Re: [gentoo-user] USB scanner (Canon LiDE 25) only recognized as root
Richard Fish wrote: No similar problem here (LIDE35, genesys backend). Take a look at (or post) the output of strace -e open sane-find-scanner -q [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ strace -e open sane-find-scanner -q open(/etc/ld.so.cache, O_RDONLY) = 3 open(/usr/lib/libusb-0.1.so.4, O_RDONLY) = 3 open(/lib/libpthread.so.0, O_RDONLY) = 3 open(/usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62, O_RDONLY) = 3 open(/usr/lib/libieee1284.so.3, O_RDONLY) = 3 open(/usr/lib/libgphoto2.so.2, O_RDONLY) = 3 open(/usr/lib/libgphoto2_port.so.0, O_RDONLY) = 3 open(/lib/libdl.so.2, O_RDONLY) = 3 open(/lib/libm.so.6, O_RDONLY)= 3 open(/lib/libc.so.6, O_RDONLY)= 3 open(/dev/urandom, O_RDONLY) = 3 open(/proc/scsi/scsi, O_RDONLY) = 3 open(/proc/scsi/scsi, O_RDONLY) = 3 open(/dev/scanner, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sg0, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sg1, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sg2, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sg3, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sg4, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sg5, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sg6, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sg7, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sg8, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sg9, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sga, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgb, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgc, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgd, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sge, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgf, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgg, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgh, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgi, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgj, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgk, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgl, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgm, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgn, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgo, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgp, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgq, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgr, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgs, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgt, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgu, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgv, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgw, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgx, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgy, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/sgz, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/proc/devices, O_RDONLY) = 3 open(/dev/, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 3 open(/proc/bus/usb, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 3 open(/proc/bus/usb, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 3 open(/proc/bus/usb/004, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 3 open(/proc/bus/usb/004/015, O_RDWR) = 4 open(/proc/bus/usb/004/001, O_RDWR) = 4 open(/proc/bus/usb/004/015, O_RDWR) = 3 open(/proc/bus/usb/004/001, O_RDWR) = 3 open(/proc/bus/usb/003, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 3 open(/proc/bus/usb/003/002, O_RDWR) = 4 open(/proc/bus/usb/003/001, O_RDWR) = 4 open(/proc/bus/usb/003/002, O_RDWR) = 3 open(/proc/bus/usb/003/001, O_RDWR) = 3 open(/proc/bus/usb/002, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 3 open(/proc/bus/usb/002/001, O_RDWR) = 4 open(/proc/bus/usb/002/001, O_RDWR) = 3 open(/proc/bus/usb/001, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 3 open(/proc/bus/usb/001/001, O_RDWR) = 4 open(/proc/bus/usb/001/001, O_RDWR) = 3 open(/proc/bus/usb/004/015, O_RDWR) = 3 open(/proc/bus/usb/004/015, O_RDWR) = 3 open(/proc/bus/usb/004/015, O_RDWR) = 3 found USB scanner
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] openoffice calc custom accountancy number format
060109 Iain Buchanan wrote: you may know that M$Excel has a number format called accounting IIRC, that lines up the currency sign: $10.00 $ 100.00 $ 1000.00 $ -123.45 Openoffice, as far as I've know it from 1.x to the current 2.x doesn't have such an option. The formatting comes out like this: $ 10.00 $ 100.00 $ 1000.00 $ -123.45 For a large spreadsheet, with lots of number, the aligned $ is much easier to read. I realise this is not what you are looking for also may not meet professional accounting rules for layout, but a very simple elegant solution is simply to write the currency symbol (or any other units) in a row on its own near the top of the sheet: $% riders/year 10.0023.6 170 000 100.0054.7 265 500 1000.0067.8 143 200 I find it much easier to read tables with varied units this way always use it when writing tables myself. HTH if no-one can suggest anything closer to your request. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] How to control permissions on / ?
Hi there,Can you control permissions on /? If so, how? I've found that I have the following in two different machines:proxy ~ # ls -ld /d-wxrt 19 root root 472 Nov 15 17:41 /protos ~ # ls -ld / drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 440 mar 10 2005 /I've been having a permission related problem in the first machine (you can find the description in https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116247 ) and as the guy from the Gentoo team tells, maybe it's related to this...TIA, best regardsJose
Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list problems
Jamie Dobbs schreef: Are there issues with the mailing lists at the moment? I have made a few posts in the last 2-3 hours that have yet to show up on the lists. I've also noticed considerably less traffic on the lists in recent days, could this be due to a general email slow down due to an increase in spam email traffic? From your later mails, you seem to be the same Jamie who has asked several times about a problem with xorg-X11 and an inability to compile gnome-control-center. If that is the case, you are not having any problem; we've gotten the 3 repeat mails about this issue (I at least don't know how to solve it though), but the reason the messages are not coming back to you is because you used your GMail account. Gmail discards the return of your mail from the list, because it already has a copy of this mail (in your 'Sent' folder). You will never get mails from yourself appearing in ML threads via Gmail for this reason (until someone replies to them, which no one has in this case). So there is no problem, you've just encountered a GMail 'feature'. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade + gcc dilemma
Bryce Verdier schreef: I have a problem (which i'm getting around by using a link). But if i could really fix, i'd be a lot happier. One thing that's preventing me from doing this though is that for some reason i don't have revdep-rebuild like is recommended below. What package do i install to get it? bryce equery b /usr/bin/revdep-rebuild [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/revdep-rebuild in *... ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.2_pre1 (/usr/bin/revdep-rebuild) emerge gentoolkit, thus. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to control permissions on / ?
