Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Samstag 24 Oktober 2009, Dave Jones wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote on 24/10/09 01:39:
> > On Saturday 24 October 2009 01:25:44 Dave Jones wrote:
> >> Ran an eix-sync followed by an emerge -puDNv world.
> >> It reported that my 'profile' was no longer supported, and suggested
> >> switching to the 'default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop', which I did.
> >>
> >> Retried the emerge -puDNv world, with the following result:
> >> emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy
> >> ">=x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.0:4[mysql]".
> >> !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request:
> >> - x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2 (Change USE: +mysql)
> >> (dependency required by "app-office/akonadi-server-1.2.1" [ebuild])
> >> (dependency required by "kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.3.1" [ebuild])
> >> (dependency required by "kde-base/kdnssd-4.3.1" [ebuild])
> >> (dependency required by "kde-base/kcontrol-4.3.1" [ebuild])
> >> (dependency required by "kde-base/kdebase-meta-4.3.1" [ebuild])
> >> (dependency required by "world" [argument])
> >>
> >> Result of 'eix x11-libs/qt-sql' :
> >> I do not want either mysql or KDE4 on my 'stable' desktop host.
> >> Any ideas what's happening?  Or how to fix it without installing mysql?
> >
> > This has been hashed to death many many many many times in recent weeks.
> > Just like the KDE upgrade before that, and the libxcb thing, xorg-1.6,
> > and dbus/hal.
> >
> > Please search the mail archives. Or read your elogs, it's all in there.
> 
> Alan, thank you for your 'RTFM' reply. which is utterly useless either
> to me or any other follower of the gentoo-user mail group.
> 
> My question concerns an apparent new requirement for mysql. Your asides
> about xorg-1.6, libxcb, dbus/hal do not seem to be relevant in any way.
> 
> Any (helpful) takers out there?
> 
> Cheers, Dave
> 

well, how to mask packages to prevent the installation of unwanted versions 
has been hashed to death many, many many times too..

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

[Neil Bothwick]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:05:19 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote:

> 900a

[tons of bottom quoting snipped]

I'm sure my 900 had working cursor and delete keys.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

[Neil Bothwick]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:57:10 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote:

> Since LiveDvD-10.1 boots, albeit buggily, on the netbook. I tried to
> use the kernel config provided with it. I ran make oldconfig then
> opened up the menu and whittled away the extraneous modules, built the
> new kernel, installed it and rebooted. This time, after a flurry of
> red exclamation points, it reached the login and crashed there.

Could be over-zealous whittling. Why not use the Live DVD .config
unchanged?


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typewriters will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:02:16 +0200, Dave Jones wrote:

> Alan, thank you for your 'RTFM' reply. which is utterly useless either
> to me or any other follower of the gentoo-user mail group.

Seeing as how this has been discussed in the last two days, I don't see
how Alan's advice is useless. The question has been asked and people have
taken the time and trouble to answer it. Why should they do it again when
you could just as easily find the previous answer yourself.


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"The airbag system would ask "are you sure?" before deploying."


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Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am Samstag 24 Oktober 2009 02:02:16 schrieb Dave Jones:
> > Please search the mail archives. Or read your elogs, it's all in there.
> 
> Alan, thank you for your 'RTFM' reply. which is utterly useless either
> to me or any other follower of the gentoo-user mail group.

It's neither useless to you nor to anybody else. The question has been 
answered here several times in the past couple of days and way before that in 
your very own portage news. So pointing you to the list archives or elogs 
gives you evrything you need to solve your problem.

Bye...

Dirk


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[gentoo-user] Can not get Hotkeys to work after update to KDE4

[Dan Johansson]

After updating from KDE3.5 to KDE4.3.1 I can not get my Hotkeys to work.
For example the following the following two Hotkeys
1) I want the  button to start ksnapshot and I activated the 
Printscreen action in System Settings -> Input Actions -> Preset Action -> 
Printscreen.
2) I want to start dolphin when I press Win+E, and have defined an action in 
System Settings -> Input Actions -> DJ -> Dolphin when pressing Win+E

But non of these works. Nothings happens when I press the keys.

Here is some output from xev when pressing PrintScreen and then Win+E
8<---
FocusOut event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x4c1,
mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor

FocusIn event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x4c1,
mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor

KeymapNotify event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
keys:  2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   8   0   0
   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0

KeyRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x4c1,
root 0x253, subw 0x0, time 61843589, (-314,-249), root:(2064,523),
state 0x10, keycode 107 (keysym 0xff61, Print), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x4c1,
root 0x253, subw 0x0, time 61935723, (-315,-170), root:(2063,602),
state 0x10, keycode 133 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x4c1,
root 0x253, subw 0x0, time 61935987, (-315,-170), root:(2063,602),
state 0x50, keycode 26 (keysym 0x65, e), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (65) "e"
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (65) "e"
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x4c1,
root 0x253, subw 0x0, time 61936067, (-315,-170), root:(2063,602),
state 0x50, keycode 26 (keysym 0x65, e), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (65) "e"
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x4c1,
root 0x253, subw 0x0, time 61936123, (-315,-170), root:(2063,602),
state 0x50, keycode 133 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
8<---
Any suggestions?

-- 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't block pop3 attack

[Robin Atwood]

On Saturday 24 October 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Friday 23 October 2009 21:49:42 Robin Atwood wrote:
> > My syslog is showing zillions of messages:
> >
> > Oct 24 02:25:58 opal xinetd[8054]: START: pop-3 pid=16534
> >  from=61.134.64.199 Oct 24 02:25:59 opal xinetd[16534]: warning:
> >  /etc/hosts.allow, line 7: can't verify hostname:
> >  gethostbyname(199.64.134.61.broad.gs.dynamic.163data.com.cn) failed
> > Oct 24 02:26:09 opal xinetd[8054]: EXIT: pop-3 status=0 pid=16534
> > duration=11(sec)
> >
> > I run denyhosts but don't trap pop3 messages so I manually added the IP
> > address to /etc/hosts.deny and..., it made absolutely no difference. I
> > run qpopper which is compiled with xinetd support and xinetd uses tcpd,
> > so I assumed the address would be blocked. Apparently not so. Any ideas?
> 
> You have allow ALL ALL early in hosts.allow, or
> you have allow pop3 all earlier in hosts.allow
 
The second! I had forgotten about that. The trouble I set it up that way so I 
could pick up email from arbitrary locations while travelling. It seems the 
price of that is allowing idiots to spam your logs. 

Thanks for the pointer.
-Robin
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 Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
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[gentoo-user] firefox dies on setting master password

[William Kenworthy]

I am having some weird problems on a laptop after the latest X and gnome
2.26 upgrades.

Firefox is the most pressing - I cant set a master password.  It just
dissappears - no mesg in the terminal, no dmesg, no messages log, ...

Ive rebuilt firefox, and nss and used revdep-rebuild.

It was working for awhile - it is possibly related to trying to fix
mimetypes (I am missing some icons in Evolution and few other apps) but
cant see the connection.  Deleting .mozilla allows firefox to run -
until I try and set the master password again ...

BillK

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Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel panic -- finding proper config diff

[Stroller]

On 22 Oct 2009, at 19:50, Alan McKinnon wrote:

On Thursday 22 October 2009 20:17:46 Maxim Wexler wrote:

Why not copy over the .29 config and run make oldconfig?


I thought of that, but isn't there too much difference in the
versions? I read somewhere that taking to big a leap between versions
is unsafe. Not to mention the great whack of new options. If you do a
diff -y between the two configs there are lots of gaps.



That's version jumps like 2.4 to 2.6

The 2.6 development model is small incremental steps, so the odds  
are always
in your favour that it will work just fine. Occasionally you might  
find two
versions that don't like to play nicely with oldconfig but that  
isn't the

norm.

FWIW, I haven't encountered a single problem with the entire 2.6  
range.


There was a change between 2.6.x and 2.6.x+1 where the whole .config  
was rearranged and `make oldconfig` no longer worked. It was a while  
ago, so maybe you don't recall it. I think x was circa 22 or so. It  
was discussed on here at the time, IIRC, and caused filesystems such   
as ext2 (at least) to be unselected if you just ran `make oldconfig`.


Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

[Dave Jones]

Neil Bothwick wrote on 24/10/09 09:53:
> On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:02:16 +0200, Dave Jones wrote:

>> Alan, thank you for your 'RTFM' reply. which is utterly useless either
>> to me or any other follower of the gentoo-user mail group.

> Seeing as how this has been discussed in the last two days, I don't see
> how Alan's advice is useless. The question has been asked and people have
> taken the time and trouble to answer it. Why should they do it again when
> you could just as easily find the previous answer yourself.

Another 'RTFM' message, thanks.

I'll answer my own question, including detail which may be useful to
other users:

emerge PyQt with USE=webkit sql

I had installed a few kde-meta packages rather than the full kde-meta.

eix -I kde | grep meta  list your installed kde-meta packages

Add the kde4 versions of those meta packages to package.mask:

(Sample) package.mask to mask kde4:

=kde-base/kdeaddons-meta-4*
=kde-base/kdeadmin-meta-4*
=kde-base/kdeartwork-meta-4*
=kde-base/kdebase-meta-4*
=kde-base/kdemultimedia-meta-4*
=kde-base/kdeutils-meta-4*
# Mask non-meta kde installed package:
=kde-base/kdenetwork-filesharing-4*
# Requires kdelibs-4, mask
=media-video/kmplayer-0.11*
# Required by kde4, requires mysql by default.
app-office/akonadi-server

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg?

[covici]

Peter Ruskin  wrote:

> On Friday 23 October 2009 19:00:34 Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > On Friday 23 October 2009 16:11:25 walt wrote:
> > > On 10/23/2009 07:18 AM, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > > > I just got a new computer and I'm running ~amd64 for the
> > > > first time. On my previous x86 machine (some of) the boot
> > > > process was logged to /var/log/boot.msg.  It doesn't do this
> > > > on the new machine and I can't for the life of me recall what
> > > > setting invoked this behaviour.   Help??
> > >
> > > /etc/conf.d/rc
> >
> > Thanks for the reminder, walt.  I have RC_BOOTLOG="yes" stored
> > there and had emerged app-admin/showconsole and don't have boot
> > splash, but I still don't get /var/log/boot.msg.
> 
> Ahhh ... I found it.  It's now stored in /var/log/rc.log.
However, mine is an empty file even though I have rc_logger="yes"


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How do
you spend it?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg?

[covici]

William Hubbs  wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 07:00:34PM +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > On Friday 23 October 2009 16:11:25 walt wrote:
> > > On 10/23/2009 07:18 AM, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > > > I just got a new computer and I'm running ~amd64 for the first
> > > > time. On my previous x86 machine (some of) the boot process was
> > > > logged to /var/log/boot.msg.  It doesn't do this on the new
> > > > machine and I can't for the life of me recall what setting
> > > > invoked this behaviour.   Help??
> > >
> > > /etc/conf.d/rc
> > 
> > Thanks for the reminder, walt.  I have RC_BOOTLOG="yes" stored there 
> > and had emerged app-admin/showconsole and don't have boot splash, 
> > but I still don't get /var/log/boot.msg.
>  
>  If you are running ~amd64 you are probably using baselayout-2 and
>  openrc.  In that case the file you should be looking at is /etc/rc.conf and 
> you
>  should not use app-admin/showconsole.
> 
> Just set RC_LOGGER to yes as shown in the comments.
I discovered that the reason its blank is there is something rotating
the file, even though I don't have it in logrotate.conf or logrotate.d
-- very strange.

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How do
you spend it?

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[gentoo-user] Re: firefox dies on setting master password

[walt]

On 10/24/2009 02:51 AM, William Kenworthy wrote:

I am having some weird problems on a laptop after the latest X and gnome
2.26 upgrades.

Firefox is the most pressing - I cant set a master password.  It just
dissappears - no mesg in the terminal, no dmesg, no messages log, ...

Ive rebuilt firefox, and nss and used revdep-rebuild.

It was working for awhile - it is possibly related to trying to fix
mimetypes (I am missing some icons in Evolution and few other apps) but
cant see the connection.  Deleting .mozilla allows firefox to run -
until I try and set the master password again ...


You could start firefox with the -g flag to run it in gdb and see where
it crashes (if you're lucky).

I saw the missing icons too, but sadly I can't remember how I fixed it.
I think I re-installed gnome-mime-data and gnome-mime-info, but I can't
remember if that's what did it.  Sorry I can't be more helpful.

