Re: [gentoo-user] bloated by gcc

2014-09-29 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am 28.09.2014 um 10:44 schrieb Jorge Almeida: I'm having a somewhat disgusting issue on my Gentoo: binaries are unaccountably large. I'm talking about C programs of my own, so no version related issues whatsoever. The computer is a core i3 with a 32 bit system. Example, for the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: No, sys-fs/udev is not masked, but an update is indicated in the emerge above. That's a good catch, the MATE stuff is from the overlay. Unfortunately, the xfce stuff is not, so even if the overlay

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am 04.06.2014 13:22, schrieb Daniel Troeder: Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: No, sys-fs/udev is not masked, but an update is indicated in the emerge above. That's a good catch, the MATE stuff is from the overlay. Unfortunately

Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable

2014-05-22 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am 21.05.2014 23:37, schrieb Alex Schuster: Hi there! So I installed another 4 GiB RAM into a Gentoo amd64 system that had 4 GiB already. But it still sees only 4 GiB, not 8 GiB: leela ~ # uname -a Linux leela 3.6.11-gentoo #3 SMP Mon Feb 4 15:37:48 CET 2013 x86_64 AMD A6-3500 APU with

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying data efficiently

2014-05-17 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am 17.05.2014 11:58, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Sat, 17 May 2014 09:59:08 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: 3. Or you could use a sequential copy: cp -a /home /dev/sdb1/ cp -a /home /dev/sdc1 3.) The files I want to copy are in the size of some GB each. So the cache isnt big enough

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_COMPRESS

2014-04-03 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am 02.04.2014 14:27, schrieb Douglas J Hunley: I was reviewing my Portage settings yesterday and I noticed that I have PORTAGE_COMPRESS set (to bzip2, the default) on both of my servers and it occurred to me that both of these servers have filesystems that support compression (btrfs on one,

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD success - I think

2014-02-22 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am 22.02.2014 16:24, schrieb thegee...@thegeezer.net: you might want this to read relatime,discard to handle the trim automagically. if you are concerned about writes i'd suggest noatime for all of these noatime yes - you need atimes only with _ancient_ news/mail servers/clients. But I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use my SSD the right way ;-)

2014-01-04 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am 03.01.2014 15:07, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 03/01/2014 15:13, William Kenworthy wrote: On 03/01/14 15:34, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 03/01/2014 09:25, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 03.01.2014 07:52, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 03/01/2014 00:46, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: BFQ only for the

Re: [gentoo-user] FlashPlayer crashes in FireFox

2013-09-10 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am 09.09.2013 11:45, schrieb Dan Johansson: As of lately (I can not really remember since when) FlashPlayer has stopped working in FireFox. I'm running an stable AMD64 system with FireFox (www-client/firefox-17.0.8), FlasPlayer (www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.297) and NS-Plugin-Wraper

Re: [gentoo-user] Complete list of USE flags?

2013-08-05 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am 04.08.2013 20:31, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Hello guys, I'm a bit ashamed to ask this question, as it belies how long I haven't actually installed a 'lightweight' Gentoo system... But I digress. On to my question: Anyone knows an exhaustive list of USE flags? And a related

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc4.7.2-r1 to 4.7.3 upgrade - hosed system?

2013-05-16 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am 16.05.2013 13:49, schrieb Adam Carter: My system no longer had a /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 which made it quite unhappy. I eventually copied one over from a fedora live iso i had and things are operational again. Is there some way i can confirm if it was the gcc upgrade? This looks damning;

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME configuration problem

2013-02-05 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am 04.02.2013 11:52, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, I'm not using the full GNOME desktop but only single applications like 'meld'. (Only) for some users (including root on one machine and a non-root user on an another machine) meld fails with : File

Re: [gentoo-user] cairo USE flags

2013-01-19 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am 19.01.2013 11:49, schrieb Florian Philipp: Hi list! I've noticed that there is probably a lot of performance to be gained from activating backend acceleration in cairo. It's just that I have no clue about the details: drm, gallium and opengl are all described as accelerating backends.

Re: [gentoo-user] disk accesses per subdirectory tree

2012-12-22 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 21.12.2012 14:42, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'd like to put some subdirectory trees (of / and of /usr and of /home) onto an SSD. For that I'd like to count the disk accesses which go to a given subdirectory tree in some given time intervall. Is there any utility which can measure

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} anyone tried egroupware?

2012-12-21 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 21.12.2012 06:13, J. Roeleveld wrote: Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried egroupware? Any opinions on it? Yes. I have been using the community version for several years. +1 Works good with (user)groups, important modules are well integrated into each other (f.e.: you can

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} anyone tried egroupware?

2012-12-21 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 21.12.2012 12:19, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday, December 21, 2012 11:33:49 AM Daniel Troeder wrote: On 21.12.2012 06:13, J. Roeleveld wrote: Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried egroupware? Any opinions on it? Yes. I have been using the community version for several years

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

2012-11-26 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 26.11.2012 15:01, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: 2 year warranty only covers production defects. Not failure because of abuse. I cannot imagine it to say do not let your OS swap on this flash disk. Most people have no clue what swap is, and all those netbooks nowadays have only a cheap SSD at

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

2012-11-26 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 26.11.2012 15:35, Alex Schuster wrote: Luis Gustavo Vilela de Oliveira writes: Well, with 8Gb RAM, i recommend use tmpfs on PORTAGE_TMPDIR, just while u are compiling anything. Or even with 6Gb too. I have 16 GB, with 8GB for $PORTAGE_TMPDIR on tmpfs. There were issues with some

Re: [gentoo-user] swap on ssd?

2012-11-25 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 26.11.2012 00:18, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 06:46:28 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Has anyone tried swap on ssd? - has it killed the drive prematurely? - any other effects? Yes, no, improved virtual memory performance. +1 SSDs aren't cheapo SD cards, they are meant

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

2012-11-25 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 25.11.2012 22:43, Jacques Montier wrote: Each time you sync the portage, you should write on the SSD... Is it a good thing ? It is the best thing since rsync! Really - it is amazing! And about portage: you write in your portage tree not nearly as often as in /home. SSDs don't die as quickly

Re: [gentoo-user] davical thunderbird

2012-11-07 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 07.11.2012 08:57, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2012-11-07 01:48, schrieb Michael Orlitzky: I tried too. It doesn't work. I guess this is our best hope? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546932 oh my ;) Is it not working at all or is only the import problematic? In my

Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files

2012-08-14 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 13.08.2012 16:53, Michael Hampicke wrote: 2012/8/13 Daniel Troeder dan...@admin-box.com 3rd thought: purging old files with find? your cache system should have some kind of DB that holds that information. 3: Well, it's a 3rd party application that - in theory - should take care

Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files

2012-08-14 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 14.08.2012 11:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:21:54 +0200, Daniel Troeder wrote: There is also the possibility to write a really small daemon (less than 50 lines of C) that registers with inotify for the entire fs and journals the file activity to a sqlite-db. sys

Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files

2012-08-13 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 13.08.2012 15:16, Michael Hampicke wrote: - about 20GB - 100.000 directories - about 2 million files The system has 2x Intel Xon Quad-cores (Nehalem), 16GB of RAM and two 10.000rpm hard drives running a RAID1. 1st thought: switch to SSDs 2nd thought: maybe lots of writes? - get a SSD for

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia NVS 5200M

2012-08-01 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 31.07.2012 16:30, Allan Gottlieb wrote: latitudes E6430 6430s nvidia through optimus :( latitudes E6330 No nvidia.

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia NVS 5200M

2012-07-28 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 26.07.2012 22:50, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I am buying a new laptop, most likely a dell 6340. My choices for video are intel 4000 and nvidia nvs 5200M. Just make sure, that you don't get a optimus notebook.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers + kernel 3.4

2012-06-21 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 18.06.2012 11:29, Philip Webb wrote: I've updated to the latest testing 302.17 it's working ok so far. Just wanted to let you know, that there is a bug that affects lots of people with 302.xx: X-console-switch and resume-from-suspend are broken.

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-09 Thread Daniel Troeder
I'm using big WD Caviar Green (WDxxEAxx) SATA HDDs for some years now in my home 24/7 server, and haven't had any issues - they run cool and low-noise, and the performance is good. Low power and heat was what was important for me when choosing. HDD performance isn't an issue anyway, when storing

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING dev-libs/icu-49.1 is BAD

2012-04-05 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 04.04.2012 20:12, Allan Gottlieb wrote: Another scare. No emacs, no apache, gnome in trouble ... don't install icu-49.1 I was going to file a bug but I see that there are a few stating that some things fail with 49.1 so I don't know that my adding to the list will help. To see the

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING dev-libs/icu-49.1 is BAD

2012-04-05 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05.04.2012 14:51, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:36:54 +0200, Daniel Troeder wrote: Why can't ebuilds like icu be made like openssl or openldap where the libs are not replaced, but old libs stay and a text is displayed to use redep-rebuild and afterwards rm the old libs

Re: [gentoo-user] On login, hostname ends with .O instead of my domain

2012-02-27 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 27.02.2012 16:16, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 27, 2012 9:15 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:58:48 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info mailto:pa...@poluan.info wrote: I knew I've read about this somewhere, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc and mplayer crash with nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-20 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 20.02.2012 13:53, Bernd Butscheidt wrote: as told in the subject. Both crash instantly or after a few seconds when accessing or trying to play a video-dvd. Strange enough, xine doesn't seem to be affected. Prob. xine isn't configured to use hw acceleration :) Seems to me to be related

Re: [gentoo-user] Python+readline?

2012-01-28 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 28.01.2012 10:01, Walter Dnes wrote: I've enabled the readline flag for the python build, but it doesn't seem to work. Are there any other settings I'm missing? daniel@moja ~ $ cat .pythonstartup #!/usr/bin/python try: import readline except ImportError: print Module readline not

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF export/import in LibreOffice

2012-01-23 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 23.01.2012 01:00, Philip Webb wrote: During my usual Saturday system update, I noticed LibreOffice 3.5.0.1 is now testing, while there's an upgrade of LO 3.4 in stable. I tried 3.5.0.0 when it was briefly released a few weeks ago, but PDF export was not working. Has anyone used it with LO

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT crontab not understood

2012-01-10 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 09.01.2012 19:31, James wrote: Daniel Troeder daniel at admin-box.com writes: So I have installed sys-process/vixie-cron Ah, excellent. Just so you know, Paul Vixie is one of the un_sung heros of the the internet. just look up Paul Vixie on wikepedia and you'll quickly realize

[gentoo-user] OT crontab not understood

2012-01-09 Thread Daniel Troeder
Hi :) It seems I don't understand something about cron(tab). Can someone help me pls: I want to run flexbackup with the following backup plan: * monthly full * weekly diff * daily incr So I have installed sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r12 (and virtual/cron-0 and sys-process/cronbase-0.3.3).

Re: [gentoo-user] OT crontab not understood

2012-01-09 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 09.01.2012 12:33, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:10:50 +0100 Daniel Troeder dan...@admin-box.com wrote: Hi :) It seems I don't understand something about cron(tab). Can someone help me pls: I want to run flexbackup with the following backup plan: * monthly full

Re: [gentoo-user] CLI Torrent client(s)?

2011-12-29 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 29.12.2011 12:07, Pandu Poluan wrote: I'm wondering: what's your recommended CLI Torrent client(s)? And why? Rgds, I'm definitely a fan (and user) of deluge. It has nice plugins, and can receive torrents from rss-parser flexget, which is very nice for tv-shows - ezrss.it. But this was not

Re: [gentoo-user] From where the word 'gentoo' came?

2011-12-21 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 20.12.2011 18:31, LinuxIsOne wrote: Hi, From where the word gentoo came into existence? Thanks. Also (ir)relevant: bug report concerning the mascot Larry the cow: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27727 -- PGP key @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de/pks/lookup?search=0xBB9D4887op=get

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 inode limit reached

2011-12-13 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 13.12.2011 01:44, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On my system, /usr/portage currently contains 127000 files. But for reason of increased performance I put it into a squashfs file. (There was a nice howto on this ML some months ago). You could try that, which will free those inodes up and

[gentoo-user] ext4 inode limit reached

2011-12-12 Thread Daniel Troeder
Hello :) I have an ext4-filesystem that contains /usr/src, the /usr/portage and /var/cache/edb. It previously also contained /var/db/pkg, but I had to move that some weeks ago, because the fs was full. Now it's full again, though it has free blocks. But no inodes are left: $ fsck -vf /dev/sda5

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 inode limit reached

2011-12-12 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 12.12.2011 15:54, Alex Schuster wrote: Joseph writes: That is scary. I just install new HD with 2TB capacity and ext4 that is 2% full and: $ find /home/joseph/ -xdev | wc -l shows: 169977 that is 26% full. No, that is 26% of the number of total inodes _Daniel_ has on his small

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: multi-threaded mplayer

2011-11-17 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 11/15/2011 10:55 AM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: I'll answer myself: just pass the option. And when happy, put them in the config file: daniel@moja ~ $ grep threads .mplayer/config lavdopts=threads=4 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789673-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-75.html On

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] - can /var be placed in a separate partition?

2011-09-13 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 09/12/2011 01:53 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: Francisco Ares writes: Is it possible to have /var in a separate partition, mounted during boot? This is very common. The advantage is that a process filling up the /var directory (which is bad) will not fill the root partition (which would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Network Topology Diagrams

2011-08-05 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 08/05/2011 07:48 PM, Michael Mol wrote: On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:42 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello one and all, It's been a while since I've created diagrams. I'd be curious to learn what tools (software ebuilds) and techniques that folks employ to: Graphically map

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-16 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 01/16/2011 08:25 PM, Grant wrote: I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as chromium or openoffice. Is there anything I can do to prevent this besides turning swap back on? I have 3GB RAM and

Re: [gentoo-user] xen-sources and igb (intel network) driver

2011-01-13 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 01/11/2011 03:09 PM, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: In 1294686017.7979@rumba elw...@agouros.de (Konstantinos Agouros) writes: Hi, I just upgraded my box to a phenom and an intel quad gbit card. The card is a 82575GB. It is recognized (I use xen-sources 2.6.34-r4) and also tried the latest

Re: [gentoo-user] postfixadmin vacation user uid/home in /etc/passwd

2010-12-30 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 12/30/2010 12:59 AM, kashani wrote: On 12/29/2010 1:36 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-12-29 3:50 PM, kashani wrote: On 12/29/2010 9:14 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: I'm updating an old system I inherited that has postfixadmin 2.1 installed, and I have a question about the vacation user entry in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Normal disk speed?

2010-10-07 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 10/07/2010 12:59 AM, Adam Carter wrote: WOW! Those differences are crazy! Please - I know benchmarking takes a lot of time - but could you check something: the behavior those fs have at what time they flush data from cache to disk is very different. Have you made sure that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Normal disk speed?

2010-10-06 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 10/06/2010 10:04 AM, Adam Carter wrote: FYI some braindead benchmarking, reiserfs vs ext4, kernel 2.6.35-gentoo-r8 Copy same DVD image from internal reiserfs drive to freshly formatted external drive; reiserfs1m37.530s ext43m15.074s Then image copy on that external drive;

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Normal disk speed?

2010-10-02 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 10/01/2010 04:40 PM, James wrote: Daniel Troeder daniel at admin-box.com writes: As I read about the nice performance of btrfs with compression I tried it out two weeks ago. I'll be posting my benchmarks to this list soon. Until now I didn't have any problems, but still would not use

Re: [gentoo-user] Normal disk speed?

2010-10-01 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 10/01/2010 03:12 AM, Adam Carter wrote: Your harddisk seeks, everything is slow. So does that then mean that my options are; 1. Defragment, so there is less seeking 2. Get an SSD Since 2 is too expensive for a decent size drive, is there anything i can do about 1 without a backup

Re: [gentoo-user] Native 32 and 64-bit linux Flash 10 Preview Release available

2010-09-19 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 09/19/2010 08:05 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: This is of interest to those of us running old versions of Flash, especially on 64-bit installs without 32-bit support (looks in mirrorg). Download site is http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html To find out where to install, go to

Re: [gentoo-user] Pipe Lines - A really basic question

2010-09-09 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 09/09/2010 07:24 PM, Matt Neimeyer wrote: My generic question is: When I'm using a pipe line series of commands do I use up more/less space than doing things in sequence? For example, I have a development Gentoo VM that has a hard drive that is too small... I wanted to move a database off

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-09 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 09/09/2010 08:21 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 08 September 2010 23:27:52 Daniel Troeder wrote: On 09/08/2010 05:27 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 08 September 2010 17:14:13 Jonathan wrote: On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:49:37 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-08 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 09/08/2010 05:27 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 08 September 2010 17:14:13 Jonathan wrote: On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:49:37 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: We go in circles here. NNTP is be default organzed in threads. You don't open a topic that you are not

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new mail client

2010-08-30 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 08/30/2010 04:10 PM, James wrote: OK, so I/m ready to move a few users from the mail client in Seamonkey to a new mail client package. Thunderbird looks reasonable, runs on Winblows and Linux and is not tied to a given desktop platform. I did read bugzilla about enigmail not working with

Re: [gentoo-user] nss_updatedb pam_ccreds

2010-08-03 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 07/29/2010 06:50 PM, Giampiero Gabbiani wrote: Hi all, I configured nss pam in order to make LDAP authentication. In order to have a proper authentication and attributes retrieving I added also ccreds and nss_updatedb modifying /etc/pam.d/system-auth for the first and /etc/nsswithch

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: State of Radeon drivers

2010-07-26 Thread Daniel Troeder
Oh yes - considering support time is a really good hint! Just one thing: On 07/26/2010 01:01 AM, James wrote: http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd The radeonhd driver has been abandoned recently by its last supporter (Novell), because the radeon-driver includes now practically all features of

Re: [gentoo-user] State of Radeon drivers

2010-07-25 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 07/25/2010 06:00 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I have a quick question: I plan to buy a notebook with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250. How well would that one work? Can I reasonably expect Suspend2Ram, 3d acceleration etc to work stable? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp Open

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf and ATI 4350 card

2010-07-21 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 07/21/2010 04:46 AM, James wrote: hello, I can get X(kde 4.4) to start and run without a xorg.conf file but at the wrong screen resolution. (1600x1200) instead of 1920x1280, as it was before. Every attempt to edit the old xorg.conf or roll a new xorg.conf with the new

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 07/07/2010 05:33 AM, Grant wrote: I've been using VDPAU acceleration to play back Blu-Ray rips for a while, but the extra layer is getting to be quite a hassle so I'm trying to get decent performance via software decoding. It has actually come a long way since the last time I tried and

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 07/07/2010 12:35 PM, App Deb wrote: You have dual core so 60% means: 50% (full one core) is for decoding, and the rest 10% is for audio, resizing etc. Oh - didn't think about this - yes... you could be seeing the wrong thing in top. If you have more than 1 CPU/Core you should push 1 in

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-07 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 07/07/2010 03:01 PM, Mick wrote: On 7 July 2010 12:27, Daniel Troeder dan...@admin-box.com wrote: Use htop to see threads. As far as I know top won't show those. So you can't check if your multi-threaded mplayer is really using more than 1 thread/process. What do you get when you press

Re: [gentoo-user] VFAQ mirroring a live root FS

2010-07-01 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 07/01/2010 05:12 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, would anybody please explain to me what difficulties might occur if I mirror a live root file system and use that for booting (in an emergency case). I know that for proper mirroring I may mirror a live root file system but I have to

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI RV710/730

2010-06-24 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 06/23/2010 11:47 PM, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 23 June 2010 09:08:02 Daniel Troeder wrote: On 06/07/2010 01:33 AM, James wrote: Hello, I have this ati card. I'm having trouble finding a stable ati-driver + xorg-server combination that will compile. Any recommendations as to open source

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI RV710/730

2010-06-23 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 06/07/2010 01:33 AM, James wrote: Hello, I have this ati card. I'm having trouble finding a stable ati-driver + xorg-server combination that will compile. Any recommendations as to open source drivers or getting ati-drivers happy with 9.x or 10.x is most welcome. I read a lot of bugs

Re: [gentoo-user] Performing a backup during the boot sequence

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/26/2010 12:30 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: For quite a while I have used the following steps to perform a single-user backup 1. Boot to single user mode via the grub command kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 single 2. Type in the root password. 3. Execute a single

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure

2010-05-21 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/18/2010 07:57 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Tuesday 2010-05-18 18:56, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Do you know any howto where it is done the right way? The right and easy way is to just use the supplied pmt-ehd(8) tool, which works both interactively and non-interactively, depending

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure

2010-05-17 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/17/2010 11:14 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 16.05.2010 14:36, schrieb Jan Engelhardt: [Replying to http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/229533/focus=229542 ] In my personal opinion, both the quality of shell commands and key generation is suboptimal. What makes it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/07/2010 11:14 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 07.05.2010 16:24, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 07.05.2010 10:53, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I think I am gonna file a bug for this now. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318865 Aside from the potential bug: As I store

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-06 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/05/2010 10:23 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 05.05.2010 22:17, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Remember that I said: I am not sure which HOWTO I followed ? What if I didn't use aes-256-ecb? You don't need to supplay that information to cryptsetup, it can (should) autodetect it. To

Re: [gentoo-user] Ldap authentication issues.

2010-05-05 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/05/2010 02:02 AM, Indexer wrote: I have solved this issue late last night. I took my inspiration from fedora, who has a really nice automatic tool for adding ldap servers, and i looked at their changes. The issue was that pam_unix was set as required, not sufficient / optional. I also

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-05 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/05/2010 06:42 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 04.05.2010 23:24, schrieb Daniel Troeder: I'm using sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.1.1_rc1 since 02.05.2010 and didn't have any issues. Please decrypt your partition from the command line, so we can see if it is a cryptsetup/luks/kernel problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-05 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/05/2010 10:42 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 05.05.2010 10:00, schrieb Daniel Troeder: That is a message from cryptsetup. As you are using openssl to get the key, I think the problem might be there. ok lvcreate -n crypttest -L 100M vg0 KEY=`tr -cd [:graph:] /dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

2010-05-04 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/04/2010 09:28 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 04.05.2010 19:38, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I don't yet have the whole picture ... I did some emerge -avuDN world, quite some packages updated even though I am doing emerge -avu world nearly every day ... After a reboot and

Re: [gentoo-user] Ldap authentication issues.

2010-05-04 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/03/2010 02:37 PM, Indexer wrote: On 03/05/2010, at 9:41 PM, Ward Poelmans wrote: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 09:41, Indexer inde...@internode.on.net wrote: I am currently trying to make a ldap server which i can use to authenticate users. Sadly a large number of how to's are incomplete

Re: [gentoo-user] Ldap authentication issues.

2010-05-03 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 05/03/2010 09:41 AM, Indexer wrote: I am currently trying to make a ldap server which i can use to authenticate users. Sadly a large number of how to's are incomplete and don't work, so after reading alot of how to's and manuals I have got 99.9% of the way. On attempting to authenticate

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 and HP2475w: First steps?

2010-04-10 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 04/10/2010 10:21 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, before damaging delicate electronic equipment I want to ask, what the best way is to switch from a 1600x1200 pixel analogous Iiyama monitor to an Flat panel HP2475w (LCD) with 1980x1200 pixel monitor? Graphics card is a (info

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg threads parameter

2010-03-28 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 03/28/2010 04:02 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: On 03/27/10 21:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/28/2010 02:40 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Some ffmpeg-using applications (e.g. mplayer) allow you to pass numbers of threads (e.g. I use 6 on my Core-I7) to ffmpeg; others (e.g. chromium) do not.

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Apple Trailers

2010-03-22 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 03/22/2010 07:58 AM, Mick wrote: What's the trick for playing Apple Trailers these days? It used to work fine years ago, but now all I get is a pop-up telling me to download Apple's Quicktime player. :-( I looked for mplayer USE flags to enable it, but can't find any. I did find

Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk

2010-02-19 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 02/19/2010 09:34 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk to a newly created one. I know not to copy /proc but not sure about /dev. Looking at an unbooted OS disk with an install on it... I see /dev/ is populated (with no boot up),

Re: [gentoo-user] Find out what emerge is up to in a large number of installations.

2010-02-17 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 02/16/2010 06:56 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: If emerge has a large number of installs to do, for example, during a world update, and I am in a tty, how would I find which one emerge is up to? Not sure if I understand your question, but you possibly want to take a look at /var/log/emerge.log --

Re: [gentoo-user] help with inaccessible (trashed?) file

2010-02-07 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 02/07/2010 11:08 PM, Walt Rarus wrote: WALRUS ~ # whoami root WALRUS ~ # ls -l /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/ ls: cannot access /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/icesndcfg-1.3.ebuild: Permission denied total 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot2675 2008-05-09 09:37 ChangeLog -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login screen.

2010-02-03 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 02/02/2010 06:10 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login screen. At other times, the computer shuts down normally. When I had similar problems it was sometimes because of permission-problems when talking to some service over the dbus.

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login screen.

2010-02-03 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 02/03/2010 05:50 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 03 February 2010 09:15:05 ubiquitous1980 wrote: Daniel Troeder wrote: On 02/02/2010 06:10 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login screen

Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

2009-12-15 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 12/11/2009 08:00 PM, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 11 December 2009 17:07:17 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 11 December 2009 15:16:01 Dale wrote: Rebooting will also do all of this but it is not needed. From a technical stand point, the only time

Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

2009-12-11 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 07:16 -0600, Dale wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 11 Dec, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 11 December 2009 11:11:41 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm curious how portage solves its most difficult part (in my eyes). When installing a dynamic library (by

Re: [gentoo-user] Bittorent black box

2009-11-24 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 00:02 +0100, laurent wrote: Hi, I would like to use my server as bittorent client and maybe tracker later. I would like to have a web interface but I could also develop it myself later. I saw, qbittorent and hrktorrent that looks good. I don't know any features of

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing

2009-11-15 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 01:06 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: greets ... As mentioned lately in another thread I moved to amd64 unstable last week. So far OK ... but: I see X11 crashing repeatedly but I don't have a clue what component might be the reason. Sometimes my gnome-session

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.26 stable?

2009-10-01 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 06:48 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Daniel Troeder schrieb: Same here. After booting no sound ... in PA all looks good, after some searching I find alsamixer mutes things ... sigh ... but as long as there aren't more problems I can live with it. You can set things

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.26 stable?

2009-10-01 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 15:08 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Daniel Troeder schrieb: On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 06:48 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Daniel Troeder schrieb: Same here. After booting no sound ... in PA all looks good, after some searching I find alsamixer mutes things

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.26 stable?

2009-09-30 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 18:19 -0700, walt wrote: I run gnome on my ~amd64 machine and have had no problems at all (so far). IMHO it's safe to run gnome on an ~amd64 machine, but I've not used the unstable gnome desktop on a stable amd64 machine. Just from past experience I might expect problems

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.26 stable?

2009-09-30 Thread Daniel Troeder
Any way to share a meaningful list of gnome-related pkgs to unmask/keyword? Just for starting off here That's my list of GNOME related packages. Probably some of them are not necessary to unmask anymore, and probably I missed some :) gnome-extra/nm-applet net-misc/networkmanager-vpnc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.26 stable?

2009-09-30 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 19:15 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: [...] thanks for the list ... after checking my backups I now added your list, edited a bit and started emerging. We'll see ;-) looks good so far, around 60 pkgs emerged, gnome 2.26 up

Re: [gentoo-user] HDMI-out working?

2009-09-25 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 13:04 -0700, Grant wrote: Does HDMI-out on laptops work on Gentoo? - Grant Here on a Sony Laptop with ATI/AMD Radeon gfx it works perfectly with both OSS drivers as well as the commercial drivers. They do also distinguish between the HDMI and the VGA output. Can be set

Re: [gentoo-user] kvm and intel E5450 processor

2009-09-25 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 21:48 -0500, James Erickson wrote: You have to en/dis/able: CONFIG_HAVE_KVM=y CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP=y CONFIG_KVM=m # CONFIG_KVM_INTEL is not set # CONFIG_KVM_AMD is not set # CONFIG_KVM_TRACE is not set Daniel i am getting the following error: make[1]: Entering

Re: [gentoo-user] kvm and intel E5450 processor

2009-09-24 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 22:17 -0500, James Erickson wrote: today i installed two quad core Intel Xeon E5450's (Harpertown). i notice in /proc/cpuinfo i no longer have a vmx flag as i had with my previous Intel E5405's. i have also noticed that my /dev/kvm device is no longer created. VT is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up correct domainname

2009-09-20 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 21:38 +0100, Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 September 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: -The following addresses had permanent fatal errors- email_acco...@isp.com (reason: 550 5.1.0 nag...@myserver.mydomain.com sender rejected :

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome default file associations broken

2009-09-13 Thread Daniel Troeder
On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 12:00 +0200, Sascha Hlusiak wrote: Hello List, somehow all default file associations are broken in my gnome installation and seem to point at the KDE applications instead. When right-clicking in nautilus on a pdf file, the default action is kghostview instead of

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