Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive FAT partition disappears

[Neil Bothwick]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:30:46 +0100, Jesús Guerrero wrote:

> Even if you didn't, in my understanding, all that could cause (normally)
> is a broken file system. The effects will usually depends on whatever
> was happening at the moment, and at the fs you are using.

As he was only reading from the drive, I doubt he could have corrupted
the filesystem, let alone the partition table.

> Some mount
> options can influence this as well. To palliate the effects of a
> catastrophic plug off without having umounted before you can use the
> -osync mount option, which will enable synchronous writes (making your
> device seems slower, because writes will no longer be deferred/cached
> for a later oportunity).

However, these increase writes to the device, particularly to the FAT,
shortening the life of the drive.

I suspect you did nothing wrong and that the problem is either a
coincidental hardware failure or something the owner did to the stick
after you returned it. Convincing the owner of that is another matter.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive FAT partition disappears

[Stroller]

On 19 Nov 2009, at 03:30, Jesús Guerrero wrote:

... In any case, and to max the chance to recover anything, the
first thing you should be doing is an image of the device, using dd,  
just

in case.


This.

Then run Photorec on the image.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] nm-applet / vpnc / pptp / openvpn

[SpaceCake]

2009/11/18 Albert Hopkins 

>
>
> > I've succesfullly installed Networkmanager and nm-applet with all the
> > plugins under Gnome / Kde-4-3 using the instructions can be found at
> > gentoo-wiki. It is working perfectly for wired and wireless LAN but
> > not for any VPN (this part of the applet is grey
> >
> > I was searching the archive and googled this thing but I cannot find a
> > solution, so I decided to ask you :)
> >
> > I suppose this is some problem with the dbus registration of the
> > plugins, but I'm not sure
>
> Why do you suppose that?  Have you looked at the logs.  In my experience
> the NetworkManager daemon spits out plenty of info by default in syslog.
> Have a look at those.  Paste those so we're not wandering around in the
> dark.
>
> -a
>
>
>
>
> Here is my log after starting Networkmanager. It is not talking about any
vpnc or openvpn stuff...do you have any idea?


/etc/init.d/NetworkManager start
 * Starting NetworkManager ...
Nov 19 12:18:48 brutal NetworkManager: 
starting...
[ ok ]
brutal ~ # Nov 19 12:18:49 brutal NetworkManager: nm_device_ethernet_new:
assertion `driver != NULL'
failed

Nov 19 12:18:49 brutal NetworkManager: nm_device_ethernet_new: assertion
`driver != NULL'
failed

Nov 19 12:18:49 brutal NetworkManager:   (eth0): new Ethernet device
(driver:
'tg3')

Nov 19 12:18:49 brutal NetworkManager:   (eth0): exported as
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_26_55_c9_e5_22

Nov 19 12:18:49 brutal NetworkManager:   (wlan0): driver supports SSID
scans (scan_capa
0x01).

Nov 19 12:18:49 brutal NetworkManager:   (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi
device (driver:
'iwlagn')

Nov 19 12:18:49 brutal NetworkManager:   (wlan0): exported as
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_1e_65_72_ab_2e

Nov 19 12:18:49 brutal NetworkManager:   (ttyS0): ignoring due to lack
of mobile broadband
capabilties

Nov 19 12:18:53 brutal kernel: tg3 :85:00.0: wake-up capability disabled
by
ACPI

Nov 19 12:18:53 brutal kernel: tg3 :85:00.0: PME#
disabled

Nov 19 12:18:53 brutal NetworkManager:   (eth0): device state change:
1 ->
2

Nov 19 12:18:53 brutal NetworkManager:   (eth0): bringing up
device.

Nov 19 12:18:53 brutal kernel: tg3 :85:00.0: irq 32 for
MSI/MSI-X

Nov 19 12:18:53 brutal kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not
ready

Nov 19 12:18:53 brutal NetworkManager:   (eth0): preparing
device.

Nov 19 12:18:53 brutal NetworkManager:   (eth0): deactivating device
(reason:
2).

Nov 19 12:18:53 brutal vmnetBridge: RTM_NEWLINK: name:eth0 index:3
flags:0x1003

Nov 19 12:18:53 brutal vmnetBridge: Can't remove interface eth0 3 (does not
exist).

Nov 19 12:18:53 brutal NetworkManager:   (wlan0): device state change:
1 ->
2

Nov 19 12:18:53 brutal NetworkManager:   (wlan0): bringing up
device.

Nov 19 12:18:53 brutal vmnetBridge: RTM_NEWLINK: name:wlan0 index:5
flags:0x1003

Nov 19 12:18:53 brutal vmnetBridge: Can't remove interface wlan0 5 (does not
exist).

Nov 19 12:18:53 brutal kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not
ready

Nov 19 12:18:53 brutal NetworkManager:   (wlan0): preparing
device.

Nov 19 12:18:53 brutal NetworkManager:   (wlan0): deactivating device
(reason:
2).

Nov 19 12:18:53 brutal NetworkManager:   (wlan0): device state change:
2 ->
3

Nov 19 12:18:53 brutal vmnetBridge: RTM_NEWLINK: name:wlan0 index:5
flags:0x1003

Nov 19 12:18:53 brutal vmnetBridge: Can't remove interface wlan0 5 (does not
exist).

Nov 19 12:18:53 brutal NetworkManager:   (wlan0): supplicant interface
state:  starting ->
ready

Nov 19 12:18:54 brutal kernel: tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full
duplex.

Nov 19 12:18:54 brutal kernel: tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on
for
RX.

Nov 19 12:18:54 brutal kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes
ready

Nov 19 12:18:54 brutal NetworkManager:   (eth0): carrier now ON
(device state
2)

Nov 19 12:18:54 brutal NetworkManager:   (eth0): device state change:
2 -> 3
Nov 19 12:18:54 brutal NetworkManager:   Activation (eth0) starting
connection 'Auto eth0'
Nov 19 12:18:54 brutal NetworkManager:   (eth0): device state change:
3 -> 4
Nov 19 12:18:54 brutal NetworkManager:   Activation (eth0) Stage 1 of
5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
Nov 19 12:18:54 brutal NetworkManager:   Activation (eth0) Stage 1 of
5 (Device Prepare) started...
Nov 19 12:18:54 brutal NetworkManager:   Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of
5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
Nov 19 12:18:54 brutal NetworkManager:   Activation (eth0) Stage 1 of
5 (Device Prepare) complete.
Nov 19 12:18:54 brutal NetworkManager:   Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of
5 (Device Configure) starting...
Nov 19 12:18:54 brutal NetworkManager:   (eth0): device state change:
4 -> 5
Nov 19 12:18:54 brutal vmnetBridge: RTM_NEWLINK: name:eth0 index:3
flags:0x00011043
Nov 19 12:18:54 brutal NetworkManager:   Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of
5 (Device Configure) successful.
Nov 19 12:18:54 brutal NetworkManager:   Activation (eth0) Stage 3 of
5 (IP Configure Start) scheduled.
Nov 19 12:18:54 brutal NetworkManager:   Acti

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord fails to burn dvd

[Joerg Schilling]

José Romildo Malaquias  wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:43:12PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > José Romildo Malaquias  wrote:
> > 
> > To find the reason for the following "Impossible" because
> > illegal error situation:
> > 
> > Executing 'test unit ready' command on Bus 0 Target 6, Lun 0 timeout 40s
> > CDB:  00 00 00 00 00 00
> > cdrecord: Input/output error. test unit ready: scsi sendcmd: fatal error
> > CDB:  00 00 00 00 00 00
> > cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s
> > 
> > 
> > please run the command again and add debug=2 to the list of options.
>
> I am attaching the compressed output of the command:
>
>   script -f -c "cdrecord -v debug=2 -sao -eject speed=8 fs=256m 
> driveropts=burnfree /var/tmp/image.iso" cdrecord.log

I cannot see any problem like the problem above.

BTW: this may be caused by the fact that you did not simply add debug=2
but at the same time removed -V.

Jörg

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[gentoo-user] Xorg / Intel VGA and multiple display

[SpaceCake]

Hi,

I have the following set-up

HP 6530B laptop with
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)

1440x900 Laptop LCD resolution
1600x1200 Ext LCD resolution connected to the DVI port of the docking
station

Currently my multi monitor support not working at all and single also looks
very buggy. When I start X the LCD screen is fine at 1440x900 and same at my
external LCD. When I start monitor applet, my external LCD changes to
1600x1200 together with my internal (which become useless from this point)

The ideal solution would be to use dual monitor with the native resolution
of both device and different screen on the two monitors. As I heard with
Intel VGA it is not an easy job

For me it would be a big results if my internal display can keep the
resolution after I connect to the external one, so when I remove my laptop
from the docking station I can still use it without restarting xdm :)

I was searching for a working xorg.conf but I cannot find any. Maybe some of
you already faced with this problem and can send me a working config or can
show me some resources where I can find out more info on this topic

Thank you
Laszlo


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[I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel
 Available versions:  2.6.3-r1 (~)2.7.1 2.8.1 (~)2.9.0 (~)2.9.1 {debug
dri}
 Installed versions:  2.9.1(16.13.53 2009-11-13)(dri -debug)
 Homepage:http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
 Description: X.Org driver for Intel cards



[I] x11-base/xorg-server
 Available versions:  1.5.3-r6 ~1.5.3-r7 1.6.3.901-r2 ~1.6.4 ~1.6.5
~1.7.1 {3dfx debug dmx hal input_devices_acecad input_devices_aiptek
input_devices_citron input_devices_elographics input_devices_evdev
input_devices_fpit input_devices_hyperpen input_devices_joystick
input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_mutouch
input_devices_penmount input_devices_synaptics input_devices_tslib
input_devices_virtualbox input_devices_vmmouse input_devices_void
input_devices_wacom ipv6 kdrive minimal nptl sdl tslib video_cards_apm
video_cards_ark video_cards_ast video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus
video_cards_dummy video_cards_epson video_cards_fbdev video_cards_fglrx
video_cards_geode video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i740
video_cards_impact video_cards_imstt video_cards_intel video_cards_mach64
video_cards_mga video_cards_neomagic video_cards_newport video_cards_nv
video_cards_nvidia video_cards_r128 video_cards_radeon video_cards_radeonhd
video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage
video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb
video_cards_sunbw2 video_cards_suncg14 video_cards_suncg3 video_cards_suncg6
video_cards_sunffb video_cards_sunleo video_cards_suntcx video_cards_tdfx
video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l
video_cards_vermilion video_cards_vesa video_cards_via
video_cards_virtualbox video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo video_cards_xgi
xorg}
 Installed versions:  1.6.3.901-r2(00.07.36 2009-10-10)(hal nptl sdl
xorg -debug -dmx -ipv6 -kdrive -minimal -tslib)
 Homepage:http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
 Description: X.Org X servers