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 11:22:41 +0100, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Can you control permissions on /? If so, how? I've found that I have the following in two different machines: proxy ~ # ls -ld / d-wxrt 19 root root 472 Nov 15 17:41 / protos ~ # ls -ld / drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 440 mar 10 2005 / chmod 755 / -- Neil Bothwick This tagline is umop apisdn signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo installer suggestions
Tom Martin schreef: On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 02:09:14 -0700 Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those developing the graphical gentoo installer... Might I suggest a search box at the bottom of the extra packages screen, to be able to search for packages? Probably a good idea to drop a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and post to their mailing list. You might also be interested in reading this week's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, which contains a short review/usage test of the installer, with screenshots: 5. Gentoo in the press == Asteria (December 2005) --- Jon Hood, a developer working for Asteria Solutions Group, Inc.[18] takes the current beta version of the Gentoo Installer[19] for a test drive around the block, and appears quite satisfied[20] with the result, calls it a wonderful step in the right direction for the Gentoo distribution, and is particularly delighted because people aren't supposed to actually USE testing software and have it WORK, but that's exactly what happened. His review includes a pretty little slideshow[21] documenting every step of the installation process when done via the GUI installer, very interesting for everybody who's never seen it at work. 18. http://www.asteriasgi.com 19. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/ 20. http://www2.asteriasgi.com/review/ 21. http://www2.asteriasgi.com/review/slideshow.html 10. GWN subscription information To subscribe to the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe to the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the email address you are subscribed under. === 11. Other languages === The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter is also available in the following languages: * Danish[68] * Dutch[69] * English[70] * German[71] * French[72] * Korean[73] * Japanese[74] * Italian[75] * Polish[76] * Portuguese (Brazil)[77] * Portuguese (Portugal)[78] * Russian[79] * Spanish[80] * Turkish[81] 68. http://www.gentoo.org/news/da/gwn/gwn.xml 69. http://www.gentoo.org/news/nl/gwn/gwn.xml 70. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/gwn.xml 71. http://www.gentoo.org/news/de/gwn/gwn.xml 72. http://www.gentoo.org/news/fr/gwn/gwn.xml 73. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ko/gwn/gwn.xml 74. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ja/gwn/gwn.xml 75. http://www.gentoo.org/news/it/gwn/gwn.xml 76. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pl/gwn/gwn.xml 77. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pt_br/gwn/gwn.xml 78. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pt/gwn/gwn.xml 79. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ru/gwn/gwn.xml 80. http://www.gentoo.org/news/es/gwn/gwn.xml 81. http://www.gentoo.org/news/tr/gwn/gwn.xm Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to control permissions on / ?
Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Can you control permissions on /? Sure. If so, how? Just like with every other directory - chown chmod. Alexander Skwar -- Men of quality are not afraid of women for equality. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - MythTV recording - file size
On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 00:00:47 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I recorded a two-hour movie off telivision this evening. I watched it and it looks fine, but the file size is really big: 4.3GB. Is this normal? Certainly. The size depends on the quality at which it has been recorded, and this is about the right size for a DVD quality MPEG. Of course recording from broadcast TV at DVD quality is rather pointless. Is there anything I can do to get the file size down so that it can fit on a CD? ffmpeg is probably the easiest way to do this, but make sure you emerge it with the doc USE flag or you won't get the man page, which contains some examples of this sort of thing. -- Neil Bothwick If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] gstreamer mms plugin missing
Hi, i'm in trouble to reproduce an mms audio stream because of missing plugin in gstreamer (totem is using this backend). I've tried also installing the new version 0.10 but this plugin is always missing, maybe it's in the gst-plugins-bad package, but this is not include in portage. Any idea ? Many thanks, Max. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Permissions on mounted Windowspartition
-Original Message- From: Michael Sullivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 January 2006 02:07 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Permissions on mounted Windowspartition Yep, I asked this a couple of days ago, but the title could be misleading: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/150416 The trick is to allow others to access and read the partition in your fstab. Setting uid=222 allows the partition to be mounted with r-x rights for all concerned. -- Regards, Mick I looked at man mount (as suggested in the link you sent me) and then only mention of NTFS was the iocharset option. How would I go about setting up a umask in /etc/fstab to accomplish this? Nevermind. I figured it out. Oops! Sorry, was getting too late to focus on the screen: it's umask=222 not uid! (I am not at home now to post my fstab, but ask again if you are having any problems). -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?
