[gentoo-user] Error message on kde startup

[Paul]

Hi all,
Recently I had to update about 24 packages, all went well and any config files 
were updated.  However, I now have a problem when kde starts, I get an 
error-kdesktop message saying "The KDE Mediamanager is not running"  In the 
control Centre - Service Manager under startup Services the KDED Media 
Manager has a status of Not Running.  If I try to start it manually I just 
get a message saying Unable to start service.

I just don't know what to try next -  any suggestions?

Thanks
Paul
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Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

[Alfredo Perez]

I have seen so many howtos about dual booting windows and Linux. You can even create a boot floppy or install a program call GAG. I think is also possible GRUB will boot Windows as well.  You should do a search on Google "dual boot win and linux"  Let me know if you need more details, I could send you specific links.  I hope it helps  AlfreditoIain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 22:05 -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote:> Iain Buchanan wrote:> > > >1. use the windows to chain-boot linux (possible, but I don't know what> >for :)> >> > > Sorry, this isn't possible - I should know, I've tried in the past.  > Wasted too much t!
 ime on
 it, too.  Windows can only multi-boot with other > Windows.  And if you've managed to get it to do otherwise, please tell > me how!Aha, the old "I've tried it and it didn't work for me so it's notpossible" trick ;)I do remember trying it with windows 2000, and I think I got it to bootmy redhat install, back in the days.  I vaguely remember something aboutediting .ini or .sys or something files on windows, but I don't havewindows 2000 or redhat any more.  And you know what they say aboutmemories being created, so it may (or may not) be possible :)-- Iain Buchanan  If the user points the gun at his foot and pulls the trigger, it   is our job to ensure the bullet gets where it's supposed to.-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Error message on kde startup

[Neil Bothwick]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:02:10 +, Paul wrote:

> Recently I had to update about 24 packages, all went well and any

It might help if you told us which packages.

> config files were updated.  However, I now have a problem when kde
> starts, I get an error-kdesktop message saying "The KDE Mediamanager is
> not running"  In the control Centre - Service Manager under startup
> Services the KDED Media Manager has a status of Not Running.  If I try
> to start it manually I just get a message saying Unable to start
> service.

You probably emerged versions of hal and dbus that are incompatible with
your KDE. KDE 3.4 needs hal <0.5, KDE 3.5 needs hal >=0.5.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

[Heinz Sporn]

Am Dienstag, den 24.01.2006, 16:17 +0930 schrieb Iain Buchanan:
> On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 22:05 -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote:
> > Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > 
> > 
> 
> > >1. use the windows to chain-boot linux (possible, but I don't know what
> > >for :)
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > Sorry, this isn't possible - I should know, I've tried in the past.  
> > Wasted too much time on it, too.  Windows can only multi-boot with other 
> > Windows.  And if you've managed to get it to do otherwise, please tell 
> > me how!
> 
> Aha, the old "I've tried it and it didn't work for me so it's not
> possible" trick ;)
> 

I have to second that. There's not much magic in letting Windows 2K and
above boot alien OSes. boot.ini is the one you have to deal with. 

> I do remember trying it with windows 2000, and I think I got it to boot
> my redhat install, back in the days.  I vaguely remember something about
> editing .ini or .sys or something files on windows, but I don't have
> windows 2000 or redhat any more.  And you know what they say about
> memories being created, so it may (or may not) be possible :)
> -- 
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> 
>  If the user points the gun at his foot and pulls the trigger, it
>is our job to ensure the bullet gets where it's supposed to.
> 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Error message on kde startup

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:02, Paul wrote:
> Hi all,
> Recently I had to update about 24 packages, all went well and any config
> files were updated.  However, I now have a problem when kde starts, I get
> an error-kdesktop message saying "The KDE Mediamanager is not running"  In
> the control Centre - Service Manager under startup Services the KDED Media
> Manager has a status of Not Running.  If I try to start it manually I just
> get a message saying Unable to start service.
>
> I just don't know what to try next -  any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> Paul

Not sure if this will help, but I got the same problem after emerging world on 
my 32bit Gentoo. I did not try downgrading HAL and re-emerging kdebase did 
not help.
After further reading I got to understand that KDE Mediamanager mostly (only?) 
is in charge of automagicaly mounting media - a feature I've been fighting 
ever since it appeared, partly because I'm old-fashioned (I prefer the "I 
mount it because I want it approach) and partly because some programs I use 
did not react well to it (including untidy unmounts on external medias).

All this to say I solved the problem very easily: Control Center -> KDE 
components -> Service Manager -> unselect Media Manager.

This prevents the error message, but of course, if you WANT the media manager, 
this is not the solution :)

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Re: [gentoo-user] [POLL] portage-2.1 USE flag ordering

[Alexander Kirillov]

I've started a poll on the specific question of USE flag ordering in 
portage-2.1_pre3 at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-426033.html

The result of the poll will pretty much dictate what will happen in
the next release so if you'd like to go over and cast your vote... :)

There's also a more general poll at 
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-423275.html which also allows

further discussion if anybody is wanting to offer detailed opinions.


A short HOWTO on casting votes would be helpful:)

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Re: [gentoo-user] [POLL] portage-2.1 USE flag ordering

[Jason Stubbs]

On Tuesday 24 January 2006 21:25, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> > I've started a poll on the specific question of USE flag ordering in 
> > portage-2.1_pre3 at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-426033.html
> > The result of the poll will pretty much dictate what will happen in
> > the next release so if you'd like to go over and cast your vote... :)
> > 
> > There's also a more general poll at 
> > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-423275.html which also allows
> > further discussion if anybody is wanting to offer detailed opinions.
> 
> A short HOWTO on casting votes would be helpful:)

1) Create a login if you don't have one
2) Log in
3) View the above page
4) Click your choice
5) Click the submit button

There's only one vote per user, hence you need to be logged in.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

[ellotheth rimmwen]

On 1/24/06, Ryan Tandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Sorry, this isn't possible - I should know, I've tried in the past.
> Wasted too much time on it, too.  Windows can only multi-boot with other
> Windows.  And if you've managed to get it to do otherwise, please tell
> me how!

I did it on my first dual boot, when I kept reading things like "do
not install grub into the mbr or you won't get back into windows!!" I
have no idea where I found instructions, but if I recall, you just dd
if=/boot of=/osshare/linux.bin, and stick a reference to linux.bin in
your boot.ini. Or something to that effect. There are also
Gentoo-specific instructions at the wiki:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Boot_from_Windows_Bootloader_(NTLDR)_and_why
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Re: [gentoo-user] kdebase-3.5.0 compilation error

[Radu Filip]

It worked, thanks!

On Monday 23 January 2006 03:38 pm, Philip Webb wrote:
> A quick look suggests it may be Bug 105297 ,
> in which case the solution is to update to dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.15 .
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Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

[ellotheth rimmwen]

On 1/23/06, Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Would anyone recommend which is the best method for setup, start with
> Gentoo or Windows?

Definitely start with Windows, it makes life so much easier later. I
usually partition the drive in two using the XP setup utility (which
is pathetic, but functional), installing Windows on the first 4gb or
so and leaving the rest for fdisk. Gentoo has about 6.5gb, and any
extra goes into the fat32 shared partition. (If I had more space, I'd
probably give Gentoo a good 10gb, to leave room for those
OpenOffice.org compiles...)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome calendar - Start on Sunday instead of Saturday?

[Ernie Schroder]

On Monday 23 January 2006 23:20, a tiny voice compelled Mark Knecht to write:
> Hi,
>Title says it. My wife wants to configure this item and I cannot
> find the control of it in the preferences page. Anyone know how to
> make it start on Sunday instead?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

Switch to KDE. My calender starts on Sunday by default.
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Re: [gentoo-user] doom3 sound

[fire-eyes]

Cláudio Henrique wrote:
> I managed to have doom3 working on my system, but now the problem is
> with the sound. It is like the one of a robot. I have tried using
> alsa, but the problem remains. How can I fix this?
> []'s
> claudio.
> 

I see the same problem. Though I have only tried the demo. I see the
exact same problem with quake4-demo.

My system runs neither anywhere close to acceptably anyway, so I'm not
to worried, just wanted to thow in a me too.
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Re: [gentoo-user] cups -- more clues?

[Abhay Kedia]

On Monday 23 January 2006 22:29, maxim wexler wrote:
>
> Yes
>
Try printing a test page directly from CUPS Admin panel so that any problems 
with printer configuration is ruled out.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Error message on kde startup

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:

>
>
>You probably emerged versions of hal and dbus that are incompatible with
>your KDE. KDE 3.4 needs hal <0.5, KDE 3.5 needs hal >=0.5.
>
>
>  
>


That is what it is.  It's hal and dbus.  If I login into KDE 3.4 it
gripes about the version being to old.  If I downgrade then login to KDE
3.5, I get that error message.  I guess you need to decide which you
will use and then stick with it.  I have not had to much trouble with
KDE 3.5 myself but your milage may vary.

Dale
:-)

Let's see if this email works.  I'm using a old number now and it is a
LOT better so far.

