On Sunday, July 31 at 21:23 (-0500), Jeremy McSpadden said:
Better to run make oldconfig. It merges the changes.
--
Jeremy McSpadden
def...@uberpenguin.net
On Jul 31, 2011, at 9:06 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
Let's say I have a .config from an older kernel version (for example,
On Monday, August 1 at 12:41 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said:
On Sunday, July 31, 2011 11:02:22 AM Florian Philipp wrote:
@system used to contain portage. It doesn't by default, anymore. If
you
do `emerge -pv --depclean`, portage should try to remove itself.
Just
add it to @world by
On Sunday, July 31 at 05:44 (+0100), Stroller said:
Hi there,
I kinda feel I'm opening myself up for ridicule in asking this, but I'm on
x86 stable (i.e. not ~x86) and this behaviour seems to have changed
recently.
During a recent `emerge --sync` I received the an update to portage
On Sunday, July 31 at 12:08 (+0100), Peter Humphrey said:
On Sunday 31 July 2011 09:54:07 Albert Hopkins wrote:
Or perhaps I'm just not understanding the problem.
He's asking why upgrading world or system doesn't include upgrading portage.
Or perhaps I'm just not understanding
On Sunday, July 31 at 13:31 (+0100), Stroller said:
Yeah, I specifically wanted to stave off suggestions of you should
unmask the ~86 versions of portage, anyway, as I think I saw that
view aired fairly robustly in another thread recently and it's really
not for me.
I was also quite
On Wednesday, July 27 at 08:07 (+0700), Pandu Poluan said:
Anyone here knows at what time the Gentoo IRC channels are usually active?
#gentoo is a 24-hour channel.
In UTC, if possible :)
(Still can't wrap my head around USA time zone codes)
It really doesn't matter.
On Sunday, July 24 at 09:49 (+1000), Adam Carter said:
Summary;
Copied / from sda3 to sdb3
Updated the fstab in the new disk (/dev/sdb3 /
btrfs noatime,compress=lzo0 0)
Updated the kernel line's root=/dev/sda3 to /dev/sdb3 in grub.conf,
but left the root (hd0,0) as it
On Monday, July 25 at 21:04 (+1000), Adam Carter said:
No message about init, just no more console messages. I'll try the
kernel line. Thanks.
Ok. i ran init from the shell, and it reported /dev/initctl no such
device or directory.
I hadnt copied the contents of /dev across - i
On Sunday, July 24 at 15:11 (+0100), Stroller said:
Well, if you knew what was causing it, then you wouldn't need to
report
a bug as you could just fix it yourself :P
Quite the opposite!
Yeah, I was half joking. The point was that not filing a bug because
you don't know what the
On Saturday, July 23 at 01:10 (-0500), Dale said:
I was hoping since it was a whole different numbering scheme that it
was
a major change. That was the reason for my question. I didn't know
if
this was major or a normal update or something else. I was hoping
for
something like
On Saturday, July 23 at 05:33 (-0500), Dale said:
But sometimes major changes can fix things and do things completely
different which can lead to other issues being fixed. Seamonkey did
the
same when they did their major redo.
Bad thing is, the kernel panics are at it again. I had a
On Saturday, July 23 at 09:35 (-0500), Dale said:
Albert Hopkins wrote:
[...]
Anyway, here's something... did you actually report a bug? If a tree
falls in the forest...
I haven't filed a bug because at the moment we have not been able to
figure out exactly what is causing
On Friday, July 22 at 11:46 (-0700), Grant said:
That's what I'm curious about. If some swap is good, why isn't more
better? Paul has demonstrated that a Linux system will put at least
10GB to use and probably much more given the opportunity. Disk space
is so cheap, why isn't everyone
On Friday, July 22 at 19:55 (+0100), Peter Humphrey said:
Wouldn't a sufficiently large swap (100GB for example) completely
prevent
out of memory conditions and the oom-killer?
Of course, on any system with more than a few dozen MB of RAM, but I
can't
imagine any combination of
On Friday, July 22 at 11:13 (-0700), Grant said:
That all makes perfect sense. So the reason a swap larger than maybe
1GB is not usually implemented is because idle processes don't
normally have more than a few hundred MB of pages in memory?
That's not entirely true, either. For example,
On Friday, July 22 at 18:42 (-0500), Dale said:
I sort of hate to hear there are no major changes. I was hoping for
a
fix on my kernel panic problem. Oh well. I'll upgrade anyway.
Maybe
it will help.
Fixing a kernel bug is not considered a major change. A major change
would be
On Thursday, July 21 at 10:01 (+), j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk said:
A little advice please? I am about to build a new box going from
athlon dual core to phenom six core. Including new sata drives and
motherboard. I was going to clone all my partitions and the re emerged
all packages with
On Thursday, July 21 at 11:10 (+), j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk said:
Well, depends on your definition of works.
AFAIK linux does not expose the NFTS permission system fully, because
they are very different and there is no 1:1 mapping between them. So
while the *data* may be copied over, the
On Thursday, July 21 at 10:27 (-0700), Grant said:
It sounds like adding physical RAM is better than enabling swap in
every way. I'll stay in the anti-swap camp.
I don't see why it has to be one way *or* the other...
Yes more RAM is always going to be better than more swap, RAM is just
way
On Thursday, July 21 at 16:53 (-0700), Grant said:
So swap isn't treated exactly like RAM. It actually has special
handling in Linux which makes it beneficial to have on almost any
Linux system? According to Alan, things get very bad when a Linux
system hits swap. How can behavior like
On Friday, July 22 at 10:56 (+1000), Adam Carter said:
Its more how much i/o rather than the size. If you have a bunch of
stuff swapped out, but it hardly ever needs to be swapped in, the
impact will be low.
Keep an eye on the use with vmstat;
adam@rix ~ $ vmstat 5
procs
On Thursday, July 21 at 18:29 (-0700), Grant said:
Then why not have a really big swap file? If swap is useful as a
second layer of caching behind RAM, why doesn't everyone with some
extra hard drive space have a 100GB swap file?
You've not understood what I said, I think. Swap is not
On Thursday, July 21 at 18:43 (-0700), Grant said:
If I understand correctly, an out-of-memory condition that would lock
up a system without swap, will cause it to thrash with swap. A remote
system of mine was locked up for many hours due to running out of
memory without swap. If I had
On Thursday, July 21 at 20:07 (-0700), Grant said:
Then why not have a really big swap file? If swap is useful as a
second layer of caching behind RAM, why doesn't everyone with some
extra hard drive space have a 100GB swap file?
You've not understood what I said, I think. Swap is
On Wednesday, July 20 at 23:43 (+0200), Stefan G. Weichinger said:
[...]
Are there any recommended kernel-config-settings for a performant and
non-drifting KVM-server?
Well, KVM_CLOCK obviously:
KVM_CLOCK
bool KVM paravirtualized clock
select PARAVIRT
select
On Saturday, July 16 at 16:54 (+0300), Kfir Lavi said:
The mother machine will be Core I7 4 cores.
What cpu and CFLAGS should I use to get the best performance out of this vm?
A router is not going to be CPU-bound. Should matter little either way.
On Sunday, July 17 at 17:47 (-0700), Grant said:
ran this and the output was voluminous but looked good:
/usr/bin/find /home/user -type f -name *-`/bin/date -d 'yesterday'
+\%Y\%m\%d`*.jpg
So I ran it again, adding -delete right before -type. After a lot of
On Saturday, July 16 at 07:12 (+0200), meino.cra...@gmx.de said:
Hi,
As a Blender-fan over the time my harddisk has been filled (by me ;) )
with lots of video-tutorials in the flv (flash video)-format.
Now I need some space to store more *.blend files ...
So I think I need to convert
Last night I decided I wanted to create a new Gentoo virtual appliance.
So I build a Drupal[1] appliance. Though I really don't know anything
about Drupal, but I managed to get one made.
I uploaded a pruned appliance. Which means I removed the gentoo
toolchain, so it's not upgradable or
On Saturday, July 16 at 01:24 (+0100), john said:
I am running a gentoo amd64 qemu-kvm virtual image on my gentoo amd64
box.
Everything is running well. Machine boots up and all looks to be ok.
When I startx the screen goes purple (on guest) and locks up. The only
error message I get
On Thursday, July 14 at 18:59 (+0700), Pandu Poluan said:
One question's been haunting my mind since migration to baselayout-2:
What's the purpose of setting rc_sys?
