Re: [gentoo-user] modules.audoload.d is not autoloaded
Am 23.04.2010 05:43, schrieb Xi Shen: hi, i have some modules putted in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, and my kernel is 2.6.32-gentoo-r7. but after system started up, i found those modules are not loaded. running 'rc-update show', i can see the 'modules' is in 'boot' runlevel. if i load those modules manually, they can be loaded normally. what's wrong with autoload? I'm not shure if you're running baselayout-2: The place for configuration of autoload modules has changed to /etc/conf.d/modules. See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml for explanations in more detail. regards, Steffen
[gentoo-user] Adding styles to lyx in gentoo
I am definitely not a latex/lyx person it seems :) Ive installed lyx and am trying to add the springer llncs2e to it without luck so far. 1. Ive added llncs and llncs2e directories to /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ and unzipped the relevant packages inside. 2.run texhash 3.run reconfigure within lyx 4. restarted lyx Is there anything else needed? - I followed ubuntu instructions and he directories are a bit different but that seems ok after adjustment as texhash indexes them. Is there something gentoo specific that needs doing? BillK -- William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au Home in Perth!
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services
Am 23.04.2010 05:28, schrieb Stroller: The added swapfile with one GB won't help here for a start? Yes, it will. If it's running out of RAM+swap, then more swap will help. I watch the system now, only 6 MB of RAM free now ... the AV-scanners grab the most ... I already deactivated f-secure (fsavd) because it timed out while scanning a 10k text-mail :-( Gotta get some RAM, yes. S
[gentoo-user] Trying to shutdown/reboot computer from gnome
Currently I cannot turn off the computer, nor reboot using gnome 2.28.2. Googling around it seems that it is a polkit related problem. I've tried to do what is mentioned here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-mint-84/authentication-to-restart-and-turn-off-789357/ But polkit-auth --show-obtainable shows nothing. I'm running gnome via startx, and the .xinitrc file looks like this: export XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome- exec ck-launch-session gnome-session Could anybody manage to get this working? Thanks in advance, Damian.
Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox
Dnia 2010-04-22, czw o godzinie 09:47 -0700, Grant pisze: Could this be the problem? # grep ^\(EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log (EE) Failed to load module vesa (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module fbdev (module does not exist, 0) (EE) intel(0): [drm] Failed to open DRM device for : No such file or directory (EE) intel(0): Failed to become DRM master. (EE) intel(0): Failed to initialize kernel memory manager The first two errors are fine; Xorg defaults to trying vesa and fbdev as display drivers and you just don't have them. The last three are your problem. The intel video driver is unable to properly access the DRM subsystem, which will definitely cause X to slow to a crawl. The most likely cause of your errors is that the intel AGP driver (i810 or i915, depending on your hardware) isn't getting loaded. If that's the case, you should see an error such as: [drm] failed to load kernel module i915 in Xorg.0.log just before the ones from intel. If the modules are being loaded, you'll likely see some other errors around that same area. The aren't tagged with (EE), unfortunately; try: # grep -5 'Failed to open DRM' Xorg.0.log You can also check your dmesg output to see if the devices are being initialized properly: platypus log # dmesg | grep agp Linux agpgart interface v0.103 agpgart-intel :00:00.0: Intel 965GM Chipset agpgart-intel :00:00.0: detected 7676K stolen memory agpgart-intel :00:00.0: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xe000 platypus log # dmesg | grep drm [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [drm] set up 7M of stolen space [drm] initialized overlay support fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for :00:02.0 on minor 0 If everything's working, you should have the following devices that the Xorg driver needs: platypus log # ls -l /dev/dri total 0 crw-rw 1 root video 226, 0 Apr 20 13:11 card0 crw-rw 1 root video 226, 64 Apr 20 13:11 controlD64 Ah, thank you so much. I needed to enable CONFIG_DRM_I915 in the kernel. - Grant Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the keyboard shortcuts. Any ideas on that? - Grant Please share the beast model :P (or maybe ive missed it). in kernel config You have multiple option for backlight eg. for thinkpad there is extra one in thinkpad specific acpi maybe You have something similar for Yours stuff. And (its only my private opinion - could base on wrong facts :P) dont be used to hal because the 1.8 xorg-server dont like it any more, preferring udev, and future versions wouldn't probably support hal at all. Lately i delete hal USE and now iam using udev - excepting auto mounting usb stick etc. -- Bartosz Szatkowski KeyFP: 1568 D5A7 B14C 0727 1C61 ACFB ABDE C08A DDB7 1F70 You must exorcise any evil proprietary operating systems that possess any of the computers under your control, and then install a wholly/holy free operating system, and then only install Free Software on top of that.
Re: [gentoo-user] Login through KDM
On 21/04/2010 10:09, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: Hi all! Lately I can't login anymore to my GENTOO pc through KDM (ssh login works). I tried to look inside the kdm.log file, but could not see any useful message. Could someone point me to where to look to find some information? Thanks a lot, Massimiliano Hi, Your problem is likely related with xorg-server update to 1.7.6. Have a look at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-824285.html. Best regards.
