Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Adam Carter
There's a humongous matrix of nvidia chipset and model numbers somewhere on the internet that explains the differences but I can't seem to find it at the moment. My Google-fu is failing me. :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_NVIDIA_graphics_processing_units

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Adam Carter
Nice link. I didn't even think of looking on that site. I guess one good thing to go by is the processing power and memory. After all, that's what makes it all work faster. Looks like I'm still getting a pretty old card but I don't play any hard core games or anything. Playing videos is

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware - help

2010-10-25 Thread Adam Carter
My principle for using vmware on Gentoo is; use the latest vmware, do not use the latest kernel. I'm using Workstation 7.1.2, which works well with 2.6.34, also works with 2.6.35 (but wants to rebuild one kernel module every time it runs, which I havent tried to fix).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware - help

2010-10-25 Thread Adam Carter
Have you tried 2.6.34? FWIW i use gentoo-sources. I have no useful ideas at this point - beyond my level. Have you tried running it with strace to establish what its doing just before it dies? Does ldd show any missing libs? malloc = Memory ALLOCation

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-10-26 Thread Adam Carter
nothing unusual there, except for the swap usage itself. 'top' doesn't show any large apps. sorted by mem the top 4 are: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 8318 iain 20 0 494m 150m 21m S0 5.0 1:20.67 evolution 20424 iain 20 0 342m

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-10-27 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: That was about the time mine got changed. I always wondered how that got changed. Since I added it to rc.conf, that should keep it from getting changed again. May want to do the same on yours too. Usually you put stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-10-27 Thread Adam Carter
Usually you put stuff like that in /etc/sysctl.conf. IIRC the key is vm.swappiness. Looking at the man page, I would think you are correct but I don't see a example on that setting. I'll have to google for it I guess. Putting it in rc.conf does work tho. I also used to have to adjust my

Re: [gentoo-user] usb error log spam

2010-11-04 Thread Adam Carter
ou probably have CONFIG_USB_DEBUG or CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG enabled in your kernel. no, it's not: CONFIG_USB_DEBUG is not set That also why, i think this more a error message than a debug Looks like debug to me, and since all the entries are labeled 'usb-storage' it strongly

Re: [gentoo-user] ldap client authentication

2010-11-04 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:51 AM, James j...@nc.rr.com wrote: Bump -- any ideas? In a tough spot right now trying to wrap this LDAP project up and I'm stuck. :( -james You seem to be using ldap sometimes and ldaps other times in your configs. Suggest you try getting everything working with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-04 Thread Adam Carter
I will have to try conf-update - its interface sounds nice. If you run X, then cfg-update, configured to use meld for the diffing/editing via GUI, is nice and clear.

Re: [gentoo-user] samba no connect from windows

2010-11-15 Thread Adam Carter
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: This samba problem (windows machines cannot connect to gentoo server) seems to have followed a recent update including samba. qlop shows: Mon Nov 1 05:10:33 2010 net-fs/samba-3.5.6 Usually I've found I might need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix broken

2010-11-15 Thread Adam Carter
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: Some time ago, it appears, postfix stopped working for me. I am no longer able to use it to send mail (usually to my ISP, where it gets routed). It used to work fine, and if there was an elog that I needed to follow,

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-15 Thread Adam Carter
One post mentioned that this needs to be reinstalled, I AGREE. Re installation may be *correct*, but sometimes its impractical. I would 1. Pull the drive, and connect it to another fully patched, fully security updated windows box. 2. From that box run chkdsk - full virus scan - defrag 3.

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-15 Thread Adam Carter
For a Linux list, I sure am getting a lot of good ideas on windoze. O_O I'm sure there's many people on this list that have to support relatives broken PCs ^_^ For me, i have Vista (OEM, came with the laptop) running in a VMware virtual machine for iTunes (dont get me started on that POS)

Re: [gentoo-user] how to rebuild gentoo on a somewhat different hardware

2010-11-16 Thread Adam Carter
I have an up-to-date ~amd64 GenToo installation with has been built on a current AMD64 (Phenom II) machine where I used -mtune=native in etc/make.conf since I didn't think of the case that I would need to port this system to a somewhat older Opteron based machine (still AMD64) But after

Re: [gentoo-user] bind-9.7.1_p2 does not want to stop...

