Re: [gentoo-user] More locale oddness

2011-01-07 Thread Steffen Loos
Am 07.01.2011 02:49, schrieb Stroller: Hi there, Can anyone else reproduce this, please, or tell me what behaviour is expected? $ locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Dale, Dale wrote: Jörg Schaible wrote: that approves my tests ... :-/ Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 and I've chosen by bad luck always the wrong one. It seems there is also some timing involved regarding the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 07 January 2011 09:47:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi Dale, Dale wrote: Jörg Schaible wrote: that approves my tests ... :-/ Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 and I've chosen by bad luck always the wrong one. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 13:35:28 Dale wrote: Jörg Schaible wrote: that approves my tests ... :-/ Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 and I've chosen by bad luck always the wrong one. It seems there is also some timing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:47:28 +0100, Jörg Schaible wrote: What really annoys me is, that I had no problems with this in kernels before 2.6.35 :-/ Have you tried diffing the configs to look for a potential cause? -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 12: Plastic glasses signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-07 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 21:31 -0600, Dale wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: Dale, can you post (a sanitised) version of what 'ntpq -p' gives after ntpd has been running for some time, and the sanitised result of 'ntptrace. Also include your full (sanitised) ntp.conf and /etc/conf.d/ntpd.

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Neil, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:47:28 +0100, Jörg Schaible wrote: What really annoys me is, that I had no problems with this in kernels before 2.6.35 :-/ Have you tried diffing the configs to look for a potential cause? Yes, but I could not detect anything related.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread pk
On 2011-01-07 10:34, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 07 January 2011 09:47:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: Another option would be to patch the kernel to either support Labels natively or to have it include a scan harddisks in following order: option which lists which harddisk-drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 07 January 2011 15:01:48 pk wrote: On 2011-01-07 10:34, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 07 January 2011 09:47:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: Another option would be to patch the kernel to either support Labels natively or to have it include a scan harddisks in following order:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread Andrea Conti
Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 Try disabling CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC (Asynchronous SCSI scanning under SCSI options). While it is not a solution, this might somewhat reduce the randomness you are experiencing. andrea

[gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Simon
Hi there, something went wrong during a previous update and now revdep-rebuild will kind-of freeze around 30%. When it freezes like that, the hosting company shows one of it's CPU core is used at 100% non-stop and the rest is idle. I have tried `emerge -e world` and with system, they all fail

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pdf -gt; txt

2011-01-07 Thread meino . cramer
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [11-01-07 04:03]: meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: I want to convert a couple of pdf-documents, which are of test and ASCIIbased tables, to pure text (ASCII, vim-editable ;) ). app-text/pdftk http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/

Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Simon turne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there,  something went wrong during a previous update and now revdep-rebuild will kind-of freeze around 30%.  When it freezes like that, the hosting company shows one of it's CPU core is used at 100% non-stop and the rest is

Re: [gentoo-user] More locale oddness

2011-01-07 Thread Stroller
On 7/1/2011, at 6:26am, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... Can anyone else reproduce this, please, or tell me what behaviour is expected? $ locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8 ... $ date +%l:%M%P 1:39 $ LC_TIME=POSIX $ date +%l:%M%P 1:39am $ Your output

[gentoo-user] Re: VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Simon
I re-emerged perl and it hung a few lines above my previous issue I copied in prev email. But I was able to ctrl-z+%% to unfreeze it. I'm not sure what to do now since the problem is still there... I'm not sure what critical package deal most with the ability to check for dependencies

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: Dale, juust out of curiosity here. Do you have your CD/DVD drive attached using a SATA-cable? Or using an older IDE-cable? I use AHCI in my BIOS and can boot from CD/DVD. But my DVD-drive is a SATA- drive. -- Joost My DVD drive is connected with a SATA cable. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Simon turne...@gmail.com wrote: I re-emerged perl and it hung a few lines above my previous issue I copied in prev email.  But I was able to ctrl-z+%% to unfreeze it. I'm not sure what to do now since the problem is still there... I'm not sure what critical

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-07 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: Notice the difference in ntptrace between mine below and yours? The asterisk in your ntpq table indicates that is the chosen server - but not that it is actually locked to it - ntptrace is showing it is not locked. rattus ~ # ntptrace localhost: stratum 6, offset

Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Dale
Simon wrote: Hi there, something went wrong during a previous update and now revdep-rebuild will kind-of freeze around 30%. When it freezes like that, the hosting company shows one of it's CPU core is used at 100% non-stop and the rest is idle. I have tried `emerge -e world` and with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Simon
This issue happend after a 'emerge -uDN world' after I had not done any updates for a bit over 60 days. (I was just too busy) I already have: sys-apps/portage-2.1.9.25 and I don't have smartctl, what pkg is it in? I'm not sure it will give valid info though as this is a VPS and everything is

Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Simon
Ok, the fsck reported nothing wrong... I still got the same bug again... while doing `emerge -e @system`... It got stuck right after the Installing line below... Dale, I just checked my python version and it was already 2.6, i set it to 2.6 again, just in case, and continued my emerge (the

Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Simon
Ok, it actually just froze again after the output below... / Emerging (42 of 151) sys-devel/autoconf-2.65-r1 * autoconf-2.65.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * Package:sys-devel/autoconf-2.65-r1 * Repository: gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Simon turne...@gmail.com wrote: This issue happend after a 'emerge -uDN world' after I had not done any updates for a bit over 60 days.  (I was just too busy) I already have:  sys-apps/portage-2.1.9.25 and I don't have smartctl, what pkg is it in?  I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Dale
Simon wrote: Ok, it actually just froze again after the output below... / Well, we know it is using the right version of python at least. No other ideas at the moment. Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 18:10, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Simon turne...@gmail.com wrote: This issue happend after a 'emerge -uDN world' after I had not done any updates for a bit over 60 days. (I was just too busy) I already have:

Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Simon
Ok, was just doing a fsck.ext3 -c -c -C 1 /dev/xvda from within a rescue OS provided by my VPS provider... and it froze at the middle of it!!! So I guess Gentoo is not responsible after all... I've opened a support ticket with them... I'll let you know how it turns out. Simon On Fri, Jan 7,

Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Simon turne...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, was just doing a fsck.ext3 -c -c -C 1 /dev/xvda from within a rescue OS provided by my VPS provider...  and it froze at the middle of it!!! So I guess Gentoo is not responsible after all...  I've opened a support ticket

Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Jacob Todd
What do you have MAKEOPTS set to?

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-07 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: I added the -g option but have no idea why that will change anything. According to the man page, it is for when the clock is more than 1000s off which makes it outside the range ntp will change. Mine is off only a few seconds and most of the time less than one second. So I fail

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 07 January 2011 22:48:27 Dale wrote: Any other ideas? You could still try chrony. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-07 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 07 January 2011 22:48:27 Dale wrote: Any other ideas? You could still try chrony. Well, I tried ntp, openntp, the unstable ntp but I may give that a shot too. Heck, nothing else is working so couldn't hurt to try I guess. May wait until

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trackpoint *and* trackpad

2011-01-07 Thread James
Any other thoughts / ideas? Thanks! On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 22:40, James j...@nc.rr.com wrote: Thanks for the responses folks. Neither suggestion made a difference; I disabled the AllowEmptyInput option, ensured xf86-input-evdev, and then removed all references to the trackpoint in the