Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2
Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Kiawud wrote: On 4/16/05, Mrugesh Karnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks, I'm trying to install Gentoo with LVM2. I had to stop the installation at one point and reboot the pc. Later, I booted with LiveCD again and now I'm wondering how I am to get my volumes back... I did the following (I definitely think that I'm doing something wrong here! I admit that I don't have enough knowledge about lvm yet and that I haven't read the complete LVM HOWTO yet.) modprobe dm_mod pvscan Found the volume vg pvchange -a y Successfully enabled vg lvscan It found all the volumes, ie, usr, home, opt, var and tmp lvchange - a y I enabled all the volumes properly. Now, when I do lvscan again, it tells me that all the volumes are ACTIVE and shows the path as /dev/vg/* and shows them as inherit. After all that, there is no /dev/vg Help? Thank you! Yours Faithfully, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list No problem ... I just did the same thing (installed 2005.0 w/ lvm2) ... Here's how I got it to work: 1) vgchange -a n (deactive all the volumes) 2) vgexport -a vg (export all the volumes) 3) vgimport -a vg (import all the volumes into the existing system) 4) vgchange -a y (reactive all the volumes) This should do it for you... -Hani Ah! Somehow I forgot to see --help on the export command... hehehe. I'll give it a try. Thank you. :) Regards, Mrugesh Karnik Hi, A week ago also tried to install using LVM2, but couldn't resolve a Bug (lvm2 linked to libgmp), see gentoo-lvm2-docs, so went for a normal install. Made the devices with 'vgmknodes' command, then they exist in /dev/vg/... HTH Rumen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] dma is off
Hello all, My 2 IDE DISKS want support DMA with gentoo. (dma was supported with debian) Here my .config with the kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r6: CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_FORCED is not set CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y # CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y # CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB is not set CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y when running hdparm /devhda , the dma is off. CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y idem for hdb thank you for any idea. Al Bayrouni. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] USB devices (/dev/usb empty)
Hello, I've the following problem with my USB on Gentoo box. A list of loaded kernel modules (usbcore is loaded): -- Module Size Used byNot tainted vfat9356 2 (autoclean) fat31640 0 (autoclean) [vfat] agpgart36696 6 (autoclean) usbcore57804 1 i810_audio 24028 1 ac97_codec 11604 0 [i810_audio] soundcore 3588 2 [i810_audio] b4414508 1 -- Unfortunately when I want to connect my camera or mouse through USB nothing happens. Problem is that /dev/usb directory is empty. Moreover when I plug device into USB port there are no information about this event in /var/log/messages. What's the problem? Maybe some kernel modules are missing.. ? Regards, Pawel Sulkowski -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dma is off
Al Bayrouni wrote: Here is the output of lspci: - :00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 645xx (rev 51) Ok, you have a SiS 645... and the part of dmesg output: --- Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ...but are using the generic IDE driver. Enable CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513 in your kernel config to support your hardware. Device Drivers --- ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support --- [*] SiS5513 chipset support Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dma is off
Al Bayrouni wrote: # CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK=y This doesn't look right. Did you configure the kernel by hand? Or by using genkernel? If so, try it with 'make menuconfig' to get a consistent config. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dma is off
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Al Bayrouni wrote: # CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK=y This doesn't look right. Did you configure the kernel by hand? Or by using genkernel? If so, try it with 'make menuconfig' to get a consistent config. Benno Thank you very much. I configured the kernel like this: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513=y is now enabled CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK=n is now disabled I am now recompiling my kernel. I shall send the result after rebooting my system on the new kernl . Thanks :) Al Bayrouni -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] 100% disk full again
this is all portage's fault.. ;-) my 300+ package upgrade is almost done. but OO died because of no disk space on the laptop (yes, I will go with a binary for this one after I clean up the mess) what is the best way to keep the portage files down to a reasonable set? I clean but that never seems to remove anything from the portage env. This seems like a common problem (esp for laptops) so what is a good solution? single dsktops; laptops o per machine portage cleaner small (3-4) networks o http-replicator cache o rsync cache o per machine portage cleaner larger networks o http-replicator cache o rsync cache o shared /usr/portage;/var/cache/edb/??? o cach machine portage cleaner right? wrong? what does a portage cleaner look like? --- eric -- http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/view.html?pg=5 The result of the duopoly that currently defines competition is that prices and service suck. We're the world's leader in Internet technology - except that we're not. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again
I use a shared NFS /usr/portage/ among 4 computers (a server, 2 desktops and a test machine) and it works fine, just the server needs to sync in the middle of the night, and as I have mostly Pentium3 (server + 2 workstations), the server and my own workstation are setup to build binary packages - the server builds first, but as it doesn't use X, there are some packages that my ws builds (after merging the already built packages) and then the second and slower ws merges only binary packages. All of them, including the test machine, uses distcc, so everything is faster. I guess that sharing /var/cache/edb is not a good idea, as far as I know portage. I am thinking on sharing /var/portage thow And that's a good point: /var/portage gets pretty full of hundreds of megs once in a while, and so does /usr/portage/distfiles and (in my case) /usr/portage/packages - so how could portage clean up by default the binary packages and the source code tarballs (and also any eventual mess left in /var/portage)? Some more command line options? Some more environment varialbles? Some more words in $FEATURES (I like this one)? -- Francisco Eric S. Johansson wrote: this is all portage's fault.. ;-) my 300+ package upgrade is almost done. but OO died because of no disk space on the laptop (yes, I will go with a binary for this one after I clean up the mess) what is the best way to keep the portage files down to a reasonable set? I clean but that never seems to remove anything from the portage env. This seems like a common problem (esp for laptops) so what is a good solution? single dsktops; laptops o per machine portage cleaner small (3-4) networks o http-replicator cache o rsync cache o per machine portage cleaner larger networks o http-replicator cache o rsync cache o shared /usr/portage;/var/cache/edb/??? o cach machine portage cleaner right? wrong? what does a portage cleaner look like? --- eric -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problems upgrading to the kernel 2.6 - module CRC32
