Re: [gentoo-user] KMail-2 duplicates
On 06-07-2015 ,09:33:58, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Isn't anyone else suffering duplication of e-mails in KMail-2? This list is silent on the subject, and the bug I opened in April still hasn't even been confirmed, never mind acted on. I had duplicated emails in my first attempt (c. 2011) to move to Kmail2. This was on a POP3 account. When I deleted the duplicates, more would be created. I did not have the full semantic KDEPIM enchilada enabled and I was running sqlite3, which the KDE devs advised against (unable to manage multithreaded operations that mysql/postgresql could do with ease). At the time I blamed sqlite as the cause of this, but I may have been wrong if you are also observing the same. More recently (c. 2013/4) I tried again to setup Kmail2, but using IMAP4 and mysql. Small IMAP4 accounts with a couple of thousand messages work fine. Large IMAP4 accounts with 120k messages or more, work like a pig, unless you have FTTP and some octa-core beast to run your desktop on. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346695 It looks as though the underlying database design is incomplete, or just broken, to judge by ~/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err . I raised bug 348491 about that - also unconfirmed so far. I suppose the KDE devs are overwhelmed. HEALTH WARNING: This can potentially delete ALL your messages, with the same ease that it creates duplicates. So, ensure that you have some back up system, to safeguard loss of your email data. If you open the akonadi console you should be able to clear the akonadi cache. This ought to follow with a re-indexing of your messages by akonadi, hopefully without creating a duplicate of each message in your Inbox folder. -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] lvmetad Errors
On Sunday 05 July 2015 18:01:37 Alex Thorne wrote: Unfortunately dmraid is not in any runlevel. I think it is lvm that's starting lvmetad despite use_lvmetad=0 being set in the configuration file. Unfortunately I think I'm just going to have to learn to live with the error message. I hope you meant mdraid. I've rebuilt my system recently (to go back from ~amd64 to amd64) and now I can't find a combination that avoids all error messages, so I seem to be in the same boat as you now :0 -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] [HOT] (Half Offtopic) Gentoo on Nexus 7
On Sunday 05 July 2015 16:36:08 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk [15-07-05 16:33]: On Sun, 5 July 2015, at 9:43 am, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... Is there any way to replace an exhausted accumulator of this tablet? I have no idea what this means. I fear something may have been lost in translation. sorry for my bad English... I meant: Is it possible to change an old LiIon pack, which is no longer to held a reasonable amount of charge with a new and fresh one? Interesting. I remember, about 60 years ago while going to school on the bus, noticing women on their way to the shop to have their accumulators charged. They were rechargeable batteries in large, rectangular glass jars with carrying handles - must have been heavy, quite like a car battery today but smaller. I think an accumulator could be recharged, but a battery* could not. Strictly speaking, accumulator might be thought a better term for what we call a rechargeable battery, but usage hasn't turned out that way. * Battery seems to have come from an army parallel: a battery of guns inspiring a battery of energy-storage cells. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] lvmetad Errors
I guess I did mean mdraid, but would you mind explaining the difference (I've never used raid so don't know much about this)? Is dmraid deprecated in favour of mdadm? Yes, I think most Gentoo installs I've done have had some small warnings/error messages somewhere which I've never quite managed to eliminate... On 6 July 2015 at 08:54, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Sunday 05 July 2015 18:01:37 Alex Thorne wrote: Unfortunately dmraid is not in any runlevel. I think it is lvm that's starting lvmetad despite use_lvmetad=0 being set in the configuration file. Unfortunately I think I'm just going to have to learn to live with the error message. I hope you meant mdraid. I've rebuilt my system recently (to go back from ~amd64 to amd64) and now I can't find a combination that avoids all error messages, so I seem to be in the same boat as you now :0 -- Rgds Peter
[gentoo-user] KMail-2 duplicates
Hello list, Isn't anyone else suffering duplication of e-mails in KMail-2? This list is silent on the subject, and the bug I opened in April still hasn't even been confirmed, never mind acted on. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346695 It looks as though the underlying database design is incomplete, or just broken, to judge by ~/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err . I raised bug 348491 about that - also unconfirmed so far. I suppose the KDE devs are overwhelmed. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] [HOT] (Half Offtopic) Gentoo on Nexus 7
What I definetly DONT want is a smartphone or any other NSA/CIA/MOSSAD/KGB/whetever-sponsored tracking device... Because of this point alone no currently on-market cellular device will fulfill your needs. Incl. chromebooks or tablets with cellular capability. Barring a small laptop the best you could do would probably be a mini-ITX board in a custom enclosure, but that's fairly large for the intended purpose.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash?
