Re: [gentoo-user] SATA, RAID 0, suggestions
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 02:17, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Arturo, To get the ft3xx driver to load on boot with initrd do this: hope this helps. Thanks for your complete and quick response. I'll try this as soon as possible (with GRUB, but it's almost the same than with LILO). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SATA, RAID 0, suggestions
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 16:47, Arturo di Gioia wrote: Now I'm in that situation: -Intel i875P chipset (which, AFAIK, has two SATA slots and should be able to do (hardware?) RAID 0) -Promise Fasttrak S150 TX2plus PCI controller, where the two SATA hds are actually attached. No standard ATA hds. RedHat 9: 'officially' supported, installs using the driver I downloaded from the Promise website. I'd like to install Gentoo on that PC My questions are: 2) Did anyone succeed in installing Gentoo on it, maybe using kernel 2.6 or the source code version of Promise driver (available 'as is' on their website)? Update: I compiled the source code driver on a running Gentoo box, and now I've got a nice ft3xx.o kernel module. I'll try to boot a Gentoo LiveCD on the new PC and to load the kernel module from a floppy disk. If it succeeds, I'll hope to have access to my RAID array. The problem could then be: once the system is installed, how can I make the kernel load that module at boot time? RH is able to do that. I googled a little and I found that I could load the module through initrd (which, if I'm right is a packed filesystem directly loaded by the bootloader with the kernel). I could check RH initrd and copy it. I'll try it as I'll have some time. Did anyone do something similar in the past to load some SCSI/RAID driver and has some hints for me? Does someone of you know about the existence of any tutorial/howto? I admit I still have to check the kernel-howto, maybe it has the answers I need. Thanks Arturo di Gioia -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Serial ATA RAID 0
Hi, Some days ago I posted a message asking for informations on Linux serial ATA support (I'm buying a PC). Reading the answers I got interested in RAID 0. I'd like to buy a Dell Dimension 8300 with two 120MB Serial ATA drives in RAID 0 configuration. Dell PCs have an Intel 875 motherboard, but I heard that DELL doesn't use the internal SATA controller but comes with a PCI external controller. I haven't been able to obtain any technical specification from Dell website. Provided that I'll stress Dell by phone Monday morning, I'd like to know if anyone of you does already have that configuration and has been able to install Gentoo (or any other Linux distro) on that PC. Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] New Gentoo PC, suggestions
Hi everyone, I'm going to buy a new PC for number crunching. I'm happily using Gentoo on my current PC and I'd like to do it on the new one. Short description: Dell Dimension 8300 Intel 875E chipset P4 3.0 w/Hyperthreading (maybe 3.2) 120 GB SATA HD 2GB 400MHz DDR SDRAM Blah blah blah I'm using codes with loads of sequential I/O from/to disk. Is Serial ATA a good choice? Does anyone have any experience with it? I'm experiencing a rough 35MB/s of sequential read speed with my current ATA133 HD. Will I see a visible gain in performance? SCSI disks are too expensive for my budget, so they're not an option. More: is serial ATA supported by Gentoo LiveCDs or do I have to do dirty work to have it running under Linux? I'm sorry for these dumb questions, but I'm quite in a hurry and I would be glad to hear someone saying: 'I've got it. It rocks.' ;-) Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo PC, suggestions
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 09:53, Arturo di Gioia wrote: I'm experiencing a rough 35MB/s of sequential read speed with my current ATA133 HD. Two numbers from hdparms, just for very rough comparison /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 888 MB in 2.00 seconds = 442.89 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 124 MB in 3.04 seconds = 40.72 MB/sec -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] accessing windows partition
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 06:33, Chris wrote: how do i set this thing up so i can access the windows partition from gentoo First of all you need to activate support for vfat and ntfs in the kernel. Filesystem - DOS FAT fs support MSDOS fs support VFAT (Windows-94) fs support NTFS file system support You can compile as modules or directly in the kernel. If you compile as modules, insert them with modprobe msdos modprobe vfat modprobe ntfs and add them to /etc/modules.autoload to automatically load them at boot. When your kernel supports these filesystems (maybe it already does) then you can mount the drives wherever you want with mount -t msdos|vfat|ntfs -o options /dev/hdxy /some/path/whereveryouwant x-drive y-partition and add corresponding entries to /etc/fstab to automatically mount them at boot. See man mount(8) and man fstab(5) for detailed informations. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting a module loaded after a kernel recompile.
