Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 13 April 2011 01:45:43 Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 14:52 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Grant wrote: > > > Sometimes the ext3 forced volume check at boot triggers at an > > > inopportune time. Is there a way to skip it and let it ru

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-12 Thread Bill Longman
> As I try to run as (normal) user -terminal-, does not show me any output, no > errors, no message. What happens when you run X as the root user? Do you get the same error? That is, log into a regular system terminal, start X, and run LO.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 14:52 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Grant wrote: > > Sometimes the ext3 forced volume check at boot triggers at an > > inopportune time. Is there a way to skip it and let it run at the > > next boot? > > Not once it has started, but there ar

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-12 Thread Carlos Sura
On 12 April 2011 04:09, Philip Webb wrote: > 110412 Carlos Sura wrote: > > On 12 April 2011 00:00, Stroller wrote: > >> Is this when you click on the libreoffice icon, or are you opening > >> terminal window and running `/path/to/bin/libreoffice`? > >> The latter should (hopefully) output some e

[gentoo-user] Re: Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread Hartmut Figge
Paul Hartman: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Paul Hartman >> If it's an ext[123] you can use tune2fs -i 0 to set the auto-check >> interval to never. > > oops, I of course meant 234 not 123 :) ;) But i prefer setting the interval to 1000 with 'tune2fs -c'. | It is strongly recommended that

[gentoo-user] configure wlan0 route metric

2011-04-12 Thread deadeyes
Hi all, For my home network I am generally using wireless to get connected to the network and the internet. However for copying some large files I use the wire. That means I get 2 IPs in the same range. And both interfaces get the same metric : 0. I found out I can modify the metric for the def

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > If it's an ext[123] you can use tune2fs -i 0 to set the auto-check > interval to never. oops, I of course meant 234 not 123 :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Grant wrote: > Sometimes the ext3 forced volume check at boot triggers at an > inopportune time.  Is there a way to skip it and let it run at the > next boot? Not once it has started, but there are some ways to avoid it running in the first place: Add "fastboot"

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Grant > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Tue, April 12, 2011 3:29:35 PM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted? > > >> >> Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the > >>file > >> >> system re

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread Grant
>> >> Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the >>file >> >> system relatively clean again so that things function well -  and things >>don't >> >> get lost. >> >> If you skip it, you risk data  corruption on disk. >> > >> > That misses the point.  I have rebooted  som

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Grant > >> Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the >file > >> system relatively clean again so that things function well - and things >don't > >> get lost. > >> If you skip it, you risk data corruption on disk. > > > > That

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread Grant
>> Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the file >> system relatively clean again so that things function well - and things don't >> get lost. >> If you skip it, you risk data corruption on disk. > > That misses the point.  I have rebooted sometimes just for a quick >

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread felix
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:50:56AM -0700, BRM wrote: > Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the file > system relatively clean again so that things function well - and things don't > get lost. > If you skip it, you risk data corruption on disk. That misses the poin

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread BRM
Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the file system relatively clean again so that things function well - and things don't get lost. If you skip it, you risk data corruption on disk. If you know it's going to run, then you can do one of two things: 1) I believe th

[gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread Grant
Sometimes the ext3 forced volume check at boot triggers at an inopportune time. Is there a way to skip it and let it run at the next boot? - Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-12 Thread James
James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > > I've found GRUB's handling of symlinks to be variable at best. Try > > searching for the real file. All the files are in /boot/grub: (chroot) slam grub # ls defaultgrub.conf minix_stage1_5 stage2.old device.map grub.conf.bak reiser

[gentoo-user] Printing phpmyadmin output

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I've a weird one here. I'm rebuilding my local server on an Atom N270 box and I've reached the point of installing phpmyadmin on it to manage a MySQL database I'm developing. Three different browsers have no trouble displaying table structures, data, the database design and the da

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 12 April 2011 15:57:26 Dale wrote: > As for making things the same, that my not always be a good idea > either. I might add a quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson: "a foolish preoccupation with consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds." -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-12 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 12 April 2011 09:57:26 Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 April 2011 15:10:52 James wrote: > >> Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > >>> There's no need for extents on such a small partition, > >>> nor journalling (because you write to /boot so > >>> rarely, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-12 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 12 April 2011 15:10:52 James wrote: Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: There's no need for extents on such a small partition, nor journalling (because you write to /boot so rarely, the likelihood of a power failure when you're doing so is mi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 12 April 2011 15:10:52 James wrote: > Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > > There's no need for extents on such a small partition, > > nor journalling (because you write to /boot so > > rarely, the likelihood of a power failure when you're > > doing so is minuscule). > > Yea, su

[gentoo-user] Re: raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-12 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > > If /boot is on a separate partition, you should be using It is. > > > find /grub/stage1 grub> find /grub/stage1 Error 15: File not found grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 Error 15: File not found > > If the symlink is there for boot -> /boot -- and it i

[gentoo-user] Re: raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-12 Thread James
Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > > James, if I'm not wrong (legacy) sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10 > > does not have drivers for ext4. Not sure if there's > > a patch for it, or if grub2 can boot from ext4. Mick, that's what I was wondering. No evidence either way, that I could find so I d

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-12 Thread Philip Webb
110412 Carlos Sura wrote: > On 12 April 2011 00:00, Stroller wrote: >> Is this when you click on the libreoffice icon, or are you opening >> terminal window and running `/path/to/bin/libreoffice`? >> The latter should (hopefully) output some error messages. I agree : make sure you start it from a

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:09:17 -0500, Mark Shields wrote: > > If /boot is on a separate partition, you should be using > > > > find /grub/stage1 > If the symlink is there for boot -> /boot -- and it is by default -- > both work. I've found GRUB's handling of symlinks to be variable at best. Try se

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:49:24 -0600, Carlos Sura wrote: > When I try to run LibreOffice as normal user, I can see the splash (of > libreoffice) but nothing more... Cannot use any libreoffice > application, it just don't work, fas as I can see is the libreoffice > splash. No errors (as normal user),