2010-11-16 Thread Adam Carter
The problem is, it runs forever, and does not want to stop: Standard practice for any daemon that doesnt want to stop via the init script, most graceful to most forceful; 1. Try the daemons native shutdown command (some have an option to shutdown only after any connected clients are serviced,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bind-9.7.1_p2 does not want to stop...

2010-11-16 Thread Adam Carter
On 11/16/2010 11:47 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... For an auth server, powerdns is very good... By 'auth' do you mean something like DNSSEC? If not, who's doing the auth-ing? He means authoritative server (ie a server that has a copy of the zone file) - not authentication.

Re: [gentoo-user] One machine sends emerge text output to stderr, not stdout

2010-11-16 Thread Adam Carter
do so today (115 packages emerge). I normally... emerge -pv --deep --update world | less ...before updating, to check for booby-traps. Today, the output on the backup machine blasted to screen, and did not stop until finished. Meanwhile, the bottom of the screen shows lines 1-4/4 (END) .

Re: [gentoo-user] Crufted with perl modules?

2010-11-16 Thread Adam Carter
but should I now have perl modules spread across my filesystem that aren't known by portage? Is there any way to clean them up? Would installing the same Bundle with g-cpan be guaranteed to straighten everything out? qfile -orphans ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Crufted with perl modules?

2010-11-17 Thread Adam Carter
I wasnt familiar with + but it changes the default behavior of this; find /path -name something -exec ls -lS {} \; which will run ls -lS once for each file, and therefore Sort doesnt work as its only sorting a single file find /patch -name something -exec -ls -lS + which runs ls -lS once against

Re: [gentoo-user] Crufted with perl modules?

2010-11-17 Thread Adam Carter
find /patch -name something -exec -ls -lS + which runs ls -lS once against all the files that find finds (added as additional arguments), and therefore Sort works. Almost right. -exec + will not append all filenames found and run one command, it will append the maximum number of

[gentoo-user] FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-18 Thread Adam Carter
2.6.38 should contain a ~200 line patch that makes a huge difference to desktop responsiveness under load; Tests done by Mike show the maximum latency dropping by over ten times and the average latency of the desktop by about 60 times Ref:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] About devining file type when browsing

2010-11-24 Thread Adam Carter
Maybe some firefox addon or something similar. httpfox will show all the GETs/POSTs and URLs, so you can see the filenames with their extensions, and in the response-header window you can see the Content-Type header.

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing CVS on non-standard port

2010-11-24 Thread Adam Carter
Hmm, I don't get it. Why would this .ssh/config not work? Host gateway Hostname gateway.example.com User alan LocalForward cvs.example.com:22 Host cvs Hostname localhost Port User alan You log in at

Re: [gentoo-user] 200-line patch to kernel = superkernel

2010-11-25 Thread Adam Carter
Would you share? +1 I only have an empty /sys/fs/cgroup with the following config on 2.6.36, so please share the kernel config as well. # zgrep CGROUP /proc/config.gz CONFIG_CGROUPS=y # CONFIG_CGROUP_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_CGROUP_NS=y CONFIG_CGROUP_FREEZER=y CONFIG_CGROUP_DEVICE=y

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia and i/o problem

2010-11-25 Thread Adam Carter
1) Gentlemen, with this hardware when i try to compile some nice software like chromium, pyside or openoffice my system freeze. I can't do anything like use keyboard, mouse or switch betwenn windows. How can i find the motive to this strange (???) problem? I've used --load-average in MAKEOPTS

Re: [gentoo-user] quickpkg - blocking portage-2.1.9.24

2010-11-26 Thread Adam Carter
* package sys-apps/portage-2.1.9.24 NOT merged * * Detected file collision(s): * * /usr/bin/quickpkg Should I remove the quickpkg to install new portage or comment-out collision-protect in make.conf? I just ran the same update (and it reported it was going ahead with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT. Building a rig. Want to get opinions before spending $$$

2010-11-26 Thread Adam Carter
Even my rig - hotter, doesn't reach 300W when I artificially torture the system. Normal 'max' load is in 200W range. An normal desktop? Under 100. OK -- just to find out the truth I've attached a kill-a-watt to my current workstation which is ~4yrs old w/ slow cpu and ancient video card

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to improve interactivity with heavy disk activity?

