[gentoo-user] Can't emerge blender
Hi, I returned to gentoo to be able to install blender 2.4*. Well, the ebuild is there, but ... emerge blender ... g++ -pipe -funsigned-char -march=i686 -O2 -pipe -Wall -W -DGAMEBLENDER=1 -DUSE_BULLET -DUSE_SUMO_SOLID -DNDEBUG -DFTGL_STATIC_LIBRARY -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/FTGL -I/var/tmp/portage/blender-2.41-r1/work/build/linux2/source/blender/ftfont -Isource/blender/ftfont -Isource/blender/ftfont -I/var/tmp/portage/blender-2.41-r1/work/build/linux2/source/blender/ftfont/intern -Isource/blender/ftfont/intern -Isource/blender/ftfont/intern -I/var/tmp/portage/blender-2.41-r1/work/build/linux2/source/blender/blenkernel -Isource/blender/blenkernel -Isource/blender/blenkernel -I/var/tmp/portage/blender-2.41-r1/work/build/linux2/source/blender/blenlib -Isource/blender/blenlib -Isource/blender/blenlib -I/var/tmp/portage/blender-2.41-r1/work/build/linux2/source/blender/makesdna -Isource/blender/makesdna -Isource/blender/makesdna -c -o /var/tmp/portage/blender-2.41-r1/work/build/linux2/source/blender/ftfont/intern/FTF_Api.o source/blender/ftfont/intern/FTF_Api.cpp In file included from source/blender/ftfont/intern/FTF_Api.cpp:44: source/blender/ftfont/intern/FTF_TTFont.h:40:28: error: FTGLPixmapFont.h: No such file or directory source/blender/ftfont/intern/FTF_TTFont.h:41:29: error: FTGLTextureFont.h: No such file or directory source/blender/ftfont/intern/FTF_TTFont.h:115: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'FTFont' with no type source/blender/ftfont/intern/FTF_TTFont.h:115: error: expected ';' before '*' token source/blender/ftfont/intern/FTF_TTFont.h:117: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'FTFont' with no type source/blender/ftfont/intern/FTF_TTFont.h:117: error: expected ';' before '*' token source/blender/ftfont/intern/FTF_TTFont.h:118: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'FTFont' with no type source/blender/ftfont/intern/FTF_TTFont.h:118: error: expected ';' before '*' token source/blender/ftfont/intern/FTF_TTFont.h:119: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'FTFont' with no type source/blender/ftfont/intern/FTF_TTFont.h:119: error: expected ';' before '*' token scons: *** [/var/tmp/portage/blender-2.41-r1/work/build/linux2/source/blender/ftfont/intern/FTF_Api.o] Error 1 scons: building terminated because of errors. !!! ERROR: media-gfx/blender-2.41-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 937: Called src_compile blender-2.41-r1.ebuild, line 105: Called die !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. I've done so far: - installed from the 206.1 life CD - changed the USE flags due to my needs - emerged sync - emerged newuse There is a bug mentioned on blender.org, that 2.4* won't build with gcc 4.1.*, but the error seems to be something different. I had a look into FTF_TTFont.h. The files FTGLPixmapFont.h and FTGLTextureFont.h are in fact included from there but they are located in /var/tmp/portage/blender-2.41-r1/work/blender/extern/bFTGL/include/, which is not amongst the -I switches for gcc. I solved the problem (for me with a quick and dirty trick). I copied the files in the dir mentioned above into ~/blenderincs, started the emerge and fired ``cp ~/blenderincs/*.h /var/tmp/portage/blender-2.41-r1/work/blender/source/blender/ftfont/intern'', which is amongst the -I switches. The build went well and blender seems to be up and running. Regards Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Lost my window manager
Hi, I use to use Fluxbox as my window manager. I upgraded world 2 times without a restart (I think there were new versions of portage too). Now I had to shutdown and boot. After logging in and typing the magic command "startx" TWM comes up. How do I get back fluxbox a s the dafault window manager? Thanks Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Once again - Can't build Blender
Hi, I've posted this former After the start of the blender bulid (after the sources are unpacked) I have to (from another shell): cp /var/tmp/portage/blender-2.41-r1/work/blender/extern/bFTGL/include/* /var/tmp/portage/blender-2.41-r1/work/build/linux2/source/blender/ftfont/intern The build goes well but then: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: warning: libdirectfb-0.9.so.24, needed by /usr/lib/libSDL.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: warning: libfusion-0.9.so.24, needed by /usr/lib/libSDL.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: warning: libdirect-0.9.so.24, needed by /usr/lib/libSDL.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) /usr/lib/libSDL.so: undefined reference to `DirectFBCreate' /usr/lib/libSDL.so: undefined reference to `DirectFBErrorString' /usr/lib/libSDL.so: undefined reference to `DirectFBError' /usr/lib/libSDL.so: undefined reference to `DirectFBInit' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status scons: *** [blender] Error 1 scons: building terminated because of errors. !!! ERROR: media-gfx/blender-2.41-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 937: Called src_compile blender-2.41-r1.ebuild, line 105: Called die So my quick'n dirty trick copying include files doesn't work anymore. :-( Why did I rebuild Blender??? Easy! After an ``emgerge -u world'' Blender didn't find libraries. Any hint? Thanks F. PS: Blender was the reason to return to Gentoo. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to become root on 2006.0
Hi. ... and thanks for the quick reply. A lot has changed with the Gentoo installation since the last time I've installed it ... and it looks great ;) I'm not so sure about the formatting question with the installer. There is a possibility to not partition the disk but there is no option to not format the root partition. Is there a way to do so? ... or will an older version of the installation handbook work (installing from the text console without formatting the disks)? Regards Frank On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 13:19 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 8/1/06, frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a way to do this with 2006.0? There was a way with older Gentoo > > versions, with Slack, with LFS ... > > Not sure what question you are asking here...do you just need to know > how to login as root when staring at the Gnome desktop of the liveCD? > If so, Ctrl+Alt+F1 will give you a root console shell, where you can > change the root password to something not random. Then you can switch > back to X if you like and do an "su - root" from a terminal window to > get root access there. Or you can just continue to work on the > console. > > -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to become root on 2006.0
Well, maybe I'll simply following the handbook. Xcuse me ;) Frank PS: Maybe I was simply too impressed by the installer. Great work! 8) On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 19:51 +0000, frank wrote: > Hi, > > My problem: > I try to reinstall Gentoo over an existing Gentoo installation. My > provider has changed to DHCP, so I have no inet connection from the old > system (there was no reason to install something DHCP related). > There is a lot of data on the disk (1 big partition plus swap and boot) > cca 3 GB in my home, cca 2 GB in oracle's home and cca 4 GB in the home > of a user ``tester``. > My old system is experimental, I planned to change to stable for a long > time already. > I do not have a DVD burner. > > How do I want to solve it: > Start the live-CD, mount the old root partition and delete everything > except /home and /opt. > Install the new system without repartitioning it and without formatting > the partitions (I'm happy with these I have ;). > > Is there a way to do this with 2006.0? There was a way with older Gentoo > versions, with Slack, with LFS ... > > Excuse me that I don't search the forums. I'm connected now using the > live-CD. > > BTW: I have inet connection after booting from the live-cd. This is gone > away after starting an as-if-install. > > Thanks for any help > Frank > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall
Hi all, I've decided to reinstall my system to a stable one (I used ~x86 before). To prepare the disk I've wiped out all of / except /home and all of /boot. Th installation (according to the handbook) went smoothly. The new kernel starts up and then I get an VFS error saying that there is an invalid boot option root= ... and panics. /boot on /dev/hda1 or (hd0,0) is ext2, / on /dev/hda3 or (hd0,2) Here is my menu.lst: default 0 timeout 30 title=Initial root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r4_initial root=/dev/hda3 I've set up grub this way: grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) grub quit The kernel is configured for ext2 and ext3 filesystems. Has anyone an Idea? I don't have further :( Thanks in advance Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall
Well, a little typo: extend / ... is ext3 Frank On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 10:30 +, frank wrote: > Hi all, > > I've decided to reinstall my system to a stable one (I used ~x86 > before). > > To prepare the disk I've wiped out all of / except /home and all > of /boot. > > Th installation (according to the handbook) went smoothly. > > The new kernel starts up and then I get an VFS error saying that there > is an invalid boot option root= ... and panics. > > /boot on /dev/hda1 or (hd0,0) is ext2, / on /dev/hda3 or (hd0,2) > > Here is my menu.lst: > > default 0 > timeout 30 > > title=Initial > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r4_initial root=/dev/hda3 > > I've set up grub this way: > grub> root (hd0,0) > grub> setup (hd0) > grub quit > > The kernel is configured for ext2 and ext3 filesystems. > > Has anyone an Idea? I don't have further :( > > Thanks in advance > Frank > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall
Just a bit more info, I've rebooted into the new system. Here's the whole message: ... VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 10:30 +, frank wrote: > Hi all, > > I've decided to reinstall my system to a stable one (I used ~x86 > before). > > To prepare the disk I've wiped out all of / except /home and all > of /boot. > > Th installation (according to the handbook) went smoothly. > > The new kernel starts up and then I get an VFS error saying that there > is an invalid boot option root= ... and panics. > > /boot on /dev/hda1 or (hd0,0) is ext2, / on /dev/hda3 or (hd0,2) > > Here is my menu.lst: > > default 0 > timeout 30 > > title=Initial > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r4_initial root=/dev/hda3 > > I've set up grub this way: > grub> root (hd0,0) > grub> setup (hd0) > grub quit > > The kernel is configured for ext2 and ext3 filesystems. > > Has anyone an Idea? I don't have further :( > > Thanks in advance > Frank > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall
Right, fstab still isn't relevant here. It is a grub/kernel problem. Regards Frank On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 13:58 +0200, Mirek Dvořák wrote: > what about fstab? > Mirek > > 2006/8/20, frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Just a bit more info, I've rebooted into the new system. > Here's the > whole message: > > ... > VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(0,0) > > > > On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 10:30 +, frank wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've decided to reinstall my system to a stable one (I used > ~x86 > > before). > > > > To prepare the disk I've wiped out all of / except /home and > all > > of /boot. > > > > Th installation (according to the handbook) went smoothly. > > > > The new kernel starts up and then I get an VFS error saying > that there > > is an invalid boot option root= ... and panics. > > > > /boot on /dev/hda1 or (hd0,0) is ext2, / on /dev/hda3 or > (hd0,2) > > > > Here is my menu.lst: > > > > default 0 > > timeout 30 > > > > title=Initial > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r4_initial root=/dev/hda3 > > > > I've set up grub this way: > > grub> root (hd0,0) > > grub> setup (hd0) > > grub quit > > > > The kernel is configured for ext2 and ext3 filesystems. > > > > Has anyone an Idea? I don't have further :( > > > > Thanks in advance > > Frank > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall
Well, I didn't see any reason to try this. The kernel should know where
the root filesystem lives.
I've tried it just now:
The panic is the same. The only difference is that the unknown device is
(hd3,3).
I've even tried to set "root=(hd0,2)" (I know, this is NOT what ``info
grub'' says) :o(
Just the same .
See if we can solve this. For so far: the ~x86 system worked better ;(
Regards
Frank
On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 15:16 +, iccc wrote:
> Graham Murray wrote:
> > "Mirek Dvořák" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> what about fstab?
> >> Mirek
> >
> > Is fstab relevant at this point? As surely /etc/fstab cannot be read
> > until after the root ('/') filesystem is mounted, and this is what is
> > failing.
> >
> Did you try to boot without the "root=" option?
--
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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem booting after reinstall
No, I never use genkernel and I use modules only for things I need once a year (loop, ramdisk, ... ) or things which can't be built into the kernel. Just now I tried the vanilla kernel. Let's see what the reboot brings up. Regards Frank On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 10:16 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:16:01 -0700 > Richard Fish wrote: > > > On 8/20/06, frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Has anyone an Idea? I don't have further :( > > > > Since the kernel is being found it is not a grub setup problem. > > > > Either: > > > > a. The filesystem drivers are not compiled into your kernel. You said > > you configured them...are they built in (=y) or as modules (=m)? > > > > b. You did not configure the drivers for your IDE chipset or IDE hard > > drive into the kernel. Here again, they should be "=y" in the .config > > file. > > > > The outputs of lspci and "grep '=[ym]' /usr/src/linux/.config" may be > > helpful for us to look at if you can't find the answer. > > Or he used genkernel but has not given grub the appropriate options for > initrd and ramfs. > > here is a sample from the install manual: > > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r10 > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 root=/dev/ram0 > init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 udev > > initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 > > (because of email wrapping I have put a space between separate lines, > the section starting "kernel" and ending "udev" is all one line.) > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED Problem booting after reinstall
Hi, I solved the problem using the vanilla kernel. May be some devel reads this list. Here Is my (relevant configuration) CPU: Celeron M 00:00.0 Host bridge: SIS [SiS] 661FX/M661FX/M661MX Host (rev 11) 00:02.1 SMBus: SIS [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller 00:02.5 IDE interface: SIS [SiS] 5513 [IDE] I attach the .config used. Thanks for your time Frank On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 10:30 +, frank wrote: > Hi all, > > I've decided to reinstall my system to a stable one (I used ~x86 > before). > > To prepare the disk I've wiped out all of / except /home and all > of /boot. > > Th installation (according to the handbook) went smoothly. > > The new kernel starts up and then I get an VFS error saying that there > is an invalid boot option root= ... and panics. > > /boot on /dev/hda1 or (hd0,0) is ext2, / on /dev/hda3 or (hd0,2) > > Here is my menu.lst: > > default 0 > timeout 30 > > title=Initial > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r4_initial root=/dev/hda3 > > I've set up grub this way: > grub> root (hd0,0) > grub> setup (hd0) > grub quit > > The kernel is configured for ext2 and ext3 filesystems. > > Has anyone an Idea? I don't have further :( > > Thanks in advance > Frank > # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux kernel version: 2.6.17.6 # Mon Aug 21 18:16:31 2006 # CONFIG_X86_32=y CONFIG_SEMAPHORE_SLEEPERS=y CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_MMU=y CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y CONFIG_GENERIC_HWEIGHT=y CONFIG_ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC=y CONFIG_DMI=y # # Code maturity level options # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y CONFIG_INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT=32 # # General setup # CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="" # CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is not set CONFIG_SWAP=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE=y # CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT is not set CONFIG_SYSCTL=y # CONFIG_AUDIT is not set # CONFIG_IKCONFIG is not set # CONFIG_RELAY is not set CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="" CONFIG_UID16=y CONFIG_VM86=y CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y # CONFIG_EMBEDDED is not set CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y # CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is not set CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y CONFIG_PRINTK=y CONFIG_BUG=y CONFIG_ELF_CORE=y CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y CONFIG_FUTEX=y CONFIG_EPOLL=y CONFIG_SHMEM=y CONFIG_SLAB=y # CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0 # CONFIG_SLOB is not set # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD=y # CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set # CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL is not set CONFIG_KMOD=y # # Block layer # # CONFIG_LBD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE is not set # CONFIG_LSF is not set # # IO Schedulers # CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y # CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS is not set CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE=y CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=y # CONFIG_DEFAULT_AS is not set # CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEADLINE is not set CONFIG_DEFAULT_CFQ=y # CONFIG_DEFAULT_NOOP is not set CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED="cfq" # # Processor type and features # # CONFIG_SMP is not set CONFIG_X86_PC=y # CONFIG_X86_ELAN is not set # CONFIG_X86_VOYAGER is not set # CONFIG_X86_NUMAQ is not set # CONFIG_X86_SUMMIT is not set # CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP is not set # CONFIG_X86_VISWS is not set # CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH is not set # CONFIG_X86_ES7000 is not set # CONFIG_M386 is not set # CONFIG_M486 is not set # CONFIG_M586 is not set # CONFIG_M586TSC is not set # CONFIG_M586MMX is not set # CONFIG_M686 is not set # CONFIG_MPENTIUMII is not set # CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII is not set CONFIG_MPENTIUMM=y # CONFIG_MPENTIUM4 is not set # CONFIG_MK6 is not set # CONFIG_MK7 is not set # CONFIG_MK8 is not set # CONFIG_MCRUSOE is not set # CONFIG_MEFFICEON is not set # CONFIG_MWINCHIPC6 is not set # CONFIG_MWINCHIP2 is not set # CONFIG_MWINCHIP3D is not set # CONFIG_MGEODEGX1 is not set # CONFIG_MGEODE_LX is not set # CONFIG_MCYRIXIII is not set # CONFIG_MVIAC3_2 is not set # CONFIG_X86_GENERIC is not set CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y CONFIG_X86_XADD=y CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6 CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY=y CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG64=y CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY=y CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y CONFIG_X86_TSC=y # CONFIG_HPET_TIMER is not set # CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y # CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_MCE=y # CONFIG_X86_MCE_NONFATAL is not set # CONFIG_X86_MCE_P4THERMAL is not set # CONFIG_TOSHIBA is not set # CONFIG_I8K is not set # CONFIG_X86_REBOOTFIXUPS is not set # CONFIG_MICROCODE is not set # CONFIG_X86_MSR is not set # CONFIG_X86_CPUID is not set # # Firmware Drivers # # CONFIG_EDD is not set # CONFIG_DELL_RBU is not set # CONFIG_DCDBAS is not set CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set CONFIG_
Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far
Am Sonntag, 7. Februar 2010 schrieb Mark Knecht: > Hi Willie, >OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me > sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using > default values it had the starting sector was 63 Same here. > - probably about the worst value it could be. Hm what about those first 62 sectors? I bought this 500GB drive for my laptop recently and did a fresh partitioning scheme on it, and then rsynced the filesystems of the old, smaller drive onto it. The first two partitions are ntfs, but I believe they also use cluster sizes of 4k by default. So technically I could repartition everything and then restore the contents from my backup drive. And indeed my system becomes very sluggish when I do some HDD shuffling. > As a test I blew away that partition and > created a new one starting at 64 instead and the untar results are > vastly improved - down to roughly 20 seconds from 8-10 minutes. That's > roughly twice as fast as the old 120GB SATA2 drive I was using to test > the system out while I debugged this issue. Though the result justifies your decision, I would have though one has to start at 65, unless the disk starts counting its sectors at 0. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Programmers don’t die, they GOSUB without RETURN. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far
Am Dienstag, 9. Februar 2010 schrieb Mark Knecht: > 4) Everything I've done so far leave me with messages about partition > 1 not ending on a cylinder boundary. Googling on that one says don't > worry about it. I don't know... Would that be when there’s a + sign behind the end sector? I believe to remember that _my_ fdisk didn’t show this warning, only parted did. Anyway, mine's like this, just to throw it into the pot to the others ( those # are added by me to show their respective use ) eisen # fdisk -l -u /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x80178017 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 632515778912578863+ 7 HPFS/NTFS # Windows /dev/sda2 251577908808439431463302+ 7 HPFS/NTFS # Win Games /dev/sda3 88084395 12794165919928632+ 83 Linux # / /dev/sda4 127941660 976768064 424413202+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 127941723 28881656980437423+ 83 Linux # /home /dev/sda6 288816633 780341309 245762338+ 83 Linux # music /dev/sda7 813113973 97670380481794916 83 Linux # X-Plane =o) /dev/sda8 * 976703868 976768064 32098+ 83 Linux # /boot /dev/sda9 780341373 81311390916386268+ 7 HPFS/NTFS # Win7 test -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' begin signature_virus Hi! I’m a signature virus. Please copy me to your signature to help me spread. end signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far
Am Dienstag, 9. Februar 2010 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > > 4) Everything I've done so far leave me with messages about partition > > 1 not ending on a cylinder boundary. Googling on that one says don't > > worry about it. I don't know... Well since only the start of a partition determines its alignment with hardware sectors, I think it's really not that important. Worst case: mkfs truncates the last few sectors to make it a multiple of its cluster size. > Anyway, mine's like this, just to throw it into the pot to the others > ( those # are added by me to show their respective use ) > > eisen # fdisk -l -u /dev/sda > > Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x80178017 > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 632515778912578863+ 7 HPFS/NTFS # Windows > /dev/sda2 251577908808439431463302+ 7 HPFS/NTFS # Games > /dev/sda3 88084395 12794165919928632+ 83 Linux # / > /dev/sda4 127941660 976768064 424413202+ 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 127941723 28881656980437423+ 83 Linux # /home > /dev/sda6 288816633 780341309 245762338+ 83 Linux # music > /dev/sda7 813113973 97670380481794916 83 Linux # X-Plane > /dev/sda8 * 976703868 976768064 32098+ 83 Linux # > /boot /dev/sda9 780341373 81311390916386268+ 7 HPFS/NTFS # > Win7 test I have started amending my partitioning scheme, starting at the rear. Since my backup drive has exactly the same scheme, I’m working on that and then restore my local drive from it, so I need as little time in a LiveCD environment as possible. I have reset sdb7 to use boundaries divisible by 64. Old rangebegin%64 size%64 New rangebegin%64 size%64 813113973-976703804 0.82810.125813113984-976703935 0 0 And guess what - the speed of truecrypt at creating a new container doubled. With the old scheme, it started at 13.5 MB/s, now it started at 26-odd. I’m blaming that cap on the USB connection to the drive, though it’s gradually getting more: after 2/3 of the partition, it’s at 27.7. So sdb7 now ends at sector 976703935. Interestingly, I couldn’t use the immediate next sector for sdb8: start for sdb8 response by fdisk 976703936sector already allocated 976703944Value out of range. First sector... (default 976703999): The first one fdisk offered me was exactly 64 sectors behind the end sector of sdb7 (976703999), which would leave a space of those mysterious 62 “empty” sectors in between. So I used 976704000, which is divisable by 64 again, though it’s not that relevant for a partition of 31 MB. :D As soon as truecrypt is finished, I'm going to solidify my findings by performing this on another partition, and I’ll also see what happens if I start at a start sector of k*64+1. Just out of curiousity. :-) -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Crayons can take you more places than starships. (Guinan) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far
Am Dienstag, 9. Februar 2010 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > I have reset sdb7 to use boundaries divisible by 64. > Old rangebegin%64 size%64 New rangebegin%64 > size%64 813113973-976703804 0.82810.125813113984-976703935 0 >0 > > And guess what - the speed of truecrypt at creating a new container > doubled. With the old scheme, it started at 13.5 MB/s, now it started at > 26-odd. I’m blaming that cap on the USB connection to the drive, though > it’s gradually getting more: after 2/3 of the partition, it’s at 27.7. I fear I'll have to correct that a little. This 13.5 figure seems to be incorrect, in another try it was also shown at the beginning, but then quickly got up to >20. Also, a buddy just told me that this 4k stuff applies only to most recent drives, as old as 5 months or so. When I use parted on the drives, it says (both the old external and my 2 months old internal): Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B So no speedup for me then. :-/ -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Keyboard not connected, press F1 to continue. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?
