Re: [gentoo-user] permissions problem
On 2/4/06, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If this was my computer, I'd go into single user mode, set the partition read > only and run fsck on it. Use the -N switch on the first pass and see if > everything is alright with the file system. Agreed. Also if you have ACL support enabled, you should check the ACLs for the file and make sure they grant root access to the file. Also, double check your kernel configuration for any security options you have. I use CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES, and I know that I have some bizarre permissions issues if I don't load capability.ko. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] apache permssions
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 06:26:16PM +1300, Penguin Lover Nick Rout squawked: > > > > > > ExtendedStatus On > > > > > > SetHandler server-status > > > Order deny,allow > > > Deny from all > > > Allow from localhost > > > > > > > > > > > > Looks to me as though it should allow connections from localhost, but > > > it doesn't, I get 403 Forbidden. > > > > Yeah, it should be working, and in fact it is exactly the same as on my > > system > > where it does work. Is your system having problems resolving localhost? > > Does > > 127.0.0.1 work? > > Two really stupid observations on my part (probably doesn't matter, but who knows?) If you try "Allow from 127.0.0.1" instead of localhost, does it work? and does it matter that deny,allow is all in lowercase? I recall sometimes that arguments to directives are case sensitive, though I suspect that not to be the case (no pun intended) here. Best, W -- "Ford had his own code of ethics. It wasn't much of one, but it was his and he stuck by it, more or less. One rule he made was never to buy his own drinks. He wasn't sure if that counted as an ethic, but you have to go with what you've got. " Sortir en Pantoufles: up 84 days, 22:50 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anime Music Videos
I'm still particular to iMovie, sadly. I've only opened moviemaker once, I don't even remember what it looked like. I've heard good things about cinelerra but it looks like all the ebuilds are hard masked until somebody fixes the ebuilds. cinelerra-cvs is an unofficial branch, it's only ~x86 so might be worth using. Some other options in portage are lve (which looks similar to iMovie), piave is also an iMovie similar program, there are some other programs in portage for DV and AVI editing (I don't think the avi editor is really for composing videos). Hope that helps, Steven On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Ian wrote: Hey everyone, What is your favorite video editor of choice for things like anime music videos? My friend on Windows has made a few with movie maker (eww!) and I was wondering what Linux apps can do a nice job of it? My anime is all stored in avi or mpeg. I dont have dvds. Ive looked at Cinellera but I couldn't get it to work, after reading the tutorial. Thanks! -- Cheers, Ian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] apache permssions
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 15:58:53 -0800 darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > quoth the Nick Rout: > > I wanted to use mod_status so I set -D INFO in /etc/conf.d/apache2 and > > my /etc/httpd.conf cotains the following: > > > > > > ExtendedStatus On > > > > SetHandler server-status > > Order deny,allow > > Deny from all > > Allow from localhost > > > > > > > > Looks to me as though it should allow connections from localhost, but > > it doesn't, I get 403 Forbidden. > > Yeah, it should be working, and in fact it is exactly the same as on my > system > where it does work. Is your system having problems resolving localhost? Does > 127.0.0.1 work? > > > If I comment out the lines Deny from all, Allow from localhost it > > works, but not as it is written i the default file as quoted above. > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > > > Reading the manual here makes me believe it should be working: > > > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_access.html#order > > -d Seems to be the same if i make the request to http://locahost/server-status the error message in the apache log seems to be the same whether i ask for loalhost/server-status or 127.0.0.1/server-status. (asked for 127.0.0.1) [Sun Feb 05 18:18:35 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: /var/www/localhost/htdocs/server-status (asked for localhost) [Sun Feb 05 18:20:59 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: /var/www/localhost/htdocs/server-status resolution for localhost seems to work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ host localhost localhost.rout.dyndns.org has address 127.0.0.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ host 127.0.0.1 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer localhost. More pointers appreciated. I don't particularly need this, it damn annoys me that it sdoesn't work though. > -- > darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org > "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." > - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Anime Music Videos
Hey everyone, What is your favorite video editor of choice for things like anime music videos? My friend on Windows has made a few with movie maker (eww!) and I was wondering what Linux apps can do a nice job of it? My anime is all stored in avi or mpeg. I dont have dvds. Ive looked at Cinellera but I couldn't get it to work, after reading the tutorial. Thanks!-- Cheers,Ian
[gentoo-user] madwifi-ng & WPA
Hi, I've just purchased an Atheros-based wireless card that appears to be supported by the madwifi drivers. I emerged the latest version of madwifi because the VAP mode looks cool. ("Virtual AP (VAP) mode, which allows the operation of multiple concurrent (virtual) access points, and concurrent running in both AP and station mode" madwifi.org/wiki/ngFeatures>) I've used WEP to date, so this isn't urgent, but I thought I'd try in order to try using the card in WPA mode; at the end of `emerge wpa- supplicant` the following einfo is given: * To use wpa_supplicant-0.4.7 you must create the configuration file * /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf * * An example configuration file has been installed as * /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.example * * Please notice that madwifi support was removed in this version * of the ebuild. It will return once madwifi is stable again. Does anyone know a workaround for using madwifi-ng with WPA, please? $ eix -I wpa_supplicant -o madwifi --format "\t/ \tversion installed" net-wireless/madwifi-driver version 0.1420.20060201 installed net-wireless/madwifi-tools version 0.1420.20060201 installed net-wireless/wpa_supplicant version 0.4.7 installed Found 3 matches Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Too many failures in update world
Running: emerge -v -u -D --newuse world today to get up to speed with a sync and some changed use flags So far I've had two major show stopping failures. I didn't keep much about the first since it was tetex related and decided to scrub my tetex use flag until I get the update done then deal with it. But now I have a failure in doxygen. Here is the tail of emerge output Anyone recognize the problem? [...] g++ -c -pipe -Wall -W -fno-exceptions -Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe -DNO_DEBUG -I../../src -I/usr/qt/3/include -o obj/config.o config.cpp : In function `void configYY_init_buffer(yy_buffer_state*, FILE*)': :2064: error: `isatty' undeclared (first use this function) :2064: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) gmake[2]: *** [obj/config.o] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/doxygen-1.4.6/work/doxygen-1.4.6/addon/doxywizard' gmake[1]: *** [all] Error 2 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/doxygen-1.4.6/work/doxygen-1.4.6/addon/doxywizard' make: *** [all] Error 2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user]Solved ... Can't connect to local MySQL server ...
