Re: [gentoo-user] Wacky Mouse...

2005-04-17 Thread Andreas Fredriksson
Hi, while I don't know what's causing your specific problem, this sounds a lot like the behavior you would see back in the day when you set the mouse protocol to PS/2 when the mouse device was really a serial mouse, or vice versa. Try changing the mouse protocol in the xorg configuration file and

Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 07:28 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > >Is there a way to do it under VMware? > > > > > I got a little confused reading your email. Are you running VMWare on > Linux or on Windows? If on Linux, you can resize virtual disks with > vmware-vdiskmanager.

Re: [gentoo-user] boot with serial console

2005-04-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 15. April 2005 16:29 schrieb ext Frank Schafer: > ... if I remember right it has. You'll have to remove your graphics card > so that the kernel sends everything to the first serial port found. Of course NOT. If the kernel has support for a serial console, it will send output to the se

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Local phenomena or is reiserfs quite slow

2005-04-17 Thread Richard Fish
Harry Putnam wrote: >I'm comparing to just a percieved difference in processing on former >os of choice Fedora Test 4 using ext3 throughout. > > Ah, ok. Well, you are probably correct, reiserfs can be expected to be noticably slower at certain operations (find, rm -r, etc) on some systems, due

Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-17 Thread Richard Fish
Ow Mun Heng wrote: >Is there a way to do it under VMware? > > I got a little confused reading your email. Are you running VMWare on Linux or on Windows? If on Linux, you can resize virtual disks with vmware-vdiskmanager. You will need to shrink the filesystems in the guestOS first, then shri

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: dhcpcd starts too early

2005-04-17 Thread Richard Fish
Ed Jabbour wrote: >At boot, when wlan0 starts up, I get a msg that dhcpcd is already running, so >- no connection. I have to start it manually after rm'ing the pid file. >I've run rc-update del on pcmcia, netmount. net.lo and hotplug. Anyone w/ a >notion what's starting up dhcpcd before net.

[gentoo-user] Anyone using gnat/bindx

2005-04-17 Thread Digby Tarvin
I have just done an emerge of gnat and adabindx and am having a bit of trouble building the bindx demo programs to verify that it all installed correctly... The emege didn't leave a lot of clues as to what it had done, but had there been a 'ReadMe' describing the adaptation to gentoo portage, I su

RE: [gentoo-user] unmerge without deleting?

2005-04-17 Thread Brandon Enright
Not directly that I'm aware of. You could build a binary package of it so that you re-emerge your binary at a later date. You may also want to look into ccache as it can dramatically speed up a re-compile of a package. --Brandon > -Original Message- > From: Robert Persson [mailto:[EMAIL

[gentoo-user] unmerge without deleting?

2005-04-17 Thread Robert Persson
Is it possible to unmerge an ebuild without deleting the files? In other words, is it possible to unmerge to a package in case you want to re-merge it in the future without having to rebuild? Thanks Robert -- Robert Persson "The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread Rumen Yotov
Peter Gordon wrote: >Ext3 has yet to give me a single problem in the 2+ years that I've been using >it >(since my first GNU/Linux adventures on RH9). ReiserFS, on the other hand, was >continually misbehaving (segfaults, floating point exceptions, journal replay >errors, etc.) both times I tried t

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-17 Thread Tres Melton
Please be kind to the Gentoo folks. They have sold ad space, placed the add that the sponsor wanted them to and linked it to the site that the sponsor wanted them to. The Gentoo folks have done everything right so that they can collect some money to help run the site. If you want to complain (an

Re: [gentoo-user] Software Suspend2 using Gentoo Ebuilds - New Magazine MyOSS Mag

2005-04-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 10:00 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > >Nick Rout wrote: > > Definitely not spam, thats a great article. > Yes, I agree. The issue was a very good read. Keep it up :) Edition 2 is already in the works. If any of you guys feel up to it, please send in your articles and we'll pu

Re: [gentoo-user] Software Suspend2 using Gentoo Ebuilds - New Magazine MyOSS Mag

2005-04-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 14:14 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > Definitely not spam, thats a great article. Thanks. It's always better to tread carefully. Don't want to ignite a riot :-) > > two questions - do any of the "standard" (ie in portage) kernel ebuilds > include this patch? Nope. As far as I ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Local phenomena or is reiserfs quite slow

