Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31-gentoo-r10 kernel segfaults on shutdown

2010-03-03 Thread Damian
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Damian wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Mick wrote: >> Can you make any sense of this? >> === >> kernel BUG at kernel/time/clockevents.c:262! >> invalid opcode: [#1] PREEMPT SMP >> [snip ...] >> >> note: halt[123

Re: [gentoo-user] No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 March 2010 03:28:27 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 22:07:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > % ssh myt...@agrajag uptime > > > > > > > >17:58:52 up 51 days, 16:25, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.10, > > > > > > > > 0.09 > > > > > > You call it Agrajag and talk a

Re: [gentoo-user] nepomuk 4.4 is emerged with kde 4.3

2010-03-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 March 2010 04:02:56 Xi Shen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 04 March 2010 02:27:40 Xi Shen wrote: > >> hi, > >> > >> my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. and i found nepomuk, along with > >> some other packages, are using 4.4 version. i

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 March 2010 08:44:27 Graham Murray wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > no, it is not safe to have a 64bit only system. Just choose the multilib > > profile and start installing. If something needs the 32bit emul libs, it > > will pull the stuff in. There is nothing you need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-03 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 06:44:27AM +, Graham Murray wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > > no, it is not safe to have a 64bit only system. Just choose the multilib > > profile and start installing. If something needs the 32bit emul libs, it > > will > > pull the stuff in. There is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FreeNX password vs. ssh-key

2010-03-03 Thread Amit Dor-Shifer
Anyone? Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: BTW, am I the only-one who can't get x2go to build? amit0 ~ # emerge -av x2goserver These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies / * Please fix your package (net-misc/x2gosessionadministration-2.0.1.10) to not use kde.eclass /u

[gentoo-user] Re: Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/04/2010 08:44 AM, Graham Murray wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann writes: no, it is not safe to have a 64bit only system. Just choose the multilib profile and start installing. If something needs the 32bit emul libs, it will pull the stuff in. There is nothing you need to care about. What is

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31-gentoo-r10 kernel segfaults on shutdown

2010-03-03 Thread Damian
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Mick wrote: > Can you make any sense of this? > === > kernel BUG at kernel/time/clockevents.c:262! > invalid opcode: [#1] PREEMPT SMP > [snip ...] > > note: halt[12361] exited with preempt_count 2 > /etc/init.d/shutdown.s

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-03 Thread Graham Murray
Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > no, it is not safe to have a 64bit only system. Just choose the multilib > profile and start installing. If something needs the 32bit emul libs, it will > pull the stuff in. There is nothing you need to care about. What is unsafe about a 64bit only system? Surely

[gentoo-user] how to add custom compilation options?

2010-03-03 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i want to emerge the crypto++ package with the "-DCRYPTOPP_DISABLE_ASM" option. i tried to add it into the CFLAGS variable, but it did not work. please tell me how to do this. -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/

Re: [gentoo-user] nepomuk 4.4 is emerged with kde 4.3

2010-03-03 Thread Xi Shen
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 04 March 2010 02:27:40 Xi Shen wrote: >> hi, >> >> my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. and i found nepomuk, along with >> some other packages, are using 4.4 version. is it correct? > > No. > > Nepomuk is slotted like KDE. I suspect

Re: [gentoo-user] No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 17:20:50 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > Precisely, I hate to imagine what kind of a system will Neil decide to > call "Wowbagger". I've not used one yet, but I did have a laptop call Eccentrica :) -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 007: System price error - Inadequate money spent on har

Re: [gentoo-user] No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 22:07:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > % ssh myt...@agrajag uptime > > > > > >17:58:52 up 51 days, 16:25, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.10, > > > 0.09 > > > > You call it Agrajag and talk about stability? You big tempter of fate > > you. > > > Wasn't Agrajag th

Re: [gentoo-user] nepomuk 4.4 is emerged with kde 4.3

2010-03-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 March 2010 02:27:40 Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. and i found nepomuk, along with > some other packages, are using 4.4 version. is it correct? No. Nepomuk is slotted like KDE. I suspect you are running a stable system and have added nepomuk to packa

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia GeForce 6200 questions

2010-03-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 17:18:38 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 16:09:06 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > There was a patch for the 190.53 driver released yesterday to > > > make it work with 2.6.33. > > > > Can you give a link please? I'm having trouble compiling > > nvidia-drivers

