[gentoo-user] Boinc setiathome on AMD64
Is anyone on this list using BOINC+setiathome on AMD64? If so, what was your process for getting it working? From what I can tell, the setiathome package in portage is out-of-date. Furthermore, the x86_64 BOINC+setiathome ebuilds never worked correctly (in particular, /etc/init.d/boinc attach). So, it looks to me as though we must do a manual install if we want to run BOINC+setiathome on an Athlon64 CPU. Does anyone have any guidance for doing this with as little hassle as possible? Thanks! Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious segfaults
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:23:17PM -, Michael Kintzios wrote: If the application of a domestic cooling fan does not relieve the problem, then it could well be faulty memory module(s), or a faulty power supply. I'm afraid it's a random hardware failure. I've been running cpuburn for the last couple hours. According to sensors, my cpu has reached a max temp of 57 degress C. No segfaults thus far. It's been several months ago, but I did run about eight hours of memtest86 on the memory. Is it unusual for memory to work fine for a while and *then* go bad? I might try a new power supply anyway. For what it's worth, mysterious problems on this box have come and gone for probably a year now. Every time something comes up, it's so random that I don't even know where to start looking. I'm this - - close to building a whole new PC :) Thanks again, Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] hard lockups w/nfs, md raid5
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:51:38PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Also try the memory test script from here, but it does pretty much what you were describing...massive IO and memory bandwidth test: http://people.redhat.com/dledford/memtest.html I don't believe it is a memory, IO or hardware problem (at this point). I ran the above test simultaneously with stress --io 10 --hdd 10 for several hours. No problems. I believe the problem is NFS locking up the machine. If I run the same stress program on a client machine, where the working directory is NFS mounted to the server, then I can cause a lockup almost instantaneously. Has anyone else seen hard lockups like this with NFS? Any fixes? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] hard lockups w/nfs, md raid5
I've got a homebuilt server running gentoo. I just built a software (linux md) RAID5 array using four SATA drives (connected via a Promise PCI SATA card). In addition to the RAID array, there's a SCSI drive from which the OS boots and runs; two PATA drives merged together under lvm2; and one PATA drive mounted normally (i.e. no lvm2/md/whatever). Last night, I was copying about 26GB from the standalone PATA drive to the RAID array. At the same time, I was ripping a DVD to the RAID drive via NFS (i.e. the rip occurred on a different computer, but the storage was the RAID array exported via nfs). Twice in a row, under these conditions, the server locked up. They were hard lockups---couldn't ping the machine and the keyboard was totally unresponsive. I checked the logs, and couldn't find ANYTHING to suggest the cause of the lockup (nothing at all out of the ordinary). After being discouraged by the two hard lockups, I performed one task at a time: first ripped the DVD, then copied files. No lockups. My questions are: (1) does anyone know what might have caused the lockups? I have a feeling I could duplicate this again without too much effort. Also, (2) is there any mechanism I can use to actually track down the root cause? Right now, there are too many variables: flaky hardware (although this machine has *never* locked up prior to adding the SATA card+drives), nfs daemon, libata code, sata controller driver, linux md code... Thanks in advance, Matt -- Matt Garman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Can't browse WinXP shares from gentoo
I've searched all over google and the like, and I'm at my wits' end... I cannot get my gentoo box to connect to any of my roommate's Windows XP Pro shares. His computer is named JDpc: # smbclient -L //jdpc -N Anonymous login successful Domain=[RAWSEWAGE] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] Sharename Type Comment - --- Error returning browse list: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED Anonymous login successful Domain=[RAWSEWAGE] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] Server Comment ---- WorkgroupMaster ---- I've tried both listing and directly connecting to individual shares via smbclient AND mount.cifs, no luck. It works if and only if I provide a specific user name and password (my roommates' username and password). Even -U Administrator does not work! All the shares have both Everyone and Guest set to Full Control. I'm convinced this is some overtight security setting on the WinXP Pro box. He recently upgraded, and before, with Win2k, we did not have this problem. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas? Much appreciated, Thank you, Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't browse WinXP shares from gentoo
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 03:04:03PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # smbclient -L //jdpc -N Error returning browse list: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED My conclusion is that you absolutely *must* use a non-null username AND password when connecting to Windows XP Professional. Apparently, you cannot connect to any share with a username that does not have the password set. Can anyone confirm or deny this? If there is a way to get true anonymous browse access to a WinXPPro box, I'd like to hear it. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] dying hard drive?
