Re: [gentoo-user] User & password scanning on pop3
On Jun 20, 2010, at 6:43 PM, kashani wrote: > On 6/16/2010 5:26 PM, Rod wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Does anyone know how to block, or auto programs in Gentoo to limit or >> stop people scanning for a user/password hacking on your firewall? >> >> Besides disabling those ports, I still need the port accessable from the >> outside, and I guess they'd just try imap if pop was blocked. >> >> I'm running iptables, postfix & courier > > Have you considered changing over to pop3-ssl and imap-ssl? I fully > switched over about six years ago and nearly every job I've had since has > used SSL as well. I'd still recommend plain imap to be open on localhost for > webmail to interact with it, but you should have far less problems. And less > change of sniffers pulling user/pass from wireless connections in cafes. > > kashani > > > -- > Powered by Flux Labs > http://www.fluxlabs.net > Try fail2ban
Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox
ummm .. ok ? so your using the default xorg.conf .. could be why youve got bad performance. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml - deface On Apr 19, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Grant wrote: >> did etc-update over write xorg.conf ? > > I actually don't use an xorg.conf at all. > > - Grant > > >>> I just updated a lot of packages on my laptop including xorg stuff, >>> the intel-drivers, and firefox. Firefox is running really slowly now, >>> with kind of a lag to everything. Does anyone know of anything to try >>> in order to fix it? Do I need to disable or enable DRI? >>> >>> - Grant > > > -- > Message Cleaned by MailScanner > http://www.fluxlabs.net >
Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox
did etc-update over write xorg.conf ? On Apr 19, 2010, at 5:06 PM, Grant wrote: > I just updated a lot of packages on my laptop including xorg stuff, > the intel-drivers, and firefox. Firefox is running really slowly now, > with kind of a lag to everything. Does anyone know of anything to try > in order to fix it? Do I need to disable or enable DRI? > > - Grant > > > -- > Message Cleaned by MailScanner > http://www.fluxlabs.net >
Re: [gentoo-user] Possibly OT - Denyhosts regex question
James Homuth wrote:
Hello folks,
I'm using the latest stable x86 versions of Denyhosts, Openssh and PAM as
pulled off the portage tree, and am having a little bit of trouble getting
Denyhosts to play nice with the messages PAM is throwing into auth.log. I've
tried google for it, and threw the question to the Denyhosts mailing list,
but neither has turned up any possible assistance. The logs I'm trying to
parse are demonstrated below:
Nov 20 22:21:03 nova sshd[31328]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication
failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=222.233.br
oadband9.iol.cz user=root
Nov 20 22:21:06 nova sshd[31326]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for
root from 222.233.broadband9.iol.cz
It's happening with more than just the root user, so I've set up my
userdef_regex's to read as follows:
USERDEF_FAILED_ENTRY_REGEX=error: PAM: authentication failure for
(?Pinvalid user |illegal user )?(?P.*?) from
?(?P\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3})
USERDEF_FAILED_ENTRY_REGEX=pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure;
logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=(?P\S+) user=(?P\S+)
If anyone can give me a hand figuring out where it is I broke something,
that would be greatly appreciated. As I said, I'm not sure how on-topic it
is for this particular list, but I'm getting nowhere with the avenues that
would probably be more appropriate.
Thanks in advance,
James
Have you looked into Fail2Ban ?
Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 20/11/08 Qian Qiao said: To quote the error message: * 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-office/openoffice-3.0.0/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at * '/var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-3.0.0/temp/environment'. Sorry... Running processes: 0 deliver -- version: 1.130 Module 'sw' delivered successfully. 261 files copied, 0 files unchanged 1 module(s): chart2 need(s) to be rebuilt Reason(s): ERROR: error 65280 occurred while making /var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-3.0.0/work/ooo/build/ooo300-m9/chart2/source/controller/chartapiwrapper Attention: if you build and deliver the above module(s) you may prolongue your the build issuing command "build --from chart2" rmdir /tmp/24595 make: *** [stamp/build] Error 1 * * ERROR: app-office/openoffice-3.0.0 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 5415: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * make || die "Build failed" * The die message: * Build failed I have -java in my USE flags... MIke Just an IMO, compiling OO is idiotic, use the -bin
Re: [gentoo-user] Input in Vmware console is delay
Astomi Chen wrote: Hi folks, I have installed gentoo in Vmware, currently the problem is when I input some command it will delay 1 second shows on console screen. I have checked the system, there are no abnormal process, system load is OK. When try to use Windows Putty to connect gentoo box, no delay, erverything seems nice. Many thanks for any hint. Have you installed the vmware tools package for once inside the vm? you will get much better performance. deface
Re: [gentoo-user] Error booting new kernel
Marko Kocić wrote: I have a quastion related to vanilla-sources kernel. After upgrading vanilla-sources from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28_rc2 I am not able to boot anymore. I tried playing with menuconfig couple of times, but couldn't find what I have to change in order to make it work again. The error message while booting is like this: Using IPI shortcut mode BIOS EDD facility v 0.16 2004-Jul-25 1 devices found VFS: Cannot open root device "307" on unknown-block(3,7) Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown- block(3,7) Note that in my lilo.conf I have root=/dev/hda7 line for all kernels. Thanks for any suggestion, Marko The 2 main things to look for are File System support & chipset. did you copy your old .config and run a make oldconfig ? Shouldn't have been much to modify, if any. deface
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-wiki.com - Needs your help!
On Oct 24, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 24 October 2008 19:42:57 BRM wrote: They have a nice little site up at the www.gentoo-wiki.com site with all the grewsome details of what is going on. So as he said, please go there for the latest news. What I want to know is why there are no off-site backups. The site is on a machine that is rented from somebody else who hires rack space from another party. This is just begging for a disaster, or data being held hostage. Which is what happened according to the write up at that address. It's also a single point of failure. I have a response to that site owner and most here are not going to like it: You are an idiot. This is an elementary error and you fully deserve what has happened. Now stop whinging about how the big bad nasty terrible person is treating you and actually take some responsibility for your own mistakes. Wasn't this wiki also 0wned and defaced sometime in the last year? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com The offsite backups, were actually on another server, on another link... inside the same company. but yes, we are making the necessary provisions this time around to suite the backups deface
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-wiki.com - Needs your help!
On Oct 24, 2008, at 12:42 PM, BRM wrote: They have a nice little site up at the www.gentoo-wiki.com site with all the grewsome details of what is going on. So as he said, please go there for the latest news. Looking forward to the new site, and restoration of www.gentoo-portage.com , a site I find to be extremely useful. :-> Ben - Original Message From: Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 12:59:07 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-wiki.com - Needs your help! On 2008-10-24, deface <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please read the latest news @ www.gentoo-wiki.com We can't. It's down. Care to share the news? -- Grant Sorry, we're temporarily experiencing some SYN DOS'n - you can also check the feeds on Twitter. http://twitter.com/mikevalstar deface
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com - Needs your help!