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1:  Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 
80GB hard drives.  Named Smoker
2:  Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive.  
Named Swifty
3:  Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB 
drive.  Named Pokey
4:  Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB 
SCSI drive.  Named Putput

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[gentoo-user] OT - Squirrelmail doesn't work after recent PHP upgrade

[Michael Sullivan]

I'm having some trouble with Squirrelmail since the recent PHP upgrade.
On almost every folder I click on in Squirrelmail (including the Inbox),
I get this:

Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference
in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/squirrelmail/functions/imap_messages.php on
line 480

Everything was fine before I upgraded PHP.  If it matters, here's my USE
flages for PHP:

bullet dev-php5 # emerge -pv dev-lang/php

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5  -adabas -apache +apache2 -bcmath
+berkdb -birdstep +bzip2 -calendar -cdb +cgi -cjk +cli +crypt +ctype
+curl -curlwrappers -db2 +dba -dbase -dbmaker -debug -discard-path +doc
-empress -empress-bcs -esoob -exif -fdftk -filepro -firebird -flatfile
-force-cgi-redirect -frontbase +ftp +gd -gd-external +gdbm +gmp
-hardenedphp -hyperwave-api -iconv +imap -informix -inifile -interbase
-iodbc -ipv6 -java-external +kerberos +ldap -libedit -mcve -memlimit
+mhash +ming -mnogosearch -msql -mssql +mysql -mysqli +ncurses +nls
-oci8 -oci8-instant-client -odbc -oracle7 -ovrimos -pcntl +pcre
-pdo-external -pfpro -pic -posix -postgres -qdbm +readline -recode
-sapdb +sasl +session -sharedext -sharedmem -simplexml -snmp -soap
-sockets -solid +spell -spl -sqlite +ssl -sybase -sybase-ct -sysvipc
+threads -tidy +tiff -tokenizer +truetype -wddx +xml -xmlrpc +xpm +xsl
-yaz +zip +zlib 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB


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[gentoo-user] amarok sound engine

[Martins Steinbergs]

Hi,

I emerged amarok, great gui to manage collection, but sound output is bumpy 
with xine engine. gstreamer apears not to work at all. I tried to tweak 
settings and xine config with no luck. However, playing adio directly in xine 
output is clear.
What is your expierence, any sugestion where to look.

i have alsa on
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 
AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)

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[gentoo-user] Re: swat "500 server error"

[Peter]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:12:43 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I installed samba, and xinetd, then edited /etc/xinetd.d/swat and set
> "disable=no".  I restarted xinetd, and when I connect to
> 
> http://localhost:901/
> 
> with firefox, I get this message:
> 
> 500 Server Error
snip...

Have you tried:

edit /etc/services and uncomment this line:
#swat   901/tcp # Samba configuration tool

Also, make sure you have started the samba service.

HTH

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RE: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

[Michael Kintzios]

> -Original Message-
> From: ellotheth rimmwen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: 24 January 2006 13:49
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup
> 
> 
> On 1/23/06, Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Would anyone recommend which is the best method for setup, 
> start with
> > Gentoo or Windows?
> 
> Definitely start with Windows, it makes life so much easier later. I
> usually partition the drive in two using the XP setup utility (which
> is pathetic, but functional), installing Windows on the first 4gb or
> so and leaving the rest for fdisk. Gentoo has about 6.5gb, and any
> extra goes into the fat32 shared partition. (If I had more space, I'd
> probably give Gentoo a good 10gb, to leave room for those
> OpenOffice.org compiles...)

4G for WinXP is pretty minimal.  As soon as you install some apps or
save anything in 'My Documents' you've had it.  A full installation with
all Service Packs and patches and some basic apps like Firefox/Opera,
Eudora/Thunderbird, WinAmp, Gimp, Filezilla, OOo, etc. comes up to
approx. 5.3G, perhaps a tad more.  Give it some extra swap space (page
file in Billy Gates' speak) and we're talking 6G perhaps a bit more.  If
space is not an issue 10-15G for WinXP is not a bad idea.

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RE: [gentoo-user] Re: any easy way to reemerge kde using equery or similar tool?

[Michael Kintzios]

> -Original Message-
> From: Norberto Bensa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: 24 January 2006 00:39
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: any easy way to reemerge kde 
> using equery or similar tool?
> 
> 
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > Of course, it will ruin your world file like 
> > this because you didn't use --oneshot.
> 
> I ruinned my world file yeeears ago anyway :)
> 
> Thanks Neil.

If understand this right --oneshot does not add the packages to the
world file.  I assume that if the KDE packages are already in the world
file then re-emerging them should not really cause duplicate entries - I
guess the ebuild or emerge script checks for packages which have already
been installed and amends the world file accordingly, no?  Am I missing
the point with this --oneshot option?
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[gentoo-user] usb wacom tablet

[Roger Mason]

Hello,

I'm installing a wacom tablet, following the instructions here:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Wacom_Tablet

Problem:

The tablet does not show up in /proc/bus/input/devices ->

cat /proc/bus/input/devices 
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
H: Handlers=kbd event0 
B: EV=120013 
B: KEY=4 200 3802078 f840d001 f2df ffef  fffe 
B: MSC=10 
B: LED=7 

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0001 Version=0001
N: Name="PS/2 Logitech Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
H: Handlers=mouse0 event1 
B: EV=7 
B: KEY=7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
B: REL=3 

Background:

The tablet is plugged into a NEC usb controller card.  dmesg shows

ehci_hcd :00:0a.2: NEC Corporation USB 2.0
ehci_hcd :00:0a.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd :00:0a.2: irq 11, io mem 0xe000
ehci_hcd :00:0a.2: park 0
ehci_hcd :00:0a.2: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 5 ports detected
usbcore: registered new driver wacom
drivers/usb/input/wacom.c: v1.43:USB Wacom Graphire and Wacom Intuos tablet 
driver

The wacom driver is compiled into the kernel (last line of dmesg
output, above)

I have recompiled xorg with the sdk use flag and emerged
linuxwacom-0.6.7. 

The following usb related kernel options are set:

CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI=y
CONFIG_USB=y
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_WACOM=y
CONFIG_USB_MON=y

The following are the hotplug settings for the kernel:

CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI is not set

The kernel event detection stuff is built in:

CONFIG_KOBJECT_UEVENT=y
CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y

Can anyone suggest what may be wrong?

Thanks,

Roger Mason
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[gentoo-user] php blocking

[James]

Hello,

I've looked at the previous threads, but I cannot seem to remove (unmerge)
these packages:

[blocks B ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5)
[blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5)
[blocks B ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6-r4)
[blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6-r4)


Ideas on what to remove, so php5 can be exclusively installed via:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-upgrading.xml

This page does not tell you what to remove to clear the blocking.

equery list 'dev-php/'   
[ Searching for all packages in 'dev-php' among: ]
 * installed packages

In fact I used 'eix php' and 'eix pear' and  could find nothing at 
all installed. I'm stumped as to how to fix this problem.

Ideas?


James



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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: any easy way to reemerge kde using equery or similar tool?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:01:31 -, Michael Kintzios wrote:

> > > Of course, it will ruin your world file like 
> > > this because you didn't use --oneshot.

> If understand this right --oneshot does not add the packages to the
> world file.  I assume that if the KDE packages are already in the world
> file then re-emerging them should not really cause duplicate entries - I
> guess the ebuild or emerge script checks for packages which have already
> been installed and amends the world file accordingly, no?  Am I missing
> the point with this --oneshot option?

You are assuming that all the KDE packages are in your world file, they
are not. For example, none of the lib* packages should be there. 


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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Squirrelmail doesn't work after recent PHP upgrade

[kashani]

Michael Sullivan wrote:

I'm having some trouble with Squirrelmail since the recent PHP upgrade.
On almost every folder I click on in Squirrelmail (including the Inbox),
I get this:

Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference
in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/squirrelmail/functions/imap_messages.php on
line 480



What version of php did you upgrade from?

kashani

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[gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[Jeff]

Hey guys.

I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive
to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure
what the command would be. Something to the effect of:

# cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com 'tar data.info.gz'

So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then archived on
the destination machine.

Help!

:-)

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[gentoo-user] Browser not launching.

[Nagatoro]

Hi,

I have a very annoying problem. I can't open web links by clicking them.
If I set the default (Control-Center->KDE Components->Component Chooser 
and File Associations) and it works from pure KDE applications

but from others (eg thunderbird and xchat) it doesn't work. This behavior
seems to have developed when I made the change to ~x86.

I've tried removing the .kde, .mozilla-firefox and .thunderbird dirs but 
to no help.


Can anyone give some help to help me solve this?

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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[John Jolet]

On Jan 24, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Jeff wrote:


Hey guys.

I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard  
drive

to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure
what the command would be. Something to the effect of:

# cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com 'tar data.info.gz'

So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then  
archived on

the destination machine.

you have a tar file you want transferred, or a directory called  
backup?  if it's a directory, i'd (from the target machine) ssh  
sourcemachine "tar /var/backup/* -" > data.info.gz


see the very long discussion we had on this list about this a few  
months ago.

Help!

:-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[Tom Smith]

Jeff wrote:

>Hey guys.
>
>I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive
>to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure
>what the command would be. Something to the effect of:
>
># cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com 'tar data.info.gz'
>
>So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then archived on
>the destination machine.
>
>Help!
>
>:-)
>  
>
Not possible. What you want is more along the lines of AFS, NFS, SMB, or
the like.

