Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:05:31 -0800, Grant wrote: The same way you copied it from the laptop in the first place: boot from a live CD and copy it with rsync or that tar+ssh hack. The problem with booting into the LiveCD is I can't get on the network. I don't have a crossover cable to connect to the Gentoo router (although I'm ordering a switch), and I don't think the LiveCD supports madwifi since it doesn't have a net.ath0 interface. I had just booted normally and copied /dev/hda3 over before. I mentioned a live CD not the live CD. It doesn't have to be a Gentoo install CD, and Knoppix includes madwifi. -- Neil Bothwick If you got the words it does not mean you got the knowledge. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 net.eth1 net.eth2 persist in trying to come up even though not in any run level.
Le Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:51:57 -0500, James Lockie [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Richard Watson wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded my system with emerge -uDN world. Afterwards I found that net.eth0 was grabbing my firewire port (ieee1394) and I needed to create net.eth2 for my NIC as net.eth1 was being assigned to my wireless. My problem is that although rc-update show indicates all my interfaces are NOT being loaded other than net.lo at boot (which is what I want) my system keeps trying to start net.eth0 net.eth1 net.eth2 in the default run level. Can anybody help? It's very frustrating waiting for these interfaces to try and connect before timing out. I've always run my network connection on this basis as Gentoo is on my laptop and depending where I am will determine which interface I want to use. Thanks, Richard rm /etc/init.d/net.eth0 rm /etc/init.d/net.ath1 That's a solution. Unfortunately, not always the good one. Richard : you should have a look at RC_PLUG_SERVICES in /etc/conf.d/rc Another solution if you are dhcp-ing is (from /etc/conf.d/net.example) : # For passing custom options to dhcpcd use something like the following. This # example reduces the timeout for retrieving an address from 60 seconds (the # default) to 10 seconds. #dhcpcd_eth0=-t 10 But !!! Yes, there is a but... Be carefull. On some networks, it might takes a bit more than 10sec to receive an dhcp answer. -- Cordialement, Patrice BOUVARD, Networks Systems Engineer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters
Albert Hopkins napisał(a): Disclaimer: I don't (often) use KDE... But there is a Settings://Accessibility/Regional Languages option (or similiar). Have you using that and setting it to Polish? Can't find it in Gnome. Isn't it a KDE option? ... also might want to check your $LANG and $LC_ALL environment variables... Both set to pl_PL. Thanks for your feedback. Regards, Jan Stępień -- Mailjan at stepien com pl Jabber jano at jabber aster pl GG 1894343 Web http://stepien.com.pl signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters
Bo Ørsted Andresen napisał(a): http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml#doc_chap3 Thanks, but I've followed these instructions already when was installing my Gentoo. # locale -a C pl_PL POSIX # locale LANG=pl_PL LC_CTYPE=pl_PL LC_NUMERIC=pl_PL LC_TIME=pl_PL LC_COLLATE=pl_PL LC_MONETARY=pl_PL LC_MESSAGES=pl_PL LC_PAPER=pl_PL LC_NAME=pl_PL LC_ADDRESS=pl_PL LC_TELEPHONE=pl_PL LC_MEASUREMENT=pl_PL LC_IDENTIFICATION=pl_PL LC_ALL=pl_PL Seems to be as Polish as a Linux can be. And it really is, in fact, despite those KDE apps. Regards, Jan Stępień -- Mailjan at stepien com pl Jabber jano at jabber aster pl GG 1894343 Web http://stepien.com.pl signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters
Benno Schulenberg napisał(a): Jan Stępień wrote: In my USE flag unicode is disabled. I'm using ISO-8859-2 encoding. Why not use Unicode? The mail you sent uses UTF-8, why not use that everywhere? When posting to international groups I try to use to use UTF-8 to make it accessible for everyone. However, over here in Poland most of my friends and colleagues use ISO-8859-2 and it's easier for us to use the same encoding. And last but not the least, I don't believe that KDE running in Polish has to use UTF-8. Regards, Jan Stępień -- Mailjan at stepien com pl Jabber jano at jabber aster pl GG 1894343 Web http://stepien.com.pl signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters
On Sunday 28 January 2007 15:10:15 Jan Stępień wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml#doc_chap3 Thanks, but I've followed these instructions already when was installing my Gentoo. [SNIP] I guess I can assume that `locale-gen` doesn't report any errors then. So maybe you need to install kde-base/kde-i18n ? I assume your LINGUAS variable does include pl? Otherwise adjust it and run `emerge -vDp --newuse world`. -- Bo Andresen pgpcAK0bgL4nY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters
On Sunday 28 January 2007 14:14, Jan Stępień wrote: Benno Schulenberg napisał(a): Jan Stępień wrote: In my USE flag unicode is disabled. I'm using ISO-8859-2 encoding. Why not use Unicode? The mail you sent uses UTF-8, why not use that everywhere? When posting to international groups I try to use to use UTF-8 to make it accessible for everyone. However, over here in Poland most of my friends and colleagues use ISO-8859-2 and it's easier for us to use the same encoding. And last but not the least, I don't believe that KDE running in Polish has to use UTF-8. Why don't you try this in your /etc/locale.gen file and then run again running # locale-gen: = pl_PL ISO-8859-2 pl_PL UTF-8 ... en_US UTF-8 ... etc. = -- Regards, Mick pgpExQRdUqjqi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters
Mick napisał(a): On Sunday 28 January 2007 14:14, Jan Stępień wrote: When posting to international groups I try to use to use UTF-8 to make it accessible for everyone. However, over here in Poland most of my friends and colleagues use ISO-8859-2 and it's easier for us to use the same encoding. And last but not the least, I don't believe that KDE running in Polish has to use UTF-8. Why don't you try this in your /etc/locale.gen file and then run again running # locale-gen: Because there must be a possibility of using KDE apps under Gnome with ISO-8859-2. Enabling UTF-8 may be a solution, but it doesn't satisfy me. By the way, I gave it a try but it doesn't work. I still have got those rectangles instead of diacriticals. Regards, Jan Stępień -- Mailjan at stepien com pl Jabber jano at jabber aster pl GG 1894343 Web http://stepien.com.pl signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help
Hi Grant, on Saturday, 2007-01-27 at 09:34:47, you wrote: The thing I'm confused about is how I can get anything back to the laptop when it won't even have an OS on it. I could boot a LiveCD but I don't think I'll be able to connect to the wireless network. Hum...that's pretty much a show stopper. In that case, setting up a wired network (if they have wlan, these machines would have wired lan as well, no?) or buying that 2.5 IDE adapter is probably the least hassle. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpvLs5zulXqZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] udev / ppp problem
I have a ~x86 box that is dial up only and uses ppp. Last weekend an 'emerge -uD world' seemed to complete without issue but now I can't make a ppp connection as seen by the error attached below. I admit to not knowing my way around udev yet what I've read isn't helping with this. I'm guessing I need to recreate something somehow. Penetrating insight... Does anyone see what it is I'm missing that causes the udevd-event[9376]: wait_for_sysfs: waiting for '/sys/class/net/ppp0/device/driver' failed error below? There's no ppp0 directory under /sys/class/net/ but I don't know what creates it. Thanks very much, Mike === snipped from /var/log/messages === Jan 27 15:40:03 home PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 Jan 27 15:40:03 home pppd[9349]: pppd 2.4.4 started by mm, uid 0 Jan 27 15:40:04 home chat[9360]: abort on (BUSY) Jan 27 15:40:04 home chat[9360]: abort on (NO CARRIER) [...typical modem connect msgs...] Jan 27 15:40:39 home pppd[9349]: Serial connection established. Jan 27 15:40:39 home pppd[9349]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 27 15:40:39 home pppd[9349]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1 Jan 27 15:40:42 home udevd-event[9376]: wait_for_sysfs: waiting for '/sys/class/net/ppp0/device/driver' failed Jan 27 15:40:42 home udev-net.sh: /etc/init.d/net.ppp0: does not exist or is not executable Jan 27 15:40:48 home pppd[9349]: Modem hangup Jan 27 15:40:48 home pppd[9349]: Connection terminated. Jan 27 15:40:48 home udev-net.sh: /etc/init.d/net.ppp0: does not exist or is not executable Jan 27 15:40:49 home pppd[9349]: Exit. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'
Albert Hopkins napisał(a): Then you probably don't want to use GDM or any other DM as they are primarily designed to manage displays that are already selected. What you want is more of a chicken-and-egg issue for a display manager. What you likely need is something to be run from the command line (i.e. *before* X is started). startx (or xinit) are perfect for this. No need to write any fancy program, it can pretty much do what you're asking: $ startx /path/to/program/that/needs/X.org -- /usr/bin/X $ startx -- /usr/bin/Xgl Thanks, now it works flawlessly. I can easily launch a slick desktop with Xgl and Beryl, and if I require direct rendering I simply log out and launch Xorg. Now I'll try to find a clever solution and make this method a little bit more automatic. We'll see what I'll be able to find around the web. Thanks once again. Regards, Jan Stępień -- Mailjan at stepien com pl Jabber jano at jabber aster pl GG 1894343 Web http://stepien.com.pl signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters
Bo Ørsted Andresen napisał(a): I guess I can assume that `locale-gen` doesn't report any errors then. So maybe you need to install kde-base/kde-i18n ? I assume your LINGUAS variable does include pl? Otherwise adjust it and run `emerge -vDp --newuse world`. Yes, locale-gen outputs no errors. Installing kde-base/kde-i18n with pl among my LINGUAS wasn't helpful, however I've noticed something interesting. I entered Amarok's setting window and in the Appearance tab I found an option allowing me to change the default font. Moreover the font chooser dialog allows me to check whether the font contains diacritical characters. I've chosen a suitable font, which displayed all those chars correctly and clicked Apply. Most surprisingly, part of the fonts have changed and begun to display everything correctly (e.g. the context window and the playlist), but the main menu on the top still consists of those rectangles and I am not able to change its font. Well, I have to admit that I'm a little bit dizzy. Regards, Jan Stępień -- Mailjan at stepien com pl Jabber jano at jabber aster pl GG 1894343 Web http://stepien.com.pl signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE does not auto-mount my USB devices anymore