Please read the latest news @ www.gentoo-wiki.com deface Nick Pappin wrote: I would second all of this I use gentoo-wiki almost everyday and it is killing me that it isnt up. I think this would be a great service if we can give it to the community. -- W. Nick Pappin IT Staff Latah Federal Credit Union 208.874.4394 On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Steven Susbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: deface wrote: I am reaching out to the community in search of someone, or someone who may know someone at either TEL-X (http://www.telx.com) or 56Marietta (http://www.56marietta.com). I'm sure everyone on this ML is aware that wiki is down. It may not concern some of you, as it is not an official documentation site; but for the rest of us, it is a very helpful resource. You can read the current status of the wiki as thrasher7 (Mike Valstar - mikevalstar@gmail.com) blogs it. Our options are stated, but we hope to find another through this e-mail. If anyone has any sort of contact with anyone at either of these locations, please let me or Mike know. Thanks in advance, deface The Gentoo-Wiki and Gentoo-Portage pages are unofficial, but it would be very nice if Gentoo was able to provide its own wiki service (and Gentoo-Portage-like thing, packages.gentoo.org is nowhere near as useful), possibly working with Mike on an official basis. I've always been curious why the Foundation is passing up a great opporitunity to have a lot of good, community based documentation especially for projects and setups that Gentoo itself does not provide documentation for, as well as an easy frontend for reading all about different ebuilds. I am unfortunately unable to help with this predicament though plan on putting in a donation once the sites are up. It does appear he was able to get in touch with TelX so hopefully everything gets up and running quickly. -Steve
[gentoo-user] gentoo-wiki.com - Needs your help!
I am reaching out to the community in search of someone, or someone who may know someone at either TEL-X (http://www.telx.com) or 56Marietta (http://www.56marietta.com). I'm sure everyone on this ML is aware that wiki is down. It may not concern some of you, as it is not an official documentation site; but for the rest of us, it is a very helpful resource. You can read the current status of the wiki as thrasher7 (Mike Valstar - mikevalstar@gmail.com) blogs it. Our options are stated, but we hope to find another through this e-mail. If anyone has any sort of contact with anyone at either of these locations, please let me or Mike know. Thanks in advance, deface
Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration: looking up URLs is very slow; how can I fix this?
I use opendns.com - take a peep at it, very highly recommended. deface On Sep 12, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo! I bought a new hard drive on Wednesday, and am seriously getting Gentoo installed (after doing a trial installation in July). However looking up URL's is very, very slow. This is most noticeable when running emerge. It is very also noticeable running Firefox; the looking up is _much_ slower than on my existing Debian sarge system. Presumably, I need to configure some sort of DNS cache, or proxy, or whatever it might be called. I've looked in <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/>, but couldn't find a network configuration manual there. Would somebody give me a pointer, please? Thanks! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] installing firefox 3 from tarball
yeah, sync your portage tree, then emerge it On Jun 17, 2008, at 11:30 PM, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, digg.com announces this is "firefox download day", so I got the tarball and unwrapped in my home dir. According to this http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Configuring_Build_Options I'm supposed to make a .mozconfig file first then, not sure, run ./ mozconfig? It doesn't say. Doesn't work anyways nor does ./configure. Next page over, Build_and_Install, it says to run make, but naturally that fails since there's no Makefile or client.mk for that matter. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/firefox $ make -f client.mk build make: client.mk: No such file or directory make: *** No rule to make target `client.mk'. Stop. Anyone know how to configure this puppy? Maxim -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] problem starting X
Marc Blumentritt wrote: Hi, when I try to start X with startx, I get these messages: X Window System Version 1.3.0 Release Date: 19 April 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3 Build Operating System: UNKNOWN Current Operating System: Linux mediamachine 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 #13 PREEMPT Sat J un 14 21:23:42 CEST 2008 i686 Build Date: 14 June 2008 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Jun 14 20:20:30 2008 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (==) ServerLayout "Layout0" (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor0" (**) | |-->Device "CardTV" (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0" (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0" (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to: /usr/share/fonts/misc/, /usr/share/fonts/Type1/, /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/, /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/ (==) RgbPath set to "/usr/share/X11/rgb" (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) (II) No APM support in BIOS or kernel (II) Loader magic: 0x81ed5c0 (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.3 X.Org Video Driver: 1.2 X.Org XInput driver : 0.7 X.Org Server Extension : 0.3 X.Org Font Renderer : 0.5 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: "pcidata" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libpcidata.so (II) Module pcidata: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.2 (--) using VT number 7 (WW) xf86OpenConsole: VT_GETSTATE failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device (WW) xf86OpenConsole: VT_ACTIVATE failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device (WW) xf86OpenConsole: VT_WAITACTIVE failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: VT_GETMODE failed Inappropriate ioctl for device (WW) xf86CloseConsole: KDSETMODE failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device (WW) xf86CloseConsole: VT_GETMODE failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device - Does anyone know, what could be wrong? As far as I know, this could be a problem with a wrong device file for tty7, but I think, it looks OK: mediamachine ~ # ls -l /dev/tty7 crw--w 1 root root 4, 7 Jun 14 2008 /dev/tty7 Any more ideas? Thanks in advance Marc http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml - make sure you've followed all of these steps. is this a new install ? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OO-bin on amd64
tried running a revdep-rebuild? please paste the output of emerge --info On Jun 8, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Matt Harrison wrote: Hi all, I've just installed openoffice-bin and I'm getting these messages when trying to run anything from OO: /usr/lib32/openoffice/program/soffice: line 240: /usr/lib32/ openoffice/program/pagein: cannot execute binary file /usr/lib32/openoffice/program/soffice: line 240: /usr/lib32/ openoffice/program/soffice.bin: cannot execute binary file I can't help but feel that this is because of my arch (amd64) but I'm not sure. Perms are all fine on those files, however I can't ldd them: /usr/bin/ldd: line 161: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary file not a dynamic executable Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Matt Harrison No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 270.0.0/1489 - Release Date: 07/06/2008 11:17 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache2 + PHP5 problem
try strace'ing it On May 21, 2008, at 6:15 PM, Mateusz A. Mierzwiński wrote: Alexey Medvedchikov pisze: On 5/20/08, "Mateusz A. Mierzwiński" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can anybody tell me what happend with PHP5 under (Linux athene 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 #1 PREEMPT RT Sun Dec 9 01:12:25 Local time zone must be set--se x86_64 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.53GHz GenuineIntel GNU/ Linux) Gentoo? My server runs with error (and white pages after accessing): [Tue May 20 13:59:11 2008] [notice] child pid 2554 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) [Tue May 20 13:59:11 2008] [notice] child pid 2556 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) [Tue May 20 13:59:13 2008] [notice] child pid 2611 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) After unloading PHP5 modules (moving 70_php5_mod) and restarting Apache everything is OK but... without PHP. What's up. This is PHP build flags: [ebuild R ] dev-lang/php-5.2.6_rc4 USE="apache2 berkdb bzip2 cgi cli crypt ftp gd hash iconv imap iodbc mysql mysqli ncurses nls odbc pcntl pcre pic posix readline session simplexml soap sockets ssl sysvipc threads unicode xml xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter zip zlib (-adabas) -bcmath (-birdstep) -calendar -cdb -cjk -concurrentmodphp -ctype -curl - curlwrappers -db2 -dbase (-dbmaker) -debug -discard-path -doc (-empress) (- empress-bcs) (-esoob) -exif -fastbuild (-fdftk) -filter (-firebird) -flatfile -force-cgi-redirect (-frontbase) -gd-external -gdbm -gmp -inifile - interbase -ipv6 (-java-external) -json -kerberos -ldap -ldap-sasl -libedit - mcve -mhash -msql -mssql -oci8 (-oci8-instant-client) -pdo -postgres - qdbm -recode -reflection -sapdb -sharedext -sharedmem -snmp (-solid) - spell -spl -sqlite -suhosin (-sybase) (-sybase-ct) -tidy -tokenizer -truetype -wddx -xpm -xsl -yaz -zip-external" 0 kB -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list Look for broken deps, after upgrading to 5.2.6_rc4 smth brokes, i dont remember what - had same problem - use revdep-rebuild (app-portage/gentoolkit) I use revdep-rebuild every time I get any update. My system is 100% consistent but something is wrong. I've try to remove updates by mkfs.jfs and unpack backup created after update. Everything is ok, but when installing gallery2 php module still get segfault. What's wrong? I'm out of ideas... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] non-root crontab failure (permissions issue?)
