Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:21:02 -0700, Joseph wrote: Got it. I change it to: tmpfs /var/tmp/portagedevtmpfs size=1512M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0 Why are you using devtmpfs? You should be using tmpfs for this, which defaults to half your available RAM. devtmpfs is a special option

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia driver - blank screen not even console display

2013-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:32:15 -0700, Joseph wrote: I'm starting to have serious doubts in Nvidia (those binary drivers are piece of crap). My system just freeze after one day; I went back to nvidia-dirvers-295.75 Have you tried the nouveau drivers? The 3D may not be as fast but the kernel

[gentoo-user] help

2013-02-23 Thread Dan Hunter

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.02.2013 07:05, schrieb Joseph: On 02/23/13 11:08, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Saturday 23 February 2013 10:30:04 AM IST, Joseph wrote: I'm trying to update one of my system and running: emerge -uDNavq world I get a very strange message: No space left on device' I have plenty of room

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.02.2013 09:52, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:21:02 -0700, Joseph wrote: Got it. I change it to: tmpfs/var/tmp/portagedevtmpfs size=1512M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0 Why are you using devtmpfs? You should be using tmpfs for this, which defaults to half your

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2013-02-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.02.2013 10:28, schrieb Dan Hunter: no

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2013-02-23 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 23.02.2013 10:28, schrieb Dan Hunter: no Double no. Next he will try the unsubscribe in the subject line angle with little success there either. Then someone will post the nice long reply about the unsubscribe kit and all its options. I find that one funny

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2013-02-23 Thread Dan Hunter
On 02/23/13 17:07, Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 23.02.2013 10:28, schrieb Dan Hunter: no Double no. Next he will try the unsubscribe in the subject line angle with little success there either. Then someone will post the nice long reply about the unsubscribe kit and all its

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2013-02-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.02.2013 14:27, schrieb Dan Hunter: On 02/23/13 17:07, Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 23.02.2013 10:28, schrieb Dan Hunter: no Double no. Next he will try the unsubscribe in the subject line angle with little success there either. Then someone will post the nice long

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Joseph
On 02/23/13 08:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:21:02 -0700, Joseph wrote: Got it. I change it to: tmpfs /var/tmp/portagedevtmpfs size=1512M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0 Why are you using devtmpfs? You should be using tmpfs for this, which defaults to half your available

[gentoo-user] Why does cyrus-sasl require courier-imap?

2013-02-23 Thread Tanstaafl
I switched to dovecot not too long ago, and I removed the authdaemond keyword from cyrus-sasl, but it still wants to pull in courier-imap. I want to remove courier-imap completely, but I still may need postfix to be able to work as sasl client, which requires cyrus-sasl (since dovecot-sasl is

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Joseph
On 02/23/13 13:41, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: tmpfs949264990 9482741% /var/tmp/portage So, why I'm getting this message? Your /var/tmp/portage is 10 MB! Increase that. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com How do I increase it? I deleted all the file in

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.02.2013 15:16, schrieb Joseph: On 02/23/13 08:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:21:02 -0700, Joseph wrote: Got it. I change it to: tmpfs /var/tmp/portage devtmpfs size=1512M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0 Why are you using devtmpfs? You should be using tmpfs for this,

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does cyrus-sasl require courier-imap?

2013-02-23 Thread Tanstaafl
Nevermind... gotta stop asking questions before my 2nd cup of coffee... On 2013-02-23 9:19 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I switched to dovecot not too long ago, and I removed the authdaemond keyword from cyrus-sasl, but it still wants to pull in courier-imap. I want to remove

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 23.02.2013 15:24, schrieb Joseph: On 02/23/13 13:41, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: play around with size. Usually 2GB is more than enough. Except for libreoffice. Then umount /var/tmp/portage and mount it again. I have only 8Gb of RAM should I dedicate it all for tmpfs or only 2GB

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 23/02/2013 16:24, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 23.02.2013 15:16, schrieb Joseph: On 02/23/13 08:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:21:02 -0700, Joseph wrote: Got it. I change it to: tmpfs /var/tmp/portage devtmpfs size=1512M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0 Why are you using

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: tmpfs uses as much memory as necessary and nothing more. In theory, it doesn't hurt to add all your memory to it as tmpfs will start to swap when you run out of memory. However, it is usually a better idea to unmount the tmpfs and use a regular file system whenever you

[gentoo-user] Kernel 3.7.9: Lots of devices are root root rw-------.

2013-02-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo! Just built the new kernel 3.7.9 last night, and it's one of these nothing works situations. It seems the problems are with the device files, whose ownership is set to root root (rather than, e.g., root audio) and whose permissions are set to crw--- (rather than the expected

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.02.2013 16:44, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 23/02/2013 16:24, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 23.02.2013 15:16, schrieb Joseph: On 02/23/13 08:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:21:02 -0700, Joseph wrote: Got it. I change it to: tmpfs /var/tmp/portage devtmpfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia driver - blank screen not even console display

2013-02-23 Thread Joseph
On 02/23/13 07:24, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 22/02/13 08:14, Joseph wrote: I just upgraded system including kernel to 3.5.7 because of udev-197 Now I have a blank screen, not even console login (I can only access is via ssh) With NVidia, it is usually a good idea to at least use the latest

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia driver - blank screen not even console display

2013-02-23 Thread Randolph Maaßen
2013/2/23 Joseph syscon...@gmail.com On 02/23/13 07:24, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 22/02/13 08:14, Joseph wrote: I just upgraded system including kernel to 3.5.7 because of udev-197 Now I have a blank screen, not even console login (I can only access is via ssh) With NVidia, it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia driver - blank screen not even console display

2013-02-23 Thread Joseph
On 02/23/13 08:55, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:32:15 -0700, Joseph wrote: I'm starting to have serious doubts in Nvidia (those binary drivers are piece of crap). My system just freeze after one day; I went back to nvidia-dirvers-295.75 Have you tried the nouveau drivers? The

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 23 February 2013 15:44:31 Alan McKinnon wrote: The number of people who completely and totally misread the simple instructions about upgrading udev is spectacular. Even I did it, and I'm ashamed to admit it too. At least I managed to realise my mistake and correct it without

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 23 February 2013 06:23:59 Joseph wrote: I have 8Gb of RAM so I change it to: tmpfs /var/tmp/portagedevtmpfs size=1512M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0 now it is going. I think you've confused yourself. /var/tmp/portage is portage's working sandbox - where it

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver - blank screen not even console display

2013-02-23 Thread Joseph
On 02/22/13 10:49, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: On 02/22/2013 10:39 AM, Joseph wrote: In addition I get the flooring errors in Xorg.0.log cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 288.401] Initializing built-in extension

[gentoo-user] switching between nvidia / nouveau drivers

2013-02-23 Thread Joseph
I'm trying to prevent next disaster with nvidia driver/kernel combination. I'm running nvidia driver and installed nouveau as module. If for any reason nvidia or nouveau will stop working I want to just run a sript and use other one. Here is my configuration: cat