Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove package for ever
Emerge -C should do it - check man emerge. From: pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/03/29 Tue PM 05:41:34 GMT To: Gentoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] how to remove package for ever Hi all, Please is it possible to remove package by specifying it within make.conf file ??? I want to remove balckdown/ibm JDKs. Thanks Pat -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge fails finding jdk
Did you emerge a java and then run the java config? Check the Gentoo site for docs on setting up the java. From: Antonio Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/03/02 Wed PM 02:31:47 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge fails finding jdk HI there. I am trying to emerge openoffice but it refuses to find the selected installed jdk version: aristarco root # java-config -S sun-jdk-1.4.2.07 System Virtual Machine set You may want to update your enviroment by running: /usr/sbin/env-update source /etc/profile aristarco root # /usr/sbin/env-update source -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Required symbol xf86ExecX86int10...
Did you build a new kernel? If so you need to reemerge nvidia stuff - and make sure /usr/src/linux points to the kernel you are using. From: Petri Lehtonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/03/01 Tue PM 03:32:26 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Required symbol xf86ExecX86int10... Hi, I'm unable to start X with my new Asus V9250-X/TD (GeForce FX 5200). There fatal errors I get are: Required symbol xf86ExecX86int10 from module /usr/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved! Required symbol xf86InitInt10 from module /usr/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved! I'm using kernel 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 and have emerged: xorg-x11 6.8.0-4, nvidia-kernel 1.0.6629-r1 and nvidia-glx 1.0.6629-r1 (in that order). nvidia kernel module is loaded I already asked this in the Gentoo Forums, but no one has been able to help. I have posted the config file and complete logs there. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-301911.html Petri -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Before I run into trouble
For the Cicso vpn client you'll need to rebuild it if you make a new kernel but I haven't found that to be a problem. As for this being updated - it's not part of portage so it shouldn't be affected. My copy was given to me by my employer so I just run the install. As far as I know you can't download it unless you are some special Cisco partner, big user, whatever. From: Rick van Hattem [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/02/25 Fri PM 03:15:36 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Before I run into trouble On Friday 25 February 2005 15:32, Frank Schafer wrote: Hi, I plan to update my gentoo installation this weekend. I rather ask before having trouble. I have Cisco VPN Client installed. I know there is a new version of Cisco VPN client out there which I don't have access to. How can I update my world leaving this package as is? I remember from the past that emerge stops at the point it has problems with a single package so the remaining don't get updated. Thanks in advance Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hi, You could add the packagename and version to /etc/portage/package.keywords Just put =category/packagename-version in it. See http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Dealing_with_masked_packages#How_to_take_the_unstable_route_and_install_packages_anyway... for more info. -- Rick van HattemRick.van.Hattem(at)Fawo.nl -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Before I run into trouble
Yup, we're evidently registered as they give it to us and judging by the amount of Cisco gear we have around Campus G. From: Mike Noble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/02/25 Fri PM 06:18:18 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Before I run into trouble -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | For the Cicso vpn client you'll need to rebuild it if you make a new kernel but I haven't found that to be a problem. | | As for this being updated - it's not part of portage so it shouldn't be affected. My copy was given to me by my employer so I just run the install. As far as I know you can't download it unless you are some special Cisco partner, big user, whatever. | The Cisco VPN client software is only available to registered users. If you have or your company has a Cisco VPN then they are able to contact Cisco and get registered and be able to download the client software. Mike - -- Mike Noble Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 0xFFDFC13B Key fingerprint: 8204 1297 B9AD 0CED 2FCE 1FB0 9491 5824 FFDF C13B Keyserver: http://pgpkeys.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCH2vqlJFYJP/fwTsRAikbAJ4zyV382MJOgRCg/zC8UCIzbF00EQCePKdc MjIXZ811KbgwGxxzWQfoEqM= =K7ty -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin?
There should be a LIST ID header you can filter on which might help. From: Jim Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/02/21 Mon PM 01:27:24 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Mailing list address - who's robin? I filter mail from mailing lists based on the To: address. Most mails from this list are addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], however a few are addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not a problem since I can just add it to the filter but I was curious. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Still can't update xfce
And when that doesn't work (as it may not) G try uninstalling xfce4-themes-4.0.6 as that was the culprit in my case. There is a bug on this in the Gentoo bugs under xfce4 which has suggestions. Try them till you find the noe that works. From: Scott Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/02/21 Mon PM 04:40:09 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Still can't update xfce Jim, You have to uninstall the package which is causing the Block... in this case : [blocks B ] xfce-base/xfce4-base (from pkg xfce-base/xfce4-4.2.0) then you should be able to merge whatever packages it was blocking. For more in depth info go to forums, I know there are threads discussing blocks there also. Scott Jones On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:50:27 +, Jim Hatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:00:40 -, in local.gentoo.users you wrote: Don't know much about that gtk thingy, but for the block thing you can always do some emerge --uD --tree world, which possibly shows which package still Well here are the results: terminator root # emerge -uD --tree world --tree implies --pretend... adding --pretend to options. These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] xfce-base/xfce4-base (from pkg xfce-base/xfce4-4.2.0) [nomerge ] app-admin/metalog-0.8_pre20031130 [ebuild U ] dev-libs/libpcre-5.0 [4.5] [nomerge ] net-misc/ntp-4.2.0-r2 [ebuild U ] sys-libs/libcap-1.10-r5 [1.10-r4] [nomerge ] mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0 [ebuild U ] net-www/mozilla-launcher-1.23 [1.22] [nomerge ] sys-apps/vixie-cron-4.1-r4 [ebuild U ] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61 [2.60.9] [ebuild U ] net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r8 [0.00-r6] [ebuild U ] media-gfx/gimp-print-4.2.7 [4.2.6] [ebuild U ] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.1.8.8 [6.1.3.4] [nomerge ] app-text/xpdf-3.00-r8 [ebuild U ] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r1 [2.1.30-r6] [ebuild U ] xfce-base/xfce4-4.2.0 [4.0.6] [ebuild U ] xfce-base/xffm-4.2.0 [4.0.6] [ebuild U ] xfce-extra/xfce4-systray-4.2.0 [4.0.6] [ebuild U ] xfce-extra/xfce4-iconbox-4.2.0 [4.0.6] [ebuild