[gentoo-user] nepomuk 4.4 is emerged with kde 4.3

2010-03-03 Thread Xi Shen
hi, my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. and i found nepomuk, along with some other packages, are using 4.4 version. is it correct? also, i have a problem with nepomuk. whenever i start X, it pops up "Nepomuk was not able to find the configured database backend 'sesame2'. Existing data can thus no

Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

2010-03-03 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 22:02:06 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Dale wrote: > > Also, if you file a bug report somewhere, I got to the site, click on a > > thread then try to go back to the home page by clicking on the link in > > the top box. So far, it has not been ab

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 03 März 2010, Mick wrote: > So how 'safe' is it these days to build a 64bit only system? Would you end > up having to rebuild with multilibs because many apps which won't work on > a pure 64bit build? no, it is not safe to have a 64bit only system. Just choose the multilib profile

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-03 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 20:04:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 03 March 2010 19:04:45 Stroller wrote: > > On 3 Mar 2010, at 15:29, Stroller wrote: > > > ... > > > I have started following the Gentoo Linux AMD64 Handbook, because > > > the Quick Install Guide is described as "x86". Having u

Re: [gentoo-user] No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 10:07:22PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 03 March 2010 20:23:01 Willie Wong wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:59:32PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > % ssh myt...@agrajag uptime > > > > > >17:58:52 up 51 days, 16:25, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.10

Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Dale wrote: > Also, if you file a bug report somewhere, I got to the site, click on a > thread then try to go back to the home page by clicking on the link in the > top box. So far, it has not been able to get past that point. Oh, my CPU > is at 100% doing whatev

Re: [gentoo-user] No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread stosss
> Wasn't Agrajag the toothless wonder that kept getting accidentally killed by > Arthur Dent? Yes

Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

2010-03-03 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Wednesday 03 March 2010 03:54:06 Dale wrote: I did click around on the site earlier but I'm not registered to do anything else. I just went back and tried to navigate a bit more. I went to a thread then clicked to go bac

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-03-03, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Grant Edwards >>> >>> I read the instructions for fixing the broken database encoding, but >>> it appears mine is fine -- so updating to 0.22 won't be quite as >>> painful

[gentoo-user] Re: No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-03-03, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Grant Edwards >> >> I read the instructions for fixing the broken database encoding, but >> it appears mine is fine -- so updating to 0.22 won't be quite as >> painful as it might have been. ??I'll still have to re-build the >> f

Re: [gentoo-user] No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 20:23:01 Willie Wong wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:59:32PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > % ssh myt...@agrajag uptime > > > >17:58:52 up 51 days, 16:25, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.10, 0.09 > > You call it Agrajag and talk about stability? You big tempter

[gentoo-user] 2.6.31-gentoo-r10 kernel segfaults on shutdown

2010-03-03 Thread Mick
Can you make any sense of this? === kernel BUG at kernel/time/clockevents.c:262! invalid opcode: [#1] PREEMPT SMP [snip ...] note: halt[12361] exited with preempt_count 2 /etc/init.d/shutdown.sh: line 9: 12361 Segmentation fault /sbin/halt "${opts}" =

Re: [gentoo-user] No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 18:52:46 Grant Edwards wrote: > When upgrading a machine today, I saw a notice that mythtv 0.21 has > now been hardmasked. I think it's because it depends on an obsolte > version of Qt. Don't get me started on the royal PITA of requiring > that Qt be installed for a bac

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 19:04:45 Stroller wrote: > On 3 Mar 2010, at 15:29, Stroller wrote: > > ... > > I have started following the Gentoo Linux AMD64 Handbook, because > > the Quick Install Guide is described as "x86". Having untarred the > > stage I am surprised to find a lib32 directory. I t

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 19:30:56 stosss wrote: > > I wonder if amarok would not be better off using the strigi/nepomuk > > indexing function, instead of trying to be real clever and doing it > > itself. > > I think Amarok uses MySQL. Amarok definitely uses MySQL, but that's the storage functio

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 19:32:57 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I wonder if amarok would not be better off using the strigi/nepomuk > > indexing function, instead of trying to be real clever and doing it > > itself. > > AFAIK it is on the Amaro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-03-03, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Grant Edwards >> wrote: >>> When upgrading a machine today, I saw a notice that mythtv 0.21 has >>> now been hardmasked. ??I think it's because it depends on an obsolte >

[gentoo-user] Re: No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-03-03, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> When upgrading a machine today, I saw a notice that mythtv 0.21 has >> now been hardmasked. ??I think it's because it depends on an obsolte >> version of Qt. ??Don't get me started on the royal PITA of

Re: [gentoo-user] No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:59:32PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > % ssh myt...@agrajag uptime >17:58:52 up 51 days, 16:25, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.10, 0.09 You call it Agrajag and talk about stability? You big tempter of fate you. :) W -- Willie W. Wong

Re: [gentoo-user] No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:52:46 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > Since 0.21 and 0.23 is hardmasked, and mythv 0.22 is unstable on > everything except the amd64 platform, what's an X86 user to do? It may be in a testing ebuild but it is far from unstable: % ssh myt...@agrajag uptime 17:58:52 up

Re: [gentoo-user] No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > When upgrading a machine today, I saw a notice that mythtv 0.21 has > now been hardmasked.  I think it's because it depends on an obsolte > version of Qt.  Don't get me started on the royal PITA of requiring > that Qt be installed for a backen

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Wednesday 03 March 2010 13:27:45 Alex Schuster wrote: [RANT RANT RANT] > > Ah, I see the problem. It mainly scans /data/mp3/incoming, a > > directory I have NOT selected as collection folder (but most other > > directories in /data/mp3 are selected). Still, those files

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :("

2010-03-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:16:50 +, Stroller wrote: > > If you try to boot, after the failure to check rootfs, it should dump > > you to a recovery console, what happens if you issue ls /dev ? > > About 13 items. Is this unlucky? > > http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/fs-corruption-dev.png Is tha

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I wonder if amarok would not be better off using the strigi/nepomuk indexing > function, instead of trying to be real clever and doing it itself. AFAIK it is on the Amarok to-do list now that the speed is good enough to replace mysql, but no

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-03 Thread stosss
> I wonder if amarok would not be better off using the strigi/nepomuk indexing > function, instead of trying to be real clever and doing it itself. I think Amarok uses MySQL.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the move perl-5.10 involved here

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 11:21:35AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >>> Unpacking source... > >>> Unpacking DBD-mysql-4.013.tar.gz to > >>> /var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.01.3/work > >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.01.3/work > >>> Compiling source in > >>> /var/tm

[gentoo-user] Boost emerge: bjam-1.41 using 100% CPU

2010-03-03 Thread Grant Edwards
I did an update to day on two systems. Both are installed boost-1.41.0-r3, and both "paused" during the install phase for about ten minutes with bjam-1.41 using 100% of the CPU time. Eventually, things become "un-jammed" and various files get copied to the proper destiantions. Is this behavior n

[gentoo-user] Is the move perl-5.10 involved here

2010-03-03 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm having trouble when revdep-rebuild tries to emerge dev-perl/DBD-mysql I can't really make much sense of the output but I see it involves scripting from perl-5.8.8 I've included the tail of the emerge below, and below that the output of emerge --info =dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.01.3 as suggested by

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :("

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:16:50PM +, Stroller wrote: > > Many thanks for your help, Willie! > > About 13 items. Is this unlucky? > > http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/fs-corruption-dev.png > Okay, something is screwed up with udev. Is udev started? Is it upgraded recently? Any config files

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-03 Thread Stroller
On 3 Mar 2010, at 15:29, Stroller wrote: ... I have started following the Gentoo Linux AMD64 Handbook, because the Quick Install Guide is described as "x86". Having untarred the stage I am surprised to find a lib32 directory. I thought compatibility with 32-bit binaries was optional. Or am

Re: [gentoo-user] Pending layman directory "relocation"

2010-03-03 Thread Stroller
On 3 Mar 2010, at 16:33, Alex Schuster wrote: Alan McKinnon writes: On Wednesday 03 March 2010 14:21:23 Neil Bothwick wrote: That's right, they should both be in /var. I concur. /usr has a long tradition is Unix of often being mounted read-only (think thin clients that mount it over NFS).

