Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller
Am 03.07.2013 21:34, schrieb Paul Hartman: On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 03.07.2013 00:42, schrieb Paul Hartman: On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Does anyone use that controller with gentoo? If yes, which driver/module does support it? I ordered one for a server and did not really check the facts ;-) Looks like it uses the LSI SAS2008 chipset (basically LSI controller with HP branding), so you should enable kernel module mpt2sas (CONFIG_SCSI_MPT2SAS) and probably some other SAS-related options will be required as well if you don't already use them. I actually just installed a card with this same chipset in my Gentoo machine yesterday! I have not attached disks to it yet, as I am waiting for the enclosure to be delivered, but so far nothing froze or burst into flames when the module loaded. :) I even upgraded the BIOS and firmware on the card from within linux and everything seems okay, so far. Thanks a lot, Paul, for that feedback. Seems that you will be the first to really test it, my box will arrive next week, I assume. This will be an installation from scratch so no SAS-related stuff there already. I wonder if it makes sense to attach the disks to that adapter as well? This box will do amanda backups ... so there will be the amanda holding disk and it is important to have maximum speed between that holding area and the tape drive. I plan RAID1 on 2x2TB disks at least or maybe even RAID0 (it's a rather temporary storage area so the redundancy isn't that important). Testing will show! Mine will be attached to an external 8-disk storage array with 2 external SAS cables (4 disks per cable). I had a 5-disk 8TB software RAID5 in my computer that I had to remove due to an unplanned motherboard upgrade. Right now the disks are in a cheap external 5-disk eSATA/USB JBOD enclosure plugged into the eSATA port on my motherboard, but it's not able to access all disks at the same time, so the RAID5 performance is awful. Around 10-20 MB/sec on writes and max 50MB/sec on reads. (It was previously 100MB+/sec for both operations.) In the eSATA enclosure, a single scrub (check) of my array takes FOUR DAYS to complete! I worry about what will happen if I have to replace a disk, the rebuild would take forever... what if there is a power outage and my UPS battery only lasts around 30 minutes? I bought two of the lowest-quality 4tb Seagate drives for US$140 each on sale and plan to use them to make a backup copy of my files from the RAID onto those drives. So far I have never made a backup of my RAID because I never had enough storage space to duplicate it all. RAID is not a backup has been repeating in my head for all these years. Horror stories about a corrupt filesystem, or 1 bad sector causing the whole RAID5 rebuild to fail. Now that I will have extra drive bays, maybe I can add a second parity drive and try to do an online upgrade from RAID5 to RAID6. I definitely want to make a good backup before I try that... I am hopeful that the SAS controller and enclosure should give me high performance again! I will let you know how it goes. BTW, I am using the latest 3.9 series linux kernel. My planned box will be a stable gentoo installation so that will mean 3.8.13 for now. No problem, I assume. Thanks for your description ... good luck with that! I will maybe pre-install that system in a VM until the hardware gets here ;-) Stefan
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported
On 3 July 2013, at 17:28, Zind wrote: ... Use an external network adapter, uh... I never thought of that. AFAIK, many USB netwok adapters won't work correctly with Linux. My experience has been the opposite, that even the cheapest USB network adaptors have worked. Maybe I've just been lucky and this is not the norm, but from what I've seen USB network adapters don't work with Linux is the sort of thing that might have been true 10 years ago. Previously, I bought a Mercury MW300U USB network adapter, unfortunately, it doesn't work properly with Ubuntu 12.04. Then, that USB network adapter was left in the corner of my room. :-( Again, based on my experience, I might be wrong, the only thing I can guess is that this USB NIC featured a very recent chipset at the time Ubuntu 12.04 was packaged or released. 2. For each emerge command in the installation guide, run `emerge -fp package-name` first, and redirect the output into a textfile. IIRC, the LiveUSB is a read-only file system. So, I'm afraid that I could not redirect the required package information to a text file. Well, the LiveUSB is a read-only file system, but you're installing Gentoo onto some kind of writable filesystem - an SSD or hard-disk. When I say for each emerge command in the installation guide, these are the commands which compile packages and save the files on the hard-disk. So as a temporary measure you could save the textfile in the root directory of the new install; the computer probably supports USB flash-drives, which you can write to from the LiveCD - use another tmux window or virtual terminal if necessary. Gentoo installation is really flexible - the whole process is basically about writing a bunch of files to the hard-drive. With an appreciation of that, it doesn't matter how you get those files on the hard-disk - you can use any alternate way you can think of. Stroller.
