OK so vm.swappiness seemed to help a bit but today I notice that swap
usage is up again. It's firefox:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND
14072 iain 20 0 1369m 897m 15m S3 29.5 113:14.91 firefox
I think that's 1.3Gb + 900Mb...
Hey guys,
I'm having some strange behaviour from portage. Last week it downgraded
chromium, which happens from time to time, so I didn't think too much about it.
Today when updating portage seemed to want to downgrade itself from alpha3 to
2.1.9. As well as downgrading pidgin (this is without gr
On 11/04/2010 09:03 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 11/04/2010 06:43 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
[...]
Looking around at VMware's site they recommend changing
/etc/sysctl.conf to enable the feature:
[...]
I can do that but I'm pretty sur
Things just got more interesting.
I just copied my /etc/ldap.conf file over from my Gentoo box to an
Ubuntu box -- it works without a single hitch.
I'm about to rip my hair out here...any ideas on where I can start
troubleshooting this?
- openssh versions are very similar
- newer nss_ldap on gen
On 11/4/10, James wrote:
> Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I don't know what you considered obvious, so excuse me if I'm
>> repeating what you already knew. :)
>
>
> OK (Alan) and Paul. I should have explained that v4l and
> v4l2 were just examples. Sure, I know about them. Why
> is v4l stil
On 11/4/10, Adam Carter wrote:
> ou probably have CONFIG_USB_DEBUG or CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG enabled in
>
>> > your kernel.
>> >
>> >
>> no, it's not:
>> CONFIG_USB_DEBUG is not set
>> That also why, i think this more a error message than a debug
>>
>> Looks like debug to me, and since all t
Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes:
> I don't know what you considered obvious, so excuse me if I'm
> repeating what you already knew. :)
OK (Alan) and Paul. I should have explained that v4l and
v4l2 were just examples. Sure, I know about them. Why
is v4l still around? Some package somewhere with s
LDAP and LDAPS work fine -- as I indicated, the ldapsearch queries
work without any issues. Thus the issue is, more or less, related
directly to PAM and LDAP together.
At some point during troubleshooting I switched to LDAP simply so that
I could sniff the packets going across the wire and see wha
On Thursday 04 November 2010 21:36:46 Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 04.11.2010 21:17, schrieb Mick:
> [...]
>
> > Then I ran xrandr again as Florian suggested and this is what it shows:
> >
> > $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto <--this gives 1920x1080
> > $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --right-of-VGA-0 --ve
Am 04.11.2010 20:20, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> Try conf-update, you might like it. It's a good middle-ground, I find.
I like cfg-update [*]. I use it with kdiff3, but you can use about any
merge tool you like, be it GUI or CLI. Looks quite sophisticated to me.
I only worry that it is not being dev
>
> I will have to try conf-update - its interface sounds nice.
>
>
If you run X, then cfg-update, configured to use meld for the
diffing/editing via GUI, is nice and clear.
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:51 AM, James wrote:
> Bump -- any ideas?
>
> In a tough spot right now trying to wrap this LDAP project up and I'm
> stuck. :(
>
> -james
>
>
You seem to be using ldap sometimes and ldaps other times in your configs.
Suggest you try getting everything working with ldap fi
ou probably have CONFIG_USB_DEBUG or CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG enabled in
> > your kernel.
> >
> >
> no, it's not:
> CONFIG_USB_DEBUG is not set
> That also why, i think this more a error message than a debug
>
> Looks like debug to me, and since all the entries are labeled 'usb-storage'
it str
Am 04.11.2010 21:17, schrieb Mick:
[...]
>
> Then I ran xrandr again as Florian suggested and this is what it shows:
>
> $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --auto <--this gives 1920x1080
> $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --right-of-VGA-0 --verbose
> xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 1920x1920 (desired size 3200
On 4/11/2010, at 8:41pm, Jake Moe wrote:
> ...
> I've caught the 11 year old at home browsing sites he really shouldn't
> be. I'd like to implement some sort of filter so that he can only
> access "approved" sites, but myself and my o/h can browse whatever we
> want. What is the best way to impl
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Jake Moe wrote:
> A bit off topic, but this group seems to know a lot about this sort of
> subject.
>
> I've caught the 11 year old at home browsing sites he really shouldn't
> be. I'd like to implement some sort of filter so that he can only
> access "approved" s
On 4/11/2010, at 7:20pm, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> ...