Am Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2010 schrieb Christian Apeltauer: > Hello list, > when I synced my portage tree today, I saw that kmail-4.4.0 needs > kdelibs compiled with USE="semantic-desktop" and cannot be told to not > use it. But I do not like the idea of semantic desktop and I will not > install it. I've had the same issue yesterday, but for another reason. I didn't want to install yet another server backend, whose package is 70MB in size. I've tried, but in the end, something needed semantic-desktop to be compulsory. So I gave up and waited the half hour to download that bloody virtuoso. :-/ -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Why did the tachyon cross the road? Because it was on the other side. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.4 strikes again
Am Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2010 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > Hi, > > has anybody a recipe on this upgrade hell each time KDE release a new > version? > This time existing KDE-4.3.5 packages block KDE-4.4 packages though they > go to different slots. > Even portage-2.2_rc62 is unable to cope with that. > > Thanks for a hint, > Helmut. Well I only had some issues with packages that didn't have a 4.4 version, like soliduiserver. So I guessed they don't need that anymore and a removed it. Turned out it was a hard block because I had it in world. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Why did the tachyon cross the road? Because it was on the other side. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.4 strikes again
Am Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2010 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > Well I only had some issues with packages that didn't have a 4.4 version, > > like soliduiserver. So I guessed they don't need that anymore and a > > removed it. Turned out it was a hard block because I had it in world. > > so? set -virtuoso in make.conf. > > neither soprano nor kdelibs hard-depend on it. That was the first I tried, but then portage told me that something, it must have been kdelibs, depended on soprano[dbus,raptor,redland,virtuoso]. So next I tried with -semantic-desktop, but that, too, Hm... now it doesn’t anymore. I don’t know what changed it, perhaps the cleanup of old 4.3 packages. :-/ Well, whatever. I let it download over night and install during the afternoon while I was out. Now it’s too late to ponder about it any further. Who knows, perhaps I can even befriend with all that stuff. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' *** Quits: TITANIC (Excess Flood) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.4: window tabbing?
Am Samstag, 13. Februar 2010 schrieb Robin Atwood: > Has anyone got the much vaunted window-tabbing of KDE 4.4 working? I have > set my middle mouse button to "Start window tab drag" but when I try it > nothing happens. Searching, I found references to a window menu option > "Move window to group" but I don't have that. I don't think there is a USE > option I have missed. Anybody have better luck? Do you use Oxygen or anything else as window decorator? I use crystal, where tabbing does not work. However, after I changed to Oxygen, it did. So the Decorator has to support it. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' How are things in the collective?" - "Perfect." (Captain Jainway to the Borg queen) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far
Am Sonntag, 7. Februar 2010 schrieb Mark Knecht: > Hi Willie, >OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me > sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using > default values it had the starting sector was 63 - probably about the > worst value it could be. As a test I blew away that partition and > created a new one starting at 64 instead and the untar results are > vastly improved - down to roughly 20 seconds from 8-10 minutes. That's > roughly twice as fast as the old 120GB SATA2 drive I was using to test > the system out while I debugged this issue. Sorry if I reheat a topic that some already consider closed. I used the weekend to experiment on that stuff and need to report my results. Because they startle me a little. I first tried different start sectors around sector 63: 63, 64, 66, 68 etc. They showed nearly the same results in speed. So I almost thought that my drive, albeit being new and of high capacity, is not affected by this yet. But then I tested my main media partition, which starts in the middle of the disk. I downloaded a portage snapshot and put it into a ramdisk, so reading it would not manipulate measurements. I also copied a 1GB file into that ramdisk to test consecutive writes. As a start sector I chose 288816640, which is divisible by 64. The startling result: this gave the lowest performance. If the partition starts in one of the sectors behind it, performance was always better. I repeated the test several times to confirm it. How do you explain this? :-? The following table shows the ‘real’ value from the output of the time command. SS means the aforementioned start sector with SS % 64 == 0. action SS (1st) SS (2nd) SS+2 SS+4 SS+6 SS+8 -+--+--+--+--+--+-- untar portage 3m12.517 2m55.916 1m46.663 1m35.341 1m47.829 1m43.677 rm portage 4m11.109 3m54.950 3m18.820 3m11.378 3m21.804 3m12.433 cp 1GB file0m21.383 0m13.558 0m14.920 0m12.813 0m13.407 0m13.681 -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' How are things in the collective?" - "Perfect." (Captain Jainway to the Borg queen) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far
Am Montag, 15. Februar 2010 schrieb Willie Wong: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 01:48:01AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Sorry if I reheat a topic that some already consider closed. I used the > > weekend to experiment on that stuff and need to report my results. > > Because they startle me a little. > > [...] > Instead of guessing using this rather imprecise metric, why not just > look up the serial number of your drive and see what the physical > sector size is? Well, at differences of 50%, precision is of no relevance anymore. Also, I already did look it up and it didn’t turn up any conclusive results. Just search hits from fdisk output of people who are partitioning the drive. So the only thing I can think of yet is to call Samsung’s expensive hotline. Hm... oh well, perhaps I could write an e-mail, because I’m too niggard and phonophobe to make a call. ^^ > If you don't want to open your box, you can usually > get the information from dmesg. I put the drive in myself after I bought it at http://www.alternate.de/html/product/Festplatten_2,5_Zoll_SATA/Samsung/HM500JI_500_GB/342736/?showTecData=true But they don’t show much information either. :-/ I don’t suppose it’s written on the disk’s label? I don’t wanna loosen those screws too often, because the windings tend to wear out quickly. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I guess irony can be pretty ironic sometimes. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far
Am Dienstag, 16. Februar 2010 schrieb Alex Schuster: > No need for either, just look up the drive on Samsung's homepage [*]. It's > 512 bytes/sector, you should be fine. Gee thanks. Though that still keeps me baffled about my results, I can start looking for other reasons for it. :) Consider the thread closed (again ;-) . -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Beamy, Scot me up! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3 and Kconvert
Am Samstag, 20. Februar 2010 schrieb Dale: > So, it wants to rebuild Kconvert but there is no such thing in portage. > I have the kde-sunset layman up to date as well. Also, I do use > Kconvert so I don't want to get rid of it either. > > Is there a way to fix this? Oh, the news item is not related. I read > it but plan to go back to it one day when I have more time to mess with it. > > Thanks. > > Dale You can do what I do when I want to keep a package that’s been removed from portage: copy the overlay from /var/db/pkg/¹ to your local overlay at /usr/local/prtage. ¹ Basically, that’s where portage keeps copies of all installed ebuilds. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Killing for peace is like fucking for virginity. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok won't play my mp3's anymore
Am Samstag, 20. Februar 2010 schrieb Dan Johansson: > After doing an emerge --update world today and rebooting my compi Amarok > will not play my mp3's anymore. I get the following error message "Too many > errors encountered in playlist. Playback has stopped." I have tried to > delete ~/.xine as suggested after a google search on the error string. > > If I start Amarok with the --debug flag I see the following output: > --8<--- >-- amarok: [EngineController] [WARNING!] Phonon failed to play > this URL. Error: > > "17:24:15: input_file: File not found: > >file:///var/Music/mp3/Wilmer%20X/Den%20bl%C3%83%C2%A5%20v%C3%83%C2%A4gen%2 > >0hem%20-%20En%20samling/06%20-%20Teddys%20rum.mp3< > > " > --8<--- >-- > > The file is there: > $ ll /var/Music/mp3/Wilmer\ X/Den\ blå\ vägen\ hem\ -\ En\ samling/06\ -\ > Teddys\ rum.mp3 > -rwxr--r-- 1 dan users 5645291 Jul 2 2002 /var/Music/mp3/Wilmer X/Den > bl?? v??gen hem - En samling/06 - Teddys rum.mp3 > > The only thing I can see that was upgraded during the update wit relation > to sound is "media-sound:phonon" (4.3.50_pre20090520 -> 4.3.80-r1) > > Any suggestions? In recent upgrades (though I switched to the GIT version a while ago), it helped to rescan the collection. You could try this. Or perhaps it is an enconding issue. There are two ?? in your ll output, and the encoded version shows four characters for your å, which should only be two in utf-8. So it is encoding the two unicode octets again in iso. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I guess irony can be pretty ironic sometimes. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!
Am Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > Honestly, for what the OP appears to need out of a desktop environment, > > he'd be more than happy with Xfce or something and save a ton of disk > > space. > > the thing is - xfce does not necessarily use less ram. And semantic desktop > can help him to easily find data points over a multitude of documents..,.. I grew tired of strigi and virtuoso eating CPU all the time, so after a week or two of using KDE4 over KDE3 again (and perhaps staying this time), I disabled it. XFCE, like many, if not all other alternatives, are GTK-based, and I just can’t stand the way GTK tools look and how they use up screen space. It’s very sad that there’s no alternative Qt-based WM out there any more. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' - http://www.stud.tu-ilmenau.de/~frst-ii/ - EDOB Nicht von Staat und Konzernen ausschnüffeln lassen, E-Mails verschlüsseln! http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Privacy_Guard http://hp.kairaven.de/pgp/ Warum summt die Biene? - Weil sie den Text vergessen hat. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE? Get me out of here!
Am Donnerstag 25 Februar 2010 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: > Bingo! I'm OP, and kind of like the KDE look, and I'm used to where things > are (except for the new K menu which I'm slowly adapting to). I know how > to find things already, but indexing my gigabytes of game records is just > silly. Well, you can always switch to classic view by right-clicking on the K. I concur it’s a lot of "Klicki-bunti", as we say in Germany (bunt=colourful). The only usability plus for the new type is the input field, but that’s already covered by KRunner. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' - http://www.stud.tu-ilmenau.de/~frst-ii/ - EDOB Nicht von Staat und Konzernen ausschnüffeln lassen, E-Mails verschlüsseln! http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Privacy_Guard http://hp.kairaven.de/pgp/ Man kommt unfertig auf die Welt und wird dann fertiggemacht. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode
Am Dienstag 23 Februar 2010 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > On 02/23/2010 01:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 02/23/2010 12:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:11:40 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>> I'm on KDE4 but I use Thunderbird for both Usenet (including this > >>> mailing list through GMane's "mailing-list-to-Usenet" interface) and > >>> email. I like the simplicity and using only one app for both. > >> > >> Why are you passing the mail through a conversion gateway only to read > >> it in a mail client? Wouldn't subscribing directly be even more simple? > > > > No, because then I would get all the mail in my inbox and I would be the > > one responsible for filtering it; a total waste on bandwidth and my > > time. GMane does that for me instead. > > Just to make my point more clear: > >http://i50.tinypic.com/15ow2g8.png OT: It occured to me that many, including you, have this awfully fuzzy font rendering. Aren’t you bothered by that? (Assuming you’re on a TFT). When I look at your image, my view starts floating on a plane in front of the screen. See http://i47.tinypic.com/1zxsbok.png As you can see, I’m also using a mail client for those lists. At the beginning, I used my Uni’s news server, but at some point, I couldn’t post to this list anymore through NNTP. So I had to switch to mail interface. But even though local archiving works better with mails (articles are gone from the news server after a short while), I’d prefer the NNTP way though, it’s easier to view the list filtered (e.g. no ignored threads). -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' - http://www.stud.tu-ilmenau.de/~frst-ii/ - EDOB Nicht von Staat und Konzernen ausschnüffeln lassen, E-Mails verschlüsseln! http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Privacy_Guard http://hp.kairaven.de/pgp/ Die USA haben den Weg von der Barbarei zur Dekadenz ohne den Umweg über die Kultur gewählt. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness
Am Sonntag 28 Februar 2010 schrieb Xi Shen: > hi, > > my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. my laptop is thinkpad t61. after > some configure in the kernel, and reboot with the new kernel, i can > use the Fn+Home, and Fn+End to change the brightness of my lcd. but > when i tried to change the lcd brightness by dragging the handle on > the 'power management' tool, nothing happens. what else should i > configure? It has never worked here, though I’m satisfied that I can use Fn+Crsr up/down, which works on the HW level (even at boot). -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation
Am Freitag 26 Februar 2010 schrieb Paul Hartman: > Hi, I'm building a new personal computer. I respect the opinion and > experience of the people on this list and am interested in anyone's > advice on the best way to set up my new Gentoo installation. Things > that you say "I wish I set mine up this way the first time..." or have > learned from experience how to do it right the first time already. :) > > Some topics I'm thinking about (comments welcome): > - be aware of cylinder boundaries when partitioning (thanks to the > recent thread) Indeed. ;-) I just applied that knowledge again yesterday on a friend’s new laptop. > - better partitioning scheme than my current root, boot, home (need > portage on its own, maybe /var as well?) I use the root/boot/home scheme as well (500GB laptop drive). Though I used ReiserFS in an image file on / file system for a while, but dropped it later. Using an image file saves from fiddling with partitions and FS resizing in the process. > - some kind of small linux emergency/recovery partition? equivalent to > a liveCD maybe. I always wanted to make my own Gentoo-based livecd that fits onto my old 128M stick. :o) > - SSD vs 1rpm vs big-and-cheap hard drive for rootfs/system files. > I lean toward the latter since RAM caches it anyway. I’m still caucios about SSDs because of their limited lifetime. I would only use it for /home or my media archive. But for the latter, it would become over-expensive fast, for they are more pricey by the GB than all other things. If it shall be a quiet system, I’d look into 2,5" drives, they also use less power than 3,5", on the other hand they are of course more expensive. :) > - omit/reduce number of reserved-for-root blocks on partitions where > it's not necessary. I’ve set it to 0 on my home partition. I also reduced the inode count on my media, home and X-Plane partition. None of those have more than 6 in use at the moment, whereas mkfs had given them about 3 to 4 million by default. I’m not sure though if that gives me any more available space. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' This sentence no verb. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] emerge uclibc fails after upgrade of linux-headers
Hi there I am trying to build a minimal system for my 128MB USB stick, based on uclibc. I’m in the process of rebuilding system after upgrading gcc from 4.1 to 4.3. During the upgrade, linux-headers was updated from 2.6.23-r3 to 2.6.30-r1. After such an update, the c library needs to be rebuilt against the new headers, so much I could find out myself. However, it fails here, and I can’t find anything helpful for the case of using uclibc. It brings the same errors as many other packages: make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/uclibc-0.9.28.3-r8/work/uClibc-0.9.28.3/libc/misc/syslog' i386-gentoo-linux-uclibc-gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-stack-protector -fno-builtin -nostdinc -D_LIBC -I../../../include -I. -mpreferred-stack- boundary=2 -falign-jumps=0 -falign-loops=0 -Os -funit-at-a-time -iwithprefix include-fixed -iwithprefix include -DNDEBUG -fPIC -c syslog.c -o syslog.o In file included from ../../../include/asm/posix_types.h:2, from ../../../include/linux/posix_types.h:47, from ../../../include/linux/types.h:9, from ../../../include/asm/sigcontext.h:5, from ../../../include/bits/sigcontext.h:28, from ../../../include/signal.h:309, from ../../../include/sys/signal.h:1, from syslog.c:67: ../../../include/asm/posix_types_32.h:10: error: redefinition of typedef '__kernel_ino_t' ../../../include/bits/kernel_types.h:15: error: previous declaration of '__kernel_ino_t' was here ../../../include/asm/posix_types_32.h:11: error: redefinition of typedef '__kernel_mode_t' ../../../include/bits/kernel_types.h:16: error: previous declaration of '__kernel_mode_t' was here ../../../include/asm/posix_types_32.h:12: error: redefinition of typedef '__kernel_nlink_t' and loads more of the same kind. What is the correct way to handle this? At the moment I’m circumventing that problem my manually masking >linux-headers-2.6.23-r3. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/bin/post_sync - not found by `equery b`
Am Freitag 05 März 2010 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:01:37 +, Stroller wrote: > > I have this /etc/portage/bin/post_sync file on a couple of systems, > > and strangely `equery b /etc/portage/bin/post_sync` doesn't tell me > > what package it belongs to. I might guess `eix`, but who knows? > > equery shows its suckiness once again :( > > % qfile post_sync > app-portage/portage-utils (/etc/portage/bin/post_sync) My qfile doesn’t find it, neither with nor without full path. And yes, I have that bin file. suckiness[qfile]++; ;-) -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I wish my lawn was emo, so it would cut itself. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/bin/post_sync - not found by `equery b`
Am Freitag 05 März 2010 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:13:54 +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > % qfile post_sync > > > app-portage/portage-utils (/etc/portage/bin/post_sync) > > > > My qfile doesn’t find it, neither with nor without full path. And yes, > > I have that bin file. > > Is /etc/portage/postsync.d/q-reinitialize executable? nope -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Q: What’s the proper plural of a "Net-connected Windows machine"? A: A Botnet. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Embeding a Terminal in a GTK Window
Am Dienstag 09 März 2010 schrieb dhk: > I'm not looking to make major changes to the existing terminal run > program. You see, I'm dealing with the corporate mentality. They want > to add features that are just not that feasible in a procedural > language. I also have to deal with their thousands of users that use > the program around the country and their distribution and install > procedures. So changing the terminal the program runs in is not an > option, that would mean getting security and sysadmins involved etc. So > in short a lot will not fly. Management doesn't understand why a > procedural application can't have a button or scrolling text, because > they see those bells and whistles on websites they think they can have > it everywhere. I really don't want to go off on a corporate management > tangent. > > I would like to make some hybrid GUI/text application. The original > text application runs in a terminal. I can edit the text program so I > can change the main(). So far I've added GTK and can compile and link > with GTK. When the text program starts I can open a GTK window which > has a vbox in it. In one of the sections to the vbox I would like to > know how I can embed the terminal that runs the text program. The other > parts of the vbox will have a scroll window and buttons. Sounds like a good candidate for ncurses. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' *** Quits: TITANIC (Excess Flood) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.
Am Mittwoch 17 März 2010 schrieb Dale: > I only want plain text to the mailing lists and html for everyone else. I > send pics and other things to other folks. Ya don’t need HTML for that. ;-) I have even seen mails that were multiparted plain-text, i.e. text, image attachment, text, image-attachment, you get the idea. Don’t know anymore though what program that was. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Crayons can take you more places than starships. (Guinan) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc
Am Donnerstag 18 März 2010 schrieb Arnau Bria: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to add some sub to a video with menconder (following a > receipt). > > I run something like: > > mencoder mi_video.avi -oac pcm -ovc lavc -lavcopts > vcodec=xvid:mbd=2:trell:autoaspect -sub mis_subs.srt -subfont-text-scale 3 > -o video_final.avi Has this worked before? As fas a I know, AVI does not officially support srt subs. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' If you have a problem, call your system-administrator. If you are the system-administrator, you have a problem. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev error and how to fix it.
Am Donnerstag 18 März 2010 schrieb walt: > On 03/17/2010 05:29 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > ...That's why we have programming languages, because English is too > > forgiving and fuzzy! > > By George, I think you've got it. From now on, all political campaign > speeches should be written in C. Well, okay, maybe in COBOL for the > older ones. So say we all. ;-) -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' "If there‘s nothing wrong with me, maybe there‘s something wrong with the universe." - Dr. Beverly Crusher signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: xvid and lavc
Am Freitag 19 März 2010 schrieb Arnau Bria: > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:34:09 +0100 > > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Has this worked before? As fas a I know, AVI does not officially > > support srt subs. > > It worked for me: > > mencoder ITC0101.avi -oac pcm -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=886 -sub ^^^ > my problem is that new video is much bigger than original. More or less > twice original. I don't know why... My guess is that you really want -oac copy instead of pcm. PCM is uncompressed. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' This sentence no verb. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Issue
Am Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 schrieb CJoeB:
> Hi,
>
> I have an Intel 3945 wireless adaptor in my laptop. I have always used
> the ipw3945 driver in gentoo because I have never had any luck with the
> iwl3945 driver.
> [...]
> Tonight I, again, following the wiki, tried building the iwl3945 driver
> into the kernel, but had no success. I need to get wireless working
> because I am changing isp's and will not longer be using an ethernet
> connection, but a dsl one.
Have you found out yet what really isn’t working? It could be a number of
things, but when dealing with kernel drivers “it doesn’t work“ is not enough.
;-)
> I don't know if it matters, but I am using wireless-extensions as
> opposed to wpa-supplicant because it doesn't seem that wpa-supplicant
> supports the Intel 3945 wireless adaptor.
IWL3945 and wpa_supplicant are working just fine over here. My only difference
is that I’ve built it as a module. Here’s what I set in the kernel config.
Networking
[*] Wireless
-*- Wireless extensions
{M} Common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers
Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)
Device drivers
[*] Network device support
Wireless LAN
[*] Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11)
Intel Wireless WiFi
Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection (iwl3945)
# lsmod | grep iwl3945:
iwl394580412 0
iwlcore98076 1 iwl3945
mac80211 142636 2 iwl3945,iwlcore
cfg80211 82108 3 iwl3945,iwlcore,mac80211
IIRC, there’s nothing more to it, really.
I also added suppor for tun/tap and devices and some ppp options because I use
vpn on my Uni’s network, but I don’t reckon they’re a requisite for wireless.
Then I grabbed iwl3945-ucode from portage, and that was it, IIRC. Just last
weekend I rebuilt my system from scratch and it worked right away after I
installed the ucode, dhcpcd and wpa_supplicant. Then I created the symlink
net.wlan0 -> net.lo in /etc/init.d and added it to the default runleven via
rc-update. Oh yeah, I had to add the driver module iwl3945 to
modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, because it didn’t get loaded (by udev?) at
boot. Not sure if that is still necessary, but it was at some point in the
past, obviosly.
Lastly, you need of course a correct wpa config, which is no rocket science
either. Here’s mine for our WPA2 home network:
network={
ssid="our ssid"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
# group=TKIP
psk="our secret keyphrase"
}
To connect, I did:
# wpa_supplicant -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dwext -iwlan0 &
# dhcpcd wlan0 &
and I was ready to go (That is from my memory, it may contain typos or similar
errors).
