Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to compile chromium 26

2013-04-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 01.04.2013 18:59, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Michael Mair-Keimberger m.mairkeimber...@gmail.com wrote: Look at bug 463550 [1].. Either you downgrade to app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher-0.7.1-r2 or use the patch which is pointed out at the bug.

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

2013-04-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
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://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet well, it was bad for spamhaus and

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

2013-03-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
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://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet and since pretty much every

Re: [Bulk] [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-03-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 31.03.2013 21:55, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:40:09 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: instead of pushing a completely different (and possibly less reliable) naming scheme by default. Whilst I wouldn't want them changing on me (though if your physically changing the pci slot

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent a dns amplification attack

2013-03-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Turn off this unnecessary crap? Am 28.03.2013 09:52 schrieb Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org: Hello, i am using pdns recursor to provide a dns server which should be usable for everybody.The problem is, that the server seems to be used in dns amplification attacks. I googled around on how

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System freezes during compiles

2013-03-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 26.03.2013 15:13, schrieb J. Roeleveld: On Thu, March 21, 2013 21:03, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2013-03-20, Carlos Hendson skyc...@gmx.net wrote: Could this be the cause of the stalls during compiles? If it is the cause, is it possible for the kernel to detect such failures and report

Re: [gentoo-user] System freezes during compiles

2013-03-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Oom Killer is Not instant, can take a long time or get stuck or kills something vital. ... Am 21.03.2013 07:52 schrieb Carlos Hendson skyc...@gmx.net: On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 06:45 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: You got your answer. 8gig and no swap is NOT ENOUGHT. It's a strong indicator

Re: [gentoo-user] System freezes during compiles

2013-03-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 20.03.2013 05:42, schrieb Carlos Hendson: Hello, For last few weeks or so, I've been getting intermittent hard lock-ups during the emerge of various packages. It appears the more compile intensive the package, the more likely the lock-up. These lock-ups have occurred under kernels 3.4.9

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: parental control software

2013-03-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 20.03.2013 12:04, schrieb Neil Bothwick: I'm looking for software that can be used to control a child's usage of the computer (not Internet filtering). At the very least it should be able to control length of login sessions and when the child is able to login. Ideally it would also be able

Re: [gentoo-user] System freezes during compiles

2013-03-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
You got your answer. 8gig and no swap is NOT ENOUGHT. Am 20.03.2013 22:51 schrieb Carlos Hendson skyc...@gmx.net: On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 20:57 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: you might just hit a thrashing situation. Linux is very bad when it comes to abusing swap in case of an emergency

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I chroot to a folder?

2013-03-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 18.03.2013 19:43, schrieb João Matos: Do I need to create a partition just for this? no

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge problems

2013-03-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 17.03.2013 05:50, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, while updateing this morning I got this ouput: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ] app-text/texlive-core-2012-r1 USE=X tk -cjk -doc -source -xetex [ebuild N ] dev-tex/luatex-0.70.1-r1 USE=-doc 0 kB [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.8 and external drivers

2013-03-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 12.03.2013 12:51, schrieb Yuri K. Shatroff: On 12.03.2013 14:44, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:30:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: not has to be easy, but definitely, with such purpose. Do you disagree? Perhaps you reckon that the whole purpose of computing is to make life

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.8 and external drivers

2013-03-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 11.03.2013 14:00, schrieb Yuri K. Shatroff: On 11.03.2013 03:05, Daniel Wagener wrote: On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:53:42 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 10.03.2013 19:28, schrieb Daniel Wagener: Hello, I ran into some trouble about an hour ago… My

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.8 and external drivers

2013-03-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 11.03.2013 00:05, schrieb Daniel Wagener: On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:53:42 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 10.03.2013 19:28, schrieb Daniel Wagener: Hello, I ran into some trouble about an hour ago… My workstation has an onboard Realtek Ethernet which only

Re: [gentoo-user] A question concerning graphics...

2013-03-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 10.03.2013 09:54, schrieb Chris Walters: Hello Everyone, I have a couple of questions concerning what graphic drivers you use. Does anyone use the proprietary ATI drivers, or have used them? Would you recommend them? I just recently started using the ati-drivers package, but I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.8 and external drivers

2013-03-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 10.03.2013 19:28, schrieb Daniel Wagener: Hello, I ran into some trouble about an hour ago… My workstation has an onboard Realtek Ethernet which only works with the r8168 driver. Unfortunately, this driver is not in the kernel, but available to be compiled as a kernel module. (I guess

Re: [gentoo-user] IO latency issues

2013-03-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 09.03.2013 19:15, schrieb Florian Philipp: Hi list! Whenever I do sequential IO for a long stretch of time (e.g. md5summing 40 GB), I'm experiencing high load (ca. 6 on a 4 CPU system) and temporary freezes of most applications. For example, switching between tabs in konsole sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: wrong ram?

2013-03-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 05.03.2013 18:22, schrieb James: Hello, I purchased this ram from New Egg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231529 G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-14900CL10Q-32GBZL I've since found out

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.10.0 Freezed once click on something

2013-03-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
.xsession-errors

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.02.2013 07:05, schrieb Joseph: On 02/23/13 11:08, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Saturday 23 February 2013 10:30:04 AM IST, Joseph wrote: I'm trying to update one of my system and running: emerge -uDNavq world I get a very strange message: No space left on device' I have plenty of room

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.02.2013 09:52, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:21:02 -0700, Joseph wrote: Got it. I change it to: tmpfs/var/tmp/portagedevtmpfs size=1512M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0 Why are you using devtmpfs? You should be using tmpfs for this, which defaults to half your

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2013-02-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.02.2013 10:28, schrieb Dan Hunter: no

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2013-02-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.02.2013 14:27, schrieb Dan Hunter: On 02/23/13 17:07, Dale wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 23.02.2013 10:28, schrieb Dan Hunter: no Double no. Next he will try the unsubscribe in the subject line angle with little success there either. Then someone will post the nice long

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.02.2013 15:16, schrieb Joseph: On 02/23/13 08:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:21:02 -0700, Joseph wrote: Got it. I change it to: tmpfs /var/tmp/portage devtmpfs size=1512M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0 Why are you using devtmpfs? You should be using tmpfs for this,

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

2013-02-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.02.2013 16:44, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 23/02/2013 16:24, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 23.02.2013 15:16, schrieb Joseph: On 02/23/13 08:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:21:02 -0700, Joseph wrote: Got it. I change it to: tmpfs /var/tmp/portage devtmpfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Acroread

2013-02-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 17.02.2013 13:05, schrieb (Nuno Silva): On 2013-02-17, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Feb 17, 2013 3:04 PM, Yohan Pereira yohan.pere...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/02/13 at 02:44pm, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: That's what I did. But I tend to switch browsers too often (chromium and Firefox).

Re: [gentoo-user] Selecting a Linux compatible mobo for FX8350

2013-02-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Any am3+ board should work. know of no feauture intetferemce. Am 12.02.2013 10:09 schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com: Hi, I'm searching for a mobo which is fully compatible with Linux and supports AMD FX 8350. Preferably, I'm looking for one with onboard GFX, since I don't have

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] KDE 4.9.5 VERY slow to respond

2013-02-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 02.02.2013 22:18, schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 02.02.2013 11:19, schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: you can ignore all that. there is something broken - have a look at htop while clicking, check with xev that your clicks are actually delivered on time. Check Xorg.0

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.9.5 VERY slow to respond

2013-02-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 31.01.2013 14:24, schrieb Dale: Alan McKinnon wrote: Can you log into a vt and tail ~/.xsession-errors and see anything useful in there? I use a vt for this so konsole is not in the mix while trying to tail stuff. I've historically found that lockups of around 30 seconds are so are often

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] KDE 4.9.5 VERY slow to respond

2013-02-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 02.02.2013 11:19, schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: you can ignore all that. there is something broken - have a look at htop while clicking, check with xev that your clicks are actually delivered on time. Check Xorg.0.log hat X is behaving the way it should. I posted it earlier

Re: [gentoo-user] A bug in ALSA?

2013-01-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 31.01.2013 16:39, schrieb Yuri K. Shatroff: Hello gentoo-users, I've got a Samsung laptop with Intel HDA sound card (Realtek ALC269VB ) Yesterday I updated software (it was about a month old; I did a eix-sync and emerge -Du @world) and somehow sound disappeared: the kernel module

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Overclocking CPU causes segmentation fault

2013-01-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.01.2013 09:21, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 23/01/13 03:55, Dale wrote: [...] I tired overclocking once a good while back. It just wasn't worth it. I've been running a Core 2 Duo from 2.4Ghz to 3.4Ghz for over three years. Instead of a new CPU, I only bought a €30 cooler. Oh, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Overclocking CPU causes segmentation fault

