I'd better
hurry up and get on with it, I read that decent quality valves are
becoming scarce and are generally only available from (what used to be)
the USSR.
There's a huge market for valves for guitar amps. I think supply is safe enough.
You were lucky, it's like forgetting to look when you cross the road.
Getting away with it once doesn't mean it is safe.
Yes, I have blown a UART chip by hotplugging a serial cable, because I'd
got away with it before.
I must have hot plugged serial connections on Sun, Cisco and Intel
boxes
I might also add, I see no speed improvements in putting portages work
directory on tmpfs. I have tested this a few times and the difference
in compile times is just not there.
Probably because with 16GB everything stays cached anyway.
Would it still be useful to use tmpfs if you wanted to
I've just checked out the man page for hdparm. There I noticed the
new -J switch. It reads:
Get/set the Western Digital (WD) Green Drive's idle3 timeout
value. This timeout controls how often the drive parks its heads and
enters a low power consumption state. The factory default is
Does OP have /var on / or is it a separate mount point?
I think btrfs probably is meant to provide a lot of the modern
features like reiser4 or xfs
Unfortunately btrfs is still generally slower than ext4 for example.
Checkout http://openbenchmarking.org/, eg
http://openbenchmarking.org/s/ext4%20btrfs
The OS will use any spare RAM for disk caching,
I have seen where people use dd to do this sort of thing to. I read
somewhere that if you do a dd and put in all 1's, then all 0's then back
again that it is very hard to get any data back off the drive. I think
if you do it like over a dozen times, it is deemed impossible to get
anything
To wipe a drive use dban. - live CD which uses (US) gov approved
standards of wipe methods/patterns.
Or shred, which comes with coreutils.
dd is only going to show sectors on a failed drive - too late!
To explain, modern drives have a store of locations they can use to
transparently
CPU : AMD Bulldozer X4 FX-4170 4-Core 4,2 GHz 8 MB: 149.99 (CAD)
I don't know your use case, but the only thing that is CPU intensive
for me is software compilation, and since that uses more cores nicely,
i'd go an 8150 to get 8 cores.
Case : Canada Computer NA-680 ATX Tower 450 W
I've installed grub2 on a single disk system, using
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2 as a guide. However, when i start
the system it drops straight to the grub2 command prompt. The system
has /boot is ext2 on sda1, and / is ext4 on sda3. The grub.cfg seems
ok to me assuming the --set=root is
Does it not display any errors?
No - no errors, straight to the grub2 command line.
This menu entry looks good to me
(only difference here is kernel version, UUIDs and root partition).
Sounds like it may not be installed correctly... just to confirm here
are the few things you should have
I tried to emerge Spamassassin bit it failes due to
missing dependencies, which I would exspect to be
resolved by emerge itsself.
I wanted, I will post the referenced logfiles
also.
How can I fix this?
Try a deep dependency check; emerge -aD spamassassin
One thing you might be able to do is pay $5/mo or so for a Linux VM at
some VPS provider, install and configure Squid, and bounce your own
traffic off of it. Squid will pull down the file faster than you, and
won't impose a connection time limit on you. (Unless you configure it
to do so...)
12.4 is the last Catalyst to support Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series,
so if you're using them you probably want to;
# echo x11-drivers/ati-drivers-12.4 /etc/portage/package.mask
And if you're not concerned about 3D or power saving, maybe think
about using the radeon driver from xf86-video-ati.
I recently upgraded to firefox 13.
In the preferenced I had set When firefox starts to about:blank
and Home Page to about:blank. This had worked for several
versions.
Now -- after visiting a site -- a thumbnail of that site is shown
on the blank page now.
Its a new feature of v13. When
Thanks Bryan, DokuWiki looks great. Do you remember any setup or
maintenance hassles?
Can anyone else vouch for or against DokuWiki?
I've been using it for a few years without issue.
Hi,
as far as I can tell it works mostly. There are some packages which
seem to break:
- - firefox and thunderbird, if I remember correctly
looks like that's fixed, from the firefox ChangeLog
28 May 2012; anar...@gentoo.org firefox-12.0-r1.ebuild:
Finish adding support for gcc-4.7, bug
Which is the best caching dns server? I'm presently using pdns-recursor,
which is quite good, but doesn't have option to set minimum ttl (doesn't
make sense, but some sites like twitter have ridiculously low ttl of 30s).
The load balancing technology will be slow to respond if the TTLs are
Way back in the stone age, there was a guy that released a curve for
electronics life. The failure rate is high at the beginning, especially
for the first few minutes, then falls to about nothing, then after
several years it goes back up again.