If your backup files already exist, you can use SCP or SFTP to copy
those to a different server.
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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[Francesco Riosa]

Jeff wrote:
> Hey guys.
>
> I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive
> to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure
> what the command would be. Something to the effect of:
>
> # cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com 'tar data.info.gz'
>
> So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then archived on
> the destination machine.
>   
tar -zcf - /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com "( cat > data.info.gz  )"

something similar, probably is possible to avoid the use of cat bat
don't came in mind at the moment
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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[Francesco Riosa]

>
> Not possible. 
>
>   
Wrong, we are unix sysadmins, the thing that more nearly resemble that
is : "I've not time to do that" ;-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[John Jolet]

On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Tom Smith wrote:


Jeff wrote:


Hey guys.

I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard  
drive

to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure
what the command would be. Something to the effect of:

# cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com 'tar data.info.gz'

So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then  
archived on

the destination machine.

Help!

:-)


Not possible. What you want is more along the lines of AFS, NFS,  
SMB, or

the like.



WRONG.  I do it all the time.


If your backup files already exist, you can use SCP or SFTP to copy
those to a different server.
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[gentoo-user] PPP and VPN

[Trenton Adams]

Hi everyone,

I had heard that kernel 2.6.15 had VPN support.  So, I went to
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Set_up_a_vpn_client_with_mppe_encryption
to figure out how to configure my kernel compilation.  The only
problem is, there doesn't appear to be PPP support anywhere in the
kernel.

Networking  --->
  --- Networking support

I can't expand the "Networking support" in any way.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

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[gentoo-user] Re: PPP and VPN

[Trenton Adams]

Actually, that document was a little misleading.  it said "Networking
support", where it should have said "Network device support".  So, my
brain omitted the "Device Driver--->" part, and assumed I should go
under "Networking --->", because I knew it was there.

Anyhow, found the options. :)

On 1/24/06, Trenton Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I had heard that kernel 2.6.15 had VPN support.  So, I went to
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Set_up_a_vpn_client_with_mppe_encryption
> to figure out how to configure my kernel compilation.  The only
> problem is, there doesn't appear to be PPP support anywhere in the
> kernel.
>
> Networking  --->
>   --- Networking support
>
> I can't expand the "Networking support" in any way.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Error message on kde startup

[Manuel McLure]

Paul wrote:

Hi all,
Recently I had to update about 24 packages, all went well and any config files 
were updated.  However, I now have a problem when kde starts, I get an 
error-kdesktop message saying "The KDE Mediamanager is not running"  In the 
control Centre - Service Manager under startup Services the KDED Media 
Manager has a status of Not Running.  If I try to start it manually I just 
get a message saying Unable to start service.


I just don't know what to try next -  any suggestions?


Just got this last night - the problem is that the new dbus/hal changed 
the shared library they use. revdep-rebuild should solve the problem (in 
my case it made me rebuild kioslaves and k3b.)



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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[Tom Smith]

John Jolet wrote:

>
> On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Tom Smith wrote:
>
>> Jeff wrote:
>>
>>> Hey guys.
>>>
>>> I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard 
>>> drive
>>> to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure
>>> what the command would be. Something to the effect of:
>>>
>>> # cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com 'tar data.info.gz'
>>>
>>> So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then 
>>> archived on
>>> the destination machine.
>>>
>>> Help!
>>>
>>> :-)
>>>
>>>
>> Not possible. What you want is more along the lines of AFS, NFS, 
>> SMB, or
>> the like.
>>
>
> WRONG.  I do it all the time.

Ok,. my bad. (Open mouth, insert foot. :-D )

Being a *nix junkie, I tend to do some things old school--that is, there
are specific tools that are (dare I say) more specialized to such a
task. You know... SSH = Secure SHell, SCP = Secure CoPy, SFTP = Secure
FTP... So I had never really looked into using the "ssh" program for
copying files between servers--it's always been more of a telnet-like
application for me.

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Squirrelmail doesn't work after recent PHP upgrade

[Manuel McLure]

Michael Sullivan wrote:

I'm having some trouble with Squirrelmail since the recent PHP upgrade.
On almost every folder I click on in Squirrelmail (including the Inbox),
I get this:

Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference
in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/squirrelmail/functions/imap_messages.php on
line 480


Upgrade to the ~x86 version of squirrelmail (1.4.5-r1) - it includes a 
patch specifically for this issue.



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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Squirrelmail doesn't work after recent PHP upgrade

[Charles Andrews]

See...
http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/BrowseProblemsByPhpError

A google search of
"Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference" +squirelmail

Finds your answer rather quickly

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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[Jeff]

Tom you big jerk. LOL! jk man...

Well, I would call it, piping through a tunnel? Tunneling through a
pipe? The concept seems very *nix-like to me.

*shrug*

Thanks to all... wish me luck!

Tom Smith wrote:
> John Jolet wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Tom Smith wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Jeff wrote:
>>>
>>>
Hey guys.

I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard 
drive
to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure
what the command would be. Something to the effect of:

# cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com 'tar data.info.gz'

So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then 
archived on
the destination machine.

Help!

:-)


>>>
>>>Not possible. What you want is more along the lines of AFS, NFS, 
>>>SMB, or
>>>the like.
>>>
>>
>>WRONG.  I do it all the time.
> 
> 
> Ok,. my bad. (Open mouth, insert foot. :-D )
> 
> Being a *nix junkie, I tend to do some things old school--that is, there
> are specific tools that are (dare I say) more specialized to such a
> task. You know... SSH = Secure SHell, SCP = Secure CoPy, SFTP = Secure
> FTP... So I had never really looked into using the "ssh" program for
> copying files between servers--it's always been more of a telnet-like
> application for me.
> 

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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[John Jolet]

On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:46 AM, Tom Smith wrote:


John Jolet wrote:



On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Tom Smith wrote:


Jeff wrote:


Hey guys.

I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard
drive
to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not  
sure

what the command would be. Something to the effect of:

# cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com 'tar data.info.gz'

So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then
archived on
the destination machine.

Help!

:-)



Not possible. What you want is more along the lines of AFS, NFS,
SMB, or
the like.



WRONG.  I do it all the time.


Ok,. my bad. (Open mouth, insert foot. :-D )

Being a *nix junkie, I tend to do some things old school--that is,  
there

are specific tools that are (dare I say) more specialized to such a
task. You know... SSH = Secure SHell, SCP = Secure CoPy, SFTP = Secure
FTP... So I had never really looked into using the "ssh" program for
copying files between servers--it's always been more of a telnet-like
application for me.

hmmm, old school, eh?  I was doing that tar trick about 10 or 11  
years ago.
you HAVE to do that if you have no room to complete the tar file on  
the source, THEN transfer it.  it's quicker than scping a lot of  
files and then tarring them up on the destination, especially if THAT  
doesn't have room for both the source files and the tar.  I did  
extensive performance testing for database migrations about 5 years  
ago and what I said was by far the most efficient, timewise (though,  
I didn't simply redirect to a file, but dd of=filename)

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RE: [gentoo-user] Re: any easy way to reemerge kde using equery or similar tool?

[Michael Kintzios]

> -Original Message-
> From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: 24 January 2006 16:41
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: any easy way to reemerge kde 
> using equery or similar tool?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:01:31 -, Michael Kintzios wrote:
> 
> > > > Of course, it will ruin your world file like 
> > > > this because you didn't use --oneshot.
> 
> > If understand this right --oneshot does not add the packages to the
> > world file.  I assume that if the KDE packages are already 
> in the world
> > file then re-emerging them should not really cause 
> duplicate entries - I
> > guess the ebuild or emerge script checks for packages which 
> have already
> > been installed and amends the world file accordingly, no?  
> Am I missing
> > the point with this --oneshot option?
> 
> You are assuming that all the KDE packages are in your world 
> file, they
> are not. For example, none of the lib* packages should be there. 

I see (I think).  Please bear with me while I am catching up:  the
script will individually emerge every KDE component as opposed to the
original meta packages which brought in with them their dependencies.
The latter would not have been in the world file, but by virtue of the
script they will now be added - unless of course --oneshot is used.
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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[Neil Bothwick]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:20:10 -0700, Tom Smith wrote:

> Not possible.

Why, is he using Windows?

"I don't know how" != "not possible".

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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[Tom Smith]

John Jolet wrote:

>
> On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:46 AM, Tom Smith wrote:
>
>> John Jolet wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Tom Smith wrote:
>>>
 Jeff wrote:

> Hey guys.
>
> I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard
> drive
> to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not 
> sure
> what the command would be. Something to the effect of:
>
> # cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com 'tar data.info.gz'
>
> So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then
> archived on
> the destination machine.
>
> Help!
>
> :-)
>
>
 Not possible. What you want is more along the lines of AFS, NFS,
 SMB, or
 the like.