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Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 3.6 cannot open folder from the d/l dialog box
Am Dienstag, 23. März 2010 schrieb Xi Shen: > hi, > > my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.4, ff 3.6. after i finished d/l a > file i want to open the folder where the file is saved. but when i do > so, firefox says it cannot find an application to open that link. i am > not trying to open/launch it. > > how can i fix this? Open firefox’s about:config. Then add a string value with the name of network.protocol-handler.app.file and assign it whatever you like, for example /usr/bin/konqueror or /usr/bin/doplhin. Alternatively, once that entry exists, you can also invoke a dialogue for that by selecting "Go to download folder" once. You then get the opportunity to select an app via a file choser. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Error 96: Found dead mouse in hard drive C: signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help
Am Mittwoch, 24. März 2010 schrieb Dale: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Dale writes: > >> Since someone else mentioned KDE4, I do look forward to 4.5. I'm > >> hoping for some fixes too. I want the desktop slideshow to be > >> sequential instead of random. I have a lot of pics that are taken to > >> be a slideshow but if done in random order, they make no sense at all. > >> All I need is a little check box to disable the random part. > > > > Is there a bug report files already? > > I haven't filed one. I'm just hoping someone has. *g* that’s the right approach. Last week I filed a bug for Amarok that’s been there for months now, so I assumed it was already known. It turned out that it wasn’t (at least to the devs). If you are like me and don’t wanna create another bug tracker account just for one bug, I offer my help by filing the bug, if you want. ;-) -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Emacs is a great operating system, which only lacks a good editor. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't heed hal keyboard settings
Hello I'm not sure how to specify the topic in more detail. Over the last to hours I tried to get KDE4 to behave like it did before I rebuilt my system. My goal is to have a German layout with dead keys. In the process I've even gotten the system to react to the menu key again. But apart from that, for some reason, KDE4 won't behave like I want it to. I say KDE4 because KDE3 apparently works. I know because login with KDM4 doesn't work at the moment, so I'm using KDM3. There I can input accented letters of all sorts (in the username input field). But not in KDM4 and not in my KDE4 environment. I also tried it with and without KDE's own keyboard layout settings, where I set up a de layout of default variant (thus with dead keys). But to no avail. Here's the content of my hal config file: evdev evdev de menu:Multi_key,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp It worked before[TM], and I have no idea where else to look. Any ideas please? -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' WinErr 020: Error recording error codes - Additional errors will be lost. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't heed hal keyboard settings
Am Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 schrieb Crístian Viana: > I have the same problem as you have (but I need a pt_BR keyboard layout > instead of de). I can't get it work with KDE 4 and Xorg/HAL, so my solution > was to emerge xorg-server with USE flag "hal" disabled :-) You're not Dale under cover, are you? ;-) It _did_ work before, but I can't remember any more what was different. KDM4 not logging in due to a pam authentication error also only appeared in the new system, it wasn't broken in the old one. :-( -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments
Am Freitag, 26. März 2010 schrieb Dale: > Ohh. Please permit me to add one more needed feature then. > GUI. Some of my pics are nested pretty deep, because of my organizing > skills or lack thereof. LOL > [...] > This reminds me of the cereal isle in a grocery store. We stand there > trying to pick which one we want and 80% of them are made from corn. > Basically the same thing but different and we can't choose the one we want. That’s easy - I take the big value pack. It’s cheaper per kilogram than the really good stuff, but still tastes better than the cheap stuff. But back to the topic: I believe xv hasn’t been mentioned yet. It’s an old generic image viewer for X with editing capabilities. I use Gimp for all editing though. I’m OK with the loading time, because nothing compares to it feature-wise. I tried krita, but I didn’t like its shortcomings at navigating in a big/zoomed image. In Gimp I can use (shift and ctrl plus) the scroll wheel, in Krita, all of those do the same. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't heed hal keyboard settings
Am Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 schrieb Crístian Viana: > I have the same problem as you have (but I need a pt_BR keyboard layout > instead of de). I can't get it work with KDE 4 and Xorg/HAL, so my solution > was to emerge xorg-server with USE flag "hal" disabled :-) I found the solution (at least for me, though it’s possible that it is your cause as well, I don’t really think it is). In my old system I had ibus installed so I could (theoretically) input Chinese, Japanese and the likes. I can’t read or write either of those, I only installed it for the unlikely case that a person who does wants to use my computer. So I didn’t install it again, but I still had the necessary environment variables set (XMODIFIERS, QT_IM_MODULE, GTK_MODULE). By removing them from my environment, all is fine again. :-) -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Ladies fist, James Last. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help
Am Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 schrieb Dale: > I want the desktop slideshow to be sequential instead of random. Is there a bug report files already? >>> I haven't filed one. I'm just hoping someone has. >> If you are like me and don’t wanna create another bug tracker account >> just for one bug, I offer my help by filing the bug, if you want. ;-) > If you wold like to that would be fine. I would just like some way to > disable the random part of the slide show. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232517 :-) -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' "Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy." (R. Heinlein) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem, OT: Blender
Am Donnerstag, 1. April 2010 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de:
> thanks for all the input to all who have answered ! :)
>
> I will try to characterize ("characterise" ?) what I plan to do with
> my TByte disk.
Characterise if you’re in British domains, characterize if you are in the US.
> Last thing: I have a lot iof copies of code from svn repositories because
> I like to have the "bleeding edge" of some projects (do you know the
> new Blender 2.50??? :O)
I’ve tried 2.50 yesterday, but something’s not right here. Does yours run
normally? When I didn’t get it to compile by hand (mkdir build; cd build;
cmake ../; make), I tried an ebuild (also to make sure I have all
dependencies). That compiled through, but the GUI is incomplete and buggy. I
get lots of "missing module bpy_types" on startup, but the file is there. Do
you have some hints?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions
Am Montag, 26. April 2010 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > Hello list, > > My monitor is 1600 x 1200 but I like to run it at 1400 x 1050 (anno > domini etc.). So far, though, KDE 4 doesn't remember the resolution at > shutdown so it restarts at 1600 x 1200. I have to go through the > rigmarole of setting it again every time I log in. I have raised a bug > report but I don't suppose it's very high on anyone's list. > > Meanwhile, is there an entry I can make in xorg.conf, or elsewhere, to > force KDE to display just the single resolution, 1400 x 1050? You haven't told us what kind of monitor that is, but it sounds like it's a flatscreen. In that case you should definitely run it on its native resolution, or else your display will be blurry and strain your eyes far more. However, Linux GUIs are very good at geometric upscaling, so I suggest increasing font and icon sizes. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' What do you call a dead bee? - A was. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive
Am Mittwoch, 28. April 2010 schrieb Iain Buchanan: > Hi, > > A winblows colleague said he uses a utility to backup his internal hard > drive to an external disk, such that if his internal disk fails he can > replace it with the external disk and continue straight away. > > Since I go to weird locations with unreliable power and sometimes drop > my laptop I thought it should be simple to do the same in Linux. I have > an external disk the same size, but now what? > > * I want to copy changes intelligently (ie. no dd, gparted, or > Ghost4Linux). > * I want to copy a specific device only (no usb keys, etc) to a > specific external device. > * Windows partitions can be ignored. > * It doesn't matter if the copy is not unmounted properly, eg. if > power is shut of without shutting down. > * The external disk must be able to be absent > > Can md use one internal and one external disk in a RAID 1 setup, with > the external disk not always there? Any other suggestions? After I upgraded my laptop with an internal HDD of 500 GB, I started using my old external 500 GB drive as backup. Though of different dimensions and makers, they both have the same number of sectors. So I dd'ed the entire disk first, which gave me an exact mirror of the internal disk. I though this would be faster, because I have lots of small files in some places. But now I can update the backup by a simple call to rsync: rsync -aX --delete / /dev// -a (archive) copies permissions, ownerships and the likes -X stops at file system boundaries, i.e. it will only backup the actual root partition, without other mounted file systems such as /proc, /dev and /home. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Why did the tachyon cross the road? Because it was on the other side. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions
Am Mittwoch, 28. April 2010 schrieb Mick: > > > However, Linux GUIs are very good at geometric upscaling, so I suggest > > > increasing font and icon sizes. > > > > I'll try that anyway; it may give me a better compromise. Thanks. > > I've had the same problem on a high resolution (1920x1080), small size > screen (15.6"). The characters are tiny and anything else but native > resolution makes images and characters blurred. The solution was to > increase the font size on the terminals and KDE apps. However, I don't > know how to make the characters in the Firefox menus and body larger. Am > I supposed to run gconftool-2 with some esoteric options? There's a package that lets GTK apps look like KDE apps, including font, called kcm_gtk. It adds a page to System settings under Appearance->Appearance called GTK styles and fonts. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' No user was harmed by sending this Outlook-free message. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions
Am Freitag, 30. April 2010 schrieb Mick: > On Friday 30 April 2010 18:49:40 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 April 2010, Mick wrote: > > > I've had the same problem on a high resolution (1920x1080), small size > > > > > > screen (15.6"). The characters are tiny and anything else but native > > > resolution makes images and characters blurred. The solution was to > > > increase the font size on the terminals and KDE apps. However, I > > > don't know how to make the characters in the Firefox menus and body > > > larger. > > > > > > Am I supposed to run gconftool-2 with some esoteric options? > > > > What's wrong with Firefox's preferences? > > > > Edit -> Preferences -> Content -> Advanced... > > > > and you can customize fonts (including size and other behavior). > > Right, but it doesn't seem to affect the menus. Have you tried what I suggested? Here, KDE and Firefox menus have the same font size. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Concious smokers drink decaf. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] weird portage warning
Hello, Am Sonntag 02 Mai 2010 08:56:29 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > On Sonntag 02 Mai 2010, Philip Webb wrote: > > For the past few weeks, I have noticed the following bizarre msg : > > > > root:503 ~> emerge -Dup world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies | > > * Please fix your ebuild to not inherit the deprecated qt3.eclass > > * Please fix your ebuild to not inherit the deprecated qt3.eclass > > * Please fix your ebuild to not inherit the deprecated qt3.eclass > > ... done! > > > > Yes, I have the KDE 3 overlay installed, > > but even so how can a mere user be expected to "fix an ebuild", > > whatever that may mean anyway. Can anyone enlighten me > > as to the cause &/or purpose of these repeated msgs ? > > the cause: the qt3.eclass is deprecated (because qt3 and everything > depending on it is 'dead'). The ebuilds use this eclass, portage warns > about it. There is nothing you can do about it. But there should a note *which* ebuild have to be fixed, right ? regards
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Frozen after Upgrade
Am Montag, 3. Mai 2010 schrieb Colleen Beamer: > On 5/3/10, Remy Blank wrote: > >> Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall? > > > > I would start by re-emerging xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse, > > as suggested in the xorg-server ebuild messages. > > > > -- Remy > > How am I supposed to do this when I can't login and I can't kill X? Dale already told you a way I also do it if my laptop hangs at X: during the boot process it tells you "hit I to enter interactive mode". Then, just say no when it asks you whether to start xdm/kdm/whatever. Also, you can chroot into your system from your kubuntu cd just like it's done in the installation handbook. Start your live cd, open a konsole, mount your system and chroot into it. env-update && source /etc/profile and you're goot to go for emerging stuff. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Windows: reboot. Linux: be root. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE takes ages to show password screen after suspend
Am Freitag, 7. Mai 2010 schrieb András Csányi: > On 7 May 2010 19:33, Roman Naumann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > when I suspend my computer, KDE locks the session. This usually happens, > > when I close my laptop lid. > > > > When I open it again, it takes 1 to 20 seconds (seamingly random) untill > > the login screen appears. During this time, I just see a black screen > > and a mouse pointer (somewhere), but I cannot move it. > > > > If no X server is started, i.e. I'm on the shell, the computer always > > responds after a second or so when the laptop lid is opened again. > > > > Any ideas what causes this or how to fix it? > > Suspend is that when the computer isn't off just the things stays in > memory, isn't? When the contents of the memory is writed to the disk > and the machine is get off that is the hibernate function, isn't? > > It is possible that when you close the lid the contents of memory > writed to the disk and reading this few hundred Mbyte - on my laptop > KDE is eating ~800 Mbyte memory, the hungry Beast! :) 1) It doesn't matter how much KDE takes - the RAM is always written and read completely, not partly. 2) Those 800 MB definitely include a lot of apps running. What does top/free say immediately after you booted the machine and logged in (bootet from the state of being really switched off, that is)? Mine says about 240 MB (32 bit). Compared to KDE3, KDE4 takes longer here, as well. But not that long. The laptop's screen goes off and on once or twice, which may account for most of the delay. And the mouse pointer doesn't follow the mouse for a second or two. I have never measured it, but I guess it takes around about 6±2 seconds from switching on to seeing the password screen. (Provided that I move the mouse right away to make KDE show the screen). -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I wish my lawn was emo, so it would cut itself. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Layman, Git, ... and Http-Proxies
Hello, i tried to use layman (current stable version). The problem ist that i sit behind a proxy server which covers the http(s) protocol only. All other ports are closed. In the config file of layman (/etc/layman/...) i entered the proxy server and the listening port. Then layman was able to get the list of overlays. But if i want to get an overlay (here: x11 overlay) it starts git to get it. After a while git aborts with a timeout. It seems that git does not take the proxy info layman has into account. Tried also to export the proxy: export http_proxy=":" or export http_proxy="http://:" before executing layman -a x11 but this didn't help. How to overcome the problem ? Does layman pass the proxy info to the executed sub-programs (i.e. cvs, subversion, git, ...) ? (it not that may be an enchancement) regards Petric
Re: [gentoo-user] New System setup: (Not) using KDE -- do I miss something?
