On Monday, August 1 at 12:41 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said:
> On Sunday, July 31, 2011 11:02:22 AM Florian Philipp wrote:
> > @system used to contain portage. It doesn't by default, anymore. If
> you
> > do `emerge -pv --depclean`, portage should try to remove itself.
> Just
> > add it to @world
On Sunday, July 31 at 21:23 (-0500), Jeremy McSpadden said:
> Better to run make oldconfig. It merges the changes.
>
> --
> Jeremy McSpadden
> def...@uberpenguin.net
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 31, 2011, at 9:06 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
> > Let's say I have a .config from an older kernel version (fo
On Sunday, July 31 at 13:31 (+0100), Stroller said:
> Yeah, I specifically wanted to stave off suggestions of "you should
> unmask the ~86 versions of portage, anyway", as I think I saw that
> view aired fairly robustly in another thread recently and it's really
> not for me.
>
> I was also qui
On Sunday, July 31 at 12:08 (+0100), Peter Humphrey said:
> On Sunday 31 July 2011 09:54:07 Albert Hopkins wrote:
>
> > Or perhaps I'm just not understanding the problem.
>
> He's asking why upgrading world or system doesn't include upgrading porta
On Sunday, July 31 at 05:44 (+0100), Stroller said:
> Hi there,
>
> I kinda feel I'm opening myself up for ridicule in asking this, but I'm on
> x86 "stable" (i.e. not ~x86) and this behaviour seems to have changed
> recently.
>
> During a recent `emerge --sync` I received the "an update to
On Wednesday, July 27 at 08:07 (+0700), Pandu Poluan said:
> Anyone here knows at what time the Gentoo IRC channels are usually active?
>
#gentoo is a 24-hour channel.
> In UTC, if possible :)
>
> (Still can't wrap my head around USA time zone codes)
It really doesn't matter.
On Monday, July 25 at 21:04 (+1000), Adam Carter said:
> > No message about init, just no more console messages. I'll try the
> > kernel line. Thanks.
>
> Ok. i ran init from the shell, and it reported /dev/initctl no such
> device or directory.
>
> I hadnt copied the contents of /dev across -
On Sunday, July 24 at 09:49 (+1000), Adam Carter said:
> Summary;
> Copied / from sda3 to sdb3
> Updated the fstab in the new disk (/dev/sdb3 /
> btrfs noatime,compress=lzo0 0)
> Updated the kernel line's root=/dev/sda3 to /dev/sdb3 in grub.conf,
> but left the root (hd0,0) a
On Sunday, July 24 at 15:11 (+0100), Stroller said:
> > Well, if you knew what was causing it, then you wouldn't need to
> report
> > a bug as you could just fix it yourself :P
>
> Quite the opposite!
>
Yeah, I was half joking. The point was that not filing a bug because
you don't know what t
On Saturday, July 23 at 09:35 (-0500), Dale said:
> Albert Hopkins wrote:
[...]
> > Anyway, here's something... did you actually report a bug? If a tree
> > falls in the forest...
> >
> >
>
> I haven't filed a bug because at the moment we have
On Saturday, July 23 at 05:33 (-0500), Dale said:
> But sometimes major changes can fix things and do things completely
> different which can lead to other issues being fixed. Seamonkey did
> the
> same when they did their major redo.
>
> Bad thing is, the kernel panics are at it again. I h
On Saturday, July 23 at 01:10 (-0500), Dale said:
> I was hoping since it was a whole different numbering scheme that it
> was
> a major change. That was the reason for my question. I didn't know
> if
> this was major or a normal update or something else. I was hoping
> for
> something li
On Friday, July 22 at 18:42 (-0500), Dale said:
> I sort of hate to hear there are no major changes. I was hoping for
> a
> fix on my kernel panic problem. Oh well. I'll upgrade anyway.
> Maybe
> it will help.
Fixing a kernel bug is not considered a "major change". A major change
would be
On Friday, July 22 at 11:13 (-0700), Grant said:
> That all makes perfect sense. So the reason a swap larger than maybe
> 1GB is not usually implemented is because idle processes don't
> normally have more than a few hundred MB of pages in memory?
>
That's not entirely true, either. For examp
On Friday, July 22 at 19:55 (+0100), Peter Humphrey said:
> > Wouldn't a sufficiently large swap (100GB for example) completely
> prevent
> > out of memory conditions and the oom-killer?
