Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

2009-03-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 22 March 2009 22:42:39 Momesso Andrea wrote: > Thanks for the advice. Will be a problem for lvm if I add a partition > before it? I mean, will I need to change any config files while lvm is > gonna reside on sda4 instead of sda3? It's not a problem. LVM scans the drive looking for pvs an

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

2009-03-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 22 March 2009 23:00:07 Momesso Andrea wrote: > On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:35:35 +0200 > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sunday 22 March 2009 22:15:14 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > Your data is safe if you do exactly the steps you said above. > > pvresize /dev/sda3 > /dev/sda3: too many metadata

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

2009-03-23 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:22:20 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 22 March 2009 23:00:07 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:35:35 +0200 > > > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Sunday 22 March 2009 22:15:14 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > > > Your data is safe if you do exactly the steps

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:18:09 -0500, Dale wrote: > I'm not real familiar with aliases but know what it is. If you use the > alias method, how would you disable it for a one time run? If you gave the alias the same name as the command, just use the full path to the command to call it directly. Bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

2009-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:57:08 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote: > It looks more like a workaround than a solution. If my non native > English understood it well, it suggests to backup everything, recreate > the pv for the whole size, and then restore from backup. Since you currently have plenty of free

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

2009-03-23 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:57:19 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:57:08 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote: > > > It looks more like a workaround than a solution. If my non native > > English understood it well, it suggests to backup everything, > > recreate the pv for the whole size, an

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

2009-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:07:59 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote: > > Since you currently have plenty of free space, you don't have to take > > the system out of service to do a backup. Create a new PV in sda4 and > > run pvmove, then remove and recreate the PV on sda3 and pvmove the > > data back. Then y

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

2009-03-23 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:31:20 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:07:59 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote: > > > > Since you currently have plenty of free space, you don't have to > > > take the system out of service to do a backup. Create a new PV in > > > sda4 and run pvmove, then rem

Re: [gentoo-user] extending /usr partition...

2009-03-23 Thread BRM
I never said LVM would do data recovery or provide Data Integrity - thats the job of the soft-RAID - though even that won't prevent PEBKAC errors (e.g. delete file). And LVM adds more than a 'little' complexity. If I had just lost the drive, I would have known exactly what I had lost as I wou

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound doesn't work on Asus-P5B-Deluxe

2009-03-23 Thread rdkrsr
2009/3/19 Neil Bothwick : > On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:10:35 +0100, rdkrsr wrote: > > I have a P5B with working sound and these are my sound settings Thanks for your configs. I checked again, but I must admit that I probably had a mistake in the mixer settings. But I'm quite sure, that I didn't find t

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, saving files after updating gtk+

2009-03-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if the gtk+ update is relevant here but it was the only > thing I could find that was recently upgraded that may fit. It used to > be that if I was saving a file, picture or attachment in Seamonkey and > created a new folder, it

[gentoo-user] lm_sensors for AMD K10

2009-03-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, does anybody know about a patch to make lm_sensors work with a PhenomII which uses AMD K10 for temperature sensing. sensors-detect detects it but there is no config file for that configuration. Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH -

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, saving files after updating gtk+

2009-03-23 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Dale wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm not sure if the gtk+ update is relevant here but it was the only >> thing I could find that was recently upgraded that may fit. It used to >> be that if I was saving a file, picture or attachment in Seamonkey

Re: [gentoo-user] lm_sensors for AMD K10

2009-03-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > does anybody know about a patch to make lm_sensors work > with a PhenomII which uses AMD K10 for temperature sensing. > > sensors-detect detects it but there is no config file for that > configuration. > > Many thanks for a hint, >

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, saving files after updating gtk+

2009-03-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Dale wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm not sure if the gtk+ update is relevant here but it was the only >>> thing I could find that was recently upgraded that may fit. It used to >>> be that if I

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, saving files after updating gtk+

2009-03-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Dale wrote: >> Paul Hartman wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Dale wrote: >>> Hi, I'm not sure if the gtk+ update is relevant here but it was the only thing I could find that w

[gentoo-user] Syslog-ng using a spectacular amount of CPU time... (I'm using sshguard)

2009-03-23 Thread Steve
Has anyone any ideas? The syslog-ng is the usually the first line reported by top: 4097 root 20 0 3120 1060 708 R 48.3 0.1 677:46.38 syslog-ng The files in /var/log seem to be growing at an expected slow pace and aren't reporting anything unexpected. I followed a 'howto' and have

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey, saving files after updating gtk+

2009-03-23 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Dale wrote: >> >>> Paul Hartman wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if the gtk+ updat

[gentoo-user] can't upgrade to latest pkg

2009-03-23 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I did eix-sync and upgraded portage but when I try to upgrade gentoo-sources portage wants to get v2.6.27 and for tuxonice-sources it goes for v2.6.24. How do I tell portage to get the latest packages? Maxim __ Y

[gentoo-user] Re: can't upgrade to latest pkg

2009-03-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, I did eix-sync and upgraded portage but when I try to upgrade gentoo-sources portage wants to get v2.6.27 and for tuxonice-sources it goes for v2.6.24. How do I tell portage to get the latest packages? By keywording them. By default, portage only installed late

Re: [gentoo-user] can't upgrade to latest pkg

2009-03-23 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
maxim wexler schrieb am 23.03.2009 17:08: > I did eix-sync and upgraded portage but when I try to upgrade gentoo-sources > portage wants to get v2.6.27 and for tuxonice-sources it goes for v2.6.24. > > How do I tell portage to get the latest packages? These are the latest stable versions. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] can't upgrade to latest pkg

2009-03-23 Thread maxim wexler
> These are the latest stable versions. If you want testing > versions you > need to put the into /etc/portage/package.keywords [1]. > > [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3 > Nope, Using the model given: app-office/gnumeric ~x86 like this: =sys-kernel/tu

Re: [gentoo-user] can't upgrade to latest pkg

2009-03-23 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
maxim wexler schrieb am 23.03.2009 18:43: > Nope, > > Using the model given: > > app-office/gnumeric ~x86 > > like this: > > =sys-kernel/tuxonice-sources-2.6.28 ~x86 > > in package.keywords, gives the same result as above. No wonder =sys-kernel/tuxonice-sources-2.6.28 does not exist :-) With

Re: [gentoo-user] can't upgrade to latest pkg-FIXED

2009-03-23 Thread maxim wexler
> >=sys-kernel/tuxonice-sources-2.6.28 ~x86 Yeah, I just found this out and rushed back but you beat me to it:) mw __ Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! M

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

2009-03-23 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 March 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Caveat: I have no idea why this doesn't work, but if you make sda4 an > extended partition and create sda5 as a logical with exactly the same start > and end as you describe above, you do in fact lose all data. Obviously > there is a difference betwe

Re: [gentoo-user] setting a USE flags for many packages

2009-03-23 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 March 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 22 March 2009 21:53:25 Dale wrote: > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:43:29 +0100 (CET), Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > >> I normally like to have the documentation built for all packages. > > >> Therefore I have added 'doc' t

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing physical volume for lvm.

2009-03-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 23 March 2009 20:16:15 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 22 March 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Caveat: I have no idea why this doesn't work, but if you make sda4 an > > extended partition and create sda5 as a logical with exactly the same > > start and end as you describe above, you do in fact lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng using a spectacular amount of CPU time... (I'm using sshguard)

2009-03-23 Thread Steve
Steve wrote: destination sshguardproc { program("/usr/local/sbin/sshguard" template("$DATE $FULLHOST $MESSAGE\n")); }; The presence of the above line is definitely what triggers the excessive CPU usage - it is almost as-if syslog-ng is 'busy-waiting' for the sshguard process.

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng using a spectacular amount of CPU time... (I'm using sshguard)

2009-03-23 Thread Steve
Steve wrote: This is very frustrating... having played around, the syslog-ng tends towards using 100% CPU when my server is otherwise quiet - if, and only if, I have the program destination... even if the destination is not used. Oh, and strace shows syslog-ng frantically polling file-descrip

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng using a spectacular amount of CPU time... (I'm using sshguard)

2009-03-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 23 March 2009 21:27:15 Steve wrote: > Steve wrote: > >> destination sshguardproc { > >> program("/usr/local/sbin/sshguard" > >> template("$DATE $FULLHOST $MESSAGE\n")); > >> }; > > The presence of the above line is definitely what triggers the excessive > CPU usage - it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng using a spectacular amount of CPU time... (I'm using sshguard)

2009-03-23 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Steve (gentoo_...@shic.co.uk) [23.03.09 20:27]: > Steve wrote: > >> destination sshguardproc { > >> program("/usr/local/sbin/sshguard" > >> template("$DATE $FULLHOST $MESSAGE\n")); > >> }; > >> program() only takes 1 argument: the programname. Any thing you want to pass, you hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng using a spectacular amount of CPU time... (I'm using sshguard)

2009-03-23 Thread Steve
Steve wrote: Do others get this behaviour - is this a bug in syslog-ng? Sorry for the multiple posts... a slight error on my part. The sshguard process wasn't running - a /bin/sh process trying to spawn it was running (there was no link from /usr/local... to the binary) and when the binary

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng using a spectacular amount of CPU time... (I'm using sshguard)

2009-03-23 Thread Steve
Sebastian Günther wrote: program() only takes 1 argument: the programname. There aren't two arguments (no comma) - and, yes, the syntax is odd - but it is exactly what is given by the sshguard man page - and seems to be confirmed by the syslog-ng manual, too. BTW: Just curious: you do not us

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng using a spectacular amount of CPU time... (I'm using sshguard)

2009-03-23 Thread Steve
Alan McKinnon wrote: In short: top lies, On this occasion, top was telling the truth. ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng using a spectacular amount of CPU time... (I'm using sshguard)

