Tag Archive for ‘Gentoo’

Sep '06 26

LVM + Moving Around Drives = Unhappy?

Published on 5 years, 7 months ago in Geekdom. 2 Comments Tags: , .

When I saw some ugly I/O errors on one of the drives in my LVM volume, I immediately looked into how to move whatever data I could off of that drive and onto another free drive. Luckily, I happened have a few free drives.

After some quick reading online, and the lovely tab-completion available in bash, I found the pvmove command, and decided to put it to use. After not receiving any output for several hours, I decided that the process had hung and killed it. When running pvmove --abort, I got a few instances of the following error.

reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
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Sep '06 3

Perforce back in Portage?

Published on 5 years, 8 months ago in Uncategorized. 2 Comments Tags: .

Since starting my new job at FactSet, I’ve been using Perforce for SCM. For historical reasons at the company, this is what we’re going to be using and we’re for the most part happy with it.

Since I’m using Gentoo at work, I thought I’d be able to just emerge perforce-cli and be done with it. Apparently not so much. Apparently the Perforce packages were moved out of the Portage trunk and into Stuart’s overlay. So I figured then it’d be as easy as some layman magic. Again, apparently not so — Stuart’s overlay only had some old 2004 versions of the Perforce software. So I went ahead and created some updated ebuilds to reflect the latest releases of the Perforce client software.

The end results? I have Perforce (both CLI and GUI) clients working wonderfully on my work laptop, and am considering maintaining the packages for the Portage trunk. If there’s any interest in this, I’ll throw then back into the Portage trunk right away, so cast your vote via a comment to this post! Otherwise, I’ll just maintain them via Stuart’s overlay, and everyone can access my updated ebuilds via layman.

Dec '05 8

Phyml eBuild Coming Soon!

Published on 6 years, 5 months ago in Uncategorized. 2 Comments Tags: .

As a result of some endeavors at our lab, Lina and I found ourselves in need of phyml, a program used for computing maximum likelihood phylogenies. After some correspondence with Stephane, the upstream developer of phyml, I was able to obtain GPL’d source and permission to create an eBuild as well as mirror the source as a Gentoo distfile.

Short story shorter: phyml is coming to a portage tree near you shortly.

Oct '05 26

MPlayer on Mac OS X Out of the Box?!

Published on 6 years, 6 months ago in Geekdom. 3 Comments Tags: .

After giving media-video/mplayer a shot without any patches whatsoever, it somehow compiled out of the box. I recall this not to be the case way back when I first took a look at it earlier this year.

Looks like Apple’s new dev tools are a bit more complacent.

More to come shortly. Once I get done with my mid-terms, I should be good to get some Gentoo work done (read: try to get MPlayer keyworded).

Oct '05 3

The Downside of Taking a Break

Published on 6 years, 7 months ago in Day-To-Day, Geekdom and School. 0 Comments Tags: .

Two words: Catch-up sucks. I have several hundred e-mails to catch up on, all sitting in my ‘Gentoo’ smart folder in Mail — not to mention my thousand-plus unread news items in NetNewsWire.

I’m slowly making headway on it all, and should be caught up after next weekend. Needless to say, I have something to do besides falling asleep in my less intense classes.

To those who are expecting replies from me but have not yet gotten them: I will get around to you, I assure you.

Sep '05 24

Long Live Charlie’s Server

Published on 6 years, 8 months ago in Geekdom and This Blog. 1 Comment Tags: , , .

Charlie’s Server is reborn. The previously mentioned replacement hardware came in a few days back, and the new server is up and running. To be honest, the speed (or lack thereof) of the new Athlon 64 hardware didn’t stun me. All in all, though, I think I made an excellent purchase, particularly in terms of bang for buck. It’s stable as anything, and more than fast enough for my needs.
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Aug '05 5

LDAP Address Book of Gentoo Developers

Published on 6 years, 9 months ago in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: .

Since yesterday, I’ve been using LDAP as an address book for all Gentoo developers. I am running my own LDAP directory for just this purpose, and have imported all developers’ e-mail addresses and full names as reflected by the public Gentoo Developer List page. I’ve opened the server to the public and allowed anonymous read-only access.
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Aug '05 5

Profiles Split, Inheritance Structure Fixed

Published on 6 years, 9 months ago in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: .

Gentoo for Mac OS X developers take note: the 10.3 and 10.4 profiles are no longer linked to each other by inheritance; both now inherit directly from default-darwin/macos. There are several repercussions.
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Aug '05 5

Mail.app and Gentoo IMAPS Have Issues No More

Published on 6 years, 9 months ago in Geekdom. 1 Comment Tags: , .

Looks like I’ve finally rooted out the cause of Gentoo’s IMAPS servers returning ‘SSL errors’ in Apple’s Mail.app. It turns out that the way I had configured Mail to check for new messages every minute was not so friendly to Gentoo’s IMAPS server. Increasing said configuration value to every five minutes seems to have fixed the problem.
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Aug '05 2

Slowly Securing the Legacy

Published on 6 years, 9 months ago in Geekdom. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Our newest Gentoo for Mac OS X developer, Fabian Groffen, is finally official. Congratulations, Fabian! It looks like the Gentoo for Mac OS X project is finally starting to get some more ‘permanent’ members.
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