[gentoo-user] md5sum mismatch, upgrade from torrent, fsck
I suppose I'll have to re-download the iso if the md5sum doesn't match (which it doesn't per https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ UbuntuHashes#9.04)? The problem is that the iso is corrupted? thu...@arrakis:~/Desktop$ thu...@arrakis:~/Desktop$ thu...@arrakis:~/Desktop$ sudo mount -o loop ~/Desktop/ubuntu-9.04- alternate-i386.iso /media/cdrom0 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so thu...@arrakis:~/Desktop$ dmesg | tail [ 461.450949] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [ 461.451532] EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended [ 461.488324] EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal [ 461.488342] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [ 616.822097] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 [ 616.993243] ISOFS: changing to secondary root [ 617.046821] isofs_fill_super: root inode is not a directory. Corrupted media? [ 636.444512] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 [ 636.446011] ISOFS: changing to secondary root [ 636.447168] isofs_fill_super: root inode is not a directory. Corrupted media? thu...@arrakis:~/Desktop$ thu...@arrakis:~/Desktop$ md5sum ubuntu-9.04-alternate-i386.iso 1dd3245e86b89b38abb01814b05ae299 ubuntu-9.04-alternate-i386.iso thu...@arrakis:~/Desktop$ thu...@arrakis:~/Desktop$ sudo e2fsck -yv /dev/sda1 [sudo] password for thufir: e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) /dev/sda1 is mounted. WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage. Do you really want to continue (y/n)? no check aborted. thu...@arrakis:~/Desktop$ I wasn't quite sure how to run fsck without a live cd... out of curiosity, when I tried to download via the torrent the speed seemed exactly the same as directly downloading the iso but the progress was painfully slow versus directly downloading the CD (which I'll do again). thanks, Thufir
Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I followed this
http://blogs.pwmn.net/korkakak/2008/06/04/gentoo-i-unmerged-python-now-what
which worked - in the end. couple of caveats tho for anyone 'that follows'
get python from their site as the ftp link in this article is out of date.
http://www.python.org/download/releases/
also I initially tried 3.01 and that didn't work so i installed 2.6.2 which
worked 'out of the box' i then tested with 'emerge' and am now running
'emerge -va python'
Cheers guys!
Thanks to Dale too!
Glad it worked.
But, I don't know what will happen when the properly emerged python
overwrites the manually installed Python.
Does anybody know if the manual python install is slotted, in the sense
that it installs files in /usr/lib/python2.6, /usr/include/python2.6, etc?
If it isn't, and Portage installs a slotted Python, the old files wouldn't
be overwritten.
And even if it is, the differences between the differently-configured and
super-patched new python and the vanilla old python could result in
a different set of file names, so it is possible that the old python
will not be totally overwritten by the portage-emerged python.
If I were you, I would at the very least read the log (specially its tail)
of the python emerge (emerge logs normally go to /var/log/emerge).
And you did log the files installed by the manual python install,
didn't you?
And why did you try python 3.01 first? You should try a similar vesion to
what you were previously running. And specifically python 3.01 is crazy,
as it is widely known that it is *not* compatible with python 2.x software.
And did you properly uninstall python 3.0.1?
Also, I didn't like the instructions in this blog very much.
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to configure python like
portage would?
For example, in my system, where the last python install was
dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r2 USE=ncurses readline ssl threads xml -berkdb -build
-doc -examples -gdbm -ipv6 -sqlite -tk -ucs2 -wininst
the configure line was (from the log)
./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc
--localstatedir=/var/lib --with-fpectl --enable-shared --disable-ipv6
--infodir=${prefix}/share/info --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --with-libc=
--enable-unicode=ucs4 --with-threads --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
Maybe it would be nice to install python to /usr/local (I'm not sure),
but if you are going to install it in /usr (like portage), I think you
might as well use the same configure line portage would.
And if you wanted to be really clean, you could apply the patches that
portage applies.
And most importantly,
*was this necessary*?
Couldn't he have emerged python by invoking
ebuild /usr/port/usr/portage/dev-lang/python/python-2.6.2.ebuild merge
?
This would do everyting correctly.
And wouldn't it work without Python, since it is written in Bash?
AFAIK, what needs Python is the high level interface to the portage
system, while the low-level interface only needs Bash (but I'm
totally not sure).
And finally, couldn't he have gotten a binary package from
http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/x86/dev-lang/
?
[gentoo-user] gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.0.10 crashes
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:52 PM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: Ever since I upgraded firefox to version 3 it crashes when certain pages are opened. Currently I have version 3.0.10 and amd64. I've been hoping the problem would get fixed, but it hasn't been yet. For example I can not even go to ebay ( http://www.ebay.com ), the page flashes and then firefox crashes. Does anyone know what's causing this and how it can be fixed? My guess would be flash... try uninstalling flash, java, nspluginwrapper, disabling add-ons, etc one by one until you find the cause. It was the adobe-flash. I uninstalled it and all was fine. The emerge -pv adobe-flash looks like the following: [ebuild N] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.0.22.87 USE=32bit (multilib). I installed it again and Firefox crashes on certain sites. So now it's uninstalled again. At least Firefox is stable now. Is there a flash that works? Thanks, dhk
Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python
On Sat, 23 May 2009 04:55:04 -0300 Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com wrote: Couldn't he have emerged python by invoking ebuild /usr/port/usr/portage/dev-lang/python/python-2.6.2.ebuild merge ? This would do everyting correctly. And wouldn't it work without Python, since it is written in Bash? AFAIK, what needs Python is the high level interface to the portage system, while the low-level interface only needs Bash (but I'm totally not sure). Please forget this stupidity. The ebuild command is written in Python, not Bash (should have written the email with less haste) And finally, couldn't he have gotten a binary package from http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/x86/dev-lang/ ? But this point still stands.
Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python
--- On Sat, 23/5/09, Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Date: Saturday, 23 May, 2009, 8:55 AM
Thank you! Thank you! Thank
you!
