[gentoo-user] Harddisk priority

2008-06-08 Thread Thomas Pedersen
Hey I'm running a few processes in a cron-job, which makes the harddisk quiet busy, like the emerge --sync command. I know it's possible to nice them to use less CPU power, but is there a similar approach for reading/writing to the disk? Thanks -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Harddisk priority

2008-06-08 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:53:12AM +0200, Thomas Pedersen wrote: > I'm running a few processes in a cron-job, which makes the harddisk quiet > busy, like the emerge --sync command. > I know it's possible to nice them to use less CPU power, but is there a > similar approach for reading/writ

Re: [gentoo-user] Harddisk priority

2008-06-08 Thread Thomas Pedersen
Michal 'vorner' Vaner skrev: Hello On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:53:12AM +0200, Thomas Pedersen wrote: I'm running a few processes in a cron-job, which makes the harddisk quiet busy, like the emerge --sync command. I know it's possible to nice them to use less CPU power, but is there a similar

[gentoo-user] Subversion emerge fails

2008-06-08 Thread Dirk Uys
Hi everyone. When I emerge subversion, i get the following error: checking for availability of Berkeley DB... no configure: error: Berkeley DB 4.0.14 wasn't found. !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support: !!! /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/subversion-1.5.0_rc5/work/subversion-1.5.

[gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk priority

2008-06-08 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:01:32 +0200, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > Hello > > On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:53:12AM +0200, Thomas Pedersen wrote: >> I'm running a few processes in a cron-job, which makes the harddisk >> quiet busy, like the emerge --sync command. I know it's possible to nice >> them

[gentoo-user] Cleaning up installation / two glibc versions

2008-06-08 Thread Nicolai Beuermann
Basic question: Why do I need two versions of glibc? The background: After cleaning up non-sys stuff with help of eix-test-obsolete it now shows Installed packages with a version not in the database (or masked): [D] sys-libs/glibc (2.3.4.20040808-r1(i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.2)@08.11.2007 2.6.1 (2.2)@2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which Java Runtime is "best"?

2008-06-08 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 09:20:17PM -0400, ABCD wrote > > OK, so I *WAS* going to try the Sun JRE. It seems that there's no > > such animal. You have to download the fullblown developer's kit... > > Try dev-java/sun-jre-bin Thank you, thank you, thank you vey vey much That's exactly

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up installation / two glibc versions

2008-06-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 8. Juni 2008 schrieb Nicolai Beuermann: > Basic question: Why do I need two versions of glibc? You don't. > equery depends =sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1 lists about 30 entries > equery depends =sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1 lists 27 entries of which > some are the same some are different.

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking - after emerge -C cvs ssmtp

2008-06-08 Thread dhk
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:24:22 +, dhk wrote: 1) The cvs I removed because I want to try subversion, but when I do an "emerge -uDNp world" cvs shows in the list. The /var/lib/portage/world doesn't have cvs in it either. This isn't a Blocking problem, but every update i

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking - after emerge -C cvs ssmtp

2008-06-08 Thread dhk
dhk wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:24:22 +, dhk wrote: 1) The cvs I removed because I want to try subversion, but when I do an "emerge -uDNp world" cvs shows in the list. The /var/lib/portage/world doesn't have cvs in it either. This isn't a Blocking problem, but e

Re: [gentoo-user] Harddisk priority

2008-06-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 8. Juni 2008, Thomas Pedersen wrote: > Michal 'vorner' Vaner skrev: > > Hello > > > > On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:53:12AM +0200, Thomas Pedersen wrote: > >> I'm running a few processes in a cron-job, which makes the harddisk > >> quiet busy, like the emerge --sync command. > >> I know it

[gentoo-user] the details of Council Meeting

2008-06-08 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi, we try to translate the GMN to our local language, but I found it was really hard to understand the section of "Council Meeting Summary", for example: "The appeals will *not* be decided then -- it's about figuring out the validity and the process."what "validity" and "process" is? "105 m

Re: [gentoo-user] the details of Council Meeting

2008-06-08 Thread Philip Webb
080608 Chuanwen Wu wrote: > We try to translate the GMN to our local language, > but I found it was really hard to understand the section > of "Council Meeting Summary", for example: > "The appeals will *not* be decided then > -- it's about figuring out the validity and the process." > what "v

Re: [gentoo-user] the details of Council Meeting

2008-06-08 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi, On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 080608 Chuanwen Wu wrote: >> We try to translate the GMN to our local language, >> but I found it was really hard to understand the section >> of "Council Meeting Summary", for example: >> "The appeals will *not* be dec

Re: [gentoo-user] the details of Council Meeting

2008-06-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 08 June 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "105 minutes were closed and 57 were open" - what is "57"? > > > > Minutes : what else ?! > > You mean the new meeting continued 105 minutes and then 57 minutes >

[gentoo-user] OO-bin on amd64

2008-06-08 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi all, I've just installed openoffice-bin and I'm getting these messages when trying to run anything from OO: /usr/lib32/openoffice/program/soffice: line 240: /usr/lib32/openoffice/program/pagein: cannot execute binary file /usr/lib32/openoffice/program/soffice: line 240: /usr/lib32/openoff

Re: [gentoo-user] the details of Council Meeting

2008-06-08 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 8. Juni 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 080608 Chuanwen Wu wrote: > >> We try to translate the GMN to our local language, > >> but I found it was really hard to understand the section > >> of "Council Meetin

Re: [gentoo-user] OO-bin on amd64

2008-06-08 Thread deface
tried running a revdep-rebuild? please paste the output of emerge --info On Jun 8, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Matt Harrison wrote: Hi all, I've just installed openoffice-bin and I'm getting these messages when trying to run anything from OO: /usr/lib32/openoffice/program/soffice: line 240: /usr/l

Re: [gentoo-user] the details of Council Meeting

2008-06-08 Thread Kenneth Prugh
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 23:17:53 +0800 "Chuanwen Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any link to the Council Meeting or where can I get the > details of Council Meeting? > > Thanks in advanced! > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/ -- Ken69267 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OO-bin on amd64

2008-06-08 Thread Matt Harrison
deface wrote: tried running a revdep-rebuild? please paste the output of emerge --info revdep-rebuild doesn't find anything that needs rebuilding. emerge --info: Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 x86_64)

[gentoo-user] Weird SMP problem

2008-06-08 Thread Grant
I swapped out my Sempron for an Athlon X2 4000+, but when I have "Symmetric multi-processing support" enabled in the 2.6.24-hardened-r2 kernel, the system freezes as soon as the madwifi wireless interface starts in master mode. Weird. Any ideas? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing l

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking - after emerge -C cvs ssmtp

2008-06-08 Thread PaulNM
dhk wrote: dhk wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:24:22 +, dhk wrote: 1) The cvs I removed because I want to try subversion, but when I do an "emerge -uDNp world" cvs shows in the list. The /var/lib/portage/world doesn't have cvs in it either. This isn't a Blocking pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird SMP problem

2008-06-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 08 June 2008, Grant wrote: > I swapped out my Sempron for an Athlon X2 4000+, but when I have > "Symmetric multi-processing support" enabled in the > 2.6.24-hardened-r2 kernel, the system freezes as soon as the madwifi > wireless interface starts in master mode. Weird. Any ideas? htt

Re: [gentoo-user] OO-bin on amd64

2008-06-08 Thread Pupino
2008/6/8 Matt Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > deface wrote: > >> tried running a revdep-rebuild? please paste the output of emerge --info >> > > revdep-rebuild doesn't find anything that needs rebuilding. > > emerge --info: > > Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0

Re: [gentoo-user] OO-bin on amd64

2008-06-08 Thread Matt Harrison
Pupino wrote: Check if you have the support for x86 binaries in you kernel and that the partition where /usr/lib32 resides is not mounted with noexec mode. Furthermore, the error regarding ldd seems related to ldd itself, not to the OO library which you are "ldding" You can also try another x86

Re: [gentoo-user] OO-bin on amd64

2008-06-08 Thread Matt Harrison
Matt Harrison wrote: Pupino wrote: Check if you have the support for x86 binaries in you kernel and that the partition where /usr/lib32 resides is not mounted with noexec mode. Furthermore, the error regarding ldd seems related to ldd itself, not to the OO library which you are "ldding" You can

[gentoo-user] gcc-4.3.x and Core 2 Duo, safe way

2008-06-08 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
gcc-4.3.1 is umasked now. I'm on ~amd64 with Core 2 Duo CPU. Is it sufficient just to set CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -mtune=core2 -pipe" instead of CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -pipe" which I have in make.conf now? Are there any other things to do? Andrew -- gentoo-user@lists.gent

[gentoo-user] VLC segfaults at the end of audio cds

2008-06-08 Thread Peter Wood
Hi, maybe someone has a tip for me. I am having problems playing audio CDs with vlc (both with 0.8.6 and with 0.9.0). Playback works flawless until the end of the CD is reached. Instead of simply stopping playback, vlc exits with a segfault and dmesg gives the following output: vlc[19719]: s

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.3.x and Core 2 Duo, safe way

2008-06-08 Thread Graham Murray
Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > gcc-4.3.1 is umasked now. I'm on ~amd64 with Core 2 Duo CPU. Is it > sufficient just to set > > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -mtune=core2 -pipe" > > instead of > > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -pipe" > > which I have in make.conf now? Are ther

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.3.x and Core 2 Duo, safe way

2008-06-08 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Monday 09 June 2008, Graham Murray wrote: === > Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > gcc-4.3.1 is umasked now. I'm on ~amd64 with Core 2 Duo CPU. Is it > > sufficient just to set > > > > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -mtune=core2 -pipe" > > > > instead of > > > > CFLAGS="-O2 -m

[gentoo-user] Fix bug with unreachable upstream?

2008-06-08 Thread Tim
I use the small C utility ez-ipupdate to keep a dynamic DNS account up-to-date with ZoneEdit, a free dynamic DNS provider. Recently, ZoneEdit changed the page that updates A records; ez-ipupdate needs to be changed to reflect this. Here's where I run into an issue. I've managed to successfully pat

Re: [gentoo-user] Fix bug with unreachable upstream?

2008-06-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 09 June 2008, Tim wrote: > I use the small C utility ez-ipupdate to keep a dynamic DNS account > up-to-date with ZoneEdit, a free dynamic DNS provider. Recently, > ZoneEdit changed the page that updates A records; ez-ipupdate needs > to be changed to reflect this. > > Here's where I run i