nm, just read that part .. haa King Spook wrote: I'm having trouble getting cron to be usable by normal users. I'm running vixie-cron 4.1-r10 on Gentoo Linux. My user is a member of both cron and crontab groups (being unsure which I needed, but speculating the former). There is no cron.allow, and an empty cron.deny file in /etc. Every time I try "crontab -e" as my user, I get this: Code: ~~~ no crontab for user - using an empty one crontab: installing new crontab chown: Operation not permitted crontab: edits left in /tmp/crontab.sXePXF ~~~ Naturally, I'm guessing permissions problems. Here are the permissions: ~~~ host2 spool # cd /var/spool host2 spool # ls -alR cron/ cron/: total 16 drwxr-x--- 4 root cron4096 Mar 6 17:16 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root4096 Apr 13 16:02 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 6 17:16 .keep_sys-process_cronbase-0 drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 May 16 14:39 crontabs drwxr-x--- 2 root root4096 Mar 6 17:16 lastrun cron/crontabs: total 12 drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 May 16 14:39 . drwxr-x--- 4 root cron4096 Mar 6 17:16 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root crontab0 Mar 6 17:16 .keep_sys-process_vixie-cron-0 -rw--- 1 root crontab 328 Apr 27 12:25 root cron/lastrun: total 8 drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Mar 6 17:16 . drwxr-x--- 4 root cron 4096 Mar 6 17:16 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Mar 6 17:16 .keep_sys-process_cronbase-0 host2 spool # ~~~ "crontab -e" does not error out when run as root. "crontab -u myuser -e", when run as root, does create a crontab, which appears to be owned by root, grouped by root, and with rw permissions for owner only. How can I fix this? Thanks. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] non-root crontab failure (permissions issue?)
user in cron group? King Spook wrote: I'm having trouble getting cron to be usable by normal users. I'm running vixie-cron 4.1-r10 on Gentoo Linux. My user is a member of both cron and crontab groups (being unsure which I needed, but speculating the former). There is no cron.allow, and an empty cron.deny file in /etc. Every time I try "crontab -e" as my user, I get this: Code: ~~~ no crontab for user - using an empty one crontab: installing new crontab chown: Operation not permitted crontab: edits left in /tmp/crontab.sXePXF ~~~ Naturally, I'm guessing permissions problems. Here are the permissions: ~~~ host2 spool # cd /var/spool host2 spool # ls -alR cron/ cron/: total 16 drwxr-x--- 4 root cron4096 Mar 6 17:16 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root4096 Apr 13 16:02 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 6 17:16 .keep_sys-process_cronbase-0 drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 May 16 14:39 crontabs drwxr-x--- 2 root root4096 Mar 6 17:16 lastrun cron/crontabs: total 12 drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 May 16 14:39 . drwxr-x--- 4 root cron4096 Mar 6 17:16 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root crontab0 Mar 6 17:16 .keep_sys-process_vixie-cron-0 -rw--- 1 root crontab 328 Apr 27 12:25 root cron/lastrun: total 8 drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Mar 6 17:16 . drwxr-x--- 4 root cron 4096 Mar 6 17:16 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Mar 6 17:16 .keep_sys-process_cronbase-0 host2 spool # ~~~ "crontab -e" does not error out when run as root. "crontab -u myuser -e", when run as root, does create a crontab, which appears to be owned by root, grouped by root, and with rw permissions for owner only. How can I fix this? Thanks. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to set package.use for layman overlays
assuming you've got your make.conf setup appropriately, the overlay will take precisidence. PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/storage/repos/uberpenguin/trunk" source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf deface On May 17, 2008, at 6:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just started to use layman tools and wondered if setting such things as /etc/portage/package.use would still be done in that same place and same way? I want to install an overlay of emacs-cvs but with different use flags I'm following along with the instruction at: http://www.enigmacurry.com/2007/05/24/multi-tty-emacs-on-gentoo-and-ubuntu/ On my laptop I run Gentoo Linux. Getting the latest version of Emacs on Gentoo was a breeze! : * Setup Layman * Add the emacs overlay: sudo layman -a emacs * Add the following USE flags for app-editors/emacs-cvs: sudo flagedit app-editors/emacs-cvs X Xaw3d alsa gif gzip-el jpeg lesstif png sound spell tiff toolkit-scroll-bars xpm -gtk -hesiod -motif -source. * GTK support is explicitly turned off as it causes problems with multi-TTY. This is no biggie for me as I always have (menu-bar-mode -1) and (tool-bar-mode -1) set. * Emerge: sudo emerge emacs-cvs -va * Tell the system to use the new emacs: sudo eselect emacs set emacs-23-multi-tty To get emacs-multitty set up. It isn't really clear what role layman plays in those instructions since the final command is emerge emacs-cvs Or will that automatically use the layman overlays. Or maybe the author assumes I don't already have emacs installed from /usr/portage. I realize this is a little offhanded since its asking advice about 2nd party instructions. But I have no experience whatever with layman or using overlays at all. So thought maybe better to ask here than directly to the author of those instructions. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Canon Pixma driver cnijfilter-common-2.60-1.src.rpm
Justin wrote:
Hi guys!
Is there anybody out there who has still the
"*cnijfilter-common-2.60-1.src.rpm*" in his ${DISTDIR}? The original
source isn't valid anymore and I need those drivers for my printer.
If someone could give them to me, then I would host them for puplic on
my site!
Thanks for help,
justin
which ebuild is this? a bug needs to be filed if source is invalid.
