On Sat, 2016-09-24 at 01:52 -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:45:26PM +, Grant Edwards wrote
>
> > Would anybody care to make a recommendation?
>
> How about ditching "Desktop Environment" altogether and using a
> "Window Manager" instead? I use ICEWM. It ha
On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 13:57 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote:
> I thought it was just a pulseaudio configuration, so I managed to get
> that bastard restarted, no luck, then it was complaining that the
> audio
> device was stuck or something, I warm booted then cold booted...
> Still
> no sound. =(
>
> No
On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 20:58 +0100, Sascha Cunz wrote:
> In the recent thread "system freezes during compiles", Carlos Henderson
> showed
> the output of $(sensors), among them the output of the k10temp-pci-00c3.
>
> I stopped trusting that sensor. After some hours of idle, it shows me:
>
> k10t
On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 20:57 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> you might just hit a thrashing situation. Linux is very bad when it
> comes to abusing swap in case of an emergency.
>
> But it also sounds like overheating or a power problem. Power problems
> might be caused by the PSU - but it cou
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 06:45 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> You got your answer. 8gig and no swap is NOT ENOUGHT.
It's a strong indicator, which is going to be corrected.
I am slightly confused by the resulting behaviour however. I was of the
impression oomkiller would start to kill process
On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 16:27 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
>
> I had a virtual server that kept crashing/rebooting during compiles of
> large packages such as php. It ended up being because it was running
> out of memory. Added another 1GB of swap space and it has been happy
> ever since.
Thanks Pau
On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 16:14 +, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2013-03-20, Carlos Hendson wrote:
>
> > That's by no means conclusive, however, I've also run a complete pass of
> > memcheck for over an hour without any issues reported.
>
> FWIW. I've had f
On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 20:57 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> you might just hit a thrashing situation. Linux is very bad when it
> comes to abusing swap in case of an emergency.
>
> But it also sounds like overheating or a power problem. Power problems
> might be caused by the PSU - but it cou
On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 08:17 +, Mick wrote:
> Stating the obvious, it seems that the kernel is struggling and indeed
> you may
> have come across some nasty kernel bug. However, it could well be
> that it is
> not related to the kernel you're running, or your kernel config. It
> could be
>
On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 18:43 +0100, Daniel Wagener wrote:
> "Frozen" means there is no Hard Drive Activity going on right?
> And there is no other indication, that you are just running out of
> memory?
I can't categorically state if there was drive activity. I was so
fixated on regaining control
Hello,
For last few weeks or so, I've been getting intermittent hard lock-ups
during the emerge of various packages. It appears the more compile
intensive the package, the more likely the lock-up. These lock-ups have
occurred under kernels 3.4.9 and 3.7.10 with gcc 4.5.4 and 4.6.3.
Once the mac
On Mon, 2012-12-24 at 22:46 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> I'm on ~amd64. Updated portage in the morning.
>
> But it seems the .38 version has a nasty bug.
> It freezes the system every single time I try to compile a cross tool
> chain.
>
> I tried with various options, like reducing make job
On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 14:50 +, James wrote:
> my bad..
No, not your bad. I was in the same boat as you when I wanted to
install sar. I found the gentoo package name on the web.
Sorry if my previous post suggested the executed commands would have
found the package name for sar on a syst
On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 18:25 +, James wrote:
> Is SAR quickly available for Gentoo (an overlay I missed)?
hydra ~ # which sar
/usr/bin/sar
hydra ~ # equery belongs /usr/bin/sar
* Searching for /usr/bin/sar ...
app-admin/sysstat-10.0.5 (/usr/bin/sar)
hydra ~ #
Hope that helps,
Carlos
On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 09:31 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Many thanks, the workaround mentioned in this link fixes the segment
> fault.
> Still, audio doesn't work, yet.
It seems mplayer doesn't have the codec required for the WMV format.
You should check mplayer has the win32codecs use flag e
On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 14:40 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 02/08/2012 02:07:55 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> > On Wed 08 Feb 2012 06:31:19 PM IST, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I need some advice.
> > >
> > > Since a short time I have tremendous problems with mplayer /
> > smpl
On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 10:57 -0500, Dale wrote:
> Give it time. Something will need /home on the root partition next.
> Like someone else posted, we are headed towards windows land with
> this.
> I won't be surprised if /boot will have to be on / next too.
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
Funnily enou
On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 11:14 +0100, Jacques Montier wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I use the online french file storage Securibox (similar to Adrive or
> others) to backup some data.
> https://www.securibox.fr/
> Everything worked before upgrading gentoo by emerge -auvDN world.
> Now, i can open my personal
Hello,
I've got a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop with dual 2.5" hard drives setup
using software RAID1. I've had this computer for about a year and half
and all's been working well.
I've experienced intermittent software RAID errors like those found in
the "softraid-fail.txt" attachment.
Initially I
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Friday 08 May 2009 16:01:14 Mike Kazantsev wrote:
>> On Fri, 8 May 2009 14:38:58 +0100
>>
>> Stroller wrote:
>>> To find the part to which I refer you'll need to scroll down about
>>> halfway through that page to "Colorize grep"; the author advises adding:
>>>
>>>if e
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