Re: [gentoo-user] Kwrite and CPU usage and locking up when scrolling

[Dale]

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>
>
> Bringing kde-meta up to version 3.5.6 is going to want to upgrade ALL it's 
> dependencies to 3.5.6 (which includes kate).
>
> To maintain different versions of of the various KDE packages, you'll need 
> to 
> remove the kde-meta package.  To make sure 'emerge -u world' (or a 
> variant), 
> pulls in new version of other packages, you'll want to 'emerge -n' the 
> various direct dependencies of kde-meta (kdenetwork-meta etc).
>
> I doubt kate is a direct dependency of kde-meta (I could be wrong).  If it 
> isn't, one (or more) of the other kde${stuff}-meta packages will also try 
> to 
> upgrade it.  Instead of 'emerge -n'-ing those packages, 'emerge -n' it's 
> direct dependencies (one of which should be kate).
>
> You may actually find some packages that you don't care about, feel free to 
> not 'emerge -n' them.  They will then not be updated by an 'emerge -u 
> world' 
> and my be removed be 'emerge --depclean' (unless they are a dependency of 
> some other package in world)
>
> In fact, I recently removed all the kde${stuff}-meta packages from my 
> system 
> and only installed the KDE applications I wanted.  This might result in 
> significant disk space savings, but YMMV.  I now have ~90 packages from the 
> kde-base category instead of the ~350 pulled in by kde-meta.
>
>   

Well, I am doing this the hard way right now.  I just check for updates
and update everything but kdelibs and kate manually.  So far, so good. 
Maybe it will get sorted soon.

Thanks

Dale

:-)  :-)  :-)  :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] udev usb printer permissions

[Dale]

Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> Can anyone please tell me why /dev/usb/lp0 has the following onwer/group and 
> permissions?
>
> zeus ~ # ls -l /dev/usb/
> total 0
> crw-rw 1 root plugdev 180, 0 Feb  8  2007 lp0
>
>
> /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules says:
>
> [...]
> # usb devices
> KERNEL=="hiddev*",  NAME="usb/%k"
> KERNEL=="auer*",NAME="usb/%k"
> KERNEL=="legousbtower*",NAME="usb/%k", GROUP="usb"
> KERNEL=="dabusb*",  NAME="usb/%k"
> BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="lp[0-9]*", NAME="usb/%k", GROUP="lp"
> [...]
>
> I would expect /dev/usb/lp0 to belong to group "lp", so which other config 
> file tells udev to put it under these onwer/group and permissions?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>   Alex
>   

Something fishy somewhere.  Here is mine:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # ls -l /dev/usb/
> total 0
> crw-rw 1 root lp 180, 0 Jan  9 03:59 lp0
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / #  

Not sure why but I don't think I have changed anything.  Maybe one of
your rules was changed or not updated somehow.

Dale

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[gentoo-user] Re: What's with the timezone data...

[David Talkington]

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Daevid Vincent wrote:


The changelog is fairly useless from a 'users' perspective. I have no idea
which one has the required USA DST changes in it...


Dunno, but it's correct on my system for US/Pacific, which was synced a 
week or so ago:


[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ zdump -v /etc/localtime |grep 2007
/etc/localtime  Sun Mar 11 09:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 PST 
isdst=0
/etc/localtime  Sun Mar 11 10:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 PDT 
isdst=1
/etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:59:59 2007 PDT 
isdst=1
/etc/localtime  Sun Nov  4 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov  4 01:00:00 2007 PST 
isdst=0

Cheers -d

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Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the font size in X

[Vlad Dogaru]

On 2/8/07, Jürgen Geuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 16:08 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote:

> I find that fonts are too small for my 15" monitor, causing eye strain
> and misunderstandings. How can I change font size globally? I
> apologise if this question is too basic, but Google strangely did not
> provide this time.

You might want to check/change your DPI settings (compare
http://scanline.ca/dpi/).


Hi Jürgen,

I switched from 75 to 96 DPI and everything is much more comfortable
on the eyes now.

Thanks for the tip,
Vlad
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[gentoo-user] Re: djbdns, ssh, and host based authentication

[David Talkington]

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John Blinka wrote:


** server can't find 104.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa: NXDOMAIN


That seems pretty clear ... :)

As you probably know from reading the djb docs, the jobs of recursive 
resolving and authoritative nameserving are separate.  You appear to be 
using 192.168.1.254 as a recursive resolver, so I presume that's the IP 
address where you're running dnscache.  It's telling you that it doesn't 
know who is authoritative for 192.168.1.104.


