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

2013-05-10 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 10 May 2013 02:59:55 + (UTC) schrieb Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Calibre Update Problems

2013-05-10 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, so i have reinstall the qt packages, run python-updater, perl-cleaner and install calibre with USE=bash-autocompletion emerge calibre and now is running. Okay i have seen there is update availible to version 0.9.30, i hope this run then without mistakes. Thanks all for help. Have nice

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 10.05.2013 03:11, schrieb Walter Dnes: I'm using the 20130207 install iso. This is to enable me to get a *REALLY* predictable NIC name, namely eth0, but I digress. The 2 warnings I get are... 1) WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't

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

2013-05-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
Thanks to those who responded for the suggestions. I didn't think I sent this same message a second time. If I did, it was accidental. Using equery and other portage commands may be better than looking directly at /var/db/pkg/category/package-name, sort of like the new pkgng in FreeBSD

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

2013-05-10 Thread Dale
Marc Joliet wrote: Am Fri, 10 May 2013 02:59:55 + (UTC) schrieb Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 May 2013 09:52:05 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: I've repartitioned it 3 or 4 times, but it still comes up with that error when I fire up fdisk. Is it a problem, and if so, can I dd a few sectors to remove whatever it's complaining about? fdisk does not support GPT

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

2013-05-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 May 2013 02:59:55 + (UTC), Thomas Mueller wrote: I'm not sure why I'm posting this as you don't appear to bother with reading replies - or do you expect us to CC them to you personally? Having package data in /var/db/pkg/category/package-name carries the nuisance factor that

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 10/05/2013 10:47, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 10 May 2013 09:52:05 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: I've repartitioned it 3 or 4 times, but it still comes up with that error when I fire up fdisk. Is it a problem, and if so, can I dd a few sectors to remove whatever it's complaining

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 May 2013 11:44:54 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Reading between the lines shows Walter doesn't want to use fdisk to deal with a GPT disk. He has a regular partitioned disk that was once GPT, and some remnants of that are left around confusing fdisk. He wants the remnants to go

Re: [gentoo-user] Fine Tuning NTP Server

2013-05-10 Thread Andrea Conti
Hello, server tick.nrc.ca minpoll 64 maxpoll 1024 iburst prefer Ouch! minpoll and maxpoll should be specified as the log2 of the actual value, i.e. 6 and 10. Those are the defaults anyway. disable auth broadcastclient server ntp.server.com prefer This looks fine to me; although

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread pk
On 2013-05-10 03:11, Walter Dnes wrote: WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted. I've repartitioned it 3 or 4 times, but it still comes up with that error when I fire up fdisk. Is it a problem, and if so, can I dd a

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 10/05/2013 12:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 10 May 2013 11:44:54 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Reading between the lines shows Walter doesn't want to use fdisk to deal with a GPT disk. He has a regular partitioned disk that was once GPT, and some remnants of that are left around

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 May 2013 12:55:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I myself still use fdisk whenever I can. I know I should change, I know it would be good, but I'm an old fart and mostly can't be arsed :-) I'm older (and probably fartier) than you but still welcomed GPT and gdisk with open arms :P --

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 10/05/2013 12:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 10 May 2013 11:44:54 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Reading between the lines shows Walter doesn't want to use fdisk to deal with a GPT disk. He has a regular partitioned disk that was once GPT, and some remnants of that

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Thanasis
on 05/10/2013 11:47 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Fri, 10 May 2013 09:52:05 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: I've repartitioned it 3 or 4 times, but it still comes up with that error when I fire up fdisk. Is it a problem, and if so, can I dd a few sectors to remove whatever it's

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 May 2013 06:09:25 -0500, Dale wrote: I myself still use fdisk whenever I can. I know I should change, I know it would be good, but I'm an old fart and mostly can't be arsed :-) I'm with ya Alan. Update tho. I use LVM. I use grub2 since a week or so ago. That's a lot for

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 May 2013 14:36:38 +0300, Thanasis wrote: Where do we find gdisk (in portage)? sys-apps/gptfdisk It contains GPT versions of fdisk, cfdisk and sfdisk. -- Neil Bothwick If at first you don't suceed, try the switch marked Power signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Wang Xuerui
2013/5/10 Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org: Where do we find gdisk (in portage)? It's sys-apps/gptfdisk. Took a bit of time finding the package when I first deployed a Gentoo server some time ago (:

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 10 May 2013 06:09:25 -0500, Dale wrote: I myself still use fdisk whenever I can. I know I should change, I know it would be good, but I'm an old fart and mostly can't be arsed :-) I'm with ya Alan. Update tho. I use LVM. I use grub2 since a week or so ago.

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 May 2013 07:10:19 -0500, Dale wrote: Well, when I bought my 3Tb drive, I had to use GPT. Yea, I had to figure it out but it ain't the end of the world. I think I used cgdisk since I usually use cfdisk. They are a lot alike is one reason I used it. If I ever replace a drive,

Re: [gentoo-user] Fine Tuning NTP Server

2013-05-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On May 10, 2013 5:23 PM, Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net wrote: Hello, server tick.nrc.ca minpoll 64 maxpoll 1024 iburst prefer Ouch! minpoll and maxpoll should be specified as the log2 of the actual value, i.e. 6 and 10. Those are the defaults anyway. disable auth broadcastclient

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 10 May 2013 07:10:19 -0500, Dale wrote: Well, when I bought my 3Tb drive, I had to use GPT. Yea, I had to figure it out but it ain't the end of the world. I think I used cgdisk since I usually use cfdisk. They are a lot alike is one reason I used it. If I

