Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Docs & FAQ: Rules Suggestion

[Shawn Singh]

:) I'd completely forgotten about ESRs page on mailing list etiquette.
That would certainly be a good place to start.

On Apr 5, 2005 3:54 PM, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 13:03 -0400, Shawn Singh wrote:
> > While it's certain that people join the Gentoo mailing list (or any
> > other mailing list for that matter) to get help with the software...I
> > think that in some respects some times folks are not being mature with
> > respect to the community aspect of the list and in other cases are
> > outright abusing the list (which I myself have done as well)
> >
> > I think that we should make some rules for the list.
> 
> Whilst i sympathise, why not just refer people to Eric Raymond's page on
> mailing list etiquette?
> 
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> 
> Frankly the site http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com is sometimes a good
> reference.
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Docs & FAQ: Rules Suggestion

[Shawn Singh]

I certainly agree that the hypothetical rules ;) should be applied to
everyone and I think your suggestions are great as to "nice" things to
say to folks who "violate" those rules.

Let's see what more folks have to say...as this is a big pond...

On Apr 5, 2005 2:15 PM, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Shawn Singh wrote:
> 
> >I think that we should make some rules for the list.
> >
> >
> 
> I mostly agree, but I would add a rule for 'exsiting' members as well.
> 
> If we are going to bitch about somebody not checking archives before
> asking for help, we should come up with a better answer than "learn to
> google, dumbass"! ;->
> 
> Something like:
> --
> Topic already discussedin great detail.
> If you haven't already done so, search the archives.
> If you have already searched, try again, using the words "key1", "key2", ...
> --
> 
> Sometimes people just don't know where to start looking.
> 
> -Richard
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[gentoo-user] Gentoo Docs & FAQ: Rules Suggestion

[Shawn Singh]

While it's certain that people join the Gentoo mailing list (or any
other mailing list for that matter) to get help with the software...I
think that in some respects some times folks are not being mature with
respect to the community aspect of the list and in other cases are
outright abusing the list (which I myself have done as well)

I think that we should make some rules for the list.

For example on the BIND mailing list, one of the rules was before you
submitted a post, you needed to do some research online and check the
archieves, b/c if you didn't then you got dogged out (and (perhaps)
rightly so) for it.

While it is mentioned that there are no official archieves at: 
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml
Folks can find certain answers and postings if they use google...

This is just a suggestion, and I certainly apologize if I offend
anyone with it, but I think that we want to maintain the list as a
center of high quality discussion and information sharing, and not get
bogged down with redundant issues.

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Re: [gentoo-user] physical location monitoring with Gentoo

[Shawn Singh]

In the past I setup a webcam to overlook the JU campus ;) In that
experience I played with Video4Linux and I think the BTTV
driver...It's hard to remember exactly, but it worked reasonably well;
however, I wasn't doing live streaming or anything like that. I was
only taking snapshots at specified time intervals and displaying them
on a webpage using HTML and PHP.

On Apr 5, 2005 12:09 PM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I'd like to keep an eye on what's going on in my warehouse.  I've got
> > > a solid 802.11g network going with WPA now.  What do you guys suggest?
> >
> > http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome
> >
> > Unfortunately, not in portage.  It picked up a new lead developer in the
> > past 6 months or so (levarson, I think), and is stable with active
> > development.
> >
> > You may want to keep this in mind:
> > Cowpatty: http://www.remote-exploit.org/?page=codes
> > wpa_cracker: http://www.tinypeap.com/
> >
> > Personally, if I'm setting up security infra, I would go wired.  It's a
> > PIA to set up, but worth it in the long run.
> 
> WPA cracker?  That's news to me.  Is it as vulnerable as WEP now?
> 
> - Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world trashed my website

[Shawn Singh]

Hey all,

His experience is pretty interesting...

Does portage keep track of settings so that you don't have reconfigure
it everytime you do an upgrade of a package? In other words, if (for
example) I emerge apache and it reconfigured to serve webs from
/var/www/html, instead of /usr/local/htdocs/ would portage get updated
with that new information?

Portage is pretty "smart" especially in comparison to other software
management tools (up2date, and mandrake update)...so I wouldn't be
surprised if it did.

On Apr 4, 2005 5:03 PM, Mike Turcotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello I just finished doing an emerge -uD world and portage updated
> apache2 along with numerous other things. I was wondering why I could
> not get my site working again till I realised that the upgrade process
> completely wiped the directory that my web site was stored in. What I
> don't understand is that the directory isn't even the default one that
> apache uses. How did this happen? And to put the icing on the cake, I
> did not have a backup, as I was planning on emerging a backup utility
> once world was done.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem (slow hard drive?)

[Shawn Singh]

One thing that I noticed with my installs of Linux is that different
filesystems seem to perform differently...ie. my installst that are
using Reiserfs seem to have quicker reads and writes than my installs
that are using ext2 or ext3...

Also, another thing that I noticed, is that I trim down services that
I don't absolutely need to be running..and that seems to help with
performance.

The nice thing about Gentoo is that a lot of stuff doesn't get started
by default. :)

I hope this helps.

Shawn

On Apr 4, 2005 8:40 AM, Covington, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've been experiencing performance problems in my laptop
> > (Acer Aspire 1522WLMi).
> 
> How much memory (RAM) do you have?  That could be the bottleneck.
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Change Resolution

[Shawn Singh]

...Alright...all I needed to do was add the lines for the H sync and V
refresh rate and that worked.

Thanks everyone!

On Apr 3, 2005 12:50 PM, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Shawn Singh wrote:
> 
> >I've made some changes, but this time I got a different error message.
> > The message told me that no screens were found...
> >
> >Here is a copy of my Xorg.conf:
> >
> >
> >Section "Screen"
> >Identifier "Screen0"
> >Device "Card0"
> >Monitor"Monitor0"
> >DefaultDepth 24
> >Depth 24
> >Modes "1024x768"
> >Viewport   0 0
> >EndSubSection
> >EndSection
> >   SubSection "Display"
> >
> >
> The above "Screen" section is corrupt.  You have an EndSubSection with
> no preceeding "SubSection", and a "SubSection" at the end.
> 
> You might try "X -configure" then "X -allowMouseOpenFail -config  config line from -configure>".  This lets the X server autodetect and
> autoconfigure everything, and the new xorg.conf should give you a good
> starting point for changes.  On my system, it doesn't get the correct
> pointer path (/dev/input/mice instead of /dev/mouse), so I have to start
> the server with -allowMouseOpenFail.  One important note...if you don't
> already know, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace should kill the X server started this
> way...or Ctrl+Alt+F1 to return to the console.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> -Richard
> 
> >
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Re: [gentoo-user] Change Resolution

[Shawn Singh]

I've made some changes, but this time I got a different error message.
 The message told me that no screens were found...

Here is a copy of my Xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen  0  "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath  "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath   "/usr/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load  "record"
Load  "record"
Load  "extmod"
Load  "dbe"
Load  "dri"
Load  "glx"
Load  "xtrap"
Load  "freetype"
Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Keyboard0"
Driver  "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Mouse0"
Driver  "mouse"
Option  "Protocol" "auto"
Option  "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier   "Monitor0"
VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName"Monitor Model"
Option   "DPMS"
HorizSync"68.7"
VertRefresh  "85"
EndSection

Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: : integer, : float, : "True"/"False",
### : "String", : " Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "SWcursor"  # []
#Option "HWcursor"  # []
#Option "NoAccel"   # []
#Option "ShadowFB"  # []
#Option "UseFBDev"  # []   
#Option "Rotate"# []
#Option "VideoKey"  # 
#Option "FlatPanel" # []
#Option "FPDither"  # []
#Option "CrtcNumber"# 
#Option "FPScale"   # []
#Option "FPTweak"   # 
Identifier  "Card0"
Driver  "nv"
VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName   "NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]"
BusID   "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor"Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
Viewport   0 0
EndSubSection
EndSection
   SubSection "Display"




On Apr 3, 2005 5:01 AM, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You really need to look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> 
> Quite likely your minitor is not being correctly probed by xorg, which
> therefore defaults to a low resolution.
> 
> If that is the problem then you need to add HorizSync and VertRefresh
> lines into your configuration file in the monitor section. Here is mine
> as an example:
> 
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier   "Monitor0"
> VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
> ModelName"Monitor Model"
> Option  "DPMS"
> HorizSync35-85
> VertRefresh  48-120
> EndSection
> 
> I have had surprisingly good luck finding rates for crappy monitors by
> googling.
> 
> On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 23:51 +, Shawn Singh wrote:
> > My screen resolution is set at 640 x 480...and (as you might
> > understand) I'd like to change it.
> >
> > I've used the docs provided at:
> >
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml?style=printable
> >
> > As my guide but nothing has changed.
> >
> > This is a copy of my xorg.conf:
> >
> > Section "ServerLayout"
> > Identifier "X.org Configured"
> > Screen  0  "Screen0" 0 0
> > InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>

[gentoo-user] Change Resolution

[Shawn Singh]

My screen resolution is set at 640 x 480...and (as you might
understand) I'd like to change it.

I've used the docs provided at:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml?style=printable

As my guide but nothing has changed.

This is a copy of my xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen  0  "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath  "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath   "/usr/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load  "record"
Load  "extmod"
Load  "record"
Load  "extmod"
Load  "dbe"
Load  "dri"
Load  "glx"
Load  "xtrap"
Load  "freetype"
Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Keyboard0"
Driver  "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Mouse0"
Driver  "mouse"
Option  "Protocol" "auto"
Option  "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSectionOption  "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier   "Monitor0"
VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName"Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: : integer, : float, : "True"/"False",
### : "String", : " Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "SWcursor"  # []
#Option "HWcursor"  # []
#Option "NoAccel"   # []
#Option "ShadowFB"  # []
#Option "UseFBDev"  # []
#Option "Rotate"# []
#Option "VideoKey"  # 
#Option "Rotate"# []
#Option "VideoKey"  # 
#Option "FlatPanel" # []
#Option "FPDither"  # []
#Option "CrtcNumber"# 
#Option "FPScale"   # []
#Option "FPTweak"   # 
Identifier  "Card0"
Driver  "nv"
VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName   "NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]"
BusID   "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor"Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth 1
    EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport   0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
Viewport   0 0
EndSubSection
EndSection

I'm running GNOME (if that makes any difference)...

Thank you,

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Re: [gentoo-user] E-build for Java

[Shawn Singh]

I know that I'm going to sound like a kid asking "why", but would you
mind explaining why the symlink won't suffice?

Shawn


On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:27:39 +, Julien Cayzac
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:56:02 +, Shawn Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I found it. The java package was already installed. I just needed to
> > put a symlink to the executable in /usr/bin.
> 
> You shouldn't.
> Delete that symlink and use java-config.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Why do I need blackdown-jdk?

[Shawn Singh]

I'm wondering if a browser that you may have installed needs it...or
possibly some other program...


On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:30:10 +1000 (EST), Robert S
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a gentoo amd64 system with a number of servers running and KDE.
> I'd like to get rid of blackdown-jdk to free up disk space, and I don't
> use it.
> 
> When I do $ equery depends blackdown-jdk I get:
> [ Searching for packages depending on blackdown-jdk... ]
> $
> 
> (ie. nothing depends on it).  If I unmerge it and do revdep-rebuild it
> doesn't reinstall it, but if I do emerge world -Du, it gets reinstalled.
> 
> Is it necessary to have blackdown-jdk?  Which USE flag can I get rid of to
> prevent it from being installed?
> 
> My current USE flags (in /etc/make.conf) are:
> 
> USE="milter gd mysql apache2 alsa gphoto2 mad samba imap multilib cups dvd
> ppds usb -gnome innodb oav lzw-tiff wmf -ipv6 nvidia rtc xvid nptl oss
> server javascript"
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Re: [gentoo-user] E-Builds for DVD Software

[Shawn Singh]

Thank you for the info.


On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:05:31 +1000, Rod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Try gxine..
>  
>  If you wish to emerge a package and not know the actual name, use 'emerge
> -s xine'  <- example
>  
>  Shawn Singh wrote:
>  
>  I tried to emerge xine, but it gave an error indicating that no such
> e-build was available... On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:20:23 -0700, Nicolas Bailey
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
>  What kind of DVD software are you looking for? To play I use xine. To rip I
> use dvdrip. To burn I use k3b. Have fun, Nick On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 02:48:58
> +, Shawn Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
>  Does anyone have any recommendations for DVD software that I can emerge?
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Re: [gentoo-user] E-build for Java

[Shawn Singh]

I found it. The java package was already installed. I just needed to
put a symlink to the executable in /usr/bin.

Thank you.


