Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello List, > > I thought I'd have a play with a mind mapping program, so I tried to > install freemind on this ~amd64 box. This is an excerpt from the log: > > > Can someone who knows more Java than I do see what's missing? > > This may hel

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Peter Humphrey > wrote: >> Hello List, >> >> I thought I'd have a play with a mind mapping program, so I tried to >> install freemind on this ~amd64 box. This is an excerpt fr

[gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I got a WD 1T drive to use in a new machine for my dad. I didn't pay a huge amount of attention to the technical details when I purchased it other than it was SATA2, big, and the price was good. Here's the NewEgg link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136490 I in

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 07 February 2010 15:06:37 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Runs for me. I don't know how to use it but the GUI comes up and it >> allows me to start creating something. > > Hmm. After switching to iced-tea I ge

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Alexander wrote: > On Sunday 07 February 2010 19:27:46 Mark Knecht wrote: > >>    Every time there is an apparent delay I just see the hard drive >> light turned on solid. That said as far as I know if I wait for things >> to complete

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 07 Februar 2010, Alexander wrote: >> On Sunday 07 February 2010 19:27:46 Mark Knecht wrote: >> >    Every time there is an apparent delay I just see the hard drive >> > >> > light turned

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 08:27:46AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> 4KB physical sectors: KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING! >> >> Pros: Quiet, cool-running, big cache >> >> Cons: The 4KB physical sec

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 08:27:46AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> 4KB physical sectors: KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING! >> >> Pros: Quiet, cool-running, big cache >> >> Cons: The 4KB physical sec

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello again List, > > $ sudo  fdisk -l > > Unable to seek on /dev/sda > > What am I to make of this? The system runs ok, but apparently the > underlying disk subsystem isn't happy. This box has only the one disk at > the moment. Google doesn'

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Peter Humphrey > wrote: >> Hello again List, >> >> $ sudo  fdisk -l >> >> Unable to seek on /dev/sda >> >> What am I to make of this? The system runs ok, but a

Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 08 February 2010 01:27:33 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> sorry to have forgotten is but simply do >> >> df >> >> and see what it says is mounted > > $ df > Filesystem        

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 01:42:18PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >>    OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me >> sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using >> default value

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 07 February 2010 18:12:58 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> What do you see with java-config -l ? > > $ java-config -L > The following VMs are available for generation-2: > *)      IcedTea6-bin 1.7 [icedtea6-bin] &g

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo! > > I've just got a sparkling new installation of Gentoo on my new PC.  It > only took me ~5 hours, mainly because I'd already configured the kernel > in a trial run.  :-) > > However, I'm now trying to get X up and running.  "The

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> Please, somebody, tell me all this HAL stuff is straightforwardly >> explained in an easily accessible Gentoo document, so that I can hang my >> head in shame and apologise for the noise

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sonntag, 7. Februar 2010 schrieb Mark Knecht: > >> Hi Willie, >>    OK - it turns out if I start fdisk using the -u option it show me >> sector numbers. Looking at the original partition put on just using >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling freemind

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 08 February 2010 19:36:49 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> I actually meant to try the lower case L. Mine shows some ant stuff >> which I think you were having trouble with, at least in the compile >> messages? &

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:43:12 +0100, Zeerak Waseem wrote: > >> > That's as much crippling as simplifying. You can do without pam and >> > hal by setting appropriate USE flags (I run pam-free here by >> > doing just that) but D-Bus provides a st

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > There's a few small downsides I've run into with all of this so far: > > 1) Since we don't use sector 63 it seems that fdisk will still tell > you that you can use 63 until you use up all your primary partiti

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > So sdb7 now ends at sector 976703935. Interestingly, I couldn’t use the > immediate next sector for sdb8: > start for sdb8   response by fdisk > 976703936        sector already allocated > 976703944        Value out of range. First secto

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Stroller wrote: > IMO this is a fdisk "bug". A feature should be added so that it tries to > align optimally in most circumstances. RAID controllers should not be trying > to do anything clever to accommodate potential misalignment unless it is > really cheap to do

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo, > > The Subject: just about says it all; following the instructions in "The > Xfce Configuration Guide", I did > >    # emerge -avt xfce4-meta > > followed by > >    $ echo "exec startxfce4" > ~/.xinitrc > > followed by > >    $

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
firefly ~ # emerge -ep xfce4-meta | grep xfce | grep utils [ebuild R ] xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.6.1 firefly ~ # On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > firefly ~ # which startxfce4 > /usr/bin/startxfce4 > firefly ~ # equery belongs /usr/bin/startxfce4 > [ Searchin

