Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems, including freezes

2009-06-02 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009 schrieb Florian Philipp: > > Do you have a spare network adapter, maybe an older 100MBit PCI card? > Maybe we should rule out a hardware fault on your ethernet chipset first. > I already thought on this, but the results of my tests dont indicate a hardware fault on the eth

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems, including freezes

2009-06-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Florian Philipp schrieb: >> Does anyone have suggestions? > > Do you have a spare network adapter, maybe an older 100MBit PCI card? > Maybe we should rule out a hardware fault on your ethernet chipset first. I agree on this. question: what filesystem do you use for the nfs-exported directory? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems, including freezes

2009-06-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Alexander Puchmayr schrieb: > Hi there! > > My freshly setup homeserver has serious stability problem, which make the > the machine absolutely unuseable as home server. > [...] > > The problem is, when I copy large amount of data via nfs to the server, then > the logs get filled with entries

Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k and wpa_supplicant

2009-06-02 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 02 June 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 13:24:38 +0100, Mick wrote: > > I'm afraid that although my card is now recognised as wlan0, both > > wpa_cli and gui insist on trying to connect to ath0, unless I specify > > -iwlan0 at the terminal. I don't have (knowingly) speci

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge

2009-06-02 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 3, 2009, at 12:21 AM, Graham Murray wrote: Is there any way to improve the granularity in the merge function of dispatch-conf, or make it more intelligent? The particular situation where it gives me problems is in configuration files where the value of an option has been manually cha

[gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge

2009-06-02 Thread Graham Murray
Is there any way to improve the granularity in the merge function of dispatch-conf, or make it more intelligent? The particular situation where it gives me problems is in configuration files where the value of an option has been manually changed following initial installation, then on an upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's wrong with emerge

2009-06-02 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Nikos Chantziaras : > alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: > > #emerge --sync returns the following error: > > > > > > Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/2Q-2009 > > (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) > > .='update pass' *='binary updat

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-02 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I've got a bit of a problem recently with (I think) k3b. Over the >>> last couple of months *some* copies of CDs made in k3b using the Clone

[gentoo-user] Re: Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mark Knecht wrote: I've been using these same machine and same car CD player for years and everything has always been fine. Now for the last 2-3 months nearly 50% of what I copy fails. Your recorder might be deteriorating (the laser in them doesn't live forever). You might want to burn at

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hi, >>   I've got a bit of a problem recently with (I think) k3b. Over the >> last couple of months *some* copies of CDs made in k3b using the Clone >> Copy feature do not reliably play in

Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I've got a bit of a problem recently with (I think) k3b. Over the > last couple of months *some* copies of CDs made in k3b using the Clone > Copy feature do not reliably play in my car's CD player. I've tried > multiple CD spindles and I

[gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

2009-06-02 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've got a bit of a problem recently with (I think) k3b. Over the last couple of months *some* copies of CDs made in k3b using the Clone Copy feature do not reliably play in my car's CD player. I've tried multiple CD spindles and I've tried burning the copies on two different Gentoo machines

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot completely shut down my system from command line

2009-06-02 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 06/02/2009 James Ausmus(james.aus...@gmail.com) wrote > 2009/6/2 John covici > > > on Tuesday 06/02/2009 Sebastian G nther(sam...@guenther-roetgen.de) wrote > > > * John covici (cov...@ccs.covici.com) [02.06.09 09:24]: > > > > Hi. I am running unstable gentoo and baselayout2, h

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot completely shut down my system from command line

2009-06-02 Thread James Ausmus
2009/6/2 John covici > on Tuesday 06/02/2009 Sebastian G nther(sam...@guenther-roetgen.de) wrote > > * John covici (cov...@ccs.covici.com) [02.06.09 09:24]: > > > Hi. I am running unstable gentoo and baselayout2, however when I > > > shutdown my system with something like shutdown -r now -- i

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot completely shut down my system from command line

2009-06-02 Thread Keith Dart
On Jun 2, 2009, at 12:24 AM, John covici wrote: nit: no more processes in this run level, but it never will restart or shutdown if I use -h. How in the heck do I even debug such a thing or fix? Thanks in advance for any good ideas. I've seen this kind of thing on systems with buggy hardwar

[gentoo-user] Touchpad wont click with xorg-server-1.5.3-r6

2009-06-02 Thread Adam Carter
I can no longer tap the touchpad to cause a mouse click. It worked in 1.5.3-r5, but i think r5 was -hal, whereas i have built -r6 +hal. I cant see any touchpad related patches in r6. Should i try -hal, reverting to -r5 or something else? I have no input devices defined in my xorg.conf. Dell lap

