Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups
On Monday 14 July 2008 08:05:03 Daniel Iliev wrote: >Dirk, Arttu: > - Should we get off-list on this subject or at least open a new > thread? Let's take it to b.g.o. Bye... Dirk -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network chip always comes up eth1 on 1-year-old Dell Inspiron 530
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:30:56 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:55:56 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > Udev is doing this. If you have removed the second card, > > > delete /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, otherwise edit > > > the file to switch the assignments for the two NICs. > > > > Thanks. A "new and improved helpfull feature" that could've done > > without. > > It's hardly new, it's been around for some years. It is helpful if you > have two NICs because it means they are named consistently, which is > better than having your private network connected to the Internet > because the kernel decided to load the modules in a different order. > > IIRC: 1) You can explicitly tell the kernel the order in which load the modules 2) If you build the the drivers in-kernel the the order is determined by the PCI slot numbers -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network chip always comes up eth1 on 1-year-old Dell Inspiron 530
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:43:21 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > It's hardly new, it's been around for some years. It is helpful if you > > have two NICs because it means they are named consistently, which is > > better than having your private network connected to the Internet > > because the kernel decided to load the modules in a different order. > 1) You can explicitly tell the kernel the order in which load the > modules And if the module for eth0 fails to load, the other card becomes eth0 instead of eth1. Using udev rules, the second card is always eth1, whatever happens elsewhere in the system. -- Neil Bothwick If at first you don't succeed, call in an airstrike. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Good Library Management software
Before I recreated the wheel, does anybody know of any good library management software (preferably in portage)? My wife and I are having a hard time keeping track of what books we have, and what books we are lending out to people so I figured this would be a good way to keep track. Since it's for personal use it doesn't have to be anything big. Preferably backended by MySQL as I already have a server running for MythTV and Amarok. I did a few eix searches for portage and came up empty handed, and sourceforge.net has a ton of stuff but I was wondering what other people use. Thanks! -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software
Eric Martin wrote: Before I recreated the wheel, does anybody know of any good library management software (preferably in portage)? My wife and I are having a hard time keeping track of what books we have, and what books we are lending out to people so I figured this would be a good way to keep track. Since it's for personal use it doesn't have to be anything big. Preferably backended by MySQL as I already have a server running for MythTV and Amarok. I did a few eix searches for portage and came up empty handed, and sourceforge.net has a ton of stuff but I was wondering what other people use. Have you heard of Tellico. It's a collection manager that can be used for books, music, video ... whatever. It allows you to enter the name of the book, a graphic if you have one, rate the book and indicate whether or not it's a gift, how much you paid for it and if you have lent it out. It *is* in Portage. Some information: http://periapsis.org/tellico/ Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] tar and huge tarballs used for back-ups
On 7/14/08, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Arttu: > - Can you, please, post the command you used to make the test backups? During weekend I used pretty much the spells given on splitpipe's examples page [1], only changing the directory given to tar and the drive device (and speed for the older drive, I'm not sure if it can even *read* at this speed): tar clz /test | splitpipe -s cdr-80 -o 'cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrw speed=24 -tao -v -gracetime 2 driveropts=burnfree -data -' Last run yesterday was using star instead of tar, otherwise using that same line. Still no luck. Today I tried switching off burnfree and dramatically dropping speed for the newer drive as well: tar clz /test | splitpipe -s cdr-80 -o 'cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom speed=4 -tao -v -gracetime 2 driveropts=noburnfree -data -' But the result was the same, otherwise ok contents, but some bytes crapped at the end of the first disc. Hmm, if this seems to be consistent, then maybe there is something calculated/const'ed wrong for sizes of CDRs in splitpipe? I think I caught a glimpse of "calculate correct sizes" somewhere in its TODOs. [1] http://ds9a.nl/splitpipe/examples.html > - Did you try splitpipe on DVDs or on CDs only? CDR-80s only, Samsung Pleomax CD-R 52X 700 MB/80 min as it says on top of the discs still in the spindle. I don't even have DVD media to try with, only couple 100 piece spindles of those same CD-Rs. Actually, my motivation with splitpipe is/was getting multivolume CDs working so I wouldn't have to move to DVDs (or tapes, the horrors!) for a while. :) >Dirk, Arttu: > - Should we get off-list on this subject or at least open a new > thread? If you move, I'll follow -- if I even have any reasonable input for the discussion (of which I'm not too sure). -- Arttu V. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software
Eric Martin wrote: Before I recreated the wheel, does anybody know of any good library management software (preferably in portage)? My wife and I are having a hard time keeping track of what books we have, and what books we are lending out to people so I figured this would be a good way to keep track. Since it's for personal use it doesn't have to be anything big. Preferably backended by MySQL as I already have a server running for MythTV and Amarok. I did a few eix searches for portage and came up empty handed, and sourceforge.net has a ton of stuff but I was wondering what other people use. Thanks! Have you looked at alexandria? http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/index.html. --Joshua Doll -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software
Joshua D Doll wrote: Eric Martin wrote: Before I recreated the wheel, does anybody know of any good library management software (preferably in portage)? My wife and I are having a hard time keeping track of what books we have, and what books we are lending out to people so I figured this would be a good way to keep track. Since it's for personal use it doesn't have to be anything big. Preferably backended by MySQL as I already have a server running for MythTV and Amarok. I did a few eix searches for portage and came up empty handed, and sourceforge.net has a ton of stuff but I was wondering what other people use. Thanks! Have you looked at alexandria? http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/index.html. --Joshua Doll I'll second the suggestion of Alexandria for desktop usage but I would note that the latest stable version in Portage is extremely old. I would suggest using 0.6.3 (the latest upstream release, ~amd64 & ~x86 in portage). If you want something more involved (like a real Library would use), you could look into Koha[1] and/or Evergreen[2] as web apps but unfortunately neither is in Portage. Aaron [1] http://www.koha.org/ [2] http://www.open-ils.org/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems compiling gcc 4.2.4 and 4.3.1-r1
John covici schrieb: Hi, > > [snip] > > Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/developer, gcc-4.1.2, > glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 i686) ^^ that's your major problem... Regards, Joe User -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems compiling gcc 4.2.4 and 4.3.1-r1
on Monday 07/14/2008 Joe User([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > John covici schrieb: > > Hi, > > > > > [snip] > > > > Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/developer, gcc-4.1.2, > > glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 i686) >^^ > that's your major problem... > Which of those is the problem -- I am running 32-bit operating systems. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems compiling gcc 4.2.4 and 4.3.1-r1
