[gentoo-user] Re: VM Ware or not?
On Jan 30, 12:30 am, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if vmware provides cow files, Qemu does... vmware provides snapshots - the copies of system. You can run this copies separately and only changes are save on disk for snapshots. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: VM Ware or not?
On Jan 30, 1:10 am, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the server package requires vm support in the cpu while the workstation does not. Works here without vm support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep flags /proc/cpuinfo flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm pbe est tm2 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: No help on annoying `sandbox' error
On Dec 29, 2:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a continuing annoying problem from sandbox trying to write out of its crib. What package you are talking about? If you did not modified anything unusual on your system, fill in bug report on that package... Do not forgive emerge --info. -- Peter. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Audacious Madness???
Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone here noticed how badly Audacious 1.4.2 is? I get random crashes and a host of other problems... something never experienced with XMMS. No. It works fine here. I traded a few emails over Audacious and it seems as though it sports a new (improved) thread model. Once I humbly suggested the new model has some warts... the email trade stopped. Emails? Please, try official way to contact them, trough bugzilla. It does not work at the moment but I think this is temporal problem which will be fixed soon. How do you report problems to the authors, if they won't listen? Bugzilla. For authors to listen you should provide at least backtrace, then if possible provide steps how to reproduce bug or describe conditions how package is broken. The more technical information you provide more chances authors listen to you. OTOH never write your personal feeling or attitude or other non technical crap. Concentrate on the problem and you'll be heard. I'm currently using XMMS-1.2.11. It works perfectly... even streams from gnump3d without errors. XMMS... Please, do not rape this dead player :) Anyone know why this goes on? May be. I don't know. -- Peter. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] museseq-0.6.2-r1 not compiling
On Сбт, 2006-05-20 at 20:03 +, b.n. wrote: Trying to re-emerge (due to new use flags) museseq gave me the following error: itransformbase.cpp:28:23: spinboxfp.h: No such file or directory make[3]: *** [itransformbase.lo] Error 1 make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs 1. Please report about this at bugs.gentoo.org. (Search beforehand with keyword museseq) 2. Try to compile with env MAKEOPTS=-j1 emerge museseq HTH, Peter. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] NIC setup? slow transfer speed
On Пнд, 2006-01-30 at 20:52 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote: Transfer 39Mb file from gentoo - XP share using Konqueror trans time =25 seconds [XP share mounted smb using Linneibourhood] Transfer 39Mb file from gentoo - XP share using winXP copy trans time =5 mins [gentoo smb directory to XP share dir ie. XP shared dir Not mounted] May be solution is there: http://dsd.lbl.gov/TCP-tuning/ Peter. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk
On Пнд, 2006-01-30 at 17:03 -0800, Grant wrote: I've heard that data can be recovered from a formatted hard disk. Lucky for me I don't have any interest in actually doing this, but I got in an argue\ment with a buddy last night about whether or not it was possible. I'm sure I've read that the government and other well-funded institutions have this capability. Is it true? What a long thread, full of myths. But there are no miracles :) Short answer for your question is... No. It's not true. Having some experience in field of data recovery I'm not going to dive into my real stories. I'll better give some general hints. Answer on your question depends on how hard drive was formatted or how it was crashed. If you do `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdd then there is no chances you'll get you data. Why? Because all byte and bits on your hard drive became 0. dot. If you heard about remanence or that 0 is a bit 1 and that some big craft apparatus can read such data, think about hard drive manufacturers. They spend big efforts to make hard drive a bit more capacious. So why they leave free space for additional information on your hard drive, which you have when you think about space between tracks or under-rotation of magnetic domains? But than you may ask. What does data recovery companies can do? Well. The best they can do is to read files from you hard drive when it contains them! So suppose you have deleted file. This operation only removes entry in you directory table, but not the file itself. Or you did format you hard drive. That will rebuild only file structure on you hard drive. Normally that means that you overwrite about 5% of you drive. All other data is intact. Just read it. But what I mean by reading deleted file? You may get filling about that with grep. Actually grep is the first utility to do data recovery. It's very easy to use but very powerful if you know what are you looking for. just try: # grep /etc/fstab: static file system information -B1 -A10 /dev/hda and you will find you fstab on hard drive even after you remove it. If you grep for PDF-1. you will find some pdf files. There are special programs for data recovery, that know many different patterns, but internally work like grep. Of course, there are problems if, fex, file is big enough and it is not written in consequent blocks of hard drive or if some parts of file are overwritten... But what about big machines??? What they are for? You may find some of them searching in google, fex, on data recovery sites. Well they are used in a situation when hard drive was broken mechanically or internal hard drive logic is broken (fex, due to bad blocks). If you hard drive is broken mechanically, you have to find another identical (see serial number...) hard drive and then you should open them and move disks from hard drive with broken mechanics into new one. After that hard drive is broken. You can not just plug in and use because unique, hard drive specific information like where to look for zero track is lost. But that machine allows you to control heads, you have possibility to read that hard drive. After that use grep to search for your files in the raw stream of data. You may find some interesting information about data recovery in google. But as I told you. No miracles. Sorry. =) HTH, Peter. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Captive requires gnome?
