[gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers stopped working
A few days ago I ran my updates and nvidia-settings was updated to 1.0.20070302 All was good until last night. I openen konqueror to browse my home dir and I got a mime-type error and no files displayed. Trying to do konqueror /home/ernie gave me errors that I can't quote but mime types was mentioned again. Assuming that something was just hung up I did top which showed X using 95% cpu Killing java_vm, firefox, kmail and any suspected cpu hogs had no effect so I killed X and attempted to restart it. I got the dreaded "no screens found" error. Nothing in the logs was any more enlightening and a look at xorg.conf showed no recent changes that I could identify. I changed my driver in xorg.conf to "nv" from "nvidia" and X runs, slow as hell but it runs. nvidia-drivers is currently at 100.14.09. I need advice getting this straight. Is there a file where nvidia-settings keeps config data other than xorg.conf? should I update to the masked nvidia-drivers-100.14.11 ? -- Regards, Ernie -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers stopped working
On Sunday 05 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Volker Armin Hemmann to write: > On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > A few days ago I ran my updates and nvidia-settings was updated to > > 1.0.20070302 All was good until last night. I openen konqueror to browse > > my home dir and I got a mime-type error and no files displayed. Trying to > > do konqueror /home/ernie gave me errors that I can't quote but mime types > > was mentioned again. Assuming that something was just hung up I did top > > which showed X using 95% cpu Killing java_vm, firefox, kmail and any > > suspected cpu hogs had no effect so I killed X and attempted to restart > > it. > > 'suspected'? ps aux, and/or (h)top should show you the hog. only "X" showed high cpu usage. No associated apps were above what I'm used to seeing. > > > nvidia-drivers is currently at 100.14.09. I need advice getting this > > straight. Is there a file where nvidia-settings keeps config > > ~/.nvidia-settings-rc showed the file was generated back in 2004 and hasn't been modified since 7/2/04 > > > data other > > than xorg.conf? should I update to the masked nvidia-drivers-100.14.11 ? > > yes. NO! The newer drivers build but warn of MTRR support lacking on my card. Funny I thought that it was there. It's a gforce4 ti 4200. I had to revert to nvidia-drivers-1.0.9639. I guess the drivers got updated in a previous update and I missed the warnings. Funny it worked for over a week. Thanks for the help. -- Regards, Ernie -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers stopped working
On Sunday 05 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Volker Armin Hemmann to write: > On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > On Sunday 05 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Volker Armin Hemmann to > > > > write: > > > On Sonntag, 5. August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > > A few days ago I ran my updates and nvidia-settings was updated to > > > > 1.0.20070302 All was good until last night. I openen konqueror to > > > > browse my home dir and I got a mime-type error and no files > > > > displayed. Trying to do konqueror /home/ernie gave me errors that I > > > > can't quote but mime types was mentioned again. Assuming that > > > > something was just hung up I did top which showed X using 95% cpu > > > > Killing java_vm, firefox, kmail and any suspected cpu hogs had no > > > > effect so I killed X and attempted to restart it. > > > > > > 'suspected'? ps aux, and/or (h)top should show you the hog. > > > > only "X" showed high cpu usage. No associated apps were above what I'm > > used to seeing. > > > > > > nvidia-drivers is currently at 100.14.09. I need advice getting this > > > > straight. Is there a file where nvidia-settings keeps config > > > > > > ~/.nvidia-settings-rc > > > > showed the file was generated back in 2004 and hasn't been modified since > > 7/2/04 > > so what? maybe the latest nvidia-settings does not like the old file? You > can just move it someone and try... > > > > > data other > > > > than xorg.conf? should I update to the masked > > > > nvidia-drivers-100.14.11 ? > > > > > > yes. > > > > NO! The newer drivers build but warn of MTRR support lacking on my card. > > and you have checked that you have mtrr support in the kernel? first thing > > > Funny I thought that it was there. It's a gforce4 ti 4200. > > I had to revert to nvidia-drivers-1.0.9639. I guess the drivers got > > updated in a previous update and I missed the warnings. Funny it worked > > for over a week. > > emm, you might want to look up about 'legacy drivers' and 'supported > cards'. There you go. For my card I have to stick with the 1.0.96xx series drivers. might be time to look at building a new box. -- Regards, Ernie -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] blocking package isn't really there.
I'm trying to emerge kino and show a block by ffmpeg so I # emerge -C ffmpeg and try again and the block is still there. I try calling the package with the version # specified in the block message which tells me that there's no such package. OK so I try to emerge -au ffmpeg which brings in (as new) ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070616-r1 Then: # emerge -p kino These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] media-libs/libdv-1.0.0-r2 USE="sdl xv -debug" [ebuild N] media-libs/libiec61883-1.1.0 USE="-examples" [ebuild N] media-video/dvdauthor-0.6.11 [ebuild N] media-sound/rawrec-0.9.98 [ebuild N] media-video/kino-1.0.0 USE="alsa dvdr quicktime vorbis -gpac -sox" [blocks B ] >media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070525 (is blocking media-video/kino-1.0.0) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo emerge -C ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070525 --- Couldn't find 'ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070525' to unmerge. >>> No packages selected for removal by unmerge I think I have seen this kind of problem before but I'm at a loss as to how to handle it. Google has been less than helpful. Ideas? -- Regards, Ernie -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package isn't really there.
On Wednesday 22 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: > Hello Ernie Schroder, > > > [blocks B ] >media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070525 (is blocking > > media-video/kino-1.0.0) > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo emerge -C ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070525 > > > > --- Couldn't find 'ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070525' to unmerge. > > The message that >media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070525 is blocking kino, > the > is significant and you probably have a later version that the > minimum blocking version in the message. unmerge ffmpeg and kino should > pull in a suitable version to replace it. However, you may then hit the > upgrade/downgrade cycle as subsequent emerge worlds want to upgrade > ffmpeg again. > > A longer term fix is to emerge kino 1.1.0, which is currently in testing, > with > echo '~media-video/kino-1.1.0' >>/etc/portage/package.keywords I've been there, done that Niel. Just to satisfy curiosity and to have code to post, I removed the ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070616-r again and did: emerge -p kino These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070616-r1 USE="X encode mmx ogg oss sdl truetype vorbis zlib -a52 -aac (-altivec) -amr -debug -doc -ieee1394 -imlib -network -test -theora -threads -v4l -x264 -xvid" [ebuild N] media-libs/libdv-1.0.0-r2 USE="sdl xv -debug" [ebuild N] media-libs/libiec61883-1.1.0 USE="-examples" [ebuild N] media-video/dvdauthor-0.6.11 [ebuild N] media-sound/rawrec-0.9.98 [ebuild N] media-video/kino-1.0.0 USE="alsa dvdr quicktime vorbis -gpac -sox" [blocks B ] >media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070525 (is blocking media-video/kino-1.0.0) Like you said, kino wants a later vervion than -0.4.9_p20070525 so it tries to pull ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070616-r but the block persists. If I can't solve this soon I'll try the masked kino. -- Regards, Ernie -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package isn't really there.
On Wednesday 22 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled James Ausmus to write: > emerge -ptv kino nothing that helps me here that I see $ emerge -ptv kino These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] media-video/kino-1.0.0 USE="alsa dvdr quicktime vorbis -gpac -sox" 5,301 kB [ebuild N] media-sound/rawrec-0.9.98 60 kB [ebuild N] media-video/dvdauthor-0.6.11 282 kB [ebuild N] media-libs/libiec61883-1.1.0 USE="-examples" 359 kB [ebuild N] media-libs/libdv-1.0.0-r2 USE="sdl xv -debug" 571 kB [ebuild N] media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070616-r1 USE="X encode mmx ogg oss sdl truetype vorbis zlib -a52 -aac (-altivec) -amr -debug -doc -ieee1394 -imlib -network -test -theora -threads -v4l -x264 -xvid" 0 kB [blocks B ] >media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070525 (is blocking media-video/kino-1.0.0) Total: 6 packages (6 new, 1 block), Size of downloads: 6,571 kB -- Regards, Ernie -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package isn't really there.
On Wednesday 22 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: > On Wednesday 22 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled James Ausmus to write: > > emerge -ptv kino > > nothing that helps me here that I see > $ emerge -ptv kino > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild N] media-video/kino-1.0.0 USE="alsa dvdr quicktime > vorbis -gpac -sox" 5,301 kB > [ebuild N] media-sound/rawrec-0.9.98 60 kB > [ebuild N] media-video/dvdauthor-0.6.11 282 kB > [ebuild N] media-libs/libiec61883-1.1.0 USE="-examples" 359 kB > [ebuild N] media-libs/libdv-1.0.0-r2 USE="sdl xv -debug" 571 kB > [ebuild N] media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070616-r1 USE="X encode mmx > ogg oss sdl truetype vorbis zlib -a52 -aac > (-altivec) -amr -debug -doc -ieee1394 -imlib -network -test -theora > -threads -v4l -x264 -xvid" 0 kB > [blocks B ] >media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070525 (is blocking > media-video/kino-1.0.0) > > Total: 6 packages (6 new, 1 block), Size of downloads: 6,571 kB > > > -- > Regards, Ernie So exactly how do I convince portage that the blocking ffmpeg is NOT installed -- Regards, Ernie -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package isn't really there.
On Wednesday 22 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Bo Ørsted Andresen to write: > On Thursday 23 August 2007 00:47:23 Ernie Schroder wrote: > > [blocks B ] >media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070525 (is blocking > > media-video/kino-1.0.0) > > > > Like you said, kino wants a later vervion than -0.4.9_p20070525 so it > > tries to pull ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070616-r but the block persists. > > Mmm.. nope.. That's neither correct nor is it what Neil said. Kino 1.1.0 > wants an earlier version of ffmpeg and hence later versions block it. To be > exact it needs a version between 0.4.9_p20061016 and 0.4.9_p20070525 (both > included). > 1.1.0 OK I'll assume that you mean, in this case 1.0.0 What you say makes a certain amount of sense, but emerging 1.0.0 WANTS ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070616-r and it appears to me that portage thinks 0.4.9_p20070525 is installed. If my perception is wrong here, one would think that portage would give the right info rather than trying to emerge an even later version than it needs for kino-1.0.0 > > If I can't solve this soon I'll try the masked kino. I'm resisting the urge to do this, at least until I fully understand what is happening here. > > Kino 1.1.0 on the other hand is satisfied by any version later than > 0.4.9_p20061016. Not so. # emerge -p kino These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070616-r1 USE="X encode mmx ogg oss sdl truetype vorbis zlib -a52 -aac (-altivec) -amr -debug -doc -ieee1394 -imlib -network -test -theora -threads -v4l -x264 -xvid" [ebuild N] media-libs/libdv-1.0.0-r2 USE="sdl xv -debug" [ebuild N] media-libs/libiec61883-1.1.0 USE="-examples" [ebuild N] media-video/dvdauthor-0.6.11 [ebuild N] media-sound/rawrec-0.9.98 [ebuild N] media-video/kino-1.1.0 USE="alsa dvdr quicktime vorbis -gpac -sox" -- Regards, Ernie -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package isn't really there.