I have also experienced this intermittently with bash. Running *reset *returns the shell to normal for me. Echo is also set on for me, but will check if this has changed next time I experience the issue. On 6 July 2015 at 20:07, »Q« boxc...@gmx.net wrote: On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 20:18:18 +0300 Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:01 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: My bash problem started a few weeks ago but I can't remember when. This problem is intermittent and hard to reproduce. I'm seeing it maybe less than ten times per day but often enough to be really annoying. This is the problem: occasionally bash gets in a state where it stops echoing the characters I type. The commands I type continue to work properly and I can see the output from them but I can't see the commands on the screen as I type them. So far I've seen this problem start *after* some bash command has finished executing, e.g. after doing 'git diff'. It never happens when I open a new xterm, before I run a command. I emerged app-shells/sash and I don't see the problem there, so I think this is a bash problem, but I'm just guessing. Any ideas? What's the output of 'stty -a'? Is the 'echo' attribute on, 'echo', or off, '-echo'? I have the same symptoms as walt (except less often, probably because I'm typing in bash less often). The echo attribute is on for me. I think (but am not certain) the problem started for me when I updated bash and readline following this stabilization: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548756 In case it matters (and since I am using USE=-*), here are my flags for those two packages. bash: nls readline -afs -bashlogger -examples -mem-scramble -net -plugins -vanilla sys-libs/readline: -static-libs ABI_MIPS=-n32 -n64 -o32 ABI_PPC=-32 -64 ABI_S390=-32 -64 ABI_X86=64 -32 -x32
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else having a problem with bash?
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:01 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: My bash problem started a few weeks ago but I can't remember when. This problem is intermittent and hard to reproduce. I'm seeing it maybe less than ten times per day but often enough to be really annoying. This is the problem: occasionally bash gets in a state where it stops echoing the characters I type. The commands I type continue to work properly and I can see the output from them but I can't see the commands on the screen as I type them. So far I've seen this problem start *after* some bash command has finished executing, e.g. after doing 'git diff'. It never happens when I open a new xterm, before I run a command. I emerged app-shells/sash and I don't see the problem there, so I think this is a bash problem, but I'm just guessing. Any ideas? What's the output of 'stty -a'? Is the 'echo' attribute on, 'echo', or off, '-echo'?
[gentoo-user] Printer margins
Howdy, I finally got around to ordering some ink cartridges. Now I want to do some printing. Thing is, it tries to print ALL the way to the bottom which ends up blurred and unreadable. I've looked in Seamonkey settings, nothing. I've looked in Hplip, nothing there. I've even looked in cups, well, nothing that makes sense. I don't like the new cups interface. I didn't see anything there related to margins and when I looked in the config file, I couldn't make sense of what to change. So, how does one change the bottom margin to say 1/2 or even 3/4 inch or something? Is there a way? Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Anyone else having a problem with bash?
My bash problem started a few weeks ago but I can't remember when. This problem is intermittent and hard to reproduce. I'm seeing it maybe less than ten times per day but often enough to be really annoying. This is the problem: occasionally bash gets in a state where it stops echoing the characters I type. The commands I type continue to work properly and I can see the output from them but I can't see the commands on the screen as I type them. So far I've seen this problem start *after* some bash command has finished executing, e.g. after doing 'git diff'. It never happens when I open a new xterm, before I run a command. I emerged app-shells/sash and I don't see the problem there, so I think this is a bash problem, but I'm just guessing. Any ideas?