Hi everybody... im trying to upgrading my gentoo with the 2.6 kernel. I've done everything (compilind and installing modules)... but now i cant load the crc32 module (after the modprobe crc32 the system write out that cant find that module--- module crc32 not found... or something like that). into the menuconfig i've tried to configure the crc32's compile like a module, but here i've seen that (maybe) some other kernel feature yet selected block the crc32 Functions item. this is what i see into the menuconfig: --- CRC32 Funtions and i cant do this; M CRC32 Functions does anybody know why? i need that module to use my usb modem ( the cxacru's connection script give the command modprobe crc32, but the system cant find the module) thanks a lot... -- Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Assicurazione auto Zuritel. Fai un preventivo gratuito e scopri il risparmio e molto di pi! Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=3175d=17-4 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems upgrading to the kernel 2.6 - module CRC32
Luca Penasa wrote: Hi everybody... im trying to upgrading my gentoo with the 2.6 kernel. I've done everything (compilind and installing modules)... but now i cant load the crc32 module (after the modprobe crc32 the system write out that cant find that module--- module crc32 not found... or something like that). into the menuconfig i've tried to configure the crc32's compile like a module, but here i've seen that (maybe) some other kernel feature yet selected block the crc32 Functions item. this is what i see into the menuconfig: Most likely the CRC32 function was required by an in-kernel driver, so it is being built into the kernel, not as a module. Check the .config file directly for: CONFIG_CRC32=y If this is set, then you have everything you need. To squash the cxacru error, create a file /etc/moduels.d/cxacru, with a single line: alias crc32 off Then run modules-update and you should be all set. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Local phenomena or is reiserfs quite slow
Recently switched from using ext3 (under fedora) to reiserfs (under gentoo). I'm noticing what seems to be really long processing times for certain file manipulation chores. Examples might be `du -sh' against several hundred MB or `rm -rf' in same manner. I didn't think to time the du part below but you can see what seems like a lengthy processing time for rm -rf. This is on an older P4 2ghz machine. I didn't see any abnormally heavy operations underway during this example so probably about normal number of processes and cpu being used by other processes. root # du -sh .snapshots 381M.snapshots root # time rm -rf .snapshots real1m42.234s user0m0.180s sys 0m9.696s Almost 2 minutes to rm -rf a few hundred MB. I don't have an ext3 fs to test against anymore but wondering if this is abnormally slow for reiserfs. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems upgrading to the kernel 2.6 - module CRC32
Richard Fish wrote: To squash the cxacru error, create a file /etc/moduels.d/cxacru, with sed -e s/moduels/modules/g -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Automatically replace -mtune= with -mcpu= if not supported by gcc?!
Hi, I recently noticed that portage executes the file bashrc located in /etc/portage before every ebuild. This way it can be used to set the -mcpu and -mtune flags correctly. If you add the following to this file everything goes automatically: --- SNIP --- # Automatically replace -mtune= with -mcpu if not supported by gcc # and vice versa. echo | gcc -mtune=i386 -E - /dev/null 2 /dev/null if [ $? == 0 ]; then export CFLAGS=`echo $CFLAGS | /bin/sed 's/-mcpu=/-mtune=/'` export CXXFLAGS=`echo $CXXFLAGS | /bin/sed 's/-mcpu=/-mtune=/'` else export CFLAGS=`echo $CFLAGS | /bin/sed 's/-mtune=/-mcpu=/'` export CXXFLAGS=`echo $CXXFLAGS | /bin/sed 's/-mtune=/-mcpu=/'` fi --- SNIP --- Maybe someone can give me a feedback if this is good idea or if I missed something for some exotic situation this will fail. Why doesn't portage do this automatically by itself? If it encounters an -mtune= option in make.conf and gcc doesn't support it it replaces it with -mcpu=?! Regards Philipp Hasse -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Upgrading to 2005.0
I recently updated my profile to 2005.0 by the simple rm /etc/make.profile ln -sf blah blah... Well, it didn't seem to go as smooth this time, now every time I try to emerge something, including '-u world' I get errors, specifically on gcc I get this *** This configuration is not supported in the following subdirectories: target-libffi target-boehm-gc target-zlib target-libjava zlib fastjar target-libobjc (Any other directories should still work fine.) Created Makefile in /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.5.20050130-r1/work/build using mt-frag gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory conftest.c:1: fatal error: error closing -: Broken pipe compilation terminated. The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem. *** The command 'gcc -o conftest -pipe -O2 conftest.c' failed. *** You must set the environment variable CC to a working compiler. !!! ERROR: sys-devel/gcc-3.3.5.20050130-r1 failed. !!! Function gcc_do_configure, Line 1048, Exitcode 1 !!! failed to run configure !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. I'm sure, as usual, I was a bit too hasty and should have RTFM, but now I'm at a loss, and can' seem to find any fix on the forums. TIA --reno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to 2005.0
Reno Romanin wrote: I recently updated my profile to 2005.0 by the simple rm /etc/make.profile ln -sf blah blah... Well, it didn't seem to go as smooth this time, now every time I try to emerge something, including '-u world' I get errors, specifically on gcc I get this *** This configuration is not supported in the following subdirectories: target-libffi target-boehm-gc target-zlib target-libjava zlib fastjar target-libobjc (Any other directories should still work fine.) Created Makefile in /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.5.20050130-r1/work/build using mt-frag gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory conftest.c:1: fatal error: error closing -: Broken pipe compilation terminated. The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem. *** The command 'gcc -o conftest -pipe -O2 conftest.c' failed. *** You must set the environment variable CC to a working compiler. !!! ERROR: sys-devel/gcc-3.3.5.20050130-r1 failed. !!! Function gcc_do_configure, Line 1048, Exitcode 1 !!! failed to run configure !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. I'm sure, as usual, I was a bit too hasty and should have RTFM, but now I'm at a loss, and can' seem to find any fix on the forums. TIA --reno does #binutils-config 1 solves the problem ? -- No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. ~ Charles M. Schulz But sometimes run fast is better ~ Francesco R. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0?