>
> Of course, on any system with more than a few dozen MB of RAM, but I
> can't
> imagine any combination
On Friday, July 22 at 11:46 (-0700), Grant said:
> That's what I'm curious about. If some swap is good, why isn't more
> better? Paul has demonstrated that a Linux system will put at least
> 10GB to use and probably much more given the opportunity. Disk space
> is so cheap, why isn't everyone
On Thursday, July 21 at 20:07 (-0700), Grant said:
> >> Then why not have a really big swap file? If swap is useful as a
> >> second layer of caching behind RAM, why doesn't everyone with some
> >> extra hard drive space have a 100GB swap file?
> >>
> > You've not understood what I said, I thin
On Thursday, July 21 at 18:43 (-0700), Grant said:
> If I understand correctly, an out-of-memory condition that would lock
> up a system without swap, will cause it to thrash with swap. A remote
> system of mine was locked up for many hours due to running out of
> memory without swap. If I had
On Thursday, July 21 at 18:29 (-0700), Grant said:
> Then why not have a really big swap file? If swap is useful as a
> second layer of caching behind RAM, why doesn't everyone with some
> extra hard drive space have a 100GB swap file?
>
You've not understood what I said, I think. Swap is not
On Friday, July 22 at 10:56 (+1000), Adam Carter said:
> Its more how much i/o rather than the size. If you have a bunch of
> stuff swapped out, but it hardly ever needs to be swapped in, the
> impact will be low.
>
> Keep an eye on the use with vmstat;
>
> adam@rix ~ $ vmstat 5
> procs --
On Thursday, July 21 at 16:53 (-0700), Grant said:
> So swap isn't treated exactly like RAM. It actually has special
> handling in Linux which makes it beneficial to have on almost any
> Linux system? According to Alan, things get very bad when a Linux
> system hits swap. How can behavior li
On Thursday, July 21 at 10:27 (-0700), Grant said:
> It sounds like adding physical RAM is better than enabling swap in
> every way. I'll stay in the anti-swap camp.
I don't see why it has to be one way *or* the other...
Yes more RAM is always going to be better than more swap, RAM is just
wa
On Thursday, July 21 at 11:10 (+), j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk said:
Well, depends on your definition of "works".
AFAIK linux does not expose the NFTS permission system fully, because
they are very different and there is no 1:1 mapping between them. So
while the *data* may be copied over, the pe
On Thursday, July 21 at 10:01 (+), j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk said:
> A little advice please? I am about to build a new box going from
> athlon dual core to phenom six core. Including new sata drives and
> motherboard. I was going to clone all my partitions and the re emerged
> all packages with m
On Wednesday, July 20 at 23:43 (+0200), Stefan G. Weichinger said:
[...]
> Are there any recommended kernel-config-settings for a performant and
> non-drifting KVM-server?
Well, KVM_CLOCK obviously:
KVM_CLOCK
bool "KVM paravirtualized clock"
select PARAVIRT
select PARAV
On Sunday, July 17 at 17:47 (-0700), Grant said:
> ran this and the output was voluminous but looked good:
>
> /usr/bin/find /home/user -type f -name "*-`/bin/date -d 'yesterday'
> +\%Y\%m\%d`*.jpg"
>
> So I ran it again, adding -delete right before -type. After a lot of
^^^
On Saturday, July 16 at 16:54 (+0300), Kfir Lavi said:
> The mother machine will be Core I7 4 cores.
> What cpu and CFLAGS should I use to get the best performance out of this vm?
A router is not going to be CPU-bound. Should matter little either way.
On Saturday, July 16 at 07:12 (+0200), meino.cra...@gmx.de said:
> Hi,
>
> As a Blender-fan over the time my harddisk has been filled (by me ;) )
> with lots of video-tutorials in the flv (flash video)-format.
>
> Now I need some space to store more *.blend files ...
>
> So I think I need to
On Saturday, July 16 at 01:24 (+0100), john said:
> I am running a gentoo amd64 qemu-kvm virtual image on my gentoo amd64
> box.
>
> Everything is running well. Machine boots up and all looks to be ok.
>
> When I startx the screen goes purple (on guest) and locks up. The only
> error message I
Last night I decided I wanted to create a new Gentoo virtual appliance.
So I build a Drupal[1] appliance. Though I really don't know anything
about Drupal, but I managed to get one made.
I uploaded a "pruned" appliance. Which means I removed the gentoo
toolchain, so it's not upgradable or manageab
On Thursday, July 14 at 19:56 (+0700), Pandu Poluan said:
> Another question:
>
> How does emerge know which files to delete during unmerge?
>
> I'm asking this one because I'm in the midst of writing an ebuild, and
> I want to know how to tell emerge what new files has been added (if
> necess
On Thursday, July 14 at 18:59 (+0700), Pandu Poluan said:
> One question's been haunting my mind since migration to baselayout-2:
>
> What's the purpose of setting rc_sys?
>
> (In my case, to "xenU")l
>
> Rgds,
Just briefly looking at the sources...
* It affects when some filesystems
On Monday, July 11 at 18:28 (+0300), Kfir Lavi said:
> Hi,
> I'm looking for xen like manager to manage my virtual machines when
> computer
> boots.
> Is there any such project?
libvirt (can also manage Xen):
http://libvirt.org/
On Monday, July 11 at 10:16 (+), Alan Mackenzie said:
> Hi, Gentoo.
>
> Just done an "emerge -puND world". One of the packages updated was
> sys-fs/udisks-1.0.3-r1. Its warning message was:
>
> CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND: is not set when it should be.
> * Please check to make s
On Saturday, July 9 at 12:22 (+0100), Neil Bothwick said:
> I wasn't suggesting that. But when the main reason for sticking with
> the
> older option is that you have a working system with data in it, the
> loss
> of both of those is a good time to investigate the newer alternative.
I see. I g
On Saturday, July 9 at 08:39 (+0100), Neil Bothwick said:
> Fair enough, except this thread is about encfs not working :(
Unfortunately. But that's not to say "encfs doesn't work". When I have
a problem with a bash script, I don't just up and switch to zsh :P
(although I hear people do such t
On Friday, July 8 at 22:50 (+0100), Neil Bothwick said:
> Apart from the need to access legacy data, which Harry has resolved by
> reformatting, is there any benefit in using encfs rather than the
> in-kernel ecryptfs these days?
Admittedly there isn't much difference, so if what you are using
On Friday, July 8 at 22:37 (+0100), john said:
> ok I might be being dumb but found a way round this (through trial and
> error)
>
> In advanced options in step 5 of 5 select "Specify Shared Device Name"
>
> Please note you'll need to create a bridge as well but selecting the
> above removes
On Friday, July 8 at 21:22 (+0100), john said:
[...]
> LOL Well I was up and running but now when trying to create VMs I get
> (have done upgrade of around 20 packages)
>
> Uncaught error validating install parameters: Must pass a VirtualDevice
> instance.
>
> Traceback (most recent call last
On Friday, July 8 at 17:19 (+0200), Alan McKinnon said:
> On Friday 08 July 2011 09:14:36 Albert Hopkins did opine thusly:
> > On Friday, July 8 at 13:11 (+0100), Stroller said:
> > > Taking a look at this bug today, is there any reason why the
> > > ebuild shouldn
On Friday, July 8 at 11:55 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
[..]
> Somehow I managed to really hurt the installation ... here is what I
> remember having done:
>
> Some how I got mixed up when running as root, and attempted to mount a
> users encfs directory. (Its a single user machine so it my use
On Friday, July 8 at 13:11 (+0100), Stroller said:
> Taking a look at this bug today, is there any reason why the ebuild
> shouldn't simply RDEPEND="x11-libs/gtk+" (i.e. remove the explicit dep
> on gtk3), detect what version you have installed on your system and
> then either run --enable-gtk3
On Thursday, July 7 at 21:18 (-0600), Carlos Sura said:
> I was thinking if there was any chance if anyone of you have this
> printer
> installed to tell me how to get it work for me... Or a howto,
> tutorial,
> manual?
According to openprinting.org, it's a paperweight.
On Thursday, July 7 at 17:43 (-0700), Grant said:
>
> Yeah I don't get it. Check this out:
>
> $ ping google.com
> PING google.com (74.125.224.84) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 74.125.224.84: icmp_req=1 ttl=55 time=97.1 ms
> 64 bytes from 74.125.224.84: icmp_req=2 ttl=55 time=97.1 ms
On Thursday, July 7 at 23:30 (+0100), john said:
> On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:26:18 -0400
>
> Have cleared up error messages using config as suggested.
>
> I still get the issue when starting /etc/init.d/libvirtd
>
> > * Starting libvirtd ...
> > /usr/sbin/libvirtd: error: Unable to initialize
On Thursday, July 7 at 20:46 (+0100), john said:
Well, I see several errors, you may want to start with the first one and
work your way down.
