Re: [gentoo-user] Boot hangs after install, no error
On 6/23/2010 4:36 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 23 June 2010 03:29:16 Dale wrote: By all means, use genkernel. I will, RSN. This nearly new, shiny, quad-core box is as sluggish as hell, and I want to find out why. So I'll use genkernel to install everything under the sun and see if I can work it out. You could also check out Pappy's Kernel Seeds at http://www.kernel-seeds.org.org/
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: linux-uvc
On 7/1/2010 6:54 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 07:35:39PM +0100, Arnau Bria wrote: I've an caer TravelMate 5720 and I'd like to use my webcam (Suyin). I've read some docs and say that I should use uvc driver from kernel and not linux-uvc driver from portage. But portage package also contains user-space tools for USB cameras, so, if I use kernel driver, How may I get the tools? What tools are you talking about? Anyone who is using uvc could explain me his experience? the original driver was built outside the kernel tree and was called linux-uvc. the driver has since been added to the kernel and is no longer necessary. tools available include media-video/luvcview which is only available for ~x86 and media-video/guvcview. -- James Wall No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
On 7/24/2010 3:25 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2010 21:57:38 KH wrote: Hi there, my server was running strait for 8 month now. I did updates regularly but still used an 2.6.2x kernel. Never switched it of. Now someone from houskeeping pulled the plug for the vacuum cleaner ... Anyway the box won't boot anymore. grub starts up. Kernel boots. Then there is checking root file system (or something like that).The message is that my ext2 file system can not be read. That I might want to try the alternativ superblock by running #e2fsck -b 8193 Well, I put the hdd in an external usb and conected it to my workstation. As I thought hda3 (is /dev/sde3) is an ext3 filesystem. Also badblocks and e2fsck did not show any problem with the hdd. /etc/fstab is corect (i hope), too. What am I missing? How can I get the server running, again? You said you ran e2fsck and it was OK. What was the command? Normally with an e2fsck on a journalled fs, the app will replay the journal and make a few minor checks. This takes about 4 seconds, not the 40 minutes it takes to do a ful ext2 check. I think you might need to fsck without the journal. I know there's a way to do this but a cursory glance at the man page didn't reveal it. Maybe an ext user will chip in with the correct method Run e2fsck -f /dev/hda3 to force check a partition. I have had to do that when my kids yanked all the drives out of a server that I was setting up. :-) -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: modules in use
On Saturday 06 December 2008 15:21:59 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:53:46 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > ath_pci 196472 0 > > > > > > So I am sending this over my wireless connection without using the > > > wireless module. If the 0 means it is truly unused, I could rmmod > > > it and not notice any difference. > > > > Why don't you try? > > If I did, you'd never see the result... > > % sudo rmmod -v ath_pci > rmmod ath_pci, wait=no > % ping 192.168.1.8 > connect: Network is unreachable Hi all, I use pcimodules and usbmodules to determine what modules I have installed for example: jwlaptop ~ # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx) 00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 1) 00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 3) 00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0) 00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1) 00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2) 00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3) 00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4) 00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI) 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14) 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) 00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge 00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series] 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02) 03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05) 03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22) 03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12) 03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12) 03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff) 0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01) jwlaptop ~ # pcimodules ricoh_mmc sdhci-pci ohci1394 b44 ssb k8temp snd-hda-intel atiixp i2c-piix4 ehci-hcd ohci-hcd jwlaptop ~ # lsusb Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05a9:2640 OmniVision Technologies, Inc. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 jwlaptop ~ # usbmodules jwlaptop ~ # as you can see it doesn't catch everything but it gives you a good idea what modules are critical. HTH James Wall
[gentoo-user] backup program recommendations?
Hi all, I am looking for a backup program that can back up to my DVD+-R/RW drive to back up my private portage tree/distfile/music/web server. What programs would you recommend to handle this task? TIA James Wall
Re: [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations?
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > On Friday 06 Mar 2009, James Wall wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am looking for a backup program that can back up to my DVD+-R/RW drive > > to back up my private portage tree/distfile/music/web server. What > > programs would you recommend to handle this task? > > DAR - http://dar.linux.free.fr/. There is also a gui, kdar. > > HTH > -Robin > -- > -- > Robin Atwood. > > "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, > Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" > from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling > ------ Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. I will check them out James Wall
Re: [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations?
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Dale wrote: > Robin Atwood wrote: >> On Saturday 07 Mar 2009, Dale wrote: >> >> >>> I seem to recall that Kdar or dar had a bug that lead to it being >>> masked. This was a while back so it may be fixed now but it may be >>> worth checking into to make sure. Nothing worse than thinking you have >>> backups when they are worthless. >>> >> >> Kdar became incompatible with later versions of libdarapi but then it was >> fixed and now works well again. Dar is extremely fast compared to tar, >> especially when restoring. It is probably best to use scripts to perform >> nightly backups (lots of examples on the web site) and the GUI for those >> times when you want to restore those couple of files you just munged. :) >> Dar also has options for running an external utility at the end of each >> backup 'slice', so writing the archive to DVD would be an option. >> >> HTH >> -Robin >> > > > That's good to know. I was hoping it was fixed but did notice it was > masked still so I wasn't sure as to why. > > May have to test it again now myself. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > Kdar looks to be what I needed. I will post reports after doing a full out backup/restore test tomorrow James Wall
Re: [gentoo-user] apps-office/gtg Won't Work on ~amd64
Does your system pass memtest86+ on an overnight run? On Mar 4, 2011 4:24 AM, "Nikola Hardi" wrote: Hi! I've got some troubles with running apps-office/gtg (Getting Things Gnome) on my ~amd64 machine. I'm just getting segmentation fault. A friend of mine told me that it works on amd64 arch. Have anybody else expirienced such problem on ~amd64 and what could be the problem? I've tried to run it as normal and as a root user, and got the same problem. This is my the first post on some mailing list so please tell me if I've done something wrong. :) Nikola
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ALSA - Still No Sound
Two dozen??? How many computers do you have? On Mar 6, 2011 12:55 PM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:03 AM, dhk wrote: > I think I have made some progress. After getting a new sound card > (Sound Blaster X-Fi) and buil... I've got one of these X-Fi devices although mine is not a Creative Labs device.. The device looks like a PCI-Express 1x devices but on my motherboard it turned out it only works in one specific slot. Check your MB specs for any similar limitations. As for the in-kernel/module question, I've done Linux audio for years. I can almost promise you that the Alsa devs never build the drivers into the kernel. For that reason alone I never do. I've had a few problems over the years when they were built in, later fixed by the devs so that it worked built in, but in my experience it's always better to start with it as a module, get it working, and then if it's important to you build it in. I have about 2 dozen sound cards here. I build all of them as drivers for every machine so that I can move cards around for special needs and not need to rebuild the kernel. Good luck, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting CD's etc
You will need to set up pollution aka policykit. I use udisks to get automounting taken care of instead of Hal. See an earlier thread for details. I am working on a full policykit setup to document with examples for reboot and shutdown in lxde. Regards, James wall On Mar 8, 2011 1:05 AM, "Bill Kenworthy" wrote: > Typing "id" on a terminal on my gnome desktop gives the following - but > when I insert a dvd I get "not authorised to mount ..." in a popup. > What more do I need to do? > > BillK > > > uid=1000(wdk) gid=100(users) > groups=100(users),6(disk),10(wheel),18(audio),19(cdrom),80(cdrw),85(usb),411(plugdev),413(wdk),446(vmware),1000(vboxusers),1005(davfs2) > >
Re: [gentoo-user] how ati close source driver works with console framebuffer?
On Apr 6, 2011 7:12 AM, "fei huang" wrote: > > hi all, I use ati-drivers started from 10.11, and replace my radeon driver from xorg-drivers, the documents already mentioned my previous working radeonfb drivers will no longer work, but no any solutions for user who is willing to use framebuffer console as before. I googled but no luck, some says vesa works, but seems not working for me. any advices pls. > > thanks > > fei To use vesa you need to add a vga=795 on the kernel command line for 1280 x 1024 screen resolution. For more options put vga=ask on the kernel command line to see what resolutions available in hexadecimal. For example 0x31B equals 795 in decimal. Hope that helps. James Wall
Re: [gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4
On Apr 8, 2011 11:13 PM, "Pandu Poluan" wrote: > > I had a working .config. Unfortunately, I left it at office. > > The main 'trap' usually would be the SCSI Driver. > > If you're using PVSCSI, go into SCSI & RAID, then SCSI Low Level > Driver, then select VMware PVSCSI as built-in, not module. > > If you're using LSI Logic, select Fusion MPT instead. > > Don't forget to emerge grub and edit /boot/grub/menu.lst > > (and please excuse my top-posting. Gmail mobile can only top post; it > hides the message being replied, and automatically appends the message > after mine) > > Rgds, > > > On 2011-04-09, Adam Carter wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm getting the usual cant boot root device error on my gentoo guest. AFAICT > > i've built all the relevant scsi adapter and filesystem drivers into the > > kernel. Most of the info on the web is a bit old and talks about other > > vmware versions - can someone share a working .config? The guest is using > > 2.6.38, > > > > Cheers > > > > > -- > -- > Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer > My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/ > I am posting now from Gmail mobile by selecting the respond inline button towards the bottom of the compose screen. I just get rid of the virtual keyboard to find it. James Wall
[gentoo-user] Kernel modules not autoloading with 2.6.38-gentoo-r1
Hi all, Has anyone run into an issue where the kernel is not detecting devices? The issue does not show up in 2.6.37 on amd64 testing branch. I just got done re-emerging world to rule out any hidden surprises. Any ideas? TIA, James Wall
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel modules not autoloading with 2.6.38-gentoo-r1
On Apr 11, 2011 3:42 AM, "du yang" wrote: > > On Monday 04/11/11 12:57:34 CST, James Wall wrote: > > Hi all, > > Has anyone run into an issue where the kernel is not detecting devices? The > > issue does not show up in 2.6.37 on amd64 testing branch. I just got done > > re-emerging world to rule out any hidden surprises. Any ideas? > > TIA, > > James Wall > > > > Could it be manually loaded? > you could try using modprobe to manually load it to see if there is any error. > > I have had my nvidia driver couldn't be loaded, finally I found it is kernel version no match. > > -- > oooO: > (..): > :\.(:::Oooo:: > ::\_)::(..):: > :::)./::: > ::(_/ > The modules will load if I modprobe them but the video driver which has been built-in does not detect the radeon 9200 card. I copied over the configuration from my working 2.6.37 kernel and ran make oldconfig. Thanks for the suggestion though. James Wall
Re: [gentoo-user] I'm up, at long last!
On Apr 17, 2011 10:40 AM, "Alan Mackenzie" wrote: > > Hi, Gentoo. > > After a few weeks of effort, I've just gone live with my very own Gentoo > system. :-) > > The last stage was copying most of my files over from my old box, which > involved a significant degree of screwing the disk drives. > > It is such a relief to say goodbye to my ancient Debian system, which no > longer had a functioning package system. Also, my ten year old hardware > was feeling ever more underpowered as time went by. > > Installing and configuring Gentoo was significantly easier than Debian, > even though it took about the same amount of time. The approach "insert > the DVD, press the button, and everything will work OK" is fine, until > something _doesn't_ work OK; then you've got several hours (or days) of > tedious searching for the answer. By contrast, with Gentoo's 41 pages > of detailed instructions, you really can't go far wrong. And at the end > of it, there's further detailed documentation to get X and window > manager etc. set up. > > I think there's really only two ways to install Linux: you either go the > Ubuntu route, where everything's done for you and you accept somebody > else's defaults, or you go with Gentoo, where you do everything > yourself. I think anything in the middle, like Debian, just leads to > confusion and uncertainty. I don't know where Fedora and SuSE fit into > all this. > > Anyhow, I'm now up and running, with some installation and config still > to do: things like how to get British English and German keyboard > layouts in XFCE, how to make it's terminal have a black background and > things like that. I also need to find a decent PDF viewer, and a decent > jpeg viewer. > > So, thanks for all the help, everybody! > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). > I recommend xpdf for the PDF viewer James Wall
Re: [gentoo-user] QA Notice: libdialog.la appears to contain PORTAGE_TMPDIR paths
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Kevin McCarthy wrote: > On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 03:25:31PM -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: >> 2011/5/6 Kevin McCarthy >> >> > On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 01:45:01PM -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: >> > > >> > > Attached to this message are the contents of the afforementioned file, >> > > thanks for the help!!! > > This seems like cause for alarm: > >> >>> Unpacking source... >> >>> Unpacking dialog-1.1-20100428.tgz to >> >>> /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428/work >> tar: dialog-1.1-20100428/aclocal.m4: time stamp 2010-04-28 17:36:28 is >> 252636716.880100597 s in the future > > Something is definitely wrong with your clock. > > Then we have this: > >> >>> Source configured. >> >>> Compiling source in >> >>> /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428/work/dialog-1.1-20100428 >> >>> ... >> make >> make: Warning: File `trace.c' has modification time 2.4e+08 s in the future > > Here is the libtool link from the compile phase. It looks correct, but > notice that it warns you about the clock problems: > >> libtool: link: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -o .libs/dialog >> .libs/dialog.o >> -L/var/tmp/portage/dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428/work/dialog-1.1-20100428 >> /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428/work/dialog-1.1-20100428/.libs/libdialog.so >> -L/usr/lib -lncursesw -lm >> make: warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete. >> >>> Source compiled. >> >>> Test phase [not enabled]: dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428 >> > > Then in the install phase, you will see that make can't figure out what > is up-to-date (because the clock is off) so it decides everything needs > to be rebuilt. > >> >>> Install dialog-1.1.20100428 into >> >>> /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428/image/ category dev-util > ---8<---SNIP---8<--- >> make: Warning: File `trace.c' has modification time 2.4e+08 s in the future >> /usr/bin/libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 >> -march=i686 -pipe -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 >> -I/usr/include/ncursesw -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. >> -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -c trace.c > > In the install phase, DESTDIR is set to the PORTAGE_TEMP directory and > libtool is called with -rpath set to the temp dir. This is what's > causing the QA warning. The problem is that we aren't supposed to be > building anything at this point. It is the INSTALL phase after all: > >> /usr/bin/libtool --tag=CC --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -rpath >> /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/dialog-1.1.20100428/image//usr/lib -version-info >> `cut -f1 ./VERSION` -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -o libdialog.la trace.lo rc.lo >> calendar.lo fselect.lo timebox.lo formbox.lo guage.lo pause.lo >> progressbox.lo tailbox.lo mixedform.lo mixedgauge.lo arrows.lo buttons.lo >> checklist.lo columns.lo dlg_keys.lo editbox.lo inputbox.lo inputstr.lo >> menubox.lo mouse.lo mousewget.lo msgbox.lo textbox.lo ui_getc.lo util.lo >> version.lo yesno.lo -L/usr/lib -lncursesw -lm > > So, the short of it is that you need to fix your clock. It needs to be > set reasonably close to the actual time and the timezone needs to be set > correctly as well. You might also look into net-misc/ntp to set the > clock from the network. > > If your clock is set correctly, there's something horribly wrong and it > will require additional troubleshooting. > > -- > Kevin McCarthy > What does the outpute of "date" show for your current date? this looks like your clock/cmos battery is dead. I had one keep me from emerging anything because the system would go into a loop trying to emeerge things like glibc. James Wall
Re: [gentoo-user] How's the openrc update going for everyone?
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Dale wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I was curious, what's the results of the openrc update for people that >>> have >>> done theirs? Is it pretty simple and "just works" or are there issues? >>> I'm >>> mostly interested in x86 and amd64 since that is what I have. Just a >>> simple >>> works here and I'm X86 or amd64 would be nice. List issues if you had >>> any. >>> >>> Thanks for the feedback. >>> >>> Dale >>> >>> :-) :-) >>> >> >> Hi Dale, >> I've now done 5 stable machines - 4 hardware and 1 VM. I haven't >> had any significant problems on any of them. The update takes well >> less that 30 minutes and, for me anyway, has been relatively pain free >> compared to other historic Gentoo upgrades. >> >> Cheers, >> Mark >> >> > > Yep. I agree. Of all the things that have caused problems in the past, > this was a doozy. It had the potential to really bork a system. It appears > to have been a very easy one. I don't think anyone had a REALLY big problem > with this upgrade. The devs made sure all the ducks was in line on this > one. Yeppie for that. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > I remember expat and e2fsprogs breaking spectacularly with no warning whatsoever back when That was fun. This update is a complete opposite from those nightmares. James Wall
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?
On May 11, 2011 4:38 PM, "walt" wrote: > > On 05/11/2011 03:10 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 11 May 2011 04:55:46 -0500, Dale wrote: > > > >> I'll leave it like it is I guess. I like all the little green OK's > >> that scroll up anyway. > > > > Reassuring, aren't they? > > I'd like a similar system for checking my marriage. > > +1 for the marriage checker. That would save me some headaches big time. James Wall
Re: [gentoo-user] Pre OpenRC update question...
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > On 13/05/2011 5:00 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> >> Probably a dumb one, but... >> >> I have /home, /usr and /var on separate partitions... >> >> If I want to image my system prior to the update 'just in case' >> something goes south, am I correct that all I need to worry about is /, >> since /etc is located there? >> >> In other words, is anything on /usr or /var touched during this update? >> >> > If you want to be reeaallyyy safe, and want an image and not a > backup, grab the latest copy of SystemRescueCd, a couple of TB of usb > external drive space, which is very cheap these days, and use partImage to > grab a true image of your whole system. I started doing this recently and > it's saved me once so far. Things "flew apart big time" for me recently, a > disk failure, I rebooted into the rescue cd and hey presto, 30 minutes > later, everything was good. > > Andrew > > Another tool which will work well is dd. as an example to back up my laptop before experimenting with new distros, I do dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/backup/jalopy.img bs=2M to back up the drive for a bare metal restore of the 40 GB hard drive. James Wall
Re: [gentoo-user] Pre OpenRC update question...
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Andrey Moshbear wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 18:35, Mick wrote: >> On Friday 13 May 2011 20:11:01 James Wall wrote: >>> >>> Another tool which will work well is dd. >>> as an example to back up my laptop before experimenting with new >>> distros, I do dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/backup/jalopy.img bs=2M to back >>> up the drive for a bare metal restore of the 40 GB hard drive. >>> >> >> Is the bs=2M important? Should one use the block size of the drive? > Speed improvement. > If you're doing a backup of a rather large disk, I duggest piping to > bzip2 or gzip. Unless the free space is random padding, even the > slightest > compression will be more efficient, space-wise, than the raw file. The > big problem is bzip2 -9, because you only get ~2.5 MB/s compression > speed. > > I set the bs=2M to the size of the hdd cache to push it to the limit of speed. YMMV, the best thing to do is experiment. You may find a different number works better. James Wall
Re: [gentoo-user] system rescue usb stick
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > > Hello, > > Is SystemRescueCd still a good system rescue tool? The web site has not > been updated for over 1 year. Thanks for other suggestions. > > -- > Valmor > > Yes I have used it quite a bit. they have been releasing new disc isos about once a month. James Wall
Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild ChangeLog and emerge -l
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > When doing an update using the -l option of emerge, eg: > > emerge -uDNl world > > The ChangeLog entries that are displayed seem buggy to me. For example, > sometimes a whole page worth of changes from a single ChangeLog is > displayed, containing entries for ebuilds older than what is currently > installed. Some other times it's less dramatic, but still contains stuff > that should not show up. > > The above seems to be the norm rather than the exception. For example, > right now I'm doing an update from llvm-2.9-r1 to llvm-2.9-r2, and emerge > prints: > > *llvm-2.9-r2 > > 23 May 2011; Bernard Cafarelli +llvm-2.9-r2.ebuild, > +files/llvm-2.9-Operator.h-c++0x.patch: > Fix header for gcc 4.6, bug #365925 > > 21 Apr 2011; Fabian Groffen llvm-2.9-r1.ebuild, > llvm-.ebuild: > Fix broken reference that I missed yesterday This is pulled in because of the change to the live ebuild which evaluates as a newer ebuild. > 20 Apr 2011; Fabian Groffen llvm-2.9-r1.ebuild, > llvm-.ebuild: > Fix install_name_tooling > same as above. > Is this normal? Bug? > > > HTH, James Wall
Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue
I have had that particular problem if I mounted /dev before extracting the stage3 tarball. Just follow those instructions and you sill be fine. James Wall
Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files
On May 31, 2011 3:02 AM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > On Mon, 30 May 2011 23:08:08 +0100, David W Noon wrote: > > > You have just touched on an annoyance of unmerge, in that it does not > > clean up configuration files that have been modified. It removes files > > that are still in the same state as when the package was emerged, but > > not those modified by the user. I don't see how user changes make the > > file more important than would be in its vanilla state. > > It doesn't remove *any* files that have been modified, the reasons > systems used to get cluttered with orphaned .la files. The logic is quite > simple, if it is not the file portage installed with the package, it > should not be uninstalled with the package. There are times when some > sort of --force-remove option to remove both these and files in > CONFIG_PROTECTed directories would be useful. > If you want to ensure that portage removes a configuration file then add CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc" to the unmerge line and portage will remove the configuration files as well. James Wall > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Format: (v.) to erase irrevocably and unintentionally. >(n.) The process of such erasure.
Re: [gentoo-user] Diskless setup fails to mount /
On Jun 2, 2011 3:48 AM, "Dan Johansson" wrote:
>
> I'm trying to setup a diskless configuration. This is what I have done so
far:
>
> torsson.dmj.nu (192.168.1.3) is the dhcp/tftp/NFSv4-server
> abba.dmj.nu (192.168.1.14) is the diskless client
>
> In /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf I have the following for the "client" (among other
things):
>
> # PXE-Boot, abba
> option option-150 code 150 = text ;
> ddns-update-style none ;
> host abba {
>hardware ethernet 00:90:dc:07:6e:a7;
>fixed-address 192.168.1.14;
>filename "/abba/boot/pxelinux.0";
> }
>
> And in pxelinux.cfg/default I have the following:
>
> label Diskless Gentoo root in NFS
>kernel bzImage
>append root=/dev/nfs ip=dhcp init=/bin/sh nfsroot=192.168.1.3:
/diskless/abba
Change the nfsroot= to nfsroot=192.168.1.3:/export/diskless/Abbas
>
> The kernel (bzImage) loads OK but when it tries to mount the NFS-root I
get the following:
> "Root-NFS: Server returned error -13 while mounting /diskless/abba"
>
> And on the server I see this in syslog:
> "rpc.mountd[6772]: refused mount request from 192.168.1.14 for
/diskless/abba (/): not exported"
>
> This is how my filesystems are mounted ad exported:
> torsson# grep diskless /etc/fstab
> /dev/vg00/lvol11/var/diskless reiserfs
noatime 0 2
> /var/diskless/abba /export/diskless/abba nonerw,bind 0 0
> torsson# mount | grep diskless
> /dev/mapper/vg00-lvol11 on /var/diskless type reiserfs (rw,noatime)
> /var/diskless/abba on /export/diskless/abba type none (rw,bind)
>
> And this is a part of the /etc/exports
> /export
*(ro,fsid=0,insecure,no_subtree_check,sync)
> /export/diskless/abba abba.dmj.nu
(rw,nohide,insecure,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,sync)
>
> I also have other FS exported like this e.g.:
> torsson# grep dan /etc/fstab
> /dev/vg00/lvol05/home/dan reiserfsnoatime 0
2
> /home/dan/tmp /export/Queen/tmp nonerw,bind 0 0
> torsson# mount | grep dan
> /dev/mapper/vg00-lvol05 on /home/dan type reiserfs (rw,noatime)
> /home/dan/tmp on /export/Queen/tmp type none (rw,bind)
>
> And in exports:
> /export
*(ro,fsid=0,insecure,no_subtree_check,sync)
> /export/Queen/tmp queen.dmj.nu
(rw,no_root_squash,nohide,no_subtree_check,async)
>
> And this "client" can mount the export:
> queen# grep torsson /etc/fstab
> torsson.dmj.nu:/Queen/tmp /home/dan/tmp_torsson nfs4
proto=tcp,soft,intr 0 0
> queen# mount | grep torsson
> torsson.dmj.nu:/Queen/tmp on /home/dan/tmp_torsson type nfs4
(rw,proto=tcp,soft,intr,addr=192.168.1.3,clientaddr=192.168.1.11)
>
>
> Any idea why the diskless client can not mount it's root-FS?
>
> Regards,
> --
> Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu>
> ***
> This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons!
> ***
>
James Wall
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
Albert, Thanks for sharing the guest image. I have gotten it installed on my virtualbox to allow me to experiment with it. Thanks again for sharing your work. James Wall -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > On Monday, June 27 at 18:47 (-0500), James Wall said: > >> Albert, >> Thanks for sharing the guest image. I have gotten it installed on my >> virtualbox to allow me to experiment with it. Thanks again for sharing >> your work. > > Cool, now I at least know it works with vmware and virtualbox. Just for clarification and in case anyone else needs help with this, the steps I followed in Virtualbox were as follows: 1. Create a new VM and select to add an existing disk image. I navigated to the uncompressed file and selected it. 2. I then went into the properties of the VM and changed the controller type to SCSI and readded the disk image. Since I quickly realized I wanted more space to use as my distfiles/portage server for my network, I then ran 3. VBoxManage clonehd /path/to/base-dist.vmdk /path/to/base-dist.vdi --format VDI ; VBoxManage modifyhd /path/to/base-dist.vdi --resize 102400 4. I then went into the settings and selected the new image to have the disk space available and partitioned the drive with the new space set aside for /usr/portage/ > I will probably be uploading updated images every few days or so. > > -a > > > > Hope this is useful. James -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > On Monday, June 27 at 22:44 (-0500), James Wall said: > >> 2. I then went into the properties of the VM and changed the >> controller type to SCSI and readded the disk image. > > If you let me know what controller virtualbox "natively" uses I can add > that to the kernel config. > > > > > Albert, it uses the AHCI driver for the sata controller. James Wall -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
Thanks for the appliance image. it has come in handy for trying out multiple ideas and setups at once on my machine. Keep up the great work Albert! :) -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Managing multiple Gentoo systems
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Grant wrote: >> And now that I look more closely at KVM switches, it looks like they >> provide a method of controlling multiple computers via a single >> keyboard, monitor, and mouse. I need sort of the inverse. I'd like >> to control a single Gentoo computer via multiple sets of keyboards, >> monitors, and mice simultaneously. It would basically be a way to >> have the functionality of multiple workstations but the administration >> hassle of only a single system. Wireless communication between the >> computer and each keyboard-monitor-mouse would be most convenient, but >> that may not be possible so wired would be fine. Does something like >> this exist? >> >> - Grant > > Does this fantasy-arrangement of mine exist? I guess what I'm after > is a series of dumb terminals to connect to a local Gentoo system so I > don't need to manage a series of Gentoo systems. > > - Grant Have you considered using PXE to network boot your systems? you can have various configurations set up based on mac addresses to address different hardware issues. I recommend trying out SystemRescueCD to experiment with PXE booting for the client and server. -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Managing multiple Gentoo systems
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Grant wrote: >> >> Have you considered using PXE to network boot your systems? you can >> have various configurations set up based on mac addresses to address >> different hardware issues. I recommend trying out SystemRescueCD to >> experiment with PXE booting for the client and server. > > That sounds like exactly what I need. So, I could set up a Gentoo > server and a bunch of completely diskless clients which would all PXE > boot from the server? Would the clients basically each control a > different virtual terminal on the server? Each machine can pull a copy of the master boot image to make updates a lot simpler. The SystemRescueCD PXE boot mechanism just pushes out a copy of the CD to all the machines to boot them. to update the boot image just update the files in one location to update all machines. the machines act as separate fully functioning machine. Check out http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_PXE_network_booting to see how to setup the PXE boot environment. > >> No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large >> number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. > > That's hilarious. :) > > - Grant > Thanks. A friend shared that with me. -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: [gentoo-user] Decrapifying my system
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I'm running into space issues (my / partition is at 99% of capacity) and > I'd like some advice on what I can remove and how. My USE line in > /etc/make.conf looks like this: > > USE="-setup declarative static-libs gallium moonlight semantic-desktop > -kdeprefix -aqua policykit cdda vhosts automount flashblock jadetex > vanilla additions mplayer -evo gentoo a52 -asterisk dbus ctype session > zaptel ivtv -kerberos gphoto2 pcre mode-owner -firefox seamonkey > -mozilla candy apache2 oss -apm alsa arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr > crypt cups doc encode fortran f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm -gnome > gstreamer -gtk -gtk2 imlib jpeg -kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg > ncurses nls oggvorbis pam pdf lib png ppds python -qt quicktime readline > -samba sasl sdl threads nntp spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype usb X > xml xml2 xmms xv zlib x86 imap offensive java mysql examples mmx mmx2 > perl divx4linux real mmxext audiofile nas snmp hal unicode guile slp > tidy dvd dvdr dvdread flash glut new-login browserplugin nsplugin bzip2 > win32codecs v4l v4l2 ruby sql lirc mythtv dvb ffmpeg userlocales php > -debug jack jack-tempfs portaudio bash-completion bind-mysql joystick > cli cgi ftp dba nptl nptlonly libclamav syslog jikes mpm-leader ithreads > -nautilus tcl expat" > > and I'd like to completely remove both gnome and kde (except for kpat). > I use xfce, so that shouldn't be a problem, right? I've tried emerge > -C gnome and emerge -C kde, but the gnome line only unmerged the final > gnome package, and the kde line didn't work at all (I'm thinking it's > called kde-meta now), but unmerging kde-meta only unmerged the final kde > package. How do I do this? > > I would recommend using emerge -p --depclean to see what can be yanked off automatically. since you have the gnome and kde-meta packages already uninstalled it should pull all the chunks out for you. -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Dale wrote: > > Here is a update. Let's see what folks think about this situation. I > mentioned in another thread that I did a from scratch kernel. It was a .35 > version. It seemed to work fine, for a while. When I tell Seamonkey to > download to my desktop, it works fine. The minute I tell it to save it to > my large 750Gb drive, I get a kernel panic. Keep in mind, there is nothing > OS related on that drive. Nothing OS at all. It is videos, CD ISO's and > such as that. > > Here is another thing I just found out. I did download a few videos I > wanted to save. They were on my desktop and who likes desktop clutter. So, > I dragged them over to the large data drive. I did this by dragging from > the desktop to a open Konqueror window. This was not downloading or > anything, just a straight move operation. It copied a few Mbs and panic. > This had nothing to do with Seamonkey either. This looks like a drive/cable issue, since it only occurs on the one drive. If both drives are SATA, I would try swapping the cables to rule out a bad cable. If the problem stays with the drive I would first try a different SATA port to see if that clears up the issue. > So, did this issue just move from a Seamonkey sort of problem to completely > something else? Hm. After the crash, I boot to single user mode. I > ran resierfsck --fix-fixable on the drive. Not one error. I ran the smart > thingy and not one error there either. Thinking file system is bad in the > kernel, well my /home directory is on reiserfs too. It is the one that > works. > > Now, what the heck is this about? Does this make sense to anyone? > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered
I use it for my laptop, desktop/HTPC. firewall/router, distfiles server and NFS boot server. The distfiles and NFS boot servers are actually VMs due to having to downsize PC space on my desk. (my wife had a fit about 6 PCs on my desk running constantly.) James Wall
[gentoo-user] UPnP server/client recommendations
Hello All, I was wanting to set up a UPnP server so my wife could browse my music easily from her Windoze machine. What recommendations do you have on UPnP servers? Thanks, James Wall -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:46 PM, David W Noon wrote: > On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:07:23 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: > [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: > >> Mick wrote: >> > On Sunday 11 Sep 2011 19:56:48 Dale wrote: >> > >> > I always have /boot on a separate partition and it is always ext2. >> > So, that is done. I also have a 200Mb /boot partition. It >> > sometimes gets about half full but I could just clean out old >> > kernels more often. I could always make /boot larger too. >> > It seems that I'm gonna have fun with a 35M /boot soon (and no LVM >> > of course). ;-) >> >> I'm doing some thinking and reading. I'm either going to go back to >> a rpm based thing and let something besides me deal with the init* >> stuff > > IMO, better to use Debian or Slackware. I went through "RPM Hell" back > in the days when I ran S.u.S.E. (complete with full-stops in the name) > and I will never go back. > >> or stick around and dive into this init* crap and add LVM on >> top. > > Watch this space. You might read something to your advantage in the > next few days. > >> /boot would be the only thing not on LVM. > > Well, /boot cannot be on LVM, as the BIOS does not know about logical > volumes. > >> This makes me >> nervous as heck tho. I have read where if something goes wrong, you >> can lose everything. > > It's no worse than a normal partitioning system, just more flexible. > [Of course, that also means that it is more flexible for you to destroy > your DASD farm yourself.] > >> I'm hoping I can make mine simple enough that I >> can manage any problems even if I can get no outside help. From what >> I have read, usually it's when you can't figure out how to fix it >> that you lose everything. > > Same as partitions: just keep backups. > > I have some scripts that generate LVM rebuild scripts. These scan the > current logical volumes and generate lvcreate commands into a script > that can rebuild your LVM set-up in seconds. You (or anybody else) are > welcome to a copy if you wish. I am interested in the backup scripts to help improve my backup/restore system. > After that, back up the contents using tar, dar, cpio or whatever your > favourite archiving tool happens to be. > -- > Regards, > > Dave [RLU #314465] > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Nov 11, 2011 5:17 AM, "Paul Hartman" > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Dale wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > This is maybe a bit off topic but here goes. I want to install Linux on >> > my >> > brothers rig. The heat sink on the CPU is not much, OEM type. I don't >> > want >> > to install Gentoo because of that and it is a older rig with a slow CPU >> > and >> > not a lot of ram either. So, what is a easy to install distro that has >> > KDE4, Seamonkey, gtkam, GIMP and such? I want something easy because I >> > want >> > to install and leave it be until he can get a new rig built. Then I'll >> > be >> > installing Gentoo for a more permanent install. >> >> Since you're already familiar with Gentoo, I would take a look at >> Sabayon. It's basically a binary Gentoo distro (and a gentoo overlay). > > +1 on familiarity. When you are ready to go to gentoo just update make.conf with your tweaks for the system (CFLAGS, USE, etc.) and run "emerge --sync; emerge -ae world" and you will have gentoo installed and configured. > We all know about your (Dale's) daily, um, 'adventures' with Gentoo. > > So, going Sabayon should be a relative walk in the park for you. We don't > really want to tax other Linux distro's mailing list, do we? ;-) > >> It comes preconfigured just like ubuntu or others so you don't need to >> do anything, just install it and you'll have a working graphical >> desktop and lots of software. Super easy and all of the configuration >> is done Gentoo-style. They have GTK, KDE and XFCE versions to choose >> from. I've only played with it briefly in a VM and tried the LiveDVD >> on my laptop, but I believe you can even still use emerge and use >> portage like you would in Gentoo. >> > > Indeed: > > http://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?title=FAQ#Should_I_use_Sabayon_as_a_source-based_or_binary_based_distribution.3F > > Rgds, > -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start up KDE desktop Environment
2011/11/11 Lavender : > I have cost eight hours and forty minutes in installing KDE Meta. > When I wake up this morning it has done. But when I startx, > it can't work, output messages are below: >>xauth: file /root/.serverauth. ( is changed each time >>I use startx) does not exist >>/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc : line2 : /usr/bin/X No such file or directory >>/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc : line2 : exec /usr/bin/X : Cannot execute : >> No such file or directory >>xinit : giving up >>xinit: unable to connect to X server : Connection refused >>xinit : server error > I gotta to tell you that I'm not going to recompile whole package in order > to solve it. > So if anyone could afford simple methods, I would appreciate him . > > > The problem is that X is not installed. to install X, edit /etc/make.conf and add VIDEO_CARDS="" and emerge xorg-server or emerge xorg-x11 to get X -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Binary install distro
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:40:26 -0600, Dale wrote: >> The next thing you do is configure it to boot into text mode with all the kernel messages visible. Then you've got something that's almost tolerable. >>> >>> < cough cough> Care to share how you did that little trick? I like >>> to see the stuff scrolling up myself. >> >> Hold Shift during boot to bring up the GRUB menu, press E to edit, remove >> the splash and quiet options and press Ctrl-X to boot. It's almost the >> same as legacy GRUB, with just enough changes to confuse people :( >> >> Tp make it permanent, edit /etc/default/grub, remove the splash and quiet >> options, save the file and run grub2-mkconfig (or the wrapper script that >> Ubuntu provide, update-grub?). >> >>> Is there a way after the install to add a Windoze OS to grub and all? >>> I unplugged the windoze drive to make sure it didn't mess that up OR I >>> mess up something. So, grub, or some bootloader, is installed on the >>> wrong drive in this case. >> >> Plug the drive back in and run grub2-mkconfig. It will generate a new >> menu with a Windows option. No manual editing needed. >> >> > > Oh no. It can't be that easy. O_O I'm going to screw something up > you watch. lol > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > Oh, how do I boot it the first time tho? When I plug the windoze drive up, > there won't be a grub. Yet anyway. Hm. > > Boot off the Ubuntu disc and chroot to the new install to run the commands. -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and LABELS in fstab
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Dale wrote: > James Wall wrote: >> >> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Dale wrote: >>> >>> Is there a way to make this work? I googled but I couldn't find anything >>> on >>> this one. Well, a few worthless hits that just happen to have the words >>> on >>> the same page for some reason. >> >> Look for /dev/dm-0 to monitor your lvm partition. that is what I use >> to monitor my LVM /, swap, and /home partitions in the monitor setup. >>> >>> Dale >>> >>> :-) :-) >>> >>> > > I don't see that option here. All I have is sd* and sr0. Also composite > for all drives. > > [ebuild R ] app-admin/gkrellm-2.3.5 USE="X hddtemp nls ssl -gnutls > -lm_sensors -ntlm" My use flags are [ebuild R] app-admin/gkrellm-2.3.5 USE="X nls ssl -gnutls -hddtemp -lm_sensors -ntlm" Hope this helps, James Wall > Your flags look something like mine? > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > -- > I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how > you interpreted my words! > > > -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: [gentoo-user] Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Creating a gentoo vm has always been a serious pita to me. I'm sure > there will be those who claim its `simple'. > > Simple or not, I want to bypass it if possible. > > So wondering if anyone here has (or has seen) a gentoo (vbox) > appliance available for download? > > > >From an earlier thread about virtual machine images the link is here: the thread is titled [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/base.vmdk -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l )
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> On Nov 28, 2011 10:38 PM, "Michael Mol" wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> >>> > Won't file a bug report, though. I have a feeling that my bug report re: >>> > emerge failure will be marked WONTFIX thanks to the 'ricer special' >>> > CFLAGS >>> >>> The CFLAGS you showed me weren't any more ricer than "-O2 >>> -march=native". (I didn't know that -D_FORTIFY=2 came from gcc) >>> >>> They wouldn't have a leg to stand on... >>> >> >> Mine is: >> >> CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer -floop-interchange >> -floop-strip-mine -floop-block -funsafe-math-optimizations >> -fexcess-precision=fast" >> >> If you tell me that's not a ricer's CFLAGS, then you've just made me a very >> happy cat :-) >> >> Rgds, >> > > I wonder if someone in this thread will help me understand the term > 'ricer'. The only origin I know of this term, from the car world, is > really pretty racist, so I wonder if there isn't a more genteel origin > I simply cannot find using Google? > > - Mark > > Ricer is used to refer to someone who wants to have the system tweaked to the hardware it runs on that it is not like the generic binary distros like ubuntu that is compiled for the lowest common denominator like i386 or x86_64. hope this helps clarify the term, James Wall -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:22:48 -0500 >> "Albert W. Hopkins" wrote: >> >>> But my feeling is, if you use the testing branch and you *don't* find >>> bugs, then you aren't testing hard enough :P >> >> Or maybe I just got used to dealing with occasional oopsies and >> stopped noticing them... >> >> I do that a lot at work too. Some days I can tell you I found and >> dealt with more than one issue or bug but can't recall afterwards what >> it was. >> >> I'm still undecided if this is a good thing, a bad thing, or neither >> > > > Uh oh. I do that too. Thing is, I can't forget hal. O_O I do forget > those little things I run into and fix easily tho. > > Is it age? :-( > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > -- > I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how > you interpreted my words! > > > You had to bring up that ugly beast, didn't you -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: [gentoo-user] What network configuration should I use with vbox
On 10/08/2010 05:47 PM, Bill Longman wrote: > On 10/08/2010 03:36 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: >> 2010/10/8 Mick : >>> I want to install MSWindows in a VM. I want to be able to use the guest >>> MSWindows OS to connect to a website run on apache on the Gentoo host OS on >>> the same machine. >>> >>> What is the recommended network configuration for the VM? NAT or bridge? >>> Anything I should pay particular attention to? I haven't configured a >>> network >>> machine before. >> >> I would suggest bridge mode in this case. > > I second the motion to use bridge mode. All in favor, say "aye". > Aye! The bridged mode will give the VM a LAN address from DHCP (provided that your LAN uses DHCP) address that can then be used like a regular machine. James -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/10/2010 01:49 PM, walt wrote: > On 10/10/2010 09:28 AM, Fatih Tümen wrote: > >> That I was fearing but I cant understand how it can fail all of a >> sudden. I did not drop it or something. Just ran eix and boom... > > My favorite disk failure story: I made a backup copy of my boot > sector with 'dd if=/dev/hda of=bootblock.bak bs=512 count=1'. > > That disk started giving hardware read/write errors immediately > after that, and never again booted successfully. > > I was afraid to use dd for at least a year :/ > > I recently had a drive from a computer that I had picked up and was told that it probably had a virus slowing down Windoze. I started to back up the drive before cleaning it up and discovered bad blocks all over the drive. when scanning the surface with MHDD from sysresccd the drive looked like swiss cheese with about 300 Uncorrectable bad blocks and the bios on that machine would have warned if SMART wasn't turned off... Too bad I hadn't heard of ddrescue. I might have been able to pull off more data. :/ - -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMst4YAAoJEISPTA/exVD8ar4H/3YzX/5OitxNTIszUIXwolmy o9viGXLVH8KLbrzvk8nMq5YzjUPkKQ6h9WDGS0zuXhesIP2OqoWYeDHXHYVcou8z i6kXwBld+eOODZnSbHUgyji00uSYyy0YqhkN2QHzc1+FbSGs8x+JV/h0Hje+bX+H n0PhvnUCJeBNQZ6KvaZ0SRe50RqJ3rWJL/Qm8mCY0bS7g6bE1r7r6jxHordpXlOR Wm8oAi6TYR/do9IfYnGyqYROMh21hQ4Fj6YYDKqeIFsNNjY0J7ElO2TSLDjwrk2D nAWn+AhNhJnR40yqoECgbz3QE3PN/zmrZoaRWKT2qmg3+k46OjAwfPU7mp5pvtY= =PJoA -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-user] Simplistic timed DVB-T recording possibilty searched...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/16/2010 01:59 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to record DVB-T broadcast with my (already working) DVB-T card. > Since there are only a couple of broadcasts which should be recorded > I have no problems with editing crontabs to acchieve, what I want :) > > What should work is: > 1) The PC should wake up from suspend-to-ram or (better!) >suspend-to-disk state (suspend-to-* works both already). > 2) Therefore it must be possible to store the wake-up time >somewhere. > 3) The DVBT-card should be set to the correct channel and >it is sufficient to store the whole *.ts-stram to disk >for later processing. > > My PC is a desktop PC with the following hardware (as reported > by lspci): > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 Northbridge only single slot > PCI-e GFX Hydra part (rev 02) > 00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express > gpp port B) > 00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express > gpp port D) > 00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express > gpp port E) > 00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express > gpp port F) > 00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express > gpp port G) > 00:0d.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (external > gfx1 port B) > 00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller > [IDE mode] (rev 40) > 00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller > 00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller > 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller > 00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller > 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 41) > 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller (rev > 40) > 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40) > 00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller (rev > 40) > 00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40) > 00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller > 00:16.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller > 00:16.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller > 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor > HyperTransport Configuration > 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor > Address Map > 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM > Controller > 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor > Miscellaneous Control > 00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link > Control > 01:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video > Capture (rev 11) > 01:06.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev > 11) > 02:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments XIO2000(A)/XIO2200(A) PCI > Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev 03) > 03:00.0 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 > UART) function 0 (Uart) > 03:00.1 Bridge: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) > function 1 (8bit bus) > 04:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller > (rev 03) > 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8059 PCI-E > Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 11) > 06:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6315 Series Firewire > Controller > 07:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA > Controller (rev 03) > 07:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA > Controller (rev 03) > 08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] > (rev a1) > > > I am using a recent gentoo with vanilla kernel 2.6.35.7. > > Thank you very much in advance for any help! > > Best regards and have a nice weekend! :) > mcc > > To get the computer to come out of the suspended states, you need to look for an option in the BIOS to automatically start your PC, typically called RTC Alarm or similar. Your cron jobs will be able to take over at that point. HTH, James - -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMuaRLAAoJEISPTA/exVD8Z40H/iGK1Mtz9eg47XiMxfCMshO2 j9s/ULrVI3KKvDr9ygOu/mGApv9pKENgiAz3X1HTSQpT42A/UmrWCHkkUl2JV1Lh iCxGzzcbqnuysbiJjKPTbdoqRf0Z5EZWhGXwxtGzMpgD/c98GrJTzOra9e2MK3Yx t0JBUHy8eBfDMdVGs6Ae0ygkzvhRlAeBtb9cVwT9MTEU+IgpedKhEZnypZjs74By QsLZ2N8ZMv8f2nq71Fv
Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about SATA and hot plugging.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/14/10 12:28, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Dale [10-12-14 18:56]: >> meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>> Hi Dale, >>> >>> as I know, the hd hardware can't nearly as fast as the bus speed >>> regardless whether it is 6GB/s or 3GB/s. >>> Quickly doing the same as you on my harddisk gave: >>> >>> /dev/sda: >>> Timing cached reads: 6726 MB in 2.00 seconds = 3364.06 MB/sec >>> Timing buffered disk reads: 318 MB in 3.00 seconds = 105.93 MB/sec >>> >>> The speeds of 6 GB/s or 3GB/s are only reached, when reading data >>> directly from the hd cache. >>> >>> I dont know, what motherboard you use. But the settings you describe >>> seem to be identical to mine. >>> >>> Important is: >>> In the BIOS go to the hd section and look, what the BIOS think the >>> speed of your hd is (3 GB/s or 6GB/s). When found directly set you >>> SATA chip to that speed. It is recommended to do so by the help of >>> text of my BIOS. I have a 3GB/s disk. And yes, IDE is ok. >>> >>> Here you can find explanations about AHCI vs. IDE sata mode. >>> http://www.techarp.com/showfreebog.aspx?lang=0&bogno=316 >>> >>> On my board (ASUS Crosshair IV Formula) it was said, that AHCI is >>> slower than IDE, but (!) is not due to IDE vs. AHCI but to a >>> limitation of the chip. >>> >>> Look at the benchmarks above: There no place to go faster than that. >>> 3/6 GB/s on cach read are standard compliant and ~100 MB/s is the >>> limitation of hardware normal people like you and me can pay for. >>> >>> Plug on the front: >>> This seems to be E-Sata jack AND SHOULD BE CONNECTED INTERNALLY ONLY >>> TO AN E-SATA (not SATA) JACK ON THE MOBO. >>> >>> In unmounted status: Yes it should be hotpluggable as USB. BUT dont >>> connect the E-SATA jack of the case to a normal SATA jack on the >>> board! >>> >>> E-SATA != SATA >>> >>> HTH >>> mcc >>> >>> >> >> Sounds like I am normal on speed. Still wonder why they call it >> "advanced" tho. Hype maybe? ;-) >> >> I noticed when I did some searching that the eSATA connectors have sort >> of a L shape to them. All the SATA connectors have a L shape to them >> on my mobo. >> >> I think for safety's sake, I think I will shutdown first. The biggest >> reason I was wondering is because it is on the front next to the USB >> plugs too. Just made me wonder. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> > > You know AGP (_Advanced_ graphics port), Dale? > You know, why _this_ is "advanced"? > > Look at USB 2.0? > > Names like "Full speed" and "High speed" are only sands in the eyes of > the others. > > Names only names... > > Why they increase SATA to currently 6GB/s to read from...guess... the > RAM of a hd? Solid State drives can max out a 3Gb/s connection because it is not a mechanical drive where the sector is moving under the head of a drive. the Solid state drive just sends the data out instantly to get to the CPU. > > Ok, I begin to become cycnic ;) > > Be the boot be with you! > Use the source, Luke! > And: No, I am _NOT_ you father... ;) > > mcc - -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNCVw4AAoJEISPTA/exVD8sgIH/RbwgJocEAjszNGseStjXHUA DV4SaXNotaRPfCJVy6TTAKAlcy7akFl6C02SAsVqB4XLS3yn4f3NeKVl9JImghN2 h+z+tQRIB2tzlt3isdannnQpiSzyMptMOkgi+xB52AB9GrnwLX30HFP9x5oKbcJJ wYe7r1iGHZ/lG6p2ByykIjrGFq4YZwmsiaRbl59AFJilNyy/hk76qW6d9HIurZkp WTxvU/c4VnzGGZ4CclbrJN3gi2ON+f1JxAe9gGZ1C4mMQp4sb/U3R3uM8Bz8VFcK jWEj7EEEWSGKvjX4sqoaKvGdrUK/4nGaWCQCYzyptH8nzI77TFENgOFvHbgrrgg= =bmsv -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Strange problem with audio CDs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/11/11 12:52, Jörg Schaible wrote: > Jake Moe wrote: > >> On 01/11/11 04:38, Jörg Schaible wrote: >>> Hi Jake, >>> >>> Jake Moe wrote: >>> >>>> I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive. Data CDs work >>>> fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them. Data and Video DVDs >>>> seem to work fine as well. But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I >>>> get the attached errors in log.bz2. I've tried using things from KsCD >>>> to cdplay; everything gives the same errors. Googling seems to indicate >>>> that there might be a problem with udev somehow, but most of those that >>>> I find have the "fix" as "update to the latest udev using apt/rpm/other >>>> binary distro package tool", which obviously won't work for Gentoo. >>>> Other solutions seem to be "update to libATA", but I'm already using >>>> that. >>>> >>>> I've gone through and tried to check anything obvious in my kernel >>>> config, but I can't see anything that'd affect it like this. Also, if I >>>> reboot into Windows (this laptop is a work computer as well), it plays >>>> and rips the same CDs just fine. >>>> >>>> Hardware is an HP EliteBook nc6930p laptop. CD/DVD drive is /dev/sr0. >>>> Controller is: >>>> >>>> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI >>>> Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) >>>> Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30dc >>>> Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46 >>>> I/O ports at 8118 [size=8] >>>> I/O ports at 813c [size=4] >>>> I/O ports at 8110 [size=8] >>>> I/O ports at 8138 [size=4] >>>> I/O ports at 8000 [size=32] >>>> Memory at d8426000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] >>>> Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit- >>>> Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3 >>>> Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA >>>> Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features >>>> Kernel driver in use: ahci >>>> >>>> Oddly, if I open Konqueror and type in "audiocd:/", it lists the tracks, >>>> and has the FLAC, MP3, Ogg, etc folders. But it won't play or copy the >>>> files; it gives the error in error.gif. >>>> >>>> Any other info you need, please let me know. This is driving me nuts. >>> Same for me: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=6372251#6372251 >>> >>> I still have my old box around just because of this problem :-/ >>> >>> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA >>> AHCI Controller (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) >>> Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0198 >>> Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 64 >>> I/O ports at c880 [size=8] >>> I/O ports at c800 [size=4] >>> I/O ports at c480 [size=8] >>> I/O ports at c400 [size=4] >>> I/O ports at c080 [size=32] >>> Memory at fbcfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] >>> Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit- >>> Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3 >>> Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA >>> Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features >>> Kernel driver in use: ahci >>> >>> When I rip a CD it typically starts to read it slow permanently down and >>> after ~ the 6th song the process is not profgressing anymore ... >>> >>> You're also running 64-bit ? >>> >>> - Jörg >> Well, mine is a bit different. > > Not convinced ;-) > >> I typically run FVWM from a SLIM logon, >> so there's no KDE or Gnome auto-anything running. I only used Konqueror >> as an example of another way of accessing the CDs that might have >> worked, but didn't. I can even stop XDM, log in from a console prompt >> with no X running, and try to play a CD with cdplay or dcd, and I'll get >> the same results. And with me, it doesn't start to work and then slow >> down; it never works. It can only read track listings, but not any of >> the music. > > As I said in the forum, I have th
Re: [gentoo-user] Identifying missing modules...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/11 16:13, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:08 AM, wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> when doing as root >> >>lspci -vk >> >> I get all pci devices and "bus inhabitants" listed. >> Additionally there are often two lines added to each >> device saying similiar things like: >> >>Kernel driver in use: >XYZ> >>Kernel modules: >> >> and there other devices do not have similiar entries. >> >> My question is: How can I distinguish devices/entities, >> which do not need any driver to work and those, which >> need a driver but in the current setup the driver wasn't >> compiled in/compiled as module? >> >> Thank you very much in advance for any help! >> Best regards, >> mcc > > Devices that need a driver are listed as 'Kernel driver in use:' > whether the driver is compiled in or not. > > Devices that have their driver compiled in do not have the line > 'Kernel modules:' > > Devices that have neither line are controlled by the kernel but don't > need anything from the driver section. > > I suppose there is the possibility that lspci could find a PCI device > which hasn't had a driver selected as module or builtin and then not > show anything. In this case I expect that the device wouldn't > function. > > Hope this helps, > Mark > Check out http://www.kernel-seeds.org for a walkthrough of kernel configuration or dump the results of lspci -n into http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ for a list of modules James Wall - -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNPk3zAAoJEISPTA/exVD8/WgH/114CSqMLPm0us9gOnUJmJZM 8bvpZDa1x5xWCjLcI4zn0fwqo8UZpQBGjFYDtrrGnSwXpZSbN4H0mCCZOVZDoNFZ 0szNemJwF68oMm8u71D5LFBianCZfCQmsMAf5bC0nG4SJe80YnREDPJVRt9xvl91 lBRrBDvV1ZxOzOl/gBIA3si8aiKWQ6V+WeoQi7nO1zaCWMw1p8LuyoONuPModl+U sjt67czGRE6bnC8Y5Lu48v4zJU6jKM20zjdTaTPcrLOce0kzYNqBFRnDCWRO2TRu jr+Se9JNcq97IQOWSiwPcCUW1Q3a9p2+WAz045FUwrKkT/08OvRKDw4S9rdSLa0= =77yQ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
