Re: [gentoo-user] Re-emerge missing files

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Monday 26 June 2006 05:16, Dave Oxley wrote:
> I left an emerge of Qt running at the weekend which downgraded my Xorg
> from 7.0 to 6.8 (I was missing virtual/x11 ~amd64 in package.keywords).
> When I came back to the machine I unmerged Xorg which deleted a load of
> libraries that were installed with 7.0, but the system thinks they are
> still installed. I need a mechanism to do a sanity check on the ebuilds
> installed and the actual files, so that I can re-emerge ebuilds whose
> files have been deleted. Is there anything that does this?

*If* revdep-rebuild does not help you, you might want to have a look at [1].
revdep-rebuild and equery is in app-portage/gentoolkit.

[1] 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.amd64/7313/match=really+need+help

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re-emerge missing files

[Dave Oxley]

Rafael Castro wrote:
>
> On Jun 26, 2006, at 12:16 AM, Dave Oxley wrote:
>
>> I left an emerge of Qt running at the weekend which downgraded my Xorg
>> from 7.0 to 6.8 (I was missing virtual/x11 ~amd64 in package.keywords).
>> When I came back to the machine I unmerged Xorg which deleted a load of
>> libraries that were installed with 7.0, but the system thinks they are
>> still installed. I need a mechanism to do a sanity check on the ebuilds
>> installed and the actual files, so that I can re-emerge ebuilds whose
>> files have been deleted. Is there anything that does this?
>
> I'm not quite sure I understood it, but I think you're looking for
> revdep-rebuild...
> from the man page:
>
> revdep-rebuild  scans  libraries  and binaries for missing shared
> library dependencies
>and fixes them by re-emerging those broken binaries and shared
> libraries.  It is  use‐
>ful  when  an  upgraded package breaks other software packages
> that are dependent upon
>the upgraded package.
I already knew about revdep-rebuild. It doesn't do what I need, so I've
written a script which has solved my problems and here it is in case
anyone is interested:
for i in `equery list`;
do
  for j in `equery files =$i`;
  do
if [ ! -d "$j" ] && [ ! -f "$j" ];
then
  echo "File $j from ebuild $i is missing"
fi
  done
done

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re-emerge missing files

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Monday 26 June 2006 09:00, Dave Oxley wrote:
>     if [ ! -d "$j" ] && [ ! -f "$j" ];

That will output symlinks as missing too since they are neither a file nor a 
directory..

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re-emerge missing files

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

If you don't want to check md5sums with equery check then this would 
work... ;)

# cd /var/db/pkg && for pkg in */*; do
grep ^dir "$pkg"/CONTENTS | cut -d" " -f2 | \
while read dir; do
if [[ ! -d "$dir" ]]; then
echo Dir "$dir" is missing in "$pkg";
fi;
done;
grep ^obj "$pkg"/CONTENTS | cut -d" " -f2 | \
while read file; do
if [[ ! -f "$file" ]]; then
echo File "$file" is missing in "$pkg";
fi;
done;
grep ^sym "$pkg"/CONTENTS | cut -d" " -f2 | \
while read sym; do
if [[ ! -L "$sym" ]]; then
echo Symlink "$sym" is missing in "$pkg";
fi;
done;
done 

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[gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

[Catalin Trifu]

Why not use software RAID ? You don't necessarily need
the hardware RAID and as far as I know software RAID works just as
fine as the hardware RAID.


Catalin

Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
> Good afternoon list.
> 
> I am trying now for 8 days to make nvidia RAID works on gentoo
> systems; I pass trhought all stages, I had difficult make live cd
> works, then after it works I have to use the hard way to make grub
> install after all that I thought it was every thing cool and I
> would be allowed to run my gentoo, I was wrong.
> 
> I had tried genkernel and Hard way ( a script to genrate initrd ) on
> kernel 2.6.16 and none of then work, always complaining that real_root
> wasn´t there and I could run a shell and really there was just
> /dev/mapper/control no raid device. So some wise guys said to me,
> there is a bug on 2.6.16 that doesn´t work with RAID 0, so I emerged
> 2.6.15-r1 and tried again both ways, genkernel and the other ..
> again none of them work, with a addin, my kernel panics at boot !
> 
> so were should I go now, just use windows  because infortunilly
> every single hardware fabricant just think of windows users.. I
> can not erase my windows, and RAID on windows gives a real boost. So
> what is left to me is keep trying make the louse nvidia fake raid work
> on linux ..
> 
> I pray for a wise guy that had done this before  HELP ME ! I
> think I had tried everything I know and some things that I didn´t know
> either 
> 
> sorry for the large mail and the terrible english . but, could
> anyone help .
> 
> thanks . Allan
> 
> PS. ( for more explanations on what happened on my system there is a
> thread on the list,
> subject: Help with nvidia fake raid. )
> 
> 

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Re: [gentoo-user] acrobat reader can not run by normal user

[Richard Fish]

On 6/25/06, fei huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On 6/25/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
I compared all the open() system calls between outputs generated by root and
the normal user, and found something strange:  both root and the normal user
version trying to open libstdc++.so.6, after checking /etc/ld.so.conf, what
have made me confused is the root
version choose /usr/lib/libstdc++-v3/ thus the normal user choose
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.6/, probably this is the
answer to the crash, but I just wonder what make them having different
choices with the same ld.so.conf?


The user environment can override ld.so.conf.  Try "env | grep LD" as
both the normal user and root.

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] get unversioned list of installed packages without eix or esearch

[Richard Fish]

On 6/25/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

This is probably possible with esearch too. But does anybody know of a way to
get it with portage, bash or gentoolkit?


Well, there is probably a better way to write this script, but here is
a method that will do it with bash.  The idea is for each package in
portage, to determine whether that is installed or not.  This seems a
bit easier than working backwards from the installed package database:

cd /usr/portage
find . -name "*.ebuild" | sed -e 's/\.\///g' | while read ebuild; do
   pkg=`dirname $ebuild`
   category=`dirname $pkg`
   pkgdir=`basename $ebuild .ebuild`
   test -d /var/db/pkg/$category/$pkgdir && echo $pkg
done | sort

This works, but it does seem to take a long time!

-Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] get unversioned list of installed packages without eix or esearch

[Jure Varlec]

On Monday 26 June 2006 08:44, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> I was of course considering something like this:
>
> # cd /var/db/pkg && ls * |
> ${some_magic_regular_expression_to_remove_version}
>
> But I have found it impossible to make a regular expression that does break
> for at least one of those:

sed -r 's/-[^-]+(-r[0-9]+)*$//'
It works on the examples you provided. I don't think anything in the tree 
uses '-' in the version number, unless it's a case of '-rN'. But you never 
know, of course, so I always double check all package names I ever filter 
through anything.

Regards
Jure


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Re: [gentoo-user] get unversioned list of installed packages without eix or esearch

[Zac Medico]

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Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> But I have found it impossible to make a regular expression that does break 
> for at least one of those:
> 
> media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.0
> media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi-1.0.0
> media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-type1-1.0.1
> media-libs/jpeg-6b-r7
> net-misc/cisco-vpnclient-3des-4.8.00.0490
> sys-apps/portage-2.1.1_pre1-r2
> sys-fs/udev-090
> sys-fs/udev-090-r1
> sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.6
> sys-libs/timezone-data-2006g

Just pipe the above list through the attached script.

Zac
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for pkg in stdin:
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Re: [gentoo-user] acrobat reader can not run by normal user

[fei huang]

On 6/26/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/25/06, fei huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On 6/25/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> I compared all the open() system calls between outputs generated by root and> the normal user, and found something strange:  both root and the normal user> version trying to open libstdc++.so.6, after checking /etc/ld.so.conf, what
> have made me confused is the root> version choose /usr/lib/libstdc++-v3/ thus the normal user choose> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.6/, probably this is the> answer to the crash, but I just wonder what make them having different
> choices with the same ld.so.conf?The user environment can override ld.so.conf.  Try "env | grep LD" asboth the normal user and root.mm, I have totally forgotten those tricks, will check it back home. 
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[gentoo-user] 2006.0 installer quits during partitioning stage (CCISS?)

[Maarten]

When attempting an install on an HP DL360 with a CCISS SCSI controller the
installer quits when attempting the partitioning with the message:

"The setup program seems to have failed"

No other info is given.