2009-03-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Steve wrote: > Steve wrote: >> >> Do others get this behaviour - is this a bug in syslog-ng? > > Sorry for the multiple posts... a slight error on my part. The sshguard > process wasn't running - a /bin/sh process trying to spawn it was running > (there was no lin

[gentoo-user] gentoo on a usb stick

2009-03-23 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I was planning to put the i686-2008.0-LiveCD-installer on a USB stick and install it on a Asus 900A eeePC. But I understand the kernel on the CD is http://ca.answers.yahoo.com

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a usb stick

2009-03-23 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
maxim wexler schrieb am 23.03.2009 22:31: > I was planning to put the i686-2008.0-LiveCD-installer on a USB stick and > install it on a Asus 900A eeePC. But I understand the kernel on the CD is > wifi. Can someone confirm this? > > If true, can I simply add the driver after the fact? Any body

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a usb stick

2009-03-23 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Daniel Pielmeier schrieb am 23.03.2009 22:40: > You may want to take a look at the SystemRescueCd [1] afaik it is based > on gentoo and more up to date. It is also possible to install it on a > live-cd. Of course I want to say. You can install it on an usb-stick :-) signature.asc Description: O

[gentoo-user] Re: can't upgrade to latest pkg

2009-03-23 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > maxim wexler schrieb am 23.03.2009 18:43: >> Nope, >> >> Using the model given: >> >> app-office/gnumeric ~x86 >> >> like this: >> >> =sys-kernel/tuxonice-sources-2.6.28 ~x86 >> >> in package.keywords, gives the same result a

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a usb stick

2009-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:40:30 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > I was planning to put the i686-2008.0-LiveCD-installer on a USB stick > > and install it on a Asus 900A eeePC. But I understand the kernel on > > the CD is > eee's on-board wifi. Can someone confirm this? > > > > If true, can I sim

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-23 Thread Dale
Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 22:18 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:26:40 -0500, Dale wrote: >>> >>> >>> >> emerge -pvDu --reinstall changed-use @world >> >> ??? Certainly a lot more typing. ;-) >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-23 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
2009/3/23 Dale : > Oh, OK.    If it is set up to add that > option, how do you tell it not to use it? alias ls='/bin/ls --color' alias l='ls -l' With these aliases in your .bashrc (or whatever is appropriate in your environment), you can now use 'ls' and 'l'. Of course, you already had 'ls' (name

[gentoo-user] Who mount sysfs?

2009-03-23 Thread SOrCErEr
Hello, My gentoo system has a problem. It has not mounted sysfs while boot process. I have to do mount sysfs by my hand now. Of course, udev rc scripts has line of "need sysfs". And udev rc script was added in sysinit service. So I would like to know who mounts sysfs when Gentoo in boot process i

Re: [gentoo-user] Who mount sysfs?

2009-03-23 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 10:38 +0900, SOrCErEr wrote: > Hello, > > My gentoo system has a problem. > It has not mounted sysfs while boot process. > I have to do mount sysfs by my hand now. > > Of course, udev rc scripts has line of "need sysfs". And udev rc > script was added in sysinit service. > S

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-23 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 18:58 -0500, Dale wrote: > Albert Hopkins wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 22:18 -0500, Dale wrote: > > > >> Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:26:40 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> emerge -pvDu --reinstall changed-use @world

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-23 Thread James Skinner
Man. Is this thread really going to continue?? On 3/23/09, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 18:58 -0500, Dale wrote: >> Albert Hopkins wrote: >> > On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 22:18 -0500, Dale wrote: >> > >> >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:26:40 -0500, Dale wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] Who mount sysfs?

2009-03-23 Thread SOrCErEr
2009/3/24 Albert Hopkins > On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 10:38 +0900, SOrCErEr wrote: > > Hello, > > > > My gentoo system has a problem. > > It has not mounted sysfs while boot process. > > I have to do mount sysfs by my hand now. > > > > Of course, udev rc scripts has line of "need sysfs". And udev rc >

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-23 Thread Dale
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > 2009/3/23 Dale : > >> Oh, OK.If it is set up to add that >> option, how do you tell it not to use it? >> > > alias ls='/bin/ls --color' > alias l='ls -l' > > With these aliases in your .bashrc (or whatever is appropriate in your > environment), you can now use 'l

Re: [gentoo-user] Who mount sysfs?

2009-03-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 24 March 2009 05:01:36 SOrCErEr wrote: > No, that isn't. That file exists. > So I tested like below. > > /etc/init.d/udev stop > /etc/init.d/sysfs stop > /etc/init.d/udev start > /etc/init.d/sysfs status > > Result is > "* status: stopped" I had this problem recently. I had updated to u

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-23 Thread Dale
James Skinner wrote: > Man. Is this thread really going to continue?? > > If you are not careful, you will get someone on the no top posting soapbox. LOL This is a educational channel and there are teachers and learners. I'm the learner. We can however change the subject line if you wish?