>>>
>>> WRONG.  I do it all the time.
>>
>>
>> Ok,. my bad. (Open mouth, insert foot. :-D )
>>
>> Being a *nix junkie, I tend to do some things old school--that is, 
>> there
>> are specific tools that are (dare I say) more specialized to such a
>> task. You know... SSH = Secure SHell, SCP = Secure CoPy, SFTP = Secure
>> FTP... So I had never really looked into using the "ssh" program for
>> copying files between servers--it's always been more of a telnet-like
>> application for me.
>>
> hmmm, old school, eh?  I was doing that tar trick about 10 or 11 
> years ago.
> you HAVE to do that if you have no room to complete the tar file on 
> the source, THEN transfer it.  it's quicker than scping a lot of 
> files and then tarring them up on the destination, especially if THAT 
> doesn't have room for both the source files and the tar.  I did 
> extensive performance testing for database migrations about 5 years 
> ago and what I said was by far the most efficient, timewise (though, 
> I didn't simply redirect to a file, but dd of=filename)

Well, perhaps "old school" has different meanings to different people.
:-) I was referring to the UNIX "tools" philosophy in which each program
has a very specific use, similar to qmail (the original, unmodified
qmail, that is). And this is usually the direction I take when looking
for "tools" to accomplish some task. But I suppose this philosophy
doesn't really apply quite as much nowadays.

I must say, though, I've always managed to anticipate the storage needs
of my servers so running low on or (even worse) running out of disk
space has never been a problem. So I've never had to research such
"tricks" to get things to work within those types of constraints. Call
me quirky, but that's part of being a sysadmin... Yes? ;-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] php blocking

[James Ausmus]

On 1/24/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've looked at the previous threads, but I cannot seem to remove (unmerge)
> these packages:
>
> [blocks B ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5)
> [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5)
> [blocks B ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6-r4)
> [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6-r4)
>

What does it show when you do a
  emerge -pC dev-php/mod_php dev-php/php
?

-James

>
> Ideas on what to remove, so php5 can be exclusively installed via:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-upgrading.xml
>
> This page does not tell you what to remove to clear the blocking.
>
> equery list 'dev-php/'   
> [ Searching for all packages in 'dev-php' among: ]
>  * installed packages
>
> In fact I used 'eix php' and 'eix pear' and  could find nothing at
> all installed. I'm stumped as to how to fix this problem.
>
> Ideas?
>
>
> James
>
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

[Dave Jones]

It's best to install Windows first, as it always overwrites the master
boot record, which destroys a Grub or Lilo setup.

Grub is perfectly capable of booting Windows by 'chain loading' to the
Windows loader. Booting linux from the Windows loader is a lot more complex.

I'd recommend having a fat32 (vfat) partition for sharing data between
the Windows and Linux.

However, one of the major snags with vfat is that it does not support
group and user attributes, and seems to map the fat 'archive' attribute
to 'executable' under linux, which is rather irritating.

vfat is also a poor choice for NFS sharing because of it's lack of user
and group attributes.

Cheers, Dave

Sean wrote on 01/24/06 04:06:
> I have a laptop I want to setup to boot either Gentoo or Windows.

> Looking around I am trying to find recommendations as to which is better
> to install first, Gentoo or Windows. From what I found, either often
> gets a recommendation.
> Would anyone recommend which is the best method for setup, start with
> Gentoo or Windows?

> I also want to setup a common partition for data storage which both can
> access. Again, can anyone recommend a setup?
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Re: [gentoo-user] [POLL] portage-2.1 USE flag ordering

[Philip Webb]

060124 Jason Stubbs wrote:
> I've started a poll on the specific question of USE flag ordering in 
> portage-2.1_pre3 at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-426033.html
> 1) Create a login if you don't have one
> 2) Log in
> 3) View the above page
> 4) Click your choice
> 5) Click the submit button

I have the above URL showing the Forum topic on Konqueror 3.5
& there is no choice to click nor any submit button: yes, I logged in.

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[gentoo-user] joomla

[Uwe Thiem]

Hi folks,

any joomla or mambo experts here?

I have got joomla-1.0.7 and php-5.1.1.

When I try to log into the site as admin after configuring it, I get this:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function session_name() 
in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/joomla/administrator/index.php on line 83

I just synced and pretended to emerge joomla but it would not emerge a newer 
version.

What am I doing wrong? :-(

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[John Jolet]

Well, perhaps "old school" has different meanings to different people.
:-) I was referring to the UNIX "tools" philosophy in which each  
program

has a very specific use, similar to qmail (the original, unmodified
qmail, that is). And this is usually the direction I take when looking
for "tools" to accomplish some task. But I suppose this philosophy
doesn't really apply quite as much nowadays.

I must say, though, I've always managed to anticipate the storage  
needs

of my servers so running low on or (even worse) running out of disk
space has never been a problem. So I've never had to research such
"tricks" to get things to work within those types of constraints. Call
me quirky, but that's part of being a sysadmin... Yes? ;-)
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as do I, but how often do you get to start with no servers at all?  I  
think there's this one sysadmin running around setting up servers  
badly, and we all get hired in after him to clean upi've got one  
db server with a 3-gig root partition and a 5-gig tmp partition, and  
all the programs aren't using the tmp partition, using the /tmp  
directory.  and the root filesystem is 90% full.  Ga!



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[gentoo-user] nvidia module won't load after updates

[Ernie Schroder]

from dmesg

nvidia: version magic '2.6.14-gentoo-r4 K7 gcc-3.4' should be 
'2.6.14-gentoo-r42.6.14-r-4_new K7 gcc-3.3'

This looks like the kernel was compiled with gcc-3.3 and nvidia-kernel was 
compiled with gcc-3.4. Do I need to rebuild my kernel? I know I've restarted 
x since updating gcc on 12/6/05

$ gcc-config -c
i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4
How can I find what gcc version my kernel was built with?


Recent updates:
pygtk-2.8.2
bluez-utils-2.22-r1
bluez-libs-2.22
gst-plugins-flac-0.8.11
gst-plugins-vorbis-0.8.11
gst-plugins-ogg-0.8.11
gst-plugins-mad-0.8.11
gtk-gnutella-0.95.4-r1
coreutils-5.2.1-r7
nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r5
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Re: [gentoo-user] php blocking

[Uwe Thiem]

On 24 January 2006 20:20, James Ausmus wrote:
> On 1/24/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've looked at the previous threads, but I cannot seem to remove
> > (unmerge) these packages:
> >
> > [blocks B ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5)
> > [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5)
> > [blocks B ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6-r4)
> > [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6-r4)
>
> What does it show when you do a
>   emerge -pC dev-php/mod_php dev-php/php
> ?

Just "emerge --unmerge php" and "emerge dev-lang/php. You will have to fiddle 
with the USE flags for php a bit.

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia module won't load after updates

[James Ausmus]

On 1/24/06, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> from dmesg
>
> nvidia: version magic '2.6.14-gentoo-r4 K7 gcc-3.4' should be
> '2.6.14-gentoo-r42.6.14-r-4_new K7 gcc-3.3'
>
> This looks like the kernel was compiled with gcc-3.3 and nvidia-kernel was
> compiled with gcc-3.4. Do I need to rebuild my kernel? I know I've restarted
> x since updating gcc on 12/6/05
>
Yes, just recompile your kernel and modules, configure your bootloader
to point to the new kernel, reboot, then you should be good to go.

HTH-

James

> $ gcc-config -c
> i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4
> How can I find what gcc version my kernel was built with?
>
>
> Recent updates:
> pygtk-2.8.2
> bluez-utils-2.22-r1
> bluez-libs-2.22
> gst-plugins-flac-0.8.11
> gst-plugins-vorbis-0.8.11
> gst-plugins-ogg-0.8.11
> gst-plugins-mad-0.8.11
> gtk-gnutella-0.95.4-r1
> coreutils-5.2.1-r7
> nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r5
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Re: [gentoo-user] joomla

[Rafael Fernández López]

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Uwe Thiem wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> any joomla or mambo experts here?
> 
> I have got joomla-1.0.7 and php-5.1.1.
> 
> When I try to log into the site as admin after configuring it, I get this:
> Fatal error: Call to undefined function session_name() 
> in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/joomla/administrator/index.php on line 83
> 
> I just synced and pretended to emerge joomla but it would not emerge a newer 
> version.
> 
> What am I doing wrong? :-(
> 
> Uwe
> 

You've to emerge php with "session" USE enabled.

# USE="session" emerge -v dev-lang/php

Bye,
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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[Jeff]

This example that Francesco illustrates seems to work pretty well. I
guess my main concern was with tar - would it be able to handle a
filesystem this large? Myself, I haven't seen or heard any scary stories
thus far. Anyone shed light on tar limitations?

Thanks for all the colorful replies.

:-)

-Jeff

Francesco Riosa wrote:
> Jeff wrote:
> 
>>Hey guys.
>>
>>I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive
>>to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure
>>what the command would be. Something to the effect of:
>>
>># cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com 'tar data.info.gz'
>>
>>So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then archived on
>>the destination machine.
>>  
> 
> tar -zcf - /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com "( cat > data.info.gz  )"
> 
> something similar, probably is possible to avoid the use of cat bat
> don't came in mind at the moment

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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[Jeff]

DUH ME! Open mouth, insert face...

Ok, what I *meant* to say from post #1, is, the filesystem I'm
tarballing is quite large - 25g. The tar command should be able to
digest this, yes? Should I be worried?

Thanks again all.

Jeff wrote:
> This example that Francesco illustrates seems to work pretty well. I
> guess my main concern was with tar - would it be able to handle a
> filesystem this large? Myself, I haven't seen or heard any scary stories
> thus far. Anyone shed light on tar limitations?
> 
> Thanks for all the colorful replies.
> 
> :-)
> 
> -Jeff
> 
> Francesco Riosa wrote:
> 
>>Jeff wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hey guys.
>>>
>>>I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive
>>>to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure
>>>what the command would be. Something to the effect of:
>>>
>>># cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com 'tar data.info.gz'
>>>
>>>So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then archived on
>>>the destination machine.
>>> 
>>
>>tar -zcf - /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com "( cat > data.info.gz  )"
>>
>>something similar, probably is possible to avoid the use of cat bat
>>don't came in mind at the moment
> 
> 

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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[John Jolet]

On Jan 24, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Jeff wrote:


This example that Francesco illustrates seems to work pretty well. I
guess my main concern was with tar - would it be able to handle a
filesystem this large? Myself, I haven't seen or heard any scary  
stories

thus far. Anyone shed light on tar limitations?

all of tar's limitations will have to do with the output file.   
typically, you'll run into problems at 2 gigs on some old kernels, or  
*nix variants.  tar used to have a limit of like 8 gigs or so,  
assuming the underlying kernel/filesystem would allow itbut I  
haven't tried to push that limit in quite a while.  For instance, 4  
gigs is where you crash if writing to a fat32 partition.



Thanks for all the colorful replies.

:-)

-Jeff

Francesco Riosa wrote:

Jeff wrote:


Hey guys.

I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the  
hard drive
to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not  
sure

what the command would be. Something to the effect of:

# cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com 'tar data.info.gz'

So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then  
archived on

the destination machine.



tar -zcf - /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com "( cat >  
data.info.gz  )"


something similar, probably is possible to avoid the use of cat bat
don't came in mind at the moment


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Re: [gentoo-user] joomla

[Uwe Thiem]

On 24 January 2006 22:25, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > any joomla or mambo experts here?
> >
> > I have got joomla-1.0.7 and php-5.1.1.
> >
> > When I try to log into the site as admin after configuring it, I get
> > this: Fatal error: Call to undefined function session_name()
> > in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/joomla/administrator/index.php on line 83
> >
> > I just synced and pretended to emerge joomla but it would not emerge a
> > newer version.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong? :-(
> >
> > Uwe
>
> You've to emerge php with "session" USE enabled.
>
> # USE="session" emerge -v dev-lang/php

Thanks! That did it. :-)

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] cups -- more clues?

[maxim wexler]

Man, trying to print a test page is the first thing I
tried!

--- Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Monday 23 January 2006 22:29, maxim wexler wrote:
> >
> > Yes
> >
> Try printing a test page directly from CUPS Admin
> panel so that any problems 
> with printer configuration is ruled out.
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[Ernst Herzberg]

On Tuesday 24 January 2006 21:40, Jeff wrote:
> DUH ME! Open mouth, insert face...
>
> Ok, what I *meant* to say from post #1, is, the filesystem I'm
> tarballing is quite large - 25g. The tar command should be able to
> digest this, yes? Should I be worried?

Last week i back'ed up a machine with 4 80G disks as RAID5 with the method 
mentioned before. tar-size on the desination machine was about 120GB 
compressed (yes, one File:). Both filesystems are reiserfs.

Restore again wih the same method, only the other way around, to 4 
250GB-disks. No problems.

Tip: check your destination tar file with tar -tzf ... or tar -tjf ... before 
you delete the source. Compression is a good check that no data has been 
changed during transfer of the data.


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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[Trenton Adams]

> Not possible
on a windows machine. :P

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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[Tom Smith]

Ernst Herzberg wrote:

>On Tuesday 24 January 2006 21:40, Jeff wrote:
>  
>
>>DUH ME! Open mouth, insert face...
>>
>>Ok, what I *meant* to say from post #1, is, the filesystem I'm
>>tarballing is quite large - 25g. The tar command should be able to
>>digest this, yes? Should I be worried?
>>
>>
>
>Last week i back'ed up a machine with 4 80G disks as RAID5 with the method 
>mentioned before. tar-size on the desination machine was about 120GB 
>compressed (yes, one File:). Both filesystems are reiserfs.
>
>Restore again wih the same method, only the other way around, to 4 
>250GB-disks. No problems.
>
>Tip: check your destination tar file with tar -tzf ... or tar -tjf ... before 
>you delete the source. Compression is a good check that no data has been 
>changed during transfer of the data.
>
>
>  
>
Hey, I think I might have something useful to add here... :-D

To keep my tar file sizes more manageable, any directories containing
large directories have script blocks within the backup script that
create a tar file for each directory in that directory. (Whoa! Did I
just say that!?) Here's the block of code that, for example, handles my
/home directories:


dt=`date +%G%m%d-%H%M%S`
find /home/ -type s > /tmp/home-sockets.tmp
for x in `ls -lA /home/ | awk '{print $9}'`
do
tar cpPj -X /tmp/home-sockets.tmp -f
/var/backups/home-$x-$dt.tbz2 /home/$x
done
rm -f /tmp/home-sockets.tmp


This creates a separate tar file for each directory in /home. The $dt
var isn't required, of course... I just use it to "time stamp" all of my
backup files as it makes it easier to track them.

Regardless of whether or not the kernel or file system can support the
huge tar files others have referred to, I prefer to always make things
as manageable and "modular" as possible. The smaller the files, the
easier (quicker, really) they are to work with.

Just food for thought...
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: any easy way to reemerge kde using equery or similar tool?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:00:59 -, Michael Kintzios wrote:

> I see (I think).  Please bear with me while I am catching up:  the
> script will individually emerge every KDE component as opposed to the
> original meta packages which brought in with them their dependencies.
> The latter would not have been in the world file, but by virtue of the
> script they will now be added - unless of course --oneshot is used.

Spot on!

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Re: [gentoo-user] joomla

[Robin]

Arrghhh Bad Habits...
Add:

dev-lang/php session

to your package.use file

:- )

On 1/24/06, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 24 January 2006 22:25, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> > Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > any joomla or mambo experts here?
> > >
> > > I have got joomla-1.0.7 and php-5.1.1.
> > >
> > > When I try to log into the site as admin after configuring it, I get
> > > this: Fatal error: Call to undefined function session_name()
> > > in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/joomla/administrator/index.php on line 83
> > >
> > > I just synced and pretended to emerge joomla but it would not emerge a
> > > newer version.
> > >
> > > What am I doing wrong? :-(
> > >
> > > Uwe
> >
> > You've to emerge php with "session" USE enabled.
> >
> > # USE="session" emerge -v dev-lang/php
>
> Thanks! That did it. :-)
>
> Uwe
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] joomla

[Rafael Fernández López]

It was only a quick replying... of course if you want to upgrade php
you'll have to add for example "session" to your make.conf USE variable.

Bye,
Rafael Fernández López.

> Arrghhh Bad Habits...
> Add:
>
> dev-lang/php session
>
> to your package.use file
>
> :- )
>
> On 1/24/06, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 24 January 2006 22:25, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
>> > Uwe Thiem wrote:
>> > > Hi folks,
>> > >
>> > > any joomla or mambo experts here?
>> > >
>> > > I have got joomla-1.0.7 and php-5.1.1.
>> > >
>> > > When I try to log into the site as admin after configuring it, I get
>> > > this: Fatal error: Call to undefined function session_name()
>> > > in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/joomla/administrator/index.php on line
>> 83
>> > >
>> > > I just synced and pretended to emerge joomla but it would not emerge
>> a
>> > > newer version.
>> > >
>> > > What am I doing wrong? :-(
>> > >
>> > > Uwe
>> >
>> > You've to emerge php with "session" USE enabled.
>> >
>> > # USE="session" emerge -v dev-lang/php
>>
>> Thanks! That did it. :-)
>>
>> Uwe
>>
>> --
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>> who | grep -i blonde | date
>> cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger
>> mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount
>> sleep
>>
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>>
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[gentoo-user] Captive will not acquire?

[Michael Kintzios]

Hi All,

Just emerged captive-1.1.7 and when I'm trying to run "# 
/usr/sbin/captive-install-acquire" just as the ebuild tells me to do - it can't 
find the path . . .

 # /usr/sbin/captive-install-acquire
bash: /usr/sbin/captive-install-acquire: No such file or directory
# captive-install-acquire
bash: captive-install-acquire: command not found

What's up with this?  What should I do next? (other than wait for the native 
kernel driver to be developed fo rw to NTFS partitions).
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: swat "500 server error"

[Iain Buchanan]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 10:32 -0500, Peter wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:12:43 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I installed samba, and xinetd, then edited /etc/xinetd.d/swat and set
> > "disable=no".  I restarted xinetd, and when I connect to
> > 
> > http://localhost:901/
> > 
> > with firefox, I get this message:
> > 
> > 500 Server Error
> snip...
> 
> Have you tried:
> 
> edit /etc/services and uncomment this line:
> #swat   901/tcp # Samba configuration tool

yes, it was like this by default.

> Also, make sure you have started the samba service.

also done!

any more hints?

TIA,
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome calendar - Start on Sunday instead of Saturday?

[Mark Knecht]

On 1/24/06, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 23 January 2006 23:20, a tiny voice compelled Mark Knecht to write:
> > Hi,
> >Title says it. My wife wants to configure this item and I cannot
> > find the control of it in the preferences page. Anyone know how to
> > make it start on Sunday instead?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
>
> Switch to KDE. My calender starts on Sunday by default.
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 That's using an atom bomb to fix a small road block, isn't it?! ;-)

Thanks!