Am Sonntag, 30. Mai 2010 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > But something seems to be wrong: kaffeine does not find my dvb-t > device (which vlc finds and plays TV without problems) and k3b > does not find any burner/reader-device, but they do exist > (/dev/sr[01]). > > My userid are assigned the groups audio,video,cdrom,cdrw beside others. What others exactly? I’m thinking of plugdev here. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' "I decided to go on a strict diet. I cut out alcohol, all fats and sugar. In two weeks I lost 14 days." - Tim Maia signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Questions re swap and hibernate interaction on 8 gig machine
Am Dienstag, 22. Juni 2010 schrieb Walter Dnes: > I just got a brand new custom-built 8 gig machine. [...] > Anyhow, I have 8 gigs of ram on the sytem (will obviously be 64-bit > Gentoo) and I want to know how much swap I need. The general rule of > thumb is twice the ram. In this case, it would be 16 gigs. I think > that it may not need swap when up, unless I do some heavy duty stuff. > My main concern about a swap partition is how much I need for > hibernate-to-disk to work. Is there a rule about this, or should I > simply allocate 16 gigs out of my terabyte drive, and play it safe? It of course depends on your usage profile. I have a laptop with 3 Gigs of RAM without swap. I don’t do really fancy stuff on them. Noteworthy things: Blender, X-Plane (flight sim), Hugin, some small VMs and of course the occasional compiling. Mostly, I do only one of those at one time. I even have set up a ramdisk in /var/tmp/portage for emerge. Except for kdelibs its 1.5 Gigs are more than enough. And if the ramdisk is empty, the free space is used for RAM. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' The first time you’ll get a Microsoft product that doesn’t suck will be the day they start producing vacuum cleaners. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 cannot start up
Hi, i had a similary problem, eth0 was away, but eth1 appeared insteadof. Regards On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 08:45:24PM +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > i reboot the system, fresh start with livcd. all reports the same error. :( > > i noticed that the hardware address is 3a:3a:2d:6c:3a:3a, which is > obviously an invalid one. i guess it is a hardware failure... > > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Mick wrote: > > Run dhcpcd -k and check that dhcpcd does not leave any locks behind. > > > > Then run dhcpcd -d eth0 and see what's reported by it. > > > > On 6 August 2010 12:57, Xi Shen wrote: > >> hi, > >> > >> after a sudden power cut off, my gentoo system cannot connect to the > >> network any more... > >> > >> the system can be started, but when starting dhcp, it reports "Cannot > >> assign requested address". if tried ifconfig eth0 up, it reports the > >> same error. using dmesg|grep eth0 and dmesg|grep network, it shows the > >> system has detected my network card. > >> > >> any idea what is the cause of the problem? > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Best Regards, > >> Xi Shen (David) > >> > >> http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Mick > > > > > > > > -- > Best Regards, > Xi Shen (David) > > http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ >
Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice
Am Dienstag, 10. August 2010 schrieb Paul Hartman: > Typing that long password into sudo every time I ran a command was a > hassle I’ve never used sudo, and never really liked the idea of it. In fact I’m always amused and slightly annoyed by the sheer amount of sudo one can find in your typical ubuntu howto. ;-) It’s one reason why I abstained from installing Truecrypt 6, because it requires sudo (Yes I know, in default setup you can’t do much with it. It is but an issue of principle). However, because I need root commands regularly (for example to initiate the VPN to my uni’s WiFi), I usually have one tab in Yakuake where I do a normal su once after login. And for more safety on my part, I also use different prompts: red hostname for root console, green u...@hostname for nonroot. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' What’s right is right, otherwise it’d be wrong. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Icons at startup of a KDE session
Hello, i've installed Gentoo and KDE 4.4 on an AMD64 system, configured /etc/conf.d/xdm to start kdm as login server. After login the KDE4 desktop starts up - a little box with at least 5 or 6 icons in it where one after the other icon displays blurred and then comes clear (Disk, Tools, World, ...). This process stops at the fourth icon (after the world icon) which remains blurred. At this stage the PC simply hangs - no ssh, no VT-switch, nothing. So my first question is - what stage the fourth icon stands for. And where to look for the issue. After a reboot to the command line i viewed the logs (/var/log/messages, /var/log/Xorg.0.log) but nothing looks suspicious. The last line in /var/log/messages reads: kdm: 0:[]: pam_unix(kde:session): session opened for ... The user was newly created using "useradd -m -g ...). There was no .kde4 directory in his home directory. Other window managers (fluxbox) don't show this problem. Kernel is gentoo-sources-2.6.34-r1. All components are from the stable tree. This may not be an gentoo problem. All hints are welcome. regards Petric
Re: [gentoo-user] Icons at startup of a KDE session
Hello, On Tuesday, 10. August 2010 20:26:29 Petric Frank wrote: > i've installed Gentoo and KDE 4.4 on an AMD64 system, configured > /etc/conf.d/xdm to start kdm as login server. To be clear - it is not an 64 Bit OS, it is still x86. > After login the KDE4 desktop starts up - a little box with at least 5 or 6 > icons in it where one after the other icon displays blurred and then comes > clear (Disk, Tools, World, ...). > This process stops at the fourth icon (after the world icon) which remains > blurred. At this stage the PC simply hangs - no ssh, no VT-switch, nothing. > > So my first question is - what stage the fourth icon stands for. And where > to look for the issue. > > After a reboot to the command line i viewed the logs (/var/log/messages, > /var/log/Xorg.0.log) but nothing looks suspicious. The last line in > /var/log/messages reads: > kdm: 0:[]: pam_unix(kde:session): session > opened for ... > > The user was newly created using "useradd -m -g ...). There was no .kde4 > directory in his home directory. Usually i add new users also to the plugdev group. As a test i removed the user from this group i got past the plash screen. Now the normal screen came up. So it seems that the problem has something to do with the plugging system. At which places i should throw an eye ? regards Petric
Re: [gentoo-user] Icons at startup of a KDE session
Hello, On Wednesday, 11. August 2010 07:15:13 Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > > i've installed Gentoo and KDE 4.4 on an AMD64 system, configured > > > /etc/conf.d/xdm to start kdm as login server. > > > > To be clear - it is not an 64 Bit OS, it is still x86. > > > > > After login the KDE4 desktop starts up - a little box with at least 5 > > > or 6 icons in it where one after the other icon displays blurred and > > > then comes clear (Disk, Tools, World, ...). > > > This process stops at the fourth icon (after the world icon) which > > > remains blurred. At this stage the PC simply hangs - no ssh, no > > > VT-switch, nothing. > > > > > > So my first question is - what stage the fourth icon stands for. And > > > where to look for the issue. > > > > > > After a reboot to the command line i viewed the logs > > > (/var/log/messages, /var/log/Xorg.0.log) but nothing looks suspicious. > > > The last line in > > > > > > /var/log/messages reads: > > > kdm: 0:[]: pam_unix(kde:session): session > > > > > > opened for ... > > > > > > The user was newly created using "useradd -m -g ...). There was no > > > .kde4 directory in his home directory. > > > > Usually i add new users also to the plugdev group. As a test i removed > > the user from this group i got past the plash screen. Now the normal > > screen came up. > > > > So it seems that the problem has something to do with the plugging > > system. > > > > At which places i should throw an eye ? > > > > first of all, do you have some disk space in your $HOME ? Yes. There is at least 5 GBytes free. > kde won't start until it have some space ... It is starting if the user is not member of the group plugdev. I thought - ok, if not plugdev then use policykit. I enabled this use-flag and re-build everything marked by this flag (emerge -uDN world). But this does not help. I'm back to not being able to log in. :-( regards Petric
Re: [gentoo-user] Icons at startup of a KDE session
Hello, On Wednesday, 11. August 2010 10:59:33 Alex Schuster wrote: > Petric Frank writes: > > All hints are welcome. > > I had weird effects when I had forgotten to set the sticky bit on /tmp. That is a rather new direction. I never checked this. > ls wo...@weird ~ $ ls -ld /tmp > drwxrwxrwt 16 root root 4096 11. Aug 10:48 /tmp same here - sticky bit set > If this ^ t is missing, do a chmod +t /tmp, and try again. It is there. regards Petric
[gentoo-user] emerge conflict
Hi
i get the error:
{
!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been
pulled
!!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
media-libs/libpng:0
('ebuild', '/', 'media-libs/libpng-1.4.3', 'merge') pulled in by
>=media-libs/libpng-1.2.43-r2:0 required by ('ebuild', '/',
>'x11-libs/cairo-1.8.10', 'merge')
>=media-libs/libpng-1.4 required by ('ebuild', '/',
>'x11-libs/gtk+-2.20.1-r1', 'merge')
(and 27 more)
}
And i wonder that it seems not to be possible to install both libs
(libpng-1.2.43-r2:0, libpng-1.4) in the same time. Linux is actually
able to manage this by the lib-version and links.
Did i have overseen any gentoo switch that makes is possible? Or is
there any other option?
Regards
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole
Am Donnerstag, 10. September 2009 schrieb Dudu Loschi: > > Hi guys, > > > > until now I've been quite a KDE4 hater, but I'm willing to give it a try > > from time to time. So I installed 4.3 parallel to my beloved 3.5.10 and > > was quite pleased with it. However, I have repeating crashes of my entire > > X. Mostly it happens when I open Konsole, the next often occasion is > > opening a menu (main menu, context menu, you name it), but also only > > after a Konsole windows was opened. All I see is a quick error message > > about glibc, then X restarts and I'm back at kdm. > > > > I use a laptop with a Geforce 7600 GPU, running on nvidia-drivers-180.60. > I've had this issue today with a new KDE 4.3.1 installation (actually > not so new, it was running fine for 4 days). I decided to track down > what was probably causing this issue since it apparently to came from > nowhere. > Well, after testing some configurations I realized that changing fonts > size (specially menu's font) could lead to this problem, but reverting > the size didn't solved. > Them I started changing xorg.conf and found an workaround: disable > BackingStore. I've tested several times and the crash never happened > with BackingStore off. A great many thanks to you, I've just tried it and it seems to have the effect you described. I'll dig into it further. But now of course I'm trapped between two worlds - stay with my sceen efficient and faster 3.5, or begin a liason with 4.3 for the benefits it provides, but also with its latent lagginess. *ponder ponder* -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Kids in the back seat cause accidents. Accidents in the backseat cause kids. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 2.0.0.23
Am Donnerstag, 10. September 2009 schrieb Hung Dang: > Hi all, > Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 is hang when I try to sent an email using IMAP > protocol even though it works fine before. However, everything is OK > when I start Thunderbird with command "thunderbird -safe-mode" from > console. > > Any idea? Probably not a gentoo-related problem. Safe mode means all Addons are disabled. So the first thing I would try is to disable all Addons and then enable them again one by one, see what happens. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Keyboard not connected, press F1 to continue. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole
Am Donnerstag 20 August 2009 01:34:43 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > Hi guys, > > until now I've been quite a KDE4 hater, but I'm willing to give it a try > from time to time. So I installed 4.3 parallel to my beloved 3.5.10 and > was quite pleased with it. However, I have repeating crashes of my entire > X. Mostly it happens when I open Konsole, the next often occasion is > opening a menu (main menu, context menu, you name it), but also only after > a Konsole windows was opened. All I see is a quick error message about > glibc, then X restarts and I'm back at kdm. > > I use a laptop with a Geforce 7600 GPU, running on nvidia-drivers-180.60. > First I had 4.3.0 installed from main portage tree, but I had a faint > hope they would have fixed it by now, so I installed the live slot from > kde-testing. I already had this issue with older version. Just for the archive: the problem was solved by disabling BackingStore for nvidia-drivers in xorg.conf. It's a common problem with nvidia, see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283331 -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Emacs is a great operating system, which only lacks a good editor. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/packages/Packages - what for?
Am Dienstag, 15. September 2009 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > Hi, > > I have the impression that when rsync'ing /usr/portage/packages from > another machine (BINSERVER), > emerge --update --newuse --deep --buildpkg @system @world > doesn't update packages which are upto-date on BINSERVER > but not upto-date on the local machine. > > What's the role of the file > /usr/portage/packages/Packages Here it stores alotta info about the binary packages - for instance with what useflags they were compiled. This info is not in the archives, which only contain the files. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I guess irony can be pretty ironic sometimes. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 query
Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2009 schrieb Philip Webb: > >> Okular 4.3.1 -- usable, but no noticeable improvement on Kpdf 3.5.10 . > > > > that is a joke, right? > > No, it's very serious: KDE 4 is jazzed up visually & dumbed down in > options. I concur. The only (and still vividly living) hope is that it still evolves. Perhaps, 4.5 will be as good as 3.5 was back at its introduction. And I intend to keep 3.5 running for as long as possible. > Okular is as described when compared with Kpdf 3 . The only thing I really don’t like about Okular is its icon bar on the left. Even though the icons can be shrinked and the text hidden, that bar is still a waste of space. On the bright side, Okular’s rendering is better than KPDF’s (for instance antialiasing), and it supports other document types like CDR. > > wrong. bookmark editor: 'File' 'import', 'import kde 3 bookmarks'. > > What is "bookmark editor" ? The one you get when you open Konqueror’s bookmarks menu and select Edit (or Manage, whatever it’s called in the English localisation) bookmarks. > it's not a dependency of Konqueror 4 . fr...@eisen $ equery d keditbookmarks [ Searching for packages depending on keditbookmarks... ] kde-base/kdebase-meta-4.3.1 (>=kde-base/keditbookmarks-4.3.1:4.3[kdeprefix=]) > It's utter madness, but with free software there are alternatives, > which I have started to adopt (Fluxbox, Thunar, Terminal). Unfortunately, Thunar is as simple as Nautilus (or even more basic). They don’t nearly come close to Konqueror 3. Nothing else does (of course apart from Commander-style file managers like Krusader). And I don’t mean functionality only, but also Qt’s efficient use of screen space, compared to GTK. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Kids in the back seat cause accidents. Accidents in the backseat cause kids. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Shutting down process hangs - how to proceed?
Am Samstag, 19. September 2009 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Hi, > > I am updateing my Gentoo on a dialy basis. > Since two days the shutdown process of the systems > hangs around "Bringing down net.lo". > Booting the PC is not a problem -- except the > "replaying transactions" (resierfs). > [...] > How can I proceed? > What is suspicous for hanging the shutdown process? > Every help is very welcome ! :) I also thought of the alsa problem pk mentioned. But it might also be another kernel module. Search your /var/log/messages or dmesg for kernel oopses. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing with new kernel
Am Montag, 21. September 2009 schrieb James: > When I boot a newer kernel, either kernel-2.6.29-gentoo-r5 > or kernel-2.6.30-gentoo-r4 my kde [4] menu bar across the bottom > of the screen is gone. I still get a few kconsole sessions > that always start upon booting up, but all of the other kde > tools seem to be missing or hidden. I've had a similar issue when switching logins between KDE 4 and 3 regularly - The menu went missing in 3 from time to time. As solution I was told to run kbuildsycoca. In your case (for KDE4) you need to run kbuildsycoca4. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' "Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy." (R. Heinlein) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?
Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 schrieb Grant: > Does Firefox periodically make Google requests for > some reason? The person logging in says they aren't attempting to > access Google, and the home page is not set to go there. Does anyone > know why this might be happening? If you haven’t disabled it, Firefox periodically downloads a current list of malware addresses for its phising filter. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' LOL, you said ROFL. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?
Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 schrieb KH: > Grant schrieb: > > [snip] and the home page is not set to go there.[snip] > > Hi, > > does this also include stuff like google analytics? Like are there adds > on the homepage? I'm blocking all requests to google analytics with NoScript. Google doesn’t have to know everything. The same goes for googlesyndication. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Hard drives have two known states: new and full. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and a pesky pop-up then it disconnects.
Am Dienstag, 29. September 2009 schrieb Dale: > Hi, > > I mentioned this a while back in another thread. Now it is even worse. > When I tell Kopete to make me "online" with Yahoo, I get a pop-up that > says I am using a old version of Yahoo messenger. If I close the > message box, it throws me offline. Basically, I can't stay online with > Kopete and Yahoo anymore. > [...] > As you can see, I'm still on KDE 3.5. We had the very same topic a short while ago. I have the same popup, though I get connected nonetheless. I don't get the popup with kopete 4. > I'm just not ready for KDE 4 yet. If I filed a roach report, would it be > fixed? Very unlikely, as all KDE3 stuff is practically dead. :'-( > Is there something that I can do here to make this boo boo message go away and me stay online? Use an alternative. :-/ -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Pilot: Radar, Good Day, Airforce Blackbird, request FL 600 Controller (with a chuckle): Sir, if you can reach, you are cleared FL 600 Pilot: US Air Force Blackbird, leaving FL 800, descending Level 600 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and a pesky pop-up then it disconnects.
Am Dienstag, 29. September 2009 schrieb Dale: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 29. September 2009 schrieb Dale: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I mentioned this a while back in another thread. Now it is even worse. > >> When I tell Kopete to make me "online" with Yahoo, I get a pop-up that > >> says I am using a old version of Yahoo messenger. If I close the > >> message box, it throws me offline. Basically, I can't stay online with > >> Kopete and Yahoo anymore. > >> [...] > >> As you can see, I'm still on KDE 3.5. > > > > We had the very same topic a short while ago. I have the same popup, > > though I get connected nonetheless. I don't get the popup with kopete 4. > > Can you check and see if Kopete for KDE4 is using port 5050 and > scs.msg.yahoo.com for the address? Sorry, I have [ ] Override default server options and then greyed out (because not activated), but filled in values: Server. scsa.msg.yahoo.com, port 5050. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' WinErr 020: Error recording error codes - Additional errors will be lost. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Different desktop wallpapers in KDE4?
Am Mittwoch, 30. September 2009 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > Hello list, > > I think I saw a statement on this list that it's possible to set a > different wallpaper on each desktop in kde-4.3.1, but now I can't find it, > and I can't see how to do it either. > > Is it really possible to do this? You need to create an activity for each desktop and set the wallpaper within the activities. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] And I thought I understood blocks...
Am Freitag, 2. Oktober 2009 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
> Er, what the heck is this one:
>
> emerge -av1 x11-libs/libXScrnSaver
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild N] x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.2.0 49 kB
> [ebuild N] x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.1.3 USE="-debug" 0 kB
> [blocks B ] ("
> Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 49 kB
> Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)
>
> * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
> * installed at the same time on the same system.
>
>('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.1.3', 'merge') pulled in by
> x11-libs/libXScrnSaver
fr...@eisen ~ $ eix scrnsaverproto
[I] x11-proto/scrnsaverproto
Available versions: 1.1.0 [M]~1.2.0
So, scrnsaverproto-1.2.0 is still masked and its ebuild says:
!=scrnsaverproto-1.1 is a dependency of libXScrnSaver-1.1.3. But since
you want to update scrnsaverproto, you could see what other packages need it.
Perhaps you can remove it from your sys without complications. On my system
those are mainly KDE apps plus mplayer through xscreensaver useflag, but
perhaps you're a Gnome dude or XFCE chap or whatever. :-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and a pesky pop-up then it disconnects.
Am Dienstag, 6. Oktober 2009 schrieb Dale: > Here's a little update. Yahoo won't even let me sign in anymore. It > just sits there. Here too. So either switch to an alternative, to Kopete:4 or let them suckers be. I don't bother, for my main network is still ICQ. Quoting Jonathan Callen, KDE4 is in the process of becoming stable "Real Soon Now™." -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Crayons can take you more places than starships. (Guinan) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and a pesky pop-up then it disconnects.
Am Dienstag, 6. Oktober 2009 schrieb Dale: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 6. Oktober 2009 schrieb Dale: > >> Here's a little update. Yahoo won't even let me sign in anymore. It > >> just sits there. > > > > Here too. So either switch to an alternative, to Kopete:4 or let them > > suckers be. I don't bother, for my main network is still ICQ. Quoting > > Jonathan Callen, KDE4 is in the process of becoming stable "Real Soon > > Now™." > > I have KDE4 on here. I just ain't warmed up to it yet. It just isn't . > . . . me. The web thing works tho. :-D Then why don't you use its Kopete? Granted, there are still bits and pieces missing from the good'ole KDE3, but it also has some nice new things. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' The first time you’ll get a Microsoft product that doesn’t suck will be the day they start producing vacuum cleaners. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and a pesky pop-up then it disconnects.
Am Dienstag, 6. Oktober 2009 schrieb Dale: > >> I have KDE4 on here. I just ain't warmed up to it yet. It just isn't . > >> . . . me. The web thing works tho. :-D > > > > Then why don't you use its Kopete? Granted, there are still bits and > > pieces missing from the good'ole KDE3, but it also has some nice new > > things. > > I tried to use it but it won't open in KDE3 for some reason. It spins > its wheels for a bit then nothing. It doesn't appear to even try to > open. I figure it is not set up to work in KDE3. > > Dale I guess you'll have to run it at least once from a KDE4 session, for instance so it can setup password management with KWallet. I can run KDE4 apps in KDE4, Actually Krusader launches Krename:4 now when I select multiple files for renaming. Kopete works with no problem. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' What do you call a dead bee? - A was. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Large update blocked
Am Mittwoch, 7. Oktober 2009 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: > I may put this off until Xmas break (I cannot afford to wedge this system > right now), but I'm worried by the results of an emerge --pretend: > > It looks like 20 packages or so want eselect-1.2.3, but it's blocked by > eselect-news which is required by world. Which means it is required by you. > > Is there a sane way through this update? Just remove eselect-news. From looking at eselect's ebuild I deduce that its functionality is taken over by eselect itself. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' The number you dialed is imaginary. Please rotate your phone by 90 degrees and try again. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Formating a USB stick
Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009 schrieb Mick: > What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this in I remember from SD cards that formatting them with Linux often was to no avail - Windows wouldn't recognise them, neither with the fs on the device itself, nor with a partition for the fs. So in the end I formatted them in Windows, and all was fine. :-/ -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] ftp user, local user, apache group
Am Freitag, 9. Oktober 2009 schrieb laurent: > Hi, > > Now I've setup vsftpd with local user. > For exemple I log with the user laurent, I create a folder via ftp. > > This folder is own by laurent, so it's not exessible via apache. > How could I make that, like put laurent in a apache group? My setup is a combination of apache and pure-ftpd. My user is member of the apache group, and I have set my home dir to $ ls -ld /home/frank drwxr-x--- 115 frank apache 16384 2009-10-09 22:30 frank That way apache can enter my directory to get into ~/public_html, but other users (such as guests, it's my laptop) cannot. If I log into pure-ftpd with a local user account, it puts me into the respective user's home. Anonymous logins are made for user "ftp", which is set up in /home/ftp: $ ls -ld /home/ftp dr-xrwx--- 4 ftpusers4096 2009-09-19 19:45 ftp $ ls -ld /home/ftp/incoming drwxrwxr-x 2 ftpusers4096 2009-09-16 23:58 /home/ftp/incoming/ This setup allows me as the "admin user" to have control over the files in the anonymous ftp root, and anonymous users may only upload stuff in the incoming directory. > I don't really know how to play with groups and user, any good tutorial > on that? Just search for it, keywords such as file permissions chown may help: http://www.overclock.net/linux-unix/513350-linux-file-permissions-executables-howto.html http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=chmod_squad_howto_use_linux_file_permiss The latter is more informative on how to use groups in detail. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' *** Quits: TITANIC (Excess Flood) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]
Am Freitag, 9. Oktober 2009 schrieb Dale: > I'll give that a try. I tend to restore a saved session anyway. u, > I couldn't find the option to edit the menu like in KDE 3. It used to > be in Applications then Settings. The updating tool is there but not > the editing one. Right-click on the k-menu icon, then select Edit menu. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' No user was harmed by sending this Outlook-free message. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] mms protocol ???
