Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems [AGAIN]

2009-06-06 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
With this configuration I consider the problem as solved. I think this was too early ... still had some freezes in the last days :-( Started new thread on this topic with other details Greetings Alex

[gentoo-user] Kernel freezes

2009-06-06 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! This week I've tried to setup a home-server, but the system is highly instable. The first symptoms were lots of page allocation errors, which disappeared after setting the internal memory allocator from SLUB to SLAB and increasing the min_free_kbytes in /proc/sys/vm from 8MB to 20MB.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel freezes

2009-06-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 06 Juni 2009, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi there! This week I've tried to setup a home-server, but the system is highly instable. The first symptoms were lots of page allocation errors, which disappeared after setting the internal memory allocator from SLUB to SLAB and increasing

[gentoo-user] Kaffeine and nettraffic

2009-06-06 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, When using Kaffeine as dbv-t viewer while there is traffic on the ethernet I get anything from masssive distortion to freezes of single channels (which can be recovered by switch back and forth to another channel). I am wondering, what the conjunction is between my ethernet traffic and my

Re: [gentoo-user] Kaffeine and nettraffic

2009-06-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 06 Juni 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, When using Kaffeine as dbv-t viewer while there is traffic on the ethernet I get anything from masssive distortion to freezes of single channels (which can be recovered by switch back and forth to another channel). I am wondering,

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel freezes

2009-06-06 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Samstag 06 Juni 2009 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: *sigh* Ok, just for starters - all AMD cpus of the Athlon64 architecture have a builtin agpgart. This agpgart functions also as an iommu. This is a great hack to have a hardware iommu . Intel does not have this, so they rely on software.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel freezes

2009-06-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 06 Juni 2009, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Am Samstag 06 Juni 2009 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: *sigh* Ok, just for starters - all AMD cpus of the Athlon64 architecture have a builtin agpgart. This agpgart functions also as an iommu. This is a great hack to have a hardware iommu .

[gentoo-user] can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-06 Thread William Kenworthy
After each update, these appear, and for libusb, the number slowly increases (up to 185 now). so far I have done the suggested emerge @preserved-rebuild, plus tried rebuilding every package mentioned but after building, there is no change ... !!! existing preserved libs: package:

Re: [gentoo-user] Kaffeine and nettraffic

2009-06-06 Thread meino . cramer
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [09-06-06 12:09]: On Samstag 06 Juni 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, When using Kaffeine as dbv-t viewer while there is traffic on the ethernet I get anything from masssive distortion to freezes of single channels (which can be

Re: [gentoo-user] Kaffeine and nettraffic

2009-06-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 06 Juni 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [09-06-06 12:09]: On Samstag 06 Juni 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, When using Kaffeine as dbv-t viewer while there is traffic on the ethernet I get anything from masssive

Re: [gentoo-user] Kaffeine and nettraffic

2009-06-06 Thread meino . cramer
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [09-06-06 14:34]: On Samstag 06 Juni 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [09-06-06 12:09]: On Samstag 06 Juni 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, When using Kaffeine as dbv-t viewer

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel freezes

2009-06-06 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Samstag 06 Juni 2009 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: If the problem persists, start testing your hardware. How? I don't have access to special test equipment to test hardware. This is the only AM2(+) board and the only AM2 CPU I have. The RAM is also unique to this machine. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Kaffeine and nettraffic

2009-06-06 Thread meino . cramer
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [09-06-06 15:34]: On Samstag 06 Juni 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [09-06-06 14:34]: On Samstag 06 Juni 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 halts - how to catch a reason?

2009-06-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Andrew Gaydenko writes: Last week or two (I mostly use Gnome and can not say more precisely) after KDE4 starting session apps starts also, as well as bg and panels. But then I get black screen (during this KDE4 start process), and Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does nothing. The only way I have in hand

Re: [gentoo-user] more tripleE SSD fs controversy

2009-06-06 Thread Robert Bridge
Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, More and more I'm coming across references to cheap ssds in the EEEs. http://www.hohndel.org/communitymatters/eeepc/best-filesystem-choice-for-the-eeepc/ recommends ext2. Which I found surprising, but the guy seems knowlegeable. Here is Theodore T'so: # mke2fs

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 halts - how to catch a reason?

