[gentoo-user] rsync backup problem
I am using rsync to backup my home directory to a network drive using the following command: rsync -Cav --delete --progress --exclude '*~' --exclude '.Trash*' /home/paul /mnt/network/home I am getting errors on each mail from the Mail folder, I think rsync thinks that each message should be a directory and then fails to copy. How can I get round this Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] suspend2 problem
Pablasso wrote: if you have your video driver with dri/drm (3d acceleration) activated, thats the problem, suspend2 currently does not work along with 3d acceleration so you have to choose beetween them. Hi Pablasso, Perhaps I misunderstand, but suspend2 has long worked alongside 3d acceleration. In my experience, some of the proprietary graphics drivers (ATI's fglrx for example) do not work at all. However I use the X.org included Radeon drivers (and standard Radeon DRI kernel model) and have had no problems whatsoever. It could be a different story for the card in your machine (a Rage II by the looks of it). Cheers, Dave. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)
On Thursday 09 March 2006 07:49, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Also, it's really confusing trying to figure out /why/ they are bringing in virtual-x11. emerge -pvt is giving confusing results; basically saying that virtual-x11 is coming in because of packages which don't even have an optional dependency on X. :( I tried using equery g, but that actually says the packages I'm trying to bring in /won't/ need virtual/x11-6.8. AFAICT equery detects compile time dependencies (DEPEND) and run time depencies (RDEPEND) but not post dependencies (PDEPEND). So I think you need to look for PDEPEND in the ebuilds manually. -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@gentoo.org issue 622 (36278-36327)
hi all,recently when i used to use my gentoo box's audio suddenly it fails.when i tried to load the module with#modprobe snd#modprobe snd-via82xxxdisplays a lot error report saying error with that snd-via82xxx module.help metnxregard sanjayasanjaya athukoralaSri Lnaka Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.
[gentoo-user] Rsync backup problem2
I have mounted a networked usb drive to /mnt/network using the command: mount -t cifs -o user=paul //lkg7f.homenet.com/disc2 /mnt/network I then use: rsync -Cav --delete --progress --exclude '*tmp*' --exclude '*Trash*' /usr /mnt/network All files copy with no errors but symlinks always fail with the message: symlink /mnt/network/usr/lib/libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0 - libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0.1.0 failed: Operation not supported I am wondering if this is a permissions problem. My network usb server will not let me have a user called root so I have set user paul with the 'can do anything' previlege. The mount and rsync commands are using user root Can anybody help please. Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SELinux
On 3/9/06, Steve B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everybody,Quick question.How can I disable SELinux without modifing(recompiling) the kernel?The reason I ask is because my kernel wascompiled with SELinux support, however its not active.Apparent vpopmail has issues with SELinux and I believe that I am havingproblems because of this.I don't have the luxury of recompiling thekernel because this is a virutal server running under Xen 2.0.Thanks! V/RSteve--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listSteve,If the kernel has been configured to allow it, there is a boot command parameter that can disable SElinux. This parameter is 'selinux=0' by default, 'selinux=1' enables it. If not you'll have to find another way. From the kernel config:config SECURITY_SELINUX_BOOTPARAM bool NSA SELinux boot parameter depends on SECURITY_SELINUX default n help This option adds a kernel parameter 'selinux', which allows SELinux to be disabled at boot. If this option is selected, SELinux functionality can be disabled with selinux=0 on the kernel command line. The purpose of this option is to allow a single kernel image to be distributed with SELinux built in, but not necessarily enabled. If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.config SECURITY_SELINUX_BOOTPARAM_VALUE int NSA SELinux boot parameter default value depends on SECURITY_SELINUX_BOOTPARAM range 0 1 default 1 help This option sets the default value for the kernel parameter 'selinux', which allows SELinux to be disabled at boot. If this option is set to 0 (zero), the SELinux kernel parameter will default to 0, disabling SELinux at bootup. If this option is set to 1 (one), the SELinux kernel parameter will default to 1, enabling SELinux at bootup. If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer 1. config SECURITY_SELINUX_DISABLE bool NSA SELinux runtime disable depends on SECURITY_SELINUX default n help This option enables writing to a selinuxfs node 'disable', which allows SELinux to be disabled at runtime prior to the policy load. SELinux will then remain disabled until the next boot. This option is similar to the selinux=0 boot parameter, but is to support runtime disabling of SELinux, e.g. from /sbin/init, for portability across platforms where boot parameters are difficult to employ. If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.HTH,Simon
Re: [gentoo-user] suspend2 problem
vesa driver is the last resort! -- Wang ShaoChun(王绍春) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] USE flags
I saw that there was a discussion about USE flags and I would seek your advice on that matter. I recently installed once again Gentoo 2006.0 but before this version a few months' ago I installed and for a short period of time used Gentoo 2005.0. At that time I had trouble with USE flags because I have never known what is the best configuration of USE flags for my system so I would like if someone could help me in a way that he proposes to me a list of flags that i should have in my make.conf and that that I should exclude. My needs are that I have a system which is desktop oriented with KDE and not GNOME but also I will do a little of programming and I will have a experimental web, mail, ftp, MySQL server because I will learn php. Graphics, games and so on aren't of interest to me and only thing I want is to play DVDs, DivX movies, play MP3 and audio CDs and burn DVDs and CDs. Bye Goran -- T - C o m - - W e b m a i l -- Ova poruka poslana je upotrebom T-Com Webmail usluge. T-Com te vodi na Svjetsko nogometno prvenstvo http://www.t-com.hr/naslovnica/nogomet/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources
Willie Wong wrote: Do you have gentoolkit installed? If so, run # equery list -p gentoo-sources It'd be good to know if you are missing the ebuild or if it is masked somehow. W Results of equery: backup:~ $ equery list -p gentoo-sources [ Searching for package 'gentoo-sources' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.31-r1 (2.4.31-r1) [I--] [M ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r3 (2.6.11-r3) [I--] [M ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r9 (2.6.12-r9) [I--] [M ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 (2.6.12-r10) [I--] [M ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r2 (2.6.14-r2) * Portage tree (/usr/portage) [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.32-r2 (2.4.32-r2) [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r7 (2.6.14-r7) [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15 (2.6.15) I do have gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 installed and running. I never had a 2.4 kernel installed on this system. Thanks for your help. Jerry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: rsync backup problem
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am getting errors on each mail from the Mail folder, I think rsync thinks that each message should be a directory and then fails to copy. How can I get round this What are the exact errors? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources
Jerry Turba schreef: Willie Wong wrote: Do you have gentoolkit installed? If so, run # equery list -p gentoo-sources Results of equery: backup:~ $ equery list -p gentoo-sources [ Searching for package 'gentoo-sources' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.31-r1 (2.4.31-r1) [I--] [M ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r3 (2.6.11-r3) [I--] [M ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r9 (2.6.12-r9) [I--] [M ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 (2.6.12-r10) [I--] [M ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r2 (2.6.14-r2) * Portage tree (/usr/portage) [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.32-r2 (2.4.32-r2) [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r7 (2.6.14-r7) [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15 (2.6.15) I do have gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 installed and running. I never had a 2.4 kernel installed on this system. Thanks for your help. Myself, I'm starting to wonder if this isn't a mirror issue (what mirror are you sync-ing with? Check /etc/make.conf), because mine looks like this: equery list -p gentoo-sources [ Searching for package 'gentoo-sources' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r5 (2.6.15-r5) [I--] [ ~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r6 (2.6.15-r6) [I--] [ ~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r7 (2.6.15-r7) * Portage tree (/usr/portage) [-P-] [ ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.31-r1 (2.4.31-r1) [-P-] [ ~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.32-r2 (2.4.32-r2) [-P-] [ ~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r7 (2.6.14-r7) [-P-] [ ~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15 (2.6.15) [-P-] [ ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1 (2.6.15-r1) [-P-] [ ~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r2 (2.6.15-r2) [-P-] [ ~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r3 (2.6.15-r3) [-P-] [ ~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r4 (2.6.15-r4) If you've synced twice already, and you're still getting such old packages (2.6.*11*??), there's gotta be something wrong with your mirror or your cache, it seems to me. Cache I don't know how to fix, but changing mirrors is an easy way to fix the problem or eliminate one possible vector of trouble (if nothing changs, then we know the problem is something else, and there aren't too many things it could be, at that point). HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All files copy with no errors but symlinks always fail with the message: symlink /mnt/network/usr/lib/libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0 - libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0.1.0 failed: Operation not supported I am wondering if this is a permissions problem. My network usb server will not let me have a user called root so I have set user paul with the 'can do anything' previlege. The mount and rsync commands are using user root What file systems are involved? You get a similar message writing to NSFS or fat since unix like permisions are not supported there. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] suspend2 problem
it works -sometimes- but is buggy, i use it with my i915 video driver and it hangs sometimes to the point that i need to kill X and restart it, like 2 out of 3 times works well but i dont really like the idea of killing apps everytime it fails, so most of the time i disable DRI from the suspend2 howto: Particularly common here are issues with USB, DRI/DRM, FireWire, cpufreq, sound card and network drivers. In the case of DRI/DRM, you can't simply disable it prior to resuming, so people (unfortunately) have to choose between 3D performance and the ability to suspend (unless you're willing to stop X prior to suspending and restart it afterwards). http://www.suspend2.net/HOWTO-5.html#ss5.2 regardsOn 3/9/06, David Helstroom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pablasso wrote: if you have your video driver with dri/drm (3d acceleration) activated, thats the problem, suspend2 currently does not work along with 3d acceleration so you have to choose beetween them. Hi Pablasso,Perhaps I misunderstand, but suspend2 has long worked alongside 3dacceleration. In my experience, some of the proprietary graphics drivers(ATI's fglrx for example) do not work at all. However I use the X.orgincluded Radeon drivers (and standard Radeon DRI kernel model) and havehad no problems whatsoever. It could be a different story for the cardin your machine (a Rage II by the looks of it). Cheers,Dave.
RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus
-Original Message- From: Jarry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 8:50 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus Bob Young wrote: PowerUser is different from Admin, Admin is the equevelent of root in the Linux/Unix world, PowerUser is not. The primary and most important difference is the ability to *write* to the registry, It's perfectly safe to routinely log on as a PowerUser, as PowerUsers can *not* write to registry keys that affect the entire system, while Admin users can write to *any* registry key. I'm not sure if this is true. Anyway, PowerUser has the ability to install sw (even system patches!), No, PowerUsers can *NOT* install software, installing software (in most cases) requires writing to registry keys outside of the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive, which is something a PowerUser cannot do. Windows update will definitely fail without admin privileges; I know this for a fact. I've on a number of occasions tried to run WindowsUpdate from my normal PowerUser account; it will display a dialog box specifically stating that Admin privileges are required. alter executables and system files! PowerUser can write to C:\ProgramFiles, or C:\Windows, and that is exactly, what a virus need to spread itself. As to the ability of writing to the Program Files or the Windows directory that may be true, and in theory I suppose it probably represents a small degree of risk. In several years of actual practice however I can say it hasn't caused a problem for me personally. In addition, if someone is really concerned about the issue, removing write and/or modify permissions for PowerUsers on those directories is a fairly trivial task. Since I've not tried this I can't say for sure what side effects it might have with some applications, so I'm not advocating it, though I don't see any obvious reasons why it should cause major problems ( Still... !Do a Backup first!). Not many viruses can hide their code in registry (that is just equivalent to /etc in unix-world), mostly they attach themselves to some exe/sys file, or overwrite them... I wasn't suggesting that viruses hide their code in the registry, that's not what the registry is for or how it's used. I was suggesting that any modification that affects the system as a whole or impacts more than just the current user is going to require modifying registry keys that cannot be written without Admin privileges. So, if you start a virus-infected program as a PowerUser, there are perfect conditions for spreading infection. If there were some virus for linux, and you start it as a normal user, it can not alter executables in /usr or /sbin, because user does not have write access to them. Such a virus could infect only *your* files. In practice it just doesn't happen that way. In addition it should be noted that by default even PowerUsers don't have write/modify permission on some sensitive directories C:\Windows\System32\drivers for example. This directory contains device drivers (code that runs in ring0 with unlimited privileges). For PowerUsers this directory is Read Execute List Contents and Read that's all the permission a PowerUser has. So while a PowerUser might be able to modify some application level code in the Windows directory, actually compromising system security is a matter. I'd say PowerUser is something between a restricted user, and admin. True. I've used both Linux and Windows over the years, and they each have their strengths and weaknesses. Finer grained user permissions/privileges is one of the areas where Windows has an edge. Regards, Bob Young -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 04:36:33PM +0100, Penguin Lover Holly Bostick squawked: Jerry Turba schreef: Results of equery: backup:~ $ equery list -p gentoo-sources [ Searching for package 'gentoo-sources' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.31-r1 (2.4.31-r1) [I--] [M ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r3 (2.6.11-r3) [I--] [M ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r9 (2.6.12-r9) [I--] [M ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 (2.6.12-r10) [I--] [M ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r2 (2.6.14-r2) * Portage tree (/usr/portage) [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.32-r2 (2.4.32-r2) [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r7 (2.6.14-r7) [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15 (2.6.15) Myself, I'm starting to wonder if this isn't a mirror issue (what mirror are you sync-ing with? Check /etc/make.conf), because mine looks I tend to agree with Holly here. Your tree looks old. What do you have for the SYNC variable in /etc/make.conf ? W -- Pintsize: The Borg were hot. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 117 days, 8:39 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2
On Thursday 09 Mar 2006 15:36, Harry Putnam wrote: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All files copy with no errors but symlinks always fail with the message: symlink /mnt/network/usr/lib/libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0 - libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0.1.0 failed: Operation not supported I am wondering if this is a permissions problem. My network usb server will not let me have a user called root so I have set user paul with the 'can do anything' previlege. The mount and rsync commands are using user root What file systems are involved? You get a similar message writing to NSFS or fat since unix like permisions are not supported there. Hello Harry, Thanks for your response. I am mounting the network usb drive using cifs The network storage unit is a LINKSYS Network Storage Link for USB 2.0 Disk Drives. I don't know what file system is used but the discs had to be formatted by the linksys setup program. I have just looked at some files on the backup disc and the owner and permissions seem to be intact. This is the error when copying the Mail directory mkstemp /mnt/network/home/paul/Mail/Gimp/cur/.1133608028.9158.nxwHc:2,S.CDg1dQ failed: Not a directory I'm sure I'm doing something stupid Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags
On 3/9/06, Goran Maksimoviæ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw that there was a discussion about USE flags and I would seek your advice on that matter. I recently installed once again Gentoo 2006.0 but before this version a few months' ago I installed and for a short period of time used Gentoo 2005.0. At that time I had trouble with USE flags because I have never known what is the best configuration of USE flags for my system so I would like if someone could help me in a way that he proposes to me a list of flags that i should have in my make.conf and that that I should exclude. My needs are that I have a system which is desktop oriented with KDE and not GNOME but also I will do a little of programming and I will have a experimental web, mail, ftp, MySQL server because I will learn php. Graphics, games and so on aren't of interest to me and only thing I want is to play DVDs, DivX movies, play MP3 and audio CDs and burn DVDs and CDs. Well, when I installed Gentoo 2006.0, I used the GRP and Dynamic Stage 3, so, couldn't set my USE flags. I don't set USE at make.conf. After the GRP install, I sync'ed, then issued a emerge -uDNpv world and started emerge -pving each package in the list, checking USEs and writting them to package.use. After that, each and every package installed follows the same path. This way you don't loose control over your flags and avoid useless stuff (like compiling a lot of programs with KDE support when you only need kde-base because of K3B). It's just the way I do it, any comments? (no flames please, I'll not change my mind :) -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] APR Compile, all versions fails
Using either GCC 3.3 or 3.4 I get the following error when compiling EVERY verison of APR from 0.9.6 to 1.2.2 /include/arch -I../../include/arch/unix -c proc_mutex.c touch proc_mutex.lo proc_mutex.c: In function `proc_mutex_proc_pthread_create': proc_mutex.c:341: error: `PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT' undeclared (first use in this function) proc_mutex.c:341: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once proc_mutex.c:341: error: for each function it appears in.) make[2]: *** [proc_mutex.lo] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/apr-0.9.7/work/apr-0.9.7/locks/unix' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/apr-0.9.7/work/apr-0.9.7/locks/unix' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 !!! ERROR: dev-libs/apr-0.9.7 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 36, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. This is preventing me from doing a full upgrade. Any ideas?-- Jason Weisberger[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[gentoo-user] KDE refuses to be compiled!!!
Any time i attempt to compile KDE 3.5, it fails misserably, here is some output from the make process: libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libGL.la' is not a valid libtool archive make[3]: *** [kcm_info.la] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.5.1-r2/work/kdebase-3.5.1/kcontrol/info' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.5.1-r2/work/kdebase-3.5.1/kcontrol' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.5.1-r2/work/kdebase-3.5.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: kde-base/kdebase-3.5.1-r2 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1928: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 966: Called src_compile kdebase-3.5.1-r2.ebuild, line 109: Called kde_src_compile kde.eclass, line 111: Called kde_src_compile 'compile' kde.eclass, line 228: Called kde_src_compile 'all' 'myconf' 'configure' !!! died running emake, kde_src_compile:make !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. If any of you has any clue of what the solution coulde be, it will greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance Rafael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags
On 3/9/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's just the way I do it, any comments? (no flames please, I'll not change my mind :) That is pretty much what I do, except that I also take the additional step of having -* for USE in my make.conf to disable anything that the profile adds by default. Goran, I would say the most critical flags you want set are: alsa arts kde hal mp3 ssl truetype dvd dvdread dvdr Most other flags I would add per package. Especially I recommend not adding apache/php use flags to make.conf, but to have those for specific packages in package.use. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] APR Compile, all versions fails
On 3/9/06, Jason Weisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is preventing me from doing a full upgrade. Any ideas? Please post the output of: emerge --info emerge -pv dev-libs/apr -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE refuses to be compiled!!!
On 2006-03-09 14:03, Rafael Barrera Oro uttered these thoughts: Any time i attempt to compile KDE 3.5, it fails misserably, here is some output from the make process: libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libGL.la' is not a valid libtool archive make[3]: *** [kcm_info.la] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.5.1-r2/work/kdebase-3.5.1/kcontrol/info' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.5.1-r2/work/kdebase-3.5.1/kcontrol' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.5.1-r2/work/kdebase-3.5.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: kde-base/kdebase-3.5.1-r2 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1928: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 966: Called src_compile kdebase-3.5.1-r2.ebuild, line 109: Called kde_src_compile kde.eclass, line 111: Called kde_src_compile 'compile' kde.eclass, line 228: Called kde_src_compile 'all' 'myconf' 'configure' !!! died running emake, kde_src_compile:make !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. If any of you has any clue of what the solution coulde be, it will greatly appreciated. Took one search on bugs.gentoo.org to find this: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112427 Regards, Patrick B�rjesson -- / () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email \ /\ and proprietary formats. pgpbgX3Jdu0Y5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE refuses to be compiled!!!
On 3/9/06, Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any time i attempt to compile KDE 3.5, it fails misserably, here is some output from the make process: libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libGL.la' is not a valid libtool archive Does it merge if you do eselect opengl xorg-x11? Can you post the contents of /usr/lib/libGL.la? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2
Paul Stear wrote: I am mounting the network usb drive using cifs I'm not quite sure, but I think cifs doesn't support symlinks. -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] APR Compile, all versions fails
Richard,Actually, I posted this on the forums as well and the problem was solved fairly easily. It's a by-product of using the glibc 2.3.90 overlays with the new optimizations. I'm downgrading back to 2.3.6 since the patches were merged into the ebuild and I'll see what happens. There's a workaround where you can #export ac_cv_func_pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np=noand it'll go right through. I'm downgrading because I hate workarounds though :)Link to the overlay: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-435659-highlight-glibc.htmlOn 3/9/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On 3/9/06, Jason Weisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:This is preventing me from doing a full upgrade. Any ideas?Please post the output of:emerge --infoemerge -pv dev-libs/apr-Richard-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- Jason Weisberger[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE refuses to be compiled!!!
Thank you all, by now i am going to go ahead and try to switch the opengl interface before trying a new emerge, as for the patch, where can i find instructions to apply it, it seems to be the best solutions to this kind of problems (im sort of new to all this) Thanks for your quick replies! Rafa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 18:28, Kris Kerwin wrote: Currently, in order to share our printer, we simply unplug it from one another's computers. However, we would like to be able to share it over the network instead to make life easier for the both of us. However, there are a few problems that I'm foreseeing. Back before in-home networks were practical, my dad had a little gray box that had three cables going in the back end, and a switch on the front - A/B. I think that box was for the old parallel printer ports, but I'd imagine that if you go down to Best Buy or another computer store they'd have something similar for sharing a USB device between multiple machines. It's possible you'd need to flip a switch when you want to print, but it would still be easier that moving the cables, and it won't break any of your college's rules regarding the network. Also, it won't require any additional configuration headaches. -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba
Daniel, Thanks for your quick reply. I couldn't think of a more complex solution right now, but couldn't you simply make your IP static? I've done it at work because our DNS was failing, simply copied the network configurations gained with DHCP and made it permanent... Question: how does one *make* a static IP? I thought that IP was assigned by DHCP? Isn't that the way that DHCP works? It leases an IP to a specific computer, which then gives up that lease when it's done using it. At that point, DHCP is free to re-lease that same IP to whomever else requests it, correct? If that's the case, what would prevent another computer from accidentally obtaining that same IP? Otherwise, if this is a viable solution, how do I make it work? I'm comfortable editing config files, but I just don't know where to go to do it. Thanks again, all, for your help. Kris On Wednesday 08 March 2006 20:43, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 3/8/06, Kris Kerwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks! I have a quick question. I'm a college student. I share my printer with my roommate. We have separate computers; he uses Windows XP, and I Gentoo. Together, we're behind our school's router which dynamically assigns us both IP's. Currently, in order to share our printer, we simply unplug it from one another's computers. However, we would like to be able to share it over the network instead to make life easier for the both of us. However, there are a few problems that I'm foreseeing. First off, I have a laptop with only one ethernet port, so setting up an ad hoc network between us is out of the question. Also, my school has a one port - one computer rule that prohibits routers. Second, since we're both behind a DHCPd server, we both have dynamic IPs. There's no easy way to point his computer to the right server if it has a dynamic IP. Third, since we're both behind a router, using something like DynDNS to provide a static contact despite the dynamic IP won't work either. So, I guess what I'm wondering is if there's any way to make this work, or if I'm SOL? Thank you much for your help. Kris Kerwin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I couldn't think of a more complex solution right now, but couldn't you simply make your IP static? I've done it at work because our DNS was failing, simply copied the network configurations gained with DHCP and made it permanent... -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] USE flags
Yes, I have also installed Gentoo 2006.0 with Gentoo LiveCD and installed GRP packages which were on CD but now I want to set USE flags to avoid what you have mentioned a installation of stuff which i will not use but which are installed with packages I install. So once again I am looking for some assistance in configuring my USE flags in make.conf to needs that you can read in this mail. I would be grateful to all who help with their lists :). Bye Goran -Original Message- From: Daniel da Veiga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 5:30 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags On 3/9/06, Goran Maksimoviæ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw that there was a discussion about USE flags and I would seek your advice on that matter. I recently installed once again Gentoo 2006.0 but before this version a few months' ago I installed and for a short period of time used Gentoo 2005.0. At that time I had trouble with USE flags because I have never known what is the best configuration of USE flags for my system so I would like if someone could help me in a way that he proposes to me a list of flags that i should have in my make.conf and that that I should exclude. My needs are that I have a system which is desktop oriented with KDE and not GNOME but also I will do a little of programming and I will have a experimental web, mail, ftp, MySQL server because I will learn php. Graphics, games and so on aren't of interest to me and only thing I want is to play DVDs, DivX movies, play MP3 and audio CDs and burn DVDs and CDs. Well, when I installed Gentoo 2006.0, I used the GRP and Dynamic Stage 3, so, couldn't set my USE flags. I don't set USE at make.conf. After the GRP install, I sync'ed, then issued a emerge -uDNpv world and started emerge -pving each package in the list, checking USEs and writting them to package.use. After that, each and every package installed follows the same path. This way you don't loose control over your flags and avoid useless stuff (like compiling a lot of programs with KDE support when you only need kde-base because of K3B). It's just the way I do it, any comments? (no flames please, I'll not change my mind :) -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list __ NOD32 1.1435 (20060308) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba
Question: how does one *make* a static IP? I thought that IP was assigned by DHCP? Isn't that the way that DHCP works? It leases an IP to a specific computer, which then gives up that lease when it's done using it. At that point, DHCP is free to re-lease that same IP to whomever else requests it, correct? If that's the case, what would prevent another computer from accidentally obtaining that same IP? Otherwise, if this is a viable solution, how do I make it work? I'm comfortable editing config files, but I just don't know where to go to do it. Thanks again, all, for your help. Kris this is a more complicated question than it appears. Let's say, for instance that you have an actual dhcp server, not just a router/ap giving out ips. Now, most dhcp servers allow you to either statically, or dynamically, associate an IP with a MAC address (hardware address). I can set my dhcp server up such that you ALWAYS get the same ip address for a given mac address. This is helpful in some cases where you have more ip space than machines and want to know who gets what. I can either do that by manually adding the mac into the configuration, or by making an infinate lease time. in both cases, you've got a static dynamic address :) if you have more machines than ip space (a class C subnet has on the order of 254 possible addresses), you have to have dynamic dhcp for those. in that case, you have a much shorter lease time, and when a box comes on, it asks for the last address it has, and the dhcp server says yes if no one is using it, or no, use this one if it's in use. however, IP is NOT limited to using dhcp. you can manually set your machine to have a given ip address (since this is the gentoo list, it's in the /etc/conf.d/net file). if you're manually setting an ip address, you do have to be careful that you're not setting it in the range that the dhcp server will assign. email me offline if you need more detail than thatip theory in general is a little off-topic. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources
--- jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did an emerge sync a few days ago. If I run emerge -s gentoo- sources I get: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources Latest version available: 2.4.31-r1 Latest version installed: 2.6.14-r2 Size of downloaded files: 31,219 kB Homepage:http://www.kernel.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/ Description: Full sources including the Gentoo patchset for the 2.4 kernel tree License: GPL-2 sys-kernel/vanilla-sources Latest version available: 2.6.15.1 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 38,905 kB Homepage:http://www.kernel.org Description: Full sources for the Linux kernel License: GPL-2 Do I have to switch to vanilla-sources now to get the latest kernel? Won't I lose some newer features if I use 2.4.31-r1? If I understand the above output correctly I have already installed the gentoo-sources kernel, but now they have moved back to the 2.4 series. Where can I find out what is going on? Thanks for any clarification. It looks like you are using a very old profile. Make sure /etc/make.profile points to a recent profile (for the x86 architecture that would be /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0) See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2
Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Stear wrote: I am mounting the network usb drive using cifs I'm not quite sure, but I think cifs doesn't support symlinks. It can be done if the winbox has SFU (Services for Unix) installed I've heard, but really isn't the problem that the receiving fs does not support them? note or anyone interested: (Services for Unix is a free package from MS). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba
On 3/8/06, Kris Kerwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks! I have a quick question. I'm a college student. I share my printer with my roommate. We have separate computers; he uses Windows XP, and I Gentoo. Together, we're behind our school's router which dynamically assigns us both IP's. Currently, in order to share our printer, we simply unplug it from one another's computers. However, we would like to be able to share it over the network instead to make life easier for the both of us. However, there are a few problems that I'm foreseeing. First off, I have a laptop with only one ethernet port, so setting up an ad hoc network between us is out of the question. Also, my school has a one port - one computer rule that prohibits routers. Second, since we're both behind a DHCPd server, we both have dynamic IPs. There's no easy way to point his computer to the right server if it has a dynamic IP. Third, since we're both behind a router, using something like DynDNS to provide a static contact despite the dynamic IP won't work either. So, I guess what I'm wondering is if there's any way to make this work, or if I'm SOL? It would seem that people are thinking about this problem just a bit too hard. Here is how my network is setup. All users have DHCP addys, its a mix of mainly Gentoo with the odd Windows box. The printers are all connected to Gentoo servers which have cups and samba setup. Cups serves printing for all the Linux boxes and is also hooked into Samba so the windows boxes can print. As far as IP addresses go... screw em... use the netbios name of the machines, for the Windoze box this will be its hostname and the same is true for the Linux box (I don't think I had to do any extra setup in Samba to make it broadcast a netbios name). You will then be able to print locally from the Linux box via CUPS and you can install the printer just like any other shared printer (\\your_gentoo_box\printer_name) under Windows. Gentoo has excellent Samba setup howtos if you need more info. In this case you break no rules and there is no complex DNS setup stuff. Hope all this makes some sense. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [Definitely OT] Recommendations for getting started in Web design
Start with learning about design and editing. You'll want to learn standards-compliant HTML, CSS and Javascript. The best editing tools to date are a decent text editor that has some syntax intelligence, a good scripting language such as perl or python, and a version-control system such as CVS or Subversion (SVN). I use php, bluefish and SVN, but I don't really like php -- it changes too much between versions. The best reference materials are Google, Google and Google. Secondarily _Javascript: The Definitive Guide_, _Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide_, and anything else by O'Reilly are usually good. I haven't edited my site in a very long time, but the links page is still good. Here: http://www.smith-li.com/links.php Finally, experience is the only decent teacher. Find a charity or nonprofit organization and volunteer to help with their Web site. Be persistent -- You *will* run into problems, mostly with Internet Explorer. #javascript and #css on freenode are invaluable if you are thick-skinned OK, 'nuff said, go design! Peace out, Mike John J. Foster wrote: Good afternoon, I'm looking to get started in Web design, with the long term goal of bringing a business (mine) online. I know nothing about design, what to look for in choosing a hosting service, editing tools, or good reference materials. Basically, I'm quite a newbie in this area. Any and all input is greatly appreciated. Thanks, John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [Maybe OT] Recommendations for getting started in Web design
On 3/9/06, John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good afternoon, I'm looking to get started in Web design, with the long term goal of bringing a business (mine) online. I know nothing about design, what to look for in choosing a hosting service, editing tools, or good reference materials. Basically, I'm quite a newbie in this area. Any and all input is greatly appreciated. Thanks, John Uhm... this is a Gentoo linux list... nothing to do with webdesign. Email me off list and I can offer some suggestions though. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba
Someone with more network knowledge will probably correct any bullshit I'll type from now on... :) On 3/9/06, Kris Kerwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel, Thanks for your quick reply. I couldn't think of a more complex solution right now, but couldn't you simply make your IP static? I've done it at work because our DNS was failing, simply copied the network configurations gained with DHCP and made it permanent... Question: how does one *make* a static IP? I thought that IP was assigned by DHCP? Isn't that the way that DHCP works? It leases an IP Well, this is more of a server solution than a workstation one, you'll probably turn your computer off once in a while. DHCP wil not give anyone an IP that is already in use (its against TCP/IP rules), so, if you have your machine running with an IP, DHCP will not lease it (at least I think so because my machine never conflited). to a specific computer, which then gives up that lease when it's done using it. At that point, DHCP is free to re-lease that same IP to whomever else requests it, correct? If that's the case, what would Yes, if your DHCP sends a DHCP_RELEASE command to the server, it will give up that IP and it will be available for another computer. prevent another computer from accidentally obtaining that same IP? You just never RELEASE the IP, and when it expires you LEASE it again, and DHCP cache will always try to get the last IP, of course, I've done it in a server running all the time, first I tried RELEASING and automatic LEASING it again in TIMEOUT seconds (where timeout is the LEASE time minus a few seconds, it alll depends on how big is your server's lease time), I've created a script to do that, but deleted it long ago. Then I decided to simply configure /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/conf.d/net and /etc/hosts so I would have an static IP, and let TCP/IP do the rest (not allow the DHCP server to LEASE that IP to someone else). I couldn't find anywhere in the web if that SHOULD work, it just does, for me. Otherwise, if this is a viable solution, how do I make it work? I'm comfortable editing config files, but I just don't know where to go to do it. You ifconfig to get the IP your're using right now and the Netmask used in your network environment. Then you edit the /etc/conf.d/net file to configure your ethernet interface to have a static IP, using the one you're already using from DHCP and set the netmask you got from ifconfig, and let be your /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts that were written by the DHCP client. Thanks again, all, for your help. Kris On Wednesday 08 March 2006 20:43, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 3/8/06, Kris Kerwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks! I have a quick question. I'm a college student. I share my printer with my roommate. We have separate computers; he uses Windows XP, and I Gentoo. Together, we're behind our school's router which dynamically assigns us both IP's. Currently, in order to share our printer, we simply unplug it from one another's computers. However, we would like to be able to share it over the network instead to make life easier for the both of us. However, there are a few problems that I'm foreseeing. First off, I have a laptop with only one ethernet port, so setting up an ad hoc network between us is out of the question. Also, my school has a one port - one computer rule that prohibits routers. Second, since we're both behind a DHCPd server, we both have dynamic IPs. There's no easy way to point his computer to the right server if it has a dynamic IP. Third, since we're both behind a router, using something like DynDNS to provide a static contact despite the dynamic IP won't work either. So, I guess what I'm wondering is if there's any way to make this work, or if I'm SOL? Thank you much for your help. Kris Kerwin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I couldn't think of a more complex solution right now, but couldn't you simply make your IP static? I've done it at work because our DNS was failing, simply copied the network configurations gained with DHCP and made it permanent... -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Typo alert! The receiving fs does not support symlinks .. not the comments ^^^ note -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] freezing mozilla with mplayer plug-in
On Thursday 09 March 2006 19:56, pat wrote: I have Mozilla with MPlayer plug-in. Each time I play something with the plug-in the Mozilla freez with next operation. What's wrong ??? Did you check to see if you are getting any error by launching mozilla from a terminal? -- Regards, Abhay pgp7ZQ0fuCJYu.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo
Hey group, I am a long time Linux user, however I am new to Gentoo. I used Red Hat/Fedora for many years, then my own Linux based on LFS and the last year I have been using Ubuntu. I really like Ubuntu because of apt, however I have had frustrations with Ubuntu because it could be a pain to get newer versions of packages installed. For example Ubuntu defaulted to Apache 1.x for mod_mono. I have now been using Gentoo for a few days and I am running into some issues I hope this group can help with. At first emerge was trying to merge some really old packages. For example I wanted mysql 5.x, php 5.x and Apache 2.x and Gentoo was only going to install mysql 4.x. I did find out about ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 which has helped with getting more recent versions of software installed. I am looking for any good links, tips, suggestions of admin software to emerge, etc to help me learn the ins-and-outs of Gentoo. I have tons of questions but don't know where to look. Well, I can google but that takes ages and I was hoping many of you on this list will have a nice set of bookmarks on gentoo admin, handy gentoo software, tips etc. Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on Gentoo: See list of all *installed* software. Browse available software that can be installed. See what version of a particular software package is installed. See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. ... Thanks, Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba
On 3/9/06, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/8/06, Kris Kerwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks! I have a quick question. I'm a college student. I share my printer with my roommate. We have separate computers; he uses Windows XP, and I Gentoo. Together, we're behind our school's router which dynamically assigns us both IP's. Currently, in order to share our printer, we simply unplug it from one another's computers. However, we would like to be able to share it over the network instead to make life easier for the both of us. However, there are a few problems that I'm foreseeing. First off, I have a laptop with only one ethernet port, so setting up an ad hoc network between us is out of the question. Also, my school has a one port - one computer rule that prohibits routers. Second, since we're both behind a DHCPd server, we both have dynamic IPs. There's no easy way to point his computer to the right server if it has a dynamic IP. Third, since we're both behind a router, using something like DynDNS to provide a static contact despite the dynamic IP won't work either. So, I guess what I'm wondering is if there's any way to make this work, or if I'm SOL? It would seem that people are thinking about this problem just a bit too hard. Here is how my network is setup. All users have DHCP addys, its a mix of mainly Gentoo with the odd Windows box. The printers are all connected to Gentoo servers which have cups and samba setup. Cups serves printing for all the Linux boxes and is also hooked into Samba so the windows boxes can print. As far as IP addresses go... screw em... use the netbios name of the machines, for the Windoze box this will be its hostname and the same is true for the Linux box (I don't think I had to do any extra setup in Samba to make it broadcast a netbios name). You will then be able to print locally from the Linux box via CUPS and you can install the printer just like any other shared printer (\\your_gentoo_box\printer_name) under Windows. Gentoo has excellent Samba setup howtos if you need more info. In this case you break no rules and there is no complex DNS setup stuff. Hope all this makes some sense. Well, in fact, I think it does. I forgot that the main problem was in fact just PRINTING... Yeah, cups and samba will take care of that. Samba will broadcast netbios stuff over the net so you can see your shared printer (and folders). Check: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml and http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Native_Windows_Printing_with_CUPS/Samba You know, sometimes you just loose focus and forget about simple solutions for simple problems... -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo
See list of all *installed* software. epm -ql Browse available software that can be installed. I use packages.gentoo.org See what version of a particular software package is installed. epm -ql | grep packagename See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. emerge --update world -pv Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo
On 3/9/06, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey group, snip Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on Gentoo: See list of all *installed* software. Browse available software that can be installed. See what version of a particular software package is installed. See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. ... For these tasks I use Kuroo (for KDE, http://tux.myftp.org/). I know where is something similar for GNOME too. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo
On Thursday 09 March 2006 20:16, Jim wrote: Hey group, I am a long time Linux user, however I am new to Gentoo. I used Red Hat/Fedora for many years, then my own Linux based on LFS and the last year I have been using Ubuntu. I really like Ubuntu because of apt, however I have had frustrations with Ubuntu because it could be a pain to get newer versions of packages installed. For example Ubuntu defaulted to Apache 1.x for mod_mono. I have now been using Gentoo for a few days and I am running into some issues I hope this group can help with. At first emerge was trying to merge some really old packages. For example I wanted mysql 5.x, php 5.x and Apache 2.x and Gentoo was only going to install mysql 4.x. I did find out about ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 which has helped with getting more recent versions of software installed. I am looking for any good links, tips, suggestions of admin software to emerge, etc to help me learn the ins-and-outs of Gentoo. I have tons of questions but don't know where to look. Well, I can google but that takes ages and I was hoping many of you on this list will have a nice set of bookmarks on gentoo admin, handy gentoo software, tips etc. Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on Gentoo: See list of all *installed* software. best done in kuroo ;) Browse available software that can be installed. best done in kuroo, too. See what version of a particular software package is installed. emerge -s or emerge -S See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. ... emerge -u, emerge -s or emerge -S -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo
On 3/9/06, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey group, I am a long time Linux user, however I am new to Gentoo. I used Red Hat/Fedora for many years, then my own Linux based on LFS and the last year I have been using Ubuntu. I really like Ubuntu because of apt, however I have had frustrations with Ubuntu because it could be a pain to get newer versions of packages installed. For example Ubuntu defaulted to Apache 1.x for mod_mono. I have now been using Gentoo for a few days and I am running into some issues I hope this group can help with. At first emerge was trying to merge some really old packages. For example I wanted mysql 5.x, php 5.x and Apache 2.x and Gentoo was only going to install mysql 4.x. I did find out about ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 which has helped with getting more recent versions of software installed. I am looking for any good links, tips, suggestions of admin software to emerge, etc to help me learn the ins-and-outs of Gentoo. I have tons of questions but don't know where to look. Well, I can google but that takes ages and I was hoping many of you on this list will have a nice set of bookmarks on gentoo admin, handy gentoo software, tips etc. Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on Gentoo: Welcome to Gentoo... I'm sure you will find it much easier to maintain then Fedora or Ubuntu, especially if you need newer packages. If you have any questions I would suggest you google them first, for example if you want to learn how to setup Samba on Gentoo I would google for Gentoo samba if you do a query like that the best pages are usually in the top 2 or 3 results. There are some excellent docs sites too... my favorites are: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Main_Page http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/list.xml Regarding the specific questions you have... See list of all *installed* software. See what version of a particular software package is installed. See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. emerge gentoolkit and read the man page for equery it does all of this stuff for you. I would also encourage you to read up on emerge as it is a very powerful tool for all things Portage. Browse available software that can be installed. You can do this with emerge -s packagename but IMO to get any really useful information check out http://www.gentoo-portage.com or http://packages.gentoo.org. Also if you need something that is exotic and not in Portage yet you can check out http://bugs.gentoo.org and search for an ebuild or write one yourself. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba
On 3/9/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, in fact, I think it does. I forgot that the main problem was in fact just PRINTING... Yeah, cups and samba will take care of that. Samba will broadcast netbios stuff over the net so you can see your shared printer (and folders). You know, sometimes you just loose focus and forget about simple solutions for simple problems... Hehe... everybody wants to engineer an elaborate fix when sometimes all it takes is some duck tape ;-) -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus
Ghaith Hachem wrote: That's very intresting, i actually only use windows xp since all my university software don't run in wine (OU lan simulator, visual works, mathcad) anyway having a power user seems to be a good idea i'll try it when i reinstall windows thx -- Cheers, Ghaith A windows `Power User` is too privileged for most uses. Ideally Windows would be great if it followed the Linux way of working more - install as Admin (thats fine imo) but run as a completely unprivileged (guest or standard) user. I've had problems with windows machines not running software as unprivileged users before now. Causes too many problems due to the access and thus viruses / malware that get installed. -- Tim Igoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tim.igoe.me.uk - Personal Site http://tv.igoe.me.uk - UK TV Guide http://f1forums.igoe.me.uk - *New* F1 Forums Computers are like Air-con, open windows and they stop working! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo
On 3/9/06, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey group, I am a long time Linux user, however I am new to Gentoo. I used Red Hat/Fedora for many years, then my own Linux based on LFS and the last year I have been using Ubuntu. I really like Ubuntu because of apt, however I have had frustrations with Ubuntu because it could be a pain to get newer versions of packages installed. For example Ubuntu defaulted to Apache 1.x for mod_mono. I have now been using Gentoo for a few days and I am running into some issues I hope this group can help with. At first emerge was trying to merge some really old packages. For example I wanted mysql 5.x, php 5.x and Apache 2.x and Gentoo was only going to install mysql 4.x. I did find out about ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 which has helped with getting more recent versions of software installed. Welcome!!! I am looking for any good links, tips, suggestions of admin software to emerge, etc to help me learn the ins-and-outs of Gentoo. I have tons of questions but don't know where to look. Well, I can google but that takes ages and I was hoping many of you on this list will have a nice set of bookmarks on gentoo admin, handy gentoo software, tips etc. http://www.gentoo.org - Docs Lots of info, migrating guides, howtos, and initial setup. http://forums.gentoo.org/ Any doubts, search first, ask later... http://gentoo-wiki.com/ LOTS of specific, hardware, software and configuration related topics. Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on Gentoo: See list of all *installed* software. kuroo is good, porthole seemed to do that too, but it segfault in one of my system. Browse available software that can be installed. http://packages.gentoo.org See what version of a particular software package is installed. eix package See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. emerge -u world -pv Also take a look at man emerge, man portage and the use of packages.* files. Avoid setting stuff at command line, like ACCEPT_KEYWORDS for example, use /etc/portage/packages.keywords. -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo
Mantas Povilaitis wrote: On 3/9/06, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey group, snip Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on Gentoo: See list of all *installed* software. Browse available software that can be installed. See what version of a particular software package is installed. See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. ... For these tasks I use Kuroo (for KDE, http://tux.myftp.org/). I know where is something similar for GNOME too. What would be the Gnome equivalent? I use and prefer Gnome :) Jim
Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo
On Thursday 09 March 2006 21:50, Jim wrote: For these tasks I use Kuroo (for KDE, http://tux.myftp.org/). I know where is something similar for GNOME too. What would be the Gnome equivalent? I use and prefer Gnome :) Jim porthole is gtk based, its my pick despite it happens to segfault. there is java based too but never looked at it. martins -- Linux 2.6.15-ck5 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ 22:06:34 up 10:42, 7 users, load average: 1.29, 1.31, 1.33 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [Maybe OT] Recommendations for getting started in Web design
I'm looking to get started in Web design, with the long term goal of bringing a business (mine) online. I know nothing about design, what to look for in choosing a hosting service, editing tools, or good reference materials. Basically, I'm quite a newbie in this area. The gold standard: www.w3schools.com -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(+) s+: a24 C++ UBL++ P L++ E--- W+++$ N+ o? K? w O? M-- V? !PS !PE Y PGP- t++ 5++ X+ R+++ tv+ b++ DI D++ G e+ h-- r++ y+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64
On Thursday 09 March 2006 00:04, Holly Bostick wrote: Not sure why sometimes lines get wrapped when they shouldn't be, but it does happen (even in nano, where it shouldn't, and certainly in GUI editors, if you set it that way without thinking), and it can have unexpected consequences (like this). cos it is default behavior of nano? you can override it by issuing -w option to nano. i always run nano with -w. -- Regards, Abhay pgp4BZ0jMafwJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)
have you check this tutorial: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg ? On 3/9/06, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 March 2006 07:49, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Also, it's really confusing trying to figure out /why/ they are bringing in virtual-x11. emerge -pvt is giving confusing results; basically saying that virtual-x11 is coming in because of packages which don't even have an optional dependency on X. :( I tried using equery g, but that actually says the packages I'm trying to bring in /won't/ need virtual/x11-6.8. AFAICT equery detects compile time dependencies (DEPEND) and run time depencies (RDEPEND) but not post dependencies (PDEPEND). So I think you need to look for PDEPEND in the ebuilds manually. -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2
On Thursday 09 Mar 2006 18:19, Harry Putnam wrote: Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Stear wrote: I am mounting the network usb drive using cifs I'm not quite sure, but I think cifs doesn't support symlinks. It can be done if the winbox has SFU (Services for Unix) installed I've heard, but really isn't the problem that the receiving fs does not support them? note or anyone interested: (Services for Unix is a free package from MS). Harry, This problem has nothing to do with windows, in fact my XP machine isn't even switched on. This is the ls -l on /mnt/network drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 9 14:03 usr I saw the info about coping the actual file instead of the symlink in man rsync. This raises a couple of questions. 1. If I copy the actual file and in the future need to restore my system from this full backup, what will be the implication of having perhaps multiple copies of some files? 2. How do other gentoo'ers achieve backup onto a windows machine? I will change the command line to include another -v and an STDERR to see if this helps with the mail problem. I have noticed that some messages get copied - in the case of one of my mail folders I have951 messages but only 15 are in the backup, some folders are completely empty. I am a little confused if cifs does or does not support symlinks. As a last resort is there any other way for me to to achieve a complete copy of my gentoo system on this network usb storage link? Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo
eix package epm -ql Where are these trick tools found? Maybe I'm way out of date but here is what I'd use: First (equery is part of app-portage/gentoolkit) (Go thru the man page of course) It has many of the same functions you may have used with rpm. o See list of all *installed* software. equery list Browse available software that can be installed. (esearch is found in app-portage/esearch) esearch REGEX to find stuff on you current portage tree. someone already posted the packages page for stuff that may not be on your tree yet. o See what version of a particular software package is installed. equery list pkg I also use a sometimes quicker way: esearch pkg or REGEX since esearch output also shows what is installed and what is not. o See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. This would involve synching your portage tree which have much more repercussions than you want so use the URL posted for packages. Here is another you will use a lot. It works like: rpm -f /path/file equery belongs /path/file A quick way to find out what package contains a binary tool you already have installed. (an easy one) # equery belongs `which dd` [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/dd in *... ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.94-r1 (/usr/bin/dd - /bin/dd) That gives you the address of the package this tool resides in on the portage tree (/usr/portage/ is dropped off the front end) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo
On 3/9/06, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: eix package * app-portage/eix Latest version available: 0.3.0-r2 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 281 kB Homepage:http://eixwiki.unfoog.de Description: Small utility for searching ebuilds with indexing for fast results License: GPL-2 epm -ql * app-portage/epm Latest version available: 0.9.0 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 10 kB Homepage:http://www.gentoo.org/~agriffis/epm/ Description: rpm workalike for Gentoo Linux License: GPL-2 Where are these trick tools found? Answered ;) emerge -s stuff Maybe I'm way out of date but here is what I'd use: First (equery is part of app-portage/gentoolkit) (Go thru the man page of course) It has many of the same functions you may have used with rpm. o See list of all *installed* software. equery list Browse available software that can be installed. (esearch is found in app-portage/esearch) esearch REGEX to find stuff on you current portage tree. someone already posted the packages page for stuff that may not be on your tree yet. o See what version of a particular software package is installed. equery list pkg I also use a sometimes quicker way: esearch pkg or REGEX since esearch output also shows what is installed and what is not. o See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. This would involve synching your portage tree which have much more repercussions than you want so use the URL posted for packages. Here is another you will use a lot. It works like: rpm -f /path/file equery belongs /path/file A quick way to find out what package contains a binary tool you already have installed. (an easy one) # equery belongs `which dd` [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/dd in *... ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.94-r1 (/usr/bin/dd - /bin/dd) That gives you the address of the package this tool resides in on the portage tree (/usr/portage/ is dropped off the front end) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Yours work too, and are a single package, I just found eix because it is fast, and never heard of epm till this thread comes up, but it seems great for ex-rpm users... -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 14:39 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: eix package epm -ql Where are these trick tools found? app-portage/eix: Small utility for searching ebuilds with indexing for fast results app-portage/epm: rpm workalike for Gentoo Linux Eix is very nice. I have no experience with epm. --- Vladimir Vladimir G. Ivanovic Palo Alto, CA 94306 +1 650 678 8014
[gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2
Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harry, This problem has nothing to do with windows, in fact my XP machine isn't even switched on. You say the fs was created by the the router and that you don't know what the fs is. Yet you also say it has nothing to do with windows. Your error output indicates it is almost certainly a windows based fs. Can you post the output of fdisk -l /dev/YourUSBdevice (minus the last number) (You'll need to su to root for this) You will need to plug the device directly into the gentoo box and figure out which sdX device it is then: fdisk -l /dev/sdX 1. If I copy the actual file and in the future need to restore my system from this full backup, what will be the implication of having perhaps multiple copies of some files? 2. How do other gentoo'ers achieve backup onto a windows machine? There are other gotchas that are even worse using windows based receiver fs. Some kind of file modification date snafu can cause massive re rsyncing of everything in the backup. It happend to me quite a while back so I've forgotten the details. You need to reformat the usb disks so all these problems disappear. I will change the command line to include another -v and an STDERR to see if this helps with the mail problem. I have noticed that some messages get copied - in the case of one of my mail folders I have951 messages but only 15 are in the backup, some folders are completely empty. I am a little confused if cifs does or does not support symlinks. Have you read man mount.cifs? It tells you there. As a last resort is there any other way for me to to achieve a complete copy of my gentoo system on this network usb storage link? Plug the USB devices into you gentoo box usb ports then: Reformat it to ext3 or some other linux friendly fs. Use fdisk or cfdisk to set up any partitions you might want use mkfs.ext3 or mfks.reiserfs (or some other favored fs) while device is umounted. Understand that all data will be lost during this format. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo
On Thursday 09 March 2006 21:39, Harry Putnam wrote: # equery belongs `which dd` [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/dd in *... ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.94-r1 (/usr/bin/dd - /bin/dd) That gives you the address of the package this tool resides in on the portage tree (/usr/portage/ is dropped off the front end) No reason to use which for this. # equery b dd [ Searching for file(s) dd in *... ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r7 (/bin/dd) sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r7 (/usr/bin/dd - /bin/dd) -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources
Holly Bostick wrote:
Jerry Turba schreef:
Willie Wong wrote:
Do you have gentoolkit installed? If so, run
# equery list -p gentoo-sources
Results of equery: backup:~ $ equery list -p gentoo-sources [
Searching for package 'gentoo-sources' in all categories among: ] *
installed packages
[I--] [ ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.31-r1 (2.4.31-r1)
[I--] [M ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r3 (2.6.11-r3)
[I--] [M ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r9 (2.6.12-r9)
[I--] [M ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 (2.6.12-r10)
[I--] [M ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r2 (2.6.14-r2)
* Portage tree (/usr/portage) [-P-] [M~]
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.32-r2 (2.4.32-r2)
[-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r7 (2.6.14-r7)
[-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15 (2.6.15)
I do have gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10 installed and running. I never
had a 2.4 kernel installed on this system. Thanks for your help.
Myself, I'm starting to wonder if this isn't a mirror issue (what
mirror are you sync-ing with? Check /etc/make.conf), because mine looks
like this:
equery list -p gentoo-sources
[ Searching for package 'gentoo-sources' in all categories among: ]
* installed packages
[I--] [ ~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r5 (2.6.15-r5)
[I--] [ ~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r6 (2.6.15-r6)
[I--] [ ~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r7 (2.6.15-r7)
* Portage tree (/usr/portage)
[-P-] [ ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.31-r1 (2.4.31-r1)
[-P-] [ ~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.32-r2 (2.4.32-r2)
[-P-] [ ~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r7 (2.6.14-r7)
[-P-] [ ~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15 (2.6.15)
[-P-] [ ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1 (2.6.15-r1)
[-P-] [ ~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r2 (2.6.15-r2)
[-P-] [ ~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r3 (2.6.15-r3)
[-P-] [ ~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r4 (2.6.15-r4)
If you've synced twice already, and you're still getting such old
packages (2.6.*11*??), there's gotta be something wrong with your mirror
or your cache, it seems to me. Cache I don't know how to fix, but
changing mirrors is an easy way to fix the problem or eliminate one
possible vector of trouble (if nothing changs, then we know the problem
is something else, and there aren't too many things it could be, at that
point).
HTH,
Holly
Here is /etc/make.conf:
These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically
built this stage
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example
CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe
CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://gentoo.osuosl.org/
http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.
seren.com/gentoo
SYNC=rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
USE=hal -emboss doc -bidi -ipv6 mmx -nls sse -gnome -berkdb \
kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas bitmap-fonts truetype-fonts type1-fonts
ALSA_CARDS=via82xx
PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage
CCACHE_SIZE=2G
FEATURES=ccache
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/init.d
I am new to and learning how gnetoo works, but I don't quite follow your
line of thought; I download packages from osuosl.org (oregon state?) but
when I sync I seem to hit a random server somewhere. Last time I synced
it was in Milwaukee,Wisc.
Andrei:
Here is /etc/make.profile:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root48 Aug 30 2005 make.profile -
../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0
This is the profile I used when I first did the install and I don't
remember ever making any change to it. I am on my way now to read the
doc you suggested.
I have the uninformed naging thought that I am having this problem
because I have not upgraded gcc from 3.3.6. I posted this thought
earlier but no one commented on its likelihood.
Thanks to everyone for responding.
Jerry
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Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources
jerry schreef:
Holly Bostick wrote:
Myself, I'm starting to wonder if this isn't a mirror issue (what
mirror are you sync-ing with
If you've synced twice already, and you're still getting such old
packages (2.6.*11*??), there's gotta be something wrong with your
mirror or your cache, it seems to me.
Here is /etc/make.conf:
These settings were set by the catalyst build script that
automatically built this stage # Please consult
/etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example CFLAGS=-O2
-march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://gentoo.osuosl.org/
http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo. seren.com/gentoo
SYNC=rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
snip
I am new to and learning how gnetoo works, but I don't quite follow
your line of thought; I download packages from osuosl.org (oregon
state?) but when I sync I seem to hit a random server somewhere. Last
time I synced it was in Milwaukee,Wisc.
Yes, that's correct. Syncing with the Portage tree (that's the SYNC
setting, above) is a different operation than downloading packages (from
the GENTOO_MIRRORS setting above).
You sync your Portage tree from a pool of Portage servers on your
continent. Which server is chosen is random; this decreases the load on
the individual members of the server group.
I take it you're in the U.S., so you're syncing with the US pool; I'm in
The Netherlands, so my SYNC variable looks like this:
SYNC=rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
When I emerge --sync, I connect to one of the various Gentoo rsync
servers in this country randomly.
However, whenever I download tarballs, they come from one of these servers:
GENTOO_MIRRORS=ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo
http://gentoo.osuosl.org;
And if the file is not found on any of them, the ebuild will usually
direct Portage to attempt to download directly from the homepage of the
project or Sourceforge, whichever is applicable.
This is all as it should be.
In any case, the problem I was trying to track is whether the reason
your local Portage tree was not current, even though you've synced,
might not be because the remote Portage tree you were syncing with was
not current (it can happen; servers change or are not often updated, and
if your profile was very old, you might be using an old server that
wasn't in sync with the times).
However, it's hard to imagine that the US pool might not be current.
[General question] What else might prevent a sync from actually updating
the local tree correctly?
U unless it actually has, and the problem is Portage not knowing
it somehow
Would you do an
ls /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/
and post the output?
I'm just wondering if the ebuilds are physically there or not.
I have the uninformed naging thought that I am having this problem
because I have not upgraded gcc from 3.3.6. I posted this thought
earlier but no one commented on its likelihood.
I cannot imagine what gcc (your compiler) would have to do with the
contents of the Portage tree, or why you would think it did :-) .
Upgrading GCC or not doing so has nothing, as far as I know, to do with
rsync or the actual functionality of updating your Portage tree.
Certainly gcc
is not involved in any way in actually updating the Portage tree, which,
as far as we currently know (until you post the output of that ls,
anyway), is the issue at hand.
HTH,
Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64
www.wolfspakt.de/spiel.php?id=7358 On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 22:24:25 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 08 March 2006 21:49, Kumar Golap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64': Apologies for not having done my research properly No problem, it happens. Truth be told it's probably more of a problem with people being unable to /find/ the manual than being unwilling to /read/ it. Besides, the age-old man command, and it's younger upstart info, are quickly being deprecated in favor of simply pointing someone to a web page. I find this unfortunate, at best. BTW, if you don't like consoles or fixed-width fonts make you itch, you can always use a man:/ or info:/ URL in konqueror. (Not sure what the Gnome/FB/BB/OB/ION/WMII/RP/other people use...) In this /specific/ case, you don't have to because the ebuilds and gcc know that x86_64 CHOST means that mmx etc. ARE supported and they will hard-enable them (you may not turn them off). Do you mean that, say, xawtv would have been built with mmx for an amd64 arch...despite that equery uses say its not ? Because that what confused me Yes. It will. The ebuild controls which arguments are passed to configure/make so it can decide on the combination of you USE flags and profile. I'm not sure if it is portage magic (the portage 'use' command available in ebuilds doing some check on CHOST) or just ebuild maintainers explicitly checking for an x86_64 CHOST, but you will get mmx/sse optimizations without any special USE flags. You probably /should/ set your -march flag (or at least -mcpu) in CFLAGS, so that gcc will optimize to your particular processor, including extended instruction sets. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list pgpaWo7kS3LUZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo
www.wolfspakt.de/spiel.php?id=7358 On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:50:51 -0500 Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mantas Povilaitis wrote: On 3/9/06, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey group, snip Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on Gentoo: See list of all *installed* software. Browse available software that can be installed. See what version of a particular software package is installed. See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. ... For these tasks I use Kuroo (for KDE, http://tux.myftp.org/). I know where is something similar for GNOME too. What would be the Gnome equivalent? I use and prefer Gnome :) Jim pgpULkgYp11Yj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo
On Thursday 09 March 2006 20:16, Jim wrote:
I have now been using Gentoo for a few days and I am running into some
issues I hope this group can help with. At first emerge was trying to
merge some really old packages. For example I wanted mysql 5.x, php 5.x
and Apache 2.x and Gentoo was only going to install mysql 4.x. I did
find out about ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 which has helped with getting more
recent versions of software installed.
In Debian/Ubuntu etc. you can choose between stable and testing. The
equivalent of testing in Gentoo is enabled by putting ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~ARCH
in /etc/make.conf (in your case ARCH=x86). If like me you choose to run
generally stable and only choose testing (~ARCH) for some packages, then you
should never use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS when emerging something. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS may
on rare occasions be interesting with emerge --pretend to see what a testing
package requires. Instead when installing a testing package you should put it
in /etc/portage/package.keywords. If you do emerge something with
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line then portage will downgrade the package
next time you try to upgrade world (emerge --update --verbose --deep world).
Also never emerge something without first trying with --pretend or --ask to
see what it will do.
Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on
Gentoo:
See list of all *installed* software.
I would use (it's a capital i):
#eix --installed --compact
This provides a list of all installed packages including all dependencies.
In /var/lib/portage/world there is a list of all of all software that you
have explicitly installed. The rest of what is installed should be depencies
of packages in the world file. So to get a list of packages that I installed
I would use (this is only one line):
#while read pkg; do eix --force-color --compact ^${pkg}$ | head -n 1; done
/var/lib/portage/world
Browse available software that can be installed.
Others have mentioned kuroo which is by far the best gui that I have ever seen
for portage (not that I ever use a gui ;) ). The most recent version of kuroo
in portage i.e. kuroo 0.7* does not support portage 2.1* (~ARCH) so if you
use that you need kuroo 0.8.0_rc1. There is an ebuild available from the
project page [1] that you can easily use through a local overlay [2].
[1] http://tux.myftp.org/installation.html
[2] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds
See what version of a particular software package is installed.
#eix package
See if any new versions of *installed* software are available.
To do a sync I always use eix-sync rather than emerge --sync. This provides a
much better overview of what was changed during that particular sync. To see
all versions of a particular package
#eix package
To see if there are newer versions of anything in world:
#emerge --update --verbose --deep --pretend world
Important packages to install for portage are as others have mentioned eix and
gentoolkit.
HtH
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Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo
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[gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo
Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where are these trick tools found? Answered ;) emerge -s stuff Not quite... sometimes yes, but not always. If it isn't in the package name that won't find it. I made a bad assumption that since I'd never heard of these tools they were not in package names. And instead inside some package whose name didn't suggest it. In that case you have to ask or go to the packages URL I guess. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources
Holly Bostick wrote: In any case, the problem I was trying to track is whether the reason your local Portage tree was not current, even though you've synced, might not be because the remote Portage tree you were syncing with was not current (it can happen; servers change or are not often updated, and if your profile was very old, you might be using an old server that wasn't in sync with the times). However, it's hard to imagine that the US pool might not be current. [General question] What else might prevent a sync from actually updating the local tree correctly? U unless it actually has, and the problem is Portage not knowing it somehow Would you do an ls /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/ and post the output? I'm just wondering if the ebuilds are physically there or not. I have the uninformed naging thought that I am having this problem because I have not upgraded gcc from 3.3.6. I posted this thought earlier but no one commented on its likelihood. I cannot imagine what gcc (your compiler) would have to do with the contents of the Portage tree, or why you would think it did :-) . Upgrading GCC or not doing so has nothing, as far as I know, to do with rsync or the actual functionality of updating your Portage tree. Certainly gcc is not involved in any way in actually updating the Portage tree, which, as far as we currently know (until you post the output of that ls, anyway), is the issue at hand. HTH, Holly backup jerry # ls /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/ ChangeLoggentoo-sources-2.6.15-r3.ebuild Manifest gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r4.ebuild filesgentoo-sources-2.6.15-r5.ebuild gentoo-sources-2.4.31-r1.ebuild gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r6.ebuild gentoo-sources-2.4.32-r2.ebuild gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r7.ebuild gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r7.ebuild gentoo-sources-2.6.15.ebuild gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1.ebuild metadata.xml gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r2.ebuild I decided to go ahead and upgrade gcc-3.3.6 to 3.4.5. I am following the gentoo linux gcc upgrade guide carefully. I have already completed the emerge -e system, and will start emerge -e world. backup jerry # equery -C l gcc [ Searching for package 'gcc' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] sys-devel/gcc-3.3.6 (3.3) [I--] [ ] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5 (3.4) [I--] [ ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.12-r6 (0) My gut says it is not right to have 2 versions of gcc installed. backup jerry # emerge -pv gcc These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5 (-altivec) -bootstrap -boundschecking -build +fortran -gcj +gtk -hardened -ip28 (-multilib) -multislot (-n32) (-n64) -nls -nocxx -nopie -nossp -objc -vanilla 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Since I started to upgrade gcc that confuse the issue. I read the doc suggested by Andrei http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml I have not seen any warning from portage for the need to upgrade to a newer profile, and have not seen and talk about it in the ng. I probably will do the upgrade to the newer profile after I finish the gcc upgrade. Thanks for you help Jerry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] www.wolfspakt.de/spiel.php?id=7358
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[gentoo-user] how to track this down (emerge of amaya)
Attempting to emerge www-client/amaya The tail end of emerge shows: i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++: ../redland/raptor/.libs/libraptor.a: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [../bin/amaya] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/amaya-8.7/work/Amaya/LINUX-ELF/amaya' make: *** [amaya_prog] Error 2 !!! ERROR: www-client/amaya-8.7 failed. media-libs/raptor is installed. How to track this down? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources
Andrei Slavoiu wrote: It looks like you are using a very old profile. Make sure /etc/make.profile points to a recent profile (for the x86 architecture that would be /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0) See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml You are right and I am using an old profile: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root48 Aug 30 2005 make.profile - ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0 I read the doc you suggested. Either I completely missed/misunderstood the notice that was sent warning me to upgrade to a newer profile, or the warning may not have been sent because according to the gentoo-upgrading doc a new file should have been added to the 2005.0 directory named deprecated ; the contents of which contain the name of the new profile to be used. There is a deprecated file in /usr/portage/profiles/obsolete/x86 that says 2004.3 is the upgraded profile. I have run emerge -u portage and it says everything is fine. The gentoo-upgrading doc does not indicate how to upgrade to the 2006.0 profile. Is merely changing the symlink adequate as was done for 2005.0 -- 2005.1? Jerry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources
jerry schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: However, it's hard to imagine that the US pool might not be current. [General question] What else might prevent a sync from actually updating the local tree correctly? U unless it actually has, and the problem is Portage not knowing it somehow Would you do an ls /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/ and post the output? I'm just wondering if the ebuilds are physically there or not. backup jerry # ls /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/ ChangeLog gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r3.ebuild Manifest gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r4.ebuild files gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r5.ebuild gentoo-sources-2.4.31-r1.ebuild gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r6.ebuild gentoo-sources-2.4.32-r2.ebuild gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r7.ebuild gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r7.ebuild gentoo-sources-2.6.15.ebuild gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1.ebuild metadata.xml gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r2.ebuild Well, wouldja look at that! So the ebuilds *are* there, but Portage is just not offering them. Have you: 1) checked /etc/portage/package.mask (maybe you masked them and forgot)? 2) checked your Portage version (maybe you need an upgrade)? 3) tried emerging one of the invisible versions explicitly (emerge -av =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r7)? Even an error or failure might tell us more about what's going on than we know now. HTH; talk to you after the gcc upgrade is done. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo
app-portage/epm: rpm workalike for Gentoo Linux you mean it's a rpm-like CLI for emerge? m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo
app-portage/epm: rpm workalike for Gentoo Linux you mean it's a rpm-like CLI for emerge? not the backend, but the frontend, yes. Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:52:08PM -0800, Penguin Lover jerry squawked: Andrei Slavoiu wrote: It looks like you are using a very old profile. Make sure /etc/make.profile points to a recent profile (for the x86 architecture that would be /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0) See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml You are right and I am using an old profile: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root48 Aug 30 2005 make.profile - ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0 Hum, I have the same profile, and don't have your problem. [07:47 PM]wwong ~ $ ls -ld /etc/make.profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Apr 2 2005 /etc/make.profile - /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0 [07:47 PM]wwong ~ $ equery list -p gentoo-sources [ Searching for package 'gentoo-sources' in all categories among: ] * installed packages * Portage tree (/home/portage) [-P-] [ ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.31-r1 (2.4.31-r1) [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.32-r2 (2.4.32-r2) [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r7 (2.6.14-r7) [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15 (2.6.15) [-P-] [ ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1 (2.6.15-r1) [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r2 (2.6.15-r2) [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r3 (2.6.15-r3) [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r4 (2.6.15-r4) [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r5 (2.6.15-r5) [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r6 (2.6.15-r6) [-P-] [M~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r7 (2.6.15-r7) And besides, if the profile is blocking the packages, wouldn't the source still appear in equery but hard masked [M-]? It seems to me that portage is not picking up the changes made to your tree. What happens if you run emerge --metadata? W -- All of this is on the web, so other people know it too. ~DeathMech, S. Sondhi. P-town PHY 205 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 117 days, 17:15 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about latest gentoo-sources
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:24:16PM -0800, Penguin Lover jerry squawked: I decided to go ahead and upgrade gcc-3.3.6 to 3.4.5. I am following the gentoo linux gcc upgrade guide carefully. I have already completed the emerge -e system, and will start emerge -e world. backup jerry # equery -C l gcc [ Searching for package 'gcc' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] sys-devel/gcc-3.3.6 (3.3) [I--] [ ] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5 (3.4) [I--] [ ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.12-r6 (0) My gut says it is not right to have 2 versions of gcc installed. It is perfectly fine. [08:00 PM]wwong profiles $ gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-20050130 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-20050130-hardenednopie [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-20050130-hardenednopiessp [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-20050130-hardenednossp [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-20050130-vanilla [6] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5 * [7] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5-hardenednopie [8] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5-hardenednopiessp [9] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5-hardenednossp [10] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5-vanilla In fact, some pesty programs won't compile on the 3.4 branch (in my case, wine compiled with 3.4.* would segfault on start, but runs fine with 3.3.5). W -- Faye: I am glad that such a foolish man is not around, for I would surely defenestrate him with great rapidity. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 117 days, 17:23 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems
I'm attempting to install Gentoo with the GUI livecd 2006 utility, and I'm installing it on a laptop which was dual booting happily with debian winxp. I wiped the debian installation, and carefully made sure that Gentoo wasn't going to wipe out the winxp partition which is the first. I made /dev/hda2 one partition for gentoo, and it's JFS. The installation process finished without errors, but when I reboot the machine I have 2 problems: (i) the grub installation doesn't show the winxp entry (easy enough fixed, but still an installation bug) (ii) gentoo starts booting, but fails when trying to mount the root device. Determining root device... Mounting root... mount : Mounting /dev/hda2 on /newroot failed: Invalid argument !! Could not mount specified ROOT, try again !! The root block device is unspecified or not detected. The grub boot lines are: root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 This was how the installer set it up, so what needs to change to fix it ? thanks! Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba
On Thursday 09 March 2006 11:56, Eric Bliss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba': On Wednesday 08 March 2006 18:28, Kris Kerwin wrote: Currently, in order to share our printer, we simply unplug it from one another's computers. However, we would like to be able to share it over the network instead to make life easier for the both of us. However, there are a few problems that I'm foreseeing. Back before in-home networks were practical, my dad had a little gray box that had three cables going in the back end, and a switch on the front - A/B. I think that box was for the old parallel printer ports, but I'd imagine that if you go down to Best Buy or another computer store they'd have something similar for sharing a USB device between multiple machines. Now a days they usually call such devices KVM switches. Although, that may be a term specific to boxes like that which allow a monitor, keyboard, and mouse to be shared between all the computers in a rack. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)
On Thursday 09 March 2006 03:28, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)': On Thursday 09 March 2006 07:49, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: emerge -pvt is giving confusing results; basically saying that virtual-x11 is coming in because of packages which don't even have an optional dependency on X. :( I tried using equery g, but that actually says the packages I'm trying to bring in /won't/ need virtual/x11-6.8. AFAICT equery detects compile time dependencies (DEPEND) and run time depencies (RDEPEND) but not post dependencies (PDEPEND). So I think you need to look for PDEPEND in the ebuilds manually. This, I did not know. I will look into it. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)
On Thursday 09 March 2006 14:28, Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Moving to xorg-x11-7.0 (Modular X)': have you check this tutorial: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg ? No, I was working from the Official Gentoo documentation linked from a Gentoo Weekly Newletter a week or so back. I'll look though this document. Thanks. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags
On Thursday 09 March 2006 10:29, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags': On 3/9/06, Goran Maksimoviæ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw that there was a discussion about USE flags and I would seek your advice on that matter. Well, when I installed Gentoo 2006.0, I used the GRP and Dynamic Stage 3, so, couldn't set my USE flags. Well, you could, but then portage would have decided to not use (some of) the available binary packages (since they had different USE settings). I don't set USE at make.conf. After the GRP install, I sync'ed, then issued a emerge -uDNpv world and started emerge -pving each package in the list, checking USEs and writting them to package.use. After that, each and every package installed follows the same path. This way you don't loose control over your flags and avoid useless stuff (like compiling a lot of programs with KDE support when you only need kde-base because of K3B). That's roughly the way I do it. Although, initially I started with stage1... In any case, I just do regular 'emerge -avtuND world's and make sure and read the USE flags there. Paying /particular/ attention to yellow (new) or stared (changed) use flags. Also, after any change to /etc/portage/package.use or the USE variable in make.conf, I do a emerge -avtuND world. Occasionally, I'll notice some feature I want is missing, them I emerge -pv or equery u the package to check use flags to tweak. If the use flag doesn't jump out at me, I might continue with a grep against use.desc and use.local or a emerge -pve package (in case the functionality is actually missing from a dependency). I used to be fairly religious about putting global use flags in make.conf and package-specific use flags in package.use -- I no longer do this since the gentoo developers are nice enough to rarely overlap local use flags, so I can just stick everything into a gargantuan USE variable in make.conf. It's easier that way since I manage my use flags with euse. -- If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems
* on the Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:24:58PM +1100, TN said: snip The grub boot lines are: root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 I think I read somewhere that JFS needs to be booted rw instead of ro. Try to change your kernel= line to this: kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 rw *NOTE* the above should be ONE line. P.S. Why didn't you try ReiserFS or ext3? I have always used reiserfs without issue and find it to be very stable and very fast. Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems
On 3/9/06, TN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting to install Gentoo with the GUI livecd 2006 utility, and I'm installing it on a laptop which was dual booting happily with debian winxp. I wiped the debian installation, and carefully made sure that Gentoo wasn't going to wipe out the winxp partition which is the first. I made /dev/hda2 one partition for gentoo, and it's JFS. The installation process finished without errors, but when I reboot the machine I have 2 problems: (i) the grub installation doesn't show the winxp entry (easy enough fixed, but still an installation bug) (ii) gentoo starts booting, but fails when trying to mount the root device. Determining root device... Mounting root... mount : Mounting /dev/hda2 on /newroot failed: Invalid argument !! Could not mount specified ROOT, try again !! The root block device is unspecified or not detected. The grub boot lines are: root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 This was how the installer set it up, so what needs to change to fix it ? thanks! From the gentoo handbook located here http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=10 Note: If your root filesystem is JFS, you must add ro to the kernel line since JFS needs to replay its log before it allows read-write mounting. I don't use JFS so I dobn't know exactly how to do it but this is what I got from searching google. Kirby -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim wrote: * on the Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:24:58PM +1100, TN said: snip The grub boot lines are: root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 I think I read somewhere that JFS needs to be booted rw instead of ro. Try to change your kernel= line to this: kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 rw *NOTE* the above should be ONE line. P.S. Why didn't you try ReiserFS or ext3? I have always used reiserfs without issue and find it to be very stable and very fast. Jim I got it backwards. Change the rw to ro like so: kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 ro Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEEN+feqJ5Vbm4CxYRAh1rAJwKHftjbW/HYTuPjP4o7XX79iqg9ACfcT6F 2vFpERIygQVKVcc2xNejTc8= =ZU8Y -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to enable glx