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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[Iain Buchanan]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 17:23 +, Francesco Riosa wrote:
> Jeff wrote:
> > Hey guys.
> >
> > I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive
> > to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure
> > what the command would be.
[snip]
> >
> > So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then archived on
> > the destination machine.
> >   
> tar -zcf - /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com "( cat > data.info.gz  )"
> 
> something similar, probably is possible to avoid the use of cat bat
> don't came in mind at the moment

wow, I am quite blown away - not only at the fact that I just tried the
above command (and it worked of course) but also that I've found a new
way of doing something that I never thought of before.

This is one to remember!

(now, if only I'd backed up yesterday, before I did an accidental `rm *`
instead of `rm *~`)
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[gentoo-user] Superblock error

[Colin Wildsmith]

Title: Hello all,








Hello all,

I have just tried the Gentoo challenge (installing Gentooo
from the minimal CD) and have failed. :-(

I get an error stating that

 

“The superblock could not be read of does not describe
a correct ext2 filesystem….”

 

Im almost sure that its an error in my fstab file? However I
try and change it by

mount /dev/hda1

nano /etc/fstab

 

I can see the file however I can not write to it.

 

How can I modify my files?

 

Colin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: swat "500 server error"

[Francesco Riosa]

Iain Buchanan wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 10:32 -0500, Peter wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:12:43 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
>>
>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I installed samba, and xinetd, then edited /etc/xinetd.d/swat and set
>>> "disable=no".  I restarted xinetd, and when I connect to
>>>
>>> http://localhost:901/
>>>
>>> with firefox, I get this message:
>>>
>>> 500 Server Error
>>>   
>> snip...
>>
>> Have you tried:
>>
>> edit /etc/services and uncomment this line:
>> #swat   901/tcp # Samba configuration tool
>> 
>
> yes, it was like this by default.
>
>   
>> Also, make sure you have started the samba service.
>> 
>
> also done!
>
> any more hints?
>
> TIA,
>   

Not very much, /me never had problems with swat.
Try to start it from the command line (after stopping xinetd)
/usr/sbin/swat --debuglevel=9
or look for something useful into the logs.


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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[John Jolet]

On Jan 24, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote:


On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 17:23 +, Francesco Riosa wrote:

Jeff wrote:

Hey guys.

I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the  
hard drive
to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not  
sure

what the command would be.

[snip]


So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then  
archived on

the destination machine.

tar -zcf - /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com "( cat >  
data.info.gz  )"


something similar, probably is possible to avoid the use of cat bat
don't came in mind at the moment


wow, I am quite blown away - not only at the fact that I just tried  
the

above command (and it worked of course) but also that I've found a new
way of doing something that I never thought of before.

This is one to remember!

(now, if only I'd backed up yesterday, before I did an accidental  
`rm *`

instead of `rm *~`)

good thing none of US has ever done that...as root from the /  on  
a running production serverin the middle of month-end

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[gentoo-user] Building Kernel Modules with custom kernel trees

[Alex Bennee]

Hi,

I'm tracking the kernel by hand (following the git tree and doing some
hacking of my own). However whenever I try and emerge a ebuild that
involves a kernel module it usually fails to work out the correct
kernel:

 * Determining the location of the kernel source code
 * Found kernel source directory:
 * /usr/src/linux
 * Found sources for kernel version:
 * 2.6.15-git12

 * getfilevar requires 2 variables, with the second a valid file.
 *getfilevar  
 * Could not find a usable .config in the kernel source directory.
 * Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a configured set of Linux
sources.
 * If you are using KBUILD_OUTPUT, please set the environment var so
that
 * it points to the necessary object directory so that it might
find .config.

!!! ERROR: sys-fs/fuse-2.5.0 failed.
!!! Function linux-info_pkg_setup, Line 534, Exitcode 1
!!! Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version

However with all kernels you should be able to detrmine the root via
uname -r:

malory / # ls -l "/lib/modules/`uname -r`"
total 212
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root31 Jan 15 17:16 build
-> /home/alex/src/kernel/linux-2.6
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root31 Jan 15 17:16 source
-> /home/alex/src/kernel/linux-2.6

There really is no need to force people to build as root under /usr/src
so is it possible to educate portage to use the uname method to
determine the root of the kernel tree for building kernel modules?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome calendar - Start on Sunday instead of Saturday?

[Ernie Schroder]

On Tuesday 24 January 2006 18:19, a tiny voice compelled Mark Knecht to write:
> On 1/24/06, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Monday 23 January 2006 23:20, a tiny voice compelled Mark Knecht to 
write:
> > > Hi,
> > >Title says it. My wife wants to configure this item and I cannot
> > > find the control of it in the preferences page. Anyone know how to
> > > make it start on Sunday instead?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mark
> >
> > Switch to KDE. My calender starts on Sunday by default.
> > --
> > Regards, Ernie
>
>  That's using an atom bomb to fix a small road block, isn't it?!
> ;-)

Not in my opinion. I would say its more like fixing an earthquake with a 2 
week cruise to Tahiti.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Mark

Sorry Mark, I couldn't resist it especially after ther recent thread.
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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[Eric Bliss]

On Tuesday 24 January 2006 03:45 pm, John Jolet wrote:
> > (now, if only I'd backed up yesterday, before I did an accidental  
> > `rm *`
> > instead of `rm *~`)
> >
> good thing none of US has ever done that...as root from the /  on  
> a running production serverin the middle of month-end
> > -- 

Yes... But it's that -R option that really kills you...

OO!! Ctrl-C! Ctrl-C! Ctrl-C!

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[gentoo-user] emerging -u sendmail glibc fails --> LD_LIBRARY_PATH issue

[Jason Ausmus]

Hello,

Emerging -u sendmail fails with this message:


checking LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable... contains current directory
configure: error:
*** LD_LIBRARY_PATH shouldn't contain the current directory when
*** building glibc. Please change the environment variable
*** and run configure again.

!!! ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.3.5-r2 failed.
!!! Function glibc_do_configure, Line 918, Exitcode 1
!!! failed to configure glibc


The system currently has glibc-2.3.2-r9...

If the instructions in the error message tell the best way to handle
this, what should I change the environment variable to? Else, what
should I do?

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Jason Ausmus

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Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia module won't load after updates

[Ernie Schroder]

On Tuesday 24 January 2006 14:39, a tiny voice compelled James Ausmus to 
write:
> On 1/24/06, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > from dmesg
> >
> > nvidia: version magic '2.6.14-gentoo-r4 K7 gcc-3.4' should be
> > '2.6.14-gentoo-r42.6.14-r-4_new K7 gcc-3.3'
> >
> > This looks like the kernel was compiled with gcc-3.3 and nvidia-kernel
> > was compiled with gcc-3.4. Do I need to rebuild my kernel? I know I've
> > restarted x since updating gcc on 12/6/05
>
> Yes, just recompile your kernel and modules, configure your bootloader
> to point to the new kernel, reboot, then you should be good to go.
>
> HTH-
>
> James

The point is, the machine has been rebooted a couple of times and X has been 
started and stopped 10 or 12 times recently without problems. I can't figure 
out why this has started to be a problem some 6 weeks after gcc and nvidia 
kernel were last updated.
>
> > $ gcc-config -c
> > i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4
> > How can I find what gcc version my kernel was built with?
> >
> >
> > Recent updates:
> > pygtk-2.8.2
> > bluez-utils-2.22-r1
> > bluez-libs-2.22
> > gst-plugins-flac-0.8.11
> > gst-plugins-vorbis-0.8.11
> > gst-plugins-ogg-0.8.11
> > gst-plugins-mad-0.8.11
> > gtk-gnutella-0.95.4-r1
> > coreutils-5.2.1-r7
> > nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r5
> > --
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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[Iain Buchanan]

On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 08:55 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 17:23 +, Francesco Riosa wrote:
> > Jeff wrote:
> > > Hey guys.
> > >
> > > I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive
> > > to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure
> > > what the command would be.
> [snip]
> > >
> > > So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then archived on
> > > the destination machine.
> > >   
> > tar -zcf - /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com "( cat > data.info.gz  )"
> > 
> > something similar, probably is possible to avoid the use of cat bat
> > don't came in mind at the moment
> 
> wow, I am quite blown away - not only at the fact that I just tried the
> above command (and it worked of course) but also that I've found a new
> way of doing something that I never thought of before.
> 
> This is one to remember!

In fact, I just added a gentoo wiki entry, under the backup "stub":

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Backup#Securely_backing_up_a_filesystem_on_a_remote_machine
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A: The victim lived.

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[gentoo-user] composing fancy html in kmail

[Robert Persson]

I want to send an email with both embedded thumbnail images and external 
hyperlinks. My email client is kmail.

What I want to do is certainly impossible with the kmail editor, however kmail 
gives you the option of using an external editor. Is there any way I can do 
what I want and get the result, complete with embedded images and hyperlinks, 
back into kmail for sending?