2010-11-27 Thread Adam Carter
My immediate reaction was to consider the recent 200-line patch to kernel = superkernel thread: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/221770 As well as following Florian's instructions there (it helps a lot), you should run 2.6.36 as there have been improvements in the last few

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trouble with new gnome (~amd64)

2010-12-09 Thread Adam Carter
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I'm still trying to find out who is looking for that library. The new version of bug-buddy no longer supplies that library, and when you run bug-buddy from a

Re: [gentoo-user] Need networking help. Can't ping google.

2010-12-09 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I got my system put together. I have booted a Gentoo 10 CD. This is the setup as far as the network goes. Internet DSL modem Gentoo rig named smoker New rig, no name yet. Lightening will work for now. ;-) I

Re: [gentoo-user] Need networking help. Can't ping google.

2010-12-10 Thread Adam Carter
ip_forward is set to one. Confirmed it with cat. I did this one time before. I found a iptables script and when I ran it, it just worked. The script is old and doesn't work anymore. The last time it was a gateway issue. I'm not sure this time. Are there any iptables rules on smoker?

Re: [gentoo-user] make.conf for Pentium E2140

2010-12-13 Thread Adam Carter
I want to install Gentoo on my computer at work. I have installed Gentoo on my home computer, but it have Athlon64 processor. I have some troubles with make.conf. Which CHOST and CFLAGS I need to set up? Have you read: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Safe_Cflags ?

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
r...@smoker / # cat /media/disk/files/Xorg.0.log | grep EE [ 2081.047] Current Operating System: Linux fireball 2.6.36-gentoo-r4 #15 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 13 01:15:13 CST 2010 x86_64 (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 2081.048] (II) Loading extension

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
I confirmed with lsmod and even rmmod and modprobed it back in a few times. Still no joy. I really think it is either the card or the xorg.conf file. Thing is, when Mandriva failed to work, that makes me wonder about the card. It was using the generic nv driver and it still wouldn't work.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange boot problem - any ideas?

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
I'll search for such a configuration problem, otherwise I'll create a bug report. Are you using rc_parallel=NO ? (in /etc/rc.conf)

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
IMO its a waste of time to worry about any of this other stuff - the EE's in the log file are ERRORs, directly pointing at serious issues with missing modules. So either the modules dont exist, or xorg cant find them. There's no evidence of a problem with the nvidia module or the

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange boot problem - any ideas?

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 12/15/10 11:03:43, Adam Carter wrote: I'll search for such a configuration problem, otherwise I'll create a bug report. Are you using rc_parallel=NO ? (in /etc/rc.conf) No, why disable

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
I don't think that's true. In my Xorg.0.log I do have (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0) and still, X11 is running just fine. I think these modules are superfluous with a recent Xorg version.

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
I hope you are right. If it is missing modules, what do I need to do to fix it? I did a emerge -e nvidia-drivers and everything built fine. Dale :-) :-) Did u see my other email with this? Can you locate libdri.so, libdri2.so and libglx.so on your file system? On my ATI system they're

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: I hope you are right. If it is missing modules, what do I need to do to fix it? I did a emerge -e nvidia-drivers and everything built fine. fwiw xorg supplies the libdri modules, its not part of nvidia-drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
Result: eve ~ # find /usr -name libdri* /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libdri.so /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libdri2.so eve ~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (II) Loading extension

Re: !! SOLVED !! Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. sighs

2010-12-15 Thread Adam Carter
I went back and looked at the nvidia driver guide on gentoo.org. There is no mention of nvidia needing that. Should I tell the doc team so they can mention that for others or is my machine a little unique? Since someone else ran into it on the link you posted, it may be something that

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?

2010-12-21 Thread Adam Carter
On 12/21/10 09:02:32, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: If you plan to use proprietary drivers then I'd use some other brand. Why? I have several machines with an onboard Radeon HD 3300 chip. The recent versions of x11-drivers/ati-drivers (currently 10.11) run just fine

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a standard sysctl-like way to modify sysfs files at boot time?

