[gentoo-user] emerge - system error
checking size of long double... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (long double), 77 See `config.log' for more details. !!! ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.3.6-r4 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1539: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 939: Called src_compile glibc-2.3.6-r4.ebuild, line 1117: Called src_compile glibc-2.3.6-r4.ebuild, line 1128: Called toolchain-glibc_src_compile glibc-2.3.6-r4.ebuild, line 222: Called glibc_do_configure 'nptl' glibc-2.3.6-r4.ebuild, line 905: Called die !!! failed to configure glibc !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. How do I fix this. I am trying to upgrade a new install on an AMD64. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kde menu
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:00:18 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Or you can use quickpkg to make binary tarballs of the KDE packages, and then re-install from those, which will fix the mtime/md5 sums in the package database to match what you changed. According to the manpage for qcheck, part of portage-utils, you should be able to do this with qcheck --update packagename, although I've not tried it. -- Neil Bothwick What I need is a list of specific unknown problems we will encounter. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggested network fs for small lan ?
Nick Rout schrieb: I wasted days getting NFS to not work. I switched to CIFS. It is working very well. Is file locking working over CIFS? How about permissions and ownership? Working as well and easy as it does on NFS? What kind of problems did you have with NFS - I'm asking, as I can't think about anything easier than NFS on *nix. Alexander Skwar -- I know how to do SPECIAL EFFECTS!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] vixie-cron inconsistencies
The cron manpage says that /etc/crontab should have mode 0600. However, it is installed with 0644. A /etc/cron.deny is installed without any users in it which means (according to crontab(1)) that all users are allowed to work with crontab. However, /usr/bin/crontab has mode 4710 which means that you must be member of the group cron to be able to use crontabs. Should I report a bug? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] libGL.so
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 00:13:08 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo eselect opengl list Available OpenGL implementations: [1] xorg-x11 * Any other ideas? emerge x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers It's probably a good idea to remove any artifacts of your previous Nvidia install attempts first. I've found that the uninstall option in the Nvidia installer doesn't get rid of everything. -- Neil Bothwick 0 and 1. Now what could be so hard about that? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] redirect
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:43:30 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: The correct syntax is foo 21, There's also the shortcut of foo if you want to redirect stdout and stderr to the same place. -- Neil Bothwick Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] w3m, get back to previous page?
Hi everyone, I have installed w3m, but can't fugure out how I come back to a previous page? Another question is if w3m can do graphical on a console? Thanks. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd
On 22 July 2006 03:45, Nick Rout wrote: When using composite in the sound should be coming in the line in However your driver may need to be switched to the right device, use ivtvctl ivtvctl -A - lists the audio inputs ivtvctl -Q - tells which one it is switched to now ivtvctl -qn - switches to input n Hm... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ivtvctl -A ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMAUDIO Input : 0 Name: Tuner 1 Input : 1 Name: Line In 1 Input : 2 Name: Line In 2 There is only one Line IN socket. Anyway, I tried both with iivtvctl -qn. Still no sound when doing mplayer /dev/video0, and mplayer tv:// gives me that damn ioctl error (see my other mail). Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd
On 22 July 2006 03:45, Nick Rout wrote: The PVR-150 muxes the audio and video into an mpeg stream. When using composite in the sound should be coming in the line in However your driver may need to be switched to the right device, use ivtvctl ivtvctl -A - lists the audio inputs ivtvctl -Q - tells which one it is switched to now ivtvctl -qn - switches to input n Uh-huh! I'll give it a try. The other big question is, what to make of this error when using something like mplayer tv:// blablabla: v4l2: current audio mode is : MONO v4l2: ioctl request buffers failed: Invalid argument v4l2: 0 frames successfully processed, 0 frames dropped. The ioctl failure doesn't seem to be a permission problem. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] w3m, get back to previous page?
