[gentoo-user] Re: 2 months into an 8-month computation.

2019-07-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/07/2019 20:59, Alan Grimes wrote: 'ey, I have the 2.3 months into an 8-month computation blues... [...] So basically all gentoo updates will have to be done at the end of this run, I'm not really sure when, sometime in the December-January timeframe. I guess you should have written your

[gentoo-user] Re: conditional sysctl tweaks?

2019-07-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/07/2019 20:03, Ian Zimmerman wrote: What is the cleanest way to handle the situation when a new sysctl knob is introduced by a kernel release and I want to use it, but I also have older kernels around? What's the point of that?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: escape from i3lock

2019-07-11 Thread Laurence Perkins
> So the solution is to just use "xscreensaver" by jwz. Which can be > configured to just blank the screen etc. as wanted by the op. See > also > the FAQ: https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html > > HTH, > -dnh > Except I use xscreensaver myself and it in no way prevents VT switch, which is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: escape from i3lock

2019-07-11 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 11 Jul 2019, Laurence Perkins wrote: >You could also leave DontVTSwitch on all the time and set a keyboard >shortcut to run chvt (man 1 chvt) with appropriate permissions and >parameters instead. Keyboard shortcuts shouldn't get processed if the >screen is locked. The screensaver

Re: [gentoo-user] strange problem (no video output) on new PC

2019-07-11 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 11 July 2019 23:31:51 BST Jack wrote: > I'm hoping the cumulative wisdom of the assembled masses might be able > to figure out what I'm clearly missing, assuming there IS something I'm > missing. > > I've recently assembled a new PC, with an MSI B350-Tomahawk motherboard > and a

[gentoo-user] strange problem (no video output) on new PC

2019-07-11 Thread Jack
I'm hoping the cumulative wisdom of the assembled masses might be able to figure out what I'm clearly missing, assuming there IS something I'm missing. I've recently assembled a new PC, with an MSI B350-Tomahawk motherboard and a Ryzen 5 2600 CPU. (We'll skip that I ended up actually

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: escape from i3lock

2019-07-11 Thread Laurence Perkins
You could also leave DontVTSwitch on all the time and set a keyboard shortcut to run chvt (man 1 chvt) with appropriate permissions and parameters instead. Keyboard shortcuts shouldn't get processed if the screen is locked. LMP On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 21:01 +, artur.tamm...@gmail.com wrote: >

[gentoo-user] Re: escape from i3lock

2019-07-11 Thread artur . tamm . 85
I tried to google if it is possible to change xorg serverflags in runtime, but was unable to find anything. I think that would be a cleaner solution (changing the DontVTSwitch option before locking and then restoring later). Artur Ian Zimmerman writes: On 2019-07-11 09:57, Ian Zimmerman

[gentoo-user] Re: escape from i3lock

2019-07-11 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-07-11 09:57, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > setxkbmap -option srvrkeys:none > > i3lock -c 003355 -n > > setxkbmap -option '' > > Thanks for the idea! It won't work as is for me because I already use > some non-default xkb options. But it is closer than anything that has > come up yet. I'll

[gentoo-user] Re: escape from i3lock

2019-07-11 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-07-10, François-Xavier CARTON wrote: > On 7/10/19 7:03 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: >> Here is my next "low information" question, haha. >> >> I use i3lock which is like Xscreensaver but much much simpler; it plays >> no movies or games, just blanks the screen with a configured color or >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Decent single-user/embedded-device security standard

2019-07-11 Thread Laurence Perkins
>You could still use USGCB (or which ever standard the auditors regard highly) >but then document the differences with a >note explaining why. For USGCB I'd add another column to the spreadsheet with >options of compliant/non compliant with >mitigations/non compliant/not applicable and another

[gentoo-user] 2 months into an 8-month computation.

2019-07-11 Thread Alan Grimes
'ey, I have the 2.3 months into an 8-month computation blues... I stupidly fired up my number theory code which grows at roughly 3^x (where X = 49 right now...). (current position in the search space: 0x149b87d9 ) 0 hits so far, the set I'm looking for is

[gentoo-user] conditional sysctl tweaks?

2019-07-11 Thread Ian Zimmerman
What is the cleanest way to handle the situation when a new sysctl knob is introduced by a kernel release and I want to use it, but I also have older kernels around? I think the error is not fatal so I can simply add it to sysctl.conf, but the message is going to be ugly. -- Please don't Cc: me

[gentoo-user] Re: escape from i3lock

2019-07-11 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-07-10 23:46, artur.tamm...@gmail.com wrote: > #!/bin/bash > setxkbmap -option srvrkeys:none > i3lock -c 003355 -n > setxkbmap -option '' Thanks for the idea! It won't work as is for me because I already use some non-default xkb options. But it is closer than anything that has come up

[gentoo-user] Re: escape from i3lock

2019-07-11 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-07-11 10:43, Adam Carter wrote: > > No, it's my way to run things as root, in general. I distrust su, sudo > > and friends. > > > > su is mature, well understood and the standard way of doing things. If you > had run an extra term in your X session that had been su'd to root, you >

Re: [gentoo-user] Massive kmail breakage with mariadb-10.4.6

2019-07-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 18:40:04 BST Mick wrote: > Normally, I don't think any of the above is required. From what I recall > akonadiserver runs mysql_upgrade each and every time akonadiserver is > launched. However, if akonadi can't run the kdepim mysql following a > database version

Re: [gentoo-user] Massive kmail breakage with mariadb-10.4.6

2019-07-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 18:40:04 BST Mick wrote: > On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:31:19 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 10:06:01 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 00:06:43 BST Adam Carter wrote: > > > > > I've just tried upgrading mariadb again