Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-20 Thread Andrea Conti
> md: bind > md: bind > md: bind > raid1: raid set md100 active with 3 out of 4 mirrors > md: bind > md: bind > md: bind > raid1: raid set md101 active with 3 out of 4 mirrors AFAICT this is all you need to know -- you definitely have two software (mdraid) RAID 1 volumes: md100 with hda2, hde2 a

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-21 Thread Andrea Conti
> Agreed, however Iain also said that he tried to mount individual > partitions and this failed. This should work with RAID1 Only if you force the filesystem type (i.e. mount -t xxx, or use mount.xxx directly). However, while I know this works with ext2/ext3/ext4, I have no idea if xfs is also sm

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-21 Thread Andrea Conti
> The RAID superblock is at the end of the filesystem, to avoid any > conflicts with the filesystem superblock. It can be either at the start, at the end or even 4K into the device, depending on which format (metadata revision) is used. In this case I suppose it's 0.90, which is stored at the begi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Who believes in cylinders?

2010-02-28 Thread Andrea Conti
> Many years ago I wrote an OS/2 program to handle all of this. Perhaps I > should blow the dust off it, convert it to use POSIX functions and > publish it as FOSS. Why reinvent the wheel? Just use 'sfdisk -d'. andrea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-15 Thread Andrea Conti
Hi, > The budget is miniscule - and the performance demands > (bandwidth and latency) are completely non-challenging. This IMHO pretty much rules out any kind of server-class hardware, which tends to be both costly and power-hungry. If you're thinking about buying used stuff, be sure to factor in

Re: [gentoo-user] Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-16 Thread Andrea Conti
> 1. Are there reliability issues surrounding this technology in Gentoo? My only experience is with a Gentoo-based iSCSI target (ie. "server"); my clients are windows-based. The system is a low-end Core 2 duo running the latest stable kernel and Iscsi Enterprise Target; I have been running this se

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Andrea Conti
> Are you sure ext[234] is compiled statically into the kernel in this > .config? > Also the drivers for the EIDE / SATA controller. Missing FS and/or controller drivers will result in a regular kernel boot with a panic at the end, when it's time to mount root and load init. In this case grubs se

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-27 Thread Andrea Conti
> I was more thinking of a tool, which test the whole disc surface > and reports every bad sector. badblocks -wvs (which takes forever, but in my experience is quite good at make failing disks actually fail ;) During the test you can monitor the smart attributes (smartctl -A, esp. the reallocated

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-29 Thread Andrea Conti
> ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA > ata1.00: cmd c8/00:80:00:3f:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 65536 in > res 51/84:4f:00:3f:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error) > ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } > ata1.00: error: { ICRC ABRT } > ata1: soft resetting link > ata1.00: configured f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Harddisk trouble ... or not yet?

2010-05-29 Thread Andrea Conti
Hi, > I tried these kernels (all vanilla): > 2.6.32.13 > 2.6.33.5 > 2.6.34.0 So it's not a known problem that has been fixed. Just a wild guess... can you try recompiling the kernel *without* pata_via? Some people have reported having problems with sata drives on VIA controllers when pata_via is

Re: [gentoo-user] Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-05 Thread Andrea Conti
> Is there any faster and reliable way to checksum > whole paritions (not on "per file" base)??? It depends on where your bottleneck is... If you're cpu-bound you can try with a faster hash: md5sum or even md4sum would be a good choice (collision resistance is irrelevant in this application).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-06 Thread Andrea Conti
> 1. boot up knoppix > 2. create a partition: mkdir /work > 3. mount /work to the root partition: mount /dev/sdc /work > 4. cd /work/usr/bin > 5. run dcfldd: ./dcfldd This is fine, provided that 1- if the root partition is [part of] what you're copying, you *must* mount it read-only (mount -o ro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-06 Thread Andrea Conti
>> 1- if the root partition is [part of] what you're copying, you >> *must* mount it read-only (mount -o ro /dev/sdc /work) > > Not from my experience; I simply mount, exec, and go - Works fine Let's say you are 50% done copying a partition, when something writes to it. If the write only affects

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fast checksumming of whole partitions

2010-06-07 Thread Andrea Conti
> Does anyone has experiences with gparted? I have no experience with Parted Magic, but I have used a lot the Gparted live CD (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php). No idea on how the two compare. As for gparted (which is a lot more than a gui for parted), I have used it on ext4 a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability

2010-06-30 Thread Andrea Conti
> 1. On boot up, the screen goes completely black until the xserver is > started. KMS provides its own framebuffer console driver -- disable any other framebuffer drivers such as (u)vesafb and enable FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY under drivers/graphics support/console display driver support.

Re: [gentoo-user] HEADS UP - postfix-2.9.0 is broken

2012-02-06 Thread Andrea Conti
> BTW postfix 2.9.0 also fails to emerge if USE="vda" because it tried > to apply the patch for 2.8.5. (patch for 2.9.0 has not yet been > released) And it also fails to start if have maps in hash format and emerge with USE=-berkdb. Luckily the error messages are informative enough... but let's s

Re: [gentoo-user] hwclock <--> sysclock and the ntp-client

2012-02-07 Thread Andrea Conti
>> Is your RTC driver compiled into the kernel? > CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS=y > CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE="rtc0" Those have nothing to do with the RTC *driver*. AFAIK on a PC the relevant option is CONFIG_RTC_DRV_CMOS andrea

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-14 Thread Andrea Conti
> PS: If you know how to get rid of any background image, could you > say how? Remove or comment out any "splashimage" directives from the config file. *** Re grub2: as long as grub0 works, I really don't care if grub2 is better, cleaner, shinier, more modern or anything else. I don't need a fr

Re: [gentoo-user] In TTYs, pinguins remain

2012-02-15 Thread Andrea Conti
> In TTYs, the penguins you see on top of the > booting process remain. Then in less, i cannot scroll > upwards, which sucks using man and like that. You're using a framebuffer driver which is either misconfigured or not supported by your system. Most of the time it's just vesafb interacting badly

Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-17 Thread Andrea Conti
> This news item is to inform you that once you upgrade to a version of > udev >=181, if you have /usr on a separate partition, you must boot your > system with an initramfs which pre-mounts /usr. [...] > Happy Computer Users, systemd is on your horizon. The problem, if you really want to call t

Re: [gentoo-user] new mobo : no Eth0

2012-04-21 Thread Andrea Conti
> Does anyone have suggestions ? Your logs show that the interface is being detected and is named 'eth0'. If you can't see eth0 at the end of the boot process, the device node has probably been renamed by udev (you should see it as eth1, e.g. in the output of "ifconfig -a"). So: # rm /etc/udev/r

Re: [gentoo-user] Just a heads-up, I think =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3 is a stinker.

2012-04-26 Thread Andrea Conti
> Ok, yes. This version of glibc, =sys-libs/glibc-2.14.1-r3, is crud. It's the current stable version on amd64, and you seem to be the only one having problems with it. I think the problem is likely with your setup (i.e. other toolchain component, CFLAGS, ...). > least, if you're doing parallel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: checking whether the C compiler works... no Oooops !!

2011-05-06 Thread Andrea Conti
> /usr/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.4/cc1: error while loading shared > libraries: libmpfr.so.1: cannot open shared object file > > Meaning, run revdep-rebuild :) Yeah, right. So revdep-rebuild does its thing, finds out that gcc is broken and tries to rebuild it with the broken gcc :) In t

Re: [gentoo-user] php-cgi must be run as root?

2011-05-06 Thread Andrea Conti
> The access permission to > /usr/lib64/php5.3/bin/php-cgi is 755, so I think everyone can execute > it. Then, what is the problem? Most probably, the nginx user cannot access the .php file you're trying to execute, either because of its permissions or because it cannot traverse one of its parent

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: checking whether the C compiler works... no Oooops !!

2011-05-07 Thread Andrea Conti
> Well, this ain't good. Neither python-updater nor revdep-rebuild can > complete. Either it is a missing package or some other error. Am I to > the point where I have to reinstall? If you can't sort out the mess manually, try emerge -e system, then emerge -e world. You can also save some time

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo-based 'filer' / GentooFiler How-To?