[gentoo-user] No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread Grant Edwards
When upgrading a machine today, I saw a notice that mythtv 0.21 has now been hardmasked. I think it's because it depends on an obsolte version of Qt. Don't get me started on the royal PITA of requiring that Qt be installed for a backend-only setup on a server. Since 0.21 and 0.23 is hardmasked,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 13:27:45 Alex Schuster wrote: > > On Monday 01 March 2010 18:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote: > > > On the other hand, from time to time I have show-stoppers, and then I > > > cannot use kmail, or no KDE4 at all. And have to invest time to solve > > > this. And there are these

Re: [gentoo-user] vBulletin site causes Konqueror to hang

2010-03-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 03:54:06 Dale wrote: > I did click around on the site earlier but I'm not registered to do > anything else. I just went back and tried to navigate a bit more. I > went to a thread then clicked to go back to the main page. Dicks hat > band could not have done it bett

Re: [gentoo-user] Pending layman directory "relocation"

2010-03-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 18:43:55 stosss wrote: > I am new to Gentoo and just watching this discussion. > > So why does stage three put portage in > > /usr I'm not sure this will mean much to you, but the REAL reasons are that 1. It is a historical artifact that no-one thus far saw fit to ch

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 17:48:39 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > My pet peeve is Desktop. I have two monitors at work and use two X > > screens. KDE wants to create a Desktop and a Desktop-1 directory. I want > > it to just use the same set of fil

Re: [gentoo-user] Pending layman directory "relocation"

2010-03-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 18:33:52 Alex Schuster wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > > On Wednesday 03 March 2010 14:21:23 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > That's right, they should both be in /var. > > > > I concur. /usr has a long tradition is Unix of often being mounted > > read-only (think thin client

Re: [gentoo-user] Pending layman directory "relocation"

2010-03-03 Thread stosss
I am new to Gentoo and just watching this discussion. So why does stage three put portage in /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Willie Wong writes: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:52:55PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I thought the small files of the portage tree especially profit from > > the notail option in reiserfs? Did you change the block size? > > You mean the other way around, right? Oh dear. Yes. Thanks. > reis

Re: [gentoo-user] Pending layman directory "relocation"

2010-03-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Wednesday 03 March 2010 14:21:23 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > That's right, they should both be in /var. > > I concur. /usr has a long tradition is Unix of often being mounted > read-only (think thin clients that mount it over NFS). Any idea why it's different with Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :("

2010-03-03 Thread Stroller
On 3 Mar 2010, at 14:01, Mick wrote: ... Once or twice things went hairy and I would get a message similar to yours. On these rare occasions I booted with a LiveCD and with the partitions unmounted I ran --check, then --fix-fixable and finally --rebuild-tree. You may want to use an external dr

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :("

2010-03-03 Thread Stroller
Many thanks for your help, Willie! On 3 Mar 2010, at 15:18, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:28:11PM +, Stroller wrote: from the output it looks like you are mounting by label? What if you edit fstab to point to the device name /dev/hd?? instead of LABEL=root? Check the files

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > On Monday 01 March 2010 16:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote: > > And another weekend of KDE4 trouble. I rebooted after some upgrades, > > along those were Qt and MySQL. Now, plasma-desktop crashed, also > > when restarting it on the command line. > > [snip ...] > > > Sorry for the whini

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:52:55 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I > > > use. > > > > I thought the small files of the portage tree especially profit from > > the notail option in reiserfs? > > They benefit compa

Re: [gentoo-user] Internal DAT72 : HP C7438A

2010-03-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.03.2010 15:18, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 03.03.2010 14:47, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > >> but you do get /dev/sgX devices? > > Yes. > > Looks like the four SATA-disks, one cdrom and the tapedrive (recognized > as CDROM?): > > # ls -l /dev/sg? > crw-rw 1 root disk 21, 0

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > My pet peeve is Desktop. I have two monitors at work and use two X screens. > KDE wants to create a Desktop and a Desktop-1 directory. I want it to just use > the same set of files for both - background, icons, plasma widgets must be the > sam

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 17:29:06 Stroller wrote: > Hi there, > > A new (to me) server has 64-bit CPUs. By my standards this is a REALLY > NICE high specification machine (I appears to be 2 x dual-core), but > in fact it's about 3 years old & is one of the earliest Intel Xeons > that supports 64

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :("

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 09:29:43AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > > >In my most recent case what looked like a simple disk corruption > > problem was really a prelude to the drive just plain going bad. Have > > you tried smartctl to see what it says about the drive at this

[gentoo-user] Re: Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :("

2010-03-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht writes: >In my most recent case what looked like a simple disk corruption > problem was really a prelude to the drive just plain going bad. Have > you tried smartctl to see what it says about the drive at this point? Sorry to butt in here... is that tool, smartctl in some pkg on

[gentoo-user] Advice for 64-bit n00b?

