Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday 22 Mar 2014 19:37:35 Neil Bothwick wrote:
 On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 13:57:22 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
  I've installed that old favourite SysRescCD on a pen drive, following a
  method I found on the Web to include a persistent file-system with all
  the extras I wanted in, e.g., /usr/local/bin.
  
  It works well, except that I haven't found yet where to put all my
  aliases to have them sourced at (auto) log-in.
 
 There is a file that is executed by default at login, I think it
 is .autorun. I remember having to add an option to ignore it on the
 LXFDVDs because we use .autorun on those to launch a browser.

Ah! That sounds likely. I'll have another look. Thanks again, Neil.

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Re: [gentoo-user] *** STOP misuing this list for personal attacks ***

[Bruce Hill]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 12:29:20PM -0500, Dale wrote:
 Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
  On 22/03/14 14:48, Tanstaafl wrote:
  On 3/22/2014 5:06 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
  Helmut Jarausch wrote:
  Please don't use this list for personal quarrels of any kind!
 
  If someone says something you don't like - just ignore it/him.
 
  If someone insults you, reply by personal mail only.
 
  If someone says something which is*technically*  wrong,
  just correct the facts without getting personal.
  I don't read every message but who is personally attacking someone?
  He's probably referring to my factual statement that Tom was/is acting 
  like an arrogant prick.
 
  Lots of people confuse factual statements with personal attacks.
 
  That said, I've never been know for being tactful... ;)
 
  Go and solve this shit off-list. I'm not following the systemd thread
  but over the last few days but your (plural) quarrels have become far
  too big in number to ignore.
 
  Create a separate thread if you need it so that people can ignore it
  without missing actual on-topic messages.
 
 
 Will, since Tom finally got the point and changed his email program to
 not CC his replies, it seems to me that Tanstaaf, others and myself were
 right.  It may have been off topic but if Tom would have just listened
 in the beginning, there wouldn't have to be so many off topic replies. 
 
 Just saying.
 
 Dale

I can't quite believe Tom did that. I've even stopped replying to any thread
Tom participates in, because when I kindly asked him to Stop Cc'ing me (as
old and rude a habit as HTML email and top-posting), he wasted my time with
more than one arrogant reply, beating the dead horse(s) about why his way is
correct and the rest of the world needs to change it's preferences to get in
line. It's my sincere hope that someone's persistence hammered some common
sense and email etiquette into his attitude.

In fact, this list is so generally useless and filled with immature jerks
going on senselessly about crap that I rarely read it anymore, and ^D is my
largest function on this mailbox.
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List replies preferred.

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting

Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade

[Tom Wijsman]

On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 12:29:03 +0100
null_ptr rhan...@gmx.de wrote:

 I attached them. Old config/lsmod/dmesg is the first
 parameter of the diff.

Looks okay to me; I see in the other thread that it was clarified that
this is a problem through the speakers/headset and thus not through the
PC speaker, which leads me to think you have either Volker's idea that
it is muted in alsa-mixer (why would a kernel upgrade do this?) or you
have an actual bug in one of the kernel sound modules (more likely?).

If it is a kernel bug, then I think that switching back to the old
kernel would make it work again; if that's the case, I suggest you to
consider a git bisect between the two releases to find the bad commit:

http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel_git-bisect

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Re: [gentoo-user] *** STOP misuing this list for personal attacks ***

[Tom Wijsman]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 04:52:47 -0500
Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote:

 It's my sincere hope that someone's persistence hammered some common
 sense and email etiquette into his attitude.

Other Gentoo Developers did; but, I'll make an exception for this list.

The mailing list etiquette requires people to CC all the people
involved in a particular thread in replies to the mailing list, in case
any of them is not subscribed.

— http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Procmail

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there a known source of recent gentoo vm appliances?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 18:23:56 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:

 A few points:
 There used to be a fellow that posted here regularly who built them

Albert Hopkins, his site has no recent builds but it still has the system
he used to build them, so you could download that, tweak the configs to
suit your needs and run the build yourself. That way you get what you
want as up to date as you want.

https://bitbucket.org/marduk/virtual-appliance


-- 
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I heard Tasha Yar is the Enterprise's expert on Data entry.


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She's fine, upstanding, and wonderful laying down.


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Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade

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On 23/03/14 14:13, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
 so it is not a 'speaker' problem but a sound card problem. You
 should have stated that from the beginning.
 
 Probably something muted that should not be muted.

Myself and at least one other on #gentoo had an issue after a kernel
upgrade where we had to re-add our user to the audio group (and relog).

# gpasswd -a user audio

I couldn't track it down myself because my machine is in a somewhat
less than standard state; but the user on #gentoo said they were more
or less insert whatever qualifies as normal...
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Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade

[Matti Nykyri]

On Mar 23, 2014, at 5:13, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com 
wrote:

 Am 23.03.2014 00:45, schrieb null_ptr:
 On 22/03/14 23:40, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
 Am 22.03.2014 02:08, schrieb null_ptr:
 On 21/03/14 14:41, Lee wrote:
 I can't think of the name of the module, pcspkr IIRC or some such,
 but it
 prolly isn't loaded. Modprobe can tell you if it's available  load
 it.
 On Mar 21, 2014 12:41 PM, Dat G rhan...@gmx.de wrote:
 
 On 21/03/14 19:54, Francesco Turco wrote:
 
 On Fri, Mar 21, 2014, at 18:51, null_ptr wrote:
 
 Module for my sound card is running and SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP is
 activated
 in kernel config. Am I missing something else?
 
 
 Perhaps you need CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR.
 
 I tried building with that and it didn't fix it.
 
 modprobe pcspkr doesn't change anything. It is still silent. I also
 tried
 building it in the kernel.
 
