Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI tape drive doesn't work
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, In my former thread i have ask what device my SCSI tapedrive could have and i got a lot of answers, but none of the devices people on this list have are present on my machine: Linux rivendell 2.6.9-gentoo-r6 #13 Sat Mar 26 15:10:25 CET 2005 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux. The kernel knows my SCSI devices: rivendell root # cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336706LW Rev: 0108 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: HP Model: C1537A Rev: L708 Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 I have the impression that my system does not know that target4 is a tape-drive. Any advice would be very helpful One of our customers had a similar problem with one of his servers. There the tape was connected to the on board SCSI adapter. We added a PCI SCSI adapter and used this card for the tape. HTH, Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Editing files with Xemacs
Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:24:50 +0100, Jean Magnan de Bornier I'm using emacs, maybe it is different with xemacs I have this in my .emacs (require 'tex-site) I have that too. My problem is that the 'tex' file isn't identified by XEmacs as a 'tex' file by default. It need to get into tex mode manually. add this to your init.el: (setq auto-mode-alist (append (list '(\\.tex$ . tex-mode)) auto-mode-alist)) Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT ghostscript
Antoine wrote: Hi, Does anyone know why converting a standard a4 pdf to tiffg4 with postscript would give me tiffs of about a1 size? [EMAIL PROTECTED] doc $ gs -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sOutputFile=wow.tif -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -dFIXEDMEDIA -sPAPERSIZE=a4 general.pdf quit.ps [EMAIL PROTECTED] doc $ tiffdump wow.tif wow.tif: Magic: 0x4949 little-endian Version: 0x2a Directory 0: offset 8 (0x8) next 1740 (0x6cc) SubFileType (254) LONG (4) 12 ImageWidth (256) LONG (4) 11728 ImageLength (257) LONG (4) 12292 BitsPerSample (258) SHORT (3) 11 Compression (259) SHORT (3) 14 ... Most annoying! I get reasonable values if I set the DPI to 72 (normal size) but I need 300. I guess I need to do some kind of resampling - or do I? to create a tiff mith 300 DPI you could use gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -g2480x3508 -r300 -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -sOutputFile=wow.tif a4job.pdf # tiffinfo wow.tif: Image Width: 2480 Image Length: 3508 Resolution: 300, 300 pixels/inch The width and length tell you how many pixel the image contains. Now if you calculate 2480 dots / 8.267717 inch = 299,96 dots/inch 3508 dots / 11.692913 inch = 300,01 dots/inch So if you print the image on a A4 page the resolution is 300 DPI. AFAIK there is no way to tell a TIFF that it has a specific page size. But most imaging programs like gimp for example will also calculate the resulting print size based on the resolution and the pixel dimensions. HTH, Peter Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng logrotate question
Covington, Chris wrote:
On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 12:21 -0600, Ben Maas wrote:
Covington, Chris wrote:
Hi all,
How can I make sure that my weekly logrotation occurs on Sunday
morning?
You'll need to change your crontab.
First though, I assume this means you don't want you logs to be rotated
dailty as is the default when you emerge logrotate. The dafault is that
the /etc/cron.daily/logrotate.cron script is run daily, which rotates
your logs.
but the logrotate.cron cron job occurs /etc/cron.daily. On my Red Hat
systems, this 'weekly' rotation always occurs Sunday morning (for
instance, with /var/log/maillog) and the logrotate cron job still runs
in /etc/cron.daily. On my Gentoo system I have syslog-ng.conf setup
like the example on http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-security.xml and
I also have /etc/cron.daily/logrotate.cron but my maillog didn't rotate
this morning (I'm using Postfix as the MTA).
My /var/lib/logrotate.status on the Gentoo system looks like this:
grendel log # cat /var/lib/logrotate.status
logrotate state -- version 2
/var/log/messages 2005-1-16
/var/log/wtmp 2005-1-16
For some reason /var/log/maillog isn't in there,
although /var/log/maillog exists.
You may modify the file /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng.
