx a week ago On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:01:54 +0200, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex V. Koval wrote: Hi anybody have idea why my emerge tries to downgrade my gaim-0.74 when I set flags as -U?? bash-2.05b# emerge -p -u -U world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gettext-0.12.1 [0.11.5-r1] [ebuild UD] net-im/gaim-0.72-r1 [0.74] bash-2.05b# emerge -p -u --upgradeonly world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gettext-0.12.1 [0.11.5-r1] [ebuild UD] net-im/gaim-0.72-r1 [0.74] My emerge version: * sys-apps/portage Latest version available: 2.0.49-r15 Latest version installed: 2.0.49-r15 Size of downloaded files: 230 kB Homepage:http://www.gentoo.org Description: Portage ports system Thanks. Hi, Maybe you used ~x86 when first emerged gaim. If your default in make.conf is x86. Bye. Rumen. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Hi again, Try doing 'emerge sync' again to make sure everything is OK, but this shouldn't be an issue. Check /read/ the 'ebuild' file in /usr/portage/net-im/gaim-0.7x-r-xx it's a text file /ChangeLog-a/. Try 'emerge /usr/portage/net-im-gaim-0.7x-rxx - give the ebuild you want. I'm out of ideas. Also check for bugs on http://bugs.gentoo.org. Rumen. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Setting up a Dual Boot
Hey guys, my name is Alex, Im new to this list =) Anyways, im doing my second installation of gentoo ever, and this one is supposed to be a dual boot. I was wondering if you still set up your boot partition as boot, since windows is already set to boot, and if anyone has a good link for setting up a dual boot gentoo installation, lemme know! Thanks in advance Alex
Re: [gentoo-user] running a cron job more frequent than one hour
Aaron writes: I am trying to run a cron job more frequent than one hour, but that's as small as it goes in /etc/cron.* I read both the cron and crontab man pages but neither says anything about the /etc/crontab format. I That's because there are two man pages. man 5 crontab gets the other page from section 5, where file formats are explained. couldnt tell just by looking at it.. looked confusing :) Anyone know how to add an entry to run a certain program say every 10 min? Put a */10 in the first column of your crontab (using crontab -e to edit it). Alex -- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key available [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] irc client
On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 11:59, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 18:23:29 -0600 Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'm looking for a good IRC client. I've used both BitchX, which is | great, and Mozilla's IRC client, which is very feature poor. I'd just | use BitchX, but I want an X app. Can anyone recommend anything? How about irssi in an Eterm? I'll take your irssi in an Eterm and raise it one screen session with activity monitoring (C-a M) :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] bash/dialog problem
Andrew writes: In a script I'm writing, it writes to the file /tmp/dlgmenu: hda Auto-partition drive /dev/hda but in the script when I do: dialog --menu 12 50 8 `cat /tmp/dlgmenu` 2 /tmp/menuoption Isn't there a first parameter missing, the menu's name? It creates 2 menu items. The first one ends at 'partition' and the 2nd one starts at 'drive'. But when I manually do: dialog --menu 12 50 8 hda Auto-partition drive /dev/hda 2 /tmp/menuoption it works just fine. Anyone have any idea what's going on? After the size arguments, two (or 4, 6, 8...) arguments are expected, but cat returns the whole file as a single one. You could do it like this, with two lines in the file: echo -e hda\nAuto-partition drive /dev/hda /tmp/dlgmenu tag=`cat /tmp/dlgmenu | head -1` item=`cat /tmp/dlgmenu | tail -1` dialog --menu mymenu 12 50 8 $tag $item 2 /tmp/menuoption Do you need the /tmp/dlgmenu file at all? Alex -- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key available [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] bash/dialog problem
Andrew writes: Do you need the /tmp/dlgmenu file at all? Yes. The menu is built dynamically. /tmp/dlgmenu could contain: hda Auto-partition drive /dev/hda sda Auto-partition drive /dev/sda ... Okay, but if you generate the file just to read it out later in the same script, a variable might do also. If not, you could do it like this: get the number of lines in the file, read each line, and add it to an array of arguments: menufile=/tmp/dlgmenu n=$(( `cat $menufile | wc -l` )) for (( i=0; i n; i++ )) do line[$(( $i ))]=`cat $menufile | head -$(( $i+1 )) | tail -1` done dialog --menu Choose a partition... 12 60 8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2 /tmp/menuoption There might be more elegant way, though. Alex -- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key available [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic DNS recommendations
Mark writes:
My ISP keeps moving my DHCP cable modem IP and I cannot keep up with
it from remote locations, so I'm checking out things like DynDNS.org
ods.org. Can anyone recommend a free service, or very low cost service,
that would just give me a DNS name so that I could ssh into my house
without having to keep tracking this stuff by hand?
