[gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.27-r5 soft lockup

2008-12-15 Thread Dave Oxley
I upgraded from gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r4 to -r5 a couple of days ago and got the below error messages in /var/log/messages. Also dovecot was using 100% CPU and could not be killed. This resulted in me having to hard reset the server. This happened 3 times until I eventually reverted back to -r4

[gentoo-user] Re: UDEV help

2008-12-15 Thread »Q«
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:37:06 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: > Is there any way of making udev recognize that the sda1 device is a > child of the actual hardware? Yes. You can use attributes from the device itself and from any single parent device. What you can't do is use attributes from multiple pa

Re: [gentoo-user] lanmap ebuild

2008-12-15 Thread Eric Martin
Justin wrote: > It is in sunrise now. > > Uh, I can't find it. I sync'd sunrise and ran update-eix. Eix can't find it and I don't see it in the dir structure...Am I missing something? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV help

2008-12-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 09:16:38PM -0500, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: > I have had this line in my /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules for a > couple years now > > > BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd?[0-9]", SYSFS{serial}=="DEF10BDD77EE", NAME="%k", > SYMLINK+="BackUpDrive" > > > > looki

[gentoo-user] UDEV help

2008-12-15 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list: I have had this line in my /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules for a couple years now BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd?[0-9]", SYSFS{serial}=="DEF10BDD77EE", NAME="%k", SYMLINK+="BackUpDrive" which matched my external USB harddrive enclosure and name it /dev/BackUpDrive for convenience.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-15 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> Mick wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Clone that config: > >make cloneconfig How does this compare to make oldconfig? >>> It doesn't, because it doesn't even exist.

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Mick wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Clone that config: make cloneconfig How does this compare to make oldconfig? It doesn't, because it doesn't even exist. I meant "oldconfig" here :P (openSUSE has a cloneconfig targe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-15 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Mick wrote: >> On Thursday 11 December 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >>> Clone that config: >>> >>>make cloneconfig >> >> How does this compare to make oldconfig? > > It doesn't, because it doesn't even exist. I meant "oldconfig" here :P > > (openSUSE has a clone

[gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mick wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Clone that config: make cloneconfig How does this compare to make oldconfig? It doesn't, because it doesn't even exist. I meant "oldconfig" here :P (openSUSE has a cloneconfig target and I got it mixed up here. Sorry.)

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 15 December 2008 20:38:59 Mark Knecht wrote: > One reason to be concerned about ANY software RAID solution would be > that when you boot something like a gparted CD to do some work you > won't necessarily have the right driver on the CD so you won't be able > to see the devices. A true ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-15 Thread Mick
On Thursday 11 December 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Clone that config: > >make cloneconfig How does this compare to make oldconfig? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Grant wrote: >> Grant, >> I have no direct experience but I was asking some questions on this >> list recently. One disadvantage of software RAD would be that >> partition management tools like parted may not (or WILL not) do >> resizing on a software RAID but wi

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-15 Thread Grant
>> > I have no direct experience but I was asking some questions on this >> > list recently. One disadvantage of software RAD would be that >> > partition management tools like parted may not (or WILL not) do >> > resizing on a software RAID but will (or should!) on hardware RAID. If >> > you go

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Grant wrote: >> Grant, >> I have no direct experience but I was asking some questions on this >> list recently. One disadvantage of software RAD would be that >> partition management tools like parted may not (or WILL not) do >> resizing on a software RAID but wi

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 15 December 2008 18:48:26 Grant wrote: > > Grant, > > I have no direct experience but I was asking some questions on this > > list recently. One disadvantage of software RAD would be that > > partition management tools like parted may not (or WILL not) do > > resizing on a software RAID

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-15 Thread Grant
> Grant, > I have no direct experience but I was asking some questions on this > list recently. One disadvantage of software RAD would be that > partition management tools like parted may not (or WILL not) do > resizing on a software RAID but will (or should!) on hardware RAID. If > you go with s

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver

2008-12-15 Thread Mark David Dumlao
er, anyone? On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > I did a recent emerge -uDNav world and most of my gnome packages are 2.24 > now.2 issues: > 1) Logout, shutdown, restart commands from gnome menu don't seem to be > working. Nothing happens, no menu appears. Same goes for us

Re: [gentoo-user] Question Re: Flash and Firefox

2008-12-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 15 December 2008 10:30:47 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:13:29 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I have net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36-r1 installed, and it's 32-bit. > > All the files listed by equery are 32-bit. Equery and emerge don't list > > any USE flags for the pack

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-15 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Monday 15 December 2008 03:40:00 am Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:48:47 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > I've also discovered that the /etc/make.profile symlink was pointing at > > the x86 default-linux profile set, not the amd64 profile. > > > > I'm attempting a recompile now with

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 15 Dezember 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 14 December 2008 11:04:39 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > LVM's support for mirroring and striping is exceptionally crude to say > > the least. You will also have problems if your stripes do not align with > > the underlying volume. Seeing as L

Re: [gentoo-user] Question Re: Flash and Firefox

2008-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:13:29 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I have net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36-r1 installed, and it's 32-bit. > All the files listed by equery are 32-bit. Equery and emerge don't list > any USE flags for the package, so how do you get a 64-bit version? Unmask 10.0.20.7* --

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:59:39 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > So it's fair to say you don't like MB RAID, then? ;-) I think it's a great idea, just one that no one seems to have implemented yet ... -- Neil Bothwick Who messed with my anti-paranoia shot? signature.asc Description: PGP signatu

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 14 December 2008 11:04:39 Alan McKinnon wrote: > LVM's support for mirroring and striping is exceptionally crude to say > the least. You will also have problems if your stripes do not align with > the underlying volume. Seeing as LVM is designed to make volume > management easier and RAI

Re: [gentoo-user] Question Re: Flash and Firefox

2008-12-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 14 December 2008 16:09:46 Paul Hartman wrote: > I second the suggestion to move to the 64-bit version of Flash Player > (and firefox) and unmerge nspluginwrapper. I have had zero flash > problems since then. I have net-www/netscape-flash-10.0.12.36-r1 installed, and it's 32-bit. All th

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:48:47 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > I've also discovered that the /etc/make.profile symlink was pointing at > the x86 default-linux profile set, not the amd64 profile. > > I'm attempting a recompile now with the symlink changed, and hopefully > this will fix my problems. I