Re: [gentoo-user] Random segfaults with gnome
On Sat 14 Jul 2012 09:58:22 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Sat 14 Jul 2012 09:54:00 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Sat 14 Jul 2012 07:22:33 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Jul 13, 2012 10:37 PM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz mailto:gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: Lately, ever since I installed gnome3 (3.2), a lot of things have gone unstable. Gnome crashes a lot and pulseaudio too, on every start (I see a segfault by the equalizer module). I had lots of graphics related problems with gnome3.2 - from render errors to system freezes. So in a desperate move I unmasked gnome3.4 (from the overlay) and installed it. Installing (and maintaining) 3.4 is a bit hairy, but all my problems have gone since that. So if recompiling with O2 does not help, and you don't mind bleeding edge packages on your system, try 3.4 Already on gnome 3.4, unmasked from default portage, no overlay. Complete rebuild over with O2, still getting these errors: Http://bpaste.net/show/34934 It seems I was using only gnome-shell 3.4 and did not update others. Now I unmasked 3.4 completely (gnome-base/*, gnome-extra/*). It's much more stable than 3.2, except for the two faults I pasted above. Watching this thing now for crashes, will post update soon. And boo.. it crashed just after writing the previous mail. Upto 3 windows on the single workspace was good, with 4 it crashed. :| No faults reported in dmesg though. Is my video card incompetent? I'm compelled to concolude that GNOME3 simply does not work on 4-5 year old hardware. Yeah, on a Dual Core 2 Ghz, 3 GB RAM, and i945 128 MB. I'm back to my cozy place, KDE and alsaequal (instead of pulseaudio). ***thread closed*** -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub2, uefi, gpt etc etc
Am 14.07.2012 01:41, schrieb walt: On 07/13/2012 02:57 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: But I wonder how the migration might look like and work out, especially with that win7pro on board. It is still a productive box ... (gentoo way more important than win7, sure) For anyone else attacking this: I now have both GRUB2/Gentoo and Win7pro booting via UEFI here. It *works* so far, still some polishing to do ... but I am quite happy with the situation. SSD added for /root and /home ... all disks GPT now (and disabled BIOS-booting completely). Congratulations :) Just to clarify, you are using the ersatz software emulator for UEFI because the BIOS is old, is this correct? No. The motherboard/system provides both here, BIOS and UEFI. So I can choose which device (SATA0,1,2,3 ... USB-CDROM ... you name it) should be tried to boot via BIOS or UEFI. I slowly moved over to only UEFI now. I don't how if this UEFI is emulated somehow. It's a HP Elite 7300 MT machine.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub2, uefi, gpt etc etc
Am 14.07.2012 10:57, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: It *works* so far, still some polishing to do ... but I am quite happy with the situation. What has to be polished: All this migration left quite some traces. I had grub and grub2, the EFI-stuff now in /boot/efi ... etc ... and now I have the situation where GRUB2 somehow reads the wrong grub.cfg or something. For example if I try to toggle using a font (for testing) it doesn't get read at boot time. Even if I re-announce(?) GRUB2 to UEFI etc. I can boot gentoo, that's OK, but I think there's too much stuff in boot now. I hesitate to remove things so I ask: if I have that /boot/efi partition mounted, does there have to be anything grub-related in /boot at all? I followed this guide, at least in most parts: https://forums-web1.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7011836.html?sid=eb4f57a5e29f9e03463a4888296c6462 and this doesn't speak of coming from an older installation of grub or grub2, so it doesn't mentioned cleaning up stuff or something. In my /boot I have: efi grub grub2 ... which seems odd to me. And yes, I removed grub-0.9x already.
