[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-2.6.20 vs iptables
Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, This is just a FYI, after upgrading my kernel to 2.6.20, my firewall was broken. I was using firestarter but had the same problem trying to use guarddog. Traced it down to missing the iptables state module. There could have been other modules missing, but I just enabled building them all and that solved my problem. So when you upgrade your kernel, you may want to check: Networking Networking options Network packet filtering framwork Core Netfilter Configuration and build as modules all the Netfilter Xtable support modules HTH, Roy Yeah I fell for that one too... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.2 and portage
Matthew R. Lee wrote: I've just been doing my regular emerge -pvu world and the system wants to update xorg-x11 to 7.2, fine. To do this I needed to add some packages to the packages.keywords file, again fine. My problem is I had to go through the cycle emerge -pvu world add a package to package.keywords 11 times, to deal with the 11 masked packages that xorg-x11-7.2 required. So the question is, is there anyway to get emerge to list all the masked dependencies required all at once? (i.e. when I run emerge -pvu world the first time). I've looked at the man page but didn't see an obvious solution. Thanks Matt It is a mini-repeat of what one had to do to get 7.0 installed. There were a lot more masked packages to add at that time. I still have a script I wrote for that purpose, it adds any encountered unstable ebuilds to the /etc/portage/portage.keywords file and masked ebuilds to /etc/portage/portage.unmask file: -- #!/bin/sh LASTADD='' UNMASK='' if [ -z $* ]; then echo Need package name to emerge exit fi until emerge --deep --nocolor --verbose --pretend $* /tmp/autokw$$; do if egrep All ebuilds that could satisfy \.*\ have been masked. /tmp/autokw$$; then #echo error from portage looking at output EBUILD=`grep ^- /tmp/autokw$$ | head -n 1 |\ sed -e 's/^- \(.*\)-[0-9].*$/\1/'` if [ $EBUILD == $LASTADD -o -z $EBUILD ]; then echo oops same as last time or null: [$EBUILD] if [ ! -z $UNMASK ]; then echo already tried to unmask package rm /tmp/autokw$$ exit fi echo trying to add to unmask if grep All ebuilds that could satisfy /tmp/autokw$$; then EBUILD=`grep All ebuilds that /tmp/autokw$$ | head -n 1 |\ sed -e 's/.*\([^]*\).*$/\1/'` echo $EBUILD /etc/portage/package.unmask UNMASK=yes LASTADD='' fi else echo adding [$EBUILD] to keywords file echo -e $EBUILD\t~x86 /etc/portage/package.keywords; LASTADD=$EBUILD UNMASK='' fi else echo could not parse output cat /tmp/autokw$$ break fi done [ -e /tmp/autokw$$ ] rm /tmp/autokw$$ -- It's just a hack but it has worked for me a couple of days ago for 7.2 ebuild. On that note, I have also found the etcportclean script useful (just google for it). It scans your /etc/portage files and tells you if you have any redundant entries there. The script might be broken a little from memory but it has worked quite well for me over a long time. Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] (EE) AIGLX error
Turi Tropea wrote: hi people i have this in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log (EE) AIGLX error: dlsym for __driCreateNewScreen_20050727 failed (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driCreateNewScreen_20050727) (i have the USE aiglx in my make.conf) how i can resolve this Error? thanks and have a nice day I have the same error here. I googled for it and found some info that the way to avoid this is to turn off AIGLX: Section ServerFlags OptionAIGLX off EndSection The link I am looking at now (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1697767) also suggests: Section Extensions OptionComposite 0 EndSection to disable composite extension... Well, I put those info my xorg and nothing happened at all... Unless there is some really basic error I missed, it just doesnt work for me... You are welcome to try these. Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lightwheight Gentoo System
Karl Huysmans wrote: Hi All, A friend asked me to install some operating system on an old Dell laptop he got for free. The laptop has a pentium 2 400 MHz, 6 GB HD and 256 MB RAM, and will be used by his young children. I have tried to install Edubuntu on it, looks nice, has a lot of very usefull stuff for kids, but it really runs too slow on this machine. So I was thinking Gentoo, optimized for PII, I guess -Os would be a good option for this little machine. Any thoughts anyone? What about the desktop? I guess Gnome or KDE is not really the best choice. But what else could I use? Of course, it's for kids, so I have to be able to make it look nice :-) What would be a good window manager? File manager? Other applications that help to keep it lean an fast? Anyone with any experience building such a system under Gentoo? Thank you Karl I run gentoo on a p2 laptop, using fluxbox for wm. Its slow but mostly usable although I mostly use it as a chat client so it rarely gets to run anything other than xchat and gaim and a few xterm windows and synergy (synergy2 project on sourceforge) for seamless access from my main machine. Fluxbox and the rest in its family (blackbox and openbox) are alright looking but I guess they do look a bit dated in comparison to the latest offerings. You might want to try fvwm-crystal, never used it myself but saw an article on it the other day, it is supposed to be relatively lightweight and nice looking. In general be prepared for LONG emerges though, compiling anything of size takes a long time. I use distcc to speed that up a bit. Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] amd64, gcc-4.1.1 kde-3.5