[I] x11-base/xorg-drivers
 Available versions:  1.6 ~1.7 {input_devices_acecad
input_devices_aiptek input_devices_citron input_devices_elographics
input_devices_evdev input_devices_fpit input_devices_hyperpen
input_devices_joystick input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse
input_devices_mutouch input_devices_penmount input_devices_synaptics
input_devices_tslib input_devices_virtualbox input_devices_vmmouse
input_devices_void input_devices_wacom video_cards_apm video_cards_ark
video_cards_ast video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus video_cards_dummy
video_cards_epson video_cards_fbdev video_cards_fglrx video_cards_geode
video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i740 video_cards_impact
video_cards_imstt video_cards_intel video_cards_mach64 video_cards_mga
video_cards_neomagic video_cards_newport video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia
video_cards_r128 video_cards_radeon video_cards_radeonhd
video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage
video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb
video_cards_sunbw2 video_cards_suncg14 video_cards_suncg3 video_cards_suncg6
video_cards_sunffb video_cards_sunleo video_cards_suntcx video_cards_tdfx
video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l
video_cards_vermilion video_cards_vesa video_cards_via
video_cards_virtualbox video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo
video_cards_xgi}
 Installed versions:  1.6(15.47.46 2009-11-16)(input_devices_evdev
input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse video_cards_fbdev
video_cards_glint video_cards_intel video_cards_mach64 video_cards_mga
video_cards_neomagic video_cards_nv video_cards_r128 video_cards_radeon
video_cards_savage video_cards_sis video_cards_tdfx video_cards_trident
video_cards

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 18 November 2009 17:11:05 Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 18/11/09 Alan McKinnon said:
> > Forget all about conf.d/net, and disable the init scripts for it.
> >
> > Install and run wicd instead.
> 
> I'll look into it, but the Gentoo Handbook still points at conf.d/net, so
> should there not be an update if it has fallen out of favour? Should the
>  bugs in conf.d/net not be fixed?

conf.d/net is not buggy - it is suitable for static networking where the 
interfaces never change and neither does the address.

It is simply inadequate for desktop use, *especially* roaming laptops. A side 
note in the docs to this effect would not be amiss.


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 19 November 2009 01:39:23 Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 18/11/09 Space Cakex said:
> > for me the best solution is to use networkmanager, delete net scripts
> > and everything plus install nm-applet, so I have a real user friendly
> > look and feel :) my only issue now is vpnc (see my other mail)
> 
> I'm not a fan of networkmanager.
> 
> On my ubuntu laptop I use whereami.
> 
> On this gentoo desktop, it doesn't roam. I want one network config to set a
> static IP on my wireless card, always to the same essid.

That's easy enough, here's what I used to use:
x means the essid
y means the wep passphrase

modules=( "dhclient" )
modules=( "iwconfig" )
config_eth0=( "dhcp" )

essid_wlan0="x"
key_x="s:'y' enc open"
preferred_aps_wlan0=( "x" )
channel_wlan0="11"
config_x=( "dhcp" )

config_wlan0=("dhcp")


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] nm-applet / vpnc / pptp / openvpn

[Albert Hopkins]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 12:28 +0100, SpaceCake wrote:
> > Here is my log after starting Networkmanager. It is not talking
> about any
> vpnc or openvpn stuff...do you have any idea? 

It doesn't talk about openvpn stuff until/unless you actually attempt to
open an openvpn connection.

Re: [gentoo-user] strange delays with Xorg-x11-7.4-r1

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday 19 November 2009 04:33:14 Philip Webb wrote:

> Extensive Googling found  1  useful hint of where the problem might lie:
> 
>  
>  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1087580/resource-temporarily-unavaila
> ble-in-boost-asio
> 
>   "'Resource temporarily unavailable' is normally the text description
>   for EAGAIN, indicating that the operation should be retried ...
>   It's generally worth looking at the man page
>   for the underlying libc function; which is recvfrom in this case"
> 
> Yes, 'man recvfrom' has rather opaque info which mb relevant ... (sigh)

Relevant, perhaps, but not useful - to me, at least. I'll just have to wait 
for the next release of X. Thanks anyway.

-- 
Rgds
Peter

[gentoo-user] Re: Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

[Thorsten Kampe]

* Alan McKinnon (Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:06:45 +0200)
> 
> A multitude of apps that used to run just fine now give "free():
> invalid pointer" errors since I upgraded to glibc-2.11

Which ones are these? I installed glibs 2.11 on Monday and had exactly 
zero problems afterwards...

Thorsten

Re: [gentoo-user] nm-applet / vpnc / pptp / openvpn

[SpaceCake]

yes, but as I told earlier in nm-applet this section is grey, so I cannot
add vpn configs. when I start vpnc with the correct config from root's
shell, it is working perfectly and connect me to the vpn gw I use, so this
is why I said the problem maybe in the deep somewhere around dbus
communication, but I'm not sure

Laszlo


2009/11/19 Albert Hopkins 

> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 12:28 +0100, SpaceCake wrote:
> > > Here is my log after starting Networkmanager. It is not talking
> > about any
> > vpnc or openvpn stuff...do you have any idea?
>
> It doesn't talk about openvpn stuff until/unless you actually attempt to
> open an openvpn connection.
>
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 19 November 2009 16:52:39 Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> * Alan McKinnon (Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:06:45 +0200)
> 
> > A multitude of apps that used to run just fine now give "free():
> > invalid pointer" errors since I upgraded to glibc-2.11
> 
> Which ones are these? I installed glibs 2.11 on Monday and had exactly
> zero problems afterwards...
> 
> Thorsten
> 

the important ones are firefox and amarok (had to downgrade binutils to get 
amarok to access it's collection at all)



-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reading a DVD as an ISO image

[José Romildo Malaquias]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:36:03AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
> 2009/11/18 José Romildo Malaquias :
> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 04:54:20PM +, Grant Edwards wrote:
> >> On 2009-11-17, Marcus Wanner  wrote:
> >>
> >> > My guess is that he has a slow internet connection, he
> >> > downloaded a large iso, burned it, deleted it, and now wants
> >> > to get the iso back without downloading it again, but he has
> >> > access to the checksum/filesize of the original iso from the
> >> > place he downloaded it, and when he makes an iso, the
> >> > checksum/filesize does not match.
> >>
> >> In my experience that happens because one or the other of the
> >> images has "extra" garbage blocks past the end of the actual
> >> ISO filesystem image.  If you look at the ISO filesystem header
> >> and find the actual size of the image, it's probably smaller
> >> than the "image file".  If you only compare the bytes within
> >> the ISO image itself, I bet the two will match.
> >
> > In fact the size of the iso images obtained with dd and with cdread are
> > a little bit larger than the original one. The iso image obtained by
> > mkisofs on the mounted disc (with the udf filesystem type) are of the
> > right size, but still not identical to the original.
> 
> This webpage has some info about comaring ISO images to burnt discs
> and a possible solution:
> http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/CdromMd5sumsAfterBurning

Thanks for the link.

As I know the size and the sha1sum of the original ISO image, I
succeeded in creating an identical ISO image from the dvd disc with the
command:

  dd if=/dev/dvd | head -c 4610877440 > /var/tmp/image2.iso

Is it possible to do something similar using readcd instead of dd?

Romildo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Donnerstag 19 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 19 November 2009 16:52:39 Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > * Alan McKinnon (Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:06:45 +0200)
> >
> > > A multitude of apps that used to run just fine now give "free():
> > > invalid pointer" errors since I upgraded to glibc-2.11
> >
> > Which ones are these? I installed glibs 2.11 on Monday and had exactly
> > zero problems afterwards...
> >
> > Thorsten
> 
> the important ones are firefox and amarok (had to downgrade binutils to get
> amarok to access it's collection at all)
> 

both work fine here - with glibc 2.11 and without workarounds.

but have you tried MALLOC_CHECK_?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 19 November 2009 17:27:26 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Donnerstag 19 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 November 2009 16:52:39 Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > > * Alan McKinnon (Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:06:45 +0200)
> > >
> > > > A multitude of apps that used to run just fine now give "free():
> > > > invalid pointer" errors since I upgraded to glibc-2.11
> > >
> > > Which ones are these? I installed glibs 2.11 on Monday and had exactly
> > > zero problems afterwards...
> > >
> > > Thorsten
> >
> > the important ones are firefox and amarok (had to downgrade binutils to
> > get amarok to access it's collection at all)
> 
> both work fine here - with glibc 2.11 and without workarounds.
> 
> but have you tried MALLOC_CHECK_?

Not yet, that check will have to wait for later tonigh as I have just seen the 
elog for qt-core.4.6.0_rc1 (which explains why I can't launch new apps since 
lunchtime.)
 

-- 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Donnerstag 19 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 19 November 2009 17:27:26 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Donnerstag 19 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > On Thursday 19 November 2009 16:52:39 Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > > > * Alan McKinnon (Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:06:45 +0200)
> > > >
> > > > > A multitude of apps that used to run just fine now give "free():
> > > > > invalid pointer" errors since I upgraded to glibc-2.11
> > > >
> > > > Which ones are these? I installed glibs 2.11 on Monday and had
> > > > exactly zero problems afterwards...
> > > >
> > > > Thorsten
> > >
> > > the important ones are firefox and amarok (had to downgrade binutils to
> > > get amarok to access it's collection at all)
> >
> > both work fine here - with glibc 2.11 and without workarounds.
> >
> > but have you tried MALLOC_CHECK_?
> 
> Not yet, that check will have to wait for later tonigh as I have just seen
>  the elog for qt-core.4.6.0_rc1 (which explains why I can't launch new apps
>  since lunchtime.)
> 

sometimes it is a good idea to read planet.gentoo.org before you do an update 
;)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 19 November 2009 17:37:16 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Donnerstag 19 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 November 2009 17:27:26 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > > On Donnerstag 19 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 19 November 2009 16:52:39 Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > > > > * Alan McKinnon (Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:06:45 +0200)
> > > > >
> > > > > > A multitude of apps that used to run just fine now give "free():
> > > > > > invalid pointer" errors since I upgraded to glibc-2.11
> > > > >
> > > > > Which ones are these? I installed glibs 2.11 on Monday and had
> > > > > exactly zero problems afterwards...
> > > > >
> > > > > Thorsten
> > > >
> > > > the important ones are firefox and amarok (had to downgrade binutils
> > > > to get amarok to access it's collection at all)
> > >
> > > both work fine here - with glibc 2.11 and without workarounds.
> > >
> > > but have you tried MALLOC_CHECK_?
> >
> > Not yet, that check will have to wait for later tonigh as I have just
> > seen the elog for qt-core.4.6.0_rc1 (which explains why I can't launch
> > new apps since lunchtime.)
> 
> sometimes it is a good idea to read planet.gentoo.org before you do an
>  update ;)


Timeline:

T minus 10: read planet. Nothing new.
T minus 8:  emerge -avuND world
T minus 6:  examine list, fix blockers, fix dumbass USE requirements, enter
T minus 4:  do work $STUFF
T minus 2:  new planet post in RSS reader
T minus 0:  oh shit




-- 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Downgrade glibc-2.11 to 2.10

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Donnerstag 19 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 19 November 2009 17:37:16 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Donnerstag 19 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > On Thursday 19 November 2009 17:27:26 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > > > On Donnerstag 19 November 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > > > On Thursday 19 November 2009 16:52:39 Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > > > > > * Alan McKinnon (Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:06:45 +0200)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > A multitude of apps that used to run just fine now give
> > > > > > > "free(): invalid pointer" errors since I upgraded to glibc-2.11
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Which ones are these? I installed glibs 2.11 on Monday and had
> > > > > > exactly zero problems afterwards...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thorsten
> > > > >
> > > > > the important ones are firefox and amarok (had to downgrade
> > > > > binutils to get amarok to access it's collection at all)
> > > >
> > > > both work fine here - with glibc 2.11 and without workarounds.
> > > >
> > > > but have you tried MALLOC_CHECK_?
> > >
> > > Not yet, that check will have to wait for later tonigh as I have just
> > > seen the elog for qt-core.4.6.0_rc1 (which explains why I can't launch
> > > new apps since lunchtime.)
> >
> > sometimes it is a good idea to read planet.gentoo.org before you do an
> >  update ;)
> 
> Timeline:
> 
> T minus 10: read planet. Nothing new.
> T minus 8:  emerge -avuND world
> T minus 6:  examine list, fix blockers, fix dumbass USE requirements, enter
> T minus 4:  do work $STUFF
> T minus 2:  new planet post in RSS reader
> T minus 0:  oh shit
> 

if you have buildpkg turned on, you can save yourself some time with a qt 
downgrade ;)

[gentoo-user] rsync backup system

[Grant]

I just finished an rsync backup system that works like this:

Each of 4 Gentoo systems contains a folder called "backup" which
contains symlinks to local files and folders for backup.  2 of the
systems contain a folder called "sync" which contains the contents of
the "backup" folder for each of the 4 systems.  3 of the systems rsync
with one of the "sync" systems, and that system rsyncs with the other
"sync" system.

I've got a few questions for you guys about this.

1. I back up the entire /etc folder of each system, and some files
have read-only permissions.  This means I get "permission denied" when
I try to rsync them.  How would you handle this?

2. Some of the files I back up only allow root to read.  I can run
rsync as root on each system, but I don't allow root logins.  This
means in order to rsync the second "sync" system with the first "sync"
system, I must run the rsync command from the first "sync" system.
This means I have to run rsyncd on the second "sync" system in
addition to the first "sync" system.  I'd rather only run one instance
of rsyncd.  Can anyone think of another option?

3. The rsync process always completes with "rsync error: some
files/attrs were not transferred".  How can I get more information
about which files this pertains to?

4. Should I be comfortable running the entire sync operation every
night, or am I jeopardizing the longevity of my HDs?

5. If I end up with filesystem corruption on the SRC system, will that
corruption transfer over to the DST system during an rsync, or will
the transfer just fail?

6. Can I run rsyncd on a system facing the internet without fear?

- Grant

[gentoo-user] [the end] icons missing in k3b

[Jacques Montier]

Hi everybody,

Some news about k3b and its missing icons.
I looked at your useflags and changed mine.
So i had to re-build plenty of packages and spent a very long compiling
time  with my 8 year-old pc...
Well, after that,...nothing has changed.. :-(
http://sites.google.com/site/jacquesfr35/telechargement/k3b.jpg?attredirects=0
Never mind, the problem is not very important, so i stop here and will
use xfburn if i want all my icons :-)
As i work with Xfce4, i think i'll put all kde stuff away.

Thank you very much for your help.

Regards,

--
Jacques

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system

[Neil Bothwick]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:44:44 -0800, Grant wrote:

> 2. Some of the files I back up only allow root to read.  I can run
> rsync as root on each system, but I don't allow root logins.  This
> means in order to rsync the second "sync" system with the first "sync"
> system, I must run the rsync command from the first "sync" system.
> This means I have to run rsyncd on the second "sync" system in
> addition to the first "sync" system.  I'd rather only run one instance
> of rsyncd.  Can anyone think of another option?

Allow root logins only with a key, set up a specific user on the backup
server to run the backup tasks and add that users key to the
authorized_users file on the machine to be backed up.

> 3. The rsync process always completes with "rsync error: some
> files/attrs were not transferred".  How can I get more information
> about which files this pertains to?

Run rsync with the verbose option and direct stdout and stderr to files.

> 5. If I end up with filesystem corruption on the SRC system, will that
> corruption transfer over to the DST system during an rsync, or will
> the transfer just fail?

If data is corrupted, that will be backed up. If the filesystem
corruption causes read errors, rsync will bail out.

> 6. Can I run rsyncd on a system facing the internet without fear?

Yes, as long as the rsync ports are closed in your router.

Instead of all this, I'd recommend BackupPC. It handles all of your
issues and more and is efficient at backing up multiple machines. You
could run one BackupPC server and then rsync its store to the backup
backup server. The latest version in portage is old, get the 3.x ebuild
from bgo.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Of all the people I've met you're certainly one of them


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Re: [gentoo-user] nm-applet / vpnc / pptp / openvpn

[Albert Hopkins]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 15:55 +0100, SpaceCake wrote:
> yes, but as I told earlier in nm-applet this section is grey, so I
> cannot
> add vpn configs. when I start vpnc with the correct config from root's
> shell, it is working perfectly and connect me to the vpn gw I use, so
> this
> is why I said the problem maybe in the deep somewhere around dbus
> communication, but I'm not sure 

I don't know why these options would be greyed out.  Unless.. do you
actually have the plugins installed?

$ equery l networkmanager*
 * Searching for networkmanager* ...
[IP-] [ ~] net-misc/networkmanager-0.7.1_p20090824 (0)
[IP-] [ ~] net-misc/networkmanager-openvpn-0.7.1-r1 (0)
[IP-] [ ~] net-misc/networkmanager-vpnc-0.7.1 (0)

Does it even show up in nm-connection-editor?

AFAIK the UI just uses these plugins to create a vpn configuration. This
is long before actually talking to the nm daemon.  So the UI just
creates a config and stores it (in GNOME the non-system configs are
stored in gconf at /system/networking/connections.  Then when you want
to connect, the UI grabs whatever config and passes it to the nm daemon
(via dbus?).  Your issue seems to be with the first part of this process
(the UI), not the second.

-a

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system

[Albert Hopkins]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 08:44 -0800, Grant wrote:
> I just finished an rsync backup system that works like this:
> 
> Each of 4 Gentoo systems contains a folder called "backup" which
> contains symlinks to local files and folders for backup.  2 of the
> systems contain a folder called "sync" which contains the contents of
> the "backup" folder for each of the 4 systems.  3 of the systems rsync
> with one of the "sync" systems, and that system rsyncs with the other
> "sync" system.
> 

> I've got a few questions for you guys about this.
> 
> 1. I back up the entire /etc folder of each system, and some files
> have read-only permissions.  This means I get "permission denied" when
> I try to rsync them.  How would you handle this?

I've never had this problem.  You should only need read permissions to
copy a file:

$ touch this
$ chmod 0400 this
$ rsync -a this that
$ /bin/cp -f /etc/issue this
$ chmod 0400 this
$ rsync -a this that
$ ls -l this that
4.0K -r 1 percy users 3 Nov 19 12:38 that
4.0K -r 1 percy users 3 Nov 19 12:38 this


> 2. Some of the files I back up only allow root to read.  I can run
> rsync as root on each system, but I don't allow root logins.  This
> means in order to rsync the second "sync" system with the first "sync"
> system, I must run the rsync command from the first "sync" system.
> This means I have to run rsyncd on the second "sync" system in
> addition to the first "sync" system.  I'd rather only run one instance
> of rsyncd.  Can anyone think of another option?
> 
Well if #1 was not run as root then this is where you have problems.
And you will continue to have problems if you don't copy as root or some
user who has at least read access to all the files on each source and
can also preserve ownership/permissions on the target system.  Like...
root.

ssh.  Why are you using rsyncd anyway?  AFAIK rsyncd is not encrypted.
You can allow a non-root user to ssh in and run rsync as root via a
proxy command. You can also configure sshd to only allow root to log in
and execute a particular command (such as rsync).  See PermitRootLogin
and ForcedCommand under ssh_config(5)

> 3. The rsync process always completes with "rsync error: some
> files/attrs were not transferred".  How can I get more information
> about which files this pertains to?

It should spit it out to stderr.  If you using -v they probably scrolled
by.  Redirect stderr to a file. If you are running rsync as non-root
then it can't preserve ownership and some perms.  If you are using
extended attributes/ACLs and did not tell rsync to use them (or comple
support in) or if the target system does not support them then they will
not be transferred. 

> 
> 4. Should I be comfortable running the entire sync operation every
> night, or am I jeopardizing the longevity of my HDs?
> 
This is a joke.

> 5. If I end up with filesystem corruption on the SRC system, will that
> corruption transfer over to the DST system during an rsync, or will
> the transfer just fail?
> 
If the filesystem returns an error to rsync then rsync will error out.
Simple as that.  If the file is currupt (not the filesystem) then,
standard garbage-in/garbage-out rules apply.

> 6. Can I run rsyncd on a system facing the internet without fear?

No. Rsyncd is not encrypted (see above) also the authentication is weak
(see the man page).

Use ssh.  It's more secure and had better lock-down mechanisms. Better
yet, use a VPN and ssh through the VPN (double authentication (and
encryption)).

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system

[Albert Hopkins]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 12:58 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> > 
> > 4. Should I be comfortable running the entire sync operation every
> > night, or am I jeopardizing the longevity of my HDs?
> > 
> This is a joke.

I should apologize and explain this better.

If you bought a fancy expensive hard drive then it's probably designed
for extremely heavy use and comes with nice coverage by the guy that
sold it to you.  But since you ask this question I'll assume that it's
not the case.

Ok so you bought a relatively cheap heard drive.  But the question seems
irrelevant.  Because these are cheap, mass-produced hard drives you
could do absolutely nothing with them and they could still die tomorrow.
That's the price you pay for cheaper drives.  Cheap hard drives are like
life.  Life is cheap.  You could take all kinds of precautions and still
die tomorrow.  But your drive is cheap and easily replaced (esp. if it's
still under warranty).  Your data on the other hand is not.  I'd rather
have a dead drive with the data backed up than a dead drive with no
backup.  Drives are so cheap nowadays it's a non-issue.  I'm actually
hoping my 2-year old drive dies soon because it will give me an excuse
to go out and buy a *bigger* one for the same price.   But I feel
comfortable with that because I keep backups.

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system

[Grant]

>> 2. Some of the files I back up only allow root to read.  I can run
>> rsync as root on each system, but I don't allow root logins.  This
>> means in order to rsync the second "sync" system with the first "sync"
>> system, I must run the rsync command from the first "sync" system.
>> This means I have to run rsyncd on the second "sync" system in
>> addition to the first "sync" system.  I'd rather only run one instance
>> of rsyncd.  Can anyone think of another option?
>
> Allow root logins only with a key, set up a specific user on the backup
> server to run the backup tasks and add that users key to the
> authorized_users file on the machine to be backed up.
>
>> 3. The rsync process always completes with "rsync error: some
>> files/attrs were not transferred".  How can I get more information
>> about which files this pertains to?
>
> Run rsync with the verbose option and direct stdout and stderr to files.
>
>> 5. If I end up with filesystem corruption on the SRC system, will that
>> corruption transfer over to the DST system during an rsync, or will
>> the transfer just fail?
>
> If data is corrupted, that will be backed up. If the filesystem
> corruption causes read errors, rsync will bail out.
>
>> 6. Can I run rsyncd on a system facing the internet without fear?
>
> Yes, as long as the rsync ports are closed in your router.
>
> Instead of all this, I'd recommend BackupPC. It handles all of your
> issues and more and is efficient at backing up multiple machines. You
> could run one BackupPC server and then rsync its store to the backup
> backup server. The latest version in portage is old, get the 3.x ebuild
> from bgo.

BackupPC does look pretty good.  Would anyone recommend I *don't* can
this whole thing and set up BackupPC instead?

- Grant

[gentoo-user] GCC gone bad! Help!

[Michael Sullivan]

I've started seeing this line after failed emerges: 



checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C
compiler cannot create executables

Checking gcc-config returns this:
carter sys-devel # gcc-config -l
 * gcc-config: Active gcc profile is invalid!
 [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.4


How can I get gcc back?  Here's some other information on the system:
carter ~ # emerge --info
!!! No gcc found. You probably need to 'source /etc/profile'
!!! to update the environment of this terminal and possibly
!!! other terminals also.
Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, [unavailable],
glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30-gentoo-r4 i686)
=
System uname:
Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r4-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_7550_Dual-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-1.12.13
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:00:01 +
distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1
dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13
sys-apps/sandbox:1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ 
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ 
/etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild 
/etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d 
/etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c 
/etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox
sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo";
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en es fr"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage-packages/carter"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--human-readable"
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="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/portage/bscharpf"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa apache2 apm bash-completion berkdb
bind-mysql bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib
crypt cups dbus dhcp doc dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo examples
exim fam firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm geoip gif gnome gpm
gstreamer gtk hal iconv imap imlib innodb ipv6 ithreads jadetex java
jpeg kde ldap libclamav libg++ libnotify libwww mad mikmod mmx
mode-owner modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mpm-leader mudflap mysql ncurses
networking nls nptl nptlonly oav offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pcre
pdf perl perlsuid png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime
readline reflection ruby samba sdl search server session slp spell spl
ssl startup-notification svg sysfs syslog tcpd tetex threads thunar tiff
tk truetype unicode usb virus-scan vorbis win32codecs x264 x86 xml xorg
xulrunner xv xvid zaptel zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp
atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938
es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio
via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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 es fr" USERLAND="GNU"
VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage
sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS

carter ~ # ls -l /etc/make.profile 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 52 Nov 19 12:47 /etc/make.profile
-> /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop

Please help!  This has happened on two of my three systems so far...

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg / Intel VGA and multiple display

[Fernando Antunes]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:59 AM, SpaceCake  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have the following set-up
>
> HP 6530B laptop with
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series
> Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
>
> 1440x900 Laptop LCD resolution
> 1600x1200 Ext LCD resolution connected to the DVI port of the docking
> station
>
> Currently my multi monitor support not working at all and single also looks
> very buggy. When I start X the LCD screen is fine at 1440x900 and same at my
> external LCD. When I start monitor applet, my external LCD changes to
> 1600x1200 together with my internal (which become useless from this point)
>
> The ideal solution would be to use dual monitor with the native resolution
> of both device and different screen on the two monitors. As I heard with
> Intel VGA it is not an easy job
>
> For me it would be a big results if my internal display can keep the
> resolution after I connect to the external one, so when I remove my laptop
> from the docking station I can still use it without restarting xdm :)
>
> I was searching for a working xorg.conf but I cannot find any. Maybe some
> of you already faced with this problem and can send me a working config or
> can show me some resources where I can find out more info on this topic
>
> Thank you
> Laszlo
>
>
> ---
>
> [I] x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel
>  Available versions:  2.6.3-r1 (~)2.7.1 2.8.1 (~)2.9.0 (~)2.9.1 {debug
> dri}
>  Installed versions:  2.9.1(16.13.53 2009-11-13)(dri -debug)
>  Homepage:http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
>  Description: X.Org driver for Intel cards
>
>
>
> [I] x11-base/xorg-server
>  Available versions:  1.5.3-r6 ~1.5.3-r7 1.6.3.901-r2 ~1.6.4 ~1.6.5
> ~1.7.1 {3dfx debug dmx hal input_devices_acecad input_devices_aiptek
> input_devices_citron input_devices_elographics input_devices_evdev
> input_devices_fpit input_devices_hyperpen input_devices_joystick
> input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_mutouch
> input_devices_penmount input_devices_synaptics input_devices_tslib
> input_devices_virtualbox input_devices_vmmouse input_devices_void
> input_devices_wacom ipv6 kdrive minimal nptl sdl tslib video_cards_apm
> video_cards_ark video_cards_ast video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus
> video_cards_dummy video_cards_epson video_cards_fbdev video_cards_fglrx
> video_cards_geode video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i740
> video_cards_impact video_cards_imstt video_cards_intel video_cards_mach64
> video_cards_mga video_cards_neomagic video_cards_newport video_cards_nv
> video_cards_nvidia video_cards_r128 video_cards_radeon video_cards_radeonhd
> video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage
> video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb
> video_cards_sunbw2 video_cards_suncg14 video_cards_suncg3 video_cards_suncg6
> video_cards_sunffb video_cards_sunleo video_cards_suntcx video_cards_tdfx
> video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l
> video_cards_vermilion video_cards_vesa video_cards_via
> video_cards_virtualbox video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo video_cards_xgi
> xorg}
>  Installed versions:  1.6.3.901-r2(00.07.36 2009-10-10)(hal nptl sdl
> xorg -debug -dmx -ipv6 -kdrive -minimal -tslib)
>  Homepage:http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
>  Description: X.Org X servers
>
>
> [I] x11-base/xorg-drivers
>  Available versions:  1.6 ~1.7 {input_devices_acecad
> input_devices_aiptek input_devices_citron input_devices_elographics
> input_devices_evdev input_devices_fpit input_devices_hyperpen
> input_devices_joystick input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse
> input_devices_mutouch input_devices_penmount input_devices_synaptics
> input_devices_tslib input_devices_virtualbox input_devices_vmmouse
> input_devices_void input_devices_wacom video_cards_apm video_cards_ark
> video_cards_ast video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus video_cards_dummy
> video_cards_epson video_cards_fbdev video_cards_fglrx video_cards_geode
> video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i740 video_cards_impact
> video_cards_imstt video_cards_intel video_cards_mach64 video_cards_mga
> video_cards_neomagic video_cards_newport video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia
> video_cards_r128 video_cards_radeon video_cards_radeonhd
> video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage
> video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb
> video_cards_sunbw2 video_cards_suncg14 video_cards_suncg3 video_cards_suncg6
> video_cards_sunffb video_cards_sunleo video_cards_suntcx video_cards_tdfx
> video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l
> video_cards_vermilion video_cards_vesa video_cards_via
> video_cards_virtualbox video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo
> video_cards_xgi}
>  Installed versions:  1.6(15.47.46 2009-11-16)(input_devices_evdev
> input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse video_cards_f

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC gone bad! Help!