Re: [gentoo-user] How to split boost emerge
Am 13.07.2012 01:21, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:43:47 +0200 Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 12.07.2012 17:47, schrieb Ezequiel Garcia: Hi, This is related to my other gnash question. I'd like to emerge boost but selecting only a few modules, for instance: filesystem, thread, just a few. But it seems there is no way to do it! Any ideas? Thanks, Ezequiel. No, there is currently no way to do this. You could ask Diego Pettenò (Flameeyes) [1][2] to implement it but Boost's build system is a mess [3] and I'm not sure it is actually possible. [1] mailto:flamee...@flameeyes.eu [2] http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ [3] http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2012/07/boosting-my-morale-i-wish And the Boost docs anyway say something along the lines of You should not *actually* try and build this stuff. Copy-paste the bits you need into your code. I think that says it all... Well, the nice thing about a template library is that for most of it, that's exactly what the compiler does, anyway ;-) Cheers, Florian signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
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Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo testing and ssd
On Fri, Jul 13 2012, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Freitag, 13. Juli 2012, 13:42:47 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: I will be getting a new laptop with ssd (250GB). I currently run ~amd64 and wonder if this is too much writing for the flash. I have adapted to and now enjoy gnome3. If I were forced to run stable to limit compiles I would still use package.accept_keywords to permit gnome3. Any experiences with testing and ssd? thanks, allan one ssd for / one ssd for /home [[ snip ]] testing, kde, + kde-testing overlay but: /var and PORTDIR not on ssd. seriously, intel had once some calculations that even with lots of daily writes you could go on for years as long as you did not fill up the ssd completely. I will be sure to keep some empty space. thanks, allan
Re: [gentoo-user] usb stick files read only
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:17:14 -0600 Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I've a usbstick formated with ext2 file system and must have use it on a different computer because when mount the usb stick I get file ownership: -rw-r--r-- 1 test users 692926 Jan 7 2012 asterisk_1_4_39.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 test users 8502 Jul 21 2011 asterisk-help.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 joseph 1000 22696 Mar 26 18:27 asus_10-0-0-1_shaw_nvrambak.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 joseph 1000 22459 Mar 26 16:16 asus_home_10-10-0-1.nvrambak.bin The ownership should be joseph:users but when I try to change (as root) it I get : Read-only file system chown -R joseph:users /media/stick/* chown: changing ownership of `/media/stick/asterisk_1_4_39.tar.gz': Read-only file system chown: changing ownership of `/media/stick/asterisk-help.txt': Read-only file system How to deal with it? I the past changing the ownership always worked from root. The error clearly tells you the file-system is read-only. It does not say permission denied. Fix the read-only aspect first -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub2, uefi, gpt etc etc
Am 14.07.2012 11:25, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 14.07.2012 10:57, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: It *works* so far, still some polishing to do ... but I am quite happy with the situation. What has to be polished: All this migration left quite some traces. I had grub and grub2, the EFI-stuff now in /boot/efi ... etc ... and now I have the situation where GRUB2 somehow reads the wrong grub.cfg or something. For example if I try to toggle using a font (for testing) it doesn't get read at boot time. Even if I re-announce(?) GRUB2 to UEFI etc. OK, tested things, that grub.cfg gets read. But as I set GRUB_PLATFORMS=efi-64 there are other modules/features/commands available at boottime, for example also other/less videomodes, at least here. (vbeinfo does not exist then, and other things you get when you emerge grub with GRUB_PLATFORMS=pc. Also booting isos does not work with the same commands then, no linux16 command, for example) I hesitate to re-emerge with pc just to get a different screen resolution at boot-time ... right now everything is working OK for me, and I rather wait for some feedback here before I go and crash things again ;-) There are quite a lot howtos out there, maybe even too much ... with slight differences ... Stefan
Re: [gentoo-user] Random segfaults with gnome