Dear list, It appears as if mysql 5.0.18-r30 sets up: datadir = /var/lib/mysql-500 while my.cnf was from earlier version (I thought I deleted it with etc-update) indicating: datadir=/var/lib/mysql After correction in my.cnf to: datadir=/var/lib/mysql-500 everything works OK! Fredrik - Original Message - From: "John Jolet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 3:13 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ... Can't connect to local MySQL server ... On Feb 4, 2006, at 7:37 PM, Fredrik Lundgren wrote: Thanks for the suggestions! The problem is that # /etc/init.d/mysql start * ... * Starting mysql (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) * MySQL NOT started (0)[!!] In my.cnf [client] # password= your_password port= 3306 socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock ... ... [mysqld] ... ... user= mysql port= 3306 socket= /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock ... So it appears that /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock somehow is corrupted How should that be fixed? not necessarily. make sure mysql is not running. check for the existence of /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock...if it exists, delete it. it shouldn't exist with mysql not running. Fredrik - Original Message - From: "John Jolet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 1:40 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ... Can't connect to local MySQL server ... On Feb 4, 2006, at 6:22 PM, A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Fredrik Lundgren wrote: When I try to visit with $ mysql -u root -p password. *** I get ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 'var/run/mysqld.sock' (2) Evidently my configuration is wrong Has anyone a tip or two ? Maybe start mysqld? /etc/init.d/mysql start and make sure it's still running. and make sure there's an entry for the mysql client in the my.cnf pointing to the proper socket. and how do I get mysql to start at boot? Maybe use rc-update? rc-update add mysql default (Yes, its in the handbook) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] permissions problem
On Saturday 04 February 2006 19:39, John Jolet wrote: > Okay, I give up. I've been struggling with a couple of very, very > strange permissions problems for months. I just finished an emerge - > e system and emerge -e world hoping it would fix it. first problem: > trying to use sudo, but it keeps saying "can't open sudoers file, > permission denied". even if i'm root doing sudo it tells me that. > here is permissions on /etc/sudoers: -r--r- 1 root root 1643 > Feb 3 04:48 /etc/sudoers > here is sudo itself: ---s--x--x 1 root root 97104 Feb 4 08:53 /usr/ > bin/sudo > > I've compared this to other, working gentoo boxes and it all seems > the same. In addition, I'm trying to run MailScanner and if I try to > have it run as postfix, I get a message that it can't open it's > MailScanner.conf, even though i've made that owned by postfix. Not > sure if that's related, but it seems it could be. Root should be able to read anything yes. If this was my computer, I'd go into single user mode, set the partition read only and run fsck on it. Use the -N switch on the first pass and see if everything is alright with the file system. -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004 Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net Buy an Xbox for $149.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $150.00! Buy an Xbox 360 core for $299.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $11.00! Buy an Xbox 360 for $399.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $126.00! 9:49pm up 139 days, 13:14, 4 users, load average: 2.68, 2.27, 2.14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Using java-config with manually installed JDKs
Hi, I've manually instaled the sun-jdk, but i wish i could add it to the java-config. is it possible? Cheers, Felipe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] permissions problem
On Feb 4, 2006, at 7:56 PM, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/4/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay, I give up. I've been struggling with a couple of very, very strange permissions problems for months. I just finished an emerge - e system and emerge -e world hoping it would fix it. first problem: trying to use sudo, but it keeps saying "can't open sudoers file, permission denied". even if i'm root doing sudo it tells me that. Try doing "strace sudo ..." as root. That should at least tell you what system call is returning -EPERM. okay, so I emerged strace and did that. didn't find any "EPERM" thing, but did find this: lstat64("/etc/sudoers", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0440, st_size=1643, ...}) = 0 setresgid32(-1, 0, -1) = 0 setresuid32(0, 1, 0)= 0 open("/etc/sudoers", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) geteuid32() = 1 setresuid32(0, 0, 0)= 0 write(2, "sudo: ", 6sudo: ) = 6 write(2, "can\'t open /etc/sudoers", 23can't open /etc/sudoers) = 23 which just says permission denied, right? am I missing something simple here? i mean, root can read anything, right? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ... Can't connect to local MySQL server ...
On Feb 4, 2006, at 7:37 PM, Fredrik Lundgren wrote: Thanks for the suggestions! The problem is that # /etc/init.d/mysql start * ... * Starting mysql (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) * MySQL NOT started (0)[!!] In my.cnf [client] # password= your_password port= 3306 socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock ... ... [mysqld] ... ... user= mysql port= 3306 socket= /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock ... So it appears that /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock somehow is corrupted How should that be fixed? not necessarily. make sure mysql is not running. check for the existence of /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock...if it exists, delete it. it shouldn't exist with mysql not running. Fredrik - Original Message - From: "John Jolet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 1:40 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ... Can't connect to local MySQL server ... On Feb 4, 2006, at 6:22 PM, A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Fredrik Lundgren wrote: When I try to visit with $ mysql -u root -p password. *** I get ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 'var/run/mysqld.sock' (2) Evidently my configuration is wrong Has anyone a tip or two ? Maybe start mysqld? /etc/init.d/mysql start and make sure it's still running. and make sure there's an entry for the mysql client in the my.cnf pointing to the proper socket. and how do I get mysql to start at boot? Maybe use rc-update? rc-update add mysql default (Yes, its in the handbook) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fglrx works. Yeah! Umm, now nothing exits. Uh oh!
On 2/3/06, Bruce Burden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sigh. It looks like the X600 isn't supported by >fglrx. Rechecked ATI's web site. The X600 in my Asus was working fine with the latest ATI drivers. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] permissions problem
On 2/4/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, I give up. I've been struggling with a couple of very, very > strange permissions problems for months. I just finished an emerge - > e system and emerge -e world hoping it would fix it. first problem: > trying to use sudo, but it keeps saying "can't open sudoers file, > permission denied". even if i'm root doing sudo it tells me that. Try doing "strace sudo ..." as root. That should at least tell you what system call is returning -EPERM. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] glibc upgrade: emerge frozen...
On 2/4/06, Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > emerge -e world Your question has already been answered, but I just want to point out that an emerge -e world is not necessary. revdep-rebuld --library=libstdc++.so.5 will suffice. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with alt-key on Apple iBook
On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 02:44:54PM +, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked: > This is nothing to do with the iBook hardware, my AMD64 box does it too. > The Alt key works but Alt-n giving (arg: n) appears to be a feature of > bash, although there's no reference to the Alt key in the bash manpage. > Actually, it is gnu readline (I think). And there are indeed references to that in 'man bash', just that you need to search for the Meta key instead of alt. Meta/alt + number gives a numeric argument, whose purpose I am not quite sure about. But in bash, a numeric argument not associate to any readline commands would repeat the next character n times, where n is the number after Meta. For example, holding down the alt key and typing 100, then release the alt key and hit a, would, get you on the command line, 100 'a's. HTH, W -- "`This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer, `I never could get the hang of Thursdays.'" - Arthur, on what was to be his last Thursday on Earth. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 84 days, 18:05 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] lilo device-mapper & udev
On 2/4/06, Francesco Talamona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Name change: '/dev/sdd' -> '/dev/sdd' > Name change: '/dev/sdd1' -> '/dev/sdd1' > Fatal: open /dev/sdd: No such file or directory > > sdd{,1,2} belong to a removable device and are listed > in /proc/partitions but remapped to /dev/mobile%n > via /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules; I've generally found it easier to keep the /dev/sd* names and just SYMLINK the names I want. Example: BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd[a-z][0-9]", SYSFS{product}=="Flash Disk", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="usbkey%n" -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click
On 2/2/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >How does one add a specific operation to the right click menu one > gets on the Gnome desktop? > >I really want to get this back. In Gnome, I've always had an 'Open > Terminal' when I right click on the desktop. It's gone missing as of > today's updates on two of our machines. > >Thanks in advance for letting me know how to do this. > > thanks, > Mark > Hi, This solution is specific to the missing Open Terminal in the Gnome 2.12 release. You can emerge nautilus-open-terminal and then do a killall nautilus and you'll have the Open Terminal back in the desktop menu. Only downside so far is that it's not at the top like it used to be, but at least it's there. Hope this helps, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerging x86 Sun-JDK in my amd64
Ok, Ok, let me explain the problem, i was using the amd64 version of sun-jdk and the amd64 version of eclipse, but i had many performance problems that i didn't have with the x86 version. so i want to use the x86 version on my amd64 box. I know i can do it manually, but emerge make things better to manage with java-config and stuff... Cheers, Felipe On 2/4/06, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 04/02/06, Felipe Ribeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can i emerge the common x86 sun-jdk(1.5) in my amd64 box? > > I simply downloaded the bin package from the Sun website and extracted > it to wherever I needed it to be! > > Mrugesh > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ... Can't connect to local MySQL server ...
Thanks for the suggestions! The problem is that # /etc/init.d/mysql start * ... * Starting mysql (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) * MySQL NOT started (0)[!!] In my.cnf [client] # password= your_password port= 3306 socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock ... ... [mysqld] ... ... user= mysql port= 3306 socket= /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock ... So it appears that /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock somehow is corrupted How should that be fixed? Fredrik - Original Message - From: "John Jolet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 1:40 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ... Can't connect to local MySQL server ... On Feb 4, 2006, at 6:22 PM, A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Fredrik Lundgren wrote: When I try to visit with $ mysql -u root -p password. *** I get ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 'var/run/mysqld.sock' (2) Evidently my configuration is wrong Has anyone a tip or two ? Maybe start mysqld? /etc/init.d/mysql start and make sure it's still running. and make sure there's an entry for the mysql client in the my.cnf pointing to the proper socket. and how do I get mysql to start at boot? Maybe use rc-update? rc-update add mysql default (Yes, its in the handbook) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with alt-key on Apple iBook
On 2/4/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 13:18:56 +0100, Simon Ruderich wrote: > > > My problem is now that some characters (like the curly brace) can > > only be typed by using the alt-key. But if I press the alt-key and 8 > > for example then the console changes from this: > > livecd root # > > To this: > > (arg: 8) > > And I don't know what this means. > > Is there anything I can do to get the alt-key working? > > This is nothing to do with the iBook hardware, my AMD64 box does it too. > The Alt key works but Alt-n giving (arg: n) appears to be a feature of > bash, although there's no reference to the Alt key in the bash manpage. It is a readline function (see man readline). Try adding to ~/.inputrc: Meta-0: Meta-1: ... Meta-9: -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How do I make sense of this: euse -i extrafilters
On 2/4/06, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does this mean that extra filters will be available if I enable this use > flag (and what are they?), or does it mean it will only install some > filters and not others unless I specifically ask for them (and what are > they)? This is a case where you have to look at the ebuild: #do not install the filters that make dvdrip hang unless we ask for them if ! use extrafilters ; then rm ${D}/usr/$(get_libdir)/transcode/filter_logo.* rm ${D}/usr/$(get_libdir)/transcode/filter_compare.* fi So you lose the logo and compare filters if you do not set extrafilters. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click
On 2/4/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 15:31 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 23:49:51 +, Stroller wrote: > > > > > Maybe the Gnome developers decided the "typical" user wouldn't want > > > to do this and decided that they'd remove it because it was confusing > > > little old ladies. Have we had a flamewar about KDE vs Gnome > > > recently? ;P > > > > Define "recently" ;-) > > > > I believe the thread was called "How Many People Use KDE?" THAT > recently. > So I guess the consensus so far is this stupid menu is hardwaired and cannot be configured at all? How disappointing! - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ... Can't connect to local MySQL server ...
On Feb 4, 2006, at 6:22 PM, A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Fredrik Lundgren wrote: When I try to visit with $ mysql -u root -p password. *** I get ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 'var/run/mysqld.sock' (2) Evidently my configuration is wrong Has anyone a tip or two ? Maybe start mysqld? /etc/init.d/mysql start and make sure it's still running. and make sure there's an entry for the mysql client in the my.cnf pointing to the proper socket. and how do I get mysql to start at boot? Maybe use rc-update? rc-update add mysql default (Yes, its in the handbook) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] permissions problem
Okay, I give up. I've been struggling with a couple of very, very strange permissions problems for months. I just finished an emerge - e system and emerge -e world hoping it would fix it. first problem: trying to use sudo, but it keeps saying "can't open sudoers file, permission denied". even if i'm root doing sudo it tells me that. here is permissions on /etc/sudoers: -r--r- 1 root root 1643 Feb 3 04:48 /etc/sudoers here is sudo itself: ---s--x--x 1 root root 97104 Feb 4 08:53 /usr/ bin/sudo I've compared this to other, working gentoo boxes and it all seems the same. In addition, I'm trying to run MailScanner and if I try to have it run as postfix, I get a message that it can't open it's MailScanner.conf, even though i've made that owned by postfix. Not sure if that's related, but it seems it could be. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: So O.K.
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Harry Putnam wrote: > But a sysadmin of 20 yrs will not have too much trouble getting lined > out again. Must be one of thise old school Slowaris or HP-SUX admins... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ... Can't connect to local MySQL server ...
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Fredrik Lundgren wrote: > When I try to visit with > $ mysql -u root -p > password. *** > > I get > ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket > 'var/run/mysqld.sock' (2) > > Evidently my configuration is wrong > > Has anyone a tip or two ? Maybe start mysqld? /etc/init.d/mysql start > and how do I get mysql to start at boot? Maybe use rc-update? rc-update add mysql default (Yes, its in the handbook) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ... Can't connect to local MySQL server ...
All Gentoos, In the rebuild of my crashed Gentoo box I recently emerged dev-db/mysql 5.0.18-r30 and defined the password for root. When I try to visit with $ mysql -u root -p password. *** I get ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 'var/run/mysqld.sock' (2) Evidently my configuration is wrong Has anyone a tip or two ? and how do I get mysql to start at boot? Best wishes Fredrik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] apache permssions
quoth the Nick Rout: > I wanted to use mod_status so I set -D INFO in /etc/conf.d/apache2 and > my /etc/httpd.conf cotains the following: > > > ExtendedStatus On > > SetHandler server-status > Order deny,allow > Deny from all > Allow from localhost > > > > Looks to me as though it should allow connections from localhost, but > it doesn't, I get 403 Forbidden. Yeah, it should be working, and in fact it is exactly the same as on my system where it does work. Is your system having problems resolving localhost? Does 127.0.0.1 work? > If I comment out the lines Deny from all, Allow from localhost it > works, but not as it is written i the default file as quoted above. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Reading the manual here makes me believe it should be working: > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_access.html#order -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 pgpuVHERZBH2C.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerging x86 Sun-JDK in my amd64
On 04/02/06, Felipe Ribeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can i emerge the common x86 sun-jdk(1.5) in my amd64 box? I simply downloaded the bin package from the Sun website and extracted it to wherever I needed it to be! Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VMware and cpu_states on Dell 9300
On 2/3/06, Michael W. Holdeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #!/bin/bash > echo 1 > /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate > vmwarearts > echo 8 > /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate > Does anyone here have a better solution?? If you build the ACPI processor kernel driver as a module, you can add the following to /etc/modules.d/acpi: options processor max_cstate=1 Then run modules-update and add "processor" to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. The downside is that this uses (slightly) more power when you are not running vmware. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB issue
On 2/3/06, Franta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > frankies rules.d # uname -r > 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 > frankies rules.d # > > ... a hotplug issue? Well, "hotplug" as we knew it no longer exists really. Now the kernel sends hotplug events using either udevsend or (for 2.6.15 onwards) netlink. Try "cat /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug". In your case, it should say "/sbin/udevsend". However, we are _assuming_ that the system is starting udev. You should check the first few lines of the system boot to make sure. You should see messages like: Mounting /dev for udev ... ... Setting /sbin/udevsend as hotplug agent ... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] apache permssions
I wanted to use mod_status so I set -D INFO in /etc/conf.d/apache2 and my /etc/httpd.conf cotains the following: ExtendedStatus On SetHandler server-status Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from localhost Looks to me as though it should allow connections from localhost, but it doesn't, I get 403 Forbidden. If I comment out the lines Deny from all, Allow from localhost it works, but not as it is written i the default file as quoted above. What am I doing wrong? Reading the manual here makes me believe it should be working: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_access.html#order -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] glibc upgrade: emerge frozen...
Jarry wrote: > Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: [ cut here ] > Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: CPU:0 > Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: EIP:0060:[]Not tainted VLI > Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.15-gentoo-r1) > Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: EIP is at page_remove_rmap+0x30/0x40 > [...] > > I have never seen messages like these. What does it mean? Your kernel oopsed. You stumbled over a kernel bug. If it happens again, or is reproducible, you may want to send all that output between the lines to the kernel mailing list. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Errors compiling various ebuilds
Hi! I am having problems compiling these ebuilds: dev-java/xml-commons-external-1.3.02 dev-java/xerces-2.7.1 [2.6.2-r2] dev-java/xalan-2.7.0-r1 [2.6.0-r2] app-office/openoffice-2.0.1 [1.1.4-r1] dev-java/sun-jmx-1.2.1-r1 [1.2.1] kde-base/qtruby-3.4.3-r1 [3.4.2] kde-base/korundum-3.4.3 [3.4.2] Here is a tryal upgrading qtruby: make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/qtruby-3.4.3-r1/work/qtruby-3.4.3/qtruby/bin' i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/usr/kde/3.4/include -I/usr/qt/3/include -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -c -o qtrubyinit.o `test -f 'qtrubyinit.cpp' || echo './'`qtrubyinit.cpp /bin/sh ../../libtool --silent --mode=link --tag=CXX i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common-o qtrubyinit -module -L/usr/kde/3.4/lib -L/usr/qt/3/lib -L/usr/lib-version-info 0:0:0 -L../../smoke/qt/ -L/usr/lib qtrubyinit.o -lqt-mt -lz -lpng -lz -lm -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE -lpthread -Wl,-R -Wl,/usr/lib -L/usr/lib -L. -lruby18 ../../smoke/qt/libsmokeqt.la ../../qtruby/rubylib/qtruby/libqtrubyinternal.la libtool: link: warning: `-version-info' is ignored for programs /usr/kde/3.4/lib/libsmokeqt.so: undefined reference to `QIconView::bufferedPaintEvent(QPaintEvent*)' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [qtrubyinit] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/qtruby-3.4.3-r1/work/qtruby-3.4.3/qtruby/bin' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/qtruby-3.4.3-r1/work/qtruby-3.4.3/qtruby' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/qtruby-3.4.3-r1/work/qtruby-3.4.3' make: *** [all] Error 2 Any idea? -- Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.
On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 15:02:56 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I think the flames started when the OP made a basic mistake and > > decided the whole distro was unsuitable for any serious use because > > of his error. > That could be true, but why do we let it continue? I don't know, why are you continuing what would have been a dead thread by now? :) -- Neil Bothwick Things which must be shipped together as a set, aren't. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 20:27 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 10:36:10 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > > With all that experience, I'm surprised you made such a basic mistake > > > as overwriting a config file. Gentoo is careful to protect your > > > configuration files from being overwritten by new releases, it takes a > > > deliberate action on your part to do this. > > > This isn't going to turn into another pointless flamewar, is it? > > Is there any other kind? > > I think the flames started when the OP made a basic mistake and decided > the whole distro was unsuitable for any serious use because of his error. > That could be true, but why do we let it continue? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well man... if you don't like Gentoo because of it's privileges (etc-update for example?) LFS IS FOR YOU, I'M PRETTY SURE. Anyway, if you don't like Gentoo (or you don't know how to use it ), don't tell us Gentoo is. Post that thing in Microsoft's forums, maybe they get you for working with them. Where can we find some dudes as this one? I want to buy a circus... Bye, Rafael Fernández López. - -- Un saludo, Rafael Fernández López. ``A la vista de suficientes ojos todos los errores resultan evidentes" - Linus Torvalds ``The explanation for 'free software' is simple--a person who has grasped the idea of 'free speech, not free beer' will not get it wrong again" - Richard Stallman -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD5RUM9RRlaicc3IERAqiKAJ9AtUXw+X3vnSCLq5EeYFQtGlXbhwCdHDjm OVloxt9ufX/2DhfhfAs3VFI= =N13y -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: cellphones and gentoo
Quag7 frostwarning.com> writes: > > I've been thinking about T-mobile and a plan for voice and > > wireless data access to the internet. (Anyone happy with T-mobile?) > I don't know how they are nationally, but T-Mobile was awful here in the > Tucson area. Enough that I cancelled and switched to Verizon. > Try: http://www.cellreception.com as a starter to narrow things down. nice link I'm going to find a portable wifi device, and see how it goes for sip/Voip connections... I'll have to figure out how to map/hook the wifi-to-home connections over the Vonage line (unlimited LD) cheers, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.
On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 10:36:10 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > With all that experience, I'm surprised you made such a basic mistake > > as overwriting a config file. Gentoo is careful to protect your > > configuration files from being overwritten by new releases, it takes a > > deliberate action on your part to do this. > This isn't going to turn into another pointless flamewar, is it? Is there any other kind? I think the flames started when the OP made a basic mistake and decided the whole distro was unsuitable for any serious use because of his error. -- Neil Bothwick Master of all I survey (at the moment, empty pizza boxes) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox
Chan Min Wai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why The [Account Setting] And [Preference] is Under the [Edit] Menu > Where on the windows build it is under the [Tools] Menu. > > Any Idea? It is the difference between what someone considers "standard" for Windows vs. Unix. (And it annoys me as I use Windows at work, and Linux at home.) -- Simon Kellett,| Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany| Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] xrdb hangs login
Hello, I use kde and login from a kde menu gui. Most recently, the system boots OK and login proceeds to the 'peripherals' stage, then hangs. I can then ssh into the system, kill off 'xrdb' and the kde-login launcher complete and everything is find. ps -aux revels it is xrdb that is the culprit. eix nor emerge -s reveal that xrdb is installed. 'emerge unmerge xrdb' says that xrdb is not installed. I'm running the latest stable kde and 2.6.15-gentoo-r2. In fact booting an older 1.6.15-gentoo kernels does not fix the problem, so it's definately a kde-login-launcher problem. Any fixes or advice? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] lilo device-mapper & udev
I was going to add a new entry in lilo boot: aemaeth ~ # lilo -v LILO version 22.7, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2005 John Coffman Released 12-Apr-2005 and compiled at 10:36:57 on Jan 3 2006 Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure. Name change: '/dev/dm-0' -> '/dev/vg/homelv' Name change: '/dev/dm-1' -> '/dev/vg/usrlv' Name change: '/dev/dm-2' -> '/dev/vg/varlv' Name change: '/dev/dm-3' -> '/dev/vg/optlv' Name change: '/dev/dm-4' -> '/dev/vg/tmplv' Name change: '/dev/dm-5' -> '/dev/vg/bulklv' Name change: '/dev/sdd' -> '/dev/sdd' Name change: '/dev/sdd1' -> '/dev/sdd1' Fatal: open /dev/sdd: No such file or directory sdd{,1,2} belong to a removable device and are listed in /proc/partitions but remapped to /dev/mobile%n via /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules; /dev/mobile1 is a partition encrypted by dm-crypt as /dev/mapper/hidmo. Lilo encounter this fatal error even before /dev/mapper/hidmo is created. LVM mapping stems just warnings, so this problem has definitely to do with cryptography, never had a blocking problem with lilo before. Lilo fatal error is resolved unplugging the removable device, but i guess there's a "software" solution to this "double mapping" issue. Any comments? Thanks Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.15-gentoo-r1, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Mon Jan 16 07:58:03 CET 2006 One 1.8GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 3613.02 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox
Daniel D Jones schreef: > On Saturday 04 February 2006 11:37, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> If an ebuild doesn't say it's compiling from CVS, it isn't. And of >> course, you can always just open it in a text editor and /look/... >> > > I'm still learning how Portage works. I wasn't aware that ebuilds > were that straightforward. Well, in some respects they aren't, insofar as you kinda need to be familiar with the compilation process of the program under consideration, on the one hand (for example, the specific dependencies, and the configuration options for it, which obviously vary from application to application), and Gentoo conventions on the other hand (such as the variables used to specify things like version number and install directory and the like). But in the sense that they are ultimately just scripts, and scripts are ultimately just text, which are quite understandable if you know the "language" they're written in, yes, ebuilds are very much "that straightforward". Certainly straightforward enough even for the completely untutored to be able to see things like where the source is being downloaded from (the project site, or a gentoo mirror or someplace else), and what options the application is being configured with (or not), and how the USE flags available relate to the configure options available to the application. That's what makes Gentoo so cool-- or at least one of the big things-- *I* can write an ebuild, at need, and I can't code my way out of a paper bag. A *wet* paper bag. Admittedly, my skills only really reach (at this time) to modifying existing ebuilds in relatively simple ways (version bumps and "switching" annoying dependencies to separate-but-equal ones), but I can learn more via the docs when I want to try something more complex. I can even submit modified or new ebuilds on b.g.o for submission into Portage (and have done, actually). It's just me (same old me), but I can provide development services even now, as I am (which is way more than anyone ever 'asked' of me under previous distros, or under Windows, and certainly more than I ever knew I was capable of), and I can fairly easily learn enough to do more, if I so choose, by reading the Development docs on the main site, which will tell you all you need to know about getting started with ebuilds. Everybody can really help, in a truly functional way, and that's because ebuilds *are* in that sense simple enough that they give you a "way in", if you see what I mean. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade/downgrade portage loop
> > > > Hello, I have the following in package.keywords: > > > > > > > > xfce-base/libxfce4mcs > > > > xfce-base/libxfcegui4 > > > > xfce-base/libxfce4util > > > > > > > > They need to be in there for xfmedia. Whenever I run 'emerge -avDuN > > > > world' portage wants to either upgrade or downgrade between the two > > > > most recent ~x86 versions of the packages. Does anyone know how to > > > > fix this? > > > > > > Use package.mask to mask out the more recent version. > > > > > > > I have wpa_supplicant in package.keywords too. It has four ~x86 > > packages that are more recent than the latest x86 package and it > > doesn't get caught in an upgrade/downgrade loop. Why is this > > happening with the xfce-base stuff? > > > > It happens because of a long-time bug in portage that doesn't handle > some dependancy cases very well. > > In this case: > > pkg A depends on pkg C > version X > pkg B depends on pkg C < version Y > the current version of pkg C is >= Y, and X is < Y. > > If for example X is 1.0, Y is 1.2, and the current version is 1.3, > then portage will oscillate between merging pkg C 1.0 and 1.3. Got it, thanks! - Grant > -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] glibc upgrade: emerge frozen...
