Re: [gentoo-user] ark-4.4.5-cli7zip.patch - Digest verification failed
On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 18:23 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: [...] Verifying ebuild manifests !!! Digest verification failed: !!! /usr/portage/kde-base/ark/files/ark-4.4.5-cli7zip.patch !!! Reason: Failed on RMD160 verification !!! Got: 285b725e7542b78815f0f909a65b4b6ec20cee89 !!! Expected: 57369a955bff3038ad0c105eea0179bbb795a030 firefly ~ # Google isn't turning anything up. Normally these things get cleared up within about a day but this time around I'm starting to wonder if I have some other problem here and this is only a symptom? I'm sure there's some way I can get past it WRT emerge but I'd rather get it handled at the source if possible. I though about deleting things in the path shown above but I haven't ever removed anything except distfiles and didn't want to start now. Why not? It's in your portage tree. Any deleted/altered files get replaced on the next --sync anyway. Having said that. My copy of the file indeed matches the manifest. So either you need to re --sync, delete the file and re --sync, or try syncing from a different mirror.
Re: [gentoo-user] HAL permissions? (k3b sees no device at all)
Am 15.09.2010 02:06, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, while installing my 64bit Gentoo on base on the configuration of 32bit system I came across the problem, that k3b did not see any devices. [...] There is a cdrw group in /etc/group. Try to add your user to that group. You might also try the cdrom, disk and plugdev group. After changing your groups, you have to log out and back in to apply the changes. Hope this helps, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: USB 3 HD worked, then quit?
On 09/16/2010 11:00 AM, Andrew Wilkinson wrote: I have an external USB3 hard drive that use for backup purposes. This morning everything worked fine, until suddenly the computer froze completely and was non-responsive to local or remote commands. After I hit the reset button and it come back up, the HD no longer connects via xhci (though it works fine via ehci). I guess no one here knows the answer. There is a linux.usb.general mailing list on gmane that seems like a promising place to ask, though.
[gentoo-user] Exsys EX-44092 (OXuPCI952) ???
Hi, I got some strange problems while trying to setup a EXSYS EX44092 PCIe to RS232 adapter card. What I did: Start minicom, setup the serial parameters (115200 8N1) as described in the manual for the embedded system I want to connect to and reset the embedded board. Minicom prints a sequence of .'s on the screen - thats it. I know that this embedded board is working, though. Next -- while minicom was running -- I used setserial to get the current settings of the serial interface. The baudrate was spd_normal despite the fact I had instructed minicom to set it to spd_vhi (115200 baud). Since setserial does not say anything about 8N1/7N2/... parities I couldnt check this. At last I straced minicom but I didn't found anything suspicious... EXSYS claims, that this card would work under Linux (supported by drivers which are already part of the kernel sources... What did I wrong here? Why does this setup now work? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Best regards mcc
[gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage
Hi list! I have a bit of a problem. I'm on KDE-4.4.5 and it eats memory for breakfast. Directly after booting, everything is okay but the usage grows significantly. I wonder whether this is expected behavior. The following statistics have been taken after 8 days of uptime during which the system was on standby most of the time during work days and at night. free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3754 3588 165 0 57 258 -/+ buffers/cache: 3271 482 Swap: 6142 978 5163 A desktop machine that has 4GB RAM and still needs to swap?! Excerpt from top: VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1094m 484m 10m S0 12.9 96:43.01 firefox 932m 471m 15m S0 12.6 5:10.20 akregator 384m 303m 2856 S0 8.1 59:43.43 virtuoso-t 709m 282m 2936 S0 7.5 0:40.51 nepomukservices 839m 146m 15m S0 3.9 8:37.76 thunderbird-bin 191m 131m 532 S0 3.5 12:30.73 dbus-daemon 902m 105m 5288 S0 2.8 0:30.16 krunner 263m 105m 1724 S0 2.8 2:31.18 squid 255m 61m 6672 S7 1.6 305:04.24 X 1106m 55m 7756 S0 1.5 4:22.73 amarok 534m 54m 10m S0 1.5 2:33.94 kopete 559m 52m 6536 S0 1.4 56:52.37 nepomukservices 718m 38m 12m S4 1.0 143:36.62 plasma-desktop 295m 33m 2048 S0 0.9 1:59.32 mysqld 360m 17m 1856 S0 0.5 0:07.56 tomboy 445m 16m 3392 S0 0.4 38:54.36 nepomukservices 365m 14m 6356 S1 0.4 27:38.49 konsole 438m 11m 4928 S0 0.3 0:20.12 kded4 508m 11m 6364 S0 0.3 0:45.79 kwin Okay, I'm used to Firefox taking much memory. I'm okay with that since it's the most heavily used application currently running. But why does Akregator need that much memory? It doesn't even have any tabs open at the moment and is just running minimized in the background. Virtuoso looks like an optional Soprano dependency which in turn is needed for Nepomuk. Are the default use flags for dev-libs/soprano suboptimal? What happens if I choose other flags for Soprano? The rest of the list is a bit suspicious, as well. Especially DBus and Kopete look like they live way beyond their means (or my means ;) ). Do other users experience the same? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Some keyboard confusions
On Saturday 18 September 2010 04:44:35 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: KEYMAP=qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys Try changing this to: KEYMAP=de-latin1-nodeadkeys -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE ridiculous memory usage
Florian Philipp writes: I have a bit of a problem. I'm on KDE-4.4.5 and it eats memory for breakfast. Directly after booting, everything is okay but the usage grows significantly. I wonder whether this is expected behavior. I was just about to write something about this. I suffered from bad performance for quite a while now (like mplayer stuttering during emerges), started a thread in in the gentoo-performance list and got some advice that made things a little better, but I suspect the effect came from reduced memory usage only. Since yesterday the problems all seem to be gone, but again it's not a real solution, as I plugged in another 2GB of memory, so now I have 6G. I used to restart kdm once per day in order to free memory. If I did not do this, KDE4 became nearly unsusabe. The following statistics have been taken after 8 days of uptime during which the system was on standby most of the time during work days and at night. free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3754 3588 165 0 57 258 -/+ buffers/cache: 3271 482 Swap: 6142 978 5163 A desktop machine that has 4GB RAM and still needs to swap?! After 1 day of uptime, my system needs even more, but I'm also running some stuff. wo...@weird ~ $ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 5721 5618103 0112 1108 -/+ buffers/cache: 4397 1323 Swap: 4094 50 4044 Excerpt from top: VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1094m 484m 10m S0 12.9 96:43.01 firefox 932m 471m 15m S0 12.6 5:10.20 akregator 384m 303m 2856 S0 8.1 59:43.43 virtuoso-t 709m 282m 2936 S0 7.5 0:40.51 nepomukservices 839m 146m 15m S0 3.9 8:37.76 thunderbird-bin 191m 131m 532 S0 3.5 12:30.73 dbus-daemon 902m 105m 5288 S0 2.8 0:30.16 krunner 263m 105m 1724 S0 2.8 2:31.18 squid 255m 61m 6672 S7 1.6 305:04.24 X 1106m 55m 7756 S0 1.5 4:22.73 amarok 534m 54m 10m S0 1.5 2:33.94 kopete 559m 52m 6536 S0 1.4 56:52.37 nepomukservices 718m 38m 12m S4 1.0 143:36.62 plasma-desktop 295m 33m 2048 S0 0.9 1:59.32 mysqld 360m 17m 1856 S0 0.5 0:07.56 tomboy 445m 16m 3392 S0 0.4 38:54.36 nepomukservices 365m 14m 6356 S1 0.4 27:38.49 konsole 438m 11m 4928 S0 0.3 0:20.12 kded4 508m 11m 6364 S0 0.3 0:45.79 kwin Now this looks different here. I have X with 946M, plasma-desktop with 505M, that's 15 times the memory you need. Then comes java with 371M (for TV-Browser - yes, 371MB just for showing the TV programme!), emerge wants 272M while emerging openoffice. Chromium also needs much memory, my 33 tabs want 762M: VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 1722m 946m 22m R 24 16.5 217:29.77 X 1728m 504m 23m S0 8.8 61:07.82 plasma-desktop 2018m 371m 6772 S0 6.5 2:45.60 java 379m 272m 1884 S0 4.8 4:39.50 emerge 2632m 127m 11m S0 2.2 6:48.31 pica 694m 123m 21m S0 2.2 11:28.50 kontact 1246m 117m 20m S0 2.1 27:30.34 amarok 757m 101m 86m S0 1.8 116:20.68 vmware-vmx 946m 94m 10m S0 1.7 1:37.32 chrome 682m 91m 15m S0 1.6 4:22.98 chrome 494m 79m 14m S0 1.4 0:40.28 kmymoney 929m 61m 13m S0 1.1 2:29.96 chrome 328m 56m 5084 S0 1.0 1:46.09 kio_imap4 73712 49m 616 S0 0.9 0:10.79 screen 921m 48m 30m S0 0.8 0:01.62 systemsettings 573m 46m 14m S0 0.8 1:36.06 dolphin Okay, I'm used to Firefox taking much memory. I'm okay with that since it's the most heavily used application currently running. But why does Akregator need that much memory? It doesn't even have any tabs open at the moment and is just running minimized in the background. Beats me. Virtuoso looks like an optional Soprano dependency which in turn is needed for Nepomuk. Are the default use flags for dev-libs/soprano suboptimal? What happens if I choose other flags for Soprano? Don't know. But you can just turn off virtuoso in systemsettings- desktop search. I just turned it on again, and - now I need 271M of swap, and again my system becomes unresponsive due to the constant swapping that is going on. With 6G! Which is another problem I think. One question is how KDE4 can need such a lot of memory, the other is how the system can become so unresponsive once its starts swapping. I used to have larger swap with less RAM, and did not have those performance problems. One
[gentoo-user] Fire the fox.
Is it just me? Or does Firefox get slower every release? And less stable. I got myself up to the latest, and I cannot install my 4 add-ons (xmarks, AdBlockPlus, Noscript, Stumble-upon) without it crashing. Seg fault sometimes. I've got ECC memory, and no reported problems, and it does not help to clear the profiles (rename ~/.mozilla) and re-emerge. Grr. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.
On 19 September 2010 00:14, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: Is it just me? Or does Firefox get slower every release? And less stable. I got myself up to the latest, and I cannot install my 4 add-ons (xmarks, AdBlockPlus, Noscript, Stumble-upon) without it crashing. Seg fault sometimes. I've got ECC memory, and no reported problems, and it does not help to clear the profiles (rename ~/.mozilla) and re-emerge. Grr. Use Chrome/Chromium. At my gentoo the fox won't even start. I don't know why, I won't to know why... I'm tired about Firefox. :S -- - - -- Csanyi Andras (Sayusi Ando) -- http://sayusi.hu -- http://facebook.com/andras.csanyi -- Bízzál Istenben és tartsd szárazon a puskaport!.-- Cromwell
[gentoo-user] Re: Fire the fox.
On 09/18/2010 03:14 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Is it just me? Or does Firefox get slower every release? And less stable. I got myself up to the latest, and I cannot install my 4 add-ons (xmarks, AdBlockPlus, Noscript, Stumble-upon) without it crashing. Seg fault sometimes. I've got ECC memory, and no reported problems, and it does not help to clear the profiles (rename ~/.mozilla) and re-emerge. Seems to me to be getting slower. The crashes shouldn't happen, though. Are you seeing the crash-reporter window after your crashes? I'm not sure if the firefox ebuilds include the crash reporter or not. Anyone know? (I think maybe the firefox-bin package includes it.) If all else fails, I would download a binary version from mozilla to make sure that you can submit crash reports. They really do get looked at by the mozilla devs, and bug reports that reference crash reports get serious attention quickly.
Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.
On 18 September 2010 15:14, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: Is it just me? Or does Firefox get slower every release? And less stable. Indeed. But FF4 is *much* faster. And much more stable. At least, that was my experience when I tried it out. I had to go back to 3.6 because some of the plugins that I need were not yet supported for FF4. At least the later 3.6 releases aren't as unstable as the previous ones.
Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed. But FF4 is *much* faster. And much more stable. At least, that was my experience when I tried it out. I had to go back to 3.6 because some of the plugins that I need were not yet supported for FF4. At least the later 3.6 releases aren't as unstable as the previous ones. Looking forward to Firefox 4, Firefox 3 really sucks sometimes -- @ghosTM55 Mechanism, not policy
Re: [gentoo-user] Fire the fox.
2010/9/19 Thomas Yao t.yao...@gmail.com On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed. But FF4 is *much* faster. And much more stable. At least, that was my experience when I tried it out. I had to go back to 3.6 because some of the plugins that I need were not yet supported for FF4. At least the later 3.6 releases aren't as unstable as the previous ones. Looking forward to Firefox 4, Firefox 3 really sucks sometimes -- @ghosTM55 Mechanism, not policy Using chromium-bin instead fo firefox
[gentoo-user] Problems getting PCIe-serial adapter to work
Hi, I am trying to get a PCIe-RS232 adapter board to work. lspci states the following: 03:04.0 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd 16950 Compatible (dual) serial controller (rev 01) 03:04.1 Bridge: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 1 (8bit bus) (rev 01) demesg says: Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 ports, IRQ sharing enabled PM: Adding info for platform:serial8250 ttyS0: autoconf (0x03f8, 0x(null)): IER test failed (0f, 0f) type=unknown PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyS0 ttyS1: autoconf (0x02f8, 0x(null)): IER test failed (0f, 0f) type=unknown PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyS1 ACPI: resource piix4_smbus [io 0x0b00-0x0b07] conflicts with ACPI region SMRG [mem 0x0b00-0x0b2f disabled] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver serial :03:04.0: PCI INT A - GSI 40 (level, low) - IRQ 40 Setup PCI port: port ac00, irq 40, type 0 PM: Removing info for No Bus:ttyS0 ttyS0: autoconf (0xac00, 0x(null)): iir=3 EFRv2 950id=16:c9:50:0c ttyS0: detected caps 0700 should be 0100 type=16C950/954 :03:04.0: ttyS0 at I/O 0xac00 (irq = 40) is a 16C950/954 PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyS0 Setup PCI port: port a880, irq 40, type 0 PM: Removing info for No Bus:ttyS1 ttyS1: autoconf (0xa880, 0x(null)): iir=3 EFRv2 950id=16:c9:50:0c ttyS1: detected caps 0700 should be 0100 type=16C950/954 :03:04.0: ttyS1 at I/O 0xa880 (irq = 40) is a 16C950/954 PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyS1 Setup PCI port: port a800, irq 40, type 0 Couldn't register serial port :03:04.0: -28 serial :03:04.1: PCI INT A - GSI 40 (level, low) - IRQ 40 Setup PCI port: port a080, irq 40, type 0 Couldn't register serial port :03:04.1: -28 As states by EXsys, the manufacturer of this EX-44092-2 card, it works under linux. When I try to receive data via that port, I only receive rubbish. I tried other configurations ((no)XON/XOFF, (no) hardware handshakeing, (no) parity and so on, different baudrates) beside those recommended by the manufacturerer of the board I want to connect to and receive data from. The PCIe-serial adapter board built with the Oxford OXuPCI952 chipset, which also is stated to work under linux by another source. Interestingly it is recognized as quad RS232 board (second line of the output of lspci) by lspci (I updated pcidb in beforehand) but has only two ports. The datasheets of the Oxford OXuPCI952 talks also about two ports. What can I do to get this adapter board up and running? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Have a nice sunday! Best regards, mcc
[gentoo-user] Re: Fire the fox.
On 09/19/10 09:22, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: On 18 September 2010 15:14, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: Is it just me? Or does Firefox get slower every release? And less stable. Indeed. But FF4 is *much* faster. And much more stable. At least, that was my experience when I tried it out. I had to go back to 3.6 because some of the plugins that I need were not yet supported for FF4. At least the later 3.6 releases aren't as unstable as the previous ones. Firefox 4 indeed is smoother (probably due to the new animations, probably because none of the plugins I used are compatible yet, but maybe it is just faster); but it is definitely more memory hungrier than before. In Fx3, it usually took around ~20-25% of my 1GB RAM and that's with opening a bunch lot of pages; Fx4 generally takes around ~25-30%. While taking 30% of my RAM is fine when I'm not multitasking, the main problem is I am always multitasking. With Thunderbird taking another 15-20%, emerge ranging from 5-30%, and X about 5-10%, my computer is becoming unbearably slow when memory starved. I've been thinking about adding -Os (optimize-size) to my CFLAGS, does anyone knows if doing that will possibly bring down memory usage and speed up the computer?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB 3 HD worked, then quit?
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 8:08 AM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/16/2010 11:00 AM, Andrew Wilkinson wrote: I have an external USB3 hard drive that use for backup purposes. This morning everything worked fine, until suddenly the computer froze completely and was non-responsive to local or remote commands. After I hit the reset button and it come back up, the HD no longer connects via xhci (though it works fine via ehci). I guess no one here knows the answer. There is a linux.usb.general mailing list on gmane that seems like a promising place to ask, though. Maybe try the usb-storage mailing list: https://lists.one-eyed-alien.net/mailman/listinfo/usb-storage I have USB3 ports but no USB3 devices, so no experience with its potential problems yet...