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 00:40, Steve wrote: I recently updated my kernel and when I try to load my Aureal Vortex module I get this error: The Module you are trying to load is compiled with a gcc 2 compiler, while the kernel was compiled with a gcc 3 compiler. This is not known to work. Any idea on how to get around this ( I can use insmod -f but I am not sure if that's a wise thing to do). Is your module a binary-only one? If it's not, recompile your module with gcc3 (if it's an ALSA module emerge again alsa-driver). If it's binary only, check wherever you got it for an updated version. I fear that, if you can't obtain a gcc3 compiled module, you need to compile your kernel with gcc2.95 to get it working (I wouldn't do that, I fear nastier consequences). If you're using a binary driver supplied by the card manufacturer, see if you can switch to thr OS driver (either OSS oe ALSA, I don't know which supports Aureal Vortex). It could helt avoiding those headaches in future. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Error emerging sablotron
Hi, I'm getting an error while emerging sablotron (needed by php): Can't locate XML/Parser.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/5.6.1 /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 ../../utils/apidoc/parse_apidoc.pl line 38. If I search the file, I get find /usr/lib -name Parser.pm /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/XML/Parser.pm /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/HTML/Parser.pm /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/PDL/Pod/Parser.pm /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Pod/Parser.pm /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/Pod/Parser.pm Any idea? I'm re-emerging perl. Did someone have the same issue? Note: I've got only perl-5.8.0 installed, I cleaned 5.6.1, so I don't know why there's the 5.6.1 tree in /usr/lib/perl. Thanks, Arturo di Gioia -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Error emerging sablotron
Ooops. I had a quick search on forums and I read that I have to emerge again XML-parser. Sorry for the violation of the first law of Gentoo users (first RTFF, then ask the list). Arturo di Gioia -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Error emerging sablotron
On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 05:01, Anupam Kapoor wrote: this brings up the point that shouldn't the ebuild for sablotron have XML-parser as the dependancy ? kind regards anupam I don't know. As a matter of fact, XML-Parser is installed, it only refers to the old version of Perl, while sablotron configuration checks for the new version. So adding it to sablotron dependancies doesn't solve the problem. head -n 20 /usr/portage/app-text/sablotron/sablotron-0.97.ebuild snip DEPEND==dev-libs/expat-1.95.6-r1 dev-perl/XML-Parser It's already a dependency. Maybe one could modify the sablotron or perl ebuild to check for this inconsistency and reemerge XML-Parser if needed, but I don't know how to do it. I've just filed bug 24287 about this. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Big problem with my network config
Hi everybody, I'm in big trouble with my network config. The netadmin at my workplace just said me that it's few days that my PC connects to the network changing MAC address (it changes the MAC addres from the real one to 00:00:00:00:00:00) and then switches back after some minutes. The same thing happened six months ago but since then I never had any complaint from the netadmin until today. It's a serious problem. It's a PC on an internal network configured through DHCP. It's a workstation so I took only standard security measures (the only service allowed is ssh from a selected number of addressess specified in hosts.allow). I regularly update my box but I don't run a firewall, but I think it's a rather secure box (given the number of the unpatched boxes in the same network it's quite unmprobable that the only compromised box on the network it's mine). I still hope in a configuration problem, but I don't know where to check. Obviously I'm in desperate need to find and solve this problem, or I'll be forced to drop Gentoo for a more standard distribution (it would be a hell). Did anyone else out there had the same problem? Can someone suggest me something to try? Thanks, Arturo di Gioia -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Big problem with my network config
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 11:27, Zack Gilburd wrote: On Tuesday 08 July 2003 02:21 am, Arturo di Gioia wrote: a configuration problem, but I don't know where to check. Obviously I'm in desperate need to find and solve this problem, or I'll be forced to drop Gentoo for a more standard distribution (it would be a hell). What makes you think this is a Gentoo problem? If this is indeed a software problem (which I doubt) then it's the kernel's fault, not Gentoo's. I think that the MAC changing is a problem with the card itself, seeing as how the MAC is not adjustable (unless you have a semi-rare NIC that allows MAC adjustment). IMHO, you should look into another NIC. Sorry. I wasn't complaining about Gentoo. I meant that I'm almost completely ignorant in network stuff. I only started dhcpcd as stated in installation instructions but I could have made an error without even noticing. The fact is that I'm probably the only one running Gentoo on my network and I'm surely the only one with this problem, so I'm scared of my netadmin thinking 'He runs Gentoo - He is a power user - His computer has problems - He's a script-kiddie playing with my network'. Yes, maybe I misconfigured my kernel, or it's an hardware problem (which didn't occurred before). Maybe my box has been rooted. The fact is that I'm very scared by this thing (I always hated blackhat stuff, and I don't wanna be accused of being a script-kiddie or a cracker). This is an excerpt of lspci: 02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) Standard NIC, I think. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Big problem with my network config
