[gentoo-user] net-fs/samba 4.5.16 compile fail
Hi, Discovered an issue when trying to compile net-fs/samba-4.5.16. Looks like it involves the WAF package configuration process and/or rpcgen. Problem is with the source files trying to "#include " (sm_notify.c is the first the fail), the location of the glibc SunRPC headers when it doesn't exist. Those headers actually live in "" but for whatever reason the build wasn't including it, or including "-I /usr/include/tiprc" during the build. Curiously, WAF shows that it didn't find the rpc headers (at least form my quick perusal through the build logs), but the build is still doing the "#include". Quick fix is: $ CFLAGS "-I/usr/include/tirpc -Wl,-ltirpc" emerge -1v samba BTW, no thanks to the a particular scold and martinet in #gentoo named "kurly" who seemed to be itching to kick/silence for asking simple questions (which he of course did). People like that shouldn't have ops, IMHO. - Jim
Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower
On 6/3/2014 16:13, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:59 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés >> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Alan McKinnon >>> wrote: >>> [...] Incidentally, what exactly is wrong with systemd writing a dhcp server & client, and an ntp client? Is that project prohibited from writing such software? Are they not allowed to do it? Does it break legal laws? Is there an NDA or non-compete clause in the mix that I'm not aware of? Because they are the only things that could stop systemd from writing such code; without such prohibitions they are free to spend their time doing whatever they damn well please and if that means yet another dhcp implementation, so be it. >>> Alan, thanks for succinctly putting why is absurd to complain about >>> someone else's desire to write whatever code she desires to write. And >>> to sharing it to the world! The HORROR! >>> >>> How *DARE* they to release their code? For free! >>> >> Once again, you do not understand the claim. > It is you who does not understand how software workds. See Alan response. > >> If a user of Gentoo chooses to use non systemd profile, it means that >> we need to make sure systemd will not be a valid option, ever. > Again, you don't understand how software works: this has nothing to do > with "profiles", it has to do with the fact that UPower now relies on > systemd, and therefore people who has UPower installed now, *by > default*, require systemd. If they don't want systemd, there is a way > to do it, but it requires manual intervention since they now need to > first uninstall UPower. > >> In this case, if it is to disable the upower USE flag, or to provide >> alternative, block newer version, whatever make it possible to have a >> system working without systemd. > It is provided: > > emerge -C upower > emerge -1v upower-pm-utils > > It has to be done manually, though; otherwise you step on systemd users. > >> systemd should not be visible at any time, nor its implications. > Nobody is here to deal with other people's OCD. > > Regards. FWIW, on my system, I had to mask "sys-apps/gentoo-systemd-integration" for it to merge the udev update w/o trying to pull in systemd, et al. i didn't deep dive on what was trying to pull that in, but masking it (plus a ton of other stuff I have masked) prevented portage from trying to build a systemd based system.
Re: [gentoo-user] How's the openrc update going for everyone?
On 5/10/2011 18:25, Indi wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:20:02AM +0200, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Dale wrote: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I was curious, what's the results of the openrc update for people that have >>> done theirs? Is it pretty simple and "just works" or are there issues? I'm >>> mostly interested in x86 and amd64 since that is what I have. Just a simple >>> works here and I'm X86 or amd64 would be nice. List issues if you had any. >> I'm using ~amd64 and upgraded long, long, long ago. No problems at all >> during or after the upgrade. I would expect it to be even smoother >> process now than it was then. >> >> IIRC the biggest deal with the baselayout/openrc upgrade was that you >> must update a bunch of config files, which are not necessarily all >> blind/trivial updates. Failing to update them could make rebooting a >> sad experience. > Same here, on x86 and ppc. Most of it was handled automatically and > the rest via dispatch-conf. Works just fine. > Went pretty smoothly for me following the upgrade guide. I have a gentoo based iptables firewall with a fairly complicated network setup with postup() functions. I made the mistake of taking out the BASH syntax (the surrounding parens, etc) on my postup() function based on the guide, wondering if it'd work or not, and sure enough it wanted the old BASH style syntax for those functions, but the new style (w/o parens, and quoted blocks with CRs) on the "normal" sections. They should probably make a note of this in the config guide. It's good to see they added in support for iproute2 rules natively instead of requiring a postup() function. I'd like to see them add a similar functionality for adding static ARP entries too (right now using my own postup() for that). -Jim smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and IMAP folders
On 09/01/2010 10:44 AM, Andrea Conti wrote: Hi, I routinely use thunderbird to access mail on a cyrus IMAP server with very large folders (thousands of archived messages). IMAP support in the 3.1 series seems quite stable to me (whereas 2.x had frequent problems with folder indexes and 3.0.x tended to hang randomly while performing server operations) The only problem I can think of is that if you have used the default settings for the message search feature, thunderbird will attempt to build a full-text search index by downloading every message on the server (body included) when it is first run. Thunderbird will try downloading messages from multiple folders in parallel, which might cause a hign load on the server resulting in substantial delays when listing folder contents. If thunderbird is indexing messages (look at the progress indicator on the status bar), try leaving it alone until it is done -- it's a one-time process. If, on the other hand, everything is idle, I'm sorry but I have no idea. HTH, andrea The problem turned out not to be with Thunderbird at all, but with the courier-imap configuration. I found in /var/log/messages some instances of this: imapd-ssl: Maximum connection limit reached for :::10.0.0.1 It appears that the default configuration for MAXPERIP (maximum number of connections to accept from the same IP address) was set to 4. (I assume it's the default, since I never changed it myself.) Changing the value to 10 eliminated the Thunderbird problem entirely. I don't know if some other value between 4 and 10 would work as well. I'm happy with it as it is now. -- Jim
[gentoo-user] Thunderbird and IMAP folders
I decided to give thunderbird (and its integrated calendar, lightning) a try after having some troubles with kontact corrupting and deleting events on a webdav calendar. I initially tried thunderbird 3.0.4 (which I think didn't actually have the calendar integrated--not really significant), and had trouble getting TB to display the contents of my email folders on an IMAP server. Most folders showed up empty. I have about 180 folders with about 14,000 messages total--the correct folders were shown, just nothing shown in them. After a bit of googling, I found a reference to a bug resembling my problem that supposedly was fixed in 3.1.2. I tried that version without change to the problem, and today 3.1.2-r1 with the same result. My IMAP server is net-mail/courier-imap 4.5.0 on the same host as my workstation. I have no trouble reading folders and their contents with kontact 4.4.5/kmail 1.13.5 I've tried more googling and searching at the mozilla.org site for clues. Anyone have any experience with this problem--and perhaps a solution? TIA, -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Kontact folder and memory issues
I have recently started to experience two annoying issues with kontact/kmail. Sometime after an emerge world update in the last couple of weeks, kontact has started consuming huge amounts of RAM and swap. Currently "ps" for kontact shows: USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND jcunning 10190 1.7 23.3 1753588 480292 ? Sl 10:56 2:37 /usr/bin/kontact The second annoying issue is that when I restart kontact, it shortly begins reloading all the messages from all the email folders on my imaps server, even though virtually all the mailboxes are unchanged. The process takes several minutes, and while underway, kontact puts up a blue window with the message that it's reading the contents of the mailbox. I've tried setting kmail configuration options to minimize the reading and checking of mailboxes, but nothing seems to have any effect. Any ideas anybody? Thanks, -- Jim
[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1
On Friday 07 May 2010 17:04:22 William Kenworthy wrote: > > > For the last week or perhaps more, I have been unable to complete an > > emerge update of world because x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 fails. I now > > have just the following ebuilds that cannot finish because of qt-webkit: > > [...] > > > > Near the end of the emerge, the following error occurs: > > > > compiling .rcc/release-shared/qrc_WebKit.cpp > > rm -f libQtWebKit.so.4.6.2 libQtWebKit.so libQtWebKit.so.4 > > libQtWebKit.so.4.6 linking ../../../../lib/libQtWebKit.so.4.6.2 > > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux- > > gnu/bin/ld:obj/release/HTMLParser.o: file format not recognized; treating > > as linker script > > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux- > > gnu/bin/ld:obj/release/HTMLParser.o:1: syntax error > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > make: *** [../../../../lib/libQtWebKit.so.4.6.2] Error 1 > > > > * ERROR: x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 failed: > > *emake failed > > > > There was a thread on gentoo forums with this very error listed as solved > > (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6262495), but the ccache > > solution suggested there has no effect on my experience of the problem. > > Anyone have a suggestion on how to proceed? > > > > Thanks, > > FEATURES='-distcc -ccache' MAKEOPTS='-j1' emerge ... > > Worked for me on multiple systems > > BillK Thanks for the tip. It seems to have done the trick, because emerge is running far longer beyond the point it originally failed with the error above. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Cannot emerge x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1
For the last week or perhaps more, I have been unable to complete an emerge update of world because x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 fails. I now have just the following ebuilds that cannot finish because of qt-webkit: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 [4.6.2] USE="dbus%* exceptions kde (-aqua) -debug -pch" 0 kB [ebuild U ] kde-base/ksplash-4.4.2-r1 [4.4.2] USE="mmx sse sse2 -3dnow (- altivec) (-aqua) -debug (-kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix) -xinerama" 0 kB [ebuild R ] kde-base/libplasmagenericshell-4.4.2 USE="(-aqua) -debug (- kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix) -test%" 0 kB [ebuild U ] kde-base/systemsettings-4.4.2-r1 [4.4.2] USE="handbook opengl usb (-aqua) -debug (-kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix) -xinerama" 0 kB [ebuild U ] app-cdr/k3b-1.91.0_rc2 [1.70.0_beta1] USE="dvd encode flac handbook%* mad vorbis wav (-aqua) -debug -emovix -ffmpeg (-kdeenablefinal) - lame -musepack -musicbrainz -sndfile -sox -taglib -vcd" LINGUAS="fr%* -ast% - be% -bg% -ca% -...@valencia% -cs% -csb% -da% -de% -el% -en_GB% -eo% -es% -et% - eu% -fi% -ga% -gl% -he% -hi% -hne% -hr% -hu% -is% -it% -ja% -km% -ko% -ku% - lt% -mai% -nb% -nds% -nl% -nn% -oc% -pa% -pl% -pt% -pt_BR% -ro% -ru% -se% -sk% -sl% -sv% -th% -tr% -uk% -zh_CN% -zh_TW%" 0 kB Total: 5 packages (4 upgrades, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB Near the end of the emerge, the following error occurs: compiling .rcc/release-shared/qrc_WebKit.cpp rm -f libQtWebKit.so.4.6.2 libQtWebKit.so libQtWebKit.so.4 libQtWebKit.so.4.6 linking ../../../../lib/libQtWebKit.so.4.6.2 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux- gnu/bin/ld:obj/release/HTMLParser.o: file format not recognized; treating as linker script /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux- gnu/bin/ld:obj/release/HTMLParser.o:1: syntax error collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [../../../../lib/libQtWebKit.so.4.6.2] Error 1 * ERROR: x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1 failed: * emake failed There was a thread on gentoo forums with this very error listed as solved (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6262495), but the ccache solution suggested there has no effect on my experience of the problem. Anyone have a suggestion on how to proceed? Thanks, -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] Nepomuk can't find database backend
On Friday 16 April 2010 12:42:44 Mark Knecht wrote: [...] > > So if I'm clear about this, you have a stable AMD64 system with ~AMD64 KDE? > > If you upgraded from KDE 4.3 did you try deleting all the old KDE > configuration stuff and starting new? I've not had your problems with > nepomuk but I run either AMD64 with just a couple of ~AMD64 packages, > or full ~AMD64. I haven't seen this problem on either system. However > I do run ~AMD64 portage, sandbox, gentoolkit, eix and a few other > installation things on all my systems so possibly that's part of it. > > Good luck, > Mark I had upgraded from KDE 4.3, but it turns out there was some old 3.5 stuff still around, too. I deleted the .kde/share/config/nepomukrc file and logged out and back in, and the error no longer appeared. Thanks for the suggestion. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Nepomuk can't find database backend
On Thursday 15 April 2010 14:01:02 Jim Cunning wrote:
> I have KDE 4.4.2 installed on an AMD64 system. On login, I get the popup
> "Nepomuk was not able to find the configured database backend 'sesame2'.