2013-01-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 23.01.2013 16:35, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 23/01/13 17:09, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Wednesday 23 January 2013 07:52:03 PM IST, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] In my experience, most of the time you can overclock. The issue is with the user not knowing exactly how to do it. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Overclocking CPU causes segmentation fault

2013-01-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 22.01.2013 08:41, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: So I have this old E2180 processor and no money as of now to buy a new rig :P I'm trying to overclock my CPU using BIOS host clock control and everything is fine at 2.6 Ghz up to bootloader. Kernel segfaults. Any idea why? I'm running

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
So it is Linux' fault, that your mate used crap Hardware? That is great! let us blame it for the weather too. And stubbed toes. Am 16.01.2013 21:43 schrieb Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk: I have had systems in the past who refused to boot because the motherboard time was off, and at

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs icedtea6

2013-01-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Afair icedtea, openjdk, jdk share a Lot of Code. Am 16.01.2013 15:18 schrieb Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Daniel Campbell dlcampb...@gmx.com wrote: On 01/15/2013 11:32 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2013 10:32:11 AM IST, Kevin

Re: [gentoo-user] /home doesn't umount on shutdown

2013-01-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Fuser is the best way to do IT. Am 15.01.2013 16:07 schrieb Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:47:46 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 15, 2013 7:59 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:09:56 + Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2013, 07:17:25 schrieb walt: On 01/08/2013 08:40 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Dienstag, 8. Januar 2013, 19:11:19 schrieb James: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: Comments/guidance on ZFS vs BTFRS are welcome. I never used ZFS

Re: [gentoo-user] PATA vs SATA kernel driver (was: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore)

2013-01-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2013, 11:32:03 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 03:01:57 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Since this is depreciated, which generally means no longer maintained nitpick The word you want is deprecated. depreciated is something else entirely,

Re: [gentoo-user] PATA vs SATA kernel driver (was: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore)

2013-01-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2013, 10:57:09 schrieb Raffaele BELARDI: On 01/09/2013 10:01 AM, Dale wrote: ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support **(DEPRECATED)** Yes, I know it is unmaintained and deprecated, I'm looking for a rational reason to move to the SATA driver when the PATA one works well with my

Re: [gentoo-user] Any UPS recommendations?

2013-01-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 8. Januar 2013, 08:01:47 schrieb Walter Dnes: I think my UPS is dying. Time to get a new one. It's been years, so there may be new tech out there I don't know about. My normal usage is * 1 LCD monitor 24 * 1 (sometimes 2) desktop PCs connected to the monitor * 1 ADSL

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 8. Januar 2013, 08:27:51 schrieb Florian Philipp: Am 08.01.2013 00:20, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:11:35 +0100 Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Hi list! I have a use case where I am seriously concerned about bit rot [1] and I thought it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 8. Januar 2013, 19:11:19 schrieb James: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: Comments/guidance on ZFS vs BTFRS are welcome. I never used ZFS; googling suggests lots of disdain for ZFS ? Maybe someone knows a good article or wiki discussion where the various

Re: [gentoo-user] How to mount /tmp as tmpfs?

2013-01-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 6. Januar 2013, 23:59:21 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: It seems that mounting /tmp as a tmpfs filesystem isn't just a matter of adding an fstab entry. Sometimes, on bootup, I get error messages: fusermount: error: /tmp/dsflkjslfjsdlsomegarbledname doesn't exist Or something

Re: [gentoo-user] http://archives.gentoo.org/ doesn't include gentoo-user?

2013-01-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2013, 06:08:34 schrieb Mark Knecht: I find this very strange, or am I just blind? - Mark marc.info goes back to 2001 -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
first of all: filtering is completely and utterly broken. You have to delete all filters whenever you add a new 'ressource' and even then they don't work most of the time. They might work if you select all mails and click 'apply filters' - or not. Bugs on b.k.o are open. Second, to import

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2013, 18:09:27 schrieb Peter Humphrey: Does anyone recommend a mail client that doesn't rely too heavily on the mouse? I much prefer to navigate, reply etc with the keyboard. I've seen Evolution recommended; is that OK? it is like replacing cholera with ebola. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2013-01-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2013, 15:38:01 schrieb Alan McKinnon: AFAIK, Oracle included encryption in ZFS v30 but this has not been released as opensource. The last OSS version released was 28. What this means to me is that devs could include disk-encryption but they probably won't have a

Re: [gentoo-user] experiences with zfsonlinux?

2012-12-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 31. Dezember 2012, 09:07:04 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 04:42:45 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: compared with the hours of fiddling when I started using raid this was pretty much straight forward - and yes, I know, destroying var

Re: [gentoo-user] experiences with zfsonlinux?

