On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
> fdisk does have a partition/drive limit of ~2.2TB, but this drive should
> still work with it. The only other option is GPT, but I don't think grub
> boots from that yet (unless you use grub2 with patches?)
grub in Gentoo includes a GPT patch:
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 15:10 -0500, Dale wrote:
> Michael Mol wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dale wrote:
> >
> >> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or
Adam Carter wrote:
Dale, usually you'd check this by running mount without arguments, and
looking to see if the options have ro or rw listed;
Sorry - didnt read your post correctly. Obviously you already know this.
Doesn't hurt to mention things sometimes. There are things I don't
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 11:54 -0500, Dale wrote:
> Tanstaafl wrote:
> > On 2011-07-28 12:00 PM, Mick wrote:
> >
> >> On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 16:45:54 Paul Hartman wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Mick wrote:
> >>>
> All sounds good, except that libreoffice
> Dale, usually you'd check this by running mount without arguments, and
> looking to see if the options have ro or rw listed;
Sorry - didnt read your post correctly. Obviously you already know this.
>> 1) Is the filesystem mounted read-only?
Dale, usually you'd check this by running mount without arguments, and
looking to see if the options have ro or rw listed;
eg
adam@rix ~ $ mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime)
none on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
Willie Wong wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 06:37:24PM -0500, Dale wrote:
Pardon me. My brain passed gas here. lol Could it be that my
drives file system has ran out of inodes or whatever they are
called?
That usually won't throw a kernel panic. That usually just gives an
error.
W
Michael Mol wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Dale wrote:
Pardon me. My brain passed gas here. lol Could it be that my drives file
system has ran out of inodes or whatever they are called? That may explain
why I can't copy anything to it but it works fine as far as reading goes.
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Dale wrote:
>
> Pardon me. My brain passed gas here. lol Could it be that my drives file
> system has ran out of inodes or whatever they are called? That may explain
> why I can't copy anything to it but it works fine as far as reading goes.
>
> Thoughts? How
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 06:37:24PM -0500, Dale wrote:
>
> Pardon me. My brain passed gas here. lol Could it be that my
> drives file system has ran out of inodes or whatever they are
> called?
That usually won't throw a kernel panic. That usually just gives an
error.
W
--
Willie W. Wong
On 01/-10/37 11:59, James wrote:
> Background:
> I worked on this last April can gave up on the (livedDVD)
> install with too many other things to do, and pissed off at
> a lack of usable (current) documentation.
>
> So, taking a fresh look at the BOTCHED system:
> The 2 drives are identical 2TB:
Pardon me. My brain passed gas here. lol Could it be that my drives
file system has ran out of inodes or whatever they are called? That may
explain why I can't copy anything to it but it works fine as far as
reading goes.
Thoughts? How do I check/change it? Headed to some man pages too
Alex Schuster wrote:
Dale writes:
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:48:15 Dale wrote:
I have wondered that too. The process is sort of started but it's not
actually compiling either. I wonder how we could know for sure?
Easy. "emerge --fetchonl
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Alex Schuster wrote:
> And I could play the
> ancient spacewars game once again.
Star Control? Wing Commander? hmm :)
Dale writes:
> Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:48:15 Dale wrote:
>>
>>> I have wondered that too. The process is sort of started but it's not
>>> actually compiling either. I wonder how we could know for sure?
>>>
>> Easy. "emerge --fetchonly" first, then start the
walt writes:
> On 07/28/2011 01:14 PM, Dale wrote:
>> walt wrote:
>>> Ah, that explains the names 'fireball' and 'smoker'?
>>
>> Smoker is my first machine. It was smokin for its day. Since this
>> machine is a LOT faster, I had to come up with something good for it
>> too. Fireball is it. I
walt wrote:
Oops, I got it completely wrong, then. Amongst hardware geeks there is
an old (maybe obsolete?) expression "it's time for the smoke-test!" which
means: plug it in and turn it on -- and then note carefully where the
plume of smoke is coming from :)
You're obviously too young to rem
On 07/28/2011 01:14 PM, Dale wrote:
> walt wrote:
>> On 07/27/2011 05:23 PM, Dale wrote:
>>
>>> Dale wrote:
>>>
>>
>>> I hit the wrong button. lol
>>>
>>> Dale
>>>
>>> :-) :-)
>>>
>> Ah, that explains the names 'fireball' and 'smoker'?
>>
>>
>
> Smoker is my first machine. It was smokin
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Dale wrote:
> Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:48:15 Dale wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I have wondered that too. The process is sort of started but it's not
>>> actually compiling either. I wonder how we could know for sure?