On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:26:28 +1200, Dion Sole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There won't be. The java packages are:
> blackdown-jdk
> blackdown-jre
> sun-jdk
> sun-jre
> ibm-jdk-bin
> 
> So you want to choose one of those. You should only need the JRE for
> running limewire.
> 
> BTW, if you're curious how I got those, emerge eix, and take a look at it.
> 
> Shawn Singh wrote:
> > I would like to install Java so that I can run limewire, but when
> > trying to emerge java...I get messages telling me: "Calculating
> > dependencies
> > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "java"."
> >
> > Suggestions, anyone.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
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Re: [gentoo-user] E-Builds for DVD Software

[Shawn Singh]

I tried to emerge xine, but it gave an error indicating that no such
e-build was available...


On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:20:23 -0700, Nicolas Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What kind of DVD software are you looking for?
> 
> To play I use xine.
> To rip I use dvdrip.
> To burn I use k3b.
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> Nick
> 
> 
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 02:48:58 +, Shawn Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Does anyone have any recommendations for DVD software that I can emerge?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
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[gentoo-user] E-build for Java

[Shawn Singh]

I would like to install Java so that I can run limewire, but when
trying to emerge java...I get messages telling me: "Calculating
dependencies
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "java"."

Suggestions, anyone.

Thank you,

Shawn
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[gentoo-user] E-Builds for DVD Software

[Shawn Singh]

Does anyone have any recommendations for DVD software that I can emerge?

Thank you,

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Re: [gentoo-user] used computer

[Shawn Singh]

But if you must...then http://www.pricewatch.com is a great portal. 


On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:38:34 -0500, A. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> Why don't you buy from Dell.
> I seem to remember seein complete systems for <$500 on their flyers.
> (I do not know about S & H, though)  ;-)
> Now, as for compatibility with Linux, well I heard that the video
> cards they (Dell)  use on the
> entry level systems (by Intel, I think) gives some trouble, but I
> guess that a quick google can
> provide more info on this.
> 
> I know this is not much help, but maybe you could use this to compare
> against a used system.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -AR
> 
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:19:44 -0600, John Shawger
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Does anybody know where I could get a decent quality used computer for
> > not very much money (<$500).  I want to use it as my main workstation,
> > but it does not have to be incredibly fast.  I have been looking at
> > some things on ebay, but I am afraid of getting scammed.
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Re: [gentoo-user] used computer

[Shawn Singh]

Ebay is not a bad source, just read the fine print, and ensure that
you don't buy anything where the seller is selling it as is, and won't
provide any guarantees of quality.


On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:38:34 -0500, A. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> Why don't you buy from Dell.
> I seem to remember seein complete systems for <$500 on their flyers.
> (I do not know about S & H, though)  ;-)
> Now, as for compatibility with Linux, well I heard that the video
> cards they (Dell)  use on the
> entry level systems (by Intel, I think) gives some trouble, but I
> guess that a quick google can
> provide more info on this.
> 
> I know this is not much help, but maybe you could use this to compare
> against a used system.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -AR
> 
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:19:44 -0600, John Shawger
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Does anybody know where I could get a decent quality used computer for
> > not very much money (<$500).  I want to use it as my main workstation,
> > but it does not have to be incredibly fast.  I have been looking at
> > some things on ebay, but I am afraid of getting scammed.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Best Intrusion Detection System

[Shawn Singh]

I apologize, but I have gotten somewhat out of the loop, but in answer
to your question I think the other gentleman gave a great synopsis of
a difference b/w Snort and AIDE. I would like to make a suggestion. I
have had some experience working with a security manager who used
Snort, and it is a great program, providing that your snort.conf file
is tweaked properly, and a great way to organize the data that it
collects is to use Acid in conjunction with Snort.

That's my 2 cents.

Shawn


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> Hi
> 
> I don't have enough experience on intrusion detection system but I wonder
> what's the best  of between snort, prelude & AIDE ?
> 
> Any Suggestions please ?
> 
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[gentoo-user] Sound Won't Work

[Shawn Singh]

I've got this error message, and my sound won't work...where do I
start troubleshooting, or has anyone encountered this error and can
share their solution...

Error artsmessage
Sound server fatal error:
cpu overload, aborting

I'm running kernel 2.6.9-gentoo-r13.
I've compiled support for my SoundBlaster Sound Card (emu10k -- or
something like that).

Any ideas?

Thanks,

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Microsoft Anti-Spyware Program

[Shawn Singh]

Nice...very nice!!!


On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:55:11 -0500, Nicholas Pappas
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I found this on the Ubuntu forum, thought it was most amusing:
>http://www.rightstep.org/images/antispywareresultsdetai1.gif
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[gentoo-user] Error emerging mono

[Shawn Singh]

Hello all,

I'm trying too install mono using:

emerge mono

It downloads the source code and begins compiling then it will stop
and the following message will appear on the screen:

!!! ERROR: dev-dotnet/mono-0.28 failed
!!! Function src_compile, Line 47, Exitcode 2
!!! MCS compilation failure
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message

I can't see any messages, so I can't post anything else.  I'm about to
try it again, and I'll append the information to a file and include
the information in another email, but I wanted to see if anyone else
has encountered this and found a solution.

Thank you,

Shawn

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[gentoo-user] Merge problems with bind

[Shawn Haggett]

I'm trying to emerge bind, but keeping getting an error. It will build, 
but fails when it tries to merge. Below is the error message that I 
received:

speedy ~ # emerge bind

>>> Merging net-dns/bind-9.2.2-r4 to /
--- /etc/
--- /etc/bind/
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3038, in ?
   mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist())
 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1838, in merge
   retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,self.pkgsettings,edebug)
 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2696, in doebuild
   return 
merge(mysettings["CATEGORY"],mysettings["PF"],mysettings["D"],mysettings["BUILDDIR"]+"/build-info",myroot,mysettings,myebuild=mysettings["EBUILD"])
 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2829, in merge
   return mylink.merge(pkgloc,infloc,myroot,myebuild)
 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6813, in merge
   return self.treewalk(mergeroot,myroot,inforoot,myebuild,cleanup=cleanup)
 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6439, in treewalk
   if 
self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,"",cfgfiledict,mymtime):
 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6678, in mergeme
   if 
self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime):
 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6678, in mergeme
   if 
self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime):
 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6616, in mergeme
   mydest = new_protect_filename(myrealdest, 
newmd5=portage_checksum.perform_md5(srcroot+myabsto))
 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_checksum.py", line 24, in perform_md5
   return perform_checksum(x, md5hash, calc_prelink)[0]
 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_checksum.py", line 127, in 
perform_checksum
   myhash, mysize = hash_function(myfilename)
 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_checksum.py", line 74, in md5hash
   return fchksum.fmd5t(filename)
IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: 
'/var/tmp/portage/bind-9.2.2-r4/image//var/bind/pri'
speedy ~ #

This appears to be an error in portage itself. Also I'm using the `~x86` 
branch.

Shawn
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: monitor resolution

[Shawn Singh]

I ran xorgconfig; however, you've got to know the specs of your video
card and you've got to have some idea about what the values should be
for Horizontal and Vertical Synch, the type of keyboard you have and
the type of mouse you have.

That fixed the issue I was having.


On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:22:35 +0800, "åå:->äåé" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> 
>If I use the plain old console ,How I can change the resolution;
> Beacuse I use the HP NoteBook ;the console look like too small;
> I have use the Framebuffer in the grub.conf "vga =788" ,then the console
> look like what I wanted;
> But ,use the FrameBuffer, I can not startx ,and start the kde;
> so If I want to use the monitor resolution "1024*768" in the console, At the
> same time;I can start the kde;
> How can I do?
>Thank you!
> Gabriel M. Beddingfield åé: 
> Shawn Singh wrote:

 
> Hello all:

How do I change the resolution on my monitor?
 Are you running
> KDE, Gnome, FluxBox, FVWM, Blackbox, TWM, framebuffer, a
plain old con$ole,
> or something else?

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Re: [gentoo-user] cat /proc/cpuinfo - Athlon XP or MP..?

[Shawn]

Maybe your BIOS needs updating? I'm grasping here, but that has been the
thing that makes /proc/cpuinfo tell me lies. Or, maybe your father
bought the wrong (or right, ironically) CPU?

God, it's nearly 1:00am. Why do I let the girlfriend keep me up with
drama. Geez.

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 20:37, Stroller wrote:
> I've borrowed an Athlon CPU from my father, to test in a Tyan Tiger 
> dual-proc board I have acquired. As far as i knew, this processor is a 
> bog-standard Althon XP, but both the BIOS & `cat /proc/cpuinfo` show it 
> as an MP.
> 
> The markings on the processor start with the letters "AX", which, 
> according to this page 
> , indicates 
> it's an MP. Do all Athlons show up as "MP" in /proc/cpuinfo, or could 
> it be the case that this has been misbadged..?
> 
> Could be the board causing such an output..?
> 
> TIA for any comments,
> 
> Stroller.
> 
> 
> # cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor   : 0
> vendor_id   : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family  : 6
> model   : 6
> model name  : AMD Athlon(tm) MP 1600+
> stepping: 2
> cpu MHz : 1400.083
> cache size  : 256 KB
> fdiv_bug: no
> hlt_bug : no
> f00f_bug: no
> coma_bug: no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid level : 1
> wp  : yes
> flags   : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge 
> mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
> bogomips: 2791.83
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] how to find the dhcp server?

[Shawn]

See my email.

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 17:58, lukas wrote:
> On Thursday 29 January 2004 00:40, Norbert Kamenicky wrote:
> 
> > > Just do a broadcast ping (ping -b BROADCASTIP) in your network
> > > and then type "arp -a". Now you should see all IPs/MACs in
> > > your network.
> > >
> > :-) Good advice, but how can u ping "your" network broadcast
> >
> > address if u don't know it ? (Because, e.g. your dhcp client
> > is not installed/broken ...)
> >
> > U have to use  "ping -I eth0 -b 255.255.255.255" instead,
> > but it can happen not only DHCP server answers ...
> 
> That's right. :)
> If you really don't know any network adresses this is not the
> right method and I really don't know how to do it correctly.
> Is it possible to physicaly isolate the dhcp-server? Then you
> can connect only one client to it, and the broadcast should
> work.
> 
> cu
> 
> lukas

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: HOw much power does a computer consume?

[Shawn]

Crank on your disk and spin your cdrom too.

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 17:54, lukas wrote:
> On Monday 26 January 2004 20:30, Jakub Krajcovic wrote:
> 
> > FIrst of all I apologize of an OT thread, but i would like to get an
> > estimate of how much power (in Watts) would this consume:
> 
> Get an ammeter and a socket. Put the ammeter "in row" (NOT parallell! :)
> with your power circuit and connect it to the socket. Now you can
> measure the amperage flowing through the line. (Before start a
> process that consumes 100%CPU and do something graphic
> intensive work, e.g. a GL-game, start your sound etc. The
> power consumtion should be as high as possible).
> 
> Becase "P = U * I" you can now calculate the electrical power
> by multiplicating the amperage and the voltage.
> But be warned. If you put on your computer, the momentary
> power-consumtion could be much higher than the value you
> have calculated. This method is only good for pre-calculating
> your bill for your electricity company. :)
> If you really wanna be shure that the power-supply in your
> car is sufficient, you should buy an inverter, that is strong
> enough for the worst case (like Brendon Walker has recommended).
> 
> cu
> 
> lukas
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Re: [gentoo-user] how to find the dhcp server?

[Shawn]

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 17:40, Norbert Kamenicky wrote:
> lukas wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 January 2004 20:45, fisch wrote:
> 
> > Just do a broadcast ping (ping -b BROADCASTIP) in your network
> > and then type "arp -a". Now you should see all IPs/MACs in
> > your network.
> > 
> 
> :-) Good advice, but how can u ping "your" network broadcast
> address if u don't know it ? (Because, e.g. your dhcp client
> is not installed/broken ...)

You /can/ do dhcpcd -T -d, and that will give you the ARP of the DHCP
server answering (or at least the bootp helper switch/router).

Then, you find the IP. Maybe run arpwatch and check the cache.

> U have to use  "ping -I eth0 -b 255.255.255.255" instead,
> but it can happen not only DHCP server answers ...

More like it's likely it won't even answer. There's no good reason for
ISP infrastructure to answer to broadcast pings.

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Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB problem, Part 2

[Shawn]

Didn't have /boot mounted when you copied the kernel? It does not mount
by default.

Forgive me if this was covered, as I did not see part one.

On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 10:53, Krikket wrote:
> Okay, I was able to edit GRUB to make things the way they should be, but I
> still am unable to boot the system.
> 
> I'm not sure what's wrong...  The details of the install so far:
> 
> hda1 -> Boot
> hda2 -> Swap
> hda3 -> Blank  (When I figure out how, I want to mount this partition as
> /extra )
> hdb1 -> /
> 
> My /mnt/gentoo/boot/grub/grub.conf file:
> 
> default 0
> timeout 30
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.g2
> title=Gentoo Linux 2.4.24
>   root (hd0,0)
>   kernal (hd1,0)/boot/kernal-2.4.24
>   root=/dev/hdb1 vga=794
> 
> The problem that I'm seeing:  When I hit return (or wait for the system to
> auto-load) I briefly get a blank screen and less than a second later, I'm
> returned to the GRUB menu.
> 
> In taking another look at things, I cd'd /boot and didn't see a
> /kernal-2.4.24.  (For that matter, I didn't se a /kernal*) But I didn't
> notice any errors when building the system...
> 
> Somehow I'm guessing I managed to skip a step.  Any idea what I missed?
> 
> Rather than manually confiuring the kernal, I used genkernal.  So it
> should be there somewhere...
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Krikket
> (Hopeing that I won't have to redo a bunch of the build...)
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 test must read !!!!

[Shawn]

Did you ever think CPU accounting might be slightly different?

Unless you know how to really profile the app I'd defer to the wisdom of
others.

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 18:16, SN wrote:
> Okay, I want to summarize my experience with kernel 2.6 now.
> 
> I upgraded to the 2.6 final yesterday and ran some tests yesterday and all
> day today.
> First of all, kernel 2.6 worked fine, no crashes , all my drivers worked all
> my apps worked, all my hardware worked.
> 
> Test with overnet however revealed some issues, overnets CPU time usage is
> much higher with kernel 2.6.
> 
> The first test I ran was overnet with glibc without nptl, overnet used about
> twice as much cpu time as before with kernel 2.4.
> For the second test I installed linux-headers 2.6-beta11 and compiled  glibc
> with nptl (use flag nptl was set), the result stayed the same.
> 
> So overnet used about 15-20% cpu time with kernel 2.6 , with 2.4 it was
> around 5-10% .
> 
> To be able to compare the two results I ran the tests for hours and compared
> the cpu time whenever overnet build up aproximately the same number of tcp
> connections(measured with netstat) and the same number of openfiles(measured
> with lsof).
> Another effect:
> After compiling in nptl I noticed, that top gets confused by nptl the values
> it shows are not correct anymore. For example while compiling the
> accumulated cpu time is 90% but the compile process  cc1 shows that  it is
> using 2-5% cpu time and all other processes show about 0%, cc1 normally is
> around 90% while compiling, I upgraded procps to the latest release because
> top belongs to procps, but that didn't help it. So top is not working
> corectly with nptl.
> 
> 
> Although the system seems very responsive now I think something is wrong
> with 2.6
> I'm not really sure what causes this, it could be due to the new TCP Stack,
> a result of the new sheduling, or thread handling. Who knows???
> 
> I would love to see a discussion about that and maybe some other tests with
> other applications, for example a webserver or database server under high
> load.
> 
> GrÃÃe Stefan
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] No Colsole after starting X

[Shawn]

I don't believe this is the issue.

nvidia drivers, and maybe fbcon. I repeate, /NOT/ a issue pty issue. The
console does not use ptys.

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 17:01, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 17:27, Oliver Bohlen wrote:
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> > Hash: SHA1
> > 
> > 
> > Hello List
> > 
> > I hava a Gericom Webgine Notebook. Gentoo is running very good on it, only if 
> > I'm starting X and want to switch after it back to the colsoles with 
> > Ctrl+Alt+F1-6 I only get a black screen.
> > I'm using the 2.6test6 Kernel. I already tested it with the 2.4.20 Kernel but 
> > there it is the same probmem. I have the same problem with Distributions like 
> > SuSE.
> > The graphic card in the Notebook is a GeForce 4 Go with 32 MB of RAM. If I 
> > plug a Monitor on the Notebook it shows a black screen too. 
> > I tried to change the picturefrequence and the driver from nv to nvidia but 
> > nothing helps.
> > I switched off the Powermanagement in the BIOS and with the bootparameters 
> > pci=noacpi but it didn't help too. Switching off/on the Framebuffer was 
> > without result too. (The nvidia-Framebuffer-Module isn't working here...)
> > I didnt find help in the Gentoo-Forum and with Googleing so I hope to get help 
> > here.
> 
> In your kernel, do you have the option File systems->Pseudo
> filesystems->/dev/pts filesystem enabled? You should.

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Re: [gentoo-user] remote cups control

[Shawn]

One other thing you could do, point your local 3128 to squid on that
machine, and use localhost 3128 as your proxy. Then, all browser
requests to your ssh server will be as if they were local.

Of course then all traffic anywhere will be over the ssh connection to
your squid proxy... One way to get away with viewing pron at work...

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 15:40, Shawn wrote:
> Don't do that, just ssh to your machine and forward your local tcp port
> 631 to the cups machine (-L)
> 
> Then, point your browser to your local box as if it were the cups
> server.
> 
> On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 17:09, Tux the turtle wrote:
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> > Hash: SHA1
> > 
> > Anyone any hint on what to set in cups.conf to get remote access to
> > http://:631/admin ?
> > ThanX...
> > 
> > - --
> > 
> > visit tux online: http//www.tuthtu.net
> > 
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
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> > 
> > iD8DBQE/e1CdbTe9XMUf00QRAqJ0AJ4n3rE5O0PF2i6YFvTh4mHDU2KdJQCg2EkW
> > /BHQYLbMOlPMb5DN+v8gMgc=
> > =3Kml
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Re: [gentoo-user] remote cups control

[Shawn]

Don't do that, just ssh to your machine and forward your local tcp port
631 to the cups machine (-L)

Then, point your browser to your local box as if it were the cups
server.

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 17:09, Tux the turtle wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Anyone any hint on what to set in cups.conf to get remote access to
> http://:631/admin ?
> ThanX...
> 
> - --
> 
> visit tux online: http//www.tuthtu.net
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] after kernel upgrade get / mount error

[Shawn]

I never have to reboot on -test5-mm4.

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 14:25, Steven Elling wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 October 2003 13:45, Shawn wrote:
> > Try /dev/root in the system init file instaed of "/" where remounts
> > happen.
> 
> It has been a while since I tried using kernel 2.4.22 but I think I tried 
> /dev/root and it did not work either.  I tried every single dev entry for 
> the device.  It doesn't matter now anyway `cause I gave up on 2.4.22 and 
> will be going to 2.6 when it's production stable.
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] after kernel upgrade get / mount error

[Shawn]

Try /dev/root in the system init file instaed of "/" where remounts
happen.

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 13:10, Steven Elling wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 September 2003 12:24, Wes Gray wrote:
> > I am running vanilla sources, and I upgraded from 2.4.19 to 2.4.20 fine,
> > but when I go to 2.4.21 or 2.4.22, on boot I get an error "Root
> > filesystem could not be mounted read/write". After that error, lots of
> > files are not found for the rest of the boot process, but at the end I am
> > able to log into the system and / is definitly mounted, though some of
> > the files the boot process is looking for are missing.  My / is reiserfs.
> 
> I had similar problems.  I found out my system was booting with / mount 
> read-only, which it should do, but when it went to mount / read-write it 
> would produce the error above.
> 
> I would log in a root and run 'mount' and see / was still mounted read only.  
> If I issued 'mount -o remount,rw /', the mount would fail as well, but if I 
> issued 'mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda3 /' it would work.  For some reason 
> 2.4.22 had a problem with the way / was defined in /etc/fstab.  I tried to 
> define / several different ways in /etc/fstab but to no avail.
> 
> I never got around to diagnosing the problem any further and backed of using 
> kernel version 2.4.22.
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] strange boot sequence...

[Shawn]

What is in /etc/conf.d/local.start?


On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 12:17, Budd, Tracy wrote:
> It looks like there is some sort of timeout occurring after all of my boot
> scripts run, prior to getting a login prompt at the console. It looks like
> this
> 
> < blah blah blah >
> Starting local... 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> login:
> 
> I think this started after I upgraded ntp.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> TIA,
> -Tracy
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Re: [gentoo-user] galeon broken

[Shawn]

Hey, I'm not insane! Take a look at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=212436

Where it's also reported.

On 09/29, Shawn said something like:
> It seems something in my system has broken galeon in a very strange way.
> (I say this because I've tried older galeon releases and they are broken
> as well)
> 
> When I visit, for example, movies.yahoo.com and enter in a zip code, and
> some old zip code stored in a cookie gets remembered instead of the one
> I fed it. Other websites' input forms are affected as well.
> 
> epiphany and mozilla work fine, too.
> 
> The breakage may have happened after a glibc update. I'm running the
> very latest +nptl (-r6).
> 
> I'm really just wondering if anyone has debugging tips.
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[gentoo-user] galeon broken

[Shawn]

It seems something in my system has broken galeon in a very strange way.
(I say this because I've tried older galeon releases and they are broken
as well)

When I visit, for example, movies.yahoo.com and enter in a zip code, and
some old zip code stored in a cookie gets remembered instead of the one
I fed it. Other websites' input forms are affected as well.

epiphany and mozilla work fine, too.

The breakage may have happened after a glibc update. I'm running the
very latest +nptl (-r6).

I'm really just wondering if anyone has debugging tips.

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[gentoo-user] emerge -Uvp hosed

[Shawn]

When I try to check out what's changed with world my emerge barfs.
Checking groups of packages or just one works fine, but not "world".
I've quickly searched the forums with no result.

I did a regenworld but to no avail. This is what I get:
 
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
 
Calculating world dependencies
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2096, in ?
if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 996, in xcreate
if portage.db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.match(x):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3193, in match
mydep=dep_expand(origdep,self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2629, in dep_expand
return prefix+cpv_expand(mydep,mydb)+postfix
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2562, in cpv_expand
if (not mydb.cp_list(mykey)) and virts and virts.has_key(mykey):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3145, in cp_list
mystat=os.stat(self.root+"var/db/pkg/"+mysplit[0])[ST_MTIME]
TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be (encoded string without NULL bytes), not str

Here's emerge info
Portage 2.0.49-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.2-r5, 2.6.0-test5-mm4)
=
System uname: 2.6.0-test5-mm4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
ccache version 2.2 [disabled]
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config 
/usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.2/share/config 
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ 
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs sandbox -ccache userpriv"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo";
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://www.enodev.com/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mmx mpeg 
ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb 
slang readline arts tetex aalib bonobo svga java guile mysql sdl gpm tcpd pam perl 
python esd imlib oggvorbis motif opengl mozilla ldap cdr X cups nptl scanner usb sse 
dvd tcltk gtk2 gtk gnome alsa imap libwww maildir sasl ssl -qt -kde"


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[gentoo-user] libtool: link: cannot find the library `'

[Shawn]

Ok, I'm a ~x86 person, and it seems libtool broke. I did some searching
on the forums and downgraded my bash to the latest "x86" KEYWORDed
version to no avail.

I have no clue. Anyone else?

The following is a snippet from trying to compile libdv:

/bin/sh ../libtool --silent --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -Wall -I/usr/include/SDL 
-D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include 
-I/usr/X11R6/include   -o playdv  playdv.o display.o oss.o -L/usr/lib 
-Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -lSDL -lpthread -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic 
-lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm -lXv ../libdv/libdv.la -lpopt -lm 
libtool: link: cannot find the library `'


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Re: [gentoo-user] /lib/modules for multiple kernels question

[Shawn]

You can simply modify the version string  in the kernel's root Makefile.

On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 12:08, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>If there's a page somewhere that explains this issue, please direct me
> there before you write a lot of stuff down. I just cannot find the answer in
> Google.
> 
>I am quite unclear in the Linux kernel build process how to keep multiple
> versions of the same kernel on the system when they require different
> /lib/modules directories? How do I build the kernel such that I end up with
> something like
> 
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r6-ver1
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r6-ver2
> 
> and have the right directory associated with the appropriate kernel?
> 
>I completely understand how to manage the bzImage file and grub to make
> this work. I just don't get how to handle the modules part.
> 
>Maybe I'm missing the point and somehow it can just be a single directory
> with both version's modules in it, but it doesn't seem to be working for me.
> I'm not clear if this is a Gentoo issue or just a Linux issue in general.
> 
>The problem being addressed here is that I _had_ a working kernel using
> gcc3.2, but then went to gcc3.3 and lost the modules I needed for the 3.2
> kernel image to work. I would have liked to keep them both.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u openoffice fails

[Shawn]

What gcc-3.2.x do you have? Which binutils? Internal compiler errors are
usually not code problems.