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Re: [gentoo-user] installation cd for P1 & P2
2008 is still in beta, but it should still work. I'd use 2007.0. Also, i sure hope you have a box setup for distcc. compiling gentoo on these old/slow procs could take days. deface On May 8, 2008, at 12:03 PM, James wrote: Hello, I have an assortment of p1, p2 and old amd K6 (586) class machines. Do the 2008.0 iso beta 2 cover this arch? If not, what is the recommend minimal cd to use to install these machines? James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager for laptop
Daniel da Veiga wrote: I've been struggling with network managing in my laptop for some time now. There's no decent way to keep it on config files. I connect to a LOT of completely different wired and wireless networks. I'm using Gnome, but I have all KDE libraries as dependencies for some stuff. The machine is an Asus EEE 701 with an Atheros card. I'm using ndiswrapper trying to avoid patching the madwifi drivers, waiting for the official commit. My first try was NetworkManager, beautiful tool, allowed me to manage my wired and open wireless connections fine, but once I need WPA for wireless at the University, it failed on me. It seems it can't talk to wpa_supplicant the right way. One possible fix would be downgrade to version 0.5.4 of wpa_supplicant, but its not in portage anymore, so I quit. Next I tried some gtk stuff, scripting stuff, gosh, so many. End up with WICD, wich for the most part works fine. I didn't have the time to check why the heck it tries to connect to "None" more often then it tries with the SSID I"m telling it to (maybe some configuration file lost in the way), but anyway, change driver from "ndiswrapper" or "wext" and it eventually works. What are you guys using? I"m accepting suggestions! I haven't read the rest of the replies, but have you tried going UP, and not DOWN? meaning a CVS version of NM? This is a beautiful application, which has filled many much needed holes in the world of linux and wireless. NM is under rapid development and many changes are commited. (if you've gone up, sorry .. like i said; haven't read the rest of the replies on this one.) deface -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache status
Adam Carter wrote: I'm running Apache 2.2.8 and want the status info, so i need to add SetHandler server-status Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Allow from .foo.com But, in httpd.conf LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so So what's the syntax to define INFO? Cheers, Adam use /etc/conf.d/apache2 .. add -D INFO to your APACHE2_OPTS -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] using a HD with bad sectors
Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, I have two 2.5in HD's, one 60Gb with a heap of bad sectors currently used in external Hd enclosure, and one 100Gb which seems in good condition, currently in my laptop. I'm upgrading my laptop, and I'd like to turn the old one into a myth frontend or something similar, so I want to put the 60Gb in it. I will then use the 100Gb in my external enclosure for travelling, backups, etc. The reason the 60Gb has bad sectors (I think) is because I dropped it (in it's enclosure). This was quite some time ago, and it doesn't seem to be dying any further, but I haven't done any comparisons on the bad sector count. I use nearly 100% of the space available, and regularly compare cksums, so if anything was deteriorating, I would know. The question is: should I use it at all (for any use, external HD or internal with operating system), or is it sufficient to let the fsck tool mark the bad sectors and just keep using it? Is there a way to monitor it's "health" in the external enclosure until I get my new laptop? Is counting the bad sectors enough? thanks heaps! this day in age, space is sooo cheap. atleast in the US. 60 gigs is weak. get a new drive. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] distcc: different arch (amd64, x86)
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_AMD64-x86-distcc On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 02:18 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Hello list, > > since Ubuntu Hardy didn't like my notebook, I'm currently installing > Gentoo (amd64) on it. This is my first Gentoo install in almost six > years!! > > So. I have two other boxes (Intel Core 2 Duo and AMD X2 3800+) that > also run Gentoo (x86) and I would like to use them as distcc hosts for > my notebook. > > The question is: will it be possible to compile amd64 code using > distcc on those x86 hosts? Will it be as simple as emerging distcc on > the notebook and configure the distcc hosts? > > > Many thanks in advance, > Norberto > > > > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem running gnome as a normal user
can you verify the user is in the video group? grep video /etc/group deface On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 23:06 -0400, John covici wrote: > Hi. I can run gnome as root or log into it as root, but if I try as a > normal user I get the following errors: > > /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... > stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device > /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- > show-all-if-ambiguout > show-all-if-ambiguout: No such file or directory > > > Anyone have an idea as to what is happening or even how to > troubleshoot such a thing? > > Thanks. > > -- > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: > How do > you spend it? > > John Covici > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop
Some OEM disks give you no alternative but to format all. Such as a recovery partition. Always XP first. deface On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 01:27 +, James wrote: > Michael Higgins evolone.org> writes: > > > > I have a laptop with a spare partition waiting for WinXP, to install > > from Dell OEM disks that came originally. > > > Is this possible? I understand XP will overwrite the MBR. So, I'd have > > to re-install grub & that's it? '-) > > The easiest thing to do is install XP first. Then use the microsoft utilities > (I forget the name) to shrink down the size of the partition (usually about > 50%). Then install Gentoo in the space that XP is not occupying. > > > James > > > -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] root password on 2008.1-i686 minimal install
Hit Send too quick. The 'installer' is frowned upon on the actual 'gentoo' scene. it lacks alot of customization that you can gain from doing it cli style. check out gentoo-install.com for a quick skinny guide. On Apr 23, 2008, at 11:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm unable to log in as root on the installer OS for 2008.1_beta iso. I see nothing telling me what the root password is but the installer prompts me for a username and password. When logging in as root fails I'm eventually logged in as user `gentoo' but can do none of the things necessary to create an install. This seem pretty ridiculous so I'm pretty sure I'm missing some note or something. Starting the install with or without framebuffer appears to make no difference in the end result. I get a sorry little xfce desktop with no way to get to a root terminal. How can I ditch the sorry little desktop and use text mode and get logged in with the necessary root premissions? There is a `help' option on the boot screen but when I select it I get a very fast scroll thru a massive file then jumps back to login screen. Absolutely useless for any help. This install is inside a vmware as guest so maybe some of this works better in a normal install... I hope so. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] root password on 2008.1-i686 minimal install
the root pass is scrambled. but it appears you failed to follow the instructions posted at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=install If you have network, use the minimal cd. On Apr 23, 2008, at 11:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm unable to log in as root on the installer OS for 2008.1_beta iso. I see nothing telling me what the root password is but the installer prompts me for a username and password. When logging in as root fails I'm eventually logged in as user `gentoo' but can do none of the things necessary to create an install. This seem pretty ridiculous so I'm pretty sure I'm missing some note or something. Starting the install with or without framebuffer appears to make no difference in the end result. I get a sorry little xfce desktop with no way to get to a root terminal. How can I ditch the sorry little desktop and use text mode and get logged in with the necessary root premissions? There is a `help' option on the boot screen but when I select it I get a very fast scroll thru a massive file then jumps back to login screen. Absolutely useless for any help. This install is inside a vmware as guest so maybe some of this works better in a normal install... I hope so. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m I don't want modules here.
try removing the .conf & copy your old .config over .. then run a make oldconfig .. On Mar 21, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Dale wrote: deface wrote: It's pretty simple, either disable it if you dont need it. if you do, you've got 2 options .. module or compile in .. ? Why make it so difficult ? Well, I don't have the compile in option either. If I choose to compile it in, it changes it back to a module when I run make. So, it is either a module or a exit with error message. Since I don't have modules, I'm not sure I need loadable module support, what is it going to load since I have no modules EXCEPT for nvidia. I do need that one module. As usual, I'm missing something and it confuses me. Maybe I need to leave it in since it is so pesky about having it? Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m I don't want modules here.