Hi Press Shift+H for help. There, you can read B Back to previous bufffer, so you'll have to press Shift+B for back. Gian Am Samstag, 22. Juli 2006 11:32 schrieb Alexander Fortwinder: Hi everyone, I have installed w3m, but can't fugure out how I come back to a previous page? Another question is if w3m can do graphical on a console? Thanks. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-terminal
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Bruno Lustosa wrote: I noticed that after the last upgrade to gnome-terminal, my TERM variable is set to 'gnome'. ... I think that's because the remote machines do not understand this kind of terminal, and so fall back to 'dumb' or something like that. What's the problem with leaving TERM=xterm when under gnome-terminal? ... Isn't this a fine standard for all X terminals? Is there a gnome-terminal configuration somewhere that lets me set the TERM that I want? I'll have a look at gconf. gnome-terminal is actually doing things correctly at last. Only xterm should use TERM=xterm. (except if your NOT-xterm terminal supports _everything_ that xterm supports. And pretty much no one does. xterm is probably the most capable terminal and definitely not a least common denominator.) Sure it causes problems as most machines don't have proper settings for all possible terminals, but that is a bug on that system. You can add the settings yourself (in your home directory). Happily, I can't remember _how_ you did this. ;-) I read a good document on this issue somewhere but can't seem to locate it. Very likely a pointer to it is somewheres in this list's archives. Mikko -- Mikko Ruuska, R D Solid Information Technology -- http://www.solidtech.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash'
Hi, I unmerged glibc, I know it's stupid, by I did it. I know how to solve the problem, but sth is wrong with chroot: I boot from liveCD 2006.0 (my arch is x86) and: mount all my filesytem into /mnt/gentoo as a new root mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash a I get: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory of course file is present, executable, and I'm doing it as su... I found some posts connected with problem, but I still can't solve it. I have experience with such things, becouse I unmerged pam-login and forgot to merge shadow before reboot :) Thanks, oskar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggested network fs for small lan ?
On 7/22/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Rout schrieb: I wasted days getting NFS to not work. I switched to CIFS. It is working very well.Is file locking working over CIFS? How about permissionsand ownership? Working as well and easy as it does on NFS? What kind of problems did you have with NFS - I'm asking,as I can't think about anything easier than NFS on *nix.Alexander Skwar--I know how to do SPECIAL EFFECTS!!-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing listAlexander,i would say that NFS is the easiest if all of your UID's are the same for every user on the network, there is no reason that you would ever want mount it from the outside, through a packet mangling NAT with your normal permissions, and you have static IP's. that seems to be alot of conditions to me. I personaly would love to NFS+ that had some form of public key auth in it and encryption, yes i know you can do it with SSH tunnles, but still doesn't fix the permissions problem Andrew
Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash'
moriah ~ # ldd /bin/bash linux-gate.so.1 = (0xe000) libncurses.so.5 = /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb7f28000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7f23000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7dec000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f84000) moriah ~ # equery belongs /lib/libc.so.6 [ Searching for file(s) /lib/libc.so.6 in *... ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.6-r4 (/lib/libc.so.6 - libc-2.3.6.so) moriah ~ so bash needs glibc! Your best bet would be to locate a glibc bin package (from the livecd?)and untar it in / of your system, then it should work enough to rebuild properly. You could just copy in the missing libs as you discover them, but thats probably going to be worse :( BillK On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 13:45 +0200, oskar kapala wrote: Hi, I unmerged glibc, I know it's stupid, by I did it. I know how to solve the problem, but sth is wrong with chroot: -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with gst-plugins-mad depclean
Peter Kelly wrote: /var/db/pkg/media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4.ebuild: line 10: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `' /var/db/pkg/media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4.ebuild: line 12: syntax error: unexpected end of file Not too surprising, since the ebuild looks like # Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc. # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4.ebuild,v 1.8 2004/03/07 22:40:56 avenj Exp $ inherit gst-plugins KEYWORDS=x86 ppc sparc alpha hppa amd64 ia64 IUSE= DEPEND=media-sound/madplay^A Just correct ^A to Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR
Hi, On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:19:31 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes but what has that to do with gentoo? Its not a gentoo project! I was confused by the OP referring to gentoo vdr Me too. I know there's a Gentoo project for the VDR application. But basically I think the OP was reffering to a software rather than a project and wants a comparision. I'm running VDR, but not the Gentoo ebuild but rather compiled directly from source (all dependencies done by Gentoo, though). differences AFAIK: 1. VDR is for DVB only Yes. But there are plugins to make it work with analog tv, too. See all those plugins in media-plugins/vdr-*, I think at least the analogtv and pvr* plugins are made for this. 2. VDR is very Euro-centric - thats not a criticism, just worth knowing as european tv has many differences to, eg, USA tv in terms of technical format. That's true. And I think there are still some minor glitches w/ regard to PAL/NTSC (PAL is default). 3. There is far more documentation around for MythTV, I struggle to find good docs for VDR. http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Main_Page is probably the most comprehensive documentation in english language. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron inconsistencies
Hans de Hartog wrote: The cron manpage says that /etc/crontab should have mode 0600. However, it is installed with 0644. A /etc/cron.deny is installed without any users in it which means (according to crontab(1)) that all users are allowed to work with crontab. However, /usr/bin/crontab has mode 4710 which means that you must be member of the group cron to be able to use crontabs. Should I report a bug? No, I shouldn't. Already done: 60086 and 122876 Sorry, I should have searched bugtrack first. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Changing CFLAGS and cloning the system.. What are my options?