[gentoo-user] Re: Copying settings from Konqueror-3.5 to 4.3

[Thorsten Kampe]

* Etaoin Shrdlu (Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:35:48 +0100)
> 
> On Thursday 22 October 2009, Alex Schuster wrote:
> 
> > > I did
> > >
> > > cp -a .kde3.5 .kde4
> > >
> > > and all the settings (not just only konqueror's) were picked up.
> >
> > That did not work for me, all windows had no window title then. But it
> > worked fine for partial applications when I copied just their data over.
> > For konqueror, that would probably be share/config/konquerrorrc and
> > share/apps/konqueror/.
> 
> Yeah, I've seen mixed outcomes when doing that. I was probably lucky.
> 
> What I really did was:
> 
> 1) save the "vanilla" .kde directory that was created when kde4 first started 
> up, to have a safe rollback in case something goes wrong
> 
> 2) cp -a the .kde3.5 dir to .kde4, as said
> 
> 3) check that things were mostly correct, and if not rollback to the saved 
> .kde dir I created in step 1

~/.kde is a symlink to ~/.kde3.5. So there is nothing to backup or 
restore.

Thorsten

[gentoo-user] Re: Machine reboots immediately when suspended-to-disk

[Peter Weilbacher]

On 24.10.2009 03:37, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:04:52AM +0200, Peter Weilbacher wrote
> 
>> How would you do history searches without a database?
> 
>   If you don't know how, I suggest checking the Firefox 2.x code.  It
> worked somehow.

Yeah, I am reading the sources daily and have done so for several years
nw. FF 2.x used a different database. One which was far less efficient,
more crash prone, and has been unmaintained for several years before.

>> On Linux using SQLite in Firefox actually slimmed down the browser
>> code (compared to the version that still used mork), as it uses the
>> system version for the database.
> 
>   Yeah sure, just like ie.exe isn't bloated.  Mind you, the "system
> libraries" that ie.exe calls are another story.

OK, so you are just screaming without having any clue.
   P.

[gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

[Grant]

I'm trying to fix up the JAlbum ebuild:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128356

and get it to use java-pkg-2.  Here's what I have so far:

inherit java-pkg-2 eutils

S="${WORKDIR}/Jalbum"
DESCRIPTION="Web photo album generator"
HOMEPAGE="http://jalbum.net/";
SRC_URI="http://jalbum.net/download/Jalbum${PV}.zip";

LICENSE="as-is"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="x86"
IUSE=""

DEPEND=">=virtual/jre-1.5"
RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"

src_install() {
java-pkg_dojar JAlbum.jar
java-pkg_dolauncher jalbum \
--jar JAlbum.jar \
--java_args -Xmx400M

local dest=/usr/lib/${PN}
dodir ${dest}
cp -R ${S}/* ${D}/${dest} || die "Install failed"

doicon ${FILESDIR}/Jalbum-icon.png
make_desktop_entry ${PN}
}

It executes just fine, but I get:

$ jalbum
Error: se.datadosen.jalbum.JAlbum
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: se.datadosen.jalbum.JAlbum
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
at se.datadosen.jalbum.Main.main(Main.java:23)

I was told I need to define the main class with --main.  Does anyone
know how to determine what the main class should be?

- Grant

[gentoo-user] Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.

[Dale]

Hi,

I'm still using KDE 3.5 for this but this is annoying at times.  I'm
looking for a way to adjust the audio/video so that they sync up.  Mine
seems to be about 1.5 to 2 seconds out of adjustment here.  I googled
and found that the + and - keys should adjust this but I can't tell that
it is working here.  Is there some other way to adjust this setting? 
I'm using kmplayer with mplayer for the backend.

INFO:

> r...@smoker / # emerge -pv kmplayer mplayer
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies ... done!
> [ebuild   R   ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p20090731  USE="3dnow X
> aac alsa ass cddb cdio dirac dv dvd dvdnav enca encode esd faac faad
> gif iconv ipv6 jpeg live mad mmx mng mp2 mp3 network opengl osdmenu
> png quicktime rar real rtc schroedinger sdl shm speex sse tremor
> truetype unicode vorbis win32codecs x264 xscreensaver xv xvid
> -3dnowext -a52 -aalib (-altivec) -bidi -bindist -bl -cdparanoia
> -cpudetection -custom-cflags -custom-cpuopts -debug -dga -directfb
> -doc -dts -dvb -dxr3 -fbcon -ftp -ggi -gmplayer -jack -joystick
> -ladspa -libcaca -lirc -lzo -md5sum -mmxext -nas -openal -oss -pnm
> -pulseaudio -pvr -radio -samba -sse2 -ssse3 -svga -teletext -tga
> -theora -v4l -v4l2 -vdpau -vidix -xanim -xinerama -xvmc -zoran"
> VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia -mga -s3virge -tdfx -vesa" 0 kB
> [ebuild   R   ] media-video/kmplayer-0.11.1b  USE="cairo (-aqua)
> -debug -doc -expat -npp" LINGUAS="-cs -da -de -el -en_GB -es -et -fr
> -ga -gl -it -ja -km -ku -lt -lv -mai -nb -nds -nl -nn -pl -pt -pt_BR
> -ro -ru -sk -sv -tr -uk" 0 kB
>
> Total: 2 packages (2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB
> r...@smoker / #

Ideas?

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 24 October 2009 14:58:00 Dave Jones wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote on 24/10/09 09:53:
> > On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:02:16 +0200, Dave Jones wrote:
> >> Alan, thank you for your 'RTFM' reply. which is utterly useless either
> >> to me or any other follower of the gentoo-user mail group.
> >
> > Seeing as how this has been discussed in the last two days, I don't see
> > how Alan's advice is useless. The question has been asked and people have
> > taken the time and trouble to answer it. Why should they do it again when
> > you could just as easily find the previous answer yourself.
> 
> Another 'RTFM' message, thanks.
> 
> I'll answer my own question, including detail which may be useful to
> other users:

It's only useless so you since you have not done the usual research yourself 
yet; and it will continue to be useless until you do so.

As others have said, the answer is in the list archives. The detail contained 
therein is likely even more than you need, but it is there. The asides I 
listed are there to demonstrate and point out that large numbers of similar 
questions are also repeatedly answered therein, along with the multitude of 
repeat posts on their respective subjects.

I'm sorry you found my answer less than informative and perhaps even somewhat 
insulting, obviously I worded it incorrectly. But you see, your "aw gawd, an 
'RTFM' answer..." is the identical reaction to my original "aw gawd, a 'do my 
homework for me' question".

Ponder that a little.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 24 October 2009 22:16:03 Dale wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm still using KDE 3.5 for this but this is annoying at times.  I'm
> looking for a way to adjust the audio/video so that they sync up.  Mine
> seems to be about 1.5 to 2 seconds out of adjustment here.  I googled
> and found that the + and - keys should adjust this but I can't tell that
> it is working here.  Is there some other way to adjust this setting?
> I'm using kmplayer with mplayer for the backend.

Are you sure the input file isn't broken? Does it happen with many files? What 
type of files?

2 seconds is a huge lag, much too big to explain as a mere bug, so I'd be 
looking for other data to correlate first.



> 
> INFO:
> > r...@smoker / # emerge -pv kmplayer mplayer
> >
> > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> >
> > Calculating dependencies ... done!
> > [ebuild   R   ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p20090731  USE="3dnow X
> > aac alsa ass cddb cdio dirac dv dvd dvdnav enca encode esd faac faad
> > gif iconv ipv6 jpeg live mad mmx mng mp2 mp3 network opengl osdmenu
> > png quicktime rar real rtc schroedinger sdl shm speex sse tremor
> > truetype unicode vorbis win32codecs x264 xscreensaver xv xvid
> > -3dnowext -a52 -aalib (-altivec) -bidi -bindist -bl -cdparanoia
> > -cpudetection -custom-cflags -custom-cpuopts -debug -dga -directfb
> > -doc -dts -dvb -dxr3 -fbcon -ftp -ggi -gmplayer -jack -joystick
> > -ladspa -libcaca -lirc -lzo -md5sum -mmxext -nas -openal -oss -pnm
> > -pulseaudio -pvr -radio -samba -sse2 -ssse3 -svga -teletext -tga
> > -theora -v4l -v4l2 -vdpau -vidix -xanim -xinerama -xvmc -zoran"
> > VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia -mga -s3virge -tdfx -vesa" 0 kB
> > [ebuild   R   ] media-video/kmplayer-0.11.1b  USE="cairo (-aqua)
> > -debug -doc -expat -npp" LINGUAS="-cs -da -de -el -en_GB -es -et -fr
> > -ga -gl -it -ja -km -ku -lt -lv -mai -nb -nds -nl -nn -pl -pt -pt_BR
> > -ro -ru -sk -sv -tr -uk" 0 kB
> >
> > Total: 2 packages (2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB
> > r...@smoker / #
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-)
> 

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 24 October 2009 22:12:22 Grant wrote:
> I'm trying to fix up the JAlbum ebuild:
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128356
> 
> and get it to use java-pkg-2.  Here's what I have so far:
> 
> inherit java-pkg-2 eutils
> 
> S="${WORKDIR}/Jalbum"
> DESCRIPTION="Web photo album generator"
> HOMEPAGE="http://jalbum.net/";
> SRC_URI="http://jalbum.net/download/Jalbum${PV}.zip";
> 
> LICENSE="as-is"
> SLOT="0"
> KEYWORDS="x86"
> IUSE=""
> 
> DEPEND=">=virtual/jre-1.5"
> RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
> 
> src_install() {
> java-pkg_dojar JAlbum.jar
> java-pkg_dolauncher jalbum \
> --jar JAlbum.jar \
> --java_args -Xmx400M
> 
> local dest=/usr/lib/${PN}
> dodir ${dest}
> cp -R ${S}/* ${D}/${dest} || die "Install failed"
> 
> doicon ${FILESDIR}/Jalbum-icon.png
> make_desktop_entry ${PN}
> }
> 
> It executes just fine, but I get:
> 
> $ jalbum
> Error: se.datadosen.jalbum.JAlbum
> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: se.datadosen.jalbum.JAlbum
>   at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
>   at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>   at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
>   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
>   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
>   at se.datadosen.jalbum.Main.main(Main.java:23)
> 
> I was told I need to define the main class with --main.  Does anyone
> know how to determine what the main class should be?


What's the line normally used to launch the app at runtime? That, together 
with CLASSPATH will tell you what class should be executed as main()
 

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

[Grant]

>> I'm trying to fix up the JAlbum ebuild:
>>
>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128356
>>
>> and get it to use java-pkg-2.  Here's what I have so far:
>>
>> inherit java-pkg-2 eutils
>>
>> S="${WORKDIR}/Jalbum"
>> DESCRIPTION="Web photo album generator"
>> HOMEPAGE="http://jalbum.net/";
>> SRC_URI="http://jalbum.net/download/Jalbum${PV}.zip";
>>
>> LICENSE="as-is"
>> SLOT="0"
>> KEYWORDS="x86"
>> IUSE=""
>>
>> DEPEND=">=virtual/jre-1.5"
>> RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
>>
>> src_install() {
>>     java-pkg_dojar JAlbum.jar
>>     java-pkg_dolauncher jalbum \
>>         --jar JAlbum.jar \
>>         --java_args -Xmx400M
>>
>>     local dest=/usr/lib/${PN}
>>     dodir ${dest}
>>     cp -R ${S}/* ${D}/${dest} || die "Install failed"
>>
>>     doicon ${FILESDIR}/Jalbum-icon.png
>>     make_desktop_entry ${PN}
>> }
>>
>> It executes just fine, but I get:
>>
>> $ jalbum
>> Error: se.datadosen.jalbum.JAlbum
>> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: se.datadosen.jalbum.JAlbum
>>       at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
>>       at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>>       at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
>>       at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
>>       at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
>>       at se.datadosen.jalbum.Main.main(Main.java:23)
>>
>> I was told I need to define the main class with --main.  Does anyone
>> know how to determine what the main class should be?
>
>
> What's the line normally used to launch the app at runtime? That, together
> with CLASSPATH will tell you what class should be executed as main()

There is a file called startjalbum.sh which is supposed to be used to
start the program.  It contains:

#!/bin/sh
java -Xmx400M -jar JAlbum.jar

Does that tell you anything?

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 24 October 2009 22:16:03 Dale wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm still using KDE 3.5 for this but this is annoying at times.  I'm
>> looking for a way to adjust the audio/video so that they sync up.  Mine
>> seems to be about 1.5 to 2 seconds out of adjustment here.  I googled
>> and found that the + and - keys should adjust this but I can't tell that
>> it is working here.  Is there some other way to adjust this setting?
>> I'm using kmplayer with mplayer for the backend.
>> 
>
> Are you sure the input file isn't broken? Does it happen with many files? 
> What 
> type of files?
>
> 2 seconds is a huge lag, much too big to explain as a mere bug, so I'd be 
> looking for other data to correlate first.
>
>
>   

Well, it does vary by a bit.  Some are not quite so far off.  I did find
this little tidbit of info in 'console' under view.  This is interesting:

MPlayer SVN-r29463-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
Terminal type `unknown' is not defined.

libavformat file format detected.
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
[lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
ID_AUDIO_ID=1
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO:  [H264]  480x360  0bpp  29.917 fps  550.2 kbps (67.2 kbyte/s)
ID_FILENAME=/data/Movies/Movies/Clue Club 03 The Real Gone Gondola Pt 1.flv
ID_DEMUXER=lavfpref
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=H264
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=550208
ID_VIDEO_FPS=29.917
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=255
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=44100
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=0
[gl] using extended formats. Use -vo gl:nomanyfmts if playback fails.
Opening video filter: [pp=de]
Opening video filter: [scale]
==
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffh264
==
Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=128000
ID_AUDIO_RATE=44100
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
==
FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=faad
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 480 x 360 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
[PP] Using external postprocessing filter, max q = 6.
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
[swscaler @ 0x8939540]using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb32 special converter
VO: [gl] 480x360 => 480x360 BGRA
X11 error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)


   
    Your system is too SLOW to play this!  
   

Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
- Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
  - Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA.
  - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.
- Slow video output
  - Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!
- Slow CPU
  - Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the
lavdopts,
e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all.
- Broken file
  - Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.
- Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)
  - Try -cache 8192.
- Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?
  - Try -nocache.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips.
If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.


So, my AMD 2500+ with 2GBs of ram is to slow?  I know this is a older
rig but surely it ain't that slow.  o_O

I also realized something else that may contribute to this a little.  I
started a emerge last night and thought it would be through by now. 
It's still running.  It's compiling OOo and some KDE stuff.  Could that
slow things down a bit?  Everything else seems to be responding fine.  I
have portage set to a lower nice level than my desktop.  I even have
ionice set. 

Ideas?

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 24 October 2009 22:32:18 Grant wrote:
> >> I'm trying to fix up the JAlbum ebuild:
> >>
> >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128356
> >>
> >> and get it to use java-pkg-2.  Here's what I have so far:
> >>
> >> inherit java-pkg-2 eutils
> >>
> >> S="${WORKDIR}/Jalbum"
> >> DESCRIPTION="Web photo album generator"
> >> HOMEPAGE="http://jalbum.net/";
> >> SRC_URI="http://jalbum.net/download/Jalbum${PV}.zip";
> >>
> >> LICENSE="as-is"
> >> SLOT="0"
> >> KEYWORDS="x86"
> >> IUSE=""
> >>
> >> DEPEND=">=virtual/jre-1.5"
> >> RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
> >>
> >> src_install() {
> >> java-pkg_dojar JAlbum.jar
> >> java-pkg_dolauncher jalbum \
> >> --jar JAlbum.jar \
> >> --java_args -Xmx400M
> >>
> >> local dest=/usr/lib/${PN}
> >> dodir ${dest}
> >> cp -R ${S}/* ${D}/${dest} || die "Install failed"
> >>
> >> doicon ${FILESDIR}/Jalbum-icon.png
> >> make_desktop_entry ${PN}
> >> }
> >>
> >> It executes just fine, but I get:
> >>
> >> $ jalbum
> >> Error: se.datadosen.jalbum.JAlbum
> >> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: se.datadosen.jalbum.JAlbum
> >>   at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
> >>   at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
> >>   at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
> >>   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
> >>   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
> >>   at se.datadosen.jalbum.Main.main(Main.java:23)
> >>
> >> I was told I need to define the main class with --main.  Does anyone
> >> know how to determine what the main class should be?
> >
> > What's the line normally used to launch the app at runtime? That,
> > together with CLASSPATH will tell you what class should be executed as
> > main()
> 
> There is a file called startjalbum.sh which is supposed to be used to
> start the program.  It contains:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> java -Xmx400M -jar JAlbum.jar
> 
> Does that tell you anything?

Yes, it does. There's a file called JAlbum.jar which contains the app, and 
it's location is visible to the script. There's no path so I'm assuming the 
file is in the current directory.

A .jar is just a special kind of zip file (much like OOo files are). What's 
inside it?

p.s. I don't know how familiar you are with Java's start-up process and how it 
finds things and how you specify things to find. It's somewhat unusual and 
many traps exist for the unwary :-)

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 24 October 2009 22:36:59 Dale wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Saturday 24 October 2009 22:16:03 Dale wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm still using KDE 3.5 for this but this is annoying at times.  I'm
> >> looking for a way to adjust the audio/video so that they sync up.  Mine
> >> seems to be about 1.5 to 2 seconds out of adjustment here.  I googled
> >> and found that the + and - keys should adjust this but I can't tell that
> >> it is working here.  Is there some other way to adjust this setting?
> >> I'm using kmplayer with mplayer for the backend.
> >
> > Are you sure the input file isn't broken? Does it happen with many files?
> > What type of files?
> >
> > 2 seconds is a huge lag, much too big to explain as a mere bug, so I'd be
> > looking for other data to correlate first.
> 
> Well, it does vary by a bit.  Some are not quite so far off.  I did find
> this little tidbit of info in 'console' under view.  This is interesting:
> 
> MPlayer SVN-r29463-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
> Terminal type `unknown' is not defined.
> 
> libavformat file format detected.
> ID_VIDEO_ID=0
> [lavf] Video stream found, -vid 0
> ID_AUDIO_ID=1
> [lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 1
> VIDEO:  [H264]  480x360  0bpp  29.917 fps  550.2 kbps (67.2 kbyte/s)
> ID_FILENAME=/data/Movies/Movies/Clue Club 03 The Real Gone Gondola Pt 1.flv
> ID_DEMUXER=lavfpref
> ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=H264
> ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=550208
> ID_VIDEO_FPS=29.917
> ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=255
> ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
> ID_AUDIO_RATE=44100
> ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
> ID_SEEKABLE=1
> ID_CHAPTERS=0
> [gl] using extended formats. Use -vo gl:nomanyfmts if playback fails.
> Opening video filter: [pp=de]
> Opening video filter: [scale]
> ==
> Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
> Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
> ==
> ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffh264
> ==
> Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
> AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
> ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=128000
> ID_AUDIO_RATE=44100
> ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
> Selected audio codec: [faad] afm: faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
> ==
> FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
> AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
> ID_AUDIO_CODEC=faad
> Starting playback...
> VDec: vo config request - 480 x 360 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
> [PP] Using external postprocessing filter, max q = 6.
> VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
> Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
> [swscaler @ 0x8939540]using unscaled yuv420p -> rgb32 special converter
> VO: [gl] 480x360 => 480x360 BGRA
> X11 error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
> 
> 
>
> Your system is too SLOW to play this!  
>
> 
> Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
> - Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
>   - Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA.
>   - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.
> - Slow video output
>   - Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!
> - Slow CPU
>   - Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the
> lavdopts,
> e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all.
> - Broken file
>   - Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.
> - Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)
>   - Try -cache 8192.
> - Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?
>   - Try -nocache.
> Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips.
> If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.
> 
> 
> So, my AMD 2500+ with 2GBs of ram is to slow?  I know this is a older
> rig but surely it ain't that slow.  o_O
> 
> I also realized something else that may contribute to this a little.  I
> started a emerge last night and thought it would be through by now.
> It's still running.  It's compiling OOo and some KDE stuff.  Could that
> slow things down a bit?  Everything else seems to be responding fine.  I
> have portage set to a lower nice level than my desktop.  I even have
> ionice set.
> 
> Ideas?

I haven't snipped - the output might be useful later in the thread.

First, the "slow system" message always means something, but it's a bit 
generic. It means that mplayer can't process the audio fast enough and like 
the message says is often buggy driver or wrong configs. Try the suggestions 
listed.

An OOo compile in the background will indeed kill interactive processes. I 
find that even on this DualCore2 2.6 notebook with 4G of RAM, building OOo 
sends the load thro

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

[Dave Jones]

Alan McKinnon wrote on 24/10/09 22:18:
>>> Why should they do it again when you could just as easily find
>>> the previous answer yourself.

>> I'll answer my own question, including detail which may be useful
>> to other users

> It's only useless so you since you have not done the usual research
> yourself yet; and it will continue to be useless until you do so.

How presumptuous of you to say so.  Has the gentoo-user group become the
resource of last-resort?  Has gentoo-user become restricted, to be used
only when all other avenues of exploration have been exhausted?  If that
is so, then shame on me, I must have missed that announcement too.

> I'm sorry you found my answer less than informative and perhaps even
> somewhat insulting, obviously I worded it incorrectly. But you see,
> your "aw gawd, an 'RTFM' answer..." is the identical reaction to my
> original "aw gawd, a 'do my homework for me' question".

> Ponder that a little.

Your RTFM reply arrived 14 minutes after my question. It clearly showed
that you were aware of the answer to my question. A reference to any of
the relevant threads would have been very helpful, and would have been
much appreciated.

However, an answer which merely states that the question has already
been answered, but lacking any further reference to the existing answer
is utterly worthless.

Please consider the futility of uninformative answers to questions.

Do you seriously believe that a question can only ever be posed (and
answered) once?

You are entirely free to chose whether you answer a question or not.
However, if you don't want to answer in a helpful manner, it would be
better to leave the question unanswered.

Should you wish to discuss this further, feel free to contact me off-list.

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

[Grant]

>> >> I'm trying to fix up the JAlbum ebuild:
>> >>
>> >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128356
>> >>
>> >> and get it to use java-pkg-2.  Here's what I have so far:
>> >>
>> >> inherit java-pkg-2 eutils
>> >>
>> >> S="${WORKDIR}/Jalbum"
>> >> DESCRIPTION="Web photo album generator"
>> >> HOMEPAGE="http://jalbum.net/";
>> >> SRC_URI="http://jalbum.net/download/Jalbum${PV}.zip";
>> >>
>> >> LICENSE="as-is"
>> >> SLOT="0"
>> >> KEYWORDS="x86"
>> >> IUSE=""
>> >>
>> >> DEPEND=">=virtual/jre-1.5"
>> >> RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
>> >>
>> >> src_install() {
>> >>     java-pkg_dojar JAlbum.jar
>> >>     java-pkg_dolauncher jalbum \
>> >>         --jar JAlbum.jar \
>> >>         --java_args -Xmx400M
>> >>
>> >>     local dest=/usr/lib/${PN}
>> >>     dodir ${dest}
>> >>     cp -R ${S}/* ${D}/${dest} || die "Install failed"
>> >>
>> >>     doicon ${FILESDIR}/Jalbum-icon.png
>> >>     make_desktop_entry ${PN}
>> >> }
>> >>
>> >> It executes just fine, but I get:
>> >>
>> >> $ jalbum
>> >> Error: se.datadosen.jalbum.JAlbum
>> >> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: se.datadosen.jalbum.JAlbum
>> >>       at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
>> >>       at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>> >>       at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
>> >>       at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
>> >>       at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
>> >>       at se.datadosen.jalbum.Main.main(Main.java:23)
>> >>
>> >> I was told I need to define the main class with --main.  Does anyone
>> >> know how to determine what the main class should be?
>> >
>> > What's the line normally used to launch the app at runtime? That,
>> > together with CLASSPATH will tell you what class should be executed as
>> > main()
>>
>> There is a file called startjalbum.sh which is supposed to be used to
>> start the program.  It contains:
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> java -Xmx400M -jar JAlbum.jar
>>
>> Does that tell you anything?
>
> Yes, it does. There's a file called JAlbum.jar which contains the app, and
> it's location is visible to the script. There's no path so I'm assuming the
> file is in the current directory.
>
> A .jar is just a special kind of zip file (much like OOo files are). What's
> inside it?

# unzip JAlbum.jar
Archive:  JAlbum.jar
   creating: META-INF/
  inflating: META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
   creating: se/
   creating: se/datadosen/
   creating: se/datadosen/jalbum/
  inflating: se/datadosen/jalbum/AlbumBeanEvent.class
  inflating: se/datadosen/jalbum/AlbumBeanListener.class
  inflating: se/datadosen/jalbum/AlbumEngine.class
  inflating: se/datadosen/jalbum/Main$1.class
  inflating: se/datadosen/jalbum/Main.class
  inflating: se/datadosen/jalbum/MiniConfig.class
  inflating: se/datadosen/jalbum/OperationAbortedException.class
   creating: se/datadosen/tags/
  inflating: se/datadosen/tags/ElementException.class

> p.s. I don't know how familiar you are with Java's start-up process and how it
> finds things and how you specify things to find. It's somewhat unusual and
> many traps exist for the unwary :-)

I'm completely clueless with java.  Thanks a lot for your help thus far.

- Grant

[gentoo-user] Where is the vala overlay?

[Grant]

Does anyone know how to get the vala git ebuild (I need vala-0.7.8)?
This page indicates the vala-overlay was merged with the gnome
overlay, but that doesn't seem to be the case:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/179971

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:51:05 +0200, Dave Jones wrote:

> How presumptuous of you to say so.  Has the gentoo-user group become the
> resource of last-resort?  Has gentoo-user become restricted, to be used
> only when all other avenues of exploration have been exhausted?  If that
> is so, then shame on me, I must have missed that announcement too.

Do we now need announcements to tell people that they should search list
archives before posting a question if they do not regularly read list
content?

I suppose you're also in favour of McDonalds putting "Warning, contents
may be hot" notices of their coffee cups?

It seems to be increasingly unreasonable to expect a certain amount of
common sense and willingness to help oneself, even among Gentoo users.

-- 
Neil Bothwick

I typed Format SER: and accidentally killed a telephone operator!


