Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: baselayout redefines /etc/fstab
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 15 February 2004 12:56 am, William Kenworthy wrote: These were not etc-update problems, but actual bugs. But the precaution is the same for etc-update. Keep backups! I mark critical /etc files as read only these days. Of course, I also keep a backup. - -- The choices we make dictate the life we lead. To thine ownself be true. -- William Shakespeare KI4DPT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFALxgcWMqSOYd58pwRAtnAAJ42BnGGXBD73Gj9GgInzZgAJc8qewCbBP+W d8L6VnWEzZ1rs6f43UbvF5Y= =xrOE -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging musicbrainz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 February 2004 2:47 am, Phil Barnett wrote: Since I tried to emerge KDE 3.2, I've been sticking on this error. Anyone know how to get around this error? In the fine tradition of replying to one's self: It was a problem I created when copying a couple of libraries from open office to get my system back running after the library problem with the portage 2.0.50 release. Once I deleted those two libraries and ran ldconfig I was back to normal. - -- The choices we make dictate the life we lead. To thine ownself be true. -- William Shakespeare KI4DPT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFALOPVWMqSOYd58pwRAtlaAJ9kwIkahqC5TLeg6lOhuNq/bGkx9gCfZj/s sZEBNZ2mba64uhHNfZlUa5c= =oNjH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problem emerging musicbrainz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since I tried to emerge KDE 3.2, I've been sticking on this error. Anyone know how to get around this error? Thanks. creating cpp_example /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -O2 -mcpu=athlon-tbird -march=i686 - -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -frerun-cse-after-loop - -frerun-loop-opt -falign-functions=4 -o findalbum findalbum.o ../lib/libmusicbrainz.la -lstdc++ -lm /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.2/libstdc++.so: undefined reference to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [findartist] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs gcc -O2 -mcpu=athlon-tbird -march=i686 -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer - -funroll-loops -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -falign-functions=4 - -o .libs/findalbum findalbum.o ../lib/.libs/libmusicbrainz.so -lstdc++ -lm /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.2/libstdc++.so: undefined reference to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [findalbum] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/musicbrainz-2.0.1/work/libmusicbrainz-2.0.1/examples' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/musicbrainz-2.0.1/work/libmusicbrainz-2.0.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: media-libs/musicbrainz-2.0.1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 45, Exitcode 2 !!! compile problem - -- The choices we make dictate the life we lead. To thine ownself be true. -- William Shakespeare KI4DPT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFALIErWMqSOYd58pwRAicfAJ9/O47hFVwMU379kI+D7OCaFs6QBwCdEZcf fu+wV3m4TkoZ1xYcOoZyLus= =/X1n -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] missing libstdc++.so.5
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 February 2004 9:20 am, Andrej Moravcik wrote: Don't panic, it looks many people ecountered this problem. Look at this thread in gentoo forum: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=133497highlight=libstdc I had the problem. Updated my search mechanism with updatedb and searched for the missing components. I found them in an open office subdirectory and copied two files to /usr/lib Everything started working. Then, just for good measure, I re-emerged gcc and I had earlier some reason to re-emerge xfree86. After that, all was ok. - -- The choices we make dictate the life we lead. To thine ownself be true. -- William Shakespeare KI4DPT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAKEvaWMqSOYd58pwRAq60AJwLCvr976bjEdB0RThf1ybEg0lKegCgi5ay AOhuoi/KD97OW/wNBxN4f5A= =hOVa -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Question about kportage
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I run python-updater, I get the following message, but on the web site, kportage is listed as not masked. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-portage;name=kportage What gives? # python-updater * Starting Python Updater from 2.2 to 2.3 : * Searching for packages with files in /usr/lib/python2.2 .. Adding to list: app-portage/kportage-0.6.1 * Calculating Upgrade Package List .. app-portage/kportage-0.6.1 is masked * Re-ordering packages to merge .. * Preparing to merge these packages in this order: * * * * Packages that still need to be manually emerged :* * * * Masked Packages: * * Unmask the following packages (at your own risk) and * emerge them using this command after removing the '-p' * parameter. * * emerge -p \=app-portage/kportage-0.6.1 * - -- The choices we make dictate the life we lead. To thine ownself be true. -- William Shakespeare KI4DPT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAJmfZWMqSOYd58pwRAhfgAJ9t4VOYon3QUcAmgqlUA+GaCol/kwCfRrgG 6rs/uCoyHBJkJpQEeSl5ays= =QdX1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kportage
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 08 February 2004 12:07 pm, Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2004 17:46, Phil Barnett wrote: When I run python-updater, I get the following message, but on the web site, kportage is listed as not masked. http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=app-portage;name=kporta ge kportage is hard-masked. Check /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask # [EMAIL PROTECTED] (07 Jan 2004) # unmaintained and currently doesn't even build anymore. Masking until # plasmaroo makes a new version. app-portage/kportage Hope that helps. Ok, I just unmerged it. Never used it anyway. Thanks. Someone should update the website. - -- The choices we make dictate the life we lead. To thine ownself be true. -- William Shakespeare KI4DPT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAJm5MWMqSOYd58pwRAv/AAJ9ecg0pfK1sRBB4SH2GRdZQE48K3gCfRbt7 Db9M2fL4n1rTJWufOI2wdEY= =Tkfd -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] bios time - clock drift
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 04 February 2004 8:17 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the time set to local because I have a dual-boot with winXP. The system clock loses time really fast. I can set it correctly before going to work, come back, and it's behind an hour! This is a pretty big problem. I would appreciate any help. I could sync with a time server, but I shouldn't *have* to. You need to be running ntpd. It will learn your clock drift and correct for it permanently. Here is my /etc/ntpd.conf file. Of course, you'll have to change the addresses at the bottom to your subnet/machines. If you're not in North America, it would be a good idea to pick closer time servers. server ntp0.cornell.edu server ntp.cmr.gov server ntp1.cs.wisc.edu server clock.psu.edu driftfile /etc/ntp/drift authenticate no # by default, don't trust and don't allow modifications restrict default notrust nomodify # these are the timeserver addresses restrict ntp0.cornell.edu restrict ntp.cmr.gov restrict ntp1.cs.wisc.edu restrict clock.psu.edu # this and other time server addresses are unrestricted. restrict 192.168.100.5 restrict 192.168.100.15 restrict 127.0.0.1 - -- The choices we make dictate the life we lead. To thine ownself be