Hi folks, Please bear with me, even if this seems a little newbie-sh. I have a perfectly running Gentoo AMD64 system, with XGL and all. Now I've figured that I need to change my CFLAGS. It's some stupidity on my part, please don't ask. So I guess I'll need to rebuild my entire system. Anyway, I have about 11GB free on the hard disk. I am thinking about building binaries of all the installed packages on the system, keep them burnt on a DVD. I'll back up my /etc. All my data partitions and /home are on different partitions, so I don't see any need to back them up. Also, I'll keep the 2006.0 minimal install CD handy. It does support LVM right? What do I do with the stage tarballs? How can I make a snapshot of this working system as a fallback? I remember something about a Stage 4 in the forums a while ago.. I installed this system well over a year ago with a Stage 1 tarball. Should I keep Stage 3 handy? Is there anything else I should be worried about? Have I forgotten something in case something goes wrong and I have to reinstall the entire thing... Another thing, I'll need to make an exact copy of this system, once rebuilt, on a friend's laptop, albeit with a different partition setup. My system has LVM setup, the laptop won't have that. What all needs to be changed? Sorry to ask so many question, I'm just worried about messing up the fine system.. :/ Thanks and regards, Mrugesh pgpCvdOKEFA21.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia+Xorg not allowing DRI.
On 7/16/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Korthrun wrote: I restarted X and I can see DRI fine on a non privileged user. The change was adding some of the options from device section of the xorg.conf posted by Hemmann, Volker Armin Thanks everyone, K Can you post what you changed? I would like to compare mine to yours. Thanks Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Sorry for the delay...the lot of what I have now should be attatched. -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. xorg.conf Description: Binary data
Re: [gentoo-user] libGL.so
Neil Bothwick wrote: emerge x11-drivers/nvidia-legacy-drivers Well I'm a bit shy about running the ~arch packages on this system, but thanks for the suggestion! It's probably a good idea to remove any artifacts of your previous Nvidia install attempts first. I've found that the uninstall option in the Nvidia installer doesn't get rid of everything. Now this is interesting. I hadn't thought of trying that, but I did, and now I have a libGL.so again, and revdep-rebuild says that dynamic linking in consistent now. It even points to the right place :) Thanks! R -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] What happened with -vo vesa in Mplayer?
I used to play movies on the console with -vo vesa option, mplayer -vo vesa -x 1280 -y 1024 somefile.avi Right now there is no available vesa driver at all in my mplayer installation. Where did it go? I can play (sort of) with -vo fbdev or fbdev2, but my resolution is about 1/8 or less of the actual screen size. What options should be enabled and what other people use to play movies in full resolution in console? Thanks. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error
I'm getting this on my laptop: !!! A network error occured while trying to send logmail:\n(111, 'Connection refused')\nSure you configured PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI correctly? I have this in make.conf: PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES=info warn error log PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=save mail PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=[EMAIL PROTECTED] localhost and: [ebuild R ] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61 USE=mailwrapper md5sum ssl -ipv6 0 kB Should that be enough? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error
Grant schrieb: I'm getting this on my laptop: !!! A network error occured while trying to send logmail:\n(111, 'Connection refused')\nSure you configured PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI correctly? I have this in make.conf: PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES=info warn error log PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=save mail PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=[EMAIL PROTECTED] localhost and: [ebuild R ] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61 USE=mailwrapper md5sum ssl -ipv6 0 kB Fine - who cares? Should that be enough? Sure, if you've got an SMTP server running on localhost. Do you? ssmtp is an MTA, not a SMTP server. If you wish to use ssmtp with ELOG, you've got to use PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=custom and set up your own program in PORTAGE_ELOG_COMMAND. Read my howto at http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Making_portage_use_/usr/sbin/sendmail_to_send_out_ELOG_mails Alexander Skwar -- For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race. -- Harlan Ellison -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error
I'm getting this on my laptop: !!! A network error occured while trying to send logmail:\n(111, 'Connection refused')\nSure you configured PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI correctly? I have this in make.conf: PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES=info warn error log PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=save mail PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=[EMAIL PROTECTED] localhost and: [ebuild R ] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61 USE=mailwrapper md5sum ssl -ipv6 0 kB Fine - who cares? Should that be enough? Sure, if you've got an SMTP server running on localhost. Do you? ssmtp is an MTA, not a SMTP server. If you wish to use ssmtp with ELOG, you've got to use PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=custom and set up your own program in PORTAGE_ELOG_COMMAND. Read my howto at http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Making_portage_use_/usr/sbin/sendmail_to_send_out_ELOG_mails Alexander Skwar That looks pretty slick but I try to do things as Gentoo as possible. Any chance of your functionality getting integrated into Portage? Also, in place of ssmtp, would postfix alone do the trick or would I need something like courier-imap too? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Small Gnome 2.14 frustrations