2011-05-20 Thread Andrea Conti
Hello, > Is it true that tgt will replace IET? Last time someone asked that question on the IET mailing list the answer was "no". I can't find the relevant thread right now but I think the general idea was that IET concentrates on code stability (thus no inclusion in the kernel sources) and enter

Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: Implementing a spamfiltering frontend

2011-05-21 Thread Andrea Conti
On 21/05/11 06.13, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Hello list! > > Due to the increase of spam/phishing emails received by my office, I > decided to explore the idea of implementing a spamfiltering 'frontend' > in front of my email server. > > Here's how I plan to do it: > > fetchmail (G) --> postfix (G)

Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: Implementing a spamfiltering frontend

2011-05-21 Thread Andrea Conti
>> so unless you need to perform complex >> mail routing you could directly send the filtered mail to the windows >> server. > Hmm... interesting points. But can it still do the 2nd part of the > equation, that is, perform outgoing routing? That's what I meant with "complex mail routing" :) The

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering RAID1 after disk failure

2011-06-17 Thread Andrea Conti
Hello, > However, the good drive started on sector 63 and the new drive want's to > start > on sector 2048. Fdisk won't let me create the partition table on the new > drive as it is on the old drive. Recent versions of fdisk require partitions to begin on a 1MB boundary; this among other thin

Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with the "hardened" USE flag?

2011-07-04 Thread Andrea Conti
Hello, > Everyone will get this. The culprit is a change in the > pax-utils.eclass [1]. Which adds USE="hardened to every consumer" of > the eclass. That's IUSE, not USE. USE flags are not touched (at least on non-hardened systems), so the change is only picked up by emerge if you use the --new-u

Re: [gentoo-user] What's up with the "hardened" USE flag?

2011-07-04 Thread Andrea Conti
>> That's IUSE, not USE. > IUSE~=USE [1] Um, yes. It's what I wrote. [editing saved IUSE by hand] > Please do not use such hacks I know it's a hack, and I was not recommending it as a general-purpose solution. > use --changed-use to avoid a rebuild > instead of --new-use like Neil suggested.

Re: [gentoo-user] Torrent with dynamics throttles

2011-08-13 Thread Andrea Conti
Hello, >> This set/unset is boring.. Is there any way to dynamic set my torrents >> limits, so when I'm using internet it frees some bandwidth to me, and when >> I stop to use it goes full speed again?? > You want to use QoS / traffic-pritoritising, which is normally done at the > router. > h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firmware exists but fails to load

2011-08-15 Thread Andrea Conti
> It's not a workaround, but how it's supposed to work. "Loading from > userspace" means using a user-space program to load the firmware. This > is not what you're trying to do, since you don't have such a program. ? Udev has been the standard way to service kernel firmware requests for quite so

Re: [gentoo-user] Firmware exists but fails to load

2011-08-16 Thread Andrea Conti
> it does not actually matter how you configured the driver -- built-in kernel > or > as module: everytime when driver operates the device, it checks whether > firmware > is loaded. Are you sure about that? AFAIK firmware loading is only attempted once, when the driver is first initialized. > f

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Can I retrieve my SSL key?

2011-08-18 Thread Andrea Conti
On 18/08/11 03.23, Grant wrote: > I just accidentally overwrote my SSL certificate key. Is there any > way to retrieve it? Possibly some sort of export since I haven't > restarted apache2 yet? If apache keeps the certificate file open after reading it (I doubt that's the case, but if you have ls

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Andrea Conti
> If you run man mke2fs, you should check out -N and -i. It was > trial-and-error (for me, anyway) to find the right number. Consider using reiserfs for /usr/portage. No real performance advantage over ext[234], but works well with lots of small files and there's no inode count to worry about. In

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Andrea Conti
>> Would LVM somehow prevent these sort of things from happening? LVM >> doesn't affect inode usage, does it? LVM has nothing to do with inodes. Inodes are a filesystem concept, and filesystems do not really care about the kind of block device they reside on. Well, generally. > AFAIK you will gai

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo install] Disk full at 35%?