I followed this
http://blogs.pwmn.net/korkakak/2008/06/04/gentoo-i-unmerged-python-now-what
which worked - in the end. couple of caveats tho for
anyone 'that follows' get python from their site as the ftp
link in this article is out of date.
http://www.python.org/download/releases/
also I initially tried 3.01 and that didn't work so i
installed 2.6.2 which worked 'out of the box' i then tested
with 'emerge' and am now running 'emerge -va python'
Cheers guys!
Thanks to Dale too!
Glad it worked.
But, I don't know what will happen when the properly
emerged python
overwrites the manually installed Python.
Does anybody know if the manual python install is
slotted, in the sense
that it installs files in /usr/lib/python2.6,
/usr/include/python2.6, etc?
If it isn't, and Portage installs a slotted Python, the old
files wouldn't
be overwritten.
And even if it is, the differences between the
differently-configured and
super-patched new python and the vanilla old python could
result in
a different set of file names, so it is possible that the
old python
will not be totally overwritten by the portage-emerged
python.
If I were you, I would at the very least read the log
(specially its tail)
of the python emerge (emerge logs normally go to
/var/log/emerge).
And you did log the files installed by the manual python
install,
didn't you?
And why did you try python 3.01 first? You should try a
similar vesion to
what you were previously running. And specifically python
3.01 is crazy,
as it is widely known that it is *not* compatible with
python 2.x software.
And did you properly uninstall python 3.0.1?
Also, I didn't like the instructions in this blog very
much.
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to configure python like
portage would?
For example, in my system, where the last python install
was
dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r2 USE=ncurses readline ssl
threads xml -berkdb -build -doc -examples -gdbm -ipv6
-sqlite -tk -ucs2 -wininst
the configure line was (from the log)
./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
--datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc
--localstatedir=/var/lib --with-fpectl --enable-shared
--disable-ipv6 --infodir=${prefix}/share/info
--mandir=${prefix}/share/man --with-libc=
--enable-unicode=ucs4 --with-threads
--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
Maybe it would be nice to install python to
/usr/local (I'm not sure),
but if you are going to install it in /usr (like portage),
I think you
might as well use the same configure line portage would.
And if you wanted to be really clean, you could apply the
patches that
portage applies.
And most importantly,
*was this necessary*?
Couldn't he have emerged python by invoking
ebuild
/usr/port/usr/portage/dev-lang/python/python-2.6.2.ebuild
merge
?
This would do everyting correctly.
And wouldn't it work without Python, since it is written in
Bash?
AFAIK, what needs Python is the high level interface to the
portage
system, while the low-level interface only needs Bash (but
I'm
totally not sure).
And finally, couldn't he have gotten a binary package from
http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/x86/dev-lang/
?
As it happens it didn't work after all. The emerge broke it again and i got an
error from python.
All of your advise here is fantastic and i urge anyone that follows to do as
you suggest - but i didn't fully uninstall either python install and i plan to
just leave them minding their own business (hopefully) as i cant be bothered to
track all the files down.
Your final line suggestion to use ebuild worked - although i had to change the
path. I am running emerge -va python a and it had the same effect as install
from wget and then emerging it. I get
File /usr/bin/emerge, line 41
except PermissionDenied, e:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Any clues here?
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Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python
--- On Sat, 23/5/09, Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Date: Saturday, 23 May, 2009, 8:55 AM
Thank you! Thank you! Thank
you!
I followed this
http://blogs.pwmn.net/korkakak/2008/06/04/gentoo-i-unmerged-python-now-what
which worked - in the end. couple of caveats tho for
anyone 'that follows' get python from their site as the ftp
link in this article is out of date.
http://www.python.org/download/releases/
also I initially tried 3.01 and that didn't work so i
installed 2.6.2 which worked 'out of the box' i then tested
with 'emerge' and am now running 'emerge -va python'
Cheers guys!
Thanks to Dale too!
Glad it worked.
But, I don't know what will happen when the properly
emerged python
overwrites the manually installed Python.
Does anybody know if the manual python install is
slotted, in the sense
that it installs files in /usr/lib/python2.6,
/usr/include/python2.6, etc?
If it isn't, and Portage installs a slotted Python, the old
files wouldn't
be overwritten.
And even if it is, the differences between the
differently-configured and
super-patched new python and the vanilla old python could
result in
a different set of file names, so it is possible that the
old python
will not be totally overwritten by the portage-emerged
python.
If I were you, I would at the very least read the log
(specially its tail)
of the python emerge (emerge logs normally go to
/var/log/emerge).
And you did log the files installed by the manual python
install,
didn't you?
And why did you try python 3.01 first? You should try a
similar vesion to
what you were previously running. And specifically python
3.01 is crazy,
as it is widely known that it is *not* compatible with
python 2.x software.
And did you properly uninstall python 3.0.1?
Also, I didn't like the instructions in this blog very
much.
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to configure python like
portage would?
For example, in my system, where the last python install
was
dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r2 USE=ncurses readline ssl
threads xml -berkdb -build -doc -examples -gdbm -ipv6
-sqlite -tk -ucs2 -wininst
the configure line was (from the log)
./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
--datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc
--localstatedir=/var/lib --with-fpectl --enable-shared
--disable-ipv6 --infodir=${prefix}/share/info
--mandir=${prefix}/share/man --with-libc=
--enable-unicode=ucs4 --with-threads
--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
Maybe it would be nice to install python to
/usr/local (I'm not sure),
but if you are going to install it in /usr (like portage),
I think you
might as well use the same configure line portage would.
And if you wanted to be really clean, you could apply the
patches that
portage applies.
And most importantly,
*was this necessary*?
Couldn't he have emerged python by invoking
ebuild
/usr/port/usr/portage/dev-lang/python/python-2.6.2.ebuild
merge
?
This would do everyting correctly.
And wouldn't it work without Python, since it is written in
Bash?
AFAIK, what needs Python is the high level interface to the
portage
system, while the low-level interface only needs Bash (but
I'm
totally not sure).