Just extend the messages entry:
/var/log/messages /var/log/maillog {
sharedscripts
postrotate
/etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload /dev/null 21 || true
endscript
}
Peter
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Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages permission problem
Jans H. Xie wrote: hi, I use syslog-ng on my Gentoo box. It works well except one problem: Every time I reboot I found the /var/log/messgaes file's permission was set to 0600. Since I want all users in root group can read it, I have to chmod g+r /var/log/messages again and again. So how can I make its permission default 0600? Don't know how to change is default permission, but you could add the 'chmod' command to /etc/conf.d/local.start Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage doens't work after latest emerge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, my portage system just died after I installed it some 2 hours ago. I get the following meggage when typing emerge or etc-update: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 14, in ? import portage File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 6111, in ? settings.regenerate() # XXX: Regenerate use after we get a vartree -- GLOBAL File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 1384, in regenerate self.configdict[auto][USE]=autouse(db[root][vartree]) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 1122, in autouse myresult=dep_check(mydep,myvartree.dbapi,None,use=no) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 3301, in dep_check mylist=flatten(dep_listcleanup(dep_zapdeps(mysplit,mysplit2))) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 3044, in dep_zapdeps myresult=dep_zapdeps(unreduced[x],reduced[x]) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 3030, in dep_zapdeps elif myportapi.match(x): AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'match' Any idea what went wrong? If you also upgraded python you will need to run python-updater. Check your portage log of python-2.3.3: * * If you have just upgraded from python-2.2.x you will need to run: * * /usr/sbin/python-updater * * This will automatically rebuild all the python dependent modules * to run with python-2.3. Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] centrino kernel compile question
Lloyd H. Meinholz wrote: I should have specified in the body of my post. I mean the centrino (pentium m) cpu. I didn't think it had been out for that long... Lloyd On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 08:52, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Lloyd H. Meinholz wrote: Which processor type am I supposed to select when building a kernel (vanilla 2.4.24)? I assumed pentium4, but read somewhere it was supposed to be pentium3. Thanks, I'd recomment pentium3 settings. I did an gentoo installation on an acer notebook some time ago and searched the web for the correct settings. I can't find the page anymore but I read that some features of pentium4 are missing in centrino CPU's and that the base architecture is pentium3. HTH, Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for ...
Chris Johnson wrote: Newbie to gentoo here. Trying to install on a system which RH8 has loading the a320raid.o and scsi_mod.o modules. This is an Adaptec x9320 hostraid controller. The bad news is that, AFAIK, the gentoo CD1 basic install kernel does not have these driver modules. Makes it really tough to install gentoo. At least I can find them. The kernel 2.6 seems to have a driver for your Adaptec. Check the kernel doc in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt HTH, Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ser-vey
Ben Munat wrote: So, a) what are some of the most important things to consider when setting up a gentoo web server? and b) here's a list of what I'm thinking I'll need (off the top of my head); anything missing? Anything you'd disagree with? I'd recommend shorewall for configuring a iptables firewall on your server Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] su: Permission denied!
Roger wrote: Hi, I am learning how to admin my gentoo box. Now I have a problem with 'su'. It is working some hours ago. But after I type 'etc-update',I quit, because I was a little confused. After that, when I type 'su', System reply su: Permission denied! Sorry what's wrong? you must be in the 'wheel' group! edit the file /etc/group. Look for a line similar like 'wheel::10:root' and add your account name: wheel::10:root,youraccount' -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Archives?
Fred Labrosse wrote: Fred Labrosse writes: Collins writes: Please search in the archives this was discussed in the past few days. The recommendation was to create your own runlevel and select what you want via a parameter passed at boot time (lilo or grub conf). I guessed that. Would you remember what the syntax was? I'll look in the archives. Here's a good one. I can't find the archives of the mailing list? They are not mentioned on the mailing lists page and I can't find them anywhere. Help please ;-). I guess that's what you want http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=90752 HTH, Peter Cheers, Fred -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Updating Gentoo
Thomas Degris wrote: Hello, I would like to update the portage tree and the target world every day automatically. So, I have put my script updategentoo in /etc/cron.daily and modify the line 0 3 * * * rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily for 0 * * * * rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily change it to 0 0 * * * rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily Peter because I would like to update my system every 24h and not every 3h am of every day. My problem is it seems that my updategentoo script is run every hours or something like that. Did I miss something in the crontab configuration ? Thomas -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cd busy
Goran Kavrecic wrote: It happens from time to time, that I mount the CD, use it, close all related programs and when trying to unmoun tit returns that the device is busy. try 'lsof' to find out which program has files open on the cd. Peter The latest was a CD when I openned an html file with mozzila. Regards Happy New Year, Goran -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cd busy
Goran Kavrecic wrote: OK, 'lsof | grep /mnt' returns: fam 801 goran 37r DIR 22,0 2048 411422720 /mnt/cdrom But I suppose I need this one. Don't I? Well, from the man page it sounds to me like 'fam' is some kind of monitor program to check for file changes. Probably it has been startet by mozilla when you where visiting the cd. I think it should be save to kill the process which locks the cd. Anyhow it would be nice if someone could jump in to enlighten us in the behaviour of fam (in the standard settings fam should release the file after 5 sec. if no client is using it, so there must be some program which still has a connection open)? Peter Goran Na 1072970710, 2004-01-01 ob 16:25, je Peter Eis napisal(a): Goran Kavrecic wrote: It happens from time to time, that I mount the CD, use it, close all related programs and when trying to unmoun tit returns that the device is busy. try 'lsof' to find out which program has files open on the cd. Peter The latest was a CD when I openned an html file with mozzila. Regards Happy New Year, Goran -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Howto backup w2k with streamer in Gentoo machine?
Timo Boettcher wrote: Hi, I have two machines here, one workstation that has Windows 2000 Pro installed, and one server that runs Gentoo and has a Streamer. How can I backup the W2K workstation with the streamer in the linux server? Have a look at arkeia http://www.arkeia.com/arkeialight.html For 1 server and up to 2 clients it's free Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Managing Distributed Gentoo Boxes
Here is a posting concerning the same subject Original Message Subject: [gentoo-user] How to admin a multiple Gentoo Installation (and keep your sanity) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 16:55:09 +0100 From: Andrea Barisani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi to all! After having migrated from RedHat Linux to Gentoo on my network (35 hosts + 4 servers, approx 300 users) I would like to share and discuss my experiences in handling multiple Gentoo systems installations. This is nothing special for all the sysadmin out there, however I hope to stimulate discussion and hear how you manage such installations. - Scenario 35 client hosts used by our students handled by a central server, three different architectures: k6 (400 Mhz), p1 (200 Mhz), p4 (1,7 Ghz). - Primary objectives 1) have a centralized control of all clients installation and administration 2) find a proper way to optimize the installation on slow machines (p1 and k6) 3) give the users always the (almost) latest versions of all packages Of course Gentoo was the answer :) and since it performs so well on our servers we have decided to test it and eventually migrate all clients. (with Gentoo performance on slow hardware has _really_ improved) - Description The system is composed by the 35 hosts and a central server that compiles and propagates all packages to the clients, this is done by having 3 different installations (one for each arch) in three different directories on the server, packages are built with the '-b' option and then copied and installed with 'emerge -k' on the clients. Packages and configurations propagation is all done via rsync. Let's see some details: On the central server we got: /dist/k6 /dist/p1 /dist/p4 untar stage1 and bootstrap and compile the desired installation in each directory with the proper arch-dependent optimizations. Since the server is a Gentoo installation I've used a single /usr/portage: mount -o bind /usr/portage /dist/k6/usr/portage mount -o bind /usr/portage /dist/p1/usr/portage mount -o bind /usr/portage /dist/p4/usr/portage Put any global modified/added file in /dist/adm/GLOBAL/, for example: /dist/adm/GLOBAL/etc/fstab /dist/adm/GLOBAL/boot/grub/grub.conf /dist/adm/GLOBAL/usr/kde/3.1/share/config/kdm/kdmrx ...and so on Put any arch-dependent modified/added file in /dist/adm/ARCH/, for example: /dist/adm/ARCH/k6/etc/make.conf /dist/adm/ARCH/p1/etc/make.conf /dist/adm/ARCH/p4/etc/make.conf ...and so on Put any host-dependent modified/added file in /dist/adm/LOCAL/, for example: /dist/adm/LOCAL/host1/etc/conf.d/net /dist/adm/LOCAL/host2/etc/conf.d/net ...and so on Then put all clients hostnames divided by arch in k6.list, p4.list, p1.list and put every hostname in all.list. Now you can sync each configuration with the following scripts. The first argument is the arch (es. ./rsync-adm k6). These are not the real scripts, only the core part is shown, I've omitted arguments verification and some debugging 'echo' :). rsync-adm: /usr/bin/rsync -vrlptgoD --progress /dist/adm/GLOBAL/ /dist/$1/ /usr/bin/rsync -vrlptgoD --progress /dist/adm/ARCH/$1/ /dist/$1/ rsync-host: for i in `cat /dist/$1.list` ; do /usr/bin/rsync -vrlptgoD --progress -e ssh /dist/adm/GLOBAL/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ ; done for i in `cat /dist/$1.list` ; do /usr/bin/rsync -vrlptgoD --progress -e ssh /dist/adm/ARCH/$1/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ ; /usr/bin/rsync -vrlptgoD --delete --progress -e ssh /dist/$1/packages/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/packages/ ; # my PKGDIR is /packages done for i in `cat /dist/$1.list` ; do /usr/bin/rsync -vrlptgoD --progress -e ssh /dist/adm/LOCAL/$i/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ ; done Now on the clients you can mount via NFS in read-only /usr/portage. However the subdir /usr/portage/distfiles/cvs-src must be writable, a way to manage this is creating /tmp/portage and use /usr/portage/distfiles/cvs-src as a mounting point: mkdir /tmp/cvs-src ; chown root.portage /tmp/cvs-src ; chmod 4770 /tmp/cvs-src mount -o bind /tmp/cvs-src /usr/portage/distfiles/cvs-src Now packages update and installation can be done like the following: # emerge sync # chroot /dist/p4 # emerge -b -u --deep world # emerge distcc # exit # for i in `cat /dist/p4.list` ; do ssh $i 'emerge -k -u --deep world' ; done # for i in `cat /dist/p4.list` ; do ssh $i 'emerge -k distcc' ; done - Caveats openoffice-bin must be installed on the clients, it doesn't work with -b and -k, I don't know why however I'll investigate, same problem with mplayer. - Notes The first idea was maintaining only /dist/arch installations and directly rsync that tree on the clients, however on slow hardware this is really slow and the exceptions (/var, /etc/mtab..etc) are too difficult to manage. Hope that someone might find this useful, I'll be happy to hear your comments. Bye :) -- INFIS Network Administrator Security Officer .*. Department of Physics - University
Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS (print to file)
Epifanov Alexander wrote: Hello, Is it possible to have a printer in CUPS, And all documents, sended to this printer, save in file (for example postscript). net-print/cups-pdf - creates PDF files HTH, Peter Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS (print to file)
Peter Eis wrote: Epifanov Alexander wrote: Hello, Is it possible to have a printer in CUPS, And all documents, sended to this printer, save in file (for example postscript). net-print/cups-pdf - creates PDF files you could also create your own cups-backend to capture the spoolfile and the hand it over to some script (see attachment) HTH, Peter Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list cups.fileprint.tgz Description: application/gzip-compressed -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xsession
etc/X11/xdm/Xsession etc/X11/Sessions/Xsession HTH, Peter Ted Ozolins wrote: When I mess up I realy do a great job of it. Somehow I've managed to blank the contents of Xsession. I could really use a copy. Anyone? Xsession.tgz Description: application/gzip-compressed -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn configuration (the gentoo way)
You could try using openvpn with shorewall. According to the manual there the setup should be quite simple http://www.shorewall.net/OPENVPN.html Of course you have to configure shorewall, too ;-) Peter Redeeman wrote: i have wondered about setting vpn up too, and the documentation from openvpn's site is too complicated for me :) On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 11:38, Lincoln A. Baxter wrote: Does anyone have a working openvpn setup that was built using the init.d/openvpn start script that the gentoo ebuild creates? This script appears to walk directories in /etc/openvpn using local.conf in each directory. Presumably each directory represents are remote system to which a tunnel has been created. If you have a working configuration using the gentoo ebuild created structure, would you be willing to share the config files? Thanks, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe SVG