2011-08-21 Thread Andrea Conti
> Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/weird-inodetest 1024 1024 0 100% /mnt > /dev/mapper/weird-inodetest 2048 1024 1024 50% /mnt Then I stand corrected. I guess that the man page for mke2fs saying that the inode count of a filesystem cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding UTF-8 settings

2011-08-28 Thread Andrea Conti
> rc-update You meant "env-update", right? > . The output was -- despite of what the guide exspected -- The guide shows the output from setting LANG. You set LC_CTYPE, so unless I'm missing something obvious your result is perfectly normal. The wording in the green box under listing 2.4 is

Re: [gentoo-user] Layman errors. Google ain't helping.

2011-09-04 Thread Andrea Conti
>> No such file or directory: '/var/lib/layman/make.config' ^^ > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64 Sep 3 22:49 /var/lib/layman/make.conf That's either a typo or the source of the prob

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with lowest CPU load, acceptable emerge performance, and stable?

2011-09-09 Thread Andrea Conti
> So, can anyone recommend me a filesystem that fulfills my following needs: > > Scenario: vFirewall (virtual Firewall) that is going to be deployed at > my IaaS Cloud Provider. > > Disk I/O Characteristic: Occasional writes during 'normal' usage, > once-a-week eix-sync + emerge -avuD > > Priori

Re: [gentoo-user] subversion-1.7.0 and layman

2011-10-14 Thread Andrea Conti
Hello, > "svn: E155036: Please see the 'svn upgrade' command > svn: E155036: Working copy is too old." > > Should I downgrade subversion or just waiting till the particular > layman repositorys' format will be upgraded? The problem is with your working copy, not with the repository. Subve

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with pam

2011-10-29 Thread Andrea Conti
On 29/10/11 13.10, co wrote: >> # ls -l /lib/libpam.so* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root11 Oct 21 23:47 /lib32/libpam.so -> libpam.so.0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root16 Oct 21 23:48 /lib32/libpam.so.0 -> > libpam.so.0.83.0 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 46520 Sep 28 19:37 /lib32/libpam.so.0.83.0 That's

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with pam

2011-10-29 Thread Andrea Conti
On 29/10/11 19.47, co wrote: > After I run e2fsck -c on /var partition.I have re-emerged pam. So I  > think there is something wrong with my hard disc. Why do you think that? Did badblocks identify any specific problems? A failing hard disk generally shows very obvious symptoms (noises, periodic

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] laptop desktop serial connection don't work on one direction

2011-11-06 Thread Andrea Conti
> I have connected the wires by hand, 3-2 and 2-3 but without 5. > I'll try it again today with 5 connected, and post my findings. Not having a common ground reference between the two sides could very well cause the kind of problems you're seeing :) andrea

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-11 Thread Andrea Conti
>> Or maybe the build system is stable enough for general use. If someone >> can share some experience with the source build, I'd like to hear about it. >> > > The build system of the source build, of course. Well, it works, and my impression is that it's a bit faster than icedtea-6 (the build sy

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-27 Thread Andrea Conti
On 27/11/11 16.36, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > sys-apps/openrc-0.9.6 is just... gone? Not even masked, but completely > gone from portage. > > What happened to it? Last time I checked it was hardmasked. Now it's been confined into oblivion, I hope. It had a "little" problem in resolving the depen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-11-29 Thread Andrea Conti
> Oh, you just want to test the features *you* use, understood. Guys, I did not want to start a flamewar. I've been running ~arch for years and I've had my fair share of breakage, which I'm perfectly fine with (e.g. I'm not complaining that dev-lang/php-5.4.0._rc2 currently fails to compile with

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

2011-12-11 Thread Andrea Conti
On 27/11/11 16.36, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > sys-apps/openrc-0.9.6 is just... gone? Not even masked, but completely > gone from portage. FYI, sys-apps/openrc-0.9.7 is out. Apparently, the solution to the rc_parallel issues was to remove every mention of rc_parallel from the default /etc/rc.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: -march=native is *EXTREMELY* conservative

2011-12-18 Thread Andrea Conti
> Could be. It could also be it's because of "-mfpmath=sse". AFAIK most video decoders (outside of reference implementations) are written using integer math only... -O3 is a much more likely candidate. andrea

Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerate portage cache from scratch following a big toe crash?