I then tried several things to circumvent it, first I partitioned the disk
with fdisk prior to starting the installer (which doesn't help) and
secondly I made symlinks from the /dev/cciss/c0d0* devices to their
/dev/sda* counterparts, which didn't help either.

I'm willing to do the install manually, but the 2006 manual sadly does not
suggest an alternative to using the installer.

What now?

TIA
Maarten

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

[Alexander Skwar]

Catalin Trifu wrote:
>   Why not use software RAID ? You don't necessarily need
> the hardware RAID and as far as I know software RAID works just as
> fine as the hardware RAID.

Especially so, as those cheap "hardware" raids aren't hardware
RAID at all but just a software RAID. Why not use the real software
RAID then?

To answer the question: It has to be so frustrating, because the
OP wants to go the hard way and not stick to Linux system tools.
That's IMO basically the reason.

Regards,

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

[Friedrich Göpel]

On 6/26/06, Catalin Trifu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

   Why not use software RAID ? You don't necessarily need
the hardware RAID and as far as I know software RAID works just as
fine as the hardware RAID.



Hi,
Well, usually hardware raid is much better, at least if you want
raid5/6, for raid 0 or 1 it is not such a big difference, but all of
these on board raid chips are not hardware raid at all (fakeraid), you
just have less influence/clue on what it's doing.

The only reason to do this would be if you want to be able to read
these partitions from windows.
If you don't need this it's much better to just use the tried and
trusted linux software raid, I did the same on my nforce4 board.
It's quite easy actually, and you don't need an initrd at all.

These might be of help, if you decide to go that route:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsntricks.xml#software-raid
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_on_Software_RAID
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Re: [gentoo-user] get unversioned list of installed packages without eix or esearch

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Monday 26 June 2006 10:45, Jure Varlec wrote:
> sed -r 's/-[^-]+(-r[0-9]+)*$//'

This was exactly what I was looking for. Since the following command did not 
produce any relevant output I can confirm that this works for everything 
currently in portage.

# cd /usr/portage && \
find . -name '*.ebuild' | sed -e 's/\.ebuild$//' | \
awk -F/ '{print $2"/"$4}' | sed -r 's/-[^-]+(-r[0-9]+)*$//' | \
awk -F/ '{system("eix -C "$1" -e "$2" -c | grep -q ^Found\\ 1\\ matches 
|| \
 echo "$0)}'

Thank you to everyone who replied. :)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

[James Buckley]

He probably want's to use fakeraid because he wants to have a dual-boot Windows-Linux, both using raid. I also have had the same problem with 2.6.16 + dmraid, and the only solution I found was to use kernel 2.6.15-r9 (just < 
2.6.16). Only 2.6.15 gives me other problems...
On 26/06/06, Friedrich Göpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/26/06, Catalin Trifu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Why not use software RAID ? You don't necessarily need> the hardware RAID and as far as I know software RAID works just as> fine as the hardware RAID.>Hi,Well, usually hardware raid is much better, at least if you want
raid5/6, for raid 0 or 1 it is not such a big difference, but all ofthese on board raid chips are not hardware raid at all (fakeraid), youjust have less influence/clue on what it's doing.The only reason to do this would be if you want to be able to read
these partitions from windows.If you don't need this it's much better to just use the tried andtrusted linux software raid, I did the same on my nforce4 board.It's quite easy actually, and you don't need an initrd at all.
These might be of help, if you decide to go that route:http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsntricks.xml#software-raid
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Re: [gentoo-user] no compiler cache

[James Buckley]

I agree it seems a bit small, but as long as ur getting "misses" your cache is working. The next time you do emerge -e world (and as long as you haven't changed your compiler) you should get lots of "hits".

 
The cache is good for when you do emerge -e system, then world. As many packages will just be the same. 
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>> Looks like there is files in the cache to me. =)>> Yeah, but I would expect more than 2.2 Mib of data in the cache after an> 'emerge -e world' and at least some cache hits.>>
> JustinIn my experience, I would expect cache hits the second, third, .. nthtime you emerged a package. Not the first. Give it some time and see ifthe cache a) populate and b) gets hits.- --
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Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.0 installer quits during partitioning stage (CCISS?)

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Monday 26 June 2006 11:21, Maarten wrote:
> I'm willing to do the install manually, but the 2006 manual sadly does not
> suggest an alternative to using the installer.

The naming suck but it is still there. Just pick the latest version rather 
than the 2006.0 specific networkless handbook. You can do the manual way from 
a gnome-terminal on the new livecd while reading the handbook in 
ephiphany.. :)

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml

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Re: [gentoo-user] Best webmail

[Alexander Skwar]

Leandro Melo de Sales wrote:

> I know Horde IMP, but does someone know others which is
> better?

No. What's missing?

Hm - does anyone know of a Webmail system, which makes use of
"Web 2.0"/AJAX and behaves a bit like gmail?

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[gentoo-user] java-config-wrapper-0.8.tar.bz2 not downloadable

[Rafael Fernández López]

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Hi,

When trying to install sun-jdk and sun-jre-bin with ~amd64 keyword
enabled, I unmerged java-config because of blocked packages.

When unmerged and tried to emerge sun-jdk and sun-jre-bin it tries to
download java-config-wrapper-0.8.tar.bz2 that appears not to be in any
mirror, so I can't succeed.

It is a 4 KB package, if someone could send it to me by mail or
whatever... I'd be thanked !!

Thank you,
Rafael Fernández López.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Best webmail

[Tibor Liktor]

roundcube?
 
http://www.roundcube.net/ 
On 6/26/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Leandro Melo de Sales wrote:> I know Horde IMP, but does someone know others which is> better?
No. What's missing?Hm - does anyone know of a Webmail system, which makes use of"Web 2.0"/AJAX and behaves a bit like gmail?Alexander Skwar--Some people pray for more than they are willing to work for.
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Re: [gentoo-user] java-config-wrapper-0.8.tar.bz2 not downloadable

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Monday 26 June 2006 13:11, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
>  It is a 4 KB package, if someone could send it to me by mail or
> whatever... I'd be thanked !!

Sure.. we'd love to but... to quote you: "not downloadable".

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

[Allan Spagnol Comar]

Hi all on the list; thanks for attention. I need to use fake RAID
because of windows ( I had incresed in 80% the performance of windows
because of the fake raid :) ). I know linux software RAID is good, and
I had already used on a box running just linux, but I really need to
use dual boot on this box, and I don´t want to loose the performance
of windows.

I tryed to dmraid + 2.6.16 and all I got was that /dev/mapper/* was
empty ( just have control node ). I had try 2.6.15-r1 and /de/mapper
was populated but kernel panics when mounting root system, it says it
can not find linuxrc and /bin/bash

this is the situation, and is been like that for days.

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[gentoo-user] etc-update

[Sean]

What is the best way to handle the files that etc-update states needs to 
be updated?


It displays a list of all the files that need updating, but does it 
actually put this list into a file anywhere so that I can manually look 
them over to see what the differences are?


Or could anyone suggest the best steps to proceed?

Thanks
Sean
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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Java bringing X down

[Bruno Lustosa]

> I thought X clients shouldn't bring the X server down, but this is
> clearly what's happening here. I can reproduce it everytime.
> I don't even know where to start looking.
>
> Does anyone ever had a problem similar to this?
>
I've noticed the same thing starting last Tuesday (I'm ~x86).
Hopefully we can trace this down this weekend...


Just as an update.
I downgraded my Xorg to 7.0-r1 so I could use the binary nvidia
drivers, and the Java problem also went away.
Seems to be an issue with the new Xorg.

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Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Monday 26 June 2006 14:36, Sean wrote:
> What is the best way to handle the files that etc-update states needs to
> be updated?

There are three competing utilities for this purpose. The official etc-update 
(which sucks and should have been deprecated a long time ago... ;) ), 
dispatch-conf and cfg-update.

> It displays a list of all the files that need updating, but does it
> actually put this list into a file anywhere so that I can manually look
> them over to see what the differences are?

This will show the new files:

# find /etc -name ._cfg*

> Or could anyone suggest the best steps to proceed?

What you should do is figure out how to use either dispatch-conf or 
cfg-update. Personally I use dispatch-conf because I learned that first and 
it satisfies my needs. I think cfg-update is superior but never bothered to 
investigate. A couple of references:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=4
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=86622

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Re: [gentoo-user] kernel compilation problem [panic: not syncing VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknows-block(0,0)

[Ezequiel Carmona]

Hi. sorry for my english.edit /boot/grub/grub.confin line kernel /bzImage-2.6.15-r5 root=/dev/sdaadd -rokernel /bzImage-2.6.15-r5 root=/dev/sda -ro
2006/6/25, Catalin Trifu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi,I have just got a new machine with nForce4 chipset and 250GB SATA drive.I am trying to compile the kernel on the machine (gentoo-sources) and it worksjust fine but at boot time I get the panic in the subject and I don't get it
why. I have compiled sata_nv directly in the kernel. I'm not using any raidor such things.I also installed the kernel + initrd from the 2006.0 live cd and that kernelboots just fine.Thanks,
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Re: [gentoo-user] acrobat reader can not run by normal user

[fei huang]

unfortunately, no unusual environment settings found, but there is a very important message that I haven't noticed. that is the libstdc++ root loads is libstdc++.so.5, however the user load the version libstdc++.so.6, so that's why they goes to /usr/lib/libstdc++-v3/ and /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-li8nux-gnu/4.3.6/ respectively.
still the question is how could this happen? no special environment variables, if the acroread has been compiled with version 5, it should be failed even for the root, just odd.
thanks, daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel compilation problem [panic: not syncing VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknows-block(0,0)

[fei huang]

On 6/26/06, Ezequiel Carmona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi. sorry for my english.edit /boot/grub/grub.confin line kernel /bzImage-2.6.15-r5 root=/dev/sdaadd -rokernel /bzImage-2.6.15-r5 root=/dev/sda -royou should specify a partition with the root parameter, 
e.g. /dev/sda1this partition is where your '/' locates. cheersdaniel

2006/6/25, Catalin Trifu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Hi,I have just got a new machine with nForce4 chipset and 250GB SATA drive.I am trying to compile the kernel on the machine (gentoo-sources) and it worksjust fine but at boot time I get the panic in the subject and I don't get it
why. I have compiled sata_nv directly in the kernel. I'm not using any raidor such things.I also installed the kernel + initrd from the 2006.0 live cd and that kernelboots just fine.Thanks,
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Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

[Alexander Skwar]

Sean wrote:
> What is the best way to handle the files that etc-update states needs to 
> be updated?

Check them.

> It displays a list of all the files that need updating, but does it 
> actually put this list into a file anywhere

Not to my knowledge.

> so that I can manually look 
> them over to see what the differences are?

Hm? When you chose a file, the differences are shown to you.

> Or could anyone suggest the best steps to proceed?

Use etc-update :) I don't understand your problem, though.

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Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

[Alexander Skwar]

Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Monday 26 June 2006 14:36, Sean wrote:
>> What is the best way to handle the files that etc-update states needs to
>> be updated?
> 
> There are three competing utilities for this purpose. The official etc-update 
> (which sucks and should have been deprecated a long time ago... ;) ), 

What's bad about etc-update or what's missing?

> dispatch-conf and cfg-update.

Hm, where are the advantages of dispatch-conf over etc-update? I
just used dispatch-conf for the first time, and it seems to be
very much like etc-update, but it doesn't even display the list
of files that need to be updated nor does it seem to offer a way
to accept all changes (which are left).

>> Or could anyone suggest the best steps to proceed?
> 
> What you should do is figure out how to use either dispatch-conf or 
> cfg-update.

Hm. Why? What's bad about etc-update?

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Re: [gentoo-user] get unversioned list of installed packages without eix or esearch

[Alexander Skwar]

Richard Fish wrote:

> This works, but it does seem to take a long time!

Probably because of all those dirnames and basename calls. Try:

cd /usr/portage
find . -name "*.ebuild" | sed -e 's/\.\///g' | while read ebuild; do
pkg=${ebuild%/*}
category=${pkg%/*}
pkgdir=${ebuild##*/} ; pkgdir=${pkgdir%.ebuild}
[[ -d "/var/db/pkg/$category/$pkgdir" ]] && echo "$pkg"
done | sort

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Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

[A. Khattri]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:

> There are three competing utilities for this purpose. The official etc-update
> (which sucks and should have been deprecated a long time ago... ;) ),
> dispatch-conf and cfg-update.

Actually all the update tools have pros and cons.

For example, looking at diffs using vim via etc-update is easier to read
than dispatch-conf. The fact that dispatch-conf can use archiving is nice
but it uses the (archaic) rcs tool to do it.

For me, seeing the diffs clearly is more important...


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Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Monday 26 June 2006 16:24, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Hm. Why? What's bad about etc-update?

I dislike using diff. On my desktop I use meld (all graphical) and on my 
server I use vimdiff. dispatch-update takes care of trivial merges (changes 
in cvs headers or commentaries) and changes in files that I have never edited 
automatically. dispatch-conf supports automatic use of rcs (revision control 
system) so I can revert my configs if I need to..

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Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Monday 26 June 2006 16:29, A. Khattri wrote:
> For example, looking at diffs using vim via etc-update is easier to read
> than dispatch-conf. The fact that dispatch-conf can use archiving is nice
> but it uses the (archaic) rcs tool to do it.
>
> For me, seeing the diffs clearly is more important...

Why would you think that cfg-update and dispatch-conf cannot show you the 
diffs?

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Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

[Daniel da Veiga]

On 6/26/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Monday 26 June 2006 14:36, Sean wrote:
> What is the best way to handle the files that etc-update states needs to
> be updated?

There are three competing utilities for this purpose. The official etc-update
(which sucks and should have been deprecated a long time ago... ;) ),
dispatch-conf and cfg-update.



What's the matter with etc-update? It just does it all...


> It displays a list of all the files that need updating, but does it
> actually put this list into a file anywhere so that I can manually look
> them over to see what the differences are?

This will show the new files:

# find /etc -name ._cfg*

> Or could anyone suggest the best steps to proceed?

What you should do is figure out how to use either dispatch-conf or
cfg-update. Personally I use dispatch-conf because I learned that first and
it satisfies my needs. I think cfg-update is superior but never bothered to
investigate. A couple of references:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=4
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=86622



I don't see why use other tool. Etc-update works great...
I've been using it since my first Gentoo install 2 years ago and never
needed (neither bothered looking for) this other tools you mentioned.

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[gentoo-user] cinelerra-cvs

[Álvaro Castro]

Hello!

Somebody using cinelerra-cvs under AMD64??

I compiled it in some different versions and when I
run it I only get a small X window with anything
inside.

However, it works if you do it from source code,
directly downloaded from the project web page.

what could be done? may it be a problem in portage?


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[gentoo-user] CUPS, HPLIP and BEH: solved?

[Matthias Bethke]

I just posted this on linuxprinting.foomatic.devel, but I guess some
here might have the same problem, namely that the HPLIP printer
drivers fail when combined with CUPS' Backend Error Handler:


To fully utilize the capabilities of our HP LaserJets I recently
installed HPLIP and was quite pissed off at the fact that it doesn't
work with BEH---I had almost forgotten how much work BEH had saved me
killing users' stuck print jobs and manually restarting the printer in
CUPS. So I started digging in the HPLIP sources today and got it working
with a trivial patch:

# diff /usr/share/hplip/base/device.py.orig
# /usr/share/hplip/base/device.py
47c47
< pat_deviceuri = 
re.compile(r"""(.*?):/(.*?)/(\S*?)\?(?:serial=(\S*)|device=(\S*)|ip=(\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}[^&]*))(?:&port=(\d))?""",
 re.IGNORECASE)
---
> pat_deviceuri = 
> re.compile(r"""(.*):/(.*?)/(\S*?)\?(?:serial=(\S*)|device=(\S*)|ip=(\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}[^&]*))(?:&port=(\d))?""",
>  re.IGNORECASE)

I.e. I just removed the first question mark in the RE to make it greedy
again. Now it seems to work fine with my printers.conf:
DeviceURI beh:/1/3/120/cupspykota:hp:/net/HP_LaserJet_4100_Series?ip=12.34.56.78

This hasn't been tested extensively yet so I may be missing something
and the patch might break more that it fixes on other configs, but maybe
some of you would like to give it a try. Comments welcome.

cheers!
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[gentoo-user] compilation option

[Pawel K]

Hello
I want to compile lynx with the following option:
--enable-default-colors

As far as I know this option isn't adjustable by any
global/local use flag. I know I can add this option to
my:
/usr/portage/www-client/lynx/lynx-2.8.5-r2.ebuild

but I will have to do that everytime i upgrade lynx.

1) How can I add this option to every lynx build ?
2) Can I pass this argument to emerge/ebuild commad ?

thank You for help

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Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

[Teresa and Dale]

Daniel da Veiga wrote:

> On 6/26/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On Monday 26 June 2006 14:36, Sean wrote:
>> > What is the best way to handle the files that etc-update states
>> needs to
>> > be updated?
>>
>> There are three competing utilities for this purpose. The official
>> etc-update
>> (which sucks and should have been deprecated a long time ago... ;) ),
>> dispatch-conf and cfg-update.
>>
>
> What's the matter with etc-update? It just does it all...
>
>> > It displays a list of all the files that need updating, but does it
>> > actually put this list into a file anywhere so that I can manually
>> look
>> > them over to see what the differences are?
>>
>> This will show the new files:
>>
>> # find /etc -name ._cfg*
>>
>> > Or could anyone suggest the best steps to proceed?
>>
>> What you should do is figure out how to use either dispatch-conf or
>> cfg-update. Personally I use dispatch-conf because I learned that
>> first and
>> it satisfies my needs. I think cfg-update is superior but never
>> bothered to
>> investigate. A couple of references:
>>
>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=4
>> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=86622
>>
>
> I don't see why use other tool. Etc-update works great...
> I've been using it since my first Gentoo install 2 years ago and never
> needed (neither bothered looking for) this other tools you mentioned.
>

I have tried the other tools and they are not any better.  The biggest
thing, no matter what tool you use, is to be VERY careful what you
update.  For me, about 95% of the stuff is fine but that 5% can keel you
or make you wish you were dead.  O_O

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Re: [gentoo-user] compilation option

[Rumen Yotov]

Pawel K wrote:
> Hello
> I want to compile lynx with the following option:
> --enable-default-colors
> 
> As far as I know this option isn't adjustable by any
> global/local use flag. I know I can add this option to
> my:
> /usr/portage/www-client/lynx/lynx-2.8.5-r2.ebuild
> 
> but I will have to do that everytime i upgrade lynx.
> 
> 1) How can I add this option to every lynx build ?
> 2) Can I pass this argument to emerge/ebuild commad ?
> 
> thank You for help
> 
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Hi,
IIRC you could use EXTRA_ECONF env. var:
EXTRA_ECONF="--enable-default-colors" emerge lynx -av
Search in this ML archives for more customized use of EXTRA_ECONF.
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Re: [gentoo-user] compilation option

[Neil Bothwick]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:43:01 -0700 (PDT), Pawel K wrote:

> I want to compile lynx with the following option:
> --enable-default-colors
> 
> As far as I know this option isn't adjustable by any
> global/local use flag. I know I can add this option to
> my:
> /usr/portage/www-client/lynx/lynx-2.8.5-r2.ebuild
> 
> but I will have to do that everytime i upgrade lynx.
> 
> 1) How can I add this option to every lynx build ?
> 2) Can I pass this argument to emerge/ebuild commad ?

EXTRA_ECONF="--enable-default-colors" emerge lynx

To set automatically set per-package environment variables, save this
as /etc/portage/bashrc

-
for MY_ENV in ${PN} ${P} ${PF}; do
if [ -f /etc/portage/env.d/${CATEGORY}/${MY_ENV} ]; then
source /etc/portage/env.d/${CATEGORY}/${MY_ENV}
fi
done
-

Then put 'EXTRA_ECONF="--enable-default-colors"'
into /etc/portage/env.d/www-client/lynx

mkdir -p /etc/portage/env.d/www-client
echo 'EXTRA_ECONF="--enable-default-colors"' 
>>/etc/portage/env.d/www-client/lynx


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Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

[Neil Bothwick]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:59:09 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote:

> > I don't see why use other tool. Etc-update works great...
> > I've been using it since my first Gentoo install 2 years ago and never
> > needed (neither bothered looking for) this other tools you mentioned.

If you haven't tried them, you can't know whether they are better or not.

> I have tried the other tools and they are not any better.  The biggest
> thing, no matter what tool you use, is to be VERY careful what you
> update.  For me, about 95% of the stuff is fine but that 5% can keel you
> or make you wish you were dead.  O_O

This alone makes dispatch-conf worthwhile, because you can roll back any
changes it makes.


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Re: [gentoo-user] java-config-wrapper-0.8.tar.bz2 not downloadable

[Roy Wright]

Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:

On Monday 26 June 2006 13:11, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
  

 It is a 4 KB package, if someone could send it to me by mail or
whatever... I'd be thanked !!



Sure.. we'd love to but... to quote you: "not downloadable".

  

This might be related to the next gen java support overlay being merged into
the main tree.  You might want to check out the gentoo-java thread 
"migration-overlay

entering main tree".

HTH,
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cups problem

[Michael W. Holdeman]

On Sunday 25 June 2006 16:26, Stefan Schweizer wrote:
> Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
> > I am having trouble with cups, part of the problem seems to be I have
> > no /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp
> >
> > Where do I get it?
> >
> > Mike
>
> /usr/lib/cups changed to /usr/libexec/cups in cups-1.2
> you can find it in:
> ls /usr/libexec/cups/backend/ipp
>
cool, symlinked from /usr/libexec/cups/backend/ to /usr/lib/cups/backend...

All is well now, Thanks!

Mike

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Re: [gentoo-user] java-config-wrapper-0.8.tar.bz2 not downloadable

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Monday 26 June 2006 18:37, Roy Wright wrote:
> This might be related to the next gen java support overlay being merged
> into the main tree.  You might want to check out the gentoo-java thread
> "migration-overlay
> entering main tree".

It most certainly is. This is a hard masked package that is being moved into 
the tree right now. No reason to check out any overlay now. On my computer it 
is pulled in by sun-jdk-1.5.0.07 but 1.5.0.06-r2 is still there so just wait 
a few days at it will probably work. Patience...

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Re: [gentoo-user] java-config-wrapper-0.8.tar.bz2 not downloadable

[Caster]

On 6/26/06, Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:This might be related to the next gen java support overlay being merged intothe main tree.  You might want to check out the gentoo-java thread"migration-overlayentering main tree".
Yes, this shouldn't affect usual arch or even ~arch users as it's package.masked for now (to catch all such issues as with java-config-wrapper which should now be fixed). But users who have some jdk like =
sun-jdk-1.5* in their package.unmask, this overrides the mask and with the new migration-aware sun-jdk version, it tries to pull the rest. Either go with it or change your package.unmask to specify exactly the jdk 1.5 version you had before.
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Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

[Teresa and Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:59:09 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote:
>
>  
>
>>>I don't see why use other tool. Etc-update works great...
>>>I've been using it since my first Gentoo install 2 years ago and never
>>>needed (neither bothered looking for) this other tools you mentioned.
>>>  
>>>
>
>If you haven't tried them, you can't know whether they are better or not.
>
>  
>
>>I have tried the other tools and they are not any better.  The biggest
>>thing, no matter what tool you use, is to be VERY careful what you
>>update.  For me, about 95% of the stuff is fine but that 5% can keel you
>>or make you wish you were dead.  O_O
>>
>>
>
>This alone makes dispatch-conf worthwhile, because you can roll back any
>changes it makes.
>
>
>  
>

Well, I make backups of etc anyway.  I just copy it to old-etc and keep
it lying around.  I ran into a blank inittab once and even dispatch-conf
wouldn't have saved me there.  I don't think it was a update, just got
erased somehow.  I'm not sure how that happened either cause I don't
even look at that one.  I just recognized what it was doing and that it
was blank.

I also seem to recall that dispatch-conf didn't keep back-ups on mine. 
I had the directory but it was always empty even after a lot of
updates.  You know of any reason for that?

Thanks

Dale

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Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

[A. Khattri]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:

> On Monday 26 June 2006 16:29, A. Khattri wrote:
> > For example, looking at diffs using vim via etc-update is easier to read
> > than dispatch-conf. The fact that dispatch-conf can use archiving is nice
> > but it uses the (archaic) rcs tool to do it.
> >
> > For me, seeing the diffs clearly is more important...
>
> Why would you think that cfg-update and dispatch-conf cannot show you the
> diffs?

Vim diff?