> Existing data can thus not be"
>
> I have installed:
> jlc64 ~ # eix -I nepomuk
> [D] kde-base/nepomuk
> Available versions: (4.2) ~4.2.4
> {debug kdeprefix}
> Installed versions: 4.4.2(4.4)(12:08:59 AM 04/13/2010)(handbook -aqua
> - debug -kdeenablefinal -kdeprefix)
> [D] dev-libs/soprano
> Available versions: ~2.0.2!t ~2.1.1 ~2.2 ~2.2.1 ~2.2.1-r1 ~2.2.2
> {clucene dbus debug doc elibc_FreeBSD java raptor redland sesame2}
> Installed versions: 2.4.1(09:20:36 PM 04/12/2010)(dbus raptor redland
> virtuoso -clucene -debug -doc -elibc_FreeBSD -java)
>
> The config file .kde4/share/config/nepomukserverrc contains the line:
>
> Used Soprano Backend=sesame2
>
> There doesn't appear to be a sesame2 backend plugin installed for soprano,
> only redland and virtuoso, but changing the "sesame2" in the config file to
> "virtuoso" only changes the name of the backend in the failure message, not
> the failure.
>
> A search of the list archive shows several posts regarding this sort of
> error message, but apparently relating to nepomuk 4.4 on a KDE 4.3 system.
> My situation seems different and the solutions suggested don't apply.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
Apparently, no one has any advice, so I'll ask a different question:
Where does one find documentation on the database backends supported by
Nepomuk, and how to configure it/them?
Thanks,
--
Jim
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Re: [gentoo-user] kmail/kontact display anomaly [SOLVED]
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 02:57:30 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2010 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > > For Konqueror, you turn it of in the Web Browsing section of the > > settings, the last item. I don't use KMail but I expect this will affect > > KMail too, or KMail will have a similar setting. > > I guess that’s because - similar to Outl**k using the IE engine - KMail > seems to use the KHTML engine to display messages. That’s why it also has > this feature. > The control is indeed in konqueror settings. Kmail does honor it, but only after a restart of kontact or kmail. Kmail does not appear to have its own setting for "Enable/disable Access Key activation with Ctrl key" Thanks to all who provided answers and guidance on this prob^H^H^H^Hfeature. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] kmail/kontact display anomaly
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 12:50:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:22:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Those are quick-link thingys that highlight clickable text in the mail. > > IIRC the intent is so you can type Ctrl-D and the browser will take you > > to the link labelled D > > > > I used to have it, then I did something in System Settings or kmail's > > config and it went away. Go through both looking for options that > > mention "Ctrl". I forget what it was, but do remember it was distinctly > > not obvious at the time. > > I had the same problem turning it off on KDE3. It's a system setting, > Konqueror does the same. ISTR it's in the Accessibility section of > systemsettings. > OK, thanks for the guidance. Alan, I was at first confused by your response, and as a test tried, for example, to enter Ctrl- for whatever lettered link I wanted to follow. Didn't work--when I pressed Ctrl the first time to display the letter boxes, then pressed Ctrl-H (when an "H" box was displayed), the boxes disappeared as soon as I depressed Ctrl, and with that still pressed, pressing "H" did nothing. Butif I press and release Ctrl to display the letter boxes, and then press one of the letters (upper/lower case didn't matter), the nearby text link was activated. In kmail I was able to select mailto:, http:, and https: links to open a compose window in kmail or a new web page my firefox browser. Firefox does not exhibit this behavior, but konqueror does in the same way as kmail. I couldn't find any other kxxx utilities with the same behavior, though. At least now I know how to use this feature, but unfortunately, I can find nothing in the KDE menu "System Settings" under the General or Advanced tab that appears to enable or even modify this behavior. Any other suggested places to look? -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] kmail/kontact display anomaly
I have noticed for a long time, and continuing with KDE 4.4, that kmail/kontact shows a bunch of small popup window boxes, each containing a single letter, whenever it's displaying a message and the control key is pressed and released. Another depression/release of the control key removes the boxes. I first noticed this with KDE 3.4 on OpenSUSE 10.3, and it has continued on gentoo with KDE 3.5 and now 4.4. An example of what I'm describing can be seen at http://cunning.ods.org/kmail-boxes.jpg I couldn't get any useful hits on Google with the keywords I came up with. Has anyone seen this and/or know how to eliminate it? Thanks, -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] How to build vmware-modules for kernel 2.6.30
On Tuesday 20 October 2009 07:15:45 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Jim Cunning wrote: [...] > > vmware-workstation-5.5.9 seems to require *only* vmware-modules-1.0.0.15. > > Is there a way I can change this and rebuild both vmware and its kernel > > modules? > > You could perhaps emerge the newer modules with --nodeps and see if it > works. You might have to put the old vmware-modules package into > package.provided so emerge doesn't complain about it. This worked so far as to get the modules built and loaded. Then vmware 5.5.9 complained about mismatched interface version numbers. > There are patches to supposedly make it work (it requires patching > your kernel as well as your vmware-module sources): > http://www.insecure.ws/2009/04/21/vmware-specific-specific-55x-and-kernel-2 > 629 More involved than I want to undertake, and also would require repeating each time the kernel were updated. > Other possible actions would be to go back to older kernel or upgrade > to newer vmware-workstation. :) I bit the bullet and upgraded to vmware-workstation-6.5.3. Much easier. It just drops in and works. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] How to build vmware-modules for kernel 2.6.30
I upgraded to kernel 2.6.30 and now cannot build the vmware kernel- modules-1.0.0.15-r2 that I need for vmware-workstation-5.5.9. I've seen references on google searches that kernel-modules-1.0.0.25 will work for vmware-5.3 up to vmware-6.something. vmware-workstation-5.5.9 seems to require *only* vmware-modules-1.0.0.15. Is there a way I can change this and rebuild both vmware and its kernel modules? -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Strange sunbird segfault
I normally keep mozilla-sunbird calendar running on my desktop. Occasionally, I find that it has disappeared and when I attempt to restart it, it fails with a segfault. It has happened twice now that I have been unable to restart sunbird for a matter of several hours, and then with no other change to the system and otherwise normal activity continuing, sunbird starts up fine. The information on a konsole when starting and failing is: jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 25986 Segmentation fault $(type -P aoss) "$mozbin" $xulparams "$@" sunbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139) When it finally starts OK the "Generic Event Extension" errors also appear, but the ap seems to run without problems. The event extension problem is something else I need to resolve, but I don't think it's related to sunbird, as gvim and other applications starting also get them. Anyone have any suggestions where to look when sunbird segfaults again? -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] [FIXED] mozilla-sunbird segfaults
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 12:52:51 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 13 October 2009 19:12:45 Jim Cunning wrote: > > I had sunbird running while doing an emerge update world. After logging > > out and back in, sunbird didn't start. Manually starting it produced: > > > > jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird > > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". > > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". > > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". > > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". > > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". > > /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 30349 Segmentation fault > > $(type -P aoss) "$mozbin" $xulparams "$@" > > sunbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139) > > === > > After re-emerging mozilla-sunbird, starting it produces: > > > > jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird > > Removing /home/jcunning/.mozilla/sunbird/naf79q2v.default/compreg.dat > > leftover from older sunbird > > Removing /home/jcunning/.mozilla/sunbird/naf79q2v.default/XUL.mfasl > > leftover from older sunbird > > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". > > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". > > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". > > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". > > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". > > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". > > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". > > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". > > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". > > Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". > > /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 29262 Segmentation fault > > $(type -P aoss) "$mozbin" $xulparams "$@" > > sunbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139) > > jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ > > > > I didn't see any recent complaints of segfaults for version 0.9 in a > > google search. Anyone have suggestions? > > Rebuild sunbird? > > Stuff it links do has likely changed. > I did that--shown above--with no change in final result. I did a 'revdep- rebuild' (twice), and both times only app-emulation/emul-linux-x86- soundlibs-20080418 was rebuilt. Still no difference. Now--three hours later--sunbird starts fine. I didn't deliberately do anything more after the revdep-build's. Anyway, it works now. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] How to suppress starting kmail with KDE 4.3.2
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:10:40 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, you wrote: > > On Monday 12 October 2009 23:12:25 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: > > > > I recently upgraded to KDE 4.3.x, now at 4.3.2. With KDE 3.5.10 I > > > > could have kontact running on logout and it would be restarted the > > > > next time I logged in. With KDE 4.3.x, kontact is started, but so is > > > > kmail in a separate window. I changed my default mail application to > > > > "kontact", but I cannot find where kmail is mentioned to start on > > > > login, so I can remove it. > > > > > > you have probably saved a session with kmail running. IMHO worth a try > > > saving a session without kmail running. > > > > I presume "saving a session" is done by logging out. > > no, you presume wrong. Open the menu, go to the logout tab, there is a > 'Save Session' option, click that. Hmmm. KDE 4.3.2 menu shows tabs for: Favorites, Applications, Computer, Recently Used, Leave. No logout tab. The Leave tab shows: Logout, Lock, Switch User, Suspend to disk, Restart, Shutdown. No "Save Session" option -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] mozilla-sunbird segfaults
I had sunbird running while doing an emerge update world. After logging out and back in, sunbird didn't start. Manually starting it produced: jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 30349 Segmentation fault $(type -P aoss) "$mozbin" $xulparams "$@" sunbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139) === After re-emerging mozilla-sunbird, starting it produces: jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ sunbird Removing /home/jcunning/.mozilla/sunbird/naf79q2v.default/compreg.dat leftover from older sunbird Removing /home/jcunning/.mozilla/sunbird/naf79q2v.default/XUL.mfasl leftover from older sunbird Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 29262 Segmentation fault $(type -P aoss) "$mozbin" $xulparams "$@" sunbird-bin exited with non-zero status (139) jcunn...@jlc64 ~ $ I didn't see any recent complaints of segfaults for version 0.9 in a google search. Anyone have suggestions? -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] How to suppress starting kmail with KDE 4.3.2
On Monday 12 October 2009 23:12:25 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 13 Oktober 2009, Jim Cunning wrote: > > I recently upgraded to KDE 4.3.x, now at 4.3.2. With KDE 3.5.10 I could > > have kontact running on logout and it would be restarted the next time I > > logged in. With KDE 4.3.x, kontact is started, but so is kmail in a > > separate window. I changed my default mail application to "kontact", > > but I cannot find where kmail is mentioned to start on login, so I can > > remove it. > > you have probably saved a session with kmail running. IMHO worth a try > saving a session without kmail running. > I presume "saving a session" is done by logging out. I have already done that, leaving KDE without any mail client running. On logging in again, kmail is started. The KDE session manager doesn't appear to have any option to save a session, but it does have a way to exclude applications from saved sessions. I'll try excluding kmail and then logging out. No change--KDE starts kmail even when logging out with neither kmail or kontact running. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] How to suppress starting kmail with KDE 4.3.2
I recently upgraded to KDE 4.3.x, now at 4.3.2. With KDE 3.5.10 I could have kontact running on logout and it would be restarted the next time I logged in. With KDE 4.3.x, kontact is started, but so is kmail in a separate window. I changed my default mail application to "kontact", but I cannot find where kmail is mentioned to start on login, so I can remove it. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge gramps-3.1.2 fails SOLVED
On Friday 18 September 2009 02:50:03 Arttu V. wrote: > On 9/18/09, Jim Cunning wrote: > > Trying to emerge gramps-3.1.2 fails with the following error: > > === > > checking for sh... /bin/sh > > checking Python bindings for gtk 2.10 (pygtk2>=2.10.0)... configure: > > error: > > > > The python bindings for gtk 2.10 (pygtk2>=2.10.0) could not be > > found. > > > > !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support: > > !!! /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/gramps-3.1.2/work/gramps-3.1.2/config.log > > You should attach config.log, or at a minimum the spot in there where > configure tries to find gtk and pygtk. Without that info it's very > hard to limit the things that could be broken. > I looked at the configure script for gramps and discovered it was creating a python test for the gtk bindings. dev-python/pygtk-2.14.1 was already installed, and re-emerging produced this: * Messages for package dev-python/pygtk-2.14.1: * Unable to establish /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pygtk.py symlink * Unable to establish /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pygtk.pth symlink In gentoo forums, I found a discussion about pygobject and pygtk both needing to be re-emerged. I did "emerge -1 -av pygobject pygtk" successfully and then the emerge for gramps is now proceeding past the point of earlier failure. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Emerge gramps-3.1.2 fails
Trying to emerge gramps-3.1.2 fails with the following error:
===
checking for sh... /bin/sh
checking Python bindings for gtk 2.10 (pygtk2>=2.10.0)... configure: error:
The python bindings for gtk 2.10 (pygtk2>=2.10.0) could not be found.
!!! Please attach the following file when seeking support:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/gramps-3.1.2/work/gramps-3.1.2/config.log
*
* ERROR: app-misc/gramps-3.1.2 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_configure
* environment, line 3604: Called gnome2_src_configure
* environment, line 2451: Called econf '--disable-mime-install'
* ebuild.sh, line 534: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* die "econf failed"
* The die message:
* econf failed
*
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if
relevant.
* A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-
misc/gramps-3.1.2/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-
misc/gramps-3.1.2/temp/environment'.
*
>>> Failed to emerge app-misc/gramps-3.1.2, Log file:
>>> '/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/gramps-3.1.2/temp/build.log'
=
and yet, pygtk seems to be installed:
jlc64 ~ # eix -I pygtk
[D] dev-python/pygtk
Available versions: (2) 2.12.1-r2 2.14.1
{X doc examples}
Installed versions: 2.14.1-r1(2)(23:46:21 09/17/09)(X -doc -examples)
Homepage:http://www.pygtk.org/
Description: GTK+2 bindings for Python
Any suggestions how to resolve this?
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[gentoo-user] How to get an old ebuild
I am currently running kernel 2.6.25-r7 and have an emerge that fails because it can't find a Makefile for the kernel. I somehow no longer can run genkernel, or emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r7. I would rather not upgrade my kernel at this point--how can I find/emerge this slightly older kernel? -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] KDE4.x installation blocks
I am trying to install KDE 4.2 or 4.3 on a stable KDE 3.5.10 system, following
the guidelines in http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml,
and the emerge fails with the following blocks:
---
[blocks B ] net-wireless/bluez-libs ("net-wireless/bluez-libs" is blocking
net-wireless/bluez-4.39)
[blocks B ] net-wireless/bluez ("net-wireless/bluez" is blocking
net-wireless/bluez-libs-3.36)
Total: 294 packages (3 upgrades, 145 new, 141 in new slots, 5 reinstalls),
Size of downloads: 347,708 kB
Conflict: 2 blocks (2 unsatisfied)
* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
* installed at the same time on the same system.
('installed', '/', 'net-wireless/bluez-libs-3.36', 'nomerge') pulled in by
>=net-wireless/bluez-libs-3.12 required by
('installed', '/', 'gnome-base/gvfs-1.0.3-r2', 'nomerge')
('ebuild', '/', 'net-wireless/bluez-4.39', 'merge') pulled in by
net-wireless/bluez required by
('ebuild', '/', 'kde-base/solid-4.2.4', 'merge')
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I don't use gnome, but it appears that gnome-base/gvfs is ultimately pulled in
by net-im/pidgin, which I do use. Does this mean I can't continue using
pidgin with KDE4? Are there good alternatives to pidgin, including OTR (the
encrypted plug-in)?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot figure out emerge blocks
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 14:07:01 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > please consider searching the email archives for this list in the future. > The phonon mess has been explained only a few days ago. > > as a kde user you want media-sound/phonon > all you need to know: > http://ben.liveforge.org/2009/06/03/preventing-the-qt-phonon-vs-phonon-bloc >k Looking through http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user didn't give me any more information than I already had, namely the problem with kde 3.5.9 vs 3.5.10 blocking issues, and monolithic vs -meta ebuilds. I didn't know about the phonon issues, and going back to the archive, I still didn't see any reference to it. Sorry to have offended you. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 3.0.0 with dead keys
On Monday 04 May 2009 18:10:50 Saphirus Sage wrote: > Jim Cunning wrote: > > I´m trying to get OpenOffice 3.0.0 to recognize and enter French accented > > characters (e.g., ´ + e or ^ + a , etc.) I´ve set up KDE keyboard > > layouts and can get the proper characters displayed on console, xterm, > > kmail and other windows, but the dead key combinations in OpenOffice are > > simply dead--no characters produced at all. When switching back to the > > US layout without dead keys, the same key presses to OpenOffice produce > > two characters, as one would expect. > > > > I do this all the time with OpenOffice on my laptop with openSUSE 10.3. > > Is there something I´ve not setup correctly on my gentoo system? > > Did you remember to compile OpenOffice with "LINGUAS=fr"? May be > something to consider adding to your make.conf to get around > language/localization issues. I'm not sure that's what I need. I would like OpenOffice to be in English, not French, but do want to be able to enter accented characters as used in French, German, etc., when I select the us-intl keyboard layout. Where can I get documentation on the environment variables OpenOffice build uses, and how OpenOffice uses alternate keyboard layouts? I've googled, but nothing I've encountered describes how to avoid my situation. -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Cursor keys stopped working in VMware workstation
I have been using VMware workstation V. 5.5.9 and a Logitech wireless keyboard for some time. Today I somehow mistyped a Ctrl- sequence while in the VM window, meaning to enter it elsewhere instead of the VM. Now, the cursor keys between the main keys and the keypad have stopped working correctly. Most do nothing, but the down arrow key causes Windows to raise the Start menu, as if I had pressed the "windows" key near left-alt. The cursor movement keys on the keypad still work, with numlock off. I have tried restarting windows, restarting VMware workstation, restarting the X (KDE) session, and rebooting the computer. The only thing I haven't done is a complete power off/on. All cursor keys work fine in non-VMware applications, so I suspect VMware and/or Windows, but I've been wrong blaming MS or VM before, so.. Does anyone have a clue what might be wrong, and how to fix this? Thanks, -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] OpenOffice 3.0.0 with dead keys
I´m trying to get OpenOffice 3.0.0 to recognize and enter French accented characters (e.g., ´ + e or ^ + a , etc.) I´ve set up KDE keyboard layouts and can get the proper characters displayed on console, xterm, kmail and other windows, but the dead key combinations in OpenOffice are simply dead--no characters produced at all. When switching back to the US layout without dead keys, the same key presses to OpenOffice produce two characters, as one would expect. I do this all the time with OpenOffice on my laptop with openSUSE 10.3. Is there something I´ve not setup correctly on my gentoo system? -- Jim signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10
On Saturday 02 May 2009 13:43:27 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Samstag 02 Mai 2009, Jim Cunning wrote:
> > I have a well-running AMD64 system running on a 250G disk that is
> > beginning to show some SMART errors. I have purchased and partitioned
> > two 1T disks into RAID10 arrays and would like to move everything to the
> > new arrays, make them bootable and abandon booting from the 250G disk.
> >
> > I know I'll need to change /boot/grub/grub.conf, /etc/fstab and any other
> > files that refer to my current drive partitions, /dev/sda{1,2,3,4}. I am
> > concerned whether my current kernel will recognize the /dev/md{1,2,3,4}
> > arrays on booting, and before switching from the initrd root disk. How
> > can I check the parameters and contents of the initrd I'm currently using
> > and/or generate a new one to permit booting from the RAID disks?
>
> how do you do 10 with only two disks? You need four!
> the kernel is able to autoassemble - so you don't need an initrd - me I
> hate initrds.
RAID10 = RAID1+0. It works fine with 2 disks. I was able to create it first
with one drive missing and then add the second, which sync'ed without
problems.
I'm glad I don't need any special initrd.
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[gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10
I have a well-running AMD64 system running on a 250G disk that is beginning to
show some SMART errors. I have purchased and partitioned two 1T disks into
RAID10 arrays and would like to move everything to the new arrays, make them
bootable and abandon booting from the 250G disk.
I know I'll need to change /boot/grub/grub.conf, /etc/fstab and any other
files that refer to my current drive partitions, /dev/sda{1,2,3,4}. I am
concerned whether my current kernel will recognize the /dev/md{1,2,3,4}
arrays on booting, and before switching from the initrd root disk. How can I
check the parameters and contents of the initrd I'm currently using and/or
generate a new one to permit booting from the RAID disks?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros & cons
Dale wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> 071008 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> This question "Is LVM a good idea?" keeps cropping up on mailing lists. >>> I find this a bit strange as I find huge benefits >>> and have yet to find a valid downside for general use. >>> >> >> If you haven't used it, it looks like a questionable extra complexity, >> which could bite your fingers unexpectedly for little real gain. >> However, I am grateful for all the replies & may decide to use it, >> the comments being generally reassuring as to its stability. >> There is a Gentoo doc re how to fit it into the install process. >> >> > > > That's me too. I checked into it but just have not got the nerve up > to switch. I have had to redo my partitions a couple times though so > I could use it for sure. > > Maybe one of these days. > > Dale > > :-) :-) :-) I must be one of the 'crazy' ones. I run LVM2 for / under linux RAID. Even /boot is on a RAID1. I use genkernel for the proper initramfs. You just need to use "dolvm2" and "lvmraid=/dev/mdX ..." on your boot line. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Webmail in portage without PHP?
kashani wrote: > Grant wrote: >>> > Is there a decent webmail package in portage (or a layman overlay) >>> > that doesn't depend on PHP? >>> > >>> >>> what is the problem with php? Every webmail is going to need to >>> depend on >>> some kind of server side scripting. >>> >>> Nangus >> >> I am using perl and I'd rather not install and maintain PHP just so I >> can use Squirrelmail. It sounds like I may need to though. Does >> anyone prefer another webmail client to Squirrelmail? >> >> - Grant > > I've run squirrel, horde, and roundcube. I like roundcube best. It's > probably the simplest to setup and the cleanest interface. > I've set up squirrel and Horde IMP to check them out. Squirrel was relatively easy to set up compared to Horde, and via plugins, has pretty much every feature I want. Horde was a pain to set up, is big and slow, but looks a bit nicer than squirrel (haven't experimented with any skins on squirrel). I also installed ingo and turba on top of horde too, and I'm a bit disappointed. Unless there's a misconfiguration, turba doesn't seem to allow you to simply add a contact from an email message in Imp. And turba's mail filters seem fairly limited. I was expecting something more on the lines of Tbird's mail filter capabilities. I suppose you could get that if you ran procmail or maildrop, or perhaps seive (which I know nothing about, and apparently requires the cyrus imap server). Roundcube looks very promising. Looks like the project is going for a web based T-bird style client. :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Streaming Audio: source -> server -> clients.. What to use for "source" to send to server?
fire-eyes wrote: > I'm out of ideas now, and pretty frustrated. I am looking for ideas. > This would preferably be a console application so I don't have to > depend on a GUI. Again, it needs to support both mp3 and ogg at the > same time, yet have the ability to take the oggs, re-encode to mp3 on > the fly and stream them as mp3 to the icecast server. I'm pretty sure media-sound/mpd can do this. -- Jim Ramsay "Me fail English? That's unpossible!" signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Enabling Mutt with SSL for IMAP
Anthony Roy wrote: > More generally, how do I find out the relationship between the portage > use flags and a packages compile options? Short answer is: Read the ebuild. Look for things like: econf $(use_enable ssl) if use ssl; then # Do many things fi use ssl & epatch "some_file.patch" -- Jim Ramsay "Me fail English? That's unpossible!" signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Exchange compatibility with MTAs (not evolution)
Alan Mckinnon wrote: > I'd like to ask for some user feedback on how well other MTAs manage > to talk to Exchange. It's the calendar function I'd like to have - > other people at work like to send me invites. I can always pop my > mail from exchange, and I can get imap if I ask the admin nicely so > the mail stuff is not important. The exchange web front end is > enabled so I always have the browser as a fall back, but I'd really > like everything in the MTA if possible. Sylpheed-claws has a 'vcalendar' plugin which reports to be compatible with Exchange calendar events. I've never tried it, though. 'emerge sylpheed-claws-vcalendar' -- Jim Ramsay "Me fail English? That's unpossible!" signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Network connection repeatedly failing!
Samuel Baldwin wrote: > When I run ifconfig, I get this: > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX Packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX Packets:28 errors:0 dropped:2 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions: 0 txqueuelen: 0 > RX bytes: 3080 (3.0 KB) TX bytes:3080 (3.0kb) This is just the inernal loopback device, not eth0. Try 'ifconfig -a' and see if your system even knows about your eth0 interface. If it's not listed by 'ifconfig -a', you need to load the right kernel module to get it there. If it's listed but not up, a command like 'ifconfig eth0 up 10.0.0.100' and 'route add default 10.0.0.1' may do for now. > Also, does anyone know of a tool that allows you to play audio from a > terminal? Basically, sending audio to standard audio out? I'd like to > be able to listen to music (all .ogg and .mp3, if it makes a > difference), while in runlevel 3. This is a side comment, and do not > waste time answering this/looking it up if you don't know off hand. I use 'media-sound/mpd' which is a mp3/ogg playing daemon (server), then one of the front-ends (media-sound/ncmpc is a good console client) to set up your playlist. http://www.musicpd.org for more info and a list of other frontends. -- Jim Ramsay "Me fail English? That's unpossible!" signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: world favorites: pros and cons
Daniel da Veiga wrote: > Take a look at the "~" operator... That's what I get for not RTFM first! >From 'man ebuild': ~ means match any revision of the base version specified. So in the above example (~net-libs/libnet-1.0.2a), we would match versions '1.0.2a', '1.0.2a-r1', '1.0.2a-r2', etc... So the correct answer(?) would be to mask: >~dev-db/mysql-4.1.20 Then you get bugfixes but no new versions. -- Jim Ramsay "Me fail English? That's unpossible!" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: world favorites: pros and cons
Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Yeah, but this would also prevent fixes in this ebuild. > (ie. if there's a typo or broken dependency) Then you could do: >=dev-db/mysql-4.2 This would allow any mysql-4.1.*, including 4.1.20-r1 and 4.1.99 Though you do raise a good point... it would be nice to specify a "real upstream version number" differently from the Gentoo "interim release number" such as -r2. Can you think of a sane way to do that? My suggestion would be to use a '+' character to represent "all possible gentoo interim releases", as follows: Masking >dev-db/mysql-4.1.20+ should allow mysql-4.1.20-r1 but not mysql-4.1.21 -- Jim Ramsay "Me fail English? That's unpossible!" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: world favorites: pros and cons
Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, the world file is a simple way to keep a package version (by > > removing it from world), for instance, I don't wanna upgrade mysql > > with my nightly "emerge -uDN world", so, its not in my world file. > > Isn't there any way for nailing it down to some specific version ? Sure, mask anything higher than the version you want in your /etc/portage/package.mask file: >dev-db/mysql-4.1.20 -- Jim Ramsay "Me fail English? That's unpossible!" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] How to get source of emerge to patch?
Hi. I want to patch cyrus-imapd. I have the diff file, but no source because I emerged from the repository. How do I get the source and ebuild it? Thanks. __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[gentoo-user] Console vanishes after X server is run
Hi, I'm having an issue with text console of one of my gentoo boxes not coming back after the X server exits. The console is there and works fine up to the point when the X server starts (for instance, when gdm comes up). After this, using the key sequences to call up the text vtys, shutting down gdm, etc, results in a black screen. I've tried the various key combos, etc, and the screen just stays black until the system is rebooted (it stays black until the system warm boots and the BIOS screen pops up), or until an X server is started up again (gdm will start up and display the login screen normally). It's as if the whatever is responsible for switching the video mode and/or FB address back to the console settings is not doing its job. I run gensplash and the vesa-tng frame buffer drivers. The graphics card I have is an old Nvidia GeForce 3, and I run the Nvidia binary drivers (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers) under Xorg 7.0. Here is my boot line: kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.16-gentoo-r12 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/vg00/root dolvm2 lvmraid=/dev/md0 lvmraid=/dev/md1 video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=verbose,fadein,mtrr,theme:livecd-2006.0 quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 initrd (hd0,0)/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.16-gentoo-r12 (1280x1024-16 mode is listed in the /proc/fb0/modes file, so it's a valid BIOS mode) Any ideas ? Suggestions ? - Jim smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [gentoo-user] booting with an lvm2 root. How do I make a working initrd?
Sascha Lucas wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Javier Ubillos wrote: I don't want to use genkernel, but I still want it to work. you realy should use genkernel it's much easier. mkinitrd --preload md_mod --with=md_mod initrd-2.6.16-gentoo-r9 well you should not use mkinitrd, if you refuse genkernel :-). btw: md-mod is RAID (multiple devs), LVM is dm-mod (dev mapper). In conclusion: how do I get/make a working initrd so I can boot with my lvm2 root? that's much work to do it your self start building ext2 images or cpio's with static busybox & lvm2 and write your own linuxrc (here you may cheat by looking into linuxrc from genkernel :-)). Don't forget to create dev-files and to include some modules. Sascha. Yes. What Sascha said. I've had many a user (in #gentoo IRC) sneer at me for using Genkernel to produce a kernel + initramfs archive to boot up my RAID + LVM2 based system. But it's far simpler than reinventing the wheel by creating all that is needed to bootstrap the RAID/LVM2 setup (static bins, linuxrc script to start everything up, create device nodes, etc, etc). I don't see much value in doing it myself when Genkernel already does it for me. Also, you can do all the kernel customization you wish (within reason) even if you use Genkernel by using one of the --menu|x|g|config flags, and/or --oldconfig. -- +-------+ | Jim Burwell - Sr. Systems/Network/Security Engineer, JSBC | +---+ | "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." - Mark Twain | | "UNIX was never designed to keep people from doing stupid things, because | | that policy would also keep them from doing clever things." - Doug Gwyn | | "Cool is only three letters away from Fool" - Mike Muir, Suicyco | | "..Government in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst | | state an intolerable one.." - Thomas Paine, "Common Sense" (1776)| +---+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN: 1695089 | +---+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Join plain text paragraphs
* on the Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 07:28:17AM +0100, David Morgan said: > On 22:46 Mon 12 Jun , JimD wrote: > > David Morgan wrote: > > > On 18:53 Mon 12 Jun , JimD wrote: > > >> Sweet. Thanks for the tips. I need to start using OOo more ;-) > > > > > > No need. > > > > > > sed -e :a -e '$!N;s/\n[^$]//;ta' -e 'p;D' filename > > > > Close. It is removing the first character of every paragraph. I am > > trying to digitize my book collection. For example, here is a test > > output from Narnia - The Magician's Nephew: > > Indeed - didn't my corrected version get through? I received it before I > received your reply anyway. > > sed -e :a -e '$!N;s/\n\([^$]\)/\1/;ta' -e 'p;D' filename Almost perfect. It now joins the lines without removing the first character. However, There is now no space between the joined lines. For example: CHAPTER ONE THE WRONG DOOR becomes CHAPTER ONETHE WRONG DOOR I added space to the end of all lines, except blank lines and now it gets me pretty much what I was looking for. Thanks, Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Flash and Xorg 7.1?
* on the Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:39:40AM -0400, Willie Wong said: > I am not quite sure what went wrong. > > The result: http://www.math.princeton.edu/~wwong/20061600026.png > whenever I try to access a website with flash content on it, the > weird bands of messed-up stuff appear across the screen. It does go > away after I close the offending tab, and performs some action that > forces X to redraw. > > This started happening after I did a largish update after being away > for 2.5 weeks. I think the problem is either with X, firefox, or > flash, though it might go as far as the video driver. Any ideas? > (Or, can anyone reproduce the behaviour?) > > > And so I use the built-in radeon drivers. > > Thanks, > > Willie I have the same issue. I upgraded gcc to 4.1.x and that has been a mess since I rebooted. I need to rebuild world :-) I get the same flash issue. Simple flash sites work, flash sites with video mostly puke now. I also get display issues with gnome-terminal where all/most of the text becomes invisible until I hit enter and then it is redrawn. I use the binary NVidia driver and thought it was releated to that. However I am currently downgrading x11-libs/libX11, x11-base/xorg-server and x11-base/xorg-x11 and all the installed drivers I have under x11-drivers/*. I hope this will fix me up because right now I cannot get into Gnome. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- You roll an 18 in Dex and see if you don't end up with a girlfriend =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error with sys-apps/apmd
On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 19:31 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I think you need to re-emerge libtool > and then run > > fix_libtool_files.sh 3.4.4 > > allan Ahh, thanks for the tip. I never knew about fix_libtool_files.sh. Jim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VMware not running well
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: When I run as root, things seem better, but it complains that it was unable to extablish an IP number for the simulated ethernet card (networking is set up for NAT). I had lots of problems initially with running the perl script which configures the network, but eventually after trying about four times it "just worked". I'm still having timer problems, vmware complains on startup about /dev/rtc not being available (though it is, and the module is compiled into the kernel). A FreeBSD guest keeps complaining that time is running backwards. Playing Gnometris on a Ubuntu guest is really really easy since the blocks take a minute to descend :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] -unicode USE flag
Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/13/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/13/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >I wonder if anyone could explain the USE flag 'unicode' better than > the Gentoo description located here: > > http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml > > unicode Adds support for Unicode > >I think the person who wrote this knows too much. ;-) Or figured the reader would know how to use google... :-) http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html -Richard That much I did before writing. There are lots of similar sites. Thanks. However, being a musican and not a computer scientist all of that is mostly gibberish to lower life forms such as myself. The unicode flag possibility shows up on some new emerges for fonts. I suppose they are then fonts that use 16-bits instead of whatever they use when I don't include the unicaode flag. All that stated, then question still arises, why would I want these on my system? Do you speak languages other then English? If so, that is where Unicode can come in. It can handle a lot more characters then just the English alphabet. I only speak and read English and have no need for those "funny" characters so I built my systems with a global use flag of -unicode. It won't hurt to include Unicode. Basically if you want to work with any language other then English, just enable Unicode. Thanks, Mark Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?
Nagatoro wrote: Least: Konsole + Gnome-terminal, slow, and in my opinion horrible color support. Don't use the tabs since I like to be able to look at all (or many) sessions at once, so tabs makes no sense to me. The early versions of gnome-terminal were a little slow. Have you tried gnome-terminal 2.14? It is *really* fast now. About 4x faster then xterm. If you use antialiased fonts, xterm gets *real* slow. xterm is more then 60x slower then gnome-terminal for scrolling a lot of antialiased text. http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-14/ Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags???
Justin Findlay wrote: On 5/8/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How would you recommend changing USE flags or making them better? You should post suggestions to the devs. I think they need some fixing as well. However, I haven't really thought much about it and so have no real useful suggestions, yet. OK, let's think about this for a second. I'm just shooting from the hip here. It may very well be that I don't have any substantial improvements for USE flags. but I think it would be easier and faster to set/unset use flags if they were catergorized. I like it. Sounds like a good idea to me ;) Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Web mail
Can anyone recommend a webmail client? I am looking for something more modern
than
SquuirrelMal. I have been using SquuirrelMal, however I find it the interface
too old
and outdated.
I also looking into the code to see if I could freshen it up. From a quick
look, the
code is based on really outdated procedural-style PHP where the code and HMTL
is all
mushed together resulting in a mess like this in compose.php:
if ($compose_new_win == '1') {
echo ''."\n" .
' '.html_tag( 'td', '', 'right' ).
''."\n";
} else {
echo '' . "\n";
}
if ($location_of_buttons == 'top') {
showComposeButtonRow();
Does anyone know of a good *modern* webmail app?