Also, DynDNS references 3 Linux clients - ipcheck, ez-ipupdate and
ddclient. I found two in portage. Any recommendations on what software to
use to do this? My Gentoo box is on about 18 hours per day, and is behind
a DLink firewall.
I am using dyndns.org and zoneedit.com. While both are free, zoneedit
allows me to use my own domainname, with dymdns.org I have to choose
from some domains like dyndns.org.
To update the DNS records at zoneedit, I use this line in /etc/ppp/ip-
up:
lynx -source -auth=USER:PASS 'http://dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/
dynamic.html?host=wonkology.org'
And for dyndns.org, I luse a little script:
#!/bin/sh
addr()
{
line=`/sbin/ifconfig ${1:-ppp0} | grep addr`
echo ${line:20:15}
}
ez-ipupdate --config-file /etc/ppp/ez-ipupdate.conf --address=`addr`
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#daemon=
#debug=yes
#foreground
host=wonkology.dyndns.org
server=members.dyndns.org
service-type=dyndns
user=USER:PASS
wildcard
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Re: [gentoo-user]Multiple screens for 1 box
I currently have a Logitech Cordless MX mouse+keyboard, another Logitech keyboard, but not cordless, and a Microsoft intellimouse explorer. Everything USB. Work like a charm all at once. USB2 has great potential, yknow... В Птн, 14.11.2003, в 09:23, Chris I пишет: On 2003.11.13 22:40, Bryce wrote: Hi All. I've been curious about this for a while, and was wondering if its possible. Is there a way to have 1 machine fascilitate 2 or more monitors, keyboards, mouse. Each Monitor having its own Xsession, using its own keyboard,etc. Kind of like a dummy terminal, just have the extra montiros directly connect to the host computer. And have the mice and keyboards go through USB. Is this possible??? Something very close to this is possible by modifying /etc/X11/XF86Config so that there exist several VGA-card - monitor pairs, and then defining several screens (see manpage). Also you can use Xinerama, but I personally had almost no experience with that extension, so I cannot say anything. And if you want to run several thin-client-likes, it would probably require to load several X servers (but still there're problems with config files and memory usage) More or less what X (protocol) was designed to do, essentially, wasnt it? Anyway, the only thing that might be tricky would be keyboards. I'm not sure how you could set those up (you'd basically be required to use usb keyboards). Keyboards can probably be represented via the event interface, but im not sure if xfree86 can do anything with that yet. As for mouse, monitor, and video card, no problem. I'm not sure of the details on how it can be done (hehe, i'd gladly research it for you if you send me the hardware :). For example, you may need to create multiple XF86Config files and run each xfree86 instance specifying the config file to use. You might be able to even just throw all the different screens into the same file. The problem lies here: how to split several USB mice and keyboards among several servers? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Booting Linux and Linux
Hello All, Hi! I've been using RedHat most of my linux life and now i'm in a searching mode. I'm an intermediate user and wanted to learn more of the background/inner workings of linux and came across gentoo. I think its great that its so customizable. So my deliema is that I've begun using Mandrake and would like to dual boot gentoo with it until I come up to speed. Is this possible? If so, how? Yes, it is possible, and quite simple. Usually, when you partition your drive, you should consider how to split your drive(s). I once had similar dual-boot system with RedHat and Mandrake, with shared /boot and swap partitions, but all others were separate. Then I installed grub into /boot, and configured it to boot both redhat and mandrake kernels, with different root= parameter. And that is all. Colin Falkinburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Scott Granneman Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the former. Einstein _ Crave some Miles Davis or Grateful Dead? Your old favorites are always playing on MSN Radio Plus. Trial month free! http://join.msn.com/?page=offers/premiumradio -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list WBR, Alex 'UniK' Unigovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] arrow keys in dosemu
