Re: [gentoo-user] compressed filesystem

2011-09-01 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 09:37 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: > > Btrfs supports on the fly compression > > Yes it supports two types, lzo and zlib, zlib compresses more densely, > and the mount option for that is compress=zlib. > Is it reliable? A month ago I returned all my BTRFS partitions to reiser

Re: [gentoo-user] compressed filesystem

2011-09-01 Thread Adam Carter
> Is it reliable? So far so go for me. I'm using lzo on my main partition and zlib on /home and on an external drive i use for backup. > A month ago I returned all my BTRFS partitions to reiserfs because of > unfixable errors.  Initially I was quite impressed,  but until the tools > catch up with

Re: [gentoo-user] compressed filesystem

2011-09-01 Thread Bill Kenworthy
2.6.37 on one machine, and 2.6.39 on the other - those two corrupted during bad shutdowns whilst writing to the FS (well, I am bad for triggering the remote power OFF :) Its not the corruption that was the issue, but that a wipe, reformat and reload was the only fix. Cant remember the exact error

Re: [gentoo-user] Important package blocked by another important package

2011-09-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 05:03:21 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > I finally did this, but got further problems: > > > solfire:/root>emerge --color=n -p -v --newuse --update --deep world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] portage failed to upgrade

2011-09-01 Thread Space Cake
On 2011. aug. 31., szerda, 18.37.11 CEST, Pandu Poluan wrote: > (Sorry for top-posting; Gmail java mobile client sucks) > > gid 0 should be the 'root' gid. Try 'grep -E "root|wheel" /etc/groups' > and see if there is/are groups called 'root' or 'wheel' with gid==0 > > Also a question: Are you usi

Re: [gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools?

2011-09-01 Thread Doug Hunley
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 22:32, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Why do you want to unmerge net-tools, anyway? 'equery depends' shows that nothing needs it, and why keep an entire package around when I have another package installed that does what the first package is supposed to do? ;)

[gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-09-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-09-01, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> Does 'xset c' work for you? > > Well, it "works" as far as it sets the key click value successfully > (if you "xset q" you can see if it's set) but there's no noises made > by my computer. Exactly. >

Re: [gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools?

2011-09-01 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 01.09.2011 15:47, schrieb Doug Hunley: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 22:32, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> Why do you want to unmerge net-tools, anyway? > > 'equery depends' shows that nothing needs it, and why keep an entire > package around when I have another package installed that does what > the firs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-09-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Donnerstag, 1. September 2011, 00:57:37 schrieb Grant Edwards: > > I didn't reply to the OP. I only replied about xset > > (non-)functionality, where it sounds like we're in agreement that it > > just sounds the system bell (or whatever you call it). > > No, it doesn't do that for me, and I do

Re: [gentoo-user] can't upgrade Gentoo

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: >   !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy > "dev-lang/php[cli,mysql,xml,session,sockets]" has unmet requirements. >   - dev-lang/php-5.3.8::gentoo USE="berkdb bzip2 cli crypt ctype curl exif > fileinfo filter gdbm hash iconv ipv6 json ldap (mult

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-09-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag 01 September 2011, 00:57:37 schrieb Grant Edwards: > On 2011-08-31, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> I checked, and I do have the old standard PC-speaker connected to the > >> motherboard, and "xset c" still does nothing. > >> > >>> not playing a custom sound file. > >> > >> Which is what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-09-01 Thread Mick
On Thursday 01 Sep 2011 15:22:29 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 1. September 2011, 00:57:37 schrieb Grant Edwards: > > > I didn't reply to the OP. I only replied about xset > > > (non-)functionality, where it sounds like we're in agreement that it > > > just sounds the system bell (or w

[gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound

2011-09-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-09-01, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > You guys are still re-inventing wheels. You keep saying that, and we keep asking what the "simple solution" is. Why won't you answer? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'd like MY data-base

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd

2011-09-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:13:53 +0200 Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > Hi, > > Am Dienstag, 30. August 2011, 13:56:44 schrieb Alex Schuster: > > Alan McKinnon writes: > > > On Tue 23 August 2011 18:17:17 Stroller did opine thusly: > > > > On 23 August 2011, at 07:27, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools?

2011-09-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:16:05 +0200 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 01.09.2011 15:47, schrieb Doug Hunley: > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 22:32, Pandu Poluan > > wrote: > >> Why do you want to unmerge net-tools, anyway? > > > > 'equery depends' shows that nothing needs it, and why keep an entire > > pa

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd

2011-09-01 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:13:53 +0200 > Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Am Dienstag, 30. August 2011, 13:56:44 schrieb Alex Schuster: >> > Alan McKinnon writes: >> > > On Tue 23 August 2011 18:17:17 Stroller did opine thusly: >> > >

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd

2011-09-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 18:32:11 -0400 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > Happily, there was a nice pretty lady from Samsung in the office 3 > > months ago wanting to sell the 900X Macbook Air knock-off into the > > company. The IT manager didn't know what to do with the demo she > > left behind so I knic

Re: [gentoo-user] can't upgrade Gentoo

2011-09-01 Thread Edward Martinez
On 09/01/11 08:35, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Edward Martinez wrote: !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "dev-lang/php[cli,mysql,xml,session,sockets]" has unmet requirements. - dev-lang/php-5.3.8::gentoo USE="berkdb bzip2 cli crypt ctype curl exif fileinfo filter

Re: [gentoo-user] switch to iproute2 and remove net-tools?

2011-09-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
Well, tar is not a part of net-tools, so Doug shouldn't have any problems there ;) Rgds, On 2011-09-02, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:16:05 +0200 > Florian Philipp wrote: > >> Am 01.09.2011 15:47, schrieb Doug Hunley: >> > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 22:32, Pandu Poluan >> > wrote

[gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

2011-09-01 Thread BRM
I still haven't decided what to get for my system to replace the NIC with, but the card I have should be working with my existing 802.11g network already; however, it doesn't - I have had to connect my laptop via Ethernet cable to my wireless bridge to get network access. /etc/init.d/net.wlan0

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenLDAP works only at localhost, not from outside

2011-09-01 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 06:24:26 PM Johannes Geiss wrote: > Hi there, > > I want to access my LDAP-data from anywhere on the internet but I only > get it working on localhost. > > I installed OpenLDAP 2.4.24, and tried to do the tutorial at > > http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTut