Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

[Alan McKinnon]

On Sunday 11 February 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote:
> On 11/02/07, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I would go with Hammann with
> > "Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU."
> >
> > Many people neglect to realise how important a decent PSU is, and
> > how major an effect it can have on systems. A dodgy PSU in my
> > experience can do everything from -CAUSING- overheating, to random
> > shutoffs, and MURDERING hard drives.
> > I had one which killed 3 Hard Drives before I realised thats what
> > the problem was, and the last hard drive was so cooked it didn't
> > even spin up.
> >
> > --
>
> Joy. I should certainly hope it is NOT the PSU as it is new, and
> replaced a dead one.
>
> ("New" as in "bought sometime in the summer")

fwiw,

I've given up on the consumer electronics industry being able to 
consistently build high quality power supplies for ANYTHING that plugs 
into the mains. The normal build quality is terrible, and the ability 
of the designer to do the job leaves much to be desired. It almost 
looks like the things are deisnged to be "good enough to just make it 
past a years warranty"

Saying you might have a dodgy and new psu surprises me about as much as 
saying that the sky is blue and water is wet


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Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.5

[Alan McKinnon]

On Sunday 11 February 2007, Marc Blumentritt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after syncing portage yesterday, an update for glibc from 2.4-r4 to
> 2.5 is shown. Is there anything special to do after this update? Last
> time glibc was updated you had to rebuild world, if I remember
> correct.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Marc

The change to 2.5 was seamless for me with no problems whatsoever. It 
progressed just like upgrading any other package (in complete contrast 
to the glibc-2.4 and gcc-4x upgrades).

I upgraded when it hit ~x86 on Oct 11 and it's been recompiled 3 times 
since, all problem free.

alan



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Re: [gentoo-user] switching to non-NPTL profile

[Alan McKinnon]

On Sunday 11 February 2007, Pawel K wrote:
> Hello
>
> I would like to install User-Mode Linux. It requires
> non-NPTL profile.
> Are below steps sufficient to switch to non-NPTL
> profile ?
>
> 1. Remove nptl and nptlonly flags from USE variable in
> /etc/make.conf file:
> USE="-nptl -nptlonly"
>
> 2. Which of the following commands should I perform
> now?
>
> emerge --newuse world
> or
> emerge -e world

You might get away with an 'emerge -uND world", but consider what you 
are trying to accomplish. You want to update and make a deep change to 
the most basic library on the system - glibc - and at the same time 
change the system's threading model. When done, every library that 
previously used nptl will still want to, but it won't be there. So you 
will need to do a revdep-rebuild and wait for the humunguous emerge 
that triggers to complete.

All things considered, you might as well just 'emerge -e world' anyway. 
It's likely to take not much longer and will be a mostly uneventful 
task that takes about a day or so.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Did I just get hacked???

[Paul Sebastian Ziegler]

Hi Grant,

personally (but this is by far only ONE possible setup for your task)
I'd advise you to connect eth0 to wan through a box set up as a bridge
(try brctl). If that box has a good wireless card and good drivers (this
mostly means "if that box isn't running Windows") you can also put that
wireless-card into promiscuous mode lock it to your chanel and ssid and
feed wireshark your WEP-Key or WPA-PSK for decryption.
If not, then you'll have to use a second box for the wireless sniffing.

BTW. current rootkits won't just replace ps or some other tools. Good
rootkits do not run in userspace; they run in kernelspace. They directly
intercept the function-calls. Just another thing to keep in mind while
trying to scan for them.

hth
Paul

Grant schrieb:
>> > A good rootkit will install a "ps" that won't show the 'bot
>> > processes.  The one time a machine of mine got hacked, netstat
>> > still worked, but I don't know why a hacked netstat couldn't be
>> > installed as well.
>>
>> > Looking through /proc/≤pid> is probably still reliable.
>>
>>
>> Hello Grant,
>>
>> I keep an old portable around, running wireshark and a flat hub.
>> You can set your ethernet address to 0.0.0.0 and fire up wireshark.
>>
>> You can then sniff any (ethernet) segment of your network for
>> nefarious traffic or male-configured network applictions.
> 
> Ok, it sounds like the key to figuring this out is watching the
> outgoing network traffic for weird stuff.  eth0 is on the WAN and
> wireless ath0 is on the local subnet.  How would you monitor the
> outgoing traffic considering my setup?
> 
> - Grant
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[gentoo-user] Firefox and seamonkey won't start

[felix]

I have a ~x86 system which was running seamonkey and firefox fine
until a few days ago, when they both died, and will not now restart.
They both report this:

$ seamonkey
No running windows found
Error: in list-ref: out of range: 2
seamonkey-bin exited with non-zero status (1)
$

This happens with both the compiled versions and the -bin versions.
Galeon also dies with this message.  Opera works but I don't like it
very much and would prefer to use firefox and seamonkey again.