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Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

[A. Khattri]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Teresa and Dale wrote:

> I also seem to recall that dispatch-conf didn't keep back-ups on mine.
> I had the directory but it was always empty even after a lot of
> updates.  You know of any reason for that?

Is use-rcs=yes in /etc/dispath-conf.conf ?



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Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

[Alexander Skwar]

Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:

On Monday 26 June 2006 16:24, Alexander Skwar wrote:

Hm. Why? What's bad about etc-update?


I dislike using diff.


Hm. dispatch-conf uses diff as well and etc-update can be configured
to use a different program.

On my desktop I use meld (all graphical) and on my 
server I use vimdiff. dispatch-update takes care of trivial merges


So does etc-update.

(changes 
in cvs headers or commentaries)


Ah, okay, that's a bit better. As far as I know, etc-update only
automerges changes in whitespace.

and changes in files that I have never edited 
automatically.


That's nice.

dispatch-conf supports automatic use of rcs (revision control 
system) so I can revert my configs if I need to..


That's also nice.

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Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Monday 26 June 2006 19:28, A. Khattri wrote:
> > > For me, seeing the diffs clearly is more important...
> >
> > Why would you think that cfg-update and dispatch-conf cannot show you the
> > diffs?
>
> Vim diff?

Was that a question?! diff is the default. I have used vimdiff, kompare and 
now I'm using meld. They all show diffs. Did I answer your question?

# grep ^#*diff /etc/dispatch-conf.conf
#diff="diff -Nu %s %s | less --no-init --QUIT-AT-EOF"
#diff="vimdiff %s %s"
#diff="/usr/kde/3.5/bin/kompare %s %s"
diff="/usr/bin/meld %s %s"

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Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

[Alexander Skwar]

A. Khattri wrote:


For example, looking at diffs using vim via etc-update is easier to read
than dispatch-conf. The fact that dispatch-conf can use archiving is nice
but it uses the (archaic) rcs tool to do it.

For me, seeing the diffs clearly is more important...


ACK

But dispatch-conf uses diff as well, so that's no advantage of etc-update
over dispatch-conf.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kaudiocreator still giving me fits - added info

[Colleen Beamer]

Justin R Findlay wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 10:18:02PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
>   
>> Colleen Beamer wrote:
>> 
>>> Jun 23 22:04:15 localhost hdc: drive not ready for command
>>> Jun 23 22:04:15 localhost hdc: ATAPI reset complete
>>> Jun 23 22:05:15 localhost hdc: irq timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
>>> Jun 23 22:05:15 localhost ide: failed opcode was: unknown
>>> Jun 23 22:05:15 localhost hdc: ATAPI reset complete
>>>   
>> Your burner has broken down, is breaking down, or is flaky.  I've 
>> seen this: a month later it was dead.  Before getting a new one, you 
>> might try checking the connectors are seated properly.
>> 
I don't mean to be "testy" here, but I'm still not convinced it is the
CD drive.  And I now know it is not the CD.  My reasoning:

1) The drive was working flawlessly in kaudiocreator prior to the
upgrade to KDE 3.5
2) I was successfully able to burn a data CD in KDE 3.5 with k3b
3) I was successfully able to rip the CD with kaudiocreator on my laptop
(only problem here is that my music collection is on my desktop (this
gives credence to the fact that it is not the CD).  My laptop is running
KDE 3.4.3, but with an older kernel
4) On my desktop, I was able to rip the CD using Windows Media player
under Windows.

One other thing that is different from running kaudiocreator under kde
3.4.3 and running it under kde 3.5.2 is a kernel upgrade to
linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r9.

One additional fact.  I nuked the kde 3.5 installation completely from
my system and went back to kde 3.4.  Then, kaudiocreator would not rip
the CD.  However, I was able to copy the original CD and then burn the
tracks using k3b and then, kaudiocreator would rip the CD.  And the
tracks play just fine in amaroK.

So, I reiterate, I don't think it is the CD drive.  It must be either a
setting that I don't have correct or it must have something to do with
some quirk in kde and/or kaudiocreator.

Regards,

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[gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

[Francesco Talamona]

On Monday 26 June 2006 11:58, James Buckley wrote:
> He probably want's to use fakeraid because he wants to have a
> dual-boot Windows-Linux, both using raid. I also have had the same
> problem with 2.6.16+ dmraid, and the only solution I found was to use
> kernel 2.6.15-r9 (just < 2.6.16). Only 2.6.15 gives me other
> problems...

That's not correct.

I have a 4 disks software raid (1 and 5 + LVM) setup. The motherboard 
has an integrated Promise controller that "thinks" the two disks 
attached are a single logical RAID0 disk.

If I ever had a windoze on those disks it would run as if it was on a 
single striped disc, according to controller BIOS.

While I was building this computer I also tested the software array 
phisically removing one of the striped discs, despite the dreadful 
error messages (the computer refuses to boot without an human 
intervention) at boot Linux booted flawlessly, just marking the array 
as corrupted.

As I said before, to help OP we need more details about his setup.

Side note: I use LILO. MB: Asus A8V-deluxe, no GRUB nor Nvidia here, so 
YMMV!.

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Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

[Teresa and Dale]

A. Khattri wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Teresa and Dale wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I also seem to recall that dispatch-conf didn't keep back-ups on mine.
>>I had the directory but it was always empty even after a lot of
>>updates.  You know of any reason for that?
>>
>>
>
>Is use-rcs=yes in /etc/dispath-conf.conf ?
>
>
>
>  
>

It wasn't, it had this:

> # Use rcs for storing files in the archive directory?
> # (yes or no)
> use-rcs=no


It will be now though.  I'll try to remember to try it next time.  Looks
like it should be yes by default to me.

Thanks

Dale
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[gentoo-user] ooo-impress bitmaps

[Michael W. Holdeman]

Upgrading an old machine used by teh church for hyms etc... on the screen. I 
have a bunch of graphics imported into ooo for backgrounds. Anyone know where 
ooo stores thiese bitmaps? I need to do a complete reinstall of gentoo on 
this machine (I think it is the original 1.4 I installed a long time ago) and 
don't want to loose those backgrounds..

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

[Allan Spagnol Comar]

Hi I use a A8N-E, with nvidia raid controler 2 segate SATA disks
working at RAID-0 ( sttriping ), I had installed gentoo base system
and grub successfully, but at boot time with kernel 2.6.16 it cannot
find device on /dev/mapper and with kernel 2.6.15-r1 it has a kernel
panic saiyng it can´t find /linuxrc file and /bin/bash file.

any more information needed ? just asks


On 6/26/06, Francesco Talamona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Monday 26 June 2006 11:58, James Buckley wrote:
> He probably want's to use fakeraid because he wants to have a
> dual-boot Windows-Linux, both using raid. I also have had the same
> problem with 2.6.16+ dmraid, and the only solution I found was to use
> kernel 2.6.15-r9 (just < 2.6.16). Only 2.6.15 gives me other
> problems...

That's not correct.

I have a 4 disks software raid (1 and 5 + LVM) setup. The motherboard
has an integrated Promise controller that "thinks" the two disks
attached are a single logical RAID0 disk.

If I ever had a windoze on those disks it would run as if it was on a
single striped disc, according to controller BIOS.

While I was building this computer I also tested the software array
phisically removing one of the striped discs, despite the dreadful
error messages (the computer refuses to boot without an human
intervention) at boot Linux booted flawlessly, just marking the array
as corrupted.

As I said before, to help OP we need more details about his setup.

Side note: I use LILO. MB: Asus A8V-deluxe, no GRUB nor Nvidia here, so
YMMV!.

Ciao
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Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

[Philip Webb]

060626 Sean wrote:
> What is the best way to handle the files
> that etc-update states needs to be updated?

You provoked a bit of a debate (smile), but in case it's still not clear,
I've long used Etc-update with Gvim as defined in  /etc/etc-update.conf :

  # pager for use with diff commands (see NOTE_2)
  # pager="less"
  pager=""

  # diff_command="vim -d %file1 %file2"
  # diff_command="diff -uN %file1 %file2"
  # using_editor=0
  diff_command="gvim -d %file1 %file2"
  using_editor=1

  # vim-users: don't use vimdiff for merging (see NOTE_1)
  merge_command="sdiff -s -o %merged %orig %new"

Even if you're not normally a Vim user, this shows the diffs very clearly
& allows you to copy your personal changes from old to new versions.

