Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 20:25 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:14:06 -0500, Joe Menola wrote: > > > > > And DON'T use XFS if you can't afford an UPS. > > > > > > Unless you're using a laptop. > > > > Solar UPS? > > Battery! > actually laptops are worse - on mine laptop-mod

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Dale
Richard Fish wrote: > On 10/28/06, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 28 October 2006 13:14, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> > · Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > > I'm even looking forward to Reiserfs4 myself. >> > >> > Well, actually I wouldn't hold my breath for Reiserfs anymore, >> > now that Ha

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-headers dont know what they want...

2006-10-28 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 29 October 2006 03:21, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: [SNIP] > [nomerge ] media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.12 USE="oss -debug -doc" > [ebuild UD] > media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.12 [1.0.13] 0 kB So alsa-driver-1.0.12 was pulling in the lower version of alsa-headers. [SNIP] > [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-headers dont know what they want...

2006-10-28 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-headers dont know what they want... Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:31:56 +0200 > On Saturday 28 October 2006 03:37, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > > I do an > > > >eix-sync && emerge --pretend --tree --verbose --update -

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a simple .pls audio mp3-playing app?

2006-10-28 Thread Ryan Tandy
Walter Dnes wrote: I have one other need for an audioplayer. I'm a paying subscriber of Live365, and I need a simple audio player to launch and play streams direct off a .pls file. Hi, I'm not familiar with Live365, but I listen to radio (http://kplu.org) and similar streams off the Inter

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 29 October 2006 02:33, Richard Fish wrote: > On 10/28/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 29 October 2006 01:45, Richard Fish wrote: > > > On 10/28/06, CapSel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 1. reiserfs breaks down on power failures even with option > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] flashplugin detection

2006-10-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/28/06, Matthew R. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm an e-season ticket holder at liverpoolfc.tv where I can listen to live commentary of all the games and watch video highlights. Last season everything worked fine (or more or less fine), this season they have changed the econsole to work

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/28/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 29 October 2006 01:45, Richard Fish wrote: > On 10/28/06, CapSel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. reiserfs breaks down on power failures even with option data=journal > > or sync > > Huh, reiserfs doesn't do this. It only l

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/28/06, fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not sure about the journaling, but the trick is that it caches writes very aggressively -- we're talking dozens of MB at a time, and it often holds onto those writes for not just minutes but even hours. Just want to point out that XFS offers

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 29 October 2006 01:45, Richard Fish wrote: > On 10/28/06, CapSel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. reiserfs breaks down on power failures even with option data=journal > > or sync > > Huh, reiserfs doesn't do this. It only logs metadata updates. nope, it can log data too. -- gentoo-use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/28/06, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 28 October 2006 13:14, Alexander Skwar wrote: > · Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm even looking forward to Reiserfs4 myself. > > Well, actually I wouldn't hold my breath for Reiserfs anymore, > now that Hans Reiser is in jail. I really don't t

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/28/06, CapSel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1. reiserfs breaks down on power failures even with option data=journal or sync Huh, reiserfs doesn't do this. It only logs metadata updates. 1. Is there the file system that preserves data & metadata like UFS2 "solid as rock!" ext3 mount

[gentoo-user] Is there a simple .pls audio mp3-playing app?

2006-10-28 Thread Walter Dnes
> Yes, audacious is closest replacement that I found in stable amd64 > tree. It has same philosophy as xmms. > > But it missing several features. For me it is mainly gapless output, > xosd support and wide posibilites to control it via command line > (like xmms-pipe). Consider also tons of plugins

[gentoo-user] hald doesn't allow my cdrom to spin down

2006-10-28 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, do you have the same problems? When hald is running, it seems to access the dvd-drive on a regular basis. That means, that the drive doesn't spin down :-( signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Saturday 28 October 2006 13:31, Mark Kirkwood wrote: I'd recommend changing to ext3 or xfs, as I've found both to be solid (I prefer xfs but that just my personal opinion). if you use XFS don't use 2.6.17 kernels. ... A good link that briefly discusses power

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 28 October 2006 19:33, CapSel wrote: > I use reiserfs (version 3.x, if correctly recall 3.6), haven't even touched > reiser4(resierfs 4.X). > ah, ok. From your post it sounded like you were using 4. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 28 October 2006 17:47, Alexander Skwar wrote: > · Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [ JFS ] > > > And it is very slow. > > Based on what evidence/test? > > According to http://linuxgazette.net/122/TWDT.html#piszcz it's quite > fast. > Nice graphs... looking them over make

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Alexander Skwar wrote: > · Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [ JFS ] > >> And it is very slow. > > Based on what evidence/test? > > According to http://linuxgazette.net/122/TWDT.html#piszcz it's quite > fast. > > Alexander Skwar Al

[gentoo-user] Re: BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [ JFS ] > And it is very slow. Based on what evidence/test? According to http://linuxgazette.net/122/TWDT.html#piszcz it's quite fast. Alexander Skwar -- There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. -- Marie Antoinette --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-28 Thread Chris Atkinson
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:39:43 +0200 Harm Geerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 28 October 2006 08:30, Sarah wrote: > > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > On 23/10/06, Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can't help thinking the problem lies with my (lack of) > > understanding of samba - our

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc problems after dep -d

2006-10-28 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 28 October 2006 22:01, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > I assume you've changed your CHOST when upgrading glibc without having a > clue about you were doing... > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml Oh, and just for the the record. Whatever you do with this don't downgrade glibc

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc problems after dep -d

2006-10-28 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 28 October 2006 17:33, Hans de Hartog wrote: [SNIP] > >>CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu" > > > > do 'gcc-config -c' & 'gcc-config -l' to explore; > > try 'gcc-config i486-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.1' to fix the problem. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ gcc-config -c > * gcc-config: Active gcc profile is inva

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers dependencies

2006-10-28 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 28 October 2006 18:23, Daniel D Jones wrote: > I recently switched from the proprietary ati-driver to the open source > radeon driver. After a great deal of sweating and swearing and > experimenting, I got the xorg.conf file properly configured. I have > ati-drivers masked in my packa

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:14:06 -0500, Joe Menola wrote: > > > And DON'T use XFS if you can't afford an UPS. > > > > Unless you're using a laptop. > > Solar UPS? Battery! -- Neil Bothwick "Bother," said Pooh, as someone flamed him for no reason. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday 28 October 2006 2:02 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > And DON'T use XFS if you can't afford an UPS. > > Unless you're using a laptop. Solar UPS? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 11:21:25 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: > And DON'T use XFS if you can't afford an UPS. Unless you're using a laptop. -- Neil Bothwick Approx. 1 in 36000 people will break a leg within 3 weeks of reading this post signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-28 Thread b.n.
Harm Geerts ha scritto: Just because *you* wouldn't use it, doesn't mean it's crap... Just because *you* wouldn't use it, doesn't mean you have to badmouth it. You seem to forget people spend time creating these great programs at no cost. You don't insult the program, you insult the people behi

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Dale
Statux wrote: This becomes a philosophical question but, shouldn't computers (hw and sw) be thought to resist hard power outages as much as possible? If UPS systems are the only feasible way to obtain it, why no one thought to somehow include them inside desktop systems? I'

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-headers dont know what they want...

2006-10-28 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > Hi, > > I do an > >eix-sync && emerge --pretend --tree --verbose --update --deep world > > on a regular basis. > > Each time the alsa-headers are offered for update. > > If alsa-headers 1.0.13 are installed, alsa-headers 1.0.12 are

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread CapSel
I use reiserfs (version 3.x, if correctly recall 3.6), haven't even touched reiser4(resierfs 4.X).On 10/28/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Saturday 28 October 2006 19:16, CapSel wrote: > I wrote five because I started to count 5 times ago. My RAM is in good> condition :) Pro

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 28 October 2006 19:16, CapSel wrote: > I wrote five because I started to count 5 times ago. My RAM is in good > condition :) Problem with reiserfs (reiser4 is used across the net to > specify version 4.X IMHO) so you are using reiser4? You know that is not even in a stable kernel and

[gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-28 Thread Harm Geerts
On Saturday 28 October 2006 03:35, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 12:27:52PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote > > On Friday 27 October 2006 06:00, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > amarok ==> Even worse than xine. It's a Windows Media Player > > > wannabee bloated frontend that ends up launching xi

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 28 October 2006 18:38, b.n. wrote: > What about JFS? it is known to be pretty robust and you will have a hard time to find any 'horror stories' - but one reason for the lack of horror stories: there aren't many users. And it is very slow. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc problems after dep -d

2006-10-28 Thread Justin Findlay
On AD 2006 October 28 Saturday 11:40:13 AM +0200, Hans de Hartog wrote: > checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure: error: > C++ compiler cannot create executables > > or > > gcc-config error: Could not run/locate "gcc" > ... > [I--] [ -] sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1 (4.1) > [I--] [

[gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-28 Thread Harm Geerts
On Saturday 28 October 2006 08:30, Sarah wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On 23/10/06, Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:08:08 -0400 > >> > >> Dave V wrote: > >> > Hello, > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> > I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed, >

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Statux
> This becomes a philosophical question but, shouldn't computers (hw and > sw) be thought to resist hard power outages as much as possible? > If UPS systems are the only feasible way to obtain it, why no one > thought to somehow include them inside desktop systems? I'm sure that they're out the

[gentoo-user] VMware Player incommunicado

2006-10-28 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I've surely done something wrong. I just don't know what. I'm using vmware-player-1.0.1.19317-r7, and I have run the configuration script to enable all forms of networking. Further, I'm running the Minix virtual machine from the web page. At school where I teach, this VM works fine under Fedo

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers dependencies

2006-10-28 Thread Daniel D Jones
I recently switched from the proprietary ati-driver to the open source radeon driver. After a great deal of sweating and swearing and experimenting, I got the xorg.conf file properly configured. I have ati-drivers masked in my package.mask. However, something in my system still thinks I shoul

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc problems after dep -d

2006-10-28 Thread Harm Geerts
On Saturday 28 October 2006 17:33, Hans de Hartog wrote: > > do 'gcc-config -c' & 'gcc-config -l' to explore; > > try 'gcc-config i486-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.1' to fix the problem. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ gcc-config -c > * gcc-config: Active gcc profile is invalid! > [1] i386-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.1 > [EM

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread b.n.
fire-eyes ha scritto: Norberto Bensa wrote: b.n. wrote: Yes, but it costs money :) Not that much really if you think how much it will save :) You don't need a keep-my-box-up-30-days UPS. A 15 minutes UPS will do just fine and they are very cheap nowdays. Last time I checked they were in th

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] flashplugin detection

2006-10-28 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew R. Lee wrote: > I would like to be able to tell them how to fix it. > So after that preamble, the question is, how does their system detect the > presence of the flashplugin on my browser. Is it simply that they need the > correct file nam

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc problems after dep -d

2006-10-28 Thread Hans de Hartog
Philip Webb wrote: > 061028 Hans de Hartog wrote: > >>it dies at the first emerge with: >>checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure: error: >>C++ compiler cannot create executables. > > ... > >>CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu" > > > do 'gcc-config -c' & 'gcc-config -l' to explor

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread fire-eyes
Norberto Bensa wrote: > b.n. wrote: >> Yes, but it costs money :) > > Not that much really if you think how much it will save :) > > You don't need a keep-my-box-up-30-days UPS. A 15 minutes UPS will do just > fine and they are very cheap nowdays. Another nice note is that APC and probably othe

[gentoo-user] [OT] flashplugin detection

2006-10-28 Thread Matthew R. Lee
I'm an e-season ticket holder at liverpoolfc.tv where I can listen to live commentary of all the games and watch video highlights. Last season everything worked fine (or more or less fine), this season they have changed the econsole to work with flash. I have the flashplugin installed and it

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc problems after dep -d

2006-10-28 Thread Philip Webb
061028 Hans de Hartog wrote: > it dies at the first emerge with: > checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure: error: > C++ compiler cannot create executables. ... > CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu" do 'gcc-config -c' & 'gcc-config -l' to explore; try 'gcc-config i486-pc-linux-gnu-4.

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Norberto Bensa
b.n. wrote: > Yes, but it costs money :) Not that much really if you think how much it will save :) You don't need a keep-my-box-up-30-days UPS. A 15 minutes UPS will do just fine and they are very cheap nowdays. Regards, Norberto pgpovI7u8HIQu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread fire-eyes
Norberto Bensa wrote: > CapSel wrote: >> So my question is - how can I help to eliminate this bug(s)? > > Can you check your RAM please? Reiserfs (3.x that is) is very stable. I'm > using it for five years now. No data loss or corruption. > > And DON'T use XFS if you can't afford an UPS. Strong

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread b.n.
I don't know why I just know that I used Reiserfs after that and it worked fine, even after power failures, lots of them too. Yes, that's one of the reasons I like it. That said, nothing is perfect. A UPS is a good idea even if it can only last long enough for a proper shutdown. Yes, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread b.n.
Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: On Saturday 28 October 2006 16:41, b.n. wrote: Dale ha scritto: If you use XFS, make sure you have good power. XFS does not like power failures at all. I have had to reinstall on a second rig because of this very problem. If you have a UPS, that may be OK.

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Norberto Bensa
CapSel wrote: > So my question is - how can I help to eliminate this bug(s)? Can you check your RAM please? Reiserfs (3.x that is) is very stable. I'm using it for five years now. No data loss or corruption. And DON'T use XFS if you can't afford an UPS. Regards, Norberto pgpUxWR1oDYh9.pgp De

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 28 October 2006 15:03, Alexander Skwar wrote: > · Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > if you use ext3 don't use 2.6.18 kernels. > > Why? > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&r=1&b=200610&w=2 go there, search for ext3 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 28 October 2006 14:16, Novensiles divi Flamen wrote: > On Saturday 28 October 2006 18:40, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > if you use ext3 don't use 2.6.18 kernels. > > Is there a specific problem with ext3 and 2.6.18 kernels? I haven't heard > anything yet, but if there is a prob it's

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Dale
b.n. wrote: > Dale ha scritto: > >> If you use XFS, make sure you have good power. XFS does not like power >> failures at all. I have had to reinstall on a second rig because of >> this very problem. If you have a UPS, that may be OK. > > Thanks a lot for the advice. Power outages do happen and

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 28 October 2006 16:41, b.n. wrote: > Dale ha scritto: > > If you use XFS, make sure you have good power. XFS does not like power > > failures at all. I have had to reinstall on a second rig because of > > this very problem. If you have a UPS, that may be OK. > > Thanks a lot for the

[gentoo-user] Re: BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > if you use ext3 don't use 2.6.18 kernels. Why? Alexander Skwar -- A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 28 October 2006 13:14, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> · Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > I'm even looking forward to Reiserfs4 myself. >> >> Well, actually I wouldn't hold my breath for Reiserfs anymore, >> now that Hans Reiser is in jail. I really don't think that r

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc problems after dep -d

2006-10-28 Thread Hans de Hartog
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Saturday 28 October 2006 13:43, Hans de Hartog wrote: > >>but it dies at the first emerge with: >>checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure: error: >>C++ compiler cannot create executables. > > > Do you have ccache installed? If you do try to

[gentoo-user] FIXED: Missing livecd theme

2006-10-28 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:21:29 -0400 David Relson wrote: > Greetings, > > My install the 2006.1 LiveCD didn't work 100% -- the emerge > portion of the install died. This left me with a system that is > usable, though not 100% correct. When the system starts up there's a > popup window that says:

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-headers dont know what they want...

2006-10-28 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 12:31 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Saturday 28 October 2006 03:37, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > > I do an > > > >eix-sync && emerge --pretend --tree --verbose --update --deep world > > > > on a regular basis. > > > > Each time the alsa-headers are offered fo

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread b.n.
Dale ha scritto: If you use XFS, make sure you have good power. XFS does not like power failures at all. I have had to reinstall on a second rig because of this very problem. If you have a UPS, that may be OK. Thanks a lot for the advice. Power outages do happen and I don't have an UPS. W

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Novensiles divi Flamen
On Saturday 28 October 2006 18:40, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > if you use ext3 don't use 2.6.18 kernels. > Is there a specific problem with ext3 and 2.6.18 kernels? I haven't heard anything yet, but if there is a prob it's likely to bite me very soon... references? - Noven -- >-- Novensile

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc problems after dep -d

2006-10-28 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 28 October 2006 13:43, Hans de Hartog wrote: > but it dies at the first emerge with: > checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure: error: > C++ compiler cannot create executables. Do you have ccache installed? If you do try to remerge that. # emerge --oneshot ccac

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Dale
Alexander Skwar wrote: · Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I'm even looking forward to Reiserfs4 myself. Well, actually I wouldn't hold my breath for Reiserfs anymore, now that Hans Reiser is in jail. I really don't think that reiserfs will have a good future. Alexander Skwar

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 28 October 2006 13:31, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > > I'd recommend changing to ext3 or xfs, as I've found both to be solid (I > prefer xfs but that just my personal opinion). if you use XFS don't use 2.6.17 kernels. if you use ext3 don't use 2.6.18 kernels. ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Dale wrote: If you use XFS, make sure you have good power. XFS does not like power failures at all. I have had to reinstall on a second rig because of this very problem. If you have a UPS, that may be OK. Interesting - I'm running an xfs system that has been through several power failur

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Mark Kirkwood
CapSel wrote: It's now more than five times when reiserfs has "sucked my data into /dev/null". At the begining I thout that was a hardware problem - disk, ram... but now I am almost 100% sure that reiserfs IS NOT stable file system. It doesn't matter if I have gentoo-sources or hardened-sources,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 October 2006 13:14, Alexander Skwar wrote: > · Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm even looking forward to Reiserfs4 myself. > > Well, actually I wouldn't hold my breath for Reiserfs anymore, > now that Hans Reiser is in jail. I really don't think that reiserfs > will have a good future. He is

[gentoo-user] Re: BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm even looking forward to Reiserfs4 myself. Well, actually I wouldn't hold my breath for Reiserfs anymore, now that Hans Reiser is in jail. I really don't think that reiserfs will have a good future. Alexander Skwar -- Elwood: What kind of music do you get here

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Dale
b.n. wrote: > CapSel ha scritto: >> It's now more than five times when reiserfs has "sucked my data into >> /dev/null". At the begining I thout that was a hardware problem - >> disk, ram... but now I am almost 100% sure that reiserfs IS NOT stable >> file system. It doesn't matter if I have gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 October 2006 12:16, CapSel wrote: > It's now more than five times when reiserfs has "sucked my data into > /dev/null". At the begining I thout that was a hardware problem - > disk, ram... but now I am almost 100% sure that reiserfs IS NOT stable > file system. It doesn't matter if I have gent

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread b.n.
CapSel ha scritto: It's now more than five times when reiserfs has "sucked my data into /dev/null". At the begining I thout that was a hardware problem - disk, ram... but now I am almost 100% sure that reiserfs IS NOT stable file system. It doesn't matter if I have gentoo-sources or hardened-sour

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-headers dont know what they want...

2006-10-28 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 28 October 2006 03:37, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > I do an > >eix-sync && emerge --pretend --tree --verbose --update --deep world > > on a regular basis. > > Each time the alsa-headers are offered for update. > > If alsa-headers 1.0.13 are installed, alsa-headers 1.0.12 are

[gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread CapSel
It's now more than five times when reiserfs has "sucked my data into /dev/null". At the begining I thout that was a hardware problem - disk, ram... but now I am almost 100% sure that reiserfs IS NOT stable file system. It doesn't matter if I have gentoo-sources or hardened-sources, if I compile fo

[gentoo-user] gcc problems after dep -d

2006-10-28 Thread Hans de Hartog
After the thread about depclean I thought that dep (emerge udept) was a better way to clean up things, so I did a "dep -d". It took a long time so I went away. When I came back, emerge dies constantly with: checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure: error: C++ compiler cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-28 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:35:03 -0400 Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 12:27:52PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote > > On Friday 27 October 2006 06:00, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > amarok ==> Even worse than xine. It's a Windows Media Player > > > wannabee bloated frontend t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 28 October 2006 03:35, Walter Dnes wrote: > > Not only do I not want to emerge xine-lib, I don't want to emerge ruby > and most of KDE, either. > > [m3000][root][~] emerge --ask amarok > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! >

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-28 Thread Chuanwen Wu
audacious is a good one! 2006/10/23, Dave V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed, but it's probably the only sound player that I've used. Could someone recommend a good alternative. I'm rather surprised that no one wanted to maintain

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean and fftw

2006-10-28 Thread Dale
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Friday 27 October 2006 19:59, Dale wrote: Ahhh, I see now what you are saying.  Default is to use fftw unless I turn it off.  Gotcha now. I haven't said anything about what the default is. Actually it's off by default.. Hmm, looks like

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-28 Thread Graham Murray
Myk Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem turned out to be that amarok keeps all these files /open/ > and the remote share runs out of resources. I'm using audacious now > without problems. Are you sure that Amarok keeps the files open? This would break even on a local filesystem. I a

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-28 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had my music collection mounted over nfs and I ran into a similar problem: amarok wouldn't be able to read the entire thing and the nfs shares would stop working. The problem turned out to be that amarok keeps all these files /open/ and the remote s