I enabled the glx, but it seems the speed is still slow. $ glxinfo | grep rendering direct rendering: Yes The output of glxgears is about 130 FPS. I use intel_agp. $ lsmod mach64 54144 1 drm75672 2 mach64 intel_agp 23324 1 agpgart35016 2 drm,intel_agp $ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1988 Allegro-1 (rev 12) 00:06.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 09) 00:06.1 Serial controller: Xircom Unknown device 00d3 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03) 00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 00:0c.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): NEC Corporation IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64) Did I do it right? -- Wang ShaoChun(王绍春) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to Gentoo
On 3/9/06, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: app-portage/epm: rpm workalike for Gentoo Linux you mean it's a rpm-like CLI for emerge? I mean nothing, the ebuild says so... m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems
Jim wrote: snip I think I read somewhere that JFS needs to be booted rw instead of ro. Try to change your kernel= line to this: kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 rw *NOTE* the above should be ONE line. P.S. Why didn't you try ReiserFS or ext3? I have always used reiserfs without issue and find it to be very stable and very fast. Jim I have tried both rw ro since I had 2 different replies about this problem - unfortunately both failed with the same error as before. I use JFS since I find that it's fast stable too like Reiser. I tended to use a scattering of filesystems in the past so that I had experience of them all, but I'm gravitating towards JFS mostly now on my servers. I've done extensive speed testing using IOZone (http://www.iozone.org/) and for our systems, our drives, our application I just liked jfs. Not a lot between them all though apart from speed of file creation/deletion. thanks Trevor. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to enable glx
On 3/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I enabled the glx, but it seems the speed is still slow. $ glxinfo | grep rendering direct rendering: Yes The output of glxgears is about 130 FPS. I use intel_agp. $ lsmod mach64 54144 1 drm75672 2 mach64 intel_agp 23324 1 agpgart35016 2 drm,intel_agp $ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1988 Allegro-1 (rev 12) 00:06.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 09) 00:06.1 Serial controller: Xircom Unknown device 00d3 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03) 00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 00:0c.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): NEC Corporation IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64) Did I do it right? You won't get much from this card, the drivers are there but do not give a good result, my radeon gives me 300fps and its a 4x AGP, so I guess yours is kinda correct, there are tips over the net to get more FPS, even a gentoo specific: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml Check it out... -- Wang ShaoChun(王绍春) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] AA Fonts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am wondering if I messed up something during my build of Xorg. Some fonts look real nice on my system while others look like junk. Here is a page showing what is going on: http://keeliegirl.com/temp/fonts.html Courier looks like garbage until about 16px. Courier New looks better, though it is faint and not well aliased/hinted. Bitstream Vera Mono looks nice, along with all the other Bitstream fonts. My problem is that there are a lot of web sites (coding) that have code sections that use Courier as the font, for example the Gentoo Forum here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1398168 I also get a lot of MS Word and MS Excel documents from work that all use MS Fonts like Arial, Times New Roman, etc. Is there anything I can do to fix up these fonts? I have the following TTF fonts installed: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/ /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/ /usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/ Thanks, Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFEEOXBeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAm8QAJ43+9woiYSxURl8WJSIjRAWWEduTQCSA3Fj QrP4mDOuE2gQpeE9k66JZw== =Z5J/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 TN wrote: I have tried both rw ro since I had 2 different replies about this problem - unfortunately both failed with the same error as before. I use JFS since I find that it's fast stable too like Reiser. I tended to use a scattering of filesystems in the past so that I had experience of them all, but I'm gravitating towards JFS mostly now on my servers. I've done extensive speed testing using IOZone (http://www.iozone.org/) and for our systems, our drives, our application I just liked jfs. Not a lot between them all though apart from speed of file creation/deletion. thanks Trevor. Did you try to boot from the livecd, or another boot cd, and see if you can even mount your JFS partition? Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEEOxeeqJ5Vbm4CxYRApsdAJ9VGwyvgFzd0UcVVP4H89Rm8YWizwCeJ67S XapNTue457pE2cDqY3DrdOg= =v5sW -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
Well I can't get the live cd to boot so I'll check back in a year to see if Gentoo has it's act togather yet. I do look forward to running Gentoo, someday. Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home page http://ka9qlq.tripod.com This PC is windows free with Mepis Linux 3.4-3 http://www.mepis.org/ 1(747)632-4973 SIP Get Gizmo 1 cent per minuet calling http://www.gizmoproject.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
* on the Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:06:14PM -0800, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman said: Well I can't get the live cd to boot so I'll check back in a year to see if Gentoo has it's act togather yet. I do look forward to running Gentoo, someday. Alvin The live cd is still pretty new and could have some bugs. What issues are you having? Do you get any error messages? What are the specs of the box you are trying to boot it on? Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems
I am assuming the kernel is built with JFS support compiled in and not as a module. I am not a genkernel user but couldn't you boot the machine like this, root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda2 This will test if it's a kernel problem or a boot splash problem. Kirby -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] AA Fonts
I see the issue. Generally I allow kde to control font antialiasing, I assume gtk-engines-qt passes the settings through to firefox and other gtk apps. Preview here: http://qupada.orcon.net.nz/ff.png Interestingly, konqueror produces output similar to firefox on your pc: http://qupada.orcon.net.nz/konq.png I installed just about everything in media-fonts, and have a large fonts section in xorg.conf to match: FontPath/usr/share/fonts/arphicfonts FontPath/usr/local/share/fonts FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts FontPath/usr/share/fonts FontPath/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled FontPath/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled FontPath/usr/share/fonts/TTF FontPath/usr/share/fonts/Type1 FontPath/usr/share/fonts/corefonts FontPath/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic FontPath/usr/share/fonts/default FontPath/usr/share/fonts/encodings FontPath/usr/share/fonts/freefont FontPath/usr/share/fonts/jmk FontPath/usr/share/fonts/lfpfonts-fix FontPath/usr/share/fonts/lfpfonts-var FontPath/usr/share/fonts/local FontPath/usr/share/fonts/misc FontPath/usr/share/fonts/monafont FontPath/usr/share/fonts/twmoefonts FontPath/usr/share/fonts/ukr FontPath/usr/share/fonts/urw-fonts FontPath/usr/share/fonts/util FontPath/usr/share/fonts/zh-kcfonts I have no idea what would be causing the problem, but do check your window manager's font antialiasing settings. -- Thomas Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] +64211031910 == Mozilla Firefox: Take back the web www.mozilla.org/products/firefox -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman wrote: Well I can't get the live cd to boot so I'll check back in a year to see if Gentoo has it's act togather yet. I do look forward to running Gentoo, someday. Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home page http://ka9qlq.tripod.com This PC is windows free with Mepis Linux 3.4-3 http://www.mepis.org/ 1(747)632-4973 SIP Get Gizmo 1 cent per minuet calling http://www.gizmoproject.com/ Man, not to sound mean but this is what I was afraid of when the Gentoo Installer was released. =/ I really don't think Gentoo is that hard to install if you just read the docs. Gentoo was my first Linux OS..man I read alot during the first months. -Jeremy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus
-Original Message- From: Bob Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 March 2006 21:05 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus [snip] As to insert App Name here not running without Admin rights, most of those cases can be taken care of with RunAs. It's better to run a single App with Admin privledges rather than have all apps including email and browsers running with Admin rights. Actually, it would be better to troubleshoot the particular application and allow it write/execute or modify rights *only* to the files it needs to access for the particular plain user (typically some files or a folder under C:\Program Files). It may take some time to set up access rights for all such badly written apps, but it'll keep your M$Windoze box as safe as it will ever be. If in addition you shut down all the open by default Windoze ports (135-139, 445, 500, 1900, 4000 + remote admin) and disable unnecessary/dangerous services and also stop using OE and IE (or at least stop using them with their default settings) you should be safe enough going about your normal business. The above suggestions will ensure that viruses cannot be easily installed (thus protecting users from clicking idiotically on any rubbish they happen to receive as an email attachment) and will also stop most of the trojans scanning the internet for default open Windoze ports. I know it works - my wife has not had her NT4/WinXP OS infected since 1998, despite downloading all sort of garbage. Of course, running Nod32 also helps every now and then, mostly by providing early warnings about mail attachments. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I can't get the live cd to boot so I'll check back in a year to see if Gentoo has it's act togather yet. I do look forward to running Gentoo, someday. Alvin I've trying to help you at the My screen goes off on boot thread, gave you alternatives, we discussed the problem, it can be your monitor (my best bet), or you could add a little effort and really config Xorg to work with default driver VESA and low screen resolutions, but you seem to want everything out of the box. If your framebuffer is working, you could simply CTRL+ALT+F1 and run the command-line installer, wich is a little more effort, but I've tried, and it works, or you could just use gentoo-nofb and add nox to your kernel options and use it without framebuffer. Its still Linux. If you want a CD that just runs and installs check another OS, I would say its name, but its been so long since my last blue screen of death, format, reinstall, check for viruses, burn your firewall days ;) For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home page http://ka9qlq.tripod.com This PC is windows free with Mepis Linux 3.4-3 http://www.mepis.org/ 1(747)632-4973 SIP Get Gizmo 1 cent per minuet calling http://www.gizmoproject.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems
Jim wrote: evor. Did you try to boot from the livecd, or another boot cd, and see if you can even mount your JFS partition? Jim Yes I have. It mounts fine when using the livecd to boot from. I can read/write to it no problem, and all the file structure is there. I've had a look at the bootlog with dmesg, and I'm now thinking that the installed kernel doesn't have JFS modules/support in it..the boot identifies the partitions (hda1, hda2 etc), but then it tries to mount hda2 with almost every fs APART from my beloved jfs. It's tried Reiser, XFS, ext2, ext3, vfs - everything but jfs. OhI don't fancy another 6 hour install!! Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems
Sarpy Sam wrote: I am assuming the kernel is built with JFS support compiled in and not as a module. I am not a genkernel user but couldn't you boot the machine like this, root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda2 This will test if it's a kernel problem or a boot splash problem. Kirby I gave that a go , but still no luck. I'm having one of those days. I think I'll reinstall using reiser - I thought that jfs would be fine since the installer gave me the option. I assume that had I done a network install that I probably would've got a kernel with jfs ? My install was completely from the live cd. thanks! Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 TN wrote: Yes I have. It mounts fine when using the livecd to boot from. I can read/write to it no problem, and all the file structure is there. I've had a look at the bootlog with dmesg, and I'm now thinking that the installed kernel doesn't have JFS modules/support in it..the boot identifies the partitions (hda1, hda2 etc), but then it tries to mount hda2 with almost every fs APART from my beloved jfs. It's tried Reiser, XFS, ext2, ext3, vfs - everything but jfs. OhI don't fancy another 6 hour install!! Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Can you build a kernel? I could build a kernel for you with JFS support and zip up the kernel image from /boot and everything under /lib/modues. Or see if you can use a boot CD to boot, then chroot to your JFS drive and build your own kernel. Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEEQJaeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAnppAJ9qNlnsEhYZi9YMDfzOa1x88CdyEQCdF729 Byaw75q1y2+WTa8c+DmWMC0= =Mm9v -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[gentoo-user] weird error messages
Hi, When I logged into my box just now I received the following error messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su Password: configuration error - unknown item 'FAILLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'LASTLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'MOTD_FILE' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'FTMP_FILE' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_ROOTPATH' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MIN_LEN' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'CHFN_AUTH' (notify administrator) jaguar npt # Can someone tell me what I messed up, and possibly how to fix it? I have been emerging a lot of stuff and doing all sorts of stuff to my box for the last few days and I really don't know what this relates to. Thanks for any help. Nick ***nick thompson. all unix all the time. * gentoo will show you the way. *