 On the other hand from what I understand the snd_hda_intel should be
 doing the beeps when the mainboard does not have a physical speaker on
 the mainboard and instead beeps through the regular sound device. At
 least on 3.10.25 I had not build the pcspkr module and the system
 beeped
 happily.
 
 
 
 Now, are we talking about the motherboard beeping through a little
 builtin speaker that does not work
 or
 Are we talking about your onboard sound not beeping in your
 headphones/your attached speakers when there is a motherboard 'beep'?
 
 Either way, I don't see any problem at all. A non-beeping computer is a
 correctly working one.
 
 I'm talking about the onboard sound not beeping in the attached
 headphones/speakers when there is a motherboard 'beep'. The problem is
 that I used that for some events as a status (e.g. battery running low)
 and I like the annoying nature of the beep for these events.
 
 
 
 so it is not a 'speaker' problem but a sound card problem. You should
 have stated that from the beginning.
 
 Probably something muted that should not be muted.
 

Check that you can play sounds from different sources to see that there is no 
process blocking your alsa driver.

If there is a program that is blocking alsa you can find out which process it 
is by: fuser -v /dev/snd/*

Re: [gentoo-user] Making XEN functional

[J. Roeleveld]

On Sunday, March 23, 2014 07:53:22 AM Facundo Curti wrote:
 Hi list! :) First at all, I apologize if my english is not perfect,
 I know i'm not the only non-english speak on list, but I apologize any
 way jeje :P
 
 I'm trying to install XEN for first time on my gentoo desktop machine.
 my hardware specs to take into consideration are:
 i7 proccessor - 4GB ram
 SDD disk parted using GPT
 EFI mother. But also supports boot like BIOS.
 
 I'm following the guide from wiki for firsts steeps [1], but having in
 consideration the xen doc [2] and arch wiki [3].
 
 The question is that I'm having 2 problems :/
 
 First: I installed xen, and xen-tools. But I don't know why now I cant
 recompile xen-tools ._. The output is [tmp1]. I just can see a econf
 failed, but I cant find how to fix it. My
 emerge --info '=app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.1-r5::gentoo' is [tmp2]
 emerge -pqv '=app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.1-r5::gentoo' is [tmp3]
 /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.1-r5/temp/build.log [tmp4]
 /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.1-r5/temp/environment[tmp5]

I see this in tmp:
*
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.1-
r5/work/xen-4.3.1/tools':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
**

Please fix your C-compiler. What does the following command return?
# gcc-config -L

 But really, this is my minor problem :/ XEN does not work at all :P
 
 I re-emerged all my system with emerge -e world, compiled my kernel,
 and configured grub. The system looks like starts with XEN. (When I
 boot the system, shows something about XEN that I cant read, and next
 starts loading the kernel).
 
 Once in the system, I try to make a xm list, xm show and also I try to
 execute xend from a console. But every one says:
 
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File /usr/sbin/xend, line 36, in module
 from xen.xend.server import SrvDaemon
 ImportError: No module named xen.xend.server
 
 Looks like XEN can't find the modules, but I cant find where XEN stores
 it :/ I made a
   find / xen.xend

Please use the  xl  command set.  xm is deprecated.

Please also ensure you start the xen services:
# /etc/init.d/xencommons start
# /etc/init.d/xenstored start
# /etc/init.d/xenconsoled start

before trying the xl commands.

 and this give me 0 results. maybe this wasn't installed?
 
 My .config from kernel is [configKernel] and my [grub.cfg]

I will check those if the above didn't solve it.

I have the following installed on my server:
[I] app-emulation/xen   


   
 Installed versions:  4.3.1-r5^t{tbz2}(12:09:22 PM 02/21/2014)
(efi -custom-cflags -debug -flask -xsm) 

 
  
[I] app-emulation/xen-tools 


   
  Installed versions:  4.3.1-r5^t{tbz2}(12:14:51 PM 02/21/2014)
(api hvm pam qemu screen -custom-cflags -debug -doc -flask -ocaml -pygrub -
python -static-libs -xend 
PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET=python2_7 -python2_6 PYTHON_TARGETS=python2_7 -
python2_6)  

--
Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] Making XEN functional

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

On 23-Mar-2014 5:46 pm, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:

 On Sunday, March 23, 2014 07:53:22 AM Facundo Curti wrote:
  Hi list! :) First at all, I apologize if my english is not perfect,
  I know i'm not the only non-english speak on list, but I apologize any
  way jeje :P
 
  I'm trying to install XEN for first time on my gentoo desktop machine.
  my hardware specs to take into consideration are:
  i7 proccessor - 4GB ram
  SDD disk parted using GPT
  EFI mother. But also supports boot like BIOS.
 
  I'm following the guide from wiki for firsts steeps [1], but having in
  consideration the xen doc [2] and arch wiki [3].
 
  The question is that I'm having 2 problems :/
 
  First: I installed xen, and xen-tools. But I don't know why now I cant
  recompile xen-tools ._. The output is [tmp1]. I just can see a econf
  failed, but I cant find how to fix it. My
  emerge --info '=app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.1-r5::gentoo' is [tmp2]
  emerge -pqv '=app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.1-r5::gentoo' is [tmp3]
  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.1-r5/temp/build.log [tmp4]
  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.1-r5/temp/environment[tmp5]

 I see this in tmp:
 *
 checking whether the C compiler works... no
 configure: error: in `/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.1-
 r5/work/xen-4.3.1/tools':
 configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
 **

 Please fix your C-compiler. What does the following command return?
 # gcc-config -L

  But really, this is my minor problem :/ XEN does not work at all :P
 
  I re-emerged all my system with emerge -e world, compiled my kernel,
  and configured grub. The system looks like starts with XEN. (When I
  boot the system, shows something about XEN that I cant read, and next
  starts loading the kernel).
 