You must tell it who to ask by adding a file 
/etc/dnscache/root/servers/104.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa (or an appropriate 
subnet thereof, such as 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa).  The content of that 
file should be the IP address of tinydns (which cannot be the same IP 
address as dnscache), which will then know how to find your hosts by IP 
address.


Similarly, there needs to be a file 
/etc/dnscache/root/servers/yourdomain.blah, with the same contents, for 
forward lookups.


I cheat and run tinydns on 127.0.0.1, and dnscache on the public IP 
address, which is incorrect because only my dnscache can reach it. 
Nevertheless, it works well for me internally, since my internal hosts 
all use the same (my) dns resolver.  Ergo, I have a file 
/etc/dnscache/root/servers/1.168.192.in-addr.arpa which contains the 
line 127.0.0.1.


Cheers -d

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[gentoo-user] djbdns, ssh, and host based authentication

[John Blinka]

Hi, all,

I've installed djbdns on my home network and I have stretched
my competence past the breaking point in doing so.

I have gotten it to supply ip addresses for all of my local machines
using my own local nis domain name.

But, in doing so, I've managed to screw up host based authentication
for ssh, and I'd like to undo the damage.  Before djbdns, I could
ssh into any of my local machines w/o suppling a password.
After djbdns, I get this response to an ssh:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~--> ssh tobey
get_socket_address: getnameinfo 8 failed: Name or service not known
userauth_hostbased: cannot get local ipaddr/name
Password:

man getnameinfo suggests that getnameinfo does ip address to name
translation.  And, sure enough, If I try an nslookup on a local ip address,
djbdns can't supply me with the machine name.  For example,

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~--> nslookup 192.168.1.104
Server: 192.168.1.254
Address:192.168.1.254#53

** server can't find 104.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa: NXDOMAIN

I have a feeling that I should add some sort of record into the
local database to make the ip to name translation possible,
but I don't know enough about nameserving, ssh, or authentication
to figure out what to do next.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

John Blinka
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[gentoo-user] Re: What's with the timezone data...

[»Q«]

In ,
"Daevid Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> * sys-libs/timezone-data 
>  Available versions:  2006g 2006p ~2007a
>  Homepage:ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/
>  Description: Timezone data (/usr/share/zoneinfo) and
> utilities (tzselect/zic/zdump)
> 
> How come the 2007 is still masked. 

I don't know.

> The new DST for the USA and Australia is creeping up in a few
> weeks. March 11th.
> 
> The changelog is fairly useless from a 'users' perspective. I have no
> idea which one has the required USA DST changes in it...

Looking inside tzdata2006p.tar.gz at the file for North America, the
comments indicate that the new U.S rules were added to the data in
2005, so there shouldn't be any problem.  After untarring, 

$ grep US.*2007 northamerica
RuleUS  2007max -   Mar Sun>=8  2:001:00D
RuleUS  2007max -   Nov Sun>=1  2:000   S

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[gentoo-user] What's with the timezone data...

[Daevid Vincent]

* sys-libs/timezone-data 
 Available versions:  2006g 2006p ~2007a
 Homepage:ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/
 Description: Timezone data (/usr/share/zoneinfo) and utilities
(tzselect/zic/zdump)

How come the 2007 is still masked. The new DST for the USA and Australia is
creeping up in a few weeks. March 11th.

The changelog is fairly useless from a 'users' perspective. I have no idea
which one has the required USA DST changes in it...

http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo-x86/sys-libs/timezone
-data/ChangeLog

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Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

[Iain Buchanan]

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 11:42 +0100, Frédéric Grosshans wrote:

> Did you try to play with ionice to assign priority. It has helped me a
> lot with io-intensive background taskes.

I am trying to compile it to overcome some heavy-disk access performance
issues (ext3), but I can't!  Not compatible with recent headers or
something :(

See my thread on "_syscallX isn't in linux-headers-2.6.20" if you can
help!!

thanks,
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Re: [gentoo-user] Network start delay?

[Iain Buchanan]

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 13:23 +, Peter Lewis wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 February 2007 23:12, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 10:37 +, Peter Lewis wrote:
[snip]
> > > Is there a way to make the netmount script wait for a route to exist
> > > before attempting to connect?
> >
> > net.eth2 "shouldn't" return (by default) until it has a dhcp address,
> > which means all other scripts starting after it will wait until you have
> > an address.
> >
> > Things you might have done to change the default behaviour include
> > RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP, and RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING in /etc/conf.d/rc.
> >
> > You can set them to "no", and "yes" respectively and see if the
> > following scripts wait...
> 
> Thanks for this. I just checked and I have those variables set up correctly.
> 
> Yes, upon closer inspection, the problem is slightly weirder.
> 
> I'm using an Intel ipw3945 wireless device, which requires a daemon to run 
> to "regulate it" or something. So, I also have /etc/init.d/ipw3945d start at 
> boot. This must start before I can access eth2. However, I've actually just 
> noticed that I don't explicitly start net.eth2 in any runlevel. It seems that 
> this is kicked into action by ipw3945d somewhere (though I can't see where). 
> The /etc/init.d/net.eth2 process just seems to fork off to the background, 
> meaning that init carries on booting, and hence fails on netmount.
> 
> Anyone any experience with this?