Jarry wrote: > emerge -e world > Emerge started updating all packages (~150), but then suddenly stopped > (after ~20 packages). No error message, just sitting here, like frozen: > ... Searching for reasons why emerge so suddenly stopped I found following entries in my /var/log/messages (time corresponds pretty well with that frozen "emerge -e world"): Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: [ cut here ] Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: CPU:0 Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: EIP:0060:[]Not tainted VLI Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.15-gentoo-r1) Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: EIP is at page_remove_rmap+0x30/0x40 Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: eax: ebx: c2bafcb0 ecx: c4eacc70 edx: c11a9000 Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: esi: 08b2c000 edi: c11a9000 ebp: c2075f34 esp: c2075e94 Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: Process sh (pid: 25717, threadinfo=c2074000 task=d0b5da70) Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: Stack: c013b508 c11a9000 c0142c66 c11a9000 08b2c000 0d480045 0d480045 fdae Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: df51c220 08c0 dcbfd088 08c0 c2075f34 c0142df3 c03fbcf8 Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel:dabc9544 dcbfd088 088da000 08c0 c2075f34 08d23fff dcbfd088 Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: Call Trace: Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: [] set_page_dirty+0x38/0x50 Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: [] zap_pte_range+0x136/0x200 Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: [] unmap_page_range+0xc3/0x130 Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: [] unmap_vmas+0xeb/0x1a0 Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: [] exit_mmap+0x6b/0xf0 Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: [] mmput+0x2c/0x80 Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: [] do_exit+0xf3/0x330 Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: [] do_group_exit+0x34/0x70 Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: Code: 24 0c 83 42 08 ff 0f 98 c0 84 c0 74 1a 8b 42 08 40 78 18 c7 44 24 04 ff ff ff ff c7 04 24 10 00 00 00 e8 74 0d ff ff 83 c4 08 c3 <0f> 0b e6 01 29 42 34 c0 eb de 8d b6 00 00 00 00 55 57 56 53 83 Feb 4 14:18:21 obelix kernel: <1>Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed! I have never seen messages like these. What does it mean? Could this be the reason why emerge suddenly stopped? Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox
Daniel D Jones wrote: On Saturday 04 February 2006 11:37, Holly Bostick wrote: Daniel D Jones schreef: I'm aware that Deer Park IS Firefox but my understanding was that Deer Park was a nightly release build and not the official 1.5 release. I thought it was the equivalent of grabbing the most recent source (at the time the package was created) from CVS rather than getting the official release source. Am I confused? Yes, you are. Have a look at the ebuild: # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/www-client/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r11. ebuild,v 1.1 2006/02/01 22:13:20 anarchy Exp $ ... As you see, the source tarball is being downloaded from the releases folder of Mozilla.org's ftp, not any CVS or nightly build folder. Ebuilds from development trees such as CVS or "nightlies" are clearly so marked in their title, if they exist. For example, I use an ebuild for Krusader (provided by on the Homepage) which builds from the project's CVS tree, and it is rightfully called "krusader-cvs" rather than the normal "krusader" ebuild provided by Portage. Thanks for the info and for clearing up my confusion. If an ebuild doesn't say it's compiling from CVS, it isn't. And of course, you can always just open it in a text editor and /look/... I'm still learning how Portage works. I wasn't aware that ebuilds were that straightforward. After reading all the thread I only confused on one thing. Why The [Account Setting] And [Preference] is Under the [Edit] Menu Where on the windows build it is under the [Tools] Menu. Any Idea? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.
On Saturday 04 February 2006 09:02, a tiny voice compelled Franta to write: > Due to the issues I hit (nearly) every time I do an upgrade. > > I did the upograde today too. There was one on udev. I think devices > don't coming up (Sound, USB) could belong to this kind of problems. > > Well. nothing changes. > > I've tried it half an hour ago with (a very old) knoppix CD. I have USB > disks, I have sound, I have networking ... > > That said (xcuse me, I <> say that) Gentoo is far away from a > distro for usage. > > Do not reply to this post - I'll unsubscribe immediatlely after posting > and I'll go to have a lok for another distro which won't force me to > fdisk for a newly install. Maybe it'll be Slack. > > Have fun customizing and repairing your systems. I prefer to work with > it. > > Frank Like Neil said, you screwed up and blew away some .config files with a careless etc-update and now you want to blame Gentoo. Many people who have tried Gentoo have done the same thing. Most often it happens to people with linux/unix experience that "know better" than the developers that wrote the documentation. Some RTFM, and some flame the distro. Some even explain their problem here and ask for help. We're listening and will be more than happy to help or point you to documentation. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox
On Saturday 04 February 2006 11:37, Holly Bostick wrote: > Daniel D Jones schreef: > > I'm aware that Deer Park IS Firefox but my understanding was that Deer > > Park was a nightly release build and not the official 1.5 release. I > > thought it was the equivalent of grabbing the most recent source (at the > > time the package was created) from CVS rather than getting the official > > release source. Am I confused? > > Yes, you are. Have a look at the ebuild: > # $Header: > /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/www-client/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r11. >ebuild,v 1.1 2006/02/01 22:13:20 anarchy Exp $ ... > As you see, the source tarball is being downloaded from the releases > folder of Mozilla.org's ftp, not any CVS or nightly build folder. > > Ebuilds from development trees such as CVS or "nightlies" are clearly so > marked in their title, if they exist. > > For example, I use an ebuild for Krusader (provided by on the Homepage) > which builds from the project's CVS tree, and it is rightfully called > "krusader-cvs" rather than the normal "krusader" ebuild provided by > Portage. Thanks for the info and for clearing up my confusion. > If an ebuild doesn't say it's compiling from CVS, it isn't. And of > course, you can always just open it in a text editor and /look/... I'm still learning how Portage works. I wasn't aware that ebuilds were that straightforward. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 15:30 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:08:31 +0100, Franta wrote: > > > As I said. It wont be SicroMoft. I'm still wondering. At this time of > > writing I reduced the possibilities to Slackware or LFS. > > I know, I'll need to do some work to get things running but if they are > > running I know they ARE running. Nobody will "upgrade" my system to make > > them stop working and thus make me to explore why and how to fix this. > > > > Don't advice me to use Windoooze. I'm a UNIX admin the last 20 years. > > With all that experience, I'm surprised you made such a basic mistake as > overwriting a config file. Gentoo is careful to protect your > configuration files from being overwritten by new releases, it takes a > deliberate action on your part to do this. > This isn't going to turn into another pointless flamewar, is it? My hostility sensors are going off... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 15:31 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 23:49:51 +, Stroller wrote: > > > Maybe the Gnome developers decided the "typical" user wouldn't want > > to do this and decided that they'd remove it because it was confusing > > little old ladies. Have we had a flamewar about KDE vs Gnome > > recently? ;P > > Define "recently" ;-) > I believe the thread was called "How Many People Use KDE?" THAT recently. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox
Daniel D Jones schreef: > On Saturday 04 February 2006 08:26, Beau E. Cox wrote: >> On Saturday 04 February 2006 03:09 am, Daniel D Jones wrote: >>> I'd like to run Firefox 1.5. The latest stable build appears to be 1.07. >>> I added ww-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86 to my package.keywords file, which >>> resulted in Deer Park being installed. I don't want Deer Park, just the >>> 1.5 release version. I've considered downloading the source and manually >>> installing but I'd prefer not to do something which may confuse portage >>> at some point. Thanks for any suggestions. >> I think I read that Deer Park is the name for Firefox that is used >> to get an GPL-type liscense - but is really Firefox. > > I'm aware that Deer Park IS Firefox but my understanding was that Deer Park > was a nightly release build and not the official 1.5 release. I thought it > was the equivalent of grabbing the most recent source (at the time the > package was created) from CVS rather than getting the official release > source. Am I confused? Yes, you are. Have a look at the ebuild: # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/www-client/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r11.ebuild,v 1.1 2006/02/01 22:13:20 anarchy Exp $ unset ALLOWED_FLAGS # stupid extra-functions.sh ... bug 49179 MOZ_FREETYPE2="no" # Need to disable for newer .. remove here and in mozconfig # when older is removed from tree. MOZ_PANGO="yes" # Need to enable for newer .. remove here and in mozconfig # when older is removed from tree. inherit flag-o-matic toolchain-funcs eutils mozconfig-2 mozilla-launcher makeedit multilib fdo-mime mozextension autotools LANGS="ar ca cs da de el en-GB es-AR es-ES fi fr ga-IE he hu it ja ko mk nb-NO nl pl pt-BR ro ru sk sl sv-SE tr zh-CN zh-TW" SHORTLANGS="es-ES ga-IE nb-NO sv-SE" PVER="1.4" DESCRIPTION="Firefox Web Browser" HOMEPAGE="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/"; ==> SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/${PV}/source/firefox-${PV}-source.tar.bz2 As you see, the source tarball is being downloaded from the releases folder of Mozilla.org's ftp, not any CVS or nightly build folder. Ebuilds from development trees such as CVS or "nightlies" are clearly so marked in their title, if they exist. For example, I use an ebuild for Krusader (provided by on the Homepage) which builds from the project's CVS tree, and it is rightfully called "krusader-cvs" rather than the normal "krusader" ebuild provided by Portage. If an ebuild doesn't say it's compiling from CVS, it isn't. And of course, you can always just open it in a text editor and /look/... Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world error message
On Saturday 04 Feb 2006 14:01, Andrei Slavoiu wrote: > --- Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Calculating world dependencies > > !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all > > !!! masked or don't exist: > > sys-apps/sh-utils sys-apps/fileutils > > sys-apps/textutils > > They all have been obsoleted a VERY long time ago by > coreutils. Unmerge them and get coreutils instead. Thanks I must have missed that info Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Connection to linux server dying on both connected devices [RESOLVED]
On 1/27/06, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello list. I've been reading this mailing list for a while now and have taken great pleasure in reading some of these e-mails. But now the time has come for me to present a problem I hope you all can help me with. I recently reinstalled Gentoo (stage3) after my hard drive crashed in my server (it sounded like the hard drive arm was waltzing across the platters). I followed the home router guide, http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml, as I've done before, and as before I emerged dhcp instead of using dnsmasq as my dhcp server. Ever since I reinstalled I've had a problem where I've had to disable/enable my NIC in windows and powercycle my MTA (Motorola vt1004, Vonage) to get a connection; if I attempt to traceroute from my Windows XP box it gives the error "request timed out". I thought it was something wrong with the DHCP server so I set static IPs on both the MTA and Windows box, but I woke up this morning and it is still doing it. Again, I had to disable/enable my NIC in windows and powercycle my MTA to get the connection working on both the windows box and the MTA. No cables had to be unplugged/replugged and nothing else reset. Any suggestions?-- - Mark Shields I fixed the problem myself, bad switch. Sorry to bother the list with a non-Gentoo issue.-- - Mark Shields
[gentoo-user] Re: So O.K.
Franta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've tried it half an hour ago with (a very old) knoppix CD. I have USB > disks, I have sound, I have networking ... > > That said (xcuse me, I <> say that) Gentoo is far away from a > distro for usage. > > Do not reply to this post - I'll unsubscribe immediatlely after posting > and I'll go to have a lok for another distro which won't force me to > fdisk for a newly install. Maybe it'll be Slack. > > Have fun customizing and repairing your systems. I prefer to work with > it. Hey Franta, Whoa wait a minute. You do have to learn a bit about how gentoo approaches things but soon you will be running a working system and many many things are then easy and smooth. There is no need to update frequently unless you need something that has become available. The running of `emerge sync' is up to you. I've gone mnths and mnths without doing that. Admittedly, after that much time when you do update there is bound to be some hitches. But a sysadmin of 20 yrs will not have too much trouble getting lined out again. Once you learn how the portage/emerge system works. At least the basics, it is usually fairly easy to straighten stuff out and get back to work. There are several very knowledgable regular posters here who post daily about how to do such things. If you watch the list a while you will so learn many of the more complex ways to use portage/emerge. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] can't compile some C++ apps
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 21:18:38 +, Werner Otto wrote: > Stupid question, but how do I unsubscribe from this list? Follow the instructions that can be found in the mail you were sent confirming your subscription, the mailing lists page on the Gentoo site and the headers of every mail you receive from the list. -- Neil Bothwick Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome upgrade removed Open Terminal from right click
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 23:49:51 +, Stroller wrote: > Maybe the Gnome developers decided the "typical" user wouldn't want > to do this and decided that they'd remove it because it was confusing > little old ladies. Have we had a flamewar about KDE vs Gnome > recently? ;P Define "recently" ;-) -- Neil Bothwick FINE: Tax for doing wrong. Tax: fine for doing fine. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.
On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:08:31 +0100, Franta wrote: > As I said. It wont be SicroMoft. I'm still wondering. At this time of > writing I reduced the possibilities to Slackware or LFS. > I know, I'll need to do some work to get things running but if they are > running I know they ARE running. Nobody will "upgrade" my system to make > them stop working and thus make me to explore why and how to fix this. > > Don't advice me to use Windoooze. I'm a UNIX admin the last 20 years. With all that experience, I'm surprised you made such a basic mistake as overwriting a config file. Gentoo is careful to protect your configuration files from being overwritten by new releases, it takes a deliberate action on your part to do this. -- Neil Bothwick Despite the cost of living it remains popular. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: What trouble am I creating by commenting entries in [...]/packag.mask
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> xvidtune knows about all that and reports whats really going on. > > xvidtune is part or xorg-x11. > > If you have the older style, stable xorg installed you already have > xvidtune: Thanks Nick that stopped this sillyness in its tracks. Egad, once again I get to look rather stupid. But what started this whole query was that typing xvidtune at a command line gave the bash message no such command or something similar. I'm not sure why that happened ... perhaps a typo in the cmdline. But that set me off on this wild goose chase. Typing xvidtune now starts xvidtune. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.
On 2/4/06, Franta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Due to the issues I hit (nearly) every time I do an upgrade.I did the upograde today too. There was one on udev. I think devicesdon't coming up (Sound, USB) could belong to this kind of problems.Well. nothing changes. I've tried it half an hour ago with (a very old) knoppix CD. I have USBdisks, I have sound, I have networking ...That said (xcuse me, I <> say that) Gentoo is far away from adistro for usage. Do not reply to this post - I'll unsubscribe immediatlely after postingand I'll go to have a lok for another distro which won't force me tofdisk for a newly install. Maybe it'll be Slack.Have fun customizing and repairing your systems. I prefer to work with it.Frank--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listI hope you realize you don't *have* to sync with portage at all. You can run a static install if you so choose. And if you prefer to upgrade the traditional way, no one is stopping you from downloading your own gzipped/tarred sources and compiling them.-- - Mark Shields
Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.
