[gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

[Adam Carter]

I'm cloning a windows disk using gentoo;

On the old 66GB disk;
# dd if=/dev/sdb of=/root/winmbr.bin bs=512 count=1
# dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M | gzip -v > winpartition.gz

Then after swapping in the new 500GB disk;
dd if=/root/winmbr.bin of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1
# gunzip -c winpartition.gz | dd of=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M
dd: writing `/dev/sdb1': No space left on device
0+306 records in
0+305 records out
10137600 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.109885 s, 92.3 MB/s
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe3f7e3f7

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *  206848   117207039585000967  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Why is dd saying no space left after copying 10MB when sdb1 is 65GB?

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc update : locale variables are gone

[Alain DIDIERJEAN]

- Mail Original -
De: "Mick" 
À: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Envoyé: Samedi 14 Mai 2011 21h05:57 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / 
Rome / Stockholm / Vienne
Objet: Re: [gentoo-user] openrc update : locale variables are gone

On Saturday 14 May 2011 15:26:38 Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 14.05.2011 16:09, schrieb Willie Wong:
> > On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 03:41:37PM +0200, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
> >> As the subject line says, all variables pertaining to locale are gone
> >> (LANG & LINGUAS not set, LC_* set to POSIX"). In which file are they
> >> supposed to be set these days ?
> > 
> > /etc/env.d/02locale
> > 
> > W
> 
> Don't forget to run `env-update && source /etc/profile`.

Hmm ... not sure if the Window Manager/Display Environment sticks its finger 
in my locale!

On a console logged in as a plain user I get exactly what I have in my 
/etc/env.d/02locale.  The story is the same when I su to root in a terminal 
within X.  However, when I am in a terminal in X as a plain user I get *every* 
locale variable as  en_GB.UTF-8.

My /etc/env.d/02locale shows:

LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="C"

Why would this be so?  The Language setting in my WM (e17) is set as 'System 
Default' and at the bottom is shows "System Locale: Locale".
-- 

Following the openrc update in gentoo amd64, all locale variables suddenly 
vanished. I created a /etc/env.d/02locale file which includes 
LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8".
lyx loads with english menus. It's only after exporting LANG from .bashrc that 
I can launch it from a shell with its french menus. To achieve the same effect 
from KDE menu, I have to set the launch command to LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" lyx.
My preference would be a global setting (as it used to be), as all users on my 
machine are french.
I have the same problem with most of the apps.
Any comments ?

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   Feignons d'en être l'organisateur

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

[Mick]

On Sunday 15 May 2011 07:24:12 Felix Miata wrote:
> Googling above or similar is getting me nothing useful: 70% non-English
> pages, and of the remainder, 90% questions without answers (from
> forums.gentoo.org), and of those with answers, answers specific to packages
> bearing no apparent relationship to those failing to emerge for me. There
> are plenty hits for 'die "econf failed"' and 'ERROR:...failed (compile
> phase)', just nothing useful.

I cannot access your buildgrublog.txt of 15 May (Error 403)

> How can my attempts to follow the Handbook instructions have failed so
> miserably that I can't even emerge such a basic package as Grub Legacy?

It seems that you may have missed something in your toolchain.

> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has my build.log, config.log and
> eclass-debug.log files from 6 different emerge failures, plus output of
> emerge --info. Is there something akin to a Handbook page that describes
> similar failures and how to fix them? Is my problem not a common blocker
> for new users? How can I make any progress with everything hitting this
> apparently same or similar problem? Since I got a working kernel and mc,
> I've not managed to get anything else to emerge. :-(

I noticed in your configgrublog.txt this error:

  ./configure: line 3307: ccache: command not found

So, somewhere ccache is defined to be used, but you perhaps have not emerged 
dev-util/ccache?

Emerge it with a LiveCD, configure it, reboot and see if your system emerges 
better now.

Or,

set -ccache in FEATURES in your /etc/make.conf and try again.

BTW, if you originally had ccache working and left stales files under 
/var/tmp/ccache/*  you better delete these first.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#book_part2_chap3



> As an aside, pages like http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/asneeded.xml don't
> fit. 

I recall this discussed before.  Some pages do not have the correct CSS to 
define a max page width which for todays browsers should typically be 1024.  
Could be caused by the CMS used or some error in coding by the webmaster.  Not 
sure if a bug on this has been filled before.  Worth checking the M/L archives 
to see what was the conclusion.  Also worth trying loading just the frame to 
see if it can show up correctly.
-- 
Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

[Joost Roeleveld]

On Sunday 15 May 2011 17:45:05 Adam Carter wrote:
> I'm cloning a windows disk using gentoo;
> 
> On the old 66GB disk;
> # dd if=/dev/sdb of=/root/winmbr.bin bs=512 count=1
> # dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M | gzip -v > winpartition.gz
> 
> Then after swapping in the new 500GB disk;
> dd if=/root/winmbr.bin of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1
> # gunzip -c winpartition.gz | dd of=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M
> dd: writing `/dev/sdb1': No space left on device
> 0+306 records in
> 0+305 records out
> 10137600 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.109885 s, 92.3 MB/s
> # fdisk -l /dev/sdb
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xe3f7e3f7
> 
>Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *  206848   117207039585000967  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> 
> Why is dd saying no space left after copying 10MB when sdb1 is 65GB?

Did you reboot after the first "dd"?
Or at least, force a re-read of the partition tables?

Linux caches the partition tables and when overwriting the partition table, 
strange things will happen.

--
Joost

[gentoo-user] Troubleshooting the Virtualbox init script

[Dan Cowsill]

Hey list,

I noticed a little while ago that virtualbox-bin came with an init script
and decided to try it out.  Trouble is, the script starts a virtualbox VM
just fine, it just can't stop one.   Check out /etc/conf.d/virtualbox.my-vm:

# Username to start vbox as, must be part of vboxusers group.
VM_USER="dcowsill"

# Virtual Machine Name
VM_NAME="my-vm"

# Shutdown Method:
pause|resume|reset|poweroff|savestate|acpipowerbutton|acpisleepbutton
VM_SHUTDOWN="savestate"

# Nice Priority: -20 (most favorable scheduling) to 19 (least favorable)
VM_NICE=-10

# Specified the path explicitly...
VBOXPATH="/usr/bin:/opt/bin"

The only trouble I had with the arrangement was that I had to explicitly
specify the path for virtualbox to actually work.  I thought this was silly,
but it resulted in a (semi) working script, so whatever.  Of course, I have
a similarly named file linked to /etc/init.d/virtualbox where necessary.

When this script is run, the virtual machine starts fine, but when the
script is stopped, the script hangs indefinitely and prints dots to the
screen, presumably as it waits for my virtual machine to savestate.

So, any tips?  Cursory googling didn't reveal anything terribly applicable,
so I turn to you fine fellows.

Thanks,
DC

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

[Florian Philipp]

Am 15.05.2011 05:37, schrieb Pandu Poluan:
> On 2011-05-15, Florian Philipp  wrote:
>> Am 14.05.2011 21:31, schrieb Pandu Poluan:
>>> Hello list!
>>>
>>> Is there a how-to on how to create a 'filer' (kind of like OpenFiler)
>>> using Gentoo?
>>>
>>> I really don't need many things OpenFiler provided, so I think I want
>>> to roll-out my own 'GentooFiler'.
>>>
>>> Here's what I need:
>>>   * iSCSI target
>>>   * Replication
>>>   * RAID 0 striping (redundancy will be handled by RAID 1 hardware)
>>>
>>> Here's what I don't want:
>>>   * Web-based GUI
>>>   * LDAP and/or AD integration
>>>   * NAS ability (CIFS/SAMBA, NFS, etc)
>>>
>>> Can you point me to a how-to? Or if such howto doesn't exist yet, can
>>> you provide me pointers on how to realize the GentooFiler?
>>>
>>> (If there's no howto on making a GentooFiler, I'll be glad to make one
>>> -- but do point me to the necessary resources, please.)
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>> Rgds,
>>>
>>>
>>  Gentoo wiki has something on this:
>> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/ISCSI
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Florian Philipp
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Hmmm... that would be a nice start, thanks!
>
> Now to figure out how to carry out RAID 0 Striping and Replication.
>
> Do you think this 'GentooFiler' thingy I'm planning is worth it to be
> suggested in [gentoo-project] ?
>
> Rgds,
>

I think as long as you don't plan to provide code (except of some
scripts, maybe), new packages or pre-packaged VMs/live-CDs/appliances, a
wiki page will be more than enough. Maybe move it to the official Gentoo
docs once it has matured.

BTW: Please don't top-post. Put your answers below the text you are
quoting. That makes reading longer threads easier.

Regards,
Florian Philipp



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Re: [gentoo-user] One-time boot from alternate kernel?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sat, 14 May 2011 23:46:52 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:

>   Is it possible to pass a to do a one-time reboot to other than the
> default kernel?

Yes.




Or were you asking How? Use grub-set-default, it's covered in the grub
man/info pages AFAIR, I haven't used it for some time.


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[gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

[Dale]

Hi,

I updated my kernel and had to reboot.  I usually boot to single user 
mode and rebuild my video drivers.  Since I have this in my grub list, I 
just select single user and it boots to single user mode.  Well, not any 
more.  This is my current settings:


title Gentoo
kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3

title Gentoo boot level
kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3 softlevel=boot

title Gentoo single user
kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3 softlevel=single

root@fireball / #

I went back and looked at the guide but no mention of this.  I don't see 
anything in the man pages either.  What is the correct way to define a 
runlevel to boot to in grub with the new openrc?


Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

[pk]

On 2011-05-15 12:05, Florian Philipp wrote:

> BTW: Please don't top-post. Put your answers below the text you are
> quoting. That makes reading longer threads easier.

Yes, but putting the text below the quoted text also assumes one keeps
only the relevant text (i.e. deletes all irrelevant text), which (sadly)
doesn't seem to be the norm these days...

Best regards

Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sun, 15 May 2011 05:34:07 -0500, Dale wrote:

> I updated my kernel and had to reboot.  I usually boot to single user 
> mode and rebuild my video drivers.

Why not rebuild them before you reboot? It's far more convenient.


-- 
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Where do you think you're going today?


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Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

[Willie Wong]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 02:24:12AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> Googling above or similar is getting me nothing useful: 70%
> non-English pages, and of the remainder, 90% questions without
> answers (from forums.gentoo.org), and of those with answers, answers
> specific to packages bearing no apparent relationship to those
> failing to emerge for me. There are plenty hits for 'die "econf
> failed"' and 'ERROR:...failed (compile phase)', just nothing useful.

Because that is not the real error message. That just tells you when
(whether during configuration or compilation) the build failed. The
actual error is a few tens of lines earlier in the display (so
possibly 1 screen or 2 up in the console). 

Also, instead of posting the complete log on the external site (and
sometimes run into access problems), it may be easier to attach a
partial log to the e-mails to the forum. Something like 'tail -n 100
build.log' usually contains enough information. 

W
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Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire 
 et vice versa   ~~~  I. Newton

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

[Indi]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 08:30:02AM +0200, Felix Miata wrote:
> 
> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has my build.log, config.log and 
> eclass-debug.log files from 6 different emerge failures, plus output of 
> emerge --info. Is there something akin to a Handbook page that describes 
> similar failures and how to fix them? Is my problem not a common blocker for 
> new users? How can I make any progress with everything hitting this 
> apparently same or similar problem? Since I got a working kernel and mc, I've 
> not managed to get anything else to emerge. :-(
> 

Looking at http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/build-libeventlog.txt 
I noticed this:
"checking whether the C compiler works... no"

and at http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/build-sysklogdlog.txt: 
"make: ccache: Command not found"

So it looks as though you may have missed getting your gcc profile 
straight (as well as not having ccache installed)?

Check out "man gcc-config".


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Re: [gentoo-user] openrc update : locale variables are gone

[Mick]

On Sunday 15 May 2011 09:43:39 Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:

> Following the openrc update in gentoo amd64, all locale variables suddenly
> vanished. I created a /etc/env.d/02locale file which includes
> LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8". lyx loads with english menus. It's only after
> exporting LANG from .bashrc that I can launch it from a shell with its
> french menus. To achieve the same effect from KDE menu, I have to set the
> launch command to LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" lyx. My preference would be a global
> setting (as it used to be), as all users on my machine are french. I have
> the same problem with most of the apps.
> Any comments ?

Alain, as I said in my previous post the /etc/env.d/02locale settings do not 
seem to transfer across to user terminals when run in X.  I do not run KDE on 
this machine to see what KDE locale settings are doing ... have you set it to 
use the French language?

Either way, I have noticed that although locale from a user terminal in X 
shows everything as en_GB.UTF-8:

$ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8

without me having set it so, the same terminal shows different environment 
variables which correctly coincide with the /etc/env.d/02locale settings:

$ echo $LANG
en_GB.UTF-8

$ echo $LC_TIME
POSIX

$ echo $LC_COLLATE
C

The only odd is the LC_ALL - which I have not set up in my ~/.bashrc or 
02locale files!

$ echo $LC_ALL
en_GB.UTF-8

Perhaps my WM decided to take the LANG variable which happens to be 
en_GB.UTF-8 and apply it to LC_ALL?  The solution for me was to set in 
~/.bashrc:

export LC_ALL=""

Hope this works for your setup too.
-- 
Regards,
Mick


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RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

[Pandu Poluan]

-original message-
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?
From: pk 
Date: 2011-05-15 17:47

On 2011-05-15 12:05, Florian Philipp wrote:

> BTW: Please don't top-post. Put your answers below the text you are
> quoting. That makes reading longer threads easier.

Yeah, sorry about that. Bad habits due to prolonged exposure to Google's 
Java-based mobile client :(

pk  : Yes, but putting the text below the quoted text also 
assumes one keeps
only the relevant text (i.e. deletes all irrelevant text), which (sadly)
doesn't seem to be the norm these days...

Indeed. And sometimes top-posting is *forced* (e.g., Google's Java-based Gmail 
client -- it *totally* hides the replied-to message).

Heck, using my E72's built-in mail client is only slightly better: for reasons 
known to the makers only, replies do *not* get indented using '>'. I have to 
manually put in a mark there.

Rgds,
--
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Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:

On Sun, 15 May 2011 05:34:07 -0500, Dale wrote:

   

I updated my kernel and had to reboot.  I usually boot to single user
mode and rebuild my video drivers.
 

Why not rebuild them before you reboot? It's far more convenient.


   
But that doesn't fix the problem I posted.  There are times when I need 
to boot to something besides the default runlevel.  Right now, I can't 
do that so I want to fix it so that I can boot to another runlevel.


Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

[Pandu Poluan]

On 2011-05-15, Florian Philipp  wrote:
> Am 15.05.2011 05:37, schrieb Pandu Poluan:
>> On 2011-05-15, Florian Philipp  wrote:
>>> Am 14.05.2011 21:31, schrieb Pandu Poluan:
 Hello list!

 Is there a how-to on how to create a 'filer' (kind of like OpenFiler)
 using Gentoo?

 I really don't need many things OpenFiler provided, so I think I want
 to roll-out my own 'GentooFiler'.

 Here's what I need:
   * iSCSI target
   * Replication
   * RAID 0 striping (redundancy will be handled by RAID 1 hardware)

 Here's what I don't want:
   * Web-based GUI
   * LDAP and/or AD integration
   * NAS ability (CIFS/SAMBA, NFS, etc)

 Can you point me to a how-to? Or if such howto doesn't exist yet, can
 you provide me pointers on how to realize the GentooFiler?

 (If there's no howto on making a GentooFiler, I'll be glad to make one
 -- but do point me to the necessary resources, please.)

 Thanks in advance!

 Rgds,


>>>  Gentoo wiki has something on this:
>>> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/ISCSI
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>> Florian Philipp
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Hmmm... that would be a nice start, thanks!
>>
>> Now to figure out how to carry out RAID 0 Striping and Replication.
>>
>> Do you think this 'GentooFiler' thingy I'm planning is worth it to be
>> suggested in [gentoo-project] ?
>>
>> Rgds,
>>
>
> I think as long as you don't plan to provide code (except of some
> scripts, maybe), new packages or pre-packaged VMs/live-CDs/appliances, a
> wiki page will be more than enough. Maybe move it to the official Gentoo
> docs once it has matured.
>

Thanks for the guidelines. I'll experiment first. I *might* go the way
of pre-packaged VMs, though, since after all that's what I'm planning
to do (i.e., GentooFiler virtual appliance on top of XenServer).

> BTW: Please don't top-post. Put your answers below the text you are
> quoting. That makes reading longer threads easier.
>
> Regards,
> Florian Philipp
>

Yeah, sorry about that. Bad habits. When you're mobile with Symbian
smartphones, circumstances will make one acquire bad habits really
quickly :(

The *only* way I can properly bottom post like now, is to visit
Gmail's 'basic HTML' interface using Nokia's browser *sigh*.

Rgds,
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Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

[Alex Schuster]

Joost Roeleveld writes:

> On Sunday 15 May 2011 17:45:05 Adam Carter wrote:

>> Why is dd saying no space left after copying 10MB when sdb1 is 65GB?
> 
> Did you reboot after the first "dd"?

Probably, undless he is using som external drive.

> Or at least, force a re-read of the partition tables?

partprobe /dev/sdb will do this. partprobe is in sys-block/parted.

> Linux caches the partition tables and when overwriting the partition table, 
> strange things will happen.

Sounds like the drive is new, and probably not partitioned at all. When
/dev/sdb1 shows up, I's say the partitioning is okay. Is fdisk (I prefer
cfdisk) showing the correct layout?

Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

[pk]

On 2011-05-15 14:59, Pandu Poluan wrote:

> Indeed. And sometimes top-posting is *forced* (e.g., Google's
>Java-based Gmail client -- it *totally* hides the replied-to message).
> 
> Heck, using my E72's built-in mail client is only slightly better:
>for reasons known to the makers only, replies do *not* get indented
>using '>'. I have to manually put in a mark there.

Yes, I know I'm trying to fight wind mills here (ref. to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote for those not in the know)...
(I'm not happy with my current mail client either [Thunderbird]).
 I just added my comment to expand Florians suggestion, and the fact
that most people on this list don't top-post but do not edit their mails
so you have to scroll down, sometimes page after page to find the reply.
But this is quite common on most lists today (and most lists are, sadly,
much more tolerant towards top-posting). 'tis but a reflection of mine...

>From http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855:
"
- If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you
  summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just
  enough text of the original to give a context.  This will make
  sure readers understand when they start to read your response.
  Since NetNews, especially, is proliferated by distributing the
  postings from one host to another, it is possible to see a
  response to a message before seeing the original.  Giving context
  helps everyone.  But do not include the entire original!
"

Best regards

Peter K

[gentoo-user] leafnode and xinetd?