>>>
>>
>> Easy. "emerge
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:48:15 Dale wrote:
I have wondered that too. The process is sort of started but it's not
actually compiling either. I wonder how we could know for sure?
Easy. "emerge --fetchonly" first, then start the real work.
But if you em
Peter Humphrey writes:
> On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:48:15 Dale wrote:
>
>> I have wondered that too. The process is sort of started but it's not
>> actually compiling either. I wonder how we could know for sure?
>
> Easy. "emerge --fetchonly " first, then start the real work.
I have acron jo
walt writes:
> Another one showed up on most days wearing mis-matched socks. When asked why
> he did this he replied, "Why? Does it matter?"
Hey, I'm also wearing mis-matched socks right now :) But of course I
always wear a wrist-watch. A digital one.
> Well, I still can't answer his question..
On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:48:15 Dale wrote:
> I have wondered that too. The process is sort of started but it's not
> actually compiling either. I wonder how we could know for sure?
Easy. "emerge --fetchonly " first, then start the real work.
--
Rgds
Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994
Dale writes:
> Alex Schuster wrote:
>> Dale writes:
>>> Alex Schuster wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2011-07-24/desktop6.png
>>>
>>> You might want to remove that one. Look closely at the bank screen.
>>>
>> That's okay, this is not really my account number, althou
On Thursday, 28 July 2011 13:33:22 walt did opine thusly:
> On 07/27/2011 10:19 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:23 PM, walt wrote:
> >> On 07/26/2011 06:07 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> >>> Anyone here knows at what time the Gentoo IRC channels are
> >>> usually active?
> >>>
>
On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:33:22 walt wrote:
> Another one showed up on most days wearing mis-matched socks. When asked
> why he did this he replied, "Why? Does it matter?"
Did you ask him who combed his hair shirt?
--
Rgds
Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
Paul Hartman wrote:
Here is mine:
Wed May 25 10:07:18 2011>>> app-office/libreoffice-3.3.2
merge time: 34 minutes and 10 seconds.
On my Intel Core i7 920 with 12GB of RAM using tmpfs. :)
Do those merge times include download time? I wonder...
I have wondered that too.
On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:27:48 Alex Schuster wrote:
> I would need many more desktops then. How many do you have?
Mostly I have six, but when I'm in a major redevelopment phase of my web
site that goes up to eight.
> So you also use activities? I don't, and I think they don't suit me as I
>
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:14:09 Dale wrote:
I guess lightening will be next.
No, no, no. Lightning, please. Quite a different word (the cause of thunder,
as against a lifting of the ambient light level).
Or maybe that's another "simplification" in the America
On Thursday, 28 July 2011 22:27:48 Alex Schuster did opine thusly:
> Probably not. The image file name is citrusdal.jpg, this is the name
> of a small town in South Aftica as Wikipedia tells me.
It's a nice town. In season, you can buy the most fantastic oranges
there that you ever tasted.
--
On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:14:09 Dale wrote:
> I guess lightening will be next.
No, no, no. Lightning, please. Quite a different word (the cause of thunder,
as against a lifting of the ambient light level).
Or maybe that's another "simplification" in the American language. I can't
keep up wit
On 07/27/2011 10:19 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:23 PM, walt wrote:
>> On 07/26/2011 06:07 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>>> Anyone here knows at what time the Gentoo IRC channels are usually active?
>>>
>>> In UTC, if possible :)
>>>
>>> (Still can't wrap my head around USA time
Joost Roeleveld wrote:
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 17:18:19 James Wall wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Dale wrote:
Here is a update. Let's see what folks think about this situation. I
mentioned in another thread that I did a from scratch kernel. It was a
.35 version. It see
Peter Humphrey writes:
> On Thursday 28 July 2011 19:14:07 Alex Schuster wrote:
>
>> Desktop 4: Remote. I go here when I administrate remote systems, via ssh
>> in a Konsole, RDesktop, or NX. The folder views have shortcuts to start
>> NX/Rdesktop/VPN sessions, or Dophins opening FTP locations an
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Dale wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>> On 2011-07-28, Mick wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to
>>> emerge
>>>
>>
>> Is it any worse that OOo was?
>>
>> Both took hours, but beyond that, I didn't pay much atten
On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 14:38:01 Dale wrote:
> How do you tell KDE that you want a widget thingy on one desktop and not all
of them?
Settings -> workspace behavior -> Virtual Desktops -> Tick "diffrent widgets
for each desktop"
in earlier kde versions when they were trying to figure out what t
walt wrote:
On 07/27/2011 05:23 PM, Dale wrote:
Dale wrote:
I hit the wrong button. lol
Dale
:-) :-)
Ah, that explains the names 'fireball' and 'smoker'?
