[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-23 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:30, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 00:03, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I'm trying to run Gentoo in PV-mode on XenServer 5.6. I have been >> unsuccessful for the past 8 or 9 attempts (I've lost count already). >> >> So, I'd like to know if any of yo

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-23 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 00:03, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Hello! > > I'm trying to run Gentoo in PV-mode on XenServer 5.6. I have been > unsuccessful for the past 8 or 9 attempts (I've lost count already). > > So, I'd like to know if any of you have successfully paravirtualized > Gentoo on XenServer? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash $VAR expansion escapes the dollar instead of expanding

2011-03-23 Thread felix
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 07:33:40PM +, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > It seems to have been reported: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-02/msg00274.html There is one useful note in that thread. ESC ctrl-e gets rid of the backslash, and if you want to keep the $VAR as $VAR, backspac

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash $VAR expansion escapes the dollar instead of expanding

2011-03-23 Thread felix
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 07:33:40PM +, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > It seems to have been reported: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-02/msg00274.html Your google-fu is strong. I bow in your general direction :-) -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .

[gentoo-user] Intel i915 sudden glitches

2011-03-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Hello list! For a few days now I have issues with my i915 (GMA HD) graphics. Without apparent reason (system load or whatever) everything except the mouse pointer and audio freezes. After a few seconds it recovers but KDE deactivates Composite. After that the system stays slow, watching videos is

Re: [gentoo-user] supported package count comparison

2011-03-23 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:42:48 +0200 schrieb Kfir Lavi : > Hi, Hi, > For counting Gentoo packages I did: > eix -c | wc -l > and got 15849 Perhaps a minor nitpick, but you need the --pure-packages option, otherwise you add a (small) bias to that number. From eix(1): -*, --pure-packages (

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash $VAR expansion escapes the dollar instead of expanding

2011-03-23 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:01:15 -0700 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:55:05AM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > > > A possible culprit maybe the bash-completion package. Have you updated > > that recently? > > I haven't had bash-completion installed for years. I forget now what > I

Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background

2011-03-23 Thread Bill Longman
On 03/23/2011 11:23 AM, John Blinka wrote: > Thanks for the color.map pointer. A web search turns up one person's > solution: > > http://forum.soft32.com/linux/gentoo-portage-color-map-light-background-ftopict332304.html > > A /etc/portage/color.map file containing just this one line makes the

Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background

2011-03-23 Thread Stroller
On 22/3/2011, at 4:30pm, Bill Longman wrote: > ... > And for that matter, does anyone who uses a dark background AND uses > vimdiff as their etc-update tool ... I would be interested to know how one does this. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background

2011-03-23 Thread John Blinka
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:43:54 -0400, John Blinka wrote: > > You can remap the colours portage uses in /etc/portage/color.map. See man > portage and man color.map for details. > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > c:>Press Enter to Exit > Thanks for the

Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background

2011-03-23 Thread John Blinka
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Bill Longman wrote: > On 03/22/2011 08:43 AM, John Blinka wrote: > > And for that matter, does anyone who uses a dark background AND uses > vimdiff as their etc-update tool run up against the same issue: vimdiff > mode and certain syntax highlighting rules combine

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-23 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 23.03.2011 14:04, schrieb Mr. Jarry: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > wrote: > >> And if you don't care about barriers, jfs might be a good choice. > > Knowing nothing about "barriers" I tried to find some info and > came accross this article: > > http://searchenter

[gentoo-user] Anyone successful in paravirtualizing Gentoo on XenServer?

2011-03-23 Thread Pandu Poluan
Hello! I'm trying to run Gentoo in PV-mode on XenServer 5.6. I have been unsuccessful for the past 8 or 9 attempts (I've lost count already). So, I'd like to know if any of you have successfully paravirtualized Gentoo on XenServer? I also have some questions: 1. Is it true that PV mode is suppo

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 14:04:23 Mr. Jarry wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > And if you don't care about barriers, jfs might be a good choice. > > Knowing nothing about "barriers" I tried to find some info and > came accross this article: > > http

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash $VAR expansion escapes the dollar instead of expanding

2011-03-23 Thread felix
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:55:05AM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: > A possible culprit maybe the bash-completion package. Have you updated > that recently? I haven't had bash-completion installed for years. I forget now what I didn't like about it, but it's not in the picture now. -- ..

