[gentoo-user] Re: Enable scrolling on external USB IBM UltraNav keyboard
Hello, On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Mike Mazur mma...@gmail.com wrote: I have an external USB IBM ThinkPad UltraNav keyboard[1] attached to my laptop and I'd like to get scrolling to work. Currently to scroll I mouse over the scrollbar, click and move the pointer. I have looked at some resources[2][3][4] but was unsuccessful. [...] [1] http://fula.jp/blog/image/ThinkPlus_USB_Keyboard_with_UltraNav_Japanese.jpg [2] http://kaeru.my/journal/scrolling-with-thinkpad-keyboard-with-ultranav [2] http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_8.10_(Intrepid_Ibex)_on_a_ThinkPad_T61#Emulate_Wheel_.28Middle-click_scrolling.29 [4] http://mvogt.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/xorg-evdev-and-emulatewheel/ $ cat /etc/hal/fdi/policy/mouse-wheel.fdi ?xml version=1.0 encoding=ISO-8859-1? deviceinfo version=0.2 device match key=info.product string=Lite-On Tech IBM USB Keyboard with UltraNav !--match key=info.product string=Synaptics Inc. Composite TouchPad / TrackPoint-- !--match key=info.product string=SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad-- merge key=input.x11_options.EmulateWheel type=stringtrue/merge merge key=input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton type=string2/merge merge key=input.x11_options.ZAxsisMapping type=string4 5/merge merge key=input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons type=stringtrue/merge /match /device /device I found the problem: there's a tag mismatch in the fdi policy file. I have two /device tags, but the second one needs to be a /deviceinfo tag. Mike
[gentoo-user] Restart net.wlan0 on rfkill event
Hi List! I could need some directions for the following situation: In order for my wifi to work, I have to restart the net.wlan0 init-script after I've pressed the rfkill-switch. What would be the best way to do this automatially? I think udev is the way to go but how do I define the event? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Restart net.wlan0 on rfkill event
On Thu, 07 May 2009 12:30:52 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: In order for my wifi to work, I have to restart the net.wlan0 init-script after I've pressed the rfkill-switch. Does this switch generate an ACPI event? -- Neil Bothwick You sound reasonable...Time to up my medication. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Restart net.wlan0 on rfkill event
Neil Bothwick schrieb: On Thu, 07 May 2009 12:30:52 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: In order for my wifi to work, I have to restart the net.wlan0 init-script after I've pressed the rfkill-switch. Does this switch generate an ACPI event? Unfortunately not. Nothing on dmesg, /var/log/messages or /var/log/acpid signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] is packages.gentoo.org down?
... or is it for me only?
Re: [gentoo-user] is packages.gentoo.org down?
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 15:56, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: ... or is it for me only? it's down here too.
Re: [gentoo-user] is packages.gentoo.org down?
Hey! On Thursday 07 May 2009 15:56:34 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: ... or is it for me only? For me, it is also down. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] is packages.gentoo.org down?
On Thu, 7 May 2009 16:01:52 +0200, Ward Poelmans wpoel...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 15:56, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: ... or is it for me only? it's down here too. same result here... -- Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG :DC81 6FEE 6EBE FCE4 1C18 202F E575 4A5D 036D 1408
Re: [gentoo-user] is packages.gentoo.org down?
Andrew Gaydenko schrieb: ... or is it for me only? http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/packages.gentoo.org ;-)
Re: [gentoo-user] is packages.gentoo.org down?
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: ... or is it for me only? It's not just you. In the meantime maybe you can use http://www.gentoo-portage.com/Newest
[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions
Nitin Kanaskar nitinvk04 at gmail.com writes: I would definitely give this a thought - sounds interesting and challenging. OK, If you like just pop onto gentoo embedded... gentoo-embed...@lists.gentoo.org James
[gentoo-user] KDE4 desktops interference
Say, on desktop 1 I have started konsole with long emerging of something (i.e. konsole window is changing continuously). At the same time I have started supertuxkart for my son on the desktop 2. The game window has black blinking rectangular with the same position and size as the konsole window (canvas itself) has. The same effect takes place with replacing active konsole with. say, firefox download window (progress bar and text are blinking). It iseems I have some gl tuning to perform. ~amd64 and intel video card are in use. Thoughts?