On Thursday 23 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Abraham Marín Pérez to write: > Ernie Schroder escribió: > > On Wednesday 22 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: > >> On Wednesday 22 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled James Ausmus to write: > >>> emerge -ptv kino > >> > >> nothing that helps me here that I see > >> $ emerge -ptv kino > >> > >> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > >> > >> Calculating dependencies... done! > >> [ebuild N] media-video/kino-1.0.0 USE="alsa dvdr quicktime > >> vorbis -gpac -sox" 5,301 kB > >> [ebuild N] media-sound/rawrec-0.9.98 60 kB > >> [ebuild N] media-video/dvdauthor-0.6.11 282 kB > >> [ebuild N] media-libs/libiec61883-1.1.0 USE="-examples" 359 kB > >> [ebuild N] media-libs/libdv-1.0.0-r2 USE="sdl xv -debug" 571 kB > >> [ebuild N] media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070616-r1 USE="X encode > >> mmx ogg oss sdl truetype vorbis zlib -a52 -aac > >> (-altivec) -amr -debug -doc -ieee1394 -imlib -network -test -theora > >> -threads -v4l -x264 -xvid" 0 kB > >> [blocks B ] >media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070525 (is blocking > >> media-video/kino-1.0.0) > >> > >> Total: 6 packages (6 new, 1 block), Size of downloads: 6,571 kB > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Regards, Ernie > > > > So exactly how do I convince portage that the blocking ffmpeg is NOT > > installed > > Taking a look at the ebuild I saw this in the DEPEND list: > >=media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20061016 > > !>media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070525 > > Portage seems to look for a version later than 0.4.9_p20061016 in order > to satisfy the first condition and finds 0.4.9_p20070616-r1; however, > then it sees version must not be older than 0.4.9_p20070525 and it > > fails... simply add the following line to /etc/portage/packages.mask: > >media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070525 Very nice work there Abraham! > > and you'll be able to install kino-1.0.0 with no problem. > > What I wonder now is, shouldn't Portage itself have detected this issue > and choose a version between 0.4.9_p20061016 and 0.4.9_p20070525? Would > this be a Portage bug? maybe portage is dyslexic, like me and recognised 0.4.9_p20061016 as 0.4.9_p20070616. One would think it's either a bug or a syntax problem in the ebuild. Thanks for your detective work! > > Abraham -- Regards, Ernie -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: E17 and .ICEauthority
I have installed E17 and it's very cool, especially with composite. I am running into a problem though. When running KDE apps, from time to time, I have to remove ~/.ICEauthority to get them to start. Is this something I'll have to live with? Or, is there a fix? -- Regards, Ernie -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: E17 and .ICEauthority
On Wednesday 29 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Alan McKinnon to write: > On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > I have installed E17 and it's very cool, especially with composite. I > > am running into a problem though. When running KDE apps, from time to > > time, I have to remove ~/.ICEauthority to get them to start. Is this > > something I'll have to live with? Or, is there a fix? > > Which apps do this, and are there any errors printed? > > I too run e17 and often find konqueror and kontact just hang there and > do nothing. Lately kopete is doing the same. So far I haven't found an > actual reason for this and have been resorting to the drastic step > of 'killall dcopserver' to "fix" it. > > alan > > -- > Optimists say the glass is half full, > Pessimists say the glass is half empty, > Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? > > Alan McKinnon > alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za > +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five kmail is the most common offender but kedit has done it too, I believe. -- Regards, Ernie -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: E17 and .ICEauthority
On Wednesday 29 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled sean to write: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Ernie Schroder wrote: > >> I have installed E17 and it's very cool, especially with composite. I > >> am running into a problem though. When running KDE apps, from time to > >> time, I have to remove ~/.ICEauthority to get them to start. Is this > >> something I'll have to live with? Or, is there a fix? > > > > Which apps do this, and are there any errors printed? > > > > I too run e17 and often find konqueror and kontact just hang there and > > do nothing. Lately kopete is doing the same. So far I haven't found an > > actual reason for this and have been resorting to the drastic step > > of 'killall dcopserver' to "fix" it. > > > > alan > > I found that composite being enabled in Xorg was the cause of Xine > hanging for me, much like you describe. > I removed it and now Xine works great. > > Sean This was happening even before I added composite, though perhaps more frequently now -- Regards, Ernie -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] flash sound?
esearch netscape-flash [ Results for search key : netscape-flash ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * net-www/netscape-flash Latest version available: 9.0.31.0 Latest version installed: 9.0.31.0 # chown root:audio /dev/dsp # ls -la /dev/dsp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 21 02:09 /dev/dsp -> sound/dsp OK still should work then, but I get that anoying message about permissions when I start X and I can play mp3's with mplayer, I get no sound from .swf's as user. (I do as root) # ls -la /dev/sound total 0 drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel160 Mar 21 02:09 . drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 13660 Mar 22 14:34 .. crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 12 Mar 21 02:09 adsp crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 4 Mar 21 02:09 audio crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 21 02:09 dsp crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 0 Mar 21 02:09 mixer crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 1 Mar 21 02:09 sequencer crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 8 Mar 21 02:09 sequencer2 # cat /etc/group | grep audio audio::18:ernie,me,asleep OK I'm in the audio group (and wheel) What's going on? I'm using OSS -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] flash sound?
On Thursday 22 March 2007, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: > esearch netscape-flash > [ Results for search key : netscape-flash ] > [ Applications found : 1 ] > > * net-www/netscape-flash > Latest version available: 9.0.31.0 > Latest version installed: 9.0.31.0 > > # chown root:audio /dev/dsp > # ls -la /dev/dsp > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 21 02:09 /dev/dsp -> sound/dsp > > OK still should work then, but I get that anoying message about permissions > when I start X and I can play mp3's with mplayer, I get no sound from > .swf's as user. (I do as root) > > # ls -la /dev/sound > total 0 > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel160 Mar 21 02:09 . > drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 13660 Mar 22 14:34 .. > crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 12 Mar 21 02:09 adsp > crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 4 Mar 21 02:09 audio > crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 21 02:09 dsp > crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 0 Mar 21 02:09 mixer > crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 1 Mar 21 02:09 sequencer > crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 8 Mar 21 02:09 sequencer2 > # cat /etc/group | grep audio > audio::18:ernie,me,asleep > > OK I'm in the audio group (and wheel) > > What's going on? I'm using OSS OK now I see that flash 9 doesn't work with OSS. My ALSA hasn't worked since the nforce sound drivers were removed from portage. Can someone please point me to a source of info. > -- > Regards, Ernie -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] flash sound?
On Thursday 22 March 2007, a tiny voice compelled Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman to write: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > > OK now I see that flash 9 doesn't work with OSS. My ALSA hasn't worked > > since the nforce sound drivers were removed from portage. Can someone > > please point me to a source of info. > > Hey, I have an nForce onboard card and it works like a charm... > > Just enable: Intel/SiS/nVidia/AMD/ALi AC97 Controller as module under > Device Drivers -> Sound -> ALSA -> PCI devices Yes, this is built in (not as module) > > might require something else... but just a hint. > > And with Flash audio. > > -- > Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad > Informatica Foros GNU/Buanzo: Respeto, Soluciones y Buena Onda: > http://foros.buanzo.com.ar Consulting and Secure Mail Hosting: > http://www.buanzo.com.ar/pro/ I would believe that my kernel is OK because flash has sound as root. It's either a problem with firefox finding the plugin at /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so or /home/ernie/.netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so or /home/ernie/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so OR a permission problem -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] flash sound?
On Thursday 22 March 2007, a tiny voice compelled Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman to write: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > > OR a permission problem > > Then use "id". Check out to which groups the "ernie" user belongs to. Then > check out with ls -l /dev/any/sound/device and see what happens. > > Usually users should be in the "audio" group. > > -- > Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad > Informatica Foros GNU/Buanzo: Respeto, Soluciones y Buena Onda: > http://foros.buanzo.com.ar Consulting and Secure Mail Hosting: > http://www.buanzo.com.ar/pro/ $ ls -al /dev/sound/ total 0 drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel160 Mar 21 02:09 . drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 13660 Mar 22 19:19 .. crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 12 Mar 21 02:09 adsp crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 4 Mar 21 02:09 audio crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 21 02:09 dsp crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 0 Mar 21 02:09 mixer crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 1 Mar 21 02:09 sequencer crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 8 Mar 21 02:09 sequencer2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /dev/dsp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 21 02:09 /dev/dsp -> sound/dsp [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ id uid=1000(ernie) gid=100(users) groups=10(wheel),12(mail),16(cron),18(audio),35 (games),100(users),250(portage),440(scanner),500(webmaster) I'm confused. As you can see I've been playing with permissions and haven't cleaned everything up BUT, I can't see why user "ernie" can't play audio in .swf files. It looks to me that firefox isn't looking in the right places for the plug-in. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] flash sound?
This is getting very frustrating. As I've said, sound works as user "ernie" in all apps except flash.I have sound in flash as root, so the plugin is there. # find / libflashplayer* 2> /dev/null | grep libflashplayer /home/ernie/Desktop/install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so /home/ernie/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /home/ernie/.netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so # ls -l /home/ernie/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 ernie users 7040080 Mar 23 22:02 /home/ernie/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so I have device permissions set up properly unless libflashplayer.so uses some device I don't know about. /dev/sound/* are all root:audio and "ernie" is in the audio group. I guess this is obvious because all other audio apps work fine as "ernie". I've been racking my brain and searching for info, but I can't get this working. Please, someone help me out here. On Thursday 22 March 2007, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: > On Thursday 22 March 2007, a tiny voice compelled Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman > to > > write: > > Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > OR a permission problem > > > > Then use "id". Check out to which groups the "ernie" user belongs to. > > Then check out with ls -l /dev/any/sound/device and see what happens. > > > > Usually users should be in the "audio" group. > > > > -- > > Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad > > Informatica Foros GNU/Buanzo: Respeto, Soluciones y Buena Onda: > > http://foros.buanzo.com.ar Consulting and Secure Mail Hosting: > > http://www.buanzo.com.ar/pro/ > > $ ls -al /dev/sound/ > total 0 > drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel160 Mar 21 02:09 . > drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 13660 Mar 22 19:19 .. > crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 12 Mar 21 02:09 adsp > crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 4 Mar 21 02:09 audio > crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 21 02:09 dsp > crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 0 Mar 21 02:09 mixer > crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 1 Mar 21 02:09 sequencer > crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 8 Mar 21 02:09 sequencer2 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /dev/dsp > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 21 02:09 /dev/dsp -> sound/dsp > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ id > uid=1000(ernie) gid=100(users) > groups=10(wheel),12(mail),16(cron),18(audio),35 > (games),100(users),250(portage),440(scanner),500(webmaster) > > > I'm confused. As you can see I've been playing with permissions and haven't > cleaned everything up BUT, I can't see why user "ernie" can't play audio > in .swf files. It looks to me that firefox isn't looking in the right > places for the plug-in. > -- > Regards, Ernie -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] VLC
I merged vlc using the flags suggested in the gentoo documentation. When I started the merge, I got an unknown atom warning for wxwindows but went ahead with the install. I've got no GUI, though I can run it from the command line. There doesn't seem to be any hot keys. I did some digging and found a reference to wxwindows being changed to wxWidgets temporarily. See line 113 http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/alt/changeset/7045 Emerge -av vlc shows nothing like wxWidgets in the list of flags, but I didn't get the atom warning about it. Is this change permanent? Still in effect? The merge is running now. Hopefully I'll get a GUI. Any thoughts? -- Regards, Ernie -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VLC
Mia culpa. It looks like there was a problem in my package.use file. I had copied the flage for vlc from an article and got a carriage return in there. I'm building vlc for the 3rd time this should do it. On Wednesday 27 June 2007, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: > I merged vlc using the flags suggested in the gentoo documentation. When I > started the merge, I got an unknown atom warning for wxwindows but went > ahead with the install. I've got no GUI, though I can run it from the > command line. There doesn't seem to be any hot keys. I did some digging and > found a reference to wxwindows being changed to wxWidgets temporarily. See > line 113 http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/alt/changeset/7045 > Emerge -av vlc shows nothing like wxWidgets in the list of flags, but I > didn't get the atom warning about it. Is this change permanent? Still in > effect? The merge is running now. Hopefully I'll get a GUI. Any thoughts? > -- > Regards, Ernie -- Regards, Ernie -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: Can't load pictures from forum