Hello, Since upgrading to Gnome-2.14 I've run into some small frustrations: 1) In the Desktop menu on the taskbar there is now a 'Shutdown' entry. We do not want to shutdown from anyone's account since this machine is also our MythTV backend server and we don't want to make a mistake and take it offline. Can this be removed somehow? 2) For all login accounts every other login fails from the GDM login screen with a message something like this: QUOTE GDM could not write to your authorization file. This could mean that you are out of diskspace or that your account could not be opened for writing. In any case you cannot login. Please contact your administrator. /QOUTE I Googled around a bit and found other people who had a similar problem and the same message. It seemed that for them that the answer was to change permissions on /tmp. However I tried that and it didn't work for me: chown root:root /tmp chmod 1777 /tmp 3) In my account only when I try to empty the Gnome trashcan I get a message like this: QUOTE Error while deleting. /home/mark/...tled folder cannot be deleted because you do not have permissions to modify its parent folder. /QUOTE Even with this message if I am in the trash can in Nautilus and look at the files they are deleted before the message comes up. I've checked the permissions on .Trash. They appear correct and there are no hidden files that have the wrong permissions. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -alR .Trash/ .Trash/: total 8 drwx-- 2 mark users 4096 Jul 22 11:00 . drwx-- 65 mark users 4096 Jul 22 10:57 .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Any ideas about how to address each of these are appreciated. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Freezing on Mounting Local Filesystems
List,Odd problem it seems as if almost completely at random, my boot process will stop at Mounting Local Filesystems.. for no reason. It will freeze there until you restart the computer. If I boot a Live CD and mount the volume or run an fsck.ext3 on it (which always comes back clean), the next time I try to boot to it, it'll be fine. Then it seems it'll do it all over again completely at random. Ideas?-- Jason Weisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error
Grant schrieb: If you wish to use ssmtp with ELOG, you've got to use PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=custom and set up your own program in PORTAGE_ELOG_COMMAND. Read my howto at http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Making_portage_use_/usr/sbin/sendmail_to_send_out_ELOG_mails That looks pretty slick but I try to do things as Gentoo as possible. Me too - but what's un-Gentoo about using PORTAGE_ELOG_COMMAND? Any chance of your functionality getting integrated into Portage? I don't know, but it would be a very useful addition - and IMO, they could dump that useless feature, that portage can do SMTP by itself. That's so un-Unix, so Windows-like :( Also, in place of ssmtp, would postfix alone do the trick Yes, it would, but I'd actually not suggest to do so. Installing postfix (or any SMTP server, for that matter) just for Portage isn't the right way to go. It's too much code, opening too many potential problems, which can be sidestepped by making portage use /usr/sbin/sendmail instead. or would I need something like courier-imap too? IMAP has nothing to do with that. IMAP is for a client to fetch mails (kind of). It's not for sending mails. Alexander Skwar -- Kethryvis Gruuk: UFies are above and beyond the human race :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd
Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: how would I be able to record video *and* audio from the TV card into an MPEG2 file? In my experienes, you need to build a 'mixing studio' or at least a very simple A/V mixing system. There are too many A/V tools to use. I'd first look at the MoBo book and see what onboard hardware you have plus 'lspci' -v and 'lshw'. Using the core mobo chips is usually the most straightforward. Also look at what sound cards you have. this is all completely irrelevant to the question. Well, yes and no. If the PVR-150 card does everything he needs, with the available software packages that are stable with that card, then you are right. And if the mobo's built in, (if any) A/V hardware does not conflict with the PVR card, then again you are correct. Sometimes the AV application software gets confused between the mobo's A/V hardware and the A/V hardware on the pci(PVR) card confuse the AV software. My experiences with A/V manipulations on Linux always result in using the hardware resouces of various cards and the mobo. Every machine for slightly different purposes has resulted in sometimes dramatically different hardware/firmware/kernel/driver/ /udev/appplication-software variations. The PVR-150 muxes the audio and video into an mpeg stream. Great but if you find that you need additional hardware resources, such as offered by the multiple channels of a highend audio card or to remove a stereo audio track, and lay down 5.1 or 7.1 audio tracks, all syncronized with the video, then look at my previous posting. Hopefully Uwe will find everything he needs on this single card, because once you do need to start mixing and syncronizing hardware from a variety of cards the mobo, then thing get dicey ymmv peace, James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] What happened with -vo vesa in Mplayer?