2012-12-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi everybody, so I did it. Three disks as a raidz pool, (zfstank), and created zfstank/var and zfstank/data Set both mountpoints as legacy and put them into fstab - I know I could zfs deal with that, but I feel more comfortable that way. Restoring all the data from backup took a long time,

Re: [gentoo-user] experiences with zfsonlinux?

2012-12-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2012, 15:22:58 schrieb Michael Hampicke: Am 30.12.2012 15:07, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: Set both mountpoints as legacy and put them into fstab - I know I could zfs deal with that, but I feel more comfortable that way. Howdy Volker, that's a good idea

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 31. Dezember 2012, 01:28:17 schrieb Walter Dnes: I ran an update on my netbook today, and couldn't fire up X. I checked out Google on my desktop, and found the website http://en.spontex.org/forum/thread/561/1/ which described the exact problem, and more importantly, the solution.

[gentoo-user] experiences with zfsonlinux?

2012-12-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, so in the Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library? thread zfs was mentioned, since I just ordered 3 new hdd to replace the current 5 in my box (3 in raid5, 2 in raid1 configuration), I asked myself: instead of raid5+xfs or ext4 or whatever else that might be a sane

Re: [gentoo-user] experiences with zfsonlinux?

2012-12-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 28. Dezember 2012, 15:21:54 schrieb Scott Ellis: Yeah, I use ZoL for my home server (mostly pictures, videos, and mp3s) and it works just fine. SSD for the / and /boot, and then ZFS for all the important data in a mirrored pool. Highly recommended. (Just updated to 3.7.1 kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 23. Dezember 2012, 19:03:25 schrieb Nuno J. Silva: Then I suppose you can surely explain in a nutshell why can't init scripts simply do that? because some people decided, that fsck or that dynamic /dev/ populator depends on stuff in /usr? which is the reason for this thread? How

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 23. Dezember 2012, 19:44:43 schrieb Nuno J. Silva: On 2012-12-23, Alan Mackenzie wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 07:03:25PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: On 2012-12-23, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:22:24 +0200 nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? - what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 27. Dezember 2012, 07:45:24 schrieb Pandu Poluan: On Dec 26, 2012 1:05 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: Even Linus piped up at one point, sharply reminding Greg KH that even though udev was at one time Greg's 'baby', at this point udev serves only the wants of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to ram problems

2012-12-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
and without all that pm stuff - just echo mem /sys/power/state ? -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] How broken is my raid device /dev/md6?

2012-12-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 22. Dezember 2012, 13:53:42 schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Hi, all. Just built kernel 3.6.11 and when I tried to install it with lilo, I got this difficult error message: Fatal: Trying to map files from unnamed device 0x (NFS/RAID mirror down ?) . So I eventually had

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2012, 11:45:34 schrieb Mark David Dumlao: On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: with redhat's push to move everything into /usr - why not stop right there and move everything back into /? I originally thought

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
with redhat's push to move everything into /usr - why not stop right there and move everything back into /? seperate /home, /var, /dev and /tmp makes sense (not counting proc, sys for obvious reasons). But the rest? Why /usr/lib? Just /lib would be fine. Remember how once there was a whole

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2012, 23:02:41 schrieb Marc Joliet: Am Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:34:07 + schrieb Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk: [...] Going back in time his claim of pulse audio being good for professional audio was also completely off the mark. Seperating Gnome and

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 15. Dezember 2012, 17:43:05 schrieb Kevin Chadwick: On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:18:25 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: It should be moving in the other direction for stability reasons and busybox is no full answer. On OpenBSD which has

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?

2012-12-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 15. Dezember 2012, 20:57:24 schrieb J. Roeleveld: On Saturday, December 15, 2012 11:46:36 AM Grant wrote: You have to buy NUMA hardware. If the hardware you buys does not scream NUMA at you, you don't have it. It is really that simple. Multicore, multisocket

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 16. Dezember 2012, 23:19:46 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 15/12/12 12:18, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2012, 21:34:54 schrieb Kevin Chadwick: On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:53:35 -0800 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I guess the other question that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2012, 21:34:54 schrieb Kevin Chadwick: On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:53:35 -0800 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I guess the other question that's lurking here for me is why do you have /usr on a separate partition? What's the usage model that drives a person to

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?

2012-12-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2012, 08:55:08 schrieb Rafa Griman: On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2012, 22:12:18 schrieb Grant: I've only ever used systems with a single CPU. I'm looking for a new host

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?

2012-12-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2012, 01:44:26 schrieb Grant: So if I have 2 physical CPU's with 4 cores each and I enable SMP, I'm using 8 cores? Can NUMA be either enabled or disabled when using more than one physical CPU, or is it required? NUMA is a hardware architecture.

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus

2012-12-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2012, 11:18:21 schrieb fe...@crowfix.com: Something went haywire with my 8 or 9 year old dual Opteron ~amd64 system last night. I may have a bricked system. I haven't given up yet, but I may have to buy a replacement system. I have external USB drive backups, but

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus

2012-12-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2012, 12:16:46 schrieb Bruce Hill: Whatever you think of logic, it is entirely illogical that a kernel could kill your BIOS, or any hardware ... at least, just booting into it. emm, not, it isn't. -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?

2012-12-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2012, 22:12:18 schrieb Grant: I've only ever used systems with a single CPU. I'm looking for a new host for a dedicated server (suggestions?) and it looks like I'll probably choose a machine with two or four CPUs. What sort of complications does that add to set up

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Atom: architecture, distcc, crossdev and compile flags

2012-12-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2012, 02:40:04 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:20:55PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: * From my observations, the benefit of 64 bit over 32 is much smaller for an Atom than it is for my Core2. Am I right to assume thus that the Atom

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2012, 19:33:58 schrieb Walter Dnes: It would be interesting to see a micro port of Gentoo. But you can forget about bringing over KDE-OS, GNOME-OS, or CHROME-OS. If/when gnash is finally ready, or HTML replaces Flash, I could see Gentoo running with ICEWM or a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: first water cooled system

2012-12-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 10. Dezember 2012, 04:34:18 schrieb James: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: sensors, pwmconfig, fancontrol. No need to get the bios involved (except maybe shutdown at 95°C) Sorry, I keep getting disconnected from this install... Does this wiki look

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 8. Dezember 2012, 19:25:55 schrieb Grant: It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does anyone think this won't happen? no two reasons: not enough power does not run x86 software the second one is a real deal breaker. -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 10. Dezember 2012, 20:06:58 schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2012-12-10, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:06:36 + (UTC) Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-12-10, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: first water cooled system

2012-12-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Then use burnp6. Or burnmmx. Same packacke. No winecrap. Am 11.12.2012 05:51 schrieb Andrey Moshbear andrey@gmail.com: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: run burnK7 several times: Since Bulldozer v1 and up lack 3dnow, burnK7 isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] eix and bad colors.

2012-12-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 7. Dezember 2012, 13:52:03 schrieb Mark Knecht: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I was using eix a bit ago and I noticed the colors have changed. Since I like to have white text and a black background, this is not working to well for

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: first water cooled system

2012-12-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2012, 17:58:49 schrieb James: Hello, My first water cooled AMD (FX8350) system build, my first Gigabyte mobo, so I have questions. Equipment Cooler: Thermaltake Water 2.0 Performer Chasis: Thermaltake Level 10 GTS V03000 Mobo: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 CPU: AMD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: first water cooled system

2012-12-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2012, 19:55:30 schrieb James: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: are you going to blow the air in or out? Out the rear. So the 2 fans sandwich the radiator and aim outward? Also, the cpu/cooler backing supplied by Gigabyte fits well

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE wallet manager

2012-12-03 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 3. Dezember 2012, 21:31:05 schrieb Peter Humphrey: kwalletmanager(3054)/kdeui (Wallet): The kwalletd service has been disabled On the other hand: $ ps ax | grep wallet 3054 ?S 0:00 /usr/bin/kwalletmanager well, kwalletd is missing ps ax | grep wallet 3011 ?

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update : how to keep it going?

2012-12-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 1. Dezember 2012, 15:02:10 schrieb 2sb7...@gmail.com: Now all we need is, emerge --i-dont-care for when you have 100 packages ready to be updated and one stupid ruby package has conflicting dependencies. I doubt if there is point to runaway from problms. In your case

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update : how to keep it going?

2012-12-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 1. Dezember 2012, 12:19:17 schrieb Mark Knecht: On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Graham Murray gra...@gmurray.org.uk wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes: --keep-going does not help you, if the emerge does not start because of missing dep/slot conflict

Re: [gentoo-user] serial in /sys

2012-11-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Donnerstag, 29. November 2012, 17:57:46 schrieb Jorge Almeida: Anyone knows how to dig into /sys to find the serial number of a device (say, a USB pen)? I few days ago I found by trial and error something like $ cat /sys/devices/pci:00/:00:06.1/usb2/2-4/2-4:1.0/host13/target13:0:0/1

Re: [gentoo-user] easy Gentoo tricks

2012-11-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 25. November 2012, 20:23:08 schrieb Walter Dnes: a lot easier: grub with entry: vmlinuz vmlinuz.old in /usr/src/linux: make all modules_install install no problems, latest kernel will boot by default, previous kernel .old. see? easy. -- #163933

Re: [gentoo-user] Share /home with Gentoo and Ubuntu

2012-11-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 27. November 2012, 12:34:29 schrieb Randy Westlund: Hi, I'm a new gentoo user (coming from ubuntu). I've been proving to myself that I can do everything I need with gentoo on a secondary laptop, and after a few weeks, I think I've got it (svn repos, AVR cross compiler,

Re: [gentoo-user] swap on ssd?

2012-11-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 26. November 2012, 08:23:44 schrieb William Kenworthy: On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 00:02 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Montag, 26. November 2012, 06:46:28 schrieb William Kenworthy: Has anyone tried swap on ssd? - has it killed the drive prematurely? - any other effects

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

2012-11-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 26. November 2012, 08:45:44 schrieb Daniel Troeder: On 25.11.2012 22:43, Jacques Montier wrote: Each time you sync the portage, you should write on the SSD... Is it a good thing ? It is the best thing since rsync! Really - it is amazing! And about portage: you write in your

Re: [gentoo-user] Debug memory leaks in X server

2012-11-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 26. November 2012, 10:22:17 schrieb Mick: On Monday 26 Nov 2012 09:56:27 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I have a suspicion that viewing certain PDFs in okular causes X server to leak memory. Currently it is using 1.8 GB after 3 days uptime. Has anyone else observed that? Is

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

2012-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 25. November 2012, 16:36:06 schrieb Jacques Montier: Hi all, I bought a 250Go SSD M4 Crucial , read (of course) Gentoo documentation and installed the drive on my desktop pc (Asus MB, Intel ie7 and 6Go RAM). 1- Everything seems to work perfectly, but i would like to know if my

Re: [gentoo-user] swap on ssd?

2012-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 26. November 2012, 06:46:28 schrieb William Kenworthy: Has anyone tried swap on ssd? - has it killed the drive prematurely? - any other effects? I have a system that is maxed with with 4G ram and tends to use swap heavily at times which slows things down ... so I am thinking a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new system hardware

2012-11-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 12. November 2012, 23:03:08 schrieb Peter Humphrey: On Monday 12 November 2012 17:39:15 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: ... more and more transformers are filled with non-oil coolants. That's interesting - what other substances are used instead these days? In my day we had nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

2012-11-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 12. November 2012, 02:37:13 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:17:50 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Alan McKinnon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

2012-11-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 13. November 2012, 15:45:11 schrieb Bruce Hill: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:26:18PM +0100, Cr0k wrote: Hello, Can't you answer correctly to the mailing lists? Each one of your mails goes into my standard Mailbox, while I did a rule to make it goes to a gentoo-user folder...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

2012-11-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 13. November 2012, 16:57:14 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Dienstag, 13. November 2012, 15:45:11 schrieb Bruce Hill: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:26:18PM +0100, Cr0k wrote: Hello

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

2012-11-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
at 01:49:03PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: hate is a natural reaction if something you don't need and don't want is forced upon you. If it is also based on lies, hate is a valid reaction. A lot of people don't need nor want pulseaudio or systemd. Now it is forced

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new system hardware

2012-11-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
and now you are playing dumb. As I wrote earlier, you can't compare your baby oil with coolant oil. One is specifically made to be none toxic. The other one to be a good coolant. And just because there is a video of a transformer being filled with mineral oil based coolant does not change the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

2012-11-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag, 11. November 2012, 15:33:15 schrieb 微蔡: 在 2012年11月10日 星期六 20:56:45,pk 写道: On 2012-11-10 03:03, walt wrote: :) systemd is coming whether you or I like it or not so I'm trying to stay a bit ahead of the tsunami, that's all. Yes, systemd may be coming and may even

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new system hardware

2012-11-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Samstag, 10. November 2012, 23:46:52 schrieb Dale: Pandu Poluan wrote: Oh, we like digressions :-) I recall that sometimes last year, Tom's Hardware tested running a system without heat sink... but completely immersed in... cooking oil! They made a large acrylic container, poured in

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