On Monday 09 January 2006 04:37, Stroller wrote: aaahhh, the wait for eupdatedb, yes it does take a while (certainly not 90 minutes, more like 5 minutes for me) but then I run it from cron at lunch, so I don't notice... much :) I think you meant to say: aaahhh, the wait for eupdatedb, yes it does take a while (certainly not 90 minutes for me, more like 5 minutes) I have no intention of timing it here and now, but I have one system here on which eupdatedb is certainly into the several tens of minutes. You know, you could all just use: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb Then get ultra fast metadata updates (no 50-51% hang*), quick searches (not as quick as eix or esearch but *way* quicker than portage standard), and no need to update a second database (so no out of date searches). carpaskis thoughts are perfectly valid, but if you know you're using cdb then get a seg fault, you can turn it off. * Under 52 seconds, with no previous portage interactions in hours, while reading email in kmail, on a 7200rpm 2.5 drive in a PM 1.8. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 and gnome (long, thinking out loud)
David Meyer schreef: Has anyone been able to emerge both of these? If I emerge xorg-x11 then gnome, the gnome emerge dies with an error compiling pango: /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pangoxft-render.h:95: error: parse error before XftGlyphSpec keyboard-drawing.c: In function `xkb_state_notify_event_filter': keyboard-drawing.c:1481: warning: implicit declaration of function `memset' make[2]: *** [keyboard-drawing.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/control-center-2.10.2/work/control-center-2.10.2/libkbdraw' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/control-center-2.10.2/work/control-center-2.10.2' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: gnome-base/control-center-2.10.2 failed. !!! Function gnome2_src_compile, Line 48, Exitcode 2 !!! compile failure Well, I have the unstable version of gnome-light installed (2.12.2), and my Control Center installed and works just fine (even in fvwm-crystal, which is my default WM). Now what seems to be the problem is either pango or a dependency of pango which is causing the control center to fail. So let's look at pango and see how far we get. Pango has no relevant USE flags (only debug and doc) so that can't be it (unless you're for some reason using the debug flag, which I assume you are not).. Looking at the status of pango on packages.gentoo.org, I can see that pango 1.10.2 is marked stable for both x86 and amd64 (which Jamie said he's using, you haven't named your arch), so it seems likely that that is the version you have installed (but feel free to post an 'emerge -pv pango' to confirm/check that). Looking at pango 1.10.2 on www.gentoo-portage.com, I see that that version of pango requires: Runtime Dependencies pango-1.10.2 = dev-libs/glib - 2.5.7 = media-libs/fontconfig - 1.0.1 = media-libs/freetype - 2 x11-libs/cairo - 0.5.2 x11-libs/libX11 x11-libs/libXrender x11-libs/libXt virtual/x11 virtual/xft I in fact have pango-1.10.2 installed * x11-libs/pango Available versions: 1.4.1-r1 1.8.1 1.8.1-r1 1.8.2 1.10.1 1.10.2 Installed: 1.10.2 Homepage:http://www.pango.org/ Description: Text rendering and layout library but what's weird is that two of the stated dependencies of this package are hard-masked (and I don't have them installed): x11-libs/libXrender * x11-libs/libXrender Available versions: [M]0.9.0.2 Installed: none Homepage:http://xorg.freedesktop.org/ Description: X.Org Xrender library x11-libs/libXt * x11-libs/libXt Available versions: [M]1.0.0 Installed: none Homepage:http://xorg.freedesktop.org/ Description: X.Org Xt library So that does seem like an area in which pango might be problematic, especially when an older version of GNOME is being compiled against it (2.10.2 does count as an older version, since the GNOME backend has been going through a lot of revision lately). But this doesn't seem to be getting us anywhere, or at least nowhere that I can go, so let's look at that XftGlyphSpec, and the keyboard-related libs, since that is specifically where the failure is occurring. Again, libXft is hard-masked, and I don't have it (despite it being a dependency of something I do have installed, fvwm): * x11-libs/libXft Available versions: [M]2.1.8.2 Installed: none Homepage:http://xorg.freedesktop.org/ Description: X.Org Xft library Runtime Dependencies libXft-2.1.8.2 = media-libs/fontconfig - 2.2 media-libs/freetype = sys-apps/man - 1.6b-r2 ! x11-base/xorg-x11 - 6.9 x11-libs/libX11 x11-libs/libXext x11-libs/libXrender x11-proto/xproto Given my recent issues with Modular X and the xkb files, the fact that you are having problems with xkb files and a program that depends on X, and the title of this thread I have to wonder what version of X you are running. Are you by chance running Xorg 6.8.99 or in fact a version of the hard-masked 7.0? Yes, this is definitely related to how you've compiled X (whatever version); this thread http://mail.nl.linux.org/xchat-discuss/2002-08/msg00015.html indicates a similar problem if X is not compiled with XFT support, which is the conclusion I was about to come to via this roundabout path; since clearly I have some version of XFT libs installed, but no masked packages installed to provide it, it must be provided by X or one of its dependencies. So here are my X USE flags: emerge -pv xorg-x11 cfg-update 1.8.0 : No new packages have been emerged, checksum index OK... These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ]
Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?