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 18:54, Ben Anderson wrote:
> Now I'm getting this error:
> 
> Making: ../../unxlngi4.pro/slo/analysis.obj
> g++ -fmessage-length=0 -c -I. -I../../unxlngi4.pro/inc/addin/analysis 
> -I../inc -I../../inc -I../../unx/inc -I../../unxlngi4.pro/inc -I. 
> -I/var/tmp/portage/openoffice-1.0.3-r1/work/oo_1.0.3_src/solver/641/unxlngi4.pro/inc/stl
>  
> -I/var/tmp/portage/openoffice-1.0.3-r1/work/oo_1.0.3_src/solver/641/unxlngi4.pro/inc/external
>  
> -I/var/tmp/portage/openoffice-1.0.3-r1/work/oo_1.0.3_src/solver/641/unxlngi4.pro/inc 
> -I/var/tmp/portage/openoffice-1.0.3-r1/work/oo_1.0.3_src/solenv/unxlngi4/inc 
> -I/var/tmp/portage/openoffice-1.0.3-r1/work/oo_1.0.3_src/solenv/inc 
> -I/var/tmp/portage/openoffice-1.0.3-r1/work/oo_1.0.3_src/res 
> -I/var/tmp/portage/openoffice-1.0.3-r1/work/oo_1.0.3_src/solver/641/unxlngi4.pro/inc/stl
>  
> -I/var/tmp/portage/openoffice-1.0.3-r1/work/oo_1.0.3_src/solenv/inc/Xp31 
> -I/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.3.1/include -I/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.3.1/include/linux 
> -I/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.3.1/include/native_threads/include 
> -I/usr/X11R6/include -I. -I../../res -I. -mcpu=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe 
> -DTT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER   -pipe -fno-for-scope -fpermissive 
> -fexceptions -fno-enforce-eh-specs   -fpic -DLINUX -DUNX -DVCL -DGCC -DC300 
> -DINTEL -DCVER=C300 -D_USE_NAMESPACE -DGLIBC=2 -DX86 -D_PTHREADS 
> -D_REENTRANT -DNEW_SOLAR -D_USE_NAMESPACE=1 -DSTLPORT_VERSION=400 -D__DMAKE 
> -DUNIX -DCPPU_ENV=gcc3 -DSUPD=641 -DBUILD=8584 -DPRODUCT -DNDEBUG 
> -DPRODUCT_FULL -DOPTIMIZE -DEXCEPTIONS_ON -DCUI -DSOLAR_JAVA -DSRC641  
> -DSHAREDLIB -D_DLL_  -DMULTITHREAD  -w -o ../../unxlngi4.pro/slo/analysis.o 
> /var/tmp/portage/openoffice-1.0.3-r1/work/oo_1.0.3_src/scaddins/source/analysis/analysis.cxx
> g++: Internal error: Terminated (program cc1plus)
> Please submit a full bug report.
> See http://bugs.gentoo.org/> for instructions.
> dmake:  Error code 1, while making '../../unxlngi4.pro/slo/analysis.obj'
> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> {standard input}:16579: Warning: end of file not at end of a line; newline 
> inserted
> {standard input}:16631: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `mov'
> ---* TG_SLO.MK *---
> 
> ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making 
> /var/tmp/portage/openoffice-1.0.3-r1/work/oo_1.0.3_src/scaddins/source/analysis
> 
> !!! ERROR: app-office/openoffice-1.0.3-r1 failed.
> !!! Function src_compile, Line 490, Exitcode 1
> !!! Build failed!
> 
> I recently just unemerged KDE, which I'm now regretting.  I've switched to 
> WindowMake, which I like, but I didn't realize the KDE build consisted of 
> Konquer, Ark, etc.  Can I get these apps back without the bulk of the entire 
> KDE?  Also, the reason I'm submitting this openoffice error is because Calc 
> no longer displays anything.
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 
> _
> Fast, faster, fastest: Upgrade to Cable or DSL today!   
> https://broadband.msn.com
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] A question of procedure (2.6 migration)

[Shawn]

Just inject it (-i)?

On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 09:20, Matthew Vaughn wrote:
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> Almost my entire system is now on LVM. The largest filesystems have
> their own Logical Volume: /home, /usr, /opt, and /var. This has, until
> now, caused problems with migration from 2.4 to 2.6 due to the lack of
> userland support for LVM2. sys-apps/lvm2-2.00.06 was released into
> Portage recently. The problem in the past has been my inability to do
> anything after booting the 2.6 kernel, since those four major
> filesystems were inaccessible. Now that the support I need is provided,
> I am unsure as to what procedure I should take. sys-apps/lvm2 depends on
> sys-libs/device-mapper, which is already patched into the 2.6 kernel.
> 
> Question: Would it cause problems to emerge device-mapper at this point
> before migrating to 2.6?
> Another question: Will I still require some form of initrd script to
> scan for and initialize my LVM1 volumes at boot-time?
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[gentoo-user] problem compiling courier-imap-2.1.1

[Shawn]

I'm having a db related problem compiling courier-imap-2.1.1, and got it
going using the attached patch.

Can someone review what I did for correctness?

I have the following db packages merged:
$ epm -qa | grep \^db | sort
db-1.85-r1
db-3.2.9-r8
db-4.0.14-r2
db3-3.1.17-r1

And the compile looks like this:
Making all in bdbobj
make[1]: Entering directory 
`/var/tmp/portage/courier-imap-2.1.1/work/courier-imap-2.1.1/bdbobj'
make  all-am
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/var/tmp/portage/courier-imap-2.1.1/work/courier-imap-2.1.1/bdbobj'
Compiling bdbobj.c
bdbobj.c: In function `bdbobj_open':
bdbobj.c:137: error: incompatible type for argument 4 of indirect function call
bdbobj.c:137: error: too many arguments to function
make[2]: *** [bdbobj.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/var/tmp/portage/courier-imap-2.1.1/work/courier-imap-2.1.1/bdbobj'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/var/tmp/portage/courier-imap-2.1.1/work/courier-imap-2.1.1/bdbobj'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Here's the patch I made.
--- /var/tmp/portage/courier-imap-2.1.1/work/courier-imap-2.1.1/bdbobj/bdbobj.c.old
 2003-09-03 14:02:53.088050969 -0500
+++ /var/tmp/portage/courier-imap-2.1.1/work/courier-imap-2.1.1/bdbobj/bdbobj.c 
2003-09-03 14:03:36.970030234 -0500
@@ -127,12 +127,14 @@
{
if ( (*obj->dbf->open)(obj->dbf,
 
+/*
 #if DB_40
 
 #else
   NULL,
 
 #endif
+*/
 
   filename, NULL,
   dbtype, flags, 0664))
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Re: [gentoo-user]http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1236319,00.asp

[Shawn]

On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 07:59, Mark Fisher wrote:
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> On Wednesday 03 September 2003 11:09 am, Patrick wrote:
> > the thing still is that he really has to know what hes doing
> > and linux will hopefully never be a moron's operating system
> 
> I totally agree.  I guess this all comes down to 2 philosophies on the 
> competing ends of the spectrum.

I agree, but I don't think they compete at all. Basically its about IQ
and/or aptitude. After that, its about what fits the need.

Lack of IQ can preclude using gentoo, and that's WONDERFUL!!! The close
knit community is a wonderful trick to lure in super-geeks, even if it's
their first linux experience. Then, the same thing that created the
close knit community (the do-it-yourself-ishness) fosters learning.

What's best about the fact that we tend to be smart? Less
hand-holding!!! Yippee



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Re: [gentoo-user] VPN software for Checkpoint

[Shawn]

Point us to the RH7 packages. Maybe someone will help convert them,
maybe even me if I get time.

It's just a matter of figuring out what (if anything) the scripts in the
rpm do, and putting the files somewhere after rpm2targz'ing it.

On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 01:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to install VPN software to connect from home to work.
> We use checkpoint firewall-1, this means i need there clientsoftware.
> The networkadministrator only knows the windows version, and has no time/intrest for 
> Linux.
> 
> Because i have no room for windows partitions i have only a few options left.
> 1 - There is on there site a document that points out to FreeS/Wan for setting up a 
> VPN client to Firewall-1
> 2 - I found also some RedHad 7.x rpm packages on the site of Checkpoint
> 3 - Install it on vmware
> 4 - Erase my machine and create a windows partition.
> 
> Is there anyone on the list who hase to connect the same way or can help me.
> 
> Patrick
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] How to install NPTL v0.55?

[Shawn]

At this point, I'd almost trust NPTL more. After following this thread,
it seems you have the knowhow and motivation to fix buggy LT apps for
NPTL if they break.

As for NPTL+SMP, that goes double. LT is pretty much unmaintained at
this point, and that's scarier than a few hitch es along the way.

I'd be happy to offer any more system specific help WRT portage,
ebuilds, gentoo, the linker, gcc etc. Get a basic grip on it, and go to
town. Sounds like you're ready to break stuff.

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 08:41, Loic Domaigne wrote:
> > > I started with 2.6.0 mm (SMP + Preempt seems to work fine so far ;-). 
> > > Do you think that's OK? 
> > > 
> > 
> > Seems ok this side - that is if you are talking about the combination
> > of smp and preempt.
> 
> I meant wrt NPTL... 
> 
> Loic. 

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to install NPTL v0.55?

[Shawn]

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 16:59, Loic Domaigne wrote:
> One thing that I'm wondering, is if the magic "-pthread" flag of gcc
> links against to right libpthread... (LT or NPTL depending on the  
> kernel version you are using). I have to do some more 
> researchs on this...
Most things linked against linuxthreads just work when you install
glibc+NPTL, because the LT libpthreads.so.* are just replaced by
NPTL libraries that get resolved similarly by the runtime linker.

As far as gcc is concerned, it's the same lib. LT is no longer really
there.

> I believe, I'd like to have e.g. both gcc-3.2.x and gcc-3.3, installed on 
> different directory. 
See the SLOT dealy in the ebuild. I'm using 3.3.1 slotted as "3.3" which
prevents it from overwriting other similarly slotted gccs.

> Once I damaged my floppy drive with a driver programmed by myself 
> (it was written in ASM, and I made a mistake in a while loop... 
> It looped indefinitively... As a result the floppy drive's head went 
> to a place it shouldn't have go. Surprisingly, since then, I never wrote
> a broken while loop again...) 
Floppy drives, while harmless, can make scary sounds...


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Re: [gentoo-user] How to install NPTL v0.55?

[Shawn]

And as I mentioned before, don't be surprised when your X server fails
to start if you have an nvidia card and are using glx.

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 16:51, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 23:40, Spider wrote:
> > begin  quote
> > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:29:10 -0500
> > Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > I can tell who lived through the a.out -> ELF transition... *BSD
> > > waited quite a while longer than Linux.
> > > 
> > > Or even libc5 -> glibc... Or even other ABI breakage!!!
> > > 
> > parts of it I've done (libc5-glibc)  gcc 2.95- > 3 and so on.  it hurts.
> > especially in systems with less package management than Gentoo has..
> > (LFS)
> > 
> > But still, its never fun to be locked down with only a partially broken
> > kernel and a system that wont run without it.
> > 
> 
> I do not know if I am just lucky, but late 2.5's and now 2.6's runs fine
> for me (ok, so I usually only use -bk's, and I keep an eye on LKML for
> patches ... ).
> 
> Anyhow, the transition *should* be smooth (after getting 2.6 to run -
> there are a few catches on first configures for it, and remembering
> to install module-init-tools, etc).  I do not know for kde, but gnome
> works fine, and just one or two stuff need some major updates (valgrind
> for one).
> 
> I have been using nptl since nov/dec last year, and in general most of
> the major issues have been solved - I would however recommend to use the
> latest gcc/glibc/binutils (3.3.1, 2.3.2-r3 and .5-r1) though, with
> preferably a 2.6.0-test3-bk2/3+ kernel I think, as that fixes a slight
> issue with child threads (the kernel).
> 
> 
> Regards,

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to install NPTL v0.55?

[Shawn]

I can tell who lived through the a.out -> ELF transition... *BSD waited
quite a while longer than Linux.

Or even libc5 -> glibc... Or even other ABI breakage!!!

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 16:22, Spider wrote:
> begin  quote
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 22:25:17 +0300 (IDT)
> Scharf Yuval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Can someone describe in a few sentences why it is so "dangerous" to
> > install a newer version of glibc.
> > 
> > And also what is the gain from getting NPTL? Do you think it improves
> > performance very much? When is it suppose to be part of the stable
> > version?
> 
> nptl 0.55 is in a KEYWORDS="-*" masked version of glibc
> 
> it needs kernel 2.5* (preferrably 2.6 to build)
> 
> 2.6 is testing, bloody edge and prone to do weird things at times
> 
> if you downgrade to 2.4 you get "error, tried to kill init. kernel
> panic" messages.
> 
> 
> Generally, it worked.
>until my harddrive died.
> then the machine didn't work anymore. :(
> 
> 
> //Spider

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to install NPTL v0.55?

[Shawn]

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 13:43, Loic Domaigne wrote:
> > How do you expect to recover from a glibc failure?
> 
> Well, in the worse case you have to re-install everything from 
> scratch. But that's something I'm familiar with. I worked formerly
> in a company where the hardware we were getting was still at
> 'development stage' (IOW totally buggy). 
You know, this makes a nice point about gentoo. Since the install
process is sooo open and obvious about what is going on at any
given step, one does learn a lot just by installing. This prepares
you for the eventual system failure caused by PEBCAC related
mishap.

> Did you ever try to get a stable system running on a buggy 
> Hardware? That's a really funny... 
So funny I split some knuckle skin on the stupid machine!