yeah, I have services starting without me asking for them too :) It
seems to happen when the module is loaded.  Supposedly, you control this
behaviour with 
RC_PLUG_SERVICES=...  Have a read in /etc/conf.d/rc again for more info
on this.  It doesn't work for me however, I have it set to "!bluetooth",
and yet /etc/init.d/bluetooth is _always_ started.

What happens if you set RC_PLUG_SERVICES="!net.eth2", and then
explicitly add net.eth2 to your runlevel? maybe you need to put a dep in
it so it starts after ipw3945d?

HTH,
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Re: [gentoo-user] disk capacity mismatch

[Dan Farrell]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 13:34:21 -0800
"Michael Higgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello, list --
> 
> 
> # df -h
> FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda3  20G   12G  7.5G  61% /
> udev  236M  2.7M  233M   2% /dev
> shm   236M 0  236M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda5  14G   13G  1.3G  91% /home/col/dump
> /dev/hda6  14G   12G  2.0G  86% /home/col/music

so here the sizes added up are ~48.5 gigs, right?  and here...

> Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
we can see the 80 gig drive recognized as such.
> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders
and you have 155,061 cylinders on the disk, but

>Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *   1 497  250456+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda2 4982482 1000440   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris /dev/hda32483   4410320976984   83  Linux
> /dev/hda4   44104   99582279614165  Extended
> /dev/hda5   44104   7184313980928+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda6   71844   9958213980424+  83  Linux

you only fill to cylinder 99,582.  So 99,582 of 155,061 leaves us
only about 64% of the drive used, and your 30 'missing' gigs simply not
partitioned off.  Unfortunately, since you haven't any more primary
partitions, you have space after /dev/hda4 and no way to use it.
Hopefully you know something about nondestructive partition resizing.

good luck!
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[gentoo-user] disk capacity mismatch

[Michael Higgins]

Hello, list --


# df -h
FilesystemSize  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3  20G   12G  7.5G  61% /
udev  236M  2.7M  233M   2% /dev
shm   236M 0  236M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda5  14G   13G  1.3G  91% /home/col/dump
/dev/hda6  14G   12G  2.0G  86% /home/col/music

lbg2 col # fdisk /dev/hda

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

What did I do wrong? It looks like my 80 GB drive is more like 50 GB. How
did I 'lose' the capacity?

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *   1 497  250456+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2 4982482 1000440   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda32483   4410320976984   83  Linux
/dev/hda4   44104   99582279614165  Extended
/dev/hda5   44104   7184313980928+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6   71844   9958213980424+  83  Linux

What major clue do I lack? :(

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[gentoo-user] Re: X application instability

[David Talkington]

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Looks like my xorg.conf didn't get attached (or was stripped); inlining 
below.  Cheers -d



Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "dualhead"
Screen "screen1" 0 0
Screen "screen0" 0 0
InputDevice"Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice"Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option  "Xinerama""on"
EndSection


Section "Files"

# The location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
# 
# 
#FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"

#FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo/"
#FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/TrueType/"
#FontPath   "/usr/share/fonts/freefont/"
# The module search path.  The default path is shown here.
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/local/"
EndSection

Section "Module"

# This loads the DBE extension module.
# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
#SubSection  "extmod"
#  Option"omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
#EndSubSection
# This loads the font modules
# This loads the GLX module
#Load   "glx"
# This loads the DRI module
#Load   "dri"
Load   "dbe"  # Double buffer extension
Load   "type1"
#Load"speedo"
Load   "freetype"
#Load"xtt"
Load   "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "Rotate"
# Uncomment this to cause a core dump at the spot where a signal is 
# received.  This may leave the console in an unusable state, but may