2010-08-18 Thread Andrea Conti
Hi, > sitting in my chair that swivels, and guess what...my big toe is at > __exactly__ the height of the main power button on my APC UPS, and > darn if I don't hit it and power is gone! Back in the old days I had a trusty desktop 286 which sat on a piece of furniture at approximately knee level,

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel questions

2010-08-18 Thread Andrea Conti
Hello, > 1.) Is there a Map: modules to configration parameters? I don't think so. The help text for most modules has a reference to the actual module name (something like "the module will be called "). If you're looking for something specific you could try grepping for that in the /usr/src/l

Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS

2010-08-19 Thread Andrea Conti
> On the other hand LINGUAS is still a general variable AFAIK and not > portage specific. LINGUAS is strictly portage-specific. It's used to control the compile-time inclusion of languages and/or locales for packages which have that kind of option (i.e. OpenOffice, KDE, Firefox and many others); a

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/package.use for LINGUAS?

2010-08-19 Thread Andrea Conti
On 19/08/2010 17:49, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi list! > > I'd like to change the LINGUAS setting for a single package. Is there a > config file for stuff like this? LINGUAS (like VIDEO_CARDS, INPUT_DEVICES and similar stuff) is declared as an USE_EXPAND variable, so that its contents get automat

Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS

2010-08-19 Thread Andrea Conti
> It's the "official" (as far as > there is such a thing) place to store the list of gettext translations > you want on your system, and most autotools-based builds and binary > package managers also recognize it. I didn't know that. Thanks for clarifying! andrea

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and IMAP folders

2010-09-01 Thread Andrea Conti
Hi, I routinely use thunderbird to access mail on a cyrus IMAP server with very large folders (thousands of archived messages). IMAP support in the 3.1 series seems quite stable to me (whereas 2.x had frequent problems with folder indexes and 3.0.x tended to hang randomly while performing server

Re: [gentoo-user] Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-09 Thread Andrea Conti
> I still try to understand the relation of shared libraries and dynamic > libraries. I read that dynamic libraries are linked at runtime. I also > read, that you can dynamically link againgst a shared as well as > against a normal library. Pardon me, but in my opinion if you're asking this kind o

Re: [gentoo-user] Pipe Lines - A really basic question

2010-09-09 Thread Andrea Conti
> My generic question is: When I'm using a pipe line series of commands > do I use up more/less space than doing things in sequence? When you use a pipe you don't need the space to store intermediate results between the two programs. Thepipe is backed by a small system-allocated RAM buffer (4k und

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: static-libs

2010-09-12 Thread Andrea Conti
> "DL libraries aren't really a different kind of library format (both > static and shared libraries can be used as DL libraries);" Library archives (.a) and shared objects (.so) differ in several ways. Roughly speaking: >From a file format perspective, .a files are simple collections (man ar) of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: static-libs

2010-09-12 Thread Andrea Conti
> So why shouldn't you be able to load an unshared lib (without PIC) > dynamically? Sure there still would be some additional steps. I am not talking specifically about PIC/non-PIC code here. PIC is relevant because when you're doing dynamic loading you generally cannot predict at what (virtual) a

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying a file via ssh with no password, keeping the system safe

2010-10-07 Thread Andrea Conti
On 07/10/2010 18:45, Momesso Andrea wrote: > Setting up a public key, would do the job, but then, all the connections > between the servers would be passwordless, so if server A gets > compromised, also server B is screwed. Well, not really... public key authentication works on a per-user basis,

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying a file via ssh with no password, keeping the system safe

2010-10-08 Thread Andrea Conti
On 08/10/2010 0:28, Willie Wong wrote: >> You can't do that on a per-command basis. You'd be trying to control the >> authentication method accepted by sshd on B according to which command >> is run on A -- something sshd on B knows nothing about. >> > > That's partially false. See my response in

Re: [gentoo-user] Does updating grub require mounting /boot first?

2010-10-09 Thread Andrea Conti
On 09/10/2010 18:30, Tanstaafl wrote: > Hello, > > I'm ready to update grub, but just realized I'm not sure if I need to > mount /boot before I emerge update it or not... /boot must be mounted, but the ebuild will mount it for you if it is not. Note however that the ebuild will *not* update the

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade: Active gcc profile is invalid!