[Indi]

Anyone here have leafnode running successfully?
I seem to be stuck, and for some reason google appears to be stuck as
well on this one. Apparently users who want leafnode are about as rare
as hen's teeth...


Output of xinetd -d follows:

idd@gh:[~]$ xinetd -d   
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {handle_includedir} Reading included 
configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/chargen-dgram [file=/etc/xinetd.conf] 
[line=49]
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {handle_includedir} Reading included 
configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/chargen-stream 
[file=/etc/xinetd.d/chargen-stream] [line=67]
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {handle_includedir} Reading included 
configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/daytime-dgram 
[file=/etc/xinetd.d/daytime-dgram] [line=67]
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {handle_includedir} Reading included 
configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/daytime-stream 
[file=/etc/xinetd.d/daytime-stream] [line=67]
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {handle_includedir} Reading included 
configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/discard-dgram 
[file=/etc/xinetd.d/discard-dgram] [line=67]
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {handle_includedir} Reading included 
configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/discard-stream 
[file=/etc/xinetd.d/discard-stream] [line=67]
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {handle_includedir} Reading included 
configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/echo-dgram [file=/etc/xinetd.d/echo-dgram] 
[line=67]
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {handle_includedir} Reading included 
configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/echo-stream [file=/etc/xinetd.d/echo-stream] 
[line=67]
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {handle_includedir} Reading included 
configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/ftp-sensor [file=/etc/xinetd.d/ftp-sensor] 
[line=67]
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {handle_includedir} Reading included 
configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/leafnode-nntp 
[file=/etc/xinetd.d/leafnode-nntp] [line=70]
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {handle_includedir} Reading included 
configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/rsyncd [file=/etc/xinetd.d/rsyncd] [line=13]
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {handle_includedir} Reading included 
configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/svnserve [file=/etc/xinetd.d/svnserve] 
[line=10]
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {handle_includedir} Reading included 
configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/tcpmux-server 
[file=/etc/xinetd.d/tcpmux-server] [line=14]
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {handle_includedir} Reading included 
configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/time-dgram [file=/etc/xinetd.d/time-dgram] 
[line=68]
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {handle_includedir} Reading included 
configuration file: /etc/xinetd.d/time-stream [file=/etc/xinetd.d/time-stream] 
[line=67]
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {remove_disabled_services} removing chargen
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {remove_disabled_services} removing chargen
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {remove_disabled_services} removing daytime
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {remove_disabled_services} removing daytime
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {remove_disabled_services} removing discard
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {remove_disabled_services} removing discard
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {remove_disabled_services} removing echo
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {remove_disabled_services} removing echo
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {remove_disabled_services} removing ftp
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {remove_disabled_services} removing rsync
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {remove_disabled_services} removing svn
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {remove_disabled_services} removing tcpmux
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {remove_disabled_services} removing time
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {remove_disabled_services} removing time
Service defaults
Instances = 50
Groups = yes
umask = 2
CPS = max conn:50 wait:10
PER_SOURCE = 10
Bind = All addresses.
Only from:  localhost(HOST)
No access: No blocked sites
Logging to syslog. Facility = daemon, level = info
Log_on_success flags = HOST DURATION EXIT PID
Log_on_failure flags = HOST

Service configuration: nntp
id = nntp
flags = IPv4
socket_type = stream
Protocol (name,number) = (tcp,6)
port = 119
wait = no
user = 9
Groups = yes
umask = 2
PER_SOURCE = 10
Bind = All addresses.
Server = /usr/sbin/leafnode
Server argv = leafnode
Only from:  localhost(HOST)
No access: No blocked sites
Logging to syslog. Facility = daemon, level = info
Log_on_success flags = HOST DURATION EXIT PID
Log_on_failure flags = HOST

11/5/15@10:24:49: ERROR: 3486 {activate_normal} bind failed (Permission denied 
(errno = 13)). service = nntp
11/5/15@10:24:49: ERROR: 3486 {cnf_start_services} Service nntp failed to start 
and is deactivated.
11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {cnf_start_services} mask_max = 0, 
services_started = 0
11/5/15@10:24:49: CRITICAL: 3486 {init_services} no services. Exiting...

-- 
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Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

[Mick]

On Sunday 15 May 2011 11:34:07 Dale wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I updated my kernel and had to reboot.  I usually boot to single user
> mode and rebuild my video drivers.  Since I have this in my grub list, I
> just select single user and it boots to single user mode.  Well, not any
> more.  This is my current settings:
> 
> title Gentoo
> kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3
> 
> title Gentoo boot level
> kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3 softlevel=boot
> 
> title Gentoo single user
> kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3 softlevel=single
> 
> root@fireball / #
> 
> I went back and looked at the guide but no mention of this.  I don't see
> anything in the man pages either.  What is the correct way to define a
> runlevel to boot to in grub with the new openrc?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-)

According to my /etc/inittab:

# new-style single-user
su0:S:wait:/sbin/rc single
su1:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin

so softlevel=single should get you there.  However, you say it doesn't ...

# rc-update show single
#

Hmm ... nothing there.  Sure enough its empty:

$ ls -la /etc/runlevels/single/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 21  2010 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 May  2 10:54 ..

So, what you would need to do I think is add the services you want starting at 
single runlevel there and you should be good to go.
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Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

[Graham Murray]

Neil Bothwick  writes:

> On Sun, 15 May 2011 05:34:07 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>> I updated my kernel and had to reboot.  I usually boot to single user 
>> mode and rebuild my video drivers.
>
> Why not rebuild them before you reboot? It's far more convenient.

I do not know about the particular video drivers, but I have used some
'out-of-tree' drivers[1] which only build against the running kernel not
the (built but not yet booted) one in /usr/src/linux.

[1] The one which immediately comes to mind is for the Digi Etherlite
network serial port adaptors. 

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

[Dale]

Mick wrote:

On Sunday 15 May 2011 11:34:07 Dale wrote:
   

Hi,

I updated my kernel and had to reboot.  I usually boot to single user
mode and rebuild my video drivers.  Since I have this in my grub list, I
just select single user and it boots to single user mode.  Well, not any
more.  This is my current settings:

title Gentoo
kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3

title Gentoo boot level
kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3 softlevel=boot

title Gentoo single user
kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3 softlevel=single

root@fireball / #

I went back and looked at the guide but no mention of this.  I don't see
anything in the man pages either.  What is the correct way to define a
runlevel to boot to in grub with the new openrc?

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)
 

According to my /etc/inittab:

# new-style single-user
su0:S:wait:/sbin/rc single
su1:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin

so softlevel=single should get you there.  However, you say it doesn't ...

# rc-update show single
#

Hmm ... nothing there.  Sure enough its empty:

$ ls -la /etc/runlevels/single/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 21  2010 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 May  2 10:54 ..

So, what you would need to do I think is add the services you want starting at
single runlevel there and you should be good to go.
   


There never has been anything in my single user runlevel.  It worked 
fine a few weeks ago but after the openrc upgrade, no more worky.


The funny thing is, I can go to a console and type in rc single, that 
works fine.  It goes to single user mode with no errors.  Well, I did 
notice top showed the ttys still running.  I'm going to test that 
later.  That may be another thread for another day.  Sort of beating on 
one thing at a time.  ;-)


I just thought maybe it changed from softlevel to something else but if 
it did, I can't find it documented anywhere and even Google appears to 
be lost on this.


Open to ideas still.

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

[Mick]

On Sunday 15 May 2011 16:39:19 Dale wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > On Sunday 15 May 2011 11:34:07 Dale wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> I updated my kernel and had to reboot.  I usually boot to single user
> >> mode and rebuild my video drivers.  Since I have this in my grub list, I
> >> just select single user and it boots to single user mode.  Well, not any
> >> more.  This is my current settings:
> >> 
> >> title Gentoo
> >> kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3
> >> 
> >> title Gentoo boot level
> >> kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3 softlevel=boot
> >> 
> >> title Gentoo single user
> >> kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3 softlevel=single
> >> 
> >> root@fireball / #
> >> 
> >> I went back and looked at the guide but no mention of this.  I don't see
> >> anything in the man pages either.  What is the correct way to define a
> >> runlevel to boot to in grub with the new openrc?
> >> 
> >> Thanks.
> >> 
> >> Dale
> >> 
> >> :-)  :-)
> > 
> > According to my /etc/inittab:
> > 
> > # new-style single-user
> > su0:S:wait:/sbin/rc single
> > su1:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin
> > 
> > so softlevel=single should get you there.  However, you say it doesn't
> > ...
> > 
> > # rc-update show single
> > #
> > 
> > Hmm ... nothing there.  Sure enough its empty:
> > 
> > $ ls -la /etc/runlevels/single/
> > total 8
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 21  2010 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 May  2 10:54 ..
> > 
> > So, what you would need to do I think is add the services you want
> > starting at single runlevel there and you should be good to go.
> 
> There never has been anything in my single user runlevel.  It worked
> fine a few weeks ago but after the openrc upgrade, no more worky.
> 
> The funny thing is, I can go to a console and type in rc single, that
> works fine.  It goes to single user mode with no errors.  Well, I did
> notice top showed the ttys still running.  I'm going to test that
> later.  That may be another thread for another day.  Sort of beating on
> one thing at a time.  ;-)
> 
> I just thought maybe it changed from softlevel to something else but if
> it did, I can't find it documented anywhere and even Google appears to
> be lost on this.
> 
> Open to ideas still.

The so called 'single' softlevel is a Gentoo fix for user specified runlevels 
with their own selected services.  I don't have a pre-OpenRC box to check that 
it linked to, but I seem to remember that it went to runlevel 3 and adjusted 
services from there.

The standard Linux runlevel called also single (confusing isn't it) stops 
before runlevel 3 and asks for a root passwd (or Control+D to continue).  It 
can be called by appending 1 or S to the boot line.

If you don't want to have to login with a password then I think you need to 
append 'init=/bin/bash' and mount as rw what fs you need to work on.  You'll 
have to sync and umount before you reboot to be safe.

Could also work with 'init=/bin/bb' for busybox - but I'm not sure.

HTH.
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Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

[Daniel da Veiga]

I have a similar entry, but have never used the softlevel= flag, I simply
append "single" at the end of the kernel call and it boots in single user
(root password or ctrl+d to continue).

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 07:34, Dale  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I updated my kernel and had to reboot.  I usually boot to single user mode
> and rebuild my video drivers.  Since I have this in my grub list, I just
> select single user and it boots to single user mode.  Well, not any more.
>  This is my current settings:
>
> title Gentoo
> kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3
>
> title Gentoo boot level
> kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3 softlevel=boot
>
> title Gentoo single user
> kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3 softlevel=single
>
> root@fireball / #
>
> I went back and looked at the guide but no mention of this.  I don't see
> anything in the man pages either.  What is the correct way to define a
> runlevel to boot to in grub with the new openrc?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>


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[gentoo-user] KDE4.6 runaway process after wake up

[Mick]

I've noticed this problem twice so far:

  PID USER  PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+  COMMAND

 
14928 michael   21   1  340m  22m  15m R  100  0.6   2:24.84 kdeinit4: kded4 
[kdeinit]   
 
14658 michael   21   1  980m  35m  24m R  100  0.9   2:24.83 /usr/bin/knotify4  


On both occassions it happened when I woke up the machine from sleep (suspend 
on ram).  Any idea what might be causing it? 
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Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 15:14 on Sunday 15 May 2011, Dale did opine 
thusly:

> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sun, 15 May 2011 05:34:07 -0500, Dale wrote:
> >> I updated my kernel and had to reboot.  I usually boot to single user
> >> mode and rebuild my video drivers.
> > 
> > Why not rebuild them before you reboot? It's far more convenient.
> 
> But that doesn't fix the problem I posted.  There are times when I need
> to boot to something besides the default runlevel.  Right now, I can't
> do that so I want to fix it so that I can boot to another runlevel.


Like what for instance?
 
I can't remember the last time I needed single user mode. In excess of 4 years 
methinks. It would appear that you are doing something wrong and taking 
unneccessary steps to accomplish something.



-- 
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Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

[Mick]

On Sunday 15 May 2011 08:45:05 Adam Carter wrote:
> I'm cloning a windows disk using gentoo;
> 
> On the old 66GB disk;
> # dd if=/dev/sdb of=/root/winmbr.bin bs=512 count=1
> # dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M | gzip -v > winpartition.gz
> 
> Then after swapping in the new 500GB disk;
> dd if=/root/winmbr.bin of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1
> # gunzip -c winpartition.gz | dd of=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M
> dd: writing `/dev/sdb1': No space left on device
> 0+306 records in
> 0+305 records out
> 10137600 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.109885 s, 92.3 MB/s
> # fdisk -l /dev/sdb
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xe3f7e3f7
> 
>Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *  206848   117207039585000967  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> 
> Why is dd saying no space left after copying 10MB when sdb1 is 65GB?

Not sure if the bs=10M is too large?

You can try finding the optimum size of the bs= value by creating a partition 
on the new disk, formating it and then run something like:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=100 of=/1G_test.file
dd if=/dev/zero bs=2048 count=50 of=/1G_test.file
dd if=/dev/zero bs=4096 count=25 of=/1G_test.file
dd if=/dev/zero bs=8192 count=125000 of=/1G_test.file

and compare the results that dd reports.  bs=4096 often gives best performance 
(on my drives at least) but with the new 1T+ drives you may find that another 
block size does the job better.

Then zero the drive first using dd:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=4096 oflag=direct conv=notrunc

and try repeating your restoring from back up with a more suitable block size.
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Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sun, 15 May 2011 16:36:10 +0100, Graham Murray wrote:

> >> I updated my kernel and had to reboot.  I usually boot to single
> >> user mode and rebuild my video drivers.  
> >
> > Why not rebuild them before you reboot? It's far more convenient.  
> 
> I do not know about the particular video drivers, but I have used some
> 'out-of-tree' drivers[1] which only build against the running kernel not
> the (built but not yet booted) one in /usr/src/linux.

The Nvidia drivers build against /usr/src/linux, or any alternative
location you set.


-- 
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half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.


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Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sat, 14 May 2011 22:55:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> > Except when 260+ packages need updating as it happened with the last
> > KDE upgrade.  I had a cursory look, but I missed some USE flag changes
> > (scanner,  rdesktop and vnc I think) which started removing packages
> > and libraries. Other flag changes may well have added packages that I
> > didn't need, but didn't have the time to go through the lot at the
> > time.  
> 
> Is your emerge output colorized?
> 
> USE flag changes show up in green and the status indicators inside
> [ebuild   ] at the start of lines are in yellow. It's a huge gain being
> able to pick out the few new things that really stand out that way.

It also helps if you don't use -v, as then the only USE flags shown are
changes.


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Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

[Dale]

Daniel da Veiga wrote:
I have a similar entry, but have never used the softlevel= flag, I 
simply append "single" at the end of the kernel call and it boots in 
single user (root password or ctrl+d to continue).




May try that next.  I don't need this right now but I do want to figure 
this out before I do.


Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Sunday 15 May 2011 18:52:21 Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 15 May 2011 08:45:05 Adam Carter wrote:
> > I'm cloning a windows disk using gentoo;
> > 
> > On the old 66GB disk;
> > # dd if=/dev/sdb of=/root/winmbr.bin bs=512 count=1
> > # dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M | gzip -v > winpartition.gz
> > 
> > Then after swapping in the new 500GB disk;
> > dd if=/root/winmbr.bin of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1
> > # gunzip -c winpartition.gz | dd of=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M
> > dd: writing `/dev/sdb1': No space left on device
> > 0+306 records in
> > 0+305 records out
> > 10137600 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.109885 s, 92.3 MB/s
> > # fdisk -l /dev/sdb
> > 
> > Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
> > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> > Disk identifier: 0xe3f7e3f7
> > 
> >Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
> > 
> > /dev/sdb1   *  206848   117207039585000967  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> > 
> > Why is dd saying no space left after copying 10MB when sdb1 is 65GB?
> 
> Not sure if the bs=10M is too large?
> 
> You can try finding the optimum size of the bs= value by creating a
> partition on the new disk, formating it and then run something like:
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=100 of=/1G_test.file
> dd if=/dev/zero bs=2048 count=50 of=/1G_test.file
> dd if=/dev/zero bs=4096 count=25 of=/1G_test.file
> dd if=/dev/zero bs=8192 count=125000 of=/1G_test.file
> 
> and compare the results that dd reports.  bs=4096 often gives best
> performance (on my drives at least) but with the new 1T+ drives you may
> find that another block size does the job better.
> 
> Then zero the drive first using dd:
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=4096 oflag=direct conv=notrunc
> 
> and try repeating your restoring from back up with a more suitable block
> size.

a) sector sizes are mentioned in the docu
b) compeletly unrelated.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 runaway process after wake up

[Dale]

Mick wrote:

I've noticed this problem twice so far:

   PID USER  PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+  COMMAND
14928 michael   21   1  340m  22m  15m R  100  0.6   2:24.84 kdeinit4: kded4
[kdeinit]
14658 michael   21   1  980m  35m  24m R  100  0.9   2:24.83 /usr/bin/knotify4

On both occassions it happened when I woke up the machine from sleep (suspend
on ram).  Any idea what might be causing it?
   


If those are the only ones you have, you are lucky.  This is one reason 
I switch to single user sometimes.  I log out of KDE and have a BUNCH of 
KDE processes still running.  This is a desktop and no suspend stuff 
being used.  I usually go to single user, kill them off then switch back 
and login.


I don't recall having this issue with KDE3 so maybe it is something they 
are working on.  I did notice the other day that I had only a couple 
after the openrc upgrade.  I don't know if one has anything to do with 
the other tho.  I also did some KDE updates as well.


Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

[Mick]

On Sunday 15 May 2011 19:15:16 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Sunday 15 May 2011 18:52:21 Mick wrote:
> > On Sunday 15 May 2011 08:45:05 Adam Carter wrote:
> > > I'm cloning a windows disk using gentoo;
> > > 
> > > On the old 66GB disk;
> > > # dd if=/dev/sdb of=/root/winmbr.bin bs=512 count=1
> > > # dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M | gzip -v > winpartition.gz
> > > 
> > > Then after swapping in the new 500GB disk;
> > > dd if=/root/winmbr.bin of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1
> > > # gunzip -c winpartition.gz | dd of=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M
> > > dd: writing `/dev/sdb1': No space left on device
> > > 0+306 records in
> > > 0+305 records out
> > > 10137600 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.109885 s, 92.3 MB/s
> > > # fdisk -l /dev/sdb
> > > 
> > > Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
> > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
> > > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> > > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> > > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> > > Disk identifier: 0xe3f7e3f7
> > > 
> > >Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
> > > 
> > > /dev/sdb1   *  206848   117207039585000967  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> > > 
> > > Why is dd saying no space left after copying 10MB when sdb1 is 65GB?
> > 
> > Not sure if the bs=10M is too large?
> > 
> > You can try finding the optimum size of the bs= value by creating a
> > partition on the new disk, formating it and then run something like:
> > 
> > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=100 of=/1G_test.file
> > dd if=/dev/zero bs=2048 count=50 of=/1G_test.file
> > dd if=/dev/zero bs=4096 count=25 of=/1G_test.file
> > dd if=/dev/zero bs=8192 count=125000 of=/1G_test.file
> > 
> > and compare the results that dd reports.  bs=4096 often gives best
> > performance (on my drives at least) but with the new 1T+ drives you may
> > find that another block size does the job better.
> > 
> > Then zero the drive first using dd:
> > 
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=4096 oflag=direct conv=notrunc
> > 
> > and try repeating your restoring from back up with a more suitable block
> > size.
> 
> a) sector sizes are mentioned in the docu
> b) compeletly unrelated.

You're right, but why is it stopping after the first 10M is transferred then?
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 runaway process after wake up

[Mick]

On Sunday 15 May 2011 19:19:38 Dale wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > I've noticed this problem twice so far:
> >PID USER  PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+  COMMAND
> > 
> > 14928 michael   21   1  340m  22m  15m R  100  0.6   2:24.84 kdeinit4:
> > kded4 [kdeinit]
> > 14658 michael   21   1  980m  35m  24m R  100  0.9   2:24.83
> > /usr/bin/knotify4
> > 
> > On both occassions it happened when I woke up the machine from sleep
> > (suspend on ram).  Any idea what might be causing it?
> 
> If those are the only ones you have, you are lucky.  This is one reason
> I switch to single user sometimes.  I log out of KDE and have a BUNCH of
> KDE processes still running.  This is a desktop and no suspend stuff
> being used.  I usually go to single user, kill them off then switch back
> and login.
> 
> I don't recall having this issue with KDE3 so maybe it is something they
> are working on.  I did notice the other day that I had only a couple
> after the openrc upgrade.  I don't know if one has anything to do with
> the other tho.  I also did some KDE updates as well.

Sorry I should have been clearer:

I woke up the machine and noticed the fan was racing.  Top showed these two 
being the culprits.  I logged out of X and back on a console they were still 
running wild.  I had to kill them manually to calm things down.

When out of X in the console I seem to recall all other KDE processes had 
terminated.

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Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

[Mick]

On Sunday 15 May 2011 19:14:26 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 14 May 2011 22:55:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > Except when 260+ packages need updating as it happened with the last
> > > KDE upgrade.  I had a cursory look, but I missed some USE flag changes
> > > (scanner,  rdesktop and vnc I think) which started removing packages
> > > and libraries. Other flag changes may well have added packages that I
> > > didn't need, but didn't have the time to go through the lot at the
> > > time.
> > 
> > Is your emerge output colorized?
> > 
> > USE flag changes show up in green and the status indicators inside
> > [ebuild   ] at the start of lines are in yellow. It's a huge gain being
> > able to pick out the few new things that really stand out that way.
> 
> It also helps if you don't use -v, as then the only USE flags shown are
> changes.

Of course!  Been using -v out of habit and had forgotten about this.  :)
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[gentoo-user] Re: grub menu and the new openrc

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 05/15/2011 01:34 PM, Dale wrote:

Hi,

I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single user
mode and rebuild my video drivers. Since I have this in my grub list, I
just select single user and it boots to single user mode. Well, not any
more. This is my current settings:


No need for single user in this case.  In the grub bootscreen, just 
append "nox" in the command line.  You don't even need an entry in 
grub.conf for this.  This will boot normally, but without starting X.

[gentoo-user] docutils will not emerge

[covici]

Hi.  On my latest update dev-python/docutils-0.8_pre7034 will not
emerge.  I am using python2.7.

Here is the relevant portion of the build log:
copying docutils/writers/odf_odt/__init__.py -> 
build-3.2/lib/docutils/writers/odf_odt
Skipping implicit fixer: buffer
Skipping implicit fixer: idioms
Skipping implicit fixer: set_literal
Skipping implicit fixer: ws_comma
warning: copy_build_py_2to3: byte-compiling is disabled, skipping.

copying aux dirs
running build_scripts
creating build-3.2/scripts-3.2
copying and adjusting tools/rst2html.py -> build-3.2/scripts-3.2
copying and adjusting tools/rst2s5.py -> build-3.2/scripts-3.2
copying and adjusting tools/rst2latex.py -> build-3.2/scripts-3.2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 223, in 
do_setup()
  File "setup.py", line 103, in do_setup
dist = setup(**kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/distutils/core.py", line 149, in setup
dist.run_commands()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/distutils/dist.py", line 919, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/distutils/dist.py", line 938, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/distutils/command/build.py", line 128, in run
self.run_command(cmd_name)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/distutils/cmd.py", line 315, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/distutils/dist.py", line 938, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/distutils/command/build_scripts.py", line 51, in 
run
self.copy_scripts()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/distutils/command/build_scripts.py", line 83, in 
copy_scripts
first_line = f.readline()
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 106: 
ordinal not in range(128)
 * ERROR: dev-python/docutils-0.8_pre7034 failed (compile phase):
 *   Building failed with CPython 3.2 in distutils_building() function
 * 
 * Call stack:
 * ebuild.sh, line   56:  Called src_compile
 *   environment, line 4853:  Called distutils_src_compile
 *   environment, line 1230:  Called python_execute_function 
'distutils_building'
 *   environment, line 3422:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *   die "${failure_message}";
 * 
 * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info 
=dev-python/docutils-0.8_pre7034',
 * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv 
=dev-python/docutils-0.8_pre7034'.
 * The complete build log is located at 
'/var/log/portage/dev-python:docutils-0.8_pre7034:20110515-183512.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at 
'/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/docutils-0.8_pre7034/temp/environment'.
 * S: 
'/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/docutils-0.8_pre7034/work/docutils-0.8_pre7034'

Any assistance would be appreciated.


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[gentoo-user] Re: docutils will not emerge

[Remy Blank]

cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> I am using python2.7.

No, you're not.

>  *   Building failed with CPython 3.2 in distutils_building() function
^^^

Check what "eselect python list" shows you, and what USE_PYTHON is set
to in make.conf.

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Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Sunday 15 May 2011 19:40:30 Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 15 May 2011 19:15:16 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Sunday 15 May 2011 18:52:21 Mick wrote:
> > > On Sunday 15 May 2011 08:45:05 Adam Carter wrote:
> > > > I'm cloning a windows disk using gentoo;
> > > > 
> > > > On the old 66GB disk;
> > > > # dd if=/dev/sdb of=/root/winmbr.bin bs=512 count=1
> > > > # dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M | gzip -v > winpartition.gz
> > > > 
> > > > Then after swapping in the new 500GB disk;
> > > > dd if=/root/winmbr.bin of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1
> > > > # gunzip -c winpartition.gz | dd of=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M
> > > > dd: writing `/dev/sdb1': No space left on device
> > > > 0+306 records in
> > > > 0+305 records out
> > > > 10137600 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.109885 s, 92.3 MB/s
> > > > # fdisk -l /dev/sdb
> > > > 
> > > > Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
> > > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168
> > > > sectors
> > > > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> > > > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> > > > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> > > > Disk identifier: 0xe3f7e3f7
> > > > 
> > > >Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id 
> > > >System
> > > > 
> > > > /dev/sdb1   *  206848   117207039585000967 
> > > > HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> > > > 
> > > > Why is dd saying no space left after copying 10MB when sdb1 is
> > > > 65GB?
> > > 
> > > Not sure if the bs=10M is too large?
> > > 
> > > You can try finding the optimum size of the bs= value by creating a
> > > partition on the new disk, formating it and then run something like:
> > > 
> > > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=100 of=/1G_test.file
> > > dd if=/dev/zero bs=2048 count=50 of=/1G_test.file
> > > dd if=/dev/zero bs=4096 count=25 of=/1G_test.file
> > > dd if=/dev/zero bs=8192 count=125000 of=/1G_test.file
> > > 
> > > and compare the results that dd reports.  bs=4096 often gives best
> > > performance (on my drives at least) but with the new 1T+ drives you
> > > may
> > > find that another block size does the job better.
> > > 
> > > Then zero the drive first using dd:
> > > 
> > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=4096 oflag=direct conv=notrunc
> > > 
> > > and try repeating your restoring from back up with a more suitable
> > > block size.
> > 
> > a) sector sizes are mentioned in the docu
> > b) compeletly unrelated.
> 
> You're right, but why is it stopping after the first 10M is transferred
> then?

not sure - but I would unpack the file first. Just in case.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.6 runaway process after wake up

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 20:43 on Sunday 15 May 2011, Mick did opine 
thusly:

> > I don't recall having this issue with KDE3 so maybe it is something they
> > are working on.  I did notice the other day that I had only a couple
> > after the openrc upgrade.  I don't know if one has anything to do with
> > the other tho.  I also did some KDE updates as well.
> 
> Sorry I should have been clearer:
> 
> I woke up the machine and noticed the fan was racing.  Top showed these
> two  being the culprits.  I logged out of X and back on a console they
> were still running wild.  I had to kill them manually to calm things down.
> 
> When out of X in the console I seem to recall all other KDE processes had 
> terminated.

FWIW, I have the same thing occasionally, also on wake-up after suspend to 
RAM. In my case, something in the kdepim/akonadi/nepomuk/virtuoso stack seems 
to be the underlying culprit - one of those apps is hogging cpu time and 
kdeinit4/knotify are the ones that block the most hence they show up in top.

I tried various things involving re-merging stuffs, none of which helped. Then 
I figured maybe the mail indexer really wanted to do something valid, so I let 
it be and let it do whatever it wanted overnight. Since then the runaway 
process problem hasn't happened again. Perhaps coincidence, perhaps not.

Maybe you could try the same?


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 20:14 on Sunday 15 May 2011, Neil Bothwick did 
opine thusly:

> On Sat, 14 May 2011 22:55:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > Except when 260+ packages need updating as it happened with the last
> > > KDE upgrade.  I had a cursory look, but I missed some USE flag changes
> > > (scanner,  rdesktop and vnc I think) which started removing packages
> > > and libraries. Other flag changes may well have added packages that I
> > > didn't need, but didn't have the time to go through the lot at the
> > > time.
> > 
> > Is your emerge output colorized?
> > 
> > USE flag changes show up in green and the status indicators inside
> > [ebuild   ] at the start of lines are in yellow. It's a huge gain being
> > able to pick out the few new things that really stand out that way.
> 
> It also helps if you don't use -v, as then the only USE flags shown are
> changes.

I got out of that habit as I found without -v I'd more often than not ask 
myself "I wonder what other flags are used for this package, and do I need to 
tweak them?"

I call it prudence. My gf says it's me being bloody OCD again :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: docutils will not emerge

[covici]

Remy Blank  wrote:

> cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > I am using python2.7.
> 
> No, you're not.
> 
> >  *   Building failed with CPython 3.2 in distutils_building() function
> ^^^
> 
> Check what "eselect python list" shows you, and what USE_PYTHON is set
> to in make.conf.
> 
Here is eselect python list
  [1]   python2.7 *
  [2]   python3.2

I have no USE_PYTHON in make.conf.


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Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

[Mick]

On Sunday 15 May 2011 20:53:04 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 20:14 on Sunday 15 May 2011, Neil Bothwick
> did
> 
> opine thusly:
> > On Sat, 14 May 2011 22:55:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > > Except when 260+ packages need updating as it happened with the last
> > > > KDE upgrade.  I had a cursory look, but I missed some USE flag
> > > > changes (scanner,  rdesktop and vnc I think) which started removing
> > > > packages and libraries. Other flag changes may well have added
> > > > packages that I didn't need, but didn't have the time to go through
> > > > the lot at the time.
> > > 
> > > Is your emerge output colorized?
> > > 
> > > USE flag changes show up in green and the status indicators inside
> > > [ebuild   ] at the start of lines are in yellow. It's a huge gain being
> > > able to pick out the few new things that really stand out that way.
> > 
> > It also helps if you don't use -v, as then the only USE flags shown are
> > changes.
> 
> I got out of that habit as I found without -v I'd more often than not ask
> myself "I wonder what other flags are used for this package, and do I need
> to tweak them?"
> 
> I call it prudence. My gf says it's me being bloody OCD again :-)

I was planning to run it twice anyway, without & with ...  ;-)

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[gentoo-user] Re: docutils will not emerge

[Remy Blank]

cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> Here is eselect python list
>   [1]   python2.7 *
>   [2]   python3.2
> 
> I have no USE_PYTHON in make.conf.

Everything seems to be in order, then. The symptoms look very much like:

  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366879

(Look at the duplicates for the symptoms.)

FWIW, docutils emerges fine here, but I do have a UTF-8 locale.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: docutils will not emerge

[covici]

Remy Blank  wrote:

> cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > Here is eselect python list
> >   [1]   python2.7 *
> >   [2]   python3.2
> > 
> > I have no USE_PYTHON in make.conf.
> 
> Everything seems to be in order, then. The symptoms look very much like:
> 
>   http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366879
> 
> (Look at the duplicates for the symptoms.)
> 
> FWIW, docutils emerges fine here, but I do have a UTF-8 locale.

I have the following in my /etc/locale.gen

en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

I also have unicode="yes" in /etc/conf.d/rc.conf -- is there anything
else I need to do?

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Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sun, 15 May 2011 21:53:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> > It also helps if you don't use -v, as then the only USE flags shown
> > are changes.  
> 
> I got out of that habit as I found without -v I'd more often than not
> ask myself "I wonder what other flags are used for this package, and do
> I need to tweak them?"
> 
> I call it prudence. My gf says it's me being bloody OCD again :-)

Of course you're OCD - you use Gentoo, don't you? ;-)


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[gentoo-user] Re: docutils will not emerge

[Hartmut Figge]

Remy Blank:

> FWIW, docutils emerges fine here, but I do have a UTF-8 locale.

Just for curiosity i have now tested. Normally i am using  docutils-0.7.
No problems with emerging docutils-0.8_pre7034.

hafi@i5 ~ $ eselect python list
Available Python interpreters:
  [1]   python2.4
  [2]   python2.7 *
  [3]   python3.1

hafi@i5 ~ $ locale
LANG=de_DE@euro
LC_CTYPE="de_DE@euro"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE@euro"
LC_TIME="de_DE@euro"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE@euro"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE@euro"
LC_MESSAGES=en_US
LC_PAPER="de_DE@euro"
LC_NAME="de_DE@euro"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE@euro"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE@euro"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE@euro"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE@euro"
LC_ALL=

Now back to docutils-0.7. :)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: docutils will not emerge

[covici]

Remy Blank  wrote:

> cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > Here is eselect python list
> >   [1]   python2.7 *
> >   [2]   python3.2
> > 
> > I have no USE_PYTHON in make.conf.
> 
> Everything seems to be in order, then. The symptoms look very much like:
> 
>   http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366879
> 
> (Look at the duplicates for the symptoms.)
> 
> FWIW, docutils emerges fine here, but I do have a UTF-8 locale.

OK, I did not have LANG= in the environment, so I put it and that made
docutils emerge properly -- thanks for the hint.

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Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

[Felix Miata]

http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has system info, bash_history, and logs from 
my 7th attempt to install from the beginning, using 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 as the battle plan.


Among the 8 attempts, once I used the 0514 portage, twice I used the 0507 
portage, and the rest I used the 0511 portage. I'm surprised I ever got a 
kernel, networking, and mc working on the first try, because I've been unable 
to get anything except kernel sources to emerge since the first attempt. 
Every other emerge attempt has generated either "ERROR:...(compile phase)..." 
or "ERROR:...(configure phase)...", plus 'die "econf failed"'.


At this point I have to believe there's a Gentoo bug(s) I'm hitting rather 
than mistakes following instructions. I've put in most of the past 5 days 
trying, and have to quit real soon unless I get a whole lot better help. I'm 
sure I've used up my quota of better efficiency just trying to get started, 
and need to get back to normal life soon.

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Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

[Dale]

Daniel da Veiga wrote:
I have a similar entry, but have never used the softlevel= flag, I 
simply append "single" at the end of the kernel call and it boots in 
single user (root password or ctrl+d to continue).




I did get this to work:

title Gentoo single user
kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3 rw single

So, all I need now is to figure out how to get this work:

title Gentoo boot level
kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3 softlevel=boot

It appears the softlevel= is no longer working with the new openrc.  It 
looks like the docs need to be updated.  I also tried init= and it 
doesn't work either.


Time to go farther up the food chain I guess. The docs need to be 
changed at least.


Dale

:-)  :-)

[gentoo-user] Re: chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

[walt]

On 05/14/2011 06:20 AM, Felix Miata wrote:

> My #1 problem to solve is NFS not working yet (nfs-utils aka
> libevent, portmap, rpc emerge failures), but it would also be very
> nice to get Grub to emerge. Logs: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/

Looking at the config for libevent, the script can't find ccache.
Do you have dev-util/ccache installed?  Did you enable the 'ccache'
FEATURE in /etc/make.conf?

Re: [gentoo-user] leafnode and xinetd?

[Adam Carter]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Indi wrote:

> Anyone here have leafnode running successfully?
> I seem to be stuck, and for some reason google appears to be stuck as
> well on this one. Apparently users who want leafnode are about as rare
> as hen's teeth...



> 
> 11/5/15@10:24:49: ERROR: 3486 {activate_normal} bind failed (Permission
> denied (errno = 13)). service = nntp
> 11/5/15@10:24:49: ERROR: 3486 {cnf_start_services} Service nntp failed to
> start and is deactivated.
> 11/5/15@10:24:49: DEBUG: 3486 {cnf_start_services} mask_max = 0,
> services_started = 0
> 11/5/15@10:24:49: CRITICAL: 3486 {init_services} no services. Exiting...
>
>
Have you checked there's nothing listening on the port already with netstat?
Are you starting as root?

As a dumb test you could just try "nc -l -p 119" if you have netcat, or just
"/usr/sbin/sshd -p 119" to see if they can open the port. AFAIK SELinux will
need a config tweak to allow the port open if you're using that.

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

[Adam Carter]

WRT why it stopped after 10MB, if i specified a smaller size it would just
stop after whatever was specified, so its just doing a single chunk equal to
whatever bs has been specified as.

I think the re-read of the partition table is probably the problem - so
thanks for that suggestion.

To check my understanding - would it be correct to say that;
1. Using dd to copy the first 512 bytes (MBR) is ALL that is needed to setup
the partitions - that is i wont need to run fdisk etc afterward.
2. Using dd in this way of course will not update the kernel's knowledge of
the partition table so a partprobe is necessary
3. When using fdisk to write a partition table and exit, it calls a re-read
of the partition table by the kernel so any changes should be ready straight
away. (there's a message about calling ioctl when it exits - so i guess that
is the update)

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 05/15/2011 06:29 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has system info, bash_history, and logs from 
> my 7th attempt to install from the beginning, using 
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 as the battle 
> plan.
> 
> Among the 8 attempts, once I used the 0514 portage, twice I used the 0507 
> portage, and the rest I used the 0511 portage. I'm surprised I ever got a 
> kernel, networking, and mc working on the first try, because I've been unable 
> to get anything except kernel sources to emerge since the first attempt. 
> Every other emerge attempt has generated either "ERROR:...(compile phase)..." 
> or "ERROR:...(configure phase)...", plus 'die "econf failed"'.
> 
> At this point I have to believe there's a Gentoo bug(s) I'm hitting rather 
> than mistakes following instructions. I've put in most of the past 5 days 
> trying, and have to quit real soon unless I get a whole lot better help. I'm 
> sure I've used up my quota of better efficiency just trying to get started, 
> and need to get back to normal life soon.

Purge ccache entirely from your system, it's bad news. Then `source
/etc/profile && env-update`.

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

[Adam Carter]

> Purge ccache entirely from your system, it's bad news. Then `source
> /etc/profile && env-update`.
>
>
AFAIK i've never had a problem with ccache. I've been using it for years on
two different systems.

The OP's probably appears to be that he has ccache in FEATURES but its not
installedas Mick stated 16 hours ago.

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

[Willie Wong]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 09:14:55PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 05/15/2011 06:29 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> > http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has system info, bash_history, and logs 
> > from 
> > my 7th attempt to install from the beginning, using 
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 as the battle 
> > plan.
> > 
> > Among the 8 attempts, once I used the 0514 portage, twice I used the 0507 
> > portage, and the rest I used the 0511 portage. I'm surprised I ever got a 
> > kernel, networking, and mc working on the first try, because I've been 
> > unable 
> > to get anything except kernel sources to emerge since the first attempt. 
> > Every other emerge attempt has generated either "ERROR:...(compile 
> > phase)..." 
> > or "ERROR:...(configure phase)...", plus 'die "econf failed"'.
> > 
> > At this point I have to believe there's a Gentoo bug(s) I'm hitting rather 
> > than mistakes following instructions. I've put in most of the past 5 days 
> > trying, and have to quit real soon unless I get a whole lot better help. 
> > I'm 
> > sure I've used up my quota of better efficiency just trying to get started, 
> > and need to get back to normal life soon.
> 
> Purge ccache entirely from your system, it's bad news. Then `source
> /etc/profile && env-update`.

What's strange is that the emerge --info Felix linked to does not have
ccache in Features. But it is timestamped earlier than the other
logs...

Is ccache installed? (emerge --search ccache) if yes unmerge it
(emerge --unmerge ccache). And you may want to use gcc-config to reset
the links to gcc. 

W

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Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

[Daniel da Veiga]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 20:12, Dale  wrote:

> Daniel da Veiga wrote:
>
>> I have a similar entry, but have never used the softlevel= flag, I simply
>> append "single" at the end of the kernel call and it boots in single user
>> (root password or ctrl+d to continue).
>>
>>
> I did get this to work:
>
> title Gentoo single user
> kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3 rw single
>
> So, all I need now is to figure out how to get this work:
>
>
> title Gentoo boot level
> kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3 softlevel=boot
>
> It appears the softlevel= is no longer working with the new openrc.  It
> looks like the docs need to be updated.  I also tried init= and it doesn't
> work either.
>
> Time to go farther up the food chain I guess. The docs need to be changed
> at least.


Updated docs are always good, but I wonder why do you need this.
If I need single user I simply press "e", edit the line and add single,
followed by a "b" to boot. That is a for maintenance only so I really don't
see a need for it at grub menu, same wth the other runlevels, all you gotta
do is append "nox" or use Interactive (again, this is only if something is
broken, I can't see myself doing this twice in a week)...

-- 
Daniel da Veiga

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 05/15/2011 09:25 PM, Adam Carter wrote:
> 
> Purge ccache entirely from your system, it's bad news. Then `source
> /etc/profile && env-update`.
> 
> 
> AFAIK i've never had a problem with ccache. I've been using it for years
> on two different systems.
> 
> The OP's probably appears to be that he has ccache in FEATURES but its
> not installedas Mick stated 16 hours ago.

I meant that like when I tell my friends with the crippling alcoholism,
"get rid of the motorcycle, it's bad news."

ccache is installed, judging by his bash history. It doesn't appear to
be in FEATURES. It's easier to solve this one with a chainsaw than with
a scalpel.

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 05/15/2011 06:29 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has system info, bash_history, and logs from 
> my 7th attempt to install from the beginning, using 
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 as the battle 
> plan.
> 
> Among the 8 attempts, once I used the 0514 portage, twice I used the 0507 
> portage, and the rest I used the 0511 portage. I'm surprised I ever got a 
> kernel, networking, and mc working on the first try, because I've been unable 
> to get anything except kernel sources to emerge since the first attempt. 
> Every other emerge attempt has generated either "ERROR:...(compile phase)..." 
> or "ERROR:...(configure phase)...", plus 'die "econf failed"'.
> 
> At this point I have to believe there's a Gentoo bug(s) I'm hitting rather 
> than mistakes following instructions. I've put in most of the past 5 days 
> trying, and have to quit real soon unless I get a whole lot better help. I'm 
> sure I've used up my quota of better efficiency just trying to get started, 
> and need to get back to normal life soon.


Ugh:

  http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/bash_profile

I'm guessing you forgot to `source ~/.bash_profile` after you commented
out the line,

  #export "CC=ccache gcc"

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

[Dale]

Daniel da Veiga wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 20:12, Dale > wrote:


Daniel da Veiga wrote:

I have a similar entry, but have never used the softlevel=
flag, I simply append "single" at the end of the kernel call
and it boots in single user (root password or ctrl+d to continue).


I did get this to work:

title Gentoo single user
kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3 rw single

So, all I need now is to figure out how to get this work:


title Gentoo boot level
kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3 softlevel=boot

It appears the softlevel= is no longer working with the new
openrc.  It looks like the docs need to be updated.  I also tried
init= and it doesn't work either.

Time to go farther up the food chain I guess. The docs need to be
changed at least.


Updated docs are always good, but I wonder why do you need this.
If I need single user I simply press "e", edit the line and add 
single, followed by a "b" to boot. That is a for maintenance only so I 
really don't see a need for it at grub menu, same wth the other 
runlevels, all you gotta do is append "nox" or use Interactive (again, 
this is only if something is broken, I can't see myself doing this 
twice in a week)...


--
Daniel da Veiga


The thing is, I do use them which is why I went to the trouble of 
setting them up to begin with.  I actually use them pretty regular.  
Just because others don't use them doesn't mean that I don't or shouldn't.


I tried to use them is how I figured out it didn't work anymore.  That 
alone shows that I use them for various reasons.  This update is less 
than a week old and I already found out that this doesn't work anymore.  
I just want to figure out how it works with openrc which it appears no 
one has a answer and the docs are wrong as well.


Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 05/15/2011 09:43 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 05/15/2011 06:29 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
>> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has system info, bash_history, and logs 
>> from 
>> my 7th attempt to install from the beginning, using 
>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 as the battle 
>> plan.
>>
>> Among the 8 attempts, once I used the 0514 portage, twice I used the 0507 
>> portage, and the rest I used the 0511 portage. I'm surprised I ever got a 
>> kernel, networking, and mc working on the first try, because I've been 
>> unable 
>> to get anything except kernel sources to emerge since the first attempt. 
>> Every other emerge attempt has generated either "ERROR:...(compile 
>> phase)..." 
>> or "ERROR:...(configure phase)...", plus 'die "econf failed"'.
>>
>> At this point I have to believe there's a Gentoo bug(s) I'm hitting rather 
>> than mistakes following instructions. I've put in most of the past 5 days 
>> trying, and have to quit real soon unless I get a whole lot better help. I'm 
>> sure I've used up my quota of better efficiency just trying to get started, 
>> and need to get back to normal life soon.
> 
> 
> Ugh:
> 
>   http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/bash_profile
> 
> I'm guessing you forgot to `source ~/.bash_profile` after you commented
> out the line,
> 
>   #export "CC=ccache gcc"
> 

In fact, re-sourcing won't even help unless you set CC="something else".

Try `unset CC`.

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Success!!!

[Felix Miata]

On 2011/05/16 11:25 (GMT+1000) Adam Carter composed:


 Purge ccache entirely from your system, it's bad news. Then `source
 /etc/profile&&  env-update`.



AFAIK i've never had a problem with ccache. I've been using it for years on
two different systems.



The OP's probably appears to be that he has ccache in FEATURES but its not
installedas Mick stated 16 hours ago.


Mick's pointer nagged me enough to keep on keepin' on. Looking at 
.bash_history[1], IIRC here's the sequence that got me over the hump (on 
fresh start #8):


...
1-Installed up through emerge kernel-sources (success, still in chroot)
2-emerge nfs-utils (failed, still in chroot, no new kernel built yet, since I 
had saved a good one)

3-shutdown
4-wrote my previous thread post
5-took a break for about two hours
6-restarted via (openSUSE) chroot
7-make && make modules_install (success)
8-emerge sysklogd (failed, twice)
9-emerge ccache (failed)
10-booted into new Gentoo kernel
11-emerge ccache (success!!!, along with about 4 deps)
12-emerge app-misc/mc (success, along with 13 deps)
13-emerge nfs-utils (no apparent errors...; plus more deps)
14-emerge grub (no apparent errors, but error 13 invalid executable format 
trying to use it)


I have no idea what made everything except kernel and ccache fail until 
ccache was emerged, or why ccache would not emerge via chroot, but at least 
now I'm over the ccache hump, and I'm going to leave it installed/enabled at 
least for this installation for at least the time being.


http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has the latest system info, including 
portage's summary.log, and make.conf as last modified prior to successful 
emerges.


[1] http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/bash_history.05
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Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

[Felix Miata]

On 2011/05/14 09:20 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed:


My #1 problem to solve is NFS not working yet (nfs-utils aka libevent,
portmap, rpc emerge failures), but it would also be very nice to get Grub to
emerge. Logs: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/


Now as noted in the econf failed thread I've succeeded in emerging nfs-utils 
and grub, but neither work right.


I have two Gentoo stanzas in my primary bootloader, one to load the kernel, 
another to chainload Gentoo's Grub. Loading the kernel works, but chainload 
gives error 13 invalid executable format. I named the bzImage copied to /boot 
"kernel-2.6.37-r4f", and symlinked it a vmlinuz. vmlinuz is the name I use in 
the Grub stanzas. Is Gentoo's Grub expecting the kernel to have a particular 
name, and I picked a wrong one? Or maybe what it doesn't like is that I 
uncommented splashimage=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz in menu.lst?


The errors from NFS are different than I originally encountered, and indicate 
that neither portmap nor rpcbind are running. Which of the two did nfs-utils 
actually install (or both?), and what exactly is its name I need to use with 
rc-update or start one or the other manually to get my server's exports 
mounted locally?

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Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (part solved)

[Felix Miata]

On 2011/05/15 22:18 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed:


The errors from NFS are different than I originally encountered, and indicate
that neither portmap nor rpcbind are running. Which of the two did nfs-utils
actually install (or both?), and what exactly is its name I need to use with
rc-update or start one or the other manually to get my server's exports
mounted locally?


This one is solved. I looked in /etc/init.d/ and saw rpcbind, got it working 
manually, then set it automatic on boot with 'rc-update add rpcbind default'. :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

[Felix Miata]

On 2011/05/15 22:18 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed:


I have two Gentoo stanzas in my primary bootloader, one to load the kernel,
another to chainload Gentoo's Grub. Loading the kernel works, but chainload
gives error 13 invalid executable format. I named the bzImage copied to /boot
"kernel-2.6.37-r4f", and symlinked it a vmlinuz. vmlinuz is the name I use in
the Grub stanzas. Is Gentoo's Grub expecting the kernel to have a particular
name, and I picked a wrong one? Or maybe what it doesn't like is that I
uncommented splashimage=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz in menu.lst?


I got this to work too:

# grub
grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
grub> root (hd0,6)
grub> setup (hd0,6)
grub> quit
#

Why setup didn't get this right via emerge I have no idea, unless it didn't 
actually do anything toward actually setting Grub up. If so, it could be 
there was already some mismatched Grub code there already from a previous use 
of the sectors there that didn't like the file format.

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Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

[Mick]

On Monday 16 May 2011 02:01:13 Adam Carter wrote:
> WRT why it stopped after 10MB, if i specified a smaller size it would just
> stop after whatever was specified, so its just doing a single chunk equal
> to whatever bs has been specified as.

I recall zeroing drives/partitions and getting this message on the *second* 
run, when the partition table had already been deleted.  Recreating a 
partition table with fdisk allowed another run by dd.  Floppies did not have 
this problem (no partition tables on them).

What I suggested was to experiment with another bs just in case that was 
causing the problem of writing only one block.


> I think the re-read of the partition table is probably the problem - so
> thanks for that suggestion.

This is the most likely cause, but I cannot understand why it will write only 
one block and not the lot.


> To check my understanding - would it be correct to say that;
> 1. Using dd to copy the first 512 bytes (MBR) is ALL that is needed to
> setup the partitions - that is i wont need to run fdisk etc afterward.

This is correct if you only have primary partitions.  It will not copy the 
extended partition and any logical partitions in it.  They reside in the first 
sector of the extended partition, which is not a boot sector, but contains the 
logical partition table. (I found this out the hard way!)

Have a look at this to see how you can back up the extended partition tables 
with sfdisk (there's more than one of these, if you have more than one logical 
partition) :

http://www.partimage.org/Partimage-manual_Backup-partition-table


> 2. Using dd in this way of course will not update the kernel's knowledge of
> the partition table so a partprobe is necessary

Yes, or a reboot.


> 3. When using fdisk to write a partition table and exit, it calls a re-read
> of the partition table by the kernel so any changes should be ready
> straight away. (there's a message about calling ioctl when it exits - so i
> guess that is the update)

They are ready (i.e. written) but not yet read by the OS.  Tools like gparted 
(part)probe the device to re-read the partition table after saving changes to 
disk. 
-- 
Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

[Mick]

On Monday 16 May 2011 02:47:31 Dale wrote:
> Daniel da Veiga wrote:
> > On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 20:12, Dale  > 
> > > wrote:
> > Daniel da Veiga wrote:
> > I have a similar entry, but have never used the softlevel=
> > flag, I simply append "single" at the end of the kernel call
> > and it boots in single user (root password or ctrl+d to
> > continue).
> > 
> > I did get this to work:
> > 
> > title Gentoo single user
> > kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3 rw single
> > 
> > So, all I need now is to figure out how to get this work:
> > 
> > 
> > title Gentoo boot level
> > kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage-2.6.38-r5-1 root=/dev/sda3 softlevel=boot
> > 
> > It appears the softlevel= is no longer working with the new
> > openrc.  It looks like the docs need to be updated.  I also tried
> > init= and it doesn't work either.

Did you try creating a new runlevel (dale_special) and then booting into it by 
appending softlevel=dale_special ?

That will prove if the Gentoo softlevel mechanism is no longer available.


> > Time to go farther up the food chain I guess. The docs need to be
> > changed at least.
> > 
> > Updated docs are always good, but I wonder why do you need this.
> > If I need single user I simply press "e", edit the line and add
> > single, followed by a "b" to boot. That is a for maintenance only so I
> > really don't see a need for it at grub menu, same wth the other
> > runlevels, all you gotta do is append "nox" or use Interactive (again,
> > this is only if something is broken, I can't see myself doing this
> > twice in a week)...

I think that nox brings you all the way up to runlevel 3, not runlevel 1.


> The thing is, I do use them which is why I went to the trouble of
> setting them up to begin with.  I actually use them pretty regular.
> Just because others don't use them doesn't mean that I don't or shouldn't.
> 
> I tried to use them is how I figured out it didn't work anymore.  That
> alone shows that I use them for various reasons.  This update is less
> than a week old and I already found out that this doesn't work anymore.
> I just want to figure out how it works with openrc which it appears no
> one has a answer and the docs are wrong as well.

The definitive answer is that the gentoo "single" softlevel does not work.  
The Linux standard "single" or "S" or "1" runlevel works fine (but I can't 
recall if I tried "1" recently).

So the question remains what is happening with other softlevels if you care to 
create them.

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Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

[Adam Carter]

> > To check my understanding - would it be correct to say that;
> > 1. Using dd to copy the first 512 bytes (MBR) is ALL that is needed to
> > setup the partitions - that is i wont need to run fdisk etc afterward.
>
> This is correct if you only have primary partitions.  It will not copy the
> extended partition and any logical partitions in it.  They reside in the
> first
> sector of the extended partition, which is not a boot sector, but contains
> the
> logical partition table. (I found this out the hard way!)
>
> Have a look at this to see how you can back up the extended partition
> tables
> with sfdisk (there's more than one of these, if you have more than one
> logical
> partition) :
>
> http://www.partimage.org/Partimage-manual_Backup-partition-table
>
>
> > 2. Using dd in this way of course will not update the kernel's knowledge
> of
> > the partition table so a partprobe is necessary
>
> Yes, or a reboot.
>
>
> > 3. When using fdisk to write a partition table and exit, it calls a
> re-read
> > of the partition table by the kernel so any changes should be ready
> > straight away. (there's a message about calling ioctl when it exits - so
> i
> > guess that is the update)
>
> They are ready (i.e. written) but not yet read by the OS.  Tools like
> gparted
> (part)probe the device to re-read the partition table after saving changes
> to
> disk.
>

Thanks Mick. Great info, esp about the extended partitions. Fortunately, I
dont have any on this disk but good to know.

[gentoo-user] --oneshot and --update

[Pandu Poluan]

Hello list!

I am trying to get the 'Zen' of emerge. Please CMIIW on the following points:

* emerge --oneshot package will install package but does not record it in @world

* To update a oneshot-ed package, I must either do it explicitly
(emerge --update package), or use --deep against world (emerge
--update --deep @world)

* --update-ing a package will not record it in @world

* If I want that package to be included in @world, I have to re-emerge it

So, did I get everything right?

Rgds,


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