Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade

2014-03-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 22.03.2014 02:08, schrieb null_ptr: On 21/03/14 14:41, Lee wrote: I can't think of the name of the module, pcspkr IIRC or some such, but it prolly isn't loaded. Modprobe can tell you if it's available load it. On Mar 21, 2014 12:41 PM, Dat G rhan...@gmx.de wrote: On 21/03/14 19:54,

Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade

2014-03-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.03.2014 00:45, schrieb null_ptr: On 22/03/14 23:40, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 22.03.2014 02:08, schrieb null_ptr: On 21/03/14 14:41, Lee wrote: I can't think of the name of the module, pcspkr IIRC or some such, but it prolly isn't loaded. Modprobe can tell you if it's available

Re: [gentoo-user] Kworker use 80% of CPU

2014-03-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 20.03.2014 11:24, schrieb Tom Wijsman: On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 11:39:58 +0400 Gleb Klochkov glebiu...@gmail.com wrote: Tom, thank you for your answer. $ dmesg http://bpaste.net/show/187533/ There this can be seen: [ 18.074574] [drm] Wrong MCH_SSKPD value: 0x16040307 [

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students

2014-03-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 08.03.2014 02:57, schrieb Andrew Lowe: On 8/03/2014 9:01 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 08.03.2014 01:54, schrieb Andrew Lowe: Hi all, I'm doing some research on the topic of LiveCD's and was after any input the list may have. [snip] ... ... ... [snip] Any thoughts are greatly

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] LiveCDs for Uni students

2014-03-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 08.03.2014 01:54, schrieb Andrew Lowe: Hi all, I'm doing some research on the topic of LiveCD's and was after any input the list may have. I'm a tutor at a Uni in Australia teaching, amongst others, 1st year Engineering students. We teach them C. Last year we had a lab set up and

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 15.02.2014 16:16, schrieb Tanstaafl: Hi all, Not to revive a flame-fest against systemd, but... I'm sure some or most of you have already heard about this, but I found a really decent thread discussing this whole systemd thing. It is only really comparing systemd and upstart, as that was

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 16.02.2014 17:50, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2014-02-15 3:32 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: For Slackware, I have no idea. For Debian, no the only options were[1]: 1. sysvinit (status quo) 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 16.02.2014 21:27, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] You may have lost it in the link that Volker posted (thanks Volker), but this comment from HaakonKL probably sums it up: ... I will give Upstart this though: Should

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 16.02.2014 21:08, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: [ snip ] or it is an idiotic decision. Because features means complexity. Yeah, like the kernel. Complexity means bugs. Bugs get reported, bugs get

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 16.02.2014 21:19, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: Why GNOME started using it? because of redhat. Seriously, you had to ask that?

Re: [gentoo-user] xterms --featureRICH --suggestions?

2014-01-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 26.01.2014 17:52, schrieb James: Ok, So, as a old fart, I got tired of KDE and never really liked gnome. I have found new life in LXDE; spartan, but learning and document how things work on gentoo, is hopefully something I have to only do once. I have my lxde/openbox environment mostly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 26.01.2014 18:42, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 26/01/2014 17:24, eroen wrote: On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:35:43 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else noticed this yet? Some portage update seems to have made emerge -uDN @world perform about 10 times slower than before. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 26.01.2014 19:04, schrieb hasufell: So, not sure where your optimism comes from. But... some devs are interested in starting from scratch or picking up pkgcore (which would be the most sane thing to do IMO). please do. Please please pretty please.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 26.01.2014 20:45, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 26/01/2014 21:29, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 26.01.2014 19:04, schrieb hasufell: So, not sure where your optimism comes from. But... some devs are interested in starting from scratch or picking up pkgcore (which would be the most sane thing

Re: [gentoo-user] tmpfs for portage: how much?

2014-01-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 21.01.2014 18:03, schrieb Jarry: Hi Gentoo-users, I would like to use tmpfs for all the package-compilation to spare my SSD from too many writing-cycles, but I can not guess how much do I need. I'm rather limited with RAM, if I use more than 512MB for /var/tmp/portage, my server lowers

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I really need a sshd?

2014-01-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 05.01.2014 11:04, schrieb Peter Humphrey: On Sunday 05 Jan 2014 11:36:20 Gevisz wrote: From man dispatch-conf: dispatch-conf will check all directories in the CONFIG_PROTECT variable. All config files found in CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK will automatically be updated for you by dispatch-conf.

Re: [gentoo-user] coolest mp3 player?

2014-01-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 02.01.2014 18:16, schrieb james: Well, I have not kept up on mp3/wav/audio fil portable players, so your input as to a Gentoo friendly device is welcome. A miniture video screen is not necessary, and keeping costs down is desired. Google for this said device leaves me with this scant

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS on Linux (spl build error)

2013-12-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 13.12.2013 20:21, schrieb Bruce Hill: On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 07:59:41PM +0100, hasufell wrote: The problem is now: How do i set CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE in menuconfig? Maybe i'm completely blind... Thanks in advance for any help, Mosh lol, done! As i thought...i was blind :D You could

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS on Linux (spl build error)

2013-12-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 14.12.2013 01:04, schrieb Bruce Hill: On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 09:08:54PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: well, you won't find it in menuconfig. Or at least I couldn't. You can reach that option in xconfig. On the other hand ZLIB_DEFLATE is turned on by a douzend of other options

Re: [gentoo-user] new printer : any thoughts ?

2013-12-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 11.12.2013 03:01, schrieb Philip Webb: My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week. Does anyone have

Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 02.11.2013 13:04, schrieb hasufell: Another round of questioning the users here. more specifically: * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? once every couple of updates? * do you really have a problem with running revdep-rebuild/haskell-updater/perl-cleaner etc after every

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and kernel developers cooperating to turn it into a global cgroup manager?

2013-10-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 20.10.2013 13:18, schrieb Daniel Campbell: On 10/20/2013 06:02 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 20.10.2013 12:52, schrieb Daniel Campbell: On 10/20/2013 04:24 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 20.10.2013 08:34, schrieb Daniel Campbell: hm, Redhat is one of the companies investing

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and kernel developers cooperating to turn it into a global cgroup manager?

2013-10-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 21.10.2013 11:55, schrieb Tanstaafl: On 2013-10-20 9:14 PM, Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: Linus isnt actually actively developing the kernel nowadays. Mostly he just merges commits from his trusted lieutenants in charge of various subsystems. The notion of Linus as being at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 20.10.2013 07:39, schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 18.10.2013 05:54, schrieb Dale: Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:40:52PM -0500, Dale wrote Well, this is interesting. I swapped out the mobo. First, it has the UEFI BIOS thing. That was interesting for sure

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and kernel developers cooperating to turn it into a global cgroup manager?

2013-10-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 20.10.2013 08:34, schrieb Daniel Campbell: hm, Redhat is one of the companies investing the most money into linux kernel, userland, graphics... if you 'don't trust them' you are pretty much 20 years too late. Investing money does not make them any more qualified or deserving of making

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and kernel developers cooperating to turn it into a global cgroup manager?

2013-10-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 20.10.2013 12:52, schrieb Daniel Campbell: On 10/20/2013 04:24 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 20.10.2013 08:34, schrieb Daniel Campbell: hm, Redhat is one of the companies investing the most money into linux kernel, userland, graphics... if you 'don't trust them' you are pretty much 20

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and kernel developers cooperating to turn it into a global cgroup manager?

2013-10-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 19.10.2013 17:02, schrieb Daniel Campbell: On 10/17/2013 11:27 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: https://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/200-libby-clark/733595-all-about-the-linux-kernel-cgroups-redesign Not sure if I read that just right... but since nobody is doing cgroup management besides

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 18.10.2013 05:54, schrieb Dale: Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:40:52PM -0500, Dale wrote Well, this is interesting. I swapped out the mobo. First, it has the UEFI BIOS thing. That was interesting for sure. I'm not complaining but not used to it and wasn't expecting it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-10-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 14.10.2013 08:23, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 10.10.2013 16:38, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I don't plan to stay with 3.8.13, this is just an intermediate step to get a working config. For now I don't have any more lost hpet interrupts etc and the LAN speed is fine. Emerging packages

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PowerColor HD 7850 SCS3 silent

2013-10-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 10.10.2013 21:10, schrieb James: Hello, Well, I'm trying to reseach a 7850 slilent the silent video card on an Gentoo based GA-99FXA-UD3 mobo. I've had Asus Radeons HD 7750 in these mobo, and it is an outstanding bargain workstation. The PowerColor HD 7850 SCS3 seems to be getting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-10-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 11.10.2013 10:28, schrieb Steven J. Long: On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 06:35:58PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: wrong analogy and it goes down from here. Really. Ohh, but they are inspired on YOUR analogy, so guess how wrong yours was. your trolling is weak. And since I never saw anything

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-10-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 10.10.2013 16:46, schrieb William Hubbs: On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 05:24:39PM -0700, walt wrote: On 10/08/2013 09:16 PM, William Hubbs wrote: to provide service supervision, which is the main feature systemd offers By supervision do you mean restarting a service after it crashes, for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-10-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 09.10.2013 21:17, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 09.10.2013 20:20, schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht: I would think about a kernel bug first and try with a much lower version. Yep. A bit scary with a server which is hundreds of kilometers away. Got to get that HP IlO-thingy going in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-10-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 08.10.2013 02:03, schrieb walt: On 09/29/2013 04:58 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: As much as I hate systemd My Alzheimer's prevents me from remembering your reasons for hating systemd. Would you *very* briefly refresh my memory, please? simple: one tool to do one job. text output

Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine

2013-10-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 04.10.2013 22:53, schrieb Bruce Hill: On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 09:20:43PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: computer gaming (yawn)... Think again. What is the driving force behind all the super-duper performance hardware you have right now? Gaming. What is the GPU capable of achieving when

Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-10-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 03.10.2013 11:55, schrieb Kerin Millar: On 18/09/2013 16:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 18/09/2013 16:05, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 18 Sep 2013 14:52:30 Ralf Ramsauer wrote: In my opinion, reiser is a bit outdated ... What is the significance of its date? I use reiserfs on my Atom

Re: PORTDIR default - changing PORTDIR variable - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-10-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 03.10.2013 11:00, schrieb Yuri K. Shatroff: I apologize but I always thought that it's Linux that derives from ATT SysV (1983), while FreeBSD derives from ... BSD (1978). How come then Linux uses SysV init and BSD does not? ;) no, no and no.

Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-10-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 03.10.2013 18:32, schrieb Kerin Millar: On 03/10/2013 13:08, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 03.10.2013 11:55, schrieb Kerin Millar: On 18/09/2013 16:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 18/09/2013 16:05, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 18 Sep 2013 14:52:30 Ralf Ramsauer wrote: In my opinion

Re: [gentoo-user] s6 et al

2013-10-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 04.10.2013 00:32, schrieb Walter Dnes: On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 12:04:24AM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote Just stumbled across some very interesting software/ideas: http://skarnet.org/poweredby.html Out of sheer curiousity, what common software would break under uclibc? My first gues would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-10-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 01.10.2013 01:21, schrieb Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike): El 30/09/13 00:47, Volker Armin Hemmann escribió: Am 29.09.2013 18:41, schrieb Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike): El 29/09/13 18:03, Volker Armin Hemmann escribió: Am 29.09.2013 17:12, schrieb Greg Woodbury: On 09

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers:legacy fail to build with kernel 3.12

2013-10-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 01.10.2013 10:00, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, in good tradition the new 3.12 Linux kernel breaks ati-drivers again (as always in the past). Does anybody know about a patch to make x11-drivers/ati-drivers:legacy compile with linux-3.12-rc3 ? Trying to emerge ati-drivers-13.1_pre897

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-09-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 30.09.2013 11:54, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 29.09.2013 16:37, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 27.09.2013 17:55, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: What direction to go? force or disable HPET? neither And what to do to avoid those lost interrupts? Is there no good suggestion

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 30.09.2013 01:27, schrieb Dale: Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-09-29 5:35 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Tanstaafl wrote: Ok, but... everything I've read and personal experience over the years shows that space required for /usr should not change much, especially constantly grow over time

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 30.09.2013 11:00, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 30/09/2013 00:53, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-09-29 5:15 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Those numbers are not likely to change much with time, with one exception: /usr/src That can get real big real quick if you don't clean up

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 30.09.2013 19:25, schrieb Tanstaafl: On 2013-09-30 1:10 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: 150gb for / with usr and you will be fine for ages. I'm curious what a common/average size is for desktops... My /usr, without portage files, is @ 5GB. My current

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 30.09.2013 22:48, schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: 500gb harddisks are extremely cheap. 150gb for / with usr and you will be fine for ages. Why are you acting like this is a problem? Maybe cheap for you but not so for me. I'm on a fixed income, disabled. Also, my brother has

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 29.09.2013 10:28, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 29/09/2013 10:25, Mick wrote: On Sunday 29 Sep 2013 06:29:37 Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 06:09:40PM -0500, Dale wrote Most likely, I'll install Kubuntu to start. Then I may roam around and test other distros until I find one I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 29.09.2013 02:08, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 29/09/2013 01:23, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: It *really* is that simple. If you have a better solution than my last two choices, then I am all ears. the correct and simple solution would be to deprecate /usr and move everything into / . I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 29.09.2013 01:31, schrieb pk: On 2013-09-29 01:23, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: the correct and simple solution would be to deprecate /usr and move everything into / . Install Windows and be done with it, I say. Best regards Peter K . look at history, think and retry.

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 29.09.2013 13:03, schrieb Greg Woodbury: On 09/29/2013 06:55 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: why do you bring up udev and systemd AT ALL? They are not the problem or the reason why seperate /usr is prone to break. Except that systemd *is* why a seperate /usr is broken now. Parts

[gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 29.09.2013 17:12, schrieb Greg Woodbury: On 09/29/2013 07:58 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: things were broken way before that. As much as I hate systemd, it is not the root cause of the problem. The problems were caused by people saying that seperate /usr was a good idea, so / would

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 29.09.2013 14:07, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: snipped everything because of stupid 'conspiracy' talk there was no conspiracy and there will never be one to break seperate /usr. In fact seperate /usr works just fine. You just need an initrd/initramfs. Other distros are using those for ages. So

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 29.09.2013 17:24, schrieb pk: On 2013-09-29 12:59, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: look at history, think and retry. That's just what I did. Read and retry. Best regards Peter K . I did, your mail did not make any more sense at all.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flexibility and robustness in the Linux organisim

2013-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 29.09.2013 18:41, schrieb Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike): El 29/09/13 18:03, Volker Armin Hemmann escribió: Am 29.09.2013 17:12, schrieb Greg Woodbury: On 09/29/2013 07:58 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: things were broken way before that. As much as I hate systemd

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 30.09.2013 00:06, schrieb Walter Dnes: On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 06:10:46PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote From REDHATs or SuSEs perspective seperate /usr is not a problem. Putting lvm/bluetooth/mdraid/whateverthefuckyoumightneed there was and is not a problem too. Thanks to initrdsco

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 29.09.2013 19:58, schrieb Tanstaafl: On 2013-09-28 4:17 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 19:04:41 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: I suppose that what I am about to say isn't really relevant, but it is unfortunate over the past year that people blamed udev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 30.09.2013 00:53, schrieb Tanstaafl: On 2013-09-29 5:15 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Those numbers are not likely to change much with time, with one exception: /usr/src That can get real big real quick if you don't clean up kernel sources often. Ideally, you'd make

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 28.09.2013 16:04, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 28/09/2013 13:32, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-09-27 7:10 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: No really,*why exactly*? Because that was the RECOMMENDED WAY IN THE GENTOO HANDBOOK when I first set this system up many years ago. This was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 29.09.2013 00:36, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 28/09/2013 22:58, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: As far as I read, the problem is with bluetooth keyboards? and some other devices and locales, which are minor for this decision of removing supportability. Especially for servers and for most of

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-09-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 27.09.2013 12:33, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I am back from my visit at a customer where I installed a new and shiny gentoo server for running VMs (KVM). Currently I don't have access as my VPN only works from my static IP at home (my router seems to be offline right now ... and I am

Re: [gentoo-user] [Hardware Error]: MC1 Error: Copyback Parity/Victim error.

2013-09-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Completely unrelated. He got a Cache ecc error. Not tlb Bug. Also those were fixed quickly. In hardware and software. No Problem There. I hate Auto correction. Am 24.09.2013 12:37 schrieb Ralf Ramsauer ralf+gen...@ramses-pyramidenbau.de: A friend of mine told me, that AMD also had some trouble

Re: [gentoo-user] [Hardware Error]: MC1 Error: Copyback Parity/Victim error.

2013-09-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.09.2013 20:59, schrieb Paul Hartman: On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone tell me how to decipher this which has appeared in dmesg? Google wasn't very helpful. [Hardware Error]: MC1 Error: Copyback Parity/Victim error. [Hardware Error]: Error

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 19.09.2013 06:47, schrieb Grant: turn off readahead. ZFS' own readahead and the kernel's clash - badly. Turn off kernel's readahead for a visible performance boon. You are probably not talking about ZFS readahead but about the ARC. which does prefetching. So yes. I'm taking notes on this

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 18.09.2013 11:56, schrieb Joerg Schilling: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: turn off readahead. ZFS' own readahead and the kernel's clash - badly. Turn off kernel's readahead for a visible performance boon. You are probably not talking about ZFS readahead but about

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 17.09.2013 09:20, schrieb Grant: I'm convinced I need 3-disk RAID1 so I can lose 2 drives and keep running. I'd also like to stripe for performance, resulting in RAID10. It sounds like most hardware controllers do not support 6-disk RAID10 so ZFS looks very interesting. Can I operate

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 17.09.2013 20:11, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 17.09.2013 09:20, schrieb Grant: I'm convinced I need 3-disk RAID1 so I can lose 2 drives and keep running. I'd also like to stripe for performance, resulting in RAID10. It sounds

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 17.09.2013 20:11, schrieb Tanstaafl: On 2013-09-17 2:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: use ECC ram. Lots of it. 16GB DDR3 1600 ECC ram cost you less than 170€. And it is worth it. ZFS showed me just how many silent corruptions can happen on a 'stable' system

Re: [gentoo-user] All KDE-related programs don't play music anymore

2013-09-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 16.09.2013 13:37, schrieb Alexander Puchmayr: Hi there, I've got a somewhat strange problem, which occurs on both my laptop and my desktop-pc, both running gentoo. From one day to the other, all KDE-based music/media player don't start playing music anymore. I've tried Amarok, Kaffeine

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeze after suspend-to-ram with kernel 3.10

2013-08-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 02.08.2013 12:47, schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: Hey list My netbook doesn't freeze so often during operation any more. But now it’s started to not properly wake up from suspend-to-ram. It’s like with my big laptop: when that one runs on nouveau instead of nvidia-drivers, it behaves the very

Re: [gentoo-user] ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen

2013-08-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 01.08.2013 09:37, schrieb Thanasis: on 08/01/2013 12:59 AM Paul Hartman wrote the following: If no disks are attached, I wonder if something is probing it? I checked my dmesg and every time I plug in my eSATA enclosure, I see this very similar message: [156541.724580] ata7: exception

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating binary packages before updating them

2013-07-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
or you can make yourself a wrapper script that, depending on an option calls quickpkg before emerge or not. Even better, not calling emerge, but ebuild - with the different steps, and before merging into filesystem, call quickpkg. 2013/7/29 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com On 29/07/2013

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade only to bigger Version

2013-07-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
ok, first make an overlay and copy the ebuild of the version you want to pin there. Than mask everything else. You can find the ebuild in /var/db if it was removed from the tree already. And yes, this ebuild removing sucks - because nobody needs every single LO update... 2013/7/26 Silvio

Re: [gentoo-user] more on SSD: swap

2013-07-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 22. Juli 2013, 06:19:09 schrieb William Kenworthy: experience with compiling in tempfs is that it works, but has a much higher failure rate than on disk - i.e., things like OO/Lo, KDE, gcc and glibc have large space requirements that you must make sure tmpfs can satisfy before you

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd - are we forced to switch?

2013-07-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 22. Juli 2013, 09:03:46 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-3.8.4 requires systemd sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.6cannot coexist with systemd but many packages depend on sys-auth/consolekit : emerge -vpc sys-auth/consolekit gives

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd - are we forced to switch?

2013-07-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
yeah, because it is so great to have that monster systemd on your box. Because xml configs are awesome and binary logs even more and I always wanted an init with builtin webbrowser. Security? bah, not needed. So when do I have to install mysql to use it? How long until some crap ala

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd - are we forced to switch?

2013-07-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
maybe you should not just believe everything posted. Especially from a systemd fanboi. 2013/7/22 Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz Am 22.07.2013 17:02, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: ConsoleKit is for all practical purposes unmaintained, and all of the packages you mentioned it support systemd

Re: [gentoo-user] more on SSD: swap

2013-07-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 21. Juli 2013, 11:31:41 schrieb luis jure: OK, now i have my system successfully installed and running on my new SSD. now i have to decide what to do with the rest of the disk (it's a 256MB samsung). the first big question is: what about swap? i found some web pages (perhaps

Re: [gentoo-user] more on SSD: swap

2013-07-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
, emerge fails but that's it. 2013/7/21 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 21:39:29 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: - put /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs good, but also put /tmp on tmpfs. Doesn't the FHS spec say that /var/tmp should survive a reboot? So the correct

[gentoo-user] ZFS is slow? readahead and zfs

2013-07-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hello, I am using zfs for a while now. I am not using it for / but for /var and my media collection. PORTDIR is /var/portage so portage files are on zfs too. This resulted in portage being incredible slow. eix-sync took ages, emerge - auv world gave you enought time to prepare a meal. And eat

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 12.07.2013 18:36, schrieb Timur Aydin: On 7/5/2013 11:12 PM, Dale wrote: I since did some googling and it seems I am right and he just thought I was some know nothing guy he could sell some service too. Anyway, has anything changed to make Linux more prone to viruses than it used to be?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Poor sound quality

2013-06-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 03.06.2013 22:51, schrieb Chris Stankevitz: On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 10:28 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Good luck, Good Hunting! James, Thank you for your tips. I tried to reproduce the problem on the same hardware using a different OS (xubuntu 12.04). The problem did not

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and KDE problem

2013-05-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 26.05.2013 11:12, schrieb Dale: Howdy, I been letting portage upgrade nvidia drivers as usual. Thing is, the last two or three drivers seems to cause a issue. First, versions that cause the issue: =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.12 =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-319.17

Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying structure of /var/db/pkg/category/package-name database

2013-05-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 10.05.2013 04:59, schrieb Thomas Mueller: Having package data in /var/db/pkg/category/package-name carries the nuisance factor that finding a package involves a fishing expedition through many possible categories. I am spoiled by having /var/db/pkg/package-name in NetBSD pkgsrc and

Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 06.05.2013 13:00, schrieb Hinnerk van Bruinehsen: On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 07:50:52AM +0100, Stroller wrote: On 5 May 2013, at 17:16, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: ... The data on a SSD is not necessarily stored linar so it's not said that a new partition is using the same memory cells as

Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 05.05.2013 16:44, schrieb Randolph Maaßen: Hi, I have a SSD in my laptop and I am running Win7 and Gentoo in Parralel. for some purpose I needed several Partitions so my base system was lying on sda10, on an LVM-PV. Today my Windows refused to start and during recovery its diskpart must

Re: [gentoo-user] Using date/time variables in cronjobs?

2013-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 06.05.2013 01:21, schrieb Tanstaafl: Last question... In order to keep only a certain number of backups, what would be the easiest and SAFEST way to delete the older ones? For example, I want to keep 17 hourlies, and 30 nightlies, so I have two cron jobs set up, the hourly, and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Error building tar

2013-04-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 28.04.2013 19:58, schrieb staticsafe: Updating a Gentoo VM today when I encountered an issue with building tar. Attaching relevant logs. yeah, thanks to some automake update someone did not think about testing first before unmasking, a whole bunch of packages are suddenly failing with that

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 19.04.2013 00:02, schrieb Michael Mol: On 04/18/2013 05:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 18.04.2013 23:10, schrieb Michael Mol: [snip] Do you say that because you've tested the various orders and know that one application will not conflict with another if started before that, or do

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage screwup

2013-04-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 18.04.2013 17:50, schrieb Joseph: On 04/18/13 15:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: All ebuilds stay on the Gentoo CVS server, ones that are removed from the tree in the attic. If you want a previous version, download it from the attic and put it in your local overlay. -- Neil Bothwick If

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 18.04.2013 21:48, schrieb Michael Mol: On 04/18/2013 03:32 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: [snip] So, I grasped the nettle, put in a negative pulseaudio use flag, unmerged pa and alsa-plugins, then rebuilt the 14 packages which needed it. Surprisingly, everything still works. I now get those

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 18.04.2013 22:13, schrieb Michael Mol: On 04/18/2013 04:02 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 18.04.2013 21:48, schrieb Michael Mol: On 04/18/2013 03:32 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: [snip] So, I grasped the nettle, put in a negative pulseaudio use flag, unmerged pa and alsa-plugins

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 18.04.2013 22:02, schrieb Stroller: On 18 April 2013, at 20:32, Alan Mackenzie wrote: ... (i) It's a sound server, a description I don't understand. What does it _do_? Why do I want it? It seems to be an unnecessary layer of fat between sound applications and the kernel. If you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 18.04.2013 23:10, schrieb Michael Mol: On 04/18/2013 04:43 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 18.04.2013 22:13, schrieb Michael Mol: On 04/18/2013 04:02 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 18.04.2013 21:48, schrieb Michael Mol: [snip] My particular discovery was that if I launched WoW

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 06.04.2013 17:57, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Hi, Nick. On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:51:42AM -0400, Nick Khamis wrote: After updating our systems we lost network connectivity to the servers. When trying to start net.eth0 we got the following message: /ib64/rc/net/wpa_supplicant.sh: line 68: _is

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 06.04.2013 21:33, schrieb Mick: On Saturday 06 Apr 2013 20:03:15 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 06.04.2013 17:57, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Hi, Nick. On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:51:42AM -0400, Nick Khamis wrote: After updating our systems we lost network connectivity to the servers. When

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 06.04.2013 23:19, schrieb Nick Khamis: Our net card was also build as a module Volker, did you include your net driver for example in /etc/conf.d/modules? no I removed the 70-something rules, and did pretty much nothing else. /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules just exists and is

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem compiling dev-lang/v8

2013-04-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 05.04.2013 22:58, schrieb Peter Humphrey: Hello list, Today's update wanted to move v8 up from 3.15.11.15 to 3.16.14.9-r1 but the emerge failed. Here are the last few lines of console output (well, the first of these is very long - sorry; it ends with --end-group):

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 03.04.2013 13:16, schrieb J. Roeleveld: On Wed, April 3, 2013 11:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 05:46:07 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: Do guinea pigs work better or worse than tribbles at calming you? Tribbles don't keep people calm indefinitely. At some point they all die from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 03.04.2013 02:35, schrieb walt: On 03/31/2013 06:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 01.04.2013 01:12, schrieb walt: Any of you admin types out there have any grumpy thoughts about this article? :) Is it really just marketing BS from cloudflare, or is it solid stuff? http

Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 01.04.2013 05:37, schrieb luis jure: i'm glad for all the people who weren't affected. but whatever it was, i've been suffering the consequences. so i'm more than irritated by the assholes minimizing the problem, or treating this as non-news. if you meant me - it is none-news. Or, it

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