> In one of my system, I have two set of glibcs: the official, and 
> my "customized version". I use a symlink to switch between both.  
> But I'm not sure that this solution is feasible with the current glibc...
> I'll look at the source, and check the dependencies against NPTL. 
> (As of LinuxThreads, there is a relatively clean seperation between
> glibc and llibpthread. I don't know if it's still hold). Even if it's OK, 
> I'm not sure this fit with the Gentoo ebuild process...
Be aware that things like nvidia-glx need re-emerging to select
the right thread model.

> Alternatively, I could probably set-up several partitions, so that 
> I'm sure to boot at least a stable version, even if things got 
> definitively broken for the experimental one. I have to investigate 
> this more closely.
This should be your goal IMHO.

> > I once knew German. The difference is I didn't kill myself when I
> > used broken grammar.
> 
> Oh... Killing software is not really a problem. That's sometimes 
> means spending hours in re-installing all the things, but not more. 
> Killing Hardware, that's more problematic ;-)  Did you ever kill 
> Hardware?.
Nope. glibc changes are unlikely to cause that. XFree was written for
this purpose.

> I'm really getting a positive feeling about the Gentoo's 
> community! 
I'm glad to see someone who takes the "tough love" (I'm not talking
about forced anal penetration ;) ) in a positive way.

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to install NPTL v0.55?

[Shawn]

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 12:24, Loic Domaigne wrote:
> Thanks for your reply! 
You're welcome. ;)

> Ok, I'm a newbie in Gentoo. Right. I don't know how work the 
> ebuild process, and AFAIK there is no document explaining how it
> works in all extend. That's what I'm missing. 
The docs section of gentoo.org is huge. Portage docs are there too.
 
> > > To play with glibc, you MUST be proficient in all-of-the-above,
> > > including portage, compilers, the kernel, patching (you must patch
> > > your 2.6 kernel), etc etc. You've demonstrated that you are not.
> 
> A stupid question? How Does someone become proficient? 
By starting smaller, like by breaking gnome with the ebuilds from
breakmygentoo. Search the desktop forum.

> Don't you thing that at a given point, he has to give a try? 
Not necessarily, but you need to start smaller.

> And make mistakes? And learn from that mistakes?
Don't worry, there are opportunities to make SMALLER mistakes.

> Until he slowly performs better and better. And utimatively 
> become "proficient"? 
See above.

> Don't you think that "Every Guru was first a beginner"? 
I'm a ten year veteran of Linux/BSD/Windows/name your OS, but
spent considerable time playing with gentoo before playing with
glibc ebuilds. How do you expect to recover from a glibc failure?

> (I don't know if you ever learn a foreign language for instance. 
> But if you want to master another language, that's definitively 
> the way to proceed).
I once knew German. The difference is I didn't kill myself when I
used broken grammar.

> I choose to try Gentoo for 2 reasons:
> 
> 1- First, I want to evaluate this distro for business proposes
> (which means among other things, getting a stable OS version etc.)
> So, for this case, yes I definitively agree with you. Actually, I built
> a version using much of the "stable" released offered by Gentoo 
> (Ok, I "just" put some optimization flags in the CFLAGS to improve 
> the code on the machine I'm running). 
Gentoo is great, but YMMV due to your needs being different.

> 2- Second, I want to evaluate Gentoo for "hacker" purposes 
> (i.e. my private use). It's clear that I'm willing to try every "dangerous" 
> things. I don't see why I shouldn't? 
Because we don't want to hold hands with someone doing the hard stuff
before they learn how not to shoot themselves in the foot. If you want
to hack, learn the following:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

my $problem=$ARGV[0];

while (defined($problem)) {
  if (solve_my_own($problem)) {
print "Yippie!\n";
  } else {
search_forums_for($problem);
search_mail_archives_for($problem);
try_again_to_solve_my_own($problem);
post_to_forums_about($problem);
email_list_about($problem);
  }
}

> First I need NPTL to answer the questions related to this implementation
> on c.p.t. Second, I'm bored of LinuxThreads, because I master it  
> (as 'simple' user + internal). Third, I have fun in learning new things. 
> And forth - I will probably get flammed for this one - Linux is _not_ 
> the BEST Unix technology available on the market... But, fact is that 
> I'm  *LOVING* this OS.
Best is subjective, and subject to ones needs. There are things Linux does
better, etc etc.

> Are you saying that I'm simply just too stupid to use Gentoo and that
> I should switch to RH instead? Which could be, everyone has a
>  limit after all!
I'm saying you haven't exhausted your resources, and you should learn to
walk before yadda yadda...

> Or maybe it's not the right mailing list to discuss such a topic like 
> NPTL v0.55 ???
There are forum threads about it. Happy searching.


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Re: [gentoo-user] How to install NPTL v0.55?

[Shawn]

Look, you DON'T want to play with NPTL if you are still struggling to
meet dependencies.

The ebuild gave you enough info for you to go off on your own and
satisfy what it was asking for by manually unmasking some stuff,
slotting it appropriately if it isn't already, etc etc etc.

To play with glibc, you MUST be proficient in all-of-the-above,
including portage, compilers, the kernel, patching (you must patch your
2.6 kernel), etc etc. You've demonstrated that you are not.

Start smaller.

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 03:39, Loic Domaigne wrote:
> Hi! 
> 
> > > The next point I'm eager to try is NPTL. I would like to have the 
> > > latest
> > > version available, namely 0.55 (the v0.28 available with glibc-2.3.2-r1
> > > is too buggy for me). For this, I need to install glibc-2.3.2-r3.
> > >
> > > How should I proceed? From my understanding, a simple emerge glibc
> > > won't do the trick, since the current (stable) package version is
> > > 2.3.2-r1.
> > 
> > emerge /usr/portage/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.3.2-r3.ebuild
> 
> I tried this yesterday already. I get the following error message:
> 
> |  !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-devel/gcc-3.3-r1" 
> |  have been masked
> | 
> | !!! (dependency required by "sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r3" [ebuild])
> 
> If I understood correctly, I need to install gcc-3.3-r1 first? 
> (this is indeed required by nptl v0.55). Is it correct? 
> 
> My understanding was that emerge would take care about 
> all dependencies, download eventually the new version required and
> compile it... But, it seems that I'm wrong... 
> 
> I have no problem to resolve all the dependencies manually, 
> I'm just wondering if there is not a "better way" to proceed...
> 
> Oh yes, an other question. What does mean "ebuilds are masked"?
> I saw already posts about the "masking/unmasking" thing, 
> but I don't understand the underlying concept so far...
> 
> 
> TIA,
> Loic. 

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e missing over a quarter of installedpackages

[Shawn]

Is there something causing the emerge command to fail part way through?
Some dependency that broke something?

Only thing I can think of. Have you examined the output of your emerge
command by hand?

On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 20:19, William Kenworthy wrote:
> What gives?
> 
> rattus# emerge -e --deep world -p|wc
> 135 5345612
> rattus# wc /var/cache/edb/world
> 608 608   11445 /var/cache/edb/world
> rattus#
> 
> 
> Ran regenworld, which added one package to the world file, but none to
> the emerge -e
> 
> I want to make a major change to my system, and recompile all the
> packages, but it looks like emerge can only see less than a quarter of
> them.  At one time, there was a script that did a good job of running a
> system wide rebuild, but it stopped working - is there a current one
> that does a good job?
> 
> BillK

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Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure

[Shawn]

Intentional invocation of Godwin's law nullifies it's use. It only
starts sub-threads. Case in point.

On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 09:35, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> From: "Karl-Heinz Zimmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> 
> > > free as in freedom [RMS] ... thank you for considering me as a stupid
> > > guy
> >
> >
> > I don't know if you are stupid, but I know that you addresses us by
> > "damn you everybody " with 4 exclamation marks.
> >
> > So think about the way of discussing here again, please.
> 
> 
> OK, what would Hitler have to say about this ... oops, now I have done it.
> Thread over.  Knock it off guys.
> 
> Tom Veldhouse
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RE: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/checkroot cannot remount root fs

[Shawn]

Ok, good. I will look when I have a spare 0.5 hours or something as
well.

Mostly I wanted to know I had not pulled a thinko.

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 13:46, Rex Young wrote:
> >I have baselayout-1.8.6.10, kernel 2.6.0-test3-mm1, and 
> >util-linux-2.12.
> >Upon installing util-linux-2.12, I was no longer able to 
> >remount my root
> >filesystem for checkroot to work on boot. I really should be able to
> >just "mount -n -o remount,ro /" or use /dev/root, or whatever is in
> >/proc/mounts, /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab.
> >
> >Only when I use the old-style block device name (ie /dev/hde5) do I get
> >something other than "device not mounted" or some such. If I 
> >use that, I
> >get complaints of the filesystem being busy.
> >
> >Has anyone else encountered this problem?
> 
> 
> Yes.  This also ocurred using 2.6.0-test2-mm5.  I can remount it 
> manually, but that's a little annoying.  When it prompts for the 
> password for maintenance, I enter it then issue:
> 
> mount -o remount,rw /dev/root /. 
> 
> I've also used /dev/hde7 to reference the device when remounting it and
> had no problem.
> 
> I was intending to try to get the the root (no pun intended) of the matter
> sometime in the next few days.  I spent quite a while searching through
> the forums, finding no solution there.
> 
> -rex
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Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/checkroot cannot remount root fs

[Shawn]

With 2.[56].* beyond some point, I had to use "/dev/root" instead of "/"
in checkroot.

I guess I'm no stranger to breakage due to inadvisable upgrades.

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 16:38, Steven Elling wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 August 2003 13:46, Rex Young wrote:
> > >I have baselayout-1.8.6.10, kernel 2.6.0-test3-mm1, and
> > >util-linux-2.12.
> > >Upon installing util-linux-2.12, I was no longer able to
> > >remount my root
> > >filesystem for checkroot to work on boot. I really should be able to
> > >just "mount -n -o remount,ro /" or use /dev/root, or whatever is in
> > >/proc/mounts, /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab.
> > >
> > >Only when I use the old-style block device name (ie /dev/hde5) do I get
> > >something other than "device not mounted" or some such. If I
> > >use that, I
> > >get complaints of the filesystem being busy.
> > >
> > >Has anyone else encountered this problem?
> >
> > Yes.  This also ocurred using 2.6.0-test2-mm5.  I can remount it
> > manually, but that's a little annoying.  When it prompts for the
> > password for maintenance, I enter it then issue:
> >
> > mount -o remount,rw /dev/root /.
> >
> > I've also used /dev/hde7 to reference the device when remounting it and
> > had no problem.
> 
> I have had *similar* problems with 2.6.0-test1 and with one of the other 2.4 
> series kernels.  I cannot remember the exact details and haven't set down 
> to figure out what is going on.
> 
> With one of the 2.4 series kernels, I noticed that I could not issue 'mount 
> -o remount,rw /'.  I had to issue the full command.
> 
> With the 2.6.0-test1 series kernel I could not use any of the devices 
> (/dev/sda3, /dev/sda3 or /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3) in 
> /etc/fstab or on the command line to mount the root partition.
> 
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RE: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/checkroot cannot remount root fs

[Shawn]

Yup. I can duplicate my root on ext[23] and try that too.

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:09, Rex Young wrote:
> >Ok, good. I will look when I have a spare 0.5 hours or something as
> >well.
> >
> >Mostly I wanted to know I had not pulled a thinko.
> >
> Since I know it's not just me now, I'll devote a little bit of time
> to it later tonight.  Maybe between us we'll figure it out in short
> order.
> 
> I'm not sure that it makes much difference, but are you also using
> Reiserfs on your root partition?
> 
> -rex
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[gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/checkroot cannot remount root fs

[Shawn]

I have baselayout-1.8.6.10, kernel 2.6.0-test3-mm1, and util-linux-2.12.
Upon installing util-linux-2.12, I was no longer able to remount my root
filesystem for checkroot to work on boot. I really should be able to
just "mount -n -o remount,ro /" or use /dev/root, or whatever is in
/proc/mounts, /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab.

Only when I use the old-style block device name (ie /dev/hde5) do I get
something other than "device not mounted" or some such. If I use that, I
get complaints of the filesystem being busy.

Has anyone else encountered this problem?

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Re: [gentoo-user] preventing users from escaping their home dirs

[Shawn]

Ok, everyone. ext[23] has POSIX ACL support. Why not ACL some group out
of any dir off of "/" they don't need, and only give them execute on
/bin, /usr, /usr/bin, etc etc.

Or something to that effect. ACLs are great for all kinds of mischief,
but they can be difficult to maintain if you don't design things well
before you start changing things.

Also, you might want to make sure either tar, cpio, or whatever other
backup tool support these things. I don't know if ACLs are currently
supported through some sort of EAs or what.

Just a thought.