N] xfce-extra/xfce4-icon-theme-4.2.0 [ebuild U ] xfce-extra/xfce4-toys-4.2.0 [4.0.6] [nomerge ] net-fs/samba-3.0.10 [ebuild U ] xfce-base/xfprint-4.2.0 [4.0.6] [ebuild N] xfce-extra/xfce4-appfinder-4.2.0 [ebuild N] xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.2.0 [ebuild U ] xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.2.0 [4.0.6] [ebuild U ] xfce-extra/xfwm4-themes-4.2.0 [4.0.6] [ebuild U ] xfce-base/xfdesktop-4.2.0 [4.0.6] [ebuild U ] xfce-extra/xfce4-trigger-launcher-4.2.0 [4.0.6] [ebuild U ] xfce-base/xfwm4-4.2.0 [4.0.6] [ebuild U ] xfce-extra/xfce4-mixer-4.2.0 [4.0.6] [ebuild U ] xfce-extra/xfcalendar-4.2.0 [0.1.9] [ebuild U ] xfce-base/xfce4-panel-4.2.0 [4.0.6] [ebuild U ]xfce-base/xfce-mcs-plugins-4.2.0 [4.0.6] [ebuild U ] xfce-base/xfce-mcs-manager-4.2.0 [4.0.6] [ebuild U ] xfce-base/libxfce4mcs-4.2.0 [4.0.6] [ebuild U ] xfce-base/libxfcegui4-4.2.0 [4.0.6] [ebuild U ]xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.2.0 [4.0.6] [ebuild U ] x11-themes/gtk-engines-xfce-2.2.5 [2.1.7] [nomerge ] app-office/dia-0.93 [ebuild U ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.4.14 [2.4.13-r1] [nomerge ] x11-terms/xterm-197 [nomerge ] sys-apps/utempter-0.5.5.5-r1 [nomerge ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4 [ebuild U ]x11-base/opengl-update-2.0_pre5 [2.0_pre4-r1] [nomerge ] media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.6 [ebuild U ] sys-apps/pciutils-2.1.11-r3 [2.1.11-r1] [nomerge ] sys-apps/man-pages-2.01 [nomerge ] sys-apps/man-1.5p [nomerge ] sys-apps/sed-4.0.9 [nomerge ]sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1 [nomerge ] sys-devel/gcc-3.3.5-r1 [nomerge ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.4-r5 [ebuild N] sys-libs/gpm-1.20.1 I'm not an emerge expert, I can't tell from the above where the problem lies. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk
Thanks. I'll check that out. From: Mariusz P?kala [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/02/07 Mon AM 07:46:28 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Dos disk don't you have to give a default codepage as a mount option for (v)fat, since recently? I'm not sure about the codepage. There is a default set in the kernel build. I believe if that would be the case you might find some error messages in syslog about 'module cp- not found' or sth like that. The default set of codepages in kernel config is pretty small. You may try to enable more or all of them, rebuild kernel and then try to mount the floppy. pgphlTrc0spSh.pgp Description: PGP signature -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] exiting wm xfce4
Thank you. I'll try it. From: Kristian Niemi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/01/28 Fri AM 09:07:09 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] exiting wm xfce4 As Xfce4-2:s friendly manual[1] explained to me, I have to add /usr/libexec/xfsm-shutdown-helper to be accessed by sudoers; i.e., adding /sbin/shutdown doesn't do it for xfce4. So I have the following in my /etc/sudoers -file: --- Cmnd_Alias SHUTDOWN = /sbin/shutdown, /usr/libexec/xfsm-shutdown-helper myuser ALL = NOPASSWD: SHUTDOWN --- Without adding the xfsm-shutdown-helper it didn't work for me either, after I added it: no problems. Hope it helps. h: Kristian [1] Most likely found on your local system as well, but an online version is available at, for instance, the following location: http://www.loculus.nl/xfce/documentation/docs-4.2/xfce4-session.html Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Nope. I added myuser localhost=/sbin/shutdown using visudo. I logged out, logged back in and still no options. Sudo is installed. I left the %users localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now commented as I don't want all users to be able to do this. What am I missing? On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Aaron Kulbe wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, this is interesting. I installed 4.2 when it became stable over the weekend and it has the power off or reboot grayed out. I know xfce4 4.2 has configure options to enable this but the ebuild doesn't show any use flags for it and I haven't had a chance to investigate further. Howe do I get it to let me do this. My user is a member of the wheel group and can do su -. Thanks. From: Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/01/27 Thu AM 06:03:14 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] exiting wm xfce4 xfce4 version 4.2 is now stable on x86. It has options to reboot or halt when you use the exit button from the panel. if you want to halt or reboot you need to give your user password. On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 07:42 +, Russ Brown wrote: HK wrote: n_powell wrote: -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Having just gone through this, I know how to get it done. You need to install sudo, and your user needs to be configured in the /etc/sudoers file. man sudoers will give you the info for this. In the /etc/sudoers file, there are options for shutdown that are commented by default. Uncomment them and you will have access to the shutdown/reboot options from withing XFCE4. Aaron Kulbe a.k.a. SuperLag on FreeNode. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Preventing portage from rewriting world file?
Isn't the world file something portage uses and we aren't supposed to mess with it. From: Thomas Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/01/28 Fri PM 05:12:29 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Preventing portage from rewriting world file? * On Jan 28 15:59, Windpaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) thusly jotted: Use extended attributes on your filesystem and set the 'sticky bit' which prevents even root from altering or changing the file in question? He doesn't want the file to be impossible to change, he just wants portage to *append* to the file rather than trashing it, which makes perfect sense to me. Why can't we organize our world file as we like? Tom pgpWPbkxYcavc.pgp Description: PGP signature -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] exiting wm xfce4
Hm, this is interesting. I installed 4.2 when it became stable over the weekend and it has the power off or reboot grayed out. I know xfce4 4.2 has configure options to enable this but the ebuild doesn't show any use flags for it and I haven't had a chance to investigate further. Howe do I get it to let me do this. My user is a member of the wheel group and can do su -. Thanks. From: Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/01/27 Thu AM 06:03:14 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] exiting wm xfce4 xfce4 version 4.2 is now stable on x86. It has options to reboot or halt when you use the exit button from the panel. if you want to halt or reboot you need to give your user password. On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 07:42 +, Russ Brown wrote: HK wrote: n_powell wrote: -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] scandisk
What file system? XFS has xfs_check, there are some for ext2, etc. From: Kai Lindenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/01/25 Tue PM 04:29:25 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] scandisk Hi Nick, Am Dienstag, 25. Januar 2005 21:52 schrieb Nick Smith: what program can i use to check for bad sectors on a harddisk? try /sbin/badblocks: $ equery belongs /sbin/badblocks [ Searching for file(s) /sbin/badblocks in *... ] sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.35-r1 (/sbin/badblocks) Kai -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4-4.2 and xfce-base-4.0.6