Matt writes: Does anyone out there happen to use dosemu? If so, did you have to do anything special to get your arrow keys to work? No problem here - I'm writing this mail in Crosspoint, a DOS mail and news client. I'm using a DRDOS hdimage, but I am pretty sure that I had no keyboard problems with freedos, too. Alex -- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key available [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] arrow keys in dosemu
Mark writes: No problem here - I'm writing this mail in Crosspoint, a DOS mail and news client. I'm using a DRDOS hdimage, but I am pretty sure that I had no keyboard problems with freedos, too. Alex Alex, This is sort of off topic, but are there advantages to running some other hdimage over the one that comes with dosemu? My Dad would like to run an older accounting program he still uses called Managing Your Money. I haven't tried any image with this program yet, so I'd greatly appreciate any info prior to investing a bunch of time. Uh, I don't really remember what exactly made me use DR-DOS. I had various little problems, like Alt, Ctrl or Shift hanging sometimes, the mouse being moved into the xdosemu window when its size changed, refresh problems, limited screen resolutions, but I'm not sure which of these problems happened with which hdimage. One problem with freedos was that I was not able to pass parameters to batch files, and so I switched to DR-DOS again, which I had used before using Gentoo. I also think with freedos xdosemu did not allow copypaste with the mouse. Alex -- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key available [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wine'ing some games
Hi Redeeman, I had this problem when getting warcraft 3 to work. I'm not sure that this is the best solution, but I solved it by running the game on a new X server with the resolution that the game runs in. I wanted it to run by simply typing 'war3', and to exit cleanly when I exited the game. To do this I did the following: 1. Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config to add another screen section with the settings for warcraft. This is just another Screen section after my existing one, which looks like this: Section Screen Identifier 1024x768x16 Device nvidia gf2mx Monitor NEC XP21 DefaultDepth 16 Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection The important part is the 'Identifier', which I'll use later. The other settings should be similar to your existing Screen section/s. 2. Add a file to /etc/X11/Sessions which is where gentoo's startx script looks for windowmanagers. The file, called 'war3' contains the following: #!/bin/sh cd /home/ajc/.wine/fake_windows/Games/Warcraft\ III /usr/bin/wine -- War3.exe -opengl Basically all this does is execute the command to start warcraft. 3. Add the file /usr/local/bin/war3 containing: #!/bin/bash XSESSION=war3 startx -- :1 -screen 1024x768x16 This starts the new X server on display :1 (the default server is on :0) with the 1024x768x16 screen and runs warcraft. It shouldn't be too hard to adapt this approach to other games. Actually, now that I look at it, it's probably better to do steps 2 and 3 with one shell script that calls xinit with the right arguments, but I know this way works so I'll stick to it for now. Let me know if you find a better way around this problem. --Alex On 15:35 Sat 08 Nov , Redeeman wrote: hi, i am trying to wine pocket tanks, and it starts okay, but it sets lower resolution, but it doesent change resolution correct, because it does the same as ctrl + alt + '-' so that it still has 1600x1200, but only views 800x600, and the rest is scrollable, and then when i move the mouse in the wined game, it goes out of the 800x600 and then it fucks up, is there any way to fix this? -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\- against microsoft attachments -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VMware and kernel 2.6.0test8
Nathaniel writes: I installed vmware from portage. I then ran vmware-config.pl. It built the modules fine, gave me no errors. Told me to run vmware so I did. When I do I get the error: VMware Workstation is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for your running kernel. To (re-)configure it, your system administrator must find and run vmware-config.pl. For more information, please read file INSTALL in the VMware Workstation documentation directory. What gives? The modules load fine in the kernel. Anyone? Theconfig script sometimes forgets to remove a not_configured file somewhere in /opt/vmware. Delete it, and all will be fine I think. Alex -- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key available [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] scrollkeeper_problems?