Jim
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Re: [gentoo-user] I'm going crazy ;-)
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 08:18 +0100, Qian Qiao wrote: > That's exactly the reason we still use mysql 4.0 in our production > environment. > > The mysql charset thingy is basically a whole load of mess. > > A brief search on mysql's bug database shows some of the encoding bugs > and unicode key length not correctly calculated are still not properly > fixed yet they pushed their production version to 5.0. > > We might be switching to postgres, at least it supports views, > triggers and handles encoding properly. The only thing preventing us > from doing so is that we use Mantisbt, which only works with mysql. Are you sure it is not an Gentoo thing? I noticed this as well. Gentoo has utf8 in /etc/mysql/my.cnf. I personally don't need/want utf8. Some things I noticed with the Gentoo mysql install. MySQL sucks up a bunch of memory just sitting there. Looking in my.cnf the Gentoo defaults are pretty big. Lowering all the values got mysql down from 100+ MB to about 30MB. Why is it using utf8? Does mysql 5.x require that? Couldn't the Gentoo ebuild make it an option? When I tried to replace the Gentoo my.cnf with the example my-small.cnf, things wouldn't work. Maybe have the ebuild configure the three example files so that they all work and then a user can just symlink to the one they want? I am not running a production MySQL at home, just a development MySQL so I want it to have the smallest memory footprint possible. I would like to stay with MySQL 5.x for the new features. Switching to PostgreSQL doesn't really seem like an option (yet). A lot of the open source apps out there only target MySQL. This is especially true with PHP 4.x apps since PHP Data Objects (PDO) was not available and PHP 4.x required a slow DB wrapper class/script to target multiple databases and a lot of code duplications with mysql_*(), PGSQL_*(), etc. Once/If all those great PHP-based apps get ported to PHP 5.x and PDO, then PostgreSQL would be a true option. Have you tried to just download the MySQL binary and install it in /opt and see how that works? I might give that a go. Jim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] x86 Install CD
Is there anyway to modify the x86 install CD? Last night I tried to install Gentoo on my laptop and things just didn't work out. I know all the major devices work with Linux because I put in Ubuntu 6.06 - Dapper Drake and my Intel wireless ipw2200 and sound worked OTB. The sound didn't work with the Gentoo install CD which is no biggie since I can fix that after install. However, the killer was that there was no support for ipw2200! I looked in /lib/firmware and there were the firmware binaries for the 2100, but not the 2200. I couldn't download the firmware since Gentoo didn't have support for my wireless card. I tried to do an install without network but it failed. Looking at the log, emerge tried to get to the net. I also noticed that there was no stage-3 on the x86 liveCD installer so I picked to make the packages from the CD itself. I put in a pcmcia D-Link card and dmesg showed it, however iwconfig didn't list it and Gentoo didn't do anything with it. The docs on the CD weren't much help for wireless. I am going on vacation tomorrow and would really like to have Gentoo, though I will "deal" with Ubuntu 6.06 if need be. Has anyone gotten an Intel pro wireless 2200 (ipw2200) working with Gentoo and more specifically with the installer? Thanks, Jim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] x86 Packages CD image
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 10:42 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: > Hi, > Can't find anything, too. > As last resort, if your "arch" is at at least "i686" you could use the > liveCD-2006.0 directly (to install) or start it and using "quickpkg" > make your own binary packages. Save them elsewhere, and use later. > If arch < i686 can't help. > BTW: check for "Kuroraa-0.2" or better "RR4-3.0b", the second is a half > full DVD with many packages (may be even too many ;) - Gentoo derivates. > HTH.Rumen Speaking of quickpkg, does anyone know if one can run quickpkg on an AMD and have it run on a pentium M? I compiled my main desktop which is an ADM64 with: -O3 -msse2 -msse3 -mfpmath=sse -march=athlon-xp -pipe I am going away for 2 weeks and I am snagging my wife's laptop and ditching WinXP. I don't have time to build a fully functional Gentoo system so I was hoping to be able to use my current one. My only other option would be Ubuntu or bloated Fedora. Thanks, Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [normal] [gentoo-user] OT: Application for video cutting ?
* on the Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 07:08:37PM +0200, Marc Redmann said: > > Would you happen to have a link? All I found was this guide on doom9: > > > > http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/DigiTV/projectx-fullguide.htm > > As Jeremy already mentioned it is in portage, anyway here is the link: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/project-x > > brgds, Marc Thanks for the link. I found that site the other day, though based on the description, I thought I had the wrong project: "Project X gives you a look behind the transmissions and tries its best to handle & repair many stream types and shows what went wrong on reception." Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Finally, the bell rings.
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 17:17 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alle 16:55, domenica 2 aprile 2006, david ha scritto: > > What brand and model # is your printer? > > HP PSC 1410 Then emerge hplip and they you need to start hplip and cups. sudo /etc/init.d/hplip start sudo /etc/init.d/cupsd start sudo rc-update add hplip default sudo rc-update add cupsd default Now you should be able to go to: http://localhost:631/ Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I'm a geek, but I don't get it. 36-24-36 = -24. What's the significance? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Florida, USA, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] courier-imap won't start
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 15:05 +0200, Bo Andresen wrote: > This script does start it up successfully. Still the initscript doesn't. I > have tested that all the variables are set to the same things in the > initscript simply by printing them with echo and they are. > > /usr/lib/courier-imap/courier-imapd.indirect doesn't exist btw... > > I trying to use version 4.0.1 > # eix courier -I -c > [I] net-libs/courier-authlib (0.58): courier authentication library > [I] net-mail/courier-imap (4.0.1): An IMAP daemon designed specifically for > maildirs I am using: [EMAIL PROTECTED] eix -I -c courier [I] net-libs/courier-authlib (0.58): courier authentication library [I] net-mail/courier-imap (4.0.4): An IMAP daemon designed specifically for maildirs [EMAIL PROTECTED] equery belongs /usr/lib/courier-imap/courier-imapd.indirect [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/courier-imap/courier-imapd.indirect in *... ] net-mail/courier-imap-4.0.4 (/usr/lib/courier-imap/courier-imapd.indirect) Maybe try the newer version with the newer ebuild or just make your own startup script? Jim -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] gccmakedep
Does anyone know the path to this file? I am trying to compile net-misc/tightvnc and have run in to several issues. I am trying to get it to compile on xorg 7.0. If I get it to compile I will submit a bug report. I cannot use the standard net-misc/vnc because it wants to merge an older version of xorg. I an trying to run x11-misc/vnc2swf to make a demo. However I cannot get it to with net-misc/vino or x11-misc/x11vnc. When I connect to local host, both of those apps go nuts and start a mirror effect. So it looks like I need to run a separate xvncserver to do the vnc recording. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I'm a geek, but I don't get it. 36-24-36 = -24. What's the significance? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Florida, USA, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] setting the time
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 03:20 +0200, Daniel Waeber wrote: > hi > > i have a problem with changing the time/date of my computer. I only can > change it temporally till the next reboot. I tried date and ntptime to > set it. after setting it the system shows the right time, but after a > reboot i have the old time again. i have no other system running on the > computer that could change the time, so it is a problem with > linux/gentoo. do i somehow have to finalize the setting? > > thanks in advance ! Edit /etc/conf.d/clock and set CLOCK_SYSTOHC to "yes". This will sync your hardware clock to your system time when you shutdown/reboot. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I'm a geek, but I don't get it. 36-24-36 = -24. What's the significance? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Florida, USA, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] anyone having apache2 memory issues
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 22:24 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Jim wrote: > > > Here is a little program I tossed together to free that cached memory. > > Hm. Why do this? Do you actually get any performance benefits > after having freed the memory occupied by the cache? > > In theory, you shouldn't see any benefits, as the system > should throw away memory pages occupied by cache stuff, > as soon as there are "more important" requests (like > any malloc). > > Or am I wrong? That is how it should be. However I noticed when I only had 512 MB of memory that most of my memory would be "used" and I would see a lot of cache. Instead of that cache being freed or used, I would see a lot of swap file usage which really kills performance. I basically don't want to see swap touched unless I actually run out of physical memory. The best thing to do besides have a bunch of memory is to tune your "swappiness": http://kerneltrap.org/node/3000 Now that I have 2 GB of memory, I don't worry about it any more. However when I had 512MB it was an issues, especially when trying to run apache, mysql, postfix, courier and a full desktop. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I'm a geek, but I don't get it. 36-24-36 = -24. What's the significance? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Florida, USA, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 22:29 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/db/pkg $ epm -qf `which xmkmf ` > imake-1.0.1-r1 > > Please file a bug against tightvnc, as it's missing > a dependency. Will do. > BTW: Why use tightvnc at all? Realvnc 4 is as fast in > my experience and there's still somebody workign on it - > seeing that the last update to tightvnc is dated > July 2005, I doubt that anybody maintains it anymore. I am testing out the different vnc versions along with freeNX to see what will give me the fastest remote desktop. > Alexander Skwar Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I'm a geek, but I don't get it. 36-24-36 = -24. What's the significance? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Florida, USA, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Modular X
Would this be a problem with the EBuild or with the app? I am try to install tightvnc and get the following error. >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/tightvnc-1.2.9-r1/work/vnc_unixsrc ... /usr/portage/net-misc/tightvnc/tightvnc-1.2.9-r1.ebuild: line 41: xmkmf: command not found !!! ERROR: net-misc/tightvnc-1.2.9-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1526: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 923: Called src_compile tightvnc-1.2.9-r1.ebuild, line 41: Called die I take it xmkmf is no longer used in xorg 7.0? Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I'm a geek, but I don't get it. 36-24-36 = -24. What's the significance? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Florida, USA, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] anyone having apache2 memory issues
On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 20:50 -0800, Alan Bailward wrote:
> Hey all. I recently swapped my apache 1.3 site (personal blog, albums,
> etc) over to apache 2 (stable) and all seemed to go well. However
> lately I've been having a lot of out of memory issues on the server.
> Even when memory is still available
What output do you get from: top -b -n 1
For example, here is my apache output:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] top -b -n 1
top - 11:48:06 up 2 days, 15:11, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03,
0.04
Tasks: 88 total, 2 running, 86 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 7.4% us, 5.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 86.2% id, 0.8% wa, 0.0% hi,
0.5% si
Mem: 2010484k total, 1678576k used, 331908k free, 264884k buffers
Swap: 522104k total, 136k used, 521968k free, 945556k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND
15536 root 16 0 56784 10m 4864 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.16 apache2
16374 apache16 0 57188 9816 3108 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.10 apache2
6481 apache15 0 57172 9780 3100 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.02 apache2
Go through top and see what is sucking up your memory. Or you can use
gnome-system-monitor, which I like better.
Here is a little program I tossed together to free that cached memory.
Just run it and specify an amount of memory in MB. Do not run this as
root, a normal user is fine.
I have 2 GB and after running VMWare I run:
mem 1200
Which frees all that cached memory that VMWare sucked up. If you have <
1 GB, you should turn swap off before you run this, otherwise you might
just be allocating memory from swap and defeat the purpose.
Before you run the program, look at the output of free to see how much
you should try to free. For example,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1963 1643 3190 258 923
-/+ buffers/cache: 461 1502
Swap: 509 0 509
I have 923 MB sitting in cache. So if I run:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mem 1200
allocating: 1200MB bytes of memory
allocated: 1258291200MB bytes of memory
freed 1258291200MB bytes of memory
I now have 1.2 GB free:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1963 715 1248 0 45 307
-/+ buffers/cache: 362 1600
Swap:509 0 509
To compile the program, just do:
You can replace $CFLAGS with whatever you like, for example -O3.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] gcc $CFLAGS -o mem mem.c
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo cp mem /usr/bin
BEGIN CUT
#include
#include
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
char* ptr = 0;
int i= 0;
int size = 0;
if (argc != 2)
{
printf("Usage: %s SIZE\nwhere SIZE is the size of "
"memory to allocate in MB\n", argv[0]);
return 1;
}
/* get the size in MB from the command line */
size = atoi(argv[1]);
printf("allocating: %iMB bytes of memory\n", size);
ptr = (char*)malloc(1024 * 1024 * size);
if (ptr)
{
printf("allocated: %iMB bytes of memory\n", (1024 * 1024 * size));
for (i=0; i<(1024 * 1024 * size); i++)
{
ptr[i]=1;
}
free(ptr);
printf("freed %iMB bytes of memory\n", (1024 * 1024 * size));
}
else
printf("failed to allocate %iMB bytes of memory\n",
(1024 * 1024 * size));
return 0;
}
END CUT
You might want to try:
# mem 225
Jim
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Re: [gentoo-user] VIA K8M890/K8M880 (VT8251) supported?
