[gentoo-user] Re: recovering RAID from an old server

[Francesco Talamona]

> Should I be able to mount them automatically and let the SW RAID
>  module sort it out or do I have to know how they're tied together
>  beforehand?

> md: looking for a shared spare drive
> md100: no spare disk to reconstruct array! -- continuing in degraded
> mode
> md: recovery thread finished ...
> md: hde5 [events: 03a5]<6>(write) hde5's sb offset: 273024
> md: hdg5 [events: 03a5]<6>(write) hdg5's sb offset: 273024
> XFS mounting filesystem md(9,100)
> Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: md(9,100)
> 
> The partitions look like:
> 9   100 546112 md100
>9   101 273024 md101

It seems it has correctly mounted its partition... Can't you find it?

I have the feeling that you are messing it up. If I understand it 
correctly the server has an hardware RAID controller, that has to be 
managed via its drivers.

Software RAID tools aren't suitable to mount correctly this setup, I 
would mount random partition for testing purposes only, on a spare 
machine.

The wiser thing to do is find an old livecd supporting PERC SAS (or 
whatever raid card is in that Snap) RAID cards and assemble the array in 
degraded mode for data recovery.

Another thing can come very useful: we once had a similar problem, we 
ended up borrowing one identical disc from another running server to put 
the array back online, we recovered our data, then restored the other 
server's array.

HTH
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: recovering RAID from an old server

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 20 February 2010, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 10:46 +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote:
> > > Should I be able to mount them automatically and let the SW RAID
> > >  module sort it out or do I have to know how they're tied
> > > together beforehand?
> > >
> > > md: looking for a shared spare drive
> > > md100: no spare disk to reconstruct array! -- continuing in
> > > degraded mode
> > > md: recovery thread finished ...
> > > md: hde5 [events: 03a5]<6>(write) hde5's sb offset: 273024
> > > md: hdg5 [events: 03a5]<6>(write) hdg5's sb offset: 273024
> > > XFS mounting filesystem md(9,100)
> > > Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: md(9,100)
> > >
> > > The partitions look like:
> > > 9   100 546112 md100
> > >9   101 273024 md101
> >
> > It seems it has correctly mounted its partition... Can't you find
> > it?
> 
> This is with the server recovery console, which is basically just a
>  web page.  No shell access.  There's not much I can do to get at
>  md100 and md101 (is this what software RAID devices usually appear
>  as?)
> 
> > I have the feeling that you are messing it up. If I understand it
> > correctly the server has an hardware RAID controller, that has to
> > be managed via its drivers.
> 
> I think it's software RAID.  There is no RAID controller AFAICT.  All
>  4 drives are visible to the BIOS as Primary and Secondary Master and
>  Slaves.

This isn't a proof: most hardware RAID are proprietary software 
solutions pretending to be hardware. Linux without the driver can't see 
the logical volume and shows all the physical drives.

You should do some research about that server hardware... Aren't snap 
equipped with PERC controller?.

> > Another thing can come very useful: we once had a similar problem,
> > we ended up borrowing one identical disc from another running
> > server to put the array back online, we recovered our data, then
> > restored the other server's array.
> 
> That's a possibility given what I can find on Google, however these
>  are few and far between, so I'd have to find someone willing to send
>  their drive to me (or vice versa) or send me the OS, which
>  overlandstorage doesn't like!

What happens if you physically remove the drive marked as bad?

You may image it for backup, then format it at low level, then put it 
back in place as if it was brand new. Or add a similar disk to be 
considered spare by the controller (given that it is looking for a spare 
disk in first instance).

Most controller have automated procedures to manage failures, disk swaps 
and so on.

For this reason you can't be sure that the inspection operations you are 
doing are read only. Unless the drives are attached to another machine 
with a trusted OS doing nothing on its own.

The ideas given above may let you to waste all of your data, be very 
careful and patient.

Good luck.
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: vixie-cron keeps stopping

[Francesco Talamona]

On Thursday 15 April 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 15 April 2010 02:58:15 Matt Harrison wrote:
> > I apologise if this has come twice, it didn't appear to post
> > correctly first time, not even on the archives.
> > 
> > Its been happening for a while but I haven't got round to find out
> > why, but every so often (anything between a week or an hour)
> > vixie-cron just stops. There's nothing in the logs, the service
> > just stops.
> > 
> > I have no idea where to start looking for a culprit so I'm hoping
> > someone here has some good ideas :)
> > 
> > thanks in advance
> > 
> > Matt
> 
> You probably don't want to hear this, but:
> 
> vixie-cron is problematic in the extreme. I have endless hassle with
> it's weird behaviours.
> 
> Use a different cron daemon.

Your advice is vague :)

I use app-admin/syslog-ng and I wouldn't change, Alan you too can try 
it.

Ciao
  Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Jinja2 & sphinx deadly embrace

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 26 September 2009, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote:
> Any attempt of updating my system is locked by this problem:
>
> [ebuild  N]dev-python/jinja2-2.1.1  USE="doc examples
> -i18n -test" [ebuild  N] dev-python/sphinx-0.6.1-r1 
> USE="doc -test"
>
>  * Error: circular dependencies:
>
> ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/sphinx-0.6.1-r1', 'merge') depends on
>   ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/jinja2-2.1.1', 'merge') (buildtime)
> ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/jinja2-2.1.1', 'merge') depends on
>   ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/sphinx-0.6.1-r1', 'merge') (buildtime)
>
>  * Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by
> temporarily * disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies.
>
> How to get rid of it ? a workaround ? bug report ? Please help
>
> ~adj~

http://bugs.gentoo.org/268805

unset doc use flag in /etc/portage/package.use for jinja2.

Ciao
FT

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[gentoo-user] Re: How to hotplug IDE hard drive?

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 26 September 2009, KostyaSha wrote:
> How to hotplug IDE hard drive?
>  I connect the cable, turning on power and then kernel must rescan
> IDE cable. How tell kernel to rescan ?

No hot-plug with IDE, it simply isn't supported. Maybe you need 
/usr/sbin/partprobe (from parted)

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone use squid?

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 27 September 2009, David Juhl wrote:
> I want to block as many dating sites as possible, but I am having to
> luck.  The url_regex can't catch a lot.  Either I need to find a
> regular expression in the url or find something that will look at the
> sites web page...  Not all urls use date in their url...
>
> thanks and bye
>
> David

You need danguardian, a web content filter squid is aware of.

net-proxy/dansguardian

ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone use squid?

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 27 September 2009, Stroller wrote:
> The dansguardian website states that it does not include blacklists
>  and instead links to
> . That has a category for
> dating, and can surely be referenced directly by Squid, without
> recourse to dansguardian.

I didn't know, it's interesting. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: @preserved-rebuild

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 27 September 2009, James wrote:
> Neil Bothwick  digimed.co.uk> writes:
> >>>  Portage deletes these
> >>>
> > > > after emerge @preserved-rebuild has successfully re-emerged
> > > > packages depending on it.
> > >
> > > OK, so now I just have to root it out manually.?
> >
> > qfile -o $(find /lib* /usr/lib*)
>
> qfile -o $(find /lib* /usr/lib*)
>
> bash: /usr/bin/qfile: Argument list too long
>
>
> Now what? I look at the man page for qfile and tried
> all the -m option, but still get the same error?
>
>
> ideas?
>
>
> James

for i in $(find /lib* /usr/lib*) ; do qfile -o $i ; done

Ciao
  Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Uninstalled programs history

[Francesco Talamona]

I use very often genlop to see the history of emerged packages, but 
sometimes I need to know which packages were uninstalled and when.

Is it there a reliable and simple way to know this kind of information?

Anyone before felt the need to fulfil this curiosity?

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Uninstalled programs history

[Francesco Talamona]

On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2009 schrieb Francesco Talamona:
> > I use very often genlop to see the history of emerged packages, but
> > sometimes I need to know which packages were uninstalled and when.
> >
> > Is it there a reliable and simple way to know this kind of
> > information?
> 
> genlop -u
> 

Of course! I googled before posting, but genlop manpage didn't occurred 
to me, too obvious!

To be exact to see which packages were unmerged for example in the last 
two days:

genlop -ul --date 2 days ago

Thanks for your reply... I could have searched for ages ;-)

Ciao
Francesco
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[gentoo-user] Re: strange dmesg output

[Francesco Talamona]

On Monday 26 October 2009, Maxim Wexler wrote:
> Did I leave something out of the kernel? I can't think what.
> 
Maybe you pulled in too much :-)

It could be some debug flag switched on in the USB storage subsystem.

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.3 + compiz = no window border

[Francesco Talamona]

On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Xi Shen wrote:
> hi,
> 
> when i replace the kde windows manager with compiz, all windows lost
> their window border, and i cannot move the window. how can i fix
>  this?

Maybe kwin crashed. what happens if you open a terminal and launch kwin?

Ciao
  Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Services order/hierarchy

[Francesco Talamona]

Is it there a tool or command in gentoo to see "a la emerge --tree" the 
inter-dependencies and boot order of services?

I know about cinit [1] but I never used it, because I'm looking for a 
way to see at a glance without rebooting. Imagine a tool for confronting 
two different servers without downtime.