2010-12-28 Thread Adam Carter
On Monday 27 December 2010 11:37:29 Mark David Dumlao wrote: I want to do this: http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/11/forget-200-lines-red-hat-speed .html in userspace, but automate it at boot time. it requires that I create and mount the cgroup subsystem in sysfs and sounds a

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2010-12-31 Thread Adam Carter
. Total corruptions in 5 years with reiserfs-3.6 and NO ups in that environment = zero. Same - havent moved from reiser3 for ages. Originally I used ext2 then reiser3 then started trying out ext3, but after a failure to come up clean with ext3 i just went back to reiser3 and stayed. My

Re: [gentoo-user] Slotted PHP behavior

2011-01-04 Thread Adam Carter
I had a similar problem before and I did solve it by running this command: eselect php set apache2 php5.3. I believe I get this command from a Gentoo official PHP guide. Hung Thank you, that fixed it. I'm getting some errors in squirrelmail but functionality seems to be intact.

Re: [gentoo-user] boot to console only?

2011-01-11 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What (if any) is a way to boot a Gentoo VM as far as the console, not starting X, to allow a root login? Possibly some sort of interactive boot where I can tell it to continue or not? The current kernel on this

Re: [gentoo-user] config with wireless

2011-01-14 Thread Adam Carter
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 1:53 AM, doherty pete nishizaw...@gmail.com wrote: i think the wireless didn't start because the wireless light is extinguish You probably haven't built the correct driver (module). Does ifconfig -a show the device? Does lshw (you might need to emerge it) show the

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-15 Thread Adam Carter
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 1:34 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am trying to use my unstable gentoo on kernel 2.6.36-gentoo-r6 and when I emerge nvidia-drivers, I get invalid argument when I try to modprobe the module. Did you remember to repoint the /usr/src/linux link? IIRC the module

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Adam Carter
I have compiled a kernel for 2.6.37 but I have not booted it yet. I'll set the link to the new kernel, emerge nvidia and see what happens when I boot the new kernel. In the past, I was on x86 on my old rig. Maybe it is the arch that affects something. I'm not sure but will test later

Re: [gentoo-user] invalid argument when trying to modprobe nvidia module

2011-01-16 Thread Adam Carter
I am using x86 rather than 64 and I did emerge it after rebooting to the new kernel, but I got invalid argument when issuing the modprobe command. Can you cut/paste the command and output? and also the command modinfo nvidia and its output?

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding more than one static IP

2011-01-25 Thread Adam Carter
config_eth0=( 77.xxx.104.14/24 ) routes_eth0=( default via 77.xxx.104.1 ) config_eth0:1=( 77.xxx.104.100/24 ) routes_eth0:1=( default via 77.xxx.104.1 ) config_eth0:2=( 77.xxx.104.101/24 ) routes_eth0:2=( default via 77.xxx.104.1 ) config_eth0:3=( 77.xxx.105.100/24 ) routes_eth0:3=(

Re: [gentoo-user] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: X/4018

2011-01-30 Thread Adam Carter
I use gentoo-sources and have been getting that for as long as i've used fglrx (since 9.6, ie driver version 8.62). I don't notice any issue so just ignore it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce woes

2011-02-03 Thread Adam Carter
Until one day one of their bright spark techies had a brilliant idea. They hired a bunch of pretty girls wearing tight skimpy New! Improved! Check Our Promotion! outfits to stand outside the front door handing out free complimentary CDs. Yes, you guessed it. Within the hour the perimeter

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is misplaced in /usr

2011-02-06 Thread Adam Carter
Tradition is a much better reason to keep things the same. You need someone to make the change. Which is more than just move /usr/portage to /var or wherever you want it to be (and first: get consent about where to put it). No, you have to update documentation, make sure that there are not

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] invisible README

2011-02-15 Thread Adam Carter
I recently put some files up at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/esp/ . One of them is README.pdf , which is visible when I list the dir contents using SSh or Krusader, but which is not shown by FF, Konqueror or Lynx. If I make a copy called READFILE.pdf , it is shown by the browsers.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] invisible README