I guess it does. Unfortunately I went to uninstall say one of the libs and it wants to get rid of my 4.2 install. It may take a total uninstall of all xfce4 and then reinstall 4.2 From: Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/01/25 Tue PM 04:43:19 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4-4.2 and xfce-base-4.0.6 On 21:22 Mon 24 Jan , Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I filed a bug because I did what they said. Removed the base, installed 4.2. Next day and emerge -uD world -p wants to downgrade a bunch of stuff to 4.06! I guess I could do an emerge -C on all stuff it wants to downgrade but I'd like to know what broke. Ahh. I looked at the bug. I guess some stuff from xfce-extra requires xfce4-base. I don't have any of those installed, i guess. Bill -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] scandisk
Got it now G! From: Kai Lindenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/01/25 Tue PM 04:37:31 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] scandisk Am Dienstag, 25. Januar 2005 17:32 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What file system? XFS has xfs_check, there are some for ext2, etc. He wants to check for bad sectors and not for file-system errors, so badblocks should be ok. Am Dienstag, 25. Januar 2005 21:52 schrieb Nick Smith: what program can i use to check for bad sectors on a harddisk? try /sbin/badblocks: $ equery belongs /sbin/badblocks [ Searching for file(s) /sbin/badblocks in *... ] sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.35-r1 (/sbin/badblocks) Kai -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] ATI RAge XL
Did the lspci first - it's a Rage XL. So far none of the docs come out and explicitly mention this card. From: Robert Svoboda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/01/20 Thu AM 08:21:19 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ATI RAge XL * Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-01-20 07:30]: I have one system with an onboard ATI Rage XL. Is it even possible to get opengl working with this card? I've looked at the Gentoo hardware 3d docs and the ati-gatos but they don't explicitly mention this card. I've been using Nvidia so I'm not really sure what is what in the ATI line. Don't know, but try lspci and then search... Robert -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rpm problem
Well, rpm keeps it's own database that has nothing to do with portage so rpm won't know about all the stuff you install via emerge and vice versa. If you have programs that are not available via portage I'd suggest the following steps: 1. Search bugzilla - many times there are ebuilds in bugzilla that are not in the tree. If you find one then use it - even if you have to modify it slightly it's better than rpm. 2. Make your own ebuild. 3. Get the tarball, unpack it and then install as normal. From: Cheryl Homiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/01/20 Thu AM 03:39:24 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rpm problem I didn't have this problem before with gentoo. I didn't have to build a database then. -- Cheryl Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] ATI RAge XL
Thanks. That is what I needed. Sounds like I need to forget it on this machine as it's not worth the timeG. As soon as I can get the mysterious RAID failure fixed on my other machine I'll use it as it has a GeForce TI500. From: Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/01/20 Thu PM 04:30:33 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ATI RAge XL I have one system with an onboard ATI Rage XL. Is it even possible to get opengl working with this card? I've looked at the Gentoo hardware 3d docs and the ati-gatos but they don't explicitly mention this card. I've been using Nvidia so I'm not really sure what is what in the ATI line. The Rage XL is an ancient chip. It might be able to do OpenGL, but only with the Mesa drivers - standard Xorg install, in /etc/X11/xorg.conf select - Section Device Identifier ** ATI Radeon (generic) [radeon] Driver ati #VideoRam8192 # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate EndSection uncomment DRI - Section DRI Mode 0666 EndSection And build dri and agp into the kernel. But, it's slower than anything else on the planet, except a blind monkey doing 3D drawings on a etch-a-scetch. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging xfsdump
It's been bugged. There's something wrong with the ebuild that makes it die. So far no fix that I know of except to stay at the current level of xfsdump. Check bugzilla. From: Alkis Evlogimenos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/26 Thu PM 05:34:22 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] problems emerging xfsdump emerge (5 of 5) sys-fs/xfsdump-2.2.16 to / md5 src_uri ;-) xfsdump-2.2.16.src.tar.gz Unpacking source... Unpacking xfsdump-2.2.16.src.tar.gz to /home/tmp/portage/xfsdump-2.2.16/work Source unpacked. configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] root aliases (vi=vim)
Mark, I modified my /etc/skel/.bash_profile to source /etc/bash.rc so any users created get what's in /etc/bash.rc. I then copied the .bash* files from /etc/skel to /root and you will have the files. Any new users get the new files. Essentially /etc/bash.rc serves as a place to define system wide aliases, environment variables, commands, whatever else. From: gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/13 Fri PM 03:51:53 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] root aliases (vi=vim) On February 13, 2004 10:36 am, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I did some Googling to no avail. My root account had no .bashrc so I tried adding one with an alias vi=vim command but it doesn't seem to work. What's the best way to do an alias in the root account? you can put your aliases in .bashrc, but you have to make sure that bash sources that file upon login. normally, i have .bash_profile in /root/ with the following contents: #This file is sourced by bash when you log in interactively. [ -f ~/.bashrc ] . ~/.bashrc then .bashrc can have your aliases, /or/ if you've got a lot of aliases, you can put this line in .bashrc: source ~/.aliases and then put all of your aliases in there. have fun ;-) -- once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box - italian proverb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install
Check /usr/src/linux/arch/boot for bzImage. If /boot wasn't mounted when you generated it you will have to mount /boot and copy bzImage to /boot/whateveryouwanttocallit. From: Rob Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/12 Thu PM 05:34:08 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install I can not find the bzImage after I do a manual make. I mount /boot myself... How do I turn the kernel into a bzImage? Thanks, Rob - Original Message - From: Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install On Thursday 12 February 2004 11:57 am, Jose González Gómez wrote: Rob, Manual compilation or using genkernel? What about error messages? Have you double checked everything is fine in /boot? Regards Jose Rob Barnett escribió: I have a dell Inspiron 8500 notebook. I have installed using gentoo-dev-sources using stage-1. Everything worked great I booted into it and discovered that I did not configure my network card or a file system that was required by 2.6. I tryed to do another make as before but when I try to boot into it, it would not. Is there something I missed with the kernel to compress it or something so that grub will boot using it. I can only boot using the original kernel that I created. Thanks, Rob -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list The first place to look is: Did you mount /boot and copy over the new bzImage? A normal Gentoo system runs with /boot unmounted. I've also heard noise that the latest genkernel doesn't mount /boot either. IMHO, genkernel is not ready for prime time, or if it is, the documentation is sadly lacking -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] When portage doesn't know about the latest release of a package...