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Sat 14 Jul 2012 09:58:22 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Sat 14 Jul 2012 09:54:00 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Sat 14 Jul 2012 07:22:33 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Jul 13, 2012 10:37 PM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz mailto:gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: Lately, ever since I installed gnome3 (3.2), a lot of things have gone unstable. Gnome crashes a lot and pulseaudio too, on every start (I see a segfault by the equalizer module). I had lots of graphics related problems with gnome3.2 - from render errors to system freezes. So in a desperate move I unmasked gnome3.4 (from the overlay) and installed it. Installing (and maintaining) 3.4 is a bit hairy, but all my problems have gone since that. So if recompiling with O2 does not help, and you don't mind bleeding edge packages on your system, try 3.4 Already on gnome 3.4, unmasked from default portage, no overlay. Complete rebuild over with O2, still getting these errors: Http://bpaste.net/show/34934 It seems I was using only gnome-shell 3.4 and did not update others. Now I unmasked 3.4 completely (gnome-base/*, gnome-extra/*). It's much more stable than 3.2, except for the two faults I pasted above. Watching this thing now for crashes, will post update soon. And boo.. it crashed just after writing the previous mail. Upto 3 windows on the single workspace was good, with 4 it crashed. :| No faults reported in dmesg though. Is my video card incompetent? I'm compelled to concolude that GNOME3 simply does not work on 4-5 year old hardware. Yeah, on a Dual Core 2 Ghz, 3 GB RAM, and i945 128 MB. I'm back to my cozy place, KDE and alsaequal (instead of pulseaudio). I know works for me is basically useless, but my laptop is from 2008, a dual core 2.26 GHz with 4 GB of RAM, and an Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller, i915 video card. As I said, works perfectly. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub2, uefi, gpt etc etc
Am 14.07.2012 17:59, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Also booting isos does not work with the same commands then, no linux16 command, for example) correction here: I can boot sysrescue-CD from iso. memtest does not work, as it tries to use command linux16. S
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: HW-raid1 SSD?
Am Freitag, 13. Juli 2012, 18:34:01 schrieb Jarry: On 11-Jul-12 18:09, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Does anyone have any experience with SSD in raid (SW or HW)? Is it safe to use it on server? just ask intel support. Really. quote Dear Mr..., Thank you for contacting Intel® Technical Support. Please be aware that we do not offer interactive presales support. However, if you require advice regarding one of our mainstream Intel boxed products, we recommend that you contact one of our authorised retailers who should be in the position to help you /quote Well, that is Intel-way of support: first you have to buy product, and then maybe they tell you you can not use it... :-( Jarry hm, well... OCZ support is really nice ;) -- #163933
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo testing and ssd
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: SNIP testing, kde, + kde-testing overlay but: /var and PORTDIR not on ssd. So you have these on a HDD? /var for large write count reasons and PORTDIR for size reasons? Thanks, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo testing and ssd
Am Samstag, 14. Juli 2012, 13:28:32 schrieb Mark Knecht: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: SNIP testing, kde, + kde-testing overlay but: /var and PORTDIR not on ssd. So you have these on a HDD? /var for large write count reasons and PORTDIR for size reasons? mostly because 64 gb is not so much ;) But sparing the ssd a lot of writes is an additional bonus. and not on one hdd but 3... a raid5. -- #163933
Re: [gentoo-user] Random segfaults with gnome
On 07/14/2012 10:25 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: I know works for me is basically useless, but my laptop is from 2008, a dual core 2.26 GHz with 4 GB of RAM, and an Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller, i915 video card. As I said, works perfectly. Regards. Interesting. The only difference here is, it's a desktop with 3 GB RAM, with a i945 instead of i915. Buggy opengl drivers probably. -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Random segfaults with gnome
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On 07/14/2012 10:25 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: I know works for me is basically useless, but my laptop is from 2008, a dual core 2.26 GHz with 4 GB of RAM, and an Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller, i915 video card. As I said, works perfectly. Regards. Interesting. The only difference here is, it's a desktop with 3 GB RAM, with a i945 instead of i915. Buggy opengl drivers probably. A backtrace from gnome-shell would shed more light. https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Debugging Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