Generally, always go through all the etc-updates & keep back-ups of  /etc .

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Re: [gentoo-user] java-config-wrapper-0.8.tar.bz2 not downloadable

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Monday 26 June 2006 13:11, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> When trying to install sun-jdk and sun-jre-bin with ~amd64 keyword
> enabled, I unmerged java-config because of blocked packages.

If you sync again now you will find that it has been replaced with version 0.9 
which does download. If you want to use any of this you should follow the 
upgrade guide [1]. Hopefully within this week it will be unleashed to ~arch 
so it may be easier to just wait for that..

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/java-upgrade.xml

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Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

[leszek]

Le lundi 26 juin 2006 à 08:36 -0400, Sean a écrit :
> What is the best way to handle the files that etc-update states needs to 
> be updated?

I use dispatch-conf with color highlighting
the big advantage of dispatch-conf is that you can configure it to
replace config files that you didn't modify automatically.
When i run dispatch-conf after a little upgrade when portage told me to
do so, most of the time i don't have to do anything (it saves time).

here is my dispatch-conf.conf file :

# cat /etc/dispatch-conf.conf | grep -v "^#" | grep -v "^$"
archive-dir=/etc/config-archive
use-rcs=no
diff="colordiff -Nu %s %s | less --no-init --QUIT-AT-EOF"
merge="sdiff --suppress-common-lines --output=%s %s %s"
replace-cvs=yes
replace-wscomments=yes
replace-unmodified=yes

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[gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

[Francesco Talamona]

On Monday 26 June 2006 20:28, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
> Hi I use a A8N-E, with nvidia raid controler 2 segate SATA disks
> working at RAID-0 ( sttriping ), I had installed gentoo base system
> and grub successfully, but at boot time with kernel 2.6.16 it cannot
> find device on /dev/mapper and with kernel 2.6.15-r1 it has a kernel
> panic saiyng it can´t find /linuxrc file and /bin/bash file.
>
> any more information needed ? just asks
It's a good start :-)

Which is partitions layout?
where is windows installed?
which (physical) drive your system boots from?
what raid tools have you installed?
what kernel options (modules) related to nvidia and raid are activated?

And so on... Don't make me ask everything :-)

Ciao
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Monday 26 June 2006 14:24, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
> Hi all on the list; thanks for attention.

For the future when you want more attention, please keep it in the same 
thread. It's not like we only notice new threads...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Best webmail

[kashani]

Tibor Liktor wrote:

roundcube?
 
http://www.roundcube.net/


Unfortunately after a nice release back in Feb the project is looking 
like it's dead in the water. Roundcube is a little feature short to be a 
full webmail system for real users though it's passable if you just need 
a web interface to get to your mail on occasion.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kaudiocreator still giving me fits - added info

[Benno Schulenberg]

Colleen Beamer wrote:
> 2) I was successfully able to burn a data CD in KDE 3.5 with k3b

Writing normally occurs at a lower speed than reading.  When mine 
was dying, reading a CD went fine when running at low speed, but 
the data rate dropped as soon as it started to gear up.

> 3) I was successfully able to rip the CD with kaudiocreator on my
> laptop (only problem here is that my music collection is on my
> desktop (this gives credence to the fact that it is not the CD).

You're talking about a different drive now.  That makes it all the 
more likely that the first drive is... of less quality.

> One additional fact.  I nuked the kde 3.5 installation completely
> from my system and went back to kde 3.4.  Then, kaudiocreator
> would not rip the CD.

You see, it is not the version of Kaudiocreator that matters.

> However, I was able to copy the original 
> CD and then burn the tracks using k3b and then, kaudiocreator
> would rip the CD.

That shows that the original CD is somehow marginal, by production 
fault or on purpose.  The combination of a somewhat flaky CD with a 
somewhat flaky drive is what will lead to errors.  If you now 
upgrade KDE again, the new Kaudiocreator will also rip the new CD.

That another OS with other reading software can handle the disk 
fine, is not entirely relevant.  Have you listened to the tracks it 
produces?

> So, I reiterate, I don't think it is the CD drive.  It must be
> either a setting that I don't have correct or it must have
> something to do with some quirk in kde and/or kaudiocreator.

Unlikely, as Kaudiocreator is just a front end.  It probably uses 
cdparanoia or cdda2wav to read the CD.  (I don't own any audio CD 
with which to try this.)  Try using cdparanoia directly and see 
whether it shows smilies all the way, or reports jitter and read 
errors and what not.  If so, try using cdda2wav with the --speed set 
to a low value.

Cheers,

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Re: [gentoo-user] graphical ssh-enabled file system browser?

[Evan Klitzke]

On 6/24/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi,
   Is there a good, graphical ssh-enabled file system browser that I
could set up on my wife and son's machines that would allow them to
move files back and forth between machines without them having to
understand ssh and escape characters? They use a lot of spaces in
their file names so I'd like something that had two window panes
(local & remote) that would allow them to drag files in either
direction and do the hard stuff for them.


If you are using Gnome, the best option is just to use Nautilus, which
has this functionality built in.  Just click Places | Connect to
Server, and fill in your info.  This will create a normal nautilus
window that you can drag and drop from.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Best webmail

[Jamie]

On 6/25/2006, "Leandro Melo de Sales" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>   I'm looking for a good webmail which I can use Courier IMAP/POP3
>and QMail. I know Horde IMP, but does someone know others which is
>better?

Squirrelmail is good, but I find it a little slow so have switched to
ilohamail which is substantially faster. Both of these are in portage.

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Re: [gentoo-user] ASS/SAA in Video

[Calvin Walton]

On 6/24/06, Pavel Kouřil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

OK, i have some anime in *.mkv, subtitles are in the file(softsub), and
I can't see them in mplayer. When I open video in Xine, xine will crash.
VLC doesn't have Advanced SubStationAlpha support. Do you know any
player, where ASS/SAA working fine?


The version of mplayer in portage should be able to play most ssa
subtitles fine, but it will drop all formatting from them and display
them the same as srt subtitles.

There's a patch on the mplayer mailing list for adding full ass/ssa
support, it should be in svn soon and hopefully into an mplayer
release... If so, mplayer will be the first linux player with styled
ass subtitle support.

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[gentoo-user] net.ppp : speed improvement

[Philip Webb]

I've noticed a small improvement in logon time with my ISP
-- 10 -> 7 sec -- since dropping Rp-pppoe for the new Baselayout method.
Congrats to whichever devs are responsible (dox still cb improved).

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Re: [gentoo-user] graphical ssh-enabled file system browser?

[Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman]

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> window that you can drag and drop from.

If you are using kde:

konqueror sftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path]

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Re: [gentoo-user] graphical ssh-enabled file system browser?

[Evan Klitzke]

On 6/26/06, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

If you are using kde:

konqueror sftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path]


Incidentally you can do the same thing in nautilus :-)  Ctrl-L will
bring up a location dialog, and then you can use
sftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path] to open up the folder remotely.  The
disadvantage of doing this is that it doesn't save you a lot of time,
and if you use the 'Connect to Server' option then the remote folder
will show up under 'Places' in the future.

On another note, you can use sshfs and use any file browser you can
think of to access the files.
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Re: [gentoo-user] graphical ssh-enabled file system browser?

[michael]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Evan Klitzke wrote:


On 6/26/06, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 If you are using kde:

 konqueror sftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path]


Incidentally you can do the same thing in nautilus :-)  Ctrl-L will
bring up a location dialog, and then you can use
sftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path] to open up the folder remotely.  The
disadvantage of doing this is that it doesn't save you a lot of time,
and if you use the 'Connect to Server' option then the remote folder
will show up under 'Places' in the future.

On another note, you can use sshfs and use any file browser you can
think of to access the files.
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sshfs to mount a partition from an OS X machine? I got some weird results but
didn't have time to research thoroughly. Could easily have been user error on
my part.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Best webmail

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:13:39 +1200 (NZST)
Jamie wrote:

> 
> On 6/25/2006, "Leandro Melo de Sales" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >   I'm looking for a good webmail which I can use Courier IMAP/POP3
> >and QMail. I know Horde IMP, but does someone know others which is
> >better?
> 
> Squirrelmail is good, but I find it a little slow so have switched to
> ilohamail which is substantially faster. Both of these are in portage.