Here are their versions:

www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.1-r2
www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-2.0.0.1
www-client/seamonkey-1.1
www-client/seamonkey-bin-1.1
www-client/galeon-2.0.2

I have tried moving the .gconfd .gconf .gnome2 .gnome2_private
.mozilla firectories out of the way in case they had been corrupted;
it makes no difference.  I tried strace and that didn't tell me
anything.  I tried re-emerging and that made no difference.

This is a P4 running gentoo-sources 2.6.20.

Does anyone know where this message comes from?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Did I just get hacked???

[Grant]

> A good rootkit will install a "ps" that won't show the 'bot
> processes.  The one time a machine of mine got hacked, netstat
> still worked, but I don't know why a hacked netstat couldn't be
> installed as well.

> Looking through /proc/≤pid> is probably still reliable.


Hello Grant,

I keep an old portable around, running wireshark and a flat hub.
You can set your ethernet address to 0.0.0.0 and fire up wireshark.

You can then sniff any (ethernet) segment of your network for
nefarious traffic or male-configured network applictions.

hth,

James


I can see in an xfce4 panel plugin that there is constantly a small
amount of incoming/outgoing traffic to/from the affected system when
there is no reason I know of for it.  netstat doesn't show anything
that jumps out at me although this is the first time I've really used
it.  All of the current netstat connections appear to be UNIX as
opposed to Internet.  Should I paste them in?

- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.5

[»Q«]

In ,
Marc Blumentritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> after syncing portage yesterday, an update for glibc from 2.4-r4 to
> 2.5 is shown. Is there anything special to do after this update? Last
> time glibc was updated you had to rebuild world, if I remember
> correct.

IIRC, last time there was a major update to glibc, it came along with
the update to gcc 4.1, which did require rebuilding.

I updated to glibc-2.5 without any problems;  I ran revdep-rebuild
afterwards just in case, but it found nothing needing rebuilding.  I've
compiled a few things since upgrading glibc, with no troubles.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Did I just get hacked???

[Grant]

> A good rootkit will install a "ps" that won't show the 'bot
> processes.  The one time a machine of mine got hacked, netstat
> still worked, but I don't know why a hacked netstat couldn't be
> installed as well.

> Looking through /proc/≤pid> is probably still reliable.


Hello Grant,

I keep an old portable around, running wireshark and a flat hub.
You can set your ethernet address to 0.0.0.0 and fire up wireshark.

You can then sniff any (ethernet) segment of your network for
nefarious traffic or male-configured network applictions.


Ok, it sounds like the key to figuring this out is watching the
outgoing network traffic for weird stuff.  eth0 is on the WAN and
wireless ath0 is on the local subnet.  How would you monitor the
outgoing traffic considering my setup?

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.5

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Sunday 11 February 2007 11:42:29 Marc Blumentritt wrote:
> after syncing portage yesterday, an update for glibc from 2.4-r4 to 2.5
> is shown. Is there anything special to do after this update? Last time
> glibc was updated you had to rebuild world, if I remember correct.

glibc-2.4.x was special because it required ntpl which isn't available on an 
i386 CHOST. Either your memory is incorrect or you had to change your CHOST 
because of that. So in short no, you don't need to do anything special after 
upgrading glibc.

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[gentoo-user] glibc-2.5

[Marc Blumentritt]

Hi,

after syncing portage yesterday, an update for glibc from 2.4-r4 to 2.5
is shown. Is there anything special to do after this update? Last time
glibc was updated you had to rebuild world, if I remember correct.

Thanks in advance
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Re: [gentoo-user] preventing a module from being loaded

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:58:48 +0100, marco restelli wrote:

> Now, at boot, the module bcm43xx is loaded, while
> I have been using ndiswrapper.

If you would really prefer to run Windows code as root instead of using
the open source driver, why not compile your kernel without bcm43xx in the
first place?


