Re: [gentoo-user] Re: qemu-kvm black screen and infinite loop on startup

2011-04-11 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 04/06/2011 07:45 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote: > > > > When I run qemu -no-kvm things work as expected under hardened kernel. > > Using regular kernel (none hardened) qemu works ok. > > So, the problem is running qemu under hardened kernel. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-11 Thread Carlos Sura
On 12 April 2011 00:00, Stroller wrote: > > On 12/4/2011, at 5:49am, Carlos Sura wrote: > > ... > > When I try to run LibreOffice as normal user, I can see the splash (of > libreoffice) but nothing more... Cannot use any libreoffice application, it > just don't work, fas as I can see is the libre

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-11 Thread Stroller
On 12/4/2011, at 5:49am, Carlos Sura wrote: > ... > When I try to run LibreOffice as normal user, I can see the splash (of > libreoffice) but nothing more... Cannot use any libreoffice application, it > just don't work, fas as I can see is the libreoffice splash. No errors (as > normal user), a

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-11 Thread Stroller
On 11/4/2011, at 9:18pm, Mick wrote: >> ... >> I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions. >> (is this a problem? (sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10} > > James, if I'm not wrong (legacy) sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10 does not have drivers > for ext4. Not sure if there's a patch for it, or if grub2 can boot from ext4

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Raid1 & fstab

2011-04-11 Thread Stroller
On 11/4/2011, at 3:38pm, James wrote: > ... >> I would suggest using a LABEL for that mountpoint to avoid any possible >> issues. > > I made noise a while back about LABELS. Lots of comments, but > nothing clear to follow in the docs or a wiki or a how to. I confused > disklables and file system

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-11 Thread Carlos Sura
On 11 April 2011 22:23, Philip Webb wrote: > 110411 Carlos Sura wrote: > > I cannot use LibreOffice, when I try as root, got this message: > > *"GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: > > assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error == NULL)"* > > I have tried: revdep-reb

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-11 Thread Philip Webb
110411 Carlos Sura wrote: > I cannot use LibreOffice, when I try as root, got this message: > *"GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: > assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error == NULL)"* > I have tried: revdep-rebuild and re emerging: glibc glibmm First & usually bes

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-11 Thread Mark Shields
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:12:36 + (UTC), James wrote: > > > grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 > > > > does not work, even though the stage one file is there > > > > I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions. > > If /boot is on a separate partition,

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-11 Thread Carlos Sura
On 11 April 2011 18:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:44:40 -0600, Carlos Sura wrote: > > > I cannot use LibreOffice, when I try as root, got this message: > > *"GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: > > assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error == NULL)"*

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:44:40 -0600, Carlos Sura wrote: > I cannot use LibreOffice, when I try as root, got this message: > *"GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: > assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error == NULL)"* Are you running it from a root desktop, or from a root

[gentoo-user] LibreOffice + GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed

2011-04-11 Thread Carlos Sura
Hello mates, I cannot use LibreOffice, when I try as root, got this message: *"GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error == NULL)"* * * I have tried: revdep-rebuild and re emerging: glibc glibmm # revdep-rebuild * Configuring search

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:12:36 + (UTC), James wrote: > grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 > > does not work, even though the stage one file is there > > I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions. If /boot is on a separate partition, you should be using find /grub/stage1 -- Neil Bothwick Religi

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-11 Thread Mick
On Monday 11 April 2011 19:12:36 James wrote: > Hello, > > Following the guides (previous post) I'm not able to set > up grub: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID > > grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 > > does not work, even thoug

Re: [gentoo-user] are cgroups automatic ?

2011-04-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > I have enabled cgroups in kernel 2.6.38 , but am not sure how they work. > There's nothing in the docs in  /usr/src/linux > & a search via 'make menuconfig' shows nothing suggestive. > Does the kernel automatically set them up once they're ena

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disk recommendations?

2011-04-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I've seen some discussion of hard disks on this list recently, but I didn't > notice any reference to Samsung Spinpoint F3 disks. > > I have two of these in my workstation; if I were thinking of adding 3 more to > make a more

[gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4

2011-04-11 Thread James
Hello, Following the guides (previous post) I'm not able to set up grub: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 does not work, even though the stage one file is there grub.conf look like the example in

[gentoo-user] Re: Raid1 & fstab

2011-04-11 Thread James
Thanasis asyr.hopto.org> writes: > I guess you have made md2 a RAID0 for swap, right (post the output of: > cat /proc/mdstat)? nope, swap is raid1 > I think you don't need to put swap on RAID0. I agree. Everything I read did say may swap on raid 1 so if a disk fails, your swap still works

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disk recommendations?

2011-04-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 11 April 2011 17:51:18 pk wrote: > On 2011-04-10 09:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > what are the comparative virtues of the Samsung disks? > > Not sure if you know about this (only affects F4 Ecogreen 2TB): > http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks Interes

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid1 & fstab

2011-04-11 Thread Thanasis
on 04/11/2011 04:59 PM James wrote the following: > snip... > > Both drives are identical (edited to fit gmane): > Disk identifier: 0xab83344a >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 2048 526335 262144 fd Lraid auto > /dev/sda2 52633610573823

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disk recommendations?

2011-04-11 Thread pk
On 2011-04-10 09:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: > what are the comparative virtues of the Samsung disks? Not sure if you know about this (only affects F4 Ecogreen 2TB): http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks Best regards Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] are cgroups automatic ?

2011-04-11 Thread dong l
You can dmesg|grep cgroup to see it works.. Sounds like rquiss@Karata-Laptop ~ $ dmesg|grep cgroup Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset Initializing cgroup subsys cpu allocated 41943040 bytes of page_cgroup please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups Initializing cgroup

[gentoo-user] Gentoo/FBSD

2011-04-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
Has anyone successfully set up a Gentoo/FBSD system in the somewhat-recent past? I'd like to do some testing, but all of the install docs are out of date. I'd appreciate a thirty-second overview of how you did it.

Re: [gentoo-user] are cgroups automatic ?

2011-04-11 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 11.04.2011 17:13, schrieb Philip Webb: > I have enabled cgroups in kernel 2.6.38 , but am not sure how they work. > There's nothing in the docs in /usr/src/linux > & a search via 'make menuconfig' shows nothing suggestive. > Does the kernel automatically set them up once they're enabled > or do

Re: [gentoo-user] are cgroups automatic ?

2011-04-11 Thread Bill Longman
On 04/11/2011 08:13 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > I have enabled cgroups in kernel 2.6.38 , but am not sure how they work. > There's nothing in the docs in /usr/src/linux > & a search via 'make menuconfig' shows nothing suggestive. > Does the kernel automatically set them up once they're enabled > or d

[gentoo-user] are cgroups automatic ?

2011-04-11 Thread Philip Webb
I have enabled cgroups in kernel 2.6.38 , but am not sure how they work. There's nothing in the docs in /usr/src/linux & a search via 'make menuconfig' shows nothing suggestive. Does the kernel automatically set them up once they're enabled or does the user have to do something to define them ? --

[gentoo-user] Re: Raid1 & fstab

2011-04-11 Thread James
Joost Roeleveld antarean.org> writes: > > /dev/sdb1 /usr/local/video2 ext4defaults0 1 This line is a typo, i.e. already deleted. > I don't use an initrd and my OS is on a RAID1-partition. > Eg. that isn't necessary. Good to know. > About your /etc/fstab, I have some conc

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid1 & fstab

2011-04-11 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Monday 11 April 2011 13:59:04 James wrote: > Hello, > > background > I mostly followed these guides to build a raid1 > workstation using (2) 2T seagate drives: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Software_RAID_Install > http://en

[gentoo-user] Re: Raid1 & fstab

2011-04-11 Thread James
James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > /dev/sdb1 /usr/local/video2 ext4defaults0 1 oops, ignore this line

Re: [gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4

2011-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:30:42 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: > > There's an option to choose the SCSI controller in the new VM wizard. > > This is in WS 6.5, I don't have 7, and has been there in previous > > releases. > > But that dialog does not give you the option to use the VMWare > Paravirtua

[gentoo-user] Raid1 & fstab

2011-04-11 Thread James
Hello, background I mostly followed these guides to build a raid1 workstation using (2) 2T seagate drives: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Software_RAID_Install http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/Software Since I'm just using a v

Re: [gentoo-user] su doesn't work for me.

2011-04-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 11 April 2011 01:46:44 Mark Shields wrote: > That response wasn't really meant for you, your reply just happened to be > the one I clicked reply on. What? Just happened? Don't you think before you post? -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4

2011-04-11 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 4/11/2011 3:43 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:17:12 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: > Do you know which one workstation uses? AFAICT there's no option to choose which controller is presented to the guest. >>> >>> You get to choose when you create the VM. >> >> Only

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel modules not autoloading with 2.6.38-gentoo-r1

2011-04-11 Thread James Wall
On Apr 11, 2011 3:42 AM, "du yang" wrote: > > On Monday 04/11/11 12:57:34 CST, James Wall wrote: > > Hi all, > > Has anyone run into an issue where the kernel is not detecting devices? The > > issue does not show up in 2.6.37 on amd64 testing branch. I just got done > > re-emerging world to rule o

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel modules not autoloading with 2.6.38-gentoo-r1

2011-04-11 Thread du yang
On Monday 04/11/11 12:57:34 CST, James Wall wrote: > Hi all, > Has anyone run into an issue where the kernel is not detecting devices? The > issue does not show up in 2.6.37 on amd64 testing branch. I just got done > re-emerging world to rule out any hidden surprises. Any ideas? > TIA, > James Wall

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Disk recommendations?

2011-04-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 04/10/2011 03:50:59 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > I read about again and again is a RAID user who loses 1 drive and > then, while in the process of fixing the RAID, loses a second drive. > Most of us (myself included) buy identical d

[gentoo-user] are cgroups automatic ?

2011-04-11 Thread Philip Webb
I have enabled cgroups in kernel 2.6.38 , but am not sure how they work. There's nothing in the docs in /usr/src/linux & a search via 'make menuconfig' shows nothing suggestive. Does the kernel automatically set them up once they're enabled or does the user have to do something to define them ? --

Re: [gentoo-user] .config file for gentoo guest on vmware workstation 7.1.4

2011-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:17:12 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: > >> Do you know which one workstation uses? AFAICT there's no option to > >> choose which controller is presented to the guest. > > > > You get to choose when you create the VM. > > Only in ESX/vSphere, not for Workstation. At least n