That concept is much more general than just
. You can find out if swap is being at all using
with vmstat; so= swap out, si=swap in.
For example, watch the following when you view the video
adam@proxy ~ $ vmstat -S M 3
procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io -system-- cpu
r b swpd free buff cache si so
There's plenty of swap space available. With 16 G of RAM it should not
be needed, but sometimes my load gets really really high, and when I can
use the system again, there is 2-3 G of swap usage. I haven't found out
yet what this is, it seems to happen when emerging things, maybe related
to
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:44 PM, LiangYun Gong kit...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi guys,
I have a problem with scp bash script. I was trying to automate scp command
to copy files in and out, and I was trying to avoid key in the password
myself.
So I attempt to use the here string feature of bash, it
Any idea how to troubleshoot this? Any sense in trying rm -fr ~/.libreoffice?
...
always worth a try - but just rename the old directory first and then
move it back if thats not the problem.
mv ~/.libreoffice ~/.libreoffice-orig didnt help. Any other ideas?
This issue seems to have come up with the latest update to 3.5.2.2. I
cut rows from one doc then want to paste them into another and use
paste special to shift rows down. Howerver, paste special doesn't
appear in the context menu (it used to in the previous version), and
if i choose it from the
#expanded form of -march=native. Nothing special here. Noting this
here because people keep freaking out when they see it in-line.
SYS_CFLAGS_MARCH_NATIVE_EXP=-march=amdfam10 -mcx16 -msahf -mpopcnt
--param l1-cache-size=64 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param
l2-cache-size=512
I've just upgraded to 2.4 and am using mod_access_compat, so I can use
the existing auth config in the short term. I've fixed a few things
and now the daemon loads cleanly, however, when i try to get the
anonymously available front page, it returns a 500 and error.log
shows;
[Tue Apr 03
Possibly related?
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52950
Yep saw that, but i didnt help.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410607
I already put in all the fixes mentioned in there to get the clean start.
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 03:13:07AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote
The speed gains of building for specific submodels of CPUs might
be there, but they're minimal. Benchmarks have shown (can't find
the article, it was on
In all of those cases above, if you allowed the connection it would
still be SSL encrypted. You'd be protected against packet sniffers but
not against man-in-the-middle attack.
And the reason someone will man-in-the-middle you, is so they can
sniff your traffic and get passwords or other
There were a few kernels that broke iwlagn. Iirc it was 3.1.5 and 3.1.6. So
i'd suggest you stick to troubleshooting on a kernel you know has
previously worked, or a very recent one.
In other news...So 3.1.6 just went stable for amd64. I wonder what's special
about that one that wasn't met by 3.0.{13|14} or 3.1.[0-5].
FWIW iwlagn is still broken in 3.1.6 (it broke in 3.1.5).
. Is there anything in my
current Gentoo /home and swap that locks them to the Gentoo install or can
I share them between the two installs?
No. As long as SUSE supports the file system on /home you're using in
Gentoo it will work fine, and that's very likely. When you're booted
into SUSE, run
System is mostly amd64, but gcc and squid are ~amd64.
The error appears to be at;
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-DDEFAULT_CONFIG_FILE=\/etc/squid/squid.conf\
-DDEFAULT_SQUID_DATA_DIR=\/usr/share/squid\
-DDEFAULT_SQUID_CONFIG_DIR=\/etc/squid\ -I.. -I../include -I../src
-I../include
http://www.mail-archive.com/squid-dev@squid-cache.org/msg16870.html
http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3440
looks like the problem was already found and fixed. Fix seems to be a
simple one-liner, so if you raise a bug we can discuss it there.
Thanks Holger - i'll raise a gentoo bug
FYI its https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=396163 in case you
want to follow
Yeah, I was wrong :) libglx and libdri are part of xorg-server.
libglx can also be provided by driver packages. You can select the
xorg one or others via eselect;
proxy adam # eselect opengl list
Available OpenGL implementations:
[1] ati *
[2] xorg-x11
Also, I imagine those kernel
I've looked at the kernel code that causes the error message. It
verifies that this is most likely a dead disk:
It would be worth running smartctl from smartmontools to see what it
knows of the disks status.
On two different machines I've had fs mount failures, even though
earlier mounts of the same filesystems on those kernels worked. 3.1.0
seems ok, and it mounted the fs that 3.1.3 couldn't.
Hi All. I'm looking for some suggestions. Setup is Gentoo host running
VMWare workstation 8 with two guests which are loosely based on RHEL.