true. -- William Shakespeare KI4DPT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAIdS0WMqSOYd58pwRAkgMAJ0TKfqnXt+WgczE11TocAo+W6c3yQCeIEqy /7bVfsHnXS6CYGqKdNciWtg= =fhvJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 03 February 2004 6:48 pm, William Kenworthy wrote: There's lots of use 2.6 messages here, but does anyone have a list of what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I take the leap? e.g, is older hardware supported (PIIX - since they removed the tuning option from 2.4 this has been a disaster for me) nvidia keeps cropping up XFree looks like it has problems XFS and some other (unspecified) file systems have problems My one learning that I have not see mentioned is that after you compile the kernel, you do this: cd /usr/src/linux (or wherever your 2.6 kernel is) depmod -e -F System.map The first time, it will complain that a directory doesn't exist. Create it. The second time, it creates the module dependencies. After that, I get a lot less module dependency error messages. - -- The choices we make dictate the life we lead. To thine ownself be true. -- William Shakespeare KI4DPT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAIHuOWMqSOYd58pwRAmlgAJ9HXc5IirHMQfrJHUhc9f0BXnGQ7gCaA1kD 2G2QuRN5UhuBGt3ZeRqI/5o= =hNgT -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended 2.6 kernel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 02 February 2004 10:48 am, Norberto Bensa wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: If you want stability you shouldn't be running a 2.6.x kernel. Bah... I'm running (see signature) and it's stable enough for me. Even more than 2.4.x. I'm having no stability problems with 2.6. I have two other boxes (servers) here running 2.6.1-mm[25]. They're stable too. Of course my workstation goes excessively jerky when it starts swapping (especially when compiling c++ code) but I can live with it for now as I script updates to run while I'm sleeping :-P I switched to Linux 2.6.2-rc2-mm2 a couple of days a go and noticed that it runs snappier than any previous 2.6 and clearly faster than the best 2.4. Until I see a reason to go back to a 2.4 kernel, I'm on 2.6 for good. In fact, it's so good that I'm thinking about a custom compile for a couple of servers that have been running RH 2.4 kernels. I've been running the 2.6-mm sources since about 2.5.55 or so and they've all run great with very few exceptions. But, that was expected during beta. Technically, the kernel is 2.6 and not beta, but realistically, it's still changing pretty fast. If you are averse to risk, stick with 2.4.x. - -- The choices we make dictate the life we lead. To thine ownself be true. -- William Shakespeare KI4DPT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAHv1HWMqSOYd58pwRAmJmAJ9uABAcLX1mL4oojFCOgo2bF+uZ/gCaA8Zu W/Ar/cg89H6eX6wndvySr+I= =UW68 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Good Games Suggestions
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 31 January 2004 4:08 pm, Wayne Oliver wrote: Can anybody suggest anything from portage ??? I am not a shoot 'em up fan... Pathological is pretty addictive. - -- The choices we make dictate the life we lead. To thine ownself be true. -- William Shakespeare KI4DPT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAHL29WMqSOYd58pwRAj/XAJ4lpaemusDvvHd6DSK2gaPxlPl8ogCcDpD2 vTGp7tK9N8XpwoYmMc9SBHY= =vPEM -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: The beauty of 2.6
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 February 2004 7:54 am, Vanh Phom wrote: FWIW, I'm running 2.6 on ASUS cubx-E with Matrox G450 and 3com 905c without any problem, and won't go back to 2.4. How many frames per second are you getting in glxgears? Have you gotten Direct Rendering working? - -- The choices we make dictate the life we lead. To thine ownself be true. -- William Shakespeare KI4DPT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAHQutWMqSOYd58pwRAtKmAJwOMDc/K9kNXSxO1wcz40IOJdZ0IgCdEvi+ dajAEA4/YS9LnJ1uncr8LZo= =p+5E -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GnuPG and missing public keys on keyservers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 28 January 2004 2:00 am, Collins Richey wrote: My $.02. The whole PGP concept is just a waste of band width on a mailing list, with or without public keys. I could really care less whether you are the authentic Phill Barnett (as your key may well prove) or Samuel Johnson per your signature g. I'm only interested in the content. It's just so much crap on the screen before and after what I'm interested in. It reminds me of the lamer who used to waste band width by including don't you dare send me private mail; I'll trash it on every posting. So here I am wasting band width, and I know from previous experience that those who prefer PGP are going to do it anyway. The only reason I have begun signing my messages is not to prove that they are mine, but to give some legal protection from viruses sending out emails in my name. If I can show some consistency that I always sign my messages, then I can build a defense should I be hauled into court because someone else masqueraded as me. Of course, I can't prove those messages weren't mine, but I can at least have something to stand on. Yes, it's unlikely, but with the proliferation of worms that mail using stolen credentials, I expect that we will begin seeing some auth systems built into email. Oh, wait, that's what gpg and pgp are. Now, if everyone was using gpg or pgp to sign their email, we could filter our inboxes on bad signatures, or we could trace the email back to a person. Either one would be great. You want to talk about wasting bandwidth, talk about spam, not legitimate email. - -- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) KI4DPT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAF8u7WMqSOYd58pwRArXtAJwN5yC4L7mooEon6r0vj3GqcwJxcwCfdGBr NNokkuedJZd6f6GdcZRMIDU= =3dnh -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GnuPG and missing public keys on keyservers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 28 January 2004 3:12 pm, Nuckerl Stefan wrote: Just to let you know any connection you do to any machine is logged by your provider (time + IP). So faking an emailname etc. won't help because they have to prove, that the you really did it and that's going to be impossible if you didn't do it. I own my own server. The mail logs rotate away in 24 hours. There is no law that states I must keep them for any period of time. In fact, the longer I keep them, the more liable to produce them I may become. - -- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) KI4DPT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAGEtfWMqSOYd58pwRAurOAKCAmVL1FrpNkxMTLkVRyA0zj6xUCQCfTXE0 rAgv0hu66cvA6IrL77IpUm4= =Ff/D -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GnuPG and missing public keys on keyservers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 28 January 2004 7:30 pm, Nuckerl Stefan wrote: Oh god, you own your little server, hows that. I don't want to sound like an asswhole, but I need to clear things up for you. You are no ISP, ISPs have to keep logs. Yes, you do, yes, I am and no, they don't. I have my own block of addresses. I have hundreds of domains and thousands of email accounts on my server. Show me a law that states that I have to keep logs for a specific period of time. And, yes, this has wandered far off topic for Gentoo User. Take it to private mail if you wish. Most anonymisers don't keep any logs at all. It's a privacy issue. - -- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) KI4DPT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAGFqGWMqSOYd58pwRAjRtAKCDiabADIcDCEy6Aijsrc2VwIX+VACfVbS7 