2010-03-03 Thread Stroller
Hi there, A new (to me) server has 64-bit CPUs. By my standards this is a REALLY NICE high specification machine (I appears to be 2 x dual-core), but in fact it's about 3 years old & is one of the earliest Intel Xeons that supports 64-bits / AMD64 / EMT64. I think it is 64-bit Pentium 4,

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :("

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 02:26:46PM +, Stroller wrote: > I don't think this is a problem. I would love to know what others > think of the `smartctl` output: > > > r...@sysresccd /root % smartctl -H /dev/sda > smartctl version 5.38 [i486-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce > Allen > Ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :("

2010-03-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 3 Mar 2010, at 14:00, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Stroller >> wrote: >>> >>> There seem to have been a few people posting with filesystem corruption >>> in >>> the last week or two. It seems to be my turn, so I ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :("

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:28:11PM +, Stroller wrote: > >from the output it looks like you are mounting by label? What if you > >edit fstab to point to the device name /dev/hd?? instead of > >LABEL=root? Check the filesystem label to make sure it is ok? > > Many thanks for this suggestion, how

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :("

2010-03-03 Thread Stroller
On 3 Mar 2010, at 14:00, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Stroller > wrote: There seem to have been a few people posting with filesystem corruption in the last week or two. It seems to be my turn, so I hope it isn't contagious. The cause here is quite clear - whilst rummagin

Re: [gentoo-user] Internal DAT72 : HP C7438A

2010-03-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.03.2010 14:47, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > but you do get /dev/sgX devices? Yes. Looks like the four SATA-disks, one cdrom and the tapedrive (recognized as CDROM?): # ls -l /dev/sg? crw-rw 1 root disk 21, 0 3. Mär 2010 /dev/sg0 crw-rw 1 root disk 21, 1 3. Mär 2010 /dev/s

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :("

2010-03-03 Thread Mick
On 3 March 2010 13:28, Stroller wrote: > > On 3 Mar 2010, at 12:42, Willie Wong wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:24:42PM +, Stroller wrote: >>> >>> There seem to have been a few people posting with filesystem >>> corruption in the last week or two. It seems to be my turn, so I hope >>> i

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :("

2010-03-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Stroller wrote: > There seem to have been a few people posting with filesystem corruption in > the last week or two. It seems to be my turn, so I hope it isn't contagious. > The cause here is quite clear - whilst rummaging in the server cupboard > yesterday, power t

Re: [gentoo-user] Internal DAT72 : HP C7438A

2010-03-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 03 März 2010, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 03.03.2010 14:07, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > Does anyone know what I need to do to correctly adress such a drive? > > > > I have the modules "usb_storage" and "st" loaded but I don't get any > > /dev/(n)stX ... > but you do get /d

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :("

2010-03-03 Thread Stroller
On 3 Mar 2010, at 12:42, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:24:42PM +, Stroller wrote: There seem to have been a few people posting with filesystem corruption in the last week or two. It seems to be my turn, so I hope it isn't contagious. The cause here is quite clear - whilst r

Re: [gentoo-user] do we have a write-redirect snapshot system on linux?

2010-03-03 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > If I remember right, this can be achieved with aufs2 . > > Helmut. > it is a file system with branching feature. the behavior should looks like snapshot, but it is on file system level. i am trying to look up on on the block device level, l

Re: [gentoo-user] Internal DAT72 : HP C7438A

2010-03-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.03.2010 14:07, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > Does anyone know what I need to do to correctly adress such a drive? > > I have the modules "usb_storage" and "st" loaded but I don't get any > /dev/(n)stX ... Forgot to mention: it is connected via USB ... internally ... I see it via # l

[gentoo-user] Internal DAT72 : HP C7438A

2010-03-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Does anyone know what I need to do to correctly adress such a drive? I have the modules "usb_storage" and "st" loaded but I don't get any /dev/(n)stX ... Kernel 2.6.31-gentoo-r10 ... hmm Do I have to add my own udev-rules ?? Thanks for any pointers, Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update (only) all installed KDE packages

