[gentoo-user] login fail after resuming from suspend

2010-11-30 Thread Andrey Vul
I forgot, is it a problem with consolekit or polkit that causes the
login system to hang after resuming from acpi suspend?
And is there a solution, apart from saving all work before standby and
doing {Magic}+{R,S,E}?

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[ ] Use [ ] Occam's, [ ] Hanlon's razor.
[ ] Greenspun's Tenth Rule.
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[gentoo-user] still slow login to X

2010-11-30 Thread W.Kenworthy
A couple of weeks I posted that I was having slow login/login timeouts
on trying to log into X after moving to another network until the
network is reconfigured.  The recommendation was to add the hostname to
hosts.conf but this seems to work in only some cases.

To recap, it is a laptop that gets moved across a lot of different
networks (wired/wireless plus some with vpns).  On hibernating, then
connecting  to another network the problem manifests itself.  If I log
into a console and reconfigure the network, the I can log into X
normally. The laptop runs bind in caching mode.

I did find that the nssswitch.conf file was blank, so I pulled one from
another system but no change occurred.

Something changed in the last few months as it used to work fine!  So
where do I look next?

BillK






Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Relocating notification popup KDE-4.5

2010-11-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:35 on Tuesday 30 November 2010, Alex 
Schuster did opine thusly:

> Alan McKinnon writes:
> > I "get" KDE (mostly) but some stuff is just bizarre:
> > 
> > Activities. wtf are those?
> 
> I tink they are really cool, although I don't use them, and probably never
> will. But I'm not the average user. I have six virtual desktops (current
> screenshots are at http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2010-11-11/ ),
> each one has its purpose. For each window you can define the desktop it
> will run on. You change the desktop, and you get new windows displayed,
> while the plasmoids stay the same.
> 
> With activities it's the other way around. You switch the activity, and the
> windows stay the same, but you get different plasmoids.

That's a decent explanation, thanks a lot. I can see how some folks would like 
that and why it's been coded.

You assume right, I'm a multiple-desktop-with-a-pager sort of guy. 6 desktops 
and I know where I like to launch things. I mostly don't have plasmoids on the 
desktop, mostly because I never see the desktop :-)  I usually maximize most 
windows (kontact, amarok) or split the screen 65/35 between a browser and 
konsole. To do action X, I launch the app that does that action and most of my 
work is in a browser and terminal

I now do have two plasmoids on the desktop - a clock that shows when the 
screensaver comes up, and notifications, which displays the popup above all 
regular windows.

I guess I'm just not into all this new shiny glitzy bouncey stuff. If I wanted 
bling, I'd be using a mac ;-)




> 
> For example, you have your default activity active, with some plasmoids,
> whatever they are. Then you want to inspect why the system is suddenly
> being slow, so you switch to your admin activity, which has all kinds of
> system monitors and loggers you normally prefer to not show up. I think
> that's the idea. I would just switch to desktop1 where I have some of
> these plasmoids, but that is my approach. Others seem to like these
> activities.
> 
> A 3rd activity might show some newstickers and web plasmoids. While I would
> just switch to my desktop3, where I have this stuff.
> 
> And a 4th activity could display folder views of various locations. You
> don't care about them normally, and use the desktop space for other things
> you like more. But when you want access to those folders, they are just one
> keystroke away.
> 
> I would be surprised if you'd start using activities, I guess you're more
> the multiple desktop guy. But hey, as long as you don't add other
> activities, you don't have to care about them.
> 
> I think there are further plans, like applications starting and quitting
> automatically when switching activities. So you put your desktop into
> different modes, according to the task you are currently doing. I'm doing
> all this stuff in parallel, so I just sort it on different desktops.
> 
> There is much development going on currently, this stuff is still evolving.
> In 4.5.2, you had to use one activity per virtual desktop if you wanted to
> have different plasmoids on different desktops, or different wallpapers.
> This has changed, you can have different plasmoids on each desktop now
> (although I'm missing the 'sticky' option to have _some_ plasmoids on all
> desktops), and also different wallpapers. But who knows how this stuff will
> have evolved until KDE 4.7.
> 
>   Wonko

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



Re: [gentoo-user] files disappearing using samba

2010-11-30 Thread covici

Stroller  wrote:

> 
> On 30/11/2010, at 5:23pm, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > ... if I try
> > to look at those directories using that other operating system, and I am
> > coming in as root, all the files are not seen.
> 
> You have a root samba user?
> 
> o_O
I trust myself -- validated myself -- so I do this locally.