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I'm trying to compile KDE 3.5 with gcc-4.1.1 on my amd64 computer. KDE_multimedia can't link with the following error : /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/libkhtml.so: undefined reference to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [juk] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdemultimedia-3.5.2-r2/work/kdemultimedia-3.5.2/juk' . Did one of you experimented the same problem ? Any cue ? Thanks for the help to come... -- ~adj~ This week's Gentoo newsletter addresses this issue, look here: http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060529-newsletter.xml Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL
marcin wrote: Hi I've been comparing lately performance OpenGL apps against different kernels 2.6.x and 2.4. Overall performance is comparable but a scheduler of kernel 2.6 is very annoying (to say at least). Simple test: Kernel 2.6 glxgears gives 1320 fps but if I simultaneously execute (for example) nbench which takes a lot of cpu then fps drop to 5!!! with nice nbench fps drop to 20 Kernel 2.4 glxgears gives 1340 fps but for nbench fps drop to 120 and for nice nbench drop to 220 fps. I've been testing against * 2.6.16.14 Preemption Model: No Forced and also Voluntary Kernel * 2.6.16-ck9 is quite good at least scheduler don't starve but a drop of fps is the same. * 2.6.15.x * 2.4.32 Graphics driver: nvidia (GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x) NV18 Can anyone tell me how to increase priority for OpenGL? Thanks, Marcin Is it any better if you are more agressive with nice? Like 'nice nbench' and 'nice -n -10 glxgears' or even more? Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] remote boot
Hiren Dave wrote: Hi All, Does any one know how to boot diskless client from linux server? Also how to create boot image in linux! TnR Hiren Here is a howto: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml Never tried it myself with a full-blown gentoo distro running diskless but I do have machine booting GeexBox from my server using all the same setup (DHCP and tftp servers and a LAN card that can boot from network) and it works fine. Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Return from the dead... almost
Peter Kelly wrote: Hello to all. After an exciting week of a failed hard drive (/usr, /home, /var) killing the IDE port on the motherboard, I've finally got my gentoo box running again. Thank gawd for backups (/home, /var, /etc and all data). I finished the 'emerge -e world', but have a couple issues. First, when issuing the 'su' command, I enter the password and then get [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ su - Password: configuration error - unknown item 'FAILLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'LASTLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'MOTD_FILE' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'FTMP_FILE' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_ROOTPATH' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MIN_LEN' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'CHFN_AUTH' (notify administrator) root ~ $ As you can see, I still get the root shell, but I'd like to get rid of the errors. I know these 'items' are all in /etc/login.defs, but I don't know how to get pam-login to play nice. I've seen other questions answered with changes to baselayout and/or bash, so I re-emerged both of these. No change. Secondly, I've got a cron that updates nightly and mails me the results. One of the lines is diff-eix /var/cache/eix.old | Mail -s New packages on $(hostname) root The part I can't figure out is the 'Mail' command. Even after emerging world, I have no 'Mail' on my system. In fact, I have no 'mail' either. What I have in my world file is root ~ $ grep -i mail /var/lib/portage/world mail-filter/procmail mail-client/mailx-support mail-filter/spamassassin net-mail/fetchmail mail-mta/postfix I can get mail from the roadrunner stmp server without any problem, but have an issue with local mail. This worked for months, so I know I'm just forgetting something I did a long time ago. Any idea what I need to emerge, or where the solution may lie? Thanks. And backup tonight! Peter I know its a basic one but you say you re-emerged baselayout and bash but did you re-emerge pam-login? Maybe pam and shadow also? Maybe shadow was emerged without USE=pam? The funny thing is, my setup is ok and I have none of these values in my /etc/login.defs which belongs to pam-login package. Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Mac Mini Intel