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Dienstag, 9. Februar 2010 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > >> I have reset sdb7 to use boundaries divisible by 64. >> Old range            begin%64  size%64  New range            begin%64 >> size%64 813113973-976703804  0.8281    0.125  

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 14:54 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > >> > When I use parted on the drives, it says (both the old external and my 2 >> > month

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 02:39:14PM -0500, dhk wrote: > >> Do you have xfce-base/xfdesktop installed?  Try installing it. > > No, as it happens, I didn't.  When I tried > >    # emerge xfdesktop > > , the compiler threw a segfault.  It does t

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avt xfce4-meta; haven't got startxfce4. Help, please!

2010-02-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 10 February 2010 17:33:46 Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Is it just me? On a new install I always still to an emerge -e @world >> once I get to a working text based boot and I've done any modification

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)???

2010-02-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Stroller wrote: > Hi there, > > Upgrading some packages today I saw: > > Qt3 is deprecated and unsupported, both upstream and by the Gentoo Qt > Project. x11-libs/qt:3 will be removed from portage soon. See > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_f988855f798764

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)???

2010-02-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:59:16 +, Stroller wrote: > >> The message posted to Gentoo-dev suggests that Qt3 is going away right >> about NOW, but this doesn't seem to add up to what I'm seeing. > > The message says it will be masked on Feb 21

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)???

2010-02-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:30:19 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> I seem to have them both installed with only my old version of MYthTV >> requiring qt-3.3.8 > > That's easy then, switch to MythTV 0.22, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)???

2010-02-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >> Again, I cannot see the 0.22 gives me anything I care about but >> there's no way to know until I commit to making the change. >> >> Cheers, >> Mark > > if everything works, why are you even bothering with updates? Why do you car

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)???

2010-02-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > firefly ~ # emerge -pvg =x11-libs/qt-3.3.8b-r2 Ah, instead I should use emerge --usepkg =x11-libs/qt-3.3.8b-r2 No errors or warnings. Nice! Now Myth works no matter what happens in portage to qt... Thanks, Mark

[gentoo-user] Upside/downside to including config files in quickpkg?

2010-02-11 Thread Mark Knecht
Can someone comment on why I do or do not want to include config files when making quickpkg files? Seems like there is the issue of hand edits being saved which would be a good reason to keep them. I'm not overly worried about someone stealing them and getting access to settings, but I can see tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Upside/downside to including config files in quickpkg?

2010-02-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 11 February 2010 22:09:28 Mark Knecht wrote: >> Can someone comment on why I do or do not want to include config files >> when making quickpkg files? >> >> Seems like there is the issue of hand edits

Re: [gentoo-user] Upside/downside to including config files in quickpkg?

2010-02-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 11 February 2010 22:37:00 Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> > On Thursday 11 February 2010 22:09:28 Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Can someone comm

Re: [gentoo-user] Upside/downside to including config files in quickpkg?

2010-02-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 12 February 2010 00:13:23 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> > One thing I haven't found so far is what to put in make.conf to get >> > the buildpkg feature to include the configs. It's easy at the command >> > line. Where's the documen

Re: [gentoo-user] Upside/downside to including config files in quickpkg?

2010-02-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Dale wrote: >> >> This is how I understand it.  If you use buildpkg with emerge, you get >> the original configs from the source tarball.  If you use quickpkg, then >> you get the config files YOU created.

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 09 February 2010 16:31:15 Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> >> > There's a few small downsides I've run into with all of this so far: >> > &

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please!

2010-02-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo, > > My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable. > > The first sign was when the compiler threw a segfault whilst emerging > the xfce window manager.  I "solved" this by emerging Openbox instead. > > Then I got another compil

[gentoo-user] poppler vs virtual/poppler & eix-test-obsolete

2010-02-14 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Mostly in support of (I think) KDE I have poppler installed which seems to cause eix-test-obsolete a little indigestion. It sees virtual/poppler as installed but says they are not in the database. Do I have a problem here (eix-test-obsolete itself or my use of it, use flags, some sort of

Re: [gentoo-user] poppler vs virtual/poppler & eix-test-obsolete

2010-02-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 14 February 2010 22:10:05 Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hi, >>    Mostly in support of (I think) KDE I have poppler installed which >> seems to cause eix-test-obsolete a little indigestion. It sees >> virtual/po

Re: [gentoo-user] poppler vs virtual/poppler & eix-test-obsolete

2010-02-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 14 Feb 2010, at 20:31, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> ... >>  poppler isn't in my world file: >> ... >>  Are you suggesting the I unmerge poppler and then do a >> revdep-rebuild (or emerge -DuN @world