On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:24, Patrick Börjesson wrote:
> > >> > some users on my server have SSH access to the machine, but I
> > >don't> > want them to be able to leave their home directories (ee.
> > >> > /home/userXYZ).
> > >> >
> > >> > What is the "best" way to implement this, does anybody know?
> > >> > Greetings and TIA, Matthias
> > 
> > # adduser luser
> > # ln -s /bin/bash /bin/rbash
> > # echo "/bin/rbash" >> /etc/shells
> > # chsh -s /bin/rbash luser
> > # cd ~luser
> > # su luser
> > $
> > 
> > and then:
> > 
> > $ cd /
> > rbash: cd: restricted
> > 
> > 
> > Does that accomplish what you are looking for?
> 
> Although I don't have a better idea, I don't think that's what he's
> looking for since luser won't be able to navigate through his/her
> home-directory at all (according to bash's man-page, search for rbash).
> 
> Patrick Börjesson

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to unmask gcc 3.3?

[Shawn]

That's because gcc-3.3 does not have ~x86 in it's KEYWORDS in the
ebuild. Check out where it says KEYWORDS="-*" in there.

That's what's wrong.

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 23:45, Jonathan Kelly wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:26:49 +0200
> "Christian Aust" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Dhruba Bandopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2003
> > 16:14:29 +0100:
> > 
> > > In /etc/portage/package.unmask I have added:
> > > 
> > > >=sys-devel/gcc-3.3
> > > 
> > > However, gcc 3.3 is still masked.  How to unmask it?
> > 
> > *sigh* masking really seems to be an all-time-classic: Please see bug
> > #25041, from where 
> > I've quoted this:
> > 
> > package.unmask only works for packages masked in
> > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, not for ~arch masking.
> 
> Actually, I think you've got this the wrong way around. I'm pretty sure
> from my testing it only unmasks ~x86 masking. I can't get gcc-3.3 to
> unmask using /etc/portage/package.mask and it's masked in
> /etc/make.profile/packages. I *CAN* unmask gimp-1.3.17 using
> /etc/portage/package.mask and it ISN'T masked in
> /etc/make.profile/packages.
> 
> Cheers.
> Jonathan.
> 
> > 
> > I'd really like to see the portage guys fix this odd behaviour.  Best
> > regards,
> > 
> > -  Christian
> > 
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Re: [gentoo-user] How to unmask gcc 3.3?

[Shawn]

No, you would have to replace the
KEYWORDS="-*"
with
KEYWORDS="~86"
...and then do that.

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 15:59, Ole wrote:
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS"~x86" emerge sys-devel/gcc-3.3


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Re: [gentoo-user] athlon xp?

[Shawn]

If your "flags" line in /proc/cpuinfo looks like this:

flags   : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mp mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow

...and there's NOTHING at all missing, you'd probably be fine, but I
wonder if you're missing sse or 3dnowext.

On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 14:37, Ben Anderson wrote:
> I'm trying to work on optimizing my kernel.  When I am configuring the 
> kernel I see Athlon XP listed as one of the processor options.  I have an 
> Athlon 1.2 GHz.  I don't believe this is considered Athlon XP.  Does anyone 
> know if I should Athlon XP for my processor ?
> Thanks,

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Re: [gentoo-user] USE preservation

[Shawn]

It should be noted that the USE flags are recorded today somewhere in
/var/db I think.

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 13:02, Marius Mauch wrote:
> On 07/23/03  Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> 
> > My question is, the USE flags used for compiling a program are
> > preserved? I mean, if I compile mjpegtools or transcode with
> > USE="-quicktime", the next time I do a "emerge -ud world" or "emerge
> > -u mjpegtools", portage will remember that I compile it with the
> > USE="-quicktime" flag, and it will put it again, or should I do it by
> > hand?
> > 
> > I think it will be great that the individual USE flags will be
> > recorded, because I don't want to do it by hand all the time, or put
> > USE="-quicktime" in my make.conf (I've other packages that correctly
> > use virtual/quicktime).
> 
> This does not work yet, but it is on the todo list for portage.
> 
> Marius
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Re: [gentoo-user] galeon need mozilla-1.3-r2?

[Shawn]

You really should use galeon-cvs from breakmygentoo until the next
galeon comes out. 1.3.5's moz-1.4 support is lacking.

On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 14:52, Shane Hickey wrote:
> Howdy all,
>   Ever since mozilla-1.4 came out, I've been having problems trying to
> emerge -vuUD world.  It seemed that galeon only wanted to play with
> mozilla 1.3.  I thought it was perhaps a problem with the 1.2.10a
> version of galeon (Which doesn't do gtk2).  So, I removed the galeon
> mask from packages.mask and I unmerged both mozilla and galeon.
>   Now, starting from a somewhat clean slate, I get this when I try to do
> an emerge -vp galeon
> 
> [ebuild  N   ] net-www/mozilla-1.3-r2  +java +crypt -ipv6 +gtk2 +ssl
> +ldap -gnome -mozsvg -mozcalendar -mozaccess -mozinterfaceinfo -mozp3p
> -mozxmlterm -moznoirc -moznomail -moznocompose -moznoxft
> [ebuild  N   ] net-www/galeon-1.3.4
> 
> Hmm... still galeon just wants mozilla 1.3.  So, I'm still going to have
> my emerge world want to take me to 1.4 and then it's going to want to go
> back to 1.3 for galeon.  Am I overlooking something obvious?  What's the
> fix here?

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[gentoo-user] emerge -e world question

[Shawn]

Is there a way to rebuild world and cause the USE flags from
/var/db/pkg///USE to be used instead of the ones from
/etc/make.conf?

It's just that some flags like gtk2 break certain packages, and things
like "breakme" are so transient it's easy to lose them if one were to
emerge -e world.

Ideas?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrading the kernel

[Shawn]

And NEVER just tell someone to copy .config around between major kernel
versions.

CONFIG_* stuff gets renamed, and I suspect one might even have virtualt
terminal stuff missing.

On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 12:25, Martin Gramatke wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> 
> > William Hubbs wrote:
> 
> > * copy your .config from /usr/src/linux-2.4.*/ to /usr/src/linux-2.6.*
> > * update the /usr/src/linux symlink
> 
> This seems to be wrong. Please read the README. After the emerge there is
> already another link prepared.
> 
> mg
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 3

[Shawn]

Maybe you were wondering if when you recompile glibc you need to
recompile "world"?

Answer, in this case, no. Initially when switching from some versions of
glibc you needed to recompile all static libs on the system, but that
only really broke development against them.

Have a nice day.

On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 00:03, Dan Foster wrote:
> Hot Diggety! blade- was rumored to have written:
> > 
> > When I do emerge -Up world it lists the following
> > [ebuildU ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.3-r1 [1.3.1-r1]
> > [ebuildU ] sys-devel/gcc-3.2.3-r1 [3.2.2]
> > [ebuildU ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r1 [2.3.1-r4]
> > 
> > Will I have to recompile everything again or is it just a minor change 
> > the will not require me to do much at all.
> 
> Well, depends on how you look at it.
> 
> It will indeed recompile all these three ebuilds... but all you need to do
> to upgrade them will be:
> 
> # emerge -u world
> 
> So, you don't have to do much, but you could have some waiting for the
> compiles to finish, depending on how fast your system is. Anywhere between
> an hour to a couple of hours, perhaps?
> 
> -Dan
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Re: [gentoo-user] Error while emerging avifile

[Shawn]

Had you actually followed the directions when installing gentoo?

I'm wondering if you have a broken compiler. What does "g++ -v" say?

On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 16:34, Jens Hoffrichter wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm getting an error while emerging avifile, specifically said while
> configuring avifile.
> 
> I'm getting this:
> 
> checking for working automake-1.4... found
> checking for working autoheader... found
> checking for working makeinfo... found
> checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++... i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++
> checking for C++ compiler default output... configure: error: C++ compiler cannot 
> create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.
> 
> Can anybody tell me the reason for this? Is this a bug or are some
> packages missing (and even then this is a bug, because then the dependencies
> are not right ;) ) 
> 
> I'm getting this for avifile 0.7.37.20030522-r1 and for 0.7.37.20030522-r1,
> on a quite brand new Gentoo 1.4 rc4 (installed on Saturday...)
> 
> CU all,
> Jens

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Re: [gentoo-user] **HEADS UP** Apache2 + MySQL4 moving to stablestatus

[Shawn]

I'm hearing php does not play nice with apache2. Not a huge deal since I
already run apache2, but it's bound to be for some folks.

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 22:12, Donny Davies wrote:
>   Sometime this weekend (likely Friday or Saturday) Robin and I
> will move these two packages to non-arch-masked status.  So you
> will no longer get the older versions by default.  Yes, old
> versions will still be available; we're not going to delete
> Apache1 nor MySQL3 ebuilds.  They will be kept available for
> those who still want them.
> 
>   In the case of MySQL4, you should run revdep-rebuild after
> your upgrade, so that your libmysqlclient-dependant packages
> are linked with the new library.  Please `emerge gentoolkit'
> to obtain the revdep-rebuild program.
> 
>   In the case of Apache2, be aware that several of what *were*
> third-party DSO modules, are now included with Apache itself.
> This means that you don't need to install mod_gzip, mod_ssl,
> mod_auth_ldap, mod_dav from /usr/portage/net-www anymore.
> Also, the whole `ebuild /var/db/pkg/cat/pkg/pkg.ebuild config'
> dance is not required for thirdy-party modules anymore, due
> to a simpler default configuration file schema.
> 
>   Thank you to everybody who has provided testing and feedback
> with respect to these upgrades.
> 
> Donny.
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Re: [gentoo-user] the last two days

[Shawn Edwards]

I guess all I was looking/hoping for was some sort of FAQ or doc on 
distcc but I noticed http://distcc.samba.org has the perfect 
instructions (30 second!).  I guess I was just thinking that someone 
(many people actually) have already done this for building Gentoo 
systems and that I could 'glean' their knowledge if there was a Gentoo 
specific faq...

S

ext Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote:

Man I hope it's not the latter...although with your shifts
it probably
is...on a semi related note, does anyone have any information on
clustering with Gentoo?
   

Clustering in what sense?

Gentoo has many packages that support clustering in some way or
another: cook, distcc, openldap (slapd/slurpd), jboss, etc.  There is
nothing Gentoo-specific about them as far as I know.
Gwendolyn.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging GNOME

[Shawn Edwards]

Hi Sean,

   I can't offer any suggestions other than to let you know that I too 
had the same problem...starting over from stage-1 helped! ;)   At least 
you are not alone with this issue...

S

ext Sean Bossinger wrote:

Good morning (afternoon, evening, or whatever time it may be in your part of the world):

I'm attempting to emerge GNOME onto my system, and I'm receiving errors.  My system was built using the stage 3 tarball from the Gentoo 1.4 RC4.

The emerge errors out when on the step where it is working with avifile-0.7.32.20030219.

The error message indicated is:

ERROR: media-video/avifile-0.7.32.20030219 failed.
Function econf, Line 304, Exitcode 77
econf failed
It recommends checking the config.log for more information.  I'd append that to this e-mail; however, it is quite large... if needed, I'll go ahead and append it, but it doesn't seem to show ME any info.  Of course, I'm not a pro at this, so...  read into that what you will.

I'd like to use GNOME more than KDE...

Has anyone else out there run into this issue?  Can anyone point me in the right direction?  Please?

Thanks!

Sean

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Re: [gentoo-user] the last two days

[Shawn Edwards]

Man I hope it's not the latter...although with your shifts it probably 
is...on a semi related note, does anyone have any information on 
clustering with Gentoo?  (Honestly I haven't even looked yet but the 
thread on compilation for one system on another has now sparked a bit of 
interest...)

S

ext Andrew Cowie wrote:

On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 15:24, Rev. Jeffrey Paul wrote:
 

they're all running gentoo.
   

Are you just cloning/ghosting/copying an image/whatever to install them,
or is each building itself from scratch as you go?
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Re: [gentoo-user] portage woes

[Shawn]

Oh, and when you manually unpack, you must
touch /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.48-r1/.unpacked
and portage will stop trying to unpack your tar.bz2 file for you.

