Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-07 Thread James Ausmus
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:07 PM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.comwrote: On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:13:33 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:29:27PM -0500, David Relson wrote: Your replies are much appreciated as we're in an area of Linux about which I'm poorly informed.

Re: [gentoo-user] remove unneeded package.keywords entries

2010-02-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:22:19 -0600, Dale wrote: True but if the OP hasn't cleaned his before, he may very well have a lot of cleaning to do as well. I clean mine every few months and it still has some size to the output. That's why I run it every week :) You got to much time

[gentoo-user] bluetooth devices can connect only once

2010-02-07 Thread Xi Shen
hi, my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3.4. i have a m$ bluetooth mouse. if i start my laptop, and connect to my mouse. it is fine. but if i stopped bluetooth, or disconnected the mouse, i cannot connect to my mouse unless i restart my system. in the /var/log/message, i found Connection refused

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-07 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 02:20:19 -0800 James Ausmus wrote: On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 8:07 PM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.comwrote: On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:13:33 -0500 Willie Wong wrote: On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 06:29:27PM -0500, David Relson wrote: Your replies are much appreciated

[gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

2010-02-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello List, I thought I'd have a play with a mind mapping program, so I tried to install freemind on this ~amd64 box. This is an excerpt from the log: Compiling source in /tmp/portage/app- misc/freemind-0.9.0_rc6/work/freemind ... * Using following ANT_TASKS: ant-nodeps ant-trax jibx

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Hello List, I thought I'd have a play with a mind mapping program, so I tried to install freemind on this ~amd64 box. This is an excerpt from the log: SNIP Can someone who knows more Java than I do see what's

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Hello List, I thought I'd have a play with a mind mapping program, so I tried to install freemind on this ~amd64 box. This is an excerpt

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

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I got a WD 1T drive to use in a new machine for my dad. I didn't pay a huge amount of attention to the technical details when I purchased it other than it was SATA2, big, and the price was good. Here's the NewEgg link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136490 I

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

2010-02-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 07 February 2010 15:06:37 Mark Knecht wrote: Runs for me. I don't know how to use it but the GUI comes up and it allows me to start creating something. Hmm. After switching to iced-tea I get the same compile error* but the GUI comes up and the program appears to work. What the hell.

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

2010-02-07 Thread Alexander
On Sunday 07 February 2010 19:27:46 Mark Knecht wrote: Every time there is an apparent delay I just see the hard drive light turned on solid. That said as far as I know if I wait for things to complete the data is there but I haven't tested it extensively. Is this a bad drive or am I

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Sunday 07 February 2010 15:06:37 Mark Knecht wrote: Runs for me. I don't know how to use it but the GUI comes up and it allows me to start creating something. Hmm. After switching to iced-tea I get the same

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

2010-02-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 07 Februar 2010, Alexander wrote: On Sunday 07 February 2010 19:27:46 Mark Knecht wrote: Every time there is an apparent delay I just see the hard drive light turned on solid. That said as far as I know if I wait for things to complete the data is there but I haven't tested

[gentoo-user] Problem configuring Intel Wireless 5300 device

2010-02-07 Thread Shoka
Hi folks, I got stuck when trying to get the Intel Wireless 5300 device running. I'm using the 2.6.31.gentoo-r6 kernel source and have tried several configuration options for getting this driver to work. The gentoo os is running on a lenovo x200 notebook. It seems that the iwlagn module

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

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Alexander b3n...@yandex.ru wrote: On Sunday 07 February 2010 19:27:46 Mark Knecht wrote:    Every time there is an apparent delay I just see the hard drive light turned on solid. That said as far as I know if I wait for things to complete the data is there but

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble starting bash

2010-02-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 09:35:54AM -0500, David Relson wrote: Looking in /etc/mtab, the last line is: none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 Perhaps the mount devpts command should have been issued as part of emerging udev, openrc, or sysinit ??? Should this be reported to b.g.o.?? Odd, that's

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

2010-02-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 07 Februar 2010, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Alexander b3n...@yandex.ru wrote: On Sunday 07 February 2010 19:27:46 Mark Knecht wrote: Every time there is an apparent delay I just see the hard drive light turned on solid. That said as far as I know if I

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

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sonntag 07 Februar 2010, Alexander wrote: On Sunday 07 February 2010 19:27:46 Mark Knecht wrote:    Every time there is an apparent delay I just see the hard drive light turned on solid. That said as

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem configuring Intel Wireless 5300 device

2010-02-07 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:21:20 +0100, Shoka sh...@gmx.ch wrote: Hi folks, I got stuck when trying to get the Intel Wireless 5300 device running. I'm using the 2.6.31.gentoo-r6 kernel source and have tried several configuration options for getting this driver to work. The gentoo os is

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

2010-02-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 08:27:46AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: QUOTE 4KB physical sectors: KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING! Pros: Quiet, cool-running, big cache Cons: The 4KB physical sectors are a problem waiting to happen. If you misalign your partitions, disk performance can suffer. I ran

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem configuring Intel Wireless 5300 device

2010-02-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 07:21:20PM +0100, Shoka wrote: I got stuck when trying to get the Intel Wireless 5300 device running. I'm using the 2.6.31.gentoo-r6 kernel source and have tried several configuration options for getting this driver to work. The gentoo os is running on a lenovo x200

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem configuring Intel Wireless 5300 device

2010-02-07 Thread Shoka
On 07.02.2010 20:29, Zeerak Waseem wrote: On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:21:20 +0100, Shoka sh...@gmx.ch wrote: Hi folks, I got stuck when trying to get the Intel Wireless 5300 device running. I'm using the 2.6.31.gentoo-r6 kernel source and have tried several configuration options for getting this

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

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 08:27:46AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: QUOTE 4KB physical sectors: KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING! Pros: Quiet, cool-running, big cache Cons: The 4KB physical sectors are a problem waiting to happen.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem configuring Intel Wireless 5300 device

2010-02-07 Thread Zeerak Waseem
On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:55:00 +0100, Shoka sh...@gmx.ch wrote: On 07.02.2010 20:29, Zeerak Waseem wrote: On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:21:20 +0100, Shoka sh...@gmx.ch wrote: Hi folks, I got stuck when trying to get the Intel Wireless 5300 device running. I'm using the 2.6.31.gentoo-r6 kernel

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-07 Thread walt
On 02/06/2010 10:05 PM, Konstantinos Bekiaris wrote: ...i upgrade my system through emerge -uDN world and then i run emerge --depclean and revdep-rebuild. After that when i tried gcc/g++ i get: gcc-config: error: could not run/locate 'gcc'. Additionally, i noticed that there is a problem with

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem configuring Intel Wireless 5300 device

2010-02-07 Thread John H. Moe
Shoka wrote: On 07.02.2010 20:29, Zeerak Waseem wrote: On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:21:20 +0100, Shoka sh...@gmx.ch wrote: Hi folks, I got stuck when trying to get the Intel Wireless 5300 device running. I'm using the 2.6.31.gentoo-r6 kernel source and have tried several configuration options

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-07 Thread Konstantinos Bekiaris
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:41 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/06/2010 10:05 PM, Konstantinos Bekiaris wrote: ...i upgrade my system through emerge -uDN world and then i run emerge --depclean and revdep-rebuild. After that when i tried gcc/g++ i get: gcc-config: error: could not

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem configuring Intel Wireless 5300 device

2010-02-07 Thread David Abbott
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 06:55 +1000, John H. Moe wrote: You need to enable Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11) first. You don't need either of the 2100 or the 2200 modules; once you select Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11) a new slew of options should come up, including the Intel Wireless Wifi option, and

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

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 08:27:46AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: QUOTE 4KB physical sectors: KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING! Pros: Quiet, cool-running, big cache Cons: The 4KB physical sectors are a problem waiting to happen.

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

2010-02-07 Thread Kyle Bader
4KB physical sectors: KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING! Good article by Theodore T'so, might be helpful: http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/20/aligning-filesystems-to-an-ssds-erase-block-size/ -- Kyle

[gentoo-user] help with inaccessible (trashed?) file

2010-02-07 Thread Walt Rarus
WALRUS ~ # whoami root WALRUS ~ # ls -l /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/ ls: cannot access /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/icesndcfg-1.3.ebuild: Permission denied total 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot2675 2008-05-09 09:37 ChangeLog -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot 771 2008-05-09 09:37 Manifest

Re: [gentoo-user] help with inaccessible (trashed?) file

2010-02-07 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 02/07/2010 11:08 PM, Walt Rarus wrote: WALRUS ~ # whoami root WALRUS ~ # ls -l /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/ ls: cannot access /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/icesndcfg-1.3.ebuild: Permission denied total 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot2675 2008-05-09 09:37 ChangeLog -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: [gentoo-user] help with inaccessible (trashed?) file

2010-02-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Walt Rarus writes: WALRUS ~ # whoami root WALRUS ~ # ls -l /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/ ls: cannot access /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/icesndcfg-1.3.ebuild: Permission denied total 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot2675 2008-05-09 09:37 ChangeLog -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot 771

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem configuring Intel Wireless 5300 device

2010-02-07 Thread Shoka
On 07.02.2010 20:46, Willie Wong wrote: On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 07:21:20PM +0100, Shoka wrote: I got stuck when trying to get the Intel Wireless 5300 device running. I'm using the 2.6.31.gentoo-r6 kernel source and have tried several configuration options for getting this driver to work.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

2010-02-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 07 February 2010 18:12:58 Mark Knecht wrote: What do you see with java-config -l ? $ java-config -L The following VMs are available for generation-2: *) IcedTea6-bin 1.7 [icedtea6-bin] 2) Sun JDK 1.5.0.22 [sun-jdk-1.5] -- Rgds Peter.

[gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello again List, $ sudo fdisk -l Unable to seek on /dev/sda What am I to make of this? The system runs ok, but apparently the underlying disk subsystem isn't happy. This box has only the one disk at the moment. Google doesn't help. The box is a new Armari system with an Asus P7P55D

[gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/08/2010 02:27 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello again List, $ sudo fdisk -l Unable to seek on /dev/sda Not sure what's going on, but you might want to post more info so that others might have an idea about what's wrong. First, clean dmesg: sudo dmesg -c /dev/null Then try fdisk

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Hello again List, $ sudo  fdisk -l Unable to seek on /dev/sda What am I to make of this? The system runs ok, but apparently the underlying disk subsystem isn't happy. This box has only the one disk at the

Re: [gentoo-user] help with inaccessible (trashed?) file

2010-02-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 08 February 2010 01:02:39 Alex Schuster wrote: Walt Rarus writes: WALRUS ~ # whoami root WALRUS ~ # ls -l /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/ ls: cannot access /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/icesndcfg-1.3.ebuild: Permission denied total 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot2675

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 08 February 2010 00:39:50 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Not sure what's going on, but you might want to post more info so that others might have an idea about what's wrong. First, clean dmesg: sudo dmesg -c /dev/null OK. Then try fdisk again: /sbin/fdisk -l $ sudo

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Hello again List, $ sudo  fdisk -l Unable to seek on /dev/sda What am I to make of this? The system runs ok, but apparently the

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 08 February 2010 00:46:33 Mark Knecht wrote: What's in dmesg when the machine boots? See attachment. Is it possible an older driver got loaded and it's showing up as hda instead of sda? I found that on one of my machines recently. I hope not. This is a new installation on a new

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

2010-02-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 01:42:18PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using default values it had the starting sector was 63 - probably about the worst value it could be.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
and what happens if you don't use crap - aka sudo but do it the right way - aka su to root?

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 08 February 2010 01:27:33 Mark Knecht wrote: sorry to have forgotten is but simply do df and see what it says is mounted $ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 60G 25G 32G 44% / /dev/root 60G 25G 32G 44% /

[gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/08/2010 02:27 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello again List, $ sudo fdisk -l Unable to seek on /dev/sda You said that Google didn't help, but still, I've found some info about it. In short, I've found two things: a) cfdisk might work while fdisk does not. b) You have a corrupted

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-07 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sun, 02/07, Konstantinos Bekiaris wrote: === Ok, nice approach. The problem is that no package can be installed because the compiler gcc is not working...this is Gentoo...everything has to do with compiling. The solution of the problem starts with fixing gcc by hand. (You are right

Re: [gentoo-user] help with inaccessible (trashed?) file

2010-02-07 Thread Walt Rarus
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: In my experience, fsck consistently detects file systems corruption, and consistently fails to do anything useful about it. In my case, reiserfsck --fix-fixable did the trick, i.e., detected and fixed the exact

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

2010-02-07 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: [snip] OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using default values it had the starting sector was 63 -

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps reinstalling binutils

2010-02-07 Thread Konstantinos Bekiaris
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz wrote: === On Sun, 02/07, Konstantinos Bekiaris wrote: === Ok, nice approach. The problem is that no package can be installed because the compiler gcc is not working...this is Gentoo...everything has to do with compiling. The