Re: [gentoo-user] HDD with too aggressive power management

2011-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor else # AC adaptor is off-line! echo conservative > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor echo conservative > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor fi then call that script from local_start(). HT

Re: [gentoo-user] dd'ing small drive to large one

2011-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
oot loaders and so on. Then the remote assistant can just boot it (from usb key even) and press go! -- Iain Buchanan I bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house. -- Steven Wright

[gentoo-user] [OT] quad vga - dual or single card?

2010-11-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
x27;m considering performance, heat, power, noise, and anything else you can think of. The 295 is passively cooled, 23W each, whereas the 420 is active cooled but only 40W, or so they say! any tips much appreciated :) -- Iain Buchanan If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-11-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
ng windows and virtual desktops is now back to it's snappy old self... Let's hope I see some change in swap usage too. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan If it's too good to be true, it's probably a rigged demo.

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-11-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 10:41 +0200, Fatih Tümen wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 07:09, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > sure, but running it for 10 or 100 or 1000 hours should produce roughly > > the same characteristics for the same browsing behaviour if all other > > things are

Re: [gentoo-user] Hibernation doesn't work

2010-11-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
t can i check ? > what is the right way to configure it ? what hibernate? vanilla? tuxonice? I assume disk but you could also be talking about ram... it can all be managed by (and I highly recommend) using hibernate-script. It will handle blacklisted modules, starting/stopping services,

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-11-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 23:24 +0200, Fatih Tümen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 08:45, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > OK so vm.swappiness seemed to help a bit but today I notice that swap > > usage is up again. It's firefox: > > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES S

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-11-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
Gb + 900Mb... sounds like a memory leak to me. Anyone else run firefox for 113+ hours? I'm using 3.6.9-r1. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Politicians speak for their parties, and parties never are, never have been, and never will be wrong. -- Walter Dwight

Re: [gentoo-user] Bugzilla search

2010-10-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 10:13 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > git-1.7.3.2-r1 prefix it with ALL, ie search for "ALL git-1.7.3.2-r1". Because the bug is resolved it won't appear in basic searches. alternatively you could do an advanced search and select the statuses that you were inter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 10:24 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > I'm having issues with the latest mix of nvidia-drivers, xorg, and > > whatever else it might be! > > > > I'm getting bad performance when

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
t; I'll try what you wrote, and then take my decision ;-) no probs, but no need to reply to me AND the group, just the group reply will do :) -- Iain Buchanan He who renders warfare fatal to all engaged in it will be the greatest benefactor the world has yet known. -- Sir Richard Burton

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: swap usage creeping up

2010-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
h, IMHO, there's no difference to a laptop or desktop in this regard. Push it to the limits I say ;) -- Iain Buchanan serendipity, n.: The process by which human knowledge is advanced.

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop

2010-10-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
the store as someone mentioned. Yes you will be able to install Linux on it for sure. Still not sure about 100% hardware compatibility. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan We have not inherited the earth from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children.

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-10-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 16:32 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Seriously take a > > look at your swapiness value. The default value cannot be right every > > particular case. > > it's 60. That seems a little high based on what you told me, but I have > no reference

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 11:18 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:34:58 +0930 > schrieb Iain Buchanan : > > [...] > > Someone posted recently about an upgrade that affected him (looking... > > can't find it). He downgraded to fix it, but it wasn't n

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-10-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
eks ago. I'll set it lower and watch... thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Calculon: I was all of history's great acting robots: Acting Unit 0.8, Thespo-mat, David Duchovny!

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 17:16 +1100, Adam Carter wrote: > > So it looks like its RES to me by just looking at it. Did you RTFMan > page? for top? no. I should add I wasn't sorting by the RES field, even though that's in the top listing. -- Iain Buchanan Snake: Adios-s-s, dos amigos-s-s!

[gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
t was % of total RAM that could be as much as 152Mb for evo and 76Mb for firefox. Not that much really. any ideas? thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan Chuck Norris once skewered a man with the Eiffel tower.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 22:55 -0500, Dale wrote: > I have a update. Check this out: hey, don't get my hopes up like that. Still no improvement on my box. But then, I am seeing nearly 6500 FPS :D -- Iain Buchanan The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense -- Picasso

[gentoo-user] Re: vmware - help

2010-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
Adam Carter gmail.com> writes: > > My principle for using vmware on Gentoo is; use the latest vmware, do not use the latest kernel.I'm using Workstation 7.1.2, which works well with 2.6.34, also works with 2.6.35 (but wants to rebuild one kernel module every time it runs, which I havent tried to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
ching virtual dekstops and moving windows and such. GL screensavers seem to be ok though. Someone posted recently about an upgrade that affected him (looking... can't find it). He downgraded to fix it, but it wasn't nvidia or x from memory. Sorry for being vague, I'll keep looking

[gentoo-user] vmware - help

2010-10-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
c-2.12.1.so b4e03000-b4e05000 r--p 00154000 08:07 5587283/lib/libc-2.12.1.so b4e05000-b4e06000 rw-p 00156000 08:07 5587283/lib/libc-2.12.1.soAborted I have no idea how to debug this - I've rebuilt lots of stuff and still no dice... any help would be greatly appreciated :) -- Iain Bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend-to-disk stopped by xhci-module...

2010-10-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 00:38 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > AFAIK they can be used with the standard swsusp stuff, although I've only > used it with a tuxonice-sources kernel. yup, hibernate script works with vanilla or tuxonice, both ram and disk :) -- Iain Buchanan It's no

Re: [gentoo-user] "Illegal instruction" error

2010-10-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
- running flat out almost 24/7 is > probably outside of it's design spec :-) naaah. Flog it. If it can't handle it, it's a design fault ;) -- Iain Buchanan "It ain't over until it's over." -- Casey Stengel

Re: [gentoo-user] Uploading Files to Windows CE

2010-10-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
on the way, at the least try 0.14. You may not want the entire list of packages, probably just synce-hal, synce-sync-engine and synce-gvfs. gvfs will give you nautilus browsing of your device ;) -- Iain Buchanan The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. -W.C. Fields

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware fail - malloc & other wierd errors

2010-09-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
y. Now to try vmware-workstation and see... -- Iain Buchanan All laws are simulations of reality. -- John C. Lilly

[gentoo-user] vmware fail - malloc & other wierd errors

2010-09-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
ints about libGL.so, depending on weather I start it plainly or by using VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force. I've tried all sorts of things - from USE_SHIPPED_GTK to xorg-x11 opengl to reinstalling & recompiling modules, but no luck. Google is unsympathetically silent on this one :( Please help! thank

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

2010-07-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
s a Google SOC project to integrate NetworkManager with Gentoo config files. Last time I looked it seemed to be mostly working. There's a blog somewhere *looking* http://qiaomuf.wordpress.com/ try that out. Don't think there's a command line interface to NM though so don't know h

Re: [gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?

2010-07-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
here's one I prepared earlier ;) This is from 2008: http://nthrbldyblg.blogspot.com/2008/06/gentoo-linux-live-usb-key.html and these are some notes of mine on syslinux which may help a bit too: http://nthrbldyblg.blogspot.com/2010/02/syslinux-from-linux.html HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Del

Re: [gentoo-user] caps lock osd

2010-06-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 12:11 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way to get the num lock, caps lock and scroll lock state > displayed in an OSD? Still looking for a good solution, but the best I've come up with so far is this: 1. add to .xbindkeysrc: "/

[gentoo-user] caps lock osd

2010-06-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
respond to caps lock. There are various other utilities, but they all seem panel or krell based. Is there a way I can run a generic command when caps lock is pressed? thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan R&D Phone: 138

Re: [gentoo-user] danger-deep

2010-05-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 14:18 +0300, Arttu V. wrote: > On 5/27/10, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Doesn't run here. Something to do with getting the available > > resolutions: > > > > Anyone know about SDL? > > I really don't, but I'm just wondering

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
with drive failures than previously reported." I recall there were some summaries of this article, but I can't find them right now. An interesting read. Basically, you might not be able to get reliable warnings of impending failures. Keep Good Backups (so say we all) -- Ia

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall?

2010-05-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
low noise, and many are fanless. Many come with gigabit (good for the router), multiple usb, sata, and so on. Some have sockets, some have the cpu built in. The Atom D510 is even dual core! have fun putting it together! -- Iain Buchanan Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when

[gentoo-user] danger-deep

2010-05-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
t exception: invalid resolution requested! Anyone know about SDL? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan If you stand on your head, you will get footprints in your hair.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall?

2010-05-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 09:48 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 25 May 2010 04:55:05 Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > We buy about 5 - 10 of these (started on the net4801, now the > > net5501) per year at work: > > http://www.yawarra.com.au/hw-net5501.php > > A

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Basic device for a Gentoo router/firewall?

2010-05-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
some are pre-built for the device. Would be good to get you started before you've customised it the way you like. That's an Australian company, but the boards come from http://www.soekris.com/ so you may be able to order from them and build / buy your own case. hth, -- Iain Buchanan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New GPS & Gentoo?

