Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k and wpa_supplicant

2009-06-03 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 02 June 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 13:24:38 +0100, Mick wrote: I'm afraid that although my card is now recognised as wlan0, both wpa_cli and gui insist on trying to connect to ath0, unless I specify -iwlan0 at the terminal. I don't have (knowingly) specified

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems, including freezes

2009-06-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Alexander Puchmayr schrieb: Hi there! My freshly setup homeserver has serious stability problem, which make the the machine absolutely unuseable as home server. [...] The problem is, when I copy large amount of data via nfs to the server, then the logs get filled with entries like

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems, including freezes

2009-06-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Florian Philipp schrieb: Does anyone have suggestions? Do you have a spare network adapter, maybe an older 100MBit PCI card? Maybe we should rule out a hardware fault on your ethernet chipset first. I agree on this. question: what filesystem do you use for the nfs-exported directory? I had

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems, including freezes

2009-06-03 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009 schrieb Florian Philipp: Do you have a spare network adapter, maybe an older 100MBit PCI card? Maybe we should rule out a hardware fault on your ethernet chipset first. I already thought on this, but the results of my tests dont indicate a hardware fault on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems, including freezes

2009-06-03 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 3, 2009, at 1:17 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: Alexander Puchmayr schrieb: Hi there! My freshly setup homeserver has serious stability problem, which make the the machine absolutely unuseable as home server. [...] The problem is, when I copy large amount of data via nfs to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems, including freezes

2009-06-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Alexander Puchmayr schrieb: Am Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009 schrieb Florian Philipp: Do you have a spare network adapter, maybe an older 100MBit PCI card? Maybe we should rule out a hardware fault on your ethernet chipset first. I already thought on this, but the results of my tests dont indicate a

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge

2009-06-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009, Graham Murray wrote: Is there any way to improve the granularity in the merge function of dispatch-conf, or make it more intelligent? The particular situation where it gives me problems is in configuration files where the value of an option has been manually changed

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge

2009-06-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:21:10 +0100, Graham Murray wrote: Is there any way to improve the granularity in the merge function of dispatch-conf, or make it more intelligent? The particular situation where it gives me problems is in configuration files where the value of an option has been

Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k and wpa_supplicant

2009-06-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 07:14:06 +0100, Mick wrote: However, I found this: ls -la /var/run/wpa_supplicant/ath0 srwxrwx--- 1 root users 0 Jun 1 11:25 /var/run/wpa_supplicant/ath0 You could, but judging by the date, it was created since you switched to wlan0 so it will probably return. I suspect

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's wrong with emerge

2009-06-03 Thread Arttu V.
On 6/3/09, alain.didierj...@free.fr alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: After three days, emerge --sync still returns the same error message. Is there anything I can do on my computer to fix it ? I don't know the portage internals well enough even to know if my following suggestion is good or bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've got a bit of a problem recently with (I think) k3b. Over the last couple of months *some* copies of CDs made in k3b using the Clone Copy feature do not reliably play in my car's CD player. I've tried The clone copy mode of cdrecord is

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think there's a way to do bit-for-bit compare of audio CDs... if it's a burning issue I would try burning at a slower speed (as slow as you can tolerate waiting for). cdda2wav -paranoia gives bit for bit identical results if the

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Could it be some copy protection thing that is new maybe? Something k3b can't quite copy. There is no copy protection system for audio CDs. Cdda2wav reads most accidental and intentional defects in audio CDs just fine. Make sure to use the original software

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot completely shut down my system from command line

2009-06-03 Thread Colombetti Marco
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 03:01:57 John covici wrote: on Tuesday 06/02/2009 James Ausmus(james.aus...@gmail.com) wrote 2009/6/2 John covici cov...@ccs.covici.com on Tuesday 06/02/2009 Sebastian G nther(sam...@guenther-roetgen.de) wrote * John covici

[gentoo-user] Seahorse freezes gpg key unlocking

2009-06-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! Recently - I don't know when exactly - anything which wanted to get access to my private gpg key (gpg itself, enigmail when signing or decrypting) simply froze when it would usually ask for the passphrase. I tracked the problem down to seahorse. The app itself worked but apparently the

[gentoo-user] Qt-core-4.5.1 jamboree not optimised for i686

2009-06-03 Thread Mick
Major build this morning of qt with a lot of blockers. Having unmerged a lot of packages to remove the blockers I am now emerging qt-core. I noticed this on my screen: Determining system architecture... (Linux:2.6.29-gentoo-r5:i686) 32-bit Intel 80x86 (i386) 'i386' is supported System

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt-core-4.5.1 jamboree not optimised for i686

2009-06-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 13:35:04 Mick wrote: Major build this morning of qt with a lot of blockers. Having unmerged a lot of packages to remove the blockers I am now emerging qt-core. I noticed this on my screen: Determining system architecture... (Linux:2.6.29-gentoo-r5:i686) 32-bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt-core-4.5.1 jamboree not optimised for i686

2009-06-03 Thread Mick
2009/6/3 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On Wednesday 03 June 2009 13:35:04 Mick wrote: Major build this morning of qt with a lot of blockers.  Having unmerged a lot of packages to remove the blockers I am now emerging qt-core.  I noticed this on my screen: Determining system

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot completely shut down my system from command line

2009-06-03 Thread Mick
2009/6/3 Colombetti Marco marco.colombe...@tele2.it: On Wednesday 03 June 2009 03:01:57 John covici wrote: on Tuesday 06/02/2009 James Ausmus(james.aus...@gmail.com) wrote   2009/6/2 John covici cov...@ccs.covici.com     on Tuesday 06/02/2009 Sebastian G nther(sam...@guenther-roetgen.de)  

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel Oops! with new xorg

2009-06-03 Thread Mick
2009/6/2 John j...@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk: On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 16:16:09 + (UTC) James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Mick michaelkintzios at gmail.com writes: I have come across this debilitating affliction which means that I can no longer shutdown properly my laptop.  It looks as if

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

2009-06-03 Thread Wyatt Epp
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: 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 : Sorry

[gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade question: is it adviseable?

2009-06-03 Thread James Homuth
I noticed yesterday gentoo-sources-2.6.29 was released, and was wondering if it's required that the kernel be upgraded (I'm currently running 2.6.28. I did download the sources (Should I have done that?), but in the event it's not mandatory or anything to upgrade the kernel I'd really like to not

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade question: is it adviseable?

2009-06-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 17:43:56 James Homuth wrote: I noticed yesterday gentoo-sources-2.6.29 was released, and was wondering if it's required that the kernel be upgraded no (I'm currently running 2.6.28. nothing wrong with that I did download the sources (Should I have done that?),

Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k and wpa_supplicant

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I'm afraid that although my card is now recognised as wlan0, both wpa_cli and gui insist on trying to connect to ath0, unless I specify -iwlan0 at the terminal. I don't have (knowingly) specified ath0 in any other

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge

2009-06-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 08:52:22 Neil Bothwick wrote: I switched from dispatch-conf to conf-update a while ago and much prefer it. The merging is more flexible and rarely has problems as you describe. Well I'm still using etc-update. The only difficult case is when squid is updated on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's wrong with emerge

2009-06-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 09:23:51 Arttu V. wrote: ... I wonder why isn't your profiles directory updated by the sync ... It gets in the way of portage. As soon as it finds a profile update it can't handle it aborts whatever it's about to do, even if that's syncing. I got out of this on one

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade question: is it adviseable?

2009-06-03 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 03 June 2009 17:43:56 James Homuth wrote: Related, however, if I do recompile it and decide to do so with genkernel, Yuck. I tell people to stay away from that thing. Just learn how to do it yourself. It's not hard, you get only what you want,

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems [SOLVED]

2009-06-03 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
After a long discussion with a friend I changed some kernel-configs: * Large Receive Offload (INET_LRO) disabled. * Changed allocator from SLUB to SLAB These two made the system much more stable, much less allocation error messages, but not yet stable enough (still some freezes) * Increased

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems [SOLVED]

2009-06-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: After a long discussion with a friend I changed some kernel-configs: * Large Receive Offload (INET_LRO) disabled. * Changed allocator from SLUB to SLAB These two made the system much more stable, much less allocation error messages, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade question: is it adviseable?

2009-06-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 18:39:56 Dale wrote: will it respect the settings I've compiled into 2.6.28 or will they need to be reset again before 2.6.29 is compiled? No. Not unless you give it the old config to use. IIRC it has some feature to use the config for the currently running

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Could it be some copy protection thing that is new maybe?  Something k3b can't quite copy. There is no copy protection system for audio CDs. Cdda2wav reads most

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009 21:34:10 schrieb Mark Knecht: Jorg - Is there some reason that cdrecord isn't in portage? I am not seeing it listed. Maybe it's my mistake. I'll look again later. app-cdr/cdrtools Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-03 Thread Mark Knecht
thanks Dirk! On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009 21:34:10 schrieb Mark Knecht: Jorg - Is there some reason that cdrecord isn't in portage? I am not seeing it listed. Maybe it's my mistake. I'll look again later.

[gentoo-user] Re: Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Joerg Schilling wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Could it be some copy protection thing that is new maybe? Something k3b can't quite copy. There is no copy protection system for audio CDs. There is, unfortunately. An example is Cactus Data Shield. The bad thing is that it even

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: There is no copy protection system for audio CDs. There is, unfortunately. An example is Cactus Data Shield. The bad thing is that it even breaks the standard, resulting in the copy protected audio CD not playing back in

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade question: is it adviseable?

2009-06-03 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 03 June 2009 18:39:56 Dale wrote: Why not copy the config from the old kernel over and run make oldconfig? May need to do some cleaning after genkernel tho. That's the correct way :-) But the OP asked if there was some magic way to get genkernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: cdda2wav -paranoia gives much better results that cdparanoia. Thanks for your work, Joerg. I've used cdda2wav with paranoia mode forever and it seems able to rip everything as long as the hardware can

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

2009-06-03 Thread Maxim Wexler
Partioning scheme and formatting tricks for optimal performance: http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/20/aligning-filesystems-to-an-ssds-erase-block-size/ Great resource. I wonder if any members found objections posted by 'starfry' at the bottom of the article worthy of consideration. Or did

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,    I've got a bit of a problem recently with (I think) k3b. Over the last couple of months *some* copies of CDs made in k3b using the Clone Copy feature do

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I will see about buying a CD player cleaning disk. I suppose they still make those. I've used 3 different spindle of CDs before I started the thread. I'm happy to try 'better' media if I can determine what that means without guessing. Here's an

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I will see about buying a CD player cleaning disk. I suppose they still make those. I've used 3 different spindle of CDs before I started the thread. I'm happy

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I will see about buying a CD player cleaning disk. I suppose they still make those.

[gentoo-user] News NILFS file-system?

2009-06-03 Thread Stroller
I'm surprised to hear about a new file-system only as it enters the main kernel tree: http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7345/1.html Anyone got any comments on this? A snapshotty file-system would be *immensely* useful, but I fear putting into production something untested. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] News NILFS file-system?

2009-06-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 04 Juni 2009, Stroller wrote: I'm surprised to hear about a new file-system only as it enters the main kernel tree: http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7345/1.html Anyone got any comments on this? A snapshotty file-system would be *immensely* useful, but I fear putting into

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: OK - I'll try that in a minute. Right now I'm stuck. Attempting to run your readcd program it's locked up and I cannot kill it. Ctrl-C didn't work.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade question: is it adviseable?

2009-06-03 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (03/06/09 15:40) Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 03 June 2009 18:39:56 Dale wrote: Why not copy the config from the old kernel over and run make oldconfig? May need to do some cleaning after genkernel tho. That's the correct way :-) But the OP asked if