Hi, I'm attempting to get wireless up and running. First time on Gentoo. I have used ndiswrapper on FC2 which this machine used to run so I have ESSIDs, mac addresses and keys that are known good. I've emerge the wireless-tools stuff and have an edited /etc/conf.d/wireless file with my values in it. ndiswrapper is modprobed and ready to go. Now I want to start net.wlan0 but I don't have a file in /etc/init.d and nothing shows up in rc-update. What am I missing here? Am I supposed to make some edits to /etc/conf.d/net? That might make sense but I'm not sure what to do. If so where do I get /etc/init.d/net.wlan0? Copy net.eth0 and rename? My goal here is to be able to say: /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start and be able to switch between interfaces. Thanks in advance. I've been searching around for info but just haven't found the right thing. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerged glibc does not work
Hello, now I tried again to emerge the new version of glibc, but it failed again. After the emerge (and even after rebooting), some important programs, such as login and python no longer work. They cause segmentation fault. To boot the system I had to add init=/bin/bash to the GRUB command line. To recover I had to boot from a livecd and copy the working glibc files from a livecd image into /lib. I tried again to emerge glibc. This time I first removed make.conf to make sure that none of the settings there could cause the error. But I had to recover again. Has anyone else this problem? Does anyone have a clue why it happens? It is the same thing that has happened every time I tried to emerge a version of glibc. So it seems like I have to update glibc only when a new livecd image comes out, by mounting it and copying over the glibc files from it to to /lib. Or are there binary packages released which I can use instead? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: rc-update net.wlan0?
Hi, Did all that sensible stuff I suggested below. It worked. This response is from my wireless NIC. Thanks to the Gentoo developers for making such a logically consistent system! Cheers, Mark On 4/17/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm attempting to get wireless up and running. First time on Gentoo. I have used ndiswrapper on FC2 which this machine used to run so I have ESSIDs, mac addresses and keys that are known good. I've emerge the wireless-tools stuff and have an edited /etc/conf.d/wireless file with my values in it. ndiswrapper is modprobed and ready to go. Now I want to start net.wlan0 but I don't have a file in /etc/init.d and nothing shows up in rc-update. What am I missing here? Am I supposed to make some edits to /etc/conf.d/net? That might make sense but I'm not sure what to do. If so where do I get /etc/init.d/net.wlan0? Copy net.eth0 and rename? My goal here is to be able to say: /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start and be able to switch between interfaces. Thanks in advance. I've been searching around for info but just haven't found the right thing. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird/Nvu/etc
All of these are built on the same set of libraries and each one downloads and builds its own copy. Is anyone investigating making the common code into a mozilla-core package? I'd really like a way to cut down the time spent building these apps. dcm
[gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?
Hi, I'm installing Gentoo 2005.0 using universal installation CD on a small, general purpose server (apache+mysql+php, mail, some net-games, teamspeak, ftp, shells, 20-30 users, etc.). Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some journaling fs for my 2x160GB ata-disks, fully in raid1 (partitions: / /boot /var /tmp /usr /opt /home and swap). But even after reading of 2005.0-handbook, I have no idea which fs could be best for me. I tried to find some comparisons, but results are ambiguous. Could you give me some recommendation? I'd like to hear opinions especially from those who have personal experience with various fs... Thanks, Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 18:17 +0200, Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm installing Gentoo 2005.0 using universal installation CD on a small, general purpose server (apache+mysql+php, mail, some net-games, teamspeak, ftp, shells, 20-30 users, etc.). Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some journaling fs for my 2x160GB ata-disks, fully in raid1 (partitions: / /boot /var /tmp /usr /opt /home and swap). But even after reading of 2005.0-handbook, I have no idea which fs could be best for me. I tried to find some comparisons, but results are ambiguous. Could you give me some recommendation? I'd like to hear opinions especially from those who have personal experience with various fs... Thanks, Jarry I have experience with all of them, and after 7 years my personal pick is reiserfs 3.6. I've persnonally had problems with almost any other filesystem. My experience covers home and work. I'd like to point out that XFS was designed with datacenter use in mind, and that right there assumes you have a very good battery backup. That is to say you aren't going to lose power. XFS caches very agressively in RAM, meaning if you lose power, you lose that data. So stay away from XFS unless you have great power backup. Now you'll probably have somebody say the exact opposite of me, such is the topic of filesystems. Just my advice. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?
Alle 18:17, domenica 17 aprile 2005, Jarry ha scritto: Hi, I'm installing Gentoo 2005.0 using universal installation CD on a small, general purpose server (apache+mysql+php, mail, some net-games, teamspeak, ftp, shells, 20-30 users, etc.). Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some journaling fs for my 2x160GB ata-disks, fully in raid1 (partitions: / /boot /var /tmp /usr /opt /home and swap). But even after reading of 2005.0-handbook, I have no idea which fs could be best for me. I tried to find some comparisons, but results are ambiguous. Could you give me some recommendation? I'd like to hear opinions especially from those who have personal experience with various fs... Thanks, Jarry If you have big partitions, I can suggest you xfs that can use big files and big partitions without problems (and it's very fast!) Luigi -- Public key GPG(0x073A0960) on http://keyserver.linux.it/ pgpG0tOUb8L8X.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?
Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm installing Gentoo 2005.0 using universal installation CD on a small, general purpose server (apache+mysql+php, mail, some net-games, teamspeak, ftp, shells, 20-30 users, etc.). Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some journaling fs for my 2x160GB ata-disks, fully in raid1 (partitions: / /boot /var /tmp /usr /opt /home and swap). But even after reading of 2005.0-handbook, I have no idea which fs could be best for me. I tried to find some comparisons, but results are ambiguous. Could you give me some recommendation? I'd like to hear opinions especially from those who have personal experience with various fs... Thanks, Jarry Hi, I don't claim to be an expert when it comes to file systems, but I can give my recommendations. Surely though, you'll get better ones from more qualified people out there :) Anyways, I've had experiences with ext3, ReiserFS and XFS. I prefer XFS for volumes where I have all the ISOs and stuff.. basically large files. Ext3 on basically everyother volume except /boot. I used to have ReiserFS, but somehow the performance usually started going down after a few weeks... dunno why. Having said that, we have power failures fairly regularly and Ext3 has been rocksolid after a power failure... always. Anyways, I can see fire-eyes recommending ReiserFS there... Well, like he/she said, its a matter of personal opinion. HTH, Mrugesh Karnik -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote: I also recommend reiserfs. I'm a laptop user, and just converted my filesystems from xfs to reiserfs for performance reasons. With xfs, backing up my root filesystem (325000-35 files) would take a bit over 10 minutes usually. With reiserfs, that time is down to 6-7 minutes. It just can't be beat (IMO) for handling lots and lots of small files. In terms of reliability (I manage servers for a living ;-), I have never had any problems with ext2/ext3 - it is rock solid even after crashes. I too tried out Reiserfs on my laptop and after one crash it blew away a file I was editing at the time (it turned into binary mush). However, I have used ReiserFS on an older, slower (Pentium III) server at home without any problems so far. As far as XFS goes (I have it on an old SGI server), it has great performance (this is on a web server serving many many sites) but since the server is in a data center with backup UPS and generators it is a good choice for that situation. Overall, I would say it depends on the machine, its location and what uses the machine will be put to. -- Aj. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?
On Sun, April 17, 2005 6:21 pm, Ciaran McCreesh said: If you care about your data, use ext3. If you care about your data, use tar. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?
On Sunday 17 April 2005 12:21 pm, A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote: I also recommend reiserfs. I'm a laptop user, and just converted my filesystems from xfs to reiserfs for performance reasons. With xfs, backing up my root filesystem (325000-35 files) would take a bit over 10 minutes usually. With reiserfs, that time is down to 6-7 minutes. It just can't be beat (IMO) for handling lots and lots of small files. In terms of reliability (I manage servers for a living ;-), I have never had any problems with ext2/ext3 - it is rock solid even after crashes. I'll backup what you just said about ext2/ext3. I use it extensively on servers. It's easy to setup and very robust. For those of you waiving the slow poke flag, you should have a look at something other than a default ext3 installation. -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004 Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net Buy an Xbox for $149.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $150.00! 1:51pm up 8 days, 20:58, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again
Hi, followed by an 'rm -rf /var/tmp/portage' I do get one error I'm not sure how to clean. getfetchlist(): aux_get() error reading app-text/aspell-0.50.3; aborting. Failed to get file list for app-text/aspell-0.50.3 !!! aux_get(): ebuild path for 'net-misc/dhcpcd-1.3.22_p4-r4' not specified: !!!None try to remove the file manually, if this fails too, have a look into dmesg, I fear, you have to run fsck from a boot/live-cd -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Local phenomena or is reiserfs quite slow
Hi, On Sunday 17 April 2005 15:52, Harry Putnam wrote: Recently switched from using ext3 (under fedora) to reiserfs (under gentoo). I'm noticing what seems to be really long processing times for certain file manipulation chores. is udma activated for your harddisk? what does hdparm /dev/hdX says? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?
Hi, On Sunday 17 April 2005 18:17, Jarry wrote: Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some journaling fs for my 2x160GB ata-disks, fully in raid1 (partitions: / /boot /var /tmp /usr /opt /home and swap). for /boot (shouldn't be too big. 20mb is way enough for /boot) ext2 is good. Everything else is pure overkill and a waste of space. For the rest reiserfs or ext3 should fit your needs. I am longtime reiserfs user, so my view might be biased, but I prefer reiserfs. XFS has a habit of replacing 'damaged' files with zeros, after a crash. This is a 'security' feature, so one users data will not accidentally end in the data of another user, but it can damage your system very badly. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Hi, On Sunday 17 April 2005 18:17, Jarry wrote: Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some journaling fs for my 2x160GB ata-disks, fully in raid1 (partitions: / /boot /var /tmp /usr /opt /home and swap). for /boot (shouldn't be too big. 20mb is way enough for /boot) ext2 is good. Everything else is pure overkill and a waste of space. agree, use ext2 but with 20Mb you have space only for three 2.6 kernels, maybe 50 Mb is better For the rest reiserfs or ext3 should fit your needs. I am longtime reiserfs user, so my view might be biased, but I prefer reiserfs. agree again, totally, why to use 400 Mb for /usr/portage when you can have it in 120 Mb ? Reiser 4 is a hole for the moment but reiser 3 has demonstrated to be robust for non extreme usage. XFS has a habit of replacing 'damaged' files with zeros, after a crash. This is a 'security' feature, so one users data will not accidentally end in the data of another user, but it can damage your system very badly. -- No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. ~ Charles M. Schulz But sometimes run fast is better ~ Francesco R. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?
On 4/17/05, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:17:33 +0200 Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:| Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some| journaling fs for my 2x160GB ata-disks, fully in raid1 | (partitions: / /boot /var /tmp /usr /opt /home and swap).If you care about your data, use ext3. Ditto. I've had several very inconvenient data losses on servers with ReiserFS volumes. -- ciao,cj
[gentoo-user] Once again - a big thanks to the developers...
Hi, In the last day I've managed to do a very nice conversion to Gentoo of an existing home machine that was running FC2. The conversion was almost totally painless and most important worked very well. This conversion was done using the 2005.0 Universal CD and the instruction book on it. I did not use the web at all during the first part of the build. It was really great to sit on a machine with no network connection and have everything I needed to do a really efficient install. So, a BIG THANKS to all the developers and those who participate on this list and in the forums. The info you provide is really great! This conversion built 360 packages. There was only one package that didn't build (apmd) and there was already a bug reported on that. The only thing that could have gone a bit smoother was better support for a ndiswrapper wireless install. (In my case a /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 file would have pretty much done the trick.) Also the flexibility of the Gentoo install allowed me to use the existing grub setup making the machine dual boot from the get go. After Gentoo has been stable for a few days we'll get rid of the FC2 partitions but for now it's great to have them. Having done Gentoo installations a few time (10-15 maybe) I must say I really like the process. The only thing that struck me this time was the need to build a kernel before having installed grub and rebooted. I think I would have preferred to just boot the binary kernel that the CD was using and then only build my real kernel once but I wasn't sure what to grab to make that work. This way I build -r3 and then pretty much immediately threw it away and built -r6. A small complaint indeed. So, again, a big thanks to you guy who make this possible. Really cool work. cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:21:14 +0200 Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | agree, use ext2 but with 20Mb you have space only for three 2.6 | kernels, maybe 50 Mb is better What, are these turn absolutely everything to Y kernels? Three compressed kernels in twenty megs leads to kernels which're so big they won't even boot. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpWp2nWwtiNa.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] 2005.0 server install
Jus doing my first server install with the 2005.0 release. Have a few questions: 1. Do you longer need to emerge e2fsprogs? (Seems to be already installed). 2. Do I need udevtools? 3. Do I need coldplug? Nice to see gentoo-source now using 2.6 kernels :-) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:21:14 +0200 Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | agree, use ext2 but with 20Mb you have space only for three 2.6 | kernels, maybe 50 Mb is better What, are these turn absolutely everything to Y kernels? Three compressed kernels in twenty megs leads to kernels which're so big they won't even boot. web boot # du -k * 133 Kerntypes-2.4.21-144-athlon 901 System.map 620 System.map-2.4.21-144-athlon 787 System.map-2.6.8.1-mm3 901 System.map-2.6.9-gentoo-r4 1 backup_mbr 0 boot 29 config 53 config-2.4.21-144-athlon 28 config-2.6.8.1-mm3 29 config-2.6.9-gentoo-r4 951 grub 973 initrd-2.4.21-144-athlon 849 initrd-2.6.8.1-mm3 1372initrd-2.6.9-gentoo-r4 2008kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r4 12 lost+found 80 memtest.bin 1409vmlinux-2.4.21-144-athlon.gz 0 vmlinuz 1189vmlinuz-2.4.21-144-athlon 2008vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-mm3 2008vmlinuz-2.6.9-gentoo-r4 web boot # du -sh 16M . zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -v is not set | grep -v ^# \ | grep -v ^$ CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_MMU=y CONFIG_UID16=y CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_CLEAN_COMPILE=y CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y CONFIG_LOCALVERSION= CONFIG_SWAP=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=14 CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y CONFIG_FUTEX=y CONFIG_EPOLL=y CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS=y CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE=y CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=y CONFIG_SHMEM=y CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD=y CONFIG_OBSOLETE_MODPARM=y CONFIG_KMOD=y CONFIG_X86_PC=y CONFIG_MK7=y CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y CONFIG_X86_XADD=y CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6 CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY=y CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y CONFIG_X86_USE_3DNOW=y CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC=y CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_TSC=y CONFIG_X86_MCE=y CONFIG_X86_MCE_NONFATAL=y CONFIG_X86_MCE_P4THERMAL=y CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y CONFIG_MTRR=y CONFIG_REGPARM=y CONFIG_PM=y CONFIG_ACPI=y CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT=y CONFIG_ACPI_INTERPRETER=y CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_ACPI_AC=y CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY=y CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=y CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=y CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=y CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=y CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0 CONFIG_ACPI_BUS=y CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y CONFIG_ACPI_PCI=y CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y CONFIG_APM=y CONFIG_PCI=y CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG=y CONFIG_PCI_LEGACY_PROC=y CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y CONFIG_PCMCIA=y CONFIG_YENTA=y CONFIG_CARDBUS=y CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y CONFIG_STANDALONE=y CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y CONFIG_FW_LOADER=m CONFIG_PARPORT=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1=m CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO=y CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=8192 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y CONFIG_LBD=y CONFIG_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=y CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL=y CONFIG_IDE_TASKFILE_IO=y CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AEC62XX=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT34X=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_OLD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SLC90E66=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRM290=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y CONFIG_SCSI_SPI_ATTRS=m CONFIG_SCSI_AACRAID=m CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=m CONFIG_AIC7XXX_CMDS_PER_DEVICE=32 CONFIG_AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY_MS=15000 CONFIG_AIC7XXX_DEBUG_ENABLE=y CONFIG_AIC7XXX_DEBUG_MASK=0 CONFIG_AIC7XXX_REG_PRETTY_PRINT=y CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX_OLD=m CONFIG_SCSI_AIC79XX=m CONFIG_AIC79XX_CMDS_PER_DEVICE=32 CONFIG_AIC79XX_RESET_DELAY_MS=15000 CONFIG_AIC79XX_DEBUG_ENABLE=y CONFIG_AIC79XX_DEBUG_MASK=0 CONFIG_AIC79XX_REG_PRETTY_PRINT=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SVW=m CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX=m CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_PROMISE=m CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL=m CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=m CONFIG_SCSI_BUSLOGIC=m CONFIG_SCSI_DMX3191D=y CONFIG_SCSI_EATA=m CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_MAX_TAGS=16 CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_PIO=m CONFIG_SCSI_FUTURE_DOMAIN=m CONFIG_SCSI_GDTH=m CONFIG_SCSI_IPS=m CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2=m CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=1 CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=16 CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=64 CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=y
Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.0 server install
A. Khattri wrote: Jus doing my first server install with the 2005.0 release. Have a few questions: 1. Do you longer need to emerge e2fsprogs? (Seems to be already installed). Don't know but i think it has utility for ext3 too 2. Do I need udevtools? what's this?, it's not present on my boxes eix udev * app-text/uudeview [...] Installed: no [...] * sys-fs/udev [...] Installed: 056 [...] Found 2 matches 3. Do I need coldplug? yes it make some work in your place ... if u remember to enable it via rc-update Nice to see gentoo-source now using 2.6 kernels :-) -- No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. ~ Charles M. Schulz But sometimes run fast is better ~ Francesco R. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.0 server install
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: 2. Do I need udevtools? what's this?, it's not present on my boxes I guess I meant udev - I just checked and it looks like its already installed. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerged glibc does not work
Erik wrote: Hello, now I tried again to emerge the new version of glibc, but it failed again. After the emerge (and even after rebooting), some important programs, such as login and python no longer work. They cause segmentation fault. To boot the system I had to add init=/bin/bash to the GRUB command line. To recover I had to boot from a livecd and copy the working glibc files from a livecd image into /lib. Strange. I've updated glibc versions several times without a hitch. Are you confident in your USE flags? After an upgrade (and the reboot with init=/bin/bash trick), what does 'ldd /bin/login' or 'ldd /usr/bin/python' report? What error results when you try to run one of those programs? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerged glibc does not work
Richard Fish wrote: Erik wrote: Hello, now I tried again to emerge the new version of glibc, but it failed again. After the emerge (and even after rebooting), some important programs, such as login and python no longer work. They cause segmentation fault. To boot the system I had to add init=/bin/bash to the GRUB command line. To recover I had to boot from a livecd and copy the working glibc files from a livecd image into /lib. Strange. I've updated glibc versions several times without a hitch. Are you confident in your USE flags? I did not use USE flags. After an upgrade (and the reboot with init=/bin/bash trick), what does 'ldd /bin/login' or 'ldd /usr/bin/python' report? I did not check that. I will next time. What error results when you try to run one of those programs? Segmentation fault. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Wireless: dhcpcd starts too early
At boot, when wlan0 starts up, I get a msg that dhcpcd is already running, so - no connection. I have to start it manually after rm'ing the pid file. I've run rc-update del on pcmcia, netmount. net.lo and hotplug. Anyone w/ a notion what's starting up dhcpcd before net.wlan0 gets called? Thanks. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.0 server install
A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: 2. Do I need udevtools? what's this?, it's not present on my boxes I guess I meant udev - I just checked and it looks like its already installed. you can avoid using it ... but why ? It's the /dev manager for 2.6 kernels, it replaces (well) devfs No more pain of MAKEDEV et similar, try it you will love it. -- No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. ~ Charles M. Schulz But sometimes run fast is better ~ Francesco R. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] libwxgtk2.2
Hello, I need to install wxgtk2.2 because I have one program that uses it. But the package found in portage is wxgtk2.4. What do you recomend to me? Thank you Al Bayrouni -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] libwxgtk2.2
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 23:15 +0200, Al Bayrouni wrote: I need to install wxgtk2.2 because I have one program that uses it. But the package found in portage is wxgtk2.4. The old ebuilds (earliest is 2.2.9) are still accessible via the gentoo viewcvs: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/x11-libs/wxGTK/ It's anyone's guess whether that'll compile (dependencies etc.) though; it could well be easier to update the program to the wxGTK 2.4 API. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] libwxgtk2.2
Edward Catmur wrote: On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 23:15 +0200, Al Bayrouni wrote: I need to install wxgtk2.2 because I have one program that uses it. But the package found in portage is wxgtk2.4. The old ebuilds (earliest is 2.2.9) are still accessible via the gentoo viewcvs: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/x11-libs/wxGTK/ It's anyone's guess whether that'll compile (dependencies etc.) though; it could well be easier to update the program to the wxGTK 2.4 API. But this prog have not update until now. I shall try the old version because I haven't any choice. Thank you Bayrouni -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] xdm and gdm login windows are different - how can I specify which to use
Probably an obvious question but for the life of me I can't figure out how to make xdm show the gdm login window at boot. To explain when I set rc-update add xdm default the login window is different to the one shown when I run gdm at the commandline. I prefer the gdm login window. My wife is Italian and sometimes she prefers to work off the desktop in Italian, and other times in English. The gdm window allows her to easily switch between languages Thanks, Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.15 - Release Date: 16/04/2005 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xdm and gdm login windows are different - how can I specify which to use
read the fine manual and look in /etc/rc.conf, it is all explained. On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:25:01 +1000 Richard Watson wrote: Probably an obvious question but for the life of me I can't figure out how to make xdm show the gdm login window at boot. To explain when I set rc-update add xdm default the login window is different to the one shown when I run gdm at the commandline. I prefer the gdm login window. My wife is Italian and sometimes she prefers to work off the desktop in Italian, and other times in English. The gdm window allows her to easily switch between languages -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerged glibc does not work
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 21:22 +0200, Erik wrote: Richard Fish wrote: What error results when you try to run one of those programs? Segmentation fault. I've seen this before: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/114627 Did you seem a similer error at the end of emerging glibc? If you do an emerge -p -v glibc what USE flags do you get? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ Be careful! Is it classified? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 07:50:14 -0400 Eric S. Johansson wrote: right? wrong? what does a portage cleaner look like? http://clug.net.nz/index.php/GentooTips --- eric -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xdm and gdm login windows are different - how can I specify which to use
Set /etc/rc.conf so that DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm. then the xdm at default will actually start gdm. - Mark On 4/17/05, Richard Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably an obvious question but for the life of me I can't figure out how to make xdm show the gdm login window at boot. To explain when I set rc-update add xdm default the login window is different to the one shown when I run gdm at the commandline. I prefer the gdm login window. My wife is Italian and sometimes she prefers to work off the desktop in Italian, and other times in English. The gdm window allows her to easily switch between languages Thanks, Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.15 - Release Date: 16/04/2005 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xdm and gdm login windows are different - how can I specify which to use
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:31:43 +1200 Jamie Dobbs wrote: Try rc-update del xdm default rc-update add gdm default This will change your logon manager to gdm BZZZT wrong! Change DISPLAYMANAGER= in /etc/rc.conf There is no /etc/init.d/gdm (or kdm) script in gentoo. Richard Watson wrote: -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerged glibc does not work
Alex Bennee wrote: On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 21:22 +0200, Erik wrote: Richard Fish wrote: What error results when you try to run one of those programs? Segmentation fault. I've seen this before: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/114627 Interesting, thanks! Did you seem a similer error at the end of emerging glibc? I do not remember, but I think the last thing I saw was something like processed 317 info files. I would have to try again to take a closer look at the end of the output. If you do an emerge -p -v glibc what USE flags do you get? [ebuild R ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1 -build -debug -erandom -hardened (-multilib) +nls -nomalloccheck -nptl -nptlonly -pic -userlocales 0 kB -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Wacky Mouse...
Today, my mouse has gone wacky. Previously I had a fine working Gentoo/X11 system on my Dell I8600. A week ago, upgraded my profile, and updated the system, including switching to udev. I had no problem for the last week, so I believe that all worked well. Today, I did another update (emerge -uavD world), and started to muck with user-mode linux. This did necessitate a rebuild of my kernel, and a reboot. When I was done, my pointer is wacky. Wacky mean the pointer is largely stuck near the bottom left corner of the display. Any attempt to move it generates a great deal of flashing of the pointer. When I start X, the pointer appears dead center of the screen, until I touch the touchpad at which point it jumps to the bottom left area of the screen. I've reviewed what was emerged, and I don't think anything is likely to have caused this problem. I've tried changing my config to not use the synaptics drive, but that had no effect. Any ideas? David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?
A case of YMMV I'm afraid I will not touch ext2/3 again except for /boot (because its simple and does not seem to have problems - as long as you leave it unmounted that is - live and learn!) as it is the only file system I regularly lost files on (a laptop that would crash every couple of weeks due to hardware/suspend to ram etc issues), and whole filesystems (40G files + OS at christmas for instance. reiserfs isnt perfect, some years back I lost a few minor files (this is not counting hardware failure where I have experience that reiserfs handles failing/failed disks far better than ext2/3 - important when you want to get the data off! Others seem to have good things to say about ext 2/3 though, so its a case of try it and see how it works for you. BillK On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 23:47 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Hi, -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware
Hi All, I just installed Gentoo-2005.0 into vmware. Had to do it 2 times because the 1st time I used scsi disks and the kernel couldn't find the partition. (I guess this is because I didn't compile the BusLogic Scsi card directly into the kernel and kept it as a module; not to mention me being lazy to want to make a initrd :-) Anyway, after the install, I removed /usr/portage and exported my laptop's portage tree via nfs instead and I've got the size of a default install to 900MB. (isn't this a bit huge??) But for some reason, the virtual disks in VMware is like 2GB in size. I know there'a way to shrink it, and after looking at vmware's docs, it seems its only applicable for Window Hosts/Guests(?). Is there a way to do it under VMware? Another thing, what's the performance difference with running as scsi disks vs running ide disks? (this laptop(D600+1.4Ghz Centrino) has 512MB ram with 200MB reserved for vmware. If I upgraded to 1.2GB RAM and gave 512 to Vmware, would there be better performance? I noticed that running vmware gets my CPU usage averaging 80% all the time) PS : Currently mounting a smbfs partition and then doing tar -cf /mnt/smbfs/gentoo.tar.gz / -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 09:49:55 up 20:06, 6 users, load average: 6.08, 2.95, 2.08 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] DRM on a new ck kernel
Odd. Does your user have read/write priveleges to /dev/dri/card0 (and any other cardN devices that may be there)? Try running `chmod a+rw /dev/dri/*` as root and see if glxinfo reports that you're using direct rendering. If this works you'll need to add yourself to the video group: # gpasswd -a user video Then log out and log back in again for the changes to take effect. -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key ID: 0x109DBECE GPG Key Fingerprint (SHA1): E485 E2F7 11CE F9B2 E3D9 C95D 208F B732 109D BECE Encrypted and/or Signed correspondence preffered. Notice: This message not is not GPG-signed, because it is sent through a webmail interface. --- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Keeping files synced
I routinely switch between two different systems, and was wondering if there was an easy way to keep my files synced between the two systems. I'm wondering if there is an application I can use or anything like that? Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Keeping files synced
unison http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ its in portage On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 22:15:45 -0400 Tom Moyer wrote: I routinely switch between two different systems, and was wondering if there was an easy way to keep my files synced between the two systems. I'm wondering if there is an application I can use or anything like that? Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?
Ext3 has yet to give me a single problem in the 2+ years that I've been using it (since my first GNU/Linux adventures on RH9). ReiserFS, on the other hand, was continually misbehaving (segfaults, floating point exceptions, journal replay errors, etc.) both times I tried to use it for a Stage1 Gentoo install (the second time just using it for /usr/portage and /var/tmp/portage). I've not any experience with other filesystems so I can't knowledgably comment on them, but I very highly recommend ext3. For what it's worth, I've posted a few tips[1] on Gentoo's DTT forum to help you improve reliablity and performance on an ext3 filesystem. [1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-305871.html On a related but off-topic note: Thank you for your hard work Stephen Tweedie and others! =D -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key ID: 0x109DBECE GPG Key Fingerprint (SHA1): E485 E2F7 11CE F9B2 E3D9 C95D 208F B732 109D BECE Encrypted and/or Signed correspondence preffered. Notice: This message not is not GPG-signed, because it is sent through a webmail interface. --- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Local phenomena or is reiserfs quite slow
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How did you do this conversion? Reiserfs exhibits poor performance if you simply extract an archive of a different filesystem. I installed gentoo with reiserfs as fs of choice. So the files being rm'ed were built on reiserfs from the start. I'm comparing to just a percieved difference in processing on former os of choice Fedora Test 4 using ext3 throughout. As posted in previous message, I no longer had an ext3 fs to try an actual comparison. So to clearup any misconceptions I may have fostered with my post. 1) I'm really just saying my current reiserfs system seems to do certain kinds of things much slower than form ext3 (under Fedora) system. 2) I've made no actual comparison... I've only timed a few chores performed on reiserfs, and they seem to be rather slow for a P4 2 ghz (Machine is a couple years old). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Local phenomena or is reiserfs quite slow
Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, On Sunday 17 April 2005 15:52, Harry Putnam wrote: Recently switched from using ext3 (under fedora) to reiserfs (under gentoo). I'm noticing what seems to be really long processing times for certain file manipulation chores. Not sure how to tell if udma is on or not... it isn't mentioned in this output unless you meant `dma': hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 256 (on) geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 60040544256, start = 0 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?
