Prelinking KDE - some solutions - some problems

helmers · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2002 12:27 pm Post subject:

Well, now I'm trying this out too. From what anil_et said, I'm a little scared of rebooting this thing when it finishes. I'll let you all know how it goes. If I can do, then I'm sure that most you guys won't have any troubles. :wink:

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helmers · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2002 7:03 pm Post subject:

Well, I'm still alive. I think I got it going allright, this is what tar gives me:

helmers · Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2002 7:01 am Post subject:

Mwhahahaha! Oh yeah!
Now I'm running the 2.5.50 kernel, and prelinking everything I see. Holy *meep*, it is fast! Konqueror loads right after I've clicked the button, and everthing is much more snappy.

Evangelion · Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2002 2:34 pm Post subject:

It seems that prelinking is getting along nicely

! I just got a laptop to "experiment" on, and I'll be installing Gentoo on it soon. Maybe I'll give prelinking a shot

meyerm · Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2002 2:39 pm Post subject:

Sure, and don't forget to benchmark a little bit and tell us about! :-)

Kenta · Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2002 3:10 pm Post subject:

Lovechild · Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2002 3:12 pm Post subject:

here's a fun little idea... is there away to capture your X session in a video format, so we can show off this feature?

meyerm · Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2002 3:17 pm Post subject:

Does anybody know, when the prelinking-stuff will be available in the default (=stable) portage?

xming · Guru Joined: 02 Jul 2002 Posts: 441

I don't know about x but when you run vnc there is a way to proxy/record the vnc proto (rbf or something)

xming

AlterEgo · Veteran Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 1619

What's happened to prelink in portage 2.0.45 ?
Is there a new patch? is it already included? I found no changelog or updated notes.

really · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2002 Posts: 430 Location: nowhere

im totaly lost on this subject, can anybody give me a link where i can read more?

how does it work?
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monkeyboy · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 29 Location: Denver

I followed http://cvs.gentoo.org/~cretin/prelink.notes to try to enable prelinking on my machine and seem to have borken cvs ebuilds in the process. Dan Armak's kde cvs ebuilds and the gaim-cvs ebuild both seem to hang now during a cvs update. Is there something I need to undo or redo to fix this?

Cretin · Retired Dev Joined: 11 Nov 2002 Posts: 23 Location: UK

Hi, I'm back,

While I was away a new portage was released and some more work was done on the patches by others. With luck I will have another patch set against portage-2.0.45 with a few fixes included.

The CVS hanging problem is due to bad permissions on the /usr/portage/cvs-src dir, chown -R portage.portage it.

Stefan

Cretin · Retired Dev Joined: 11 Nov 2002 Posts: 23 Location: UK

Found the CVS ebuild problem, well not the solution but a work around,

when it hangs press the Enter key and it continues. Will try and fix it.

Stefan

AlterEgo · Veteran Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 1619

I think I found a "bug".
The Foldingathome-client cannot connect to receive new work packages if the system is prelinked (even, of course, when the folding-client itself is excluded from prelinking). The "rest" of the client works normally when prelinking is active.
After a "prelink -u --all" the client can succesfully connect again.

hannaman43 · n00b Joined: 20 Sep 2002 Posts: 5

Hi, I have heard a lot of good things about Gentoo and I want to try to install it. To learn more about Gentoo I browsed trough the forums and found this tread. I have one last concern before installing Gentoo and maybe Cretin or another prelink guru can answer this question. Thanks in advance for your support.

It's about prelink vs. the NVidia-driver;
- Is it really necessary to choose between those two? I mean do I have to choose between faster KDE/konqueror startup and the ability to play Unreal 2003?
- Am I able to use the TV-out?
- Is this something that is temporarily not possible or will it never be possible to use them both?
- If it's allready possible to use the best of both worlds, maybe you can share some tips and tricks (not to complicated, because I'm a newbie).

Lovechild · Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2002 12:12 pm Post subject:

1) no it shouldn't be needed, but as it is right now it is I think - remember work on prelinking in Portage only began a few weeks ago or so, I would expect that it will need more work before it will work flawlessly. So for now it seems to be the price to pay.

2) If the nVidia driver runs, yes, then it's a matter of setting up X to use it.

3) See 1)

4) Someone is bound to have this working... I heard someone talking about some RedHat patches that might fix it up.

gaplo · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2002 Posts: 25

Anyone can help? the following is what I get.

Cretin · Retired Dev Joined: 11 Nov 2002 Posts: 23 Location: UK

you cannot prelink old binaries linked to/by the very old /lib/ld-linux.so.1

Ignore the error.

Lovechild · Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2002 10:56 pm Post subject:

I found that with prelinking I loose all icons in KDE - and several programs like kile and the KDE Control Center fails on start.

Kenta · Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2002 3:23 am Post subject:

I`m getting this error when I try to prelink my entire system but not when I remove some dirs from prelink.conf, is this normal ?

noff · Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2002 6:37 am Post subject: Really tempted to try

I'm really tempted to try this, so my main question is if this fails to work does it bork my system. It is finals time so I need my computer. I have plenty of time to compile on a working system, but not to rebuild a system. Otherwise it may have to wait until next semester.
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narensankar · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Nov 2002 Posts: 109

tried this out, and works with kde 3.1 rc5

time DISPLAY= LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. LD_BIND_NOW=1 konqueror
konqueror: cannot connect to X server

real 0m0.027s
user 0m0.013s
sys 0m0.011s

However it seems that libvga.so.1.9.16 and libIIOP.so.0.5.17 do not like to be build with fPIC.
Prelink still sees them as not built with fPIC, even though the compile works with that flag.
Does anyone knows how to find out if a library is build with fPIC or not?

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narensankar · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Nov 2002 Posts: 109

I did rebuild tcp-wrapper and ORBit. But prelinking still fails on the libraries.
Plus I have a new problem. Mozilla no longer works (1.2.1-r1). I am trying to remerge it to see if that solves the problem. I had mozilla build with gtk2 and xft2.