Not Gentoo specific but apparently specific to Linux. I belong to several motorcycle forums and since a site upgrade on one of them a while back, clicking on posted thumbnails opens a new window with the .jpg code instead of the larger picture. It is only this one site that does this and it does the same thing in firefox, opera and konqueror. Below is the link from a right click on a thumbnail. Does the code look strange? I'm not a php guy and can't figure it out. http://www.harleyshoptalk.org/forums/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=8197 -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Can't load pictures from forum
On Sunday 01 October 2006 16:18, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: > On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 04:00:34 -0400, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > http://www.harleyshoptalk.org/forums/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=81 > >97 > > The server is sending this with a "Content-Type: text/html" header. Mail > the server admin and tell him to fix it. Neil, Should it read: "Content-Type: html"? or is that comment unneccessary? -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] mail test
It would seem that thunderbird is working, but kmail sending is still messed up. Remerge kdelibs kdepim kdenetwork perhaps? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mail test
Rumen Yotov wrote: On (03/01/06 13:29), Ernie Schroder wrote: It would seem that thunderbird is working, but kmail sending is still messed up. Remerge kdelibs kdepim kdenetwork perhaps? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Hi, Have you run "revdep-rebuild -pv" to check if there are any apps to re-emerge? e.x. today had to re-emerge 12-15 packages due to a new version of "dbus". Compare the server etc. setting 'TB vs Kmail'. HTH.Rumen Yes, I've run revdep-rebuild several times. Other than some garbage due to openoffice-bin, all is good now. I'm thinking now that somethings were built out of order and I'm now running: # emerge -eD kdepim There are 146 packages in this run so it will take a while to know id this helps. Settings are the same in kmail as in TB. Just to make sure, I deleted both of my accounts on kmail and recreated them. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Vi
John Jolet wrote: On Jan 3, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Shawn Singh wrote: Hey all, When trying to emerge vi, emerge fails on step 1 of 3 because it cannot find vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Here is a snippet from the last bit of the run of emerge: 09:55:37 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Aborting. try an emerge --sync. I've been getting the same results for the past week and a half. Any suggestions? Thanks, Shawn Singh From time to time, I find packages that I can't d'load from the site named in the ebuild. What I do in that case, is to google the package and dload it from another source. I then move it to /usr/portage/distfiles. Then a normal emerge will run. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Vi
Ernie Schroder wrote: John Jolet wrote: On Jan 3, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Shawn Singh wrote: Hey all, When trying to emerge vi, emerge fails on step 1 of 3 because it cannot find vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Here is a snippet from the last bit of the run of emerge: 09:55:37 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Aborting. try an emerge --sync. I've been getting the same results for the past week and a half. Any suggestions? Thanks, Shawn Singh From time to time, I find packages that I can't d'load from the site named in the ebuild. What I do in that case, is to google the package and dload it from another source. I then move it to /usr/portage/distfiles. Then a normal emerge will run. here is a source for it: http://cvsup.de.openbsd.org/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail
This is just too wierd! I've done all the maintainance steps everyone has suggested, probably several times by now, but kmail still refuses to send email. The good news is Thunderbird is working. Being a creature of habit, I want to get kmail working. Last night I did: # emerge -eD kdepim thinking that this would bring all dependancies in the correct order and I would wake up able to use kmail. No such luck. The only change I've seen so far is kmail has gone back to crashing when deleting failed emails from the outbox. Below is the backtrace from the KDE crash handeler, followed by the Konsole output. Note that the Konsole output complains (when I deleted the failed mail) kio (KDirWatch): WARNING: KDirWatch::removeDir can't handle '/etc/samba/smb.conf' kio (KDirWatch): WARNING: KDirWatch::removeDir can't handle '/etc/security/fileshare.conf' Wy would kmail want to remove smb.conf and fileshare.conf? My thanks to all who have offered suggestions, I really appreciate the effort. (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (no debugging symbols found) `system-supplied DSO at 0xe000' has disappeared; keeping its symbols. (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1249028432 (LWP 16621)] [New Thread -1276220496 (LWP 16625)] [New Thread -1267827792 (LWP 16624)] [New Thread -1259435088 (LWP 16623)] [New Thread -1251042384 (LWP 16622)] [KCrash handler] #4 0xb7ba3cea in KMMessage::setTransferInProgress () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkmailprivate.so #5 0xb7cb8628 in KMSender::slotIdle () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkmailprivate.so #6 0xb7cb88ab in KMSender::qt_invoke () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkmailprivate.so #7 0xb609ec64 in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #8 0xb609f382 in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #9 0xb7cb45f9 in KMSendProc::idle () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkmailprivate.so #10 0xb7cb46da in KMSendSMTP::abort () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkmailprivate.so #11 0xb7cb40ee in KMSendSMTP::slaveError () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkmailprivate.so #12 0xb7cb56c0 in KMSendSMTP::qt_invoke () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkmailprivate.so #13 0xb609ebed in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #14 0xb6c8e327 in KIO::Scheduler::slaveError () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkio.so.4 #15 0xb6c8fa14 in KIO::Scheduler::slotSlaveError () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkio.so.4 #16 0xb6c92fff in KIO::Scheduler::qt_invoke () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkio.so.4 #17 0xb609ec64 in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #18 0xb6c88a3c in KIO::SlaveInterface::error () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkio.so.4 #19 0xb6c8b3a4 in KIO::SlaveInterface::dispatch () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkio.so.4 #20 0xb6c8a033 in KIO::SlaveInterface::dispatch () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkio.so.4 #21 0xb6c85fdb in KIO::Slave::gotInput () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkio.so.4 #22 0xb6c86388 in KIO::Slave::qt_invoke () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkio.so.4 #23 0xb609ec64 in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #24 0xb609f22a in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #25 0xb63f2010 in QSocketNotifier::activated () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #26 0xb60bb7ef in QSocketNotifier::event () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #27 0xb603c01f in QApplication::internalNotify () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #28 0xb603c1bc in QApplication::notify () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #29 0xb66b6926 in KApplication::notify () from /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #30 0xb602f8f3 in QEventLoop::activateSocketNotifiers () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #31 0xb5fe88f1 in QEventLoop::processEvents () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #32 0xb6052720 in QEventLoop::enterLoop () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #33 0xb6052676 in QEventLoop::exec () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #34 0xb603b1cf in QApplication::exec () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #35 0x0804a477 in ?? () #36 0xbfe6fb10 in ?? () #37 0xbfe6fa20 in ?? () #38 0x in ?? () From the konsole: kmail WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 1) suspended. WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 2) suspended. WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 3) suspended. WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 4) suspended. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x83ba700 ): KAccel object already contains an action name "delete" kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x83ba700 ): KAccel object already contains an action name "edit" kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x83ba700 ): KAccel object already contains an action name "display_message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ASSER
Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens if you do emerge -uD kdepim -p. this shouldn't be more comprehenve than emerge -eD kdepim Have you tried emerge kdemail? I take it you mean kmail? Yes, I've unmerged kdepim and merged kmail and it's dependancies -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail SOLVED
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 12:19, a tiny voice compelled [EMAIL PROTECTED] to write: > Yes, you are right - I've been working with Windows all morning so my brain > was dead . > > I figured you had but thought I'd ask. > > > From: Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 2006/01/04 Wed AM 10:58:02 EST > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >What happens if you do emerge -uD kdepim -p. > just for the hell of it, I synced and ran emerge -uD world. This brought in xemacs-base, festival (which failed until I remerged speech-tools and it ran) poppler-bindings and transcode. Kmail still failed. I logged into konsole as root and set up a brand new kmail profile using only one of my 2 email accounts. Kmail actually sent and email. I then closed root's kmail and opened as user. I deleted all profiles and account information and started fresh using the same address as I used for root. IT WORKED!! I then recreated my ntplx account. ALL IS WELL. I'll be damned If I know why but kmail seems (at least so far) to be fixed. Thanks to all for their patience and suggestions, even the people who told me (in a nice way) I didn't know what I was doing. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem doing an emerge -uD world on AMD64
On Thursday 05 January 2006 12:48, a tiny voice compelled Jamie to write: > When doing an emerge -uD world on AMD64 I get the following error when > openssh-4.2_p1 is being compiled: > > checking for dlopen in -ldl... no > checking for pam_set_item in -lpam... no > configure: error: *** libpam missing > > !!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report: > !!! /var/tmp/portage/openssh-4.2_p1/work/openssh-4.2p1/config.log > > !!! ERROR: net-misc/openssh-4.2_p1 failed. > !!! Function econf, Line 495, Exitcode 0 > !!! econf failed > !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status > message. > > I can see from this that the complaint is that libpam is missing but > what do I emerge to get libpam installed? qpkg -f /usr/lib/libpam.so sys-libs/pam * -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: KDirWatch?
I've posted to KDE-Linux, but I seem to be having problems getting mail from there so I'll ask here too. I've found this message with several apps when I close then with a CONTROL+C in konsole. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ kate QObject::disconnect: Unexpected null parameter QFile::open: No file name specified kio (KDirWatch): WARNING: KDirWatch::removeDir can't handle '/etc/samba/smb.conf' kio (KDirWatch): WARNING: KDirWatch::removeDir can't handle '/etc/security/fileshare.conf' Another nagging problem I'm seeing is with kwrite and possibly some other apps. In konsole $ kwrite works as does: $ su - # kwrite But: sudo kwrite does not. It complains like so: $ sudo kwrite sudo: kwrite: command not found Problems started after removing old versions of KDE (3.1-3.4) from my machine. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail SOLVED
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 15:01, a tiny voice compelled [EMAIL PROTECTED] to write: > Glad to hear it's fixed! Something must have been messed up in the > profiles. > It's possible, though I don't think so. I believe I had deleted and recreated the profiles and accounts previously. I would be interesting to find what caused the problems in the first place. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update
On Sunday 08 January 2006 03:23, a tiny voice compelled Trenton Adams to write: > Well, could be many things. I've found fear of computers to be one > blocker to being better at computers than one can be. Having fear > creates a mind block. Why would someone with a fear of computers even consider Gentoo? -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update
On Monday 09 January 2006 02:07, a tiny voice compelled Abhay Kedia to write: > On Monday 09 January 2006 02:28, Trenton Adams wrote: > > Who says they know they have a fear of computers? You can be doing > > something that you don't even know you're afraid of. Obviously if it > > was total fear, they would know about it. > > LOL!!! Unknown fear? I have heard about "Fear of unknown" but this one is > new. I agree Abhay. I read the above and was speachless. I'm afraid of heights and I damned sure know what is causing my heart to race when I'm climbimg back onto the ladder after working on my roof. I seems to me that one could have an unknown fear of computers if they had never been exposed to one. Such a person wouldn't likely be installing Gentoo. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] USB scanner (Canon LiDE 25) only recognized as root
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 06:51, a tiny voice compelled Christian Floeter to
write:
> Richard Fish wrote:
> > On 1/9/06, Christian Floeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>BTW, sane-find-scanner always finds my scanner, it's scanimage that
> >> doesn't.
> >
> > Ok, sounds like a sane configuration or installation issue, not really
> > a system problem. Let's try something with scanimage:
> >
> > strace -f -e open scanimage -L 2>&1 | grep -e lib -e /etc -e
> > /proc/bus/usb
>
> Problem solved! :)
>
> strace listed the following line:
>
> open("/var/lib/lock/sane/LCK..libusb:004:016", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL,
> 0644) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
>
> I found that /var/lib/lock had permissions 660, so I changed it to 775
> and the scanner was correctly found as user. Surely something the ebuild
> should have done for me... :-/
>
> Thanks Richard for your help. strace really is a tool worth remembering
> for.
>
> While we're here, I have to say that I'm still not that lucky with my
> LiDE 25 scanner. When scanning under Linux, the output shows vertical
> stripes, whereas under Windoze the output is faultless. Can something be
> done about it? What about other LiDE's out there?
>
> C.
Christian,
Give the archives here a try, or join and ask. ane-devel is an active, very
informed group and you'll get all the help you need there.
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel
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Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way
On Thursday 12 January 2006 05:14, a tiny voice compelled Uwe Thiem to write: > It's hardware, alright. And I could just confirm with the manufacturers > that there, indeed, were two bugs in those thin clients. > some penicillin should take care of that -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] after update, eth0 won't work
On Thursday 12 January 2006 08:44, a tiny voice compelled Alan E. Davis to
write:
> I did a# emerge -uDv world on a ~x86 box. Seems like something
> has happened to networking.
