Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade question: is it adviseable?

2009-06-03 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (03/06/09 15:40) Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wednesday 03 June 2009 18:39:56 Dale wrote: > > > >> Why not copy the config from the old kernel over and run make > >> oldconfig? May need to do some cleaning after genkernel tho. > >> > > > > That's the correct way :-) > > > >

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

2009-06-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> OK - I'll try that in a minute. Right now I'm stuck. Attempting to run >> your readcd program it's locked up and I cannot kill it. Ctrl-C didn't >> work. Trying to kill the process doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] News NILFS file-system?

2009-06-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 04 Juni 2009, Stroller wrote: > I'm surprised to hear about a new file-system only as it enters the > main kernel tree: > > http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7345/1.html > > Anyone got any comments on this? > > A snapshotty file-system would be *immensely* useful, but I fear > putting in

[gentoo-user] News NILFS file-system?

2009-06-03 Thread Stroller
I'm surprised to hear about a new file-system only as it enters the main kernel tree: http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7345/1.html Anyone got any comments on this? A snapshotty file-system would be *immensely* useful, but I fear putting into production something untested. Stroller.

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

2009-06-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Joerg Schilling > wrote: >> Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> I will see about buying a CD player cleaning disk. I suppose they >>> still make those. >>> >>> I've used 3 different spindle of CDs before I started the thr

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

2009-06-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > >> I will see about buying a CD player cleaning disk. I suppose they >> still make those. >> >> I've used 3 different spindle of CDs before I started the thread. I'm >> happy to try 'better' media if I can determine wha

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

2009-06-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mark Knecht wrote: > I will see about buying a CD player cleaning disk. I suppose they > still make those. > > I've used 3 different spindle of CDs before I started the thread. I'm > happy to try 'better' media if I can determine what that means without > guessing. > > Here's an example. The firs

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

2009-06-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > 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 t

Re: Tweaks for SSDs [Was: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes]

2009-06-03 Thread Maxim Wexler
> Partioning scheme and formatting tricks for optimal performance: > http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/20/aligning-filesystems-to-an-ssds-erase-block-size/ Great resource. I wonder if any members found objections posted by 'starfry' at the bottom of the article worthy of consideration. Or did th

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

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > cdda2wav -paranoia gives much better results > that cdparanoia. Thanks for your work, Joerg. I've used cdda2wav with paranoia mode "forever" and it seems able to rip everything as long as the hardware can support reading it. (for example my

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade question: is it adviseable?

2009-06-03 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 03 June 2009 18:39:56 Dale wrote: > >> Why not copy the config from the old kernel over and run make >> oldconfig? May need to do some cleaning after genkernel tho. >> > > That's the correct way :-) > > But the OP asked if there was some magic way to get

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

2009-06-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > There is no copy protection system for audio CDs. > > There is, unfortunately. An example is "Cactus Data Shield". The bad > thing is that it even breaks the standard, resulting in the copy > protected audio CD not playing back in some pl

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

2009-06-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Joerg Schilling wrote: Dale wrote: Could it be some copy protection thing that is new maybe? Something k3b can't quite copy. There is no copy protection system for audio CDs. There is, unfortunately. An example is "Cactus Data Shield". The bad thing is that it even breaks the standard,

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

2009-06-03 Thread Mark Knecht
thanks Dirk! On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009 21:34:10 schrieb Mark Knecht: > >> Jorg - Is there some reason that cdrecord isn't in portage? I am not >> seeing it listed. Maybe it's my mistake. I'll look again later. > > app-cdr/cdrtools > > Bye...

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

2009-06-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009 21:34:10 schrieb Mark Knecht: > Jorg - Is there some reason that cdrecord isn't in portage? I am not > seeing it listed. Maybe it's my mistake. I'll look again later. app-cdr/cdrtools Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message pa

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

2009-06-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Dale wrote: > >> Could it be some copy protection thing that is new maybe?  Something k3b >> can't quite copy. > > There is no copy protection system for audio CDs. > > Cdda2wav reads most accidental and intentional defects in audio CDs jus

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade question: is it adviseable?

2009-06-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 18:39:56 Dale wrote: > >> will it respect the settings I've compiled > >> into 2.6.28 or will they need to be reset again before 2.6.29 is > >> compiled? > > > > No. Not unless you give it the old config to use. IIRC it has some > > feature to use the config for the curre

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems [SOLVED]

2009-06-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > After a long discussion with a friend I changed some kernel-configs: > > * Large Receive Offload (INET_LRO) disabled. > * Changed allocator from SLUB to SLAB > > These two made the system much more stable, much less allocation error > messages,

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious stability problems [SOLVED]

2009-06-03 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
After a long discussion with a friend I changed some kernel-configs: * Large Receive Offload (INET_LRO) disabled. * Changed allocator from SLUB to SLAB These two made the system much more stable, much less allocation error messages, but not yet stable enough (still some freezes) * Increased /p

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade question: is it adviseable?