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-05-10 6:00 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 10 May 2013 11:44:54 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Reading between the lines shows Walter doesn't want to use fdisk to deal with a GPT disk. He has a regular partitioned disk that was once GPT, and some remnants of that are

Switching from grub to grub2 - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-05-10 7:09 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm with ya Alan. Update tho. I use LVM. I use grub2 since a week or so ago. That's a lot for me. So, how was the switch? Uneventful? The more I read, and once I learned you could still use a monolithic config file, the less this

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

2013-05-10 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 10 May 2013 03:15:25 -0500 schrieb Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: [...] I'm glad you posted this. I thought maybe I had hit a time warp or something. Since he posted it twice, I guess he still doesn't like it. :/ Dale :-) :-) Hey now, let's give him a chance :) . He's trying

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 02:36:38PM +0300, Thanasis wrote: Where do we find gdisk (in portage)? This app which would be helpful to you, demonstrated: mingdao@server ~ $ e-file gdisk * sys-apps/gdisk Available Versions: 0.6.13 0.6.4_p2-r0 0.5.1-r0 0.6.14 Matched Files:

Re: [gentoo-user] Fine Tuning NTP Server

2013-05-10 Thread Nick Khamis
Hello Andrea, Thank you so much for your time. I missed the part about log^2 in the documentation. Kind Regards, Nick. On 5/10/13, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On May 10, 2013 5:23 PM, Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net wrote: Hello, server tick.nrc.ca minpoll 64 maxpoll 1024 iburst

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:44:54AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote Reading between the lines shows Walter doesn't want to use fdisk to deal with a GPT disk. He has a regular partitioned disk that was once GPT, and some remnants of that are left around confusing fdisk. He wants the remnants to

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] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:00:50AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote That's not quite how I read it, but... gdisk has an option to completely erase both GPT and DOS partition tables. I erased the GPT table. Why anyone would choose to use the ultra-kludged DOS partition tables when GPT is so much

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/05/2013 12:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 10 May 2013 11:44:54 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Reading between the lines shows Walter doesn't want to use fdisk to deal with a GPT disk. He has a regular partitioned disk that was once GPT, and

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Walter Dnes
While I'm on the general topic of setting up the disk, I notice that fdisk startup output includes.. Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Since I'll be using ext2 for the 250 meg / and ext4 for the biggie /home

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

2013-05-10 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: Am Fri, 10 May 2013 03:15:25 -0500 schrieb Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: [...] I'm glad you posted this. I thought maybe I had hit a time warp or something. Since he posted it twice, I guess he still doesn't like it. :/ Dale

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

2013-05-10 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 01:12:05AM -0700, Thomas Mueller wrote: Thanks to those who responded for the suggestions. I didn't think I sent this same message a second time. If I did, it was accidental. Using equery and other portage commands may be better than looking directly at

[gentoo-user] Settings for Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen video card

2013-05-10 Thread Walter Dnes
OK, I'm getting serious with the install on my new machine, so here come the questions. lspci -v shows the onboard GPU as... 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

Re: [gentoo-user] Settings for Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen video card

2013-05-10 Thread Michael Mol
On 05/10/2013 02:04 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: OK, I'm getting serious with the install on my new machine, so here come the questions. lspci -v shows the onboard GPU as... 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)

Re: Switching from grub to grub2 - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Dale
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-05-10 7:09 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm with ya Alan. Update tho. I use LVM. I use grub2 since a week or so ago. That's a lot for me. So, how was the switch? Uneventful? The more I read, and once I learned you could still use a monolithic config

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

2013-05-10 Thread Dale
Marc Joliet wrote: Am Fri, 10 May 2013 03:15:25 -0500 schrieb Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: [...] I'm glad you posted this. I thought maybe I had hit a time warp or something. Since he posted it twice, I guess he still doesn't like it. :/ Dale :-) :-) Hey now, let's give him a chance

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 May 2013 11:54:13 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Why anyone would choose to use the ultra-kludged DOS partition tables when GPT is so much more elegant is beyond me, unless they have old hardware that can't read a GPT disk. Familiarity, I suppose. I've used the same layout for

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 May 2013 08:22:28 -0500, Dale wrote: I used to use cfdisk, but switched to fdisk because cfdisk's partition alignment wasn't good on large drives. That's not a problem with cgdisk. That was why I had to use cgdisk. The drive is large. I think cfdisk spit out a error or

Re: Switching from grub to grub2 - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 May 2013 09:33:10 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: So, how was the switch? Uneventful? The more I read, and once I learned you could still use a monolithic config file, the less this looks like a big deal... STILL use a monolithic config file? GRUB2 has to use a monolithic config file,

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Mick
On Friday 10 May 2013 17:28:32 Walter Dnes wrote: While I'm on the general topic of setting up the disk, I notice that fdisk startup output includes.. Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Since I'll be using ext2

[gentoo-user] system time 6-hr. ahead

2013-05-10 Thread Joseph
My computer time reported by asterisk server or php database is 6hr ahead. Why? My desktop clock is correct, and command line date reporting local time as well. My /etc/conf.d/hwclock clock=local clock_hctosys=YES clock_systohc=YES Should I set clock=UTC? I'm running Windows via VirtualBox

Re: [gentoo-user] system time 6-hr. ahead

2013-05-10 Thread Joseph
On 05/10/13 23:25, Joseph wrote: My computer time reported by asterisk server or php database is 6hr ahead. Why? My desktop clock is correct, and command line date reporting local time as well. My /etc/conf.d/hwclock clock=local clock_hctosys=YES clock_systohc=YES Should I set clock=UTC? I'm