Am Samstag, 10. Oktober 2009 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Hi, > > I want to download a file with an url like this: > > mms:/// > > Directly cliking the link/url in firefox does not work. > > Is there any tool, with which I cann access that file? mmsclient -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I wish my lawn was emo, so it would cut itself. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE password dialogs stopped working
Am Samstag, 10. Oktober 2009 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: > Hi all, > > just wanted to know wether anbody has encountered this: > > Nearly all KDE password dialogs (except screensaver and kdm) have > stopped working. Neither kwallet nor kmail/kontact or kopete password > dialogs work. I can enter login data, but the "OK" button doesn't react > on klicks, only "Cancel" works. > > I suspect that it has something to do with recent QT update to 4.5.3, > but I'm not sure. > > Has anybody else seen this? No, though my kdm:3 is a little on the fritz - sometimes I have to restart X to get the login working. You could try revdep-rebuild. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I wish my lawn was emo, so it would cut itself. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?
Am Montag, 12. Oktober 2009 schrieb Dale: > > Interesting. I tried it just out of interest and I got two: > > > > $ equery b q > > [ Searching for file(s) q in *... ] > > app-portage/portage-utils-0.1.29 (/usr/bin/q) > > sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2 (/usr/share/terminfo/q) > > $ > > Hmmm, two apparently different commands with the same name. I thought > that wasn't supposed to happen? > > Dale Relax, it's just a directory. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Killing for peace is like fucking for virginity. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 and desktop links not working
Am Donnerstag, 15. Oktober 2009 schrieb Dale: > Hi, > > I have KDE 4 installed as well and I think this is causing the problem > but hope there is a fix for this little boo boo. I have links to > locations on my desktop so that I can click on them to get to places > directly. I have one for camera pics, another for movies and a few > others. I upgraded KDE 4 the other day and logged into it for a little > while. I'm now back in KDE 3.5 and my desktop links no longer work. > When I click on them, it tries to open them with Dolphin and even asks > for a password. The permissions are correct. Owner is dale and group > is users. I should also add that if I type in the password, user or > root, it does nothing at all. It just sits there. Sometimes my settings in KDE3 are screwed after a KDE4 session. I assume that happens when I open a KDE3 app in KDE4. Then then environment isn't properly configured somewhere. It then helps to run kbuildsycoca, log out and log in again. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' How are things in the collective?" - "Perfect." (Captain Jainway to the Borg queen) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Uninstalled programs history
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 -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Microsoft: When do you want to crash today? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] kde4 upgrading
Am Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2009 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > Since I try to keep the system with the same packages installed, as to > > not cause me to go crazy. Most are using SETS and the /etc/portage > > files are a mess and all different. > > > > > > Simplification and consolidation on kde 4 that is stable is my goal. > > Trying to upgrade causes a painful one step at a time editing of > > the /etc/portage files. I need to get away from that! > > Pick the primary workstation and get that one right, either using sets you > like or the -meta packages. > > x11-terms/clusterssh is your friend here: > > configure it to log into all your workstations; > launch it; > what you type is sent to every workstation > > aka how-to-update-many-machines-in-parallel Another possibility would be to compile on one machine and then distribute the binary packages using --buildpkg and --usepkg. That would only work of course if the hardware is identical and/or CFLAGS and CHOST are compatible. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' "Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy." (R. Heinlein) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.31 + nvidia
Am Sonntag, 1. November 2009 schrieb Kyle Adams: [top quote corrected] > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > > Just in case anyone else runs into this problem, which seems solved: > > Nvidia-drivers 180.60 won't compile with Gentoo Kernel 2.6.31-r4 . > > The problem is fixed by moving up to N-d 185.18.36-r1 (also "testing"). > > > > I've just rebooted & apps seem to start noticeably faster on Fluxbox. > > > Confirmed What do you confirm? The 185 compiling or the apps running faster? ;-) -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I wish my lawn was emo, so it would cut itself. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Font recommendations for netbook?
Am Mittwoch, 11. November 2009 schrieb Walter Dnes: > Fluxbox is blowing up on my new machine because it can't find any > fixed fonts. I just realized that merely building xorg-server doesn't > download any fonts. Looking at /usr/portage/media-fonts I see a whole > bunch of options. Any experiences good/bad with any of them? if you want a bitmap font, try terminus-font. If not, have a look at dejavu. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Error 96: Found dead mouse in hard drive C: signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 equivalent for kwifimanager-3.5
Am 12.11.2009 08:36, schrieb Mick: Hi All, I would use kde-base/kwifimanager-3.5.10 every now and then to check networks, IP address, or strength of signal when I would not use iwconfig or iwlist. This will be removed soon, so what is the KDE4 equivalent? I use KNemo for such things. It displays a symbol for each interface with in/out indicator in the style of Windows XP. You have the choice between four different symbols (wireless, computer, pci card, modem) and you can choose for which interface it should do so. -- Ohne Staub, worin er aufleuchtet, wäre der Sonnenstrahl nicht sichtbar.
Re: [gentoo-user] Layman and eix-sync
Am 12.11.2009 12:47, schrieb Dale: Alan McKinnon wrote: While I am here, I plan to get rid of all the layman stuff when KDE 4 is ready enough for me to use. Do I just run layman -d all and unmerge layman? Does that get the job done? Leave layman installed, it's useful. You also need it if you want the sunrise stuff. Run KDE4 and 3.5 side by side for a bit till you are happy. They use different directories in ~ so they don't clash: kde-3.5 ~/.kde kde-4 ~/.kde4 The only "clash" I experience is that a kbuildsyoca (without the 4) in kde4 environment causes kde3 quicklauncher to lose all contents except for the Kontact symbol, kcontrol becomes empty and nothing from the k-menu works. If I do the kbuildsycoca back in kde3, then log out and in again, everything is back to normal, only the Quicklauncher remains empty. I got used to it thanks to Katapult. :-) then unmerge all of kde-3.5, verify with depclean, then delete the overlay I thought they changed all that? I have /usr/kde/3.5 but nothing for KDE 4. Equery shows this: > r...@smoker ~ # equery files kde-base/kdelibs-4.3.3 Alan spoke about the configs and app data in ~. kdelibs naturally installs into the system, not home. And if you don't enable the prefix useflag in the older version (I believe they removed it a while ago anyway), then it installs HFS compliantly into /usr instead of /usr/kde/$version. PS.: I too use the kde3 overlay, as I am hesitant to switch as well. The bloody NVidia graphics driver causes regular flickering and sometimes it all hangs. I have orphaned entries in the task panel on a regular basis. KDM4 doesn't like my preferred font size. And until the Akregator devs have dealt with https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190616 I can't use Kontact 4 either. -- Am 8. Tag schuf Gott das Bier, und seitdem hörte man nichts mehr von ihm.
[gentoo-user] Firefox crashes when open an menu
Hi, i installed the newest firefox and (www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.5.4) and if i touch the menu or if i want to use the contextual menu then the browser freezes. I made already revdep-rebuild. Any idea? Regards Frank Schwidom
[gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?
Hi guys n gals I use FAT32 on my external HDDs to make it easier to share with other people and OSes. Never had a problem before, but now I do. Lately, when I save videos to my disks, and play them back after the file system cache is emptied, they have completely different content (of files that are long deleted). I just had the magnificent idea to look into the syslog and found loads of "kernel: bio too big device sdb (248 > 240)" I heard romours of problems with the current FAT implementation due to M$. I went back to 2.6.30 for the moment. So what’s your proposal? Usually I don’t have the need for übercurrent kernels, but would installing 2.6.32 help? TIA -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' LCARS - Linux Can Also Run Starships signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?
Am Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2009 schrieb Willie Wong: > > I use FAT32 on my external HDDs to make it easier to share with other > > people and OSes. Never had a problem before, but now I do. Lately, when I > > save videos to my disks, and play them back after the file system cache > > is emptied, they have completely different content (of files that are > > long deleted). > > Please describe in more detail what you actually did. Did you > read/write the files in linux? Both under 2.6.31? A step-by-step maybe > appreciated. Yes, of course, see below. > > I just had the magnificent idea to look into the syslog and found loads > > of "kernel: bio too big device sdb (248 > 240)" > > > > I heard romours of problems with the current FAT implementation due to > > M$. I went back to 2.6.30 for the moment. So what???s your proposal? > > Usually I don???t have the need for ??bercurrent kernels, but would > > installing 2.6.32 help? > > Did you file a bug? Where did you hear this "rumour"? I believe heise.de, the publisher of computer magazine c't. I just looked for it - it was about Microsoft pursuing legal actions against TomTom for using their FAT file system on their linux based devices. I deduced from that that they rewrote the FAT driver, but this would seem rather unlikely. > You are not running any sort of LVM, RAID, or encryption, are you? > A similar bug seems to have occured in device mapper, where dm gave > the underlying fs the wrong values for max_hw_sector. I reckon that's more like it - all my external hard drives are truecrypted. Here's what I did yesterday to verify my theory: First I booted into the correctly working 2.6.30 and mounted my external HDD. Then I copied a 700 MB and a 1400 MB video file to the disk. Then I unmounted the drive to clear the file system cache and remounted - the videos were fine. Then I rebooted into 2.6.31 and copied the same files again (I didn't delete the ones from the first test). Unmounted and remounted the drive. The files from the first run were still OK, but those from the second test showed the wrong content (as mentioned, either mplayer showed the content of a long deleted file, or nothing at all, 'file' just recognised it as "data"). > I am somehow more leaning toward the problem being in the usb > subsystem. > > When you plug-in your device, what does > /sys/block/sdb/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb say? I'm in 2.6.30 ATM, I'll do it the next time I boot the machine. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' begin signature_virus Hi! I’m a signature virus. Please copy me to your signature to help me spread. end signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?
Am Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2009 schrieb Willie Wong: > When you plug-in your device, what does > /sys/block/sdb/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb say? 120 hw_sector_size says 512 I did another "test": I opened the syslog in continuous output (tail -f) and watched it while copying a file of 350 MB. Coincidentally it started getting said error "bio too big device sdb (248 > 240)" at about 120 MB (according to the progress bar of KDE's copy dialogue). -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I haven’t lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: off-topic: logitech mice (MX1000)
Am Mittwoch, 16. Dezember 2009 schrieb Bruce Hill: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:36:45PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > FWIW, I have a Logitech mouse with a wheel that scrolls up and down, > > presses down, and clicks left and right. All seem to work fine, except > > I don't use the latter as I haven't found any purpose for it although I > > could possibly see it replacing ALT-Tab. Nah... to confusing. > > > > -a > > What settings do you use for all those events? I have a mouse with > right/left buttons, scroll wheel that also tilts right/left, and two side > buttons. Nothing works atm but regular right/left, scroll wheel to scroll > and press to paste, and side buttons. So scroll wheel tilt does nothing. Unlike Windows, where I'd have to download a 50 Meg file from logitech to make the tilt wheel work, everything's there in Xorg, and mplayer automatically uses the left and right click to skip forward and backward. Horizontal scrolling in browser windows works as well - out of the box. Isn't linux great :-) -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' UNIX is not user-unfriendly. It just expects the user to be a little more computer-friendly. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] dolphin cannot display chinese
Am Samstag, 19. Dezember 2009 schrieb Xi Shen: > hi, > > my X it self works well with chinese. but the dolphin does not work > well with chinese. if any file contains chinese (or any non-ascii) > characters, it simply will not be displayed in the list. how can i fix > this? Can you see the file elsewhere? For example Konqueror or Konsole? -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Keyboard not connected, press F1 to continue. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
