[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:30, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 00:03, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Hello! I'm trying to run Gentoo in PV-mode on XenServer 5.6. I have been unsuccessful for the past 8 or 9 attempts (I've lost count already). So, I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 7:37 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:30, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 00:03, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: snipped previous attempts More update on my odyssey. I went back to HVM and reboot using the Install

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

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2011 14:04:23 Mr. Jarry wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: And if you don't care about barriers, jfs might be a good choice. Knowing nothing about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 14:47, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 7:37 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:30, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 00:03, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: snipped previous attempts More

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 9:20 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 14:47, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 7:37 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:30, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 00:03, Pandu Poluan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:32, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 9:20 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 14:47, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 7:37 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:30, Pandu Poluan

[gentoo-user] hardened gentoo and distcc

2011-03-24 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, Only just started playing with hardened gentoo. I have a few normal gentoo amd64 machines already running. Can I add those to the distcc config for the hardened box? Or are there indeed special things with the compiler on hardened gentoo? Regards, Coert

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:32, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Hmmm... currently I set xencons=hvc0 (also in /etc/inittab, s/tty0/hvc0/) I'll see what happens if I return them to tty0. Good luck there :) No joy. Changing xencons

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

2011-03-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 24 March 2011 08:49:52 J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Wednesday 23 March 2011 14:04:23 Mr. Jarry wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: And if you don't care about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 18:21, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:32, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: -- snip -- Hmm... I don't use kernel-modules in my Xen domu's (All are PV). I wonder if compiling

Re: [gentoo-user] hardened gentoo and distcc

2011-03-24 Thread klondike
El 24/03/11 11:13, Coert Waagmeester escribió: Hello all, Only just started playing with hardened gentoo. I have a few normal gentoo amd64 machines already running. Can I add those to the distcc config for the hardened box? No Or are there indeed special things with the compiler on

Re: [gentoo-user] hardened gentoo and distcc

2011-03-24 Thread attila boczko
Hello, Few month ago I played with that. My experience was that I need to use hardened gentoo for distcc to work correctrly. So I tried the virtualbox setup. HTH Best Regards. On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Coert Waagmeester lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: Hello all, Only just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:19 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 18:21, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:32, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: -- snip -- Hmm... I don't use kernel-modules

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:57 pm, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:19 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: -- snip -- Can't hurt to try, now that I've gotten a bootable kernel. Can always fallback to the previous one. Let me know how that goes. Compiling all the M into * still results the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 19:57, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:19 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 18:21, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:32, J. Roeleveld

[gentoo-user] rsync include exclude of regex conundrum

2011-03-24 Thread Kfir Lavi
Hi, I want to rsync all the directories and files that contain the date 2011.03.03. Everything else should not be copied. I did a lot of experiments and read web pages, but can't solve this conundrum. kfir@goofy /tmp/rsync.test $ find . ./b ./a ./a/aaa ./a/aaa/2011.03.03 ./a/2011.03.04

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 2:10 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 19:57, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:19 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 18:21, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Poluan

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

2011-03-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 24, 2011 12:30 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2011 08:49:52 J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: md raid devices can do barriers. Don't know about lvm. But lvm is such a can of worms I am surprised people still

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

2011-03-24 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 12:30 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2011 08:49:52 J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: md raid devices can do barriers. Don't know about lvm. But lvm is such

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

2011-03-24 Thread kashani
On 3/24/2011 10:19 AM, Dale wrote: I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has happened to many others, see if you say the same thing. I hope your backups are good and they can restore. Dale Meh, boot a liveCD and fix it which took all of 15 minutes. I don't see

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

2011-03-24 Thread Dale
kashani wrote: On 3/24/2011 10:19 AM, Dale wrote: I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has happened to many others, see if you say the same thing. I hope your backups are good and they can restore. Dale Meh, boot a liveCD and fix it which took all of 15

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

2011-03-24 Thread Bill Longman
On 03/24/2011 11:17 AM, Dale wrote: kashani wrote: On 3/24/2011 10:19 AM, Dale wrote: I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has happened to many others, see if you say the same thing. I hope your backups are good and they can restore. Dale Meh, boot a liveCD

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

2011-03-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 24 March 2011 12:19:39 Dale wrote: I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has happened to many others, see if you say the same thing. I hope your backups are good and they can restore. What is this mess up after an upgrade of which you speak? I've used

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

2011-03-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 24 March 2011 15:38:02 J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 12:30 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2011 08:49:52 J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: md raid devices can do barriers. Don't know about lvm. But

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

2011-03-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:19:39 -0500, Dale wrote: I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has happened to many others, see if you say the same thing. I hope your backups are good and they can restore. I must be one of the luckiest people around. LVM messes up for many

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

2011-03-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 24 March 2011 12:08:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2011 12:19:39 Dale wrote: I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has happened to many others, see if you say the same thing. I hope your backups are good and they can restore. What is

[gentoo-user] How can I find all orphaned files?

2011-03-24 Thread Jarry
Hi, is there any way to find completely all orphaned files on my system (recursivelly from /)? I mean all files (and directories) which do not belong to any ebuild installed... I know, there is qfile with -o option, but its syntax is not clear to me. I tried qfile -o * but that is apparently

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

2011-03-24 Thread Dale
Bill Longman wrote: On 03/24/2011 11:17 AM, Dale wrote: kashani wrote: On 3/24/2011 10:19 AM, Dale wrote: I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has happened to many others, see if you say the same thing. I hope your backups are good and they can

[gentoo-user] Do not emerge firefox 4.0 if you do not want gconf

2011-03-24 Thread Sebastian Günther
Hi, just to warn everyone of you readers, who use ~ARCH: firefox 4.0 arrived with a dep to gconf. A big show stopper for the all who do not want to have any gnome dependencies, but want to have the new Firefox. You have been warned Sebastian -- Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. | _

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all orphaned files?

2011-03-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:09:27 +0100, Jarry wrote: I know, there is qfile with -o option, but its syntax is not clear to me. I tried qfile -o * but that is apparently not the correct syntax, as all I got were a few top-level subdirectories and nothing more... qfile operates on the files you

[gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-24 Thread Mark Knecht
One of my machines just saw a python-2.7 update and the ebuild was good enough to remind me to run python-updater, but it didn't suggest that I run eselect python and set the active version to 2.7. Should this new version python be selected first as the active python 2 version and then run

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

2011-03-24 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: One of my machines just saw a python-2.7 update and the ebuild was good enough to remind me to run python-updater, but it didn't suggest that I run eselect python and set the active version to 2.7. Should this new version python be selected first as the active python 2

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

2011-03-24 Thread Amankwah
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 07:28:35PM -0500, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: One of my machines just saw a python-2.7 update and the ebuild was good enough to remind me to run python-updater, but it didn't suggest that I run eselect python and set the active version to 2.7. Should this new

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

2011-03-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: And if we should set python to 2.7, should we remove python-2.6?  I don't think we want to break something, portage in particular.  ;-) I have no trace of python-2.6 on my system at this point and I'm getting along just fine