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 desktops interference
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: Say, on desktop 1 I have started konsole with long emerging of something (i.e. konsole window is changing continuously). At the same time I have started supertuxkart for my son on the desktop 2. The game window has black blinking rectangular with the same position and size as the konsole window (canvas itself) has. The same effect takes place with replacing active konsole with. say, firefox download window (progress bar and text are blinking). It iseems I have some gl tuning to perform. ~amd64 and intel video card are in use. Thoughts? I have the same problem, when running a full-screen game any pop-ups (like new mail notifications, etc) well cause chaos... So, I just make sure to close programs that cause pop-ups while playing my game :) I think it must be related to the KDE4 desktop effect, because it didn't happen before then.
[gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 desktops interference
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com wrote: Say, on desktop 1 I have started konsole with long emerging of something (i.e. konsole window is changing continuously). At the same time I have started supertuxkart for my son on the desktop 2. The game window has black blinking rectangular with the same position and size as the konsole window (canvas itself) has. The same effect takes place with replacing active konsole with. say, firefox download window (progress bar and text are blinking). It iseems I have some gl tuning to perform. ~amd64 and intel video card are in use. Thoughts? I have the same problem, when running a full-screen game any pop-ups (like new mail notifications, etc) well cause chaos... So, I just make sure to close programs that cause pop-ups while playing my game :) I think it must be related to the KDE4 desktop effect, because it didn't happen before then. Hmm, pop-ups do cause chaos, but the problem the OP described (program on another desktop causing graphical glitches) does not occur here. AMD64 with an ATI Radeon 4870 here. KDE 4 effects are on.
Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc
Am Mittwoch, 6. Mai 2009 21:51:55 schrieb maxim wexler: Still panics Sure, because of CONFIG_USB_[EOUW]HCI_HCD=m. If you want to boot from USB, kernel needs to have a means to access your USB device. Don't know if that matters, but I would also enable some/all sub-options of USB-Storage. HTH... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc
Am Mittwoch, 6. Mai 2009 22:41:54 schrieb Masood Ahmed: maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com writes: Are you using an initrd? No, never used one on a gentoo box before. That's a fedora thing, isn't it? Nope! Its not distribution specific. It's a kernel feature. But it's up to the distribution to use it. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc
I've never managed to successfully boot a gentoo laptop without initrd. On May 7, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Mittwoch, 6. Mai 2009 22:41:54 schrieb Masood Ahmed: maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com writes: Are you using an initrd? No, never used one on a gentoo box before. That's a fedora thing, isn't it? Nope! Its not distribution specific. It's a kernel feature. But it's up to the distribution to use it. Bye... Dirk
Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc
Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 18:48:15 schrieb Saphirus Sage: I've never managed to successfully boot a gentoo laptop without initrd. Then you're doing something wrong. I boot mine without, even with encrypted / on logical volume. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] emerge fetch grabs wrong file!?
Hi group, Will somebody please explain this: kyzyl heathen # emerge -afv klibc These are the packages that would be fetched, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] dev-libs/klibc-1.5.12-r1 USE=-debug (-n32) 48,765 kB Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 48,765 kB Would you like to fetch the source files for these packages? [Yes/No] yes Fetching (1 of 1) dev-libs/klibc-1.5.12-r1 Downloading 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2' --10:47:13-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2 = `/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2' ... Whatever portage is fetching is turning into something I didn't order. I checked in distfiles and sure enough, there's no klibc* but a growing linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2. Weird. Maxim __ Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fetch grabs wrong file!?