And finally, couldn't he have gotten a binary package from
http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/x86/dev-lang/
?
Also that emerge borked ebuild too.
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Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python
Arttu V. wrote: Dale wrote: You may want to look into that setting for next time. I did however notice that although python is in the system set, it is not saving a copy for some reason. Anybody know why this setting is not working? FEATURES=--keep-going buildsyspkg sandbox fixpackages Is the buildsyspkg option not valid anymore? http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/packages?r1=1.40r2=1.41 Python appears to be gone from the base system? Or maybe I'm looking at the wrong file? Anyway, 'emerge -pv @system | grep python' would seem to agree here. Now I don't have a PhD in Gentoo Package Manglement (barely passed the kindergarten level so far?), but that commit looks rather unsettling for other parts as well. Are the devs switching over to paludis in droves? Or why is sys-apps/portage commented out as well? Why is it replaced by the hard-coded (old-style?) virtual/portage? This is what I get with this command: r...@smoker / # emerge -ep system | grep python [ebuild R ] app-admin/python-updater-0.5 [ebuild R ] dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r2 r...@smoker / # So python is there if you do it emptytree. I still don't have a binary of this in packages/All tho. Also, since portage has to have python, why is it not saving this? I put that line in make.conf just in case I do something like the OP did by mistake. It appears that this isn't working. Ideas? This a bug? Dale :-) :-) P. S. No PhD here either.
Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python
On 5/23/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: This is what I get with this command: r...@smoker / # emerge -ep system | grep python [ebuild R ] app-admin/python-updater-0.5 [ebuild R ] dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r2 r...@smoker / # So python is there if you do it emptytree. emptytree pulls in *all* dependencies, regardless of whether they are in the system set or even if they are just regular dependencies (random packages) from an external overlay. So you're not comparing apples to apples there with -e, you're getting lot of false positives from outside the real system set. It is still a good question why one would have any system set packages having critical dependencies to non-system set packages, but reasoning for that has to be asked from the portage devs ... But backing up a little, try this instead for an amusement (remember to --pretend or --ask): ~ # emerge -pvC python These are the packages that would be unmerged: dev-lang/python selected: 2.5.4-r2 protected: none omitted: none 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. ~ # emerge -pvC binutils These are the packages that would be unmerged: !!! 'sys-devel/binutils' is part of your system profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. sys-devel/binutils selected: 2.18-r3 protected: none omitted: none 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. ~ # Note how binutils still is within the system set and gets the extra warning, while python doesn't get the special system set warning with the three exclamation marks? I.e., python *is no longer* in the system set, probably removed by the very change I gave a link for in previous email. AFAIK (haven't checked in portage code), buildsyspkg and such only work with the packages explicitly mentioned in the system set, so binutils is in, python is (nowadays) out -- and that probably explains also what is happening on your smoker. :) Anyone finding flaws in my theories or facts or observations that outright nullify them? :) -- Arttu V.
Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python
Arttu V. wrote: On 5/23/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: This is what I get with this command: r...@smoker / # emerge -ep system | grep python [ebuild R ] app-admin/python-updater-0.5 [ebuild R ] dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r2 r...@smoker / # So python is there if you do it emptytree. emptytree pulls in *all* dependencies, regardless of whether they are in the system set or even if they are just regular dependencies (random packages) from an external overlay. So you're not comparing apples to apples there with -e, you're getting lot of false positives from outside the real system set. It is still a good question why one would have any system set packages having critical dependencies to non-system set packages, but reasoning for that has to be asked from the portage devs ... But backing up a little, try this instead for an amusement (remember to --pretend or --ask): ~ # emerge -pvC python These are the packages that would be unmerged: dev-lang/python selected: 2.5.4-r2 protected: none omitted: none 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. ~ # emerge -pvC binutils These are the packages that would be unmerged: !!! 'sys-devel/binutils' is part of your system profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. sys-devel/binutils selected: 2.18-r3 protected: none omitted: none 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. ~ # Note how binutils still is within the system set and gets the extra warning, while python doesn't get the special system set warning with the three exclamation marks? I.e., python *is no longer* in the system set, probably removed by the very change I gave a link for in previous email. AFAIK (haven't checked in portage code), buildsyspkg and such only work with the packages explicitly mentioned in the system set, so binutils is in, python is (nowadays) out -- and that probably explains also what is happening on your smoker. :) Anyone finding flaws in my theories or facts or observations that outright nullify them? :) Hmmm, I think someone needs to rethink the system set then. After all, portage does not work well without python. It should keep a binary copy but it should also warn you if you are typing without your thinking cap on. Anyone else think this is a bug? Or should be thought out again as to being included is system set? Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python
On Saturday 23 May 2009 13:52:13 Arttu V. wrote: Note how binutils still is within the system set and gets the extra warning, while python doesn't get the special system set warning with the three exclamation marks? I.e., python *is no longer* in the system set, probably removed by the very change I gave a link for in previous email. AFAIK (haven't checked in portage code), buildsyspkg and such only work with the packages explicitly mentioned in the system set, so binutils is in, python is (nowadays) out -- and that probably explains also what is happening on your smoker. :) Anyone finding flaws in my theories or facts or observations that outright nullify them? :) No, I think you are right, and I think somebody cocked up badly. Examining the current profiles shows that portage and python were removed from base, and python was included back in releases/2008.0/packages (amongst others): profiles # grep -r 'sys-apps/portage' * | grep packages: base/packages:#*=sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.22 default-linux/amd64/2007.0/packages:=sys-apps/portage-2.1.2 releases/2008.0/packages:=sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 selinux/packages:=sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r15 selinux/2007.0/packages:=sys-apps/portage-2.1.2 profiles # grep -r 'dev-lang/python' * | grep packages: base/packages:#*dev-lang/python I haven't followed this entire thread, so correct me if I'm wrong, but a reasonable explanation might be: A Gentoo system needs a package manager, but it's doesn't have to be portage. Solution: remove the hardcoded portage and python from base, include them elsewhere and created new profiles for paludis and pkg-merge users. Except, python got omitted and there's no paludis (yet) If so, this is a bug and should be reported -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum mismatch, upgrade from torrent, fsck