I started a 1.2.11 ebuild but haven't had time to get back to it. Simply changing the version number didn't work (darn! G). I got some strange errors that I haven't had time to chase down. From: Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/12 Thu PM 06:38:51 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] When portage doesn't know about the latest release of a package... On 02/12/04 Kevin wrote: Hi All- I'm a Gentoo newbie but a long-time (10 years) Linux user/sysadmin and I have a quick question that's not addressed in the FAQ or the portage manual (admittedly, I've only read the first part and browsed the rest): When I know that the current revision of OpenAFS is 1.2.11, but my portage system shows that it's 1.2.10-r1, how do I get 1.2.11 installed? Because we only have 1.2.10 in the portage tree. So unless someone puts an ebuild for 1.2.11 in the tree portage doesn't know anything about it. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install
Sorry, that is /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot as others have pointed out. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/12 Thu PM 08:37:57 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install Check /usr/src/linux/arch/boot for bzImage. If /boot wasn't mounted when you generated it you will have to mount /boot and copy bzImage to /boot/whateveryouwanttocallit. From: Rob Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/12 Thu PM 05:34:08 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install I can not find the bzImage after I do a manual make. I mount /boot myself... How do I turn the kernel into a bzImage? Thanks, Rob - Original Message - From: Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Install On Thursday 12 February 2004 11:57 am, Jose González Gómez wrote: Rob, Manual compilation or using genkernel? What about error messages? Have you double checked everything is fine in /boot? Regards Jose Rob Barnett escribió: I have a dell Inspiron 8500 notebook. I have installed using gentoo-dev-sources using stage-1. Everything worked great I booted into it and discovered that I did not configure my network card or a file system that was required by 2.6. I tryed to do another make as before but when I try to boot into it, it would not. Is there something I missed with the kernel to compress it or something so that grub will boot using it. I can only boot using the original kernel that I created. Thanks, Rob -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list The first place to look is: Did you mount /boot and copy over the new bzImage? A normal Gentoo system runs with /boot unmounted. I've also heard noise that the latest genkernel doesn't mount /boot either. IMHO, genkernel is not ready for prime time, or if it is, the documentation is sadly lacking -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla Thunderbird
There are bugs, but that's not really the issue for me. You have to remember that this is alpha software. It lacks a lot of the features others do. It now does open links - if you make some changes to the userprefs. You can't set the display settings for each mailbox or newsgroup - that is you can't set your mailbox to show all and a newsgroup to show unread - it's all or none. There are other issues but it does work well and only occasionally closes for no reason all. I switched to TBird from Kmail when I dumped KDE and like it. Hopefully they will add some of the features as time goes on. From: Gard Spreemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/11 Wed PM 07:13:40 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla Thunderbird On Wednesday 11 February 2004 20:05, D.Wilkening wrote: What bugs are still unresolved? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Pretty CUPS frontend
In a browswer http://localhost:631 and you'll get the cups admin tool. From: Anthony Hoppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/11 Wed PM 12:53:32 GMT To: Gentoo-User List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Pretty CUPS frontend Is there a pretty CUPS frontend I can emerge...or a printer config tool that interfaces with CUPS? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'
It looks like you ran etc-update and let it overwrite everything. You need to fix fstab so it has your devices instead of /dev/ROOT, etc. and put the right type of file systems in. Do not delete the tmpfs line - it's used by Gentoo. From: Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/10 Tue PM 04:00:26 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world' Hi all folks, For unknown reason my Gentoo 1.4 box can't start after running 'emerge -u world' Login as ROOT does not need root-password (key in root-password popup invalid password) and can't login as USER. Incidentally Fail-Safe can be started cat /etc/fstab found following difference. ReiserFS changed to xfs; /dev/ROOT/xfsnoatime0 0 following line being added; none/dev/shmtmpfsdefaults 0 0 Can I delete above line and change 'xfs' back to 'reiserfs' to fix starting problem? # cat /etc/passwd root:x:0,0:root:root:/bin/bash ... ... Operator:x:11:0:operator:/root:/bin/bash (USER/satimis not found there) How to restore 'root-password' and re-add USER. Whether; # /etc/passwd passwd and # /etc/passwd useradd can solve my problem. This test box without backup therefore I have to taking precaution on each step made. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'
Hmm. I see others are saying it might be genkernel also - did you run it? Something is strange as emerge -u world doesn't normally hose up files like this. Anyway to fix it boot the live CD, then mount the parititon gentoo is on as /mnt/gentoo, cd to /mnt/gentoo/etc and edit fstab. You can do this with any files you need to fix. From: Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/10 Tue PM 11:22:00 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world' Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like you ran etc-update and let it overwrite everything. You need to fix fstab so it has your devices instead of /dev/ROOT, etc. and put the right type of file systems in. Do not delete the tmpfs line - it's used by Gentoo. I have not run 'etc-upgrade'. The problem happened after 'emerge -u world'. Some other folks on the list or forum also fell into the same trap. Now my problem is that I could not start 'Fail Safe' anymore. Neither I am allowed to key in root-password to login as ROOT nor to login as USER. I can login just pressing 'ENTER' but on a read-only system. I am not allowed to edit /etc/fstab. Any suggestion? TIA -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world'
Try cfdisk. The file system will be whatever you set it up for when you installed Gentoo. From: Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/11 Wed AM 12:52:03 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm. I see others are saying it might be genkernel also - did you run it? Something is strange as emerge -u world doesn't normally hose up files like this. Anyway to fix it boot the live CD, then mount the parititon gentoo is on as /mnt/gentoo, cd to /mnt/gentoo/etc and edit fstab. You can do this with any files you need to fix. Hi, IIRC during 'emerge -u world' I saw on the screen upgrading 'betagenkernel' All were done automatically without asking a question. Kindly advise how to find out the filesystem. # fdisk -l only showing 'Linux' I need to know the FS of /dev/hda3 otherwise I am not allowed to mount TIA B.R. Stephen From: Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/10 Tue PM 11:22:00 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Starting problem after 'emerge -u world' Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like you ran etc-update and let it overwrite everything. You need to fix fstab so it has your devices instead of /dev/ROOT, etc. and put the right type of file systems in. Do not delete the tmpfs line - it's used by Gentoo. I have not run 'etc-upgrade'. The problem happened after 'emerge -u world'. Some other folks on the list or forum also fell into the same trap. Now my problem is that I could not start 'Fail Safe' anymore. Neither I am allowed to key in root-password to login as ROOT nor to login as USER. I can login just pressing 'ENTER' but on a read-only system. I am not allowed to edit /etc/fstab. Any suggestion? TIA -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD burner and Linux
Good questions Andrew. I want to see the answers, too. I have done some research and found I'm stuck with one that burns DVD RAM only - basically useless. It appears we want R+ and R- and DVD -/+ (if I remember correctly). Some handle video DVDs and can be played on a video DVD player, others can't. From: Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/05 Thu AM 03:49:14 GMT To: Gentoo User [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] DVD burner and Linux I'm thinking of buying a DVD burner (for data backup, of course). I'm looking for one that is compatible with Linux, although, I assume they are just like CD-RW drives in that respect. I'm confused about which one of the umpteen different types of DVD recordable/rewritable media/drives are the most compatible with existing drives and DVD players. I think its something like DVD-++--+--+R++-W+ ;) Can anyone recommend a decent drive that would retail for =$150 and is compatible with everything else? IDE interface is a must as I don't have SCSI. Also, has anyone heard anything about when those nifty new dual-layer burners that can burn both layers of a DVD up to 9GB will be commercially available and how much they will run for? -- Andrew Gaffney Network Administrator Skyline Aeronautics, LLC. 636-357-1548 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems emerging
It could be a motherboard proplem. I had an Asus motherboard that segfaulted with more than 512 meg of memory when compiling Gentoo. I tried memcheck - found nothing. Since it was under warranty I sent it back, got a new one and everything works now. From: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/05 Thu AM 07:04:19 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems emerging Dave wrote: Dennis Freise wrote: On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 17:49:29 + Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have now run memtest86 for 12 Hours straight - extended test. Zero errors ... mmm ... I'll limp along with -O2 for now ... sort the rest of Gentoo then come back to it. Dave -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
Thank you. From: Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/04 Wed AM 03:19:53 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ? I can go back to 2.4 and it works fine, just says that the modules.??? is nower than the modules, but no errors and everything works fine? Mike On Tuesday 03 February 2004 08:06 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Is this renaming something that the ebuild does? And if so what happens when you go back to the 2.4 series - do the new tools work for that or do you have to rename them again? Arne Vogel wrote: Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I can't even get it to boot! Do you have up-to-date module-init-tools? Module loading will otherwise fail. The old tools (modprobe, insmod, rmmod, lsmod) must be renamed to xxx.old because they will be invoked when booting pre-2.6. Also, some modules have been renamed, so you will have to provide an adjusted /etc/modprobe.conf. Best check /var/log/messages to see *what* exactly fails (for me it was e.g. psmouse which was previously called mousedev). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Michael W. Holdeman Why keep payin g for windoze?? Powered by Gentoo Linux 1.2 www.gentoo.org Linux Kernel 2.4.22_rc2-gss lowlatency, preemptable Windows Apps thanks to Win4Lin 5.0 www.netraverse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ?
