Re: [gentoo-user] Very bad system response

2007-02-08 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi, Am Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007 21:19 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Hi, Am Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007 12:35 schrieb Benno Schulenberg: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16

Re: [gentoo-user] _syscallX isn't in linux-headers-2.6.20 ??

2007-02-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 18:53, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to use: _syscall3(int, ioprio_set, int, which, int, who, int, ioprio); _syscall2(int, ioprio_get, int, which, int, who); and supposedly I just #include linux/unistd.h but I'm getting these error from gcc:

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-08 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 06 février 2007 à 22:28 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier a écrit : What I/O scheduler are you using? Did you try to experiment with the deadline or the cfq I/O schedulers? If you have them enabled in your kernel config, read Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt and see if things get

[gentoo-user] mysql error

2007-02-08 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, After a power cut my server did not start again. I had to boot with a livecd, do a fsck in my / partion (which removed some orphan inodes) and reinstall grub in my MBR. After all, I'm able to boot, and all my services are running again, all except mysql. This is what I see in my mysqld.err

Re: [gentoo-user] Can someone please explain to me why these bugs are duplicates?

2007-02-08 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Daniel Iliev wrote: As already mentioned in this thread the workaround is to un-keyword a concrete version, not the whole package. This is not a workaround, it's a _better way of achieving the goal. When portage just flags packages gone stable, you have to watch the pretend output yourself

Re: [gentoo-user] Network start delay?

2007-02-08 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 23:12, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 10:37 +, Peter Lewis wrote: I start my wireless network with the script /etc/init.d/net.eth2 which is started by init in the default runlevel. I also have /etc/init.d/netmount to mount some

Re: [gentoo-user] Completely lost regarding wifi

2007-02-08 Thread YoYo Siska
Henk Boom wrote: On 06/02/07, Henk Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm much closer than I have been before. Following the LEAP example, I seem to manage to connect. iwconfig tells me I have an encryption key. The only issue now seems to be that I can't get dhcp working. Nothing relevant runs

[gentoo-user] Changing the font size in X

2007-02-08 Thread Vlad Dogaru
Hello, I find that fonts are too small for my 15 monitor, causing eye strain and misunderstandings. How can I change font size globally? I apologise if this question is too basic, but Google strangely did not provide this time. Thanks, Vlad -- How's my English? How about my Netiquette? Do mail

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql error

2007-02-08 Thread Arnau Bria
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:46:39 +0100 Arnau Bria wrote: Hi, [...] This is what I see in my mysqld.err log: 070208 11:26:17 [Warning] No argument was provided to --log-bin, and --log-bin-index was not used; so replication may break when this MySQL server acts as a master and has his hostname

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the font size in X

2007-02-08 Thread Jürgen Geuter
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 16:08 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote: I find that fonts are too small for my 15 monitor, causing eye strain and misunderstandings. How can I change font size globally? I apologise if this question is too basic, but Google strangely did not provide this time. You might want to

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

2007-02-08 Thread Jürgen Geuter
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 19:33 +, James wrote: I cannot seem to get VLC to compile in win32codecs on an amd64... Yes I realize that 'win32' and amd64 are different arches, but, surely there is a solution for this? Maybe not just with vlc but every app that can work with win32codes on amd64?

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the font size in X

2007-02-08 Thread gregory . sacre
Vlad Dogaru ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, I find that fonts are too small for my 15 monitor, causing eye strain and misunderstandings. How can I change font size globally? I apologise if this question is too basic, but Google strangely did not provide this time. Thanks, Vlad --

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpd and routes

2007-02-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:20:28 +1100 Dave Oxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a Gentoo server that is running Cisco VPN software to connect to my companies VPN. I have setup the server as a NAT for the specific subnet required for the VPN and

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-08 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Did you try to play with ionice to assign priority. It has helped me a lot with io-intensive background taskes. Where can i get it. It seems to be included in util-linux but i have util-linux installed and ionice is missing! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-08 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 8 February 2007 19:34, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Where can i get it. It seems to be included in util-linux but i have util-linux installed and ionice is missing! It's explained here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-462230.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] udev usb printer permissions

2007-02-08 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! Can anyone please tell me why /dev/usb/lp0 has the following onwer/group and permissions? zeus ~ # ls -l /dev/usb/ total 0 crw-rw 1 root plugdev 180, 0 Feb 8 2007 lp0 /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules says: [...] # usb devices KERNEL==hiddev*, NAME=usb/%k