Re: [gentoo-user] get fences failed: -1 and [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR*

2009-06-02 Thread Valmor de Almeida
AJ Spagnoletti wrote: > Using the link you posted I was able to get similar numbers on my > card, if you scroll down to the bottom of the page there where it > talks about driconf, and set up your drirc file you should be able to > apply these settings system wide. I am still have some issues with

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: buying a keyboard

2009-06-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Keith Dart wrote: > > On May 31, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Adrian wrote: > >> Many moons ago I purchased a Linux Cool Keyboard. The great thing >> about this keyboard is that a. it has great tactile response and b. it >> has a cover which folds down to protect the keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot completely shut down my system from command line

2009-06-02 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 06/02/2009 Sebastian G nther(sam...@guenther-roetgen.de) wrote > * John covici (cov...@ccs.covici.com) [02.06.09 09:24]: > > Hi. I am running unstable gentoo and baselayout2, however when I > > shutdown my system with something like shutdown -r now -- it gets into > > a state where

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: buying a keyboard

2009-06-02 Thread Keith Dart
On May 31, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Adrian wrote: Many moons ago I purchased a Linux Cool Keyboard. The great thing about this keyboard is that a. it has great tactile response and b. it has a cover which folds down to protect the keyboard when not in use. I had one too. :-) Had to replace it with

[gentoo-user] Serious stability problems, including freezes

2009-06-02 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! My freshly setup homeserver has serious stability problem, which make the the machine absolutely unuseable as home server. The system is an amd64 (50...@2600mhz, no overclocking) with 4GB Ram and three 1TB SATA disks bundled to a raid5 (kernel md driver). The kernels I've tried are

Re: [gentoo-user] ctrl-alt-del change for minimal-x86-install-20090526.iso?

2009-06-02 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Maxim Wexler (maxim.wex...@gmail.com) [02.06.09 21:41]: > Hi group, > > I note that ctrl-alt-del no longer shuts off my netbook. It gets to > 'remounting file sytems read only' then stops. I have to hold the > power button for about 5 secs to get the thing to shut down. > > Is there a new, appr

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot completely shut down my system from command line

2009-06-02 Thread Sebastian Günther
* John covici (cov...@ccs.covici.com) [02.06.09 09:24]: > Hi. I am running unstable gentoo and baselayout2, however when I > shutdown my system with something like shutdown -r now -- it gets into > a state where it says > init: no more processes in this run level, but it never will restart > or sh

Re: [gentoo-user] no battery state/info in minimal-x86-install-20090526.iso?

2009-06-02 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Maxim Wexler (maxim.wex...@gmail.com) [02.06.09 21:37]: > Ok, I see it /sys/bus/acpi/drivers/battery and bind, uevent and > something in pink beneath that but I can't read them "permission > denied. But I'm logged in as root > Well this is the kernle module, drivers are always the wrong choice

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot completely shut down my system from command line

2009-06-02 Thread Maxim Wexler
On 6/2/09, John covici wrote: > Hi. I am running unstable gentoo and baselayout2, however when I > shutdown my system with something like shutdown -r now -- it gets into > a state where it says > init: no more processes in this run level, but it never will restart > or shutdown if I use -h. How

[gentoo-user] ctrl-alt-del change for minimal-x86-install-20090526.iso?

2009-06-02 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, I note that ctrl-alt-del no longer shuts off my netbook. It gets to 'remounting file sytems read only' then stops. I have to hold the power button for about 5 secs to get the thing to shut down. Is there a new, approved way of shutting down one's netbook? Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] no battery state/info in minimal-x86-install-20090526.iso?

2009-06-02 Thread Maxim Wexler
>> No such file. Looked all over /proc/acpi/. Nothing in /var/log/messages. >> > Search beneath /sys. > On my thinkpad battery interface went to > /sys/bus/platform/devices/ > Ok, I see it /sys/bus/acpi/drivers/battery and bind, uevent and something in pink beneath that but I can't read them "perm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel Oops! with new xorg

2009-06-02 Thread John
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 16:16:09 + (UTC) James wrote: > Mick gmail.com> writes: > > > > I have come across this debilitating affliction which means that I > > can no longer shutdown properly my laptop. It looks as if the > > kernel crashes when xorg is trying to unload the radeon driver - > >

Re: [gentoo-user] layman tree (re)location - /usr/local

2009-06-02 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Mike Kazantsev (mk.frag...@gmail.com) [02.06.09 17:22]: > Answer in a neighbor thread reminded me of a question that puzzled me > from the start: what's the rationale behind moving layman tree > from /usr/portage/local to /usr/local/portage? > > I can see why all ebuilds belong in the same /usr/

Re: [gentoo-user] f-secure linux security 7.03 on gentoo?

2009-06-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Jarry schrieb: > What mail-server are your running there, may I ask? > > I'm trying to get amavisd-new working with sendmail, but it is rather > difficult. There is only brief documentation with amavisd-new, I do not > know how to modify sendmail start-up script. Any help from someone > having ex

Re: [gentoo-user] f-secure linux security 7.03 on gentoo?

2009-06-02 Thread Jarry
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: at a customers site they have some company-license for f-secure-products. I run a mail-gateway there, using gentoo, it runs amavisd which utilizes clamav and fsav ... (the customer *wants* me to use both as he pays for the f-secure-licenses ...) What mail-server are

[gentoo-user] Re: /usr/local/portage/profiles/repo_name

2009-06-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
James wrote: so I copied the old dir (cp -Rp) to: /usr/local/porgage/laymen I hope that's just a typo. It should be "/usr/local/portage/layman". and edited the /etc/make.conf to to this: source /usr/local/portage/layman/make.conf You also need to edit /usr/local/portage/layman/make.conf a

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/local/portage/profiles/repo_name

2009-06-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:25 AM, James wrote: > Hello, > > > Upon routine update of one gentoo system, I get this > error message: > > WARNING: One or more repositories have missing repo_name entries: >        /usr/local/portage/profiles/repo_name > NOTE: Each repo_name entry should be a plain text

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel Oops! with new xorg

2009-06-02 Thread James
Mick gmail.com> writes: > I have come across this debilitating affliction which means that I can > no longer shutdown properly my laptop. It looks as if the kernel > crashes when xorg is trying to unload the radeon driver - but I am not > sure - please see attached pic. Hello Mick, I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k and wpa_supplicant

2009-06-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 13:24:38 +0100, Mick wrote: > I'm afraid that although my card is now recognised as wlan0, both > wpa_cli and gui insist on trying to connect to ath0, unless I specify > -iwlan0 at the terminal. I don't have (knowingly) specified ath0 in > any other configuration file ... where

[gentoo-user] Re: /usr/local/portage/profiles/repo_name

2009-06-02 Thread James
Nikos Chantziaras arcor.de> writes: > With the new layman version, everything moved from > /usr/portage/local/layman to /usr/local/portage/layman. You will need > to either mv the directory or reconfigure to use the old location. OK, so I copied the old dir (cp -Rp) to: /usr/local/porgage

[gentoo-user] layman tree (re)location - /usr/local

2009-06-02 Thread Mike Kazantsev
Answer in a neighbor thread reminded me of a question that puzzled me from the start: what's the rationale behind moving layman tree from /usr/portage/local to /usr/local/portage? I can see why all ebuilds belong in the same /usr/portage tree - separate (optimized) fs, easy to backup (snapshot?) o

[gentoo-user] Re: /usr/local/portage/profiles/repo_name

2009-06-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
James wrote: Hello, Upon routine update of one gentoo system, I get this error message: WARNING: One or more repositories have missing repo_name entries: /usr/local/portage/profiles/repo_name NOTE: Each repo_name entry should be a plain text file containing a unique name for the reposi

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/local/portage/profiles/repo_name

2009-06-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 15:25:35 James wrote: > Hello, > > > Upon routine update of one gentoo system, I get this > error message: > > WARNING: One or more repositories have missing repo_name entries: > /usr/local/portage/profiles/repo_name > NOTE: Each repo_name entry should be a plain tex

[gentoo-user] /usr/local/portage/profiles/repo_name

2009-06-02 Thread James
Hello, Upon routine update of one gentoo system, I get this error message: WARNING: One or more repositories have missing repo_name entries: /usr/local/portage/profiles/repo_name NOTE: Each repo_name entry should be a plain text file containing a unique name for the repository on the fir

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: buying a keyboard

2009-06-02 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Jacob Todd wrote: > Did you check craigslist? > > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 02:14:04PM -0600, Adrian wrote: >> >> >> >> Greetings; >> >> Many moons ago I purchased a Linux Cool Keyboard.  The great thing >> about this keyboard is that a. it has great tactile response

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Oops! with new xorg

2009-06-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 02 Juni 2009, Mick wrote: > 2009/6/2 Volker Armin Hemmann : > > On Dienstag 02 Juni 2009, Mick wrote: > >> This what I am currently running: > >> > >> x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r6 > >> > >> x11-base/xorg-x11-7.2 > >> > >> Is there anything I can do to fix this? > > > > for starters, mo

Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k and wpa_supplicant

2009-06-02 Thread Mick
2009/6/2 Mick : > 2009/6/2 Neil Bothwick : >> On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 06:31:20 +0100, Mick wrote: >> >>> My log shows that wlan0 is renamed to wlan1: >>> >>> Not sure why this happens.  Any ideas? >> >> It's udev, you probably used another wireless device, with a different >> MAC address, as wlan0 in th

Re: [gentoo-user] f-secure linux security 7.03 on gentoo?