> iptables is running, bridging and tun have been loaded as modules
> iproute2 has now been installed but makes no odds. Not sure about brctl
> as I can'
On Thursday, July 7 at 19:15 (+0100), john said:
>
> I am trying to start virt-manager but when I start the daemon
>
> /etc/init.d/libvirtd i get
>
> * Starting libvirtd ...
> /usr/sbin/libvirtd: error: Unable to initialize network sockets.
> Check /var/log/messages or run without --daemon f
On Tuesday, July 5 at 11:27 (-0400), cov...@ccs.covici.com said:
> I tried to use kms, but it conflicted with the nvidia driver and did
> not
> give me as much screen size in the console as uvesafb.
Yeah, you can't use the nvidia driver and KMS at the same time. You'd
have to use the nouveau d
On Monday, July 4 at 13:10 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
> Are you saying it does not require `xorg-x11'.
>
> Step 2) says in large type:
>`2. Installing Xorg'
>
> Then a big note in a green box later on says:
>
> ,
> | Note: You could install the xorg-x11 metapackage instead of the mo
On Sunday, July 3 at 22:07 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
> this is a no X machine... it appears at the cited URL they expect you
> to be running xorg.
KMS doesn't require X, but Xorg can use it. Basically Xorg can let the
kernel handle graphics mode setting and gets out of the way.
But KMS doesn
On Sunday, July 3 at 16:39 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
> I've been booting with a framebuffer for some time. So long that I
> fear my kernel line may be out of date.
>
A lot of people nowadays are using KMS. It's the one true way™ for
doing console/X mode settings. But if you have a procrap
On Saturday, July 2 at 23:15 (-0400), Walter Dnes said:
> Fortunately, I do emerge -pv... otherwise I wouldn't be able to send
> this email, asking what the bleep is going on. I'm trying to do a
> regular update on my desktop and laptop. Apparently the update wants to
> replace ssmtp with cour
On Friday, July 1 at 19:22 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
> Albert Hopkins writes:
[...]
> At the risk of exposing further ignorance on my part, I'm curious what
> it means in fstab where you have:
>
> /.swap none swap sw0 0
>
> At
On Friday, July 1 at 17:44 (-0500), James Wall said:
> Thanks for the appliance image. it has come in handy for trying out
> multiple ideas and setups at once on my machine. Keep up the great
> work Albert! :)
>
You're welcome. I do have other appliances other than the "base"
appliance. For ex
On Friday, July 1 at 14:10 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
> Sorry for being a lazy slug... I've used the same /etc/make.conf for
> several yrs with no problems... so didn't really think to look there.
> That's why I asked... didn't know where to look... dumb perhaps but
> just didn't cross my mind.
On Friday, July 1 at 11:42 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
> In the shell where the initial login came up I keep seeing this every
> 5 minutes:
>
> INIT: ld "so" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Oh, you can also do this manually by commenting out the s0 entry
in /etc/inittab.
-a
On Friday, July 1 at 11:42 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
> Albert Hopkins writes:
>
>
> [...]
>
> >
> > Yeah, sorry if I didn't mention before. In the interest of size, I
> > remove the portage tree (and also kernel sources) before creating the
> &g
On Friday, July 1 at 11:55 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said:
> > Oh, I'm referring to the 4GB version. The 10GB version demands a
> > password so couldn't even start on it.
>
> That should not be the case with it requiring a password, or else I
> uploaded the w
On Friday, July 1 at 10:36 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
> Albert Hopkins writes:
>
> > On Tuesday, June 28 at 10:57 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said:
> >
> >> Anyway, I will rebuild an image with AHCI support and upload it
> >> shortly.
> >
> >
On Tuesday, June 28 at 10:57 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said:
> Anyway, I will rebuild an image with AHCI support and upload it
> shortly.
Done, uploaded to the same place:
http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/base-dist.vmdk.bz2
I also made the image bigger (10GB). Oddly enou
On Tuesday, June 28 at 09:32 (-0500), James Wall said:
> Albert,
> it uses the AHCI driver for the sata controller.
You know it's odd, I was just talking with someone yesterday about why
don't the hypervisors default to AHCI since it's somewhat universal by
now.
Anyway, I will rebuild an image
On Monday, June 27 at 22:44 (-0500), James Wall said:
> 2. I then went into the properties of the VM and changed the
> controller type to SCSI and readded the disk image.
If you let me know what controller virtualbox "natively" uses I can add
that to the kernel config.
On Monday, June 27 at 18:47 (-0500), James Wall said:
> Albert,
> Thanks for sharing the guest image. I have gotten it installed on my
> virtualbox to allow me to experiment with it. Thanks again for sharing
> your work.
Cool, now I at least know it works with vmware and virtualbox.
I will pro
On Monday, June 27 at 19:52 (-0400), Daniel D Jones said:
> Can anyone explain why it takes so long for Firefox-bin to be unmasked?
[etc.]
Have you gone to bugs.gentoo.org and submitted a stabilization request?
On Sunday, June 26 at 18:28 (+0100), Mick said:
> Hi All,
>
> I was trying to record my desktop using:
>
> ffmpeg -f x11grab -s xga -r 25 -i :0.0 -aspect 4:3 /tmp/out.mpg
>
> but the result is rather blurred as you can see in the attached screenshot,
> when I play it with mplayer.
>
> Is th
On Thursday, June 23 at 12:52 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said:
> I've uploaded a (390MB) vmdk. I've been told by someone that it works
> with vmware (not sure what version).
>
> This was build just a few minutes ago with the latest stage3 tarball and
> the latest po
On Thursday, June 23 at 12:32 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said:
> On 06/23/11 07:15, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> >
> > On Thursday, June 23 at 00:35 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said:
> >
> >> Oh, don't get me wrong, that's one reason I use qcow2 myself, but it'
On Thursday, June 23 at 13:45 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said:
> > Yes the stage4 should work similarly. However Pandu was asking
> about
> > building ".xva" which I know nothing about, unless an .xva is
> similar
> > to/same as a stage4 (I have no idea)?
>
> .xva is a format specifically for Ci
On Thursday, June 23 at 00:35 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said:
> Oh, don't get me wrong, that's one reason I use qcow2 myself, but it's
> either something he would have to deal with when he received it or the
> conversion would increase the size of the disk image that would be
> shipped to him.
Ye
On Thursday, June 23 at 09:54 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said:
> > Any such program to build XenServer appliances (.xva) ?
>
> Shouldn't it work similarly?
> Eg. start an appliance and install using the stage4?
>
> I use Xen directly and as long as I can create and fill the partitions
> for the
On Thursday, June 23 at 08:16 (+0700), Pandu Poluan said:
> Any such program to build XenServer appliances (.xva) ?
I haven't any. I have no experience with XenServer appliances.
On Wednesday, June 22 at 21:31 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said:
> > The stage4
> > (excluding portage) would be ~90MB (bz2). The disk image (compressed
> > QCOW is about 120MB)
>
> The only issue with qcow2 is that in order to use it with VB, IIRC you
> need to convert it to raw before you can im
On Wednesday, June 22 at 16:52 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
> The times I've tried to get a recent gentoo version running in a vm on
> windows turned out to be labor taking days to get right.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a fairly current gentoo appliance
> somewhere that I can just install a
On Monday, June 20 at 20:39 (+1000), Adam Carter said:
> I dont understand. "runs as" usually means "runs under the user
> context" to me - are you saying bash has an sh compatibility mode?
Yes, when run as sh in POSIX mode (i.e. if it were called as "bash
--posix").
On Monday, June 20 at 10:03 (+0100), Neil Bothwick said:
> There is no such option, but you can get expired ebuilds from
> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/cat-egory/package
Sigh. 2011 and *still* using CVS?!
On Sunday, June 19 at 09:47 (+0800), William Kenworthy said:
> Its actually not "slotting" I am after - slots are a choice of setting
> the system to one or the other (correct me if I am wrong) whereas I
> want
> to use perl-5 for eveyting except this which wants perl-6.
You are wrong. slots is
Ok... I'll bite.
On Sunday, June 12 at 00:19 (+0100), Matt Harrison said:
> Hi list,
>
> An odd post here but I'm sitting up after midnight with a few beers and
> I wanted to get an advanced word on this.
>
(sigh)
Please don't drink and post.
> I don't know if anyone is subscribed to the ruby
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 07:37 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Then you missed the point of the thread.
Quite possibly.
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 07:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >> I exaggerated. The number of kde packages pulled in on my compute
> >> server right now is about 10, so it's not as bad as I remember.
> >
> > I have a bunch of systems (desktop and client) and none of them pull
> in
should have been "(des
> I exaggerated. The number of kde packages pulled in on my compute
> server right now is about 10, so it's not as bad as I remember.
I have a bunch of systems (desktop and client) and none of them pull in
any KDE libs save one, which has kde-meta in the world file. Not even
my mythtv box, which
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 17:43 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Gentoo users tend to be technically adept, so I'll ask the question here:
>
> Why are *.so files set as executables? I noticed that they keep working
> if I do a "chmod a-x" on them.