On 7/22/06, Alexander Fortwinder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to play movies on the console with -vo vesa option, mplayer -vo vesa -x 1280 -y 1024 somefile.avi Right now there is no available vesa driver at all in my mplayer installation. Where did it go? This is just a guess, since I have never used this option in mplayer, but maybe the vesa output driver requires USE=ggi for mplayer? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] usb hp cd-writer 8200 series
I'd appreciate if anyone tell me what kernel options are needed to make my usb drive to work. Thanks, Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] usb hp cd-writer 8200 series
On Sunday, 23 July 2006 4:18, Alexander Fortwinder wrote: I'd appreciate if anyone tell me what kernel options are needed to make my usb drive to work. Thanks, Alex Assuming you have regular usbmass storage devices working, I'd imagine only scsi cdrom support (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR) is needed for usb cdroms. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 20:17:46 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: I don't know, but it would be a very useful addition - and IMO, they could dump that useless feature, that portage can do SMTP by itself. That's so un-Unix, so Windows-like :( Portage doesn't do SMTP by itself, it uses the Python smtplib module. Re-using existing software is very unix like Yes, it would, but I'd actually not suggest to do so. Installing postfix (or any SMTP server, for that matter) just for Portage isn't the right way to go. It's too much code, opening too many potential problems, which can be sidestepped by making portage use /usr/sbin/sendmail instead. Why not let portage work with the same SMTP server you use for all other mail? If your mail client can send mail, why not tell portage to use the same route. There's absolutely no need to use a local MTA if you don't already have one. -- Neil Bothwick User-friendly: (adj.) trivialized, slow, incapable, and boring. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Freezing on Mounting Local Filesystems
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:06:54 -0400, Jason Weisberger wrote: Odd problem it seems as if almost completely at random, my boot process will stop at Mounting Local Filesystems.. for no reason. It will freeze there until you restart the computer. It could be the drive failing. Install and run smartmontools to check it. -- Neil Bothwick Bother, said Pooh, as the bin men stuck him to the front of the cart. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Freezing on Mounting Local Filesystems
Jason Weisberger wrote: Odd problem it seems as if almost completely at random, my boot process will stop at Mounting Local Filesystems.. for no reason. It will freeze there until you restart the computer. If I boot a Live CD and mount the volume or run an fsck.ext3 on it (which always comes back clean), the next time I try to boot to it, it'll be fine. Try marking the affected partition as ext2 instead of ext3 in /etc/fstab, so the journal does not get used, and see if the problem still occurs. If not, you've found a bug in ext3. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Migration to xorg-x11 7.0 - Great except for one detail
Remy Blank wrote: I had slightly changed the inspiron xkb mapping so that they generated the right events (XF86AudioPlay, XF86AudioStop, XF86AudioPrev, XF86AudioNext). Then, I defined a few keyboard shortcuts in the KDE control center to trigger come actions, Please explain how you did this, or point me to a document, as I don't see any Play or Stop or similar actions in Control Center Regional Keyboard Shortcuts. In xorg-x11 7.0, the inspiron xkb mapping is already fixed, and xev shows that the right events are generated. But the shortcuts are not activated anymore. I am using KDE 3.5.2, and the shortcuts worked right before the update to xorg-x11. revdep-rebuild doesn't need to re-emerge anything. Revdep-rebuild isn't perfect, but it seems unlikely that re-emerging some KDE package would fix the problem. Trying won't hurt though. Give kxkb, kdelibs, ksmserver and kcminit a shot. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Freezing on Mounting Local Filesystems