On Monday 09 January 2006 17:48, Mike Williams wrote: You know, you could all just use: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb ...and if we face any problems we will be flamed by purist Gentooers? Reading that wiki entry made me remember the people who use --oh-so-fast CFLAGS and then get flamed in forums. I personally would never use such hacks in something as important as portage. Regards, Abhay pgpXPXH2tNdDU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 and gnome
On Saturday 07 January 2006 00:11, David Meyer wrote: /usr/include/pango-1.0/pango/pangoxft-render.h:95: error: parse error before XftGlyphSpec keyboard-drawing.c: In function `xkb_state_notify_event_filter': I somehow missed this post. Replied to a similar post b Jamie. Anyways, sync and re-emerge. Known bug, now resolved. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112659 Regards, Abhay pgp9dBoliZOSK.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] su stopped working
Hi - Very strange... 'su' ( and 'sudo' ) stopped working for my normal users. I get the su: Permission denied, Sorry. message. I have tried: 1) changed the root password; no joy 2) created a new user and tried 'su'; ditto 3) tried in X( kde ) and non-X; nope 4) rebooted; nada I can't seem to find any change from the last time I used su ( Friday ) and now that would account for this problem. Can anyone think of what I should try next? -- Aloha = Beau; -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] su stopped working
what are the permissions on the su binary? On Jan 9, 2006, at 8:18 AM, Beau E. Cox wrote: Hi - Very strange... 'su' ( and 'sudo' ) stopped working for my normal users. I get the su: Permission denied, Sorry. message. I have tried: 1) changed the root password; no joy 2) created a new user and tried 'su'; ditto 3) tried in X( kde ) and non-X; nope 4) rebooted; nada I can't seem to find any change from the last time I used su ( Friday ) and now that would account for this problem. Can anyone think of what I should try next? -- Aloha = Beau; -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Permissions on mounted Windowspartition
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 12:16 +, Michael Kintzios wrote: -Original Message- From: Michael Sullivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 January 2006 02:07 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Permissions on mounted Windowspartition Yep, I asked this a couple of days ago, but the title could be misleading: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/150416 The trick is to allow others to access and read the partition in your fstab. Setting uid=222 allows the partition to be mounted with r-x rights for all concerned. -- Regards, Mick I looked at man mount (as suggested in the link you sent me) and then only mention of NTFS was the iocharset option. How would I go about setting up a umask in /etc/fstab to accomplish this? Nevermind. I figured it out. Oops! Sorry, was getting too late to focus on the screen: it's umask=222 not uid! (I am not at home now to post my fstab, but ask again if you are having any problems). -- Regards, Mick Yeah it's fixed. Thanks for your help! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] su stopped working
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 04:18 -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote: Hi - Very strange... 'su' ( and 'sudo' ) stopped working for my normal users. I get the su: Permission denied, Sorry. message. I have tried: 1) changed the root password; no joy 2) created a new user and tried 'su'; ditto 3) tried in X( kde ) and non-X; nope 4) rebooted; nada I can't seem to find any change from the last time I used su ( Friday ) and now that would account for this problem. Can anyone think of what I should try next? -- Aloha = Beau; You've probably already checked this one, but are they all in the wheel group? Also, a long time ago I remember there was a problem where I had to re-emerge shadow to get su to work... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] reiserfs 'no journal replay'
Hello, When I boot up a gentoo portable, I get this message: from memory file system is mounted read only no journal replay dmesg contains this line VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. What up with these? Do I have something configured wrong in /etc/fstab? elsewhere? ignore these messages or find the problem? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] su stopped working
El Mon, 9 Jan 2006 04:18:32 -1000 Beau E. Cox dijo: Hi - Very strange... 'su' ( and 'sudo' ) stopped working for my normal users. I get the su: Permission denied, Sorry. message. is your user still in the wheel group? Cheers! -- Arnau Bria -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB scanner (Canon LiDE 25) only recognized as root
On 1/9/06, Christian Floeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish wrote: No similar problem here (LIDE35, genesys backend). Take a look at (or post) the output of strace -e open sane-find-scanner -q [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ strace -e open sane-find-scanner -q open(/proc/bus/usb/004/015, O_RDWR) = 3 found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x2220 [CanoScan], chip=LM9832/3) at libusb:004:015 Did you run this as a regular user, or as root, because this found your scanner. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?
On 1/9/06, Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know, you could all just use: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb Then get ultra fast metadata updates (no 50-51% hang*), quick searches (not as quick as eix or esearch but *way* quicker than portage standard), and no need to update a second database (so no out of date searches). Except that this will break with portage 2.1: ewarn This series contains a completely rewritten caching framework. ewarn If you are using any cache modules (such as the CDB cache ewarn module) portage will not work until they have been disabled. ewarn For reference, they are configured at /etc/portage/modules. echo einfo The default cache format has changed beginning with this einfo version. Before using emerge, run \`emerge --metadata\` to einfo restore portage's local cache. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB scanner (Canon LiDE 25) only recognized as root
Richard Fish, who happens to be smarter than you, thinks: On 1/9/06, Christian Floeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish wrote: No similar problem here (LIDE35, genesys backend). Take a look at (or post) the output of strace -e open sane-find-scanner -q [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ strace -e open sane-find-scanner -q open(/proc/bus/usb/004/015, O_RDWR) = 3 found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x2220 [CanoScan], chip=LM9832/3) at libusb:004:015 # emerge sys-apps/coldplug # rc-update add coldplug default # /etc/init.d/coldplug $ sane-find-scanner -q :) -- ASHes to ASHes, DOS to DOS. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs 'no journal replay'