Thufir wrote: I suppose I'll have to re-download the iso if the md5sum doesn't match (which it doesn't per https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ UbuntuHashes#9.04)? The problem is that the iso is corrupted? Do the md5sums match? If they do you downloaded the cd fine. If not, redownload thu...@arrakis:~/Desktop$ thu...@arrakis:~/Desktop$ thu...@arrakis:~/Desktop$ sudo mount -o loop ~/Desktop/ubuntu-9.04- alternate-i386.iso /media/cdrom0 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so thu...@arrakis:~/Desktop$ dmesg | tail [ 461.450949] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [ 461.451532] EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended [ 461.488324] EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal [ 461.488342] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [ 616.822097] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 [ 616.993243] ISOFS: changing to secondary root [ 617.046821] isofs_fill_super: root inode is not a directory. Corrupted media? [ 636.444512] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 [ 636.446011] ISOFS: changing to secondary root [ 636.447168] isofs_fill_super: root inode is not a directory. Corrupted media? thu...@arrakis:~/Desktop$ thu...@arrakis:~/Desktop$ md5sum ubuntu-9.04-alternate-i386.iso 1dd3245e86b89b38abb01814b05ae299 ubuntu-9.04-alternate-i386.iso You need to grab the md5sum file and run md5sum -c (md5sumfile) thu...@arrakis:~/Desktop$ thu...@arrakis:~/Desktop$ sudo e2fsck -yv /dev/sda1 [sudo] password for thufir: e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) /dev/sda1 is mounted. What is /dev/sda1? On most of my machines that's boot, although I won't assume anything. Also, I believe you can mount stuff read only via mount -o ro,remount mountpoint and fsck will be *much* happier. WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage. Do you really want to continue (y/n)? no check aborted. thu...@arrakis:~/Desktop$ I wasn't quite sure how to run fsck without a live cd... out of curiosity, when I tried to download via the torrent the speed seemed exactly the same as directly downloading the iso but the progress was painfully slow versus directly downloading the CD (which I'll do again). Torrents speeds are based on your peers and isps. Downloads the traditional ways are direct connections to one server. Torrents should be faster but ISPs throttle you quite frequently. I hope this answered everything :) thanks, Thufir -- Eric signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] security
Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, Since I'm not familiar with Gentoo's practice in dealing with security problems I got curious about the following case. Yesterday a Secunia advisory [1] about pidgin was brought to my attention. The solution offered by the up-streams is upgrading to version 2.5.6, while the latest version in portage is ~2.5.5-r1. As I see it, there are three possibilities: 1) even older, the version in Gentoo is not affected, because the maintainers had taken care of it (too optimistic?) 2) Gentoo installations are still vulnerable to the bugs described in the advisory and nobody knows about it (quite disturbing) 3) Gentoo maintainers are working on it, but still not ready Which one is it? [1] [SA35194] http://secunia.com/advisories/35194/ It's in portage, sync your tree and check again. I just installed Pidgin 2.5.6 last night.
Re: [gentoo-user] security
Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, Since I'm not familiar with Gentoo's practice in dealing with security problems I got curious about the following case. Yesterday a Secunia advisory [1] about pidgin was brought to my attention. The solution offered by the up-streams is upgrading to version 2.5.6, while the latest version in portage is ~2.5.5-r1. As I see it, there are three possibilities: 1) even older, the version in Gentoo is not affected, because the maintainers had taken care of it (too optimistic?) 2) Gentoo installations are still vulnerable to the bugs described in the advisory and nobody knows about it (quite disturbing) 3) Gentoo maintainers are working on it, but still not ready Which one is it? [1] [SA35194] http://secunia.com/advisories/35194/ file a bug at b.g.o. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] security
Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, Since I'm not familiar with Gentoo's practice in dealing with security problems I got curious about the following case. Yesterday a Secunia advisory [1] about pidgin was brought to my attention. The solution offered by the up-streams is upgrading to version 2.5.6, while the latest version in portage is ~2.5.5-r1. As I see it, there are three possibilities: 1) even older, the version in Gentoo is not affected, because the maintainers had taken care of it (too optimistic?) 2) Gentoo installations are still vulnerable to the bugs described in the advisory and nobody knows about it (quite disturbing) 3) Gentoo maintainers are working on it, but still not ready Which one is it? [1] [SA35194] http://secunia.com/advisories/35194/ https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270811 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] security
On Sat, 23 May 2009 09:23:27 -0400 Saphirus Sage saphirus...@gmail.com wrote: Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, Since I'm not familiar with Gentoo's practice in dealing with security problems I got curious about the following case. Yesterday a Secunia advisory [1] about pidgin was brought to my attention. The solution offered by the up-streams is upgrading to version 2.5.6, while the latest version in portage is ~2.5.5-r1. As I see it, there are three possibilities: 1) even older, the version in Gentoo is not affected, because the maintainers had taken care of it (too optimistic?) 2) Gentoo installations are still vulnerable to the bugs described in the advisory and nobody knows about it (quite disturbing) 3) Gentoo maintainers are working on it, but still not ready Which one is it? [1] [SA35194] http://secunia.com/advisories/35194/ It's in portage, sync your tree and check again. I just installed Pidgin 2.5.6 last night. I guess the mirror I'm using is not up-to-date and they will get a report about it, Thanks! -- Best regards, Daniel
Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.0.10 crashes
On Saturday 23 May 2009, dhk wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:52 PM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: Ever since I upgraded firefox to version 3 it crashes when certain pages are opened. Currently I have version 3.0.10 and amd64. I've been hoping the problem would get fixed, but it hasn't been yet. For example I can not even go to ebay ( http://www.ebay.com ), the page flashes and then firefox crashes. Does anyone know what's causing this and how it can be fixed? My guess would be flash... try uninstalling flash, java, nspluginwrapper, disabling add-ons, etc one by one until you find the cause. It was the adobe-flash. I uninstalled it and all was fine. The emerge -pv adobe-flash looks like the following: [ebuild N] www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.0.22.87 USE=32bit (multilib). I installed it again and Firefox crashes on certain sites. So now it's uninstalled again. At least Firefox is stable now. Is there a flash that works? If you are on amd64 you could specify the -32bit use flag. HTH -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] security
On Sat, 23 May 2009 15:31:27 +0200 Justin jus...@j-schmitz.net wrote: Daniel Iliev wrote: [1] [SA35194] http://secunia.com/advisories/35194/ https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270811 Thanks. -- Best regards, Daniel
Re: [gentoo-user] security
On Samstag 23 Mai 2009, Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, Since I'm not familiar with Gentoo's practice in dealing with security problems I got curious about the following case. Yesterday a Secunia advisory [1] about pidgin was brought to my attention. The solution offered by the up-streams is upgrading to version 2.5.6, while the latest version in portage is ~2.5.5-r1. As I see it, there are three possibilities: 1) even older, the version in Gentoo is not affected, because the maintainers had taken care of it (too optimistic?) 2) Gentoo installations are still vulnerable to the bugs described in the advisory and nobody knows about it (quite disturbing) 3) Gentoo maintainers are working on it, but still not ready Which one is it? [1] [SA35194] http://secunia.com/advisories/35194/ subscribe to gentoo-announce read changelogs don't forget that it takes a while until all mirrors have that change.