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[gentoo-user] Re: iputils build error

[Harm Geerts]

On Sunday 11 February 2007, don wrote:
> After a sync and portage update, an emerge ... system wanted to update
> net-misc/iputils.  This error then occured.
>
> ==
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/iputils-20060512/work/iputils-s20060512/doc'
> Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-3.1.cat
> Using stylesheet:
> /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl#html
> Working on:
> /var/tmp/portage/net-misc/iputils-20060512/work/iputils-s20060512/doc/tmp.d
>b2html/../index.db jade: error while loading shared libraries: libosp.so.4:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [arping.html] Error 8
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/iputils-20060512/work/iputils-s20060512/doc'
> make: *** [html] Error 2
>
> !!! ERROR: net-misc/iputils-20060512 failed.
> Call stack:
>   ebuild.sh, line 1614:   Called dyn_compile
>   ebuild.sh, line 971:   Called qa_call 'src_compile'
>   environment, line 3229:   Called src_compile
>   iputils-20060512.ebuild, line 51:   Called die
> ==
>
> My system has libosp.so.5

emerge --oneshot app-text/openjade

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which is a tool that locates broken binaries/libraries for you.
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[gentoo-user] iputils build error

[don]

After a sync and portage update, an emerge ... system wanted to update
net-misc/iputils.  This error then occured.

==
make[1]: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/iputils-20060512/work/iputils-s20060512/doc'
Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-3.1.cat
Using stylesheet:
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/docbook-utils.dsl#html
Working on:
/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/iputils-20060512/work/iputils-s20060512/doc/tmp.db2html/../index.db
jade: error while loading shared libraries: libosp.so.4: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [arping.html] Error 8
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/iputils-20060512/work/iputils-s20060512/doc'
make: *** [html] Error 2

!!! ERROR: net-misc/iputils-20060512 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1614:   Called dyn_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 971:   Called qa_call 'src_compile'
  environment, line 3229:   Called src_compile
  iputils-20060512.ebuild, line 51:   Called die
==

My system has libosp.so.5


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[gentoo-user] Re: Did I just get hacked???

[James]

Grant Edwards  visi.com> writes:



> A good rootkit will install a "ps" that won't show the 'bot
> processes.  The one time a machine of mine got hacked, netstat
> still worked, but I don't know why a hacked netstat couldn't be
> installed as well.

> Looking through /proc/≤pid> is probably still reliable.


Hello Grant,

I keep an old portable around, running wireshark and a flat hub.
You can set your ethernet address to 0.0.0.0 and fire up wireshark.

You can then sniff any (ethernet) segment of your network for
nefarious traffic or male-configured network applictions.

hth,

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Re: [gentoo-user] switching to non-NPTL profile

[Hans-Werner Hilse]

Hi,

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:17:40 +0100
Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sunday 11 February 2007 16:23:23 Pawel K wrote:
> > There is a bit contradictionary information about that
> > at:
> >
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/uml.xml
> > and
> > http://gentoo-wiki.com/NPTL
> 
> You should of course follow the instructions at the official gentoo.org 
> hosted 
> uml doc rather than a random wiki which can be edited by anyone..

agreed, but I'm not quite sure if those are really sensible. Is it
really the case that a UML kernel does not run in an NPTL environmen? I
don't think so, AFAIK the UML kernel just isn't able to provide
everything to run NPTL enabled application under its hood. So when
there's a new Gentoo compiled for the UML's root file system, why
bother with recompiling the hosting environment? (Except, of course, if
one wants to use the host as a BINHOST for portage, too. But the guide
doesn't specifically suggest this.)

-hwh
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Re: [gentoo-user] switching to non-NPTL profile

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Sunday 11 February 2007 16:23:23 Pawel K wrote:
> There is a bit contradictionary information about that
> at:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/uml.xml
> and
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/NPTL

You should of course follow the instructions at the official gentoo.org hosted 
uml doc rather than a random wiki which can be edited by anyone..

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Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

[Hemmann, Volker Armin]

On Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote:
> On 11/02/07, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I would go with Hammann with
> > "Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU."
> >
> > Many people neglect to realise how important a decent PSU is, and how
> > major an effect it can have on systems. A dodgy PSU in my experience
> > can do everything from -CAUSING- overheating, to random shutoffs, and
> > MURDERING hard drives.
> > I had one which killed 3 Hard Drives before I realised thats what the
> > problem was, and the last hard drive was so cooked it didn't even spin
> > up.
> >
> > --
>
> Joy. I should certainly hope it is NOT the PSU as it is new, and replaced a
> dead one.
>
> ("New" as in "bought sometime in the summer")

6 month are enough time for a PSU to become bad.

