ext3 vs reiserfs 3.6

2006-07-28 Thread Francesco Pietra
Since I changed from reiserfs 3.6 to ext3 with debian etch amd64, the system no more suffered any crash, after days of running a very heavy computation with mpqc 2.3.1 with thread command for two dual opterons and 8 GB ram. The computation has now ended to full convergence. That was the most

Re: ext3 vs reiserfs 3.6

2006-07-28 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Francesco Pietra wrote: Since I changed from reiserfs 3.6 to ext3 with debian etch amd64, the system no more suffered any crash, after days of running a very heavy computation with mpqc 2.3.1 with thread command for two dual opterons and 8 GB ram. The computation has now

XMMS: No output plugins specified

2006-07-28 Thread Markus Neviadomski
Hi, after apt-get update apt-get upgrade on my amd64-box (debian unstable), xmms doesn't work. After startup and pressing play in xmms, the following message appears: no output plugins specified. Looking in the Settings-panel, the select-box for the output is empty. I searched the debian

Re: Gnome problems

2006-07-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:45:09 -0600 edwardsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gnome has been giving me mysterious problems. I am running a testing amd64 installation (gnome 2.14). My install was very problematic. The package that checks signatures debsig-verify wouldn't allow many packages to

Re: XMMS: No output plugins specified

2006-07-28 Thread Chris Wakefield
install xmms-arts. I just fixed the exact same problem. Chris W. On Friday 28 July 2006 2:30 am, Markus Neviadomski wrote: Hi, after apt-get update apt-get upgrade on my amd64-box (debian unstable), xmms doesn't work. After startup and pressing play in xmms, the following message appears:

Re: XMMS: No output plugins specified

2006-07-28 Thread Markus Neviadomski
Am Freitag, den 28.07.2006, 02:39 -0700 schrieb Chris Wakefield: install xmms-arts. I just fixed the exact same problem. Chris W. But you have to use the artsd, right? I don't want to do this :) Now it seems, that xmms is broken completely. I installed xmms-arts and xmms-crossfade and both

Re: ext3 vs reiserfs 3.6

2006-07-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Giacomo Mulas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Francesco Pietra wrote: Since I changed from reiserfs 3.6 to ext3 with debian etch amd64, the system no more suffered any crash, after days of running a very heavy computation with mpqc 2.3.1 with thread command for two dual

Re: How to get the right source

2006-07-28 Thread Bill Ranck
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 10:56 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:43:54AM -0400, Bill Ranck wrote: Hello folks, I am new to the 64 bit stuff and I need to rebuild my kernel for multiple processors. Why not just install the amd64-k8-smp kernel that comes with the

Menu Debian in KDE refresh: how ?

2006-07-28 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello all, I would like to refresh the Debian-menu in KDE (as I have many orphaned entries). I had this problem some time ago, and I had to delete some file in my home. Accidently I deleted your mail with the solution from the past and cannot find your answer in the debian-lists, too. Would

Re: Menu Debian in KDE refresh: how ?

2006-07-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 02:33:03PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hello all, I would like to refresh the Debian-menu in KDE (as I have many orphaned entries). I had this problem some time ago, and I had to delete some file in my home. Accidently I deleted your mail with the solution from

Re: XMMS: No output plugins specified

2006-07-28 Thread Antti Pyykko
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Markus Neviadomski wrote: after apt-get update apt-get upgrade on my amd64-box (debian unstable), xmms doesn't work. After startup and pressing play in xmms, the following message appears: no output plugins specified. Yeah, same here. XMMS seems to be broken. No output

Re: ext3 vs reiserfs 3.6

2006-07-28 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 01:31:58PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Giacomo Mulas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Francesco Pietra wrote: Since I changed from reiserfs 3.6 to ext3 with debian etch amd64, the system no more suffered any crash, after days of running a

Re: ext3 vs reiserfs 3.6

2006-07-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:12:43AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Weird! That's supposed to be the very thing reiserfs *is* good at. No actually reiserfs is rather fragile since it has essentially no redundancy in the meta data, unlike ext2/ext3 which have redundant superblocks and such. I

Re: GoogleEarth install

2006-07-28 Thread Brett Viren
Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 27 July 2006 06:28 am, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:24:53PM -0700, Rob Blomquist wrote: I just tried running it inside my chroot, and it works. although a bit pokey. I'm guessing you don't have hardware OpenGL

Re: GoogleEarth install

2006-07-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:36:21AM -0400, Brett Viren wrote: I'm guessing you don't have hardware OpenGL acceleration going. I found w/out that G.E. is essentially unusable (at least on my 2GHz Turion, 1GB ram laptop). With it, it is fully captivating! Yeah accalerated opengl really is

system don't boot

2006-07-28 Thread jj cambefort
Hello, I have a working amd system on a bi-xeon DELL, and all works fine until now. On the last reboot try, the system don't boot anymore, i've just a screen with grub Have someone the same problem ? How to correct it ? debian kernel 2.6.12-smp-p4 regards [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get the right source

2006-07-28 Thread A J Stiles
On Friday 28 July 2006 13:25, Bill Ranck wrote: Thanks to everyone who responded. Our local policy is that we rebuild all linux kernels without loadable kernel modules. So, I have to rebuild the kernel anyway, and I need to add the smp support as well. Be aware that this WILL cause you

Re: Menu Debian in KDE refresh: how ?

