Desktop | bitpost.com/news

CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED destruction

A nasty old kernel setting has been creeping along in my .config file for a while now, and finally exploded on me, trashing tons of files on my carefully maintained media file server. I’m not quite so cocky about my raid setup now that the flaky filesystem flew right under its radar and kicked my ass. gentoo once again proves it is the powertool with which you can really hurt yourself. Wahoo!

And to hammer that home, a recent iptables update cleared out my saved rules. I had cycled the cable modem before I realized the problem, and had to propogate new DNS records to get back up and running. I hate dynamic IP’s. 😛

Comments | Friday, December 18, 2009

Gentoo maintenance for the day…

Bumped everything in an attempt to find a working daap server to serve my music to stupid performance-and-playlist-challenged iTunes.

on the server, udev kindly requested that I remove crufty old CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED && _V2 – in menuconfig, uncheck General->remove blahblahblah.
silly apache [/etc/conf.d/apache2] conf file update, make sure you don’t lose PHP and PERL support
ridiculous KDE 3.5 errors keep coming, and KDE 4 having all kinds of blocks – I say just keep [–unmerge]’ing ’til it works!
I used [emerge –skipfirst –resume] to get past nepomuk failure cruft. Googled some, looks like a crappy old java config file is still pointing to a crappy old java JDK. MAN I hate the lies that are Java… [rm /etc/env.d/20java && emerge –oneshot -av soprano && emerge -Davu world]. Whatevah…

Next I compiled some new kernels. To get OpenGL working on the ATI-driven media center so MythTV is all purdy…

bump kernel and reboot
emerge -av ati-drivers
[eselect opengl set ati]
[aticonfig –ovt opengl]

Still need to fix the lousy alsa sound mixing for my hirez mkv files, I’m getting mixer channel errors in the MythTV log…

And xbmc is still segmentation faulting on startup…

Comments | Thursday, December 3, 2009

Konqueror needs Dolphin

What a silly situation this is. Here’s the fix for konqueror after you update KDE:

emerge -Davu kde-base/dolphin

Also had trouble with ogg, had to do this:

emerge -av media-libs/libogg
emerge -Davu dev-util/lafilefixer
lafilefixer --justfixit

…which did some scary stuff with my lib symlink files.

Life goes on. At least Firefox 3.5 is coming through now without a fuss.

Comments | Thursday, October 29, 2009

The gentoo boys need a media bump

New media dependencies have apparently been placed under gst-plugins-meta, which needs to be emerged to pull in packages on which mythtv depends. Add this to package.use:

# MDM mythtv is not finding libFLAC.so.7, looks like I need these now... [flac] [mythtv]
media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta X a52 alsa dvd esd mad mpeg ogg vorbis xv ffmpeg flac mythtv

Comments | Thursday, May 21, 2009

FF3 is stable, re-mask it (including dependencies)

FF3 was unmasked in package.keywords, but it’s stable now, so no longer needed. The unmasked gtk+ was starting to cause problems.

Remove from package.keywords:

#www-client/mozilla-firefox
#dev-libs/nspr
#dev-libs/nss
#net-libs/xulrunner
#www-client/epiphany
#dev-util/intltool
#gnome-extra/yelp
#dev-libs/glib
#x11-libs/gtk+
#media-libs/libcanberra
#gnome-base/gail

Add:

# for rubyripper
dev-ruby/rcairo                                 
# for boost
app-admin/eselect-boost

And…

emerge --unmerge texlive

Also note that xorg server 1.5 is stable now! Whoop!