Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy

2015-03-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11.03.2015 12:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: Then I spent some hours fiddling with grub2, gummiboot et al to get that box booting up fine. dracut doesn't assemble the rootfs-raid etc etc ... - fun I found this with a LUKS root filesystem, dracut

Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy

2015-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:52:27 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I generally set up boot on a RAID1 across all disks. You can still access individual disks in a RAID1 array, so you can set your computer to boot from sda1 then sda2 etc but mount /boot on the array, so all updates are

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:27 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: Did you hear about CLI wi-fi tool iw? I am testing it right now, but seem cannot figure out how to use it iw is OK to set up an unencrypted or wep connection but you need wpa_supplicant for a wpa connection; and you need

Re: [gentoo-user] Networkmanager emerged, system unstable

2015-03-11 Thread German
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:25:00 -0400 Josh Lemerand emptykathar...@gmail.com wrote: nmcli dev wifi con Cafe Hotspot 1 password caffeine name My cafe creates a new connection named My cafe and thenconnects it to Cafe Hotspot 1 SSID using password caffeine. This is mainly useful when connecting

Re: [gentoo-user] Networkmanager emerged, system unstable

2015-03-11 Thread Josh Lemerand
nmcli dev wifi con Cafe Hotspot 1 password caffeine name My cafe creates a new connection named My cafe and thenconnects it to Cafe Hotspot 1 SSID using password caffeine. This is mainly useful when connecting to Cafe Hotspot 1 for the first time. Next time, it is better to use 'nmcli con up id

Re: [gentoo-user] Networkmanager emerged, system unstable

2015-03-11 Thread Josh Lemerand
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 4:43 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:25:00 -0400 Josh Lemerand emptykathar...@gmail.com wrote: nmcli dev wifi con Cafe Hotspot 1 password caffeine name My cafe creates a new connection named My cafe and thenconnects it to Cafe

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 4:15:53 PM Tom H wrote: I've never used nmcli except to get ip information (see below) but setting up NM without a gui is simple. This is my home wifi setup: # cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/thsky [connection] id=thsky

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Jc García
2015-03-11 7:16 GMT-06:00 German gentger...@gmail.com: On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:38:08 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:14:13 -0400, German wrote: eix-e: command not found. What to do? Insert a space between eix and -e. Same result - command

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Jc García
2015-03-11 12:35 GMT-06:00 Jc García jyo.gar...@gmail.com: search info(man, google) about nmcli. also nmtui, it seems easier to use, I hadn't looked at the list of NetworkManager tools in a while, but still the wicd cli interface is easier from what I remember.

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread German
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:35:26 -0600 Jc García jyo.gar...@gmail.com wrote: 2015-03-11 7:16 GMT-06:00 German gentger...@gmail.com: On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:38:08 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:14:13 -0400, German wrote: eix-e: command not found.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mysterious vanishing of DNS entry of www.youtube.com...was I hacked?

2015-03-11 Thread wabenbau
Am Dienstag, 10.03.2015 um 18:10 schrieb Justin Findlay jfind...@gmail.com: On 03/10/2015 01:35 PM, waben...@gmail.com wrote: Most modems and routers have really bad DNS proxies. I tend to either run my own or use Googles DNS: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 I don't like the idea that google is

Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy

2015-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 23:14:49 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.03.2015 um 17:06 schrieb Neil Bothwick: So RAID1 with vfat as ESP ? That's how I'd do it. I have /boot on RAID1 on this box (but not as FAT and it's a BIOS motherboard) with everything else on a btrfs RAID and

Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy

2015-03-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 11.03.2015 um 17:06 schrieb Neil Bothwick: So RAID1 with vfat as ESP ? That's how I'd do it. I have /boot on RAID1 on this box (but not as FAT and it's a BIOS motherboard) with everything else on a btrfs RAID and it works well. I will

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't fetch www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins

2015-03-11 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 10 Mar 2015 23:33:33 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 11:19:34 PM Mick wrote: On Tuesday 10 Mar 2015 22:45:28 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: This is the second machine I am getting a 404 in as many weeks with this package. Is it a known problem, or am I the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't fetch www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins

2015-03-11 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 11 Mar 2015 06:42:35 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 6:20:25 AM Mick wrote: On Tuesday 10 Mar 2015 23:33:33 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: Google only keeps the latest versions so that ebuild is usually only good for a short while after it gets marked

Re: [gentoo-user] gummiboot does not display new kernel

2015-03-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, March 08, 2015 11:11:49 AM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 10:51:38 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Are the ownership and mode of e55a6b6a09bd2b1c50216272545a8d1f-3.19.1-gentoo.conf the

Re: [gentoo-user] gummiboot does not display new kernel

2015-03-11 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:11 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: [...] Canek, I don't see these long filenames in your filetree-listing. You have a directory with the UUID, but then just the kernel-version numbers. Or am I looking at the wrong email? You are: # tree -l /boot/loader/

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't fetch www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins

2015-03-11 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 6:20:25 AM Mick wrote: On Tuesday 10 Mar 2015 23:33:33 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 11:19:34 PM Mick wrote: On Tuesday 10 Mar 2015 22:45:28 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: This is the second machine I am getting a 404 in as many weeks

Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy

2015-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 07:45:54 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: yesterday I received a shiny new server for a client. It brings 4 x 1 TB SATA disks, is capable of UEFI and I started setting it up. GPT partitioning, small partition(s) for the ESP, some swap, and bigger partitions of type

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 05:48:08 -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 5:19:32 AM German wrote: Hi. I was said that I need network manager to control my interfaces. What package should I emerge? I am in console mode. Is that ncurses based or command line? Any other

[gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread German
Hi. I was said that I need network manager to control my interfaces. What package should I emerge? I am in console mode. Is that ncurses based or command line? Any other pointers on how this can be configured are welcome. Thanks -- German gentger...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mysterious vanishing of DNS entry of www.youtube.com...was I hacked?