> I find conf-update much better than dispatch-conf and etc-update. It's curses-
> based and displays the modified files in a tree structure by directory. Very
> intuitive display. And it's smart enough to know to just apply changes to
> files
A bit off topic, but this group seems to know a lot about this sort of
subject.
I've caught the 11 year old at home browsing sites he really shouldn't
be. I'd like to implement some sort of filter so that he can only
access "approved" sites, but myself and my o/h can browse whatever we
want. Wha
On 4/11/2010, at 5:36pm, dhk wrote:
> ...
> This is what I had.
> < > Second extended fs support │ │
> │ │<*> Ext3 journalling file system support
> │ │
> │ │[ ] Default to 'data=ordered' in ext3
> │ │
> │ │[*] Ext3 extended attributes
> │ │
On Thursday 04 November 2010 15:36:37 you wrote:
> On 4 November 2010 09:24, YoYo Siska wrote:
> > Just to make it a bit more clear:
> > xrandr is used to setup the resolution and position of the monitors
> > (you can make them clone each other, overlap, be alongside / above /
> > below the other
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 21:20:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> I find conf-update much better than dispatch-conf and etc-update. It's
>> curses- based and displays the modified files in a tree structure by
>> directory. Very intuitive display.
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 21:20:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> I find conf-update much better than dispatch-conf and etc-update. It's
> curses- based and displays the modified files in a tree structure by
> directory. Very intuitive display. And it's smart enough to know to
> just apply changes to file
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:36:25 -0400, dhk wrote:
> The ext2 wasn't compiled in, so I compiled it in and rebooted. I got
> the same error.
>
> "kernel panic - not syncing : VFS: unable to mount root FS on
> unknown-block (2,0)"
It's saying unknown block, not unknown fs. I suspect you haven't compi
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:35 on Thursday 04 November 2010, Peter
Humphrey did opine thusly:
> On Thursday 04 November 2010 17:01:45 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > It's not package.keywords, it's package.accept_keywords. The old name
> > will be accepted for a while but I don't know when that w
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:36 on Thursday 04 November 2010, dhk did
opine thusly:
> On 11/04/2010 01:08 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:00:21 -0400, dhk wrote:
> >> The reason I didn't include the exact error is that I can't capture it.
> >>
> >> I'd have to write it
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:00 on Thursday 04 November 2010, dhk did
opine thusly:
> On 11/04/2010 12:52 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:34 on Thursday 04 November 2010, dhk
> > did
> >
> > opine thusly:
> >> I've always used the genkernel, but now am tryin
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:03 on Thursday 04 November 2010, Mark
Knecht did opine thusly:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > On 11/04/2010 06:43 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>When starting VMware-Player I get the following message:
> >>
> >> The ho
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:40 on Thursday 04 November 2010, Willie
Wong did opine thusly:
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 07:06:18PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:55 on Thursday 04 November 2010, Peter
> >
> > Humphrey did opine thusly:
> > > I'm installing
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:34 PM, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> My google is not sufficient to flesh out the difference
> (other than the obvious) of these 2 flags.
>
> Where would I read about the deep, detailed difference
> in flags that appear similar in purpose?
>
> How would/should I know when
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:34 on Thursday 04 November 2010, James did
opine thusly:
> Hello,
>
>
> My google is not sufficient to flesh out the difference
> (other than the obvious) of these 2 flags.
>
> Where would I read about the deep, detailed difference
> in flags that appear sim
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 11/04/2010 06:43 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> When starting VMware-Player I get the following message:
>>
>> The host's Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.
>> Multiprocessor virtual machines exhibit degraded perfo
On 11/04/2010 06:43 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
When starting VMware-Player I get the following message:
The host's Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.
Multiprocessor virtual machines exhibit degraded performance without
yield(). Choose 'OK' to enable the sysctl 'kernel.sched_comp
On Thursday 04 November 2010 17:22:28 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Wicd also has an X use flag. I've just tried emerge -p wicd on a
> headless (and Xless) box and it didn't try to pull in any X related
> packages. You'll have to try
>
> USE="-X -gtk -qt4" emerge -pvt wicd
>
> see what is pulling in X,
On Thursday 04 November 2010 11:49:07 pm dhk wrote:
stupid queston but did you select the appropriate sata drivers ?
i ran into a similar problem just about an hr back becuase i forgot to include
those .
--
- Yohan Pereira.
dhk wrote:
> On 11/04/2010 02:12 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > Dale wrote:
> >
> >> dhk wrote:
> >>> I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a manual one.