2010-05-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
oking for. Very cool if it's built in or easily addable > to the Garmin 1490T. ah, I see. No doubt there is free wifi POI you can download. In my experience, free WIFI doesn't determine where I go. If it's free when I get there, then good, otherwise I'm there anyway! --

Re: [gentoo-user] New GPS & Gentoo?

2010-05-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
t care for them, but some do) * etc > Maybe searching out free wireless connections for > bandwidth? not sure how many plain GPSs have wifi. hth, -- Iain Buchanan One person's error is another person's data.

Re: [gentoo-user] NetworkManager SIGSEGV

2010-05-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 22:05 -0400, Chris Reffett wrote: > It was probably the wpa_supplicant update, see bug 320097 on > bugs.gentoo.org. spot on! I didn't see it because I was searching for NetworkManager bugs, not wpa_supplicant bugs :) thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Being a mime

[gentoo-user] NetworkManager SIGSEGV

2010-05-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
-r1 x11-proto/xproto-7.0.17 net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.7.2 sys-power/pm-utils-1.3.0-r3 media-fonts/urwvn-fonts-3.05 sys-auth/nss-mdns-0.10 dev-libs/totem-pl-parser-2.28.3 sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.1.1_rc2 sys-fs/udev-154 sci-geosciences/googleearth-5.1.3535.3218 gnome-base/librsvg-2.26.3 media-gfx/g

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
rk at /mnt/portage/local. Until I pick up my laptop and drive to work, where network speeds to my server drop from 100Mbit to 50kbit and I need that local copy! Which is why I'm glad there are multiple ways to do it :) -- Iain Buchanan Old robot: I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 09:07 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 17 May 2010 11:21:50 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > Well, it turns out I have the distfiles mounted with --bind to my > > ftp/pub directory. And looking in the rsync man page: > > Why not set $DISTDIR

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
get around it seems to be another --exclude directive. At least I understand what's going on now :) thanks for all the suggestions, -- Iain Buchanan Mr. Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

Re: [gentoo-user] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
reason. I've added "--exclude /usr/portage/distfiles" to the rsync options, since there's no need to back up my distfiles, but I'd like to know why it's not working... -- Iain Buchanan It doesn't matter whether you win or lose -- until you lose.

Re: [gentoo-user] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 09:35 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 14 May 2010 11:21:02 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > I'm using the following rsync command to make the backup: > > sudo /usr/bin/ionice -c 3 /usr/bin/rsync -aAx --exclude suspend_file > > --delet

Re: [gentoo-user] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
to different mounts so (I hope) this should only copy the one partition. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sherlock Holmes, "The Sign of Four"

[gentoo-user] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
aps the ext3 options were different (ie. different amount of "reserved" space) but that would make the "Avail" columns different, and shouldn't make the "Used" columns different. any thoughts as to why my USB partition is full? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Most people h

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 08:54 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > but it's an angle to follow. I wonder how max_user_watches would handle > being 100k or more... no doubt you just need some RAM?! > > thanks, To answer my own questions, I'm now trying this: # echo 10

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 01:33 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > oh god... fam... that crap caused me so much pain over the years. This bug > ridden zombie is still around? thanks for the heads-up - I guess I should leave FAM to plan B? -- Iain Buchanan I am a friend of the working ma

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
w much changes at any one time. I'm considering LVM for it's snapshot capability, but I'd still have to rsync root. I would prefer a file notification method as well, so I can just rsync the file that just changed. So far all the file monitoring tools are based on individ

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
ctories to watch. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. -- William Shakespeare, "The Taming of the Shrew"

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
er how max_user_watches would handle being 100k or more... no doubt you just need some RAM?! thanks, -- Iain Buchanan we should send him a commemorative gentoo crack pipe for all his contributions to this project

[gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
Is there anything that can do this? thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day cause that means it's going to be up all night. -- Steven Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-05-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 16:24 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 29.04.2010 02:38, schrieb Iain Buchanan: > > Hi & thanks, > > > > On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 17:31 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > [...] > > > >> If you can live with just one big partition as

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-05-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
> is necessary. If anyone is interested, send me an email. interested! So is it on sourceforge yet ;) thanks, -- Iain Buchanan BOFH Excuse #418: Sysadmins busy fighting SPAM.

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-04-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
s such as /proc, /dev and /home. actually, lower case x is --one-file-system or "don't cross filesystem boundaries". Upper case X is --xattrs or "preserve extended attributes" :) -- Iain Buchanan When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-04-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
two disks are both 160Gb with the same sector size... It might be easier to do the fdisk-ing by hand. thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. -- William Pitt, 1783

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-04-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
ounting, I was thinking of the machine dying, hence leaving the disk in a non-shutdown state. thanks for the tips :) rsync will at least get me going quickly. Yesterday I tried iotop to with dd - some slowness but otherwise quite nice. -- Iain Buchanan Real computer scientists don't comment their code. The identifiers are so long they can't afford the disk space.

[gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-04-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
ernal disk not always there? Any other suggestions? thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan Better tried by twelve than carried by six. -- Jeff Cooper

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
t; as a subset). > > (Looks like I only have off-topic contributions to this thread.) me too. "usually always" is also a colloquialism which means "almost always" ;) ie. not quite always, but close to it... at least it usually always means that. But hey, if we w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
will kill it for sure! (ok, maybe not, but you know the mythical man month...) -- Iain Buchanan Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it. -- Tom Lehrer

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
e exception of a run-on "if". The full sentence was "I usually always look to see if Dale has been involved in a thread if HAL is mentioned" -- Iain Buchanan In war, truth is the first casualty. -- U Thant

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev error and how to fix it.

2010-03-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
rstanding at least. I could be wrong on that. I've transferred thousands of emails between evolution, thunderbird, claws and back again, no probs (except for the time it took). I assume seamonkey shouldn't be any different (although they may all end up blank?!) -- Iain Buchanan Order

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype && pulseaudio

2010-02-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
t; http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789181-highlight-pulseaudio.html > http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup agreed, try and solve the pulseaudio problems first by looking at the tips on those guides. Also you might find this useful: http://share.skype.com/sites/linux/2009/09/some_exp

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
ATA. And the drives will be changed from hda to sda, so be prepared with a boot disk to change fstab. -- Iain Buchanan The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank. -- Scotty

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
ilt snapshot feature so maybe that's what the mirrors are for... I'm having some luck chasing up the original CDs so I think I'll try that first. thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan If it smells it's chemistry, if it crawls it's biology, if it doesn't work it's physics.

RE: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
In Outlook you can tell it to prepend the standard "> " before the original message in the menu somewhere. So back to your problem - you can boot but just how far? Can you log into X? What were the updates you applied? (Please list them all). What boot messages do you see? How do you l

Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?

2010-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
h open arms though. > > You make me feel out of touch with Gentoo! Is dispatch-conf and etc-update > that bad then? out of touch would be rolling your own config update tool, like me ;) It hasn't changed much since I started using Gentoo... -- Iain Buchanan In any formula, constants (especially those obtained from handbooks) are to be treated as variables.

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 13:39 +, Stroller wrote: > On 20 Feb 2010, at 04:31, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:44 +, Stroller wrote: > >> On 19 Feb 2010, at 12:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: > >>> ... > >>> Can I randomly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
nce had a similar problem, we > ended up borrowing one identical disc from another running server to put > the array back online, we recovered our data, then restored the other > server's array. That's a possibility given what I can find on Google, however these are few and

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 14:01 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:44 +, Stroller wrote: > > On 19 Feb 2010, at 12:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > ... > > > Can I randomly mount partitions read-only or will this screw things up > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:44 +, Stroller wrote: > On 19 Feb 2010, at 12:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > ... > > Can I randomly mount partitions read-only or will this screw things up > > further? > > If this is unsafe I will have ketchup & mustard on my baseball

[gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
mounting the RAID partition that I'm not sure about. Can I randomly mount partitions read-only or will this screw things up further? thanks for any suggestions, -- Iain Buchanan "Don't fear the pen. When in doubt, draw a pretty picture." --Baker's Third Law of Design.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get text only console on livecd install

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 05:38 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > How can I force a text only console when installing from live cd? ... I think it's something to do with "nox" but I'm not sure exactly how. Either that or start using the minimal boot CD's - only about 100MB an

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
; boundary="=_NextPart_000_0612_01CAB0FD.6FF40D00" Stroller: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-27-501489522 > Stroller. -- Iain Buchanan A debugged program is one for which you have not yet found the conditions that make it fail. -- Jerry Ogdin

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
ave an older initrd that has your HD drivers in it (such as ATA), but the newer kernel you've probably just built (is that what you mean by "a bit of an update"?) doesn't. Check for an initrd, and tell us what "a bit of an update" means :) You could also compare con

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

2010-02-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
zip files. In either case you just had to open index.htm and the rest was done (as mentioned, so long as you have java in your browser). -- Iain Buchanan A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Screen sharing software or similar

2010-02-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
ncodings tight localhost would ssh via somehost. Use localhost if you can ssh directly to the box, or the actual hostname accessible via 'somehost' if you have to go via a gateway. I use net-misc/tightvnc. If you can ssh to the box, you can vnc to it. You could run skype as well

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

2010-02-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
our website. There are a plethora of options and free + commercial skins, plus plug-ins to let you sell them online. Unfortunately it's just the generation tool, you have to find your own hosting. -- Iain Buchanan "My education message will resignate amonst all parents." George W.