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 15:12, daniel wrote: first off, _calm_down_. i'm in agreement with zack -- wigging out mac addresses are typically a hardware issue (especially on a closed network), so for the price and availability of them, swap that out first before you start freaking out about a hack. I had some other infos. It appears that there are layer 2 ethernet frames travelling on the network with my IP address and the wrong MAC address. Maybe they're not even generated by my box. I just understood that the ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff is related to broadcast packets. Is there a particular meaning in source address 00:00:00:00:00:00? I also launched as root nohup tcpdump ether src 00:00:00:00:00:00 and src 192.168.202.156 This should list in /root/nohup any packet starting from my box with the wrong address. Am I right? Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Big problem with my network config
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 16:20, Marshal Newrock wrote: If you wanted to watch it for a while, I'd use cron to regularly log (every minute) the output of '/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | head -1' Done. Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Pretty Linux
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 17:12, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: Hi all, Just a curiosity, try to search in Google for: pretty linux. Surprise! Gentoo Linux Homepage is the first to come up! :D Best regards, Paulo J. Matos Searching for Linux distro shows Gentoo as third link. Definitely worse than Microsoft Linux (no. 1), which must then be the best Linux distro out there. ;-) Arturo di Gioia -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] lightweight C IDE
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 02:53, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: Hi all, I am searching for a *lightweight* C IDE, but not only an editor with syntax highlighting. Isn't there a nice tool with editor, compiler- and debugger-interface, C function help etc., but not as bombastic as KDevelop (only want to write some console and daemon C apps)? I would prefer a KDE app, but all others are welcome as well. Greetings, Matthias You could look to Source Navigator + Data Display Debugger. The first one lets you organize your sources, the second is a frontend for gdb. You could probably setup SN to call Emacs as and DDD when you need them. Maybe it's not as integrated as you desire, but they're very lightweight and powerful. emerge emacs snavigator ddd -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I permanently accept unstable ebuilds?
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 14:17, Christian Aust wrote: Hi all, I'd like to test gcc-3.3 and emerged sys-devel/gcc/gcc-3.3.ebuild. However, when I try to recompile another package, emerge -p would downgrade gcc first. How can I keep gcc-3.3, without upgrading all other packages by issuing ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86? Best regards, - Christian emerge -i sys-devel/gcc-3.2.2 This 'injects' the latest stable version of gcc (portage thinks it is installed so it doesn't require any downgrade). -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB Mass Storage Device
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 16:07, Paulo J. Matos wrote: Hi all, I bought an USB MemoryBird from Fujitsu Siemens. Is that supported under Gentoo Linux? I've never heard anything about these devices. Any references or experiences? It's probably supported. You must turn on in kernel configuration 'USB mass storage support' (and eventually USB suppport if you haven't already done that). You could also turn on 'Preliminary USB device support' so that you can see if your device is recognized (look in /proc/usb or use the 'usbview' app). Then you have to mount the partition on your USB device with something like /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 in /etc/fstab (the USB partition is seen as a SCSI disk partition). -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Realistic Install timeframe
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 16:26, Trey Sizemore wrote: I was thinking of installing Gentoo on my maching starting this afternoon. My machine in a PII400 with 512M RAM, ATI All-inWonder 128 video, CD-RW, 48X CD, Iiyama 450. Would it be realistic if I started install (my first Gentoo install - currently dual-booting WinXP and Libranet 2.7) at stage 1 this afternoon, that I could have a functioning (KDE, email, browser) up and running by tomorrow sometime? If so, I'll probably give it a try. Thanks. I just upgraded to KDE 3.1.1 tonight. It took around 15 hours to compile everything on a P4 2.0GHz with 1GB Ram. When I installed Gentoo, I took a weekend for it. I used the first day just for bootstrap (not a lenghty process in itself, but I needed time to setup the partitions, configure the kernel and other stuff). Then I went stage 3 during the night. On sunday morning I had a bootable system at stage 3. I then emerged X, Gmome, Evolution, Mozilla and Emacs. If I remember well, it took about one day to complete the task. On Monday morning all I had to do was to install from CD the f90 compiler I use at work and I had an 'usable' (in n00b sense) system. After that, I emerged the rest of my system during the following days. -- Arturo di Gioia web: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/ PGP public key: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/files/adg_gpg_pub.asc Instructions for using my e-mail address: http://netiquette.info/ Please don't send me Word or PowerPoint attachments: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] device nodes for CD drives?
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 20:37, Josh Zeckser wrote: Hello all, I am having a problem getting my CD-ROM and CD-RW drives to work. I don't seem to have any device nodes for these. I was expecting to find devices like hdc and hdd, like in previous distros I've used. They don't exist. I was told to look in /dev/ide, but they aren't there either. I have no sg* nodes, no cdrom folders/nodes, nothing. I'm using hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi in my grub.conf. I had similar problems with my cdrw and the latest kernel (gentoo sources 2.4.20). I solved it compiling ide-scsi and ide-cd as modules, and then loading them in this order: modprobe ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd My kernel parameters are the same as yours. There has been a long thread on this topic last week. -- Arturo di Gioia web: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/ PGP public key: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/files/adg_gpg_pub.asc Instructions for using my e-mail address: http://netiquette.info/ Please don't send me Word or PowerPoint attachments: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with Dvd and Cdrom.
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 01:56, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: Recompliled my kernel and compiled in all the stuff even the stuff you have listed as modules. But the floppy is still not reading any disk. Complianing about not being able to identifiy the filesystem and one not being specified. I am wondering if I have a access permissions problem? Thank you for your help and any other assistance would be appreciated. Did you add your user to the floppy group in /etc/group ? On my box: bash-2.05b# cat /etc/group | grep floppy floppy::11:root,arturo,katia,michele Check the permissions, owner and group of files in /dev/floppy. I don't know why, but on my box they belong to arturo:floppy with rw permissions for user and group. I'm not an expert of devfs, so since it works on my PC I'm not going to investigate why the floppy devices belong to a user and not to root. Maybe someone in the list can explain that. -- Arturo di Gioia web: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/ PGP public key: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/files/adg_gpg_pub.asc Registered Linux user #230853 (http://counter.li.org). Instructions for using my e-mail address: http://netiquette.info/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] US's foreign policy (was: installing gentoowithout the internet)
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:26:57AM +, Ernie Schroder wrote: Please let's keep personal politics out of Gentoo I agree. Obviously anyone of us has its own opinion on this terribly serious subject, but the Gentoo users mailing list is not the right place to talk about it. I'm not completely against OT threads, but talking of politics in a technical ML could very easily degenerate in a flame war. Thanks -- Arturo di Gioia web: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/ PGP public key: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/files/adg_gpg_pub.asc Registered Linux user #230853 (http://counter.li.org). Instructions for using my e-mail address: http://netiquette.info/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mod_php and blackdown
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 18:32, Nicholas Hockey wrote: checking for Java support... yes checking Java Jar location... configure: error: Unable to locate /opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.1/bin Did you set the vm to blackdown-1.4.1? java-config --set-system-vm=blackdown-jre-1.4.1 env-update source /etc/profile (check JAVAC and JAVA_HOME environment variables). I had the same problem and blackdown jdk 1.4.1 solved it. If you want you can post me your logs (I can't assure I will be able to understand them though ;-) ). The following lines are from a comment I posted on February, 19 on the same subject: On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 17:24, Brave Cobra wrote: emerge sun-jdk java-config --list-available-vms (to list the available ones) java-config --set-system-vm=sun-jdk-1.4.1.01 (or your corresponding version) 1) emerge php I had to do 1) env-update source /etc/profile before emerging php, otherwise it complained about not being able to find /bin directory while searching for jar files (my JAVA_HOME was pointing to blackdown-jre, my previous vm). -- Arturo di Gioia web: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/ PGP public key: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/files/adg_gpg_pub.asc Registered Linux user #230853 (http://counter.li.org). Instructions for using my e-mail address: http://netiquette.info/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Advice on CD recording and viewing movies
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 18:05, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Hi there, Ok, I finally have moved from RH8 to Gentoo (right now I like a lot what I'm seeing), and would like to wipe out Windows too, so a few questions: * Can you give me some recomendations in CD recording software? I think you can use whatever you used in RH8. Xcdroast, k3b, Gnome CD Master and Gnome Toaster are all there, just emerge them. If you never used CD burning sw under Linux, just some infos: many (if not all) CD burning programs are interfaces to command line tools (cdrecord, cdda2wav, cdparanoia, ...). xcdroast - I use it because it's the first one I learnt, it has very little eyecandy but it works and it's simple (gtk) k3b - Very similar to Easy CD Creator, probably good for people used to Windows programs (qt3) Gnome Toaster - Similar to k3b, but simpler and not-so-gorgeous-looking (gtk) Gnome CD Master - Similar to CloneCD, it allows Audio CD creation and CD copy, but not data CD creation (gtk) I use only xcdroast, so take my infos on other programs with a grain of salt. -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Opensymbol font not working
It's quite some time now that I'm not able to solve this problem with OpenOffice: the opensymbol font is not visualized (so I miss all the bullets in lists). After some googling I had been able to find only a vague reference to a freetype bug since version 2.1.0 (but I don't know if it could be my issue). I run OpenOffice 1.0.2 (I ran the source compiled version, now I'm using the binary version). My freetype version is 2.1.2-r2. I don't know if openoffice-bin is statically linked to another freetype version. Does anybody else have (have had) the same issue? Thanks -- Arturo di Gioia web: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/ PGP public key: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/files/adg_gpg_pub.asc Registered Linux user #230853 (http://counter.li.org). Instructions for using my e-mail address: http://netiquette.info/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with Dvd and Cdrom.