I'm checking to see if patch installation order in the guests has any
effect. Not all the patches are rpm based, so I want to check to see
if there are any
What video card do you have? Did you build the drivers for it?
/lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by
/lib64/libcrypt.so.1)
There were no @preserved-rebuild and revdep-rebuild found nothing. I
rebuilt pam and things seem to be working again. Are there any other
packages I should rebuild before encountering a problem? Or some
Hi All,
I need to cut a string, which happens to be a filename, using the
first dash that's followed by a numeral, so cut -f 1 -d- fails if
the filename has an extra dash. How do i do this?
sed -r -e 's/(.*)-[0-9].*/\1/'
You know, that looks familiar... are you trying to get a package name from
the list of eix-installed? :-)
No - its non-gentoo. In this case it hasn't worked
$ echo net-snmp-5.3.2.2-5.cp843034001.i386.rpm | sed -r -e 's/(.*)-[0-9].*/\1/'
net-snmp-5.3.2.2
I'd use sed and the regex -[0-9] to delimit the field
foo=`echo '123--bad-2xyz-3--' | sed -r -e s/-[0-9].*//`
echo $foo
123--bad
Helpful?
Perfect - thanks!
Performance is one issue, another one is energy/noise ... the phenom
1090t seems to pull in a lot and need good (and maybe noisy) fans.
I've just bought a 965 (a 1100T wouldn't boot despite being supported
by the latest bios). The CPU fan is very quiet when the system is
idling, but spins up
I would like to ask about the kernel 3.0.6. I can't load
the ti_usb_3410_5052.ko. I mean, when I select it in the kernel menu, it
makes fine, but when I type make modules_install, I get an error:
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/lib/firmware/./', needed by
`/lib/firmware/ti_3410.fw'.
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Érico Porto ericoporto2...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok I will try it.
I used:
make make modules_install make install
Doesn't the modules get made in the make part?
Yes, you're right. I only use make modules if I'm adding a module to
an existing setup.
All it does it copy the kernel, system map and config to /boot and reset
the symlinks to point to the new and previous kernels. You can still keep
as many kernels as you want in /boot, but you can always boot the last two
without modifying GRUB's config.
Can you please ls -l /boot so i can
I have an HP PSC 950, hplip installed and printing works. hplip online
docs show that scanning is supported and that Scan supported means
that PC initiated scan using a SANE compatible software application is
supported over parallel, USB, or network (depending on I/O
connection).
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:55 PM, co cui...@gmail.com wrote:
I upgrade pad to 1.1.5 ,then openrc can't work,and can't login to system.
libpam.so.0 can't open shared object file.
please help!
I always run revdep-rebuild any time libs are updated, but in this
case the lib name stays the same.
I did one more test: I simply manually configured eth0
no matter there was no such an interface. And suddenly
it is up and running! Problem must be somewhere in
communication with dhcp-server (my router).
at the start were you running ifconfig or ifconfig -a? Without -a it
will only show
And i try to re-emerge pam,but i can't
With the old file and links there I don't understand why your system
doesn't work, but re-emerging pam it definitely worth trying. What
fails when you try to re-emerge?
Also, what about
# ldd /sbin/rc
USB does use DMA. Check the kernel source doco Documentation/usb/dma.txt
there aren't any Linux viruses,
Except for the ones listed on the page below, which is probably incomplete.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware
But yeah, on a linux desktop (especially a Gentoo one) you don't need
a virus scanner. Yet.
Furthermore, even if there were enough Linux viruses to worry about,
there isn't a good way of getting infected. On Windows, you download
random executables from the net. On Gentoo, you install your stuff
through portage. It's nearly impossible to get infected.
except when someone puts up
BTW, I had forgotten to run 'eselect opengl set ati' which I've always
done when configuring X. However, when I do this, it returns
'Unrecognized option: ati'
You all are probably thinking I'm nuts now, but I thought this my solve
the issue as stated about. I've checked an rechecked the
The * is actually included in the output and I was too chicken to try
this. I don't understand why ati or radeon isn't listed 'cause I
followed the Gentoo ATI Guide and X Configuration Guide.
Do you have the opengl USE flag set?
SNIP, fglrx is too much effort.
fglrx is no trouble at all,
In the kernel? What .config knob should I twiddle?
Device Drivers - Staging Drivers - Compressed RAM block device
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote:
In the kernel? What .config knob should I twiddle?
Device Drivers - Staging Drivers - Compressed RAM block device
But Dynamic Compression of swap pages underneath looks interesting too
(check the help).
Compressed RAM
Have you ever wondered why the blooming of obesity has coincided with the
popularity of the low-fat diet?
Correlation implies causation? Perhaps the blooming of obesity caused
people to start looking for new diets to address the issue.
IMO diet is the most important contributor to weight, but
FYI, this is fixed. I ran 'strace startx startx.strace.out 21' and
this showed;
/usr/bin/X: symbol lookup error:
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol:
GlxInitVisuals2D
Which means that i forget to eselect opengl set 1, though it wasn't
logged to Xorg.0.log (so it was
If the data is important, I'd use ddrescue to create an image of the
drive, then run testdisk over that image to see if it can untangle the
partition table mess. Both are in portage.
By the way, is it possible to use LABELs without and initrd? I'll start
using an initrd before too long, I'll also mess with decorations, but for
now, I'd like to keep my setup simple, no initrd.
AND what bootloaders can use LABEL/UUID? Can grub's device.map use them?
You are right: for grub-legacy you need to use the old hd(x,y) thingy.
Which i assume suffers from the same reassignment risk as the kernel's
/dev/sdX naming that prompted this discussion. Looks I'll be moving to
grub2.
no process called X
or anything related to X, if i ssh in from another machine and run
'pgrep -lf X' as root.
When using fglrx;
proxy adam # tail Xorg.0.log
[ 458.503] (II) fglrx(0): Desc: ATI FireGL DRM kernel module
[ 458.503] (II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module version matches driver
-Kernel PAGE_SIZE: 0x1000
[ 825.350] (II) fglrx(0): [uki] register handle = 0xd000
adam@proxy ~ $
By the way, you
realise you also need to setup correct kernel modules and disable
conflicting ones when changing from fglrx to radeon, right?
Really - i thought changing the X driver was all that was required. Is
that do with with KMS?
Anyway, i think i'll focus on just using fglrx as its
Sanity check please gurus :)
I've installed the new disks, partitioned them and created the md
devices, which are now syncing. The kernel already has all the modules
built in. I believe the next steps are;
1 mkfs the md devices
2 copy the partitions from the current disk to the mirror
3 edit fstab
How good is Linux support with those? If bad, what other mobos support
1075T and Linux support is awesome?
most probably they will just work.
I've just built a machine based on GA-880-GM-UD2H that I bought a
couple of years ago, and it works well. It supports 1090T and 1100T,
which you should
which is your own fucking fault.
Get your drivers into the kernel. Problem solved.
Does gratuitous obscenity come naturally to you, or do you have to work at
it?
I am naturally grumpy.
Yeah we've noticed ;) I like reading your posts because you know
stuff, and I like the fireworks.
Be careful though, being grumpy is dangerously seductive.
It is? You could have fooled me
Sorry - I meant being grumpy is seductive for the grumpy person. Its
pretty much the opposite for the people they interact with, as you
imply.
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone supply an example of correctly setting up wpa_supplicant
to connect to a WEP2 home network?
Do you mean WPA2 or WEP? AFAIK there's no such thing as WEP2.
ifplugd or netplug.
This is the better option IMO.
I'd like to whitelist sites to allow their cookies to stay
permanently, then have all other sites cookies deleted upon browser
close. Can anyone recommend a cookie manager?
Cookie Monster is great, it's what I use. If you're familiar with
the NoScript or RequestPolicy add-ons, it operates very much the same
way. It lets you have fine-grained control over which cookies you
allow or block, and you can allow cookies from a site for this
browsing session only.
I believe it uses the browser's setting as default.
Yeah that appears to be it, but you have a restart FF for CM to pick
up the new setting.
Just a billion switch
which is running a firewall?
(The tcpdump shows a firewall is in play on 192.168.1.250).
The firewall's disabled, and should only be in play if the packet gets
routed from what I understand. These packets are being switched. I
guess I should connect the hosts
Can you post the outputs of 'iptables-save' and 'ip rule show'?
# iptables-save
# Generated by iptables-save v1.4.12.1 on Sat Sep 24 02:57:42 2011
*nat
:PREROUTING ACCEPT [239188:15840835]
:INPUT ACCEPT [230129:15089630]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [265028:20043915]
:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
-A PREROUTING -s
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Jonas de Buhr jonas.de.b...@gmx.net wrote:
The devices are connected, there's only a switch between them (a
billion ADSL router).
wait... billion as in billion the company? and
you are using your router as a switch?
Yeah - this is just at home. The router has a
# netstat -antp | grep apach
tcp0 0 192.168.1.250:800.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 25577/apache2
# tcpdump -n -i eth0 host 192.168.1.6 and port not 22
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Jonas de Buhr jonas.de.b...@gmx.net wrote:
ssh works.
routing should be ok then.
Connection from the same client to a third gentoo box
running a webserver works.
what about connecting to the webserver from that third gentoo box?
Same ICMP response, so its
It's not the ICMP that is being prohibited.
Understood, that's clear from the packet trace.
is an ICMP host unreachable response from .250. The extended reason
for the unreachability is that there is an administrative policy
preventing the traffic. It almost certainly *is* a firewall that's
is there anything in between on the network?
Just a billion switch
does traceroute show anything unusual?
Nothing to trace - same subnet
what happens if you try to connect to a closed port (81 for example)?
I get the expected TCP reset.
ssh works. Connection from the same client to a third gentoo box
running a webserver works.
KISS may be at work here.
go and delete the .ssh/known_hosts
files just to be certain it not something
really simple
That file just contains the cached ssh host keys - nothing to do with
a
strace output? Which syscall is actually failing, and with what error code?
What would I trace? Why do you think the information provided suggests
a syscall failing?
* CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND: is not set when it should be.
But:
$ grep SUSPEND /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE=y
CONFIG_SUSPEND=y
CONFIG_SUSPEND_FREEZER=y
# CONFIG_PM_TEST_SUSPEND is not set
No trace of USB_SUSPEND.
You cant search that way. Use the search in make
Ok for me so far, but still seems slower than ext4, and i'm using
compression, inode_cache and space_cache.
However, I wouldn't use it on a system i didn't have a backup for.
Ok for me so far, but still seems slower than ext4, and i'm using
compression, inode_cache and space_cache.
Does ext4 have compression? I didn't know it did. If it doesn't, then,
yeah, you're adding some serious overhead and real latency.
Sorry I wasn't clear. Compression, inode_cache and
./phes: error while loading shared libraries: libwx_base-2.8.so.0:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
phes cant find libwx_base-2.8.so.0, If libwx_base has been updated to
a newer version with a different library name, you will need to
rebuild phes so that it calls the
for a longer time now ftp.kernel.org is not reachable and
it seems it is not in the DNS anymore.
What is another main server of the kernel sources and
not a mirror of the now dead one ftp.kernel.org?
kernel.org was h4xor'd - I assume they're bring ftp back when http comes back.
IIRC Linus
I think you need to set bind -threads, not mysql.
You have to resolve the build issue in the way that suits you best.
Since i'm not using the mysql integration features with bind, there's
no reason to forego threads in bind to permit support for something
i'm not using.
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote:
I've been getting the following problem trying to emerge world for the
past few days:
!!! Problem resolving dependencies for net-dns/bind from @selected
... done!
snip
However, I don't believe mysql-5.1.58-r1 uses the
I'm looking for dedicated server providers whose rates are low, support
Gentoo and most importantly are reliable. Service should be stable.
Location is not important, but preferable in EU.
Amazon EC2 does Gentoo... Big name may help you sell to management.
Nice - multi-queue was vapourware when i last looked. It would be
worth checking the driver source/doco to see what's there.
Looks like intel made multiqueue available in Nov. 2010. You can set
up to 16 queues.
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/14687/eng/README.txt
Is it reliable?
So far so go for me. I'm using lzo on my main partition and zlib on
/home and on an external drive i use for backup.
A month ago I returned all my BTRFS partitions to reiserfs because of
unfixable errors. Initially I was quite impressed, but until the tools
catch up with
Btrfs supports on the fly compression
Yes it supports two types, lzo and zlib, zlib compresses more densely,
and the mount option for that is compress=zlib.
I just might have an opportunity to setup a Gentoo
System using 10 G ethernet (fiber). The .39
kernel lists this hardware [1].
Does anyone have any experience with this hardware?
Does it work? Did you make any bandwidth measurements?
What type of fiber (mulimode/singlemode) (ST/SC) did you
I've overheard IRC conversations that discussed multi-queue network
cards in the context of multi-core systems. My educated guess, based
on what you mention, is that each queue in the card would ping a
different interrupt. Each interrupt might be handled by a different
core, so you'd see a
creating the FS, you can't change the inode count dynamically.
I've never run out of inodes, even on small partitions. I just let ext4 make
a fs with its default settings. Is there a magic formula to determine how
many inodes are optimal?
Some FSes allocate inodes as required. I know btrfs
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