2009-06-06 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Saturday 06 June 2009 18:07:53 Alex Schuster wrote: Andrew Gaydenko writes: Last week or two (I mostly use Gnome and can not say more precisely) after KDE4 starting session apps starts also, as well as bg and panels. But then I get black screen (during this KDE4 start process), and

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: OK, a CD that fails in the car and locked up under the Gentoo readcd -c2scan passes -c2scan under Cygwin, although I still see some complaints about part of the SCSI command set. NOTE: This is the same machine that runs Gentoo dual-booted into XP and

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 halts - how to catch a reason?

2009-06-06 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Saturday 06 June 2009 18:07:53 Alex Schuster wrote: Alt-SysRq-R will allow you to switch to a text console with Ctrl-Alt-Fn. Wonko Unfortunately didn't help - still black screen during switching attempts.

[gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-06 Thread walt
William Kenworthy wrote: After each update, these appear, and for libusb, the number slowly increases (up to 185 now). so far I have done the suggested emerge @preserved-rebuild, plus tried rebuilding every package mentioned but after building, there is no change ... !!! existing preserved

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 06 June 2009 18:23:26 walt wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: After each update, these appear, and for libusb, the number slowly increases (up to 185 now). so far I have done the suggested emerge @preserved-rebuild, plus tried rebuilding every package mentioned but after

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: eina from e17 overlay

2009-06-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 31 May 2009 23:09:07 Alan McKinnon wrote: test -z /usr/lib64/eina/mp/ || /bin/mkdir -p /var/tmp/portage/dev- libs/eina-/image//usr/lib64/eina/mp/ /bin/sh ../../../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c eina_chained_mempool.la '/var/tmp/portage/dev-

Re: [gentoo-user] more tripleE SSD fs controversy

2009-06-06 Thread Maxim Wexler
ext2 is normally recommended for cheap SSDs such as are in the EEE because it is a non-journalled FS, which is kind of important when your disk has severely limited write life. It's not just the write life I'm worried about; it's booting into a system whose partitions no longer line up, as

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Joerg Schillingjoerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP So it works on another OS. Please make a bugreport against the Linux kernel in case you cannot reproduce this result on Linux on the same hardware and with

[gentoo-user] hal .fdi rules for usb stick

2009-06-06 Thread Raul Gonzales
Hi, I'm trying to get my USB stick mounted at some other place than /media/VOLUME-LABEL. For the beginning it would be enough to mount it to /media/usbstick. I've created my own fdi rule: #cat /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-usb-mount.fdi ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?

[gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-06 Thread walt
Alan McKinnon wrote: ... You will notice that after running emerge @preserved-rebuild, revdep-rebuild almost invariably returns null results... I know I've used the @preserved-rebuild target in the past, but now: #emerge @preserved-rebuild !!! '@preserved-rebuild' is not a valid package

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 06 June 2009 23:10:40 walt wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: ... You will notice that after running emerge @preserved-rebuild, revdep-rebuild almost invariably returns null results... I know I've used the @preserved-rebuild target in the past, but now: #emerge @preserved-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-06 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 06 June 2009 23:10:40 walt wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: ... You will notice that after running emerge @preserved-rebuild, revdep-rebuild almost invariably returns null results... I know I've used the @preserved-rebuild target in the past, but

Re: [gentoo-user] hal .fdi rules for usb stick

2009-06-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:15:55 +0200, Raul Gonzales wrote: Also is there a way how to mount usb stick to some completely different location, like: /home/user/usbstick ? Add it to /etc/fstab. If a device is listed there, most automounters will use the information given there instead of making up

Re: [gentoo-user] more tripleE SSD fs controversy

2009-06-06 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 02:41:33PM -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote hohndel doesn't specify any options, just says, use ext2. What does the group recommend? This is in the context of cheap SSD diask drives. They behave differently from hard disks, so everything you know is wrong if you try stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-06 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 19:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 06 June 2009 18:23:26 walt wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: After each update, these appear, and for libusb, the number slowly increases (up to 185 now). so far I have done the suggested emerge @preserved-rebuild, plus

[gentoo-user] Re: more tripleE SSD fs controversy

2009-06-06 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Walter Dnes wrote: * nodiratime says not to update directory inodes when accessed. You do need to specify it, because it is not the default * noatime says not to update file inodes when accessed. You do need to specify it, because it is