[gentoo-user] [OT] What's up with Firefox?
Sorry to be a nuisance but I can't think of where else to ask. On the website I run I have a link to our Twitter profile (or whatever it's called). This is the link: https://twitter.com/TideswellMVC If I examine the page using the web host's file editor I see exactly that, yet if I press CTRL-U in www-client/firefox-17.0.7 it shows this: https://twitter.com/#%21/TideswellMVC and if I click the link in the main window I'm asked for a login and password. Trying the latest Windows version of Firefox in an XP virtual box I get the unaltered link. I can't tell what version that is because About Firefox merely checks, then tells me I'm up to date. Incidentally, I have a web server running on my LAN with an identical copy of the site. Using that as the target, rather than the public version, gives the same results. I haven't used JavaScript anywhere. What's going on here? -- Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What's up with Firefox?
On Jul 4, 2013, at 10:29, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Sorry to be a nuisance but I can't think of where else to ask. On the website I run I have a link to our Twitter profile (or whatever it's called). This is the link: https://twitter.com/TideswellMVC If I examine the page using the web host's file editor I see exactly that, yet if I press CTRL-U in www-client/firefox-17.0.7 it shows this: https://twitter.com/#%21/TideswellMVC and if I click the link in the main window I'm asked for a login and password. Trying the latest Windows version of Firefox in an XP virtual box I get the unaltered link. I can't tell what version that is because About Firefox merely checks, then tells me I'm up to date. Incidentally, I have a web server running on my LAN with an identical copy of the site. Using that as the target, rather than the public version, gives the same results. I haven't used JavaScript anywhere. What's going on here? -- Peter What architecture are you running this on? What USE flags are enabled with Firefox?
[gentoo-user] Libreoffice 4..1.0.1
Hello, i has trouble with build of libreoffice Version 4.1.0.1. The configure Script break with the follow message: checking for CLUCENE... yes checking for CLucene/analysis/cjk/CJKAnalyzer.h... no configure: error: Your version of libclucene has contribs-lib missing. !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support: !!! /var/tmp/portage/app-office/libreoffice-4.1.0.1/work/libreoffice-4.1.0.1/config.log * ERROR: app-office/libreoffice-4.1.0.1 failed (configure phase): * econf failed * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 93: Called src_configure *environment, line 7190: Called econf '--docdir=/usr/share/doc/libreoffice-4.1.0.1/' '--with-system-headers' '--with-system-libs' '--with-system-jars' '--with-system-dicts' '--enable-cairo-canvas' '--enable-graphite' '--enable-largefile' '--enable-mergelibs' '--enable-python=system' '--enable-randr' '--enable-randr-link' '--enable-release-build' '--enable-hardlink-deliver' '--disable-ccache' '--disable-crashdump' '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--disable-epm' '--di Im not sure what mean. I search in gentoo forum, there is talking about multilib, but i use 32 bit System not 64 so this can not be my problem or? gentoo-desk clucene # emerge --info =libreoffice-4.1.0.1 Portage 2.1.12.2 (default/linux/x86/13.0/desktop, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.4.49 i686) = System Settings = System uname: Linux-3.4.49-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 1019964 total,101408 free KiB Swap:2047996 total, 2041192 free Timestamp of tree: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 21:30:01 + ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.7.5, 3.2.5-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.10.2-r2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.1 sys-devel/gcc:4.6.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool:2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.7 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r3 Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 ACCEPT_LICENSE=* -@EULA CBUILD=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles FCFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe FEATURES=assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch FFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://distfiles.gentoo.org; LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed MAKEOPTS=-j2 PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT=/ PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORTDIR=/usr/portage PORTDIR_OVERLAY= SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage USE=X a52 aac acl acpi alsa berkdb bindist bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk iconv ipv6 jpeg lcms libnotify mad mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds python qt3support qt4 readline sdl session spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg tcpd tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vorbis wxwidgets x264 x86 xcb xml xv xvid zlib ABI_X86=32 ALSA_CARDS=intel APACHE2_MODULES=authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling stat us unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias CALLIGRA_FEATURES=kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author CAMERAS=ptp2 COLLECTD_PLUGINS=df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog ELIBC=glibc GPSD_PROTOCOLS=ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom
[gentoo-user] Re: Libreoffice 4..1.0.1
On 5/07/2013 04:20, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, i has trouble with build of libreoffice Version 4.1.0.1. The configure Script break with the follow message: checking for CLUCENE... yes checking for CLucene/analysis/cjk/CJKAnalyzer.h... no configure: error: Your version of libclucene has contribs-lib missing. !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support: !!! /var/tmp/portage/app-office/libreoffice-4.1.0.1/work/libreoffice-4.1.0.1/config.log * ERROR: app-office/libreoffice-4.1.0.1 failed (configure phase): * econf failed * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 93: Called src_configure *environment, line 7190: Called econf '--docdir=/usr/share/doc/libreoffice-4.1.0.1/' '--with-system-headers' '--with-system-libs' '--with-system-jars' '--with-system-dicts' '--enable-cairo-canvas' '--enable-graphite' '--enable-largefile' '--enable-mergelibs' '--enable-python=system' '--enable-randr' '--enable-randr-link' '--enable-release-build' '--enable-hardlink-deliver' '--disable-ccache' '--disable-crashdump' '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--disable-epm' '--di Hi, An eclass change accidentally broke a bunch of packages. Please emerge --sync, update clucene, and try again. Best regards, Michael
[gentoo-user] 3D printers Gentoo
Hello, Not sure how many folks are using 3D printers yet via Gentoo. If so your shared experiences are of keen interest to me. I did find these excellent resources [1]. [1] http://www.makerbot.com/support/guides/design/ [2] http://www.thingiverse.com/categories
Re: [gentoo-user] 3D printers Gentoo
* James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [04.07.2013. @19:38:00 +]: Hello, Not sure how many folks are using 3D printers yet via Gentoo. If so your shared experiences are of keen interest to me. I did find these excellent resources [1]. [1] http://www.makerbot.com/support/guides/design/ [2] http://www.thingiverse.com/categories Hi James, I am using 3D printers. With friends, we created a makerspace (fablab/hackerspace)[1] where we are building and using 3D printers (and lots of other things). The main resource to build a 3D printer we use is [2]. Thingiverse [3] is great to find new 3D models, but you can also create your own ones. For that, I am using OpenSCAD (in Portage, media-gfx/openscap). It is also possible to use Blender with an ad hoc plugin to export to .STL files. On other systems, there are proprietary software, but I do not use them (sketchup seems to be very easy to use). A friend (Emmanuel Gilloz aka watsdesign on Thingiverse[4]) designed the Foldarap [5] which is a folding RepRap (it is amazing!). He crowdfunded it a first time [6] but there was too many demands. Then he crowdfunded a second time [7], and I think it is not yet finished. With a colleague, we bought 2 RepRapPro Mendel [8] for the Computer Science department where we teach. And today I tried to calibrate one. But for the moment, students are not so interested in building and creating things. They are fascinated, they want to use them (as consumers), but not to create 3D models, or to design new 3D printers. I am using Printrun [9] to control the 3D printer and to send gcode to it. To generate gcode from 3D models (.STL files), I am using Slic3r [10]. Of course, all these software are working without any problem on Gentoo. Regards, JC [1] http://www.nybi.cc (in Frenchi :\ ) [2] http://www.reprap.org [3] http://www.thingiverse.com [4] http://www.thingiverse.com/watsdesign/designs [5] http://reprap.org/wiki/FoldaRap [6] http://www.ulule.com/foldarap/ (first batch) [7] http://goteo.org/project/foldarap-peer-to-peer-edition (2nd batch) [8] http://www.reprappro.com [9] http://github.com/kliment/Printrun [10] http://slic3r.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: My planned box will be a stable gentoo installation so that will mean 3.8.13 for now. No problem, I assume. No problem, I think the mpt2sas driver appeared in kernel around 2.6.3X series. Thanks for your description ... good luck with that! I will maybe pre-install that system in a VM until the hardware gets here ;-) Today I installed my drives into the SAS enclosure. Everything is working great and I'm getting maximum speed from all drives with simultaneous access. So far I have not experienced any errors or problems. Hopefully your luck is as good as mine! Here is how it looks in dmesg: [4.260179] mpt2sas version 14.100.00.00 loaded [4.265444] mpt2sas0: 64 BIT PCI BUS DMA ADDRESSING SUPPORTED, total mem (32800384 kB) [4.265498] mpt2sas :06:00.0: irq 98 for MSI/MSI-X [4.265607] mpt2sas0-msix0: PCI-MSI-X enabled: IRQ 98 [4.265609] mpt2sas0: iomem(0xfe3c), mapped(0xc9038000), size(16384) [4.265611] mpt2sas0: ioport(0xb000), size(256) [4.344822] mpt2sas0: sending message unit reset !! [4.346817] mpt2sas0: message unit reset: SUCCESS [4.390041] mpt2sas0: Allocated physical memory: size(4219 