2010-10-19 Thread Andrea Conti
On 19/10/2010 19:45, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > I just tried to upgrade gcc (stable amd64, from 4.4.3-r2 > to 4.4.4-r2) following the procedure recommended in Gentoo > GCC Upgrade Guide: > > emerge -uav gcc > > At the end of compilation, I got these strange messages: > =

Re: [gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-18 Thread Andrea Conti
> Disk /dev/sdb: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes A small caveat -- if this is an "advanced format" drive be sure to use fdisk in sector mode (fd

Re: [gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-18 Thread Andrea Conti
> tar c /path/to/old/ | tar xvp /path/to/new Whoops... That should be tar c -C /path/to/old/ . | tar xvp -C /path/to/new/ Sorry, andrea

Re: [gentoo-user] symlinks + rsync backup

2010-11-21 Thread Andrea Conti
> rsync -aERPv --progress rsync://localhost/Windows-Vista-backup > /mnt/rsync/vista/ Is there a specific reason you are using rsync in daemon mode on the sending side for a local tranfer? If the symlinks look right on the mounted windows fs, I guess that rsync -aEPv /mnt/vista/. /mnt/rsync/vista

Re: [gentoo-user] FAN-Speed readout/control ???

2010-12-12 Thread Andrea Conti
> Just build all the sensor drivers into > the kernel, not modules but built in. A simpler way: - make sure you have CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV=y, CONFIG_I2C_HELPER_AUTO=y and select the correct I2C hardware bus drivers for your platform (CONFIG_I2C_I801 for most recent Intel chipsets and CONFIG_I2C_PIIX

Re: [gentoo-user] Gigabyte and controlling fans

2010-12-12 Thread Andrea Conti
> It's a Gigabyte 770T series mobo. It uses the it8720 chip. You can try writing directly to the pwm control inputs under the platform device node (i.e. /sys/devices/platform/it87.xxx/pwm*); these usually take 8-bit (0-255) values. E.g. to set pwm1 to a value of 127 you just do echo 127 >/sys/d

Re: [gentoo-user] FAN-Speed readout/control ???

2010-12-12 Thread Andrea Conti
> AMD k10 was already in and reports everything -- only the fan stuff > was missing, which (normall) the ITE (it87) chip is used for. Current IT87xx chips provide fan, temperature and voltage readings. If you built the drivers as modules, are you sure everything (it87 and the relevant i2c drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about SATA and hot plugging.

2010-12-15 Thread Andrea Conti
E-SATA != SATA Nah. They are *exactly* the same. Evidently someone realized that the original SATA connector is way too fragile to be regularly used to plug/unplug a cable by hand, so they engineered in some features which make it a bit more resilient. But apart from the shape of the co

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about SATA and hot plugging.

2010-12-15 Thread Andrea Conti
The SATA spec allows for hot plugging, so technically yes ... My recollection of my understanding (multiple disclaimers) was that SATA *allowed* for SATA hot-plugging but didn't *mandate* it. a good summary of the hardware/driver situation wrt hotplugging can be found here: https://ata.wiki

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Andrea Conti
>> boot=LABEL= >> >> in grub config work for you? > > I hoped so, but actually no. Grub complains at boot time not finding the > root device. Is this available in the grub-0.97 series at all? I am not sure about grub 2, but 0.97 knows nothing about filesystem labels (and neither does the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread Andrea Conti
Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 Try disabling CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC ("Asynchronous SCSI scanning" under SCSI options). While it is not a solution, this might somewhat reduce the randomness you are experiencing. andrea

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : DVD drive

2012-08-20 Thread Andrea Conti
>> (1) do I need to configure the kernel to find the drive ? It's basically handled exactly the same as a CD drive, so you need the same configuration options you would use for that. > Yes. As a minimum have a look at BLK_DEV_SR and BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR. You may > also need SCSI_PROC_FS for legac

Re: Aw: [gentoo-user] Re: Some essential packages fail to compile

2012-09-08 Thread Andrea Conti
> One way is (if you have read any 'environment' files in my tar archive) to > set the guest architecture explitcitly in /etc/(portage/)make.conf which I > did. > > /etc/make.conf: > CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fPIC -m32" > CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" > CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu" That is not "settin

