For Paul, Matt and Terry. :-)



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NB: (e:matthew), check out the illustrations here:

My new deadline is December 31. I am dead serious about this and want to finish it once and for all. Even if lake Erie burst into flames right now and it was a grand public spectacle, I wouldn't want to go see it more than I want to finish my dissertation writing.

So I am taking off the internets and (e:strip) till the next year.

All of you, happy holidays and behave yourselves.

cheerio,
TP

rpm -qa *\nvidia\*  *\kernel\*|sort;uname -r;lsmod |grep -e nvidia -e nouveau;cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Hmmm.. that doesn't look so good

rpm -qa *\nvidia\* *\kernel\*|sort;uname -r;lsmod |grep -e nvidia -e nouveau;cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

nouveau;cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.0.6-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-3.1.4-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-3.1.5-1.fc16.x86_64
kernel-3.1.5-2.fc16.x86_64
kernel-headers-3.1.5-2.fc16.x86_64
libreport-plugin-kerneloops-2.0.7-1.fc16.x86_64
texlive-l3kernel-2011-4.SVN_2966.svn24657.fc16.noarch
3.1.5-2.fc16.x86_64
nouveau 754554 0
ttm 61533 1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper 30277 2 i915,nouveau
drm 213647 7 i915,nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 5572 2 i915,nouveau
i2c_core 28203 7 videodev,i2c_i801,i915,nouveau,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
mxm_wmi 1743 1 nouveau
video 12388 2 i915,nouveau
cat: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory

PS: I would like a decent lighter background code box for christmas.
With

• Inconsolata monospace font
• line-wrapping
• syntax highlighting (even without syntax highlighting is fine really)
• for perl and bash.

Thanks! :)

Thankfully, I waited for a complete 5 minutes (took (e:metalpeter)'s advice and went to get tea) instead of jumping on the power button. It recovered after taking its own sweet time.

Dec 17 20:20:26 why udevd[11705]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sdb1' [12021]
Dec 17 20:20:27 why udevd[11705]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sdb1' [12021]
Dec 17 20:20:28 why udevd[11705]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sdb1' [12021]
Dec 17 20:20:28 why dbus-daemon[1173]: dbus[1173]: [system] Activating service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' (using servicehelper)
Dec 17 20:20:28 why dbus[1173]: [system] Activating service name='net.reactivated.Fprint' (using servicehelper)
Dec 17 20:20:28 why dbus-daemon[1173]: Launching FprintObject
Dec 17 20:20:28 why dbus[1173]: [system] Successfully activated service 'net.reactivated.Fprint'
Dec 17 20:20:28 why dbus-daemon[1173]: dbus[1173]: [system] Successfully activated service 'net.reactivated.Fprint'
Dec 17 20:20:28 why dbus-daemon[1173]: ** Message: D-Bus service launched with name: net.reactivated.Fprint
Dec 17 20:20:28 why dbus-daemon[1173]: ** Message: entering main loop
Dec 17 20:20:29 why udevd[11705]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sdb1' [12021]
Dec 17 20:20:30 why udevd[11705]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sdb1' [12021]
Dec 17 20:20:31 why udevd[11705]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sdb1' [12021]

This is the tail of the /var/log/messages. With all those mentions of killings and daemons, it totally looks like notes from a homicidal maniac with a medieval tilt.

Farther back the log has these entries:

Dec 17 16:17:19 why dbus-daemon[1173]: dbus[1173]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit'
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762948] CPU6: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762956] CPU2: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762956] CPU1: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762965] CPU0: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762969] CPU4: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762972] CPU7: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762977] CPU5: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.762977] CPU3: Package power limit notification (total events = 2)
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773971] CPU5: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773975] CPU2: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773982] CPU4: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773984] CPU6: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773988] CPU3: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773992] CPU7: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773997] CPU1: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:35 why kernel: [65687.773999] CPU0: Package power limit normal
Dec 17 16:26:48 why kernel: [65700.686031] [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: Hardware event. This is not a software error.
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: MCE 0
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: CPU 2 THERMAL EVENT TSC 7740a8dc9110
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: TIME 1324157195 Sat Dec 17 16:26:35 2011
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: Processor 2 below trip temperature. Throttling disabled
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: STATUS c0000000881b0c00 MCGSTATUS 0
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: MCGCAP c09 APICID 4 SOCKETID 0
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: CPUID Vendor Intel Family 6 Model 42
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: Hardware event. This is not a software error.
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: MCE 1
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: CPU 1 THERMAL EVENT TSC 7740a8dcb633
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: TIME 1324157195 Sat Dec 17 16:26:35 2011
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: Processor 1 below trip temperature. Throttling disabled
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: STATUS c0000000881b0c00 MCGSTATUS 0
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: MCGCAP c09 APICID 2 SOCKETID 0
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: CPUID Vendor Intel Family 6 Model 42
Dec 17 16:26:48 why mcelog[1166]: Hardware event. This is not a software error.

It killed something in cold blood and is now gloating over it?

Apparently it is some bios issue as described here:

According to the followup to that post, it's a kernel issue that sprang up after 2.6.38.7 The kernel is not able to balance loads on the CPU/GPU well in processors with a sandy bridge and gives rise to these errors. Updating the bios does not solve the issue.

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Why does it ALL have to happen in my machine?! Seriously, this is not even my super-sucky original machine. It's a machine from my bro. Does the linux universe hate me or what?!

VLC is misbehaving on my system. The GUI doesn't start up unless I invoke it on the terminal. I can't find a solution to the error that comes up and I don't have time to look. I just erased it out of frustration.

Here's the crazy error, (e:paul). Knock yourself out.

$ vlc
VLC media player 1.1.12 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
[0x13216c0] [rc] lua interface: Listening on host "*console".
VLC media player 1.1.12 The Luggage
Remote control interface initialized. Type `help' for help.
> vlc: could not connect to socket
vlc: No such file or directory
[0x13497d0] lirc interface error: lirc initialisation failed
[0x13497d0] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[0x134e1d0] oldtelnet interface: using the VLM interface plugin...
[0x134e1d0] oldtelnet interface: telnet interface started on interface localhost 4212
[0x121d120] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
(process:12794): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
	Using the fallback 'C' locale.

{and then VLC gui starts. It's insane to have to pull it up with the terminal.}

Which meant I looked for alternatives, and I found the beyond perfect replacement.


DeaDBeeF


It sounds gruesome but it is fantastic.


It has cuesheet support, a smashing 10 channel equalizer, tabbed playlist support, customizable colours, plays every lossless format and submits information to last.fm.

I suddenly and completely stopped missing foobar2000.

More importantly, the programs I miss from Windoze is now down to exactly 1.
PDFXchange Reader.