Re: [gentoo-user] advice on a new laptop
Hello, I got the Asus UX310UA-FC089T with an i7-6500U wich seems to be almost the same (given your specs, at least IO-seems the same), except the cpu (mine is the previous generation). I have Gentoo running on it and would say it is mostly functional. I can boot with efi-manager/UEFI as bootloader and have no problems using it as my daily driver. BUT I don't have configured any acpi-events like brightness up/down or lid closed (mostly because I don't need them that much and I had other stuff to do). For some of them I know they can work, since I ran a Fedora 24 live-CD and at least brightness and keyboard-backlighting worked, as well as the sound keys (tried Fedora 25 for like 10 minutes and they didn't seem to work there, might be wrong on that). I remember having trouble installing Gentoo on it, especially with the trackpad, but I somehow got it working (as mentioned before Fedora 24 worked like a charm). Sometimes the trackpad doesn't get recognised after boot, but it is very rare and I usually don't notice, since most work is done in the terminal. The Trackpad is if I remeber correctly connected via i2c. Even if not everything works perfect out of the box, I think all problems are solvable, the brightness and keyboard-lighting are both adjustable with a script. If you need help with anything, or want some more information on my laptop (to find differences or hints on stuff you might not find) feel free to ask me. I'd like to help ;] Regards, Holger Wünsche On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 09:28:05AM +0100, Stefano Crocco wrote: > Hello to everyone, > I need to buy a new laptop and I'd like some advice. Currently, I'm thinking > of buying an ASUS UX310UA-GL547T. Has anyone tried running Gentoo on it? If > so, how did it go? A Google search only lead me to a page hinting it should > work with linux, but didn't give any detail. > > Alternatively, which other model would you suggest with similar > specifications? The ASUS UX310UA-GL547T has the following characteristics: > > Screen: 13.3" - 1920x1080 Pixel - Full HD, LED, No Glare > CPU: Intel® CoreTM i3-7100U (2.4 GHZ) > RAM: 4 GB DDR4 > Max RAM: 16 GB > Video Card: Intel® HD Graphics 620 > Video OUT: HDMI > Hard Disk: 500 GB SATA 5400 rpm > Wireless: WiFi 802.11n (a/c) > Intel® Wireless Display (WiDi) > Bluetooth: Bluetooth 4.1 > USB slots: 2x USB 2.0 - 1x USB 3.0 - 1x USB 3.1 > Card Reader: SD/MMC > Size and weight: 32.3x22.3x1.84~1.90 cm / 1.45 Kg > > The price should be less than 800€/$. > > Thanks in advance > > Stefano > > signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 root-partition mounted read-only as "type none"
On 15 September 2016 01:01:02 CEST, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >If you're using an initramfs the kernel will not mount anything at any >time unless some process with sufficient capabilities asks it to. The >initramfs typically mounts the root partition, and then execs init. >Anything beyond that is done by init or whatever processes it spawns, >such as openrc. Offhand I don't remember if modern initramfs >solutions mount root as read-write; openrc will probably check for >this in any case and remount if it is read-only (I could be wrong on >that). > >If something other than root isn't mounted correctly, the fault >probably lies in your fstab or openrc, or you're missing a necessary >driver/etc. Thanks for correcting me, i mixed it up a bit. But after looking in into the init-system I found the problem (or at least I fixed it). Since the init did not work I tried: # openrc sysinit and got some errors I can not fully recall. So I took a look at dmesg (needed to use the command, since the file did not get created) I saw: the problem was a segfault in libselinux. I switched to the live-cd mounted all partitions chrooted in it, then I reemerged the whole system (emerge -ae world), because I wanted to be sure to go safe. After this I double checked the kernel configuration again and rebuild it as well (the same with the initramfs). This solved the problem, at least for me (finally I have the right keyboardlayout loaded on boot ;-). Thanks for all your help pointing me in the right direction (especially with /proc/mounts which cleared the way). I learned quite a lot and got my system running the I want. Holger Wünsche
Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 root-partition mounted read-only as "type none"
On 14 September 2016 22:42:06 CEST, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Holger Wünsche ><diegoldeneent...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I installed gentoo bun ran into some problems: >> - the root-partition is read-only but shown as read-write when >directly booting into gentoo, >> - the type of the root-partition is "none", >> - when only mounting the root-partition using a gentoo live-cd all >other partitions are shown as mounted too and >> - neither /dev, /proc, sys, run nor /tmp are mounted. >> > >How many of these problems are replaced simply by replacing /etc/mtab >with a symlink to /proc/self/mounts? While it does not solve the problem as such (it still does not mount any partition but the root-partition in read-only) it explains, why I got these strange outputs. I think the problem might be fstab or the point, where the initramfs gives controll to the kernel. Since if I am not mistaken (I just say what I recall reading while searching for a solution) the initramfs just gets the system running and then the kernel should remount the root-partition. Holger Wünsche
Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 root-partition mounted read-only as "type none"
>Sorry, might be /proc/mounts. # cat /proc/mounts proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0 udev /devdevtmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0 devpts/dev/ptsdevptsrw,nosuid,relatime,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /syssysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0 /dev/sda3 / ext4ro,relatime,data=ordered 0 0 selinuxfs/sys/fs/ selinuxselinuxfs rw,relatime 0 0 tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,nodev,relatime,size=3277012k,mode=755 0 0 # mount -t ext4 -o remount,rw /dev/sda3 # cat /proc/mounts […] /dev/sda3 / ext4rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0 […] So /proc/mounts is the file giving the correct information. As we can see /dev, /proc, /sys, /run are existing and mounted as planned (but maybe not fully populated?). But we can also see no other partitions are mounted. Strange is the output of mount ans lsblk both before and after remounting of /dev/sda3: # mount /dev/sdc1 on /home type ext4 (rw) /dev/sdc2 on /var type ext4 (rw) /dev/sda3 on / type none (rw) /dev/sda2 on /boot type vfat (rw) # lsblk (shortened) sda2 /boot sda3 / sdc1 /home sdc2 /var Clearly this is not the case, since all directories exist without beeing mounted.Therefore some (important files are missing). >Am typing this on my phone, so can't double check. You got the right file :) >What does your /etc/fstab look like? condensed output of # cat /etc/fstab /dev/sda2 /boot vfat defaults,ro 1 2 /dev/sda3 / ext4 defaults 0 1 /dev/sdb2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sdc1 /home ext4 defaults 0 0 /dev/sdc2 /varext4 defaults 0 0 /etc/fstab isn't beautiful, because I have done some trial and error here (not the best idea I know). >Silly question, but just to be sure. >You have followed the handbook from A to Z and haven't skipped >anything? To be honest: I did not read everything this time, because I installed a somewhat working version yesterday. That time I read it all, but I copied to much from an older install (since this is a reinstall after a software upgrade), so the previous attempt did not work to well (quite some permission problems and some other small copy errors). So this time O did it all again without copy The result is I skipped formating, because I just wiped the partitions from the live-cd. But I do not think I forgot something (*but* it could have happened). P.S.: I think I will learn a lot here, but if it takes too much of your time or you don't have an idea, it would not be the a huge problem for me to make yet an other install and hope it will work. Holger Wünsche
Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 root-partition mounted read-only as "type none"
On 14 September 2016 19:04:23 CEST, "J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: >On September 14, 2016 6:18:52 PM GMT+02:00, "Holger Wünsche" ><diegoldeneent...@gmail.com> wrote: >>I installed gentoo bun ran into some problems: >>[…] > >Does the output of ># cat /proc/mtab >Change after remounting rw? Since I can not find /proc/mtab I assume you mean /etc/mtab. # cat /etc/mtab /dev/sdc1 /home ext4 rw 0 0 /dev/sdc2 /var ext4 rw 0 0 /dev/sda3 / none rw 0 0 /dev/sda2 /boot vfatrw 0 0 (output formatted for readability) > >Also, how did you build the initramfs? >If using a tool, provide full commandline. > >If done manually, please provide your method. > For generating the initramfs I loosely followed the "Configuring the Linux kernel" chapter of the handbook, as well as the "EFI stub kernel" Wiki-page: # genkernel --no-compress-initramfs --install initramfs The initramfs gets compiled into the kernel via CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD (CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE). Since the root-partition is mounted read-only I can't provide any log files. Also despite not shown /dev, /proc and /sys seem to be populated, but emerge doesn't seem to be happy with it: # emerge Failed to validate a sane '/dev' bash process sibstitution doesn't work; this may be an indication of a broken '/dev/fd' Holger Wünsche
[gentoo-user] ext4 root-partition mounted read-only as "type none"
I installed gentoo bun ran into some problems: - the root-partition is read-only but shown as read-write when directly booting into gentoo, - the type of the root-partition is "none", - when only mounting the root-partition using a gentoo live-cd all other partitions are shown as mounted too and - neither /dev, /proc, sys, run nor /tmp are mounted. The setup is the following: sda3/ext4 sda2/bootvfat sdc1/home ext4 sdc2/var ext4 The system is booted via UEFI without bootloader. The kernel has a build-in initramfs and following arguments: root=/dev/sda3 rootfstype=ext4 The root-partition can not be remounted (I don't get an error, but the output of mount doesn't change). Holger Wünsche
