Re: [gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 09:17, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On 4/9/2011 4:57 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 17:02:14 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: If you're using PVSCSI, go into SCSI RAID, then SCSI Low Level Driver, then select VMware PVSCSI as built-in, not module. Do you know which one workstation uses? AFAICT there's no option to choose which controller is presented to the guest. You get to choose when you create the VM. Only in ESX/vSphere, not for Workstation. At least not yet. Somewhat silly, IMO, since the hardware support is there under the hood if you know how to find it. --Mike Ain't I glad I use VirtualBox instead of VMware Workstation :-P Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com
Re: [gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:17:12 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: Do you know which one workstation uses? AFAICT there's no option to choose which controller is presented to the guest. You get to choose when you create the VM. Only in ESX/vSphere, not for Workstation. At least not yet. Somewhat silly, IMO, since the hardware support is there under the hood if you know how to find it. There's an option to choose the SCSI controller in the new VM wizard. This is in WS 6.5, I don't have 7, and has been there in previous releases. BTW I am subscribed to this list and will see your response without your sending a copy to my inbox. -- Neil Bothwick It's not a bug, it's tradition! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] are cgroups automatic ?
I have enabled cgroups in kernel 2.6.38 , but am not sure how they work. There's nothing in the docs in /usr/src/linux a search via 'make menuconfig' shows nothing suggestive. Does the kernel automatically set them up once they're enabled or does the user have to do something to define them ? -- anyone know ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disk recommendations?
On 04/10/2011 03:50:59 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: I read about again and again is a RAID user who loses 1 drive and then, while in the process of fixing the RAID, loses a second drive. Most of us (myself included) buy identical drives all at the same time from the same vendor. This means all the drives were likely from the same manufacturing batch and, if they are drives that will fail at all then the group will likely experience multiple drive failures. The Life time is always a statistical statement and therefore I consider it very unlikely that two or more of them fail at the same time - perhaps with one (big) exception. A given brand/model might be very sensitive to power failures or excess voltages, and in that case many of them could fail after a power failure - or excess voltage. Since my data is not rapidly changing, I backup my data several times a day onto a spare disk which I spin down in between (using hdparm). At least I hope to increase the life time of that backup disk this way. Helmut.
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel modules not autoloading with 2.6.38-gentoo-r1
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:: ::\_)::(..):: :::)./::: ::(_/
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel modules not autoloading with 2.6.38-gentoo-r1
On Apr 11, 2011 3:42 AM, du yang duyang@gmail.com 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] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4
On 4/11/2011 3:43 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:17:12 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: Do you know which one workstation uses? AFAICT there's no option to choose which controller is presented to the guest. You get to choose when you create the VM. Only in ESX/vSphere, not for Workstation. At least not yet. Somewhat silly, IMO, since the hardware support is there under the hood if you know how to find it. There's an option to choose the SCSI controller in the new VM wizard. This is in WS 6.5, I don't have 7, and has been there in previous releases. But that dialog does not give you the option to use the VMWare Paravirtual controller, correct? Its definitely not there in my Workstation 7 wizard, and I'd love to make it show up if possible :) The only options I have are for BusLogic, LSI Logic, and LSI Logic SAS. BTW I am subscribed to this list and will see your response without your sending a copy to my inbox. Yah, sorry. Hit Reply to All instead of Reply to List by accident. --Mike
Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.