On Вск, 2006-01-22 at 12:19 +, Michael Kintzios wrote: I am trying to emerge Captive but it wants to pull in some gnome dependencies. Is there a way of avoiding this on a non-gnome machine? You may find out this by yourself. Just look into `less /usr/portage/sys-fs/captive/captive-1.1.7.ebuild`. DEPEND variable list all dependencies that are required. So if you look there you'll see that gnome-base/libbonobo, gnome-base/gnome-vfs and some other things are required from maintainer's pov :) If you think maintainer is wrong report about this issue on bugs.gentoo.org. Peter. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Firefox v1.5 Instances
On Чтв, 2006-01-19 at 09:11 -0800, Richard Ruth wrote: How do I start a second instance of FireFox V1.5? I do not have firefox-1.5 installed by try $ firefox --help Peter. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with CUPS
On Птн, 2006-01-20 at 08:55 -0800, maxim wexler wrote: According to the Gentoo Printing Guide - Installing the Printer, I'm to go to http://localhost:631 and then click on Administration. Well, there's Do Administrative Tasks, so I clicked on that. The guide says to enter root login and password into the box but the box only asks for username. Just a crazy idea. May be you should change the size of you window? Another possible solution is to use kdeprint. Peter. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE without ARTS
On Сбт, 2006-01-21 at 14:55 -0500, James Colby wrote: I have been looking through the list archives and haven't found an answer to my question. I have compiled KDE 3.5 with alsa -arts in my make.conf. Now is it possible to hear System Notifications, by using an external audio player. I have set up an external audio player in Kcontrol, but I still can not hear System Notifications. Because this does not work. http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99246 Peter. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Asking dhcp for a static address
On Птн, 2006-01-06 at 08:53 +0100, Sergio Polini wrote: I can't understand how to ask dhcp for a static address. I've read /etc/conf.d/net.example, but using config_eth0=( IPaddress netmask netmask brd broadcast) in /etc/conf.d/net configures my network interface _instead of_ asking dhcp (the files in /var/lib/dhcpc are not updated). Right. This is static configuration. No dhcp. If I use dhcpcd_eth0=-s IPaddress dhcpcd hangs. Any hints? Hm. Information from net.example, expressed in other words: First select what dhcp client you are going to use by adding one of # dhclient: emerge net-misc/dhcp # dhcpcd: emerge net-misc/dhcpcd # pump: emerge net-misc/pump # udhcpc: emerge net-misc/udhcp in modules. Fex 1. modules=( dhcpcd ) Now. Tell that you are going to use dhcp on eth0 2. config_eth0=( dhcp ) And then add custom configuration options module_eth0=custom_options Fex 3. dhcpcd_eth0=-s 123.123.123.123 BTW. What version of baselayout do you have? Peter. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE without aRts?
Hello. On Вск, 2006-01-01 at 01:57 +0530, Abhay Kedia wrote: What all problems should I expect by putting a -arts in /etc/make.conf? I tried searching on Google and Gentoo Forums but could not find anything conclusive. AFAIK there is a problem. kde compiled without arts does not have sound events. You may search bugs.kde.org for related bugs. This was tested by me on kde-3.4.2 and was broken. Bug is still opened... But seems that in next version of kde arts will be deprecated. So my suggestion is to leave arts in USE flags for kde only and disable it for other applications. Then in kcontrol you may wish to disable arts too, and use external player option. Thus artsd remains in your system but it'll be never used. Peter. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