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far

2010-02-14 Thread Mark Knecht
2010/2/14 Willie Wong : > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 01:48:01AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >> >> action         SS (1st)   SS (2nd)   SS+2       SS+4       SS+6       SS+8 >> -+--+--+--+--+--+-- >> untar portage  3m12.517   2m55.916  

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't hear anything. :-(

2010-02-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, gentoo, > > I'm trying to get sound to sound on my new Gentoo box, following the > "Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide".  Everything seems to be working fine, except > no sound is coming out of my loudspeakers. > > I've checked the obvious things:

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't hear anything. :-(

2010-02-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Mark, > > >> VERY strange that you don't see pcm as a mixer control... > > I've got alsamixer 1.0.21.  Could it be that it choses its controls > according to the capabilities of the sound card? > OK, so did you run alsaconf? This will

[gentoo-user] CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-23 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm looking around in vain for info on why some apps (Open Office apps for instance) see printers while other apps (Evolution and Firefox for instance) do not. Apps that don't work seem to offer print to file and print to LPR. On the other hand Open Office provides only the obscenely ugly CU

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:53 PM, walt wrote: > On 02/23/2010 06:23 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Hi, >>    I'm looking around in vain for info on why some apps (Open Office >> apps for instance) see printers while other apps (Evolution and >> Firefox for insta

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 23 Feb, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:53 PM, walt wrote: >>> On 02/23/2010 06:23 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>>    I'm looking around in vain fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:34 AM, walt wrote: > On 02/23/2010 09:39 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> >> # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.3.11 >> # Written by cupsd on 2010-02-23 11:32 >> >> Info HP LaserJet M1522nf MFP >> Location Local Printer >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:21 AM, james wrote: > Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: > >> the one binary thing on the system that comes >> to mind is Open Office in which printing is working. It's the stuff >> I'm building that isn't! > > > Have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:21 AM, james wrote: >> Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: >> >>> the one binary thing on the system that comes >>> to mind is Open Office in which printing is working. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS - Some apps see printers, some do not

2010-02-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:53 AM, wrote: > james wrote: > >>> >>> Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: >>> >>> > the one binary thing on the system that comes >>> > to mind is Open Office in which printing is working. It's the stuff

[gentoo-user] How to untar without first knowing the tar contents?

2010-02-25 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I backed up my wife's home directory using tar in preparation to moving her to a new machine but I don't remember the exact command I used to do the tar command. When I tried to untar on the new machine it failed to do anything. (except use 30 minutes of CPU time...) MacMini home # tar -xjf

Re: [gentoo-user] How to untar without first knowing the tar contents?

2010-02-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Mark Knecht schrieb: >> Hi, >>    I backed up my wife's home directory using tar in preparation to >> moving her to a new machine but I don't remember the exact command I >> used to do the tar comm

[gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

2010-02-25 Thread Mark Knecht
So I got my wife's machine booted today using a install disk and played a bit with e2fsck. The machine stopped being happy last night due to some sort of corruption on the /var partition. e2fsck complained about 3 or 4 files and then repaired the partition. The machine booted cleanly as far as I ca

Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

2010-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > >> Do I just watch the logs looking for problems? I have no way of >> knowing right now whether this was a disk problem that's going to come >> back, a 1 time deal due to power, or some

Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

2010-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > >>    Yes, I do use smartctl on some other machines although I'm not very >> good about it and your write-up is helpful so thanks for that. >> >>    My wife's machines

Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

2010-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > >> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Alex Schuster >> wrote: > >> > Okay, but it still states: >> >>          *    SMART error logging >> >>          *    SMART

Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

2010-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 26 Februar 2010, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> >> The machine _mostly_ crashed while running badblocks. I say mostly >> because the mouse is still alive but I can no longer ssh in and cannot >>

Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

2010-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On the other hand, because I have reasonably good user backups > (although no real system backups) right now if I bite the bullet and > build the machine then when my wife gets it back it's hopefully going > to be mor

Re: [gentoo-user] recovery from /var corruption?

2010-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:38 AM, daid kahl wrote: > On 26 February 2010 12:33, Mark Knecht wrote: >> So I got my wife's machine booted today using a install disk and >> played a bit with e2fsck. The machine stopped being happy last night >> due to some sort of corrup

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

2010-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, walt wrote: > The recent thread about the new disks with 1024-byte sectors has me > even more confused. Very sorry. ;-) > > IIUC the new disks *do* care (at least) about where a partition > begins relative to it's own 1024-byte hardware sectors, and that > part

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

2010-02-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:53 AM, walt wrote: > On 02/26/2010 06:23 PM, BRM wrote: >> >> - Original Message ---- >> >>> From: Mark Knecht >>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, walt wrote: >>>> >>>> Is there really any need for t

[gentoo-user] Gentoo down?