On Monday 11 April 2011 01:46:44 Mark Shields wrote: That response wasn't really meant for you, your reply just happened to be the one I clicked reply on. What? Just happened? Don't you think before you post? -- Rgds Peter
[gentoo-user] Raid1 fstab
Hello, background I mostly followed these guides to build a raid1 workstation using (2) 2T seagate drives: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Software_RAID_Install http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/Software Since I'm just using a very simple partion scheme raid 1(boot, swap, /) I decided to forgo LVM, for now. Maybe on the next install, I'll get Dale to coach me on LVM2 ? ;-) Both drives are identical (edited to fit gmane): Disk identifier: 0xab83344a Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 526335 262144 fd Lraid auto /dev/sda2 52633610573823 5023744 fd Lraid auto /dev/sda3 573824 3907029167 1948227672 fd Lraid auto OK so my question is does this fstab look ok, workable? improvements? none/proc procdefaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom autonoauto,rw,user 0 0 shm /dev/shm tmpfsnodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /usr/local/video2 ext4defaults0 1 /dev/md1 /boot ext4noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/md3 / ext4noatime 0 1 /dev/md2 swap swapdefaults0 0 I did not setup initramfs, as those steps where not part of the guides, but googling I did see many places where initramfs was suggested. thoughts and comments? http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs It's my first gentoo software raid. My email is down; so only post to this list! hopeful this AM, James
Re: [gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:30:42 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: There's an option to choose the SCSI controller in the new VM wizard. This is in WS 6.5, I don't have 7, and has been there in previous releases. But that dialog does not give you the option to use the VMWare Paravirtual controller, correct? Its definitely not there in my Workstation 7 wizard, and I'd love to make it show up if possible :) Ah, no. I don't think that controller is available in 6.x. Good idea that, add an option but don't let users enable it. I suppose it keeps the bug reports down. -- Neil Bothwick Every morning is the dawn of a new error... signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Raid1 fstab
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: /dev/sdb1 /usr/local/video2 ext4defaults0 1 oops, ignore this line
Re: [gentoo-user] Raid1 fstab
On Monday 11 April 2011 13:59:04 James wrote: Hello, background I mostly followed these guides to build a raid1 workstation using (2) 2T seagate drives: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Software_RAID_Install http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/Software Since I'm just using a very simple partion scheme raid 1(boot, swap, /) I decided to forgo LVM, for now. Maybe on the next install, I'll get Dale to coach me on LVM2 ? ;-) Both drives are identical (edited to fit gmane): Disk identifier: 0xab83344a Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 526335 262144 fd Lraid auto /dev/sda2 52633610573823 5023744 fd Lraid auto /dev/sda3 573824 3907029167 1948227672 fd Lraid auto OK so my question is does this fstab look ok, workable? improvements? none/proc procdefaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom autonoauto,rw,user 0 0 shm /dev/shm tmpfsnodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /usr/local/video2 ext4defaults0 1 /dev/md1 /boot ext4noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/md3 / ext4noatime 0 1 /dev/md2 swap swapdefaults0 0 I did not setup initramfs, as those steps where not part of the guides, but googling I did see many places where initramfs was suggested. thoughts and comments? http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs It's my first gentoo software raid. My email is down; so only post to this list! hopeful this AM, James I don't use an initrd and my OS is on a RAID1-partition. Eg. that isn't necessary. About your /etc/fstab, I have some concerns. One of your RAID-devices is /dev/sda What is the other one? I hope it isn't /dev/sdb. If it is, you will have issues with the /usr/local/video2 mountpoint. I would suggest using a LABEL for that mountpoint to avoid any possible issues. Apart from that, it looks fine. Please ignore the error-message when rebooting/shutting down the system that /dev/md3 can't be stopped. (It is in use for the root-partition ( / ) -- Joost
[gentoo-user] Re: Raid1 fstab
Joost Roeleveld joost at antarean.org writes: /dev/sdb1 /usr/local/video2 ext4defaults0 1 This line is a typo, i.e. already deleted. I don't use an initrd and my OS is on a RAID1-partition. Eg. that isn't necessary. Good to know. About your /etc/fstab, I have some concerns. One of your RAID-devices is /dev/sda What is the other one? I hope it isn't /dev/sdb. If it is, you will have issues with the /usr/local/video2 mountpoint. the other drive is sdb, but the video2 line was extraneous (deleted gone). I would suggest using a LABEL for that mountpoint to avoid any possible issues. I made noise a while back about LABELS. Lots of comments, but nothing clear to follow in the docs or a wiki or a how to. I confused disklables and file system labels and other forms of lables. I even filed a bug, which was closed, since *I* did not have a proposal on better docs to use LABELS Since the guides use (old style mount points) for raid, then until the guides change, I (like dale) not comfortable at all with LABELS(already tried several time and got borked systems...) I'm not waisting any more time on LABELS until there are some docs or examples to follow The light just never turned on and I'm done waisting time on LABELS Apart from that, it looks fine. Please ignore the error-message when rebooting/shutting down the system that /dev/md3 can't be stopped. (It is in use for the root-partition ( / ) Good to know... Any body else, before I reboot this (turkey) new install of a system? James
[gentoo-user] are cgroups automatic ?