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

 John Covici
 cov...@ccs.covici.com



Re: [gentoo-user] files disappearing using samba

2010-11-30 Thread covici
Thanasis  wrote:

> on 11/30/2010 07:23 PM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote the following:
> > Hi.  I have what seems to me a strange problem using samba.  The version
> > is 3.5.6.  Now what is happening is that in certain directories if I try
> > to look at those directories using that other operating system, and I am
> > coming in as root, all the files are not seen.  I know they are there,
> > but Samba seems to ignore them -- I can ssh in and get them, but no
> > Samba.
> >
> > Anyone seen this and what can I do about it?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> >
> Sounds like directory/files permissions issue...
I come into the samba as root, so it seems unlikely -- and the files
generally have the ownership by the same user.


-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

 John Covici
 cov...@ccs.covici.com



Re: [gentoo-user] files disappearing using samba

2010-11-30 Thread Stroller

On 30/11/2010, at 5:23pm, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> ... if I try
> to look at those directories using that other operating system, and I am
> coming in as root, all the files are not seen.

You have a root samba user?

o_O

Stroller.




Re: [gentoo-user] files disappearing using samba

2010-11-30 Thread Thanasis
on 11/30/2010 07:23 PM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote the following:
> Hi.  I have what seems to me a strange problem using samba.  The version
> is 3.5.6.  Now what is happening is that in certain directories if I try
> to look at those directories using that other operating system, and I am
> coming in as root, all the files are not seen.  I know they are there,
> but Samba seems to ignore them -- I can ssh in and get them, but no
> Samba.
>
> Anyone seen this and what can I do about it?
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
Sounds like directory/files permissions issue...



Re: [gentoo-user] files disappearing using samba

2010-11-30 Thread Xi Shen
i think i had a similar issue like this one. i setup one of my linux
dictionary as a samba folder, in which i have some files which names
are in Chinese. my problem is some of the files cannot be seen when
connecting to that samba dictionary from linux, bu i can see all of
them if i connect to that folder from windows.

i think the problem is more like a file name encoding issue. but i did
not find a way to solve it either :(


On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:23 AM,   wrote:
> Hi.  I have what seems to me a strange problem using samba.  The version
> is 3.5.6.  Now what is happening is that in certain directories if I try
> to look at those directories using that other operating system, and I am
> coming in as root, all the files are not seen.  I know they are there,
> but Samba seems to ignore them -- I can ssh in and get them, but no
> Samba.
>
> Anyone seen this and what can I do about it?
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
> --
> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> How do
> you spend it?
>
>         John Covici
>         cov...@ccs.covici.com
>
>



-- 
Best Regards,
Xi Shen (David)

http://twitter.com/davidshen84/



[gentoo-user] files disappearing using samba

2010-11-30 Thread covici
Hi.  I have what seems to me a strange problem using samba.  The version
is 3.5.6.  Now what is happening is that in certain directories if I try
to look at those directories using that other operating system, and I am
coming in as root, all the files are not seen.  I know they are there,
but Samba seems to ignore them -- I can ssh in and get them, but no
Samba.

Anyone seen this and what can I do about it?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

 John Covici
 cov...@ccs.covici.com



Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Relocating notification popup KDE-4.5

2010-11-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes:

> I "get" KDE (mostly) but some stuff is just bizarre:
> 
> Activities. wtf are those?

I tink they are really cool, although I don't use them, and probably never 
will. But I'm not the average user. I have six virtual desktops (current 
screenshots are at http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2010-11-11/ ), each 
one has its purpose. For each window you can define the desktop it will run 
on. You change the desktop, and you get new windows displayed, while the 
plasmoids stay the same.

With activities it's the other way around. You switch the activity, and the 
windows stay the same, but you get different plasmoids.

For example, you have your default activity active, with some plasmoids, 
whatever they are. Then you want to inspect why the system is suddenly being 
slow, so you switch to your admin activity, which has all kinds of system 
monitors and loggers you normally prefer to not show up. I think that's the 
idea. I would just switch to desktop1 where I have some of these plasmoids, 
but that is my approach. Others seem to like these activities.

A 3rd activity might show some newstickers and web plasmoids. While I would 
just switch to my desktop3, where I have this stuff.

And a 4th activity could display folder views of various locations. You 
don't care about them normally, and use the desktop space for other things 
you like more. But when you want access to those folders, they are just one 
keystroke away. 

I would be surprised if you'd start using activities, I guess you're more 
the multiple desktop guy. But hey, as long as you don't add other 
activities, you don't have to care about them.

I think there are further plans, like applications starting and quitting 
automatically when switching activities. So you put your desktop into 
different modes, according to the task you are currently doing. I'm doing 
all this stuff in parallel, so I just sort it on different desktops.

There is much development going on currently, this stuff is still evolving. 
In 4.5.2, you had to use one activity per virtual desktop if you wanted to 
have different plasmoids on different desktops, or different wallpapers. 
This has changed, you can have different plasmoids on each desktop now 
(although I'm missing the 'sticky' option to have _some_ plasmoids on all 
desktops), and also different wallpapers. But who knows how this stuff will 
have evolved until KDE 4.7.

Wonko



Re: [gentoo-user] Relocating notification popup KDE-4.5

2010-11-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:59 on Tuesday 30 November 2010, Volker 
Armin Hemmann did opine thusly:

> On Tuesday 30 November 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 09:35 on Tuesday 30 November 2010, Volker
> > 
> > Armin Hemmann did opine thusly:
> > > On Monday 29 November 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > > Such a simple thing and I cannot find how to do it.
> > > > 
> > > > KDE-4.5, I have a panel at the bottom with a systray over on the
> > > > right edge. I run konsole on the right half of the screen, and the
> > > > plasmoid notification popup is right above where the current command
> > > > is being typed.
> > > > 
> > > > So I want to move the popup somewhere else like maybe top right of
> > > > screen (without having to fiddle with plasmoids on the desktop and
> > > > other nonsense which I don't grok)
> > > > 
> > > > I cannot find how to do this :-(   Maybe it's a theme thing, I use
> > > > Elegance, but I recall not being able to do this either with the
> > > > default theme long ago.
> > > 
> > > notification is part of sys-tray. So to move the notifications you have
> > > to move the systray plasmoid. Just unlock plasmoids, left click on the
> > > cashew on the toolbar and you can move around all the plasmoids.
> > 
> > Hmmm. What if my usual usage is ALL screen space occupied by apps ALL THE
> > TIME? How do I see some popup on the desktop if the entire desktop is
> > covered by window.
> > 
> > And I WANT the systray in the panel at bottom right. I also want to tell
> > the plasmoid to put it's popup somewhere else, not in the default place.
> > 
> > Am I asking for the impossible?
> 
> no,
> 
> there is a notification plasmoid. You can put it whereever you want on your
> desktop and you can remove the one running in systray. You can also
> configure if there is a popup or not.


Well that was easy enough, it works well.

Thanks.


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



Re: [gentoo-user] Relocating notification popup KDE-4.5

2010-11-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 30 November 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 09:35 on Tuesday 30 November 2010, Volker
> 
> Armin Hemmann did opine thusly:
> > On Monday 29 November 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > Such a simple thing and I cannot find how to do it.
> > > 
> > > KDE-4.5, I have a panel at the bottom with a systray over on the right
> > > edge. I run konsole on the right half of the screen, and the plasmoid
> > > notification popup is right above where the current command is being
> > > typed.
> > > 
> > > So I want to move the popup somewhere else like maybe top right of
> > > screen (without having to fiddle with plasmoids on the desktop and
> > > other nonsense which I don't grok)
> > > 
> > > I cannot find how to do this :-(   Maybe it's a theme thing, I use
> > > Elegance, but I recall not being able to do this either with the
> > > default theme long ago.
> > 
> > notification is part of sys-tray. So to move the notifications you have
> > to move the systray plasmoid. Just unlock plasmoids, left click on the
> > cashew on the toolbar and you can move around all the plasmoids.
> 
> Hmmm. What if my usual usage is ALL screen space occupied by apps ALL THE
> TIME? How do I see some popup on the desktop if the entire desktop is
> covered by window.
> 
> And I WANT the systray in the panel at bottom right. I also want to tell
> the plasmoid to put it's popup somewhere else, not in the default place.
> 
> Am I asking for the impossible?

no,

there is a notification plasmoid. You can put it whereever you want on your 
desktop and you can remove the one running in systray. You can also configure 
if there is a popup or not.



Re: [gentoo-user] Relocating notification popup KDE-4.5

2010-11-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 09:35 on Tuesday 30 November 2010, Volker 
Armin Hemmann did opine thusly:

> On Monday 29 November 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Such a simple thing and I cannot find how to do it.
> > 
> > KDE-4.5, I have a panel at the bottom with a systray over on the right
> > edge. I run konsole on the right half of the screen, and the plasmoid
> > notification popup is right above where the current command is being
> > typed.
> > 
> > So I want to move the popup somewhere else like maybe top right of screen
> > (without having to fiddle with plasmoids on the desktop and other
> > nonsense which I don't grok)
> > 
> > I cannot find how to do this :-(   Maybe it's a theme thing, I use
> > Elegance, but I recall not being able to do this either with the default
> > theme long ago.
> 
> notification is part of sys-tray. So to move the notifications you have to
> move the systray plasmoid. Just unlock plasmoids, left click on the cashew
> on the toolbar and you can move around all the plasmoids.


Hmmm. What if my usual usage is ALL screen space occupied by apps ALL THE 
TIME? How do I see some popup on the desktop if the entire desktop is covered 
by window.

And I WANT the systray in the panel at bottom right. I also want to tell the 
plasmoid to put it's popup somewhere else, not in the default place.

Am I asking for the impossible?


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Relocating notification popup KDE-4.5

2010-11-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 03:02 on Tuesday 30 November 2010, Dale did 
opine thusly:

> walt wrote:
> > On 11/29/2010 12:09 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> Such a simple thing and I cannot find how to do it.
> > 
> > I tried kde 4.x during its early Dark Days and finally gave up in
> > complete bafflement.
> > 
> > Well, so many people in this group are enthusiastic supporters of
> > kde I decided I'd give it another go over our long holiday weekend.
> > 
> > I dreaded the thought of compiling the entire kde desktop on gentoo
> > (again!) so instead I came up with the brilliant idea of installing
> > kubuntu on a VirtualBox linux guest machine on my gentoo host.
> > 
> > The installation of kubuntu was brain-dead-easy (that's the whole
> > point of *ubuntu, after all) but when I logged in and started to
> > use the kubuntu kde desktop to do actual work (shudder) I quickly
> > found myself in a hopeless muddle (yet again!).
> > 
> > My theory is that anyone over forty just doesn't understand what
> > young-punk developers are about, these days.
> > 
> > When I was a young punk myself, long ago, the mantra was "Don't
> > trust anyone over forty!"  (But I don't suppose you're old enough
> > to remember those days.)
> > 
> > I think today's young-punk developers must certainly feel the same
> > way about old-fart (over-forty) lusers like me. (You?)
> 
> I'm over 40.  I been using KDE4 for a while now.  It doesn't get on my
> nerves, to much.  lol


Same here :-)

I "get" KDE (mostly) but some stuff is just bizarre:

Activities. wtf are those?

By and large I get by on everything else.

And e17 is starting to look more and more attractive as days go by...


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r12 causes kernel panic

2010-11-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 29 November 2010 18:20:56 Mick wrote:

> Will wait for 2.6.36 series to see if this old PIII will work.

I'm running 2.6.36-r3 at the moment. You only have to add a keyword to 
gentoo-sources.

BtW, is it really necessary to quote the entire thread in every post?

-- 
Rgds
Peter.  Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.



Re: [gentoo-user] Some possibly useful info on HAL

2010-11-30 Thread Dale

Erik wrote:

2010-11-21 04:03, Dale skrev:
Has anyone replaced hal completely on a KDE system?  Any luck?  
Issues?  Downright deal breakers?


May as well include policykit or whatever it is called too?

Just looking ahead a bit here.


Subscribe to [https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229643] and wait 
for it to be resolved.





Thanks for the link.  At least they are working on it.  Sounds like it 
may be changed pretty soon too.


Dale

:-)  :-)



Re: [gentoo-user] smartmontools can 'kill' a certain sata disk:

2010-11-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 30 November 2010, Thanasis wrote:
> on 11/29/2010 10:10 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following:
> > http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks
> > 
> > just because some of you might have missed it...
> 
> Apart from Samsung F4 EcoGreen, it also refers to some other drives:
> 
> SAMSUNG HD322GJ (F4)
> SAMSUNG HD103SJ (F3)
> SAMSUNG HD153WI (F3 EcoGreen)
> SAMSUNG HD642JJ (F1)
> SAMSUNG SP2504C (P120)
> WDC WD6400AAKS
> WDC WD10EADS
> 
> Are these also affected?

as they write on their page those drives are not affected. Only the 2tb F4EG. 

