Hey guys,
I'm having some strange behaviour from portage. Last week it downgraded
chromium, which happens from time to time, so I didn't think too much about it.
Today when updating portage seemed to want to downgrade itself from alpha3 to
2.1.9. As well as downgrading pidgin (this is without
OK so vm.swappiness seemed to help a bit but today I notice that swap
usage is up again. It's firefox:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND
14072 iain 20 0 1369m 897m 15m S3 29.5 113:14.91 firefox
I think that's 1.3Gb +
Apparently, though unproven, at 09:07 on Friday 05 November 2010, Zeerak
Mustafa Waseem did opine thusly:
Hey guys,
I'm having some strange behaviour from portage. Last week it downgraded
chromium, which happens from time to time, so I didn't think too much
about it. Today when updating
Apparently, though unproven, at 03:02 on Friday 05 November 2010, James did
opine thusly:
Lots of good information specific to those flags (Alan), but,
as I suspected, no general quick reference on a given flag,
with any sort of detail. Look here what I use from my .bashrc:
# USE flag
On 11/04/2010 03:25 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:36 on Thursday 04 November 2010, dhk did
opine thusly:
On 11/04/2010 01:08 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:00:21 -0400, dhk wrote:
The reason I didn't include the exact error is that I can't
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:29 on Friday 05 November 2010, dhk did
opine thusly:
Is your / partition in or out of the lvm?
The / is out of lvm2 and is ext3, /boot is ext2.
Ok, that's the easiest way. Seeing inside lvm at boot-time is no fun.
But I think Niel spotted your real
On 11/04/2010 03:51 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:36:25 -0400, dhk wrote:
The ext2 wasn't compiled in, so I compiled it in and rebooted. I got
the same error.
kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: unable to mount root FS on
unknown-block (2,0)
It's saying unknown block,
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 05:44, James j...@nc.rr.com wrote:
Things just got more interesting.
I just copied my /etc/ldap.conf file over from my Gentoo box to an
Ubuntu box -- it works without a single hitch.
I'm about to rip my hair out here...any ideas on where I can start
troubleshooting
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:47 on Friday 05 November 2010, dhk did
opine thusly:
On 11/04/2010 03:51 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:36:25 -0400, dhk wrote:
The ext2 wasn't compiled in, so I compiled it in and rebooted. I got
the same error.
kernel panic - not
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 05:47:42 -0400, dhk wrote:
It's saying unknown block, not unknown fs. I suspect you haven't
compiled in the drivers for your hard disk controller.
All my hard disks are sata except the main one with the os on it that is
ide. Is a fairly new disk, may be a year
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 11:08:23PM +, Mick wrote:
On Thursday 04 November 2010 21:36:46 Florian Philipp wrote:
Am 04.11.2010 21:17, schrieb Mick:
[...]
Then I ran xrandr again as Florian suggested and this is what it shows:
$ xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto --this gives
On 11/05/2010 06:33 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 05:47:42 -0400, dhk wrote:
It's saying unknown block, not unknown fs. I suspect you haven't
compiled in the drivers for your hard disk controller.
All my hard disks are sata except the main one with the os on it that is
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes:
Am 01.11.2010 11:28, schrieb Harry Putnam:
I can view the directory with emacs in dired mode but `ls' simply will
not complete... never shows anything and stays hung indefinitely.
[...]
It only seem to happen on $HOME how very odd.
Anyone else
Brennan Shacklett bp.shacklett at gmail.com writes:
The quse command in app-portage/gentoolkit is useful for finding a
quick definition of a use flag. You go quse -D name of flag and it
will give you the global definition (if it exists), as well as local
definitions for packages in which the
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes:
Sounds like an good candidate for a Google Summer of Code project actually.
You scare the hell out of me. WE think so much alike.
You STOLE my punchline here
Meanwhile, I'm not aware of any method more reliable than good old grep -r
On 11/04/2010 11:45 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote:
OK so vm.swappiness seemed to help a bit but today I notice that swap
usage is up again. It's firefox:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND
14072 iain 20 0 1369m 897m 15m S3 29.5 113:14.91 firefox
I
On 2010-11-05, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes:
Am 01.11.2010 11:28, schrieb Harry Putnam:
I can view the directory with emacs in dired mode but `ls' simply will
not complete... never shows anything and stays hung indefinitely.
[...]
It only
On Thursday 04 November 2010, dhk wrote:
I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a manual one.
I think the kernel is alright since all the default setting seemed
reasonable and the build was easy enough. However, when I boot to it I
get a kernel panic and it complains about
It seems that the LDAP is failing to work, as well, in CentOS 5 --
same ldap.conf file that (a) fails in Gentoo, and (b) works in Ubuntu.
What's the best way to star troubleshooting this from a PAM perspective?
I have a debug line set at the bottom of the ldap.conf file, but that
doesn't seem to
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 17:41, James j...@nc.rr.com wrote:
It seems that the LDAP is failing to work, as well, in CentOS 5 --
same ldap.conf file that (a) fails in Gentoo, and (b) works in Ubuntu.
What's the best way to star troubleshooting this from a PAM perspective?
I have a debug line set
When I turned on the consolekit useflag, all the nice auto-mounting stuff in
gnome stopped working.
The cause seems to be that when I'm using X, I'm listed by ck-list-sessions
as both non-active and non-local, so I can't mount e.g. a usb stick unless
I switch to a virtual console where I'm
On 11/05/2010 04:36 AM, dhk wrote:
I think this may be the missing one(s). I can't find it in the
list, but the AMD64/PATA is selected to be compiled in.
vv
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK8S Parallel ATA
Yes, I have both of these options enabled:
logdir somedir
debug 256
The logdir is filled with empty files that, in the name of the file,
has the pid of the pam process. However, these files are empty and
they do not have anything in them.
Thoughts?
-james
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:49, Ward
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 20:46, James j...@nc.rr.com wrote:
The logdir is filled with empty files that, in the name of the file,
has the pid of the pam process. However, these files are empty and
they do not have anything in them.
Thoughts?
Try putting the compile time debugging options on?
On Friday 05 November 2010 11:11:04 YoYo Siska wrote:
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 11:08:23PM +, Mick wrote:
On Thursday 04 November 2010 21:36:46 Florian Philipp wrote:
Am 04.11.2010 21:17, schrieb Mick:
[...]
Then I ran xrandr again as Florian suggested and this is what it
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Another thing to check, is that the folder is marked +x in chmod. It may be
that on reboot some automated cleaning script re-added that flag.
Folders can only be listed if they are +x btw
On 06/11/2010, at 01:37, Grant Edwards wrote:
On
Indexer writes:
Another thing to check, is that the folder is marked +x in chmod.
It may be that on reboot some automated cleaning script re-added
that flag.
Folders can only be listed if they are +x btw
Right, but Harry would have gotten a permission denied error in this
case, not a
Hi all,
I've just done an
emerge --sync
ad got, along with all the usual stuff, the following:
*
...
...
...
Performing Global Updates:
(Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
.='update pass' *='binary update'
Hi all,
I've got KDE set up in a twin head configuration with the menu/task
manager thingy set for autohide on the top edge of the LHS monitor. When
I move the mouse up to the top of the screen to display the task
manager/kicker, as well as the menu displaying, I also get a large
translucent
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