[gentoo-user] dev-util/ninja + checkinstall
Hello, So Neil posted some weeks ago about checkinstall [1] I've been wanting to experiment with ninja[2] too. So has anyone combined both tools? While I'm at it I'd like to be able to construct a complete DAG [3] from theses installed files and the related dependencies; very flexible on this part, trying to learn more about the uses and visualizations of a DAG [4]. Eventually, I want a custom build system, for rapidly prototyping code from a variety of tarballs that are not part of a regular build package system; that yields control, file tracking and visual tools of the tree, particularly advanced math [5] and science codes. Ph.D (science) folks are often very smart, but they sometimes do 'wacky' things with codes. I also need to be able to ' partially unwind' and/or removed everything installed, confidently. I have other boxes to do this work on, but yea eventually it needs security (sandbox et al) but fist get it working; then tighten up on security. The authors are trusted as to intent, but not as robust admins. Any discussion, guidance or wiki links to something similar is most appreciated. I also have the intention of testing this system on minimize (gentoo) and embedded systems as a sort of system that lives completely on a usb stick, for easy removal. James [1] http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ [2] http://github.com/martine/ninja [3] http://furius.ca/snakefood/ [4] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24936580/c-c-implementation-of-a-directed-acyclic-graph [5] http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/graphs/sage/graphs/digraph.html
[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash?
On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 20:18:18 +0300 Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:01 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: My bash problem started a few weeks ago but I can't remember when. This problem is intermittent and hard to reproduce. I'm seeing it maybe less than ten times per day but often enough to be really annoying. This is the problem: occasionally bash gets in a state where it stops echoing the characters I type. The commands I type continue to work properly and I can see the output from them but I can't see the commands on the screen as I type them. So far I've seen this problem start *after* some bash command has finished executing, e.g. after doing 'git diff'. It never happens when I open a new xterm, before I run a command. I emerged app-shells/sash and I don't see the problem there, so I think this is a bash problem, but I'm just guessing. Any ideas? What's the output of 'stty -a'? Is the 'echo' attribute on, 'echo', or off, '-echo'? I have the same symptoms as walt (except less often, probably because I'm typing in bash less often). The echo attribute is on for me. I think (but am not certain) the problem started for me when I updated bash and readline following this stabilization: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548756 In case it matters (and since I am using USE=-*), here are my flags for those two packages. bash: nls readline -afs -bashlogger -examples -mem-scramble -net -plugins -vanilla sys-libs/readline: -static-libs ABI_MIPS=-n32 -n64 -o32 ABI_PPC=-32 -64 ABI_S390=-32 -64 ABI_X86=64 -32 -x32
Re: [gentoo-user] KMail-2 duplicates
On Monday 06 Jul 2015 16:44:39 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 06 July 2015 11:01:08 Mick wrote: If you open the akonadi console you should be able to clear the akonadi cache. This ought to follow with a re-indexing of your messages by akonadi, hopefully without creating a duplicate of each message in your Inbox folder. The only reference I can find to the cache in akonadi console v 0.99 is a Cache only retrieval tick box. I've set off a Synchronise All and I'll see if it does anything useful. Doesn't look like it. Peter, I'm going from memory here, but I recovered from a kmail2 problem by clearing the akonadi cache and thereby forcing a reindexing. I recall opening the akonadi console from the tool tray and this offered me a GUI, which listed the various KDEPIM resources. I right clicked on the corrupted folder and selected to clear the cache; in my case it would not list any messages and was hanging when trying to sync with the mail server. This fixed it. Are you looking at the same place? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer margins
HPLIP installs several executables. Have you made sure you have started the correct setup program? As I recall, these settings ARE included in the hplip setup for my printer, which is an older 3 in 1. On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I finally got around to ordering some ink cartridges. Now I want to do some printing. Thing is, it tries to print ALL the way to the bottom which ends up blurred and unreadable. I've looked in Seamonkey settings, nothing. I've looked in Hplip, nothing there. I've even looked in cups, well, nothing that makes sense. I don't like the new cups interface. I didn't see anything there related to margins and when I looked in the config file, I couldn't make sense of what to change. So, how does one change the bottom margin to say 1/2 or even 3/4 inch or something? Is there a way? Thanks. Dale :-) :-) -- Terry ny6...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash?