Neil,Other than complaining about being old or a pre-fail state, it passes the smart check. Not sure if any of this actually means something.Benno,I'll have to try that for a while and see what happens. It will take some time to see if it works properly. On 7/22/06, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Weisberger wrote: Odd problemit seems as if almost completely at random, my boot process will stop at Mounting Local Filesystems.. for no reason.It will freeze there until you restart the computer.If I boot a Live CD and mount the volume or run an fsck.ext3 on it (which always comes back clean), the next time I try to boot to it, it'll be fine.Try marking the affected partition as ext2 instead of ext3 in /etc/fstab, so the journal does not get used, and see if theproblem still occurs.If not, you've found a bug in ext3.Benno--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Jason Weisberger[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 20:17:46 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: I don't know, but it would be a very useful addition - and IMO, they could dump that useless feature, that portage can do SMTP by itself. That's so un-Unix, so Windows-like :( Portage doesn't do SMTP by itself, it uses the Python smtplib module. True. Re-using existing software is very unix like Sending mail with directly speaking SMTP isn't. That's the job of a MTA. Yes, it would, but I'd actually not suggest to do so. Installing postfix (or any SMTP server, for that matter) just for Portage isn't the right way to go. It's too much code, opening too many potential problems, which can be sidestepped by making portage use /usr/sbin/sendmail instead. Why not let portage work with the same SMTP server you use for all other mail? Why make me configure SMTP in two places (MTA and Portage)? If your mail client can send mail, why not tell portage to use the same route. Why not make Portage send mail the same way, the MUA does it - with /usr/sbin/sendmail? That's a standard way of getting mail off a host. There's absolutely no need to use a local MTA if you don't already have one. There's no need to configure the same thing in multiple places. It's really bad style to make users keep the same configuration in multiple places. Alexander Skwar -- This isn't true in practice -- what we've missed out is Stradivarius's constant. And then the aside: For those of you who don't know, that's been called by others the fiddle factor... -- From a 1B Electrical Engineering lecture. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Is this cruft in my /tmp?
Hi All, I was checking my /tmp and noticed a rather large number of two different types of files. By far the largest number (some hundreds of files) are of the type: prw--- 1 rootroot 0 Jun 29 23:13 sh-np-1151622697 prw--- 1 rootroot 0 Jun 29 17:44 sh-np-1151623392 prw--- 1 rootroot 0 Jun 29 17:44 sh-np-1151623817 prw--- 1 rootroot 0 Jun 29 23:13 sh-np-1151630251 prw--- 1 rootroot 0 Jun 29 19:41 sh-np-1151630339 prw--- 1 rootroot 0 Jul 1 01:14 sh-np-1151697722 prw--- 1 rootroot 0 Jun 30 21:28 sh-np-1151698413 Are these some process calls that were cought in the /tmp when perhaps the machine crashed some time in the past, or when I might have shutdown with screen session(s) running in the background - I occasionally forget the odd screen session and since I don't get some system alert I invariably shutdown. 8-/ However, there's far too many of them and their atimes seem rather regular. Can/should I delete them? Second largest occurrence I noticed (around 130 dir) is like this: drwx-- 2 michael users 80 Jul 19 08:51 gpg-pYdYc1 drwx-- 2 michael users 80 Jul 19 06:59 gpg-pgQnty drwx-- 2 michael users 80 Apr 24 07:51 gpg-qHHiXP drwx-- 2 michael users 80 Jul 15 00:34 gpg-qT7BVZ drwx-- 2 michael users 80 Jul 10 21:36 gpg-qcGu33 drwx-- 2 michael users 80 May 1 12:18 gpg-rqoxKq drwx-- 2 michael users 80 Jul 10 20:28 gpg-sefR85 Not sure why there are so many of these there. I assume these are created when gpg-agent is launched and sets the ENV variable? Each one of them has a file like this in it: # ls -la /tmp/gpg-VLQYJv total 159 drwx-- 2 michael users 80 Jul 8 12:31 . drwxrwxrwt 156 rootroot 162528 Jul 22 23:12 .. srwxr-xr-x 1 michael users 0 Jul 8 12:31 S.gpg-agent Are these beign created by some error in my set up? Shouldn't they be deleted when the gpg-agent exits, when I exit X? Can/should I remove them? If either of these are because of some system configuration error could you please make some suggestions for troubleshooting or fixing it? Let me know if you need more info. -- Regards, Mick pgpgDc8otjd6R.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] usb hp cd-writer 8200 series
Alexander Fortwinder wrote: I'd appreciate if anyone tell me what kernel options are needed to make my usb drive to work. Thanks, Alex Probably CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_USBAT. But you'll have to use something brand new such as 2.6.18-rc2, I broke HP8200 for most users for a few releases. Sorry about that. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash'
Hi oskar, on Saturday, 2006-07-22 at 13:45:01, you wrote: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory of course file is present, executable, and I'm doing it as su... You should be fine if ou follow William's instructions. The reason for this is the error the linker returns to execve(2): | ENOENT The file filename or a script or ELF interpreter does not |exist, or a shared library needed for file or inter- |preter cannot be found. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgp0WRxjmucrQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV vs. Gentoo VDR
