Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? - what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-25 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 1:38 AM, G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com wrote: [ snip ] From what has been happening with the systemd stuff, I do not see what advantages it really offers over the SysV scheme and its successors like OpenRC. Someone enlighten me please? I wrote the following some

[gentoo-user] NFS Can't allocate memory

2012-12-25 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
I'm running a nfs server on my machine, the server starts fine without any problems, but when I try mount localhost:/path/to/share /mountpoint I get mount.nfs: cannot allocate memory and the funniest part is the system has lot's of free memory. That's for nfsv4, if I try vers=3 option I get

[gentoo-user] Re: Ram Problem!

2012-12-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/12/12 17:05, Teodor Spæren wrote: It got 223mhz of clocking speed and 116mb ram. I have added 512mb of swap since I knew the ram was going to be a problem. I would forget about it. It was possible in the days of GCC 3 and 2.95. Unless you don't care that emerging a complete system will

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? - what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-25 Thread G.Wolfe Woodbury
On 12/25/2012 03:01 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 1:38 AM, G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com wrote: [ snip ] From what has been happening with the systemd stuff, I do not see what advantages it really offers over the SysV scheme and its successors like OpenRC.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:58:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Are there any other cases, apart from emotional attachment based on inertia, where a separate / and /usr are desirable? As I see it, there is only the system, and it is an atomic unit. Yes, you need to run an encrypted root but don't

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-24, Bruce Hill wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 05:06:41PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: Now, also, from my understanding, this was already the case for some time (maybe even years?). And that's why I've asked for more details. So, if the udev you use is OK with no initrd, what is

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 23.12.2012 20:23, schrieb fe...@crowfix.com: I have since had some time to explore this and find it related to the kernel; 3.6.10 works fine, while 3.7.1 fails. If I reset during the 3.7.1 boot while it is spewing its error messages, but before the kernel ultimately panics, I can reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 02:10:28PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: No, actually it doesn't. It just has the same kind of very generic claim that has been repeated several times in this thread (which is why? because it won't work) and links to an article that explains why some udev rules would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 08:38:30PM -0600, Dale wrote: Bruce Hill wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 06:29:07PM -0600, »Q« wrote: On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:04:13 -0600 Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: Gentoo had mkinitrd once upon a time, but it's now in attic. Somewhere,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:56:52AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: When you're in charge of over 100 servers as the back-end of a multinational company that has a revenue in excess of 10 million USD per day, even a temporary outage means the CIO, COO, and CEO breathing down your neck. Who is in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? - what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-25 Thread Michael Mol
On Dec 25, 2012 3:04 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 1:38 AM, G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com wrote: [ snip ] From what has been happening with the systemd stuff, I do not see what advantages it really offers over the SysV scheme and its

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Michael Mol
On Dec 25, 2012 8:07 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:56:52AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: When you're in charge of over 100 servers as the back-end of a multinational company that has a revenue in excess of 10 million USD per day, even a

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-25, Bruce Hill wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 02:10:28PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: No, actually it doesn't. It just has the same kind of very generic claim that has been repeated several times in this thread (which is why? because it won't work) and links to an article that

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? - what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-25 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-25, Michael Mol wrote: Now, question: could I not create a /usr service and make things dependent on /usr come after it's been mounted? That seems the single, core missing piece. This suffices for /usr on regular partitions. The problem is with more complex stuff which, I assume

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? - what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-25 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: [ snip ] * Really simple service unit files: The service unit files are really small, really simple, really easy to understand/modify. Compare the 9 lines of sshd.service: $ cat /etc/systemd/system/sshd.service

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 08:53:33AM -0800, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:07:04AM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: emerge -av app-text/wgetpaste wgetpaste /path/to/3.6/.config /path/to/3.7/.config 3.6.10 .config -- http://bpaste.net/show/66307/ 3.7.1 .config --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 25, 2012 8:07 PM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:56:52AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: When you're in charge of over 100 servers as the back-end of a multinational company that has a revenue in excess of 10 million USD per day, even a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ram Problem!

2012-12-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 25, 2012 4:14 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 24/12/12 17:05, Teodor Spæren wrote: It got 223mhz of clocking speed and 116mb ram. I have added 512mb of swap since I knew the ram was going to be a problem. I would forget about it. It was possible in the days of GCC

[gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Merry Christmas to all. Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files are around 1GB. The drive holds only static video files that get written once and don't change or get erased. No MythTV stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread Todd Goodman
* Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net [121225 07:16]: Am 23.12.2012 20:23, schrieb fe...@crowfix.com: I have since had some time to explore this and find it related to the kernel; 3.6.10 works fine, while 3.7.1 fails. If I reset during the 3.7.1 boot while it is spewing its error

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Dale
Bruce Hill wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 08:38:30PM -0600, Dale wrote: Bruce Hill wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 06:29:07PM -0600, »Q« wrote: On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:04:13 -0600 Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: Gentoo had mkinitrd once upon a time, but it's now in attic.

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 08:56:56AM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: We're on the road, getting ready to pack, and not in a good position to do much on this issue atm. Nevertheless, a most unexpected Christmas present! In progress, and thank you. My dilemna certainly isn't urgent, since 3.6.10 still

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Merry Christmas to all. Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files are around 1GB. The drive holds only static video

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Dale
Nuno J. Silva wrote: On 2012-12-25, Bruce Hill wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 02:10:28PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: No, actually it doesn't. It just has the same kind of very generic claim that has been repeated several times in this thread (which is why? because it won't work) and links to

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:58:54AM -0500, Todd Goodman wrote: A me too on the problem the original poster is seeing. I too am seeing this on a server I have. 3.7.0 and 3.7.1 both don't work but 3.6.10 works fine. I'm using the sata_mv driver with a SuperMicro (two actually) cards with

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 25.12.2012 16:41, schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi, Merry Christmas to all. Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files are around 1GB. The drive holds only static video files that get written

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Todd Goodman
* Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com [121224 21:17]: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 04:54:08PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:29 PM, »Q« boxc...@gmx.net wrote: On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:04:13 -0600 Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: Gentoo had

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP With the previous local drive I used ext3 and have had no problems. I'm just wondering if there's a better choice why. SNIP For your usage, I

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-25, Dale wrote: Nuno J. Silva wrote: On 2012-12-25, Bruce Hill wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 02:10:28PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: No, actually it doesn't. It just has the same kind of very generic claim that has been repeated several times in this thread (which is why?

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: Am 25.12.2012 16:41, schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi, Merry Christmas to all. Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files are around 1GB. The drive holds only static video

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/25/2012 12:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP With the previous local drive I used ext3 and have had no problems. I'm just wondering if there's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Implicit udev dependancy in Gentoo? and workaround.

2012-12-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 11:51:20AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote It does a few other things ... attached it here as its not that long. Thanks. The mdev setup has always required CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y. The other stuff (that udev-mount does) appears to be similar to what mdev does at bootup, as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Dale
Nuno J. Silva wrote: On 2012-12-25, Dale wrote: Quoting from Gentoo news item: Which was exactly the thing I was commenting on above, ok. [...] Now are you saying the Gentoo devs are lying to us? Careful now. Could end up on a slippery slope and bump your head. That says anything BEFORE

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Dale
Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 12/25/2012 12:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP With the previous local drive I used ext3 and have had no problems. I'm just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? - what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-25 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 25, 2012 3:04 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 1:38 AM, G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com wrote: [ snip ] From what has been happening with the systemd stuff, I do not see

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? - what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-25 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: [ snip ] * Really simple service unit files: The service unit files are really small, really simple, really easy to understand/modify. Compare

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 12/25/2012 12:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP With the previous local

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-25, Dale wrote: Nuno J. Silva wrote: On 2012-12-25, Dale wrote: [...] I might add, I have ALWAYS had a separate /usr. Darn near a decade now. It has never failed to boot because /usr was on a separate partition. NOT ONCE. Now I am told it is going to fail. Go figure. Go try

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 25.12.2012 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 12/25/2012 12:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, Mark Knecht

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 25.12.2012 18:15, schrieb Dale: Florian Philipp wrote: Am 25.12.2012 16:41, schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi, Merry Christmas to all. Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files are around 1GB.

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: Am 25.12.2012 18:15, schrieb Dale: Florian Philipp wrote: Am 25.12.2012 16:41, schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi, Merry Christmas to all. Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid,

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-25 Thread Marc Stürmer
2012/12/25 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com: Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files are around 1GB. The drive holds only static video files that get written once and don't change or get

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 07:09:49 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: I used initrd's many years ago, and separate /usr and/ until on a redhat system I rebooted with an out of sequence initrd and kernel on a critical server (the sort of thing that puts your employment at risk when there are 20 odd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 07:09:49 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: I used initrd's many years ago, and separate /usr and/ until on a redhat system I rebooted with an out of sequence initrd and kernel on a critical server (the sort of thing that puts your employment at risk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 20:33:34 -0600, Dale wrote: Putting /usr on LVM is not the problem. I have had /usr on LVM for a good long while now. It has booted just fine. The new udev is what is going to break it, whether I use LVM or not from what has been said on this list and elsewhere. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:23:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I don't like, really don't like, the work that currently goes into making my 'init thingy' work. All the Gentoo docs about creating hierarchies by hand and populating them with files and then compressing it. All that drives me nuts. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Looks like a nasty bug in portage .38

2012-12-25 Thread Carlos Hendson
On Mon, 2012-12-24 at 22:46 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: I'm on ~amd64. Updated portage in the morning. But it seems the .38 version has a nasty bug. It freezes the system every single time I try to compile a cross tool chain. I tried with various options, like reducing make jobs,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 20:33:34 -0600, Dale wrote: Putting /usr on LVM is not the problem. I have had /usr on LVM for a good long while now. It has booted just fine. The new udev is what is going to break it, whether I use LVM or not from what has been said on this list

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 08:56:56AM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: I would suggest you run lspci -nnk with your running 3.6.10 kernel and save that output. Then go into the kernel source directory for 3.7.1, run make mrproper then make defconfig and enable all the kernel drivers listed in the lspci

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:23:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I don't like, really don't like, the work that currently goes into making my 'init thingy' work. All the Gentoo docs about creating hierarchies by hand and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:42:22 -0600, Dale wrote: I've been running separate /usr on LVM with ~arch udev and no initramfs on a couple of systems with no problems. The news item is taking the easy way out by saying it will break rather than it may break - such breakage is by no means certain

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:00:36 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: The right tools are included, and documented, with your kernel. Create a plain text config file detailing the contents of the initramfs and set CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE to the path top this file. That and an init script are all you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:00:36 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: The right tools are included, and documented, with your kernel. Create a plain text config file detailing the contents of the initramfs and set

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread Dale
fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 08:56:56AM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: I would suggest you run lspci -nnk with your running 3.6.10 kernel and save that output. Then go into the kernel source directory for 3.7.1, run make mrproper then make defconfig and enable all the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Dale
Nuno J. Silva wrote: On 2012-12-25, Dale wrote: root@fireball / # egrep 'usb-db|pci-db|FROM_DATABASE|/usr' /*/udev/rules.d/* [...] $$D; printf %%03i:%%03i $$B $$D', RUN+=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/hp-check-plugin -m %c ' /lib/udev/rules.d/86-hpmud_plugin.rules:SUBSYSTEM==usb,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 19:17:24 Nuno J. Silva wrote: Also, if you actually read the linked URL, it does explain it won't fail to boot. You do realize these are two different issues here, right? One is people saying that udev-181 will fail to boot, other is the issue described on the URL linked

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:00:36 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: The right tools are included, and documented, with your kernel. Create a plain text config file detailing the contents of the initramfs and set

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:00:36 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: The right tools are included, and documented, with your kernel. Create a plain

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Dale
Paul Colquhoun wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 19:17:24 Nuno J. Silva wrote: Also, if you actually read the linked URL, it does explain it won't fail to boot. You do realize these are two different issues here, right? One is people saying that udev-181 will fail to boot, other is the

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 04:20:23PM -0600, Dale wrote: This is what I would try: ... Maybe that will help. At least get you to a console. That alone makes fixing something else easier. Checked all that -- it boots into the same ATA driver failures as the bloated version of the kernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 1:23 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: Google does not enlighten me. One suggestion was change the SATA cable, but this is definitely a change from 3.6.10 to 3.7.1. I can't find where I read it, but just yesterday I was reading a somewhat recent LKML post which mentioned

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 11:51:43AM -0500, Todd Goodman wrote: Same question ... initrd.gz and initramfs are *not* the same thing; and there was a package called mkinitrd in Gentoo that was retired to attic some time ago, before my exodus from Slackware to Gentoo; therefore, I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:01:14PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: When you're in charge of over 100 servers as the back-end of a multinational company that has a revenue in excess of 10 million USD per day, even a temporary outage means the CIO, COO, and CEO breathing down your neck.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:00:36 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: The right tools are included, and documented, with your

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread Dale
fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 04:20:23PM -0600, Dale wrote: This is what I would try: ... Maybe that will help. At least get you to a console. That alone makes fixing something else easier. Checked all that -- it boots into the same ATA driver failures as the bloated

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 06:03:12PM -0600, Dale wrote: Is it possible that you have two SATA drivers enabled and the two conflict each other? I read, I think on this list, where someone had to disable one driver for the correct driver to work. You may want to go here:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 26, 2012 6:35 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:01:14PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: When you're in charge of over 100 servers as the back-end of a multinational company that has a revenue in excess of 10 million USD per day,

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 01:11:04PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: The best way to find out what's wrong is to bisect the kernel, i.e. finding the exact commit that caused the issue to appear. http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel_git-bisect Got the repository cloned: # git clone

Re: [gentoo-user] Looks like a nasty bug in portage .38

2012-12-25 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Dec 26, 2012 3:05 AM, Carlos Hendson skyc...@gmx.net wrote: On Mon, 2012-12-24 at 22:46 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: I'm on ~amd64. Updated portage in the morning. But it seems the .38 version has a nasty bug. It freezes the system every single time I try to compile a cross tool

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:01:14PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: When you're in charge of over 100 servers as the back-end of a multinational company that has a revenue in excess of 10 million USD per day,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:01:14PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: When you're in charge of over 100 servers as the back-end of a