Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate
On Friday 26 September 2008 09:49:57 Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, I am using logrotate utility on gentoo to compress catalina.out file. [snip] error: unable to open /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out.1 for compression First thing to check is that the user doing this operation has write permission to this *directory*, or write permissions to the filesystem it resides on -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] [Resolved] Absolutely no sound whatsoever after latest emerge update
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:27:14AM -0400, Willie Wong wrote On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 02:14:48AM -0400, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked: [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_dmix.c:996:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave [AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Device or resource busy DVB card number must be between 1 and 4 AO: [null] 22050Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) This points to an issue with your alsa configuration/installation. mpg123 doesn't work [d530][waltdnes][~] mpg123 /home/misc/music/pop_standards/Tennessee_Waltz_-_Patti_Page.mp3 ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:996:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave [alsa.c:146] error: cannot open device default [audio.c:517] error: failed to open audio device [mpg123.c:709] error: Failed to initialize output, goodbye. Same error as above, a problem with alsa. Another Google search. In addition to a bunch of people with problems, this time around, someone had a solution... http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A--Bug-37649--pulseaudio%2C-REOPENED%3A-ALSA-lib-pcm_dmix.c%3A996%3A%28-snd_pcm_dmix_open%29-unable-to-open-slave-p16659896.html Namely, restart alsasound (as root). /etc/init.d/alsasound restart I've put this in my /etc/conf.d/local.start -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [gentoo-user] webdav + foxmarks
James a écrit : Then what is the Alias directive for? This was copied and pasted from the Wiki. The Alias Directive is to allow you to access to your /var/webdav directory through /dav request on your server, for example, if your server hostname is www.webdav.com, you'll access to your /var/webdav directory trought www.webdav.com/dav ... HTH Xav' -j 2008/9/26 Xav' [EMAIL PROTECTED]: James a écrit : Rafal, The Allow from all statement is already in the webdav directive. :) Yes maybe you have to listen to Rafal... Your directory statement is related to de /dav directory, if you want to apply to the Alias /dav, you have to write Location /dav... Just try to replace Directory /dav with Directory /var/webdav and just look... and apologize :) HTH. Xav' Other thoughts? -j On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:20 AM, ert256 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ 24.09.2008 15:58 ], James : All, I am trying to set up Foxmarks to use my Apache webdav implementation to store my Firefox bookmarks. Unfortunately when Foxmarks tries to upload the appropriate files to the webserver it fails and I then see the following message in my Apache error_log: [Tue Sep 23 21:38:23 2008] [error] [client 10.2.6.2] client denied by server configuration: /var/webdav My Apache webdav configuration is shown below: IfModule mod_dav.c Alias /dav /var/webdav DavMinTimeout 600 Directory /dav Options None Dav On AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all Limit GET PUT POST DELETE PROPFIND PROPPATCH MKCOL COPY MOVE LOCK UNLOCK AuthType Basic AuthName WebDav Restricted Repository AuthUserFile /var/webdav/.davpasswd Require valid-user /Limit /Directory /IfModule Maybe You need directory /var/webdav Allow from all /directory -- Rafał (ert16) Trójniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jid : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key-ID : DD681D47 749F E1DC A58F 9084 BBC0 797A 0691 53D6 DD68 1D47
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux
On Saturday 27 September 2008, jaeyoung lee wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Steven Lembark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentoo is only net-hungry on the install and on updates.If you can do the install before he goes net-free, then your fine, glsa-check should cover you for the updates I would assume that in most cases source tarballs will be smaller than binaries to download too :) If you can download the runtime image + portage beforehand onto a thumb drive or DVD's the Gentoo install isn't even all that net hungry. You might find that Damn Small Linux is, well, damn small and doesn't take that much bandwidth to download. -- Steven Lembark85-09 90th St. Workhorse Computing Woodhaven, NY, 11421 [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 888 359 3508 you can use ArchLinux it's also good:) except when it replaces a package with a higher version one without any kind of information to distinguish them (vmlinuz? but which one?)
