Re: [gentoo-user] cannot completely shut down my system from command line

2009-06-04 Thread Steffen Loos
Hello, Colombetti Marco schrieb: ... I have a similar issue on my laptop after upgrading to the kernel 2.6.29. The alsasound service wont stop i have to unload the snd_hda_intel module first (it is an alsa related issue). If it is the same problem you could add "modprobe -r snd_hda_intel" i

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 questions

2009-06-04 Thread Philip Webb
090604 Maxim Wexler wrote: > why give the logical volumes any size at all ? > If they can be expanded at will, > why not just the let the files fill them up as much as they need ? That's not how it works: you need to create the LVs with enough space for your likely needs & LVM then assigns them in

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: buying a keyboard

2009-06-04 Thread Philip Webb
090604 Paul Hartman wrote: > 4) Cable so short it can't even reach the computer. > I have a keyboard with an 18-inch cord. It is barely long enough > to reach from one side of the keyboard to the other! Absolutely useless. Mine is theoretically extendible -- stretch of curled-up cord -- , but to r

[gentoo-user] Endless stream of valgrind errors with glibc-2.10.1

2009-06-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I'm getting a big load of errors when running valgrind on every executable on the system. Even a "valgrind ls /" results in tons of this: ==16779== Use of uninitialised value of size 8 ==16779==at 0x3100C3: ??? (in /lib64/ld-2.10.1.so) ==16779==by 0x30397B: ??? (in /lib64/ld

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 questions

2009-06-04 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 6/4/09, Albert Hopkins wrote: > You'll know if LVM has detected your PVs by running pvdisplay. Check! Thanks Albert Another please, from the doc: "Note: As Terje Kvernes commented, it is easier to increase the size of a partition then to shrink it. You might therefore want to start with sm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Preventing Midnight Commander from putting junk in .bash_history

2009-06-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> >>> My .bash_history contains lots of stuff like: >>> >>> cd "`printf "%b" '\0057home\0057realnc'`" >>> >>> They seem to come from Midnight Commander a

[gentoo-user] External USB HDD: device descriptor read/64, error -62 (solved?)

2009-06-04 Thread Paul Hartman
I thought I would post this here for the archives and google in case someone else has the same problem. Tonight I rebooted for the first time in 60 days. In that time I've changed from gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r1 to 2.6.29-r5 and countless updates to my ~amd64 world. I have an external LaCie 2TB USB

[gentoo-user] Re: Preventing Midnight Commander from putting junk in .bash_history

2009-06-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: My .bash_history contains lots of stuff like: cd "`printf "%b" '\0057home\0057realnc'`" They seem to come from Midnight Commander and are very annoying. Any way to prevent this stuff from ending up in the bash histo

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing Midnight Commander from putting junk in .bash_history

2009-06-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > My .bash_history contains lots of stuff like: > > cd "`printf "%b" '\0057home\0057realnc'`" > > They seem to come from Midnight Commander and are very annoying. Any way to > prevent this stuff from ending up in the bash history? I use MC

RE: [gentoo-user] Touchpad wont click with xorg-server-1.5.3-r6

2009-06-04 Thread Adam Carter
> > I can no longer tap the touchpad to cause a mouse click. It > worked in 1.5.3-r5, but i think r5 was -hal, whereas i have built -r6 +hal. > > > > I cant see any touchpad related patches in r6. Should i try > -hal, reverting to -r5 or something else? > > > > I have no input devices defined in my

[gentoo-user] Preventing Midnight Commander from putting junk in .bash_history

2009-06-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
My .bash_history contains lots of stuff like: cd "`printf "%b" '\0057home\0057realnc'`" They seem to come from Midnight Commander and are very annoying. Any way to prevent this stuff from ending up in the bash history?

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2 questions

2009-06-04 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 13:01 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Creating LVM partitions on SSD and SD card using systemrescuecd-1.2.0 > while following doc, 'Gentoo LVM2 installation'. In the doc it says > to edit the 'filter =' statement in lvm.conf in order to scan the > correct devices.

Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] Re: gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4

2009-06-04 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:13:47 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Daniel Iliev wrote: [--snip--] > > Kernel compiles w/o errors, but when booted it panics with error msg > > like "unknown mount option ``extents''". > > > > Yes, I have "extents" among the following options in fstab and > > they wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-04 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Wed, June 3, 2009 22:23, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > BTW: this is where you see that cdparranoia(1) is now 12 year old and > unmaintained since ~ 10 years. cdda2wav -paranoia gives much better > results that cdparanoia. Pardon me for getting in the middle but I am r

Re: [gentoo-user] Touchpad wont click with xorg-server-1.5.3-r6

2009-06-04 Thread Mick
Hi Adam, On Wednesday 03 June 2009, Adam Carter wrote: > I can no longer tap the touchpad to cause a mouse click. It worked in > 1.5.3-r5, but i think r5 was -hal, whereas i have built -r6 +hal. > > I cant see any touchpad related patches in r6. Should i try -hal, reverting > to -r5 or something e

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 04 June 2009 21:13:39 Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Joerg Schilling >> >> wrote: >> > Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> It seems that the command >> >> >> >> readcd -c2scan >> >> >> >> fails on both of my drives f

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4

2009-06-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, Yesterday I decided to try gentoo-sources again. I was using vanilla, because of ext4 - when it was declared stable, gentoo-sources still was at the ext4dev phase (a version or so behind the upstream as expected). Yesterday, when migrating from vanilla-2.6.28 to gentoo-s

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: buying a keyboard

2009-06-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:19:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > >> 3) Absence of the pads used to lift the back of the keyboard (I can't >> believe some people don't use them). > > Some clam that raising the back of the keyboard increases the risk

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 halts - how to catch a reason?

2009-06-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Last week or two (I mostly use Gnome and can not say more precisely) after KDE4 starting session apps starts also, as well as bg and panels. But then I get black screen (during this KDE4 start process), and Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does nothing. The only way I have in hand to c

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: buying a keyboard

2009-06-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:19:50 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > 3) Absence of the pads used to lift the back of the keyboard (I can't > believe some people don't use them). Some clam that raising the back of the keyboard increases the risk of RSI, and that you should raise the front if anything, to r

[gentoo-user] KDE4 halts - how to catch a reason?

2009-06-04 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Last week or two (I mostly use Gnome and can not say more precisely) after KDE4 starting session apps starts also, as well as bg and panels. But then I get black screen (during this KDE4 start process), and Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does nothing. The only way I have in hand to continue is to use SysRq

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4

2009-06-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, Yesterday I decided to try gentoo-sources again. I was using vanilla, because of ext4 - when it was declared stable, gentoo-sources still was at the ext4dev phase (a version or so behind the upstream as expected). Yesterday, when migrating from vanilla-2.6.28 to gentoo-s

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 June 2009 21:13:39 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Joerg Schilling > > wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > >> It seems that the command > >> > >> readcd -c2scan > >> > >> fails on both of my drives for all media types - retail CDs, copies of > >> CDs on CR-R and CD

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > >> It seems that the command >> >> readcd -c2scan >> >> fails on both of my drives for all media types - retail CDs, copies of >> CDs on CR-R and CD-RW. It always hangs. It hangs at different places >> if I rerun it. >

[gentoo-user] lvm2 questions

2009-06-04 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, Creating LVM partitions on SSD and SD card using systemrescuecd-1.2.0 while following doc, 'Gentoo LVM2 installation'. In the doc it says to edit the 'filter =' statement in lvm.conf in order to scan the correct devices. But just below it says to use #pvcreate with the appropriate devic

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: buying a keyboard

2009-06-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > What I hate most about some keyboards are: > 1) The damn layout changes (like FN key at the left side of the > BACKSPACE, and backspace not a double size key, or right shift also > not double size, ENTER is another one sometimes manufacturer

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: buying a keyboard

2009-06-04 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:49, Dale wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> 090604 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> On Thursday 04 June 2009 16:39:39 Dale wrote: >>> Ajai Khattri wrote: > About once a year, I wash all my keyboards (no, seriously). > Dishwasher, quick wash, cold, leave somewhere

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one

2009-06-04 Thread felix
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 06:30:37PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:55:59 -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > > > and it picks up the same several day old failed emerge instead of the > > one it was running. > > Try "emaint -f cleanresume" Same result. emain did something, but