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 18:59, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi group, Hi, Will somebody please explain this: kyzyl heathen # emerge -afv klibc These are the packages that would be fetched, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] dev-libs/klibc-1.5.12-r1 USE=-debug (-n32) 48,765 kB Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 48,765 kB Would you like to fetch the source files for these packages? [Yes/No] yes Fetching (1 of 1) dev-libs/klibc-1.5.12-r1 Downloading 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2' --10:47:13-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2 = `/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2' ... Whatever portage is fetching is turning into something I didn't order. I checked in distfiles and sure enough, there's no klibc* but a growing linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2. Weird. I checked the ebuild and it seems that klibc needs the kernel sources to build. Nothing wrong with portage ;) regards, Boris. Maxim __ Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com -- 42
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fetch grabs wrong file!?
maxim wexler schrieb am 07.05.2009 18:59: Hi group, Will somebody please explain this: kyzyl heathen # emerge -afv klibc These are the packages that would be fetched, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] dev-libs/klibc-1.5.12-r1 USE=-debug (-n32) 48,765 kB Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 48,765 kB Would you like to fetch the source files for these packages? [Yes/No] yes Fetching (1 of 1) dev-libs/klibc-1.5.12-r1 Downloading 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2' --10:47:13-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2 = `/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2' ... Whatever portage is fetching is turning into something I didn't order. I checked in distfiles and sure enough, there's no klibc* but a growing linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2. Weird. Well you did not order it but the ebuild. klibc needs this version of the linux kernel. -- Daniel Pielmeier signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fetch grabs wrong file!?
Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 18:59:54 schrieb maxim wexler: Whatever portage is fetching is turning into something I didn't order. Yes, you did. Just guess where the k in klibc comes from? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fetch grabs wrong file!?
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:59 AM, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi group, Will somebody please explain this: kyzyl heathen # emerge -afv klibc These are the packages that would be fetched, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] dev-libs/klibc-1.5.12-r1 USE=-debug (-n32) 48,765 kB Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 48,765 kB Would you like to fetch the source files for these packages? [Yes/No] yes Fetching (1 of 1) dev-libs/klibc-1.5.12-r1 Downloading 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2' --10:47:13-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2 = `/usr/portage/distfiles/linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2' ... Whatever portage is fetching is turning into something I didn't order. I checked in distfiles and sure enough, there's no klibc* but a growing linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2. Weird. Nothing is wrong. That file is required for klibc. From the ebuild notes: NOTES: == We need to bring in the kernel sources seperately Because they have to be configured in a way that differs from the copy in /usr/src/. The sys-kernel/linux-headers are too stripped down to use unfortunetly. This will be able to go away once the klibc author updates his code to build again the headers provided by the kernel's 'headers_install' target.
Re: [gentoo-user] A networking question...
Anthony Metcalf wrote: *That* depends on the exact specifics of what he is/isn't allowed to be showing.They may not even want the service to show as existing at that address for whatever reason. Thanks for all your discussion... I'll try to clarify - the PPP over SSH approach does seem to offer the best compromise. I've a development site which hosts https and http services for existing applications both remotely and locally. I'm developing an entirely new https service under Apache and want to be absolutely sure that I get no unexpected interactions between configurations for live services and the experimental in-development service - and I definitely don't want a random member of the public stumbling across the in-development site - which might expose unacceptable vulnerabilities as rough-cuts of code are trialled. It is entirely acceptable for any host on my LAN to access the in-development service. I want to allow collaborators to access the in-development service remotely over a SSH tunnel from their LAN, too (where I'm also not concerned about abuse...) The snag I'm finding at the moment I'm sure I'll overcome... and relates to access from my LAN. While I can sort-of see how to establish a new device with a new IP address on the remote LAN (with SSH and pppd) I'm not sure how to establish a second IP address for my single Ethernet adaptor to make this work on my LAN (though I'm sure it is do-able...) I'm also curious to discover if there is a neat Gentooish way to establish my two instances of Apache. I'm broadly familiar to doing this a hackish way - but I'd prefer it plays nicely with any emerge updates.
[gentoo-user] bind chrooting: mount permission denied...
Hi, I just emerged bind and at the end I tried to set-up chroot for it just as it is adviced in messages: # emerge --config '=net-dns/bind-9.4.3_p2' Configuring pkg... * * Setting up the chroot directory...mount: permission denied Done. Where can I find that --config script to have a look at it and to find out what is bind actually trying to mount? Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fetch grabs wrong file!?