>
> lo is not configuring properly
> eth0 is not configuring properly.
>
> I sense there are problems with dbus and maybe hal.
>
> The following is received
>
> # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start
>* Starting eth0
>*Bringing up eth0
>* "10.20.20.5"
>* No loaded modules provide ""10.10.10.5"" ("10.10.10.5"_start)
>
> I had started the update last night; this evening I tried to do some
> networking, with no result.
>
> Can someone suggest an idea of what is going on?
>
> Thank you again,
check /etc/conf.d/net My bet is that you did # etc-update and borked it
somehow
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A New Linux Way
On Saturday 14 January 2006 00:38, a tiny voice compelled Mark Shields to write: > Can we let this thread die? Please? I'm with you, but I fear it will come back around Easter. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O
On Saturday 14 January 2006 04:55, a tiny voice compelled Dale to write: > Something fishy is > going on here. I'm not sure what. > > Waiting for ideas. > >From http://exceedtech.net REMINDER: If you have not already installed the new Exceed Dialer software, then you should follow the instructions here. Otherwise, you will experience service outages and other potential problems. It would seem that they have changed something there. Maybe contacting 2nd level tech support will help solve your problem. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] getting rid of gnome
I've been trying to get rid of gnome. I have done # emerge -C gnome-icon-theme libgnomeui libbonoboui gconf after finding the first gnome packages wanted orbit, which I had already removed. Now: $ sudo emerge -uDatv world These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.10.1 -debug 0 kB [ebuild N] gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.10.1 -debug -doc +jpeg -static 0 kB [ebuild N] gnome-base/libbonoboui-2.10.1 +X -debug -doc -static 0 kB [ebuild N]gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1 -debug -doc -static 0 kB [ebuild N] gnome-base/orbit-2.12.3 -debug -doc +ssl -static 0 kB [ebuild U ] x11-terms/xterm-207 [204] -Xaw3d -doc -toolbar +truetype -unicode 727 kB Total size of downloads: 727 kB Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] How can I stop portage from wanting to update these packages? -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of gnome
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:56, a tiny voice compelled Arnau Bria Ramírez to write: > El Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:36:23 -0500 > > Ernie Schroder dijo: > > I've been trying to get rid of gnome. > > Try this: > qpkg -nc -q -I -v gnome | grep '^[a-z]' | sed 's/^/=/' | xargs emerge -p > unmerge > > I found it in forums a long time ago and it cleaned gnome from my system > perfectly. > > > I have done > > # emerge -C gnome-icon-theme libgnomeui libbonoboui gconf after finding > > the first gnome packages wanted orbit, which I had already removed. Now: > > > > $ sudo emerge -uDatv world > > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: > > > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > > [ebuild N] x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.10.1 -debug 0 kB > > [ebuild N] gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.10.1 -debug -doc +jpeg -static > > 0 kB [ebuild N] gnome-base/libbonoboui-2.10.1 +X -debug -doc > > -static 0 kB [ebuild N]gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1 -debug -doc > > -static 0 kB [ebuild N] gnome-base/orbit-2.12.3 -debug -doc > > +ssl -static 0 kB [ebuild U ] x11-terms/xterm-207 [204] -Xaw3d -doc > > -toolbar +truetype -unicode 727 kB > > > > Total size of downloads: 727 kB > > > > Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] > > > > How can I stop portage from wanting to update these packages? > > -- > Arnau Bria > > Somos una generacion de hombres criados por mujeres, me pregunto si > realmente otra mujer será la respuesta que necesitamos Well, I've tried Holly's suggestions and portage still wanted to add the gnome packages above. I tried your command and a lot of gnome packages were removed but now: $ sudo emerge -uaDtNv world These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.10.2 -accessibility -debug 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.10.1 -debug 0 kB [ebuild N] gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.2.3 -debug -doc +ipv6 -kerberos +ldap +mozilla -nntp +ssl 0 kB [ebuild N] gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.10.1 -debug -doc +jpeg -static 0 kB [ebuild N]gnome-base/gnome-keyring-0.4.4 -debug -static 0 kB [ebuild N]gnome-base/libbonoboui-2.10.1 +X -debug -doc -static 0 kB [ebuild N] gnome-base/libgnome-2.10.1-r1 -debug -doc +esd -static 0 kB [ebuild N] gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.10.2 +X -debug -doc -static 0 kB [nomerge ] media-gfx/gimp-2.2.8-r1 +aalib (-altivec) -debug -doc +gimpprint +gtkhtml -hardened +jpeg +lcms +mmx +mng +png +python -smp -sse -svg +tiff -wmf [ebuild N] gnome-extra/gtkhtml-2.6.3 -accessibility -debug 0 kB [ebuild N] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.10.1-r2 -debug -doc -gnutls -hal -howl +ipv6 +samba +ssl 0 kB [ebuild N]gnome-base/libbonobo-2.10.1 -debug -doc -static 0 kB [ebuild N]gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1 -debug -doc -static 0 kB [ebuild N]gnome-base/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2 -debug 0 kB [ebuild N]gnome-base/orbit-2.12.3 -debug -doc +ssl -static 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] This has me a bit confused. Could it be gimp compiled with some USE flag that is grabbing the gnome packages? -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] getting rid of gnome
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 14:46, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:21:19 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: > > > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > > [ebuild N] x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.10.2 -accessibility -debug 0 > > kB [ebuild N] x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.10.1 -debug 0 kB > > [ebuild N] gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.2.3 -debug -doc > > +ipv6 -kerberos +ldap +mozilla -nntp +ssl 0 kB > > It looks like you have eds in your USE flags. > > Can you post the output from "emerge --info | grep USE". # emerge --info | grep USE USE="x86 3dnow X aalib acl acpiapm adabas aim alsa apm arts audiofile avi bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dga directfb dvd eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flac flash foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm ggi gif gimpprint glut gmp gphoto gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java jikes jpeg kde lcms ldap leim libg++ libwww lua mad maildir mbox mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly oav ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl pic png python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zeo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Ahh yes eds, but not in make.conf. I had to add -eds to my use line. I looked at what wanted to be rebuilt with the newuse option and gaim was at the top of the list. I rebuilt gaim and tried again Orbit and gconf want to be added in, apparently they were needed by gdk-plugins (3 packages) I removed the 3 plugins packages and tried again. This time, the plugins and orbit and gconf wanted to be installed without any clear reason why. At this point, I've more or less resigned myself to the fact that I will have the 2 gnome packages on my box. I would like to know why though. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: getting rid of gnome
On Thursday 19 January 2006 04:38, a tiny voice compelled Edwin Kapauni to write: > I was having a very similar problem recently, and it turnes out it was > not related to useflags. Instead I was having some stupid gnome-vfs in > my world file. Good guess, but there is nothing in "world" like that. Last night I bit the bullet and allowed orbit, libglade and gconf to be remerged. This morning, I decided to be stubborn and make another attempt at removing all traces of gnome. I did: # emerge -C orbit libglade gconf && emerge --depclean -p The packages were removed and depclean found no orphans. So I did" emerge -uaDtNv world These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [nomerge ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.10 [nomerge ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.10 +alsa -debug +esd +oss [ebuild N] gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1 -debug -doc -static 0 kB [ebuild N]gnome-base/orbit-2.12.3 -debug -doc +ssl -static 0 kB [nomerge ] x11-misc/xscreensaver-4.23 -gnome -insecure-savers +jpeg -kerberos -krb4 -new-login +nls -offensive +opengl +pam -xinerama [ebuild N] gnome-base/libglade-2.5.1 -debug -doc 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] n Could this be a result of firefox-bin and openoffice-bin being built with gnome support? How would portage know that? I don't understand the gst-plugins connection either. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: getting rid of gnome
On Thursday 19 January 2006 12:39, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:30:52 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > > [nomerge ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.10 > > [nomerge ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.10 +alsa -debug +esd +oss > > [ebuild N] gnome-base/gconf-2.10.1-r1 -debug -doc -static 0 kB > > [ebuild N]gnome-base/orbit-2.12.3 -debug -doc +ssl -static 0 > > kB [nomerge ] x11-misc/xscreensaver-4.23 -gnome -insecure-savers > > +jpeg -kerberos -krb4 -new-login +nls -offensive +opengl +pam -xinerama > > [ebuild N] gnome-base/libglade-2.5.1 -debug -doc 0 kB > > > > Could this be a result of firefox-bin and openoffice-bin being built > > with gnome support? How would portage know that? I don't understand the > > gst-plugins connection either. > > gst-plugins depends on gconf, xscreensaver depends on libglade. These are > unconditional dependencies, nothing to do with USE flags. The only way to > get rid of the dependencies is the get rid of the dependent packages. > > GNOME libraries are not only used by GNOME, so you'll find them on most > desktop systems. Yeah, Thanks Neil. After some more playing, it had become pretty clear that xscreensaver was calling for libglade. I want to keep that. I had tried removing the gst-plugins and gstreamer, but an emerge -uaDntv wanted to bring them all back. I've more or less resigned myself to the fact that I'm stuck with a few gnome packages. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: getting rid of gnome
On Friday 20 January 2006 11:46, a tiny voice compelled Ryan Tandy to write: > A quick glance at my profile reveals the 'gstreamer' USE flag in > make.defaults. Be sure that you have that explicitly disabled in > make.conf before giving up. You know, I never checked that, although I found the same thing with esd which I did disable. I might play a bit more soon, but I want to keep xscreensaver so I'm going to be stuck with at least libglade. Many thanks to all that have offered advice. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?
On Friday 20 January 2006 06:40, a tiny voice compelled Kristian Poul Herkild to write: > Anthony Roy skrev: > >>I use KDE. I tried Gnome and didn't like it. Some people with > > > > Me too. I've given Gnome a try several times (the latest on a recent > > Ubuntu Live CD, and I just don't like the whole look and feel as much > > as KDE, which is great IMHO. > > > > -- > > Ant... > > I prefer Gnome, but KDE has some nice elements as well. Use what works > best for you. > > The look and feel of Gnome is what I like the most. I'm only lacking > some more advanced configuration options. > > KDE however has some nifty things, and I've considered installing it on > my own system, even though I prefer to have only one DE (well apart from > those I test, like EDE and Gnustep). > > -Kristian Poul Herkild I've tried Gnome several times. I guess what turned me off was 6 or 7 years ago when I installed it and Nautilus virtually took over my machine. Granted I was a relative noobie to Linux, but KDE seemed to be much more to my liking. Each time I've tried Gnome since, I suppose I was prejudiced against it. I'm 56. I don't want to change. I do run Windowmaker on my older/slower machine, but that box just sit's there headless most of the time, doing it's own thing. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?
On Saturday 21 January 2006 14:46, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: > PS vi and emacs are the same OH MY GOD NO! Not that again. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DVD movie playing issues
On Sunday 22 January 2006 12:35, a tiny voice compelled fire-eyes to write: > I am having problems playing DVD movies. The Movies are: > Bourne Identity > Primus - Hallucinogenetics concert > > Both of these work on my desktop system, also running gentoo with the same > USE flags in mplayer and xine. > > This is a brand new IBM Thinkpad T43, running gentoo. Can you mount and read a data CD in that drive? SCSI disk support in your kernel? $ cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep BLK_DEV_SR CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR is not set -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] any one else seeing this?
!!! Digest verification Failed: !!!/usr/portage/dev-python/pygtk/pygtk-2.8.2.ebuild !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size Going to re sync and try again. >>> Please ensure you have sync'd properly. Please try 'emerge sync' and >>> optionally examine the file(s) for corruption. A sync will fix most cases. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] any one else seeing this?
