Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 29. März 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I think you misread me. I'm interested in ext4, and disappointed in > NameSys' > handling of reiser4. I love the *idea* of reiser4, but being able the > resize > the filesystem is *mandatory* for my setup, and I don't get that with >

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 29 March 2007 02:19:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > That said, I'm very encouraged about ext4, and will probably migrate > > some unimportant data over to that filesystem in near future and > > perform my own bonnie++ tests. > > Ho

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote about 'Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: > [gentoo-user] Help - > > system reboots while compiling)': > > All in a

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)': > All in all, the odds are tipping in favour of ext4 I don't need quite such large filesyste

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: > openSUSE (or is it > Novell?) certainly seem to be less keen on Reiserfs than they used to > be, judging from reports from about the beginning of the year. It's unlikely that Novell has issues with the current technical quality of reiserfs, which i

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-28 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi Boyd On 28/03/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 28 March 2007, "Jeff Rollin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)': > > >

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 28 March 2007, "Jeff Rollin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)': > > > 1. Frankly, I'm not impressed with Linux in this case*. /var is not >

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-28 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi Boyd. On 28/03/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 28 March 2007, "Jeff Rollin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)': > Ignore the fo

Re: SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 28 March 2007, "Jeff Rollin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)': > Ignore the following if you don't like minirants. (My reply probably needs the same d

SOLVED: Recover from LVM errors? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling)

2007-03-28 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi lug Here's hoping the problem is solved, thanks to all (especially Alex) for the help. Jeff. I have successfully compiled a few things, so it looks like the problem IS solved. Thanks again where due. Ignore the following if you don't like minirants. 1. Frankly, I'm not impressed with L

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-03-26 Thread Jeff Rollin
Hi list On 12/02/07, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/02/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you can read german (or if you know someone who is able to translate it for > you): > > http://hardware.thgweb.de/2007/01/15/stresstest_netzteile_2007/index.html >

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 12/02/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you can read german (or if you know someone who is able to translate it for you): http://hardware.thgweb.de/2007/01/15/stresstest_netzteile_2007/index.html Luckily, I own the same enermax they tested... -- F everyone's I, th

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 12/02/07, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 12 February 2007, Matt Richards wrote: > I wouldn't of thought it would be the RAM not from behavior like that > but it does sound like a overheating issue, I have had computers just > power off because they get too hot. The thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 February 2007, Matt Richards wrote: > I wouldn't of thought it would be the RAM not from behavior like that > but it does sound like a overheating issue, I have had computers just > power off because they get too hot. The thing with memtest is that it does (mostly) predictable tests,

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:46:42 +0300, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you can read german (or if you know someone who is able to translate it for you): http://hardware.thgweb.de/2007/01/15/stresstest_netzteile_2007/index.html Nice link, thanks. Re reading German: 1.

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 12. Februar 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 11 February 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: > > On 11/02/07, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would go with Hammann with > > > "Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU." > > > > > > Many people neglect to reali

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Matt Richards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I wouldn't of thought it would be the RAM not from behavior like that but it does sound like a overheating issue, I have had computers just power off because they get too hot. Matty. Jeff Rollin wrote: > On 12/02/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 12/02/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recommend you look into memtest86 to check your ram, it's provided as a boot option on the gentoo boot cds. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Dan, Quite correct Funnily enough I had an Ubuntu LiveCD to hand with it on, so I used tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Dan Farrell
I recommend you look into memtest86 to check your ram, it's provided as a boot option on the gentoo boot cds. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 12 February 2007, Mark Kirkwood wrote: While I generally agree, not *all* manufacturers provide rubbish for us... e.g in the current context Zalman PSUs are very good quality (robust and quiet), and if you hunt around a bit even some of the less spectacular brand

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 February 2007, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > > I've given up on the consumer electronics industry being able to > > consistently build high quality power supplies for ANYTHING that > > plugs into the mains. The normal build quality is terrible, and the > > ability of the designer to do the jo

RE: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Dave Rea
ect to pay more for solid core capacitors which are more effective and reliable. -Original Message- From: Mark Kirkwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 12 February 2007 9:57 p.m. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling Ala

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-12 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 11 February 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: On 11/02/07, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would go with Hammann with "Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU." Many people neglect to realise how important a decent PSU is, and how major an eff

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 11 February 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: > On 11/02/07, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would go with Hammann with > > "Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU." > > > > Many people neglect to realise how important a decent PSU is, and > > how major an effect

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: > On 11/02/07, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would go with Hammann with > > "Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU." > > > > Many people neglect to realise how important a decent PSU is, and how > > major an effec

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 11/02/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: > Hi list, > > I am having trouble when compiling things on Gentoo. When I start a > compile, it goes partway through and then reboots the machine (I can't > confirm it's due to a compi

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 11/02/07, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would go with Hammann with "Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU." Many people neglect to realise how important a decent PSU is, and how major an effect it can have on systems. A dodgy PSU in my experience can do e

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread Kent Fredric
On 2/11/07, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi list, I am having trouble when compiling things on Gentoo. When I start a compile, it goes partway through and then reboots the machine (I can't confirm it's due to a compile but it seems likely since I have been compiling things each of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:57:19 +0300, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Heat (dust bunnies/blocked fans/filters ...) bad memory Bad memory or bad motherboard. This is less likely, but also happens (saw that Thursday). Ideally, switch memory with another similar PC and see what

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: > Hi list, > > I am having trouble when compiling things on Gentoo. When I start a > compile, it goes partway through and then reboots the machine (I can't > confirm it's due to a compile but it seems likely since I have been > compiling things each

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread Philip Webb
070211 William Kenworthy wrote: > On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 08:36 +, Jeff Rollin wrote: >> When I start a compile, it goes partway through >> and then reboots the machine > Heat (dust bunnies/blocked fans/filters ...), bad memory I've had problems in the past due to the CPU overheating: the machin

Re: [gentoo-user] Help - system reboots while compiling

2007-02-11 Thread William Kenworthy
Heat (dust bunnies/blocked fans/filters ...) bad memory Both the above get extra stress during compiles, the cpu throws a panic and depending on kernel options will reboot. Other things can do it, but the above seem most common. BillK On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 08:36 +, Jeff Rollin wrote: > Hi