Christoph Eckert wrote: Hi all, I'm interested in buying an Intel Mac Mini. Qestions: * Will Gentoo run on it? Sooner or later I am sure it will :) * If so: Which installer is the right one (sorry I'm not that familiar with processor hardware)? there are no ready-made yet I dont think * Can it dual boot with the installed Mac OS? yes. Thanks best regards ce These guys have been working on running linux on new Macs: http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/Main_Page They started off by running gentoo, as this pic shows: http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/Image:Gentoo2.jpg They got a HOWTO going: http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/HOWTO They have a livecd but it is a Ubuntu one: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=160126 So they have kernel patches, they can boot and they got a dual-boot guide. Thats enough to install gentoo on your x86 mac I think. With a bit of hacking. I am sure sooner or later there will be a ready-made installer CD for it too. Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Java / Apache Tomcat choices vs FreeBSD
Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: Michael Vince wrote: Hi all, I just installed Gentoo on my laptop after having FreeBSD as my desktop for a long time. I felt Gentoo would be my best shot at using and enjoying a Linux distribution for my desktop, as Gentoo promises a lot of freedom and choice. All up its pretty darn good but I have to say I am a bit disappointed with the Tomcat/Apache/Java choices Gentoo portage has to offer. The main reason I am interested in Gentoo Linux was the fact I can use a Java supplied from Sun as an alternative to some of the FreeBSD native Java compiled via ports with Tomcat. I have servers running under Apache2.0.55 and Apache2.2.0 with Tomcat 5.5.x My main problems are there is not a full set of choices of Apache that being just 1.3.x or Apache 2.0.x and no Apache 2.2.x. Apache 2.2.x has some great new features like a built in AJP module for linking Tomcat and Apache together with out needing the external mod_ajp module. Secondly there is only Tomcat 5.0.x in portage, in FreeBSD there is Tomcat3,Tomcat4,Tomcat41, Tomcat5 and Tomcat55 I do have to admit I think I will be happy with even just 1 Java in Linux since I know it comes from Sun for Linux which I expecting should be of a good quality. Believe it or not but doing a 'cd /usr/ports/java/; ls | grep -c jdk in FreeBSD returns a count of 15 Java choices, admittedly half of then being the Linux ones for use via the Linux kernel emulation. I installed Gentoo on my laptop with a bit of excitement and was going to start doing some benchmarks and testing with Apache 2.2 and Tomcat 5.5 just to find I will have to start manually building it all and manually installing it all my self. My question is does any one have any idea of when Apache projects such as Tomcat 5.5 and Apache 2.2 will be in portage? Regards, Mike with a little searching: Apache 2.2 status: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114232#c9 Tomcat 5.5 status: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75224#c26 I was reminded of this thread today when I saw that Apache 2.2 ebuild is out, hardmasked: http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=net-www;name=apache -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Java / Apache Tomcat choices vs FreeBSD
Michael Vince wrote: Hi all, I just installed Gentoo on my laptop after having FreeBSD as my desktop for a long time. I felt Gentoo would be my best shot at using and enjoying a Linux distribution for my desktop, as Gentoo promises a lot of freedom and choice. All up its pretty darn good but I have to say I am a bit disappointed with the Tomcat/Apache/Java choices Gentoo portage has to offer. The main reason I am interested in Gentoo Linux was the fact I can use a Java supplied from Sun as an alternative to some of the FreeBSD native Java compiled via ports with Tomcat. I have servers running under Apache2.0.55 and Apache2.2.0 with Tomcat 5.5.x My main problems are there is not a full set of choices of Apache that being just 1.3.x or Apache 2.0.x and no Apache 2.2.x. Apache 2.2.x has some great new features like a built in AJP module for linking Tomcat and Apache together with out needing the external mod_ajp module. Secondly there is only Tomcat 5.0.x in portage, in FreeBSD there is Tomcat3,Tomcat4,Tomcat41, Tomcat5 and Tomcat55 I do have to admit I think I will be happy with even just 1 Java in Linux since I know it comes from Sun for Linux which I expecting should be of a good quality. Believe it or not but doing a 'cd /usr/ports/java/; ls | grep -c jdk in FreeBSD returns a count of 15 Java choices, admittedly half of then being the Linux ones for use via the Linux kernel emulation. I installed Gentoo on my laptop with a bit of excitement and was going to start doing some benchmarks and testing with Apache 2.2 and Tomcat 5.5 just to find I will have to start manually building it all and manually installing it all my self. My question is does any one have any idea of when Apache projects such as Tomcat 5.5 and Apache 2.2 will be in portage? Regards, Mike with a little searching: Apache 2.2 status: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114232#c9 Tomcat 5.5 status: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75224#c26 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list
Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe this will list all installed packages: equery list Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem
Holly Bostick wrote: Hey ho, all-- (I think that) Ever since I downgraded Xorg from 6.8.99 back to 6.8.2-r6 a couple of days ago, I've had reports from both etc-update and cfg-update that there are 30 files needing to be updated (etc-update reports them as being in /usr/lib/X11/xkb sometimes, but not always). The problem is, these files do not exist, or rather are not found when I then run the relevant utility: * Regenerating GNU info directory index... * Processed 326 info files. * IMPORTANT: 3 config files in /etc need updating. * IMPORTANT: 30 config files in /usr/lib/X11/xkb need updating. * Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files. za 01/07/06 13:58 za 01/07/06 14:07 motub - etc-update Scanning Configuration files... Automerging trivial changes in: filesystems Automerging trivial changes in: net.example The following is the list of files which need updating, each configuration file is followed by a list of possible replacement files. 1) /etc/conf.d/rc /etc/conf.d/._cfg_rc Please select a file to edit by entering the corresponding number. (don't use -3 or -5 if you're unsure what to do) (-1 to exit) (-3 to auto merge all remaining files) (-5 to auto-merge AND not use 'mv -i'): As you see, only three files (the files adjusted by the emerge -uaDtv world which this report completed) appear. The same thing happens with cfg-update: za 01/07/06 14:11 motub - emerge -pv easytag cfg-update 1.8.0 : Building checksum index... canceled! 30 config file updates found... Please run cfg-update -u to update your config files! These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] media-sound/easytag-1.99.11 [1.99.10] +aac* +flac +mp3 +nls +vorbis 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB za 01/07/06 14:12 motub - cfg-update -u All files have been updated, done... za 01/07/06 14:12 motub - emerge -pv easytag cfg-update 1.8.0 : Building checksum index... canceled! 30 config file updates found... Please run cfg-update -u to update your config files! These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] media-sound/easytag-1.99.11 [1.99.10] +aac* +flac +mp3 +nls +vorbis 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB The thing is, I cannot find the relevant files in the first place (which may itself be the problem): za 01/07/06 14:12 motub - la /usr/lib/X11/xkb totaal 968 drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 1120 jan 3 13:58 . drwxr-xr-x 9 root root776 jan 3 14:06 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root root 7448 jan 3 13:57 ._cfg_README.config -r--r--r-- 1 root root 23337 jan 3 13:57 ._cfg_README.enhancing -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 179416 jan 3 13:57 ._cfg_xkbcomp drwxr-xr-x 2 root root568 jan 3 13:58 compat -r--r--r-- 1 root root689 jan 3 13:57 compat.dir lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 jan 3 13:58 compiled - ../../../../var/lib/xkb drwxr-xr-x 5 root root584 apr 28 2005 geometry -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1965 jan 3 13:57 geometry.dir drwxr-xr-x 4 root root544 jan 3 13:58 keycodes -r--r--r-- 1 root root 2283 jan 3 13:57 keycodes.dir drwxr-xr-x 5 root root296 apr 28 2005 keymap -r--r--r-- 1 root root 8576 jan 3 13:57 keymap.dir -r--r--r-- 1 root root689 jun 3 2005 ._new-cfg_compat.dir -r--r--r-- 1 root root 7372 nov 14 18:10 ._new-cfg_README.config -r--r--r-- 1 root root 23258 nov 14 18:10 ._new-cfg_README.enhancing -r--r--r-- 1 root root 27683 jun 3 2005 ._new-cfg_symbols.dir -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 179480 nov 14 18:10 ._new-cfg_xkbcomp -r--r--r-- 1 root root729 jun 3 2005 ._old-cfg_compat.dir -r--r--r-- 1 root root 7448 nov 14 18:10 ._old-cfg_README.config -r--r--r-- 1 root root 23337 nov 14 18:10 ._old-cfg_README.enhancing -r--r--r-- 1 root root 31182 jun 3 2005 ._old-cfg_symbols.dir -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 179480 nov 14 18:10 ._old-cfg_xkbcomp -r--r--r-- 1 root root983 jan 3 13:57 README -r--r--r-- 1 root root 7372 nov 14 17:10 README.config -r--r--r-- 1 root root 23258 nov 14 17:10 README.enhancing drwxr-xr-x 2 root root512 jan 3 13:58 rules drwxr-xr-x 2 root root144 apr 28 2005 semantics drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4264 jan 3 13:58 symbols -r--r--r-- 1 root root 27683 jan 3 13:57 symbols.dir drwxr-xr-x 2 root root296 apr 28 2005 types -r--r--r-- 1 root root463 jan 3 13:57 types.dir -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 179480 nov 14 17:10 xkbcomp I don't see 30 relevant files to be updated, so I don't even know what the
Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?