Whatever portage is fetching is turning into something I didn't order. I checked in distfiles and sure enough, there's no klibc* but a growing linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2. Weird. Nothing is wrong. That file is required for klibc. From the ebuild notes: Yes, I saw that too, but 1) why doesn't it list it from the start? 2) the 2.6.28 source is already in my box, and it wants the 26? Oh well, there goes my phone line for 5 more hrs sob! mw __ Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. Click on Options in Mail and switch to New Mail today or register for free at http://mail.yahoo.ca
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fetch grabs wrong file!?
On Thursday 07 May 2009 21:07:57 maxim wexler wrote: Whatever portage is fetching is turning into something I didn't order. I checked in distfiles and sure enough, there's no klibc* but a growing linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2. Weird. Nothing is wrong. That file is required for klibc. From the ebuild notes: Yes, I saw that too, but 1) why doesn't it list it from the start? Q: How many packages have you ever installed that have multiple SRC_URIs and portage has given you a list of them up front? A: None. You need emerge -pvf for that 2) the 2.6.28 source is already in my box, and it wants the 26? Read the ebuild notes. It fetches 26 because the ebuild says it must fetch 26, not any old version you feel like. Why 26 specifically? Well, headers can change between versions. Obviously, either a) the developer's code will only build against that particular version or b) the developer feels that's the safest version. It's all right there in the notes - the very ones you chose the snip out of your reply.. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:23 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 10:14:45AM -0700, Nitin Kanaskar wrote: Ok - I am not clear about the terminology - packages, versions... But i need to install gentoo 2004/2005 - if this is right. I am a graduate student doing research on vulnerabilities, exploits and IDS. Hence I am looking for older gentoo installations which i know have some vulnerabilities. If i have to build whole OS from source, I am willing to do that - but could not find any resource on that old stuff. Gentoo, as a distribution, is versionless. The 2004/2005 you are referring to are versions of our release media. What you would have to do is find out which packages and which versions of the packages you want to work with and see if we still have them in the tree. William -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkn8gawACgkQblQW9DDEZThqXwCgs9ZSKvDZbRgd9bzmDxe9wA36 ccUAoIrd1uKpHzEvlRXRbBEzearyYKYS =cPF9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- That isn't entirely accurate. If you can get a livecd, or a minimal cd + package cd (distfiles), and just not upgrade portage, he would be able to use it fine. -- - Mark Shields
Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc
On Thursday 07 May 2009 18:48:15 Saphirus Sage wrote: I've never managed to successfully boot a gentoo laptop without initrd. I've never managed to successfully boot a gentoo laptop with initrd. initrd's are there for the case where the distro builder does not know what the hardware is beforehand. Like binary distros - they must boot of almost anything so all modules must be detected and loaded at boot time. Gentoo, almost by definition, is used in cases where the builder does know what the hardware is - [s]he usually owns it. So you can dispense with initrd and simply compile in the modules required to boot. There's always exceptions of course - booting off a soft-raid volume, Sabayon, building one master copy of gentoo to use throughout your organization with a range of hardware. And of course there's always our very own elephant in the room - genkernel. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] bind chrooting: mount permission denied...
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I just emerged bind and at the end I tried to set-up chroot for it just as it is adviced in messages: # emerge --config '=net-dns/bind-9.4.3_p2' Configuring pkg... * * Setting up the chroot directory...mount: permission denied Done. Where can I find that --config script to have a look at it and to find out what is bind actually trying to mount? Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted. May be obvious, but are you running the command as root/sudo? -- - Mark Shields
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge fetch grabs wrong file!?
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:07 PM, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: Whatever portage is fetching is turning into something I didn't order. I checked in distfiles and sure enough, there's no klibc* but a growing linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2. Weird. Nothing is wrong. That file is required for klibc. From the ebuild notes: Yes, I saw that too, but 1) why doesn't it list it from the start? 2) the 2.6.28 source is already in my box, and it wants the 26? Oh well, there goes my phone line for 5 more hrs sob! mw It did include it in the total size estimate it gave in the first output (48,765 kB). Your confusion may be from this: it is not emerging a kernel package, it is simply downloading the kernel sources as part of the klibc package.
Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc
Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 21:37:39 schrieb Alan McKinnon: There's always exceptions of course - booting off a soft-raid volume I doubt that :-) Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc
On Thursday 07 May 2009 22:46:59 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 21:37:39 schrieb Alan McKinnon: There's always exceptions of course - booting off a soft-raid volume I doubt that :-) Mirrored - no problem. But how else would you boot off a striped / with /boot *not* on a separate partition? Or does grub understand linux raid these days? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 desktops interference
On Thursday 07 May 2009 19:50:19 you wrote: Say, on desktop 1 I have started konsole with long emerging of something (i.e. konsole window is changing continuously). At the same time I have started supertuxkart for my son on the desktop 2. The game window has black blinking rectangular with the same position and size as the konsole window (canvas itself) has. The same effect takes place with replacing active konsole with. say, firefox download window (progress bar and text are blinking). It iseems I have some gl tuning to perform. ~amd64 and intel video card are in use... More simple and more exciting :-) - just have started glxgears and switched a desktop - glxgears' canvas is visible on any desktop!!
Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc
On Donnerstag 07 Mai 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 07 May 2009 22:46:59 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 21:37:39 schrieb Alan McKinnon: There's always exceptions of course - booting off a soft-raid volume I doubt that :-) Mirrored - no problem. But how else would you boot off a striped / with /boot *not* on a separate partition? Or does grub understand linux raid these days? well, you just put boot on a seperate partition. is there any good reason not to do so?
[gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 desktops interference
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: On Thursday 07 May 2009 19:50:19 you wrote: Say, on desktop 1 I have started konsole with long emerging of something (i.e. konsole window is changing continuously). At the same time I have started supertuxkart for my son on the desktop 2. The game window has black blinking rectangular with the same position and size as the konsole window (canvas itself) has. The same effect takes place with replacing active konsole with. say, firefox download window (progress bar and text are blinking). It iseems I have some gl tuning to perform. ~amd64 and intel video card are in use... More simple and more exciting :-) - just have started glxgears and switched a desktop - glxgears' canvas is visible on any desktop!! OK, that's definitely a driver problem. It seems the driver does not support accelerated 3D while compositing (Desktop Effects) is enabled.
Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc
On Thursday 07 May 2009 23:00:06 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag 07 Mai 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 07 May 2009 22:46:59 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 21:37:39 schrieb Alan McKinnon: There's always exceptions of course - booting off a soft-raid volume I doubt that :-) Mirrored - no problem. But how else would you boot off a striped / with /boot *not* on a separate partition? Or does grub understand linux raid these days? well, you just put boot on a seperate partition. is there any good reason not to do so? No, of course not :-) But I'm not talking about me. Wandering around the company I find it very common for inexperienced admins to install Red Hat on their servers with everything on one file system and both internal drives mirrored with Linux raid. I don't think that's especially clever. But Red Hat's installer lets you do it, and for that you need an initrd. Besides, we're talking about what's possible, whether it's good or bad isn't part of the topic. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc
On Thu, 7 May 2009 23:16:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: But I'm not talking about me. Wandering around the company I find it very common for inexperienced admins to install Red Hat on their servers with everything on one file system and both internal drives mirrored with Linux raid. I don't think that's especially clever. But Red Hat's installer lets you do it, and for that you need an initrd. Not if they're RAID1, nor do you need a separate /boot. GRUB can load itself and the kernel from either of the disks and the kernel will then assemble the RAID, so you can pass root=/dev/md0 to the kernel -- Neil Bothwick If your VCR still flashes 12:00 - then Linux is not for you. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc
On Thursday 07 May 2009 23:34:17 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 7 May 2009 23:16:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: But I'm not talking about me. Wandering around the company I find it very common for inexperienced admins to install Red Hat on their servers with everything on one file system and both internal drives mirrored with Linux raid. I don't think that's especially clever. But Red Hat's installer lets you do it, and for that you need an initrd. Not if they're RAID1, nor do you need a separate /boot. GRUB can load itself and the kernel from either of the disks and the kernel will then assemble the RAID, so you can pass root=/dev/md0 to the kernel Silly me. I said mirrored, I meant striped Ever since day 1, when I need to use those words or the RAID level numbers, I can't recall which is which. So, I usually get it wrong. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] A networking question...