On Sunday 22 January 2006 23:01, a tiny voice compelled darren kirby to write: > quoth the Ernie Schroder: > > !!! Digest verification Failed: > > !!!/usr/portage/dev-python/pygtk/pygtk-2.8.2.ebuild > > !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size > > > > Going to re sync and try again. > > > > >>> Please ensure you have sync'd properly. Please try 'emerge sync' and > > >>> optionally examine the file(s) for corruption. A sync will fix most > > >>> cases. > > Yeah, generally this is when the distfile for a package has been upgraded, > but the ebuild in your portage tree has not. I am sure the sync will fix > the issue. > > > -- > > Regards, Ernie > > -d I resynced and still no joy Another bit of wierdness I noticed while skipping pygtk anddoing updates gtt-plugins was upgraded to version 0.8.11then downgraded to 0.8.10 then back to 0.8.11 and my 4th try wants to downgrade it again. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins version 'ping-pong'
On Monday 23 January 2006 11:33, a tiny voice compelled Beau E. Cox to write: > On Monday 23 January 2006 04:20 am, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > > Beau E. Cox wrote: > > > Hi - > > > > > > I try: > > > > > > # emerge -uD world -p > > > ... > > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > > > [ebuild U ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.11 [0.8.10] > > > > > > OK. So I do it: > > > # emerge -uD world > > > > > > [SUCCESS] > > > > > > Now I check again: > > > > > > # emerge -uD world -p > > > ... > > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > > > [ebuild UD] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.10 [0.8.11] > > > > > > ping-pong ... ;) > > > > > > Have I messed up my tree? If so, I am asking for some tips > > > on how to fix it. > > > > I've got the same problem. Upgrading downgrading upgrading > > downgrading... This time I'll just leave it downgraded. It still works > > the same. > > I don't know how to 'leave it downgraded'; I have tried to use > package.keywords in /etc/portage but have not been able to get > it right. Can you tell me how you did this, or point me to the > docs? > > > Kristian Poul Herkild > > -- > Aloha => Beau; I resynced an hour ago and did # emerge -auD world and the ping pong has stopped without any magic from me. pygtk seems to be fixed as well. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome calendar - Start on Sunday instead of Saturday?
On Monday 23 January 2006 23:20, a tiny voice compelled Mark Knecht to write: > Hi, >Title says it. My wife wants to configure this item and I cannot > find the control of it in the preferences page. Anyone know how to > make it start on Sunday instead? > > Thanks, > Mark Switch to KDE. My calender starts on Sunday by default. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] nvidia module won't load after updates
from dmesg nvidia: version magic '2.6.14-gentoo-r4 K7 gcc-3.4' should be '2.6.14-gentoo-r42.6.14-r-4_new K7 gcc-3.3' This looks like the kernel was compiled with gcc-3.3 and nvidia-kernel was compiled with gcc-3.4. Do I need to rebuild my kernel? I know I've restarted x since updating gcc on 12/6/05 $ gcc-config -c i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4 How can I find what gcc version my kernel was built with? Recent updates: pygtk-2.8.2 bluez-utils-2.22-r1 bluez-libs-2.22 gst-plugins-flac-0.8.11 gst-plugins-vorbis-0.8.11 gst-plugins-ogg-0.8.11 gst-plugins-mad-0.8.11 gtk-gnutella-0.95.4-r1 coreutils-5.2.1-r7 nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r5 -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome calendar - Start on Sunday instead of Saturday?
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 18:19, a tiny voice compelled Mark Knecht to write: > On 1/24/06, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 23 January 2006 23:20, a tiny voice compelled Mark Knecht to write: > > > Hi, > > >Title says it. My wife wants to configure this item and I cannot > > > find the control of it in the preferences page. Anyone know how to > > > make it start on Sunday instead? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Mark > > > > Switch to KDE. My calender starts on Sunday by default. > > -- > > Regards, Ernie > > That's using an atom bomb to fix a small road block, isn't it?! > ;-) Not in my opinion. I would say its more like fixing an earthquake with a 2 week cruise to Tahiti. > > Thanks! > > - Mark Sorry Mark, I couldn't resist it especially after ther recent thread. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia module won't load after updates
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 14:39, a tiny voice compelled James Ausmus to write: > On 1/24/06, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > from dmesg > > > > nvidia: version magic '2.6.14-gentoo-r4 K7 gcc-3.4' should be > > '2.6.14-gentoo-r42.6.14-r-4_new K7 gcc-3.3' > > > > This looks like the kernel was compiled with gcc-3.3 and nvidia-kernel > > was compiled with gcc-3.4. Do I need to rebuild my kernel? I know I've > > restarted x since updating gcc on 12/6/05 > > Yes, just recompile your kernel and modules, configure your bootloader > to point to the new kernel, reboot, then you should be good to go. > > HTH- > > James The point is, the machine has been rebooted a couple of times and X has been started and stopped 10 or 12 times recently without problems. I can't figure out why this has started to be a problem some 6 weeks after gcc and nvidia kernel were last updated. > > > $ gcc-config -c > > i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4 > > How can I find what gcc version my kernel was built with? > > > > > > Recent updates: > > pygtk-2.8.2 > > bluez-utils-2.22-r1 > > bluez-libs-2.22 > > gst-plugins-flac-0.8.11 > > gst-plugins-vorbis-0.8.11 > > gst-plugins-ogg-0.8.11 > > gst-plugins-mad-0.8.11 > > gtk-gnutella-0.95.4-r1 > > coreutils-5.2.1-r7 > > nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r5 > > -- > > Regards, Ernie > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 13:42, a tiny voice compelled [EMAIL PROTECTED] to write: > Recheck (I assume you've checked it already ) his network settings. He > may have a bad card. Can you setup a network trace/sniffer on your linux > box to see what happens? Also the Linksys will log some events - check > it's log setup and see how detailed you can get. > > > From: Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 2006/01/25 Wed PM 01:36:44 EST > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router. > > > > My son has a toshiba laptop running XP. When ever he plugs in his network > > cable, The router linksys goes down. I cannot ping it from my machine. > > Rebooting the router allows all machines to reach internet and LAN > > addresses for a few seconds until the router crashes again. Leaving the > > cable unplugged from his laptop allows the router to work properly. Any > > ideas? > > -- > > Regards, Ernie > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I played a bit with his laptop (damn it's a bi**h to do anything with winders) and found that "Internet Connection Sharing" was enabled. I disabled same and it seems to have done the trick. My God! I fealt like a noobie trying to fumble my way around that thing. Is there no way of restarting the network on XP? -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 14:39, a tiny voice compelled Trenton Adams to write: > You can restart the network on XP by right clicking the network > connection and clicking "repair" I believe. Hmm might work. ipconfig /release and then ipconfig /renew still seem to need a reboot, though ipconfig will show a valid IP#. I used to know winders pretty good. Of course that was 7 years ago. > > On 1/25/06, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 January 2006 13:42, a tiny voice compelled > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to write: > > > Recheck (I assume you've checked it already ) his network settings. > > > He may have a bad card. Can you setup a network trace/sniffer on your > > > linux box to see what happens? Also the Linksys will log some events - > > > check it's log setup and see how detailed you can get. > > > > > > > From: Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Date: 2006/01/25 Wed PM 01:36:44 EST > > > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > > > Subject: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router. > > > > > > > > My son has a toshiba laptop running XP. When ever he plugs in his > > > > network cable, The router linksys goes down. I cannot ping it from my > > > > machine. Rebooting the router allows all machines to reach internet > > > > and LAN addresses for a few seconds until the router crashes again. > > > > Leaving the cable unplugged from his laptop allows the router to work > > > > properly. Any ideas? > > > > -- > > > > Regards, Ernie > > > > -- > > > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > I played a bit with his laptop (damn it's a bi**h to do anything with > > winders) and found that "Internet Connection Sharing" was enabled. I > > disabled same and it seems to have done the trick. My God! I fealt like a > > noobie trying to fumble my way around that thing. Is there no way of > > restarting the network on XP? > > -- > > Regards, Ernie > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 14:52, a tiny voice compelled Phil Sexton to write: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > > Is there no way of restarting the network on > > XP? > > From the dos prompt, command: > > ipconfig /renew > > (I think) > I did a release and renew and got a valid IP from the router but I couldn't connect to the internet until I rebooted. I didn't try pinging inside or outside of the LAN so I don't know what was up. Someone know a link to a sniffer how-to? > -- > Phil > My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info > Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy > Naomi's Fancy performances: > http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config power-saving arcana; and getting acpi working.
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 19:27, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:48:55 -0800, Robert Persson wrote: > > Some while back I was trying to get power saving working fully on my > > desktop box and I found people talking about swsusp (as opposed to > > swsusp2) being part of the official kernel sources. This puzzled me > > greatly because I have never come across this option when configuring a > > kernel. In the end I resigned myself to it being just one of those > > things. > > Type / followed by susp while in make menuconfig to find it. Just > browsing the options won't necessarily find what you want, because some > only appear when others are enabled, whereas the search function shows > all matching options, and tells you what else you need to enable. Now THAT is about the most valuable tip I've ever hear of for making a kernel. I've never seen that documented before. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 10:38, a tiny voice compelled Paul to write: > Hi all, > Recently I have been having a problem with my usb mouse actions. > In kmail when deleting messages using the bin icon sometimes 2 messages > will be deleted instead of 1. > Sometimes when reading messages another instance will appear in a separate > window. > Sometimes I have to click a number of time to raise the menu. > If I exit out of a program (file exit) the program exits but the desktop > icon underneath gets activated. > It's almost like 2 clicks are happening instead of 1. > KDE is set up for single click. > This has only started happening within the last week. > > I'm sure this will turn out to be something simple and stupid that I have > done, but I just can't solve it. > Can anyone HELP please > Paul > -- > This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux Just in case you haven't checked the obvious... Have you played with the double-click mouse settings? Settings-> periferals-> mouse-> advanced? -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??(nearly resolved)
On Thursday 26 January 2006 10:44, a tiny voice compelled Paul to write: > On Thursday 26 Jan 2006 12:58, Richard Fish wrote: > > On 1/26/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am going to try a PS2 mouse at least it might help isolate the > > > problem > > > > You can also try running xev, and try some clicking in the xev window, > > which will show you want events X is generating to the clients. If > > you see something like two button down or button up events, that could > > account for your double clicking. > > I think I might have solved this problem. I have changed the xorg.conf > mouse protocol from "auto" to "PS/2". The mouse is still connected to a > USB port and now appears to work correctly. > How strange, perhaps Peter and Dale could try this and see if it solves > their problem as well. > > Ho wait my mouse wheel isn't working now - back to the drawing board > > Paul > -- > This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux I had similar problems a while back. "auto" didn't seem to assign the right protocol. My trackball wouldn't work with "IMPS/2" as it always had, nor would "auto". "ExplorerPS/2" was what I needed. HTH. Mouse device is a Logitech Track Man Marble Wheel. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks??(now resolved)
On Friday 27 January 2006 06:17, a tiny voice compelled Paul to write: > Hi all, > Thanks for all the help. > I changed the protocol to "ExplorerPS/2" and I now have the wheel working > again. > The question is - What has change in the last few weeks to have caused this > problem. Previously the mouse had been working with the protocol set to > "auto" with no problems. > > Paul > -- > This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux I wish I knew the answer to that myself. IMPS/2 worked for me for 5 years. In my case, the problem started when I finally updated to xorg from XFree. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?
I used to know this but I can't find info today. How do I tell which version of gcc was used to compile my kernel? -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?
On Friday 27 January 2006 10:41, a tiny voice compelled Phil Sexton to write: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > > I used to know this but I can't find info today. How do I tell which > > version of gcc was used to compile my kernel? > > This should do it: > gcc -v > Maybe I wasn't clear enough Phil, I suspected that my kernel was built with an old gcc and my nvidia modules with my current version (gcc-3.4.4-r1). Andres' suggestion (cat /proc/version) was what I needed. $ cat /proc/version (gcc version 3.3.6 (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8)) #1 Fri Dec 9 15:39:27 EST 2005 Thanks guys. Time to build a kernel. > -- > Phil > My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info > Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy > Naomi's Fancy performances: > http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?