On 1/9/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, When I boot up a gentoo portable, I get this message: from memory file system is mounted read only no journal replay dmesg contains this line VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. What up with these? Do I have something configured wrong in /etc/fstab? elsewhere? ignore these messages or find the problem? Well, the messages themselves are not a problem...depending upon what happens. The kernel normally mounts the root filesystem read-only initially. The boot processes is then supposed to remount the filesystem read-write. In gentoo, this happens in the checkroot init script, which should be part of boot (rc-update -s | grep checkroot) Is your system failing to boot? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 07:45:21 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Except that this will break with portage 2.1: ewarn This series contains a completely rewritten caching framework. ewarn If you are using any cache modules (such as the CDB cache ewarn module) portage will not work until they have been disabled. ewarn For reference, they are configured at /etc/portage/modules. echo einfo The default cache format has changed beginning with this einfo version. Before using emerge, run \`emerge --metadata\` to einfo restore portage's local cache. if you are using eix with portage 2.1, you may need to set /etc/eixrc to PORTDIR_CACHE_METHOD=backport to avoid strange search results. -- Neil Bothwick First Law of Laboratory Work: signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] su stopped working [SOLVED]
On Monday 09 January 2006 04:27 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 04:18 -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote: Hi - Very strange... 'su' ( and 'sudo' ) stopped working for my normal users. I get the su: Permission denied, Sorry. message. I have tried: 1) changed the root password; no joy 2) created a new user and tried 'su'; ditto 3) tried in X( kde ) and non-X; nope 4) rebooted; nada I can't seem to find any change from the last time I used su ( Friday ) and now that would account for this problem. Can anyone think of what I should try next? -- Aloha = Beau; You've probably already checked this one, but are they all in the wheel group? Also, a long time ago I remember there was a problem where I had to re-emerge shadow to get su to work... Yep!!! Not in the wheel group; put them back and all is well. Now I wonder when I messed that up... :) :) Thanks, -- Aloha = Beau; -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives
I just bought this sata controller: SYBA SY-VIA-150 PCI SATA /IDE Combo Controller Card, Non Raid Cost was $11.60 at Newegg. Gives you two satas, one ide. Only has one sata cable with it, and you will need sata power-adapters, depending on the sata drives you buy. Works well with the following kernel settings. CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=y CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=y Good luck. Bill Roberts On 20:50 Sun 08 Jan , Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID (I'm using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives which aren't holding up too well) and am looking at going with SATA. Some input from the those with recommendations or experiences would be appreciated. 1. SATA Controllers - I see a bunch listed in menuconfig but what have you found to work? Is Promise any good? What are some good brands 2. Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable and work well. I've crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience with the Ultrastores. Thank you. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list pgp4noxXKI0U1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo installer suggestions
Thanks Holly, I actually did already read a review. I think it was the link you sent. Not sure now. I'll check it out. On 1/9/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Martin schreef: On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 02:09:14 -0700 Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those developing the graphical gentoo installer... Might I suggest a search box at the bottom of the extra packages screen, to be able to search for packages? Probably a good idea to drop a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and post to their mailing list. You might also be interested in reading this week's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, which contains a short review/usage test of the installer, with screenshots: 5. Gentoo in the press == Asteria (December 2005) --- Jon Hood, a developer working for Asteria Solutions Group, Inc.[18] takes the current beta version of the Gentoo Installer[19] for a test drive around the block, and appears quite satisfied[20] with the result, calls it a wonderful step in the right direction for the Gentoo distribution, and is particularly delighted because people aren't supposed to actually USE testing software and have it WORK, but that's exactly what happened. His review includes a pretty little slideshow[21] documenting every step of the installation process when done via the GUI installer, very interesting for everybody who's never seen it at work. 18. http://www.asteriasgi.com 19. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/ 20. http://www2.asteriasgi.com/review/ 21. http://www2.asteriasgi.com/review/slideshow.html 10. GWN subscription information To subscribe to the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe to the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the email address you are subscribed under. === 11. Other languages === The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter is also available in the following languages: * Danish[68] * Dutch[69] * English[70] * German[71] * French[72] * Korean[73] * Japanese[74] * Italian[75] * Polish[76] * Portuguese (Brazil)[77] * Portuguese (Portugal)[78] * Russian[79] * Spanish[80] * Turkish[81] 68. http://www.gentoo.org/news/da/gwn/gwn.xml 69. http://www.gentoo.org/news/nl/gwn/gwn.xml 70. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/gwn.xml 71. http://www.gentoo.org/news/de/gwn/gwn.xml 72. http://www.gentoo.org/news/fr/gwn/gwn.xml 73. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ko/gwn/gwn.xml 74. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ja/gwn/gwn.xml 75. http://www.gentoo.org/news/it/gwn/gwn.xml 76. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pl/gwn/gwn.xml 77. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pt_br/gwn/gwn.xml 78. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pt/gwn/gwn.xml 79. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ru/gwn/gwn.xml 80. http://www.gentoo.org/news/es/gwn/gwn.xml 81. http://www.gentoo.org/news/tr/gwn/gwn.xm Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives
Sata drives I am thrilled with are: Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3300831AS 300GB 7200 RPM At $131, seems to be good value for money. Quiet, good reputation. Western Digital Raptor WD740GD 74GB 10,000 RPM I have two of these set up in software RAID0. Lightening fast, quiet given the speed. Expensive, but in my opinion, worth it. I see they have come out with 150GB. I'd better hold on to my pocketbook. Bill Roberts On 20:50 Sun 08 Jan , Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID (I'm using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives which aren't holding up too well) and am looking at going with SATA. Some input from the those with recommendations or experiences would be appreciated. 1. SATA Controllers - I see a bunch listed in menuconfig but what have you found to work? Is Promise any good? What are some good brands 2. Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable and work well. I've crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience with the Ultrastores. Thank you. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list pgp0XeejHz2By.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Mailing list problems
Of course. Blame gmail. Typical. LOL That is probably what it is... If you check the gentoo-user archives it should appear there. On 1/9/06, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jamie Dobbs schreef: Are there issues with the mailing lists at the moment? I have made a few posts in the last 2-3 hours that have yet to show up on the lists. I've also noticed considerably less traffic on the lists in recent days, could this be due to a general email slow down due to an increase in spam email traffic? From your later mails, you seem to be the same Jamie who has asked several times about a problem with xorg-X11 and an inability to compile gnome-control-center. If that is the case, you are not having any problem; we've gotten the 3 repeat mails about this issue (I at least don't know how to solve it though), but the reason the messages are not coming back to you is because you used your GMail account. Gmail discards the return of your mail from the list, because it already has a copy of this mail (in your 'Sent' folder). You will never get mails from yourself appearing in ML threads via Gmail for this reason (until someone replies to them, which no one has in this case). So there is no problem, you've just encountered a GMail 'feature'. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB scanner (Canon LiDE 25) only recognized as root
Richard Fish wrote: On 1/9/06, Christian Floeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish wrote: No similar problem here (LIDE35, genesys backend). Take a look at (or post) the output of strace -e open sane-find-scanner -q [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ strace -e open sane-find-scanner -q open(/proc/bus/usb/004/015, O_RDWR) = 3 found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x2220 [CanoScan], chip=LM9832/3) at libusb:004:015 Did you run this as a regular user, or as root, because this found your scanner. As a user (as can be seen by the $ prompt). I ran it as root too, but the output was identical. BTW, sane-find-scanner always finds my scanner, it's scanimage that doesn't. C. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB scanner (Canon LiDE 25) only recognized as root
Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3) wrote: # emerge sys-apps/coldplug # rc-update add coldplug default # /etc/init.d/coldplug $ sane-find-scanner -q sakura cf # rc-update show alsasound | aumix | bootmisc | boot checkfs | boot checkroot | boot clock | boot coldplug | boot consolefont | boot crypto-loop | cupsd | default domainname | boot default famd | gpm | hdparm | hostname | boot hotplug | boot keymaps | boot local | default nonetwork localmount | boot modules | boot net.eth0 | net.lo | boot net.ppp0 | netmount | default nscd | numlock | portmap | rmnologin | boot rsyncd | sshd | syslog-ng | default urandom | boot vixie-cron | default xdm | xprint | C. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] No xterms after kernel upgrade. [solved]
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:49:28 -0800, darren kirby wrote: Thank you. This is the invocation I was looking for. Hard to start an app from the CLI when you can't get a CLI ;) Pressing alt-F2 in KDE may work. -- Neil Bothwick One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives
2. Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable and work well. I've crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience with the Ultrastores. Western Digital works OK for me. in my .config: CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_NV=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL=y __ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox -- too weird![FIXED]
--- Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Abhay Kedia schreef: On Sunday 08 January 2006 00:05, maxim wexler wrote: I did this twice, so it's no mere fluke. I rushed over to Yahoo to post this and the window's still OK. So, thankfully it's not permanent ;) Anybody care to hazard a guess as to what's happening here. Can anybody duplicate it? I went to that site and yup, it resizes the window. You can refuse to allow that behaviour (I'm not going to test the site right now, but I have Firefox to disallow sites to resize windows, so I would expect that that shouldn't happen to me unless firefox is broken): In 1.5 (the settings are also available in previous versions, but in Deer Park the dialog is to allow, rather than previously where it was to disallow the following behaviours): Edit== Preferences== Content== JavaScript Advanced Settings button uncheck if checked in Deer Park to disallow, check if unchecked in pre-1.5 versions to disallow sites to: Move or resize windows Raise or lower windows Disable or replace context menus Hide the status bar Change status bar text Hope knowing this is helpful to you. Holly Works! Thanks Holly. __ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to control permissions on / ?
Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Hi there, Can you control permissions on /? If so, how? I've found that I have the following in two different machines: proxy ~ # ls -ld / d-wxrt 19 root root 472 Nov 15 17:41 / protos ~ # ls -ld / drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 440 mar 10 2005 / I installed a machine a few months ago, oct?, that had the same permissions as the first machine you list above. I never did figure out why that machine had strange permissions, but a number of other people seem to have had the same issue around the same time. I've installed a number of machine since and haven't run into it again. In any case a chmod 755 / fixed it. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] LUKS
has anybody here used LUKS? If I used on any of my HDs, will I be able to update them? What if the data of some file gets corrupted, will I loose the whole HD? thanks in advance, claudio. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?