[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to shutdown/reboot computer from gnome
Damian damian.o...@gmail.com writes: Currently I cannot turn off the computer, nor reboot using gnome 2.28.2. Googling around it seems that it is a polkit related problem. I've tried to do what is mentioned here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-mint-84/authentication-to-restart-and-turn-off-789357/ But polkit-auth --show-obtainable shows nothing. I'm running gnome via startx, and the .xinitrc file looks like this: export XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome- exec ck-launch-session gnome-session Could anybody manage to get this working? Ok, the problem seemed to be gone after the addition of the gnome, polkit, policykit, and consolekit use flags. I don't know which flag got it working.
Re: [gentoo-user] modules.audoload.d is not autoloaded
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:50:01 +0200, Xi Shen wrote about [gentoo-user] modules.audoload.d is not autoloaded: i have some modules putted in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, and my kernel is 2.6.32-gentoo-r7. but after system started up, i found those modules are not loaded. running 'rc-update show', i can see the 'modules' is in 'boot' runlevel. if i load those modules manually, they can be loaded normally. what's wrong with autoload? The runlevels are for system daemons, not kernel modules. The modules that are autoloaded can be modprobed manually. The autoload list simply modprobes kernel modules early in the system bootstrap. So, are these kernel modules or system daemons you are trying to load/start? -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] == dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) == signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.
2010/4/23 ubiquitous1980 nixuser1...@gmail.com: Daniel, Some additional info in the log file: So your device uses the scanner group where mine uses the lp group. From your log file I see you are in the scanner and the lp group, so you should have the appropriate permissions to access the device. Nevertheless can you post the the groups your user is in by entering groups on the commandline Also did you add your printer through the cups webinterface or hp-setup? -- Daniel Pielmeier
Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.
Hello Daniel, I have tried both cups webinterface and hp-setup with the same results. My groups are as follows: adm disk lp wheel uucp audio cdrom dialout video games cdrw usb users haldaemon plugdev gdm ubiquitous1980 polkituser scanner Regards, ubiquitous1980 On 23/04/10 19:51, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2010/4/23 ubiquitous1980 nixuser1...@gmail.com: Daniel, Some additional info in the log file: So your device uses the scanner group where mine uses the lp group. From your log file I see you are in the scanner and the lp group, so you should have the appropriate permissions to access the device. Nevertheless can you post the the groups your user is in by entering groups on the commandline Also did you add your printer through the cups webinterface or hp-setup? -- Daniel Pielmeier
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't detect power capabilities (hibernate, suspend, battery and frequency scaling)
I think it does, but how can I make sure of it? On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Momesso Andrea momesso.and...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 16 April 2010 08:41:57 Yoav Luft wrote: After some experiments with the ndiswrapper driver, KDE4 stopped providing a frontend to various power capabilities. It doesn't detect the battery, it doesn't offer suspend or hibernate it the shutdown script, et cetera. The battery properties are still accessable through /sys/class/power/BAT1 and I can still suspend and hibernate using pm-suspend and pm-hibernate. I would like use KDE's frontend, though, as finding out how long the battery can hold from reading it's voltage isn't the most comfortable thing. Make sure that the hald daemon starts before kde does. --- TopperH http://topperh.blackmamba.kicks-ass.org
[gentoo-user] Tomcat global variables are not set (documentation says they should be)
Hey, I've emerged tomcat-5.5, and according to this documentation page: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/tomcat-guide.xml, starting the server should initialize $CATALINA_HOME, $CATALINA_BASE and some others. It seems like it doesn't happen/
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't detect power capabilities (hibernate, suspend, battery and frequency scaling)
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 03:31:23PM +0300, Yoav Luft wrote: I think it does, but how can I make sure of it? On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Momesso Andrea Make sure that the hald daemon starts before kde does. Adding the following in the depend() function in /etc/init.d/xdm should do the trick: after hald (I don't use hal anymore so I can't check but I think it may already be there) -- Éric Valérian DUNAND pgpAKFrutUero.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 doesn't detect power capabilities (hibernate, suspend, battery and frequency scaling)
On Friday 23 April 2010 14:31:23 Yoav Luft wrote: I think it does, but how can I make sure of it? On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Momesso Andrea momesso.and...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 16 April 2010 08:41:57 Yoav Luft wrote: After some experiments with the ndiswrapper driver, KDE4 stopped providing a frontend to various power capabilities. It doesn't detect the battery, it doesn't offer suspend or hibernate it the shutdown script, et cetera. The battery properties are still accessable through /sys/class/power/BAT1 and I can still suspend and hibernate using pm-suspend and pm-hibernate. I would like use KDE's frontend, though, as finding out how long the battery can hold from reading it's voltage isn't the most comfortable thing. Make sure that the hald daemon starts before kde does. Please, don't top-post. /etc/init.d/hald status will tell you if it's working. If it isn't rc-update add hald will add it to your default runlevel. --- TopperH http://topperh.blackmamba.kicks-ass.org
Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: What if the Google Street View vans, in addition to taking photographs, were also scanning for wifi signals and recording their location? That would give them an impressive database of wifi hotspots. Hey, it looks like I may have been onto something :) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/22/google_streetview_logs_wlans/
Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.