Thank you. That is good to know. From: Arne Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/04 Wed AM 08:50:16 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What doesnt work with 2.6 ? Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Is this renaming something that the ebuild does? I don't know - it should. I installed it manually (that was still under SuSE). And if so what happens when you go back to the 2.4 series - do the new tools work for that or do you have to rename them again? No, the new utils will check what kernel is running and transparently call the old ones if it's 2.4 or earlier. Arne Vogel wrote: Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I can't even get it to boot! Do you have up-to-date module-init-tools? Module loading will otherwise fail. The old tools (modprobe, insmod, rmmod, lsmod) must be renamed to xxx.old because they will be invoked when booting pre-2.6. Also, some modules have been renamed, so you will have to provide an adjusted /etc/modprobe.conf. Best check /var/log/messages to see *what* exactly fails (for me it was e.g. psmouse which was previously called mousedev). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Your current profile is deprecated...?
It means the ebuild is under testing. From: Christopher Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/03 Tue AM 07:14:59 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Your current profile is deprecated...? | Someone remind me what ~x86 in the USE flags does? | | It allow unstabile packages. No it doesn't. the pagages with ~x86 (for example) are for testing. right? -- seth at irclog dot de visit: irclog.de -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firebird
It's MozillaFirebird to run it. From: Valmor de Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/30 Fri PM 03:49:08 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firebird reply Description: null -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firebird
It's MozillaFirebird to run it. From: Valmor de Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/30 Fri PM 03:49:08 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] mozilla-firebird reply Description: null -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] ntp.conf keeps getting rewritten
I see Spider has answered you already. I assume it's something in the setup of the dhcp on Gentoo maybe. I don't use dhcp but this question comes up regularly. Using Spider's suggestion will fix it. From: Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/29 Thu PM 01:48:10 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ntp.conf keeps getting rewritten -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brett I. Holcomb wrote: | Are you running dhcp? If so it will do that but you can add some | parameters to the config file to stop that. Yes, I am running dhcp ... however this does not happen on my FreeBSD box also running dhcp. Is this perhaps a bug in dhcpcd? FreeBSD uses isc-dhcp for its client software, and there is no trouble with overwriting this file. I do know that my dhcp server is not setup at all to configure ntp resources on the client. So ... what can I do to fix this? Thanks, Tom Veldhouse -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Netscape - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAGQ8aARgTFXYf0wARAvuWAJ9wYcVFgzmYD1qW0F4o2ueNvFzDkACgp5TB LQ3DqEMIXlDRY6dmfJr8LsQ= =tOov -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/rtc problem with vmware
Did you build rtc into the kernel? From: Valmor de Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/26 Mon PM 02:27:21 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] /dev/rtc problem with vmware reply Description: null -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Searching OpenOffice documents
grep textdesired * From: Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/23 Fri PM 04:27:09 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Searching OpenOffice documents Is it possible to search through openoffice documents in a given directory (or subdirectories) for a text string? And if so, how can it be done? Thanks Guy -- __ Guy Van Sanden http://unixmafia.port5.com Registered Linux user #249404 - September 1997 __ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA woes
They look like radio card modules and some WAN drivers. \ From: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/23 Fri PM 09:32:00 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA woes On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 13:00, Krikket wrote: My results (Regardless of which I choose to run): depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.24/kernel/drivers/media/radio/miropcm20.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.24/kernel/drivers/net/wan/comx.o. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/modules.d# I checked both of those files, and ther are *blank*. So there shouldn't be any unresolved symbols.. Unless I'm missing something, which is always a possibility... Any thoughts, comments, or suggestions? I think these have nothing to do with Alsa but are some other modules you are telling your kernel to build. Check through your kernel config and remove stuff you don't need and this will likely go away. - Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] RESTRICT (was: gaim segfaults when signing onto Yahoo)
I thought I saw a reference to RESTRICT in man 5 ebuild. From: Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/22 Thu PM 02:09:19 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RESTRICT (was: gaim segfaults when signing onto Yahoo) Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3) wrote: Norberto Bensa, who happens to be smarter than you, thinks: # RESTRICT=nostrip emerge gaim Where $RESTRICT is documented? Hm. Nowhere I guess, but there are a number of ebuilds that use it: less /usr/portage/media-video/nvidia-kernel/nvidia-kernel-1.0.5328-r1.ebuild Regards, Norberto -- Linux 2.6.1-mm5 Pentium III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux 11:04:50 up 2:14, 1 user, load average: 0.14, 0.20, 0.16 pgp0.pgp Description: signature -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Init files and daemon state
In many cases you can use zap instead of stop which will the process. From: S. Krishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/21 Wed PM 03:22:07 GMT To: gentoo-user [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Init files and daemon state I'm having problems with daemon init on Gentoo. Whenever, for example, due to a misconfigured file, a daemon with an /etc/init.d file does not start, (typically sendmail, bind, etc.), whenever I try to restart it using the /etc/init.d/daemon restart, or a stop/ start sequence, or just a plain start, it refuses to start again. The error message says that the daemon has already started, in spite of the fact that it did not start. If I then try to stop it, I am told that it was not started. The only way to get the daemon up again is to reboot or change the runlevel and then switch back to the default runlevel. I am sure there is an easier way to do this. Thanks, Krishnan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] su issues
Is your user part of the wheel group? From: Dan Egli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/20 Tue AM 06:35:33 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] su issues Is there some trick to using Gentoo's su command? In the past on any unix system I've used I could su to root with su -. Then when I enter the root password I become root. But on my gentoo box every time I run su I get: su: Permission denied Sorry. Huh? Permission denied? Whats up with this? Anyone experience it beore? How can I fix it? sudo works fine but if I want to do several things as root I don't want to sudo each of them. --- Dan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Weird Thunderbird Problem....
