Re: [gentoo-user] JACK breaks at random
On 2010-08-14 00:18, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: But JACK just stops working at random. Sometimes it works, but after a a while it doesn't anymore. And when that happens (which happens sooner rather than later,) restarting JACK (with qjackctl) doesn't help; only rebooting the machine does, which as you can guess is very annoying. I don't use jack (but I use alsa without problems) but this might help: http://art.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9717379 ...maybe? Googling, also seems to indicate the need for a realtime configured kernel (don't know if you got that or not)... Best regards Peter K
[gentoo-user] Re: Extraordinarily laggy UI, keyboard, udev weirdness, KDE 4.5
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded my kernel to 2.6.35.1 and my KDE to 4.5. After rebooting, I have some weird, possibly unrelated issues: This is partially solved, and was not KDE related at all afterall. I did suffer the same slowdown in Gnome, XFCE, LXDE and KDE. In X the UI responsiveness randomly goes bad, keyboard especially. At first it'll be fine, then simply using Konsole and typing will begin to slow down. Also, screen output in general seems to freeze until I touch the mouse or keyboard. Even something like listing a directory. It's really weird... It gets so bad that it becomes completely unresponsive, freezing for minutes at a tie. It eventually un-freezes momentarily, long enough to logout and back in at least. I disabled desktop effects but it still had the same problem. I tried Gnome briefly last night before going to sleep and didn't experience this slowdown problem. I downgraded to kernel 2.6.34.3 and everything runs smoothly again. No more hangs or sluggishness. It would seem that something in 2.6.35 series kernels does not like my computer, or something in my computer does not like 2.6.35 series kernels. Based on LKML lurking I guess I'll need to learn how to git bisect the kernel and prepare myself for many reboot cycles. Either that or keep using old kernel and hope my problem is fixed either on purpose or by accident in future kernel releases.
Re: [gentoo-user] backup sanity check
On Saturday 14 August 2010, Adam Carter wrote: This is to backup my laptop from boot cdrom - how does it look? File systems; /dev/sda1 - /boot /dev/sda2 - swap /dev/sda3 - / So to backup; 1. Get MBR (grub and partition table): dd if=/dev/sda of=/otherdisk/sda-mbr.bin bs=512 count=1 2. Get /boot: dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/otherdisk/sda1.bin 3. Get /: dd if=/dev/sda3 | gzip | dd of=/otherdisk/sda3.bin.gz Then too restore onto new disk; 1. Restore MBR: dd if=/otherdisk/sda-mbr.bin of=/dev/sda - no bs or count parameters required? 2. Restore /boot: dd if=/otherdisk/sda1.bin of=/dev/sda1 3. Restore /: dd if=/otherdisk/sda3.bin.gz | gunzip | dd of=/dev/sda3 4. Setup swap partition: mkswap /dev/sda2 5. Boot system Caveat is the the new disk must be big enough to fit sda1/2/3. why backup mbr? installing grub takes less time then the backup and restore of the mbr. And dd for backups? Why wasting space? Why suffering from problems when the new harddisk has a different size? Just tar up everything.
Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail storage of TLS certificate
On Tuesday 10 August 2010, Mick wrote: Any idea how I can reset this certificate as far as Kmail is concerned? When has it stored my clicking to save the acceptance of the certificate and how can I reset this? you can always dive into .kde/ and remove the offending lines from the config files...
[gentoo-user] Gnome icons: gant / gargantuan
Greets, gentoo-users, I recently saw the Screenshot Contest Results: http://www.gentoo.org/news/20100808-screenshot-winners-announcement.xml I liked place nr 4 Gnome with the Gant icon theme Now I tried to get these icons as well. I emerged x11-themes/gargantuan-icon-theme which gave me the choice in the settings dialog, but only a few icons changed, not all (for example, the folders on my desktop still look the same). I fiddled with ~myuser/.themes and ~myuser/.icons ... no success. I even got the gant-icons from gnome-look.org and installed them, still the same mis-behavior: some icons changed, not all. Is there any way of somehow resetting things? I also used gtk-update-icon-cache ... etc ... hmm It's not important, but nice-to-have, maybe someone could help me out ... Thanks a lot, Stefan
Re: [gentoo-user] b43-legacy and newer linux kernels?
On Friday 13 August 2010 19:24:08 Bill Longman wrote: On 08/13/2010 10:58 AM, BRM wrote: - Original Message On 13 August 2010 09:08, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:10:02 -0700 (PDT), BRM wrote: but even so - they are saying this has to be done on every reboot, and that's not much of a solution. Put the commands in /etc/conf.d/local.start, or the start section of /etc/conf.d/local if using baselayout2. Have you been through the guidance in this page to find out which kernel driver you ought to use with your card? http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 Yes. Unfortunately it's a 14e4:4320/ with BCM4306/2 Chip set (4306 Rev 2), so it requires the b43-legacy driver, and only firmware version FW10 supports the hardware from what I can tell. It just seems to me that I went from a working wireless on 2.6.30 to a non-working wireless on 2.6.34. I'd really like to get back to a working wireless card, and be on the newer kernel. I feel your pain, Ben. I remember about three years ago having my laptop working great with all manner of 802.11 cards. I could do my work anywhere in the house. And then it all just kind of melted. A new kernel for one thing but somehow something else fell apart. I've pretty much written off any wireless on Linux now. My time is worth more than the hours of troubleshooting. Keep plugging, you just might get it. Well, there's always ndiswrapper and the MSWindows driver to consider, when all Linux solutions fail or don't work that well. I see on kernel v2.6.34-gentoo-r1 that CONFIG_B43LEGACY will now use V3 firmware, which must be installed separately using b43-fwcutter. Has the OP tried that? PS. The kernel help is also recommending that b43legacy is installed as a module. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] b43-legacy and newer linux kernels?
On Saturday 14 August 2010 11:18:17 you wrote: On Friday 13 August 2010 19:24:08 Bill Longman wrote: On 08/13/2010 10:58 AM, BRM wrote: - Original Message On 13 August 2010 09:08, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:10:02 -0700 (PDT), BRM wrote: but even so - they are saying this has to be done on every reboot, and that's not much of a solution. Put the commands in /etc/conf.d/local.start, or the start section of /etc/conf.d/local if using baselayout2. Have you been through the guidance in this page to find out which kernel driver you ought to use with your card? http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 Yes. Unfortunately it's a 14e4:4320/ with BCM4306/2 Chip set (4306 Rev 2), so it requires the b43-legacy driver, and only firmware version FW10 supports the hardware from what I can tell. It just seems to me that I went from a working wireless on 2.6.30 to a non-working wireless on 2.6.34. I'd really like to get back to a working wireless card, and be on the newer kernel. I feel your pain, Ben. I remember about three years ago having my laptop working great with all manner of 802.11 cards. I could do my work anywhere in the house. And then it all just kind of melted. A new kernel for one thing but somehow something else fell apart. I've pretty much written off any wireless on Linux now. My time is worth more than the hours of troubleshooting. Keep plugging, you just might get it. Well, there's always ndiswrapper and the MSWindows driver to consider, when all Linux solutions fail or don't work that well. I see on kernel v2.6.34-gentoo-r1 that CONFIG_B43LEGACY will now use V3 firmware, which must be installed separately using b43-fwcutter. Has the OP tried that? PS. The kernel help is also recommending that b43legacy is installed as a module. I read again your original post. I think that you have been trying to use the wrong firmware. The link I suggested recommends that you use b43_fwcutter to install this firmware: http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o Alternatively, you may want to experiment with whatever is the latest firmware in Broadcom's website and see if any of those work. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Extraordinarily laggy UI, keyboard, udev weirdness, KDE 4.5
On 2010-08-14 10:36, Paul Hartman wrote: I downgraded to kernel 2.6.34.3 and everything runs smoothly again. No more hangs or sluggishness. It would seem that something in 2.6.35 series kernels does not like my computer, or something in my computer does not like 2.6.35 series kernels. Not sure if this is related (esp. since you have an nvidia card using proprietary drivers) but it may provide some insights to your problem: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16265 Best regards Peter K
Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail storage of TLS certificate
On Saturday 14 August 2010 10:09:00 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 10 August 2010, Mick wrote: Any idea how I can reset this certificate as far as Kmail is concerned? When has it stored my clicking to save the acceptance of the certificate and how can I reset this? you can always dive into .kde/ and remove the offending lines from the config files... Thanks, that's what I'm trying to find out - which file and which lines. I've had a poke around but couldn't find anything relevant. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kmail storage of TLS certificate
On Saturday 14 August 2010 01:00:57 Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 08/10/2010 11:53 AM, Mick wrote: ... Any idea how I can reset this certificate as far as Kmail is concerned? When has it stored my clicking to save the acceptance of the certificate and how can I reset this? Maybe my alpha-test version of thunderbird is broken (it often is :) but I don't see any replies from the kde regulars in this group. Hey! Wake up! Back in the good old 3.x days I tried kmail and liked it a lot. Then came the dark days of 4.x and I had to escape from kde before the last bit of my sanity failed me. I seem to recall a submenu in kmail that let me manipulate certificates, much like mozilla, and now thunderbird. Is my memory failing me again? Maybe the menu disappeared with 4.x? You need a kde guru like Dale or Alan. Hey! Wake up and answer the question! Dale gave up on Kmail a long time ago. I like the way Seamonkey does mail so I sort of stuck with it, although the upgrade form 1.x to 2.x was touchy. I did read somewhere where someone else was having issues but I'm not sure it is the same thing. It may have been on the kde mailing list tho. Maybe someone can search the archives and see if they find something? I'll try to search later but got some things to do plus it is stormy here. No rain for a month so not complaining about mother nature's tummy rumbling. lol Dale :-) :-) I think that Walter is referring to Kleopatra. I couldn't find the mail server certificate in there. This was the first place I looked. I also used gpgsm -k just in case Kleopatra was being difficult, but nothing was shown in there either. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] problems building x11-libs/gtk+-2.20.1-r1
Hi Alex! I solved the problem. There's a workaround! I had to merge at first cairo and then pango. This is what gentoo didn't make, the hell I know why. Tamer Am 14.08.2010 17:01, schrieb Alex Schuster: Alan McKinnon writes: On Friday 13 August 2010 16:09:48 Tamer Higazi wrote: checking Pango flags... configure: error: *** Pango not found. Pango built with Cairo support is required *** to build GTK+. See http://www.pango.org for Pango information. Did you read this? It says to build pango with cairo support. Did you build pango with cairo support? Don't just say yes, prove it with output from eg. eix He didn't, as there is no cairo use flag for pango, eix pango|grep cairo returns nothing. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]
On 13. 8. 2010 21:05, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Bill Longmanbill.long...@gmail.com wrote: Basically just run VMWare/Virtualbox etc and put the services in there. well, these solutions are way bigger (iow: more resource intensive), since they run a complete operation system instance within the virtual machine. That is why I picked up Linux-VServer (actually, first I tried OpenVZ but could not make it run). It is a kind of compromise, where all guests share the same kernel. This brings certain security implications, but on the other side, I can run dozens of guest on a moderate machine, with 4-cores and 8GB memory (i.e. a guest running bind takes just about 20MB of memory)... The only service running on my host (main system) is sshd, which I secured as much as I could. Everything else (web, mail, dns, ftp, syslog, X, and plenty of users' services) runs on its own guest-system, chrooted in addition (where it was possible). Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.
