Re: [gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4

2011-04-11 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 09:17, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: On 4/9/2011 4:57 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 17:02:14 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: If you're using PVSCSI, go into SCSI  RAID, then SCSI Low Level Driver, then select VMware PVSCSI as built-in, not module.

Re: [gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4

2011-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:17:12 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: Do you know which one workstation uses? AFAICT there's no option to choose which controller is presented to the guest. You get to choose when you create the VM. Only in ESX/vSphere, not for Workstation. At least not yet.

[gentoo-user] are cgroups automatic ?

2011-04-11 Thread Philip Webb
I have enabled cgroups in kernel 2.6.38 , but am not sure how they work. There's nothing in the docs in /usr/src/linux a search via 'make menuconfig' shows nothing suggestive. Does the kernel automatically set them up once they're enabled or does the user have to do something to define them ? --

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disk recommendations?

2011-04-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 04/10/2011 03:50:59 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: I read about again and again is a RAID user who loses 1 drive and then, while in the process of fixing the RAID, loses a second drive. Most of us (myself

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel modules not autoloading with 2.6.38-gentoo-r1

2011-04-11 Thread du yang
On Monday 04/11/11 12:57:34 CST, James Wall wrote: Hi all, Has anyone run into an issue where the kernel is not detecting devices? The issue does not show up in 2.6.37 on amd64 testing branch. I just got done re-emerging world to rule out any hidden surprises. Any ideas? TIA, James Wall

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel modules not autoloading with 2.6.38-gentoo-r1

2011-04-11 Thread James Wall
On Apr 11, 2011 3:42 AM, du yang duyang@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 04/11/11 12:57:34 CST, James Wall wrote: Hi all, Has anyone run into an issue where the kernel is not detecting devices? The issue does not show up in 2.6.37 on amd64 testing branch. I just got done re-emerging world

Re: [gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4

2011-04-11 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 4/11/2011 3:43 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:17:12 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: Do you know which one workstation uses? AFAICT there's no option to choose which controller is presented to the guest. You get to choose when you create the VM. Only in ESX/vSphere,

Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.

2011-04-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 11 April 2011 01:46:44 Mark Shields wrote: That response wasn't really meant for you, your reply just happened to be the one I clicked reply on. What? Just happened? Don't you think before you post? -- Rgds Peter

[gentoo-user] Raid1 fstab

2011-04-11 Thread James
Hello, background I mostly followed these guides to build a raid1 workstation using (2) 2T seagate drives: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Software_RAID_Install http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/Software Since I'm just using a

Re: [gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4

2011-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:30:42 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: There's an option to choose the SCSI controller in the new VM wizard. This is in WS 6.5, I don't have 7, and has been there in previous releases. But that dialog does not give you the option to use the VMWare Paravirtual

[gentoo-user] Re: Raid1 fstab

2011-04-11 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: /dev/sdb1 /usr/local/video2 ext4defaults0 1 oops, ignore this line

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid1 fstab

2011-04-11 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Monday 11 April 2011 13:59:04 James wrote: Hello, background I mostly followed these guides to build a raid1 workstation using (2) 2T seagate drives: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Software_RAID_Install

[gentoo-user] Re: Raid1 fstab

2011-04-11 Thread James
Joost Roeleveld joost at antarean.org writes: /dev/sdb1 /usr/local/video2 ext4defaults0 1 This line is a typo, i.e. already deleted. I don't use an initrd and my OS is on a RAID1-partition. Eg. that isn't necessary. Good to know. About your /etc/fstab, I have some

[gentoo-user] are cgroups automatic ?

2011-04-11 Thread Philip Webb
I have enabled cgroups in kernel 2.6.38 , but am not sure how they work. There's nothing in the docs in /usr/src/linux a search via 'make menuconfig' shows nothing suggestive. Does the kernel automatically set them up once they're enabled or does the user have to do something to define them ? --

Re: [gentoo-user] are cgroups automatic ?

2011-04-11 Thread Bill Longman
On 04/11/2011 08:13 AM, Philip Webb wrote: I have enabled cgroups in kernel 2.6.38 , but am not sure how they work. There's nothing in the docs in /usr/src/linux a search via 'make menuconfig' shows nothing suggestive. Does the kernel automatically set them up once they're enabled or does

Re: [gentoo-user] are cgroups automatic ?

2011-04-11 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 11.04.2011 17:13, schrieb Philip Webb: I have enabled cgroups in kernel 2.6.38 , but am not sure how they work. There's nothing in the docs in /usr/src/linux a search via 'make menuconfig' shows nothing suggestive. Does the kernel automatically set them up once they're enabled or does

[gentoo-user] Gentoo/FBSD

2011-04-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
Has anyone successfully set up a Gentoo/FBSD system in the somewhat-recent past? I'd like to do some testing, but all of the install docs are out of date. I'd appreciate a thirty-second overview of how you did it.

