*panel

mwiertz · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 5:46 pm Post subject: *panel

Hi there,

I was just wondering if there someone running on of the *panels (fbpanel, perlpanel and/or pypanel) under 64 bit - I wasn't able to get them up and running without crashes and errors etc.

please let me know...

thanx

rush_ad · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:53 pm Post subject:

not sure about amd64 but fbpanel works well on my 32.

mwiertz · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:53 pm Post subject:

got two panels running now in a 32bit chroot environment: fbpanel and pypanel

but now while i'm starting them via sudo they start as root - that's a pitty, at least in the pypanel case, because then the configuration file has to be in the /root dir...

is it possible to start apps as a normal user in the chroot?

Tsonn · Guru Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 550

Yes -- use sudo to run su. Root can su to any user without a password. There's more detail over in the 32-bit chroot topic:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=183173

mwiertz · Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 7:03 pm Post subject:

thanx, really great - gonna try that one as soon as I'm at home tonight...

didn't know that sudo takes a command

mwiertz · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 12:18 pm Post subject:

OK - I did the trick for fbpanel and perlpanel too, but now I'm running into the next problem...

both panel have a menu - but starting applications from it seems impossible - I always get errors - the cause seems to be that the panel is running in the 32bit chroot enviroment and tries to access (start) binaries outside it (in the 64bit environment)...

Is it possible to get it working anyway?

thanx

Tsonn · Guru Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 550

From inside a chroot you can't see anything outside... unless it's been mounted using mount --bind.

Sadly any way of doing this will put you right back where you started... you'll have 64-bit programs unable to run because they can't find their 64-bit libraries.

So, er... actually. I have an idea so crazy it might just work :twisted:

You could use mount --bind to mount your root partition inside the chroot, then chroot to it to get back into 64-bit territory!

So if your first chroot is /mnt/gentoo32, you'll need to have /mnt/gentoo32/mnt/gentoo64 as well.

So, from outside the chroot:

mwiertz · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 12:42 pm Post subject:

I would realy like to try this, sounds amusing to me too - but there is no linux64 command (binary) inside my 32bit chroot - any clue where could get this from (which ebuild)?

thanx

mwiertz · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 12:52 pm Post subject:

found it myself in the meanwhile - it's in sys-apps/linux32

emerged it and gave it a try and.... believe it or not: it works...

have to mount some more filesystems (like /home etc) to get everything up and running... but basicly it works - cool!

mwiertz · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 1:51 pm Post subject:

Hi,

in the meanwhile I found another solution to my original problem too - I just emerge perlpanel so I get all the needed dependencies - then I unmerge perlpanel and build and install the new version (0.7) I downloaded from jodrell.net by hand... and now it works perfectly under 64 bit

Tsonn · Guru Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 550

Bill Cosby · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:33 pm Post subject:

Hello everyone,

I tried pypanel-2.2 with no luck, anyone got it running?

How is it with perlpanel or pypanel-1.3, because gentoo-portage says that neither perlpanel nor pypanel-1.3 works for amd64
http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=pypanel
http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=perlpanel

Here are my problems I encountered, posted this in Portage & Programming, cause I don't really know whether it's really because of AMD64
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-296188.html

Bill Cosby · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 10:29 am Post subject:

Hello guys,

I got PyPanel-2.2 running with a patch from ziljian from PyPanel

see: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-296188.html

Now it works perfectly under AMD64.
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