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux
В сообщении от Friday 26 September 2008 22:38:36 Andrew Gaydenko написал(а): No, no, no!... I was, is and am going to be on Gentoo. Just want to install Linux to my friend's PC. I can download installation CD iso (or two), but the main problem is, that PC during next few months will have dialup connection (33600) only. As a result, I need to choose Linux with minimal net traffic in mind (just security updates will be sufficient). There are no any special demands (OOo, images and PDF viewer, Firefox, Thunderbird and Krusader (or other two panel file manager) will be a sufficient apps set for beginning, + booting to level 5). Suggestions? P.S. You see, there is a little sense to address this question to, say, suse or ubuntu or other candidate's community :-) - so, excuse please for OT. Andrew I have been using gentoo two years. And I have dialup connection only. My desktop - KDE. :) The secret is: emerge-delta-webrsync for updating portages and deltup for sources. -- Best regargs, Anton Kochnev Contact: JID [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[gentoo-user] ... format elf32-i386 ... to format elf64-x86-64 not supported!
Hi people! I am about to solve a problem compiling fritz wlan usb package natively on 64 bit linux. Can somebody help me?! I receive the error message on the machine: ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf32-i386 (/tmp/lib/fritz//fwlanusb-lib.o) to format elf64-x86-64 (/home/tamer/fritz/src/fwlanusb.o) is not supported How am I able to solve this?! I looked in the kernel configuration where the setting elf32 bit support for non 64 bit libraries is enabled. For any advise, I would thank you kindly. Tamer Higazi
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux
=== On Saturday 27 September 2008, Anton Kochnev wrote: === ... I have been using gentoo two years. And I have dialup connection only. My desktop - KDE. :) The secret is: emerge-delta-webrsync for updating portages and deltup for sources. That user isn't Gentoo-compatible :-)
[gentoo-user] A huge list
Hi all, running revdep-rebuild I see a very long list of broken linking (see the attached gzipped file of the revdep-rebuild output). At the end revdep-rebuild emerge orbit and libbonobo. After that I ran revdep-rebuild again: same long list and same packages to emerge. That for three times (then I stopped). What can I do to eliminate that long list and to avoid to emerge every time orbit and libbonobo? Ragards emilio out_revdep.tar.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data
Re: [gentoo-user] A huge list
080927 econti wrote: running revdep-rebuild I see a very long list of broken linking At the end revdep-rebuild emerge orbit and libbonobo. After that I ran revdep-rebuild again: same long list and same packages to emerge. What can I do to eliminate that long list and to avoid to emerge every time orbit and libbonobo? 'revdep-rebuild --pretend' : then emerge the items you want singly. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
[gentoo-user] Re: A huge list
On Saturday 27 September 2008, econti wrote: Hi all, running revdep-rebuild I see a very long list of broken linking (see the attached gzipped file of the revdep-rebuild output). At the end revdep-rebuild emerge orbit and libbonobo. After that I ran revdep-rebuild again: same long list and same packages to emerge. That for three times (then I stopped). What can I do to eliminate that long list and to avoid to emerge every time orbit and libbonobo? Ragards emilio It seems like you unmerged needed packages, for example imagemagick and x11-libs/gtk+. Please post the output of: emerge -uavD --newuse --with- bdeps y world Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.26-gentoo-r1, Compiled #8 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 27 09:54:30 CEST 2008 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4020.86 Bogomips Total aemaeth
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A huge list