# provide a better stack trace in the core dump to aid in debugging
#Option "NoTrapSignals"
# Uncomment this to disable the  VT switch sequence
# (where n is 1 through 12).  This allows clients to receive these key
# events.
#Option "DontVTSwitch"
# Uncomment this to disable the  server abort sequence
# This allows clients to receive this key event.
#Option "DontZap"
# Uncomment this to disable the / mode switching
# sequences.  This allows clients to receive these key events.
#Option "Dont Zoom"
# Uncomment this to disable tuning with the xvidtune client. With
# it the client can still run and fetch card and monitor attributes,
# but it will not be allowed to change them. If it tries it will
# receive a protocol error.
#Option "DisableVidModeExtension"
# Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local xvidtune client. 
#Option "AllowNonLocalXvidtune"

# Uncomment this to disable dynamically modifying the input device
# (mouse and keyboard) settings. 
#Option "DisableModInDev"

# Uncomment this to enable the use of a non-local client to
# change the keyboard or mouse settings (currently only xset).
#Option "AllowNonLocalModInDev"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "1905fp"
HorizSync   30.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "1800fp"
HorizSync   30.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"

 Identifier "matrox0"
Driver  "mga" # xorg Matrox driver
#Driver  "fglrx"  # binary ati driver from gentoo 'ati-drivers'
#Driver	"ati"		# xorg ati driver 
#Driver "nvidia"	# binary nvidia driver from nvidia

#Driver "nv"  # xorg nvidia driver
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "matrox1"
Driver  "mga"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen0"
Device "matrox0"
Monitor"1905fp"
DefaultDepth24
Option "dpms"
#VideoRam65536
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
SubSection "Display"
Viewport0 0
Depth   24
Modes  "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "matrox1"
Monitor"1800fp"
DefaultDepth24
Optio

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupted Cache w/ portage

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Thursday 08 February 2007 20:08:58 Mike Edenfield wrote:
> For the past several weeks I have been having a recurring problem with
> portage's metadata cache after a sync.  The problem is reproduceable
> 100% of the time now, so either I have something configured wrong or
> there's actually a problem with the portage mirrors:
>
> The problem is easily fixed by removing the cache and forcing emerge to
> rebuild it, but the next time I sync the corruption returns:
>
> gentoo portage # emerge --sync
[SNIP]
>File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py", line 47, in _pull
>  raise cache_errors.CacheCorruption(cpv, e)
> cache.cache_errors.CacheCorruption:
> app-accessibility/SphinxTrain-0.9.1-r1 is corrupt: dictionary update
> sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required
>
> gentoo portage # rm -rf /usr/portage/metadata/cache/
> gentoo portage # emerge --metadata

# rm -rf /var/cache/edb/dep && emerge --metadata

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156374

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[gentoo-user] X application instability

[David Talkington]

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Salutations --

I have some instability in my desktop system which I've not been able to 
banish.


What I've experienced is that some X applications, in varying degrees of 
frequency, crash with this sort of error:


The program 'gmfsk' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'.
  (Details: serial 9575469 error_code 1 request_code 0 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() 
function.)


The applications which I've seen affected include firefox 
(infrequently), ardour (with some regularity), and gmfsk (very 
frequently).  In the worst case, gmfsk, the application will only run 
for about 45 minutes between dumps.


What I've done:

- - I have tested gmfsk on a Red Hat EL4 virtual machine, and the crash
  does not occur.  Note that this uses xorg v6.

- - On the Gentoo machine, I have set -O (down from -O2) in make.conf, and
  have rebuilt my entire Gentoo environment using 'emerge -e world', and
  have resolved broken dependencies with revdep-rebuild; and

- - I have removed the proprietary Matrox binary hal library, required to
  make dual-head work on my G400, and reverted to the xorg driver.

Nothing has helped so far.

This is a current (2006.1) system.  I have attached the contents of 
make.conf and xorg.conf, and have posted below the output of lsmod and 
uname -a.  Let me know what other information might be useful to help 
narrow down the possibilities, or (even better) what others might have 
done to quell similar gremlins!


Cheers -d

$ uname -a
Linux sybil 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 #3 PREEMPT Sat Feb 3 21:46:35 PST 2007 i686 
AMD Sempron(tm) 2600+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux


$ lsmod
Module  Size  Used by
usbhid 28868  0
vmnet  33708  13
vmmon 103180  0
nfs   202248  3
lockd  55240  2 nfs
nfs_acl 3456  1 nfs
sunrpc140028  4 nfs,lockd,nfs_acl
ipt_LOG 5760  1
xt_limit2560  3
xt_state2112  2
ip_conntrack   47092  1 xt_state
iptable_filter  2944  1
snd_seq_midi8160  0
snd_emu10k1_synth   6720  0
snd_emux_synth 31552  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi 6784  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul   5888  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_pcm_oss39072  0
snd_seq_oss28928  0
snd_seq_midi_event  7040  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss
snd_seq45392  8 
snd_seq_midi,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event