[gentoo-user] Re: Mumble doesn't work anymore
On 08/12/2010 09:56 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Trying to start Mumble (version 1.2.2) aborts with: SSL: Added CA certificates from '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt' No ciphers of at least 128 bit found Aborted I did file a bug about it (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332245) but no solution thus far. I don't know what to do. Did anyone encounter this error before? I would run mumble with strace to see where it's looking when it aborts. I expect it probably looks in quite a few directories for a certain file or files, and doesn't find what it's looking for. Also, does mumble have config files in /etc or your ~ directory? Try moving them out of the way and see what happens.
Re: [gentoo-user] problems building x11-libs/gtk+-2.20.1-r1
pango could be built without cairo support, the configure script should have checked if pango was built with cairo support. Tamer Am 13.08.2010 19:28, schrieb Bill Longman: On 08/13/2010 08:22 AM, Tamer Higazi wrote: As you told me I merged lafilefixer and ran lafilefixer --justfixit then I executed revdep-rebuild which wants to remerge a huge amout of packages who because libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 was missing, or couldn't be linked at the end, revdep-rebuild wants to emerge a package called eel which is masked: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy gnome-base/eel have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - gnome-base/eel-2.24.1 (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org (12 Jul 2010) # Masked for removal in 30 days. # No longer developed by upstream, fails with forced as-needed (bug #277169), # does not compile against gnome-desktop-2.30 (bug #311563). but I want to upgrade my system, and love to solve this Pango Cairo problem if you have anymore ideas, I would thank you. Do you know about the -t option for emerge? It shows you which package is responsible for pulling in another package. You might also want to try euse -I cairo which will tell you which packages are affected by the cairo use flag. Your emerge --info shows that you do have cairo turned on, but as Alan states, you should show emerge -pv pango or emerge -pv cairo (or whatever package you're trying to fix). Pango doesn't has a specific cairo use flag so you may need to recompile pango's dependencies. Basically, what you're trying to do is step back from the package that's giving you the trouble, and compile the packages that your problematic package needs to function. Obviously, this is a geometric expansion to some extent, but revdep-rebuild is there to help you solve the puzzle. Also, qdepends is really handy.
[gentoo-user] cannot find -lpng12
I am still trying to get the last 50 packages merged, at gnome-panel (and others too), png 1.2 flag is not recognized, but libpng 1.2 is installed, and I don't know where to fund the error. for any advises thank you Tamer Here the error: CCLD gnome-panel /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lpng12 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[4]: *** [gnome-panel] Fehler 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.30.2/work/gnome-panel-2.30.2/gnome-panel' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.30.2/work/gnome-panel-2.30.2/gnome-panel' make[2]: *** [all] Fehler 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.30.2/work/gnome-panel-2.30.2/gnome-panel' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.30.2/work/gnome-panel-2.30.2' make: *** [all] Fehler 2 * ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.30.2 failed: * compile failure * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 54: Called src_compile * environment, line 3200: Called gnome2_src_compile * environment, line 2527: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die compile failure * * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info =gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.30.2', * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv =gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.30.2'. * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.30.2/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.30.2/temp/environment'. * S: '/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.30.2/work/gnome-panel-2.30.2' Failed to emerge gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.30.2, Log file: '/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.30.2/temp/build.log' * Messages for package gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.30.2: * ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.30.2 failed: * compile failure * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 54: Called src_compile * environment, line 3200: Called gnome2_src_compile * environment, line 2527: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die compile failure * * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info =gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.30.2', * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv =gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.30.2'. * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.30.2/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.30.2/temp/environment'. * S: '/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.30.2/work/gnome-panel-2.30.2' * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items.
Re: [gentoo-user] cannot find -lpng12
On Saturday 14 August 2010 23:43:03 Tamer Higazi wrote: I am still trying to get the last 50 packages merged, at gnome-panel (and others too), png 1.2 flag is not recognized, but libpng 1.2 is installed, and I don't know where to fund the error. You'll probably need to go through a round of lafilefixer --justfixit and then revdep-rebuild a few times to get to a sane working system again. It's hit stable systems a couple of months back, so you can search this M/L, read the thread posted on Friday titled emerge conflict and of course, you can also read this: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/06/29/stable-users-libpng-update -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
