Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-24 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: > On 25 June 2014 01:09:03 CEST, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I run this test every once in a while. How bad is this: >> >> root@fireball / # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdc >> smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [x86_64-linux-3.14.0-gentoo] (local >> build) >> Copyright (C) 2002-13, B

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 25 June 2014 01:09:03 CEST, Dale wrote: >Howdy, > >I run this test every once in a while. How bad is this: > >root@fireball / # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdc >smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [x86_64-linux-3.14.0-gentoo] (local >build) >Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, >www.s

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox profile opens my web-page in https

2014-06-24 Thread walt
On 06/24/2014 08:25 AM, Joseph wrote: > On 06/23/14 18:08, Mick wrote: >> On Sunday 22 Jun 2014 22:52:40 Joseph wrote: >>> I run a server and have two firefox profiles. >>> I have ssl enabled. >>> >>> When I open one profile I it opens my web-page in "https" instead of "http" >>> When I open anothe

[gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-24 Thread Dale
Howdy, I run this test every once in a while. How bad is this: root@fireball / # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdc smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [x86_64-linux-3.14.0-gentoo] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTIO

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread thegeezer
On 06/24/2014 09:52 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > Don't ignore the potential for logical errors. If you have some script > that magically rsyncs stuff then don't make the mistake of moving data > over and rsyncing the old copy over the new, or mounting the devices > in a manner that isn't robust when u

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > External drives have a much higher failure rate than internal drives. > people don't expect them to fail or be dropped or accidentally plugged > in in the wrong order and the wrong one to be mkfs'ed (until it does > happen). These are real

Re: [gentoo-user] how to wake up gdm

2014-06-24 Thread covici
Gevisz wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:51:40 -0400 > cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > Hi. If I don't log in to gdm after a few minutes gdm enters a mode > > where no keystroke seems to wake it up -- I did manage to move the > > mouse and wake it up, but is there a way to disable the feature >

Re: [gentoo-user] Video & audio out of sync mkv mplayer

2014-06-24 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 24 Jun 2014 13:19:32 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 03:16:27PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 21/06/2014 15:01, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > > What could be amiss there? > > > Thanks. > > > > dodgy source files? > > > > use the mplayer hotkeys that gets them ba

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 24/06/2014 20:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Alan McKinnon [14-06-24 20:00]: >> On 24/06/2014 19:32, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>> Alan McKinnon [14-06-24 19:12]: On 24/06/2014 16:43, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I bought two identical external harddrives, USB 3.0,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: [Gentoo-User] emerge --sync likely to kill SSD?

2014-06-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Kai Krakow wrote: > I'm not sure if multiple partitions can share the same cache device > partition but more or less that's it: Initialize bcache, then attach your > backing devices, then add those bcache devices to your btrfs. Ah, if you are stuck with one bcache

Re: [gentoo-user] how to wake up gdm

2014-06-24 Thread Gevisz
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:51:40 -0400 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Hi. If I don't log in to gdm after a few minutes gdm enters a mode > where no keystroke seems to wake it up -- I did manage to move the > mouse and wake it up, but is there a way to disable the feature > (maybe its a screen saver o

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: [Gentoo-User] emerge --sync likely to kill SSD?

2014-06-24 Thread Kai Krakow
Rich Freeman schrieb: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Kai Krakow wrote: >> I don't see where you could lose the volume management features. You just >> add device on top of the bcache device after you initialized the raw >> device with a bcache superblock and attached it. The rest works the s

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread meino . cramer
Alan McKinnon [14-06-24 20:00]: > On 24/06/2014 19:32, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Alan McKinnon [14-06-24 19:12]: > >> On 24/06/2014 16:43, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I bought two identical external harddrives, USB 3.0, with 1 TByte each > >>> (no SSD - the good ole mech

Re: [gentoo-user] how to wake up gdm

2014-06-24 Thread covici
Michael Cook wrote: > On 06/24/2014 11:51 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Hi. If I don't log in to gdm after a few minutes gdm enters a mode > > where no keystroke seems to wake it up -- I did manage to move the mouse > > and wake it up, but is there a way to disable the feature (maybe its

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 24/06/2014 19:32, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Alan McKinnon [14-06-24 19:12]: >> On 24/06/2014 16:43, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I bought two identical external harddrives, USB 3.0, with 1 TByte each >>> (no SSD - the good ole mechanical ones...;). >>> >>> The intended use is f

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:28 AM, wrote: > ...I am sure, whether I want btrfs. On the net I found > for example this: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY1MDU > > with sentences like: > "The Btrfs file-system changes for the Linux 3.15 kernel mostly deal > with bug fixes and p

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread meino . cramer
Alan McKinnon [14-06-24 19:12]: > On 24/06/2014 16:43, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I bought two identical external harddrives, USB 3.0, with 1 TByte each > > (no SSD - the good ole mechanical ones...;). > > > > The intended use is for backup of longer files. The drives will > > co

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 24/06/2014 16:43, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I bought two identical external harddrives, USB 3.0, with 1 TByte each > (no SSD - the good ole mechanical ones...;). > > The intended use is for backup of longer files. The drives will > contain the same contents. > > Currently there are

Re: [gentoo-user] how to wake up gdm

2014-06-24 Thread Michael Cook
On 06/24/2014 11:51 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. If I don't log in to gdm after a few minutes gdm enters a mode where no keystroke seems to wake it up -- I did manage to move the mouse and wake it up, but is there a way to disable the feature (maybe its a screen saver or something), so i

[gentoo-user] how to wake up gdm

2014-06-24 Thread covici
Hi. If I don't log in to gdm after a few minutes gdm enters a mode where no keystroke seems to wake it up -- I did manage to move the mouse and wake it up, but is there a way to disable the feature (maybe its a screen saver or something), so it does not go to sleep? Thanks in advance for any sugg

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread thegeezer
On 06/24/2014 04:28 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY1MDU with > sentences like: "The Btrfs file-system changes for the Linux 3.15 > kernel mostly deal with bug fixes and performance fixes while some > corruption fixes are also expected to come.

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread meino . cramer
thegeezer [14-06-24 17:16]: > On 06/24/2014 03:43 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I bought two identical external harddrives, USB 3.0, with 1 TByte each > > (no SSD - the good ole mechanical ones...;). > > > > The intended use is for backup of longer files. The drives will > > conta

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox profile opens my web-page in https

2014-06-24 Thread Joseph
On 06/23/14 18:08, Mick wrote: On Sunday 22 Jun 2014 22:52:40 Joseph wrote: I run a server and have two firefox profiles. I have ssl enabled. When I open one profile I it opens my web-page in "https" instead of "http" When I open another profile it open my webpage in http Why is first profile

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread thegeezer
On 06/24/2014 03:43 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I bought two identical external harddrives, USB 3.0, with 1 TByte each > (no SSD - the good ole mechanical ones...;). > > The intended use is for backup of longer files. The drives will > contain the same contents. > > Currently there are

[gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I bought two identical external harddrives, USB 3.0, with 1 TByte each (no SSD - the good ole mechanical ones...;). The intended use is for backup of longer files. The drives will contain the same contents. Currently there are still "clean metal" (no partitioning, no fs). Data integrity and

Re: [gentoo-user] Video & audio out of sync mkv mplayer

2014-06-24 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 03:16:27PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 21/06/2014 15:01, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > What could be amiss there? > > Thanks. > > > > > dodgy source files? > > use the mplayer hotkeys that gets them back in sync I recently had a file, I think it was a TV recording.

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-power/upower with systemd

2014-06-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 24/06/2014 10:08, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 06/24/2014 10:01:24 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: >> Am Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:39:13 -0400 >> schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: >> >> > I think I had first misinterpreted the news msg, but want to be sure I >> > do understand it correctly now. >> > >> > The message en

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-power/upower with systemd

2014-06-24 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Tue, 24 Jun 2014 06:09:12 -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman : > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: > > Well, in general, a user of software is to me somebody who actually uses it, > > and doesn't merely have it installed, doing nothing. So since you don't > > use it, > > you... don

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-power/upower with systemd

2014-06-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: > Well, in general, a user of software is to me somebody who actually uses it, > and doesn't merely have it installed, doing nothing. So since you don't use > it, > you... don't use it ;) . It actually isn't a dumb question. Up until now ther

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-power/upower with systemd

2014-06-24 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Tue, 24 Jun 2014 10:08:29 +0200 schrieb Helmut Jarausch : > On 06/24/2014 10:01:24 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: > > Am Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:39:13 -0400 > > schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: > > > > > I think I had first misinterpreted the news msg, but want to be > > sure I > > > do understand it correctly

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-power/upower with systemd

2014-06-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 06/24/2014 10:01:24 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: Am Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:39:13 -0400 schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: > I think I had first misinterpreted the news msg, but want to be sure I > do understand it correctly now. > > The message ends with > > All non-systemd users are recommended to choose

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-power/upower with systemd

2014-06-24 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:39:13 -0400 schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: > I think I had first misinterpreted the news msg, but want to be sure I > do understand it correctly now. > > The message ends with > > All non-systemd users are recommended to choose between: > # emerge --oneshot --noreplace 'sys