Re: [gentoo-user] pdftk emerge error

2009-05-30 Thread Dan Johansson
On Saturday 30 May 2009, Marco wrote: Hi all, I am trying to emerge pdftk on my amd64 machine. After re-emerging gcc with gcj, compilation fails with: * ERROR: app-text/pdftk-1.12 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 48: Called src_compile * environment,

[gentoo-user] update-eix freezes on pro-audio overlay

2009-05-30 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
... without CPU eating. Freezing point is shown below. I have observed zynaddsubfx-related message earlier plenty of times but without any freezing. And '86%' (freezing point) is far after zynaddsubfx ebuild parsing (at 54%). Where to dig in? Something python-related? Temporary workaround?

Re: [gentoo-user] update-eix freezes on pro-audio overlay

2009-05-30 Thread Jean-Baptiste Mestelan
2009/5/30 Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com ... without CPU eating. Freezing point is shown below. I have observed zynaddsubfx-related message earlier plenty of times but without any freezing. And '86%' (freezing point) is far after zynaddsubfx ebuild parsing (at 54%). Where to dig in?

Re: [gentoo-user] update-eix freezes on pro-audio overlay

2009-05-30 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Saturday 30 May 2009 13:24:53 Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote: 2009/5/30 Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com ... without CPU eating. Freezing point is shown below. I have observed zynaddsubfx-related message earlier plenty of times but without any freezing. And '86%' (freezing point) is far

[gentoo-user] Re: Sync'ed my ~x86 system yesterday and now resolver stopped working

2009-05-30 Thread Christer Ekholm
Timur Aydin t...@taydin.org writes: Hi, I have synced my ~x86 system yesterday and after it completed, the resolver doesn't work for some programs anymore. For example, ping hostname says unknown host name. It doesn't even contact the dns server, which is running on the same host. But dig

Tweaks for SSDs [Was: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes]

2009-05-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Maxim Wexler schrieb: On 5/28/09, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Florian Philipp wrote: Maxim Wexler schrieb: Hi group, For a netbook 4G SSD. Attempting to install mozilla-firefox. jdk fails: No space left on device. df -i reveals no more

Re: [gentoo-user] update-eix freezes on pro-audio overlay

2009-05-30 Thread Jean-Baptiste Mestelan
2009/5/30 Andrew Gaydenko a...@gaydenko.com: Thanks for the suggestion. Have tried just now. Unfortunately, didn't help. Well, embarrassingly enough, I have just tried syncing this overlay, and get stuck at 86% too ! So this would mean the overlay SVN has a problem, server-side, I suppose.

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimizations for SSD netbook

2009-05-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant schrieb: My girlfriend is at her wit's end with her SSD netbook and is now hogging my laptop. Her netbook has 1GB RAM that could be upgraded to 1.5GB, but I've read that it's a pain. It already runs xfce4, and I've just made these optimizations based on past discussions: 1.

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes

2009-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 29 May 2009 19:39:09 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: I found the best way to deal with the Eee 900's two drives was to create a small root partition (I used 200M) and swap on sda. Then make the rest of sda and all of sdb into an LVM volume group. I still use ext3 for /, but it contains

Re: [gentoo-user] pdftk emerge error

2009-05-30 Thread Marco
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote: On Saturday 30 May 2009, Marco wrote: Hi all, I am trying to emerge pdftk on my amd64 machine. After re-emerging gcc with gcj, compilation fails with: * ERROR: app-text/pdftk-1.12 failed.  * Call stack:  *          

Re: Tweaks for SSDs [Was: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes]

2009-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 30 May 2009 12:06:04 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Delaying commits with ext4 and/or laptop-mode will reduce the wear-down of your SSD but it might as well freeze your system when the actual commit takes place because these things tend to have a terribly low write performance. That

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimizations for SSD netbook

2009-05-30 Thread Grant
My girlfriend is at her wit's end with her SSD netbook and is now hogging my laptop.  Her netbook has 1GB RAM that could be upgraded to 1.5GB, but I've read that it's a pain.  It already runs xfce4, and I've just made these optimizations based on past discussions: 1. CFLAGS=-march=prescott

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimizations for SSD netbook

2009-05-30 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sat, 30 May 2009 07:08:55 -0700 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: 2. added elevator=noop as a boot parameter I remember that I've given this second advice. Since then I've read in the German computer journal c't [1] that CFQ has a detection for SSDs since 2.6.28 and now is the best

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimizations for SSD netbook

2009-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 30 May 2009 07:08:55 -0700, Grant wrote: Do you think mounting /tmp in RAM is worthwhile? Mike doesn't seem to think too highly of it. I do, especially on an SSD, but with any device it reduces disk access, which is a good thing. -- Neil Bothwick April Fools! You're really in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimizations for SSD netbook

2009-05-30 Thread Grant
2. added elevator=noop as a boot parameter I remember that I've given this second advice. Since then I've read in the German computer journal c't [1] that CFQ has a detection for SSDs since 2.6.28 and now is the best choice for these devices. OK, do I need a boot parameter if I've set

[gentoo-user] Disabling swap mounting /tmp on tmpfs = new standard?