2005-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 18 April 2005 05:00, Harry Putnam wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi, > > > > On Sunday 17 April 2005 15:52, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Recently switched from using ext3 (under fedora) to reiserfs (under > >> gentoo). > >> > >> I'm noticing what seems to be re

[gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-17 Thread Nick Rout
Now I don't mind a strip of ads down the page on the gentoo web server, but when I click on the one that says "No BS Dedicated Gentoo Linux Servers from vr.org." and get a page that says : "The vr.org server special has ended. Please check back in the next few weeks for information on our next sp

[gentoo-user] Re: Local phenomena or is reiserfs quite slow

2005-04-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > On Sunday 17 April 2005 15:52, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Recently switched from using ext3 (under fedora) to reiserfs (under >> gentoo). >> >> I'm noticing what seems to be really long processing times for certain >> file manipulation chores.

[gentoo-user] Re: Local phenomena or is reiserfs quite slow

2005-04-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How did you do this conversion? Reiserfs exhibits poor performance if > you simply extract an archive of a different filesystem. I installed gentoo with reiserfs as fs of choice. So the files being rm'ed were built on reiserfs from the start. I'm comp

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread Peter Gordon
Ext3 has yet to give me a single problem in the 2+ years that I've been using it (since my first GNU/Linux adventures on RH9). ReiserFS, on the other hand, was continually misbehaving (segfaults, floating point exceptions, journal replay errors, etc.) both times I tried to use it for a Stage1 Gent

Re: [gentoo-user] Keeping files synced

2005-04-17 Thread Nick Rout
unison http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ its in portage On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 22:15:45 -0400 Tom Moyer wrote: > I routinely switch between two different systems, and was wondering if > there was an easy way to keep my files synced between the two systems. > I'm wondering if there is an

[gentoo-user] Keeping files synced

2005-04-17 Thread Tom Moyer
I routinely switch between two different systems, and was wondering if there was an easy way to keep my files synced between the two systems. I'm wondering if there is an application I can use or anything like that? Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] DRM on a new ck kernel

2005-04-17 Thread Peter Gordon
Odd. Does your user have read/write priveleges to /dev/dri/card0 (and any other cardN devices that may be there)? Try running `chmod a+rw /dev/dri/*` as root and see if glxinfo reports that you're using direct rendering. If this works you'll need to add yourself to the video group: # gpasswd -a v

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 17 April 2005 09:06 pm, W.Kenworthy wrote: > A case of YMMV I'm afraid > > I will not touch ext2/3 again except for /boot (because its simple and > does not seem to have problems - as long as you leave it unmounted that > is - live and learn!) as it is the only file system I regularly los

[gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi All, I just installed Gentoo-2005.0 into vmware. Had to do it 2 times because the 1st time I used scsi disks and the kernel couldn't find the partition. (I guess this is because I didn't compile the BusLogic Scsi card directly into the kernel and kept it as a module; not to mention me b

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread W.Kenworthy
A case of YMMV I'm afraid I will not touch ext2/3 again except for /boot (because its simple and does not seem to have problems - as long as you leave it unmounted that is - live and learn!) as it is the only file system I regularly lost files on (a laptop that would crash every couple of weeks du

[gentoo-user] Wacky Mouse...

2005-04-17 Thread David Corbin
Today, my mouse has gone wacky. Previously I had a fine working Gentoo/X11 system on my Dell I8600. A week ago, upgraded my profile, and updated the system, including switching to udev. I had no problem for the last week, so I believe that all worked well. Today, I did another update ("emerge

[gentoo-user] XML parsing errors editing Mozilla prefs

2005-04-17 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Hi all, I have a problem with recently emerged Mozilla (1.7.7) Selecting Advanced or Scripts & Plug-ins in Edit->Preferences results in the following error messages in the right panel: XML Parsing Error: not well formed Location: chrome://communicator/content/pref/pref-advanced.xul Line Number 1,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerged glibc does not work

2005-04-17 Thread Erik
Alex Bennee wrote: >On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 21:22 +0200, Erik wrote: > > >>Richard Fish wrote: >> >> > > > >>> What error results when you try to run one of >>>those programs? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Segmentation fault. >> >> > >I've seen this before: > >http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.li

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm and gdm login windows are different - how can I specify which to use

2005-04-17 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:31:43 +1200 Jamie Dobbs wrote: > Try > > rc-update del xdm default > rc-update add gdm default > > This will change your logon manager to gdm BZZZT wrong! Change DISPLAYMANAGER= in /etc/rc.conf There is no /etc/init.d/gdm (or kdm) script in gentoo. > > Richard Watson

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm and gdm login windows are different - how can I specify which to use

2005-04-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Set /etc/rc.conf so that DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm. then the xdm at default will actually start gdm. - Mark On 4/17/05, Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Probably an obvious question but for the life of me I can't figure out how > to make xdm show the gdm login window at boot. > > To explain

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-17 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 07:50:14 -0400 Eric S. Johansson wrote: > right? wrong? what does a portage cleaner look like? http://clug.net.nz/index.php/GentooTips > > --- eric > > -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerged glibc does not work

2005-04-17 Thread Alex Bennee
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 21:22 +0200, Erik wrote: > Richard Fish wrote: > > What error results when you try to run one of > >those programs? > > > > > Segmentation fault. I've seen this before: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/114627 Did you seem a similer error at the end of eme

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm and gdm login windows are different - how can I specify which to use

2005-04-17 Thread Nick Rout
read the fine manual and look in /etc/rc.conf, it is all explained. On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:25:01 +1000 Richard Watson wrote: > Probably an obvious question but for the life of me I can't figure out how > to make xdm show the gdm login window at boot. > > To explain when I set "rc-update add xdm

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm and gdm login windows are different - how can I specify which to use

2005-04-17 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Try rc-update del xdm default rc-update add gdm default This will change your logon manager to gdm Richard Watson wrote: Probably an obvious question but for the life of me I can't figure out how to make xdm show the gdm login window at boot. To explain when I set "rc-update add xdm default" the lo

[gentoo-user] xdm and gdm login windows are different - how can I specify which to use

2005-04-17 Thread Richard Watson
Probably an obvious question but for the life of me I can't figure out how to make xdm show the gdm login window at boot. To explain when I set "rc-update add xdm default" the login window is different to the one shown when I run gdm at the commandline. I prefer the gdm login window. My wife is I

Re: [gentoo-user] libwxgtk2.2

2005-04-17 Thread Al Bayrouni
Edward Catmur wrote: On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 23:15 +0200, Al Bayrouni wrote: I need to install wxgtk2.2 because I have one program that uses it. But the package found in portage is wxgtk2.4. The old ebuilds (earliest is 2.2.9) are still accessible via the gentoo viewcvs: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bi

[gentoo-user] DRM on a new ck kernel

2005-04-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've been trying to work through the Gentoo Hardware 3D instructions: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml I had thought that I'd done this correctly but glxinfo continues to tell me no direct rendering: flash kernel $ glxinfo | grep rendering direct rendering: No flash kernel $ I'

Re: [gentoo-user] libwxgtk2.2

2005-04-17 Thread Edward Catmur
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 23:15 +0200, Al Bayrouni wrote: > I need to install wxgtk2.2 because I have one program that uses it. > But the package found in portage is wxgtk2.4. The old ebuilds (earliest is 2.2.9) are still accessible via the gentoo viewcvs: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/x1

[gentoo-user] libwxgtk2.2

2005-04-17 Thread Al Bayrouni
Hello, I need to install wxgtk2.2 because I have one program that uses it. But the package found in portage is wxgtk2.4. What do you recomend to me? Thank you Al Bayrouni -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, I have 16mb /boot: ls -lh /boot/ insgesamt 12M -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 6. Mär 13:21 backup_mbr lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root1 18. Nov 2003 boot -> . lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 14. Apr 20:07 config -> config-2.6.11-gentoo-r6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31K 4. Mär 19:34 config-2.6.11-gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.0 server install

2005-04-17 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
[snip] A little further note: Try to avoid unmerging *anything* in "system" Portage *always* assume that all "system" is installed. always not exist but it's a good approx ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: dhcpcd starts too early

2005-04-17 Thread Taka John Brunkhorst
Ed Jabbour wrote: At boot, when wlan0 starts up, I get a msg that dhcpcd is already running, so - no connection. I have to start it manually after rm'ing the pid file. I've run rc-update del on pcmcia, netmount. net.lo and hotplug. Anyone w/ a notion what's starting up dhcpcd before net.wlan0

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: dhcpcd starts too early

2005-04-17 Thread Jason Cooper
Ed Jabbour ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > At boot, when wlan0 starts up, I get a msg that dhcpcd is already running, so > - no connection. I have to start it manually after rm'ing the pid file. > I've run rc-update del on pcmcia, netmount. net.lo and hotplug. Anyone w/ a > notion what's sta