I have enabled cgroups in kernel 2.6.38 , but am not sure how they work. There's nothing in the docs in /usr/src/linux a search via 'make menuconfig' shows nothing suggestive. Does the kernel automatically set them up once they're enabled or does the user have to do something to define them ? -- anyone know ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] are cgroups automatic ?
On 04/11/2011 08:13 AM, Philip Webb wrote: I have enabled cgroups in kernel 2.6.38 , but am not sure how they work. There's nothing in the docs in /usr/src/linux a search via 'make menuconfig' shows nothing suggestive. Does the kernel automatically set them up once they're enabled or does the user have to do something to define them ? -- anyone know ? Are you sure there's no documentation? /usr/src/linux/Documentation $ grep -il cgroup */*.txt accounting/cgroupstats.txt block/cfq-iosched.txt cgroups/blkio-controller.txt cgroups/cgroups.txt cgroups/cpuacct.txt cgroups/cpusets.txt cgroups/devices.txt cgroups/freezer-subsystem.txt cgroups/memcg_test.txt cgroups/memory.txt cgroups/resource_counter.txt filesystems/tmpfs.txt scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt sysctl/vm.txt vm/hwpoison.txt vm/numa_memory_policy.txt vm/unevictable-lru.txt
Re: [gentoo-user] are cgroups automatic ?
Am 11.04.2011 17:13, schrieb Philip Webb: I have enabled cgroups in kernel 2.6.38 , but am not sure how they work. There's nothing in the docs in /usr/src/linux a search via 'make menuconfig' shows nothing suggestive. Does the kernel automatically set them up once they're enabled or does the user have to do something to define them ? -- anyone know ? I haven't tried 2.6.38 yet but I'm one of the authors of http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Improve_responsiveness_with_cgroups I guess you can follow that guide (except that step about adding lines to ~/.bashrc which is supposedly obsolete in 2.6.38). Then you can see for yourself how the kernel arranges your processes in cgroups. Your cgroup mount point should contain directories (different groups) and in each directory there is a tasks file containing process ids of the associated tasks. While you are at it, you could update the information on the wiki. Any help there is appreciated. :) Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Gentoo/FBSD
Has anyone successfully set up a Gentoo/FBSD system in the somewhat-recent past? I'd like to do some testing, but all of the install docs are out of date. I'd appreciate a thirty-second overview of how you did it.
Re: [gentoo-user] are cgroups automatic ?
You can dmesg|grep cgroup to see it works.. Sounds like rquiss@Karata-Laptop ~ $ dmesg|grep cgroup Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset Initializing cgroup subsys cpu allocated 41943040 bytes of page_cgroup please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups Initializing cgroup subsys ns Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct Initializing cgroup subsys memory Initializing cgroup subsys devices Initializing cgroup subsys freezer Initializing cgroup subsys blkio 2011/4/11 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net I have enabled cgroups in kernel 2.6.38 , but am not sure how they work. There's nothing in the docs in /usr/src/linux a search via 'make menuconfig' shows nothing suggestive. Does the kernel automatically set them up once they're enabled or does the user have to do something to define them ? -- anyone know ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disk recommendations?
On 2011-04-10 09:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: what are the comparative virtues of the Samsung disks? Not sure if you know about this (only affects F4 Ecogreen 2TB): http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks Best regards Peter K
Re: [gentoo-user] Raid1 fstab
on 04/11/2011 04:59 PM James wrote the following: snip... Both drives are identical (edited to fit gmane): Disk identifier: 0xab83344a Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 526335 262144 fd Lraid auto /dev/sda2 52633610573823 5023744 fd Lraid auto /dev/sda3 573824 3907029167 1948227672 fd Lraid auto OK so my question is does this fstab look ok, workable? improvements? snip... /dev/md2 swap swapdefaults0 0 I guess you have made md2 a RAID0 for swap, right (post the output of: cat /proc/mdstat)? I think you don't need to put swap on RAID0. Just make the swap (in fstab) with the same priority (pri=) like: /dev/sda2noneswapsw,pri=30 0 /dev/sdb2noneswapsw,pri=30 0 (of course, first stop md2, change the partition ids to 82, and then mkswap ...)
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disk recommendations?