[Fernando Antunes]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote:

> I've started seeing this line after failed emerges:
>
>
>
> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C
> compiler cannot create executables
>
> Checking gcc-config returns this:
> carter sys-devel # gcc-config -l
>  * gcc-config: Active gcc profile is invalid!
>  [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.4
>
>
>  When I upgraded  gcc to 4.3.4 I runned
 #  gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.4
 # source /etc/profile

Maybe it helps you.


gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.4


> How can I get gcc back?  Here's some other information on the system:
> carter ~ # emerge --info
> !!! No gcc found. You probably need to 'source /etc/profile'
> !!! to update the environment of this terminal and possibly
> !!! other terminals also.
> Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, [unavailable],
> glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30-gentoo-r4 i686)
> =
> System uname:
>
> Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r4-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_7550_Dual-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-1.12.13
> Timestamp of tree: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:00:01 +
> distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
> app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28
> dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1
> dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1
> sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13
> sys-apps/sandbox:1.6-r2
> sys-devel/autoconf:  2.63-r1
> sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
> sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
> sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
> sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
> virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
> CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
> CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
> CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
> CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/bind"
> CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/
> /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/
> /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/
> /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d
> /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c
> /etc/udev/rules.d"
> CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
> DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y"
> FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox
> sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
> GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo";
> LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
> LINGUAS="en es fr"
> MAKEOPTS="-j2"
> PKGDIR="/usr/portage-packages/carter"
> PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
> PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--human-readable"
> 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="/var/tmp"
> PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/portage/bscharpf"
> SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
> USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa apache2 apm bash-completion berkdb
> bind-mysql bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib
> crypt cups dbus dhcp doc dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo examples
> exim fam firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm geoip gif gnome gpm
> gstreamer gtk hal iconv imap imlib innodb ipv6 ithreads jadetex java
> jpeg kde ldap libclamav libg++ libnotify libwww mad mikmod mmx
> mode-owner modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mpm-leader mudflap mysql ncurses
> networking nls nptl nptlonly oav offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pcre
> pdf perl perlsuid png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime
> readline reflection ruby samba sdl search server session slp spell spl
> ssl startup-notification svg sysfs syslog tcpd tetex threads thunar tiff
> tk truetype unicode usb virus-scan vorbis win32codecs x264 x86 xml xorg
> xulrunner xv xvid zaptel zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp
> atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938
> es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio
> via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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 es fr" USERLAND="GNU"
> VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage
> sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo"
> Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLA

[gentoo-user] Avahi + mDNSResponder at the same time?

[John Lowry]

I was under the impression that avahi with the mDNSResponder-compat  USE
flag would make it possible to have both mDNSResponder and avahi
installed at the same time, yet I am getting blocked packages error
messages. Is this impossible to pull off?

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC gone bad! Help!

[Michael Sullivan]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 11:25 -0800, James Ausmus wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Michael Sullivan
>  wrote:
> I've started seeing this line after failed emerges:
> 
> 
> 
> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure:
> error: C
> compiler cannot create executables
> 
> 
> 
> Please send the contents of the config log for the package you are
> trying to build - it should approximately be
> in /var/tmp/portage/$CATEGORY/$PACKAGE-$VERSION/work/$PACKAGE/config.log
> 
> 
> -James

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by configure, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.63.  Invocation command line was

  $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc
--localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-dns --with-db=/usr/include/db4.7
--with-dblib=db-4.7 --enable-geoip --with-language=english

## - ##
## Platform. ##
## - ##

hostname = carter
uname -m = i686
uname -r = 2.6.30-gentoo-r4
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #1 SMP Thu Nov 5 13:47:33 CST 2009

/usr/bin/uname -p = AMD Athlon(tm) 7550 Dual-Core Processor
/bin/uname -X = unknown

/bin/arch  = unknown
/usr/bin/arch -k   = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
/usr/bin/hostinfo  = unknown
/bin/machine   = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel   = unknown
/bin/universe  = unknown

PATH: /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild-helpers
PATH: /usr/local/sbin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /opt/bin
PATH: /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.1
PATH: /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2
PATH: /usr/qt/3/bin


## --- ##
## Core tests. ##
## --- ##

configure:1831: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
configure:1858: result: gcc
configure:2130: checking for C compiler version
configure:2138: gcc --version >&5
gcc-config: error: could not run/locate 'gcc'
configure:2142: $? = 1
configure:2149: gcc -v >&5
gcc-config: error: could not run/locate 'gcc'
configure:2153: $? = 1
configure:2160: gcc -V >&5
gcc-config: error: could not run/locate 'gcc'
configure:2164: $? = 1
configure:2187: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:2209: gcc -O2 -march=i686 -pipe  -Wl,-O1 conftest.c  >&5
gcc-config: error: could not run/locate 'gcc'
configure:2213: $? = 1
configure:2251: result: 
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h.  */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| 
| int
| main ()
| {
| 
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:2257: error: in
`/var/tmp/portage/app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r15/work/webalizer-2.01-10':
configure:2260: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

##  ##
## Cache variables. ##
##  ##

ac_cv_env_CC_set=set
ac_cv_env_CC_value=gcc
ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_set=set
ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_value='-O2 -march=i686 -pipe'
ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_CPP_set=
ac_cv_env_CPP_value=
ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_set=set
ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_value=-Wl,-O1
ac_cv_env_LIBS_set=
ac_cv_env_LIBS_value=
ac_cv_env_build_alias_set=set
ac_cv_env_build_alias_value=i686-pc-linux-gnu
ac_cv_env_host_alias_set=set
ac_cv_env_host_alias_value=i686-pc-linux-gnu
ac_cv_env_target_alias_set=
ac_cv_env_target_alias_value=
ac_cv_prog_CC=gcc

## - ##
## Output variables. ##
## - ##

CC='gcc'
CFLAGS='-O2 -march=i686 -pipe'
CPP=''
CPPFLAGS=''
DEFAULT_LANG='english'
DEFS=''
ECHO_C=''
ECHO_N='-n'
ECHO_T=''
EGREP=''
ETCDIR=''
EXEEXT=''
GDLIB=''
GDLOC=''
GEOIPINC=''
GEOIPLIB=''
GREP=''
INSTALL_DATA=''
INSTALL_PROGRAM=''
INSTALL_SCRIPT=''
LDFLAGS='-Wl,-O1'
LIBOBJS=''
LIBS=''
LN_S=''
LTLIBOBJS=''
OBJEXT=''
OPTS=''
PACKAGE_BUGREPORT=''
PACKAGE_NAME=''
PACKAGE_STRING=''
PACKAGE_TARNAME=''
PACKAGE_VERSION=''
PATH_SEPARATOR=':'
SHELL='/bin/sh'
ac_ct_CC=''
bindir='${exec_prefix}/bin'
build_alias='i686-pc-linux-gnu'
datadir='/usr/share'
datarootdir='${prefix}/share'
docdir='${datarootdir}/doc/${PACKAGE}'
dvidir='${docdir}'
exec_prefix='NONE'
host_alias='i686-pc-linux-gnu'
htmldir='${docdir}'
includedir='${prefix}/include'
infodir='/usr/share/info'
libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib'
libexecdir='${exec_prefix}/libexec'
localedir='${datarootdir}/locale'
localstatedir='/var/lib'
mandir='/usr/share/man'
oldincludedir='/usr/include'
pdfdir='${docdir}'
prefix='/usr'
program_transform_name='s,x,x,'
psdir='${docdir}'
sbindir='${exec_prefix}/sbin'
sharedstatedir='${prefix}/com'
sysconfdir='/etc'
target_alias=''

## --- ##
## confdefs.h. ##
## --- ##

#define PACKAGE_NAME ""
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
#define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
#define PACKAGE_STRING ""
#define PA

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC gone bad! Help!

[Michael Sullivan]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 13:44 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 11:25 -0800, James Ausmus wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Michael Sullivan
> >  wrote:
> > I've started seeing this line after failed emerges:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > checking for C compiler default output file name... configure:
> > error: C
> > compiler cannot create executables
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Please send the contents of the config log for the package you are
> > trying to build - it should approximately be
> > in /var/tmp/portage/$CATEGORY/$PACKAGE-$VERSION/work/$PACKAGE/config.log
> > 
> > 
> > -James
I think I sent the wrong one.  Here's the right one (I think):


carter ~ #
cat /var/log/portage-logs/app-admin:webalizer-2.01.10-r15:20091119-194440.log
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking webalizer-2.01-10-src.tar.bz2
to /var/tmp/portage/app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r15/work
>>> Unpacking webalizer.conf.gz
to /var/tmp/portage/app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r15/work
>>> Unpacking geolizer_2.01-10-patch.20050520.tar.bz2
to /var/tmp/portage/app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r15/work
 * Applying geolizer.patch ...
[ ok ]
>>> Source unpacked
in /var/tmp/portage/app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r15/work
>>> Compiling source
in /var/tmp/portage/app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r15/work/webalizer-2.01-10 ...
 * Found db version 4.7
include version 4.7
 * Found db version 4.7
 * Running eautoreconf in
'/var/tmp/portage/app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r15/work/webalizer-2.01-10' ...
 * QA Warning: running autoconf in compile phase
 * Running autoconf ...
[ ok ]
./configure --prefix=/usr --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc
--localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-dns --with-db=/usr/include/db4.7
--with-dblib=db-4.7 --enable-geoip --with-language=english
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... 
configure: error: in
`/var/tmp/portage/app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r15/work/webalizer-2.01-10':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

!!! Please attach the following file when seeking support:
!!! 
/var/tmp/portage/app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r15/work/webalizer-2.01-10/config.log
 * 
 * ERROR: app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r15 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *   ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_compile
 * environment, line 3227:  Called econf '--enable-dns'
'--with-db=/usr/include/db4.7' '--with-dblib=db-4.7' '--enable-geoip'
'--with-language=english'
 *   ebuild.sh, line  534:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *  die "econf failed"
 *  The die message:
 *   econf failed
 * 
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack
if relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at
'/var/log/portage-logs/app-admin:webalizer-2.01.10-r15:20091119-194440.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/app-admin/webalizer-2.01.10-r15/temp/environment'.
 * 

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm or kde won't login specific user, but "startx" works

[James Ausmus]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Francisco Ares  wrote:

>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Francisco Ares  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Gmail  wrote:
>>
>>> Have you added consolekit to the boot level? If you did then please post
>>> your xdm and kdm log file.
>>>
>>> Hung
>>>
>>> Francisco Ares wrote:
>>> > Hi, All
>>> >
>>> > After several upgrades, now kdm (apparently) doesn't login my wife's
>>> > user - or perhaps kde doesn't keep an open session for her: a few
>>> > seconds after password, the login windows reappears.
>>> >
>>> > But the strange thing is that logging in a text console and issuing
>>> > that old and good "startx" command, the kde session starts as expected.
>>> >
>>> > Anyone have any idea where should I start checking?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> > Francisco
>>> >
>>> > --
>>>
>>>
>> Hy, Hung, thanks for your answer.
>>
>> I don't have consolekit at boot runlevel. Don't even have it emerged yet.
>> Didn't know I was supposed to. Doing so right now.
>>
>> Meanwhile, I have no xdm log, but in kdm.log there is a difference during
>> my  login and my wife's login, it is this only two entries in
>> /var/log/kdm.log after my wife's user login:
>>
>> (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard
>> (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard
>>
>> I've done a search for "Virtual core" and didn't find a thing up to now.
>>
>> Any hint?
>>
>> Thanks again
>>
>> Francisco
>>
>
> Well, I had consolekit up an running and didn't know that, sorry.
>
> There is no xdm log, and the only two entries already mentioned.
>
> I'll try to remove the user and add it again, perhaps a permissions issue.



Have you checked to see what ~/.xsession-errors contains? It might give you
some hints as to what is happening. Also, does top show anything consuming a
lot of CPU or a lot of memory? (M to sort by memory usage, P to sort by CPU
usage)

-James

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC gone bad! Help!

[James Ausmus]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote:

> I've started seeing this line after failed emerges:
>
>
>
> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C
> compiler cannot create executables
>
>
Please send the contents of the config log for the package you are trying to
build - it should approximately be in
/var/tmp/portage/$CATEGORY/$PACKAGE-$VERSION/work/$PACKAGE/config.log

-James

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive FAT partition disappears

[Marcus Wanner]

On 11/19/2009 3:22 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:

I suspect you did nothing wrong and that the problem is either a
coincidental hardware failure or something the owner did to the stick
after you returned it. Convincing the owner of that is another matter.
  
I am pretty sure that this is the case. The fact that the partition 
table is no longer valid is very interesting, and I would be interested 
in seeing the first 512 bytes (I believe that is where the partition 
table resides) of the dd image, if you can make one, just to see if it's 
corrupt or has been correctly erased. The fact that there is 2 TB left 
according to gparted leads me to believe that it is corrupt, which would 
mean that it is probably a hardware failure, and nothing to do with 
Linux, as someone else said.


Good luck with that student, here's hoping there was nothing important 
on that drive when it died!


Marcus

Re: [gentoo-user] Avahi + mDNSResponder at the same time?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:38:28 -0800, John Lowry wrote:

> I was under the impression that avahi with the mDNSResponder-compat  USE
> flag would make it possible to have both mDNSResponder and avahi
> installed at the same time, yet I am getting blocked packages error
> messages. Is this impossible to pull off?

It's hard to say while the error message remains secret.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms


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[gentoo-user] where can I find USE flags description?

[Jarry]

Hi,

I want to emerge a certain package, let's say x11-base/xorg-drivers,
so I try first "emerge --pretend xorg-drivers" and find it has ~50
various use-flags (some set, some unset). Where can I find their
description? For example "vmmouse", what is this USE flag good for?
Is it something for vmware?

I checked /etc/portage/profiles/use.desc and use.local.desc but
there are not all of them...

Jarry

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Re: [gentoo-user] GCC gone bad! Help!

[James Ausmus]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote:


> configure:2138: gcc --version >&5
> gcc-config: error: could not run/locate 'gcc'
>

There's your problem right there, Vern... ;)

Run gcc-config -l
Pick the gompuler that looks best (most likely #1), then run
gcc-config 
source /etc/profile

Then try running
gcc -v

If you get output that looks sane (ie. no "command not found" message), then
you should be good to go - try emerging again.

HTH-

James

Re: [gentoo-user] [the end] icons missing in k3b

[David W Noon]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:00:03 +0100, Jacques Montier wrote about
[gentoo-user] [the end] icons missing in k3b:

>Hi everybody,
>
>Some news about k3b and its missing icons.
>I looked at your useflags and changed mine.
>So i had to re-build plenty of packages and spent a very long compiling
>time  with my 8 year-old pc...
>Well, after that,...nothing has changed.. :-(
>http://sites.google.com/site/jacquesfr35/telechargement/k3b.jpg?attredirects=0

This looks like your XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable might be
missing a directory or two.  No amount of recompiling will cure that.
Instead, you need to look in the /etc/env.d directory, correct any
errors, then logout and  login.

Here's mine:

/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/usr/kde/3.5/share:/usr/share/gdm:/usr/share

The duplication of /usr/share is, at this point in time, quite
deliberate.  It works around a problem in GNOME.

>Never mind, the problem is not very important, so i stop here and will
>use xfburn if i want all my icons :-)
>As i work with Xfce4, i think i'll put all kde stuff away.

I use Brasero as a burner for GNOME and Xfce.  It's actually rather
good, almost on par with K3b.
-- 
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
==
dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon)
==


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Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg / Intel VGA and multiple display

[Space Cakex]

I'm using xf86-video-intel -> 2.9.1 ; xorg-server  -> 1.6.5 and 
xorg-drivers -> 1.6

My hardware :
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 
GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)


I using 2.6.31-gentoo-r2 with KMS and Idon't have a xorg.conf file.

I set my two monitors using xrandr :
xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1280x800
xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1280x1024 --above LVDS1

X works fine, but XFCE display setting don't, waiting for a fix 
already in the XFCE roadmap.


yes, something similar working fine for me, but what I'm really looking 
for is a solution to make it automatic :) so, when I put my laptop on 
the docking station this should change to dual mode, but when I remove 
it can switch back to standalone


at least I would like to make an xorg.conf to handle my two monitors 
better than currently where I have to configure resolutions and display 
placements each time I reboot my machine or changing from or to docking 
station


I know this is a nice dream, but I'm sure the future where this is true 
with linux is not so far :)


Laszlo

[gentoo-user] Quick quesition regarding "linux-2.6.31.x" and "gentoo-sources-2.6.31-rx"

[Marcus Wanner]

I was just wondering if a package such as "gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6" 
uses kernel 2.6.31.6, or just 2.6.31. I have been digging through 
timestamps and the like for a while, but I just can't figure it out.


Thanks, and sorry for my noobishness.

Marcus

Re: [gentoo-user] where can I find USE flags description?

[Alex Schuster]

Jarry writes:

> I checked /etc/portage/profiles/use.desc and use.local.desc but
> there are not all of them...

There's also /usr/local/portage/layman/*/profiles/use.local.desc

Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Avahi + mDNSResponder at the same time?

[Albert Hopkins]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 11:38 -0800, John Lowry wrote:
> I was under the impression that avahi with the mDNSResponder-compat
> USE
> flag would make it possible to have both mDNSResponder and avahi
> installed at the same time, yet I am getting blocked packages error
> messages. Is this impossible to pull off? 

If you USE=mdnsResponder-compat you are telling avahi that you *don't*
want mDNSRespdonder.  Consider the ebuild:

mdnsresponder-compat? ( !net-misc/mDNSResponder )

So enabling the flag is results in explicit blockage.

But, I'm assuming, the flag provides avahi with
mdnsresponder-compat(ibility) so you shouldn't need both installed at
the same time.

Also, from the USE description:

mdnsresponder-compat : Enable compat libraries for mDNSResponder

So it looks like having them both installed simultaneously would result
in both providing the same service.

HTH,
-a

[gentoo-user] Re: GCC gone bad! Help!

[walt]

On 11/19/2009 10:51 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote:

...
Checking gcc-config returns this:
carter sys-devel # gcc-config -l
  * gcc-config: Active gcc profile is invalid!
  [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.4


gcc-config manipulates the contents of /etc/env.d/gcc

$ls -la /etc/env.d/gcc
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-11-14 08:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2009-11-15 05:20 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   32 2009-11-14 08:19 config-i686-pc-linux-gnu
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  235 2009-01-29 12:33 i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  235 2009-07-04 09:02 i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  235 2009-10-17 11:28 i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   23 2009-11-14 08:19 .NATIVE -> i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.4

What do you have there?

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick quesition regarding "linux-2.6.31.x" and "gentoo-sources-2.6.31-rx"

[Eray Aslan]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 03:49:19PM -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
> I was just wondering if a package such as "gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6" 
> uses kernel 2.6.31.6, or just 2.6.31. I have been digging through 
> timestamps and the like for a while, but I just can't figure it out.

http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/linux-patches/genpatches-2.6/tags/

-- 
Eray

[gentoo-user] how to get emerge --depclean to skip a pkg?

[Maxim Wexler]

Hi group,

emerge -av --depclean wants to remove
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r7 after a world update.

How do I prevent this? I've tried the --deselect and --noreplace
switches but that has the opposite effect I'm looking for.

Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC gone bad! Help!

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Michael Sullivan  wrote:
> I've started seeing this line after failed emerges:
>
>
>
> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C
> compiler cannot create executables
>
> Checking gcc-config returns this:
> carter sys-devel # gcc-config -l
>  * gcc-config: Active gcc profile is invalid!
>  [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.4
>
>
> How can I get gcc back?

try to run "gcc-config 1" as root to have it re-configure your gcc
settings/links.

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC gone bad! Help! [SOLVED]

[Michael Sullivan]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 17:10 -0200, Fernando Antunes wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Michael Sullivan
>  wrote:
> I've started seeing this line after failed emerges:
> 
> 
> 
> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure:
> error: C
> compiler cannot create executables
> 
> Checking gcc-config returns this:
> carter sys-devel # gcc-config -l
>  * gcc-config: Active gcc profile is invalid!
>  [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.4
> 
> 
>  When I upgraded  gcc to 4.3.4 I runned 
>  #  gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.4 
>  # source /etc/profile
> 
> Maybe it helps you.
That fixed it!  Thank you!

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get emerge --depclean to skip a pkg?

[Crístian Viana]

I think --noreplace should do it, but if it didn't, try adding this ebuild
name to /var/lib/portage/world:

=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r7

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote:

> Hi group,
>
> emerge -av --depclean wants to remove
> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r7 after a world update.
>
> How do I prevent this? I've tried the --deselect and --noreplace
> switches but that has the opposite effect I'm looking for.
>
> Maxim
>
>


-- 
Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1]
Sent from Campinas, SP, Brazil

[gentoo-user] [OT] interrupting runscripts during startup

[Amit Dor-Shifer]

Hi all.

When hitting Ctrl-C during startup, I manage to interrupt services at 
the early stages of init, yet later-on I can no-longer do this. It seems 
that up till runlevel 'default', services can be hit with the interrupt.
I'm wondering where is this behavior being set, and whether I can enable 
the interruption by SIGINT in 'default' level runscripts (e.g. 
'local.start'). I'm suspecting this is somewhere in /sbin/init, but 
can't ascertain this.

Anyone knows?
thanks,
Amit

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] interrupting runscripts during startup

[Renat Golubchyk]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:02:47 +0200 Amit Dor-Shifer 
wrote:
> When hitting Ctrl-C during startup, I manage to interrupt services at 
> the early stages of init, yet later-on I can no-longer do this. It
> seems that up till runlevel 'default', services can be hit with the
> interrupt.

Why do you want to stop services by hitting CTRL-C ? Services are
shell scripts. Hitting CTRL-C stops the script somewhere in the
middle during its execution. Everything that was done until that moment
won't be automagically undone. There can be files left , and processes
already started will still run. That's not clean.

Better use the interactive init feature. Just hit 'I' when init starts
(init even tells you, that you can do it) and choose which services to
start by hitting 'y' and 'n'.


Cheers,
Renat

-- 
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durch die sie entstanden sind.
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Re: [gentoo-user] kdm or kde won't login specific user, but "startx" works

[Francisco Ares]

Thanks a lot, guys.  I don't like it, but I have removed and created again
the user, and now everything works as expected.

I said I don't like it because we didn't exactly know where the problem was.
I've checked permissions and groups before that, and had the home directory
backed up before removing the user and completely restored after the user
creation, so all files and directories kept the same permissions and mode
bits and the user has the same uid and belongs to the same groups as before.

I'm surely capable to live without that knowledge, but I can't help thinking
I would live better if knowing ;-)

Thanks again
Francisco

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:22 PM, James Ausmus wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Francisco Ares  wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Francisco Ares  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Gmail  wrote:
>>>
 Have you added consolekit to the boot level? If you did then please post
 your xdm and kdm log file.

 Hung

 Francisco Ares wrote:
 > Hi, All
 >
 > After several upgrades, now kdm (apparently) doesn't login my wife's
 > user - or perhaps kde doesn't keep an open session for her: a few
 > seconds after password, the login windows reappears.
 >
 > But the strange thing is that logging in a text console and issuing
 > that old and good "startx" command, the kde session starts as
 expected.
 >
 > Anyone have any idea where should I start checking?
 >
 > Thanks
 > Francisco
 >
 > --


>>> Hy, Hung, thanks for your answer.
>>>
>>> I don't have consolekit at boot runlevel. Don't even have it emerged yet.
>>> Didn't know I was supposed to. Doing so right now.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, I have no xdm log, but in kdm.log there is a difference during
>>> my  login and my wife's login, it is this only two entries in
>>> /var/log/kdm.log after my wife's user login:
>>>
>>> (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard
>>> (EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard
>>>
>>> I've done a search for "Virtual core" and didn't find a thing up to now.
>>>
>>> Any hint?
>>>
>>> Thanks again
>>>
>>> Francisco
>>>
>>
>> Well, I had consolekit up an running and didn't know that, sorry.
>>
>> There is no xdm log, and the only two entries already mentioned.
>>
>> I'll try to remove the user and add it again, perhaps a permissions issue.
>
>
>
> Have you checked to see what ~/.xsession-errors contains? It might give you
> some hints as to what is happening. Also, does top show anything consuming a
> lot of CPU or a lot of memory? (M to sort by memory usage, P to sort by CPU
> usage)
>
> -James
>
>


-- 
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you
and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one
idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." -
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Re: [gentoo-user] how to get emerge --depclean to skip a pkg? --RESOLVED

[Maxim Wexler]

On 11/19/09, Crístian Viana  wrote:
> I think --noreplace should do it, but if it didn't, try adding this ebuild
> name to /var/lib/portage/world:
>
> =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r7

Yes, that did it. Thanks.

using --noreplace or --deselect has the effect of focusing on the one
package but only because that pkg *alone* will be removed, the
opposite of what I trying to do.

mw

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick quesition regarding "linux-2.6.31.x" and "gentoo-sources-2.6.31-rx"

[David Relson]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:49:19 -0500
Marcus Wanner wrote:

> I was just wondering if a package such as "gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6" 
> uses kernel 2.6.31.6, or just 2.6.31. I have been digging through 
> timestamps and the like for a while, but I just can't figure it out.
> 
> Thanks, and sorry for my noobishness.
> 
> Marcus

It uses a tarball and patches:


$$ ( cd /usr/portage/distfiles ; ls -l *2.6.31* )
...   114701 2009-11-07 17:37 genpatches-2.6.31-6.base.tar.bz2 
...24961 2009-11-07 17:37 genpatches-2.6.31-6.extras.tar.bz2 
...   139031 2009-11-16 14:50 genpatches-2.6.31-7.base.tar.bz2 
...24961 2009-11-16 14:50 genpatches-2.6.31-7.extras.tar.bz2 
... 61494822 2009-09-12 20:14 linux-2.6.31.tar.bz2

Re: [gentoo-user] troubles with emerge --sync

[Alexander Clark]

So I managed to fix the other wonkiness on my system (viz, gcc and  
emacs not emerging). Turns out, I had been sloppy in putting together  
my make.conf and used march=prescott when I should have been using  
march=pentium4. Fixed it, ran emerge -uDNe world. Things emerge now.


Unfortunately, the original problem with emerge --sync has not been  
resolved:


rsync error: sibling process crashed (code 15) at main.c(1505)
[generator=3.0.6]
>>> Retrying...

and from dmesg:

grsec: signal 4 sent to /usr/bin/rsync[rsync:32164] uid/euid:0/0 gid/ 
egid:0/0, parent /usr/bin/rsync[rsync:32163] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0


Still getting this error. I took a look at the core dump using gdb:

(no debugging symbols found)
Core was generated by `rsync --recursive --links --safe-links --perms  
--times --compress --force --who'.

Program terminated with signal 4, Illegal instruction.

> Use my mirror and see if things are better.

Alan, thanks for letting me try this. Unfortunately, same result. I  
actually set up my own as well. All the other boxen in the rack are  
able to sync to it, but not this one.


I've tried re-emerging portage and rsync to no avail.

I'm running out of ideas...

Alexander Clark

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get emerge --depclean to skip a pkg?

[Paul Hartman]

 On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Maxim Wexler 
 wrote:
>
> Hi group,
>
> emerge -av --depclean wants to remove
> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r7 after a world update.
>
> How do I prevent this? I've tried the --deselect and --noreplace
> switches but that has the opposite effect I'm looking for.

I asked this same question earlier this year and got a perfect
solution from Mike Kazantsev along with help from Boris Fersing.

Edit (or create) /etc/portage/sets.conf and put this inside:
[kernels]
class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet
world-candidate = False
files = /usr/src

Then edit/create /var/lib/portage/world_sets and add this line:
@kernels

Now --depclean should never try to remove your kernel packages! It
works great for me.

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get emerge --depclean to skip a pkg?

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Paul Hartman
 wrote:
>  On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Maxim Wexler 
>  wrote:
>>
>> Hi group,
>>
>> emerge -av --depclean wants to remove
>> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r7 after a world update.
>>
>> How do I prevent this? I've tried the --deselect and --noreplace
>> switches but that has the opposite effect I'm looking for.
>
> I asked this same question earlier this year and got a perfect
> solution from Mike Kazantsev along with help from Boris Fersing.
>
> Edit (or create) /etc/portage/sets.conf and put this inside:
> [kernels]
> class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet
> world-candidate = False
> files = /usr/src
>
> Then edit/create /var/lib/portage/world_sets and add this line:
> @kernels
>
> Now --depclean should never try to remove your kernel packages! It
> works great for me.

By the way, I think this only works in portage 2.2 :)

[gentoo-user] Re: where can I find USE flags description?

[Remy Blank]

Jarry wrote:
> Where can I find their
> description? For example "vmmouse", what is this USE flag good for?
> Is it something for vmware?

emerge gentoolkit
euse -i vmmouse

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Re: [gentoo-user] where can I find USE flags description?

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Jarry  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to emerge a certain package, let's say x11-base/xorg-drivers,
> so I try first "emerge --pretend xorg-drivers" and find it has ~50
> various use-flags (some set, some unset). Where can I find their
> description? For example "vmmouse", what is this USE flag good for?
> Is it something for vmware?
>
> I checked /etc/portage/profiles/use.desc and use.local.desc but
> there are not all of them...

I'm sure there are 10 ways of doing it, but this is what I use:

equery u x11-base/xorg-drivers

equery is part of app-portage/gentoolkit in case you don't have it
installed. It can do other useful things such as tell you which
package installed a file, or show all files installed by a package.

Re: [gentoo-user] where can I find USE flags description?

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Paul Hartman
 wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Jarry  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to emerge a certain package, let's say x11-base/xorg-drivers,
>> so I try first "emerge --pretend xorg-drivers" and find it has ~50
>> various use-flags (some set, some unset). Where can I find their
>> description? For example "vmmouse", what is this USE flag good for?
>> Is it something for vmware?
>>
>> I checked /etc/portage/profiles/use.desc and use.local.desc but
>> there are not all of them...
>
> I'm sure there are 10 ways of doing it, but this is what I use:
>
> equery u x11-base/xorg-drivers
>
> equery is part of app-portage/gentoolkit in case you don't have it
> installed. It can do other useful things such as tell you which
> package installed a file, or show all files installed by a package.

And in the specific case of xorg-drivers those aren't USE flags at all
but driver flags :)

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive FAT partition disappears

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Marcus Wanner  wrote:
> On 11/19/2009 3:22 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>
>> I suspect you did nothing wrong and that the problem is either a
>> coincidental hardware failure or something the owner did to the stick
>> after you returned it. Convincing the owner of that is another matter.
>>
>
> I am pretty sure that this is the case. The fact that the partition table is
> no longer valid is very interesting, and I would be interested in seeing the
> first 512 bytes (I believe that is where the partition table resides) of the
> dd image, if you can make one, just to see if it's corrupt or has been
> correctly erased. The fact that there is 2 TB left according to gparted
> leads me to believe that it is corrupt, which would mean that it is probably
> a hardware failure, and nothing to do with Linux, as someone else said.
>
> Good luck with that student, here's hoping there was nothing important on
> that drive when it died!
>
> Marcus

On the bright side, if ONLY the partition table was corrupt, maybe
re-creating it with fdisk might make the data accessible again. You
might also try a tool like dfsee which might be able to analyse or
extract some partiton/FAT data from it.

[gentoo-user] gentoo on ssds? intel anyone?

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Greets, gentoo-users,
I hope not to bring up some boring ricer-topic ;-)

I am thinking of getting one of those shiny new SSDs for my main
workstation. Not that I really *need* it, my box is performing well, I
admit that I am curious and somehow childish ... some way of getting
myself a christmas present or something like that ...

anyway

Although I read of Intel's various firmware-problems with their SSDs, I
tend to buy one of their 80GB X25-M G2 Postville SSDs.

I definitely *know* that I will shake my head a few months later at how
I could spend that much money for those few and slow gigs of ssd ... but
... (think 100$ for 128MB usb-stick ... you know ...)

I think of using that ssd for my gentoo-os-partition(s) and I wonder if
one of you is already doing that. And I would like to hear of any
problems/blockers/sensations this brings.

Thanks for any infos, I'd be happy to hear whatever your experience is ...

Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard Mapping Issues

[Mick]

On Tuesday 17 November 2009 15:26:09 daid kahl wrote:
> >Is there some
> > simple tool in portage to report 1) The local build date of an
> > installed package 2) Display the emerge history?  Such tools would
> > assist me in locating the problem, which I assume resulted from an
> > upgrade.
> 
> Sorry, I am looking at /var/log/emerge.log now.

Have a look at app-portage/genlop

You can just ask it to show you what you emerged in the last 1, or 2 days 
only.
-- 
Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on ssds? intel anyone?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Donnerstag 19 November 2009, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Greets, gentoo-users,
> I hope not to bring up some boring ricer-topic ;-)
> 
> I am thinking of getting one of those shiny new SSDs for my main
> workstation. Not that I really *need* it, my box is performing well, I
> admit that I am curious and somehow childish ... some way of getting
> myself a christmas present or something like that ...
> 
> anyway
> 
> Although I read of Intel's various firmware-problems with their SSDs, I
> tend to buy one of their 80GB X25-M G2 Postville SSDs.
> 
> I definitely *know* that I will shake my head a few months later at how
> I could spend that much money for those few and slow gigs of ssd ... but
> ... (think 100$ for 128MB usb-stick ... you know ...)
> 
> I think of using that ssd for my gentoo-os-partition(s) and I wonder if
> one of you is already doing that. And I would like to hear of any
> problems/blockers/sensations this brings.
> 
> Thanks for any infos, I'd be happy to hear whatever your experience is ...
> 
> Stefan
> 

since ssds don't like write/erase cycles you should only put your system on 
the ssd. Everything else, PORTDIR, PKGDIR, /var, /tmp, /usr/tmp and /usr/src 
should be on a harddisk.

Re: [gentoo-user] where can I find USE flags description?

[Steven Ringwald]

Don't know how current the list is, but:

http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml

Steve

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Jarry  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to emerge a certain package, let's say x11-base/xorg-drivers,
> so I try first "emerge --pretend xorg-drivers" and find it has ~50
> various use-flags (some set, some unset). Where can I find their
> description? For example "vmmouse", what is this USE flag good for?
> Is it something for vmware?
>
> I checked /etc/portage/profiles/use.desc and use.local.desc but
> there are not all of them...
>
>

[gentoo-user] Re: Quick quesition regarding "linux-2.6.31.x" and "gentoo-sources-2.6.31-rx"

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 11/19/2009 10:49 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote:

I was just wondering if a package such as "gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6"
uses kernel 2.6.31.6, or just 2.6.31. I have been digging through
timestamps and the like for a while, but I just can't figure it out.


In addition to the link Eray posted, you can also always check 
/usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/ChangeLog

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 19/11/09 Alan McKinnon said:

> conf.d/net is not buggy - it is suitable for static networking where the 
> interfaces never change and neither does the address.
> 
> It is simply inadequate for desktop use, *especially* roaming laptops. A side 
> note in the docs to this effect would not be amiss.

In my case the interface won't change and neither will the address.

It worked fine when it was a wired eth0 interface.

Mike
-- 
Michael P. Soulier 
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a
touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
--Albert Einstein


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Re: [gentoo-user] where can I find USE flags description?

[Dale]

Paul Hartman wrote:

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Paul Hartman
 wrote:
  

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Jarry  wrote:


Hi,

I want to emerge a certain package, let's say x11-base/xorg-drivers,
so I try first "emerge --pretend xorg-drivers" and find it has ~50
various use-flags (some set, some unset). Where can I find their
description? For example "vmmouse", what is this USE flag good for?
Is it something for vmware?

I checked /etc/portage/profiles/use.desc and use.local.desc but
there are not all of them...
  

I'm sure there are 10 ways of doing it, but this is what I use:

equery u x11-base/xorg-drivers

equery is part of app-portage/gentoolkit in case you don't have it
installed. It can do other useful things such as tell you which
package installed a file, or show all files installed by a package.



And in the specific case of xorg-drivers those aren't USE flags at all
but driver flags :)


  


But it beats having to type in each one of them separately with euse 
-i.  I like this little guy:


r...@smoker / # equery u seamonkey
[ Searching for packages matching seamonkey... ]
[ Colour Code : set unset ]
[ Legend : Left column  (U) - USE flags from make.conf  ]
[: Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ]
[ Found these USE variables for www-client/seamonkey-1.1.18 ]
U I
- - crypt: Add support for encryption -- using mcrypt or gpg 
where applicable
- - debug: Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra 
output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see 
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml

- - gnome: Adds GNOME support
+ + ipv6 : Adds support for IP version 6
+ + java : Adds support for Java
+ + ldap : Adds LDAP support (Lightweight Directory Access 
Protocol)

- - mozdevelop   : Enable features for web developers (e.g. Venkman)
- - moznocompose : Disable building of mozilla's HTML editor component
- - moznoirc : Disable building of mozilla's IRC client
- - moznomail: Disable building mozilla's mail client
- - moznopango   : Disable x11-libs/pango during runtime
- - moznoroaming : sroaming extension support
- - postgres : Adds support for the postgresql database
- - xforms   : XForms is a standard to split up XHTML into XForms, 
instance data, and user interface
- - xinerama : Add support for the xinerama X11 extension, which 
allows you to stretch your display across multiple monitors

r...@smoker / #

This is cool.  Can emerge do this too?  You know, maybe some flag to 
have in addition to -p or -a and have it show this?  Since I asked, 
watch it do this in some nice shiney new version of portage.  lol


Yep, another tool to add to frequent commands.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

[gentoo-user] emerge hints needed

[Bill Kenworthy]

Some time back I saw someone mention a way to get emerge to install an
ebuild with a bad digest - man emerge shows nothing so can someone give
me a hint.  It was much easier than going down the ebuild path.

Also, I am in the process of rescuing a system from the
e2fs/util-linux/device-mapper snafu and find that now I have it booted
re-emerging util-linux wont overwrite the files I manually installed to
replace the missing ones - necessitating manually rm'ing some 50 or so
files - is there a way to force emerge to ignore file collisions and
just overwrite them in this circumstance?

BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge hints needed

[Dale]

Bill Kenworthy wrote:

Some time back I saw someone mention a way to get emerge to install an
ebuild with a bad digest - man emerge shows nothing so can someone give
me a hint.  It was much easier than going down the ebuild path.
  


I think it is --digest.  I don't see it in the man page so you may have 
to do that with the ebuild command and the manifest option.  See man 
page to make sure.


I will also add, you should not do this unless it passed the first test 
and you had to edit the file for some reason.  It could be corrupt or 
altered in some unknown way otherwise.



Also, I am in the process of rescuing a system from the
e2fs/util-linux/device-mapper snafu and find that now I have it booted
re-emerging util-linux wont overwrite the files I manually installed to
replace the missing ones - necessitating manually rm'ing some 50 or so
files - is there a way to force emerge to ignore file collisions and
just overwrite them in this circumstance?

BillK

  


I think you are looking for this option with emerge:

  --noconfmem
 Causes  portage  to disregard merge records indicating 
that a config file inside of a CONFIG_PRO-
 TECT directory has been merged already.  Portage will 
normally merge those  files  only  once  to
 prevent the user from dealing with the same config 
multiple times.  This flag will cause the file

 to always be merged.

Keep in mind that it will replace whatever it emerges which may include 
dependencies.  I have never used that option before so be forewarned if 
it does.


Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on ssds? intel anyone?

[Holger Hoffstaette]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:47:37 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:

> Although I read of Intel's various firmware-problems with their SSDs, I
> tend to buy one of their 80GB X25-M G2 Postville SSDs.

I have the older 80MB (G1) and a new 160GB G2 for another machine just
arrived. The fixed TRIM-enabled firmware for the G2 should reappear soon
as well. Btw the problem with the previous version mostly affected Windows7.

> I definitely *know* that I will shake my head a few months later at how I

No you won't.

> I think of using that ssd for my gentoo-os-partition(s) and I wonder if
> one of you is already doing that. And I would like to hear of any
> problems/blockers/sensations this brings.

Been using one in my day-to-day workstation under both Windows and Gentoo
(with ext4). After 5 minutes you will fight anyone who would try to take
it away again to the death.

-h