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 06:15:20PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: I was able to resurrect a drive with a similar problem with: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=32k You can then check that the drive is working with: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=32k If either command fails, then it is time to replace the drive. In my case, that drive was still working perfectly 18 months later when I sold it to someone else. I don't think that's going to work for me: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=32k dd: writing `/dev/hda': No space left on device 4884091+0 records in 4884090+0 records out # dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=32k dd: reading `/dev/hda': Input/output error 3229627+1 records in 3229627+1 records out D'oh! Time to find that RMA form! Thanks for the help, Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] email within a LAN?
Does anyone know of a relatively easy way to send email within a private LAN (192.168.x.x), and at the same time know when to send the mail to an external router? I have three gentoo boxes and one OpenBSD box in my home LAN; I'd like to be able to send email internally (i.e. without going out to the Internet) for various administrative notifications (e.g. smartd). When I researched this in the past, I couldn't figure out any way simpler than a nontrivial postfix setup PLUS a working DNS/bind installation. I'm wishfully thinking that there is now an easy set it and forget it way to accomplish what I want :) Anyone have any suggestions? Thank you! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] dying hard drive?
I keep getting hard drive errors in my kernel log/dmesg that have me
worried. From /var/log/kernel/current:
Jan 13 11:42:31 [kernel] hda: dma_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete
DataRequest Error }
- Last output repeated 7 times -
Jan 13 11:42:39 [kernel] hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError },
LBAsect=206696214, high=12, low=5369622, sector=206695927
Jan 13 11:42:39 [kernel] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jan 13 11:42:40 [kernel] hda: dma_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete
DataRequest Error }
The drive is a 160 GB PATA Samsung. It's about two or three years
old, running 24x7 (although lightly). The drive has three
partitions, all are ext3.
When I started seeing the above messages, I ran
fsck.ext3 -f -v -c -c /dev/hda?
on all three partitions. Note that the -c flag includes the bad
blocks check.
I also ran
smartctl -t long /dev/hda
On the drive. Apparently, an error was found (details below). I'm
not sure if this drive is actually dying, though, as the following
article (by the smartmontools author) suggests that one or two
errors on a drive is nothing to worry about. Also, the SMART
overall-health self-assessment test comes back as PASSED.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983
But the constant kernel messages, along with the error in the long
SMART test, concern me. At this point, I'm not really sure what my
next steps should be, so I'm looking for any suggestions or advice.
Thanks!
Matt
# smartctl -a /dev/hda
smartctl version 5.33 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: SAMSUNG SP1614N
Serial Number:0642J1FW903226
Firmware Version: TM100-24
User Capacity:160,041,885,696 bytes
Device is:In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 7
ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 0
Local Time is:Fri Jan 13 15:24:27 2006 CST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 245) Self-test routine in progress...
50% of test remaining.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (5760) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:(0x1b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off
support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
No Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:(0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:(0x01) Error logging supported.