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one

2009-06-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:55:59 -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > and it picks up the same several day old failed emerge instead of the > one it was running. Try "emaint -f cleanresume" -- Neil Bothwick A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard. signature.asc Descrip

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one

2009-06-04 Thread Dale
fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:08:26AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:02 AM, wrote: >> >>> I have a shell script which loops on failure from emerge to use >>> --skipfirst --resume to continue as much as possible. Every once in a >>> while

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one

2009-06-04 Thread felix
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:18:14AM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:08:26AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:02 AM, wrote: > > > I have a shell script which loops on failure from emerge to use > > > --skipfirst --resume to continue as much as po

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one

2009-06-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:18 AM, wrote: > Good grief. That's *zackly* what I have wanted for a long time. When > did it get added? >From bug 12768 it looks like it was added by Zac Medico on 2008-06-27 :)

[gentoo-user] Re: f-secure linux security 7.03 on gentoo?

2009-06-04 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Jarry wrote: Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: at a customers site they have some company-license for f-secure-products. I run a mail-gateway there, using gentoo, it runs amavisd which utilizes clamav and fsav ... (the customer *wants* me to use both as he pays for the f-secure-licenses ...) What

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one

2009-06-04 Thread felix
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:08:26AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:02 AM, wrote: > > I have a shell script which loops on failure from emerge to use > > --skipfirst --resume to continue as much as possible. Every once in a > > while, it gets forgetful and picks up an emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one

2009-06-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:02 AM, wrote: > I have a shell script which loops on failure from emerge to use > --skipfirst --resume to continue as much as possible. Every once in a > while, it gets forgetful and picks up an emerge from several days > previous to try to resume instead of the one tha

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one

2009-06-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:02:21AM -0700, Penguin Lover fe...@crowfix.com squawked: > I have a shell script which loops on failure from emerge to use > --skipfirst --resume to continue as much as possible. May I suggest using the --keep-going option for emerge to do what you want to do instead

[gentoo-user] emerge --resume finds an old resume rather than the previous one

2009-06-04 Thread felix
I have a shell script which loops on failure from emerge to use --skipfirst --resume to continue as much as possible. Every once in a while, it gets forgetful and picks up an emerge from several days previous to try to resume instead of the one that just failed. This is pretty annoying. It start

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: buying a keyboard

2009-06-04 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: > 090604 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On Thursday 04 June 2009 16:39:39 Dale wrote: >> >>> Ajai Khattri wrote: >>> About once a year, I wash all my keyboards (no, seriously). Dishwasher, quick wash, cold, leave somewhere warm to dry couple days.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: buying a keyboard

2009-06-04 Thread Philip Webb
090604 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 04 June 2009 16:39:39 Dale wrote: >> Ajai Khattri wrote: >>> About once a year, I wash all my keyboards (no, seriously). >>> Dishwasher, quick wash, cold, leave somewhere warm to dry couple days. >> When I was working on computers, I used to clean them with

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: buying a keyboard

2009-06-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 04 June 2009 16:39:39 Dale wrote: > Ajai Khattri wrote: > > On Sun, 31 May 2009, Adrian wrote: > >> It's finally getting worn out, keys are sticking pretty bad. I would > >> like to get a new one, but the company I purchased it from (via the > >> internet) seems to not exist any more.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: buying a keyboard

2009-06-04 Thread Dale
Ajai Khattri wrote: > On Sun, 31 May 2009, Adrian wrote: > >> It's finally getting worn out, keys are sticking pretty bad. I would >> like to get a new one, but the company I purchased it from (via the >> internet) seems to not exist any more. Some google action has not >> resulted in locating an

[gentoo-user] Re: disable syanptics pad

2009-06-04 Thread James
Mick gmail.com> writes: > This is from my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-xinput-configuration.fdi: > = > > > > > synaptics > true > type="string">true > type="string">true > 1 > 1 > >

[gentoo-user] Re: disable syanptics pad

2009-06-04 Thread James
James Ausmus gmail.com> writes: > Sounds like, since you don't have a synaptics driver installed, the synaptics device is being handled like a regular mouse via the evdev driver, and the evdev driver doesn't properly handle the data coming from the touchpad, hence the erratic pointer movement.Fo