On Thursday 07 May 2009, Steve wrote: Anthony Metcalf wrote: *That* depends on the exact specifics of what he is/isn't allowed to be showing.They may not even want the service to show as existing at that address for whatever reason. Thanks for all your discussion... I'll try to clarify - the PPP over SSH approach does seem to offer the best compromise. I've a development site which hosts https and http services for existing applications both remotely and locally. I'm developing an entirely new https service under Apache and want to be absolutely sure that I get no unexpected interactions between configurations for live services and the experimental in-development service - and I definitely don't want a random member of the public stumbling across the in-development site - which might expose unacceptable vulnerabilities as rough-cuts of code are trialled. Have your development https service set up as a virtual host on a webroot of your choice, listening to a random port and also set up user authentication for the webroot fs. In this way, whether accessed via the Internet or LAN, visitors will need to know the port to connect to and will also have to provide suitable credentials. You can even control access to parts of the development https fs using location tags to define them and setting different user defined access to them. If you use AuthDigest you can also set separate realms if the fs is extensive and access requirements complex. It is entirely acceptable for any host on my LAN to access the in-development service. I want to allow collaborators to access the in-development service remotely over a SSH tunnel from their LAN, too (where I'm also not concerned about abuse...) For collaboration setting DAV on is probably a better option as it uses lockfiles and won't have one developer overwritting (un)wittingly changes made by others. The snag I'm finding at the moment I'm sure I'll overcome... and relates to access from my LAN. While I can sort-of see how to establish a new device with a new IP address on the remote LAN (with SSH and pppd) I'm not sure how to establish a second IP address for my single Ethernet adaptor to make this work on my LAN (though I'm sure it is do-able...) An adaptor can have more than one public IP address (multi-homing) and you can use something like: ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up to set them up (increment eth0:1, eth0:2, etc accordingly). However, if your SSL vhost is listening on a random port you don't need binding of many addresses to one NIC. You can use the same ip address. I'm also curious to discover if there is a neat Gentooish way to establish my two instances of Apache. I'm broadly familiar to doing this a hackish way - but I'd prefer it plays nicely with any emerge updates. Other than vhost I guest you can run a second instance by reading section 5 here (but I'm not sure you need to do that anyway): http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php4-php5-configuration.xml -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Cursor keys stopped working in VMware workstation
I have been using VMware workstation V. 5.5.9 and a Logitech wireless keyboard for some time. Today I somehow mistyped a Ctrl-something sequence while in the VM window, meaning to enter it elsewhere instead of the VM. Now, the cursor keys between the main keys and the keypad have stopped working correctly. Most do nothing, but the down arrow key causes Windows to raise the Start menu, as if I had pressed the windows key near left-alt. The cursor movement keys on the keypad still work, with numlock off. I have tried restarting windows, restarting VMware workstation, restarting the X (KDE) session, and rebooting the computer. The only thing I haven't done is a complete power off/on. All cursor keys work fine in non-VMware applications, so I suspect VMware and/or Windows, but I've been wrong blaming MS or VM before, so.. Does anyone have a clue what might be wrong, and how to fix this? Thanks, -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name
When starting evince from a terminal, I get a message like this: ** (evince:3597): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name 3597 is evince's pid. Does anybody know what causes this? Should I worry about this? Some info: $ emerge -qpv evince [ebuild R ] app-text/evince-2.24.2 USE=dbus tiff -debug -djvu -doc -dvi -gnome-keyring -nautilus -t1lib $ emerge --info emerge-output.txt emerge-output.txt: Portage 2.1.6.11 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.27.22 i686) = System uname: Linux-2.6.27.22-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_XP_2600+-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 05 May 2009 12:45:02 + app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.12 sys-apps/sandbox:1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 CBUILD=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer DISTDIR=/usr/local/slowpart/usr/portage/distfiles EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--nospinner FEATURES=collision-protect distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch GENTOO_MIRRORS=ftp://ftp.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/gentoo/ http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo http://mirrors.usu.edu/mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/; LANG=pt_BR LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--hash-style=gnu LINGUAS=en MAKEOPTS=-j2 PKGDIR=/usr/local/slowpart/usr/portage/packages PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT=/ PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/usr/local/slowpart/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/jorgeportage SYNC=rsync://rsync.samerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage USE=3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa aotuv bash-completion bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdio cdr cli cracklib dbus dvd dvdr dvdread emacs emboss encode evo exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gif glibc-omitfp gnuplot gnutls gpm gstreamer gzip-el hddtemp iceweasel iconv imap isdnlog jpeg libcaca libsamplerate logrotate lzma mad matroska midi mikmod mmx mmxext mng moznopango mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap ncurses network-cron nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf png ppds pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection sdl session sox speex spell spl sse ssl svg symlink sysfs tcpd theora tiff toolkit-scroll-bars truetype unicode usb v4l2 vorbis x264 x86 xml xorg xosd xulrunner xv zlib commentLINE BROKEN BECAUSE CLAWS-MAIL WARNED THE LINE WAS TOO LONG/comment ALSA_CARDS=cmipci ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS=adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol APACHE2_MODULES=actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias ELIBC=glibc INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse evdev KERNEL=linux LCD_DEVICES=bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text LINGUAS=en USERLAND=GNU VIDEO_CARDS=nv vesa Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS $ emerge -qpev evince emerge-output.txt emerge-output.txt : [ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.11 USE=-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux) LINGUAS=-pl [ebuild R ] sys-apps/sed-4.1.5-r1 USE=-nls -static [ebuild R ] sys-libs/zlib-1.2.3-r1 [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gnuconfig-20080928 [ebuild R ] dev-libs/expat-2.0.1-r1 [ebuild R ] sys-devel/flex-2.5.35 USE=-nls -static [ebuild R ] virtual/libiconv-0 [ebuild R ] app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.19 USE=-caps [ebuild R ] sys-devel/automake-wrapper-3-r1 [ebuild R ] app-arch/bzip2-1.0.5-r1 USE=-static [ebuild R ] sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-6 [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.4.0-r4 [ebuild R ] dev-libs/gmp-4.2.4 USE=-nocxx
RE: [gentoo-user] Cursor keys stopped working in VMware workstation
I have been using VMware workstation V. 5.5.9 and a Logitech wireless keyboard for some time. Today I somehow mistyped a Ctrl-something sequence while in the VM window, meaning to enter it elsewhere instead of the VM. Now, the cursor keys between the main keys and the keypad have stopped working correctly. Most do nothing, but the down arrow key causes Windows to raise the Start menu, as if I had pressed the windows key near left-alt. The cursor movement keys on the keypad still work, with numlock off. I have tried restarting windows, restarting VMware workstation, restarting the X (KDE) session, and rebooting the computer. The only thing I haven't done is a complete power off/on. All cursor keys work fine in non-VMware applications, so I suspect VMware and/or Windows, but I've been wrong blaming MS or VM before, so.. Interesting - the same thing happened to me a couple of days ago. I tried a second Windows guest and it had the same problem, so it appears to affect all guest OSes. FWIW I'm running 2.6.28-r5, xorg 1.5.3 with latest stable vmware server (1.0.8?).
