Re: [gentoo-user] portage -u world broken by /var/cache/edb/world
On February 10, 2004 15:42, phil wrote: Are you running reiserfs or have had any lockups? when i first installed gentoo i was using rfs and locked it a few times (badly configured kernel ,acpi-nforce2 issue) which badly messed up some files and forced me to reinstall with ext3,which seems to be a bit more forgiving. Yes I'm running reiserfs, and have gotten a few times, although I'm not sure what from. Maybe I'll try ext3 next time. Jared -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] portage -u world broken by /var/cache/edb/world
First the error message I got: === [EMAIL PROTECTED] portage # emerge -u world -p These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 2513, in ? if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 1093, in xcreate if portage.db[/][vartree].dbapi.match(x): File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 4148, in match mymatch=match_from_list(mydep,self.cp_list(mykey,use_cache=use_cache)) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 4074, in cp_list mystat=os.stat(self.root+VDB_PATH+/+mysplit[0])[ST_MTIME] TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be (encoded string without NULL bytes), not str For some reason, my /var/cache/edb/world had a line beginning with ld.so-1.7.0, followed by 1976 characters of binary. Removing this line solved the problem. How it got in there, I have no idea -- I hope it's not a hardware issue. Jared -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kopete and irc problem ?
On February 9, 2004 18:52, David H. Askew wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 'lo all anyone using kopete 0.8.0 and having trouble connecting to irc .. its as if I can connect, but I timeout almost immediately ? ...just curious if anyone is seeing this .. this is while trying to connect to various freenode servers I asked about this on kde-forums.org and got the answer I was looking for. Apparently, they set the timeout to establish a connection to 15000ms, which just doesn't cut it. I unzipped /usr/portage/distfiles/kdenetwork-3.2.0*, and followed Twiggy794's advice, and then manually recompiled and installed just kopete: Yyyyeah ~ I had this problem. You're going to have to build Kopete from source (grab the KDENetwork source package off of KDE's website, since the Kopete website doesn't have .8final posted yet). Go into the directory kopete/protocols/irc/libkirc and open up kirc.cpp. Line number 363 will have a value in it (probably 15000). Change the 15 to a 60. This is the setting for a timeout, which is by default set at 15 seconds. You want it set to 60. Hope that helps. It would be nice if this was made into a patch and submitted to the gentoo ebuild but I've never done that before (I would guess there's some docs on gentoo.org saying how easy it is and how much of a hero I would be to do so.) Jared -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE failed
On February 9, 2004 12:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure I remember everything, but I'll try . . . I tried to update to KDE 3.2 using ~x86. kdelibs-3.1.4 blocked qt. So, unmerged kdelibs-3.1.4 and emerged the new qt. The install of 3.2 failed at some point, so I installed 3.1.5. Now, kde won't start. The Nvidia splash screen flashes 3 or 4 times, then I'm dropped into console. I checked /etc/X11/Sessions and it has the proper items, 3.1.1a and 3.1.5. No matter which I put in /etc/rc.conf, I get the same result. X works, but kde doesn't. I'm stumped as to where else to look. Any advice appreciated. Thanks. Muahaha! A victim of qt vs kdelibs-3.1.4 blockage. I was frustrated for a while with this. I don't really know where to look or how to help you (why does building kde-3.2 fail?) but I can say that I now have qt-3.3, kde-3.2, and I unmerged kde-3.1.5, but now it's showing up on my emerge -u world -- it wants to install kdelibs-3.1.5 again. Jared -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdevelop3.0 ~x86
On February 6, 2004 00:42, Robert Crawford wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2004 8:19 pm, Jared Thirsk wrote: On February 4, 2004 07:37, LJN wrote: anyone had trouble with this or does the ebuild work as it should? I'm having problems with the main client area (left and right and bottom docks, as well as the mdi area) being displayed as a separate top-level window. I resolved the problem... last two things I did were install qt 3.3 then reemerge kdelibs-3.2, and everything seems to work. Jared -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Software raid
On January 30, 2004 22:37, Ted Ozolins wrote: Before I totally mess things up, in order to use software raid (raid 1) do I have to select the partitions as a raid before the install? I have two identical drives with 50 megs at the begining of each drive for /boot . Do I have to start over with fdisk and redo the install? Do I sound rather confused, that s because right now I am:) Any pointers info rtfm welcome Cheers insert massive all caps disclaimer here I experimented before setting up my RAID partitions. (I didn't feel like backing up my 20GB mp3/ogg collection with a mere CD-R burner.) I did all sorts of experiments just to be sure, like mounting one partition at a time, adding files, starting RAID, and watching the files propagate (or be wiped out if I added to the wrong drive). I was quite impressed with how I could mount the RAID drive, mount the component partitions individually at the same time and mess around with them :-) Anyway, from memory (lol, see part about disclaimer): I turned existing partition into degraded RAID-1 partition, bypassing a huge and nasty warning and all sorts of --i-really-want-to-force-this --yes-I-am-really-sure command line args, and then I wiped out a second partition on another drive, and turned it into a raid partition, and added it to the end of the RAID-1 list. When I brought up the RAID-1 drive, it copied the first disk onto the second (so if you get the order wrong you're borked. I might have put the same data on both partitions just to be sure.) I have my boot partition on RAID-1, as well as my major root partition, and I did both of these without starting from scratch. I also have a RAID-0 spanning 3 drives, which I did have to start from scratch. All my drives are set to RAID autodetect and I'm using GRUB. The only annoyance is that GRUB takes 90 secs or so to load itself and start loading the kernel after I select it from the menu and I'm not quite sure why -- haven't looked into it much. ...Basically, all this just to say it can be done. This of course is by no means a howto, so backup your data if you care about it and read the fine manual(s) that the other nice people referenced. Jared -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Substitute for Kdevelop
Hi, I'm using emacs bot vim, but i think they are the best. I hate every kind of IDE :), at least I will never use one. What about one that lets you use vim as an editor? (KDevelop 3 with embedded Vim component) Unless you're strictly an emacs freak, can you beat that? :-) ...The folks over at KDE increase my confidence in the human race. (As do the creators of gentoo of course :-) ) Jared -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kdevelop3.0 ~x86
On February 4, 2004 07:37, LJN wrote: anyone had trouble with this or does the ebuild work as it should? I'm having problems with the main client area (left and right and bottom docks, as well as the mdi area) being displayed as a separate top-level window. I'm mostly running kde-3.2 (kde-edu 3.2 fails to build), qt 3.2.3-r1 (not sure about the whole qt vs kde situation...currently trying an upgrade to qt 3.3), and I haven't merged kdmrc for 3.2 with the one from 3.2_rc1, so I've still got some things to try. Based on recommendations from others, I'm considering fully switching to ~x86, instead of mixing it up like I am now, for things like kde 3.2, eclipse 2.1 (which I don't regularly use but has been ~x86 for what seems like an eternity), blender 2.32, and all the other new stuff I can't resist. Jared -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
