Re: [gentoo-user] Random segfaults with gnome

2012-07-13 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" mailto:gentoo-u...@hadt.biz>> wrote: > > > Lately, ever since I

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 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 is your mkfs.vfat from

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

2012-07-13 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan 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 is your mkfs.vfat from? The manpage for mkfs.vfat from sys-fs/

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

2012-07-13 Thread Joseph
On 07/14/12 00:10, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 07:17:14PM -0600, Joseph wrote How to deal with it? I the past changing the ownership always worked from root. If the mount process detects a problem, it'll set the filesystem as readonly. You'll have to back up the data from the

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" 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 start (I see

[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] usb stick files read only

2012-07-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 07:17:14PM -0600, Joseph wrote > How to deal with it? > I the past changing the ownership always worked from root. If the mount process detects a problem, it'll set the filesystem as readonly. You'll have to back up the data from the stick, repartition and reformat the

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

2012-07-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Jul 14, 2012 6:48 AM, "Joseph" 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 test users

[gentoo-user] usb stick files read only

2012-07-13 Thread Joseph
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 test users 8502 Jul 21 2011 asterisk-help.txt -rw-r--r-

[gentoo-user] Auto(un)mount under mdev; release candidate

2012-07-13 Thread Walter Dnes
For those of you running mdev; I've had auto(un)mounting working and stable on my machine for a few weeks now. The instructions are on https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev/Automount_USB and the script file on https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev/Automount_USB/automount These wiki pages are still flag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo testing and ssd

2012-07-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 13. Juli 2012, 16:44:57 schrieb walt: > On 07/13/2012 01:42 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Am Freitag, 13. Juli 2012, 13:42:47 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: > >> I will be getting a new laptop with ssd (250GB). > >> > >> I currently run ~amd64 and wonder if this is too much writing for

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2, uefi, gpt etc etc

2012-07-13 Thread walt
On 07/13/2012 02:57 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> But I wonder how the migration might look like and work out, especially >> with that win7pro on board. >> >> It is still a productive box ... (gentoo way more important than win7, sure) > > For anyone else attacking this: > > I now have bo

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo testing and ssd

2012-07-13 Thread walt
On 07/13/2012 01:42 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am Freitag, 13. Juli 2012, 13:42:47 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: >> I will be getting a new laptop with ssd (250GB). >> >> I currently run ~amd64 and wonder if this is too much writing for the >> flash. >> >> I have adapted to and now enjoy gnome3.

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2, uefi, gpt etc etc

2012-07-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
> But I wonder how the migration might look like and work out, especially > with that win7pro on board. > > It is still a productive box ... (gentoo way more important than win7, sure) For anyone else attacking this: I now have both GRUB2/Gentoo and Win7pro booting via UEFI here. It *works* so

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo testing and ssd

2012-07-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 13. Juli 2012, 13:42:47 schrieb Allan Gottlieb: > I will be getting a new laptop with ssd (250GB). > > I currently run ~amd64 and wonder if this is too much writing for the > flash. > > I have adapted to and now enjoy gnome3. If I were forced to run stable > to limit compiles I would

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo testing and ssd

2012-07-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Jul 13 2012, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2012-07-13 20:53, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: >> On Fri, Jul 13 2012, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> >>> Am 2012-07-13 19:42, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: I will be getting a new laptop with ssd (250GB). I currently run ~amd64 and wonder

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo testing and ssd

2012-07-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-07-13 20:53, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: > On Fri, Jul 13 2012, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> Am 2012-07-13 19:42, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: >>> I will be getting a new laptop with ssd (250GB). >>> >>> I currently run ~amd64 and wonder if this is too much writing for the >>> flash. >>> >>> I

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo testing and ssd

2012-07-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Jul 13 2012, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2012-07-13 19:42, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: >> I will be getting a new laptop with ssd (250GB). >> >> I currently run ~amd64 and wonder if this is too much writing for the >> flash. >> >> I have adapted to and now enjoy gnome3. If I were force

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo testing and ssd

2012-07-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-07-13 19:42, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: > I will be getting a new laptop with ssd (250GB). > > I currently run ~amd64 and wonder if this is too much writing for the > flash. > > I have adapted to and now enjoy gnome3. If I were forced to run stable > to limit compiles I would still use pack

[gentoo-user] gentoo testing and ssd

2012-07-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I will be getting a new laptop with ssd (250GB). I currently run ~amd64 and wonder if this is too much writing for the flash. I have adapted to and now enjoy gnome3. If I were forced to run stable to limit compiles I would still use package.accept_keywords to permit gnome3. Any experiences with

Re: [gentoo-user] Random segfaults with gnome

2012-07-13 Thread Michael Hampicke
> 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). I had lots of graphics related problems with gnome3.2 - from render errors to system freezes. So in a desperate

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: HW-raid1 & SSD?

2012-07-13 Thread Jarry
On 11-Jul-12 18:09, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Does anyone have any experience with SSD in raid (SW or HW)? Is it safe to use it on server? just ask intel support. Really. Dear Mr..., Thank you for contacting Intel® Technical Support. Please be aware that we do not offer interactive presal

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" > > wrote: > >> > >> On Jul 13, 2012 8:30 AM, "Pandu Poluan" >

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" > > wrote: > >> > >> On Jul 13, 2012 8:30 AM, "Pandu Poluan" >

Re: [gentoo-user] Random segfaults with gnome

2012-07-13 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13.07.2012 17:24, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Jul 13, 2012 7:46 PM, "Nilesh Govindrajan" > wrote: >> >> On Jul 13, 2012 8:30 AM, "Pandu Poluan" >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Jul 13, 2012 9:49 AM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" >>> wrote: By GNOME yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Random segfaults with gnome

2012-07-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jul 13, 2012 7:46 PM, "Nilesh Govindrajan" wrote: > > On Jul 13, 2012 8:30 AM, "Pandu Poluan" wrote: > > > > > > On Jul 13, 2012 9:49 AM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" wrote: > > > > > > By GNOME you mean, gnome-shell? Do the crashes occur randomly, or can > > > you reproduce them? Same with PulseAud

Re: [gentoo-user] Random segfaults with gnome

2012-07-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Jul 13, 2012 8:30 AM, "Pandu Poluan" wrote: > > > On Jul 13, 2012 9:49 AM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" 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 about segfaults in dmes