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:18:18 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:19:31 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes but what has that to do with gentoo? Its not a gentoo project! I was confused by the OP referring to gentoo vdr Me too. I know there's a Gentoo project for the VDR application. But basically I think the OP was reffering to a software rather than a project and wants a comparision. I'm running VDR, but not the Gentoo ebuild but rather compiled directly from source (all dependencies done by Gentoo, though). differences AFAIK: 1. VDR is for DVB only Yes. But there are plugins to make it work with analog tv, too. See all those plugins in media-plugins/vdr-*, I think at least the analogtv and pvr* plugins are made for this. 2. VDR is very Euro-centric - thats not a criticism, just worth knowing as european tv has many differences to, eg, USA tv in terms of technical format. That's true. And I think there are still some minor glitches w/ regard to PAL/NTSC (PAL is default). 3. There is far more documentation around for MythTV, I struggle to find good docs for VDR. http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Main_Page is probably the most comprehensive documentation in english language. Thank you for your informative post. We are PAL here too in New Zealand. We are about to get a DVB-T and DVB-S freeview digital tv network (sometime in the next year). I will be carefully evaluating VDR, but it might take a bit to move me off mythtv. Cheers. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] PORTAGE message
The ebuild for media-libs/libmpeg3-1.5.2 is giving me a message I don't know how to use: WARN: prerm Please upgrade your package (libmpeg3-1.5.2) to use toolchain-funcs.eclass WARN: postrm Please upgrade your package (libmpeg3-1.5.2) to use toolchain-funcs.eclass I don't know how to upgrade this any more than what I just did by emerging it. Anybody know what it's talking about? Anybody even know what toolchain-funcs it's talking about -- my browse through the portage tree comes up with no obvious candidate. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Suggested network fs for small lan ?
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 09:41:51 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Rout schrieb: I wasted days getting NFS to not work. I switched to CIFS. It is working very well. Is file locking working over CIFS? I don't know and I really don't need it, I am basically storing multmedia files and playing them over the network. How about permissions and ownership? seems to work fine, this has improved markedly with the cifs unix extensions. Working as well and easy as it does on NFS? What kind of problems did you have with NFS - I'm asking, as I can't think about anything easier than NFS on *nix. I cannot recall now, and it may have been operator error. It is so long ago that I can't recall the details. Alexander Skwar -- I know how to do SPECIAL EFFECTS!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE message
Hi, On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 18:43 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: The ebuild for media-libs/libmpeg3-1.5.2 is giving me a message I don't know how to use: WARN: prerm Please upgrade your package (libmpeg3-1.5.2) to use toolchain-funcs.eclass WARN: postrm Please upgrade your package (libmpeg3-1.5.2) to use toolchain-funcs.eclass I don't know how to upgrade this any more than what I just did by emerging it. Anybody know what it's talking about? Anybody even know what toolchain-funcs it's talking about -- my browse through the portage tree comes up with no obvious candidate. I think (and I'm kindof guessing) is this is a message from dev's to dev's, essentially saying the ebuild (libmpeg) needs to be altered slightly to use some new features of portage instead of some old. Something to do with the nature of the continuing development on portage. I think you don't need to worry about it at all, so long as your package installs in the end. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au You can only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE message
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: WARN: prerm Please upgrade your package (libmpeg3-1.5.2) to use toolchain-funcs.eclass Needs to be fixed by the maintainer of the ebuild. If you feel like it, file a bug (check first to see that there isn't already one), or if you really feel like being obnoxious, e-mail the maintainer (check in the ebuild). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Can't recompile vmware modules
When I run vmware-config.pl, I get the following error: Building for VMware Workstation 5.5.x. Using 2.6.x kernel build system. make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only' Makefile:127: *** Inappropriate build environment: you wanted to use gcc version while kernel attempts to use gcc version 4.1.1. Makefile:129: *** For proper build you'll have to replace /usr/bin/gcc with symbolic link to . Stop. make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only' Unable to build the vmmon module. When I explicitly set the GCC version and then run vmware-config.pl with VM_CCVER=4.1.1 vmware-config.pl, I successfully pass the GCC version test, but then make can't find the target auto-build: Building for VMware Workstation 5.5.x. Using 2.6.x kernel build system. make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only' make: *** No rule to make target `auto-build'. Stop. make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only' Unable to build the vmmon module. Of course the target is there: fgrep auto-build: /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/Makefile auto-build: $(DRIVER_KO) Falling back to an older version of gentoo-sources doesn't help. make, perl, binutils and coreutils all seem OK. Has anyone else run into this kind of problem, and if so, how did you solve it? Thanks. -- Vladimir G. Ivanovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] qcheck output mystery
If I run qcheck on sys-devel/make, I get output like: Checking sys-devel/make-3.81 ... AFK: /usr/lib/debug AFK: /usr/lib/debug/usr AFK: /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin AFK: /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/gmake.debug MD5-DIGEST: /usr/bin/gmake The MD5-DIGEST entry is due to prelinking the executable, but what does AFK mean? (The paths listed are directories that do not exist.) Checking the sources, Luke, was unenlightening. Thanks. --- Vladimir -- Vladimir G. Ivanovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Is this cruft in my /tmp?
060722 Mick wrote: I noticed in /tmp a rather large number of files of the type: prw--- 1 rootroot 0 Jun 29 23:13 sh-np-1151622697 prw--- 1 rootroot 0 Jun 29 17:44 sh-np-1151623392 prw--- 1 rootroot 0 Jun 29 17:44 sh-np-1151623817 prw--- 1 rootroot 0 Jun 29 23:13 sh-np-1151630251 prw--- 1 rootroot 0 Jun 29 19:41 sh-np-1151630339 prw--- 1 rootroot 0 Jul 1 01:14 sh-np-1151697722 prw--- 1 rootroot 0 Jun 30 21:28 sh-np-1151698413 Are these some process calls that were cought in the /tmp when perhaps the machine crashed some time in the past or when I might have shutdown with screen running in the background ? Can/should I delete them? Google for 'sh-np' found : http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-programming-scripting/37618-tmp-sh-np-xx-interrupted-system-call.html It looks like part of the calculation of dependences. I have a long list roughly daily from 050213-611 , so it mb related to some version of the Kernel (cp discussion above). The File Hierarchy System is the rulebook for the purpose of files/dirs : http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#TMPTEMPORARYFILES Programs must not assume that any files or directories in /tmp are preserved between invocations of the program ... it is recommended that files and directories located in /tmp be deleted whenever the system is booted. NB /var/tmp is different : http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARTMPTEMPORARYFILESPRESERVEDBETWEE The /var/tmp directory is made available for programs that require temporary files or directories that are preserved between system reboots. So if Gentoo follows FHS rules, it sb safe to delete any file/dir in /tmp which was not created at/after the latest system reboot. However, don't do that with anything in /var/tmp . Anyone want to confirm/amend/deny any of this (smile) ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Small Gnome 2.14 frustrations
On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 11:05 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Since upgrading to Gnome-2.14 I've run into some small frustrations: Just Upgraded today. 1) In the Desktop menu on the taskbar there is now a 'Shutdown' entry. We do not want to shutdown from anyone's account since this machine is also our MythTV backend server and we don't want to make a mistake and take it offline. Can this be removed somehow? 2) For all login accounts every other login fails from the GDM login screen with a message something like this: No Issues with this. What you can do is log out, log into console as root/some other user. kill all user processes, and delete all files in /tmp which remotely resembles your username. (there may be old user processes/data there) 3) In my account only when I try to empty the Gnome trashcan I get a message like this: not sure what's happening. -- Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