[gentoo-user] Re: Some essential packages fail to compile

2012-09-08 Thread Andrea Conti
>>http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cross-compiling-distcc.xml > I also read it far before I wrote my email. In case I wasn't clear in my other email, what you should be paying attention to are the instructions under 'Configuring distcc to cross-compile correctly'. Of course, the instructions are

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC : another trap for the unwary

2012-09-08 Thread Andrea Conti
> (1) Gcc 4.5.4 seems to require USE="cxx", not the previous "-nocxx", > which was covered by "-*" at the beginning of my list in make.conf . http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/73962 I guess they ended not putting in the check after all :) andrea

[gentoo-user] Re: Some essential packages fail to compile

2012-09-09 Thread Andrea Conti
> If I fully follow that wiki page (I did until the wrapper script is added) I > would have to change these links: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Sep 6 21:35 c++ -> ../../bin/distcc > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Sep 6 21:35 cc -> ../../bin/distcc > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Sep 6 21:35 g++ -> ../

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc cross-compiling for OSX

2012-09-27 Thread Andrea Conti
> I think I must add a "OSX specified symbolic link". Symlinks are only needed on the distcc client, not on the server running distccd. But that is a trivial matter. > Which tools / configuration must be set for cross-compiling OSX code on my > Gentoo box? You need to put together a complete O

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc cross-compiling for OSX

2012-09-27 Thread Andrea Conti
> Thanks for this link, I have read it before I write the post. Did I > understand thr problem correct: > I need a full OSX compatible toolchain !? So I download all Apple developer > tools, compile > it under my Gentoo box and add all header files which I used under OSX to my > Linux box? Acco

Re: [gentoo-user] USERDIR problem with apache on new install (SOLVED)

2012-09-30 Thread Andrea Conti
Hello, > I put in a symlink /home -> /local/allan/gottlieb > so that programs looking in /home would be happy. > I had /etc/passwd say /local/allan/gottlieb since it is the real > directory. > > apache doesn't like this. There is probably an option to let it do this > since it has several optio

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP - specific inet no - how to

2012-11-08 Thread Andrea Conti
Hello, > Normally, a device tries to get the previous inet number, but sometime this > changes. DHCP clients can neither request nor suggest a specific IP address, so they don't "try to get" anything. It's just the DHCP server giving out the previous IP to the same client, either by chance or bec

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP - specific inet no - how to

2012-11-12 Thread Andrea Conti
> dhcpcd has a --resquest option to do just this. One never stops learning... > It only works if the > address is available and if the server is returning a different address > now it may be that your preferred address is in use. It also depends on the dhcp server understanding the request. I d

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs mounting back and forth...

2012-11-12 Thread Andrea Conti
Hi, > As an alternative to quickpkg and friends: > Mount the beaglebones rootfs to /usr/$CTARGET of my Gentoo Linux PC. > Then nfs-mount a part of my Linux PC filesystem on /usr/$CTARGET/tmp No need for nfs, just bind mount /tmp onto /usr/$CTARGET/tmp. Look up the --bind option in the man page o

Re: [gentoo-user] How to flash an LSI SAS controller from IR to IT mode on linux with sas2flsh

2018-03-21 Thread Andrea Conti
> Jesus christ it is 2018 and they still want us to use dos to flash > hardware >:'[ While DOS is usually the recommended environment for flashing hardware, in my experience the most reliable option for (cross)flashing LSI SAS2 controllers is the EFI version of sas2flash. Specifically, on some rec

Re: [gentoo-user] can't mount ext4 fs as est3 or ext3

2013-04-26 Thread Andrea Conti
Hi, > EXT3-fs (sda5): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240) > /dev/sda5 / ext4noatime,discard 0 1 When first mounting the root filesystem the kernel has no access to /etc/fstab and therefore by default tries mounting it with all available

Re: [gentoo-user] Fine Tuning NTP Server

2013-05-08 Thread Andrea Conti
Hi, The official explanation of the output of ntpq -p is here: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/decode.html#peer although http://tech.kulish.com/2007/10/30/ntp-ntpq-output-explained/ is probably a bit more understandable if you're not familiar with ntpd. > remote refid

Re: [gentoo-user] Fine Tuning NTP Server

2013-05-10 Thread Andrea Conti
Hello, > server tick.nrc.ca minpoll 64 maxpoll 1024 iburst prefer Ouch! minpoll and maxpoll should be specified as the log2 of the actual value, i.e. 6 and 10. Those are the defaults anyway. > disable auth > broadcastclient > server ntp.server.com prefer This looks fine to me; although configu

Re: [gentoo-user] Mac Mini with Grub booting Mac OSX and Windows?!