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
rted using NetworkManager and the networkmanager USE flag for evolution... -- Iain Buchanan You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Broadcom firmware doesn't work with 2.6.32-r4

2010-02-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 08:48 -0800, Kaddeh wrote: > Check out http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304265 and then > update to 2.6.32-r5 thanks, that wasn't there when I started looking :) I'll see what they find (in the mean time, Go Flaky Wireless!) -- Iain Buchanan Whatev

Re: [gentoo-user] Uh Oh!! Made the contents of my directory unreadable

2010-02-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
ut to a file... I think you wanted "do echo $entry"? or the simpler "find $HOME >> found"? anyway, it shouldn't have corrupted your filesystem, but it looks like it did. > Any ideas on how to fix this? you probably want to shutdown and fsck your filesystem. Then,

[gentoo-user] Broadcom firmware doesn't work with 2.6.32-r4

2010-02-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
The firmware at the above link hasn't changed (according to cksum). Google searches only produce the source code, which is pretty but doesn't help. The error detection around the print message hasn't changed since -r1. Any ideas? I'm stuck using wireless, but that's

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
uld also be the senders clock is wrong... Otherwise I'd get a can of bug-spray, spray your cat5 and phone cables and see what falls out ;) -- Iain Buchanan Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. -- B. Franklin

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
tworkmanager and getting the current network state -- Iain Buchanan She always believed in the old adage -- leave them while you're looking good. -- Anita Loos, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 06:59 +, Neil Walker wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > I'm starting to stray OT here, but I'm considering a second-hand Adaptec > > 2420SA - this is real hardware raid right? > > > > It's a PCI-X card (not PCI-E). Are you

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 07:31 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > so long as you didn't have any non-detectable disk errors before > > removing the disk, or any drive failure while one of the drives were > > removed.

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 17:27 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 14:54 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Frank, > >>As best I can tell so far none of the Linux tools will tell you > >> tha

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
es having to open up your laptop / pc if you didn't order the drive separately or you've forgotten. -- Iain Buchanan polygon: Dead parrot.

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
re, but I'm considering a second-hand Adaptec 2420SA - this is real hardware raid right? If I'm buying drives in the 1Tb size - does this 4k issue affect hardware RAID and how do you get around it? (Never set up a HW RAID card before) thanks, -- Iain Buchanan You know you're using

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
, or any drive failure while one of the drives were removed. And the deterioration in performance while each disk was removed in turn might take more time than its worth. Of course RAID 1 wouldn't suffer from this (with >2 disks)... -- Iain Buchanan Keep on keepin' on.

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
/ move them later. IMHO recovery from tiny boot disks is easier without LVM too. -- Iain Buchanan Failure is not an option -- it comes bundled with Windows.

[gentoo-user] severe tearing and system lockup

2010-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
a-drivers-190.53-r1 x11-wm/compiz-0.8.4 x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.4 any ideas? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Harp not on that string. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
svendor/10-input-policy.fdi ... sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r2 (/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-input-policy.fdi) so why are you copying these files by hand? -- Iain Buchanan A university faculty is 500 egotists with a common parking problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DLNA saga

2010-02-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
-serial (or plain old serial if you want). Plonk your own version of a tiny binary protocol on it an voila! Why manufacturers crap around with complicated high-level non-compliant non-standards is beyond me. end rant :) -- Iain Buchanan It's now the GNU Emacs of all terminal emulato

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message "."

2010-02-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 09:15 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:51:18 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > True, it's been on todo for a while. It's no longer an issue for me > > > now as I use a Mi-Fi 3G modem, which connects to the computer

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message "."

2010-02-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 18:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 03 February 2010 01:27:19 Iain Buchanan wrote: > > I appreciate the humour, but so far for me, it's Just Worked(TM). Even > > with this log file annoyance, it's still "working". > >

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message "."

2010-02-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 09:37 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:57:19 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > b. use wicd instead, which is decidedly not a piece of shit > > > > I had a look at that, but it doesn't do 2 things that I use > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gracefully shut down program by request through ssh?

2010-02-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
stuck, try kill -15 -1 from your user login (not root) to kill all your processess. Again, maybe a kill -9 -1 is required. It will log you out of the ssh session. If that fails (as you can tell I've done this before) try an acpi shutdown. If that fails, use the magic SysRq, but I don&#

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