2009-06-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Alan McKinnon schrieb: > On Tuesday 02 June 2009 11:54:40 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> What you you recommend? "emerge rpm" ? "rpm2targz" ? > > Do not emerge rpm. That breaks stuff. > > Just run rpm2targz, look inside tarball, apply brain power Umm, thanks, did that. After some fiddling things

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Oops! with new xorg

2009-06-02 Thread Mick
2009/6/2 Volker Armin Hemmann : > On Dienstag 02 Juni 2009, Mick wrote: >> This what I am currently running: >> >> x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r6 >> >> x11-base/xorg-x11-7.2 >> >> Is there anything I can do to fix this? > > for starters, more informations. Driver versions used. Xorg.0.log before >

Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to 2008.0 live-install CD

2009-06-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2009/6/2 Maxim Wexler : > I'm looking at it now. Why? There's nothing new there unless it's some > link I haven't clicked yet. > Okay? from http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml: 1. Release Information Descriptions, release notes, roadmaps, sub-projects and a list of the Gentoo Developers wh

Re: [gentoo-user] no battery state/info in minimal-x86-install-20090526.iso?

2009-06-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 20:43:18 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > The charge light is starting to flash so something must be checking it. That's handled in hardware. -- Neil Bothwick He who laughs last probably made a back-up. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k and wpa_supplicant

2009-06-02 Thread Mick
2009/6/2 Neil Bothwick : > On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 06:31:20 +0100, Mick wrote: > >> My log shows that wlan0 is renamed to wlan1: >> >> Not sure why this happens.  Any ideas? > > It's udev, you probably used another wireless device, with a different > MAC address, as wlan0 in the past. Edit or > delete /

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to resolve man-pages block?

2009-06-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 21:15:13 -0400, James Homuth wrote: > My instinct tells me unmerge the current version, emerge the new version > sans dependancy, then update world. But common sense is trying to tell > me that's likely to cause all kinds of sideways breakage. They're only man pages, removing t

Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k and wpa_supplicant

2009-06-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 06:31:20 +0100, Mick wrote: > My log shows that wlan0 is renamed to wlan1: > > Not sure why this happens. Any ideas? It's udev, you probably used another wireless device, with a different MAC address, as wlan0 in the past. Edit or delete /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.ru

Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k and wpa_supplicant

2009-06-02 Thread Stroller
On 2 Jun 2009, at 06:31, Mick wrote: ... ath5k calls the device wlan0. Yes it does, but this is what I am getting when I try to run wpa_cli in a terminal: = $ wpa_cli wpa_cli v0.6.4 Copyright (c) 2004-2008, Jouni Malinen and contributors

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Oops! with new xorg

2009-06-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 02 Juni 2009, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I have come across this debilitating affliction which means that I can > no longer shutdown properly my laptop. It looks as if the kernel > crashes when xorg is trying to unload the radeon driver - but I am not > sure - please see attached pic. >

Re: [gentoo-user] f-secure linux security 7.03 on gentoo?

2009-06-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 11:54:40 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > greets, gentoo-users, > > at a customers site they have some company-license for f-secure-products. > > I run a mail-gateway there, using gentoo, it runs amavisd which utilizes > clamav and fsav ... (the customer *wants* me to use both

[gentoo-user] f-secure linux security 7.03 on gentoo?

2009-06-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
greets, gentoo-users, at a customers site they have some company-license for f-secure-products. I run a mail-gateway there, using gentoo, it runs amavisd which utilizes clamav and fsav ... (the customer *wants* me to use both as he pays for the f-secure-licenses ...) Until now we used the f-sec

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading gnome 2.24 to 2.26

2009-06-02 Thread Justin
Sebastian Günther schrieb: > * Yasin (yasin5...@yahoo.com) [01.06.09 05:52]: >> i just want to upgrade my gentoo gnome from 2.24 to 2.26 how to and what >> must i do ??? >> > > read the handbook about ACCEPT_KEYWORDS > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3 > > Seba

[gentoo-user] cannot completely shut down my system from command line

2009-06-02 Thread John covici
Hi. I am running unstable gentoo and baselayout2, however when I shutdown my system with something like shutdown -r now -- it gets into a state where it says init: no more processes in this run level, but it never will restart or shutdown if I use -h. How in the heck do I even debug such a thing