Re: [gentoo-user] zram / compcache, anyone?

2011-10-13 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 13.10.2011 03:52, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Just stumbled upon this blog: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/increased-performance-in-linux-with.html anyone got any experience with zram/compcache on Gentoo? Rgds, Yes, I use it on my laptop (4GB RAM, typically 1-2GB swap used). It works

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2011-10-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:34:52 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:00:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Ah, not so. Until you work with foreign cultures you won't believe the many varied ways communication can veer off course. In some cultures it's considered

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-13 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi Alan, On Wednesday, 12. October 2011 21:36:58 Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Wed, Oct 12 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Wed, Oct 12 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: If it is related to the video card/driver that you use, try reemerging cogl and clutter; it doesn't matter that a world upgrade

[gentoo-user] Postfix to relay mail even if acting as primary MX host?

2011-10-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
Okay, I'm still scratching my head here. Scenario: Having a Postfix server in the cloud to act as the primary MX, but actually forwarding the emails to my company's email server behind the firewall. For the purposes of my scenario, here are the relevant (but mangled) settings: *) Domain is

[gentoo-user] Re: Postfix to relay mail even if acting as primary MX host?

2011-10-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 17:11, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Okay, I'm still scratching my head here. Scenario: Having a Postfix server in the cloud to act as the primary MX, but actually forwarding the emails to my company's email server behind the firewall. For the purposes of my

[gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-13 Thread Denis I. Polukarov
I've catch problem like this http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?do=post_view_flat;post=240430;page=2;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;mh=25;list=gentoo gdm[-gnome-shell] gnome-fallback-3.2 work fine (x86 xf86-video-ati), gnome-shell crash. But on other machine gdm[gnome-shell] gnome-3.2

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Oct 13 2011, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Hi Alan, Is there something in dmesg related to the gnome-shell segfaults? Best, Michael Indeed! oldlap ~ # dmesg | grep gnome-shell gnome-shell[3325] general protection ip:b6853dc2 sp:bfdba6d4 error:0 in

Re: [gentoo-user] zram / compcache, anyone?

2011-10-13 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 13.10.2011 03:52, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Just stumbled upon this blog: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/increased-performance-in-linux-with.html anyone got any experience with zram/compcache on Gentoo? Rgds, Hmm, it seems like my reply was eaten by the mail server. Apologies if you

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Oct 12 2011, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: gnome-shell segfaults. I remember some problems with gnome-shell and GL from the dri-devel-ML. What video-card are you using? Drivers/version? Is there any other WM you can start, execute gnome-shell --replace in a console and dump the

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Thu, Oct 13 2011, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Hi Alan, Is there something in dmesg related to the gnome-shell segfaults? Best, Michael Indeed! oldlap ~ # dmesg | grep gnome-shell gnome-shell[3325] general

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/[ and coreutils

2011-10-13 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
Yes, it's a different binary, and it's perfectly usual to find it in a Linux system. But note that, at least in bash, you rarely will be using /usr/bin/[ unless you reference it using the full path (either in a relative or absolute way). This is because bash has a builtin that takes over that

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Oct 13 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: What's the output of lspci | grep VGA? oldlap ~ # lspci -v | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) And just to

[gentoo-user] Where to get the gentoo kernel?

2011-10-13 Thread Lavender
I want to download it . I have searched in the distfiles directory on the mirorrs , but I don't know where to get it . Anyone can tell me ?

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Oct 13 2011, Michael Mol wrote: I've skipped most of the thread, so forgive me if this was already done...try rebuilding libmozjs? Bumping its version up or down? oldlap ~ # equery b /usr/lib/libmozjs185.so * Searching for /usr/lib/libmozjs185.so ... dev-lang/spidermonkey-1.8.5

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to get the gentoo kernel?

2011-10-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:44:05 +0800 Lavender 448463...@qq.com wrote: I want to download it . I have searched in the distfiles directory on the mirorrs , but I don't know where to get it . Anyone can tell me ? It's called linux-something on the distfiles mirrors You can download the master

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/[ and coreutils

2011-10-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:38:08 +0200 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, it's a different binary, and it's perfectly usual to find it in a Linux system. But note that, at least in bash, you rarely will be using /usr/bin/[ unless you reference it using the

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to get the gentoo kernel?

2011-10-13 Thread meino . cramer
Lavender 448463...@qq.com [11-10-13 15:48]: I want to download it . I have searched in the distfiles directory on the mirorrs , but I don't know where to get it . Anyone can tell me ? Hi, try eix gentoo-sources and than (as superuser) emerge gentoo-sources HTH! Best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Thu, Oct 13 2011, Michael Mol wrote: I've skipped most of the thread, so forgive me if this was already done...try rebuilding libmozjs? Bumping its version up or down? oldlap ~ # equery b /usr/lib/libmozjs185.so  *

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to get the gentoo kernel?

2011-10-13 Thread Lavender
Yeah , I know it works , but I wanna know exactly where it it , because my school will cut the electricity down after 11 pm . I need to get it before I could not . -- Original -- From: meino.cramermeino.cra...@gmx.de; Date: Thu, Oct 13, 2011 09:52 PM

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/[ and coreutils

2011-10-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:38:08 +0200 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, it's a different binary, and it's perfectly usual to find it in a Linux system. But note that, at least in

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to get the gentoo kernel?

2011-10-13 Thread Lavender
Suddenly I got an idea , is there great difference between gentoo kernel and the original kernel ? I want to build linux with the original kernel , but where have gentoo modified based original kernel ? Security , speed or anywhere else ? If I do this, can the linux I built be called gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to get the gentoo kernel?

2011-10-13 Thread Michael Mol
If you want to build the original kernel, emerge linux-sources (At least, I think that's the package name for vanilla sources. I don't have my Gentoo box handy) On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Lavender 448463...@qq.com wrote: Suddenly I got an idea , is there great difference between gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to get the gentoo kernel?

2011-10-13 Thread Jens Reinemuth
On 13.10.2011 16:16, Michael Mol wrote: (At least, I think that's the package name for vanilla sources. I emerge vanilla-sources

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to get the gentoo kernel?

2011-10-13 Thread Lavender
Thank you ,I thought it would be named gentoo-sth, no wonder I haven't found it . -- Original -- From: Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com; Date: Thu, Oct 13, 2011 09:47 PM To: gentoo-usergentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Subject: Re:

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/[ and coreutils

2011-10-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:59:21 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: The binaries are usually POSIX-compliant, whereas the builtins may include extra bashisms (which tend to break apps expecting just the basic POSIX behaviour) I haven't encountered POSIX-dependent apps breaking on

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to get the gentoo kernel?

2011-10-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:22:51 +0800, Lavender wrote: Thank you ,I thought it would be named gentoo-sth, no wonder I haven't found it . eix -C sys-kernel will list all available kernel sources, with descriptions of each. -- Neil Bothwick To most people solutions mean finding the answers.

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-13 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
On Thursday, 13. October 2011 09:47:03 Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Thu, Oct 13 2011, Michael Mol wrote: I've skipped most of the thread, so forgive me if this was already done...try rebuilding libmozjs? Bumping its version up or down? oldlap ~ # equery b /usr/lib/libmozjs185.so * Searching

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Postfix to relay mail even if acting as primary MX host?

2011-10-13 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/13/2011 06:17 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: I found this: http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html#backup is that the configuration I should use? More or less. I think you may even be able to simplify it a little. I'm honestly not sure what that warning is referring

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Wed, Oct 12 2011, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: gnome-shell segfaults. I remember some problems with gnome-shell and GL from the dri-devel-ML. What video-card are you using? Drivers/version? Is there any other WM you

Re: [gentoo-user] SSDs, ext4, fstrim, discard ...

2011-10-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.10.2011 00:26, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: What is the benefit of running fstrim manually over mounting with discard? discard seems to slow down the fs by trimming all the time. I only report what I read. No tests done so far. Shouldn't discard be set to make TRIM work anyway, even

[gentoo-user] Vmware Player 4 from vmware-overlay

2011-10-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Anyone hitting the same issue? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6824432.html?sid=ff31450ec4a661979b3545e662bdfbb1 AFAI understand glibc-2.13-r4 (as in ~amd64 right now) is too new for the vmware-binary? Did I understand correctly? Is there a workaround? Downgrading glibc is not the way to

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Oct 13 2011, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: hmm, for sure your problem is not video-related then. gjs is the javascript-bindings for gnome... You could try keeping spidermonkey at 1.8.5 and (re-)build the latest version of gjs. google-ing your problem clearly shows: you are not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Postfix to relay mail even if acting as primary MX host?

2011-10-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 14, 2011 1:01 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 10/13/2011 06:17 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: I found this: http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html#backup is that the configuration I should use? More or less. I think you may even be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] zram / compcache, anyone?

2011-10-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 13, 2011 8:32 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 13.10.2011 03:52, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Just stumbled upon this blog: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/increased-performance-in-linux-with.html anyone got any experience with zram/compcache on Gentoo? Rgds,

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Oct 13 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I typed that command as root (no complaints) and restarted gdm (twice). Same problem oldlap ~ # dmesg | grep gnome-shell gnome-shell[3479] general protection ip:b682bdc2

Re: [gentoo-user] zram / compcache, anyone?

2011-10-13 Thread Adam Carter
In the kernel? What .config knob should I twiddle? Device Drivers - Staging Drivers - Compressed RAM block device

Re: [gentoo-user] zram / compcache, anyone?

2011-10-13 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: In the kernel? What .config knob should I twiddle? Device Drivers - Staging Drivers - Compressed RAM block device But Dynamic Compression of swap pages underneath looks interesting too (check the help). Compressed RAM

Re: [gentoo-user] zram / compcache, anyone?

2011-10-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Oct 14, 2011 8:36 AM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: In the kernel? What .config knob should I twiddle? Device Drivers - Staging Drivers - Compressed RAM block device But Dynamic Compression of swap

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Thu, Oct 13 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I typed that command as root (no complaints) and restarted gdm (twice). Same problem oldlap ~ #

Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

2011-10-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Oct 13 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Not sure what to do now other than wait/hope that 3.2.1 (to be released next week) makes it to the overlay and is better for me. That's an option, of course. I don't know

[gentoo-user] subversion-1.7.0 and layman

2011-10-13 Thread András Csányi
Dear All, Yesterday my subversion has been upgraded because I have an ~amd64 system. This morning when I wanted to sync my layman repositorys I got this error message: svn: E155036: Please see the 'svn upgrade' command svn: E155036: Working copy is too old. Should I downgrade subversion