NBToLi2pIezfN7t6Grjx+2g= =k0gq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GnuPG and missing public keys on keyservers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 28 January 2004 8:27 pm, Eric Paynter wrote: In most jurisdictions no such law exists. That's why there are *investigations* where, after the authorities suspect criminal acivity, they start to monitor. They keep their own logs and once they have enough, they make an arrest. Criminals rarely commit just one crime. They usually keep at it until they are caught. So if you suspect somebody, you usually don't have to wait too long to catch them at it again. Agreed. And the investigation would most likely be at the Federal level to use something like Carnivore or it's equivalent. As far as I know, states do not have the power to monitor interstate electronic traffic. - -- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) KI4DPT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAGGtcWMqSOYd58pwRAnstAJ9aRLCTyYYCaxxXIINJlLJsh7GREQCcCDlR a18N+ZElEgS+bfPuMyJu1y0= =5aHJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] GnuPG and missing public keys on keyservers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 28 January 2004 9:58 pm, Nicholas Hockey wrote: btw, congrats on getting your licence, i just passed my tech licence last weekend, and am still awaiting my call sign, maby i'll run into you sometime (when 6 metres is open, beacuse i don't think 2m will cut it, hehe) Thanks. It's funny. I was going down to meet my friend that gives the tests a letter he needed for legal stuff in our LUG. He said, while you're here, take the test, it's just $12. So, I did and passed tech and then they said... The $12 gets you as many tests as you can pass. I took the General and passed that. So I tried the Extra and missed passing by 8 points. Now I gotta get my code so I can keep my general test. I have a year to get 5 wpm. Should be easy. And, 2 meters and 70 cm is probably a more sure bet than 6 because of IRLP. Pretty cool use of the internet to interconnect repeaters. But it depends on if someone is running an IRLP repeater node near you. I have 4 of them here. http://www.irlp.net - -- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) KI4DPT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAGIONWMqSOYd58pwRAktVAJwIQS2AjuhpBy2FG5MbbfohfnAF7gCfecsw vTfGL8BiZ9NZnu9L/kGygcA= =awEo -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GnuPG and missing public keys on keyservers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 28 January 2004 12:52 am, James Lee wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 05:32 +0100, lukas wrote: Have a look at my new signature! :) -- ** PGP-key available on keyserver pgp.mit.edu ** Please don't sign your public mail unless your PGP-key is available for everyone! I tried getting some people's public keys, but with every keyserver I try to connect to it times out (I can still ping it, though). I have a good firewall, but certainly don't block outgoing traffic. Do I need to open up a port? You can always go here and paste it in... http://www.keyserver.net/en/ - -- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) KI4DPT -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAF1eBWMqSOYd58pwRApCFAJ98NL6fVNJv9oAC+GUSx+d5givDUgCdE/ov dMDXlXcWNyVJQ0vKLpOAXZs= =nCP5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problem installing arts
I get the following error message when re-emerging arts. Anyone know what I'm missing? Thanks. * checking if STL implementation is SGI like... no checking if STL implementation is HP like... no configure: error: no known STL type found - did you forget to install libstdc++-devel ? died running ./configure, kde_src_compile:configure * * Your KDE program installation died while running the configure script * * If the error died during the check for Qt, and you have Qt installed, the problem * is most likely due to your nvidia drivers being configured improperly. * * Search forums.gentoo.org for help in setting them up properly. This is NOT a kde bug. * !!! ERROR: kde-base/arts-1.1.5 failed. !!! Function configure_die, Line 154, Exitcode 0 !!! (no error message) -- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) KI4DPT -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse speed in enemy-territory
On Monday 05 January 2004 1:48 pm, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: I have configured my KDE to use a rather fast mouse acceleration. When I play enemy territory I set the mouse sensitivity to max and it still feels quite slow. Slower then on the desktop. When I ran Suse I had the mouse sensitivity at a little more than half, which was fast enough. Now with gentoo it is much slower. Add the following line to your mouse configuration in XF86Config option resolution 1600 -- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] env.d
On Saturday 03 January 2004 8:54 pm, Ben Munat wrote: Yeah, I read through that doc, but it didn't seem to have anything about root vs. regular user. However, I have (sort of) solved my problem... discovered that su-ing to my regular user from root is not the same as logging in as that user... certain login files aren't read, I would imagine. Please note the difference between su and su - su changes to the new user without changing the existing environment. su - changes to the new user and takes on all characteristics of the new user including the new user's normal environment. Big difference. -- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] secure webserver based on gentoo?
On Friday 19 December 2003 12:27 pm, fisch wrote: I want to set up a very secure web/mail-server. Is it possible to set it up with gentoo or should i use an other distribution? It's not ready yet, but we are building a mail server around Gentoo at: http://www.mailrefinery.org -- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Fixpackages question
fixpackages seems to be unable to perform a 100% fix on my system. in 3Q-2003, I always get: Cannot update binary: Destination exists. !!! dev-libs/pilot-link-0.11.7-r1 - app-pda/pilot-link-0.11.7-r1 What should I do to rectify this problem? -- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fixpackages question
On Friday 28 November 2003 11:37 pm, Marius Mauch wrote: How did you come to that conclusion? These two tools are completely unrelated to each other. Phil, just delete /usr/portage/packages/dev-libs/pilot-link-0.11.7-r1.tbz2 and the message should go away. Ok, thanks. Now, a simple question. Why can fixpackages not do that? -- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fails with error.
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 1:02 am, Kevin Miller, Jr. wrote: Did you try to emerge sync again? Yes, twice. Didn't make any difference. I do have open office installed and it's not updated yet. -- Copyright is a temporary loan from the public domain, not property. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge fails with error.
When running: emerge -up world I get a bunch of things that need to be updated and then it ends with: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 2133, in ? mydepgraph.display(mydepgraph.altlist()) File /usr/bin/emerge, line 1103, in display elif (not --emptytree in myopts) and portage.db[x[1]][vartree].exists_specific_cat(x[2]): File /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py, line 3469, in exists_specific_cat self.invalidentry(self.root+var/db/pkg/+a[0]+/+x) AttributeError: vartree instance has no attribute 'invalidentry' What should I do? -- Copyright is a temporary loan from the public domain, not property. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Questions...
On Thursday 23 October 2003 12:18 pm, Ben Maas wrote: You might need to do a: opengl-update xfree That should reset things back to the XFree86 GLX modules instead of the nVidia ones. Thanks to you and the others who suggested this. Exactly what was needed! 2. I recently got a 128 meg thumb drive. When I plug it in, I can see it in /proc/bus/usb/devices, but I can not find a mount point for it. I have scsi-emulation running for ide. Do I need to do something special to get the scsi modules to mount the usb devices? In my kernel config I have the following selected as modules: *** Under SCSI support *** CONFIG_SCSI SCSI Support CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD SCSI disk support This was not set. Thanks -- Copyright is a temporary loan from the public domain, not property. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Questions...
1. I used to run an nvidia card in my machine, but had to give it up for a gaming machine. Now I have a Matrox G-450. I simply cannot get glx to work. In fact, I removed the nvidia modules and they want to come back. How do I find out what is calling them in? I noticed when I emerged xfree again, it switched to the nvidia glx drivers. This is just plain wrong. How do I stop it from doing that and make it see that I now have a Matrox card? 2. I recently got a 128 meg thumb drive. When I plug it in, I can see it in /proc/bus/usb/devices, but I can not find a mount point for it. I have scsi-emulation running for ide. Do I need to do something special to get the scsi modules to mount the usb devices? -- Copyright is a temporary loan from the public domain, not property. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nasty login error
On Monday 29 September 2003 4:50 am, Martin Larsson wrote: Hello Some days ago I had to reboot my box, and to my horror I coulnd't log in. it just says Login Incorrect after i type the username (dont work with root either) I can't remember if i have done anything that may have caused that, since I had some days uptime. And it worked perfect to start aterm's and su while it was running /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow looks right, and they exist :P anyone know what can be wrong? Caps Lock? -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Can't update postgresql
About a month ago, I started getting a message that ant is not working, which keeps me from emerging the latest postgresql, which in turn keeps me from emerging the latest php. I have unmerged and emerged ant with no effect. This bug is listed in the bug list as #22875. How can I troubleshoot what is going on? -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ant build succeeded, but...
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 4:03 am, Frederic Soulier wrote: !!! ERROR: dev-db/postgresql-7.3.4 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 93, Exitcode 1 !!! (no error message) This is a known bug (#22875). I have the same pbm. Thanks. -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ant build succeeded, but...
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 8:12 am, Larry Meadors wrote: The message Buildfile: build.xml does not exist! happens when you run ant and there is not a build.xml file in the current directory, or you do not specify one on the command line. Running ant will not create build.xml, but instead will process an existing one. When you run the emerge, what happens? emerge (1 of 4) dev-db/postgresql-7.3.4 to / md5 src_uri ;-) postgresql-7.3.4.tar.gz Unpacking source... Unpacking postgresql-7.3.4.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/postgresql-7.3.4/work .. checking whether to build Java/JDBC tools... yes checking for jakarta-ant... no checking for ant... /usr/bin/ant checking whether /usr/bin/ant works... no configure: error: ant does not work !!! ERROR: dev-db/postgresql-7.3.4 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 93, Exitcode 1 !!! (no error message) -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Ant build succeeded, but...
hp tmp # /usr/bin/ant Buildfile: build.xml does not exist! Build failed I never use ant, but it's keeping me from emerging the new postgreSQL. From what I understand, simply running ant should create build.xml, but clearly something is wrong since I emerged the new version of Ant last night. Anyone got an idea for me? -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] process refuses to die
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 11:05 pm, Simon Mushi wrote: I just wanted to ask what to do if a process refuses to die. For example I want to kill dctc with a pid of 16371. So I type in kill 16371 and I can do this continually and the process refuses to die and still shows up in top. What can I do to kill it for real? kill signals the app or the kernel to do something. If you don't specify a signal, SIGTERM is the default. My suggestion is that the process you are trying to kill either does not obey a SIGTERM or is in conflict about what to do when receiving a SIGTERM. The following translates to: Tell the kernel to kill process 16371 with extreme prejudice. kill -9 16371 It is the kill of last resort. If this signal to the kernel does not work, I guess the next level would be a reboot. The only time I've seen this fail is when there were kernel problems. man term -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive caching hardware or software ?
On Monday 14 July 2003 8:03 am, Jonathan C. wrote: Hi all, A few months ago I talked with some people on this list about excessive caching on laptop computers. We could not find a solution. Howevber, the title of the thread was cryptic, so I hope that with the new title more people will react. We noticed that that copying a file or making extensive access to the hard drive ate up all the memory. For instance, when I copy a 200Mo file from one partition to another (same physical HD), the file copies fine but 200Mo of RAM get eaten up in the process. The question is : Is this gentoo related ? Is this kernel related ? Is this hardware related ? I may add that this seems to be vendor independent since both Dell and Toshiba laptops seem to have the same problem. Well, it's used, and it's available. Unused ram is wasted ram. Since Linux can't possibly know when you'll use a disk read more than once, it uses all available spare ram to cache it. If you need that ram for something else, it becomes instantly available (within reason). This is a Linux design issue and is perfectly normal operation. Here's a ram snapshot from my server: 11:07am up 41 days, 20:42, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.24, 0.32 Mem: 1023108K av, 1008392K used, 14716K free, 0K shrd, 71596K buff Swap: 610384K av, 23352K used, 587032K free 778280K cached As you can see, Linux maintains a small amount of free ram (around 15 meg here), and all other ram is used. In this case, 778M is just used as disk cache, which means that over the long run, my server needs about 1/4th of the ram that I have given it. However, this large disk cache means that many disk reads come from ram instead of the hard drives. On a server, this is a great thing. May I suggest that you run xosview and be concerned with the area in green. -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [LONG] New baselayout: Errors everywhere!!!
On Monday 14 July 2003 1:08 pm, Alan wrote: Sounds like your modules aren't being loaded on boot properly. Make sure that /etc/modules.autoload had the right modules in it (IE: rtc and ide-scsi based on the errors above) and if it does, try to load them manually with modprobe rtc. If you get errors from that you may need to rebuild your kernel modules with cd /usr/src/linux ; make modules modules_install (assuming that /usr/src/linux points to the current kernel directory). Either that or /etc/init.d/modules isn't being run on start for some reason... are all the other services on the box being started correctly? I did see over the weekend that if I emerge alsa, it wipes out my kernel modules and I have to rebuild them with the step mentioned above. Ugly. -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] httpd dependencies
hp root # emerge -p httpd These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] app-editors/emacs-21.3-r1 [ebuild N ] app-emacs/httpd-0.5 Since when does Apache have a dependency on emacs? Who do I contact about getting this dependency removed? -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] httpd dependencies
On Sunday 13 July 2003 11:37 am, Svein Harald Soleim wrote: On Sunday 13 July 2003 17:31, Phil Barnett wrote: hp root # emerge -p httpd These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] app-editors/emacs-21.3-r1 [ebuild N ] app-emacs/httpd-0.5 Since when does Apache have a dependency on emacs? erhm httpd is not just apache, the attpd package is an httpd server for emacs what you want to do is emerge apache app-emacs/httpd Latest version available: 0.5 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 4 kB Homepage:http://www.chez.com/emarsden/downloads/ Description: A HTTP server embedded in the Emacs I wonder what pulled it into my recent emerge -u world? I wasn't specifically pulling it in. I found it failed during my emerge world because I have the /home directory mounted through nfs and it couldn't create it's directories. I have already emerged apache long ago. Oh, well, just another anomaly. -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] httpd dependencies
On Sunday 13 July 2003 11:37 am, Svein Harald Soleim wrote: erhm httpd is not just apache, the attpd package is an httpd server for emacs what you want to do is emerge apache Ok, I see where I got screwed up. something called for an update of apache. The package that was downloaded was httpd. I assumed that httpd was the gentoo name. Now, I see that there are two packages that download something named httpd, one is apache, the other is httpd. My bad. Now, the bigger question is: Why isn't the apache download named apache instead of httpd? The way it exists today is somewhat confusing. -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problem emerging mod_php
I get this when I try to emerge either php or mod_php... checking for unistd.h... yes checking for unix.h... no checking for utime.h... yes checking for sys/utsname.h... yes checking for sys/ipc.h... yes checking for fopencookie... yes configure: error: can not run test program while cross compiling !!! ERROR: dev-php/mod_php-4.3.2-r3 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 304, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed What cross compiler? What am I missing? -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging mod_php
On Sunday 13 July 2003 1:22 pm, Jay Goodman Tamboli wrote: /var/tmp/portage/mod_php-4.3.2-r3/work/mod_php-4.3.2-r3/config.log Bravo! Direct hit! -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Bunch of Gnome junk to be added in world upgrade!???
On Sunday 13 July 2003 3:58 pm, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: On Sunday 13 July 2003 14:21, Brett I. Holcomb wrote this in an attempt to be witty and informative: Grip was recommended to me a long time ago but I didn't want the Gnome stuff so I stuck with XCDRoast. Oh, well. snip Can we please not top post? Thanks. I finc XCDRoast is good for making cd's, but I can't get it to create an .iso, it only wants to create .img (even though I have the default stuff for iso9660). I put these two lines in /etc/bashrc and just use the command line to go from CD to iso and iso to CD. alias cd2iso='dd if=/dev/scd0' alias iso2cd='cdrecord -v -eject -data speed=24 dev=0,0,0' Some people have suggested that you need to specify the block size on the cd2iso line, but I've never had any problem. Of course, you'll have to adjust the details to match your drive info. if you feel the need to specify block size, the parameter is bs=. Usage: cd2iso of=isoname.iso iso2cd isoname.iso If you are cutting multiple cd's from a single iso, it's the only way to go. -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Bunch of Gnome junk to be added in world upgrade!???
On Sunday 13 July 2003 5:33 pm, Dan Foster wrote: Hot Diggety! Phil Barnett was rumored to have written: alias cd2iso='dd if=/dev/scd0' alias iso2cd='cdrecord -v -eject -data speed=24 dev=0,0,0' If your CD-R[W] drive supports it, may also want to add this flag: driveropts=burnfree to the cdrecord command line as well. Less chances of a coaster :) I used to do that. Lately it appears that cdrecord picks up on that automatically. It may only be necessary now in cases where cdrecord doesn't get it right. But, it won't hurt anything. -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Help!
I haven't been able to emerge many things recently and they all appear to hinge around the same type of error. For example, I tried to emerge the new sun java and it failed with: tbz2tool: inf.xpak doesn't exist mv: cannot stat `sun-jdk-1.4.1.03.tbz2': No such file or directory Done. !!! CATEGORY info missing from info chunk, aborting... What is going on here? Does anyone know: What is inf.xpak? Where does it come from? What is tbz2tool? Where does it come from? This is the third time I've posted this. I'm going to assume that it's too obscure for the user list after this try. Thanks. -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] I'm having portage problems.
I haven't been able to emerge many things recently and they all appear to hinge around the same type of error. For example, I tried to emerge the new sun java and it failed with: usr/share/man/man1/tnameserv.1.gz usr/lib/ usr/lib/mozilla/ usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so tbz2tool: inf.xpak doesn't exist mv: cannot stat `sun-jdk-1.4.1.03.tbz2': No such file or directory Done. !!! CATEGORY info missing from info chunk, aborting... What is going on here? -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Strange Magic.
Trying to emerge -u kde. I get... tbz2tool: inf.xpak doesn't exist mv: cannot stat `kdebase-3.1.2.tbz2': No such file or directory Done. !!! CATEGORY info missing from info chunk, aborting... What does this mean? -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge java version problems.
While doing an emerge, I recieve this: hp root # emerge sun-jdk Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.1.02-r1 to / Unpacking source... !!! ERROR: dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.1.02-r1 failed. !!! Function src_unpack, Line 30, Exitcode 0 !!! Please download j2sdk-1_4_1_02-linux-i586.bin from http://java.sun.comse/1.4.1/download.html (select the Linux self-extracting file package fot of the SDK) and move it to /usr/portage/distfiles However, when I follow that link, I end up with: j2sdk-1_4_1_03-linux-i586.bin (note the version change) Now what? -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd hangs at boot
On Thursday 12 June 2003 10:29 am, Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Thursday 12 June 2003 16:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:54:40PM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: Content-Description: signed data My understanding is that a combination of the two works well - and that's reflected in the gentoo (and other distros) ntpd startup script: - ntpdate is a one-time setter that uses the protocol to determine the current time. - ntpd is a daemon that uses the protocol to keep your clock honest. If your clock is way off, ntpdate changes it to the correct time without complaint. If you start up ntpd and your clock is currently incorrect, it'll correct a small error or give up on a large error. So the startup scripts do something that seems pretty reasonable: they run ntpdate as you're booting, then start up ntpd. Seems to work pretty well. That is correct. At bootup time no applications are running that would suffer from a time lapse, so then ntpdate is safe. Running ntpdate from a cronjob though, is not. Actually, ntpdate is capable of slewing instead of stepping if the shift is small enough. You can experiment with cron frequency to run it often enough that it never steps. Some machines, that's once a day, some every ten minutes. Personally, I prefer ntpdate once and then ntpd, like Gentoo does it. I had settled on that scheme long before I started using Gentoo. Also, ntpd is better because even if your clock is being corrected by slewing with ntpdate, there is never any drift calculations like ntpd uses to make it so that your clock keeps correct time all the time, even when it's not able to poll the sync source. (how's that for a run-on sentence?) -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd hangs at boot
On Thursday 12 June 2003 11:26 am, David wrote: That is that way I understood it. I never did try try ntpd and with ntpdate in my local.start. That probably would have corrected my problems, but ntpdate seems to be working fine by itself right now. Interesting conversation on the subject though. You need to look in your logs to see if it's stepping or slewing. If it's stepping, you need to increase the frequency of polling. -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] devfs
On Thursday 12 June 2003 10:20 pm, Tom Allison wrote: I'm a little stuck. I didn't build my kernel with devfs support. So I set CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y rebuild the kernel copy to /boot/bzImage and then what? I'm using grub and I've never used it before. IIRC unlike lilo I don't have to run anything for it to be seen the next time I boot the PC. In the meantime, I'm still getting an error about /etc/rc line 80... and then I get this huge paragraph about installing DEVFS into the kernel. I haven't been able to find anything in dmesg or the logs (metalog is new to me as well)... Are you using make menuconfig? Either way, you also have to specify that devfs is run automatically at boot time. -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge wierdness
Can anyone explain this anomaly? It seems that emerge -up world (even with
--deep) is not suggesting upgrades that should be performed, for example:
hp root # emerge -s kde
(trimmed for brevity)
* kde-base/kde
Latest version available: 3.1.2
Latest version installed: 3.1.1
Size of downloaded files: 0 kB
Homepage:http://www.kde.org/
Description: KDE 3.1 - merge this to pull in all non-developer
kde-base/* packages
hp root # emerge -up world
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating world dependencies ...done!
hp root # emerge -up --deep world
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuildU ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r5 [2.4.20-r2]
hp root #
My make.conf contains: (comments trimmed)
USE=acl acpi alsa cdr dga doc dvd fbcon flash gd gnome gphoto2 gtk2 jikes
mbox mozilla mysql nocardbus oav pda perl pic postgres sse tiff zlib
CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu
CFLAGS=-O3 -mcpu=athlon-tbird -march=i686 -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer
-funroll-loops -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -falign-functions=4
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
FEATURES=sandbox buildpkg ccache distcc userpriv usersandbox noclean noauto
cvs keeptemp fixpackages
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system really slowing down and using swap file more than ever!
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 3:45 pm, Carlos C. Gonzalez wrote: Hi everyone, When I first installed Gentoo about 3 months ago I was impressed with it's speed running on my Pentium III 500 MHz computer. Now I find myself sometimes tapping the desk with my fingers so to speak waiting for certain things to happen. Lately the swap file is getting used more and more even though I have 512 RAM and even though a majority of the used RAM is being used as a cache for my programs based on what the KDE System Guard monitor shows me. Run top and then press Shift-M That will sort it by memory usage to the top. -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge much of anything now...
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 11:28 pm, Andrew Gaffney wrote: What is the output of 'which gzip'? hp root # which gzip which: no gzip in (/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/heimdal/sbin:/usr/athena/sbin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/2.95:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.3.1.04/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.3.1.04/jre/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.1/sbin:/usr/kde/3.1/bin:/usr/qt/2/bin) hp root # Clang! Now what? I can't ungzip one, eh? emerge gzip does the same thing... -- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge much of anything now...
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 11:28 pm, Andrew Gaffney wrote: What is the output of 'which gzip'? Never mind. I stole one from my RH8 server. Then emerged gzip for a clean one. -- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel compile problems
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 6:50 am, John H wrote: I had the exact same problem recently. I assume you are using the su command to get root privileges to do the compile. Instead use the command su - This should work. As to why, I cannot fully explain it, but the 1st version doesn't get you the full root environment. (Yeah, I know it used to work, same here) su gives you root priliges but retains your current directory and environment. su - gives you root priveliges moves you to /root and sets up the root environment as if you had just logged in as root. -- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dvd+r or dvd-r
On Sunday 23 March 2003 12:05 pm, gabor wrote: hi, i'm kind of thinking about buying a dvd burner... what is better? dvd+r or dvd-r? i know it's a stupid question but i want to hear opinions. which has a more bright future? both? which is a better technology? can be dvd+r's burned with higher speed than 2.4x ? please share your thought/experiences with me. for example i've read that you can use a dvd+rw as a normal disk, that means you can format it for ext2/3 and normally copy/delete data to/from it. did anyone try that? Search our LUG list for DVD and Bryan... http://www.leap-cf.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?words=dvd+bryanmethod=andconfig=htdigrestrict=leaplist The LEAP-CF mailing list is a great resource: http://www.leap-cf.org/search.php3?article=search -- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dvd+r or dvd-r
On Sunday 23 March 2003 1:08 pm, gabor wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 18:33, Phil Barnett wrote: On Sunday 23 March 2003 12:05 pm, gabor wrote: hi, i'm kind of thinking about buying a dvd burner... what is better? dvd+r or dvd-r? i know it's a stupid question but i want to hear opinions. which has a more bright future? both? which is a better technology? can be dvd+r's burned with higher speed than 2.4x ? please share your thought/experiences with me. for example i've read that you can use a dvd+rw as a normal disk, that means you can format it for ext2/3 and normally copy/delete data to/from it. did anyone try that? Search our LUG list for DVD and Bryan... http://www.leap-cf.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?words=dvd+bryanmethod=andconfig =htdigrestrict=leaplist The LEAP-CF mailing list is a great resource: http://www.leap-cf.org/search.php3?article=search hmmm.. as i see they're basically saying dvd+r is dying and everyone should by dvd-r.. am i right? I'm no expert. I just know it's been discussed at length by an expert on our list. Bryan is a brilliant engineer type. You can pretty much take any technical content he posts to the bank. -- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless connection slow