Francesco Talamona ha scritto: On Saturday 27 September 2008, econti wrote: Hi all, running revdep-rebuild I see a very long list of broken linking (see the attached gzipped file of the revdep-rebuild output). At the end revdep-rebuild emerge orbit and libbonobo. After that I ran revdep-rebuild again: same long list and same packages to emerge. That for three times (then I stopped). What can I do to eliminate that long list and to avoid to emerge every time orbit and libbonobo? Ragards emilio It seems like you unmerged needed packages, for example imagemagick and x11-libs/gtk+. Both imagemagick (6.4.0.6) and gtk+ (2.12.11) are installed. Please post the output of: emerge -uavD --newuse --with- bdeps y world The output is: nothing! Ciao Francesco Ciao emilio
[gentoo-user] Re: A huge list
On Saturday 27 September 2008, econti wrote: Francesco Talamona ha scritto: On Saturday 27 September 2008, econti wrote: Hi all, running revdep-rebuild I see a very long list of broken linking (see the attached gzipped file of the revdep-rebuild output). At the end revdep-rebuild emerge orbit and libbonobo. After that I ran revdep-rebuild again: same long list and same packages to emerge. That for three times (then I stopped). What can I do to eliminate that long list and to avoid to emerge every time orbit and libbonobo? Ragards emilio It seems like you unmerged needed packages, for example imagemagick and x11-libs/gtk+. Both imagemagick (6.4.0.6) and gtk+ (2.12.11) are installed. Please post the output of: emerge -uavD --newuse --with- bdeps y world The output is: nothing! Ciao Francesco Ciao emilio aemaeth ~ # equery belongs libdb.so.2 libgdk-1.2.so.0 libglib-1.2.so.0 libgmodule-1.2.so.0 libgtk-1.2.so.0 [ Searching for file(s) libdb.so.2,libgdk-1.2.so.0,libglib-1.2.so.0,libgmodule-1.2.so.0,libgtk-1.2.so.0 in *... ] x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r12 (/usr/lib64/libgdk-1.2.so.0 - libgdk-1.2.so.0.9.1) x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r12 (/usr/lib64/libgtk-1.2.so.0 - libgtk-1.2.so.0.9.1) app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20080316 (/usr/lib32/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 - libgmodule-1.2.so.0.0.10) app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20080316 (/usr/lib32/libglib-1.2.so.0 - libglib-1.2.so.0.0.10) app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20071214 (/usr/lib32/libgtk-1.2.so.0 - libgtk-1.2.so.0.9.1) app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20071214 (/usr/lib32/libgdk-1.2.so.0 - libgdk-1.2.so.0.9.1) dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5 (/usr/lib64/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 - libgmodule-1.2.so.0.0.10) dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5 (/usr/lib64/libglib-1.2.so.0 - libglib-1.2.so.0.0.10) What about reinstalling gtk+, glib, emul-linux-x86-baselibs and emul-linux-x86-gtklibs, than rerun revdep-rebuild? The huge list should be shorter, then. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.26-gentoo-r1, Compiled #8 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 27 09:54:30 CEST 2008 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4020.86 Bogomips Total aemaeth
Re: [gentoo-user] Absolutely no sound whatsoever after latest emerge update
try: $ alsaconf;gnome-alsamixer;timidity -iA this way all worked for me, wine programs also. 2008/9/26, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Like the subject line says... all quiet on the Gentoo sound front, which is bad when I want music. Here's what mplayer says (note the last 4 lines)... [d530][waltdnes][~] mplayer /home/misc/movies/flv/dancing_monkeys.flv MPlayer dev-SVN-r26753-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU2140 @ 1.60GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 2) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2 Playing /home/misc/movies/flv/dancing_monkeys.flv. Cache fill: 3.96% (1328800 bytes) libavformat file format detected. [lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0 [lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1 VIDEO: [FLV1] 320x240 0bpp 29.970 fps0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s) == Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffflv] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg Flash video) == == Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 8.0 kbit/1.13% (ratio: 