Re: [gentoo-user] supported package count comparison

2011-03-23 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:42:48 +0200, Kfir Lavi wrote: > > > For counting Gentoo packages I did: > > eix -c | wc -l > > and got 15849 > > I get 23355, but I guess you are only counting the official tree and not > the layman overlays. > > > Al

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash $VAR expansion escapes the dollar instead of expanding

2011-03-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 06:51:54AM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > I have an env var, WWW=/home/www/felix, which I have always used with > tab completion without problems. > > cd $WWW/htph20110318 > > would expand in steps > > cd /home/www/felix/htdocs/ > cd /home/www/felix/htdocs/

[gentoo-user] Re: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 22/03/11, Dale wrote: > This is usually the case, more confusion. Every file system has its > strengths and its weaknesses. Here is some info BTRFS: > > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Using_Btrfs_with_Multiple_Devices#Current_Status There is no problem here. If you want RAID, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compositing too slow in KDE

2011-03-23 Thread Bill Longman
On 03/22/2011 11:57 PM, Mick wrote: >> My kernel is 2.6.36-r5 gentoo-sources running on the AMD Athlon II X4 >> machine: >> $ zgrep RADEON /proc/config.gz >> CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=m >> CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS=y >> CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y >> CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y >> CONFIG_FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT=y >> # CONFIG_FB

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-23 Thread Mr. Jarry
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > And if you don't care about barriers, jfs might be a good choice. Knowing nothing about "barriers" I tried to find some info and came accross this article: http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/Deciding-when-to-use-Linux-

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Folks Meeting in Gothenburg the 1/4 // Gentoomötet i Göteborg den 1 / 4

2011-03-23 Thread klondike
Hello, Finally xake, kolmodin and me (klondike) managed to get a common time to meet and decide a meeting place and time for the Gentoo folks meeting. After some discussion we decided to go for The Rover ( http://www.therover.se/ ) in Järntorget next Friday, April the first at 18:30. If you have t

Re: [gentoo-user] supported package count comparison

2011-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:42:48 +0200, Kfir Lavi wrote: > For counting Gentoo packages I did: > eix -c | wc -l > and got 15849 I get 23355, but I guess you are only counting the official tree and not the layman overlays. > Also, how can I count the number of stable packages in Gentoo? Read man eix

[gentoo-user] supported package count comparison

2011-03-23 Thread Kfir Lavi
Hi, Can someone refer me to a comparison of the number of packages supported by Debian, Redhat etc. For counting Gentoo packages I did: eix -c | wc -l and got 15849 Also, how can I count the number of stable packages in Gentoo? Regards, Kfir

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems starting OpenLDAP

2011-03-23 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 22:00:21 Johannes Geiss wrote: > Hi there, > > I try to start an LDAP-service for managing by eMail-Addresses > centralised on my server. Unfortunately I constantly fail to start > slapd. Are you trying to start is using the init-script? > I tried a lot of documentations

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 08:50:14 Stéphane Guedon wrote: > On Wednesday 23 March 2011 08:27:53 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > But considering that the thread is all about "what is the best > > filesystem?", that too is to be expected. The very title belies a lack > > of understanding - the best filesys

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-23 Thread Stéphane Guedon
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 08:27:53 Alan McKinnon wrote: > But considering that the thread is all about "what is the best > filesystem?", that too is to be expected. The very title belies a lack > of understanding - the best filesystem for you is the one you have > tested and found best suits your

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 22/03/11 19:22, kashani wrote: > On 3/22/2011 1:13 AM, Mr. Jarry wrote: >> Thanks for replies. As I had expected, they brought even more >> uncertainty then I had before... :-) >> >> ext3/4: >> I excluded them because as I understand, they do not support >> snapshots (only with lvm, which I do n