On Thursday 20 March 2003 10:00 am, Xabier Ochotorena wrote: Anyway take on account that the two machines are side-by-side so no interferences should happen. That is simply not true. Interference can be coming from the motherboard. -- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Can't compile media-libs/gst-plugins
Here's how it fails. I've emerged arts again, but it makes no difference. Can anyone shed some light on this? g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../gst-libs -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -pthread -I/usr/include/gstreamer-0.6 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -DGST_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -g -I/usr/include/avifile -march=i686 -O2 -pipe -c gstwinenc.cc -Wp,-MD,.deps/libgstwincodec_la-gstwinenc.TPlo -fPIC -DPIC -o libgstwincodec_la-gstwinenc.lo /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link g++ -march=i686 -O2 -pipe -o libgstwincodec.la -rpath /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.6 -module -avoid-version libgstwincodec_la-gstwindec.lo libgstwincodec_la-gstwincodec.lo libgstwincodec_la-gstwinenc.lo -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -laviplay -lstdc++ mkdir .libs grep: /usr/kde/3/lib/libartsc.la: No such file or directory sed: can't read /usr/kde/3/lib/libartsc.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/kde/3/lib/libartsc.la' is not a valid libtool archive make[3]: *** [libgstwincodec.la] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gst-plugins-0.6.0-r4/work/gst-plugins-0.6.0/ext/avifile' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gst-plugins-0.6.0-r4/work/gst-plugins-0.6.0/ext' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gst-plugins-0.6.0-r4/work/gst-plugins-0.6.0' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: media-libs/gst-plugins-0.6.0-r4 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 153, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) hp root # ls -la /usr/kde/3/lib/libartsc.la ls: /usr/kde/3/lib/libartsc.la: No such file or directory -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't compile media-libs/gst-plugins
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 11:50 pm, Joshua J. Berry wrote: OK, it seems to be looking for arts in /usr/kde/3, which is wrong...since your KDEDIR is for KDE 3.1. Yup. As a kludge, my suggestion would be to symlink /usr/kde/3 to /usr/kde/3.1, and backup your old /usr/kde/3, if you have one. Then run ldconfig. I didn't have a /usr/kde/3. So, I just created a symlink and took a shot at it. Everything compiled perfectly. If you upgraded to 3.1 from 3.0, chances are you still have some old programs somewhere that rely on 3.0 and just haven't been upgraded yet. If this is true, then you can expect those programs to break...but a simple re-emerge should fix them. I though I pretty much killed off anything 3.0 related, but I guess some reference to it remains somewhere. Hope this helps. Sure did. Thanks! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] configuration utility?
I used it once, but can't remember the name of the command line utility that lets you compare versions of config files and makes it easier to move the new ones into place. Anyone? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] configuration utility?
On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:20 pm, Rex Young wrote: etc-update Yep. Thanks. I read something about emerge checksuming these and automerging the ones that haven't been edited. Is that a reality? Just for 1.4? I'm still running 1.2 until 1.4 is formally released. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.1 missing mouse clicks
On Saturday 22 February 2003 11:08 pm, Collins wrote: I opened up a bugzilla with kde on this behavior, but there's always a chance that X or something elese is the real culprit. Much of the time when working in kmail, I find that left mouse clicks can be ignored. If I'm previewing mail and click on the X button to delete mail, chances are good that nothing will happen until I click again. Similar results when I click on a url in the text (kmail only requires one click to open the browser). The behavior is erratic but frequent. My system is kernel 2.4.19 with patches from gentoo, gcc 3.2.120021207, glibc 2.3.1, xfree-4.2.1. I'm using a ps2 mouse. Has anyone seen this behavior elsewhere? I have had this happen several times. I found by re-emerging kdebase and kdelibs it was sometimes alleviated. Sorry I can't be specific. Currently, it's not happening with 3.1.0 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo init system : was [Re: [gentoo-user] service parameter passing?]
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 8:02 am, Andrew Dacey wrote: - Original Message - From: Phil Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 1:31 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo init system : was [Re: [gentoo-user] service parameter passing?] Anything that makes it easier to transition from the other Linux flavors where the init files are laid out very differently would make those testing the waters feel much more welcome. If that's not anyone's goal here, then I'm tilting at windmills. I'm not sure what you mean here. Yes, there are some differences with the layout of the runlevel directories but Gentoo uses the same basic structure as RH and Mandrake do. Well, I guess that's where you and I differ. I don't think they work at all the same. I see Gentoo's run levels as more like BSD than RH. Really, the service script is only about one thing. Abstraction. If I have a room full of several differing servers and I'm and admin, the last thing I want to have to remember in the heat of the moment is how to do something on _this_ machine. Stopping and starting services is one of the admins primary job. All the service script does is abstract the stopping and starting of servers so you no longer need to know which directory to look in to find the scripts. Perhaps you have never dealt with a room full of a hundred different servers, but anything we can do to help that guy out will be appreciated. Other than abstraction of where the service files lie, the service script is of no use whatsoever. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo init system : was [Re: [gentoo-user] service parameter passing?]
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 1:11 pm, Sundance wrote: I heard Phil Barnett said: If I have a room full of several differing servers and I'm and admin, the last thing I want to have to remember in the heat of the moment is how to do something on _this_ machine. Hmm, then I'd say it's pretty much -your- responsibility, not Gentoo's, to add this abstraction layer the way -you- want it. Perhaps this is true, but if you can admit that you are more likely to have a room full of RH servers than a room full of Gentoo or any other distro servers, you are on the way to my point. And, this mythical room full of servers is statistically proven. RH has more servers out there. I mean, you want your room full of servers working the RH way, and that's fine, but other people may very well prefer their abstraction to work the Debian or the BSD way, and there is no compelling reason for Gentoo to favor a system over any other. (If anything, the Gentoo way is IMO more modern and more powerful, so I'd rather port it to other distros than the other way around!) I don't have any problems with that, but everyone here is biased. The fact is that there are more RH servers out there than any other single distro. With that said, I do see that RH has symlinked /etc/init.d to /etc/rc.d/init.d. Didn't know that was there. Learned RH long before that. Besides, it's not like writing this abstraction layer was anywhere near difficult, as the many fine scripts already posted here show. :) Exactly, and it's not just in RH by the way. At any rate, that service script is already on more servers that you give credit for. Good luck with Gentoo, Phil, I hope you'll enjoy it! Well, it's been my desktop for about 6 months and I'm doing just fine with it. I just miss the service abstraction that I've become used to from several other distros. And, yes, I can put it there. But, being such a small script and being as widely used as it is, I don't see any reason for it to not be in there. There are literally dozens of other abstractions that we all take for granted in nearly every distro. This is just another one. I'll not tilt at windmills. It's not for me to say which abstractions you never notice and which you do. I'm sure you will agree that you take advantage of dozens of abstractions just like that one every day... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo init system : was [Re: [gentoo-user] service parameter passing?]