Azhdeen wrote: On Monday 10 November 2003 10:35, dave willis wrote: anyone know if there is an Adobe SVG viewer for linux? I know Adobe themselves make one, but i haven't tried it in a long time. i know you didn't try emerge -s svg : * net-www/adobesvg Latest version available: 3.0 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 3,551 kB Homepage:http://www.adobe.com/svg/main.html Description: Scalable Vector Graphics plugin AFAIK the Adobe plugin doesn't work with mozilla since version 1.0 :-( Mozilla SVG Project is working on it's own solution http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/ Peter * gnome-base/librsvg Latest version available: 2.4.0 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 228 kB Homepage:http://www.gnome.org/ Description: rendering svg library -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] permissions
maybe you have some process still running which has a file open in that dir. try 'lsof' to check if that is the case and then kill that process HTH, Peter Ryan wrote: yup i have no idea why tried everything cant get it deleted On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:03:05 -0400 Barry Marler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rm -rf dir_name as root doesn't work? On 12:47 Mon 20 Oct , Ryan wrote: morning all i finished installing my box on friday and started to emerge windowmaker before i went home . now this morning i have a dir with these permissions drwxrwxrwx 2 root root but when i try delete the dir i get permission denied ,any ideas as to how i can delete this dir, as windowmaker wont emerge till its gone. thanks ryan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Barry Marler Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory University of Georgia Room 229, Center for Applied Genetic Technologies 111 Riverbend Rd. Athens, GA 30602 706.583.0164 [office] 706.583.0160 [fax] http://www.plantgenome.uga.edu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firewall choice question
Pat Kerwan wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 10:03:49AM +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, 1 - I was thinking of using a firewall on cd (creating myself) with gentoo and iptables. If it is going to be used in a company (if properly configured) would the result be the same as a checkpoint firewall ? Don't know to much about checkpoint but besides the advanced features like HA/clustering the result should be the same. If you don't insist in using gentoo you could also use gibraltar (http://www.gibraltar.at) which is a debian based firewall on cd. Generally for configuring the iptables rules I recommend using shorewall http://www.shorewall.net (there is an ebuild for it). Peter 2- How do i save the logfiles of that firewall config, on the internal HD? and read them true ssh ? To save the log files to the HD, I'm pretty sure all you'd need to do is create a filesystem on the hard drive, and set up /etc/fstab so it will be mounted at /var. - PK TIA Patrick -- Insufficient facts always invite danger. -- Spock, Space Seed, stardate 3141.9 PGP Key: http://users.pandora.be/rivendell/marquetp.gpg Fingerprint = 2792 057F C445 9486 F932 3AEA D3A3 1B0C 1059 273B ICQ# 316932703 Registered Linux User #44550 http://counter.li.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How early in the install can I use ssh?
Ian Truelsen wrote: If I start from stage-1, how soon in the install process can I log into the system via ssh? Is that available via the LiveCD? Yes. After boot you just have to configure the network, set the root password and then to '/etc/init.d/ssh start' Peter Would I have to wait for the end of Stage 2 or 3 to access via ssh? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to measure my network traffic?
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? Try vnstat - http://torus.lnet.lut.fi/vnstat/ It's fairly simple to use and creates nice reports. peter thanks, gabor -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mail - News
Sebastian Bergmann wrote: Hi, I have a working fetchmail - procmail - postfix - Maildir toolchain in place and now want to take this setup a step further by delivering mailinglist messages to local (inn) newsgroups. Is there a HOW-TO for this task somewhere? I don't know if there is a howto somwhere but AFAIK Courier could do the job for you. It supports the maildir format and you can set it up to provide public read only mail folders. So you could stay with your current mail client to read the postings and to reply to them. Peter Also, when replying to a newsgroup posting the reply should be send via mail to the corresponding mailinglist, not the local newsgroup. TIA, Sebastian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic with detection of IRQ-Router
Frank Reich wrote: Hello. For a friend of mine I ask you for help on a Gentoo-install on an old computer. I already tried in alt.os.linux.gentoo, but the answer(s) didn't help. The problem is this: Hardware: Pentium 120 with Intel FX chipset Distribution: Gentoo 1.4 The Gentoo-boot-CD boots successful. When checking for PCI-bus the correct chipset is detected and the PIIX-driver is loaded. But when building the kernel (PIIX-chipset-driver compiled into kernel) the (very same) chipset-detection ends in a kernel panic! As the kernel from the boot cd is working you could try to use exactly the same kernel configuration for your system (at least for a start). As far as I remember this configuration is stored in /proc. Just look at the message on the screen after the system finished the boot process. It tell's you where you'll find the config file. HTH, Peter THX4help, Frank. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo grub question?
