I have updated my system and Xorg got updated too (to version 1.15.0). Now it ignores the modes I set in xorg.conf for some reason:

xorg.conf:

Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Monitor "monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800 ...

I've compiled it again, the checksums are the same for every run but stage 2 and 3 differ...

EDIT: so it seems gcc won't compile with -march=native. I changed it to -march=athlon64 and it's working now.

I have tried with -j1 and still the same error. The files exist and their checksums differ. For example


livecd build # md5sum stage2-gcc/build/genautomata.o
72d0203366115a0f4d93137287c58275 stage2-gcc/build/genautomata.o
livecd build # md5sum stage3-gcc/build/genautomata.o ...

I have updated my system and for some reason portage always wants to rebuild evolution-data-server when any other package gets updated.


# emerge -av1 rhythmbox
Password:

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies ... done!
[ebuild U ] media-libs/libmms-0.6 ...

I've left the memtest run for a few days (6 passes) and there were no errors.

I am unable to compile GCC on a new install, running from the install CD. I have never encountered this problem so I have no idea what to try.



livecd ~ # emerge -pv gcc

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-4.6.3:4.6 ...

Finally figured it out, it seems that the install cd booted with a hardened kernel which had chroot chmod restriction enabled. Disabled it in /proc/sys/kernel/grsecurity/chroot_deny_chmod and now it's working.

Yes, there were no errors in the build process - until this one during install phase.

I am having problems updating shadow on a new install of Gentoo. I am still running it from the install CD and doing this in a chroot. It looks like it cannot set SUID permissions for some reason?


libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c vipw /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/shadow-4.1.5.1-r1/image//usr ...

That is probably not the problem, I have discovered that if I connect only one of the cables, then start the bond, it works as expected and it immediately receives an IPv6 address and routing information. However, if I connect both cables and start the bond, it will not work.

EDIT: solved it! I ...

I have configured a new server with dual NICs so I thought bonding would be good to have. Unfortunately, I am having trouble getting it to work with IPv6. When I configure only one eth interface, IPv6 autoconfigures and works fine. This does not work for bonding though.

My /etc/conf.d/net ...

Thanks for the tip, I will try Munin and see what it can tell me.

MySQL is not the bottleneck, it is not doing anything when this problem occurs. Also, there are not many open connections to the database.

The biggest problem is that it is a webhosting server and I have no control over what my customers are using. I cannot just go and disable some wordpress ...

emerge --info:

Portage 2.1.10.65 (unavailable, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.14.1-r3, 3.0.4-hr5 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.0.4-hr5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E5520_@_2.27GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.3
Timestamp of tree: Unknown
dev-lang/python ...

It is my own hardware, nothing virtual.

I have been having this problem for months. I have a webhosting server and from time to time, every submit of any PHP form hangs. There are no errors in the log and I have updated all packages over the previous months. I even created a brand new chroot with all packages compiled from scratch and ...

My system crashes from time to time (approximately once in a couple of weeks) and I suspect the ath9k driver to be the culprit (because of the backtrace I see on the screen when the kernel panics). I set up kdump and was able to copy the /proc/vmcore file to disk after the kernel crash had occurred ...

Thanks a lot! That asoundrc really saved me. :) The relevant sections from my asoundrc are here, if anyone needs them:


pcm.softvol {
type softvol
slave.pcm "dmixed" #redirect the output to dmix (instead of "hw:0,0")

control {
name "Master" #override the PCM slider to set the softvol volume ...

I have bought a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro USB. There are several problems with this card:

1) it cannot mix several streams simultaneously
2) it cannot set volume (via snd-usb-audio)

It works out of the box and I was able to add a volume control using the Alsa softvol plugin ...

I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro U400-18M laptop and for bluetooth to work, I need to use the omnibook module. However, it has not been updated for ages and it does not support kernel 3 (unable to build). Thus I am stuck with kernel 2.6.39. I have also tried pulling it from git manually (it seems to ...

Argyll gives me the following warning:

XRandR 1.2 is faulty - falling back to older extensions


And it gives exactly the same colour results as xcalib... do I need to specify the loaded modules in xorg.conf? I have the latest stable xorg-server and the following modules loaded: extmod, dbe, glx ...

Actually, xcalib seems to produce very weird results (tried on nvidia with proprietary drivers and intel 4500MHD with in-kernel drivers). I guess I will have to do with correct calibration only in graphics applications & Firefox.

Thanks for the tips, I already have an ICC profile so I will try xcalib.

I have read that there is a kolor-manager settings plugin for KDE which enables you to specify ICC colour profiles. However, I do not seem to have it on my system. Is there an ebuild for it or are there specific USE flags I need to enable for it to appear in KDE settings? I have looked at /usr ...

I am unable to limit the rate of ICMP packets. I am using Shorewall and it seems that when I set the RATE LIMIT field with ICMP echo-request, it limits only the number of "connections". That means everytime I run ping, the "packet count" iptables shows gets increased by one, no matter how many ...