[gentoo-user] xfce: unable to perform shutdown
Hello. When shutting down my ~amd64 gentoo system running XFCE, the system does not shut down and I receive the following error message, and then the XFCE session is closed. Unable to perform shutdown error: org.freedesktop.Hal.Error: Could not determine whether caller is privileged org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Error Any clues? Romildo
[gentoo-user] Re: xfce: unable to perform shutdown
On 1/4/10, José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote: When shutting down my ~amd64 gentoo system running XFCE, the system does not shut down and I receive the following error message, and then the XFCE session is closed. Unable to perform shutdown error: org.freedesktop.Hal.Error: Could not determine whether caller is privileged org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Error Any clues? Yes. Something similar is happening on amd64 Debian systems (see [1][2]). The only workaround that I'm aware of sofar is to make sure no root programs are running when hitting the shutdown/restart button. Liviu [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-xfce-devel/2009-April/008492.html [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-u...@lists.debian.org/msg553778.html
[gentoo-user] USB Flash Drives automatic mounting breakage (Gnome)
Recently, I have had to reboot in order to recover the function of automatic mounting of USB Flash drives, after some activity, such as mounting and umounting. This is happening on two AMD64 systems. I am often able to unmount manually (# umount /media/KINGSTON , for example). All of my flash drives have labels, and usually they mount on /media, when plugged in. However, not always, but often, when I have unmounted one of them, the name stays visible on Nautilus, and it is impossible to mount it again by plugging it in. Another time, I reorganized the partitions on a flash drive, into one partition. After this, I was unable to plug it in to mount it. Uniformly, the expected behavior is recovered after rebooting. I am using these drives to maintain git repositories of subdirectories, so I need to be able to access various drives on demand, by pluggint them in. I am not sure where to look for help. The USB guide, etc. didnt seem to help. Is there an init script that I can restart to recover the volume management function? Thank you for any ideas. Alan Davis Avid user of Gentoo, knows enough to get into trouble.
[gentoo-user] aria2 cannot d/l torrent file
hi, i emerged aria2-1.6.3, and according to the man page, i can use it to d/l bittorrent file. but when i use aria2c myfile.torrent it says unrecognized protocol. i have the bittorrent use flag set for it. do i miss any thing? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/
Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported
2010/1/3 Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org: on 01/04/2010 01:10 AM Krzysztof Halasa wrote the following: Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org writes: Hmm..., but are EMBEDDED options suitable for a netbook like the A110L ? This EMBEDDED just means don't touch these unless you really know what you're doing. BTW I remember using VMSPLIT 2 GB : 2 GB on server-class machines, before they were upgraded to x86-64. Do you mean that I should try it? Is there any gain over using CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G ? Likely nothing noticeable, but here's a bit of a good coverage of the topic: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6067 -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
[gentoo-user] IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive - howto
Hi, I've upgraded the kernel on an old machine to 2.6.32. Now, I cannot get the ZIP drive (ATAPI) working. There is a /dev/hdd device and dmesg is telling me about an IOMEGA ZIP drive, but trying to fdisk /dev/hdd or even mount it, seems to make the kernel hang (at least these commands never finish) Has anybody any hint on what to try? Many thanks, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
[gentoo-user] Kopete isn't storing my contact list changes
Hi! I'm using kde-base/kopete-4.3.3 (which is Kopete 0.80.2) and it's not storing anything I do to the next time I run the program. For example, I merge some contacts into meta-contacts, associate some of them to a KAddressBook entry, change my nickname (ok, that may be unrelated), but when I restart Kopete it forgets about everything and I have to do it all over again. My accounts' settings like username and password are persistent, but my contact list changes are not. Does anyone know what's going on? Would this be a Kopete bug or is something specific to Gentoo? Thanks! -- Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1]
Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported
on 01/04/2010 04:51 PM Joshua Murphy wrote the following: 2010/1/3 Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org: on 01/04/2010 01:10 AM Krzysztof Halasa wrote the following: Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org writes: Hmm..., but are EMBEDDED options suitable for a netbook like the A110L ? This EMBEDDED just means don't touch these unless you really know what you're doing. BTW I remember using VMSPLIT 2 GB : 2 GB on server-class machines, before they were upgraded to x86-64. Do you mean that I should try it? Is there any gain over using CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G ? Likely nothing noticeable, but here's a bit of a good coverage of the topic: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6067 Thanks, I think I'll give it a try. :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported
on 01/04/2010 04:51 PM Joshua Murphy wrote the following: 2010/1/3 Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org: on 01/04/2010 01:10 AM Krzysztof Halasa wrote the following: Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org writes: Hmm..., but are EMBEDDED options suitable for a netbook like the A110L ? This EMBEDDED just means don't touch these unless you really know what you're doing. BTW I remember using VMSPLIT 2 GB : 2 GB on server-class machines, before they were upgraded to x86-64. Do you mean that I should try it? Is there any gain over using CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G ? Likely nothing noticeable, but here's a bit of a good coverage of the topic: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6067 Which one option should I choose: ( ) 2G/2G user/kernel split or ( ) 2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory) ?
Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete isn't storing my contact list changes
Crístian Viana wrote: Hi! I'm using kde-base/kopete-4.3.3 (which is Kopete 0.80.2) and it's not storing anything I do to the next time I run the program. For example, I merge some contacts into meta-contacts, associate some of them to a KAddressBook entry, change my nickname (ok, that may be unrelated), but when I restart Kopete it forgets about everything and I have to do it all over again. My accounts' settings like username and password are persistent, but my contact list changes are not. Does anyone know what's going on? Would this be a Kopete bug or is something specific to Gentoo? Thanks! -- Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1] I haven't used Kopete for KDE 4 in a bit but it was having issues for me as well when I did try it. I switched to pidgin which means I lost my chat history. I suspect it is KDE and you will just have to wait for them to get it fixed. As most people know already, KDE4 is anything but fully functional. This is why some are still on KDE3. I read somewhere that the next big update is in February. It may help to at least know how long you will have to wait. Sort of weigh out some options if you can. Also, recheck your USE flags to make sure you didn't miss something. They could have changed or something. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported
on 01/04/2010 07:51 PM Thanasis wrote the following: on 01/04/2010 04:51 PM Joshua Murphy wrote the following: 2010/1/3 Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org: on 01/04/2010 01:10 AM Krzysztof Halasa wrote the following: Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org writes: Hmm..., but are EMBEDDED options suitable for a netbook like the A110L ? This EMBEDDED just means don't touch these unless you really know what you're doing. BTW I remember using VMSPLIT 2 GB : 2 GB on server-class machines, before they were upgraded to x86-64. Do you mean that I should try it? Is there any gain over using CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G ? Likely nothing noticeable, but here's a bit of a good coverage of the topic: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6067 Thanks, I think I'll give it a try. :-) I tried option: 2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory), but X would not start. So i reverted back to CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G.
Re: [gentoo-user] IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive - howto
Any change in kernel configuration or did you copy your old config and run make oldconfig? On 1/4/10, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I've upgraded the kernel on an old machine to 2.6.32. Now, I cannot get the ZIP drive (ATAPI) working. There is a /dev/hdd device and dmesg is telling me about an IOMEGA ZIP drive, but trying to fdisk /dev/hdd or even mount it, seems to make the kernel hang (at least these commands never finish) Has anybody any hint on what to try? Many thanks, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany -- Sent from my mobile device Kyle
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on ssds? intel anyone?
Am 25.12.2009 11:37, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: What I still wonder: * I copied my gentoo over while the ssd still was on firmware 02HA, I upgraded to 02HD (latest Intel-firmware for the X25-M G2) with the os already on the drive. Does that somehow make a difference to data written *after* the upgrade? I just wonder if I should somehow restart from scratch with the new firmware, just to do it right or get the optimum. http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7272 says: So at the moment, ext4 informs the block layer that blocks that belong to deleted files can be discard, so once TRIM-capable SSD’s become available, and the Linux block layer actually sends the TRIM command to the hard drives, everything will be all set to go. Another follow-up-myself, just to document my tests: Repartitioned the ssd today, as Ted Ts'o describes at: http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/20/aligning-filesystems-to-an-ssds-erase-block-size/ Ok, this might not be necessary/helpful anymore for the Intel X25-M G2 ... but anyway, I had to get rid of those unnecessary XP-partitions anyway ;-) Wanted to do a secure erase with hdderase (on the ultimate boot cd), didn't detect my ssd even with AHCI off in bios and legacy mode ... also hdparm --security-erase didn't work. I decided to skip that and wait for TRIM in 2.6.33 or later. I wonder if /var and /home should be on the ssd or not. It is very nice to have a silent machine ... but maybe this does more harm than good. So far the ssd is nice to have. I am looking forward to try it inside my thinkpad someday ... Stefan
Re: [gentoo-user] xfce: unable to perform shutdown
José Romildo Malaquias wrote: Hello. When shutting down my ~amd64 gentoo system running XFCE, the system does not shut down and I receive the following error message, and then the XFCE session is closed. Unable to perform shutdown error: org.freedesktop.Hal.Error: Could not determine whether caller is privileged org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Error Any clues? Romildo I had a similar problem. I think I fixed it by adding hal the the USE variable in the /etc/make.conf file. Then doing an emerge -uDN world. dave
Re: [gentoo-user] USB Flash Drives automatic mounting breakage (Gnome)
On Monday 04 January 2010 12:55:34 Alan E. Davis wrote: Recently, I have had to reboot in order to recover the function of automatic mounting of USB Flash drives, after some activity, such as mounting and umounting. This is happening on two AMD64 systems. I am often able to unmount manually (# umount /media/KINGSTON , for example). All of my flash drives have labels, and usually they mount on /media, when plugged in. However, not always, but often, when I have unmounted one of them, the name stays visible on Nautilus, and it is impossible to mount it again by plugging it in. Another time, I reorganized the partitions on a flash drive, into one partition. After this, I was unable to plug it in to mount it. Uniformly, the expected behavior is recovered after rebooting. I am using these drives to maintain git repositories of subdirectories, so I need to be able to access various drives on demand, by pluggint them in. I am not sure where to look for help. The USB guide, etc. didnt seem to help. Is there an init script that I can restart to recover the volume management function? Thank you for any ideas. All I can say (I don't use Gnome and Nautilus to be more helpful with the specifics) is that there is a difference between mounting a device via hal and mounting it manually. I recall that you can't mix the two - when I tried it on my machine (using Konqueror) it wouldn't work. I think hal complained, but can't recall off hand. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Re: IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive - howto
On 01/04/2010 08:29 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I've upgraded the kernel on an old machine to 2.6.32. Now, I cannot get the ZIP drive (ATAPI) working. There is a /dev/hdd device and dmesg is telling me about an IOMEGA ZIP drive, but trying to fdisk /dev/hdd or even mount it, seems to make the kernel hang (at least these commands never finish) Are there any error messages in dmesg? I have an old parallel-port ZIP and two 1GB JAZ drives that are gathering dust because I've replaced all three of them with one $15 USB stick, which is far more reliable. I wish I had the $800 back that I spent on those Iomega drives plus the required SCSI controller :( I was recently tempted to buy an expensive Blu-Ray toy, but then I remembered those JAZ drives and changed my mind.
[gentoo-user] Re: USB mass storage device slow in Gentoo, fast in Windows...? [SOLVED]
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I got a Nokia N900 linux internet tablet/phone a few days ago, and when I connect it in USB Mass Storage mode to a Windows Vista computer I can write at 17MB/sec, but when I connect it to my Gentoo box my writes are really slow, between 500-900kb/sec depending on if I mount in sync mode or not. As far as I know it should be just a totally standard/generic mass storage device. (there were no drivers or software install needed in windows, it just worked) Other USB devices plugged into the same port go full speed, and AFAIK everything appears as if it should be high speed USB 2.0. Has anyone seen something like this before? I'm not sure what the deal is. It takes 20 minutes to copy 1 gigabyte from Linux and takes just under 1 minute to do the same in Windows. I'm not sure about debugging USB or what the options are. Everything I've used previously has worked without any hassle. Solved. The problem was CFQ I/O scheduler. It was several times slower than the others, for whatever reason. Here is the scoreboard: single-file: 1m25s multi-file (same total size): cfq: 6m51.439s noop: 3m0.733s anticipatory: 1m44.348s deadline: 1m36.804s So, the winner is deadline. CFQ doesn't make it to the podium. :) Thanks, Paul
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB mass storage device slow in Gentoo, fast in Windows...? [SOLVED]
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 05:26:32 Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I got a Nokia N900 linux internet tablet/phone a few days ago, and when I connect it in USB Mass Storage mode to a Windows Vista computer I can write at 17MB/sec, but when I connect it to my Gentoo box my writes are really slow, between 500-900kb/sec depending on if I mount in sync mode or not. As far as I know it should be just a totally standard/generic mass storage device. (there were no drivers or software install needed in windows, it just worked) Other USB devices plugged into the same port go full speed, and AFAIK everything appears as if it should be high speed USB 2.0. Has anyone seen something like this before? I'm not sure what the deal is. It takes 20 minutes to copy 1 gigabyte from Linux and takes just under 1 minute to do the same in Windows. I'm not sure about debugging USB or what the options are. Everything I've used previously has worked without any hassle. Solved. The problem was CFQ I/O scheduler. It was several times slower than the others, for whatever reason. Here is the scoreboard: single-file: 1m25s multi-file (same total size): cfq: 6m51.439s noop: 3m0.733s anticipatory: 1m44.348s deadline: 1m36.804s So, the winner is deadline. CFQ doesn't make it to the podium. :) Hmmm ... reading at the help files I thought that CFQ was the default/best option for a desktop. Is there such a thing as a best fit here? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] USB Flash Drives automatic mounting breakage (Gnome)
Thank you for taking the trouble to answer. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: All I can say (I don't use Gnome and Nautilus to be more helpful with the specifics) is that there is a difference between mounting a device via hal and mounting it manually. I recall that you can't mix the two - when I tried it on my machine (using Konqueror) it wouldn't work. I think hal complained, but can't recall off hand. It seems to me that it is possible to unmount the drives manually, many times, if not always, if it is impossible to unmount them via nautilus. Other File Managers work differently, I think Thunar may be more straightforward, not sure, though. Maybe this will all pass soon enough, but for now, on one of my machines, especially, I have to reboot frequently. If it's hal that is at work, then perhaps I can restart that? But when I did something similar, the window manager, at least, restarted. Thanks again, Alan