> >>> I think the kernel is alright since all the default setting seemed
> >>> reasonable and the build was easy
On Thursday 04 November 2010 17:01:45 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> It's not package.keywords, it's package.accept_keywords. The old name
> will be accepted for a while but I don't know when that warranty
> expires. Do this:
>
>
> in package.{accept_,}keywords
accept_keywords did it. Thanks. I didn't
On 11/04/2010 02:12 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>
>> dhk wrote:
>>> I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a manual one.
>>> I think the kernel is alright since all the default setting seemed
>>> reasonable and the build was easy enough. However, when I bo
Dale wrote:
> dhk wrote:
> > I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a manual one.
> > I think the kernel is alright since all the default setting seemed
> > reasonable and the build was easy enough. However, when I boot to it I
> > get a kernel panic and it complains about t
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 07:06:18PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 18:55 on Thursday 04 November 2010, Peter
> Humphrey did opine thusly:
>
> > I'm installing Gentoo on a Thinkpad laptop
> wicd is designed for laptops and mobile computers.
Alan: time for new read
On 11/04/2010 01:08 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:00:21 -0400, dhk wrote:
>
>> The reason I didn't include the exact error is that I can't capture it.
>> I'd have to write it on paper and then reboot to the working kernel.
>
> Which is a lot less work than trying to fix the p
Hello,
My google is not sufficient to flesh out the difference
(other than the obvious) of these 2 flags.
Where would I read about the deep, detailed difference
in flags that appear similar in purpose?
How would/should I know when flags are deprecated, or
on the fast track to becoming deprec
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 16:55:25 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> The problem is that wicd insists* on a gtk interface, which would force
> me to install X etc. before the first boot, so that wicd could enable
> me to fetch all the sources.
>
> Is there any way to get a CLI version of wicd installed?
>
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 19:01:45 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> It's not package.keywords, it's package.accept_keywords. The old name
> will be accepted for a while but I don't know when that warranty expires
I hadn't noticed that, but the portage man page still advocates the use
of either, and portage
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:00:21 -0400, dhk wrote:
> The reason I didn't include the exact error is that I can't capture it.
> I'd have to write it on paper and then reboot to the working kernel.
Which is a lot less work than trying to fix the problem by guesswork.
--
Neil Bothwick
Velilind's La
Am 04.11.2010 18:01, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
It's not package.keywords, it's package.accept_keywords.
Good to know, when and where was that announced?
Greetings
Sebastian Beßler
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:55 on Thursday 04 November 2010, Peter
Humphrey did opine thusly:
> Hello list,
>
> I'm installing Gentoo on a Thinkpad laptop and I want to install wicd in
> place of the manually configured network, rather than installing the
> standard network setup and then
Am 04.11.2010 17:46, schrieb Peter Humphrey:
As expected, that didn't help - this is a ~amd64 gentoo box, and so
everything is already emerged with the ~amd64 keyword. I still get a
missing-keyword error from emerge.
portage-2.2_rc67.ebuild has KEYWORDS="~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd"
As you can see
On 11/04/2010 12:52 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 18:34 on Thursday 04 November 2010, dhk did
> opine thusly:
>
>> I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a manual one.
>> I think the kernel is alright since all the default setting seemed
>> reasona
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:46 on Thursday 04 November 2010, Peter
Humphrey did opine thusly:
> On Thursday 04 November 2010 09:30:11 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > They just changed from package masking to keyword masking, as noted
> > in the ChangeLog
>
> I couldn't get emerge to show me the
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:43 on Thursday 04 November 2010, Mark
Knecht did opine thusly:
> Hi,
>When starting VMware-Player I get the following message:
>
> The host's Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.
> Multiprocessor virtual machines exhibit degraded performance with
Hello list,
I'm installing Gentoo on a Thinkpad laptop and I want to install wicd in
place of the manually configured network, rather than installing the
standard network setup and then ripping it out again to put wicd in its
place.
The problem is that wicd insists* on a gtk interface, which w
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:34 on Thursday 04 November 2010, dhk did
opine thusly:
> I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a manual one.
> I think the kernel is alright since all the default setting seemed
> reasonable and the build was easy enough. However, when I bo
On Thursday 04 November 2010 09:30:11 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> They just changed from package masking to keyword masking, as noted
> in the ChangeLog
I couldn't get emerge to show me the change log.
> Remove the entry from /etc/portage/package.unmask and add it
> to /etc/portage/package.keywords.
dhk wrote:
I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a manual one.
I think the kernel is alright since all the default setting seemed
reasonable and the build was easy enough. However, when I boot to it I
get a kernel panic and it complains about the root device /dev/hda3. So
I
Hi,
When starting VMware-Player I get the following message:
The host's Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.