There is a bug with some Samsung drives and AMD's SB850. There is a firmware 
update for those drives on the Samsung hp.



Re: [gentoo-user] smartmontools can 'kill' a certain sata disk:

2010-11-30 Thread Thanasis
on 11/30/2010 11:59 AM J. Roeleveld wrote the following:
> On Tuesday 30 November 2010 10:53:21 Thanasis wrote:
>> on 11/30/2010 11:17 AM J. Roeleveld wrote the following:
>>> On Tuesday 30 November 2010 10:02:01 Thanasis wrote:
 on 11/29/2010 10:10 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following:
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlock
> s
>
> just because some of you might have missed it...

 Apart from Samsung F4 EcoGreen, it also refers to some other drives:

 SAMSUNG HD322GJ (F4)
 SAMSUNG HD103SJ (F3)
 SAMSUNG HD153WI (F3 EcoGreen)
 SAMSUNG HD642JJ (F1)
 SAMSUNG SP2504C (P120)
 WDC WD6400AAKS
 WDC WD10EADS

 Are these also affected?
>>>
>>> Considering the line right above that list is:
>>> "* It could not be reproduced on the same AMD system and amdsata.sys
>>> driver with the following other disks: "
>>>
>>> with the "not" in bold, I would assume that those drives are not affected
>>> by this bug in the drives firmware.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joost Roeleveld
>>
>> Thanks. That's what I thought too, it's the other lines that followed,
>> that puzzled me. O:-)
>
> The following lines are seperate bullet-points, eg. seperate statements.
>
> I write similar documents sometimes and this is a quick-and-dirty way to list 
> the results. That's probably why I could follow it easier.
>
> I do agree, it could have been a bit clearer if that list would have been 
> indented to make it look more like part of the bullet-point where it appears 
> to be part of. (If this makes sense? :) )
Yes. Absolutely.
>
> I have the WDC-drive 
I have both of those WD
> that is listed here and am quite happy that it is not 
> affected 
and I am too!
> as I do use smartmontools extensively.
me too.
> I'll have to check which Samsung drive I have to make sure I am not using one 
> for production use.
>
> --
> Joost Roeleveld



Re: [gentoo-user] Relocating notification popup KDE-4.5

2010-11-30 Thread Arttu V.
On 11/30/10, Volker Armin Hemmann  wrote:
> notification is part of sys-tray. So to move the notifications you have to
> move
> the systray plasmoid. Just unlock plasmoids, left click on the cashew on the
> toolbar and you can move around all the plasmoids.

Careful when doing this. Save your work. I got a crash out of KDE
4.5.3 (ok, only the panel widget crashed?) by clumsily fumbling and
clicking around the various "add widgets" menus available via the
spiralled dragon fart symbols.

Also, systray widget seems to suffer from a mild case of the
Highlander Syndrome. (Apparently There Can Only Be One!)

If I add it to both the toolbar panel on the bottom and place another
instance freely on the desktop then only the toolbar one will show the
icons. Clicking around inside the empty frames of the other widget
instance reveals that klipper, printer queue etc systray icons are in
there, they're just not drawn. Their menus still pop up.

Still, I was pleased to notice that the toolbar panel organizing of
KDE 4 has improved much since I last tried to use it in vain in ...
KDE 4.2.x?

-- 
Arttu V.



Re: [gentoo-user] smartmontools can 'kill' a certain sata disk:

2010-11-30 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 30 November 2010 10:53:21 Thanasis wrote:
> on 11/30/2010 11:17 AM J. Roeleveld wrote the following:
> > On Tuesday 30 November 2010 10:02:01 Thanasis wrote:
> >> on 11/29/2010 10:10 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following:
> >>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlock
> >>> s
> >>> 
> >>> just because some of you might have missed it...
> >> 
> >> Apart from Samsung F4 EcoGreen, it also refers to some other drives:
> >> 
> >> SAMSUNG HD322GJ (F4)
> >> SAMSUNG HD103SJ (F3)
> >> SAMSUNG HD153WI (F3 EcoGreen)
> >> SAMSUNG HD642JJ (F1)
> >> SAMSUNG SP2504C (P120)
> >> WDC WD6400AAKS
> >> WDC WD10EADS
> >> 
> >> Are these also affected?
> > 
> > Considering the line right above that list is:
> > "* It could not be reproduced on the same AMD system and amdsata.sys
> > driver with the following other disks: "
> > 
> > with the "not" in bold, I would assume that those drives are not affected
> > by this bug in the drives firmware.
> > 
> > --
> > Joost Roeleveld
> 
> Thanks. That's what I thought too, it's the other lines that followed,
> that puzzled me. O:-)

The following lines are seperate bullet-points, eg. seperate statements.

I write similar documents sometimes and this is a quick-and-dirty way to list 
the results. That's probably why I could follow it easier.

I do agree, it could have been a bit clearer if that list would have been 
indented to make it look more like part of the bullet-point where it appears 
to be part of. (If this makes sense? :) )

I have the WDC-drive that is listed here and am quite happy that it is not 
affected as I do use smartmontools extensively.
I'll have to check which Samsung drive I have to make sure I am not using one 
for production use.

--
Joost Roeleveld



Re: [gentoo-user] smartmontools can 'kill' a certain sata disk:

2010-11-30 Thread Thanasis
on 11/30/2010 11:17 AM J. Roeleveld wrote the following:
> On Tuesday 30 November 2010 10:02:01 Thanasis wrote:
>> on 11/29/2010 10:10 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following:
>>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks
>>>
>>> just because some of you might have missed it...
>>
>> Apart from Samsung F4 EcoGreen, it also refers to some other drives:
>>
>> SAMSUNG HD322GJ (F4)
>> SAMSUNG HD103SJ (F3)
>> SAMSUNG HD153WI (F3 EcoGreen)
>> SAMSUNG HD642JJ (F1)
>> SAMSUNG SP2504C (P120)
>> WDC WD6400AAKS
>> WDC WD10EADS
>>
>> Are these also affected?
>
> Considering the line right above that list is:
> "* It could not be reproduced on the same AMD system and amdsata.sys driver 
> with the following other disks: "
>
> with the "not" in bold, I would assume that those drives are not affected by 
> this bug in the drives firmware.
>
> --
> Joost Roeleveld
>
>
Thanks. That's what I thought too, it's the other lines that followed,
that puzzled me. O:-)



Re: [gentoo-user] smartmontools can 'kill' a certain sata disk:

2010-11-30 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 30 November 2010 10:02:01 Thanasis wrote:
> on 11/29/2010 10:10 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following:
> > http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks
> > 
> > just because some of you might have missed it...
> 
> Apart from Samsung F4 EcoGreen, it also refers to some other drives:
> 
> SAMSUNG HD322GJ (F4)
> SAMSUNG HD103SJ (F3)
> SAMSUNG HD153WI (F3 EcoGreen)
> SAMSUNG HD642JJ (F1)
> SAMSUNG SP2504C (P120)
> WDC WD6400AAKS
> WDC WD10EADS
> 
> Are these also affected?

Considering the line right above that list is:
"* It could not be reproduced on the same AMD system and amdsata.sys driver 
with the following other disks: "

with the "not" in bold, I would assume that those drives are not affected by 
this bug in the drives firmware.

--
Joost Roeleveld



Re: [gentoo-user] Some possibly useful info on HAL

2010-11-30 Thread Erik

2010-11-21 04:03, Dale skrev:
Has anyone replaced hal completely on a KDE system?  Any luck?  
Issues?  Downright deal breakers?


May as well include policykit or whatever it is called too?

Just looking ahead a bit here.


Subscribe to [https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229643] and wait for 
it to be resolved.




Re: [gentoo-user] smartmontools can 'kill' a certain sata disk:

2010-11-30 Thread Thanasis
on 11/29/2010 10:10 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks
>
> just because some of you might have missed it...
>
Apart from Samsung F4 EcoGreen, it also refers to some other drives:

SAMSUNG HD322GJ (F4)
SAMSUNG HD103SJ (F3)
SAMSUNG HD153WI (F3 EcoGreen)
SAMSUNG HD642JJ (F1)
SAMSUNG SP2504C (P120)
WDC WD6400AAKS
WDC WD10EADS

Are these also affected?