(In my case, to xenU)l
Rgds,
Just briefly looking at the sources...
* It affects when some filesystems are
On Thursday, July 14 at 19:56 (+0700), Pandu Poluan said:
Another question:
How does emerge know which files to delete during unmerge?
I'm asking this one because I'm in the midst of writing an ebuild, and
I want to know how to tell emerge what new files has been added (if
necessary)
On Monday, July 11 at 10:16 (+), Alan Mackenzie said:
Hi, Gentoo.
Just done an emerge -puND world. One of the packages updated was
sys-fs/udisks-1.0.3-r1. Its warning message was:
CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND: is not set when it should be.
* Please check to make sure
On Monday, July 11 at 18:28 (+0300), Kfir Lavi said:
Hi,
I'm looking for xen like manager to manage my virtual machines when
computer
boots.
Is there any such project?
libvirt (can also manage Xen):
http://libvirt.org/
On Saturday, July 9 at 08:39 (+0100), Neil Bothwick said:
Fair enough, except this thread is about encfs not working :(
Unfortunately. But that's not to say encfs doesn't work. When I have
a problem with a bash script, I don't just up and switch to zsh :P
(although I hear people do such
On Saturday, July 9 at 12:22 (+0100), Neil Bothwick said:
I wasn't suggesting that. But when the main reason for sticking with
the
older option is that you have a working system with data in it, the
loss
of both of those is a good time to investigate the newer alternative.
I see. I guess
On Friday, July 8 at 13:11 (+0100), Stroller said:
Taking a look at this bug today, is there any reason why the ebuild
shouldn't simply RDEPEND=x11-libs/gtk+ (i.e. remove the explicit dep
on gtk3), detect what version you have installed on your system and
then either run --enable-gtk3 or
On Friday, July 8 at 11:55 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
[..]
Somehow I managed to really hurt the installation ... here is what I
remember having done:
Some how I got mixed up when running as root, and attempted to mount a
users encfs directory. (Its a single user machine so it my users
On Friday, July 8 at 17:19 (+0200), Alan McKinnon said:
On Friday 08 July 2011 09:14:36 Albert Hopkins did opine thusly:
On Friday, July 8 at 13:11 (+0100), Stroller said:
Taking a look at this bug today, is there any reason why the
ebuild shouldn't simply RDEPEND=x11-libs/gtk+ (i.e
On Friday, July 8 at 21:22 (+0100), john said:
[...]
LOL Well I was up and running but now when trying to create VMs I get
(have done upgrade of around 20 packages)
Uncaught error validating install parameters: Must pass a VirtualDevice
instance.
Traceback (most recent call last):
On Friday, July 8 at 22:37 (+0100), john said:
ok I might be being dumb but found a way round this (through trial and
error)
In advanced options in step 5 of 5 select Specify Shared Device Name
Please note you'll need to create a bridge as well but selecting the
above removes error
On Friday, July 8 at 22:50 (+0100), Neil Bothwick said:
Apart from the need to access legacy data, which Harry has resolved by
reformatting, is there any benefit in using encfs rather than the
in-kernel ecryptfs these days?
Admittedly there isn't much difference, so if what you are using
On Thursday, July 7 at 19:15 (+0100), john said:
I am trying to start virt-manager but when I start the daemon
/etc/init.d/libvirtd i get
* Starting libvirtd ...
/usr/sbin/libvirtd: error: Unable to initialize network sockets.
Check /var/log/messages or run without --daemon for more
On Thursday, July 7 at 20:46 (+0100), john said:
Well, I see several errors, you may want to start with the first one and
work your way down.
iptables is running, bridging and tun have been loaded as modules
iproute2 has now been installed but makes no odds. Not sure about brctl
as I can't
On Thursday, July 7 at 23:30 (+0100), john said:
On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:26:18 -0400
Have cleared up error messages using config as suggested.
I still get the issue when starting /etc/init.d/libvirtd
* Starting libvirtd ...
/usr/sbin/libvirtd: error: Unable to initialize network
On Thursday, July 7 at 17:43 (-0700), Grant said:
Yeah I don't get it. Check this out:
$ ping google.com
PING google.com (74.125.224.84) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 74.125.224.84: icmp_req=1 ttl=55 time=97.1 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.224.84: icmp_req=2 ttl=55 time=97.1 ms
64
On Thursday, July 7 at 21:18 (-0600), Carlos Sura said:
I was thinking if there was any chance if anyone of you have this
printer
installed to tell me how to get it work for me... Or a howto,
tutorial,
manual?