Re: [gentoo-user] Is paludis bad for SSDs?
Are you using baselayout1 or baselayout2/openrc? Hadn't thought about it. baselayout-1.12.11.1 appears under /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/ Do you recommend migrating to openrc as per http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml ? Maxim __ The new Internet Explorer® 8 - Faster, safer, easier. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/
Re: [gentoo-user] Is paludis bad for SSDs?
Am Samstag, 23. Mai 2009 18:30:43 schrieb maxim wexler: Are you using baselayout1 or baselayout2/openrc? Hadn't thought about it. baselayout-1.12.11.1 appears under /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/ Do you recommend migrating to openrc as per My point was not that you should migrate, but if you did or will do, you should make sure no bl1 initscripts remain on the system, as they can cause all kinds of strange things when used on a bl2/openrc system. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python
On Sat, 23 May 2009 06:59:10 -0500, Dale wrote: Hmmm, I think someone needs to rethink the system set then. After all, portage does not work well without python. It should keep a binary copy but it should also warn you if you are typing without your thinking cap on. Portage is not in system, only the virtual. That can be satisfied by Paludis, which does not need Python. -- Neil Bothwick Ask a silly person, get a silly answer signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Is starting xdm enough to see something in X?
On Fri, 22 May 2009 12:19:40 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: If there is absolutely no difference then I don't need to bother with this. If there is then I do. The real issue here is that Myth doesn't work. If I can be certain that displaying Myth apps on a remote screen, such as mythtv-setup or mythfrontend, is really the same then I'll just do that. However those apps are currently failing so I'm trying to eliminate issues, and possibly creating one I don't care about in doing that! My mythbackend box does not have xorg-server installed. I run mythtv-setup over SSH with no problems. -- Neil Bothwick When you are out of whack, the best thing to do is to order more whack. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] paludis --uninstall leaves stuff behind
On Fri, 22 May 2009 14:06:37 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: And rebooted -- same message. So I deleted /etc/cpufreqd.conf(Why didn't paludis -u get rid of it?). Probably for the same reason that portage wouldn't, files in /etc/are CONFIG_PROTECTed, or the Paludis equivalent of that. -- Neil Bothwick This is the day for firm decisions! Or is it? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Is starting xdm enough to see something in X?
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2009 12:19:40 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: If there is absolutely no difference then I don't need to bother with this. If there is then I do. The real issue here is that Myth doesn't work. If I can be certain that displaying Myth apps on a remote screen, such as mythtv-setup or mythfrontend, is really the same then I'll just do that. However those apps are currently failing so I'm trying to eliminate issues, and possibly creating one I don't care about in doing that! My mythbackend box does not have xorg-server installed. I run mythtv-setup over SSH with no problems. -- Neil Bothwick Yes, I can on my existing backend server, but on the new one I'm building it doesn't seem to work. I attempted to follow the instructions here: http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-6.html but for some reason it wouldn't work reliably. I think there may be 2 issues: 1) Somethign about my understanding of the mysql permissions (privileges?) over the network not being right. 2) Something about having two backend servers on the network. The frontend config files aren't very network aware as they hardwire an IP address in them. Additionally there's something new with a config.xml file which I just found out about and might be conflicting with changes I made by hand to the mysql.txt file. I've just in the last few minutes done a drop on the mythconverg database and I'm starting over from scratch. Thanks, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2009 06:59:10 -0500, Dale wrote: Hmmm, I think someone needs to rethink the system set then. After all, portage does not work well without python. It should keep a binary copy but it should also warn you if you are typing without your thinking cap on. Portage is not in system, only the virtual. That can be satisfied by Paludis, which does not need Python. But if a person, me or the OP, is using portage then python needs to be in there. After all, isn't portage supported by Gentoo still? Are we all supposed to switch to Paludis so we will get a warning before borking our system? Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict
Summary: X is hosed. On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Kevin O'Gorman writes: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: I thank you for the expert advice. I'm doing the emerge now, but even if it succeeds, I'm worried that the xorg-server will still own this file, since portageq seems to see that it does. This seems inherently wrong. Well, it is indeed. Sigh. I'm too far along to flinch now, so if this emerges, I'll probably restart X. Wish me luck. I do, but I do not believe bad things might happen. Hmm. Even with the FEATURES option from the suggestion, I get exactly the same error message. I cut-and-pasted it, but I wonder if it's spelled right? It is. But I forgot about the protect-owned feature. I thought -collision- protect would act stronger and imply it, but apparently it does not. So, 'FEATURES=-protect-owned emerge ati-drivers' might have worked better. If not, 'FEATURES=-collision-protect -protect-owned emerge ati-drivers' would have worked in any case. I'm going to try just deleting (well, renaming) the file, hoping that this will work... Yes, that's okay. After all, the file is still there, it's just now being generated by the ati-driver. I wouldn't worry too much. Wonko well, it emerged this time. I'm going to restart X over the weekend, when I'll have time to clean up the mess that I half expect. ++ kevin As I suspected, X won't restart. When I reboot, the scripts want to run xdm, which is not loaded on the system. This started a while ago and is part of what made me give up on keeping