Am 17.03.2010 22:00, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:44:34 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
Just for clarification: Is it really necessary to unplug the broken disk
for this to work?
If read access fails on sda and the BIOS tries sdb, would this also
work? Isn't grub's hd0 always
mirror everything
and live easy ;-)
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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Am 20.03.2010 18:55, schrieb Crístian Viana:
or maybe he's using Seamonkey, like Dale :-) :-).
Nah, this time it's KMail on KDE-4.1.4.
Given that this version is not even in the tree anymore, I guess,
whatever his problem is, 'emerge --sync emerge -avuD world' is a good
start.
;-)
Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht:
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:38 AM, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote:
Mark Knecht schrieb:
Smiling broadly... :-) Yeah.. Well, keeping my wife's data safe
keeps me happy. :-)
So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB
break your system.
[1]
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/ref-guide/s1-users-groups-private-groups.html
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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-TERM/${WAIT_FOR_DISCONNECT}/-INT/${WAIT_FOR_CLEANUP}/-QUIT [...]
I have the same issue with a virtual server. At the moment, I just
ignore it. I guess it would be safer to increase the timeout somehow.
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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Am 12.04.2010 11:02, schrieb Hinko Kocevar:
Hi,
I've started to look around on how to speed up the Gentoo boot sequence.
Looking at the bootchart output I discovered that if using parallel boot
feature from the /etc/conf.d/rc (RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP=yes), things get
done about 9 seconds faster
Am 13.04.2010 00:00, schrieb Alex Schuster:
Florian Philipp writes:
Am 12.04.2010 11:02, schrieb Hinko Kocevar:
Can boot be sped up even more?
The fastest way to boot is not to boot at all. Just use Suspend2Disk or
SuspendToRam.
Take a look at TuxOnIce and hibernate-script. Unless
Am 13.04.2010 19:29, schrieb Ngoc Nguyen Bao:
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Florian Philipp
li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote:
Am 13.04.2010 00:00, schrieb Alex Schuster:
Florian Philipp writes:
Am 12.04.2010 11:02, schrieb Hinko Kocevar:
Can boot be sped up even more?
The fastest
,
Florian Philipp
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/log/rc.log.
How do I do this?
My rc.conf doesn't contain anything that looks like a fitting parameter.
There is no man-page for rc.conf, either.
Thanks in advance,
Florian Philipp
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Am 29.04.2010 02:38, schrieb Iain Buchanan:
Hi thanks,
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 17:31 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
[...]
If you can live with just one big partition as a backup (probably with
separate /boot), you should replace fstab and grub.conf on the backup
medium and blacklist them
out the complete host system when I
switch to the guest system and vice versa although there is plenty of
free memory. It is so bad that the system becomes completely unusable
for more than 15 minutes. I didn't investigate it yet because I don't
really need that guest OS.
Regards,
Florian Philipp
cipher,
encryption algorithm) are compiled into the new kernel.
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a whole system. /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches
is 65535 on my system.
On the other hand, I've never tried to increase that limit and just let
it run on a deep directory structure. Who knows, maybe it actually works.
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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Am 11.05.2010 03:58, schrieb Bill Kenworthy:
Saw the news announcement that gnome 2.28 is stabilized - however
looking at the header of gnome-base/gnome-2.28.2 (only 2.28 ebuild
present) still shows ~x86 - do I have update problems or are there
delays?
Is this for amd64 only or has x86 just
Am 11.05.2010 09:53, schrieb Bill Kenworthy:
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 08:58 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
Am 11.05.2010 03:58, schrieb Bill Kenworthy:
Saw the news announcement that gnome 2.28 is stabilized - however
looking at the header of gnome-base/gnome-2.28.2 (only 2.28 ebuild
present
to read a USB
keyboard at boot time ?
--
~adj~
Take a look into your BIOS. Search for something like USB 1.1 Device
Legacy Support and enable it.
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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and useflags until something usable is found, like usual?
Thanks in advance!
Florian Philipp
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Florian Philipp
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someone more interested
than me can read it up and summarize?
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Florian Philipp
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Am 26.06.2010 20:32, schrieb Albert Hopkins:
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 20:24 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
[..]
I'm a bit confused about the meaning of the hal useflag on the
x11-base/xorg-server ebuilds nowadays. When I deactivate it, hot-plugin
a mouse does not work and special keys
driver)
64bit, libs mostly from stable
screen resolution 1400x1050
Thanks in advance,
Florian Philipp
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Am 29.06.2010 13:48, schrieb Willie Wong:
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 06:47:42PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
1. On boot up, the screen goes completely black until the xserver is
started. While I know my system long enough to recognize common boot
errors by watching the disk and peripheral device
Am 30.06.2010 18:25, schrieb Paul Hartman:
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:38 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
hello,
Well, there are lots of local sales on laptops.