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 19:25, bryce wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, i'm trying to downgrade, from r2 to r1, and i get 
> the error in my first email when attempting to do it w/ emerge.
> 
> b.
> 
> On Tuesday 01 July 2003 05:04 pm, Shawn wrote:
> > From Dhruba Bandopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > First, delete the distfile and try to re-emerge.  If no luck,
> > do it
> > manually.
> >
> > ebuild /path/to/ebuild unpack | tar -xjf  into
> > /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.48-r2/work
> > ebuild /path/to/ebuild compile
> > ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge
> >
> > Or file a bug and wait for it to be fixed globally.  That
> > package is
> > hardmasked anyway isn't it?
> >
> > On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 18:47, bryce wrote:
> > > OK, i got caught up in this little bug that has been passed around,
> > > and now they want me to downgrade portage... and i would love to,
> > > but i get
> > >
> > > this error when i try( and w/ some other packages as well):
> > > >>> Unpacking source...
> > > >>> Unpacking portage-2.0.48-r1.tar.bz2 to
> > >
> > > /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.48-r1/wo
> > > rk
> > > Calculating dependencies  ...done!
> > >
> > > >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.0.48-r1 to /
> > > >>> md5 src_uri ;-) portage-2.0.48-r1.tar.bz2
> > >
> > >  (1 of 1) Compiling/Merging
> > > (/usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/portage-2.0.48-r1.ebu
> > > ild)tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> > > tar: Skipping to next header
> > > tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> > > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> > >
> > > bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows.
> > > bzip2: Broken pipe
> > > Input file =
> > > /usr/portage/distfiles/portage-2.0.48-r1.tar.bz2, output fi
> > > le = (stdout)
> > >
> > > !!! ERROR: sys-apps/portage-2.0.48-r1 failed.
> > > !!! Function unpack, Line 294, Exitcode 2
> > > !!! failure unpacking portage-2.0.48-r1.tar.bz2
> > >
> > > I tried whipping out the install cd, and doing it from in there,
> > > but no luck, tried reemerging tar see if that helped, tried
> > > remergin bzip2( and that just utterly failed).
> > >
> > > Any ideas???
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > bryce
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Re: [gentoo-user] portage woes

[Shawn]

>From Dhruba Bandopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
First, delete the distfile and try to re-emerge.  If no luck, do
it 
manually.

ebuild /path/to/ebuild unpack | tar -xjf  into 
/var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.48-r2/work
ebuild /path/to/ebuild compile
ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge

Or file a bug and wait for it to be fixed globally.  That
package is 
hardmasked anyway isn't it?

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 18:47, bryce wrote:
> OK, i got caught up in this little bug that has been passed around, and 
> now they want me to downgrade portage... and i would love to, but i get 
> this error when i try( and w/ some other packages as well):
> 
> >>> Unpacking source...
> >>> Unpacking portage-2.0.48-r1.tar.bz2 to 
> /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.48-r1/wo
> rk
> Calculating dependencies  ...done!
> >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.0.48-r1 to /
> >>> md5 src_uri ;-) portage-2.0.48-r1.tar.bz2
>  (1 of 1) Compiling/Merging 
> (/usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/portage-2.0.48-r1.ebu
> ild)tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows.
> bzip2: Broken pipe
> Input file = /usr/portage/distfiles/portage-2.0.48-r1.tar.bz2, 
> output fi
> le = (stdout)
> 
> !!! ERROR: sys-apps/portage-2.0.48-r1 failed.
> !!! Function unpack, Line 294, Exitcode 2
> !!! failure unpacking portage-2.0.48-r1.tar.bz2
> 
> I tried whipping out the install cd, and doing it from in there, but no 
> luck, tried reemerging tar see if that helped, tried remergin bzip2( 
> and that just utterly failed).
> 
> Any ideas???
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> bryce
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Failing emerge world

[Shawn]

SYNC="rsync://rsync16.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" emerge sync

then try it

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 09:00, Christopher Egner wrote:
> Alright, I'm having a few problems. Maybe this is that whole baselayout
> thing I still don't understand.
> 
> 
> 
> bash-2.05b# emerge -up world
> 
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> 
> Calculating world dependencies \!!! eclass
> 'http://people.redhat.com/otaylor/memprof/memprof-0.4.1.tar.gz' in
> 'http://people.redhat.com/otaylor/memprof/memprof-0.4.1.tar.gz' does not
> exist:
> /!!! eclass 'mirror://sourceforge/openil/DevIL-1.6.1.tar.gz' in
> 'mirror://sourceforge/openil/DevIL-1.6.1.tar.gz' does not exist:
> \!!! eclass
> 'http://savannah.gnu.org/download/alsa-xmms/alsa-xmms-0.9.10.tar.gz' in
> 'http://savannah.gnu.org/download/alsa-xmms/alsa-xmms-0.9.10.tar.gz'
> does not exist:
> |!!! eclass 'http://www.libsdl.org/' in 'http://www.libsdl.org/' does
> not exist:
> -!!! eclass
> 'http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/libdvdread-0.9.3.tar.gz' in
> 'http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/libdvdread-0.9.3.tar.gz'
> does not exist:
> \!!! eclass 'mirror://sourceforge/anjuta/anjuta-1.0.2.tar.gz' in
> 'mirror://sourceforge/anjuta/anjuta-1.0.2.tar.gz' does not exist:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Any ideas? (It goes on by the way)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem to emerge all bz2 based packages

[Shawn]

Big ME TOO on that one. Is it just me, or is gentoo less fun last night
and today?

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 10:03, Philippe Van Hecke wrote:
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> >>> emerge (1 of 1) net-im/psi-0.9 to /
> >>> md5 src_uri ;-) psi-0.9.tar.bz2
> >>> md5 src_uri ;-) qssl-2.0.tar.bz2
> >>> Unpacking source...
> >>> Unpacking psi-0.9.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/psi-0.9/work
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows.
> bzip2: Broken pipe
> Input file = /usr/portage/distfiles/psi-0.9.tar.bz2, output file = 
> (stdout)
> 
> !!! ERROR: net-im/psi-0.9 failed.
> !!! Function unpack, Line 294, Exitcode 2
> !!! failure unpacking psi-0.9.tar.bz2
> 
> portage Portage 2.0.48-r2 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4)
> 
> Why ? 

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[gentoo-user] portage error

[Shawn]

OK, can anyone see how to fix this??? portage is trying to use "tar -xf"
on a tar.bz2 file.

Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.0.48-r2 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) portage-2.0.48-r2.tar.bz2
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking portage-2.0.48-r2.tar.bz2 to
/var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.48-r2/work
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
 
bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows.
bzip2: Broken pipe
Input file = /usr/portage/distfiles/portage-2.0.48-r2.tar.bz2,
output file = (stdout)
 
!!! ERROR: sys-apps/portage-2.0.48-r2 failed.
!!! Function unpack, Line 294, Exitcode 2
!!! failure unpacking portage-2.0.48-r2.tar.bz2


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[gentoo-user] gcc-3.4 from breakmygentoo

[Shawn]

>From whence does the masking of >=sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.4 come?
Should I just "ebuild binutils-2.14.90.0.4.ebuild install", then upgrade
to gcc-3.4?

Any clues?

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies /
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.4"
have been masked.
!!!(dependency required by "sys-devel/gcc-3.4" [ebuild])
 
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Re: [gentoo-user] rhythmbox weirdness

[Shawn]

In fact, rhythmbox proper is supposed to have better library support.

On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 12:24, Shane Hickey wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 18:42:26 +0200
> Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I tried rhythmbox and had no luck with it, but there is also
> > net-rhythmbox and that works great (its the same). If i'm right
> > rhythmbox is dead, or almost. You can find it at:
> > http://web.verbum.org/net-rhythmbox/
> 
> Hmm... from what I read there, net-rhythmbox is indeed a fork off of
> rhythmbox, but it seems that they are merging net-rhythmbox into
> rhythmbox-cvs.  That's what I'm running.  Ah well, I'll try a re-emerge.

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Re: [gentoo-user] ~x86 gtk2

[Shawn]

Turn off RenderAccell.

You're running nvidia drivers aren't you... ;]

On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 21:23, Chris van der Pennen wrote:
> Is anyone else getting weird icon corruption with the latest testing
> gtk2?
> 
> Or is it just me being halfway through emerge -e world?  ;)
> 
> Chris

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[gentoo-user] Win4lin download trubbles

[Shawn]

emerge keeps trying to download Win4Lin-5.5.1d-d.i386.rpm, and
eventually fails, even though it's fully retrieved. Does anyone know why
this might be?

Observe:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) app-emulation/win4lin-5.0.1 to /
>>> Resuming download...
>>> Downloading
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/distfiles/Win4Lin-5.5.1d-d.i386.rpm
--20:28:52-- 
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/distfiles/Win4Lin-5.5.1d-d.i386.rpm
   => `/usr/portage/distfiles/Win4Lin-5.5.1d-d.i386.rpm'
Resolving gentoo.oregonstate.edu... done.
Connecting to gentoo.oregonstate.edu[128.193.0.3]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 416 Requested Range Not
Satisfiable
   
  
The file is already fully retrieved; nothing to do.
   
  
>>> Resuming download...
>>> Downloading
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/Win4Lin-5.5.1d-d.i386.rpm
--20:28:52-- 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/Win4Lin-5.5.1d-d.i386.rpm
   => `/usr/portage/distfiles/Win4Lin-5.5.1d-d.i386.rpm'
Resolving distro.ibiblio.org... done.
Connecting to distro.ibiblio.org[152.2.210.109]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 416 Requested Range Not
Satisfiable
   
  
The file is already fully retrieved; nothing to do.
   
  
>>> Resuming download...
>>> Downloading
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles//Win4Lin-5.5.1d-d.i386.rpm
--20:28:52-- 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/Win4Lin-5.5.1d-d.i386.rpm
   => `/usr/portage/distfiles/Win4Lin-5.5.1d-d.i386.rpm'
Resolving distro.ibiblio.org... done.
Connecting to distro.ibiblio.org[152.2.210.109]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 416 Requested Range Not
Satisfiable
   
  
The file is already fully retrieved; nothing to do.
   
  
>>> Resuming download...
>>> Downloading
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles/Win4Lin-5.5.1d-d.i386.rpm
--20:28:52-- 
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles/Win4Lin-5.5.1d-d.i386.rpm
   => `/usr/portage/distfiles/Win4Lin-5.5.1d-d.i386.rpm'
Resolving ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu... done.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Can I see why portage wants to downgrade?

[Shawn]

I've always had ~x86 in my make.conf. I'm stumped.

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 18:41, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> Is 0.62 versions masked - that is they have ~x86 (or your arch) in the 
> ebuild?  Did you install with ~x86 at one time?
> 
> 
> > While "emerge -up world" says all is fine, "emerge --deep -up world"
> > says I should downgrade my gstreamer stuff from breakmygentoo.net.
> >
> > [ebuildUD] media-libs/gstreamer-0.6.1-r1 [0.6.2]
> > [ebuildUD] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.6.1 [0.6.2]
> >
> > Any way to find out what is requesting this?

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[gentoo-user] Can I see why portage wants to downgrade?

[Shawn]

While "emerge -up world" says all is fine, "emerge --deep -up world"
says I should downgrade my gstreamer stuff from breakmygentoo.net.

[ebuildUD] media-libs/gstreamer-0.6.1-r1 [0.6.2]
[ebuildUD] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.6.1 [0.6.2]

Any way to find out what is requesting this?

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[gentoo-user] stderr always undeclared after gcc downgrade

[Shawn]

I could not compile at-spi without editing about 5 - 10 files and adding
the sdtio.h line manually.

I had been running gcc-3.3 for a while, but then decided to downgrade
and recompile everything since the gcc upgrade.

Wonder if anyone else has seen anything like this or knows what's going
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[gentoo-user] pptp client hang in gentoo

[Shawn]

1st, sorry for cross-posting... I had pptp client working fine in
redhat, but gentoo seems to be challenging me a little.

The first  attached file shows all syslog output from both pppd and
pptp. "ps -ef | grep -e pppd -e pptp" shows pppd launched by pptp in a
"Z" state. I've also attached my options file.

I have the following software:
  * pptp version 1.2.0
  * ppp-2.4.1-r14 patched for mppe support
  * kernel 2.5.70-mm3 w/ 2.5.63-mppe-patch.gz

I really don't know where to go from here. Can someone help me out?
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Jun 10 16:35:17 [pptp] anon log[main:pptp.c:174]: The synchronous pptp option is NOT 
activated 
Jun 10 16:35:18 [pptp] anon log[pptp_dispatch_ctrl_packet:pptp_ctrl.c:581]: Client 
connection established.
Jun 10 16:35:19 [pptp] anon log[pptp_dispatch_ctrl_packet:pptp_ctrl.c:709]: Outgoing 
call established (call ID 0, peer's call ID 50149). 
Jun 10 16:35:19 [pppd] pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
Jun 10 16:35:19 [pppd] Using interface ppp0
Jun 10 16:35:19 [pppd] Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/4
Jun 10 16:35:21 [pptp] anon log[decaps_hdlc:pptp_gre.c:198]: PPP mode seems to be 
Asynchronous. 
Jun 10 16:35:21 [pptp] anon log[pptp_dispatch_ctrl_packet:pptp_ctrl.c:758]: 
PPTP_SET_LINK_INFO received from peer_callid 0
Jun 10 16:35:21 [pptp] anon log[pptp_dispatch_ctrl_packet:pptp_ctrl.c:761]:   
send_accm is , recv_accm is 
Jun 10 16:35:51 [pppd] LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests 
Jun 10 16:35:51 [pppd] Connection terminated.
Jun 10 16:35:52 [pppd] Exit.
Jun 10 16:35:52 [pptp] anon warn[decaps_hdlc:pptp_gre.c:190]: short read (-1): 
Input/output error
Jun 10 16:35:52 [pptp] anon warn[decaps_hdlc:pptp_gre.c:191]: pppd may have shutdown, 
see pppd log
Jun 10 16:35:52 [pptp] anon log[callmgr_main:pptp_callmgr.c:234]: Closing connection
Jun 10 16:35:52 [pptp] anon log[pptp_conn_close:pptp_ctrl.c:308]: Closing PPTP 
connection
Jun 10 16:35:54 [pptp] anon log[call_callback:pptp_callmgr.c:74]: Closing connection
root 19217  0.0  0.1  1448 1412 pts/5S16:51   0:00  \_ grep -e pptp -e pppd
root 19151  0.1  0.2  3336 2876 pts/3S16:50   0:00  \_ /usr/bin/perl -wT 
/usr/sbin/pptp-command start hstp
root 19156  0.0  0.0 00 pts/3Z16:50   0:00  \_ [pppd] 
root 19159  0.0  0.1  1412 1400 pts/3S16:50   0:00 /usr/sbin/pptp
root 19162  0.0  0.1  1812 1636 pts/4S16:50   0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd 
/dev/pts/4 38400 call hstp
root 19165  0.0  0.1  1420 1408 ?S16:50   0:00 /usr/sbin/pptp
#
# Lock the port
#
lock

#
# We don't need the tunnel server to authenticate itself
#
noauth

#
# Turn off transmission protocols we know won't be used
#
nobsdcomp
nodeflate

debug
#
# We want MPPE
#
mppe-40
mppe-128
mppe-stateless

#
# We want a sane mtu/mru
#
mtu 1000
mru 1000

#
# Time this thing out of it goes poof
#
lcp-echo-failure 10
lcp-echo-interval 10

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[gentoo-user] Evolution's folder icons screwed up

[Shawn]

Does anyone know what lib might be hosed based on this screenshot?

This is the new evo-1.4 from portage.


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Re: [gentoo-user] mounting two partitions as one directory

[Shawn]

On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 09:52, Marshal Newrock wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Sigurd Stordal wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 06 June 2003 15:59, R'twick Niceorgaw wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > is there any way I can mount two partitions (in two separate disks) as a
> > > single directory ?
> > That depends on what you want, If it is to get the to partition to act as one
> > large one, no I don't think so, but if it is to make the to partition mirrors
> > of each other I think it should work with just plain mount of the two
> > partition on same mount point. As far as I can recall it worked for me that
> > way.
> 
> I wouldn't think mounting two partitions independently on one mount point
> would work.  Only the highest mount (the most recent) would get anything.
> The one under it would just be supporting the mount.  If you wanted two
> partitions to have the same information, I think you'd have to have a RAID
> mirror.

google union mount

> I believe there is also a form of RAID which merely appends one partition
> to the other.  Also, the Logical Volume Manager (which I've never used,
> only looked at the description in the kernel config) may be of use for
> something like that.  I believe EVMS is a successor to LVM.

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Re: [gentoo-user] YahooPOPS

[Shawn]

Hmm, did you pay yahoo? I get:
"-ERR Error logging in. Please visit http://mail.yahoo.com";

You must have a premium setup. Or maybe you're making a political
statement...

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 18:05, Maxime Larocque wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I may be missing something, but setting my Mozilla Messenger to fetch 
> from pop.mail.yahoo.com works great for me!
> 
> Maxime
> 
> 
> Shawn wrote:
> 
> >I see hotwayd is in portage, but I'd like to see yahoopops in there too.
> >
> >Should I take a crack at making an ebuild and submitting it somewhere,
> >or what? (keep in mind it would be my first)
> >
> >I like POP access to my old webmail accounts. It makes evolution happy
> >too.
> >
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Re: [gentoo-user] Installing qpopper under 1.4_rc4

[Shawn]

Make disable = "no" in /etc/xinetd.d/pop-3 and make sure xinetd is
emerged, and "rc-update xinetd add default" then /etc/init.d/xinetd
start.

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 16:32, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> Have just emerged qpopper into my system but cannot work out how to get
> it running. The instructions at the end of the install refer to editing
> the file /etc/initd.conf but I do not appear to have such a file -
> where/how do I add whatever command that I require to start qpopper?
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems I encountered upgrading to mm-sources

[Shawn]

By having
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"
commented out, you probably have older stuff than me.

>From /etc/make.conf:
"Users of the 'x86' architecture would add '~x86' to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to
enable unstable/testing packages."

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 15:41, Emil Loer wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 June 2003 21:55, Shawn wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:39, Emil Loer wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 04 June 2003 20:36, Shawn wrote:
> > > > Is it documented somewhere what one must all do in order to run an mm
> > > > kernel on a gentoo box?
> > > >
> > > > So far, I have seen I have to
> > > >  1. Use "/dev/root" instead of "/" in the remount commands in
> > > > /etc/init.d/checkroot
> > > >  2. mkdir /sys for the sysfs mount
> > > >  3. upgrade to CVS iptables for the "nat" table to work
> > >
> > > and 4. I had to put a devpts mount line in /etc/fstab, because without it
> > > I wasn't able to open any kind of terminal window. With 2.4.20 (gaming
> > > sources) this was not necessary.
> >
> > I don't have this line in my fstab, but do you have that ~x86 thingy in
> > your make.conf? Maybe my userland is a little fresher.
> 
> well, grep "x86" /etc/make.conf returns only two commented lines describing 
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, but nothing else, so i don't think that's it.
> By the way, I am using 2.4.70-mm3.
> 
> regards,
> Emil
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up a mail server

[Shawn]

I did it by having mail dropped into /var/mail/$USER, and qpopper just
works then.

I'm sure you can config qpopper to look elsewhere, but I really didn't
care.


On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 15:43, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> Hi
> 
>  have several POP accounts that I want to check/fetch using getmail
> (which I believe to be more reliable than fetchmail), then be able to
> check those accounts by POPing into the server that I have downloaded
> them to.
> I have managed to get getmail installed and working (putting retrieved
> emails into /home//mbox but I cannot seem to POP into the account
> to check them. I have installed vm-pop3d and can see that it is running
> but whenever I try and POP into the 'server' PC I get password errors.
> Can anyone help me, or perhaps point me to some documentation on how to
> do this?
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I start a program on startup from SSH?

[Shawn]

Check PPID for sshd in your bashrc:

if /bin/ps -cp $PPID | grep -q sshd; then
   # start something here
fi


On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 15:12, Jeff Greene wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I'm trying to get a program to startup right when I
> log in remotely into a bash shell through SSH. I
> looked at the bash manual and I tried all of the files
> (~/.bash_rc, ~/.bash_profile, etc.) or at least most
> of them. The bash maunal says that different files get
> read on startup depending on how the shell is being
> started. I guess what I can't figure out is what
> category "starting a shell remotely using SSH" falls
> into. If anyone knows the answer, could you help me
> out? Thanks.
> 
> --Jeff
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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer install

[Shawn]

You add only "dvd" to your USE.

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:18, Ron Keller wrote:
> Perhaps there is some place to look for this sort of info, but as yet, I 
> haven't found it.  When I run mplayer, I get a message saying that 
> mplayer was compiled WITHOUT libdvdread.  I emerged both libdvdread and 
> libdvdcss and included both of them in my USE statement in 
> /etc/make.conf.  Is there something else I should have done to get 
> mplayer to work?  Help would be appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
> rk
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems I encountered upgrading to mm-sources

[Shawn]

Yeah, I /think/ it was Al Viro who went on a code duplication rampage
and eliminated the devpts support from devfs in recent dev kernels.

I don't have this line in my fstab, but do you have that ~x86 thingy in
your make.conf? Maybe my userland is a little fresher.

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:39, Emil Loer wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 June 2003 20:36, Shawn wrote:
> > Is it documented somewhere what one must all do in order to run an mm
> > kernel on a gentoo box?
> >
> > So far, I have seen I have to
> >  1. Use "/dev/root" instead of "/" in the remount commands in
> > /etc/init.d/checkroot
> >  2. mkdir /sys for the sysfs mount
> >  3. upgrade to CVS iptables for the "nat" table to work
> 
> and 4. I had to put a devpts mount line in /etc/fstab, because without it I 
> wasn't able to open any kind of terminal window. With 2.4.20 (gaming sources) 
> this was not necessary.
> 
> regards,
> Emil 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] iptables

[Shawn]

In case you have other rules, remember to make it precede any others by
using the rule number.
iptables -I FORWARD 1 -s [ip] -j DROP

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 13:36, Ryan wrote:
> If your machine is a router, you should also do:
> 
> iptables -I FORWARD -s [ip] -j DROP
> 
> so that it catches packets that are being routed and not destined for
> firewall machine itself.
> 
> > Hi.
> >
> > Quick question. I would like to block an ip temporarily. I would like to
> > accomplish this without modifying my firewall just on the fly. I am
> > banking that all I would need to do is type
> >
> > iptables -I INPUT -s [ip] -j DROP
> >
> > Am I on the right track or is this not correct. Any help would be
> > appreciated Thanks.
> >
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> >
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[gentoo-user] Problems I encountered upgrading to mm-sources

[Shawn]

Is it documented somewhere what one must all do in order to run an mm
kernel on a gentoo box?

So far, I have seen I have to
 1. Use "/dev/root" instead of "/" in the remount commands in
/etc/init.d/checkroot
 2. mkdir /sys for the sysfs mount
 3. upgrade to CVS iptables for the "nat" table to work

This is all completely undocumented.


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Re: [gentoo-user] iptables

[Shawn]

With -I remember to use rule number (IIRC). I think you want to use

iptables -I INPUT 1 -s [ip] -j DROP

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 13:53, Aaron Stout wrote:
> Hi. 
> 
> Quick question. I would like to block an ip temporarily. I would like to
> accomplish this without modifying my firewall just on the fly. I am
> banking that all I would need to do is type 
> 
> iptables -I INPUT -s [ip] -j DROP
> 
> Am I on the right track or is this not correct. Any help would be
> appreciated Thanks.

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[gentoo-user] iptables and mm-sources

[Shawn]

Has anyone had success in doing masq with 2.5 under gentoo? I don't know
why this is, but I get the following:

www root # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
iptables: Invalid argument

And this is with mm-sources-2.5.70-r3 and iptables-1.2.8-r1. I've tried
recompiling iptables against mm-sources-2.5.70-r3 with the following
failure:

gcc -march=athlon-xp -mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -Wall -Wunused
-I/usr/src/linux/include -Iinclude/ -DIPTABLES_VERSION=\"1.2.8\"  -fPIC
-o extensions/libipt_physdev_sh.o -c extensions/libipt_physdev.c
extensions/libipt_physdev.c: In function `parse':
extensions/libipt_physdev.c:86: `IPT_PHYSDEV_OP_MATCH_IN' undeclared
(first use in this function)
extensions/libipt_physdev.c:86: (Each undeclared identifier is reported
only once
extensions/libipt_physdev.c:86: for each function it appears in.)
extensions/libipt_physdev.c:97: `IPT_PHYSDEV_OP_MATCH_OUT' undeclared
(first use in this function)
extensions/libipt_physdev.c: In function `print':
extensions/libipt_physdev.c:144: `IPT_PHYSDEV_OP_MATCH_IN' undeclared
(first use in this function)
extensions/libipt_physdev.c:146: `IPT_PHYSDEV_OP_MATCH_OUT' undeclared
(first use in this function)
extensions/libipt_physdev.c: In function `save':
extensions/libipt_physdev.c:156: `IPT_PHYSDEV_OP_MATCH_IN' undeclared
(first use in this function)
extensions/libipt_physdev.c:158: `IPT_PHYSDEV_OP_MATCH_OUT' undeclared
(first use in this function)
make: *** [extensions/libipt_physdev_sh.o] Error 1


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RE: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping question

[Shawn]

I just figured that out yesterday, but I also added an "ip dst" match as
well. I guess the src is more important though, due to limited upload
speeds.

Is there ever any end to learning Linux? I hope not.

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 10:47, Patrick Nehls wrote:
> If you are using the default wondershaper script then I believe it
> prioritizes all traffic into 2 main queues. One is the high priority queue
> and the other is the "bulk" or lower priority queue. The simple solution is
> to dump all traffic coming from the single high priority host into the high
> priority queue, and then dump everything else into the bulk queue.
> 
> You would prioritize traffic from a single host like this:
> tc filter add dev $DEV parent 1:0 protocol ip prio 10 u32 match ip src
> 192.168.50.50/32  flowid 1:10
> Where 1:10 is the high priority queue.
> 
> Patrick
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Spider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 8:37 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping question
> 
> 
> begin  quote
> On 03 Jun 2003 13:12:54 -0500
> Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I have a variation of the wondershaper script, but I'm not sure that I 
> > know how to make it do what I want it to do... which is:
> > 
> > prioritize traffic from a particular host for which my gentoo linux 
> > box is a router.
> > 
> > Is anyone here a guru?
> 
> 
> not a guru, but I did some reading..
> 
> you can use the iptables MARK rule to tag all packages from that host, then
> use CBQ to prioritize those packets above others.
> 
> 
> there might be some tc rules that you can use pre default, but its been a
> few years since I last read through the documentation (should be a nice .pdf
> in the documentation part for the package...)
> 
> 
> //Spider
> 

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