Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, XTerm, UXTerm have all died!!!!!

2012-10-24 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 10/24/2012 04:31 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I did an emerge -NuD world, it nearly finished, 2 or 3 big files to go, when I decided it was bed time. I killed the build and went to bed. This morning I can't now fire up Konsole, which I use as my terminal, XTerm or UXTerm. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole, XTerm, UXTerm have all died!!!!!

2012-10-24 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 10/24/2012 08:02 AM, Raffaele Belardi wrote: On 10/24/2012 04:31 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I did an emerge -NuD world, it nearly finished, 2 or 3 big files to go, when I decided it was bed time. I killed the build and went to bed. This morning I can't now fire up Konsole, which I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: genkernel 2 manual

2012-10-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:25:04 -0200, João Matos wrote: Well, It is being easy than I thought. I've compilled it and the boot is faster since initramfs is not needed anymore :). Whether or not you use an initramfs shouldn't make any real difference. However the genkernel initramfs has to do a

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel 2 manual

2012-10-24 Thread Michael Hampicke
Is there any tool that can scan my pc and help me out with the .conf or even generate one? I guess not. There are lots of options that I have no idea what they are for. I think this will be the fun part, but I think I can't get a running kernel before I optimize it, so I can do it gradually.

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel 2 manual

2012-10-24 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 24.10.2012 13:16, schrieb Michael Hampicke: Is there any tool that can scan my pc and help me out with the .conf or even generate one? I guess not. There are lots of options that I have no idea what they are for. I think this will be the fun part, but I think I can't get a running kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel 2 manual

2012-10-24 Thread João Matos
Well, thank you for your help. I had some problems, like no bootable system or no network, but I could solve it and things are working pretty well pretty. The compilation time is really small after I removed these modules, but I think it should be smaller: apparently the 'make make modules

[gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're using the EXT4 filesystem: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTIxNDQ This includes gentoo-sources. I hope the Gentoo developers are on top of this. In the meantime, avoid doing reboots after too short

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel 2 manual

2012-10-24 Thread Dale
João Matos wrote: Well, thank you for your help. I had some problems, like no bootable system or no network, but I could solve it and things are working pretty well pretty. The compilation time is really small after I removed these modules, but I think it should be smaller: apparently the

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel 2 manual

2012-10-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:47:55 -0200, João Matos wrote: The size is almost the same (3.3 MB), and I believe this is why my work until now was to remove non used hardware modules - the easy part. Modules don't significantly affect the size of the kernel, only builtins. A hand-prepared kernel may

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're using the EXT4 filesystem: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTIxNDQ This includes gentoo-sources. I hope the Gentoo developers are on top of this. In the meantime, avoid

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're using the EXT4 filesystem: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTIxNDQ This includes gentoo-sources. I hope the Gentoo developers

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread Markos Chandras
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're using the EXT4 filesystem: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTIxNDQ This includes gentoo-sources. I hope the Gentoo developers

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread covici
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're using the EXT4 filesystem: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTIxNDQ This includes gentoo-sources. I hope the Gentoo developers are on

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Packages webpage - empty page

2012-10-24 Thread Joseph
When try to access: http://packages.gentoo.org/ I get: Empty Page! If you expected a real website instead something must be wrong. :-( Where did it go? -- Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Packages webpage - empty page

2012-10-24 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:01:17 -0600 schrieb Joseph syscon...@gmail.com: When try to access: http://packages.gentoo.org/ I get: Empty Page! If you expected a real website instead something must be wrong. :-( Where did it go? I'd like to know, too. For the past few days the site simply

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Packages webpage - empty page

2012-10-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: When try to access: http://packages.gentoo.org/ I get: Empty Page! If you expected a real website instead something must be wrong. :-( Where did it go? IIRC there was a server crash about a week ago, affecting many gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 04:54:39PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're using the EXT4 filesystem: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTIxNDQ This includes gentoo-sources. I hope the Gentoo developers are

[gentoo-user] tun tap problem

2012-10-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Anyone else getting no carrier when trying to set up a network bridge with TUN/TAP? I use that for KVM, and it doesn't work since last reboot. I saw the issue mentioned on forums.gentoo.org, no solution. Downgrading openrc didn't help as well. Any help available? Thanks, Stefan

[gentoo-user] Network perf tool

2012-10-24 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, this is not exactly an Gentoo question - but i don't now where to ask otherwise. Is there a tool for (Gentoo-)Linux to do network performance tests as defined in RFC 2544 ? This will run on an Gentoo host having at least 2 network interfaces to be connected to the device under test.

Re: [gentoo-user] tun tap problem

2012-10-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-10-24 20:34, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Anyone else getting no carrier when trying to set up a network bridge with TUN/TAP? I use that for KVM, and it doesn't work since last reboot. I saw the issue mentioned on forums.gentoo.org, no solution. Downgrading openrc didn't help as

[gentoo-user] rescuing lvm data

2012-10-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
greetings ... the server in my basement is driving me nuts ... and I start making mistakes ... sigh It had a LVM volume group ... consisting of two PVs ... The question in short: if I only have one PV at hand, which contains all the PEs of a given LV ... (how) am I able to extract/export/read

Re: [gentoo-user] rescuing lvm data

2012-10-24 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 24.10.2012 22:08, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: greetings ... the server in my basement is driving me nuts ... and I start making mistakes ... sigh It had a LVM volume group ... consisting of two PVs ... The question in short: if I only have one PV at hand, which contains all

Re: [gentoo-user] rescuing lvm data

2012-10-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 24.10.2012 22:23, schrieb Florian Philipp: First things first: If you can, make a disk dump of every affected HDD or at least back up the metadata with vgcfgbackup. Have you tried activating the volume group with --partial (see `man lvm`). Something along the lines of `lvchange --partial

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread john
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:10:24 -0500 Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 04:54:39PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're using the EXT4 filesystem:

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread mindrunner
affected kernel versions are masked now! On 10/25/2012 12:36 AM, john wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:10:24 -0500 Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 04:54:39PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption

Re: [gentoo-user] tun tap problem

2012-10-24 Thread mindrunner
yeah, saw this problem on my openvpn server today. i made upgrades a few days ago. i removed symlink to net.tap0 and removed tap0 from br0. now server is booting correctly, but openvpn is not working... no time to investigate further now. maybe in a few days. On 10/24/2012 08:34 PM, Stefan G.

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're using the EXT4 filesystem: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTIxNDQ This includes gentoo-sources. I hope the Gentoo developers

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread Kerin Millar
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@gmail.com wrote: Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're using the EXT4 filesystem: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTIxNDQ This includes gentoo-sources. I

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel 2 manual

2012-10-24 Thread Jackson
On 10/23/2012 10:02 PM, João Matos wrote: Hi list. Just for curiosity, what is the size of your kernel? Mine is 3.4 MB. Thank you, -- João de Matos Linux User #461527 2.7 MB ,initramfs 1.5 MB

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@gmail.com wrote: Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're using the EXT4 filesystem:

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@gmail.com wrote: Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're using the EXT4 filesystem:

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread Kerin Millar
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Kerin Millarkerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@gmail.com wrote: Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're using the EXT4

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.ukwrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Kerin Millarkerfra...@fastmail.co.**ukkerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Nikos

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: [snip] On my part, I will continue to be concerned until the investigation has fully run its course. That is, of course, your prerogative. I just posted a comment from someone that (IMHO) actually knows what he's

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 25/10/12 06:04, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: [snip] On my part, I will continue to be concerned until the investigation has fully run its course. That is, of course, your prerogative. I just posted a comment from