It's been a few years and much has changed (that I'm not up on
with boot CDs). Naturally, I'd like gentoo/kde on a boot
Am 30.06.2010 19:26, schrieb Bill Longman:
On 06/30/2010 09:44 AM, Florian Philipp wrote:
You forget about Intel Atoms which are still partly i686 flavored. Of
course, this point is mostly mood because these systems don't usually
come with an optical drive.
What do you mean here, Florian
Am 30.06.2010 09:09, schrieb Andrea Conti:
1. On boot up, the screen goes completely black until the xserver is
started.
KMS provides its own framebuffer console driver -- disable any other
framebuffer drivers such as (u)vesafb and enable
FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY under
-emerge libglade. There is no logic
behind this move other than that the affected compilation unit had
something to do with glade.
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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this helps,
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Am 13.07.2010 03:04, schrieb Albert Hopkins:
Suddenly my multimedia keys stopped working, I think today. I went into
gnome-keyboard-properties, and it shows that my keyboard model is set to
Unknown. For a long time it has always been set to Evdev managed
keyboard but that isn't even on the
Hi list!
I have a quick question: I plan to buy a notebook with an ATI Mobility
Radeon HD 4250. How well would that one work? Can I reasonably expect
Suspend2Ram, 3d acceleration etc to work stable?
Thanks in advance!
Florian Philipp
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Am 26.07.2010 01:01, schrieb James:
Florian Philipp lists at f_philipp.fastmail.net writes:
I have a quick question: I plan to buy a notebook with an ATI Mobility
Radeon HD 4250. How well would that one work? Can I reasonably expect
Suspend2Ram, 3d acceleration etc to work stable?
Well
Am 03.08.2010 14:52, schrieb Graham Murray:
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes:
Git needs to move much less data around than rsync. It only transfers
differences, not whole files.
But is uses a *lot* more disk space on the systems as each system
contains the full history.
While
Am 03.08.2010 16:11, schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer:
Am Dienstag, 3. August 2010, 08:31:38 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
On 08/03/2010 08:03 AM, Sebastián Ramírez Magrí wrote:
[...]
Git needs to move much less data around than rsync. It only transfers
differences, not whole files.
Not true.
Am 06.08.2010 12:00, schrieb Adam Carter:
I'm running amd64 and am getting some screen corruption, which i believe
coincided with the last gnome update. For example in firefox the address
bar or bookmarks toolbar buttons can go black then come good again and i
can get black bands when i
!
Florian Philipp
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Am 07.08.2010 11:48, schrieb Florian Philipp:
Hi list!
I'm building a new Gentoo system (notebook) and want to rearrange a few
things. I thought it would be good to have the following layout:
- boot on a normal partition
- root on a normal partition
- one big encrypted partition
enough kernel sources (gentoo-sources in stable are good
enough), there is `make localmodconfig` which removes all mods from your
current .config which are not loaded.
There is also `make localyesconfig` which does the same but doesn't
create modules.
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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them, I don't really need them.
Thanks in advance!
Florian Philipp
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recommendations?
Thanks in advance!
Florian Philipp
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Am 22.08.2010 13:59, schrieb Florian Philipp:
Hi list!
I'm looking for an external sound card with USB, Firewire or ExpressCard
connector. It must not be professional equipment - just something with a
working SPDIF output (optical preferred). If the card can be hot-plugged
and unplugged
, everything is frozen (no touchpad, no keys).
Is anyone else using a touchpad w/o Hal ? Any suggestions ?
Try switching to xorg-server-1.8.2 and xorg-drivers-1.8
Make sure the udev use flag is enabled.
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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-in HDD.
Performance and noise levels are also good.
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Florian Philipp
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(first-in-first-out).
BTW: your last example type | sort | uniq can be shortened to type |
sort -u
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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Am 09.09.2010 20:25, schrieb Andrea Conti:
Note however (this is the it depends part :) that piping does not
affect whatever the programs might allocate or save internally: in your
second example (which does not involve any disk writing in either case)
sort needs to see the complete input
Am 09.09.2010 22:28, schrieb Grant Edwards:
On 2010-09-09, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote:
When you look closer at `sort`, it is actually a quite impressive
tool. It sorts in-memory for small amounts of data and switches to
temporary files for larger. It can even compress
Am 10.09.2010 01:49, schrieb Enrico Weigelt:
* Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
But I'd really like to know what produces the performance hits
on Posfix @ Linux.
It comes down to the IO scheduler. Linux is designed to be general purpose.
FreeBSD is designed to be much more
try the cdrom, disk and plugdev group.
After changing your groups, you have to log out and back in to apply the
changes.
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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, as well. Especially DBus and
Kopete look like they live way beyond their means (or my means ;) ).
Do other users experience the same?
Thanks in advance!
Florian Philipp
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Am 18.09.2010 22:19, schrieb Alex Schuster:
[...]
I used to restart kdm once per day in order to free memory. If I did not
do this, KDE4 became nearly unsusabe.
Yeah, logout - logon seems to resolve my problem temporarily, as well.
Now this looks different here. I have X with 946M,
Am 19.09.2010 13:34, schrieb Alex Schuster:
Alan McKinnon writes:
Like I posted in another thread today, the memory columns in top do not
mean what most people think they mean, nor are they simplistic.
You gave the example of Thunderbird using 150M and Firefox 180M, but
together they would
Am 19.09.2010 10:25, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
[...]
Like I posted in another thread today, the memory columns in top do not mean
what most people think they mean, nor are they simplistic.
The columns tell you the amount of memory that process can access. This is
vitally important to
internal disk (inner tracks) while your external disk is nearly empty and
therefore stores data on the outer tracks.
Hope this helps.
Florian Philipp
Am 30.09.2010 18:00, schrieb Peter Humphrey:
On Thursday 30 September 2010 14:10:42 Florian Philipp wrote:
An HDD gets slower when you read the inner tracks. The angular
velocity is constant (5400 RPM) while the tangential velocity gets
lower with the radius.
Are you telling us
they are seeking or reading sequentially. If you hear a lot of seeking
on sequential operations, it is time to reformat the partition or at
least erase and recreate the affected files.
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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Am 01.10.2010 18:23, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
On Friday 01 October 2010, Florian Philipp wrote:
Am 01.10.2010 03:12, schrieb Adam Carter:
Your harddisk seeks, everything is slow.
So does that then mean that my options are;
1. Defragment, so there is less seeking
2. Get an SSD
Am 02.10.2010 14:11, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
On Saturday 02 October 2010, Florian Philipp wrote:
[...]
Assumptions:
1. Seek time is constant. For HDDs we can take an average value. Of
course this doesn't work for tapes. They have a seek time which
increases linearly with the distance
Am 02.10.2010 14:44, schrieb Florian Philipp:
Am 02.10.2010 14:11, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
On Saturday 02 October 2010, Florian Philipp wrote:
[...]
Assumptions:
1. Seek time is constant. For HDDs we can take an average value. Of
course this doesn't work for tapes. They have a seek
level is automatically detected.
Other then that: Make sure the mdm subsystem is really compiled into the
kernel and not a module.
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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Am 15.10.2010 09:46, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:03:05 -0400, Jason Carson wrote:
I ran revdep-rebuild -library=mysql.so but this returned with no
problems :(
Try running revdep-rebuild without -library=mysql.so
Before revdep-rebuild, run lafilefixer
Am 15.10.2010 16:19, schrieb Andrés Becerra Sandoval:
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 8:05 AM, András Csányi sayusi.a...@gmail.com
mailto:sayusi.a...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
I would like to know when will be part of portage the LibreOffice? I
know this is an unsupported software (I have
already have a good but generic kernel like the one on
your live CD.
If even that doesn't help, it might be possible that the device
numbering has changed and your hard disk is detected as /dev/sdb or so.
Try mounting it by UUID (google for it, please).
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
Am 15.10.2010 21:23, schrieb Mike Diehl:
On Friday 15 October 2010 11:40:34 am Florian Philipp wrote:
Am 15.10.2010 19:29, schrieb Mike Diehl:
Hi all.
I've never had this much trouble with a server before, but I've been
pulling my hair out.
The install seemed to go well, but when I
a wrapper script which tests the existence
and stats of some file for checking it. Then let fcron run that script
every 30 minutes.
The attached file should get you going.
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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with nearly identical specs, I almost never use Youtube and
therefore have no experience with that.
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Florian Philipp
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and yet others use pulseaudio. I cannot give you very clear directions
but this should get you going:
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Hardware_mixing,_software_mixing
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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Am 19.10.2010 14:23, schrieb Dale:
Florian Philipp wrote:
Am 19.10.2010 09:45, schrieb Dale:
Hi,
I am thinking of upgrading from a FX-5200 with 128Mb video card to a
GeForce 6200 with 512MB. It will be AGP since this is a older rig. My
system is something like this:
Mobo: Abit NF7
in
the various printer databases ...
Thanks in advance!
Florian Philipp
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this helps,
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Am 04.11.2010 08:38, schrieb Mick:
PS. Another thing I noticed with the WinXP setup is that the
application windows seem to be screen aware. On the left monitor they
will maximise only to cover fully the left hand screen not the right
hand. The same happens when maximising an application
-hal
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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updates, I hook it up with ethernet and also
mount /var/tmp/portage via NFS to spare the SSD from too much I/O.