On Monday 11 April 2011 17:51:18 pk wrote: On 2011-04-10 09:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: what are the comparative virtues of the Samsung disks? Not sure if you know about this (only affects F4 Ecogreen 2TB): http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks Interesting. Looks like it applies to F4 disks, but I think (hope) i'm safe with F3. -- Rgds Peter
[gentoo-user] Re: Raid1 fstab
Thanasis thanasis at asyr.hopto.org writes: I guess you have made md2 a RAID0 for swap, right (post the output of: cat /proc/mdstat)? nope, swap is raid1 I think you don't need to put swap on RAID0. I agree. Everything I read did say may swap on raid 1 so if a disk fails, your swap still works (chroot) slam / # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md3 : active raid1 sdb3[1] sda3[0] 1948226512 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] md2 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0] 5022708 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] md1 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] 262132 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] unused devices: none none/proc procdefaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom autonoauto,rw,user 0 0 shm /dev/shm tmpfsnodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 /dev/md1 /boot ext4noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/md3 / ext4noatime 0 1 /dev/md2 swap swapdefaults0 0 (still in chroot) new post on raid 1 grub ext4 soon James
[gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4
Hello, Following the guides (previous post) I'm not able to set up grub: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID grub find /boot/grub/stage1 does not work, even though the stage one file is there grub.conf look like the example in these files. grub root (hd0,0) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xfd I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions. (is this a problem? (sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10} ideas? lots of old posts about not being able to boot grub-0.97 off of ext4, unless patched? James
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disk recommendations?
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Hello list, I've seen some discussion of hard disks on this list recently, but I didn't notice any reference to Samsung Spinpoint F3 disks. I have two of these in my workstation; if I were thinking of adding 3 more to make a more robust system, what advice would I receive? My boot/root/home is on one: SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM Then I have a RAID5 for storage made up of five: SAMSUNG EcoGreen F3 HD203WI 2TB 5400 RPM So far I've been using it for a year 24/7 with no problems. hdparm is able to set them so they never spin down. Otherwise it seems to be fast and they don't have funny sector sizes or anything.
Re: [gentoo-user] are cgroups automatic ?
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I have enabled cgroups in kernel 2.6.38 , but am not sure how they work. There's nothing in the docs in /usr/src/linux a search via 'make menuconfig' shows nothing suggestive. Does the kernel automatically set them up once they're enabled or does the user have to do something to define them ? -- anyone know ? AFAIK if you use 2.6.38 and see /proc/sys/kernel/sched_autogroup_enabled = 1 then it should be active and you don't need to do anything else special. But I could be wrong.
Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4
On Monday 11 April 2011 19:12:36 James wrote: Hello, Following the guides (previous post) I'm not able to set up grub: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID grub find /boot/grub/stage1 does not work, even though the stage one file is there grub.conf look like the example in these files. grub root (hd0,0) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xfd I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions. (is this a problem? (sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10} ideas? lots of old posts about not being able to boot grub-0.97 off of ext4, unless patched? James, if I'm not wrong (legacy) sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10 does not have drivers for ext4. Not sure if there's a patch for it, or if grub2 can boot from ext4. Either way, why is it that /boot needs to be on ext4? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:12:36 + (UTC), James wrote: grub find /boot/grub/stage1 does not work, even though the stage one file is there I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions. If /boot is on a separate partition, you should be using find /grub/stage1 -- Neil Bothwick Religious error: (A)tone, (R)epent, (I)mmolate? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed
Hello mates, I cannot use LibreOffice, when I try as root, got this message: *GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection-initialization_error == NULL)* * * I have tried: revdep-rebuild and re emerging: glibc glibmm # revdep-rebuild * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild * Checking reverse dependencies * Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update * will be emerged. * Collecting system binaries and libraries * Generated new 1_files.rr * Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH * Generated new 2_ldpath.rr * Checking dynamic linking consistency [ 100% ] * Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done. this is my info: http://tinypaste.com/7ccc27 For now, the problem just happen with LibreOffice Should I downgrade ?? Regards, -- Carlos Sura.-
Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:44:40 -0600, Carlos Sura wrote: I cannot use LibreOffice, when I try as root, got this message: *GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection-initialization_error == NULL)* Are you running it from a root desktop, or from a root terminal on a user desktop? Why are you running it as root in the first place? What happens when you try it as root? Also, is this libreoffice or libreoffice-bin, and which version? -- Neil Bothwick Will we ever get out of this airport? asked Tom interminably. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed
On 11 April 2011 18:05, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:44:40 -0600, Carlos Sura wrote: I cannot use LibreOffice, when I try as root, got this message: *GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection-initialization_error == NULL)* Are you running it from a root desktop, or from a root terminal on a user desktop? Why are you running it as root in the first place? What happens when you try it as root? Also, is this libreoffice or libreoffice-bin, and which version? -- Neil Bothwick Will we ever get out of this airport? asked Tom interminably. Hello Neil Bothwick, Thank you for answer me. Let me explain you a little bit more... I am trying to execute from a root terminal, because as a normal user, it justs show me the splash screen (of libre office) but, it does not open the program. So, in a root terminal it shows me the error above. I'm using libreoffice, ~amd64 Before updating world everything was working fine... -- Carlos Sura.-
Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:12:36 + (UTC), James wrote: grub find /boot/grub/stage1 does not work, even though the stage one file is there I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions. If /boot is on a separate partition, you should be using find /grub/stage1 -- Neil Bothwick Religious error: (A)tone, (R)epent, (I)mmolate? If the symlink is there for boot - /boot -- and it is by default -- both work.
Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed
110411 Carlos Sura wrote: I cannot use LibreOffice, when I try as root, got this message: *GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection-initialization_error == NULL)* I have tried: revdep-rebuild and re emerging: glibc glibmm First usually best bet, enter the error msg in Google. When I did that just now I got : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=837847 http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1423295 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2011-02/msg03139.html These suggest that the problem described above is caused by trying to run a GUI app as root, which is never a good idea anyway, so that's not your real problem. Go back to running LO as user, tell us the details of what happens hopefully someone wb able to help you make progress. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed
On 11 April 2011 22:23, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 110411 Carlos Sura wrote: I cannot use LibreOffice, when I try as root, got this message: *GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection-initialization_error == NULL)* I have tried: revdep-rebuild and re emerging: glibc glibmm First usually best bet, enter the error msg in Google. When I did that just now I got : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=837847 http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1423295 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2011-02/msg03139.html These suggest that the problem described above is caused by trying to run a GUI app as root, which is never a good idea anyway, so that's not your real problem. Go back to running LO as user, tell us the details of what happens hopefully someone wb able to help you make progress. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca Hello Philip Webb, Thank you for answer me, I know it is not good to run applications as root, but I tried to see error logs. When I try to run LibreOffice as normal user, I can see the splash (of libreoffice) but nothing more... Cannot use any libreoffice application, it just don't work, fas as I can see is the libreoffice splash. No errors (as normal user), after the libreoffice splash it closes. By the way, I've already checked Google, and none of those are my problem, it just happen with LibreOffice, after a world update. -- Carlos Sura.-
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Raid1 fstab
On 11/4/2011, at 3:38pm, James wrote: ... I would suggest using a LABEL for that mountpoint to avoid any possible issues. I made noise a while back about LABELS. Lots of comments, but nothing clear to follow in the docs or a wiki or a how to. I confused disklables and file system labels and other forms of lables. I even filed a bug, which was closed, since *I* did not have a proposal on better docs to use LABELS Since the guides use (old style mount points) for raid, then until the guides change, I (like dale) not comfortable at all with LABELS(already tried several time and got borked systems...) I'm not waisting any more time on LABELS until there are some docs or examples to follow The light just never turned on and I'm done waisting time on LABELS Whilst it would be nice if LABELs were documented in Gentoo's installation guide and other docs, I seem to recall there was a reasonable explanation for not doing so. Meanwhile LABELs have been fairly comprehensively discussed on this list, and IMO there's very little mystery to them. I'm pretty sure that Dale now *is* using LABELs, and has been for some time (e.g. see [1]). IMO your criticism is misleading. If you have problems with them, post back and people will try to help. I'm sure we can get you up and running. Stroller. [1] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/221438#221438
Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4
On 11/4/2011, at 9:18pm, Mick wrote: ... I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions. (is this a problem? (sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10} James, if I'm not wrong (legacy) sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10 does not have drivers for ext4. Not sure if there's a patch for it, or if grub2 can boot from ext4. Use ext2 for /boot, James. There's no need for extents on such a small partition, nor journalling (because you write to /boot so rarely, the likelihood of a power failure when you're doing so is minuscule). Stroller.