2010/4/23 ubiquitous1980 nixuser1...@gmail.com: Hello Daniel, I have tried both cups webinterface and hp-setup with the same results. My groups are as follows: adm disk lp wheel uucp audio cdrom dialout video games cdrw usb users haldaemon plugdev gdm ubiquitous1980 polkituser scanner Hm I am out of ideas now. You can try a newer version of hplip maybe this solves your issue. There is also a forum post [1] where a user had a similar problem and solved it by adding the lp user to the scanner group. See the last comment of the thread. [1] https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-822795.html?sid=f4214ab346ef56e607623918801d5764 -- Daniel Pielmeier
Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.
ubiquitous1980 wrote: Hello Daniel, I have tried both cups webinterface and hp-setup with the same results. My groups are as follows: adm disk lp wheel uucp audio cdrom dialout video games cdrw usb users haldaemon plugdev gdm ubiquitous1980 polkituser scanner Regards, ubiquitous1980 I have set up my HP printer with the cups interface before and it does not work as well as using the hp-setup command. It either is slow to print or jobs just set in the que and never print at all. I also always run hp-setup as root not a user. May want to consider doing it this way and see if it helps. It may, it may not. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] A lot of big files in /var/lib/mysql/ = /var full!
Hi, today I discovered mysql is slowly eating my disk space! Actually, one web-server already had /var 98% full. After a little search I found more than 200 files in /var/lib/mysql/mysqld-bin.01 -~ 000214 of various size, but together take ~10GB of disk space. Yet phpmyadmin shows I have only one database ~15MB. So what is all this mysqld-bin.* crap doing in /var/lib/mysql? I increased /var, but it does not solve the problem. How can I prevent mysql from filling up my whole /var partition? I looked into /var/log/mysql, mysql.err and mysql.log are empty, in mysqld.err there are these messages: --- 100423 15:47:05 [Warning] No argument was provided to --log-bin, and --log-bin-index was not used; so replication may break when this MySQL server acts as a master and has his hostname changed!! Please use '--log-bin=mysqld-bin' to avoid this problem. InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled InnoDB: use atomic builtins. 100423 15:47:05 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 43715 100423 15:47:05 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '5.0.90-log' socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' port: 3306 Gentoo Linux mysql-5.0.90-r2 --- I must admit I didt not play with mysql configutation much, just followed gentoo MySQL Startup Guide and everything seemed to work... Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.
Re: [gentoo-user] A lot of big files in /var/lib/mysql/ = /var full!
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, today I discovered mysql is slowly eating my disk space! Actually, one web-server already had /var 98% full. After a little search I found more than 200 files in /var/lib/mysql/mysqld-bin.01 -~ 000214 of various size, but together take ~10GB of disk space. Yet phpmyadmin shows I have only one database ~15MB. So what is all this mysqld-bin.* crap doing in /var/lib/mysql? I increased /var, but it does not solve the problem. How can I prevent mysql from filling up my whole /var partition? It is the binary transacton log. In your mysql config file you can set the maximum age or amount of disk space these logs are allowed to use, or disable it entirely.
Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox
Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the keyboard shortcuts. Any ideas on that? - Grant Please share the beast model :P (or maybe ive missed it). in kernel config You have multiple option for backlight eg. for thinkpad there is extra one in thinkpad specific acpi maybe You have something similar for Yours stuff. It's a Dell Vostro 1320. The keyboard shortcuts to change brightness were working great until I enabled DRM in the kernel. Can you tell me where in the kernel those options can be found, or part of the variable name that defines them? And (its only my private opinion - could base on wrong facts :P) dont be used to hal because the 1.8 xorg-server dont like it any more, preferring udev, and future versions wouldn't probably support hal at all. Lately i delete hal USE and now iam using udev - excepting auto mounting usb stick etc. Can anyone confirm that as users we should be moving away from hal? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Adding styles to lyx in gentoo
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:01 AM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.auwrote: I am definitely not a latex/lyx person it seems :) Ive installed lyx and am trying to add the springer llncs2e to it without luck so far. 1. Ive added llncs and llncs2e directories to /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ and unzipped the relevant packages inside. 2.run texhash 3.run reconfigure within lyx 4. restarted lyx Is there anything else needed? - I followed ubuntu instructions and he directories are a bit different but that seems ok after adjustment as texhash indexes them. Is there something gentoo specific that needs doing? BillK -- William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au Home in Perth! Hello, You must have llncs.layout and llncs2e.layout files in folder .lyx/layouts too. -- Andrés
Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 09:51:19AM -0700, Grant wrote: And (its only my private opinion - could base on wrong facts :P) dont be used to hal because the 1.8 xorg-server dont like it any more, preferring udev, and future versions wouldn't probably support hal at all. Lately i delete hal USE and now iam using udev - excepting auto mounting usb stick etc. Can anyone confirm that as users we should be moving away from hal? - Grant I'm using x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.0 from the x11 overlay and it doesn't even have a 'hal' use flag to enable. Furthermore, there is a webpage on x.org about this: http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgHAL -- Éric Valérian DUNAND pgpOMXO5K6IgL.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages
Hi, all: I used to get info, error and warn messages in /var/log/portage/elog after emerging packages or doing emerge -uNDvp world. Beginning about 2 weeks ago, I noticed I am no longer getting those elog entries. Additionally, I noticed that I am getting duplicate entries for each package that is emerged in /var/log/portage (of course, these are the compile logs). I have Gentoo installed on 2 computers, both using arch ~amd64. All 3 installations have KDE 4 (latest in portage for ~amd64 arch). PC #1 uses this profile: default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde PC #2 has two installs: Install #1 uses profile: default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop Install #2 uses profile: default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib This problem is happening on all 3 of my Gentoo installations and all started at the same time. The only changes have been through doing updates. I sync nearly every day followed my # emerge -uNDvp world. Other than issues with xorg-server 1.8.0 and the nvidia-drivers, all my updates have been successful. Note: I have masked xorg-server 1.8.0 in /etc/portage/package.mask until the nvidia-drivers catch up. I have searched the forums, checked bugzilla and googled on this topic and have yet to find a solution. My Gentoo installs are working just fine except for this issue. I have attached /etc/make.conf from only one of the installs as they are all the same. Here are the 3 lines I have in my make.conf files as they relate to logging the elog messages: PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES=log warn error PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=save Thank you for the help. billyd # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically # built this stage. # Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a more # detailed example. CFLAGS=-O2 -march=core2 -msse4 -pipe CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=core2 -msse4 -pipe # WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should be done lightly. # Please consult http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml before changing. CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu # These are the USE flags that were used in addition to what is provided by the # profile used for building. MAKEOPTS=-j5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 LINGUAS=en PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES=log warn error PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=save GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ SYNC=rsync://192.168.1.15/gentoo-portage #SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage #SYNC=rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage USE=X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa apm audiofile branding cairo cdr consolekit \ cups dbus dvd dvdr dvdread exif ffmpeg flac foomaticdb gif glib glitz gnutls \ gpm hal imlib jpeg jpeg2k kde lcms libcaca libnotify libwww logrotate lzma mad \ mikmod mmx mng mp3 mp4 mpeg mysql nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl pdf plasma png \ ppds qt3support qt4 quicktime sdl semantic-desktop smp sndfile spell sql \ sqlite sse sse2 sse3 sse4 startup-notification svg tcl tiff tk truetype \ type1 udev usb vorbis webkit x264 xine xml xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid \ -consolekit -crypt -pppd ALSA_CARDS=hda-intel INPUT_DEVICES=evdev keyboard mouse VIDEO_CARDS=nv vesa nvidia APACHE2_MODULES= LCD_DEVICES=ncurses text SANE_BACKENDS=hp
Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone confirm that as users we should be moving away from hal? http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/XorgHAL
Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox
Can anyone confirm that as users we should be moving away from hal? http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/XorgHAL OK, and since xorg-server-1.7 doesn't have a udev USE flag, I should probably stick with hal until 1.8. Please let me know if that isn't the case. I'm on udev-149. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox
On 4/23/2010 1:37 PM, Grant wrote: Can anyone confirm that as users we should be moving away from hal? http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/XorgHAL OK, and since xorg-server-1.7 doesn't have a udev USE flag, I should probably stick with hal until 1.8. Please let me know if that isn't the case. I'm on udev-149. If HAL is working for you, stick with it. If not, turn it off. Xorg 1.7 works equally well with or without HAL. The main difference is how much manually configuration you need to do. The relative stability of using/not using udev with Xorg 1.8 have yet to determined. :) --Mike
Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox
Can anyone confirm that as users we should be moving away from hal? http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/XorgHAL OK, and since xorg-server-1.7 doesn't have a udev USE flag, I should probably stick with hal until 1.8. Please let me know if that isn't the case. I'm on udev-149. If HAL is working for you, stick with it. If not, turn it off. Xorg 1.7 works equally well with or without HAL. The main difference is how much manually configuration you need to do. The relative stability of using/not using udev with Xorg 1.8 have yet to determined. Could switching to udev from hal fix my brightness adjustment keys? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox
Mike Edenfield wrote: On 4/23/2010 1:37 PM, Grant wrote: Can anyone confirm that as users we should be moving away from hal? http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/xorg-server-1.8-upgrade-guide.xml http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/XorgHAL OK, and since xorg-server-1.7 doesn't have a udev USE flag, I should probably stick with hal until 1.8. Please let me know if that isn't the case. I'm on udev-149. If HAL is working for you, stick with it. If not, turn it off. Xorg 1.7 works equally well with or without HAL. The main difference is how much manually configuration you need to do. The relative stability of using/not using udev with Xorg 1.8 have yet to determined. :) --Mike Even tho I'm not much on hal, if it works, use it. If it is not working, then switch to udev, back to having a xorg.conf file or whatever else will work for you. Sometimes it just depends on your hardware. Some systems like one software package to manage things and another system will work better with something else. You just have to find one that works and stick with it. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] ATT DSL + Westell modem/router = Gentoo woes