Smoker is my first machine. It was smokin for its day. Since this
machine is a LOT faster, I had to come u
Michael Mol wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dale wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or anything. I can
put half on tmpfs and still have 8Gbs left. That is more than eno
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2011-07-28, Mick wrote:
All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to
emerge
Is it any worse that OOo was?
Both took hours, but beyond that, I didn't pay much attention.
My build took about 3.3Gbs of drive space. I ran du just a
Alan McKinnon: writes:
> I only know of 2 e17 users here.
I was an Enlightenment user for years, before I finally gave KDE
3.something a try. I ran it under the Gnome environment, but only one of
my 3x3 vortual desktops actually showed the Gnome desktop. Which I
liked, I did my multimedia stuff t
On 07/27/2011 05:23 PM, Dale wrote:
> Dale wrote:
> I hit the wrong button. lol
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
Ah, that explains the names 'fireball' and 'smoker'?
Alex Schuster wrote:
Dale writes:
Alex Schuster wrote:
http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2011-07-24/desktop6.png
You might want to remove that one. Look closely at the bank screen.
That's okay, this is not really my account number, although very close :)
But even if
On Thursday, 28 July 2011 19:57:28 András Csányi did opine thusly:
> Hi All,
>
> I installed e17 and at the first login everything worked but the
> fonts were unreadable. I can't decide they are only to small or the
> font type is the problem. I tried to figure out what is the problem
> and I foun
On Thursday 28 July 2011 20:06:09 Alex Schuster wrote:
> I'll wait a little and then upgrade to 4.7, and then I'll decide if I stay
> with it. If not, the question would be what to use instead, I would miss
> so many things.
Me too. I'm sure you wouldn't like gnome: it has far too much of the Win
On Thursday 28 July 2011 19:14:07 Alex Schuster wrote:
> Desktop 4: Remote. I go here when I administrate remote systems, via ssh
> in a Konsole, RDesktop, or NX. The folder views have shortcuts to start
> NX/Rdesktop/VPN sessions, or Dophins opening FTP locations and such.
Is that Bow Fell (othe
Dale writes:
> Alex Schuster wrote:
> http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2011-07-24/desktop6.png
>
> You might want to remove that one. Look closely at the bank screen.
That's okay, this is not really my account number, although very close :)
But even if it were, I guess it wouldn't be to
Alex Schuster wrote:
I made some screenshots [*] after I started with an empty .kde4 directory
one week ago. They show what is started automatically when I log into KDE,
well, except for the last desktop where I fired up a browser for online
banking.
Desktop 1: Administration stuff. A Konsole w
On 2011-07-28, Mick wrote:
> All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to
> emerge
Is it any worse that OOo was?
Both took hours, but beyond that, I didn't pay much attention.
> and on at least two machines I'll have to move to binary.
A few days ago, it took me three
Dale writes:
> Alex Schuster wrote:
> > Dale writes:
> >> Alex Schuster wrote:
> >>> I don't use tmpfs any more, as 8G of RAM is barely enough to run
> >>> KDE here.
> >>
> >> I run KDE here and it uses less than 1Gbs all the time. Most of the
> >> time it hovers around 1Gb with a lot of junk op
Hi All,
I installed e17 and at the first login everything worked but the fonts
were unreadable. I can't decide they are only to small or the font
type is the problem. I tried to figure out what is the problem and I
found this [1] in the Arch Linux Wiki. I installed both fonts but
nothing happened
Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2011-07-28 12:00 PM, Mick wrote:
On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 16:45:54 Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Mick wrote:
All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to
emerge and on at least two machines I'll have to move
On 2011-07-28 12:00 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 16:45:54 Paul Hartman wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Mick wrote:
>>> All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to
>>> emerge and on at least two machines I'll have to move to binary.
>> Is it much w
On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 16:45:54 Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Mick wrote:
> > All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to
> > emerge and on at least two machines I'll have to move to binary.
>
> Is it much worse than OpenOffice? Build times are n
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Mick wrote:
> All sounds good, except that libreoffice requires acres of space to emerge and
> on at least two machines I'll have to move to binary.
Is it much worse than OpenOffice? Build times are nearly identical on
my system but I haven't paid attention to te
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 15:56:57 Paul Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Dale wrote:
> > > Paul Hartman wrote:
> > >> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dale wrote:
> > >>> I noticed this today:
> > >>>
> > >>> The following mask cha
On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 15:56:57 Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Dale wrote:
> > Paul Hartman wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dale wrote:
> >>> I noticed this today:
> >>>
> >>> The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:
> >>> #required by @selected,
On Thursday 28 July 2011 01:47:12 walt wrote:
> On 07/27/2011 08:01 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
> > If you allow tmpfs to be backed by swap...
>
> Does that require some extra configuration?
Nope. You just define swap and tmpfs in your fstab. Here are my entries:
$ grep swap /etc/fstab
/dev/sda3
On Thursday 28 July 2011 11:53:04 Daniel Hilst Selli did opine thusly:
> I have some old kernel trees here.. But there is no Makefiles for
> some of them. I did not remove the Makefiles. There is anyone
> having the same problem? Whats happen?
>
> I emerge -NuD periodically, some times I see my ke
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Dale wrote:
> Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dale wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I noticed this today:
>>>
>>> The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:
>>> #required by @selected, required by @world (argument)
>>> # /usr/portage/profiles
Yeap there is a version for windows and it works fine. :)
I have some old kernel trees here.. But there is no Makefiles for
some of them. I did not remove the Makefiles. There is anyone
having the same problem? Whats happen?
I emerge -NuD periodically, some times I see my kernel
being updated.. May portage remove my Makefiles??
--
"Do or do not... the
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dale wrote:
I noticed this today:
The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:
#required by @selected, required by @world (argument)
# /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
# Tomáš Chvátal (27 Jul 2011)
# Old replaced packages. Wi
Background:
I worked on this last April can gave up on the (livedDVD)
install with too many other things to do, and pissed off at
a lack of usable (current) documentation.
Currently:
Meds have kicked in ( peace and joy ) (yea right).
So, taking a fresh look at the BOTCHED system:
The 2 drives ar
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dale wrote:
> I noticed this today:
>
> The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:
> #required by @selected, required by @world (argument)
> # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
> # Tomáš Chvátal (27 Jul 2011)
> # Old replaced packages. Will be removed
I noticed this today:
The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:
#required by @selected, required by @world (argument)
# /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
# Tomáš Chvátal (27 Jul 2011)
# Old replaced packages. Will be removed in 30 days.
# app-office/openoffice -> app-office/libreoff
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:16:35 -0500, Dale wrote:
Speaking of tmpfs, I should have re-emerged OOo on tmpfs. It filled up
/var and died, just a few minutes before it would have finished. Oh
well, I'll make /var bigger next time. Maybe a couple more Gbs. I put
that http
On 07/28/2011 11:51:29 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Helmut Jarausch <
> jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>
> > On 07/28/2011 11:40:40 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote:
> > > My guess is that -msse4.2 imply also -msse1..4.1
> > > Can someone confirm this?
> >
> > I don't think so
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Helmut Jarausch <
jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> On 07/28/2011 11:40:40 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote:
> > My guess is that -msse4.2 imply also -msse1..4.1
> > Can someone confirm this?
>
> I don't think so. It's part of the war Intel <-> AMD
>
> Helmut.
>
> Can y
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Dale wrote:
> > Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:58:28 -0500, Dale wrote:
> >>
> >
> > I have 16Gbs here. It's not like I'm going to run out or anything. I
> can
> > put half on tmpfs a
On 07/28/2011 11:40:40 AM, Kfir Lavi wrote:
> My guess is that -msse4.2 imply also -msse1..4.1
> Can someone confirm this?
I don't think so. It's part of the war Intel <-> AMD
Helmut.
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 Jul 2011 17:13:21 Kfir Lavi wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Kfir Lavi wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Andy Wilkinson
> > >>
> > >> Another good trick I've found on the forums is to run:
> > >> $ gcc -### -e
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 13:56, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> Okay, reading up [1] [2], it seems I have to first upgrade logrotate to >=
> 3.8.0
>
> [1] http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-apps/portage
> [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374287
>
> When I return from my late-lunch, I'll try t
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:16:35 -0500, Dale wrote:
> Speaking of tmpfs, I should have re-emerged OOo on tmpfs. It filled up
> /var and died, just a few minutes before it would have finished. Oh
> well, I'll make /var bigger next time. Maybe a couple more Gbs. I put
> that http-replicator on he
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 16:35:13 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:52:53 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > I wonder how effective tmpfs is for PORTAGE_TMPDIR as the builds
> > > that need a lot of disk space can often require a fair bit of
> > > memory too, and tmpfs is using it all.
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 17:18:19 James Wall wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Dale wrote:
> > Here is a update. Let's see what folks think about this situation. I
> > mentioned in another thread that I did a from scratch kernel. It was a
> > .35 version. It seemed to work fine, for a
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