Now I don't mind a strip of ads down the page on the gentoo web server, but when I click on the one that says No BS Dedicated Gentoo Linux Servers from vr.org. and get a page that says : The vr.org server special has ended. Please check back in the next few weeks for information on our next special or sign up to be notified be first in line. If you want more information about our previous offer, you can see it here. Thanks for your interest, The vr.org Team it just annoys me. Its has been like that for at least a few weeks, it doesn't inspire me to use vr.org, it doesn't instill me with confidence in the people who actually vet these ads and put them on gentoo's front page. -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Local phenomena or is reiserfs quite slow
On Monday 18 April 2005 05:00, Harry Putnam wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, On Sunday 17 April 2005 15:52, Harry Putnam wrote: Recently switched from using ext3 (under fedora) to reiserfs (under gentoo). I'm noticing what seems to be really long processing times for certain file manipulation chores. Not sure how to tell if udma is on or not... it isn't mentioned in this output unless you meant `dma': hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 256 (on) geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 60040544256, start = 0 well, your udma is on .. but you could do yourself a favour try this as root: hdparm -u1 -c1 /dev/hda this will set unmaskirq, which is usually a good thing, allowing processing of interrupts, while the drive is busy. c1 will set io_support to 32. Both should give you a little bit of speedup. With hdparm -iI /dev/hda you can check which (u)dma mode is used by your drive. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Software Suspend2 using Gentoo Ebuilds - New Magazine MyOSS Mag
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 10:00 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Nick Rout wrote: Definitely not spam, thats a great article. Yes, I agree. The issue was a very good read. Keep it up :) Edition 2 is already in the works. If any of you guys feel up to it, please send in your articles and we'll publish it. One of the biggest problems in sustaining the Mag is in looking for contributing writers. Please do consider it. Visit the Site -- http://mag.my-opensource.org Comments are appreciated. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:14:11 up 21:31, 6 users, load average: 0.20, 0.42, 0.42 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?
Please be kind to the Gentoo folks. They have sold ad space, placed the add that the sponsor wanted them to and linked it to the site that the sponsor wanted them to. The Gentoo folks have done everything right so that they can collect some money to help run the site. If you want to complain (and slashdot's full) then tell the people at vr.org. I'm sure they vetted it for p0rn, scams, and ability to pay; they are too busy doing things that help Gentoo to babysit irresponsible advertisers. I'd like to thank everyone at Gentoo for a great product and a great web experience. Best Regards, Tres On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 15:02 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: Now I don't mind a strip of ads down the page on the gentoo web server, but when I click on the one that says No BS Dedicated Gentoo Linux Servers from vr.org. and get a page that says : The vr.org server special has ended. Please check back in the next few weeks for information on our next special or sign up to be notified be first in line. If you want more information about our previous offer, you can see it here. Thanks for your interest, The vr.org Team it just annoys me. Its has been like that for at least a few weeks, it doesn't inspire me to use vr.org, it doesn't instill me with confidence in the people who actually vet these ads and put them on gentoo's front page. -- Nick Rout -- Tres -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] unmerge without deleting?
Not directly that I'm aware of. You could build a binary package of it so that you re-emerge your binary at a later date. You may also want to look into ccache as it can dramatically speed up a re-compile of a package. --Brandon -Original Message- From: Robert Persson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 9:33 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] unmerge without deleting? Is it possible to unmerge an ebuild without deleting the files? In other words, is it possible to unmerge to a package in case you want to re-merge it in the future without having to rebuild? Thanks Robert -- Robert Persson The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre. - Frank Zappa -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Anyone using gnat/bindx
I have just done an emerge of gnat and adabindx and am having a bit of trouble building the bindx demo programs to verify that it all installed correctly... The emege didn't leave a lot of clues as to what it had done, but had there been a 'ReadMe' describing the adaptation to gentoo portage, I surmise it should have said something like: gcc 2.8.1 is installed as the version needed by gnat, and... the executive is renamed 'gnatgcc' to avoid conflict with newer compilers.. Once you know the command to execute, it seems to work fine. However I was less sucessful with the emerge of the adabindx X bindings, which seemed to create the directories: /usr/lib/ada/adalib/adabindx and /usr/lib/ada/adainclude/adabindx where the lib directory contained a lot of .ali files but no actual libraries except for a broken symlink to from libadabindx.a to a non-existant libadabindx-0.7.2.a. The sources to the library files seemed to exist in the include directory. In addition, a directory called: /usr/share/doc/adabindx-0.7.2 was created and contained some original documentation files and a directory of sample programs. However the makefiles for these all assumed the existance of a 'Local.conf' file which was supposed to have been left over from the install - however it did not seem to exist. The symbols it is supposed to define, and the values for the ones I have worked out, are as follows: ADA_MAKE=gnatmake ADA_MAKE_FLAGS= ADA_LINK_FLAGS= XLIB_DIR= XM_LIBS=-lXm XMU_LIBS=-lXmu ADABINDX_LIBS= However clearly something else is still missing, as I have not yet managed to get the sample programs to link as there seems to be some sort of C glue that is not being found, with unresolved names such as interfaces__c__wstrings__strlen interfaces__c__wstrings__value__3 interfaces__c__wstrings(float, long double,...)(...) So I am guessing that I am missing some magic from the 'Local.conf' definitions, but couldn't find any libraries defining the missing symbols. I am pretty sure this all worked when I installed it from a tarball on a different system a few years ago. But before I go back to trying it that way, does anyone have any ideas on what happened to the missing file, or what need to add to resolve the link errors? Thanks DigbyT P.S. I also found that my build directory filled up with object files which seem to be the result of compiling the xbind sources - any know if this is supposed to happen, or is it just because the link to the library object was broken..? -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digbyt.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware
Ow Mun Heng wrote: Is there a way to do it under VMware? I got a little confused reading your email. Are you running VMWare on Linux or on Windows? If on Linux, you can resize virtual disks with vmware-vdiskmanager. You will need to shrink the filesystems in the guestOS first, then shrink the partitions, and then you can use vdiskmanager to shink the 'drive' itself. Another thing, what's the performance difference with running as scsi disks vs running ide disks? None, from what I can tell. Actually, I get (slightly) better performance with IDE, but this is running windows guests, not linux. (this laptop(D600+1.4Ghz Centrino) has 512MB ram with 200MB reserved for vmware. If I upgraded to 1.2GB RAM and gave 512 to Vmware, would there be better performance? Of course, more memory is *always* better. My next system will have 2G of RAM mostly so I can run 2 VMs with 512MB each. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