According to openprinting.org, it's a paperweight.
On Tuesday, July 5 at 11:27 (-0400), cov...@ccs.covici.com said:
I tried to use kms, but it conflicted with the nvidia driver and did
not
give me as much screen size in the console as uvesafb.
Yeah, you can't use the nvidia driver and KMS at the same time. You'd
have to use the nouveau
On Monday, July 4 at 13:10 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
Are you saying it does not require `xorg-x11'.
Step 2) says in large type:
`2. Installing Xorg'
Then a big note in a green box later on says:
,
| Note: You could install the xorg-x11 metapackage instead of the more
|
On Sunday, July 3 at 16:39 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
I've been booting with a framebuffer for some time. So long that I
fear my kernel line may be out of date.
A lot of people nowadays are using KMS. It's the one true way™ for
doing console/X mode settings. But if you have a
On Sunday, July 3 at 22:07 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
this is a no X machine... it appears at the cited URL they expect you
to be running xorg.
KMS doesn't require X, but Xorg can use it. Basically Xorg can let the
kernel handle graphics mode setting and gets out of the way.
But KMS
On Saturday, July 2 at 23:15 (-0400), Walter Dnes said:
Fortunately, I do emerge -pv... otherwise I wouldn't be able to send
this email, asking what the bleep is going on. I'm trying to do a
regular update on my desktop and laptop. Apparently the update wants to
replace ssmtp with courier
On Friday, July 1 at 10:36 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes:
On Tuesday, June 28 at 10:57 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said:
Anyway, I will rebuild an image with AHCI support and upload it
shortly.
Done, uploaded to the same place:
http
On Friday, July 1 at 11:55 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said:
Oh, I'm referring to the 4GB version. The 10GB version demands a
password so couldn't even start on it.
That should not be the case with it requiring a password, or else I
uploaded the wrong image. Nevertheless, I'll upload
On Friday, July 1 at 11:42 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes:
[...]
Yeah, sorry if I didn't mention before. In the interest of size, I
remove the portage tree (and also kernel sources) before creating the
image. So in order to do portage
On Friday, July 1 at 11:42 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
In the shell where the initial login came up I keep seeing this every
5 minutes:
INIT: ld so respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Oh, you can also do this manually by commenting out the s0 entry
in /etc/inittab.
-a
On Friday, July 1 at 14:10 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
Sorry for being a lazy slug... I've used the same /etc/make.conf for
several yrs with no problems... so didn't really think to look there.
That's why I asked... didn't know where to look... dumb perhaps but
just didn't cross my mind.
On Friday, July 1 at 17:44 (-0500), James Wall said:
Thanks for the appliance image. it has come in handy for trying out
multiple ideas and setups at once on my machine. Keep up the great
work Albert! :)
You're welcome. I do have other appliances other than the base
appliance. For
On Friday, July 1 at 19:22 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes:
[...]
At the risk of exposing further ignorance on my part, I'm curious what
it means in fstab where you have:
/.swap none swap sw0 0
At the swap line
On Monday, June 27 at 22:44 (-0500), James Wall said:
2. I then went into the properties of the VM and changed the
controller type to SCSI and readded the disk image.
If you let me know what controller virtualbox natively uses I can add
that to the kernel config.
On Tuesday, June 28 at 09:32 (-0500), James Wall said:
Albert,
it uses the AHCI driver for the sata controller.
You know it's odd, I was just talking with someone yesterday about why
don't the hypervisors default to AHCI since it's somewhat universal by
now.
Anyway, I will rebuild an image
On Tuesday, June 28 at 10:57 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said:
Anyway, I will rebuild an image with AHCI support and upload it
shortly.
Done, uploaded to the same place:
http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/base-dist.vmdk.bz2
I also made the image bigger (10GB). Oddly enough, it compresses
On Monday, June 27 at 19:52 (-0400), Daniel D Jones said:
Can anyone explain why it takes so long for Firefox-bin to be unmasked?
[etc.]
Have you gone to bugs.gentoo.org and submitted a stabilization request?
On Monday, June 27 at 18:47 (-0500), James Wall said:
Albert,
Thanks for sharing the guest image. I have gotten it installed on my
virtualbox to allow me to experiment with it. Thanks again for sharing
your work.
Cool, now I at least know it works with vmware and virtualbox.
I will
On Sunday, June 26 at 18:28 (+0100), Mick said:
Hi All,
I was trying to record my desktop using:
ffmpeg -f x11grab -s xga -r 25 -i :0.0 -aspect 4:3 /tmp/out.mpg
but the result is rather blurred as you can see in the attached screenshot,
when I play it with mplayer.
Is there some
On Thursday, June 23 at 12:52 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said:
I've uploaded a (390MB) vmdk. I've been told by someone that it works
with vmware (not sure what version).
This was build just a few minutes ago with the latest stage3 tarball and
the latest portage snapshot.
http
On Thursday, June 23 at 09:54 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said:
Any such program to build XenServer appliances (.xva) ?
Shouldn't it work similarly?
Eg. start an appliance and install using the stage4?
I use Xen directly and as long as I can create and fill the partitions
for the
VM,
On Thursday, June 23 at 00:35 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said:
Oh, don't get me wrong, that's one reason I use qcow2 myself, but it's
either something he would have to deal with when he received it or the
conversion would increase the size of the disk image that would be
shipped to him.
Yes,
On Thursday, June 23 at 13:45 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said:
Yes the stage4 should work similarly. However Pandu was asking
about
building .xva which I know nothing about, unless an .xva is
similar
to/same as a stage4 (I have no idea)?
.xva is a format specifically for Citrix Xen.
On Thursday, June 23 at 12:32 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said:
On 06/23/11 07:15, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Thursday, June 23 at 00:35 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said:
Oh, don't get me wrong, that's one reason I use qcow2 myself, but it's
either something he would have to deal with when he
On Wednesday, June 22 at 16:52 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
The times I've tried to get a recent gentoo version running in a vm on
windows turned out to be labor taking days to get right.
Does anyone know if there is a fairly current gentoo appliance
somewhere that I can just install and
On Wednesday, June 22 at 21:31 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said:
The stage4
(excluding portage) would be ~90MB (bz2). The disk image (compressed
QCOW is about 120MB)
The only issue with qcow2 is that in order to use it with VB, IIRC you
need to convert it to raw before you can import it.
On Thursday, June 23 at 08:16 (+0700), Pandu Poluan said:
Any such program to build XenServer appliances (.xva) ?
I haven't any. I have no experience with XenServer appliances.
On Monday, June 20 at 10:03 (+0100), Neil Bothwick said:
There is no such option, but you can get expired ebuilds from
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/cat-egory/package
Sigh. 2011 and *still* using CVS?!
On Monday, June 20 at 20:39 (+1000), Adam Carter said:
I dont understand. runs as usually means runs under the user
context to me - are you saying bash has an sh compatibility mode?
Yes, when run as sh in POSIX mode (i.e. if it were called as bash
--posix).
On Sunday, June 19 at 09:47 (+0800), William Kenworthy said:
Its actually not slotting I am after - slots are a choice of setting
the system to one or the other (correct me if I am wrong) whereas I
want
to use perl-5 for eveyting except this which wants perl-6.
You are wrong. slots is the
Ok... I'll bite.
On Sunday, June 12 at 00:19 (+0100), Matt Harrison said:
Hi list,
An odd post here but I'm sitting up after midnight with a few beers and
I wanted to get an advanced word on this.
(sigh)
Please don't drink and post.
I don't know if anyone is subscribed to the ruby-talk
I exaggerated. The number of kde packages pulled in on my compute
server right now is about 10, so it's not as bad as I remember.
I have a bunch of systems (desktop and client) and none of them pull in
any KDE libs save one, which has kde-meta in the world file. Not even
my mythtv box, which
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 07:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
I exaggerated. The number of kde packages pulled in on my compute
server right now is about 10, so it's not as bad as I remember.
I have a bunch of systems (desktop and client) and none of them pull
in
should have been (desktop and
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 07:37 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
Then you missed the point of the thread.
Quite possibly.