Well, they are "executables" in that they are obje
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 22:48 -0400, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What controls the screen output to an external monitor connected to a
> laptop during boot or when just using a plain console without an X
> server running? Before a recent update the output would just
> automatically go to a
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 12:27 +, Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after I went to openrc all works fine just one thing disturbing now:
> If I create a xen-guest with xm create guest -c or change to the console
> when the system boots, some of the characters particularly [] are garbled.
I h
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 12:18 +0200, Andrea Conti wrote:
> AFAIK in order to avoid this kind of
> breakage system ebuilds such as mpfr never delete old library
> versions;
> they just print a warning saying that the old library has been kept
> around and should be manually deleted after running revd
Perhaps a bit too public.
Anyway, hope all is forgiven :D
-a
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 16:19 +0200, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
> gtk+ 3.x is not used by gnome versions in portage (2.x). If you don't
> know if you need it, then you don't need it.
Gnome3 is slowly making its way into portage, and so so is bringing with
it packages that depend either explic
> Funny, though, on my (very) old Debian system I don't seem to have a
> wheel.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/su-invocation.html
Bottom section.
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 12:00 +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote:
>
> Hi Albert,
> Can you paste your USE flags for qemu?
>
> Thanks,
> Kfir
USE="aio sdl vde -alsa -bluetooth -brltty -curl -esd -fdt -hardened
-jpeg -ncurses -png -pulseaudio -qemu-ifup -sasl -ssl -static"
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 18:06 +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote:
> Hi,
> After updating qemu-kvm to 0.13.0-r2 I get an infinite loop when running
> qemu.
> You can spot the loop with strace.
> This problem shows on Redhat
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553689#c5
> and they say that it is related
On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 13:24 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> Unfortunately, I can't go module-less; xtables-addons requires modules
> support.
>
> How do you get static /dev ?
Go into /etc/conf.d/rc and change RC_DEVICES to "static". Also if you
are using virtio block devices (as I am) then you will
On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 14:44 -0700, Bill Longman wrote:
...
> So, what can you actually *do* on this, other than an "ls" or two?
Well, first the "challenge" did not require that it had to have any use.
But thinking about what you said, I remember when I first started using
Linux, it was not unthin
.. got it slightly lower by switching to dash and disabling ACPI and
APIC:
root@lilpenguin $ free -m
total used free sharedbuffers
cached
Mem:18 4 13 0 0
1
-/+ buffers/cache: 2 15
Swap:0
On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 02:22 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> Good grief! How'd you do that?!
>
> *bow in respect*
>
> Rgds,
>
>
Well, firstly, I managed to get it down to 3MB (though I cheated *a
little*):
lilpenguin ~ # sync ; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches # kinda cheating
lilpenguin ~ # fre
On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 19:36 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> Just for fun, not for boasting ;-)
>
> Out of curiosity, I pared down nearly everything from my Gentoo VMware Guest.
>
> `free -m` directly after booting + login:
>
> Mem:
> total 499
> used 28
> free 470
> shared 0
> buffers 1
>
On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 13:02 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> At the moment I have a running install of kvm.
> I do all the virtual networking manually with help of tap adaptors and
> bridges.
> And I use LVM for the VMs disks.
>
> It is working very well, but to add a VM or to mig
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 14:14 +0800, Thomas Yao wrote:
> I dislike gnome-do and I use synapse on ubuntu with another PC
> So I'm wondering is there any other good desktop search applications?
> Or how can I install synapse on gentoo?
> Thank you!
>
Synapse and it's dependencies are very unfriendly
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 16:28 +, Stroller wrote:
> > http://paste.pocoo.org/show/302273/
>
> I think this only works on ~ARCH, right?
>
> On x86 I get:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "./auditworld", line 20, in
> import gentoolkit.sets
> ImportError: No module named sets
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 07:57 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Helmut Jarausch
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > does anybody know about an easy method to remove all entries from
> > /var/lib/portage/world
> > which would have been pulled in anyway
> > even if they were not contain
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 15:53 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how determine what these kind of useless names
> really mean?
>
> From df -h
> FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> rootfs1.9G 283M 1.6G 15% /
> /dev/root 1.9G 283M 1.6G
On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 01:20 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is it really necessary, that console-kit runs 65 instances of
> itsself???
They're not instances (whatever that means anyway). They're threads...
the short of it is... it's already been discussed . It's not hurting
anythin
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