  Once in the system, I try to make a xm list, xm show and also I try to
  execute xend from a console. But every one says:
 
  Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/sbin/xend, line 36, in module
  from xen.xend.server import SrvDaemon
  ImportError: No module named xen.xend.server
 
  Looks like XEN can't find the modules, but I cant find where XEN stores
  it :/ I made a
find / xen.xend

 Please use the  xl  command set.  xm is deprecated.

 Please also ensure you start the xen services:
 # /etc/init.d/xencommons start
 # /etc/init.d/xenstored start
 # /etc/init.d/xenconsoled start

 before trying the xl commands.

  and this give me 0 results. maybe this wasn't installed?
 
  My .config from kernel is [configKernel] and my [grub.cfg]

 I will check those if the above didn't solve it.

 I have the following installed on my server:
 [I] app-emulation/xen
  Installed versions:  4.3.1-r5^t{tbz2}(12:09:22 PM 02/21/2014)
 (efi -custom-cflags -debug -flask -xsm)

 [I] app-emulation/xen-tools
   Installed versions:  4.3.1-r5^t{tbz2}(12:14:51 PM 02/21/2014)
 (api hvm pam qemu screen -custom-cflags -debug -doc -flask -ocaml -pygrub
-
 python -static-libs -xend
 PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET=python2_7 -python2_6 PYTHON_TARGETS=python2_7 -
 python2_6)

 --
 Joost


I'm not meaning to hijack this thread, but isn't KVM a better option? The
difference between Xen and KVM is tiny I think, no?

[gentoo-user] issue 2973

[Karol]

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B.S.

Re: [gentoo-user] Making XEN functional

[J. Roeleveld]

On Sunday, March 23, 2014 05:47:53 PM Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
 I'm not meaning to hijack this thread, but isn't KVM a better option? The
 difference between Xen and KVM is tiny I think, no?

Yes and no:

If you simpy look at the basics, like running virtual machines, then KVM is a 
valid option.

But, if you are running VMs to test stuff, you want to take valid snapshots of 
the current status.
That means disk AND memory.

I have not been able to find any information on how to make a snapshot of the 
memory used by a VM running under KVM. If there is a method, please point me 
in the right direction.

With Xen, it's really easy to do:
# xl  save   Domain FileWhereMemoryIsSaved 
-- make a snapshot of the disk(s),
--   either by copying the file or using LVM snapshots
# xl restore FileWhereMemoryIsSaved

Or using any of the front-ends. XCP has it all built-in and allows usage of 
the Citrix client tool.

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Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] issue 2973

[Tom Wijsman]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 13:35:06 +0100
Karol bgu...@gmail.com wrote:

 -- listname+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org
 B.S.

Replace listname by gentoo-user; to unsubscribe, send that mail to:

gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org


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Re: [gentoo-user] *** STOP misuing this list for personal attacks ***

[Alan McKinnon]

On 23/03/2014 12:11, Tom Wijsman wrote:
 On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 04:52:47 -0500
 Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote:
 
 It's my sincere hope that someone's persistence hammered some common
 sense and email etiquette into his attitude.
 
 Other Gentoo Developers did; but, I'll make an exception for this list.
 
 The mailing list etiquette requires people to CC all the people
 involved in a particular thread in replies to the mailing list, in case
 any of them is not subscribed.
 
 — http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Procmail
 


And you have been told repeatedly that the actual real life users on
this actual real life list would like you to stop doing it. We didn't
write that FAQ, I fail to see how it applies and this is not -dev, not
does QA play any role in this.

Now please learn to play by the rules and expectations of the existing
users of a community you have joined newly. If the doc is so important
to you, please update it with an exception for -user and state this is
the general consensus of that list.

Then please learn how to back down and gracefully accept the wishes of
others. You have no special rights here.


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Re: [gentoo-user] *** STOP misuing this list for personal attacks ***

[Markos Chandras]

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On 03/23/2014 04:06 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
 On 23/03/2014 12:11, Tom Wijsman wrote:
 On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 04:52:47 -0500 Bruce Hill
 da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote:
 
 It's my sincere hope that someone's persistence hammered some
 common sense and email etiquette into his attitude.
 
 Other Gentoo Developers did; but, I'll make an exception for this
 list.
 
 The mailing list etiquette requires people to CC all the people 
 involved in a particular thread in replies to the mailing list,
 in case any of them is not subscribed.
 
 — http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Procmail
 
 
 
 And you have been told repeatedly that the actual real life users
 on this actual real life list would like you to stop doing it. We
 didn't write that FAQ, I fail to see how it applies and this is not
 -dev, not does QA play any role in this.
 
 Now please learn to play by the rules and expectations of the
 existing users of a community you have joined newly. If the doc is
 so important to you, please update it with an exception for -user
 and state this is the general consensus of that list.
 
 Then please learn how to back down and gracefully accept the wishes
 of others. You have no special rights here.
 
 

I think this thread has gone a bit off-topic. Just a reminder, Gentoo
has a special team[1] designed for developers and *users* to contact
if someone does not play by the rules. Please consider contacting this
team if reaching an agreement is not possible, instead of using the
list for arguments, conflicts etc.

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:ComRel

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Re: [gentoo-user] *** STOP misuing this list for personal attacks ***

[Tom Wijsman]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 18:06:12 +0200
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:

 And you have been told repeatedly that the actual real life users on
 this actual real life list would like you to stop doing it. We didn't
 write that FAQ, I fail to see how it applies and this is not -dev, not
 does QA play any role in this.

The etiquette was perceived to apply anywhere for Gentoo Developers; as
you can see, this perception conflicts when coming across different
expectations, and therefore the exception has been made.

This isn't the first time this difference comes up; a former Gentoo
Developer, Ciaran, has had a similar moment[1] on this mailing list
about 10 years ago with different people around at a point of time
where this appears to not have been a strict rule on this mailing list.