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.0 server install

2005-04-17 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
A. Khattri wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > > >>>2. Do I need udevtools? >> >>what's this?, it's not present on my boxes > > > I guess I meant "udev" - I just checked and it looks like its already > installed. > > you can avoid using it ... but why ? It's the /dev

[gentoo-user] Wireless: dhcpcd starts too early

2005-04-17 Thread Ed Jabbour
At boot, when wlan0 starts up, I get a msg that dhcpcd is already running, so - no connection. I have to start it manually after rm'ing the pid file. I've run rc-update del on pcmcia, netmount. net.lo and hotplug. Anyone w/ a notion what's starting up dhcpcd before net.wlan0 gets called? Tha

Re: [gentoo-user] emerged glibc does not work

2005-04-17 Thread Erik
Richard Fish wrote: >Erik wrote: > > > >>Hello, >>now I tried again to emerge the new version of glibc, but it failed >>again. After the emerge (and even after rebooting), some important >>programs, such as login and python no longer work. They cause >>segmentation fault. To boot the system I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] emerged glibc does not work

2005-04-17 Thread Richard Fish
Erik wrote: >Hello, >now I tried again to emerge the new version of glibc, but it failed >again. After the emerge (and even after rebooting), some important >programs, such as login and python no longer work. They cause >segmentation fault. To boot the system I had to add init=/bin/bash to >the GR

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.0 server install

2005-04-17 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > > 2. Do I need udevtools? > > what's this?, it's not present on my boxes I guess I meant "udev" - I just checked and it looks like its already installed. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.0 server install

2005-04-17 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
A. Khattri wrote: > > Jus doing my first server install with the 2005.0 release. Have a few > questions: > > 1. Do you longer need to emerge e2fsprogs? (Seems to be already > installed). Don't know but i think it has utility for ext3 too > > 2. Do I need udevtools? what's this?, it's not presen

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:21:14 +0200 Bastian Balthazar Bux > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | agree, use ext2 but with 20Mb you have space only for three 2.6 > | kernels, maybe 50 Mb is better > > What, are these "turn absolutely everything to Y kernels"? Three > compressed ke

[gentoo-user] 2005.0 server install

2005-04-17 Thread A. Khattri
Jus doing my first server install with the 2005.0 release. Have a few questions: 1. Do you longer need to emerge e2fsprogs? (Seems to be already installed). 2. Do I need udevtools? 3. Do I need coldplug? Nice to see gentoo-source now using 2.6 kernels :-) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mai

Re: [gentoo-user] Once again - a big thanks to the developers...

2005-04-17 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Mark Knecht wrote: So, a BIG THANKS to all the developers and those who participate on this list and in the forums. The info you provide is really great! I'll double that. My Gentoo experience has been nothing short of simply awesome and extremely satisfactory :) Also the flexibility of the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:21:14 +0200 Bastian Balthazar Bux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | agree, use ext2 but with 20Mb you have space only for three 2.6 | kernels, maybe 50 Mb is better What, are these "turn absolutely everything to Y kernels"? Three compressed kernels in twenty megs leads to kernels

[gentoo-user] Once again - a big thanks to the developers...

2005-04-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, In the last day I've managed to do a very nice conversion to Gentoo of an existing home machine that was running FC2. The conversion was almost totally painless and most important worked very well. This conversion was done using the 2005.0 Universal CD and the instruction book on it. I did n

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread Comatose Jones
On 4/17/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:17:33 +0200 Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:| Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some| journaling fs for my 2x160GB ata-disks, fully in raid1 | (partitions: / /boot /var /tmp /usr /opt /home and swap).If

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Hi, > > On Sunday 17 April 2005 18:17, Jarry wrote: > > > >>Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some >>journaling fs for my 2x160GB ata-disks, fully in raid1 >>(partitions: / /boot /var /tmp /usr /opt /home and swap). > > > for /boot (shouldn't be

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Hi, On Sunday 17 April 2005 18:17, Jarry wrote: Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some journaling fs for my 2x160GB ata-disks, fully in raid1 (partitions: / /boot /var /tmp /usr /opt /home and swap). for /boot (shouldn't be too big. 20mb is way enough

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, On Sunday 17 April 2005 18:17, Jarry wrote: > Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some > journaling fs for my 2x160GB ata-disks, fully in raid1 > (partitions: / /boot /var /tmp /usr /opt /home and swap). for /boot (shouldn't be too big. 20mb is way enough for /boot) ext2 is

Re: [gentoo-user] Local phenomena or is reiserfs quite slow

2005-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, On Sunday 17 April 2005 15:52, Harry Putnam wrote: > Recently switched from using ext3 (under fedora) to reiserfs (under > gentoo). > > I'm noticing what seems to be really long processing times for certain > file manipulation chores. > is udma activated for your harddisk? what does hdparm /d

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, > followed by an 'rm -rf /var/tmp/portage' > > I do get one error I'm not sure how to clean. > > getfetchlist(): aux_get() error reading app-text/aspell-0.50.3; aborting. > Failed to get file list for app-text/aspell-0.50.3 > !!! aux_get(): ebuild path for 'net-misc/dhcpcd-1.3.22_p4-r4' not >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 17 April 2005 12:21 pm, A. Khattri wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > > I also recommend reiserfs. > > > > I'm a laptop user, and just converted my filesystems from xfs to > > reiserfs for performance reasons. With xfs, backing up my root > > filesystem (325000-35 fi

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, April 17, 2005 6:21 pm, Ciaran McCreesh said: > If you care about your data, use ext3. If you care about your data, use tar. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Local phenomena or is reiserfs quite slow

2005-04-17 Thread Richard Fish
A. Khattri wrote: >On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > > >>How did you do this conversion? Reiserfs exhibits poor performance if >>you simply extract an archive of a different filesystem. >> >> > >Why? Are you saying if I make a tarball on an ext2 fs and then copy and >untar this tar

Re: [gentoo-user] Local phenomena or is reiserfs quite slow

2005-04-17 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > How did you do this conversion? Reiserfs exhibits poor performance if > you simply extract an archive of a different filesystem. Why? Are you saying if I make a tarball on an ext2 fs and then copy and untar this tarball onto a ReiserFS filesystem, the f

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > I also recommend reiserfs. > > I'm a laptop user, and just converted my filesystems from xfs to > reiserfs for performance reasons. With xfs, backing up my root > filesystem (325000-35 files) would take a bit over 10 minutes > usually. With reiserfs

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-17 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Eric S. Johansson wrote: this is all portage's fault.. ;-) my 300+ package upgrade is almost done. but OO died because of no disk space on the laptop (yes, I will go with a binary for this one after I clean up the mess) what is the best way to keep the portage files down to a reasonable set? I

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild error on python

2005-04-17 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Chris Bare wrote: > I'm not sure what I should do at this point. > Do I still need python 2.2.3 at all? can I safely unmerge it? > Or should I force python-2.2.3-r6 to be installed? Im no Python expert but since emerge uses Python I would be loathe to remove it without checki

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:17:33 +0200 Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some | journaling fs for my 2x160GB ata-disks, fully in raid1 | (partitions: / /boot /var /tmp /usr /opt /home and swap). If you care about your data, use ext3. -- Ciaran McC

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread Richard Fish
I also recommend reiserfs. I'm a laptop user, and just converted my filesystems from xfs to reiserfs for performance reasons. With xfs, backing up my root filesystem (325000-35 files) would take a bit over 10 minutes usually. With reiserfs, that time is down to 6-7 minutes. It just can't be

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild error on python

2005-04-17 Thread Chris Bare
Calculating dependencies \ emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5". I see there is no ebuild for python-2.2.3-r5 any more. There is a 2.2.3-r6, but when I try to update python, I get: python-2.3.4-r1 installed. n # emerge -pu python These are the packages that I would

RE: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to 2005.0

2005-04-17 Thread Reno Romanin
That did it. -Original Message- From: Bastian Balthazar Bux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 9:36 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to 2005.0 Reno Romanin wrote: > I recently updated my profile to 2005.0 by the simple rm /etc/

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm installing Gentoo 2005.0 using universal installation CD on a small, general purpose server (apache+mysql+php, mail, some net-games, teamspeak, ftp, shells, 20-30 users, etc.). Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some journaling fs for my 2x160GB ata-disks, full

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread Luigi Pinna
Alle 18:17, domenica 17 aprile 2005, Jarry ha scritto: > Hi, > > I'm installing Gentoo 2005.0 using universal installation CD > on a small, general purpose server (apache+mysql+php, mail, > some net-games, teamspeak, ftp, shells, 20-30 users, etc.). > > Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread fire-eyes
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 18:17 +0200, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > I'm installing Gentoo 2005.0 using universal installation CD > on a small, general purpose server (apache+mysql+php, mail, > some net-games, teamspeak, ftp, shells, 20-30 users, etc.). > > Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to tr

[gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread Jarry
Hi, I'm installing Gentoo 2005.0 using universal installation CD on a small, general purpose server (apache+mysql+php, mail, some net-games, teamspeak, ftp, shells, 20-30 users, etc.). Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some journaling fs for my 2x160GB ata-disks, fully in raid1 (p

[gentoo-user] Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird/Nvu/etc

2005-04-17 Thread Devon Miller
All of these are built on the same set of libraries and each one downloads and builds its own copy. Is anyone investigating making the common code into a mozilla-core package? I'd really like a way to cut down the time spent building these apps. dcm

[gentoo-user] Re: rc-update net.wlan0?

2005-04-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Did all that sensible stuff I suggested below. It worked. This response is from my wireless NIC. Thanks to the Gentoo developers for making such a logically consistent system! Cheers, Mark On 4/17/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >I'm attempting to get wireless up a

[gentoo-user] emerged glibc does not work

2005-04-17 Thread Erik
Hello, now I tried again to emerge the new version of glibc, but it failed again. After the emerge (and even after rebooting), some important programs, such as login and python no longer work. They cause segmentation fault. To boot the system I had to add init=/bin/bash to the GRUB command line. To

[gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0?

2005-04-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm attempting to get wireless up and running. First time on Gentoo. I have used ndiswrapper on FC2 which this machine used to run so I have ESSIDs, mac addresses and keys that are known good. I've emerge the wireless-tools stuff and have an edited /etc/conf.d/wireless file with my value

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to 2005.0

2005-04-17 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Reno Romanin wrote: > I recently updated my profile to 2005.0 by the simple rm /etc/make.profile > ln -sf blah blah... > > Well, it didn't seem to go as smooth this time, now every time I try to > emerge something, including '-u world' I get errors, specifically on gcc I > get this > > *** This c

[gentoo-user] Upgrading to 2005.0

2005-04-17 Thread Reno Romanin
I recently updated my profile to 2005.0 by the simple rm /etc/make.profile ln -sf blah blah... Well, it didn't seem to go as smooth this time, now every time I try to emerge something, including '-u world' I get errors, specifically on gcc I get this *** This configuration is not supported in the

Re: [gentoo-user] dma is off

2005-04-17 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Sunday 17 April 2005 07:17 am, Christoph Gysin wrote: > Al Bayrouni wrote: > > Here is the output of lspci: > > - > > :00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 645xx > > (rev 51) > > Ok, you have a SiS 645... > > > and the part of dmesg output: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Local phenomena or is reiserfs quite slow

2005-04-17 Thread Richard Fish
Harry Putnam wrote: >Recently switched from using ext3 (under fedora) to reiserfs (under >gentoo). > > How did you do this conversion? Reiserfs exhibits poor performance if you simply extract an archive of a different filesystem. To get the best performance out of Reiserfs, you need to: 1.

[gentoo-user] Automatically replace -mtune= with -mcpu= if not supported by gcc?!

2005-04-17 Thread Philipp Hasse
Hi, I recently noticed that portage executes the file bashrc located in /etc/portage before every ebuild. This way it can be used to set the -mcpu and -mtune flags correctly. If you add the following to this file everything goes automatically: <--- SNIP ---> # Automatically replace -mtune= with -

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems upgrading to the kernel 2.6 - module CRC32

2005-04-17 Thread Richard Fish
Richard Fish wrote: >To squash the cxacru error, create a file "/etc/moduels.d/cxacru", with > > sed -e "s/moduels/modules/g" -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Local phenomena or is reiserfs quite slow

2005-04-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Recently switched from using ext3 (under fedora) to reiserfs (under gentoo). I'm noticing what seems to be really long processing times for certain file manipulation chores. Examples might be `du -sh' against several hundred MB or `rm -rf' in same manner. I didn't think to time the du part belo

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems upgrading to the kernel 2.6 - module CRC32

2005-04-17 Thread Richard Fish
Luca Penasa wrote: > Hi everybody... im trying to upgrading my gentoo with the 2.6 kernel. > I've done everything (compilind and installing modules)... but now i > cant load the crc32 module (after the modprobe crc32 the system write > out that cant find that module--- module crc32 not found... or

[gentoo-user] Problems upgrading to the kernel 2.6 - module CRC32

2005-04-17 Thread Luca Penasa
Hi everybody... im trying to upgrading my gentoo with the 2.6 kernel. I've done everything (compilind and installing modules)... but now i cant load the crc32 module (after the modprobe crc32 the system write out that cant find that module--- module crc32 not found... or something like that). i

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-17 Thread Francisco Ares
I use a shared NFS /usr/portage/ among 4 computers (a server, 2 desktops and a test machine) and it works fine, just the server needs to sync in the middle of the night, and as I have mostly Pentium3 (server + 2 workstations), the server and my own workstation are setup to build binary packages - t

Re: [gentoo-user] dma is off

2005-04-17 Thread Al Bayrouni
Al Bayrouni wrote: Benno Schulenberg wrote: Al Bayrouni wrote: # CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK=y This doesn't look right. Did you configure the kernel by hand? Or by using genkernel? If so, try it with 'make menuconfig' to get a consistent config. Benno Thank you

[gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-17 Thread Eric S. Johansson
this is all portage's fault.. ;-) my 300+ package upgrade is almost done. but OO died because of no disk space on the laptop (yes, I will go with a binary for this one after I clean up the mess) what is the best way to keep the portage files down to a reasonable set? I clean but that never see

Re: [gentoo-user] dma is off

2005-04-17 Thread Al Bayrouni
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Al Bayrouni wrote: # CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK=y This doesn't look right. Did you configure the kernel by hand? Or by using genkernel? If so, try it with 'make menuconfig' to get a consistent config. Benno Thank you very much. I configu

Re: [gentoo-user] dma is off

2005-04-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Al Bayrouni wrote: > # CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set > CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK=y This doesn't look right. Did you configure the kernel by hand? Or by using genkernel? If so, try it with 'make menuconfig' to get a consistent config. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] USB devices (/dev/usb empty)

2005-04-17 Thread Christoph Gysin
PaweÅ Sulkowski wrote: > A list of loaded kernel modules (usbcore is loaded): > -- > Module Size Used byNot tainted > ... > usbcore57804 1 > ... There are a lot more modules needed than just usbcore. usbcore is just *support* for USB. > Unfortunate

Re: [gentoo-user] dma is off

2005-04-17 Thread Christoph Gysin
Al Bayrouni wrote: > Here is the output of lspci: > - > :00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 645xx > (rev 51) Ok, you have a SiS 645... > and the part of dmesg output: > --- > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Re

[gentoo-user] USB devices (/dev/usb empty)

2005-04-17 Thread PaweÅ Sulkowski
Hello, I've the following problem with my USB on Gentoo box. A list of loaded kernel modules (usbcore is loaded): -- Module Size Used byNot tainted vfat9356 2 (autoclean) fat31640 0 (autoclean) [vfat] agpgart

Re: [gentoo-user] dma is off

2005-04-17 Thread Al Bayrouni
Richard Fish wrote: Al Bayrouni wrote: Hello all, My 2 IDE DISKS want support DMA with gentoo. Could you post the output of lspci and dmesg. For the dmesg output, the interesting section should look something like this: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 PCI: Enabling devi

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot find /dev/hda7

2005-04-17 Thread Vittorio
Alle 16:39, sabato 16 aprile 2005, Vittorio ha scritto: > I've just reshaped the partitions of my laptop hardisk removing a primary > partition /dev/hda3 previously devoted to swap, making a bigger > reiserfs /dev/hda3 and recreatring the swap partition that now is > /dev/hda7. In a nutshell the pa

Re: [gentoo-user] dma is off

2005-04-17 Thread Richard Fish
Al Bayrouni wrote: > Hello all, > > My 2 IDE DISKS want support DMA with gentoo. > Could you post the output of lspci and dmesg. For the dmesg output, the interesting section should look something like this: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus

[gentoo-user] dma is off

2005-04-17 Thread Al Bayrouni
Hello all, My 2 IDE DISKS want support DMA with gentoo. (dma was supported with debian) Here my .config with the kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r6: CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_FORCED is not set CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y # CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set CONF

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

2005-04-17 Thread Rumen Yotov
Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > Kiawud wrote: > >> On 4/16/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hello folks, >>> >>> I'm trying to install Gentoo with LVM2. I had to stop the installation >>> at one point and reboot the pc. Later, I booted with LiveCD again and >>> now I'm wondering how I

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