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Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the vala overlay?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:54:29 -0700, Grant wrote:

> Does anyone know how to get the vala git ebuild (I need vala-0.7.8)?
> This page indicates the vala-overlay was merged with the gnome
> overlay, but that doesn't seem to be the case:

According to eix, there's a - ebuild in the mpd overlay.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't block pop3 attack

[kashani]

Robin Atwood wrote:

On Saturday 24 October 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:

On Friday 23 October 2009 21:49:42 Robin Atwood wrote:

My syslog is showing zillions of messages:

Oct 24 02:25:58 opal xinetd[8054]: START: pop-3 pid=16534
 from=61.134.64.199 Oct 24 02:25:59 opal xinetd[16534]: warning:
 /etc/hosts.allow, line 7: can't verify hostname:
 gethostbyname(199.64.134.61.broad.gs.dynamic.163data.com.cn) failed
Oct 24 02:26:09 opal xinetd[8054]: EXIT: pop-3 status=0 pid=16534
duration=11(sec)

I run denyhosts but don't trap pop3 messages so I manually added the IP
address to /etc/hosts.deny and..., it made absolutely no difference. I
run qpopper which is compiled with xinetd support and xinetd uses tcpd,
so I assumed the address would be blocked. Apparently not so. Any ideas?

You have allow ALL ALL early in hosts.allow, or
you have allow pop3 all earlier in hosts.allow
 
The second! I had forgotten about that. The trouble I set it up that way so I 
could pick up email from arbitrary locations while travelling. It seems the 
price of that is allowing idiots to spam your logs. 


Thanks for the pointer.
-Robin


You might think about moving to pop3-ssl or imap-ssl and dropping the 
unencrypted protocols. Usually keeps people from banging on the servers 
and much safer if you use the occasional unsecured wireless network.


kashani

[gentoo-user] ASUS EeePC 1000HA : boot query

[Philip Webb]

I've got my new toy to boot from USB with SystemRescue 1.3.1 ,
which comes up beautifully with Gentoo using 'Altker32'
(the 'default' kernel boots into some kind of emergency mode);
despite what the intro help says, the desktop manager is Xfce,
which is started via 'wizard' & offers basic useful apps,
eg Terminal Emelfm Firefox Geany Gparted .

There's  1  problem : you hold F2 down to get BIOS,
then use Esc for a boot menu (you have to go in/out of BIOS first).
However, this doesn't work when I first switch the machine on :
M$ XP starts regardless & I have to reboot from there to get BIOS,
the boot menu & the USB (I've disabled 'quiet boot' in BIOS,
but POST msgs still don't appear).  Is this because it takes a few seconds
before the USB stick warms up & gets recognised (its light blinks) ?

This is important: if that's correct, I can wipe out XP
& the machine will still recognise the USB stick & boot,
but if the problem is something else (I don't know what it might be),
I fear risking an unbootable box without even the M$ option remaining.

Can anyone reassure me ?

-- 
,,
SUPPORT ___//___,   Philip Webb
ELECTRIC   /] [] [] [] [] []|   Cities Centre, University of Toronto
TRANSIT`-O--O---'   purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] Has MySQL become compulsory?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 24 October 2009 23:51:05 Dave Jones wrote:
> > I'm sorry you found my answer less than informative and perhaps even
> > somewhat insulting, obviously I worded it incorrectly. But you see,
> > your "aw gawd, an 'RTFM' answer..." is the identical reaction to my
> > original "aw gawd, a 'do my homework for me' question".
> >
> > Ponder that a little.
> 
> Your RTFM reply arrived 14 minutes after my question. It clearly showed
> that you were aware of the answer to my question. A reference to any of
> the relevant threads would have been very helpful, and would have been
> much appreciated.
> 

Oh please, grow up, get a life and stop sounding like a spoilt brat.

You expect me to find the links after a search and provide them for you. I 
prefer you to have done that for yourself. 

It would not have been hard, the briefest of scan through the last fortnights 
threads would have revealed where to look in the subject.

I consider this subject closed now. You may continue the discussion with 
others if you wish, but it shall be conducted without me.



-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

[Mick]

On Saturday 24 October 2009 02:46:32 Dale wrote:
> Alan E. Davis wrote:
> > I have read a number of different explanations and suggestions, some
> > of them regarding an earlier, yet similar, tanglement between versions
> > of qt-*.   I've tried a number of suggestions, and I have unmerged and
> > remerged packages.
> >
> > I am now trying to individually merge packages with dependencies on
> > qt-*-4.5.2.
> >
> > I tried KDE 4.3.1, with some trepidation, and I have happily been
> > running gnome, save a couple of nits, and I have run into qt issues in
> > the past.  I would like to uninstall kde4 (like it, but not well
> > enough to devote so many resources to it, and to have to upgrade
> > frequently and painfully).  I would like to remove the KDE 4
> > installation, but keep the individual packages depending on kdelibs.
> > (K3b, etc.).  Would this have an impact on this issue?  This is off
> > topic, but how to uninstall EXCEPT what I want, of KDE4?   Is this
> > reasonable?
> >
> > Thanks.  I hope to solve this soon,  but it's too early to know
> > whether the help on this list was enough.  I changed USE flags, and
> > the same messages appear:
> >
> > <>
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Alan
> 
> Does this help any?
> 
> r...@smoker / # eselect news read 6
> 2009-09-27-qt_use_changes
>   Title Qt 4.5.2 default USE flag changes
>   AuthorAlex Alexander 
>   Posted2009-09-27
>   Revision  1
> 
> Qt version 4.5.2 has significant changes in the USE flags enabled by
> default.
> 
> When upgrading, make sure you check and re-enable any USE flags you
> need.
> 
> Depending on your system and installed packages, you might hit an issue
> where Portage is getting confused by this USE flag change, trying to mix
> old 4.5.1 ebuilds with new 4.5.2 ones, resulting in blocks.
> 
> If this happens to you, please add the offending USE flags (usually
> 'qt3support' and 'dbus') in your USE= or switch to a desktop profile
> (eselect profile list). Check this post [0] for more details on this
> issue.
> 
> [0] http://www.linuxized.com/p192
> 
> 
> r...@smoker / #
> 
> I have this in my USE flags and I didn't run into this that I recall.
> 
> qt3  qt3support qt4
> 
> I think they are planning to remove qt3 in the future.  I'm not sure how
> close that future is tho.  I think qt3support is the key here.

Other than the thread that Dale offers, have you changed your profile to the 
latest 10.0?  This had caught me out and went unmerging/emerging qt to get 
things to work.  I think it would have been easier if I had updated my 
make.profile first which has the required default USE flags:

$ ls -la /etc/make.profile 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 54 Oct 22 10:03 /etc/make.profile -> 
../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop

HTH. 
-- 
Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the vala overlay?

[Grant]

>> Does anyone know how to get the vala git ebuild (I need vala-0.7.8)?
>> This page indicates the vala-overlay was merged with the gnome
>> overlay, but that doesn't seem to be the case:
>
> According to eix, there's a - ebuild in the mpd overlay.

Thanks Neil.  My layman stuff was split across /usr/local/portage and
/usr/portage/local.  /usr/local/portage is correct, right?

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

[Arttu V.]

Grant wrote:

I'm trying to fix up the JAlbum ebuild:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128356

and get it to use java-pkg-2.  Here's what I have so far:

inherit java-pkg-2 eutils

S="${WORKDIR}/Jalbum"
DESCRIPTION="Web photo album generator"
HOMEPAGE="http://jalbum.net/";
SRC_URI="http://jalbum.net/download/Jalbum${PV}.zip";

LICENSE="as-is"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="x86"
IUSE=""

DEPEND=">=virtual/jre-1.5"
RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"

src_install() {
java-pkg_dojar JAlbum.jar
java-pkg_dolauncher jalbum \
--jar JAlbum.jar \
--java_args -Xmx400M

local dest=/usr/lib/${PN}
dodir ${dest}
cp -R ${S}/* ${D}/${dest} || die "Install failed"

doicon ${FILESDIR}/Jalbum-icon.png
make_desktop_entry ${PN}
}

It executes just fine, but I get:

$ jalbum
Error: se.datadosen.jalbum.JAlbum
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: se.datadosen.jalbum.JAlbum
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
at se.datadosen.jalbum.Main.main(Main.java:23)

I was told I need to define the main class with --main.  Does anyone
know how to determine what the main class should be?



No, it has clearly already loaded at least one class (last line of that 
stack trace reveals this), and is looking for some others needed by that 
class -- but the classloader fails to find them. JAlbum probably also 
has a Main-Class header defined in the jar's manifest, so this is likely 
to be just another classpath-related issue.


But the ebuild you're pushing ... I think it would need some serious 
work for the installation part. I think it installs files in all wrong 
places, and thus Gentoo's Generation 2 java system cannot automatically 
add them to classpath.


There is some advice on the issue in section 3, the Filesystem layout 
over here:


http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/java-devel.xml

After trudging through that you might understand why Gentoo Java team 
has constantly several dev positions advertised on "help wanted". Some 
of Java's ways don't mix that well with Gentoo's approaches, especially 
with compiling and packaging (installations).


If you are in a hurry of some sort, you might just try taking the jar, 
unpacking it into a subdir under your homedir, cd'ing in, and trying 
something like "CLASSPATH=.:${CLASSPATH} foo.sh". With a little luck it 
might work as such, without the pain of making a proper ebuild for it.


--
Arttu V.

[gentoo-user] Gnome audio (mixer) question

[walt]

I'm not sure when this problem started because I seldom need to use
the gnome gui interface to alsamixer (i.e. mixer_applet2).

I've added the gnome "volume-control" applet to my gnome panel for
years, but sometime in the recent past the "mixer" function has
vanished.

When I right-click on the volume-control applet and then on Open
Volume Control, I get the "Sound Preferences" dialog; the same one
I get when I click on the System::Preferences::Sound menu item on
the gnome panel.

In that Sound Preferences dialog I see only the volume control known
as "Master" on alsamixer, even though alsamixer shows several of the
other usual suspects like PCM, CD, Video, etc.

Have any of you gnomes out there got the latest Volume Control applet
to display all of the various controls provided by your sound card?

Thanks!

P.S. If you haven't updated world lately you may not have the latest
gnome-2.26 (stable) updates yet.

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild help: java main class?

[Grant]

>> I'm trying to fix up the JAlbum ebuild:
>>
>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128356
>>
>> and get it to use java-pkg-2.  Here's what I have so far:
>>
>> inherit java-pkg-2 eutils
>>
>> S="${WORKDIR}/Jalbum"
>> DESCRIPTION="Web photo album generator"
>> HOMEPAGE="http://jalbum.net/";
>> SRC_URI="http://jalbum.net/download/Jalbum${PV}.zip";
>>
>> LICENSE="as-is"
>> SLOT="0"
>> KEYWORDS="x86"
>> IUSE=""
>>
>> DEPEND=">=virtual/jre-1.5"
>> RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
>>
>> src_install() {
>>    java-pkg_dojar JAlbum.jar
>>    java-pkg_dolauncher jalbum \
>>        --jar JAlbum.jar \
>>        --java_args -Xmx400M
>>
>>    local dest=/usr/lib/${PN}
>>    dodir ${dest}
>>    cp -R ${S}/* ${D}/${dest} || die "Install failed"
>>
>>    doicon ${FILESDIR}/Jalbum-icon.png
>>    make_desktop_entry ${PN}
>> }
>>
>> It executes just fine, but I get:
>>
>> $ jalbum
>> Error: se.datadosen.jalbum.JAlbum
>> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: se.datadosen.jalbum.JAlbum
>>        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
>>        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>>        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
>>        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
>>        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
>>        at se.datadosen.jalbum.Main.main(Main.java:23)
>>
>> I was told I need to define the main class with --main.  Does anyone
>> know how to determine what the main class should be?
>
>
> No, it has clearly already loaded at least one class (last line of that
> stack trace reveals this), and is looking for some others needed by that
> class -- but the classloader fails to find them. JAlbum probably also has a
> Main-Class header defined in the jar's manifest, so this is likely to be
> just another classpath-related issue.
>
> But the ebuild you're pushing ... I think it would need some serious work
> for the installation part. I think it installs files in all wrong places,
> and thus Gentoo's Generation 2 java system cannot automatically add them to
> classpath.
>
> There is some advice on the issue in section 3, the Filesystem layout over
> here:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/java-devel.xml
>
> After trudging through that you might understand why Gentoo Java team has
> constantly several dev positions advertised on "help wanted". Some of Java's
> ways don't mix that well with Gentoo's approaches, especially with compiling
> and packaging (installations).
>
> If you are in a hurry of some sort, you might just try taking the jar,
> unpacking it into a subdir under your homedir, cd'ing in, and trying
> something like "CLASSPATH=.:${CLASSPATH} foo.sh". With a little luck it
> might work as such, without the pain of making a proper ebuild for it.
>
> --
> Arttu V.

So 'emerge JAlbum' isn't feasible?

- Grant