Cannot find ilohamail in my portage, is that a mis spell? (can't find
alohamail either, not sure what other spellings to try)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

[Allan Spagnol Comar]

ok, I will keep it in one thread, but last one got "killed" or it look
like .. :(
in advance sorry.

On 6/26/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Monday 26 June 2006 14:24, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
> Hi all on the list; thanks for attention.

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Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update

[David Corbin]

>
> I don't see why use other tool. Etc-update works great...

It works great,  But the interface sucks.


> I've been using it since my first Gentoo install 2 years ago and never
> needed (neither bothered looking for) this other tools you mentioned.
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Re: [gentoo-user] ASS/SAA in Video

[Caster]

On 6/26/06, Calvin Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There's a patch on the mplayer mailing list for adding full ass/ssasupport, it should be in svn soon and hopefully into an mplayerrelease... If so, mplayer will be the first linux player with styledass subtitle support.
Cool. No need for fancy karaoke effects, but I hope at least colors, positioning and such stuff for translating signs will work good, and hopefully also embedded fonts in mkv files?Caster

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge KDE + deps

[Evan Klitzke]

On 6/25/06, krgn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I know this must have been asked a few times, but I need to quick and
can't search a lot for info on the net. I would like to remove, say KDE
and GNOME from a system with all the packages they come with, and would
like to find a cmd-line option to emerge that spits out the packages
depending on KDE and GNOME. Could anyone tell me whats the best way to
approach this?

Karstne


Normally you would do something like equery depends foo, which will
print all the packages depending on foo.  IIRC, equery is provided by
gentoolkit.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

[Richard Fish]

On 6/26/06, Allan Spagnol Comar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I tryed to dmraid + 2.6.16 and all I got was that /dev/mapper/* was
empty ( just have control node ). I had try 2.6.15-r1 and /de/mapper
was populated


Populated...with what?  How are you determining this?  Have you hacked
up the initrd/initramfs to display what is in /dev/mapper?


but kernel panics when mounting root system, it says it
can not find linuxrc and /bin/bash


Hmm, this sounds like maybe you just have some extra and unnecessary
options on your kernel command line.  What does /boot/grub/menu.lst
contain?  If you see things like real_root= or init=, you _might_ be
able to take those out, depending upon what the initrd/initramfs
script does.

I guess to help futher I need to know:

1. The contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst
2. Whether you are using an initramfs or an initrd.  If you don't
know, try "cpio --list < /boot/your_initrd_or_initramfs.img".  If that
lists a bunch of files, you are using an initramfs.  If it gives an
error, it is an initrd.

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[gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.3 Media Manager DCOP Error

[Jason Weisberger]

List,Here's a new one.  I ended up hard booting my system without shutting down first because I spilled beer on my keyboard.. ok, now that you're done laughing, here's the problem:localhost jbdubbs # /usr/kde/3.5/bin/kded
FATAL: DCOP communication problem!AbortedOn session start, KDE show an error:KDE Media Manager not running!I guess there's something wrong with dcop, but I can't figure out what to do about it.  I'm sure that people who keep beer FAR away from keyboards like smart people would know what to do :)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kaudiocreator still giving me fits - added info

[Richard Fish]

On 6/24/06, Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

kaudiocreator is not working as expected. The only thing that I can
think of is that I don't have some setting correct and I'm darned if I
can figure out what it is.

Jun 23 22:04:15 localhost hdc: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
Jun 23 22:04:15 localhost ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jun 23 22:04:15 localhost hdc: DMA disabled


If there is an incorrect setting, it would have to be in the kernel.
But I don't think it is very likely to be a problem with grip or
kaudiocreator.

Can you tell us more about what your hardware configuration is like
(other IDE disks, master/slave settings, any SATA drives, etc)?

Have you checked that the cables inside the computer are secure?
Could they have been damaged in any way?

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[gentoo-user] suspend/resume

[Grant]

Is there a way to shut the power of my laptop down and then power it
back on and have it resume right where it was when it was powered
down?  I think this is called suspend/resume.  I see there is a kernel
called suspend2-sources.  Is there any way to do it with my
hardened-sources kernel?

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[gentoo-user] Re: KDE (mono to meta) migration

[James]

Bo Ørsted Andresen  zlin.dk> writes:

 The revdep-rebuild is good *after* emerging kde-meta. It will recompile third 
 party applications such as amarok against the new version of kde-meta. I 
 posted the simple steps at the bottom of my previous mail.


Assuming you really 
do want to nuke kde completely (on your other computers):

# cd /var/db/pkg && emerge -Cva kde-base/*
# emerge -uva kde-meta
# revdep-rebuild -p
# revdep-rebuild

Yep these 4 lines do the trick. Multiple applications of revdep-rebuild


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Re: [gentoo-user] file system problems - what is proper maintanence?

[Richard Fish]

On 6/24/06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

   That said, I seem to have file system problems on my external 1394
hard drives. I do not know if this is due to a recent move to
2.6.17-rt1, or bad maintenance on my part, or just bad luck. I've


Well, I've had various problems with external drives.  I have 3
1394/USB2 combo drives that I use for backups.  If I connect them via
1394, they will start to have problems at some point during my
backupssometimes several Gb will transfer fine, and then it will
hiccup with various read/write failures.  I *never* have a problem
with these same drives connected via USB.

In another event, I moved a 2.5" drive from a slightly damaged USB2
case to a new one.  The new case started corrupting data written to
it, without any warning or errors.  Filesystem checks would always
report no errors, but for example I could transfer kernel sources to
the drive, but they would fail to extract from there.  I eventually
replaced the case, (same drive) and that cleared up all problems, but
I had to restore the files from backups as they were actually
corrupted on write (vs just not being able to read them correctly).

So, what I really recommend you do for awhile is to do an md5sum of
any files that you transfer to the drive before transferring them.
And then periodically do a md5sum -c to verify the file contents.
That is really the best way to make sure your drives are working
right, and that your data hasn't been corrupted.

And if they are combo drives, try the USB2 connection instead.


I wondered if there is really any value to a journaled file system?
Did it protect me? I cannot tell.


With one exception, journaled filesystems are designed to protect
themselves, not your data.  That is, if a crash occurs in the middle
of an operation, the filesystem meta-data will not be corrupted.  It
will know how large all files should be, which blocks are allocated to
which files, whether any files should be deleted, and so on.  It does
not guarantee the actual file data however.  But this 'guarantee' is
useless if a hardware problem is corrupting the filesystem, which
appears to be the problem here.

The one exception is ext3 when mounted with the 'data=journal' option.
But this makes the filesystem fairly slow, and still doesn't help
with hardware problems

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Re: [gentoo-user] suspend/resume

[Richard Fish]

On 6/26/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Is there a way to shut the power of my laptop down and then power it
back on and have it resume right where it was when it was powered
down?  I think this is called suspend/resume.  I see there is a kernel
called suspend2-sources.


This uses suspend2, which is an externally maintained patch to the
kernel [1].  Suspend2 may work better than the in-kernel suspend
implementation for some cases.

I know nothing about the hardened kernel, but you should be able to
enable the 'normal' suspend to disk and suspend to ram options.  Look
under "Power management options..." and turn on "Software Suspend" for
suspend-to-disk support.  You can also add "ACPI...->Sleep States" for
suspend-to-ram.

I highly recommend merging and using hibernate-script.  This is an
advanced script that can handle most suspend/standby tasks.  Just edit
the config file[s] in /etc/hibernate/, and run "hibernate -F
".

I also recommend getting the ~arch version of hibernate-script, so
that you can start off using the new config file layout.

-Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

[Allan Spagnol Comar]

I don´t remember hte exactly name of the device but is
/dev/mapper/nv_xxx1 NTFS
/dev/mapper/nv_xxx2 NTFS
/dev/mapper/nv_xxx3 NTFS
/dev/mapper/nv_xxx5 ext2 boot
/dev/mapper/nv_xxx6 swap
/dev/mapper/nv_xxx7 reiserfs /
/dev/mapper/nv_xxx8 reiserfs /tmp
/dev/mapper/nv_xxx9 reiserfs /var
/dev/mapper/nv_xxx10 reiserfs /usr
/dev/mapper/nv_xxx11 reiserfs /home

My kernel configuration worked with 1 SATA drive on nvidia; it stop
working when I tried the RAID

On 6/26/06, Francesco Talamona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Monday 26 June 2006 20:28, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
> Hi I use a A8N-E, with nvidia raid controler 2 segate SATA disks
> working at RAID-0 ( sttriping ), I had installed gentoo base system
> and grub successfully, but at boot time with kernel 2.6.16 it cannot
> find device on /dev/mapper and with kernel 2.6.15-r1 it has a kernel
> panic saiyng it can´t find /linuxrc file and /bin/bash file.
>
> any more information needed ? just asks
It's a good start :-)

Which is partitions layout?
where is windows installed?
which (physical) drive your system boots from?
what raid tools have you installed?
what kernel options (modules) related to nvidia and raid are activated?

