Re: [gentoo-user] Would constant max CPU speed cause lockups?

2021-06-05 Thread Dottie Keogh
Have you ran memtest?  Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Saturday, June 5, 2021, 5:21 PM, Michael wrote: On Saturday, 5 June 2021 18:37:26 BST tastytea wrote: > On 2021-06-05 13:18-0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > >  A few years ago, I cheaped out and bought a low-powered Atom desktop > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Where does emerge --sync store the versions of pkgs for updates?

2021-06-05 Thread Kusoneko
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 11:00:58PM +0200, n952162 wrote: I'm trying to track down why sometimes binary packages on my server aren't used by my client. Does anyone know where the information gotten by emerge --sync is stored? I'm pretty sure emerge --sync pulls ebuilds into

Re: [gentoo-user] Would constant max CPU speed cause lockups?

2021-06-05 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 5 June 2021 18:37:26 BST tastytea wrote: > On 2021-06-05 13:18-0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > > A few years ago, I cheaped out and bought a low-powered Atom desktop > > > > with 8 gigs of RAM. Looking back, that was a mistake. It would > > default to 480p or at best 720p on

Re: [gentoo-user] Where does emerge --sync store the versions of pkgs for updates?

2021-06-05 Thread Dale
n952162 wrote: > I'm trying to track down why sometimes binary packages on my server > aren't used by my client. > > Does anyone know where the information gotten by emerge --sync is stored? > > > You can find where your is with this: root@fireball / # cat /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf |

Re: [gentoo-user] nice-to-have: time stamp when each package starts emerging

2021-06-05 Thread n952162
On 6/5/21 11:38 AM, tastytea wrote: On 2021-06-05 09:35+0200 n952162 wrote:  Just sayin' /etc/portage/bashrc is sourced for every package.[1][2] Try something like [[ "${EBUILD_PHASE}" == "setup" ]] && date [1] [2]

[gentoo-user] Where does emerge --sync store the versions of pkgs for updates?

2021-06-05 Thread n952162
I'm trying to track down why sometimes binary packages on my server aren't used by my client. Does anyone know where the information gotten by emerge --sync is stored?

Re: [gentoo-user] Would constant max CPU speed cause lockups?

2021-06-05 Thread tastytea
On 2021-06-05 13:18-0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > A few years ago, I cheaped out and bought a low-powered Atom desktop > with 8 gigs of RAM. Looking back, that was a mistake. It would > default to 480p or at best 720p on Youtube. But I wrote a nifty bash > script that manually put the CPU

[gentoo-user] Would constant max CPU speed cause lockups?

2021-06-05 Thread Walter Dnes
A few years ago, I cheaped out and bought a low-powered Atom desktop with 8 gigs of RAM. Looking back, that was a mistake. It would default to 480p or at best 720p on Youtube. But I wrote a nifty bash script that manually put the CPU into "userspace" mode, and selected the maximum available

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive AHCI versus RAID setting in BIOS?

2021-06-05 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 08:53:30AM +0100, Michael wrote > Back to the original question: > > I've not had a Dell with this option yet, but I understand Dell uses > RAID with NVMe drives because it allows Intel RST drivers to work > with most/all NVMe drives. I'm not sure if any of the Dell

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU -nographic Option with OVMF

2021-06-05 Thread Nils Freydank
Am Montag, den 24.05.2021 um 11:52:22 Uhr +0100 schrieb Michael : > On Monday, 24 May 2021 02:01:15 BST Oliver Dixon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I decided to bite the bullet yesterday and switch from clunky, and generally > > untoward, VirtualBox to QEMU/KVM for developing kernel modules. I have a >

Re: [gentoo-user] nice-to-have: time stamp when each package starts emerging

2021-06-05 Thread tastytea
On 2021-06-05 09:35+0200 n952162 wrote: >  Just sayin' /etc/portage/bashrc is sourced for every package.[1][2] Try something like [[ "${EBUILD_PHASE}" == "setup" ]] && date [1] [2]

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive AHCI versus RAID setting in BIOS?

2021-06-05 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 5 June 2021 08:32:47 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 22:10:10 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > I always boot system rescue and dd the entries drive to somewhere > > > safe. That way I restore the original setup in the case of a warranty > > > claim - unless the failure is

[gentoo-user] nice-to-have: time stamp when each package starts emerging

2021-06-05 Thread n952162
 Just sayin'

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive AHCI versus RAID setting in BIOS?

2021-06-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 22:10:10 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > I always boot system rescue and dd the entries drive to somewhere > > safe. That way I restore the original setup in the case of a warranty > > claim - unless the failure is that bad that I can't boot or access > > the disk. > > a)

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive AHCI versus RAID setting in BIOS?

2021-06-05 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 5 June 2021 03:10:10 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 12:04:19AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > > > On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 18:04:51 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > Since wiping Windows voids the warranty, I'll run the new machine for > > > > > > several days under

Re: [gentoo-user] after latest update emerge completely broken

2021-06-05 Thread John Covici
On Sat, 05 Jun 2021 02:09:32 -0400, William Kenworthy wrote: > > > On 5/6/21 9:53 am, John Covici wrote: > > On Fri, 04 Jun 2021 07:39:25 -0400, > > John Covici wrote: > >> I have binary packages for lots of things, including portage if I need > >> it, but no way to emerge any of them. > >> > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] after latest update emerge completely broken

2021-06-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On 5/6/21 9:53 am, John Covici wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jun 2021 07:39:25 -0400, > John Covici wrote: >> I have binary packages for lots of things, including portage if I need >> it, but no way to emerge any of them. >> >> >> Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > I have an update. I was able to