the new xorg masked. kdm does nothing at all that I can see, but it was the way I was getting X up before I re-emerged the ati drivers. startx at least gives error messages and writes the log. It didn't like my xorg.conf, and had this to say about it: = treat X11 # startx xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.7467 X.Org X Server 1.5.3 Release Date: 5 November 2008 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.28-gentoo-r5-kosmanor i686 Current Operating System: Linux treat 2.6.28-gentoo-r5-kosmanor #5 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 19 13:17:14 PDT 2009 i686 Build Date: 18 May 2009 09:25:28PM Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Sat May 23 14:54:31 2009 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (EE) Failed to load module type1 (module does not exist, 0) (EE) module ABI major version (1) doesn't match the server's version (4) (EE) Failed to load module ati (module requirement mismatch, 0) (EE) No drivers available. Fatal server error: no screens found giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. treat X11 # = If I remove the xorg.conf file, the message about type1 goes away, but it still won't load the ati drivers. I'm at a loss. Where do I go to get my X back? I mean where in the documentation, of course, but I'm open to other suggestions. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] Is paludis bad for SSDs?
Are you using baselayout1 or baselayout2/openrc? Hadn't thought about it. baselayout-1.12.11.1 appears under /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/ Do you recommend migrating to openrc as per My point was not that you should migrate, but if you did or will do, you should make sure no bl1 initscripts remain on the system, as they can cause all kinds of strange things when used on a bl2/openrc system. Bye... Dirk Thanks for the tip. Is this the sort of thing that benefits from turning off CONFIG_PROTECT in one or more dirs?. That seems to be what happened when I thought I had uninstalled _all_ of cpufreqd and cpufrequtils: the init files and conf remained. Maxim __ Make your browsing faster, safer, and easier with the new Internet Explorer® 8. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/
Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python
On Sat, 23 May 2009 03:51:40 -0700 (PDT) Jon Hardcastle jd_hardcas...@yahoo.com wrote: And finally, couldn't he have gotten a binary package from http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/x86/dev-lang/ ? Have you not yet tried to get python from a binary package? See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4669397.html#4669397 That is both the easiest and cleanest solution I have found so far, (not that I have researched much, I admit). And maybe you don't even have to extract the tarball manually with tar; maybe you can use qmerge from app-portage/portage-utils (AFAIK it is written in C). Now, I do have concerns about your system having remains of multiple python installations. Any person with python knowledge can give an opinion on whether this is dangerous? And what is the easiest way to clean the mess? One idea: you can can recompile python with a safe prefix (such as a subdir of your home), issue make install (not as root, for increased safety) and see where Python install its files relative to the prefix, so you can delete them from your system (to be more careful before deleting a file, you can issue qfile FILE to see if it is owned by a portage-installed package. And in the end you can emerge python properly, from the sources, so all the ebuild logic (which is more than just ./configure, make and make install) gets applied, and you get a Python installation that respects your USE flags, CFLAGS and other system-specific settings (obviously you don't get such a system-customized python when you use the binary package from tinderbox).
Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict
On Sat, 23 May 2009 14:57:32 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Summary: X is hosed. A couple of weeks back, I made the transition to the current versions of xorg-server and ati-drivers, i.e. the versions in the message subject. I had to do a bit of work with xorg.conf before all was good. If I recall details, keyboard and mouse weren't working and, after correcting that, fonts weren't being found. All is now working fine. Below is my xorg.conf. Hope it helps. Regards, David ### Begin xorg.conf ### Section ServerFlags Option AllowEmptyInput false EndSection Section Files FontPath /usr/share/fonts/util FontPath /usr/share/fonts/encodings FontPath /usr/share/fonts/misc FontPath /usr/share/fonts/corefonts FontPath /usr/local/share/fonts FontPath /usr/share/fonts/default FontPath /usr/share/fonts/Type1 FontPath /usr/share/fonts/100dpi FontPath /usr/share/fonts/75dpi EndSection ### End xorg.conf ###
[gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict
David Relson wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2009 14:57:32 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Summary: X is hosed. A couple of weeks back, I made the transition to the current versions of xorg-server and ati-drivers, i.e. the versions in the message subject. I had to do a bit of work with xorg.conf before all was good. If I recall details, keyboard and mouse weren't working and, after correcting that, fonts weren't being found. All is now working fine. Below is my xorg.conf. Hope it helps. Regards, David ### Begin xorg.conf ### Section ServerFlags Option AllowEmptyInput false EndSection Section Files FontPath /usr/share/fonts/util FontPath /usr/share/fonts/encodings FontPath /usr/share/fonts/misc FontPath /usr/share/fonts/corefonts FontPath /usr/local/share/fonts FontPath /usr/share/fonts/default FontPath /usr/share/fonts/Type1 FontPath /usr/share/fonts/100dpi FontPath /usr/share/fonts/75dpi EndSection ### End xorg.conf ### This xorg.conf won't load ati-drivers at all. If it works, it is probably running with another driver (radeon or vesa perhaps). You need to run aticonfig --initial as root first.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: David Relson wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2009 14:57:32 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Summary: X is hosed. A couple of weeks back, I made the transition to the current versions of xorg-server and ati-drivers, i.e. the versions in the message subject. I had to do a bit of work with xorg.conf before all was good. If I recall details, keyboard and mouse weren't working and, after correcting that, fonts weren't being found. All is now working fine. Below is my xorg.conf. Hope it helps. Regards, David ### Begin xorg.conf ### Section ServerFlags Option AllowEmptyInput false EndSection Section Files FontPath /usr/share/fonts/util FontPath /usr/share/fonts/encodings FontPath /usr/share/fonts/misc FontPath /usr/share/fonts/corefonts FontPath /usr/local/share/fonts FontPath /usr/share/fonts/default FontPath /usr/share/fonts/Type1 FontPath /usr/share/fonts/100dpi FontPath /usr/share/fonts/75dpi EndSection ### End xorg.conf ### This xorg.conf won't load ati-drivers at all. If it works, it is probably running with another driver (radeon or vesa perhaps). You need to run aticonfig --initial as root first. Or he might have it in autoload already and it gets loaded at boot time? - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] was paludis and make.conf - reply to DH