2011-02-15 Thread Adam Carter
What does the httpd error log say :)

Re: [gentoo-user] irritating cron habit : solved

2011-02-21 Thread Adam Carter
on; sphinx adam # hping2 -c 1 -S -p 80 www.google.com /dev/null 21 echo it worked it worked

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] etho app rating 10/100 etc in megabytes

2011-02-21 Thread Adam Carter
I've gotten confused on this problem way too many times.. I'd like to get some definitive starting points. When you see net adapters online they are always rated like 10/100 or 10/100/1000. So how does one turn that notation into megabytes? That notation is in megabits per second, or

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem

2011-02-25 Thread Adam Carter
Did you remember to restart the sshd on your amd64 system? If not, try disabling the new high performance stuff on the client. I had a problem logging into a solaris box until i disabled it. In my ~/.ssh/config file I added; host ip or hostname HPNDisabled yes

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem

2011-02-26 Thread Adam Carter
The nc command does nothing when run from the same host I'm trying to ssh in to. Ok so you may not have an ssh problem (so ignore the ssh specific stuff for now) you have a network problem. It will be either routing or firewalling. If you can ping the box, then its a firewall problem. So, try

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem

2011-02-26 Thread Adam Carter
When ssh'ing in from a remote updated Gentoo box the Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer message is displayed. This message is not displayed when trying to ssh in from inside the network. Ok that's different (and not consistent with the Connection timed out message, but lets

Re: [gentoo-user] Error on gtk thmem: gtk-engines-flat

2011-03-07 Thread Adam Carter
I got a gtk library error when trying to run a python script. # ./st.py /usr/bin/python2.7: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libflat.so: undefined symbol: gtk_rc_style_get_type Have you run revdep-rebuild and/or python-updater?

[gentoo-user] Updated boost to 1.42 + encfs 1.7, killed encfs volume

2011-03-20 Thread Adam Carter
It looks like i've hit this issue; http://code.google.com/p/encfs/issues/detail?id=60 So i've reinstalled boost 1.41 with; # emerge =boost-1.41.0-r3 # eselect boost set 1 # emerge encfs but its still broken, and $ ldd /usr/bin/encfs | grep boost libboost_serialization-mt-1_42.so.1.42.0 =

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updated boost to 1.42 + encfs 1.7, killed encfs volume

2011-03-20 Thread Adam Carter
Some package on your machine is still linked against 1.42, though I can't tell you which one. Since you just rebuilt encfs, that isn't the guilty one. IMO the quickest way to find the package that needs rebuilding is:to move or rename libboost_serialization-mt-1_42.so.1.42.0, and then run

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-26 Thread Adam Carter
I guess I'm not clear on the use of 'manual' here. They are automatically added. If they are correctly rebuilt then they shouldn't need to be added a second time, correct? However they are. (Over and over...) Basically, it is my understanding that if everything is correctly updated then on

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 update: re-emerge of cracklib failed, how can I fix it?

2011-03-27 Thread Adam Carter
File setup.py, line 22, in module from setuptools import setup, Extension, find_packages ImportError: No module named setuptools * ERROR: sys-libs/cracklib-2.8.16 failed (compile phase): * Building failed with CPython 2.7 in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python-2.7 update: re-emerge of cracklib failed, how can I fix it?

2011-03-27 Thread Adam Carter
... and run 4. and 5. above in the wrong order? In the e-warning words of --depclean itself: * Depclean may break link level dependencies. Thus, it is * recommended to use a tool such as `revdep-rebuild` ... Agreed, revdep last. I always run depclean with pretend first. If depclean wants

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-27 Thread Adam Carter
Understood and agreed. For OO I couldn't quite get up the interest to start building from scratch though. Something like 450MB of things to download and then what, do it again in a week or two? Not worth it for my needs. Did you delete the source out of your /usr/portage/distfiles

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: usb media reader

2011-03-31 Thread Adam Carter
SD is another kernel module. There are different categories for SD and Memory Stick drivers in the kernel config. Look in the Device Drivers section. I did not see much, but enabled everthing. I cannot reboot for a few days for other reasons... If you're just adding more

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a local web server

2011-04-01 Thread Adam Carter
dig you build php with an apache2 flag to enable the Apache module? And you'll also need this in your httpd.conf; AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?

2011-04-03 Thread Adam Carter
I already feel old but I think I'm really getting old now. It is amazing how far computer have come tho. Both in hardware and the OS, well, except for windoze. It hasn't come that far yet. lol If windows hasnt come far for you, then you've never used the pre-windows 2000 editions, let

[gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4

2011-04-08 Thread Adam Carter
Hi All, I'm getting the usual cant boot root device error on my gentoo guest. AFAICT i've built all the relevant scsi adapter and filesystem drivers into the kernel. Most of the info on the web is a bit old and talks about other vmware versions - can someone share a working .config? The guest is

Re: [gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4

2011-04-09 Thread Adam Carter
I had a working .config. Unfortunately, I left it at office. The main 'trap' usually would be the SCSI Driver. If you're using PVSCSI, go into SCSI RAID, then SCSI Low Level Driver, then select VMware PVSCSI as built-in, not module. Do you know which one workstation uses? AFAICT there's

Re: [gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4

2011-04-10 Thread Adam Carter
The main 'trap' usually would be the SCSI Driver. If you're using PVSCSI, go into SCSI RAID, then SCSI Low Level Driver, then select VMware PVSCSI as built-in, not module. If you're using LSI Logic, select Fusion MPT instead. Thanks - i'd missed some of the MPT options.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean removed python 2.6

2011-04-15 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 8:16 PM, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: After a recent update I got python 2.7 installed. The emerge --depclean command removed python 2.6 which I thought would be alright since I now have 2.7. I also used eselect python to set 2.7 as my default. Now revdep-rebuild

[gentoo-user] gentoo guest vm - vlan support kills eth0

2011-04-19 Thread Adam Carter
If i enable 802.1q kernel support in a gentoo vmware guest and reboot (even as a module which is not loaded), eth0 is no longer available. (ifconfig -a shows nothing). Is this expected?

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo guest vm - vlan support kills eth0

2011-04-20 Thread Adam Carter
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.comwrote: If i enable 802.1q kernel support in a gentoo vmware guest and reboot (even as a module which is not loaded), eth0 is no longer available. (ifconfig -a shows nothing). Is this expected? What is the driver you use

[gentoo-user] ethtool on vlan interfaces

2011-04-20 Thread Adam Carter
If i run ethtool on a vlan interface, does it show layer 1 or layer 2 link? IIRC ciscos will report line proto down if layer 1 is up but layer 2/vlan is down. How is the status of layer 2 determined?

Re: [gentoo-user] zlib and WOFF

2011-04-23 Thread Adam Carter
i've been trying to install a recent version of media-sound/lilypond (music typesetting software) for some time, but it always fails with this message: /usr/lib64/libz.so: invalid ELF header Could not find the zlib library which is needed to understand WOFF I'd re-emerge zlib - looks like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: URGENT: nfs stopped working

2011-04-30 Thread Adam Carter
I use nfs about twice/year to transfer large files between machines -- so I'm quite an expert at praying to the computer gods to please let this nfs mount work just this one last time and I'll never bother you again, I promise! I'm lying, of course, because I intend to do it again six months

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: URGENT: nfs stopped working

2011-04-30 Thread Adam Carter
Why not just use scp of sftp since its so infrequent? New can of worms. o_O Dale Much smaller can thought :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache is running but its log is not

2011-05-01 Thread Adam Carter
How do I find out where/if Apache thinks its logging things? In /etc/apache check httpd.conf and modules.d/00_mod_log_config.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: URGENT: nfs stopped working

2011-05-01 Thread Adam Carter
have sshd running read man scp done That was what I did. Still not always so simple tho. There's not much else simpler than scp! I should have added a smiley to my comment about smaller can or worms - NFS is not complicated either.

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache is running but its log is not

2011-05-02 Thread Adam Carter
Okay, there was already a thread about that, and my Python problem seems solved. I still have no log entries. Ok, as root, try lsof | grep apache and see if there are any open log files. You may need to emerge lsof first if you dont already have it. IIRC apache fails to start if it cant

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache is running but its log is not

2011-05-03 Thread Adam Carter
Well, 2.2.17 is indeed my server, but I decided to stop it and start it again. Current log files showed up. Problem solved, by brute force again, and without any epiphanies of understanding. Last guess - logrotate is managing the log files but not reloading apache afterwards. Check that

Re: [gentoo-user] videos that won't go away.

