Re: [gentoo-user] Module and kernel woes after two "emerge -DuNe @world"s

2019-06-17 Thread Grant Taylor
TL;DR: It does seem that the kernel was holding things back to the point that things weren't working. :-( On 6/8/19 12:01 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: I'm having problems with newly compiled modules (zfs (et al.) and vbox (et al.)) and kernel after doing two "emerge -DuNe @world"s. I've managed

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI kernel installation?

2019-06-17 Thread Grant Taylor
On 6/17/19 3:02 AM, Wols Lists wrote: Did you run VANILLA 2.4? (None of the distro kernels carried those particular changes, for obvious reasons :-) Yes. I would download source form kernel.org and compile it manually. You're making the classic logical mistake of "it's not true for me

[gentoo-user] Allow only traffic from Whonix-Gateway

2019-06-17 Thread Hubert Hauser
I need to allow only traffic from Whonix-Gateway virtual machine and drop the rest on the host. Only allowed traffic on the host are torified system upgrades. I use qemu-kvm for virtualization. ifconfig -a output:   eth0: flags=4099 mtu 1500 ether 00:d8:61:44:3b:36 txqueuelen 1000

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge wants to downgrade icu

2019-06-17 Thread netfab
Le 16/06/19 à 10:22, Alarig Le Lay a tapoté : > Hi, sorry for the delay. > > On mer. 12 juin 12:31:31 2019, netfab wrote: > > Try --autounmask-backtrack=y emerge option. > > Thanks a lot, it worked. > But why portage bothers about icu so suddenly? > Now that =app-office/libreoffice-bin-6.2.4.2

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI kernel installation?

2019-06-17 Thread Mick
On Monday, 17 June 2019 04:37:13 BST Grant Taylor wrote: > My opinion is that the 2 x RAM no longer applies because systems don't > utilize swap space. As such it's a waste of disk space to dedicate 2 x > RAM to swap. I've also noticed usage of swap has become much more efficient over the years,

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI kernel installation?

2019-06-17 Thread Wols Lists
On 17/06/19 04:37, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 6/16/19 7:02 PM, Wols Lists wrote: >> So you didn't read what I wrote ... Par for the course :-( > > I did. I still hear people say it today. It's not old as in past tense. > >> The basic Unix mechanism needs twice ram. > > I disagree. > >> It's

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI kernel installation?

2019-06-17 Thread François-Xavier CARTON
On 6/17/19 5:37 AM, Grant Taylor wrote: I doubt it. I've routinely done emerges on machines with < 16 GB of memory and 2 GB of swap.?? Including llvm, clang, gcc, rust, Firefox and Thunderbird. I routinely do an emerge -DuNe @world on a VPS with 1 GB of memory and 1 GB of swap.?? It works