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Hello Welcome :D
Yeahr, some question. How good is Gentoo for a Samba AD environment?
I want to install my Gentoo at the work, and for my Data i have to
connect to AD. How good will work this with a Gentoo : ?
Greetings Alex
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Helmut Jarausch writes:
I'm trying to find out why I get a configure error (on one machine)
./configure: line 14859: test: too many arguments
Looking at this line it shows
if test $ax_python_header != no; then
So, how can I find out the value of $ax_python_header.
Putting some
I wrote:
Here's a list of my current KDE bugs. There are many, fortunately most
of them are really minor issues.
[58 KDE bugs]
I forgot two. kio_thumbnail does not seem to save the results, and scans
folders again, causing loads of 20. And the password dialog when the
screen was blanked
SpaceCake writes:
So, it solves the first problem, identifiying the device, but how can I
tell to udev to use always /dev/sds (for example) for this device?
I think, you can's. But you can add SYMLINK=swap to make the device
appear as /dev/swap, too.
Also I'm thinking how can I instruct
Thomas U. Nockmann wrote:
On Wednesday 23 June 2010 Alex Schuster wrote:
[...]
Hello,
But /etc/init.d/capi fails to start, when calling 'capiinit
activate': ERROR: cannot open /dev/capi20 nor /dev/isdn/capi20 - No
such device or address (6)
I'd got the same message while setting
Neil Bothwick writes:
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
I did not want to use Chromium, but I tried it, and I must admit,
it's fast, and it uses much less memory than konqueror. And it even
has web shortcuts, which are a must-have for me now. What I'm
missing most
Chen Huan writes:
I had done some hack on jabberd2, and I make a new ebuild for it, To
avoid the new ebuild being overwrite when I execute emerge --sync, I
make /var/lib/layman/myown for this ebuild
when I emerged jabberd2, it's normal, but when I try to re-merge it,
the output is :
mailinglist...@gmail.com wrote:
My x is a bit slow. Lets say I have a minimized
web browser with a page with pictures and text.
If I maximize it, the drawing of the page and
the widgets doesn't happen instantly, but it
takes a moment.
Is there disk activity when this happens?
Wonko
Mateusz Mierzwiński writes:
I have KDE4. It work's perfect.
Whooo, now at least this sounds good!
Try set Custom-cxxflags to off,
maybe this will help. From my opinion KDE and QT 4 don't like
customized C/CXX Flags, such as fomit-frame-pointer and similar.
I have:
CFLAGS=-march=k8-sse3
Hasan SAHIN writes:
I am using Athlon64 X2 processor with the
CFLAGS=-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer option.
Can I use the -march=native option instead of that?
Sure, as long as you are not using distcc, in which case the distcc
servers would compile according to _their_ native
not managing some Javascripts at all.
Opera, this might also be an idea. I never used it much, only in some
cases when Konqueror had problems with web pags.
Alex, have you tried turning off the Nepomuke service? I see in one of
your screenshots that you are having problems with it (segfaults
mailinglist...@gmail.com writes:
My x is a bit slow. Lets say I have a minimized
web browser with a page with pictures and text.
If I maximize it, the drawing of the page and
the widgets doesn't happen instantly, but it
takes a moment.
I tried ubuntu livecd, and this test was much
faster,
Kevin O'Gorman writes:
As the OP, I'd like to know if anybody else has noticed how far OT this
thread has gone?
Somebody please give it a meaningful title, and maybe the right people
will notice your thread
But I think the title is just perfect! Well, not really, because, despite
my
Mick writes:
On Saturday 26 June 2010 11:40:14 Mick wrote:
I have not exported any locale in my ~/.bashrc, so should a plain
user locale reflect what's in /etc/env.d/02locale?
I added /etc/env.d/02locale as you show above, but my plain user
still shows all settings as en_US.UTF-8 ...
Kevin O'Gorman writes:
Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it
starts heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels
or so until it (finallly) reaches the end. I've mostly observed this
in the downward direction, but I mostly scroll in that
Dale writes:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
And someone else reported that heir konqueror does it too. If these
things are related that would cancel out Firefox itself and move
over to the video system
Well, my KDE does so many weird things, this still might be unrelated.