1000-88200) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) == [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_dmix.c:996:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave [AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Device or resource busy DVB card number must be between 1 and 4 AO: [null] 22050Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) mpg123 doesn't work [d530][waltdnes][~] mpg123 /home/misc/music/pop_standards/Tennessee_Waltz_-_Patti_Page.mp3 ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:996:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave [alsa.c:146] error: cannot open device default [audio.c:517] error: failed to open audio device [mpg123.c:709] error: Failed to initialize output, goodbye. neither does mpg321 [d530][waltdnes][~] mpg321 /home/misc/music/pop_standards/Tennessee_Waltz_-_Patti_Page.mp3 No default libao driver available. my make.conf contains the following lines of interest 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 and uname says... [d530][waltdnes][~] uname -a Linux d530 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 #1 SMP Wed Aug 13 02:42:40 EDT 2008 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU 2140 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Any ideas? -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === On Saturday 27 September 2008, Anton Kochnev wrote: === ... I have been using gentoo two years. And I have dialup connection only. My desktop - KDE. :) The secret is: emerge-delta-webrsync for updating portages and deltup for sources. That user isn't Gentoo-compatible :-) I have dial-up here too and I just sync and download once a week or so. What's all that delta stuff anyway? Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A huge list
Francesco Talamona ha scritto: On Saturday 27 September 2008, econti wrote: Francesco Talamona ha scritto: On Saturday 27 September 2008, econti wrote: Hi all, running revdep-rebuild I see a very long list of broken linking (see the attached gzipped file of the revdep-rebuild output). At the end revdep-rebuild emerge orbit and libbonobo. After that I ran revdep-rebuild again: same long list and same packages to emerge. That for three times (then I stopped). What can I do to eliminate that long list and to avoid to emerge every time orbit and libbonobo? Ragards emilio It seems like you unmerged needed packages, for example imagemagick and x11-libs/gtk+. Both imagemagick (6.4.0.6) and gtk+ (2.12.11) are installed. Please post the output of: emerge -uavD --newuse --with- bdeps y world The output is: nothing! Ciao Francesco Ciao emilio aemaeth ~ # equery belongs libdb.so.2 libgdk-1.2.so.0 libglib-1.2.so.0 libgmodule-1.2.so.0 libgtk-1.2.so.0 [ Searching for file(s) libdb.so.2,libgdk-1.2.so.0,libglib-1.2.so.0,libgmodule-1.2.so.0,libgtk-1.2.so.0 in *... ] x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r12 (/usr/lib64/libgdk-1.2.so.0 - libgdk-1.2.so.0.9.1) x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r12 (/usr/lib64/libgtk-1.2.so.0 - libgtk-1.2.so.0.9.1) app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20080316 (/usr/lib32/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 - libgmodule-1.2.so.0.0.10) app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20080316 (/usr/lib32/libglib-1.2.so.0 - libglib-1.2.so.0.0.10) app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20071214 (/usr/lib32/libgtk-1.2.so.0 - libgtk-1.2.so.0.9.1) app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20071214 (/usr/lib32/libgdk-1.2.so.0 - libgdk-1.2.so.0.9.1) dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5 (/usr/lib64/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 - libgmodule-1.2.so.0.0.10) dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5 (/usr/lib64/libglib-1.2.so.0 - libglib-1.2.so.0.0.10) What about reinstalling gtk+, glib, emul-linux-x86-baselibs and emul-linux-x86-gtklibs, than rerun revdep-rebuild? The huge list should be shorter, then. The list remains exactly the same! :-( Ciao emilio
Re: [gentoo-user] Getting python-2.3 back
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:59:35 -0400, Kirk Lowery wrote:
During upgrading today, I inadvertently allowed 2.3 to be deleted. I
looked in portage, but it is apparently gone.
