[gentoo-user] Re: Strange Alt key behavior?

2015-02-03 Thread Grant
I send a system image of my laptop to various other laptops of the same make and model which they use to operate. I wrote a script for this and it works great. I've run into a situation where a particular new (used) laptop works fine but the Alt+F2 shortcut to open the program launcher in

[gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, This is to summarise what I did in case anyone else wants to do something similar. Last May I was looking for a font that would distinguish the upper-case letter O from the numbers 0 and 8 on a virtual TTY with a frame-buffer. My difficulty was twofold: the available unicode fonts

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot disk renames /dev/md6 to /dev/md127.

2015-02-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: I don't use UUIDs (nor kernel-assigned network device names), preferring to use names I can read. To each his own, of course. That's what labels are for, though obviously there is more risk of collision. :) Still

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot disk renames /dev/md6 to /dev/md127.

2015-02-03 Thread Sid S
I came across this too. The misnamed device is still perfectly usable. If you boot from something with an unconfigured or misconfigured initramfs (such as the install CD?) and need to chroot into a system, deactivating the array and reassembling it, even using --scan, should name it properly.

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot disk renames /dev/md6 to /dev/md127.

2015-02-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 03 February 2015 08:53:13 Todd Goodman wrote: I also had the same problem a while ago and like Rich I started using UUIDs (actually I had started on another system where it mounted my /home partition as /tmp and rm -rf'd it during startup because of the /dev/md devices being

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot disk renames /dev/md6 to /dev/md127.

2015-02-03 Thread Sid S
Of course, there might be other causes, but if it just happened randomly I suspect the above is the most likely.

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.4.0

2015-02-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.02.2015 um 12:27 schrieb Alec Ten Harmsel: I've never had qtwebkit fail to build (at least not recently), what's the exact error? Can you post the output of `emerge --info dev-qt/qtwebkit` as well? hmmm, yes, I would like to ... but now it worked! I had it fail 3 times already ... maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.4.0

2015-02-03 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
I've never had qtwebkit fail to build (at least not recently), what's the exact error? Can you post the output of `emerge --info dev-qt/qtwebkit` as well? Alec On 02/03/2015 05:58 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: dev-qt/qtwebkit does not compile for me ... not with gcc 4.8.4 or 4.9.2 ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [NOTE] New default behavior in latest nfs-utils (1.3.2-r1)

2015-02-03 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:46 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/02/2015 10:29 AM, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 7:31 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: For example, I had to add the rpcbind.service to the multi-user systemd target because even nfs3 seems to need it. You must mean

[gentoo-user] Boot disk renames /dev/md6 to /dev/md127.

2015-02-03 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo! I've been in the wars. It's so long since I've updated my system, many months, mainly because I got totally confused with changes to portage, and the mess that resulted from gnome 3 becoming stabilised, and hence my XFCE support being drastically undermined. However, it's still a

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot disk renames /dev/md6 to /dev/md127.

2015-02-03 Thread Todd Goodman
* Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org [150203 08:36]: On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: So, what was it that chewed up my RAID configuration so badly that /dev/md6 got renamed to /dev/md127? Can I change it back to /dev/md6, somehow? Do I need to bother? I ran

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot disk renames /dev/md6 to /dev/md127.

2015-02-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: So, what was it that chewed up my RAID configuration so badly that /dev/md6 got renamed to /dev/md127? Can I change it back to /dev/md6, somehow? Do I need to bother? I ran into similar issues a while back. In my case some of

[gentoo-user] Re: Issues with USB memory sticks

2015-02-03 Thread James
Daniel Frey djqfrey at gmail.com writes: I've been having a strange issue with my USB flash drives. Trace-cmd plugin for parsing USB 3.0 host controller driver traces can be found here [1] . trace-cmd is NOW (finally) in the portage tree: dev-util/trace-cmd-2.5.1 There is a

[gentoo-user] HalVM (haskel)

2015-02-03 Thread James
Anyone installed this overlay? [1] If so how do you like HalVM? curiously, James [1] http://gpo.zugaina.org/Overlays/flow/app-emulation/halvm

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.4.0

2015-02-03 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Stefan, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 03.02.2015 um 12:27 schrieb Alec Ten Harmsel: I've never had qtwebkit fail to build (at least not recently), what's the exact error? Can you post the output of `emerge --info dev-qt/qtwebkit` as well? hmmm, yes, I would like to ... but now it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.4.0

2015-02-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.02.2015 um 20:30 schrieb Jörg Schaible: Consider a memcheck. Arbitrary failures while the CPU is high is often because some component starts dying. Sometimes cleaning the fans work wonders. Good suggestion, will check tmrw and clean the fans as well. It gave internal compiler error

[gentoo-user] dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.4.0

2015-02-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
dev-qt/qtwebkit does not compile for me ... not with gcc 4.8.4 or 4.9.2 ... before I file a bug @ b.g.o ... anyone else?

[gentoo-user] Re: [NOTE] New default behavior in latest nfs-utils (1.3.2-r1)

2015-02-03 Thread walt
On 02/03/2015 03:29 AM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:46 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: This morning I got waiting on lockfile foo in /usr/portage/distfiles locking not available from my nfs3 clients when trying to download needed source files. I don't recall having this problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with USB memory sticks

2015-02-03 Thread Daniel Frey
On 02/02/2015 11:57 PM, bitlord wrote: Not an expert, but check contacts (if ports are not used for a long time check if there is dust in them), if you use extension cable or a hub, try without it (power issues), or try different port (does it happen on all ports?) Tried several ports,

[gentoo-user] Strange Alt key behavior?

2015-02-03 Thread Grant
I send a system image of my laptop to various other laptops of the same make and model which they use to operate. I wrote a script for this and it works great. I've run into a situation where a particular new (used) laptop works fine but the Alt+F2 shortcut to open the program launcher in xfce4

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with USB memory sticks

2015-02-03 Thread Philip Webb
150202 Daniel Frey wrote: I've been having a strange issue with my USB flash drives. It appears to copy and then hangs, then I get: [ 6841.490036] usb 2-6: reset high-speed USB device number 16 using ehci-pci [ 6848.540029] usb 2-6: reset high-speed USB device number 16 using ehci-pci [

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot disk renames /dev/md6 to /dev/md127.

2015-02-03 Thread thegeezer
On 03/02/15 13:14, Alan Mackenzie wrote: In fact, do I really need an installation CD for a new installation? Would I perhaps be better creating new partions then downloading a stage 3 from my working system? not at all. you can indeed just create a new LV called newroot or something more

Re: [gentoo-user] netifrc system init actions

2015-02-03 Thread thegeezer
On 30/01/15 09:26, Oleg wrote: Hi all. I need to have some ip policy rules at system startup which isn't depend on any interface. In debian i do this through /etc/network/interfaces - i add needed rules as post-up actions to lo interface. In gentoo i've made postup() in /etc/conf.d/net: