[gentoo-user] Genkernel 3.4.24 broken?

2012-02-06 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
or directory. -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] (s)mplayer problems

2012-02-08 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
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 / smplayer and I don't know why. First, vlc works just fine, i.e. video and audio Second, mplayer produces a segment fault within fglrx (ati-

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 broken ?

2012-02-18 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Jacques Montier jmont...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I upgraded to libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 which is stable in portage, but it does'nt work on intel ie7 amd64. I get instruction not permitted. So i masked 3.4.5.2 and downgraded to 3.3.4. Any idea ? Thank you,

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 broken ?

2012-02-18 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:39:32 +0100, Jacques Montier wrote: I upgraded to libreoffice-bin-3.4.5.2 which is stable in portage, but it does'nt work on intel ie7 amd64. I get instruction not permitted. So i masked 3.4.5.2

Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptic output from emerge

2012-02-19 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:48 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi After an    emerge --color=n --newuse --update --tree --deep world -vp I got this output. What does the line with cxx? want say to me?    These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:    Calculating

[gentoo-user] Weird XFS problem

2012-02-24 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
Hi, I'm using XFS on /home and facing a strange issue. When I add acl to the mount options in /etc/fstab, the FS fails to mount during boot with an error in dmesg which says invalid option acl whereas I'm able to mount it using the mount command from the CLI. For now I'm using a script in

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird XFS problem

2012-02-24 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sat 25 Feb 2012 09:35:22 AM IST, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 25, 2012 10:34 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com mailto:cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: Hi, I'm using XFS on /home and facing a strange issue. When I add acl to the mount options in /etc/fstab, the FS fails to mount

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-25 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sat 25 Feb 2012 05:48:49 PM IST, Mick wrote: On Saturday 25 Feb 2012 02:32:49 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 25, 2012 9:14 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system. Is there a safe way to do this? The fallback thing in grub has never

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-26 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 08:05:23 PM IST, Grant wrote: I get Unrecognized command from savedefault in grub: grub savedefault --default=1 --once Error 27: Unrecognized command Strange. Maybe this is something inofficial, and not every Gurb understands this? The documentation does not mention the

Re: [gentoo-user] photo viewer other than gthumb?

2012-03-08 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 07:50:24 AM IST, Grant wrote: Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb which is in portage or an overlay? - Grant gwenview. Part of KDE suite and depends on KDE libraries. Also, F-Spot (It's a photo manager I guess). -- Nilesh Govindarajan

Re: [gentoo-user] bindmount or symlink?

2012-03-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
to be resolved on access, no dobut a kernel maintains cache but I can't really say much about it because I don't know the code behind either. -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] suspend/hibernate and genkernel.

2012-03-14 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:43 AM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: I am trying to get my system(s) ready for the new (read crappy) way mandated by udev and am having some issues. I usually manually compile my kernels, use tuxonice  and dont use an initrd/initramfs. As ToI is not

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on compiz problems

2012-03-16 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi! I am running a stable port of gentoo with gnome 2.31.1 and I want to run compiz. How do I run compiz proparly?! I am pretty sure, that I do something wrong. For any advise, I would thank you. Tamer When I

Re: [gentoo-user] HP PSC 1410 USB

2012-03-21 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On 03/21/2012 07:54 PM, G. Sebastián Pedersen wrote: Hi guys, I have a problem with my printer, wich is a HP psc 1410. It is USB, so I plugged in and follow the Gentoo howto: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml But I seems that no thing is detected :( This is my output os

Re: [gentoo-user] HP PSC 1410 USB

2012-03-22 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Mar 23, 2012 2:10 AM, G. Sebastián Pedersen sebas...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/21/12, Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: Make sure that you have hplip installed (with hpcups scanner USE flags enabled). Also cups with USE flag usb if you have not enabled kernel usb printer

[gentoo-user] Line-In input doesn't get forwarded as output

2012-03-26 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
Hi, I upgraded to gentoo-sources 3.3, but it seems there's either a bug or feature in the kernel. ALSA doesn't seem to forward line-in input to the output, while the same happens with gentoo-sources 3.2.11. Anybody else facing this issue? If it's a feature, how to disable it? -- Nilesh

Re: [gentoo-user] Line-In input doesn't get forwarded as output

2012-03-26 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Mon 26 Mar 2012 06:54:45 PM IST, Sebastian Pipping wrote: On 03/26/2012 02:54 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Hi, I upgraded to gentoo-sources 3.3, but it seems there's either a bug or feature in the kernel. ALSA doesn't seem to forward line-in input to the output, while the same happens

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Line-In input doesn't get forwarded as output

2012-03-27 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Tue 27 Mar 2012 08:05:42 AM IST, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 26/03/12 15:54, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Hi, I upgraded to gentoo-sources 3.3, but it seems there's either a bug or feature in the kernel. ALSA doesn't seem to forward line-in input to the output, while the same happens

Re: [gentoo-user] My printing's not working. Help, please!

2012-04-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
might ask on freenode IRC, channel #gentoo. That is a very helpful resource. Good luck! Terry The backend driver might be failing. See cups error log. -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com

[gentoo-user] Not able to login as root after update

2012-04-22 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
Hi, There's some weird problem that has cropped up after update yesterday. I'm not able to login as root on the tty nor as su -l and neither using sudo su -l. Thankfully I had sudo, so I can get root by sudo -i, or else it would've been a complete disaster. The packages which were upgraded

Re: [gentoo-user] Not able to login as root after update

2012-04-22 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:29 AM, kwk...@hkbn.net wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:17:45 +0530 Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: Hi, There's some weird problem that has cropped up after update yesterday. I'm not able to login as root on the tty nor as su -l and neither using sudo

Re: [gentoo-user] printer

2012-04-29 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Stephane Guedon steph...@22decembre.eu wrote: Hi everyone I am now forced to replace my epson printer. Anyone think of a printer for which ink is quite cheap (contrary to the epson) and that allow to have status not only in windows ? Epson as an utility to

Re: [gentoo-user] Read your cups-1.5 elog!

2012-05-09 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Just thought I'd remind everyone to read their cups-1.5 elog when upgrading from 1.4.  It's necessary to either disable the usb USE flag or disable USB Printer support in the kernel in order for USB printers to work after the

[gentoo-user] libicui18n.so.49 troubles

2012-05-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
Hi, I had to mask icu-49 because some packages failed to compile during a world update. I reverted back to 4.8, but now certain applications complain about .49 missing. revdep-rebuild isn't able to detect breakages and neither revdep-rebuild -L libicui18n.so.49 solved the problem. How do I solve

Re: [gentoo-user] libicui18n.so.49 troubles

2012-05-14 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/13/2012 06:05 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2012 20:58:51 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: I had to mask icu-49 because some packages failed

[gentoo-user] Best caching dns server?

2012-05-18 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
be restored on next boot. Any option? I am keeping my box 24x7 on because it serves as dns on my small home wifi, not acceptable to me, because network is almost off at night (only phone) and I have my router as secondary dns. -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Best caching dns server?

2012-05-19 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: Which is the best caching dns server? I'm presently using pdns-recursor, which is quite good, but doesn't have option to set minimum ttl (doesn't make sense, but some sites like twitter have ridiculously low ttl of 30s).

Re: [gentoo-user] Best caching dns server?

2012-05-19 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/19/12 04:13, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: Which is the best caching dns server? I'm presently using pdns-recursor, which is quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Best caching dns server?

2012-05-19 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2012 07:45:56 +0530 Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: Hi, Which is the best caching dns server? I'm presently using pdns-recursor, which is quite good, but doesn't have option to set

Re: [gentoo-user] Best caching dns server?

2012-05-20 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Slow connection. See my previous reply to the list. I'm using pdnsd, which can persist records and has every damn feature I wanted. Fair enough, but consider this: If your connection is slow, the only thing you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ~gcc-4.7.0

2012-06-01 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
) and libreoffice 3.5.4.2 using gcc 4.7.0? I am unable to do so. Using unstable Amd64. -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com

[gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-05 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
Hi, I yesterday got a ssd to replace my kaput hdd which had no data but os. Apparently something went wrong while migration, and now everything disappeared in portage's world list. So whenever I run depclean it tries to remove all packages. How to fix this? I don't have data on original hdd now,

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

2012-07-06 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On 07/06/2012 09:00 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 08:41 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Hi, I yesterday got a ssd to replace my kaput hdd which had no data but os. Apparently something went wrong while migration, and now everything disappeared in portage's world list

Re: [gentoo-user] start X - Segmentation fault

2012-07-09 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
libc with gcc 4.7 and xorg with 4.6? I had did something like this with gnome and dependent libraries causing segfaults just like this. -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Dropbox settings get erased on reboot

2012-07-09 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sun 08 Jul 2012 07:27:23 PM IST, Michael Mol wrote: On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: For some strange reason, dropbox asks me to setup my account again after reboot, this doesn't happen on logout-login. I'm using gnome3 and emerged nautilus

[gentoo-user] Random segfaults with gnome

2012-07-12 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
Lately, ever since I installed gnome3 (3.2), a lot of things have gone unstable. Gnome crashes a lot and pulseaudio too, on every start (I see a segfault by the equalizer module). My graphic card is on board i945 and I have set mesa to classic mode on sw and i915 families. I partially belive

Re: [gentoo-user] Random segfaults with gnome

2012-07-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Jul 13, 2012 8:30 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jul 13, 2012 9:49 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: By GNOME you mean, gnome-shell? Do the crashes occur randomly, or can you reproduce them? Same with PulseAudio. Yeah gnome shell. There are no traces

Re: [gentoo-user] Random segfaults with gnome

2012-07-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Jul 13, 2012 9:07 PM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen h.v.bruineh...@fu-berlin.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13.07.2012 17:24, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Jul 13, 2012 7:46 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Jul 13, 2012 8:30 AM, Pandu Poluan pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Random segfaults with gnome

2012-07-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Jul 13, 2012 9:07 PM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen h.v.bruineh...@fu-berlin.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13.07.2012 17:24, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Jul 13, 2012 7:46 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Jul 13, 2012 8:30 AM, Pandu Poluan pa

Re: [gentoo-user] usb stick files read only

2012-07-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Jul 14, 2012 6:48 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I've a usbstick formated with ext2 file system and must have use it on a different computer because when mount the usb stick I get file ownership: -rw-r--r-- 1 test users 692926 Jan 7 2012 asterisk_1_4_39.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1

[gentoo-user] Formatting as vfat with specific allocation size

2012-07-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
mkfs.vfat doesn't seem to accept a allocation unit size, any other way to do it (dosemu?)? My car stereo accepts only FAT32 with 4096 as allocation size. -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Random segfaults with gnome

2012-07-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sat 14 Jul 2012 07:22:33 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Jul 13, 2012 10:37 PM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz mailto:gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: Lately, ever since I installed gnome3 (3.2), a lot of things have gone unstable. Gnome crashes a lot and pulseaudio too, on every

Re: [gentoo-user] Formatting as vfat with specific allocation size

2012-07-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On 07/14/2012 10:13 AM, Michael Mol wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: mkfs.vfat doesn't seem to accept a allocation unit size, any other way to do it (dosemu?)? My car stereo accepts only FAT32 with 4096 as allocation size. Which ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Random segfaults with gnome

2012-07-14 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sat 14 Jul 2012 09:58:22 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Sat 14 Jul 2012 09:54:00 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Sat 14 Jul 2012 07:22:33 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Jul 13, 2012 10:37 PM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz mailto:gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: Lately

Re: [gentoo-user] Random segfaults with gnome

2012-07-14 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
. Interesting. The only difference here is, it's a desktop with 3 GB RAM, with a i945 instead of i915. Buggy opengl drivers probably. -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com

[gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-16 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
So the same old query again I guess. What architecture should I use for a machine with 3GB RAM and a 64bit processor? I believe 64bit should be given serious consideration only if RAM is gt or = 4 GB, even there 32bit is allowable with PAE if I'm not wrong. So what is recommended? There are as

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-17 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
the inputs I received, I think it would be obviously better to stay with 64bit. Is it only me or the ~amd64 branch has become really unstable in the few days? (Yeah I know ~amd64 can be unstable to any extent it wants to, but just a qualitative question) -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32bit or 64bit

2012-07-17 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Jul 18, 2012 2:52 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/07/12 19:43, Alecks Gates wrote: On Jul 17, 2012 11:32 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation, Kernel Panic

2012-07-20 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:09:31 +0300, Andrejs Igumenovs wrote: I'm attaching the screenshot of what happens… Why have you zipped a JPEG file? It makes it far more work for anyone to view. You probably haven't compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer isn't working. Help, please!

2012-07-21 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Evening, Experts! My printer isn't printing. More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find the printer. When I click on Find New

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer isn't working. Help, please!

2012-07-21 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Evening, Experts! My printer isn't printing. More precisely, when in CUPS

[gentoo-user] Force Firefox to use gecko-mediaplayer for webm

2012-07-21 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
So yeah, the question is clear. How do I force Firefox to play webm videos using gecko-mediaplayer? Compile firefox without webm support? Or there's some other way around? -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Force Firefox to use gecko-mediaplayer for webm

2012-07-21 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sun 22 Jul 2012 10:53:22 AM IST, Alecks Gates wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: So yeah, the question is clear. How do I force Firefox to play webm videos using gecko-mediaplayer? Compile firefox without webm support? Or there's some

[gentoo-user] Eix takes ridiculously long to update cache of overlays

2012-07-22 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
I guess I'm missing some settings specific to this? I have 3 overlays installed via layman, and this eix takes ridiculously long to index through them, I don't know why. The portage tree is indexed quickly. -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Force Firefox to use gecko-mediaplayer for webm

2012-07-22 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sun 22 Jul 2012 06:53:13 PM IST, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 22/07/12 08:11, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: So yeah, the question is clear. How do I force Firefox to play webm videos using gecko-mediaplayer? Compile firefox without webm support? Or there's some other way around? You

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer isn't working. Help, please!

2012-07-24 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Jul 24, 2012 8:19 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Evening, Experts! My printer isn't printing. More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find the printer. When I

[gentoo-user] Sandbox vs userpriv

2012-08-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
What's the disadvantage of compiling in sandbox instead of compiling directly with userpriv?

[gentoo-user] Re: Sandbox vs userpriv

2012-08-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Aug 13, 2012 2:19 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: What's the disadvantage of compiling in sandbox instead of compiling directly with userpriv? *advantage

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sandbox vs userpriv

2012-08-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Mon 13 Aug 2012 05:37:27 PM IST, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com mailto:cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Aug 13, 2012 2:19 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com mailto:cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: What's

Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files

2012-08-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
through /usr/portage used to be very slow. When I switched xfs, speed increased drastically. This might be kind of unrelated, but makes sense. -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files

2012-08-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
so far, and even if the cache partition get's screwed, we can always rebuild it. Takes a few hours, but it would not be the end of the world :) Yes, XFS hates power failures. I got a giant UPS for my home desktop to use XFS because of it's excellent performance ;-) -- Nilesh Govindrajan http

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I bring back Konqueror as my man page viewer?

2012-08-17 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
to see the man page. But if I launch using Alt+F2, it opens Firefox. I think this needs some xdg tweaking, using xdg-mime. I don't know the type of URL for man:, else could have posted the command. -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com

[gentoo-user] Localmount starts before LVM

2012-12-10 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
runs again successfully. Any idea why this happens? The localmount script in init.d has proper depends: depend() { need fsck use lvm modules mtab after lvm modules keyword -jail -openvz -prefix -vserver -lxc } -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Localmount starts before LVM

2012-12-10 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Monday 10 December 2012 09:03 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 10.12.2012 15:08, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: Hi, I have a raid0 (kernel autodetect) array, over which I have put LVM and then there are volumes on the LVM for /var, /tmp, swap and /home. Please provide `/sbin/rc-update show

Re: [gentoo-user] Localmount starts before LVM

2012-12-10 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Monday 10 December 2012 09:14 PM, Salvatore Borgia wrote: Hi, do you have put dolvm option in your kernel string in grub.conf? I'm using lilo and a static / monolithic kernel, so dolvm grub doesn't hold here. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Localmount starts before LVM

2012-12-10 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Monday 10 December 2012 11:59 PM, Kerin Millar wrote: I assisted somebody experiencing the same problem recently. The cause was simple: the individual concerned had added a runscript to the boot runlevel, whereas it should have been added to the default runlevel (net.eth0 in this

Re: [gentoo-user] Localmount starts before LVM

2012-12-11 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Tuesday 11 December 2012 01:14:39 PM IST, J. Roeleveld wrote: Hi, I have a raid0 (kernel autodetect) array, over which I have put LVM and then there are volumes on the LVM for /var, /tmp, swap and /home. The problem is, raid0 array gets recognized, but localmount fails to mount because

Re: [gentoo-user] Localmount starts before LVM

2012-12-11 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Tuesday 11 December 2012 04:52 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: What is the end-result without the lines? localmount fails at mounting /var /home and /tmp (while swap gets mounted which is *also* on LVM because lvm starts up before the swap gets activated). I use an older version still. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Localmount starts before LVM

2012-12-11 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Tuesday 11 December 2012 05:18 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: Ouch, auto-detect does not work with metadata 1.2. Please read the man-page section: === --auto-detect Request that the kernel starts any auto-detected arrays. This can only work if md is compiled into the kernel - not if it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Localmount starts before LVM

2012-12-11 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Tuesday 11 December 2012 05:57 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:08:12 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:48:13 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: I'm using metadata version 1.2 for the raid0 array and the type is kernel based autodetect.

[gentoo-user] Re: Localmount starts before LVM [resolved]

2012-12-11 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
Issue resolved guys. Thanks to J. Roeleveld for pointing out that auto detection is failing. I built an initramfs using genkernel with raid and lvm support and added options domdadm lvmraid. It works flawlessly now. Thanks! :-) -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] udev: boot failure

2012-12-11 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Wednesday 12 December 2012 08:07:46 AM IST, James wrote: OK so lots of updates (mostly kde 4.9.3) to several systems today. 2 or the 3 are fine One got hosed. Error message upon reboot config_devdmpfs=y is required in your kernel configuration for this version of udev to run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: boot failure

2012-12-11 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Wednesday 12 December 2012 08:19 AM, James wrote: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: looking into : /mnt/gentoo/new/usr/portage/sys-fs/udev I cannot tell what version of udev (udev mount) and others (udev-init-scipts ?) were installed and how to roll this back. OK so on one

Re: [gentoo-user] netmount; sshd borked

2012-12-12 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Wednesday 12 December 2012 09:51 PM, James wrote: Hello, OK so I'm now running udev-196-r1; booting fine now. upon reboot: net.eth0 [ stopped ] net.eth3 [ started ] netmount [ stopped ] sshd [ stopped ] eth0 is the mobo ethernet port, and it is

[gentoo-user] Locale generation and keymaps for cross compiliation?

2012-12-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
Hi, I have a Raspberry Pi. I have gone through the cross development guides on gentoo.org and my barebones distro (consisting of chrony, sshd, bash) is ready (all I did is armv6j-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi-emerge --root=/mnt/sdcard baselayout bash openssh chrony) which is of course after setting up

[gentoo-user] Re: Locale generation and keymaps for cross compiliation?

2012-12-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Thursday 13 December 2012 11:28:35 PM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Hi, I have a Raspberry Pi. I have gone through the cross development guides on gentoo.org and my barebones distro (consisting of chrony, sshd, bash) is ready (all I did is armv6j-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi-emerge --root

Re: [gentoo-user] Locale generation and keymaps for cross compiliation?

2012-12-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Friday 14 December 2012 03:38 AM, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: On 12/13/2012 11:58, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Hi, I have a Raspberry Pi. I have gone through the cross development guides on gentoo.org and my barebones distro (consisting of chrony, sshd, bash) is ready (all I did is armv6j

Re: [gentoo-user] Locale generation and keymaps for cross compiliation?

2012-12-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Friday 14 December 2012 11:22:52 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Friday 14 December 2012 03:38 AM, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: On 12/13/2012 11:58, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Hi, I have a Raspberry Pi. I have gone through the cross development guides on gentoo.org and my barebones distro

[gentoo-user] {OT} A simple routing problem

2012-12-17 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
Hi, I'm stuck with a routing issue: I have a DD-WRT router, which has one WAN port and four LAN ports with WiFi. I have a fiber connection which is connected by dialing PPPoE using pppd on the router, so I have no choice but to connect the fiber connection on WAN port. I have yet another (much

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} A simple routing problem

2012-12-17 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Tuesday 18 December 2012 09:09:16 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: On 12/17/2012 07:26 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Hi, I'm stuck with a routing issue: I have a DD-WRT router, which has one WAN port and four LAN ports with WiFi. I have a fiber connection which is connected by dialing

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} A simple routing problem

2012-12-17 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Tuesday 18 December 2012 09:24:41 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: On 12/17/2012 07:44 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2012 09:09:16 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: On 12/17/2012 07:26 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Hi, I'm stuck with a routing issue: I have a DD

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} A simple routing problem

2012-12-17 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Tuesday 18 December 2012 09:40:44 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: On 12/17/2012 08:00 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2012 09:24:41 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: On 12/17/2012 07:44 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2012 09:09:16 AM IST, Kevin

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} A simple routing problem

2012-12-17 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Tuesday 18 December 2012 09:52:43 AM IST, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2012 09:40:44 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: On 12/17/2012 08:00 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2012 09:24:41 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: On 12/17/2012 07:44 PM, Nilesh

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} A simple routing problem

2012-12-18 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Tuesday 18 December 2012 03:41:44 PM IST, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tue, December 18, 2012 04:44, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: SNIP Actually my fiber connection has a smaller limit than the ADSL connection. I am trying to use the fiber connection for all activities except some torrent

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} A simple routing problem

2012-12-18 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Tuesday 18 December 2012 10:39:43 PM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/18/2012 05:27 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2012 03:41:44 PM IST, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tue, December 18, 2012 04:44, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} A simple routing problem

2012-12-18 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Tuesday 18 December 2012 10:59:41 PM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/18/2012 09:14 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2012 10:39:43 PM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: On 12/18/2012 05:27 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: android and mtp

2012-12-22 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sunday 23 December 2012 05:02:17 AM IST, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-12-21, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:19:10 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: I think you can use mtpfs and then browse it like any other disk. I found that to be rather fragile, jmtpfs works

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem installing PHP pdo

2012-12-22 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sunday 23 December 2012 07:25:30 AM IST, Mike Diehl wrote: Hi all, I'm not a PHP programmer, so I'm a bit out of my water. But, I'm trying to install the latest eGroupware and need to get PHP to support pdo database connectivigy. After a recent emerge --sync, I did a new emerge of php

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-23 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Monday 24 December 2012 08:37:50 AM IST, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 23/12/12 23:00, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 10:49:46PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 23/12/12 21:23, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: A few weeks ago I had a scare when a reboot paniced the kernel with a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: android and mtp

2012-12-23 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Monday 24 December 2012 09:24:16 AM IST, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-12-23, luis jure l...@internet.com.uy wrote: on 2012-12-22 at 17:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: Now, imagine you are the guy at Samsung deciding what features the S2 will support. Which option you gonna pick? yeah, you're

[gentoo-user] Looks like a nasty bug in portage .38

2012-12-24 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
. Anyone else faced this? -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com

[gentoo-user] NFS Can't allocate memory

2012-12-25 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
I'm running a nfs server on my machine, the server starts fine without any problems, but when I try mount localhost:/path/to/share /mountpoint I get mount.nfs: cannot allocate memory and the funniest part is the system has lot's of free memory. That's for nfsv4, if I try vers=3 option I get

Re: [gentoo-user] Looks like a nasty bug in portage .38

2012-12-25 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Dec 26, 2012 3:05 AM, Carlos Hendson skyc...@gmx.net wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
Hi, I am not able to see the characters in certain emoji like flip table, etc. It used to be visible earlier before I did a completely fresh install. Does anyone know which font to install? These are the fonts presently installed on my machine - media-fonts/corefonts media-fonts/freefont-ttf

Re: [gentoo-user] Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Wednesday 02 January 2013 08:15:45 PM IST, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com wrote: Hi, I am not able to see the characters in certain emoji like flip table, etc. It used to be visible earlier before I did a completely fresh install

Re: [gentoo-user] Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Wednesday 02 January 2013 08:52 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com wrote: SNIP Turns out that it's a character in CJK. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=126012 Installed bitstream-cyberbit. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs icedtea6

2013-01-15 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Wednesday 16 January 2013 10:32:11 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: I'm curious as well about the potential exploitability of icedtea. I would think that since the icedtea vm is not the same as the sun/oracle one and so I don't think the code base is the same, which would mean an exploit

[gentoo-user] Load average in make

2013-01-16 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
or fifteen minutes? -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Load average in make

2013-01-16 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Wednesday 16 January 2013 06:19:50 PM IST, Michael Hampicke wrote: Am 16.01.2013 12:09, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: Hi, Make has two options which control number of jobs by load average. --jobs and --load-average Suppose I set make options as --jobs --load-average=1.7 It will spawn

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Load average in make

2013-01-16 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Wednesday 16 January 2013 08:37:09 PM IST, Nicolas Richard wrote: Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com writes: My question is which load average it checks? I'm assuming it checks for the 15 minute average? I certainly don't know much about C, but from me grepping the source of make

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