TIA
Francesco

[1] http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cinit/

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[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.3 + compiz = no window border

[Francesco Talamona]

On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 January 2010 12:35:36 Francesco Talamona wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Xi Shen wrote:
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > when i replace the kde windows manager with compiz, all windows
> > > lost their window border, and i cannot move the window. how can i
> > > fix this?
> >
> > Maybe kwin crashed. what happens if you open a terminal and launch
> > kwin?
> 
> That makes no sense. He's using compiz, kwin cannot run together with
>  compiz
> 

My bad... This is what I used when I was trying to use compiz and 
crashed, leaving me without WM.

Ciao
  Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: / is full

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 14 May 2005 15:16, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 14 May 2005 13:04:53 +0200, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:
> > another note: your kcore is very big (five times mine) ypu may want
> > to optimize what is compiled in modifying the kernelconfig before
> > to build it (and for this google is your friend ;)
>
> kcore is a snapshot of your physical memory, its size is always equal
> to the amount of RAM in your computer.

*always* 
[15:24] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ ll /proc/kcore 
-r  1 root root 939528192 May 14 15:24 /proc/kcore
[15:24] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ free
 total   used   free sharedbuffers 
cached
Mem:   15544601433900 120560  0 125208 
753836
-/+ buffers/cache: 554856 999604
Swap:   250952  0 250952

Are you sure?

Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Share serial port over network

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 15 May 2005 12:15, Robert G. Siebeck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2005/5/15, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Have you tried sharing it over NFS?
>
> I've tried using a samba-share, but it didn't work. Do you think NFS
> would make a difference?

IMHO you aren't providing enough informations...

Is the file locally accessible? Is it something static, so that 
accessing it or copy is the same or is it varying in time, like a 
stream? Over tty is it a filesystem attached or just a file? What does 
happen if you issue "cat /dev/ttyS0 > /mnt/sambasharefolder/tty.log "? 
And so on...

Ciao
Francesco
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[gentoo-user] Re: Apache2 things vhost directories are not directories?

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 15 May 2005 19:04, Calvin Spealman wrote:
> With the following vhost.conf, I'm getting an error "DocumentRoot
> must be a directory", and the two document roots I'm using do, in
> fact, exist. Does anyone know why Apache2 would think they are not
> directories?
>
> NameVirtualHost *
> 
> ServerName www.ironfroggy.com
> ServerAlias ironfroggy.com www.ironfroggy.com
> DocumentRoot /var/www/www-ironfroggy-com/
> 
>
> 
> ServerName sftp.ironfroggy.com
> DocumentRoot /var/www/sftp-ironfroggy-com/
> 
>
> And, just for good measure:
> drwxr-xr-x  6 root   root 4096 May 15 14:02 sftp-ironfroggy-com
> drwxr-xr-x  6 calvin root 4096 May 11 15:55 www-ironfroggy-com

You are talking about vhost.conf, but what is Apache talking about?
What is the output of
cat /etc/apache2/httpd.conf | grep DocumentRoot
is it correct?

Ciao
Francesco
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[gentoo-user] Re: Error compiling vanilla-sources 2.6.12-rc3

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 15 May 2005 19:26, Michael Haan wrote:
> I get the following:
>
> drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x7f23d): In function `i2c_writebytes':
> : undefined reference to `i2c_transfer'
>
> drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x7f29d): In function `i2c_readbytes':
> : undefined reference to `i2c_transfer'
>
> make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
>
> Note: I'm reusing my config file from my 2.6.9-rc14 build, but I
> presume this is a supported action.

You can reuse old .config but you must "clean" it...
1) go to new kernel source dir
2) make mrproper
3) copy old .config there
4) make oldconfig
following steps go as usual

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Browsing Network

[Francesco Talamona]

On Monday 23 May 2005 16:12, Emmanuel Durin wrote:
> You can use smb:/// to view all the network on konqueror and
> nautilus. You can also use the nmblookup command, but it usually
> returns IP addresses instead of names. Finally you can use smbtree to
> display recursively workgroups, servers and shares, but it should
> take much time if your network is big.
> For all these methods you must have a working smb.conf for your
> network.

Are you sure all these methods rely on smb.conf? smb.conf is the 
configuration file for the samba server, but as long as you probe lan  
neigbourhood it can be ignored. Maybe nmblookup uses it...

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: emerge of netkit-rsh

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 11 June 2005 04:46, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> When I emerge netkit-rsh (because I want to share a tape via rmt) I
> get several warning such as:
>  QA Notice: /usr/bin/rlogin is setXid, dynamically linked and using
> lazy bindings. This combination is generally discouraged. Try:
> CFLAGS='-Wl,-z,now' emerge netkit-rsh
>
> Which seems pretty reasonable - I would rather not use dynamic libs
> on a suid program...
>
> but my command line was:
>   # CFLAGS='-Wl,-z,now' emerge netkit-rsh
> as the warning suggests :-/
>
> So what is the best way to get emerge to build things in with the
> recommended compile options?
>
> Regards,
> DigbyT
> --
> Digby R. S. Tarvin
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digbyt.com

I think it should be LDFLAGS, not CFLAGS:
 LDFLAGS='Wl,-z,now' emerge netkit-rsh

Ciao
Francesco
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[gentoo-user] Re: Failed Disk Recovery

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 26 June 2005 20:23, David Busby wrote:
> List,
>I've got a HDD that's failed, seems to have lost partition table. 
> When I say sfdisk -l or -d it can't read and I see IO errors in dmesg
> output, can't read sector XX.  I can't get dd to dump from that drive
> to file on a working drive either.  It's an NTFS drive that Windows
> can't see at all.  What other options do I have to recover data? 
> ntfsprogs testdisk haven't been helpful either.  Anyone have ideas?
>
> /djb
http://hardware.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/31/1924226&tid=9

I don't know if it works, but may worth a try.
ciao
Francesco
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[gentoo-user] Re: New MySQL doc

[Francesco Talamona]

On Tuesday 12 July 2005 06:38, Chris White wrote:
> Here's the initial devspace draft of the new MySQL draft I've been
> working on:
>
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/mysql.html
>
> Comments, etc are welcome.

SQL
 Structured Query Language
 ^^
"S" doesn't stand for "standard".
Good guide, thanks
Francesco
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[gentoo-user] Re: MySQL doc [updated]

[Francesco Talamona]

On Tuesday 12 July 2005 18:22, Chris White wrote:
> I've updated the MySQL doc here:
>
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~chriswhite/mysql.html
>
> It contains the fixes that have been suggested to me, as well as a
> note on the SELECT field FROM table form of the SELECT statement. 
> Thanks for the input recieved!
>
> Chris White
your doc states:
SQL stands for (S)tandard (Q)uery (L)anguage

but Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera] 
says:
SQL
 Structured Query Language (ISO 9075, DB, 4GL)

and The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc] says:
According to Allen G. Taylor, SQL does _not_ stand for
"Structured Query Language".  That, like "SEQUEL" (and its
pronunciation /see'kw*l/), was just another unofficial name
for a precursor of SQL.  However, the IBM SQL Reference manual
for DB2 and Craig Mullins's "DB2 Developer's Guide" say SQL
_does_ stand for "Structured Query Language".

So I think you have to correct (S)tandard to (S)tructured

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Howto speed up compilations

[Francesco Talamona]

On Monday 18 July 2005 19:07, John J. Foster wrote:
> Good afternoon all,
>
> A few weeks ago I read in one of the newgroups a way to greatly
> decrease compilation times. The author noted that this was
> particularly noticable when working with something like OO. The
> general jist of it was to create temporary file system in memory and
> mount your portage tmpdir there. For the life of me, I can't find
> that thread anymore. Does anyone do something similar to this? Are
> there noticable gains to be had. I have an Athlon 2800XP and 1 GB
> ram.

IIRC OO takes more than 3GB of space to compile. Gcc itself is quite RAM 
demanding...

I tkink it is feasible for smaller programs.

Ciao
Francesco
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[gentoo-user] Re: [New Development] - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 23 July 2005 03:56, Joseph wrote:
> I went back to Sata Drive and started from scratch and when I tried
> to do "emerge --sync"  I got this error:
>
> "Uhhuh. HMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
> You probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips
> NMI: IOCK error (debug interrupt?)
> CPU 0
> Modules linked in: evdev via_rhine mii parport_pc parport ahci
> sata_uli sata_sis sata_sx4 sata_nv sata_via sata_svw sata_sil
> sata_promis libata sbp2 ohci1934 ieee1394 usb_storage ohci_hcd
> uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore Pid: 5626, comm: rsync Not tainted
> 2.6.11-gentoo-r3-k8
> RIP: 0010:[
> Is it problem with my standard memory or CPU memory cache?
> I'v run memtest86 two day ago and 17-passes went without any errors.
>

Sometimes memtest doesn't stress enough the hardware, see:
http://people.redhat.com/dledford/memtest.html

It's so simple that you can also run it on top of a live CD like 
Kanotix...

Ciao
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[gentoo-user] Re: [New Development] - was 1.) Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interupt handler

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 23 July 2005 18:58, Joseph wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 10:16 +0200, Richard Fish wrote:
> > Joseph wrote:
[...]
> -bash: ./memtest.sh: /bin/bash2: bad interpreter: No such file or
> directory
>
> On both boxes the I have bash-3.0 so what is it looking for?

Correct the first line of the script from "#!/bin/bash2" to 
"#!/bin/bash" and everything will be fine.

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

[Francesco Talamona]

On Friday 28 March 2008, Stroller wrote:
> I deal with h0sed Windows installations for my customers all the  
> time. I regularly boot a Knoppix CD and copy the whole C: drive to a
>   portable disk so that I have a complete backup. I find it
> reassuring to use Linux for this purpose because I feel confident
> that cp or rsync will copy _every file on the drive_ without just
> silently ignoring those marked with the hidden flag, or bitching
> about permissions.

I prefer to save the entire partition with PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost) 
or equivalent tools to avoid gotchas with charsets.
rsync and cp are excellent, but you have to mount the partition with the 
right options not to loose coherence in file naming.

Everything else in your post is no more no less what I do to rescue all 
those boxes people bring to me :-)
Starting from the uninstall of bloated antivirus!

Great post
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 29 March 2008, Stroller wrote:
> Thanks! I'll look into PING. The documentation on PING's homepage  
> seems a little scanty, but I'm sure a Google will be a bit more  
> forthcoming.

It's very easy to use, I found a pdf somewhere that described it in few 
pages.

> There are a couple of reasons I appreciate copying on a file-by-file
>   basis - I don't know if PING would allow me the same flexibility.

Sure it won't. You provide plenty of examples...
While reading them I remembered dar & kdar but it seems the latter is no 
more actively mantained. And anyway not a solution for windows users if 
you want to let them to take a bit of care of themselves.

An option is to shrink the old disk to a secondary partition and leave 
it on the same disk, but again having another partition isn't the best 
for end users: it's easier to claim back space without specializer 
tools if everything's is just a folder away.

Ciao
Francesco
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[gentoo-user] Re: installing vmware?

[Francesco Talamona]

On Friday 04 April 2008, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> The problem I've run into with VirtualBox is that network only uses
> NAT, while VMWare uses bridging. Probably only a question of
> understanding how to set up NAT - seems easy if you're using DHCP but
> I use fixed IP's

VirtualBox can be configured in either way! 
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Advanced_Networking_Linux

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: ck8s ethernet support in 2.6.23-r6 kernel

[Francesco Talamona]

On Thursday 17 April 2008, maxim wexler wrote:
> I noted also a broken runlevel with regard to net.eth0
> which I deleted.
>
> Hopefully that's the fix. Should know next boot. But
> doesn't explain(at least to me) why eth0 is now
> defunct. If all I have is one ethernet port, doesn't
> that default to eth0?

No, not if that name is already in use, the message "udev: renamed
eth0 to eth1" is the consequence.

Udev renames the device, so every config file referring to eth0 showed 
up errors. If you now delete the file that fixes net names the card 
will take first slot and be named eth0.

You'll have to take back that runlevel link.

HTH
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 19 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
> [ebuild     U ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1 [6.9-r1] USE="acl nls
> (-selinux) -static -vanilla% -xattr" 3,670 kB
> [blocks B     ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking
> sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1) [blocks B     ] >=sys-apps/coreutils-6.10
> (is blocking sys-apps/mktemp-1.5)

You are just another victim, search this list for the last week posts 
for the recovery details. Basically you have to use install disc to 
copy all the "core utils" now missing. Once recovered you are again 
able to emerge coreutils

The explanation of the message above is: coreutils is going to upgrade 
from version 6.9-r1 to 6.10-r1, the latter (and other versions above) 
includes mktemp, so to avoid conflicts it is required to uninstall 
mktemp, now provided elsewhere.

HTH
Francesco  

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[gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 19 April 2008, Gyuszk wrote:
> I can unmount my /boot and /home partitions but I just can't
> remount my root device to be readonly. (Linux says it is busy.) What
> should I do with this?
>
> 1.) Should I edit my Grub menu.lst to make a new entry with "single
> ro" kernel parameteres?
> 2.) Of course I can fsck from (for example) a LiveCD (like Gentoo
> minimal cd), but at the present I don't have any of these.
> 3.) Other solution?

Of course: it's in use :-)

Two options:

1) force partition check with the following command (seen recently in 
this list)
shutdown -Fr

2) create the file /forcefsck
touch /forcefsck
then reboot, during shutdown you'll see "A full fsck will be forced on 
next startup" and then "Checking root filesystem (full fsck forced)"

See the scripts /etc/init.d/halt.sh, /etc/init.d/checkfs 
and /etc/init.d/checkroot to see all the "nuts and bolts"

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 19 April 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote:
> Thanks a lot! I'll give a deep look at the mentioned files.
> Anyway I think I'll set my fstab. Now all my partitions are set to
> "never fsck" at boot time. :)

Supposing it's a ext2/3 partition you may also want to use tune2fs to 
set the check *frequency*.

Other filesystems have specialized tools to do it.

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Raid5 not assembled after boot

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 19 April 2008, Roy Wright wrote:
> Looking thru dmesg and /var/log/messages, it looks like there are no
> attempts to start the array until I manually try.
>
> Any hints on what I'm missing?

Personal experience:

1) don't mix raidtools stuff with mdadm, use only the latter (I'm not 
saying you used raidtools, but I found a lot of misleading 
documentation lying around)

2) check carefully the UUID of *all* the partitions, I had exactly the 
same issue, that I discovered to be caused by a leftover partition that 
was part of a different raid set (spurious UUID). At some point in the 
bootup the correct set were disassembled.

3) evms can badly intefere with mdadm (or it was LVM?): try to modify a 
partition/raid setup and it always appears busy, preventing any 
editing.

HTH
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: init 1, root device is busy :(

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 20 April 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > > Never do this unless you're using xfs.
> >
> > Why? "never fsck at boot time" ->
>
> Because bad things can happen if you don't fsck at boot time. The
> only exception to this is xfs, which you are not using, as I see
> below.

You stated this (xfs doesn't need to be checked at boot) twice, but I'd 
like to read a bit of explanation.

Note: I'm not trying to start a flamewar.
Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: rkhunter and /dev/dev

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 27 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:33:03 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > This morning, out of curiosity, I ran rkhunter: it gave me a
> > warning about GasKit.
> >
> > It's because there's a /dev/dev folder
>
> Have you run rkhunter --update? I used to see this warning, but it
> disappeared a while ago with a database update.

Actually I didn't think about an update, I updated right now and 
rechecked, but nothing has changed.

Why do I have duplicated md devices?

Ciao
Francesco
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[gentoo-user] Re: rkhunter and /dev/dev

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 27 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > Why do I have duplicated md devices?
>
> It sounds like a udev rule may be causing this, possibly an
> incorrectly written one, because the /dev part of node names is
> implicit in udev, so if you set a name or symlink to dev/foo, you'll
> get /dev/dev/foo.

It was the first thing I searched for in /etc/udev, but there weren't 
explicit pointers to dev, furthermore I have one only custom file 
in /etc/udev/rules.d: 10-local.rules, and the only other one I edited 
is 70-persistent-net.rules; they surely have nothing to do with md 
devices.

After your second reply I did a crazy thing: moved /etc/udev to another 
position and reemerged udev. Then I diffed the two directories, because 
there were many files dated 2005 and 2006 not belonging to any 
packages.

This cleanup wasn't enough, but then I edited /etc/mdadm.conf, modified 
the ARRAY directive 

from:
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=...

to:
ARRAY md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=...

I got some warnings at bootup, but no /dev/dev.

Now I have no ARRAY directives in /etc/mdadm.conf, no /dev/dev and my 
system is more zippy than ever!! No more slowdowns on large file 
transfers: previously I was used to see transfer rate drop from initial 
peak to 8-10MB/sec, now the speed is constantly high..

Of course rkhunter is now happy about my configuration, as like as me! 

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Which openoffice

[Francesco Talamona]

> > 2 - how long does it take to compile openoffice-bin
> > on a PC with 2 GB Ram and a AMD Athlon-64 3200+ Processor?
>
> On my 2003 machine (AMD 2500+)  5 hours ;
> on my 2007 machine (Intel Core-2 Duo 6700)  2 hours .

Those are the timings of openoffice, openoffice-bin doesn't get 
compiled, it is "deployed", on my 2 GB amd 64 3200+:


 Sat Apr 19 14:40:43 2008 >>> app-office/openoffice-bin-2.4.0
   merge time: 2 minutes and 57 seconds.

Ciao
Francesco


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[gentoo-user] Re: Question about gstreamer

[Francesco Talamona]

On Thursday 08 May 2008, AJ Spagnoletti wrote:
> Here is the relavent output from eix gstreamer:
>
> [UD] media-libs/gstreamer
>      Available versions:  (0.10)  0.10.14 (~)0.10.17 (~)0.10.19
> {debug nls test}
>      Installed versions:  0.8.11(0.8)(18:40:46 04/24/07)(-debug -doc)
>   0.10.14(0.10)(17:45:07 09/17/07)
>      Homepage:            http://gstreamer.sourceforge.net
>      Description:         Streaming media framework
>
> From this output it appears that 0.8.** versions of gstreamer have
> been removed from the portage tree, is gstreamer-0.8 leftover on my
> system and can it safely be removed?

Gstreamer 0.8 *is installed*, maybe is this the source of confusion?

Unmerge gstreamer specifying the version (version 0.10 will be left 
there):

emerge -Ca media-libs/gstreamer-0.8.11

Clean revdep-rebuild temp files:
rm /root/.revdep-rebuild*

re-run revdep-rebuild

Ciao
Francesco


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[gentoo-user] Re: Home page slowness

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 10 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We plan to eval Gentoo.  We await 2008 final.

Why? What features are you expecting?

> The comment is, Gentoo 
> home page gives no clue about status.  Convincing people that Gentoo
> is "alive" becomes tricky because the final is months late and little
> motion on the home page.  That's about all most people inspect.

You are right, many people take conclusions from superficial looks.

> So bottom line, impressions of Gentoo are going south even before we
> test.

I don't think we should make Gentoo more appealing, you can attract 
people that later will dislike its lack of eye-candy, better be 
honest :-)

> Some sort of "progress bar" or chart showing bugs squashed and new
> reported, maybe??  At least some kind of "ticker" showing "expected
> final release date"?  Counting lines of code or something?
>
> Personally I don't care when final ships - just knowing "present
> expectations" or status with an easy home page glance is all I ask.

Unlike other distros, Gentoo evolves linearly, not by leaps (releases). 
Indeed there's no strong distinction between updates and upgrades, if 
you keep it up-to-date, already have the latest "release".

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: conflict in update

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 26 April 2009, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Dale  wrote:
> > Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> It should be easy enough to write a program that examines world
> >> and displays all packages it finds that are dependencies of
> >> something else in world, but I haven't found one, and prefer the
> >> manual approach above.
> >
> > I know you can use eix-test-obsolete to find outdated/unneeded
> > thing in /etc/portage but I wish it would also do something
> > similiar for the world file.  I just wonder if the person that
> > wrote eix and friends could add that in as a feature?  It would be
> > neat.  eix works really well for what it does.
> >
> > Is their anyone we could sort of poke to work on this?
> >
> > Dale
>
> My experience with the world file is I'll first make a copy and then
> start deleting individual lines I think aren't required. If I'm right
> then emerge -p --depclean won't try to take anything off the system.
> If I'm wrong then I add the line back in.
>
> I'm blank right now as to whether you can just comment out a line in
> the world file. Maybe that works also.
>
> Anyway, my definition of a minimal world file is I have all the
> software I want and need, the fewest lines in the world file, and
> --depclean/revdep-rebuild are happy.
>
> - Mark

Have you ever tried regenworld? It sounds less time consuming.

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: X-forwarding fails with "Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key"

[Francesco Talamona]

On Friday 01 May 2009, Grant wrote:
> $ ssh -Y 192.168.10.1
> The authenticity of host '192.168.10.1 (192.168.10.1)' can't be
> established. RSA key fingerprint is.
> Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
> Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts
> (/home/grant/.ssh/known_hosts).

I think the problem is here: too strict permissions in ~/.ssh preventing 
ssh to update known_hosts list, needed to continue connection. it 
should be 700 for the .ssh directory and 600 for the file known_hosts.

What is the output of: ls -l .ssh -d ? And ls -l .ssh ?
Is 192.168.10.1 in your known_hosts? 
With the right RSA key?

Ciao
Francesco


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Re: /boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc)

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 09 May 2009, Dale wrote:
> I was talking about with just a plain file system.  I read in a
> install guide somewhere when I was installing ages ago that having
> /boot on a separate partition, and not always mounted, was a good
> security practice.  That way no one could alter the kernel since it
> was not mounted.
>
> I do agree that if a person was on the system and able to get root
> access, they could them mount the /boot partition as well.  I never
> was really sure why this was thought to work.  I used a separate
> /boot because for a while I was dual booting Mandrake and Gentoo.
>  Old habit now I guess.

It's a suggestion for security against user errors; I'm pretty sure it 
was there long before genkernel came out, when there 
wasn't "automation" in kernel building.

Furthermore you can use a non journalled filesystem for /boot.

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 10 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Once you sort that out, there's a whole host of other stuff to fix as
> well - expat, latest xorg and many more - all stuff that everyone
> else fixed a while ago and since forgot.

Yes, beware of mktemp/coreutils too.
I don't remember of other dangers, maybe pam...

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 13 June 2009, AG wrote:
> Hello list
>
> I am currently running Debian Squeeze and am considering the
> feasibility of switching to Gentoo due to several issues I am
> experiencing with a new machine with a SATA HDD and a TSSTcorp CDDVDW
> TS-H653Z which refuses to play audio CDs and pre-recorded DVDs.
>
> In any event, because I have loads of data on my /home partition, I'm
> curious about a few things, primarily what are the implications of
> dual-booting with Gentoo as my second OS, so that I can experience
> Gentoo without losing my data, etc.
>
> How compatible are Gentoo and Debian in terms of using a shared /home
> directory - I am concerned about uid for the directory for instance
> which, if I changed it for Gentoo, may not work for Debian and vice
> versa.
>
> Any thoughts/ suggestions?
>
> Many thanks
>
> AG

I had for a while a dual boot Gentoo-Debian. It is nothing to worry 
about.

The only two things I remember (it was mid 2005) are:

1) kmail repository is in a different subdir (~/.mail vs ~/Mail)
2) Openoffice folder had different naming as well

Those are not issues that are worked around with a couple of symlinks.

WRT UID/GID just make sure in advance the two OS uses the same.

Don't forget to make backup before starting your tests ;-)

Ciao
Francesco


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[gentoo-user] [off-topic] diary/blog desktop software advice

[Francesco Talamona]

I am looking for a software to keep a paperless diary, but I seem I 
can't find anything valid, at first I tried app-office/qchartdiary, it 
doesn't run, then I found www-apps/nanoblogger and www-apps/polarblog, 
but are both in the "needloving" [1], don't know if it worth trying.

I need something simple, easy, with the ability to attach emails and 
other external files, it also has to be private and never intended to 
be hosted, neither in my local apache.

Maybe I'm looking in the wrong direction... Any advices?
Thanks in advance
F. Talamona

[1] http://gpnl.larrythecow.org/search.php?q=www-apps&t=1

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[gentoo-user] Re: [off-topic] diary/blog desktop software advice

[Francesco Talamona]

On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Mike Kazantsev wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:18:25 +0200
>
> Francesco Talamona  wrote:
> > I am looking for a software to keep a paperless diary, but I seem I
> > can't find anything valid, at first I tried app-office/qchartdiary,
> > it doesn't run, then I found www-apps/nanoblogger and
> > www-apps/polarblog, but are both in the "needloving" [1], don't
> > know if it worth trying.
> >
> > I need something simple, easy, with the ability to attach emails
> > and other external files, it also has to be private and never
> > intended to be hosted, neither in my local apache.
>
> You can try bournal for "simple" and "easy". It's bash, CLI and
> features encryption, although it doesn't seem to be intended for
> anything but pure text.
>
> http://frankpena.googlepages.com/bournal.html

"Bournal has no internet capablities, so if you're looking for a 
blogging app, boy did you click the wrong link. "

Wow, it seems what I was looking for! Not sure about attaching ability, 
but I'll check shortly.

People please keep posting tips, I'm willing to test more than one 
program.

Thanks Mike!
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Decreasing volume of an mp3 audio

[Francesco Talamona]

On Monday 24 August 2009, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Montag 24 August 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  is there an application, which is able to physically decrease
> >  the volume level of an mp3 with as less as possible loss of
> >  sound quality.
> >  (Background: I am merging video parts done with my webcam
> >  with sound trailers. Volume of the webcam's mics and
> >  the volume of the mp3 should be not too different.)
> >
> >  Thank you very much for any help in advance !
> >  Best regards
> >  ]|[cc
>
> maybe this is the thing you are looking for:
>
>
> * media-sound/normalize
>  Available versions:  0.7.7 {audiofile mad nls userland_BSD}
>  Homepage:http://normalize.nongnu.org/
>  Description: Audio file volume normalizer
>
> ?

Also media-sound/mp3gain does the trick

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Why so many duplicate entries in K menu?

[Francesco Talamona]

On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 26 August 2009 20:21:27 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
> > On 08/26/2009 09:04 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > the subject says it all: I've got multiple multiple duplicate
> > > entries in KDE's (4.3.0) K menu. Any idea how to get rid of them?
> > > Google doesn't give a definitive answer :(
> >
> > Looks like you have KDE3 installed too?
>
> Nope. It's gone since a long time now.
>
> Bye...
>
>   Dirk

I'd check for a .kde3.5 leftover folder in user home.

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} xfce4 network management?

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 08 February 2009, Grant wrote:
> Why choose wicd over NetworkManager?

Hi guys I'm back with a differend mail address, hope someone missed 
me :-)

I tested both, but NM keeps shutting down wired NIC randomly, sometimes 
is eth0, other times is eth1.

eth0 and ath0 are connected to the same access point, so it is sane to 
inhibite eth0, but I have hundred services relying on eth1 (fixed IP, 
internal network), half my system go upside down when eth1 lose its 
address. I don't want NM to touch this interface, even it is unplugged.

Is it there a way to fix this?

With wicd is trivial to pair eth0 and ath0, but it runs wireless for a 
few minutes, then it switches back to wired.

So I'm going to try wpa_gui...

Cheers
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: media-video/gspcav1 or kernel module?