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 15:44, Karshi F.Hasanov wrote: I got the following errors when try to install the scrollkeeper: -- checking for intltool-extract... /usr/bin/intltool-extract checking intltool version... 0.27.2 checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for xml2-config... /usr/bin/xml2-config checking libxml2 version... 2.5.11 checking for xslt-config... /usr/bin/xslt-config checking for docbook-dtd412-xml... * ERROR * Couldn't find the DocBook XML V4.1.2 DTD. Please make sure that you have the docbook-dtd412-xml package installed. If it is installed, the package probably did not register the DTD in the catalog properly. Consult http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/docbook.shtml for more information. configure: error: DocBook XML V4.1.2 DTD not present in /etc/xml/catalog. Make sure docbook-dtd412-xml is installed and registers DTD in catalog. !!! ERROR: app-text/scrollkeeper-0.3.12 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 338, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I solved this by going to the /etc/xml directory and copying the docbook file over the catalog file. For some reason the catalog file is empty but scrollkeeper is still looking there for the DTD's. -- Alex Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ANSoft Computing -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Switch from RH9 to gentoo
Does anyone out there have any practical experience in migrating a live server running Red Hat 9.0 over to Gentoo? I don't mind a short amount of downtime but don't want to have to back up the entire server and then try and rebuild it. I would like to convert it in-place if I can. Any help or suggestions are welcome! -- Alex Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ANSoft Computing -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Alsa with TS2 and AAO and es1371
Has anyone had any luck with running multiple applications accessing the sound card under ALSA with an es1371 card? I am trying to get TeamSpeak 2 and Americas Army to run at the same time. I run TeamSpeak and then AAO and AAO complains that it can't open /dev/sound/dsp. Anyone out there solved this without two sound cards? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] lirc compilation fails
Nick writes: I get the following: I thought the solution may be to include irda support in the kernel, which I have done. still no difference. LIRC_OPTS=--with-driver=serial emerge lirc This is what I had done, successfully. No irda support here. ACCESS DENIED mkdir: /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo- r6/include/config/irda scripts/split-include: irda: Permission denied [...] --- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY --- LOG FILE = /tmp/sandbox-lirc-0.6.6-r1-23076.log mkdir: /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r6/include/config/irda I don't know why this directory should be created (I don't have it), but it can't be done because root access is required, and portage is running as the portage user. If you want it to run as root, have a look at the FEATURES line in /etc/make.conf. I don't know the difference between sandbox, usersandbox and userpriv, but removing them should do it. But remember that this is a security feature that you are disabling. You could also try to install the newer version of lirc via ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge lirc , maybe the error is gone then? Alex -- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key available [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] openoffice 1.1
Has anyone had any luck getting OpenOffice 1.1 to compile with gcc 3.3.1? I keep getting a pkg_setup error when I try to emerge it. The OpenOffice ebuild states that it wants gcc-3.2.x. Any ideas? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world shows blocking packages for gnome 2.4 now what
Ian writes: On 06 Oct 2003 14:01:53 -0700 HvR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when i run emerge -up world i shows two blocking packages: gnome-extra/gnome-utils-2.3 (from pkg gnome-extra/gucharmap-1.0.0 and gnome-base/bonobo-activation (from pkg gnome-base/libbonobo-2.4.0) i can tell it is trying to update me to gnome 2.4 but how do i get rid of the blocks? and what does the in front of the package mean? unmerge the blocked applications. The features that they provided are now part of another package that you are emerging. I also had bonobo-activation blocking today. I unmerged it, ran emerge -uD world, and after a long list of other updates, portage wants to re-merge it again. Strange. When I try to do this, I get an error message during configure, telling me that it is part of libbonobo, which I already have emerged. And qpkg (emerge gentoolkit to use it) seems to tell me that libbonobo wants it: % qpkg -q bonobo-activation gnome-base/bonobo-activation-1.0.3 DEPENDED ON BY: gnome-base/gnome-2.2.2-r1 gnome-base/libbonobo-2.4.0 Any ideas why? I don't understand this. Another problem that I have for longer is gnome-desktop, gnome- terminal and gnome-session blocking gnome-core. After unmerging, I can emerge gnome-core, but then emerge -uDp world shows that gnome-core is blocking the other three packages. I can unmerge them, and will be in the same state as before. I also posted this to the forum yesterday, no solution yet: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=569020#569020 No big problem though, apart from being unable to do an emerge -uD world. Alex -- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key available [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge errors for gcc
Steve writes: Anyone run into this: make: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2 !!! ERROR: sys-devel/gcc-3.2.3-r2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 371, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) when trying to emerge the latest stable gcc? Just compiled it without problems. Are there no more messages before these, showing some more errors? Maybe you overlooked them in the bunch of ouputput log? Are you using very aggressive CFLAGS? Alex -- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key available [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to measure my network traffic?
