Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 06:03:10 David Relson wrote: > G'day, > > I've been running baselayout-2 for several months and it's been working > fine AFAICT. Over the weekend I noticed that my USB thumb drive is no > longer automounting. > > This evening I ran "/etc/init.d/udev status" which repo

[gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-01 Thread David Relson
G'day, I've been running baselayout-2 for several months and it's been working fine AFAICT. Over the weekend I noticed that my USB thumb drive is no longer automounting. This evening I ran "/etc/init.d/udev status" which reported: * status: stopped". Running "/etc/init.d/udev start" repor

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message "."

2010-02-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 17:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 29 January 2010 16:26:42 Iain Buchanan wrote: > > I don't really care about any killswitch operation, but I'm interested > > in why I'm getting a "." message. NetworkManager bug or > > misconfiguration error? > > Run syslog-ng w

Re: [gentoo-user] waiting for uevents...

2010-02-01 Thread Philip Webb
100201 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Recently I bumped up the number of HDD on a relatively old system > and I noticed that it took a while for Gentoo to boot. > I tried to reboot and here is where I have a problem: > *Populating /dev/ with existing devices through uevents... > *Waiting for uevent

Re: [gentoo-user] libkdegames-3.5 won't compile

2010-02-01 Thread Arttu V.
On 2/1/10, Dale wrote: > /bin/sh ../libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ > -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE > -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -DNDEBUG > -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer > -W

Re: [gentoo-user] libkdegames-3.5 won't compile

2010-02-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 01 February 2010 19:47:27 Dale wrote: > Well I synced and did a emerge -uvDN world. It said to run emerge > @preserved-rebuild and I did. This is package number one and the error > doesn't make much since to me. [snip] > kgame/.libs/libkgame.a(kgamenetwork.o): In function > `KGameNetw

[gentoo-user] waiting for uevents...

2010-02-01 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, Recently I bumped up (really) the number of HDD on a relatively old system (PATA IDE's) and I noticed that it took a while for gentoo to boot. After several weeks running, I tried to reboot and here is where I have a problem: *Populating /dev/ with existing devices through uevents... *Wa

[gentoo-user] Re: configuring x2go on gentoo

2010-02-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/01/2010 08:06 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/22/2010 12:10 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux). Would anyone have suggestions? freenx x ltsp x vnc x others? I use x2go, which is based o

Re: [gentoo-user] Transition to baselayout2 / openrc failed due to udev issues

2010-02-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 01 February 2010 17:25:22 Hanno Böck wrote: > INIT: version 2.87 > booting > /bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot > change locale (de_DE.utf-8) > >OpenRC rsec: mount of proc to /proc

[gentoo-user] configuring x2go on gentoo

2010-02-01 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/22/2010 12:10 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux). >> Would anyone have suggestions? freenx x ltsp x vnc x others? > > I use x2go, which is based on NX. FreeNX, which I used before, w

[gentoo-user] libkdegames-3.5 won't compile

2010-02-01 Thread Dale
tage/layman/kde-sunset/eclass/kde.eclass * /usr/local/portage/layman/kde-sunset/eclass/kde-functions.eclass * This ebuild is from an overlay named 'kde-sunset': '/usr/local/portage/layman/kde-sunset/' * The complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/elog/kde-

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth is impossible

2010-02-01 Thread Damian
> All that is required is emerge bluez, reload dbus, start bluetooth, > emerge blueman-1.21, config asound.conf as above, and restart > alsasound. > > Has anyone gotten bluetooth pairing without a GUI tool such as > blueman?  That's the "impossible" part. Thanks Grant for sharing your experience (I

Re: [gentoo-user] Transition to baselayout2 / openrc failed due to udev issues

2010-02-01 Thread Dale
Hanno Böck wrote: Am Montag 01 Februar 2010 schrieb Alan McKinnon: You have supplied a fair number of errors that are not related to the problem. Please post the errors that ARE related. Such as any lvm2, dm and mounting- root-filesystem errors Attached is the full log, but all other

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread Kyle Bader
>> It would be interesting to know whether hardware RAID would behave any >> differently or allow the sync to perform in the background. I have >> only 1.5TB in RAID5 across 4 x 500gb drives at present; IIRC the >> expansion from 3 x drives took some hours, but I can't recall the >> initial setup.

Re: [gentoo-user] Transition to baselayout2 / openrc failed due to udev issues

2010-02-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 01 February 2010 15:47:07 Hanno Böck wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I faced a problem when trying to switch to baselayout2/openrc on > a machine with lvm and raid. > > The scenario: Server has software raid with mdadm and lvm2 and is currently > mostly stable amd64. Root partition is on md

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 01 February 2010 14:20:28 Stroller wrote: > On 1 Feb 2010, at 11:58, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > ... > > I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software > > raid to > > merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. > > > > Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (accordin

[gentoo-user] Transition to baselayout2 / openrc failed due to udev issues

2010-02-01 Thread Hanno Böck
Hi, Yesterday I faced a problem when trying to switch to baselayout2/openrc on a machine with lvm and raid. The scenario: Server has software raid with mdadm and lvm2 and is currently mostly stable amd64. Root partition is on md1 and most other partitions (also /usr, that might matter) on some

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up...

2010-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:09:09 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > We don't have average idiots in /our/ civil service! > > > > What? You actively seek out the *special* idiots then? Not personally, although I do seem to attract them :( -- Neil Bothwick Idaho - It's not the end of the world, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread Stroller
On 1 Feb 2010, at 11:58, J. Roeleveld wrote: ... I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (according to " cat /proc/ mdstat ") Is there a way that will speed this up?

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread Kyle Bader
Most of the wait I would assume is due to the size of the volume and creating parity. If it was my array I'd probably just sit tight and wait it out. On 2/1/10, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Hi All, > > I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to > merge 6 * 1.5TB drives i

[gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
Hi All, I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (according to " cat /proc/mdstat ") Is there a way that will speed this up? The drives are new, but contain random data lef