It's pretty simple, either disable it if you dont need it. if you do, you've got 2 options .. module or compile in .. ? Why make it so difficult ? On Mar 21, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:00:52 -0500, Dale wrote: What is this and why is it so persistent about it having to be there? I'm fine with it being built in but I just don't like modules. Then don't set CONFIG_MODULES ;-) Changed that now. It sort of puked when I ran make by asking this: Enable loadable module support (MODULES) [N/y/?] (NEW) N Now I get this: The present kernel configuration has modules disabled. Type 'make config' and enable loadable module support. Then build a kernel with module support enabled. make: *** [modules_install] Error 1 Apparently it doesn't like the idea. Now what? Do I have to have modules because of this mess? o_O Thanks. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT again..] Technical networking question about changing GW
FF will use whatever your conn is set to. as far as logging in thats cookie based (normally) so the browser should just resume session once the network is backup ( ie - /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart) On Feb 11, 2008, at 11:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I happen to be in a situation where I have both a DSL and CABLE connection to internet up for the time being... (Until the DSL contract month runs out). It affords a nifty opportunity to do some experiments. Of course I tested the speeds of both and it varies between 200 and 500 % faster on the Cable connection. (Nice). At first I used single machines connected independently to the respective IPs for testing, but it slowly dawned on me that I could hook everything up on the lan, to the same subnet and then just reset the GateWay target on individual machines as needed, for any of 6 machines. So currently I have two internet outlets and two gateway routers on 192.168.0.0/24 Here's the technical part: Assume I have loaded a web page that downloads a video to my cache as it plays. Assume further there are several of these to be played one by one. After playing one, if I reset my GW (and I have also rest /etc/resolv.conf to use that gw address for dns [probably not totally necessary]). Followed by /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart. Will the browser, which has not been restarted, now use the new gateway when I run the next link (or for testing, run the same link again), or will it continue on the same route (which is still available), that is, will the browser (firefox) continue using the original GW until the browser itself is restarted? I know I could track all this with tcpdump but it gets sort of cumbersome unless you've memorized the necessary commands to filter output down to something more usable. I usually get so tangled up with tcpdump I spend more time on it than the project at hand. I don't use it very frequently so inevitably spend gobs of time at `man tcpdump' instead of tending to what I started to do. Why I ask is that the site I'm doing this on requires me to login and then relocate the stuff I want to see if I have to restart the browser. I wanted to try to gauge if there was much of a noticeable difference with the two IP connections. And it would be handy to just step through the links changine the GW intermittently. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Old machine having troubles syncing
try emerge --sync; emerge --update --newuse --deep world; emerge -- depclean On Jan 29, 2008, at 6:16 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I have a machine that hasn't been updated in quite awhile I turned it on today with the intention of possibly using it to replace an older MYthTV server that is going bad. First step would be eix-sync which is failing with only a message problems running time emerge --sync Not much help there. Then I tried emerge -pvDuN world to see what state I left things after the last sync and get lots of messages like these: !!! A file is not listed in the Manifest: '/usr/portage/dev-libs/openssl/openssl-0.9.8e-r2.ebuild' !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "dev-libs/openssl" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8e-r1 (masked by: corruption) - dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8e-r3 (masked by: corruption) Clearly the machine is unhappy about something. emerge -pv portage does this: \!!! A file is not listed in the Manifest: '/usr/portage/app-arch/rpm2targz/rpm2targz-9.0-r4.ebuild' ... done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.3.9 [2.1.2.12] USE="-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 377 kB Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 377 kB Sector9 ~ # I tried emerge -pv system and get a failure at the end that says: (dependency required by "dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r6" [ebuild]) !!! Problem resolving dependencies for dev-lang/python !!! Depgraph creation failed. I'm not at all clear how to proceed as I've never had a Gentoo machine do anything like this. Any ideas much appreciated. I've been googling but haven't found a great answer yet. Thanks in advance. Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc
Not sure how far behind he was w/ the baselayout. It may have been removed from portage, and him masking it blocked. although he says he had recently installed it. but yes, it sounds as though something else went wrong. On Jan 27, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Dale wrote: deface wrote: It sounds like the mistake was on your hand. baselayout isn't udated as often, unless you are ~**. the missing files are from any baselayout, not just the version you are stating. *** WARNING *** Depclean may break link level dependencies. Thus, it is *** WARNING *** recommended to use a tool such as `revdep-rebuild` (from *** WARNING *** app-portage/gentoolkit) in order to detect such breakage. *** WARNING *** *** WARNING *** Also study the list of packages to be cleaned for any obvious *** WARNING *** mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set will always *** WARNING *** be kept. They can be manually added to this set with *** WARNING *** `emerge --noreplace `. Packages that are listed in *** WARNING *** package.provided (see portage(5)) will be removed by *** WARNING *** depclean, even if they are part of the world set. *** WARNING *** *** WARNING *** As a safety measure, depclean will not remove any packages *** WARNING *** unless *all* required dependencies have been resolved. As a *** WARNING *** consequence, it is often necessary to run *** WARNING *** `emerge --update --newuse --deep world` prior to depclean. Plenty of warning there. Not recommended to --depclean. UNLESS absolutely necessary. deface Isn't baselayout part of system? Wouldn't --depclean leave that installed? Something sounds . . . fishy. I run --depclean and I don't recall it ever removing something in system. That said, always add a -p or -a to that thing. It can boo boo and remove something you need if you are not careful. I removed a kde thing once. No GUI for a bit. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Lost /sbin/rc
It sounds like the mistake was on your hand. baselayout isn't udated as often, unless you are ~**. the missing files are from any baselayout, not just the version you are stating. *** WARNING *** Depclean may break link level dependencies. Thus, it is *** WARNING *** recommended to use a tool such as `revdep-rebuild` (from *** WARNING *** app-portage/gentoolkit) in order to detect such breakage. *** WARNING *** *** WARNING *** Also study the list of packages to be cleaned for any obvious *** WARNING *** mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set will always *** WARNING *** be kept. They can be manually added to this set with *** WARNING *** `emerge --noreplace `. Packages that are listed in *** WARNING *** package.provided (see portage(5)) will be removed by *** WARNING *** depclean, even if they are part of the world set. *** WARNING *** *** WARNING *** As a safety measure, depclean will not remove any packages *** WARNING *** unless *all* required dependencies have been resolved. As a *** WARNING *** consequence, it is often necessary to run *** WARNING *** `emerge --update --newuse --deep world` prior to depclean. Plenty of warning there. Not recommended to --depclean. UNLESS absolutely necessary. deface On Jan 27, 2008, at 9:10 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: Hi there! I just did an emerge -uDN on my system, followed by revdep-rebuild and emerge --depclean. When rebooting, my system did not come up because of missing things like /sbin/rc. Argh! Good thing I had a backup, after copying some files back the system was up again, and I could go to bed. Bad idea anyway to do a reboot on a critical machine at 6 AM. The missing files belong to sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.10-r5 which I had just installed recently. I had masked it for a while because I want to update such critical packages only when I am home at the server, while most of the time I am far away from it. The depclean removed an older baselayout which was also installed, I guess that removed the files. Why did that happen, and why did I have two baselayouts installed in parallel? These are the missing files: /etc/env.d/00basic /etc/init.d/depscan.sh /etc/init.d/functions.sh /etc/init.d/runscript.sh /sbin/depscan.sh /sbin/functions.sh /sbin/rc /sbin/rc-update /sbin/runscript /sbin/runscript.sh /sbin/start-stop-daemon /sbin/update-rc /usr/sbin/MAKEDEV Alex -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apache build error...
There nos no apache2 use flag, it was replaced w/ just apache On Jan 26, 2008, at 4:57 PM, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: I'm trying to update the software on my system, among which is Apache, going from 2.2.6-r5 to 2.2.6-r7. However, I am running into a problem with it. Apparently the old install was using the apache2-builtin-mods file; so I followed the documentation at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/apache-upgrading.xml to convert it over to the APACHE2_MODULES and APACHE2_MPMS - but it is still giving me the same error - that mime, dir, and host_authz are disabled. After searching on-line, I found the post below which the user solved the issue by adding mime, dir, and host_authz to their package.use flag for apache2. However, that did not solve it for me. Below is the output of "emerge -vuDN" captured via script, where I stopped via CTRL+C after it posted its message claiming that the build would be "unsupported". After that I cat'd my /etc/make.conf file in its entirely (not long yet), and also ran: cat /etc/portage/package.use | grep apache2 To try to add the relevant lines from /etc/portage/package.use. I'm at a loss of what to do. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Ben Script started on Sat Jan 26 17:43:06 2008 ]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/emerge-to-run[?1034h[01;31mwitness[01;34m emerge-to-run #[00m emerge - world -VUDN vud DNp ]0;Started emerge on: Jan 26, 2008 17:43:23]0; *** emerge --newuse --deep --update --verbose world [32mThese are the packages that would be merged, in order:[39;49;00m Calculating world dependencies - | - | - \ \ \ \ / | - | - | | - | - / - / / - \ \ - | \ - / \ / \ / / - \ | - \ | / - \ | / - | - / \ - / \ / | - | - | - \ / - | - \ | - | - / | - | \ - | / - \ | / \ | - | / - \ | - / | \ / | \ - / \ - / | / \ / - \ / - \ | / - \ | \ - / \ - / | \ - \ / | / \ | - \ | / \ / \ | - / \ / | - | - | / \ / \ | / \ | / - | \ / \ - / | - | \ - / | - \ \ \ | - - / \ | \ \... done! [[32mebuild[39;49;00m [36;01mU[39;49;00m ] [32mwww-servers/apache-2.2.6-r7[39;49;00m [34;01m[2.2.6-r5][39;49;00m USE="[31;01mssl[39;49;00m [32;01mthreads[39;49;00m* [34;01m-debug[39;49;00m [34;01m-doc[39;49;00m [34;01m-ldap[39;49;00m ([34;01m-selinux[39;49;00m) [33;01m-sni[39;49;00m% [33;01m-static[39;49;00m% [33;01m-suexec[39;49;00m% ([33;01m-mpm-event[39;49;00m%) ([33;01m-mpm-itk[39;49;00m%) ([33;01m-mpm-peruser[39;49;00m%) ([33;01m-mpm-prefork[39;49;00m%) ([33;01m-mpm-worker[39;49;00m%) ([33;01m-no-suexec[39;49;00m%) ([33;01m-static-modules[39;49;00m%)" APACHE2_MODULES="[33;01m-actions[39;49;00m% [33;01m-alias[39;49;00m% [33;01m-asis[39;49;00m% [33;01m-auth_basic[39;49;00m% [33;01m-auth_digest[39;49;00m% [33;01m-authn_alias[39;49;00m% [33;01m-authn_anon[39;49;00m% [33;01m-authn_dbd[39;49;00m% [33;01m-authn_dbm[39;49;00m% [33;01m-authn_default[39;49;00m% [33;01m-authn_file[39;49;00m% [33;01m-authz_dbm[39;49;00m% [33;01m-authz_default[39;49;00m% [33;01m-authz_groupfile[39;49;00m% [33;01m-authz_host[39;49;00m% [33;01m-authz_owner[39;49;00m% [33;01m-authz_user[39;49;00m% [33;01m-autoindex[39;49;00m% [33;01m-cache[39;49;00m% [33;01m-cern_meta[39;49;00m% [33;01m-charset_lite[39;49;00m% [33;01m-dav[39;49;00m% [33;01m-dav_fs[39;49;00m% [33;01m-dav_lock[39;49;00m% [33;01m-dbd[39;49;00m% [33;01m-deflate[39;49;00m% [33;01m-dir[39;49;00m% [33;01m-disk_cache[39;49;00m% [33;01m-dumpio[39;49;00m% [33;01m-env[39;49;00m% [33;01m-expires[39;49;00m% [33;01m-ext_filter[39;49;00m% [33;01m-file_cache[39;49;00m% [33;01m-filter[39;49;00m% [33;01m-headers[39;49;00m% [33;01m-ident[39;49;00m% [33;01m-imagemap[39;49;00m% [33;01m-include[39;49;00m% [33;01m-info[39;49;00m% [33;01m-log_config[39;49;00m% [33;01m-log_forensic[39;49;00m% [33;01m-logio[39;49;00m% [33;01m-mem_cache[39;49;00m% [33;01m-mime[39;49;00m% [33;01m-mime_magic[39;49;00m% [33;01m-negotiation[39;49;00m% [33;01m-proxy[39;49;00m% [33;01m-proxy_ajp[39;49;00m% [33;01m-proxy_balancer[39;49;00m% [33;01m-proxy_connect[39;49;00m% [33;01m-proxy_ftp[39;49;00m% [33;01m-proxy_http[39;49;00m% [33;01m-rewrite[39;49;00m% [33;01m-setenvif[39;49;00m% [33;01m-speling[39;49;00m% [33;01m-status[39;49;00m% [33;01m-unique_id[39;49;00m% [33;01m-userdir[39;49;00m% [33;01m-usertrack[39;49;00m% [33;01m-version[39;49;00m% [33;01m-vhost_alias[39;49;00m%" APACHE2_MPMS="[33;01m-event[39;49;00m% [33;01m-itk[39;49;00m% [33;01m-peruser[39;49;00m% [33;01m-prefork[39;49;00m% [33;
Re: [gentoo-user] VE-225 cable
' dmesg | tail | grep sd ' will output device when connected ( assuming its usb ) else use ' /sbin/fdisk -l ' find the disk, make a dir to mount it to ' mkdir /mnt/tempdrive ' then mount the drive to it ' mount /dev/sdX /mnt/tempdrive ' Assuming your kernel has the filesystem support. then you can CD into it deface On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 21:58 +, James wrote: > Hello, > > Previously it has been recommended to get a VE-225 cable > for a variety of uses. I'm trying to salvage the contents > of a hard drive, from a system that will not boot. Grub 1.5 > starts up, but it's like there's nothing there. > (The system is so old it does not have bios that allows booting > from any kid of CD). Since I got this new toy, I figured > I'd give it a whirl. It has a usb2.0 port, a connector that > fits right on the hard drive's ide port and a power supply > for the drive, all connected. > > The device looks like this in usbview: > USB to ATA/ATAPI Bridge > Manufacturer: JMicron > Serial Number: 7D5776281303 > Speed: 480Mb/s (high) > USB Version: 2.00 > Device Class: 00(>ifc ) > Device Subclass: 00 > Device Protocol: 00 > Maximum Default Endpoint Size: 64 > Number of Configurations: 1 > Vendor Id: 152d > Product Id: 2338 > Revision Number: 1.00 > > Config Number: 1 > Number of Interfaces: 1 > Attributes: c0 > MaxPower Needed: 2mA > > Interface Number: 0 > Name: usb-storage > Alternate Number: 0 > Class: 08(stor.) > Sub Class: 6 > Protocol: 50 > Number of Endpoints: 2 > > Endpoint Address: 81 > Direction: in > Attribute: 2 > Type: Bulk > Max Packet Size: 512 > Interval: 0ms > > Endpoint Address: 02 > Direction: out > Attribute: 2 > Type: Bulk > Max Packet Size: 512 > Interval: 0ms > > I expected ivman to autodiscover the device and I'd just have > to cd into it. Obviously there's a little bit more to it. > > The box says the company is cables Unlimited. > > > Any wikis or such to help me figure out how to use this > device, to extract data from HDs directly,are most welcome. > > My keyword to post via Gmane is "dementia" so I'm > feelin lucky. > > > James >
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation failed
Here's your Help:
1. Do not use Gentoo Installer. Use CLI
deface
On Jun 3, 2007, at 10:57 PM, sanjaya athukorala wrote:
hi all,
I encounter following error while installing Gentoo 2007.0 DVD
(x86) on my laptop;
laptop configuration:
Intel Core 2duo T7600 Processr
512 RAM
GLI: May 31 2007 22:19:15 - Gentoo Linux Installer version 0.5.4
GLI: May 31 2007 22:19:57 - ERROR! : Could not activate swap (/dev/
sda4)!
GLI: May 31 2007 22:19:57 - Exception received during 'Mount local
partitions': MountError :FATAL: mount_local_partitions: Could not
mount a partition
GLI: May 31 2007 22:19:57 - Traceback (most recent call last):
GLI: May 31 2007 22:19:57 - File "/opt/installer/
GLIClientController.py", line 122, in run
func()
GLI: May 31 2007 22:19:57 - File "/opt/installer/
GLIArchitectureTemplate.py", line 348, in mount_local_partitions
raise GLIException("MountError",
'fatal','mount_local_partitions','Could not mount a partition')
GLI: May 31 2007 22:19:57 - GLIException: MountError :FATAL:
mount_local_partitions: Could not mount a partition
GLI: May 31 2007 22:23:58 - Gentoo Linux Installer version 0.5.4
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:09 - Exception received during 'Mount local
partitions': MountError :FATAL: mount_local_partitions: Could not
mount a partition
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:09 - Traceback (most recent call last):
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:09 - File "/opt/installer/
GLIClientController.py", line 122, in run
func()
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:09 - File "/opt/installer/
GLIArchitectureTemplate.py", line 348, in mount_local_partitions
raise GLIException("MountError",
'fatal','mount_local_partitions','Could not mount a partition')
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:09 - GLIException: MountError :FATAL:
mount_local_partitions: Could not mount a partition
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:47 - ERROR! : Could not activate swap (/dev/
sda4)!
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:47 - Exception received during 'Mount local
partitions': MountError :FATAL: mount_local_partitions: Could not
mount a partition
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:47 - Traceback (most recent call last):
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:47 - File "/opt/installer/
GLIClientController.py", line 122, in run
func()
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:47 - File "/opt/installer/
GLIArchitectureTemplate.py", line 348, in mount_local_partitions
raise GLIException("MountError",
'fatal','mount_local_partitions','Could not mount a partition')
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:47 - GLIException: MountError :FATAL:
mount_local_partitions: Could not mount a partition
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:50 - ERROR! : Could not activate swap (/dev/
sda4)!
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:50 - Exception received during 'Mount local
partitions': MountError :FATAL: mount_local_partitions: Could not
mount a partition
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:50 - Traceback (most recent call last):
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:50 - File "/opt/installer/
GLIClientController.py", line 122, in run
func()
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:50 - File "/opt/installer/
GLIArchitectureTemplate.py", line 348, in mount_local_partitions
raise GLIException("MountError",
'fatal','mount_local_partitions','Could not mount a partition')
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:50 - GLIException: MountError :FATAL:
mount_local_partitions: Could not mount a partition
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:52 - ERROR! : Could not activate swap (/dev/
sda4)!
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:52 - Exception received during 'Mount local
partitions': MountError :FATAL: mount_local_partitions: Could not
mount a partition
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:52 - Traceback (most recent call last):
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:52 - File "/opt/installer/
GLIClientController.py", line 122, in run
func()
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:52 - File "/opt/installer/
GLIArchitectureTemplate.py", line 348, in mount_local_partitions
raise GLIException("MountError",
'fatal','mount_local_partitions','Could not mount a partition')
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:52 - GLIException: MountError :FATAL:
mount_local_partitions: Could not mount a partition
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:54 - ERROR! : Could not activate swap (/dev/
sda4)!
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:54 - Exception received during 'Mount local
partitions': MountError :FATAL: mount_local_partitions: Could not
mount a partition
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:54 - Traceback (most recent call last):
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:54 - File "/opt/installer/
GLIClientController.py", line 122, in run
func()
GLI: May 31 2007 22:26:54 - File "/opt/installer/
GLIArchitectureTemplate.py", line 348, in mount_local_partitions
raise GLIException("MountError",
Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X
' /etc/init.d/xdm restart ' This would restart your login manager, assuming your running one. (gdm/kdm/xdm/slim) I would recommend on finding out the root of your X locking up, rather than actually trying to band-aid it. deface On Jun 3, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Dale wrote: Stratos Psomadakis wrote: O/H Kevin O'Gorman έγραψε: From time to time my X server will lock up, usually but not always while I'm editing something in ooffice. It's always something that's pretty heavily graphical. When this happens, the only thing that still works on my desktop is mouse motion. No clicks actually register, and even the three-finger salutes (BS and DEL) are feckless. However, I can SSH into the machine from elsewhere and pretty much do anything else I want. I usually have to reboot the machine, because I haven't figured out how to restart X in gentoo. I'm sure it's pretty simple, but I can't seem to find documentation on this particular thing and it's not like the usual init.d services. Lots on startup, a bit on shutdown, but nothing I see is about restart. When this happens, sometimes X is using 100% of one of the CPU's, but I don't always check and haven't recently verified my impression that sometimes all CPU's are at an idle (I have 4 hyperthreads). Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. maybe you can ssh to your machine and then: ps -A | grep X and see the pid of X... and then kill [pid of X]... Or, you can do a /etc/init.d/xdm restart . Either should work. On another note, you may want to find out why it is locking up. This should not be happening. Are you sure it is locked up or could it be that what you are doing is just using all the CPU processes and it is to busy to respond? Maybe some serious guru will come in with a plan. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start X after a few months of updates
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers#Module_Requirement_Mismatch On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:52 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: > Hi, > > My system had been happily chugging along with X and KDE running for a > few months nonstop. Every Saturday I'd run an update world. But, I never > restarted X and obviously never rebooted. Yesterday we had a 3 hour > power outage that my UPS couldn't keep up with, and when I finally got > power back, X won't start. I _think_ this is the relevant portion of > /var/log/Xorg.0.log. > > > (II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc." > compiled for 7.1.0, module version = 8.28.8 > Module class: X.Org Video Driver > ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0 > [R200Setup] X version mismatch - detected X.org 7.2.0.0, required X.org > 7.1.0.0 > (II) UnloadModule: "fglrx" > (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//fglrx_drv.so > (EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (module requirement mismatch, 0) > > > Can anyone help me, as I have know idea what to do? > > Thanks, > festus
Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?
If you want a new release, just emerge --sync. :) On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 20:44 -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Forgive me for being naive and maybe asking a question asked before; I > have been away from active participation on this list for quite some > time. I have done a lot of google searching and can not find any answer > to the question of why is Gentoo 2006.1 the latest release? What > happened to the quarterly releases? The mailing list is still active, > but the lack of a current release seems to indicate that the Gentoo > project is no longer truly active. > > Thanks in advance, > > Tom Veldhouse >
Re: [gentoo-user] ssh'ing livecd
do you have ssh running on both machines? sshD is a service, must be installed. On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 17:55 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > I want to copy some files from my gentoo box via eth0 > to another box which has only livecd on it and a blank > hard drive. > > I can ssh to the gentoo box from the livecd but not > the other way. However, ping works OK from the gentoo > box. > > Here's a sample of the output from the gentoo box: > > localhost heathen # ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.3 port 22: Connection > refused > localhost heathen # ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]/24 > ssh: 192.168.0.3/24: Name or service not known > localhost heathen # ssh 192.168.0.3 > ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.3 port 22: Connection > refused > > I've done this before. According to my notes ssh > 192.168.0.3 is all that's required. What I am missing? > > TIA > > -mw > > > > > Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels > in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. > http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097
RE: [gentoo-user] How can I force net.ath0 to use a certain channel?
No Jakub is known for closing bugs without actually reading or
understanding them; he's closed several of mine; which were legit.
Well stated comments, although some of this should/could have been left
on the forums. ie - breaking up a feature request, and a problem
deface
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 17:24 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote:
> Am I the dick?
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172766
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 10:20 PM
> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> > Subject: [gentoo-user] How can I force net.ath0 to use a
> > certain channel?
> >
> > I have an atheros (mad-wifi) internal mini-pci 802.11 a/b/g
> > card in my Dell
> > i8200 notebook running Gentoo. I also have an Engenius hostap 802.11b
> > card/antenna in my Gentoo server. What is frustrating, is that it's a
> > crap-shoot when my ath0 will (or won't) start properly. I
> > have no control
> > over what channel (either numeric like 6, or alpha such as b
> > vs. g) to
> > connect to my AP ("MATRIX").
> >
> > Please tell me there is some way to tweak my
> > /etc/conf.d/wireless (or anything
> > for that matter), so that I can tell it, "hey, when
> > connecting to 'MATRIX',
> > always use 802.11b and/or a certain channel range (presumably
> > in the 'b'
> > range)".
> >
> > Furthermore, it would REALLY be great if I could do something
> > whereby, if I
> > have net.eth0 (i.e. CAT5 cable) then don't start net.ath0,
> > else try net.ath0.
> > Right now I have net.ath0 disabled by default because I hate
> > when it starts
> > up when I'm plugged in at work, as my traffic seems to go
> > over the "slower"
> > ath0 rather than the faster eth0 port. ?! I have ifplugd
> > installed, but I
> > don't think it can manage this kind of (seemingly obvious and
> > intelligent)
> > decision.
> >
> > locutus ~ # /etc/init.d/net.ath0 start
> > * Starting ath0
> > * Configuring wireless network for ath0
> > * ath0 connected to ESSID "MATRIX" at 00:00:00:00:00:00
> > * in managed mode on channel 52 (WEP disabled)
> > * Configuration not set for ath0 - assuming DHCP
> > * Bringing up ath0
> > * dhcp
> > * Running dhcpcd ...
> > Error, timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response
> >
> >
> > [ !! ]
> > locutus ~ # /etc/init.d/net.ath0 start
> > * Starting ath0
> > * Configuring wireless network for ath0
> > * ath0 connected to ESSID "MATRIX" at 00:00:00:00:00:00
> > * in managed mode on channel 7 (WEP disabled)
> > * Configuration not set for ath0 - assuming DHCP
> > * Bringing up ath0
> > * dhcp
> > * Running dhcpcd ...
> > Error, timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response
> >
> >
> > [ !! ]
> > locutus ~ # /etc/init.d/net.ath0 start
> > * Starting ath0
> > * Configuring wireless network for ath0
> > * ath0 connected to ESSID "MATRIX" at 00:02:6F:09:B2:B4
> > * in managed mode on channel 6 (WEP disabled)
> > * Configuration not set for ath0 - assuming DHCP
> > * Bringing up ath0
> > * dhcp
> > * Running dhcpcd ...
> >
> >
> > [ ok ]
> > * ath0 received address 10.10.10.69/24
> > locutus ~ #
> > --
> > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> >
> >
>
Re: [gentoo-user] rfc viewer
emerge eix - its 100x faster than emerge -s & much better output On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 14:37 +0100, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 22.03.2007, 13:41 +0800 schrieb Shaochun Wang: > > Doesn't anyone know a good rfc viewer available for linux? > > > > > > -- > > Shaochun Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > GPG Fingerprint: 70C2 6945 0E46 E08B 419A 007C AC5C F21F 358A 0833 > > You can get my publickey from the following url: > > http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/~scwang/docs/scwangpublickey.gpg > > Well, it looks like rfcview is the only thing in the portage tree (found > via 'emerge -S rfc'): > > * app-emacs/rfcview [ Masked ] > Latest version available: 0.5 > Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] > Size of files: 5 kB > Homepage: http://www.neilvandyke.org/rfcview/ > Description: rfcview.el is a small Emacs add-on that reformats > IETF RFCs for display > License: GPL-2 > > Masked by ~amd64 keyword, by the way, in case you were wondering. > > Oh, and http://packages.gentoo.org/ seems to be a good place for quick > searches (emerge -S takes forever). >
Re: [gentoo-user] VOIP solution?
Your better off to use a VPN device to hold the connection across the 2 offices. If your connection is extremely crap; then you'll need to upgrade to a better service provider. As far as your windows vpn issue, the device is not hidden; you just built your vpn connection wrong. you need to remove the option to use the remote host as a gateway, this will allow you to use your local interface for dns routing, not the other side. On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 10:40 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Dear List > > We are a tiny business running in China. In China ISP competition is not > very healthy, 2 major ISPs: China Telcom, China Netcom both defend their > own business by limiting network access to other ISP. > > We have an office in Beijing, in Beijing there is only one ISP company > (monoplay business) that is China Netcom so they "choose" to use it. > We have an office in Xiamen, in Xiamen there is only one ISP company > (monoplay business) that is China Telcom, so we "choose" to use it. > We also have a server hosted by a hosting company, that company is very > smart, using some very special technology to connect both ISP. > > Transfer data from our Xiamen Office to Beijing => 3 ~ 10 KB/s, no > connection can maintain 10 minutes. Transfer data from Beijing to Xiamen > is the same slow. > > In Xiamen, transfer data from / to our server is 100KB/s; in Beijing > exactly the same. > > We used to use skype, but quality isn't very high nor very realiable > because only a few super-nodes have fast access to both ISP. Besides we > got a few other problems too related to skype / gizmo. > > I am thinking perhaps it's not difficult to set up some software on the > server that do the "routing", e.g. it serve as a call center that both > office login to a VOIP software and it connects to the server, the > server talk to both sides. This is the fastest solution and it should > work. That's only my imagination, I am still searching for such > software. > > Both offices use OpenSuSE as desktop computer and the server runs Gentoo > Linux. Both offices are behind each one's NAT firewall. > > Any suggestions on a VOIP solution for our office? > > P.S. > > Certainly THIS would work: set up VPN on the server and both office dial > into the VPN before they start to use some SIP software. This can solve > the problem, but I think it's over complicated. > > Besides, I never tried VPN on Linux, only did it on Windows: on windows > the downside is once a host has dialed up VPN, local network connection > is "hidden" for it, that I can no longer access the hosts in the same > office that has not yet dialed in the same VPN. This is not acceptable > for us. > -- > Zhang Weiwu > Real Softservice > http://www.realss.com > +86 592 2091112 >