Mike Markowski wrote: Apparently not, though I would have thought so as well: # emerge -p sun-jdk These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild Rf ] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.10 This is a strange one. Things were emerging uneventfully until last night (previous 'emerge' was probably around last weekend, give or take a little). Anyway, it's Christmas Eve with more pressing things to tend to. This will get sorted out in the days that come. Merry Christmas everyone!! Mike Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: Doesn't sun-jdk satisfies this dependency? 2005/12/24, Mike Markowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just accidentally zapped all my incoming gentoo-user emails, so apologies if this is a duplicate question... After a successful emerge sync I tried an emerge -uD world but get: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies | emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy dev-java/sun-j2sdk. (dependency required by sys-libs/db-4.2.52_p2-r1 [ebuild]) I thought sun-j2sdk had been removed from portage a while back. Any pointers on where I can start looking for the problem here? I'll start digging but thought I'd post a note in case someone else has already encountered and solved this. Thanks! Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I had a look at /usr/portage/sys-libs/db/db-4.2.52_p2-r1.ebuild and in there the dependencies are: DEPEND=tcltk? ( =dev-lang/tcl-8.4 ) java? ( virtual/jdk ) RDEPEND=tcltk? ( dev-lang/tcl ) java? ( virtual/jre ) I then located the /var/cache/edb/virtuals and in there I got: virtual/jre dev-java/blackdown-jdk virtual/jdk dev-java/blackdown-jdk I have gotten rid of blackdown recently and I have sun-jdk and sun-jre-bin installed. They provide the virtual/jdk and virtual/jre. I have sys-libs/db-4.2.52_p2-r1 installed but with -java. I tried 'USE=java emerge -vp db' and it did recognize that I have java installed already. I tried 'USE=java emerge -evp db' to see which java it would install and amongst the packages was sun-jdk-1.5.0.06 which is how I got my masking set up. Maybe if you re-emerge db your problem will disappear? Could it be in your virtuals file? Can it be your profile? Mine is: $ ls -ld /etc/make.profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Aug 11 01:38 /etc/make.profile - /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1 I dont fully understand how virtuals work but maybe any of this is can be of help. Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] bad interpreter
cucu ionut cristian wrote: tryng to install various aplications that wore not in portage found the folowing error: bad interpreter: Permission denied As I remeber i got this error tring to install luminocity and now e17 modules; concrete: trying moon from e17 tar xfvz and then ./autogen.sh gives me: bash: ./autogen.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permision denied i'm doing sh ./autogen.sh and then sh ./autogen.sh Running aclocal... Running autoheader... Running autoconf... Running libtoolize... Running automake... ./autogen.sh: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied Again same thing doing it as root so what to do? I've had a similar error when trying to run scripts with DOS line endings. Open ./configure in vi and see if it says [dos] on the status line and if it does type :set fileformat=unix and save. Probably not this though, the error I get from this is: ./test.sh : bad interpreter: No such file or directory Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] specific version of package in /etc/portage/package.keywords
Erwin Lang wrote: hi everybody! I don't like to upgrade to ruby version 1.8.3 so i added the following line(s) (not all at the same time) to /etc/portage/package.keywords: =dev-lang/ruby-1.8.2 =dev-lang/ruby-1.8.2-r2 =dev-lang/ruby-1.8.2-r2 x86 dev-lang/ruby-1.8.2-r2 x86 but none of these entries kept `emerge -uva world' from upgrading ruby. what I've done wrong? thanks in advance! erwin I think you should add dev-lang/ruby-1.8.2-r2 to /etc/portage/package.mask which would mask anything above that version. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gcc seg faults very often
Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: After running memtest, several errors have occurred. Does that mean I have to buy new memory? 2005/8/22, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 22 August 2005 21:29, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: Hi Richard, First of all, thanks for replying. I'll test the swap partition with the command you sent. But how do I test the memory? Is there any way to do it? I think I configured CMOS to do a memory check during start up. please install memtest86 or memtest86+ and let it run for some others. gcc segfaults are a very good sign of memory problems - and please the bios-'check' is not a 'check' - never was! The bios counts the available memory - this is not a check but accounting. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list You can check memory settings in the BIOS, most BIOSes nowadays have options to change memory timings so you can set more relaxed ones and see if the errors disappear. Also you can try good oldfashioned re-seating of the memory modules, take them out and insert them again. Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] from 2005.0 to 2005.1
Holly Bostick wrote: Allan Spagnol Comar schreef: it is necessary to make any changes to get the packages from version 2005.1 while using 2005.0. I read somewhere that we should change the symlink /etc/make.profile to the new 2005.1 profile and resync, I dided and after sync there where no updates for my system. Is this right ? Probably, assuming that you normally keep your packages up to date. Profiles mean nothing-- insofar as portage doesn't divide packages based on profile. In other words, it's not as if baselayout 1.11.13 is only available to the 2005.1 profile, while the 2005.0 profile can only have 1.9.4-r6 or something. Portage does sometimes disable or enable certain USE flags based on profile, but this is unlikely to be a big issue unless you're changing to a completely different profile (i.e., from default x86 to selinux or something). And in any case, the profile is regularly incrementally updated, most likely to reflect critical updates (ever notice that Performing Global Updates that Portage sometimes delays your emerge with?). The profile is really only an issue on initial install. After that, it's fairly irrelevant to daily life (until Portage flatly says to upgrade it as the old profiles are unsupported-- most likely meaning that they will not be updated to reflect things we know now that we didn't know when we designed the old profile). But otherwise, I'm sure there's still a couple of people around here with the 1.4 profile, and definitely some with a 2004 profile-- because the profile name is not particularly important once Gentoo is actually up and running. So it's not that you got bad advice, but I would say that we *should* change the profile symlink is probably too strong a term, as far as advice goes. If you really, really have to change the profile, Portage will tell you to do so; otherwise it's just cosmetic. As far as I know :-) . Holly Just to add, /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1/packages vs /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0/packages it is not that different anyway. Not that's that any indication of anything. I wish there were Release Notes supplied with the announcement of the new release to satisfy curiosity of what is new/different in this release. Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wpc54g card as AP -- works?
Fernando Meira wrote: Hi, I wanted to provide wireless connection to the internet for other laptops at home. To do this, one laptop is connected via eth0 and wlan0 should work as AP to all others. I have been following the HOWTO:http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Building_a_Wireless_Access_Point_With_Gentoo and trying to find solution in forums... but I can't get it working. The wireless card is working with ndiswrapper. When I try to set it to Master, I get this: # iwconfig wlan0 mode Master Error for wireless request Set Mode (8B06) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. Does this means that the card is unable to perform the task I want, or what am I doing wrong? Is there any other HOWTO with better instructions? Or anyone that can provide me a step-by-step configuration? Thanks in advance. Fernando. The way I understand it, the ability to work in AP mode is determined by the drivers which must implement the SoftAP protocols (master mode). So, you need to know which chipset and which drivers you are using for your card (a lot of manufacturers, including Linksys, change their wireless chipsets often, without changing the product model). Then you can find out if the drivers support the master mode. Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild questions...
Paul Varner wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 08:32 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: So revdep-rebuild is currently running on the box but I'm wondering how often the revdep-rebuild needs to be run... Any suggestions from you folks out there in gentoo land? I'm thinking about building a cron script to run early in the morning and, if a recent emerge has taken place, run revdep-rebuild automatically. Does this sound like a good idea or not? I run it automatically every morning with --pretend so that I can see what it thinks needs to be rebuilt. The script I use on my gentoo boxes is available at http://dev.gentoo.org/~fuzzyray/portage.cron That script should give you a good starting point for developing something that meets your needs. It does have a few problems that I haven't fixed yet. The major one being that if the emerge command is unable to determine packages due to packages being masked, it isn't shown in the email message. Does revdep-rebuild rebuild the same version of the packages that are currently installed or will it do a package update from the portage tree? Under normal operation, it will try to rebuild the same package that is installed. If you use the --package-names option, it will rebuild with the latest version that is available. Regards, Paul I've just tried running revdep-rebuild after the warning that comes with latest e2fstools. I had some broken dependencies but I have found that revdep-rebuild would not fix all of them so you'd be running it needlessly. It is definitely a tool to run with -p and then examine its output first and try the files it complains about with ldd to see whats missing. For example, I was getting broken deps with respect to some alsa lib and I that was on my server with no sound. This didn't break anything though. I installed alsa just to make it go away. Another one is opera browser which comes up with broken dep on libXm.so.1 in operamotifwrapper-1. Opera has openmotif dependency but openmotif doesnt provide that lib, it provides libXm.so.3. So, you really have to double-check the revdep-rebuild output. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to build a Minimal Gentoo
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 21:23 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: I'm talking about something stripped down. Perhaps not to a size of 8MB but something less than 100MB would be good. How does one do that? This will be a box which will not have portage included once everything is up. Most likely will be building with uclibc and the uclibc stage1. Any other pointers? And how does one substitute bash(and others) with busybox can it be defined up front so it portage doesn't pull in the dependencies etc? Have you seen this howto? http://gentoo-wiki.com/Embedded_Gentoo It recommends for you to chroot into a stage3 and then use the ROOT evironment variable to make portage install into an empty filesystem. Well, it I haven't I most certainly will this weekend then. Thanks. Anyone Else has experience with using GNAP? Gentoo Network Appliance Also, did you know about the gentoo-embedded mailing list? http://marc.10east.com/?l=gentoo-embeddedr=1w=2 Again.. something I didn't know.. Thanks. I do know about the gentoo-embedded irc channel but no one ever talks in there and there's no activity whatsover there at all. :-) Thanks again. Zac Are you aiming for a general purpose system or an 'appliance'? I don't have any experience with embedded stuff but if you want it as a desktop machine there are a few things you could do. One thing that comes to mind is to mount portage data dirs over the network. I got a few gentoo machines and they all share /usr/portage/distfiles over nfs and the performance is ok. I dont see a reason why all of /usr/portage cannot be mounted over network Once you set up your machine how you want it, maybe you can move the /var/db to another machine and mount that over the network for infrequent updates. I would think without these two the actual portage itself wouldn't be very large. Also I had an idea that you might get away with not having a compiler on the machine. I never used distcc but I keep hearing of people using it. I had a look at its dependencies and it doesnt depend directly on gcc so maybe it is possible to, once its installed, to do all compilation remotely? You would still need binutils to do the linking I guess. All these changes are not as radical as just removing these parts of Gentoo altogether and they would make a machine dependent on another machine (fileserver and compilation server) but they would leave the machine easily upgradeable. Just depends on what you want to do. There are also couple of settings in the kernel setup under 'Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)' which can make kernel size smaller but I think those might be for really small embedded systems. Another thing you could try which I haven't heard of is pick the CFLAGS=-Os' for size rather than performance. Not sure if there are any other flags which reduce code size. Seems to make a difference though: http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/csibe/s-i686-linux.php . And there is always USE=-* when doing the stage1 install to disable all features by default. Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] kernel compile using gcc 3.4.3
I have a machine configured to use gcc 3.4.3 and thats fine but today I was wondering if it is possible to do away with gcc 3.3.5. I think it is still used when kernel is recompiled. Now I could swear recently I read something in a post about overriding gcc version used to compile the kernel and maybe it had to do with some make.conf flag. I spent some time googling, searching gentoo forums (cannot seem to search for version numbers there) and gentoo wiki but I havent turned up much. Surely my searching skills have gone bad, I cannot imagine being the first to ask this question. What I am asking is: 0. Is there a HOWTO that I have blatantly missed? 1. Does the kernel compile with gcc and is it stable? 2. Is there a gentoo way to override compiler version used for the kernel compilation. If not but it is perfectly ok to compile the kernel with gcc 3.4 how does one get the kernel compile system to use particular gcc version? 3. Are there other packages that override the default gcc, maybe like ? Thanks, Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel compile using gcc 3.4.3