On Sunday 28 January 2007 00:34, Marc Redmann wrote: After the upgrade of dbus a few days ago, KDE won't mount my USB devices automatically anymore. Any suggestions where to start my search? I remember that I had to recompile kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves after hal and dbus upgrade to make the automount feature in kde work again ... maybe you can try that ... After finding http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_D-BUS_Session_Bus_with_KDM and following it automounting in KDE works again. -- Dan Johansson, http://www.dmj.nu *** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! *** pgpqcb3Az7UHe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help
The thing I'm confused about is how I can get anything back to the laptop when it won't even have an OS on it. I could boot a LiveCD but I don't think I'll be able to connect to the wireless network. Hum...that's pretty much a show stopper. In that case, setting up a wired network (if they have wlan, these machines would have wired lan as well, no?) or buying that 2.5 IDE adapter is probably the least hassle. Do you think it's a lost cause anyway since after a format/reinstall the system still detects errors on the disk? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help
On 28 January 2007 19:15, Grant wrote: The thing I'm confused about is how I can get anything back to the laptop when it won't even have an OS on it. I could boot a LiveCD but I don't think I'll be able to connect to the wireless network. Hum...that's pretty much a show stopper. In that case, setting up a wired network (if they have wlan, these machines would have wired lan as well, no?) or buying that 2.5 IDE adapter is probably the least hassle. Do you think it's a lost cause anyway since after a format/reinstall the system still detects errors on the disk? A lost drive rather than a lost case. ;-) (Well, it could also be the controller. So you better let the people where you have bought the box check it.) Get a new harddrive. After that, you might still be able to get your data back. Neil suggested earlier today to use a LiveCD that supports madwifi - Knoppix would do. If that is too much of a hassle, how difficult can it be to get your hands on a crossover cable? If you can't crimp one yourself, buy one for approximately $2.99. I can do that even here in Africa. Shouldn't be too big a problem whereever you live. Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 Proof of concept of a TSP solver for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/epat-0.1.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help
On 1/28/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The thing I'm confused about is how I can get anything back to the laptop when it won't even have an OS on it. I could boot a LiveCD but I don't think I'll be able to connect to the wireless network. Hum...that's pretty much a show stopper. In that case, setting up a wired network (if they have wlan, these machines would have wired lan as well, no?) or buying that 2.5 IDE adapter is probably the least hassle. Do you think it's a lost cause anyway since after a format/reinstall the system still detects errors on the disk? - Grant Grant, At this point if you cannot get a clean bill of health for this drive from 2 or 3 different tools then it seems the drive is shot and needs to be replaced. I cannot imagine that it is a good use of your time installing Gentoo only to have it fail in the middle of the install or worse yet a day or two after you finish and start using the machine again. Are laptop hard drives really that expensive or hard to replace? I should think that you could get a small computer shop to drop something in for under $100, depending on your needs of course. Anyway, don't fight the trend. It seems this drive, or possibly this laptop but probably the drive, needs to be fixed. Without a solid laptop foundation your Gentoo building will soon come crashing down. Just my 2 cents, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters
Hello, On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 05:07:26PM +0100, Jan Stępień wrote: I entered Amarok's setting window and in the Appearance tab I found an option allowing me to change the default font. Moreover the font chooser dialog allows me to check whether the font contains diacritical characters. I've chosen a suitable font, which displayed all those chars correctly and clicked Apply. Most surprisingly, part of the fonts have changed and begun to display everything correctly (e.g. the context window and the playlist), but the main menu on the top still consists of those rectangles and I am not able to change its font. Well, I have to admit that I'm a little bit dizzy. Did you try choosing the same font in kcontrol? -- This message has optimized support for formating. Please choose green font and black background so it looks like it should. Michal vorner Vaner pgpuPBBgWFZ7G.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters
On 28 January 2007 20:09, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: Hello, On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 05:07:26PM +0100, Jan Stępień wrote: I entered Amarok's setting window and in the Appearance tab I found an option allowing me to change the default font. Moreover the font chooser dialog allows me to check whether the font contains diacritical characters. I've chosen a suitable font, which displayed all those chars correctly and clicked Apply. Most surprisingly, part of the fonts have changed and begun to display everything correctly (e.g. the context window and the playlist), but the main menu on the top still consists of those rectangles and I am not able to change its font. Well, I have to admit that I'm a little bit dizzy. Did you try choosing the same font in kcontrol? He is using GNOME! Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 Proof of concept of a TSP solver for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/epat-0.1.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome, KDE applications and diacritical characters
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 08:27:02PM +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: Did you try choosing the same font in kcontrol? He is using GNOME! Ups, sorry. Near hit. Then gnome-control-center? (mistaken by amarok, which is KDE) -- Security warning: Do not expose this email to direct sunlight. It may lead to undefined behaviour, including possible data or life loses. Michal vorner Vaner pgpXzhVHVtOii.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] USB external hard drive erratic behaviour
James Lockie ha scritto: Sounds like it is not caching all writes. Search for USB Linux cache 'slow write'. Thanks for your answer. I googled for the keywords you gave me but I had no significant result. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gettext won't emerge for me
When I try my usual update command emerge -aDvu world it's trying to merge sys-devel/gettext-0.16.1 and failing. The tail end of the attempt looks like this: Making all in misc make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gettext-0.16.1/work/gettext-0.16.1/gettext-tools/misc' WARNING: Warnings can be ignored. :-) if test emacs != no; then \ set x; \ list='start-po.el po-mode.el po-compat.el'; for p in $list; do \ if test -f $p; then d=; else d=./; fi; \ set x $@ $d$p; shift; \ done; \ shift; \ EMACS=emacs /bin/sh ../../build-aux/elisp-comp $@ || exit 1; \ else : ; fi Cannot open load file: /usr/share/emacs/site-list/site-gentoo make[3]: *** [elc-stamp] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gettext-0.16.1/work/gettext-0.16.1/gettext-tools/misc' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gettext-0.16.1/work/gettext-0.16.1/gettext-tools' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gettext-0.16.1/work/gettext-0.16.1/gettext-tools' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 !!! ERROR: sys-devel/gettext-0.16.1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 937: Called src_compile gettext-0.16.1.ebuild, line 58: Called die !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. And I have emacs 21.4-r4 installed, but instead of /usr/share/emacs/site-list/site-gentoo I have /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-gentoo.el note the 'p' vs. the 't' -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gettext won't emerge for me
Well, no help there, but surprisingly I just updated emacs and gettext after it, and everything went well. I don't have /usr/share/emacs/site-list/site-gentoo, only /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-gentoo.el, btw. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gettext won't emerge for me
On 1/28/07, Iván Pérez Domínguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, no help there, but surprisingly I just updated emacs and gettext after it, and everything went well. I don't have /usr/share/emacs/site-list/site-gentoo, only /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-gentoo.el, btw. So my copy of the ebuild or Makefile may be damaged. I wonder: 1) how that slipped through 2) how I can fix it. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gettext won't emerge for me
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 1/28/07, Iván Pérez Domínguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, no help there, but surprisingly I just updated emacs and gettext after it, and everything went well. I don't have /usr/share/emacs/site-list/site-gentoo, only /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-gentoo.el, btw. So my copy of the ebuild or Makefile may be damaged. I wonder: 1) how that slipped through 2) how I can fix it. If that is the case, emerge --sync should fix your problems. But I really doubt your case is the same as mine, I guess the problem is somewhere else. Maybe you should try to see what package owns those directories (equery might be handy here), where is the variable that points to /usr/share/emacs/site-something set, what value is assigned to it, how it is calculated,... By the way, gettext has explicit support for emacs, you can enable/disable it with USE=emacs and USE=-emacs. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE does not auto-mount my USB devices anymore
After finding http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_D-BUS_Session_Bus_with_KDM and following it automounting in KDE works again. Nice to know that there are other ways round that problem ... brgds, Marc ___ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev / ppp problem
insight... Does anyone see what it is I'm missing that causes the udevd-event[9376]: wait_for_sysfs: waiting for '/sys/class/net/ppp0/device/driver' failed error below? There's no ppp0 directory under /sys/class/net/ but I don't know what creates it. PPP can be a pain. There's little support or even interest. I went through a rough patch last summer. From my notes I see I had to re-add net.ppp0 to the default runlevel as well as re-edit autoload.d/modules. Dialup works but I still get ppp0 doe not exist when the computer boots. FWIW here's my /sys/class/net [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /sys/class/net/ppp0 total 0 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 addr_len -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 16:29 address -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 broadcast -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 carrier -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 features -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 flags -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 ifindex -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 iflink -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 mtu drwxr-xr-x 2 root root0 Jan 28 16:29 statistics -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 tx_queue_len -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 type --w--- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 uevent -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 28 19:01 weight There's no driver there either. The time is strange too cause I booted and dialed out mebbe half an hour before that. So I can't say what process wrote what either. I also recall not putting anything in /etc/conf.d/net except a reference to an ethernet card I use to connect to another pc. HTH Maxim We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Xgl and direct rendering or 'Would you like Xorg or Xgl, sir?'
You may choose to start X or Xgl generic way using startx or startxgl scripts. Out there are some. m -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Puzzling logwatch entry
I am using Logwatch (logwatch-7.3-r1) and lately have been getting these messages: - Kernel module scsi Begin **Unmatched Entries** SCSI subsystem initialized 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB) drive cache: write back 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB) drive cache: write back 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB) drive cache: write back 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB) drive cache: write back 2014992 512-byte hdwr sectors (1032 MB) 2014992 512-byte hdwr sectors (1032 MB) -- Kernel module scsi End - I have 2 SATA drives (320MB each) and am using kernel 2.6.18. Does anyone know what these messages mean? -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:40, Vlad Dogaru wrote: One question though: is there a reason why PORTAGE_TMPDIR does not default to /tmp? The real nature of /tmp isn't adequate for portage, that's why it uses a different one. If memory serves, the FHS defines /tmp as a temporary place to store files, and the continued existence of the file after a process has finished is not guaranteed. In other words, if there are no existing locks on a file, it's up for summary deletion. This could be fatal in a big compile - imagine if some cleaner process nuked a binary compiled 4 hours ago in an openoffice compile But the best reason is that some compiles are HUGE. Openoffice can take up all of 5G with everything enabled, and as /tmp is often a tmpfs, it's highly unlikely most users will have enough space on /tmp to emerge it. alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server and ati-drivers 'bussiness'
On Saturday 27 January 2007 12:30, Martins wrote: I'm having the same problems. ati-drivers insists on using X.org-7.1.0.0 or earlier, obviously because the drivers were compiled against that version. I don't have the ati-drivers source code so I can't tell if there was an ABI change that the driver enforces, or if ATI simply hardcoded the drivers to fail. I'm betting on the latter In either case the solution would appear to be a hard dependency on = X.org-7.1.0.0 in the ebuild. Have you submitted a bug to bgo? alan no, i didnt submit bug due to I dont understand what bug it is related to - xorg or ati-drivers or both ;) Here's an update: I downloaded and emerged xorg-server-1.2.0, xorg-x11-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5 over the weekend and it all went smoothly. So it would seem that ati-drivers does need a hard dependency on xorg-x11-7.2. File the bug against ati-drivers asking for a hard dep alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