--- On Wed, 5/20/09, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: From: maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com Subject: [gentoo-user] paludis and make.conf To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Received: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 1:57 PM Hi group, Now that I'm starting to use paludis in place of portage, I often see scoot by on my console something like: CONFIG_PROTECT CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK updating caches. Sure enough, under /var/db/pkg/.cache, appear the following: all_CONFIG_PROTECT all_CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK But how did paludis decide to use these variables? They don't appear in make.conf, in any of the /etc/paludis conf files or /etc/env.d files. Am I setting myself up for problems later? My world file has only 22 items in it so far. Maxim You wrote: Am Mittwoch, 20. Mai 2009 22:57:05 schrieb maxim wexler: Now that I'm starting to use paludis in place of portage Congratulations :-) Sure enough, under /var/db/pkg/.cache, appear the following: all_CONFIG_PROTECT all_CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK But how did paludis decide to use these variables? They don't appear in make.conf, in any of the /etc/paludis conf files or /etc/env.d files. Some of the values come from defaults, the others are from ebuilds, which put them into their /etc/env.d files: % pwd /etc/env.d % grep -R CONFIG_PROTECT * 00basic:CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/gentoo-release 09sandbox:CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/sandbox.d 20udev:CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/udev/rules.d 37fontconfig:CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/fonts/fonts.conf 43kdepaths:CONFIG_PROTECT=/usr/share/config 50gconf:CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/gconf 50ncurses:CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/terminfo 50postgresql-eselect:CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/eselect/postgresql 98ca-certificates:CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/ca-certificates.conf 98texlive:CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/texmf/web2c /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d Am I setting myself up for problems later? No, why? My world file has only 22 items in it so far. ??? Bye... Thanks, a lot of useful info without having to search the docs :) I found your reply searching for info on CONFIG_PROTECT. For some reason Yahoo! never posted it. (My isp doesn't sponser a mail service ;() What I meant by setting myself up was that as I install more and more packages it would seem any mistake I make now will be magnified. For instance, it appears CONFIG_PROTECT kept some important files in /etc/ after my trying to uninstall cpufreqd and cpufrequtils. Does this mean I need to turn on and off CONFIG_PROCTECT on an adhoc basis? Or is there some option to send to paludis to remove everything when it comes time to uninstall? I don't see anything under $man paludis - Uninstall options. It's not a dependancy thing is it? Anyways, my aim is to smooth the way forward before I get in too deep. 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 __ The new Internet Explorer® 8 - Faster, safer, easier. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: David Relson wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2009 14:57:32 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Summary: X is hosed. A couple of weeks back, I made the transition to the current versions of xorg-server and ati-drivers, i.e. the versions in the message subject. I had to do a bit of work with xorg.conf before all was good. If I recall details, keyboard and mouse weren't working and, after correcting that, fonts weren't being found. All is now working fine. Below is my xorg.conf. Hope it helps. Regards, David ### Begin xorg.conf ### i ### End xorg.conf ### This xorg.conf won't load ati-drivers at all. If it works, it is probably running with another driver (radeon or vesa perhaps). You need to run aticonfig --initial as root first. Or he might have it in autoload already and it gets loaded at boot time? - Mark When I tried aticonfig with my original xorg.conf, it got a seg fault. The same thing happens when I use David's. Things are not going well. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
[gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: David Relson wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2009 14:57:32 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Summary: X is hosed. A couple of weeks back, I made the transition to the current versions of xorg-server and ati-drivers, i.e. the versions in the message subject. I had to do a bit of work with xorg.conf before all was good. If I recall details, keyboard and mouse weren't working and, after correcting that, fonts weren't being found. All is now working fine. Below is my xorg.conf. Hope it helps. Regards, David ### Begin xorg.conf ### i ### End xorg.conf ### This xorg.conf won't load ati-drivers at all. If it works, it is probably running with another driver (radeon or vesa perhaps). You need to run aticonfig --initial as root first. Or he might have it in autoload already and it gets loaded at boot time? - Mark When I tried aticonfig with my original xorg.conf, it got a seg fault. The same thing happens when I use David's. Things are not going well. You should try the latest ati-drivers then. 8.552 is pretty old and very buggy. The newer versions are also buggy, but less so then the old ones.