Another link for you reference is:http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speed_up_searches_in_portageIt describes both eix and esearch with the basic info (updating the database, output, etc.) PrestonOn 1/9/06, Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know, you could all just use:http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb--Mike Williams-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] LUKS
On 1/9/06, Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: has anybody here used LUKS? I'm using it on my AMD system. If I used on any of my HDs, will I be able to update them? What do you mean? If you mean changing the password, yes. What if the data of some file gets corrupted, will I loose the whole HD? Encryption is done in (4k?) blocks, so you should only lose the corrupted block. As to whether you lose a single file or the whole filesystem, that depends on the nature of the corruption and the filesystem. This is no different than having a corrupted hard drive. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] LUKS
On Monday 09 January 2006 10:57, Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] LUKS': has anybody here used LUKS? I haven't, but when I next create an encrypted pv/lv, I will be. If I used on any of my HDs, will I be able to update them? What do you mean by update? LUKS does allow you to change the key. What if the data of some file gets corrupted, will I loose the whole HD? Depends on how the corruption occurs. There are a least to ways for this to happen: 1) Hardware. For one reason or another, a bit gets swapped on the HD. In this case what you lose will depend on your cypher, key size, and key schedule. It may be as small as 8 bytes on disk or as large as a full 512 byte sector. Of course, if this happens in the fs superblock (or other critial area, like the LUKS header) this could be enough to render the disk inaccessible, but even a single bit being swapped in the superblock can do that. 2) Software. In particular misbehaving software that accesses the HD via LUKS. In this case the read data will be exactly what is written; LUKS can't magically fix errors, but it's not going (supposed) to introduce them either. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade + gcc dilemma
Richard Fish wrote: snip # emerge -uav gcc # gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4 # source /etc/profile # emerge --oneshot -av libtool # revdep-rebuild --library libstdc++.so.5 # emerge -Duv world Watch out for a portage or python update though...and don't forget the python-updater if there is a python update in there. Thanks, Richard. Thats what I was looking for. I'll try the revdep-rebuild route. Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs 'no journal replay'
Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: When I boot up a gentoo portable, I get this message: from memory file system is mounted read only no journal replay dmesg contains this line VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. What up with these? Do I have something configured wrong in /etc/fstab? elsewhere? ignore these messages or find the problem? Well, the messages themselves are not a problem...depending upon what happens. The kernel normally mounts the root filesystem read-only initially. The boot processes is then supposed to remount the filesystem read-write. In gentoo, this happens in the checkroot init script, which should be part of boot (rc-update -s | grep checkroot) Is your system failing to boot? Nope, everything works fine. On another system recetnly the journal replay was used to fix a system that lost power inadvertently. It was the first time I noticed reiserfs 'self-healing' or fixing a problem. That got me wondering, as the older file systems use to repair quite often and ever 6months to a year, I'd my running fsck and such, manually. No problems, just curious if I has something was wrong with my reiserfs. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Video recording
Brett I. Holcomb brettholcomb at bellsouth.net writes: For those who have done this what software do you recommend to record the VHS, edit the recording, and then write it to DVD. The linux Journal had an article on 'kino' some time ago you might find useful. hth, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ntp won't synchronize
I've been struggling with ntp for some time now. I've followed the gentoo wiki HOWTO for ntp: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV#NTP As well as many other sources over the months. Basically, ntpq shows that I am not synchronized to any peers: # ntpq -p remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter == Time4.Stupi.SE .PPS.1 u 37 64 377 124.516 -11202. 1225.91 thesimonet.org .TRUE. 1 u 38 64 377 109.329 -11213. 1232.51 fin.rshell.net 192.114.62.249 3 u 32 64 377 205.910 -9569.1 1521.31 titan.cais.rnp. 32.233.177.224 2 u 44 64 377 165.240 -11991. 1915.26 That first space in the peers list is a tally mark that, according to the ntpq documentation at: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/ntpq.html Means that those peers are all rejected: The peer is discarded as unreachable, synchronized to this server (synch loop) or outrageous synchronization distance. Likewise: # ntpq -c rv | grep stratum processor=i686, system=Linux/2.6.14-gentoo-r5, leap=11, stratum=16, I should be at stratum 3, not 16 (which means I'm not synchronized to anything). My /etc/ntp.conf: tinker panic 0 minpoll 4 maxpoll 10 server pool.ntp.org server 0.pool.ntp.org server 1.pool.ntp.org server 2.pool.ntp.org driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift logfile /var/log/ntp.log restrict default nomodify nopeer restrict 127.0.0.1 Nothing special there! To further clarify, I actually have this problem on *two* machines. FWIW, I've also tried the OpenBSD OpenNTP package, but haven't had any luck with that either (except on my OpenBSD machine!). Using OpenNTP on these two machines *seemed* to work fine, but the computers still gained time too quickly. I've been fighting this for what seems like forever. If anyone has any insight or thoughts, I'm happy to hear it! Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Hi - I'm working on a series of ebuilds for the more esoteric CPAN modules that I use. In the Gentoo Developer Handbook there is a statement about PORTDIR_OVERLAY: In that directory, you must use the same structure (and categories) as in /usr/portage. OK. But I really want to make a new category, i.e. 'cpan'; ( tried it, doesn't work ). Is there a way to 'fake out' portage into using a new category without breaking everything? -- Aloha = Beau; -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Beau E. Cox schreef: Hi - I'm working on a series of ebuilds for the more esoteric CPAN modules that I use. In the Gentoo Developer Handbook there is a statement about PORTDIR_OVERLAY: In that directory, you must use the same structure (and categories) as in /usr/portage. OK. But I really want to make a new category, i.e. 'cpan'; ( tried it, doesn't work ). Is there a way to 'fake out' portage into using a new category without breaking everything? Question #1-- what's wrong with dev-perl, where all the other modules are (and then naming the modules cpan-whatever, I suppose)? Question # 2-- have you looked at g-cpan? app-portage/g-cpan Available versions: 0.13.01 0.13.02 Installed: none Homepage:http://dev.gentoo.org/~mcummings/ Description: g-cpan: generate and install CPAN modules using portage HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PORTDIR_OVERLAY
On Monday 09 January 2006 11:15 am, Holly Bostick wrote: Beau E. Cox schreef: Hi - I'm working on a series of ebuilds for the more esoteric CPAN modules that I use. In the Gentoo Developer Handbook there is a statement about PORTDIR_OVERLAY: In that directory, you must use the same structure (and categories) as in /usr/portage. OK. But I really want to make a new category, i.e. 'cpan'; ( tried it, doesn't work ). Is there a way to 'fake out' portage into using a new category without breaking everything? Question #1-- what's wrong with dev-perl, where all the other modules are (and then naming the modules cpan-whatever, I suppose)? Answer #1-- I am doing that now. It's OK, but I sometimes have the same module that is already in dev-perl; I would like to be distinct with my config/version/mods/patches/etc. Question # 2-- have you looked at g-cpan? app-portage/g-cpan Available versions: 0.13.01 0.13.02 Installed: none Homepage:http://dev.gentoo.org/~mcummings/ Description: g-cpan: generate and install CPAN modules using portage Answer # 2-- No. But I will! Thanks, Holly. HTH, Holly -- Aloha = Beau; -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] character buffered pipes (not line buffered) help!