2013-05-29 Thread Andrea Conti
We can't have more then 4 primary partitions on a hard disk. Gentoo needs 2 partitions, /boot and a Virtual partition (that count's as well as one primary) with all the other folders. Windows will create 2. and Mac OSX minimum 1, am I right?! Your Windows partitions have to be in the first fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Mac Mini with Grub booting Mac OSX and Windows?!

2013-05-29 Thread Andrea Conti
Thanks Andrea. I had though that the MBR was automatically mapped to the the first 4 gpt partitions because that's they way it's always been on my system. So now I wonder how it's been set that way, because I know i've never touched gpt-fdisk and I didn't use bootcamp. Maybe the refit installer

Re: [gentoo-user] Mac Mini with Grub booting Mac OSX and Windows?!

2013-05-30 Thread Andrea Conti
The real problem is that while rEFIt/rEFInd, OSX and Linux have no problem dealing with a GPT partition table, Windows only supports MBR. (Windows 7+ supports GPT partition tables but it can only boot from a GPT disk in EFI mode. So, let us assume we have in the game: Windows 7 Ultimate Editi

Re: [gentoo-user] iscsitarget or targetcli?

2015-01-29 Thread Andrea Conti
On 29/01/15 11:25, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to set up an iSCSI server (target in iSCSI terminology) running on > Gentoo. > Does anyone know which of the following 2 are better: > - sys-block/iscsitarget > - sys-block/targetcli > > Both don't seem to have had an update for over

Re: [gentoo-user] iscsitarget or targetcli?

2015-01-29 Thread Andrea Conti
> What is the difference between the kernel-stuff (targetcli is only the config- > tool) and scst? http://scst.sourceforge.net/comparison.html It was written by the SCST team, so it should be taken with a grain of salt; it is nonetheless a useful overview of the alternatives out there. andrea

Re: [gentoo-user] To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-11-28 Thread Andrea Conti
TIM has also been offering "experimental" native IPv6 to all PPPoE-connected customers for years [1]. It works, but they (intentionally?) made it less-than-useful by choosing to give out a dynamic /64. andrea [1] https://assistenzatecnica.tim.it/at/portals/assistenzatecnica.portal?_nfpb=tr

Re: [gentoo-user] SDD strategies...

2020-03-17 Thread Andrea Conti
Hello, SSDs are a common replacement for HDs nowaday -- but I still trust my HDs more than this "flashy" things...call me retro or oldschool, but it my current "Bauchgefühl" (gut feeling). The days of shitty JMicron stuff and OCZ drives dropping like flies are long gone... you are not going t

Re: [gentoo-user] SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-03-17 Thread Andrea Conti
So, before I find a SDD to buy, what are some things I should look for it to have and what are things I should avoid? I think the single most important thing is buying stuff from a reputable brand (there's quite a number of those by now). Look at reviews. Top-tier performance probably isn't go

Re: [gentoo-user] SDD strategies...

2020-03-17 Thread Andrea Conti
On 17/03/20 10:03, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 09:35:10 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: The SSD is currently reporting 98% of its rated life left: I feel quite confident it's going to outlast the laptop's useful life. What are you using to get that niformation? smartctl -

Re: [gentoo-user] SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-03-17 Thread Andrea Conti
My mobo is just old enough to not support NVMe drives.  I checked on that a while back.  It'll be old school SDDs, well, the ones that mount hardware wise like HDDs anyway.  It's not like SDDs are really that old. We're talking about interface standards here, not form factors. SATA drives use

Re: [gentoo-user] RYZEN 5: Hyperthreading or no hyperthreading...

2020-03-27 Thread Andrea Conti
Hello, Thread(s) per core: 1 < Does my CPU hyperthread? Definitely not. Your kernel config is fine, chances are hyperthreading (aka "SMT mode") is disabled in your BIOS settings. andrea

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