* on the Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 10:59:05PM +0100, Jarry said: > Norberto Bensa wrote: > > > >SATA VT8251 do not work on Linux. There are -very- experimental patches, > >but I've not tried them myself. Return the board and buy anything else > >that's not VIA based. > > I did. Bought nForce4-based board. Got stuck with sata-II drives > (lock-ups, crushes, out-of-sync, both in linux and in windows). > It is a buggy chipset, has problems with nearly all sata-II drives > (tried Seagate and Samsung) and nvidia does not care a sh*t... > > Jarry I have an ASRock 939NF4G-SATA2 nForce4 based motherboard. I put a WDC WD1600JS-22M SATA II hard drive in the system. Everything has been workinging perfectly. The drive is very fast and everything onboard works. The system has been very stable. The only issue I had with the board was that I couldn't get alsa to work. So I was stuck with NVidia's OSS based nvsound. nvsound does hardware mixing, though a lot of newer programs want alsa. So I recompiled everything to do oss. Today I found a simple fix to get the onboard audio to work by adding the ID to an alsa driver and recompile. Now alsa is up and running. I have had nothing but headaches with VIA and ALi in the past. This ASRock board is a great value at < $75. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone run Gentoo on a Dell PowerEdge SC430?
kashani wrote: Jim Hatfield wrote: They are so, so cheap right now. Dell UK has them at £199+VAT for the entry level configuration, with free delivery to the end of the month. I'm tempted. I've got three of them running Gentoo in our dev environment. 2005.1 and 2006.0 disks worked just fine and had no kernel or driver issues running them as servers without X. Thanks. I can feel my credit card itching already... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Anyone run Gentoo on a Dell PowerEdge SC430?
They are so, so cheap right now. Dell UK has them at £199+VAT for the entry level configuration, with free delivery to the end of the month. I'm tempted. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] slots
Hey group, I have dev-db/mysql 5.0.18-r30 installed. After a sync I get the following when I run: emerge -avb dev-db/mysql-5.0.19 Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild NS ] dev-db/mysql-5.0.19 +berkdb -big-tables -cluster -debug -embedded -extraengine -max-idx-128 -minimal +perl (-selinux) -srvdir +ssl -static 19,074 kB Total size of downloads: 19,074 kB I read about slots, however I didn't see anywhere to do an upgrade instead of a slot. I don't want/need to versions of mysql on my system. Is there an option to emerge to tell it to only use the latest version of mysql? Or do I need to emerge -c the older mysql? Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Google-Talk
Abhay Kedia wrote: On Monday 13 March 2006 01:07, Mick wrote: Is there way of setting up a VoIP talk session with another person who is using Google Talk? He is running the Google Talk Windoze application. -- If you don't mind using beta stuff then I just saw this on gentoo forums http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-442920.html Do tell us if it works. Dang!!! Why does it have to be a kde app :K Does anyone know if jingle support is in any gnome app? Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination
On 152923032 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (I haven't validated this, but it *shouldn't* break your system. If you > are using LVM and have a little extra space, it might just be better to do > a chroot install, then boot into it and remove your old install [don't > remove /home!]) Thanks for the details Boyd. ;) I have plenty of space so I might try the chroot. I take it I can find chroot gentoo install instructions on the wiki? Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 164593240 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Better memory architecture and microcode, larger caches, etc.; you might > even get a Hz bump; in the near future, you'll get hw virtualization. > There are lot of reasons to choose a modern processor than just the 64-bit > mode. That said, there's very little reason to have less than 1G of RAM > these days, and at that point you are well-served to put (at least) your > kernel in 64-bit mode. Is there a how-to on going 64-bit with Gentoo? Anything special to do with/for the kernel to go 64-bit? Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFd+UeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAi0xAJ4rvSEyExCXRsJFFA0FGtzsfyp+XwCeOtBJ 8jJMZOdaMktryZtOqkRBr7c= =Qw+M -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] -nls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 163381024 kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim wrote: >> >> Has anyone gotten burned by turning off Native Language Support? >> > > The only thing I've ever run into on the server side that wanted it was > the Horde framework requiring PHP to have NLS... however I didn't look > real hard for a workaround so that might not have been a hard requirement. > > kashani Thanks kashani. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFcaDeqJ5Vbm4CxYRApT8AJ9NTQb/e3AncLtfpQolLwvTdjzqDwCePrnL TmvJSz39juvl9O1cVZItnpQ= =i5FQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] -nls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does turning off nls break anything? I did the livecd install and everything in the base install was compiled with +nls. Once I started compiling my own stuff like X, Gnome etc, I change to -nls in my USE flags. I only speak English so I don't need Native Language Support. I flipped the nls USE flag back on and update world/system would have to recompile a *lot*. I will probably have all the main software I want compiled in the next day or two and then plan to do a backup. I don't want to continue with those plans if I am going to get burned down the road because I turned of Native Language Support . I would rather recompile now while I have the time ; ) Has anyone gotten burned by turning off Native Language Support? Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFbvgeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAhm5AJ4rWLRsKPumFQjiDxUxEXsId090zACfcveD TirL03MgRxeJpdB/12pLkPE= =97Dh -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 163692080 "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no good reason to buy intel today. > > But... emm... I bought a Venive S939, 3200+ 1000MHZ HT for less than 130¤ or > so just 5Month ago. so you should get a much better CPU than you wrote for > 150$ Thanks for the tip. I did see the Venice core on newegg. Where did you get your S939? Did you do AMD64 for gentoo or just x86? I just finished getting everything compiled and setup where I like it. I won't mind doing it again if running gentoo in 64-bit on an AMD64 would be a noticeable difference from running 32-bit on an AMD64. Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFbqCeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAtG0AJ9B+ZNw9EC5/Pqhgdei3ib6rHnUTgCfft9L 29GXO8rFqf2cCcrz5uFcGkw= =6M2I -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] wget won't concatenate(?)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 163609048 maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi group, > > I tried wget'ing this on dialup: > ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/x86/2006.0/livecd/livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso > > Then, because I needed to use the phone, after > downloading 150Megs or so, I ctrl-C'd outta there > thinking I could pick up where I left off. Wrong! > > wget wants to start from the beginning. I gave it the > -nc option and it reports 'already there, not > retrieving'. > > What did I do wrong? I've done this before with other > files and this never happened. Maybe I used a > different tool, can't remember. > > -Maxim Use wget -c. Example, you start to download http://www.microsoft.com/linux-kernel.iso and your connection dies. To continue you would use: wget -c http://www.microsoft.com/linux-kernel.iso Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFbJ4eqJ5Vbm4CxYRAlT7AJ9O1C9ozY+YnPwQ4Z83jRAe1H2BbQCeJ0om uzQ/XGZfHEV0WCSu11eD19E= =NRPy -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mount permissions
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 163718720 Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The root of all my rsync/network problems is a permissions problem > The /mnt/network is > drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Mar 13 13:24 test > > After I mount using > mount -t smbfs -o > username=paul,password=pass //LKG7DDD5F/gentoobackup /mnt/network > > the /mnt/network permissions have change to > > drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Mar 13 16:57 test > > How do I ensure the permissions stay the same after the mount > > Paul type man mount or man mount.cifs. Once in man, press / which will let you search. Now type smbfs and hit enter. You should see the options for smbfs. The interesting ones are: uid gid umask fmask/file_mode dmask/dir_mode uid will let you set a user id for all files gid will let you set a group id for all files umask remove umaks bits. for example if you mount with umask=000, everything will be 777 or rwx. fmask/file_mode set the mas for files dmask/dir_mode set the mask for directories If you are mounting win2k or higher, you should use cifs. This is how I mount my C$ share on my WinXP laptop: mount -t cifs -o username=administrator,gid=100,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770 //laptop/C$ /mnt/laptop The above is should be one line. This will mount my laptops C$ share and give permission for everyone in the users group to read/write/execute. If you need to mount < win2k then you would change cifs to smbfs, file_mode to fmask and dir_mode to dmask. Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFbApeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAm0BAJsEgG+wLteEQ3ObxncyONuQyquOeACfdEDI KE+BUBJTU1VpvmOEL09MthU= =djHQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gnome menu editing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a gnome menu editing app that I can emerge in gentoo? There was a menu editor for Gnome in the latest version of ubuntu, though I can not remember the name of it. Thanks, Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFZR3eqJ5Vbm4CxYRAjMUAJ9qPTaz1Gl6Gra0N7D0V/GL9yTvfgCeITIz sWkPJWl4lsdtB1svsvHAemM= =21te -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Memory speed/type
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 162934872 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any programs for Gentoo that can show what speed memory I > have, i.e. PC2700? I plan on ordering some memory but I cannot remember > what speed I put in and I want to be lazy and not unhook everything and > open it up. > > Thanks, > > Jim FYI: I installed memtest and booted into that and it showed all I needed to know about my memory. It is DDR400 by the way ; ) Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFZNPeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAtrgAJ0alD8cGOqgvX5Emc3jMeUVa6XAGgCfckLl FeLZjRfXezNSRBvJx6stQdM= =m+cz -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Memory speed/type
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 147007040 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was thinking of maybe trying one of the freeware apps for windows > under Wine if there is no app under linux. > > Thanks, > > Jim FYI, this did not work :) Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFFTNeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAql0AJ99VZrsGTSfU3qhNyKjuXYqPUeCegCfQNcA WL4Uy5ONEuIbnc1jbERBIwc= =11SG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem Installing a gentoo | cross compiling install ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 161979872 Keats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if i choose to boot a stage3-x86 and do my install wwith it... when > i'll reboot, i ll not be able to make an upgrade to 64bit api cause > my kernel will be in 32 bits... > > is there any solution ? thanx. Why can't you do the stage3-x86 then reboot to a 32bit kernel. Once you do that you should be able to compile a 64-bit kernel and add a new grub menu item for your new 64bit compiled kernel and make sure to set it as the default. So basically you will have to do the base system twice. Once for 32bit. Once the 32bit is up and running, you then compile a 64bit kernel and boot into that and then just recompile your system. I am not sure if the above will work since I have never had to do it. Just thought I throw out the suggestion :) Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFFMFeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAv1wAJ9+e4RkIeBKBIulZ58jnRJcJX9l6ACffXQr 9k2j/7ZwglqqmTGq1inrdmA= =PJYV -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache (paths not showing in url)
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> It is showing a framset in my page when I view page source. How would I
> be able to correct this? If I hit the test site I can see all the paths
> but when I host it live I CANNOT see the paths in the url.
> Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
Just put a frame break in your main page that you don't want to be in a
frame. Here is an example script:
/* == *
': This forces the current document to the top of any
': frames.
