Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Best bios type thingy to boot a computer

2018-08-31 Thread Godzil
I really enjoyed (and still) Open Firmware which was used by Apple on the PowerPC macintosh (starting from the first PCI models up to the latest G5) It is a nice environment, with all the capabilities of UEFI with even more as it come for free and directly with a Forth interpreter (basically

Re: [gentoo-user] openscad seg fault

2016-03-12 Thread Godzil
If it's build using debug options, looking with GDB where it fail would be much more useful than a random dependency graph. It's intriguing that it default just after doing a mmap: mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f50a7949000 What

Re: [gentoo-user] After logging into a console. text flashes on the screen and returns to the login

2016-01-30 Thread Godzil
owe <a...@wht.com.au> a écrit : > >> On 01/30/16 23:34, Godzil wrote: >> So you can log from SSH or telnet but not the console? >> >> If not, I would check all the profile and bashrc files to be sure there is >> nothing wrong there. >> >> If you can

Re: [gentoo-user] After logging into a console. text flashes on the screen and returns to the login

2016-01-30 Thread Godzil
So you can log from SSH or telnet but not the console? If not, I would check all the profile and bashrc files to be sure there is nothing wrong there. If you can log from outside, could you have forbidden root to log from tty0? You should try adding another user connecting from outside, them

Re: [gentoo-user] After logging into a console. text flashes on the screen and returns to the login

2016-01-30 Thread Godzil
:48 +0800 > Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.au> wrote: > >>> On 01/30/16 23:34, Godzil wrote: >>> So you can log from SSH or telnet but not the console? >>> >>> If not, I would check all the profile and bashrc files to be sure >>> there is nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] OOM memory issues

2014-09-18 Thread Godzil
You could also disable the overcommitment so that an app that ask for too much memory will be denied (you know the possible NULL pointer malloc could return. With overcommit, it will never return NULL whatever the memory status is. Without this, all requested memory is really allocated, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable password echo during login

2014-08-03 Thread Godzil
I don't think normal login utility allow this. Unix never does this. Look at the Getty, login man pages but I really don't think it is possible. Le 3 août 2014 à 14:49, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com a écrit : Does someone know how to enable the echoing of passwords when logging in?

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable password echo during login

2014-08-03 Thread Godzil
There is one possibility: modify the login app code to display stars ;) Le 3 août 2014 à 15:02, Anan Laksmana ananda.laksm...@gmail.com a écrit : I think it's not possible On Aug 3, 2014 7:50 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Does someone know how to enable the echoing of

Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?

2014-06-02 Thread godzil
Le 2014-06-02 13:23, Matti Nykyri a écrit : On Jun 2, 2014, at 16:40, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Well i have a switch in the door of the server room. It opens when you open the door. That signals the kernel to wipe all the encryption keys from kernel memory. Without the keys there

Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?

2014-06-02 Thread godzil
, godzil god...@godzil.net wrote: Le 2014-06-02 13:23, Matti Nykyri a écrit : On Jun 2, 2014, at 16:40, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Well i have a switch in the door of the server room. It opens when you open the door. That signals the kernel to wipe all the encryption keys from kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Regular v Ordinary

2014-04-30 Thread godzil
Le 2014-04-30 09:47, Peter Humphrey a écrit : On Tuesday 29 Apr 2014 16:05:04 walt wrote: On 04/29/2014 05:49 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: I don't suppose it's misuse, just different use, which is fine when separated by a few thousand miles :-) . It just annoys me when I'm offered a regular

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Regular v Ordinary

2014-04-30 Thread godzil
Le 2014-04-30 12:47, Peter Humphrey a écrit : On Wednesday 30 Apr 2014 10:21:11 godzil wrote: I suspect that your habits for regular or ordinary came from French, where the first translation of regular is régulier, habituel which mean that it is something is a habits. And ordinary

Re: [gentoo-user] problem: frequently auto suspend

2014-04-30 Thread godzil
For the suspend after a wakeup, I've a similar problem on my EEEPC 1000HE, I didn't investigate a lot, but on my case I strongly suspect that it is caused by a two process/script that try to manage the same event. It does not happen when I press the Sleep button (Fn+F1 if I recall correctly)

Re: [gentoo-user] Merging separate /usr back into / - one last time...

2013-12-06 Thread godzil
choice, and I'm pretty sure that there are some cases that rsync will behave better than a simple recursive cp Cheers, Godzil

[gentoo-user] Re: Headsup: bad breakage from today's xcb update

2011-04-28 Thread godzil
I have similar breakage with xcb*-0.3.8 but with gnome-base/nautilus this time, but seems related with startup-notification... During the ebuild compilation, it fail with a link error searching for libxcb-aux, libxcb-event and libxcb-atom. I search in all .la file, run lafilefixer to verify