BTW: KDE-4 without semantic-desktop works great on these, even with 512
MB RAM. :) It runs without Firefox or OpenOffice, though.
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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Am 09.11.2010 05:52, schrieb Grant:
This is OT, but you guys have proven extremely insightful over the
years and I would love to hear what you think.
I've been working on a particular software project for a long time.
I'd like to hire a team of developers to take over the project, but I
structure? Object-oriented,
procedural, distributed (sockets, web services, RPC, ...)?
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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Am 10.11.2010 06:56, schrieb Grant Edwards:
On 2010-11-09, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote:
Well, there are two ways to go here:
1. Modularize what you have. Give every developer only the source he
is supposed to work on and binary interfaces (libs + header files
Am 10.11.2010 17:44, schrieb fe...@crowfix.com:
I haven't read the entire thread and I don't intend to. The whole
concept is so bizarre that I could not read it without thinking of the
worst most evil bosses and environments I have worked on, and none of
them even come close.
It does
Am 11.11.2010 01:34, schrieb Grant:
[...]
So it's either trust your coders or do it yourself? My budget is
small and the coders I can afford are outside of the US. I'd be
working with them via chat, email, or phone. Should I feel OK about
turning my source over to them? Should I only hire
. That mostly happens when the disk is nearly full.
AFAIK all free and commercial defraggers use the same API that the
Windows defragger provides, they just do their job more intelligent.
[1] http://kessels.com/jkdefrag/
[2] http://www.mydefrag.com/
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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display each time I close the settings dialog! What is going
on here?
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Florian Philipp
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this helps,
Florian Philipp
[1]
http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2010/11/01/i-have-the-money-shot-for-my-lca-presentation/
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Am 17.11.2010 23:26, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:08 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Florian
Philipp did opine thusly:
Hi list!
Today, KDE nearly killed a presentation I held and now I want to
understand what's going on:
Following setup: One laptop, two
tried it yet...
Very interesting. Finally something to make cgroup scheduling worthwhile.
Thanks! I'll try it.
Florian Philipp
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in advance!
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(=5).
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is a tutorial for the more advanced functions of cgroups. It
includes really cool features like /soft/ performance guarantees.
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/06/manage-your-performance-with-cgroups-and-projects.html
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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` in all
your open shells and you are done.
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Am 24.11.2010 22:13, schrieb Mick:
On Tuesday 23 November 2010 16:42:51 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
FYI. If anyone understands the bash tweak, please explain :-)
TIA
1. Original article: The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders
can also set maximums. That might also be
useful. Just limit your I/O intensive batch jobs to something like disk
throughput minus 3 MB/s.
Disclaimer: I have no experience with any of these approaches.
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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Am 28.11.2010 19:53, schrieb App Deb:
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 7:39 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm confused about which of all these various mechanisms apply to single-cpu
machines. AFAICT Con's BFS (e.g.) is really a CPU scheduler and doesn't
affect
single-cpu machines very much.
on digging out the info.
Congrats!
-Mark
As you wish:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Improve_responsiveness_with_cgroups
I welcome any improvements. This is my first wiki article and English is
not my mother tongue.
Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp
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Am 05.12.2010 15:55, schrieb Florian Philipp:
Am 04.12.2010 22:00, schrieb Mark Knecht:
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:16 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote:
On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 17:20 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:41 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au
wrote
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M USB driver for GSM and CDMA modems
If everything goes well, you should find something like /dev/ttyUSB0 in
your filesystem.
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found the answer, at least for the first issue: Look at
this bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15980
I still don't know what causes the second issue.
Regards,
Florian Philipp
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with the option O_DIRECT (as specified in `man 2 open`), the cache would
stay clean.
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. You don't need my approval for this. ;)
One slight improvement: Add a line `unset -v cdir` to the end of the
.bashrc inclusion. cdir is not needed afterwards but will remain as a
shell variable if it is not deleted.
Regards,
Florian Philipp
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Am 09.12.2010 12:07, schrieb Peter Humphrey:
Hello list,
Sorry about the noise, but is it just me or has version 3.6.12 of
Mozilla Firerox lost its Back and Forward arrow buttons? Here I just get
a drop-down box with a list of visited pages.
Perversely enough, although I use the
Am 10.12.2010 01:26, schrieb Peter Humphrey:
On Thursday 09 December 2010 14:32:57 Florian Philipp wrote:
Probably an issue with your desktop theme. Try to switch it and maybe
log-out/log-in.
I'm not aware of having a desktop theme. I certainly haven't changed
anything in that department
Am 28.01.2011 00:08, schrieb James:
kmix will not run. The icon just bounces and then terminates.
Previously, installed kde4 using kde-meta. Rebuilding kde-meta
does not go into all of the individual packages.
[...]
Ideas or suggestions are most welcome. The machine runs
an identical
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