Re: (SOLVED)[gentoo-user] KDM stucking!

2013-04-23 Thread Dale
Jackie wrote: >>> I still don't get a clue what; wrong here and why this all happend. >>> Hope >>> the information above will be helpful. >>> >> I have had KDE behave similarly when my LDAP authentication was >> screwed up. There was an issue caused by a gnome library that was >> pulled in by gnuca

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 23/04/2013 23:10, Jarry wrote: > On 23-Apr-13 22:40, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> ext4 is fine. All the horror stories ended years ago and almost all >> major distros ship it as a default. > > Hm, I remember one horror story about "ext4 data corruption bug" > which circulated in public just a few

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-23 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 09:37:52PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote > I haven't read any horror stories re Reiser 3 , > which I've been using for 10 years without any problem ever. > Reiser 4 was stalling even before its creator's legal problems > & seems unlikely to get kernel support, > but Reiser 3 i

Re: [gentoo-user] PosgreSQL - pg_hba.conf localhost access only

2013-04-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, April 24, 2013 00:16, Joseph wrote: > On 04/23/13 20:10, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>I am guessing Apache is running on the same machine as your Postgresql >> server? >> >>In this case. The connection will always originate from localhost and >> Postgresql is behaving as it should. >> >>You wi

Re:(SOLVED)[gentoo-user] KDM stucking!

2013-04-23 Thread Jackie
I still don't get a clue what; wrong here and why this all happend. Hope the information above will be helpful. I have had KDE behave similarly when my LDAP authentication was screwed up. There was an issue caused by a gnome library that was pulled in by gnucash. This only affected KDE logins

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDM stucking!

2013-04-23 Thread Jackie
在 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:56:18 +0800,Neil Bothwick 写道: Neil Bothwick Regarding to yours and Dale's suggetion,seems it indeed has something to do with DNS(/etc/host.conf & /etc/resolv.conf settings maybe). Anyway I am giving it a shot after Google for DNS HowTo :) Reply to you guys soon!

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM stucking!

2013-04-23 Thread Jackie
I still don't get a clue what; wrong here and why this all happend. Hope the information above will be helpful. I have had KDE behave similarly when my LDAP authentication was screwed up. There was an issue caused by a gnome library that was pulled in by gnucash. This only affected KDE logi

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-23 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:12:56AM +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote > >> Of course from many threads from a pro audio user called Ralf, Gentoo > >> users and so a fraction of Linux users are the only ones lucky enough > >> to be able to do that *easily* whilst keeping packages they want, > >> especia

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-23 Thread Philip Webb
130423 Walter Dnes wrote: > I recently got a new Dell "desktop PC" at home > Now I'm getting ready to partition and reformat for a Gentoo install. > I've used ReiserFS3 for years with no problems, > but I keep hearing horror stories about it. I haven't read any horror stories re Reiser 3 , which I

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-23 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: > I find filesystems are very much a case of YMMV :) > > I will NOT use an ext fs again willingly - lost too many whole systems, > corruption - Ive had less problems with DOS! > > Reiserfs, has had its "moments" but is by far the most stable system, > though NTFS isnt bad t

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-23 Thread William Kenworthy
On 24/04/13 06:34, Paul Hartman wrote: > I'll add my anecdotes :) > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> In over 10 years, I have never had a file system failure with any of >> these (all used a lot): >> >> ext2 >> ext3 >> ext4 >> zfs >> reiser3 > > ext2, ext3, ext4, btr

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-23 Thread Paul Hartman
I'll add my anecdotes :) On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > In over 10 years, I have never had a file system failure with any of > these (all used a lot): > > ext2 > ext3 > ext4 > zfs > reiser3 ext2, ext3, ext4, btrfs here. ext4 for years (ever since it lost the dev suffix

Re: [gentoo-user] PosgreSQL - pg_hba.conf localhost access only

2013-04-23 Thread Joseph
On 04/23/13 20:10, J. Roeleveld wrote: [snip] I'm using SQL-Ledger (firefox) to access the postgresql. Brief history: I had a problem in the past when I upgraded to posgresql-9.1, all of a sudden I could not access the sql-ledger. The solution was to add "postgres group" to apache user. The rea

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-23 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 23.04.2013 22:59, schrieb William Hubbs: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:49:19AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: >>> Feel free to remove PA if you don't need it. I really don't see any >>> scope for Lennart to make all of alsa redundant anytime soon (unlike >>> udev...) >> >> Of course from many threa

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Jarry wrote: > On 23-Apr-13 22:40, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> ext4 is fine. All the horror stories ended years ago and almost all >> major distros ship it as a default. > > > Hm, I remember one horror story about "ext4 data corruption bug" > which circulated in publ

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-23 Thread Andrew Hoffman
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Jarry wrote: > On 23-Apr-13 22:40, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > ext4 is fine. All the horror stories ended years ago and almost all >> major distros ship it as a default. >> > > Hm, I remember one horror story about "ext4 data corruption bug" > which circulated in pu

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-23 Thread Jarry
On 23-Apr-13 22:40, Alan McKinnon wrote: ext4 is fine. All the horror stories ended years ago and almost all major distros ship it as a default. Hm, I remember one horror story about "ext4 data corruption bug" which circulated in public just a few months ago: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/23/6

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-23 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:49:19AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > Feel free to remove PA if you don't need it. I really don't see any > > scope for Lennart to make all of alsa redundant anytime soon (unlike > > udev...) > > Of course from many threads from a pro audio user called Ralf, Gentoo >

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 23/04/2013 20:40, Walter Dnes wrote: > I recently got a new Dell "desktop PC" at home, and ran Windows for a > while to make sure nothing is broken. Now I'm getting ready to > partition and reformat for a Gentoo install. My understanding is that > BTRFS and EXT4 are still a bit "bleeding edg

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-23 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 23 April 2013 11:40, Walter Dnes wrote: > I recently got a new Dell "desktop PC" at home, and ran Windows for a > while to make sure nothing is broken. Now I'm getting ready to > partition and reformat for a Gentoo install. My understanding is that > BTRFS and EXT4 are still a bit "bleeding

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-23 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 02:48:19PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote > Incidentally, if you use ext3, and your kernel supports ext4, chances > are it's the kernel's ext4 code that's handling your ext3 fs. I don't > even bother compiling in ext2 and ext3. Interesting. From "make menuconfig"... [ ] Us

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.04.2013 20:48, schrieb Michael Mol: > That said, I've been using ext4 for the past 3-4 years on nearly > all my systems without a problem. The only scenario I don't use > ext4 is for /boot...and there I use ext3. really? I never tried that and still use ext2 there. No big difference at boo

PVSCSI vs LSI Logic Parallel/SAS - WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Best filesystem for virtualized gentoo mail server - WAS: vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-22 8:56 AM, Andre Lucas Falco wrote: 2013/4/21 Tanstaafl wrote: Windows VMs see get an 'LSI Logic SAS', and my gentoo VM gets an 'LSI Logic Parallel' controller. Did you tested using pvscsi? It's improve performance with less cost to CPU usage. No, I didn't... It appears there

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-23 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: > I recently got a new Dell "desktop PC" at home, and ran Windows for a > while to make sure nothing is broken. Now I'm getting ready to > partition and reformat for a Gentoo install. My understanding is that > BTRFS and EXT4 are still a bit "bleeding edge". I've used Reiser

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-23 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/23/2013 02:40 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > I recently got a new Dell "desktop PC" at home, and ran Windows for a > while to make sure nothing is broken. Now I'm getting ready to > partition and reformat for a Gentoo install. My understanding is that > BTRFS and EXT4 are still a bit "bleeding

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-23 Thread Randy Barlow
On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 14:40 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > I recently got a new Dell "desktop PC" at home, and ran Windows for a > while to make sure nothing is broken. Now I'm getting ready to > partition and reformat for a Gentoo install. My understanding is that > BTRFS and EXT4 are still a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDM stucking!

2013-04-23 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:31:34 + (UTC), James wrote: > >>> I still don't get a clue what; wrong here and why this all happend. >>> Hope the information above will be helpful. >> >> It could be a database or kde software initialization mechanics >> and such. > > I have a va

[gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-23 Thread Walter Dnes
I recently got a new Dell "desktop PC" at home, and ran Windows for a while to make sure nothing is broken. Now I'm getting ready to partition and reformat for a Gentoo install. My understanding is that BTRFS and EXT4 are still a bit "bleeding edge". I've used ReiserFS3 for years with no probl

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM stucking!

2013-04-23 Thread Paul Klos
Op dinsdag 23 april 2013 22:49:33 schreef Jackie: > 在 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:01:42 +0800,Florian Philipp > 写道: > > > Your quetion inspired me and I did the follow tests: > 1).Login through KDM and then logout and login again,no change,still it > > takes 1min before splah

Re: [gentoo-user] PosgreSQL - pg_hba.conf localhost access only

2013-04-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
Joseph wrote: >On 04/23/13 15:57, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>On Tue, April 23, 2013 14:37, Joseph wrote: >>> On 04/23/13 10:07, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tue, April 23, 2013 02:17, Joseph wrote: > In my "pg_hba.conf" I have: > > local all all

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions - last questions...

2013-04-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:34:38 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > > So - first, is 5G way too big for the two /tmp dirs? I have lots of > > space, but hate waste > > > > If you worry about waste consider bind-mounting both from the same > partition and install quotas to avoid one filling up the oth

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDM stucking!

2013-04-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:31:34 + (UTC), James wrote: > > I still don't get a clue what; wrong here and why this all happend. > > Hope the information above will be helpful. > > It could be a database or kde software initialization mechanics > and such. I have a vague recollection of somethin

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions - last questions...