2006-07-28 Thread sigi
Hi, On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 02:33:03PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: I would like to refresh the Debian-menu in KDE (as I have many orphaned entries). I had this problem some time ago, and I had to delete some file in my home. Accidently I deleted your mail with the solution from the past

Re: How to get the right source

2006-07-28 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Friday 28 July 2006 09:25, Bill Ranck wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 10:56 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:43:54AM -0400, Bill Ranck wrote: Hello folks, I am new to the 64 bit stuff and I need to rebuild my kernel for multiple processors. Why not just

Re: ext3 vs reiserfs 3.6

2006-07-28 Thread Francesco Pietra
On Friday 28 July 2006 09:55, Giacomo Mulas wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Francesco Pietra wrote: Since I changed from reiserfs 3.6 to ext3 with debian etch amd64, the system no more suffered any crash, after days of running a very heavy computation with mpqc 2.3.1 with thread command for two

Re: ext3 vs reiserfs 3.6

2006-07-28 Thread Giacomo Mulas
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Francesco Pietra wrote: Anyway, install mpqc 2.3.1 on a two dual opteron machine with 8GB ram. Have no gui, no applications other that for crushing numbers. Launch a geometry optimization for a conformationally mobile molecule complex enough that on threads n=4 command it

RE: ext3 vs reiserfs 3.6

2006-07-28 Thread Peter Yorke
My biggest problem with reiser wasn't crashing, but data/disk corruption with sleepcat databases. But I agree, the memory testing is critical before putting a system into service. Since moving to XFS, rock solid! Even during power outages. Peter Yorke Sr. Linux Server Engineer Vulcan, Inc.

Re: How to get the right source

2006-07-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 02:58:31PM +0100, A J Stiles wrote: Be aware that this WILL cause you problems with some devices. I know from experience that the usb-storage module (for digital cameras, multi slot readers and external HDDs) occasionally (too rarely to investigate, but often

Re: How to get the right source

2006-07-28 Thread A J Stiles
On Friday 28 July 2006 16:29, Lennart Sorensen wrote: For anything other than an embedded system, a modular kernel is a much better idea. . I can't think of any good reason for a non modular kernel on a system in general. It doesn't have any benefits. A non-modular kernel

Re: ext3 vs reiserfs 3.6

2006-07-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:12:43AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Weird! That's supposed to be the very thing reiserfs *is* good at. No actually reiserfs is rather fragile since it has essentially no redundancy in the meta data, unlike ext2/ext3

Re: ext3 vs reiserfs 3.6

2006-07-28 Thread Jaime Ochoa Malagón
A google search... http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388 On 7/28/06, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:12:43AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Weird! That's supposed to be the very thing reiserfs

Re: Gnome problems

2006-07-28 Thread edwardsa
Yes, yes, yes!! Thanks very much. Art Edwards On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:36:58AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:45:09 -0600 edwardsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gnome has been giving me mysterious problems. I am running a testing amd64 installation (gnome 2.14). My

ATI-driver 3D Acceleration on Acer Aspire 5022

2006-07-28 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, still I got 3D-acceleration NOT to work, better say, working bad. Acceleration is working, but still slow (yes, it is all activated and checked) Now I found this advice: -- snip -- Broken MTRR Problem (3D Acceleration doesn't work) It seems Acer's BIOS doesn't

Re: ATI-driver 3D Acceleration on Acer Aspire 5022

2006-07-28 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:50:12 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: But what the hell is this /etc/rc.local on Debian-systems ? I cannot find it anywhere, due to its different achitecture. Can some specialist help me ? /etc/rc.local is simply the last init script run in redhat based distros. It is

wftodm segfaults on AMD64

2006-07-28 Thread 韓達耐
Hi! I'm the package maintainer of the soon-to-be-uploaded CJK packages. CJK allows to write Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai and other languages in LaTeX, supporting different encodings such as UTF-8. A package that I would like to upload to my sponsor, Frank Küster, as soon as I can. It will

Re: XMMS: No output plugins specified

2006-07-28 Thread Chris Wakefield
Hi Markus, Yes, I spoke too soon, I also have that playlist problem. I agree that an upgrade will fix it, hopefully soon. Chris W. On Friday 28 July 2006 3:14 am, Markus Neviadomski wrote: Am Freitag, den 28.07.2006, 02:39 -0700 schrieb Chris Wakefield: install xmms-arts. I just fixed the

Re: wftodm segfaults on AMD64

2006-07-28 Thread masami
Hi. on 07/29/06 08:11, Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) wrote: If any if you could help me why test.c crashes on my computer and not on any other (i386) computer, I would be very grateful, since I'm no programmer. simply, you should include time.h instead of sys/time.h. also I recommend use -Wall option

Re: apparent crashes persist.

2006-07-28 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:59:55AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:04:53AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After much further trying (documented to some extent in this thread) I'm back to suspecting the software again. I've summarized the state of affairs as