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 08 February 2009, Iain Buchanan wrote:
[...]
> I recently upgraded from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28.  My el-cheapo webcam
> (lsusb: 0c45:602c Microdia Clas Ohlson TWC-30XOP WebCam) used the
> media-video/gspcav1 driver, but that no longer compiles:
>
> /var/tmp/portage/media-video/gspcav1-20071224/work/gspcav1-20071224/g
>spca_core.c:54:27: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory
> /var/tmp/portage/media-video/gspcav1-20071224/work/gspcav1-20071224/g
>spca_core.c: In function 'spca5xx_ioctl':
> /var/tmp/portage/media-video/gspcav1-20071224/work/gspcav1-20071224/g
>spca_core.c:2463: error: implicit declaration of function
> 'video_usercopy'
>
> etc.
>
> I discovered a number of gspca modules in the kernel:
>
> gspca_spca508
> gspca_spca506
> gspca_spca505
> gspca_spca500
> gspca_spca501
> gspca_spca561
[...]

If you boot 2.6.26 it should be easier to spot the right module. Anyway 
I encountered the same problem with my gspca561, IIRC there's a problem 
with 2.6.28 kernel.

Waiting for a kernel upgrade I lent my webcam to a vista user...

HTH. Ciao
Francesco


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[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} xfce4 network management?

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 08 February 2009, Francesco Talamona wrote:
> On Sunday 08 February 2009, Grant wrote:
> > Why choose wicd over NetworkManager?
>
> Hi guys I'm back with a differend mail address, hope someone missed
> me :-)
>
> I tested both, but NM keeps shutting down wired NIC randomly,
> sometimes is eth0, other times is eth1.
>
> eth0 and ath0 are connected to the same access point, so it is sane
> to inhibite eth0, but I have hundred services relying on eth1 (fixed
> IP, internal network), half my system go upside down when eth1 lose
> its address. I don't want NM to touch this interface, even it is
> unplugged.
>
> Is it there a way to fix this?
>
> With wicd is trivial to pair eth0 and ath0, but it runs wireless for
> a few minutes, then it switches back to wired.
>
> So I'm going to try wpa_gui...
>
> Cheers
>   Francesco

An the winner is...

wicd.

The uptime was quite regular, so it came to my mind the DHCP client 
demon.

It was the DHCP indeed, instead of automatic (that picks up dhclient) I 
switched to dhcpcd and now works like a charm

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: extending /usr partition...

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 22 March 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 14:13 -0700, BRM wrote:
> > With all the words of LVM2 going on, I feel it is only appropriate
> > to also mention the risk.
> >
> > On a desktop I had installed LVM2 considering that I did need to
> > upgrade partitions every now and then and my previous solution was
> > add another drive/partition and cross mount - e.g. like done with
> > /usr/local under /usr, which worked fairly well. LVM2 worked great
> > - until one of the drives crashed and I was trying to figure out
> > what was on it. From that pov, volume management is a pain. I did
> > figure out what I had mounted to it - but only after deconstructing
> > the LVM configuration file to match it up with what I had put
> > there. (And no, I had not yet gotten to doing an LVM soft-RAID
> > solution to map a single LVM partition to two drives, which would
> > certainly have helped.)  I got my system working by adding a new
> > drive that was not part of the volume group, and removing the old
> > drives from the volume group. Fortunately, I had my volume setup so
> > that they one partition was not made up of non-overlaping
> > partitions on different drives. (e.g. partition A  = sda1 + sda2
> > instead of sda1 + sdb1.)
> >
> > So, unless you are looking to use LVM in a soft-RAID solution
> > between multiple physical drives, not multiple partitions on the
> > same drive, (e.g. partition A = sda1 + sda2, with mirror on
> > sdb1+sdb2), then I would not suggest it as should anything happen,
> > it'll make data recovery that much harder.
> >
> > Just 2 cents for the pot.
>
> With or without LVM if you lose a drive then you've lost the data on
> it. LVM does have the capability of assembling a partially damaged
> volume group just not a partially damaged logical volume which, when
> you think about it, makes sense.
>
> And you can also throw in the standard warning about backing up your
> data.

The point is that LVM adds an extra layer of complexity.

I used LVM paired with soft RAID, and when I needed to boot from a 
liveCD I discovered that I had to rebuild the setup by hand.

When you're in trouble it is pristine to have a quick way out instead of 
being "swamped". I had my notes and managed to reckon the configuration 
(cold sweating!), but at the first occasion I reverted my system to 
plain RAID.

Never used LVM for the few Gentoo server I manage.

That said backup+RAID is the way to go.

Cheers
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: extending /usr partition...

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 21 March 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> It's correct, and it also highlights just what a PITA it is to
> manipulate traditional disk partitions. With lvm, this becomes a
> breeze. With ZFS (we might see it one day) this becomes invisible.

I thought it was already there:
sys-fs/zfs-fuse

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Time to move on?

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 22 March 2009, Mike Diehl wrote:
> Now I'm doing an emerge -u world.
>
> But before I could do that, I had to upgrade portage, with made
> sense.
>
> When I go to emerge -u portage, I'm told:
>
> sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-7.1)
>
> So I do:
> emerge -C mktemp
>
> Now I've gotten a whole page of error messages.  The most basic of
> error messages indicates that the system can't load libselinux.so.1.
>
> I'm not using SElinux  Nor do I want to.

I've read the other threads; are you still interested in finding the 
solution to this showstopper ? 

My guess is that the system was already unstable, maybe awaiting for a 
revdep-rebuild. Are you completely blocked or it's possible to fix at 
last the basic elements?

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] splitting and printing big image

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 22 March 2009, Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a PDF document. One of documet's page is a (scalable)
> schematics. Printing the page via my A4 Kyocera isn't suitable - I
> can see a schematics with a lens only :-) Is there a way to split the
> page (into 2 or 4 parts) and ptint parts separately (saving a scale,
> of course)?

Maybe you can convert the page with pdftk to an imagem and then "gimp" 
it.

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: extending /usr partition...

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 22 March 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> [...]
>
> > The point is that LVM adds an extra layer of complexity.
> >
> > I used LVM paired with soft RAID, and when I needed to boot from a
> > liveCD I discovered that I had to rebuild the setup by hand.
>
> You mean the 1 extra command that's needed to assemble a VG?

It wasn't that easy, that's what I did in the end:
1) vgchange -a n
2) vgexport -a
3) vgimport -a
4) vgscan --mknodes
5) vgchange -a y

Maybe 4) and 5) alone would do the trick... I don't remember which 
livecd I used then, except for the fact that I had to reboot 
with "dolvm2" option; now I have a tested "first aid kit" with notes on 
paper (all my notes were on those discs at the time) with well known 
and proven liveCDs.

When I have to resize/redesign my partitions I simply find easier rsync 
plus a reboot.
I rsync the live system while I use it, than reboot to a liveCD to rsync 
the file changed meanwhile (to minimize downtime). So I shortly tossed 
LVM and since I live happily without. 

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

[Francesco Talamona]

On Friday 03 April 2009, Wyatt Epp wrote:
> Greets,
>
> So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things
> that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. 
> Things like the danger of depclean or the way portage will only show
> one mask at a time.  So I was curious...what have people that are
> *not* myself and my mate noticed that is mildly irritating and
> disruptive to the Gentoo experience?
>
> Cheers,
> Wyatt

aemaeth portage # emerge -a1 app-editors/joe-3.5

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependenciest,   

!!! 'app-editors/joe-3.5' is not a valid package atom.
!!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details.
!!! (Did you specify a version but forget to prefix 
with '='?)  

... 
done!
aemaeth portage # emerge -C app-editors/joe-3.5

 app-editors/joe
selected: 3.5 
   protected: none 
 omitted: none 

>>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal.
>>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed.

>>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting...
>>> (Control-C to abort)...
>>> Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1 
>>> Unmerging app-editors/joe-3.5...

 * GNU info directory index is up-to-date.

Why in some circumstances emerge is perfectly able to spot user omission 
and fill-in it automatically, while with other options it just 
complains?

The inability to add missing "=" and the inconsistence annoy me. IMHO 
emerge should be able to add the equal sign when it makes perfect sense 
as it already does sometimes.

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Problem compiling ati-drivers-8.35.5

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 04 August 2007, Herbert Laubner wrote:
> Running revdep-rebuild, I got an error building fgl_glxgears.
>
> Here the section of the build.log
>
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-
> gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> !!! ERROR: x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.35.5 failed.
> Call stack:
>ebuild.sh, line 1632:   Called dyn_compile
>ebuild.sh, line 983:   Called qa_call 'src_compile'
>ebuild.sh, line 44:   Called src_compile
>ati-drivers-8.35.5.ebuild, line 182:   Called die
>
> I have no clue what IGL is, nor if I need it.

It is more likely lowercase "-l" like "Lima" followed by GL as an 
option...

> Could this also cause the problem, that I get a black screen trying
> to stop xorg-server? Right no the only way to shut down the computer
> is to hold the power button till it shuts down :-(
>
>
> Regards,
> Herb

Ciao
Francesco



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[gentoo-user] Re: Can't emerge X11

[Francesco Talamona]

On Wednesday 05 September 2007, Dennis Taylor wrote:
> Fails while building sis_dri.c. I have tracked it to a #define
> problem while compiling. Sis_dri.c includes dri.h which includes
> sis_dri.h. The issue is that XFree86Server is not defined at compile
> time. I have looked around, but not yet figured out how to cause that
> to be defined.

Do you have SIS hardware?

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Can't emerge X11

[Francesco Talamona]

On Wednesday 05 September 2007, Dennis Taylor wrote:
> Francesco Talamona wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 September 2007, Dennis Taylor wrote:
> >> Fails while building sis_dri.c. I have tracked it to a #define
> >> problem while compiling. Sis_dri.c includes dri.h which includes
> >> sis_dri.h. The issue is that XFree86Server is not defined at
> >> compile time. I have looked around, but not yet figured out how to
> >> cause that to be defined.
> >
> > Do you have SIS hardware?
> >
> > Ciao
> > Francesco
>
> No SIS hardware that I know of--lspci shows Matrox, but no SIS.  Is
> there a flag to tell it explicitly which video card(s) I want to
> support?  I know there must be a manual to read, but I have not been
> smart enough to find it.

Then you have to set VIDEO_CARDS (and INPUT_DEVICES) in /etc/make.conf.
See also http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml

HTH
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Sound doesn't work in Flash

[Francesco Talamona]

On Wednesday 05 September 2007, Daniel wrote:
> Interestingly enough, running "aos firefox" results in a "command not
> found"

It's aoss (/usr/bin/aoss), and belongs to 
media-libs/alsa-oss

HTH
Francesco
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[gentoo-user] Re: Qemu compilation fails

[Francesco Talamona]

On Thursday 06 September 2007, Marco Antônio da Veiga wrote:
> CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"

I could install qemu and qemu-softmmu 0.9.0 with gcc 3.4.6 and 

CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: No ogg sounds

[Francesco Talamona]

On Thursday 20 September 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> USE="64bit widescreen -gnome offensive slang unicode mozdevelop kde \
>      kdecards xinerama opengl qt3 X arts avi live matroska mpeg \
>      oggvorbis real theora xanim X aac opengl sdl xv dvd dvdnav
> dvdread \ 3dnow 3dnow2 mmx mmx2 mmxext sse sse2 3dnowext a52"
>
> oggvorbis is selected.

"ogg" and "vorbis" are two flags :-)

Put a space between them, and recompile affected programs (emerge -aN 
world).

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Backups

[Francesco Talamona]

On Monday 01 October 2007, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> P.s : Actually rebuilding from these saved dumps requires a little
> thought - I'll post the steps if anyone new to dumps is interested in
> using this method  for themselves.

Yes, please.
I'm not completely new to dump, but I'd like to read about a complete 
dump-backup solution.

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Lilo & ReiserFS on 64 bits

[Francesco Talamona]

On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Philip Webb wrote:
> I've just done a diff on the 'x86' & 'amd64' versions of the
> Handbook. The latter warns against using ReiserFS or Lilo on a 64-bit
> system, both of which are my longstanding preferences.
> I plan to install the 64-bit version of Gentoo on my new box.
> Does anyone have experience or advice to offer in this area ?
>
> (Thanks to those who commented re quad-cores: I plan to get a Core 2
> Duo)
>

I never liked grub, so I kept LILO when I switched to 64 bit. It works 
like a charm.

I also used ReiserFS with mild satisfaction.

IIRC you have to use special mount option to use ReiserFS for /boot 
partition.

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Backups

[Francesco Talamona]

On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> $ mkfs.xfs  /dev/sda9
> $ mkdir /xfsrestore
> $ mount /dev/sda9 /xfsrestore
> $ cd /xfsrestore
> $ tar -jxvf  xfsdump-2.2.45.tbz2
> $ cd usr/bin
> $ rm xfsdump xfsrestore
> $ ln -s /xfsrestore/sbin/xfsdump xfsdump
> $ ln -s /xfsrestore/sbin/xfsrestore xfsrestore
> $ export PATH=$PATH:/xfsrestore/sbin:/xfsrestore/usr/bin
>
>
> 5. Restore dumps
>
> Use the contents of df.out to figure out which dump should be
> restored on which device! then temporily mount each filesystem and
> restore it.

First of all, thanks for sharing.

I used to think xfs was overkill for /boot, but the procedure described 
is quite straightforward.

There are two things I don't understand:

1) why do you delete xfsdump and xfsrestore in /xfsrestore/usr/bin/ just 
extracted to link them to /xfsrestore/sbin

2) the use of df.out isn't clear to me, isn't the dump file name enough 
to know what is in there?

Ciao
Francesco
 
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[gentoo-user] Re: Backups

[Francesco Talamona]

> P.s: You are quite correct that xfs is overkill for /boot. However I
> just found it easier to xfs everything (otherwise I'd have to use
> different dump programs depending on what I was backing up etc... ).
> To me this is more important than the fact that it wastes disk space
> a bit (my /boot uses a 128M partition but only gets 93M to actually
> use...and it uses 11M of that! - but disks are quite big now...)

Now everything makes sense. I definitely learned something new.

Ciao
Francesco
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[gentoo-user] Re: Lilo & ReiserFS on 64 bits

[Francesco Talamona]

On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Neil Walker wrote:
> Francesco Talamona wrote:
> > IIRC you have to use special mount option to use ReiserFS for /boot
> > partition.
>
> Using reiserfs on a /boot partition is just plain silly. ;)
> Furthermore, in this day and age, why would you even want a /boot
> partition? FWIW, using reiserfs on my 64bit systems (Opteron,
> Athlon64, Pentium D, Athlon X2, Core2  Duo) works fine without any
> issues or hoops to jump through with  /boot  on the  / partition.
>

Note: I'm not advertising ReiserFS for /boot :-)

I think that any choice is good, given that you know what are doing; see 
the other thread (Backups), where is shown as xfs can be a good choice 
for /boot.

That said I always used ext2 for /boot (or not kept it on a separate 
partition).

Ciao
Francesco 

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[gentoo-user] Re: manually executing an ebuild file (emerge fails)

[Francesco Talamona]

On Wednesday 17 October 2007, Thufir wrote:
> I would like to "manually" execute an ebuild file from a website to
> install a package because it can't be emerged normally.
>
> The downloads section of  leads to
> 
> which interests me because of how mondo fails to emerge:
[...]
> Thufir

Please see:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176738

Ciao
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[gentoo-user] Re: Multiple error messages for each keystroke in nano

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 17 May 2008, Bob Young wrote:
> Can anybody explain what's going on here, and tell me how I can fix
> it?
>
>  
>
> BTW, if I edit with vi.everything works fine, and of course typing at
> the console works okay as well.

Just a guess... Did you run etc-update?

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: pear hangs no FUTEX_WAIT

[Francesco Talamona]

On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Frank Gruellich wrote:
> * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 20. May 08:
> > Even the simple "pear" command from the command line hangs, strace
> > show that it hangs at
> >
> > futex(0x2ac88d5093a0, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL
>
> I had this problem with rpm waiting for a lock in its DB.  This
> futex() call waits forever, that at memory address 0x2ac88d5093a0
> appears a 2. Try to figure out what's mapped on 0x2ac88d5093a0 and
> what could write a 2 to it but doesn't.  It should also appear
> somewhere in the strace. Maybe this gives a clue what it is waiting
> for.
>
> HTH.  Kind regards,
>  Frank.
> --
> Sigmentation fault

I can try tomorrow morning... Never thought to see what's in the 
address, it could give me a clue.

I was able to install PEAR-PEAR in the past, now it hangs too, there 
must be something obvious. 

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Detecting printers at a remote site

[Francesco Talamona]

> I don't have nc and so far cannot find what package might contain it.

nc is in net-analyzer/netcat

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: DMRAID and complex setups

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 05 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote:
> - Could I disable the kernel auto-detection and instead add a custom
> init-script prior to checkfs and localmount?

It's impractical, check carefully all partitions with

mdadm -E 

If it's not automatically assembled but you can do it manually, it means 
something is fooling mdadm.

Try also to comment ARRAY lines in /etc/mdadm.conf.

HTH
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: problems building php

[Francesco Talamona]

On Wednesday 09 July 2008, Michael George wrote:
> Has anyone else had this problem?

Can you compile without the imap flag?

Maybe some underlying lib is missing...

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Can't complete emerge world.

[Francesco Talamona]

On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Mike Diehl wrote:
> What do I need to do to get past this?
>
> TIA,
> --
> Mike Diehl

Try this command, what gives you?

emerge -av =sys-libs/ss-1.40.9 =sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.40.9 
=sys-libs/com_err-1.40.9

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] updatedb/locate - reasons to use

[Francesco Talamona]

On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Alex Schuster wrote:
> emerge -C slocate && emerge mlocate && time updatedb && time updatedb
>
> mlocate is supposed to be compatible with slocate, but the updatedb
> command runs much faster.

Your test doesn't proof anything!! Many information are cached and 
available for some time, this is a desirable feature and a good use of 
the system memory. Your conclusion may be wrong, or right, or ... who 
knows?

This is what I have with slocate:

aemaeth ~ # time updatedb ; time updatedb

real3m1.687s
user0m2.209s
sys 0m7.339s

real0m7.005s
user0m2.054s
sys 0m3.005s

Cheers
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: unicode losting

[Francesco Talamona]

On Thursday 14 August 2008, Rev. Ferris wrote:
> Hi,
> I update last month to new profile (using eselect) and since that
> time I nitice that my unicode doesn't work properly.
> I configured my gentoo-box using unicode wiki on gentoo website, but
> it seems that new profile disactives my unicode setting and by update
> I lost unicode support.
> How can I solve it?
> Thank you,
> Luigi

A similar thing happened to me too. You just have to follow again the 
instructions in the Gentoo wiki.