Joshua Banks wrote: So my question is that I've configured the kernel using genkernel and have configured Grub and grub.conf like so: I'm not a grub expert so please let know if this is correct please. grub utility grub root (hd0,0) grub setup (hd0) grub quit * grub.conf default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=My Gentoo Linux (compiled by genkernel) root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-KV root=/dev/hda3 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-KV If you've got a boot partition you must not have /boot in the path to the kernel/initrd My gentoo specific part of grub.conf looks like this: title Gentoo Linux root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda7 initrd /initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 HTH, Peter This is my question. Does the above look configured correctly and are the grub.conf (kernel and initrd lines) suppose to look like this: kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda3 vga=795 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-/boot/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 How are these lines suppose to look very specifically from: kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel- from this point here...on Oh ya.. The install guide says: Using framebuffer People who have selected framebuffer in their kernel should add vga=xxx to their bootloader configuration file. How do I know if this has been selected. Where do I look? Remember I'm a noob so please put the kids gloves on.. I'm not stupid just a new to linux somewhat. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=10469/*http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com - Free, easy-to-use web site design software -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo grub question?
Joshua Banks wrote: Thanks for the reply Peter, I'm follow the directions off there Install x86 doc. I trust you, don't get me wrong but that would be pretty messed up I would think. I'm not a grub expert either so maybe you should wait for other advices before messing things up. But as long as you don't mess up your partitions you should always be able to boot again from the install cd, mount the linux partitions and fix wrong setting in grub (I had to do this several times before everything worked well). Here's there example: (Is my grub different because I used genkernel to compile the kernel, I wonder) Now, create the grub.conf file (nano -w /boot/grub/grub.conf) and add the following to it: Code listing 23.4: grub.conf for GRUB default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz # If you compiled your own kernel, use something like this: title=My example Gentoo Linux root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 # If you're using genkernel, use something like this instead: title=My example Gentoo Linux (genkernel) root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-KV root=/dev/hda3 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-KV # Below needed only for people who dual-boot title=Windows XP root (hd0,5) chainloader (hd0,5)+1 Warning: Substitute KV with the kernel version you have installed. Does this make sense Peter? Is there install guide messed up? It just depends on you disk layout. If you do have a boot partition (as recommended in the install docs) then you must not have the /boot in the path to the kernel as there is no such dir on this partition (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) If you installed everything on one partition only then the example config is ok. I would put two entries for gentoo in the grub.conf: default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=My example Gentoo Linux (genkernel with /boot) root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-KV root=/dev/hda3 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-KV title=My example Gentoo Linux (genkernel without /boot) root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-KV root=/dev/hda3 initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-KV # Below needed only for people who dual-boot title=Windows XP root (hd0,5) chainloader (hd0,5)+1 Of course you still need to change 'KV' with the correct values for your kernel (something like 2.4.20-gentoo-r5) and to check if the partition number for the XP entry is ok. Cheers, Peter Thanks, JBanks __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 25: Installation Complete???????'s
Joshua Banks wrote: Thanks again Peter. I will give a shot. But before I do just another question if you could be so helpful.. From the install guide 25Installation Complete [quote]Warning: etc-update can provide you with a list of configuration files that have newer versions at your disposal. Verify that none of the configuration files have a big impact (such as /etc/fstab, /etc/make.conf, /etc/rc.conf, ...). Merge the files that don't have such a big impact, remove the updates of the others or view the diff and manually update the configuration file. [/quote] Must have missed this part in the docs ;-) Anyway I had no troubles with etc-update when I installed gentoo 1.4 on my notebook. But to be sure you should at least check /etc/fstab if it matches your partition layout. make.conf should