Tomshardware just run a nice PSU test - the results were devastating. Only 4 
of the 9 PSUs survived the test.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

[Jeff Rollin]

On 11/02/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:


On Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I am having trouble when compiling things on Gentoo. When I start a
> compile, it goes partway through and then reboots the machine (I can't
> confirm it's due to a compile but it seems likely since I have been
> compiling things each of the times this has happened.
>
> One thing that might be causing the problem (?) is that last time I
> compiled the kernel I stupidly left out ACPI support.
>
> Any ideas?

like building a kernel with that ACPI stuff?
Or let the case open?



I have replaced the kernel with a prebuilt one from the LiveCD, to no
effect. (That is, it works, until the machine reboots again)

Building one wouldn't be an option as this machine is the only one I
currently have w/ Linux on it and it does not "survive" a compile before
rebooting

Letting the case open I suppose would be a good diagnostic. Hopefully I will
find a permanent solution though

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

[Jeff Rollin]

On 11/02/07, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



>

I would go with Hammann with
"Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU."

Many people neglect to realise how important a decent PSU is, and how
major an effect it can have on systems. A dodgy PSU in my experience
can do everything from -CAUSING- overheating, to random shutoffs, and
MURDERING hard drives.
I had one which killed 3 Hard Drives before I realised thats what the
problem was, and the last hard drive was so cooked it didn't even spin
up.

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Joy. I should certainly hope it is NOT the PSU as it is new, and replaced a
dead one.

("New" as in "bought sometime in the summer")

Will check all the same, thanks

Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: preventing a module from being loaded

[marco restelli]

On 2/10/07, Remy Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

(Sorry if this appears twice, but I sent the message three hours ago and
it hasn't appeared on the list yet)

marco restelli wrote:
> Now, at boot, the module bcm43xx is loaded, while
> I have been using ndiswrapper.

I had the same problem here. You can block the automatic loading of the
module by udev as follows:

Find out the module alias used by udev:

  cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/modalias

(Replace wlan0 by the name of your interface). Here this gives:

  pci:v14E4d4324sv1028sd0003bc02sc80i00

Create the file /etc/modules.d/blacklist with the following content:

  alias pci:v14E4d4324sv1028sd0003bc02sc80i00 off

(Use the alias you got with the command above). Then run modules-update.


Remy, it works. Thanks very much.



Easy, isn't it? ;-)


Uh, I am glad we have this great mailing list and great community!
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Re: [gentoo-user] clean_delay has stopped working

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Sunday 11 February 2007 14:18:26 Philip Webb wrote:
> I just upgraded to Portage 2.1.2-r9
> & 'emerge' no longer respects my setting  CLEAN_DELAY=10  in make.conf :
> it goes ahead & removes the old version without any pause.
> I haven't tried it with 'emerge -C', only with a simple update.
> Nothing to be found among bugs or the forum.
> Does anyone have information or comments ?

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164078

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Re: [gentoo-user] subversion client too old (?)

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Sunday 11 February 2007 11:00:15 John covici wrote:
> But would I not get that version when I do
> emerge -S subversion
> that search yields only the 1.3.2, so I thought there was no later
> one.
>  I did a find /usr/portage -name '*subversion*' and sure enough there
>  a 1.4.2 ebuild, but the search did not show it.

Which is one of the reasons why most of us use app-portage/eix instead of 
emerge -s/S to search for packages...

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Re: [gentoo-user] switching to non-NPTL profile

[Patrice Bouvard]

Le Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:23:23 -0800 (PST),
Pawel K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :

> Hello
> 
> I would like to install User-Mode Linux. It requires
> non-NPTL profile.

Hi !

There is a no-nptl profile there : 
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/no-nptl

I think this is what you're looking for.
The next step is to recompile all your system.
Maybe something like `emerge -e system && emerge -e world` would suffice, but I 
am not sure.
A safe method is to reinstall your gentoo from scratch using a no-nptl stage-x 
image (i386 ?)



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Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

[Kent Fredric]

On 2/11/07, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi list,

I am having trouble when compiling things on Gentoo. When I start a compile,
it goes partway through and then reboots the machine (I can't confirm it's
due to a compile but it seems likely since I have been compiling things each
of the times this has happened.

One thing that might be causing the problem (?) is that last time I compiled
the kernel I stupidly left out ACPI support.

Any ideas?

TIA,

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I would go with Hammann with
"Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU."