2010-03-01 Thread Mark Knecht
I guess the web site is down this morning? (6:30AM PST) I cannot get through anyway. - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo down?

2010-03-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Crístian Viana wrote: > yeah, it's really down: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.gentoo.org > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> I guess the web site is down this morning? (6:30AM PST) I cannot get >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo down?

2010-03-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Lie Ryan wrote: > On 03/02/10 01:24, Mark Knecht wrote: >> I guess the web site is down this morning? (6:30AM PST) I cannot get >> through anyway. >> >> - Mark > > Confirmed, though I can still ping it. > > > Guess I&#x

[gentoo-user] nvidia GeForce 6200 questions

2010-03-01 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've been trying to get an nvidia controller working today and not having much luck. It's complaining about failing to load kernel module. As a starting point I'm following this guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml My nvidia device is (I think) a GeForce 6 family car

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia GeForce 6200 questions

2010-03-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >   I've been trying to get an nvidia controller working today and not > having much luck. It's complaining about failing to load kernel > module. SOLVED: Mar 1 14:36:49 dragonfly kernel: NVRM: This PCI I/O r

Re: [gentoo-user] Official document for stabilization policy/guideline

2010-03-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:41 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:30:18AM +0100, Justin wrote: >> On 01/03/10 16:39, Lie Ryan wrote: >> > I've found a few people referencing to a "30-day stabilization policy" >> > which basically says a package must be at least 30-days-old to be >>

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia GeForce 6200 questions

2010-03-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 01 March 2010 22:47:36 Neil Walker wrote: > >> There was a patch for the 190.53 driver released yesterday to make it >> work with 2.6.33. > > Can you give a link please? I'm having trouble compiling nvidia-drivers > with 2.6.33 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :("

2010-03-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Stroller wrote: > There seem to have been a few people posting with filesystem corruption in > the last week or two. It seems to be my turn, so I hope it isn't contagious. > The cause here is quite clear - whilst rummaging in the server cupboard > yesterday, power t

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :("

2010-03-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 3 Mar 2010, at 14:00, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Stroller >> wrote: >>> >>> There seem to have been a few people posting with filesystem corruption >>> in >

Re: [gentoo-user] No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > When upgrading a machine today, I saw a notice that mythtv 0.21 has > now been hardmasked.  I think it's because it depends on an obsolte > version of Qt.  Don't get me started on the royal PITA of requiring > that Qt be installed for a backen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-03-03, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Grant Edwards >> wrote: >>> When upgrading a machine today, I saw a notice that mythtv 0.21 has >>> now been hardmasked. ??I think it&#

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-03-03, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Grant Edwards >>> >>> I read the instructions for fixing the broken database encoding, but >>> it appears mine is fine -- s

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 tray icon problems

2010-03-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Grant wrote: I'm having a problem with xfce4 tray icons all of a sudden.  The wicd-client icon won't show up, even though the binary executes in a terminal without error.  I've tried restarting wicd and rebooting. The twinkle icon shows up in the

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 tray icon problems

2010-03-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Grant wrote: > > Thanks Mark.  I really think this is a different issue.  I emerged > tango-icon-theme with no change.  I have all icons except those that > should be in the system tray, and even those missing system tray icons > do appear in the xfce4 menu.  There

[gentoo-user] Best file system type for running vmware images?

2010-03-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone has opinions (on this list? Right...) as to the best file system type for running vmware images of Windows XP. As best I can tell an 8GB C: drive shows up as 4x 2GB files and 1.5GB DRAM is modeled in a file of its own: firefly Mark-XP1 # ls -la total 9291380 drwxr-xr

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Update Issues - what order should things be done?

2010-03-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2010-03-08 8:05 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> It feels like baselayout-2 and openrc have been in ~arch for a year >> or more, so there's no telling when it will move to stable. I haven't >> seen any indication from the dev either. In other words

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Damian wrote: > While ago I reported a bug regarding gvfs: >    https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302196 > > It's been unresolved for quite a long time now, so I was wondering if > somebody could give me a hint on how to solve this problem. > > Best, > Damia

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Damian wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Damian wrote: >>> While ago I reported a bug regarding gvfs: >>>    https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302196 >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Damian wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Damian wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Damian wrote: &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Damian wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Arttu V. wrote: >> On 3/10/10, Damian wrote: >>> While ago I reported a bug regarding gvfs: >>>     https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302196 >>> >>> It's been unresolved for quite a long time now, so I was wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Only two people in the gentoo world is having this problem?

2010-03-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Arttu V. wrote: > On 3/11/10, Mark Knecht wrote: >> to determine whether this package provides it. I cannot do that as I >> don't have lzma-utils on my systems anymore. > > Well, that can be sort of done with, e.g.: > > ebuild

[gentoo-user] New openssh install message?

2010-03-12 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I don't remember seeing this message on previous openssh updates: >>> Installing (1 of 1) net-misc/openssh-5.3_p1-r1 * >>> SetUID: [chmod go-r] /usr/lib64/misc/ssh-keysign ... [ ok ] * Remember to merge your config files in /etc/ssh/ and then * reload sshd: '/etc/init.d/ssh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New openssh install message?

2010-03-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 03/12/2010 09:07 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> Hi, >>    I don't remember seeing this message on previous openssh updates: >> >>>>> Installing (1 of 1) net-misc/openssh-5.3_p1-r1 >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New openssh install message?

2010-03-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:23:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> >>    Has anything changed about this? I'm updating a remote machine and >> >> don't want to lose connectivity. >> > >> > P

Re: [gentoo-user] [HELP] Intermittent software RAID failures

2010-03-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Carlos Hendson wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop with dual 2.5" hard drives setup > using software RAID1.  I've had this computer for about a year and half > and all's been working well. > > I've experienced intermittent software RAID errors

[gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-19 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm starting to put together a server-type machine with multiple purposes: 1) MythTV server 2) General backups for another fast machine I'm going to build 3) Wife's new desktop Since all of these requirements are pretty modest but I want high reliability I'd like to do software RAID wit

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:38 AM, KH wrote: > Mark Knecht schrieb: >> >> Hi, > > [...] >> >> 3) Wife's new desktop > > [...] >> >> I want high reliability > > [...] >> >> The most important task of this machine is to kee

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 19.03.2010 23:40, schrieb Mark Knecht: > [...] >> >>    The LVM Install doc is pretty clear about not putting these in LVM: >> >> /etc, /lib, /mnt, /proc, /sbin, /dev, and /root >> > > /boot

Re: [gentoo-user] broken files left and revdep-rebuild

2010-03-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:15 PM, KH wrote: > Hi, > > I just ran revdep-rebuild -i -- --ask. At the end there was: > >  * Found some broken files that weren't associated with known packages >  * The broken files are: >  *   /usr/bin/imgcmp >  *   /usr/bin/imginfo >  *   /usr/bin/jasper >  *   /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID/LVM machine - install questions

2010-03-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:12 AM, KH wrote: >> Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht: >> [...] >>> >>> So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB >>> green drives. [] >&

[gentoo-user] Blacklist firewire?

2010-03-30 Thread Mark Knecht
I'm trying to blacklist firewire-ohci and firewire-core but I'm doing something wrong. I added then to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, ran update-modules and then rebooted but they continue to load. What am I doing wrong? blacklist eth1394 blacklist firewire-ochi blacklist firewire-core keeper ~ # l

Re: [gentoo-user] Blacklist firewire?

2010-03-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> I'm trying to blacklist firewire-ohci and firewire-core but I'm doing >> something wrong. >> >> I added then to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, ran up

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Joseph wrote: >> I have two identical HD in the box and want to duplicate sda to sdb; >> sdb is not even partitioned. >> I think I could do: >> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb >> but I need to boot from CD isn't it?

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Joseph wrote: > On 04/01/10 17:43, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Joseph wrote: >>>> >>>> I have two identical

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Dan Cowsill wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> With only 2 disks I personally think you're on the right path. With 3 >> disks I'm personally planning on RAID1 using 3 copies. >> ... >> M

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:47 AM, wrote: > > Hi, > > I googled down some - often fairly outdated - texts about "the > best filesystem" fpr a Linux box. Other texts focussed on > uses, which do not aplly to me: Fileservers, webservers, database > machines  etc. > > Wnat I want is a fast and stable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Duplicate identical Hard Disk

2010-04-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:37 AM, walt wrote: > On 04/02/2010 07:59 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> >> 1) Yes, you can RAID partitions of drives. That's what I'm doing. You >> can look at the Gentoo RAID/LVM Install guide to see an example of >> using RAID0

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