realtime9864  0
rtc12340  0
sg 28380  0
scsi_mod   88072  1 sg
snd_mixer_oss  15424  1 snd_pcm_oss
ide_cd 36256  0
matroxfb_base  26720  0
matroxfb_DAC10649152  1 matroxfb_base
matroxfb_accel  4288  1 matroxfb_base
matroxfb_g450   6592  1 matroxfb_base
cdrom  32608  1 ide_cd
g450_pll5760  2 matroxfb_DAC1064,matroxfb_g450
matroxfb_misc  11428  5 
matroxfb_base,matroxfb_DAC1064,matroxfb_accel,matroxfb_g450,g450_pll

via_agp 9536  1
ehci_hcd   26248  0
uhci_hcd   21064  0
usbcore   113092  4 usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
snd_emu10k1   103232  2 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_rawmidi23136  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec 82848  1 snd_emu10k1
via_rhine  22024  0
snd_ac97_bus2240  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm69768  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_device  7692  7 
snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi

snd_timer  21188  3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc  9608  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem4544  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep   8900  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd47460  15 
snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_pcm_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep

e1000 107200  0
soundcore   9312  1 snd


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[gentoo-user] Corrupted Cache w/ portage

[Mike Edenfield]

For the past several weeks I have been having a recurring problem with 
portage's metadata cache after a sync.  The problem is reproduceable 
100% of the time now, so either I have something configured wrong or 
there's actually a problem with the portage mirrors:


The problem is easily fixed by removing the cache and forcing emerge to 
rebuild it, but the next time I sync the corruption returns:


---
gentoo portage # emerge --sync

[...]

>>> Updating Portage cache:  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4049, in ?
emerge_main()
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4006, in emerge_main
action_sync(settings, trees, mtimedb, myopts, myaction)
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2924, in action_sync
action_metadata(settings, portdb, myopts)
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3019, in action_metadata
eclass_cache=ec, verbose_instance=noise_maker)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/util.py", line 47, in mirror_cache
if trg and not write_it:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/UserDict.py", line 170, in __len__
return len(self.keys())
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py", line 54, in keys
return list(self.__iter__())
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py", line 48, in __iter__
for k in self.orig.iterkeys():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/UserDict.py", line 103, in iterkeys
return self.__iter__()
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py", line 83, in __iter__
return iter(self.keys())
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py", line 87, in keys
self.d.update(self.pull())
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py", line 29, in callit
return args[0](*args[1:]+args2)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py", line 47, in _pull
raise cache_errors.CacheCorruption(cpv, e)
cache.cache_errors.CacheCorruption: 
app-accessibility/SphinxTrain-0.9.1-r1 is corrupt: dictionary update 
sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required


gentoo portage # rm -rf /usr/portage/metadata/cache/
gentoo portage # emerge --metadata


Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2007
(Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
  .='update pass'  *='binary update'  @='/var/db move'
  s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update 
/etc/portage/package.*'





>>> Updating Portage cache:  100%

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[gentoo-user] udev usb printer permissions

[Alexander Puchmayr]

Hi there!

Can anyone please tell me why /dev/usb/lp0 has the following onwer/group and 
permissions?

zeus ~ # ls -l /dev/usb/
total 0
crw-rw 1 root plugdev 180, 0 Feb  8  2007 lp0


/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules says:

[...]
# usb devices
KERNEL=="hiddev*",  NAME="usb/%k"
KERNEL=="auer*",NAME="usb/%k"
KERNEL=="legousbtower*",NAME="usb/%k", GROUP="usb"
KERNEL=="dabusb*",  NAME="usb/%k"
BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="lp[0-9]*", NAME="usb/%k", GROUP="lp"
[...]

I would expect /dev/usb/lp0 to belong to group "lp", so which other config 
file tells udev to put it under these onwer/group and permissions?

Thanks in advance

Alex
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Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Thursday 8 February 2007 19:34, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:

> Where can i get it. It seems to be included in util-linux but i have
> util-linux installed and ionice is missing!

It's explained here:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-462230.html

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Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

[Daniel Pielmeier]

> Did you try to play with ionice to assign priority. It has helped me a
> lot with io-intensive background taskes.