Hi all,
This one has turned out to be a bit of a tough nut to crack!
Essentially, here's what I want to do:
$ rsync --progress some-file ./ | awk '$0~/ /{sub(/%/,);print $2;fflush()}'
| zenity --progress
essentially what this does, is pipe the rsync output to awk, which
strips off the '$' and prints out only the percent number, then pipes
that to zenity, so that I can get a nice progress bar.
However, it doesn't work because there is some line buffering going on,
and because rsync doesn't print any newlines (instead it prints ^M, or
carriage return) during the stage where you see
13139968 12% 11.36MB/s0:00:08
so that it can keep going back to the beginning of the line to redraw
the progress.
So I tried to stop the line buffering by using stty
$ stty eol 0xd
which should make 0xd end the line according to `man stty` but it
didn't work.
I tried various other approaches, but to no avail.
When I run rsync by hand, it doesn't line buffer, but when pipe the
output to something, it does.
Is there any way around this?
Many thanks,
--
Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au
Ever heard of .cshrc?
That's a city in Bosnia. Right?
(Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands.)
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update
On Monday 09 January 2006 02:07, a tiny voice compelled Abhay Kedia to write: On Monday 09 January 2006 02:28, Trenton Adams wrote: Who says they know they have a fear of computers? You can be doing something that you don't even know you're afraid of. Obviously if it was total fear, they would know about it. LOL!!! Unknown fear? I have heard about Fear of unknown but this one is new. I agree Abhay. I read the above and was speachless. I'm afraid of heights and I damned sure know what is causing my heart to race when I'm climbimg back onto the ladder after working on my roof. I seems to me that one could have an unknown fear of computers if they had never been exposed to one. Such a person wouldn't likely be installing Gentoo. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] A New Linux Way
Hello fellow Linux Users! We here at SaviourLinux.com desire to create a united universal way. Please visit the website for more information, but here is the purpose: Saviour Linux is an easy and universal Linux distribution that pays community programmers. Saviour Linux is not just another distribution. Saviour Linux will be unified and run by the community. We will bring in a new business that gives out completely free software instead of closed source. All of our profit will come from services and it will pay volunteer programmers. Only a little of the profit will go towards overhead. Saviour Linux is Linux united. Every distribution can still be independent, but we wanted to help the community in a new way. Please contact me if you are interested. Sincerely, Mark Stewart SaviourLinux.com Coordinator and Website Maintainer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video recording
Thanks. I'll look it up. On Monday 09 January 2006 13:26, James wrote: Brett I. Holcomb brettholcomb at bellsouth.net writes: For those who have done this what software do you recommend to record the VHS, edit the recording, and then write it to DVD. The linux Journal had an article on 'kino' some time ago you might find useful. hth, James -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives
That is very nice to know. I like the price G. Thank you for this and the drive info. On Monday 09 January 2006 10:35, Bill Roberts wrote: I just bought this sata controller: SYBA SY-VIA-150 PCI SATA /IDE Combo Controller Card, Non Raid Cost was $11.60 at Newegg. Gives you two satas, one ide. Only has one sata cable with it, and you will need sata power-adapters, depending on the sata drives you buy. Works well with the following kernel settings. CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=y CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=y Good luck. Bill Roberts On 20:50 Sun 08 Jan , Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have a system I need to upgrade from SCSI with an Adaptec 3210S RAID (I'm using HItachi nee IBM SCSI Ultrastor drives which aren't holding up too well) and am looking at going with SATA. Some input from the those with recommendations or experiences would be appreciated. 1. SATA Controllers - I see a bunch listed in menuconfig but what have you found to work? Is Promise any good? What are some good brands 2. Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable and work well. I've crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience with the Ultrastores. Thank you. -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives
Thanks. I'll look at them. Anyone want any used IBM 36 Gig SCSI Ultra 3 drives G. On Monday 09 January 2006 11:38, maxim wexler wrote: 2. Sata drives - what have you found to be reliable and work well. I've crossed Hitachi off my list because of my experience with the Ultrastores. Western Digital works OK for me. in my .config: CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_NV=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL=y __ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] PPTP + MPPE + pptpconfig + Kernel 2.6.15 + ndiswrapper - unstable connectivity
Hi, I recently upgraded my kernel to 2.6.15, enabling MPPE so I could connect to my campus network's VPN. I'm using pptpconfig to set up the connection. It's plain-vanilla, name of the server and such with the require_mppe box checked. I'm connecting via 802.11g, using ndiswrapper to by Broadcom 3150 wireless adapter. If I have this configuration, as it is now, on my campus network, the connection drops after a few minutes. It also drops my wi-fi connection. I kill dhcpcd and restart it to re-acquire an IP, and life is good again. The wi-fi connection is stable unless I do this. -- Justin W. Hart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB scanner (Canon LiDE 25) only recognized as root
On 1/9/06, Christian Floeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, sane-find-scanner always finds my scanner, it's scanimage that doesn't. Ok, sounds like a sane configuration or installation issue, not really a system problem. Let's try something with scanimage: strace -f -e open scanimage -L 21 | grep -e lib -e /etc -e /proc/bus/usb -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