Similar problems are
Walter Dnes writes:
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:38:17PM +0100, Mick wrote
I'll repeat the advice I was given in this list sometime around last
Christmas (but can't find the thread now): you're bound to find some
pesky application which is only available in 32bit and then you'll
curse
Matthias Fechner writes:
I followed now the wiki page:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2
Down again.
At the step to create the config file with:
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
and install grub2 with:
grub-install /dev/sda
it needs several hours to complete each of the
Hi there!
I am having big trouble setting up ISDN. I'm a long-time ISDN user, I need
this for connecting to some remote systems that do not have an internet
connection. I always used my server for this, but due to a sudden
breakdown of phone+dsl on that machine (which is far away, I have no
And again, I had already written an answer to your last posting, but then
my dreaded mouse problem in KDE4 happened again, and I forgot to save the
mail as draft before logging out and in again.
Mick writes:
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 19:34:19 you wrote:
On Tuesday 22 June 2010 19:03:00 Mick
Mick writes:
Please remind me what we are supposed to do when we get:
* Package 'net-libs/neon-0.29.3' NOT merged due to file collisions. If
* necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of the
* above message.
You could force installation with
Dale writes:
I don't use genkernel anymore. I just roll my own. That way, I know
what is in there and what is not. Then if something doesn't work, I
know if it is the kernel or something else. With genkernel, you won't
have a clue what it is since you don't know much if anything about the
Walter Dnes writes:
I just got a brand new custom-built 8 gig machine. There's an outfit
in north Toronto that has MSI motherboards with PS/2 ports, so I can
keep my genuine IBM PS/2 clickety-clack-keyboard; woho. And the
integrated Intel graphics chip has *BOTH VGA AND DIGITAL
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes:
Tried that...python3.1 compiles fine, setuptools failed.
And now?
How about putting dev-python/setuptools into
/etc/portage/package.keywords, and trying to emerge 0.6.13?
Wonko
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes:
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [10-06-20 15:16]:
How about putting dev-python/setuptools into
/etc/portage/package.keywords, and trying to emerge 0.6.13?
I tried to re-emerge setuptools 0.6.10 and it fails the same way.
So I believe (=not knowing
this mess things up?
On 17 June 2010 00:23, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
[snip ...]
Mick wrote:
On Tuesday 09 March 2010 20:12:09 Alex Schuster wrote:
- Kontact. The old address book I had imported fro KDE 3.5 half a
year ago showed one address book and many std.vcf (or similar
is /usr/share in there twice? Could this mess things up?
Seems to be normal, I also have this with a fresh setup.
On 17 June 2010 00:23, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
[snip ...]
Mick wrote:
On Tuesday 09 March 2010 20:12:09 Alex Schuster wrote:
But: There are errors when
Colleen Beamer writes:
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org
wrote:
I don't remember why I unmasked the unstable version of libpng.
However, following your advice, I first attempted to reinstall kdm.
This had been an update 6 days ago when all this started
Allan Gottlieb writes:
The machine seems to have two hardware states determined by whether
windows has been run since power on.
I _think_ I read about such a problem ages ago, and there was a
workaround. Either in the BIOS, or in Windows, some Wake-On-LAN option. If
activated, Windows would
Colleen Beamer writes:
First, I looked in the archives and didn't find anything relevant -
could be my stupidity, but I did try!
Fine :)
From my kdm log the last few lines are as follows:
(EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module
I wrote:
J. Roeleveld writes:
Probably your graphicscard uses the rest of the memory.
Oh, thanks! Did not think about this. It's an ATI Radeon HD4300
onboard card, so I guess this must be the cause. Seems like I will
have to do the migration to 64bit then.
Wonko,
If
. I'm doing this with every longer mail now. I saved the mail as
draft, and went to my Linxu machine where I resumed the edit. I wanted to
try something and went into the import menu: Crash! Good thing
the Windows Clipboard still had it.
Mick wrote:
On Tuesday 09 March 2010 20:12:09 Alex
Rod writes:
Does anyone know how to block, or auto programs in Gentoo to limit
or stop people scanning for a user/password hacking on your firewall?
I am using net-analyzer/fail2ban. That can block an IP after some
unsuccessful login attempts. This helps a lot, but not against bot nets,
walt writes:
On 06/16/2010 04:05 PM, Jake Moe wrote:
I've just completed a fresh Gentoo installation on a new laptop, and
strangely, after I choose the entry from the Grub screen, all I get
is:
Booting `Gentoo Linux 2.6.32-r7`
root (hd0,1)
Filesystem type is ext2fs,
Michael Sullivan writes:
4: mich...@camille ~ $ nmblookup -B BIGSERVER __SAMBA__
querying __SAMBA__ on 192.168.1.255
192.168.1.2 __SAMBA__00
4: carter ~ # nmblookup -B camille *
querying xorg.conf.new on 192.168.1.3
name_query failed to find name xorg.conf.new
*I'm not sure what
Jose Juan Montiel writes:
yesterday i finally decide to try Gentoo (I came from debian).
Welcome!
I follow all step of
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml but when i
finally go to install gnome... in the latests package (mailclient or
something similar) fail...
Helmut Jarausch writes:
On 10 Jun, J. Roeleveld wrote:
You could either first use mkfs for ext3 or 4 to check, or you could
run badblock manually over the partition first to check.
Thanks, Joost,
but I don't know how to feed the output of badblocks to mkbtrfs.
It looks as if btrfs
Tanstaafl writes:
So... for those of use who have already installed it (and thankfully I
did actually read the notes about not switching to it), should me
uninstall it then mask it? Or just leave it alone?
For the sake of simplicity, I just leave it alone.
I'm guessing it
won't hurt
Walter Dnes writes:
I'm converting an older Dell E521 AMD K8 machine from XP to Gentoo.
I intend to use it with an HDHomerun ATSC tuner, for recording and
playback. I don't know if it supports AGP, but I am including... *
AMD Opteron/Athlon64 on-CPU GART support
* NVIDIA
Daniel D Jones writes:
eix gcc shows:
Installed versions:
4.3.4(4.3)!s(10:56:18 AM 02/27/2010)(gtk mudflap nls nptl openmp
-altivec - bootstrap -build -doc -fixed-point -fortran -gcj -hardened
-libffi -multilib - multislot -n32 -n64 -nocxx -nopie -objc -objc++
-objc-gc -test -vanilla)
Jake Moe writes:
j...@aus10224 ~ $ ssh -Y jhb5970
Password:
Last login: Wed Jun 9 08:05:09 EST 2010 from 192.168.0.114 on pts/0
j...@jhb5970 ~ $ firefox
Error: no display specified
j...@jhb5970 ~ $ konqueror
konqueror: cannot connect to X server
j...@jhb5970 ~ $
Try echo $DISPLAY, this
Mick writes:
I am getting worried now about fs corruption.
I would be, too.
The fs is supposed to be checked at boot time
But only if it was not shut down correctly. To force a complete fsck on
reboot on a file system that looks sane, issue a 'touch /force_fsck'.
Wonko
Johannes Kimmel writes:
On 06/02/2010 03:27 PM, Alex Schuster wrote:
But: free -m shows only 2787 MB of total memory. I know I cannot use
all the 4G, but shouldn't there be at least 3GB or even a little
more available? What is your output of free -m?
[...]
Probably your graphicscard
Hi there!
I have 4GB of RAM, but the system is swapping A LOT. I think I will have
to go to 64 bit, but I need some time for that, and I need to use the
system in the meantime.
But: free -m shows only 2787 MB of total memory. I know I cannot use all
the 4G, but shouldn't there be at least 3GB
kitti jaisong writes:
I just install sparc machine. i found error failed: No space left on
device (28) when i check inode by df -i command
[...]
/dev/sda4 2.0G 952M 963M 50% /mnt/gentoo/usr
/dev/sda5 2.0G 83M 1.8G 5% /mnt/gentoo/var
/dev/sda6 29G
Harry Putnam writes:
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes:
After writing down some ideas about installing the old libraries
somewhere in parallel, I just checked eix, and there is an extra
slot for the 1.2 version. So, just emerge media-libs/libpng:1.2 ,
and I'd expect all to be fine
Madhurya Kakati writes:
Philip, Thanks for the detailed answer.
Yeah, that was a nice one.
On 5/25/2010 9:09 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
100525 Madhurya Kakati wrote:
I am currently using Archlinux and Windows 7 and want to try out
Gentoo.
Welcome aboard ! -- Gentoo requires a bit of
Mick wrote:
On Sunday 16 May 2010 02:56:23 Alex Schuster wrote:
But my main problem is another one: How do I tell CUPS which device
my printer is? I tried usb:/dev/usb/lp0 (found this notation when
googling 'usb printer device uri'), but nothing happens when I try
to print
Roy Wright writes:
Argh. Just have to vent a little.
We feel with you :)
So on to my list a applications to be installed. Firefox check,
openoffice check, handbrake...crap. Handbrake is one of the
non-standard packages that includes their own version of support
libraries. You guessed
Hi there!
I want to setup an USB printer. So I http://localhost:631/, and notice
that the interface has changed. And when I try to add a printer, the only
options for a local printer are SCSI-printer and HAL printing backend. And
on the next screen, I have to enter the device URI by hand. How
Mick writes:
On Saturday 15 May 2010 22:56:22 Alex Schuster wrote:
I want to setup an USB printer. So I http://localhost:631/, and
notice that the interface has changed. And when I try to add a
printer, the only options for a local printer are SCSI-printer and
HAL printing backend
usb -debug -gnutls -kerberos -static -xinetd)
Alex: when I plug in my HP USB printer, I see this in dmesg:
usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=03f0, idProduct=1617
usb 2-2: New USB device strings
John J. Foster writes:
I lost utility power for 2 hours today while at work (on my home
machine). UPS probably help for 20 minutes, or so. Just out of
curiousity, is there a way to determine previous system uptime. I know
I was getting close to 11 months, which would be a record for me.
The
John J. Foster writes:
Hope you broke the record,
Wonko
fes...@localhost ~ $ last | grep system boot
reboot system boot 2.6.28-gentoo-r5 Thu May 13 16:39 - 17:30
(00:51)
OK, so after looking at man last, I tried
fes...@localhost ~ $ last reboot
reboot system boot
Willie Wong writes:
When the filesystem fills up, services can start failing left and
right because they cannot write logs, cannot write temp files, etc. At
this point human intervention is necessary: root has to log in and
clear out the disk. But if the $ROOT filesystem is completely full,
I wrote:
Still not on sourceforge, but here:
http://www.wonkology.org/utils/snackup
Whoops, access denied. After a chmod o+r snackup, it is accessible now.
In case anyone already wrote me about this issue, I had lost my domain for
two days, and all the e-mails going to wonkology.org.
Iain Buchanan writes:
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
using this script, adapted to their needs, I started to rewrite it in
a way that it reads a config file, and no modification of the script
itself is necessary. If anyone is interested, send me an email
cov...@ccs.covici.com writes:
I have a question -- where would lvm put a snapshot and how could I
pass some list of excludes to rdiff-backup. I have an lvm which is
taking all the PEs and a snapshot would take up lots of disk space --
or would it. Would I need some free pes to put the
Iain Buchanan writes:
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
[snip]
All my partitions are LVM volumes, so before the backup starts, I
make a LVM snapshot of the partition. This way I can modify it while
the backup is still in progress.
hmm, never got into LVM
Helmut Jarausch writes:
My 'standard' way of updating is
emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep --tree
@system @world
but it didn't update anything.
Still, eix confirmed there were quite a lot of kde packages which have
newer versions, and indeed,
emerge -auv1 -j4
Mick writes:
I am getting a bit confused from the messages that I receive in my
gmail account sent from my crontab.
First, is related to the title which is:
Cron r...@mylaptop test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons
/usr/sbin/run-crons
I am not sure what this test -x part represents?
It means:
KH writes:
Am 04.05.2010 21:41, schrieb Dale:
I have with-bdeps set in my make.conf so that it is enabled each
time. I just ran the command given above and it found over 40
packages that need to be upgraded. I'm not even going to claim that
I understand all the chicken scratch in that
I wrote:
I just migrated a friend's machine to ~am64. Everything was updated,
but after a reboot some partitons are not found. No wonder, there are
no /dev/sd? devices, only /dev/sg?. I suspect the problem is udev,
because that was updated. Root is encrypted, so this machine makes use
of an
Hi there!
I just migrated a friend's machine to ~am64. Everything was updated, but
after a reboot some partitons are not found. No wonder, there are no
/dev/sd? devices, only /dev/sg?. I suspect the problem is udev, because
that was updated. Root is encrypted, so this machine makes use of an
Iain Buchanan writes:
A winblows colleague said he uses a utility to backup his internal hard
drive to an external disk, such that if his internal disk fails he can
replace it with the external disk and continue straight away.
