Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: And I could play the ancient spacewars game once again. Star Control? Wing Commander? hmm :) No, those came later. It's a clone of the probably very first computer action game:

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel make files disappear

2011-07-29 Thread Daniel Hilst Selli
Em 28-07-2011 12:05, Alan McKinnon escreveu: On Thursday 28 July 2011 11:53:04 Daniel Hilst Selli did opine thusly: I have some old kernel trees here.. But there is no Makefiles for some of them. I did not remove the Makefiles. There is anyone having the same problem? Whats happen? I emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel make files disappear

2011-07-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday, 29 July 2011 07:58:13 Daniel Hilst Selli did opine thusly: Em 28-07-2011 12:05, Alan McKinnon escreveu: On Thursday 28 July 2011 11:53:04 Daniel Hilst Selli did opine thusly: I have some old kernel trees here.. But there is no Makefiles for some of them. I did not remove the

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel make files disappear

2011-07-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, 29 July 2011 07:58:13 Daniel Hilst Selli did opine thusly: Thanks for replying, so this might be the case output - http://sprunge.us/YMAM Please don't use images on websites like that for command output,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-29 Thread YoYo Siska
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 03:25:48PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On my machine, it took this: root@fireball / # genlop -t libreoffice  * app-office/libreoffice     Thu Jul 28 12:33:11 2011 app-office/libreoffice-3.3.1       merge time: 1 hour, 9 minutes and 33 seconds.

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel make files disappear

2011-07-29 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Friday 29 July 2011 13:31:39 Alan McKinnon wrote: Can this be done after a emerge --depclean, while booted on some newly emerged kernel? --depclean is unlikely to do that as kernel sources almost always end up in world. It will behave different if you emerge the sources with -1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: But if you emerge something and it has to be fetched first, is that counted in the time genlop shows or not? That is the question. I don't think it is counted but I'm not sure. That's what I thought, too, but then I simply tried to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IRC active time?

2011-07-29 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday 28 July 2011 22:49:10 Alan McKinnon wrote: Q: Holy shit, I can't believe you just sent that mail to ALL users. Legal will be all over us now having hissy fits. Have you got a god complex or something A: [beams with genuine pride] why, thank you! I'd love to see a copy of

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-29 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday 28 July 2011 18:37:24 Dale wrote: Pardon me. My brain passed gas here. lol Could it be that my drives file system has ran out of inodes or whatever they are called? That may explain why I can't copy anything to it but it works fine as far as reading goes. Thoughts? How do I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-29 Thread Mick
On Friday 29 Jul 2011 13:07:35 YoYo Siska wrote: Here is mine: Wed May 25 10:07:18 2011 app-office/libreoffice-3.3.2 merge time: 34 minutes and 10 seconds. On my Intel Core i7 920 with 12GB of RAM using tmpfs. :) Do those merge times include download time?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IRC active time?

2011-07-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 21:41, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday 28 July 2011 22:49:10 Alan McKinnon wrote: Q: Holy shit, I can't believe you just sent that mail to ALL users. Legal will be all over us now having hissy fits. Have you got a god complex or something A:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IRC active time?

2011-07-29 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 03:33, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/27/2011 10:19 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:23 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: /me wonders where you are going with this... Downhill fast, probably :)  Back in the day before cellphones, you needed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-29 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Friday 29 Jul 2011 13:07:35 YoYo Siska wrote: Here is mine: Wed May 25 10:07:18 2011 app-office/libreoffice-3.3.2 merge time: 34 minutes and 10 seconds. On my Intel Core i7 920 with 12GB of RAM using tmpfs. :) Do those merge times include download time? I

[gentoo-user] Re: Botched Raid1 install

2011-07-29 Thread James
Daniel Frey djqfrey at gmail.com writes: fdisk does have a partition/drive limit of ~2.2TB, but this drive should still work with it. The only other option is GPT, but I don't think grub boots from that yet (unless you use grub2 with patches?) The failed install used media from March, 2011.