[gentoo-user] Corrupted Cache w/ portage

2007-02-08 Thread Mike Edenfield
For the past several weeks I have been having a recurring problem with portage's metadata cache after a sync. The problem is reproduceable 100% of the time now, so either I have something configured wrong or there's actually a problem with the portage mirrors: The problem is easily fixed by

[gentoo-user] X application instability

2007-02-08 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Salutations -- I have some instability in my desktop system which I've not been able to banish. What I've experienced is that some X applications, in varying degrees of frequency, crash with this sort of error: The program 'gmfsk' received an

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupted Cache w/ portage

2007-02-08 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 08 February 2007 20:08:58 Mike Edenfield wrote: For the past several weeks I have been having a recurring problem with portage's metadata cache after a sync. The problem is reproduceable 100% of the time now, so either I have something configured wrong or there's actually a

[gentoo-user] Re: X application instability

2007-02-08 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Looks like my xorg.conf didn't get attached (or was stripped); inlining below. Cheers -d Section ServerLayout Identifier dualhead Screen screen1 0 0 Screen screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse1 CorePointer

[gentoo-user] disk capacity mismatch

2007-02-08 Thread Michael Higgins
Hello, list -- # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 20G 12G 7.5G 61% / udev 236M 2.7M 233M 2% /dev shm 236M 0 236M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda5 14G 13G 1.3G 91% /home/col/dump /dev/hda6

Re: [gentoo-user] disk capacity mismatch

2007-02-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 13:34:21 -0800 Michael Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, list -- # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 20G 12G 7.5G 61% / udev 236M 2.7M 233M 2% /dev shm 236M 0 236M

Re: [gentoo-user] Network start delay?

2007-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 13:23 +, Peter Lewis wrote: On Wednesday 07 February 2007 23:12, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 10:37 +, Peter Lewis wrote: [snip] Is there a way to make the netmount script wait for a route to exist before attempting to connect? net.eth2

Re: [gentoo-user] Performance problem at writing big files and Multitasking

2007-02-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 11:42 +0100, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Did you try to play with ionice to assign priority. It has helped me a lot with io-intensive background taskes. I am trying to compile it to overcome some heavy-disk access performance issues (ext3), but I can't! Not compatible with

[gentoo-user] What's with the timezone data...

2007-02-08 Thread Daevid Vincent
* sys-libs/timezone-data Available versions: 2006g 2006p ~2007a Homepage:ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ Description: Timezone data (/usr/share/zoneinfo) and utilities (tzselect/zic/zdump) How come the 2007 is still masked. The new DST for the USA and Australia

[gentoo-user] Re: What's with the timezone data...

2007-02-08 Thread »Q«
In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * sys-libs/timezone-data Available versions: 2006g 2006p ~2007a Homepage:ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ Description: Timezone data (/usr/share/zoneinfo) and utilities (tzselect/zic/zdump)

[gentoo-user] djbdns, ssh, and host based authentication

2007-02-08 Thread John Blinka
Hi, all, I've installed djbdns on my home network and I have stretched my competence past the breaking point in doing so. I have gotten it to supply ip addresses for all of my local machines using my own local nis domain name. But, in doing so, I've managed to screw up host based

[gentoo-user] Re: djbdns, ssh, and host based authentication

2007-02-08 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Blinka wrote: ** server can't find 104.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa: NXDOMAIN That seems pretty clear ... :) As you probably know from reading the djb docs, the jobs of recursive resolving and authoritative nameserving are separate. You appear

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing the font size in X

2007-02-08 Thread Vlad Dogaru
On 2/8/07, Jürgen Geuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 16:08 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote: I find that fonts are too small for my 15 monitor, causing eye strain and misunderstandings. How can I change font size globally? I apologise if this question is too basic, but Google

[gentoo-user] Re: What's with the timezone data...

2007-02-08 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daevid Vincent wrote: The changelog is fairly useless from a 'users' perspective. I have no idea which one has the required USA DST changes in it... Dunno, but it's correct on my system for US/Pacific, which was synced a week or so ago: [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] udev usb printer permissions

2007-02-08 Thread Dale
Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi there! Can anyone please tell me why /dev/usb/lp0 has the following onwer/group and permissions? zeus ~ # ls -l /dev/usb/ total 0 crw-rw 1 root plugdev 180, 0 Feb 8 2007 lp0 /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules says: [...] # usb devices

Re: [gentoo-user] Kwrite and CPU usage and locking up when scrolling

2007-02-08 Thread Dale
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Bringing kde-meta up to version 3.5.6 is going to want to upgrade ALL it's dependencies to 3.5.6 (which includes kate). To maintain different versions of of the various KDE packages, you'll need to remove the kde-meta package. To make sure 'emerge -u