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 17:43 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Gentoo users tend to be technically adept, so I'll ask the question here:
Why are *.so files set as executables? I noticed that they keep working
if I do a chmod a-x on them.
Well, they are executables in that they are object code
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 22:48 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
Hello,
What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected to a
laptop during boot or when just using a plain console without an X
server running? Before a recent update the output would just
automatically go to an
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 12:27 +, Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
Hi,
after I went to openrc all works fine just one thing disturbing now:
If I create a xen-guest with xm create guest -c or change to the console
when the system boots, some of the characters particularly [] are garbled.
I have
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 12:18 +0200, Andrea Conti wrote:
AFAIK in order to avoid this kind of
breakage system ebuilds such as mpfr never delete old library
versions;
they just print a warning saying that the old library has been kept
around and should be manually deleted after running
Perhaps a bit too public.
Anyway, hope all is forgiven :D
-a
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 16:19 +0200, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
gtk+ 3.x is not used by gnome versions in portage (2.x). If you don't
know if you need it, then you don't need it.
Gnome3 is slowly making its way into portage, and so so is bringing with
it packages that depend either
Funny, though, on my (very) old Debian system I don't seem to have a
wheel.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/su-invocation.html
Bottom section.
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 12:00 +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote:
Hi Albert,
Can you paste your USE flags for qemu?
Thanks,
Kfir
USE=aio sdl vde -alsa -bluetooth -brltty -curl -esd -fdt -hardened
-jpeg -ncurses -png -pulseaudio -qemu-ifup -sasl -ssl -static
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 18:06 +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote:
Hi,
After updating qemu-kvm to 0.13.0-r2 I get an infinite loop when running
qemu.
You can spot the loop with strace.
This problem shows on Redhat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553689#c5
and they say that it is related to the
On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 13:24 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
Unfortunately, I can't go module-less; xtables-addons requires modules
support.
How do you get static /dev ?
Go into /etc/conf.d/rc and change RC_DEVICES to static. Also if you
are using virtio block devices (as I am) then you will need
On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 19:36 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
Just for fun, not for boasting ;-)
Out of curiosity, I pared down nearly everything from my Gentoo VMware Guest.
`free -m` directly after booting + login:
Mem:
total 499
used 28
free 470
shared 0
buffers 1
cached 12
On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 02:22 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
Good grief! How'd you do that?!
*bow in respect*
Rgds,
Well, firstly, I managed to get it down to 3MB (though I cheated *a
little*):
lilpenguin ~ # sync ; echo 3 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches # kinda cheating
lilpenguin ~ # free -m
.. got it slightly lower by switching to dash and disabling ACPI and
APIC:
root@lilpenguin $ free -m
total used free sharedbuffers
cached
Mem:18 4 13 0 0
1
-/+ buffers/cache: 2 15
Swap:0
On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 14:44 -0700, Bill Longman wrote:
...
So, what can you actually *do* on this, other than an ls or two?
Well, first the challenge did not require that it had to have any use.
But thinking about what you said, I remember when I first started using
Linux, it was not
On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 13:02 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote:
Hello all,
At the moment I have a running install of kvm.
I do all the virtual networking manually with help of tap adaptors and
bridges.
And I use LVM for the VMs disks.
It is working very well, but to add a VM or to migrate it
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 14:14 +0800, Thomas Yao wrote:
I dislike gnome-do and I use synapse on ubuntu with another PC
So I'm wondering is there any other good desktop search applications?
Or how can I install synapse on gentoo?
Thank you!
Synapse and it's dependencies are very unfriendly to
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 07:57 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Helmut Jarausch
jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
Hi,
does anybody know about an easy method to remove all entries from
/var/lib/portage/world
which would have been pulled in anyway
even if they
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 16:28 +, Stroller wrote:
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/302273/
I think this only works on ~ARCH, right?
On x86 I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ./auditworld, line 20, in module
import gentoolkit.sets
ImportError: No module named sets
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 15:53 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
Can anyone tell me how determine what these kind of useless names
really mean?
From df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs1.9G 283M 1.6G 15% /
/dev/root 1.9G 283M 1.6G 15%
On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 01:20 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
is it really necessary, that console-kit runs 65 instances of
itsself???
They're not instances (whatever that means anyway). They're threads...
the short of it is... it's already been discussed . It's not hurting
anything
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