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 12:59, gabor wrote: hi, i've just got connected to tghe internet using a cable modem, and i'd like to know how much do i down/upload. so ideally i want something that will run in the background and create a logfile, and i can ask him how much was the upstream/downstream traffic for the last x days. i found mrtg, but isn't there anything simpler? thanks, gabor You might want to look at ntop. It has it's own http server and will give you all kinds of stats. Who, what where when and how. I use it on my router and it rocks! -- Alex Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ANSoft Computing -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Evolution calendar sync
I emerged evolution 1.4, pilot-link 0.11.8, gnome-pilot-conduits 2.0.10, and gnome-pilot 2.0.10. I don't have conduits for the address and tasks though. JPilot works well and so does pilot-link. I checked the message boards at Ximian and they say those are included in the evolution-pilot package from them. Is there a Gentoo ebuild that has these in it yet? if not, any other suggestions? I really need to get this fixed ASAP! -- Alex Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ANSoft Computing -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] background process
Try using nohup. your prompt noup xplanet -projection rectangular 2/dev/null This way the app will run even if you kill the term it was spawned from. -- Alex Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ANSoft Computing -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution calendar sync
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 13:20, Tony Rein wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2003 12:15 pm, Alex Nelson wrote: I emerged evolution 1.4, pilot-link 0.11.8, gnome-pilot-conduits 2.0.10, and gnome-pilot 2.0.10. I don't have conduits for the address and tasks though. JPilot works well and so does pilot-link. I checked the message boards at Ximian and they say those are included in the evolution-pilot package from them. Is there a Gentoo ebuild that has these in it yet? if not, any other suggestions? I really need to get this fixed ASAP! Make sure pda is set in your USE flag. You can either edit /etc/make.conf, if you'll want anything that can to recognize that it should build with its Palm stuff, or simply set it on the command line for one-time use. For example: export USE=pda ; emerge evolution --Tony -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Kudos to you Tony! That was the problem. One emerge later and things are MUCH better. Thanks again for your help. -- Alex Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ANSoft Computing -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Grub
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm installing a new computer, but after running grub i can't find a grub.conf in my /boot/grub directory. I have run it several times now, but never is there a conf file created and also no errors occur. According to the install docs [1] this is normal, you have to create config file yourself. Without this file, you can enter the necessary commands (like root (hd0,0), kernel /linux-2.4.20 root=/dev/hda3, boot) at the grub prompt, but a menu makes life easier :) If you have a /boot partition, be sure to use /grub as grub directory, not /boot/grub, unless you have a boot - . link in this partition. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml#doc_chap23 Alex -- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key available [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to allow dialin via isdn?
Arne writes: is there a way to allow a user to dialin via isdn, so he is part of my lan? Sure. This is how I do it: DEVICE=ippp5 MSN=123456 # own number NUMBERS=012345678 # List of remote numbers to dial isdnctrl addif $DEVICE isdnctrl eaz $DEVICE $MSN isdnctrl addphone $DEVICE in * isdnctrl addphone $DEVICE out $NUMBERS isdnctrl dialmode $DEVICE manual isdnctrl huptimeout $DEVICE 600 isdnctrl l2_prot $DEVICE hdlc isdnctrl l3_prot $DEVICE trans isdnctrl encap $DEVICE syncppp isdnctrl ihup $DEVICE off ifconfig $DEVICE here pointopoint there netmask 255.255.255.0 #route add ppp-atv $DEVICE # seems to be set automatically now ipppd file /etc/ppp/options.$DEVICE The /etc/ppp/options.ippp5 file looks like this: /dev/ippp5 debug user papusername here:there netmask 255.255.255.0 -vj -vjccomp -ac -pc -bsdcomp mru 1524 mtu 1500 In /etc/hosts I have an entry like this o define the hosts: here192.168.10.1 there 192.168.10.2 Finally, in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets, this is used for the simple unencrypted PAP authentication: papusername * pappassword Use isdnctrl dial ipp5 to call the remote host, or just wait to be called by him. isdnctrl hangup ippp5 to hangup. Alex -- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key available [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-x86] [gentoo-user] iptables help