I do the same, but with a 2nd internal drive. The drive is
Dale writes:
Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know
it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in
KDE3.
It's probably not a KDE thing. I'm also using konsole in KDE4, and after
becoming root (via su or su -) I have no Problems starting X
I wrote:
Alan McKinnon writes:
On Monday 01 March 2010 18:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote:
[...]
solve this. And there are these annoying things. Like Amarok being
very unstable, and taking 5 minutes to start. What the heck is it
doing in this time?
Fuck knows what amarok-2x does
Jarry writes:
Is there any way to find out in which order services are
started during boot-up (except for looking at boot-up
screen and making notes)?
I think the output of 'rc-status' shows the services in the right order.
Wonko
Dale writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
Jarry writes:
Is there any way to find out in which order services are
started during boot-up (except for looking at boot-up
screen and making notes)?
I think the output of 'rc-status' shows the services in the right
order.
It may
Peter Humphrey writes:
On Monday 12 April 2010 17:17:52 Florian Philipp wrote:
Unless something is broken, I hardly ever reboot.
How do you take backups?
I do my backups from the running system, not from a live-cd. I create an
LVM snapshot of the partition, and backup with use
Mark Knecht writes:
One minor annoyance is that the task bar at the bottom is about 1/3
black on the left. Resolution is 1920x1080 so I'd guess about the
first 800 pixels are painted the wrong color. The task bar still
works, it just doesn't look right.
I think I have the same problem,
Mark Knecht writes:
OK, let's start with xfce4-meta because there was only one failure.
eix-update was done this morning and emerge -DuN @system is clean
using ~arch in make.conf. I'll paste make.conf emerge --info at the
end of this message
[...]
Source prepared.
Configuring source in
Florian Philipp writes:
Am 12.04.2010 11:02, schrieb Hinko Kocevar:
Can boot be sped up even more?
The fastest way to boot is not to boot at all. Just use Suspend2Disk or
SuspendToRam.
Take a look at TuxOnIce and hibernate-script. Unless something is
broken, I hardly ever reboot.
I
Damian writes:
Thus, I'm thinking about switching all of my system to the unstable
branch. But first I want to be sure that this is reasonable given the
problems I described before.
Can you provide me some useful advice according to your experience?
I have asked a similar question here, I
Jarry writes:
I'd like to ask if there is some way to include multiple discrete
hosts/IP's in --source and --destination options of iptables.
I'm trying to write firewall rules for my server, but it has
12 IP's from different segments (and maybe it gets a few more
later), and the script
Kraus Philipp writes:
I run in a virtual machine a gentoo (~x86) system. I synced the portage
tree at the weekend an run emerge --update
The update runs without errors, but emerge installed the gcc 4.3.4,
but on the system is the 4.4.3 installed
[ebuild NS ] sys-devel/gcc-4.3.4
Mick writes:
On 25 March 2010 11:50, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de
wrote:
Many thanks, do you have an estimate when 10.4 appears in the tree?
Helmut.
I can't answer that (as far as I know the devs will only say that it
will appear when it is ready) but I got myself into
Helmut Jarausch writes:
On 26 Mar, Alex Schuster wrote:
I think you have to wait for ati-drivers-10.4 to work with xorg-1.7.
I just want to report back, that xorg-server-1.7.6 (+ friends) is
running just fine with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.721 .
The only minor problem was that one has
hint about that?
Alex ~
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Alan McKinnon asks:
And Dale himself holds the record for starting the longest email thread
ever outside of UseNet.
It started with ... wait for it ... Xorg and hal!
It makes me just a little bit sad to see that the next version of Xorg
(ebuild sitting in some testing proving ground
Dale writes:
Since someone else mentioned KDE4, I do look forward to 4.5. I'm
hoping for some fixes too. I want the desktop slideshow to be
sequential instead of random. I have a lot of pics that are taken to
be a slideshow but if done in random order, they make no sense at all.
All I
Mick writes:
In an aterm I launch top. Then press z c and Shift+W. I get:
Wrote configuration to '/home/michael/.toprc'
Cool. Didn't know about this yet.