On 07/07/15 04:43, Alex Thorne wrote: I have also experienced this intermittently with bash. Running /reset /returns the shell to normal for me. Echo is also set on for me, but will check if this has changed next time I experience the issue. On 6 July 2015 at 20:07, »Q« boxc...@gmx.net mailto:boxc...@gmx.net wrote: On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 20:18:18 +0300 Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com mailto:alexander.kaps...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:01 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com mailto:w41...@gmail.com wrote: My bash problem started a few weeks ago but I can't remember when. This problem is intermittent and hard to reproduce. I'm seeing it another me too - but rarely blindly running stty saneCRCR restores it BillK
[gentoo-user] Re: Printer margins
On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 16:01:44 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I finally got around to ordering some ink cartridges. Now I want to do some printing. Thing is, it tries to print ALL the way to the bottom which ends up blurred and unreadable. I've looked in Seamonkey settings, nothing. I've looked in Hplip, nothing there. I've even looked in cups, well, nothing that makes sense. I don't like the new cups interface. cups, bah! Every time cups is updated my printer 'breaks'. From painful years of experience I now know to 'delete' whatever printer/fax devices cups knows about and use hp-setup (not cups) to recreate them. By 'delete' I'm referring to the cups interface I access by visiting localhost:631 in a web browser. Is that the cups interface you're using?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Printer margins
James wrote: Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: So, how does one change the bottom margin to say 1/2 or even 3/4 inch or something? Is there a way? Use to be (decades ago) it was in lp or lpr filter files. Now (at least my experiences) is that each app (particularly if it is a gui based app) has it's own method. Some retain settings other do not; ymmv. For cups settings, I google for margin ideas for printers.conf. PS, copy out your config files in /etc/cups/ so when cups hammers them in the future, you have working backup copies sorry I could not help more... I'd be most curious to learn of a universal method nowadays, particularly one that works on ascii, text and such printed via lp. James I googled before posting this and I found pretty much what you are describing. I found some really old posts but given how much things have changed, I doubt those would still apply. The closest I found was to edit the ppd file itself. Given the age of that match, I'm worried even that may not work or only work in applications I'm not using anyway. I have no idea how much that may have changed especially given how much cups has changed the user interface. I'm hoping someone has a idea on this tho. It's annoying as heck to print something and not be able to read the parts that are needed. By the way, I'm wanting to do this in Seamonkey and Firefox. Well, so far anyway. I may end up printing them to a PDF file then printing them from that. Maybe that will give me some room at the bottom. Pain in the rear tho. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: Printer margins
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: So, how does one change the bottom margin to say 1/2 or even 3/4 inch or something? Is there a way? Use to be (decades ago) it was in lp or lpr filter files. Now (at least my experiences) is that each app (particularly if it is a gui based app) has it's own method. Some retain settings other do not; ymmv. For cups settings, I google for margin ideas for printers.conf. PS, copy out your config files in /etc/cups/ so when cups hammers them in the future, you have working backup copies sorry I could not help more... I'd be most curious to learn of a universal method nowadays, particularly one that works on ascii, text and such printed via lp. James
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Printer margins
walt wrote: On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 16:01:44 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I finally got around to ordering some ink cartridges. Now I want to do some printing. Thing is, it tries to print ALL the way to the bottom which ends up blurred and unreadable. I've looked in Seamonkey settings, nothing. I've looked in Hplip, nothing there. I've even looked in cups, well, nothing that makes sense. I don't like the new cups interface. cups, bah! Every time cups is updated my printer 'breaks'. From painful years of experience I now know to 'delete' whatever printer/fax devices cups knows about and use hp-setup (not cups) to recreate them. By 'delete' I'm referring to the cups interface I access by visiting localhost:631 in a web browser. Is that the cups interface you're using? It used to do the same with me but that stopped a long time ago. Thing is, cups or not, I can't find anything to adjust the margin. Nothing in cups, nothing in hplip either. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Printer margins