Many people neglect to realise how important a decent PSU is, and how
major an effect it can have on systems. A dodgy PSU in my experience
can do everything from -CAUSING- overheating, to random shutoffs, and
MURDERING hard drives.
I had one which killed 3 Hard Drives before I realised thats what the
problem was, and the last hard drive was so cooked it didn't even spin
up.

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[gentoo-user] switching to non-NPTL profile

[Pawel K]

Hello

I would like to install User-Mode Linux. It requires
non-NPTL profile.
Are below steps sufficient to switch to non-NPTL
profile ?

1. Remove nptl and nptlonly flags from USE variable in
/etc/make.conf file:
USE="-nptl -nptlonly"

2. Which of the following commands should I perform
now?

emerge --newuse world
or
emerge -e world

There is a bit contradictionary information about that
at:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/uml.xml
and
http://gentoo-wiki.com/NPTL

thanks for any help


 

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Re: [gentoo-user] embed subtitles on video to ipod

[Mauro Faccenda]

On Sunday 11 February 2007 11:43, Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila wrote:
> On 16:59 Sat 10 Feb , Mauro Faccenda wrote:
> > Hi people,
> >
> > I have some videos and its respectives subtitles (.srt) and would like to
> > watch them on my new iPod Video.
> >
> > I already know how to recode them so can be played on iPod, but I don't
> > know how to insert the legend from the .srt text file.
>
>   < ... >
>
>   If you use mencoder to recode file to be iPod compliant, just add -sub
>   /whereis/sub.srt to recode command. I don't know about ffmpeg.


I already tryied it... I don't know if I did something wrong, but the output 
doesn't had the subtitles.

Can you give me an example of how you do something like it?

Thanks,
Mauro
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[gentoo-user] First time kernel compiler experiencing some problems

[Vlad Dogaru]

Hello,

after a couple of failed attempts some time ago, I actually ended up
with a kernel that boots. However, I am experiencing some problems which
I think are at least in part due to my perhaps incomplete kernel
configuration.

First of all, my console is still in 80x24 mode, although I pass
video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] to the kernel. I have compiled vesafb-tng
into the kernel, so specifying the vga mode is not needed, right? If I
add vga=0x318, the kernel complains about an unsupported mode and makes
me choose another. However, I know from my previous (genkernel-created)
kernel that these paramters work for my hardware setup.

Secondly, I installed nvidia-drivers, but the X server refuses to load
glx. I can't check for the exact error now, but it's something about an
unrecognised/unsupported format. If I set opengl to xorg-x11, X starts
(but I suppose it's not by far the same thing).

Could this be linked to the fact that my detected X settings are a bit
strange? For instance, the monitor VendorName and ModelName are just
generic strings and the subsections for the Screen section only contain
"ViewPort 0 0" in addition to Depth, which varies (correctly as far as I
can tell) from 1 to 24.

Other than that, and a bit offtopic, too, today has been both very fun
and incredibly educational (but a bit sore on the eyes). But after about
13 hours, I might not make much sense. Apologies beforehand if that is
the case.

Vlad

PS: I tried to send this a while back, but without success. If it did, however,
get sent, then I apologise for the double post.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

[Andrey Gerasimenko]

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:57:19 +0300, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:



Heat (dust bunnies/blocked fans/filters ...)
bad memory



Bad memory or bad motherboard. This is less likely, but also happens (saw  
that Thursday). Ideally, switch memory with another similar PC and see  
what happens to both.


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Re: [gentoo-user] embed subtitles on video to ipod

[Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila]

On 16:59 Sat 10 Feb , Mauro Faccenda wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
> I have some videos and its respectives subtitles (.srt) and would like to 
> watch them on my new iPod Video.
> 
> I already know how to recode them so can be played on iPod, but I don't know 
> how to insert the legend from the .srt text file.
> 
  < ... >

  If you use mencoder to recode file to be iPod compliant, just add -sub
  /whereis/sub.srt to recode command. I don't know about ffmpeg.

  HTH

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Re: [gentoo-user] clean_delay has stopped working

[Albert Hopkins]

On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 08:18 -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
> I just upgraded to Portage 2.1.2-r9
> & 'emerge' no longer respects my setting  CLEAN_DELAY=10  in make.conf :
> it goes ahead & removes the old version without any pause.
> I haven't tried it with 'emerge -C', only with a simple update.
> Nothing to be found among bugs or the forum.
> Does anyone have information or comments ?