2015-03-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 10 March 2015 19:16:12 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I rebooted my Gentoo box...no help... The problem vanishes as I powercycled my DSL modem. Any other access was working the whole time. Was my DSL modem hacked? Does anyone else noticed a glithc in the matrix? I think DSL

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't fetch www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins

2015-03-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 06:20:25 +, Mick wrote: Google only keeps the latest versions so that ebuild is usually only good for a short while after it gets marked stable. Just keyword the unstable package. So users of

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't fetch www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins

2015-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 06:20:25 +, Mick wrote: Google only keeps the latest versions so that ebuild is usually only good for a short while after it gets marked stable. Just keyword the unstable package. So users of the stable package have to be really fast, or lucky? Gentoo should

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mysterious vanishing of DNS entry of www.youtube.com...was I hacked?

2015-03-11 Thread Adam Carter
The second argument to both host and nslookup, specifies the server to use for the lookup. So, you can compare the results of the DNS server specified in /etc/resolv.conf, with others like those mentioned above, eg host youtube.com 8.8.8.8 or nslookup youtube.com 4.2.2.4 However, youtube.com will

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mysterious vanishing of DNS entry of www.youtube.com...was I hacked?

2015-03-11 Thread Stroller
On Tue, 10 March 2015, at 6:16 pm, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... The problem vanishes as I powercycled my DSL modem. Was my DSL modem hacked? I think it's far more likely the router ran out of memory, a process hung or something. Perhaps other sites worked because they were cached.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't fetch www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins

2015-03-11 Thread Stroller
On Wed, 11 March 2015, at 6:52 am, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: ... I googled for it and downloaded it from a mirror. Am I correct that if the hash is not right the ebuild will complain about it, Yes.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with perl dependencies on emerge -uD world

2015-03-11 Thread Stroller
On Tue, 10 March 2015, at 4:07 pm, Marko Weber | 8000 we...@zbfmail.de wrote: ... i get the following output, and have no idea how to solve this comnflicts. Can anyone help me or guide me? Search the list for perl - perl update conflicts have been discussed several times in the last few

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 5:19:32 AM German wrote: Hi. I was said that I need network manager to control my interfaces. What package should I emerge? I am in console mode. Is that ncurses based or command line? Any other pointers on how this can be configured are welcome. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread German
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 12:38:08 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:14:13 -0400, German wrote: eix-e: command not found. What to do? Insert a space between eix and -e. Same result - command not found emerge eix, then run eix-update as

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with perl dependencies on emerge -uD world

2015-03-11 Thread Marko Weber | 8000
hi neil, Am 2015-03-10 21:05, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 17:07:32 +0100, Marko Weber | 8000 wrote: on one of my gentoo-servers i try to update the system with 'emerge -uD world'. i get the following output, and have no idea how to solve this comnflicts. Can anyone help me or

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with perl dependencies on emerge -uD world

2015-03-11 Thread Marko Weber | 8000
hi martin, Am 2015-03-10 19:03, schrieb Martin Jerabek: On 10.3.2015 17:07, Marko Weber | 8000 wrote: Hi, on one of my gentoo-servers i try to update the system with 'emerge -uD world'. i get the following output, and have no idea how to solve this comnflicts. Can anyone help me or guide

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 11/03/2015 13:40, German wrote: wpa_supplicant doesn't handle switching between wored and wireless interfaces, which is why I suggest a network manager. That could be NetworkManager, but you could equally use Wicd. Both are in portage. Alternatively, you could just set up the two

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread German
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 13:52:02 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/03/2015 13:40, German wrote: wpa_supplicant doesn't handle switching between wored and wireless interfaces, which is why I suggest a network manager. That could be NetworkManager, but you could equally

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Paul Klos
Op woensdag 11 maart 2015 08:03:06 schreef German: eix-e: command not found. What to do? Insert a space between eix and -e.

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread German
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15:06 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 05:48:08 -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 5:19:32 AM German wrote: Hi. I was said that I need network manager to control my interfaces. What package

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread German
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 13:12:04 +0100 Paul Klos gen...@klos2day.nl wrote: Op woensdag 11 maart 2015 08:03:06 schreef German: eix-e: command not found. What to do? Insert a space between eix and -e. Same result - command not found -- German gentger...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:14:13 -0400, German wrote: eix-e: command not found. What to do? Insert a space between eix and -e. Same result - command not found emerge eix, then run eix-update as root. -- Neil Bothwick Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote: On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 4:15:53 PM Tom H wrote: I've never used nmcli except to get ip information (see below) but setting up NM without a gui is simple. This is my home wifi setup: # cat

Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

2015-03-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 09:16:04 -0400, German wrote: emerge eix, then run eix-update as root. Ok, done that. Indeed there are anything related to x11-lib, but when I do emerge --ask net-misc/networkmanager I see x11-proto and x11-libs to be emerged. Use variable is set to -X. Anyone can

[gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy

2015-03-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
greetings again yesterday I received a shiny new server for a client. It brings 4 x 1 TB SATA disks, is capable of UEFI and I started setting it up. GPT partitioning, small partition(s) for the ESP, some swap, and bigger partitions of type fd=raid for creating 2 mdadm-raids (rootfs and data)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: External HDD: sector size incorrectly detected on first connect

2015-03-11 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Tue, 10 Mar 2015 17:38:03 -0700 schrieb walt w41...@gmail.com: On 03/10/2015 10:12 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: is there a specialised ML for the Linux USB stack? Yes, I follow it on gmane.org as gmane.linux.usb.general (not sure what the real name of the mailing list is) and Sarah Sharp is