Lee wrote: HPLIP installs several executables. Have you made sure you have started the correct setup program? As I recall, these settings ARE included in the hplip setup for my printer, which is an older 3 in 1. -- Terry ny6...@gmail.com mailto:ny6...@gmail.com I set this up a while ago but checked it again. I don't see any way to adjust the margins anywhere in hplip. I even tried to set it up again but basically all it does and see the printer and add it. There's not anything to set up really. I only wish it would. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: Printer margins
On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 19:41:07 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: walt wrote: On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 16:01:44 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I finally got around to ordering some ink cartridges. Now I want to do some printing. Thing is, it tries to print ALL the way to the bottom which ends up blurred and unreadable. I've looked in Seamonkey settings, nothing. I've looked in Hplip, nothing there. I've even looked in cups, well, nothing that makes sense. I don't like the new cups interface. cups, bah! Every time cups is updated my printer 'breaks'. From painful years of experience I now know to 'delete' whatever printer/fax devices cups knows about and use hp-setup (not cups) to recreate them. By 'delete' I'm referring to the cups interface I access by visiting localhost:631 in a web browser. Is that the cups interface you're using? It used to do the same with me but that stopped a long time ago. Dale, did you try it *this* time? If not, please try the same-ole-same-ole tired remedy just one more time. The price is right :)
Re: [gentoo-user] KMail-2 duplicates
On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 09:33:58 Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Isn't anyone else suffering duplication of e-mails in KMail-2? This list is silent on the subject, and the bug I opened in April still hasn't even been confirmed, never mind acted on. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346695 It looks as though the underlying database design is incomplete, or just broken, to judge by ~/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err . I raised bug 348491 about that - also unconfirmed so far. I suppose the KDE devs are overwhelmed. Yes, I get duplicate message as well. I've been getting them for all versions of Kmail-2, as far as I remember. Currently using version 4.14.8 and the frequency of duplicates has dropped, but they still happen. Also, Kmail-2 doesn't seem to move message files correctly in maildir folders. Quite a few get left in the 'new' directory instead of being moved to 'cur'. I havn't checked to see it these correleate with duplicated messages at all. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Printer margins
On 07/06/2015 06:40 PM, walt wrote: On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 19:41:07 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: walt wrote: On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 16:01:44 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I finally got around to ordering some ink cartridges. Now I want to do some printing. Thing is, it tries to print ALL the way to the bottom which ends up blurred and unreadable. I've looked in Seamonkey settings, nothing. I've looked in Hplip, nothing there. I've even looked in cups, well, nothing that makes sense. I don't like the new cups interface. cups, bah! Every time cups is updated my printer 'breaks'. From painful years of experience I now know to 'delete' whatever printer/fax devices cups knows about and use hp-setup (not cups) to recreate them. By 'delete' I'm referring to the cups interface I access by visiting localhost:631 in a web browser. Is that the cups interface you're using? It used to do the same with me but that stopped a long time ago. Dale, did you try it *this* time? If not, please try the same-ole-same-ole tired remedy just one more time. The price is right :) Have you tried lpadmin? I seem to recall my old printer I had this problem and was able to use: `lpadmin -o page-bottom-default=36 -o page-top-default=36` That set a system-wide default. IIRC it's set by dpi, but it's been a while. Might have to experiment to see if it still works. To see options you can use `lpoptions -l` My new printer uses foomatic drivers and it works properly without messing around with options to set the margins. If that doesn't help then I don't have a clue... There should be man pages for both lpadmin and lpoptions. Dan
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Printer margins
walt wrote: On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 19:41:07 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: walt wrote: On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 16:01:44 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I finally got around to ordering some ink cartridges. Now I want to do some printing. Thing is, it tries to print ALL the way to the bottom which ends up blurred and unreadable. I've looked in Seamonkey settings, nothing. I've looked in Hplip, nothing there. I've even looked in cups, well, nothing that makes sense. I don't like the new cups interface. cups, bah! Every time cups is updated my printer 'breaks'. From painful years of experience I now know to 'delete' whatever printer/fax devices cups knows about and use hp-setup (not cups) to recreate them. By 'delete' I'm referring to the cups interface I access by visiting localhost:631 in a web browser. Is that the cups interface you're using? It used to do the same with me but that stopped a long time ago. Dale, did you try it *this* time? If not, please try the same-ole-same-ole tired remedy just one more time. The price is right :) Yes I did. The printer works fine. It's just the margins that I need to change. There used to be a way to set the margins but that is gone. Anyway, before when I did a update, the printer wouldn't work at all. It would generally just sit there claiming it is going to print but never does. Deleting and adding it again would fix that. That was a long time ago. When I have printer problems, that it what I try first. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Printer margins
Daniel Frey wrote: Have you tried lpadmin? I seem to recall my old printer I had this problem and was able to use: `lpadmin -o page-bottom-default=36 -o page-top-default=36` That set a system-wide default. IIRC it's set by dpi, but it's been a while. Might have to experiment to see if it still works. To see options you can use `lpoptions -l` My new printer uses foomatic drivers and it works properly without messing around with options to set the margins. If that doesn't help then I don't have a clue... There should be man pages for both lpadmin and lpoptions. Dan What I did was edit the file like I found with google. I've only printed a couple pages so far but it seems to work. I changed the margin setting from 36 to 56. I'll likely have to print some more to see if it works OK for sure. I'm hoping. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] [HOT] (Half Offtopic) Gentoo on Nexus 7
On Sun, 5 July 2015, at 3:36 pm, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I meant: Is it possible to change an old LiIon pack, which is no longer to held a reasonable amount of charge with a new and fresh one? There are loads of them on eBay for $20 - $30. Just search nexus 7 battery. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Nexus+7+Battery+Replacement/9895 I think there are also some howto videos on YouTube. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] lvmetad Errors
On Monday 06 July 2015 10:19:36 Alex Thorne wrote: I guess I did mean mdraid, but would you mind explaining the difference (I've never used raid so don't know much about this)? Is dmraid deprecated in favour of mdadm? Dmraid is the fake RAID that's included on most motherboards these days; it's meant for use with Windows and is enabled (or not) in the BIOS. There are Linux drivers, but we're always advised to use mdraid instead. Mdraid is all in software spread over the kernel, udev and user space*; it's not influenced at all by Windows as far as I know. Mdadm is the user-space administration program that comes with mdraid. Mdadm creates /dev/mdX from one or more /dev/sdX or similar - e.g. my /dev/md1 is built on /dev/sd[ab]1; /dev/md5 is on /dev/sd[ab]5 and /dev/md7 is on /dev/sd[ab]7. That last one also has LVM on it with a dozen or more logical volumes for segments of my overall file system. If you want to play with mdraid, the old Gentoo guide is succinct but useful: http://wwwold.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml Well, it was, but suddenly it isn't there - even Google's search results end up in an empty page. Ah, I've found the new version at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LVM . It must be very new - would you like to test it? :-) * Yes, I know that udev runs in user space (=User Device management) but I thought it was worth mentioning separately. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] KMail-2 duplicates
On Monday 06 July 2015 11:01:08 Mick wrote: If you open the akonadi console you should be able to clear the akonadi cache. This ought to follow with a re-indexing of your messages by akonadi, hopefully without creating a duplicate of each message in your Inbox folder. The only reference I can find to the cache in akonadi console v 0.99 is a Cache only retrieval tick box. I've set off a Synchronise All and I'll see if it does anything useful. Doesn't look like it. I'm beginning to suspect a problem with mime types, but I'm largely ignorant in that area so I'd prefer it to be somewhere else :-) -- Rgds Peter