Where can i get it. It seems to be included in util-linux but i have
util-linux installed and ionice is missing!
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Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpd and routes

[Dan Farrell]

On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:20:28 +1100
Dave Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> I have a Gentoo server that is running Cisco VPN software to connect
> to my companies VPN. I have setup the server as a NAT for the specific
> subnet required for the VPN and the rest of my traffic goes through my
> router (192.168.1.1). I currently have to manually run the following
> command to setup the route:
> route add -net 10.4.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.200
> 
> On my Gentoo server I run dhcpd to allocate IP addresses for machines
> on my LAN. The current configuration is:
> subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>   range 192.168.1.100 192.168.1.199;
>   option routers 192.168.1.1;
> }
> 
> So the question is how can I setup dhcpd to automatically setup the
> route command for all clients using the dhcpd?

You will need a subnet declaration as such for each subnet on the
network.  For example, something like

subnet 10.4.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option routers 192.168.1.200;
}

might be appropriate.  Without the range statement, you won't actually
offer DHCP addresses on the network, but the routing information should
be forwarded to the DHCP clients you are servicing on 192.168.1/24.  

Good luck.  DHCPd is neat ; )
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Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the font size in X

[gregory . sacre]

Vlad Dogaru ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I find that fonts are too small for my 15" monitor, causing eye strain
> and misunderstandings. How can I change font size globally? I
> apologise if this question is too basic, but Google strangely did not
> provide this time.
> 
> Thanks,
> Vlad
> 
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> 

Well, that depends on what kind of desktop/session manager you're using (Gnome, 
KDE, Fvwm, ...).
If it's Gnome or KDE (or I think XFCE), there should be a font manager 
somewhere in the preferences.
If you're using something like Fvwm, you can change the GTK fonts and that will 
affect all the GTK applications (such as Firefox, Gaim, ...) (for the QT 
applications, I have to admit I don't know how they pick a default font if 
you're not under KDE).
To change the GTK font, put this as an example in your ~/.gtkrc (or 
~/.gtkrc-2.0 depending on the GTK version you're using):

style "default"
{
  fontset = 
"-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*,-*-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*"
}

Where you can of course change the font to suit your needs.


HTH,

Gregory
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Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

[Jürgen Geuter]

On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 19:33 +, James wrote:

> I cannot seem to get VLC to compile in win32codecs on an amd64...
> Yes I realize that 'win32' and amd64 are different arches, but,
> surely there is a solution for this? Maybe not just with
> vlc but every app that can work with win32codes on amd64?

I think using mplayer-bin for x86 in compatibility mode should work with
win32codecs.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the font size in X

[Jürgen Geuter]

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 16:08 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote:

> I find that fonts are too small for my 15" monitor, causing eye strain
> and misunderstandings. How can I change font size globally? I
> apologise if this question is too basic, but Google strangely did not
> provide this time.

You might want to check/change your DPI settings (compare
http://scanline.ca/dpi/).

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Re: [gentoo-user] mysql error

[Arnau Bria]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:46:39 +0100
Arnau Bria wrote:

> Hi,
[...]
> This is what I see in my mysqld.err log:
> 
> 070208 11:26:17 [Warning] No argument was provided to --log-bin, and
> --log-bin-index was not used; so replication may break when this
> MySQL server acts as a master and has his hostname changed!! Please
> use '--log-bin=afrodita-bin' to avoid this problem. mysqld got signal
> 4; This could be because you hit a bug. It is also possible that this
> binary or one of the libraries it was linked against is corrupt,
> improperly built, or misconfigured. This error can also be caused by
> malfunctioning hardware. We will try our best to scrape up some info
> that will hopefully help diagnose the problem, but since we have
> already crashed, something is definitely wrong and this may fail.
> 
> I think I can ignore this
> 
> key_buffer_size=0
> read_buffer_size=258048
> max_used_connections=0
> max_connections=100
> threads_connected=0
> It is possible that mysqld could use up to
> key_buffer_size + (read_buffer_size +
> sort_buffer_size)*max_connections = 76399 K bytes of memory
> Hope that's ok; if not, decrease some variables in the equation.
> 
> thd=(nil)
> Attempting backtrace. You can use the following information to find
> out where mysqld died. If you see no messages after this, something
> went terribly wrong...
> Cannot determine thread, fp=0xb690808d, backtrace may not be correct.
> Bogus stack limit or frame pointer, fp=0xb690808d,
> stack_bottom=0xbfcb, thread_stack=196608, aborting backtrace. The
> manual page at http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Crashing.html contains
> information that should help you find out what is causing the crash.
> 
> *WTH**
I had to remove all bin files from /var/lib/mysql
After that, all works fine!

cheers!

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[gentoo-user] Changing the font size in X

[Vlad Dogaru]

Hello,

I find that fonts are too small for my 15" monitor, causing eye strain
and misunderstandings. How can I change font size globally? I
apologise if this question is too basic, but Google strangely did not
provide this time.

Thanks,
Vlad

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Re: [gentoo-user] Completely lost regarding wifi

[YoYo Siska]

Henk Boom wrote:
> On 06/02/07, Henk Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm much closer than I have been before. Following the LEAP example, I
>> seem to manage to connect. iwconfig tells me I have an encryption key.
>> The only issue now seems to be that I can't get dhcp working. Nothing
>> relevant runs automatically, and when I run dhcpcd manually it times
>> out. Then, after I have run dhcpcd, or if I just wait a while, when I
>> do iwconfig it tells me that I an unassociated. . .
>>
>> I feel close, but I'm not quite there yet >.<.
>>
> 
> Wow, I hibernated the laptop (after iwconfig told me I was
> unnasosiated), carried it out of the computer lab and onto another
> floor, then woke it up. I ran /etc/init.d/net.eth1 one more time for
> good measure (it complained that it had already been started). Then I
> tried to ping google, and it worked!
> 
> The only explanation I can think of for this is that the computer labs
> where I made my last post had bad reception.
> 
> Now I'm curious though, do I need to explicitly run a dhcp client, or
> does wpa_supplicant handle all that for me?

if you run wpa_supplicant _through_ gentoo initscripts, they should run
dhcp when wpa_supplicant associates with the AP
(unless you define something else in config_=(...) )

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Re: [gentoo-user] Network start delay?

[Peter Lewis]

On Wednesday 07 February 2007 23:12, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 10:37 +, Peter Lewis wrote:
> > I start my wireless network with the script
> >
> > /etc/init.d/net.eth2
> >
> > which is started by init in the "default" runlevel.
> >
> > I also have
> >
> > /etc/init.d/netmount
> >
> > to mount some samba shares, and which is also started my init in the
> > "default" runlevel, but depends on "net" from the line:
> >
> > local myneed="net"
> >
> > So, as I understand it, this makes sure that init starts net.eth* before
> > starting netmount. That's good. However, eth2 is on a DHCP-enabled
> > connection and takes a few seconds to come up after starting the script.
> > By the time netmount is started, net.eth2 has not finished coming up, so
> > netmount fails and the samba shares are never mounted automatically.
> >
> > Is there a way to make the netmount script wait for a route to exist
> > before attempting to connect?
>
> net.eth2 "shouldn't" return (by default) until it has a dhcp address,
> which means all other scripts starting after it will wait until you have
> an address.
>
> Things you might have done to change the default behaviour include
> RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP, and RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING in /etc/conf.d/rc.
>
> You can set them to "no", and "yes" respectively and see if the
> following scripts wait...

Thanks for this. I just checked and I have those variables set up correctly.

Yes, upon closer inspection, the problem is slightly weirder.

I'm using an Intel ipw3945 wireless device, which requires a daemon to run 
to "regulate it" or something. So, I also have /etc/init.d/ipw3945d start at 
boot. This must start before I can access eth2. However, I've actually just 
noticed that I don't explicitly start net.eth2 in any runlevel. It seems that 
this is kicked into action by ipw3945d somewhere (though I can't see where). 
The /etc/init.d/net.eth2 process just seems to fork off to the background, 
meaning that init carries on booting, and hence fails on netmount.

Anyone any experience with this?

Cheers,

Pete.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Can someone please explain to me why these bugs are duplicates?

[Benno Schulenberg]

Daniel Iliev wrote:
> As already mentioned in this thread the workaround is to
> un-keyword a concrete version, not the whole package.

This is not a workaround, it's a _better way of achieving the goal.  
When portage just flags packages gone stable, you have to watch the 
pretend output yourself for these flags.  When using = or ~ you can 
just forget about the package, portage will automatically handle an 
upgrade to the next stable version.

Benno
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[gentoo-user] mysql error

[Arnau Bria]

Hi,

After a power cut my server did not start again. I had to boot with a
livecd, do a fsck in my / partion (which removed some orphan inodes)
and reinstall grub in my MBR.

After all, I'm able to boot, and all my services are running
again, all except mysql.

This is what I see in my mysqld.err log:

070208 11:26:17 [Warning] No argument was provided to --log-bin, and 
--log-bin-index was not used; so replication may break when this MySQL server 
acts as a master and has his hostname changed!! Please use 
'--log-bin=afrodita-bin' to avoid this problem.
mysqld got signal 4;
This could be because you hit a bug. It is also possible that this binary
or one of the libraries it was linked against is corrupt, improperly built,
or misconfigured. This error can also be caused by malfunctioning hardware.
We will try our best to scrape up some info that will hopefully help diagnose
the problem, but since we have already crashed, something is definitely wrong
and this may fail.

I think I can ignore this

key_buffer_size=0
read_buffer_size=258048
max_used_connections=0
max_connections=100
threads_connected=0
It is possible that mysqld could use up to
key_buffer_size + (read_buffer_size + sort_buffer_size)*max_connections = 76399 
K
bytes of memory
Hope that's ok; if not, decrease some variables in the equation.

thd=(nil)
Attempting backtrace. You can use the following information to find out
where mysqld died. If you see no messages after this, something went
terribly wrong...
Cannot determine thread, fp=0xb690808d, backtrace may not be correct.
Bogus stack limit or frame pointer, fp=0xb690808d, stack_bottom=0xbfcb, 
thread_stack=196608, aborting backtrace.
The manual page at http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Crashing.html contains
information that should help you find out what is causing the crash.

*WTH**

I have done this:

myisamchk --silent --force */*.MYI
from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/crashing.html and I think
tables are fine (I have copied them into a new mysql and I can browse
content) 

I have recompiled mysql, but I think this is not enough...

What else may I do to recover y mysql? Do I have to recompile all its
dependencies? How? Maybe a emerge --emptytree world/system?

TIA,
Arnau
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Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

[Frédéric Grosshans]

Le mardi 06 février 2007 à 22:28 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier a écrit :
> > What I/O scheduler are you using? Did you try to experiment with the 
> > deadline or the cfq I/O schedulers?
> > If you have them enabled in your kernel config, read 
> > Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt and see if things get better 
> > after changing the I/O scheduler for your hard disk.
> > Of course, your problem might be caused by something else altogether.
> 
> At the moment i use the CFQ-scheduler others are not compiled in the
> kernel, I will compile one and tell you if this gives any improvements.
Did you try to play with ionice to assign priority. It has helped me a
lot with io-intensive background taskes.

Fred

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Re: [gentoo-user] _syscallX isn't in linux-headers-2.6.20 ??

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Wednesday 07 February 2007 18:53, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to use:
>
> _syscall3(int, ioprio_set, int, which, int, who, int, ioprio);
> _syscall2(int, ioprio_get, int, which, int, who);
>
> and supposedly I just
>
> #include 
>
> but I'm getting these error from gcc:
>
> error: syntax error before "ioprio_set"
> warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> error: syntax error before "ioprio_get"
> warning: data definition has no type or storage class
>
> so I had a look in /usr/include/linux/unistd.h and it doesn't even have
> _syscall in there!! It's in /usr/src/linux though...

That means that the kernel devs have decided that API is not userland safe.  
In recent kernels, there's a specific 'headers' (or somesuch) make target, 
that generates .h files that are appropriate to use in userland.

If you need access to APIs that aren't in those headers, you should be 
writing 
a kernel module, or convincing the kernel developers to expose these APIs 
to 
userland.  Your kernel module may need be only a tiny stub, just something 
to 
go between your userland and the non-userland-safe APIs.

> Am I doing something wrong?

It's possible you just need another header.  It also possible that there's 
a 
different entry point now. I seem to remember the location of the syscall 
table is recently changed to something like randomized per-process at some 
point in the 2.6.1x line.  That may have changed how you need to be calling 
things.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response

[Michael Schreckenbauer]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007 21:19 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin:
> On Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Am Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007 12:35 schrieb Benno Schulenberg:
> > > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > > > hdparm /dev/hda
> > > >
> > > > /dev/hda:
> > > >  multcount= 16 (on)
> > > >  IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
> > > >  unmaskirq=  1 (on)
> > > >  using_dma=  1 (on)
> > > >  keepsettings =  0 (off)
> > > >  readonly =  0 (off)
> > > >  readahead= 256 (on)
> > > >  geometry = 16383/255/63, sectors = 234493056, start = 0
> > >
> > > Maybe set readahead to a smaller value?  Something like 8 or 16?
> > >
> > > At least that's what http://linuxgazette.net/issue79/punk.html
> > > advises.  If you have specific reasons for the higher value, then
> > > please elaborate.
>
> it is a default setting I never touched?
> Aside from 'IO_support' everything is default.

same here.

> Oh, and I tried different io-scheds without any success.

anticipatory and deadline work better for me, but far from perfect. cfq is 
unusable.

> > I believe there is a misunderstanding here. I am the one with the problem
> > not Volker :)
> we have both similar problems ;)

Ah! Nice to hear I am not alone! *g*
googling around, I found some people having a similar problem too, all of them 
are using xfs as I do (eg http://www.thisishull.net/showthread.php?t=219580). 
What's your fs? Mounting with nobarrier didn't work for me :(

Regards,
Michael
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