In all this mess remember to accept packets to lo from your box as well as posibly icmp errors $iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT #Established related will take care of the return packets $iptables -A INPUT -p ICMP --icmp-type 0 -j ACCEPT echo Accepting ECHO REPLYS $iptables -A INPUT -p ICMP --icmp-type 3 -j ACCEPT echo Accepting DESTINATION UNREACHABLE $iptables -A INPUT -p ICMP --icmp-type 5 -j ACCEPT echo Accepting REDIRECTS #maybe #$iptables -A INPUT -p ICMP --icmp-type 8 -j ACCEPT #echo Accepting ECHO $iptables -A INPUT -p ICMP --icmp-type 11 -j ACCEPT echo Accepting TIME EXCEEDED And. if your doing this remotely copy this to a file make it exacutable and set cron to run it every hour or so while your working out the bugs ...so if you do lock yourself out the system will open itself back up without you having to go anywhere. #!/bin/sh # Flush and Reset IPTABLES to default values for f in filter nat mangle do $iptables -t $f -F $iptables -t $f -X done # Reset default policy # filter table for r in INPUT FORWARD OUTPUT do $iptables -t filter -P $r ACCEPT done .my $0.02 -alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Free, or at least cheap AntiVirus
http://www.bitdefender.com/index.php?tab=2 Bit Defender has a linux version for download. -alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-x86] Re: [gentoo-user] X forwarding
check out the man page for xhost, that may help I've already done it and added the computer where the application is running to the list of allowed hosts. Thanks. ssh should take care of the xhost issue I would stop messing with the configs and se if you can get it to go over the command line first, did you try something simple like: ssh -X -l (user) (host.address) ...your key...or password. then: xeyes or something -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-x86] Re: [gentoo-user] Network Card Problems
Why not try a different nic? instead of beating yourself, unless you like that sort of stuff ;-) - Original Message - From: Jason Giangrande [EMAIL PROTECTED] network still fails to start. :-( Next I am removing anything that I believe is not required to boot, and see if that works. If not, then I don't see any other choice but to abandon Gentoo on this system. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: Light Linux Laptop?
Does anyone know of a good laptop to run linux on (preferably gentoo)? The only graphical program I intend to run is Mozilla, otherwise I will use text based programs. I guess I just want a dumb terminal that can do X. I was wondering, since gentoo is a source-based distrobution, how *slow* of a computer can be useful? Would mozilla run well on a Pentium II-266 Mhz? I realize there are other browsers like links lynx, but they don't seem to render most pages correctly. What does X need to run smoothly, say as a dumb terminal? I was also hoping it could last more than 3 hours on battery without weighing a ton (and be able to use a wireless network card). I suppose this is too much... -Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Mad with Cyrilic fonts with GTK or gnome? Please help.
Hello, dear collegues. Now, I'm installing new workstation based on gentoo to my notebook Dell Latitude C600. All works fine, but I have some troubles with cyrillic fonts. With windowmaker all fonts looks fine, but any gtk+ based application show me any cyrilic fonts as code (04xx). I can put screenshot at my http-server. Do you have any ideas? -- Alex Radetsky AR2657-RIPE RAD-UANIC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Madness with File-Spec. I'm in shock. ;(
How I can fix it? [EMAIL PROTECTED] rad # emerge dev-perl/File-Spec Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) dev-perl/File-Spec-0.82 to / md5 src_uri ;-) File-Spec-0.82.tar.gz Unpacking source... Unpacking File-Spec-0.82.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/File-Spec-0.82/work Source unpacked. Can't locate File/Spec.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm line 6. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm line 6. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/ExtUtils/MM.pm line 8. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm line 34. Compilation failed in require at Makefile.PL line 1. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 1. make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. !!! ERROR: dev-perl/File-Spec-0.82 failed. !!! Function perl-module_src_compile, Line 42, Exitcode 2 !!! compilation failed -- Alex Radetsky AR2657-RIPE RAD-UANIC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Does xdirectfb work?