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4

2009-06-04 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:36:41 +0100 Graham Murray wrote: > Daniel Iliev writes: > > > pwd > > /usr/src/linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r5 > > > > grep -i ext4 .config > > CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y > > # CONFIG_EXT4DEV_COMPAT is not set > > CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR=y > > CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL=y > > CONFIG_EXT4_FS_SECU

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4

2009-06-04 Thread Graham Murray
Daniel Iliev writes: > pwd > /usr/src/linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r5 > > grep -i ext4 .config > CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y > # CONFIG_EXT4DEV_COMPAT is not set > CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR=y > CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL=y > CONFIG_EXT4_FS_SECURITY=y Have you also got ext3 built in, and have you specified the rootfstype k

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4

2009-06-04 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:27:20 +0100 Stroller wrote: > > On 4 Jun 2009, at 11:51, Daniel Iliev wrote: > >> 2009/6/4 Volker Armin Hemmann > >> > > ... > >>> maybe ext4 depends on 'Broken' - as it should - and so it was not > >>> shown in menuconfig. As it was not shown, you did not enable it. > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mark Knecht wrote: > m...@lightning ~/Desktop/cdda2wav $ readcd dev=1000,0,0 -c2scan > Read speed: 7056 kB/s (CD 40x, DVD 5x, BD 1x). > Write speed: 7056 kB/s (CD 40x, DVD 5x, BD 1x). > Capacity: 263932 Blocks = 527864 kBytes = 515 MBytes = 540 prMB > Sectorsize: 2048 Bytes > readcd: Suc

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Running two apaches and MySQLs on the same server

2009-06-04 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Thu, 28 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: It' sin the apache docs, called "IP based virtual hosts" if memory serves. If you want to run SSL, then IP vhosts is the only way to go. -- A

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: buying a keyboard

2009-06-04 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Sun, 31 May 2009, Adrian wrote: It's finally getting worn out, keys are sticking pretty bad. I would like to get a new one, but the company I purchased it from (via the internet) seems to not exist any more. Some google action has not resulted in locating any similar keyboards. About once

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4

2009-06-04 Thread Stroller
On 4 Jun 2009, at 11:51, Daniel Iliev wrote: 2009/6/4 Volker Armin Hemmann ... maybe ext4 depends on 'Broken' - as it should - and so it was not shown in menuconfig. As it was not shown, you did not enable it. Without enabling it, it wasn't compiled in ... Sorry, perhaps I wasn't cl

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4

2009-06-04 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:31:15 +0300 Альфар wrote: > 2009/6/4 Volker Armin Hemmann > > > On Donnerstag 04 Juni 2009, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > > > > > Kernel compiles w/o errors, but when booted it panics with error > > > msg like "unknown mount option ``extents''". > > > > > > Yes, I have "extents"

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4

2009-06-04 Thread Альфар
2009/6/4 Volker Armin Hemmann > On Donnerstag 04 Juni 2009, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Yesterday I decided to try gentoo-sources again. I was using vanilla, > > because of ext4 - when it was declared stable, gentoo-sources still was > > at the ext4dev phase (a version or so behind the up

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4

2009-06-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 04 Juni 2009, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I decided to try gentoo-sources again. I was using vanilla, > because of ext4 - when it was declared stable, gentoo-sources still was > at the ext4dev phase (a version or so behind the upstream as expected). > Yesterday, when migra

[gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4

2009-06-04 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, Yesterday I decided to try gentoo-sources again. I was using vanilla, because of ext4 - when it was declared stable, gentoo-sources still was at the ext4dev phase (a version or so behind the upstream as expected). Yesterday, when migrating from vanilla-2.6.28 to gentoo-sources-2.6.29-5 I hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mark Knecht wrote: > It seems that the command > > readcd -c2scan > > fails on both of my drives for all media types - retail CDs, copies of > CDs on CR-R and CD-RW. It always hangs. It hangs at different places > if I rerun it. If it fails with different drives from different manufacturers, try

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mark Knecht wrote: > > OK - I'll try that in a minute. Right now I'm stuck. Attempting to run > > your readcd program it's locked up and I cannot kill it. Ctrl-C didn't > > work. Trying to kill the process doesn't work. This is on one of the > > CDs that doesn't play correctly so maybe it's showi