Please tell us more, what is the content of
/etc/locale.gen
/etc/env.d/02locale

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: df and du difference

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 16 August 2008, Dale wrote:
> Sebastian may have more and better ideas but if a reboot gave you
> some space back, then you should check the tmp directories that are
> usually cleared when rebooting.  I notice that in your list /tmp
> takes up 3.8Gb which is a good bit. May want to see what is in there.
>
> Just my thoughts.

Absolutely right! Double check what's stuffing /tmp. You also could try 
to mount /tmp on a larger partition (like /usr and /var).

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning out my world file

[Francesco Talamona]

On Friday 15 August 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 08:38 -0500, Dale wrote:
> > Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > On Friday 15 August 2008 14:36:58 Dale wrote:
> > >> Somewhat still on the same subject since I am still cleaning. 
> > >> Anyway to clean out unneeded files in /etc?  I'm thinking about
> > >> files that may be there but the programs are no longer
> > >> installed.  I read the man page for dep but didn't see anything.
> > >>  Dang thing does a lot tho.
> > >
> > > You could use the very long way round, something based on this:
> > >
> > > find /etc/ -type f -exec equery belongs {} \;
> > >
> > > then leave it alone for an hour or three
> >
> > H, I had to stop that after a few minutes.  It sort of took
> > away from my folding.  Pushed my CPU to about 80% or so.
> >
> > There has to be a tool for this too.  Gentoo has about everything
> > else.
>
> I do a similar thing every month as a cron job.  It' runs at night so
> I just get an email the next day.
>
> --
> #!/bin/bash
>
> # Print out orphan files in specified directories
>
> find /etc -xdev -type f -print|xargs qfile -o
> find /usr -xdev \( -path /usr/src -prune \) -o -type f -not -name
> '*.pyc' \
> -not -name '*.pyo' -not -name .keep  -print | \
> xargs qfile -o
> find /lib -xdev \( -path /lib/modules -prune \) -o -type f |xargs
> qfile -o

It doesn't handle filenames with spaces, I tried with 

find /etc -xdev -type f -exec qfile -o {} \;

that works with spaces, but has awful performances, so that's completely 
unusable on /usr.

BTW I also tried to remove false positive hiding /usr/portage and the 
overlays folder .

Does anyone know how to deal with spaces (to avoid false positives) and 
keep reasonable running times?

TIA
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Cleaning out my world file

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 17 August 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 08:00 +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote:
> > It doesn't handle filenames with spaces, I tried with
> >
> > find /etc -xdev -type f -exec qfile -o {} \;
> >
> > that works with spaces, but has awful performances, so that's
> > completely
> > unusable on /usr.
> >
> > BTW I also tried to remove false positive hiding /usr/portage and
> > the overlays folder .
> >
> > Does anyone know how to deal with spaces (to avoid false positives)
> > and
> > keep reasonable running times?
>
> Change "-print" to "-print0" and change "xargs" to "xargs -0".
>
> I should also say that that script is not fool-proof.  It goes under
> the assumption that files are always going to be installed by the
> ebuild src_install process.  Experience shows this is not always the
> case.  For example the *.pyc files, some, /etc/*, font-cache files,
> etc. are installed during post-install and so are not "recorded" by
> portage as belonging to a package.  Common sense always prevails.  Of
> course a person cleaning out an /etc/ dir that you hasn't been
> cleaned out in five years is going to require considerably more
> "common sense" than one who cleaned theirs out last month.
>
> I've also modified the script to exclude /usr/portage and /usr/local
> (they were on separate filesystems for me so I didn't need to).  You
> may need to tweak it further for your needs.
>
> -a

It works very well. It's perfect for the purpose.
I already found many leftover here and there.

As you say the script gives clues, but obviously it can't be automated.

Thanks
FT  

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[gentoo-user] test

[Francesco Talamona]

test

[gentoo-user] Re: problem with a slow rsync server

[Francesco Talamona]

On Thursday 11 September 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 180 seconds is 5 minutes

???

60*3 = 180

5 minutes are 300 seconds

 :-)

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: A huge list

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 27 September 2008, econti wrote:
> Hi all,
> running revdep-rebuild I see a very long list of broken linking (see
> the attached gzipped file of the revdep-rebuild output).
> At the end revdep-rebuild emerge orbit and libbonobo.
> After that I ran revdep-rebuild again: same long list and same
> packages to emerge.
> That for three times (then I stopped).
> What can I do to eliminate that long list and to avoid to emerge
> every time orbit and libbonobo?
>
> Ragards
> emilio

It seems like you unmerged needed packages, for example imagemagick and 
x11-libs/gtk+.

Please post the output of:

emerge -uavD --newuse --with- bdeps y world

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: A huge list

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 27 September 2008, econti wrote:
> Francesco Talamona ha scritto:
> > On Saturday 27 September 2008, econti wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> running revdep-rebuild I see a very long list of broken linking
> >> (see the attached gzipped file of the revdep-rebuild output).
> >> At the end revdep-rebuild emerge orbit and libbonobo.
> >> After that I ran revdep-rebuild again: same long list and same
> >> packages to emerge.
> >> That for three times (then I stopped).
> >> What can I do to eliminate that long list and to avoid to emerge
> >> every time orbit and libbonobo?
> >>
> >> Ragards
> >> emilio
> >
> > It seems like you unmerged needed packages, for example imagemagick
> > and x11-libs/gtk+.
>
> Both imagemagick (6.4.0.6) and gtk+ (2.12.11) are installed.
>
> > Please post the output of:
> >
> > emerge -uavD --newuse --with- bdeps y world
>
> The output is: nothing!
>
> > Ciao
> > Francesco
>
> Ciao
> emilio

aemaeth ~ # equery belongs libdb.so.2 libgdk-1.2.so.0 libglib-1.2.so.0 
libgmodule-1.2.so.0 libgtk-1.2.so.0
[ Searching for file(s) 
libdb.so.2,libgdk-1.2.so.0,libglib-1.2.so.0,libgmodule-1.2.so.0,libgtk-1.2.so.0 
in *... ]
x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r12 (/usr/lib64/libgdk-1.2.so.0 -> 
libgdk-1.2.so.0.9.1)
x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r12 (/usr/lib64/libgtk-1.2.so.0 -> 
libgtk-1.2.so.0.9.1)
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20080316 
(/usr/lib32/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 -> libgmodule-1.2.so.0.0.10)
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20080316 
(/usr/lib32/libglib-1.2.so.0 -> libglib-1.2.so.0.0.10)
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20071214 
(/usr/lib32/libgtk-1.2.so.0 -> libgtk-1.2.so.0.9.1)
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20071214 
(/usr/lib32/libgdk-1.2.so.0 -> libgdk-1.2.so.0.9.1)
dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5 (/usr/lib64/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 -> 
libgmodule-1.2.so.0.0.10)
dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5 (/usr/lib64/libglib-1.2.so.0 -> 
libglib-1.2.so.0.0.10)

What about reinstalling gtk+, glib, emul-linux-x86-baselibs and 
emul-linux-x86-gtklibs, than rerun revdep-rebuild?
The huge list should be shorter, then.

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: lsof-4.81 working for anybody?

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 26 October 2008, Holger Hoffstaette wrote:
> I just tried the latest lsof-4.81 in ~x86 an dit doesn't seem to do
> anything - no output, it just silently returns. 4.80-r1 works just
> fine and always has. Does anybody else see this behaviour?
> Just making sure it's not something on my end before I hassle b.g.o.
>
> thanks
> Holger

Same silent behaviour on my amd64. Let me downgrade now...

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Heliodor?

[Francesco Talamona]

> echo 'x11-wm/heliodor' > /etc/portage/package.keywords
> emerge -av heliodor

Do the following, instead :)
echo 'x11-wm/heliodor ~amd64' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

Bye
Francesco


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[gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

[Francesco Talamona]

On Thursday 05 April 2007, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I used rxvt for many years until cut/paste stopped working for
> me a couple years back.

Me too!!
I was in love with rxvt... So I switched to (urxvt) 
x11-terms/rxvt-unicode, it is basically the same but fully functional.

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Francesco Talamona]

On Saturday 07 April 2007, William Kenworthy wrote:
> I have one quite old machine that was an early upgrade to gcc 4.1. 
> As a consequence, I have an error that was apparently due to some
> bugs in the upgrade process that for me appears (only) in
> net-print/gnome-cups-manager-0.31-r2.
>
> ../libgnomecups/.libs/libgnomecupsui-1.0.so: undefined reference to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>
> After the original update, I did an "emerge -e world", numerous
> rebuilds of  net-print/gnome-cups-manager-0.31-r2 and recently
> "emerge -e net-print/gnome-cups-manager-0.31-r2".  I have run
> fix-libtools against every version of gcc that genlop shows has been
> installed on this system with no luck. (yes I have seen and followed
> the various guides on gentoo about this error :(
>
> It must be picking up an old lib somewhere - but which? Any
> suggestions?
>
> BillK
>
>
>
> --
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> Home!