': You MUST either remove it or comment it out if you
': want the page to be frameable in browsers supporting
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if (top.location != self.location)
{
top.location.replace(self.location); // pop to top
}
Jim
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[gentoo-user] Memory speed/type
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are there any programs for Gentoo that can show what speed memory I have, i.e. PC2700? I plan on ordering some memory but I cannot remember what speed I put in and I want to be lazy and not unhook everything and open it up. I tried dmidecode but that doesn't tell me what speed the memory is. Here is the relevant stuff: Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes Base Board Information Manufacturer: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD Product Name: MS-6570 Version: Serial Number: Handle 0x0006, DMI type 6, 12 bytes Memory Module Information Socket Designation: A0 Bank Connections: None Current Speed: 10 ns Type: Other Installed Size: Not Installed Enabled Size: Not Installed Error Status: OK Handle 0x0007, DMI type 6, 12 bytes Memory Module Information Socket Designation: A1 Bank Connections: 2 Current Speed: 10 ns Type: Other Installed Size: 256 MB (Single-bank Connection) Enabled Size: 256 MB (Single-bank Connection) Error Status: OK Handle 0x0008, DMI type 6, 12 bytes Memory Module Information Socket Designation: A2 Bank Connections: 4 Current Speed: 10 ns Type: Other Installed Size: 256 MB (Single-bank Connection) Enabled Size: 256 MB (Single-bank Connection) Error Status: OK I was thinking of maybe trying one of the freeware apps for windows under Wine if there is no app under linux. Thanks, Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEE6W0eqJ5Vbm4CxYRAqkcAJ9/DdT7YqCOYS8LsqozhVCOYWs6uQCfZ3MO yPKVlAACPDMwT4QEwXa24h8= =g1sh -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache security tips
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 159600160 "Michael Stewart (vericgar)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You may want to look into mod_security for apache as well. IIRC it is > designed to protect from such attacks. Thanks for the tip. I will give mod_security a try. Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEEyeEeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAvvtAJ9YQ9cZYUW4VkVc9w55vHg166snhQCfUP1k w7zGfSfyktK0Fj3vl+0JkYk= =PaNp -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache security tips
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 159610784 Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 08:59:09PM -0500, Penguin Lover Jim squawked: >> I was wondering if anyone has some easy to do tips for checking the >> security of Apache. I am running Apache/2.0.55. Is apache good with >> handling bad URL's? I remember with an IIS server I use to have I >> needed to install a url filter to help it out. I noticed that I get >> requests like the following in my apache log: >> >> 70.121.133.60 - - [07/Mar/2006:21:31:05 -0500] "SEARCH >> /\x90\xc9\xc9\xc9\xc9\xc9\ >> >> The above is one line and it is 30,000 characters long in the log file. >> > > Near the end of that line should be the HTTP return code Apache gave > for that request. What is it? > > On my box it always returns 414 (Request-URI too long), so I doubt it > would be a problem, beyond a major annoyance when going through the > logs with 'less'. > > A URI string like that is almost certainly a client trying to exploit > a buffer overflow. I've never seen it being a problem with my > (limited) experience running apache. > > HTH, > > W I have not see it be a problem either, Apache returned the same code for me. I noticed it because I get "errors" from webalizer like: Error: Skipping oversized log record It is not a big deal. I just wanted to make sure I have apache locked down OK. The long entries look like someone trying to hack into IIS with requests for exe files. Thanks for the info, Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEExSdeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAqgdAJ0YYDqFV8cAtf6IXGEOLMjuTLAH4QCcDyE4 /F0PCKAW/x6OB5O6foHYA6A= =ukRJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Apache security tips
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey group, I was wondering if anyone has some easy to do tips for checking the security of Apache. I am running Apache/2.0.55. Is apache good with handling bad URL's? I remember with an IIS server I use to have I needed to install a url filter to help it out. I noticed that I get requests like the following in my apache log: 70.121.133.60 - - [07/Mar/2006:21:31:05 -0500] "SEARCH /\x90\xc9\xc9\xc9\xc9\xc9\ The above is one line and it is 30,000 characters long in the log file. Thanks for any tips, Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEEi7teqJ5Vbm4CxYRAjt0AJ9tVjVWHQ2H9OzBVhxGkqbhL5vizQCfSVPo B/IHirSOHB3Xr4izkO48Rug= =ubVq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [FIXED] Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 TN wrote: > TN wrote: >> Jim wrote: >>> >>> Can you build a kernel? I could build a kernel for you with JFS >>> support and zip up the kernel image from /boot and everything under >>> /lib/modues. >>> >>> Or see if you can use a boot CD to boot, then chroot to your JFS drive >>> and build your own kernel. >>> >>> Jim >>> >> Jim & Kirby: >> I haven't built a kernel in gentoo, but I have plenty of times on >> other distros (suse/debian) in the past. >> >> thanks for your offer to build the kernel for me. I was just >> preparing when I've corrupted /dev/hda2 by my own dumb >> fault.I reset the machine while /dev/hda2 was still mounted. It >> wont mount now. gah! I havent' any time left today, so I'll leave >> it to tomorrow. >> >> thanks guys >> -Trevor. > > Well thanks again guys, I now have a booting gentoo system. The > partition wasn't too damaged and I was able to build a jfs enabled > kernel. > Now to sort out my kde probs :) > > cheers > -Trevor How long did it take you to build a kernel? It seemed pretty fast since I emailed you. An easy fix for your kde probs is to use Gome : ) Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEERc9eqJ5Vbm4CxYRAuh5AJ9KZrIWofYUVt0Ondh4FB0ykHSNUwCeKKqL F3zpQnUrY42RSi8Xz7sPAbI= =SKo6 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 TN wrote: > Yes I have. It mounts fine when using the livecd to boot from. I can > read/write to it no problem, and all the file structure is there. > I've had a look at the bootlog with dmesg, and I'm now thinking that > the installed kernel doesn't have JFS modules/support in it..the > boot identifies the partitions (hda1, hda2 etc), but then it tries > to mount hda2 with almost every fs APART from my beloved jfs. It's > tried Reiser, XFS, ext2, ext3, vfs - everything but jfs. > > OhI don't fancy another 6 hour install!! > > Send instant messages to your online friends > http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Can you build a kernel? I could build a kernel for you with JFS support and zip up the kernel image from /boot and everything under /lib/modues. Or see if you can use a boot CD to boot, then chroot to your JFS drive and build your own kernel. Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEEQJaeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAnppAJ9qNlnsEhYZi9YMDfzOa1x88CdyEQCdF729 Byaw75q1y2+WTa8c+DmWMC0= =Mm9v -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now
* on the Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:06:14PM -0800, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman said: > Well I can't get the live cd to boot so I'll check back in a year to see > if Gentoo has it's act togather yet. I do look forward to running Gentoo, > someday. > Alvin The live cd is still pretty new and could have some bugs. What issues are you having? Do you get any error messages? What are the specs of the box you are trying to boot it on? Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 TN wrote: > I have tried both rw & ro since I had 2 different replies about this > problem - unfortunately both failed with the same error as before. > > I use JFS since I find that it's fast & stable too like Reiser. I > tended to use a scattering of filesystems in the past so that I had > experience of them all, but I'm gravitating towards JFS mostly now > on my servers. I've done extensive speed testing using IOZone > (http://www.iozone.org/) and for our systems, our drives, our > application I just liked jfs. Not a lot between them all though > apart from speed of file creation/deletion. > > thanks > Trevor. Did you try to boot from the livecd, or another boot cd, and see if you can even mount your JFS partition? Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEEOxeeqJ5Vbm4CxYRApsdAJ9VGwyvgFzd0UcVVP4H89Rm8YWizwCeJ67S XapNTue457pE2cDqY3DrdOg= =v5sW -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] AA Fonts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am wondering if I messed up something during my build of Xorg. Some fonts look real nice on my system while others look like junk. Here is a page showing what is going on: http://keeliegirl.com/temp/fonts.html Courier looks like garbage until about 16px. Courier New looks better, though it is faint and not well aliased/hinted. Bitstream Vera Mono looks nice, along with all the other Bitstream fonts. My problem is that there are a lot of web sites (coding) that have "code" sections that use Courier as the font, for example the Gentoo Forum here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1398168 I also get a lot of MS Word and MS Excel documents from work that all use MS Fonts like Arial, Times New Roman, etc. Is there anything I can do to fix up these fonts? I have the following TTF fonts installed: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/ /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/ /usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/ Thanks, Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFEEOXBeqJ5Vbm4CxYRAm8QAJ43+9woiYSxURl8WJSIjRAWWEduTQCSA3Fj QrP4mDOuE2gQpeE9k66JZw== =Z5J/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim wrote: > * on the Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:24:58PM +1100, TN said: > > >> The grub boot lines are: >> root (hd0,1) >> kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 >> init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 >> initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 > > I think I read somewhere that JFS needs to be booted rw instead of ro. > Try to change your kernel= line to this: > > kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 > init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 rw > > *NOTE* the above should be ONE line. > > P.S. Why didn't you try ReiserFS or ext3? I have always used reiserfs > without issue and find it to be very stable and very fast. > > Jim I got it backwards. Change the rw to ro like so: kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 ro Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEEN+feqJ5Vbm4CxYRAh1rAJwKHftjbW/HYTuPjP4o7XX79iqg9ACfcT6F 2vFpERIygQVKVcc2xNejTc8= =ZU8Y -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems
* on the Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:24:58PM +1100, TN said: > The grub boot lines are: > root (hd0,1) > kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 > init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 > initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 I think I read somewhere that JFS needs to be booted rw instead of ro. Try to change your kernel= line to this: kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda2 rw *NOTE* the above should be ONE line. P.S. Why didn't you try ReiserFS or ext3? I have always used reiserfs without issue and find it to be very stable and very fast. Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bo Andresen wrote: > > HtH Thanks Bo, that what what I was looking for. Thanks to everyone else as well. I will know have a long and fun night of playing in Gentoo : ) Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEELNReqJ5Vbm4CxYRAiAAAJ97tMuUwyt7CLWZ4MmcriFmDxdoXACaA0XD rxV+tE9COQuqPTWFqZNCWCY= =I3rx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo
Mantas Povilaitis wrote: On 3/9/06, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey group, snip Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on Gentoo: See list of all *installed* software. Browse available software that can be installed. See what version of a particular software package is installed. See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. ... For these tasks I use Kuroo (for KDE, http://tux.myftp.org/). I know where is something similar for GNOME too. What would be the Gnome equivalent? I use and prefer Gnome :) Jim
[gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo
Hey group, I am a long time Linux user, however I am new to Gentoo. I used Red Hat/Fedora for many years, then my own Linux based on LFS and the last year I have been using Ubuntu. I really like Ubuntu because of apt, however I have had frustrations with Ubuntu because it could be a pain to get newer versions of packages installed. For example Ubuntu defaulted to Apache 1.x for mod_mono. I have now been using Gentoo for a few days and I am running into some issues I hope this group can help with. At first emerge was trying to merge some really old packages. For example I wanted mysql 5.x, php 5.x and Apache 2.x and Gentoo was only going to install mysql 4.x. I did find out about ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" which has helped with getting more recent versions of software installed. I am looking for any good links, tips, suggestions of admin software to emerge, etc to help me learn the ins-and-outs of Gentoo. I have tons of questions but don't know where to look. Well, I can google but that takes ages and I was hoping many of you on this list will have a nice set of bookmarks on gentoo admin, handy gentoo software, tips etc. Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on Gentoo: See list of all *installed* software. Browse available software that can be installed. See what version of a particular software package is installed. See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. ... Thanks, Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vnc.so