kB) [4.390048] mpt2sas0: Current Controller Queue Depth(1867), Max Controller Queue Depth(2040) [4.390052] mpt2sas0: Scatter Gather Elements per IO(128) [4.450285] mpt2sas0: LSISAS2008: FWVersion(16.00.00.00), ChipRevision(0x03), BiosVersion(07.31.00.00) [4.450291] mpt2sas0: Protocol=(Initiator,Target), Capabilities=(TLR,EEDP,Snapshot Buffer,Diag Trace Buffer,Task Set Full,NCQ) [4.453850] mpt2sas0: sending port enable !! [4.459383] mpt2sas0: host_add: handle(0x0001), sas_addr(0x500605b0060f40d0), phys(8) [4.464832] mpt2sas0: port enable: SUCCESS The disks appear as SCSI disks like normal, but with the SAS address included: [4.466217] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST4000DM000-1F21 CC52 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 [4.466228] scsi 10:0:0:0: SATA: handle(0x0009), sas_addr(0x44332211), phy(0), device_name(0x5000c500508bcc46) [4.466234] scsi 10:0:0:0: SATA: enclosure_logical_id(0x500605b0060f40d0), slot(0) [4.466359] scsi 10:0:0:0: atapi(n), ncq(y), asyn_notify(n), smart(y), fua(y), sw_preserve(y) [4.466369] scsi 10:0:0:0: qdepth(32), tagged(1), simple(0), ordered(0), scsi_level(7), cmd_que(1) [4.466710] sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0 [4.467172] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] 7814037168 512-byte logical blocks: (4.00 TB/3.63 TiB) [4.467180] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] 4096-byte physical blocks Good luck, Paul
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What's up with Firefox?
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Sorry to be a nuisance but I can't think of where else to ask. On the website I run I have a link to our Twitter profile (or whatever it's called). This is the link: https://twitter.com/TideswellMVC If I examine the page using the web host's file editor I see exactly that, yet if I press CTRL-U in www-client/firefox-17.0.7 it shows this: https://twitter.com/#%21/TideswellMVC and if I click the link in the main window I'm asked for a login and password. Very strange! Trying the latest Windows version of Firefox in an XP virtual box I get the unaltered link. I can't tell what version that is because About Firefox merely checks, then tells me I'm up to date. The latest release of Firefox is version 22.0, however version 17 is the latest Extended Support Release and coincidentally also the latest stable version in Gentoo. The url about: will show the version information in Firefox (and most other browsers). If you want to ensure you are comparing apples to apples, you can download the version 17 ESR Windows installer from: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all.html Incidentally, I have a web server running on my LAN with an identical copy of the site. Using that as the target, rather than the public version, gives the same results. I haven't used JavaScript anywhere. What's going on here? I don't know, but here is what I am thinking: A) Does it do the same if you use a different browser? opera or google-chrome are binaries and don't require any compilation, so they might be fast to emerge if you haven't got any other browsers installed. You could also simply use wget or curl to fetch a copy of the page and look at it in a text editor. If other browsers experience the same thing, go to C) B) I would first try to rule out a configuration or plug-in/add-on causing the issue. On the Firefox Help menu there is an option to restart with add-ons disabled. This will restart Firefox in safe mode. Please be aware that it also gives you an option to Reset Firefox -- this will reset it to factory default configuration, while supposedly preserving your personal information. I have not actually tried that so I would backup your profile beforehand just in case it goes off the rails. Once you're in safe mode, simply quitting firefox and reopening it will bring it back to normal mode again. If safe mode doesn't help, I would try creating a new profile. You can do this without any effect on your existing profile. Start firefox from shell prompt by firefox -P to launch the profile manager. Alternatively, you could login using a different user on your machine. C) If browser or settings don't make a difference, I would ask if you're using any sort of proxy or ad-blocker/parental control/spam filter on your network. That might be silently altering the pages in an unintended way. Also, some employers, ISPs and governments perform content modification on HTTP requests to insert ads or block disallowed URLs. If your web server supports HTTPS I would try fetching the page using that to see if it is the same. That should eliminate the possibility of outside interference as far as manipulation of the page contents goes. D) If this is a website you created, I would ask if you might have your /etc/hosts file pointing at a different server's IP. I have seen a similar problem where someone had their domain name on their web development laptop pointing to a test server rather than the live public server. That's probably not the case since you've experienced the same problem on your local web server, but I thought I would mention it just in case it might spark any ideas if everything else failed to work. Good luck, Paul