Re: [gentoo-user] are cgroups automatic ?

2011-04-11 Thread dong l
You can dmesg|grep cgroup to see it works.. Sounds like rquiss@Karata-Laptop ~ $ dmesg|grep cgroup Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset Initializing cgroup subsys cpu allocated 41943040 bytes of page_cgroup please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups Initializing cgroup

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disk recommendations?

2011-04-11 Thread pk
On 2011-04-10 09:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: what are the comparative virtues of the Samsung disks? Not sure if you know about this (only affects F4 Ecogreen 2TB): http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks Best regards Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid1 fstab

2011-04-11 Thread Thanasis
on 04/11/2011 04:59 PM James wrote the following: snip... Both drives are identical (edited to fit gmane): Disk identifier: 0xab83344a Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 526335 262144 fd Lraid auto /dev/sda2 52633610573823

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disk recommendations?

2011-04-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 11 April 2011 17:51:18 pk wrote: On 2011-04-10 09:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: what are the comparative virtues of the Samsung disks? Not sure if you know about this (only affects F4 Ecogreen 2TB): http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks Interesting.

[gentoo-user] Re: Raid1 fstab

2011-04-11 Thread James
Thanasis thanasis at asyr.hopto.org writes: I guess you have made md2 a RAID0 for swap, right (post the output of: cat /proc/mdstat)? nope, swap is raid1 I think you don't need to put swap on RAID0. I agree. Everything I read did say may swap on raid 1 so if a disk fails, your swap still

[gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-11 Thread James
Hello, Following the guides (previous post) I'm not able to set up grub: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID grub find /boot/grub/stage1 does not work, even though the stage one file is there grub.conf look like the example in

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disk recommendations?

2011-04-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Hello list, I've seen some discussion of hard disks on this list recently, but I didn't notice any reference to Samsung Spinpoint F3 disks. I have two of these in my workstation; if I were thinking of adding 3

Re: [gentoo-user] are cgroups automatic ?

2011-04-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I have enabled cgroups in kernel 2.6.38 , but am not sure how they work. There's nothing in the docs in  /usr/src/linux a search via 'make menuconfig' shows nothing suggestive. Does the kernel automatically set them up

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-11 Thread Mick
On Monday 11 April 2011 19:12:36 James wrote: Hello, Following the guides (previous post) I'm not able to set up grub: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID grub find /boot/grub/stage1 does not work, even though the

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:12:36 + (UTC), James wrote: grub find /boot/grub/stage1 does not work, even though the stage one file is there I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions. If /boot is on a separate partition, you should be using find /grub/stage1 -- Neil Bothwick Religious

[gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-11 Thread Carlos Sura
Hello mates, I cannot use LibreOffice, when I try as root, got this message: *GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection-initialization_error == NULL)* * * I have tried: revdep-rebuild and re emerging: glibc glibmm # revdep-rebuild * Configuring search

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:44:40 -0600, Carlos Sura wrote: I cannot use LibreOffice, when I try as root, got this message: *GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection-initialization_error == NULL)* Are you running it from a root desktop, or from a root

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-11 Thread Carlos Sura
On 11 April 2011 18:05, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:44:40 -0600, Carlos Sura wrote: I cannot use LibreOffice, when I try as root, got this message: *GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection-initialization_error

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-11 Thread Mark Shields
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:12:36 + (UTC), James wrote: grub find /boot/grub/stage1 does not work, even though the stage one file is there I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions. If /boot is on a separate

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-11 Thread Philip Webb
110411 Carlos Sura wrote: I cannot use LibreOffice, when I try as root, got this message: *GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection-initialization_error == NULL)* I have tried: revdep-rebuild and re emerging: glibc glibmm First usually best bet,

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-11 Thread Carlos Sura
On 11 April 2011 22:23, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 110411 Carlos Sura wrote: I cannot use LibreOffice, when I try as root, got this message: *GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection-initialization_error == NULL)* I have tried:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Raid1 fstab

2011-04-11 Thread Stroller
On 11/4/2011, at 3:38pm, James wrote: ... I would suggest using a LABEL for that mountpoint to avoid any possible issues. I made noise a while back about LABELS. Lots of comments, but nothing clear to follow in the docs or a wiki or a how to. I confused disklables and file system labels

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-11 Thread Stroller
On 11/4/2011, at 9:18pm, Mick wrote: ... I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions. (is this a problem? (sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10} James, if I'm not wrong (legacy) sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10 does not have drivers for ext4. Not sure if there's a patch for it, or if grub2 can boot from ext4. Use