On Friday 27 January 2006 13:23, a tiny voice compelled Rafael Fernández López to write: > Phil Sexton wrote: > > Ernie Schroder wrote: > >> On Friday 27 January 2006 10:41, a tiny voice compelled Phil Sexton to > >> > >> write: > >>> Ernie Schroder wrote: > >>>> I used to know this but I can't find info today. How do I tell which > >>>> version of gcc was used to compile my kernel? > >>> > >>> This should do it: > >>> gcc -v > >> > >> Maybe I wasn't clear enough Phil, I suspected that my kernel was built > >> with an old gcc and my nvidia modules with my current version > >> (gcc-3.4.4-r1). > >> Andres' suggestion (cat /proc/version) was what I needed. > >> > >> $ cat /proc/version > >> > >> (gcc version 3.3.6 (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8)) #1 Fri > >> Dec 9 15:39:27 EST 2005 > > > > I most likely don't fully understand the difference between the > > two/three commands and I was going by a vague memory from a couple of > > years back. > > > > Could someone expound on these 3 commands? I don't really understand > > the man and info pages on these. > > > > gcc -v > > gcc --version > > (I thought the previous two were the same.) > > cat /proc/version > > > > Does one or more show the currently being used gcc and another show a > > previous version used for some other earlier compile(s)? > > > > TIA > > Well, you can have upgraded GCC and have compiled your RUNNING kernel > with your old gcc version. > > If you run `gcc -v` you only will get your NEW gcc version, but he > wanted to know with which version did he compile his kernel, and is not > with `gcc -v`. You can check it out with `cat /proc/version`. > > Bye, > Rafael Fernández López. The bottom line is that I couldn't get the nvidia module to load. I checked my emerge log and I had updated gcc and nvidia-kernel on the same day. What I forgot to take into account is that after udating my compiler, (unless, of course I upgraded with the --emptytree flag, I would still be compiling my nvidia-kernel with the old gcc-3.3.x I have a brand new kernel and have recompiled nvidia-kernel. I can now load the module correctly and use it instead of "nv" Thanks again. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after update
On Saturday 28 January 2006 09:15, a tiny voice compelled Fredrik Lundgren to write: > Thanks for the advice, > > To the best of my knoledge Kernel 2.6.15.1 was downloaded and installed. > I haven't made any change with respect to devfs or udev. How should i > make the migration? And I haven't used etc-update. What should I start > with? > d'loading and emerging a new kernel version is not "installing" a new kernel. You would have had to compile the kernel with genkernel or # make menuconfig Find your running kernel version with: $ uname -a Did you run etc-update after your updates? > Again thanks from Fredrik > - Original Message - > From: "Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 2:50 PM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after > update > > > On 1/28/06, Fredrik Lundgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> and all appeared to go well (lots of updates) but when I rebooted i > >> got > >> > >> * checking root filesystem ... > >> Failed to open the device '/dev/hda2': No such file or directory > >> * Filesystem couldn't be fixed: (Give root password for maintenance > >> (or Control D to continue):_ > > > > Did you update the kernel version? Are you still using devfs? If so, > > devfs has been removed from current kernels and you need to migrate to > > udev. > > > > Also, be sure to run etc-update, and fixup your configuration files in > > /etc/conf.d. Lots of stuff moved from /etc/rc.conf to /etc/conf.d/ > > files in the last 6 months, so you may have some issue there. > > Particularly there were changes in baselayout that decide whether to > > startup devfs or udev. > > > > -Richard > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] uname -a question
Where does uname find kernel version? For my last 2 new kernels, uname -a returns some off the wall kernel version. It seems to be picking up extra info from God know where. $ uname -a Linux MRK 2.6.15-gentoo-r12.6.14-r-4_new #1 Fri Jan 27 12:38:49 EST 2006 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux running kernel lines from grub.conf: title Gentoo-2.6.15 root (hd0,0) kernel /bzImage-2.6.15-r1 root=/dev/hda5 cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.15-gentoo-r12.6.14-r-4_new ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.4.4 (Gentoo 3.4.4-r1, ssp-3.4.4-1.0, pie-8.7.8)) #1 Fri Jan 27 12:38:49 EST 2006 /lib/modules for the new kernels is affected too: $ locate r12.6.14-r-4_new /lib/modules/2.6.15-gentoo-r12.6.14-r-4_new Everything is working just fine, but this is annoying me to no end. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] uname -a question
On Saturday 28 January 2006 10:31, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to
write:
> On 1/28/06, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Where does uname find kernel version? For my last 2 new kernels, uname -a
> > returns some off the wall kernel version. It seems to be picking up extra
> > info from God know where.
>
> It comes from the version embedded in the kernel, returned via the
> uname system call (man 2 uname).
>
> carcharias rjf # strace -v -e uname uname
> uname({sysname="Linux", nodename="carcharias",
> release="2.6.15-suspend2-r3", version="#3 PREEMPT Sat Jan 21 10:00:05
> MST 2006", machine="i686"}) = 0
> uname({sysname="Linux", nodename="carcharias",
> release="2.6.15-suspend2-r3", version="#3 PREEMPT Sat Jan 21 10:00:05
> MST 2006", machine="i686"}) = 0
>
> > $ uname -a
> > Linux MRK 2.6.15-gentoo-r12.6.14-r-4_new #1 Fri Jan 27 12:38:49 EST 2006
> > i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
>
> There are various ways these versions can be set, including
> EXTRAVERSION and LOCALVERSION.
>
> What are using to build these kernels?
>
> -Richard
using the typical change symlink copy over .config, make oldconfig make &&
make modules_installcp arch etc.
Obviously, I made a typo last upgrade but I can't figure out how to fix it
now.
--
Regards, Ernie
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[gentoo-user] emerge strace fails
emerge strace fails with the following errors: (updating a couple of packages since I first got these errors was successful) resource.c:478: error: `Q_SETUSE' undeclared here (not in a function) resource.c:478: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:478: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[4].val') resource.c:478: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:478: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[4]') resource.c:479: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:479: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[5]') resource.c:480: error: `Q_SETQLIM' undeclared here (not in a function) resource.c:480: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:480: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[6].val') resource.c:480: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:480: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[6]') resource.c:481: error: `Q_GETSTATS' undeclared here (not in a function) resource.c:481: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:481: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[7].val') resource.c:481: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:481: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[7]') resource.c:482: error: `Q_RSQUASH' undeclared here (not in a function) resource.c:482: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:482: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[8].val') resource.c:482: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:482: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[8]') resource.c:483: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:483: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[9]') resource.c:484: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:484: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[10]') resource.c:485: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:485: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[11]') resource.c:486: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:486: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[12]') resource.c:487: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:487: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[13]') resource.c:488: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:488: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[14]') resource.c:489: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:489: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[15]') resource.c:490: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:490: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[16]') resource.c:491: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:491: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[17]') resource.c:492: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:492: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[18]') resource.c:493: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:493: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[19]') resource.c:494: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:494: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[20]') resource.c:495: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:495: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[21]') resource.c:496: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:496: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[22]') resource.c:497: error: initializer element is not constant resource.c:497: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[23]') resource.c: In function `sys_quotactl': resource.c:538: warning: unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 2) resource.c:539: warning: unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 2) resource.c:540: error: structure has no member named `dqb_curblocks' resource.c:541: warning: unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 2) resource.c:542: warning: unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 2) resource.c:543: warning: unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 2) resource.c:544: warning: long unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 2) resource.c:545: warning: long unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 2) make[1]: *** [resource.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/strace-4.5.11/work/strace-4.5.11' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: dev-util/strace-4.5.11 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 566, Exitcode 2 !!! emake failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. emerge --info Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r12.6.14-r-4_new i686) = System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r12.6.14-r-4_new i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu
[gentoo-user] 3.5 hours!
I haven't seen any new posts in 3 and a half hours. That must be a new record. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] uname -a question
On Sunday 29 January 2006 10:02, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: > On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:30:42 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > > What are using to build these kernels? > > > > using the typical change symlink copy over .config, make oldconfig > > make && make modules_installcp arch etc. > > Obviously, I made a typo last upgrade but I can't figure out how to fix > > it now. > > What does " grep VERSION /usr/src/linux/.config" return? $ grep VERSION /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="2.6.14-r-4_new" Hmm that seems to be it. It would appear that I have to rebuild the kernel with appropriate version descriptor. I used my old config and added the 2.6.14-r4-new string when I built that kernel. I guess I'll just live with it until I build another one. Thanks Neil. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge strace fails
On Saturday 28 January 2006 14:21, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: > emerge strace fails with the following errors: > (updating a couple of packages since I first got these errors was > successful) > > resource.c:478: error: `Q_SETUSE' undeclared here (not in a function) > resource.c:478: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:478: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[4].val') > resource.c:478: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:478: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[4]') > resource.c:479: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:479: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[5]') > resource.c:480: error: `Q_SETQLIM' undeclared here (not in a function) > resource.c:480: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:480: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[6].val') > resource.c:480: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:480: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[6]') > resource.c:481: error: `Q_GETSTATS' undeclared here (not in a function) > resource.c:481: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:481: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[7].val') > resource.c:481: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:481: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[7]') > resource.c:482: error: `Q_RSQUASH' undeclared here (not in a function) > resource.c:482: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:482: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[8].val') > resource.c:482: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:482: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[8]') > resource.c:483: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:483: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[9]') > resource.c:484: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:484: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[10]') > resource.c:485: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:485: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[11]') > resource.c:486: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:486: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[12]') > resource.c:487: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:487: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[13]') > resource.c:488: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:488: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[14]') > resource.c:489: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:489: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[15]') > resource.c:490: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:490: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[16]') > resource.c:491: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:491: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[17]') > resource.c:492: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:492: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[18]') > resource.c:493: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:493: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[19]') > resource.c:494: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:494: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[20]') > resource.c:495: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:495: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[21]') > resource.c:496: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:496: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[22]') > resource.c:497: error: initializer element is not constant > resource.c:497: error: (near initialization for `quotacmds[23]') > resource.c: In function `sys_quotactl': > resource.c:538: warning: unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 2) > resource.c:539: warning: unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 2) > resource.c:540: error: structure has no member named `dqb_curblocks' > resource.c:541: warning: unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 2) > resource.c:542: warning: unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 2) > resource.c:543: warning: unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 2) > resource.c:544: warning: long unsigned int format, different type arg (arg > 2) resource.c:545: warning: long unsigned int format, different type arg > (arg 2) make[1]: *** [resource.o] Error 1 > make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/var/tmp/portage/strace-4.5.11/work/strace-4.5.11' make: *** [all] Error 2 > > !!! ERROR: dev-util/strace-4.5.11 failed. > !!! Function src_compile, Line 566, Exitcode 2 > !!! emake failed > !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status > mes
Re: [gentoo-user] uname -a question
On Sunday 29 January 2006 11:29, a tiny voice compelled Neil Bothwick to write: > On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:33:39 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > $ grep VERSION /usr/src/linux/.config > > CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="2.6.14-r-4_new" > > > > Hmm that seems to be it. It would appear that I have to rebuild the > > kernel with appropriate version descriptor. I used my old config and > > added the 2.6.14-r4-new string when I built that kernel. > > You need to set it to "", but it's not critical for now. So true! I am annoyed by this but as far as I can see, the only way to get rid of the string is to rebuild my kernel. I guess I'll wait for the next version bump. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kooka copy fails to print, etc.