Has anyone gotten xdirectfb to work in gentoo? I find it compiles fine, but it only seems to install a very small part of itself. When I attempt to run startdfb (or startxfb, I forget now), it compains about not finding xauth or xinit and I also find that those files don't exist. (But I did see them compile). I think the size of the installed files is under 1 meg, which doesn't make sense since the xdirectfb source is about 30meg. I posted a bug report a few weeks ago but not much has happened, and I thought the problem might be due to me. When I attempt to start directfb with the usual xfree server installed, the contents of all windows are garbled. (Although the background and mouse pointer look fine). -Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 failing to start from runlevels
Replying to myself: Richard writes: For some reason eth0 has stopped comming up when the machine is booted, giving these errors: * Bringing eth0 up... [ ok ] * Setting default gateway... SIOCADDRT: File exists * Failed to bring eth0 up [ !! ] * Bringing eth0 down... [ ok ] Just for the record, the same happens here. Probably after an emerge -u world, but I'm not sure, I'm not rebooting too often. However running the init.d script manually as root works fine: Right. Any ideas? Not yet. Searchig the forum again, I found some threads I had missed before. The suggestion there is not to start /etc/init.d/net.eth0 at all: rc-update del net.eth0 I think this _cannot_ work, but it does. Strange. But all seems to be fine. Alex -- Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key available [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Ping: Failed to install socket filter
Hello, Collegues! I have one small question. I can not understand where I do something wrong? After last update of system (emerge -u system) I can see this thing: $ ping some.host.name PING some.host.name (xx.xx.xx.xx) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from some.host.name (xx.xx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.433 ms 64 bytes from some.host.name (xx.xx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.397 ms 64 bytes from some.host.name (xx.xx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.369 ms 64 bytes from some.host.name (xx.xx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.397 ms 64 bytes from some.host.name (xx.xx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.377 ms 64 bytes from some.host.name (xx.xx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.420 ms 64 bytes from some.host.name (xx.xx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=0.354 ms 64 bytes from some.host.name (xx.xx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=0.383 ms WARNING: failed to install socket filter : Protocol not available So, can you tell me, where I'm was wrong? -- Alex Radetsky AR2657-RIPE RAD-UANIC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ping: Failed to install socket filter
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:19:56PM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote: 64 bytes from some.host.name (xx.xx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=0.354 ms 64 bytes from some.host.name (xx.xx.xx.xx): icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=0.383 ms WARNING: failed to install socket filter : Protocol not available How do you connect to the internet? I'm having the same thing when I run 'netselect'/mirrorselect. After a short period I cannot ping a host on the outside - just on the LAN. This happens only when I connect over a CISCO router - not when over ISDN on the Gentoo box. This thing happens anytime/anywhere. When I ping something in my LAN I can see it too. ;(( -- Alex Radetsky AR2657-RIPE RAD-UANIC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] prevent downgrade
Hi guys! I've merge INN-2.3.5, wich is a masked package. How can i prevent the package from a delete and downgrade during emerge -u world? Thanks Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] prelink_mask_path BUG
Hi folks, Im trying out prelink over the past couple of days and there seems to be a bug with prelink not reacting to /etc/env.d/99prelink I have posted this at bugs.gentoo.org but thought I would mention it here in case any other gentoo users have seen this. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22020 -- Alex Combas [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] BitTorrent?
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 13:43, Richard Revis wrote:
Is there a .torrent file for the Gentoo ISOs (it's not especially needed
with the likes of mirror.ac.uk handling files, but it might reduce load
somewhat).
Equally, is it possible to grab some of the largest source archives (like
open office) via a torrent, either manually or automatically via emerge?
Might save some of the mirrors from being nuked whenever a new version of
X is released :o)
This actually sounds like a pretty good idea to me.
For gentoo .iso files this would be an exceptionally good idea,
since we already have servers for those files it would require very little
effort to post an optional iso.torrent which I would happily use and it
would deffinitly lessen the load on the servers.
For big tarballs like openoffice the problem is that OOo would have to put up
a torrent file for us to use since we get the source from them.
But this makes me think... hmm... there has to be some servers out there that
supply torrents.. so what about a possible USE=torrent flag for packages
that could be downloaded by torrent? The torrent flag would NOT affect
the ebuild since the ebuild itself doesnt care how the source is downloaded, the
flag would mostly just be there to warn the user that they need to adjust their
make.conf file to use something like the following to download the file.
FETCHCOMMAND='/usr/bin/btdownloadcurses.py --url ${URI} ${DISTDIR}
Maybe we could even throw some sort of if statement into make.conf to check
the value of the USE flags, and if torrent is found then to use the bittorrnt
fetchcommand automatically, otherwise it will just use the regular fetchcommand.