2008/7/14, John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/developer, gcc-4.1.2, > glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 i686) > >^^ > > that's your major problem... > > > > Which of those is the problem -- I am running 32-bit operating > systems. Maybe not to use the developer profile :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Uwe Thiem
It's a sad day for me today. Uwe Thiem, who has been on this list longer than I have, passed away on Friday. My friend Alastair put up a little tribute here: http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2574 What that page doesn't say is how much Uwe loved gentoo. A long-time subscriber around here, his posts must number in the 100s if not 1000s. I'm gonna miss him, even though he lived only 1000km away (a trivial distance in Africa) I never did get to collect that pitcher of Namibia's finest he owed me. I guess now I never will. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network chip always comes up eth1 on 1-year-old Dell Inspiron 530
On Monday 14 July 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:43:21 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > > It's hardly new, it's been around for some years. It is helpful > > > if you have two NICs because it means they are named > > > consistently, which is better than having your private network > > > connected to the Internet because the kernel decided to load the > > > modules in a different order. > > > > 1) You can explicitly tell the kernel the order in which load the > > modules > > And if the module for eth0 fails to load, the other card becomes eth0 > instead of eth1. Using udev rules, the second card is always eth1, > whatever happens elsewhere in the system. Consider this: if we could have assigned arbitrary names to interfaces since day one, we would have the exact same behaviour udev gives, everyone would agree this is a truly excellent thing and this thread would not exist. The single minor difference is that you can't call the interface whatever you want directly, it just gets named the equally arbitrary name of "eth1" -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Backdown from firefox 3 (not enough integration yet)
What is my best option to back down to the last 2.X of firefox? It appears version 3 does not have compatibility with several addons that I like to use (sitebar being the main one). Is it best done in .../package.provided or some other way? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Uwe Thiem
Alan McKinnon schrieb: It's a sad day for me today. Uwe Thiem, who has been on this list longer than I have, passed away on Friday. My friend Alastair put up a little tribute here: http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2574 What that page doesn't say is how much Uwe loved gentoo. A long-time subscriber around here, his posts must number in the 100s if not 1000s. I'm gonna miss him, even though he lived only 1000km away (a trivial distance in Africa) I never did get to collect that pitcher of Namibia's finest he owed me. I guess now I never will. This are indeed very sad news. He was truly an enrichment to this list! I count 554 messages from him to this list from the beginning of 2006 when I joined! Google Groups lists 804 since 2004. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OK
On Sunday 13 July 2008, Mick wrote: > Anyway, as others asked - how long is too long for this purpose? for obvious reasons, anything longer than 80 characters -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Uwe Thiem
On Montag, 14. Juli 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > It's a sad day for me today. Uwe Thiem, who has been on this list longer > than I have, passed away on Friday. My friend Alastair put up a little > tribute here: fuck. Always the best. Always so early :( -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Backdown from firefox 3 (not enough integration yet)
On Monday 14 July 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: > What is my best option to back down to the last 2.X of firefox? It > appears version 3 does not have compatibility with several addons > that I like to use (sitebar being the main one). > > Is it best done in .../package.provided or some other way? It's not slotted so you can have only one: echo '>=www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0' >> /etc/portage/package.mask emerge mozilla-firefox Remove the entry from package.mask when you feel firefox-3.0 is good enough for your needs -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Curious ping problem with no FW
I've had a problem with being able to ping out to the internet from my gentoo box, while at the same time I'm able to ping outbound from several windows boxes on same home lan. I don't run a firewall at all from linux but do have a Netgear switch/router/Firewall upstream between me and the internet cable modem. Output of iptables -L: reader > sudo iptables -L Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination What I'm asking for here is advice about where to start debugging this. I can ping anything on my home lan, but nothing on the internet. Not even my IP's nameservers. And as mentioned, at the same time I'm able to ping from any of several windows boxes out to the internet. My router/fw can be set to deny specific machines outbound traffic but that is not done in this case. So the solution must reside somewhere in my gentoo install. What things should I be checking. A ping attempt like this: ping ftp.ucsb.edu PING ftp.ucsb.edu (128.111.24.43) 56(84) bytes of data. Just never moves any further, but you can see it has resolved the alpha address to numeric forum so must have contacted and received info from the nameserver. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Backdown from firefox 3 (not enough integration yet)
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > echo '>=www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0' >> /etc/portage/package.mask > emerge mozilla-firefox > > Remove the entry from package.mask when you feel firefox-3.0 is good > enough for your needs Nice... thanks -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OK
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 07:11:05PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > On Sunday 13 July 2008, Mick wrote: > > Anyway, as others asked - how long is too long for this purpose? > > for obvious reasons, anything longer than 80 characters > Just to be pedantic: Remember that the mailing list prepends the list name, so I think it ought to be 80 - strlen("[gentoo-user] ") = 66 chars. And if you care about most console mail readers, take mutt for example, the default install definitely does not use more than half of the 80 chars screen width for displaying the subject line. So now you are down to 40 - 14 = 26. Oh wait, your question may incite a big discussion with 6 levels of replies: 26 - 6 * strlen("Re: ") = 2. Ah! I see why someone changed the subject of this thread to just "OK". ;-) W -- Pillage before you burn. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 584 days, 16:39 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Uwe Thiem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon schrieb: | It's a sad day for me today. Uwe Thiem, who has been on this list longer | than I have, passed away on Friday. My friend Alastair put up a little | tribute here: | | http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2574 | | What that page doesn't say is how much Uwe loved gentoo. A long-time | subscriber around here, his posts must number in the 100s if not 1000s. | I'm gonna miss him, even though he lived only 1000km away (a trivial | distance in Africa) I never did get to collect that pitcher of | Namibia's finest he owed me. I guess now I never will. | | We are a wondrous gathering of atoms formed into an incredible being, capable of experiencing our own existence. While we live this experience we must be thankful for it, and live it fully. When it ends, we return to what we were before it began. What we create and leave behind is our gift to those who will follow us. We return to the universe as we came from it, to be recreated, and recycled into the infinite all. ~* Allan Revich Farewell. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkh7o3gACgkQqs4uOUlOuU+ULQCggDIcsq6y67TQdzbGfXQ8BzMA blgAoIFAt97+VLJLLZSGvLtpgglnxkSh =ofku -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Unable to mount root dir, Segmentation failure with mount