be ok but you should check it also according to the docs to make sure that you won't have troubles installing ebuilds later. I'm also new to gentoo so I don't know if etc-update gives you warnings if it changes some of the config files. I don't understand the above what so ever :o Can anyone tell me what I actually need to do here in noobian terms :) [quote]Code listing 26.1: Rebooting the System # etc-update # exit (This exits the chrooted shell; you can also type ^D) # cd / # umount /mnt/gentoo/boot # umount /mnt/gentoo/proc # umount /mnt/gentoo # reboot (Don't forget to remove the bootable CD)[/quote] That parts pretty straight forward :wink: There shouldn't be any problems with this part :-) [quote]Note: After rebooting, it is a good idea to run the update-modules command to create the /etc/modules.conf file. Instead of modifying this file directly, you should generally make changes to the files in /etc/modules.d. [/quote] Uh.. Huh... huhhh... Again this is greek to me. I'm not sure what I need to do exactly. In modules.d and modules.autoload.d you'll find files describing which modules to load (and the alias names for them). You should get In my case I had only to add the NIC in order to get it loaded during boot. Maybe it would be a good idea the send a new post to this list to get the attention of the real pro's Cheers, Peter Thanks, :oops: __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 25: Installation Complete???????'s
Jason Stubbs wrote: On Friday 05 September 2003 21:31, Joshua Banks wrote: # umount /mnt/gentoo unmount: /mnt/gentoo: device is busy. So I wait for 10 minutes. Come back and get the same thing, over and over. Perhaps you had something still mounted under /mnt/gentoo? If you had of typed mount at the prompt it would have shown you all your mounts. The only possibility is if you were in fact cd'd into /mnt/gentoo. There's no daemons, etc. running during install so the only possibilities are something your doing at the time or a mount. Perhaps your in the directory on another terminal? Try running the following command: lsof |grep /mnt/gentoo| grep -v grep This should show you, which processes are still unsing /mnt/gentoo The other strange thing is I cannot eject the dam CD. The eject button doesn't frigging respond now. Why is the cd all of the sudden not respondingAhhrggg. When Linux mounts a CD-ROM it locks the door on the cdrom. The only way to open it is to umount it first. The eject command will umount and then eject the cdrom if it's not in use. # reboot (Don't forget to remove the bootable CD) It means to eject and remove the CD between the time that the installation CD reboots and the time that your computer starts booting from your cdrom/fdd/hdd. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] iptables help
Why hazzle with iptables? I'd rather recommend using shorewall (emerge shorewall). It's much easier to configure and has as lot features you'll probably want. Peter Andrew Gaffney wrote: I'm trying to create a firewall using iptables. I want it to drop incoming packets except to ports 22, 25, and 80 unless the source address is 192.168.254.x. I'm asking before I do this because I'm accessing the computer remotely right now and I don't want to cut myself off from it. I'm thinking something like: iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.254.0/24 -p all -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p all -j DROP -or- iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.254.0/24 -p all -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT Would either of these get me the desired results? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and laptops (good one)
Chris I wrote: On 2003.08.09 09:47, Peter Eis wrote: Chris I wrote: My usb mouse does this when I plug it in. No idea why yet, but I dont see how your solution would have any effect. Check for the correct mouse protocoll. Try IMPS/2 if it's a wheel mouse or just PS/2 if it's still not working. Did you create a 2nd entry for the external mouse? I've tried Explorerps/2, imps/2, but I have not tried regular ps/2 (i'd rather shoot myself in the foot than live without a scroll wheel :) If the protocol was wrong it wouldnt work at all, but it seems to work after I click each button (including both ways on the scroll wheel). The symptoms are the same for both explorerps/2 and imps/2. Thats weired ;-) I had the same sproblem on my old notebook but there the problem continued until I added a 2nd core pointer in the XF86config file (one for the touchpad which had no scoll wheel and one for the mouse). So you could try this as well. Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and laptops (good one)