2013-04-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 23.04.2013 16:44, schrieb Tanstaafl: > Ok, this is the last question I need to answer for myself before > installing a final version of my new virtualized gentoo server... > > I'll be using the following partition layout: > > /boot (ext2), 100M > /swap, 2G > / (ext4), 40G > > then on LVM > >

[gentoo-user] Re: KDM stucking!

2013-04-23 Thread James
Jackie gmail.com> writes: > I still don't get a clue what; wrong here and why this all happend. Hope > the information above will be helpful. It could be a database or kde software initialization mechanics and such. Let it run a few times, update portage (rinse and repeat) and see after sev

Re: [gentoo-user] PosgreSQL - pg_hba.conf localhost access only

2013-04-23 Thread Joseph
On 04/23/13 15:57, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tue, April 23, 2013 14:37, Joseph wrote: On 04/23/13 10:07, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tue, April 23, 2013 02:17, Joseph wrote: In my "pg_hba.conf" I have: local all all trust hostall all

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Adobe Flashplayer: Playback hangs

2013-04-23 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Apr 23, 2013 2:32 PM, "Shalom Ben-Zvi Kazaz" wrote: > > I'm having the same problem. noticed it with youtube. have to refresh the page for the video to play again. > > > On 04/21/2013 08:29 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am using Adobes Flashplayer with Firefox (both newest ve

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM stucking!

2013-04-23 Thread Jackie
在 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:01:42 +0800,Florian Philipp 写道: Am 23.04.2013 05:04, schrieb Jackie: Starting up Gentoo today and found that after I entered my password in KDM and the screen just stuck there with nothing for a while(maybe more than 1min) and then splash came up.This never appeared bef

[gentoo-user] Partitions - last questions...

2013-04-23 Thread Tanstaafl
Ok, this is the last question I need to answer for myself before installing a final version of my new virtualized gentoo server... I'll be using the following partition layout: /boot (ext2), 100M /swap, 2G / (ext4), 40G then on LVM /tmp (ext2), 5G? <- how big? /var/tmp (ext2), 5G? <- how big?

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM stucking!

2013-04-23 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 23.04.2013 05:04, schrieb Jackie: >> Starting up Gentoo today and found that after I entered my password in >> KDM and the screen just stuck there with nothing for a while(maybe more >> than 1min) and then splash came up.This never appeared before and I >> don't know why

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: emoticon display with Thunderbird

2013-04-23 Thread James
Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Add_emoticons I'm going to upgrade TB then fix the emoticons thx. James

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM on VM or not? - WAS Re: Best filesystem for virtualized gentoo mail server - WAS: vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-21 6:15 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: One thing you have to think about, is whether to implement LVM/partition-less, or LVM/partitions. Well, I was going to just allocate a new 'drive' (create one within vmWare and then attach it to my gentoo VM), and use that entire virtual 'disk' for

Re: [gentoo-user] PosgreSQL - pg_hba.conf localhost access only

2013-04-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, April 23, 2013 14:37, Joseph wrote: > On 04/23/13 10:07, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>On Tue, April 23, 2013 02:17, Joseph wrote: >>> In my "pg_hba.conf" I have: >>> >>> local all all trust >>> hostall all 127.0.0.1/

Re: [gentoo-user] PosgreSQL - pg_hba.conf localhost access only

2013-04-23 Thread Douglas J Hunley
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Joseph wrote: > Even with a single line in pg_hba.conf > local all all trust > > all other machine on the network can connect to my postgresql database. > did you restart postgresql? editing pg_hba.conf requires a restart to take effect -- Douglas J Hunl

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM stucking!

2013-04-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 23.04.2013 05:04, schrieb Jackie: > Starting up Gentoo today and found that after I entered my password in > KDM and the screen just stuck there with nothing for a while(maybe more > than 1min) and then splash came up.This never appeared before and I > don't know why.The only thing I did and mig

Re: [gentoo-user] PosgreSQL - pg_hba.conf localhost access only

2013-04-23 Thread Joseph
On 04/23/13 10:07, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tue, April 23, 2013 02:17, Joseph wrote: In my "pg_hba.conf" I have: local all all trust hostall all 127.0.0.1/32trust I was under impression that this is configu

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Adobe Flashplayer: Playback hangs

2013-04-23 Thread Shalom Ben-Zvi Kazaz
I'm having the same problem. noticed it with youtube. have to refresh the page for the video to play again. On 04/21/2013 08:29 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am using Adobes Flashplayer with Firefox (both newest versions). When playing video, t

Re: [gentoo-user] PosgreSQL - pg_hba.conf localhost access only

2013-04-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, April 23, 2013 02:17, Joseph wrote: > In my "pg_hba.conf" I have: > > local all all trust > hostall all 127.0.0.1/32trust > > I was under impression that this is configuration is for localhost > "127.0.0