Re: [gentoo-user] libav and ffmpeg on the same computer issue once again

2015-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 16 May 2015 08:57:15 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: Does that include the several lines of comments, often repeated, that portage includes in the auto-unmask output? I just checked two systems for abi_x86_32 and got around 130 lines in one and 220 in the other. Yes, it does. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2

2015-05-17 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 10:35 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: Just a few clarifications below. One thing this discussion is missing is any mention of BIOS / EFI. Most of the discussion below seems most relevant to a legacy BIOS installation. Many

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2

2015-05-17 Thread Rich Freeman
Just a few clarifications below. One thing this discussion is missing is any mention of BIOS / EFI. Most of the discussion below seems most relevant to a legacy BIOS installation. Many specialized Gentoo install docs, like mdadm+lvm, don't really make mention of EFI, or other more recent

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2

2015-05-17 Thread covici
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: Just a few clarifications below. One thing this discussion is missing is any mention of BIOS / EFI. Most of the discussion below seems most relevant to a legacy BIOS installation. Many specialized Gentoo install docs, like mdadm+lvm, don't really make

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2

2015-05-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 17 May 2015 10:09:11 Rich Freeman wrote: ---8 Most people using openrc are also using systemd-udev (and there is a good chance you do too). The latter was previously named udev and long predates what most people call systemd. Eudev is a fork of udev, which comes from after it came

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread Daniel Frey
On 05/17/2015 02:54 PM, Mick wrote: Chromium now selects the whole URL when you click in the address bar. I'm not sure when it started doing this but it was quite recently. This is not a problem at all, because this address bar auto-highlighting in Chromium does not take over the system

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2

2015-05-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: There were problems with btrfs and the kernel a few months ago (Rich Freeman was hit by that, maybe he chimes in here), but in general for me it is still a very positive experience. It is nowhere near the stability

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 17 May 2015 22:54:19 +0100, Mick wrote: Chromium now selects the whole URL when you click in the address bar. I'm not sure when it started doing this but it was quite recently. This is not a problem at all, because this address bar auto-highlighting in Chromium does not take

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2

2015-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 17 May 2015 12:48:58 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: I want to use mdadm to create a RAID1 with 2 SATA disks. From what i gather, i'll need (bootable) 0xFD partitions, i'll use full disk for them and no separate /boot (unless required). Is GPT required or can i stick to MBR? Is fdisk

[gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread walt
On 05/16/2015 10:52 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: I've been using Firefox for ages and something struck me recently as a bit odd. In the Windows version, if I click up into the address or search boxes, the existing contents are highlighted and if I begin typing, the existing text is deleted and what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread Mick
On Sunday 17 May 2015 19:49:30 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 17 May 2015 18:16:16 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: and if I begin typing, the existing text is deleted and what I'm typing becomes the contents. On the Linux version, under KDE, it doesn't. I have to click into the

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2

2015-05-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 17.05.2015 22:48, Nuno Magalhães wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: tl;dr ... maybe you listed some reason to stick with mdadm/lvm2/xfs etc ... sorry in that case I didn't. 2 disks with RAID1/LVM, 2 disks (maybe) with ZFS. Pairs because by

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2

2015-05-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
btrfs... ZFS... dunno... we'll see ;) On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: As you ordered 2 ssds right now this seems a perfect opportunity to start over and test something new (btrfs is in the linux kernel since 2009). SSDs? Nope... not yet, maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread Mick
On Monday 18 May 2015 02:56:43 Daniel Frey wrote: On 05/17/2015 02:54 PM, Mick wrote: Chromium now selects the whole URL when you click in the address bar. I'm not sure when it started doing this but it was quite recently. This is not a problem at all, because this address bar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev hanging

2015-05-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
walt wrote: On 05/14/2015 10:56 PM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: I have an amd64 system with an old 3.3.x kernel. Recently (I think after last udev update to 217) the boot process became very slow due to udev waiting for uevents to populate /dev. After a minute or so udev prints something about a

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2

2015-05-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: tl;dr ... maybe you listed some reason to stick with mdadm/lvm2/xfs etc ... sorry in that case I didn't. 2 disks with RAID1/LVM, 2 disks (maybe) with ZFS. Pairs because by board has 2 SATA channels, otherwise i'd go

[gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2

2015-05-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hello Gentoo World, TL;DR warning I've tested Gentoo and liked it, tried to tune it a bit and borked it. :) I want to use mdadm to create a RAID1 with 2 SATA disks. From what i gather, i'll need (bootable) 0xFD partitions, i'll use full disk for them and no separate /boot (unless required).

Re: [gentoo-user] Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 17.05.2015 um 11:39 schrieb Paul Klos: Op zondag 17 mei 2015 13:52:21 schreef Andrew Lowe: Hi all, I've been using Firefox for ages and something struck me recently as a bit odd. In the Windows version, if I click up into the address or search boxes, the existing contents are

Re: [gentoo-user] Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread Paul Klos
Op zondag 17 mei 2015 13:52:21 schreef Andrew Lowe: Hi all, I've been using Firefox for ages and something struck me recently as a bit odd. In the Windows version, if I click up into the address or search boxes, the existing contents are highlighted and if I begin typing, the existing

[gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-05-17, Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au wrote: I've been using Firefox for ages and something struck me recently as a bit odd. In the Windows version, if I click up into the address or search boxes, the existing contents are highlighted Yeat, I _hate_ that. and if I begin typing, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 17 May 2015 18:16:16 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: and if I begin typing, the existing text is deleted and what I'm typing becomes the contents. On the Linux version, under KDE, it doesn't. I have to click into the appropriate edit box, highlight the contents and start typing

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2

2015-05-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2015-05-17 um 18:05 schrieb Peter Humphrey: Maybe I will. I suspect dodgy disks and I have a pair of new SSDs on the way. Perhaps it's time for a rethink. perhaps one more thought to be thought right now: skip mdadm and lvm ... and try btrfs as you have the chance on shiny new hardware

RE: [gentoo-user] Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread Franz Fellner
Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I've been using Firefox for ages and something struck me recently as a bit odd. In the Windows version, if I click up into the address or search boxes, the existing contents are highlighted and if I begin typing, the existing text is deleted and what I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread Walter Dnes
I use the Seamonkey variant on ICEWM, so I don't think it's specific to your setup. On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 01:52:21PM +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote So my question, I suppose, is multipart: 1) Is this by design? Is this the normal behaviour? I get the same behaviour. 2) Have I set a

Re: [gentoo-user] qt USE flags conflict

2015-05-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 16/05/2015 10:49, Mick wrote: Look carefully at the first message again, it says you need to do one of those actions (effectively making one package match the other). A quick glance can seem like it wants you to make the USE settings different, that is not the case. Yes! I removed all

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2

2015-05-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 17 May 2015 12:48:58 Nuno Magalhães wrote: I want to use mdadm to create a RAID1 with 2 SATA disks. From what i gather, i'll need (bootable) 0xFD partitions, i'll use full disk for them and no separate /boot (unless required). Is GPT required or can i stick to MBR? Is fdisk safe?

Re: [gentoo-user] Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 11:39:29AM +0200, Paul Klos wrote: Op zondag 17 mei 2015 13:52:21 schreef Andrew Lowe: Hi all, I've been using Firefox for ages and something struck me recently as a bit odd. In the Windows version, if I click up into the address or search boxes, the existing