Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)': All in all, the odds are tipping in favour of ext4 I

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 29 March 2007 02:19:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: That said, I'm very encouraged about ext4, and will probably migrate some unimportant data over to that filesystem in near future and perform my own bonnie++ tests. How do you

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 29. März 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I think you misread me. I'm interested in ext4, and disappointed in NameSys' handling of reiser4. I love the *idea* of reiser4, but being able the resize the filesystem is *mandatory* for my setup, and I don't get that with

SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-28 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi lug Here's hoping the problem is solved, thanks to all (especially Alex) for the help. Jeff. I have successfully compiled a few things, so it looks like the problem IS solved. Thanks again where due. Ignore the following if you don't like minirants. 1. Frankly, I'm not impressed with

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)': Ignore the following if you don't like minirants. (My reply probably needs the same disclaimer.) 1. Frankly, I'm

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-28 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi Boyd. On 28/03/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)': Ignore the following if you don't like minirants. (My

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)': 1. Frankly, I'm not impressed with Linux in this case*. /var is not a mission critical filesystem in the sense

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-28 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi Boyd On 28/03/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)': 1. Frankly, I'm not impressed with Linux

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: openSUSE (or is it Novell?) certainly seem to be less keen on Reiserfs than they used to be, judging from reports from about the beginning of the year. It's unlikely that Novell has issues with the current technical quality of reiserfs, which is

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)': All in all, the odds are tipping in favour of ext4 I don't need quite such large filesystems as my largest is just

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-03-26 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi list On 12/02/07, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/02/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can read german (or if you know someone who is able to translate it for you): http://hardware.thgweb.de/2007/01/15/stresstest_netzteile_2007/index.html Luckily,

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 11 February 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: On 11/02/07, Kent Fredric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would go with Hammann with Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU. Many people neglect to realise how important a decent PSU is, and how major an effect

RE: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Dave Rea
more for solid core capacitors which are more effective and reliable. -Original Message- From: Mark Kirkwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 12 February 2007 9:57 p.m. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling Alan McKinnon

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 February 2007, Mark Kirkwood wrote: I've given up on the consumer electronics industry being able to consistently build high quality power supplies for ANYTHING that plugs into the mains. The normal build quality is terrible, and the ability of the designer to do the job

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 12 February 2007, Mark Kirkwood wrote: While I generally agree, not *all* manufacturers provide rubbish for us... e.g in the current context Zalman PSUs are very good quality (robust and quiet), and if you hunt around a bit even some of the less spectacular

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Dan Farrell
I recommend you look into memtest86 to check your ram, it's provided as a boot option on the gentoo boot cds. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 12/02/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recommend you look into memtest86 to check your ram, it's provided as a boot option on the gentoo boot cds. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Dan, Quite correct Funnily enough I had an Ubuntu LiveCD to hand with it on, so I used that

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Matt Richards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I wouldn't of thought it would be the RAM not from behavior like that but it does sound like a overheating issue, I have had computers just power off because they get too hot. Matty. Jeff Rollin wrote: On 12/02/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 12. Februar 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 11 February 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: On 11/02/07, Kent Fredric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would go with Hammann with Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU. Many people neglect to realise how important a

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:46:42 +0300, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can read german (or if you know someone who is able to translate it for you): http://hardware.thgweb.de/2007/01/15/stresstest_netzteile_2007/index.html Nice link, thanks. Re reading German: 1.

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 February 2007, Matt Richards wrote: I wouldn't of thought it would be the RAM not from behavior like that but it does sound like a overheating issue, I have had computers just power off because they get too hot. The thing with memtest is that it does (mostly) predictable tests,

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 12/02/07, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 12 February 2007, Matt Richards wrote: I wouldn't of thought it would be the RAM not from behavior like that but it does sound like a overheating issue, I have had computers just power off because they get too hot. The thing with

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 12/02/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can read german (or if you know someone who is able to translate it for you): http://hardware.thgweb.de/2007/01/15/stresstest_netzteile_2007/index.html Luckily, I own the same enermax they tested... -- F everyone's I,

[gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi list, I am having trouble when compiling things on Gentoo. When I start a compile, it goes partway through and then reboots the machine (I can't confirm it's due to a compile but it seems likely since I have been compiling things each of the times this has happened. One thing that might be

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread William Kenworthy
Heat (dust bunnies/blocked fans/filters ...) bad memory Both the above get extra stress during compiles, the cpu throws a panic and depending on kernel options will reboot. Other things can do it, but the above seem most common. BillK On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 08:36 +, Jeff Rollin wrote: Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread Philip Webb
070211 William Kenworthy wrote: On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 08:36 +, Jeff Rollin wrote: When I start a compile, it goes partway through and then reboots the machine Heat (dust bunnies/blocked fans/filters ...), bad memory I've had problems in the past due to the CPU overheating: the machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: Hi list, I am having trouble when compiling things on Gentoo. When I start a compile, it goes partway through and then reboots the machine (I can't confirm it's due to a compile but it seems likely since I have been compiling things each of

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:57:19 +0300, William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heat (dust bunnies/blocked fans/filters ...) bad memory Bad memory or bad motherboard. This is less likely, but also happens (saw that Thursday). Ideally, switch memory with another similar PC and see what

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread Kent Fredric
On 2/11/07, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I am having trouble when compiling things on Gentoo. When I start a compile, it goes partway through and then reboots the machine (I can't confirm it's due to a compile but it seems likely since I have been compiling things each of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 11/02/07, Kent Fredric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would go with Hammann with Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU. Many people neglect to realise how important a decent PSU is, and how major an effect it can have on systems. A dodgy PSU in my experience can do

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 11/02/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: Hi list, I am having trouble when compiling things on Gentoo. When I start a compile, it goes partway through and then reboots the machine (I can't confirm it's due to a compile but

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: On 11/02/07, Kent Fredric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would go with Hammann with Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU. Many people neglect to realise how important a decent PSU is, and how major an effect it can have

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 11 February 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: On 11/02/07, Kent Fredric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would go with Hammann with Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU. Many people neglect to realise how important a decent PSU is, and how major an effect it can have on