As I said. It wont be SicroMoft. I'm still wondering. At this time of writing I reduced the possibilities to Slackware or LFS. I know, I'll need to do some work to get things running but if they are running I know they ARE running. Nobody will "upgrade" my system to make them stop working and thus make me to explore why and how to fix this. Don't advice me to use Windoooze. I'm a UNIX admin the last 20 years. It would be the horror to become accustomed to this poorly program. Well, program - I don't say this to be an OS. BTW: I'm a UNIX admin the last 20 years. So don't On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 04:11 -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote: > On Saturday 04 February 2006 04:02 am, Franta wrote: > > Due to the issues I hit (nearly) every time I do an upgrade. > > > > I did the upograde today too. There was one on udev. I think devices > > don't coming up (Sound, USB) could belong to this kind of problems. > > > > Well. nothing changes. > > > > I've tried it half an hour ago with (a very old) knoppix CD. I have USB > > disks, I have sound, I have networking ... > > > > That said (xcuse me, I <> say that) Gentoo is far away from a > > distro for usage. > > > > Do not reply to this post - I'll unsubscribe immediatlely after posting > > and I'll go to have a lok for another distro which won't force me to > > fdisk for a newly install. Maybe it'll be Slack. > > > > Have fun customizing and repairing your systems. I prefer to work with > > it. > > > > Frank > > So OK. Bye. A little work on your part and you could be enjoying and > 'working with' one of the best distros available. Maybe you should pack > it in and just install Windoze... > > -- > Aloha => Beau; > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with alt-key on Apple iBook
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 13:18:56 +0100, Simon Ruderich wrote: > My problem is now that some characters (like the curly brace) can > only be typed by using the alt-key. But if I press the alt-key and 8 > for example then the console changes from this: > livecd root # > To this: > (arg: 8) > And I don't know what this means. > Is there anything I can do to get the alt-key working? This is nothing to do with the iBook hardware, my AMD64 box does it too. The Alt key works but Alt-n giving (arg: n) appears to be a feature of bash, although there's no reference to the Alt key in the bash manpage. -- Neil Bothwick In the begining, there was nothing. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 and KAudiocreator
Hi All Does anyone else have problems with the play list option in KAudioCreator 1.13 as comes with KDE 3.5. I was using 1.12 with KDE 3.4 but since I updated to 3.5 the play list option is no longer available. The first time I had this problem was after updating from 3.4. Since then I have carried out a full, clean install with the same result. The play list option is still set to true and the play list path is still shown in my personal config file. It's just shown in the configuration dialog and the play list is not created. TIA Stewart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.
On Saturday 04 February 2006 04:02 am, Franta wrote: > Due to the issues I hit (nearly) every time I do an upgrade. > > I did the upograde today too. There was one on udev. I think devices > don't coming up (Sound, USB) could belong to this kind of problems. > > Well. nothing changes. > > I've tried it half an hour ago with (a very old) knoppix CD. I have USB > disks, I have sound, I have networking ... > > That said (xcuse me, I <> say that) Gentoo is far away from a > distro for usage. > > Do not reply to this post - I'll unsubscribe immediatlely after posting > and I'll go to have a lok for another distro which won't force me to > fdisk for a newly install. Maybe it'll be Slack. > > Have fun customizing and repairing your systems. I prefer to work with > it. > > Frank So OK. Bye. A little work on your part and you could be enjoying and 'working with' one of the best distros available. Maybe you should pack it in and just install Windoze... -- Aloha => Beau; -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox
On Saturday 04 February 2006 08:26, Beau E. Cox wrote: > On Saturday 04 February 2006 03:09 am, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > I'd like to run Firefox 1.5. The latest stable build appears to be 1.07. > > I added ww-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86 to my package.keywords file, which > > resulted in Deer Park being installed. I don't want Deer Park, just the > > 1.5 release version. I've considered downloading the source and manually > > installing but I'd prefer not to do something which may confuse portage > > at some point. Thanks for any suggestions. > > I think I read that Deer Park is the name for Firefox that is used > to get an GPL-type liscense - but is really Firefox. I'm aware that Deer Park IS Firefox but my understanding was that Deer Park was a nightly release build and not the official 1.5 release. I thought it was the equivalent of grabbing the most recent source (at the time the package was created) from CVS rather than getting the official release source. Am I confused? Part of the issue is that several of my extensions complained that they were only compatible with Firefox 0.? - 1.5 when I restarted Firefox. > I have several packages that I maintain 'manually' (outside of portage) > and I have experienced no portage 'confusion', i.e. Apache 2.2, mod_perl, > mysql-5.1.5-alpha, etc. I install them to /usr/local and portage > doesn't care. Cool! I'll look into that. And thanks to everyone who replied. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] So O.K.
Due to the issues I hit (nearly) every time I do an upgrade. I did the upograde today too. There was one on udev. I think devices don't coming up (Sound, USB) could belong to this kind of problems. Well. nothing changes. I've tried it half an hour ago with (a very old) knoppix CD. I have USB disks, I have sound, I have networking ... That said (xcuse me, I <> say that) Gentoo is far away from a distro for usage. Do not reply to this post - I'll unsubscribe immediatlely after posting and I'll go to have a lok for another distro which won't force me to fdisk for a newly install. Maybe it'll be Slack. Have fun customizing and repairing your systems. I prefer to work with it. Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world error message
--- Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Calculating world dependencies > !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all > !!! masked or don't exist: > sys-apps/sh-utils sys-apps/fileutils > sys-apps/textutils They all have been obsoleted a VERY long time ago by coreutils. Unmerge them and get coreutils instead. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem (Part Resolved)
On Saturday 04 Feb 2006 13:31, Paul wrote: > On Thursday 02 Feb 2006 15:39, Richard Fish wrote: > > On 2/2/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > UPDATE > > > I have connected a PS2 mouse and the double clicking problems have > > > disappeared, but as soon as I use the USB mouse the problem is back > > > > > > This has got to be a USB problem but I Don't know where to look next. > > > I have been looking in /var/log/portage to see if any updates could > > > have caused this in the last few weeks. The trouble is I don't know > > > which programs a usb mouse uses. > > > Any ideas out there > > I noticed that I had 2 UHCI (USB1.1) and 1 EHCI (USB2) ports on my > motherboard and the mouse was connected to the USB2 port. As soon as I > connected it to a USB1.1 all of the double clicking problems have > disappeared. > > Question > Has something changed recently that has affected USB2?? > I would like to report this as bug but without discovering exactly what > changed, it's a bit wishy washy. > > Thanks to all who took the trouble to reply and help with this problem. > Paul > Sorry to reply to my own message but I was too quick off the mark the double clicking problem is still there. I guess I'll stick to the PS2 mouse. Disappointed Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge world error message
Hi all, I am getting the following message when I emerge -uDtaNv world Calculating world dependencies !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all !!! masked or don't exist: sys-apps/sh-utils sys-apps/fileutils sys-apps/textutils If I emerge -s on them, none are found. However, if I equery depgraph them they are found with a load of dependencies. Any thoughts? Paul This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox
Daniel D Jones wrote: I'd like to run Firefox 1.5. The latest stable build appears to be 1.07. I added ww-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86 to my package.keywords file, which resulted in Deer Park being installed. I don't want Deer Park, just the 1.5 release version. I've considered downloading the source and manually installing but I'd prefer not to do something which may confuse portage at some point. Thanks for any suggestions. No fear, you have firefox 1.5. Anarchy (dev responsible for the ebuilds for most mozilla stuff) has been running into problems re-titling it, but it is definitely 1.5 (Incidentally, the ebuild gives you this information when you emerge it.) Scott. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem (Part Resolved)
On Thursday 02 Feb 2006 15:39, Richard Fish wrote: > On 2/2/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > UPDATE > > I have connected a PS2 mouse and the double clicking problems have > > disappeared, but as soon as I use the USB mouse the problem is back > > > > This has got to be a USB problem but I Don't know where to look next. I > > have been looking in /var/log/portage to see if any updates could have > > caused this in the last few weeks. The trouble is I don't know which > > programs a usb mouse uses. > > Any ideas out there I noticed that I had 2 UHCI (USB1.1) and 1 EHCI (USB2) ports on my motherboard and the mouse was connected to the USB2 port. As soon as I connected it to a USB1.1 all of the double clicking problems have disappeared. Question Has something changed recently that has affected USB2?? I would like to report this as bug but without discovering exactly what changed, it's a bit wishy washy. Thanks to all who took the trouble to reply and help with this problem. Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox
Daniel D Jones schreef: > I'd like to run Firefox 1.5. The latest stable build appears to be > 1.07. I added ww-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86 to my package.keywords > file, which resulted in Deer Park being installed. I don't want > Deer Park, just the 1.5 release version. The version labelled as Deer Park under Gentoo *is* the 1.5 release version, to the best of my knowledge. As I understand it, there is a licensing requirement from the Mozilla group that specifies that compiled versions provided by anyone other than Mozilla.org cannot use the 'official' branding. Therefore, the release displays "Deer Park" but is otherwise identical (built from the same source release tarball as the Mozilla.org compiled release, just not built by Mozila.org, but by you or the Gentoo devs). Apparently you can 'fix' this (if it must be fixed) by activating the ./configure switch --enable-official-branding. You can of course do this by copying the current ebuild to your PORTDIR_OVERLAY, making the adjustment, and compiling that instead, or by --as you said-- installing or compiling the official Mozilla binary or source from the Mozilla.org site. Check the forums, I believe that that's where I discovered what information I know about this issue. > I've considered downloading the source and manually installing but > I'd prefer not to do something which may confuse portage at some > point. Thanks for any suggestions. That's what Portage overlay directories are for; to do something like this without confusing Portage. Self-regulating, of course-- if the issue is not important enough to the user to make it worth their while to learn how to set up an overlay, and how to populate it with the relevant ebuilds (especially if the relevant ebuild must be created from scratch rather than just adjusted), then the issue is not necessarily important enough to warrant "solving", offering the user an opportunity to re-evaluate the severity of the issue. As with all things Gentoo, it's your choice as to how you want to handle it. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging UT2004
Steve B. wrote: > On Friday 03 February 2006 23:06, fire-eyes wrote: > >>Steve B. wrote: >> >>>Hey everybody, >>> >>> This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this >>>one out. I can't emerge UT2004. I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom >>>(/media/hdc) and the first CD copies fine, but it never gives me time to >>>umount and mount the second CD. It simply tries (and thinks it has >>>success) on the rest of the CD's but I know that it just copied the data >>>from CD1 six times. >>> >>>This is the first time I have ever tried to install a game from CD on >>>linux, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks. >> >>Unfortunately, the ebuild for ut2004 is very brain dead about that. >>Curiously, it USED to do exactly what you said: let you swap CD's. >> >>The only way I figured out how to accomplish the install from CD's was >>to copy every single CD to the hard disk, which obviously takes up a lot >>of space and time. >> >>Like so: >> >>rsync -aP /mnt/cdrom 1 >>rsync -aP /mnt/cdrom 2 >> >>And so on through 6. 6 is the disk labeled install disk, I think. Then >>set CD_ROOT_1=/full/path/to/1 CD_ROOT_2=/full/path/to/2 CD_ROOT_ >>emerge ut2004 >> >>Feel free to use cp, i prefer to use rsync. >> >>The next problem you will run into (or it might come before you even get >>to the CD's, i forget) is that portage will try to download various >>large files from 3dgamers mirrors. Almost all of which time out or are >>unreachable, or uselessly slow. I've found that I have to go to google >>and look for the filename, find it somewhere else, save it to >>/usr/portage/distfiles and home the md5sums match. Make sure the >>filename is as portage expects it too, including case. >> >>There are bugs open about all of these issues, but they just haven't >>been solved yet. >> >>ut2004 is one of the most irritating peices of software to install on >>gentoo, especially from CD's, thanks to all of this. > > Thanks! I got everything working now. But that was a pain in the rear. > Somebody should really update the ebuild in portage. Indeed... :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox
On Saturday 04 February 2006 03:09 am, Daniel D Jones wrote: > I'd like to run Firefox 1.5. The latest stable build appears to be 1.07. > I added ww-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86 to my package.keywords file, which > resulted in Deer Park being installed. I don't want Deer Park, just the > 1.5 release version. I've considered downloading the source and manually > installing but I'd prefer not to do something which may confuse portage at > some point. Thanks for any suggestions. I think I read that Deer Park is the name for Firefox that is used to get an GPL-type liscense - but is really Firefox. I have several packages that I maintain 'manually' (outside of portage) and I have experienced no portage 'confusion', i.e. Apache 2.2, mod_perl, mysql-5.1.5-alpha, etc. I install them to /usr/local and portage doesn't care. -- Aloha => Beau; -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox
"Deer Park" is Firefox-1.5's name :-) === On Saturday 04 February 2006 16:09, Daniel D Jones wrote: === I'd like to run Firefox 1.5. The latest stable build appears to be 1.07. I added ww-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86 to my package.keywords file, which resulted in Deer Park being installed. I don't want Deer Park, just the 1.5 release version. I've considered downloading the source and manually installing but I'd prefer not to do something which may confuse portage at some point. Thanks for any suggestions. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Firefox
I'd like to run Firefox 1.5. The latest stable build appears to be 1.07. I added ww-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86 to my package.keywords file, which resulted in Deer Park being installed. I don't want Deer Park, just the 1.5 release version. I've considered downloading the source and manually installing but I'd prefer not to do something which may confuse portage at some point. Thanks for any suggestions. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] How do I make sense of this: euse -i extrafilters
How do I make sense of this: _ rattus ~ # euse -i extrafilters global use flags (searching: extrafilters) no matching entries found local use flags (searching: extrafilters) [-] extrafilters (media-video/transcode): Install some filters only if we ask for them _ Does this mean that extra filters will be available if I enable this use flag (and what are they?), or does it mean it will only install some filters and not others unless I specifically ask for them (and what are they)? Probably meaningful to the guy who wrote it, but ... BillK -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problem with alt-key on Apple iBook
Hi, I'm trying to install gentoo on my Apple iBook G4. I loaded the correct keymap for my keyboard with "loadkeys de-latin1". Most of the keys are working correctly. My problem is now that some characters (like the curly brace) can only be typed by using the alt-key. But if I press the alt-key and 8 for example then the console changes from this: livecd root # To this: (arg: 8) And I don't know what this means. Is there anything I can do to get the alt-key working? Thanks in advance. Simon -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] glibc upgrade: emerge frozen...
Hi, I'm trying to update to glibc 3.4.4, this is what I did: emerge -uav gcc gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4 source /etc/profile emerge --oneshot -av libtool emerge --oneshot sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 emerge -e system Up to this point, everything was OK. As the last part I started: emerge -e world Emerge started updating all packages (~150), but then suddenly stopped (after ~20 packages). No error message, just sitting here, like frozen: ... gcc -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -march=athlon-xp -pipe -O2 -o .libs/ld-new ldgram.o ldlex.o lexsup.o ldlang.o mri.o ldctor.o ldmain.o ldwrite.o ldexp.o ldemul.o ldver.o ldmisc.o ldfile.o ldcref.o eelf_i386.o ei386linux.o eelf_x86_64.o ../bfd/.libs/libbfd.so -L/var/tmp/portage/binulsl-2.16.1/work/build/libberty/pic -liberty ../blibiberty/libiberety.a -Wl, --rpath -Wl,/usr/lib/binutils/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.16.1 creating ld-new make[3]: leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.1/work/build/ld' make[2]: leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.1/work/build/ld' make[1]: leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.1/work/build/ld' And nothing more. Emerge is waiting there, doing nothing. Computer is responsive, cpu load 0%, no disc activity, nothing. Following processes are still running (but taking no cpu-time): emerge, sandbox, ebuild.sh, emake, make (2x), grep What to do now? Do I have to interrupt it? What then, start again? Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fglrx works. Yeah! Umm, now nothing exits. Uh oh!
--- Bruce Burden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sigh. It looks like the X600 isn't supported by >fglrx. Rechecked ATI's web site. Where did you find that? Here it says it's supported http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.21.7.html > Well, it looks like the next video card will be an >nVidia. At least the support their cards... I'm not happy with fglrx either, it's very buggy, but now that my card (radeon 9550) is supported by the free drivers I will be able to get rid of it :) __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list