Nothing is ever truly gone from portage
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/dev-lang/python/?hideattic=0
goes back as far as python-1/5/2
Thanks for the answers. I thought I'd report my experience here for
the knowledgebase:
I went back and downloaded not only the latest 2.3.6 ebuild into my
local overlay, and all the attendant files (including important
patches) in the files directory. In order to be able to emerge the
ebuild file, I had to recreate the digest and manifest files. Don't
know why the checksums were off, but they were. The solution was
simple:
# ebuild python-2.3.6-r6.ebuild digest
took care of it. When I tried to restart my legacy software I got a
python error: ImportError: No module named thread. Sure enough, the
equery use feature told me -threads. So I overrode that in
package.use. Nope, no change. Looking at the compile log, I saw this:
./configure --prefix=/usr --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share
--sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --with-fpectl
--enable-shared --enable-ipv6 --infodir=${prefix}/share/info
--mandir=${prefix}/share/man --with-libc= --enable-unicode=ucs4
--with-threads --without-threads --with-threads --libdir=/usr/lib64
--build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Configure has both --with- and --without-threads!!??
Nothing I did seemed to make a difference. So I traced where in the
ebuild this might be coming from:
use threads \
myconf=${myconf} --with-threads \
myconf=${myconf} --without-threads
I still don't know why (and would appreciate any knowledgeable person
commenting here), but I simply commented out the third line above,
re-emerged, and viola! my legacy software is up and running.
Kirk
[gentoo-user] Howto use user CSS with Firefox?
Many web sites are badly designed in that that they hard-code text input
fields with a black font but inherit the background colour from your desktop,
so if you have a suitably Gothic light-on-dark colour scheme you cannot read
your input. I have solved this with KDE Konqueror by supplying a user css
page but, for those occasions when you have to use it, I want to do the same
thing with Firefox. A quick google reveals the presence of userContent.css in
your profile, so I added my rules, eg,
html-body {
background-color: white;
color: black;
}
input {
background-color: #E1E7FD;
color: black;
}
but it makes absolutely no difference. Anybody had any luck with this?
TIA
-Robin
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Re: [gentoo-user] Howto use user CSS with Firefox?
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 19:09, Robin Atwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but it makes absolutely no difference. Anybody had any luck with this? try Greasemonkey? Ward
[gentoo-user] {OT} cdrdao's toc2cue question
I patched cdrdao to recognize certain CD-TEXT types for its toc file creation with the info here: http://www.lackhead.org/2007/05/patch-for-cdrdao-122-cd-text-causing-crash/ but toc2cue fails to execute on such a toc file with a series of these: ERROR: CD/cdda.toc:36: Invalid CD-TEXT item for a track. Does anyone know how to add CD-TEXT types to toc2cue? The types I need to add are: CDTEXT_DISK_ID CDTEXT_GENRE CDTEXT_TOC_INFO1 CDTEXT_TOC_INFO2 CDTEXT_RES1 CDTEXT_RES2 CDTEXT_RES3 CDTEXT_RES4 CDTEXT_SIZE_INFO I filed a Gentoo bug here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238891 I think I just need a file location. The cdrdao list seems to be dead. I tried to post to it a while ago and only received a message that my message was awaiting moderator approval. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] [Resolved] Absolutely no sound whatsoever after latest emerge update
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 03:35:04AM -0400, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked: Namely, restart alsasound (as root). /etc/init.d/alsasound restart I've put this in my /etc/conf.d/local.start Why is it necessary to put that in /etc/conf.d/local.start? Shouldn't the reboot make alsasound start clean already? W -- A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 659 days, 18:15
Re: [gentoo-user] Howto use user CSS with Firefox?
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:09, Robin Atwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Many web sites are badly designed in that that they hard-code text input
fields with a black font but inherit the background colour from your desktop,
so if you have a suitably Gothic light-on-dark colour scheme you cannot read
your input. I have solved this with KDE Konqueror by supplying a user css
page but, for those occasions when you have to use it, I want to do the same
thing with Firefox. A quick google reveals the presence of userContent.css in
your profile, so I added my rules, eg,
html-body {
background-color: white;
color: black;
}
input {
background-color: #E1E7FD;
color: black;
}
but it makes absolutely no difference. Anybody had any luck with this?
Have you looked at Preferences -- Content -- Fonts Colors --
Colors...? Uncheck the Allows pages ... and set your own
preferences. I've never used it but it looks like it might help.
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} cdrdao's toc2cue question
Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I patched cdrdao to recognize certain CD-TEXT types for its toc file creation with the info here: http://www.lackhead.org/2007/05/patch-for-cdrdao-122-cd-text-causing-crash/ but toc2cue fails to execute on such a toc file with a series of these: ERROR: CD/cdda.toc:36: Invalid CD-TEXT item for a track. What do you like to do? Did you try cdda2wav and cdrecord? The CUE format interpreter in cdrdao is known to be incomplete. 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/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
[gentoo-user] Re: Howto use user CSS with Firefox?
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:09:00 +0700 Robin Atwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have solved this with KDE Konqueror by supplying a user css page but, for those occasions when you have to use it, I want to do the same thing with Firefox. You can use userContent.css for it after you google some documentation, but it's easier to just use the Stylish extension to manage user css. http://userstyles.org/stylish/. -- »Q« Kleeneness is next to Gödelness.
[gentoo-user] SOLVED: Openoffice dies on startup
BOTTOM LINE (even though it's at the top) It appears openoffice-bin depends on some things that are not marked in the ebuild. My attempt to compile openoffice (not bin) failed due to disk space, but not until about 8 dependencies had been compiled. Openoffice-bin had not pulled them in. I never did complete the compile. I trimmed distfiles and packages and in other ways got up to 12 GB free space and emerged openoffice-bin. It runs fine now. This is not proof for various reasons, but I suspect the additional dependencies did the trick. Or maybe it was disk space. Not much else changed. ++ kevin On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag 25 September 2008 05:37:14 schrieb ext Kevin O'Gorman: openoffice-bin has been compiled with a given set of use flags and on a machine that may or may not match what you have. Compiling it yourself is always the better idea. Not so obviously better when it fails. Here's the tail of what I get: You do have enough free space in the build directory (~6G)? Bye... Apparently not. I just had something else fail, and I'm moving stuff around. That's probably a major part of what's plagueing me now. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CF and Gentoo
On 26 Sep 2008, at 19:21, James wrote: Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: Bear in mind the limited write lifetime of flash memory. Don't put / var or /tmp on such a card if you can avoid it. Well, I'm not sure any other alternatives are attractive? Unless I find a way to mount those partitions off of a usb stick, or some other idea? Since they are not frequently updated and have minimal installed software (iptables on firewalls and DNS on DNS servers) accompanied by the fact that most devices have internal wear leveling; it should take many years to reach the write cycle limits? I've read a fair little bit about this subject and never gotten a definitive answer on what is safe, but AIUI the wear-levelling on flash memory is filesystem-dependent. Thus it may work fabulously well for FAT filesystems, and not at all for EXT. Having said that, from my experience most of the nay-sayers telling you not to put stuff on a CFcard for this reason are talking speculatively - I have encountered one or two people who have used CFcards very happily for years. It does seem sensible to store logs, tmp Portage directories on a RAM disk or hard-drive, NFS mounted if necessary, but generally I would say just get on try it. 4gig CFcards are, after all, cheap as chips these days. Oh! It may be possible to reduce the number of writes to the card by changing mount options in /etc/fstab and have writes flushed less frequently. You might consider posting about this - or merely searching the archives - on the MythTV users list, as the subject does come up periodically and there are a number of people using CF cards in this way to reduce noise in the TV room. You could dd the card to a file and use the same file every time you need a new card. Um I do not mean to be a pain, but could you provide a little bit of pseudo-syntax? Assume I have shutdown a 4 GB CF firewall card and moved it to a reader/writer on another machine. First I need to format the raw (new) 4GB CF card from a reader. Put CFcard with existing filesystem in card-reader: dd if=/dev/sdX of=~/diskimage.img Swap cards in reader, writing to blank now: dd if=~/diskimage.img of=/dev/sdX You need to ensure that neither card is mounted when following this procedure - booting from a LiveCD or 3rd filesystem. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux
=== On Saturday 27 September 2008, Dale wrote: === Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === On Saturday 27 September 2008, Anton Kochnev wrote: === ... I have been using gentoo two years. And I have dialup connection only. My desktop - KDE. :) The secret is: emerge-delta-webrsync for updating portages and deltup for sources. That user isn't Gentoo-compatible :-) I have dial-up here too and I just sync and download once a week or so. What's all that delta stuff anyway? Dale :-) :-) Saying Gentoo-incompatible I mean that user will be migrated from m$win (I force this migration, but have not opportunity to admin a system often), and she isn't too young to learn new technical things (seventy years old). All these mean, I'm finding a distro with (besides 'net not hungry') simplest and minimal maintaining, though without any tuning capabilities also, which is (one of the main) a reason we use Gentoo. Andrew
Re: [gentoo-user] [Resolved] Absolutely no sound whatsoever after latest emerge update
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 09:47:27PM +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote why do you guys make it more complicated as it is?! Just write in the shell: rc-update add alsasound default I *DO* have alsasound in my default. Since you obviously have not read the URL I pointed to, here is a partial quote... I stopped esound (esd) and alsasound systems (this is under Gentoo). Upon restarting the alsasound system, the low level sound driver modules (snd_intel8x0m, snd_intel8x0, snd_ac97_codec, ac97_bus), perhaps others, got loaded and they were not loaded when the unable to open slave message was being generated. Subsequently mplayer was able to load and play audio tracks. So this message may be associated with hardware level drivers being unavailable for some reason. The problem seems to be a dependancy on some resource that is not available early on in the boot process. Re-starting the alsasound daemon later on works around that problem. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest not-net-hungry Linux
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === On Saturday 27 September 2008, Dale wrote: === Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === On Saturday 27 September 2008, Anton Kochnev wrote: === ... I have been using gentoo two years. And I have dialup connection only. My desktop - KDE. :) The secret is: emerge-delta-webrsync for updating portages and deltup for sources. That user isn't Gentoo-compatible :-) I have dial-up here too and I just sync and download once a week or so. What's all that delta stuff anyway? Dale :-) :-) Saying Gentoo-incompatible I mean that user will be migrated from m$win (I force this migration, but have not opportunity to admin a system often), and she isn't too young to learn new technical things (seventy years old). All these mean, I'm finding a distro with (besides 'net not hungry') simplest and minimal maintaining, though without any tuning capabilities also, which is (one of the main) a reason we use Gentoo. Andrew Well, coming off MS to Gentoo would have a steep learning curve. I used Mandrake for a little while then switched to Gentoo. To be honest, I installed everything off the CD with Mandrake. If you want to update then you would need the net but if all she is doing is email and such, I wouldn't think updates are needed unless there is a bug that affects what she is doing. For me, the install was easy, updates were not to bad and it was pretty stable. It's a thought. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] [Resolved] Absolutely no sound whatsoever after latest emerge update
Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 09:47:27PM +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote why do you guys make it more complicated as it is?! Just write in the shell: rc-update add alsasound default I *DO* have alsasound in my default. Since you obviously have not read the URL I pointed to, here is a partial quote... I stopped esound (esd) and alsasound systems (this is under Gentoo). Upon restarting the alsasound system, the low level sound driver modules (snd_intel8x0m, snd_intel8x0, snd_ac97_codec, ac97_bus), perhaps others, got loaded and they were not loaded when the unable to open slave message was being generated. Subsequently mplayer was able to load and play audio tracks. So this message may be associated with hardware level drivers being unavailable for some reason. The problem seems to be a dependancy on some resource that is not available early on in the boot process. Re-starting the alsasound daemon later on works around that problem. This may be waaay off here, do you have that parallel start up thing turned on? You know, where multiple services can be started at the same time without waiting for the startup to complete. I read somewhere a while back where some were having various trouble but not lately. If you do, may want to try it with it turned off and see if that helps. Just something to think about just in case. Dale :-) :-)