Rumen Yotov wrote: Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: I have a machine configured to use gcc 3.4.3 and thats fine but today I was wondering if it is possible to do away with gcc 3.3.5. I think it is still used when kernel is recompiled. Now I could swear recently I read something in a post about overriding gcc version used to compile the kernel and maybe it had to do with some make.conf flag. I spent some time googling, searching gentoo forums (cannot seem to search for version numbers there) and gentoo wiki but I havent turned up much. Surely my searching skills have gone bad, I cannot imagine being the first to ask this question. What I am asking is: 0. Is there a HOWTO that I have blatantly missed? 1. Does the kernel compile with gcc and is it stable? 2. Is there a gentoo way to override compiler version used for the kernel compilation. If not but it is perfectly ok to compile the kernel with gcc 3.4 how does one get the kernel compile system to use particular gcc version? 3. Are there other packages that override the default gcc, maybe like ? Thanks, Eugene. Hi, GCC is slotted so you can have both 3.3.5 3.4.3 (i have them too). See gcc-config package which is a dependency of GCC-any-version. Just run 'gcc-config -l' in order to list/see all available versions, gcc-config -c' outputs the active one (gcc-config --help). To change the active gcc use: gcc-config 1|2|3|..6| ..9 depending on how many gcc versions/sub-vers. are there. Didn't had any problems with both 3.3.53.4.3, IIRC there are some new CFLAGS in gcc-3.4.X (mtune ?) which could be put in 'make.conf' but overly there're no problems with any of them. For about half an year 3.4.x is stable for me (kernel too). HTH. Rumen Thanks, I made a mistake. I do have gcc 3.4.3 set as default and it is being used to compile the kernel. When I checked which compiler was being used during the kernel compile I ssh'ed into a gcc 3.3.5 machine to test it so I thought it was switching back to 3.3.5... Tragic really. :) Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Masked GCC question.
A. R. wrote: Hello, I am currently using GCC 3.3.5-20050130, but I would like to give GCC 3.4.3.20050110-r2 a try, it is currently masked by keyword ~x86. Is it enough to add gcc to the /etc/portage/package.keywords file and then emerge it? Is there a Gentoo-related guide to this somewhere? Thanks in advance. -AR I think it is enough to add gcc to /etc/portage/package.keywords and emerge it. It will co-exist with your current version of gcc and you will be able to switch between them with gcc-config. At the end of the emerge it might or might not automatically switch to the new version, I do not know. I have one machine which has been fully compiled with gcc 3.4 series and I haven't had any problems (although I do not use it all that much). It's been out for quite a while since 3.4 series has been out and my guess would be it is stable for most things. Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + T40?
Cliff Rowley wrote: Greetings fellow Gentoo users :) I wonder if anyone could be of assistance. I am desperately trying to get Gentoo playing nicely with my IBM ThinkPad T40, but I am having a /serious/ problem that could easily render my laptop inoperable if I continue to use it. Basically my CPU fan doesn't appear to be spinning up correctly under Gentoo (but works as expected under WinXP - dual boot setup), and I caught my CPU at 68 degrees yesterday! Fortunately I noticed before it was too late, and used the Pentium M speedstep feature to reduce my CPU to 500Mhz, dropping the temperature back down to a comfortable 44 degrees. I really don't know what to do. I've tried every approach I've encountered, but nothing seems to be able to keep my CPU temperature down without knocking 2/3 off my CPU speed (which is obviously not desired). Is there anyone with any words of wisdom on this topic? Many thanks in advance :) Quick google shows these people seem to be working on the fan control: http://ibm-acpi.sourceforge.net/ Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] stage1 install
John J. Foster wrote: Good afternoon, I feel that it is time to move to Gentoo. After a few years of RH, Fedora and Suse, I want better and more precise control over my system. My problem, maybe, is that I only have a 28.8 modem connection to the net. But, I want to start installation from stage1 in order to be able to build _everything_ from scratch. At work I have access to a high speed connection and could easily download sources from there. My browsing through the Gentoo 2005.0 Handbook _seems_ to say this is not possible. Is that true? If so, I would gladly buy the CD's (and help to support Gentoo) if that would work. My last option, which I don't really want to do, is to bring my machine to work and do all from there. But I can't drink beer at the same time:-) All help and guidance appreciated, Thanks, John We had a chat about that recently: http://groups.google.com.au/groups?hl=enlr=safe=offthreadm=3OWtT-3nh-13%40gated-at.bofh.itrnum=1prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2522system%2Bwith%2Bno%2Bnetwork%2Bneeds%2Bupdates%2522%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26selm%3D3OWtT-3nh-13%2540gated-at.bofh.it%26rnum%3D1 Building from stage1 is an interesting exercise although I wonder if the difference between a tailored stage1 install and a stage3 install would be very drastic (speed-wise, size-wise or user experience-wise). I always did it from stage1 so I don't have any experience of other installs. Eugene. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