 [1]: [gentoo-user] Mailing List etiquette FAQ @ Google Groups
 https://groups.google.com/d/msg/linux.gentoo.user/2-Zv19Ggyus/is5ug9mcCcwJ


 Now please learn to play by the rules and expectations of the existing
 users of a community you have joined newly.

The rules and expectations were perceived per etiquette; there's no
other place where I can see them listed for the gentoo-user ML in
specific, therefore I cannot assume one or two individuals to speak the
truth about those rules. Perhaps we can start such a list of rules?

It gets odd if they conflict with what Gentoo Developers are expected to
do per the etiquette, you can see I need to be careful with what I do;
therefore I've continued to do what a Gentoo Developer is expected to.

That's why I was only convinced at the point that a lot more than those
two individuals made this request; at that point, it becomes clear that
this is a majority rather than those two individuals that asked me.

 If the doc is so important to you, please update it with an exception
 for -user and state this is the general consensus of that list.

Done.

 Then please learn how to back down and gracefully accept the wishes of
 others. You have no special rights here.

As per more users, that was done; I always intend to follow the rules.

Sorry; I hope you see where this approach came from, I'm not trying to
override a majority or intentionally act different than the community.

Sorry again; thank you for your understanding.

PS: To make it clear that I stopped: The last 15 mails were without CC.

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Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade

[null_ptr]

On 23/03/14 11:06, Tom Wijsman wrote:

On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 12:29:03 +0100
null_ptr rhan...@gmx.de wrote:


I attached them. Old config/lsmod/dmesg is the first
parameter of the diff.


Looks okay to me; I see in the other thread that it was clarified that
this is a problem through the speakers/headset and thus not through the
PC speaker, which leads me to think you have either Volker's idea that
it is muted in alsa-mixer (why would a kernel upgrade do this?) or you
have an actual bug in one of the kernel sound modules (more likely?).


It's definitely not muted.


If it is a kernel bug, then I think that switching back to the old
kernel would make it work again; if that's the case, I suggest you to
consider a git bisect between the two releases to find the bad commit:

http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel_git-bisect


Switching to the old kernel fixed it so I bisected the linux-stable
sources (as in the wiki) and the first bad commit is bd450dcc357.
Attached is the bisect.log.
Since it seems like it's a kernel bug I will create a bug report.


Thanks for the help and sorry that I wasn't as clear in the first place.
Bisecting: a merge base must be tested
[8bb495e3f02401ee6f76d1b1d77f3ac9f079e376] Linux 3.10
Bisecting: 12493 revisions left to test after this (roughly 14 steps)
[987e1d56b3157592d73f7f6170decada716fc415] ixgbe: include QSFP PHY types in 
ixgbe_is_sfp()
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[d2f3e9eb7c9e12e89f0ac5f0dbc7a9aed0ea925d] Merge tag 'fixes-nc-for-linus' of 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
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[5e0b3a4e88012d259e8b2c0f02f393c79686daf9] Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' 
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
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[a09e9a7a4b907f2dfa9bdb2b98a1828ab4b340b2] Merge branch 'drm-next' of 
git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux
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[ae7a835cc546fc67df90edaaa0c48ae2b22a29fe] Merge branch 'next' of 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
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[90d561bed9619fc08c31eab9315ebe811d41149a] Merge remote-tracking branch 
'asoc/topic/fsl' into tmp
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[79916433f8549564038a7faae26e3ec4135f4b5d] Merge remote-tracking branch 
'asoc/topic/rt5640' into asoc-next
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[a8cc20999799a94929a56393ff39b32245e33d64] alsa/rme96: Add missing inclusion of 
linux/vmalloc.h
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[97c4de8fc0a47b99220b1209c7457c7dde05637a] Merge branch 
'topic/hda-ad-remove-static' into for-3.12
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[2d60fc7f7d3d79e5646646bb34811961f19d111a] ALSA: hdspm - AES32: Enable 
TCO/Sync-In in snd_hdspm_put_sync_ref()
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[fc39a7ea9235104b06ee43385d4265f2d078e62b] ALSA: hda - Drop static quirk for 
Toshiba Satellite L40-10Q
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[5ccc618fee67f0f0b2122dd4b32a02fd2b6a1569] ALSA: hda - Remove static quirks for 
AD1884/1984  variants
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[e0b27167c2d6464ff7ae7e35725024349e44596b] ALSA: hda - Convert the static quirk 
for Samsung Q1 Ultra
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[36ad45309be840d652394cfb032b592b6a20a3dd] ALSA: hda - Remove static quirks for 
AD1988 codecs
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[bd450dcc357646cc277c560ab24b35f940efa585] ALSA: hda - Remove static quirks for 
AD1981 and AD1983 codecs
bd450dcc357646cc277c560ab24b35f940efa585 is the first bad commit
commit bd450dcc357646cc277c560ab24b35f940efa585
Author: Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de
Date:   Thu Jul 4 15:48:04 2013 +0200

ALSA: hda - Remove static quirks for AD1981 and AD1983 codecs

These are relatively easy ones, as we already converted all static
quirks to the generic parser.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de

:04 04 8cd5b17b4e02bf6bba92e604726d36a46f3674ca 
c6dc5c9f6d74012a31c549d4b4c81b657ba235f0 M  sound

[gentoo-user]

[Nikita Tropin]

Hi there. I can't compile zsh-5.0.2-r3 with error on configure stage. It
says that I haven't any curser or ncurses library. However I have ncurses
5.9. Masked zsh 5.0.5 build fine. Additional info:

emerge -pqv =app-shells/zsh-5.0.2-r3
[ebuild  N] app-shells/zsh-5.0.2-r3  USE=caps doc examples gdbm pcre
unicode -debug -maildir
-static

emerge --info =app-shells/zsh-5.0.2-r3
Portage 2.2.8-r1 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.17,
3.10.7-gentoo x86_64)
=
 System Settings
=
System uname: Linux-3.10.7-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-2310_CPU_@
_2.90GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem: 3933576 total,960652 free
KiB Swap:  0 total, 0 free
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 11:15:01 +
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1
app-shells/bash:  4.2_p45
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12-r1
dev-lang/python:  2.7.5-r3, 3.2.5-r3, 3.3.3
dev-util/cmake:   2.8.10.2-r2
dev-util/pkgconfig:   0.28
sys-apps/baselayout:  2.2
sys-apps/openrc:  0.12.4
sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:   2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:   1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.4
sys-devel/binutils:   2.23.1
sys-devel/gcc:4.6.3, 4.7.3-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:2.4-r1
sys-devel/make:   3.82-r4
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.7 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:   2.17
Repositories: gentoo
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64
ACCEPT_LICENSE=*
CBUILD=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
CFLAGS=-ggdb -O2 -pipe -march=native
CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild
/etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo
CXXFLAGS=-ggdb -O2 -pipe -march=native
DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles
FCFLAGS=-O2 -pipe
FEATURES=assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks
ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs
protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn
unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync
FFLAGS=-O2 -pipe
GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://gentoo.iteam.net.ua/;
LANG=ru_RU.utf8
LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed
MAKEOPTS=-j5
PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT=/
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
--omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats
--human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local
--exclude=/packages
PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp
PORTDIR=/usr/portage
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=
SYNC=rsync://rsync.ua.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
USE=X aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apng autotools bash-completion berkdb
bindist bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cscope ctype cups curl cxx dbus
dga djvu doc dri dv dvb dvd dvdr encode enscript exif fbcon ffmpeg flac
fontconfig fortran ftp gdbm gif gimp git glut gpm gsm gstreamer gtk gtk2
gtk3 gzip iconv icu idn imlib introspection ipv6 jit jpeg jpeg2k lame lcms
libass libsamplerate lm_sensors lzma lzo mad matroska matrox mime mmx
modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer multilib mysql mysqli nas ncurses nls nptl ogg
openal openexr opengl openmp optimization pam pch pcre pdf png posix
postgres postscript profile python qt3support qt4 quicktime raw readline
samba scanner session sharedmem smp sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 sse3 ssl svg
sysvipc t1lib tcpd theora threads tiff truetype udev unicode vdpau
vim-syntax vorbis wavpack x264 xcb xcomposite xft xorg xpm xscreensaver
xvmc zlib zsh-completion ABI_X86=32 64 ALSA_CARDS=ali5451 als4000
atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938
es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio
via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci APACHE2_MODULES=authn_core authz_core
socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon
authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile
authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs
dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter
headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation
rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias
CALLIGRA_FEATURES=kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon
braindump author CAMERAS=ptp2 COLLECTD_PLUGINS=df interface irq load
memory rrdtool swap syslog ELIBC=glibc GPSD_PROTOCOLS=ashtech aivdm
earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip
navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2
timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx INPUT_DEVICES=evdev KERNEL=linux
LCD_DEVICES=bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb
ncurses text LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS=presenter-console
presenter-minimizer LINGUAS=ru en NETBEANS_MODULES=mobility apisupport
profiler 

Re: [gentoo-user] *** STOP misuing this list for personal attacks ***

[Tanstaafl]

On 3/23/2014 12:06 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:

On 23/03/2014 12:11, Tom Wijsman wrote:

On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 04:52:47 -0500
Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote:


It's my sincere hope that someone's persistence hammered some common
sense and email etiquette into his attitude.


Other Gentoo Developers did; but, I'll make an exception for this list.

The mailing list etiquette requires people to CC all the people
involved in a particular thread in replies to the mailing list, in case
any of them is not subscribed.

— http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Procmail


Whoah.

That page is in serious need of updating.

Unless - do most of the gentoo lists allow posts from non-subscribers? 
If so, then maybe THAT policy needs to be changed. I see ZERO reason to 
allow that, *especially* on official dev lists, where people should be 
expected to know how to use Reply-To-List and/or request direct CC's 
when needed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Making XEN functional

[Facundo Curti]

2014-03-23 9:35 GMT-03:00 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org:
 On Sunday, March 23, 2014 05:47:53 PM Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
 I'm not meaning to hijack this thread, but isn't KVM a better option? The
 difference between Xen and KVM is tiny I think, no?

What I see on web, is that XEN uses paravirtualization. If you have
the correct hardware (like i have), XEN have better perfonmance. My
intel i7 have virtualization instructions. See [1][2] y [3]

I'm new in virtualization, i'm doing this for a desktop machine. Just
for learn. Instead of use VirtualBOX or VMware, I'm installing XEN.
Best perfonmance, and I can learn in the process.


2014-03-23 9:14 GMT-03:00 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org:

 I see this in tmp:
 *
 checking whether the C compiler works... no
 configure: error: in `/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.1-
 r5/work/xen-4.3.1/tools':
 configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
 **

 Please fix your C-compiler. What does the following command return?
 # gcc-config -L


/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.3:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.3/32

 Please use the  xl  command set.  xm is deprecated.

:O I didn't know it was deprecated.

 Please also ensure you start the xen services:
 # /etc/init.d/xencommons start
 # /etc/init.d/xenstored start
 # /etc/init.d/xenconsoled start

 before trying the xl commands.

I'm using systemd, so I tried to start this way:
   systemctl enable xencommons
   systemctl enable xenstored
   systemctl enable xencosnsoled
And none exists :P (No such file or directory)

Instead, if I make it with /etc/init.d/xenstored start
it says:
WARNING: xenstored is already starting
(the same with xencommons and xenconsoled)

So, I try do xl list, and says:

libxl: error: libxl.c:87:libxl_ctx_alloc: Is xenstore daemon running?
failed to stat /var/run/xenstored.pid: No such file or directory
cannot init xl context

The correct way is start it from systemd? Or through /etc/init.d ?

 My .config from kernel is [configKernel] and my [grub.cfg]

 I will check those if the above didn't solve it.

 I have the following installed on my server:
 [I] app-emulation/xen
  Installed versions:  4.3.1-r5^t{tbz2}(12:09:22 PM 02/21/2014)
 (efi -custom-cflags -debug -flask -xsm)

 [I] app-emulation/xen-tools
   Installed versions:  4.3.1-r5^t{tbz2}(12:14:51 PM 02/21/2014)
 (api hvm pam qemu screen -custom-cflags -debug -doc -flask -ocaml -pygrub -
 python -static-libs -xend
 PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET=python2_7 -python2_6 PYTHON_TARGETS=python2_7 -
 python2_6)
I have:

o.o. I dont have xen installed. ¿Is that possible? ._.

[ebuild  N ] app-emulation/xen-4.3.1-r5  USE=efi xsm
-custom-cflags -debug -flask

I'm trying to install it but says:

!!! copy 
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-4.3.1-r5/image/boot/efi/gentoo/xen-4.3.1.efi
- /boot/efi/gentoo/xen-4.3.1.efi failed.
!!! [Errno 28] No space left on device

Maybe is because I tried to re-emerge this? o.o


 --
 Joost


Thank you for help!


[1] 
http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/systems-management/327628-kvm-or-xen-choosing-a-virtualization-platform
[2] 
http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/219/4/042005/pdf/1742-6596_219_4_042005.pdf
[3] 
http://ark.intel.com/es/products/75122/intel-core-i7-4770-processor-8m-cache-up-to-3_90-ghz

Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade

[Tom Wijsman]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 18:35:20 +0100
null_ptr rhan...@gmx.de wrote:

 On 23/03/14 11:06, Tom Wijsman wrote:
 Switching to the old kernel fixed it so I bisected the linux-stable
 sources (as in the wiki) and the first bad commit is bd450dcc357.
 Attached is the bisect.log.
 Since it seems like it's a kernel bug I will create a bug report.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/

Can you send me a link me (or CC me) to the kernel bug when you do so?

As a kernel maintainer, I can follow and perhaps backport a patch.

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

E-mail address  : tom...@gentoo.org
GPG Public Key  : 6D34E57D
GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2  ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D

Re: [gentoo-user] *** STOP misuing this list for personal attacks ***

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 16:31:58 +, Markos Chandras wrote:

 I think this thread has gone a bit off-topic. Just a reminder, Gentoo
 has a special team[1] designed for developers and *users* to contact
 if someone does not play by the rules. Please consider contacting this
 team if reaching an agreement is not possible, instead of using the
 list for arguments, conflicts etc.

While this is a valid point, Tom has already started to abide by the
preferred habits of this list, so there is nothing to argue about (not
that that stops some people).

CCed to Markos because he may not read the list regularly.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If you give a man a fish, he's fed for a day.
If you teach a man to fish, he'll buy a silly hat.
If you talk about fish to a starving man, you're a consultant.


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Re: [gentoo-user]

[Tom Wijsman]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 19:48:38 +0200
Nikita Tropin posixivis...@gmail.com wrote:

 See `config.log' for more details

More details, warnings and errors can be found by reading the build.log
from the bottom until you come across them; in this case, the above
quote reveals that more details are in config.log. If you read up
from the bottom of config.log, skipping the summary of variables;
you'll find the actual error.

 Am I need to do smth (e.g. register a bug) or it's my local problem?

Yes, this way, the developers can fix it to avoid it from happening for
other users too; can you comment with the output of `emerge --info` and
attach build.log as well as config.log? Thank you in advance.

If needed, resources with extra details about filing bug reports:

 - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Beautiful_bug_reports
 - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bugzilla_HOWTO

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

E-mail address  : tom...@gentoo.org
GPG Public Key  : 6D34E57D
GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2  ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D

Re: [gentoo-user] Making XEN functional

[J. Roeleveld]

On Sun, March 23, 2014 19:26, Facundo Curti wrote:
 2014-03-23 9:35 GMT-03:00 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org:
 On Sunday, March 23, 2014 05:47:53 PM Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
 I'm not meaning to hijack this thread, but isn't KVM a better option?
 The
 difference between Xen and KVM is tiny I think, no?

 What I see on web, is that XEN uses paravirtualization. If you have
 the correct hardware (like i have), XEN have better perfonmance. My
 intel i7 have virtualization instructions. See [1][2] y [3]

 I'm new in virtualization, i'm doing this for a desktop machine. Just
 for learn. Instead of use VirtualBOX or VMware, I'm installing XEN.
 Best perfonmance, and I can learn in the process.

On desktop, I would recommend something like Virtualbox.
Xen works best with a minimal host environment on a dedicated machine.

 2014-03-23 9:14 GMT-03:00 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org:

 I see this in tmp:
 *
 checking whether the C compiler works... no
 configure: error: in `/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.1-
 r5/work/xen-4.3.1/tools':
 configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
 **

 Please fix your C-compiler. What does the following command return?
 # gcc-config -L


 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.3:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.3/32

what about gcc-config -l (sorry, meant lower-case in previous email)

 Please use the  xl  command set.  xm is deprecated.

 :O I didn't know it was deprecated.

 Please also ensure you start the xen services:
 # /etc/init.d/xencommons start
 # /etc/init.d/xenstored start
 # /etc/init.d/xenconsoled start

 before trying the xl commands.

 I'm using systemd, so I tried to start this way:
systemctl enable xencommons
systemctl enable xenstored
systemctl enable xencosnsoled
 And none exists :P (No such file or directory)

I don't use systemd. You will need to find the correct unit-files for Xen.
Alternatively, use OpenRC.

 Instead, if I make it with /etc/init.d/xenstored start
 it says:
 WARNING: xenstored is already starting
 (the same with xencommons and xenconsoled)

 So, I try do xl list, and says:

 libxl: error: libxl.c:87:libxl_ctx_alloc: Is xenstore daemon running?
 failed to stat /var/run/xenstored.pid: No such file or directory
 cannot init xl context

 The correct way is start it from systemd? Or through /etc/init.d ?

Correct way depends on the init-system you are using. Systemd does things
differently compared to OpenRC.

 My .config from kernel is [configKernel] and my [grub.cfg]

 I will check those if the above didn't solve it.

 I have the following installed on my server:
 [I] app-emulation/xen
  Installed versions:  4.3.1-r5^t{tbz2}(12:09:22 PM 02/21/2014)
 (efi -custom-cflags -debug -flask -xsm)

 [I] app-emulation/xen-tools
   Installed versions:  4.3.1-r5^t{tbz2}(12:14:51 PM 02/21/2014)
 (api hvm pam qemu screen -custom-cflags -debug -doc -flask -ocaml
 -pygrub -
 python -static-libs -xend
 PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET=python2_7 -python2_6 PYTHON_TARGETS=python2_7 -
 python2_6)
 I have:

 o.o. I dont have xen installed. ¿Is that possible? ._.

Yes, xen-tools can be installed seperately.
You need xen installed to be able to boot with it.

 [ebuild  N ] app-emulation/xen-4.3.1-r5  USE=efi xsm
 -custom-cflags -debug -flask

 I'm trying to install it but says:

 !!! copy
 /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-4.3.1-r5/image/boot/efi/gentoo/xen-4.3.1.efi
 - /boot/efi/gentoo/xen-4.3.1.efi failed.
 !!! [Errno 28] No space left on device

 Maybe is because I tried to re-emerge this? o.o

Actually, you haven't got xen installed yet.
And the install fails because your EFI-boot partition is full.
Also, you need to ensure you boot correctly using Xen. The Linux kernel
should be loaded and started by Xen as the primary domain.

--
Joost

Re: [gentoo-user]

[Dragostin Yanev]

 No terminal handling library was found on your system.
 This is probably a library called 'curses' or 'ncurses'.  You may
 need to install a package called 'curses-devel' or 'ncurses-devel' on your
 system.
 See `config.log' for more details

Hi Nikita Tropin,

No terminal handling library was found on your system.
This is probably a library called 'curses' or 'ncurses'.  You may
need to install a package called 'curses-devel' or 'ncurses-devel' on
your system.
See `config.log' for more details

the ebuild has =sys-libs/ncurses-5.1 RDEPEND that portage should have
dealt with. Is your system up to date, clean and synced?

Re: [gentoo-user] Making XEN functional

[Facundo Curti]

2014-03-23 16:03 GMT-03:00 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org:
 On Sun, March 23, 2014 19:26, Facundo Curti wrote:
 2014-03-23 9:35 GMT-03:00 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org:
 On Sunday, March 23, 2014 05:47:53 PM Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
 I'm not meaning to hijack this thread, but isn't KVM a better option?
 The
 difference between Xen and KVM is tiny I think, no?

 What I see on web, is that XEN uses paravirtualization. If you have
 the correct hardware (like i have), XEN have better perfonmance. My
 intel i7 have virtualization instructions. See [1][2] y [3]

 I'm new in virtualization, i'm doing this for a desktop machine. Just
 for learn. Instead of use VirtualBOX or VMware, I'm installing XEN.
 Best perfonmance, and I can learn in the process.

 On desktop, I would recommend something like Virtualbox.
 Xen works best with a minimal host environment on a dedicated machine.

Thank you for advice. I'm reading about so I can take a choice.

 2014-03-23 9:14 GMT-03:00 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org:

 I see this in tmp:
 *
 checking whether the C compiler works... no
 configure: error: in `/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-4.3.1-
 r5/work/xen-4.3.1/tools':
 configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
 **

 Please fix your C-compiler. What does the following command return?
 # gcc-config -L


 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.3:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.3/32

 what about gcc-config -l (sorry, meant lower-case in previous email)


 [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.7.3 *

 Please use the  xl  command set.  xm is deprecated.

 :O I didn't know it was deprecated.

 Please also ensure you start the xen services:
 # /etc/init.d/xencommons start
 # /etc/init.d/xenstored start
 # /etc/init.d/xenconsoled start

 before trying the xl commands.

 I'm using systemd, so I tried to start this way:
systemctl enable xencommons
systemctl enable xenstored
systemctl enable xencosnsoled
 And none exists :P (No such file or directory)

 I don't use systemd. You will need to find the correct unit-files for Xen.
 Alternatively, use OpenRC.


yep, but I cant find this. Maybe is because XEN is not installed rigth now.

 Instead, if I make it with /etc/init.d/xenstored start
 it says:
 WARNING: xenstored is already starting
 (the same with xencommons and xenconsoled)

 So, I try do xl list, and says:

 libxl: error: libxl.c:87:libxl_ctx_alloc: Is xenstore daemon running?
 failed to stat /var/run/xenstored.pid: No such file or directory
 cannot init xl context

 The correct way is start it from systemd? Or through /etc/init.d ?

 Correct way depends on the init-system you are using. Systemd does things
 differently compared to OpenRC.

 My .config from kernel is [configKernel] and my [grub.cfg]

 I will check those if the above didn't solve it.

 I have the following installed on my server:
 [I] app-emulation/xen
  Installed versions:  4.3.1-r5^t{tbz2}(12:09:22 PM 02/21/2014)
 (efi -custom-cflags -debug -flask -xsm)

 [I] app-emulation/xen-tools
   Installed versions:  4.3.1-r5^t{tbz2}(12:14:51 PM 02/21/2014)
 (api hvm pam qemu screen -custom-cflags -debug -doc -flask -ocaml
 -pygrub -
 python -static-libs -xend
 PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET=python2_7 -python2_6 PYTHON_TARGETS=python2_7 -
 python2_6)
 I have:

 o.o. I dont have xen installed. ¿Is that possible? ._.