On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:26, a tiny voice compelled Mick to write: > Hi All, > > I have been trying to use a CanoScan N650U scanner to copy a printed A4 > sheet of corporate headed paper with some black text (a typical letter, > nothing too complicated in terms of image quality). > > I used xsane and kooka. Xsane prints it directly, but the image is > misaligned on the page (the header logo is chopped in half). It's as if > the page has been zoomed into. I have selected Full Size so I don't know > why this happens. Can it be adjusted - how? > > Kooka on the other hand scales and centers the image nicely, no manual > intervention is required. However, it does not print directly but always > saves the scanned image as a file. If I select it and press print an error > comes up saying that it won't print because the file is 0 bytes in > size. :-@ > > On top of all this, choosing to copy it in colour (there's a bit of colour > in the company logo in the header) the page shows up in the viewer and > later on prints rather dark and 'greyed out'. M$Windoze on the other hand > using the Canon software prints the page much brighter with no blurring or > greyed out background. > > I find the xsane rather complicated to set up, because I have no idea what > the different settings actually do. I was hoping that the default settings > would work at least as nice, if not nicer than the equivalent application > in Windoze, but that is not the case. > > Would any kind soul be able to help with Gamma, etc. settings for xsane to > work satisfactorily with this scanner. > -- > Regards, > Mick There is a very active sane mailing list that should be able to offer some help on your scanner. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after update
On Monday 30 January 2006 10:17, a tiny voice compelled Fredrik Lundgren to write: > Well, > > a local Gentoo-guru fixed the problem with etc-update. So the failure to > appears to have been there. As, a newbie I could use some subtantial > advice where, when, and how ect-update should be used (there were 80 > config files to take care of) - although when I failed I wasn't even > aware of the problem. > > Fredrik > > - Original Message - > From: "Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 4:27 AM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after > update > > > On 1/28/06, Fredrik Lundgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> * checking root filesystem ... > >> Failed to open the device '/dev/hda2': No such file or directory > >> * Filesystem couldn't be fixed: (Give root password for maintenance > >> (or Control D to continue):_ > >> --- > >> Either this wasn't the problem or I mixed up the correction somehow. > >> It > >> appears as if > >> the bootprocess sets the filesystem to be inaccesible? > > > > Can you post some of the messages that appear before this point? > > > > -Richard > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list When an emerge is complete, portage leaves you a message just before it returns to the prompt. The message will say that there are x number of files in /etc that need updating. # etc-update Will return a list of files that need attention. selecting a file from the list shows differences between the new config file and the old one. generally, files that you haven't manually changed yourself can be safely updated to the newer version. Again, most of the time, for files that you have modified yourself, it is safe to retain your old file after checking to see if there are new features you might want. You will notice that there are several options for accepting the new files. One of them is "-5" which will accept all of the new files without any further action on yout part. This is VERY dangerous! If you're not very sure what you're doing, don't use that option. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.
On Saturday 04 February 2006 09:02, a tiny voice compelled Franta to write: > Due to the issues I hit (nearly) every time I do an upgrade. > > I did the upograde today too. There was one on udev. I think devices > don't coming up (Sound, USB) could belong to this kind of problems. > > Well. nothing changes. > > I've tried it half an hour ago with (a very old) knoppix CD. I have USB > disks, I have sound, I have networking ... > > That said (xcuse me, I <> say that) Gentoo is far away from a > distro for usage. > > Do not reply to this post - I'll unsubscribe immediatlely after posting > and I'll go to have a lok for another distro which won't force me to > fdisk for a newly install. Maybe it'll be Slack. > > Have fun customizing and repairing your systems. I prefer to work with > it. > > Frank Like Neil said, you screwed up and blew away some .config files with a careless etc-update and now you want to blame Gentoo. Many people who have tried Gentoo have done the same thing. Most often it happens to people with linux/unix experience that "know better" than the developers that wrote the documentation. Some RTFM, and some flame the distro. Some even explain their problem here and ask for help. We're listening and will be more than happy to help or point you to documentation. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K. -- help or point!
On Sunday 05 February 2006 07:09, a tiny voice compelled Franta to write: > All this was here ones again :( http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_USB_Mass_Storage_Device Hopefully you'll figure it out with this. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Remove
On Monday 06 February 2006 13:46, a tiny voice compelled Peter H. to write: Send an email to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: Linksys router problems
I updated firmware on my linksys BEFSW11 router yesterday and I cannot receive email, nor access the email provider's website. I've spent about 3 hours on the phone with less that competent tech support people at #1 ntplx.net (email provider) #2 bellsouth.net (ISP) and linksys.com All blame the other guy. Linksys is telling me I need to set up port triggering for email and web surfing. The problem is that my bellsouth email account is un affected as are every other website I try to access. I have, for now, disconnected the linksys and am connected through a hub directly to the DSL modem/router. The problem is gone. I would really like to be able to use the router. I've gotten rather used to it in the 4 years I've had it working. Any ideas? -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linksys router problems
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 12:43, a tiny voice compelled John Jolet to write: > On Feb 7, 2006, at 11:08 AM, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > I updated firmware on my linksys BEFSW11 router yesterday and I > > cannot receive > > email, nor access the email provider's website. I've spent about 3 > > hours on > > the phone with less that competent tech support people at #1 > > ntplx.net (email > > provider) #2 bellsouth.net (ISP) and linksys.com > > All blame the other guy. Linksys is telling me I need to set up port > > triggering for email and web surfing. > > The problem is that my bellsouth email account is un affected as > > are every > > other website I try to access. I have, for now, disconnected the > > linksys and > > am connected through a hub directly to the DSL modem/router. The > > problem is > > gone. I would really like to be able to use the router. I've gotten > > rather > > used to it in the 4 years I've had it working. Any ideas? > > there should be a little hole marked "reset" on the back somewhere. > get a paper clip, unplug the device, and plug it in while holding > down the reset button in the hole with the paper clip for at least 8 > seconds. this should reset it to factory defaults. might want to > make a note of your settings first. and any recommendation for port > triggering for email and web surfing is patently riduculous. those > are for incoming connections. > > > -- > > Regards, Ernie > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I've already reset the router. Haven't even reset the password so far. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linksys router problems
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 15:44, a tiny voice compelled david to write: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > >I updated firmware on my linksys BEFSW11 router yesterday and I cannot > > receive email, nor access the email provider's website. I've spent about > > 3 hours on the phone with less that competent tech support people at #1 > > ntplx.net (email provider) #2 bellsouth.net (ISP) and linksys.com > >All blame the other guy. Linksys is telling me I need to set up port > >triggering for email and web surfing. > >The problem is that my bellsouth email account is un affected as are every > >other website I try to access. I have, for now, disconnected the linksys > > and am connected through a hub directly to the DSL modem/router. The > > problem is gone. I would really like to be able to use the router. I've > > gotten rather used to it in the 4 years I've had it working. Any ideas? > > You could check the default MTU setting on the router. I use a dlink and > had to lower mine. The default setting was 1500 and I lowered it to 1480. > http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=134898 yeah... I played with MTU as well Then I dloaded what was labled as the firmware version that I had been running I installed that and now the router is completely hosed. Somewhere in my travels, I found a description of how to telnet to the router and update. I'm going to see if I can find that and give it another shot. If not, CompUSA has a router for $30. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xterm big fonts
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 19:01, a tiny voice compelled Nick Rout to write: > On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:51:39 +1300 > > Nick Rout wrote: > > I hope this explanation is clear, i fear it won't be! > > > > I want to run a program in xterm, full screen, with one program running > > inside it. > > > > This program displays a curses window 42 characters wide, and I want > > that to fille the width of the xterm window, so that the writing in the > > windows is a big as possible on the screen. So I bascially need a font > > size that will give me 42 characters across the page at a fullscreen > > resolution of 720x576. > > > > I have read the man page for xterm but cannot figure out how to specify > > the fonts, or really where to begin. > > > > Any pointers would be appreciated. > > PS I would consider ither terms if they are easier, but don't want to > bother with something as bloated as konsole :-) > > > -- > > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Not sure what fonts you have available, but open your xterm like so: $ xterm -font 12x24 Play with the size. It will default to fixed font if font size is not found. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linksys router problems
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 04:36, a tiny voice compelled Michael Kintzios to write: > > -Original Message- > > From: Ernie Schroder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 07 February 2006 21:33 > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linksys router problems > > > > > > gotten rather used to it in the 4 years I've had it > > > > working. Any ideas? > > > > > You could check the default MTU setting on the router. I > > > > use a dlink and > > > > > had to lower mine. The default setting was 1500 and I > > > > lowered it to 1480. > > > > > http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=134898 > > > > yeah... I played with MTU as well Then I dloaded what was > > labled as the > > firmware version that I had been running I installed that and > > now the router > > is completely hosed. Somewhere in my travels, I found a > > description of how to > > telnet to the router and update. I'm going to see if I can > > find that and give > > it another shot. If not, CompUSA has a router for $30. I upgraded to the newest version (1.46.02) using tftp and at least the router is useable, though I still have the previous problems. Linksys has sent me a link to the version that I had been using, (1.42.6) and I'll try that today. > > -- > > Regards, Ernie > > Your ISP should advise what is the optimum MTU for their gateway > implementation. Mine for example is 1480. At 1500 I get a lot of > fragmentation but can still connect. > > I have found that upgrading the firmware on embedded routers using the > provided browser gui can go wrong with some browsers. If I remember > right the Netgear routers won't upgrade using Konqueror, or earlier > versions of Firefox, but don't mind Opera. Note: you may need to allow > all popups in your browser for the upgrade to complete successfully. I > would at least try to reload the firmware upgrade after a factory reset. Actually, I ran into the problem after updating the firmware with IE on the wife's machine after reading a few warnings about Linux issues. I continued working on this from the wife's computer due to the inability of various tech support people to comprehend that I didn't have Internet Explorer, Outlook or AOL, and it's proximity to the phone. > -- > Regards, > Mick -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linksys router problems
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 08:30, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: > On Wednesday 08 February 2006 04:36, a tiny voice compelled Michael > Kintzios > > to write: > > > -Original Message----- > > > From: Ernie Schroder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: 07 February 2006 21:33 > > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linksys router problems > > > > > > > > gotten rather used to it in the 4 years I've had it > > > > > > working. Any ideas? > > > > > > > You could check the default MTU setting on the router. I > > > > > > use a dlink and > > > > > > > had to lower mine. The default setting was 1500 and I > > > > > > lowered it to 1480. > > > > > > > http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=134898 > > > > > > yeah... I played with MTU as well Then I dloaded what was > > > labled as the > > > firmware version that I had been running I installed that and > > > now the router > > > is completely hosed. Somewhere in my travels, I found a > > > description of how to > > > telnet to the router and update. I'm going to see if I can > > > find that and give > > > it another shot. If not, CompUSA has a router for $30. > > I upgraded to the newest version (1.46.02) using tftp and at least the > router is useable, though I still have the previous problems. Linksys has > sent me a link to the version that I had been using, (1.42.6) and I'll try > that today. well I flashed it with the 1.42.6, and all is well with the default settings. The reason that I wanted to update it in the first place was that it would crash a couple of times a week. When this happened, I couldn't even ping it, let alone access it in a browser. I guess if the crashing returns I'll live with it for a while and keep pushing Linksys for a solution. > > > > -- > > > Regards, Ernie > > > > Your ISP should advise what is the optimum MTU for their gateway > > implementation. Mine for example is 1480. At 1500 I get a lot of > > fragmentation but can still connect. > > > > I have found that upgrading the firmware on embedded routers using the > > provided browser gui can go wrong with some browsers. If I remember > > right the Netgear routers won't upgrade using Konqueror, or earlier > > versions of Firefox, but don't mind Opera. Note: you may need to allow > > all popups in your browser for the upgrade to complete successfully. I > > would at least try to reload the firmware upgrade after a factory reset. > > Actually, I ran into the problem after updating the firmware with IE on the > wife's machine after reading a few warnings about Linux issues. I continued > working on this from the wife's computer due to the inability of various > tech support people to comprehend that I didn't have Internet Explorer, > Outlook or AOL, and it's proximity to the phone. > > > -- > > Regards, > > Mick > > -- > Regards, Ernie -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] help