2011-05-04 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I noticed something weird but I'm not sure what to even search for to get a fix. When I play a video with Seamonkey or Firefox, then close the tab or close the browser, the video is still there. I've had a lot of

[gentoo-user] Hyperthreading

2011-05-10 Thread Adam Carter
I haven't been able to find clear info on Hyperthreading, but from what I can tell it appears that with Hyperthreading On; 1. per core performance is slightly reduced 2. you can run two threads per core, but there is some contention between threads So, generally, if you have less busy threads

Re: [gentoo-user] Hyperthreading

2011-05-10 Thread Adam Carter
In general, for a desktop or server that is doing a lot of different things, HT is likely to improve performance. If the server is dedicated to a single service, there is a distinct chance HT will lead to decreased performance. Thanks Joost! That certainly helps.

Re: [gentoo-user] How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-10 Thread Adam Carter
I was curious, what's the results of the openrc update for people that have done theirs? Is it pretty simple and just works or are there issues? I'm mostly interested in x86 and amd64 since that is what I have. Just a simple works here and I'm X86 or amd64 would be nice. List issues if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?

2011-05-11 Thread Adam Carter
Apparently so. It seems like it ought to pay attention to eselect. If I've explicitly configured my system to use 2.6 instead of 2.7, removing 2.6 doesn't seem like a good thing... Sounds to me like that should be made into a feature request. What does the list think? If there's support

[gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

2011-05-15 Thread Adam Carter
I'm cloning a windows disk using gentoo; On the old 66GB disk; # dd if=/dev/sdb of=/root/winmbr.bin bs=512 count=1 # dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs=10M | gzip -v winpartition.gz Then after swapping in the new 500GB disk; dd if=/root/winmbr.bin of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1 # gunzip -c winpartition.gz | dd

Re: [gentoo-user] leafnode and xinetd?

2011-05-15 Thread Adam Carter
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Indi thebeelzebubtrig...@gmail.comwrote: Anyone here have leafnode running successfully? I seem to be stuck, and for some reason google appears to be stuck as well on this one. Apparently users who want leafnode are about as rare as hen's teeth... snip

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

2011-05-15 Thread Adam Carter
WRT why it stopped after 10MB, if i specified a smaller size it would just stop after whatever was specified, so its just doing a single chunk equal to whatever bs has been specified as. I think the re-read of the partition table is probably the problem - so thanks for that suggestion. To check

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die econf failed

2011-05-15 Thread Adam Carter
Purge ccache entirely from your system, it's bad news. Then `source /etc/profile env-update`. AFAIK i've never had a problem with ccache. I've been using it for years on two different systems. The OP's probably appears to be that he has ccache in FEATURES but its not installedas Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

2011-05-16 Thread Adam Carter
To check my understanding - would it be correct to say that; 1. Using dd to copy the first 512 bytes (MBR) is ALL that is needed to setup the partitions - that is i wont need to run fdisk etc afterward. This is correct if you only have primary partitions. It will not copy the extended

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

2011-05-16 Thread Adam Carter
But the OP's new drive is larger, so I assume that he will be rearranging partitions afterwards - could be wrong. So if you've got to rearrange the partitions anyway, it is easier to just dd the whole thing in one go and then do the rearranging. Alternatively, set up the new partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?

2011-05-16 Thread Adam Carter
+1 It bit me, and just seems stupid. +1 I like Neil's suggestion - eselect can put packages it knows about into a specially-named set. I've logged the bug; http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367611 Based on the quality of Neil's posts i'm sure you're right, but i'll leave the devs

Re: [gentoo-user] dd says no space left on device

2011-05-17 Thread Adam Carter
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: On 16/5/2011, at 12:56pm, Adam Carter wrote: ... Yes the new drive is bigger, going from 66G to 500G. Single partition only, ... So how do i proceed? Is it; 1. dd the mbr without partition table, to get

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