Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one

2011-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
on. Then the remote assistant can just boot it (from usb key even) and press go! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house. -- Steven Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] HDD with too aggressive power management

2011-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor echo conservative /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor fi then call that script from local_start(). HTH! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I

[gentoo-user] [OT] quad vga - dual or single card?

2010-11-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
, heat, power, noise, and anything else you can think of. The 295 is passively cooled, 23W each, whereas the 420 is active cooled but only 40W, or so they say! any tips much appreciated :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au If you're not part of the solution, you're part

Re: [gentoo-user] Hibernation doesn't work

2010-11-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
to configure it ? what hibernate? vanilla? tuxonice? I assume disk but you could also be talking about ram... it can all be managed by (and I highly recommend) using hibernate-script. It will handle blacklisted modules, starting/stopping services, filesystems, and more! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-11-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 10:41 +0200, Fatih Tümen wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 07:09, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote: sure, but running it for 10 or 100 or 1000 hours should produce roughly the same characteristics for the same browsing behaviour if all other things are equal

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-11-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
and virtual desktops is now back to it's snappy old self... Let's hope I see some change in swap usage too. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au If it's too good to be true, it's probably a rigged demo.

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-11-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 23:24 +0200, Fatih Tümen wrote: On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 08:45, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote: OK so vm.swappiness seemed to help a bit but today I notice that swap usage is up again. It's firefox: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-11-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
... sounds like a memory leak to me. Anyone else run firefox for 113+ hours? I'm using 3.6.9-r1. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Politicians speak for their parties, and parties never are, never have been, and never will be wrong. -- Walter Dwight

Re: [gentoo-user] Bugzilla search

2010-10-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 10:13 +0300, Thanasis wrote: git-1.7.3.2-r1 prefix it with ALL, ie search for ALL git-1.7.3.2-r1. Because the bug is resolved it won't appear in basic searches. alternatively you could do an advanced search and select the statuses that you were interested in. -- Iain

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: swap usage creeping up

2010-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
or desktop in this regard. Push it to the limits I say ;) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au serendipity, n.: The process by which human knowledge is advanced.

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
;-) no probs, but no need to reply to me AND the group, just the group reply will do :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au He who renders warfare fatal to all engaged in it will be the greatest benefactor the world has yet known. -- Sir Richard Burton

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 10:24 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote: I'm having issues with the latest mix of nvidia-drivers, xorg, and whatever else it might be! I'm getting bad performance when switching virtual dekstops

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-10-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 16:32 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Seriously take a look at your swapiness value. The default value cannot be right every particular case. it's 60. That seems a little high based on what you told me, but I have no reference value to compare it to from 2-3 weeks

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
about 100% hardware compatibility. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au We have not inherited the earth from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children.

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-10-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 17:16 +1100, Adam Carter wrote: So it looks like its RES to me by just looking at it. Did you RTFMan page? for top? no. I should add I wasn't sorting by the RES field, even though that's in the top listing. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Snake

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-10-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
... thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Calculon: I was all of history's great acting robots: Acting Unit 0.8, Thespo-mat, David Duchovny!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 11:18 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: Am Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:34:58 +0930 schrieb Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au: [...] Someone posted recently about an upgrade that affected him (looking... can't find it). He downgraded to fix it, but it wasn't nvidia or x from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
screensavers seem to be ok though. Someone posted recently about an upgrade that affected him (looking... can't find it). He downgraded to fix it, but it wasn't nvidia or x from memory. Sorry for being vague, I'll keep looking. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au When an episode

[gentoo-user] Re: vmware - help

2010-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
Adam Carter adamcarter3 at gmail.com writes: My principle for using vmware on Gentoo is; use the latest vmware, do not use the latest kernel.I'm using Workstation 7.1.2, which works well with 2.6.34, also works with 2.6.35 (but wants to rebuild one kernel module every time it runs, which I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 22:55 -0500, Dale wrote: I have a update. Check this out: hey, don't get my hopes up like that. Still no improvement on my box. But then, I am seeing nearly 6500 FPS :D -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The chief enemy of creativity is good sense

[gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
that could be as much as 152Mb for evo and 76Mb for firefox. Not that much really. any ideas? thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Chuck Norris once skewered a man with the Eiffel tower.

[gentoo-user] vmware - help

2010-10-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
-2.12.1.so b4e05000-b4e06000 rw-p 00156000 08:07 5587283/lib/libc-2.12.1.soAborted I have no idea how to debug this - I've rebuilt lots of stuff and still no dice... any help would be greatly appreciated :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectations

Re: [gentoo-user] Uploading Files to Windows CE

2010-10-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
try 0.14. You may not want the entire list of packages, probably just synce-hal, synce-sync-engine and synce-gvfs. gvfs will give you nautilus browsing of your device ;) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. -W.C. Fields

Re: [gentoo-user] Illegal instruction error

2010-10-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
almost 24/7 is probably outside of it's design spec :-) naaah. Flog it. If it can't handle it, it's a design fault ;) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au It ain't over until it's over. -- Casey Stengel

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend-to-disk stopped by xhci-module...

2010-10-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 00:38 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: AFAIK they can be used with the standard swsusp stuff, although I've only used it with a tuxonice-sources kernel. yup, hibernate script works with vanilla or tuxonice, both ram and disk :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot

[gentoo-user] vmware fail - malloc other wierd errors

2010-09-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
=force. I've tried all sorts of things - from USE_SHIPPED_GTK to xorg-x11 opengl to reinstalling recompiling modules, but no luck. Google is unsympathetically silent on this one :( Please help! thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The truth about a man lies first

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware fail - malloc other wierd errors

2010-09-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
-workstation and see... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au All laws are simulations of reality. -- John C. Lilly

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

2010-07-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
NetworkManager with Gentoo config files. Last time I looked it seemed to be mostly working. There's a blog somewhere *looking* http://qiaomuf.wordpress.com/ try that out. Don't think there's a command line interface to NM though so don't know how your parsing will go... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb

Re: [gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?

2010-07-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
here's one I prepared earlier ;) This is from 2008: http://nthrbldyblg.blogspot.com/2008/06/gentoo-linux-live-usb-key.html and these are some notes of mine on syslinux which may help a bit too: http://nthrbldyblg.blogspot.com/2010/02/syslinux-from-linux.html HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb

[gentoo-user] caps lock osd

2010-06-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
to caps lock. There are various other utilities, but they all seem panel or krell based. Is there a way I can run a generic command when caps lock is pressed? thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan RD i...@pcorp.com.au Phone: 138

Re: [gentoo-user] caps lock osd

2010-06-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 12:11 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi, is there a way to get the num lock, caps lock and scroll lock state displayed in an OSD? Still looking for a good solution, but the best I've come up with so far is this: 1. add to .xbindkeysrc: /home/iain/.bin/capstog m:0x12

Re: [gentoo-user] danger-deep

2010-05-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 14:18 +0300, Arttu V. wrote: On 5/27/10, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote: Doesn't run here. Something to do with getting the available resolutions: Anyone know about SDL? I really don't, but I'm just wondering if you are looking at the 0.3.0 source

[gentoo-user] danger-deep

2010-05-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au If you stand on your head, you will get footprints in your hair.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall?

2010-05-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
(good for the router), multiple usb, sata, and so on. Some have sockets, some have the cpu built in. The Atom D510 is even dual core! have fun putting it together! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
there were some summaries of this article, but I can't find them right now. An interesting read. Basically, you might not be able to get reliable warnings of impending failures. Keep Good Backups (so say we all) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The naked truth of it is, I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall?

2010-05-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 09:48 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 25 May 2010 04:55:05 Iain Buchanan wrote: We buy about 5 - 10 of these (started on the net4801, now the net5501) per year at work: http://www.yawarra.com.au/hw-net5501.php And make them do various things ranging

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall?

2010-05-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
be good to get you started before you've customised it the way you like. That's an Australian company, but the boards come from http://www.soekris.com/ so you may be able to order from them and build / buy your own case. hth, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Lucas' Law: Good

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New GPS amp; Gentoo?

2010-05-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
see. No doubt there is free wifi POI you can download. In my experience, free WIFI doesn't determine where I go. If it's free when I get there, then good, otherwise I'm there anyway! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Success is in the minds of Fools

Re: [gentoo-user] New GPS Gentoo?

2010-05-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
for bandwidth? not sure how many plain GPSs have wifi. hth, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au One person's error is another person's data.

[gentoo-user] NetworkManager SIGSEGV

2010-05-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
-1.7.1-r1 any ideas? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Bombeck's Rule of Medicine: Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager SIGSEGV

2010-05-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 22:05 -0400, Chris Reffett wrote: It was probably the wpa_supplicant update, see bug 320097 on bugs.gentoo.org. spot on! I didn't see it because I was searching for NetworkManager bugs, not wpa_supplicant bugs :) thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 09:07 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010 11:21:50 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Well, it turns out I have the distfiles mounted with --bind to my ftp/pub directory. And looking in the rsync man page: Why not set $DISTDIR to the true location of distfiles

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
my laptop and drive to work, where network speeds to my server drop from 100Mbit to 50kbit and I need that local copy! Which is why I'm glad there are multiple ways to do it :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Old robot: I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe.

Re: [gentoo-user] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
no need to back up my distfiles, but I'd like to know why it's not working... -- Iain Buchanan iain at pcorp dot com dot au It doesn't matter whether you win or lose -- until you lose.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
it seems to be another --exclude directive. At least I understand what's going on now :) thanks for all the suggestions, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Mr. Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

Re: [gentoo-user] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 09:35 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2010 11:21:02 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: I'm using the following rsync command to make the backup: sudo /usr/bin/ionice -c 3 /usr/bin/rsync -aAx --exclude suspend_file --delete --delete-excluded --partial --human

[gentoo-user] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
different (ie. different amount of reserved space) but that would make the Avail columns different, and shouldn't make the Used columns different. any thoughts as to why my USB partition is full? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Most people have two reasons for doing

Re: [gentoo-user] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
) this should only copy the one partition. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of Four

[gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
this? thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day cause that means it's going to be up all night. -- Steven Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
being 100k or more... no doubt you just need some RAM?! thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au drobbins we should send him a commemorative gentoo crack pipe for all his contributions to this project

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. -- William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
on individual files (even the recursive ones), and you eventually reach a system limit. Thanks, and willing to listen to any ideas from anyone (except Stroller :p ) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Usually, when a lot of men get together, it's called a war. -- Mel Brooks

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 01:33 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: oh god... fam... that crap caused me so much pain over the years. This bug ridden zombie is still around? thanks for the heads-up - I guess I should leave FAM to plan B? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I am

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 08:54 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: but it's an angle to follow. I wonder how max_user_watches would handle being 100k or more... no doubt you just need some RAM?! thanks, To answer my own questions, I'm now trying this: # echo 10 /proc/sys/fs/inotify

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-05-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
. If anyone is interested, send me an email. interested! So is it on sourceforge yet ;) thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au BOFH Excuse #418: Sysadmins busy fighting SPAM.

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-05-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 16:24 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 29.04.2010 02:38, schrieb Iain Buchanan: Hi thanks, On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 17:31 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: [...] If you can live with just one big partition as a backup (probably with separate /boot), you should

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-04-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
will at least get me going quickly. Yesterday I tried iotop to with dd - some slowness but otherwise quite nice. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Real computer scientists don't comment their code. The identifiers are so long they can't afford the disk space.

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-04-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
sector size... It might be easier to do the fdisk-ing by hand. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. -- William Pitt, 1783

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-04-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
such as /proc, /dev and /home. actually, lower case x is --one-file-system or don't cross filesystem boundaries. Upper case X is --xattrs or preserve extended attributes :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.

[gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-04-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
disk not always there? Any other suggestions? thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Better tried by twelve than carried by six. -- Jeff Cooper

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
be wrong on that. I've transferred thousands of emails between evolution, thunderbird, claws and back again, no probs (except for the time it took). I assume seamonkey shouldn't be any different (although they may all end up blank?!) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Order

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
look to see if Dale has been involved in a thread if HAL is mentioned -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au In war, truth is the first casualty. -- U Thant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
it for sure! (ok, maybe not, but you know the mythical man month...) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it. -- Tom Lehrer

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
it usually always means that. But hey, if we were to be that picky on this list hardly anyone would be here. That's why we have programming languages, because English is too forgiving and fuzzy! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au War is like love, it always finds a way

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
, so be prepared with a boot disk to change fstab. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank. -- Scotty

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype pulseaudio

2010-02-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
, try and solve the pulseaudio problems first by looking at the tips on those guides. Also you might find this useful: http://share.skype.com/sites/linux/2009/09/some_explanations.html -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Salesman: Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Griffin. Now, I know you've been

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
are for... I'm having some luck chasing up the original CDs so I think I'll try that first. thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au If it smells it's chemistry, if it crawls it's biology, if it doesn't work it's physics.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
. That's a possibility given what I can find on Google, however these are few and far between, so I'd have to find someone willing to send their drive to me (or vice versa) or send me the OS, which overlandstorage doesn't like! thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Come quickly

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 13:39 +, Stroller wrote: On 20 Feb 2010, at 04:31, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:44 +, Stroller wrote: On 19 Feb 2010, at 12:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: ... Can I randomly mount partitions read-only or will this screw things up further

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?

2010-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
update tool, like me ;) It hasn't changed much since I started using Gentoo... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au In any formula, constants (especially those obtained from handbooks) are to be treated as variables.

RE: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
somewhere. So back to your problem - you can boot but just how far? Can you log into X? What were the updates you applied? (Please list them all). What boot messages do you see? How do you log in? Type `fdisk -l` and post the output. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
), but the newer kernel you've probably just built (is that what you mean by a bit of an update?) doesn't. Check for an initrd, and tell us what a bit of an update means :) You could also compare config files between your rescue CD and your system, if you can find it! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
==_NextPart_000_0612_01CAB0FD.6FF40D00 Stroller: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-27-501489522 Stroller. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au A debugged program is one for which you have not yet found the conditions that make it fail. -- Jerry Ogdin

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get text only console on livecd install

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 05:38 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: How can I force a text only console when installing from live cd? ... I think it's something to do with nox but I'm not sure exactly how. Either that or start using the minimal boot CD's - only about 100MB and no X :) -- Iain Buchanan

[gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
-only or will this screw things up further? thanks for any suggestions, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Don't fear the pen. When in doubt, draw a pretty picture. --Baker's Third Law of Design.

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:44 +, Stroller wrote: On 19 Feb 2010, at 12:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: ... Can I randomly mount partitions read-only or will this screw things up further? If this is unsafe I will have ketchup mustard on my baseball cap. er... could you translate that? How

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 14:01 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:44 +, Stroller wrote: On 19 Feb 2010, at 12:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: ... Can I randomly mount partitions read-only or will this screw things up further? OK, I've randomly mounted partitions, and now

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Screen sharing software or similar

2010-02-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
would ssh via somehost. Use localhost if you can ssh directly to the box, or the actual hostname accessible via 'somehost' if you have to go via a gateway. I use net-misc/tightvnc. If you can ssh to the box, you can vnc to it. You could run skype as well just for the audio. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

2010-02-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
just had to open index.htm and the rest was done (as mentioned, so long as you have java in your browser). -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

2010-02-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
of options and free + commercial skins, plus plug-ins to let you sell them online. Unfortunately it's just the generation tool, you have to find your own hosting. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au My education message will resignate amonst all parents. George W. Bush January 19

Re: [gentoo-user] Uh Oh!! Made the contents of my directory unreadable

2010-02-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
wanted do echo $entry? or the simpler find $HOME found? anyway, it shouldn't have corrupted your filesystem, but it looks like it did. Any ideas on how to fix this? you probably want to shutdown and fsck your filesystem. Then, start looking for your backups :( -- Iain Buchanan iaindb

Re: [gentoo-user] Broadcom firmware doesn't work with 2.6.32-r4

2010-02-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 08:48 -0800, Kaddeh wrote: Check out http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304265 and then update to 2.6.32-r5 thanks, that wasn't there when I started looking :) I'll see what they find (in the mean time, Go Flaky Wireless!) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
and the networkmanager USE flag for evolution... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, The City on the Edge of Forever, stardate 3134.0

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 06:59 +, Neil Walker wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: I'm starting to stray OT here, but I'm considering a second-hand Adaptec 2420SA - this is real hardware raid right? It's a PCI-X card (not PCI-E). Are you sure that's right for your system? yes, I have an old

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
to NetworkManager and not via dbus, but I don't actually know. $ equery u evolution ... - + networkmanager : Allows Evolution to automagically toggle online/offline mode by talking to net-misc/networkmanager and getting the current network state -- Iain

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
and phone cables and see what falls out ;) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. -- B. Franklin

[gentoo-user] Broadcom firmware doesn't work with 2.6.32-r4

2010-02-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
hasn't changed (according to cksum). Google searches only produce the source code, which is pretty but doesn't help. The error detection around the print message hasn't changed since -r1. Any ideas? I'm stuck using wireless, but that's dropping in and out all the time! thanks, -- Iain Buchanan

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
recovery from tiny boot disks is easier without LVM too. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Failure is not an option -- it comes bundled with Windows.

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
in performance while each disk was removed in turn might take more time than its worth. Of course RAID 1 wouldn't suffer from this (with 2 disks)... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Keep on keepin' on.

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
Adaptec 2420SA - this is real hardware raid right? If I'm buying drives in the 1Tb size - does this 4k issue affect hardware RAID and how do you get around it? (Never set up a HW RAID card before) thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au You know you're using the computer too

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
didn't order the drive separately or you've forgotten. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au polygon: Dead parrot.

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 17:27 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote: On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 14:54 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Frank, As best I can tell so far none of the Linux tools will tell you that the sectors are 4K. I had

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 07:31 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Iain Buchanan wrote: so long as you didn't have any non-detectable disk errors before removing the disk, or any drive failure while one of the drives were removed. And the deterioration

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
-0.5.14-r2 (/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-input-policy.fdi) so why are you copying these files by hand? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au A university faculty is 500 egotists with a common parking problem.

[gentoo-user] severe tearing and system lockup

2010-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
-0.8.4 x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.4 any ideas? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Harp not on that string. -- William Shakespeare, Henry VI

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message .

2010-02-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 09:15 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:51:18 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: True, it's been on todo for a while. It's no longer an issue for me now as I use a Mi-Fi 3G modem, which connects to the computer via WiFi instead of having a dongle

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DLNA saga

2010-02-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
version of a tiny binary protocol on it an voila! Why manufacturers crap around with complicated high-level non-compliant non-standards is beyond me. end rant :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au It's now the GNU Emacs of all terminal emulators. -- Linus Torvalds

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message .

2010-02-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 09:37 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:57:19 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: b. use wicd instead, which is decidedly not a piece of shit I had a look at that, but it doesn't do 2 things that I use NetworkManager for: 1. mobile broadband

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message .

2010-02-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 18:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 03 February 2010 01:27:19 Iain Buchanan wrote: I appreciate the humour, but so far for me, it's Just Worked(TM). Even with this log file annoyance, it's still working. You're the lucky one :-) nm seems to work OK

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message .

2010-02-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 00:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 02 February 2010 04:06:14 Iain Buchanan wrote: The 50k of messages all look like this: That's definitely not right. Even with full debugging enabled no app should emit that amount of logs. and yet with debugging disabled

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