No General Purpose Logging support.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time:( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:( 96) minutes.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED
WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 051Pre-fail Always
- 1
3 Spin_Up_Time0x0007 061 061 000Pre-fail Always
- 6528
4 Start_Stop_Count0x0032 100 100 000Old_age Always
- 73
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 253 253 010Pre-fail Always
- 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 253 253 051Pre-fail Always
- 0
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0024 253 253 000Old_age Offline
- 0
9 Power_On_Half_Minutes 0x0032 098 098 000Old_age Always
- 11505h+32m
10 Spin_Retry_Count0x0013 253 253 049Pre-fail Always
- 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000Old_age Always
- 50
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 163 127 000Old_age Always
- 25
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x000a 100 100 000Old_age Always
- 265460048
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0012 100 100 000
Re: [gentoo-user] Dell LCD display
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 08:04:48PM -0600, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I'm thinking about getting one of the Dell Widescreen Ultrasharp LCD displays. Has anyone used one under Gentoo (x86) and how good is it? Which one are you looking at? I have the 2005FPW (the 20 widescreen). I got a great deal on it by watching hot-deals.org everyday until there was a sale and an Internet coupon. I upgraded from a 19 nonflat CRT. The monitor itself is great; no complaints. Works perfectly with my hardware (Vid card = nVidia ti4200 AGP). FYI, here's the modeline I use: Modeline 1680x1050 119.0 1680 1728 1760 1840 1050 1053 1059 1080 -hsync +vsync The only other thing to look out for is font setup. I had to spend a bit of time reading up how to get my fonts to look good. It wasn't hard, as there's tons of documentation out there that describes getting nice fonts in X. Having said that, in hindsite, I think I'd prefer to have *two* 20 4:3 LCDs running side by side (rather than one widescreen). Just my personal opinion, but that goofy resolution the 2005FPW uses (1680x1050) is kind of awkward---any interesting desktop background you find will either need to be stretched, cropped or tiled. I certainly don't regret buying it at all. I'd just recommend thinking through what kind of apps you regularly use, and how they'd be affected running at 1680x1050. For me, the main thing I wanted was the ability to run a terminal right next to Firefox without resorting to a tiny resolution. And now I have that :) Also, my friend has the 24 (2405FPW). He runs Windows, and I didn't look at it too long, but that thing is MASSIVE. Makes mine look tiny. But for the price, you could buy two of the one I have! Hope that helps, Good luck, Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] How to do account management across multiple Unix boxes?
Is there a term for the situation where you have one computer as the user account master and every other machine recognizes all user accounts that are specified on the master? I'm sure there's plenty of packages and documentation on how to do this, but I don't know what it's called, so I don't know where to start looking. Basically, I have one OpenBSD box and three gentoo boxes. I'd like to have the same user accounts on all of them, but not have to manually create them each time. Especially for dealing with Samba and NFS, it's nice to have consistent accounts. Given the name of a couple key packages and/or web links, I think I could figure the rest out. Thanks! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] ntp won't synchronize
I've been struggling with ntp for some time now. I've followed the gentoo wiki HOWTO for ntp: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_MythTV#NTP As well as many other sources over the months. Basically, ntpq shows that I am not synchronized to any peers: # ntpq -p remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter == Time4.Stupi.SE .PPS.1 u 37 64 377 124.516 -11202. 1225.91 thesimonet.org .TRUE. 1 u 38 64 377 109.329 -11213. 1232.51 fin.rshell.net 192.114.62.249 3 u 32 64 377 205.910 -9569.1 1521.31 titan.cais.rnp. 32.233.177.224 2 u 44 64 377 165.240 -11991. 1915.26 That first space in the peers list is a tally mark that, according to the ntpq documentation at: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/ntpq.html Means that those peers are all rejected: The peer is discarded as unreachable, synchronized to this server (synch loop) or outrageous synchronization distance. Likewise: # ntpq -c rv | grep stratum processor=i686, system=Linux/2.6.14-gentoo-r5, leap=11, stratum=16, I should be at stratum 3, not 16 (which means I'm not synchronized to anything). My /etc/ntp.conf: tinker panic 0 minpoll 4 maxpoll 10 server pool.ntp.org server 0.pool.ntp.org server 1.pool.ntp.org server 2.pool.ntp.org driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift logfile /var/log/ntp.log restrict default nomodify nopeer restrict 127.0.0.1 Nothing special there! To further clarify, I actually have this problem on *two* machines. FWIW, I've also tried the OpenBSD OpenNTP package, but haven't had any luck with that either (except on my OpenBSD machine!). Using OpenNTP on these two machines *seemed* to work fine, but the computers still gained time too quickly. I've been fighting this for what seems like forever. If anyone has any insight or thoughts, I'm happy to hear it! Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