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 09:43, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: On Friday 14 March 2003 12:39 am, jardous wrote: is fat module loaded? If you use only fat filesystem on your discettes, change the auto parameter to msdos in your /etc/fstab Jardous: Must not be installed in the kernel because I now get error after changing auto to msdos; Could not mount device, The reported error was: mount: fs type msdos not supported by kernel. Being that this is the first kernel that I have ever compiled I do not think I have done too bad the system does run. Looks like I will have to find the how to recompile the kernel guide in the massive amount of paper I printed out to cover the install. I think I will do this late tommorrow or early saturday. Any words of further wisdom as to what options to enable? Thanks for your kind help. If these are your first kernel compiles, I suggest you to 'make xconfig' to use the graphical configuration tool. Under 'File Systems' compile 'DOS FAT fs support', 'MSDOS fs support' and, if you want to access FAT partitions with long filenames, 'VFAT (Windows-95) support'. You can compile them as modules if you want. If you want to compile them as modules you can activate them with 'modprobe module_name' (ex: modprobe fat.o) and if you want them to be loaded automatically at boot just add them in /etc/modules.autoconf These are the filesystems supported by my kernel compiled: ext2 ext3 iso9660 with JOLIET extensions /proc (required by Gentoo) /dev(required by Gentoo) /dev/pts(I don't remember why I compiled this, sorry) inserted as modules: fat vfat msdos ntfs (read only) udf (read only) (this is the fs used by Roxio DirectCD, for instance) -- Arturo di Gioia web: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/ PGP public key: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/files/adg_gpg_pub.asc Registered Linux user #230853 (http://counter.li.org). Instructions for using my e-mail address: http://netiquette.info/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Open ports question
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 15:40, Pius Lee wrote: Hi, I recently used nmap to portscan my machine from another pc and found that i've got the following ports open: 22 (ssh) 25 (smtp) 113 (pop-3) Stop your network interface and watch which services are automatically stopped. Restarting network and checking those services one by one you should find which one listens the pop3 and smtp ports. You could use nmap from the target box without any problem even if the network interface is down. To stop network: /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop To start network: /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start To start services: /etc/init.d/servicename start -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] switch user with gdm
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 20:49, Spundun Bhatt wrote: Hi Is there any way to switch between users (without logging off) with gdm/gnome combination? Thanx Spundun -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Check Xnest manpage (Xnest is able to run an X window as a fake root window, thus allowing multiple instances of programs which require to run in root window, like xdm, gdm, kde, gnome). This is the way Gnome2 allows for 'new login' and 'new login in nested window'. Xnest is useful also for a remote login via XDMCP in a local window (like Exceed or Xwin32 do on Windows). I imagine you are looking for something like the user switching capability in WinXP. Xnest does something similar, but AFAIK you have to configure it yourself. Look also at gdm manuals for infos about gdmXnest, gdmXnestchooser and gdmflexiserver (the gdm tools which, I suppose, use Xnest for multiple graphical logins). -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with Dvd and Cdrom.
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 21:17, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: Hi all: I just completed my first install of Gentoo. And am very new to command line stuff. My problem is that my Dvd which is master on ide channel 2 is seen as /mnt/cdrom. And my CDRW which is secondary on ide channel 2 is not seen. In /dev I have sym links for cdrom0 and cdrom1 and they seem to point to the right devices. In mount there is only a cdrom. My other problem is the floppy is shown a locked deviece. This is my fstab (at least, the part dealing with removable mesdia). /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom autonoauto,ro,users 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrwautonoauto,ro,users 0 0 /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip autonoauto,users 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy autonoauto,users 0 0 For your second CD unit, I suppose all you have to do is create the target dir (/mnt/cdrom1 according to your fstab). To check device permissions, you need to look in /etc/devfsd.conf, altough I think floppy drives should be ok in their default config (mine worked without a problem). -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerging a masked file...
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 14:49, Sean Higgins wrote: Hello, How do I emerge a masked file? I am trying to upgrade to freetype-2.1.3-r2, because I have seen is might fix my font problem in KDE 3.1... Sean -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -U packagename The capital U prevents downgrading at subsequent system or world upgrades. -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla and Java (Again)
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 12:52, Arthur Britto wrote: ebuild /usr/portage/media-video/mplayer/mplayer-0.90_rc4.ebuild ebuild /usr/portage/net-www/mplayerplug-in/mplayerplug-in-0.40.ebuild Now I realize why my emerge search plugin gave no results related to mplayer. Thanks. -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Mozilla and mplayer Was: Mozilla and Java (Again)
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 15:47, Arthur Britto wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 06:07, Arturo di Gioia wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 12:52, Arthur Britto wrote: ebuild /usr/portage/media-video/mplayer/mplayer-0.90_rc4.ebuild ebuild /usr/portage/net-www/mplayerplug-in/mplayerplug-in-0.40.ebuild My mistake, the command should be emerge not ebuild: emerge /usr/portage/media-video/mplayer/mplayer-0.90_rc4.ebuild emerge /usr/portage/net-www/mplayerplug-in/mplayerplug-in-0.40.ebuild I emerged the plugin, and Mozilla recognised it. However it doesn't play any stream (realplayer works well). Weeks ago I played with mplayer config and now my video and audio drivers are set to sdl. Can someone post a working mlayer config file so that I can see what's wrong with mine? Thanks -- Arturo di Gioia web: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/ PGP public key: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/files/adg_gpg_pub.asc Registered Linux user #230853 (http://counter.li.org). Instructions for using my e-mail address: http://netiquette.info/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage dependency question
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 14:05, Lloyd H. Meinholz wrote: I have a package (gnome-panel) that shows up as needing to be downgraded (from 2.2.0.1-r1 to 1.4.2-r2) when I do an 'emerge -up --deep world'. Is there a way in portage to figure out what depends on the old version of a package so that I could either unmerge it or update it or at least ignore it in confidence that nothing is subtely broken? Thanks. Lloyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list This is a recurring topic (I asked it a couple of months ago). The fact is that gnome 1.4 and gnome 2 reside on different 'slots' (they can coexist, just like KDE 3.0 and 3.1), so portage isn't really downgrading your gnome2 packet, but it's upgrading the 1.4 one which was installed either because you emerged gnome 1.4 or because some app required the old version of gnome-panel as a dependency (so don't worry). -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage dependency question
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 14:05, Lloyd H. Meinholz wrote: Is there a way in portage to figure out what depends on the old version of a package so that I could either unmerge it or update it or at least ignore it in confidence that nothing is subtely broken? Thanks. Lloyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list qpkg -I -q gnome-panel This commands show up which packages (not necessarily installed) packages depend upon gnome-panel. I didn't install gnome 1.4, but xmms requires the old version of gnome-panel. -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newbie - first install
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 18:13, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Patrick Marquetecken wrote: 1. USB i have enabled usb in the kernel, but when inserting a USB mass device nothing happens. If i run dmesg is there nothing. How do i get this to work. Did you build in usb-storage (module or otherwise)? Since you got no message (saying could not find driver), it sounds like USB is totaly b0rked, do any other devices work? I have rebuild the kernel and have made the USB build in. It works, dmesg shows information on the usb-mass but i have no idee where to mount it, in /dev is only hda In RH 7.3 i have used /dev/sda1, SCSI emulation for CD-rom is also build in into the kernel. I succeeded in getting an USB pendrive work following these instructions: http://vic.dyndns.org/linux-UsbMassStorage/ -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Slow gigabit...
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 16:41, Pär Wedin wrote: Hi all! I recently upgraded my LAN to gigabit, but so far it's been a disappointment. It really isn't much faster than it used to be... If I fetch a large file from my proftpd server I get about 11 MB/s, and the same file from apache about 15 MB/s. I was hoping for at least twice that. The server is a P3-733 Are you sure it isn't a server bottleneck (for example due to a slow IDE drive)? I think a program like TTCP could help you testing your true bandwidth http://www.pcausa.com/Utilities/pcattcp.htm -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Slow gigabit...
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 17:11, Arturo di Gioia wrote: I think a program like TTCP could help you testing your true bandwidth http://www.pcausa.com/Utilities/pcattcp.htm ARGH! I just realized that I pointed you to a Windows version! Shame on me. By the way, Google should be your friend in finding a Linux version. -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fsck'ed system
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 13:08, david mattatall wrote: I added ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 to my /etc/make.conf and royally fscked my system with a beta version of gcc and Xfree 3.0 which doesn't like to keep from chrashingwell I decided to revert and apperently I can't build the packages I want to download to. CRAP! I'm freaking out here, I now have an unusable system and no way to recover...any suggestions? 1) Try to reemerge the stable version of gcc with fair CFLAGS. Maybe some aggressive optimization flags prevent the beta version from working efficiently. If you succeed in getting back the stable compiler, reemerge it optimized, then 'emerge -u world' without ~x86. 2) You could try out the 1.4_rc3 LiveCD while reinstalling everything, feeling better because you helped testing out the upcoming 1.4 final ;-) . -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installation docs
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 17:08, Daniel Carrera wrote: I'll send it to you off-list. I just sent him a ps and pdf version. -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble emerging 'php'
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 20:31, Dessimat0r wrote: Here is the output from 'emerge php', right up to where it fails. checking for mkfifo... no checking for getrlimit... no checking for PSPELL support... yes checking for QtDOM support... yes checking for c++... g++ checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ -mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -falign-functions=4 -foptimize-sibling-calls -fexpensive-optimizations -pipe -Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -Wl,-rpath,/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.3.1/jre/lib/i386/classic -L/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.3.1/jre/lib/i386/classic -Wl,-rpath,/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.3.1/jre/lib/i386/server -L/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.3.1/jre/lib/i386/server -Wl,-rpath,/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.3.1/jre/lib/i386/native_threads -L/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.3.1/jre/lib/i386/native_threads -Wl,-rpath,/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.3.1/jre/lib/i386 -L/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.3.1/jre/lib/i386 -Wl,-rpath,/usr/qt/3/lib -L/usr/qt/3/lib) works... no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables. /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 238: die: command not found !!! ERROR: dev-php/php-4.3.1-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 185, Exitcode 127 !!! bad ./configure dessimat0r root # Can anyone help? :/ Thanks in advance -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list If you're on gentoo 1.4 maybe it's an issue with blackdown-jdk 1.3.1 (there had been a problem related to php and blackdown-jdk about two weeks ago, there's a thread in the list) If you don't need java support try USE=-java emerge php either you can emerge sun-jdk 1.4.1 or blackdown-jdk 1.4.1 (masked, but I emerged it because it's compiled with gcc 3.2 and its plugin works with Mozilla and Galeon). Are you able to call g++ from the command line? I know it's a stupid hint, but try source /etc/profile just after su (or use 'su -'). -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] REQUEST: add vi to stage1
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 22:47, Raptorfan wrote: Who do I beg/plead to get SOME form of vi editor added to the stage1 tarball? It's absolutely GOOFY this form of *nix does not have vi at its base install when every other Unix out there does. I have just a curiosity. I personally use nano without any problem, but I understand anyone has his preferences as it comes to editors. Now, many editors like vi and joe are very lightweight, so I don't think that adding them to the LiveCDs would be such a space waste. It's true that anyone can emerge his preferred editor right after stage1 install. On one side I really don't understand people requesting editor xyz to be present on CDs, considering they will have to use nanoonly two or three times before having the opportunity to emerge their preferred editor. On the other side I don't see such a blasphemy in requesting the presence of other editors (minimal versions of vi, (maybe) joe, emacs) keeping nano as the reference editor in installation instructions. Just my two cents. -- Arturo di Gioia web: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/ PGP public key: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/files/adg_gpg_pub.asc Registered Linux user #230853 (http://counter.li.org). Instructions for using my e-mail address: http://netiquette.info/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] REQUEST: add vi to stage1
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 15:16, Raptorfan wrote: .. but this was one reason I asked. If it's good enough for the LiveCD install, what's wrong with stage1? Guess that was my issue. Oops. I just realized I completely misunderstood the request. In my previous mail I assumed vi was missing on the LiveCD, not in the stage1 tarball. Sorry. -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving mozilla profiles
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 23:51, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Arturo di Gioia wrote: Mail: as for the mail content, I think you can just copy the files. Mozilla should recognize them as folders. This doesn't work. When I start up Mail News, it wants me to create a new account. I think the settings are kept in the prefs.js. What I meant is, create the new account and then move the content of ~/.mozilla/$user/random_numbers/Mail/account_name/ from your previous box to your Gentoo box. Expecially. The important files are the couples (Filename,Filename.msf), they actually contain your mail. I don't use Mozilla as a mail reader, so I don't know if filters and other personalizations are placed here. I created a fake mozilla account on my box. My account mail is in dir /home/arturo/.mozilla/arturo/8oy4pec9.slt/Mail/mail.ing.unitn.it and the files created by Mozilla are in files named Drafts Inbox Inbox.msf Sent Templates Trash popstate.dat rules.dat probably you could overwrite these files with your own (be careful of setting correct user:group and permissions when migrating). I don't think personal settings are in prefs.js. Even if it is the case, the only important files are the plain text files that contain your mail, and I'm pretty sure that you can copy those files from one account to another without problems (I personally did it with Kmail and Evolution on Linux, and with Mozillamail on Windows). -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] no g++
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 11:35, greg gulrajani wrote: Hello Gentoo-Users, I have completed the Stage 1 installation , but when I start Stage 2 the first package (python) fails to complete the Configure script because of no g++ , gcc is installed... any idea? thank you in advance. -greg Does 'gcc is installed' mean 'gcc works' or 'gcc has been untarred during stage 1 installation'? Have you got a working kernel on your hd or are you still chrooting (I suppose you are chrooting)? Did you remember to use the -p option while untarring stage 1? Did you correctly chrooted (Important: 'env-update source /etc/profile' after chrooting)? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] moving mozilla profiles
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 00:15, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Everything is now contained within the .mozilla directory. Unfortunately, it isn't quite as easy as this. There are a lot of absolute directory references to /root in a lot of the files in the .mozilla directory. There are even references to /root in the binary file .mozilla/appreg. Try copying everything under your root account under Gentoo. Try to exactly figure out what do you need to keep. Mail - Important Bookmarks - Quite important Mail filters - Not so important Profile - Unless you don't have some stored password or server setting you don't remember, nothing that cannot be set up again from scratch in 10 minutes. Create a new profile on your Gentoo box. Don't overwrite the .mozilla dir created by Mozilla. Bookmarks : export bookmarks on a file, and import them in your user account (Tools in bookmark management app). Mail: as for the mail content, I think you can just copy the files. Mozilla should recognize them as folders. Filters: I don't know. AFAIK many of the files in ./mozilla are settings related to your environment, IMHO is a bad idea to copy them from RH to Gentoo. Instead of trying to save every preference, save only your data and set up again Mozilla. I think it will save you a lot of headache. -- Arturo di Gioia web: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/ PGP public key: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/files/adg_gpg_pub.asc Registered Linux user #230853 (http://counter.li.org). Instructions for using my e-mail address: http://netiquette.info/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PHP installation problem
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 01:43, Meir Kriheli wrote: On Wednesday 19 February 2003 16:58, rafailow wrote: On 19 Feb 2003 17:38:28 +0100 Brave Cobra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 17:24, Arturo di Gioia wrote: On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 17:24, Brave Cobra wrote: emerge sun-jdk java-config --list-available-vms (to list the available ones) java-config --set-system-vm=sun-jdk-1.4.1.01 (or your corresponding version) 1) emerge php Do all you guys really need java support with php ? Whole idea of use flags is to customize the software to your needs. If not, why not set -java in USE flags (along with X and qt while at it) ? I tried to do it, but it still required a working jdk. Maybe I did something wrong, but that's it, I discovered the masked blackdown-jdk and installed it (at least for Mozilla plugins). To be honest, I think I really don't need any php at all, but that's the cool of Gentoo. I can customize it, I can install only what I need ... and then I install everything 'cause I'm a complete dumbass and I don't know what I really need (hey, that's what high band and capable harddisks are made for, isn't it?). ;-) -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Non root build
Yesterday I updated portage to version 2.0.47-r2. It suggested me to add a 'portage' group to allow non root build. Unfortunately it didn't give any more information. I tried it (I created the portage group and added my user to it). It doesn't work (portage still requires root privileges to fetch and compile). I tried with no luck to search any information on the forums and on portage and make.conf man pages. Does anyone have any useful info about that topic? Thanks in advance. -- Arturo di Gioia web: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/ PGP public key: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~digioia/files/adg_gpg_pub.asc Registered Linux user #230853 (http://counter.li.org). Instructions for using my e-mail address: http://netiquette.info/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PHP installation problem
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 13:49, Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Wednesday 19 February 2003 13:18, rafailow wrote: On 19 Feb 2003 10:57:14 +0100 the same for me... please help... thx The problem is (at least) with blackdown-1.3.1 With sun-jdk-1.4.1 it seems to compile well Paul I emerged blackdown-jdk-1.4.1 (masked package) and now php is compiling well (I also cleared and injected the previous version). It also works with mozilla. -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PHP installation problem
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 17:24, Brave Cobra wrote: emerge sun-jdk java-config --list-available-vms (to list the available ones) java-config --set-system-vm=sun-jdk-1.4.1.01 (or your corresponding version) 1) emerge php I had to do 1) env-update source /etc/profile before emerging php, otherwise it complained about not being able to find /bin directory while searching for jar files (my JAVA_HOME was pointing to blackdown-jre, my previous vm). -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Unmounting livecd during installation?
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 10:27, Jean Jordaan wrote: Hi there We're installing a Gentoo system from a livecd image. We have a stage 3 tarball on a seperate CD. After booting from the livecd, we'd like to unmount and remove the CD, to insert the CD with the tarball and untar that onto the hard drive. However, the livecd refuses to be unmounted: device busy. How does one get around this? BRAINFART I assume you don't have a second drive. AFAIK, you cannot unmount your root partition (it's obviously always busy), so until you don't chroot on a stage* system, you cannot unmount your boot cd. But then you can't install your stage3 system, so you're in a loop. I could suggest you to use a little service partition to install a stage1 system, chroot into it, then unmount cdrom, mount your stage3 cd and untar it in your 'real' root, then you can chroot into that partition and proceed with installation. You can then turn your service partition into swap space (simplier and safer than repartitioning) (you could start installation without swap space and dimensioning the service partition according to your final swap space needs). /BRAINFART -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 10:32, Dio wrote: hy i made a kde-3.1 emerge but how i unmerge the old KDE 3.0.x? the files in kde/3 and kde/3.1 directories belong to same package thanx Di0 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list This worked for me (use your version of KDE 3 instead) emerge /var/db/pkg/kde-base/*/*3.0.5* -Cp I cuttedpasted it from a previous mail. Check the archives for more informations. Threads: Unmerging previous KDE installations How do i get rid of this kde-3.0.5a and kde-3.1 co-existence? -- Arturo di Gioia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