Your best course is to report it as a bug (if it hasn't been already).

bugs.gentoo.org


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[gentoo-user] clean_delay has stopped working

[Philip Webb]

I just upgraded to Portage 2.1.2-r9
& 'emerge' no longer respects my setting  CLEAN_DELAY=10  in make.conf :
it goes ahead & removes the old version without any pause.
I haven't tried it with 'emerge -C', only with a simple update.
Nothing to be found among bugs or the forum.
Does anyone have information or comments ?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

[Hemmann, Volker Armin]

On Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I am having trouble when compiling things on Gentoo. When I start a
> compile, it goes partway through and then reboots the machine (I can't
> confirm it's due to a compile but it seems likely since I have been
> compiling things each of the times this has happened.
>
> One thing that might be causing the problem (?) is that last time I
> compiled the kernel I stupidly left out ACPI support.
>
> Any ideas?

like building a kernel with that ACPI stuff?
Or let the case open?

Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Framebuffer problems

[Thomas Kear]

> kernel /bzImage-fb1280 root=/dev/hda8 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr
> vga=0x0317 splash=verbose,theme:Gentoo-Hornet
Try 0x31B, it might be happier with 24 bit colour.

> Then after that brief 80x60(?) display gentoo proceeds to boot with
> 1280x1024 reso (and  the dmesg info scrolls up while tux sits on top
> of it... but sadly without using my splash theme :( ).
You can't have a framebuffer splash and tux, it's one or the other.  I believe 
this is documented in some inconvenient place in the kernel configuration.


Relevant parts of my grub.conf:
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.20-gentoo root=/dev/sda2 vga=0x31B 
splash=verbose,theme:echoes video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap
initrd /boot/initrd-fbsplash

(I chose the easy method and put my splash images in an initramfs file, but if 
you've added yours to the kernel that should work fine too)

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Re: [gentoo-user] subversion client too old (?)

[John covici]

on Sunday 02/11/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
 > On Saturday 10 February 2007 15:28:14 John covici wrote:
 > > Hi.  I am having a strange subversion problem.   I think it stems from
 > > the fact that I boot into two different systems, one has subversion
 > > 1.4.0and the gentoo system has 1.3.2 and when the 1.3.2 client touches
 > > something checked out by the 1.4.0 version, it complains -- does seem
 > > to work.  However is there any way to update the gentoo version -- I
 > > did a --sync and searched for subversion but no joy -- just the 1.3.2
 > > one.
 > >
 > > Any assistance would be appreciated.
 > 
 > echo ~dev-util/subversion-1.4.0 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
 > 
 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3#doc_chap2
 > 

But would I not get that version when I do
emerge -S subversion
that search yields only the 1.3.2, so I thought there was no later
one.
 I did a find /usr/portage -name '*subversion*' and sure enough there
 a 1.4.2 ebuild, but the search did not show it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

[Philip Webb]

070211 William Kenworthy wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 08:36 +, Jeff Rollin wrote:
>> When I start a compile, it goes partway through
>> and then reboots the machine
> Heat (dust bunnies/blocked fans/filters ...), bad memory

I've had problems in the past due to the CPU overheating:
the machine will shut off automatically & you may have it set to reboot.

I cured it by taking the CPU & fan apart,
blowing & brushing -- carefully ! -- all the dust off
& putting some fresh heat compound between the two.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

[William Kenworthy]

Heat (dust bunnies/blocked fans/filters ...)
bad memory

Both the above get extra stress during compiles, the cpu throws a panic
and depending on kernel options will reboot.  Other things can do it,
but the above seem most common.

BillK



On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 08:36 +, Jeff Rollin wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I am having trouble when compiling things on Gentoo. When I start a compile, 
> it goes partway through and then reboots the machine (I can't confirm it's 
> due to a compile but it seems likely since I have been compiling things each 
> of the times this has happened.
> 
> One thing that might be causing the problem (?) is that last time I compiled 
> the kernel I stupidly left out ACPI support.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> TIA, 
> 
> Jeff
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[gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

[Jeff Rollin]

Hi list,

I am having trouble when compiling things on Gentoo. When I start a compile, 
it goes partway through and then reboots the machine (I can't confirm it's 
due to a compile but it seems likely since I have been compiling things each 
of the times this has happened.

One thing that might be causing the problem (?) is that last time I compiled 
the kernel I stupidly left out ACPI support.

Any ideas?

TIA, 

Jeff
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