 Yes, xen-tools can be installed seperately.
 You need xen installed to be able to boot with it.

I have xen-tools. But I dont have xen.

 [ebuild  N ] app-emulation/xen-4.3.1-r5  USE=efi xsm
 -custom-cflags -debug -flask

 I'm trying to install it but says:

 !!! copy
 /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-4.3.1-r5/image/boot/efi/gentoo/xen-4.3.1.efi
 - /boot/efi/gentoo/xen-4.3.1.efi failed.
 !!! [Errno 28] No space left on device

 Maybe is because I tried to re-emerge this? o.o

 Actually, you haven't got xen installed yet.
 And the install fails because your EFI-boot partition is full.
 Also, you need to ensure you boot correctly using Xen. The Linux kernel
 should be loaded and started by Xen as the primary domain.


Yes. I had xen installed. I booted from grub with it, and XEN loaded
my system. But once inside, I tried to re-emerge. So, XEN was
unistalled, and right now it can't be emerged any more ._.

I didn't shutdown my computer yet, So I still using a kernel XEN, in a domain0.

I dont know why i dont have space on EFI anymore ._. If I installed it
once, why I cant do this twice? ._. I cleaned, on efi, the files from
old install xen.

This is all i have:

/boot/efi:
EFI
tmp

/boot/efi/EFI:
gentoo

/boot/efi/EFI/gentoo:
grubx64.efi

df -h:
/dev/sdb12,0M   124K  1,9M   7% /boot/efi

It just have 2MB space, because I do it following the gentoo handbook
that recommends 4MB of space (less 2 from filesystem).

Is that enough space? Any way to fix it Without changing the
partitions? I dont use LVM :/

Thank you for help!

Re: [gentoo-user] Making XEN functional

[Facundo Curti]

Solved the lack of space. I modified my partitions. and xen is back
again :) Now I'm going to reboot with xen, start the services and try
with xl.

Thank you for help. I will keep in contact

Re: [gentoo-user] Making XEN functional

[Facundo Curti]

It works! :)
Thank you for you help! Now I just need to install my hosts jeje. I'll
try XEN, if I see performance is not good, I will change to VirtualBox
as you suggested.

Thanks again! :)

[gentoo-user] HP scanner is no longer found

[Dale]

Howdy,

This is confusing.  A month or so ago, my HP 5300C scanner worked just
fine.  I plugged it in today, it doesn't show up.  When I type lsusb, I
get this:

root@fireball / # lsusb
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root
hub 
  

Bus 007 Device 002: ID 0764:0501 Cyber Power System, Inc. CP1500 AVR
UPS 


Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root
hub 
  

Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root
hub 
  

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root
hub 
  

Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:c05a Logitech, Inc. M90/M100 Optical
Mouse   


Bus 005 Device 003: ID 22b8:6402 Motorola
PCS 

   

Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root
hub 
  

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root
hub 
  

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root
hub 
  

Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root
hub 
  

Bus 008 Device 002: ID
2109:3431   

  

Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
root@fireball / #

No scanner there.  I thought maybe the cable was bad, plugged in my
printer with the same cable and the printer shows up just fine.  I have
tried both a 3.11.6 and 3.13.6 kernel thinking just maybe it was a bug
but I'm pretty sure I was using 3.11.6 last time.  Here is a list of usb
and sane packages installed:

root@fireball / # equery list *usb* *sane*
 * Searching for *usb* ...
[IP-] [  ] dev-libs/libusb-1.0.18:1
[IP-] [  ] dev-libs/libusb-compat-0.1.5-r2:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-apps/usbutils-007:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/libusb-0-r1:0
[IP-] [  ] virtual/libusb-1-r1:1

 * Searching for *sane* ...
[IP-] [  ] kde-base/ksaneplugin-4.12.3:4/4.12
[IP-] [  ] kde-base/libksane-4.12.3:4/4.12
[IP-] [  ] media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.24-r3:0
[IP-] [  ] media-gfx/xsane-0.999:0
root@fireball / # 

This is the USE flags which I try to enable globally unless there is a
conflict that doesn't allow it.

root@fireball / # equery h usb
 * Searching for USE flag usb ...
[IP-] [  ] app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.22:0
[IP-] [  ] app-mobilephone/gammu-1.33.0:0
[IP-] [  ] kde-base/systemsettings-4.11.7:4/4.11
[IP-] [  ] media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.24-r3:0
[IP-] [  ] net-print/cups-1.7.1:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-power/nut-2.6.5-r1:0
root@fireball / # 

And emerge -pv for some packages listed above just for giggles.

root@fireball / # emerge -pv dev-libs/libusb dev-libs/libusb-compat
sys-apps/usbutils =virtual/libusb-0-r1 =virtual/libusb-1-r1
media-gfx/sane-backends

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

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R] dev-libs/libusb-1.0.18:1  USE=udev -debug -doc
-examples -static-libs {-test} ABI_X86=(64) (-32) (-x32) 0 kB
[ebuild   R] virtual/libusb-1-r1:1  USE=udev ABI_X86=(64) (-32)
(-x32) 0 kB
[ebuild   R] dev-libs/libusb-compat-0.1.5-r2  USE=-debug -examples
-static-libs ABI_X86=(64) (-32) (-x32) 0 kB
[ebuild   R] sys-apps/usbutils-007  USE=zlib -python
PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET=python2_7 PYTHON_TARGETS=python2_7 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ~] media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.24-r3  USE=avahi gphoto2
ipv6 threads usb -doc -snmp -systemd -v4l -xinetd
SANE_BACKENDS=avision hp hp3500 hp3900 hp4200 hp5400 hp5590 hpljm1005
hpsj5s snapscan* -abaton