Have you tried revdep-rebuild?

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: NFS vs. jumbo frames

[Francesco Talamona]

On Monday 23 April 2007, kashani wrote:
> Tony Stohne wrote:
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > Uwe Thiem said the following on 2007-04-23 17:53:
> >> Just curious: What kind of network (layer 2) is this that allows
> >> an MTU of 9000?
> >>
> >> Uwe
> >
> > It sounds like Gigabit Ethernet to me.
>
> Keep in mind that not all fastE or gigE switches support jumbo
> frames. Additionally not all cards support jumbo frames either though
> you can certainly set them to an MTU of 9000 and watch things break.
Some cards do support jumbo frames, but up to values lower than 9000, 
for example I set up a NFS over a gbit link with jumbo frames with an 
MTU of 7200 because this was the lower common.

> To the original poster, I'd do some googling and verify that all the
> network cards and switches involved can do jumbo frames and that it
> is enabled on each device as needed.
>
> kashani

Based on my experience I would add to verify also the upper MTU value 
really supported.

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: Backing up my box

[Francesco Talamona]

On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Mark Somerville wrote:
> I've got an 8Gb Gentoo virtual machine that I'm working out a backup
> plan for. Since the disk space is pretty small, I'm thinking about
> just taking a full image of the disk for backups, rather than
> cherry-picking DBs, mail, etc.
>
> I'd like to take a full image every day (but only transfer the
> differences), which I'll store for a week. Does this sound like a
> reasonable enough approach?
>
> My initial thoughts were just to use rsync to grab everything. Would
> this be appropriate for this kind of backup? Is there a better tool
> to get the job done?
>
> Any suggestions appreciated,
>
> Mark

(Supposing both boxes are Linux ones) Sometime I use 
app-backup/rdiff-backup, it's quite easy and effective.

Ciao
Francesco
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[gentoo-user] Re: Cannot configure Synaptics Touchpad - Disabling Tapping & synclient

[Francesco Talamona]

On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Matthias Guede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This may not be exactly what you are looking for. But with
> > "ksynaptics" (kde-misc/ksynaptics) tapping can be disabled - and it
> > works, at least for me.
>
> With gsynaptics, tapping can be disabled as well. But how do
> I use ksynaptics with XFCE?
>
> Alexander Skwar

Xfce isn't so picky :-)

Even if you haven't KDE few packages are required:

aemaeth ~ # emerge -pe ksynaptics | grep "\ kde"
[ebuild   R   ] kde-base/arts-3.5.5  
[ebuild   R   ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.6-r5  
[ebuild  N] kde-misc/ksynaptics-0.3.1  USE="arts -debug -xinerama"

But there are 94 for x11-* ...

YMMV: this result is dependent on the flags set in my system, maybe arts 
can be avoided.

Ciao
Francesco
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[gentoo-user] [OT] amarok and mp3 file rename

[Francesco Talamona]

After xmms was phased out, I chose to use Amarok. Now that I have 
listened and rated some thousands of mp3 I would like to be able to 
rename/move files without loosing rating and scoring information.

I'm under the impression that once I did it inside Amarok, but now I 
can't find anything useful.

Those are the USE flags Amarok was compiled with:
[ebuild   R   ] media-sound/amarok-1.4.5-r1  USE="aac arts 
daap -debug -ifp -ipod kde -mtp musicbrainz mysql -njb -noamazon opengl 
postgres (-real) visualization -xinerama"

Any ideas?
cheers
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] amarok and mp3 file rename

[Francesco Talamona]

On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 May 2007 19:08:54 Francesco Talamona wrote:
> > After xmms was phased out, I chose to use Amarok. Now that I have
> > listened and rated some thousands of mp3 I would like to be able to
> > rename/move files without loosing rating and scoring information.
> >
> > I'm under the impression that once I did it inside Amarok, but now
> > I can't find anything useful.
>
> Right click on one or more track(s) -> Manage files -> Organize
> file(s) ?

Thanks, man we are getting closer!

I hadn't that option because I never defined a collection, having added 
files from time to time.

Still there's something wrong: the option "Edit Tag 'Filename'" is 
always shaded.

Furthermore "organize" is trying to create many subfolders, I don't wont 
to mess around with the base folder, many mp3 have incomplete/wrong 
meta-informations and would end in random places...

FWIW my user have full permissions on the collection folders.

Thanks. Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] amarok and mp3 file rename

[Francesco Talamona]

On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Mauro Faccenda wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 May 2007 15:02, Francesco Talamona wrote:
> > Thanks, man we are getting closer!
> >
> > I hadn't that option because I never defined a collection, having
> > added files from time to time.
> >
> > Still there's something wrong: the option "Edit Tag 'Filename'" is
> > always shaded.
> >
> > Furthermore "organize" is trying to create many subfolders, I don't
> > wont to mess around with the base folder, many mp3 have
> > incomplete/wrong meta-informations and would end in random
> > places...
> >
> > FWIW my user have full permissions on the collection folders.
>
> man, you can define the way amarok will organize the files/folders.
>
> add the files to your library and in the "collection" panel or in the
> playlist, select the songs you want to edit the tags and do it. you
> can also use musicbrainz to lookup the tags of the file for you (not
> quite accurate, but for mostly known songs, it works).
>
> i dont think you can edit the filename directly in the
> playlist/collection.
>
> its better you to correct the tags and tell amarok to organize the
> files for you, since it can do it in the way you want.

If it's the only way, I'll be more flexible than the program, but I 
wished I had more control over the reordering criterion...

Thanks. Ciao
Francesco


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[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] amarok and mp3 file rename

[Francesco Talamona]

On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Francesco Talamona wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Mauro Faccenda wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 May 2007 15:02, Francesco Talamona wrote:
> If it's the only way, I'll be more flexible than the program, but I
> wished I had more control over the reordering criterion...

Replying to myself (in the meantine I answered 2 lengthy phone calls)...

It is "Custom format" in "File naming scheme" under organize collection 
files.
It should do what I want. I'm going to do some tests.

Ciao
Francesco

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[gentoo-user] Re: slocate's index

[Francesco Talamona]

On Monday 07 May 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Graham Murray wrote:
> > Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > /etc is in CONFIG_PROTECT by default.  The point is, when a
> > > file doesn't exist yet, Portage will simply install it.  The
> > > config protection mechanism works only for existing files.
> > > There's no way to tell Portage that I want to be alerted of
> > > _new config files too.
> >
> > Which is maybe something worth raising an enhancement bug on,
>
> Done: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177560
>
> Quote:
> "  When a file under CONFIG_PROTECT doesn't exist yet, Portage
> simply installs it.  It would be nice to have an option (say
> --protectforreal) that makes emerge create a .cfg__* file also
> when the destination file does not exist yet in the CONFIG_PROTECT
> area.  When first installing a system, one wouldn't want to use
> this option, but once a system is fully installed and stable, I
> wish to know about every change and addition in /etc."
>
> Benno

It's an original idea, but the first comment to the report isn't 
encouraging...

I would add in a comment to the bug a pointer to the mailing list 
archive, but i can't find one, maybe reading this thread would be more 
convincing.

Ciao
Francesco
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[gentoo-user] Re: slocate's index

[Francesco Talamona]

On Tuesday 08 May 2007, Anno v. Heimburg wrote:
> Francesco Talamona wrote:
> > I would add in a comment to the bug a pointer to the mailing list
> > archive, but i can't find one
>
> I added a link to this discussion.
>
> Anno.

Well done, thanks.
Francesco



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[gentoo-user] Re: Corrupt USB pen drive

[Francesco Talamona]

On Thursday 17 May 2007, Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A colleague used a USB stick on his home machine and when he brought
> it to work he can no longer access it using WinXP.  I offered to help
> with my Gentoo laptop (as one ought to rise to the challenge!) but it
> seems that Linux is also struggling to get to it:
> ==
> usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
> usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> usb-storage: device found at 2
> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
> scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access  USB BAR  1.89 PQ: 0
> ANSI: 2 SCSI device sda: 255744 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> SCSI device sda: 255744 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
>  sda: unknown partition table
> sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
> sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
> usb-storage: device scan complete
> UDF-fs: No VRS found
> Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
> FAT: bogus logical sector size 65535
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.
> NTFS-fs warning (device sda): is_boot_sector_ntfs(): Invalid boot
> sector checksum.
> NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot
> sector is invalid.
> NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option
> errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover.
> NTFS-fs error (device sda): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.
> hfs: can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda.
> VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda.
> VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda.
> ReiserFS: sda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find
> reiserfs on sda
> ==
>
> I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard
> drive, but it cannot access /dev/sda.  Is there anything that I can
> do with my Gentoo to recover the files on this USB?

If you have usb support built modular in the kernel it worth a try to 
force the laptopo to USB 1.1 so it can read a reluctant key (I once had 
a key that stopped working on USB 2.0 but was perfectly readable by 
older PCs).

You can then try ddrescue, a dd clone that is specifically designed to 
skip errors on bad media for recovery attempt.

Good luck
Francesco.

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[gentoo-user] Re: smbd starts slow.

[Francesco Talamona]

On Sunday 24 June 2007, David Harel wrote:
> /etc/init.d/smbd (Version 3.0.24) starts slow. Any idea?

Very high log level?
Ciao
Francesco

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