[gentoo-user] qemu-kvm and xscreensaver
Whenever I run a qemu-kvm when xscreensaver starts it stops guest os from working. Eg if I am emerging on guest or downloading a file when xscreensaver starts on the host the guest freezes. Stopping xscreensaver and guest continues where left off. I can cure this by disabling xscreensaver but should this happening and is there a way round this other than to turn off xscreensaver on host. I have disabled hibernate or sleep but this makes no difference. It seems to happen when the screen goes in pretty picture mode. I am running gentoo host with gentoo guest and desktop is xfce on host. John
[gentoo-user] Re: [Offtopic] Lightweight server distro for an old motherboard
Andrew Lowe agl at wht.com.au writes: Anyone got any suggestions for a lightweight server distro for an old motherboard? I've got one of the VIA mini-ITX boards, SP13000, and want to whack something light onto it. It will be working as a file/media server and will be headless, hence will be fiddled via ssh. Obviously there are the usual suspects, debian, centos, but does anyone have any recommendations viv a vis a stripped down distro, sort of like Lubuntu is to Ubuntu? embedded gentoo is way cool! and very cutting edge. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/ gentoo-embed...@lists.gentoo.org is where to join and post your questions. Otherwise, for performance reasons, I'd go with open-embedded. hth, James
[gentoo-user] SAR vs collectl
Hello, With some admin tasks, I have used SAR some years ago. Discovering it is not in portage, I started looking for options (overlay, sources, etc). I ran across this system monitoring tool in portage: sys-apps/collectl Is SAR quickly available for Gentoo (an overlay I missed)? Is there a better (more robust/graphical/etc) package to use in lieu of SAR? Has anyone got an opinion, based on experience, about collectl ? Tia, James [1] http://collectl.sourceforge.net/Features.html
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Offtopic] Lightweight server distro for an old motherboard
On 08/31/12 02:16, James wrote: Andrew Lowe agl at wht.com.au writes: Anyone got any suggestions for a lightweight server distro for an old motherboard? I've got one of the VIA mini-ITX boards, SP13000, and want to whack something light onto it. It will be working as a file/media server and will be headless, hence will be fiddled via ssh. Obviously there are the usual suspects, debian, centos, but does anyone have any recommendations viv a vis a stripped down distro, sort of like Lubuntu is to Ubuntu? embedded gentoo is way cool! and very cutting edge. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/ gentoo-embed...@lists.gentoo.org is where to join and post your questions. Otherwise, for performance reasons, I'd go with open-embedded. hth, James Thanks all for the suggestions. I ended up caving and going Gentoo again. I remembered that the original install, which took ages to emerge world, had freevo, mysql, X, subversion and a lot of other stuff. This time it's just nzbget and file serving. The thought of learning another distro also didn't exactly excite me so it was back to familiar territory. Andrew
[gentoo-user] Re: SAR vs collectl
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com writes: Is SAR quickly available for Gentoo (an overlay I missed)? Is there a better (more robust/graphical/etc) package to use in lieu of SAR? sar is in app-admin/sysstat -- Christer
Re: [gentoo-user] SAR vs collectl
On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 18:25 +, James wrote: Is SAR quickly available for Gentoo (an overlay I missed)? hydra ~ # which sar /usr/bin/sar hydra ~ # equery belongs /usr/bin/sar * Searching for /usr/bin/sar ... app-admin/sysstat-10.0.5 (/usr/bin/sar) hydra ~ # Hope that helps, Carlos
Re: [gentoo-user] mdev and lxde
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 09:29:49AM +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote I am installing a new system and would like to go udev/systemd less. I have dumped gnome3 for lxde and find it a lot more usable and stable but I would like to know if anyone has gone down the mdev and lxde path? I use ICEWM (see my sig), but testing for lxde on my system is relatively simple. Note all the ebuild subdirectories in /usr/portage/lxde-base To build all of these, I have to unmask dbus, and add the lxde flag for x11-misc/obconf. I.e... USE=lxde policykit emerge -pv lxappearance lxde-common lxde-icon-theme lxde-meta lxdm lxinput lxlauncher lxmenu-data lxpanel lxpolkit lxrandr lxsession lxsession-edit lxshortcut lxtask lxterminal menu-cache ...shows (on my machine)... Total: 39 packages (39 new), Size of downloads: 19,718 kB If you don't mind dbus, you should be OK without udev. dbus is required by lxpolkit and lxdm. I don't know if lxde will function without lxpolkit and lxdm, but they didn't get pulled in, when I ran... USE=lxde emerge -pv lxappearance lxde-common lxde-icon-theme lxde-meta lxinput lxlauncher lxmenu-data lxpanel lxrandr lxsession lxsession-edit lxshortcut lxtask lxterminal menu-cache ...shows (on my machine)... Total: 33 packages (33 new), Size of downloads: 15,149 kB Check on an lxde forum if you want further info on whether lxpolkit and lxdm are really required for lxde. BTW, Google's Chrome/Chromium browser wants udev and dbus. dbus is an absolute must. I think you can get away with putting udev in package.provided. Apparently, it's only needed for gamepad support. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org I don't run desktop environments; I run useful applications
[gentoo-user] newaliases - unsupported map type: hash
I just upgraded to postfix-2.9.3 and not getting any local mail. When I type newaliases I get: postalias: fatal: unsupported map type: hash -- Joseph
Re: [gentoo-user] newaliases - unsupported map type: hash
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I just upgraded to postfix-2.9.3 and not getting any local mail. When I type newaliases I get: postalias: fatal: unsupported map type: hash Do not turn off the berkdb USE flag if your setup uses hash or btree lookups. There is a warning in the ebuild output for -berkdb. Please let me know if it did not work for you. Eray