2009-06-03 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 03 June 2009 17:43:56 James Homuth wrote: > >> Related, however, if I do recompile it and >> decide to do so with genkernel, >> > > Yuck. I tell people to stay away from that thing. > > Just learn how to do it yourself. It's not hard, you get only what y

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

2009-06-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 09:23:51 Arttu V. wrote: > ... I wonder why isn't your profiles directory updated by the sync ... It gets in the way of portage. As soon as it finds a profile update it can't handle it aborts whatever it's about to do, even if that's syncing. I got out of this on one b

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge

2009-06-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 08:52:22 Neil Bothwick wrote: > I switched from dispatch-conf to conf-update a while ago and much prefer > it. The merging is more flexible and rarely has problems as you describe. Well I'm still using etc-update. The only difficult case is when squid is updated on my p

Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k and wpa_supplicant

2009-06-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:24 AM, 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 el

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade question: is it adviseable?

2009-06-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 17:43:56 James Homuth wrote: > I noticed yesterday gentoo-sources-2.6.29 was released, and was wondering > if it's required that the kernel be upgraded no > (I'm currently running 2.6.28. nothing wrong with that > I did download the sources (Should I have done that?),

[gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade question: is it adviseable?

2009-06-03 Thread James Homuth
I noticed yesterday gentoo-sources-2.6.29 was released, and was wondering if it's required that the kernel be upgraded (I'm currently running 2.6.28. I did download the sources (Should I have done that?), but in the event it's not mandatory or anything to upgrade the kernel I'd really like to not h

Re: Tweaks for SSDs [Was: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes]

2009-06-03 Thread Wyatt Epp
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 30 May 2009 22:25:29 +0300, Eray Aslan wrote: > > > > Or I could try btrfs, which has an ssd mount option. > > > > Ugh. Even on-disk format is not finalized yet. > > That's OK, I'm not using it on my backup server : Sorry to send

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

2009-06-03 Thread Mick
2009/6/2 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

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

2009-06-03 Thread Mick
2009/6/3 Colombetti Marco : > On Wednesday 03 June 2009 03:01:57 John covici wrote: >> 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 >>  > > >>  > >  > *

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt-core-4.5.1 jamboree not optimised for i686

2009-06-03 Thread Mick
2009/6/3 Alan McKinnon : > On Wednesday 03 June 2009 13:35:04 Mick wrote: >> Major build this morning of qt with a lot of blockers.  Having >> unmerged a lot of packages to remove the blockers I am now emerging >> qt-core.  I noticed this on my screen: >> >> Determining system architecture... (Linu

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt-core-4.5.1 jamboree not optimised for i686

2009-06-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 13:35:04 Mick wrote: > Major build this morning of qt with a lot of blockers. Having > unmerged a lot of packages to remove the blockers I am now emerging > qt-core. I noticed this on my screen: > > Determining system architecture... (Linux:2.6.29-gentoo-r5:i686) > 3

[gentoo-user] Qt-core-4.5.1 jamboree not optimised for i686

2009-06-03 Thread Mick
Major build this morning of qt with a lot of blockers. Having unmerged a lot of packages to remove the blockers I am now emerging qt-core. I noticed this on my screen: Determining system architecture... (Linux:2.6.29-gentoo-r5:i686) 32-bit Intel 80x86 (i386) 'i386' is supported System ar

[gentoo-user] Seahorse freezes gpg key unlocking

2009-06-03 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! Recently - I don't know when exactly - anything which wanted to get access to my private gpg key (gpg itself, enigmail when signing or decrypting) simply froze when it would usually ask for the passphrase. I tracked the problem down to seahorse. The app itself worked but apparently the h

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

2009-06-03 Thread Colombetti Marco
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 03:01:57 John covici wrote: > 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) [

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

2009-06-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dale wrote: > Could it be some copy protection thing that is new maybe? Something k3b > can't quite copy. There is no copy protection system for audio CDs. Cdda2wav reads most accidental and intentional defects in audio CDs just fine. Make sure to use the original software ftp://ftp.berlios.d

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

2009-06-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
Paul Hartman wrote: > I don't think there's a way to do bit-for-bit compare of audio CDs... > if it's a burning issue I would try burning at a slower speed (as slow > as you can tolerate waiting for). cdda2wav -paranoia gives bit for bit identical results if the medium quality is not too bad.

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

2009-06-03 Thread Joerg Schilling
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 The clone copy mode of cdrecord is definitely worse for a

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

2009-06-03 Thread Arttu V.
On 6/3/09, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: > > After three days, emerge --sync still returns the same error message. Is > there > anything I can do on my computer to fix it ? I don't know the portage internals well enough even to know if my following suggestion is good or bad (and I wonder why is

Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k and wpa_supplicant

2009-06-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 07:14:06 +0100, Mick wrote: > However, I found this: > > ls -la /var/run/wpa_supplicant/ath0 > srwxrwx--- 1 root users 0 Jun 1 11:25 /var/run/wpa_supplicant/ath0 You could, but judging by the date, it was created since you switched to wlan0 so it will probably return. I suspe

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge

2009-06-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:21:10 +0100, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge

2009-06-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009, 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 chan

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

2009-06-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Alexander Puchmayr schrieb: > 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 indi

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

2009-06-03 Thread Roy Wright
On Jun 3, 2009, at 1:17 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: 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 se