Fine I think, Ctrl+c to end it and move on. Next time I fire up top,
even from the same terminal, it's all looking white with no
o0o.atlantis@gmail.com writes:
Same thing here, nothing was highlighted and my .toprc looked like
yours I added Def, Job, Mem and usr in the file and it's fine now.
The question is why is the file not having the right syntax?
here:
top: procps version 3.2.8 on amd64
I tried with
Stroller writes:
I'm going to assume that you're not being facetious, however I'm
amazed you don't know `screen`. Everyone should know `screen`! It's
amazing, and I can't believe that if you had tried it then you
wouldn't have it installed. I sure you'll wonder how you lived without
it.
Yes
Stroller writes:
On 16 Mar 2010, at 22:26, Alex Schuster wrote:
...
I want to add one thing: I suggest changing the defscrollback value
in /etc/screenrc from 100 to something much larger, I have 10.
If not, you can only scroll back 100 lines, which is not that much.
I don't *think
Dale writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
Dale writes:
I am in KDE4. I still have KDE3 installed tho. Thing is, I'm still
using the same programs I was in KDE3. Dolphin looks nice and all
but I can't use it as root at all.
Huh? No problem here.
[...]
This is what I am talking about
Philip Webb writes:
I see 1 improvement 2 regressions so far;
NB I don't use the desktop (that's Fluxbox), only some apps.
Konsole has lost its 'fixed GNU' font, which now calls up something
nasty (yes, I know there's an entry in the list, but it's a different
font). I've switched to
Dale writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
Dale, you brave, brave man, are you really using KDE4 now?
I am in KDE4. I still have KDE3 installed tho. Thing is, I'm still
using the same programs I was in KDE3. Dolphin looks nice and all but
I can't use it as root at all.
Huh? No problem here.
OT
Alex Schuster wrote:
Alex Schuster writes:
Now I'm going to emerge KDE-4.4.1, let's see what this will change.
Nothing I notice. At least things have not gone worse:)
But still they are not well. But you can safely ignore this if you don't
have KDE4 or are not interested in reading how
Stroller writes:
I have this /etc/portage/bin/post_sync file on a couple of systems,
and strangely `equery b /etc/portage/bin/post_sync` doesn't tell me
what package it belongs to. I might guess `eix`, but who knows?
It's part of portage, and it's called after a sync of the portage tree.
Neil Bothwick writes:
Wasn't Agrajag the toothless wonder that kept getting accidentally
killed by Arthur Dent?
Yes, all my hostnames are HHGTTG characters. Agrajag never crashes and
has only died once... so far.
Uh, makes me wonder if I am along your hosts, too?
Wonko
Alex Schuster writes:
Now I'm going to emerge KDE-4.4.1, let's see what this will change.
Nothing I notice. At least things have not gone worse:)
Wonko
Alex Schuster writes:
Neil Bothwick writes:
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:52:55 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I
use.
I thought the small files of the portage tree especially profit
from the notail option in reiserfs
Alex Schuster writes:
Neil Bothwick writes:
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:52:55 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I
use.
I thought the small files of the portage tree especially profit
from the notail option in reiserfs
to a text console with Alt-F1
(the additional Ctrl key was also not needed) and back.
Alex Schuster writes:
The next test gives 93 seconds, that's nice.
What is not so nice is that emerge -a --depclean took over half an hour of
CPU time, needing half a gigabyte of memory. WOW.
Wonko
Alan McKinnon writes:
On Monday 01 March 2010 18:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote:
On the other hand, from time to time I have show-stoppers, and then I
cannot use kmail, or no KDE4 at all. And have to invest time to solve
this. And there are these annoying things. Like Amarok being very
Neil Bothwick writes:
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:35:42 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
- best filesystem for portage? something compressed or with small
cluster size maybe.
I think reiserfs with the notail option is recommended.
The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what
Neil Bothwick writes:
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:52:55 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I
use.
I thought the small files of the portage tree especially profit from
the notail option in reiserfs?
They benefit compared with using
Mick writes:
On Monday 01 March 2010 16:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote:
And another weekend of KDE4 trouble. I rebooted after some upgrades,
along those were Qt and MySQL. Now, plasma-desktop crashed, also
when restarting it on the command line.
[snip ...]
Sorry for the whining,
Nah
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