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 12:25, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: > On 2/8/06, vikram ranade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > My guess is that your keyboard is broken. > > -Richard Gotta love empty posts especially in HTML -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 15:19, a tiny voice compelled Jorge Martín to write: > Is Gentoo 2006.0 going to be released anytime soon? I want to install > Gentoo on my home computer but I'm too lazy to insall 2005.1.r1 and upgrade > all packages so I'm waiting for 2006.0. Gentoo version numbers are not really very significant. Using the documented install instructions, you will install all the latest applications updated when you sync your portage tree. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 04:41, a tiny voice compelled Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. to write: > In konsole you'll want to modify the scheme in use to have a transparent > (or partially transparent) background (and maybe background text color). > > The WM-wide transparency is handled with the X composite extension (must > modify xorg.conf) and kompmgr (which is automagically started with your > KDE session, if KDE detects the composite extension is loaded). The > window-bahavior transparency and shadows use kompmgr. I tried all this a while back and it used too much cpu. It slowed my XP2400/1gigRAM system down to unacceptable levels. Has this been corrected in KDE 3.5.x? -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] PHP fails
I'm trying to emerge php here and do some playing around. I don't have apache on this box but installed monkeyd as a light weight webserver. Emerge php fails as below checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no checking for readline in -lreadline... no configure: error: readline library not found !!! ERROR: dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5 failed. !!! Function php5_0-sapi_src_compile, Line 516, Exitcode 1 !!! configure failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. $ locate libreadline /usr/lib/libreadline.so /usr/lib/libreadline.a /lib/libreadline.so /lib/libreadline.so.4 /lib/libreadline.so.5 /lib/libreadline.so.4.3 /lib/libreadline.so.5.0 Some help? -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Wierdness with mod_php
# esearch mod_php [ Results for search key : mod_php ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * dev-php/mod_php Latest version available: 4.4.0-r9 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 5,071 kB Homepage:http://www.php.net/ Description: Apache module for PHP License: PHP-3 # emerge -a mod_php These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] dev-php/mod_php-4.4.0-r9 Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] n Quitting. WHY? -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wierdness with mod_php
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 15:27, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to write: > # esearch mod_php > [ Results for search key : mod_php ] > [ Applications found : 1 ] > > * dev-php/mod_php > Latest version available: 4.4.0-r9 > Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] > Size of downloaded files: 5,071 kB > Homepage:http://www.php.net/ > Description: Apache module for PHP > License: PHP-3 > > > # emerge -a mod_php > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild R ] dev-php/mod_php-4.4.0-r9 > > Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] n > > Quitting. > > > WHY? > -- > Regards, Ernie # eupdatedb helps sorry -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: phpmyadmin
I am just starting to play with php and mysql. I've got mysql working and can log into root accounts using a password. php scripts work on http://localhost. For example, http://localhost/php/index.php in a browser shows a whole lot of info re php, mysql and apache2. However, I can't seem to get phpmyadmin working. Going to http://localhost/phpmyadmin, gives me a window asking for username and password. If I insert my mysql username (root) and root's mysql password, I just get the same box with no error. I've tried adding a small config.inc.php file to /var/www/localhost/htdocs that is configured like so" http://localhost/phpmyadmin/'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'MySQL.localhost'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'password'; $cfg['blowfish_secret'] = '1234'; ?> I restarted mysql and apache2 and still no joy Obviously, I'm missing something, but I can't find anything after many hours of searching that points me in the right direction. HELP ;>) -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: phpmyadmin
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 23:53, a tiny voice compelled Joseph to write: > This tutorial will help you, GUARANTEED 100% (and it is worth a > bookmark). > http://arcticalliance.se/pma.php Fantastic!!! Thanks a lot Joseph. I've got it working. Now to figure out why LOL. > > -- > #Joseph > > On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 22:30 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > I am just starting to play with php and mysql. I've got mysql working and > > can log into root accounts using a password. php scripts work on > > http://localhost. For example, http://localhost/php/index.php in a > > browser shows a whole lot of info re php, mysql and apache2. However, I > > can't seem to get phpmyadmin working. > > Going to http://localhost/phpmyadmin, gives me a window asking for > > username and password. If I insert my mysql username (root) and root's > > mysql password, I just get the same box with no error. I've tried adding > > a small config.inc.php file to /var/www/localhost/htdocs that is > > configured like so" > > > > > $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = 'http://localhost/phpmyadmin/'; > > $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'MySQL.localhost'; > > $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config'; > > $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root'; > > $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'password'; > > $cfg['blowfish_secret'] = '1234'; > > ?> > > I restarted mysql and apache2 and still no joy > > Obviously, I'm missing something, but I can't find anything after many > > hours of searching that points me in the right direction. HELP ;>) > > > > -- > > Regards, Ernie -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: phpmyadmin
On Thursday 16 February 2006 08:11, a tiny voice compelled Thomas T. Veldhouse to write: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > >I am just starting to play with php and mysql. I've got mysql working and > > can log into root accounts using a password. php scripts work on > >http://localhost. For example, http://localhost/php/index.php in a browser > >shows a whole lot of info re php, mysql and apache2. However, I can't seem > > to get phpmyadmin working. > >Going to http://localhost/phpmyadmin, gives me a window asking for > > username and password. If I insert my mysql username (root) and root's > > mysql password, I just get the same box with no error. I've tried adding > > a small > >config.inc.php file to /var/www/localhost/htdocs that is configured like > > so" > > > > >$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = 'http://localhost/phpmyadmin/'; > > Try 'http://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin/ Tried that too. As well as hostname.domainname/phpmyadmin/ > > >$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'MySQL.localhost'; > > '127.0.0.1' > > >$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config'; > > 'cookie' > > >$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root'; > >$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'password'; > > don't set the user and password Tried that too. > > >$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = '1234'; > >?> > >I restarted mysql and apache2 and still no joy > >Obviously, I'm missing something, but I can't find anything after many > > hours of searching that points me in the right direction. HELP ;>) > > When prompted for username and password, you probably want to start with > a superuser that you created in MySQL. > > Tom Veldhouse What I hadn't noticed when I emerged phpmyadmin, and none of the documentation I had read had told me, was there is a script installed by phpmyadmin located at: /usr/share/webapps/phpmyadmin/2.7.0_p1/sqlscripts/mysql/2.7.0_p1_create.sql that needs to be run to setup a database for phpmyadmin. I had to delete my previously created tables by doing: # rm -r /var/lib/mysql/* then, after starting mysql, # /usr/bin/mysql_install_db then I could login to mysql, set the root password and run the above script. All is well. I can now run phpmyadmin in the browser at: http://localhost/phpmyadmin/, http://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin/ or hostname.domainname/phpmyadmin Only thing left to do is learn how to use all this neat stuff. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel not updating...
On Thursday 16 February 2006 16:23, a tiny voice compelled Nick Rout to write: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:26:19 -0800 > > gentuxx wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:29:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > >> I was poking around in packages.gentoo.org, and noticed > > >> > > >>>that 2.6.15-r1 is unmasked for x86. So I run an `emerge --sync`, and > > >>>`emerge -av gentoo-sources`. And it wants to rebuild my 2.6.13-r3 > > >> > > >>Hmmm, shouldn't it be emerge -uav gentoo-sources ? > > >>I mean, "u" for "update"? > > > > > >It doesn't matter, because kernels arer slotted. > > > > > >Have you synced? It doesn't matter if the package is stable in Gentoo's > > >portage tree if you sill have the old ebuild. > > > > Yup. Did it today just to check before sending the first post. > > (Mentioned this in the first post.) > > I have a machine on which portage sometimes crashes near the end of emerge > --sync. during the metadata part. This leaves portage in the position that > it has all the ebuild files on the disk, but it's own database doesn't seem > to know about it. > > Try emerge --metadata which will fix it if that is the problem. > > Anyway, to check when you last synced: > > genlop -r|tail > > (if you don't have genlop, it is in the package genlop (surprise?) > > the nitty gritties way to see what ebuilds are on your hard drive: > > ls /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/*.ebuild > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just for the heck of it, do: # cat /etc/portage/package* | grep gentoo-sources Does that return anything? how about: cat /etc/make.conf | grep gentoo-sources -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - 2 Questions
On Thursday 23 February 2006 14:36, a tiny voice compelled Michael Sullivan to write: > PaperPort 6100 from: http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html PaperPort 6100 Parport unsupported Most probably not supported. More details would be appreciated. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge timezone-data fails?
>>> Install timezone-data-2006b into /var/tmp/portage/timezone-data-2006b/image/ category sys-libs ./zic -y ./yearistype -d /var/tmp/portage/timezone-data-2006b/image//usr/share/zoneinfo -L /dev/null africa antarctica asia australasia europe northamerica southamerica pacificnew etcetera factory backward systemv solar87 solar88 solar89 ./zic: wild compilation-time specification of zic_t make: *** [posix_only] Error 1 !!! ERROR: sys-libs/timezone-data-2006b failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 28, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - 2 Questions
On Thursday 23 February 2006 16:44, a tiny voice compelled Michael Sullivan to write: > On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 15:41 -0500, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > On Thursday 23 February 2006 14:36, a tiny voice compelled Michael > > Sullivan to > > > > write: > > > PaperPort 6100 > > > > from: > > http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html > > > > PaperPort 6100 Parport unsupported Most probably not > > supported. More > > details would be appreciated. > > > > -- > > Regards, Ernie > > What more details do you need, and how would I go about getting them for > you? This is my first scanner, and I know barely anything about > hardware to begin with... The sane page was asking for more details... If you knew the chipset the scanner uses, you might be able to find another supported scanner who's backend might work. It's also possible that Visionair didn't make the scanner, but rebranded someone else's design. You might join the Sane-devel list and ask if anyone has had success. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge timezone-data fails?
On Friday 24 February 2006 06:18, a tiny voice compelled Frédéric Grosshans to write: > Le jeudi 23 février 2006 à 16:14 -0500, Ernie Schroder a écrit : > > !!! ERROR: sys-libs/timezone-data-2006b failed. > > I had the same problem yesterday, but it seems solved today after an > emerge sync. > > Fred Same here. Confirmed fixed. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken
On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:25, a tiny voice compelled John Blinka to write: > Does anyone know what's wrong? None of my other machines does this. > > Thanks for your help. Have you tried a different browser? Try restarting cupsd # /etc/init.d/cupsd restart -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken
On Saturday 25 February 2006 16:22, a tiny voice compelled John Blinka to write: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > >On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:25, a tiny voice compelled John Blinka to > > > >write: > >>Does anyone know what's wrong? None of my other machines does this. > >> > >>Thanks for your help. > > > >Have you tried a different browser? Try restarting cupsd > > > ># /etc/init.d/cupsd restart > > Same thing happens using either Konqueror or Firefox on this machine. > Doesn't happen with either browser on other machines I've set up. > Restarting cupsd has no effect. > > John Make sure that you have the file: /usr/share/cups/docs/index.html and that it opens as a webpage in a browser Of course I'm assuming that other html pages display properly. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken
On Saturday 25 February 2006 19:12, a tiny voice compelled John Blinka to write: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > >Make sure that you have the file: > > > >/usr/share/cups/docs/index.html > > > >and that it opens as a webpage in a browser Of course I'm assuming that > > other html pages display properly. > > It's there. In fact, that's the file that's being displayed improperly. > Its contents are identical to the same file on other systems I own > which display correctly, so that's not the problem. And all other > html pages display correctly. So... > > 1) the problem is not the contents, permissions, or presence > of the file - they're all identical to other systems in which > the file displays properly. In fact, the file displays > properly (almost) if I access it as > file:///usr/share/cups/docs/index.html instead of > http://localhost:631 > 2) the problem is not specific to a browser - the same behavior > occurs with Firefox and Konqueror. > 3) the problem is not html per se - all other html pages display > properly. > 4) if I stop cupsd, then the browser claims that the request > for http://localhost:631 is refused. > > The evidence suggests to me that there's something unfortunate > happening with whatever occurs when I supply http://localhost:631 > to the browser. cupsd is the agent listening at port 631 and it's > the source of the error. I'm guessing that when cupsd supplies the > contents of /usr/share/cups/docs/index.html to the browser, the browser > doesn't realize that it's receiving html and so renders it as raw text. > > John Very strange Have you looked at the logs? /var/log/cups/access_log and /var/log/cups/error_log look at a tail of them and compare to the working machines. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