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions
I may need more time for doing this - currently for time constraint i have switched over to some other distro. Thanks for the info Mark. On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Mark Shields laebsh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:23 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 10:14:45AM -0700, Nitin Kanaskar wrote: Ok - I am not clear about the terminology - packages, versions... But i need to install gentoo 2004/2005 - if this is right. I am a graduate student doing research on vulnerabilities, exploits and IDS. Hence I am looking for older gentoo installations which i know have some vulnerabilities. If i have to build whole OS from source, I am willing to do that - but could not find any resource on that old stuff. Gentoo, as a distribution, is versionless. The 2004/2005 you are referring to are versions of our release media. What you would have to do is find out which packages and which versions of the packages you want to work with and see if we still have them in the tree. William -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkn8gawACgkQblQW9DDEZThqXwCgs9ZSKvDZbRgd9bzmDxe9wA36 ccUAoIrd1uKpHzEvlRXRbBEzearyYKYS =cPF9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- That isn't entirely accurate. If you can get a livecd, or a minimal cd + package cd (distfiles), and just not upgrade portage, he would be able to use it fine. -- - Mark Shields
Re: [gentoo-user] Cursor keys stopped working in VMware workstation
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Jim Cunning jcunn...@cunning.ods.org wrote: I have been using VMware workstation V. 5.5.9 and a Logitech wireless keyboard for some time. Today I somehow mistyped a Ctrl-something sequence while in the VM window, meaning to enter it elsewhere instead of the VM. Now, the cursor keys between the main keys and the keypad have stopped working correctly. Most do nothing, but the down arrow key causes Windows to raise the Start menu, as if I had pressed the windows key near left-alt. I wonder if you accidentally enabled mouse keys? alt-leftshift-numlock
Re: [gentoo-user] Cursor keys stopped working in VMware workstation
Hi, On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Jim Cunning jcunn...@cunning.ods.org wrote: I have been using VMware workstation V. 5.5.9 and a Logitech wireless keyboard for some time. Today I somehow mistyped a Ctrl-something sequence while in the VM window, meaning to enter it elsewhere instead of the VM. Now, the cursor keys between the main keys and the keypad have stopped working correctly. Most do nothing, but the down arrow key causes Windows to raise the Start menu, as if I had pressed the windows key near left-alt. I have also experienced this recently when I installed new VMs. I did some research and found a post on the vmware forums[1]. The solution for me was to add this line to /etc/vmware-server-console/config: xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true I thought my issue was related to the fact that I'm using vmware-server-console on my 32-bit Gentoo laptop and trying to send commands to a 64-bit CentOS VM running on a 64-bit CentOS host on my LAN. But since you're seeing this issue too with existing VMs, perhaps it's related to the recent Xorg upgrade? HTH, Mike [1] http://communities.vmware.com/thread/177321
[gentoo-user] CVS ebuild not working: Connection refused
The dvda-author-cvs ebuild here: http://gentoo.zugaina.org/portage/media-sound/dvda-author-cvs/dvda-author-cvs-0.1.ebuild gives me this: * Running cvs -q -f -z1 -d :pserver:anonymous:@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/dvd-audio login Logging in to :pserver:anonym...@cvs.sourceforge.net:2401/cvsroot/dvd-audio cvs [login aborted]: connect to cvs.sourceforge.net(216.34.181.96):2401 failed: Connection refused Does it look like there may be an easy way to modify the ebuild to fix this? - Grant
[gentoo-user] no scroll back on eee
Hi group, I checked my kernel config and found that console scrollback is enabled and given 64k capacity. Guess that's the default. But the console can't be scrolled back a single line. I upped the capcity to 128k, same thing. On the desktop I can hold down the shift and up-arrow keys and scroll back from the login to the grub prompt. On the eee it just re-cycles the history if I've logged in, prints [A[A[A... if not. Maxim __ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com.
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 3.0.0 with dead keys
On Monday 04 May 2009 18:10:50 Saphirus Sage wrote: Jim Cunning wrote: I´m trying to get OpenOffice 3.0.0 to recognize and enter French accented characters (e.g., ´ + e or ^ + a , etc.) I´ve set up KDE keyboard layouts and can get the proper characters displayed on console, xterm, kmail and other windows, but the dead key combinations in OpenOffice are simply dead--no characters produced at all. When switching back to the US layout without dead keys, the same key presses to OpenOffice produce two characters, as one would expect. I do this all the time with OpenOffice on my laptop with openSUSE 10.3. Is there something I´ve not setup correctly on my gentoo system? Did you remember to compile OpenOffice with LINGUAS=fr? May be something to consider adding to your make.conf to get around language/localization issues. I'm not sure that's what I need. I would like OpenOffice to be in English, not French, but do want to be able to enter accented characters as used in French, German, etc., when I select the us-intl keyboard layout. Where can I get documentation on the environment variables OpenOffice build uses, and how OpenOffice uses alternate keyboard layouts? I've googled, but nothing I've encountered describes how to avoid my situation. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