..meh.. sounds like a bit to much work(pardon the pun)
Im open for others comments though, I think its a neat idea, im just not sure
if it would work.
Alex
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[gentoo-user] Privilege Separation in Portage
Hi folks, I was looking over some of GWN older tips and found this interesting nugget. Privilege Separation in Portage http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030428-newsletter.xml However, after following the directions and trying to emerge xfsprogs I get this strange error: # emerge xfsprogs Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/xfsprogs-2.3.9 to / md5 src_uri ;-) xfsprogs-2.3.9.src.tar.gz Unpacking source... Unpacking xfsprogs-2.3.9.src.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/xfsprogs-2.3.9/work /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 24: include/builddefs.in: Permission denied !!! ERROR: sys-apps/xfsprogs-2.3.9 failed. !!! Function src_unpack, Line 27, Exitcode 1 !!! sed failed So I changed the permissions of /usr/sbin/ebuild* to portage:portage and tried again, but this achieved the exact same result... I dont know what else to do. Any sudgestions? -- First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. -- Mohandas Ghandi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Quickcam permissions
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 12:51, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 03:38 pm, Tom Wesley wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 20:30, Ernie Schroder wrote: I just emergerd the camstream package for frame capture with my logitek quickcam. The driver is loaded and the application runs as root I have opened up permissions to camstream as below: # ls -l /usr/bin/camstream -rwxrwxrwx1 root wheel 369236 May 27 14:12 /usr/bin/camstream But, although I can start the program as user, it doesn't find the camera. I suppose I need to give user permission to the device but darned if I can find the device name. below is pertinant lines from dmesg: Linux video capture interface: v1.00 usb.c: registered new driver quickcam USB Quickcam Class ff SubClass ff idVendor 46d idProduct 840 USB Quickcam camera found using: $Id: quickcam.c,v 1.111 2003/01/27 09:41:03 tuukkat Exp $ quickcam: probe of HDCS1000 sensor = 08 00 id: 08 quickcam: HDCS1000 sensor detected I did find this: ls -l /dev/v4l/video0 crwxrwx---1 root video 81, 0 Dec 31 1969 /dev/v4l/video0 (user is in group video) I must have overlooked something... the device file is probably /dev/video0 or maybe a number greater than zero if you have more than one video device. Tom, Good idea, I immediately felt kind of dumb, but /dev/video0 is a link to /dev/v4l/video0 $ ls -l /dev/video0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 10 May 27 13:55 /dev/video0 - v4l/video0 What now? Wouldnt it be better to just add a line into /etc/devfsd.conf that says something like: REGISTER^v4l/video0$ PERMISSIONS root.video 660 and then do # killall -HUP devfsd Dont blame me if this borks anything, its only a sudgestion.. but thats what I would do. Just make sure your user is in the video group. Its a good idea to try to use the system instead of fighting wit it. -- Deck of Cards: $1.29. Card Table: $14.99. 101 Solitaire Variations book: $6.59. Finding a cheaper replacement for the one thing Windows is ideal for: priceless. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] e100 *** Unresolved symbols
Hi, I recieve this error from my system: root # update-modules depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20-ck4/kernel/drivers/net/e100.o root # And this brings up two questions, 1) What exactly are unresolved symbols. 2) Why is my ethernet driver working fine, yet at the same time giving me unresolved symbols messages. I've gotten unresolved symbols before but usually it means that the module wont work, but in this case it works fine. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] gtkhtml-1.1.10 failed
creating art/Makefile creating capplet/Makefile creating components/Makefile creating components/html-editor/Makefile creating components/html-editor/GNOME_GtkHTML_Editor.oaf.in creating components/ebrowser/Makefile creating components/http-storage-module/Makefile creating config.h linking ./intl/libgettext.h to intl/libintl.h configure: error: ./intl/libgettext.h: File not found !!! ERROR: gnome-extra/gtkhtml-1.1.10 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 60, Exitcode 1 !!! (no error message) I have re-emerged gettext AND intltool, and I still get the above error when I try to emerge gtkhtml-1.1.10, this failure is stoping me from emerge evolution-1.2.4 Any help will be greatly appreciated. -- alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Window Manager w/ Alpha Blending?
Could someone recommend a good Window-Manager (and whatever add-ons) that support alpha-blending? (Where all/most the windows are transparent) Thanks -Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