Multiprocessor virtual machines exhibit degraded performance without
yield(). Choose 'OK' to enable the sysctl 'kernel.sched_compat_yield'
or 'Cancel' to continue without yiel
I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a manual one.
I think the kernel is alright since all the default setting seemed
reasonable and the build was easy enough. However, when I boot to it I
get a kernel panic and it complains about the root device /dev/hda3. So
I think the pro
Bump -- any ideas?
In a tough spot right now trying to wrap this LDAP project up and I'm stuck. :(
-james
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 15:26, James wrote:
> Straight from the Gentoo + LDAP page.
>
> # pam ldap stuff
> auth sufficient pam_ldap.so use_first_pass
> account suffic
On 4 November 2010 09:24, YoYo Siska wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:43:25AM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
>> Am 04.11.2010 08:38, schrieb Mick:
>> >
>> > PS. Another thing I noticed with the WinXP setup is that the
>> > application windows seem to be screen aware. On the left monitor they
>
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Am 04.11.2010 14:31, schrieb Fatih Tümen:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 14:53, a...@sourcegarden.de
> wrote:
>> On 11/04/10 12:32, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>> On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:21:29 +0100, a...@sourcegarden.de wrote:
>>>
Got some strange usb error
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 14:53, a...@sourcegarden.de wrote:
> On 11/04/10 12:32, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:21:29 +0100, a...@sourcegarden.de wrote:
>>
>>> Got some strange usb errors message all time plug in a usb storage key.
>> Are they errors, they return status 0?
>>
>> You
On Thursday 04 November 2010, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 12:53 +0100, Markus Oehme wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I've got a somewhat exotic wish: I want to have two graphical logins on
> > my box. Currently I'm using /etc/init.d/xdm to start slim which in turn
> > starts an X
On 11/04/10 12:32, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:21:29 +0100, a...@sourcegarden.de wrote:
>
>> Got some strange usb errors message all time plug in a usb storage key.
> Are they errors, they return status 0?
>
> You probably have CONFIG_USB_DEBUG or CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG enabled
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:21:29 +0100, a...@sourcegarden.de wrote:
> Got some strange usb errors message all time plug in a usb storage key.
Are they errors, they return status 0?
You probably have CONFIG_USB_DEBUG or CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG enabled in
your kernel.
--
Neil Bothwick
Men who hav
Got some strange usb errors message all time plug in a usb storage key.
Nov 3 07:37:28 Slaxy kernel: usb-storage: *** thread awakened.
Nov 3 07:37:28 Slaxy kernel: usb-storage: Command TEST_UNIT_READY (6 bytes)
Nov 3 07:37:28 Slaxy kernel: usb-storage: 00 00 00 00 00 00
Nov 3 07:37:28 Slaxy k
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 00:32:01 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On this ~amd64 box portage 2.2x was hard-masked a day or two ago and I
> was required to downgrade to sys-apps/portage-2.1.9.24. It seems that
> the 2.2 branch is now only fit for 32-bit systems - there must really
> be some hard problem
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:43:25AM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 04.11.2010 08:38, schrieb Mick:
> >
> > PS. Another thing I noticed with the WinXP setup is that the
> > application windows seem to be screen aware. On the left monitor they
> > will maximise only to cover fully the left hand
Apparently, though unproven, at 09:38 on Thursday 04 November 2010, Mick did
opine thusly:
> PS. Another thing I noticed with the WinXP setup is that the
> application windows seem to be screen aware. On the left monitor they
> will maximise only to cover fully the left hand screen not the righ
Am 04.11.2010 08:38, schrieb Mick:
>
> PS. Another thing I noticed with the WinXP setup is that the
> application windows seem to be screen aware. On the left monitor they
> will maximise only to cover fully the left hand screen not the right
> hand. The same happens when maximising an applicati
Oops! This didn't make it to the list. Answer to Alan half way down
and more info on card at the bottom.
On 3 November 2010 22:20, Mick wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 November 2010 20:55:01 you wrote:
>> Apparently, though unproven, at 22:51 on Wednesday 03 November 2010, Mick
>> did
>>
>> opine thusl
Am 03.11.2010 21:51, schrieb Mick:
> Is there some invocation to allow me to set this up like
> MSWindows does? I mean, in WinXP all desktop icons and toolbar stays
> at the bottom of the DVI monitor. The VGA monitor on the left just
> shows the desktop background, but has no toolbar or desktop
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