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 11:01 pm, Andrew Dacey wrote: I'm not saying that you shouldn't be able to do it the way you're used to. I'm just saying that it shouldn't effect the way I work. The whole point is to have choice. Did you read that before you sent it? It makes my point perfectly. Nothing about the script in question would effect the way you work, it would just give choice. I'm glad you agree with me. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo init system : was [Re: [gentoo-user] service parameter passing?]
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 8:39 am, brett holcomb wrote: What are you trying to do?? Any distro will tell you a service is started if it's already running. You do a /etc/init.d/service restart if you want to restart it. This is equivalent of a stop then a start. Gentoo's init service is the same as all the others - the directories may be different but they all do /etc/somedir/servicename start/stop/restart/... . What I miss in Gentoo is the simple format for services like found in Redhat and many others, ie: service servicename stop/start/restart It eliminates needing to know where the service directory is or including it every time. service httpd stop is a lot easier than any other incarnation and make any system easier to admin. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo init system : was [Re: [gentoo-user] service parameter passing?]
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 8:56 am, Alexander Futasz wrote:
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 08:48:17 -0500, Phil Barnett wrote:
What I miss in Gentoo is the simple format for services like found in
Redhat and many others, ie:
service servicename stop/start/restart
It eliminates needing to know where the service directory is or
including it every time.
service httpd stop
is a lot easier than any other incarnation and make any system easier
to admin.
shellscript
#!/bin/sh
/etc/init.d/$1 $2
/shellscript
put that in /usr/sbin or whereever you like, name it service, give it
the right permissions and you will have the functionality you described.
i read that before on the list, so it must be somewhere on the archives
too.
Well, there's two points to make here.
1. It should be part of Gentoo, not some hack that I put together.
2. The RH service script does a whole lot more than that, take a look, it's
gpl...
[root@gizmo root]# cat /sbin/service
#!/bin/sh
# Set up a default search path.
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
export PATH
VERSION=`basename $0` ver. 0.91
USAGE=Usage: `basename $0` option | --status-all | \
[ service_name [ command | --full-restart ] ]
SERVICE=
SERVICEDIR=/etc/init.d
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
echo $${USAGE} 2
exit 1
fi
cd /
while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
case ${1} in
--help | -h | --h* )
echo $${USAGE} 2
exit 0
;;
--version | -V )
echo $${VERSION} 2
exit 0
;;
*)
if [ -z ${SERVICE} -a $# -eq 1 -a ${1} = --status-all ]; then
cd ${SERVICEDIR}
for SERVICE in * ; do
case ${SERVICE} in
functions | halt | killall | single| linuxconf| kudzu | \
*rpmorig | *rpmnew | *rpmsave | *~ | *.orig)
;;
*)
if [ -x ${SERVICEDIR}/${SERVICE} ]; then
env -i LANG=$LANG PATH=$PATH ${SERVICEDIR}/${SERVICE}
status
fi
;;
esac
done
exit 0
elif [ $# -eq 2 -a ${2} = --full-restart ]; then
SERVICE=${1}
if [ -x ${SERVICEDIR}/${SERVICE} ]; then
env -i LANG=$LANG PATH=$PATH ${SERVICEDIR}/${SERVICE} stop
env -i LANG=$LANG PATH=$PATH ${SERVICEDIR}/${SERVICE} start
exit $?
fi
elif [ -z ${SERVICE} ]; then
SERVICE=${1}
else
OPTIONS=${OPTIONS} ${1}
fi
shift
;;
esac
done
if [ -x ${SERVICEDIR}/${SERVICE} ]; then
env -i LANG=$LANG PATH=$PATH ${SERVICEDIR}/${SERVICE} ${OPTIONS}
else
echo $${SERVICE}: unrecognized service 2
exit 1
fi
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo init system : was [Re: [gentoo-user] service parameter passing?]
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 9:52 am, Henti Smith wrote: On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:28:18 -0500 Phil Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, there's two points to make here. 1. It should be part of Gentoo, not some hack that I put together. This is up to the developers to decide. it might be a good idea, but in the end their decision. Anything that makes it easier to transition from the other Linux flavors where the init files are laid out very differently would make those testing the waters feel much more welcome. If that's not anyone's goal here, then I'm tilting at windmills. 2. The RH service script does a whole lot more than that, take a look, it's gpl... gpl does not mean everybody must use it, only that if so desired it can be used. Wow, really! You mean I don't have to download every project on SourceForge? My point in mentioning that it's gpl was to point out that it's ok to post it in a public forum. Personally I have never used redhat so the service command is a non event in my life. there are alot of things not included in gentoo that I have to add manually afterwards. from an admin point of view ... I know everything is in /etc/init.d/ so service would not help my anyway since my fingers are used to typing /etc/init.d (with tab completion of course) Just my 5 cents worth .. at current exchange rate .. thats about 0.01 cent US If you REALLY want the service included ... write an ebuild for it and submit it. emerge rh-service and you can have it part of gentoo while other cannot care less that it's not included. You know, if I just had about 10 more hours each day do to do things like this, my life would be complete. What I was hoping for was that someone who does have the time and talent would pick it up and play with it and I would benefit by making others aware of this shortcut. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Anybody recognize this one?
While trying to emerge K3B, mplayer was drawn in and failed... /var/tmp/portage/mplayer-0.90_rc2/temp/ccJNmuBQ.o(.text+0x4e3):/var/tmp/portage/mplayer-0.90_rc2/work/MPlayer-0.90rc2/Gui/mplayer/../../libmpdemux/stream.h:174: undefined reference to `cache_stream_fill_buffer' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [codec-cfg] Error 1 !!! ERROR: media-video/mplayer-0.90_rc2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 178, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) An earlier part of the error block complained about the above error coming from streams.h. Am I dealing with a C compiler version issue? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