2009-05-30 Thread Grant
I recently disabled swap and mounted /tmp on tmpfs for a netbook since the SSD is so slow, and now I'm wondering if that would be a wise move for all of my Gentoo systems. In what type of situation would it be a bad idea? - Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Disabling swap mounting /tmp on tmpfs = new standard?

2009-05-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Grant wrote: I recently disabled swap and mounted /tmp on tmpfs for a netbook since the SSD is so slow, and now I'm wondering if that would be a wise move for all of my Gentoo systems. In what type of situation would it be a bad idea? Instead of disabling swap, just make it small (like 32MB

[gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1

2009-05-30 Thread John P. Burkett
On a x86 machine I did emerge -D -uav world and got a response that read in part as follows: * Messages for package sys-boot/grub-0.97-r9: * * To avoid automounting and autoinstalling with /boot, * just export the DONT_MOUNT_BOOT variable. * * *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and

Re: Tweaks for SSDs [Was: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes]

2009-05-30 Thread Eray Aslan
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 02:40:34PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 30 May 2009 12:06:04 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Delaying commits with ext4 and/or laptop-mode will reduce the wear-down of your SSD but it might as well freeze your system when the actual commit takes place because

Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1

2009-05-30 Thread Dale
John P. Burkett wrote: On a x86 machine I did emerge -D -uav world and got a response that read in part as follows: * Messages for package sys-boot/grub-0.97-r9: * * To avoid automounting and autoinstalling with /boot, * just export the DONT_MOUNT_BOOT variable. * * *** IMPORTANT

Re: Tweaks for SSDs [Was: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes]

2009-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 30 May 2009 22:25:29 +0300, Eray Aslan wrote: Or I could try btrfs, which has an ssd mount option. Ugh. Even on-disk format is not finalized yet. That's OK, I'm not using it on my backup server :) -- Neil Bothwick CAUTION: Do not install prior to installation. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync'ed my ~x86 system yesterday and now resolver stopped working

2009-05-30 Thread Timur Aydin
Graham Murray wrote: Timur Aydin t...@taydin.org writes: Hi, I have synced my ~x86 system yesterday and after it completed, the resolver doesn't work for some programs anymore. For example, ping hostname says unknown host name. It doesn't even contact the dns server, which is running on

[gentoo-user] emul-linux-x86-qtlibs for Qt4?

2009-05-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
emul-linux-x86-qtlibs only provides Qt3 libraries. I need to run a Qt4 32-bit app under Gentoo AMD64. Is there a package somewhere in some overlay that offers 32-bit Qt4 libs?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disabling swap mounting /tmp on tmpfs = new standard?

2009-05-30 Thread Mick
On Saturday 30 May 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Grant wrote: I recently disabled swap and mounted /tmp on tmpfs for a netbook since the SSD is so slow, and now I'm wondering if that would be a wise move for all of my Gentoo systems. In what type of situation would it be a bad idea?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Running two apaches and MySQLs on the same server

2009-05-30 Thread Mick
On Thursday 28 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 28 May 2009 21:51:26 Stroller wrote: So I recommend option 4: Pony up the money for server #2 Just for the sake of satanic advocacy, could you indulge me, please? Let's say Mick is the administrator for all domains in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disabling swap mounting /tmp on tmpfs = new standard?

2009-05-30 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Saturday 30 May 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Grant wrote: I recently disabled swap and mounted /tmp on tmpfs for a netbook since the SSD is so slow, and now I'm wondering if that would be a wise move for all of my Gentoo systems. In what type of situation would it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disabling swap mounting /tmp on tmpfs = new standard?

2009-05-30 Thread Grant
I recently disabled swap and mounted /tmp on tmpfs for a netbook since the SSD is so slow, and now I'm wondering if that would be a wise move for all of my Gentoo systems.  In what type of situation would it be a bad idea? Instead of disabling swap, just make it small (like 32MB or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disabling swap mounting /tmp on tmpfs = new standard?

2009-05-30 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: I recently disabled swap and mounted /tmp on tmpfs for a netbook since the SSD is so slow, and now I'm wondering if that would be a wise move for all of my Gentoo systems. In what type of situation would it be a bad idea? Instead of disabling swap, just make it

Re: [gentoo-user] get fences failed: -1 and [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR*

2009-05-30 Thread AJ Spagnoletti
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA which is pertinent to my hardware and kernel/drivers. Therefore if I do - vblank_mode=0 glxgears ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment. get fences failed: -1 param: 6, val: 0 4418 frames in 5.0 seconds = 883.510

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disabling swap mounting /tmp on tmpfs = new standard?

2009-05-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 31 Mai 2009, Grant wrote: I recently disabled swap and mounted /tmp on tmpfs for a netbook since the SSD is so slow, and now I'm wondering if that would be a wise move for all of my Gentoo systems. In what type of situation would it be a bad idea? Instead of disabling swap,

Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1

2009-05-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 30 May 2009 20:59:00 John P. Burkett wrote: The manual suggests doing grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda but later says If your system does not have any floppy drives, add the --no-floppy option to the above command to prevent grub from probing the (non-existing) floppy drives. My