Hi gentoo-users, I'm running Gentoo flawlessly on my laptop for nearly one year now, but since yesterday, I'm in big trouble. At some instance (surfing in the web,.. nothing horrible) the screen froze and the only thing I was able to do, was pressing the power button 4seconds to shut the computer down. I was never able to boot my system since then. It sayed always things like: Not able to find root file system (or likewise) So I plugged in my live-cd to recover the whole thing... But I wasn't able to mount the root partition, so I tried e2fsck, which turned out to find a whole lot of errors and told me that it corrected them. Thus I retried to mount the file system, which resulted in an big error of mount, saying something about Kernel BUG (?!?) At that point I realized that this could become a major problem for me, since all my personal data is on my root partition (I know, I should't do that...but thats the way things are right now) I used dd to make a copy of this partition to an external hard disk, and begun to recover it from there. dd gave no errors as it copied the partition, so I think this is no hardware failure I rerun e2fsck on the partition, it corrected a little more, but after that, it didn't found anything new, but I still wasn't able to mount the partition (nor the partition dump) The crutial part of the dmesg output seems to be: Assertion failure in cleanup_journal_tail() at fs/jbd/checkpoint.c:430: "blocknr != 0" Is this a known issue with ext3 filesystems? Thaks in andvance for any help, Carsten PS: Please tell me if you need more information -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and changing permissions
Dale wrote: Hi, again, I just noticed a problem with my new DVD burner. I posted this on the forums but no response as of yet. This is the info that may help: [I--] [ ] app-cdr/cdrtools-2.01.01_alpha34 [-P-] [ ] app-cdr/k3b-0.12.17 [I--] [ ] sys-fs/udev-119 [I--] [ ] app-misc/hal-info-20070618 (0) [I--] [ ] sys-apps/hal-0.5.9.1-r3 (0) [I--] [ ] sys-fs/udev-119 (0) Also tried: [-P-] [M~] app-cdr/cdrtools-2.01.01_alpha42 (0) That didn't help either. I also disabled ivman with no change. I use KDE 3.5.9 for my desktop. I can see it as root but not as a user. Other things I have noticed. When no *DVD* is inserted: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # ls -al /media/ total 1 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 248 2008-07-12 03:54 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 560 2008-07-10 12:40 .. drwxrwxr-x 2 root users 48 2006-10-25 06:23 floppy -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 2008-07-12 03:43 .hal-mtab -rw--- 1 root root0 2008-07-12 03:54 .hal-mtab-lock drwxrwxr-x 2 root users 48 2006-10-25 04:00 hdc drwxrwxr-x 2 root users 48 2008-07-04 14:21 hdd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 2008-07-12 01:48 .keep_sys-apps_hal-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # When I have a *DVD* inserted I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # ls -al /media/ total 3 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 248 2008-07-12 03:54 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 560 2008-07-10 12:40 .. drwxrwxr-x 2 root users 48 2006-10-25 06:23 floppy -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 2008-07-12 03:43 .hal-mtab -rw--- 1 root root0 2008-07-12 03:54 .hal-mtab-lock drwxrwxr-x 2 root users 48 2006-10-25 04:00 hdc d- 2 root root 112 2008-07-12 03:08 hdd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 2008-07-12 01:48 .keep_sys-apps_hal-0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # It changes the permissions whenever I insert the DVD. I'm not sure if it is something that is on the DVD or if it is a mounting issue. Here is my fstab line for the *DVD*: /dev/hdd /media/hddautonoauto,users0 0 and when a *DVD* is inserted mount reports this: /dev/hdd on /media/hdd type udf (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) I have a CD burner on here too. I basically set them both up the same way. The CD works just fine but the *DVD* does not. Any ideas? Dale :-) :-) OK folks, still looking for a fix here. Any ideas at all? Thanks Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and changing permissions
Dale schrieb: OK folks, still looking for a fix here. Any ideas at all? There is a bug [1] open about this problem, unfortunately still unsolved! Maybe the k3b command line will help to investigate on this further. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213399 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] trouble with alsasound
I have not been able to get alsasound working on my gentoo-gnome system. I followed the gentoo guide and did make progress. >From the main (foot) menu, system --> preference --> sound produces a dialog box with three tabs. The first tab is devices. They are all set to autodetect and when I press test on the three playback devices, I do hear sound. The second tab is sounds. When I click on any of the "Play" boxes *no* sound is produced. The corresponding files are present and I am in the audio group. The machine is a dell optiplex 845. Lspci shows 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) I have the following kernel options set # # Sound # CONFIG_SOUND=m # # Advanced Linux Sound Architecture # CONFIG_SND=m CONFIG_SND_TIMER=m CONFIG_SND_PCM=m CONFIG_SND_HWDEP=m CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=m CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m # # PCI devices # CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=m CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ANALOG=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SIGMATEL=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_VIA=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ATIHDMI=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CONEXANT=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CMEDIA=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SI3054=y CONFIG_SND_HDA_GENERIC=y Any advice/help would be appreciated thanks, allan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and changing permissions
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Dale schrieb: OK folks, still looking for a fix here. Any ideas at all? There is a bug [1] open about this problem, unfortunately still unsolved! Maybe the k3b command line will help to investigate on this further. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213399 If you saw the post on the thread referenced on the bug, the last post was mine. I'm dalek on the forums. At least now I know it is not still just me. I wonder if cdrkit has this issue? Think it would be worth a shot? Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and changing permissions
Dale schrieb: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Dale schrieb: OK folks, still looking for a fix here. Any ideas at all? There is a bug [1] open about this problem, unfortunately still unsolved! Maybe the k3b command line will help to investigate on this further. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213399 If you saw the post on the thread referenced on the bug, the last post was mine. I'm dalek on the forums. At least now I know it is not still just me. I wonder if cdrkit has this issue? Think it would be worth a shot? Dale :-) :-) I think it is also possible that there is something with k3b as everybody with this problem is using k3b. I burn my DVD's on the command line. Here is some information from a video-dvd: ISO-creation: mkisofs -dvd-video -udf -R -iso-level 1 -v -volid DVD_VIDEO -sysid LINUX -no-cache-inodes -input-charset utf-8 -o ../dvd-video.iso ./ Burning: cdrecord dev=0,1,0 speed=8 driveropts=burnfree fs=16m -sao -eject -v dvd-video.iso Mount: /dev/sr0 on /media/DVD_VIDEO type udf (ro,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000) Mount Point: dr-xr-xr-x 4 billie root 136 11. Jul 23:03 DVD_VIDEO The DVD is auto mounted by xfce-extra/thunar-volman which uses hal. When k3b finishes you can get the command line used by k3b, maybe you can post it. Regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with alsasound
>The first tab is devices. They are all set to autodetect and when I >press test on the three playback devices, I do hear sound. > >The second tab is sounds. When I click on any of the "Play" boxes >*no* sound is produced. The corresponding files are present and I >am in the audio group. I have the same problem, but I didn't install gnome-audio package (I just don't need system sounds). Try to test sounds using Applications -> Sound&Video -> MoviePlayer. On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have not been able to get alsasound working on my gentoo-gnome > system. > > I followed the gentoo guide and did make progress. > From the main (foot) menu, system --> preference --> sound > produces a dialog box with three tabs. > > The first tab is devices. They are all set to autodetect and when I > press test on the three playback devices, I do hear sound. > > The second tab is sounds. When I click on any of the "Play" boxes > *no* sound is produced. The corresponding files are present and I > am in the audio group. > > The machine is a dell optiplex 845. Lspci shows > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) > HD Audio Controller (rev 02) > > I have the following kernel options set > > # > # Sound > # > CONFIG_SOUND=m > > # > # Advanced Linux Sound Architecture > # > CONFIG_SND=m > CONFIG_SND_TIMER=m > CONFIG_SND_PCM=m > CONFIG_SND_HWDEP=m > CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=m > CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y > CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m > CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m > > # > # PCI devices > # > CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=m > CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP=y > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=y > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ANALOG=y > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SIGMATEL=y > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_VIA=y > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ATIHDMI=y > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CONEXANT=y > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CMEDIA=y > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SI3054=y > CONFIG_SND_HDA_GENERIC=y > > Any advice/help would be appreciated > thanks, > allan > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > >
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network chip always comes up eth1 on 1-year-old Dell Inspiron 530
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:30:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > The single minor difference is that you can't call the interface > whatever you want directly, it just gets named the equally arbitrary > name of "eth1" Unless you edit the rule file and change that. -- Neil Bothwick Q. Why do women have orgasms? A: It gives them one extra reason to moan. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and changing permissions
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: < SNIP > When k3b finishes you can get the command line used by k3b, maybe you can post it. Regards, Daniel This is what I got with some stuff snipped: System --- K3b Version: 1.0.5 KDE Version: 3.5.9 QT Version: 3.3.8 Kernel: 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 Devices --- HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8520B 1.03 (/dev/hdc, ) [CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM] [CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW] [SAO, TAO, RAW, SAO/R96P, SAO/R96R, RAW/R16, RAW/R96P, RAW/R96R] Optiarc DVD RW AD-7200A 1.05 (/dev/hdd, ) [CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL] [DVD-ROM, DVD-R Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Jump, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite, DVD-RW Sequential, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R Dual Layer, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW] [SAO, TAO, RAW, SAO/R96P, SAO/R96R, RAW/R16, RAW/R96P, RAW/R96R, Restricted Overwrite, Layer Jump] Burned media --- DVD+RW K3bIsoImager --- mkisofs print size result: 949463 (1944500224 bytes) Pipe throughput: 1944500224 bytes read, 1944500224 bytes written. Used versions --- mkisofs: 2.1.1a34 growisofs: 7.1 growisofs --- WARNING: /dev/hdd already carries isofs! About to execute 'builtin_dd if=/dev/fd/0 of=/dev/hdd obs=32k seek=0' /dev/hdd: "Current Write Speed" is 4.1x1352KBps. 1802240/1944500224 ( 0.1%) @0.4x, remaining 107:47 RBU 100.0% UBU 2.6% <> 1940652032/1944500224 (99.8%) @4.0x, remaining 0:00 RBU 11.5% UBU 92.1% /dev/hdd: flushing cache /dev/hdd: stopping de-icing /dev/hdd: writing lead-out growisofs command: --- /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0 -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=tracksize:949463 -speed=4 -use-the-force-luke=bufsize:32m mkisofs --- /usr/bin/mkisofs: Warning: Cannot write inode/link information with -no-cache-inodes. /usr/bin/mkisofs: Warning: Cannot write inode/link information with -no-cache-inodes. 949463 /usr/bin/mkisofs: Warning: Cannot write inode/link information with -no-cache-inodes. Setting input-charset to 'ISO-8859-1' from locale. 0.05% done, estimate finish Mon Jul 14 17:09:09 2008 << SNIP >> 99.95% done, estimate finish Mon Jul 14 17:15:00 2008 Total translation table size: 0 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 274 Total directory bytes: 410 Path table size(bytes): 10 Max brk space used 21000 949463 extents written (1854 MB) mkisofs calculate size command: --- /usr/bin/mkisofs -gui -graft-points -print-size -quiet -volid portage_2008.07.10-14.27.04_1 -volset -appid K3B THE CD KREATOR (C) 1998-2006 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -publisher -preparer -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-dale/k3b70xvFb.tmp -rock -hide-list /tmp/kde-dale/k3bLAIDcb.tmp -joliet -joliet-long -hide-joliet-list /tmp/kde-dale/k3bq877Nb.tmp -no-cache-inodes -udf -full-iso9660-filenames -iso-level 3 -path-list /tmp/kde-dale/k3bcAO9ob.tmp mkisofs command: --- /usr/bin/mkisofs -gui -graft-points -volid portage_2008.07.10-14.27.04_1 -volset -appid K3B THE CD KREATOR (C) 1998-2006 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -publisher -preparer -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-dale/k3bkZHkea.tmp -rock -hide-list /tmp/kde-dale/k3bUYZsub.tmp -joliet -joliet-long -hide-joliet-list /tmp/kde-dale/k3b0CIaDb.tmp -no-cache-inodes -udf -full-iso9660-filenames -iso-level 3 -path-list /tmp/kde-dale/k3bE3YvNb.tmp I use command line stuff from time to time but that appears to be one heck of a command. O_O See anything wrong with it? Think another version of k3b would help? Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Uwe Thiem
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:53:35 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > It's a sad day for me today. Uwe Thiem, who has been on this list > longer than I have, passed away on Friday. A sad day indeed. Uwe also owed me a Namibian beer, but I will raise a glass of the local brew to him and his memory. -- Neil Bothwick Where the system is concerned, you're not allowed to ask `Why?' signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible
I just updated grub as part of my regular updates and it gave me the message that I should re-install grub to my MBR otherwise stage1 and stage2 would mismatch. I ran grub-install as normal and it (apparently) installed the bootloader without problems. However, now, when I boot up, I don't get a grub menu or anything on the screen. Originally I thought there was a problem and my system wouldn't boot but I tried pressing return and it booted up without problems. I'm just wondering what might've happened to cause grub to become invisible. My splash image, grub.conf and everything looks fine and worked perfectly before the update. Any ideas welcome. Thanks Matt -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible
On July 14, 2008, Matt Harrison wrote: > I ran grub-install as normal and it (apparently) installed the > bootloader without problems. > > However, now, when I boot up, I don't get a grub menu or anything on the > screen. Originally I thought there was a problem and my system wouldn't > boot but I tried pressing return and it booted up without problems. same here on 2 independent machines. Each one exhibits same problem. It's not completely broken but sure as heck is annoying. Did I miss some "new" configuration step you have to do with Grub? -- Dmitry Makovey Web Systems Administrator Athabasca University (780) 675-6245 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible
This problem was already posted here. The idea is that splashimage moved from /boot/grub to /usr/share/grub. On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Dmitry S. Makovey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On July 14, 2008, Matt Harrison wrote: > > I ran grub-install as normal and it (apparently) installed the > > bootloader without problems. > > > > However, now, when I boot up, I don't get a grub menu or anything on the > > screen. Originally I thought there was a problem and my system wouldn't > > boot but I tried pressing return and it booted up without problems. > > same here on 2 independent machines. Each one exhibits same problem. It's > not > completely broken but sure as heck is annoying. Did I miss some "new" > configuration step you have to do with Grub? > > -- > Dmitry Makovey > Web Systems Administrator > Athabasca University > (780) 675-6245 >
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and changing permissions
Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mkisofs > --- > /usr/bin/mkisofs: Warning: Cannot write inode/link information with > -no-cache-inodes. > /usr/bin/mkisofs: Warning: Cannot write inode/link information with > -no-cache-inodes. > 949463 > /usr/bin/mkisofs: Warning: Cannot write inode/link information with > -no-cache-inodes. > Setting input-charset to 'ISO-8859-1' from locale. > 0.05% done, estimate finish Mon Jul 14 17:09:09 2008 If you explicitly tell mkisofs to do something unreasonable, you should be prepared for any results. Using -no-cache-inodes is a really bad idea! With -praft-points, you may cause many strange things. 2.01.01a34 is nearly a year old, you should use a recent version. In general, the k3b command line does not look reasonable. When using -udf instead of -UDF, it should be impossible to get file/dir permissions that differ from the default values. If you are not able to make the problem reproducable at my side, I have no idea how to help. Did you try to mount the DVD on Solaris and this way verify that the problem is not in the Linux kernel? Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Backdown from firefox 3 (not enough integration yet)
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:16:22 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 14 July 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: > > What is my best option to back down to the last 2.X of firefox? It > > appears version 3 does not have compatibility with several addons > > that I like to use (sitebar being the main one). > > > > Is it best done in .../package.provided or some other way? > > It's not slotted so you can have only one: Not slotted, but you can have both. ~ $ eix -c firefox [I] www-client/mozilla-firefox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/04/2008): Firefox Web Browser [I] www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/17/2008): Firefox Web Browser Found 2 matches. -- »Q« Kleeneness is next to Gödelness. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: USE flag question [solved]
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:29:31 +0200 Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * »Q« ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [14.07.08 01:16]: > > A few days ago, I used eselect to switch profiles, from > > default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop to > > default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop. > > > > As I did... > > > A lot of USE flags were removed from my make.conf, including > > the cpu-optimizations such as sse and mmx. After re-compiling a few > > things and getting warnings from the ebuilds that video and audio > > playback would be choppy without those flags, I put them back into > > my flags in make.conf. If I use ufed to manage the flags, as I'm > > used to doing, it takes them back out when I save changes. > > > > ufed is the bad guy, I think the stable version is not able to handle > the new profile layout correctly. > Use ufed-0.40-r10 from ~ and your use flags are not getting removed. Thanks very much! I'd thought the flags were removed /before/ I used ufed, but I guess I was mistaken. 0.40-r10 works fine -- I should have looked at the ufed Changelog before posting. :) -- »Q« Kleeneness is next to Gödelness. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Uwe Thiem
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:53:35 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a sad day for me today. Uwe Thiem, who has been on this list > longer than I have, passed away on Friday. My friend Alastair put up > a little tribute here: > > http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2574 > > What that page doesn't say is how much Uwe loved gentoo. A long-time > subscriber around here, his posts must number in the 100s if not > 1000s. I'm gonna miss him, even though he lived only 1000km away (a > trivial distance in Africa) I never did get to collect that pitcher > of Namibia's finest he owed me. I guess now I never will. I'm saddened to read this. I've benefited greatly from his posts here as well as his work with KDE, as have a lot of others. -- »Q« Kleeneness is next to Gödelness. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and changing permissions
Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > Dale schrieb: > >> > >> OK folks, still looking for a fix here. Any ideas at all? > >> > > > > There is a bug [1] open about this problem, unfortunately still > > unsolved! Maybe the k3b command line will help to investigate on this > > further. > > > > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213399 BTW: If I follow the instructions from this bug report on Solaris, I cannot reproduce the problem. I thus would asume a Linux Kernel Bug. I recently read that the UDF filesystem driver in Linux has been modified. You should first have a closer look at the Linux kernel. > If you saw the post on the thread referenced on the bug, the last post > was mine. I'm dalek on the forums. At least now I know it is not still > just me. > > I wonder if cdrkit has this issue? Think it would be worth a shot? The mkisofs clone from cdrkit is extremely outdated and has many well known issues related to UTF-8 locales, UDF and Joliet extensions. I strongly recommend not to use it. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible
Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote: This problem was already posted here. The idea is that splashimage moved from /boot/grub to /usr/share/grub. Thats strange, when the splashimage line was incorrect it used to just give you the menu with a black background (ie the normal menu but with splash) as you would expect. I'm not too keen on this new behaviour but at least it should be easy to fix. Thanks Matt -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible
Matt Harrison wrote: Thats strange, when the splashimage line was incorrect it used to just give you the menu with a black background (ie the normal menu but with splash) as you would expect. Sorry that should read: ie the normal menu but without splash -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible
Are the characters on the screen readable? I had this problem too, along with the black grub screen. If they aren't - try adding vga=0x31B to your grub.conf On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Matt Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Harrison wrote: > >> Thats strange, when the splashimage line was incorrect it used to just >> give you the menu with a black background (ie the normal menu but with >> splash) as you would expect. >> > > Sorry that should read: > > ie the normal menu but without splash > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > >
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and changing permissions
Joerg Schilling wrote: Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mkisofs --- /usr/bin/mkisofs: Warning: Cannot write inode/link information with -no-cache-inodes. /usr/bin/mkisofs: Warning: Cannot write inode/link information with -no-cache-inodes. 949463 /usr/bin/mkisofs: Warning: Cannot write inode/link information with -no-cache-inodes. Setting input-charset to 'ISO-8859-1' from locale. 0.05% done, estimate finish Mon Jul 14 17:09:09 2008 If you explicitly tell mkisofs to do something unreasonable, you should be prepared for any results. I didn't tell it tho, k3b did. Using -no-cache-inodes is a really bad idea! With -praft-points, you may cause many strange things. I'll see if I can force k3b to change those settings. I think I saw them in the custom command part. 2.01.01a34 is nearly a year old, you should use a recent version. I just used the latest stable version but will try the latest next and see if that helps any. In general, the k3b command line does not look reasonable. When using -udf instead of -UDF, it should be impossible to get file/dir permissions that differ from the default values. If you are not able to make the problem reproducable at my side, I have no idea how to help. Did you try to mount the DVD on Solaris and this way verify that the problem is not in the Linux kernel? Jörg I don't have anything that runs Solaris so I am not able to test with it. Thanks. Will report back. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and changing permissions
Joerg Schilling wrote: Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Dale schrieb: OK folks, still looking for a fix here. Any ideas at all? There is a bug [1] open about this problem, unfortunately still unsolved! Maybe the k3b command line will help to investigate on this further. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213399 BTW: If I follow the instructions from this bug report on Solaris, I cannot reproduce the problem. I thus would asume a Linux Kernel Bug. I recently read that the UDF filesystem driver in Linux has been modified. You should first have a closer look at the Linux kernel. If you saw the post on the thread referenced on the bug, the last post was mine. I'm dalek on the forums. At least now I know it is not still just me. I wonder if cdrkit has this issue? Think it would be worth a shot? The mkisofs clone from cdrkit is extremely outdated and has many well known issues related to UTF-8 locales, UDF and Joliet extensions. I strongly recommend not to use it. Jörg That is why I was using your package. I was reading another thread you were posting too as well. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with alsasound
At Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:00:08 +0400 Andrew Tchernoivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>The first tab is devices. They are all set to autodetect and when I >>press test on the three playback devices, I do hear sound. >> >>The second tab is sounds. When I click on any of the "Play" boxes >>*no* sound is produced. The corresponding files are present and I >>am in the audio group. > > I have the same problem, but I didn't install gnome-audio package (I just > don't need system sounds). Try to test sounds > using Applications -> Sound&Video -> MoviePlayer. I don't have any movies so I tried CD-player and the only thing it can do is eject the cd. It doesn't even list the tracks. So it seems I have 2 problems. Unable to play system sounds and inability to recognize audio CDs The physical cd drive (actually DVD+-RW) does work. If I place a data disk in, I can mount it. thanks for your help, allan > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have not been able to get alsasound working on my gentoo-gnome >> system. >> >> I followed the gentoo guide and did make progress. >> From the main (foot) menu, system --> preference --> sound >> produces a dialog box with three tabs. >> >> The first tab is devices. They are all set to autodetect and when I >> press test on the three playback devices, I do hear sound. >> >> The second tab is sounds. When I click on any of the "Play" boxes >> *no* sound is produced. The corresponding files are present and I >> am in the audio group. >> >> The machine is a dell optiplex 845. Lspci shows >> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) >> HD Audio Controller (rev 02) >> >> I have the following kernel options set >> >> # >> # Sound >> # >> CONFIG_SOUND=m >> >> # >> # Advanced Linux Sound Architecture >> # >> CONFIG_SND=m >> CONFIG_SND_TIMER=m >> CONFIG_SND_PCM=m >> CONFIG_SND_HWDEP=m >> CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=m >> CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y >> CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m >> CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m >> >> # >> # PCI devices >> # >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=m >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP=y >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=y >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ANALOG=y >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SIGMATEL=y >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_VIA=y >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ATIHDMI=y >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CONEXANT=y >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CMEDIA=y >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SI3054=y >> CONFIG_SND_HDA_GENERIC=y >> >> Any advice/help would be appreciated >> thanks, >> allan >> -- >> gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list >> >> -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and changing permissions
Dale wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mkisofs --- /usr/bin/mkisofs: Warning: Cannot write inode/link information with -no-cache-inodes. /usr/bin/mkisofs: Warning: Cannot write inode/link information with -no-cache-inodes. 949463 /usr/bin/mkisofs: Warning: Cannot write inode/link information with -no-cache-inodes. Setting input-charset to 'ISO-8859-1' from locale. 0.05% done, estimate finish Mon Jul 14 17:09:09 2008 If you explicitly tell mkisofs to do something unreasonable, you should be prepared for any results. I didn't tell it tho, k3b did. Using -no-cache-inodes is a really bad idea! With -praft-points, you may cause many strange things. I'll see if I can force k3b to change those settings. I think I saw them in the custom command part. I unchecked the part on using inodes but still no change that I can see. 2.01.01a34 is nearly a year old, you should use a recent version. I just used the latest stable version but will try the latest next and see if that helps any. Upgraded to cdrtools-2.01.01_alpha42 but no change. In general, the k3b command line does not look reasonable. When using -udf instead of -UDF, it should be impossible to get file/dir permissions that differ from the default values. If you are not able to make the problem reproducable at my side, I have no idea how to help. Did you try to mount the DVD on Solaris and this way verify that the problem is not in the Linux kernel? Jörg I don't have anything that runs Solaris so I am not able to test with it. Thanks. Will report back. This is the new output from k3b just in case: System --- K3b Version: 1.0.5 KDE Version: 3.5.9 QT Version: 3.3.8 Kernel: 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 Devices --- HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8520B 1.03 (/dev/hdc, ) [CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM] [CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW] [SAO, TAO, RAW, SAO/R96P, SAO/R96R, RAW/R16, RAW/R96P, RAW/R96R] Optiarc DVD RW AD-7200A 1.05 (/dev/hdd, ) [CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL] [DVD-ROM, DVD-R Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Jump, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite, DVD-RW Sequential, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R Dual Layer, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW] [SAO, TAO, RAW, SAO/R96P, SAO/R96R, RAW/R16, RAW/R96P, RAW/R96R, Restricted Overwrite, Layer Jump] Burned media --- DVD+RW K3bIsoImager --- mkisofs print size result: 949463 (1944500224 bytes) Pipe throughput: 1944500224 bytes read, 1944500224 bytes written. Used versions --- mkisofs: 2.1.1a42 growisofs: 7.1 growisofs --- About to execute 'builtin_dd if=/dev/fd/0 of=/dev/hdd obs=32k seek=0' WARNING: /dev/hdd already carries isofs! /dev/hdd: "Current Write Speed" is 4.1x1352KBps. 12058624/1944500224 ( 0.6%) @2.6x, remaining 13:21 RBU 100.0% UBU 2.6% << SNIP >> 1932361728/1944500224 (99.4%) @4.0x, remaining 0:02 RBU 36.2% UBU 92.1% /dev/hdd: flushing cache /dev/hdd: stopping de-icing /dev/hdd: writing lead-out growisofs command: --- /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hdd=/dev/fd/0 -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=tracksize:949463 -speed=4 -use-the-force-luke=bufsize:32m mkisofs --- 949463 Setting input-charset to 'ISO-8859-1' from locale. 0.05% done, estimate finish Mon Jul 14 19:28:07 2008 << SNIP >> 99.95% done, estimate finish Mon Jul 14 19:33:56 2008 Total translation table size: 0 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 298 Total directory bytes: 0 Path table size(bytes): 10 Max brk space used 21000 949463 extents written (1854 MB) mkisofs calculate size command: --- /usr/bin/mkisofs -gui -graft-points -print-size -quiet -volid portage_2008.07.10-14.27.04_1 -volset -appid K3B THE CD KREATOR (C) 1998-2006 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -publisher -preparer -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-dale/k3b6Q2xLa.tmp -rock -hide-list /tmp/kde-dale/k3bf41Cba.tmp -joliet -joliet-long -hide-joliet-list /tmp/kde-dale/k3bpgLcxb.tmp -udf -full-iso9660-filenames -iso-level 3 -path-list /tmp/kde-dale/k3b4KzQya.tmp mkisofs command: --- /usr/bin/mkisofs -gui -graft-points -volid portage_2008.07.10-14.27.04_1 -volset -appid K3B THE CD KREATOR (C) 1998-2006 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -publisher -preparer -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-dale/k3b4So7Xa.tmp -rock -hide-list /tmp/kde-dale/k3bVuipwb.tmp -joliet -joliet-long -hide-joliet-list /tmp/kde-dale/k3b37kyWb.tmp -udf -full-iso9660-filenames -iso-level 3 -path-list /tmp/kde-dale/k3bzJNImb.tmp You, or anybody else, notice anything strange, odd and/or just plain wrong? Would a different version of k3b help? I'm not sure what is causing this problem just that I have one. I would also be willing to try a command line
Re: [gentoo-user] Uwe Thiem
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:53:35 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> It's a sad day for me today. Uwe Thiem, who has been on this list >> longer than I have, passed away on Friday. > > A sad day indeed. Uwe also owed me a Namibian beer, but I will raise a > glass of the local brew to him and his memory. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Where the system is concerned, you're not allowed to ask `Why?' > Neil, Thanks for letting us know. That's really terrible news. He was a great contributor and always pleasant in his communication. I will miss him. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to mount root dir, Segmentation failure with mount
2008/7/14 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi gentoo-users, > > I'm running Gentoo flawlessly on my laptop for nearly one year now, but > since yesterday, I'm in big trouble. At some instance (surfing in the web,.. > nothing horrible) the screen froze and the only thing I was able to do, was > pressing the power button 4seconds to shut the computer down. > > I was never able to boot my system since then. > > It sayed always things like: Not able to find root file system (or > likewise) Ouch. > So I plugged in my live-cd to recover the whole thing... Good idea. > But I wasn't able to mount the root partition, so I tried e2fsck, which > turned out to find a whole lot of errors and told me that it corrected them. Not such a good idea. For future reference, unless you don't mind losing the data, always take a block-level snapshot, if possible, before doing anything else. You don't know what state things are in, writing to it could make the situation worse. > Thus I retried to mount the file system, which resulted in an big error of > mount, saying something about Kernel BUG (?!?) D'oh! Congratulations, you found a kernel bug! :) > At that point I realized that this could become a major problem for me, > since all my personal data is on my root partition (I know, I should't do > that...but thats the way things are right now) Oh dear. You have backups, right? > I used dd to make a copy of this partition to an external hard disk, and > begun to recover it from there. Excellent! > dd gave no errors as it copied the partition, so I think this is no hardware > failure Hopefully. I'd be extra careful about backups for a while, though. > I rerun e2fsck on the partition, it corrected a little more, but after that, > it didn't found anything new, but I still wasn't able to mount the partition > (nor the partition dump) > > The crutial part of the dmesg output seems to be: > > Assertion failure in cleanup_journal_tail() at fs/jbd/checkpoint.c:430: > "blocknr != 0" > > Is this a known issue with ext3 filesystems? Google says someone else hit it once upon a time, but it doesn't seem to be listed on the kernel bugzilla. Your journal is corrupted and the kernel is not being as careful as it should before using on-disk data. If you remove the journal you will hopefully get some or all of your data back. On a *COPY* of the partition image do the following to replace the old journal with a new one: tune2fs -O ^has_journal e2fsck -f tune2fs -j e2fsck -f If everything looks OK and the data you care about is all there then you can go ahead and fix up your real disk. If you wouldn't mind though, please keep a copy of the corrupted image. I'll prepare a patch to fix the BUG and it would be helpful if you could test it once it is ready. > Thaks in andvance for any help, > > Carsten Cheers, Duane. -- "I never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine" - Bob Dylan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [Solved] Help with battling alsa-lib versions
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:27:40AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote > If I emerge whichever version of alsa-lib-1.0.16 is current, mplayer, > audacious, and anything else that relies on alsa don't play audio. > However, Realplayer (bleagh) and anything that works off of OSS > emulation still works. > > If i put... > >=media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.14_rc1-r1 > > ...into /etc/portage/package.mask, and emerge the older version of > alsa-lib, the above programs work fine, but alsactl dies like so... > > [m3000][root][~] alsactl store > alsactl: relocation error: alsactl: symbol snd_tlv_parse_dB_info, > version ALSA_0.9 not defined in file libasound.so.2 with link time > reference > > [m3000][root][~] alsactl restore > alsactl: relocation error: alsactl: symbol snd_ctl_get_dB_range, version > ALSA_0.9 not defined in file libasound.so.2 with link time reference > > ...which means that settings can't be saved/restored at shutdown/reboot. > This is a PITA, because I have to manually run alsamixer after each > reboot, and unmute and re-set all the audio settings. This is the > lesser of 2 evils, because no alsa sound is a showstopper. What am I > doing wrong? This seems to be a problem only for those of us that start off our USE variables with "-*". After a bunch of Google-searching, I found a similar complaint. Apparently, "-*" wipes out ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS. They recommended fixing it by setting ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS. My /etc/make.conf now contains the following... USE="-* X a52 aac bzip2 dga doc dri exif ffmpeg flac gif jpeg mmx mng mp3 mpeg nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl png posix sse sse2 theora threads tiff truetype vim-syntax vorbis win32codecs wmf xcomposite xpm xv xvid zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" This is probably overkill, but at least it works without forcing an older alsa-lib version. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to mount root dir, Segmentation failure with mount
Hi, in your case: go to lkml with your problems. There the people who wrote the stuff. They are probably the only ones who can really help you. And yes, the great ones will need more information. Like kernel version, exact error message, version of the tools used, hardware ... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Problems compiling gcc 4.2.4 and 4.3.1-r1
John covici wrote: on Monday 07/14/2008 Joe User([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > John covici schrieb: > > Hi, > > > > > [snip] > > > > Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/developer, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 i686) >^^ > that's your major problem... > Which of those is the problem -- I am running 32-bit operating systems. I failed to see it in your first post. I've read it as "default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop". Probably because it also begins with a "d" :P The developer profile is *not* like "developer" installations of other distros (meaning installations that include compilers, IDEs and such). It's an environment designed for Gentoo devs. Don't use it unless you have been told to use it. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Unable to mount root dir, Segmentation failure with mount
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi gentoo-users, I'm running Gentoo flawlessly on my laptop for nearly one year now, but since yesterday, I'm in big trouble. At some instance (surfing in the web,.. nothing horrible) the screen froze and the only thing I was able to do, was pressing the power button 4seconds to shut the computer down. I was never able to boot my system since then. It sayed always things like: Not able to find root file system (or likewise) There was good advice from the other users here, but also try a live CD with a more recent kernel (Gentoo 2008.0-r1 for example, or something else like openSUSE 11). Also, if removing the journal doesn't work, try to mount it as ext2 (ext3 is backwards compatible with ext2 so doing that is perfectly OK). As to the cause of this, I suspect a hardware failure due to overheating (laptops tend to do that if you don't open them and give them a thorough cleaning each 10 months or so). I'm an overclocker and things like this can happen when a CPU or chipset overheats (corrupted data starts to get written on disk). The other possibility is that the drive is dying (damaged sectors). -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] No progress indicator in bootsplash
I emerged media-gfx/splashutils-1.5.4.1 (plus media-gfx/splash-themes-gentoo-20050429). I'm on kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 (non-genkernel) with uvesafb and "Support for the Framebuffer Console Decorations" enabled. USE flags for splashutils: fbcondecor gpm mng png truetype -hardened I've created an initrd with: splash_geninitramfs -g /boot/initrd.splash1280x1024 -r 1280x1024 gentoo My kernel parameters: --- kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/sdc1 video=uvesafb:1280x1024-32,mtrr:3,ywrap splash=silent,fadein,fadeout,theme:gentoo console=tty1 BOOT_MSG="Cool, huh?" softlevel=native --- initrd parameter: --- initrd /boot/initrd.splash1280x1024 --- The splash shows up, but there's no animation in the progress indicator bar and no splash messages (like the live CD has). Just a static image. (Fade-in and fade-out works though). Did I miss something? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Uwe Thiem
Alan McKinnon wrote: It's a sad day for me today. Uwe Thiem, who has been on this list longer than I have, passed away on Friday. My friend Alastair put up a little tribute here: http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2574 What that page doesn't say is how much Uwe loved gentoo. A long-time subscriber around here, his posts must number in the 100s if not 1000s. I'm gonna miss him, even though he lived only 1000km away (a trivial distance in Africa) I never did get to collect that pitcher of Namibia's finest he owed me. I guess now I never will. Does anybody know what the cause of death was? Did he have cancer, heart attack or something? Thanks Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] gentoo install on Dell restore partition... live?
So, I finally got the OK to nuke another Dell winbox. My dream is to: * Partition the restore partition (3.6 GB) for any small linux installation * make that partition active, bootable, with grub installed * reboot and ssh into that linux machine to finish by toasting NTFS partition and making it my gentoo system '/' as per usual... Can this be done without physical access to the machine which is currently running windows XP? I am administrator and get 'there' via RDP. Any suggestions appreciated in advance. Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: No progress indicator in bootsplash
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I emerged media-gfx/splashutils-1.5.4.1 (plus media-gfx/splash-themes-gentoo-20050429). I'm on kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 Oops, out of habit. I upgraded a few days ago to 2.6.25-gentoo-r6, so that's what I use now. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo install on Dell restore partition... live?
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:31:03 -0700 Michael Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can this be done without physical access to the machine which is > currently running windows XP? I am administrator and get 'there' via > RDP. Yes. If there is nothing easier, a coLinux set-up would let you do the first step, I don't know about cygwin, it may also let you install to the restore partition. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo install on Dell restore partition... live?
Michael Higgins wrote: So, I finally got the OK to nuke another Dell winbox. My dream is to: * Partition the restore partition (3.6 GB) for any small linux installation * make that partition active, bootable, with grub installed * reboot and ssh into that linux machine to finish by toasting NTFS partition and making it my gentoo system '/' as per usual... Can this be done without physical access to the machine which is currently running windows XP? I am administrator and get 'there' via RDP. It is possible: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap5 But not really recommended because if you do something wrong (wrong grub config, SSH misconfiguration, etc.) you'll need to go there and get physical access. Also, instead of installing a downloaded tarball, you can just clone the existing Gentoo installation into the new partition and boot from it. This usually means: 'cp -a' your existing / to your target / (except /dev, /sys and /proc). If you mounted your target / as /root/target, you do: cp -a /usr /root/hd (repeat this for all directories in your current / *EXCEPT* /dev, /proc, /sys and /lost+found) mkdir /root/hd/dev mkdir /root/hd/proc mkdir /root/hd/sys mknod /root/hd/dev/console c 5 1 mknod /root/hd/null c 1 3 touch /root/hd/dev/.keep touch /root/hd/proc/.keep touch /root/hd/sys/.keep Now chroot into it: mount -t proc none /root/mnt/proc mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev chroot /root/hd /bin/bash Now edit /etc/fstab to use the new partitions, edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and reinstall grub: grub root (hd0,0)<-- sustitute with what you really have/want setup quit Now change your SSH config to allow for root login! (Or add a normal user if you don't want that.) In any case, check your SSH config. You're ready. Leave the chroot and unmount: exit umount /root/hd/dev umount /root/hd/proc If you've set up grub correctly while in the chroot, you can now reboot and the new system should come up. If not, I hope it's not a long drive or walk to get physical access :P -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo install on Dell restore partition... live?
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: 'cp -a' your existing / to your target / (except /dev, /sys and /proc). If you mounted your target / as /root/target /root/hd, but I'm sure you were able to figure out the typo in your own ;) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible
* Andrew Tchernoivanov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [15.07.08 01:41]: > Are the characters on the screen readable? I had this problem too, along > with the black grub screen. If they aren't - try adding vga=0x31B to your > grub.conf > Why should that help with grub? Did not found any hint, that ther is a grub option called like that. There is a *kernel* option, called like that, but that won't help with the grub issue. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Sebastian -- " Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. " Karl Marx [EMAIL PROTECTED]@N GÜNTHER mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpZK93XB1gso.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo install on Dell restore partition... live?
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: mount -t proc none /root/mnt/proc mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev Bah, too much copy&paste without paying attention (it's early and no coffee yet :P) Should of course be: mount -t proc none /root/hd/proc mount -o bind /dev /root/hd/dev -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list