2010-03-03 Thread Graham Murray
Helmut Jarausch writes: > Hi, > > I'd like to upgrade all my installed package from, say, kde-base/* . > emerge -u kde-base/kde-meta doesn't work unfortunately. > > Is there something easier than Try emerge -u $(qlist -IC kde-base/)

Re: [gentoo-user] Pending layman directory "relocation"

2010-03-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 14:21:23 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:10:21 +, Stroller wrote: > > But the different Unix directories are supposed to have different > > general purposes. I don't remember the details of that off the top of > > my head, but putting something in "/var"

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :("

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:24:42PM +, Stroller wrote: > There seem to have been a few people posting with filesystem > corruption in the last week or two. It seems to be my turn, so I hope > it isn't contagious. The cause here is quite clear - whilst rummaging > in the server cupboard yes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] NoSQL?

2010-03-03 Thread Stroller
On 2 Mar 2010, at 17:07, walt wrote: On 03/02/2010 04:23 AM, Arttu V. wrote: On 3/2/10, walt wrote: This article was a big surprise to me. Am I the last one to hear about this stuff? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10461670-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 If you're expec

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:52:55 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I > > use. > > I thought the small files of the portage tree especially profit from > the notail option in reiserfs? They benefit compared with using reiser with tail-pack

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-03 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:52:55PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > Neil Bothwick writes: > > > On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:35:42 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > - best filesystem for portage? something compressed or with small > > > > cluster size maybe. > > > > > > I think reiserfs with the notail o

[gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :("

2010-03-03 Thread Stroller
There seem to have been a few people posting with filesystem corruption in the last week or two. It seems to be my turn, so I hope it isn't contagious. The cause here is quite clear - whilst rummaging in the server cupboard yesterday, power to the machine was accidentally disconnected. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Pending layman directory "relocation"

2010-03-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:10:21 +, Stroller wrote: > But the different Unix directories are supposed to have different > general purposes. I don't remember the details of that off the top of > my head, but putting something in "/var" ought to indicate that it is > somewhat different in natur

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-03-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:35:42 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > - best filesystem for portage? something compressed or with small > > > cluster size maybe. > > > > I think reiserfs with the notail option is recommended. > > The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest,

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-03 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: > On Monday 01 March 2010 18:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote: > > On the other hand, from time to time I have show-stoppers, and then I > > cannot use kmail, or no KDE4 at all. And have to invest time to solve > > this. And there are these annoying things. Like Amarok being very >

Re: [gentoo-user] Pending layman directory "relocation"

2010-03-03 Thread Stroller
On 2 Mar 2010, at 15:51, Peter Humphrey wrote: ... I'm happy with the new default arrangement: mainstream packages under /usr/portage; layman overlays under /var/lib/layman; and my own variations under /usr/local/portage. Nice clean boundaries. Not that I really care, but I find this layout

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update (only) all installed KDE packages

2010-03-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 03 März 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 3 Mar, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch 03 März 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'd like to upgrade all my installed package from, say, kde-base/* . > >> emerge -u kde-base/kde-meta doesn't work unfortunately. > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] do we have a write-redirect snapshot system on linux?

2010-03-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 3 Mar, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > both lvm2 and zfs are copy-on-write snapshot system. do we have a > write-redirect snapshot system on linux? > If I remember right, this can be achieved with aufs2 . Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update (only) all installed KDE packages

2010-03-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 3 Mar, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Mittwoch 03 März 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to upgrade all my installed package from, say, kde-base/* . >> emerge -u kde-base/kde-meta doesn't work unfortunately. >> >> Is there something easier than >> eix --only-names -I 'kde-b

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update (only) all installed KDE packages

2010-03-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 03 März 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to upgrade all my installed package from, say, kde-base/* . > emerge -u kde-base/kde-meta doesn't work unfortunately. > > Is there something easier than > eix --only-names -I 'kde-base/*' | xargs emerge -uv1 -j4 --keep-going > >

[gentoo-user] How to update (only) all installed KDE packages

2010-03-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to upgrade all my installed package from, say, kde-base/* . emerge -u kde-base/kde-meta doesn't work unfortunately. Is there something easier than eix --only-names -I 'kde-base/*' | xargs emerge -uv1 -j4 --keep-going Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl f