[gentoo-user] broken system - get_libdir returns an emtpy string - please help

2011-03-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, probably, portage-2.2.0_alpha28 has broken my system. I have reinstalled a binary version of portage-2.2.0_alpha27, but ... For many packages, portage installs libraries into /usr instead of /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib32 Probably, the function get_libdir (defined in

[gentoo-user] Re: broken system - get_libdir returns an emtpy string - please help

2011-03-21 Thread walt
On 03/21/2011 02:19 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, probably, portage-2.2.0_alpha28 has broken my system. I have reinstalled a binary version of portage-2.2.0_alpha27, but ... For many packages, portage installs libraries into /usr instead of /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib32 Probably, the function

[gentoo-user] Emerge server

2011-03-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I'm setting my i5 workstation up to be an emerge host to a new Atom N550 box on the LAN. I've created a 32-bit chroot at /mnt/atom on the i5 box, written an init.d script to mount the Atom's whole file system on /mnt/atom/target over NFS, and set an alias tmerj='emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: broken system - get_libdir returns an emtpy string - please help

2011-03-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/21/2011 11:13:36 AM, walt wrote: On 03/21/2011 02:19 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, probably, portage-2.2.0_alpha28 has broken my system. I have reinstalled a binary version of portage-2.2.0_alpha27, but ... For many packages, portage installs libraries into /usr instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge server

2011-03-21 Thread Gregory Fontenele
any manager can I unsubscribe from this list? Enviado via iPhone Em 21/03/2011, às 07:40, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org escreveu: Hello list, I'm setting my i5 workstation up to be an emerge host to a new Atom N550 box on the LAN. I've created a 32-bit chroot at /mnt/atom on the

Re: [gentoo-user] broken system - get_libdir returns an emtpy string - please help

2011-03-21 Thread Gregory Fontenele
any manager can I unsubscribe from this list? Enviado via iPhone Em 21/03/2011, às 06:19, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de escreveu: Hi, probably, portage-2.2.0_alpha28 has broken my system. I have reinstalled a binary version of portage-2.2.0_alpha27, but ... For many

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: broken system - get_libdir returns an emtpy string - please help

2011-03-21 Thread Gregory Fontenele
any manager can I unsubscribe from this list? Enviado via iPhone Em 21/03/2011, às 07:44, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de escreveu: On 03/21/2011 11:13:36 AM, walt wrote: On 03/21/2011 02:19 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, probably, portage-2.2.0_alpha28 has broken my system.

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge server

2011-03-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 21 March 2011 10:40:52 I wrote: Have I missed something in the setup? I had. I'd missed --config-root=/target to go with --root=target. Sorry about the noise - though someone may be interested in how I'm implementing the idea of an emerge server. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge server

2011-03-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:30:46 -0300, Gregory Fontenele wrote: any manager can I unsubscribe from this list? You don't get off mailing lists by spamming them. If you are incapable of following the instructions you have already been given, you could always killfile the list's address, as I am

Re: [gentoo-user] broken system - get_libdir returns an emtpy string - please help

2011-03-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/21/2011 10:19:07 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, probably, portage-2.2.0_alpha28 has broken my system. I have reinstalled a binary version of portage-2.2.0_alpha27, but ... For many packages, portage installs libraries into /usr instead of /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib32 Probably, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge server

2011-03-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 21 March 2011 11:44:47 I wrote: On Monday 21 March 2011 10:40:52 I wrote: Have I missed something in the setup? I had. I'd missed --config-root=/target to go with --root=target. The next problem comes when installing xorg-xserver, which tries to find a kernl config in

[gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-21 Thread Jarry
Hi, I'm looking for the best filesystem for a small multi-purpose server with a couple of services running (ftp, web, mail, mysql). For me very important features are: snapshot (will be used for backup, must be native without lvm) journaling resizeable (if possible online) After a little

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-21 Thread Matthias Fechner
Am 21.03.2011 20:32, schrieb Jarry: resizeable (if possible online) I switched to ext4, it can resize in both direction. Bye Matthias -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-21 Thread Stéphane Guedon
On Monday 21 March 2011 20:32:22 Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm looking for the best filesystem for a small multi-purpose server with a couple of services running (ftp, web, mail, mysql). For me very important features are: snapshot (will be used for backup, must be native without lvm) journaling

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-21 Thread Dale
Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm looking for the best filesystem for a small multi-purpose server with a couple of services running (ftp, web, mail, mysql). For me very important features are: snapshot (will be used for backup, must be native without lvm) journaling resizeable (if possible online) After

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-21 Thread Michael Hampicke
I'm looking for the best filesystem for a small multi-purpose server with a couple of services running (ftp, web, mail, mysql). For me very important features are: Now without trying to start flame-war, my question is: which of them could be better for my need? More stable, more reliable,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: broken system - get_libdir returns an emtpy string - please help

2011-03-21 Thread Dale
Gregory Fontenele wrote: any manager can I unsubscribe from this list? I don't think there are any managers here. You have to unsubscribe yourself, sort of the same way you subscribed to this list. Try reading this or the headers in each message: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-21 Thread Thanasis
on 03/21/2011 11:52 PM Dale wrote the following: snip If you use XFS, make sure you have a UPS to prevent hard power offs. I used XFS a good while back, every time the power would fail, it was toast. I second this. My experience with xfs: a good chance you will end up with empty (zero size)

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-21 Thread Michael Hampicke
It was fast and nice Not fast on deletes. On the contrary, it was dead slow. That's about to change [1] - haven't tested it though [1] http://xfs.org/index.php/Improving_Metadata_Performance_By_Reducing_Journal_Overhead

[gentoo-user] problems with mutt and mimetypes

2011-03-21 Thread Michael George
I'm having trouble with mutt opening other applications for various mime types. I'm sure this worked last month, and from what I can see, I had mutt-1.5.20-r18 and firefox-3.6.13. I now have mutt-1.5.21-r1 and firefox-3.6.15. mutt -nF /dev/null -Q mailcap_path gives me:

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 21.03.2011 20:32, schrieb Jarry: Hi, I'm looking for the best filesystem for a small multi-purpose server with a couple of services running (ftp, web, mail, mysql). For me very important features are: snapshot (will be used for backup, must be native without lvm) journaling

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm looking for the best filesystem for a small multi-purpose server with a couple of services running (ftp, web, mail, mysql). For me very important features are: snapshot (will be used for backup, must be

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-21 Thread Amankwah
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 08:32:22PM +0100, Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm looking for the best filesystem for a small multi-purpose server with a couple of services running (ftp, web, mail, mysql). For me very important features are: snapshot (will be used for backup, must be native without lvm)

Re: [gentoo-user] broken system - get_libdir returns an emtpy string - please help

2011-03-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 03/21/2011 10:19:07 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, probably, portage-2.2.0_alpha28 has broken my system. I have reinstalled a binary version of portage-2.2.0_alpha27, but ... For many packages, portage

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with mutt and mimetypes

2011-03-21 Thread Amankwah
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 06:44:44PM -0400, Michael George wrote: I'm having trouble with mutt opening other applications for various mime types. I'm sure this worked last month, and from what I can see, I had mutt-1.5.20-r18 and firefox-3.6.13. I now have mutt-1.5.21-r1 and firefox-3.6.15.

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-21 Thread Jacob Todd
I've been using xfs on a 1tb WD MyBook for storage for about a year now, and even with multiple power failures, it's been fine. It doesn't get written to as much as read to, though, and iirc i have a cron job run sync every half an hour.

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-21 Thread Dale
Jacob Todd wrote: I've been using xfs on a 1tb WD MyBook for storage for about a year now, and even with multiple power failures, it's been fine. It doesn't get written to as much as read to, though, and iirc i have a cron job run sync every half an hour. The cron job is cheating. ROFL

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with mutt and mimetypes

2011-03-21 Thread Michael George
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 07:23:13AM +0800, Amankwah wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 06:44:44PM -0400, Michael George wrote: I'm having trouble with mutt opening other applications for various mime types. I'm sure this worked last month, and from what I can see, I had mutt-1.5.20-r18 and

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-21 Thread Duong Yang Ha Nguyen
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Paul Hartman wrote: Now for the past couple years I use ext4 everywhere and have suffered dozens of crashes and power failures without incident (laptop with dead battery and lack of power management, crazy nvidia-drivers problems on desktop machine, UPS that died during a