If not, is there another email client which will allow me to do what I want - 
ideally one that will allow me to work in a joined up way like you can with 
kontact, evolution, m-ess outlook etc?

many thanks
Robert
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RE: [gentoo-user] Superblock error

[Colin Wildsmith]

Title: Hello all,








Ok ive found out how to modify the files
eg

 

Insert livecd

# mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo# mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot

 

Then i went to the fstab file on the drive
(not on the disk) and modified it;

It reads

 

---

/dev/BOOT    /boot ext2  noauto,noatime  1
2

/dev/ROOT    /   ext3  noatime 0
1

/dev/swap  none swap sw    0
0

/dev/cdroms/cdrom0   mnt/cdrom iso996   noauto,user   0
0

-

 

However, gentoo still does not boot? The error
is;

 

--

Fsck.ext3: No sufh file or directory while
trying to open /dev/ROOT

/dev/ROOT:

 

The superblock could not be read or does
not describe a correct ext2 filesystem.  IF the device is valid and it
really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or anything else), then the
superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate
superblock: e2fsck –b 8193 

---

 

Ive tried “e2fsck –b 8193
/dev/hda1”  

Which also failed, no such file!

 

Can somebody please help me???

 

Colin

 









From:
Colin Wildsmith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2006
7:32 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Superblock
error



 

Hello all,

I have just tried the Gentoo challenge (installing Gentooo
from the minimal CD) and have failed. :-(

I get an error stating that

 

“The superblock could not be read of does not describe
a correct ext2 filesystem….”

 

Im almost sure that its an error in my fstab file? However I
try and change it by

mount /dev/hda1

nano /etc/fstab

 

I can see the file however I can not write to it.

 

How can I modify my files?

 

Colin

Re: [gentoo-user] Building Kernel Modules with custom kernel trees

[Neil Bothwick]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:00:01 +, Alex Bennee wrote:

> There really is no need to force people to build as root under /usr/src
> so is it possible to educate portage to use the uname method to
> determine the root of the kernel tree for building kernel modules?

Portage doesn't build the modules in /usr/src, but it uses
the /usr/src/linux symlink to determine the kernel for which you wish to
build the modules; which may not be the same as returned by uname -r.


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RE: [gentoo-user] Superblock error

[Iain Buchanan]

On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 08:46 +0800, Colin Wildsmith wrote:
[snip]
> Then i went to the fstab file on the drive (not on the disk) and
> modified it;
> 
> It reads
> 
> /dev/BOOT/boot ext2  noauto,noatime  1 2
[snip]

... Have you been following the gentoo handbook?
(http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=8)
It's an excellent resource, even though it is long.  Don't rush it, or
you'll waste more time with errors such as this one.  From the guide:

---
Code Listing 2: An example /boot line for /etc/fstab

/dev/hda1   /boot ext2defaults1 2
---

you will see that you have to change /dev/BOOT to /dev/hda1, or whatever
drive / partition you have boot on.  And the same for the other fstab
entries.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Superblock error

[AJ Spagnoletti]

On 1/24/06, Colin Wildsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> Ok ive found out how to modify the files eg
>
>
>
> Insert livecd # mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
> # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
> # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
>
>
>
>
> Then i went to the fstab file on the drive (not on the disk) and modified
> it;
>
> It reads
>
>
>
> ---
>
> /dev/BOOT/boot ext2  noauto,noatime  1 2
>
> /dev/ROOT/   ext3  noatime 0 1
>
> /dev/swap  none swap sw
> 0 0
>
> /dev/cdroms/cdrom0   mnt/cdrom iso996   noauto,user
>  0 0
>
> -
>
If this is your fstab what you need to do is change where it says
dev/BOOT to /dev/hda1 ( I assume that your boot partition is in fact
hda1) and also chance /dev/ROOT to the partition that holds your root
partition (most likely /dev/hda3) That should take care of it

A.J.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [POLL] portage-2.1 USE flag ordering

[Jason Stubbs]

On Wednesday 25 January 2006 03:43, Philip Webb wrote:
> 060124 Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > I've started a poll on the specific question of USE flag ordering in 
> > portage-2.1_pre3 at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-426033.html
> > 1) Create a login if you don't have one
> > 2) Log in
> > 3) View the above page
> > 4) Click your choice
> > 5) Click the submit button
> 
> I have the above URL showing the Forum topic on Konqueror 3.5
> & there is no choice to click nor any submit button: yes, I logged in.

Strange. Well, you should be able to find it near the top of the
"Portage & Programming" forum.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

[Ryan Tandy]

*/Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:


Aha, the old "I've tried it and it didn't work for me so it's not
possible" trick ;)

*shifty eyes* maybe... but I know other people who have also tried it 
and failed, and I have yet to see a written account of it happening.  So 
- guilty until proven innocent. ;)




I do remember trying it with windows 2000, and I think I got it to
boot
my redhat install, back in the days. I vaguely remember something
about
editing .ini or .sys or something files on windows, but I don't have
windows 2000 or redhat any more. And you know what they say about
memories being created, so it may (or may not) be possible :)



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Re: [gentoo-user] Building Kernel Modules with custom kernel trees

[Richard Fish]

On 1/24/06, Alex Bennee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  * If you are using KBUILD_OUTPUT, please set the environment var so
> that
>  * it points to the necessary object directory so that it might
> find .config.
>
> However with all kernels you should be able to detrmine the root via
> uname -r:
>
> malory / # ls -l "/lib/modules/`uname -r`"
> total 212
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root31 Jan 15 17:16 build
> -> /home/alex/src/kernel/linux-2.6
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root31 Jan 15 17:16 source
> -> /home/alex/src/kernel/linux-2.6

The problem here is that this only points to the running kernel.  You
really need a way to specify what kernel to build against.

> There really is no need to force people to build as root under /usr/src
> so is it possible to educate portage to use the uname method to
> determine the root of the kernel tree for building kernel modules?

Just a guess, haven't tried this myself, but does this work?

KBUILD_OUTPUT=/home/alex/src/kernel/linux-2.6 emerge sys-fs/fuse

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Re: [gentoo-user] [POLL] portage-2.1 USE flag ordering

[Philip Webb]

060125 Jason Stubbs wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 January 2006 03:43, Philip Webb wrote:
>> 060124 Jason Stubbs wrote:
>>> I've started a poll on the specific question of USE flag ordering in 
>>> portage-2.1_pre3 at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-426033.html
>>> 1) Create a login if you don't have one
>>> 2) Log in
>>> 3) View the above page
>>> 4) Click your choice
>>> 5) Click the submit button
>> I have the above URL showing the Forum topic on Konqueror 3.5
>> & there is no choice to click nor any submit button: yes, I logged in.
> Strange. Well, you should be able to find it
> near the top of the "Portage & Programming" forum.

Well, that gets the same topic & still no buttons to click.
However, it does work with Firefox, so perhaps it's a javascript issue.

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Re: [gentoo-user] usb wacom tablet

[Robert Morris]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 12:38 -0330, Roger Mason wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm installing a wacom tablet, following the instructions here:
> 
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Wacom_Tablet
> 
> Problem:
> 
> The tablet does not show up in /proc/bus/input/devices ->
> 
> cat /proc/bus/input/devices 
> I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
> N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
> P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
> H: Handlers=kbd event0 
> B: EV=120013 
> B: KEY=4 200 3802078 f840d001 f2df ffef  fffe 
> B: MSC=10 
> B: LED=7 
> 
> I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0001 Version=0001
> N: Name="PS/2 Logitech Mouse"
> P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
> H: Handlers=mouse0 event1 
> B: EV=7 
> B: KEY=7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
> B: REL=3 
> 
> Background:
> 
> The tablet is plugged into a NEC usb controller card.  dmesg shows
> 
> ehci_hcd :00:0a.2: NEC Corporation USB 2.0
> ehci_hcd :00:0a.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
> ehci_hcd :00:0a.2: irq 11, io mem 0xe000
> ehci_hcd :00:0a.2: park 0
> ehci_hcd :00:0a.2: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
> hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
> hub 1-0:1.0: 5 ports detected
> usbcore: registered new driver wacom
> drivers/usb/input/wacom.c: v1.43:USB Wacom Graphire and Wacom Intuos tablet 
> driver
> 
> The wacom driver is compiled into the kernel (last line of dmesg
> output, above)
> 
> I have recompiled xorg with the sdk use flag and emerged
> linuxwacom-0.6.7. 
> 
> The following usb related kernel options are set:
> 
> CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD=y
> CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI=y
> CONFIG_USB=y
> CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
> CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y
> CONFIG_USB_WACOM=y
> CONFIG_USB_MON=y
> 
> The following are the hotplug settings for the kernel:
> 
> CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
> # CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI is not set
> 
> The kernel event detection stuff is built in:
> 
> CONFIG_KOBJECT_UEVENT=y
> CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y
> 
> Can anyone suggest what may be wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Roger Mason

It doen't look like you have USB HID turned on in your kernel.
Here is what I have for the USB portion of my kernel config:
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI=y
CONFIG_USB=y
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=m
CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD=m
CONFIG_USB_OHCI_LITTLE_ENDIAN=y
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=m
CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=m
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=m
CONFIG_USB_HID=m
CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y
CONFIG_USB_WACOM=m
CONFIG_USB_EGALAX=m

If that doesn't work, maybe try to plug it directly into the computer
instead of the hub. I've had devices not like being plugged into a hub
before.

For what it's worth, here is what I have showing up in dmesg when I plug
my tablet in:
ohci_hcd :00:02.0: wakeup
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
input: Wacom Intuos2 6x8 on usb-:00:02.0-1

cat /proc/bus/input/devices shows this for the tablet:
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=056a Product=0042 Version=0126
N: Name="Wacom Intuos2 6x8"
P: Phys=usb-:00:02.0-1/input0
H: Handlers=mouse2 event4
B: EV=1f
B: KEY=1cdf 0 1f 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=100
B: ABS=f000163
B: MSC=1

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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 17:23 +, Francesco Riosa wrote:
> Jeff wrote:
> > Hey guys.
> >
> > I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the hard drive
> > to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not sure
> > what the command would be. Something to the effect of:
> >
> > # cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com 'tar data.info.gz'
> >
> > So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then archived on
> > the destination machine.
> >   
> tar -zcf - /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com "( cat > data.info.gz  )"
> 

There's another way. This assumes your originating server's CPU is
slow/precious and you have a 16 way node on a backup server (HAHA!!)

tar cf - /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com "gzip -c >
filename.tar.gz"

But you transfer the stream uncompressed, so more bits get transferred.




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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[John Jolet]

On Jan 24, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Ow Mun Heng wrote:


On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 17:23 +, Francesco Riosa wrote:

Jeff wrote:

Hey guys.

I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the  
hard drive
to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not  
sure

what the command would be. Something to the effect of:

# cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com 'tar data.info.gz'

So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then  
archived on

the destination machine.

tar -zcf - /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com "( cat >  
data.info.gz  )"




There's another way. This assumes your originating server's CPU is
slow/precious and you have a 16 way node on a backup server (HAHA!!)

tar cf - /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com "gzip -c >
filename.tar.gz"

But you transfer the stream uncompressed, so more bits get  
transferred.


you're kidding, right?  Unless you've got a PII on the originating  
end and are using gigabit ethernet between the two nodes, compressing  
the data before transmission will almost always be faster.  I tested  
this scenerio extensively about 3 years ago, using linux, aix, and  
solaris hosts.  In no case was transferring uncompressed data faster  
than compressing (at least to some degree) the data on the  
originating server.  And frankly, no matter what you do...wouldn't  
you hope ALL the bits get transferred? :)




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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 21:19 -0600, John Jolet wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Ow Mun Heng wrote:

> > There's another way. This assumes your originating server's CPU is
> > slow/precious and you have a 16 way node on a backup server (HAHA!!)
> >
> > tar cf - /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com "gzip -c >
> > filename.tar.gz"
> >
> > But you transfer the stream uncompressed, so more bits get  
> > transferred.
> >
> you're kidding, right? 

Not really. I've not tried it out yet.. but it's one more option to
throw in the mix.

Laptop - 1.4Ghz P-M
Server - 300Mhz

laptop -> Server
Local Compression
Real0m53.414s

Remote COmpression (server COmpress)
real1m53.721s

Server-> Laptop
Local Compression
real1m10.745s

Remote Comression (Laptop Compress)
real1m54.132s



>  Unless you've got a PII on the originating  
> end and are using gigabit ethernet between the two nodes, compressing  
> the data before transmission will almost always be faster. 
This is done on a 10MBit/s Lan, so the bottleneck is on the LAN.
Caveat-Emptor :-)

>  In no case was transferring uncompressed data faster  
> than compressing (at least to some degree) the data on the  
> originating server.  And frankly, no matter what you do...wouldn't  
> you hope ALL the bits get transferred? :)

But of course :-) 1 Bad bit and the whole archive gets screwed.
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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[Tom Smith]

John Jolet wrote:

>
> On Jan 24, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 17:23 +, Francesco Riosa wrote:
>>
>>> Jeff wrote:
>>>
 Hey guys.

 I've got this big fat backup server with no space left on the  hard
 drive
 to store a tar file. I'd like to pipe a tar through ssh, but not  sure
 what the command would be. Something to the effect of:

 # cat /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com 'tar data.info.gz'

 So that, the data is actually being sent over ssh, and then 
 archived on
 the destination machine.

>>> tar -zcf - /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com "( cat > 
>>> data.info.gz  )"
>>>
>>
>> There's another way. This assumes your originating server's CPU is
>> slow/precious and you have a 16 way node on a backup server (HAHA!!)
>>
>> tar cf - /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com "gzip -c >
>> filename.tar.gz"
>>
>> But you transfer the stream uncompressed, so more bits get  transferred.
>>
> you're kidding, right?  Unless you've got a PII on the originating 
> end and are using gigabit ethernet between the two nodes, compressing 
> the data before transmission will almost always be faster.  I tested 
> this scenerio extensively about 3 years ago, using linux, aix, and 
> solaris hosts.  In no case was transferring uncompressed data faster 
> than compressing (at least to some degree) the data on the 
> originating server.  And frankly, no matter what you do...wouldn't 
> you hope ALL the bits get transferred? :)

I read something some time ago that suggested if you transfer a
compressed file over a compressed SFTP connection, for example, that it
would take longer to transfer the data versus if only the data or the
connection was compressed. The reason, as I recall, had to do with
compressing already compressed data--this apparently created some
overhead on the connection.

Did you look at this situation in your tests? If so, what were the results?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

[Bryce Verdier]

Ryan Tandy wrote:

*/Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:


Aha, the old "I've tried it and it didn't work for me so it's not
possible" trick ;)

*shifty eyes* maybe... but I know other people who have also tried it 
and failed, and I have yet to see a written account of it happening.  
So - guilty until proven innocent. ;)




I do remember trying it with windows 2000, and I think I got it to
boot
my redhat install, back in the days. I vaguely remember something
about
editing .ini or .sys or something files on windows, but I don't have
windows 2000 or redhat any more. And you know what they say about
memories being created, so it may (or may not) be possible :)



Agreed.
I can say that back int the redhat 6.3 days, i was able to get redhat to 
boot from the NT4 loader. And i could have sworn that there was a HOWTO 
on the LDP, but i can't find it now.


So at least 5 or 6 years ago it could have been done. But with such nice 
bootloaders as grub and lilo, why would you want to bother with XP's... 
just create a boot disk for XP, just in case you hose grub, and you'll 
always be safe.


bryce
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Re: [gentoo-user] joomla

[Uwe Thiem]

On 25 January 2006 00:22, Robin wrote:
> Arrghhh Bad Habits...
> Add:
>
> dev-lang/php session
>
> to your package.use file

That's what I actually did. ;-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

[Uwe Thiem]

On 25 January 2006 06:46, Tom Smith wrote:

> I read something some time ago that suggested if you transfer a
> compressed file over a compressed SFTP connection, for example, that it
> would take longer to transfer the data versus if only the data or the
> connection was compressed. The reason, as I recall, had to do with
> compressing already compressed data--this apparently created some
> overhead on the connection.

What is a compressed sftp connection?

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot System Setup

[Dale]

Bryce Verdier wrote:

> I can say that back int the redhat 6.3 days, i was able to get redhat
> to boot from the NT4 loader. And i could have sworn that there was a
> HOWTO on the LDP, but i can't find it now.
>
> So at least 5 or 6 years ago it could have been done. But with such
> nice bootloaders as grub and lilo, why would you want to bother with
> XP's... just create a boot disk for XP, just in case you hose grub,
> and you'll always be safe.
>
> bryce


If grub gets hosed, you can boot a Win 98 CD or a boot floppy and run
fdisk /mbr on it.  I recently took a hard drive of mine out of a friends
computer that was dual booting and that was what I did.  Now windoze XP
boots up like Linux was never there.  I'm not sure if you can do that
from the win XP CD or not though.  I'm not a windoze person.  I don't
have and never had windoze, ever. 

Dale
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[gentoo-user] Mysterious dev-lang/php 'n' junk 'n' stuff....

[gentuxx]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

Hi all,

I had posted about this relatively recently, and didn't get any
response, so I thought I would try again.  I thought I had solved the
problem (I had a bunch of stuff in package.keywords that probably
didn't need to be there), so I left it alone.  It seems to have
resurfaced.

I went to do an `emerge -Duatv world` tonight, and I get dev-php/php
and dev-php/mod_php blocking.  So I uninstalled them, and thought that
I would re-install later (if necessary).  When I run it again, I get
dev-lang/php blocking dev-php/php-4.4.0-r4 (which is the one I just
unemerged).  So, same logical progression, I go to unemerge
dev-lang/php, and, lo and behold, it's not installed.

I vaguely remembered that the portage crew did some "tinkering" with
the portage tree when PHP5 came out, and it had something to do with
the whole dev-php/php-dev-lang/php issue.

So, my questions to the group are these:

1)  Why does `emerge -Duatv world` find a package (which blocks
another that it wants to update) that `emerge -CDatv world` does NOT find?

2)  How do I rectify this little "version discrepancy" fixed so that I
can get things updating normally again?

Any help would be great.  Thanks.

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gentux
echo "hfouvyAdpy/ofu" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge'

gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40  9795 2D81 924A
6996 0993
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iD8DBQFD1y3fLYGSSmmWCZMRAsjoAKC6pir0SbKD6XJl8Kke9N7tytmH/ACg1guc
RI7KuzhYBxPkHObHRkp2PR8=
=n9Fw
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