I recently switched from cable to DSL on a Gentoo router and I'm having trouble keeping a stable connection. Periodically I need to run '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart' before it will connect to the Westell modem (which is also a router although ATT won't admit it). The weird thing is that rebooting the system doesn't reacquire the connection. I have to actually issue '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart'. Does anyone know why rebooting doesn't reacquire the connection and restarting the interface does? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] ATT DSL + Westell modem/router = Gentoo woes
On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 11:54 -0700, Grant wrote: I recently switched from cable to DSL on a Gentoo router and I'm having trouble keeping a stable connection. Periodically I need to run '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart' before it will connect to the Westell modem (which is also a router although ATT won't admit it). The weird thing is that rebooting the system doesn't reacquire the connection. I have to actually issue '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart'. Does anyone know why rebooting doesn't reacquire the connection and restarting the interface does? - Grant I just use the modem to login and then enable ip pass thru to my router which is a linksys running DD-WRT; http://www.dslreports.com/faq/7073 This set-up has worked well for a few years without me having to do anything. HTH -- David Abbott da...@pythontoo.com
Re: [gentoo-user] ATT DSL + Westell modem/router = Gentoo woes
Grant wrote: I recently switched from cable to DSL on a Gentoo router and I'm having trouble keeping a stable connection. Periodically I need to run '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart' before it will connect to the Westell modem (which is also a router although ATT won't admit it). The weird thing is that rebooting the system doesn't reacquire the connection. I have to actually issue '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart'. Does anyone know why rebooting doesn't reacquire the connection and restarting the interface does? - Grant I have ATT DSL as well with a Motorola modem. It's the little silver thing. I have a niece that has the one you are talking about and she has to reset her stuff pretty regular. She is not computer inclined so she just turns everything off, waits a bit then turns everything back on, modem first of course. Could it be that that modem just has some issues for some reason? My niece runs windoze on her puters, she has two. I wouldn't think it was OS since the only common thing is that modem. Just a thought. Dale :-) :-) P. S. Don't expect ATT to admit anything. They told me their DSL would even work with Linux at all.
Re: [gentoo-user] A lot of big files in /var/lib/mysql/ = /var full!
On 4/23/2010 9:25 AM, Jarry wrote: Hi, today I discovered mysql is slowly eating my disk space! Actually, one web-server already had /var 98% full. After a little search I found more than 200 files in /var/lib/mysql/mysqld-bin.01 -~ 000214 of various size, but together take ~10GB of disk space. Yet phpmyadmin shows I have only one database ~15MB. So what is all this mysqld-bin.* crap doing in /var/lib/mysql? I increased /var, but it does not solve the problem. How can I prevent mysql from filling up my whole /var partition? I looked into /var/log/mysql, mysql.err and mysql.log are empty, in mysqld.err there are these messages: --- 100423 15:47:05 [Warning] No argument was provided to --log-bin, and --log-bin-index was not used; so replication may break when this MySQL server acts as a master and has his hostname changed!! Please use '--log-bin=mysqld-bin' to avoid this problem. InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled InnoDB: use atomic builtins. 100423 15:47:05 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 43715 100423 15:47:05 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '5.0.90-log' socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' port: 3306 Gentoo Linux mysql-5.0.90-r2 --- I must admit I didt not play with mysql configutation much, just followed gentoo MySQL Startup Guide and everything seemed to work... Jarry Add this line to your /etc/init.d/my.cnf and it'll need to be in the [mysqld] section. expire_logs_days = 7 Then log into Mysql and run this command to set the variable without having to restart Mysql. SET GLOBAL expire_logs_days=7; While logged in you can immediately expire the old logs with the following command. Even though you've set seven days as the max time Mysql will not expire the old logs until the current log reaches 1GB and it is time to create a new log. PURGE BINARY LOGS BEFORE DATE_SUB( NOW( ), INTERVAL 7 DAY); Seven days works well for most home systems, but you can set it higher or lower depending on your situation. It is generally not a good idea to turn bin logs off because there are cases when it's easier to recover data or fix tables if you have current logs. kashani
Re: [gentoo-user] ATT DSL + Westell modem/router = Gentoo woes
I recently switched from cable to DSL on a Gentoo router and I'm having trouble keeping a stable connection. Periodically I need to run '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart' before it will connect to the Westell modem (which is also a router although ATT won't admit it). The weird thing is that rebooting the system doesn't reacquire the connection. I have to actually issue '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart'. Does anyone know why rebooting doesn't reacquire the connection and restarting the interface does? - Grant I just use the modem to login and then enable ip pass thru to my router which is a linksys running DD-WRT; http://www.dslreports.com/faq/7073 This set-up has worked well for a few years without me having to do anything. Could I get you to tell me a couple of your settings? You're doing something right if you haven't had to touch your's after setting it up. I'm trying to figure out the right connection type (or something like that) for which the options are something like Smart KeepAlive, Always Reconnect, and Connect On Demand. The other one is the IP lease timeout. It defaults to 10 minutes and I just set it to 99 days, but I don't want it to expire even after 99 days. I have a static IP but I think this is the timeout between the modem/router and the Gentoo router. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages
On Friday 23 April 2010 19:12:45 billyd wrote: Hi, all: I used to get info, error and warn messages in /var/log/portage/elog after emerging packages or doing emerge -uNDvp world. Beginning about 2 weeks ago, I noticed I am no longer getting those elog entries. Additionally, I noticed that I am getting duplicate entries for each package that is emerged in /var/log/portage (of course, these are the compile logs). Have you checked the obvious things, like sufficient disk space in elog/ ? What version of portage and python are you running? I have Gentoo installed on 2 computers, both using arch ~amd64. All 3 installations have KDE 4 (latest in portage for ~amd64 arch). PC #1 uses this profile: default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde PC #2 has two installs: Install #1 uses profile: default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop Install #2 uses profile: default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib This problem is happening on all 3 of my Gentoo installations and all started at the same time. The only changes have been through doing updates. I sync nearly every day followed my # emerge -uNDvp world. Other than issues with xorg-server 1.8.0 and the nvidia-drivers, all my updates have been successful. Note: I have masked xorg-server 1.8.0 in /etc/portage/package.mask until the nvidia-drivers catch up. I have searched the forums, checked bugzilla and googled on this topic and have yet to find a solution. My Gentoo installs are working just fine except for this issue. I have attached /etc/make.conf from only one of the installs as they are all the same. Here are the 3 lines I have in my make.conf files as they relate to logging the elog messages: PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES=log warn error PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=save Thank you for the help. billyd -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] ATT DSL + Westell modem/router = Gentoo woes
On Friday 23 April 2010 21:22:53 Grant wrote: I recently switched from cable to DSL on a Gentoo router and I'm having trouble keeping a stable connection. Periodically I need to run '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart' before it will connect to the Westell modem (which is also a router although ATT won't admit it). The weird thing is that rebooting the system doesn't reacquire the connection. I have to actually issue '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart'. Does anyone know why rebooting doesn't reacquire the connection and restarting the interface does? - Grant I just use the modem to login and then enable ip pass thru to my router which is a linksys running DD-WRT; http://www.dslreports.com/faq/7073 This set-up has worked well for a few years without me having to do anything. Could I get you to tell me a couple of your settings? You're doing something right if you haven't had to touch your's after setting it up. I'm trying to figure out the right connection type (or something like that) for which the options are something like Smart KeepAlive, Always Reconnect, and Connect On Demand. The other one is the IP lease timeout. It defaults to 10 minutes and I just set it to 99 days, but I don't want it to expire even after 99 days. I have a static IP but I think this is the timeout between the modem/router and the Gentoo router. I am not familiar with the modem in question, but if you are using your own router the modem should be set up in fully bridged mode and the PPPoE authentication will be managed by your Gentoo router. Your Gentoo router will also use dhcpcd (or similar) to obtain an IP address from your ISP after it authenticates on their RADIUS server. In a nut-shell: You want to set up your modem to not do NAT, or dhcp, or authentication at all, but transparently encapsulate your PPP into ATM packets and send them off to your local DSLAM. All the communication with your ISP will be managed by the router and your router will have the static IP address given to you by your ISP. The modem will only have a LAN address which you will need to set up manually on it, using its control panel. PS. I think that the modem connection type you refer to above should be Smart KeepAlive - although as I said I'm not familiar with the particular hardware. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] ATT DSL + Westell modem/router = Gentoo woes
On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 13:22 -0700, Grant wrote: I recently switched from cable to DSL on a Gentoo router and I'm having trouble keeping a stable connection. Periodically I need to run '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart' before it will connect to the Westell modem (which is also a router although ATT won't admit it). The weird thing is that rebooting the system doesn't reacquire the connection. I have to actually issue '/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart'. Does anyone know why rebooting doesn't reacquire the connection and restarting the interface does? - Grant I just use the modem to login and then enable ip pass thru to my router which is a linksys running DD-WRT; http://www.dslreports.com/faq/7073 This set-up has worked well for a few years without me having to do anything. Could I get you to tell me a couple of your settings? You're doing something right if you haven't had to touch your's after setting it up. I'm trying to figure out the right connection type (or something like that) for which the options are something like Smart KeepAlive, Always Reconnect, and Connect On Demand. I use Always On The other one is the IP lease timeout. It defaults to 10 minutes and I just set it to 99 days, but I don't want it to expire even after 99 days. I have a static IP but I think this is the timeout between the modem/router and the Gentoo router. I have DHCP lease time once per day - Grant -- David Abbott da...@pythontoo.com
[gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers conflicts
Hi,
before getting into too much trouble better I aask:
While updateing I got the following message:
('ebuild', '/', 'x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.0', 'merge') conflicts with
x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.99 required by ('installed', '/',
'x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.15', 'nomerge')
!!! The following update(s) have been skipped due to unsatisfied
dependencies
!!! triggered by backtracking:
x11-apps/xinit:0
The first one I understand what I wants to say, but: Is the conflict
based on the limition of the nvidia-driver not to run with
xorg-server-1.8.0 even when recompiled after the new xorg-server
is reinstalled or does the latter help to circumvent the problem?
What the second message wants to tell me is far beyond my knowledge ... :)
Thank you very much for your help in advance!
Best regards,
mcc
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Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers conflicts
On Saturday 24 April 2010 01:08:46 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
before getting into too much trouble better I aask:
While updateing I got the following message:
('ebuild', '/', 'x11-base/xorg-server-1.8.0', 'merge') conflicts
with x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.99 required by ('installed', '/',
'x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-195.36.15', 'nomerge')
!!! The following update(s) have been skipped due to unsatisfied
dependencies !!! triggered by backtracking:
x11-apps/xinit:0
The first one I understand what I wants to say, but: Is the conflict
based on the limition of the nvidia-driver not to run with
xorg-server-1.8.0 even when recompiled after the new xorg-server
is reinstalled or does the latter help to circumvent the problem?
The former:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315141#c3
What the second message wants to tell me is far beyond my knowledge ... :)
It's portage trying to tell you how those incompatible versions are in the
list to be emerged. A backtrack is simply that - start with what you have,
find out what pulled it in, and what pulled that in, till you come to the end
(usually something in your world file).
Without digging into ebuilds, it looks like xinit pulls in xorg-x11 which
pulls in xorg-server which conflicts with nvidia-drivers,.
This is a classic case of rule #1 of program output: never expose the
underlying implementation in your output. That info is completely useless to
most users and needs re-thinking. Decent programming practice says that output
shout only be given if the user asks for it like that, with say a --debug
option for example.
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Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.
Some success! By changing the permissions by: chmod a=rw /dev/bus/usb/005/005 I get printing (Scanning still works also). However simply adding the groups and rebooting does not. Therefore, I am still completely at a loss. Not pragmatic to have to set permissions on a moving target each boot. Any ideas how to proceed from here? Thanks ubiquitous1980 On 24/04/10 00:03, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2010/4/23 ubiquitous1980 nixuser1...@gmail.com: Hello Daniel, I have tried both cups webinterface and hp-setup with the same results. My groups are as follows: adm disk lp wheel uucp audio cdrom dialout video games cdrw usb users haldaemon plugdev gdm ubiquitous1980 polkituser scanner Hm I am out of ideas now. You can try a newer version of hplip maybe this solves your issue. There is also a forum post [1] where a user had a similar problem and solved it by adding the lp user to the scanner group. See the last comment of the thread. [1] https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-822795.html?sid=f4214ab346ef56e607623918801d5764
Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.
ubiquitous1980 schrieb am 24.04.2010 01:39: Some success! By changing the permissions by: chmod a=rw /dev/bus/usb/005/005 I get printing (Scanning still works also). However simply adding the groups and rebooting does not. Therefore, I am still completely at a loss. Not pragmatic to have to set permissions on a moving target each boot. Any ideas how to proceed from here? Solving a permission problem by giving the device world write permission seems not like proper solution. Please try if this problem also occurs with net-print/hplip-3.10.2-r4. -- Daniel Pielmeier signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.
On Friday 23 April 2010 17:23:31 Dale wrote: I have set up my HP printer with the cups interface before and it does not work as well as using the hp-setup command. It either is slow to print or jobs just set in the que and never print at all. I also always run hp-setup as root not a user. You have to run hp-setup as root; nothing less will do. Seems to me that hplip is a black art. I have an HP printer here which sometimes is entirely complaisant, other times its jobs just sit there until I find the right invocation, other times again nothing I do will coax it into action, short of killing the job and trying again. Surely, printing can't be as hard as this in this new age? -- Rgds Peter.
Re: [gentoo-user] 'wifi' USE flag in firefox
On 23 Apr 2010, at 16:42, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: What if the Google Street View vans, in addition to taking photographs, were also scanning for wifi signals and recording their location? That would give them an impressive database of wifi hotspots. Hey, it looks like I may have been onto something :) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/22/google_streetview_logs_wlans/ Germany's Federal Commissioner for Data Protection Peter Schaar must be reading this list. Is he a Gentoo user, or is it actually that his department is snooping on us? Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.
Hello everyone who has replied so far, I updated to net-print/hplip-3.10.2-r4 same fault occurs...ran hp-setup as root. Perhaps it is time to escalate this as a bug? Any opinion? Thanks ubiquitous1980 On 24/04/10 08:22, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 23 April 2010 17:23:31 Dale wrote: I have set up my HP printer with the cups interface before and it does not work as well as using the hp-setup command. It either is slow to print or jobs just set in the que and never print at all. I also always run hp-setup as root not a user. You have to run hp-setup as root; nothing less will do. Seems to me that hplip is a black art. I have an HP printer here which sometimes is entirely complaisant, other times its jobs just sit there until I find the right invocation, other times again nothing I do will coax it into action, short of killing the job and trying again. Surely, printing can't be as hard as this in this new age?
Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.
ubiquitous1980 schrieb am 24.04.2010 03:45: Hello everyone who has replied so far, I updated to net-print/hplip-3.10.2-r4 same fault occurs...ran hp-setup as root. Perhaps it is time to escalate this as a bug? Any opinion? You already opened a bug here which I try to fix :) What are the contents of /etc/udev/rules.d/. I guess among the files there are 70-libsane.rules and 40-hplip.rules or 55-hpmud.rules. If this is the case rename 40-hplip.rules or 55-hpmud.rules by changing the number to 71. Restart udev, killall udevd /sbin/udevd --daemon should be sufficient. Afterwards try if printing and scanning works. -- Daniel Pielmeier signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] hplip recompiled with scanner use flag now scanning works, printing does not.
Daniel, Both printing and scanning work. File group for /dev/bus/usb/005/005 is lp. Why did the change to the names change the group for the file. How can this be incorporated into the hplip package? Btw it was hpmud-support.rules which I changed as well. Thanks ubiquitous1980 On 24/04/10 10:08, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: ubiquitous1980 schrieb am 24.04.2010 03:45: Hello everyone who has replied so far, I updated to net-print/hplip-3.10.2-r4 same fault occurs...ran hp-setup as root. Perhaps it is time to escalate this as a bug? Any opinion? You already opened a bug here which I try to fix :) What are the contents of /etc/udev/rules.d/. I guess among the files there are 70-libsane.rules and 40-hplip.rules or 55-hpmud.rules. If this is the case rename 40-hplip.rules or 55-hpmud.rules by changing the number to 71. Restart udev, killall udevd /sbin/udevd --daemon should be sufficient. Afterwards try if printing and scanning works.
[gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages
Thanks for the reply, Alan. My hard drive space is adequate with at least 50% space available on the partition where /var lives. There are 2 versions of python installed but 2.6.5-r1 is the active one. dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r1, 3.1.2-r2 The Portage version is 2.1.8.3. I have attached results of my emerge --info for reference also. I am very perplexed about this especially since I had not made any changes to my systems. Recall that this happened to all 3 of my Gentoo installs, not on just one. One install is on a different computer. The 2 on the same computer use different partitions. I estimate the problem began about 2 weeks ago, but I can't be sure. I am aware that not all emerged packages generate error, log or warn messages. I just realized that nothing was being written to /var/log/portage/elog on any of my 3 Gentoo installs. Then I noticed that duplicate emerge logs were being written to /var/log/portage for each package that was emerge with # uNDv world. I had never seen that before. I suspect that some package that was emerged approximately 2 weeks ago has caused this change, but I still haven't found what has happened. If this were only on one of my Gentoo installs, I would suspect something with that computer. But when I update with -uNDv world, I do it on all 3 the same day. Now all 3 have the same identical problem. For what it is worth, I am the only one with access to these computers so I know it is nothing I have done. I must have missed some message or warning. Also, when I do the # emerge -uNDv world, and the emerge finishes, there are no errors reported in the Terminal - just a clean finish. I have seen some posts on the forums about people having problems with this: PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=save mail However, I don't use mail there - my entry in /etc/make.conf is: PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=save I wonder if this could be a portage issue - maybe I should downgrade to a previous portage version. This is all very strange to me. Thanks again. billyd Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.33-gentoo-r1 x86_64) = System uname: linux-2.6.33-gentoo-r1-x86_64-intel-r-_core-tm-_i7_cpu_9...@_2.67ghz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:15:03 + app-shells/bash: 4.1_p5 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r1, 3.1.2-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox:2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.33 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64 ~amd64 ACCEPT_LICENSE=* -...@eula CBUILD=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2 -march=core2 -msse4 -pipe CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=core2 -msse4 -pipe DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles FEATURES=assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 LINGUAS=en MAKEOPTS=-j5 PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT=/ PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage SYNC=rsync://192.168.1.15/gentoo-portage USE=X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 apm audiofile berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib cups cxx dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread exif ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glib glitz gnutls gpm hal iconv imlib ipv6 jpeg jpeg2k kde lcms libcaca libnotify libwww logrotate lzma mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl plasma png ppds python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl semantic-desktop session smp sndfile spell spl sql sqlite sse sse2 sse3 sse4 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcl tcpd tiff tk truetype type1 udev unicode usb vorbis webkit x264 xine xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zlib ALSA_CARDS=hda-intel ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS=adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol ELIBC=glibc INPUT_DEVICES=evdev keyboard mouse
[gentoo-user] Re: No longer getting elog messages
On 04/24/2010 05:40 AM, billyd wrote: Thanks for the reply, Alan. My hard drive space is adequate with at least 50% space available on the partition where /var lives. Can you post the output of df -i? Free space is only one consideration. The other is free inodes.
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