Tom Smith wrote: Hi all, I installed "vnc" with the "server" USE flag enabled. I've been working on getting the vnc.so module loaded for X.org and now have it working. My question is, is this module a part of RealVNC or some other program? (I tried to locate a description of the use flags for VNC but was unable to.) Thanks in advance for the help. Yes the vnc.so X module is part of the VNC package. AFAIK its purpose is to implement the shared display # 0 functionality, where you can start a VNC session and interact with the system's local ":0" X display. That is, say that you're logged into the target machine itself and have an X session running on it attached to the system's monitor/vid card/KB/mouse. The vnc.so provides the functionality to attach to THAT session. Note that not all VNC packages support this (notably TightVNC doesn't, but RealVNC seems to, although I havn't tried it. There's also 'xf4vnc' and 'x11vnc' which appear to provide the functionality). Perhaps the module is also used in the normal Xvnc session also, but TightVNC doesn't even include the module and it implements Xvnc. Normally, vncserver starts up its own X server (Xvnc) which uses a new X display number which is completely independant of any X server which may be running on the target system. Perhaps this is what you're really looking for ? If so, it's very easy. Just run something like 'vncserver -depth 24 -geometry 1024x768' and you'll be able to attach a VNC viewer to the virtual X display by connecting the viewer to ":1". - Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a disk fails, your system would likely crash (due to the swap device), but would reboot in a degraded mode (no swap, slow performance, etc). You could avoid that by not using RAID for swap. Instead, use four separate swap partitions, one on each drive. As long as they all have the same priority, the kernel will share swap duties between them equally. If you make more swap partitions on more physical drives with the same priority, it is the same as swap on raid0: system strips swap across drives. And if some drive crashes and swap partition on that drive has been used, very probably system crashes too. But then reboots at least with remaining swap partitions... Yes, although there's a posibility of an 'endless crash/reboot' scenereo here, if the errors are 'soft' (e.g. not drive just vanishing). For instance, a few bad sectors develop on one of your swap partitions, the kernel can't read them, and panic/reboots. The system comes back up, the same swaps are used, and it happens again, over and over until you edit the bad partition out of the fstab. In a redundant RAID situation, I'm presuming that a bad sector or two would result in the RAID driver detaching the bad drive, and chugging along in degraded mode, where if this happened in a distrubuted swap situation, it's already 'too late', since the sectors are lost and the kernel would probably panic. There's no real benefit to using RAID for swap, unless you are limited on RAM and use swap a lot, when RAID0 may help. There is some benefit, if you use raid1 for swap. In such a case even drive failure does not cause system crash, because swap space is mirrored too. But raid1 slightly degrades swap performance... This is exactly why I'm doing RAID1 on swap. If one drive goes poof, my system stays up. Based on what this server is going to do, it should rarely use much swap, so swap performance isn't a priority for me. Plus, as you say, I believe the performance hit on swap writes (reads should actually be faster) should wind up being only a bit slower than if you were swapping to a single drive. - Jim -- +-------+ | Jim Burwell - Sr. Systems/Network/Security Engineer, JSBC | +---+ | "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." - Mark Twain | | "UNIX was never designed to keep people from doing stupid things, because | | that policy would also keep them from doing clever things." - Doug Gwyn | | "Cool is only three letters away from Fool" - Mike Muir, Suicyco | | "..Government in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst | | state an intolerable one.." - Thomas Paine, "Common Sense" (1776)| +---+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN: 1695089 | +---+ | Reply problems ? Turn off the "sign" function in email prog. Blame MS. | +---+
Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/15/05, Ognjen Bezanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have found Linux Software RAID very useful and reliable. While probably being beaten in the performance area by hardware implementations, I just want to point out that when we are talking hardware here, we mean real hardware RAID...made by companies like 3-ware. The 'hardware' RAID in the NForce4 chipset (like just about all MB chips, and a lot of the cheap add-in cards) is just a BIOS helper...all of the actual RAID functions are expected to be implemented by the driver running on the CPU. Don't you hate how the hardware and mobo manufacturers have muddied the hardware RAID waters by marketing this sort of thing has hardware RAID (or at least implying it) ? Another thing to check out, seeing that he has a mobo with built in ghetto-RAID (TM), is dmraid. This is a device mapper implementation of RAID which makes use of various fake hardware RAID metadata to support them under Linux. Someone's also done up a Gentoo LiveCD with dmraid support on it too (who knows, perhaps the latest liveCDs have it also). The only advantage of using this I can see is the ability to to make use of the BIOS RAID helpers to create and manage your arrays, and deal with the inherent boot time issues. I'm not sure about the stability or reliability of this though, as I havn't used it, and the readme doesn't really give me courage :-). Anyone using this successfuly ? It seems interesting. I just put together a little home server which uses both Linux RAID (md) and LVM2 on an old Abit KG7-RAID motherboard. Even though it has a built in Highpoint HPT37X "RAID chip" (a ghetto-RAID BIOS helper), I decided to go with good old "md". I've tested it by pulling power on drives, and it even boots up when the 'primary' drive doesn't exist (boot blocks on both mirrored drives of course). Seems to work very well. I have /boot mirrored (md0), and root and swap on LVM2 partitions which live on another mirrored partition (md1). For any wanting to do similar, you just need to set up GRUB on both drives, and make sure your have initramfs support for starting up md and LVM2. Generkernel will produce a kernel with this if you compile the md drivers into the kernel, and include --lvm2 in the genkernel flags. Make sure you include "dovlm2" and lvmraid=/dev/mdX lines for each of of your RAID devices on the boot line, which tells the linuxrc scripts to start up your RAID devices in the initramfs so it can mount your LVM2 root partition. - Jim -- +---+ | Jim Burwell - Sr. Systems/Network/Security Engineer, JSBC | +---+ | "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." - Mark Twain | | "UNIX was never designed to keep people from doing stupid things, because | | that policy would also keep them from doing clever things." - Doug Gwyn | | "Cool is only three letters away from Fool" - Mike Muir, Suicyco | | "..Government in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst | | state an intolerable one.." - Thomas Paine, "Common Sense" (1776)| +---+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN: 1695089 | +---+ | Reply problems ? Turn off the "sign" function in email prog. Blame MS. | +---+
Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix Install Method
gentoo, and the somewhat sparse documentation for dmaid seems to indicate that it's not quite ready for prime time yet. Looks interesting though. -- +---+ | Jim Burwell - Sr. Systems/Network/Security Engineer, JSBC | +---+ | "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." - Mark Twain | | "UNIX was never designed to keep people from doing stupid things, because | | that policy would also keep them from doing clever things." - Doug Gwyn | | "Cool is only three letters away from Fool" - Mike Muir, Suicyco | | "..Government in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst | | state an intolerable one.." - Thomas Paine, "Common Sense" (1776)| +---+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN: 1695089 | +---+ | Reply problems ? Turn off the "sign" function in email prog. Blame MS. | +---+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 + lvm2
Thomas Harold wrote: Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm going to re-install gentoo on a small hobby-server and because I need both redundancy and flexibility, I thought in addition to raid1 (2x 160GB ata-disk) this time I would also use lvm2: /dev/md0 /boot (~50MB) /dev/md1 / (2GB) /dev/md2 (2GB) /dev/md3 lvm2 (rest for /var /tmp /usr /opt /chroot /home) The only issue I've heard *rumor* of is that 2.6.14 kernels may not be playing nicely with LVM2. (I'm using 2.6.13 on my servers at the moment.) One of these days, I'll update to 2.6.14 and find out for sure. This doesn't appear to be true, at least as of 2.6.14-gentoo-r2. I have a system up and running with root under LVM2 and RAID1: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/pts/1}~# cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.6 (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8)) #2 PREEMPT Thu Dec 1 15:00:58 PST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/pts/1}~# mdadm -D /dev/md1 /dev/md1: Version : 00.90.02 Creation Time : Wed Nov 30 19:58:23 2005 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 292977280 (279.40 GiB 300.01 GB) Device Size : 292977280 (279.40 GiB 300.01 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 1 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Sun Dec 11 11:08:30 2005 State : clean Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 UUID : 82c8fb92:89586f5c:8203e495:ab9c965a Events : 0.34669 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 33 2 0 active sync /dev/hde2 1 34 2 1 active sync /dev/hdg2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/pts/1}~# pvs PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/md1 vg00 lvm2 a- 279.40G 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/pts/1}~# vgs VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree vg00 1 2 0 wz--n 279.40G 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/pts/1}~# lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Copy% root vg00 -wi-ao 278.40G swap vg00 -wi-ao 1.00G One more question concerning partition type: If I want to use raid1, I have to set all those 2x4 (hda+hdc) primary partitions as type fd (raid autodetect). Is it not problem later for lvm2 when preparing and creating volume-group? Because lvm-guide says something about setting partition type to 8e (linux lvm), which I can not do, if I want to use raid1... All partitions end up as "fd", because the raid arrays need to be built prior to LVM2 getting a look at them. Yes. I also have no problem with having 0xfd type partitions for the RAID slices, and LVM2 on top of those. Even if it were a requirement to have type 0x8e partitions for LVM2, you could just partition your RAID devices (fdisk /dev/mdX) if your Kernel supports RAID dev partitioning. I'm glad it's not a requirement, as it would be seem a bit daft to have to do this. :-) -- +-------+ | Jim Burwell - Sr. Systems/Network/Security Engineer, JSBC | +---+ | "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." - Mark Twain | | "UNIX was never designed to keep people from doing stupid things, because | | that policy would also keep them from doing clever things." - Doug Gwyn | | "Cool is only three letters away from Fool" - Mike Muir, Suicyco | | "..Government in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst | | state an intolerable one.." - Thomas Paine, "Common Sense" (1776)| +---+ | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN: 1695089 | +---+ | Reply problems ? Turn off the "sign" function in email prog. Blame MS. | +---+
Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 + lvm2
Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm going to re-install gentoo on a small hobby-server and because I need both redundancy and flexibility, I thought in addition to raid1 (2x 160GB ata-disk) this time I would also use lvm2: /dev/md0 /boot (~50MB) /dev/md1 / (2GB) /dev/md2 (2GB) /dev/md3 lvm2(rest for /var /tmp /usr /opt /chroot /home) Is this generaly advisable solution (lvm2 over raid1), or is there some risk in using raid1 together with lvm2 ? One more question concerning partition type: If I want to use raid1, I have to set all those 2x4 (hda+hdc) primary partitions as type fd (raid autodetect). Is it not problem later for lvm2 when preparing and creating volume-group? Because lvm-guide says something about setting partition type to 8e (linux lvm), which I can not do, if I want to use raid1... Jarry I recently set up a server like this. I have /boot, swap, and root mirrored using linux RAID (md), and swap and root partition is an LVM2 partition. There's no problem with setting the partition types of 0xfd. LVM2 doesn't have a problem with it. One thing you need is a initrd or initramfs setup to get all this stuff up and running during boot. I found the easiest way to do this was to use genkernel. Here's are some quick notes on how I got this working using the gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r2 kernel: Create your partitions using fdisk (/boot, and LVM2 partition for swap and root) on both disks. Set up RAID1 mirroring for these partitons (/boot md0, LVM2 swap/root md2) Add the md1 device as a physical volume, and create a volume group and logical volumes for swap and root inside it. Do high level formats on your new /boot partition and root volume, and mkswap on your swap volume.. Use genkernel to configure your kernel making sure to include this option: --lvm2 Make sure the linux RAID (md) stuff is compiled into the kernel. The LVM2 (dm) stuff can be modules. Make sure you include these kernel flags in your grub.conf or lilo.conf file: root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/vg00/root dolvm2 lvmraid=/dev/md0 lvmraid=/dev/md1 (Those last two flags don't seem to be documented anywhere, but are required for the genkernel produced linuxrc scripts in the initramfs to start up the md devices before it scans for the LVM2 stuff) All this is probably easier done, if possible, during the install from a livecd. I did it backwards myself. I got a basic gentoo system running on one drive with normal partitions, then transformed it into the RAID/LVM system. I did this by creating the Linux RAID partitons on the second drive with 'missing components' using mdadm (I use mdadm instead of the traditional raidtools). This allows you to create your RAID1 volumes with only one drive, the volumes coming up in degraded mode. You can then do your LVM2 volume creation stuff and create your filesystems, etc, get them mounted, and copy your basic system from the non RAID drive to your new volumes. Then you can update your fstab, set up your bootloader on the RAID drive, and test boot, etc, making sure the system comes up using the RAID/LVM2 setup, while having the original drive for backup in case things don't work. Once you're confident things will come up on the RAID/LVM2 setup, you can repartition the original drive, and "hotadd" the partitions to your RAID volumes. Linux RAID will then sync the formerly missing components, and voila, you now have a synced/clean RAID1 system. Hopefully that all made sense. I banged my head against it for a while getting this set up to boot up (the final key was the lvmraid= flags which cause the linxrc to start up the md devices. I had to read through the linuxrc scripts to figure this one out). Good luck. -- +---+ | Jim Burwell - Sr. Systems/Network/Security Engineer, JSBC | +---+ | "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." - Mark Twain | | "UNIX was never designed to keep people from doing stupid things, because | | that policy would also keep them from doing clever things." - Doug Gwyn | | "Cool is only three letters away from Fool" - Mike Muir, Suicyco | | "..Government in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst | | state an intolerable one.." - Thomas Paine, "Common Sense" (1776)| +---+ | Email: jimb at jay ess bee cee dot com ICQ UIN: 1695089 | +---+ | Reply problems ? Turn off the "sign" function in email prog. Blame MS. | +---+