And so on... Don't make me ask everything :-)

Ciao
Francesco
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

[Allan Spagnol Comar]

I got:
title=gentoo linux 2.6.15-r1
root (hd0,4)
kernel=/vmlinuz-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc
real_root=/dev/mapper/nv_xxx7 dodmraid
initrd /initrd

On 6/26/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On 6/26/06, Allan Spagnol Comar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tryed to dmraid + 2.6.16 and all I got was that /dev/mapper/* was
> empty ( just have control node ). I had try 2.6.15-r1 and /de/mapper
> was populated

Populated...with what?  How are you determining this?  Have you hacked
up the initrd/initramfs to display what is in /dev/mapper?


It probe sometimes for shell ( busybox ) and I can ls /dev/mapper and
the devices are there


> but kernel panics when mounting root system, it says it
> can not find linuxrc and /bin/bash

Hmm, this sounds like maybe you just have some extra and unnecessary
options on your kernel command line.  What does /boot/grub/menu.lst
contain?  If you see things like real_root= or init=, you _might_ be
able to take those out, depending upon what the initrd/initramfs
script does.

I guess to help futher I need to know:

1. The contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst
2. Whether you are using an initramfs or an initrd.  If you don't
know, try "cpio --list < /boot/your_initrd_or_initramfs.img".  If that
lists a bunch of files, you are using an initramfs.  If it gives an
error, it is an initrd.

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.3 Media Manager DCOP Error

[Teresa and Dale]

Jason Weisberger wrote:

> List,
>
> Here's a new one.  I ended up hard booting my system without shutting
> down first because I spilled beer on my keyboard.. ok, now that
> you're done laughing, here's the problem:
>
> localhost jbdubbs # /usr/kde/3.5/bin/kded
> FATAL: DCOP communication problem!
> Aborted
>
> On session start, KDE show an error:
>
> KDE Media Manager not running!
>
> I guess there's something wrong with dcop, but I can't figure out what
> to do about it.  I'm sure that people who keep beer FAR away from
> keyboards like smart people would know what to do :)
>
>
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I have not rebooted but I did logout of KDE and start getting the same
error about the media manager not running when KDE comes back up.  KDE
3.5.3 here.  I have noticed that CDs don't show up as fast when inserted
and the pop-up doesn't come up anymore.  I think I updated kdelibs the
other day.  Did you do the same recently??

At least know I know it is not just me.

Dale

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Re: [gentoo-user] suspend/resume

[Shaochun Wang]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 05:44:09PM -0700, Grant wrote:
> Is there a way to shut the power of my laptop down and then power it
> back on and have it resume right where it was when it was powered
> down?  I think this is called suspend/resume.  I see there is a kernel
> called suspend2-sources.  Is there any way to do it with my
> hardened-sources kernel?
> 
> - Grant
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I use suspend2-sources, and it works very well!

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Re: [gentoo-user] suspend/resume

[Alexander Skwar]

Grant wrote:

Is there a way to shut the power of my laptop down and then power it
back on and have it resume right where it was when it was powered
down?


Sure. Install the hibernate package and configure /etc/acpi/default.sh
properly:

case "$action" in
power)  #/sbin/init 0
logger "$group, ACPI action $action thru default.sh 
invoked - calling /usr/sbin/hibernate"
/usr/sbin/hibernate
logger "/usr/sbin/hibernate finished"
;;

You'll also need to compile the "button" module in the kernel.



 I think this is called suspend/resume.  I see there is a kernel
called suspend2-sources.  Is there any way to do it with my
hardened-sources kernel?


Dunno. But you don't *HAVE* to use suspend2 to do suspend-to-disk. The
plain kernel does this as well.

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.3 Media Manager DCOP Error

[Martins Steinbergs]

On Tuesday 27 June 2006 06:31, Teresa and Dale wrote:
> Jason Weisberger wrote:
> > List,
> >
> > Here's a new one.  I ended up hard booting my system without shutting
> > down first because I spilled beer on my keyboard.. ok, now that
> > you're done laughing, here's the problem:
> >
> > localhost jbdubbs # /usr/kde/3.5/bin/kded
> > FATAL: DCOP communication problem!
> > Aborted
> >
> > On session start, KDE show an error:
> >
> > KDE Media Manager not running!
> >
> > I guess there's something wrong with dcop, but I can't figure out what
> > to do about it.  I'm sure that people who keep beer FAR away from
> > keyboards like smart people would know what to do :)
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jason Weisberger
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>
> I have not rebooted but I did logout of KDE and start getting the same
> error about the media manager not running when KDE comes back up.  KDE
> 3.5.3 here.  I have noticed that CDs don't show up as fast when inserted
> and the pop-up doesn't come up anymore.  I think I updated kdelibs the
> other day.  Did you do the same recently??
>
> At least know I know it is not just me.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)

emerge dbus with qt3 flag and/or qt4 flag
then reload dbus
that's it

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[gentoo-user] openoffice.org binary for ppc

[John]

Hi all!
I am pretty new to the world of gentoo, tho I've been using linux for
quite a while now (debian, gentoo). I am installing linux for friends,
and because they have pretty slow computers, I thought gentoo will be my
best choice. Of course, I did not expect to spend two weeks just
installing it...but it seems to be working qute well even on a 333Mhz
ppc laptop.
The problem is that I dont have enough room on the hard disk to compile
openoffice.org, so I was wondering if there was any place I could
download a binary version for ppc.
I read about all of this binhost stuff, and am not sure about what it
is, but googling for ppc binhost, opnoffice or anything like that did
not yield anything exept a two years old package.
Could anyone elighten me plz? maybe I did not get something? Or does
someone have a compiled ppc vesion?
Thanx!

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Re: [gentoo-user] Best webmail

[Stroller]

On 26 Jun 2006, at 21:54, kashani wrote:


Tibor Liktor wrote:

roundcube?
 http://www.roundcube.net/


Unfortunately after a nice release back in Feb the project is  
looking like it's dead in the water.


What makes you say that? The changelog seems to suggest activity.
http://trac.roundcube.net/trac.cgi/wiki/Changelog

Roundcube is a little feature short to be a full webmail system for  
real users though it's passable if you just need a web interface to  
get to your mail on occasion.


God, is the drag & drop slick, tho'!
(or maybe I'm just an old-feller who never tried the latest Yahoo /  
Gmail offerings on a supported browser)


Since I use a real mail client most of the time Roundcube seems ideal  
for me. From the demo on their site I'm quite impressed - it seems  
very fast, although I find double-clicking to open a message in a web- 
browser a little non-intuitive. I would love it if they gave a  
preview of the message if you clicked on its subject in the message  
list.


Like Jamie I find Squirrelmail a little slow.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Best webmail

[Tibor Liktor]

Hi Stroller, 
 
I agree you, the Roundcube lives and happy. We are going to change the current Squirrelmail to Roundcube, as soon as we finish the localization. Every function seem properly working during the tests.
 
Best,
Tibor 
On 6/27/06, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 26 Jun 2006, at 21:54, kashani wrote:> Tibor Liktor wrote:>> roundcube?>>  
http://www.roundcube.net/>> Unfortunately after a nice release back in Feb the project is> looking like it's dead in the water.What makes you say that? The changelog seems to suggest activity.
http://trac.roundcube.net/trac.cgi/wiki/Changelog> Roundcube is a little feature short to be a full webmail system for> real users though it's passable if you just need a web interface to
> get to your mail on occasion.God, is the drag & drop slick, tho'!(or maybe I'm just an old-feller who never tried the latest Yahoo /Gmail offerings on a supported browser)Since I use a real mail client most of the time Roundcube seems ideal
for me. From the demo on their site I'm quite impressed - it seemsvery fast, although I find double-clicking to open a message in a web-browser a little non-intuitive. I would love it if they gave apreview of the message if you clicked on its subject in the message
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