You have to set up Thunderbird to use Firebird as the browser. The Thunderbird FAQ/help pages have the exact sequence but you add a line to the user preferences file. I'm not at the machine now. From: KLJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/20 Tue AM 08:27:59 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Weird Thunderbird Problem I'm using Firebird and Thunderbird in KDE 3.2 beta2. Whenever I try to open a hyperlink in Thunderbird it always opens up www.tmp.com. http://www.tmp.com. This happens with every link no matter the website it's supposed to go to. I tried both the regular ebuild and the cvs ebuild. I tried deleting my ~/.thunderbird directory. I've tried 'emerge -C'. I even looked in my Thunderbird prefs.js file. I am completely stumped. Thanks, Kent -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] local portage ?
Uncomment the PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable in /etc/make.conf. Then for each package you will ebuild create a subdirectory structure like portage has. You need /usr/local/portage/category/packagename Where category is the category, such as net-fs and package name is the name of the package. For example - for xine you would have these directories. /usr/local/portage/media-libs/xine Under this create a files directory. Then make your ebuilds. From: Jon Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/19 Mon PM 12:09:16 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] local portage ? Hi, I'm new to gentoo and just starting to make some of my own ebuilds. I know that I need a local portage tree. Is there a specific way to create the directory structure ? or do I simply mkdir the directories required ? TIA Jon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] local portage ?
That's good to know. I've copied the directories from /usr/portage and never knew it would be smart enough to create it. From: Andrej Kacian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/19 Mon PM 03:10:19 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] local portage ? On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:40:36 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/local/portage/media-libs/xine Under this create a files directory. Then make your ebuilds. Actually, you only need to place an ebuild in above directory and do $ ebuild your.ebuild digest from that dir. This will create all necessary files (manifest, digest, files/ directory etc.) -- /~\ The ASCIIAndrej Ticho Kacian andrej at kacian dot sk \ / Ribbon Campaign GnuPG public key ID: 7CD93FE2 (pgp.mit.edu) X Against HTML Key fingerprint: / \ Email! E87D 9DEF 2A23 6FFB 7AD9 542F 4253 3A46 7CD9 3FE2 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] To ebuild or not to ebuild
It won't mess up portage but it will not have the benefits of being tracked. What I usually do is: 1. Check bugzilla - many times people create ebuilds and put them in bugzilla. They may not ever get into portage but they are available for use. I've gotten several from bugzilla. 2. Ask on the list for an ebuild - maybe someone has one they did and didn't post. 3. Make your own ebuild. From: Vanh Phom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/15 Thu AM 01:02:17 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] To ebuild or not to ebuild Hi All, The normal life style of gentooer is to wait for the package ebuild to show up and life is good. But once in while, you want a package that hasn't make it into ebuild yet what to do? If you download the package and install it by hand will it mess up your portage? Vanh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] To ebuild or not to ebuild
Another good idea. I hadn't thought of that one. Thanks. From: Diego Zamboni [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/15 Thu PM 02:13:11 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] To ebuild or not to ebuild 1. Check bugzilla - many times people create ebuilds and put them in bugzilla. They may not ever get into portage but they are available for use. I've gotten several from bugzilla. 1.5 Google for packagename gentoo - I've found ebuilds that people put in their own web pages. --Diego -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Software for multiformat DVD writer
Thank you for the explaination. That helps clarify things some. From: Christian Herzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/14 Wed AM 02:43:44 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Software for multiformat DVD writer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any good links on what all the versions mean and how compatible they are with each other and which ones play on a regular video DVD? I found some links last night but would like more information as the links I found were not unbiased. I do not have any real good links right now, but I think I found a good comparison on one of the pages you find lokking for dvd and linux. Here is my honest opinion: -R is closer to DVD-ROM and therefore very compatible to DVD players. Though there are some players (and a bios update for others) that allow you to let your +R media imitate -ROM. +R is getting more important with DVD recorders as it seems to be better for appending data to a disk. Seems to me that it is the better media for PC use, too. -RAM is incompatible to -ROM but is the best choice for UDF as it allows the most writes of all the rewritable media formats. Unfortunately the media is really expensive. Christian From: Christian Herzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/13 Tue AM 03:21:56 EST To: Gentoo_users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Software for multiformat DVD writer Hello all, I am going to get a DVD writer one of the next days. It will be an LG 4081B supporting DVD+-R and RAM. Now I am thinking about the software. Does it make sense to install dvd+rw-tools and dvdtools? Any other recomendations (except updating k3b)? Thanks Christian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem? : emerge -pu system: baselayout overwrites make.conf
After your updates do you run etc-update in the automatic mode? If so don't do that. Run it and check the files it wants to update. Let it do the ones that you haven't modified and then look at what it's doing with each of the remaining files. From: Jimmy Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/13 Tue AM 09:53:45 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Problem? : emerge -pu system: baselayout overwrites make.conf I've been using gentoo for a while now. Every time I have updated baselayout it has overwritten the make.conf file automatically with a default file. I've tried protecting it but to no avail. Is this as it should be? I'm asking because it's about time for another system update emerge -pu system and that will bring in another update to baselayout, as well as a whole bunch of other stuff. As baselayout is somewhere in the middle of this, and before portage itself is updated and emerge-ing the system is restarted, the make.conf file will be overwritten in the middle of my system update. Now, since that will overwrite my use flags, does it mean the rest of the update will be compiled with the default use and make flags? I'd be glad if someone could enlighten me on this particular pickle. Harebrafolk Jimmy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Software for multiformat DVD writer
Any good links on what all the versions mean and how compatible they are with each other and which ones play on a regular video DVD? I found some links last night but would like more information as the links I found were not unbiased. From: Christian Herzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/13 Tue AM 03:21:56 EST To: Gentoo_users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Software for multiformat DVD writer Hello all, I am going to get a DVD writer one of the next days. It will be an LG 4081B supporting DVD+-R and RAM. Now I am thinking about the software. Does it make sense to install dvd+rw-tools and dvdtools? Any other recomendations (except updating k3b)? Thanks Christian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how can i tell if a daemon has been patched?
Check the Openssh web site. From: gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/13 Tue PM 03:11:36 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] how can i tell if a daemon has been patched? i'm working on a linux box here @work that's running a little-known distro called neos and i'm trying to determine if the ssh daemon that's running on it is free of all the scary bugs that have appeared over the last year. typing sshd -v gives me this: # sshd -v sshd: illegal option -- v sshd version OpenSSH_3.0.2p1 Usage: sshd [options] ... and since i'm running OpenSSH_3.7.1p2 on my gentoo system, i wonder if the above is patched for all the holes. how can i tell? -- the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality. - dante aleghieri (1265-1321) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild file help
You only need the structure for you package. /usr/local/portage/categoy/appname where category is a category such as net-fs and appname is a directory with the name of the app. For xine it would be /usr/local/portage/media-libs/xine In the appname directory put the ebuild. Then create a files directory in appname and run ebuild packagename digest. From: Roy Kidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/11 Sun PM 11:05:17 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild file help I uncommented the PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable in /etc/make.conf, leaving it at the default /usr/local/portage, which I created. I'm not sure what part of the directory structure from /usr/portage I should duplicate in /usr/local/portage however. /usr/portage is ~1.5G in size. I'm also not sure how to create a digest for the .ebuild file. Thanks, Roy Brett I. Holcomb said: Check out the ebuild docs at Gentoo's web site to get some information about ebuilds. I activate the PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable in /etc/make.conf, create the directory (default is /usr/local/portage) and create a directory structure just like /usr/portage has for the program I want to install. Put the ebuild in there, create a digest for it and emerge it. Use emerge -p to see what problems you might run into and what it might need to install as dependencies before you install it. I also like to look over the ebuild to see what's in it. Roy Kidder wrote: I'm new to Gentoo (been using Linux for about 8 years) and I'm trying to find my way around the ebuild/portage/emerge school of thought. I recently found a piece of software where the author supplies a .ebuild file. How can I install the software as a package using this .ebuild file? Thanks in advance, Roy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild file help
You're welcome. You can use the PORTDIR_OVERLAY for ebuilds you modify or do yourself, too. Have fun. From: Roy Kidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/12 Mon AM 08:02:09 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild file help Got it. Thanks for the help! [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You only need the structure for you package. /usr/local/portage/categoy/appname where category is a category such as net-fs and appname is a directory with the name of the app. For xine it would be /usr/local/portage/media-libs/xine In the appname directory put the ebuild. Then create a files directory in appname and run ebuild packagename digest. From: Roy Kidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/11 Sun PM 11:05:17 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild file help I uncommented the PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable in /etc/make.conf, leaving it at the default /usr/local/portage, which I created. I'm not sure what part of the directory structure from /usr/portage I should duplicate in /usr/local/portage however. /usr/portage is ~1.5G in size. I'm also not sure how to create a digest for the .ebuild file. Thanks, Roy Brett I. Holcomb said: Check out the ebuild docs at Gentoo's web site to get some information about ebuilds. I activate the PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable in /etc/make.conf, create the directory (default is /usr/local/portage) and create a directory structure just like /usr/portage has for the program I want to install. Put the ebuild in there, create a digest for it and emerge it. Use emerge -p to see what problems you might run into and what it might need to install as dependencies before you install it. I also like to look over the ebuild to see what's in it. Roy Kidder wrote: I'm new to Gentoo (been using Linux for about 8 years) and I'm trying to find my way around the ebuild/portage/emerge school of thought. I recently found a piece of software where the author supplies a .ebuild file. How can I install the software as a package using this .ebuild file? Thanks in advance, Roy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] masked packages
One place is the changelog in the app's directory in portage. From: Roy Kidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/12 Mon AM 08:27:58 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] masked packages In looking through the stock tree of packages, there are quite a few that are masked. I've read through what docs there are on masking, but still have one question: Is there any way to tell why a particular package is masked? Thanks in advance, Roy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild file help
If you haven't already check out man ebuild and man 5 ebuild. I use man ebuild install to do everything except actually install a package and that lets me test the install process without whacking my working app. You can also set some variables in /etc/make.conf that leave what ebuild does behind so you can check things out and see what it did. Very nice for troubleshooting. From: Roy Kidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/12 Mon AM 08:15:33 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild file help Yeah, I've got the PORTDIR_OVERLAY working for an app that doesn't appear in the regular tree. Next project is to get one working to override one that does (ie gaim, which is a few revisions behind). Thanks for the help! [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You're welcome. You can use the PORTDIR_OVERLAY for ebuilds you modify or do yourself, too. Have fun. From: Roy Kidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/12 Mon AM 08:02:09 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild file help Got it. Thanks for the help! [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You only need the structure for you package. /usr/local/portage/categoy/appname where category is a category such as net-fs and appname is a directory with the name of the app. For xine it would be /usr/local/portage/media-libs/xine In the appname directory put the ebuild. Then create a files directory in appname and run ebuild packagename digest. From: Roy Kidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/11 Sun PM 11:05:17 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild file help I uncommented the PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable in /etc/make.conf, leaving it at the default /usr/local/portage, which I created. I'm not sure what part of the directory structure from /usr/portage I should duplicate in /usr/local/portage however. /usr/portage is ~1.5G in size. I'm also not sure how to create a digest for the .ebuild file. Thanks, Roy Brett I. Holcomb said: Check out the ebuild docs at Gentoo's web site to get some information about ebuilds. I activate the PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable in /etc/make.conf, create the directory (default is /usr/local/portage) and create a directory structure just like /usr/portage has for the program I want to install. Put the ebuild in there, create a digest for it and emerge it. Use emerge -p to see what problems you might run into and what it might need to install as dependencies before you install it. I also like to look over the ebuild to see what's in it. Roy Kidder wrote: I'm new to Gentoo (been using Linux for about 8 years) and I'm trying to find my way around the ebuild/portage/emerge school of thought. I recently found a piece of software where the author supplies a .ebuild file. How can I install the software as a package using this .ebuild file? Thanks in advance, Roy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] su: Permission denied!
What did you do with etc-update? If you updated things like /etc/group or /etc/passwd then you will have a problem. From: Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/09 Fri AM 10:39:11 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] su: Permission denied! Hi, I am learning how to admin my gentoo box. Now I have a problem with 'su'. It is working some hours ago. But after I type 'etc-update',I quit, because I was a little confused. After that, when I type 'su', System reply su: Permission denied! Sorry what's wrong? PLS help me. Roger -- ~~~ China Cell Phone Rental http://www.pandaphone.com Start with Gentoo,Start with Freedom ~~~ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-games
You could try using the inject option of emerge. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/08 Thu PM 12:41:37 EST To: Gentoo-user [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] gnome-games Hi, I'm trying to create an automatic emerge -U --deep -world for several clients, the one of the problems i got is gnome-games, every emerge wants to install the games, and because its for a company the games should not be installed. What is the best way to keep that package from mycomputers? TIA Patrick -- Live long and prosper, Spock. -- T'Pau I shall do neither. I have killed my captain, and my friend. -- Spock Fingerprint = 2792 057F C445 9486 F932 3AEA D3A3 1B0C 1059 273B ICQ# 316932703 Registered Linux User #44550 http://counter.li.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question: Does gentoo have an expiration date ??
No, just do emerge sync on a routine basis. Then
emerge -uD system -p
and if you like what it will upgrade then let it go.
Then
emerge -uD world -p
and do the same. If you don't like what it will upgrade then upgrade the packages
listed individually. If there are updates to be done by etc-update DO NOT run
etc-update and let it do every update. Check the updates first to make sure it won't
mess up some files.
From: Al Raq [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2004/01/06 Tue PM 02:13:19 EST
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [gentoo-user] Newbie question: Does gentoo have an expiration date ??
Hi all,
May be this is a stupid question but I had to ask.
I want to keep my gentoo installed in my machine for 3 years or more without
reinstalling it from scratch but just keeping updated. Is it possible ???
How easy to update gentoo to the next coming realeases with the 2.6
kernel. ,gcc, kde, and other major softwares ??
In which case(s) am I forced to reinstall gentoo from scratch ???
{Suppose that my Hardware is in great condition.}
Kind Regards,
Al
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Re: [gentoo-user] Wine CVS ebuild problem
Check bugzilla as there are sone winex-cvs builds there that you can look at.
From: Gerhard W. Gruber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2004/01/02 Fri AM 06:40:02 EST
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [gentoo-user] Wine CVS ebuild problem
Since there is no wine-cvs ebuild I tried to create my own, but I'm rather
newbie to this so, naturally, it failed. :)
The best choice would have been to take a look at winex-cvs but this has been
removed so the ebuild is only an empty shell. Now I took the ebuild from
crystalspace-cvs as a template and changed servername and all the stuff to
match wine. When I run ebuild to create the digest I always get the error
message PF is null.
What does that mean?
I also copied the digest file from crystalspace but that is empty anyway.
Does emerge have to have a version number in the ebuildname or is the choice
of the name totally free? Since I wanted to run it against the wine cvs tree I
didn't specify a version. Could this be the problem?
The ebuild looks like this:
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inherit cvs
ECVS_SERVER=cvs.winehq.com:/home/wine
ECVS_MODULE=CS
ECVS_TOP_DIR=${DISTDIR}/cvs-src/${PN}
S=${WORKDIR}/${ECVS_MODULE}
DESCRIPTION=Windows WIN32 API emulation for running MS-Windows software
natively in Linux
SRC_URI=
HOMEPAGE=http://www.winehq.com/;
SLOT=0
LICENSE=LGPL-2
KEYWORDS=~x86 ~ppc
#DEPEND==media-libs/libpng-1.2.1
WINE_PREFIX=/opt/wine
src_compile() {
./configure --prefix=${WINE_PREFIX} || die
emake all || die
}
src_install() {
dodir ${WINE_PREFIX}
make INSTALL_DIR=${D}/${WINE_PREFIX} install || die
# dodir /usr/bin
# dosym ${WINE_PREFIX}/bin/cs-config /usr/bin/cs-config
# find ${D}/${WINE_PREFIX} -type f -exec chmod a+r '{}' \;
# find ${D}/${WINE_PREFIX} -type d -exec chmod a+rx '{}' \;
# chmod a+rx ${D}/${WINE_PREFIX}/{bin,lib}/*
# dodir /etc/env.d
# echo WINE=\${WINE_PREFIX}\ ${D}/etc/env.d/90crystalspace
}
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Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Wine CVS ebuild problem
Sorry, I thought you wanted an ebuild for winex-cvs. I did one a few weeks ago because I was in the same place and I submitted it to bugzilla. It that's what you need feel free to use it. I've seen redone it but haven't posted it. From: Gerhard W. Gruber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/02 Fri PM 01:42:37 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wine CVS ebuild problem On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 7:41:19 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check bugzilla as there are sone winex-cvs builds there that you can look at. That didn' t help either. At least not with regards to my problem. That PF is -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] how long does it take to commit a patch to portage
It's not a matter of interest - it's how many people are working on Gentoo. There's a lot more of us users who submit requests, changes, ebuilds, etc. that have to be checked, processed, modified, whatever before they can be released on us. And all this in addition to work done to move Gentoo forward. It sounds like you might have the qualifications to be a developer or at least help in some way - have you contacted anyone at Gentoo about seeing what you can do? From: Lincoln A. Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/02 Fri PM 03:11:40 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how long does it take to commit a patch to portage It could be FOREVER! I am coming to the conclusion that the gentoo folks are not really very interested in user contributions. I think you have to be part of the club. I have had distinctly mixed experiences: 1.) Last May I contributed this: -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources vs GS-sources
Thank you Aaron. That's what I was looking for - some reassurance as to what more stable was. It sounds like gentoo-sources is pretty stable and reliable. As for asking twice that's my error - I'm just wrapping up the transisiton from Caldera WS 3.1 to Gentoo. KDE on the WS 3.1 box decided to die - again so I'm moving everything over. Part of that is the move to a new mail program and I thought I'd entered the address wrong and that it didn't go through especially when I didn't see the post appear after a long time. So I resent. From: Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/31 Wed AM 05:29:47 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources vs GS-sources Brett I. Holcomb wrote: The Gentoo docs say gs-sources are more stable and reliable then gentoo-sources but gentoo-sources have better First of all, why ask the same question twice within 2 hrs of each other? I have not used gs-sources, only because I haven't needed to. gentoo-sources is plenty stable and is most likely a bit faster as well. I use gentoo-sources on both my desktop system and my mail server (which has been up for 2 months.. it's only been booted up once, right after the install ;) not bad for a really old P233 and 2 really old 7giggers.. oh yeah and the really old 72-pin memory that I used to have on my keychain) before I converted my mail server over to gentoo, it was running RH9 which I had to reboot every 7 days or so because it would start to slow down and get real sluggish. Every day I thank the god of computers that gentoo is here. Aaron -- /usr/bin/fortune says: After a number of decimal places, nobody gives a damn. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