Mike Bellemare wrote: im using imps/2...and i have no idea either why opening the file solve the problem but it does...another thing i've notice is that if my wheel start going crazy, if i kill X, my keypad stops working and bang, im good for a hard reboot with the power button :( as for the second entry for the mouse, do you mean in /dev? if yes, no i didnt...(im gonna try) M.B No, I mean a second entry in the XF86Config like: ... Section ServerLayout InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceMouse1 SendCoreEvents Option SendCoreEvents true ... End Section ... Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Device/dev/mouse1 Option Protocol PS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons yes Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Device /dev/mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons no Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection After I added this stuff the touchpad and the mouse worked fine. I think the problem was that the touchpad had no wheel and such was not doing well with the IMPS/2 protokoll. You could also try to deactivate the touchpad for testing and check if the problem goes away. Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and laptops (good one)
Chris I wrote: On 2003.08.08 21:32, Mike Bellemare wrote: each time i boot my laptop, ive got to open /etc/X11/XF86Config as root and close it. if i fail to do that, my mice (the touchpad and the ps/2 mouse) keep going on the lower left corner and doing like a right-button mouse click...anyone knows a way to solve this? My usb mouse does this when I plug it in. No idea why yet, but I dont see how your solution would have any effect. Check for the correct mouse protocoll. Try IMPS/2 if it's a wheel mouse or just PS/2 if it's still not working. Did you create a 2nd entry for the external mouse? Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] splash.xpm.gz
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, Does anyone know whats the best way to edit the splash.xpm.gz image, i dit not found any information about it. Changing it into gimp give's me something ugly. Patrick Here is something: http://www.13thfloor.at/Software/lilo-splash Cheers, Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] freezing problems
Hi Jorge, can you do a remote login on your system with ssh? I had a similar problem on a RedHat-System once: The system froze after some minutes but I could still do a remote login. I had to remove sound support to get rid of the problem :-( Peter Jorge Almeida wrote: Hello all, My gentoo box now freezes systematically after 15m up or so. By freezing I mean no mouse nor keyboard reaction, no alt+ctrl+del, no virtual consoles. Only a hard reboot moves it. I hear a few beeps when this happens, suggesting some hardware problem, but the cpu was idle (not compiling nor anything like that, and top showed nothing special). This happens only with gentoo, not when I boot Redhat. The problem started after I installed a new disk (which has nothing to do with gentoo), but if the power source is not able to cope, then why only with gentoo? Well, just in case something like this has already happened to some other unlucky person ... TIA PIV 1500MHz (not overclocked) 512M RAM ASUS P4T-F motherboard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] freezing problems
Jorge Almeida wrote: On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Peter Eis wrote: Hi Jorge, can you do a remote login on your system with ssh? I had a similar problem on a RedHat-System once: The system froze after some minutes but I could still do a remote login. I had to remove sound support to get rid of the problem :-( Peter Jorge Almeida wrote: Hello all, My gentoo box now freezes systematically after 15m up or so. By freezing I mean no mouse nor keyboard reaction, no alt+ctrl+del, no virtual consoles. Only a hard reboot moves it. I hear a few beeps when this happens, suggesting some hardware problem, but the cpu was idle (not compiling nor anything like that, and top showed nothing special). This happens only with gentoo, not when I boot Redhat. The problem started after I installed a new disk (which has nothing to do with gentoo), but if the power source is not able to cope, then why only with gentoo? Well, just in case something like this has already happened to some other unlucky person ... TIA PIV 1500MHz (not overclocked) 512M RAM ASUS P4T-F motherboard Well, I can't do remote login, but I suppose I could mount the gentoo partition from the Redhat part and remove whatever after chroot'ing, but I wouldn't like to lose sound support (although I don't use it that much). But now that you mention it, I installed redhat8 on the new disk and had some trouble with sound configuration (strange vibrating noise from the subwoofer); it was solved atfer rebooting, with soundconfig. I have a Ensoniq sound card. Could it it be that a solved problem with sound configuring in RH let a permanent sequel in gentoo? The box has a 300w power source and two disks (40G+80G), a DVD drive, a RWCD drive, a floppy drive and a 250M iomega zip drive; no scsi devices. But all this stuff was idle except the disks ... Maybe I should remerge some sound related ports...? Thanks, -- Jorge Almeida Sounds really strange. I don't think the problem on your system is related with the sound system or the power supply and I never heard of problems caused by booting different perating systems. Maybe the problem is really just caused by the 2nd hd. Is the new disk mounted by gentoo? If yes, does the problem dissapear if you don't mount the new drive (or temporary remove it)? Could be that gentoo uses different access mode to the drive than RedHat. Did you compare the boot logs? Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
