Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2

2010-10-10 Thread Stroller
On 10 Oct 2010, at 17:28, Fatih Tümen wrote: >> ... >> The noise you're describing is indicative of mechanical failure. > > That I was fearing but I cant understand how it can fail all of a > sudden. I did not drop it or something. Just ran eix and boom. Would > you call it a coincidence of runni

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2

2010-10-10 Thread Stroller
On 10 Oct 2010, at 17:21, Fatih Tümen wrote: > There problem is I have two more partition with about 80GB of data. > >> >> If you need to get data off this disk then we can advise (but search the >> archives for GNU dd_rescue, or just read its manual) but apart from that >> there's nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc fails

2010-10-10 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le Sunday 10 October 2010 21:16:28, Fatih Tümen a écrit : > On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > Anyone have an idea where to start to solve the problem ? > > I am on baselayout1 and had a similar thing with cron couple of days > ago. I noticed I was not receiving mails fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and offline messages

2010-10-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:56 on Sunday 10 October 2010, Dale did opine thusly: > Yohan Pereira wrote: > > On Sunday 10 October 2010 8:48:52 pm Dale wrote: > >> [ebuild R ] kde-base/kopete-4.5.2 USE="addbookmarks autoreplace > >> contactnotes groupwise handbook highlight history nowl

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc fails

2010-10-10 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > Anyone have an idea where to start to solve the problem ? I am on baselayout1 and had a similar thing with cron couple of days ago. I noticed I was not receiving mails from my system for the last three hours. Cron seemed to be running but

[gentoo-user] Re: USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2

2010-10-10 Thread walt
On 10/10/2010 09:28 AM, Fatih Tümen wrote: That I was fearing but I cant understand how it can fail all of a sudden. I did not drop it or something. Just ran eix and boom... My favorite disk failure story: I made a backup copy of my boot sector with 'dd if=/dev/hda of=bootblock.bak bs=512 cou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openrc fails

2010-10-10 Thread Dale
cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 10/10/2010 03:17 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: I have A problem on my gentoo server (but not my gentoo laptop, which is bizzare as they together have the same release of system basic packages !). At launching default run

[gentoo-user] Re: openrc fails

2010-10-10 Thread walt
On 10/10/2010 07:53 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: The two machine have together baselayout 2.0.1 release. I'm still using the older baselayout, so someone else will know more than I do. In my version of baselayout, there are several RC debugging variables in /etc/conf.d/rc. Are they still the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openrc fails

2010-10-10 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le Sunday 10 October 2010 19:52:59, cov...@ccs.covici.com a écrit : > Dale wrote: > > walt wrote: > > > On 10/10/2010 03:17 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > >> I have A problem on my gentoo server (but not my gentoo laptop, which > > >> is bizzare as they together have the same release of system bas

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Problems with libvirt / qemu

2010-10-10 Thread walt
On 10/10/2010 07:05 AM, Dan Johansson wrote: I know this is of topic, but this is one of the few lists where you mostly get a competent answer. I have a small problem with libvirt / qemu. I have created a guest (also gentoo) on a gentoo hosts and when I start it from the command-line the guest

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openrc fails

2010-10-10 Thread covici
Dale wrote: > walt wrote: > > On 10/10/2010 03:17 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > >> I have A problem on my gentoo server (but not my gentoo laptop, which is > >> bizzare as they together have the same release of system basic > >> packages !). > >> > >> At launching default runlevel, several service

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and offline messages

2010-10-10 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Yohan Pereira wrote: On Sunday 10 October 2010 8:48:52 pm Dale wrote: [ebuild R ] kde-base/kopete-4.5.2 USE="addbookmarks autoreplace contactnotes groupwise handbook highlight history nowlistening pipes privacy ssl statistics texteffect translator urlpicpreview yahoo zeroconf (

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and offline messages

2010-10-10 Thread Dale
Yohan Pereira wrote: On Sunday 10 October 2010 8:48:52 pm Dale wrote: [ebuild R ] kde-base/kopete-4.5.2 USE="addbookmarks autoreplace contactnotes groupwise handbook highlight history nowlistening pipes privacy ssl statistics texteffect translator urlpicpreview yahoo zeroconf (-aqua) -d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2

2010-10-10 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 10 October 2010 04:58:04 Fatih Tümen wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:15 AM, walt wrote: > >> > Will fdisk read and recognize the partition table on the USB disk? If >> > fdisk results in disk read errors then I'd begin to think more ab

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2

2010-10-10 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 10 Oct 2010, at 04:58, Fatih Tümen wrote: >> ... >>> I'm not using the dreaded 'hardware' word yet, though I'm suspicious. >>> >> If you heard the noise coming from the drive when plugged in you be >> more than suspicious I think. > > > So w

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and offline messages

2010-10-10 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Sunday 10 October 2010 8:48:52 pm Dale wrote: > [ebuild R ] kde-base/kopete-4.5.2 USE="addbookmarks autoreplace > contactnotes groupwise handbook highlight history nowlistening pipes > privacy ssl statistics texteffect translator urlpicpreview yahoo > zeroconf (-aqua) -debug -gadu -jabber -

[gentoo-user] Kopete and offline messages

2010-10-10 Thread Dale
Hi, I upgraded to KDE 4.5.2 and noticed something weird about Kopete. First, these are the flags and such: [ebuild R ] kde-base/kopete-4.5.2 USE="addbookmarks autoreplace contactnotes groupwise handbook highlight history nowlistening pipes privacy ssl statistics texteffect translator u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openrc fails

2010-10-10 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le Sunday 10 October 2010 15:55:08, walt a écrit : > On 10/10/2010 03:17 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > I have A problem on my gentoo server (but not my gentoo laptop, which is > > bizzare as they together have the same release of system basic packages > > !). > > > > At launching default runlevel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openrc fails

2010-10-10 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 10/10/2010 03:17 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: I have A problem on my gentoo server (but not my gentoo laptop, which is bizzare as they together have the same release of system basic packages !). At launching default runlevel, several services appear to be not launched whereas t

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail editor freezes

2010-10-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:10 on Sunday 10 October 2010, Daniel D Jones did opine thusly: > On Sunday, October 10, 2010 03:06:08 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Another clue is that it does a very similar thing when I press the Send > > > button. It freezes for about ten to fifteen seconds be

[gentoo-user] [OT] Problems with libvirt / qemu

2010-10-10 Thread Dan Johansson
I know this is of topic, but this is one of the few lists where you mostly get a competent answer. I have a small problem with libvirt / qemu. I have created a guest (also gentoo) on a gentoo hosts and when I start it from the command-line the guests starts OK, but when I start the guest throug

[gentoo-user] Re: openrc fails

2010-10-10 Thread walt
On 10/10/2010 03:17 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: I have A problem on my gentoo server (but not my gentoo laptop, which is bizzare as they together have the same release of system basic packages !). At launching default runlevel, several services appear to be not launched whereas they are ! This co

Re:Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail editor freezes

2010-10-10 Thread 桂川军
At 2010-10-10 18:35:24,"Peter Humphrey" wrote: >On Saturday 09 October 2010 22:36:42 Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Saturday 09 October 2010 19:22:57 Daniel D Jones wrote: >> >> > Any help on tracking down the cause is greatly appreciated. >> >> That's interesting. Here it's the other way rou

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail editor freezes

2010-10-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 09 October 2010 22:36:42 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 09 October 2010 19:22:57 Daniel D Jones wrote: > > > Any help on tracking down the cause is greatly appreciated. > > That's interesting. Here it's the other way round: on first logging-in to > the desktop, with kmail saved

[gentoo-user] openrc fails

2010-10-10 Thread Stéphane Guedon
I have A problem on my gentoo server (but not my gentoo laptop, which is bizzare as they together have the same release of system basic packages !). At launching default runlevel, several services appear to be not launched whereas they are ! This concerns proftpd, mysql and console-kit (and all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2

2010-10-10 Thread Mick
On Sunday 10 October 2010 04:58:04 Fatih Tümen wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:15 AM, walt wrote: > > Will fdisk read and recognize the partition table on the USB disk? If > > fdisk results in disk read errors then I'd begin to think more about > > 'hardware' :( > > No "Unable to read /dev/s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Disk failure - Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1289 lost page write due to I/O error on sda2

2010-10-10 Thread Stroller
On 10 Oct 2010, at 04:58, Fatih Tümen wrote: > ... >> I'm not using the dreaded 'hardware' word yet, though I'm suspicious. >> > If you heard the noise coming from the drive when plugged in you be > more than suspicious I think. So what's the problem? Bin or warranty the drive - you already tol

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail editor freezes

2010-10-10 Thread Mick
On Sunday 10 October 2010 08:06:08 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:42 on Saturday 09 October 2010, Daniel D > > Jones did opine thusly: > > On Saturday, October 09, 2010 14:38:16 Yohan Pereira wrote: > > > thats odd im typing this from kmail. > > > > > > whavt version? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail editor freezes

2010-10-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:42 on Saturday 09 October 2010, Daniel D Jones did opine thusly: > On Saturday, October 09, 2010 14:38:16 Yohan Pereira wrote: > > thats odd im typing this from kmail. > > > > whavt version? > > 1.13.5 > > I've been using Kmail for years and I don't believe t