[gentoo-user] dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2 requires SIP v4.13.3 or later
Howdy, I'm doing my KDE4 upgrades and ran into this: root@fireball / # cat /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2/temp/build.log * Package:dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2 * Repository: gentoo * Maintainer: q...@gentoo.org pyt...@gentoo.org * Upstream: p...@riverbankcomputing.com p...@riverbankcomputing.com * USE:X amd64 consolekit dbus declarative elibc_glibc kde kernel_linux multilib opengl phonon policykit sql svg userland_GNU webkit * FEATURES: preserve-libs sandbox Unpacking source... Unpacking PyQt-x11-gpl-4.9.2.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2/work Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2/work Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2/work/PyQt-x11-gpl-4.9.2 ... * Applying PyQt4-4.7.2-configure.py.patch ... [ ok ] * Preparation of dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2 with CPython 2.7... * Preparation of dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2 with CPython 3.2... Source prepared. Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2/work/PyQt-x11-gpl-4.9.2 ... * Configuration of dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2 with CPython 2.7... python2.7 configure.py --confirm-license --bindir=/usr/bin --destdir=/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages --sipdir=/usr/share/sip --assume-shared --no-timestamp --qsci-api --enable=QtCore --enable=QtNetwork --enable=QtScript --enable=QtXml --enable=QtGui --enable=QtDesigner --enable=QtScriptTools --enable=QtTest --enable=QtDBus --enable=QtDeclarative --enable=QtOpenGL --enable=phonon --enable=QtSql --enable=QtSvg --enable=QtWebKit CC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc CXX=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ LINK=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ LINK_SHLIB=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ CFLAGS=-march=native -O2 -pipe CXXFLAGS=-march=native -O2 -pipe LFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed Error: This version of PyQt requires SIP v4.13.3 or later * ERROR: dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2 failed (configure phase): * (no error message) * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 85: Called src_configure * environment, line 4969: Called python_execute_function '-s' 'configuration' * environment, line 3264: Called configuration * environment, line 4954: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * ${myconf[@]} || die; * * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2'`, * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2'`. * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2/temp/environment'. * Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2/work/PyQt-x11-gpl-4.9.2-2.7' * S: '/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2/work/PyQt-x11-gpl-4.9.2' root@fireball / # I notice tho that portage seems to have failed to notice this was needed. Should I file a bug report or is this just me? Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--quiet-build=n
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers + kernel 3.4
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 05:49:39AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote I don't suspend on my machines: Nvidia is running on my desktop PC. I live in a condo building, with a separate electric meter for each suite. I'm conserving a valuable resource, i.e. my bank account G, by shutting down the machine overnight, etc. I noticed a problem with suspend, but I didn't realize the connection with Nvidia 302.17. I do have a problem that occasionally an image on Firefox overflows this then infects all the other desktop displays: it is cured by killing FF re-opening it. That seems, however, to be due to Firefox 13 or possibly Flash, not to Nvidia, which I've only just updated. It seems to be a problem with Nvidia+Flash. E.g. start a Youtube Flash video in FF. Then drag an xterm over the FF window. You've seen the images where xterms have a background image? Well this goes one step further... there's actually a live video image playing under the text. Somewhat distracting, to say the least. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Re: [gentoo-user] I/net server throttling
On Friday 22 Jun 2012 05:41:14 Philip Webb wrote: In recent weeks, I've seen many instances of downloads of files coming in small segments, which seem to be the same for each server, but vary between different servers. Some Gentoo mirrors suffer this way -- not all -- some general news sites, eg when delivering videos, which run for a few secs, then freeze, then resume etc. Once I observed a server doing this for several hours (a large file), then suddenly loosening up delivering the rest of the file in one go. Does anyone else have similar experiences or any comments ? Yes, when I use the wireless network at work. It could be the ISP or it could be other users taking up bandwidth. Really early in the morning performance is generally higher than during work hours. So what I'm saying is that this could be due to contention on the local network, or the ISP's pipe. Do you get such problems off peak hours? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Should I re-emerge after switching to new gcc profile?
On 06/21/2012 09:44:28 PM, walt wrote: On 06/21/2012 08:40 AM, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: Now, the question is: Do I need to re-emerge something due to having new gcc? I'm pretty sure not, but just wanted to ask. Technically, you should re-emerge c++ apps because you are now using a newer version of libstc++. IRL I suspect that nobody bothers to do that, but it's nice to know in case something c++ starts misbehaving right after updating gcc. I have never had any problems with C++ applications. What definitely doesn't work, is to compile a C++ application with a newer compiler and try to run it on an old system, i.e. a system where the newer libstdc++ is not installed. Helmut.
Re: [gentoo-user] I/net server throttling
120622 Mick wrote: On Friday 22 Jun 2012 05:41:14 Philip Webb wrote: In recent weeks, I've seen many instances of downloads of files coming in small segments, which seem to be the same for each server, but vary between different servers. Some Gentoo mirrors suffer this way -- not all -- some general news sites, eg when delivering videos, which run for a few secs, then freeze, then resume etc. Once I observed a server doing this for several hours (a large file), then suddenly loosening up delivering the rest of the file in one go. Yes, when I use the wireless network at work. It could be the ISP or it could be other users taking up bandwidth. Really early in the morning performance is generally higher than during work hours. this could be due to contention on the local network or the ISP's pipe. Do you get such problems off peak hours? I think you're describing a different phenomenon, traffic jams (smile). That sometimes happens here may persist for 1 - 2 weeks , but it feels just like driving on the highway when 1 lane is closed. That probably is some piece of the Internet or ISP under repair or test. What I'm refering to is getting downloaded files in slices, eg using Wget, a piece of the file downloads for 22 sec , then stops; Wget tries again another 22 sec piece comes down the pipe, then stops. This can go on for hours with a big file doesn't seem related to the local time of day. My guess is that the server has been programmed to stop after 22 sec in an effort to share access among many clients, but it is irritating also suggests the server needs faster hardware. Have others noticed this -- it seems to be a recent innovation -- is it a known ploy of server managers ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/PyQt4-4.9.2 requires SIP v4.13.3 or later
Dale writes: I'm doing my KDE4 upgrades and ran into this: [...] Error: This version of PyQt requires SIP v4.13.3 or later [...] I notice tho that portage seems to have failed to notice this was needed. Should I file a bug report or is this just me? File a bug. There is a DEPEND line in the ebuild, but that states it needs =dev-python/sip-4.13.1, not 4.13.3. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] I/net server throttling
On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 05:10 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: 120622 Mick wrote: On Friday 22 Jun 2012 05:41:14 Philip Webb wrote: In recent weeks, I've seen many instances of downloads of files coming in small segments, which seem to be the same for each server, but vary between different servers. Some Gentoo mirrors suffer this way -- not all -- some general news sites, eg when delivering videos, which run for a few secs, then freeze, then resume etc. Once I observed a server doing this for several hours (a large file), then suddenly loosening up delivering the rest of the file in one go. Yes, when I use the wireless network at work. It could be the ISP or it could be other users taking up bandwidth. Really early in the morning performance is generally higher than during work hours. this could be due to contention on the local network or the ISP's pipe. Do you get such problems off peak hours? I think you're describing a different phenomenon, traffic jams (smile). That sometimes happens here may persist for 1 - 2 weeks , but it feels just like driving on the highway when 1 lane is closed. That probably is some piece of the Internet or ISP under repair or test. What I'm refering to is getting downloaded files in slices, eg using Wget, a piece of the file downloads for 22 sec , then stops; Wget tries again another 22 sec piece comes down the pipe, then stops. This can go on for hours with a big file doesn't seem related to the local time of day. My guess is that the server has been programmed to stop after 22 sec in an effort to share access among many clients, but it is irritating also suggests the server needs faster hardware. Have others noticed this -- it seems to be a recent innovation -- is it a known ploy of server managers ? Are you using traffic shaping like a police filter, or is there shaping somewhere in the path? - most of the linux shaping methods work on a burst principle that produces a given throughput by gating the traffic for an average throughput. I have seen the effect you mention with block transfer protocols (ftp) and wget when trying to use its built in bandwidth regulation which works similarly to when traffic shaping is in effect. There seems to be an interaction between the two instances of regulating the traffic to create an effect like you have seen. This also affects other traffic trying to use the link at the same time as the available bandwidth gets very choppy. I have less experience with other than linux based shaping methods such as Cisco QoS methods but have not seen the same effect there. BillK
[gentoo-user] got error while emerging virtualbox-modules-4.1.12
got error while emerging virtualbox-modules-4.1.12 http://pastebin.com/NBN9Xvk4 new system profile hardened/linux/amd64 kernel build with genkernel all any thoughts pls ps. sorry, mb write this second time (have problem with shared mail server)
Re: [gentoo-user] got error while emerging virtualbox-modules-4.1.12
On 22.06.2012 12:48, Александр wrote: got error while emerging virtualbox-modules-4.1.12 http://pastebin.com/NBN9Xvk4 new system profile hardened/linux/amd64 kernel build with genkernel all any thoughts pls ps. sorry, mb write this second time (have problem with shared mail server) 1) post the bug according to the directions given in If you need support ... or 2) have a look at the offending line in SUPDrvIDC.h:163:22:, maybe you can fix it. then rebuild the digest (build virtualbox-modules-4.1.12.build digest) and emerge again. you need to protect this ebuild, too, because otherwise it will be overridden at the next emerge --sync or 3) wait a couple of days and try again, the error might then be fixed 1) is preferable, developers need to know if something is wrong. regards, michael
Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?
On 2012-06-22 12:04 AM, Matthew Marlowe m...@professionalsysadmin.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I could get 2 of these for each server, each with a mirrored pair of CF (or SD) cards (mirror mode is defined by a jumper or switch on the adapter), then mirror those (in the BIOS), which would result in a total of FOUR CF (or SD) redundant cards (a mirror of 2 mirrored pairs) for the hypervisor... and I can do this for quite a bit less than even a SINGLE 146GB SAS drive... Is there any reason NOT to do this? If you have a small ESX cluster, there are numerous advantages to having some local storage on each your ESX hosts in addition to your primary SAN storage: We actually will be using ONLY local storage... Dell R515's with 8 450GB SAS drives in RAID10 (with one hot spare assigned)... A decent SAN wasn't in the budget (yet, but we may go that route in a year or two)... - Lastly, I never really have been a fan of ESXi as an upgrade from ESX.seems that it was more driven by vmware making windows admins feel more confident since they didn't have to learn linux for ESX console. This is a new install, so not an 'upgrade'... But, there is nothing keeping you from getting mirrored CF/SD cards for the hypervisor boot and also keeping a few mirrored 2TB SATA drives on each host for local datastores (7200rpm SATA is much cheaper than 15K rpm SAS). I do plan on having a couple of large SATA drives in RAID0 (for speed) for temporary snapshots (which I then backup using rsnapshot or my VM backup s/w) and for if I ever need to add some drives to my RAID10 (probably won't, the 1.7TB I'll have is 4 times what we have now which is only 70% utilized)... I get the CF cards today (already have the adapters), so we'll see how this goes this weekend...
Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?
On 2012-06-22 12:04 AM, Matthew Marlowe m...@professionalsysadmin.com wrote: But, there is nothing keeping you from getting mirrored CF/SD cards for the hypervisor boot Also, my questions was more just to which cards are considered best/most stable - SD or CF...
Re: [gentoo-user] got error while emerging virtualbox-modules-4.1.12
Александр wrote: got error while emerging virtualbox-modules-4.1.12 Look here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394219 -Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-06-22 12:04 AM, Matthew Marlowe m...@professionalsysadmin.com wrote: But, there is nothing keeping you from getting mirrored CF/SD cards for the hypervisor boot Also, my questions was more just to which cards are considered best/most stable - SD or CF... Ultimately they both probably have the same flash chips inside of them so if your main concern is reliability, I don't think it matters. If your concern is performance, CF seems to be used in more professional applications and more high-speed CF cards are readily available. In either case I would suggest avoiding the cheap no-name brands. Sandisk Extreme Pro is likely the fastest card you can buy (of either CF or SD form factor), it is available up to 100MB/sec write speeds, but of course your card reader/host needs to support speeds like that. Sandisk also routinely has more than 10x the random I/O performance of most of the other brands which is important when using it on a computer and not in a linear recording device (photos/video).
Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?
On 2012-06-22 11:00 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Also, my questions was more just to which cards are considered best/most stable - SD or CF... Ultimately they both probably have the same flash chips inside of them so if your main concern is reliability, I don't think it matters. If your concern is performance, CF seems to be used in more professional applications and more high-speed CF cards are readily available. In either case I would suggest avoiding the cheap no-name brands. Sandisk Extreme Pro is likely the fastest card you can buy (of either CF or SD form factor), it is available up to 100MB/sec write speeds, but of course your card reader/host needs to support speeds like that. Sandisk also routinely has more than 10x the random I/O performance of most of the other brands which is important when using it on a computer and not in a linear recording device (photos/video). Thanks Paul, that's all pretty much what I'd concluded as well from my research... I went with the 4GB SanDisk Ultra though (30MB/s), since these will only be used to boot the VMWare hypervisor (which runs fully in RAM once it is booted)... Now I'm looking forward to seeing them in action this weekend... :)
[gentoo-user] Need Help!
Hi All, I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC. Any help is greatly appreciated. -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-06-22 11:00 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Also, my questions was more just to which cards are considered best/most stable - SD or CF... Ultimately they both probably have the same flash chips inside of them so if your main concern is reliability, I don't think it matters. If your concern is performance, CF seems to be used in more professional applications and more high-speed CF cards are readily available. In either case I would suggest avoiding the cheap no-name brands. Sandisk Extreme Pro is likely the fastest card you can buy (of either CF or SD form factor), it is available up to 100MB/sec write speeds, but of course your card reader/host needs to support speeds like that. Sandisk also routinely has more than 10x the random I/O performance of most of the other brands which is important when using it on a computer and not in a linear recording device (photos/video). Thanks Paul, that's all pretty much what I'd concluded as well from my research... I went with the 4GB SanDisk Ultra though (30MB/s), since these will only be used to boot the VMWare hypervisor (which runs fully in RAM once it is booted)... Now I'm looking forward to seeing them in action this weekend... :) OK, I missed that piece. I presumed there would be writes to the hard disk. Any reason you can't have these guys netboot? -- :wq
[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers + kernel 3.4
On 22/06/12 15:30, walt wrote: On 06/21/2012 12:47 PM, walt wrote: On 06/20/2012 07:46 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 20/06/12 17:04, walt wrote: On 06/18/2012 02:29 AM, Philip Webb wrote: 120615 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: 2012/6/15 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net after installing Kernel 3.4 , Nvidia-drivers 295.49 wouldn't compile. I can see that 295.53 and 295.59 are available. Use 295.59. I've updated to the latest testing 302.17 it's working ok so far. I just did the same update. I thought at first everything was okay, then I ran glxgears, which runs at 1/5 normal speed. Going back to 295.59 fixed it. Very puzzling, since there was nothing unusual in Xorg.0.log. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=176815 Would you mind translating that bulletin into Greek so I can understand it? ;) Aha. I re-emerged nvidia-drivers-302.17 and the lightbulb lit up: $glxgears Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate. 302 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.292 FPS Sure enough, my monitor's vertical refresh rate is 60Hz. I guess the logic is that the video card needn't render more frames than the monitor can display each second? Yes. You can set this stuff up in the nvidia-settings control panel. Unfortunately, the Gentoo nvidia-drivers ebuild isn't the best, and it doesn't install a start-up launch script for nvidia-settings (like Ubuntu and other distros do.) So when you change settings, you need to manually run nvidia-settings to restore them again after every login. I solved this problem by creating an executable file: /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/95-nvidia-settings with the following contents: #!/bin/sh [ -x /opt/bin/nvidia-settings ] /opt/bin/nvidia-settings --load-config-only /dev/null 21 This restores the settings automatically on every X11 login. Ah well, welcome to Gentoo :-P
[gentoo-user] Re: Need Help!
On 06/22/2012 09:20 AM, Willie wrote: Hi All, I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC. Can you give us more details about the symptoms? What steps do you follow and what do you see, for example, when the machine finishes booting up? What do you do to log in, and what do you do to (try) to open a window?
Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!
Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 09:20:24 schrieb Willie: Hi All, I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC. Any help is greatly appreciated. dmesg, Xorg.0.log, .xsession-errors... for starters. -- #163933
Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!
Fist thing I do is start XDM, login with my normal users. I can't open Session and Startup. Like I said before, I haven't been on it in XFCE for a long time. When I do that the screen becomes blurry, no keyboard, mouse or ssh access to the computer. I assume that the entire computer is frozen. There is nothing in /var/log/messages but a jump in time from when it crashed to when it started to boot again. Can't read dmesg, if I am not mistaken that starts over when you restart the computer. Haven't tried to read the Xorg.0.log or the .xsession-errors yet. I am going to try it again now and see what it says about this. On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 09:20:24 schrieb Willie: Hi All, I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC. Any help is greatly appreciated. dmesg, Xorg.0.log, .xsession-errors... for starters. -- #163933 -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!
Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 11:07:55 schrieb Willie: Fist thing I do is start XDM, login with my normal users. I can't open Session and Startup. Like I said before, I haven't been on it in XFCE for a long time. When I do that the screen becomes blurry, no keyboard, mouse or ssh access to the computer. I assume that the entire computer is frozen. There is nothing in /var/log/messages but a jump in time from when it crashed to when it started to boot again. Can't read dmesg, if I am not mistaken that starts over when you restart the computer. Haven't tried to read the Xorg.0.log or the .xsession-errors yet. I am going to try it again now and see what it says about this. protipp: in local.start: dmesg /dmesg.out On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 09:20:24 schrieb Willie: Hi All, I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC. Any help is greatly appreciated. dmesg, Xorg.0.log, .xsession-errors... for starters. -- #163933 -- #163933
Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Fist thing I do is start XDM, login with my normal users. I can't open Session and Startup. Like I said before, I haven't been on it in XFCE for a long time. When I do that the screen becomes blurry, no keyboard, mouse or ssh access to the computer. I assume that the entire computer is frozen. There is nothing in /var/log/messages but a jump in time from when it crashed to when it started to boot again. Can't read dmesg, if I am not mistaken that starts over when you restart the computer. Haven't tried to read the Xorg.0.log or the .xsession-errors yet. I am going to try it again now and see what it says about this. On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 09:20:24 schrieb Willie: Hi All, I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC. Any help is greatly appreciated. dmesg, Xorg.0.log, .xsession-errors... for starters. -- #163933 -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com The two files are empty after a reboot. -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Fist thing I do is start XDM, login with my normal users. I can't open Session and Startup. Like I said before, I haven't been on it in XFCE for a long time. When I do that the screen becomes blurry, no keyboard, mouse or ssh access to the computer. I assume that the entire computer is frozen. There is nothing in /var/log/messages but a jump in time from when it crashed to when it started to boot again. Can't read dmesg, if I am not mistaken that starts over when you restart the computer. Haven't tried to read the Xorg.0.log or the .xsession-errors yet. I am going to try it again now and see what it says about this. On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 09:20:24 schrieb Willie: Hi All, I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC. Any help is greatly appreciated. dmesg, Xorg.0.log, .xsession-errors... for starters. [snip] The two files are empty after a reboot. Any Xorg.*.log file would help. dmesg's prior output should find its way into /var/log/messages In any case, try removing xdm from your default runlevel, and run startx and your X session manually? -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC. Any help is greatly appreciated. Be sure to emerge --oneshot @x11-module-rebuild after upgrading xorg stuff. Drivers might be out of sync and maybe that's causing your pain. Try to delete/rename your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that makes a difference. Modern Xorg can start a basic environment without it. Try to run startx as a user instead of using xdm and see if you get any better errors/logs. If you have another computer/device SSH into your problematic computer before starting X so you can see if it's still alive, just unresponsive at the local terminal. Maybe then you can see logs and stuff. revdep-rebuild just to ensure everything is consistent on your system.
Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC. Any help is greatly appreciated. Be sure to emerge --oneshot @x11-module-rebuild after upgrading xorg stuff. Drivers might be out of sync and maybe that's causing your pain. Try to delete/rename your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that makes a difference. Modern Xorg can start a basic environment without it. Try to run startx as a user instead of using xdm and see if you get any better errors/logs. If you have another computer/device SSH into your problematic computer before starting X so you can see if it's still alive, just unresponsive at the local terminal. Maybe then you can see logs and stuff. revdep-rebuild just to ensure everything is consistent on your system. I rebuild all of my x11-drivers it rebuild the nvidia driver along with a couple of others. I used startx and got the errors below. I have a feeling it has something to do with my nVidia card (Geforce 8400GS) SSH is not active anymore. It is also the computer that shares the internet and no one can access the internet either. Okay now I think we are getting somewhere. Didn't think to leave XDM out but I did do it. It still froze but I got some useful information soon as it did freeze. This is from /var/log/messages Jun 22 11:52:52 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 6, PE0001 Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 3, C 0002 SC 0003 M 0100 Data Jun 22 11:53:03 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:53:05 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:53:08 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context That was printed as soon as XFCE froze. -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC. Any help is greatly appreciated. Be sure to emerge --oneshot @x11-module-rebuild after upgrading xorg stuff. Drivers might be out of sync and maybe that's causing your pain. Try to delete/rename your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that makes a difference. Modern Xorg can start a basic environment without it. Try to run startx as a user instead of using xdm and see if you get any better errors/logs. If you have another computer/device SSH into your problematic computer before starting X so you can see if it's still alive, just unresponsive at the local terminal. Maybe then you can see logs and stuff. revdep-rebuild just to ensure everything is consistent on your system. I rebuild all of my x11-drivers it rebuild the nvidia driver along with a couple of others. I used startx and got the errors below. I have a feeling it has something to do with my nVidia card (Geforce 8400GS) SSH is not active anymore. It is also the computer that shares the internet and no one can access the internet either. Okay now I think we are getting somewhere. Didn't think to leave XDM out but I did do it. It still froze but I got some useful information soon as it did freeze. This is from /var/log/messages Jun 22 11:52:52 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 6, PE0001 Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 3, C 0002 SC 0003 M 0100 Data Jun 22 11:53:03 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:53:05 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:53:08 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context That was printed as soon as XFCE froze. What do you have for VIDEO_CARDS in /etc/make.conf? -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC. Any help is greatly appreciated. Be sure to emerge --oneshot @x11-module-rebuild after upgrading xorg stuff. Drivers might be out of sync and maybe that's causing your pain. Try to delete/rename your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that makes a difference. Modern Xorg can start a basic environment without it. Try to run startx as a user instead of using xdm and see if you get any better errors/logs. If you have another computer/device SSH into your problematic computer before starting X so you can see if it's still alive, just unresponsive at the local terminal. Maybe then you can see logs and stuff. revdep-rebuild just to ensure everything is consistent on your system. I rebuild all of my x11-drivers it rebuild the nvidia driver along with a couple of others. I used startx and got the errors below. I have a feeling it has something to do with my nVidia card (Geforce 8400GS) SSH is not active anymore. It is also the computer that shares the internet and no one can access the internet either. Okay now I think we are getting somewhere. Didn't think to leave XDM out but I did do it. It still froze but I got some useful information soon as it did freeze. This is from /var/log/messages Jun 22 11:52:52 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 6, PE0001 Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 3, C 0002 SC 0003 M 0100 Data Jun 22 11:53:03 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:53:05 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:53:08 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context That was printed as soon as XFCE froze. Okay, now I googled those errors and it seems to be a fairly common problem. The workaround I saw is to add nolapic_timer to your kernel commandline. Try that, reboot and cross your fingers. ;)
Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC. Any help is greatly appreciated. Be sure to emerge --oneshot @x11-module-rebuild after upgrading xorg stuff. Drivers might be out of sync and maybe that's causing your pain. Try to delete/rename your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that makes a difference. Modern Xorg can start a basic environment without it. Try to run startx as a user instead of using xdm and see if you get any better errors/logs. If you have another computer/device SSH into your problematic computer before starting X so you can see if it's still alive, just unresponsive at the local terminal. Maybe then you can see logs and stuff. revdep-rebuild just to ensure everything is consistent on your system. I rebuild all of my x11-drivers it rebuild the nvidia driver along with a couple of others. I used startx and got the errors below. I have a feeling it has something to do with my nVidia card (Geforce 8400GS) SSH is not active anymore. It is also the computer that shares the internet and no one can access the internet either. Okay now I think we are getting somewhere. Didn't think to leave XDM out but I did do it. It still froze but I got some useful information soon as it did freeze. This is from /var/log/messages Jun 22 11:52:52 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 6, PE0001 Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 3, C 0002 SC 0003 M 0100 Data Jun 22 11:53:03 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:53:05 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:53:08 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context That was printed as soon as XFCE froze. Okay, now I googled those errors and it seems to be a fairly common problem. The workaround I saw is to add nolapic_timer to your kernel commandline. Try that, reboot and cross your fingers. ;) Yeah I see that too. Tried to add that to my grub.conf/menu.lst. It did not work for me. I rebuild my kernel for nouveau drivers. Rebuilt xorg-drivers and mesa, installed xf86-video-nouveau. So far it is not working, still might have to do some tweaking. -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!
Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 14:51:04 schrieb Willie: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC. Any help is greatly appreciated. Be sure to emerge --oneshot @x11-module-rebuild after upgrading xorg stuff. Drivers might be out of sync and maybe that's causing your pain. Try to delete/rename your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that makes a difference. Modern Xorg can start a basic environment without it. Try to run startx as a user instead of using xdm and see if you get any better errors/logs. If you have another computer/device SSH into your problematic computer before starting X so you can see if it's still alive, just unresponsive at the local terminal. Maybe then you can see logs and stuff. revdep-rebuild just to ensure everything is consistent on your system. I rebuild all of my x11-drivers it rebuild the nvidia driver along with a couple of others. I used startx and got the errors below. I have a feeling it has something to do with my nVidia card (Geforce 8400GS) SSH is not active anymore. It is also the computer that shares the internet and no one can access the internet either. Okay now I think we are getting somewhere. Didn't think to leave XDM out but I did do it. It still froze but I got some useful information soon as it did freeze. This is from /var/log/messages Jun 22 11:52:52 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 6, PE0001 Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 3, C 0002 SC 0003 M 0100 Data Jun 22 11:53:03 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:53:05 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:53:08 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context That was printed as soon as XFCE froze. Okay, now I googled those errors and it seems to be a fairly common problem. The workaround I saw is to add nolapic_timer to your kernel commandline. Try that, reboot and cross your fingers. ;) Yeah I see that too. Tried to add that to my grub.conf/menu.lst. It did not work for me. I rebuild my kernel for nouveau drivers. Rebuilt xorg-drivers and mesa, installed xf86-video-nouveau. So far it is not working, still might have to do some tweaking. if you use nvidia binary, turn off all nvidia graphics related stuff in the kernel and to be sure nothing screws you over - unmerge nouveau. If you use nouveau, try the binary driver. There are reasons, Linus does not like nvidia very much. -- #163933
Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 14:51:04 schrieb Willie: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC. Any help is greatly appreciated. Be sure to emerge --oneshot @x11-module-rebuild after upgrading xorg stuff. Drivers might be out of sync and maybe that's causing your pain. Try to delete/rename your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that makes a difference. Modern Xorg can start a basic environment without it. Try to run startx as a user instead of using xdm and see if you get any better errors/logs. If you have another computer/device SSH into your problematic computer before starting X so you can see if it's still alive, just unresponsive at the local terminal. Maybe then you can see logs and stuff. revdep-rebuild just to ensure everything is consistent on your system. I rebuild all of my x11-drivers it rebuild the nvidia driver along with a couple of others. I used startx and got the errors below. I have a feeling it has something to do with my nVidia card (Geforce 8400GS) SSH is not active anymore. It is also the computer that shares the internet and no one can access the internet either. Okay now I think we are getting somewhere. Didn't think to leave XDM out but I did do it. It still froze but I got some useful information soon as it did freeze. This is from /var/log/messages Jun 22 11:52:52 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 6, PE0001 Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 3, C 0002 SC 0003 M 0100 Data Jun 22 11:53:03 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:53:05 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:53:08 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context That was printed as soon as XFCE froze. Okay, now I googled those errors and it seems to be a fairly common problem. The workaround I saw is to add nolapic_timer to your kernel commandline. Try that, reboot and cross your fingers. ;) Yeah I see that too. Tried to add that to my grub.conf/menu.lst. It did not work for me. I rebuild my kernel for nouveau drivers. Rebuilt xorg-drivers and mesa, installed xf86-video-nouveau. So far it is not working, still might have to do some tweaking. if you use nvidia binary, turn off all nvidia graphics related stuff in the kernel and to be sure nothing screws you over - unmerge nouveau. If you use nouveau, try the binary driver. There are reasons, Linus does not like nvidia very much. And if you use the nvidia binary driver be sure to blacklist nouveau module so it does not autoload in case the module is still around from a previous build.
Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 14:51:04 schrieb Willie: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC. Any help is greatly appreciated. Be sure to emerge --oneshot @x11-module-rebuild after upgrading xorg stuff. Drivers might be out of sync and maybe that's causing your pain. Try to delete/rename your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that makes a difference. Modern Xorg can start a basic environment without it. Try to run startx as a user instead of using xdm and see if you get any better errors/logs. If you have another computer/device SSH into your problematic computer before starting X so you can see if it's still alive, just unresponsive at the local terminal. Maybe then you can see logs and stuff. revdep-rebuild just to ensure everything is consistent on your system. I rebuild all of my x11-drivers it rebuild the nvidia driver along with a couple of others. I used startx and got the errors below. I have a feeling it has something to do with my nVidia card (Geforce 8400GS) SSH is not active anymore. It is also the computer that shares the internet and no one can access the internet either. Okay now I think we are getting somewhere. Didn't think to leave XDM out but I did do it. It still froze but I got some useful information soon as it did freeze. This is from /var/log/messages Jun 22 11:52:52 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 6, PE0001 Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 3, C 0002 SC 0003 M 0100 Data Jun 22 11:53:03 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:53:05 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:53:08 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context That was printed as soon as XFCE froze. Okay, now I googled those errors and it seems to be a fairly common problem. The workaround I saw is to add nolapic_timer to your kernel commandline. Try that, reboot and cross your fingers. ;) Yeah I see that too. Tried to add that to my grub.conf/menu.lst. It did not work for me. I rebuild my kernel for nouveau drivers. Rebuilt xorg-drivers and mesa, installed xf86-video-nouveau. So far it is not working, still might have to do some tweaking. if you use nvidia binary, turn off all nvidia graphics related stuff in the kernel and to be sure nothing screws you over - unmerge nouveau. If you use nouveau, try the binary driver. There are reasons, Linus does not like nvidia very much. -- #163933 It was working with this same kernel. I can't figure out for the life of me why it is not working now. I have a feeling after 6 months of upgrades something broke in that time. I am fine with the nouveau driver. I only really want a GUI to play movies. -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 14:51:04 schrieb Willie: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC. Any help is greatly appreciated. Be sure to emerge --oneshot @x11-module-rebuild after upgrading xorg stuff. Drivers might be out of sync and maybe that's causing your pain. Try to delete/rename your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that makes a difference. Modern Xorg can start a basic environment without it. Try to run startx as a user instead of using xdm and see if you get any better errors/logs. If you have another computer/device SSH into your problematic computer before starting X so you can see if it's still alive, just unresponsive at the local terminal. Maybe then you can see logs and stuff. revdep-rebuild just to ensure everything is consistent on your system. I rebuild all of my x11-drivers it rebuild the nvidia driver along with a couple of others. I used startx and got the errors below. I have a feeling it has something to do with my nVidia card (Geforce 8400GS) SSH is not active anymore. It is also the computer that shares the internet and no one can access the internet either. Okay now I think we are getting somewhere. Didn't think to leave XDM out but I did do it. It still froze but I got some useful information soon as it did freeze. This is from /var/log/messages Jun 22 11:52:52 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 6, PE0001 Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 3, C 0002 SC 0003 M 0100 Data Jun 22 11:53:03 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:53:05 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:53:08 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context That was printed as soon as XFCE froze. Okay, now I googled those errors and it seems to be a fairly common problem. The workaround I saw is to add nolapic_timer to your kernel commandline. Try that, reboot and cross your fingers. ;) Yeah I see that too. Tried to add that to my grub.conf/menu.lst. It did not work for me. I rebuild my kernel for nouveau drivers. Rebuilt xorg-drivers and mesa, installed xf86-video-nouveau. So far it is not working, still might have to do some tweaking. if you use nvidia binary, turn off all nvidia graphics related stuff in the kernel and to be sure nothing screws you over - unmerge nouveau. If you use nouveau, try the binary driver. There are reasons, Linus does not like nvidia very much. -- #163933 It was working with this same kernel. I can't figure out for the life of me why it is not working now. I have a feeling after 6 months of upgrades something broke in that time. I am fine with the nouveau driver. I only really want a GUI to play movies. -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com A bit off topic but you don't really need a full GUI for movies. Try just X + mplayer, or XBMC. Dunno if those alone would work for you (and you probably want to fix your problems anyway). Depending on your CPU and video card, the proprietary drivers may help you if you can use VDPAU for video acceleration.
Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!
This is for my kid. He likes to watch movies. He knows how to use the shortcut on the desktop. I really don't need to reinvent the wheel on this one. It all works just like he learned it. On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Alecks Gates aleck...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 14:51:04 schrieb Willie: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Willie matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has open without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC. Any help is greatly appreciated. Be sure to emerge --oneshot @x11-module-rebuild after upgrading xorg stuff. Drivers might be out of sync and maybe that's causing your pain. Try to delete/rename your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if that makes a difference. Modern Xorg can start a basic environment without it. Try to run startx as a user instead of using xdm and see if you get any better errors/logs. If you have another computer/device SSH into your problematic computer before starting X so you can see if it's still alive, just unresponsive at the local terminal. Maybe then you can see logs and stuff. revdep-rebuild just to ensure everything is consistent on your system. I rebuild all of my x11-drivers it rebuild the nvidia driver along with a couple of others. I used startx and got the errors below. I have a feeling it has something to do with my nVidia card (Geforce 8400GS) SSH is not active anymore. It is also the computer that shares the internet and no one can access the internet either. Okay now I think we are getting somewhere. Didn't think to leave XDM out but I did do it. It still froze but I got some useful information soon as it did freeze. This is from /var/log/messages Jun 22 11:52:52 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 6, PE0001 Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:52:54 beast kernel: NVRM: Xid (:02:00): 3, C 0002 SC 0003 M 0100 Data Jun 22 11:53:03 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:53:05 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context Jun 22 11:53:08 beast kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context That was printed as soon as XFCE froze. Okay, now I googled those errors and it seems to be a fairly common problem. The workaround I saw is to add nolapic_timer to your kernel commandline. Try that, reboot and cross your fingers. ;) Yeah I see that too. Tried to add that to my grub.conf/menu.lst. It did not work for me. I rebuild my kernel for nouveau drivers. Rebuilt xorg-drivers and mesa, installed xf86-video-nouveau. So far it is not working, still might have to do some tweaking. if you use nvidia binary, turn off all nvidia graphics related stuff in the kernel and to be sure nothing screws you over - unmerge nouveau. If you use nouveau, try the binary driver. There are reasons, Linus does not like nvidia very much. -- #163933 It was working with this same kernel. I can't figure out for the life of me why it is not working now. I have a feeling after 6 months of upgrades something broke in that time. I am fine with the nouveau driver. I only really want a GUI to play movies. -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com A bit off topic but you don't really need a full GUI for movies. Try just X + mplayer, or XBMC. Dunno if those alone would work for you (and you probably want to fix your problems anyway). Depending on your CPU and video card, the proprietary drivers may help you if you can use VDPAU for video acceleration. -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Dmitry Goncharov dgoncha...@users.sf.net wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 10:52:12PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Wow. Just wow. This is incredible. This is repeatable for me. snip * The problem occurred while executing the ebuild file named * 'glibc-2.14.1-r3.ebuild' located in the '/var/db/pkg/sys- snip CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -march=core2 -mcx16 -msahf --param l1-cache-size=32 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=4096 -mtune=core2 -ggdb3 CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} Can you upgrage to glibc-2.15? Sure. It's going to be another full reinstall. Forgot to try this. Will do tomorrow. Can you tweak you gcc flags to something more conventional and see if the problem persists? Those CFLAGS should be equivalent to: CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -ggdb3 --march=native. But I'll try making it just -O2 -pipe --march=native. Just an update: Tried CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe --march=native -ggdb3. Same results. If you are interested in submitting a patch to the upstream then you can build the glibc test suite with your gcc flags and check if the tests pass. I do still have a working gentoo laptop I could try this on...but it has an i3 proc, as opposed to the core 2 xeon or the phenom 9650. Have a link to instructions? -- :wq