[gentoo-user] Re: Botched Raid1 install

2011-07-29 Thread James
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes: grub in Gentoo includes a GPT patch: /usr/portage/sys-boot/grub/files/grub-0.97-gpt.patch I'm using GPT and grub-0.97-r10 and it works. Is this true for install-amd64-minimal-20110714.iso ??? My install media of choice now. If not then

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Botched Raid1 install

2011-07-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:23 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes: I also intend to use ext4 for all 3 partitions, boot,root,swap; unless there exist a strong, compelling reason to use ext-2 for the boot partition ??? ease of recovery ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Botched Raid1 install

2011-07-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday, 29 July 2011 13:30:18 Michael Mol did opine thusly: On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:23 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes: I also intend to use ext4 for all 3 partitions, boot,root,swap; unless there exist a strong,

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-29 Thread BRM
From: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:41 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced? On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed this today: The following mask changes are

[gentoo-user] SSDs, swap, caching, other unusual uses

2011-07-29 Thread Michael Mol
Something that's been tickling my brain for a couple years now, and you guys are probably the right ones to ask. I haven't dropped coin for an SSD (yet), but I was wondering about uses for them beyond using them for / or /home. 1) What about sitting swap (partition, file, whatever) on the SSD?

[gentoo-user] Re: Botched Raid1 install

2011-07-29 Thread James
Michael Mol mikemol at gmail.com writes: I also intend to use ext4 for all 3 partitions, boot,root,swap; I gather that it's now possible to put your swap in a swap file on a filesystem, as opposed to giving it its own partition, but...why? Sorry, only for boot and root; definitely not

[gentoo-user] Netatalk 2.2 for Gentoo?

2011-07-29 Thread Ralph Seichter
Hi list, as a Mac user who recently began migrating machines to OS X Lion, I am wondering if some kind soul is already working on net-fs/netatalk 2.2.0 for Gentoo? The existing version 2.1.5 does not support AFP 3.3, which is required by Lion's modified Time Machine implementation. -Ralph

[gentoo-user] Re: Netatalk 2.2 for Gentoo?

2011-07-29 Thread Hartmut Figge
Ralph Seichter: as a Mac user who recently began migrating machines to OS X Lion, I am wondering if some kind soul is already working on net-fs/netatalk 2.2.0 for Gentoo? https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353177 Hartmut -- Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/ Von Usern fuer

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-29 Thread Dale
BRM wrote: From: Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:41 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced? On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed this today: The following

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-29 Thread Dale
Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 28 July 2011 18:37:24 Dale wrote: Pardon me. My brain passed gas here. lol Could it be that my drives file system has ran out of inodes or whatever they are called? That may explain why I can't copy anything to it but it works fine as far as reading

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-29 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: But if you emerge something and it has to be fetched first, is that counted in the time genlop shows or not? That is the question. I don't think it is counted but I'm not sure. That's what

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-29 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Some of the widget thingys. What's with the big eyeballs anyway? They watch :) No, there's no other purpose. I have at least one instance of XEyes on my desktop since I found this little application in 1992 when I first started using a Sun

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 28 July 2011 18:37:24 Dale wrote: Pardon me.  My brain passed gas here.  lol  Could it be that my drives file system has ran out of inodes or whatever they are called?  That may explain why

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-29 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: It worked fine and it was there with 0 bytes. Weird. I sort of gave up on this drive. I had a very kind soul to send me a video card when I did this build. He also sent me a 250Gb drive. I copied all I

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Am 30.07.2011 01:06, schrieb Dale: Michael Mol wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: While I am at it, what is the best file system for videos? That is the biggest thing I use that drive for. I had a LOT of NCIS, CSI and other shows that are now gone.

[gentoo-user] r8169 unable to apply firmware patch

2011-07-29 Thread Grant
My laptop's Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller uses the r8169 driver. On kernel 2.6.36 it works fine, but on 2.6.38 and 2.6.39 it doesn't work and continuously outputs eth0: unable to apply firmware patch to dmesg. I found this workaround:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Netatalk 2.2 for Gentoo?

2011-07-29 Thread Manuel McLure
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Hartmut Figge h.fi...@gmx.de wrote: Ralph Seichter: as a Mac user who recently began migrating machines to OS X Lion, I am wondering if some kind soul is already working on net-fs/netatalk 2.2.0 for Gentoo? https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353177

Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

2011-07-29 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Am 30.07.2011 01:06, schrieb Dale: I'm just curious as to how much longer dd is going to take. I wish it has some sort of a progress bar or something. :/ Find the PID of the dd process with ps ax | grep [d]d or somethhing, then kill -USR1pid. This will dd

[gentoo-user] RAID-1 install

2011-07-29 Thread james
Ok so my first issue is the installation media and a lack of tools for GPT (GUID Partition Table). On the minimal.iso [1] I see in sbin: cfdisk fdisk mac-fdisk pmac-fdisk sfdisk Perhaps another installation media that makes setting up the identical (raid) drives that have the 4K block