[gentoo-user] cannot install emacs/emacs-cvs with X use
Hello, after reinstall my system, I can emerge neither emacs nor emacs-cvs successfully on my gentoo. when proceeded to the working fork check, it stops and hangs over, never go ahead. build.log: http://dpaste.com/hold/47083/ and here it is emerge --info: http://dpaste.com/hold/47084/ I can only USE=-X emerge app-editors/emacs-cvs, but I don't know why, other programs emerge well. config.log is too large to send to dpaste.com, I've attached it, hope someone can help me, thanks in advance. config.log.tar.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict
On Sun, 24 May 2009 01:22:06 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ...[snip]... ### Begin xorg.conf ### Section ServerFlags Option AllowEmptyInput false EndSection Section Files FontPath /usr/share/fonts/util FontPath /usr/share/fonts/encodings FontPath /usr/share/fonts/misc FontPath /usr/share/fonts/corefonts FontPath /usr/local/share/fonts FontPath /usr/share/fonts/default FontPath /usr/share/fonts/Type1 FontPath /usr/share/fonts/100dpi FontPath /usr/share/fonts/75dpi EndSection ### End xorg.conf ### This xorg.conf won't load ati-drivers at all. If it works, it is probably running with another driver (radeon or vesa perhaps). You need to run aticonfig --initial as root first. Really? My understanding had been that xorg-server-1.5.3 uses evdev and runs happily without an xorg.conf file. Without an xorg.conf I had keyboard and font problems -- cured by the above configuration. As an experiment, I ran the suggested command ( aticonfig --initial ). This added a lot to xorg.con and I then restarted X. My screen resolution dropped from 1280x1024 to 640x480 and the screen looked awful. I've returned to the short config shown above. To be honest, I don't know which display driver is in use and don't much care since the display is working fine AFAICT. David
[gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict
David Relson wrote: On Sun, 24 May 2009 01:22:06 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ...[snip]... ### Begin xorg.conf ### Section ServerFlags Option AllowEmptyInput false EndSection Section Files FontPath /usr/share/fonts/util FontPath /usr/share/fonts/encodings FontPath /usr/share/fonts/misc FontPath /usr/share/fonts/corefonts FontPath /usr/local/share/fonts FontPath /usr/share/fonts/default FontPath /usr/share/fonts/Type1 FontPath /usr/share/fonts/100dpi FontPath /usr/share/fonts/75dpi EndSection ### End xorg.conf ### This xorg.conf won't load ati-drivers at all. If it works, it is probably running with another driver (radeon or vesa perhaps). You need to run aticonfig --initial as root first. Really? My understanding had been that xorg-server-1.5.3 uses evdev and runs happily without an xorg.conf file. Without an xorg.conf I had keyboard and font problems -- cured by the above configuration. As an experiment, I ran the suggested command ( aticonfig --initial ). This added a lot to xorg.con and I then restarted X. My screen resolution dropped from 1280x1024 to 640x480 and the screen looked awful. I've returned to the short config shown above. To be honest, I don't know which display driver is in use and don't much care since the display is working fine AFAICT. The only reason to use ati-drivers is to have fast, accelerated OpenGL. You're probably not using ati-drivers at all. So you're a bit off-topic to this whole thread :P fglrx (ati-drivers) required an xorg.conf entry. This is done with aticonfig --initial and after that you have to run the Catalyst Control Center (amdcccle in a terminal, you'll also find it in the start menu) and adjust your resolution and other settings (anti-aliasing, vsync, anisotropic filters, etc.) there.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict
On Sonntag 24 Mai 2009, David Relson wrote: On Sun, 24 May 2009 01:22:06 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ...[snip]... ### Begin xorg.conf ### Section ServerFlags Option AllowEmptyInput false EndSection Section Files FontPath /usr/share/fonts/util FontPath /usr/share/fonts/encodings FontPath /usr/share/fonts/misc FontPath /usr/share/fonts/corefonts FontPath /usr/local/share/fonts FontPath /usr/share/fonts/default FontPath /usr/share/fonts/Type1 FontPath /usr/share/fonts/100dpi FontPath /usr/share/fonts/75dpi EndSection ### End xorg.conf ### This xorg.conf won't load ati-drivers at all. If it works, it is probably running with another driver (radeon or vesa perhaps). You need to run aticonfig --initial as root first. Really? My understanding had been that xorg-server-1.5.3 uses evdev and runs happily without an xorg.conf file. Without an xorg.conf I had keyboard and font problems -- cured by the above configuration. As an experiment, I ran the suggested command ( aticonfig --initial ). This added a lot to xorg.con and I then restarted X. My screen resolution dropped from 1280x1024 to 640x480 and the screen looked awful. I've returned to the short config shown above. To be honest, I don't know which display driver is in use and don't much care since the display is working fine AFAICT. David Section ServerLayout Identifier Layout0 Screen 0 aticonfig-Screen[0]-0 0 0 InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer EndSection Section Files EndSection Section Module Load evdev Load v4l EndSection Section ServerFlags Option DontZap no EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver evdev Option CorePointer Option Name Logitech, Inc. MX610 Laser Cordless Mouse Option evBits +1-2 Option keyBits ~272-287 Option relBits ~0-2 ~6 ~8 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver evdev Option AutoRepeat 500 30 Option XkbRules xorg Option XkbModel evdev Option XkbLayout de Option Device /dev/input/event2 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0 Option VendorName ATI Proprietary Driver Option ModelName Generic Autodetecting Monitor Option DPMS true EndSection Section Device Identifier aticonfig-Device[0]-0 Driver fglrx BusID PCI:2:0:0 EndSection Section Screen Identifier aticonfig-Screen[0]-0 Device aticonfig-Device[0]-0 Monitoraticonfig-Monitor[0]-0 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection works fine, 1680x1050 is the natural resolution of my display - automatically chosen by X on start. Thanks to no modes or modelines I have a bazillion of possible resolutions via randr available (either setting them with krandrtray or xrandr).
[gentoo-user] Re: x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Getting desperate Anyway, with no xorg.conf, I see = screen stuff starts treat ~ # startx xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.6892 New driver is ati The driver from ati-drivers is fglrx, not ati. ati doesn't even really exist anymore, it's a wrapper between radeon and the old mach64 drivers for non-Radeon cards. For Radeon cards, there are fglrx (in ati-drivers binary package), radeon (in xf86-video-radeon package) and radeonhd (in xf86-video-radeonhd package). For fglrx to be loaded, you *really need* a section for it in xorg.conf. It will *never* get auto-loaded. Ever. Either you put that by hand in xorg.conf or automatically with aticonfig --initial. If you don't, that driver will *never* be loaded.
